6 100 661 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1646e39eff0a1805aed744ba2951d559.pdf 1c4f4ec55108b1a3d8c41fedd323ce9a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6a11851af5577503051ff4c6df4a4441.txt b88fa02964c056810c0eda01d70e8dde Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 August 30, 1975 TO THE SCIENTISTS.......... Dr. Fogel, Dr. Sprinkle, Dr. Targ, Dr. Putoff, Dr. Arenas Gentlemen A friend is having this typed for me. My right arm is shattered and I cannot write or type and will not be able to do so for some time. An extraordinary series of events has occurred since my trip to Egypt and it is absolutely necessary for me to recount the things that have happened. Before preceding further I must point out that on the trip back from Egypt after I had been inside the pyramids and made contact with powers, the age old intelligence placed inside the pyramids long ago, the airplane ahead of my plane was struck by lightning at the Kennedy Airport and blown up and I was tied in to this event, which the documentation will indicate to you, when I get it to you. I have not been able to do so yet because of my injury. Also there is a tape I want to send you made on that airplane before and after the other plane was hit by lightning ahead of us, and you must listen to that tape when I'm able to make it for you and send it to you, to go with the documentation. After coming back home from Egypt, my thirteen-year-old son, Beau, accidentally thrust his right hand through a plate-glass window, almost severing his thumb. The next week my four-year-old son, Teddy, stepped on a broken Coca-Cola bottle, inflicting various cuts on his foot plus one deep cut requiring hospital treatment and X-rays. I, at this point, began to wonder if there was a pattern to this, noting that my wrist watch had malfunctioned and I must send it off for repair-my pocket Sony recorder had malfunctioned, and I must send it off for repair-the muffler fell off my car and the car was malfunctioning-then on August third, Sunday night, while walking through the living room, I felt something grab, seize, my right foot. The memory of what next happened is hazy, it was so fast. I fell and could hear a loud snapping noise and I knew instantly that my right arm was broken. Now, before going further, let me explain. I spent years learning to fall without being injured as a judo man. I studied under Johnny Csako in Chicago and spent weeks and weeks and weeks falling sideways, frontwards, backwards, and never in my life, in fact, have I ever fallen and broken anything up until now. As an athlete, I fought in the ring as a boxer; I had a semi-pro basketball team; in short, all my life, I had been an athlete; I never have fallen and hurt myself. Furthermore, I actually have been a professional dancer, having taught dancing as a teacher for Arthur Murray Studio for quite a long period of time, thus my footwork is very graceful, catlike, and it would be most unusual for me to even fall, and let alone become injured from the fall. At any rate, I took my aching arm to our car and drove through the night to a small hospital quite far from here to the emergency ward, they X-rayed it and found that it was a complicated fracture, several breaks, which would require complicated surgery. So the doctor at this tiny hospital said he was not a bone specialist but he would attempt this operation, if I wanted === Page 2 of 4 2 to, the next day. He's a young man in his twenties I said, "No, thanks, it's my right arm and it's awful important to me, too much so to have this done here. I'm sure you would do a wonderful job but just the same..." So, although I'm thousands of dollars in debt, I used my American Express card. I got on the plane the following day. Monday I got to Chicago and darned if the planes didn't get their schedules all mixed up because the Northwest Airlines went on strike and it threw everything off, and so United put me up for the night in a hotel at their expense until the next morning. All this time I'm dragging this fractured arm along in a home made sling I made out of a sheet without any medication or painkiller or anything. So Tuesday they finally get me aboard a plane. It got me to Minneapolis and that was where I got the hotel room and then Tuesday morning I got the plane down to Rochester, Minnesota and at Mayo when the doctors examined me, they were mystified as to how I could have broken, fractured, my elbow in such a fashion. Now these are bone specialists who operate on arms and legs everyday, yet they were mystified how I could break my arm in such a fashion. I think the term is olecranon fracture, something like that. But the fracture went clear, not only snapped the big bone like a matchstick, but the break went clear up, deeply into the joint, so that they had to fix a pin in there and then wire the bones together. While in Methodist Hospital at Rochester, after the three-hour operation on my arm, I moodily began to reflect on the extraordinary series of events which had occurred since my trip to Egypt. I began to wonder if, regardless of my making friends telepathically with the powers in the pyramids, perhaps some form of curse may have been able to follow me back and work against me, which even the UFOs do their best to protect me with a PK bubble-a shield, if you will. All the things breaking down, both children being injured and hospitalized within a week's time, then my mysterious injury requiring me to go to Mayo and having a three-hour operation was a bit much to be coincidence. But that was not all! They discharged me from Methodist hospital and I took an airplane back to chicago and from there to Norfolk with my right arm in a cast I pushed my black suitcase which has wheels built into the bottom and a handle on top. I had purchased this previously in England. I got on the escalator going down at the airport, with the black suitcase on the step above me and as I neared the bottom of the escalator steps the suitcase suddenly moved as if it were alive on those on those wheels and cut my legs out from underneath me and I toppled over sideways head first into the knifelike steel steps converging down on me. Luckily for me, there had been a man about seven or eight steps above who must have dove head first, because, as I fell over sideways, he interposed his body between me and the steps. Even so, my head was struck by the steel steps and cut, and some other people coming down fell on top of us, the man and I, and when I finally got to my feet, my arm was aching, and at this point I feared that it might have become rebroken. This is August 21st well, that wasn't the end of it. I got my car (which incidentally, after the trip to Egypt, had been broken into and damaged and the stereo equipment stolen out of it at the airport) got to my car and drove to Cape Charles. When I arrived home I discovered that our television set had gone dead (the TV repairman today told me that seemingly a lightning stroke had sent a sudden surge of electricity through it breaking a fuse or something inside) then yesterday, sitting in my === Page 3 of 4 3 living room with my arm hung up in a contraption given to me at Mayo Clinic, the cast elevated, I heard a loud crash out infront of my house. So I unhooked this contraption and went to the window and discovered that another car had crashed into the back of our family car, which had been parked correctly at the curb. There were many other cars up and down the street. I threw on a bathrobe, went outside, and this big fat colored girl was crying hysterically. She had wrecked the entire front of her car, a large car, but unfortunately it had run into the back of our Lincoln Continental, which is built like a tank. It inflicted great damage on my trunk section, but I could still drive the Lincoln, however. I led the crying girl into our living room and seated her and tried to confort her until the ambulance came. I asked her how she had managed to hit our parked car. She said, and I quote "I was driving along and something black came over my face." Then the police and ambulance came, took the girl away in a stretcher and so forth, so here is yet another strange happening. Now some years ago a court reporter, a colored court reporter, in Norfolk, pulled a very dirty trick on me and my family and caused us much trouble and greivance. I was extremely angered at the colored court reporter and told him off in the law offices infront of other people. Then I quit my job and a week later another court reporter, a young girl, came to my house and told me that the colored court reporter had been in a terrible car wreck. He had hit another car head on and his arms were broken, his head was all cut, he was in a terrible shape, and he had told the others in the office where he worked that as he drove along suddenly everything became black-he blanked out-for no apparent reason. So yesterday when this colored girl told me this my mind instantly went back several years to this other happening. What signigicance there could be I don't know. But this entire, incredible string of events happening makes me wonder if there isn't a force pursuing me. Now when I fell at home, I can recall an odd sensation of a force picking me up and-not exactly throwing me down but controlling my fall. At any rate there is the series of events that have happened since my return from Egypt and connecting up telepathically with the ancient intelligent forces inside the pyramids. At this point I am almost fearful of recontacting the entity which I had been contacting daily before all these things began happening. So at this point in time here I sit with a badly fractured right arm; my car wrecked, my pocket tape recorder is broken; my wrist watch is broken; the television is broken; both children have been injured; and I think it important enough to report all this to you so that you can follow what is happening to PK man. Nothing like this, a series of events, has ever occurred in my entire life. P.S. This is being added on to this report later, after I telepathed to the SI and to the Egyptian power and asked them for an explanation of why these troubling things have happened to me. The next day they had given me the explanation mentally. And this is the SI explanation. In nature there is duality-hot and cold, night and day, sweet and sour, and so forth. In linking myself up with the supernatural powers of the UFOs and Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, to use them for good === Page 4 of 4 4 to help the human race, to help the earth, I have made myself automatically a bulls-eye target for the bad forces on earth. In other words, in direct proportion to the powerful good that I can do, and am doing, the bad power on earth is coming at me to try to stop me. Perhaps you have wondered why Jesus was nailed to a cross; his disciples were all violently murdered as I recall, I think one was skinned alive; and many other persons throughout the ages who have tried to help the human race-like Gandhi in India and others-have suffered violence in proportion and violent death, sometimes horrible death. Well that's the answer-in wielding powerful supernatural good power, one automatically draws on to oneself supernatural bad power in almost direct proportion. So it looks like I am going to be in for one heck of a beating until my end. My vulnerability, of course, is my financial status-since I can hardly keep my head above water and am at present under water-plus my inability to defend myself and my family. With my splintered right arm I can't now wield the gun necessary to hold off the bad people who have tried to break into this house on several occasions at night, so the bad supernatural power is getting at me and doing a good job of it. If any of you have any further questions about this do not hesitate to contact me. Ted Owens (PK Man) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7508 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/0557d9813ba09aa93288cc867295fe1c.pdf f15ae9fbd5279f62360de764e81b88aa https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6619a1252febf6f37ba206151a85c505.txt 88bc67c18983391238837047c8286933 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 Major news headlines this morning read: Another government overthrown - this time in Peru, and a new premier and government in riot-torn Portugal. Governments are being overthrown at the rate of one or more a month. This morning banner headlines report a bloodless coup overthrowing President Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru. It was a coup by left-wing military officers. These same officers had staged a previous coup in October 1968, overthrowing the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. Apparently the left-wingers felt that President Alvarado was not making fast enough progress toward communism. General Francisco Morales Bermúdez has now taken over as head of state. He has been prime minister since the 1968 government was overthrown. In riot-torn Portugal, that country has been on the verge of civil war for weeks. Portugal is predominantly Roman Catholic, but communists have been making inroads, just as they have to a greater or lesser degree all over the world. The new premier replaces the communists; he is to form a new government. Apparently this does not end the strife in Portugal, and we shall probably hear of more government changes or civil war. Incidentally, this communist-rightist struggle in Portugal could possibly trigger the prophesied United States of Europe if forces at Rome feel that the time is right. That's certainly an outside possibility. The former Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia died a few days ago. He was just eight days older than I. His government was overthrown by a military coup approximately a year ago. One of the last things he did before the military took him was to send me a letter of congratulation on my 82nd birthday. Many asked me after his imprisonment what had happened to the noted emperor. But I didn't know. Nobody except a few military officers in Ethiopia knew. President Kenyatta of Kenya is also the same age. He told me that he and Haile Selassie were very close friends - closer than brothers, he said. But at that time he had no knowledge as to the emperor's fate. It is significant that (some mysterious invisible force) seems to be stirring up strife within nations all over the world, as well as strife BETWEEN nations. As I write, reports from Jerusalem and Cairo say that it is now a matter of a day or two before Henry Kissinger succeeds, this time in bringing about an interim peace accord between Israel and Egypt. The peace there will not last. Jerusalem is destined to be the news center of the world in the months and immediate years just ahead. No human effort can bring permanent peace to that center of civilization. It is commendable to try, but it will take a higher power to bring permanent peace there. Last evening I was a guest of honor at a dinner party at the residence of the Israeli ambassador to Japan. Eighteen were present, including the ambassador and his wife, who was a gracious hostess; a former Israeli ambassador to an African nation; and some of my "Japanese sons," members of the Japanese Diet. Nine of the 18 had also been present at an outstanding banquet hosted by the Japanese embassy in Jerusalem just four weeks ago. Some of my "Japanese sons" were also there, along with a few Japanese archaeologists working on the Japanese archaeological project at Tel Zeror, between Tel Aviv and Haifa. At that banquet were the largest number of Israeli leaders that have been present at any such affair in some time. I am personally grateful that I have been in a position to bring about a warm and peaceful relationship between many leaders in Japan and Israel, and also between Japan and Egypt, but it will take a greater POWER than human to bring PERMANENT PEACE between Israel and the Arab world. Yet that PERMANENT PEACE will come in OUR TIME. You can read of it in the book of Zechariah, the 14th chapter. ◻ "PLAIN TRUTH" MAGAZINE SEPT. 20, 1975 Sept. 19, 1975 Scientists... oddly, this organization has sensed a "mysterious invisible force" shuffling and changing government on a world wide scale. Which is what I am doing with UFO help, as I told you, some time ago. I repeat... Owens (PK Man) and his UFO's... are causing this to happen. Owens === Page 2 of 5 AS! Mrs. Gandhi with backers after court decision: Seeing the verdict from the viewpoint of political necessity Yet another Pres, Prime Minister, etc., taken out. # Indira Gandhi in the Dock The crowd packed the sweltering chamber of the High Court of Allahabad as Judge Jagmohan Lal Sinha entered the room. The tall, balding justice carried a 254-page document with him, but one short sentence told the story. "The election of Respondent No. 1 to the Lok Sabha [the lower house of Parliament]," Sinha intoned, "is declared void." Respondent No. 1 was no ordinary defendant; she was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who, the judge ruled, had violated Indian electoral law in her 1971 campaign for Parliament. The decision instantly pitched India into the most tangled constitutional crisis in its 28-year history as an independent nation--and could force Mrs. Gandhi to resign the prime ministership that she has held for nine years. Within minutes of the ruling, Mrs. Gandhi's lawyer obtained a twenty-day stay of the decision, and aides of the Prime Minister announced that she would appeal the verdict to India's Supreme Court. There was "no question" of her resigning her office, they said. Mrs. Gandhi's strategy clearly was to muster public and political support, and leaders of her ruling Congress Party as well as thousands of her countrymen rallied to her side. But the court's action dealt a serious blow to Mrs. Gandhi's prestige, and the very next day she suffered a second setback. In a by-election in the western coastal state of Gujarat, the once invincible Congress Party was upset by an opposition coalition. It was a rare display of cooperation on the part of India's usually feuding minority parties--and a personal slap at the Prime Minister, who had campaigned vigorously and implored Gujarat's voters to back Congress candidates as a show of support for her policies. The Prime Minister tried virtually everything to beat back the challenge of the six-party Janata (People's) Front in Gujarat. Despite broiling temperatures that often shot up to 110 degrees, she spent days campaigning, visiting each of the state's nineteen districts and speaking at 120 political meetings. She allotted $20 million in government relief funds for the drought-ravaged area and promised irrigation projects and special assistance to Gujarat's untouchables. Nothing worked. Angry students forced her to flee from several rallies by hurling stones and sandals at her, and when the voters went to the polls last week, their reaction was almost equally harsh. The Congress Party--which had won 140 state-assembly seats in the last election--picked up a dismal 75 while the united opposition won 87. The significance of the opposition victory went far beyond the borders of Gujarat, for the election results were almost certain to spur a similar combined opposition assault on the Congress Party in India's national elections early next year. 'Fanciful': Mrs. Gandhi's legal setback in Allahabad, her home town, was far more stinging. Socialist politician Raj Narain--whom she had swamped in the 1971 election by more than 112,000 votes--charged that Mrs. Gandhi had spent nearly twenty times the permissible $4,500 in her campaign, illegally traveled in Indian Air Force planes and used government officials to campaign for her. The Prime Minister struggled for nearly four years to have the case thrown out of court, but that failed and so did her attempts to avoid testifying. Judge Sinha refused Mrs. Gandhi's request to file a deposition, and she sat on the witness stand for six and a half hours denying everything and labeling the charges against her "highly exaggerated" and "fanciful." In the end, Sinha disagreed. Although he dismissed several of the charges, the judge found the Prime Minister guilty on two counts: illegally using local policemen to set up equipment at her campaign appearances and illegally employing a government official as a campaign worker. Chant: The verdict stunned India and split the nation into two camps. Mrs. Gandhi's opponents hailed the judge's ruling (on occasion comparing Sinha to Watergate Judge John Sirica) and scheduled a week of demonstrations to protest her refusal to resign from office. The pro-Gandhi bloc was just as vocal. Nearly 2,000 supporters thronged the street outside her home, sending up the odd chant: "We will face bullets and canes but will protect you." Hundreds of New Delhi shops were closed and buses canceled as expressions of support for the Prime Minister, and leaders of the Congress Party urged her to remain in office because of "the need of the country to have the benefit of your dynamic leader- Newsweek, June 23, 1975 15 === Page 3 of 5 September 25, 1975 TO MY SCIENTISTS.... Tonight the SI's...contacted me...the first time for quite a while. They have been waiting...for me to regain some strength...from my operations. Tonight...they communicated...and told me...that if...a pro football team does not hire me...for $100,000...(the same sum I came to the U.S. Govt. with in 1965).... that they will punish the United States accordingly. To spell it out...I am their one link with the human race...and I need $100,000 to carry out my immediate chores for the SI's (UFO entities with which I work, and have worked in the past.) I could work with the LA Rams, for instance, for 100,000... then after the season is over...I could take care of the SI's work... their assignments. (Which are expensive...in our money. They do not use money.) If...I do not...receive 100,000 from any source...then they will...in time ahead...punish the United States...painfully...and the 100,0000 will have been a drop in a bucket. Am only relaying the message passed on to me tonight...from the UFO intelligences. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens === Page 4 of 5 MENSA NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 1975 Fellow Ms, This is my first newsletter since my operation. The lobotomy was successful cause I no longer feel all you dirty rats hate me - just all the dirty rats on the peninsula. FUN AND GAMES: The August meeting, henceforth known as the "2ND Annual Mensa Games", was quite an enjoyable event. I was happy to see several of our newer members attended their first meeting. Carolyn & Mike Simpson did a fine job as hosts - THANK YOU from everyone that attended. Despite the fact that this is summer and Mensa attendance usually declines during summer, games night attendance was up - hope this trend continues. UFOS AND THINGS OF SUCH: September will be a time to remember for two reasons - 1) I will attend the meeting in the nude . . . and 2) we have a guest speaker of multifarious magnitude - Mr. Ted Owens. Ted, a TM member of long standing, has recently returned from a trip to England, Scotland, and Egypt. Ted will discuss some of his experiences while abroad - - UFOs, haunted castles and his discovery of secret passages in Egyptian Tombs. Ted indicated that he will also bring documentation (tapes, etc.) for all this - - GREAT! HUH! You gotta be there for this. DATE: Friday September 12. TIME: 8:00 pm. PLACE: Mr. Lou Stewart's Home. Please see map for directions. MUSIC TO MY EARS: Plans for the October meeting have not been finalized, but if everything works out it will be a Dinner-Theater Evening. More news next month. VAROOM: The following note was received by yours truly - "During the last few meetings a group of members have been seen to gather in a corner to discuss certain objects in a psuedo-foreign language. The terms "RPM", "Horsepower", "140 miles per hour" and others float upon the conversational air. Perhaps it is time to become more formal about this matter. At the next meeting those interested in Motor Sports are requested to gather to worship the god of Torque and plan a meeting for a SIG." Those interested can also call Mike Simpson (838-7108) or Stu Gibson (587-8882). TED: WE WILL HAVE A SHORT BUSINESS MEETING BEFORE YOUR TALK. SEE YOU FRIDAY. Bill (KISTLER 2201 MONTY COURT NORFOLK.) === Page 5 of 5 M - TIDES vol.I - no.4 October 1975 (Note: My na newsletter. Ted.) WHO WAS THAT M: Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) was fantastic. If you were at the September gathering, you know. If you were unable to attend, ask someone who was there. Mr. Owens has kindly consented to speak again at a future meeting, so be prepared. Mr. Owens mailed me some copies of his press clippings - if you are interested in reading them, let me know. A warm "THANK YOU" for a very enjoyable and interesting evening. Also, a large "THANK YOU" for Dr. Lou Stewart for his hospitality. We all enjoyed ourselves. Thank you Lou. 76 TROMBONES: Our October gathering will be a Dinner Theatre Evening on Friday October 17 for a performance of "MUSIC MAN" at the Tidewater Dinner Theatre. If you ordered a ticket, you should have it by now. And if this "ordered tickets" stuff is all news to you, please see the editorial for an explanation. Please see the enclosed map for directions. PAM & STEW WHO?: Our November gathering will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gibson. What will we do? - See next month's M-Tides for details. JINGLE BELLS - JINGLE BELLS: Carolyn and Mike Simpson are having a Mensa Christmas Party - everyone is invited. More details later. QUESTION - WHAT IS A CLUTCH?: The Sports car SIG must be doing as well as our other SIGs - I haven't heard a thing! Call Stew Gibson (587-8882) in Norfolk or Mike Simpson (838-7108) in Hampton. ANSWER: A clutch is what you use to keep yourself in a speeding Jaguar driven by Stew Gibson on a road rally when the top is down and it is very cold outside. In his first rally, Stew finished 35th in a field of 35 cars. So Stew decided he needed a new navigator (I was elected). Well, I don't like to brag, but in Stew's second rally (and my first) he (and I) came in 5th in class and 8th overall - you're welcome Stew! (And for all you wise-acres out there, yes there were more than 8 cars running) PHOTO SIG: The photo SIG is blasting along full speed - about 1/1000 sec at f 2.8 - if interested, call me. (587-6765) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7509 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8c76d8e0df77a05c2bc1fa852d616500.pdf 8eb56830561f387bc5d4ef23dd91d488 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/36d18fce114dfcbaaccc7974abb8a51c.txt 5204fb45e6ebad93f06ac090e1ee104c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 12 cc: Dr. Fogel Dr. Hynek Dr. Arenas Drs. Targ and Putoff Dr. Sprinkle October 22, 1975 Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station WCFL, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Doug: So far, in our UFO experiment... we have two very fine, clear-cut, phenomena which have happened... an excellent "jump-off" to our experiment. To recap: you requested, or challenged, me to produce UFO phenomena over Chicago. After all, this is what I am famous for... UFO phenomena... produced and documented. That is why they call me "The UFO Prophet." I agreed, and in writing stipulated the various phenomena that I would cause in and around the Chicago area. I set up communications with the UFO's on our experiment on October 8 (1975), and so notified you, and my scientists. This was to be, and is to be, a major demonstration/experiment. I sent to you many documents, periodicals, etc., outlining my success in this type of thing in the past, and requested that you return them to my files when you are able. All right. Now I refer you to my letter to you dated October 8, 1975, as follows: ".......... I will send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area... to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings. This will cover, of course, the O'Hare Airport and the stadium in which the Chicago Bears play football. I will especially request that the poltergeists not harm anyone, or make any planes crash. BUT THE FOOTBALL GAMES OF THE BEARS IN THAT STADIUM, IN THE MONTHS AHEAD, SHOULD BE WILD, FREAKISH, AND DOWNRIGHT FUNNY." (Note that 'downright funny'... Ted) Now I quote from the Chicago Tribune, October 13, 1975... five days after the experiment has been turned on: "Lions Ax Bears In Laugher 27-7. "Chicago's baby Bears got whipped about as badly as a team can get whipped in the National Football League Sunday. The score was 27-7, which doesn't come close to telling the story. The Detroit Lions beat them physically, emotionally, intellectually, and every other way you can imagine. "THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN AN OPPONENT LAUGH AT THE OTHER TEAM," said a shaken and angry Coach Jack Pardee. "THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE DOING OUT THERE. LAUGHING AT US. We looked like a bunch of little boys playing grown men." Now, Doug... I ask you, in all fairness... did the ET's and I do what I said we'd do, or not? The UFO poltergeists had the Bears falling down, dropping balls... and generally acting like the Marx Brothers multiplied... and so much so that the other team was laughing at them. Isn't this what I said I would do? As of October 8... a UFO was over the Chicago Stadium... creating poltergeist phenomena, and other phenomena... amongst the practicing Chicago Bears players. No matter where they play, that Stadium or elsewhere... The Power will be with them... making them "funny". (And if Coach Pardee thought that game was 'funny' wait until he sees the rest of the Bears games this season! Ha ha ha!) Now for the second successful result in my work with my UFO's over the city of Chicago. I quote the Chicago Sun-Times, October 15, 1975: "Another Day, Another Record. Tuesday's warm temperatures set a record for Oct. 14, rising to 87 degrees, 1 degree higher than the previous high recorded in 1897." I quote the Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1975: "Heat Beats Record. .......... the mercury hit 88 degrees, breaking the old mark of 83 set 19 years ago. Records also were set in Moline, Rockford, Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, as the heat wave blew in from the plains..." === Page 2 of 12 So, since the beginning of my UFO demonstration over the city of Chicago and its environs...Chicago has suffered extraordinary, record-breaking heat. But...is not that the very same thing that happened WHEN I GAVE THE UFO DEMONSTRATION OVER CLEVELAND, OHIO? You have the documented file in your hands. Examine it. I also explained it to you over long distance phone when live on your radio show from Cape Charles. Remember? Blistering heat that buckled sidewalks and popped manhole covers up into the air? Perhaps now you can just begin to appreciate...the fantastic power that I have, working with my UFO's. It is, of course, just a beginning. But it is a beginning. In the Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1975, there appeared a cartoon by "Stayakal" of a flying saucer over New York. This gave me quite a chuckle. It should have been shown over Chicago...because there ARE flying saucers over and around Chicago and its environs...beaming down all sorts of other-dimensional effects which will, as soon as they "jell", make Chicago quite a lively city. Actually a broader area than just Chicago is involved...because the UFO's telepathed to me a circular area which they are invading and attacking with other-dimensional powers as a demonstration to humans...which encompasses Milwaukee, Evanston, Gary and South Bend. They explained to me that their power would be too great if it were focused just upon the tiny area of Chicago. Much as if you focused the sun's rays through a magnifying glass upon a piece of paper. It would burn up. But if you back up a bit, and broaden the area of focus, it would not damage the paper. But the effects would be felt upon the paper. So...they have broadened the area of focus for their many powers. If you will examine the Cleveland file you will see that they did the same thing then, when I was giving a UFO demonstration against Cleveland. Their broadened area included a huge area around the northeast...not just Cleveland...but they still gave Cleveland fits. I am in daily telepath communication with the UFO's, and am devoting my full strength to this major demonstration/experiment. The fun is just beginning. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 3 of 12 October 8, 1975 Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station WCFL, 300 N. State, Chicago, Illinois 60610 Dear Mr. Dahlgren: It was a pleasure to appear on your radio show last Monday and again today, Wednesday. Today I received a charming letter from a Debbie Caron of Manteno, Illinois, and the contents gave me quite a chuckle. She discusses the Monday show, and states: "They (Doug Dahlgren and crew) did quite a job cutting up on you afterward to their public." You and I did not get to quite finish my explanation over the radio...re my contact with the SI's re the vanished people in Oregon. So I will finish explaining it herein. Some years ago my daughter Lornie and I were driving through Oregon late at night. The highway was deserted and huge trees lined the road. Suddenly my car lights illuminated an old man walking along the center of the highway in the pitch dark. I pulled up alongside him and gave him my car flashlight to see by. The darkness was intense and I could not understand how he could even see to walk along the highway without wandering off into the trees. He smiled at me and reached his hand inside my car window and gripped my hand warmly. Then he strode off down the road in the opposite direction from where we were going. I told Lornie that maybe he needed money, since he was dressed shabbily...so I made a U-turn...and the road was empty. He had completely vanished. And he hadn't had time to get off the road into the trees. Years later I lived in Philadelphia...and while walking down the street a man came up to me and offered to carry one of two sacks of groceries that I held. In Philadelphia, New York, or Chicago...people just do not do that. He was dark complected and I asked if he were from India, since he was obviously not Negro. He laughed and said yes. We walked several blocks and chatted...and he mentioned that I lived only a few blocks away. He had no way of knowing where I lived, of course. But it was true. After the few blocks he handed me the sack of groceries, shook my hand warmly, and I turned and crossed the street to where my wife waited for me on the curb. "See that man..." I said to her, and turned and pointed...and the man had utterly vanished. He had had no time to go anywhere. There were no doorways nearby. Shortly thereafter a stranger sent money to me to move to Colorado. So we packed up and drove to Colorado. But once there things went wrong as far as this stranger was concerned, so we drove towards Florida, at the direction of the SI's. A UFO followed us overhead all the way. We would get out and look at it, and it would go into a cloud...wait until we drove on...then emerge from the cloud and keep following us. When we reached Dothan, Alabama, we parked for the night on top of a high hill, and I spread some blankets on top of the station wagon and slept up there. I was awakened by a blinding flash of light...then a loud crash nearby our car. Strangely I simply went back to sleep. In the morning a car came rushing up to our car...and a man leaped out and asked if we had seen an army helicopter. I pointed over to the side of our car and said, there it is. He shouted for us not to go near the copter, because it had secret equipment in it...leaped in his car and drove away. I sauntered over to the copter and a negro in uniform leaned out a window with a .45 in his hand and cheerily told me to stay right === Page 4 of 12 2 where I was because he had orders not to let anyone approach the copter. I asked him what had happened. He said the copter had flown down over our car and turned their searchlight on us...and at that exact instant all the power in the copter went dead. Lights, radio, everything. He couldn't even radio out for help...and the copter of course crashed. Then a whole fleet of cars, officers, and heavy equipment arrived to try and extricate the copter. I showed the army officers my book re UFO's...and warned them not to buzz my car again, because the UFO that had followed us from Colorado had evidently thought we were being attacked by the copter, and had downed it. The point of all this is...I had strange experiences in both Oregon and Colorado...and these people that just vanished...began in Oregon then supposedly went to train in Colorado. Although this recent Oregon anomaly smacks of fraud of some kind...or worse... it could be a UFO action. Because the SI's are in fact...trying to get more humans to raise their frequency, so that they, the SI's, can then work with the humans in an other-dimensional manner. For several years...the SI's have guided people to me from various parts of the world to be trained for exactly this purpose...from Italy, from Holland, from Canada, from the U.S., they have flown here and I have trained them. I have given them "superbrains" and in the doing have raised their frequency to a level acceptable by the SI's. Enclosed you will find an article in Sage, written by myself...explaining this in a simplistic fashion. Am also sending you valuable material...from my files...for you to discuss with your listening audience if you so wish. In one article by Otto Binder you will read that Otto believed (he passed away last year) that I might be the only single hope that the United States has...against Russian psi-force attack. Otto Binder wrote (with Max Flindt) the wonderful book, "Mankind-Child of the Stars" with a foreword by Erich Von Daniken. In the foreword Von Daniken states "I know of no work since Darwin that deserves as much attention with regard to the evolution of man." So Otto, both as an author as well as a devout UFO researcher...had considerable clout among the experts. The Book is a Fawcett book, P3142, $1.25. Otto wrote in my copy that he sent me, "My UFO 'masterwork', Ted! Will do as good a job with your book. Otto." He intended to do a book about my life and the 300 miracles I've accomplished. Otto had had over 40 books published; one of the best was "Flying Saucers Are Watching Us"...Belmont Books. Copy any of the material that I sending you, as you wish...then PLEASE return the material, since it belongs in my files. I have included in the material two signed, notarized statements re my work from Dr. Max Fogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa. I have a ton of other signed, notarized statements from other scientists, police, lawyers, etc., but I think that these two deal with what I am writing about in this letter, so are most appropos to the matter at hand. === Page 5 of 12 3 Now, to the business at hand. You have requested that I give a UFO demonstration over Chicago. I can do much better than that..........and have cleared it with the SI's by direct communication today. Please note in the March 1971 Saga mag an article, "Ted Owens - Flying Saucer Missionary" by Otto binder. In this article is described one of my 300 miracles..........causing all sorts of weird things to happen in and around Norfolk, Virginia..........as well as the appearance of a UFO over Norfolk. I am going to duplicate this miracle, with some embellishments, for the benefit of Chicago. And I will spell out what I am going to do, and then notify my scientists, so that they can observe. UFO appearances..........will ask the SI's to appear outstandingly in and around the Chicago area, and possibly do some very strange things to accompany the appearances. EM phenomena. I will cause electromagnetic changes in the Chicago area. This will cause power blackouts and various forms of magnetic and electromagnetic anomalies. It should also cause many lightning strikes, violent storms, and high winds. Poltergeist phenomena. I will send hundreds of poltergeist entities into the area..........to cause all sorts of mischievous, prankish, freak happenings. This will cover, of course, the O'Hare Airport and the stadium in which the Chicago Bears play football. I will especially request that the poltergeists not harm anyone, or make any planes crash. But the football games of the Bears in that stadium, in the months ahead..........should be wild, freakish, and downright funny. And all sorts of strange things should happen at O'Hare Airport. Instruments going crazy; tires blowing out; etc. Not to mention human error by the bushel full. The grid. I will set up an other-dimensional grid over the Chicago area. Won't tell you what it will do..........but you'll see the results. Now..........I have never yet failed in a demonstration on this huge scale. Never. But the difficulty here is..........to try and minimize the effects so that no one gets hurt. In short..........I have far too much power for such an experiment. Sort of like using a shotgun to shoot a fly in a barrel. This will not make too much sense to you, but believe me I know what I am talking about. If you have any further questions with regard to any of this..........do not hesitate to contact me. And please remember to return the file materials within several weeks, because I have to use them in giving lectures. Cordially, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 P.S. The time element on this: will set it all up today. Things should start popping within days or weeks. The entire demonstration should cap and climax within 90 days. It could well be the wildest 90 days in the history of Chicago! === Page 6 of 12 Squires Shaking Heads 10/75 # ...And Now for the Bad News By NELSON BROWN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer VIRGINIA BEACH--With Mack Calvin sitting out an expected two months, Mike Green out at least until the regular-season opener Oct. 24, Dave Twardzik sick and David Vaughn giving no significant signs of a return to form, Jack Ankerson found himself a man bewildered Tuesday as he rose to address the Virginia Beach Sports Club. "It's like a black cloud has descended over us," the general manager of the Squires said gingerly, hoping his words might be heard by a Force with a sympathetic ear. Then Ankerson began relating his ABA team's tale of woe--oh yes, don't forget the dislocated thumb of Darrell Elston--with a final reminder that all cannot remain so bleak. "After all," said Ankerson, "it's better for these things to happen early in the season than later. We're gonna be a good club, and we'll be ready by the time the playoffs roll around." So much for the bad news. Now for the Squire fan who asks, "What can happen next?" It did--already The Squires missed their plane home Monday night after absorbing their fourth straight exhibition defeat. In Asheville, N.C., the Squires had been promised their flight would be held if the team was late. So what happens? The team arrives and the plane is six minutes airborne. Back into town, find a motel, and spend the night--minus such overnight amenities as a toothbrush. That plane wouldn't have dared allow the Denver Nuggets to miss it, of course. But right now the Squires are so low that, well, everything and everybody seems to be against them. So much for more bad news. Now for the good news. Ticky Burden, it seems, has rapidly become "a player." In coaching terms, "a player" is a guy who can shoot, score the works. While the Squires did lose, 114-111, to David Thompson and the Nuggets in Asheville, Burden scored 33 points. It was the sort of show the Squires will need more of to stay competitive until Calvin returns to the backcourt. "Ticky Burden... mercy, can he shoot the basketball," exclaimed Ankerson to the gathering. "This morning's Asheville paper ran the headline 'Denver, Thompson Beat Squires But Burden Steals the Show.'" "We had thought we might have to bring him along slowly," Ankerson said of the 6-2 rookie out of Utah, "but he's playing like a veteran." Burden played only 12 minutes in the exhibition opener against Houston, when he left early with five fouls. But he has averaged 24.3 points in the last three games and is hitting 52 per cent of his shots for a team that is managing a mediocre 43 per cent. "When everyone gets healthy, when we can put our whole team together, we're gonna be good," Ankerson implored his listeners to believe. A couple more Ticky Burdens might help, though. October 13, 1975 TO MY SCIENTISTS..........as you know from your file material, some years ago I attacked the Norfolk Squires ABA basketball team...when they were ahead of New York in the champ playoffs 3-1, and helped New York win the next three games and beat the Squires. But since that time...the PK has 'grown', like corn in a field...and the owner went bankrupt and the team has fallen to pieces. It is important...to keep an eye on these things...so that you can see how devastating are these other-dimensional powers that I utilize, with UFO help. Bear in mind...years ago I attacked the Philadelphia Eagles with PK power...and their owner, Jerry Wolman, went bankrupt and the team fell apart and for years has been a laughing-stock of pro football. (Now the effects just might be wearing off. But the effects for the Eagles go back to 1966-67...the beginning of the attack. So after I attack a team with PK...it takes years and years and years and years for them to recover from the effects.) Next, as you know from your files and newspaper write-ups...I attacked the Baltimore Colts, then owned by Rosenbloom. He was smarter than the others and didn't wait to go bankrupt...but traded his pro team for the Los Angeles Rams. The Colts fell apart and they, too, became a laughingstock of pro football. Just fell apart. "Hindsight" reveals a great deal...with reference to the effectiveness of my 150 "PK" mechanisms. Owens XPK Man X === Page 7 of 12 # Squires' Dream # Now Ruptured Nightmare By MIKE LITTWIN 10/17/75 Virginian-Pilot Sports' Writer Looking back on the disaster of Saturday night, the Squires can only wish it was a bad dream. It wasn't. Mack Calvin, the key to the Squires' offense, is indeed out for probably two months with a ruptured tendon in his left knee. The return of Mike Green, the hub of the defense, is more than two weeks away. And the curious virus that has attacked Dave Twardzik, probably the best reserve guard in the ABA, lingers still. Thus the men of Al Bianchi, already winless in three exhibition games, appear to be in for another rough time of it tonight in Asheville, N.C., where they will take on the Denver Nuggets and David Thompson at 7:30. "I'm not really feeling any better," said Twardzik, who sat out the second half of Saturday night's 130-113 loss to Philadelphia with complaints of dizziness and chest pains. "I've been resting all day, taking fluids and aspirin. Hopefully, I'll be able to play against Denver." Obviously concerned for his team's mental state, Bianchi will feel much relieved if Twardzik is on hand. Otherwise, the Squires will be without a proven playmaker. "After the game," Twardzik said, "Al asked me to go if I could. That will have to weigh heavily in my decision." There is no telling what the Squires' starting lineup will be. If Twardzik makes it, he'll team with Ticky Burden in backcourt. Otherwise, it will be Burden and Johnny Neumann. The forwards almost certainly will be Willie Wise and Jan van Breda Kolff. At center there remains much question. The Squires have been outrebounded in each of their three games--at times badly--and David Vaughn has been woefully erratic. Neither of the rookies, Rick Darnell and Bill Bunton, has been particularly impressive. FAST BREAKS--Marvin Webster, the Nuggets' other bonus baby, may be out for the season with hepatitis. There is some talk the Nuggets are trying to void his generous contract, claiming prior illness . . . Former Squire George Irvine will be in Asheville, but not Fatty Taylor, who has been having contractual differences with the Nuggets. Bad luck seems to be haunting all the Squires. General partner Van Cunningham's Rolls Royce reportedly was vandalized in the Hampton Coliseum parking lot Saturday night. The Squires play Thursday in Salisbury, Md., against the Baltimore Claws and Sunday in Scope against Chicago of the NBA. === Page 8 of 12 Scientists... in my former written predictions... I predicted the fall of South Vietnam... also cannibalism in 1975! Owens Monday April 7 1975 No 59,363 Price eight pence LONDON TIMES # Phnom Penh considers prospect of unconditional surrender Discussions on the possibility of Phnom Penh's unconditional surrender to the attacking communist forces were said by reliable sources to be going on yesterday among the Cambodian leaders in the capital. However, Mr Long Boret, the Prime Minister, on his way home from Bali, said the capital "will not fall." Meanwhile, there were reports of widespread cannibalism among starving Government troops. In Washington General Frederick Weyand, the Army Chief of Staff, back from Saigon, reported that there was virtually no hope of saving South Vietnam. # Cannibalism practised by Cambodian troops From Bruce Palling Phnom Penh, April 6. Unpaid Government soldiers killed and ate their paymaster only a mile away from the besieged Cambodian capital, it was reported here today. In their reaction to the incident military observers seemed more concerned with the maintenance of discipline among the troops than with revulsion over the acts of cannibalism. An inspection of the troops at a Buddhist temple where they have been temporarily stationed south-east of Phnom Penh has revealed that thousands of starving people have taken part in acts of cannibalism recently. The paymaster was killed in a shooting incident, according to observers on the scene, when he refused to hand the soldiers their monthly pay of 14,000 riels (about £3) until they went to the northern front--about seven miles away. A superior officer was also shot and killed. The soldiers had been airlifted from the besieged provincial capital of Kompong Seila late last week after the Government decided to abandon the town, about 70 miles south-west of Phnom Penh in order to bring more troops into the capital. The troops, then numbering 1,500, and 5,000 inhabitants lived under siege from last May until January when pressure eased on the positions with the Khmer Rouge concentrating their efforts on their offensive against Phnom Penh. A captain interviewed today said that everyone in his battalion of 500 men had eaten the corpses of Khmer Rouge killed in the fighting because they were starving. "We ate grass, lizards and banana leaves and finally Khmer Rouge--everyone ate them men, women and children", the captain said. During the weekend, about 80 employees of the American Vinnell Corporation, which maintains and trains the Cambodian Army, withdrew entirely at the orders of the State Department in Washington. The American Embassy also withdrew up to 30 of its 200 employees during the past four days in case the military situation deteriorates rapidly or Congress refuses to grant supplemental military aid to Cambodia when it reconvenes on Monday. === Page 9 of 12 October 29, 1975 Mr. Doug Dahlgren, Radio Station WCFL, Chicago, Illinois Dos Targ & Putoff You have just finished witnessing another "miracle" from the UFO's and myself. That is, if you watched the Chicago Bear's football game Monday night. To sum it up simply: I told you in my letter of October 8, 1975, that I would, through my UFO control, cause "funny" things to happen to the Chicago Bears pro football team. Also on that page I told you that the poltergeists would cause "human errors". Today in the Virginian-Pilot there was a write-up about the Chicago Bears game Monday night: "A Bear Absent...Vikes TD A Freak. (AP) There was a player missing on the field when Minnesota scored the touchdown that led the Vikings to a 13-9 victory over the Chicago Bears..."It was just another freak accident" said Bear coach Jack Pardee of the mixup, which led to the easy touchdown." I ask you, in all fairness...what other pro football team that you've ever known...with two minutes to play...would 'accidentally' leave out one man on the field...and thus allow the opponents to score an easy touchdown? (A highschool quarterback could have passed to Lash...since no one was there to guard him!) And so the Vikings won. I controlled this game personally...from my TV set. When the Bears were down inside the Vikings 10, I used my powers...and the Bears dropped the ball and gave it over to the Vikings. In case you are dubious...I suggest that you contact Stan Hochman or Bill Shefski, sports writers for the Daily News in Philadelphia. Years ago they challenged me to go to a game with them and show them a 'miracle'. I took them up on it. And at the game...I showed them a miracle. They wrote it up in the papers and confirmed it. I mention this just in case you are skeptical about my powers. Oh sure...I am working to bring power blackouts onto Chicago and its environs...make freak things happen all around Chicago...wild storms and lightning attacks...strange weather...but pro football is near and dear to my heart, and I have had years of practice at controlling pro football teams. Many many magazine and newspaper articles have been written about my feats in controlling pro football teams. So...keep your eyes on the Bears. More fun than the funny papers. NOTE TO MY SCIENTISTS... Some very weird events have taken place, and I think that I should apprise you of them. Last week our little dog, Pixie, vanished. We'd had Pixie, a skye terrier, for a year, and we kept him inside the house. He'd go out to piddle, but would be back in ten minutes, scratching at the door. This time he didn't come back. I have had posters put up all over town with his photo on them, offering a reward...but he's gone. This point is important...remember it. Then over the weekend there was a knock at our door...and a bearded man stood there. He'd been here a long time ago...once...with a young girl, Ann, who smoked long cigars and played chess with me (beat me to pieces, too). What is his last name? I don't know. He doesn't give it out. Where's he from? No one knows. He sails here in a 40-foot boat with a big sail, with no name or ID on the boat. This time he had a different girl, Jan, and a fellow, Tom, with him. So I invited them to dinner Monday night...the night of the Bears game. Their boat was parked in the ship channel just outside Cape Charles. Monday afternoon Beau, my 14 year old boy, came home soaking wet. He'd gone aboard Ev's boat, then gotten into the dinghy...the dinghy was swept away on a wild current of water...and with Ev, Tom and Jan just standing on deck...Beau had been swept out to sea. === Page 10 of 12 2 Beau later told me that, far away from Ev's boat...and unable to paddle the dinghy...he'd fallen out into deep water...but managed to climb back into the dinghy...then the Coast Guard came and rescued him. Strange. All right. These three strangers came to our house Monday evening...and had dinner. Oddly, I had no appetite, and couldn't even eat. They came at 5 PM. The Bears game began at 9 PM. That's a four hour gap. Okay? Remember that. I controlled the Bears game over TV, with the fellow, Tom, sitting beside me. He pretended to drink a beer..but hardly touched it at all. I finished with the game...steered the Vikings to a win (the Bears actually could have won the game, easily)...and the three left the house. NOW, The following morning I arose...and both my wrist watches were haywire. On my left wrist is a Synchronon, a $500 watch that is absolutely accurate at all times. It runs on solar power, and is a miniaturized computer. On my right wrist is a $600 Universal Geneve...never wrong at all...right on the second. But on Tuesday morning the Universal Geneve, at 8 AM, read 5:25. The Synchronon read 12:37, and had the previous day's date! The date had not advanced! Incredible. Therefore I surmised that Ev and friends were NOT government agents as I'd thought...dropping in to see how I'd PK a game...but UFO people! Add it up: our dog vanishes just before these strangers with beards get here. (not the girl...the two men had beards...but these people simply did not look real...not like people...their eyes, their expressions, etc.) Now, a dog can sense a UFO a mile away, and have fits, if you know about these things. If entities were here, taking human form...our dog would have had fits. So...our dog neatly vanishes just before they get here. Then...my watches...top watches, accurate to a farthingwell...both go haywire while these people are here. UFO's can cause this EM effect, and only UFO's, as far as I know. Today is Wednesday...I'd mentioned over the weekend to these strangers that this week some night I would go down onto the beach, and see if I could call forth a UFO into plain sight, and they'd expressed the wish to go with me when I did. This morning I went into town...and two of them were waiting for me there. They asked if I'd go tonight down onto the dark beach and bring forth a UFO. I told them I would, and they asked to go. So...I'll go with them, and take my boy Beau with me...and communicate with the ET's and ask them to show one or more UFO craft where we are. I only hope that my watches will not go haywire again...while I am with them. Or...that Beau and I do not vanish, out in the darkness, with them. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) PS...On Tuesday morning, to my utter astonishment...with both watches haywire... I had ABSOLUTELY NO MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED FROM 5 PM to 9 PM THE NIGHT BEFORE! I.e., after the three strangers came to our house...my mind was blanked out for four hours! I can only remember the Bears game...with the stranger Tom sitting beside me...and controlling the game. Otherwise...zip. I had to ask my wife what happened during those missing four hours. She said that I came to the kitchen door and talked to them a bit...but I have no memory of it at all. This has never happened before in my life. === Page 11 of 12 Squires Shaking Heads 10/75 # ... And Now for the Bad News By NELSON BROWN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer VIRGINIA BEACH--With Mack Calvin sitting out an expected two months, Mike Green out at least until the regular-season opener Oct. 24, Dave Twardzik sick and David Vaughn giving no significant signs of a return to form, Jack Ankerson found himself a man bewildered Tuesday as he rose to address the Virginia Beach Sports Club. "It's like a black cloud has descended over us," the general manager of the Squires said gingerly, hoping his words might be heard by a Force with a sympathetic ear. Then Ankerson began relating his ABA team's tale of woe--oh yes, don't forget the dislocated thumb of Darrell Elston--with a final reminder that all cannot remain so bleak. "After all," said Ankerson, "it's better for these things to happen early in the season than later We're gonna be a good club, and we'll be ready by the time the playoffs roll around." So much for the bad news. Now for the Squire fan who asks, "What can happen next?" It did--already The Squires missed their plane home Monday night after absorbing their fourth straight exhibition defeat In Asheville, NC, the Squires had been promised their flight would be held if the team was late So what happens? The team arrives and the plane is six minutes airborne Back into town, find a motel, and spend the night--minus such overnight amenities as a toothbrush That plane wouldn't have dared allow the Denver Nuggets to miss it, of course But right now the Squires are so low that, well, everything and everybody seems to be against them. So much for more bad news. Now for the good news. Ticky Burden, it seems, has rapidly become "a player" In coaching terms, "a player" is a guy who can shoot, score the works. While the Squires did lose, 114-111, to David Thompson and the Nuggets in Asheville, Burden scored 33 points It was the sort of show the Squires will need more of to stay competitive until Calvin returns to the backcourt. "Ticky Burden mercy, can he shoot the basketball," exclaimed Ankerson to the gathering "This morning's Asheville paper ran the headline 'Denver, Thompson Beat Squires But Burden Steals the Show'" "We had thought we might have to bring him along slowly," Ankerson said of the 6-2 rookie out of Utah, "but he's playing like a veteran" Burden played only 12 minutes in the exhibition opener against Houston, when he left early with five fouls But he has averaged 24.3 points in the last three games and is hitting 52 per cent of his shots for a team that is managing a mediocre 43 per cent "When everyone gets healthy, when we can put our whole team together, we're gonna be good," Ankerson implored his listeners to believe A couple more Ticky Burdens might help, though. October 13, 1975 TO MY SCIENTISTS..........as you know from your file material, some years ago I attacked the Norfolk Squires ABA basketball team...when they were ahead of New York in the champ playoffs 3-1, and helped New York win the next three games and beat the Squires. But since that time...the PK has 'grown', like corn in a field...and the owner went bankrupt and the team has fallen to pieces. It is important...to keep an eye on these things...so that you can see how devastating are these other-dimensional powers that I utilize, with UFO help. Bear in mind...years ago I attacked the Philadelphia Eagles with PK power...and their owner, Jerry Wolman, went bankrupt and the team fell apart and for years has been a laughing-stock of pro football. (Now the effects just might be wearing off. But the effects for the Eagles go back to 1966-67...the beginning of the attack. So after I attack a team with PK...it takes years and years and years for them to recover from the effects.) Next, as you know from your files and newspaper write-ups...I attacked the Baltimore Colts, then owned by Rosenbloom. He was smarter than the others and didn't wait to go bankrupt...but traded his pro team for the Los Angeles Rams. The Colts fell apart and they, too, became a laughingstock of pro football. Just fell apart. "Hindsight" reveals a great deal...with reference to the effectiveness of my 150 "PK" mechanisms. Owens (X PK Man X) === Page 12 of 12 # Squires' Dream # Now Ruptured Nightmare By MIKE LITTWIN Virginian-Pilot Sports Writer 10/1'75 Looking back on the disaster of Saturday night, the Squires can only wish it was a bad dream. It wasn't. Mack Calvin, the key to the Squires' offense, is indeed out for probably two months with a ruptured tendon in his left knee. The return of Mike Green, the hub of the defense, is more than two weeks away. And the curious virus that has attacked Dave Twardzik, probably the best reserve guard in the ABA, lingers still. Thus the men of Al Bianchi, already winless in three exhibition games, appear to be in for another rough time of it tonight in Asheville, N.C., where they will take on the Denver Nuggets and David Thompson at 7:30. "I'm not really feeling any better," said Twardzik, who sat out the second half of Saturday night's 130-113 loss to Philadelphia with complaints of dizziness and chest pains. "I've been resting all day, taking fluids and aspirin. Hopefully, I'll be able to play against Denver." Obviously concerned for his team's mental state, Bianchi will feel much relieved if Twardzik is on hand. Otherwise, the Squires will be without a proven playmaker. "After the game," Twardzik said, "Al asked me to go if I could. That will have to weigh heavily in my decision." There is no telling what the Squires' starting lineup will be. If Twardzik makes it, he'll team with Ticky Burden in backcourt. Otherwise, it will be Burden and Johnny Neumann. The forwards almost certainly will be Willie Wise and Jan van Breda Kolff. At center there remains much question. The Squires have been outrebounded in each of their three games--at times badly--and David Vaughn has been woefully erratic. Neither of the rookies, Rick Darnell and Bill Bunton, has been particularly impressive. FAST BREAKS--Marvin Webster, the Nuggets' other bonus baby, may be out for the season with hepatitis. There is some talk the Nuggets are trying to void his generous contract, claiming prior illness . . . Former Squire George Irvine will be in Asheville, but not Fatty Taylor, who has been having contractual differences with the Nuggets. Bad luck seems to be haunting all the Squires. General partner Van Cunningham's Rolls Royce reportedly was vandalized in the Hampton Coliseum parking lot Saturday night. The Squires play Thursday in Salisbury, Md., against the Baltimore Claws and Sunday in Scope against Chicago of the NBA. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 19 Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. LUKE 2:14 === Page 2 of 19 Best always to Dr Sprinkle and family... Wishing you joy at Christmas! Owens (PK/man) === Page 3 of 19 # 75-mile winds pound city ## Trees torn up, power lines cut CHICAGO TRIB. NOV. 10, 1975 A WINDSTORM with gusts up to 75 miles an hour pounded the Chicago area early Monday, causing widespread damage. The storm, accompanied by rain, was blamed for a traffic accident on the Northwest Tollway in which a truck driver was injured critically. Although the rain had ended in most areas by 3 a.m., winds of 25 to 30 miles an hour continued into the morning rush hour, with gusts up to 50 miles an hour still being reported. Winds were expected to buffet the city and suburbs until the evening, the National Weather Service reported. LAKE COUNTY sheriff's police received several reports that tornadoes had touched down in the Grayslake and Long Lake areas shortly after midnight. A search of the area revealed that trees had been blown down by winds, but there was no sign of tornado damage. A spokesman for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad said an inbound commuter train was delayed nearly half an hour when winds knocked out an electrical line Monday morning. Six other IC trains were delayed from 5 to 10 minutes because of the power loss, which disabled a signal light. Commuters also were delayed on the Rock Island Line when a tree fell across the inbound tracks at 107th Street and Longwood Drive. State police blamed the wind and wet road conditions for the crash of a United Parcel Service truck carrying two trailers in the southbound lanes of the Edens Expressway at Touhy Avenue. The truck driver, Ambrose Benislo, 30, of 138 N. Woodlawn, Hoffman Estates, was thrown from the cab when the truck hit the left guardrail. He was in critical condition at Skokie Valley Community Hospital. Traffic was diverted as state highway clean-up crews cleared the road of packages. The two trailers overturned and were cleared from the road by several tow trucks, police said. AT ALLEGHENY and Peterson avenues, trees were blown down and the tops of large trees were broken off. Power lines were reported down in scattered areas of Will, Kane, McHenry, and Lake counties, in addition to Cook County, with the heaviest damage in Lake County. Scattered power blackouts of varying lengths were reported from the North-west Side to the Wisconsin border. Gusts up to 48 miles an hour were reported at O'Hare International Airport shortly after midnight Monday, but flight operations were not interrupted, an airport spokesman said. At the Lake Forest Oasis on Ill. Hwy. 294, winds of 45 miles an hour with hail knocked out a picture window. In Streamwood, winds of 75 miles an hour were recorded. Utility sheds were overturned, but no power blackouts or heavy damage was reported. ## November one of hottest CHICAGO TRIB. DEC. 2, 1975 THOUGH IT ENDED with some bone-chilling winds, November will go into the record books as the second warmest November in the last 100 years. The average temperature over the last 30 days, as recorded by the National Weather Service at Midway Airport, was 47.1 degrees, 6.7 degrees above normal. The warmest November in the last 100 years was in 1931, when temperatures averaged a balmy 50. Last Nov. 6, the reading of 75 degrees set a record for a November day, beating the previous high of 74 in 1924. December was off to a bad start with temperatures expected in the low twenties all day Monday. ## Heat beats record CHICAGO TRIB. OCT. 14, 1975 SUMMER BLAZED back into Chicago Monday, giving sunbathers a chance to touch up their tans and allowing homeowners to attend their neglected lawns. After a month of below-normal temperatures, the mercury hit 83 degrees, breaking the old mark of 82 set 19 years ago. Records also were set in Moline, Rockford, Milwaukee, and Madison, Wis., as the heat wave blew in from the plains on southwesterly winds, according to the National Weather Service. Another hot day can be expected Tuesday with a high between 85 and 90, a weather service spokesman said. Cooler weather is forecast for Wednesday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. ## SCIENCE ### TRAFFIC JAM AT O'HARE Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on a typical Friday about 140 planes land at or take off from the world's busiest airport. Incoming planes stack up in "fixes" up to 35 miles away. Newsweek December 22, 1975 CHICAGO TRIBUNE 10/13/75 # Lions ax Bears in laugher 27-7 By Don Pierson PONTIAC, MICH.--Chicago's baby Bears got whipped about as badly as a baby's cheeks and every back, truck, and tackle got whipped in the National Football League. The Detroit Lions beat them physically, emotionally, intellectually, and every other way you can imagine. "That's the first time I've ever seen an opponent laugh at the other team," said a shaken and angry Coach Jack Pardee. "That's what they were doing out there. Laughing at us. We looked like a bunch of little boys playing grown men. We didn't even put up a fight. How we thought we'd come over here and win without hitting is beyond me." "THEY JUST OUTHIT US. When you see guys laying around after every play, you know you're not doing the hitting; they're hitting you." The unusually fired-up Lions started out with tight end Charlie Sanders knocking Wally Chambers silly with a flying forearm and didn't finish until Mel Tom, Cid Edwards, Walter Payton, and Bob Asher limped off and Nehemiah Wilson was wheeled off on a stretcher. Wilson suffered a neck sprain which temporarily cut off circulation to his head, the Bears said. X-rays of the neck were negative and Wilson flew home with the team. The Lions had the Bears "jumping" during the 27-7 rout. See Ed Stone's story, page 4. # Snow piles up a record ## 9-inch fall ties up air, auto travel By William Griffin CHICAGO TRIB. NOV. 27, 1975 The WORST Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm in Chicago history swept eastward Thursday, after disrupting thousands of families' plans for the holiday and causing 10 deaths. A record nine inches of snow fell at Midway Airport, where official figures are tabulated. All but 1 1/4 inches fell before midnight Wednesday, impeding both air and highway travel. The previous record for Thanksgiving Day was 3 inches of snow remaining on the ground Nov. 25, 1950, from 12 inches of snow that fell on Nov. 23 and 24th. The wagons and buggies of that year did not have to contend with any additional storm on the eve of the holiday. The National Weather Service said there is a chance of a little more snow Friday. The temperature is expected to reach the low or mid-30s, about the same as Thursday. THE STORM was even worse in other parts of the Great Plains and the Midwest. Up to 18 inches fell in Nebraska, and the temperature plummeted to 13 below zero at Valentine, Neb. St. Louis' municipal airport, Lambert Field, was closed for several hours by 10 inches of snow. At Lincoln, Ill., more than 100 motorists sought refuge in motels, churches, and a junior-high school at the height of the storm after scores of trucks and cars skidded into ditches and onto median strips. Waves 8 to 10 feet high pounded Lake Michigan beaches, and gale warnings were up on most of the Great Lakes. A cold front reached across the Great Lakes basin into Pennsylvania and New York, and rain mixed with snow fell in upstate New York and Vermont, bringing travelers' advisory warnings. ILLUSTRATION # 13 === Page 4 of 19 # 4 dead in Navy ship crash ## 16 hurt, 4 missing in Mediterranean GAETA, Italy IAP]--A nighttime collision between the United States aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and the missile cruiser Belknap in the Mediterranean east of Sicily killed at least 4 crewmen and injured 16, the Navy said Sunday. About 55 men from the Belknap were swept overboard but rescued from the oil-blackened waters. Four others were reported missing. Newsmen who flew over both ships said the Belknap's superstructure was "a twisted mass of steel and all charred" and that the carrier was caught in a rainstorm hampering search and rescue operations. One of the correspondents quoted one of the injured, David Vollmer of Waupaca, Wis., as saying after being airlifted to the U.S. Navy air facility in Sigonella, Sicily: "We were trapped below decks, but fought our way to the deck. Ammunition exploded. There were terrible fires." THE NAVY'S 6th fleet headquarters in Gaeta said three of the dead were from the Belknap and one was from the Kennedy. Five of the 16 injured were reported in serious condition. They were first airlifted to Sigonella and later flown to a Navy hospital near Naples. The Navy said it took only 10 minutes to extinguish the flames on the Kennedy's massive flight deck, but the fire raged for 2½ hours on the Belknap before being brought under control and the cruiser suffered heavy damage. It was taken under tow by the destroyer Bordelon, bound for Augusta Bay, Sicily. The Navy said the Kennedy would remain in the area for further search efforts, then return to normal operations. The announcement of the casualties came after Navy ships and aircraft mounted a search of the collision area. The Navy gave no explanation for the crash, but Adm. David H. Bagley, commander-in-chief of U.S. Naval forces headquartered in London, ordered an investigation. Citing Defense Department policy, the Navy also refused to confirm or deny whether either ship was carrying nuclear weapons. THE COLLISION occurred during night flight operations Saturday in what the Navy described as "reduced visibility," indicating at least a partial black-out. Continued on page 12, col. 1 RADAR DEMO Tribune Map Dec. 17, 1975 SCIENTISTS I sent you a unique message not long ago. In it, the Sin (UFO's) warned the U.S. govt. what they would do... if my (their "ambassador among humans") situation is not alleviated! Since that message to you, they have gone into action. Not only ship accidents but airplane accidents. So far, they are warning! Let the U.S. govt. be warned! Owens (If you think the Sin are joking about all this... see the Chicago file!) P.S. All these ships were from Norfolk!! (Or one of the two was.) (See my radar effect in Norfolk area.) === Page 5 of 19 INTERNATIONAL vere. Already, under a new defense law, the army has launched a large-scale offensive against leftists, and in the last three weeks troops have fanned out across the country. Some foreign diplomats believe they are witnessing the first stage of a "creeping coup" in which the military gradually takes power away from an elected, figurehead President. If that prospect is depressing, visitors can seek help from a psychiatrist. A 50-minute session costs just $2. --MARK STEVENS with JAMES PRINGLE in Buenos Aires THE NAVY: # Collision Course Radar demo. For the sailors of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, it was a routine maneuver. Jet fighters were preparing to make a night landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, steaming through the Ionian Sea 68 miles east of Sicily. The guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Belknap, posted 2,000 yards ahead of the JFK, was ordered to circle back into a "plane-guard station," from TRAGEDY AT SEA Returning planes observe collision and fly off to land on shore Aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy Missile cruiser Belknap Carrier's flight deck shears off superstructure of Belknap, setting off a series of explosions Ib Ohlsson An artist's conception of the crash: Routine became disaster AP The wreck of the Belknap: A long, shuddering impact followed by hours of fire and explosions which it could rescue any pilot who crashed into the ocean. But as the two ships drew close, routine turned into disaster. Suddenly the incoming jets veered away from the carrier, and confusion broke out on the decks of both ships. Then came the roar of ripping steel as the two ships collided. The carrier's overhanging, canted flight deck slashed into the Belknap, shearing off twin "macks" (combined smokestacks and masts) and peeling off her superstructure like the lid of a tin can. The crash "seemed to last fifteen to 30 seconds," a Belknap officer, Lt. Comdr. Rick Foley, told reporters. "There was no sudden impact, just shuddering and vibrating followed by deadly silence." As the carrier swept on, the Belknap lay dead in the water, and 55 sailors, pitched overboard, swam for their lives. The collision sparked fires on both ships. Within ten minutes, the flames were extinguished on the carrier, but the Belknap continued to burn, shaken by periodic explosions. The destroyer U.S.S. Claude V. Ricketts, one of five other Navy ships nearby (along with a watchful Russian ship that steered clear of the incident), rushed to her aid. The Ricketts angled in so close that exploding shells from the Belknap peppered her sides. The Belknap's water system was out of commission, so the destroyer's crew passed its own fire hoses across to the cruiser. After two and a half hours, the fire was brought under control. The Belknap was a crippled wreck, but still afloat. Six men from the Belknap and one from the JFK were killed, and 25 other seamen were seriously injured, but escort ships and Sea King helicopters rescued all of the 55 men who had gone overboard. Theories: The Navy released few details on the disaster, on the ground that its ongoing investigation could lead to courts-martial. Not even the exact sequence of events leading up to the crash was made public. But Adm. Eugene Carroll, commander of the U.S. Navy's Task Force 60, confirmed that the two ships were moving in opposite directions at the moment of impact, sideswiping each other on their port sides (sketch). One widely discussed theory was that the cruiser's sophisticated electronic steering gear went awry, leaving the ship wallowing in the path of her giant companion. Other reports suggested that the Belknap made an improper turn as she headed toward her plane-guard station to the rear of the carrier. At the last minute, one of the Belknap's radarmen told NBC News, the cruiser abruptly changed course. "I think we would have been cut in half if she hadn't," he said. The lightly damaged JFK stayed at sea after the accident. Late last week, however, it steamed into Naples for a previously scheduled change-of-command ceremony; its skipper, Capt. William A. Gureck of West Hempstead, N.Y., who had been selected for promotion to flag rank, was due to hand over to another officer. As for the Belknap, its commander, Capt. William Richard Shafer of Troy, Ohio, was unable to get the fire-gutted ship moving again and had to accept a tow to a Sicilian harbor. The wounded were flown to military hospitals in Naples and in Germany. The Navy declined to estimate the cost of the damage, but reported that the $700 million Belknap, built in 1963, would soon limp from Sicily to Norfolk, Va., for a total refit. --MARK STEVENS with LOREN JENKINS in Naples and JEFF B. COPELAND in Washington Newsweek, December 8, 1975 47 === Page 6 of 19 The Virginian-Pilot ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 21, 1865 Page A18 Tuesday, November 25, 1975 ********** # Collision Off Sicily If the Navy's inquiry into Saturday night's collision off Sicily of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and the missile cruiser Belknap reveals what has been the pattern of such tragedies over the years, a human or mechanical failure, probably the former, will be cited as the cause. It had been 23 years since an American carrier and escort ship had crashed. Just six years ago, however, the USS Evans, a destroyer, was cut in two by the Australian carrier Melbourne during SEATO maneuvers in the China Sea at dawn, with the loss of 74 Evans crewmen. In 1952 the USS Hobson, a destroyer-minesweeper, similarly was sliced upon running under the bow of the USS Wasp during night-flying operations in the mid-Atlantic. Hobson suffered 176 dead, among the worst of the Navy's peacetime disasters. The Kennedy-Belknap toll, still unofficial, was less than a dozen; the vastness of Belknap's damage by impact, fire, and explosions suggests that rescue efforts aboard her and by other ships in the seven-unit task force were heroic. Details of this latest sea mishap are lacking. But as in the Wasp and Melbourne cases, Kennedy was heading into the wind to launch or receive planes when she rammed the escort. In such a maneuver, all movement in the task force turns upon the carrier's course. Prearranged ship assignments and signals from the carrier govern formation changes. A long-ago Naval Court of Inquiry determined that Hobson's sinking resulted from "a grave error of judgment" by her captain, who came left into the carrier when he should have gone right and away--a finding that was blemished inescapably by the captain's being among the dead. Court-martials by the Australian and United States navies in the 1969 Melbourne-Evans collision resulted in acquittal of the carrier captain and a reprimand of the destroyer captain. (Five years earlier Melbourne had struck the Australian destroyer Voyager, killing 85, during flight exercises.) Judgment in the Kennedy-Belknap crash must await the Navy's investigation. It will be exhaustive. The Navy regards ship mishaps with a severity unmatched in the other services, for no other military command has quite the character of a ship command. In the meantime it may be noted that carrier-task-force operations are complex and demanding, especially when the seas are rough and vision is limited, as in the Mediterranean on Saturday night and that today's ships are subject finally, for all the electronic innovations in their bridges and other control centers, to the seaman's eye and rule of thumb. And it should be noted that, while this country is blessedly at peace, its sailors and soldiers and airmen continue to risk daily, and sometimes to lose, their lives. Norfolk is home of the Kennedy and Belknap, and the Tidewater communities are their crews' home. Grief, sympathy, and pride are responses here to the accident off Sicily. Va. Pilot Dec 17, '75 # Bad Luck at Sea Ha ha - PK attack!! The weather was pleasant, the seas moderate when the Liberian freighter Drosia sank quickly about 90 miles off Cape Hatteras early last Thursday. A side hatch, it appears, had opened. Sixteen of the crew, including the master, were rescued; eight have been given up as lost. Breezes continued to be light, although there was some fog, on Sunday when the United States merchantman Vantage Horizon, loaded with corn for Russia, collided within three miles of Cape Henry with the inbound Panamanian collier Daeyang Prosperity. There were no injuries. But the Vantage Horizon took a long gash in her bow and spilled about 2,000 gallons of fuel oil at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Meanwhile, the Navy guided-missile cruiser Albany on Saturday, a balmy and windless day, struck the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge at Yorktown. Damage was slight, embarrassment enormous. Then on Monday the Navy carrier Saratoga collided off the Florida coast with the Norfolk-based Navy oiler Mississinewa during an underway refueling operation. And on Tuesday two more Navy vessels, the amphibious assault ship Inchon and the oiler Caloosahatchee, scraped hard under similar circumstances off the west coast of Italy. Minor injuries to personnel were reported. The refueling incidents might have attracted little attention except for the rash of Norfolk-area accidents and two recent Navy carrier mishaps--the tragic collision of the John F. Kennedy and Navy guided-missile cruiser Belknap on November 22 in the Mediterranean and the slight one of the Independence and Navy store ship Denebola two days earlier in the North Sea. === Page 7 of 19 Radar demo. 90 Miles Off Fla. Va. Pilot Dec. 16, 1975 # U.S. Carrier, Oiler Collide; No Injuries By Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer NORFOLK--The Mayport, Fla.-based aircraft carrier Saratoga and the Norfolk-based oiler Mississinewa collided Monday off the Florida coast, Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk announced. The ships were conducting under-way refueling operations at the time of the collision about 2 p.m. Spokesmen said that there were no injuries and that damage to the vessels was minor. It is the third collision in less than a month involving a U.S. carrier. The worst of the incidents occurred Nov. 22 in the Mediterranean Sea when the carrier Kennedy and cruiser Belknap collided. Eight people have died as a result of that wreck. Spokesmen said that Monday's collision occurred about 90 miles east of Mayport. Both ships proceeded on their assignments after the mishap. On the Saratoga, there were reports of minor damage to the No. 3 fueling station and minor hull damage above the waterline aft of the ship's No. 1 elevator. The Mississinewa suffered damage to its No. 2 and No. 4 fueling stations, the port forward gun station, a boom and mast, and a port lifeboat station. Spokesmen said the cause of the collision is unknown. Ships must maneuver close together while conducting under-way refueling or under-way replenishment work, and minor mishaps are not uncommon. The Norfolk-based carrier Independence and store ship Denebola were involved in such an operation when they collided in the North Sea just two days before the Kennedy-Belknap collision. # 2 Navy Ships Hit in Med; 6th in Month By JOHN STEVENSON Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer NORFOLK--The Navy Tuesday experienced its sixth reported ship accident in a month, and the mishap was promptly followed by a safety warning from the Norfolk-based Atlantic Fleet commander. Tuesday's collision occurred in the Mediterranean between the amphibious assault ship Inchon and the oiler Caloosahatchee, both from Norfolk. There were minor injuries, spokesmen said. No details were available. The two ships were conducting under-way refueling operations off the west coast of Italy at the time of the accident. There was damage to the Inchon's starboard elevator and to a second-deck compartment. The Caloosahatchee lost its port anchor and received an 8-foot hole on its port side about 15 feet above the waterline. Both vessels were ordered into Livorno, Italy, for inspection and repairs. Spokesmen Tuesday said the cause of the collision had not been established. Shortly after the mishap, officials announced that Adm. Isaac C. Kidd Jr., the Atlantic Fleet commander, had ordered experienced teams to embark upon surface ships immediately "to review fundamental replenishment techniques at sea." # 2nd Ship Collision Revealed Radar demo. Dec 2, '75 By JOHN STEVENSON Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer NORFOLK--The Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Independence and another Navy ship collided Nov 20, just two days before a fatal crash of the carrier Kennedy and the guided-missile cruiser Belknap, The Virginian-Pilot has learned. Both collisions were in the Mediterranean. The Kennedy-Belknap mishap killed seven sailors and injured 47. Described as relatively minor and involving no injuries, the Independence collision never was made public by the Navy. However, in response to queries, spokesmen confirmed Monday that it did occur. There have been no official pronouncements on what caused two U.S. carriers to have accidents within such a short time. The Independence and Kennedy are the only American flattops in the Mediterranean, where they are concerned largely with showing the flag and impressing other nations with U.S. might. The fact that both were involved in mishaps in the same week has produced a certain amount of Navy embarrassment, according to informed sources. Spokesmen said that the ship with which the Independence collided was the store vessel Denebola. Reportedly the two Norfolk-based ships were conducting under-way replenishment operations when the collision occurred. The Independence received superficial damage in the area of her No. 3 elevator, while the Denebola's damage apparently was limited to the main deck and above, officials said. # 2 Navy Ships In Collision Near Sicily RADAR DEMO VA. PILOT Nov. 23, '75 NORFOLK--The huge aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and the cruiser Belknap collided Saturday afternoon while on maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea. An unknown number of crewmen were presumed injured, a Pentagon spokesman said. Both ships are based in Norfolk. The Belknap suffered substantial damage, the spokesman said, and there were indications that fires had broken out aboard the ship. Other ships in the 6th Fleet were sent to the scene, about 70 miles east of Sicily, to aid in rescue and fire fighting efforts. The Kennedy, with a crew of 4,500, suffered some damage, the spokesman said, but there were no details on the extent. The Belknap has a crew of 350 === Page 8 of 19 Cruiser Albany Va. Pilot Dec 14, 1975 Radar demo. # Span Struck By Navy Ship By MORRIS ROWE Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer YORKTOWN--The guided missile cruiser Albany collided with the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday while en route to the Naval Weapons Station here to offload weapons and ammunition. No injuries were reported. The collision knocked the southwest swing span of bridge to a two-thirds open position in the opposite direction, locking the bridge that connects Yorktown and Gloucester Point in an open position. The Navy said damage to the Albany was minor, but a witness to the accident said the cruiser lost some of its antennas and communications equipment just behind the foreward missile launcher. The Navy has initiated an investigation. Fred Lewis, co-owner and manager of the Wharf Restaurant on the York River in the shadow of the bridge, said, "The bridge looked like it was almost open as the cruiser approached. "The cruiser was closer to the bridge than ships normally are. Usually the bridge is wide open well before they arrive. "As the cruiser approached the bridge, it looked like the bridge was starting to close, like they might have been having trouble with it. "About that time, the cruiser hit the span on the Yorktown side and knocked it about two-thirds open in the opposite direction. I guess it ruined the gears in the draw span and they haven't been able to shut it since," Lewis said. A State Highway Department spokesman for the Gloucester County Sheriff's office said that it would be sometime today before the bridge could be closed to allow resumption of vehicular traffic. Highway Department officials were still on the scene late Saturday assessing the damage. A Navy spokesman said the Albany left the Norfolk Naval Base at 8 a.m. Saturday for the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station. The collision, the spokesman said, happened at 1:13 p.m. The spokesman said the Albany will enter the Norfolk Naval Shipyard after offloading for routine maintenance and inspection as scheduled before the collision. The accident caused traffic to back up on each side of the disabled bridge as much as five miles. Travelers wanting to move from one side to another will have to drive an additional 1 1/2 hours via West Point until the bridge is closed and operating again. It is the second time in two years that Navy ships have been involved in collisions with the bridge. In April 1974, the destroyer DuPont scraped the bridge. (See Bridge, Page A6) # Bridge Hit by Navy Cruiser Continued from Page A1 with her mast as she was en route to the weapons station. The Coleman Bridge, constructed at a cost of $9 million, was opened to traffic in May 1952, replacing outdated ferry service. The Albany was built as a heavy cruiser and commissioned in June 1946. She was converted to a guided missile cruiser in 1962. Her home port was changed from Mayport, Fla., to Norfolk in 1974. Armed with Talos and Tartar surface-to-air missiles, the 673-foot cruiser carries a crew of about 64 officers and 928 enlisted men. She replaced the cruiser Newport News in February 1974 as flagship of the 2nd Fleet. === Page 9 of 19 - RADAR DEMO - # Ships Readied for Repairs Dec 16, '75 PORTSMOUTH--The American and Panamanian merchant vessels that collided three miles off Cape Henry Sunday were being readied for repairs in Hampton Roads Monday. The American vessel Vantage Horizon, loaded with corn and bound for Russia when the collision occurred about 12:30 Sunday, was taken to Chesapeake and Ohio coal piers in Newport News about 1 p.m. Monday. A survey of the damage to the vessel was under way Monday afternoon, agents for the ship said. The Panamanian merchantman Daeyang Prosperity, which suffered minor bow damage in the collision, Monday was taken to the Berkley yard of the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. The Vantage Horizon took a 75-foot gash in the port bow and spilled about 2,000 gallons of fuel oil at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Coast Guard described the spill, which stretches between Cape Henry and Cape Charles 12-14 miles offshore, as "a light sheen which is dissipating rapidly." The spill was headed in a northeasterly direction Monday. A spokesman for Industrial Marine Services Inc. of Norfolk said his firm had been contracted to clean up the spill. The Daeyang Prosperity, which was able to navigate, had been scheduled to load coal at Norfolk & Western piers in Norfolk for shipment to France. The Coast Guard said that repairs to the vessel should require only a few days. The American vessel will probably be readied for drydock, although the Lavino spokesman said operations to pump out the vessel's 81,000-gallon fuel tank had not begun Monday afternoon. It was undetermined late Monday whether the vessel suffered damage below the waterline. The Vantage Horizon, a 650-footer, had loaded the corn in Baltimore and was bound out of the bay when the collision occurred. A Coast Guard spokesman said a hearing into the cause of the collision will probably be scheduled within a few days. The Vantage Steamship Co. of New York City said Monday it had no information available on the collision other than that released by the Coast Guard, but that it would send a representative to Newport News today. The 631-foot Daeyang Prosperity is a bulk carrier. # 170 of Belknap Return To a Delirium of Joy Dec 7, '75 By JOHN STEVENSON Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer NORFOLK--They came home Saturday, 170 crewmen from the collision-damaged cruiser Belknap. It was like Christmas three weeks early, a mania of joy and tears, a reunion of reunions. Unfortunately, it was a homecoming sparked by tragedy. Eight sailors have died as a result of the Belknap's collision Nov. 22 with the carrier Kennedy near Sicily. The cruiser, now in Naples, will have to be towed home, and that is why the 170 men were given a flight to Norfolk Saturday. More are expected in Tidewater before Christmas. Saturday's homecoming plane was a chartered Pan American 707 jet, a sleek aircraft bearing the number 492 and piloted by a man with snow-white hair. It arrived at 7:05 p.m. Inside the terminal at Norfolk Naval Air Station was a group of deliriously happy wives and children, fathers and mothers, friends and sweethearts. "It's the biggest thrill of my life," said Mrs. Frank Kuscan as she waited for her husband, a chief fire control technician, to clear Customs. A huge banner announced "Welcome home Dad. We love you--Mom, Linda, Bruce, Ricky, and Snoopy." The men, some in uniform and some in civvies, entered the terminal lobby one by one. The first wore a jeans jacket and carried a seabag over his shoulder. He was greeted by cheers and a woman in a pink dress. A first-class petty officer told his child (See 170 Crewmen, Page A6) Dec. 17, 1975 Scientists Army letter previously (before all these ship crashes & plan near-misses) pointed out... the 100,000 would be only a drop in a bucket! - O - Owens === Page 10 of 19 FROM THE DESISK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 October 31, 1975 TO MY SCIENTISTS.......... In 1971 I determined to drive out all the whites in Africa...save the animals in Africa... and restore Africa to the blacks who originally inhabited Africa. To do this I telepathed to my UFO's and asked permission. They granted it. I set the mechanism in motion (I can take an IDEA and apply psi force to it...then it comes to pass) then I sent in my "prediction" to Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, who published it in their book "What The Seers Predict For 1972", Contempora Books, 78682-125, $1.25, as follows: "I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa AND TO STOP THE NEEDLESS KILLING OF WILDLIFE THERE. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow....." (page 140 in book). Am enclosing xerox of that very page...also xerox of Chicago Tribune article which just appeared, October 19, 1975...disclosing that the SI's and I have become powerfully successful in our project. I point this out...as I documented my control of Norfolk, Virginia; control of a radar station; control of Cleveland, Ohio; even control of the country of France -- all these cases documented and in your files. (And now am working on control of Chicago and its environs as a demonstration.) Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 11 of 19 those who might come later to plunder has been issued by myself to protect animals, birds, and fish all over the world. This type of PK is called "hunter PK" and it envelopes each animal, bird, and fish. Those humans who wantonly and wastefully kill creatures for nonsurvival purposes will thus activate this invisible, deadly shield and release it to track and to punish them in its own time. In 1971, after I first issued this particular PK project, hundreds of baby seals were killed in Alaska in order to sew up their pelts into fur coats. I had already sent the PK out around the world to protect animals, fish, and birds. Well, when they loaded up all those poor, little, pitiful furs onto a sealboat, what happened? Blocks of ice converged on that boat from every direction, crushed it, and sank it, furs and all. This is how PK works. ### Mysterious Forces from Bodies of Water The SI's have ordered humans to stop polluting lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans within three months time or they will have the bodies of water--which carry a combined intelligence which humans know nothing about--attack human beings in their own way. As of this time, the governments have done nothing, so you might expect all sorts of things going on against humans coming from bodies of water in 1972. This will not be a good year to go swimming, fishing, or boating. It could cost your life. ### Rains in Africa In Africa the rains will come and fill up the empty rivers, streams, and water holes where wildlife go to obtain their water. I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was. 140 ### Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. ### Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making . . . and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. ### Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 === Page 12 of 19 CHICAGO Tribune October 19, 1975 # Perspective / Business # The white flight from black Africa A year's exodus **Angola:** 200,000 of its 600,000 whites have fled **Mozambique:** 100,000 of its 200,000 whites have fled **Rhodesia:** 270,000 whites; a record 3,230 have left during first four months of 1975 **Southwest Africa: (Namibia)** 100,000 whites; no flight yet **Uganda:** 50,000 Asians expelled **Zaire:** 30,000 Portuguese, Greeks, and Pakistanis expelled **Ethiopia:** 6,000 whites preparing to leave **Ghana and Nigeria:** Lebanese forced to abandon businesses Kenya and Tanzania: White farmers forced to give up properties South Africa: 4,000,000 whites South Africa moves to establish friendly relations with all black governments--and increases its military budget (Ha ha ha... no way! Owens) Source: Der Spiegel [Map of Africa showing various countries and migration details] Mediterranean Sea AFRICA Niger River NIGERIA Nile River ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa GHANA Accra Lagos Atlantic Ocean UGANDA Kampala Nairobi Congo River KENYA ZAIRE Kinshasa Dar es Salaam TANZANIA Luanda ANGOLA Zambezi River MOZAMBIQUE SOUTHWEST AFRICA Salisbury Windhoek Pretoria RHODESIA Lourenco Marques Durban Indian Ocean SOUTH AFRICA Peter Collis-Black Star/Tribune map by William Satovic mother and children in Lisbon after flight from Angola. Family is one of thousands who have left African homelands since June 25 independence of Mozambique triggered growing exodus. === Page 13 of 19 A historic exodus of human beings is occurring at this moment in southern Africa. After 500 years on the Black continent, the last bastions of the white man are falling. Although the continent has seen no Tet offensive and no Dien Bien Phu, what is happening there has been compared to the American disaster in Viet Nam. The once mighty whites have become the lost tribes of Africa as the momentum of independence breaks the back of white rule. The descendants of those Europeans who conquered the continent with rifle and Bible, sailing ship and ox cart, are beginning to realize that the time has come to say adieu. This historic flight is examined today by the Africa correspondents of Der Spiegel, the West German news magazine. IN THE Lisbon airport the arrivals hall echoes to the whining of overtired children. Worn-out women complain hysterically: "The MPLA stormed our houses and raped our daughters. That's what the blacks are like." In a neighboring hall, excited army officers gesticulate and argue with soldiers squatting on the floor. The young men in the combat camouflaged blouses are refusing to fly where the shrieking women have just come from--Angola. An angry sergeant-major threatens them with court martial. But a bearded captain shows sympathy for the mutineers. "Nobody wants to be the last man to fall in Africa. It is like the Americans in Viet Nam." Half of the 200,000 whites who formerly lived in Mozambique have already left since it became independent on June 25. More than 200,000 of the 600,000 white Angolans have departed. The remainder are fighting for places aboard ship and offering their houses in exchange for air tickets. But all planes and ships are booked for months ahead. The exodus could turn into a mass migration if the decolonization spreads to Rhodesia [270,000 whites], Southwest Africa [100,000 whites], and the Republic of South Africa [4 million whites.] Millions of homeless refugees could flood into western Europe--as happened after World War II--far more than the 960,000 Algerian-French who left North Africa after Algeria became independent in 1962. The whites are already showing signs of nervousness in the last of the remaining territories they still rule. Rhodesia, which has always been a land of immigrants, lost a record 3,230 in the first four months of this year. In the future defense planning of the South African Republic, Rhodesia is written off as "gone black." The Rhodesians fear their economy will break down when Mozambique joins the United Nations boycott imposed on the landlocked former British colony. In Southwest Africa [Namibia], which is currently ruled by South Africa, five American oil concerns have suspended oil-boring operations despite promising finds. Getty Oil explained: "Because of expected political changes." In a dramatic reorientation of its foreign policy, South Africa is endeavoring to adjust to the new situation. Last year it turned a cold shoulder to the Mozambique whites who rebelled against the approaching takeover by the Frelimo rebels, and it has since been seeking to establish friendly relations with all black governments. But at the same time Pretoria has raised its military budget to its highest level yet--$1.37 billion. The Baas and the Bwana are packing their bags because they anticipate that # Millions of homeless refugees could flood into Western Europe. the territories which were formerly ruled by strict colonial administrations, will grow into nationhood only through a series of bloody tribal battles, similar to the chaos in the Congo where the whites were the scapegoats. The foreigners fear the revenge of the blacks whom they have oppressed and humiliated for generations. Above all, after centuries of uncontested domination, they cannot imagine living with the blacks as equals which is the only way they can be sure of remaining. "Black leaders like President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Frelimo chief Samora Machel are certainly not racists," says white engineer Raul Teixeira from Mozambique. "But as revolutionaries they want to rob the bourgeoisie of their power and the bourgeoisie in Southern Africa are, after all, whites." NOT ONLY in Southern Africa. The businessmen, farmers, and engineers in the countries north of Zambesi River are not black but overwhelmingly brown or white. And as much as the independent states welcome white-skinned experts as development helpers for a few years, the old-established settlers will have to go. President Mobutu of Zaire turned out 30,000 Portuguese, Greeks, and Pakistanis. In Ethiopia, 6,000 influential whites of Italian origin are packing their bags. Thousands of Lebanese in Ghana and Nigeria have fallen victim to the continentwide policy of Africanization. Many white farmers in Kenya and Tanzania have had to give up their properties. Idi Amin chased a few thousand whites, and almost the whole Asian population of 50,000 out of Uganda. The West African state of Sierra Leone wanted to make the mosquito its symbol because the malaria it spreads prevented whites settling there in any numbers. The whites' nightmare is Idi Amin, current president of the Organization for African Unity, an untypical African leader who gets more publicity by imprisoning a British teacher and sentencing him to death than the Frelimo does when it includes three whites and an Indian in the independence government of Mozambique. Zambia minister may damn Idi Amin as the "Hitler of Africa" and Julius Nyerere may dismiss him as cloud-walker, but the semiliterate ex-sergeant represents the picture most whites have of black Africans. "That's what you get when blacks take over," say the whites in the south. But they are plagued by the thought that millions of humiliated blacks have the same love-hate feeling for their masters as Amin has. A few years ago the idea of a black takeover seemed completely unrealistic. In Mozambique, the Portuguese invested billions in the Cabora-Bassa dam on the Zambesi -- a 20th-century monument which they intended to use them- # Portugal's military outposts fell like a stack of cards. selves. But on April 25, 1974, when the armed services overthrew the Caetano regime in Lisbon, the overseas outposts fell like houses of cards. Whites watched in disbelief as Portuguese soldiers fraternized with Frelimo freedom fighters. Under pressure of such events, the majority of the whites decided to move with the times. Businessmen in Lourenco Marques sought the friendship of the painter Malangatana, who was regarded as a Frelimo sympathizer. Journalists in Beira addressed each other as "comrade" and demonstratively exhibited on their desks books by the murdered Frelimo founder, Eduardo Mondlane. In September, 1974, the settlers finally rebelled against the handover of Mozambique to the Frelimo. The former colonial troops intervened on the side of the blacks and Frelimo leader Machel was able to announce that the "gang of bandits, rowdies, and reactionaries" had been rendered "harmless" by his men "shoulder to shoulder" with Portugal's army. The whites in Mozambique were also shocked by the attitude of their neighbors, Rhodesia and South Africa. Neither sent help. On the contrary, South Africa was adapting to the new balance of power. Premier John Vorster expressed his sympathy with Frelimo and wished them good luck. South Africa's foreign minister suddenly discovered parallels between the Frelimo fighters and the Boers. To avoid even the appearance of provocation, Vorster withdrew all military vehicles from the border after the revolt. "The South Africans are concentrating on defending their own kraal only," commented a U.S diplomat. But their own kraal could soon explode over the inequalities between black and white. BLACKS in manufacturing industries earn 70 Rand a month while whites get 335 Rand. In the textile factories, blacks get 45 Rand and the whites 454 Rand. The black majority of 18 million is not represented in Parliament and government; has no right to strike, and is only allowed to live in certain areas. Nobody was surprised when Frelimo slogans appeared throughout South Africa's suburbs and youthful demonstrators saluted Mozambique's independence fighters. The police got tough and the authorities censored news reports of the incidents. But at the same time, the govern- Continued on page 2 === Page 14 of 19 CHICAGO TRIBUNE 10/19/75 # The white retreat Continued from first Perspective page ment began to remove the "whites only" signs from park benches and elevators. Blacks were permitted to buy houses and land in white "industrial areas." Football players and boxers of different races were allowed to compete against each other. Even South Africa's Defense Ministry tried to palliate the Baas mentality. Soldiers were warned: "Avoid the bad habit of addressing Bantus as 'ape' or 'baboon' and if a hand is held out to you to shake it. Your hand will not change color." But the superficial and half-hearted attempt of the government to harmonize life among the different races in the apartheid state has come too late. Last December, 320 representatives of blacks, Asians, and colored creoles -- Protestants and Catholics, trade unionists, and teachers -- assembled in the St. Peter's Conference center at Hammanskraal, near Durban. The intellectual elite of the various racial groups discussed a black power strategy. White sympathizers, who in the past had always been welcome, were not admitted even as observers. The South African government is setting its hopes more on those blacks outside its borders who are already ruling independent states in the north. Premier Vorster travelled secretly to the Ivory Coast to see President Houphouet-Boigny and to Liberia to see President Tolbert. He met leading politicians of other independent states and asked the Liberian to be a go-between in arranging meetings with Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Zaire's Mobutu, and Nigeria's Gowon [since deposed by an internal coup]. By making contacts with the black states, Vorster is trying to impress his own black population and prevent his country from being excluded from the UN and isolated from the world. He is baiting the independent nations with development aid. The Central African Republic received $6 million for a luxury hotel. Zambia accepted several thousand sacks of maize during a food crisis. South African antilocust fighters and railroad construction men are working in Mozambique. Rhodesia, the white-ruled state to the north of South Africa is regarded today by the Vorster government as a "stumbling block for South Africa's foreign policy." THE RHODESIANS are preparing for a siege economy. Posters warning against enemy spies are in all the bars of Salisbury and other townships -- "Don't talk -- walls have ears." Women are taking shooting lessons, men between 18 and 22 must complete 12 months military service, and the defense budget has been raised 17 per cent. "You cannot compare this with Mozambique," said a government official. "There Portuguese were expected to defend the country. Here it is people who live here and have nowhere else to go." Rhodesia has recently started to recruit white mercenaries. The whites in Southwest Africa also want to fight to retain white control. But their white brothers in Angola, which is scheduled to become independent Nov. 11 have only one idea in their head and that is to clear out. For while the three rival independence movements are engaged in bloody civil war, Portugal's showpiece colony has collapsed in disorder. Food is only able to reach the capital from the hinterland in convoys guarded by military escorts. At least 5,000 people, mainly Africans, have been killed. Whites have demonstrated in front of Government House for an airlift to Europe. The German consul-general is planning to evacuate 1,000 Germans and Austrians. The flight from Africa has begun. © 1975, Der Spiegel === Page 15 of 19 SAUCERIAN PRESS, INC. BOOK LIST Ashtar: 106--GRAY BARKER AT GIANT ROCK, $6.95 107--IN DAYS TO COME, $3.00 Gray Barker: 115--THEY KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS (C), $9.95 116--THE SAUCERIAN REVIEW, $3.00 117--THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. J.K. JESSUP, $5.95 119--THE SILVER BRIDGE (C) $7.95 Timothy Green Beckley: 133--BOOK OF SPACE BROTHERS, $5.95 134--THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD, $5.95 Dr. Raymond Bernard: 138--ESCAPE TO THE INNER EARTH, $4.95 "Eat Your Way To Better Health" Series 139--Vol. 1: SEED PROTEIN VS. 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This year we want to get the broadest possible coverage and most complete list of noted psychics ever published. We seek your cooperation. As a psychic who has established credibility and a following, your views of 1976 and 1977 are valued. Please jot down three or four solid, specific predictions for events you foresee in 1976 and send them off to us. We also would like a brief biographical sketch, comments on accurate predictions you've made in the past, a description of your methods of seeing into the future and a glossy, black and white photo of yourself. We would also like to have your forecasts for the state of the economy, politics and life style of the U.S. through 1976, our bicentennial year. In return for your cooperation, you will be included, photo and predictions, in our New Year special; your address and phone number will go on file so that we can contact you at a moments notice for other stories. Our lists of competent psychics are incomplete, so if you know of any other individual who is also a good sensitive who has a record for accurate predictions, ask them to send in similar materials as well. Material must be received by November 1, to be included in the New Year edition. Sincerely yours, Cliff Linedecker Articles Editor CL:km === Page 17 of 19 NEW YEAR'S PREDICTION ROUND-UP Globe News Service is now compiling a special 1976 New Year round-up of predictions from top psychics around the country for submission to one of the leading weekly news tabloids. As you probably know, this can be a valuable source of publicity and exposure for your prophecies and endeavors as a seer. To be included in this year's round-up, submit five or six detailed prophecies on forthcoming events of major importance that you foresee in the year 1976. Predictions on politics, energy, financial trends, disasters, scientific discoveries and celebrities are of particular interest to average readers, but feel free to elaborate on any significant matters. If you have made any important predictions that happened during the past year, please mention them in your accompanying letter. Include a few biographical lines about your background and one or two clear, glossy black and white photos of yourself. Please note that your material should be in the mail to us no later than November 10, 1975. This is not an arbitrary deadline set to annoy you but one that we must follow in order to meet definite production schedules. If you do not want to be included, let us know so that we can arrange for another seer to fill in for you. Send your predictions and bio material to: Globe News Service, c/o Editorial Dept., P.O. Box 7464, Burbank, California 91510. Should you have any questions about the 1976 round-up, or suggestions for possible features about yourself during the next year, I can be reached at that address. Thanking you in advance, I shall look forward to your early reply. Best wishes. Yours sincerely, Rita West Rita West, Editorial Assistant RW/tc === Page 18 of 19 Results 7-D's F's COST COPY Nov. 20, 1975 Dear Ted, It has been some time since I last wrote you - and much water has gone under the bridge or such as the saying goes - Sir, I want to tell you about mother - last December - after Christmas - mother came down with a intestinal virus - her condition worsened and for the first time in her 76 years she was forced to go to the hospital - her condition was very grave - dehydrated - no pulse to speak of - fingers blue - peritonitis well set in yet she was still conscious - Doctors gave me no hope but an immediate operation was necessary to repair a ruptured intestine - To the amazement of the doctors she survived the operation + two later ones during a 4 month stay in the hospital - (over) === Page 19 of 19 Ted - it is against Hospital regulations to have anything around your neck during an operation - however no one noticed the red disc around mother's neck during the first operation - mother is now home and slowly gaining her strength - all faculties & organs working - Doctors involved at Shady Side Hospital Pittsburgh - call her the miracle Lady - Her Disc is most precious to her - . I've only given the highlights - thought you might be interested. Now - the problem at hand - broken & lost Discs - Antonette's, Armand's, Mary's, mother (Annie), Rosanna's mine's ok yet - a spare or two wouldn't hurt Sincerely William J Terrell TERRELL 226 HEAL PAN MT. PLEASANT, PA. P.S. The money order I never used returns to you (smile). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7512 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/419933d268cb820486d0dd54e9a2da47.pdf bc484d85ad798ce5748f6b621c25aaeb https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/69c7371a3eae19b5ca843ca422816d39.txt 7987fae558f9259455685f7fc3bc8e0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 July 23, 1975 SCIENTISTS.......... In this file you will find some strange documentation re the Kennedy airplane crash. I was returning from Egypt, from Cairo via Rome... and showing my Saga magazine writeups to the stewardesses and others... particularly the page where the artist has my face looking up into the sky... where an airplane is being struck by lightning... and on the page are the words "Tornado Winds Rip Area." Then my plane began its approach to Kennedy Airport and the pilot told everyone to buckle seatbelts for landing. But the plane, going down, veered off... circled over the ocean... went to another airport for a while... then returned to Kennedy and landed. When I went through customs the customs officer looked at my flight ticket... said, "You are lucky to be here. You know that, don't you?" I asked what he meant... and he told me that the plane ahead of ours had been struck by lightning; had crashed. Words to that effect. All of the action, move by odd move, is on my "crash" tape. I made tapes of every move and action of my trip to Egypt, and inside the secret rooms of the pyramids... and what I discovered there. And I discovered secrets certainly not known to modern men. (While in Cairo a prominent Egyptian scientist sought me out... and we had quite a visit together! It is on the tapes.) I have only made one duplicate set of the Egyptian tapes... and anyone wanting them will have to contribute $200 or more to my work and research. It took me a full week to make Millie's tapes for her. On the tapes... is a recital of agents following me about, checking on me... even "tailing" me out into the Nile River! Also on the tapes: when I read about the two Englishmen who were slated to be shot by firing squads by President Amin... I contacted the British Embassy... who sent their man over to me... and I told him that I would use my powers to save the two men, and get them released. At that time Amin was adamant about it. By this date they have both been released. Sure... the British Government took steps... but my powers work in a thousand ways. The other material is self-explanatory. There were so many military plane crashes IN THIS AREA that the government grounded those type of planes everywhere. It was caused by my radar demonstration of some time ago. The power is still very active here. Also... the SI's and I are concentrating on eliminating bad leaders around the world. Indira Ghandi is one... and she's on her way out. Amin is another... he'll go. Mrs. Peron is another... she'll go. And so on. Am in the midst of an emergency now... have to raise a bundle of money or will have to discontinue my work entirely... and then? But it is holding me up from typing the full report of my Egyptian trip, and my findings there. Too bad the government will not subsidize my work. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 750623 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bd9d07e455ad169d133ef445c76da983.pdf 80ab2436e0426b9759b510dad5cef596 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/96c0840aa8374b25c0498e6bd0e1ef74.txt b95fcd3c5bad8e320641a3e7f8b99665 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 DESK OF Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 1975 ENTISTS.......... I determined to drive out all the whites in Africa...save the animals in Africa... restore Africa to the blacks who originally inhabited Africa. To do this I telepathed UFO's and asked permission. They granted it. I set the mechanism in motion (I can an IDEA and apply psi force to it...then it comes to pass) then I sent in my rediction" to Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, who published it in their book "What The eers Predict For 1972", Contemporary Books, 78682-125, $1.25, as follows: "I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa AND TO STOP THE NEEDLESS KILLING OF WILDLIFE THERE. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow....." (page 140 in book). Am enclosing xerox of that very page...also xerox of Chicago Tribune article which just appeared, October 19, 1975...disclosing that the SI's and I have become powerfully successful in our project. I point this out...as I documented my control of Norfolk, Virginia; control of a radar station; control of Cleveland, Ohio; even control of the country of France -- all these cases documented and in your files. (And now am working on control of Chicago and its environs as a demonstration.) Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 2 of 2 1975 # Perspective / Business # The white flight from black Africa ### A year's exodus **Angola:** 200,000 of its 600,000 whites have fled **Mozambique:** 100,000 of its 200,000 whites have fled **Rhodesia:** 270,000 whites; a record 3,230 have left during first four months of 1975 **Southwest Africa (Namibia):** 100,000 whites; no flight yet **Uganda:** 50,000 Asians expelled **Zaire:** 30,000 Portuguese, Greeks, and Pakistanis expelled **Ethiopia:** 6,000 whites preparing to leave **Ghana and Nigeria:** Lebanese forced to abandon businesses Mediterranean Sea AFRICA Niger River Nile River 600 Miles ETHIOPIA GHANA NIGERIA UGANDA Addis Ababa Accra Lagos Congo River Kampala Nairobi Atlantic Ocean ZAIRE Kinshasa KENYA Dar es Salaam TANZANIA **Kenya and Tanzania:** White farmers forced to give up properties Luanda ANGOLA Zambezi River MOZAMBIQUE **South Africa:** 4,000,000 whites South Africa moves to establish friendly relations with all black governments--and increases its military budget SOUTHWEST AFRICA Salisbury Windhoek Pretoria RHODESIA Lourenco Marques Durban Indian Ocean Source: Der Spiegel (Ha ha ha... no way! Owens) SOUTH AFRICA Peter Collis-Black Star/Tribune map by William Sajovic mother and children in Lisbon after flight from Angola. Family is one of thousands who have left African homelands since June 25 independence of Mozambique triggered growing exodus. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 751031 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/39fbfcbb2d38a526fd1d1583eeff7b13.pdf f051f6a368c7b25fb5b1a9d2e9480374 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c4983f13edc2508f108ee507722ad6ed.txt 6a2a0da2bb1f63eaa1dfa5d826b53507 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1975 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 75-mile winds pound city Trees torn up, power lines cut CHICAGO TRIBUNE NOV. 10, 1975 A WINDSTORM WITH gusts up to 75 miles an hour pounded the Chicago area early Monday, causing widespread damage. The storm, accompanied by rain, was blamed for a traffic accident on the Edens Expressway in which a truck driver was injured critically. Although the rain had ended in most areas by 3 a.m., winds of 25 to 35 miles an hour continued into the morning rush hour, with gusts up to 50 miles an hour still being reported. Winds were expected to buffet the city and suburbs until the evening, the National Weather Service reported. LAKE COUNTY sheriff's police received several reports that tornados had touched down in the Grayslake and Long Lake areas shortly after midnight. A search of the area revealed that trees had been blown down by winds, but there was no sign of tornado damage. A spokesman for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad said an inbound commuter train was delayed nearly half an hour when winds knocked out an electrical lines Monday morning. Six other IC trains were delayed from 5 to 10 minutes because of the power loss, which disabled a signal light. Commuters also were delayed on the Rock Island Line when a tree fell across the inbound tracks at 107th Street and Longwood Drive. State police blamed the wind and wet road conditions for the crash of a United Parcel Service truck carrying two trailers in the southbound lanes of the Edens Expressway at Touhy Avenue. The truck driver, Ambrose Benislo, 30, of 138 N. Woodlawn, Hoffman Estates, was thrown from the cab when the truck hit the left guardrail. He was in critical condition at Skokie Valley Community Hospital. Traffic was diverted as state highway clean-up crews cleared the road of packages. The two trailers overturned and were cleared from the road by several tow trucks, police said. AT ALLEGHANY and Peterson Roads, northwest of Mundelein, power lines were torn down and the tops of large trees were broken off. Power lines were reported down in scattered areas of Will, Kane, McHenry, and Lake counties, in addition to Cook County, with the heaviest damage in Lake County. Scattered power blackouts of varying lengths were reported from the Northwest Side to the Wisconsin border. Gusts up to 48 miles an hour were reported at O'Hare International Airport shortly after midnight Monday, but flight operations were not interrupted, an airport spokesman said. AT THE LAKE Forest Oasis on Int. Hwy. 294, winds of 45 miles an hour with hail knocked out a picture window. In Streamwood, winds of 75 miles an hour were recorded. Utility sheds were overturned, but no power blackouts or heavy damage was reported. Heat beats record CHICAGO TRIBUNE OCT. 14, 1975 SUMMER BLAZED back into Chicago Monday, giving sunbathers a chance to touch up their tans and allowing homeowners to attend their neglected lawns. After a month of below-normal temperatures, the mercury hit 83 degrees, breaking the old mark of 82 set 10 years ago. Records also were set in Moline, Rockford, Milwaukee, and Madison, Wis., as the heat wave blew in from the plains on southwesterly winds, according to the National Weather Service. Another hot day can be expected Tuesday with a high between 85 and 90, a weather service spokesman said. Cooler weather is forecast for Wednesday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. November one of hottest CHICAGO TRIB. DEC. 2, 1975 THOUGH IT ENDED with some bone-chilling winds, November will go into the record books as the second warmest November in the last 100 years. The average temperature over the last 30 days, as recorded by the National Weather Service at Midway Airport, was 47.1 degrees, 6.7 degrees above normal. The warmest November in the last 100 years was in 1931, when temperatures averaged a balmy 50. Last Nov. 6, the reading of 75 degrees set a record for a November day, beating the previous high of 74 in 1924. December was off to a bad start with temperatures expected in the low twenties all day Monday. SCIENCE TRAFFIC JAM AT O'HARE Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on a typical day about 140 planes land at or take off from the world's busiest airport, incoming planes stack up in "fixes" up to 35 miles away. Newsweek December 22, 1975 CHICAGO TRIBUNE 10/13/75 Lions ax Bears in laugher, 27-7 By Don Pierson PONTIAC, MICH. - Chicago's baby Bears got whipped about as badly as a team can get whipped in the National Football League Sunday. The score was 27-7, which doesn't come close to telling the story. The Detroit Lions beat them physically, emotionally, intellectually, and every other way you can imagine. "That's the first time I've ever seen an opponent laugh at the other team," said a shaken and angry Coach Jack Pardee. "That's what they were doing out there. Laughing at us. We looked like a bunch of little boys playing grown men. We just didn't do anything right. How we thought we'd come over here and win without hitting is beyond me. "THEY JUST OUTHIT US. When you see guys laying around after every play, you know you're not doing the hitting; they're hitting you." The unusually fired-up Lions started out with tight end Charlie Sanders knocking Wally Chambers silly with a flying forearm and didn't finish until Mel Farr, Cid Edwards, Walter Payton, and Bob Avellini had been knocked out and Nemiah Wilson was wheeled off on a stretcher. Wilson suffered a neck sprain which temporarily cut off circulation to his head, the Bears said. X-rays of the neck were negative and Wilson flew home with the team. The Lions had the Bears "jumping" during the 27-7 rout. See Ed Stone's story, page 4. The Air-Safety Furor Snow piles up a record 9-inch fall ties up air, auto travel By William Griffin CHICAGO TRIB. THE WORST Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm in Chicago history swept eastward Thursday, after disrupting thousands of families' plans for the holiday and causing 10 deaths. A record nine inches of snow fell at Midway Airport, where official figures are tabulated. All but 1 1/2 inches fell before midnight Wednesday, impeding both air and highway travel. The previous record for Thanksgiving Day was 3 inches of snow remaining on the ground (Nov. 25, 1950) from 12 inches of snow that fell on Nov. 23 and 24th. The wagons and buggies of that year did not have to contend with any additional storm on the eve of the holiday. The National Weather Service said there is a chance of a little more snow Friday. The temperature is expected to reach the low of mid-20s, about the same as Thursday. THE STORM was even worse in other parts of the Great Plains and the Midwest. Up to 18 inches fell in Nebraska, and the temperature plummeted to 10 below zero at Valentine, Neb. St. Louis' municipal airport, Lambert Field, was closed for several hours by 10 inches of snow. At Lincoln, Ill., more than 100 motorists sought refuge in motels, churches, and a junior high school at the height of the storm after scores of trucks and cars skidded into ditches and onto median strips. Waves 8 to 10 feet high pounded Lake Michigan beaches, and gale warnings were up on most of the Great Lakes. A cold front reached across the Great Lakes basin into Pennsylvania and New York, and rain mixed with snow fell in upstate New York and Vermont, bringing a travelers' advisory warning. ILLUSTRATION # 13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 751099b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2dc1f70334f72dc98ffdf5bc71d7d715.pdf f3df68e19b8ad7df307ccdeedf792e6e https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5175a9eb3ceb82ea5d92fb180276f04a.txt 6338e4b64316ad104c2ac9e21a398175 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 35 January 22, 1976 The Egyptian Report Jeffrey Mishlove received in clasp envelope on July 7, 2025 from Ted Owen's daughter Lori Rodriguez. The file boxes already have copies of these. However, what Lori sent appears to be the original version or a very high quality scan. Recorded by Lewis Barlow July 9, 2025 === Page 2 of 35 January 22, 1976..........THE EGYPTIAN REPORT.......... TO MY SCIENTISTS: This...is a long-delayed report with regard to my trip to Egypt, and the priceless information that I discovered there. The trips and the information...were a gift to me and the SI's...from Millie Miller, without whom it would not have been possible. I might add...Millie could only furnish "shoestring" money for the trip... and I used an American Express card for the rest. I nearly ruined myself, that way...because I am unable to proceed as the ordinary tourist would proceed. I have to bribe here, bribe there...to get certain things done. My drivers go out after midnight...or at all hours...sometimes for the entire day...and I cannot count pennies...it has to be all out or nothing at all. So when I got back...I'd spent all Millie's cash...and was deeply in debt to American Express. Sent them back their card...borrowed $500 and sent to them...and still owe about a thousand, which I cannot pay at this time. All right...just wanted you to know how I have been doing it. We are talking now about early June, 1975. I flew to New York and took a plane to Rome airport...where everybody had to leave the plane and be searched by guards with submachine guns...thence on to Cairo, Egypt. I had no plan...knew nothing about where I was going...didn't know one pyramid from another, or even where they were located. But this is the way I have always proceeded...the SI's clue me in as I go along...and lead me unerringly to the right place/places, as they did in Scotland and England. (See your files for that report.) As soon as the plane landed in Cairo...a beautiful young lady seized my arm, and to my amazement hustled me through Customs and Immigration and bypassed me through a bushel of formalities by the authorities. She worked for an organization called "Green Valley"...as it turned out. Without her wonderful help I'd have spent an entire day bumbling about the airport...trying to cope with the bureaucracy there. She asked me where I had a reservation. I said, "what reservation?" and I thought she was going to faint. She explained to me that hotels were all filled in Cairo...nothing to be had without a reservation. Then she got on a phone...and in minutes told me that she had a nice double room for me in the El Borg Hotel in downtown Cairo. A ten minute taxi ride took me to the El Borg, and I went up to my room. It was spacious...and outside was a patio looking down over Cairo. One point bothered me...the patio had no railing as such...no protection... and if anyone wanted to liquidate me (don't laugh...many top UFO investigators have had mysterious "heart attacks" and fatal accidents) this would most certainly be the place to arrange for it. Night came on, and I left the hotel and walked across a long bridge into the city. Thousands of people, cars, busses, were pouring along the streets...most picturesque locale. Went back to the hotel...and doormen and elevator operators began to teach me Egyptian words for "up" "down" etc. I don't know why they did, but it was most helpful and I welcomed the "instant education." Someone had warned me never, but never, drink the water in Cairo...so I bought a fifth of Scotch and dipped my toothbrush in the Scotch...and brushed my teeth thusly during all my time in Egypt. Believe me, it's the ONLY way to brush! Next day, June 12, a Green Valley bus pulled up in front of the hotel and took me far out into the Sahara. My guide was Abo...an Egyptian approximately fifty years old. The first place he took me was to a pyramid...went down inside a secret passageway and came up in hidden rooms. I became greatly excited...because the stone ceilings were 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 3 of 35 Page Two covered with STAR carvings. Stars all over the ceiling. Then Abo further excited me by telling me...that this was the hidden chamber of King Ti Ti. And that the pyramid was made of limestone. Let me explain my excitement. Some years ago...for some reason I wanted to call myself "Ti Ti" and even painted the name on my ties, in oils. When I was a small child everyone called me "Ti Ti"...my family and all my school friends. But there is much more. My grandfather was an orphan...left on someone's back steps. At age six he supported the old folks who took him in...by shooting rabbits with a broken shotgun. At age twelve he went to work in the famous Indiana Limestone stone quarries (limestone). He was a waterboy, and was paid 15 cents a week to carry water to the stone workers. At age 25, he had become Vice President of Indiana Limestone...and was listed as one of the "great men of Indiana." Somehow he had a tremendous genius...he invented methods of coloring the limestone...of getting it out of the ground...of cutting it. The experts would call him on the phone...I was there at the time...and tell him, "John...we need so many tons of limestone, of a certain kind. Where can we find it?" And he would tell them. Then they would say, "How will we get it out of that corner of the quarry?" He'd suck on his corncob pipe, smile, and say, "I'll take tomorrow off and think about it." Next day he would take me (he and his wife, Queenie, raised me, for all practical purposes) out to Williams Dam, get a rowboat, go out onto the dam...toss our fishing poles into the water...and he'd smoke his pipe and think. At sundown we'd come home...he'd get pencil and paper and draw a complicated rig to get the stone out of the ground...call the experts and tell them he had their answer. (same as are in Cairo, Egypt...and in pyramids.) But there is more. When he became rich he himself drew up plans for a huge mansion in Bedford, Indiana. In front of the mansion he placed two life-sized limestone lions...hand-carved to his own specifications. Inside the house he had a huge sunporch...and he brought an artist from New York down to paint on the ceiling of the sunporch a blue sky...filled with STARS...identical to those I saw, and photographed, in King Ti Ti's chamber! He even nicknamed Clonia, his wife..."Queenie"...and bought her a jeweled crown to wear...as if he were a king and she were a queen. All of this...smashed into my awareness and consciousness...as soon as I got into King Ti Ti's hidden room. You are welcome to draw your own conclusions...as to why it did. While in Ti Ti's pyramid...not the SI's, but another entity or intelligence source communicated with me...and warned me NOT to touch the walls or any part of this or any other pyramid with my skin or hands...because ancient "PK" mechanisms had been set, long long ago, to affect interlopers (those who did not belong in the structures) destructively. (It was at this exact time...that I recalled, while in Philadelphia, Pa., some years ago, doing my miracles...the SI's had shown me with an inverted giant pyramid over me...the point of the pyramid inserted into my brain with the huge base far up overhead. I even had drawn a picture of it at the time and notified my usual contacts about it...in 1967, 68. What this meant...I do not know. But here I was...inside pyramids, real ones...not other-dimensional ones.) Abo then took me to the building of the great High Priest of Egypt... Ka Gemni...and instantly the intelligence (from now on I will call it Pyramid Power) informed me that this was a key place that I was looking for...for me to do my work in! Abo also took me to the Great Pyramid, Cheops, and to Cn Ness...and I was instructed by PP (pyramid power) that these places were also key places for me. (or "Pyr Cre" for pyramid creature) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 4 of 35 Page Three have Now, understand what the background for all of this was: I'd have to have had training through 50 professions; had a Mensa brain; had special training in parapsychology; had my brain modified by the UFO's, then years later remodified again in Scotland-England; performed over 300 miracles embodying other-dimensional principles and effects; then brought to Egypt. Why was I brought to Egypt? I did not know. I only knew at this point that I had key OD mechanisms (other-dimensional) to use inside key places. So at each location Abo took me to...I shooed him away, as well as the guides... and telepathed the OD mechanisms. This first day...after going through this harrowing mental work...I was knocked out completely. Evidently my telepathing was connecting with the ancient mental powers left behind by the Egyptians, and it was too much for me... (my special half-human, half-Si brain, extra-powerful, notwithstanding.) So I ordered Abo to take me back to Cairo, to the hotel...and to forget the rest of what he was going to show me. When he and I returned to the bus... I found that my tape-recorder, which I had left inside the bus...had been tampered with. Someone had been listening to the tape on it. As I recall, there were just two other men on the bus at that time...and they had stayed behind at the bus while Abo had taken me inside the last pyramid. Or, it is possible that a "bug" had been placed inside my recorder...because I had noticed that I'd been followed...surveillance techniques...in Cairo. Anyway...on the bus back to Cairo...the PP communicated, and explained about the "false doors" Abo had shown me inside the key places. At the temple of the High Priest, Ka Gemni...a false doorway had been carved into a block of solid rock. It was not a doorway; it didn't open. Just a huge block of solid rock, weighing tons. In the ancient Egyptian days the people would bring gifts of food and jewels and place them in front of this false door, turn their backs, and when they had turned around again the gifts would be gone. The High Priest had come through the solid rock, taken the gifts, then gone back again through the solid rock. The PP explained it to me: UFO entities had come and trained a handful of these High Priests, and given them supernatural powers...one of which was to pass through solid rock wall. (Jesus did, you know, or was alleged to so have done.) Because the High Priests had this special power...the Egyptian Kings, whom they served, knew them for what they were...UFO-trained key people. And every so often...the King would order the High Priest to pass through solid rock. If he could not do so, then he had disobeyed some rule the UFO's had given him (and they did give the High Priests rules to follow) and the King would then tie up the High Priest and leave him up at the top of the Pyramid...where he would then vanish, never to be seen again. Another thing that the PP explained to me was: that the pyramid itself, is the illusion...but the various other-dimensional powers left in it, to grow as time went by...was the reality. Treasure left inside the pyramid was to satisfy, and throw off, the understanding of mere humans. The REAL treasure left inside the pyramids...that is, the key ones...was a TREMENDOUS EDUCATION OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE LEFT BEHIND FOR KEY PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE WHO COULD LINK UP WITH IT, BE TAUGHT BY IT, AND CARRY ON! Obviously I am one of those key people. Nasr, my Egyptian guide and guard who took me up inside Cheops...informed me that he had worked there for thirty years, and only once...one time...had another man such as I...requested that tourists be kept down inside the passageways (as I requested)...so that the man could do mental work up inside the King's Chamber (the key spot of the pyramid. So there had been one other...long ago...doing what I am doing. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 5 of 35 Four Back at the El Borg Hotel I collapsed into bed...at mid afternoon... and conked out. When I awakened it was dusk...and I reflected upon how much I had done...and learned...from the days journey into the Sahara. That the pyramids had been ingeniously designed to satisfy ordinary humans with treasure inside...thus stopping them from discovering anything further...just as is done in Brazil, for instance -- when a rancher brings his herd of cattle to a river, he tosses one cow into the river...and the piranha fish gobble up that cow. While this is going on, the rancher is just down river getting his herd across. The piranha do not get the real treasure...and the humans have never gotten the real treasure of the pyramids, either. This day in the Sahara had turned me completely around. I'd discovered that what I was here for, in Egypt...was completely different than what I'd supposed. I'd supposed that I was here to ACTIVATE pyramids as I had done with Stonehenge. Instead, I had been approached and communicated with by the Pyramid Intelligence, or Power, and TAUGHT AND TRAINED. Notes at this point: At Cheops during the day...the Great Pyramid...one has to climb way way up high inside the pyramid, bent over at a certain angle part of the way. It is my belief...that this passageway was designed in this special manner...in order to HURT INTRUDERS WHO HAD TO CLIMB UP IT...that is, affect them physically and mentally. I know that it absolutely wrecked me...climbing that passageway! Of course, I was carrying a camera and other equipment...but should not have been so affected. I was warned again...inside Cheops...by PyrCre (Pyramid Power) not to touch the walls or any part of the pyramid...that it would be far safer to put my finger inside a live electric socket, or into a cobra's mouth. (Those were the pictures and intelligences flashed into my mind by PyrCre.) Also, I was carefully instructed by PyrCre, telepathically, to be sure and telepath to PyrCre as soon as I entered a pyramid...ASK FOR PERMISSION to be inside...and explain carefully that I was not an intruder...but was borrowing PyrCre's power...to help the human race. I wondered if I should tell Nasr, my pyramid guide...or Abo, my pro guide in general, about the danger of touching any portion of the interior of a pyramid, or key place...but PyrCre telepath'd not to tell them...they had done it for years...and it was too late for them. Later that afternoon Abo called me up, came and got me, and drove me out to see his brother, Abo No. 1. ("My" Abo was called No. 2) They put their heads together, then Abo No. 1 told me that Abo No. 2 would take me to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...that they felt it was in my best interests to go there and see all of the artifacts and have Abo 2 explain their history. We would go to the museum the next afternoon. I felt that this was useless, for my purposes (but as it turned out...I learned invaluable information when I did go the following day!) Added note: During the day I learned that the passageways inside the pyramids were constructed of blocks of stone ingeniously, like a Chinese puzzle...robbers would get through one or two into a passageway...when suddenly they would be confronted by another block of stone which would come crashing down, blocking them. PyrCre telepathed that the real treasure...was not what the robbers found inside the secret passageways...but behind blocks of stone WHICH COULD ONLY BE OPENED BY AN ALIEN MIND OR AN ALIEN-TRAINED MIND using telepathy and psychokinesis (a combination of both). I.e., what was in effect was a PROGRESSION...from the low to the high...from gems and gold, the low...to HIGHER FUNCTIONS OF THE MIND, the high...and this fact was something that ONLY AN ALIEN MIND COULD "SEE" OR DETECT, because of being equipped with higher powers of the mind, than human. This reminded me of a passage in the Bible..."render unto Caesar what is Caesar's...and unto the Lord what is the 06/28/2025 15:0 === Page 6 of 35 ge Five Lord's." In the context of which I have been speaking...the UFO's and the High Priests whom they trained...rendered gems and gold unto "Caesar" (meaning human robbers)...and set up priceless gifts of other-dimensional "time-capsuled wisdom" for later aliens to come to the pyramids, read sign correctly...and "browse in that kind of library." Now, maybe I'd better spell out...what I've been discussing. I understand it easily...but I am dealing with human minds...who just might not understand. If an alien person (from another planet, or another dimension)...or a half-alien like myself who has been trained by aliens and has half-alien brain...comes to the pyramids in Egypt...then that alien quickly realizes what the human beings from centuries past have not realized...that the HUMAN treasure of diamonds, rubies, pearls, gold, etc., found in the pyramids...are merely a DIVERSIONARY MEASURE...put in the pyramids so that the humans will go no further. They have what they want. Things...that will bring them money. All right. But the REAL treasures in the KEY pyramids and temples...are other-dimensional time-capsules left there ages ago...containing wisdom of ages past known only to the High Priests and the UFO entities that taught them...just as if you would walk into a modern library filled with books...the alien walks into a pyramid, uses the correct approach consisting of telepathic key symbols and psychokinesis, blended...and presto, wisdom and knowledge, great great wisdom and knowledge, from the ages past begins to penetrate into their mind or brain in ENCAPSULATED FORM (that is, they will not grasp it all that day, that week, or that month...the information and knowledge will pursue them, wherever they go after that...and they will have it all...IN TIME. Might take years...but that "time-capsule" of wisdom and knowledge will BE GIVEN TO THEM EN TOTO, even after they leave Egypt. This, then...is the VERY REAL treasure...of the Egyptian pyramids (key ones only...there are many pyramids...but only certain ones are the KEY ones...and only an alien brain can separate the key ones from the "dummy" ones...which is why there were so many pyramids built.) Well, back to my hotel. It was night, and I couldn't sleep. The mosquitos were eating me up. In the morning I went into the Hilton restaurant and had breakfast. Since having been in the pyramids I was horribly dehydrated for some reason...and I lined up six huge glasses of orange juice and downed them all...then drank three huge glasses of milk...then bought a huge bottle of mineral water and drank that. The waitress stood by with eyes and face expressing astonishment. (From that time on...whenever I finished my work out in the desert re the pyramids and temples...the same thing happened...I had to get back and down enormous amounts of liquids.) On this particular morning a strange thing happened...I SAW MY DOUBLE. Never in my life have I ever seen a face that looked like mine. But sitting not far away were two men...AND ONE OF THEM WAS THE SPITTING IMAGE OF ME. I mean...if you put the two of us together...I really am sure that you could not tell which one would be me, or him! I rose from my table and walked over to their table...they stared up at me...I said: "Pardon me...but looking at you is like looking into a mirror! You and I are twins!" My look-alike said stiffly "I can assure you that we are not related." I was sort of ill at ease with his cold manner...and I stammered "The only person I've ever met who looked like me was my brother Jack." The man stared at me coldly...with my face and my eyes...and said "Well, I am not your brother Jack." I laughed ha ha and said sure, Jack was dead...and excuse me for bothering them...and returned to my table. But I can tell you...that was a REAL SHOCK! I mean, suppose you looked across the room...AND SAW THE SPITTING IMAGE OF YOURSELF SITTING OVER THERE! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 7 of 35 Page Six Note: After having been inside the secret passageways of the key pyramids and temples for several days...a strange taste and smell had come into my mouth and nose...and would not leave. A strong, musty smell and odor...most peculiar smell and odor. It was powerful in my mouth and nose all the time I was in Egypt...and still lingers on at this late date, 5/19/76) Note: (I am taking these from written notes that I jotted down at the time, or put on my recorder then jotted down later)...while in Egypt and inside the key places...I did not have the feeling or emotion of affection or closeness...that I felt in Urquhart Castle in Scotland. I.e., while in Drumnadrochit, Scotland, area...I felt an emotion of love or affection for the area, somehow; while in England, at Stonehenge and at Warminster on Cradle Hill...I felt as if I were RETURNING after a long absence...but no emotion of affection as in Scotland; and in Egypt I felt the least affection or closeness. But in Egypt...I felt the most psychic power coming at me...than the other places. Might mention prices in the restaurant in Cairo...most amusing. The average meal cost $6.00 to $10.00. Small orange juice, 60 cents; cup of coffee, 45 cents; glass of milk a dollar, and so on. I had thought prices in Paris were murderous...but Paris is a piker compared to Cairo! Abo came to my hotel and got me and off we went to the Cairo Museum. It wasn't long before I understood why PyrCre had had Abo bring me here! Abo showed me the mummies taken from the pyramids; the gold and treasures that had been found inside the pyramids; the weapons and personal ornaments of the peoples of that age...and there, on a huge golden chair taken from a King's chamber inside a pyramid...WAS MY SI DISC! This, from ages past. Next, I saw some figures inside glass cases...carved out of some kind of wood. I asked Abo what they were...for what they were HAD BEEN IN A PHOTOGRAPH I TOOK IN MAINE SOME YEARS AGO! (Which appears in my book. One face looks like a wolf...and another a huge bird with a beak.) Abo explained that they were ancient gods of Egypt...Horus and Anubis. Ah, the disc on the throne, mentioned above...appeared on King Tut's throne. Another interesting thing...among the artifacts were BLOWGUNS. I hadn't known that blowguns existed in ancient Egypt. But they did. Now keep in mind my being called "Ti Ti" as a child, and all about my grandfather and his tremendous genius along the lines of the ancient Egyptians...when I was a small child, about eight years old...the kids in my town of Bedford, Indiana, formed gangs and threw rocks at each other. But not me. I TRAINED MY OWN GANG TO MAKE BLOWGUNS...by utilizing copper tubing, match sticks with the end slotted to put bits of playing cards into for guiding fins...and a needle driven into the other end...blowgun! We went at the other gangs with our blowguns, blowing needle-darts at them...and were greatly feared for this. BUT AGAIN...WHAT INSTRUCTED A SMALL COUNTRY KID IN THE HILLS OF INDIANA TO CONSTRUCT SUCH A WEAPON? The year was 1928. Back to my hotel, the El Borg. Everything in Cairo is done on a bribe basis, I found. Such a bribe system you couldn't imagine! In the Hilton restaurant I'd been leaving a 10% tip...then weeks later discovered that a 10% tip had also been added to all my daily bills, and deducted at the cashier! So I'd been knicked for 20% all along! So I began not tipping the waitress, but just paying the 10% listed on my check...but then the waitresses came to me and told me not to pay any attention to what the printed check said...but to leave them their tip! Ha ha. I had to tip the hotel clerk $30 to extend my stay at the El Borg (because there are no hotel rooms to be found in Cairo, and you can only stay so many days in the one that you have)...at Cheops I had to bribe Nasr, the pyramid guide, twenty bucks to hold back the tourists so that I could get my work done alone up in the King's Chamber, the secret room. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 8 of 35 Page Seven This was every day! By Friday, June 13, 1975, I had paid out $200 in bribes alone. I bumped into a man called Ali...and he invited me to his huge shop where he sold Egyptian things. I carried a small Panasonic radio (they don't have them in Cairo...these tiny portables, it seems, or so he said) and he saw it and went wild. What could he trade me for it, he asked? First we sat down and he offered me hot coffee (thick Egyptian coffee, not to be confused with our coffee) or cold beer. This is done any time you enter any shop in the Cairo Bazaar (part of town, the Bazaar, where most of the shops are). It is custom. Business is not discussed. You sip coffee and chat, then after a polite interval of say, ten or fifteen minutes, and your coffee is finished...you get up, look around, and maybe talk business with the shop owner. I found that the shop owners...although like hawks when it comes to business...are also like small children. Ali finally traded me out of the radio, and Hassan, another clerk in the shop who had first talked to me...asked for a "present" too, from me. I.e., we were not "trading" but giving each other "presents". Ali gave me an inlaid cigar box and a Cleopatra tray, intricately made...as his present. I gave him the Panasonic as his present. That's the way they do it. Another amusing thing the guides did was...after we'd been swapping, Ali said he wanted to take me to meet a friend...and he left the shop and drove us to another shop...his father's shop...and we went through the sipping coffee routine...then his dad tried to sell me Egyptian curios...but I told him that I was not on a buying trip, but thanks anyway. We parted friends, regardless of no business having been transacted. And some days when I'd hire taxi drivers to take me out into the desert...when we'd get back to town they would not take me to the address I'd give them...they would drive up in front of a shop...get out and take me into the shop, telling me that the owner of the shop was their friend and would give me special prices. One day a driver did this. "But I don't want to go into that shop," I told the driver, "I want to go to the Nile-Hilton (the boat I stayed on later.) He stood and sulked, with the shop owner at his elbow...so I just took off and walked the ten blocks to my hotel. You see, they all do this, the taxi drivers...and they get bribed by the shop owners to do it, plus they get a commission from what the shop owner sells the tourist. It reminded me somewhat of the day in Paris when I'd put the family in a taxi and instructed the driver to take us to the Eiffel Tower. He let us out in front of an odd building. I said, "Is this the Eiffel Tower?" He said oh no, that the Eiffel Tower wouldn't be as much fun as this place...a huge park...and for us to go and have a good time in the park! At the time I was very angry at the taxi driver for taking us where he thought we ought to go...instead of where I told him. But as it turned out...we had the best time we had in Paris at that park. But back to Egypt. At 6 PM in the evening I was supposed to catch a bus to the train to leave for Luxor...in upper Egypt...to see the pyramids there. The van driver took me to the train...onto the train...and showed me a compartment, which had other suitcases in the compartment. I hit the ceiling. But he ran out and off the train. See, I had been followed all around Cairo...little men hiding behind potted plants and walking behind me, stopping when I stopped, and so on. I didn't mind surveillance, but this was ridiculous. Evidently Egyptian intelligence or CIA had put a man in my train compartment, for whatever purpose. Well, if they thought I was going to sleep in some train compartment with a strange man...ha ha ha! So I picked up my luggage, left the train, and took a cab back to the El Borg. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 9 of 35 Eight Later PyrCre explained to me that It did not want me to go Luxor...and had caused me to turn back...that the key places for me to do my work... were in the Giza area, the area of the Great Pyramid and all of that. NOT in Luxor. It explained that again, Luxor had been a diversionary measure by the ancient ones...in Luxor they had put oodles of golden things and treasure and places of great beauty...contrasted, say, with the starkness of King Ti Ti's pyramid or the Temple of On Ness or the Temple of Ka Gemni. BUT...the real goodies were at the dull, drab, stark places. Where I was. Not at the flashy, beautiful layouts up in Luxor. At this point in time...I wanted desperately to return home. Yet, I could not. Something held me in place, to stay and keep on doing what I was doing each day...which was to have a driver take me out into the Sahara desert to the key places...go into each key place...to the key place in the key place... and use the mental, other-dimensional mechanisms to activate that particular place. But I had to skip days. The awesome psychic power that I was linking up with...in the key places...absolutely wiped me out on my daily sojourn! So I had to slow down to every day...out to the desert. I had the feeling that if I attempted this work every day...that the power emanating from the key places could kill me. That strong. (Later I was astounded to learn from PyrCre...that during the interval I would be inside a key place, activating the power there...THE POWER WAS TEACHING ME! A reverse process! On a deep level, which I was not aware of.) Listen, something happened most odd! At the Temple of On Ness...I walked on through out into the Sahara Desert, and idly glanced down onto the ground, and saw a stone with a perfect figure of a lady dancing on it! Flint stone. I picked it up and put it into my pocket. The next time I came out to On Ness I walked through the Temple...and an old old man stopped me. "I would like to give you this" he said, in slow English...and he put a coin into my hand. It was a French coin...WITH THE EXACT IMAGE OF THE DANCING LADY ON THE STONE ON IT! I mean...identical. I carry them in my pocket to this day, and every so often take them out, compare them...and wonder. The stone, of course, is ages old. Who was the old man? I'd been alone when I found the stone (among thousands of stones strewn all over)...he couldn't have known about the stone. ????? And why would he have GIVEN the coin to me? In Egypt nobody GIVES anything! All is trade, bribe and barter. A giant hustle. You should see the large image of the dancing lady on this black flint stone...then see the same exact image on the coin...your eyes would pop out! I bumped into Ali in Cairo...and he eyed my camera and other equipment with greedy eyes. Why, he asked me, didn't I leave all my expensive equipment with him at his shop...each day when I went out into the desert? Carefully I refrained from breaking out into hysterical laughter...because all of these shop owners, although like children, are thieves of the first water. "Thanks a lot, Ali" I told him, "but no, I need it with me." For any of you who might ever go to Cairo, Egypt...you could learn something from my experience. Upon first arriving in Cairo...the young lady from Green Valley met me outside the plane and guided me through all the red tape. "And be careful," she told me, "of the Hunters." "The Hunters" I asked? "Yes," she replied, "here in Cairo are some of the greatest thieves in the world...who have shops in the Bazaar. They are called The Hunters...because they hunt tourists and take their money...and are so great at it." 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 10 of 35 Page Nine I was still at the El Borg Hotel. This night I awoke about two in the morning... scratching and covered all over with mosquito bites. I said to hell with it, got up, got dressed, took the elevator down, walked across the bridge over the Nile... and something led me to a boat parked on the Nile outside the Hilton. Now, I knew that there were no rooms to be had in the Hilton... I had tried. I went onto this yacht-boat thing, called the Nile Hilton. Over the gangplank down through doors opened by a doorman I could rent on this boat. I asked the desk clerk if there was a stateroom I could rent on this boat. He smiled and said no. I grinned... having learned something... and said, "Listen, I'll bet you fifty dollars that you do have a room somewhere on here. Will you check your book again and see?" (I bet him he DIDN'T HAVE A ROOM, you see?) If he came up with one, then he gets fifty. He laughs, says "Discuss it with the manager! He's sitting at that table over there in the lobby, listening to us." The manager had heard it all. I turned and bet him fifty he didn't have a room. He examined his finger nails, then called to the clerk to give me stateroom such and so. I handed the manager fifty dollars and said, well, you win and I lose... and moved into the stateroom... which had no bugs, no mosquitos, no busted plumbing. Then went back to El Borg and moved out, and into the Nile-Hilton. The staterooms were on the bottom of the boat. On the topside was a big restaurant on one side; a bar on the other. On the fore deck were about thirty tables with awnings where people could order drinks and look out over the Nile river... which the boat sat right on the edge of. At night it was a gorgeous sight... the black Nile river there in Cairo, where Cleopatra once boated... and now you could see families out in their boats, going up and down the Nile in the evening, enjoying the night air. Mr. Salama was the gent, manager, I'd bribed with fifty. They gave me ten days, too, which is more time than is given to most tourists. Oh, and I had to bribe the clerk at El Borg Hotel five pounds TO GET OUT AND LEAVE THE HOTEL... because I'd bribed them previously to extend my stay there... now I was cutting my stay short. (Remember this particular clerk... he pops up later mysteriously.) Cost fourteen pounds a day to stay at the Nile Hilton. After I moved my things to the Nile Hilton, I went, at four in the morning, into the Hilton to get breakfast at their restaurant, The Ibis (which was to be a sort of headquarters for me while in Cairo... and where I had a lot of fun... as you will see.) Have been extremely ill for days... am weak as a baby... knocked out. Just passed out in my stateroom for a couple of days... didn't know what time it was or what day it was... and couldn't have cared less. (Incidentally... if I accidentally repeat some material herein... forgive me. It could happen. Just be patient.) Ali, Hassan, and Abo... all have begged to take me out to some desert city in the sahara at night... Saraha City, it's called... but have refused... want to keep my mind on my business. Evening... went into the Hilton lobby... and heard wild drums beating! (I'm a former pro drummer, of years past... and these drums were great!) A whole bunch of female voices were yelling like Comanche indians. What it all turned out to be... was an Egyptian wedding. First came about twenty little kids carrying long, tall, lighted candles. Following these kids were about ten women beating on drums... and I mean, it sounded good enough to match Buddy Rich! After them came a belly dancer... dressed in filmy, gauzy gown... writhing and bumping and grinding. Following her came the bride and groom... in bridal attire. I noticed that the groom never once took his eyes off the undulating hips of the belly dancer in front of him... and idly I wondered how his marriage would turn out. His wife to be in a few minutes... kept giving him angry looks. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 11 of 35 167 The next thing that happened...people on both sides of this strange wedding train...began throwing coins onto the floor in front of the couple to be married. I gasped...this, in show business, is the ultimate insult. Another adult behind the couple ran around scooping up all the coins. I asked someone standing nearby what the coins were for...and they explained that it was a sort of dowry for the married couple. Well, anyway, the belly dancers and drummers and kids and married couple all went up the stairway to the upstairs place where the nuptials were to be tied. I went back into the Ibis Cafe to get some orange juice. Now I can't use the Green Valley bunch...to go into the desert. Since the train fracas. It is costing me a lot more money now...have to hire independent drivers, taxi drivers, who park outside the Hilton, each day. Goes like this... I walk up and down the line of taxis and scrutinize the drivers until my mind senses the right one. I go up to him and we begin to bargain. They all know me...Cairo, Egypt, has millions of people...but as far as what goes on is concerned...it is like a town of only 500 people. The shop owners and taxi drivers and hotel employees have a spy system that would put the CIA to shame. And they all share the information...because they can be mutually helpful to each other in steering tourists around and relieving them of money...for a commission, of course. My driver settled for ten pounds for the afternoon in the Sahara, contacting all the key places. The taxi drivers were all anxious to take me out...because each time I went out we'd stop on the way back at a desert oasis place which serves good food and ice cold beer...and I'd let them imbibe and eat all they wanted, as my personal guest. No other tourists gave them this...so they almost fought over who would take me out into the Sahara. I went back to the boat and assembled my tools for the trip...when suddenly someone inserted a key into my stateroom door and opened it. A man stuck his head in. I started for him...his head popped out of sight and the door closed. I went out to the desk in the lobby and complained. The clerk shrugged his shoulders. Watch it, I thought. (This same thing had happened when I was staying at a hotel in Rochester, Minnesota, in early 1975...there was a knock on my hotel door...when I went to the door and opened it, two men ran down the hall, away from me. I chased them to find out who they were. AND THEY VANISHED in an end of the hall that was padlocked. Nowhere they could have gone. Utterly mystifying. At this point...PyrCre telepathed to me and instructed me in the finer points of telepathing to the power in the pyramids and temples I would be going into, for my own safety. It was a sort of mental ritual...to follow...once inside those places...and completely necessary...unless I wanted the Power inside to track me for the rest of my life and finally destroy me...as those Powers had done with so many people (remember 19 of the 20 scientists who broke into one of the Egyptian king's tomb? All eventually died of freak, violent accidents.) It was an odd time for it...but I suddenly realized...what had happened in the court reporters office in Norfolk, Virginia...some years past. I'd been sitting in the office, alone, typing...when suddenly I HAD HEARD A BRAIN WORKING. I said out loud..."Come on in, Frank." (There hadn't been any footsteps or warning noise to alert me.) The office door opened and Frank walked in...a court reporter...with another court reporter, a girl. He was pale and shaking. "My god," he said to me, "how did you know I was out there?" I couldn't explain to him...that I'd heard his brain out there...so I just grinned. And I wondered...why I would remember this thing now. Might mention here...that I spent only 30 minutes inside each key pyramid or temple, using my mental system to contact the Power within. Why not the 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 12 of 35 Page Eleven whole day? Because...it would destroy me. You see, I was bringing the power of my half-alien, modified and re-modified brain...into direct contact with the INFINITELY powerful live intelligence left behind in ancient times...to merge with it...PyrCre, if you will...and after 30 minutes I was exhausted and would have to take a breather until I got to the next place. Just 10 minutes of this action in Cheops alone... would nearly wipe me out, mentally and physically. As PyrCre (Pyramid Creature) explained it to me telepathically...It had waited for ages...for an alien to return to the Pyramids and Temple key places...and activate the places once again, as was done in the old days. You see, Stonehenge...which I had activated at an earlier date (see your files)...was a sort of computer/switchboard for the UFO entities. Stonehenge is linked up...to the key pyramids in Egypt...key pyramids and places in Yucatan (Mayans)...and key pyramids and places in Peru (Incas). When I activated Stonehenge all these other pyramids in other geographical locations were alerted...much like a silent burglar alarm will register off somewhere else in a police station. So I was setting these giant power-sources in motion, after ages of inactivity. And both the SI's and PyrCre were gently guiding me, instructing me, at every step of the way. I dictated into my recorder...Friday morning, the 15th. Then I went across the road to the Hilton...where I was informed that it was SUNDAY THE 17th! I refused to believe it! I went from taxi to taxi, checking the date...and it was true. Somehow...I had lost two days of time! This...has puzzled me ever since. It put me in mind of the two nights when I stood on the lonely, dark parapets of Urquehart Castle...and lost eight minutes each night (see your files.) Of course, this wasn't eight minutes...it was TWO DAYS. Understand, I keep a close record of time...days, hours, minutes...with two recorders constantly kept in action...one in my pocket, and one that I carry. So the chance of my making an error re time or date...is remote, to say the least. Sunday...today...Abo took me out onto the Sahara. One of the key places I'd been activating was the Temple of On Ness...and Abo explained that it meant "Son of God." At this point the SI's, or PyrCre, telepathd to me and explained that they considered me "their child." Inside the secret passage and secret room of the Pyramid of On Ness...is a ceiling covered with stars, mentioned earlier. It is a very powerful room, psychically...and a very special place. After we left there and went to Cheops...and I climbed up inside the secret passageway to the King's Chamber, with Nasr keeping the other tourists far away at the bottom... I found a "bug"...a listening device...behind the casket of the King. Was CIA or Egyptian Intelligence trying to listen and find out what I was doing? Comical...since I am doing it mentally. If they put that thing there to find out what I was saying, or mumbling... other-dimensional "trigger" mechanisms to activate that Key...then they were grossly disappointed! I'll tell you something at this point...which is not very couth. But just in the interests of being accurate as to what is going on...all this Egyptian action took place in June of 1975. Am finally getting around to typing it in May of 1976. Now, every ten minutes, as I type, 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 13 of 35 Page Twelve I find that I have to get up and go to the bathroom and piddle... WHICH WAS ABOUT THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS IN EGYPT. I.e., just thinking back on all this...seems to have a dehydrating effect on me... Today I walked out of the Pyramid of On Ness...and automatically I turned a corner and walked to the right...in the wrong direction to get back to the Temple, quite a distance away. My native guide called out to me...ran over...and sort of in a daze I told him... This is the right way...there should be a doorway here in the center of the bottom of this pyramid!" It was as if I'd been there before and knew what I was talking about. The old guide studied me, then said: "Long ago there was a building constructed from the Temple, far over there...to this exact spot that you point to. The scientists also have long wondered why the building led to the solid stone blocks of the pyramid here at this point...and have searched for an entrance... but have never found it." He then showed me bits and pieces of stone fragmented over the ground, leading from the pyramid over to the Temple. In the Temple of Ka Gemni, famous and powerful High Priest of ancient Egypt...I made my way through various rooms and hallways...to a back chamber...unerringly...being guided by PyrCre, I suppose. It was a relatively small room...with the colored rock drawings over the walls... but on one wall, on my left, was a huge life-size portrait or picture of the High Priest himself, pointing his magic wand at the drawings on the far wall. On my right...was another, exact same, picture of the High Priest pointing his magic wand at the drawings on the far wall. Immediately...I knew...that this was the key spot...where the High Priest himself had stood...and what I was to do. I was to stand... arms extended and fingers rigidly extended...and "see" lightning coming out of my fingers, the lighting striking the colored pictures on the far wall (I won't tell you which ones, as am forbidden to do so.) If you think this is far out...please recall that I have documented in the past making lightning strike certain targets, with witnesses present...and I did it in this same manner. You may have this in your files.) This action...would activate the key spot...in this key place...accompanied by the proper other-dimensional mental mechanisms. Oh, I might mention...each time that I went into action in one of these key places...all the Power left behind in the pyramids...focused on me. It was like having some living thing...a formidable living thing...sit and stare at you. z AS I left the temple of the High Priest...(or was it On Ness? my notes got scrambled on this)...I saw a high wall with cobras carved into the top of the wall. I pointed them out to Abo, and asked him if he knew what the cobras meant. He didn't. I made my right arm into a "Z"... the cobras were all alike...coiled into a striking Z...EXACTLY IN THE SAME MANNER THAT PYRCRE HAD INSTRUCTED ME TO HOLD MY ARMS INSIDE THE HIGH PRIESTS KEY ROOM! I.e., the cobra sign...meant the High Priest... with both arms held in a Z shape...lightning coming from his fingers, which were pointed at the key portion of the room. Which...caused magical things to happen. Perhaps you are puzzled about "the power" I am talking about in these key places. Might be easier for you to understand it...as an extremely amplified form of PSI FORCE POWER 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 14 of 35 Page Thirteen At Cheops...the Great Pyramid...Nasr took me up again to the King's Chamber...through the secret passageway. He paused, turned to me, and said: "You know, I've been working here for 30 years...and only one other time has a man come here as you come. He, too, had me hold back people at the bottom of the Pyramid...while he went up to the King's Chamber to work with his mind up there, he told me." This was most interesting...that another human had come and done as I am doing. After being in Cheops each time...it was especially dehydrating...much more so than the other places...and when I'd come out I would have to rush someplace to drink bottle after bottle of pop or cold beer. Those who are interested in "pyramid power"...might take note of that. Abo surprised me...by now he'd seemed to grasp what I was doing...and turned to me and said: "Ted, now I understand. At first I did not, and thought that you were a tourist and a crackpot. Now I know that you are not. What you are doing...is making friends with the ancient High Priests!" Of course, in essence, he was quite correct. Would like to add something that has not much business being in this file. Each trek out into the Sahara...we would drive through the busy, teeming streets of Cairo...out out out into the countryside. We'd drive along dirt roads underneath palm trees...and girls and boys would be swimming naked in the Nile, accompanied not by pet dogs...but by water buffaloes. Women would be walking along the road...carrying giant baskets on their heads filled with fruit or laundry...carrying a baby clutched to their bosom. Little boys and men would come racing along the road, riding their camel. Well, the point I want to make...they all seemed very happy. Smiling, laughing...mothers all carrying their babies...some babies too big, but they'd carry them anyway...all of them laughing and happy. I've been around the world...but have never seen such happy people. They have very little, in the way of worldly goods or belongings...but I'll tell you they are happy. Back in Cairo, went to the Ibis Cafe in the Hilton for supper. Abo surprised me by walking in. He told me that Green Valley had sent him...because they were upset by my beef with them over that train episode. I said sure, tell them to give me my fifty bucks back. He went rushing off to the telephone, then returned, pulled out a bundle and gave me fifty dollars, saying that they had agreed, wanting to keep peace with me. I tipped Abo fourteen bucks and thanked him. He grinned...said that Green Valley was also tipping him...for settling the matter. In the cafe, I noticed for the umpteenth time...the same surveillance agents peering at me. Never one. Always two, or more. (Later this was brought out into the open by Abo, as you will see. Not my imagination at all.) One would inevitably be English...the other Egyptian. And they were so cute and funny about it...I would catch them hiding behind the draperies and peering around the draperies...jerking their head back when I'd spot them. Ha ha. Now, I was working three major pyramids each time out in the Sahara...plus some smaller key spots. Pyrcore had instructed me not to roam all over Egypt to other places, north or south...but to concentrate my powers on activating these three pyramids. Today I looked at a map...and saw that the three pyramids...if a line were drawn from one to another...MADE A PYRAMID! Most interesting. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 15 of 35 Page Fourteen As I have said before, everything in Egypt...revolves around bribery, tipping, corruption, commission. For instance...when Abo took me to Cheops Pyramid today...and Nasr, the government guide, took me into the pyramid while Abo waited outside...Nasr stopped and said, Ted, please do me a favor? When you leave, tell Abo you've paid me another ten dollars...making twenty...will you? (See, I'd already paid, tipped, Nasr twenty to keep the tourists back...but Abo gets a commission off any tip I give to Nasr...and Nasr only reported ten...but innocently, without knowing the setup, I'd told Abo I tipped Nasr twenty. Now Nasr wanted to get straight with Abo...or Abo would steer tourists in the future away from Nasr. Sound complicated? It is, believe me. I told him, okay. So when I left and rejoined Abo...I grinned at Abo and told him I had given Nasr the other ten dollar tip. He grinned at me, and winked and nodded. Nasr walked up to him and slipped the commission from the twenty into Abo's hand...and everyone was friendly again. Next Abo wanted me to ride a camel. I said, man, what? I am here to do something much different than riding camels. But Abo has a charm and persuasiveness which Phil Silvers (Sergeant Bilko) would envy. And before you knew it, he had me on the back of a camel, to ride from Cheops down to the Sphinx. The camel trainer, a young fellow in his teens, held the reins of the camel and ran along beside the camel and me. Abo followed in his taxi about 100 feet behind. Suddenly the young camel driver uttered a command...and the camel began running. Now, I don't know how long it's been since you've been on a camel...but let me explain. A camel is a giant creature, not to be fooled with. To get on it, it must sit down flat...you get onto a huge saddle arrangement...and when it stands back up...you are about eight feet in the air! When it walks, you sway, violently from side to side. A camel walking is one thing. A camel running, is quite another. Those things can run like a bat out of hell! There I was, reeling from side to side in the saddle, camera around my neck going to one side, me to another...clutching my tape recorder in one hand, other stuff in another...and the desert sand a blur beneath the speeding camel. Suddenly the camel driver yelled a command, and the camel stopped. I looked down at the face of the camel driver, who smiled innocently. "Gee," I said, "that was great! Real fun!" His face instantly registered puzzlement and disappointment...and I realized that this was his only way of striking back at the rich tourists and bosses over him...by having his camel scare the living daylights out of them. But I cheered him up...slipped a tip into his hand. He was horrified, and turned and looked at Abo's car which had stopped about 50 feet behind. "Don't let Abo see it," he said, and handed it back to me. Now, when I'd taken the money from my pocket, a small slip of paper had fallen out. A receipt from the Ibic Cafe. We proceeded down the road towards the Sphinx when Abo's car pulled up alongside us. He got out and handed me the tiny paper. "You dropped this back there," he told me. How he could have spotted that, I don't know...but it revealed to me how closely Abo was watching. Before we got to the Sphinx I managed to slip the tip to the camel driver without Abo seeing it...so the kid wouldn't have to give his commission to Abo. But do you think that fooled Abo? Forget it. We were standing in front of the Sphinx when Abo said: "Did you remember to tip the camel driver?" I just grinned at him. He grinned back and said, "I see that you did. All right." And I knew that Abo would get his cut of that tip. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 16 of 35 Page Fifteen Incidentally, when I speak of "activating" these key spots...PyrCre tells me that in doing so...I am USING MORE POWER THAN IS KNOWN ON EARTH ANYWHERE! Also, another fascinating happening today...while climbing down inside the secret passageway of Cheops...a party of lovely German girls were coming up...and to do so they had to climb up a steel ladder at the lower part of the passageway, which I'd reached and gone down the ladder. I decided to help them up. I put my hand under the elbow of the first one and hoisted her up the ladder...BUT SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL VIOLENTLY! She turned, up there, and gave me the most astonished look. I helped a second up...AND SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL! I tried another...SHE FLEW UP AND BOUNCED OFF THE STONE WALL! They looked at me with astonishment and fear, then turned and hurried on up the passageway...AND I REALIZED THAT AFTER HAVING BEEN UP IN THE KING'S CHAMBER AND ACTIVATED THE GREAT PYRAMID...THAT I HAD MY STRENGTH MULTIPLIED somewhere from 20-50 times! I had barely touched the girls...lifting gently underneath their elbows...yet they'd shot upward and bounced, is the only word for it, off the stone! As if they'd been flung...by some giant with supernatural strength. This would be a good place to explain...that on these unusual trips (Paris, Scotland, England, Cairo)...I do not perform in the usual tourist manner or procedure. As you noted from the Scotland/England files...I had to bribe people to do this, do that...get over spiked gates at night into old haunted castles...hire drivers to take me out into the dark isolated countryside when nobody living there in their right mind would consider being out after ten o'clock (it is not the United States.) In Cairo...I was doing the same thing. To get my unusual chores done...I must tip, bribe, and so forth, on and on. Most tourists can cut corners and be economical about the whole thing; but I cannot. To get the results I need to get...I have to employ extraordinary measures...and extraordinary amounts of cash. But, and this is the whole point...I get results that tourists cannot get. They hire cheap guides...I hire the best guides to get me where tourists can't go. Now, I have hired Abo away from Green Valley Tourist Company, for which he usually works as a top tourist guide. I pay him more each day...than Green Valley pays him. But Abo is a real ace in the hole. He gets things done that need to get done...greased, of course, by mucho dinero. Am going in the hole back home with each of these trips...but this is the way I have to operate. It costs more, true...but I get more done this way. Got a shock today. Was sitting in the Ibis Cafe having lunch, when a man and his wife and teenage son asked to sit with me. Sure, I said. Soon he'd struck up a conversation about ESP and parapsych...so to have a little fun I pulled out a ring with a black stone, and asked him what the stone was. He examined it with a puzzled expression, then handed it back and said, "Maybe I'm crazy, but is it from the moon?" Now, the stone is black and polished. It is a tektite...and NASA scientists have stated they think that they fall from the moon...meteorites, you know. I was flabbergasted, to say the least! And told him that he was correct. Another humorous thing that happened...a man and his wife sat down nearby at a table...they had a baby in a high chair sitting all by himself over to one side of the table, crying and screaming. I called my waitress over and told her to move the baby around the table to sit beside its momma. She did, and the baby stopped crying and began cooing. The waitress came over, looked me in the eye, said "You are very intelligent." "No I'm not," I answered, 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 17 of 35 Page Sixteen "I just like babies." Tonight I was bored. There is really nothing to do in Cairo. It is not as dull as London, but runs a close second. So I figured well, why not go out to that Sahara City and see the tent show all of them are talking about? So I sashayed out, got a taxi driver who named a fair price, and took off. He seemed a nice sort...had a small black mustache...was very proud of his taxi, as all the drivers are...they all have pictures of their wife and kids inside the front windshield...and all sorts of colorful decorations strung around. He was especially proud of his taxi...which was a Mercedes Benz. Well, we drove way out onto the Sahara Desert under the full moon...to this giant tent...where Egyptian bands played; jugglers juggled; belly dancers bellyed around...all the while the gawking tourists drank cold beer and had all sorts of cheeses and foods thrust at them to go with the beer. I was not impressed at all by the show. You can see a better show almost any night of the week on TV at home. We started to drive back to Cairo across the moonlit desert when the show was over. Now, the driver had asked me to sit up front with him. I'd shrugged, thinking poor fellow, he must be lonesome...so I did. Ha. We'd gone a little ways across the deserted desert...when his right hand grabbed at my groin. My left hand grabbed his right hand. He started telling me he loved me...and what he'd do to me out under the moonlight. I told him that I was queer for girls...and kept fighting his hand off. Finally I had him stop the car, and got into the back seat, and we drove silently, oh so very silently, back into Cairo, where I paid him off and went into my boat. Then I discovered that a valuable silver and amethyst fob was missing from its place on my belt...where it had been held by a keychain. Not being as slow as molasses...I figured it out. While acting "queer" he actually pickpocketed my fob! Beautiful. Probably those men who are bent that way...who would go along with him out of his cab into the desert...would get pickpocketed out of their money, wallet, even the gold in their teeth! Wow. So I learned a valuable lesson...never, but never, sit up front with the hired help! His name was Abraham...remember it, it comes up later on. Note: If I hadn't actually come to Egypt...I would not have been made privy to the discoveries that I have made. I.e., the importance of getting to the OTHER key spots...Yucatan and Peru. Thought: at Cheops, all the tourists went back down from the King's Chamber FACING FORWARD. I did not...I BACKED DOWN on the long ladders and steps...not even thinking about it. But Abu El Kasr pointed it out to me. Like I had been there before, and knew what I was doing. Note: It has been so easy...to spot my tails...surveillance people...because they all wear dark glasses...hide behind newspapers and peek around them...hide behind draperies and peek around...etc. Sort of like a Marx Brothers comedy. I put a note on my recorder at this point: The SI's took me to Europe for brain remodification...to strengthen my brain (beef it up) for the power that I would encounter among the pyramids. A step by step process. But Millie...was the key...to getting me to the entire thing! (While George held me up, financially, at home.) Note: I have the psychic impression...that Egypt is in great danger of war... 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 18 of 35 Page Seventeen in time ahead. Note: the triangulation...me here to Scotland, to Egypt and back. Always...the triangle. Check map...me to Scotland and England; Egypt; back. Triangle. Or...pyramid shape. Thought: I have TWO powers to work with now...the SI's and PyrCre. Is there a THIRD power? Are the pyramids like broadcast stations? In the Cairo museum there are many carvings, etc., showing an "eye". You can also see it on a dollar bill...which shows a pyramid with an eye on it. The SI's and PyrCre explained to me what this "eye" meant to the ancient Egyptians. For ages...it has thought to be a "sign" that will ward off evil...by the Egyptian people. But...it is not. I was informed...that it meant, in reality, by the ancient High Priests of Egypt...PyrCre (the Pyramid Creature power)...which was "all seeing"...the eye which would watch and guard...the pyramids and the great knowledge and wisdom that they contain. When the top scientist (Egyptologist) in charge of all the diggings and excavations in the Giza area...came to meet me, and invited me to a personal audience in his chambers...I told him that the stone of the pyramids and treasure within (gems and gold)...were not the reality...that the power and intelligence left behind, still alive...were the great treasure...he knew it. He said, "That is true, Mr. Owens, but how many tourists would know that?" His name: Dr. Ali El-Khouli, Egyptologist, Chief Inspector, Sakkara.....31 El - Galaa St., Cairo. Tel. 79218. He was a fine man...and a tremendously intelligent man. PyrCre telepathd and told me that the pyramid openings would be found in the north...and the treasures found in the south. (Like Egypt itself...northern Egypt the "openings"...but the real treasure, wisdom and knowledge...found in the south.) I told Abo this...and he was very surprised that I knew this. (He's an old pro, remember...and grew up studying egyptology.) Zoroaster's Pyramid...the oldest, 3,800 B.C....Abo took me to it. PyrCre told me that this side is very dangerous...trapped to kill robbers. Long passage this end...spiral passage to the top...where a secret is. In round cylinders. Parchment. Information re magic and psi force. Also a box with gems. I passed this info on to Abo. At On Ness, this day: I found a real live scarab in the tomb. It was the sacred symbol of the Egyptians. I put it in a paper napkin to bring back. Also...found a rock with a petrified scarab in it. Ka Gemni, the High Priests temple...and King Ti Ti's Pyramid and temple...4th dynasty, 2,560 B.C. (quoting Abo's knowledge.) Went on to Cheops this day...300 feet up to the top, inside secret passageway. I was up inside the King's Chamber, arms up in the cobra (Z) position...when suddenly a guide appeared with some tourists in the chamber. Nasr had goofed, and let some get by him. Anyway, the old Egyptian guide saw what I was doing...realized instantly what it must have been...and jumped backwards a good five feet...out of sight. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 19 of 35 Page Eighteen I couldn't bring a gun to Egypt for self-protection, as is my wont... so I brought along a nunchok... a Korean karate weapon... two sticks connected with a cord... which I have practiced to use. Am carrying that in a small bag, plus a fighting knife on my hip in a holster. Next trip: Abo met me in the Ibis Cafe preparatory to leaving for the Sahara. I took one look at him and told him he'd had a fight with his wife. His eyes bulged out and he said, "How you know that?" Then for the next half hour he talked about it. At On Ness a guard came up... and presented me with a piece of alabaster from the tomb itself. Seems that I am getting to be a sort of celebrity with these people. Word has gotten around. Have noted... that each time I go into the pyramids or tombs... hours later information seems to come pouring into my mind... usually after I retire to bed. Have to get up and get it onto the recorder. Wednesday... got up in the morning and recalled a vivid dream that I'd had... seemed a warning. I'd been walking along and up came a boy I'd been a boy with... Mark Caress. He'd smiled, then pulled a gun and shot me. I pulled my gun and riddled him... then staggered home, blood pouring out of my shirt, to confront my wife... and told her I'd been shot. Strange dream. Abo met me in Ibis Cafe... and told me that Green Valley had put the squeeze on him... had found out about his moonlighting with me. He said I'd have to pay them, and not him, for his services. Well, I refused, knowing that Abo would only get about 10% of it as commission. So... that's the end of Abo's invaluable services for me. I'd have to use a taxi driver that I'd pick out. Found one... miracle of miracles... he told me that he knew me... that he'd been the clerk at El Borg Hotel that I'd bribed... he'd quit there, and now had a taxi. (Peculiar coincidence.) Picked up a news paper in the Hilton and read where Idi Amin of Uganda was getting ready to blow the guts out of two innocent Englishmen with firing squads. So I sent a wire to the British Embassy that I knew how to stop Amin. Some Egyptian words... "why not?" they like to say... is "is lay-la." Thank you... is "choke-a-ron." "Ah-wan" means you're welcome. "Massa lama" means goodbye. The thought occurred to me today: in judo... striking a man with your fist... is not an iota so destructive... as balling your fist and bringing the small point of your fist down over his heart. Can knock out a cow. (According to my old judo instructor, Johnny Osako.) This squares... with PyrCre's instructions to confine my activating activities to a relatively small area of key locations in Egypt... instead of traveling all over Egypt to do it. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 20 of 35 Page Nineteen On desert next: Achmed, my driver. While going out onto the Sahara PyrCre telepathd to change my procedure...gave me a focal point on a different wall...to project OD symbols onto wall. At Ka Gemni and TI TI...the guides and drivers are going nuts trying to understand what I am doing...they are used to tourists just taking photos, and not coming back. I am returning time after time, and not taking photos. PyrCre showed me a new spot on the wall to work on. It also instructed me not to go to Cheops today. Said that the power there was so much greater...too much. I had wondered why I was doing all my work in the daytime...out in the Sahara...until it came to me...that I was working inside dark-black secret passageways and secret rooms...about the same as on top of Castle Urquehart at midnight in Scotland. On the way back to Cairo...I saw a woman trying to carry a baby, leading another baby by the hand...with a giant basket on her head full of laundry. I told the drive to stop and pick her up and give her a ride. But...he refused to do so. A little further on...there was a priest by the side of the road. I told him to pick up the priest and give him a lift, which he did. ????? Back at the Ibis Cafe, tanking up on orange juice and milk...I discovered Vittel water from France. And ordered a batch. Then a government agent came to my table and sat down...I'd noticed him watching me yesterday at the Ibis. He told me that government people wouldn't contact me today (re Idi Amin and my wife wire) because it was a holiday. Then he did something extraordinary. He looked down at the chair beside me...upon which I had laid my nunchok wrapped in a net sack...said: "I see that you're armed for the fray." Nobody, but nobody, could have recognized that as a nunchok! Went up on deck, on the Nile-Hilton yacht that night. I was god-awful lonesome. Took a table at the rail...ordered a cold beer...and gazed out over the Nile. Suddenly PyrCre appeared. Awesome. Huge blazing eyes up close to mine...peering into mine...I had the impression that It knew, in an instant, all that I was, had been, and would be. It studied me. I telepathd was it Horus? It telepathd no. I asked, are we friends? It said yes. I asked would the pyramid power help in what I was doing (helping the human race). It said yes. Then it vanished. The thought then came to me that because of half-alien brain...I was able to see these other-dimensional creatures where other humans could not. Also the thought: after ages, this entity, PyrCre, finds a human popping up in front of it and using the old high priests' techniques of thousands of years ago...must be a shock to it...as it was to me when It popped up! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 21 of 35 Page Twenty Wednesday night...gone to bed; saw myself sleeping and a black cloud hanging over me...the black cloud went down into my body. Then I woke up and recorded this. A warning dream? Thursday...Sayed, my driver again. An agent? (The El Borg clerk.) Today Sayed invited me to his home, in old Cairo, for coffee. He honors me! You won't see another American in old Cairo. In the Ibis Cafe...sitting with Sayed...I explain that the nunchok, which I hold up/..(this dam typewriter)....it is really a musical instrument...clavos...Spanish wood blocks that you knock together. Sayed nearly falls off his chair laughing. So HE KNOWS a nunchok! An Egyptian taxi driver? Fooey. For-git it! He's got to be an agent. Should explain more about Sayed's home...he drove me from the Hilton through "new" Cairo into "old" Cairo...the ancient section. There were no Americans or Europeans obviously present on the streets...only Egyptians and Arabs. Tiny shops and selling stalls lined the small, narrow, crooked streets that we drove through. It was a riot of color, because the "natives" wore colorful headware, scarves, dresses, etc. In front of the shops were baskets full of brightly colored scarves, mats, etc. And the streets were jammed with people, going and coming. Our taxi had to move slowly, inch forward. Finally he turned up an alley, twisted and turned through dark alleys...and came to a sort of wide parking place amidst many alleys. We got out and he took me into a tiny apartment...no doors...just open doorways and open windows. Small ducks ran loose through the apartment. A huge, fat, giant woman moved forward to meet us and he introduced her as his wife. She was dressed in a flowered dress. Soon little children came pouring through the doorway into the apartment. His kids and relatives kids...plus their relatives. His wife made us some thick, black, Egyptian coffee, which we sat and sipped. I hauled out my camera and made some family photos...(which did not come out...I figured the color film wrong with my meter.) I did coin and dish tricks for the kids...and it was a whole lot of fun. Finally we left, Sayed and I, in the Taxi, with the small square outside packed with people who came to see the "foreigner." I had the thought that I should be an Ambassador...I get along so well with foreign people (except the French...can't figure them at all.) We go on out into the Saraha Desert...to On Ness, first stop. When I get out of the car some Egyptian guides who work there come rushing up and say that "the Director" would like to see me. They lead me to a small building nearby. Inside is a heavily-built, intelligent looking man. Serious expression on his face. First, of course, after he introduces himself as the Director of all egyptology and excavation activities in the area...he suggests that we have hot coffee together. I'd been through this lots of times by now...so asked no questions...aides brought us the hot, steaming, thick black Egyptian coffee...and we sipped for a spell. The Director explained to me that he was in charge of all that was going on at present in Sakara...and offered me any help that I needed in my work. He placed himself at my disposal. Did I need to get into any of the places at night...when the places were locked to tourists? If so, he would arrange it. Would I like to see a new tomb that had just been discovered... 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 22 of 35 Page Twenty One which contained fifty thousand ibis bird mummies, among other things. I thanked him, but said no, that was not my purpose in the area. After a bit he invited me to visit him any day in his offices nearby (which I did later on.) We both left, and I finished my work at On Ness; went on to Ka Gemni; then to King Ti Ti's place. The guides by this time, of course, all knew me...knew my procedure and what I wanted done...and they would be waiting for me at each place, smiling and beaming. No tourist could go into these select places, of course... without going with these assigned, old, grizzled Egyptian guides (and guards)...but once inside they would withdraw from me, allowing me to proceed to my key place and do what I do. They would not interfere with their personal presence. After I would finish telepathing... I would leave the chamber and pick up the guide who would be waiting outside the chamber...and we would leave the pyramid or temple together, and he would padlock the doors behind us. My On Ness guide was one of the fiercest looking men you would ever see...Abdul...but he grew to like me and called me "Teddy". This day at On Ness, before I got to Abdul...in the Temple that I had to walk through...suddenly a group of six mean, tough looking Arabs appeared around me in a circle as if by magic. By now I'd been there many times, and nothing like this had occurred. I looked around at them...took out my nunchok and shoved it into my belt in the ready position...and switched on my tape recorder and put the happening on tape in pig-latin...just in case I got jumped and somebody found the recorder later. Even with the nunchok I didn't figure to be able to beat six tough Arabs carrying knives (if in fact they did...but I could see bulges under their burnooses...gowns.) (I guess you call a burnoose a gown...anyway, it's what they wear...long, flowing robe...usually dirty looking.) Inside On Ness I began to say my "triggers" out loud...but PyrCre communicated and ordered me to only do it mentally. A strange thing happened...while I was standing, arms outstretched in the "Z" position...running through the trigger mechanisms mentally...the loud buzzing of a fly interrupted the silence. This was most odd. Had never happened before. This is a sealed, locked temple. Nothing, but nothing, can get out or in. I never did spot the fly...but its loud buzzing all around me was a distraction. PyrCre has smoothed out and improved my procedural methods...but has absolutely forbidden me to reveal any of it. (Later on, on the plane homeward-bound, PyrCre appeared and okayed a verbal report only to Millie. One person. Millie, who made it all possible. Following which the airplane ahead of ours got hit by lightning and blown up... but you'll read about that later on.) On the way back to Cairo...we stopped at a small cafe' sitting beside the road...to get a cold drink...and a little Arab boy about five years old came to me and handed me a lovely flower from the garden. (I took it back and put it in a glass of water in the cabin of the yacht.) But my mind went back to Scotland...on the previous adventure...when the tiny three year old girl came up to me and handed me a lovely flower, also (which I still have, pressed into a book to keep.) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 23 of 35 Page Twenty Two Learned two new words today (Egyptian)..........book-er-ah, tomorrow. War-da..........flower. All the writing on store fronts and all along the streets in Cairo..........is in Egyptian..........so there is no way of knowing what the heck anything is. I miss the Scotland-England midnight thrills..........with UFO's overhead. None of that here. Nothing at all..........UFO oriented. Here, it seems, I am activating, and learning. Here the challenge and excitement of the unknown..........is missing. Am especially lonely for Urquehart Castle. I predict..........that I will get back there! Sometime. Upon returning to Cairo, I found a message from Rose..........a representative of the British Embassy..........to call him. I did so, and we arranged to meet at a certain time at the Ibis Cafe..........I told him that I would wear a "purple shirt" for ident purposes. I cleaned up, then went to meet Rose..........wearing a red, candy-striped shirt. Inside Ibis Cafe I waited at a table..........suddenly a man walked inside, looked around the room, came right over to me and extended his hand..........said "I'm Rose." Then he looked me over and chuckled and said, "Purple shirt! Hah!" I didn't point out the obvious..........that he'd known me..........regardless of what shirt I wore..........so the agents that had been following me had briefed him, complete with photographs. I laughed and said yes, I'd make a lousy spy. We sat down and for about an hour I outlined my ingenious plan..........which he liked. The only rub that I could see in the plan..........lay in the fact that I was too blamed close to Amin..........and Uganda. In hours, he could have one or more killers here in Cairo after my scalp. (The plan revolved around the British contacting Amin..........and telling him that I would sic my UFO's onto him if he shot those two Englishmen. Amin, you see, had only recently seen a UFO with his own eyes..........it was in the newspapers..........so he knew that they were a reality. And my background with UFO's was concrete solid..........I had the Saga articles with me to back it all up. Should note here: my breathing changed while telepathing triggers inside the passageways and secret rooms of the pyramids and temples. I noticed it today. Just as soon as I'd telepath to the key section of the wall..........my breathing would switch into a sort of suspended animation process. Then, as soon as I'd finished..........I'd be forced to get the heck out of there as fast as possible..........and my breathing would go back to its normal pace. Noted also today: since and including yesterday, not one but two of these tough guides..........went into Ka Gemni or Ti Ti..........with me, one in front and one behind me. I wonder why? Is it perhaps extra protection..........or is the extra one an intelligent agent? Don't smile. Egyptian intelligence agents are as thick as flies around me most of the time. (Wait until the incident on the Nile!) So many of the Egyptians are fond of saying "Why not?"..........lay-al. Friday..........Odd procedure today at On Ness. The guide won't talk..........and no special guide to meet me. So I have to find my own way..........it is quite a hike from the temple to the pyramid, and I got lost on a couple of twists and turns..........But finally found it. PyrCre gently 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 24 of 35 Page Twenty Three rebuked me today, in the midst of my telepathing...correctly, as It should have...I was inserting some personal wishes into the telepathing and PyrCre smoothed out the procedure for me. I've got it ALL...the High Priests' methods and procedures...the why and the how and the where! No other human being will ever be able to duplicate this work I am doing. Noted today that the telepathic triggering methods are NOT remaining constant. It is awesome. The methods change daily...due to PyrCre instructing me in the changes...and today I learned a chilling fact! It is because...I am being made a PART OF THE POWER ITSELF IN THE AREA! Closer and closer every day, being absorbed into the Power! At the third place today PyrCre came up close to my face and put its eyes close to my eyes...and looked deeply into me. It is GIANT. Its head is as big as a huge, round table. When those big eyes came close to my eyes...whew! Immediately after, when it vanished...I understood the difference between what I was doing here and in Scotland-England. This has nothing to do with UFO's or UFO work, as in Scotland-England. I have, in effect, been turned over, or passed on, to this Power...and the difference is psychic phenomenon in depth and in scope! I.e., in the U.S. the popular psychic experimentation is done with Zener cards...but the difference between what I am doing in Egypt and Zener card work...is the difference between Einstein's work and a game of mumbly-peg! Might just mention...that PyrCre's eyes were hypnotic...they glowed as if having a blazing fire inside...completely unlike human eyes. Poor Sayed today...we had come into a tiny village along the road in the Nile Valley...and I asked Sayed to stop for a minute for me to take a photo. It was an error. In an instant a huge crowd of people surrounded our car...thrusting their hands through the window, wanting a cigarette, money, anything. Sayed was frightened. I handed him a bunch of coins, which he threw out the window then gunned the car and burned rubber getting out of their at about fifty miles an hour. I couldn't understand why...but I reckon he had a reason. X Could be, if Sayed was an Egyptian agent...which I think he was.. he had the responsibility of guarding me and keeping me safe...and it was a lovely spot for some sort of attack. But the people looked peaceful to me. Oh well... Back to the Osiris...the yacht...cleaned up and went up on deck, got a table and a cold drink, and sat down to ponder...looking out over the Nile. It was quite obvious now that the SI's had gotten me to Scotland-England in order to do a brain re-modification...beef up my mental power (because contact with PyrCre takes EVERY OUNCE of my energy and brain power). While telepathing here, in the secret passages and secret rooms...I seem to be in a different world, than the world-world...picking up techniques thousands and thousands of years old...and having to match power with power. This evening my mind and energy are run down. Am just wiped out. I rose and went to the men's room. Upon returning to the outer deck...Achmed, the waiter...had given my table to somebody else (for a bribe, no doubt...you see, these tables are hard to come by...a line waiting for them.) My beer and cigar were gone. I was furious, and stormed downstairs to write a note for Salame...owner of the yacht. I wrote that Achmed should be demoted to Chief Dish Washers. Later in the evening I bumped into Salame...who grinned and said that if I didn't 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 25 of 35 Page Twenty Four forgive the waiter Achmed then he'd have to make Achmed a dish washer. I leaned over and pointed at Salame..."Okay," I said, but remember...make him a CHIEF dish washer!" Salame broke up laughing. Later in the privacy of my stateroom, I contacted PyrCre...and asked permission to give the Direction at Sakara details of what I had learned. The answer was an angry and explosive NO! I gently pointed out to PyrCre that there was no danger...that no other humans, since they had no alien, or half-alien, brain, could activate the key places. The answer was still a definite, angry NO. So...that's it. (Later PyrCre modified this...to allow the details to be passed to Millie in person.) Friday night: scanning the newspapers, learn that one of the two Englishmen has been released by General Amin. One to go, for release... A number of times...someone has opened my door to my stateroom (which is kept locked) and has peered in, then popped out again. I finally figured it out. In Cairo it is against the law to entertain visitors in hotel rooms...and I am constantly talking into the tape recorder, then playing it back...and sounds like a bunch of people...and they keep trying to catch somebody in here with me. Ha hXa! Fun...nee! At night: had another strange dream...was with Aunt Eva, Dad, Jack, and granma...all dead. Was like real. Next morning took a taxi over to another cafe to eat...and should mention that Cairo taxi drivers drive with suicidal abandon. Whizzing along, if another car gets in their way, they do not slow down...but jam their foot onto the accelerator and strongarm their way around either side of the car...or latch right onto the backend of the front car until it swerves to let them by. Have never seen any crazy driving like in Egypt. When you first get into their taxi...all is sweetness and light. They show pictures of their family, and religious decorations all over the front of their car...then a wild light comes into their eyes...and they declare war on all the other cars in front of them! A screamingly funny thing happened at the cafe, where I got breakfast. This pretty waitress comes to my table and takes my order. After she walks away...there is a huge puddle of red blood next to my table where she'd been standing. (This is the sheraton.) About ten feet away there's a waitress station where the waitresses line up and wait their turn to go to tables. I flagged one over, and pointed down at the puddle of blood. She put a hand over her mouth and ran back to the station. One by one the waitresses came over, stared down at the blood...then retreated hurriedly. A rich oil sheik, curious over what was happening...rose from his table across the room, came over, stared down at the large puddle of blood...then with no change of expression walked back to his table and sat back down. A different waitress was assigned to me, who took the order...and also took me to a different table. Sayed has explained to me...that the cars and buses in Cairo are very old, most of them...one bus that we passed, for example, he said was fifty-four years old. But, he explained, they could 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 26 of 35 Page Twenty Five do this because the Egyptian and Arab mechanics in Cairo were so clever and ingenious mechanics. He said they could exchange parts and jerry-rig stuff...and keep a car or bus going practically forever. Saturday morning (still)...Sayed brought his boy, Mahmoud, along with us. He's about ten. I told him to. We stopped and got him some candy to eat on the trip out into the Sahara. At On Ness there was an American woman in the Temple...I chatted with her briefly and found out that she was from Indianapolis, Indiana...which is just a few miles from my home town, Bedford. Found the "dancing lady" on the piece of black flint. Also found a rock laying on the ground...turned it over and there's painting and etching on it...must have broken off a wall from some inner tomb. A museum piece, but I'll keep it. To Ka Gemni, Ti Ti. Went to visit "Dr. Ali" as he is called, The Director, in his offices. He ordered the hot, thick black coffee...and while we waited for it I turned on my tape recorder and pointed it out to him. His eyebrows rose and he said, "Is that turned on?" I said yes. He said harrumph. (Correction...this time he ordered hot Egyptian tea...and it was the best tea I've ever encountered, even in Scotland or England.) We had about an hour's chat...all on tape. He told me that he could tell that I was a powerful psychic...and that I certainly had knowledge not known to tourists...as we chatted along. Today, while making my "rounds" Pyrere instructed me to put the star Chamber (and pyramid containing it) around me at night, mentally, before going to sleep. Saturday night...sat on deck of the Osiris, sipping cold beer and smoking and looking out over the moonlit Nile. I was bored and homesick. Fooey. Instead of just going to bed, as I usually did at this time...I decided to walk down the dark waterfront and find the man called Hassan, who had a boat to rent to go out onto the Nile. So I left the Osiris and climbed down the steep embankment onto the edge of the river and walked along it until I came to a huge 50-foot boat. It was Hassan, who was working on the boat with another tough-looking man. Could I rent the boat for an hour? Yes. I told Hassan just him on the boat with me...not the other guy. (They were eyeing my camera and tape recorder...and if I was going to be jumped it would be by one guy, not two.) They chattered and argued in Egyptian...then Hassan said okay. I jumped on board, he fixed the sails, and the boat edged out onto the black water into the fast current. Hassan sat at the front of the boat at the tiller, guiding...guiding with his fanny...whilst he used his arms to manipulate the giant sails. He jumped off the tiller and tells me to take the tiller while he rigs the sails differently. I couldn't believe my ears! I'm sitting in the middle of the boat, back against the rail...under a bright lantern which is suspended from a skeletal ceiling...so I put my stuff down and leap to the tiller...and the boat steers like a dream! Like a Lincoln-Continental with power steering. We're now speeding down the Nile at high speed, with a full moon overhead. Across on the other side of the Nile is a nightclub 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 27 of 35 Page Twenty Six built onto a yacht...and Egyptian bellydance music is blaring out from it. It's all lit up with lanterns like a Christmas tree. Hassan starts singing and dancing in the middle of our boat...hanging onto the sail ropes. I turn on the tape recorder, because all this is really funny. Hassan is young, dark haired, tough looking. But full of mischief, like most of the other Egyptians I had met. He finally stops dancing, and we leave the music behind us on the dark water...Hassan says that this boat is the biggest boat on the Nile. I can well believe it. He says that he usually rents it to a party of fifty people (i.e., it seats fifty.) Now comes the real fun part of the whole thing. Hassan begins to swear in Egyptian...and points out onto the river. "Police" he yells at me in a low voice. I laughed hysterically. After days and days of being followed by police agents all around the place...THEY'RE EVEN TAILING ME OUT ONTO THE NILE. Sure enough, a large white launch appeared out of the darkness. There are about twenty tough-looking men on board, all on the side facing us...dressed in plain clothes, not uniforms. They stand off, about thirty feet out...and jabber at Hassan in Egyptian in rapid-fire manner. And in no-nonsense, businesslike tone of voice! Soon they swing their big boat around and vanish, moving toward the Osiris, back a ways on the shore. Hassan explains limply that he has received orders, which he does not understand, to return to shore and deposit me there. So he swings the boat around...and becomes strangely silent. But instead of going toward the Osiris...Hassan takes his boat along the other, far shore...and swings it in close to a bunch of giant, bare rocks. As it passes the rocks he yells loudly in Egyptian...and an answering yell comes from the blackness around the rocks. Evidently Hassan had someone there...waiting. Waiting...for what? Then Hassan swings the boat across the Nile toward the Osiris...and his berthing place. Finally he says something to me..."Here," he says, "I am going to let you dock it." I looked at him, dumbfounded, then looked at our target area which the huge boat was swooping toward...a small, narrow area sandwiched in between two other, smaller boats. Well, I figured...if he's crazy enough to let an amateur like me try to get this speeding boat into that little space...then I'm crazy enough to try it. So I went over, got the tiller, while he handled the sails. To put our big boat in that space...moving at fast speed, now, remember...I had to figure to make an arc to the left...judge the boat's speed and distance away from the other boats...and time the move exactly right. Otherwise there was going to be the loudest smashing noise ever heard in that area of the Nile, probably. Sweat beaded on my forehead, I figured we were just at about the right angle to make the left turn...and made the arc turn. The boat sped in toward shore. I was about a hundred feet from the other boats...and the space between. "Here, Hassan" I told him, "so far so good...but let's let the expert put this boat in that space...you." I had seen that there were people in the two boats on each side of the space...and if I erred...some people were going to get wet or flattened out. Hassan grunted, came over and took the tiller and eased the boat into the space. I thought...that gives one an idea of how wild these Egyptians can be...to take a chance on me like that! Looking back on the police affair...I think that the police were warning Hassan that I was not the ordinary tourist to be taken, in any way... in short, I may have been getting some protection. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 28 of 35 Page Twenty Seven Incidentally, tonight I saw a UFO flitting up over the opposite bank of the Nile! No question that it was a UFO. Soundless...glowing light... exactly like those I saw so often every night at Loch Ness. Note: Yesterday and today both...early in the morning, as soon as I have emerged from the Osiris boat...a complete stranger has walked up to me...and asked me what my plans were for the day! I simply tell them...they say thanks, and walk away. Hah! Egyptian Intelligence, probably...or British...now that I've cut into the Amin thing. Had a comical thought...after the experience of having the police "surveil" me clear out into the middle of the Nile river at midnight. (Earlier now..."Subject Owens has gone into the old Egyptian quarter... what do we do?) In the boat on the Nile: "Subject Owens has gone out into the middle of the Nile, just before midnight. What do we do?" Ha ha ha. Can you imagine them phoning that into headquarters? Sunday morning...Abo popped up at the Isis Cafe at breakfast, and wants to have a "meet" with me tonight at six. ??? Achmed is my driver today. I notice that as we go out into the Sahara we are followed wherever we go...by a Green Valley car. Achmed suggests today that we go to the Sphinx. I haven't been there yet. I say OK. When we get there he assigns me to one of the Sphinx guides, who tells me proudly that he was in the Ten Commandments movie which was filmed there. The name of his camel is "California." (The name of the camel that I rode was "Whisky.") The old pro guide told me that no opening had ever been found in the Sphinx. I scrutinized the Spinx...there IS an opening. A clever one, yes...but there is one. (Was using my clairvoyant powers.) Also, I knew that the UFO's of that age...had had the High Priests hide THE MOST precious scrolls of secrets and wisdom...inside the head of the Sphinx...along with a box of giant diamonds, emeralds, etc. BUT...this secret room cannot be opened... except by the telepathic/PK process. Which is why it has never been unearthed. (I picked this information up with the alien half of my brain.) What the Spinx "means"...i.e., was carved in the body of a lion with a man's head...is that it stands for "high intelligence"...and that it is the MOST GUARDED OF ALL THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS, TEMPLES, ETC. (By Pyramid Creature.) To make the meaning clearer...the "lion" would attack and spring on...anyone attempting to rob it of its secrets. We left here and went on to On Ness...and as I was walking through the Temple the old man came up to me and gave me the silver coin...which had THE EXACT "DANCING LADY" ON IT AS THE FIGURE ON THE PIECE OF BLACK FLINT ROCK I'D FOUND. Today I made photos of the fierce-looking Egyptian guides. Tough birds. And one could easily observe the bulge of gun or knife underneath their robes. (Note: I've mentioned picking drivers for each day to go out...but haven't told you the comical way it goes: Driver says to me, "No money. Just give me what you want. I love you...you fine man!" So I say all right...four pounds for the day. He says, "Oh no...always get eight pounds!" I say seven. He says OK. ) 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 29 of 35 Page Twenty Eight After Ka Gemni...about 20 minutes out onto the road back to Cairo...PyrCre appeared to me...and informed me that IT HAD BEEN TEACHING ME ON A SUBLIMINAL LEVEL, WHILE I HAD BEEN DOING MY "CHORES"...FOR ME TO BECOME AWARE OF AT A LATER DATE! I.e., each 20 minutes that I worked to activate the force at that key spot...PyrCre was working on ME. It told me that I had been trained and taught each place, every time.... "Welcome...mah-habiba. "I am happy"...anna-mahmut. "No good"...mis-guise: "Good"...quise. Incidentally...in this age we do have high frequency sound, or magnetic releases, or photoelectric cells...to open secret doors or vaults. But in those ancient days...the High Priests used parapsych methods to open the most secret places in the pyramids and temples...and at times they would change the frequency of their body and simply pass like an X-ray through the solid stone...the same as SI craft can do to pass through a solid mountain to the center of the mountain HQ...or through the bottom of the ocean floor deep into the earth to a secret HQ there. Sunday night...PyrCre appeared and COMMANDED me NOT to go into the desert tomorrow. It FORBADE me. Warned me that I am being stalked and hunted by the "hunters"...very dangerous Egyptians in Cairo. Met Abo at the Isis Cafe at 6, as per arrangement. He said that he just sincerely wanted to see me one more time...before I left. We spent a couple of hours talking. He said that he is very sad because I have to leave. Then he told me something fascinating. He'd come in earlier and asked Samia, the waitress, if Owens had come in yet. She asked Abo if he was "one of the secret police." He said yes. She said, "I will do as I have been instructed...when I see him enter I will call you." Abo, bless his heart...was tipping me that I was under surveillance. I laughed heartily and told him that I'd known that ever since being there. Abo finally left. For the past few days drivers, waitresses, etc., have been coming up to me and asking me to use my powers to help them. I mean...they are utter strangers to me...but the word has gotten around that I am a "famous psychic from America." Perhaps you wonder why on earth the Egyptian intelligence would place me under surveillance? Or the same in Scotland or England (as was very much the case while I was there.) Very simple. Suppose the famous Russian psychic Wolfe, I believe it is...who can hypnotize people telepathically as well as other things...came to America. And suppose that he could do what I can do...which he cannot...that ism, control weather, cities, even countries...through paranormal means, and it had been widely documented. Do you think for a minute that our CIA and FBI wouldn't have agents all around him at all times? You BET they would! Tonight all the lights went out in this fabulous Hilton on the Nile. I was walking through the lobby and blam...darkness. Employees began rushing around lighting candles, etc. I went over to the Osiris boat...and blam...all the lights went out on the boat...and THEY had to get candles! 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 30 of 35 Page Twenty Nine This morning Sayed met me at the Isis Cafe...to take me out to the Saraha...but I dismissed him, because of the stern PyrCre warning, which had instructed me to keep to my stateroom on the boat. Yet... something PULLS me to go back out to the pyramids and temples. Well, finally I could stand the pull no longer...and decided to take my chances in order to get in one more "good lick" out on the Sahara, because I'm leaving tomorrow, Tuesday. I went out and canvassed the drivers outside the Hilton, asking for Sayed. BUT NONE OF THEM KNEW SAYED! Now, all these drivers know each other...spend all their spare time fraternizing together...they are like a big family. So...if they do not know Sayed...THEN SAYED MUST BE AN AGENT. A driver I'd never seen then came up to me and said "I hear that you are leaving tomorrow." I'd never laid eyes on him. Which shows you how much all these drivers, waitresses, etc., learn on the sly. Anyway, I left word for Sayed to come to the Ibis Cafe...with the head driver. I went back to the Osiris boat and was writing a letter to Salama, the owner...when I sensed a close presence...turned my head...AND A STRANGE MAN WAS ON TIPPY TOE READING THE LETTER OVER MY SHOULDER. In the newspaper today...I read that the second man, the young man... has been released by Amin also. So...mission accomplished, as far as I am concerned. No, wait...correction...the young man was the first to be released..the older man's time for execution was extended. I'm not done yet. Am down to six cigars now. Can't buy any here...they cost four dollars each here...just ordinary U.S. cigars. Went to Isis for lunch. Suddenly an expensively dressed man was brought to my table by Samia...with empty tables all around...could he sit with me? I said sure, curious, as I always am...what intelligence was up to now. I ignored the man, studiously...not even looking at him. Several times he cleared his throat...finally he started a fast conversation, pumping me for information...all key questions. How long was I staying? Where am I staying. Etc. Said that he was South Korean. He asked me my opinion of politics in Korea...I told him that North Korea would definitely take over South Korea...the country would unify, just as Viet Nam had done. I told him how weak the South Korean military commanders were...compared to the ones in the North. That they were corrupt, too...just as those in South Viet Nam had been. He didn't believe any of this. I told him that after North Korea took over the entire country, that the country would be far better off! He gave a rebuttal based on the economy of South Korea...and the ratio of three military men in South to one in the North. I argued that the North had more character and principle...and that the size of a dog in a fight doesn't determine the outcome of a fight...but the fight in the dog goes! We went around in circles for an hour. I had never previously given any thought to the future of Korea...so this was stimulating to me, to use my psychic powers to probe ahead in time re the matter. Oh, and he asked me would not the U.S. use nuclear missiles if North Korea attacked South Korea? I replied that absolutely and definitely...the U.S. would not. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 31 of 35 Page Thirty After I left the Isis, walked through the lobby of the Hilton to the men's room...when suddenly a strange man came running up to me, said "I hear that you want me!" Then he turned and ran away down the hallway. I just stood there, staring. What? Bought a newspaper and read that Sam Giancana had been murdered. That means one thing to me...Frank Sinatra will be murdered up ahead in time not too far away. He and Sam were big buddies...and confided in each other too much. So the Mob will have to "excise" Frank. At dinner in the Isis a waiter (they use boys and girls both) that I'd nicknamed "The Wart" because of his ugly manner...came over to my table and made friends with me. (We'd spent weeks scowling and frowning at each other.) Will wonders never cease. To give you an idea, a better idea...of what the meals cost there...a small bowl of soup; rolls and butter; cup of coffee; a small plate of roast beef and cauliflower; slices of tomato; bowl of strawberries...cost $8.00 tonight. This is average. That...is eight bucks American translated into Egyptian money. During the meal I brooded over Samia's being a "bird dog" for Egyptian Intelligence. Suddenly a fiendish idea occurred to me. I told my waitress to send Samia over to my table. Samia appeared. I said, "Samia, don't tell anybody...but I am a Chinese secret agent in the Chinese secret service!" She cut me off and said "I no talk" and ran off, having turned pale white (Egyptians are dusky complexioned.) Then I could hear her screaming and having hysterics back in the kitchen. All the waiters and waitresses went running back into the kitchen...then emerged, grinning over in my direction. I got out fast, sensing trouble. The thought occurred to me...that I have a bad combination...a top psychic with a "monkey" sense of humor. Que combinacion! As I swiftly exited from the Isis, I could hear all the waitresses laughing back in the cafe...and Samia was still screaming and yelling out in the kitchen. Had to have a ring re-sized...so the man in the shop called an eight year old boy over and told him to take me down into a place in the city. So the little boy led me about twelve blocks away from the Nile, into downtown Cairo...into dark streets...to a tiny shop. Inside the shop were two smaller boys...six to eight years old. I looked around for the jeweler. The two small boys took the ring and went to work. I was utterly fascinated. They used old Egyptian methods to pound and stretch the gold of the ring. These kids were real pros! On the way back to the Hilton I stopped my eight year old guide at a candy stand...and told him to pick out any candy he'd like to have. Very seriously, like an adult...he pointed out a huge lollipop to the candystand man...who gave the boy change. With real dyed-in-the-wool class...the boy handed the candyman back a big tip! It was one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Evidently, working around the Hilton and watching Americans...some of the American ways had rubbed off on this boy...and he was showing me that he knew a thing or two! Well, PyrCre had won out this day. Sayed hadn't shown...and I hadn't gotten out into the Sahara. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 32 of 35 Page Thirty One Note: In case I hadn't completely made this clear before...the Pyramids (and Stonehenge) are like TV broadcasting stations...having world-wide power. Their scope is awesome! The power that is "broadcast" can help the entire human race. By turning on Stonehenge...and now the key Egyptian pyramids and temples...it has activated the other pyramids all over the world, and alerted them...now the entire network of pyramid power in Yucatan, Peru, etc., is interested and alerted to what I am doing. For such a thing has not been done, evidently, in a long long time. Ages. And the alien half of my brain...which is sort of like "another world"...knows this. Bothersome thought...I am "out of synch" with my regular contacts back in the U.S., going around the world faster than I can fill the contacts in on the action! I had set up an arrangement with Sayed...to take me to Sahara City one more time tonight...since am leaving tomorrow...and am too bored to sit around on the boat tonight. But Sayed shows up at the Osiris, returns my five pounds...says that his wife is sick and he cannot take me. A driver came up to me at the Hilton and asked to drive for me...so I said OK. We had only gone a short distance when the driver begins to talk about my SI discs! (I'd never seen this man before...name of Alexander.) Then he begins to talk about Abraham stealing my amethyst fob. Says that HE IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF ABRAHAM. Ye gods...and here I am driving out into the night...onto the Sahara...with this guy! He mysteriously stops beside the road and sits, waiting...and I ask him what he is doing. He mumbles and looks around, as if looking for somebody...then drives off again. I had my nunchok ready, you bet! Had an impression four of his and Abraham's friends might have been ready to pull me out of the car and beat me up. It's been known to happen. At Sahara City I get a table with two Englishmen...next to a table where a rich Arab sheik sits with his family...from Saudi Arabia, it turns out...since the sheik and I spend a long time talking. He asked for a disc, so I got his address and promised to send him one. Alexander quietly drove me back to the Hilton, later. No action. Good. Next day Sayed showed up to drive me to the airport. He didn't say a word...and tears rolled down his face. I asked what was wrong. With a straight face he said that he was very sad that I was leaving. (These people actually get emotional about things like this, it seems. I know that you must be tired of reading this report...but don't quit now. The most astounding happening of all...is coming up before the report finishes! Finally, got onto the plane at the Cairo airport...and headed for home. Crossing the Atlantic...the seating was like this: sitting on the left of me was a Dr. Riffet. In the seats in front of us, on the left, was a tough specimen. Seated across the aisle...directly to my left and to the left of Dr. Riffet...was another very tough looking specimen. 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 33 of 35 Page Thirty Two I had a distinct feeling...that the two "tough specimens" were related, or connected... Dr. Riffet and I chatted extensively...and I told him who and what I was. In the course of our conversation...he mentioned sawing a leg-bone in half (related to his work as a surgeon.) I asked...would there be marrow in the leg-bone? He answered why yes, there would be. So I asked him, with a perfectly straight face..."Well, Dr., if you sawed someone's head in half...then there must be marrow in that skull bone, right?" "Well, yes," he said, "but it is a very narrow layer of bone, you know." "Right," I answered, "then that must be what you'd call 'narrow-marrow'!" I thought he'd fall out of his seat laughing. Shortly thereafter, having gone to the john, before entering to get into my seat past the doctor, I leaned over the tough specimen in front of us and said, "Pardon me...are you not a karate expert?" The man looked up at me, startled...then beamed. He dove into his pocket and took out a bunch of photos...showing him fighting at karate with various opponents. Then he actually climbed out of his seat...took a karate stance...and told me how he could kill anyone with the edge of either hand...and then proceeded to give me a lesson in slow motion of offense and defense with karate...meanwhile the doctor's eyes are popping out in disbelief. Finally I sat down...and the doctor leaned over to me and said, "You know, for a minute there I thought he was going to take you on!" "Doctor," I told him, "that man is a sissy." The doctor reared back, again with a look of disbelief. "True," I said. So he can kill someone with a blow of his hand. But...by using my techniques...I can control an entire city or country. So...who is the most powerful...him? Or me?" (He'd seen the Saga articles). He squirmed in his seat and said that he'd better take a nap. In a few moments the funny thought came to me...here is this doctor...in front of him is a deadly karate killer-type...who can wipe out someone with a swipe of either hand. On his left, across the aisle (unless I am wrong) is another, equally dangerous man (both Egyptians, by the way.) On his right am I...who claims to be able to control a city or country with my mind. Is it any wonder that the good doctor is getting nervous? Ha ha ha! I nudged the doctor and he opened his eyes. I said that I was going to wake him up every five minutes. He asked why. I said...to get even for all the times I've been in the hospital and the nurses have waked me up that way. He smiled feebly and closed his eyes once more. After a bit we were served our meals. Then something frightening, to me, occurred. The doctor began arguing with me...on a deep level...that is, about rather deep, abstract subjects. A layman would not have been able to even understand him, let alone rebut him. BUT MY MIND PLAYED WITH HIS MIND LIKE AN ADULT WOULD PLAY WITH A BABY! He would make a profound, logical statement...and answers would flash into my mind like flashes of lightning...and I would take his arguments apart easily and effortlessly. (I had never had these kind of thinking processes before Egypt.) Later...PyrCre appeared in front of me...It gave me permission to tell what I had learned...in detail...to only one living person...the person who had made it possible for me to get to Egypt...Millie...and orally, not over the phone or in writing. In person, orally. It must not be passed on to other humans. I was astounded, because PyrCre had been so 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 34 of 35 Page Thirty Three adamant in Egypt...about my keeping it away from ANYONE. I note...three men on the plane...recognize their faces...same ones that kept following me all around Cairo. The tough man on the left, across the aisle...watches me all of the time. I mean, constantly. Doesn't take his eyes off of me. After the long, grinding flight...we began our approach to New York. Now, follow me closely on this. You'll never hear anything more amazing than this. The pilot talked over the mike to the passengers, "Folks, "he said, "I'm sorry, but we must turn around and fly to an alternate airfield to take on more fuel. We'll make an emergency landing in Connecticut." The plane landed at Windsor Lock, Connecticut, Hartley Airport. The stewardesses would give no explanation. This was too much for me. My legs were all cramped up from the hours and hours and hours of flying from Cairo to New York...so I slid past the doctor and went to the back of the airplane, where they had a lounge section to hang out. In this lounge were two stewardesses, relaxing...plus a tall, important looking man. He was, it seems, a producer for the movie in Russia...which has Elizabeth Taylor in it plus a lot of other big names...and the stewardesses were questioning him about Liz Taylor and the movie. He was explaining all of the snafus and troubles they'd had in making the movie. One stewardess turned to me and asked me who I was, what did I do? Like a robot...I didn't answer but returned to my seat and got the copy of Saga magazine...and returned to them...and showed them what I do. I told them that I had, on many occasions, made lightning strike selected targets. There in the Saga magazine, was a page drawing...showing a bolt of lightning striking the tail of an airplane...with my name on it. The stewardess holding the magazine...her hands began to shake. She looked up at me. "Do you do this with your mind?" she asked. "Yes," I said, "with the help of UFO's. If I think it, it can happen. That's why I have to be so careful...while in planes...and keep my mind off of all of this sort of thing. It might happen." "Oh, my god!" she exclaimed. "Do you know why we turned back from landing at New York?" "Nope," I answered, "why did we?" She shook her head. "If you don't know," she answered, "then I'm not going to tell you. Do you mind...if I take these forward and show them to the Captain in the pilot's section?" (The Saga mags.) I said sure, why not? She took them forward and closed the door to the pilot's section behind her. I sipped my drink...then returned to my seat. She finally came out...after a long interval...and returned the Sagas to me, without a word...and averted her eyes from mine. We finally landed at Kennedy...and the rain was pouring down and lightning was smashing and crackling all around. We hurried from the plane into the terminal. The tall producer passed me and yelled at me, "Did you make this storm?" I grinned and said no. Inside, I went to Customs. The Customs man looked at me, at my ticket...and said, "Were you on this flight?" I answered why, yes. He said, "You're lucky to be alive, do you know that?" I said, what? "Sure," he said, "the plane that tried to land ahead of yours was struck by lightning and it blew up!" "Oh, no," I said, "was anybody hurt?" He gave me a funny look and said, yes. I went from there to the girl clerk at 06/28/2025 15:02 === Page 35 of 35 would unhesitatingly destroy the entire United States..........the same way that they did that airplane..........if I am killed or assassinated before my time to go. Page Thirty Four National Airlines counter..........and asked her what had happened. She laid it all out for me..........and I got her complete answer on tape. A policeman near the plane while it was landing saw lightning hit its tail (just like the picture in the Saga article)..........and the airplane exploded. He ran over and picked up what people he could find (the pieces of the airplane were scattered all over the field) and put them in his car and rushed them to a hospital. Now, if you stop and think..........here was a curious circumstance. What happens on the field..........plane struck by lightning..........is exactly as shown on the page of my Saga article..........WHICH I HAD SHOWED TO THE STEWARDESS AND PILOT OF OUR PLANE! I still am in the dark about this. The way it happened..........is the exact way that I document my miracles constantly..........except in this case I didn't know what I was documenting. Were the SI's trying to tell the government something? Or PyrCre? Were they unhappy because of the toughies around me on the flight? I simply do not know. And no answer has been given to me. But one thing I do know is..........that was no accident. Back at Cape Charles..........while washing up..........I showed Beau, my boy, pictures of Horus and Anubis..........as shown in the Cairo museum. "Why, daddy," he exclaimed, "these are the very same pictures of creatures in the photograph in your book!" I said yes, that was true..........but that I hadn't expected him to realize it so fast and so quickly. He didn't blink an eye.........."and," he continued, "this Egyptian eye..........isn't that on a dollar bill, along with a pyramid?" I looked at him, amazed. This was out of his own mind..........he hadn't studied up on it..........hadn't had time to read it, or even look at a dollar bill. CORRECTION: I have gotten ahead of myself in my notes! A bit later on..........on my tapes..........the SI's communicated with me and said that they had set up the airplane being hit by lightning..........to let the U.S. government and authorities know just how serious my work is with the SI's..........and HOW SERIOUS THEY ARE. Then they flashed pictures into my mind..........of the work Moses did..........killing thousands of first-born Egyptian children..........to make a point. Meaning, they can kill some people, too..........although I am sure that it grieves them to do so..........but to a greater purpose..........like, perhaps, averting a nuclear war which would kill, not a relative handful of people..........but hundreds of millions. They had even controlled me..........had me DOCUMENT the lightning/plane incident..........by showing my mag to the people on the plane..........so that it would be known that I was directly connected with the incident..........with the SI's. And..........they did this also..........TO SHOCK ME. And teach me. What awesome responsibility I have now..........linked up both with UFO power and PyrCre. Also they wanted the U.S. govt. to know. Personally, I hated this incident. And the human half of me cries inside..........for those in that plane. But..........I know what the SI's mean. Hundreds of millions of humans can perish..........unless I survive and progress with my work with the SI's and PyrCre. So..........the FAA and the Fed know now, without any doubt whatsoever..........who I am..........and what I can do..........and what the SI's can do. Understand..........I had nothing to do whatsoever with that airplane explosion. It was an SI demonstration completely. In their infinite chessboard plan of things. 06/28/2025 15:02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 76x Ted Owens The Egyptian Report (2025 printed version) https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b8a2d9b6b497828e5410cc67820dec9a.pdf c912e7e76d538a88c661d2d9cbcc0984 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/37ff93e1a8c31f18e0bf57b493ee3679.txt 605e5d3164845516eaadebd14314867c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8bdef9b358fbc6a02c1656d69dffcd1e.pdf c3a5c6a1e3b17bd4ed3fbf7f48ea664b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/641a36b2c726187ba3068deb36aa7079.txt cfe07f9f800dad8974cfabeb1134a3f2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 January 30, 1976 TO MY SCIENTISTS.......... Dr. F., Norristown, Pa. Dr. H., Evanston, Ill. Dr. S., Univ. of Wyoming Dr. T., Calif. Dr. P., Calif. I am giving you notice well in advance..........of major phenomena that I am going to cause..........over the State of California. Recently I gave you notice well in advance..........of certain major phenomena that I would cause to happen to the City of Chicago and surrounding area..........then I brought in hurricane winds, tornados, lightning attack, record heat, record cold, UFO appearances and other things as well..........onto Chicago..........and sent to you the complete documentation. Before Chicago..........I had demonstrated my control, via my UFO connection..........over the city of Cleveland and the entire country of France..........all thoroughly documented and in your files..........after having first notified you in advance of the fact. Last night over TV the evening news showed a stricken California. No water. "The worst drought in 72 years." "Only three times in the entire history of the State of California..........has such a drought appeared." Crops are dead and dying..........and the animals are in pitiful condition. Now I, Ted Owens, PK Man..........will change all of that. Within the next 90 days from the time of this letter..........I will pour and pour and pour rains onto and into the State of California..........until it is swimming in water, and the dangerous drought is completely over. There will be storm after storm, lightning attack after lightning attack, and high winds. The people of California should be warned about this..........because of the floods and high winds and lightning attacks. Each day I will telepath to my UFO connection..........PLUS my Egyptian (Pyramid Power) connection..........and place into motion other-dimensional effects not of this Earth (or even of this Time)..........to bring rain rain rain rain to California to end the drought and give crops back to California. As can be surmised..........this is not a negative "PK" attack upon California (as was the case in the Chicago demonstration)..........but a positive UFO-power, Pyramid-power, HELP AND AID for the State of California. Warn the people of California with regard to high winds, floods, lightning.......... because there is no way to deliver the deep rains that are required now in California..........via my other-dimensional (UFO-Egyptian) mechanisms..........without high winds, lightning attacks and floods. As you gentlemen well know..........I have NEVER YET FAILED to produce such major phenomena over a particular City, State or Country..........after having first notified you of my intent. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 2 St. Chromere (TIPM) 4, 3, 7, 10 # UFOs along the Oregon border -From Page 1 "I could see a glowing center inside the square shape, which Paul saw," said Gates. The orange shape, glowing and iridescent, was about 30 feet across and rose 100 feet before descending briefly, rising again and then disappearing, they said. The light had appeared in an uninhabited part of the mountains, where logging roads were too clogged with snow for land vehicles to traverse. They were unable to reach the area the next day to check for physical evidence, because of the snow. "This helped convince us that there was some sort of activity," said Cerny. They also are investigating a story of an abduction reported by two women, one in her 30s and the other in her 60s, and a man in his 20s. The big obstacle with this investigation has been drawing firm recollections from people. Both have been consulting Jacques Vallee, computer scientist and UFO book author, on details of their investigation, comparing shapes, lights and colors seen with phenomena observed elsewhere over the years of the UFO studies. Vallee has been involved in these studies since he noticed fellow astronomers at Paris Observatory altering their reports to delete unidentified flying objects. He has been doing detailed work on the social impact of UFO sightings. The Northern California sightings fit the usual patterns of appearances in rural areas between midnight and dawn, he noted. But he still is studying the symbolism of the shapes and colors observed. He will take special interest in people who have close encounters with UFO or their occupants and plans to follow up with visits in later years. Such follow-up studies have demonstrated to him that all undergo a radical shift in their lifestyle after such encounters. Many suffer changes as severe as Herb Schirmer, a former Ashland, Neb., policeman now divorced, disconnected from family and friends and unable to find work following a 1961 encounter. Few escape as unscathed as the Joseph Lugo family of Gilroy, who were subjected to considerable community and public pressures after an encounter last summer. Lugo, owner of an auto parts store, endured some light-hearted kidding after his daughter and daughter-in-law were chased home by a strange airborne vehicle that both he and his wife saw. "Most people are reluctant to tell too many others for fear of suffering harassment," said Cerny, who also investigated the Lugo incident. Some of their work has already eliminated some of the Northern California sightings as aircraft lights. But the two close encounters will require considerably more investigation before the Northwestern UFO Center reports are submitted. "I want to get back up there as soon as possible," said Cerny. "Who knows? I might get a ride on one of those things yet," he said, only half kidding. Saturday, Jan 31, 1976 THE TIMES San Mateo-3 # 'Saucer' Men Question Singer LAS VEGAS (UPI) - The creatures in the flying saucers seen around the Southwest this week are short, pale, pugnosed and puzzled by Las Vegas. At least, that's the word from a man who reportedly says he spoke to them. A country and western entertainer, who does not want his identity revealed for fear people will think he's balmy, says he was questioned by spacemen in the desert Thursday night, The Las Vegas Sun reported today. The time and place correspond with UFO sightings by a number of persons, including law enforcement officers. He told reporter Jerry Cox that he was driving through the desert to Las Vegas from Pahrump, Nev., 53 miles to the west near the California border, when a cigar-shaped craft "like the Goodyear blimp only longer," descended out of the sky. It was orange, marked by flashing lights and a darker ring circled the fuselage like a doughnut. His car's engine suddenly stopped for no apparent reason and he sighted two humanoid creatures approaching him, he said. They were about 5 feet 7 inches tall, squinty-eyed, with pale complexions and what appeared to be gills under their ears, he said. "Their mouths were small and they had puggish noses." They wore silver and black shiny uniforms with an emblem of white and gold. One brushed his hand. Without appearing to move their mouths, they asked him questions, he said. Apparently referring to Las Vegas, they asked why so many persons lived in a desert. He explained that it was a tourist resort, he said. Wednesday and Thursday night, half a dozen law enforcement agencies reported a cigar-shaped object with flashing lights leaving what looked like a vapor trail in the sky over southwestern Nevada and southeastern California. A Las Vegas resident described a similar object he said he saw hovering over a mountain plateau, glowing with an orange light. Radar operators at Nellis Air Force Base and the Las Vegas airport said they detected no unusual aircraft at the time. B Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7601 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 January 1976 Just a couple of articles. Two copies of the Egyptian Report that will stay in this folder as we received the original print version from Ted Owens daughter by mail in 2025 which is a very clear copy that goes in a special folder with CDs. There is also an electronic version saved in the Special Reports folder. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/fececff812a827d91ef33385b8da736f.pdf e4812ae5f2c9f75c82718c4dcf78c4da https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a308d7ae0e13a1519b118a8cfbdef595.txt 8427a703f81a656d4107812d309b4794 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 February 11, 1976 PS... when I produced a UFO ("prediction," ha!) for Dr. Max Fogel, Mensa scientist, in a certain area of Va. at a certain time under certain conditions... he "stopped & thought" too. Gave me a signed confirm. The point: if I could produce a UFO... forget "predictions!" - for this noted scientist, Ted Dear Dr. Putoff (and Dr. Targ), AKA Hal and Russ..... Thank you very much...for the newsclip on the snowstorm. I appreciated hearing from you. Of course...the storm, and those to follow, are not "predictions". They are CAUSED. Just as the hurricane winds, tornados, record heat, record snow, lightning attack...were CAUSED in Chicago and its surrounding area...after I first notified you that I would CAUSE it to happen. Same with the Cleveland demonstration. Same with the France demonstration. All...CAUSED. By myself telepathing instructions to my UFO connection (also this time to my Stonehenge-Pyramid Power connection.) I know that it sounds ridiculous...but since I know it to be solid concrete fact...then I state it as it is. Have been too busy trying to stay afloat financially...to write the voluminous (and most enlightening) Egyptian Report (details of my trip to Egypt and what I discovered there...extremely important psi-force information!) But hope to get it done at some time in the near future. Meanwhile will continue to bring great storms and a lot of rain and snow (and dangerous lightning and dangerous high winds...but can't be helped) to California...in the weeks to come...until the 90 days has passed. When I perform the same type of miracle over and over and over and over...documenting it completely and thoroughly and calling the specifics in advance each time...you can rest assured that the miracles are quite quite real, and...CAUSED. If my performance were on-again off-again, hit and miss...then you could cry coincidence. But...when have I failed? Owens === Page 2 of 9 Water trucks, common enough during the bone-dry summer season, are running at five times the normal daily rate, from well heads to watering troughs on the range lands. In the cattle auction yard at Stockton, ordinarily quiet in the winter, animals are being sold at four times the normal volume and ranchers are losing money on each sale. <u>The lack of rain to make the grass grow, and now the shortage of hay to replace the grass, have staggered California's cattle and calf industry.</u> The drought is one of the main topics at the annual meeting of the American National Cattlemen convention in Phoenix. <u>"I've seen it dry before,"</u> says Le Grand rancher Charles Day, <u>"but in my 57 years, I've never seen it this dry this long."</u> At auctions up and down the Central Valley calves are being sold at as little as half the normal weight and at prices per pound considerably below what the rancher needs to repay rising costs. Pairs, a cow and a calf, that sold for as much as $600 just three years ago, were sold at Stockton this week for $190. That price has plummeted nearly $100 in two weeks. The alternative to selling, even at a loss, is worse. Alfalfa hay, the main replacement for grass, that cost $75 a ton in December is now going for almost $100, according to the Hay Growers Association here. Worse, there is very little left for sale and almost two months remain until new hay can be cut. "The people who still have any hay," one rancher said, "are hanging on to it. Can you blame them?" Hay from as far away as Idaho is being trucked into California at windfall profits for its growers and at disastrous prices for the ranchers and dairymen who have to buy. The feed bill for even a small cattle operation can easily reach $300 a day. Most ranchers interviewed in the last week were philosophical about "the disaster." "It's just one of the things that happens," said Charles Day, who runs about 1,000 head of beef cattle on the Central Valley's east side not far from the highway to Yosemite. "As of now," he said, "a small number of ranchers is being forced out of business <u>and every day we don't have rain, the number will increase."</u> <u>"It's nothing to be ashamed of. The elements are against us."</u> S.F. Examiner Feb. 1, 1976 # Ranchers want drought relief ## Beef prices are falling Consumers can expect unusually low beef prices in supermarkets in the next few weeks as a result of drought-induced oversupply of slaughter cattle. Meat packers say wholesale beef prices -- those paid by the big food chains -- are at their lowest in nearly five years. "This may be a bad time for the producer," says Santa Cruz packer Larry Wolfsen, "but the consumer is reaping some vast benefits." Wholesale prices at the first of the week were about 60 cent a pound, down 20 cents in the last month as farmers have been forced to sell their animals because the cattle don't have enough grass to feed on. "We expect beef prices to come down a little more," said Bache and Co. commodities broker John Rende, "and then probably around the end of February they will go up again." "We look for the prices to get a good deal higher," said Wolfsen, chief of the big Walti-Schilling packing house. "If they don't, we won't have any meat at all in a couple of years." Retail outlets told the Examiner that they are planning sales of beef beginning next week and confirm that prices should be unusually low. S.F. Chronicle Feb. 2, 1976 # Might as Well Be Spring California's long, unseasonable spell of warm, dry weather is fooling the foliage into acting as if spring were here. A cherry tree on Berkeley's Hilldale avenue, for instance, yesterday had put out these blossoms, weeks ahead of schedule. And no wonder -- the temperature reached 76 yesterday in the East Bay. It was 70 in San Francisco -- not a record for the date, but still pretty warm. === Page 3 of 9 Nutrition Institute of America NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION 200 W. 86 STREET, SUITE 17A "RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT" NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244 ADVISORY BOARD Gary Null, Director Michael Casselman, M.D. Elliot Silverstein, J.D. Kyu Yong Lee, M.D. Pierre Sajous, M.D. James Dooling, Ph.D. Max Warmbrand, D.O. Elain Klibbe, Ph.D. Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B. Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D. Neil Kramer, J.D. Nina Morgan, Ph.D. Neils Lavreson, M.D. Leo Wollman, M.D. Elain Khan, Ph.D. Samuel Klein, Ph.D. Victor D. Berman, D. Sc. Elliot Silverstein, S.D. Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS Steve Null Morton Jacobe Bruce E. Calnan Herbert Bailey Charles Lowe Kimon H. Voyages Kenneth Rosa Sera F. Izquier Irving Nathanson Edmond R. Sealey Allen Pressman Pat Luongo RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF Carl Stone Lesslie Lee Neal Koeningsburg Ron Milkie Richard V. Benner Russ Grigan Ron McCulty George Marcus Richard Goldemberg Michael Ricciardi Byhal Phillips Gail Greenbaum Kyra Williams Edith Stern Margo Mcginnis Sharon Oswald Tom Croft James Dawson Pat Whitcome Jan Ewing Ann Schlesinger Saraa Dona Katherine Dack Ann Kerns February 3, 1976 Mr. Ted Owens Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia Dear Mr. Owens: Enclosed find is a recent press release regarding the Paranormal Healing Division here at the Nutrition Institute of America. We welcome any statement and medical documentation you may be able to send us regarding your experiences with paranormal healing. Where documentation is lacking, please send us the names and addresses of those patients and doctors who would be willing to give us statements for our files and future reports. With the cooperation of doctors, patients and those actively involved with the healing arts, we will be able to help remove the cloak of mystery surrounding paranormal healing. Thank you. Best Wishes, Carl Stone Carl Stone Research Director === Page 4 of 9 Nutrition Institute of America NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION 200 W 86 STREET, SUITE 17A RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244 ADVISORY BOARD Gary Null, Director Michael Casselman, M.D. Elliot Silverstein, J.D. Kyu Yong Lee, M.D. Pierre Sajous, M.D. James Dooling, Ph.D. Max Warmbrand, D.O. Elain Klibbe, Ph.D. Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B. Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D. Neil Kramer, J.D. Nina Morgan, Ph.D. Neils Lavreson, M.D. Leo Wollman, M.D. Elain Khan, Ph.D. Samuel Klein, Ph.D. Victor D. Berman, D. Sc. Elliot Silverstein, S.D. Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS Steve Null Mortoh Jacobe Bruce E. Calnan Herbert Bailey Charles Lowe Kimon H. Voyages Kenneth Rosa Sera F. Izquier Irving Nathanson Edmond R. Sealey Allen Pressman Pat Luongo RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF Carl Stone Lesslie Lee Neal Koeningsburg Ron Milkie Richard V. Benner Russ Grigan Ron McCulty George Marcus Richard Goldemberg Michael Ricciardi Byhal Phillips Gail Greenbaum Kyra Williams Edith Stern Margo Meginnis Sharon Oswald Tom Croft James Dawson Pat Whitcome Jan Ewing Ann Schlesinger Saraa Dona Katherine Dack Ann Kerns Press Release for March 1, 1976 Re: The Paranormal Healing Division of the Nutrition Institute of America. For the past two and a half years, the Nutrition Institute of America has been collecting data in all areas of paranormal healing. Our staff members have traveled around the world seeking scientific evidence of paranormal healing, especially in the areas of faith healing, psychic healing and spiritual healing. The Institute's researchers and camera crews have concentrated their efforts on these phenomena in the United States, England, South America and the Philippines. Our experience in this work has proved to our satisfaction that the gulf which exists between the medical community and those individuals and groups which are working with paranormal healing methods contributes ultimately to the harm of the patient. The people most responsible for this gulf are those physicians who take the position that the healing arts are totally without merit and those healers who feel that their approach should replace medical science. The N.I.A. Investigation of Paranormal Healing has left us with the conviction that there is a great need for a constructive dialogue to be established between the medical community and those actively engaged in the healing arts. Certain healers have proven their ability to treat psychosomatic illness, a malady which has been left relatively unchecked since the days of the general practitioner. Other healers, in the Edgar Cayce tradition, have shown extraordinary accuracy in the area of diagnosis. In this, the age of the specialist, doctors -1- === Page 5 of 9 -2- need assistance from healers in order to concentrate on the treatment of organic disorder. Healers, likewise, need the assistance of doctors when organic disorder is detected. Whether or not healers can affect an organic cure is a question yet to be answered. The ego of certain factions of the medical fraternity must be relaxed in order for the patient to receive proper care. On the other hand, many healers are so far removed from the scientific world, they'd rather die than consult a physician; and that philosophy becomes the dictum they preach to their followers, many of whom die senseless deaths from the lack of medical attention. The gulf between these two extremes is closing. A dialogue and a sharing of services between the two camps is quietly coming together. Working toward that goal, the Nutrition Institute of America announces the formation of the Paranormal Healing Division, which will act as a clearinghouse for all paranormal healing data which is verified by a physician or a qualified scientist. Because of fears, whether real or imagined, on the part of most physicians, healers and patients, the anonymity of those who request it will be honored without exception. Like the parent organization (N.I.A.), the Paranormal Healing Division will operate under a non-profit status, relying on private contributions and the proceeds from its publications. The Paranormal Healing Division will also conduct scientific experiments to test paranormal healing theories. We are currently working on a cancer experiment involving fifty healers and laboratory mice. The Paranormal Healing Division welcomes any scientific data, such as medical case histories from patients who believe they have had a so-called 'miraculous cure', no matter how bizarre or unscientific the source of that cure, be it from a healer, a mechanical device, a holy place, or self-healing methods. All data which can be verified with before-and-after medical evidence will be published for the general public in the form of N.I.A. Official Reports. Accounts of paranormal healings should be sent to: Paranormal Healing; % Carl Stone; Suite 17A; 200 West 86th Street; New York City, New York. 10024. Phone: (212) 595-7507 === Page 6 of 9 March 26, 1976 Carl Stone, Research Director, Nutrition Institute of America 200 W. 86th Street, Suite 17A, New York, New York, 10024. Dear Mr. Stone: I have received your February 3, 1976, letter of inquiry...backed by eighteen scientists with varying degrees. That...is ironical. Long years ago...a gentleman by the name of Edgar Cayce was arrested... for "practicing medicine without a license." So was I. Cayce had helped innumerable people...saved quite a few. So did I. When I was arrested...I was so infuriated at the injustice of it that I burned all of the thousands of documents that I had...hundreds of signed, notarized documents confirming that I had healed or saved from death the individuals concerned. This occurred in Forth Worth, Texas...in about 1956-57. I was a "Consultant Hypnotist" and had a sign on my door stating that I was not a doctor or psychiatrist...merely a lay hypnotist...and at my public trial the prosecution waved this sign at the jury and said this sign I had had on my door was a "license to practice medicine." My "practice of medicine" consisted of teaching individuals autohypnosis; also I used heterhypnosis with them to get them started; and then taught them various mental mechanisms which I am sure do not exist elsewhere in the world. I did not touch my pupils; I gave them nothing at all except suggestion. My only equipment was a Brain Wave Synchronizer, which has been described in both Newsweek and the Medical Journal. What happened was...a small group of doctors swung through Texas and gave Texas doctors a quicky course in hypnosis...following which they were designated as "fully qualified medical hypnotists." Ha ha ha. This course, as I heard of it, lasted from 10-20 hours of instruction. I had practiced hypnosis for 14 years by that time. Actively. I knew more about heterohyp and autohyp than these doctors could learn in a lifetime. The AMA decided to make "test" cases out of the lay hypnotists practicing in Texas...Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth...so I was selected to take the beating in Fort Worth...and a beating I took. The AMA' produced a "medical hypnotist" at my trial. Prior, I had both doctors and dentists, with whom I had worked...call me and offer to appear in my behalf at the trial. But a member of the AMA called me and warned me that any doctor or dentist who appeared at my trial would be blacklisted in the medical profession...so I had to reject the kind offer from those MD's who offered to appear in my behalf. Later I discovered that my own lawyer, Shelton, had been bought to "throw the trial" in favor of the AMA. During the years of 1953 to 1957 I had discovered a revolutionary method of helping and healing people. It happened just after a UFO came down to the automobile containing my daughter Lornie and myself. We lost an hour of time. Following that, ideas streamed into my mind... which I wrote down in a book...and still have...and which I put into operation. I had been hired originally by Jack Danciger, an oil-rich multimillionaire in Fort Worth, Texas...to write his autobiography in a plush office in his downtown office building. But at night...I taught pupils this new system that I had discovered, at my apartment...and after long months of working for Mr. Danciger...I decided to quite working for him with an assured future with him...because by that time === Page 7 of 9 2 I had dozens of letters from my pupils stating how my system had helped them and saved them. My logic worked thus: with Danciger I was merely helping one man aggrandize himself to the public. With my pupils...I was helping and saving dozens upon dozens. I preferred to go with teaching the new system of healing, so I quite Mr. Danciger. He told me that I was "insane" to do this...but at this time, 1976, I have become recognized as one of the world's greatest psychics...if not THE best...so perhaps I was right and Mr. Danciger was wrong. (He has since expired.) After leaving him, I opened a small office in Fort Worth, and went to work in earnest. The results which I obtained with pupils...were fantastic. One woman was brought in to me by her husband...sent by their family doctor. She came in, foul-smelling and drunk. Her husband explained that she had been through three mental institutions and had had several hundred shock treatments. Nothing had helped. I had this woman on her feet, sober, dressing to the teeth, and mentally on balance...within six weeks. And each year for two years thereafter her husband phoned me and thanked me...said that she had never regressed...that the entire family had become like a new family...and that he couldn't put a price on what I had brought about. (I am having to tell you his now from the top of my head...because I destroyed all of those wonderful records after being arrested.) A Mr. Don Whitehead brought in his wife, I recall, sent by their family doctor...because medicine could not save her. She had a very bad heart condition...was eight months pregnant...and when the baby arrived, she would die. Nothing that the doctors could do would be able to stop it. In the small time left to me, I used a combo of auto and hetero hyp, with transference to her family doctor...plus the mysterious techniques that I had in my Black Book. She had previously had a terrible history of childbirth...with one child she was three days in labor...but after my work she was 45 minutes in labor, and the doctor came rushing out to me and her husband...shook my hand...and told me that miraculously she had been so relaxed by my teaching methods...it had been a perfect delivery...she was quite well, and alive...and that very day she was able to go home...and several days later sent a basket of gifts to me and my little daughter. I could go on and on. Another man came to me because of alcoholism...and while training him I spotted some bad teeth and decided that toxicity from the bad teeth could be a contributing cause to his alcoholic condition...so I asked him to go to a dentist. He said that he had a phobia about dentists, and had not been to one in 14 years. I placed him under hypnosis (light waking), took him down the street to a dentist with whom I worked, the dentist pulled ten teeth, after which my pupil "awakened" and asked when the dentist would begin. This dentist told me that he had known my pupil in school...and asked me how I'd been able to bring him in, because the dentist knew about his phobia. I trained judges, lawyers, doctors, an FBI agent, state undercover narcotics agents (narcs), helicopter pilots, a nuclear physicist from Indiana who had heard of my work and come to Texas, and so on. And they all told me how very much my training had improved them and helped them. === Page 8 of 9 3 But the damned small clique of AMA sharpies in Fort Worth decided that I had to go...because I had no degree. So they bounced me out of Fort Worth, on trumped up charges. (The main witness against me on the stand at my trial...was an outright liar; a brazen liar.) In later years, as I read Edgar Cayce's life history...and his being arrested in the same way and for the same reasons...made me very bitter against the AMA and how it operates and what it stands for (as of 1956-57.) At any rate...when I was arrested and disgraced in Fort Worth, that evening when I went home from the trial I got together all of the years of fastidious records that I had been keeping about each and every one of my hundreds of pupils...and burned them out in back of my apartment, in the alley. And I can assure you, positively and concretely...that was a terrible loss... which mankind could not afford. In the years following...I discovered that I had many other psychic abilities besides healing...and of course, by now, it has been proven out by documented work with scientists and other responsible people. Since you are interested solely in healing...I will tell you that in 1965 a notice appeared in a Washington, D.C. newspaper, that a young female secretary, Brenda Sue Pennington, had been found, days later, in her apartment, with her head crushed in. Burglars had entered, attacked her, robbed her, and left her for dead. I contacted her family and asked permission to try and save her...because the newspaper flatly stated that she could not possibly live...and it asked for donations from people to pay her hospital and funeral bill, because her family was poor. Her family sent the police to come pick me up, along with my daughter Lornie...they got the permission of the hospital plus that of the doctor on the case...for me to try the experiment. So my daughter and I were taken to her hospital room, where she was under police guard. Lornie and I stood ten feet from the girl's bed. I used mental mechanisms given me by UFO entities just for this sort of thing...and from that moment on she began to live. At that time tubes were running in and out of her head and a machine was doing her breathing for her. As of 1974 she was still alive in Rainelle, West Virginia, at her home there, where she was taken by ambulance in 1965. I dropped by there and visited her and her parents. She had never fully recovered... because in crushing her head they had destroyed some of her functions... but she was alive, and living. This case...is on public record. Otto Binder, the prominent author, now deceased, described the case in a Saga article some years ago after checking it out. My main work...during the past years...has been in the area of psi-force. And with UFO's. But psi-force can work on the invisible "life-field" which surrounds each human body. If I had the time and energy now... as well as the means...I could save and heal unlimited amounts of people... by using the Brain Wave Synchronizer, heterohyp and autohyp methods... plus the UFO techniques given to me. But I haven't the time, the energy, or the financial means. If you wish to know more about my dynamic psychic work...contact Dr. Allen Hynek, astronomer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Dr. Leo Sprinkle, well-known psychologist at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Dr. Max Fogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa (of which I am a member) at 340 Brighton === Page 9 of 9 4 Road, Norristown, Pennsylvania; or Drs. Targ and Putoff, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. These gentlemen...have been observing my work, through my cooperation with them...during the past years. It is quite safe to say...that no other psychic in the world...perhaps the entire history of the world...has done or can do... what I am doing, in the way that I am doing it and proving it with proper documentation. Now I will add this before closing. Long years ago hypnosis was thought to be, by the medical profession...something akin to palmistry or astrology. Slowly but surely the medical profession discovered that hypnosis was quite real...and could be utilized as a tremendous tool for the medical profession. So they seized it away from the lay hypnotists (crushing them in the process) then they, the MD's, began fighting with the psychiatrists to see who would monopolize it. To me it was vastly amusing...here you had doctors, with a few weeks of training in the techniques and usages of hypnosis, calling themselves "medical hypnotists...with their Boards"...crucifying lay hypnotists who had spent 20 to 40 years in the practice and application of the art... and it is indeed an art. What should have been done, of course...the doctors should have employed the lay hypnotists and trained them along the lines that they wanted...and used them...as today "paramedics" are used in the field by MD's. A fusion, if you like, between the MD's and the lay hypnotists. In like manner, the medical profession today has finally, finally realized that SOMETHING operates behind their limited applications of medicine...to save people...and that it stems from some psychic source. Some paranormal source. So...instead of crushing every "healing psychic" they can find, as they did the lay hypnotists...the AMA should, instead, offer the psychic healers "sanctuary" and train them to suit their AMA purposes and ethics...and work along with them...and continue to study them and their methods. Breakthroughs in discovery of heretofore unknown facts re psychic healing are sure to occur in this manner. It gave me quite a start...to read your letter, and accompanying explanation. Because it is the very first, very first, intelligent approach by the medical profession which I have been able to witness in my entire life... toward a genuine search for Truth...which lies beyond the medical profession... but which can be bridged, ultimately...utilizing teamwork and cooperation between medical scientists and lay hypnotists and lay healers. I know...what most do not know. There is a "life force envelope" which surrounds the human body, and which governs that human body (and brain and soul.) Teeth, of course, must still be pulled; an infected appendix must still be removed surgically, and so forth. But...miracles can be wrought IF the medical profession can learn how to communicate with, and work in tandem with, that invisible envelope around that human body. I learned long ago how to do it (I was always successful in healing stomach ulcers in a matter of weeks, for example...) and I obtained unbelievable results. But I shall never do it again. Once burned by the hot stove of AMA and wracked up traumatically by its crooked machinations...never again. But...the Truth lies there. And I can give you this much information, which took me long long years to learn. I regret that my records were burned. They would have been invaluable to you. All that I can offer you is my current reputation as one of the world's most powerful psychics... and my word in Truth as a former practitioner of the psychic healing arts. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 6 212-MU-5-4080 MU-9-1933 GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS 303 FIFTH AVENUE (SUITE 1306) NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016 Re: THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PSYCHICS SPEAK OUT ON UFOS Dear Ted:* As one of the outstanding psychics of our time, we would like to get your feelings -- opinions -- on a most fascinating topic: FLYING SAUCERS. Your response will be used as part of a forthcoming article to appear in SAGA magazine (circulation, 350,000). THE QUESTION In recent months quite a number of experts in the field of UFO research have arrived at the conclusion that the appearance of unidentified flying objects seen in our atmosphere for centuries may represent some form of psychic manifestation. There has also been theories to the effect that individuals who are gifted with extrasensory abilities tend to see UFOs more than people who are not. We would like to get your opinion on what flying saucers are. . .For example, who pilots them? Where do they come from? Why are they here? Are they friendly? Most important of all -- please tell us what type of experiences you have had with them (i.e. sightings, astral trips to other worlds, telepathic contacts, face-to-face meetings with aliens, etc). Your help would be most appreciated. If possible, please send along with this material a photo of yourself which can be used along with the completed story. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Timothy Green Beckley, President GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS * Could you please write me a page on your experience at Warminster, England? I don't believe this has been published in detail. === Page 2 of 6 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 March 24, 1976...dear Timothy...it was good to hear from you. And thank you very much...for including me in your group of "world's famous psychics", for the Saga article. To tell you the truth...I need some media exposure. I'll bet your article will be a dandy...because you are some good writer! Now, to answer your letter. First, see ms. "A". It is a complete, detailed report of my trip to Scotland and England. The Warminster material you will find in there...all that you want and require, I am sure. I think a bit of background would be good at this point. Years ago my brain was modified by UFO entities on the Mexican desert. After that, my IQ zoomed upward until I took scientific tests and my IQ was certified to be 153, verbal. Also, I began doing miracles...controlling weather, healing people, and so on. All this began after my brain modification. To prove that this was real...I documented all that I was doing, thoroughly, so that there could be no argument that I was causing the miracles to happen. For instance, let's just take one miracle. I told a scientist in a letter that I would cause a UFO to appear in a certain area of Virginia, within a certain period of time, and cause it to do a certain thing. The giant UFO appeared in that certain area in Virginia, within the necessary time...and did the certain thing. The scientist sent me a written confirmation of my success at communicating with UFO's (see "D"). Well, I could not have communicated with this UFO and brought it down as I did...if my brain had not been modified by the UFO's...and I had not literally been created a half-alien by them! All right...in early 1975 the UFO's communicated with me...and instructed me to get to Scotland and England... === Page 3 of 6 2 so that they could RE-modify my brain! At the time I could only wonder why this would be necessary...but I never question UFO instructions, for they are infinitely intelligent...can see ahead in time...and so on. A wonderful woman, "Millie Anonymous" we'll call her...in San Francisco... supplied me with the funds to go to Scotland-England. First I went to Scotland. Found a driver to get me out into the dark, isolated shores of Loch Ness after midnight, where he let me out...drove away...then returned an hour or two later. UFO's appeared over the Loch, dipping and weaving. The Loch Ness Monster appeared in front of me...approx. 15 feet distance...and stared at me a full five minutes with its football-shaped head on its long neck. After several nights of going out onto the dark Loch by myself after midnight...and telepathing to the SI's (UFO entities) telling them that I was there...I moved my location to ages-old Urquhart Castle, on the edge of Loch Ness, not far from the tiny town named Drumnadrochit. A tough, former Sergeant-Major of the British Army drove me out each night after midnight...I walked alone through the dark a mile or so to the old, abandoned castle...climbed up through the darkened rooms and ruins atop a high parapet overlooking the Loch...and commenced telepathing to the SI's. Now, I had told the Sergeant Major that I was communicating with UFO's and trying to bring them out. I had also told my other driver in Inverness. One night a fiery UFO suddenly appeared over the castle, while I was busy telepathing...the next morning it was in the newspapers...many people had seen the UFO and reported it to the police. The Sergeant Major gave me a signed confirmation. The Inverness driver gave me a signed confirmation. Also, surprisingly, the wife of the owner of the sole supermarket in Drumnadrochit had seen the UFO maneuvering over the castle...and gave me a signed statement to that effect. I.e., I had done exactly as I did with Dr. Max Fogel...brought out a UFO into plain sight by telepathing to it and requesting that it appear. (I've done this other times, too...documented...but I think that this will suffice.) After much exciting work done in Scotland...I went to England...made some tremendous discoveries with regard to Stonehenge; what it was for; how it works (yes, it still works, ages old though it is.) Went to Warminster and night after night after night went up onto Cradle Hill and another hill...alone in the blackness after midnight. One night a gorgeous, flaming UFO came whirling down to my exact location! It had a sound...a weird sound, half bird and half animal...which I got onto my tape recorder at the time. The famous English writer Arthur Shuttlewood, who lives in Warminster, came up to my hotel, heard the sound...and announced that it was the very same sound he'd heard when he was with a group on Cradle Hill some time before...when a UFO had also flown down to their location! (This is described in his marvelous book, "Warnings From Flying Friends", Portway Press, Warminster, Wiltshire, England. Arthur resides at 17 Portway, Warminster, England.) Arthur and I, after comparing notes, discovered to our amazement that many unusual things which had happened in our lives...were the same things! He is writing a new book...and is including a chapter about me and my work in it. At any rate... soon, after many nights of making successful contact with UFO's on Cradle Hill (one night five UFO's appeared over me) I began to notice physical differences in myself. The most striking...was a deep deep ridge that had suddenly appeared across the base of my brain...running from ear to ear across the back of my head. It was as if some operation had been performed on the back of my head...almost completely removing my skull at the back! So, the brain remodification had been completed by the UFO's! === Page 4 of 6 3 It wasn't until I returned to the United States that the SI's told me W... they wanted to remodify my brain...to make it more powerful... so that I must go to Egypt and discover the secrets of the Pyramids. And...I did, but that is another story. Suffice it to say...if my brain had not been "beefed up" I would not have survived making mental contact with the ages-old powers STILL ALIVE AND ACTIVE in the Egyptian Pyramids! To some of your questions: UFO's that I work with and for...come from another dimension, not another planet. They are piloted by entities of pure energy which, in their natural form are just white shafts of light...formless, really. They are certainly friendly; they have told me that they live forever, and are the very same ones that worked with Moses in biblical days! This could certainly be true...because by this time I have duplicated many, if not most, of the miracles of Moses! (See just one example, "E", where I stated in Brad Steiger's "What The Seers Predict For 1971" that by working with my UFO's...we would drive the whites out of Africa so that it could go back to its original people, the blacks...and once more become the paradise that it was before the whites took over and ruined it.) Their main interest at this time...friendly interest... is to block a nuclear shootout on earth that would wipe out the human race. I have sighted many many UFO's. UFO's have followed me around like puppy dogs, while I drove my car over long distances. UFO entities have appeared in my home (an oil painting of one is shown on the cover of my book. I have had constant, daily telepathic two-way communication with the UFO entities for years. This material is too much, I know, Timothy...but I'd always rather send too much than not enough. PLEASE return the book and xerox copies, to be replaced in my files, okay? Let me add...all that I have told you IS ACCURATE AND TRUE. Have added a bit of other material...which might have importance for you personally, or for your article. Best wishes to you...and remember to return the material! Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 === Page 5 of 6 26 # For First Time, U.S. Govt. Admits That It Believes . . . # Intelligent Life Exists in Outer Space ### . . . 12 Top Scientists Working on Equipment to Make Contact Within 15 Years **By LEE HARRISON** For the first time ever, the U.S. government has officially admitted it believes there's intelligent life in outer space -- and it's aiming to make America the first nation to contact these alien civilizations. To reach this incredible goal, our government has set up a crack study team of 12 top scientists -- who are working to design amazingly sensitive equipment capable of picking up signals from other worlds. The group has been ordered to report to the President by year's end on the best way to contact outer-space civilizations, how long it should take, and how much it will cost. "There's no doubt in our minds that intelligent life -- far more advanced and complex than our own -- is widespread in outer space," declared Dr. John Billingham, head of the investigation team. "And the U.S. wants to become the first nation to discover solid proof of extraterrestrial life and contact it. "When we make contact -- possibly within the next 15 years -- it'll be the biggest breakthrough in the history of mankind. These advanced civilizations could help us conquer problems like disease, pollution, food and energy shortages, and natural disasters." Dr. Ichtiaque Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the study is the first official government investigation to design equipment for detecting life in outer space. "This study is of major importance. It's the first step toward actually contacting extraterrestrial life," he declared. "And by funding this study, the government is declaring its belief that there's intelligent life out there somewhere. "We feel there are other planets already communicating with one another. Our dream is to make Earth a part of that interstellar communication network. It's a dream we're determined to make come true." NASA is spending $450,000 on the study, which is being conducted full-time at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Dr. Billingham heads a team of 12 top researchers -- space physicists, astronomers and planetary scientists -- designing an elaborate system of radio telescopes and data processing equipment to pick up and decipher signals from space. "The purpose of our study is to determine precisely what kind of equipment will be needed and how much it'll cost," said Dr. Billingham. "By the end of this year we're to report to the President on how to contact life in outer space. I can tell you now, we have the brains to make contact -- all we'll need is the go-ahead from Congress. "We're convinced that other civilizations in the universe are desperately scanning the skies, trying to make radio contact with another living planet such as Earth." Dr. Billingham said the investigation was triggered by "the growing belief among scientists -- particularly at NASA -- that Earth isn't the only living planet in the universe." He explained: "We now have convincing data that life was created from simple chemical substances in our atmosphere -- hydrogen, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water -- when our planet was formed 4.5 billion years ago. "So any planet formed before Earth that also had these basic building blocks of life in its atmosphere is likely to be populated by intelligent beings more advanced than us. "We believe some planets are billions of years older than Earth -- so their civilizations will be billions of years ahead of ours. It's a mind-boggling thought, but I'm sure there are space civilizations so advanced that ours will seem Stone Age by comparison. "The aliens' bodies will have retained certain human characteristics and discarded others because, over billions of years, evolution throws out parts of the body that are no longer used. For example, humans no longer have elongated toes because we don't swing from trees anymore. "I feel sure the aliens will have large brains and an upright posture, because these are useful characteristics we humans have retained. But it's possible these advanced beings' legs have almost disappeared. They probably have incredible systems of transportation -- run by energy sources unknown to man -- that have reduced their dependence on legs." Dr. Billingham added that in the course of their evolution, aliens also may have found that two eyes, a mouth and a nose aren't necessary, "in which case their faces wouldn't be the same as ours. "To us they may appear the most frightening monsters we've ever seen -- but they would be the most intelligent and advanced beings we've ever encountered!" Drs. John Billingham and Ichtiaque Rasool, quoted in the story above, are top scientists for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Dr. Billingham is chief of the Bio-Technology Division at NASA's Ames Research Center, and is the government's official spokesman on extraterrestrial life. Dr. Rasool is chief scientist in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington -- the control center for all of the agency's scientific research throughout the world. NATIONAL ENQUIRER March 9-1976 Page 3 === Page 6 of 6 March 8, 1976 TO THE SCIENTISTS: Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Sprinkle Dr. Hynek Dr. Targ Dr. Putoff Dr. Arenas THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LETTER. IT COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH FOR SOME PEOPLE...SO I HOPE THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION. First...am now busily preparing to xerox the II part of the "California Miracle." You have probably noted the many thunderstorms and snowstorms on the West Coast...the parched West Coast...since my January 30 letter to you in which I stated that my "UFO Connection" would cause this very thing to happen. Will get this second part of the Report out to you as soon as I can find some money to get it xeroxed. Expensive, you know. Next...yesterday in the afternoon Channel 13 television here in Cape Charles, police appeared on TV who had seen a UFO right here in this area...along with other witnesses. Later in the evening, at 11 PM, the TV program again appeared...with the police testifying to watching a UFO for 15-30 minutes here in this area. All right. After I went to bed last night...my UFO Connection...the SI's...communicated with me. They asked me to warn the humans who live on the West Coast. There is going to be a terrible natural catastrophe there on the West Coast soon...within days or weeks...in near time ahead...and connected with it is the word "two"...i.e., there may be two cities damaged by the catastrophe...or there might be two catastrophic blows instead of just one...am not sure what that "two" means. But the warning is clear...it is imminent...and it is very big. So...the people on the West Coast MUST BE WARNED...and be on the alert for this, whenever it occurs soon. I suppose it means a giant earthquake. Anyway, it has nothing at all to do with my using UFO powers and Pyramid Power on the West Coast to bring rains and snow (precipitation) there. Forewarned is forearmed. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 81 A10 Virginian-Pilot, Monday, June 14, 1976 ## News in Brief # Uganda Purge Kills Hundreds From Virginian-Pilot Wire Reports NAIROBI, Kenya -- Hundreds of people--possibly as many as 2,000--have been killed in a continuing purge in Uganda after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Idi Amin, travelers from the neighboring African state said Sunday. Amin, in a personal statement broadcast by Uganda Radio, said one of three grenades hurled at him actually hit him in the face before bouncing back outside his vehicle and exploding. But he shrugged off the attempt as unimportant and said: "All leaders have enemies. No one can live for 200 years. He will die when God wills." A series of explosions rocked the Ugandan capital of Kampala Sunday, but Radio Uganda dismissed them as army training exercises. === Page 2 of 81 International ==========News Briefs========== # Amin Escapes Grenade Attack NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) -- President Idi Amin of Uganda escaped an assassination attempt Thursday night by attackers who hurled grenades into a crowd he was addressing in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, diplomats said Friday. Radio Uganda said one person was killed and 37 others wounded. The radio said "American and Israeli-type" grenades were used in the attack and, apparently in an attempt to link the United States to the incident, denounced former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel P. Moynihan as an enemy of the country. The "enemies of Uganda" who staged the attempt have been arrested and are being interrogated, the radio said, but it did not identify them. Richmond Times-Dispatch 6/12/76 === Page 3 of 81 New Atlantean Journal June, 1976 Vol. 4 No. 2 Joan O'Connell, Editor 4280 68th Ave. North Pinellas Park, Florida 33565 SRARTALK - POT POURRI !! FLASH!! A secret MAYAN code has been discovered! According to a Reuters dispatch a Russian, Dr. Yuri Knorozov has produced an answer to one of the world's great linguistic mysteries with a translation of the hieroglyphic manuscripts of the ancient Mayas of Central America... The MAYAS might not be around to see the effects of the probing -- but -- Let's take a look at the latest project of non other than TED OWENS, PK Man (Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310) HIS newest he calls Project Amin"! Look out Uganda! PK has sent out letters announcing this to various scientists, researchers, etc. and he is going to demonstrate his Pyramid Power! I have known Ted Owens for many years, and have received his predictions -- and he is remarkably correct! He is one psychic who goes out of his way to notify and identify -- no generalities for him. Ted's main concern is Man's INhumanity to Man -- and animals. We will be doing a profile on Ted in our next issue! For MORE profiles of Atlantean Researchers see the EXPLORERS JOURNAL for Spring, 1976, for background data on the most famous of them! Dr. J. Manson Valentine, Dimitri Rebikoff, Pino Turolla, Robert Brush, Trigg Adams, David Zink and written by our newest subscriber, Peter Tompkins! AND SPEAKING OF THE "TRIANGLE" --- The ENQUIRER for May 4, 1976, has a lulu!!! A 'Mysterious Force' took over a plane -- and after the crew bailed out -- it turned 180 degrees and flew 1,500 miles further before crashing!!! Buy it! --- If you think this is fantastic (!) the latest of the contactees, Sean Morton-Downey, relates his misadventures to include driving his car into a black fog, in which there was a bright pulsating light -- and when he tried to get out of his cas -- the door handles and window handles just spun around in his hands!!! For ALL details read "UFO 'ATTACKS' COUNTRY STAR by Vaun Wilmott, in MODERN PEOPLE! FANTASTIC FLORIDA! Florida has been visited in recent months by 'fireballs', QUAKES, UFO'S AND QUAKES --- Feb. 23rd, to be exact. The 'tremors' began at 3:30 pm - and a local TV report placed a spherical-shaped UFO hovering over the St. Pete area at the exact time! Our investigators were alerted, and one of our Investigators spotted the object and had it in view for about 45 minutes. Weeks later we found another person who also saw the same craft at the same time! Cheers to Raymond and Gerry Chieleski, and Betty Dickson for their reports! We also notified Dr. Hynek. We have had other reports from the Venice area, where the 'blood-drinking creatures' of last June were located! We were featured on several radio stations lately - WFLA, TAMPA, and WLCY, ST. PETE. We set up a UFO display booth at the STAR TREK CON - TAMPA, and by the time you will read this, we will have had our May SkyWatch for our Members and have gone to the Atlantean Jubilee to lecture for two days in Hollywood, Florida! During the 'fireball' incidents, which happened on March 8th, we tracked THREE objects, although the popular media reported only one! However, it couldn't be going South, West, "falling into the bay near Courteney Campbell Causeway, and landing in Pasco County --- all at the same time! Even I couldn't believe that! Needless to say-- The TIDAL wave that was predicted for Florida did NOT come! Although there are factual, geological signs that all is not well with the Florida waters... More on this in our next issue, too long and involved to put in this, our first STARTALK POT POURRI! P?S? -- I have on file all sources and date for the data in this report. If you want the full details, write and I'll send it.... JOC ... (8) === Page 4 of 81 CONTACT 11 (Source: Anaheim Bulletin -2/13/76) (by Charles Roberts - Staff Writer) ...Brian Scott, a 32 year-old draftsman for a Mission Vejo firm and father of two, believes he has been repeatedly taken aboard a strange craft piloted by beings from an alien planet. Scott is the same individual who paramedics reported being called by Monday to treat a 17 year old girl suffering from apparent hyperventilation, possibly from fear. The girl is Scott's sister-in-law. Scott said other family members and friends have seen the balls of light and some are now afraid to come near the family. The first abduction reportedly occurred in the Arizona desert near Phoenix in 1971 and the most recent just last Dec. 22, in Garden Grove. In between were three other "terrifying" sessions with the "things" and visits to his home by the "balls of light" and a transparent being called the "host". Scott believes his involvement with the aliens began on Oct. 12, 1959 -- his 16th birthday. Coming home late from celebrating, he observed a ball of light hovering over his dog, which was running in circles and jumping at it. "The ball was oval shape, semi-solid... it was 6 to 8 inches in diameter and reddish-orange." ... He said that he received some sort of communication from the ball through thoughts and pictures apparently transmitted into his mind. More than a dozen years passed without event when on the evening of March 14, 1971, Scott said he was transported aboard a hovering craft with a purplish light... Not knowing why, he had driven into the desert near the Superstition Mts. outside Phoenix. Standing alone there he saw the strange craft fly over him and then felt a "pulsating, pulling feeling" that lifted him upward into the vehicle. Inside he found a friend of his, although he had been alone on the desert and did not know how his friend had come to be nearby to be picked up. Scott said the room was small, about the size capable of holding four persons, and that a fog or mist filled it. Suddenly the door shattered without sound or flash of explosion and four or five "very horrifying" creatures were seen. "They had grey skin like that of a crocodile or rhino with a thicker patch of hide over the front torso." Scott said he and his friend were disrobed and then led off in different directions. He said they seemed to carry him but to travel without bodily movement. "These people looked like a combination of animals, and had three fingers and a thumb kicked over to one side" of what he guessed to be a hand. "They were 7 ft. tall and very bulky." Taken into a room with light the force of "50 floodlights", he was placed up against a wall and found himself unable to pull away from it although no visible bindings held him to it. Two of the "people" were behind a machine that seemed to revolve in some sort of medical examination of him. "The air was heavy and tremendously cold like a refrigerator"... Vapor formed at their mouths but seemed to be absorbed as a mist through the skin. Another being, this one about 9 ft. tall, approached and asked in some telecommunication manner, "Why are you afraid?" Scott said the being answered questions before he could mouth them, as if he were reading Scott's mind. Next his mind was transported to an alien world where he observed more of the strange creatures walking about a planet of jagged peaks and misty atmosphere. Finally he was rejoined with his friend and returned to the ground. His last memory of the strange craft at that time was a pungent order like "rotten socks as if someone hadn't had their shoes off for 20 years." Continued next page (9) === Page 5 of 81 Blast at Israel S.F Chronicle July 6 - 1976 # Amin Threatens To Avenge Raid Nairobi, Kenya President Idi Amin of Uganda warned yesterday of possible retaliatory measures "to redress the aggression" he said was committed against his country by Israel, but much of black Africa reacted to the raid of Entebbe airport with public condemnation and considerable private admiration for the Israeli commandos. In Kenya, which was accused again yesterday by Amin of having collaborated with the Israelis in staging the raid, the official position was one of indignation at the Israeli action. Vice President Daniel Arap Moi said at the meeting of leaders of the Organization of African Unity that Kenya's air space had been violated by the Israelis and that his government "condemned unreservedly this naked Israeli aggression against one of our OAU member states." But both Nairobi daily newspapers carried editorials hailing the Israeli action. The papers, while independent, have traditionally reflected government opinion in their editorials. A number of African diplomats here said they felt it was probably a foregone conclusion that the OAU would approve a resolution condemning Israel, but many suggested that for some delegations such a condemnations would be an act without passion. === Page 6 of 81 The diplomats pointed out that Amin has many enemies on this continent and that because he is no longer chairman of the OAU, leaders can again be more open in their antagonism toward him. Amin issued an appeal in radio broadcasts for international action against Israel and said that "Uganda reserves the right to retaliate in whatever way she can to redress the aggression on her by Israel." He said his government would seek reparations for the attack. The Ugandan president also criticized Kenya, which he insisted had collaborated with unnamed "sister states" in aiding the Israelis. The Israeli plane returning from the raid, stopped in Nairobi. Israel was moving swiftly on the diplomatic front to head off possible hostile reactions to the raid. The Foreign Office completed individual briefings in Jerusalem yesterday for the last of more than 50 members of the diplomatic corps in Israel. Jerusalem's case for invading Uganda and storming Entebbe airport to free the hostages was explained to the envoys. The view in Israel is that little sympathy is held for Amin in the international community, but he is still a figure to be reckoned with because of his role as retiring chairman of the Organization of African Unity. However, the foreign office is behaving with obvious caution to steer clear of possible backlash that might develop in a third world-dominated international forum such as the United Nations or the OAU. In the discussions with the diplomatic corps, the points Israel stressed were that Amin was actively supporting the hijackers, that the Israeli military operation was wholly Israeli and involved cooperation from no other government, and that a firm international move Back Page Col. 5 === Page 7 of 81 # AMIN From Page 1 against terrorism is a world necessity. Official sources here said that France, Germany and Switzerland were informed about the raid as soon as it was carried out, because they were involved either as holders of passengers or of prisoners. Washington also was alerted immediately, the sources said. The government of Mauritius severed diplomatic relations with Israeli, but only because Mauritius is due to assume the chairmanship **More on the Israeli raid on Page 15** of the Organization of African Unity this year, diplomatic circles here said. The move was not linked to the Uganda operation. In the diplomatic contacts with envoys in Jerusalem, Israeli officials stressed that Israelis were separated out of the rest of the hostages and remained as virtually the only prisoners, thus making chances of negotiating a release of guerrillas held in other countries extremely complicated. Israeli press commentators say this was an important factor in influencing the decision to use force to extricate the captives. Israel did not want to be involved in the release of prisoners from other countries, because such a precedent, in Israel's view would involve implied commitments to other governments for reciprocal action in the future. Terrorists would hijack a foreign plane, without any connection to Israel, and then try to get Israel to release prisoners in exchange for these non-Israeli hostages. Another reported reason Israel gave up on the chances of peacefully negotiating the release through Amin was that the terrorists insisted on the exchange being made in Uganda, while Israel wanted it to take place in a neutral country such as France. "A major consideration in deciding that negotiations were hopeless was the fact that Amin was helping the hijackers and he would have settled for nothing less than the full terms of the hijackers," an official source said. New York Times === Page 8 of 81 Tues., July 6, 1976 ★ San Francisco Chronicle 15 # The Reaction # World Praise for The Israeli Action New York Western leaders expressed delight with Israeli's bold raid to free hostages in Uganda and newspapers from Tokyo to Stockholm lavished praise on the tough response to terrorism. The French ambassador in Israel, Jean Herbly, said it was "a moral victory . . . a victory over brutal force." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt expressed "deep satisfaction and great relief" at the outcome. Among the first to congratulate Israel was Denmark's Foreign Minister Knud B. Andersen, who spoke of "the well-executed and brave liberation of the hostages" from pro-Palestinian air hijackers. Prime Minister Robert D. Muldoon said New Zealanders were thrilled by "this audacious operation." Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who ordered troops to storm a hijacked plane last May, said the Israeli raid, "like the plot of a movie thriller, cannot but warm the hearts of freedom-loving peoples." To the Philippines Express, it was "a triumph of good over evil." Japan's Asahi newspaper said "Israel will be further isolated" from the international community following the raid. "This is the cost Israel is to pay . . . but Israel had to carry out the operation." Newspapers in Denmark and Sweden said the raid was an illegal act of war by Israel but said Israel had little choice. "Individual nations cannot take the law into their own hands," said Sweden's daily Aftonbladet but admitted the difficulties in deciding how to deal with hijackers. "Israel has taken everyone's breath away," said the Times of London. The Financial Times said the strike shows "intervention by force of arms can work." The Guardian praised the Israel "pirates for a day" who humiliated "a tinpot dictator and a terrorist gang." In Cairo, an Egyptian statement denounced Israel's "terrorist action" as an "aggression against all Africa." Iraq said the "piratical aggression" by Israel was without precedent "among the acts of the tyrannical Fascists." A Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed "astonishment at the irresponsible applause by certain quarters." Associated Press === Page 9 of 81 AP photos High stakes: Young hostage after release, Israelis demonstrate in favor of a deal # The Countdown in Uganda They came out of nowhere, a faceless, nameless handful of terrorists. And from the moment they hijacked the Air France jet in the skies over Athens, their crime was wreathed in mystery. No outsiders knew what organization--if any--the terrorists worked for. No one knew how they smuggled their arsenal aboard the plane, or what their ultimate goal was. But their immediate demand was clear: the release of 53 "freedom fighters" in exchange for the lives of their 258 hostages, many of them Israelis. The captive passengers waited out a week of agony in Uganda, crammed into a decaying transit lounge on the shore of Lake Victoria, their fate in the hands of terrorists and a trio of middlemen headed by Uganda's unpredictable--and stridently anti-Israeli--dictator, Idi Amin. Israel was confronted with a stark challenge to one of its most basic policies: never to negotiate with Palestinian terrorists. The hijackers released a single hostage, then a group, then another--until virtually all but Israelis had been set free. Finally, Israel saw that it had no choice but to submit and bargain with the potential killers. Even then, it was not certain that the talks between Israel and the hijackers would succeed, or that the hostages would be spared. Jerusalem was under heavy pressure from relatives of the hostages to secure their release. But, in carrying out the first Palestinian hijacking in a year and a half,* the terrorists had set a stiff price. Most of the convicted prisoners the hijackers wanted released were being held by Israel, and they included two of Israel's most notorious political prisoners: the Most Rev. Hilarion Capucci, once the Greek Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem who was jailed two years ago for smuggling guns to the Palestinians, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of a three-man Japanese Red Army team that had murdered 26 bystanders in a bloody raid at Israel's busy Lod Airport in 1972. The hijacked plane, Air France Flight 139, originated in Tel Aviv and was en route to Paris. It made its scheduled stop in Athens, and among the boarding passengers were a pair of Arab youths carrying large tins labeled STUFFED DATES, which may have contained weapons or explosives. The twin-jet Airbus lifted off--and soon a grimly familiar scenario began. Michel Marius Henry, an 84-year-old Frenchman traveling first class, said two men suddenly rose from nearby seats, pulled revolvers and announced in English: "We are revolutionaries and this airplane is now our property. We are going to take you where we please." Other hijackers armed with pistols, hand grenades and stubby machine guns ordered the passengers to put up their hands. The apparent leader, a thin, elegantly dressed man who appeared to be European, picked up the public-address microphone in the cockpit and announced: "We're Palestinians." One of the hijackers, a woman, wore a dark blue skirt, a light blue blouse, blue stockings and a wig--and acted like the toughest of the lot. "She walked up and down the aisle," one of the hostages recalled, "scratching her wig with one **KAMPALA** *On Nov. 21, 1974, four Palestinians hijacked a British Airways VC-10 with 47 persons aboard at Dubai Airport and demanded the release of thirteen comrades. They surrendered after killing a German banker. Sipa/Hulon/Sipa Hijacked airliner in Kampala: From a routine flight to a confrontation with terror 28 Newsweek === Page 10 of 81 # Hostage Continued from Page A1 documents and money, and dropped them in a bag. Within a few hours we were over Benghazi (Libya). We circled six or eight times, apparently waiting for clearance before we landed. The terrorists brought out two boxes of hand grenades--I don't know from where--and placed them by the emergency doors. It was about 10 p.m. when we left. We flew for about five hours and landed in Entebbe Airport in Uganda. We sat in the plane for nine hours, Ugandan soldiers observing us from outside the craft. Then one of the hijackers said, "The bad dream is over. We are leaving the airplane." We moved into the old terminal building. We hoped that the whole affair was over somehow, but it wasn't. Some time later, Idi Amin came to us in his uniform. He still wore his Israeli paratrooper wings. "Maybe you know me, maybe you don't," he said. "I am Field Marshal Dr. Idi Amin Dada, president of the Republic of Uganda." He was so pompous I had to suppress a laugh. It was obvious the Ugandans were helping the terrorists. Six more Palestinians were waiting for the plane when it landed, and the Ugandan soldiers were kissing and hugging the terrorists who got off the plane. At the beginning of the next evening, we had the most horrible feeling. The hijackers stood in the doorway between our room and an adjoining room and read out the names of 78 Israelis. I began to pray. Our worst fears did not materialize, however. The following day we suddenly heard applause from the other room and were told the other passengers were being released. Amin came in to us and said, "Shalom." He said we were innocent people but he was against the Israeli government, which wouldn't give in to the hijackers' demands. I'm certain he was working with the terrorists. The whole side of the building was guarded only by Ugandans. Amin was enjoying the whole situation. The first day he wore his field marshal uniform. The next day he came in with a civilian suit and a huge white cowboy hat. Another time he brought his wife and tiny son, who was dressed in a matching field marshal uniform complete with medals. At 11 p.m. Saturday, only five of us were awake--four bridge players and one kibitzer. The Germans were talking with a Ugandan army colonel outside when shooting began. The Germans ran into our room and the shooting came closer and closer. Then there was shooting inside. I thought Idi Amin had changed his mind and decided to finish the terrorists. I put my face to the floor and told my friends to get down. . . . I thought maybe in a few minutes I'd finish my life. I raised my head a little and saw somebody running and talking in Hebrew with his hands in the air. He ran so fast and jumped. I imagined for a moment he was an angel coming for us. The guerrillas were so surprised I heard them snapping in ammunition clips. Some of their guns weren't even loaded. I saw women lying on top of their children, protecting them. The children were crying. Not far from us, there were people bleeding and dead. === Page 11 of 81 Va. Pilot July 8, 1976 # Israel Readies Defense of Raid UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) -- Israel Wednesday prepared to defend before the Security Council its military rescue operation in Uganda and to provide what it said is evidence of Ugandan President Idi Amin's cooperation with the air hijackers. "We believe the Ugandan government was part and parcel of this operation," Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog said in an interview on the NBC Today Show. "It is quite clear they were accomplices ... We have a right and duty by international law to protect our citizens ... as long as we do not overstay our welcome" or use excessive force, Herzog added. The Organization of African Unity asked the council to take up the charge that Israel had committed aggression against Uganda, though some Africans had misgivings about defending Amin. Many U.N. diplomats privately expressed the feeling that Amin did cooperate with the hijackers during the week in Uganda. The 15-member Security Council originally scheduled a meeting for today, but it was announced later that the debate will be set back to Friday afternoon because Ugandan Foreign Minister Juan Oris cannot arrive before then. Some Western diplomats indicated that they intend to expand the debate into a full-dress assault on hijacking and terrorism. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman in Jerusalem said Israel will present proof of Amin's complicity. Several of the hostages freed by the Israeli commando raid on Uganda's Entebbe Airport Sunday said Ugandan soldiers had fully cooperated with the Palestinian and German hijackers. An Israeli spokesman at the United Nations said his government is preparing testimony from the hostages and other sources. The ordeal began with the hijack of an Air France airbus over Greece June 27. A total of 149 people were released over the next few days, and Israel freed more than 100 others -- mostly Israelis or other Jews -- in its lightning airport raid. Three hostages, one Israeli soldier, seven hijackers, and 20 Ugandan soldiers died. Israeli defense officials earlier said Israel has evidence that the Ugandan leader may have known about the hijack plot in advance. Amin has loudly criticized both Israel and neighboring Kenya for the raid. He said Israel violated his country's sovereignty and accused the Kenyan government of collaborating with the Israeli raiders before they landed in Uganda. The three Israeli planes stopped in Nairobi, Kenya, on the way home from Uganda, and there have been various reports that one or two planes stopped en route to the raid. U.N. diplomats generally agree with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's assertion that the Israeli raid was "a serious violation of the sovereignty of a member state." But they voice admiration for the skill and daring of the Israelis. === Page 12 of 81 Va. Pilot 7/8/76 # Ugandans Go on Alert For Israeli-U.S. Raid KAMPALA, Uganda (UPI) -- A military spokesman Wednesday claimed that 30 Israeli and American planes were heading for Uganda, and called on the country's citizens to "use any weapon available" to repel invaders. Several hours after the broadcast by Radio Uganda, however, no planes had been sighted. President Idi Amin, normally a vociferous spokesman for his nation, was silent on the affair. Diplomatic sources said Libyan President Moammar Khadafy has sent 20 French-built Mirage jet fighters to Uganda, reportedly to replace Ugandan MIGs knocked out of action in the weekend Israeli commando raid that rescued more than 100 hostages held by hijackers at Entebbe airport. The sources said the planes landed late Tuesday or early Wednesday, and the air alert may well have been an attempt to provide a smoke screen for the Mirages' arrival. In Nairobi, the Kenya government said Uganda's report was "totally false." "We must conclude that their radar is as faulty as their dreams," a government statement said. "...It is a pity that the peace-loving people of Uganda should now find themselves under the world's greatest dictator in modern history. To the peace-loving people of Uganda we offer our sympathy." A military spokesman making the announcement over Radio Uganda identified the planes as Israeli and American and said they were bound for Uganda via Kenya. Amin accused Kenya Tuesday of massing forces on the two countries' border. === Page 13 of 81 A10 Virginian-Pilot, Friday, July 9, 1976 # Tension Between Kenya, Uganda Grows; Alerts On By DAVID B. OTTAWAY Washington Post News Service ADDIS ABABA -- The armed forces of Kenya and Uganda were reported Thursday to be on high alert as fears grew that the two neighboring countries might be heading for a confrontation. Kenyan and Western diplomatic sources also reported that 20 French-built Mirage jet fighters flew into Uganda early Wednesday from Libya and that as many as 20 more might be on the way. The arrival of the Libyan aircraft raised deep concern in East Africa that Ugandan President Idi Amin is preparing a strike against Kenya in retaliation for its alleged involvement in the Israeli raid on Uganda's Entebbe airport last weekend. Amin has often engaged in provocative posturing and saber rattling in past crises with his neighbors without taking any armed action against them. However, this is by far the worst crisis in Uganda-Kenyan relations, and Amin is visibly still smarting from the humiliation dealt to his army by the Israelis. The heightened tension between the neighboring countries comes on the eve of a special United Nations Security Council debate on the alleged Israeli aggression against Uganda. Meanwhile, Kenya Thursday vilified Amin, calling him a "dictatorial fascist ruler" and describing him as "erratic, unpredictable, and without any sense of direction." The front page of the Nairobi Daily Nation Thursday was devoted to the government statement under a banner headline that said: "Savagery, Torture, Mass Murder, Amin . . . Now Kenya Has Had Enough." The statement included a five-column list of Kenyans missing inside Uganda, most of them presumed to have been murdered by the Ugandan police or military. Denouncing his "barbarous reign" and terming him the "world's greatest dictator," it said Amin has Kenyan blood on his hands and that Kenyans have lost all patience with him. Western diplomatic sources in Nairobi said such an official frontal attack on Amin is unprecedented and expressed apprehension that the normal "war of words" between the neighbors might be on the verge of becoming a "war of arms" despite the serious consequences it could have for Kenya, Uganda and possibly all of East Africa. The Kenyan government was responding in its statement to Ugandan accusations that it had collaborated with Israel in its daring raid last weekend on Entebbe airport to rescue 102 hostages, most of them Israelis or Jews being held captive by pro-Palestinian hijackers. The Israeli planes involved in the rescue operation stopped in Kenya on their return flight to drop off a wounded passenger and apparently also to refuel. A Ugandan radio broadcast said Amin had sent a message to Kenyan leader Jomo Kenyatta saying: "From all information available to me, the operation was carried out with your excellency's full knowledge and the knowledge of your government." The Kenyan statement was also in reaction to another Ugandan radio broadcast Wednesday that said 30 "enemy aircraft, believed to be Israeli or American, were approaching Uganda from Kenya." It said the Ugandan allegations were "totally false," adding "their radar is as faulty as (Amin's) dreams." Amin is well known for forecasting events and his own fate based on his dreams. The Ugandan broadcast about approaching enemy planes at first mystified everyone in Nairobi. But it now appears it was an attempt to cover up the arrival of the Mirages, presumed to be piloted by either Libyans or Palestinians, as are many of Uganda's MIGs. Why the Mirages are arriving in Uganda is not clear. Israeli commandos destroyed or damaged 11 Ugandan MIG21s or MIG17s, but it is only about one-fourth of Uganda's total combat aircraft. Also, Kenya has only about 14 fighters compared to about 30 MIGs remaining to the Ugandan air force. Together with the 40 Mirage jets Libya is reportedly sending, Uganda would have overwhelming air power. The implication of the Mirages' arrival seems to be that Libya is ready to assist Uganda in the advent of a war with Kenya. === Page 14 of 81 INTERNATIONAL hand, holding a grenade with the other and ordering everybody to keep quiet." At a refueling stop in Libya, the hijackers allowed one passenger to debark: Patricia Heyman, 30, a British woman six months pregnant, who had begun hemorrhaging. Then the plane took off again, and just before dawn on Monday the hijacked jet, its fuel tanks almost dry, skimmed in over Lake Victoria and touched down at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. **ATHENS** **Demands:** The plane's 258 passengers and crew members were herded into an abandoned passenger lounge while sticks of dynamite were put "all over the plane," said a Ugandan official. The hijackers declared themselves to be members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an extremist splinter group run by George Habash, but a spokesman for the PFLP denied that his organization had played any role in the hijacking. The hijackers finally made known their demands: the release within two days of 53 "freedom fighters" imprisoned in Israel, West Germany, France, Switzerland and Kenya, in exchange for the hostages. Otherwise, the hostages would suffer "severe and heavy penalties." The hijackers did not specify what the "penalties" might be, but the threat was clear enough: already, they had warned they would blow up the plane--and the hostages with it--if Ugandan police tried to intercede. Government officials in Jerusalem, Paris and Bonn immediately began to plot their course of action. The only link with the hijackers was French Ambassador to Uganda Pierre Renard. But not even Renard could talk directly to the hijackers. They would speak with only two men: Somali Ambassador Hashi Abdullah Farah, whom they had designated as their intermediary, and Uganda's mercurial President Amin--who had rushed to the airport in full uniform and a cowboy hat to personally "welcome" the hostages to his country. Amin assumed a key role in the crisis. He kept in close personal touch with the hijackers and there were reports that he even assisted them in drafting their demands. At the same time, he was a jovial presence among the hostages. At one point, he entered the lounge in full regalia, trailed by his young son in an identical uniform, complete with miniature copies of his father's medals. Amin beamed at the women, patted children on the head and told the captives he would do what he could to make their stay "as nice as possible." **Explosives:** Two days after the hijacked plane arrived at Entebbe--in an atmosphere "as quiet as death," according to one witness--47 hostages were unexpectedly released and flown to Paris. But that development, welcome though it was, heightened fears in Israel for the lives of the Israelis and Jews of other nationalities who were still being held--and even kept apart from the other hostages. An Israeli who once knew Amin put through a call to him. The conversation was chilling. Amin said the hijackers had "TNT and other explosives" and advised Israel to "release the freedom fighters as demanded." With less than two hours left before the expiration of the hijackers' deadline--and with the increasingly nervous terrorists urging Ugandan troops posted at the airport to dig protective trenches in case of a big explosion--an urgent message was relayed to Entebbe from Jerusalem. It said that Israel was ready to negotiate for the release of the hostages. "We had no other option," one Jerusalem official said after the unanimous decision had been made at an emergency Cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government clearly recognized that it had no strong cards to play and that the large number of hostages involved made the stakes too high. Rabin also had to contend with an angry mob of the hostages' relatives. A group about 100 strong gathered outside the Prime Minister's weekend office in Tel Aviv and one of them shouted angrily: "I have three brothers on that plane. What good is it to hold a bunch of terrorists when my family gets killed?" In their fury, the crowd proceeded to knock an Israeli military policeman to the ground, and only when the Cabinet's decision to negotiate became known did the crowd finally decide to disperse. After Jerusalem agreed to negotiate, 100 additional hostages were freed and the deadline was extended to July 4. Those in the second group of liberated passengers had apparently been chosen arbitrarily. One of the hostages who arrived in Paris said that only 30 minutes before being released, 50 of the people on the list to go home had suddenly and inexplicably been crossed off and 50 others substituted. **Fear:** That again introduced an element of almost unbearable tension in Israel and at Entebbe, where Jewish passengers (and the plane's crew) remained captive. The hijackers' tactic of releasing hostages until only Jews were still being held especially seemed ominous, given the terrorists' claim of belonging to the extremist PFLP. As time passed without a bargain being struck, the fear grew that the hijackers might get edgy and decide that only a violent act would convince Jerusalem to meet their demands. No one needed to ask what that act would be. **TEL AVIV** --ANGUS DEMING with BARRY CAME in Nairobi, MILAN J. KUBIC in Jerusalem and ELIZABETH PEER in Paris AP Amin: 'Welcome' from an anti-Israeli leader K. Weiss Capucci: Jailed for gunrunning Carol Cooter Kozo Okamoto: Convicted of murder July 12, 1976 29 === Page 15 of 81 INTERNATIONAL ent. How am I going to explain to them what you're doing to us now?" In the midst of the chaos, many hostages found it hard to believe the unbelievable--that the Israelis had come to deliver them from their captors. It was only when they heard several commandos shouting, "Israel, Israel!" that they understood. Uzi Davidson, 42, looked up from the floor and saw, as he later said, "the most beautiful young Israeli soldier with a submachine gun and a pack of ammunition. He half-smiled and asked me: 'How are things in your part of the room?'" **A NOISY, FRIGHTENING HELL** The rescue was not letter-perfect. Three hostages made the tragic error of standing up as the Israeli commandos poured into the lounge, and the soldiers--mistaking them for hijackers--gunned them down by accident. One of the dead hostages was a 19-year-old Israeli of Moroccan origin. "I shouted 'Crawl!' but he stood up," Hartuv said. "He looked like an Arab and one of our soldiers shot him." Other hostages feared that the hijackers were coming to kill them. "Some people fled to the toilets, others threw themselves on their mattresses," recounted hostage Sylver Ayache. The transit lounge had become a noisy and frightening hell. "We heard submachine guns, rockets, detonations--you name it," said Davidson. "The stuff was flying in all directions for something like ten minutes." The initial Israeli barrage killed seven of the hijackers; perhaps three others escaped. Among the dead terrorists were two Palestinians and two West Germans--one identified as Böse, 27, the other possibly 24-year-old Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann. The fire storm ended, and the next thing the hostages heard was an Israeli with a bullhorn who calmly urged them to put on some clothing, pick up their belongings and go outside the building. "Don't worry about the shooting," he said. "We'll get you out of here." And they did. A bulky Hercules was on the runway about 300 yards away, the engines running. Some hostages crowded twenty-strong into jeeps. Others--including a handful in underwear and bare feet--ran the distance to the planes. The soldiers guarded their exodus; one commando even did double duty--holding a submachine gun in one arm and cradling a 4-year-old boy in the other. But the rescue mission was still not over, and the Israelis were not yet safe. One team of commandos took off for a corner of the airfield, and with satchel charges blew up more than ten of Uganda's Soviet-supplied MiG fighter jets. (The Israelis clearly wanted to forestall pursuit, but their destruction of the planes may not have been necessary. No Ugandan pilots know how to fly the MiG's and the Palestinians who normally do so were reportedly out of the country.) With the commandos' forces scattered, the Ugandans who had been guarding the airfield rallied. The fire fight was brief--but it took its toll. Twenty Ugandan soldiers were killed, and so was one Israeli commando: mission commander Natanyahu. A sniper in the control tower killed him with a bullet in the back. **SOBS, PRAYERS, SILENCE** Only 50 minutes after the Israelis had landed, the first Hercules was ready to lift off the ground. "The Israeli pilot shook my hand, asked if all my crew was there and in good health," recalled Michel Bacos, the captain of the hijacked Air France jet. "Then they counted the passengers twice and closed the doors." One hostage, Dora Bloch, 73, was inadvertently left behind in a hospital--and is believed to be dead (box). As the aircraft flew out of Entebbe bound for an initial stop at Nairobi's Embakasi Airport, some of the freed hostages wept. Others prayed. Others sat in stupefied silence. One woman kept crying out: "Ness! Ness!"--"A miracle! A miracle!" Uganda President Idi Amin's first reaction to the raid was shock. He had returned to Kampala that very day after attending an Organization of African Unity summit in Mauritius. He was celebrating what he felt to be a diplomatic victory, and his aides were too frightened to tell him what had happened. He first heard of the successful assault in a phone call from Israel. Retired Israeli paratrooper Baruch Bar-Lev, once in command of the Israeli military mission in Kampala and the man who taught Amin to parachute, is said to have called Amin after the raid and broken the news. Amin rushed the 23 miles to Entebbe with an armored column. Humiliated, Amin ordered the execution of four airport radar operators, whose bullet-riddled bodies were later found near the airfield. **DIPLOMATIC MANEUVERS** The last of the Israeli planes was in the air and heading home by the time Amin arrived at the shambles of Entebbe Airport. Israel insisted that Kenya had not been informed about the raid or about Israel's intention to land in Nairobi en route home. The commando units "imposed themselves" on the Kenyans, said Gur. Nonetheless, the Israeli hospital plane--with 33 doctors and two field surgical units--had been protected by Kenyan security forces for the duration of the raid. Two wounded hostages were taken to Nairobi Hospital for treatment, and all the aircraft were refueled for the trip back to Israel. Eight hours later, the hostages were home on Israeli soil. After a brief stopover at the military air base at Sharm el Sheikh, the caravan of planes landed at Tel Aviv's **THE WOMAN THEY LEFT BEHIND** Frail and white-haired at 73, Dora Bloch was setting off on a sentimental journey when she left Tel Aviv. She was headed for Paris to see one brother and visit the grave of another. Then she planned to fly to New York for the wedding of her youngest son, Danny, a prominent Israeli journalist. When she saw two Arabs board the French airbus in Athens, she told another son, Ilan Hartuv: "They're carrying terribly big handbags. I am worried." Once her hijacked plane landed in Entebbe, she became a leader among the hostages. Fluent in five languages, she interpreted for the Arab doctor. When President Idi Amin asked her occupation, she replied "I am just an old mother." Soon after, Mrs. Bloch gagged on a piece of food. Doctors rushed her to the hospital, and when the Israelis swooped in to rescue the hostages, Dora Bloch was left behind. There seemed no reason for alarm. A British diplomat saw her that evening. But when he returned an hour later to bring Mrs. Bloch some food, he was barred from her room--and a terrible story emerged. Several men had burst in, dragged her out of bed and pulled her screaming from the hospital. The British Government and Mrs. Bloch's family immediately began urgent efforts to find her. The British sent their high commissioner in Uganda, James Hennessy, back from vacation to seek out Amin. In Jerusalem, Mrs. Bloch's sons begged Amin by cable to "Please send Dora Bloch back to us," and in New York Daniel Bloch appealed to Muhammad Ali to help persuade Amin to release her. Amin insisted that Mrs. Bloch was discharged from the hospital before the Israeli raid and another Ugandan official fended off inquiries with: "Don't ask us, ask Israel." Privately, British officials held out scant hope for Dora Bloch. As one British diplomat put it: "Uganda today is one of the truly evil places in the world." *Newsweek*, July 19, 1976 45 === Page 16 of 81 Ben-Gurion airport. News of the commando's success had electrified Israel, and ecstatic throngs (and a beaming Prime Minister Rabin) were on hand to greet their returning countrymen. As the hostages clambered out of the pot-bellied transport planes, jubilant Israelis danced and passed around bottles of wine. They waved Israeli flags and a bearded rabbi blew the ram's horn in a scene reminiscent of the euphoric hours after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Like most of the other freed hostages, Uzi Davidson and his wife, Sara, arrived home exhausted. But Israel's national party was not over, and the Davidsons found their Tel Aviv apartment decorated with Israeli flags, piled high with flowers, wine and whisky and crammed with well-wishers. They did not even know many of the guests who were there. "It was an unbelievable experience," said Mrs. Davidson. "We knew our friends would think of us, but when we got back we discovered that the whole of Israel cared." ### JOY AND SORROW The outpouring of national joy was tempered to some degree by the deaths of three hostages and Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu. During the boisterous reception at Ben-Gurion airport, a momentary pall fell on the assemblage when the father of 19-year-old Jean-Jaques Maimoni climbed on a podium and bitterly demanded silence. And there were the dead to bury. Two days after the triumphant return, at the burial of Netanyahu, Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres looked on somberly as the dead commander's father said the Kaddish--the Hebrew prayer for the dead. A guard of honor fired three salvos. And the slain officer's commando comrades wept openly as his wreath-covered coffin was lowered into its grave. The dominant mood in Israel was one of pride. Aircraft flew over Jerusalem, skywriting, "All our respect to Zahal"--the Hebrew acronym for Israeli Defense Forces. Many of the 2,000 Israelis and American Jews who gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial embraced each other and wept with joy. David Bromberg, president of B'nai Brith, declared that the Israelis had given a birthday gift to the world on the occasion of America's 200th birthday. That gift, he said, was "the Eleventh Commandment: thou shalt not bow down to terrorism." Israeli officials did not hide their satisfaction over the success of the raid. Rabin and his ministers had stayed up all night in his small office in the unprepossessing government building to receive reports on the progress of the strike. When its success seemed assured, Rabin sat down with a list of names and began to dial the telephone. The first person he called was Israeli President Ephraim Katzir. The second was former Prime Minister Golda Meir. "Congratulations," enthused the doughty 78-year-old Mrs. Meir. "Nothing succeeds like success. That's the name of the game." Rabin and his ministers then drank a toast "to life"--"l'chaim." The next day in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, the buoyant Prime Minister warned Israel's Palestinian terrorist foes that it would not be complacent despite its stunning strike deep into Africa. "We will never use the same methods twice and we will be constantly ready for action," said Rabin. "The basic principle is to fight the terrorists whenever you have a reasonable chance," Rabin remarked to an aide. "You fight them in Zion Square in Jerusalem or you fight them in Entebbe, but you fight. You don't give in." The Israelis had been given a reasonable chance to succeed in a daring military gamble--and they did. All told, it was a brilliant "mission accomplished." --RAYMOND CARROLL In good hands: Amidst jubilation, Israel was filled with restored pride and power Micha Bar-Am--Magnum # Hussein's Soviet Offer *For two years, Jordan's King Hussein has been trying to buy a Hawk air-defense system from the United States. But he first ran afoul of Congress and then, when the legislators finally approved the sale, Hussein found that the price had doubled. The U.S. is still willing to sell the anti-aircraft missiles to Hussein, but the Jordanian monarch recently began bargaining with the Soviet Union for a SAM air-defense network. Last week, after he returned from a twelve-day visit to Moscow, Hussein gave NEWSWEEK'S Arnaud de Borchgrave an exclusive inside account of his talks with the Soviets. Highlights:* **DE BORCHGRAVE: Did your negotiations with the Russians for a SAM system fail?** **HUSSEIN:** Quite the contrary. We came back with a very attractive offer which would give us a compatible yet more flexible air-defense system than the Hawk. Even though the financial terms are generous--it would cost less than the American system--the Soviet deal is offered only on a cash-on-delivery basis. Our problem is still the financial one which we are attempting to resolve. **Q. Who will pay for the system?** **A.** That's precisely our problem, and what we're looking at now. **Q. You recently asked Libya to retroactively resume payment of the $30 million annual subsidy that it had agreed to give Jordan after the 1967 Middle East war--but cut off in 1970. The back payments would amount to about $180 million. Might this be used to buy SAM's?** **A.** We've had contacts with the Libyan Government. If Libya is willing to meet its commitments and help us buy what we seriously need to remain a confrontation state, we will be more than grateful. **Q. How do you explain pro-Western Jordan turning to the Kremlin for military hardware?** **A.** Our inability to secure our needs in an adequate fashion from our traditional sources forced us to look elsewhere. **Q. When did your perceptions of the U.S. begin to change?** **A.** We began to feel let down by the U.S. in the summer of 1974 when your Administration decided, after the Syrian-Israeli disengagement agreement, to follow Israeli advice to ignore the West Bank and shift the U.S. diplomatic effort back to Sinai and a second disengagement agreement with Egypt. The U.S. has also helped to create a tremendous imbalance between Israel and the Arab confrontation states, particularly Syria and Jordan. It is obvious to us that when it comes to a balance between Israel and Jordan, we don't seem to count for much in Washington's eyes. Our disappointment grew with our unfortunate experience over the Hawks. **46** **Newsweek** === Page 17 of 81 April 21, 1976...Dr. Max Fogel; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Hynek. Am now on the tail-end of my "California Miracle"...and will have the third and last part of the Report to xerox and get out to you in the coming weeks. However...I have no funds to do so...so would like some financial help, if you have any connections with those that could aid me. I trust that you are aware that UFO's and accompanying phenomenon appeared last week over Northern California. This will be discussed at length, and explained, in the Report to you. Now, as of today, am beginning a new miracle project. Let's dub it "Project Amin." Briefly, I am going to aim my formidable and awesome powers (have the okay from my UFO Connection) at Idi Amin and his evil killer group in Uganda...to eliminate Amin and the group, and bring peace to Uganda. Or at least, peaceful people...non-killers. Also involved in this program which am setting up today...will be my Pyramid Power. As yet...have not approached It...but will within the next hour, to get permission, to explain the situation, and to enlist It's powers to help. The Pyramid Power (haven't had the money to type out, xerox, and mail to you the voluminous Report on my trip to Egypt and the pyramids and what I discovered there) is a Living Entity...alive and well, from the ages past, among the pyramids in Egypt. I am now linked up to it mentally, just as I am linked up to the UFO's...and am able to bring Its powers to bear...just as I am able to bring thXe UFO Connection's powers to bear. While in Cairo, Egypt, not long ago...Amin captured two British men and readied them for the firing squad (that is, I was in Cairo, not Amin.) Well, I contacted the British Embassy in Cairo...had a meeting with a British official...and gave him my plan to save the two British men. I will go into the details of the plan when, if ever, I get the Egyptian Report done and xeroxed and out to you. But at any rate...the plan was ultra-ingenious. I know that British officials flew to Uganda from England...but I think that my plan might have been activated re Amin. At any rate...Amin released the two doomed Britishers. Yesterday in the paper...Amin and his evil group had allegedly tortured and killed a young female student of 22 years...just as Amin has killed TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE "who were distrusted or disliked by Amin and his underlings." (Am quoting the San Francisco Chronicle...the documentation will be in the file that I send to you as soon as my Project Amin has been completed...and that will be, before Fall of this year, or sooner.) In the past years I have demonstrated many miraculous phenomena for you...but none pinpointing the elimination of one specific individual, and that individual's group. (I have DONE it, but have not documented it for you.) For heaven's sake...get in touch with some govt. agency and get me some funds with which to proceed. Haven't my miracles been worth that much? Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 18 of 81 Wed., April 14, 1976 ★ San Francisco Chronicle 7 # Suspicious Disappearance in Uganda **Kampala, Uganda** Behind the unmarked door of the security headquarters at Kampala's Entebbe Airport, a Ugandan government security man interrogated Esther Chesire on the afternoon of February 13. "Are you sure you were a student at Makerere?" the officer asked her. She insisted she was. Miss Chesire was 22, a member of a wealthy Kenya family and had ample proof she was a junior in the arts and sciences at Kampala's Makerere University. "We are going to find out," the officer said. Miss Chesire's roommate, Sally Githere, 22, also a Kenyan, was present during the questioning. They had been stopped as they were going through departure formalities for a flight to Nairobi, Kenya. The security men put Miss Githere on a Nairobi-bound plane. But Miss Chesire had, as they say in strong man Idi Amin's police state, "disappeared" -- like many others interrogated behind the airport's unmarked door. Knowledgeable Ugandans think she was killed by President Amin's men, as were tens of thousands of others who were distrusted or disliked by Amin and his underlings. But Miss Chesire was a citizen of Kenya, a bright young woman of the same Kalenjin tribe as Kenya's vice president and the brother of the chairman of the powerful Kenya Farmers Association. Her disappearance has become a key issue in steadily worsening relations between Kenya and Uganda. Uganda at first admitted she had been taken "into legal custody." Then, when Kenya pressed for details, Uganda Radio, quoting a "military spokesman" who is assumed to be Field Marshall Amin, said: "The Uganda government is not interested in replying to malicious and unfounded charges ... the Uganda government has no knowledge of any girl who is alleged to have disappeared from the university." A Kampala businessman, who escaped death himself when he convinced the airport security men who arrested him it was a mistake, said of the girl: "She's dead. I'm afraid it can't be any other way. When they say they've got her, and then say they never heard of her, it means there's a good reason why they can never produce her." Kenya has exhausted queries through diplomatic channels without learning more about the fate of Miss Chesire. President Amin appointed a "Commission into Affairs at Makerere University," which held its first meeting in the "missing student affair" yesterday and then adjourned until April 21 for what was promised as an "eyewitness" report on the Chesire case. It was rumored that she had been seen at Naguru Prison in Kampala prior to the March 28 statement of the "military spokesman" -- and that she was then taken to one of Amin's command posts. There were other rumors that her brother, Ruben Chesire, chairman of the Kenya farm group and the Kenya Tourist Development Corp. had had business with Amin, and that the girl herself may have known the president. In Nairobi, Chesire said, "we have absolutely no business contact with Uganda," and said there was no truth to stories his sister knew Amin or was friendly with Uganda officials. But the Uganda security men who arrested Miss Chesire were apparently looking specifically for her. Her friend, Miss Githere, was brought to the security office as an afterthought and soon released. Miss Chesire was picked up two days before Amin made a speech in which he claimed that more than a third of Kenya's territory actually belonged to Uganda -- according to maps of a certain colonial period. Part of Kenya's angry response was to force Uganda to pay in foreign currency, not the weak Ugandan shilling, for fuel supplies from Kenya refineries. It was this demand which subsequently put Uganda in such a foreign exchange crisis that Amin had to admit publicly his country was broke. Some people believe the girl may have been picked up -- because of her prominent connections -- as some kind of a hostage in Amin's weird diplomacy of arrest, bluff and bluster. If so, there was some reason why she was not proclaimed a spy and paraded as a public hostage as was British lecturer Denis Hills, who was ultimately freed last summer after a visit to Uganda by then British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan. The Weekly Review, a Kenyan publication, expressed a view widely held on both sides of the border by those familiar with what passes in Uganda for a legal system: "Miss Chesire was thought to have been defiled before being hurled into the dungeons, and has been heard of no more." Ugandans tell stories of friends and relatives who were "disappeared" by Amin's men and then killed simply because it was easier to get rid of them than explain an erroneous arrest or an embarrassing incident during an interrogation. "Why all this fuss over just a college girl?" asked a Ugandan who has lived under more than five years of Amin's rule. "Do you realize how many thousands of people have been killed? I lost a cousin of mine who was a full professor. "What does the life of one girl matter?" *Los Angeles Times* === Page 19 of 81 Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, July 7, 1976 A23 # The Boldness of Israel, The Bullying of Canada By David S. Broder WASHINGTON. Israel has given the Western world remedial instruction in how to deal with bullies. The Canadian government, as though to the manner born, has been acting the bully. Israel responded with lethal boldness to the kidnaping of Jews by Palestinian terrorists. By killing the terrorists in the sanctuary provided by Uganda's President Idi Amin, Israel demonstrated that there are no safe havens for terrorists. Communist China, a good customer for Canadian wheat, did not want Canada even to admit athletes from Taiwan. The government of Prime Minister Trudeau has met Peking halfway. Canada, which is the "host country" for the Olympics, has suddenly decided that Taiwan's athletes will not be allowed to compete under the name "Republic of China," and will not be allowed to fly their national flag or play their national anthem. When Canada was vying with Los Angeles for possession of the 1976 Olympics, Canada promised that it would obey Olympic rules, which forbid such political discrimination. Canada was asked, and gave specific assurances about, accepting the Republic of China, the name recognized by the International Olympic Committee. Uganda's Amin having taken no trouble to conceal the fact (indeed, having been clever to the point of precocity at advertising the fact), it is no secret that he is not a statesman of advanced design. And it is unlikely that he was joshing when he said, plaintively, of the Israeli rescue attack on his airport: "I did all I could to help Israel, and Israel replied by doing me harm." Actually Amin may have pioneered a new dimension in lawlessness by casting Uganda, a sovereign state, in the role of collaborator in, and perhaps instigator of, an act of international terrorism. According to the freed hostages, Amin embraced the leader of the hijacking gang; some terrorists were waiting to join the hijackers in Uganda; Amin's soldiers helped the terrorists guard the hostages, and even gave the terrorists weapons. United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has weighed in with one of his predictably "evenhanded" homilies deploring terrorism and those who resist it. He criticizes Israel for violating Uganda's sovereignty. It is, perhaps, too much to hope that Amin will take the matter to the U.N. But anything that hastens the decomposition of the U.N. is welcome, and the same is true of the Olympics. The Olympics are to sport what the U.N. is to government: a parody and, increasingly, a plaything of the world's lopsided majority of dictatorships. The Canadian government, having shown its mettle by dealing sternly with Taiwan's 51 athletes, offered as an "explanation" the fact that Canada recognizes Communist China. Such comportment is becoming Trudeau's trademark. He chose to visit Cuba during Cuba's expedition to Angola, and missed no chance to abase himself before Castro, praising the dictator for his "intense rapport with the Cuban people." The International Olympic Committee has protested Canada's decision. But it hastened to add that, although it deplores the injection of politics into the Olympics, it will not contemplate withdrawing its sanction of the Montreal games. That would be a jerk on the leash that Canada would understand. In response to Canada's decision, the U.S. Olympic Committee made simpering sounds, threatening to withdraw from the games if the IOC withdrew its sanction of the games. But the IOC said that it has never "even suggested privately it would take such action." In 1980 the "host country" will be the Soviet Union, which undoubtedly will edit the list of competitors. Will it ban Israel? Will it invite the Palestine Liberation Organization to send a team? Will this draw more than unhappy words from the U.S.? Such words were the only U.S. response when the IOC, at Moscow's behest, banned Radio Free Europe from covering the winter Olympics in February. Speaking to his nation about the Nazis, Churchill growled: "What kind of people do they think we are?" It is easy to imagine what kind of people the Peking government thinks the Ottawa politicians are. Israelis may be the only people in the West who still understand that it is dangerous to be hated but doubly dangerous to be despised. If Israel's policy of prickly self-respect is contagious, people who say that the West will preserve Israel may have things backwards. # ure for Queen's Subjects around. First, and the "social contract" the trade unions the exche-Minister the debts, the British were recurrently forced to cut down on domestic consumption in a way that curtailed economic expansion. But now there is the prospect of North Sea oil. Healey and Callaghan told American officials at the Puerto Rican economic conference that the British government alone No doubt the country is still a long way from being out of the economic rough. Cuts have to be made in public spending so that huge deficits and heavy foreign debt can be reduced. Without such internal discipline, the birthplace of modern industrialism could still become another Belgium or--given the British propensity to talk about themselves so much--another Greece. track to economic health is credit- LOOKING FOR A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY? === Page 20 of 81 The Virginian-Pilot ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 21, 1865 Page A22 Wednesday, July 7, 1976 ********** # Israel's Brilliant Rescue Sorting out the before-and-after events of Israel's rescue of 100-plus Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda is continuing these three days later. The complexity of the operation and preparations for it emphasize the brilliance of the success. Admiration for the airborne commandos is all but universal, for it extends even to Arab states that side with the Palestinian and pro-Palestinian terrorists who seized the hostages upon hijacking a French airliner at Athens last week. Gratitude for the smashing blow to pirates who use innocent lives for currency in an international blackmail trade extends throughout the civilized world. Among the lesser satisfactions of Israel's 2,500-mile sortie into Uganda is the humiliation dealt to President-Field Marshal Idi Amin, the tyrant who runs that African state like an Evelyn Waugh character. Yet President Amin may have been victimized in some degree by the hijackers as well as the rescuers. He claims that he became involved with the Palestinians and their West German leader only when they sought permission to land at Entebbe; that he arranged for the release of the 101 non-Israelis among the captured passengers; and that he befriended the Israelis to their gratification. The French commander of the hijacked plane has verified President Amin's contention that while he posted Uganda soldiers about the plane, they were lightly armed and did not join the hijackers in guarding the hostages. Yet it remains possible that Uganda, which is no friend of Israel's, collaborated with the terrorists. There can be no doubt, meanwhile, that Uganda's prickly neighbor, Kenya, assisted the rescue. Israel's cultivation over the years of African states facilitated the commando triumph. The cultivation has taken the form of assistance, agricultural for the most part but including military. It never was extensive but has been efficient and constructive. Before Emperor Selassie's overthrow, the program centered in Ethiopia, handy to the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. Among Israel's objectives was to gather intelligence bearing upon the nearby Arab world. The 100 or so Israeli commandos who descended on Uganda in three air transports, bringing two gun-mounted jeeps as well as machine guns and bazookas, not only knew the landing procedures at Entebbe Airport but also the characteristics of the field, headquarters, and auxiliary buildings. They shot their way through the Ugandan outer guard and quickly wiped out the terrorists and freed the captives, including the French air crew. Then rescuers and rescued were off to Kenya for emergency medical aid, refueling, and the long flight back to Isreal. To bring off the operation, it was necessary for Israel to mislead the whole world. It created the impression that it would, in contradiction of its well-established policy, hand over to the hijackers the convicted Arab prisoners they demanded in exchange for the hostages. Ugandan officials evidently believed the planes that brought the commandos were delivering the ransom. The commando triumph was unprecedented only in the distance flown the intricacies of mission, and worthiness of cause. Similar Israeli bands destroyed grounded aircraft in Lebanon in 1968 and assassinated Palestinian propagandists, including the notorious Kamal Nasser, in 1973. Those strikes, while retaliatory, left Israel's friends with mixed feelings. The July the Fourth accomplishment merits unrestrained celebration. # Hooligans' Night For a national birthday party with 213 million guests the Bicentennial celebration was remarkable for good manners and order. Trouble failed to break out where it was expected. No zanies touched off bombs around Boston, as had been feared. The division of troops that Mayor Frank Rizzo failed to get to maintain order in Philadelphia would have proved superfluous. However, in Woodbridge police were called in to quell a noisy private party of 200 celebrants. The festivities ended with two dozen party-goers in jail and four injured policemen in a hospital. Three hundred rowdies took to the streets in Cocoa Beach, Florida. They threw bricks, bottles, and insults at police, who arrested and jailed 30. Those were preliminaries to the main event in Virginia Beach. Around midnight some young bloods, perhaps overstimulated by holiday toasts, reportedly began cutting up in the 2100 block of Atlantic Avenue on the resort strip. The ugliness turned into a riot that spilled over into adjoining blocks and involved perhaps a thousand people. Store windows were smashed, cars were damaged, street lights were broken, trash cans were overturned and their contents set on fire. Forty Virginia Beach policemen backed up by 20 State Police, an armored car, and a helicopter required four hours to break up the riot with tear gas, dogs, and night sticks. Eleven policemen were injured. Eighty-four people were arrested, a few on felony riot charges. Meaningless as the disturbance was, Police Captain Warren L. Grant analyzed it well: "It was hot, people had been drinking, it was July 4, and it was the Bicentennial. People got caught up in the emotions of the moment." Mindless violence is as hard to explain in concrete, rational terms as it is to anticipate and prevent. The national attention turned on the riot was not the sort a publicity agent would relish for a resort dependent on the good opinion of vacationers. Image can be shattered as readily as a store window. It is no small irony that Virginia, where the seed of independence was planted, should be the place where the celebration of that event ended in anarchy. Thanks to street brawlers, Virginia Beach bears the distinction of hosting the most memorable fracas of the Bicentennial day. Some distinction. # Mr. Carter, Mr. Muskie, and Others Back in 1968 cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictured the candidates for President and Vice President in track uniforms. He drew Richard Nixon running with Hampshire primary. But despite the funny things that happened to him on the way to the picked. (The guess here is that he won't.) Meanwhile, Mr. Carter is choosing process highly visible. It tactic. It serves to and his celebrity front pages. It flatters Vice President === Page 21 of 81 # Heat Quickens Birkdale, Improves Nicklaus' Odds SOUTHPORT, England (UPI) - Jack Nicklaus firmed as favorite Tuesday to win the 105th British Open on the heat-seared Royal Birkdale course--a gentle giant this year compared to the fearsome test it has proved for golfers in the past. Nicklaus, shooting for the $13,500 first prize and his third Open title, shortened to 9-2 in the betting in the field of 155 golfers who tee off today for the first round. Officials and players predicted the Birkdale Open record of 278, set by Lee Trevino in 1971, would be broken and probably the lowest total for the $135,000 tournament, 276 first set in 1962 by Arnold Palmer and equaled 11 years later by Tom Weiskopf (both at Troon), would also be bettered. The hottest June and July on record dried the fairways and the rough to tinder and thousands of gallons of water were needed to save the greens. Nicklaus wasn't complaining about the heat as he finished his final practice round. "I'm getting plenty of bounce out there, and a fast course suits me much better than a slow one," he said. Nicklaus cheered his supporters with a final practice round of 67--five under par and bettered only by Weiskopf, who returned a 65. Weiskopf, of Columbus, Ohio, won the British Open in 1973 and was one of the few players who insisted there would be no record scores this year despite the weather. "There's still an awful lot of rough out there," Weiskopf said. "There are unplayable lies six feet from the green at some holes--this isn't the easy course everyone is saying it is." Weiskopf, listed at 11-1 in the odds, said he thought the winning score would be around 284 "if there was no wind" and, encouraged by his showing Tuesday, conceded he was "hitting the ball as well as I ever have." Behind Nicklaus in the betting was fellow-American Johnny Miller, 8-1, who "feels good" and reckons it is time for him to earn his first British Open as he had "paid my dues"--tying for second last year and for third in 1973. Hale Irwin, the third favorite at 10-1, thought it would be "very nice" to win this year to add to his only other major tournament success--the U.S. Open in 1974. Irwin and the other players finished their practice round covered with dozens of insects that infested some parts of the course. "There are the black beggars that bite, and green ones that sit around on you for a free ride," Irwin grumbled. Irwin said he could see brown patches getting bigger around Royal Birkdale even in the three days he has been here and, with the course getting ever drier, "it's going to be more difficult and the bounces more incredible." South African Gary Player, three-time winner of this tournament, holed a bunker shot for an eagle three on the 18th but wasn't happy with his round. "I wouldn't have even broken 80--nothing went right." He thought the first hole, now reduced by 43 yards (to 450) from a par five to a par four, made it a difficult start. "If you begin with a four in this tournament, you can be very happy," he said. Player could not believe the "untypical" weather would last and if a wind came up, which is usual at the British Open sea-side course, then the par-72, 7,001-yard course would be "very different indeed." The heat buckled yet another hallowed British tradition. Pipe-smoking Scotsman Brian Barnes became the first player in any British Open to turn out in short pants. Hubie Green, who put together three consecutive tour victories earlier this year, was the fifth choice in the betting at 16-1, followed by Player at 20-1. Jerry Pate, surprise recent winner of the U.S. Open who left Britain last year a loser in all four of his Walker Cup matches, was in a group at 25-1 along with compatriots Tom Watson and Ray Floyd, Australian Graham Marsh and Briton Neil Coles. Palmer was at 40-1. # Summer League Stars Square Off Tonight at 7:30 NORFOLK--The Tidewater Summer League's all-stars of the National and American divisions meet tonight at 7:30 in a nine-inning game at Lakewood. Burton's, the league's only unbeaten member at this halfway mark in the season, and Chesapeake Athletic Club each have placed eight players on the American team, to be managed by Hank Foiles of Burton's. Manager Dee Kline of Fett will handle the National team, where eight of his own players are represented along with five from the Merchants, three from the Royals, and two each from Ft. Monroe and the Orioles. Also on the National team will be two players from Pittman and one each from the Blue Jackets and Southern Amusement. Although the starting pitchers have not been announced, it is likely that lefthander John Dannemann (2-0) of Burton's will go for the American squad, and righthander Marty Moore (3-1) of Fett for the National. The combined American pitching staff of Dannemann and Jack Baker of Burton's and George Weeks and Gene Hassell of CAC has an overall 12-1 record. Ed Duffy of CAC leads the league with a .607 batting average, and he will be joined on the American squad by CAC teammate Rick Ezell (.563) and Burton's regulars Dannemann (.450), Baker (.367), Nate Blake (.385) and Jeff Steckroth (.400). Kline, who also plays first base for Fett, has a .519 average, but the American's No. 1 hitter is shortstop Towny Townsend (.555) of Fett. Eddie Tyndall of the Royals is at .438. Fett also can look to the league's leading home run hitter, Dennis Tucker of the Merchants. Tucker has five homers this season. ### Monzon Plans 2 Films ROME (UPI)--World middleweight champion Carlos Monzon of Argentina arrived in Rome Tuesday with actress Gilda Jimenez. He said he planned to play roles in two films in Rome. 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They said that three hostages, one Israeli commando, seven terrorists, and some Ugandan soldiers were killed in an hour-long battle at Entebbe Airport, outside the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Ugandan President Idi Amin said in a broadcast statement that 20 Ugandan troops were killed and 32 injured. Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur, the Israeli chief of staff, said that the Israelis had to fight both hijackers and Ugandan troops to get the hostages out. Defense Minister Shimon Peres accused Amin of cooperating with the hijackers. At least 11 hostages were hospitalized in Tel Aviv, and two injured hostages were left behind, one in Nairobi and one in Uganda. "When I heard the shots, I knew God had come to take us out," said a weeping Israeli hostage, her eyes ringed with fatigue. "It was a miracle. We were so far from Israel and they came for us." In Madison, Wis., Sunday, the mother of one freed hostage said that her daughter had been confident throughout the ordeal that she would escape. Mrs. Harvey Robey said she spoke by telephone with her daughter Janet Almog after Mrs. Almog and her Israeli husband Ezra arrived safely in Tel Aviv. Mrs. Almog "sounded strong and good," Mrs. Robey said. "She said it never occurred to them that they would not get out. But they never dreamed they would get out the way they did." The predawn airborne raid on Entebbe, more than five hours' flying time from Tel Aviv, came a week after the hijackers seized an Air France jet over Athens and only 10 hours before the deadline set by the terrorists to kill their hostages. They had threatened to blow up the captives at 7 a.m. EDT if 53 Arab and other prisoners held in Israel and Europe were not freed. The Israeli commander of the mission, paratroop Brig. Dan Shomron, said that his men killed seven terrorists and that is almost all the terrorists we think there were." Peres said the terrorists included Palestinians and a German man and woman. Shomron said that six to 10 Soviet-supplied Ugandan MIG jet fighters were destroyed on the ground. Earlier in Mauritius, Ugandan Foreign Minister Juma Oris had claimed that 100 Ugandan troops were killed in the raid. He termed the action an example of "Israeli (See Commando, Page A4) A rescued youngster is comforted by an Israeli soldier after the hostages' return. (AP) Hundreds of relatives and well-wishers crowd Tel Aviv's airport to welcome the freed hostages of the hijacked plane. (AP) === Page 23 of 81 # Guerrilla Links Cut, Says Amin Va. Pilot 7/12/76 TEL AVIV (AP)--President Idi Amin of Uganda says that he has severed relations with Arab guerrilla organizations because they have caused him "nothing but trouble," an Israeli colonel said Sunday Amin also said in a telephone call Friday that the Israeli commandos who raided Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free more than 100 hijack hostages were "very good," Col. Baruch Bar-lev said. Bar-lev was the Israeli military attache to Uganda before Amin threw out his Israeli advisers. Bar-lev, now a Tel Aviv businessmen, remains on good terms with the Ugandan leader and says Amin has called him several times since the hijacking by pro-Palestinians two weeks ago. The Ugandan president called him and announced, "I don't want to have anything to do with them (the terrorists) You can tell Rabin and the Israeli government that I have severed all contact with them--and I will announce this to the press." Speaking over Israel Radio, Bar-lev warned, "That man has a split personality. Tomorrow he will tell the Palestinians the exact opposite thing." "Not as a politician but as a professional soldier, I must tell you the operation was very good," Bar-lev quoted Amin as saying in a half-hour conversation Friday. "Your commandos are very good." Amin claimed that he helped the commando raid by persuading the hijackers to dismantle explosives ringing the old terminal building where the captives were held, Bar-lev said The Israelis have accused Amin of collaborating in the hijacking. Bar-lev said that Amin also asked if he could request spare parts from the Israeli government for mortars, armored personnel carriers, and tanks apparently supplied by Israel before diplomatic relations were cut. Amin ended all links with the Israelis in 1972 after Israel refused to supply him with Phantom warplanes and other military supplies for an invasion of neighboring Tanzania. Bar-lev talked about the Amin phone call in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Maariv and confirmed it to The Associated Press. In a related development, government officials here said that at least two of the hijackers who forced an Air France flight to land at Entebbe were known accomplices of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez--better known as Carlos--the shadowy South American leftist believed to be the international coordinator of terrorism with links in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. The commander of the hijack team was a German named Wilfred Boese, described as "an anarchist known to have been involved in the Carlos affair"--meaning events leading up to the June 27, 1975 Paris shootout in which Carlos was nearly arrested by French security men. Carlos, however, killed two French counterintelligence officers and a Lebanese informant and escaped. Boese was arrested in Paris at the time but was later released. Boese was killed by the Israelis at Entebbe. The second reputed Carlos associate was believed to be Antonio Bouvier, an Ecuadorian national, who disappeared after Carlos' brush with capture in Paris. Bouvier escaped the Israeli raiders at Entebbe and is believed to be still at large. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Sunday on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" that the commando raid could open "a new era" in combating world terrorism. He said that although Israel's earlier decision to exchange convicted terrorists for the hostages was sincere, it "would have encouraged all terrorist organizations in the future." Rabin repeated the charge that Amin was "a partner to the hijack," and said the Ugandan president bore full responsibility for the fate of 75-year-old Dora Bloch, the hostage left behind in Uganda. Ugandan officials have denied any knowledge of Mrs. Bloch's fate. She had been admitted to a Uganda hospital two days before the raid. Israeli newspapers published additional details of the rescue raid, quoting foreign publications not subject to Israeli military censorship. Official sources declined comment on the reports. One West German report said that the first vehicle off the Hercules C130 rescue plane was a black limousine carrying an Israeli commando dressed in a Ugandan field marshal's uniform and with his face painted black. Amin had appointed himself a field marshal. Behind the Mercedes were two Land Rovers with more raiders disguised as Palestinian bodyguards, the report said When Ugandan soldiers raised their arms to salute, they were shot, the report said. ## Today's Chuckle If the Titanic had only been a soap opera--it would still be sinking. === Page 24 of 81 Va. Pilot July 10, 1976 # Israel, Uganda Poised For Hijacking Debate UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Israel and Uganda squared off Friday for a U.N. Security Council debate, condemning each other over a plane hijacking by pro-Palestinians and an Israeli raid on Uganda's Entebbe Airport that rescued more than 100 of the hijackers' hostages. "We have no doubt that (Ugandan President) Idi Amin is a full partner to the terrorists in the hijacking," Israeli Maj. Gen. Rehavam Zeevi told the Israeli Radio Friday. "He knew of the hijacking before the plane arrived in Entebbe and he behaved throughout the negotiations as a full partner to the terrorists," Zeevi said. Amin sent his foreign minister, Juma Oris, to New York to accuse Israel of "blatant aggression" in the raid. Oris was expected to argue that Amin treated the hostages well and was acting as a mediator, not a captor. But Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog promised to give the council such a volume of evidence that "nobody would have any doubt whatsoever" that Amin was involved in the hijacking from the start. Israeli officials said Herzog would argue that saving the lives of the plane's passengers and crew held priority over respect for Ugandan sovereignty. The hijackers seized the Air France jet on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris and forced it down at Entebbe Airport two weeks ago. They demanded the release of terrorists jailed in Israel and other countries in exchange for their hostages. Ugandans and other Africans claim that Western nations, in jubilation over the Israeli success, persistently overlook the heavy Ugandan casualties. Amin and Oris have said variously that 20 or 100 Ugandan soldiers were killed. Three hostages and one Israeli commando also were reported killed. Africans have circulated a working draft strongly condemning Israel and demanding that it pay "full compensation" for damage and destruction at Entebbe. The United States has left no doubt that a resolution would be vetoed. President Ford, asked Friday at a Washington news conference if America was disturbed by Israel's violation of Ugandan sovereignty, said the U.S. position "is a good one on firm legal grounds." Ford said the U.S. position on such matters was illustrated by his order for the military to retrieve the merchant ship Mayaguez after it was seized by the Cambodian navy in 1975. ## Amin Has Damage To Brain: Doctor TEL AVIV (UPI) -- An Israeli psychiatrist who treated Idi Amin for three years said Friday that the erratic Ugandan president suffers from brain damage caused by tertiary syphilis. "In all respects, Idi Amin is very sick -- and not just mentally," said Dr. Marcel Assael, a lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "During his visits he would ask stupid, childlike, and confused questions," Assael said. "He would describe his conversations with God, angels, and other voices he heard in the night." Assael, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Kaplan Hospital in nearby Rehovoth, said the Ugandan president displays "classic symptoms of syphilis." # Woman May Be Dead LONDON (UPI) -- British government officials, stymied in their attempts to solve the mystery of the 75-year-old widow stranded in Uganda when Israeli commandos rescued more than 100 hijack hostages, said Friday that she may have died during her ordeal. President Idi Amin of Uganda has ignored repeated inquiries about Mrs. Dora Bloch's fate from the British Foreign Office and the United Nations. However, he spoke by telephone to a Tel Aviv newspaper and declared that the commandos took the woman to Israel. "She is in Israel," he said. "They took her there. She is not in Uganda." A British diplomat in Kampala said that he saw Mrs. Bloch, a grandmother who had dual British and Israeli citizenship, in her hospital bed Sunday, the day after the hostages were rescued, but that she disappeared later that day. Diplomatic sources in Washington reported that patients at the Kampala hospital said that Mrs. Bloch, who had a heart condition, was dragged from her bed Sunday by two Ugandan secret police agents. She was gagged to stifle her screams, the sources said, and she appeared to have stopped breathing when she was carried to a car outside the hospital. British officials said there was grave concern the elderly woman had died during her ordeal, if she was not slain outright. They were unable to confirm the Washington report, however. === Page 25 of 81 NAIROBI, Kenya -- Britons fleeing from Uganda as strained relations between Britain and Uganda appeared to be approaching a crisis over missing hijack hostage Dora Bloch. In London the British Foreign Office said Uganda officially demanded that Britain withdraw its acting ambassador in Kampala, James Horrocks. The Foreign Office said no reason was given, but in a speech Tuesday Ugandan President Idi Amin accused Horrocks of involvement in the Israeli hostage rescue raid at Entebbe airport July 4. Britain has denied Amin's charge. The strain in British-Ugandan relations arose after Amin's failure to produce Mrs. Bloch, who vanished from a Kampala hospital after the Israeli raid. Mrs. Bloch, 75, who held both Israeli and British nationality, is feared dead. In Kampala a Ugandan military spokesman said authorities had received reports that Britain was sending Royal Air Force planes to Uganda. He said that such an action, if true, endangered the lives of Britons living in Uganda and that Ugandan security guards have been instructed to shoot down any British air force plane they see. There was no indication elsewhere of any such flights. In New York the Security Council's emotional debate over Israel's rescue of the hijack hostages from Uganda neared an end in a stalemate. African demands for condemnation of Israel and Western appeals for United Nations action against terrorism and hijacking both headed for defeat. Rival African-sponsored and U.S.-British resolutions were before the 15-nation council, but neither had the nine votes needed for adoption. The African draft condemning "flagrant violation of Uganda's sovereignty and territorial integrity" by Israeli airborne commandos during the July 4 raid was one vote short, delegates said. In any case, it faced an American veto. The U.S.-British resolution urging all countries to condemn and punish hijacking and similar acts of terrorism commanded the support of less than a majority. In London 10 members of Parliament trying to deliver a protest letter to Ugandan representatives said they were deliberately snubbed by Ugandan diplomats. Outside the Ugandan Embassy demonstrators carried signs reading "Amin butcher of innocent old lady," and "UN kick Uganda butchers out." At Nairobi's Embakasi International Airport witnesses said that about 10 Britons arrived Wednesday on an East African Airways flight from Uganda. They included several children, and appeared to represent two families. The British Embassy said it was not making any arrangements for them and officially was not aware of their arrival. A spokesman cautioned: "I would not be inclined to interpret this as the beginning of a vast exodus." He added that it was not known whether the families were leaving Uganda permanently or just temporarily. An estimated 500 to 550 Britons remain in Uganda, considerably fewer than the number there in the 1960s and early 1970s. Britain last weekend recalled its ambassador in Kampala, James Hennessy, after his apparent failure to make any headway with Amin in a meeting to discuss the Bloch case. On Tuesday Uganda expelled Peter Chandley, second secretary in the British Embassy, who reported to the Foreign Office that he saw Mrs. Bloch in a hospital several hours after the Israeli commando strike. At his meeting with Hennessy, Amin insisted that the widowed grandmother had returned to Israel with the commandos. Va Pilot 7/15/76 === Page 26 of 81 # Israel Denounces Amin, Terrorism Va. Pilot 7/14/76 JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon Tuesday denounced the regime of Uganda President Idi Amin as "murderous" and called for international cooperation in ridding the world of terrorism. Allon denounced Uganda for the disappearance of Dora Bloch, a 74-year-old grandmother who has been missing and feared dead since Israeli commandos freed more than 100 hostages in Entebbe Airport July 3. Later, Mrs. Bloch's son said there had not been such "crimes" as those in Uganda "since Hitler died." Allon, speaking before a session of the Israeli parliament to discuss Mrs. Bloch's fate, said: "The Ugandan government would do well to bear in mind that the Jewish people's memory is long. It neither forgets evil-doers nor does it condone their crimes. "I shall not enumerate all the crimes of the president of Uganda nor the evils of the murderous regime he has introduced in his country, a blood-encrusted regime. "But his behavior towards Mrs. Bloch, an elderly woman innocent of any crime, helpless in his hands, constitutes the height of barbarity even by his own barbaric standards." Britain's ambassador to Israel, Anthony Elliot, and one of Mrs. Bloch's two sons, Ilan Hartuv, along with his wife and children, attended the session "To the international community we address a forceful demand to pluck up the necessary courage once and for all to spew out the gangs of international terrorism and to combat this pestilence and all its supporters until its final eradication," Allon said. Kenya Mission Kinney SHOES === Page 27 of 81 # Its Losses Are Mourned While Israel Rejoices, TEL AVIV (AP)--Israel paused Monday in its jubilant celebration of the daring hostage rescue in Uganda to bury two Israeli captives killed in the Entebbe Airport shootout. The army watched Israel's borders for threatened revenge attacks by Palestinian guerrillas. Israeli shops and houses flew the blue-and-white national flag, and newspapers filled pages with advertisements congratulating Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the army. But there was little rejoicing in Batyam and Netanya, where two of three hostages killed in the clash with the hijackers were buried. "This is a harsh land," wept the husband of 56-year-old Ida Borochovich, a Russian immigrant who struggled most of his life to come to Israel and finally arrived with his family in 1969. "It was a magnificent, courageous operation," said the chief military chaplain, Brig. Gen. Mordechai Piron, in eulogizing Mrs. Borochovich. "But it is the fate of this nation that every joy and delight be mixed with pain and mourning." Mrs. Borochovich and another Israeli passenger of the hijacked Air France airliner, Jean-Jacques Maimoni, 19, were buried with military honors and their graves covered in wreaths from the army, government, Air France, and other groups. They were killed in the battle between the seven hijackers and 80 Ugandan soldiers, and the Israeli raiding party, the military said. A third hostage died in Nairobi, the stopover point for the Israeli soldiers on their 2,500-mile return trip. American-born Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the only Israeli soldier killed, was to be buried today. Israel's traditional foes, the Arabs and the Soviets, denounced Israel and sympathized with Uganda, and the Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon threatened bloody reprisals. President Idi Amin declared he "reserves the right to retaliate in whatever way possible to redress the aggression," but did not elaborate. He said in a broadcast statement that Uganda would seek compensation for damage at Entebbe Airport in the raid. In Cairo, U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim described Israel's raid as a violation of Uganda's national sovereignty. During a stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, Waldheim "expressed satisfaction that it had proved possible to save human lives" in the Israeli raid, a U.N. spokesman said in New York. Waldheim denied that he had described the Israeli reaction as "flagrant aggression." The Middle East News Agency had reported from Cairo that Waldheim called the raid "an outrageous aggression." In Nairobi, Kenya, where the rescue flights landed en route back to Israel, the head nurse at a hospital said that wounded Israeli hostages had been treated and discharged. Earlier reports said only one person had been hospitalized in Nairobi === Page 28 of 81 With Uganda Va. Pilot 7/14/76 # Kenyans Want Break NAIROBI. Kenya (UPI) -- The ruling Kenya African National Union Saturday called for the country to sever all links with neighboring Uganda until Ugandans try through peaceful or forceful means to replace President Idi Amin. "The quarrel between Kenya and Uganda will in the near future result in physical confrontation if prompt action is not taken to cut off links with Uganda," said Sammy Maina. secretary of the Union's Nairobi branch. He said all links should be severed "until the Ugandan people themselves make every effort to replace Amin by force or by peaceful means." Maina's statement came as the already poor relations between the two countries deteriorated further after the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport to rescue hijack hostages, and reports that Amin's military forces are killing Kenyans in Uganda in revenge. Maina also said that the "earlier the East African community is wound up the better" The community links Kenya. Uganda. and their southern neighbor, Tanzania, in a number of joint services including harbors, railways, customs and excise. as well as postal services and telecommunications. === Page 29 of 81 Va. Pilot 7/16/76 # Uganda Tale Of Torture NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI)--A Canadian who fled Uganda said Thursday that he saw whites and blacks tortured in Kampala and that some Britons were missing. He said he had been arrested and punched and he heard people "screaming in agony, begging their captors to stop." Patrick S. Morris, 38, a Canadian who left with the latest group of Britons to flee Uganda after President Idi Amin's warning that "big mouths" who criticized Uganda and praised the Israeli commando raid that freed 101 hijack hostages would "pay heavily." He said the streets of Kampala "have more armed soldiers than civilians" and that since the Israeli rescue 12 days ago people were "living in panic." Morris said three policemen stopped him in the street as he was walking home Monday and asked for his identity card. "They asked me if I had a friend or whether I knew of anyone who was involved in the Israeli raid and whether I knew of anyone trying to leave the country." Morris said he was then threatened with physical violence and taken on foot to an old building opposite a police station about half a mile away. "As we walked through the corridors I saw scores of people guarded by armed policemen and army men. Most of them were Africans, but I saw some whites," he said. "I was led down two flights of stairs into the basement. Along the way, lit by dim lights, there were rooms on both sides. I heard people screaming in agony. They were crying out," he said. "It was horrible. They were yelling for help, begging their captors to stop. "On the floor I saw clots of blood that had stuck like paint. I was made to sit in a chair. They tied my arms and legs to the chair and (four men) started their interrogation. On the walls were electric shock devices." "They asked me whether I knew of anyone who disagreed with their policy. Well, everyone disagrees with it but you cannot say so," he said. Morris said after he told his interrogators he was a national of a country unconnected with the Entebbe affair and had nothing to do with politics, "they gave me a couple of punches and after two hours they led me out of the place." === Page 30 of 81 A4 Virginian-Pilot, Monday, July 5, 1976 # Training, Surprise Keys To Triumphant Assault By WILLIAM J. DRUMMOND Los Angeles Times News Service JERUSALEM--The Israeli lightning raid to rescue more than 100 hijacked airline passengers at Entebbe Airport was a success "because the element of surprise was complete," Brig. Gen. Dan Shomron, over-all commander of the elite commando unit, told reporters Sunday. Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur, appearing at the briefing with Shomron, gave this summary of what three planeloads of commandos carried out in approximately 36 minutes of battle at the Ugandan airport: * Destroyed six to 10 MIG aircraft. * Wiped out at least seven members of the 10-man terrorist squad, and did so with such speed that the guerrillas managed to explode only one grenade instead of blowing up the entire building holding the passenger-hostages. * Killed at least 20 of the approximately 70 Ugandan soldiers, whom the Israelis say were helping to guard the hostages. * Evacuated the passengers from a surrounded, heavily guarded building during a fierce firefight in the dark, while sustaining casualties of only three civilians and one soldier killed and eight other people wounded. Once the operation was over, the strike force brought the hostages more than 2,500 miles back to Israel without incident. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Sunday told the Parliament the background of how the plan was drawn up: "Throughout the entire time since the capture of the plane, we sought ways and means to foil the terrorists' scheme by our own devices. The army and the intelligence community lost not a single hour required for thinking, planning, and preparation. When the opportune moment arrived, the plan was submitted for the Cabinet's consideration. The Cabinet approved the operation unanimously." The raid was no less a shock for the Israelis than it was for the terrorists. News of the raid electrified Israel and buoyed the country's sagging spirits. The old Israeli superman image, tarnished badly in the October 1973 war, was reviving under the stream of political hyperbole about the Saturday night operation that freed the Air France passengers and crew held since June 27. The pro-Palestinian terrorists demanded the release of 53 jailed guerrillas, mainly held in Israel. Defense Minister Shimon Peres called the raid "brilliant and daring... an unprecedented operation." Rabin, a former chief of staff, was less restrained: "This operation of redemption of captives is worthy of Jewish and Israeli pride and of worldwide acclaim... the operation will be a subject for research, for song, and for legend, and it will be written about in the annals of the nation." Military men were cautious about revealing too many details of the operation--because similar methods might have to be employed in the future. It must remain a mystery why no one in the Ugandan airport tower at Entebbe sounded an alarm when the Israeli plane landed. Clearly the Israelis must have benefited from the close collaboration that existed with Uganda in military training programs before Kampala broke diplomatic relations in 1972. Israelis trained Ugandan pilots and knew Entebbe Airport procedures intimately. During the Sunday press briefing, the Israelis passed out mimeographed copies of detailed maps of the airport layout. The second advantage the Israelis had, according to reports on Israel radio, was its special, elite commando force, which was created years ago to handle just such emergencies. Its training is specifically in rescue-type scenarios, in which life or death for hostages is decided in a few seconds. Asked repeatedly if the Israelis had received any help from other countries--specifically Kenya--Gur and Peres GEN. SHOMRON... commando chief emphasized that the planning and execution of the raid were entirely Israeli. Israel asked no help of anyone and held no prior consultation with anyone, the two officials said. However, Gur said laconically that the Kenyan authorities should not have been taken by surprise when the Israeli aircraft arrived at Nairobi airport seeking to refuel and to get medical assistance for the wounded after the raid. The civilians who were hit in the gun battle, said Gur, were most likely those who would not heed instructions from Israeli soldiers to lie flat on the ground. Soldiers were told to shout this command in Hebrew. # Commando Raid Continued from Page A1 aggression" and Uganda was calling for an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council. Amin was quoted in an Israeli newspaper interview saying, "I had meant today to work for the release of the Israelis and for that reason I came back early from a conference in Mauritius. All that is left for me is to count the dead." The raid clearly caught Amin and his highly vaunted army, as well as the hijackers, completely off guard. The Israeli government, in what had appeared as a total turnaround in policy, had indicated readiness to negotiate for the release of the hostages. In Tel Aviv, the homecoming troops and hostages were met by the wildest rejoicing since Israeli POWs returned after the 1973 October war. Crowds broke through police lines to hug and kiss the laughing, weeping, and shouting hostages. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, and Peres were caught up in the pandemonium. "I'm proud of the army and I'm proud of the nation," Peres shouted. "I am very proud and happy." The returning Israeli planes brought back two of the dead hostages. They were identified as Ida Bokhovitch and Jacques Mimouni. Israeli television aid that the hostages returned to Israel included 61 Israelis, 21 French, 10 Jews with dual nationalities carrying Israeli passports, and the Air France crew of 12. Peres said that one woman who was hospitalized in Kampala before the raid was left in Uganda. Two seriously injured Israelis were hospitalized in Kenya when the Israeli jets stopped in Nairobi on their flight home, and medical sources said that one of them died. Exactly how the hostages were killed or wounded was not immediately clear. Survivors said that one of the terrorists threw a grenade before he was killed, and Israeli commandos said that some of the victims may have been hit in cross fire between Israelis and the Ugandans and Palestinians. The Israeli raid ended an ordeal for the hostages that began a week ago when their Air France jetliner, on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, was hijacked after a stopover in Athens. The terrorists forced the jet to fly to Kampala and demanded the release of 53 prisoners from Israeli and European jails. Hostages said that the air hijackers were joined in Uganda by more terrorists. Several accounts said that there had been four hijackers aboard the plane, plus three gunmen waiting in Kampala. Israelis said that the leader of the band was Wadiya Haddad, an Arab guerrilla chief who split with the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The German couple were not identified. In negotiations last week, the gang freed 148 of their hostages. The rest were kept in an old airport terminal building. The speed and surprise of the rescue generated a welter of conflicting reports and rumors. Piecing together the most reliable accounts from hostages, witnesses, and official reports, this is what happened: The Israeli jets arrived at about 1 a.m. local time. Some sources said that they set off an explosion at one end of Entebbe to divert Ugandan troops ringing the airport and then landed at the other end, near the hostages. Israeli commandos roared out in jeeps and in seconds they were inside the terminal building. "We heard all the noise and we thought the Arabs were coming to liquidate us," said Idit Hirsch, a hostage. "Then we heard men yelling in Hebrew. We were saved." Addressing an Organization of African Unity (OAU) conference in Mauritius, Ugandan Foreign Minister Juma Oris accused Kenya of using Kenyan facilities to plan and execute the strike. The incident was bound to further strain relations between the two East African neighbors. In a Radio Uganda broadcast, Amin said he would make "recommendations" about the incident to the U.N. Security Council, the Arab League, the nonaligned summit, and the OAU. Arab diplomats at the OAU meeting wasted no time in condemning "Israeli aggression." Amin complained that rather than killing Ugandans, Israel should have thanked him for spending more than $1,800 a day to care for the hostages. Maariv quoted him saying: "We treated them nicely. We did everything for them, gave them food and toilet needs and we guarded them in order to exchange them... and instead of thanking me you kill my men." === Page 31 of 81 Va. Pilot 7/23/76 # Fuel Rationed; Uganda Mutiny, Papers Report NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) -- Uganda Thursday imposed gasoline rationing and banned all private motoring, reserving its last few days of petroleum supplies for government vehicles, doctors, and schools. Kenyan newspapers said the mutiny in the Ugandan army spread to more units and involves more than one-fourth of President Idi Amin's 12,000-strong military. There was no official confirmation of the mutiny. But Uganda Radio reported that six people, including four ranking officials, have been arrested on charges of subversion and face a firing squad if found guilty by a military tribunal. It gave no further details. Uganda Radio also announced strict and immediate gasoline rationing. Private motoring was banned, and the country's dwindling reserves, estimated at a few days' supply, were allocated to government vehicles, buses, doctors, and schools. Uganda's oil reserves and those of neighboring Rwanda have been exhausted because Kenya has demanded payment for supplies in foreign currency. Tanker drivers, fearful of reported atrocities by Ugandan troops, have refused to enter the country. With industry already paralyzed and even the food distribution system breaking down, Amin has appealed to Arab nations for financial help and intervention on Uganda's behalf to convince Kenya to resume delivery of supplies. Diplomatic sources in Nairobi said Amin is facing his most serious crisis since seizing power in January 1971, because of the deteriorating economic, military, and political situation. === Page 32 of 81 VA. PILOT 9/5/76 # God Punishes Britons: Amin NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Ugandan President Idi Amin says Britain's drought is punishment from God for assisting the Israeli commando raid on his country's Entebbe Airport July 4. The official Uganda radio, monitored here, said Amin made the comment in an address to a women's meeting at Entebbe Friday. "It is due to God's power that Britain is suffering from water shortage," Amin was quoted as saying. He added that God is punishing Britain for supporting the Israeli raid, which rescued about 100 Jewish airplane hostages, hijacked to Uganda by pro-Palestinian guerrillas. Amin accused some British diplomats in Uganda of knowing about the raid in advance and later expelled them. === Page 33 of 81 A12 Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, July 7, 1976 # Soldiers, Hijackers Given Honor Burial KAMPALA, Uganda (UPI) -- Uganda buried with full military honors Tuesday the 20 soldiers and 7 pro-Palestinian hijackers killed in Israel's lightning rescue raid. President Idi Amin attended the funeral and declared two days of public mourning. Flags throughout the capital flew at half staff as the Ugandan soldiers and the five Arab and two German hijackers were buried side by side. Uganda Radio said they received full military honors. After the mass funeral, Amin visited soldiers wounded by the Israeli commandos. In a radio statement, Amin said he was "going back to the barracks" to concentrate on military affairs after the Ugandan debacle in the 36-minute encounter with the Israelis. Although accusing Germany, France, and Kenya of collusion in the "Israeli Zionist aggression," Amin said he has "nothing against" Kenya. Kenya has sought to minimize its role, but has not officially denied Ugandan charges that the Israelis refueled in Nairobi, where a field hospital was set up to treat the injured on the way home. (In Nairobi, the Nation, a nongovernment newspaper, praised the Israeli action and said, "The Israelis taught the world a lesson in how to deal with terrorism.") (It said the mission "saved scores of lives of innocent people who would almost certainly have died if their destinies were left in the hands of the likes of the Ugandan leader.") ("Eyewitnesses saw him (Amin) embrace the leader of the hijackers on the runway at Entebbe," the Nation said.) ("Let us have a few answers. Did Amin give the hijackers guns and grenades?" the daily asked. "Did his soldiers perform guard duty for the hijackers?") ("Here is a so-called head of state who has been charged with a grave offense--aiding and abetting a gang of killers.") Ben-Zion (left), Peres, and Rabin attend the funeral ceremony for Netanyahu in Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery. (AP) # Thousands Mourn Israeli Commander JERUSALEM (AP)--Thousands of Israelis paid their last respects Tuesday to the American-born paratroop commander killed in Israel's rescue raid into Uganda, hailing him as a latter-day Jonathan, the biblical warrior. His father, a Cornell University professor, said the prayer of mourning. Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu's simple wooden coffin was covered with dozens of wreaths. His commando comrades wept as he was buried. The 30-year-old officer was killed by gunfire while leading his men into Entebbe Airport Saturday night to rescue more than 100 air hijack hostages. They were held by Palestinian guerrillas under the leadership of a German linked by police to international terrorism. At the United Nations in New York, the Organization of African Unity called for an immediate meeting of the Security Council to consider what it termed Israel's "wanton act of aggression" against Uganda in the rescue operation. Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam of Mauritius, the OAU chairman, called on the Security Council in a telegram to Italian Ambassador Piero Vinci, the council president for July. Israel, on guard against reprisal raids across the borders by Arab guerrillas, was re-evaluating its policy on terrorists as a result of the ordeal that began June 27 with the hijacking of an Air France airbus over Greece. Besides Netanyahu, the raid took the lives of three hostages, seven hijackers, and 20 Ugandan soldiers. Two of the slain hostages were buried here Monday. Israeli cabinet officers were reported considering the death penalty for convicted terrorists so they would not serve as bait for ransom demands from hijackers. As ransom, the Air France hijackers had demanded the release of 53 Palestinian guerrillas and other extremists jailed in Israel and four other countries. "We must now evaluate and determine our future tactics against Arab terror," Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told executives of his Labor Party. "Only one battle has been won." Rabin said Israel must tighten its security arrangements on flights to Europe, where he said Arab terrorists were working with European urban guerrillas "like the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Carlos Gang." "We are facing an insane enemy which learns from its failures," said Rabin. President Ephraim Katzir, Rabin, cabinet ministers, and the top military commanders joined with a huge crowd gathered around Netanyahu's grave at the military cemetery here. "The distance between Uganda and Israel is long, but (the rescue mission) has shortened the distance between Lt. Col. Netanyahu and Jonathan," Defense Minister Shimon Peres said. Quoting from the Book of Samuel, he echoed King David's lament for Saul and Jonathan: "How are the mighty fallen." "The mission in Uganda, in one short hour, strengthened the backbone of the Jewish people and off the whole free world," Peres declared. "This was a time when the fate of a nation was determined in one hour, by a small band of brave men." Netanyahu's father, Ben-Zion, a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., said kaddish, the prayer of mourning, and a guard of honor fired three salvoes. Though messages of congratulations continued to arrive from Western governments, Israel was bracing for an international diplomatic battle over its right to carry out the raid. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has said it violated Ugandan sovereignty though he expressed satisfaction that lives had been saved. Shlomo Avineri, director general of the Foreign Ministry, indicated Israel's reply to charges of illegality will be that "human considerations supersede the legal sovereignty" of another state. Defense Ministry officials said Israel had evidence Ugandan President Idi Amin may have known about the hijacking before it began. The officials said the evidence, which they declined to disclose, indicated that Amin arranged for six guerrillas to be brought to Entebbe airport in advance of the arrival of the commandeered plane. Asked if this meant Amin knew the plane would be hijacked, one official said: "It seems so." French police identified the leader of the hijack gang as Wilfried Boese, 27, a German closely linked with the international terrorist known as Carlos. 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"This challenge should be taken absolutely seriously, although I have not had an answer from the president yet. He has insulted me rudely and he can take my challenge as caused by his bloody regime. It has been made in behalf of all his victims." Thomsen is a former parachutist in the Danish armed forces and is on the staff of Berlingske Tidende, Denmark's largest morning newspaper. ********** Va. Beach 8/14/76 ********** === Page 35 of 81 # Amin Cuts Kenya Power NAIROBI, Kenya = President Idi Amin of Uganda has cut electricity supplies to Kenya and threatened to attack its East African neighbor unless Nairobi lifts its economic blockade and allows petroleum supplies through. "If the blockade continues, Uganda will have no alternative but to fight for her own survival," Amin said in a radio broadcast. === Page 36 of 81 # HOW THE ISRAELIS PULLED IT OFF Boeing 707 communications plane Hijacked Air France plane Commando team peels off to take control of new terminal "It was almost incredible," said Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur, Israel's chief of staff. And it was. Israeli commandos flew 2,000 miles to Uganda, gunned down a gang of terrorist hijackers and freed 104 hostages in one of the most spectacularly successful rescue raids of modern times. In the first days after Israel's Mission Impossible, the Jerusalem government kept the details a closely guarded secret. But last week, NEWSWEEK correspondents Milan J. Kubic and Michael Elkins in Jerusalem, James Pringle in Nairobi, and Scott Sullivan in Washington pieced together the extraordinary story of how the Israelis did it. The inside account: Weary and apprehensive, the strain already showing on their faces, the leaders of Israel sat in the wood-paneled Cabinet Room under a large painting of Jerusalem. It was 5:30 p.m. on June 28, less than 30 hours after the hijacking. Transportation Minister Gad Yaakobi was the first to say what was on everyone's mind: "If we accept the [hijackers'] conditions, the Palestinians will escalate their terror and no Israeli leaving the country will be safe." Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin nodded toward General Gur, and asked: "Do we have a military option?" The critical subject had been raised at last. Gur explained that he lacked adequate intelligence about the layout of the airfield at Entebbe, Uganda, the number of hostages, the military and human risks. He replied: "At the moment, we do not have a military option." Rabin turned to Yaakobi. "Well, here are the professionals," he said. "Are you ready to ignore their advice?" No one spoke. Then Defense Minister Shimon Peres--a political adversary of Rabin--bluntly called for some form of military action "to counter the image of a weak and indecisive government." Rabin turned crimson with anger. "We're talking about military feasibility," he snapped, "and not about politics." Minutes later, Rabin called for a vote, and the Cabinet unanimously agreed that the government should continue to explore the possibility that negotiations might gain the release of the hostages without bloodshed. But the Israeli politicians also hedged their bet by ordering the army and the country's intelligence chiefs to come up with a viable military option. ### DAYS OF REHEARSAL The Israeli Army went into action almost immediately. Even as the generals and their special agents began to piece together the intelligence data to mount a raid on Entebbe, a potential strike force was assembled at a desert military base somewhere in Israel. It was the first of four days of rehearsal for a mission that might or might not take place. Jerusalem's dilemma was twofold. On the one hand, Israel had to collect a vast amount of information on a distant and hostile country. On the other hand, Israel had to convince the terrorists that it was negotiating in good faith. A "crisis-management group"--Rabin, Peres, Yaakobi, Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, Justice Minister Chaim Zadok and Minister Without Portfolio Israel Galili--was set up to coordinate the government's double-edged policy. Negotiations were begun. Cables were sent to the Israeli Embassy in Paris, which passed the message on via the French Foreign Office to the Somali ambassador in Kampala--and finally to the hijackers in Entebbe. But as each hour passed, the idea of a successful military strike became ever more tempting to Israel, and the government sought information from every possible source. Officials checked with the Israeli construction company Solel Boneh, which had built Entebbe Airport--only to learn that it had been enlarged so greatly in recent years that old blueprints were useless. Next, they turned to the Pentagon for assistance. They quizzed members of El Al's sizable staff in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi--the only accessible refueling stop on the Tel Aviv-Johannesburg run--seeking information about possible flight routes, refueling opportunities, communication facilities. They booked Maj. Gen. Rehavam Zeevi, the government's special adviser on counterterror action, aboard El Al's Flight 023 to Paris in case the commandos released any hostages. They slipped agents into Uganda. All the while the briefing books grew thicker. On June 30, Israel began to get the Gamma-Liaison Tilt: Paratroops and deception teams went into action 42 Newsweek === Page 37 of 81 INTERNATIONAL AUTH Auth--Philadelphia Inquirer AP Lightning-swift rescue: Courage and sheer chutzpa produced a surge of confidence in Israel, a humiliating defeat for Amin # The Fallout From Entebbe Once again, Israel's lightning-swift sword had cut down an enemy, and its display of military precision, courage and sheer chutzpa won the applause and admiration of most of the world. In 53 breathless minutes, a band of Israeli commandos plucked 104 hostages from under the nose of a tinhorn African dictator and triumphed over international terrorism. At first, Israel kept the inside story of its raid on Uganda's Entebbe Airport a national secret. But NEWSWEEK was able to reconstruct in substantial detail the narrative of the amazing feat (following story). Last week, the international community began to feel the reverberations of the complex rescue operation. In the aftermath of Entebbe, Palestinian terrorists were struck a telling blow, and an already divided Arab world was confronted once again by a proud and confident Israel; the self-doubts that had been gnawing at Israelis since the October 1973 war were replaced--at least for the moment--by elation. Though they are one of the most severely taxed people in the world, exuberant Israelis poured $3 million into a voluntary defense fund. In Africa, Uganda's humiliated President Idi Amin threatened to retaliate militarily against neighboring Kenya for alleged complicity in the raid. But Kenya labeled Amin a "sadist" and a "Fascist" and secretly issued a call for U.S. help--and Washington promptly responded. The U.S., NEWSWEEK learned, put a Navy P-3 patrol plane at Kenya's service to provide military reconnaissance along the Ugandan border. Washington ordered the frigate U.S.S. Beary to head for the Kenyan port of Mombasa. And a Task Group from the U.S. Seventh Fleet--including the aircraft carrier Ranger--was ordered to steam toward Kenya in a third pointed signal of U.S. support. The American moves last week appeared to be the first application of Henry Kissinger's new policy of strengthening America's ties with moderate Black African nations. At a Washington press conference, Kissinger said the Beary was on "a normal port visit," but the American moves were a bold warning to Amin not to let his post-Entebbe lust for revenge lead him into war. ### MURDER IN KAMPALA Still, there was reason for concern. Amin persuaded Libya to send about 30 Mirage fighters to Uganda to replace the eleven MiG's destroyed by Israel. And there were reliable diplomatic reports that Amin's troops were going from house to house in Kampala searching for Kenyans--and murdering them on the spot. The Israeli raid gave an enormous political boost to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who had previously been unable to shake off a reputation as a weak, indecisive leader. The gamble could well have cost Rabin his job if it had failed. But it succeeded, and opposition leader Menachem Begin even rushed to the crisis headquarters to give Rabin a hug when he heard of the mission's outcome. Israel, however, still faced potential diplomatic problems. The United Nations Security Council debated charges by the Organization of African Unity that Israel had committed "wanton aggression" against Uganda. Chaim Herzog, Israel's chief U.N. delegate, replied that the aggressor was "this rotten, brutal, cynical, bloodthirsty monster of international terrorism and all those who support it." Privately, some African states were pleased by Israel's blow against Amin, but it looked as though only a U.S. veto would save Israel from yet another U.N. condemnation. Israeli leaders vowed to battle Palestinian terrorists on foreign soil whenever necessary, and U.S. intelligence sources predicted that Palestinian commandos--who have suffered a costly setback in Lebanon--would probably try to avenge their comrades slain in Entebbe. A number of Western nations were discussing new ways to combat terrorism, including the imposition of a mandatory death penalty for hijacking and the creation of an international strike force. Neither approach appeared promising, however, as long as nations like Libya and Uganda offer a safe haven to hijackers. Indeed, it seemed that the most other countries could do was admire Israel's Mission Impossible--and brace themselves for the next outburst of Mideast violence. --MILTON R. BENJAMIN with bureau reports week, July 19, 1976 41 === Page 38 of 81 The Virginian-Pilot ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 21, 1865 Page A20 Wednesday, July 14, 1976 * ********** # 'Guts and Brains' The dramatic Israeli raid rescuing 103 hostages from Uganda was characterized by Ambassador to the United Nations William W. Scranton this week as "a combination of guts and brains that has seldom if ever been surpassed." That is an apt description of the operation that brought humiliation to General Idi Amin, the strong man of Uganda, and jubilation to the Israeli rescuers and the rescued. The details of the raid are leaking out now. The first vehicle off the Israeli planes was a black limousine with a burly commando impersonating General Amin himself; the black-faced officer wore a gaudy field marshal's uniform and was accompanied by bodyguards dressed like the terrorists. The ruse fooled the Ugandan soldiers at the airport and gained precious time. Neither the African effort to have the United Nations condemn the July 3 raid as a "flagrant violation" of Uganda's sovereignty nor the Anglo-American resolution to broaden the debate and denounce hijacking and terrorism is going to dim the heroism of the Israelis or erase the humiliation to Uganda. Certainly the sovereignty of Uganda was violated, but the connivance of General Amin with the hijackers justified the raid. As Ambassador Scranton argued at the U. N., "there is a well-established right to use limited force for the protection of one's own nationals from an imminent threat of injury or death in a situation where the state in whose territory they are located either is unwilling or unable to protect them." But it is idle to debate legal niceties with the likes of General Amin, who is as loathsome as he is preposterous. It appears that Mrs. Dora Bloch, the hostage hospitalized in Uganda, was brutally murdered in the wake of the Israeli raid; she was a 75-year-old grandmother who was flying from Tel Aviv to New York to attend her son's wedding. British officials also fear for the safety of some 500 Britons, mostly missionaries, remaining in Uganda. The only language that General Amin comprehends is the one that the commandos employed at Entebbe airport. # Lo, the Poor Republicans the Republican the battle be- and Ronald decided un- inated at Because of Democratic defections and Republican solidarity, the 94th Congress has not proved to be "veto-proof." Only four of President Ford's 21 vetoes have been overridden. But the satisfaction that nority. "The real- is that the in commit- nitiate a nor, and seven are retiring. Many are liberal-to-moderate Republicans reasonably sure of re-election. Former Representative James Hastings of New York, 50, uary, to t "M === Page 39 of 81 A4 Virginian-Pilot, Monday, July 26, 1976 # Amin Threatens Kenya Over Fuel NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)--Ugandan President Idi Amin hinted anew Sunday at possible military action against neighboring Kenya, accusing it of an economic blockade that has left Uganda with only enough gasoline to operate emergency vehicles for five days. "This may force Uganda to resort to desperate action," Amin was quoted as saying by Radio Uganda. It echoed his Saturday warning that Uganda might have to "fight for its survival." The broadcast monitored here also said that Amin asked the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity to intervene in the dispute by dispatching fact-finding missions to Uganda and Kenya. Kenya denied again that it had imposed a blockade and declared that the problem was solely Amin's failure to settle past debts and pay cash for future needs. "If he attacks Kenya, Kenya will be bound to . . . defend herself, but . . . we have no interest in fighting Uganda," Kenyan Foreign Minister Munyua Waiyaki said Sunday. "If the blockade that Amin is referring to is based on the fact that we have demanded cash payment, then we must tell him we are under no obligation to subsidize the Uganda economy," Waiyaki said, suggesting Amin should turn to wealthier countries, presumably meaning oil-rich Libya, with which Uganda has close ties. Radio Uganda said Amin sent a message U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and OAU Secretary-General Eteki Mboumoua asking them to send fact-finding missions to verify that Kenya is allowing only one gasoline tank truck a day to reach Uganda when 80 trucks are needed. It is a situation "which is threatening world peace and order," Radio Uganda quoted Amin as saying. A U.N. spokesman in New York said that he knew of no such request. Uganda claims that 309 tank trucks loaded with fuel for Uganda are being prevented by Kenya from entering the country. Kenya says it has stopped the shipment of oil and gasoline to Uganda because the Amin government has not paid for previous supplies and owes it $54 million. Kenya buys crude oil from Arab countries, refines it at the port of Mombasa, and transports it to Uganda. The flow of other goods to Uganda has also been interrupted by truckers refusing to enter Uganda, saying they fear for their lives at the hands of Amin's troops. The Ugandan president's veiled threat of force to get vital fuel seemed to contradict his repeated assurances last week that Uganda would never invade Kenya. The assurance was in a message from Amin to President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya. Radio Uganda said Amin has sent "innumerable messages" to Kenyatta to no avail. The Kenyan government said that it has not responded to Amin because of "Amin's unpredictable attitudes and because we believe he is trying to cool down his people due to the shortage of commodities." === Page 40 of 81 INTERNATIONAL # Amin Loses Another One In the nine years since Israel's victory in the Six Day War, virtually every United Nations resolution condemning the Jewish state has passed--except in the Security Council, where the U.S. has sometimes come to the rescue with its veto. Last week, the U.N.'s anti-Israeli bloc tried again--and failed. After four days of acrimonious debate, an Organization of African Unity motion to censure Israel for its rescue raid in Uganda suddenly fizzled. A counter-resolution condemning terrorism also died for lack of support, but the significance of the Security Council's actions was clear: this time, the world body was unwilling to turn a blind eye to political terrorism--or to side with Uganda's despot President Idi Amin. Amin also continued to insist that the lone hostage left behind in the raid--73-year-old Dora Bloch, who had been hospitalized after choking on a piece of food--had in fact been rescued. No one believed that story; British and Israeli officials were convinced that Amin's henchmen had murdered the woman. And the widely respected Nairobi newspaper, the Daily Nation, reported that Mrs. Bloch's charred body--along with the corpses of two airport radar operators--had been found in a forest near Entebbe. A scattering of fresh details on the raid leaked out last week. Two days before the raid, a collection of tanned and tough-looking young Israelis--several with private pilots' licenses--arrived in Kenya. They hired two small planes and took off on a "sight-seeing" flight around Lake Victoria. They made the same trip the day of the raid, and foreign intelligence officers acknowledged that the Israelis had been reconnoitering Entebbe, which sits on the Ugandan shore of the lake. Officials dismissed as fantasy one published report--that an Israeli in blackface impersonated Amin to deceive Ugandan airport guards. But they said that the Israelis did bring along a Mercedes limousine--with the same coloring and license-plate number as Amin's. The sight of the car rattled the Ugandan troops enough to give the commandos the few extra seconds necessary to reach the terminal, kill the hijackers and ensure the success of their mission. --RAYMOND CARROLL with bureau reports  *Micha Bar-Am--Magnum* Amin, Moshe Dayan in 1971: From toasts in Jerusalem to a showdown in Entebbe The Security Council's refusal to condemn Israel was a further humiliation for Amin, who was still fuming over Israel's spectacular rescue of 104 hostages at Entebbe Airport. Last week, Amin continued to flail in all directions. In the latest of a series of bizarre telephone chats with an old Israeli friend, retired Col. Baruch Bar-Lev (box, page 52), Amin disclosed that he had severed relations with the Palestinians because the hijackers "only brought problems for me." He launched a new attack on Britain, snarling: "Big mouths talking in behalf of Israel, such as the British, will pay very heavily." Then he expelled one ranking British diplomat from Uganda and demanded that Whitehall recall its acting high commissioner (the equivalent of an ambassador). by power station. The the Casino du Liban, cliff above the bay, have the spectacular floor ed jet-setters have given old movies. The casino's 's night life has been gaming room operating down the hill. Instead glassy-eyed soldiers on the tables--idly pushing the green baize. lities of Lebanon's vi- occasionally intrude on even more direct way. om Muslim sectors of bay have killed at least cent weeks. The night- ken by the grating sound fire. One of the biggest hiyah last week was the of a dead Palestinian, troops left lying in a a bridge just north of ays, cars stopped at mid- ssengers jumped out to . Some laughed loudly. the corpse. A few grim- shook their heads. we made the risky drive Beirut. During a stop- Basha refugee camp on city, we were rudely ality. At Jisr al Basha, velty. As we toured the hristian forces overran we saw streets littered most of them turning hot July sun. The odor of g heavy in the air. The structure in the camp church, and it was little ted skeleton. tian officers escorting us showing us the labyrinth concrete tunnels and that honeycombed the not call this a refugee ngry militiaman. "It is a ot Israel. If the Palestin- ate themselves, why are Lebanon?" But that con- e Muslim enemy had a w ring. It seemed clear of Jisr al Basha's fortifi- ended to be air-raid shel- of the bodies being cre- hristian troops were the men and women. ent, the Christian hopes are high. "We want to ebanon, but even if there will survive," said Elias istian businessman. "If vive among the Arabs, so Christians in Juniyah, misgivings. In fact, the e of Christian Lebanon certain than the chances e furtive, head-down run o-Lebanon seaplane. On of flying, it crashed on vah harbor--and lost one For many, that was not a y 26, 1976 === Page 41 of 81 Uganda Radio Denies Assault Va. Pilot 7/27/76 # Assassination Try Against Amin Reported in Kenya Newspapers NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI)--Ugandan President Idi Amin narrowly escaped another assassination attempt during the weekend but a number of his bodyguards were killed, Kenyan news reports said Monday. Uganda Radio denied the stories. It admitted there had been shooting in Kampala Saturday, but said that it was Amin, his two wives, and 4-year-old son "test-firing new antitank and antiaircraft weapons." The broadcast urged Ugandans not to worry about the explosions, but gave no further details. Nairobi's Standard newspaper said that heavily armed troops burst into Amin's headquarters Saturday night firing their weapons, but that the Ugandan president escaped. A story prepared for today's Daily Nation newspaper in Nairobi gave a different version. It said that two bombs exploded at Amin's command post, killing an unknown number of his bodyguards. The Nation said that a third bomb was defused and that there was no shooting. The stories sparked reports that Amin had fled Uganda, but official Kampala Radio denied the assassination attempt and said that Amin attended public functions in Kampala Monday. News reports from Kampala suggested that Amin's support has so diminished in the last few weeks, even among once loyal troops, that he will be forced to step down soon or be overthrown. Uganda's supreme policy making body, the Defense Council, called an emergency session to review Amin's position after the latest attempt on his life, the Standard newspaper said in a front-page story from Kampala. "Idi Amin mysteriously bolted Saturday evening as a group of heavily armed troops from one of his crack regiments stormed into the command post looking for him and intermittent firing ensued," the newspaper said. When the shots were heard, a nearby soccer match halted abruptly, beer halls emptied, and streets quickly became deserted, the Standard said. After the attempt, the defense council rejected Amin's decision "to go on leave outside the country," the newspaper said. It said the council was reviewing alternate methods for Amin to step down after more than five years of dictatorial rule in this landlocked East African nation. The newspaper said that Amin has gone into virtual hiding, changing his sleeping quarters each evening, though he has been broadcasting regular messages on Uganda Radio. Diplomatic sources said that an increasingly desperate Amin, with only four days supplies of fuel left in Uganda by his own reckoning, might make good his threats to attack Kenya, which he has accused of imposing an economic blockade against Uganda. === Page 42 of 81 Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, J # Israelis Used A-Grenades: Amin NAIROBI--Field Marshal Idi Amin explained in Uganda Tuesday--in a broadcast monitored here--how the Israelis overcame Uganda soldiers in the Entebbe raid early July 4: They used "nuclear grenades." He said they were new, previously untested "nuclear weapons" that put the Uganda soldiers to sleep. Amin, a Moslem, said he was not surprised that the Israelis had attacked Entebbe "because it was the Israelis who murdered Jesus Christ." # Kenya Blames Uganda For Oil, Other Troubles By DIAN TORGERSON Los Angeles Times News Service NAIROBI--Kenya, proclaiming itself blameless for a growing state of crisis in neighboring Uganda, said Tuesday that it was Uganda's "voracious adventures" that got her into trouble. But of Uganda's biggest trouble, the oil shortage for which Uganda President Idi Amin blames Kenya, Kenya's spokesman told a differing story Tuesday. In answer to a question, Foreign Minister Dr. Munyua Waiyaki said that Uganda had paid Kenya what it owed for petroleum refined in Kenya. Earlier Waiyaki had been quoted here as saying that Amin owed Kenya about $60 million for oil received but not paid for. If Uganda has paid its petroleum bill, why isn't it getting petroleum? "They have tankers," Dr. Waiyaki said. "They can easily come and collect their petrol. Or he can send it up by train." But Uganda radio reported that Kenya has impounded 309 Uganda oil tankers between the refinery on the Indian Ocean and the Uganda border. Kenya has not replied to this charge. Officially, Kenya says Uganda is not getting oil products now because Kenya drivers are afraid to enter Uganda because Amin's soldiers have beaten and threatened them. But knowledgeable sources here say that Kenya truck drivers are being discouraged from going through Uganda, that Uganda trucks have indeed been impounded, and that Kenya is encouraging the oil shortage to bring about Amin's downfall. Waiyaki released the Kenya side of the dispute at an unusual press conference and diplomatic meeting held, apparently, to put on the record Kenya's story that it is not responsible for the turmoil in Uganda. The heads of mission of the more than 50 foreign embassies in Nairobi were asked on short notice Tuesday morning to meet with Waiyaki. The press also was invited. Waiyaki read a five-page statement emphasizing that Kenya has not closed its borders to Uganda, that Kenya wants peace, and that Kenya has been the victim of Ugandan aggression and not the other way around. # Tanaka A Disturbs TOKYO (AP)--The arrest of for Kakuei Tanaka in the Lockheed payof day appeared to have won approval fr zenry. But it shocked the ruling Libe with fears of a further erosion of pu elections less than five months away. "So they've finally got around to a ment officials" said Rinzo Matsuda, a er. "I thought the authorities might Japanese politics from olden times money." While the arrest added to the Lib ty's "money politics" image, it could party's current leader, Prime Minist has vowed to get to the bottom of the with Lockheed. Some opposition party members trying to make Tanaka a scapego The arrest removes one of th within the LDP to dump Mil lacked leadership and ignored ions on some key issues. Tanaka resigned from arrest, but he remains a One legislator des tip of the iceberg." a bility by resigning w replied that he w undertake to cle LDP Sec news confer sis, but we justly." === Page 43 of 81 A10 Virginian-Pilot, Thursday, July 29, 1976 # A First by Britain in Break With Uganda LONDON (AP) -- Britain severed diplomatic relations Wednesday with President Idi Amin's Uganda in an unprecedented move against a member of the British Commonwealth. Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland announced the break in the House of Commons "with deep regret." Britain, which rarely resorts to breaking diplomatic relations, last severed ties with another country in 1946 when it broke with Albania. Relations between Britain and Uganda had deteriorated steadily since August 1972, when Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians, mainly Indians and Pakistanis, from Uganda within 90 days. They many held British passports and were brought to Britain in emergency flights. A low point was reached shortly after the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda July 4 to free the hostages of an Air France plane seized by pro-Palestinian hijackers. One of the hostages, Mrs. Dora Bloch, a 75-year-old woman with dual British and Israeli nationality, disappeared in mysterious circumstances and is feared killed by Ugandan authorities. Prime Minister James Callaghan publicly demanded the release of Mrs. Bloch, but he was ignored. The break with Britain puts new pressure on Amin, already at odds with neighboring Kenya and suffering strained relations with several other African countries. In a broadcast on Radio Uganda monitored in Kenya, Amin said he was studying the implications of the move by Britain. Radio Uganda also quoted Amin in a news bulletin as saying Britain apparently was not involved in the Israeli commando raid. It said Amin told his listeners, "British nationals who have chosen to stay in Uganda should follow the situation in its present perspective and not listen to the imperialist mass media." There has been fear that Amin might retaliate for the breaking of relations against the 200 to 300 Britons, many of them missionaries, remaining in Uganda. A Kenyan reporter for the Nairobi newspaper Daily Nation telephoned Amin's command post near Kampala. The reporter said an official there told him: "We don't mind about that (severing relations). The French government will handle the remaining British citizens here and we know most of them have opted to stay. They will become Ugandan citizens." "In its telegram the British government is crying over Mrs. Bloch, and we do not have an idea about this woman. We handed her over to the hijackers and she was among those who were rescued by the Israelis." Israel has said Mrs. Bloch was not with the other hostages. She had been hospitalized and there were various reports that Ugandan soldiers or policemen dragged her from her hospital room after the raid. Britain's ambassador to Uganda, Eustace Gibbs, flew into Nairobi Wednesday. He said two British officials will remain in Uganda, attached to the French embassy, to handle British affairs. Crosland announced the break at the same time Gibbs was informing the Ugandan government. Crosland said relations with Uganda had reached such a point "that it is not possible for our high commission (embassy) effectively to discharge their normal duties." He said France has agreed to represent British interests in Uganda during the break. All members of the commonwealth were informed of the break in advance along with some other countries, including the United States, officials said. The United States closed its embassy in Kampala in November 1973, citing concern for the "security of our people." Diplomatic relations are maintained on a very limited basis, and the Ugandan embassy has only "desk level" contact with the State Department in Washington. Uganda's ambassador in London, Fredrich Isingoma, was summoned to the Foreign Office and told of the break by Minister of State Edward Rowlands while Crosland was addressing Parliament. Ugandan flags over the Trafalgar Square offices of the high commission, as the embassy is known, were immediately lowered, and the seven members of the staff went home to pack. This was the first break of relations by Britain with a commonwealth nation, although several nations broke off with Britain during the Suez crisis of 1956 and later over Rhodesia. Crosland told the House there are slightly more than 200 British citizens still in Uganda, down from more than 500 two weeks ago. The British government has repeatedly urged British nationals to leave the country. Spokesmen for the various churches said the missionaries will not be ordered out. Because of the presence of Britons in Uganda, Crosland urged legislators to show "some restraint in language" over the severance of relations. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, leader of the opposition conservatives, and David Steel of the liberals both stated their parties' support of the move by the Labor government. Denis Hills, a British schoolteacher sentenced to death by Uganda a year ago for calling Amin a "village tyrant," applauded the government's move. "I think it is about time the British government took a stand against Idi Amin," he said. === Page 44 of 81 Va. Pilot July 31, 1976 # Prescription for Chaos The reaction of President Idi Amin's regime to the British Government's severance of diplomatic relations with Uganda--the first time London has cut ties to a Commonwealth country--was predictably sinister. Henceforward, one of the President's underlings announced, the few hundred Britons still residing in Uganda "will become Uganda citizens." There could be no joy for the instant Ugandans in that. And the news could but further inflame a British public already seething from President Amin's seemingly endless humiliations of Britain as well as the Labor Government's previous toleration of them. London abased itself three years ago to persuade President Amin to spare the life of Denis Hills, a scholar whose characterization of the Ugandan despot--in an unpublished manuscript--as a "village tyrant" precipitated his arrest and sentencing to death. The satisfaction President Amin, a former sergeant major in the King's African Rifles, must have received from being called upon by senior British military officers diplomats bearing pleas for Mr. Hills could not have matched the disgust at the truckling to his vanity. Friction between Britain and Uganda has mounted for four years, starting with the expulsion of some 50,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972--Asians who found refuge in Britain. This week's break followed President Amin's refusal to account for the fate of Dora Bloch, an elderly British passport-holder who was among the hostages left behind after Israel's July 4 rescue of hostages held captive at Entebbe air field by terrorists. Mrs. Bloch, who was in a Ugandan hospital at the time of the Israeli raid, has disappeared. President Amin behaves like a madman. No one within his reach seems to be safe. Young and old, high and low, black and white--Asians, Kenyans, Britons, and Ugandans--are counted among the victims of his brutality. He conspired with the fanatics who brought the skyjacked Air France airliner and their hostages to Entebbe. He periodically threatens to invade Kenya. There is reason to believe that he could be in deep trouble. There is rebellion in the countryside. Kenya is on guard against him. Other black African leaders appear to have become increasingly wary of him. And now the British Government has had its fill. What these developments portend is not clear. But the stage is being prepared for bloodshed and downfall. === Page 45 of 81 # 'Kneel' Before Amin # Uganda Order Worries Britons NAIROBI (AP)--Uganda Saturday ordered British citizens wishing to see President Idi Amin to "kneel before him in the way the people of Uganda had to kneel before the British in the days of their rule." The order was broadcast at the end of Radio Uganda's news program and stirred fears for the safety of about 200 Britons still living in the former British colony. Britain broke diplomatic relations with Uganda Wednesday. The radio reported a special security section had been created to watch over British residents and said Amin had accused Britons of seeking his overthrow and "on several occasions" trying to kill him. The charges against the British were made as Eteki Mboumoua, secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity met in Nairobi with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta to mediate a growing dispute between Kenya and Uganda. Amin accused Britain of fostering the dispute and encouraging Kenya in territorial claims and an economic blockade of Uganda. Mboumoua, believed to have delivered to Kenyatta a message given to him by Amin in Kampala Friday, continued his mediation efforts despite some Kenyan criticism of his mission and charges that he favored Uganda. Radio Uganda quoted the unpredictable Ugandan leader as saying British residents were already being watched and that they should "pull up their socks and not indulge in subversion and malicious propaganda." The warnings were made, the radio said, when Amin met with French Ambassador Pierre Renard in Kampala. The French Embassy is looking after British interests following Britain's decision to end relations on grounds that the situation in Uganda made it impossible for British diplomats to carry out their normal duties. The meeting also was attended by two British diplomats who remained in Kampala to man a British interests section at the French Embassy, the radio said. Amin charged that the British tried on several occasions to kill him, including on June 10, when three grenades were tossed at his car. Amin escaped unscathed, but his driver was killed and 37 bystanders injured. The radio quoted Amin as saying, "I will die as God wishes and not at the hands of the British." Amin said he had already sent some "British double dealers causing misunderstandings with Kenya" out of the country, the radio said. A special department under the ruling Defense Council is to be appointed to deal with British affairs, Amin told the diplomats. Ever since he launched his "economic war" by expelling about 40,000 Asians with British citizenship in 1972, the British have been attempting to make Uganda collapse, Amin said. He charged that Britain encouraged Kenya to claim that Uganda owed it about $47 million in trade debts, blocked funds, and seized assets, the radio said. Relations between Kenya and Uganda, already strained over territorial claims, worsened after the Israeli raid on Uganda's Entebbe airport July 4 to rescue hijack hostages. The Israeli planes stopped to refuel in Nairobi and Amin accused Kenya of collaborating in the raid. Kenya subsequently accused Amin's soldiers of taking revenge by killing hundreds of Kenyans residing in Uganda, while Amin charged that Kenya had set up an economic blockade against his country, which is landlocked and gets most of its supplies through Kenya. Mboumoua angered Kenyans by allegedly siding with Amin and saying Kenya apparently is conducting a semiblockade against Uganda. He told newsmen on his return from Uganda: "This is because there is a shortage of essential commodities in Uganda, although we haven't enough facts to say whether Kenya has intentionally blockaded Uganda." === Page 46 of 81 INTERNATIONAL AFRICA SUDAN ZAIRE UGANDA KAMPALA Entebbe Lake Victoria RWANDA BURUNDI TANZANIA KENYA NAIROBI Mombasa INDIAN OCEAN Oil trucks stopped Aruns Africa-Photo Trends Amin blustering: Lectures on sexual conduct, complaints about nuclear grenades-and a trade war with Kenya his house and offices, hauling away cartons of documents. As Tanaka was driven to the House of Detention, the prosecutor-general said earnestly: "Please take care of your health, because your environment will be quite different now." Tanaka looked at the man thoughtfully and replied quietly: "Thank you." Tanaka was charged initially with violating Japanese foreign-exchange and currency regulations by receiving irregular payments from overseas, an offense that carries a maximum prison term of three years. But prosecutors believe they have traced almost $2 million in Lockheed money to Tanaka, and newspapers speculated that he would ultimately be indicted on more serious charges. During Tanaka's term as Prime Minister-which ended abruptly in a scandal over his shady real-estate and financial dealings-All Nippon Airways dropped an option to buy McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 jets and ordered six Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. In addition, the National Defense Council, which Tanaka chaired, decided not to produce an anti-submarine patrol plane in Japan, choosing instead to buy the Lockheed P-3C Orion. Loose Threads: Prosecutors expect that the evidence they need to tie up the loose threads in the Lockheed affair will arrive soon from Los Angeles, where a U.S. district court has taken testimony from three former Lockheed officials at the request of the Japanese Government. Partly as a result of American cooperation, the scandal does not seem to have seriously damaged U.S.-Japanese relations. Tanaka's arrest-and the anticipated indictment of other high-ranking politicians-could bring profound changes to the LDP. Last June Miki barely survived an effort by Tanaka and his party allies to oust him from office and cut off the investigation. With unprecedented support from the press and public, Miki ordered a thorough inquiry, no matter Newsweek, August 9, 1976 where it led. When the prosecutors had amassed their evidence, he apparently told them to go ahead with an indictment of Tanaka. If only because he has few friends in the LDP, Miki acted on his own, without the usual consensus that marks Japanese decision-making. His gamble seems to have paid off. Miki's standing has risen in the public-opinion polls, and many Japanese have begun to cheer him, in their version of American idiom, as a fearless "Mr. Kleen." It now appears that Miki will remain in office through next fall's legislative elections and perhaps beyond. With the rest of the LDP's elder generation now widely discredited, his eventual successor may well be a younger man with few ties to the old shoguns who for the past 30 years have run Japan's government like an exclusive private club. -MILTON R. BENJAMIN with BERNARD KRISHER in Tokyo and bureau reports UGANDA: Amin vs. the World Uganda's President Idi Amin claims that the western third of Kenya actually belongs to him. He maintains that his country's relations with Britain turned sour when he refused to marry an Englishwoman-and thus could not become Britain's "brother-in-law, sister-in-law or mother-in-law." He insists that Israeli commandos pulled off their dazzling rescue at Entebbe airport only because they used "nuclear grenades." Such bizarre pronouncements, coupled with Amin's savage and tyrannical rule in Uganda, long ago established him as one of the most grotesque heads of state in recent history. Last week, Amin again lashed out at his enemies-but this time, two of them struck back. Kenya stepped up an economic blockade of Uganda, and Britain broke diplomatic relations with Amin's government. It was the first time that London has ever cut its ties with a Commonwealth nation. London's startling break with tradition was viewed by some diplomats as part of a campaign by foreign powers, including the U.S. and Britain, to bring about Amin's overthrow. American officials called the theory "nonsense" and Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland denied it, saying, "That is for the Ugandan people to decide." But Britain had ample reason to be exasperated with Amin. After the Israeli raid, Amin failed to explain what had happened to one British hostage, Dora Bloch, 73, who was left behind and apparently murdered by Ugandan soldiers. He then expelled two British diplomats from Uganda. Finally, London warned the 550 Britons living in Uganda that it could not guarantee their safety and then, after about 300 of them left the country, announced the break in relations. Kenya's put-down of Amin was more strident. Nairobi Radio broadcast a new serial entitled "The Pranks of Sebastian," the tale of a despotic, drug-crazed chimpanzee who takes over a game preserve. Kenya also cut off shipments of petroleum to Uganda, demanding that Amin pay off a trade debt of $54 million, and insisted that Ugandan merchants pay in Kenyan currency for goods imported via Kenya's road and rail links (map). By last week, Uganda was running short of bread, butter, milk, salt, sugar, kerosene and meat. Ugandan soldiers posted on the border were reportedly swapping their rifles for Kenyan food, and other hungry troops were said to be slaughtering hippopotamuses. Amin threatened to take "drastic action" against Kenya, but in fact, the only drastic action Ugandans took was against two small and impoverished neighbors, Rwanda and Burundi. Amin's troops hijacked trucks carrying gasoline to the two 35 === Page 47 of 81 Journalist Nicholas Stroh, who was killed by Ugandan Army Officers. Slain along with Stroh was Robert L. Siedle (l) who taught at Makerere University in Kampala. A year before his death, he chatted with Uganda dictator Idi Amin and an Egyptian diplomat at a reception held at the Soviet Embassy. kin of East Longmeadow, Mass. Siedle was an acquaintance of Amin, having met him at a cocktail party. On July 7, 1971, Stroh and Siedle drove together into Mbarara, Uganda. Stroh wanted to check reports of a massacre at the Uganda army's Simba barracks. Siedle was hoping to get facts for a book he was writing about missionaries. They spent two days in Mbarara. On the morning of July 9, Stroh left the city in his dented blue Volkswagen, a handwritten "PRESS" sign affixed to the windshield. Around his neck he wore a silver cross and the inscription: "I am a Catholic--please call a priest." Siedle remained behind at the hotel. Two hours later a black Zephyr car with three Africans dressed in the shirts of Uganda's special force drove up to the hotel, asked Siedle to get into the back seat, and drove away with him. Neither Stroh nor Siedle was ever heard from again. They vanished into the hot Ugandan sun. Their relatives and friends first raised questions, then brought pressure on the Ugandan government to find the two Americans. # Pressure on Amin It took a lot of pressure before Idi Amin grudgingly appointed a commission of inquiry. It was headed by tough, tenacious, British-born D. Jeffreys-Jones, a judge of the High Court of Uganda. He worked on the case for seven months, cutting through all attempts to cover up the truth. He got little help from Amin's henchmen, and the dictator himself even called him to Siedle's pressure at the commission's work. Nevertheless, Jones persisted. He got his first break in the case on April 12, 1972, when he found Stroh's burned-out, crumpled car at the bottom of a ravine. Then, six days later, the commission obtained a grisly deposition from Silver Tibihika, a former lieutenant in the Simba Battalion, who had fled to a camp in nearby Tanzania. Tibihika swore he saw Stroh drive up to the Simba barracks on the morning he disappeared. Fifteen minutes later he was taken, his hands held high above # The Sinister End of Two Americans in Uganda by Jack Anderson WASHINGTON, D.C. Idi Amin, the frenetic dictator of Uganda, is probably the world's most brutal ruler. He reigns by gun and bludgeon over his African country and executes people by whim. There is no precise count of the thousands he has slaughtered, but some of them are beginning to emerge as mute witnesses against him. One is Dora Bloch, a 75-year-old hostage aboard the hijacked Air France plane taken by Arab terrorists to Entebbe Airport last July. The Israeli commandos who raided Entebbe were unable to free her along with 100 other hostages because she had been removed to a hospital. Amin has disclaimed any knowledge of her fate. But intelligence sources know what happened to her. Amin, raging over the success of the Israeli rescue, sent two bodyguards to fetch her from the hospital. When she screamed in terror they stuffed rags in her mouth. She died of suffocation. A witness later reported seeing her burned body in a forest near Kampala, Amin's capital. # Out of the shadows Now two earlier victims have come out of the shadows. They are both Americans, Nicholas Stroh, and Robert L. Siedle. Stroh, 33, was a free-lance journalist who worked for several U.S. newspapers, including the Philadelphia Bulletin and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A member of a wealthy Detroit brewery family, he was fascinated by Africa and went there to report, accompanied by his German-born wife Gerda and two small children. Siedle, 46, was a sociologist who had been lecturing on a foundation grant at Kampala's Makerere University. Previously he had taught at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Siedle had three sons and was separated from his wife. His closest relative was a sister, Carol Siedle Fish- PARADE • SEPTEMBER 12, 1976 Stroh's blue Volkswagen was found in a crumpled heap at the bottom of a ravine by special commission of inquiry. A series of newspaper stories ironically called "Misbehavior in the Uganda Army" won Stroh a posthumous award from the Overseas Press Club. On hand with officials of the OPC were Stroh's mother (second from left) and his wife. === Page 48 of 81 his head, to the office of the camp's second in command, Major Juma, Tibihika never saw the American alive again, but he later heard officers in the mess say he was "kalasi" - dead. Four days later, Tibihika deposed that he and the camp intelligence officer, Lt. Stephen Taban, were ordered to burn Stroh's Volkswagen by the camp commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ali - a distant relative of Amin's. After doing so, Tibihika was ordered to accompany Taban and destroy "everything." According to Tibihika's testimony, the group, headed by Lieutenant Taban, drove to a deserted spot 10 1/2 miles from Mbarara where they dug up the charred remains of two human bodies from a sandpit. They filled two sacks, returned to the barracks, poured oil and gasoline and set them afire. The ashes were scattered into a nearby river. ### Revealed in report Jones recounted these events in a blistering, 127-page report which said that Major Juma had seen both the Americans and that he had quarreled with Stroh. According to the commission report, Juma knew the two Americans had been killed, but his role in the actual murders was not certain. "He [Juma] had no respect for the tribunal," noted Jones. "In all my experience as a judge, I have never seen a more arrogant, more insulting witness in a witness box. He was also a consummate liar. He made an appalling impression on everyone." Jones, who left Uganda before the report was released, pronounced that the two Americans "died an unnatural death. . . . They had not been involved in an accident. . . . They had not been incarcerated in any prison. . . . They had not crossed into another country. . . . They were in fact murdered by personnel of the Simba Battalion of the Ugandan Armed Forces. . . . From the evidence I have before me it was impossible to point an unerring finger at any particular person or persons who actively committed the offense." ### Amin's White Paper Idi Amin was so incensed by Jones' report that he issued a White Paper contending that Stroh and Siedle "met their deaths somewhere in Mbarara . . . at the hands of unidentified persons." Amin also hinted that his government might consider giving compensation to the victims' survivors. After prolonged negotiations with the families and their lawyers, a settlement was worked out, with Amin's government paying $78,707.90 each to the survivors of Siedle and Stroh. If Amin thought the payments would be taken as an indication of goodwill toward the United States, he might have saved himself some money. His gesture was far too trivial to outweigh his brutal record. In 1972 the U.S. cut off its foreign aid program to him, and in 1973 we closed our embassy in Kampala, although we did not break off diplomatic negotiations with the African state. In the meantime, Amin has continued his regime of death and terror, adding countless anonymous victims to the roll that contains the names of Nicholas Stroh, Robert Siedle and Dora Bloch. # Help your children! # Help their school get the playground equipment it needs. # FREE! With Post Cereal box tops. These days schools are having trouble replacing old and purchasing new sports and playground equipment. 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It was Cambridge's last role. He suffered a fatal heart attack on the set Monday. He was 43. === Page 50 of 81 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 P.M. EST 30.00 29.89 30.00 29.77 29.53 SEATTLE FAIR HIGH MINNEAPOLIS CHICAGO BOSTON WINDY NEW YORK WARM SAN FRANCISCO DENVER FAIR 30.00 DALLAS HIGH ATLANTA LOS ANGELES NEW ORLEANS MIAMI HIGHEST TEMPERATURES LEGEND - [x] RAIN - [x] SNOW - [x] SHOWERS - [x] AIR FLOW UPI WEATHER FOTO-AST Va. Pilot RAIN march 3, '76 3/7/76 Meanwhile, California continued to suffer its own severe conditions, with five more counties added last week to the 24 already declared disaster areas due to crop losses, estimated at over $140 million. Despite a weekend rainstorm that dumped up to 3 inches on Marin county, that county held to its restricted use of water and boosted its average rates to homeowners from $7.30 per month to $9.27. S.F. Chronicle March 4, 1976 Snow Snow, Snow! '2nd Season' for Skiing in Sierra (California) By Bob Lochner Just like the TV networks, skiers will get the benefit of a "second season" this year, and it starts right now in the Sierra, where they suddenly have more snow than they know what to do with. Actually, it's kind of a rerun. Last winter was a bit dry, too, until the first of February, when the blizzards came howling in and dumped record accumulations of snow before spring finally arrived. The action began a month later this year. But once the storm started last weekend, there was no stopping it until yesterday. In the interim, 35 to 50 inches of powder piled up, and all resorts now report total depths ranging from three to 12 feet. With Easter still more than six weeks away, on April 18, there's plenty of time to break in all those new Christmas skis. THEN march 7, 1976 VISTA POINT 1/4 MILE California Snow Again Barney Peterson WINTER'S grip would not let up in the Bay Area, as a major storm moved in and whitened hills in Berkeley and Oakland, Twin Peaks, along the Skyline (see above) and Mount Tamalpais in Marin. The storm also hit the Sierra leading to a freak avalanche that killed two young male skiers on the slopes of Alpine Meadows resort near Lake Tahoe's north shore. SF Chronicle March 7, '76 === Page 51 of 81 APRIL 21, 1976 "PROJECT AMIN" I enlist the souls of ten thousand murdered people to oust Amin and his evil group... AFRICA UGANDA AMIN $\Delta$ = PYRAMID POWER * POLTERGEISTS, 1,000 UFO POWER = - [x] = M.P. === Page 52 of 81 April 21, 1976..........Dr. Max Fogel; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Hynek. Am now on the tail-end of my "California Miracle"..........and will have the third and last part of the Report to xerox and get out to you in the coming weeks. However...I have no funds to do so...so would like some financial help, if you have any connections with those that could aid me. I trust that you are aware that UFO's and accompanying phenomena appeared last week over Northern California. This will be discussed at length, and explained, in the Report to you. Now, as of today, am beginning a new miracle project. Let's dub it "Project Amin." Briefly, I am going to aim my formidable and awesome powers (have the okay from my UFO Connection) at Idi Amin and his evil killer group in Uganda...to eliminate Amin and the group, and bring peace to Uganda. Or at least, peaceful people...non-killers. Also involved in this program which am setting up today...will be my Pyramid Power. As yet...have not approached It...but will, within the next hour, to get permission, to explain the situation, and to enlist It's powers to help. The Pyramid Power (haven't had the money to type out, xerox, and mail to you the voluminous Report on my trip to Egypt and the pyramids and what I discovered there) is a living Entity...alive and well, from the ages past, among the pyramids in Egypt. I am now linked up to it mentally, just as I am linked up to the UFO's...and am able to bring Its powers to bear...just as I am able to bring the UFO Connection's powers to bear. While in Cairo, Egypt, not long ago...Amin captured two British men and readied them for the firing squad (that is, I was in Cairo, not Amin.) Well, I contacted the British Embassy in Cairo...had a meeting with a British official...and gave him my plan to save the two British men. I will go into the details of the plan when, if ever, I get the Egyptian Report done and xeroxd and out to you. But at any rate...the plan was ultra-ingenious. I know that British officials flew to Uganda from England... but I think that my plan might have been activated re Amin. At any rate... Amin released the two doomed Britishers. Yesterday in the paper...Amin and his evil group had allegedly tortured and killed a young female student of 22 years...just as Amin has killed TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE "who were distrusted or disliked by Amin and his underlings." (Am quoting the San Francisco Chronicle...the documentation will be in the file that I send to you as soon as my Project Amin has been completed...and that will be, before Fall of this year, or even sooner.) In the past years I have demonstrated many miraculous phenomena for you... but none pinpointing the elimination of one specific individual, and that individual's group. (I have DONE it, but have not documented it for you.) For heaven's sake...get in touch with some govt. agency, if you can, and get me some funds with which to proceed. Haven't my miracles been worth that much? Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Owens === Page 53 of 81 A spokesman at Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which serves 48 Northern California counties, said some 230,000 of its 3 million customers were without power for as long as 6½ minutes. Customers of Southern California Edison Co., San Diego Gas and Electric Co., and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power were also temporarily without power. The trouble was a breakdown in a high tension line from the Bonneville Power Administration, which sells excess hydroelectric power during night and off-peak hours to California utilities. A spokesman for the utility in Portland said a circuit breaker failed and dumped the entire load onto a single line, which blew out. Utility officials credited lessons learned from the eight-hour blackout of New England in 1965 with preventing a major problem here. Although the total safeguards prevent chain-reaction equipment failures and bring fresh power quickly. Automatic procedures spread remaining power as well as possible. Bay Area outages included 33,000 customers in Daly City and the outer Sunset district of San Francisco; 4400 in Hunters Point; 57,297 in the San Jose area; 36,000 in Berkeley, Richmond, Pinole and Rodeo; and 4800 in North Oakland. === Page 54 of 81 SF Chron Apr 8 1976 Power Outage is Brief, Widespread === Page 55 of 81 45 11 April 76 Crazy Hey Ted Of the following occurrences, I want you to pick out those which are most indicative to your mind's eye of goodwill to all mankind and animals and plants and the environments in which they live: 1. a Hurricane destroying a city 2. a series of tornadoes ravaging a small farming or ranching community 3. a revolution resulting in a "peoples tyranny" be it national socialism or be it international socialism (communism) 4. swooping down like a kill-happy eagle and beheading a cow with calf unborn, ripping off the cow's udder like a rabid lion, and tearing out the almost newborn calf with great exhilaration. 5. an earthquake mangling a city to such degrees that to the untrained eye, it might appear that a fleet of B-52's had just dropped their deadly eggs upon it 6. a drought turning once fertile pasturelands into blazing ovens of death 7. a train derailment 8. an airplane crash 9. a highway crash of a bus loaded with people mass-transiting 10. an accident resulting in a tanker spilling its full load of oil into a once beautiful space of water. Now-- I presume you have made your choices. How many of them have you selected? How psychotic are you? How psychotic are the "space intelligence masters" of yours? You know Ted-- the above mentioned occurrences are obviously excellent expressions of goodwill according to the values of your not-so-kindly space intelligence friends. ---------- please turn over & xerox. Ted. === Page 56 of 81 44 Now, I suppose your SI's will try their best to "change" my mind or brain, almost like a forensic psychiatrist injecting some reserpine into the bloodstream of a troublesome dissenter, because they will not tolerate criticisms of their space intelligence policies. I don't care. "As below, so above" and vice versa-- the old axiom holds true. If the pompous Popes of Rome can be as indignant and intolerant to healthy criticism as their authoritarian minds will permit-- the like-wise do your SIs have rights to be like Popes. I do not care. I do not pay obeisance to your SIs' any more than I would bow to the House of Rothschild or Rockefeller or any other Figurehead of Lucifer. Your SIs' believe that because they can manipulate so many supernatural forces-- that this is sufficient evidence that they are much more highly evolved than mankind. I don't buy this. Just because a person possesses an atomic bomb- does this mean that this person is any better than me? Hell no! I can see how creatures of intense Goodwill would be highly or further evolved than myself. Really easy to see this. Too bad that your SIs just aren't up to any really significant kindness and acts of Benefit to Mankind and Nature. Too bad I put in all that work with memory conditioning and spiritual intelligence because it was all for little but causing a lot of troubles for good people and nature in the name of "space intelligences." Kind of like a shady character I once worked for. A whole months worth of sweat and toils-- for what? A bad check? A rip off? The guy's in prison now for tax evasion. Perhaps a group of creatures will come along someday and put your criminally minded SI Masters in jail for Universal Soul and Healthy Principles Evasion? === Page 57 of 81 -3- 45 Ted-- I'm a sinner. I can freely admit it. I can gladly admit it. I don't want to be a rotten egg like so many politicians and socialites and even some of your "White Magic" SI Masters are. You know, all nice and white on the outside-- yet as rotten as sin on the inside where it counts. No- I'll admit it. I'm rotten. I'm low down. But I'm not going to hide it behind some Superstar-white superego. And I'm not going to be the pawn of any rotten-egg UFO that goes around saying, "I'm really your soul and God all wrapped up in One." Sure can't trick me there. My soul's inside you see. And you know what else? It's Black. Black as a good cup of steaming-hot coffee. No more Luciferean Whiteness for me. No thanks. And if some nightmares of Star People circling around in the beautiful black sky come around. I don't care. What in the hell am I supposed to do? You know-- simplistic "solutions" to complex problems often destroy the wonderfully complex societies which are afflicted with the problems. All I can answer to your Star People is, "Does not compute. Requires intelligent information. We will not accept simplistically destructive 'solutions.'" That means Lily-white socialism too! And if I dig a little deeper in the dirt and dung-- you know what else I find. This is bad. This is really bad. I find your SIs' or creatures just like your SIs'-giving psychic momentum to the National Socialist Movement of Germany through a group of ex-drug addicts and practicing drug addicts and piss-poor intellectual elitists. Yep, It's right there. Almost as clear as day. You hear what I say Ted? That's a rodge. Space Intelligences making lots of psychic contacts with Nazi Occultists and driving ---------- bless... this ... ... the ... === Page 58 of 81 -4- 46 the psychic centers of the people of Germany to such uncontrollable psychic frenzies that they went insane and ended destroying much which was good. And in the end, being destroying by others because your SI Masters finally woke up to the facts that the seeds of cosmic insanity they had planted in the minds of these people could soon destroy the entire planet. And possibly even make Lucifer angry. Ever catch what Hitler's new Race of Men were to be called? The "Master Race." You annex in some other parts, and all becomes fairly obvious. What was really meant was, "The Masters' Race." A race of psychically insane people being driven on to World Domination by Space Intelligence Pawn Masters. And are you still wondering why I am just happy to be as materialistically comfortable as possible and to avoid being any Social Superstar? Yes indeed, My Soul is Black. Backstage here it's really nice. No pawn parts to be played. No let downs by illusory friends, And really an excellent view of what is really going on-- on that foolishly glamourous stage- or space chessboard. So much dirt. So much dung. It's really not worth it. The day I die I'll go away hopefully to places where creatures are not pawns, or masters, or continual backstage sitters. A Non-Hierarchy. And are your SI Masters still working "hand and foot" with the international bankers and world cartelists to bring forth World Tyranny? And do you know what I would do if I had a couple of hundred of pounds of dynamite in my hand and I was standing right next to the United Nations? What an explosive Veto that would be! Eat that Lucifer! You too SIs! Go ahead-- call me insane. === Page 59 of 81 -5- 47 I sure haven't seen any criticism of any strength to the socialist and communist conspirators and revolutionaries when they use violence to maim and de-mind and de-heart Democracies. Why should you criticise me now Socialist Hypocrites? And did you know that those were American pro-Soviet Socialists who were giving the orders for the B-52's to open the bombay doors on all those people living down there in Indochina? Hypocrites! And this is the year of the Bicentennial. And what the hell do I have to celebrate. Oh sure, I can be glad that at least some semblence of Constitutional government remains. That is-- if your SI's and the Insiders don't decide to topple it this year. Just like the American commander at the Bulge, "Nuts!" I might die being struck down by your SIs' in one of their psychic tantrums of space violence. I don't care. I'll die a spirit to spirit. Not as an "intelligence" -- sounds almost like terming people "instrumental." And my God is a god of Spirit. And His Spirit isn't white. No color-no form whatsoever. And I'll just dig in and hold out the best I can till death or help arrives. Order be Damned! That's what the man said. "You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves." ...or pawns. Yes indeed, My Soul is Black. A Earsman === Page 60 of 81 48 23 April 76 Hello Ted- I was wondering how in Lucifer's world the SIs would make a mockery of my statements regarding "black soul." And there it is on the front pages of the papers... "Racial Violence in Boston." I have known for over 2 years now that the incidents of racially oriented disturbances which SIs can quell-- are also the ones which SIs can stir up. In much the same ways as the socialists in Washington, D.C. and New York City can instigate racial violence preplanned through forced busing. I'll tell you-- Lucifer has this entire planet wrapped around his little finger what with your Pawn Master SIs on the subjective dimensions and the externalisations of his Hierarchy through the ruling elites on the other physical sides. For approximatelly 2 and a half years now, through my telepathic receptions, I have known that you have secret contacts with the Insiders through the CIA. I also know that you and the SIs have unusually strong affinities for "manipulating" through PK forces-- young, black-skinned people with criminally violent disorders. I know this because the SIs directed some "punks"-- black-skinned "punks"-- to jump me and injure my person back in September of 1973. I watched these manipulations from your subjective dimensions with great interests-- because it never quite occurred to me that the Invisible Government and === Page 61 of 81 -2- 49 your SIs might be parts of the same Order... the Luciferian Order which is attempting to throw a revolution to destroy the Republic... through the immense wealth possessed by the ultra-wealthy on the one hand-- and the subconscious slavery to the Masters of Socialism by this nation's poor people on the other. By the way, I've picked up this message from the Black Muslim Nation in America: "When the Civil War was fought to abolish slavery-- a strange thing happened. Slavery was not abolished. All that happened was that the Masters changed... From direct physical slavery of the South to a subconscious slavery instituted by the Liberals of the North." "The Black Man is now in a more terrible slavery than he was then-- for now his mind has become enslaved to the chains of Socialistic Integrations." As I see it-- This is True. Mark my words Ted-- I don't have any more respect for your SIs now than I do for the other Conspirators. Yes, your SIs are the most unusual traitors of all times. To think of the ways by which they would enslave all mankind in the interests of World Tyranny. To think of the ways in which they turned their backs upon Jesus in His greatest Hour of Need. I would not be one bit surprised if this guy Jesus never showed up again. Yes indeed-- My Soul is Black... NO- not African-American Black, NO- not Opium black, NO- not black-eyed peas, NO- not black as you would superficially see it. === Page 62 of 81 -3- 50 YES-- Black as coffee... Black as the Infinity of Space... Black as the Pupil of my Eye... Black as the Great Magnetism of the Black Stars... Black-- Like the Sea of my Mind Like the Space of my Soul P. S. Your SIs and their Tornadoes-- kind of reminds me of very large Lions Paws reaching down from the skies and destroying those who deserve to be destroyed least. The people in the country. The poor people. And whenever a bomb goes off-- it's never at the U.N. And when ever a person is killed-- it's hardly ever a tyrant or an important Conspirator. It's some guy maybe who is just driving his car. And suddenly, about 25 of Lucifer's slaves come to him and administer "Brotherly Love" to his body. And the guy just kind of lies there in his own "honkey" blood. And Lucifer-- He just Smiles and Laughs-- and utters... "All is Well on Planet Earth Today" "Pawns Forever" And you know what my crazy mind keeps on saying? "Nuts!" A Earsman === Page 63 of 81 April 9, 1976...Friday TO MY SCIENTISTS: Dr. Fogel; Dr. Hynek; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Arenas. A most astounding thing has occurred: The SI's...my UFO connection...have "spoken"...in their own inimitable way...before I could even get the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, off to you! I typed ten copies of the Wednesday, April 7, letter, enclosed, Wednesday afternoon...then had to desist because I had the flu...also was shook up by the IRS agents...and was so angry that I could have cussed. Matter of fact...I did cuss. (This emotional response on my part is important in your understanding of what follows.) All right. Wednesday night late...about 3 AM Thursday morning, really...all power went out on the West Coast from Portland, Oregon, down to almost Los Angeles, California...for from 3 to 7 minutes, depending on where you lived there. (Millie, my San Francisco friend and scout...called me long distance on Thursday and told me about it...said that it was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper...and I will document it later in my last file on the "California Miracle.") That's "one". Also...in that same time-frame...there was an earthquake in California...approx. 5 on the Richter scale...reported here in Virginia on our TV set. That's "two". i.e., the SI's...UFO connection...en rapport with the "alien" half of my brain (belonging to them)...picked up my distress caused by the Wednesday IRS agent happening...and decided to show the United States government, on a small scale, what they could do. They did it to California because that is where I am putting on a UFO-connection demonstration at the present time. (If they had knocked out the power and put an earthquake anywhere else in the U.S., it would have had little meaning with regard to me and my demonstration in California.) Drs. Targ and Putoff at Stanford will be especially interested in the power blackout...because earlier-on I had offered to give them a demonstration of my UFO-connectioned powers...where I would interfere with and/or knock out the power in northern California! They did not take me up on my offer...but later I decided to give the "California Miracle" demonstration anyway...set up an other-dimensional EM grid, plus other OD mechanisms over and around California...and so far the UFO's and I have caused a rare snowstorm in California...rain...lightning attacks...high winds...hail...a widespread power blackout...and an earthquake. (And there's still about three weeks to go...assuming that my work will come to a screeching halt by the 1st of May...which it probably will not. Takes time for a PK project to "wear away", as it were.) Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS...on top of the above...it has just been brought to my attention that UFO's were headlined in the San Francisco newspapers...having made major appearances on Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 (following my Jan. 30 letter) in the area just above San Francisco...my main experimental area because of Drs. T&P...and these sightings were made by expert investigators. Will add this to the documentation in my final file on the "California Miracle." So, you can add this phenomenon, also, onto all the other phenomenon that my UFO connection and I have brought about in California. That's..."three". Owens === Page 64 of 81 April 7, 1976 TO MY SCIENTISTS: Dr. Fogel; Dr. Hynek; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Arenas. The following...must be brought to your attention...because, whether you believe it or not...the future of the United Statnes...could be at stake. Today...two Internal Revenue Agents converged upon me...not at my home...but downtown where I was shopping...and they followed me home. They told me...that they had had a tip...from a "confidential source"...about me and my activities. As they went on, frankly, they scared the bejesus out of me! They were intimating, of course, that I was trying to cheat the IRS. Ha ha ha. I showed them a pawn ticket...dated March 20...where I'd had to drive to Norfolk and pawn personal items for $200...just to pay the monthly bills (some of them, anyway). They finally left. This really shook me up. Now, weeks ago...I had a phone number...331-1208...and every day I had one or two phony, harassing calls. So...I had the telephone company give me a new, unlisted number, 331-3255. I GOT THE VERY SAME HARASSING CALLS, one or two a day, always in a negro voice. Or just deep breathing...then they'd hang up. So...I GOT ANOTHER UNLISTED NUMBER...which I will not mention here. BUT I KEPT ON GETTING THE SAME HARASSING CALLS...in the same negro voices...or the "deep breathing and hang up" treatment. So I had the telephone company put a "trap" on my telephone...to find out who was doing this. HOW they could do this...jumping from my regular number in the book...to an unlisted number...then to another unlisted number...is a complete mystery! Tomorrow I will call the Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney, Mr. Oliver, in Eastville...who has been given the number caught in the trap...to find out who it was. Not that I can do anything about it, because I have no money to hire a lawyer to prosecute. Anyway, I want you to know...that I am being harassed...and I can tell you...that the SI's...my UFO connection...will be greatly angered by this. Because they feel...that the U.S. Government is my "host government"...i.e., I am their ambassador to the human race, residing in the United States. So that...anything bad...that befalls their "Ambassador"...they will retaliate...in their own, UFO, way. PREDICTIONS: The Russ have invented a disease that they can give to the entire world population...that will kill...all humans in the world...except those Russ, or others, who have been properly innoculated. And they are ready. When this program has been put into effect...the innoculated Russ will be the only survivors...thus will be in control of this world. Also I predict...that the United States will take over Cuba...commando-like...with swift suddenness...and to hell with the Russ who are linked with Cuba. It will be a blood bath, and that's the way it will be. Also I tell you...that the United States, right now, is a dead country. It will be wiped out in near time to come. The only slight chance that we have...is if Church is elected to be our leader and President. If any of the other Presidential aspirants win...then forget it...the ballgame is over. Also, of course, if I, personally, am wiped out...the ballgame is over. Things do look very dim for the United States, do they not? I hope...that you do not take this communication lightly. Ted Owens, PK Man, Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. Owens === Page 65 of 81 April 21, 1976...Dr. Max Fogel; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Hynek. Am now on the tail-end of my "California Miracle"...and will have the third and last part of the Report to xerox and get out to you in the coming weeks. However...I have no funds to do so...so would like some financial help, if you have any connections with those that could aid me. I trust that you are aware that UFO's and accompanying phenomena appeared last week over Northern California. This will be discussed at length, and explained, in the Report to you. Now, as of today, am beginning a new miracle project. Let's dub it "Project Amin." Briefly, I am going to aim my formidable and awesome powers (have the okay from my UFO Connection) at Idi Amin and his evil killer group in Uganda...to eliminate Amin and the group, and bring peace to Uganda. Or at least, peaceful people...non-killers. Also involved in this program which am setting up today...will be my Pyramid Power. As yet...have not approached It...but will, within the next hour, to get permission, to explain the situation, and to enlist It's powers to help. The Pyramid Power (haven't had the money to type out, xerox, and mail to you the voluminous Report on my trip to Egypt and the pyramids and what I discovered there) is a Living Entity...alive and well, from the ages past, among the pyramids in Egypt. I am now linked up to it mentally, just as I am linked up to the UFO's...and am able to bring Its powers to bear...just as I am able to bring the UFO Connection's powers to bear. While in Cairo, Egypt, not long ago...Amin captured two British men and readied them for the firing squad (that is, I was in Cairo, not Amin.) Well, I contacted the British Embassy in Cairo...had a meeting with a British official...and gave him my plan to save the two British men. I will go into the details of the plan when, if ever, I get the Egyptian Report done and xeroxd and out to you. But at any rate...the plan was ultra-ingenious. I know that British officials flew to Uganda from England...but I think that my plan might have been activated re Amin. At any rate...Amin released the two doomed Britishers. Yesterday in the paper...Amin and his evil group had allegedly tortured and killed a young female student of 22 years...just as Amin has killed TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE "who were distrusted or disliked by Amin and his underlings." (Am quoting the San Francisco Chronicle...the documentation will be in the file that I send to you as soon as my Project Amin has been completed...and that will be, before Fall of this year, or even sooner.) In the past years I have demonstrated many miraculous phenomena for you...but none pinpointing the elimination of one specific individual, and that individual's group. (I have DONE it, but have not documented it for you.) For heaven's sake...get in touch with some govt. agency, if you can, and get me some funds with which to proceed. Haven't my miracles been worth that much? Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Owens === Page 66 of 81 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 9, 1974 Dear Mr. Secretary: I hereby resign the Office of President of the United States. Sincerely, Richard Nixon The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger The Secretary of State Washington, D. C. 20520 The resignation letter: Visa for a sorry Frank Johnston--The Washington Post THIS IS ONE OF MY VERY BEST "PRECOG" * PSYCHIC "HITS," MADE FOUR YEAR'S AGO IN "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT" BY BRAD STEIGER AND WARREN SMITH. * HA HA OWENS MANY XPK # Seven Days In August I've put Bad Guys Out! And suddenly it was over. ¶ Sitting for the last time behind his desk in the Oval Office, a taut smile flickering at his lips, Richard Milhous Nixon, 61, looked wanly into the television cameras and brought the long ordeal of Watergate to its end. ¶ He resigned his ruined Presidency in disgrace--the first man ever driven from the office in the 198 years of the American Republic--and passed the mantle to his hand-chosen successor, Gerald Ford. ¶ The transfer of power August 19, 1974 13 === Page 67 of 81 IN PASSING Highlights of Week National 8/11/74 The President resigned. After an historic week unique in the annals of the Republic Mr. Nixon finally bowed to the intense and mounting pressure from Congress and became the first President to resign his office. The President made his announcement to a somber public on national television on Thursday evening. Vice President Gerald Ford cancelled a 12-day campaign swing through the West and conferred at length with the beleaguered President. Ford is now the 38th President of the United States. The unprecedented crisis reached its climactic stage after the President was forced to concede that he had lied to the public and his own lawyers about his role in the Watergate coverup. The revelations contained in transcripts of three meetings... ...say, Democrats who might have beaten Nixon in the 1972 election. The transfer of power from one President to another has occurred 36 times before, sometimes in dramatic and tragic circumstances. But never before had it happened this way -- with one man forced out of office in disgrace, and his successor taking over without ever having submitted his name to voters outside his home district in western Michigan. Despite its extraordinary nature, the process was a legitimate and orderly one, sanctified by the Constitution, in Section 5 of Article II and in Section I of the 21th Amendment. The Founding Fathers, 187 years ago, had seen fit, after some dispute, to provide a Vice President who would be ready to take over if the President could not carry on. The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, provided for the selection of a new Vice President. Phila Inquirer 8/11/74 === Page 68 of 81 NY Times 12/3/74 # Colts Count Blessings On Missing Plane Crash When the Baltimore Colts flew home from Buffalo yesterday on a Northwest Airlines charted flight, "there was no kidding, no joking, you could hear a pin drop," according to a team spokesman. "When the wheels hit the runway at Baltimore-Washington Airport, there was a roar of relief in the cabin," he added. The Colts, after losing on Sunday to the Bills in Buffalo, had been scheduled to go home on a Northwest chartered flight coming from John F. Kennedy Airport late Sunday afternoon. At 8 P.M., after the players had eaten dinner, the plane had not arrived and General Manager Joe Thomas decided the team would stay overnight in Buffalo. At 9:30 Colt officials learned that the plane had crashed near Bear Mountain, N.Y. They immediately told all members of the team so they could call their families and assure them of their safety. "When Cotton Speyrer called his folks in Port Arthur, Texas, his father couldn't believe it was him," said Ernie Accorsi, the team's publicity director. "They had heard on television that the Colts' plane had gone down and that there were no survivors. Mrs. Speyrer was pretty shook up." Most of the players were depressed when they learned the identity of the three crewmen who had perished in the crash. They had flown the Colts to Miami for a game three weeks ago. The team left the Buffalo airport yesterday at 12:30 P.M. with sleet and snow falling heavily. "It was a bad scene for a takeoff," said Accorsi. "There's not one guy on this team with a hangup about flying, but the atmosphere was pretty tense. There was silence for the whole hour in the air. We're all glad it was our last road game of the season." The Colts finish the National Football League season at home against the Dolphins and the New England Patriots. Nat'l Football League LAST NIGHT'S GAME PK'd Colts PK'd (bad) world premiers, presidents, etc. Peruvian Premier Escapes Assassins; 2 High Aides Hurt NY Times 12/3/74 LIMA, Peru, Dec. 2 (AP)--Peru's Premier and two other men prominent in the military Government escaped assassination last night, the Interior Ministry announced today. The announcement said that unidentified assailants had fired from a vehicle that drew alongside the car carrying the three officials. Premier Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, who is also War Minister and Commander in Chief of the army, escaped injury, the statement said. But Gen. Javier Tantaleán Vanini, the Minister of Fisheries in President Juan Velasco Arvarado's leftist Government, and Gen. Guillermo Arbulu, General Tantaleán's brother-in-law, were wounded. They were taken to the military hospital in Lima, where they were reported in satisfactory condition. General Mercado's brother-in-law, Guillermo Neuman, who was driving the car, was uninjured. NY Times 12/3/74 # Bad Weather Is Linked To Small-Plane Crashes WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (Reuters)--A Federal safety panel said today that bad weather was increasingly to blame for fatal crashes of small planes. The National Safety Transportation Board said that this trend developed since 1967 even though plane accidents from other causes were on the downswing. The finding was shown, the board said, in a special study of general aviation--nonairline--accidents from 1964 through 1972. During the eight years, 4,714 persons died in 2,026 general aviation accidents involving bad weather--36.6 per cent of all fatal mishaps among nonairline planes. Such crashes have occurred "with disturbing regularity despite improvements in aircraft, instrumentation, training, training facilities, the air traffic control system, weather facilities, weather services and navigational aids," the board said. Airplane PK, issued in 1967, by me, govt. notified for special demonstration of UFO powers U. Geller === Page 69 of 81 Sir - I get yet another Premier A2 Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, January 29, 1975 # Denmark Leader Resigns COPENHAGEN (AP)--Denmark Prime Minister Poul Hartling, a Liberal, resigned Tuesday night after the parliament supported an opposition motion calling for efforts to form a majority government. The surprise development came in the first session of the Folketing--the Danish parliament--elected Jan. 9 in national elections called by Hartling. The motion, offered by the Social Democrats and urging Hartling to resign, was carried by one vote, 86 to 85, with five abstentions and three members absent. Immediately after the vote Hartling announced that he was resigning and would do so formally Wednesday morning in an audience with Queen Margrethe II. Hartling's party gained 20 seats in the elections, bringing its total in the 10-party Folketing to 42. But the Social Democrats, largest faction in the parliament, also gained, up seven to 53 of the Folketing's 179 seats. Some elements of the opposition stated after the elections that they will call for a no-confidence vote unless a government with a broader political base is established. Hartling, who had headed a minority government for 13 months, dissolved the Folketing and called elections in an attempt to rally support for a crash program freezing wages and profits to curb a 16 per cent inflation rate and soaring unemployment. Va. Pilot Jan. 30, 1975 # Information Minister Israeli Leader Yariv Quits in Frustration JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Reserve Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv, chief Israeli negotiator of the 1973 cease-fire, resigned Wednesday as information minister in frustration over the way the government operates. He said the government's method of functioning appears inappropriate and fails "to meet the needs of the current situation," particularly the possibility of another Middle East war. Yariv, 55, also said the government had failed to set up a national security council to handle emergencies, as recommended by a commission that investigated Israel's unpreparedness for the Yom Kippur War. Yariv's resignation marks the first outward sign of dissension to my mind, there is no call for a minister of information." But in the letter he listed as his first reason "the government's mode of operation, which to me appears to be inappropriate and failing to meet the needs of the current situation." "There were no differences over policy matters that prompted my resignation," Yariv told newsmen. "My resignation had nothing to do with Mr. Rabin personally." Yariv said he thought he should resign before Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returns to the Middle East to resume efforts at reaching a second disengagement accord between Israel 1/30/75 # Scientists Here are two more Premiers, leaders, Presidents, etc. (of countries) that the Si's have found unacceptable... and have removed. How many does this make now. 20? 30? Owen EPK / Man 7 === Page 70 of 81 JAPAN: The Six I have removed yet another Premier! Gwen Tanaka Bows Out Kakuei Tanaka is a rare Japanese politician--an Oriental Horatio Alger who overcame both his humble beginnings and lack of education to scramble his way to the top. But recently the Prime Minister seemed to have lost that lean and hungry look. Thus one morning last week, Tanaka rose early, put in a call to his aging mother, paused briefly to feed his prize carp and then drove off to his official residence for a short, stiff-necked meeting with four elders of the ruling Liberal Democratic party. There, he announced his intention to become the first Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history to resign from office under a cloud of scandal. In bowing out, he touched off a complex struggle for the succession. Backstage maneuvering to oust Tanaka and pick a successor actually started several weeks ago when it became clear he couldn't survive an avalanche of charges against him. He faced an official investigation of his questionable methods of raising political funds, his irregular land dealings on which he built a personal fortune, and even the fact that he kept one--or more--mistresses in a tastelessly public way. The threat that such affairs might be exposed in embarrassing detail caused an excruciating family quarrel with his daughter Makiko that apparently tilted him in favor of resignation. "Politicians," remarked a Tanaka associate, "are able to weather trouble outside their homes, but if they also have trouble in their own homes, then it will usually wreck them." In the end, Tanaka acknowledged his "personal shame" and said he regretted bringing "a torrent of rain" on the future of his country. With Tanaka gone, the most pressing order of business for the Liberal Democrats will be to paper up the cracks in party unity and pick a successor. That will not be easy. Tanaka's bulldozer tactics had left behind a residue of bitterness unparalleled in postwar politics. Among four major contenders for his job (page 57), the most likely candidates were former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, who helped bring Tanaka down by quitting the Cabinet last summer, and the current Finance Minister, Masayoshi Ohira, whom Tanaka and his powerful faction are supporting. In years past, liberal dollops of political money and behind-the-scenes horse-trading would have lined up the necessary votes to make one of them a certain winner. But the Tanaka scandal has made money politics taboo in Japan. As a result, there seemed a strong chance last week that each man might eat out the other and open the way for one of two aging party war-horses, Etsusaburo Shiina or Shigesaburo Maeo, as an interim leader. The trouble is that most Liberal Democrats feel a vital need for strong leadership to cleanse the party's soiled reputation and guide the country out of its current economic morass. Party Secretary-General Susumu Nikaido has been drinking many ritual cups of tea at the homes of party elders while he makes soundings for a consensus. The major contenders themselves, NEWSWEEK's Tokyo bureau chief Bernard Krisher reported, are lying low. "Everyone is staying at home or in his office close to the phone," cabled Krisher. "Wives of politicians are calling other wives to try to get them to use their influence on their husbands. And no one is leaving Tokyo for fear that people might think that they are not important enough to be consulted on the succession." Fire Storm: However the struggle is resolved, no one expects a radical shift in policy. A Fukuda government might move a notch to the right in economic and other domestic affairs and could conceivably cool down Japan's new friendship with Peking. Ohira, on the other hand, would probably continue most of Newsweek, December 9, 1974 Another world leader removed by me and Six. Gwen Declaration in January Va. Pilot Dec 11, 1974 Critical Water Area NORFOLK--A portion, if not all, of Southeastern Virginia will be declared a critical groundwater area by the State Water Control Board in January, said Arthur Collins, director of planning for the Southeastern Virginia Planning District Commission. Collins Tuesday said he reached his conclusion through informal discussions with SWCB staff members. The board has been considering such a move since it held public hearings on the issue in Norfolk in September. Mrs. Wayne Jackson, a water Control Board member, said that, based on the testimony she heard at the hearing, the designation will be made when the SWCB meets Jan. 23-24. If declared, a critical groundwater area would mean that all wells drawing more than 50,000 gallons per day be registered with the state for monitoring, that there be no increased usage without a permit, and that no new wells using more than 50,000 gallons a day can be dug without SWCB approval. Collins said he would See my shortage of water prediction in Warren Smith's "Predictions For 1974." Also keep in mind recent discovery drinking water is causing cancer! Gwen === Page 71 of 81 Yet another bad President, King, Premier, etc., removed by UFO's and myself! Owens Va. Pilot April 22, 1975 # Thieu Resigns By EDWIN Q. WHITE SAIGON (AP)--President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned Monday to pave the way for a political settlement of the Vietnam War. But it could be too late to keep the Communists from seizing the last quarter of South Vietnam by force. Scientists... if a world leader is war-oriented, or obstructing peace... as I've said before... the UFO's and I... will get them removed. -- Owens # The Virginian-Pilot ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 21, 1865 Page A8 Tuesday, April 22, 1975 # After So Much Lying South Vietnamese President Thieu's resignation was no more pleasant than the rest of the story. But like Saigon's doom, it was inevitable. Indeed, the Ford Administration last week indicated, while continuing to insist from the other side of its mouth that South Vietnam could save itself if only Congress would supply it funds, that Mr. Thieu's departure would be welcome. For the onrushing Communists long since had vowed never again to try to negotiate a cease-fire or settlement with Mr. Thieu. Perhaps he got out too late. He seemed to recognize the possibility when he said "I resign to see, after there is no more Mr. Thieu, whether negotiations will be satisfactory." Or did he speak only in bitterness? Certainly he was bitter toward the United States. He accused Secretary of State Kissinger of delivering "our people to such a disastrous fate"--an unfair denunciation, but understandable, considering the flamboyance of the role Mr. Kissinger had played for President Nixon and then for himself and President Ford in Indochina. Poor Mr. Kissinger. He caught it also from the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government in Paris. The Viet Cong was mistrustful of the Thieu resignation. "The Nguyen Van Thieu clique must be overthrown and replaced by an administration wishing peace, independence, democracy, and national concord," it said. As flagrantly as it and its North Vietnamese ally had violated the 1973 Paris peace accords, it was justified at least in its suspicion that Mr. Thieu never intended to meet the peace terms either, especially the article calling for a National Council of Reconciliation and Accord. Whether the Communists will regard Vice President Tran Van Huong, who succeeded to the South Vietnamese presidency, as being above the "Thieu clique" is doubtful, despite Mr. Huong's reputation for honesty and competence. Nevertheless, the wind-down in South Vietnam need not be as wretched and tragic as the years-long events leading to it. The Viet Cong's hint that it would not interfere with the evacuation of Americans from Saigon was welcome. And the French government's offer of its good offices to the belligerents in an urgent call for negotiations was, beyond a practical step toward diplomacy, an invitation for all the 1973 Paris signatories to inject international responsibility into the Vietnam War's wreckage. Mr. Thieu's parting blast at the United States should be kept in perspective. It should be no influence in Washington's decisions on how to meet its humanitarian obligations to the South Vietnamese people. Generosity will not atone for old mistakes, but it should prove beneficial to American unity while easing the American sorrow--the American humiliation--of a lost cause. Barbara Tuchman, herself a historian of great accomplishment, may have forecast history's judgment of America's Indochina adventure when she said the other day that President Johnson lied us into South Vietnam, President Nixon lied us into Cambodia, and President Ford and Secretary Kissinger were lying us out of the area. Once the American government has finished this last withdrawal, it should rededicate itself to simple truth. === Page 72 of 81 EVENING STANDARD THURSDAY APRIL 10 1975 15 Another Premier, King, etc. out!! # A king's guards are disarmed NEW DELHI, Thursday TROOPS of the Indian army disarmed the King of Sikkim's palace guards last night after a battle which may mark the end of the ruler's authority. Fighting continued for 80 minutes around the palace home of Chogyal (King) Palden Thondup Namgyal, whom Sikkim political leaders have asked the Indian Government to remove as the constitutional Head of State. The Indian army eventually succeeded in disbanding the 400-strong Sikkim Guards who lost one man with four others injured. An Indian soldier also was wounded. The disbanding of the palace guards came on the eve of a scheduled emergency session of the Sikkim Assembly, which was to consider a resolution demanding the abolition of the monarchy. The assembly is controlled by the Chogyal's political foes who came to power in the wake of the 1973 uprising against him. Led by Chief Minister Kazi Lhendup Dorji, the anti-Royalists had Sikkim converted last year from an Indian protectorate to an associate Indian state with representation in the Federal Parliament in New Delhi. Reports from Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, indicated Dorji might next press for full Indian statehood. THE KING of Sikkim--fighting around his palace. London THE TIMES MONDAY APRIL 7 1975 OVERSEAS Another Premier, Pres., etc, out. # Peking likely to seek cracks in the Nationalist facade after General Chiang's death From David Bonavia Peking, April 6 The news of the death of General Chiang Kai-shek created no obvious excitement in Peking today, though his name has been reviled daily for the past quarter of a century. Though branded as the chief villain of modern Chinese politics, the late general had retained a certain immunity from the kind of personal slurs which have been cast on disgraced former leaders of the Communist Party such as the late Lin Piao, the army chief, and Liu Shao-chi, the former head of state. Perhaps mindful of the various periods during which they worked in alliance with the Kuomintang, the nationalist party which he led, the Communists seem to have felt that even he would not have been beyond forgiveness if he had consented to seek a peaceful solution of the Taiwan problem. Now that he is gone, they will look for cracks in the façade of the Kuomintang which they might exploit to solve this most bitter of all national issues. On the face of it the prospects for an early reconciliation with Taipei are not bright. Mr Chiang Ching-kuo, the general's son, who is expected to become the effective ruler of the island, has not in the past shown any inclination to negotiate with Peking. It has even been hinted by officials in Peking that he might be tempted to flirt with the Soviet Union. But he lacks the personal and historical aura which surrounded his father. The general's death, however, while not in itself an assurance of an early solution to the Taiwan problem, at least removes the most formidable personal obstacle. Peking has never slammed the door on negotiations with the Kuomintang. A small splinter group of the Kuomintang continued to be represented in the parliamentary set-up in Peking, if only for form's sake. In recent years Peking propaganda has emphasized reconciliation, not confrontation. Amnesty was granted last month to nearly 300 alleged Kuomintang war criminals and secret agents imprisoned on the mainland. People from Taiwan have been exhorted to visit the mainland without fear of detention and efforts have been made to cultivate people in other countries who have Taiwan connexions. Fishing boats from the island which have foundered and been rescued by mainland vessels have been repaired and the crews sent home with friendly messages. Appeals have been issued to Kuomintang soldiers and officials to work for reunion with the People's Republic without fear of reprisals for their past conduct. None of this seems to have made a great impression in Taiwan, where American aid and Japanese investment have induced a high level of economic prosperity Patrick Brogan writes from Washington: China experts have long discounted the effects of General Chiang's death. It is thought that although it might remove some psychological stumbling block from the path of reconciliation between Taiwan and the mainland, the other obstacles are much more difficult to overcome. There is a certain residual feeling of guilt in Washington that events should have led the United States Government in 1972, when President Nixon went to Peking, to write off its long alliance with General Chiang. Paris: In China's first mention of the general's death, the New China news agency in a broadcast monitored here said he was a "puppet president" whose "hands were stained with the blood of the revolutionary Chinese people". Hanoi: Mr Pham Van Dong, the Prime Minister of North Vietnam, today summed up his reaction to the death of President Chiang saying: "He should have died sooner." Richard Harris, page 14 Obituary, page 16 === Page 73 of 81 Yet another Pres., Chief of State, etc., out! A8 Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, April 23, 1975 Military Ousts The Sin + I are doing fine! Chief of Honduras Tax Bribe On Bananas In Probe TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- The Honduran military ousted Gen. Oswaldo Lopez Arellano as chief of state Tuesday shortly after he was reported to have refused to let a commission investigating a banana-tax bribe examine his foreign bank accounts. Two weeks ago United Brands Co. acknowledged paying $1.25 million to high officials of this Central American country to gain lower banana export taxes. The company did not name any officials, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the money went to Lopez Arellano. He called the report "slanders" and set up the investigating body. An announcement on national radio said the military took the step against Lopez Arellano "to safeguard the integrity and honor of the country." First reports indicated that the coup d'etat was bloodless. The streets of Tegucigalpa were peaceful, with no unusual troop movements. The radio announcement said Col. Juan Alberto Melgar, 45, had replaced Lopez Arellano, 53, as head of state. Younger officers had already nudged Lopez Arellano out of his post as head of the armed forces, ostensibly to allow him more time for affairs of state. Melgar took over the military job March 31. University rector Arturo Reina, chairman of the banana investigating commission, released a statement Tuesday morning saying that all officials under investigation had given the commission power to look at their foreign bank accounts except for Lopez Arellano. The national leader, he said, "is obstructing the work" of the commission. Then Reina left on a flight for the United States to continue the investigation, and Lopez Arellano was ousted a short time later. United Brands, which sells Chiquita brand bananas in the United States, acknowledged the $1.25 million payment after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against the company accusing it of transferring money to Honduran officials through a Swiss bank account. A banana tax of $1 on each 40-pound box was set in April 1974 by the Honduran government, but it was not collected, and the tax was reduced to between 25 and 30 cents a box. LOPEZ ARELLANO . . . . . . foreign accounts It was the 23rd coup d'etat in Honduras' 151 years of independence. Lopez Arellano had held power by virtue of two coups. He first took power in 1963 by ousting President Ramon Villeda. He was later elected to a constitutional term and served as president from 1965 to 1969. He seized power again in 1972 by overthrowing elected President Ramon E. Cruz. Honduras, with 2.8 million people, has a weak economy based on the export of bananas, sugar, and coffee. Hurricane Fifi last September devastated the northern agricultural area. === Page 74 of 81 Scientists... in my former written predictions... I predicted the fall of South Vietnam... also cannibalism in 1975! Owens Monday April 7 1975 No 59,363 Price eight pence London Times # Phnom Penh considers prospect of unconditional surrender Discussions on the possibility of Phnom Penh's unconditional surrender to the attacking communist forces were said by reliable sources to be going on yesterday among the Cambodian leaders in the capital. However, Mr Long Boret, the Prime Minister, on his way home from Bali, said the capital "will not fall". Meanwhile, there were reports of widespread cannibalism among starving Government troops. In Washington General Frederick Weyand, the Army Chief of Staff, back from Saigon, reported that there was virtually no hope of saving South Vietnam. # Cannibalism practised by Cambodian troops From Bruce Palling Phnom Penh, April 6. Unpaid Government soldiers killed and ate their paymaster only a mile away from the besieged Cambodian capital, it was reported here today. In their reaction to the incident military observers seemed more concerned with the maintenance of discipline among the troops than with revulsion over the acts of cannibalism. An inspection of the troops at a Buddhist temple where they have been temporarily stationed south-east of Phnom Penh has revealed that thousands of starving people have taken part in acts of cannibalism recently. The paymaster was killed in a shooting incident, according to observers on the scene, when he refused to hand the soldiers their monthly pay of 14,000 riels (about £3) until they went to the northern front--about seven miles away. A superior officer was also shot and killed. The soldiers had been airlifted from the besieged provincial capital of Kompong Seila late last week after the Government decided to abandon the town, about 70 miles south-west of Phnom Penh in order to bring more troops into the capital. The troops, then numbering, 1,500, and 5,000 inhabitants lived under siege from last May until January when pressure eased on the positions with the Khmer Rouge concentrating their efforts on their offensive against Phnom Penh. A captain interviewed today said that everyone in his battalion of 500 men had eaten the corpses of Khmer Rouge killed in the fighting because they were starving. "We ate grass, lizards and banana leaves and finally Khmer Rouge--everyone ate them men, women and children", the captain said. During the weekend, about 80 employees of the American Vinnell Corporation, which maintains and trains the Cambodian Army, withdrew entirely at the orders of the State Department in Washington. The American Embassy also withdrew up to 30 of its 200 employees during the past four days in case the military situation deteriorates rapidly or Congress refuses to grant supplemental military aid to Cambodia when it reconvenes on Monday. === Page 75 of 81 Another, yet King, Premier, President removed. - G H THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1975 # President of Chad Is Killed During a Military Take-Over NDJAMENA, Chad, April 13 (Agence France-Presse) -- Soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Chad early today and killed the President in a coup d'etat. The acting army chief of staff, Gen. Noel Odingar, announced the military take-over in this north central African nation in a statement broadcast by the national radio shortly after the attack on the palace. Immediately after the attack it was reported that several military officers arrested April 2 on charges of plotting against the President, Ngarta Tombalbaye, who had ruled Chad since her independence from France in 1960, had been released from prison by General Odingar. A communiqué broadcast by the military said that President Tombalbaye "died as a result of wounds received during the attack on the Presidential Palace by the Chad armed forces despite efforts made to save him." General Odingar, who has apparently taken over the Government, was also reported to have been wounded in the fighting at the palace, but he was able to announce the army coup in the national radio broadcast. Following the announcement, shouts of "Long live the armed forces," and "long live the revolution," could be heard in the streets of the capital. The military said in its communiqué that social discrimination imposed by the Tombalbaye regime had provoked animosity between tribes and useless spilling of blood. Chad, which is just south of Libya, is an economically poor country that has been torn by violence almost continually since 1962, when President Tombalbaye pushed through a new constitution banning all political parties but his own Progressive party. The violence grew from conflicts between the mainly Sudanic Moslems of north and central Chad, who make up about half of the population, and the Bantu peoples of the south. President Tombalbaye, who changed his first name from Françoise to Ngarta and the name of the capital from Fort Lamy to Ndjamena in 1963 during a period of Africanization, was a southern Bantu of the Sara tribe. Today's coup, however, was apparently led by Bantu military officers. The military communiqué charged that the fundamental principal of the Tombalbaye regime had been "to divide in order to rule" and that under it the political and economic situation of the country had "never ceased to deteriorate." The communiqué also charged that the military had been humiliated and ridiculed by the former President, an apparent reference to recent statements by Mr. Tombalbaye in which he accused the army of acting as a "state within a state" and said that he was going to make radical changes in the army command. The first stirrings of the army move came at the beginning of the month with the news of two mysterious fires at the arsenals of the Chad Security Company and an incident at the national gendarmerie headquarters where three Frenchmen were shot and seriously wounded. The shootings were by two prisoners who managed to disarm their guard, an official announcement said. However, Mr. Tombalbaye ordered the arrest of both the commander and the deputy commander of the gendarmerie and lashed out at the army. They were among those released following the coup. The coup began last night with the movement into the city of army units from a camp at Boukoro, 35 miles outside the capital, military sources said. The units were under the command of a young officer whose name was given only as Djimtololim. On arrival in the capital the young officer went to the security forces camp where an initial attack took place. The troops then moved on to the presidential residence, where they opened fire on the President's special guard. It was in this first outbreak of fighting around the residence that Mr. Tombalbaye was mortally wounded, sources said. The rest of the Chad Army units garrisoned here then joined in the coup action under the orders of General Odingar. Unconfirmed reports said that there were heavy casualties during the fighting at the Presidential Palace, which lasted several hours and included a light artillery attack by the coup forces. At the end of the morning, sporadic rifle shots could still be heard in Ndjamena, although the city appeared to be calm otherwise. When the shooting began some of the 3,000 French expatriates estimated to be in the capital sought refuge with marines stationed at the French base area north of here. The French residents later returned to their homes and the French Ambassador, Raphael Touze, said that all necessary precautions had been taken to insure their safety. The Chad armed forces, which was only 500 strong in 1964, have been strengthened to 4,000 men, including three companies of paratroops to oppose political rebellions in the mainly Moslem north and east of the country. The army officers who led the coup said in their communiqué that they intended to maintain all of Chad's present international agreements and undertakings. Mr. Tombalbaye, who survived several coup attempts in the last 13 years, was a former schoolteacher who entered politics in 1946 when he helped found the Chad Progressive party, which later became the country's first single ruling party. Associated Press Ngarta Tombalbaye Also... corrupt Thieu, President of Viet Nam... and Lon Nol... corrupt President of Cambodia... are busily trying to get $700,000,000 in gold to Switzerland... but the six and I... got them out! G Gwen === Page 76 of 81 Yet another Premier, King, etc. removed THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1975 # Sadat's Premier Steps Down In Cairo Public-Welfare Drive By HENRY TANNER Special to The New York Times CAIRO, April 13--President Anwar el-Sadat today accepted the resignation of Premier Abdel Aziz Hegazi. Informed Government sources said that Mr. Sadat's choice as new premier was Mamdouh Salem, a former police officer who has been Interior Minister for four years but no announcement to this effect was made pending a televised address by Mr. Sadat tomorrow night. Mr. Salem has had the rank of Deputy Premier for the last two years. A new Cabinet will be named later this week, with several new ministers. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who has played a key role in Mr. Sadat's policy of close cooperation with the United States, is expected to retain his job and to be promoted to Deputy Premier. Mr. Sadat is understood to be anxious to underline the continuity of his foreign policy. Mr. Fahmy is scheduled to fly to Moscow on Saturday for talks with the Soviet leaders. According to informed Government sources there were two principal reasons for the change of premiers. First, Mr. Salem is expected to exert tighter control over the Cabinet and the country than did Mr. Hegazi, who is an accountant by training and who confined himself almost exclusively to economic affairs. Secondly, the new premier is expected to try, at Mr. Sadat's request, to increase social benefits and wages for those who have suffered most from inflation and shortages of food and other consumer goods. Mr. Hegazi, whose prime objective was economic development, has fought wage demands. During the last few months he has been locked in a dispute over this issue with Mr. Salem, and Sayed Marei, the president of the National Assembly. He has been criticized during an Assembly debate and in the newspapers. Last week it became clear that he was losing his fight when President Sadat ordered that a new law giving wage increases to civil servants be amended to include the workers in the public sector, which accounts for most of the country's economy. The feeling that only the wealthy are benefiting from the Government's policy of economic liberalization has led to sporadic social unrest--most recently in the form of violent clashes between workers and policemen at a state-owned textile factory employing 48,000 workers at Mehalla, in the delta. Mr. Salem, Mr. Marei and Mr. Fahmy are believed to be the officials most frequently consulted by President Sadat. Mr. Hegazi, who is not a politician by temperament, was not thought to belong to the inner circle. Persons familiar with Mr. Sadat's thinking had reported for some time that the President would like to make Mr. Salem premier but said that he hesitated because he felt that the appointment of a former police officer was politically undesirable. In an interview with The New York Times yesterday Mr. Sadat was asked whether the recent increase of tension between Israel and the Arabs could cause him to go back on his policy of political and economic liberalization at home. His answer was emphatic: "No, that policy is irreversible." Scientists ... You think 20 some odd Presidents, Kings, Premiers, etc., being gotten rid of in a years time ... might be a weird coincidence? Forget it! The UFO's (Six) and I ... have been busy ... causing it! Owens === Page 77 of 81 40 # Portugal's President Forced Out Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, October 1, 1974 A7 Oct, 1, 1974 Scientists You can add another "removed Premier" (President, etc) to my list. Owens ## Leadership Retained By Military LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Young leftist military leaders forced Gen. Antonio de Spinola to quit as Portugal's president Monday and a left-leaning three-man committee began running the country. The final blow to Spinola's hold on the presidency that he assumed after a coup overthrew Premier Marcello Caetano last April was the failure by his rightist supporters to carry off a weekend rally to express their support. Spinola canceled the rally after Communists and other leftists strongly denounced it and threatened open violence to prevent it. GEN. SPINOLA . . . called too slow The Junta of National Salvation, which originally comprised seven generals and admirals, announced that three generals, Jaime Silveiro Marques of the army and Diogo Neto and Carlos Galvao de Melo of the air force, were ousted with Spinola. The announcement said the military rebels promised democratic elections and land reform after 58 years of feudal rule. Ethiopians reacted happily, decorating six tanks that rumbled into Addis Ababa with flowers and green banners bearing the military slogan, "Ethiopia First." Troops smiled at photographers and shook hands with girls. Small groups of students ran through Addis Ababa, shouting, "Down with the Emperor." Residents in Asmara, Ethiopia's second largest city, rejoiced in the streets at news of the overthrow. LT. GEN. ANDOM . . . new leader ... and so on, ad nauseum. You'd better believe it... the UFO's (SI's) and I have clout! Owens PK/MANX The committee also said a military court will be established to try people without appeal. About 200 high-ranking officials have been rounded up in the last few months and are now awaiting trial on charges of corruption, graft, and malpractice in office. The committee said it acted because the emperor refused to hand back billions of dollars he had invested overseas, because of crimes against the Ethiopian people over the last half a century, and because Selassie is too old and weak, both physically and mentally. Unofficial estimates put Selassie's wealth abroad at $10 billion, making him one of the world's richest men. But Selassie reportedly contends that much of his wealth has been distributed among his children and cannot be recovered. The committee also accused former governments of manipulation when he broadcast against the regime. Selassie returned to crushed the uprising by his perial bodyguard, and saw his son prostrate himself in a plea for forgiveness. The emperor declared the crown prince innocent. Selassie, barely 5 feet 2, consistently used stern methods to suppress his enemies. Yasu, the emperor from whom he seized power, was kept in chains for 19 years until he died. In the early part of this year Selassie's power began to fade, however, as the armed forces served notice that it was time to move the ancient Christian empire into the 20th century. A prolonged series of mutinies, arrests of key figures, and takeovers of government offices reduced the frail but strong-willed emperor to a figurehead. === Page 78 of 81 Va. Pilot Sept 1, 1974 PRIME MINISTER KIRK ... ... Vietnam-policy foe DEPUTY HUGH WATT ... ... takes over # N.Z. Leader Dies; Ally of Workmen WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Prime Minister Norman E. Kirk, an opponent of U.S. policy in Vietnam and an advocate of new forms of Asian and Pacific regional cooperation, died Saturday. He was 51. A government announcement said he died peacefully in a hospital where he was being treated for gastric influenza. He had been in poor health for months with pleurisy. Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt took over the government until the Labor Party caucus meets to elect a new leader. Labor has a 55-32 seat majority in Parliament. In Washington, White House press secretary Jerald F. terHorst said President Ford "obviously is deeply sorry" and has sent a private message of condolence to the Kirk family. The 6-foot, 250-pound "Big Norm" Kirk, a former welder and rail engineer, was elected in November 1972 in a personal triumph that returned the Labor Party to power, ending 12 years of rule by the National Party. Kirk reversed some long-standing government policies. He pulled the remaining New Zealand troops out of South Vietnam shortly after his election, recognized Communist China, and backed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' proposal for an end to foreign intervention in Southeast Asia. The son of a poor cabinetmaker, Kirk began his career as a ferry engineer in Auckland harbor. At the age of 12, he dropped out of school to work as a gardener and railway cleanup boy and painted roofs for $1 a week. At 30, he was elected mayor of the small town of Kaiapoi. He entered Parliament in 1957 and in 1964 became Labor Party president. The next year he became the opposition leader in Parliament. He actively sought closer ties between New Zealand and the Third World and Communist nations. Kirk visited Washington and the United Nations in 1973. He is survived by his widow, Ruth, and five children. # Basic Policies Remain Va. Pilot Sept 1, '74 # Sadat to Step Down From Premiership CAIRO (UPI) -- Anwar Sadat will step down as Egyptian premier but continue as president in a government reshuffle that does not signify changes in Egypt's basic foreign and domestic policies, government sources said Saturday. The sources said Sadat directed First Deputy Premier Abdel Aziz Higazi to form a new Cabinet, which is expected to take over in the second half of September. The change, the sources said, is aimed primarily at relieving Sadat of some of the heavy executive burdens involved in his double role as premier and president. Sadat assumed the premiership March 28, 1973, in what turned out to be a personal takeover of all preparations for the October war against Israel. The fact that Sadat now feels that he can afford to assign direct control of the Cabinet to another man does not signal any departure from Egypt's basic policies, the sources said. They said Egypt will continue military preparations for a possible new war against Israel if peace efforts collapse while at the same time promoting reconstruction and economic development at home. The sources said the great majority of ministers serving in the present Cabinet will be retained in Higazi's government. Higazi, 51, is one of the nation's leading economists. He served as treasury minister for several years before becoming first deputy premier. He and other members of the Cabinet came under fire in the press and parliament in recent weeks because of shortages of soap, matches, chicken, tea, and salt. 9/2/74 Scientist-Observers The SI's and I are busily removing Premiers and Presidents on a world-wide scale (see recent Sci-Letter) and replacing them with good, peace-seeking leaders. (And non-Communist of course, when possible.) Owens (PK/man) === Page 79 of 81 2 Scientists Have another removed President! Owen Irish President To Hospital DUBLIN (UPI) -- President Erskine Childers of the Irish Republic collapsed while dressing for dinner Saturday night and was rushed to Marter Hospital, government officials said. A spokesman for the hospital said that Childers' condition is "very serious." Childers, 69, a London-born Protestant, was elected President in June, 1973, for a seven-year term. He had a 56,000 majority over his Roman Catholic opponent, Tom O'Higgins. Childers' last official business was to welcome French Premier Jacques Chirac during a two-day visit to Dublin that ended Friday. Childers accepted an invitation to make a state visit to Paris early next year. Va. Pilot Nov 17, 1974 REPLY BY MAILGRAM - SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR WESTERN UNION'S TOLL - FREE NUMBERS === Page 80 of 81 Early Out of Power Sept 15, 1974 ① Chou En-lai # Chinese Succession Struggle By H. D. S. Greenway Washington Post Foreign Service HONG KONG Sept. 14--That Premier Chou En-lai will continue to withdraw from the Chinese political scene and that he will never again return to the position of power and influence he had but a few months ago is now accepted by China-watchers as a foregone conclusion. This is what Chinese officials are now telling foreigners, according to travelers who have been in the Chinese capital recently. Peking is alive with rumors and uneasiness, they say, and the most frequently told story is that Chou suffered another heart attack within the past few weeks. What Chou's withdrawal will mean in terms of Chinese politics is a great unknown. For 25 years, Chou has dominated the political scene with one foot in the government and the other in the Communist Party. From time to time others have eclipsed him. But Chou, always the manager, always the conciliator, managed to survive. ings we may not know the outcome for months or even years. It is likely that other premiers Teng Hsiao-ping and Li Hsien-nien will increasingly be the ones to meet Chinese and foreign dignitaries. Teng is expected to address the United Nations in April and to take on more protocol duties. His rehabilitation and sudden rise to the No. 3 ranking been one of the most job as the party's vice general secretary during the Cultural Revolution. He has been cleared of all charges, he still appears to lack the honors which go with such important posts. He still wields considerable power. Thus the government facade of stability and unity behind which Chou and his aides have worked nevertheless, Chou's shoes will fill Chou's shoes is a matter of intense speculation. sight for several years and is thought to be an invalid. Li Teh-shung has been criticized in wall posters and is currently in Shenyang. By July, however, the political climate had cooled. The central authorities in Peking sent out a series of directives to the provinces ordering a return to production and an end to factionalism. ② Thieu THE WASHINGTON POST Sunday, Sept. 15, 1974 A 11 # Thieu's Foes Mobilizing Against War, Corruption VIETNAM, From A1 surrounded churches and pagodas, breaking up meetings and harassing dissidents. A clandestine radio station in Hue has been publicizing "Indictment No. 1," but no one knows who is running the station. The Catholic anti-corruption movement began gathering steam last June, when 301 priests called a press conference and released a statement denouncing Thieu. Police kept newsmen out of that press conference and confiscated the statements. "The Buddhists overthrew Diem in 1963," said one priest. "Now it's time for the Catholics to do something about Thieu." Many of these priests have been considered political conservatives, and all are anti-Communist. If the Catholics have focused on corruption, the Buddhists have focused on Thieu's failure to achieve peace. Quiescent since the cease-fire, the militant An Quang arm of the Buddhist church here two weeks ago endorsed a newly formed organization called the Forces for National Reconciliation. All the personalities involved have been around for a long time, but observers call the endorsement a significant indication that the Buddhists, the largest religious group in the country, may once again play a militant antigovernment role. Sen. Vu Nan Mau, leader of the Buddhist slate in the Senate, said in an interview that the new organization will provide a rallying point for all anti-Thieu forces. "There's a broad segment of the population that doesn't side with the Thieu government," said Mau. "Until now Thieu has continued to apply policies that have thwarted the coming of peace." In the 20 months since the cease-fire, Thieu has successfully held down the opposition with police tactics and by charging all those who are not with him with being pro-Communist. But now, with even the U.S. Congress balking at such a hard line, Mau's new organization plans to tread the tricky middle road between Thieu and the Communists in an effort, Mau says, to implement the Paris agreement and bring about "national reconciliation on the basis of self-determination by the people." Another opposition rallying point has been provided by the recent furor here over press censorship. Not only have newspapers been censored and their press runs confiscated, but recently journalists have been arrested for writing stories about government corruption, and their meetings have been broken up by police. Several journalists have been interrogated and threatened with torture, and in the past month an atmosphere of fear has developed among many of them. A large group of opposition deputies in the National Assembly has called for abolition of press censorship, and the government says that it is considering the question. The Catholic opposition daily newspaper, Peace, suspended publication for several weeks recently and the publisher threatened to burn himself alive to protest censorship. The paper has been the main organ of the Catholic anti-corruption movement. In a meeting two days ago, 300 journalists, writers and politicians declared their opposition to press censorship. "To have press freedom we've got to overthrow the regime and not just the press code," a politician said at the meeting. Police did not break up the meeting. ① and ②... more of my handiwork (and Si's). Owens GARDNER SCHOOL 710 14th St. N.W. 628-5600 640 University Blvd. E. 434-6500 === Page 81 of 81 Demonstrators cheer Spinola's ouster: A defeat for the 'silent majority' (Another bad President removed. Owens) Newsweek Oct 14, 1974 # Portugal: A Shove Leftward He was Portugal's man on horseback - a general idolized by his troops and loved by his countrymen. And when several hundred junior army officers toppled Europe's oldest Fascist regime last April, they quickly asked Gen. António de Spínola to serve as interim President during the difficult transition period from dictatorship to democracy. But the young army captains, many of them leftists, soon found themselves at odds with the conservative Spínola. The monocled, 64-year-old general appeared to feel he had some sort of Gaullist mandate to rule Portugal as he saw fit - and that meant slowing his nation's rapid swing to the left. Last week, the junior officers decided their idol had to go. They stripped Spínola of virtually all power - and forced the aristocratic general to resign. The showdown had been brewing since mid-July. At that time, the young leaders of the Armed Forces Movement vetoed Spínola's call for early Presidential elections - which he hoped to win before Portugal's long-suppressed Communist and Socialist parties had time to fully organize. Then the captains forced the haughty general to name their leader, left-leaning Col. Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, as his new Prime Minister. In the weeks that followed, Spínola stumped the country trying to drum up support among Portugal's "silent majority." Two weeks ago, rightists began organizing a big rally in support of Spínola. Fearful that this show of strength might foreshadow a rightist coup, the young officers led by Gonçalves demanded that Spínola ban the rally. No. Kissinger was damn lucky! Owens Virginian-Pilot, Saturday, October 12, 1974 # Accidental Shot Misses Kissinger DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A submachine gun accidentally discharged aboard Henry A Kissinger's jet plane at Cairo airport Friday and injured his principal bodyguard only 20 feet from the secretary of state Fearing a terrorist attack, Kissinger hurried to his private compartment on the plane and the shutters were drawn. The Secret Service agent, Walter Bothe, 33, of Alexandria, Va., suffered a deep scalp wound and a second wound on the right forearm. "You are damn lucky," Kissinger told Bothe after it was determined that he had not been injured seriously and that the shot came from inside the Boeing 707 when a case carrying the Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun had tumbled from a rack onto the floor. Bothe told a reporter that two other weapons cases were similarly jostled toward the front of the blue-and-white jet as it taxied off the flight line. Martin Wolfe a State Department physician treated the injured agent. The bullet pierced the ceiling of the jet after passing through a cloth bag of Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco. The incident delayed Kissinger's takeoff for Syria half an hour. Shortly after Kissinger arrived in Damascus he began talks with President Hafez Assad, who has said there will be no peace in the Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7604 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 April 1976 Usually most months contain really easy to copy documents. This month had material from many different months and a plethora of original newspaper articles instead of copies that makes converting them into electronic copies a challenge. Also some batches of articles had 8 staples to them and taking staples out probably did damage the edges of articles slightly. I had to also add some clear plastic folders to the month to help organize the loose articles better. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e3f59bba36f28feffcf6c70561eed5c3.pdf cc0991afe0d40f3469361e03c6d7ffee https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c94604350bd871ec2cc8152e189a43fa.txt 1ac1bd32fc90dbe06d4df483a72f46b7 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/82bcc3e3feebc7f869c2d78742a4e8f5.pdf c858fcea7d604c6dfa7db962e642c155 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/990bdc9535ce5518e3593d6701c99658.txt 6c51a860a96218a46db504d190a7f1ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 12 May 22, 1976 Dr. Targ and Dr. Putoff Dr. Leo Sprinkle Dr. Allen Hynek Dr. Max Fogel Gentlemen: Today I received a genuine shock...in the form of an invitation from London, England...to appear at a three-day conference (parascience) at which "leading European and North American scientists" (see enclosed form which was enclosed with the letter of invitation) will appear and lecture, and read their papers. The invitation has been issued...because of my solid, documented work in the field of the paranormal...in spite of the fact that I am not a scientist...and in spite of the fact that I am linked with the subject of aliens. Most frankly, I believe that I can contribute extremely important factual data to this Conference...not obtainable elsewhere for the simple reason that I am the only human in the world who has done what I have done, and am doing. Now, to the point. To reach this Conference, and return...someone somewhere must provide the funds for it. Round trip airplane ticket from Norfolk to London and back, and enough cash to stay the three days in London. Possibly you may know of some organization, or philanthropist, financially able and willing to supply the above. In spite of the fact that I can literally accomplish miracles...yet I have no funds, and just squeak by, barely, my monthly bills. So, finding an "angel" to back this trip is an absolute necessity. Also, I believe that my appearance at this Conference...is an absolute necessity...because I have much invaluable information to impart within the framework of such a scientific gathering. Believe me when I tell you...that my paper would be one of the most important papers read at that Conference. And only I could deliver the paper, personally. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Owens (Drs Targ & Putoff (It seems they read a mention of my "California Miracle" in Psychics magazine. Am trying to find a copy of it now. Ted.) === Page 2 of 12 Dear Ted Owens, I have just received news about your work for Susanne Stebbing and she has suggested you as a speaker at the conference. I go along with this wholeheartedly. She tells me that you are interested in working with John Taylor who is to speak at the conference, in creating certain phenomena, and also that you've worked with Russell Targ who is one of our members, and Harold Puthoff. Will you let me know as soon as possible whether you'd like to participate, with appropriate details about the contribution you'd like to make so that I can put it in the programme? It looks like being a crackly conference of a rather novel type since reputable parapsychology organisations have been chary about identifying too closely with space intelligence and communication ideas. But this subject desperately needs an airing in a suitable scientific context and this is what we aim to do. Yours sincerely, Peter Maddock 16/5/76 === Page 3 of 12 PARASCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS Published by the Institute of Parascience Sprytown, Lifton, Devon, PL16 0AY, England. (Tel : Lifton 373) Edited by Peter Maddock VOL: 1 NO: 1 (1/10/75) Parascience Communications will appear at approximately quarterly intervals and replaces previous newsletter. RECENT CONFERENCE ON "PSYCHOENERGETICS AND PK" Our conference at The Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, The City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 4PB, held during the weekend of 12-14 September has been widely acknowledged as a successful and useful event. List of Contributions (in order of presentation) Friday, Sept. 12, Evening Session. Chairman: Prof. John B. Hasted. (1) "Psi: Physical or Non-Physical?" John Beloff (Dept. of Psychology, University of Edinburgh) (2) "Commentary on Filmed Mediumship of Madame Kulagina" Manfred Cassirer (S.P.R., London) (3) "A Modified Form of Walker's ("Noise") Theory of PK" (with applications to displacement and bending phenomena) Richard D. Mattuck (H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen) (4) "Psychokinesis, Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics" Scott Hill (H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen) Saturday, Sept. 13, Morning Session. Chairman: John Beloff (5) "Rudi Schneider's Physical Mediumship" Anita Gregory (S.P.R., London) (6) "Is the World-Picture Accepted in the West Adequate?" (with reference to quantum mechanics and uncertainty) Prof. Brian Josephson (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) (7) "Thinking Matter: A Review and Evaluation of Research into Psychokinesis" Brian Millar (Dept. of Psychology, University of Edinburgh) Saturday, Sept. 13, Afternoon Session. Chairman: Richard D. Mattuck. (8) "The 'South London' Poltergeist" Manfred Cassirer (S.P.R., London) (9) "A Recent Observation of Metal-Bending" Hans D. Betz (Dept. of Physics, University of München) (10) "Metal-Bending and Science" Prof. John G. Taylor (Dept. of Applied Mathematics, King's College, London) ( 1 ) === Page 4 of 12 INSTITUTE OF PARASCIENCE CONFERENCE 1976 Dear This year's conference is to be held at the Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, The City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 4PB, England during three whole days on the weekend August 27-29. Overnight accommodation and restaurant meals are available at the University from Thursday night on. Papers on theoretical, experimental and observational aspects of the following topics are due to be presented by leading European and North American scientists: (i) QUANTUM PHYSICS AND BIOSCIENCES ASPECTS OF ESP AND PK (ii) THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS ALTERED STATES (iii) COSMIC INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATION There will also be an exhibition of experimental equipment and results, books, as well as film and video-tape presentations. LIST OF SPEAKERS The list overpage includes speakers with whom arrangements are already definite ( - [x] ), and those which are still tentative or being negotiated. If you are among the latter we should be most grateful if you can give us a decision as soon as possible whether you will be able to contribute or not. Parascience conferences are extremely lively affairs which generate a good deal of useful discussion between participants both in formal and informal sessions, and the facilities at The City University are excellent, with a capacity for 300 delegates. We very much hope that you will be able to attend. If so I should be grateful if you can let me know as soon as possible the title of your paper and its approximate length, which day you would like to present it, what floor or table space you will need for any exhibits you wish to show, and the specification of your film or video tapes so that we can lay on the appropriate projector. These details will then be included in the conference programme to be mailed out in May. ADDITIONAL REMARKS Yours sincerely, Peter Maddock 14/4/76 Please reply to Parascience Centre, Sprytown, Lifton, Devon, PL16 OAY, England (Tel: Lifton 373). === Page 5 of 12 Saturday, Sept. 13, Evening Session. Chairman: Prof. Hans Bender. (11) "Commentary on Film of Felicia Perese's PK Mediumship" Prof. Montague Ullman (Maimonides Laboratory, Brooklyn) (12) "Towards a Psychophysiological Model for RSPK" W.G. Roll (Psychical Research Foundation, North Carolina) (read by Prof. Montague Ullman) (13) "A Critical Review of Uri, by Andrija Puharich" (published by W.H. Allen, London, 1974) W.E. Cox (The Institute for Parapsychology, North Carolina) (read by Peter Maddock) Sunday, Sept. 14, Morning and Afternoon Sessions. Chairman: Dennis Bardens (14) "Sitter-Group Experiments" Julian Isaacs (Leamington Spa Experimental Group) (15) "ESP and PK Phenomena: The Search for Unifying Principles" Peter Maddock (Institute of Parascience) (16) "Appearance/Disappearance Events and Quantum Mechanics" Prof. John B. Hasted (Dept. of Physics, Birkbeck College, London) (17) "Note on an Extraordinary Physical Phenomenon" Peter Maddock (Institute of Parascience) (18) "Apparent Direct Observation of Matter at the Molecular and Sub-Atomic Levels" Prof. Zbigniew W. Wolkowski (Institut de Paraphysique, Paris) (19) "Commentary on Film of Metal-Benders" Prof. Hans Bender (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg) (20) "A Critical Note on Walker's ("Noise") Theory of PK" Walter von Lucadou (Dept. of Physics, University of Freiburg) Sunday, Sept. 14, Evening Session. Chairman: Peter Maddock. (21) "New Developments in Psychokinesis and Paraphysics" Prof. A.R.G. Owen (New Horizons Research Foundation, Toronto) (read by Scott Hill) (22) "Psychokinesis: Security versus Deception" W.E. Cox (The Institute for Parapsychology, North Carolina) (read by Dennis Bardens) As well as to all those who contributed we should like to express our appreciation to the conference liason and other staff of The City University for being so helpful, and for the excellent facilities supplied. Also to the staff at Finsbury Hall of Residence for making the stay of delegates so comfortable. As it is planned to publish the above contributions in full by Spring 1976, will those who have not yet supplied manuscripts for Parascience Proceedings please send them as soon as possible? News of 1976 conference arrangements will be included in the next issue of Parascience Communications. === Page 6 of 12 May 22, 1976 Dr. Targ and Dr. Putoff Dr. Leo Sprinkle Dr. Allen Hynek Dr. Max Fogel Gentlemen: Today I received a genuine shock...in the form of an invitation from London, England...to appear at a three-day conference (parascience) at which "leading European and North American scientists" (see enclosed form which was enclosed with the letter of invitation) will appear and lecture, and read their papers. The invitation has been issued...because of my solid, documented work in the field of the paranormal...in spite of the fact that I am not a scientist...and in spite of the fact that I am linked with the subject of aliens. Most frankly, I believe that I can contribute extremely important factual data to this Conference...not obtainable elsewhere for the simple reason that I am the only human in the world who has done what I have done, and am doing. Now, to the point. To reach this Conference, and return...someone somewhere must provide the funds for it. Round trip airplane ticket from Norfolk to London and back, and enough cash to stay the three days in London. possibly you may know of some organization, or philanthropist, financially able and willing to supply the above. In spite of the fact that I can literally accomplish miracles...yet I have no funds, and just squeak by, barely, my monthly bills. So, finding an "angel" to back this trip is an absolute necessity. Also, I believe that my appearance at this Conference...is an absolute necessity...because I have much invaluable information to impart within the framework of such a scientific gathering. Believe me when I tell you...that my paper would be one of the most important papers read at that Conference. And only I could deliver the paper, personally. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 7 of 12 May 21, 1976 TO MY SCIENTISTS..........Dr. Max Fogel; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Hynek. One of my "disc people" Guy Harwood just sent me some information ..most revealing. On sheet #1...you will see a sign that was witnessed by a Belgian on a UFO. You all know my sign...a circle with a bar intersecting it... and a lightning flash beneath it. This almost same sign...on a UFO... is most revealing! On sheet #2...see 1; seen by a policeman on a UFO in New Mexico. Now, if you REVERSE the bottom line and bar...you can put together MY SIGN...fitted against the top half-circle...with an arrow (or lightning) coming from the bottom. I.e., my disc insignia. Same sheet, #2, no. 2, note the letters "HU"...explained by Mr. Harwood as the "universal name for the Supreme Intelligence/Creator. I have long told you...and others...that my work deals with what are called the "angels" in the Bible...who work directly for the Creator (God)...and this all ties in. The SI's (spatial intelligences for whom I work) are fond of "speaking" by doing things...like leading a series of police cars to "Freedom, Pennsylvania"...a town. They were saying, in effect, that they could lead the human race to freedom, if permitted. In exposing their craft in different places to different people...they have indicated that they are connected with me, and my insignia. Further...on pages 3 and 4...find an article published..."Is Some Alien Force Tampering With The Weather?" Now...you all know very well...that I have been "tampering with the weather"...connected with aliens...since 1952. Making and guiding hurricanes; creating storms and rainstorms; making lightning strike selected areas, etc. Finally (pardon this typewriter...it is for the birds, but it is all that I have to work with)...I enclose an article that you already have in your files...but which you should look closely at once again...combined with this file. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Ted Owens === Page 8 of 12 # Is Some Alien Force Tampering With The Weather? "...Geoffrey stood at the parapet in his gold robe and thought of rain. *All day the island had slumbered in the sun. It was warm, and above it the warmed air rose, sucking in winds off the western ocean, disturbed winds heavy with wetness, only just holding their moisture over the smooth, tepid sea. And now meeting the land, already cool with night, cooler now, cooler still and the hills reforming the clouds, jostling them together, piling them up, squeezing them till the released rain hisses into the hills' sere grasses. Now trees drip, leaves glisten in faint light, forgotten gullies tinkle. Rain, swathed, drumming...* "*...The last rain had gone, and star-light glistened in every puddle and drip. It was very cold already. He thought of frost...*" Excerpt from *The Weathermonger* by Peter Dickinson (copyright 1968-69 by Peter Dickinson). Published by DAW Books in arrangement with Little Brown & Co., Boston, Mass. In 1955 the late Morris K. Jessup completed and had released in hard-cover form his now infamous book, *The Case For The UFO* (Citadel Press, New York). One area which Jessup explored in some detail was the topic of bizarre weather. This included such occurrences as freak storms, columns of water falling from the skies (a phenomenon other than rain), and cloud-like formations which fit no natural meteorological pattern then (or presently) known. Jessup's basic premise was that mysterious visitors from the stars were causing these various incidents, and he went to some length to back up his belief with vivid examples. Let's examine this more closely... The person on the street is, as Jessup correctly observed, overly familiar with normal meteorological phenomena. Enough so to be immediately alarmed and astonished if something out of the ordinary appears on the horizon. On the afternoon of April 26, 1812 in the vicinity of Laigle, Normandy, something odd apparently did present itself. Jessup noted that a "fiery globe of a very brilliant splendor" sped through the air, followed closely by "a violent explosion" which lasted several seconds and was "heard for thirty leagues (about 90 miles) in all directions." On the heels of this came several "reports like those of cannons," in turn followed by "discharge...resembling musket fire" and a "dreadful rumbling" similar to someone beating a drum. On a whole, this sounds quite like a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere. But consider what occurred next... Observers noticed "a small cloud of rectangular form" hovering overhead, and it was from the cloud that the rumbling sounds were issuing. Jessup related that "the vapor of which it (the cloud) was composed" was propelled from the sides of the rectangle by the various explosions. The end of these goings-on came rather dramatically as, accompanied by "a hissing sound," stones showered onto the land. However, it should also be pointed out that the source of documentation for this report is not given in Jessup's book. An exceedingly odd occurrence which Jessup described and which was backed up by a documented source is the report of a strange cloud by the crew of the vessel *Lady of the Lake*. The account was recorded in the ship's log by Captain F.W. Banner, and later recounted in the *Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society*, from which Jessup, in turn, drew his information. The incident occurred on March 22, 1870, while the *Lady* lay at a position of five degrees 47' north latitude, 27 degrees 52' west longitude. Jessup relates that the crew said the cloud was of "circular form" enclosing a "semicircle divided into four parts," with a central dividing line of some sort "starting at the center of the circle," but which reached beyond the limits of the form, then "curving backward, like a hook." The inference Jessup drew from this description, if accurate, is that the cloud wasn't a cloud at all, but an object of mechanical or organic structure. Jessup's deduction warrants merit, especially if we consider that sailors aren't the fantasy-prone people they're generally believed to be. Moreover, by trade sea-faring men are often exceptional observers of detail. Another, and in this case deadly, occurrence involving abnormal clouds was also recorded by Jessup, but originally was cited by John P. Bessor in the March 1954 issue of *Fate*. The event took place over the town of Saw Mill Run, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Basically, this is what happened: On July 28, 1874, villagers and residents of the area around Saw Mill Run watched as on the northwestern horizon a black cloud appeared. From over the southwest horizon appeared another black cloud. However, neither was of an ordinary appearance inasmuch as they were respectively ringed in what was referred to as "a scarlet belt." Bessor notes that the clouds drew near one another "like two men-of-war approaching the scene of battle." Lightning discharged from them and the effect was akin to "an eerie sea battle high in the air." The clouds ultimately collided, causing rain to literally pour from the sky, and in the final analysis one hundred and fifty persons were believed dead or drowned. No one has yet explained the event as per standard meteorologics. The idea of "controlled" weather (or weather-like) phenomena was obviously of keen interest to Jessup, but it's nevertheless a hard concept to grasp. Humanity has a natural tendency to shy away from such prospects, especially if one considers that, as Jessup believed, an alien intelligence may be involved. The weather, afterall, is a key factor in our daily existence and who or whatever controlled it might conceivably dominate the planet. While this sounds a bit too much like a thinly-worn science fiction plot, it's still interesting that other investigators of the paranormal have, over the years, also been struck by an eerie feeling which says the weather is not always as unlettered as it appears to be. In a personal communication to the author dated Sept. 25, 1975, UFO historian/writer Lucius Farish comments on Jessup's interest in such occurrences. He also notes that: "There are some pretty weird reports of anomalous clouds and storms. I've even seen a weather satellite photo of a square (emphasis his) cloud system which spawned numerous tornadoes in Oklahoma and other states several years ago." On the surface, phenomena such as this might easily be taken for granted. Yet consider the unlikely origin of a square cloud system, let alone the other anomalous meteorological occurrences cited earlier. Are such instances chance alone? Somehow, it seems doubtful... In 1972 Hurricane Agnes swept up from the South Atlantic, destroying homes and drowning vast areas of land under a deluge of rainfall. When the storm front reached the East Central States meteorologists predicted that its effects would begin to ebb and the storm return to sea. Instead, as if mocking man's best efforts at prediction, the bulk of the front began # 21 (Beyond Reality - July 1976) Beyond Reality Page 13 === Page 9 of 12 ALIEN FORCE AND THE WEATHER/ continued Although they occurred three years apart, tropical storms Agnes and Eloise followed in each other's path almost directly. Many seasoned weathermen devoutly maintain the impossibility of such a phenomenon. A host of "natural element" experts are convinced that whoever controls our weather can also control our planet. They are alarmed at the many freak storms, columns of water - other than rain falling from our skies - and an array of cloud-like formations fitting no known pattern. to reform and eventually settled into a spiral pattern over the Eastern states. Hour after hour water fell on New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the Virginia's. In due course the storm expired itself and did return to open sea. However, the damage to East Central America was almost without precedent. Experts termed Agnes "the one hundred year flood," and regional governments were directed to establish within their boundaries what is today called The one hundred year flood zone. This, in effect, is any area which received the most severe flood damage during Agnes' onslaught and which is prone to such flooding during the next severe tropical storm conceivably only to arrive after another one hundred years, the average return time for such occurrences. They were all fooled. During the last week of Sept. 1975, Hurricane Eloise swept northward, following almost directly the path which Agnes had cleared three years prior. Landowners still recovering from the effects of Agnes were forced to watch the flood waters rise once again. Repetition followed repetition as meteorologists announced that conditions would never duplicate those of 1972. They also cited that the storm would "blow itself out" and return to open sea. Once again the front did the unexpected by beginning a swirling cycle over East Central America. Again, damage was extreme although perhaps not quite as bad in areas as during Hurricane Agnes. Most readers are already familiar with the details of all this. However, the point is why did two tropical storms follow each other so closely, approximating each other in direction of travel and severity to such an obvious degree? This question leads to others, none we have any real answers for. Perhaps Peter Dickinson was correct when he described in his novel The Weathermonger, that certain forces may be able and willing to mentally direct or control meteorological phenomena (such as a storm?) But this is merely another question. Let's hope answers are forthcoming before it may be too late. ☐ 14 BEYOND REALITY === Page 10 of 12 26 E. 2nd St, Jax. Fla. 32206 Dear Ted: Two years ago you made a prediction in words revealing that it will seem that the forces of nature was angry at man..........great earthquakes ...floods...storms...and what I have you in nature. What has the news been past year or so ....terrible earthquakes,,, floods..hurricanes etc. ... Enclosed is a copy of an article that may be of interest to you....IS SOME ALIEN FORCE TAMPERING WITH THE WEATHER? No doubt you can answer that question in the fullest of explanation.. Also are a couple of pages from July 1976 Official UFO magazine showing designs/symbols etc., that have appeared on flying saucers. Note one is similar to your Red Disc. One has the English letters HU..which is the universal name for the Supreme Intelligence/Creator. by Lucia At 11:00 p.m. one night in 1957, Haskell Raper was driving on the last mile to his home in Provencal, Alabama. It had been a long, lonely ride from his welder's job in Shreveport, Louisiana and he was anxious to get home. Despite the rain and wet cases. insignia and markings on UFOs have been reported by mystified witnesses. Can anyone guess what the puzzle is behind them? Here is a special report on such cases. car, he realized it was slowing him down. The glare of the beam almost blinded him, but he could still see the outline of the object as his car came to a dead stop 15 feet from it. He noticed it was football-shaped, about 15 feet long and about 9 feet high. He saw a fringe, or extended border, around it Gary Chopic observed this design on the side of a triangular-shaped UFO in California's Simi Valley in October of 1973. These geometric markings--in red--were seen by Patrolman Lonnie Zamora on the hatch of a large UFO that landed near Socorro, New Mexico in April of 1964. In the San Bernardino Mountains one misty evening in February, 1954, A.P. Wheeler, a mechanical engineer, observed these markings on the hatch of a landed UFO (top). Eighteen months later, in Arizona, he saw another UFO with similar insignia. "A tobacco pipe with a mark through the top" was how a Tennessee man described the odd insignia on a UFO that resembled a "Dutch wooden shoe." It hovered a few feet above his garden before flying away. HU HR PS RED Three boys who observed an object a short distance offshore at Cape Canaveral in June of 1966 agreed that it carried these markings. === Page 11 of 12 # MESSAGE OR MYSTERY traption he suddenly realized his car was heating up. Not only his idling engine, but the entire car! After a bewildering few seconds, panic hit him. He lunged from the car and rolled into the ditch beside the road. Smoke curled from under the car's dashboard. The engine burst into flames. Now the object rose slowly into the upsetting mystery stands out today: what did the English language-type inscription mean? Did the familiar "UN" mean the saucer was Earth-made? Is it possible that Raper's mind, shocked and surprised by the sudden meeting, distorted an alien inscription into something reassuring and familiar from Earth? Or did the intruders deliberately camouflage their vehicle with counterfeit lettering to make us think it was of our manufacture? In our recent past UFOs have overflown and-landed near witnesses who got clear, close views of their details. Several objects were marked with symbols or insignia and many witnesses have photographed or ac- ![Illustration of a UFO underside with three parallel horizontal lines] The underside of a UFO seen in June of 1967 on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain. ![Illustration of a UFO underside with various symbols: a crescent, dots, a star, and a small circle] On the underside of a UFO photographed along a coastal road in 1959 by Helio Aguiar of Salvador city, Brazil, these three markings were clearly revealed. UN [Symbols] On a landed UFO near his home in Provencal, Alabama one night in 1957, Haskell Raper clearly saw the letters "U N" preceding several other characters which, in his excitement, he could not recall. ![Illustration of a UFO underside with three diagonal lines and dots] The underside of a UFO seen by Jose Luis [unreadable] in February of 1966 near Madrid, Spain. IX1478 These characters appeared on the lower one-third of the UFO seen by Morris Heflin of Oklahoma City in April and May of 1971. ![Illustration of a circular emblem with a lightning bolt and a small circle with a cross] A 28-year old Belgian observed a UFO for almost four minutes as it hovered over his garden wall in December of 1973. He took careful note of the emblem on its body. air. Raper said "it sorta cranked up" and sounded like a large Diesel engine. In a few moments it was swallowed in the low clouds overhead. Raper scrambled out of the muddy ditch and ran toward Provencal just as the car's gas tank exploded, splashing flaming gasoline where he had just lain. He awakened the town marshal, who alerted authorities. Although Raper was driven to near-distraction by the unexpected, nightmarish confrontation on the night road, the really TL 4138 (OR) TL 4738 Eddie Laxon saw these characters on a lighted, fish-shaped object that blocked Highway 70 eight miles from Temple, Texas early one morning in March of 1966. curately sketched them, fresh from their memories. If the UFOs through the ages have not been mysterious enough in themselves, they have further confounded their purpose with the mysterious markings seen on their surfaces. Although certain of the symbols resemble Earthly ones, none appear to be identical. Yet, they must mean something to someone. But what? And to whom? They have (Continued on page 37) 17 === Page 12 of 12 May 21, 1976 TO MY SCIENTISTS.......... Dr. Max Fogel; Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Sprinkle; Dr. Hynek. One of my "disc people" Guy Harwood just sent me some information ..most revealing. On sheet #1...you will see a sign that was witnessed by a Belgian on a UFO. You all know my sign...a circle with a bar intersecting it... and a lightning flash beneath it. This almost same sign...on a UFO... is most revealing! On sheet #2...see 1; seen by a policeman on a UFO in New Mexico. Now, if you REVERSE the bottom line and bar...you can put together MY SIGN...fitted against the top half-circle...with an arrow (or lightning) coming from the bottom. I.e., my disc insignia. Same sheet, #2, no. 2, note the letters "HU"...explained by Mr. Harwood as the "universal name for the Supreme Intelligence/Creator. I have long told you...and others...that my work deals with what are called the "angels" in the Bible...who work directly for the Creator (God)...and this all ties in. The SI's (spatial intelligences for whom I work) are fond of "speaking" by doing things...like leading a series of police cars to "Freedom, Pennsylvania"...a town. They were saying, in effect, that they could lead the human race to freedom, if permitted. In exposing their craft in different places to different people...they have indicated that they are connected with me, and my insignia. Further...on pages 3 and 4...find an article published..."Is Some Alien Force Tampering With The Weather?" Now...you all know very well...that I have been "tampering with the weather"...connected with aliens...since 1952. Making and guiding hurricanes; creating storms and rainstorms; making lightning strike selected areas, etc. Finally (pardon this typewriter...it is for the birds, but it is all that I have to work with)...I enclose an article that you already have in your files...but which you should look closely at once again...combined with this file. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7605 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 May 1976 There was a double copy of series of letters with same content but to different people. To keep a match exactly between the documents in folders and electronically, I made two copies even if redundant. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2f315a339afab3529a6ef579476a3919.pdf a639a8650e9bdc625e2ff4e6b44e90be https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7dc0ca80a731f97145515e54d5aa7d87.txt 6e5bda77fe3fbf1c3479c6ff3318b65d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 Drs Targ & Putoff June 29, 1976..........TO MY SCIENTISTS..........Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Hynek; Dr. Fogel; Dr. Sprinkle...a message straight from the UFO intelligences (SIs) that I have worked for and with for ten years. Last night...the SIs communicated with me. They instructed me to write to you scientists a "tough, hard, mean letter"...to pass on to government agency connections, which they say you have. Fun and games...are over now. First, I personally would not send this letter. It would have to come from the SIs. Because this letter...might stop me from getting to Yucatan. But...the SIs have infinite intelligence...mine is very finite...so I will do as instructed. Let's take it from the top. For ten years...I have been demonstrating one miracle after another, and documenting it solidly. (The miracles caused by the UFO Connection.) The scientists...and the United States government agencies...know this. Let's not keep on being coy and playing games about it. Either I am, or I am not, a miracle-worker through the SI connection. If I am...then the United States government should consider me more priceless than "all the gold in China". If I am not...then no concern need be paid to this message from the SIs. It's as simple as all that. IF I HAVE DONE MY MIRACLES...(and the government agencies know dam well I have)...then the U.S. should be supporting me; giving me funds with which to live, and to proceed. Obviously I cannot do everyday job and do my work for the SIs. I haven't the energy for that. Anyway, the SIs will not allow me to deviate and go into make-a-living job. Because they have looked for ages...for me...finally found me...and now need my help to try and save what is left of the human race, and modern civilization. In 1965 they had me go to the CIA and NASA and ask for a hundred thousand...to fund me through what was to come in my work for them. Both CIA and NASA turned me down. Since then NASA was nigh-well been wiped out...and CIA, at this point...well, if you've been reading the papers and Newsweek...you know what condition CIA is in. Rosenbloom wouldn't listen to me...and he had to trade the Baltimore Colts away to escape from ruination. The Virginia Squires wouldn't listen to me, and they are now extinct. My picture at present...although I have accomplished over 300 miracles and have more power, literally (through the SIs and my Egyptian Connection) than all of the military forces of all the countries of the world combined...I am broke; in debt thousands of dollars; living in a broken down house infested with black-widow spiders; and my car is broken down; and no money is coming in, to speak of. Am scrambling just to keep my phone, electricity, water and rent from being turned off. Compare this...with the picture the SIs have for me...they want me to be their human Ambassador to the United Nations, to represent them. They have proved it, through the miracles...so that is not so funny. I have demonstrated time and time and time and time again...that I am no kook or crackpot. Our present Secretary of State, Ambassadors, President, Vice President, ad nauseum, have demonstrated no capabilities such as mine. So why should it be ridiculous that I represent the SIs to a world of humans? At any rate...for several years the SIs have been wanting to erase the present formula for the human race on the World Blackboard...and begin building a new formula. I, alone...have talked them out of it...so far. But their patience, and mine, has come to a complete end. What I need: a hundred thousand in cash, tax-free, with which to travel the world and do what the SIs want to help the human race. A safe-house deep in the forest somewhere...both for my safety and that of my family...with appropriate safeguards around that house. If you think that silly...think of this. Our President is so protected...but if he is killed by some idiot, then === Page 2 of 5 2 another person will take his place as president. BUT I CANNOT BE REPLACED WITH THE UFO ENTITIES..........THE SIs! And just think for a moment..........if we are comparing me with Ford..........can Ford control the City of Chicago? The country of France? The State of California? Can he stop an erupting volcano? Can he guide hurricanes? I have done all of these things, through my UFO connection..........as the government agencies dam well know..........and the very thought of Ford, or anyone else, for that matter, doing it..........is ridiculous. IN SHORT..........THIS HUMAN BEING, OF ALL THE HUMAN BEINGS IN AMERICA, IS PRICELESS AND CANNOT BE REPLACED. And yet, I have to live like a bum. If you don't believe it..........come to my house and I will show you. Meanwhile the Congressmen pay their mistresses $14,000 a year or even more (I wish I had that, then my family could begin living.) Basketball and football stars are paid a million a year..........Barbara Walters, a broadcaster, gets a million a year. YET NONE OF THEM COULD EVEN BEGIN TO COMPARE WITH WHAT I AM, WHAT I DO, OR WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET DONE. Well, the SIs, and myself, are sick of it. This is the end of the road. Right now. If that is the way this government, and this country wants it..........okay. This is no ultimatum letter. From this point on..........the SIs will start the tape again..........as they had it running before I interfered and begged them to stop it temporarily..........and they'll let the tape run out. I realize that I will go down..........my family will, too..........and so will the rest of the United States. But it has not been my choice. It has been the choice of the United States government..........notified in advance for over ten years..........but done nothing. Now let me "make one thing perfectly clear". If you tend to take this letter lightly, then you are a fool. This letter..........is the equivalent..........of a hundred nuclear missiles..........hitting the United States. If you laugh..........and do not believe me..........then wait. Ted Owens (PK Man) [Signature in red ink: Owens] === Page 3 of 5 CONTACTS I need some support!! June 29, 1976..........TO MY SCIENTISTS..........Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Hynek; Dr. Fogel; Dr. Sprinkle...a message straight from the UFO intelligences (SIs) that I have worked for and with for ten years. Last night...the SIs communicated with me. They instructed me to write to you scientists a "tough, hard, mean letter"...to pass on to government agency connections, which they say you have. Fun and games...are over now. First, I personally would not send this letter. It would have to come from the SIs. Because this letter...might stop me from getting to Yucatan. But...the SIs have infinite intelligence...mine is very finite...so I will do as instructed. Let's take it from the top. For ten years...I have been demonstrating one miracle after another, and documenting it solidly. (The miracles caused by the UFO Connection.) The scientists...and the United States government agencies...know this. Let's not keep on being coy and playing games about it. Either I am, or I am not, a miracle-worker through the SI connection. If I am...then the United States government should consider me more priceless than "all the gold in China". If I am not...then no concern need be paid to this message from the SIs. It's as simple as all that. IF I HAVE DONE MY MIRACLES...(and the government agencies know damn well I have)...then the U.S. should be supporting me; giving me funds with which to live, and to proceed. Obviously I cannot do everyday job and do my work for the SIs. I haven't the energy for that. Anyway, the SIs will not allow me to deviate and go into make-a-living job. Because they have looked for ages...for me...finally found me...and now need my help to try and save what is left of the human race, and modern civilization. In 1965 they had me go to the CIA and NASA and ask for a hundred thousand...to fund me through what was to come in my work for them. Both CIA and NASA turned me down. Since then NASA was nigh-well been wiped out...and CIA, at this point...well, if you've been reading the papers and Newsweek...you know what condition CIA is in. Rosenbloom wouldn't listen to me...and he had to trade the Baltimore Colts away to escape from ruination. The Virginia Squires wouldn't listen to me, and they are now extinct. My picture at present...although I have accomplished over 300 miracles and have more power, literally (through the SIs and my Egyptian Connection) than all of the military forces of all the countries of the world combined...I am broke; in debt thousands of dollars; living in a broken down house infested with black-widow spiders; and my car is broken down; and no money is coming in, to speak of. Am scrambling just to keep my phone, electricity, water and rent from being turned off. Compare this...with the picture the SIs have for me...they want me to be their human Ambassador to the United Nations, to represent them. They have proved it, through the miracles...so that is not so funny. I have demonstrated time and time and time and time again...that I am no kook or crackpot. Our present Secretary of State, Ambassadors, President, Vice President, ad nauseum, have demonstrated no capabilities such as mine. So why should it be ridiculous that I represent the SIs to a world of humans? At any rate...for several years the SIs have been wanting to erase the present formula for the human race on the World Blackboard...and begin building a new formula. I, alone...have talked them out of it...so far. But their patience, and mine, has come to a complete end. What I need: a hundred thousand in cash, tax-free, with which to travel the world and do what the SIs want to help the human race. A safe-house deep in the forest somewhere...both for my safety and that of my family...with appropriate safeguards around that house. If you think that silly...think of this. Our President is so protected...but if he is killed by some idiot, then === Page 4 of 5 2 another person will take his place as president. BUT I CANNOT BE REPLACED WITH THE UFO ENTITIES...THE SIs! And just think for a moment...if we are comparing me with Ford...can Ford control the City of Chicago? The country of France? The State of California? Can he stop an erupting volcano? Can he guide hurricanes? I have done all of these things, through my UFO connection...as the government agencies damn well know...and the very thought of Ford, or anyone else, for that matter, doing it...is ridiculous. IN SHORT...THIS HUMAN BEING, OF ALL THE HUMAN BEING IN AMERICA, IS PRICELESS AND CANNOT BE REPLACED. And yet, I live like a bum. If you don't believe it...come to my house and I will show you. Meanwhile the Congressmen pay their mistresses $14,000 a year or even more (I wish I had that, then my family could begin living.) Basketball and football stars are paid a million a year....Barbara Walters, a broadcaster, gets a million a year. YET NONE OF THEM COULD EVEN BEGIN TO COMPARE WITH WHAT I AM, WHAT I DO, OR WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET DONE. Well, the SIs, and myself, are sick of it. This is the end of the road. Right now. If that is the way this government, and this country wants it...okay. This is no ultimatum letter. From this point on...the SIs will start the tape again...as they had it running before I interfered and begged them to stop it temporarily...and they'll let the tape run out. I realize that I will go down...my family will, too...and so will the rest of the United States. But it has not been my choice. It has been the choice of the United States government...notified in advance for over ten years...but done nothing. Now let me "make one thing it is perfectly clear". If you the Govt. tend to take this letter lightly, then you are a fool. This letter...is the equivalent...of a hundred nuclear missiles... hitting the United States (which the UFO's have been blocking, heretofore.) If you laugh...and do not believe me...then wait. Ted Owens (PK Man) $\theta$ wens === Page 5 of 5 July 2, 1976 TO ALL CONTACTS A very great honor..........has been given me. I have been invited to appear with some of the great scientists of the world..........in London, England..........and speak about my knowledge to the scientific community, directly. (See the enclosed program.) But I need your help. I have absolutely no monies of my own, and no valuables to get money with. That is where you can come in, if you so wish. Can you contribute $10, $100, $1,000..........to my making this trip? (It will cost between $1,500 and $2,000.) * You could say.........."why should I help the PK Man go to London to speak to some of the world's leading scientists?" A fair question. Let me answer it. (1) I have personal information (having a half-alien brain) absolutely vital for the scientists, and the human race..........to have..........which they do not, as yet, have. Never in the entire history of the human world..........has an alien, or a half-alien, had an opportunity to appear before many leading scientists..........and pass on information and knowledge not to be found elsewhere on this earth. (2) The UFO entities (SIs) will have an opportunity they have never had..........to telepath to a human with a half-alien brain..........information and instructions to the human race..........to be relayed on by that human to a large group of scientists who just might comprehend the information and instructions. (Laymen would not, most certainly.) (3) Of much lesser importance..........but of importance still..........is the fact that a psychic (and a layman, not a scientist)..........is being invited to share the podium with top men of the academic world. This..........as far as I know..........is a first of its kind..........and bodes good for the world, if the scientific community is bending enough to consider any truth and fact..........if valid and provable..........in order to understand the much greater picture that surrounds us all. To sum it up..........a money price could not be put on this opportunity for a meeting between PK Man and the scientific community. But unfortunately..........a price is. And it is stated above. I must have help to get there and back..........and be gone for a week, which is the time that it will take, approximately, give or take a day. And you very few contacts..........are the only source of help that I can go to. In closing..........bear this in mind. If I were not in truth what I am..........and could not do what I can do..........do you think for a moment that I would be invited to speak at this great Conference? Sincerely, Owens (PK Man) * The last time I asked for help from you on a project, I heard from only one person! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7606 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e9df10bbf023b38dfac2cfbe02a34418.pdf 76bbf126fa81e5ec137fe46c592c7510 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2463f87a4238eafb1362fd6ed981fab5.txt 860cc6db514e5061baaf41c08919d9b4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 July 2, 1976 TO ALL CONTACTS A very great honor..........has been given me. I have been invited to appear with some of the great scientists of the world...in London, England...and speak about my knowledge to the scientific community, directly. (See the enclosed program.) But I need your help. I have absolutely no monies of my own, and no valuables to get money with. That is where you can come in, if you so wish. Can you contribute $10, $100, $1,000....to my taking this trip? (It will cost between $1,500 and $2,000.) * You could say..."why should I help the PK Man go to London to speak to some of the world's leading scientists?" A fair question. Let me answer it. (1) I have personal information (having a half-alien brain) absolutely vital for the scientists, and the human race...to have...which they do not, as yet, have. Never in the entire history of the human world...has an alien, or a half-alien, had an opportunity to appear before many leading scientists...and pass on information and knowledge not to be found elsewhere on this earth. (2) The UFO entities (SIs) will have an opportunity they have never had...to telepath to a human with a half-alien brain...information and instructions to the human race....to be relayed on by that human to a large group of scientists who just might comprehend the information and instructions. (Laymen would not, most certainly.) (3) Of much lesser importance...but of importance still...is the fact that a psychic (and a layman, not a scientist)...is being invited to share the podium with top men of the academic world. This...as far as I know...is a first of its kind...and bodes good for the world, if the scientific community is bending enough to consider any truth and fact...if valid and provable...in order to understand the much greater picture that surrounds us all. To sum it up...a money price could not be put on this opportunity for a meeting between PK Man and the scientific community. But unfortunately...a price is. And it is stated above. I must have help to get there and back...and be gone for a week, which is the time that it will take, approximately, give or take a day. And you very few contacts...are the only source of help that I can go to. In closing...bear this in mind. If I were not in truth what I am...and could not do what I can do...do you think for a moment that I would be invited to speak at this great Conference? Sincerely, Owens (PK Man) * the last time I asked for help from you on a project, I heard from only one person! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7607 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b1eeb727fa325c33074e21ffc92497e4.pdf 20a2bc564fca07d569526a3bca12bf28 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ee9fcb36dee69f334e45a1e0b66df752.txt 787d3da3a923304d0461383cf7515e86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 August 4, 1976 Dear Miss Stebbing...Susanne...I very much appreciate your sending me the rain and storm information...plus the newsclips. Hope you have some more for me. Have been telepathing daily to the UFO Connection (SIs)...to put their craft over England...and cause rains and storms and lightning...also winds from the southwest to blow over England. We get no news way over here...so am in the dark as to what is happening there. Only thing I do know...I have never failed up to this point. I'll be flying from New York on the 25th for London. Do not know anybody there...perhaps you would be so kind as to come to the quarters they have assigned us, and meet me, and have dinner (or lunch or whatever) with me? The only other time I was in London...it was drab, boring, horribly lonely. I could only stand it for a few days then flew back. My wife has gone into hospital, as of last week...and could be in there for months. Drat! Will have to hire someone here locally to stay with my two children for the week that I am gone...if can find someone. Problems, problems, eh? Well... until August 26....or whatever... Dear Ted, Due to having been flying about the country I've only just been able to send you these programmes. When you send them out it'd be best to put a ring round the item N.B. Communications arriving after Saturday 21 August should be addressed to: Peter Maddock, Parascience Conference 1976, The City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 4PB, England. (Tel: 01-253 4399). so that any people who do make late bookings will communicate with me at the university, not here. One of the people I've been to see is a chap who lives in the Welsh mountains who claims weather control. He should be coming to the conference so you and he can have a get together on this. Your letter of August 6 arrived this morning. Great! Thanks also for UFO Trek. Susanne Stebbing says you'll be on U.K. Radio either before or after the conference. Sincerely, Peter 9/8/76 Ted Owens, Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 35 === Page 2 of 2 Daily Mirror BRITAIN'S BIGGEST DAILY SALE 6p Saturday, August 28, 1976 No. 22,5 SCIENTISTS THIS WAS MY SECOND DAY IN LONDON. I WORKED ON THE SKY TO MAKE RAIN. RAIN FELL. Owens KNOW what this is, folks? A clue, perhaps, might jog the memory. It goes up a drainpipe down, but won't go down a drainpipe up. You've got it...an umbrella! In Britain yesterday there were umbrellas galore. Thousands unfurled... with rusty squeaking groans. For yesterday it RAINED. Windscreen wipers creaked into action. Kids splashed happily in puddles. And Met men say more showers will fall during the Bank Holiday weekend. That's more like the Britain we know. It's 3 am.. and a golf course gets a soaking FORE! A golf club keeps its greens up to par with gallons of precious water. The picture was taken just after 3 a.m. yesterday--only days after Drought Minister Denis Howell's appeal for parched Britain to save as much water as possible. For an hour and a half the sparkling greens--all eighteen of them--at Muswell Hill Golf Club in North London got a proper soaking from high-pressure jets. And the watering can carry on until special restrictions come into force. DON'T go to blazes--Pages 4 and 5. 8/28/76 AT LAST.. RAIN STOPS PLAY LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH By JOHN GRIGSBY DROUGHT-STRICKEN Britain received a scattering of showers yesterday. Most eastern regions got a sprinkling, and London received its first reported trace since July 26. At Lord's, play between Middlesex and Lancashire was stopped for 15 minutes. Rain had not intervened at the ground since the England v West Indies Test match on Saturday, June 19, when not a ball was bowled. The phenomenon must have caught the groundstaff on the hop, because nobody ventured out with the covers until the shower had almost ended. Gazing into sky Airline staff at Heathrow dashed out onto the apron to gaze into the sky. "It's lovely to see the rain again," said one. The London Weather Centre said the country could expect a few showers today and tomorrow. At least five or six inches are needed to saturate the ground before it begins to be stored again in the water table and reservoirs and restrictions are likely for a year in some areas to bring supplies back to normal. [Official Forecast--foot of Col 6.] Brief Rain In London Gets Applause London It rained in London yesterday for the first time in 38 days -- for about four minutes. Weathermen said the light drizzle, which measured 0.039 inches, would make no difference to the worst drought to hit Britain in centuries. During the brief shower, employees at London's Heathrow International airport came out of offices and cheered and applauded the rain. United Press Sat Aug-28-1976 S.F. Chronicle LONDON EYE-NEWS Power failure stops Tube trains 8/25/76 HUNDREDS of people were stuck on tube trains today when a power failure brought London's underground to a halt. Passengers stuck in the tunnels walked along the "dead" lines to the next station and had to catch taxis or late night buses home. Or race a long walk. The failure was at the main Lots Road power station in Chelsea. The current was cut for 26 minutes shortly after midnight. London Transport were unable to say today how many trains were affected. The reason for the power failure is still not known and engineers are investigating. A spokesman said: "All lines were affected by the failure and when you haven't got power then you haven't got trains." 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 September 23, 1976 Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Targ Dr. Putoff Dr. Sprinkle Dr. Arenas A POWER BLACKOUT IN LONDON AUG. 21 (SEE NEWSCLIPS IN FILE... IT'S MY FIRST DAY THERE.) REMEMBER THE POWER BLACKOUTS UP AND DOWN THE WEST COAST IN MY "CALIF. MIRACLE"; ALSO WHEN I CONTROLLED FRANCE, CHICAGO AND CLEVELAND, SAME POWER BLACKOUTS. Owens This Report is late, due to various reasons. I have to think that this Report is a very valuable one, to you scientists who have been following my work...and can take note of the "patterns" that form, in my paranormal work. MY In this Report are familiar patterns...my rain-making; a plane being struck by lightning, under mysterious circumstances (remember the plane being struck by lightning which flew just ahead of my plane, at Kennedy Airport, as I was returning from Egypt? See your file.) Of course, what I am referring to above deals with the invitation that I received some time ago by Peter Maddock to lecture at the Parascience Conference in London, England, on August 28 just past. It seems that once a year scientists from many countries who are involved in, or interested in, parapsychology and paranormal phenomena, attend a three-day Conference in London and listen to each other lecture on this field of interest. I am a layman...but evidently they felt that my background and experience could conceivably have some significant value to this gathering of scientists. This was true, of course, but even more important...just days before going to Europe my UFO contact communicated...guided my mind to some key files... and instructed me in carrying a special message to these scientists in London. The special message: As you are well aware, a devastating drought has struck pretty much of this globe. The key files referred to above are my August 10, 1972; June 18, 1973, and July 29, 1974 letters to my Scientists, re World Drought...how it would be caused by the SIs...and the part that I would play in it. (You will find xerox copies of these key files in this Report.) In short, any Government of any country wishing to have its drought alleviated...would approach me formally...requesting assistance...then finance my going to that country for a length of time, until my work is done to end the drought in that country (aided by UFO help.) Now, England was deep in such a drought...and I was approached some months ago by a Ms. Stebbing, who referred to a Dr. John Taylor. This was not according to the rules (Ms. Stebbing requested my aid in alleviating England's drought) because it was not a formal approach...by the government of England... and no mention was made of bringing me over there to get the job done. However, then I was invited to the Parascience Conference. I set up communications with my UFO connection, the SIs, to bring rains to England...and waited for a formal letter from Dr. Taylor, lining himself up with the project. No such letter came at all. Furthermore, not being in England I was unable to get daily weather reports, maps, etc., in order to intelligently follow the project. I took the problem to the SIs...and they solved it in their usual ingenious way. They intensified the English drought, so that it was written up then in Newsweek, Time, etc., and carried by American newspapers...from which I could obtain proper documentation. At the beginning of the Project === Page 2 of 29 2 timing England I set 90 days for the time framework to end the drought in England. But this was all thrown off when no formal letter arrived from any authority in England...for proper documentation of the Project...also further thrown off when the newspapers that I requested from Ms. Stebbing were not forthcoming. At any rate...there was rainfall in England within the 90-day framework... matter of fact, London was flooded...see the newsclips in this Report. And the SIs have brought significant rainfall recently to England. I have worked daily, telepathing my PK map instructions to SI Control, and will continue to do so until England is again on balance with regard to water supplies. Dr. Taylor argues that, well, it has to rain sometime. Uh huh. Well, not necessarily, it doesn't. It did not rain for years and years in Africa and India. And if I wanted to return nastiness for nastiness...the SIs and I could very easily reverse the rain situation we've been working up...and hand England blistering drought for a long, long time yet. But the SIs were given "a voice" before scientists in England...something they had been wanting to come about...therefore it is my wish that the SIs give England all of the water that it needs. Am certain that the SIs will honor my wish. Back to reporting on this London Lecture. Just before leaving my wife had to go into hospital, suddenly...which would leave my two young children unattended. So I had to desperately seek someone responsible to look after them. Also, unexpectedly, our huge German Shepherd went crazy and had to be shotgunned to death in our backyard by the local authorities. It was a most unsettling manner in which to begin such a journey to London, to say the least. Would you please, as you read this Report, set the accompanying File beside it, and flip the pages slowly of the File in order to more intelligently understand this Report? Thank you. Upon arriving in London I took a taxi from Heathrow Airport to my destination, Finsbury Hall (off Goswell Road onto Bastwyck Street). I asked the driver of the vehicle if it had rained recently in London (the night sky was clear) and the driver laughed heartily and said no, there hadn't been any for quite a long while. I determined then and there to use my PK methods to cause rain each day while I'd be in London...as a sort of "PK Man signature" to my lecture there. Peter Maddock greeted me at Finsbury Hall (late in the evening, Thursday night) and showed me to my quarters. He mentioned that Cox would be coming to lecture at the Conference. I told him that Cox and I were enemies of the first water...and that if Cox and his group (of Durham, North Carolina) caused me any trouble while I was there...that England, as the host country, would pay dearly for it. (Remember this, for it is quite important.) Before retiring...I used my other-dimensional-effects techniques on the sky, for luckily my room had huge windows affording me a terrific wide view of the sky. Friday morning, August 27, 1976, I arose...worked on the sky again...then went downstairs for the continental breakfast available to lodgers. They had excellent food, served in a huge cafeteria. After breakfast I sauntered forth into the tiny, winding streets, looking for City University, which is only blocks away from Finsbury Hall. But after looking for half an hour...still couldn't find the place. Finally, I found it...went inside to the Lecture Auditorium, where Peter Maddock stood. He pinned a Speaker's Badge on my jacket, and waved me inside. The auditorium was superior to almost anything of its kind I'd ever seen. The audience sat upon rows of === Page 3 of 29 3 long, curving benches...the whole put together in a half-moon effect, close to and above the speaker's dais on the stage below. And behind the speaker a long, huge blackboard. Available to the speaker were all sorts of microphones and electrical equipment, including one ingenious apparatus which could flash a page of the speaker's speech onto a huge movie screen for the audience to read. The first speaker was Dr. John Taylor. (Copies of his letters are in this File.) I listened to his material, and disagreed upon many points. One point, for instance: he kept making the assumption that a "subject" utilizes psychic power from within himself to bend a spoon. My own belief is that a strong psychic can tap, or summon, "X power" from another source entirely than that of himself...in order to achieve a psychic happening. Why not? If telepathy, PK, etc., can work independently of the human body and mind, why could not "X power" work independently of the human body and mind...and be drawn to the psychic for usage when tapped or summoned...providing, of course, that the psychic has discovered the "key" for this tapping or summoning. I cannot, myself, create miraculous phenomena. I have learned the "key" to summoning "X power" from UFO, to get the job done. And other points that Dr. Taylor made, I disagreed upon. The next speaker was Peter Maddock. He covered the blackboard with diagrams of mechanisms of the brain...dendrites, synapses, etc., and delivered a brilliant, it seemed to me, paper on the workings of the brain. (Peter is an exact lookalike for an old friend of mine in the Navy, in years past...Mickey, The Wild Irishman...who had been a pro boxer, a champ. Mickey had coached me in my corner during my numerous ring fights in New Caledonia. Peter even dressed like Mickey (when Mickey was out of uniform) in that Peter wore a sort of sweatshirt and jacket, over a pair of ordinary trousers...with a string strung across his chest. Peter explained that he carried a large bunch of keys...kept misplacing them...so put them on a long cord which stretched from his trouser pocket up across his chest, resembling a bandolier of cartridges. Peter, like other scientists who stepped upon the dais to lecture, shunned formal attire...preferring to place the emphasis of what they had to say, and think about...rather than upon how they looked; their image. I liked that. Following Peter's lecture, I decided that I'd had enough of blackboard formulas and physics...not my field, really...so I left the building and AND SOME KIND OF FORCE SEEMED TO BE PUSHING ME OUT OF THE PLACE... caught a taxi into downtown London. Walked along Fleet Street, and enjoyed observing the London people and their ways. Picked up a few rare cigars...straight from Havana, Cuba...you can't get them in the U.S. Later took a taxi to the Soho district where Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is located. It was a bit early to get into the Club...so, wanting a bowl of hot soup, I went into restaurant after restaurant...but they all politely ushered me out...no, they would not serve just a bowl of soup. You see, there are French, Italian, German, Chinese, etc., restaurants in Soho...all rather expensive and formal. Finally, after a half-dozen tries in vain...I went into Choy's Chinese Restaurant and ordered a meal of chop suey. First they brought the bowl of hot soup, which I quickly polished off. Then they brought the chop suey...but I asked for my bill. The waiter's eyes grew wide and he asked what was wrong? I told him not a thing...fine food. He went and got the manager, who came over and asked if everything was all right. I said sure, perfect...that I had wanted a === Page 4 of 29 4 bowl of hot soup and had obtained it. I paid my bill and walked out, leaving them both standing, staring after me in bewilderment. As I approached the Jazz Club I saw a man in front of it leaning up against a car. He looked up, saw me approaching, straightened up and walked into the Club just ahead of me. After having made many trips overseas and having observed agents before, many times...I concluded immediately that this man had to be a British Agent. (Not so unlikely, seeing that I'd written Queen Elizabeth prior to going to London...in an effort to get some kind of authority for my English drought project as per the SI instructions on the enclosed xerox letters...and had told her I'd be in London for this lecture series.) I went inside the Club and took a table. I was the first person in the place. No sign of the other man. Then he brushed past me and took the table next to mine. Empty tables all over the Club, and he chooses the one next to my own. Ha. They could have selected a better agent. He was about my age, perhaps a bit younger. Had a beard and mustache exactly like my own. Wore an old, red and white checked flannel shirt, open at the neck (quite out of place at this Club, which is a most sophisticated nightspot); and to top it off he was smoking a pipe, with his pouch and reamer on the table at his elbow. I laughed and called to the agent...who turned his head...I said, "Why not join me here at my table? You might as well." He nodded, smiled, picked up his pipe pouch and reamer and came over to my table and sat down. He gave me a weak, I thought, cover story...said he'd been a jazz guitarist, long ago...was doing television shows now for a PR firm which he owned. The jazz group then came on stage, and I began laughing. The drummer was funny. Have you ever seen the funny Bugs Bunny cartoon of the sheep dog protecting his flock, which has hair completely covering his eyes...yet he always clobbers the marauding coyote? This drummer, a young lad, had long hair in back; also in front...thick hair covering his eyes entirely clear down to his nose! There was no way...no way...that he could see his drums to play them! The band began to play...and it soon became apparent that the drummer was a young genius...and the backbone of the group. He did solo after solo...marvelous drumming. Yet, he couldn't see a thing. He was doing it all blindfolded, you might say. Once in a while his hair would flip high and one could see his eyes tightly closed, whilst he was drumming at high speed. I was fascinated. When the group quit the set to make way for the second group, I asked the waiter to go backstage and invite the drummer to our table for a drink. The drummer emerged, arm in arm with a lovely young red-headed girl...his newlywed wife, Cindy, as it turned out. They joined us. His name is Rick Parnell, son of the famed English drummer, Jack Parnell. And yes...he verified that he drummed solely by feel...with eyes closed. Later, as I left the club, someone picked my inside shirt pocket and stole a hundred pounds in notes. It had rained all day, off and on...so the day hadn't been a total loss. Before retiring I PK'd the sky. In the morning, Saturday, it would be my turn to lecture. I communicated with SI control and asked it to be with me then. Little did I suspect === Page 5 of 29 5 that all hell was going to break loose! In the morning, Saturday, August 28, 1976, (be following this, now, with the enclosed file newsclips!) went down and had a fine breakfast. Took all of my gear over to University...PK'ing the sky on the way over...and set it all up inside the Lecture Hall. I made a humorous sight, drawing my totebag along behind me...like a dog on a leash. You see, I had about 30-40 pounds of documents with me, but could not carry them...doctor says I mustn't lift over ten pounds due to the operation. So I'd taken a canvas tote bag, cut four holes in the bottom...taken a pair of roller skates and stripped the shoe top from the frames and wheels, then put the frames and wheels through the holes in the bottom of the bag. I'd laid in a rigid cardboard bottom on top of the skates, and put the heavy files on top of all that...tied a rope to the handle...and presto...it rolled along behind me, on airplanes, everywhere, and into the Lecture Auditorium. Ha ha ha. As I was arranging key files on the dais, Peter Maddock came up and explained to me that, due to some new, unexpected speakers, I wouldn't be able to give the full 90 minutes that he had okayed by letter. But, he assured, I'd be able to give the other half of my lecture sometime in the afternoon. He pointed out that never in the history of the Parascience Conferences had any scientist ever addressed the audience more than one time...as I would be doing. Then I pointed out to him...that actually I was addressing them one time...but that he, Peter, was cutting it in half. He coughed, looked a bit unhappy...and walked away. I could see Cox, my enemy, seated over at one side of the stage with Ted Bastin...and I figured that the "gaff was in"...an old circus term meaning that the fix was in. Against me. By this time the auditorium was jammed. I turned on my recorder and put it in front of me. Put my Cuban cigar down, carefully. I was introduced by a big, tall man. And finally, after coming so long a way...sweating out the funds to get here...overcoming numerous other rough obstacles...I was able to begin my lecture. * (The complete, 90-minute tape of my lecture I hope to obtain from either Peter or Jeffrey Mishlove a bit later to copy and send to you scientists.) As I spoke, looking up into a sea of faces, it seemed to me that my mind was different...was going into a different gear. My thoughts came like flashes of lightning...I spoke extemporaneously...I had the sensation of not being myself at all, but as if something had taken over and was doing my thinking and talking for me. I spoke in most complicated continuity. That is...I would begin a main point; branch off into an explanatory note; into another explanatory; then weave back into the main point, to make the point complete. And as I spoke, I felt a sort of force-field (the only word for it) build up around me. (I wasn't the only one who sensed this...because on Sunday after my final lecture...then a bit later...Ted Bastin walked up to me and said, "Owens, I had the bad luck to follow your lecture...somehow I couldn't seem to get through to the audience with my lecture...when I followed you it was like walking into a Black Hole..." (at least that's how I remember what he said, so he noticed it, too.) When I had finished, many scientists asked me questions from the audience...calling out their names and the country they represented (you'll hear this on tape, of course)...and my answers to them were like quick flashes of lightning. Instant answers, encapsulated in layers. What should have been difficult questions from them...seemed like child's play to me, to answer. Finally I left the stage for Mark Stenhoff, a physicist, to follow me. * I told the scientists that yesterday's and today's rains were my rains, marked by power failure (see 37, 38, 39) same as Chi & California demos === Page 6 of 29 6 and lecture. NOW...A POWERFUL FORCE SEEMED TO DRIVE ME OUT OF THE AUDITORIUM AT THIS TIME...as if I were a cork being expelled from a champagne bottle! Instead of taking a seat and listening to Stenhoff and others...I went out of the Auditorium into the lounge. Peter Maddock came rushing out and urged me to go back in and stay for awhile. But I could not. Then, to my utter amazement, huge amounts of people left the auditorium (and Stenhoff) and formed lines to where I sat in the lounge, to speak to me. Dr. Dierkens, from Brussels, Belgium; Dr. Illobrand Von Ludwiger, physicist from West Germany; Zbigniew Wolkowski, Doctor of Sciences from Paris, France; Dr. Walter A. Frank, anthropologist from West Germany...and many others. I sat there for a long time, answering the questions of these scientists. Finally lunchtime came and they departed to the dining room. And meanwhile the rain was pouring down outside; lightning cracking. Peter Maddock then walked up...and proposed that I give my second lecture that night, not in the Auditorium, but in a tiny bar at Finsbury Hall (where ad hoc meetings were held by the scientists after hours.) I bristled at this suggestion...and told him flatly that that idea did not appeal to me all...that it was not the proper forum, as far as I was concerned, to present my material. He said oh well, all right, then, that he'd get back to me. At this time a man appeared at my elbow, smiling. Said his name was George, and that he'd heard my lecture. Well dressed, black mustache, with a fine sense of humor...I instinctively liked George. (And it was well that I did, as it turned out...after this mad-hatter Saturday was over!) I will not give George's last name...because of a most peculiar happening the next day, Sunday...and would not want to cause him any inconvenience. At any rate, we became fast friends. Now, this has no importance...but is worth mentioning just as a matter of funniness. We were joined by another man named Tony...allegedly in jazz...and the three of us, unfettered by scientists and their high level of thinking...joked and had some laughs...and George kept asking "why?" about everything. Finally I told Tony that we should nickname George "Why" and just call him that. At this point a man I had previously spotted as a British agent...supposedly selling books on paranormal phenomena at a long table just outside the door of the lecture auditorium...who now had his back to us and was standing at least 50 feet away...suddenly turned and walked over to George, Tony and I and held out a book which carried the title, "Why". Then, with no change of expression the man turned and walked back across the lounge to his table of books. (Later, when I slipped into the auditorium to hear my enemy, Cox, give his lecture...this same "book salesman" followed me in, took a seat directly in front of me...and if I ever moved my arm or head he would slide his eyes around and check me out with peripheral vision. Quite obviously he had been assigned to me to see that I did not commit violence upon the person of Cox. Ha! After a few minutes of listening to Cox, and understanding my man (I'd never seen him...only traded insulting letters with him)...I left the auditorium. A young chap walked up, covered with camera and recording equipment...and requested an interview with me. Jeffrey Mishlove, from San Francisco. Said they had a radio program, "New Dimensions, and would like to tape an interview and play it on the radio there. He also was going to give a lecture on Sunday afternoon. Getting his doctorate in parapsych on the West Coast. Showed me a book that he had authored...and I was stunned after looking through it. A masterful piece of writing! === Page 7 of 29 7 Then he informed me that he also worked with Dr. Targ and Dr. Putoff, and that he'd heard them talk about me and my work. He took us into another segment of the lounge and locked the glass doors...hooked up all of his equipment, and we began taping. But in a few moments Peter Maddock began beating on the door...Jeffrey let him in...Peter said Ted, you can come to the auditorium now and have all the time that you want...to lecture. A scientist cancelled out, leaving an opening. So Jeffrey unhooked all of his equipment and we three went rapidly back into the Auditorium...I took out all of my files once more, and prepared to give the other half of my lecture. * And now...the fun starts! I'm five or ten minutes into the lecture when a face suddenly appears at my left shoulder...it's Ted Bastin...he says Ted, you'll bash me when I tell you this...but can you finish in five minutes? I looked at him much as in the same manner P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves would look at Bertie Wooster wearing a green tie with a nude on it. I reckon that it must be one of the hardest looks that I've ever given a human being. The crowd heard this over the sensitive mikes. All right, I said, shrugging my shoulders in resignation...and began gathering up my files and papers. I was positive now that Cox had arranged to push me out of the program. (I not only thought that: Jeffrey said to me later on, Ted, it seems obvious that someone is trying to block you from speaking.) (FOLLOW ALL THE REST OF THE ACTION CLOSELY NOW...BECAUSE YOU WILL SEE HOW CLOSELY AND THOROUGHLY THE SIS MONITOR WHAT I DO AND TAKE ACTION!) Suddenly, with no warning, there was a growing swell of sound from the audience around us...it swelled up from murmurs to a roaring noise of shouting. Most of the audience was standing, shaking their fists at the stage, and yelling...no, no, let him continue...we want to hear this man...no, no... The entire auditorium was in complete bedlam. Peter Maddock left Cox's side, over to the left of the stage...and joined Bastin up at the dais. They conferred...their brows wrinkled with shock, evidently, at this turn of events. I know that I was shocked, completely and utterly. I knew that the audience wanted to hear my presentation (I'd asked for a show of hands from them previously...and I think that a full 2/3 of them put their hands up at the time)...but I didn't realize my presentation was going over that powerfully. Neither, it seemed, did Maddock or Bastin. I finished putting my files up, then walked to the mike and said through the uproar, ladies and gentlemen...please...the management must arrange their programs as best they can...it's all right. But the audience was still throwing fits and the place was still in chaos. Peter walked over to me and said Ted, can you give the other half of your lecture tomorrow, Sunday? I promise you a full 40 minutes without interruption. I said surely, and walked out of the auditorium...again it seemed like a powerful pressure forcing me out. But I was angry about the whole thing. I get angry very slowly. Someone can insult me on Monday and about Friday I begin to seeth about it. As I go out I can hear Maddock explaining to the audience over the mike that I'll be back in the morning to conclude the presentation. * WHILE I AM PREPARING TO LECTURE, JEFFREY MISHLOVE, ANOTHER SCIENTIST-LECTURER, GOES TO THE MIKES ONSTAGE AND TELLS THE PACKED AUDITORIUM THAT HE WOULD FIND MY LECTURES HARD TO BELIEVE EXCEPT THAT HE WORKS WITH DR. TARG AND DR. PUTOFF AT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND THEY HAD DISCUSSED ME AND MY WORK IN FRONT OF MISHLOVE - THAT THEY TOOK ME AND MY WORK QUITE SERIOUSLY! THUS MISHLOVE (SEE HIS ARTICLE IN FILE) VERIFIED MY CREDIBILITY!! === Page 8 of 29 8 * U.K. Radio taped an interview with me. Meanwhile the beautiful rain is falling outside...seen through the windows, splashing. George and Tony follow me out, along with other scientists and a small mob of people, lining up again to ask me questions. * A lovely blonde girl, accompanied by her assistant, a photographer, come up to me and request a taped interview for a Swedish magazine. They have come from Sweden to cover this Conference. She is Eva, and her assistant is Kurt. George is asking me to have dinner at his home with him and his sister...so I suggest to George that we invite Eva and Kurt along...and they can join us in dinner and get their interview also. He says sure; fine...so off we go in George's car to his home in Hampstead. His house is next to the house of Peter Cook, the famous English actor. It is a beautiful area...full of trees...perfect for artists and actors. Sort of a small Beverly Hills with gorgeous English countryside. George's house is a dandy; garage below; living room and kitchen on the second floor; bedrooms on the third floor. Kurt first wants to take photographs of me, outside, before we go in...and does so. Should be humorous photos...of me pulling my totebag on its leash, Scotch hat jammed on my head; cigar stuck in my mouth. "Linda" "Uriel" Once inside we meet George's sister, and a big, muscled man from Israel. Eva set up her taping machinery...and began the interview. After that was finished George told us all to follow him out of the house...and we walked up the hill through small winding streets to a cute restaurant. George picked a table in front of a small bandstand. The place was filled with young people, expensively dressed...all good looking specimens. The place had character; was delightful...quite unlike most other English places I'd dined in. George ordered for us, because he knew the food...which was vegetarian. When the meal was served Eva took one bite and pushed her plate back away from her with a disgusted look on her face. Kurt didn't eat his, either. I made it halfway through mine. George, it seemed, was amused by it all. But I think almost everything amused George. Anyway, a silence had descended upon our table...so I asked George to show Eva a pocket watch he'd shown me earlier...an antique which, when you press the top, flips open to reveal a watch face...but also a man fondling a girl. Even this didn't snap Eva out of it. Thankfully two musicians appeared and took their places on the stand behind us...a clarinet and a sax, I believe...or was it a clarinet and guitar? Anyway, these two were real pros...and played New Orleans jazz and swing just the way it's done down on Bourbon Street in the Vieux Carre'. Suddenly several fellows came in with a sack; took out little drums and sticks, and began to accompany the band. The man on the bongo drum was so bad that I nudged him, gestured for his drum, which he handed over readily...and I jammed then with the rest. It was great fun and we must have gone on for an hour. Then the place closed and Eva and Kurt took a cab back to their hotel...and I took a cab back to Finsbury Hall. Sunday morning...I scanned the sky, then went downstairs for breakfast. It had come to me during the night what to do. I would just leave. To hell with it. Because I didn't like the things that had happened to me. First I took a walk and got the morning London papers and scanned them, prior to snipping out my rain newsclips. But there was more than rain in the papers. I whistled, hardly believing my eyes. (See your file now, on this.) Saturday, the day before, while I was being hassled...an airplane had been hit by lightning over England === Page 9 of 29 9 under mysterious circumstances (connected with a second plane.) Also...a giant English helicopter had crashed in England. Also...the Ambassador of England drowned in Israel. And I grasped in a flash...that the SIs had been displeased and had thus registered their disapproval! I walked back to Finsbury Hall and bumped into Peter Maddock. I simply leveled with him...told him that I was leaving and going back to the States...because things had gone so cockeyed. He looked at me incredulously and said that the mixup was due to programming difficulties and nothing else...and that "if you don't show up this morning, Ted, that crowd at the Auditorium will have your head!" Reassured, I went back into Finsbury Hall, got all my gear, and laboriously pulled the totebag all the way over to the University. The University was locked up tight. David Strangely...and I was the only person there...Cox himself walks past me and up to the doors, tries them, finds them locked...and walks off. Well, I pulled the totebag all the way back to Finsbury Hall...checked out...instructed the hotel clerk to call me a taxi to go to Heathrow Airport...which he did. So I wait for the taxi... saying Ted, have you seen the papers? The crashed plane? The crashed copter? The Ambassador I said George, you are fast!! The SI's didn't like what happened yesterday! when suddenly a car swings up to the entrance and George hops out, with a girl in tow, named Beebee, or Bebe, as in BB gun. He rushes up to me with a grin and asks where I'm going. Home, I tell him. But, he says, the University Auditorium is packed with people waiting for you to come and speak. George, I tell him, I wouldn't pull this totebag back over to that University for all the tea in China...and besides, I've made up my mind. I'm taking a plane out right away. Oh, come on, he says; grabbing my arm...Bebe and I are going to drive you over there. You are going to give the second half of your lecture. Now come on!" So I tell the clerk to cancel the cab, and get into George's car, and off we go to the University. In the rain...because it was coming down, lightly, off and on. We get to University and the three of us go up to the Auditorium...and find that another speaker is on...because I hadn't showed up. That did it. Fer-git it, George...I told him...let's us just go have some lunch, then I'll catch my plane home. I don't want to go back into the Auditorium. This whole thing has been painful because my lecture has been all broken up. He says Ted, you just don't understand...these people want to hear you and what you have to say! Okay, okay, I say. So we take the equipment and files into the Auditorium and get it all set. Peter Maddock comes in and says Ted, I guarantee you that you are allotted 40 minutes this morning and no one is going to interrupt you and everything is okay. Now you just go ahead. I noticed Cox sitting up in the audience, to take in my lecture. Hmph. I went ahead and gave the second half of my presentation, without interruption. As I walked out of the auditorium the audience roared their applause. It surprised me, and I turned and gave them a salute, going out. Again I couldn't force myself to stay inside the Auditorium and take in other lectures. A force...was just forcing me out. Peter followed me out and asked me to listen to some other lectures, but I shook my head. Jeffrey Mishlove made me a present of a stunning pin he'd been wearing...a rainbow with a UFO on the top of it. I was delighted. George had given me his address, and said to come on out to his house that afternoon...that he was having open house for some friends...sounded like fun, so I called a taxi and went out to George's place. LET ME ADD HERE THAT PETER MADDOCK WAS AT ALL TIMES FAIR AND HONEST WITH ME. HE IS QUITE A GENTLEMAN! === Page 10 of 29 10 Upon arriving there...I got out of the taxi with my gear and blew a blast on my Scotch whistle, to notify George of my arrival. He popped out of his house, a big grin on his face...and handed me a solid gold whistle which he said his mother had given him. It is an antique. Very old. (I wear it now around my neck.) (Also wear Jeffrey's Rainbow UFO around my neck. Probably always will.) George helped me get my gear up into his house...brought out a cold beer...then men began to arrive. George had a strikingly beautiful blonde girl from New Zealand, named Penny...as his guest. But most of the people who began to drop in were men. Just one other pretty girl came in, as I recall...no, wait...two. Must have been eight or ten men. All these people looked, well, different. Above normal intelligence, all of them. Wealthy looking. Some of them looked like judo or karate experts. Then I got a shock which really upset me. The night before at dinner George had mentioned marijuana...and I had told him how I hated, despised, and loathed drugs and dope pushers. Suddenly I see George seated across the table from me with cans full of brown plants...and he has a cigarette rolling machine...and with a big grin is making cigarettes. He lights one and holds it out to me. I quickly grasp that, for the first time in my life I am face to face with dope. I'd never actually seen any. I tell George no...and point to my Cuban cigar. He smiles, and hands it off to Penny, who begins to puff it, holding it with two fingers, in an odd manner. Well, here I am torn by two emotions. I owe George...for talking me into going back and finishing my lecture. Because I got the SI message over, and the lecture ended on a positive, high note. On the other hand...I hate dope, and people who use it. But I couldn't hate George. I liked the guy. Anyway, I dissolved the conflict quickly by asking George to call me a taxi, and when it came, went out to Heathrow Airport...where a plane was leaving for the States in, believe it or not, ten minutes. And I had no English money to buy the ticket. Somehow, I'll never know how, the PanAm man got my ticket ready...got me the proper money...got my baggage checked through...and had an assistant rush me through customs and all that stuff...and made the plane. It had rained all afternoon, in London. And that's it. The three days...seemed to me, afterward, like a hundred years. My other trips...to Scotland, England, Egypt, France...which took weeks...seemed like a few days afterward. And something had knocked all of the energy out of me. I was drained dry. It has taken me almost a month to get my energy back. But now the scientific world...and through them, I hope, the rest of the world...knows about the SI World Drought Plan... Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens === Page 11 of 29 ADDED NOTE RE PREVIOUS PAGE: AT GEORGE'S "OPEN HOUSE" WHERE A GROUP OF STRANGE MEN AND TWO WOMEN ENTERED, TO JOIN GEORGE AND HIS GIRL PENNY AND MYSELF (WELL, I HAD MET ONE MAN, URIEL FROM ISRAEL, PREVIOUSLY)... AND I WAS SURPRISED BY GEORGE PRODUCING MARIJUANA AND PASSING IT AROUND... REGARDLESS, I GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT SOME, OR ALL, OF THIS GROUP WERE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AGENTS. WHY? BECAUSE I WAS DEFINITELY RECEIVING TELEPATHIC COMMUNICATION FROM HUMAN MINDS IN THAT APARTMENT! (SI TELEPATHING IS QUITE DIFFERENT.) NOW, I AM TUNED TO OTHER-DIMENSIONAL ENTITY TELEPATHING, AND AM NOT TUNED TO THE HUMAN. BUT IN THIS EXPERIMENT (WHICH I'M SURE IT WAS) THE TELEPATH SENDER WANTED ME TO PICK UP AN OBJECT IN THE ROOM... A POCKET WATCH WHICH LAY OUT IN PLAIN SIGHT, I BELIEVE. ALSO THE SENDER WAS OFFERING ME SOMETHING QUITE VALUABLE IF I COULD RECEIVE THE THOUGHT AND OPENLY SPEAK ABOUT IT. MIND YOU, ALL OF THIS WAS TELEPATHIC... THE GROUP (ABOUT TEN PEOPLE) MERELY SMOKED AND CHATTED INNOCENTLY. BUT DOPE AND I ARE NATURAL ENEMIES AND I GOT OUT OF THERE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. HAD DOPE NOT BEEN PRODUCED I WOULD HAVE SPOKEN UP AND PLAYED THEIR "TELEPATHY GAME" WITH THEM. Gwene 82 === Page 12 of 29 2 ..the robbers off...a diversionary tactic...from discovering the real treasure of the Sphinx and the key pyramids and temples...the depository of ancient wisdom and knowledge pertaining to other-dimensional, and other, powers.... But the only way...that these ancient "libraries" of wisdom and knowledge can be entered and studied...is for an alien, or one with half an alien brain... to utilize OD power to activate CERTAIN areas of CERTAIN pyramids or temples! Once the alien does this...he is given the wisdom and knowledge in an encapsulated form...which will unfold itself as time goes by...and as that alien, or half-alien, is strong enough, mentally, to withstand it, and wise enough not to misuse it. Now, in those ancient days...the people understandably were not up to comprehending OD power...or even telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and so on...so the High Priests (each one personally trained by the SIs) explained to the masses that they key pyramids and temples were guarded by a "curse" that would destroy intruders. Actually, PyrCre...this giant, living entity, was the "curse"...over-all. If you have a thought within the Giza area... PyrCre knows that thought. If anyone robbed the key places...PyrCre made a "walking accident" out of them, until them destroyed themselves in time. PyrCre...is the deadliest entity...that our human brain...could ever possibly imagine. Talk about your "engine of destruction".... so as I began my approach to the pyramids, PyrCre appeared, and instructed me HOW to approach...without drawing destruction upon myself. As a tiny, small example...PyrCre appeared to me on the plane as I returned to Kennedy Airport...and the plane ahead of our plane was struck by a bolt of lightning and exploded all over Kennedy airport (see the Egyptian file.) PyrCre also granted to me...the power of approaching It...and perhaps...getting its powers to help me...to help the human race...in certain problems around the world. Of course, I already have SI powers...can approach them, too, instantly, for this purpose. So that now...I have two of the most unbelievable powers known to this earth (or unknown to this earth) at my beckoning. And because they both have accepted me...I am dear to them both. If anything should happen to me, untoward...then God help all. Every action...has its opposite, and equal reaction...isn't that so? And so I find it now. The "dark" powers of earth have zeroed in on me desperately...because I am using SI powers and PyrCre Pyramid powers constructively...and the Dark powers find themselves being crowded. I am without funds...and money has come to a screeching halt to me. Am selling personal possessions just to get by, my with family. My right arm has been shattered in a way that made Mayo Clinic surgeons ask me with amazement how it could have been done so. But the SIs "brought me up" right. They made me a judo man; a ring fighter; a man who will not quit. And that's how it stands. Right now...it's me and the SIs and PyrCre Pyramid powers...against the Dark powers. It will make...a very good Superbowl. The main weakness in this terrific tussle...is my physical body, which can be so easily destroyed...and the SIs and PyrCre are very angry with the U.S. Government for not protecting me. Key political figures are surrounded by armed Secret Service men...yet these key political figures would not know a miracle if they fell over one. And miracles are my business...have been for years. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens 107 === Page 13 of 29 BUSINESS UPI Minneapolis Tribune The trickling Thames, wilted corn in Minnesota: Drought speckles the U.S. and plagues Europe # A World Praying for Rain No one knows what's causing it or when it will end, but a serious drought is plaguing parts of the U.S. and blighting nearly all of Western Europe. The inflationary effect and disruption of trade promise to be considerable--and beyond that, the dry spell underscores a major dilemma: an apparent shifting of the world's weather patterns that threatens increasingly erratic harvests at a time when food supplies are shrinking. On a world scale, the drought is no worse--and perhaps less severe--than in some recent years. But it is hitting in unexpected places. In northern California alone, 200,000 acres of parched timber have been ravaged by fire, the grapes are starting to wilt and the town of Bolinas tried to shut out visitors because of a water shortage. In Britain, rainfall is at its lowest since records were first kept in 1727, and the Thames upstream from London has dwindled to a muddy trickle. In Germany, the Rhine is receding 2 inches a day and barge traffic on the Elbe has come to a sludgy stall. And in Paris, which had sizzled in dry, 90-degree weather for six weeks before some relief came at the weekend, a banner headline in France Soir said it all: WE JUST CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE. If it doesn't rain hard soon, Europe faces food shortages and skyrocketing food prices by winter. France stands to lose $6 billion worth of crops, including fully 40 per cent of its summer corn and spring wheat. In Germany, the chairman of the Bundestag's agricultural committee warned of a "catastrophe" should "the heat wave hold for another fourteen days." Hessian farmers have written off 30 per cent of their summer crops and have had to slaughter thousands of cattle for want of adequate grain. To make matters worse, the drought seems to be spreading east to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and East Germany. And Australia, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico are also abnormally dry. "On a global basis, we're going to see very significant drops in food production this year," says James McQuigg, director of the Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment (CCEA) in Columbia, Mo. No Famine: Fortunately, there's little danger that the shortfalls will lead to an increase in worldwide famine: The years-long drought in Africa's Sahel region has broken convincingly; the summer monsoon, though light, arrived on time in India, and key parts of the Soviet Union are getting more rain than ever. Most important, the U.S. has largely escaped the effects of the drought. California has been hit hard, but since most farming there is done on irrigated land, crop losses are not yet catastrophic. The worst damage is now occurring in the Dakotas and in Minnesota, where 60 out of 87 counties have been declared emergency areas by the Federal government. "This has been the driest spring since I started farming in 1934," says Robert Stegmaier, who runs a 1,200-acre crop and dairy farm 25 miles south of Minneapolis. But while local damage is severe, national food production turns largely on what happens in the major grain-producing states--and rain there has been plentiful enough for the Agriculture Department to predict record corn and near-record wheat crops. "The corn belt in general has no problems," reports Augustine Yao, chief research meteorologist at the CCEA. Nervous Market: The U.S. could offset much of the multibillion-dollar crop damage around the world by exporting more of its abundant crops. That would delight farmers, who still resent the Ford Administration for restricting exports last year. But it would scare consumers who remember the rising prices that followed the grain sale to the Soviet Union in 1972. Earlier this month, when Cargill, Inc., announced a $240 million soybean sale to the Soviet Union, commodity futures prices immediately jumped on the Chicago Board of Trade. "The market is nervous," says Frederick Uhlmann, vice president of commodities at Drexel Burnham & Co. in Chicago. In any market, nervousness reflects uncertainty--and there are few things as uncertain as the weather. "We just can't confidently predict long-range trends in climate," says Murray Mitchell, a climatologist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington. Mitchell and Town closed WATER SHORTAGE FIRE EMERGENCY Alan Copeland Bolinas, Calif.: How dry we are 66 Newsweek July 19, 1976 20 === Page 14 of 29 August 10, 1972 TO MY SIX SCIENTISTS... This incredible "attack" on earth...by sun-storms...an "unexpected series of solar phenomena that a scientist at Boulder, Colo., said was sort of like getting snow in Atlanta in July"...WAS CAUSED BY ME. Here's how it happened; as I was driving back from Cleveland, Ohio, some months ago, I was furious over how things had turned out. My best friend, George DeLavon, had dropped about three thousand dollars on the Ohio trip... because the Ohio people had been mainly hostile and unfriendly. George and I even had to walk off of one radio show...because of the radio host's nastiness. All right...as I drove back, the Si's communicated with me...and told me to use the same four giant UFO's at the corner of the earth that I use to cause earthquakes, and to make insects etc. go wild on earth...they told me to use the "Enny-Emme" UFO group to deflect the sun's rays onto earth...aimed at Cleveland, Ohio! So I followed their instructions, along with the Triangle technique. What followed...was first Hurricane Agnes...which nearly drowned out the East Coast (it reached for Cleveland, but only got as far as Pittsburgh.) Then...a searing blast of heat that attacked the entire East Coast...INCLUDING CLEVELAND-AKRON. In Cleveland sidewalks buckled from the heat...people went crazy, did crazy things...fires started all over (I have all of this documented, and will send it to you as soon as I can afford the huge xeroxing job it will take.) But the point I am making is...THEN FOLLOWED THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND "snow in July" attack from the sun onto the earth! The Si technique...had me picture the four giant UFO's in my mind...each one deflecting, like a mirror, the sun's rays down onto the earth, converging on Cleveland, Ohio. What then followed...was an unprecedented, unheard of, attack by the sun on the earth! Cause and effect...the pattern that has persistently followed all through my demonstrations. My mental cause...then the effect following, shown, observed, physically, for actual proof! I told several people BEFORE the sun attacked earth...what I was doing to attack earth with sun's rays...and will send you a xerox'd signed statement to that effect as soon as I can get one and can afford to get it xerox'd. If any of you want a further demonstration of this attack from the sun...I will be glad to repeat it for you. (A little rough on the earth, but perhaps worth it...from a scientific standpoint.) I may do it anyway...to satisfy my own knowledge. Then I may experiment with the moon. If any of you want in on this, let me know. Owens *Pete Franklin Radio Show 17 === Page 15 of 29 Si World Drought Plan June 18, 1973 SPECIAL TO MY SEVEN SCIENTISTS.......... Will be a week or so until you get this... because have to paste it up, then send out of town for xeroxing, etc. Please add this to the Drought file I recently sent you. It is additional material. Recall: I told you months and months ago that the Si's had set in motion... activated... the Demonstration to end all Demonstrations. They would bring about a great World Drought. Then, after all of the countries of the world were in desperate, dire need of water... they would allow me to specify to them... where to put water all over the world. If I tell them Africa (and notify you in writing)... then they will bring great rains to Africa and fill up the rivers, wells and streams once again. If I say Italy... they'll do the same thing for Italy. In this way... they will be demonstrating their reality... their power to control the natural resources of our earth... their link with this human, me... AND THEY WILL BE TEACHING THE HUMAN RACE A LESSON IT BADLY NEEDS TO LEARN... NOT TO POLLUTE AND WASTE THE EARTH'S WATER. Now, an ingenious plan like that... I couldn't ever think up. As perhaps you can well realize. I mention this... because I feel very deeply for the people over the earth who will suffer because of being deprived of water... and the animals, too. This is not something I myself would "wish" on the Earth... but because the Si's think it is so important in the infinite plan of things... they have my okay on it. And cooperation on it. The 290 miracles I have accomplished prior to THIS one... are insignificant in comparison to this World Drought Demonstration. You are about to be a witness... to control of the weather... on a world-wide scale! The reason that my psychic work is so hard and difficult to understand... is because I work other-dimensionally... with that half of my brain that the Si's changed, modified, to link my brain with/into their dimension. And being other-dimensional... the physical laws of that other dimension do not apply to or agree with the physical laws in this dimension. But they will bring about cause and effect with our physical laws, nonetheless. Why modify half of my human brain? BECAUSE IN THIS WAY I CAN "TRANSLATE" THE S.I. OTHER-DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS INTO THIS DIMENSION! I.e., today a translator explained in English, over the radio, what the Russian Premier was saying in Russian... so the English-speaking people in the U.S. could understand and the verbal content of the Premier's speech would have meaning in this country. Do you see the analogy? My special SI brain can translate physical laws from THEIR dimension... into our own physical laws... so that THEIR cause and effects can be understood in our OWN cause and effect language. And I am the only human being in the world able to do this sort of thing. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens 18 === Page 16 of 29 July 29, 1974 TO MY SCIENTIST-OBSERVERS JUST AS EVERYONE LAUGHED WHEN I PREDICTED IN BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS IN 1971 AND 1972 THAT PRESIDENT NIXON WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE. THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT LAUGHING NOW! Perhaps you had quite a chuckle, a year or so ago, when I informed you that the SI's...UFO entities that I work for and with...were going to create a world-drought as one, big, definitive experiment...and then let their human representative, myself, PK Man, call the shots...i.e., name each area, each drought-stricken area, to get relief...over the globe (and in the U.S.)...thus proving once and for all that I am indeed the SI's single human link with the human race, and that they have the powers to do such a thing. Attached is a newsclip from this morning's newspaper...indicating the "merciless, searing" drought prevalent in the U.S. today. I do not think...anyone is laughing now, at what I said some time ago. If they are, they are idiots, and you can quote me on that. Texas...will be especially punished...for its treatment of me not long ago (re the radio station and its backers; unfortunately, that is the way the SI's work...they expect me to be well-received and well-treated AS THEIR OWN REPRESENTATIVE (much like a U.S. ambassador would be treated abroad) when I travel about. If I am tricked and/or badly treated, then God help that geographical area, state or country. (Disc-people need have no worries.) France...will be especially demonstrated upon (rather than punished) with white-hot drought combined with violent storms, lightning attacks, hurricane approaches, powerful winds, power blackouts, etc....not by the SI's (who are chewing up Texas) but by myself, to demonstrate what I can do "with half a brain"...the SI half. Referring to the attached newsclip...of course I could bring rain and storms at will...to any of the stricken areas. But according to the terms of the SI Definite Miracle (world drought) which they outlined some time ago, through me to you...I will not do so. If you think...that my powers, through the UFO's, do not amount to a "5th world power"...wait, wait, until water practically vanishes and the earth is scorched...then let me see all the governments of the world replace that water, and save that earth, with their vast sums of money and great military establishments. Only I...will be able to replace the water...and repair the earth. Through the infinite powers of the UFO's, of course. If any one of you...gave a poor reference to Dr. Poher...think about the above. You were doing a great disservice not only to Dr. Poher, but to France...and the entire world...in blocking the progress of the UFO plan to help this earth. Sincerely, Owens 19 DROUGHT * or Carrat === Page 17 of 29 NAT'L ENQUIRER SEPT. 7, 1976 Ted Remember this was announced in Jan on the radio -- but this is the 1st printed article on this UFO happening -- Millie BY BOB PRATT A strange cigar-shaped object with multicolored lights astounded veteran policemen in northern California and Nevada as it streaked across the night skies at speeds beyond the reach of America's fastest supersonic jet. More than a dozen police officers from six agencies tracked the eerie UFO as it put on an awesome, three-hour aerobatic act over a 2,000-square mile area from Lincoln and Chico, Calif., to Reno, Nev. Patrolman William Sykes of Lincoln, Calif., reported the UFO flew faster than the 2,100-mph SR-71 reconnaissance jets -- the Free World's fastest planes -- which often fly out of nearby Beale Air Force Base, north of Lincoln. "I've never seen them fly as fast as this thing did," marveled Sykes, 32. A woman in Chico, Calif., was the first to report spotting the mystery object, at 2:10 a.m. on January 28. Later, Chico Patrolman Joseph Whitcomb called dispatcher Chris Lowen and said he saw it, too. At 2:30 a.m., the California Highway Patrol reported that a weird object was soaring overhead, toward Truckee. Nevada County (Calif.) Sheriff's Deputies Steve Bobbitt and Sgt. Leroy Brombacker dashed outside and saw it -- a cigar-shaped object with red and green lights. "We watched it for 30 minutes," Sgt. Brombacker, 41, said. "I was in the Navy on an aircraft carrier and I've seen all kinds of night operations. But I've never seen anything like it before." Bobbitt, 31, a six-year police veteran and a former door gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam, said he saw two objects -- a big one with red and blue lights and a small one, all red, higher up and to the north. "When the big one moved off, we looked for the red one -- and it was gone, too!" he said. "It appeared to be a companion of some kind." The next report came from Patrolman Sykes in Lincoln, at 3 a.m. He said he watched the UFO for five minutes, zipping eastward toward Reno. Shortly afterward, two California Highway patrolmen, Dale Tuel and Norm Chavez, sighted an object with bluish-green lights near Auburn, Calif., 15 miles east of Lincoln. They watched it, astonished, for 20 minutes. "It would move up and down and then sideways, like one of those bouncing balls in a sing-along movie," said Chavez, obviously still amazed. Undersheriff Vince Swinney of Washoe County, Nev., said there were numerous sightings in the Reno area between 2:24 and 4:53 a.m. Simultaneous sightings far to the west in California indicate the likelihood that more than one UFO was being observed by police and other residents. "Seven officers from our department viewed an object at one time or another," Swinney told The ENQUIRER. "At one point, one object was seen by officers from two police agencies who were at three different positions. They were able to triangulate the thing -- directly over Slide Mountain, southwest of Reno." Sgt. Robert Hopkins of the Butte County (Calif.) Sheriff's Office, reported that an object "much too brilliant to be a star" hovered over the tree line near his home in Magalia, Calif., 20 miles northeast of Chico, at about 3 a.m. Hopkins' wife said she watched not one, but three brightly lighted objects in the sky that morning, for three hours. "Then we heard an airplane coming from the direction of Beale Air Force Base -- and the three objects shot straight up into the sky and vanished!" Mrs. Hopkins said. An Air Force official at Beale AFB said: "All we know about the sightings is what we read in the newspapers." SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES, Sgt. Leroy Brombacker (left) and Steve Bobbitt of Nevada County (Calif.) watched UFO. SCIENTISTS ... YOU CAN ADD THIS IMPORTANT UFO PHENOMENA TO MY "CALIFORNIA MIRACLE" FILE SINCE IT HAPPENED AT THAT TIME AND IS JUST NOW COMING TO LIGHT. MY UFO CONNECTION WAS PUTTING THEIR "SIGNATURE" ON MY DEMONSTRATION. Owens PS... DO YOU RECALL WHEN I SPENT SOME TIME IN CHICO? WAS GIVEN A CAR AND FINANCIAL HELP BY FRIENDS IN CHICO!! (SEE NEXT SHEET). THIS WAS SI WAY OF SAYING I NEED A NEW CAR NOW AND MORE FINANCIAL HELP! Owens 10/8/76 === Page 18 of 29 Chico visit 1974 Ted Owens # Famed Psychic Visits Here By CATHY STOTT (Enterprise-Record Intern) One of the "world's greatest psychics" who predicts that the nation will be plagued by a drought this year is visiting in Chico. Ted Owens, who hails from Virginia and has been the subject of numerous national magazine articles as well as appearing on national television, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Bailey, owners of Chico MotorLodge, 725 Broadway. Acclaimed as one of the "world's greatest psychics" in the April 1971 issue of Saga Magazine, Owens says he doesn't just predict, he claims to have the power to cause "miracles" to happen. He says his mind had control of professional basketball and football teams in recent years and that he caused injuries to key players to keep certain teams out of the Super Bowl. In June 1967, Owens said, he notified the U.S. hurricane center that three simultaneous hurricanes would occur. Just after that, hurricanes Beulah, Chloe and Doris were active on the same weekend. In 1972, Owens told a team of scientists and other authorities that the country would experience terrible floods because humans had been polluting lakes, rivers and streams for too long. Many damaging floods occurred. Owens, who has been written about in many issues of Saga, Sports Illustrated, in two books, "Revelation, The Divine Power" and "Occult America" and many newspapers, explained that he gets his power from the Bermuda Triangle, off the Florida coast where many U.S. aircraft and ships have been reported missing. Owens pointed out that Dr. Jonathan Wright, National Aeronautics and Space Administration physicist has stated there is a UFO base in this area on an island in the Bahamas. "I have worked for and with them (UFOs) for 10 years," Owens said. Owens, who claims an IQ of 153 -- genious level -- is a member of Mensa, an international organization of people with IQs above 148. Only 2 per cent of the world's population belongs to Mensa, he said. To become a member, one must apply and go through extensive tests and analysis by teams of scientists. Owens has been analyzed over and over again by scientists in this country because of his 200 documented predictions and "paranormal phenomena." Owens has been a jazz drummer, lecturer, hypnotist -- the list of vocations approaches 50. He has appeared on a CBS television special and has recently been approached by Hollywood producers about a movie of his life, he said. Owens now trains people to become what he calls "super brains." He teaches individuals how to have instant access to 50 to 80 per cent of their brain power whereas most people have a much more limited usage. He gives them the "tools to solve any problem they are confronted with." He stated he is going to train some people while in Chico. Owens has a wife, Martha, and an 8-year-old son. 95 === Page 19 of 29 SF Chronicle - Wed. Sept. 29, 1976 By Peter B. # Truckin' in the Rain During the heaviest part of yesterday's rain, a truck-and-trailer jackknifed on the Nimitz Freeway near Washington street in Oakland, slowing westbound traffic for more than two hours. The rig was finally removed by a crane. The rain, which came from a low pressure system 200 miles offshore, dropped .39 inches of rain on the city before moving south. One unusual result of the storm was a double rainbow, visible from many locations about 6:30 p.m., in between spurts of heavy rainfall. The National Weather Service predicted rain today in southern California and the possibility of showers in the Bay Area. SCIENTISTS ... NOTE THE DOUBLE RAINBOW REFERRED TO ABOVE. THE SI'S WERE TALKING TO YOU WITH THAT DOUBLE RAINBOW! AS THIS OCCURRED I WAS WEARING A RAINBOW PIN WITH UFO ON IT. JEFFREY MISHLOVE GAVE IT TO ME IN LONDON AUGUST 29, WHERE I WAS MAKING IT RAIN AT THE TIME. (JEFFREY WORKS WITH DRS. TARG AND PUTOFF.) I TOLD JEFFREY AT THAT TIME ... HOW I TELEPATH TO A RAINBOW UFO DAILY. (HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS.) TO MAKE SURE YOU GOT THEIR "MESSAGE" THAT THEY ARE WORKING WITH ME THEY PRODUCED A DOUBLE RAINBOW! Owens PS... I WEAR JEFFREY'S UFO/RAINBOW PIN AT ALL TIMES. ALSO,,, 98 # The Rainbow UFO!! Millie **UFO SIGHTING?** No less than a dozen policemen in Hastings, Fla., conducted an intensive search recently for what was described as "a multi-colored unidentified flying object about the size of three football fields." The Flagler County sheriff's office said: "Some of the deputies actually saw it but then we lost it." Other witnesses testified they saw the massive ("three stories high") object apparently landing in a heavily wooded area and claimed it flashed rainbow colors. The Federal Aviation Administration reported it knew of no planes in that general area and could offer no opinion of what the object might be. **SAGA MAG** === Page 20 of 29 Number 126 Some phenomena that happened in the Chicago miracle, too # The BART Train that S.F. Chronicle April 24, 1976 By Charles Petit # Wanted to Run Away A BART train that twice tried to drive off the end of the Fremont line -- in the same spot a train fell into a parking lot in 1972 -- has the system's engineers baffled. The incident happened February 20, and was made public at the BART directors meeting Thursday. The total failure of the BART staff to explain what happened prompted the directors to authorize up to $30,000 to hire an outside consultant for an "objective evaluation." The train just did not seem to obey the commands it was given. "We can't figure it out," said Krishna Hari yesterday, who is the transit district director of systems engineering. According to BART officials and records, the February 20 train was making its second run of the morning as it pulled into the end-of-the-line Fremont station at 7:23 a.m. It worked perfectly at first, going in stages down to 27 miles per hour, then 18, as it neared the designated stopping place on the platform. But then when it was supposed to stop, with the sandbank at the end of the line about 700 feet (one length of the five-car train) away, it accelerated. Train operator Andrew Torrez stabbed the emergency stop button immediately, halting the train about 110 feet down the platform from the correct spot. He let the passengers out and, with the train empty, shut the doors. Unbidden, the train -- whose next proper move would have been to head back north with a new driver at the other end -- lurched south again. Torrez again hit the stop button, shut the train down, and called BART operations. It was decided to take the train out of service, but the five-car train, with the other end's A car in control, first made a trip back to Daly City, and then back as far as Hayward where it was shunted onto the Hayward yard. "We told the operator to be careful on the way back, when the troublesome A car was in front, but there were no more problems," Hari said. Operators of other trains entering Fremont were also told to keep an eye on their gauges, but no more difficulties were found. The train that gave them trouble has been taken back to Fremont during non-transit hours. Transit system engineers have tried every trick they know to get it to repeat the error, to no avail. The car has remained out of service ever since. Hari doubted that the train would have gone off the end of the line even if operator Torrez hadn't pushed the stop button to override automatic equipment. Since the October 2, 1972 crash, control equipment has been extensively modified, Hari said, including the addition of a circuit designed to detect Fremont runaways and stop them before they go off the end of the line. The reason for the apparently near-replay of the 1972 incident "couldn't have been the same as the first time. The system that broke down in 1972 has been changed," Hari said. Hari added that it is not even completely clear whether the train's lead car made the error, or station control equipment gave it the wrong computerized instructions. Until the problem is resolved, the wayward A car, number 126, will remain out of service, Hari said. SCIENTISTS (1) REMEMBER IN MY "CHICAGO MIRACLE" FILE TO YOU... "MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS" MADE CITY BUSSES RUN WILD? SAME THING HERE (2) TO INCLUDE IN MY CALIFORNIA WORK. (3) ALSO IN THIS (LONDON) FILE WHILE I WAS USING MY POWERS ON THE LONDON AREA... THE SUBWAY SYSTEM CONKED AND EXPERTS WERE BAFFLED BY THAT!! (SEE NEWSCLIP IN THIS FILE ON IT.) Owens 104 PS... ODD. BUSSES, TRAIN AND SUBWAYS! === Page 21 of 29 S.F. EXAMINER # Storm rocks the Bay Area - flood alert 10/1/76 A fierce storm moved through the Bay Area today, bringing buckets of rain, flash flood warnings, rumbling thunder and lightning strikes too close for comfort. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties. The storm would last several hours, the weather service said, and "persons in low lying areas near streams or in canyons where flooding is likely to occur should move immediately to higher ground or places of safety." As the storm eased in late morning, the weather service removed all counties but Alameda, Contra Costa and the western part of San Joaquin from the "flash flood warning" alert. In the other areas a flash flood watch remained in effect, the weather service said. "Persons in the watch area should be on the alert to take immediate action should a warning be issued for that area or if heavy rain is observed," said the service. -See Back Page, Col. 4 # Storm rocks the Bay Area - flood alert -From Page 1 The heavy rains, which struck The City at about 8:30 a.m., slowed commute traffic to a crawl and brought minor flooding to such critical arteries as the Bay Bridge and its approaches. Just before 9 a.m. a lightning bolt ripped apart a tall redwood tree on the Burlingame High School campus, flinging chunks of wood to the ground. A student walking nearby escaped injury. Another bolt struck a power transformer in San Leandro shortly after 8 a.m., knocking out power in much of that community. The police department there was without telephones and power to communicate with patrols for 45 minutes. A lightning strike on a power line furnishing electricity to radio station KCBS's transmitter in Marin County knocked the station off the air from 10:03 to 10:39 a.m. The California Highway Patrol reported water about an inch deep on the Bay Bridge on both levels this morning. There was flooding in the tunnel eastbound on Yerba Buena Island and traffic there was slowed to 15 m.p.h. the CHP said. The San Francisco Fire Department Rescue Squad was called to the tunnel to extricate a motorist trapped in his vehicle after a three car collision. The patrol slowed westbound traffic on the cantilevered (east of the island) section of the bridge to 5 m.p.h. as the water rose. High-wind warnings were issued for Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento. Winds atop Mt. Tamalpais in Marin were recorded at 40 m.p.h. The storm began moving north from the Salinas Valley area during early morning hours. At the height of the downpour over the Los Banos area, a half-inch of rain fell in a half hour. Farther north, San Carlos police reported the ceiling of a building in the industrial area partly collapsed under the deluge. More than 30 fires touched off by lightning last night burned today in Lake and Mendocino counties, according to the California Division of Forestry. Forecasters predicted the thunderstorms will continue off and on in Northern California through tomorrow. And the state's agricultural industry warned today that this early and heavy rain is going to cost the consumer at the supermarket checkout line. Lettuce is going up 10 to 20 cents a head, and raisins, melons and late peaches will also cost more, according to California shippers. The problem is muddy fields caused by the rare downpour of an inch or more that make crop-picking difficult. A market news service in Sacramento reported that the shipper's price for lettuce in California had risen from $6 to $13 per case in the past few days. That meant a head of lettuce that cost 45 cents a week ago cost 59 cents yesterday in a Bay Area supermarket chain. The same head will cost 69 cents or more in a few days, the service predicted. Rot and mold caused by the rain in the Central Valley is expected to reduce the important raisin crop by more than half - from 250,000 to 100,000 tons - "if we're lucky," one grower said. The storms and muggy weather prevent the raisins from drying. Yesterday's storm, punctuated by lightning and thunder, amounted to .08 inch in San Francisco, .25 in San Jose, .07 in Eureka, .11 at Moffett Field, .10 at Oakland and .37 at Paso Robles. It was dry, for a change, at Fresno and Salinas. Satellite photo at 9:15 a.m. shows hurricane over state. LIZA SCIENTISTS... THE Si's AND I PUTTING WATER BACK INTO CALIFORNIA... AS PER MY PROMISE TO DO SO. Owens 96 === Page 22 of 29 San Francisco Examiner ☆☆R 777-2424 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1976 Daily 2 # Killer typhoon slams through Baja villages ## High winds, floods sweep along coast Examiner News Services MEXICO CITY -- Typhoon Liza slammed into the west coast of Mexico with 130 mile-an-hour winds early today. Officials said at least 30 persons were killed and many others were feared dead. The U.S. National Weather Service said the hurricane also was threatening Mexican west coast states and possibly the southwest-ern United States. 22 San Francisco Chronicle Tues., Sept. 21, 1976 ★ # The Weather ## Summary 9 P.M. SEPTEMBER 20 Showers and thundershowers popped up over the Southern California mountains and deserts plus the Sierra Nevada as moist subtropical air spread into the state from Mexico. Some variable high clouds also spread into northern and central state with extensive low clouds and fog along the coast. In response to the limited sunshine and marine air spreading inland temperatures remained mild over California. The states high was 93 degrees at Needles with other desert highs near 90. Coastal highs ranged from 60 at Crescent City to 78 at Long Beach, while inland readings were in the 70s in the mountains to the 80s in the valleys. Carbon copy weather and temperatures are expected today and Wednesday with the exception of the southern deserts and mountains where sunny skies are forecast to return. 97 === Page 23 of 29 99 Chronicle 9/30/76 # Rain Heads Back Toward Bay Area The low pressure area that dumped .33 inches of rain here, then moved south and caused flash floods yesterday, is due back with more wetness today, the National Weather Service reported. "The low was expected to head east," a weatherman said, "but it has started backing and is gradually coming north to us, bringing showers Thursday and Friday. "Then maybe Saturday we expect it to head east. Unless it sticks around or heads some other direction." As of yesterday he was predicting the chances were 3 in 10 showers would hit the Bay Area today. The showers that fell here were minimal. But yesterday as the low-pressure area scudded south it caused flash floods. Closer to home, the weatherman said, the Salinas Valley was pelted with heavy rainfall and in Santa Clara county Morgan Hill got 1.53 inches of rain in 24 hours and The Pinnacles National Park outside Hollister was hit with 2.58 inches of rain in 18 hours. Independent Journal Sept 15-76 # Explosion rips LA aqueduct gate LONE PINE (UPI) -- An explosion ripped through a section of the Los Angeles aqueduct early today, destroying a gate and gatehouse and releasing water from the canal which runs from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles. The Inyo County sheriff's office said the explosion occurred between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. at the Alabama Gate five miles north of this eastern California city which is 200 miles north of Los Angeles. "The gates and the gatehouse were damaged and water is being lost from the aqueduct," Sheriff Floyd O. Barton said. Barton said the type of explosive used and the extent of the damages were not known. Investigators from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, local, state and federal agencies were investigating the explosion which occurred near the Alabama Hills, a scenic area west and north of Lone Pine and the location of many Hollywood movies. In addition to the DWP and the sheriff's office, the investigating agencies included the state fire marshal's arson and bomb investigation unit, the Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unit from Bakersfield and the China Lake Naval Weapons Center explosive detail. The aqueduct is operated by the Department of Water and Power and supplies a major portion of the water used by Los Angeles. SI'S "TALKING" AGAIN? RECALL OFFICER OWEN OF DR. FOGEL'S AFFIDAVIT, AND MRS. OWENS IN MY BOOK RE BIG-FOOT APPEARANCE! Owens Va. Pilot Aug. 7, 1976 # Disease 'Narrows' To Toxins PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Doctors said Friday they are concentrating their search for the cause of "legionnaire's disease" on toxins--or poisons. But they conceded that the list of toxins was almost endless and repeated that they may never know what killed the 25 people who died in the mysterious outbreak. Doctors here and at the federal Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta said, meanwhile, that the outbreak appears to be tapering off. State Health Secretary Leonard Bachman said that although the death toll was officially increased by two Friday, there have been no new cases of the disease reported since Tuesday. "I do believe the guarded optimism we are showing is appropriate," he said. The two added to the death toll died earlier in the week, but had been listed as having suffered other diseases. Dr. David Sencer, director of the Atlanta disease control center, agreed. "The epidemic has peaked and is on its way out," he said at a news conference at the center. The doctors moved closer to knowing what the disease is not: it is not any type of flu. It is not caused by bacteria or fungus. It probably is not caused by virus. Sencer and Bachman also emphasized that no secondary infections have been found, meaning the disease is not contagious. It has been limited to persons connected with a state American Legion convention here last month. An estimated 10,000 attended the convention, and doctors now say 108 persons contracted the disease. A few remain in critical condition. Researchers at the CDC and a state laboratory in Philadelphia have hunted nonstop for the cause of the disease since it was diagnosed Monday. Sencer said that the CDC was now concentrating on toxins, which could appear in such common items as plastics, paper, soap, cigarettes, food, water, or just about anything the conventioneers came in contact with. Although Bachman said a "slower-grow- (See Illnesses, Page A4) SCIENTISTS... IF YOU WILL READ CHAPTER ON ME IN WARREN SMITH'S "PREDICTIONS FOR 1976" BOOK, YOU WILL SEE THAT I PREDICTED OUTBREAK OF MYSTERIOUS ILLNESSES (PLURAL) IN U.S. (SWINE FLU, PHILA. DISEASE) Owens === Page 24 of 29 Loud, Flashy Storm Hits Bay Area A black thunderhead towering 40,000 feet high and spitting forks of lightning along a 50-mile front rolled across the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday morning. There is a good chance of more showers today and Sunday, the Weather Service reported. Despite the high wind gusts, intermittent torrents of rain and electrical fireworks, the storm caused relatively minor damage. Scattered power failures, frightened cats, horses and dogs, a redwood tree felled by a lightning bolt in Burlingame, and some flooding on the Bay Bridge were among Back Page Col. 5 S.F. Chronicle - Sat Oct 2 - 1976 LIGHTNING From Page 1 the more spectacular effects of the brief disturbance. The storm, which formed and started moving north about 5 a.m. in the King City area, hit the San Francisco International Airport at 8:13 a.m. and doused it with .34 of an inch of rain. San Francisco and Oakland were next to catch it, San Francisco getting .38 of an inch of rain and Oakland .57 of an inch. The storm crashed into Marin with full fury, knocking out the Radio Station KCBS transmitter in Novato for half an hour and dumping .70 of an inch of rain on Mill Valley. Although the National Weather Service issued a series of urgent flash flood warnings to Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, no flash floods materialized. The warnings were canceled by 1 p.m. Commute traffic on the Bay Bridge between 8:15 a.m. and 9 a.m. was slowed, first by flooding in the eastbound lanes of the Yerba Buena Island tunnel and then by flooding in the westbound lanes just east of the tunnel. The storm also spread east into the western part of San Joaquin county. Interstate 5 near Los Banos was briefly blocked by rain and mud slides, as were Highway 146 near Hollister and State Route 33 near Mendota. In Mendota, some 500 families were asked to leave their homes yesterday as flood waters from the hills west of town advanced on a hastily constructed dike. However, many residents chose to stay to protect their homes with sand bags. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. crews were kept hopping throughout the Bay Area, as lightning bolts streaked into scattered power lines and transformers. One thousand San Francisco homes were blacked out at 9:50 a.m. S. F. Rainfall (in inches) | | | | |---|---|---| | Storm to date | | .89 | | Season to date | | 1.67 | | Normal to date | | .22 | | To date last year | | .23 | | Seasonal normal | | 20.66 | (Season July 1 to June 30) when lightning hit power lines at the corner of Washington and Webster streets. Five minutes later, another lightning bolt hit a PG&E transformer in the Bayview district and blacked out 2500 homes in the vicinity of Third and Wallace streets. About 15,000 homes in the Concord-Antioch-Martinez area were blacked out at 9:15 a.m., and a substation serving the Standard Oil Company refinery near Richmond was discombobulated by a lightning bolt at 9:20 a.m. In the Oakland hills, 4300 PG&E customers suffered two ten-minute blackouts in the space of an hour. The San Leandro police station lost power and had to rely on Oakland police to broadcast emergency calls. There were other brief power failures in the cities of Sonoma, Vallejo, Crockett, Pinole and in the areas south of Napa and north of Vallejo. A power substation at Soledad was struck by lightning at 5:45 a.m., blacking out the Soledad state prison for more than two hours. A 50-foot redwood tree was the target of another lightning bolt in the yard of Burlingame High School. One student skipped safely out of the way as the huge tree crashed. Police on the Peninsula reported that the fury of the storm caused dogs to howl and leap into the cars of strangers for safety. REMEMBER... LIGHTNING IS MY SIGNATURE!! UFO'S IN THE AREA ALSO HAVE THIS EFFECT ON DOGS!! Gwen 100 === Page 25 of 29 Ted Have you noticed that every place this "I'll" send you is either on or near a fault line? Millie Check this map, please # WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE BELTS NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA EUROPE AFRICA ASIA AUSTRALIA - [ ] PLATE BOUNDARIES - [ ] PLATE MOVEMENT - [ ] RECENT QUAKE EPICENTERS The map reveals major and minor "plates" into which the shell of the planet is at present broken. Most quakes occur along plate edges as quake epicenters (red dots) clearly show. Arrows indicate plate directions caused by convection currents in the earth's mantle. Map by Ron Lepeska 22 The PLAIN TRUTH September 1976 101 === Page 26 of 29 Rush D!! OK Charles Smith P.O. Box - 379 Gleneden Beach Oregon - 97388 OREGON GWYᏚ DBᎦ Dear Mr Owens About a month ago my wife Merry ordered a S.I. Disc for her mother who lives in Portland Oregon her address is - 4400 N.E. Broadway APT. 504 - Portland Oregon - 97213 - as of this date Sep. 12 she has not received it. We have ordered several Disc's in the past and always received them promptly. These Disc's mean a lot to all of us we have all had many wonderful experience's since we received our first disc about six or seven years ago. Mom lost hers about two months ago, and she has been quite upset about it. We would appreciate it very much if you would look into this for us. Our love to you and your family Charles and Merry Smith 102 === Page 27 of 29 Scientists FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)---------- Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Oct. 7, 1974 Warren Smith... PS...and coming up in the near future...many many wars all over the world...little countries and big countries. 1975-76: Hunt, Hughes, Getty, Onassis !! Owens THIS WAS ACCURATE! In the near future...many of the world's richest men...will pass away...either by old age, accidents, or whatever. (The Rich Gang...caused by UFO's.) A catastrophic earthquake...will strike the West Coast...within 180 days. 6 or above on the Richter scale...affecting heavily populated areas. The Rich Gang...is using Kissinger...as their personal agent...to set up advantageous deals for them internationally (enabling foreign interests to buy into huge U.S. holdings, now going on...thus weakening the U.S. structure.) There will be a full revolution (revolution) in the United States...in approximately one year from now. The United States will have a full-blown depression, worse than '29...in approximately one year from now. Owens Note: I've missed on the timing of these three predictions. But they will happen! Owens 10/8/76 103 === Page 28 of 29 COPY June 25, 1976 Mr. Warren Smith...dear Warren...it would make me happy if you would mention in Predict 77 that I have been invited to go to London, England, and speak before some of the world's leading scientists there at a gathering of famous scientists having a three-day conference. Another point you might like to mention...the SIs communicated with me last night and gave me some startling information! As you may be aware, some years ago in my writings I told that the SIs had given the human race the idea for television...so that they, the SIs, could beam helpful and constructive intelligence through the TV shows showing on sets, on a subliminal level. They could also monitor the humans watching the TV shows (some of them ACTUALLY APPEARED ON OUR TV SCREEN ONE DAY WHILE MY BOY BEAU AND I WERE WATCHING...and it was frightening! We were watching a comedy...when suddenly the picture changed in a flash...and we were staring at a number of creatures...with long black faces...not humanoid faces, definitely...just staring at us and watching us. Then the picture changed back to the TV comedy. I turned off the set and asked Beau if he had seen anything. He described exactly what I had seen...so we both witnessed it.) Also, another reason the SIs wanted humans to have TV... was so that they could monitor the interests of humans, and emotions of humans. BUT...they told me last night...that the MOST IMPORTANT REASON for their giving humans the idea of TV...WAS TO PREPARE HUMANS FOR WHAT WAS TO COME! First let me explain this: years ago when I was working in the field of hypnotism, some of my pupils were slated to have an operation. So prior to the operation I would place my pupil under light-waking hypnosis then lead them slowly through the steps of the operation...in their mind...as they would encounter it...then wake them. Then, when their operation came up...they did not fear it; did not build up tension against it; and everything went smoothly. And that is precisely what the SIs have done with the human race...to prepare the human race for its forthcoming "operation"...so that all will go smoothly. The picture is this: the population of the world is too large. There isn't enough food to feed the human race at this point. But in a relatively short period of time the population will have greatly increased...and the food supply for the human race will have shrunk proportionately. Nature works in only one way. It will propel the human race into a war, or wars, which will greatly decimate the numbers of human beings on earth. So the SIs...who work hand in hand with what we call "nature"...have done a very kind thing for humans. They gave us the television invention...and as you know, daily we watch ump teen people get killed, and die, on our television screens. Let me ask the reader...since TV was invented, and you've watched it...how many people do you think you've seen get killed or die on TV? How many "death incidents"? I am sure that you've seen it happen hundreds of thousands of times... Now, before television...death was almost a complete stranger to the human race. That is, unless loved ones passed away...we seldom encountered the idea, or the spectacle of death...unless it would be from an occasional movie. Now, however, after years and years of watching death incidents on TV, death has become a familiar idea to us. Death just doesn't seem so awful anymore, after watching our favorite TV stars get arrows through their chests and bullets through their heads. In short...the human race has become brainwashed...through the medium of television...to be able to accept Death...when it comes, as it must come...in a massive "operation" on the human race, by Nature itself...in whatever way Nature causes it to happen. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens 105 === Page 29 of 29 COPY July 12, 1976 Mr. Warren Smith...dear Warren...following our long distance chat... will you please...send me Zebra address..so that I canorder a copy of "UFO Trek"? You ask re PyrCre. If you know about PyrCre...then you must have received my Egyptian Report! PyrCre is described in depth...in that report. However, if you didnot get that report, please let me know...and I will send you my own file copy to xerox for yourself. Warren...it is very very very very very important...that you keep all files that I send you...because some day it will become known that I am the greatest psychic who has ever walked the face of this earth, with the exception of Jesus himself. I certainly equate with Moses...and have by now far surpassed Moses, though I haven't parted the Red Sea yet. But you have to keep track of my files...and each miracle that I do...to know about all of this. PyrCre...is an Entity that locked onto me...whilst I was in the Egyptian pyramids. The SIs had created PyrCre...in ages past..to guard all of the KEY pyramids and temples (as differentiated from just any pyramid or temple.) The key pyramids are those which contain great treasures of wisdom and knowledge to be passed on only to those who can come and unlock them...using other-dimensional powers. I am one of those, since my brain is half-alien, and half-other-dimensional. I had no knowledge of the existence of PyrCre whatever. I simply went into the pyramids to activate them, after ages, as I had been instructed to do by the SIs. But while at my work...PyrCre appeared before me...and instructed me with regard to improving my techniques...warning me how to work without being attacked by his own powers...and what exact, minute parts of that pyramid or temple to workon...to bring about certain results. It...is fearsome...and that is putting it mildly. Huge blazing eyes...it could only be viewed from the shoulders up. On the shoulders and head were irridescent feathers. Had ears like an owl. It looked into my eyes close up...and in an instant I knew that it knew...all that I had been, or would ever be. PyrCre (short for Pyramid Creature, not its real name...it will not allow that to be divulged to anyone except the person that got me to Egypt, Millie) appeared several times within the secret passageways of the pyramids, to me...once on the boat I lived on, on the bank of the Nile river...and once on the airplane I was returning on to the United States. Each time...it was rather a traumatic experience for me. It is an other-dimensional creature...and only a top psychic would be able to see, or sense it, because it is beyond the range of the ordinary human senses. Ages ago...the SIs...in their wisdom...set up the pyramids, around the world...power stations, if you will, capable of doing many things...with their key station in England...the "switchboard"...Stonehenge. Activate Stonehenge (as I have just done) and you activate the key pyramids all around the world, and set certain forces in motion (other-dimensional.) (And other-dimensional power is power that makes any other known power in our world, on earth, look like a child's baby rattle...or ABC blocks.) There, ages past, PyrCre was created...a living entity for all time...forever to guard the key pyramids and temples in Egypt...not from robbers seeking gold and silver and treasure (because that was deliberately left to throw 106 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 26 COPY Oct. 28, 1976...dear Millie...DO YOU REALIZE...that you are responsible for ending the worst drought in England since records were kept? And you saved England's economy from being utterly crushed...by drought effects. Because only because of your help was I able to obtain enough power (by going to Scotland, England, France, Egypt...to renew my powers and be instructed in how to proceed) ...then go to England and bring in the rains...and floods. Had a letter from Colin Wilson, famous English author, yesterday...who writes: "I was amused to discover that while we've been in Italy, England has been having tremendous floods, and that reservoirs that were not expected to fill up until the end of the winter are already overflowing! I must confess that the "coincidence" has made me very thoughtful..." Colin was present at the Conference while I was there and heard my lecture...and is going to do a piece on my work in his new book coming out. I wanted to xerox his letter and include it in the report going out...but my xeroxing was cut off last week, so I cannot do so. My xeroxing was cut off. The car has gone completely dead...leaving me on foot. I am completely without funds...and need several hundred dollars immediately to cover bills and mailing out the report (which is finished; am just now getting it put together. And I've heard that soon we will be forced to move out of this house (without a car to go; without monies to go; and with nowhere to go.) In short...am just about ruined. To operate the way I need to operate, I need $800 to a thousand a month, with no letdowns. The way it is...I go for weeks without more than $10 or $20 coming in...and my only source of income is that mailbox! We have reached the end of the string... Teddy has been sick for a week. Very sick. Odd. It's much the same thing that I was sick with for months. Remember, I could not taste food and had absolutely no appetite for months. Had to force myself to eat a sandwich each day just to keep alive. Now Teddy can't eat. Hasn't had a bite for 5 days. Took him to the doctor, and his white cell count (blood) is 15,000 instead of the norm, 10,000. When we went into the doc's office I told Dr. Hardman what to look for...he did...and I was right! An abnormal white cell count! Have to take him back next week. Beau and Martha both are being seen by a psychiatrist every week, because they are both haywire. Now, this is utterly fascinating, Millie. Yesterday Beau was patting my head and shoulders, and said: "Dad, there's a big bump on the back of your head... and that hump on your back is red-hot!" I felt the back of my head...and there is a large bulging bump there. I ran my fingers down the back of my neck...AND THERE IS A LARGE HUMP THERE THAT NEVER BEFORE EXISTED! (Pardon the typewriter...it also has broken down.) And it exudes tremendous HEAT. What in the world is going on with me, I do not know, but there is no doubt that the SIs must have done some drastic things over in Scotland, England, and perhaps in Egypt! Received your world atlas this morning...just exactly what I have been needing, Millie. Thank you so much. I like your perceptive idea re the SIs leading me to sources of high magnetic energies. Perhaps we can carry the equation even farther. The map you sent... showed that indeed...where I have journeyed...and intend to go, also...are crossroads of earthquake fault lines...and indeed there must be tremendous EM energies at those points. PERHAPS I NEED THOSE HIGH EM CHARGES FOR THE SI HALF OF MY BRAIN! Also...I was sitting, looking at that map (which is in the outgoing report to U.S. contacts and to scientists overseas who should get it) and the SIs communicated and pointed out that I had gone north to Scotland, England...east to Egypt...planning to go south to Yucatan. God bless you... Owens === Page 2 of 26 Friday, Oct. 26, 1973.......... Dr. Max Fogel, Mensa, Philadelphia Dear Dr. Max: I am tickled pink...to be able to send you this electrifying documentation! First, because the UFO'S (SI's) that I contacted telepathically with my special UFO brain... answered almost immediately...very next day, in fact...by appearing in the area I specified in my letter to you earlier plus showed themselves to the police, just as I specified...matter of fact, this UFO made SURE the message got over...by leaving the policeman and then RETURNING! (See newsclip.) Second, am tickled...because this couldn't happen to a nicer scientist than Dr. Max Fogel. As you well know, just a handful of the scientific community had guts enough to let it be known that they are in contact with PK Man..and only you...have guts enough to give me signed confirmations whenever I bring about a "miracle". (Dr. Hynek should dam well have sent me a signed, notarized confirm when I stopped that volcano in Sicily, but nope, he didn't.) So to me...you are "King of the Scientists"! Now, if any scientists that you know want to scoff at me, or your connection with me...simply show them the letters I sent to you last Tuesday and Wednesday... then show them this newsclipping! The SI's LIKE this idea...this experiment-demonstration I have set up...and they have lost no time in acting on it! I had thought perhaps they'd take weeks to show up, but they did it the very next day! So, it has begun! So, to briefly recap...I wrote to you last Tuesday and again Wednesday... telling you that I would communicate with my UFO's (that I have worked with and for for 10 years) and ask them to appear within a 100 mile radius of where I live, the Eastern Shore...using this Cape Charles as the "bullseye". Furthermore, I told you I would ask them to show themselves to the police and other responsible persons. Furthermore, I told you I would also telepathically contact the "UFO Monsters" of various kinds... and bring them, also, to this area. Furthermore, in time to come, I told you, I'd make this 100 mile area the "UFO capitol of the world" in essence. All right. Already one UFO has answered my call, and in no uncertain terms, as this Oct. 26 newsclip from the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper points out! Your friend and brother M.... Ted Owens (PK Man -- The UFO Prophet) Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia [Signature: Owens] === Page 3 of 26 C O P Y Oct. 28, 1976...dear Millie...do you realize...that you are r s\ ending the worst drought in eng and since records were kept? - And england's economy from being utterly crushed...by drought effects. because of your help was I able to obtain enough power (by going to england, France, Egypt...to renew my powers and be instructed in how ...then go to England and bring in the rains...and floods. Had a lett Colin Wilson, famous English author, yesterday...who writes: "I was am discover that while we've been in Italy, England has been having tremen floods, and that reservoirs that were not expected to fill up until the of the winter are already overflowing! I must confess that the coincidence has made me very thoughtful... Colin was present at the Conference while I was there and heard my lecture...and is going to do a piece on my work in his new book coming out. I wanted to xerox his letter and include it in the report going out...but my xeroxing was cut off last week, so I cannot do so. My xeroxing was cut off. The car has gone completely dead...leaving me on foot. I am completely without funds...and need several hundred dollars immediately to cover bills and mailing out the report (which is finished; am just now getting it put together. And I've heard that soon we will be forced to move out of this house (without a car to go; without monies to go; and with nowhere to go.) In short...am just about ruined. To operate the way I need to operate, I need $800 to a thousand a month, with no letdowns. The way it is...I go for weeks without more than $10 or $20 coming in...and my only source of income is that mailbox! We have reached the end of the string... Teddy has been sick for a week. Very sick. Odd. It's much the same thing that I was sick with for months Remember, I could not taste food and had absolutely no appetite for months. Had to force myself to eat a sandwich each day just to keep alive. Now Teddy can't eat. Hasn't had a bite for 5 days. Took him to the doctor, and his white cell count (blood) is 15,000 instead of the norm, 10,000. When we went into the doc's office I told Dr. Hardman what to look for...he did...and I was right! An abnormal white cell count! Have to take him back next week. Beau and Martha both are being seen by a psychiatrist every week, because they are both haywire. Now, this is utterly fascinating, Millie. Yesterday Beau was patting my head and shoulders, and said: "Dad, there's a big bump on the back of your head... and that hump on your back is red-hot! I felt the back of my head...and there is a large bulging bump there. I ran my fingers down the back of my neck...AND THERE IS A LARGE BUMP THERE THAT NEVER BEFORE EXISTED! (Pardon the typewriter...it also has broken down.) And it exudes tremendous HEAT. What in the world is going on with me, I do not know, but there is no doubt that the Sis must have done some drastic things over in Scotland, England, and perhaps in Egypt! Received your world atlas this morning...just exactly what I have been needing, Millie. Thank you so much. I like your perceptive idea re the Sis leading me to sources of high magnetic energies. Perhaps we can carry the equation even farther. The map you sent... showed that indeed...where I have journeyed...and intend to go, also...are crossroads of earthquake fault lines...and indeed there must be tremendous EN energies at those points. PERHAPS I NEED THOSE HIGH EN CHARGES FOR THE SI HALF OF MY BRAIN! Also...I was sitting, looking at that map (which is in the outgoing report to U.S. contacts and to scientists overseas who should get it) and the Sis communicated and pointed out that I had gone north to Scotland, England...east to Egypt...planning to go south to Yucatan. God bless you... Owens === Page 4 of 26 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Oct. 5, 1976 Queen Elizabeth Buckingham Palace, London, England I wrote to you when Britain was being destroyed by drought... that my UFO connection would break Britain's drought for you. I flew to London Aug. 26 and telepathed to my UFO's... and your rains began the next day. By now, of course, Britain has had storms and floods. I have done what I promised. Ted Owens (PK MAN) === Page 5 of 26 Oct. 3, 1976 Dear Friend...have about an 80 page report and file to send you...about my trip to England to pass on the SIs message to some of the world's best scientists in this field...and the pandemonium and chaos I caused there... and my breaking the worst drought in England in 500 years, while there... it's all documented and it's dynamite. But you'll have to send me about $20, because I'm broke and cannot afford to xerox the entire thing, postage, time, etc., without your help. Do it quickly, if you want this important file. Ted Owens (PK Man), Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 6 of 26 CONCLUSION SUMMING UP Oct. 18, 1976 Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Targ Dr. Putoff Dr. Sprinkle Dr. Hynek Dr. Arenas As you can see from this newsclip, I have successfully concluded my (UFO) demonstration...breaking the worst drought England has had in 500 years. This follows on the heels, of course, of my (UFO) demonstration in breaking California's terrible drought. You now have fully-documented files on my (UFO) control-demonstration of Chicago, Cleveland, Texas, California, France...and now England. Never once a failure on my part to successfully complete the demonstration. True, in this case it took 150 days instead of my 90-day self-imposed time limit...but so what. I got it done. I certainly do not imagine that England will complain that it took me 60 more days than I bargained for. Their country is "healed". Now...observe carefully. See page 62, this file. "British Countryside Scarred by Drought...Britain's searing drought, the worst since records began in 1727, continued Saturday WITH NO REAL BREAK IN SIGHT. (Mark that well; this is dated August 15...a mere 11 days before I got to London and started the rain falling! See Peter Maddock's letter from England, this file...where he states that the skies opened the third full day of my London stay and continued until the drought was officially broken!) But on the 15th of August...there was no break in sight! Now see page 63, this file..."Only a tremendous rainfall before Sept. 15 will prevent industry in the region (London) having to suffer a 50 per cent cut in water supplies"...so I saved England from having to cut their water supplies in half, besides ending the drought! On this sage page..."Prime Minister James Callaghan called an emergency Cabinet meeting today as the country's worst drought on record threatened to disrupt the economy"...so, besides saving England from having to cut their water supplies in half, and ending the drought, the UFOs and I also saved England's economy! Now see page 64, this file..."Fires raged across hundreds of acres of forest in Britain and France Saturday, and weathermen foresaw no relief from Western Europe's longest dry spell in memory"...this is dated August 22...just four days before I flew to London and began to bring down the rains! The experts could see no hope for rain ahead...but they didn't know that PK Man and UFO powers were on the way! And of course...I put those fires out! Now see page 66..."The weather bureau holds out little hope of getting the deluge needed in the next two months to replenish reservoirs..." Once again, although I'd written Queen Elizabeth before going to London...evidently they didn't believe that PK Man and the SIs could do the job. They were wrong. (The date on that article was August 23...just three days before I flew to London! Two months indeed!) Now to cap it off, see page 69, this file..."Britain could not count on any early substantial rainfall to relieve the drought, Lord Nugent of Guildford, chairman of the National Water Council, said yesterday after being shown a preview of the September long-range weather forecast to be published next week." This article was dated August 27...the first day that I began bringing the rains down onto England that ended in breaking England's drought completely 109 === Page 7 of 26 Oct. 3, 1976 Jeffrey Dear Friend...have about an 80 page report and file to send you...about my trip to England to pass on the SIs message to some of the world's best scientists in this field...and the pandemonium and chaos I caused there... and my breaking the worst drought in England in 500 years, while there... it's all documented and it's dynamite. But you'll have to send me about $20, because I'm broke and cannot afford to xerox the entire thing, postage, time, etc., without your help. Do it quickly, if you want this important file. Owens Ted Owens (PK Man), Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 8 of 26 Oct 17-1976 Dear Jeffrey Mishlove - Just a note .. to relay a message to you from Ted Owens. Ted has offered to send you more information .. the Cleveland and Chicago "miracles" -- which you do not have. Please xerox these files and return originals to him -- is his only request. also may I have 1 copy (xeroxed) of the Cleveland file? Would you also be interested in the Scotland - Warminster tapes and the Egyptian trip tapes? The London miracle and Conference papers will take a few more days before completion. Please write Ted for any of the above. -- only Ted has them. Thank you kindly, Jeff, for allowing me to hear your taped interview with Ted in London! most appreciative .. millie === Page 9 of 26 Hallmark GOD BLESS === Page 10 of 26 Special Issue Psychic Development # Psychic Exploring the Extended Nature of Man and the Universe APRIL 1976 / $1.50 **R.C. "Doc" Anderson in Interview:** The South's famous psychic tells how he locates oil wells and sees through time ESP Training . . . research breakthrough Developing ESP Through Hypnosis Psychic Evolution and YOU Frontiers of Psychic Development 12 11 === Page 11 of 26 Special Issue Psychic Development Psychic Exploring the Extended Nature of Man and the Universe APRIL 1976 / $1.50 R.C. "Doc" Anderson in Interview: The South's famous psychic tells how he locates oil wells and sees through time ESP Training . . . research breakthrough Developing ESP Through Hypnosis Psychic Evolution and YOU Frontiers of Psychic Development (12) 11 === Page 12 of 26 # NEWS AMBIT NEWS AMBIT mote viewing experiments. In these an experimenter goes to a location some miles from a subject. Then the subject clairvoyantly describes the scene where the experimenter is. Both experimenters are testing the possibility that subjects can gather precognitive information using the remote-viewing techniques, reports the Parapsychology Review. On the other hand, Targ turned down an approach by Ted "P.K." Owens for cooperation in a project. Owens wrote that he would "make it snow." Dr. Targ thought little of the prediction until it did, indeed, snow in Menlo Park for the first time in this century! **Taxes in the Stars** - We are inclined to think French astrologer Germaine Forgeas set up the wrong astrology chart for herself. Indicted by her government for failing to report a $200,000 income over a four year period, Madame Forgeas said, "I saw it coming in the stars." Well known for her television and radio appearances, the astrologer whose income was earned casting horoscopes, doesn't explain why, if being caught was shown in her own chart, she did not at least take steps to report her income. After all, the experts tell us that astrology is to be used to chart our own courses. Bernard D. Kaplan, who reported the incident in the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, notes that France's late president, Georges Pompidou, followed Madame Forgeas' predictions with great interest. In fact, Kaplan reports, French industrialists, politians and intellectuals are said to be among those in that country who consult astrologers. **Errant Experts** - Editorial Research Reports, which are incorporated into the Congressional Record, noted in January that "errant predictions seemed to increase with advances in science and technology." The report continues that "many experts insisted a new invention called the railroad would kill its passengers who would not be able to breathe at such high speeds." A week before the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, The New York Times editorially advised another airplane inventor to turn to "more useful employment." In 1940, Scientific American wrote that a rocket bomb was "too farfetched to be considered." Editorial Research Reports says it is very unlikely that any major enterprise was ever undertaken without some expert predicting it would fail. For instance, a panel of Spanish sages in 1490 examined Columbus' plan for his voyage and came up with six reasons why it was impossible. The publication gives high marks as prophets to science-fiction writers whose imaginations predicted many scientific developments. Jules Verne foresaw both submarines and voyages to the moon. Hugo Gernsback, one of the first American science-fiction writers, correctly predicted radar, television, communications satellites, and night baseball. So now our legislators know how it all happened! **Psychic Sufferers** - Children with psychic gifts often suffer serious traumas because of being exploited or misunderstood says Dr. Charles Cayce, a child psychologist and grandson of famed psychic Edgar Cayce. In an interview with reporter Ron Sauder published in the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch, Dr. Cayce explained that he now is working with as many psychically gifted children as possible "to find out whether their talents grow stronger, disappear, or remain unchanged with time." **Banned If You Do** - Many California communities have been wrestling with the pros and cons of allowing fortune tellers and soothsayers to operate in their midst. Township council sessions on the subject usually are heated. After one such meeting South San Francisco voted to allow palmistry to be practiced there. However, in nearby Daly City, town fathers passed an ordinance banning just about everything that foretells the future except for certain hypnotic practices. It is all right in Daly City to use hypnotism on the stage in a theatrical performance, or by medical practitioners, according to the San Francisco Examiner. **Boomerang Curse** - Would-be sorcerers can take a lesson from what happened to one in Alencon, France. Jean Camus, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, was famed for his powers to wither crops and stop cows from giving milk. In fact, a few village ladies were not above engaging him to cast a few spells on people they didn't like. One family, which claimed to be victimized by the sorcerer, had the eldest son drop dead, a daughter injured in an automobile accident, and its pear and green bean crops wither and die. When Camus was found dead of shotgun wounds, two brothers admitted the killing because of "the curse Camus put on our family." Meanwhile, villagers are attending Camus' funeral. Not to mourn, mind you, but to make sure he really is buried! **First Brazilian Congress** - The first International Congress on Parapsychology and Psychotronics in Brazil will be held in San Paulo, October 7 through 10. It is being sponsored by the Brazilian Institute of Parapsychological Research and Information and the Institute of Parapsychology of Rio de Janeiro. Congress sponsors say that total assistance for all needed services will be provided to those attending, including help with international telephone calls. There also will be simultaneous translation of the sessions into Portuguese, French, English and Spanish. The deadline for receiving papers to be presented at the Congress is July 31. For complete information write to: Alcantara Machado Congressos, Rua Gabriel dos Santos, 419-01231-San Paulo-SP, Brazil. **Tests Before and After** - The Psychical Research Foundation, Durham, N.C., has instituted a program with the terminally ill that will seek to have patients re-establish contact with parapsychologists there after death. W.G. Roll, project director, said personality tests will be administered to patients before death and compared with traits exhibited through a medium after death. Psychic - March/April 1976 11 === Page 13 of 26 RAINBOW PUBLICATIONS, INC. 1845 West Empire Avenue, Burbank, California 91504 Telephone (213) 843-4444 October 10, 1976 Ted Owens P.O. Box 48 Cape Charles, VA 23310 We are now compiling a 1977 DIRECTORY OF THE PSYCHIC WORLD for publication in the New Year issue of Probe Magazine (circulation 60,000). The Directory will provide free listings for the world's leading psychics -- what services they perform and where readers may write. Since you are a highly regarded seer, we would like to consider you for inclusion in this very special feature. Please note that you are not required to submit predictions for the coming year but merely a few lines of general information about yourself and your abilities. Publication of the Directory is guaranteed, and there is absolutely no charge to you for this valuable publicity. To qualify for consideration, please fill out the enclosed questionnaire and return it to us no later than October 25. Be sure to include a glossy black & white photograph of yourself, since we intend to publish photos of each psychic with the listings. It requires just a few minutes of your time to complete the necessary information, so won't you take a moment right now while this letter is fresh in your memory? We look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience. With all best wishes. Sincerely, Betsy Reavis Associate Editor PUBLISHERS OF BLACK BELT MAGAZINE, KARATE ILLUSTRATED, FIGHTING STARS, and PROBE THE UNKNOWN === Page 14 of 26 (PROBE 1977 DIRECTORY OF THE PSYCHIC WORLD) Name Ted Owens (PK Man) Age 56 Address Box 32 City & State Cape Charles, Virginia Zip 23310 How many years have you been receiving actual publicity as a psychic? 10 What type(s) of psychic services do you offer to the public? 1. UFO Mind-Training (done at my home in Cape Charles) 2. Reading 3. UFO Disk 4. UFO Safari (see enclosed) What are your normal rates for each of the above services? 1. Thousand Dollars 2. Fifty Dollars (enclose photo of face when sending M.O.) 3. Twenty Dollars 4. Six Thousand Dollars Which of the above services do you consider your specialty? All! Do you offer your psychic services: - [x] By Mail Only - [x] In Person Only - [ ] By Telephone (Number to call) - [ ] All of the above Where may readers write to you for psychic readings, advice or other services that you offer? Above Box 32 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 === Page 15 of 26 COLIN WILSON TETHERDOWN GORRAN HAVEN CORNWALL, ENGLAND September 21st 1976 Ted Owens, Esq., P.O. Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310, U.S.A. Dear Ted Owens, I was present at the Parascience Conference, and heard the second of your extremely interesting talks, although unfortunately I didn't have a chance to stay until Sunday and hear the third. I'm the author of a number of books on "the occult" - the first of them, in fact, has that title, and came out in 1971 - (Random House.) I'm at present writing a second large book on the same subject, and would like to mention you in it. I have a number of questions which I'd be grateful if you could answer. The first one is the obvious question: if I make the assumption that you are perfectly sane and perfectly honest, must I nevertheless accept your belief that you are in contact with UFO's. In fact, is it possible that you actually possess powers of "rain making", such as are possessed by many African Witchdoctors, and that you simply attribute these to beings outside yourself? A parallel case would be that of Uri Geller, about whom I've also written a book. Uri is inclined to attribute his peculiar powers to beings from outer space, although he admits that he's by no means certain. I would say that his powers are identical with what we call "poltergeist phenomena", some kind of strange subconscious force that 83 === Page 16 of 26 - 2 - certain people can exercise. In fact, the English psychic Matthew Manning, who possesses many of the same powers as Geller, definitely believes that this applies to him. So would you mind telling me precisely what grounds you have for believing that your powers of altering the weather are due to UFOs? I would also be grateful if you could send me a few of those details from newspapers that you read aloud to us. I'd like to mention this business about your rain making powers, together with an explanation of how and when they've been practised, with corroboration from newspaper reports. I can promise you that anything I write about you will be written in a detached, on the whole friendly spirit. There won't be any of the usual journalistic trick of making you out to be some kind of a charlatan. On the other hand, I hope you will recognise that someone like myself, who has simply heard you speak at the Parascience Conference, is bound to want some sort of evidence, and will be inclined to look for other explanations apart from UFOs. I am by no means sceptical about the existence of UFOs in themselves, but am naturally inclined to be dubious about "contactees". I hope you will accept this letter in the spirit in which it is sent. If you come to England again, perhaps you could let me know, so that I could arrange to meet you? With thanks. Yours sincerely, Colin Wilson. Colin Wilson. 84 === Page 17 of 26 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Sept. 26, 1976...dear Colin...I enjoyed hearing from you, and would feel honored to be included in your new book (be sure and send me address of pub. house so that I can order some copies, okay?) You say that you heard the second of my lectures...but didn't hear the one on Sunday. Colin...THAT one WAS my second lecture! If you are referring to the 10 minute attempt that I made on Saturday afternoon...when all the pandemonium broke loose because Bastin cut me short after a few minutes...that was no lecture at all. My first one was Saturday morning...and if you missed it, then you've missed the whole point of it all. I had enough documentation along with me to prove the points (about whichx you seem unclear) in an outstanding manner. Sadly, I am here with the ton of documentation...and you are now there. Let's take your "sane" mention. First, am a member of Mensa. I was tested, as an applicant, personally by Dr. Max Fogel, international research scientist for Mensa, in Philadelphia... WHO IS HIMSELF A PSYCHIATRIST. (Am using simple logic here to make the point.) Now, I have numerous signed affidavits from Dr. Fogel...that I have accomplished certain psychic wonders...after first having notified him, before the fact, that I would do so. Do you think for one moment...that a noted scientist such as Dr. Fogel...would lend his distinguished name to mine, in such documents... if he thought that I were not sane? (And after testing me as a Mensa applicant with a battery of tests, you can be sure that he was sure.) That is one point. Dr. Hynek and Dr. Leo Sprinkle checked me out thoroughly, before writing to me and requesting that they be allowed to observe my work (this was some years ago). Since that time they have been in in my demonstrations. Do you think that, after checking me out exhaustively...they would write and request 85 === Page 18 of 26 2 to be allowed to be in on my experimentation and demonstrations...if the thought that I were not sane? Drs. Targ and Putoff wrote to me...also requesting to be allowed in on my experiments and demonstrations...from Stanford Research Institute. You may rest assured that if there were any doubts about my sanity...these two gentlemen...as well as the others...would not waste a moment of their time with me. Feel free to check with any of them. You know how to reach Hynek and Targ and Putoff. Dr. Max Fogel's address is 340 Brighton Road, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 19403. His phone: 699-3431. I believe that I have made this point. Now let's move to my "belief that I am in contact with UFO's." It is not 'belief'...it is a certainty. Because my critics attacked this point...I proposed a solid demonstration to Dr. Max Fogel. I would, within a certain period of time, BRING FORTH A UFO, specifically over policemen, in a certain area of Virginia (where I live), and it would have to be reported in the newspapers to be valid demonstration. In that certain period of time, in that certain area of Virginia, under the specific conditions of the UFO appearing over police...I was completely successful in telepathing to the UFOs...and bringing one forth...as the enclosed affidavit from Dr. Max Fogel, with accompanying documentation, explains. There is no way...that this could have happened...were I NOT in contact with UFOs! Furthermore, I did this very same thing for Mr. Ed Ames, 225 Center St., Brewer, Maine... Ames Real Estate Company...when he and two other prominent businessmen invited me and my family to Maine for two weeks. Upon arrival I told him of my intention to produce a UFO over Brewer/Bangor area within the two weeks...and had to be reported in the newspapers to be valid. In one week a UFO appeared over the area, knocked out car lights, batteries, radios...and was written up on the front pages of the newspapers there. I have his affidavit. How else could this have occurred...if I were not in mental contact with UFOs and producing them? And I have done the same thing on other occasions...but these are the two, finest, cleanest examples. In short...if I can telepath to UFOs and PRODUCE a UFO under varying, specific conditions within a certain area...I HAVE TO BE IN CONTACT WITH THEM...in order to get a signed affidavit from an outstanding scientist. It is...as simple as that. Am I "perfectly honest"? I have worked ten years for and with the SIs (SIs), produced hundreds of miracles from the connection...yet have never formed a "cult" in order to make millions and drive a Cadillac. I am a very, very poor (financially) man. A dishonest man...would have cashed in long, long ago. I have, at times, tried to get some money, in order to keep on going and working with the SIs...but that is all. Just enough to buy my "tools" and living expenses. You mention African witchdoctors. It is my absolute belief that certain key Africans, in their isolated areas...have been "taken" by the SIs and to work for the SIs...then have become "witchdoctors" because they changed their frequency to a higher one than the rest of the tribe, given powers that the rest of the tribe does not have, or goes through his rain-making ritual...in all of these cases. 86 === Page 19 of 26 3 telepathing to the SIs as per his having been programmed for it...and the SIs then produce the weather change called for...because "he is their man." As for Geller...it is to laugh. I have been causing cataclysmic miracles, documented, for years...such as East Coast power blackout (five States simultaneously); controlling a fiery volcano; ending droughts over States and entire countries...and much much more...all documented...and Geller bends spoons and does a smattering of clairvoyant work...and everyone writes books about Geller. As I say...to me...it is to laugh. My own belief is...that such people as Geller, Manning, etc., have stumbled into a way to tune into "Power X" which is everywhere available, like electricity...a psychic power...and they can draw it to them for special effects. This would not apply to me...BECAUSE I HAVE PRODUCED UFOS...and this is quite different than Power X. Just as I telepathd to the UFOs to appear for responsible persons, including a noted scientist...so I telepathd to the UFOs to change the weather over California (which then happened...is thoroughly documented)...and more recently over England...especially the weekend that I was there and the time following. Simple logic would give you that answer. I am sending you enough files herein...am sure...(although it is only a relative handful)...to give you an idea of what it is that I do, and how it is corroborated and documented. IT IS VITAL THAT THESE BE RETURNED TO ME AFTER YOU HAVE PERUSED THEM AND COPY THEM (IF YOU WISH). I need them for my files. Will enclosed a check for five pounds to cover cost of mailing them back to me when you have finished with them. In the event that I ever returns to England (which looks rather dim at this point) I shall most certainly let you know, so that we can meet. You sound like a most interesting chap...and those are the only kind of people that I spend time with! Yours sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man), Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Ted Owens === Page 20 of 26 NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL SEPT. 1976 VOL. 4 No. 3 Mt. Shasta THE SPACE INTELLIGENCES! 14 === Page 21 of 26 PK MAN: FLYING SAUCER SPOKESMAN A PROFILE by Joan O'Connell "The Space Intelligences are pure energy and are invisible," says Owens. "Only the top members of the SIs can construct a form with their intelligence and pour themselves into it." Where do they come from? "The SIs are from a different world entirely. They are from another dimension. But they have discovered how to switch from their dimension into ours!" (Quoted from: THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH BEHIND THE UFOs MISSION TO EARTH - Gray Barker, Saucerian Books, Box 2228 - Clarksburg, W.Va. 26301 - and Gambi Publications, Inc. Copyright 1970.) "According to the man who claims to be their one and only "contact" on Earth, the Space Intelligences are now hovering in four huge, invisible craft positioned around our globe and "are trying to put the world in balance by cancelling out wars, hate, killing... drought, famine, etc." This is just one of hundred pronouncements that have come from the Space Intelligences through Mr. Ted Owens, a most controversial figure in Ufology! Controversial BUT convincing! Ted Owens is many things to many people -- but he is never dull! As a psychic he is one of the MOST provable of predictors. He goes way out of his way to inform the newspapers, radio and TV, and many scientists, of what he is doing or going to do. He documents his work to the nth degree. He is correct about 85 percent of the time, which is incredible! The Big Blackout of the eastern U.S. on Nov. 9, 1965... Hurricane Inez in 1966 that turned the "wrong way"... Three hurricanes simultaneously hitting the U.S. in 1967... The ending of the northeast's drought in 1967... The mysterious "hex" that in 1968 made the Philadelphia Eagles football team lose 12 out of 14 games... The lightning bolt that struck the Apollo 12 mooncraft... These and 200 other headline events (SAGA, August, 1970) are claimed as PK (psychokinesis) feats performed by one man - Ted Owens - with the aid of the Space Intelligences. Ted is now working on several world-shaking projects to include the breaking of the horrible drought that Great Britain is suffering, he is planning to go to South America, to the pyramids there, for further study into the mysterious pyramid energies that he worked with when he went to Egypt last year, and is now, at this writing, planning to go to England for a scientific congress on PK energy! A most remarkable man: The Spokesman for the SIs! (11) 15 === Page 22 of 26 CONTACT ---------- CANADA (Reprinted from "INNER LIFE" June-August, 1976) Many people claimed telepathic contact with UFO entities, and some claim their minds have actually been altered as a result of such contacts. Ted Owens and Uri Geller, well-known psychics, are such persons. Another, who wishes to remain anonymous, lives in Jackson's Point, Ontario. His story was told in the Sunday Sun, Feb. 23, 1975, and republished in Inner Life last September. One day he saw a "man" with no facial features and wearing a red body suit approach his house. This being communicated with him, seemingly by telepathy, and subsequently he began to notice changes in himself. "I found I had reached a level of comprehension that was different from other people. I also found myself responding to strange orders." For example, he felt compelled at times to read difficult intellectual and philosophical books and could understand them. He claimed his wife was similarly affected. The foregoing remarks are by way of introduction to another remarkable item on the same theme. It is extracted from Anne Burton's VITALOGY NEWSLETTER, No. 5, July, 1975... The present piece relates auras to the subject of UFOs. ... I will try to describe the "Beings" I have seen in many areas of the world who certainly have a human form, act and dress like humans, but who do not have the auric emanations of humans. The emanations from and around humans are of many, constantly-moving color vibrations which appear to enter the body through the glandular areas in swirling, tornado-like funnels with a concentrated swirling mass of energy in the area of the solar plexus. This energy, I believe, is absorbed into the body or attracted to the human being from colored strand energy, visible to me, everywhere in space. Unlike the usual human, these "beings" show only a murky-red color vibration which emanates only in the head and neck area. They do not appear to use strand energy and the red vibration does not move in a swirling, tornado-like action, but is rather solid looking and fades away into a nothingness a short distance from the body. ... To add to the puzzle I would like to relate a personal experience I had some seven years ago: I was visiting for the first time a young couple in Indiana, with whom I had corresponded for about a year. Neither knew anything about ESP, psychic phenomena or related subjects. During the evening the wife asked if I had ever seen a UFO... I noticed the husband becoming very upset and fidgety and was surprised to see his auric patterns change into a confused mass of color, swirling only around his head and neck area. He got out of his chair quite suddenly, said he was feeling unwell and went hurriedly to the bathroom. When he returned he looked a little more settled but his auric patterns were now a murky-red color and he appeared to be very frightened. He stated he didn't want any further conversation about UFOs or space beings. Incidently, there had been very little conversation on the subject. Explaining he always felt very upset and ill whenever such topics were mentioned, although he had actually never seen a UFO. He then went on to relate the following weird happening: Continued (14) === Page 23 of 26 M-TIDES Vol. II - no. 10 October, 1976 Tidewater Mensa OCTOBER MEETING - LARRY DAVIS, SPEAKER The October gathering will be held at 8:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 9, 1976 at the home of Mary Wuest, 708 Downing Lane, Virginia Beach. See the enclosed map for Mensa's easy-to-follow directions. (note to new members - it has been said of Tidewater Mensa, if you can read the map, you're eligible; there may be an element of truth in this) Larry (The Torch) Davis, our resident arsonist, will speak about product safety and fire safety in the home. Larry is a Safety Engineer for Travelers Insurance Company and knows whereof he speaks. He has promised a sizzling talk climaxed by dousing with gasoline a car selected at random and igniting it. It should be quite an evening, so don't miss it. THANK YOU Many thanks to P. K. O'Meagher for hosting the last meeting. We all had a great time, and by now her neighbors are probably speaking to her again, so everything worked out okay after all. The amendments to the By-Laws were accepted as presented, the Preamble was accepted with minor changes, and a copy of it is attached. The By-Laws, amendments, and preamble will be forwarded to National Mensa for approval and if we ever hear of them again (the By-Laws that is, not National) I'll be sure to let you know. Based on past experience, I'd say don't hold your breath. FOURTH SATURDAY SOCIETY Stuart Gibson has generously offered to host a Halloween Party if there is sufficient interest. The one last year was a great success, and the costumes were fantastic! I do need some feedback, so if you're interested, please contact Larry or me by the October meeting. You'll get the next newsletter early enough to have time to get your King Kong costume together. KUDOS Ted Owens (PK Man) recently returned from London, England where, by special invitation, he participated in the the Institute of Parascience Conference 1976. He lectured on "The Interaction of Cosmic Intelligence with Man". A QUESTION OF CLOTHING It has been suggested that what Tidewater Mensa needs more than anything in the world is an official T shirt. P. K. O'Meagher has volunteered to do all the necessary art work (thereby saving us Big Bucks). It could be very simply done with the logo and the name Tidewater Mensa, or we could add a snappy saying. I have received some good ideas from Pam Gibson, what suggestions do the rest of you have to offer? The price (for those of you - like me - who care) will probably be around $3.00; a genuine bargain in our midst! 88 === Page 24 of 26 The chap who works with Dr Targ and Dr Putoff ... and who spoke for me at the Para. Conference. Gwen # FRONTIERS OF PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT by Jeffrey Mishlove Perhaps the development of a psychic can be compared to Imlac's description of poetic development in Samuel Johnson's famous work, *The History of Rasselas* (1759): "To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination; he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little . . . His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the spriteliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions and rise to general and transcendental truths . . . He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of successive generations; as a being superior to time and place. His labor is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences; and that his stile may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant practice, familiarize to himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony." As Imlac continued his enthusiastic albeit aggrandizing, description, his listener Rasselas cried out, "Enough! Thou has convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet." Were Imlac speaking of psychics, parapsychologists might well be echoing Rasselas' thoughts. This is because the many elegant systems of psych 32 54 === Page 25 of 26 development which have reputedly been effective in different cultures throughout history still lack scientific verification. Yoga is probably the oldest existing system which offers a complete course of psycho-spiritual development. The classical path of yoga contains the following eight steps toward the achievement of spiritual liberation: (1) *yama*, the restraint of bad habits; (2) *niyama*, the cultivation of good habits in one's daily life; (3) *asana*, the adoption of steady and comfortable postures with specific physiological effects; (4) *pranayama*, special breathing exercises; (5) *pratyahara*, withdrawing the mind from objects of sensory perception, as in meditation; (6) *dharana*, concentration on selected objects; (7) *dhyana*, steady contemplation in which the sense of separateness of the self from the object of concentration disappears; and (8) *samadhi*, the absolute, ecstatic experience of mystical unity. This does not, as some suppose, entail a loss of individuality. "The drop is not poured into the ocean. Rather the ocean is poured into the drop." During the process of attaining *samadhi*, which may take many years, different centers of psychic perception in the body, called *chakras*, are said to be awakened through the activating energy of *kundalini* which is symbolized as a snake rising slowly from the lower spine to the top of the head. When all of the *chakras* are activated, *samadhi* is attained. Studies by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama in Japan have attempted to measure the physical and psychic effects of the *kundalini*. While psychic powers are said to develop from concentration, repetition of words, and other austerities, full enlightenment is not attained until the yogi can remain undistracted by his own psychic abilities. It is probably for this reason that few earnest practitioners of yoga have so far been tested in parapsychological laboratories. Another approach to psychic development is that of tribal shamanism. The youth who was called on to become a shaman, or healer, attracted the notice of his people through his love for solitude, his visions and spontaneous song-making. In some modern cultures the behavior of the prospective shaman, might seem to indicate a psychopathology. However, it is precisely because they succeeded in curing themselves that these individuals became shamans. Often, in fact, the initiatory sickness was induced through the use of drugs, solitude, fasting and other austerities. Typically during these rituals, the shaman would experience a powerful series of waking dreams, over many days, symbolic of a death and rebirth pattern. Imagine having your body dismembered by demons or ancestral spirits; your bones cleaned, the flesh scraped off, the body fluids thrown away, and your eyes torn from the sockets, but set aside so that you may watch the entire procedure. It was only after such a purgative experience that the shaman could obtain his powers of healing and psychic vision. Then he was given new flesh and the spirits instructed him in the psychic arts. He learned to find the souls of sick men who have wandered, or been carried by demons away from their bodies. He learned how to guide the souls of the dead to their new abodes; and he added to his knowledge by regular association with higher beings. He learned how to explore the new planes of existence disclosed through his experience. An interesting approach to psychic development is found in a medieval magical grimoire of uncertain origins called *The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin The Mage*. This work seems to have had a profound influence on twentieth century esoteric schools such as the Order of the Golden Dawn in England -- which included such eminent personalities as Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats. The sacred magic involved rituals, prayer and concentration throughout a six-month period of solitude. Specific clothing, incense, objects and ritual arrangements were required to aid in the focusing of consciousness on the magical task. During the entire period one's attention was to be resolutely focused on attaining conversation with one's true Holy Guardian Angel through whom all psychic mysteries were revealed. Other systems of magic prescribed shorter periods of solitude which lead to the accomplishment of lesser effects. On the other hand, Tibetan training in certain sects required over three years of solitary meditation and the visualization of tutelary dieties. In the late eighteenth century, Franz Anton Mesmer originated an unorthodox system of healing which combined both dramatic ritual and the induction of a focused, presumably altered state of consciousness. The treatment, taking place within an emotionally charged atmosphere, involved passing the hands of the healer near the body of the patient. Sometimes the behavior resulting from Mesmer's treatments resembled pagan rites, or perhaps the rites of modern discotheques, with shrieking, spasmodic jerking, rapturous embracing or frantic horror. At other times, patients were known to go into deep trance states which Mesmer's follower, the Marquis de Puysegur, identified as somnambulistic. Perhaps the first clinically documented case of psychic development is that of Victor Race, an uneducated peasant who was mesmerized by de Puysegur. While in the somnambulistic trance he was able to perceive the unspoken thoughts of the mesmerist as well as other events taking place at a distance. Within a short time, dozens of practitioners were reporting similar results. However, even the more conventional claims of mesmerism did not receive official scientific recognition until 1958 when the American Medical Association approved the use, by qualified personnel, of what is now known as hypnosis. Parapsychological studies using hypnosis show that subjects score better Jeffrey Mishlove is a doctoral candidate in parapsychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Roots of Consciousness Psychic -- March/April 1976 33 Book Random House 55 === Page 26 of 26 AUGUST 1976 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7610 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Oct. 1976 Might be an article about Ted Owens or an article win which Russell Targ mentions him. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/240224ac084bcb828ee65e8bb7d3bd4e.pdf a9ad3f584c70c6b86438bb2d6b0aa783 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5a85c6d8135e496e87114e4f7aafa223.txt c81e709d1147624700279a11cd90e5c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 6 November 3, 1976..........Mr. Warren Smith..........dear Warren: Please refer to your own book, "Predictions For 1976"..........page 166: "I don't see Ford becoming President. I do not see Wallace becoming President.......... I do not see Reagan becoming President. I do not see Rockefeller becoming President.......... I do not see Jackson becoming President." Of course, Warren, at the time I made those predictions..........over a year ago.......... those men were the main men up for presidency-coming. So..........a "good call" by Owens, in advance, once again, eh? Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 2 of 6 Ted Owens, "PK Man" P. O. Box 32 Cape Charles, VA 23310 CAPE CHARLES, VA NOV 4 AM 1976 23310 E PLURIBUS UNUM USA 13c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 6 $1007 === Page 4 of 6 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 May 26, 1977 Dear Jeffrey...re yours of May 23...you certainly are busy...like a one-armed paper-hanger with the poison ivy trying to beat off bees and paint at the same time. The brochure that you alluded to...was absent from the envelope. Forget trying, or even thinking about, negotiating re my abilities with any govt. I can see that you are much too busy. I thank you for bringing me up to date on your experiment with me. It is tragic...that you picked Leo Sprinkle...for his file. Because for long lapses of time I sent Sprinkle nothing...because he was hitched up to Hynek, so I sent Hynek everything, figuring he would either send it on to Sprinkle, or fill him in on it. You should have Hynek's file, by all means! 50% of Sprinkle's file is missing! It is left up to me to use my questionable judgement whether to send out that durn O'Regan letter to contacts...so I will not do so. I'd rather lose a bunch of xerox money, than lose a friend. (At least, I reckon you wouldn't approve of it.) Somebody...had better pay attention to me...and fast. I am controlling the western half of the United States, for drought. And I am the only human alive who can undo it. Am packing up and moving within two weeks...to where, I do not know. Probably Oregon. Millie managed to get up a couple of thousand to make it possible, bless her heart. Tentatively, on the map, I am thinking of Klamath Falls or Bend, Oregon. My boys and I want the woods...deep in the woods...a cabin or whatever. This stems from my "being taken" by that UFO not long ago here in this area. Evidently I was programmed. It is all very fascinating. Best wishes, Ted Owens (PK MAN) === Page 5 of 6 Jeffrey & "Tippy" November 23, 1976 Doctor Jean Dierkens 34, Rue J. Jordaens Brussels 5, Belgium Dear Dr. Dierkens: As per the instructions outlined in your letter of October 29, 1976... I made myself receptive this morning. Nothing unusual occurred, except that my dog seemed frightened...and threw up all over the living room where I was sitting. But I did have a most unusual dream sequence last night...about 4 to 5 AM this morning. It was most realistic. Two men showed me a black box on a table. They went off and sat down at another table, while I examined the black box. Lifting the lid, I saw a lever on the left side, and a lever on the right side. There were also some small gear-handles in the box...but upon examination they turned out to be false, or dummy. One lever had the initial "P" under it; the other lever had the initial "N" under it. (Just after having this dream, which I haven't finished telling you about yet...I woke up and got out of bed and got my tape recorder and taped the information on it. Just turned it on to refresh my memory...and find only loud, explosive sounds on the tape...very unusual. My voice is just barely recognizable on the tape.) After examining the box...and pushing the two levers... I suddenly knew what it was all about...and went to the table and explained it to the two men. When the N lever is pushed down...which pushes up the P lever... (the box is a "unit of action"...can be expressed in a mathematical formula)... (N for negative; P for positive)...when an action (pushing the symbolic lever in the box) is changed from Negative to Positive, N to P...it creates an energy... releases a Positive energy force...just as a radioactive cloud is released into the atmosphere from a nuclear explosion to have an effect somewhere else on something else...then when the action is reversed...from Positive to Negative... this also creates an energy force and releases Negative energy force. After explaining the above to the two men, they gave me two sheets of paper to study...and I was made to know that the papers were my orders...just as I used to get years ago while in the Navy...papers covering my orders to transfer to another location. I studied the two papers...and found that I was ordered to go to an isolated location where a UFO would pick me up. I was to go somewhere, to some meeting. I kept reading the two sheets of paper over and over...there were two men involved, somehow...typing on front and back of both sheets of paper... and I kept wondering why I wasn't going to go by airplane or ordinary transportation. It struck me as strange that the two men had shown me the black box...yet I had explained its workings to them...as the meaning of it unfolded to me slowly... it was dawning on me how it worked. The "black box" was symbolic for a mathematical equation...i.e., everything that happens in this human-race world of ours is either positive or negative...there is no neutral. Each human being is constantly creating either positive or negative effects...releasing energy; a power force...as that human being takes this or that action. (At this point my tape recorder went blank... although I talked considerably on this. To the effect that the masses of human beings on earth constantly created positive or negative effects...which creates either an over-all positive effect on the human race, or an over-all negative effect on the human race at any given time. But it is never in balance. One of the two effects is dominant at any given time.) That was the first dream...and I put it onto tape...but something erased a lot of the material on the tape. Nothing wrong with the recorder; new battery. === Page 6 of 6 2 In the second dream I was talking to someone...and said that "I give my mind and soul and body to God, and reject Evil and the Devil completely." At this point the two men appeared again, in this second dream...and they told me that it wasn't my mind, soul and body to give to God...because I was only borrowing them...and they pointed out, to make it even simpler, that I am "hitch-hiking" through time and space...and my present mind, body and soul is the car, vehicle, that has "picked me up to give me the ride." The vehicle doesn't belong to me, they said, to give to anyone. At this point I awoke and got up and put the second realistic dream onto tape. And unlike the first recording...this remained strong and clear on the tape; nothing was erased. Hope that I haven't wasted your time in this long letter, Dr. Dierkens. Regret that no entity appeared at 11 AM, and that I have only the two dreams to report to you, which occurred some hours earlier. Hope that, by now, the "ending England's drought" file has reached you. Over 100 pages in it. Big thing. friendly yours, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 ![Signature of Ted Owens] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7611 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/76843cc65ff94ba4780a4a6079d76ad1.pdf a20be174069f40c883d144b61c1cb12d https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/29672bb16d13c6b6ea6f1d2530a5ae48.txt b600019215c51815fc5bd3119baf8888 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1976 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 Hetch Hetchy and the Water Department have made about $11 million available to the city during the last two years. Special U.S. ambassador Ellsworth Bunker arrived late Monday night for the latest round of 12 years of talks on the controversial Panama Canal treaty. United Press needed for water storage in about ten years, Boyd said. The two basins were excavated in 1956. The city acquired the Boyd said the bigger water reserves "will provide many sections of the city with increased fire protection and better water pressure." # Nobel Winner's Bay Area Tour # A Crash Course in Occult By Kevin Wallace Edgy young Brian Josephson, 1973 British Nobel laureate in quantum physics, wasn't yet into blue jeans yesterday, but his shoes were off, and he padded around the Nob Hill apartment in maroon sox. "Very, ah -- well, different from Cambridge," the 36-year-old Welshman summarized his current two-week crash course in Bay Area physics, metaphysics, consciousness-raising, clairvoyance and inter-terrestrial intelligence probing. He is here as guest of San Francisco's two-year-old Physics/Consciousness Research Group (PCRG), which finances physicists' mind expansion along lines universities ordinarily won't pay for. "We got Brian into experiencing Cecil Williams at Glide Church Sunday, and turned him on to massage last night," declared his ebullient blue-jeaned host and guide, PCRG's physicist founder, Jack Sarfatti. Josephson hastily changed the subject to his ESP inquiries at Stanford Research Institute, and talks at Lawrence Berkeley Lab on the question of reality -- BRAIN JOSEPHSON Visiting laureate "they're very interested in the question of reality over there." "Brian's very into Don Juan and Carlos Castenada," Sarfatti declared proudly, "though it all goes back to Maharishi." Josephson said it was a Cambridge visit two years ago by Transcendental Meditation's Maharishi Mahesh Yogi that first piqued his puzzlement about reality in general and the occult learning of the Bay Area in particular. JACK SARFATTI The visitor's host "Initially," he said, "my visit here was planned to study American artificial intelligence findings" -- with a view to programming computers to deal with something like Maharishi's higher states of consciousness. But the tour's horizons have been dramatically expanded by his host's broader concerns, including a speeding-up of the cumbersome speed-of-light factor in possible inter-terrestrial communications, adjusting the DNA molecule to extend the normal life span to 3000 years, tapping the latent energy supply in vacuums, and writing and producing a rock opera version of Goethe's "Faust." "Quantum physics explains ordinary phenomena by real weird, surrealistic, psychedelic, occult things," Sarfatti said happily, and noted that his PCRG funnels donated funds not only for the Nobel laureate's visit, but to promote Lynn Hershman's environmental art, Tim Leary's space-migration research, Robert Anson Wilson's science fiction, and allied heavy questing -- $40,000 worth in the past year. "Werner Ehrhard of est gave us our first grant, and Mike Murphy of Esalen Institute advises us, and I'm in touch with Governor Brown, whom I call a real 'quantum politician,' Sarfatti said. ("Quantum" refers in physics to the astonishing jumpiness of energy states.) Josephson ventured timidly, "If the average person weren't too tied down to a rigid belief system, I feel it might, ah, change the nature of society." "That's well said!" Sarfatti cried with gusto. # Dry Driver Group Former San Francisco Sheriff Matthew C. Carberry was ordered yesterday to participate in the Dry Driver Diversion Program for one year by Municipal Court Judge Louis Garcia. The order was made in lieu of mandatory 48-hour jail sentence and fine levied for the second drunk driving offense in a five-year period. Carberry will be required to pay $450 for the one year course, which is sponsored by a coalition of local agencies. As part of the program, Carberry must participate in weekly counseling with Alcoholics Anonymous. Carberry was arrested October 15 on the James Lick Memorial freeway near Candlestick Park after a California Highway Patrol officer noticed his car weaving. Carberry pleaded guilty before Judge Garcia. On May 14 Carberry was fined $315 and put on a year's probation on an earlier drunk driving conviction. # Stanford to Raise Rates for Tuition, Room and Board Rates for tuition, room and board at Stanford University will be increased nine per cent next fall to a total of $6536, it was voted by the board of trustees. They voted to increase tuition from $4275 to $4695 and room and board from $1841 to $2041. Officials said the university will continue to meet the demonstrated financial needs of students admitted and that admission decisions would continue to be made without regard to financial need. Stanford officials said they expect the new rates to be competitive with those of other major Eastern institutions. === Page 2 of 8 Oakland Tribune 12-20-76 # Fire Kills Girl; Arson Suspected SAN FRANCISCO--Police are investigating the "strong possibility" of arson in a fire that killed a 10-year-old girl and injured three persons. The two-alarm blaze apparently ignited at 4:04 a.m. yesterday in a rear sitting room on the first floor of a house at 1321 Sunnydale Ave. near McLaren Park, said police. Young Rochelle Butler tried to jump off the front balcony but fell back into the flames, said arson inspector John McGreevy. Four others leaped from rear, second-story windows. The girl's mother, Juanita Butler, 33, her brother, Kevin, 12, and Clareesa Armstrong, 31, were admitted to a hospital for observation of possible smoke inhalation and treatment of minor injuries, officers said. Roland Horn, 24, of San Mateo, was not injured. Intense heat drove away neighbors trying to enter the house to rescue Rochelle. Coroner's deputies found evidence of first-, second- and third-degree burns on her body. Mr. McGreevy said the fire caused minor damage to adjacent houses at 1315 Sunnydale and 511 Sawyer St. Damage to the Butler home was estimated at $45,000. === Page 3 of 8 ### Corte Madera Cafe Burns CORTE MADERA (AP)-A smoky fire has burned down a Corte Madera restaurant near Highway 101. No one was reported hurt. The blaze destroyed the Hungry House yesterday, drawing more than a score of firemen from San Rafael, Larkspur, Kentfield and Corte Madera to a shopping center. *Oakland Tribune* 12-20-76 === Page 4 of 8 Merry Christmas and many happy new years to my friend Jeffrey Mishlove... "Then peace was spread throughout the land, The lion fed beside the lamb...." Wishing you peace and joy at Christmas and through the new year. From Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 5 of 8 Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 48 Cape Charles, Va. 23310 CAPE CHARLES, VA DEC 17 1976 PM Christmas 13c Copley Boston Museum USA Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 6 of 8 the SIs say: check the odds out on my combination "predict" power blackout plus UFO appear in target area, in 90 days, ... with Lloyds of London and/or Jimmie the Greek of Las Vegas!! Ted === Page 7 of 8 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, AREA ... 100 MILE RADIUS. S N Mid-wave UFO Penetration Nov. 7, 76 - Feb. 7, 77 (90 days) San Francisco, Cal. area, 100 mi. AREA UFO ENCAPSULATED 12/3/76 W EM Grid $\theta$ = UFOs It instructed me to "use the Egyptian Power" Dec. 9, 1976, when the flying saucer wasted me "great power" then pyramid power was then added to UFO encampment area. It's built on a net. It's built on a net from grid, not for today. === Page 8 of 8 # San Francisco train jumps rails at Omaha S.F. Examiner 12/16/76 ### 37 hurt on Zephyr going to Chicago Examiner News Services OMAHA -- Six cars of the San Francisco Zephyr, Amtrak passenger train bound from Oakland to Chicago, derailed early today on the southern edge of Omaha. At least 37 persons were injured, one of them seriously, officials said. There were no fatalities in the accident, just 10 minutes before the train was due at the Omaha station at 3:05 a.m. local time, the Sarpy County sheriff's department said. Greg Gee, 27, of Farragut, Iowa, was reported in serious condition and in surgery for internal bleeding. Two other persons were listed in fair condition at Bergan Mercy Hospital and eight others were listed in good condition. A spokesman for Midlands Community hospital in nearby Papillion said 26 persons were treated for cuts and bruises. None were hospitalized. The two-unit diesel engine and the three cars directly behind remained on the track. Four of the derailed cars landed on their sides about 10 feet off the track. The cause of the derailment was not immediately determined. The sheriff said there were about 180 passengers, many of whom were asleep, and crew members aboard the train. Conductor R. W. Mitchell, 58, who boarded the train in Lincoln, said the train was going 65 miles per hour at the time of the derailment. Sarpy County Sheriff Pat Thomas said a passenger told him one of the cars went off the track and the rest followed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7612 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/0bea2128feedcf117be3bfa99c4a74c7.pdf 1dbab7aee1653f5dc2a27fab46772217 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6e1c6bab1c191ace4199ae8f15749472.txt c4665fed52dc4105642ade5745d54a40 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 JEFFREY MISHLOVE 3103 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 (415) 346-7770 July 22, 1977 Millie Miller 635 Paul Avenue, Apt. # 1 San Francisco, CA 94134 Dear Millie, I have recently received two communications from Ted Owens which were sent by you. Since I can't write directly to Ted, I am sending this letter to you and ask you to pass it on to him. I am very disturbed by Owens allegation with reference to me in the letter of July 17, which states, "Jeffrey Mishlove and his company of government agents refused to let this message get to the public." The statement is blatantly untrue, for the following reasons: (1) I published material about Ted Owens in Psychic Magazine with his picture in the company of several distinguished scientists. (2) I put Ted on the radio in Berkeley, where several thousand people heard his state that he could control the drought. (3) I helped arrange another radio interview for Ted on KFAT. (4) I loaned Ted $300, out of my educational budget, when he needed money. This allowed him to come to San Francisco. (5) I arranged another $150 grant for Owens--for which he had to do nothing in return. (6) I arranged for Owens to meet with Milan Ryzl, a psychic researcher. (7) I arranged for Owens to meet with Alan Vaughan, the editor of New Realities magazine. (8) I notified over 70 scientists and government officials of Owens UFO demonstration from November 7 until February 7. (9) I notified them all of the preliminary results of that research, which included one major UFO sighting, one UFO abduction case and one power blackout. (10) I am still working, with Jo Ann Partridge, on a high-quality scientific paper which will discuss the details of that experiment. === Page 2 of 2 (2) (11) I arranged for Ted to have the use of a house in Sonoma County for eight days, when he had no place to stay. (12) I introduced Ted to numerous other people in the hope that they might be able to help him obtain his base in Oregon. (13) I don't have a "company" of any sort and furthermore, none of my friends, acquaintances, or associates are government agents. Frankly, I would have no objection at all if some of them were--but this is simply not the case. I have no idea what sort of impulse led Ted Owens to make such an unfair attack on me. In fact, I genuinely am sorry that he wasn't able to reach some of the right people with his message. If I had had more advance notice of his arrival I might have been able to do more for him. However, neither I nor any of my associates did anything at all to prevent Owens from getting his message to the public--quite the opposite. I suppose Ted thinks that he knows these untrue things about me through his psychic abilities--in spite of all the above mentioned evidence to the contrary. It's unfortunate if he does, because he is wrong. Perhaps there are some government agents in my company that I am not aware of. This is highly unlikely, but not impossible. Even so, the thrust of his attack is essentially misguided. Last January, Ted predicted an assassination attempt against Carter's life during the inauguration. This never happened. Later Ted wrote and told me that he must have actually been picking up on the Hanafi Muslim terrorism in Washington, D. C. So, his accuracy in these things is often partial. In the meantime, I am very angered by his attack on me and have no motivation whatsoever to continue to work in Ted's behalf until he corrects his unfortunate mistake. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove Jeffrey Mishlove Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 77x Jeffrey letter Ted Owens allegations https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/feb1c7e5f69bf9c3c09d5c118f1218d3.pdf b3df89eb5f8ac0470d74d5b4c0951e21 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5036d65faae224d2f471f878c9b475ef.txt bea9ae9618b7fb004470eff4ade9e0d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 6 Sat., Nov. 27, 1976. * S.F. EXAMINER # Night of the big wind, damage widespread As many as 100,000 homes dark By Ivan Sharpe Chilly gale-force winds gusting to 60 and 70 miles an hour -- the fiercest for several years -- created havoc and widespread damage in the Bay Area last night. Streets and freeways were littered with trees, billboards, tiles and piles of debris. Power outages were widespread. Huge waves driven by the relentless northerly winds drove boats from their moorings in the Bay. The winds touched off nearly 20 bush fires, mostly minor, the State Division of Forestry reported. At Echo Summit near Lake Tahoe an auto driver was killed when a pine tree toppled across the road. The winds drove policemen to despair, touching off more than 200 burglar alarms in San Francisco during the night. Reports of broken windows, broken aerials and rolling garbage cans were common. Just after midnight a large eucalyptus tree toppled in Golden Gate Park, smashing on to the corrugated roof of private riding stables at 38th Avenue and Main Drive. One horse, pinned down, was freed unhurt at dawn. Six other horses in stalls under the felled tree were uninjured. In front of the Hall of Justice on Bryant Street one of three tall flagpoles was blown over at a 30-degree angle, and was prevented from falling only by the support of nearby trees. Firemen later anchored it down with a line, but it will have to be removed by crane. The gales caught PG&E in the middle of the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend short of workmen. Many were out of town. "We're having a helluva time getting crews," a spokesman said. The utility, still struggling to catch up, was unable early today to estimate how many customers in the Bay Area were affected by the power blackouts. But it could go over 100,000. San Francisco Examiner 777-2424 SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1977 # Flurry of 8 quakes jolts the Bay Area S.F. police phones handle 2,500 calls By Alan Cline A string of eight earthquakes -- one of them the strongest in the Bay Area in more than 11 years -- rocked San Francisco and the East Bay during the night. The quakes were centered about 20 miles east of San Francisco between Walnut Creek and Berkeley -- and between the Calaveras and Hayward faults. The University of California Berkeley Seismographic Center recorded the strongest temblor as 5.0 on the Richter scale. It was the fourth in the series of eight and came at 1:28 a.m. Center director Bruce Boldt said more quakes were likely today "but they probably will be smaller." The swarm of shakes was not felt in Marin or in Santa Clara County but it set off hundreds of worried telephone calls to police. The San Francisco police department alone handled 2,500 calls during the quake flurry, which began at 10:55 p.m. and ended today at 1:32 a.m. One Mission District woman watched her bedroom chandelier fall as she talked to police. Damage from the series of jolts, however, was minimal and there were no reports of injuries. Four burglar alarms in the financial district were set off. "We're on the seventh floor and this building was really rocking," said Mary Rose, dispatcher for the Contra Costa sheriff's office in Martinez. In Berkeley a 10-year-old told his dad, "this is really scary, I'm chicken." The Coast Guard alone received 200 calls, many from out-of-towners wondering if San Francisco were still standing. Many callers asked about the threat of tidal waves. They were told there was none, that the quake was inland. Boldt said the 5.0 jolt was the strongest since May 5, 1965, when a similar earthquake was recorded near Antioch, 35 miles northeast of Berkeley. Boldt said a quake of 5.0 "is strong enough to cause some slight damage to very weak structures, but it would have to be at least 5.5 to cause any substantial damage." A San Francisco resident said of the 5.0 jolt, "it lasted about 15 seconds and my room was really rocking. I thought my wife's picture would fall off the desk, it was bouncing around so much." Another jittery San Franciscan reported signs of a street cracking. After an inspection, a policeman said the road was indeed chipped in places, but that perhaps the damage was a result of the 5.0 quake. ILLUSTRATION # 18 === Page 2 of 6 THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1977 # New Hampshire Ice Mystery **By JOHN KIFNER** Special to The New York Times WAKEFIELD, N.H., Jan. 13--First, said William McCarthy, choosing his words very carefully, "I saw what appeared to be a hole in the ice." This was in the middle of a blizzard, and the ice, he said, was about 15 inches thick on his farm pond. Peering through the hole, he went on, he saw what appeared to be "a black square object." But after probing it with a hose and rakes, it turned out to be "just a square hole, about a foot square and three feet deep, in the bottom of the pond, in the hardpack." After a while, he said, the ice began to melt through in two roundish holes and the snow on top and around the small pond turned to slush. The temperature was about five degrees above zero Fahrenheit. **Radioactivity Suspected** Reporters, sightseers and a civil defense crew descended on the farm today amid widespread reports that a highly radioactive object had fallen, but New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. told reporters in Concord late this afternoon that the furor was nothing to worry about. "In fact, there is no object on the bottom of the pond," the Governor declared, adding that "I am glad the whole thing was false," because the situation "could have been detrimental to the citizens of New Hampshire." However, Mr. McCarthy, a building contractor, is not so sure. "Come spring, I'm going to dig the whole thing up and see," he said. This afternoon Mr. McCarthy, his wife Dorothy, their three children and a few friends slumped bemused around the fire in their comfortable farmhouse amid a parade of visiting reporters, neighbors and curiosity seekers. "If a hole appears ever again, I'm not going to say anything," Mrs. McCarthy said. Earlier that day, men from the local Highway Department, along with a bevy of state officials, including a colonel from the National Guard, arrived at the farm. They sawed through the ice and dug up some mud from the bottom with a post hole digger. They put it in a plastic bag and drove away. Beginning last night and throughout the day, the telephone in the farmhouse rang constantly with inquiries from radio, television and newspapers across the country. A helicopter carrying a television crew landed in the snowy field, but there was no room for a second helicopter. Cars were lined up by the huge snowbanks on the normally quiet back road. **Geiger Counters Used** "Hey, it's Miami," somebody shouted from the kitchen after answering the telephone. "Well," his voice could be heard saying a few minutes later, after going over the oft-repeated story, "this is a spokesman." The hole appeared, Mr. McCarthy said, shortly after noon Monday during a snowstorm here at the farm near the Maine border where the family moved to raise horses six years ago. It had been a summer place for them since 1967, when they were living and working in the Boston area. ![Map of New Hampshire showing Wakefield, Concord, and surrounding areas] The New York Times/Jan. 14, 1977 ![Photograph of William McCarthy and others standing on a frozen pond] The New York Times/Arthur Grace **William McCarthy by the hole in the ice at his pond in Wakefield, N.H.** === Page 3 of 6 1-20-77 SF Examiner # Fire bombs set $25,000 S.F. blaze Two firebombs were thrown at a Victorian building in the Western Addition early today, touching off a $25,000 blaze and causing injuries to two firemen. Jean Lacues, 29, was taken to the burn unit at St. Francis Hospital for treatment of electrical burns on his hands. The other firefighter was treated at the scene and returned to duty The blaze broke out in a pair of flats at 420 and 420½ Austin St., between Bush and Pine streets. === Page 4 of 6 Note: Today, Jan. 11, '77 called Jeffrey... a played recorder, where I was mad at him Dec. 3, '2* & threatened to "kick hell out of the San Fran. area." What followed was a swarm of quakes that hit the Frisco bullseye. === Page 5 of 6 57 yr old | 1st since Moses to have a way to have destroyed 1/6/77 1965 - beginning (R) to be modified abstract symbols UFO $\rightarrow$ teaching how to make lightning hit "forward artillery man" for UFO. "only UFO bridge to human race." From another dimension "To save human beings from destroying themselves." Before acting, need human decision (choice) - their law. Role: each day concentrate on (roughly drawn) map $\bar{c}$ grids & activate. Master of mental imagery UFO's place in circle around target. Bars across - create electromagnetic effects. Dr. Zakow, astro phys. === Page 6 of 6 Key letters on drought in England 12, 23, 74 - letters to scientists warning about droughts around world. "To prove my link to UFO's I'll be only one able to **end** drought." Telepath to them. Get their permission Mechanism - from other dimension "Need a **safe** base. That requires some money. Go to work. **End** drought. Notify Sheet of paper. Map of U.S. (PK map) Activate it once a day. ^ ^ ^ ^ : : : . Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7701 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/968971e16fbfe4ab3308e865395df813.pdf c22b76dfb29a53435d4ed3a4b92d543a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6ef409df1d5123d4ff192c01a595919b.txt de93598f09686ae20d0a791d8a7c585b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 Jeffrey February 16, 1977 President Jimmy Carter The White House This is probably the most important letter that you will ever receive, while you are in the White House. Before stating why...I refer you to Dr. Targ and Dr. Putoff, of Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California; Dr. Allen Hynek, of Northwestern University (Dept. of Astronomy); Dr. Leo Sprinkle, University of Wyoming; Dr. Max Vogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa (of which I am a member), Sunneytown Pike, Gwynedd, Pa., 19436; and Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. For years I have been demonstrating outstanding paranormal (psychic) phenomena for the above scientists...all thoroughly documented. If you check with them, you will find that this is true. (I have just finished giving a demonstration to scientists on the West Coast... through Dr. Mishlove, who is connected with Drs. Targ and Putoff. They challenged me to produce a dramatic UFO appearance, under certain conditions, to appear within a certain "target" area within a certain space of time. I produced not one, but two dramatic UFO happenings (one of these appearances actually on television, with scientists observing the phenomena). I also produced a huge power blackout for the demonstration. All of this is concretely documented, and you can check it out with Dr. Mishlove.) The purpose of this letter? Although it would not seem possible to you...I can bring enough rains and snow onto the West to completely undo the terrible drought there...i.e., it is within my power to change the upper jet stream, etc., situation so that rains will pour down onto the West. I just finished doing this for England, and it is completely documented. You can check with Mishlove, Targ and Putoff on it. How do I do this miraculous thing? I work with the UFOs. Have, for years. Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, famous authors, have written much about my work. Many, many books have chapters in them about me and my work. If you like, I can give you a list of them. The Spring, 1977, issue of Probe Magazine has a list of 40 of the "world's top psychics"...and I am listed therein, along with Uri Geller, Jean Dixon, Peter Hurkos, etc. Should you be interested in my saving the West...no need to contact me. Contact Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco, for further details. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens Owens === Page 2 of 5 (Marty Haskell) 556-6800 February 23, 1977 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 Dear Jeffrey: As you know, just before the President's Inaugural...I phoned you long distance and told you of my precog awareness of a plot to assassinate Carter; gave you the details; and asked you to pass it along to govt. agencies in hopes they could thwart the killers. (You also informed me that three other good psychics had come up with the exact same information.) It was a goodwill gesture on my part...toward the Government, and the President. Yesterday, in the morning hours...two Secret Service agents came to my house (the "leader", who did all of the talking, is Special Agent Barry W. Hylton, U.S. Secret Service, P.O. Box 12128, Norfolk, Virginia, 23502) and spent quite a long while with me. You won't believe the reason they gave for coming to my house. Their San Francisco office had contacted them and informed them THAT I CLAIMED I HAD THE POWER TO CAUSE THE ASSASSINATION OF CARTER! Naturally, they explained, since it is their job to protect the President...they had to check me out. How did they check me out? They took my photograph with a camera. They asked me to sign a release form so that they could check all of my past medical records (and then asked me if I had ever been committed to a mental institution or asylum, etc.) They probed into my personal life...am I a "sex deviate." Do I use narcotics. Am I an alcoholic. Do I own any guns. How many, and what make is each gun. It was extremely humiliating for me to undergo that, and to know that I am being added to that list of kooks and nuts who are judged by the Secret Service to be a possible threat to the life of the President of the United States. Of course, their beginning premise was completely invalid...making their entire proposition invalid...and the principle behind their visit was false and invalid. Therefore, Jeffrey, you may consider that I have now been unjustly harassed by the U.S. Govt. Let me add...that both gentlemen were highly personable; likeable; were polite at all times. I doubt that either of them would appreciate the same thing happening to them at their home, on the basis of false information. I explained to them first on...that it was all a mistake...that I had in no way threatened the life of the President...but they pressed on anyway with the invasion of my private life, saying that it was their job, as they had been instructed to do. Which, of course, is correct. A most puzzling thing was this: they had me sign two separate white envelopes (which would contain a letter) on the outside, as an address, "President Jimmy Carter, The White House, Washington, D.C." Then address more blank envelopes for President Nixon and President Ford. My question is...if they just wanted a sample of my handwriting...then why not on a piece of paper? Why on blank envelopes. An idea why, presents itself to me...but I'd like to think that the Watergate "dirty tricks" is over. Owens Ted Owens (PK man) Yare === Page 3 of 5 Concord Transcript SERVING CONCORD, PLEASANT HILL AND CLAYTON 88TH YEAR, NO. 272 682-6440 CONCORD, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1977 Single Copy 10 Cents, Monthly $2.00 Flying saucer report to Concord PD A 24-year-old Concord man told police early today he was whisked away and examined by five-foot grey beings from a flying saucer. According to the report he left a Willow Pass Road restaurant about 4:10 a.m. and was confronted by two short, grey-skinned men with enlarged skulls, no hair and black pupils. The next thing he knew, he said, was that he had been transported to a field at Willow Creek Elementary School. There he said he was facing a circular craft with a ladder extending toward him. Suddenly, he was inside the ship. While there, he said he stuck his left hand in a chamber, and "all sorts of lights went off." He asked what was happening, and telepathically he was told the aliens were on a "mission to study life habits" on Earth. The beings also noted that their craft was from a larger ship located outside the planet's atmosphere. The next thing he knew, according to the report, he was outside an apartment complex on Mohr Lane. For about 15 minutes, he said he was unable to move. He called the Concord Police Department at 5:33 a.m. The Oakland center of the Federal Aviation Administration noted it had no reports this morning of unidentified flying objects. Ted - similarity of names? Statue - UFO 1-13-77 Oakland Tribune people Bill Fiset ... Off the Top ... Where but from your beloved columnist would you get a poltergeist story this early in the year? We have one Walter Owen, who has Owen's the hair salon in Walnut Creek, who took off a year off last year to roam the world. He came home with a small hardwood statue he bought in Bali, a rounded figure of a "praying priest" and it's been on a table in his living room for about eight months. Recently Owen had two other men in the living room, George Brower and Charles Ostergrant. No one was near the statue. The statue (or perhaps "carving" would be a better word) flew off the desk, flew four feet horizontally through the air, landed on the floor in an upright position. On a later occasion Ostergrant was again in Owen's house, along with Foster Meagher, and the carving again flew off the table, this time nearly six feet horizontally, and again landed on the floor in an upright position. A little deductive reasoning would lead one to believe Ostergrant is the culprit, since he was in the house both times, and the statue never flew when Owen was home alone. Or perhaps a chemistry between Owen and Ostergrant causes it to fly. Whatever, it has Owen a bit nervous. He sits on the sofa in the living room when he's alone, looks across at the statue and is now talking aloud to it. "Don't you DARE fly over here and hit me," he'll say. Would he want to get rid of it? "No, I don't think so. I'm not really afraid of it." That's good karma. BERKELEY GAZETTE edition of the North East Bay Independent and Gazette BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1975 Aerial artist's UFO encounter Steven Poleskie, who, wind permitting, creates airial art by flying a stunt plane overhead while leaving trails of colored smoke, was startled Wednesday while performing over Cal-State Sonoma. Poleskie suddenly became aware of a circular white object only 1,000 feet away. The event was also captured on Channel 9 TV cameras, and Poleskie said video-tape reruns check out and confirm the existence of a curious co-pilot in the sky. Poleskie, a visiting professor at UC-Berkeley, may have attracted a vast new audience for his unique art forms. ILLUSTRATION # 19 === Page 4 of 5 February 28, 1977 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My name is Ted Owens, sometimes called "PK Man"...a layman, and a psychic. Jeffrey Mishlove, of San Francisco, contacted me some time ago...because he is doing a "paper" on paranormal phenomena in order to get his Ph.D. in Parapsychology...and wanted to set up a "pilot experiment" with me. (Whatever that is...I am just a layman, and do not understand the terms of the scientific community.) I have complied with the experiment. However...being merely a layman, at the outset of the experiment I called him "Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove" simply because of my high respect for his work, as outlined in his book, "The Roots of Consciousness." I full well knew that he had not yet earned the title of "Dr.", in the academic sense...but I wanted to show him, in my correspondence, that I, at least, considered him on that level, before the fact. He immediately wrote to me and asked me not to call him "Dr." before he had earned his Ph.D. But I persisted anyway in writing to him as "Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove"...both to show my respect for him and to encourage him to keep on working hard for his Ph.D. (although he told me then he was not yet a "Dr.") I have just received yet another letter from him, absolutely forbidding me to address him again as "Dr." until he has earned that title, academically. So I must apologize, as a layman, ignorant of the procedures of the scientific community...for trampling around like an elephant in a china shop in my association with this fine young scientist...and hope that my layman's actions cast no shadow upon this young scientist's credibility... This document will come to Mishlove as a surprise, for he certainly did not ask for it (and might not even want it, as far as I know. Again, what do I know about scientists and their procedures.) Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Owens === Page 5 of 5 February 4, 1976 1977 Jeffrey Mishlove: In this letter...I am doing something that I have never done before. And that is...refuse to perform a demonstration, before it has even begun. Long ago, Moses worked with the UFOs...and by now I have duplicated many of the things that Moses did. But one thing that he did...I could never do. He and the UFOs helping him...killed all of the first-born babies of Egypt. This morning my five-year-old boy, Teddy...was playing with his toys at my feet. I was thinking of how much I love him...more than my own life...remembering all of the affectionate things he does for me, and the love he gives to me...when suddenly the thought came to me...suppose I go ahead with this earthquake demonstration and the built-in "safety" does not work...and somewhere in California the roof falls in and destroys one little baby like Teddy, and his father would lose all of that love, plus the wonder of giving his own love to his baby. It was then that I fully realized...I must not give this demonstration. I know full well...whether you do or not...that if I gave the demonstration...California would be struck with earthquakes unprecedented in scope, and in their nature. Make no mistake about that. Like I have told you before...I do not do "experiments"...I give demonstrations. But I have no wish to destroy love...and if children were killed there...or adults in love with each other...that's what I would be doing. And I will not. The freakish cold in the East...was caused as an indirect "spinoff" from our San Francisco experiment, just ending tomorrow. 75 people have died as a result of the spinoff (which neither you nor I had anticipated would happen...and which was caused as a result of the other-dimensional encapsulation of the target area.) This is something I deeply regret...their deaths...and wouldn't have had it happen for the world...even though it is vitally important to prove certain facts re the SIs to the scientists and government. My friend George told me last week that the earthquake demonstration would be good...because it might speed up the process whereby the security of myself and my family would be hastened. Because George knows that I would get big results in the demonstration. But George hasn't married and had his babies yet, and hadn't considered the above angles. George is a good man, and one of the finest persons that I know; and my friend. Well, not to dwell overlong on the matter...I am giving a gift, a present, to my little son, Teddy...although he will never know about it. I will refuse to shake California "up, down and sideways"...bring earthquakes in horrendous numbers onto California. Consider the California earthquake demonstration called off, Jeffrey. And I have never, to my memory, called off a demonstration before...in all the long years. Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) 77 Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 March 29, 1976...Jeffrey: as I told Dan last night, assuming that the farmers want me to come out...if I could set up a good base to work from, I'd stay out there longer, working for the farmers. Say, a boat or a houseboat with TV...with perhaps a jazz club nearby (I love jazz, and never get any out in this isolated location). I will not be at work all of the time on my map mechanism...and might as well have some fun while I'm at it. And the more fun I have on the side, the longer I'll feel like staying. Of course, Teddy, age 6, will be with me. Now, under separate cover am sending newsclippings covering our previous demonstration. I do not feel, Jeffrey, that you can have the whole picture unless you see all of these clippings...and realize how many weird, mysterious things happened while the area was encapsulated! Anyway, I haven't been able to assemble all of the clippings onto sheets...and couldn't get the set xeroxd anyway...so will do the next best things. Just send it all to you to look at and, if you deem it advisable, have Dan or a friend put it together into categories as I have started to do. Anomalies; fires (there were, I believe, an unusual amount of fires in the Frisco area during the demonstration...so it is possible that the other-dimensional forces at work could cause fires...as in some poltergeist phenomena)...odd things that people did (remember that I told you in advance OD force might push some people over the edge during the demonstration)...freak accidents...power blackouts (there were so many)...earthquakes (the pattern of them is interesting)...and so on. Perhaps Millie might be willing to put all of this file in order; I do not know if she has the time or the inclination. At any rate...in the event that you do not wish to go into the file, please return it. And after you have finished with it, later on, if you do...please return it at that time for my records. Ted Owens === Page 2 of 7 March 25, 1977 President of China Peking China China has a terrible drought. I can give China all of the rain that it needs. I specialize in the field of parapsychology and psi-force. For years I have been giving demonstrations of weather-control based upon my ability to communicate with UFO intelligences and bring it about. Scientists in the United States are familiar with my work: Dr. Allen Hynek, Dept. of Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Drs. Targ and Putoff, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California; Dr. Max Vogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa, Sumneytown Pike, Gwynedd, Pa., 19436...and others. Much of my work is solidly documented. In other words, I can move myself and my family to Hong Kong, establish residence there for one year...and work daily with my "UFO connection" and bring the rains to China in enormous amounts...all that China needs. Would require your sending me $500,000 in advance then after China has all of the rain that it needs...you provide me with a final payment of $500,000...then my family and I will leave Hong Kong and return home. It is most important for China...that you take this letter seriously. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens cc: Embassy of China, Washington, DC Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 3 of 7 March 10, 1977 Jeffrey... further, do you realize that the militants right now... are within one block of the White House? I.e., the inaugural area where I predicted militants === Page 4 of 7 2) would strike!! (I was off on the time of the happening by a few weeks.) Ted Owens PK Man === Page 5 of 7 March 1, 1977 Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Targ Dr. Putoff Dr. Rynek Dr. Sprinkle Jeffrey Mishlove Gentlemen: The demonstration which will be given, beginning March 11 for 90 days...conceivably might not be given. In which case you will be notified of the cancelation. Most probably, however, it will go on as scheduled. This demonstration, unlike most of my own former demonstrations... will be produced and performed by the UFO intelligences with whom I have worked for long years, the SIs. They urged me to perform it; but I feared that someone might be injured or killed. They are sensitive to my likes and dislikes, so they are doing it themselves. The demonstration will be surrounded by other-dimensional controls to try and not injure anyone. A delicate procedure, under the circumstances. The demonstration: The SIs are going to rock the West Coast with earthquakes...up, down and sideways. Not to cause destruction and injury, but to shake the humans up in that geographical area. It will be done in such a fashion...they tell me...that there will be no doubt about the unusualness of it (since that area is earthquake prone anyway and has many.) The demonstration will be accompanied by power blackouts, UFO appearances, and weird, unusual happenings. The purpose of the demonstration: If it is difficult to impress scientists and government agencies, then simply pick them up and shake them until their teeth rattle. My critics will scoff and say, "well, there are earthquakes anyway in that area." So, all right...let's wait and see what the SIs will do for a rebuttal to that. Incidentally, the file that I just sent you...is my own, primitive, layman's file. It is a confidential "pilot" experiment being done by Jeffrey Mishlove...who has not yet even evaluated it, or considered statistics on it, etc. I merely sent to you what I have always sent to you...the general over-all file, completely unscientific...and I might add, completely confidential, so that Jeffrey can complete his paper on it. Actually, I should have held up on mailing it to about 20 of my personal contacts...but due to an extraordinary circumstance I deemed it necessary to get it out to you at this time. It is...for your eyes only (pardon the expression). Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 6 of 7 Will appreciate very much receiving the copy of Psychic mag where of you speak. Ted March 7, 1977 Dear Jeffrey: I shall welcome the new material which you are going to xerox and send. Sounds interesting, for the file. I'll be interested to hear what Hynek has to say to you. You ask for my previous involvement with Hynek. Years ago he wrote to me and told me that Dr. Leo Sprinkle had informed him, Hynek, of my work...and that they had checked me out throughly...and I had "received a clean bill of health." And would I keep him abreast of my work and documentation at all times. This I have done. He has a great, voluminous file of my work, through the past years. The volcano thing was most interesting. Mt. Etna in Sicily exploded...sending hot lava downward toward towns below, which lay directly in the path of the rolling lava. I informed Hynek immediately that I would (1) either "freeze" the lava in place, or (2) make the lava miss the towns. No one gave the towns a chance...and the people fled. I worked for weeks, in my own way, with the SIs...and either the lava flows stopped just short of the towns...or changed their course and went around the towns. Not a single town was destroyed or inundated with the lava. I have the complete, documented file on it. Hynek had, in the beginning, answered me, telling me not to bother controlling the volcano, to just let "Nature take its course." I answered him back that I intended to stop the volcano attack just the same, and reminded him of the many times that I had worked with Nature to obtain miraculous results. I must adhere to the SIs letters of instruction (see your England file; the three letters of the early 70's...specifically stating SI instructions with regard to world drought.) Either humans, and countries, will listen to the SIs...and follow their relatively simple instructions...or they will just remain stricken with drought. As they wish. And as you know...the SIs are not interested in a farmer here or there...and a few thousand will not provide me with the base and security which the SIs are bent upon my getting, in order to work in a more efficient manner for them and with them. As for "contingent upon the rain occurring"...absolutely not, Jeffrey. When Barbara Walters was paid five million dollars for five years work...was it contingent upon her being successful at it? No. When your top pro basketball or football player is paid millions...is it contingent upon whether they win or not? No. Look, all the SIs are asking...is for one million...not three or five...in order for me to save the West Coast alone five to ten BILLION dollars in drought damage. And included in my work will be the watering of not only the West Coast and far West...but the Midwest, also. In short, I will make my regular map mechanism...telepath to the SIs daily...FOR A FULL YEAR...and a full three-fourths of the United States will be slated for rainfall for a full year. (To undertake a major work of changing many patterns necessary for rainfall...including upper jet streams...simply to satisfy one farmer for a week's rain...is ridiculous; hilariously funny just to think about. I am sure that you would agree.) If this country has an ounce of brains somewhere in its makeup...and I am beginning to doubt it...it will hustle up that million for me and give me a letter from the President requesting my cooperation in ending the drought. That...is what the SIs want. The country is hurting badly and needs water...the SIs want me to have a base and security. The SIs and I can deliver all the rainfall this country can stand, and then some. (Just as in England.) (We cannot "train" the SIs. My dog might as well try to train and educate me.) What we can do...for relief from killing drought...is go along with the SI plan. Ted Owens === Page 7 of 7 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 March 26, 1977 Dear Jeffrey... an unexpected twist has come about...which will enable me to do business with your "farmer friend" who mentioned $2,000 for me to come out for a week to work for rain on an area. I have to do something this coming September, which will take about $3,500. It is a confidential matter (that is, I have been sworn to confidence, so cannot divulge the details)...but suffice it to say that its importance... eclipses the tight SI rules that I am under re the drought...so that I will be allowed to relax the rules in this one instance. Therefore, for $3,500 in advance (cashier's check) and a round trip airplane ticket...I will come out to California and work two weeks for this gentleman and his friends. I reckon it might sort of be considered a swap...and I have SI approval for it. But the September happening is important enough to bend the rules; the SIs and I have communicated upon it and agree on that point. So if your farmer friend is still interested...I'll come out and go to work. Owens PS...I will always only work on a money in advance basis...no "contingent" upon anything. I figure that my time alone is worth more than the sum in question, tell him. Oh, yes...and I will throw in any lecture you might want at that time. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 April 18, 1977 Dear Jeffrey: My friend...it is ironic...that the actual FATE of the United States...depends on Jeffrey Mishlove! Has that dawned on you yet? The western half of the United States is being burned up by drought...and it will only get worse in time to come. (I know, because the SIs are doing it...and they are communicating with me steadily on the matter.) PK Man is the ONLY hope that the western U.S. has...and of course, if the western half burns up...the eastern half will be stricken as a result of it. And since Jeffrey is the associate, however oblique, of PK Man...and can get the funds for PK Man to set up a safe-base and have security...which is the price of restoring the western half of the U.S. -- then it follows that as Jeffrey goes, or is successful...so goes the United States! You are in a mighty big game, my friend Jeffrey! Survival of the United States, no less! If you haven't guessed yet...the SIs can control any country in the world, and/or any portion of that country. For a connection to what is happening now to the west coast...dig out the Cleveland File from Tippy's records...and scan it. There is your answer. If it is not in there...let me know and I'll mail you a copy. Very important. That is when I hit Cleveland with devastating heat...and it spells it out how the SIs did it, with newspaper clippings. Now, Jeffrey, we can go two ways with financial backers...and remember that you get a fast 10%, in cash, as my agent. We can ask $50,000 in advance; $950,000 in escrow, to be delivered to me as soon as I give the west coast as much rain as it needs within six months to get healthy again. You'd get $5,000 in cash from the advance immediately, and $9,500 in cash from the balance as soon as I get the job done. Or, if we can't get that kind of money...$25,000 in advance, with $75,000 in escrow...same % applying, in cash to you. If Barbara Walters, the female newscaster, can get $5,000,000 for yapping like a ventriloquist vulture half an hour a day...surely PK Man can get a fifth of that, for saving the United States! As soon as I get the advance, I plan to buy a fast car here...and drive to Oregon Caves in Oregon, just over the line from northern California, and set up a base in the hotel there, and go to work for rain. After 3-4 weeks the mechanism will be set and working...then will fly back to Cape Charles, hire a giant U-Haul truck, load it with my records, etc., and drive it with my boy, Beau, back to Oregon, where we plan to find a lodge in the woods and live. My wife and small son will fly out to Frisco, where Millie will put them up until I get out with Beau to retrieve them. This is my plan...and am going to stick to it. You and I will probably not see each other at all...because I will be too busy getting set up in our new home in the mountain woods. The only time we will see each other will be the time I drive to you and put the % cash in your hands. (You can certainly use the cash to follow your academic career.) You say that you are not "used to bargaining." Nope. Probably not. But you'd better get used to it...because parapsychology research takes funding, and you have to constantly dig up funds to keep going. I speak from deep knowledge. While at Duke I had to go to Texas to see a Texas millionaire to try and keep his $50,000 per year funding of the Duke parapsych lab going...representing Duke at the time, of course. Duke didn't fund its parapsych lab...it had to depend on financial donors...and the chances are, so will you. So, the more cash you have in hand, the faster and more surely you can proceed in your chosen work. Scientists at Duke were POORLY paid...Duke traded on the fact that it has a big name, and scientists teaching there and working there...would cash in on the Duke rep...which was why they could be chinchy with their salaries and pay. See? And so it goes. Ted Owens. === Page 2 of 4 TED OWENS P.O. BOX 32 CAPE CHARLES, VA. 23310 CAPE CHARLES, VA 23310 APR 12 AM 1977 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 3 of 4 ② PS ... after receiving same, when I come out, will give you 3 thou cash. ---------- Jeffrey ... ask for 25 thou in ① advance ... and 975 thou held in escrow, contingent. Remember, I'll be saving billions. ========== === Page 4 of 4 April 28, 1977 Queen Elizabeth Buckingham Palace London, England Last year I wrote to you...that I would end England's terrible drought...while it was at its worst. Then I came to England to attend and lecture at the Parascience Conference (under the auspices of Peter Maddock)...did what I had to do to make it rain...and the rains came in spite of what the experts were predicting at the time. And the terrible drought was ended. Now I tell you this...I can come to England...and end England's terrible financial drought. England is in the worst shape ever...and sinking fast...financially. With the powers that I have...that I work with...I can bring prosperity back to England and get England back onto balance again. Of course, it would necessitate my bringing my family over there for a year or two (a prospect I would not relish). You did not pay attention last year to my letters re the drought. I hope that you do not make the mistake of ignoring this letter re England's financial plight...and my ability to end it. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 22 May 6, 1977 SCIENTISTS Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Leo Sprinkle Dr. Allen Hynek Dr. Targ Dr. Puthoff Jeffrey Mishlove Gentlemen: What I want you to know...and be aware of...is the actual, absolute fact, that I...am controlling the weather on the western half of the United States...with the cooperation of my UFO partners. I think that Jeffrey Mishlove, budding young, brilliant scientist in the San Francisco area...has been aware of this for some time, through our telephone and mail communications. The UFOs are bent, and unyielding, determined, to obtain for me and my family a base and financial security in the Oregon area. To bring this about, they, the UFOs, are bringing severe drought to bear upon the California and West Coast area...particularly upon the underground water levels. The ONLY way that the California coast...and entire western half of the United States...will get precipitation enough to refill their rivers, wells, etc., will be for someone to finance me and my family...UPON THE UFO TERMS...to move out there...and bring it to pass. ("Bring it to pass" is a biblical term, but since my UFOs (SIs) claim that they worked with Moses, once upon a time, then it is credible to me.) Let me point out the obvious...if no financial backer, scientific or government or private...fulfills the SI terms...then the western half of the United States will be wiped out. This will put such a strain, obliquely, upon the eastern half of the United States...that, for all intents and purposes...the United States will be wiped out. So...we are not talking funny here. We are talking serious business...between UFOs and humans. (And keep in mind that I am half human, half UFO person.) Any hardship against me, caused by the government or scientists or civilians...or counter-attack or retribution...will be counter-attacked by the UFOs. AND YOU HAD BETTER VERY SERIOUSLY KEEP THIS POINT IN MIND! Believe me when I tell you this...THE UFOs ARE FAR FAR FAR MORE TO BE FEARED THAN THE RUSSIANS...or anyone else. What they want, is of the utmost importance, and should be given A-1 priority. And what they want, is not very much. Just enough financial aid to me and my family (a mere fifth of what Barbara Walters makes as a news announcer) to relocate and have a safe base, with financial security. Now...the good news...once the above is complied with...the UFOs will change all of the weather patterns around...and deluge the western half of the United States, and California, with rain and water...to make it completely healthy...within weeks and months. But a warning. Each day...the damage grows worse...and increases the time necessary for the UFOs to make the western half of the United States healthy again. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Six comm'd... if no base etc. They will block all scientific progress in California & West Coast (Stanford, etc.) Friday, May 6, 1977 === Page 2 of 22 A2 Virginian-Pilot, Friday, May 6, 1977 # Drought in Calif. Labeled Worst; Slight Respite for Rest of Nation WASHINGTON (AP)--The U.S. Geological Survey Thursday declared the drought in California the worst dry spell on record for that state. Scientists at the survey said streamflow and runoff are now less than in 1924, the previous worst year. In contrast, over-all drought conditions across the country improved somewhat in April, although the flow of water in streams and rivers remained deficient in slightly less than half the nation. Record low levels of underground water, feeding wells, and springs, were also reported in several states. In California, the survey reported that the North Fork of the American River in the central Sierra Nevada averaged 37 per cent below normal, the seventh straight month of deficient flow. The Smith River near Crescent City averaged 68 per cent below normal during the month and the Kings River was 61 per cent below normal. In Southern California, Arroyo Seco near Pasadena was 80 per cent below normal in April. Storage in major reservoirs in Northern California was about 53 per cent below average. Groundwater levels were below normal in selected wells in Southern California, and more wells were reported going dry in the Santa Clara Valley south of San Jose. "Across the country, April was a month of contrasts, with record-breaking floods in the South and record low flows in the West. On the whole, however, the country remains more dry than wet," said Carroll Saboe, chief of the survey's current water conditions group. He said that combined runoff of the nation's five largest rivers rose seasonally above March levels, but remained 18 per cent below normal. "Moreover, at the end of April the flows of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers were running at less than half the monthly normal, indicating May is getting off to an equally dry start," Saboe said. Among the "Big Five" rivers the strongest gains were recorded by the Columbia at The Dalles, Ore., with an average flow of 64 billion gallons per day. This is 67 per cent more than in March, but it is still 66 per cent below normal. The only decline in the group was the Ohio at Louisville, Ky., which dropped 21 per cent from March to an April average of 124 billion gallons per day. This is only 1 per cent below normal. However, on April 26 flow of the Ohio was down to 53 billion gallons per day, 58 per cent below normal. The Mississippi at Vicksburg, Miss., averaged 530 billion gallons per day, 16 per cent below normal, but April 30 flow had dropped to 381 billion gallons per day. The St. Lawrence at Massena, N.Y., averaged 178 billion gallons per day, 10 per cent above normal; and the Missouri at Hermann, Mo., was 47 per cent below normal at 33 billion gallons per day. Other highlights of the nation's water picture as reported by the Geological Survey included: * Some improvements in streamflow were reported in parts of the Midwest, notably in northern Michigan, western South Dakota, and Nebraska. For example, the Sturgeon River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which had been deficient for 10 of the last 12 months, rose to 34 per cent above normal. * Freshwater inflow to the Chesapeake Bay dropped about 20 per cent from March but remained above normal. * April floods produced record streamflows in more than 30 sites in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. === Page 3 of 22 S.F. EXAMINER Nov. 30, 1976 # All power back on after wind damage Pacific Gas and Electric crews working in 24-hour shifts had power restored yesterday to 130,000 customers in the Bay Area and Northern California who were hit by Friday night's furious windstorm. About 70,000 PG&E users from Marin County to Ukiah lost electric power at the height of the storm, which packed gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Power lines were knocked down by falling trees, utility poles were snapped, barns collapsed. Workers had virtually all power restored in the Sonoma Valley area by yesterday afternoon and last night were responding to "stragglers"--people who had gone away for the long holiday weekend and hadn't been able to report lines down. In the East Bay, where up to 60,000 customers were without power at one time or another, power was completely restored by yesterday afternoon. At least one death was attributed to the storm. At Echo Summit in the Sierra, 50 m.p.h. winds toppled a pine tree across U.S. 50, killing Richard R. Schmeichel, 55, of Lodi. The Highway Patrol said the tree crushed the car driven by Schmeichel, although a passenger escaped injury. The National Weather Service attributed the winds, which abated by yesterday, to "polar Canadian air streaming out of the far north." S.F. EXAMINER Nov. 30, 1976 # Fortune hunters foiled by wind Associated Press OXNARD -- After 11 years of preparation and weeks of news media ballyhoo, Jerry St. John and his crew set sail in a 62-foot ketch in search of Spanish treasure yesterday -- only to capsize a scant 10 miles offshore. There were no reported injuries. St. John's boat and dreams of treasure were dashed by what he called "a freak gust of wind" which picked up the mammoth hand-made sailboat and flopped it on its side. St. John and his crew of eight were to search the waters of the Spanish Honduras for lost gold. The modern-day soldiers of fortune also planned to hunt alligators, whose hides represent a treasure of a different sort -- big money in the United States. But it will take more than one bad start and a gust of wind to keep St. John and his crew down. His boat, "The Saint," was being towed back to harbor, and St. John vowed their sea hunt had only been delayed, not scrapped. San Francisco Chronicle ★★ Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 # 3 Flagpoles at Hall of Justice Are Storm Victims Three 50-foot flagpoles standing outside the Bryant street side of the Hall of Justice were taken down yesterday but Police Chief Charles Gain had nothing to do with it. "This was an act of God not an act of Gain," said the chief, who has had a running battle over the display of flags with various members of his department. The poles were ordered down by the Department of Public Works, Gain said, after one of them was partially toppled by last Friday night's wind storm. Police spokesman Michael O'Toole said the three poles had rotted at the base and were considered dangerous. Two more poles in the rear of the building will be taken down today for the same reason, O'Toole said. # Minor Miracle Saves Milker, But Not Cows Oakland Tribune Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 5 HICKMAN (AP)--His wife called dairy worker N.Y. Jones to breakfast just in time to save his life. Jones left a cow corral moments before a high-voltage power line fell on it Sunday. "It was a miracle he wasn't in there," said Ron Hale, manager of the Foster Farms feed lot near this Central California community. But a herd of Holstein heifers housed in the corral wasn't so fortunate when a flock of starlings took off and snapped the line. At least 30 heifers were knocked to the ground and 11 were killed. real inside now cows! === Page 4 of 22 Virginian-Pilot, Thursday, April 21, 1977 B5 # Pacific Northwest Faces Power Cuts HELENA, Mont. (AP)--Officials say the Pacific Northwest's 7 million people face the likelihood of stringent controls on electricity usage this fall. Drought has dried up the water for hydroelectric dams and voluntary conservation has not worked. A proposal for mandatory controls was drawn up Tuesday by representatives of the area's governors, meeting as the Northwest Electricity Task Force. The plan is to be presented to the governors for review, but they are not expected to act on it until the commission's next meeting in May or June. Ivan L. Gold of Oregon, task force chairman, said he has little doubt that Stage I mandatory controls on commercial use of electricity will be in effect by September. They would be invoked if two new kinds of voluntary programs fail to alleviate the problem. The first stage of mandatory controls would restrict hours for retail shopping and commercial activity; prohibit most lighting for nighttime sporting events, decorative purposes, and parking lots; restrict store signs and window displays to nighttime business hours--which also should be reduced; and ban the electrical heating of swimming pools. Stage II, affecting all customers, could follow within a month or so, according to calculations by Merrill Schultz of Northwest Power Pool. Those would require "all customers"--residential, commercial, and industrial--to cut consumption by "the percentage declared necessary for the region to bring anticipated resources and requirements into balance." A third stage proposed by the group would be even more drastic--rotating interruptions of electrical service, probably for a few hours at a time. Some large industrial users would be ordered to cut usage by a certain percentage, and some would be ordered to shut down. The task force meeting, held here, came only two months after a call in mid-February for voluntary cutbacks of 10 per cent regionwide. The task force was told that only 32 per cent of that goal has been reached. Now, Schultz estimates, the region has a 50-50 chance of needing the mandatory controls. The calculations reflect the continuing lack of water--from rain and from winter snowpack in the mountains--available to run the hydroelectric dams that supply most of the region's electricity. === Page 5 of 22 San Francisco Chronicle 5 ★★ Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 # All power back on after wind damage Pacific Gas and Electric crews working in 24-hour shifts had power restored yesterday to 130,000 customers in the Bay Area and Northern California who were hit by Friday night's furious windstorm. About 70,000 PG&E users from Marin County to Ukiah lost electric power at the height of the storm, which packed gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Power lines were knocked down by falling trees, utility poles were snapped, barns collapsed. Workers had virtually all power restored in the Sonoma Valley area by yesterday afternoon and last night were responding to "stragglers"--people who had gone away for the long holiday weekend and hadn't been able to report lines down. In the East Bay, where up to 60,000 customers were without power at one time or another, power was completely restored by yesterday afternoon. At least one death was attributed to the storm. At Echo Summit in the Sierra, 50 m.p.h. winds toppled a pine tree across U.S. 50, killing Richard R. Schmeichel, 55, of Lodi. The Highway Patrol said the tree crushed the car driven by Schmeichel, although a passenger escaped injury. The National Weather Service attributed the winds, which abated yesterday, to "polar Canadian air streaming out of the far north." # Fortune hunters foiled by wind Associated Press OXNARD -- After 11 years of preparation and weeks of news media ballyhoo, Jerry St. John and his crew set sail in a 62-foot ketch in search of Spanish treasure yesterday -- only to capsize a scant 10 miles offshore. There were no reported injuries. St. John's boat and dreams of treasure were dashed by what he called "a freak gust of wind" which picked up the mammoth hand-made sailboat and flopped it on its side. St. John and his crew of eight were to search the waters of the Spanish Honduras for lost gold. The modern-day soldiers of fortune also planned to hunt alligators, whose hides represent a treasure of a different sort -- big money in the United States. But it will take more than one bad start and a gust of wind to keep St. John and his crew down. His boat, "The Saint," was being towed back to harbor, and St. John vowed their sea hunt had only been delayed, not scrapped. # 3 Flagpoles at Hall of Justice Are Storm Victims Three 50-foot flagpoles standing outside the Bryant street side of the Hall of Justice were taken down yesterday but Police Chief Charles Gain had nothing to do with it. "This was an act of God, not an act of Gain," said the chief, who has had a running battle over the display of flags with various members of his department. The poles were ordered down by the Department of Public Works, Gain said, after one of them was partially toppled by last Friday night's wind storm. Police spokesman Michael O'Toole said the three poles had rotted at the base and were considered dangerous. Two more poles in the rear of the building will be taken down today for the same reason, O'Toole said. # Minor Miracle Saves Milker, But Not Cows Oakland Tribune Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 5 HICKMAN (AP)--His wife called dairy worker N.Y. Jones to breakfast just in time to save his life. Jones left a cow corral moments before a high-voltage power line fell on it Sunday. "It was a miracle he wasn't in there," said Ron Hale, manager of the Foster Farms feed lot near this Central California community. But a herd of Holstein heifers housed in the corral wasn't so fortunate when a flock of starlings took off and snapped the line. At least 30 heifers were knocked to the ground and 11 were killed. === Page 6 of 22 Urgent! May 24, 1977 The United States..........is about to be destroyed. Although you do not know it..........the western half of the United States is being attacked by UFO other-dimensional powers..........absorbing the water underneath the ground in that area. If it continues for long..........then the western half of the United States will be destroyed..........and the eastern half of the United States will then collapse (from factors radiating from the western half.) Scratch the entire United States. And at that time, I might add, the U.S. would be a sitting duck for a Russian missile attack. I can save the United States. But I need your help. I need thousands and thousands of dollars..........to set up a base in Oregon..........have temporal and financial freedom..........to work to bring tremendous rains upon the western half of the United States. (I have controlled weather over entire countries before; documented.) It will take me six months to a year to get U.S. weather conditions back to normal and the West well and back on its feet. So I am requesting that you send me, as soon as possible, as much money as you can spare..........$50, $100, $1,000, a hundred thousand..........as quickly as you can. Let me spell it out. If my 20 contacts cannot help me (and I have no other help; govt. and science will not heed me) then the U.S. will be destroyed. Within the next week to two weeks..........my family and I will move from Cape Charles to some point in Oregon..........to try and set up a base there. Millie, on the West Coast, has broken me loose from Cape Charles so that I can get to that area..........but it is simply relocating money -- there won't be enough funds to carry on after relocating there..........and that is where I need your help. Whatever help that you can send to me, send to Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia, 23310, and it will be forwarded on to me, to help. Perhaps you might think that I am joking..........or am totally wrong about this..........about what I am saying and what I am trying to do. But, scan your files that I have sent to you for years. Was I joking then? Never! Did I get miraculous results? You'd better believe it, I did! Now, in case you are strapped and cannot help, then simply forget this letter. You can only do what you can do. And I'll just keep on doing the best that I can do, with what I have to work with. It is just plain unfortunate that I do not know one rich man..........who would know my work and understand..........and underwrite what I need to have now, to get done what is necessary. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 7 of 22 Chryster on Owens 158 PREDICTIONS FOR 1977 targets at once by sliding the guns along the metal ring/mount in front of him. New Inventions: I predict that in 1977 a new method will be found to put satellites into orbit. It will use a mirror mechanism to reflect the sun's rays back onto a pinpointed target on earth. A water reservoir at a certain location in the U.S. will be heated and supply much energy to needed power sources. In 1977 water will be very scarce. Scientists will turn to an alternate method of removing human excreta from bathroom commodes. International Affairs: I predict that 1977 will be the Year of the Assassination in the U.S. No Congressman, Senator, or other top government official will be safe. Revolutionary groups will form underground using sophisticated weapons stolen from the military. They want to take over our government. There are both black and white revolutionary groups. Many top men in government will be blown up or shot by these groups. Their philosophy will be that it takes too long for the present corrupt politican to leave office. The entire feeling, thought and tenor of this country will swing against our government in 1977. I predict that in 1977 the Rich Gang will attempt to instigate a war between the United States and Africa, and/or the Middle East. Objective: oil and other valuable geological materials. If they are successful in doing so, and we win, they win. UFOs: A handful of U.S. scientists have been brave enough to pursue the matters of UFOs in spite of catcalls from their peers. Their bravery will pay off in 1977. Business and Finance: Small businesses will be closed or gobbled up by bigger businesses. The Mafia and Syndicate will become much more powerful in 1977 as they utilize their hidden billions to gobble up little businesses all over the United States. There are now Negro "Mafia and Syndicates" intertwined with the white Mafia and Syndicates. They will do the same and prosper--for awhile. Farming: Nature is against you, folks. A plague from PREDICTIONS FOR 1977 159 insects, etc., will ravage land and crops in 1977. A weather plague will hit. Mental health: More people will go into institutions, or die from mental troubles than in the past five years combined. This is no age for the weak. Only the strongest will survive--if anyone, in fact, does manage to survive the next few years. Frankly, I do not see any good news ahead for the United States in 1977. I predict falling value for the American dollar; rising unemployment; sick stock market in danger of crashing; the government clobbering the people; the people rising up to clobber the government; foreign countries rising up against us; and bad storms and weather. === Page 8 of 22 Top of the Week Newsweek **Nixon's Apologia** Page 28 Richard Nixon didn't watch himself on television last week, but an estimated 50 million people did. They witnessed his dramatic confrontation with interrogator David Frost and his misty-eyed mea culpa--though the ex-President still insisted he did not commit any impeachable crime. As part of a nine-page report, Newsweek asked participants in the Watergate drama to assess Nixon's performance on the Frost show and commissioned a Gallup poll to gauge public reaction. The poll shows that Nixon won a measure of public sympathy, but most viewers thought he was covering up his own criminal guilt. **Sun Power** Page 94 The alternate-energy source that most intrigues America is the sun. Solar power is clean and plentiful--and the rush to harness it is already turning a cottage industry into a business of corporate giants. **The King Lives** Page 101 Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" is back on Broadway and it looks better than ever. The rise of women's lib has only heightened its clash between a Victorian British schoolmistress and the reactionary King of Siam, and age has deepened the remarkable stage charisma of the show's once and present star--Yul Brynner. **Hassan Speaks** Page 58 In an exclusive interview with Newsweek's Arnaud de Borchgrave, Morocco's King Hassan (below) explains why he sent troops into Zaire and what he thinks the Soviet Union is up to in Africa. **A '70s Star** Page 80 Robert De Niro, the most exciting young American actor, will soon appear in his unlikeliest role--as a saxophone player in a '40s musical. Jack Kroll, who interviewed De Niro, previews "New York, New York" and--with reporting by Martin Kasindorf, Katrine Ames and others--probes the actor's elusive art. (Cover photo by Bruce McBroom--United Artists.) **ABC's New News Chief** Page 103 ABC's sports genius Roone Arledge, newly named the network's news president, shares some bold thoughts on his new job with Harry F. Waters. He'd like to try multiple anchor people--and he thinks Barbara Walters is mainly an interviewer. **Contents** May 16, 1977 | | | | |---|---|---| | **NATIONAL AFFAIRS** .......... 26 | **BUSINESS** .......... 88 | **THEATER** .......... 101 | | Carter in Europe | The economy: a spring rebound | Yul Brynner returns in "The King and I" | | Watching Nixon | A blow to Carter's energy plan | **BOOKS** .......... 110 | | The people's verdict: guilty | Solar power: how near is it? | A young American looks at China | | Jaworski answers Nixon | Regulations: what price safety? | V.S. Pritchett's biography of Turgenev | | Four other views on the ex-President | Aviation: the ozone hazard | "Yellow Roses," by Elizabeth Cullinan | | The extraordinary monologue | **TELEVISION** .......... 103 | Willard R. Espy's family memoir, "Oysterville" | | This week: tales of Henry the K | A talk with ABC News chief Roone Arledge | **MUSIC** .......... 116 | | Carter vs. the liberals | The spread of TV "news magazines" | "The Emperor of Atlantis": a superb American | | **INTERNATIONAL** .......... 49 | **RELIGION** .......... 119 | production of the death-camp opera | | Carter's diplomatic blitz | Catholics: the bishops rule | **OTHER DEPARTMENTS** | | Turkey's bloody May Day | **EDUCATION** .......... 121 | Letters .......... 4 | | Israel faces the polls | Harvard's Kennedy School at 10 | Update .......... 16 | | An interview with King Hassan of Morocco | **THE ARTS** | Periscope .......... 23 | | Human rights: the Kremlin cracks down | **ART** .......... 72 | Newsmakers .......... 47 | | Patt Derian, Carter's point woman | A Kenneth Noland retrospective at New York's | Transition .......... 119 | | **SPORTS** .......... 77 | Guggenheim Museum | **THE COLUMNISTS** | | The Kentucky Derby | **MOVIES** .......... 80 | My Turn: Peter Carlson .......... 13 | | "Octopus" called the Dodgers | Robert De Niro, a star for the '70s (the cover) | Paul A. Samuelson .......... 98 | | .......... 78 | Director Martin Scorsese, the movie brat | George F. Will .......... 122 | | | | © 1977 by Newsweek, Inc., 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. All rights reserved. | 3 === Page 9 of 22 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) ---------- Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia May 1, 1977 23310 Dear President Carter...this is without a doubt one of the most important communications that you will ever receive. The very survival of the United States depends upon your reply. (If you would like to check me out...scientist Jeffrey Mishlove, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115; scientist Dr. Max Fogel, Sumneytown Pike, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, 19436; scientists Targ and Puthoff, Stanford Research Institute, K 1029, Menlo Park, California, 94025; and scientist Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Box 3708, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 82070. These scientists are familiar with the work that I have done, and what I can do. Now...if the western half of the United States continues upon its drought course...it will be destroyed...and will drag down, indirectly and obliquely, the eastern half of the United States. I have the powers, through contacts with UFOs, to bring all of the rains to the western half of the United States needed to end the drought completely. I would caution you not to jump too quickly to the conclusion that I am some crackpot or cuckoo...without first checking with the above-named scientists. For details of what would be required...if you are interested...check with Jeffrey Mishlove, above. And frankly...as each day the damage to the western half of the United States multiplies and deepens...I hope that you listen, and take quick action! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owens === Page 10 of 22 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 May 18, 1977 Prime Minister Trudeau Montreal, Canada I understand that you have extensive drought in parts of Canada. I know that it sounds incredible, but I can end any drought that you have in your country. Last year I was invited to lecture to some of the world's top scientists in the field of parapsychology, in London, England...and at the same time I ended the terrible drought in England...first informing the assembled scientists during my lecture. I work for, and with, UFOs...and on occasion have produced UFOs at designated areas for scientists...and can supply an affidavit from a top scientist as proof. If you are interested, please contact Jeffrey Mishlove, (a scientist), at 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115, for details. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 32, Cape Charles, Va. 23310 Owens === Page 11 of 22 TED OWENS P O BOX 32 CAPE CHARLES, VA. 23310 CAPE CHARLES, VA 23310 MAR 30 AM 1977 USA 13c CENTENNIAL OF SOUND RECORDING Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over → === Page 12 of 22 If I come out there ... I'll do radio or TV and you can have the fee to help on academic expenses. Or a lecture. I'll do that to help you, as you helped me with the "psychic" photos. Of course ... it goes without saying that I take care of my "base" expenses. Ted === Page 13 of 22 May 5, 1977 Jeffrey...a San Francisco lady has pledged to try to get together a couple of thousand only to get to me for my confidential September affair...so I will be willing to end the drought over the entire western half of the United States for $100,000 minimum, as per terms outlined before...or the million deal, as outlined before...with your confidential, underline confidential, 10% cash in hand for either deal. Ted Owens === Page 14 of 22 Jeffrey...I wanted to xerox this set and send it out to 20 contacts, five of them scientists. BUT...seeing has how you sent me Regan's letter...thought I'd better check with you first on the ethics of it. Don't want Regan to get mad at you; or you get mad at me. If you don't want Regan's letter to go out to these 20 contacts, give me a phone call and let me know, and will delete it plus my response re him. It should be in the set...because it was my main motivation for intensifying the water shortage out there...but..... you can call the shot. If I do not hear from you by May 20, will go ahead and send it out, figuring you don't care one way or t'other. Ted Owens Six comm'd... if no base & sec. - they will block all scientific progress in California & West Coast (Stanford, etc.) Friday, 11/May, 1977 aware of...is the actual, absolute fact, that the western half of the United States... with the cooperation of my UFO partners. I think that Jeffrey Mishlove, budding young, brilliant scientist in the San Francisco area...has been aware of this for some time, through our telephone and mail communications. The UFOs are bent, and unyielding, determined, to obtain for me and my family a base and financial security in the Oregon area. To bring this about, they, the UFOs, are bringing severe drought to bear upon the California and West Coast area...particularly upon the underground water levels. The ONLY way that the California coast...and entire western half of the United States...will get precipitation enough to refill their rivers, wells, etc., will be for someone to finance me and my family...UPON THE UFO TERMS...to move out there...and bring it to pass. ("Bring it to pass" is a biblical term, but since my UFOs (SIs) claim that they worked with Moses, once upon a time, then it is credible to me.) Let me point out the obvious...if no financial backer, scientific or government or private...fulfills the SI terms...then the western half of the United States will be wiped out. This will put such a strain, obliquely, upon the eastern half of the United States...that, for all intents and purposes...the United States will be wiped out. So...we are not talking funny here. We are talking serious business... between UFOs and humans. (And keep in mind that I am half human, half UFO person.) Any hardship against me, caused by the government or scientists or civilians... or counter-attack or retribution...will be counter-attacked by the UFOs. AND YOU HAD BETTER VERY SRIOUSLY KEEP THIS POINT IN MIND! Believe me when I tell you this...THE UFOs ARE FAR FAR FAR MORE TO BE FEARED THAN THE RUSSIANS...or anyone else. What they want, is of the utmost importance, and should be given A-1 priority. And what they want, is not very much. Just enough financial aid to me and my family (a mere fifth of what Barbara Walters makes as a news announcer) to relocate and have a safe base, with financial security. Now...the good news...once the above is complied with...the UFOs will change all of the weather patterns around...and deluge the western half of the United States, and California, with rain and water...to make it completely healthy...within weeks and months. But a warning. Each day...the damage grows worse...and increases the time necessary for the UFOs to make the western half of the United States healthy again. Ted Owens (PK Man) Ted Owens === Page 15 of 22 May 6, 1977 SCIENTISTS Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Leo Sprinkle Dr. Allen Hynek Dr. Targ Dr. Puthoff Jeffrey Mishlove Gentlemen: What I want you to know...and be aware of...is the actual, absolute fact, that I...am controlling the weather on the western half of the United States... with the cooperation of my UFO partners. I think that Jeffrey Mishlove, budding young, brilliant scientist in the San Francisco area...has been aware of this for some time, through our telephone and mail communications. The UFOs are bent, and unyielding, determined, to obtain for me and my family a base and financial security in the Oregon area. To bring this about, they, the UFOs, are bringing severe drought to bear upon the California and West Coast area...particularly upon the underground water levels. The ONLY way that the California coast...and entire western half of the United States...will get precipitation enough to refill their rivers, wells, etc., will be for someone to finance me and my family...UPON THE UFO TERMS...to move out there...and bring it to pass. ("Bring it to pass" is a biblical term, but since my UFOs (SIs) claim that they worked with Moses, once upon a time, then it is credible to me.) Let me point out the obvious...if no financial backer, scientific or government or private...fulfills the SI terms...then the western half of the United States will be wiped out. This will put such a strain, obliquely, upon the eastern half of the United States...that, for all intents and purposes...the United States will be wiped out. So...we are not talking funny here. We are talking serious business... between UFOs and humans. (And keep in mind that I am half human, half UFO person.) Any hardship against me, caused by the government or scientists or civilians... or counter-attack or retribution...will be counter-attacked by the UFOs. AND YOU HAD BETTER VERY SERIOUSLY KEEP THIS POINT IN MIND! Believe me when I tell you this...THE UFOs ARE FAR FAR FAR MORE TO BE FEARED THAN THE RUSSIANS...or anyone else. What they want, is of the utmost importance, and should be given A-1 priority. And what they want, is not very much. Just enough financial aid to me and my family (a mere fifth of what Barbara Walters makes as a news announcer) to relocate and have a safe base, with financial security. Now...the good news...once the above is complied with...the UFOs will change all of the weather patterns around...and deluge the western half of the United States, and California, with rain and water...to make it completely healthy...within weeks and months. But a warning. Each day...the damage grows worse...and increases the time necessary for the UFOs to make the western half of the United States healthy again. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 16 of 22 THE INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES The Institute of Noetic Sciences 530 Oak Grove Avenue, Suite 201 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415) 328-1988 Jeffrey Mishlove, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, CA 94115 January 26 1977 Dear Jeffrey, Many thanks indeed for your letter of November 17 and December 24 1976 received some time ago. I am sorry that I have taken so long to get back to you, but I have been out of town for several weeks and things seem to pile up around here at an amazing rate! I remember being more than a little intrigued by your first letter, but at the same time I thought to myself, well off we go again, into a sea of probabilities and statistical dust-storms! That is not to say that I didnt think the whole idea interesting but that when you intended to cover such a large area of the state, plus take in such a diverse range of phenomena, how could one ever make a solid claim of the cause and effect type? I mean, UFO's, abnormal weather and electrical failures on one level are all seemingly connected and on another seem so scattered in nature as to make one dispair of ever proving anything concrete about it all. Thus, now that you have come back with a description of events from the period of time involved, I find it hard to evaluate. In particular, I wonder what would happen if you were to seek for such kinds of events in some other randomly chosen area of the U.S.? Would you find a similar scattering of events perhaps? As far as the drought problem, I dont doubt that the entire state would jump at anything that would help the present situation but I cant quite see a procedure that would persuade "serious" people to get formally involved. On one level, one could simply inform the local weather bureaus of one's intentions with the request that they simply watch for departures from the rainless weather patterns that have been with us for so long. Further, the long-range forecasts indicating that no rain is in sight have been quite accurate to date and so if Owens (or anyone else) could alter radically the predictions of the existing long-range forecasts, then that would be proof enough to allow the subsequent development of a serious project. === Page 17 of 22 -page 2- What amazes me about all this is that if you are to believe the claims of one J. Trevor Constable - who I believe is in the Los Angeles area - then we shouldnt have to go out of state to find someone capable of doing what you suggest. The fact is however that here we are with a real-life need and suddenly the much touted claims by these people that they can alter the weather "dont work" when they are most wanted. It all tends to make me more than a little sceptical - as if you hadnt noticed already! I know that Owens in the past has made quite a few claims to paranormal abilities - including that of being "way ahead" of Geller and all that. But, I dont know of any research that has been done on him and so cant evaluate him in any way. Thus, my feeling is that he should either put up or shut up in a very clear and undeniable way. Personally, I'll settle for two weeks straight rain - starting on a specific day and finishing two weeks later, within 24 hours of the fourteenth day. Then it will be time to sit up and take notice!!! Let me know what happens. Very best wishes, Brendan Brendan O'Regan Director of Research FORECAST for Saturday COOL 60 80 Cold Warm Showers Stationary Occluded 80 Figures show high temperatures for area. 80 Data from NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, NOAA, US Dept of Commerce === Page 18 of 22 3 earthquake demonstration...to shake the damn scientists and govt. agencies loose from their buttoned-down minds. I reckon the SIs are right. It will take something like that, to get the message over to the fools. As for your last paragraph...I am totally disinterested in giving any demonstration which has been done by Ray Stanford, Stella Lansing, or Fatima. If they've done it, what makes me any different from them? And I am different...and my work is different...totally. Now let's take Brendan O'Regan's letter...and you say "we must allow he has made a few good points." Well, I will not allow that. He has made no good points at all. Unless you mean his remark "but I can't quite see a procedure that would persuade 'serious' people to get formally involved." Meaning, of course...other than laymen. I'd like to point out...that a hell of a lot of laymen have, in the past...made quite significant contributions to the human race, quite often in spite of the scientists. Rhine, for 20 years, was hooted at and laughed at by scientists (although not a layman)...until he made his point and stopped their hooting and laughing. Other important discoveries have been made by laymen...which have been snapped up by the scientific community and used. Anyway, O'Regan makes it clear that he doesn't take my work seriously. He goes on further to compound his non-scientific character...to he goes on further to state: "Thus, my feeling is that he should either put up or shut up in a very clear and undeniable way." Now, he has just previously stated that no research has been done on me...and so he cannot evaluate me in any way...yet he goes ahead and "sour apples" me! This...is a scientist? He doesn't know my background; nor my past; nor what I have done...yet he puts me down. Utterly unscientific. He isn't after the truth; he's merely after a layman. I spit on O'Regan...and you can quote me on that to him. He may be Irish...I am Welsh and Apache mixed, and I will put my mixture up against the Irish anytime! As for "put up or shut up" (and his disrespect toward me makes me boil) I consider that I have just "put up" for you. In good faith, I gave the finest demonstration I could give...statistics be damned. As for "shut up": it will take more than an O'Regan to ever shut me up! Now I tell you this. I showed your letter and O'Regan's letter to the SIs through my eyes. Know what they instructed me to do? Pin up O'Regan's letter beside my OD earthquake mechanism map come March 11...and read O'Regan's letter each day just before I activate the mechanism. If that won't motivate me, nothing will! And you can tell O'Regan that within minutes...I can increase the drought and heat factor over California! I can regulate it as easily as he can set his thermostat. If he wants to challenge that...I will be delighted to demonstrate it for him! As for "specific days" and "specific times"...no such thing exists in OD work. Nor will a UFO land on a certain building in downtown LA at 3 in the afternoon, either. Forget it! If he'd bothered to scan my work for years...he'd know this, as a basic. As for your suggestion to "make it snow"...I've already done that, Jeffrey. Enough yet. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 19 of 22 A2 Virginian-Pilot, Friday, May 6, 1977 # Drought in Calif. Labeled Worst; Slight Respite for Rest of Nation WASHINGTON (AP)--The U.S. Geological Survey Thursday declared the drought in California the worst dry spell on record for that state. Scientists at the survey said streamflow and runoff are now less than in 1924, the previous worst year. In contrast, over-all drought conditions across the country improved somewhat in April, although the flow of water in streams and rivers remained deficient in slightly less than half the nation. Record low levels of underground water, feeding wells, and springs, were also reported in several states. In California, the survey reported that the North Fork of the American River in the central Sierra Nevada averaged 87 per cent below normal, the seventh straight month of deficient flow. The Smith River near Crescent City averaged 66 per cent below normal during the month and the Kings River was 61 per cent below normal. In Southern California, Arroyo Seco near Pasadena was 80 per cent below normal in April. Storage in major reservoirs in Northern California was about 53 per cent below average. Groundwater levels were below normal in selected wells in Southern California, and more wells were reported going dry in the Santa Clara Valley south of San Jose. "Across the country, April was a month of contrasts, with record-breaking floods in the South and record low flows in the West. On the whole, however, the country remains more dry than wet," said Carroll Saboe, chief of the survey's current water conditions group. He said that combined runoff of the nation's five largest rivers rose seasonally above March levels, but remained 18 per cent below normal. "Moreover, at the end of April the flows of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers were running at less than half the monthly normal, indicating May is getting off to an equally dry start," Saboe said. Among the "Big Five" rivers the strongest gains were recorded by the Columbia at The Dalles, Ore., with an average flow of 64 billion gallons per day. This is 67 per cent more than in March, but it is still 66 per cent below normal. The only decline in the group was the Ohio at Louisville, Ky., which dropped 21 per cent from March to an April average of 124 billion gallons per day. This is only 1 per cent below normal. However, on April 28 flow of the Ohio was down to 53 billion gallons per day, 58 per cent below normal. The Mississippi at Vicksburg, Miss., averaged 530 billion gallons per day, 16 per cent below normal, but April 30 flow had dropped to 331 billion gallons per day. The St. Lawrence at Massena, N.Y., averaged 178 billion gallons per day, 10 per cent above normal; and the Missouri at Hermann, Mo., was 47 per cent below normal at 33 billion gallons per day. Other highlights of the nation's water picture as reported by the Geological Survey included: * Some improvements in streamflow were reported in parts of the Midwest, notably in northern Michigan, western South Dakota, and Nebraska. For example, the Sturgeon River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which had been deficient for 10 of the last 12 months, rose to 34 per cent above normal. * Freshwater inflow to the Chesapeake Bay dropped about 20 per cent from March but remained above normal. * April floods produced record streamflows in more than 30 sites in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. === Page 20 of 22 San Francisco Chronicle ** Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 # All power back on after wind damage Pacific Gas and Electric crews working in 24-hour shifts had power restored yesterday to 130,000 customers in the Bay Area and Northern California who were hit by Friday night's furious windstorm. About 70,000 PG&E users from Marin County to Ukiah lost electric power at the height of the storm, which packed gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Power lines were knocked down by falling trees, utility poles were snapped, barns collapsed. Workers had virtually all power restored in the Sonoma Valley area by yesterday afternoon and last night were responding to "stragglers"--people who had gone away for the long holiday weekend and hadn't been able to report lines down. In the East Bay, where up to 60,000 customers were without power at one time or another, power was completely restored by yesterday afternoon. At least one death was attributed to the storm. At Echo Summit in the Sierra, 50 m.p.h. winds toppled a pine tree across U.S. 50, killing Richard R. Schmeichel, 55, of Lodi. The Highway Patrol said the tree crushed the car driven by Schmeichel, although a passenger escaped injury. The National Weather Service attributed the winds, which abated by yesterday, to "polar Canadian air streaming out of the far north." # Fortune hunters foiled by wind CALIF. Associated Press OXNARD -- After 11 years of preparation and weeks of news media ballyhoo, Jerry St. John and his crew set sail in a 62-foot ketch in search of Spanish treasure yesterday -- only to capsize a scant 10 miles offshore. There were no reported injuries. St. John's boat and dreams of treasure were dashed by what he called "a freak gust of wind" which picked up the mammoth hand-made sailboat and flopped it on its side. St. John and his crew of eight were to search the waters of the Spanish Honduras for lost gold. The modern-day soldiers of fortune also planned to hunt alligators, whose hides represent a treasure of a different sort -- big money in the United States. But it will take more than one bad start and a gust of wind to keep St. John and his crew down. His boat, "The Saint," was being towed back to harbor, and St. John vowed their sea hunt had only been delayed, not scrapped. # 3 Flagpoles at Hall of Justice Are Storm Victims Three 50-foot flagpoles standing outside the Bryant street side of the Hall of Justice were taken down yesterday but Police Chief Charles Gain had nothing to do with it. "This was an act of God, not an act of Gain," said the chief, who has had a running battle over the display of flags with various members of his department. The poles were ordered down by the Department of Public Works, Gain said, after one of them was partially toppled by last Friday night's wind storm. Police spokesman Michael O'Toole said the three poles had rotted at the base and were considered dangerous. Two more poles in the rear of the building will be taken down today for the same reason, O'Toole said. # Minor Miracle Saves Milker, But Not Cows Oakland Tribune Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 5 HICKMAN (AP)--His wife called dairy worker N.Y. Jones to breakfast just in time to save his life. Jones left a cow corral moments before a high-voltage power line fell on it Sunday. "It was a miracle he wasn't in there," said Ron Hale, manager of the Foster Farms feed lot near this Central California community. But a herd of Holstein heifers housed in the corral wasn't so fortunate when a flock of starlings took off and snapped the line. At least 30 heifers were knocked to the ground and 11 were killed. === Page 21 of 22 Virginian-Pilot, Thursday, April 21, 1977 B5 # Pacific Northwest Faces Power Cuts HELENA, Mont. (AP)--Officials say the Pacific Northwest's 7 million people face the likelihood of stringent controls on electricity usage this fall. Drought has dried up the water for hydroelectric dams and voluntary conservation has not worked. A proposal for mandatory controls was drawn up Tuesday by representatives of the area's governors, meeting as the Northwest Electricity Task Force. The plan is to be presented to the governors for review, but they are not expected to act on it until the commission's next meeting in May or June. Ivan L. Gold of Oregon, task force chairman, said he has little doubt that Stage I mandatory controls on commercial use of electricity will be in effect by September. They would be invoked if two new kinds of voluntary programs fail to alleviate the problem. The first stage of mandatory controls would restrict hours for retail shopping and commercial activity; prohibit most lighting for nighttime sporting events, decorative purposes, and parking lots; restrict store signs and window displays to nighttime business hours--which also should be reduced; and ban the electrical heating of swimming pools. Stage II, affecting all customers, could follow within a month or so, according to calculations by Merrill Schultz of Northwest Power Pool. Those would require "all customers"--residential, commercial, and industrial--to cut consumption by "the percentage declared necessary for the region to bring anticipated resources and requirements into balance." A third stage proposed by the group would be even more drastic--rotating interruptions of electrical service, probably for a few hours at a time. Some large industrial users would be ordered to cut usage by a certain percentage, and some would be ordered to shut down. The task force meeting, held here, came only two months after a call in mid-February for voluntary cutbacks of 10 per cent regionwide. The task force was told that only 32 per cent of that goal has been reached. Now, Schultz estimates, the region has a 50-50 chance of needing the mandatory controls. The calculations reflect the continuing lack of water--from rain and from winter snowpack in the mountains--available to run the hydroelectric dams that supply most of the region's electricity. === Page 22 of 22 San Francisco Chronicle 5 ★★ Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 # All power back on after wind damage Pacific Gas and Electric crews working in 24-hour shifts had power restored yesterday to 130,000 customers in the Bay Area and Northern California who were hit by Friday night's furious windstorm. About 70,000 PG&E users from Marin County to Ukiah lost electric power at the height of the storm, which packed gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Power lines were knocked down by falling trees, utility poles were snapped, barns collapsed. Workers had virtually all power restored in the Sonoma Valley area by yesterday afternoon and last night were responding to "stragglers"--people who had gone away for the long holiday weekend and hadn't been able to report lines down. In the East Bay, where up to 60,000 customers were without power at one time or another, power was completely restored by yesterday afternoon. At least one death was attributed to the storm. At Echo Summit in the Sierra, 50 m.p.h. winds toppled a pine tree across U.S. 50, killing Richard R. Schmeichel, 55, of Lodi. The Highway Patrol said the tree crushed the car driven by Schmeichel, although a passenger escaped injury. The National Weather Service attributed the winds, which abated by yesterday, to "polar Canadian air streaming out of the far north." # Fortune hunters foiled by wind Associated Press OXNARD -- After 11 years of preparation and weeks of news media ballyhoo, Jerry St. John and his crew set sail in a 62-foot ketch in search of Spanish treasure yesterday -- only to capsize a scant 10 miles offshore. There were no reported injuries. St. John's boat and dreams of treasure were dashed by what he called "a freak gust of wind" which picked up the mammoth hand-made sailboat and flopped it on its side. St. John and his crew of eight were to search the waters of the Spanish Honduras for lost gold. The modern-day soldiers of fortune also planned to hunt alligators, whose hides represent a treasure of a different sort -- big money in the United States. But it will take more than one bad start and a gust of wind to keep St. John and his crew down. His boat, "The Saint," was being towed back to harbor, and St. John vowed their sea hunt had only been delayed, not scrapped. # 3 Flagpoles at Hall of Justice Are Storm Victims Three 50-foot flagpoles standing outside the Bryant street side of the Hall of Justice were taken down yesterday but Police Chief Charles Gain had nothing to do with it. "This was an act of God, not an act of Gain," said the chief, who has had a running battle over the display of flags with various members of his department. The poles were ordered down by the Department of Public Works, Gain said, after one of them was partially toppled by last Friday night's wind storm. Police spokesman Michael O'Toole said the three poles had rotted at the base and were considered dangerous. Two more poles in the rear of the building will be taken down today for the same reason, O'Toole said. # Minor Miracle Saves Milker, But Not Cows Oakland Tribune Tues., Nov. 30, 1976 5 HICKMAN (AP)--His wife called dairy worker N.Y. Jones to breakfast just in time to save his life. Jones left a cow corral moments before a high-voltage power line fell on it Sunday. "It was a miracle he wasn't in there," said Ron Hale, manager of the Foster Farms feed lot near this Central California community. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 # The Virginian-Pilot Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, Virginia, Tuesday, June 7, 1977 # 5 Killed in 98-m.p.h. Wind That Leaves Cities Stunned ## 8 Missing In Boat Overturn ## 'One Big Wave' Flipped the Craft, Crewman of Charter Boat Recalls By APPY CHANDLER Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer NORFOLK--It was 2:30 p.m. and the Dixie Lee II, a 42-foot charter fishing boat, was making ready to leave Harrison's Pier in Ocean View for its third trip of the day. Crew member Jay Gallagher, 21, had heard the forecast calling for thunderstorms and squalls. "It was windy as hell, but since it was my first trip when the captain says go, you get up and go." And so the Dixie Lee II set out. Capt. Harrison Lewis didn't return. Nor did 13 of the charter fishermen's guests. The boat capsized about two miles east of Hampton Roads as it was hit by a squall with winds nearing 100-miles per hour. Gallagher, teeth chattering and wrapped in a wet blanket, was one of 13 survivors picked up by an Exmore waterman and brought ashore at the Willoughby Bay Marina. He recalled: "It just came out of nowhere. It was all so fast. Can you get me a cup of coffee?" Gallagher remembers asking Lewis if they would head in if it started to rain. He said the captain replied, "No." Mike Shoup, 17, another crew member, was working as a baitman. One of the lucky 13, Shoup, his lanky blonde hair across his pale face, said that he was in the cabin when the wave hit. "It was just one big wave--maybe 15 feet--and the boat flipped over. That's all." The 29-year-old Exmore waterman who came to the rescue was Paul Holland. Barefoot and tired, he rested in the cluttered cabin of his 42-foot white oystering boat, the Joyce Lee. Holland said that he had been returning to Cape Charles from a day of crabbing off the North Carolina coast when he passed the Dixie Lee II. When the squall struck, he turned his boat around to see whether everything was all right with the charter. Five people were killed and eight were missing after a charter fishing boat overturned Monday afternoon near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay under the fury of a thunderstorm that raked through Tidewater packing winds of up to 98 miles per hour and hail the size of golf balls. Twenty-seven people were aboard the party fishing boat, Dixie Lee II, operated by Harrison Lewis, 52, when the squall line hit it about 5 p.m. A passing boat, the Joyce Lee from Exmore, plucked 14 people from the water and brought them to Willoughby Marina. Survivors were brought to De Paul Hospital. The Coast Guard cutter Point Arena pulled three bodies from the water and a Navy helicopter hoisted in another. A massive search for the missing was continuing late Monday. The bow portion of the boat was found near Thimble Shoals about 7:15 p.m., and a Norfolk police boat was en route to look for survivors. A police diver retrieved the fifth body about 9 p.m. The 40-foot Dixie-Lee II left Harrison's Pier in Norfolk about 2:30 p.m. and was due to return about 8:30 p.m., according to Charles Woodard, night manager at Harrison's pier. "I had done sailed past them a half hour," and by the time he made it back all he could see "were people floating away from the boat holding on to what they could." Holland credited the torrential rain with making it possible to save anybody at all. "The sea wasn't so bad, 'cause the rain knocked it down. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what I would have done." Holland particularly remembers the bearded Gallagher. "He was shouting that the boat had gone down. Rain was so bad he couldn't see he was right close to the boat." Moving slowly through choppy waves, Holland picked up all the survivors he could find--eight men and five women. "All I could see was the cab (of the Dixie Lee II) and people holding on to her." When he left the scene, Holland said, "I didn't see nobody or nothing." ILLUSTRATION # 16 The storm damaged a wide area from Smithfield to Virginia Beach. It entered Tidewater from the west about 4 p.m. and rolled out to sea about 6 p.m. It knocked out electricity and water to thousands of homes, overturned trees, shattered windows, and sent portions of the roof of the old Atlantic Hotel in downtown Norfolk raining down on Granby Street. The fishing pier at Ocean View Amusement Park collapsed. About 10 fishermen escaped injury. Five people were rescued from three sailboats when they overturned off Virginia Beach near Sandbridge. The roof of the just-opened Virginia Beach Community Center in Kempville sustained heavy damage. National Weather Service officials said late Monday that they had not determined whether any tornadoes hit Tidewater during the storm. One man, who said he was familiar with tornadoes, believed that tornadoes did strike. While passing a lumberyard in Virginia Beach, he said, he saw wind rip the roof off a storage building. "It was being peeled back like a banana peel and just disintegrated in the wind." The storm caught Tidewater by surprise. Although the Weather Service had predicted thunderstorms, a severe thunderstorm watch did not go into effect until 3 p.m. At 4:13 p.m. a tornado warning was put into effect. When the storm first crossed the Elizabeth River into Norfolk, where the heaviest damage occurred, it looked at first like a huge rainstorm, but quickly grew in size until it shrouded the area like a fog. "It was a spectacular sight," said one man, who watched the storm from the 11th floor of Norfolk's City Hall building. "At first it looked like a dust storm, the rain didn't hit at first. The wind was blowing the trees almost to the ground, and elderly people were holding onto things to keep from falling down. Then it started to rain, and it got very, very dark." From the inside of downtown buildings few people could see anything, as the storm dumped half an inch of rain. On the outside the temperature plummeted from a humid 92 degrees to 68 and the barometer from 29.41 to 29.30 in about 15 minutes. The weather service measured a wind gust of 98 m.p.h. at Norfolk International Airport, and later gusts almost as strong. "It's the most wind I've seen here, and I've been here 20 years," said Andrew Trost of the weather service. In Norfolk, the storm cut electrical power to an estimated 30,000 homes. The most outages were reported in the Ghent, downtown, and Ocean View sections. Trees and tree limbs littered the streets, blocking traffic in some places. Live electric power lines lay in some streets, and stoplights were out at many intersections. Many stores closed for lack of power. The winds toppled and bent the fence around the tennis-court and swimming-pool complex at Ghent Square. Windows on cars and stores were blown out by the high-velocity winds. As many as 50 car windows were damaged in the Holiday-Inn Scope parking lot, according to Cindy Groome, a receptionist. "I was out at 5 p.m., and it was uncanny, and all of a sudden it got dark and you could hear the wind and you could see the hail. You can't describe it. It's such an eerie feeling to see it light one minute and dark the next. If the wind wasn't so hard, the hail wouldn't have caused so much damage. I have a very small fist, but the hail was about the size of my fist," Ms. Groome said. Windows at the Trailways Bus Terminal in Norfolk were blown out, sending passing customers running into a baggage storage room. McRay Plummer, a baggage agent, said: "Everybody was in a state of shock." No injuries were reported, however. Several small planes at Piedmont's general aviation terminal at Norfolk International Airport were tipped over by the heavy winds, causing damage to some of them. William B. Thompson, general manager of Piedmont Aviation, He urged that pilots with planes at the airport to carefully check their aircraft. Commercial flights from the airport were held up for about 30 minutes because of the storm, and radar scopes went blank for about 30 seconds, Federal Aviation Administration officials said. At least two radio stations temporarily went off the air. Marine Cpl. Mike Dobbis of the 100 block of E. Lorenzo Avenue, Norfolk, said he was fishing from the Ocean View fishing pier when it collapsed. "I was down at the very end of the pier fishing, and I was facing away from the storm. I turned around and saw it coming, and about that time everybody decided to run. We ran into a building, and when we turned around the pier was under water." Four Navy ships broke mooring lines in the gusting winds. The missile cruiser California received a dent in its stern, the amphibious cargo ship El Paso sustained minor damage, and the amphibious transport Francis Marion also had only minor damage. Extent of damage to the oiler Waccamaw at Craney Island was unknown late Monday. In Virginia Beach, the city's month-old, $3-million recreation center lost a portion of its roof. Dick Nutter, director of parks and recreation, said that none of the children in the center was near the part that was damaged. Several boats were damaged in Virginia Beach, and a police boat was caught in the storm temporarily at Broad Bay. In the Great Neck section of Virginia Beach the storm knocked down the tops of trees, and neighbors cut limbs down to keep them from damaging houses where people were away. In Portsmouth a man was trapped in a car on Deep Creek Boulevard near the K-9 grounds for about an hour when a large tree fell onto the car. Police and fire units, assisted by a crane, finally freed the man about 6:30 p.m. after he had been trapped for about 1½ hours. He was being treated at Maryview Hospital. Hot wires and power outages were reported throughout Portsmouth and Chesapeake. A truck overturned on the Nansemond River Bridge. In Chesapeake an extra shift of police was called in to help during the emergency. Other emergency workers, including crews from Virginia Electric & Power Co., were expected to work through the night to restore power. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 6 July 19, 1977 Northern California in isolated area. Beau and I both observed three Big Foot creatures here, plus the UFOs. Ted. 28 UFO's overhead... these two the largest and closest this one just overhead. Ted. as huge 6 glass "bubble" windows small light moving all around inside UFO Cigar shaped UFO Strange pattern in sky around this UFO. -> Ted (Only with flashlight could be seen, as with UFO.) Flashlight Owens Two Small lights beneath UFO. Closest light reacted to my flashlight waving. Ted. These two PS. UFOs invisible to eye without flashlight. === Page 2 of 6 ONE OF THREE BIG FOOT CREATURES WE SAW CLOSE-UP JULY 19, 1977. (TED.) STRIP OF HAIR COMING TO A POINT BETWEEN THE EYES. NO HAIR ON SIDES OF HEAD. SLANTED EYES... REFLECTED RED IN FLASHLIGHT RAYS. NO EARS FLAT NOSE HEAD APPROX. 3 FEET WIDE. HIGH CHEEKBONES. GRIM, STRAIGHT MOUTH LONG BEARD === Page 3 of 6 SMALLER OF THE 3 BIG FOOT CREATURES SEEN BY US JULY 19, 1977. Ted Owens NO SHOULDERS... OR NECK... BODY WENT STRAIGHT INTO BULLET HEAD. HEAD ARM CREATURE WAS FACING OTHER TWO BIG FOOT CREATURES TO ITS LEFT. ITS RIGHT SIDE WAS TO US IN COMPLETE BODY PROFILE. IT WAS COMPLETELY COVERED, HEAD AND ALL, WITH SILVERY-COLOR HAIR OR FUR. COULD NOT MAKE OUT HANDS OR FEET, JUST HEAD AND BODY. HEAD SAME SIZE AS HUMAN HEAD, BUT BULLET-SHAPED. BODY APPROX. 6 FEET HIGH. Ted Owens THE RIGHT LEG PARTLY OBSCURED THE LEFT LEG. (PARDON... I'M A LOUSY ARTIST!) Ted Owens === Page 4 of 6 To P. Sprinkle, etc., all well documented, for instance in Phila. alone in the late 60's I knocked out power in 5 states on East Coast; made hurricanes pop up; attacked the Stock Market to a loss of 50 billion; attacked U.S. military exercises; etc. Affidavits from lawyers on these. I suggest Bernstein fly here... see all this, choose borrow it, take it back for xerox & return it. Dynamite stuff! Owens In Sept '78 in London, Peter Murdoch told me that first they'd invited "Uri Geller", but he wanted a bundle. Their second choice as top psychic to be invited was me PK Man, that Bernstein would like to mention that. Ted O === Page 5 of 6 TED OWENS...P.K. MAN c/o M. Miller 635 Paul Ave., apt. 1 San Francisco, Ca. 94124 July 21, 1977 To my Scientists: Dr. Fogel Dr. Hynek Dr. Sprinkle Dr. Putoff Dr. Targ Mr. Mishlove Gentlemen: I saw Bigfoot...on the night of July 19th my 2 sons and I decided to camp in a deep ravine near Trinity River in northern California. A strong urge came over me to do this. We scampered down the hillside and found an overhanging cave close to the water and bedded down for a good night's sleep. We were soon startled by heavy tramping and crackling of breaking twigs. I grabbed the flashlight and turned it on and there was Bigfoot...three of them... a large one...medium size...and a tiny one. A male, a female and baby...a family, no doubt. They had a beard and the hair came to a v...shaped point over the bridge of the nose...I should say to a point between the eyes. Nose was flat with slant eyes that glowed fiery red in the dark. Also as I lay awake on guard...I counted 28 U.F.O.'s...some yellow U.F.O.'s...some star U.F.O.'s, every kind of U.F.O. there is...on display...a beautiful sight to behold !!! I signalled them with the flashlight and they blinked in reply. Also another curious thing...there was a huge machine...big as a house with glass panels on all sides. When I turned my flashlight on it...the machine would move and pulsate. Amazing ! The next morning Beau's right arm had 2 mound like welts with red holes in center. Little Teddy is covered with red spots...similar in appearance to measles spots. The U.F.O.'s had all of us last night !! The following day the U.F.O.'s communicated to me... They set up 3 sun U.F.O. Hot Grids across the entire United States. One over the western third of U.S....one over the middle U.S....and one over the eastern third of the U.S. These Hot Grids working in unison with Fire P.K. and poltergeist Phenomena will dry up the U.S. to a pulp, or should I say literally a dust bowl ! And ONLY TED OWENS...P.K. MAN CAN TURN THEM OFF !! What a price the U.S. is paying for their insults and rejection of U.F.O.'s and their representative ...Ted Owens ! THE BATTLE LINE IS DRAWN ! YOU KNOW THE TERMS ! Ted Owens, P.K. Man [Signature: Ted Owens] TO/MM === Page 6 of 6 MILLERS FALLS EZERASE COTTON CONTENT TED OWENS (P.K. MAN) c/o M. Miller 635 Paul Ave., apt. 1 San Francisco, Ca. 94134 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118 PM 22 JUL 1977 Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, Ca. 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7707 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 July 1977 July 22 1977 Jeffrey writes Ted Owen's daughter Mille about some Ted Owens allegations towards Jeffrey. I was unable to find the communication Jeff is referring to but I am making a copy of this letter and putting it in the special reports folder. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a423c47071dd22b5e6f2eff7ad4feafd.pdf 0c414adcdf12d1347258613c3c1d770f https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/82ae6b1d7e9eb6424615af580e18d096.txt ffa8ebc6680e33a0fbe4b0abd7587835 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 August 13, 1977 Dr. Allen Hynek Drs. Targ and Puthoff Dr. Leo Sprinkle Dr. Max Fogel Jeffrey Mishlove Gentlemen: Today...theSIs...UFO intelligences that I have worked with and for, many years... have told me to pass this information on to you. Because their wishes with regard to me, their representative to the human race... have not been honored... from this point on...it will be WAR between them...and the United States. There is no way...that the U.S. can win this war. My children and myself can be killed, of course, by secret government agencies. This will result only in total wipe-out of the United States. This is the promise of the UFOs. Specifically, what do I mean by "war"? The stock market will fail. MORE Drought and fires will sweep the country. Storms and blizzards and bad weather will punish the country. Key people will EXPIRE FROM ILLNESSES. Everything...connected with the United States...will fail; policies, etc. Water will become non-existent. Air will become foul. Fish and other water-connected creatures, will be wiped out. Trees will die; and forests will die. Animal life will die. The United States...will slowly...go down the drain; visibly and dramatically. Unless and until...Ted Owens (PK Man) becomes the UFO ambassador to the United States...and receives the lodge and $500,000 heretofore mentioned to Jeffrey Mishlove in San Francisco...all hell will break loose onto the United States and will not cease until Ted Owens and his children are taken care of, as mentioned above...whereupon he can help the UFOs correct the condition upon the United States. There is no other way. The United States...will sink or fall as a result of this report. Ted Owens (PK Man) [Signature] === Page 2 of 7 Owens General Delivery Bernadillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 15 AUG 1977 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 7 # Big phone outage could last 3 days ## Drilling error silences up to 20,000 units * How S.F. businesses coped. Page 3 By Larry D. Hatfield As many as 20,000 telephones, including those of many of The City's biggest businesses, were knocked out of service in the Financial District and South of Market last night when excavation workers accidentally sliced through some phone cables. Phone service will not be fully restored for at least three days, according to Pacific Telephone press spokesman Jack Angius. He said the company is attempting to provide emergency service to the affected businesses. The brunt of the outage was centered in the Market and Montgomery streets area but Angius said some trunk circuits were also damaged and there are intermittent service interruptions in the Mission District, Oakland and the Peninsula. Among major firms suffering complete or partial service interruptions were: Southern Pacific; Wells Fargo; Cooper and Lybrand; Merrill Lynch; California Medical Association; Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro; Schyabacher-Frey; Crown Zellerbach; Standard Oil; Crocker Bank; Bank of America and Foremost-McKesson. The service interruption also prevented the Examiner from receiving complete stocks and other tables for today's early editions. A spokesman for the Pacific Stock Exchange said the outage did not affect the exchange's operations although several brokerage houses were having problems. The accident occurred at 8:45 p.m. as workers for a soil sample company were taking core samples with a five-inch auger in front of 140 Montgomery St. in the heart of the Financial District. The workers were with Pitcher Drilling of South San Francisco, a subcontractor for Harding Lawson Associates, which was doing foundation engineering on a project there. ### Fires Rage In Western States [Map showing fires in WASH., ORE., IDAHO, NEV., CALIF., UTAH, COLO., ARIZ.] ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Saturday, August 6, 1977 A-5 # Blazes in California Remain Unchecked SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Fire raging through remote wildernesses near the Big Sur resort area blistered 35,000 acres 150 miles south of here Friday, imperiling prime watersheds needed for recovery from California's two-year drought. Meanwhile, 2,000 firefighters continued to battle 300 fires that were touched off across northern California Monday and Tuesday by wild storms of lightning. Officials said the total area blackened by the fires exceeded 100,000 acres. Many of the fires -- one a 20,000-acre inferno -- were speeding through timber stands in the northern third of California. Bill Powers, U.S. Forest Service information officer, estimated damage to timber alone could reach $700 million. The Big Sur fire in the Los Padres National Forest started as two separate blazes that merged Thursday afternoon in steep, rough terrain despite efforts of 2,700 firefighters. Kathy Ross, fire information officer at the U.S. Forest Service, said damage to watersheds caused by the Los Padres blaze has reached $70 million. The watersheds serve 20,000 residents of the Carmel Valley, recreation facilities at Big Sur, and agricultural interest in the fertile Salinas Valley. The Forest Service and the California Dept. of Forestry gave this rundown of other major fires in the state: In the Modoc-Lassen area in northeastern California, the Scarface fire near Canby burned through 20,000 acres, much of it timberland. About 10 miles southeast of Bieber, up to 8,000 acres were blackened by the Meyers Flat fire. South of the town, the Gerick fire had devastated 3,000 acres. In Idaho, the Boise Interagency Fire Center said Friday that firefighters were battling blazes covering 140,000 acres in the western United States and more than 1 million acres in Alaska. Lightning strikes coupled with warm, dry weather continued to hamper fire suppression efforts in Alaska, California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado, the agency said. The fire center, which is operated by the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said Friday that no relief is expected in weather conditions for at least 72 hours. Close to 7,000 firefighters have been dispatched to the various fires. Supplies are considered adequate, but transporting them to some areas is posing a problem. In addition to the California fires, the agency noted that 20 new fires broke out Thursday night in the Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state. In Oregon, a fire 15 miles southeast of Bly covered 5,000 acres, while a fire in northeastern Colorado burned 1,400 acres. In Shasta Trinity National Forest two fires -- Pondosa and Horrs Corner -- swept through a total of 22,000 acres. A 3,000-acre timber fire near Eagle Lake was threatening 50 to 75 homes in the Forest Lakes subdivision outside of Susanville. In Plumas National Forest, more than 700 men were fighting a 1,500-acre timber fire. In the south in Sequoia National Forest, nearly 3,000 acres of forestland were burning. Firefighters had formed a line around 75 per cent of the four-day blaze near Bonita Flat, northeast of Bakersfield in southern California. About 500 firefighters were battling the 2,700-acre blaze. ## More Than 600 Fires Burn In California LOS ANGELES -- More than 600 lightning-sparked fires crackled through hot, dry California brush and timberland Wednesday, taxing the state's exhausted army of firefighters. A two-day electrical storm a lot of lightning but little rain -- scattered fires up and down the state, which was already dangerously dry from a two-year drought. By Wednesday, officials were able to dispatch firemen only to the biggest blazes, and U.S. Forest Service crews were called in from other states. Gary Buzzini of the California Department of Forestry estimated 400 fires, most of them small, were burning in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which runs along the state's eastern border, -- and many were unmanned. ILLUSTRATION # 17 === Page 4 of 7 August 15, 1977 About July 16, 17, I phoned Millie long distance from Guerneville...and instructed her, as my secretary in absentia...to send out certain facts as I knew them...to the scientists, including yourself as a scientist. That the SIs were going to attack California and the U.S. with fires galore, etc. Now, it was an absolute fact that government agents had previously crawled all over me in Norfolk and Cape Charles. She knew that; I knew that. Secret Service, FBI, you name it. They had been to my office; my home; etc. In teams yet. She and I both knew that I was under constant surveillance, no matter where I went. She and I both knew that in San Francisco, while trying to get my true story out to the American people re the UFO control of the United States at the present time...I was under surveillance...thus simple logic dictated that if I were rejected there, which I was...and my message stopped cold there, which it was...then the government agents must have done it or had something to do with it. (A terrible error on the government's part...as witness the more than 600 fires that have struck California since my July 17 letter...the worst fire attacks in 50 years!) The government should have known that, in the light of my terrific accuracy as a psychic...disregarding your "partial" crack in your mad letter to Millie...I knew what I was talking about, especially when I would personally go to the West Coast to deliver the message. I am good, perhaps the very best that there is...no matter what you think. And when I say all hell will break loose, and fires will attack...somebody had better believe it. It has now happened...just as I said that it would happen. And...not "partially." All of this was in her mind (a most intelligent mind, I might add) when she wrote re my info phoned in to her...re the "government agents" remark. If you think that the government agencies are not tracking me, surveilling me, or trying to manipulate me...you would be terribly naive (sp). Her error...and one that I personally apologize for...was in tying the government agencies to Jeffrey. This was out-of-bounds...and as soon as she told me what she'd said I asked her please to correct the matter and apologize to you. When I phoned in what to tell the scientists (not verbatim, but in general...and she carried it out accurately except for the one slip with regard to you) at no time did I mention government agents connected with Mishlove. Now that should clear the air about the entire tempest in a teapot. Next time you receive a message written by a secretary...which might seem out of character with regard to myself...I respectfully suggest that you slow down long enough to check with me personally with regard to it. I made no "unfortunate mistake" (p. 2 of your letter to Millie); I made no "attack" on you whatsoever. I do not rely upon my "psychic abilities" to determine "untrue things about you." Millie herself made that error, and she has since apologized for it...as I apologize for the misunderstanding. This letter should set the matter straight. Whether I am broke or struggling...or flush and set up in style...makes no difference whatsoever, Jeffrey. I am still PK Man, Owens...with powers far exceeding any other human being on earth...whether you believe that or not. And I do tend to prove it...hundreds of times...and "partial" is an extremely small percentage of the results of my work. Your kindness in behalf of myself...has been most generous and thoughtful...and I acknowledge it in full, and thank you for it. My personal debt to you for $300 has been delayed in repayment, due to circumstances beyond my control entirely. But it will be repaid, with interest. Meanwhile, whether I am poor financially or wealthy...it has no effect upon my dynamic effectiveness with regard to the current phenomenon going on. Whether you have no more motivation whatsoever to continue to work in my behalf...is entirely up to you. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 5 of 7 Owens General Delivery Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 18 AUG 1977 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 6 of 7 To Jeffrey Mishlove... to whom I owe $300 loan... which someday... will be a joke. Ted Owens NEWTOWN, LIFTON DEVON, PL16 0AY ENGLAND Tel. Lifton 373 Dear Ted, I've only just been able to catch up on correspondence after the conference due to various pressures. Let me first express our great appreciation that you were able through very good offices to get to the conference and deliver your address. I was sorry that you couldn't stay around for other participation at what was another acknowledged success, and I was also sorry to have missed you before you left, due to having to go across to the other side of the campus urgently. The other two people depicted on the enclosed colour prints are Walter von Lucadou (University of Freiburg, Dept. of Physics) talking on quantum mechanics, and Prof. Brian Josephson, of Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Lucadou has the beard. Glennis Dore said you wanted a stack of spare programmes which I'll send you presently. Write and let me know more about your feeling that U.S. govt. agencies are interested in your activities. Also I'd be pleased if you can make any suggestions how you might be able to help boost our parascience programme. Can you let me have a manuscript for publication of your description given at the conference? Sincerely, Peter Maddock 8/10/77 Ted Owens, P.O. BOX, BERNALILLO, New Mexico, U.S.A. (Sharing the lectern with Nobel Prize winner and other scientists.) Ted * Parascience Conference, London, England, 1977 === Page 7 of 7 TED OWENS...P.K. MAN c/o Millie Miller 635 Paul Ave., apt. 1 San Francisco, Ca. 94134 August 5, 1977 To my Scientists: Dr. Fogel Dr. Hynek Dr. Sprinkle Dr. Putoff Dr. Targ Mr. Mishlove Gentlemen: In the previous correspondence I notified the scientists that my two sons and I had seen BigFoot...three of them in northern California. Now...Afterwards I noticed little Teddy's hands. The skin has been surgically removed from his fingers! An amazingly...skillfully...performed operation by the "S.I.'s" Reminds me of the skillful surgery performed on the cattle in the Mid-west. On the "S.I.'s" request...I am travelling by auto throughout the United States to secure first hand information on the severity of the drought. Farming lands are dried...hard...and caked...dreadful condition! The lakes and rivers are completely dried-up in some areas and in other places water is at an extreme low level. My heart is saddened by these conditions of our land. The "S.I.'s" communicate another fabulous and astounding message!! I am physically travelling from state to state to match my E.M. (Electro-Magnetic) Power with each geographical area. Previously I have refused to under-go Scientific hypnosis. I now change my mind. I will submit myself to scientific hypnosis to anyone who will pay me the fee of five-thousand dollars. Sincerely, Ted Owens TED OWENS...P.K. Man TO/MM P.S. I am typing this information at Ted's request from from our last telephone conversation. ...Millie Miller Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7708 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8b1b0c5cdcb2dc594f936182ec559ade.pdf 047bb41de48f16b98c700cb937d39d01 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8d659e3150e564fd8c7775154ad55ffc.txt 4c6007d0d4ca1b14067df2cc0f1f8d41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Gen. Del. Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Oct. 18, 1977 To Whom It May Concern I, Ted Owens, assign to Mr. George Weiss, 21 Perrin's Walk, Hampstead, London, England, N.W. 3, option on copyrights of correspondence, including all signed affidavits, from the beginning of my work. The aforementioned correspondence and affidavits remain my own property, however, for copyright purposes and inclusion in my own books and writings in time to come. This agreement is contingent upon my receiving the full sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) (nothing to be deducted from it whatsoever) by the late of November 15, 1977. In the event I do not receive the full sum of $3,000.00 by November 15, 1977, then this agreement will be considered null and void and cancelled. Ted Owens (PK Man) * and files relating to my communications with the space intelligences, including all signed affidavits thereof. ---------- To my scientist contacts (both friendly and unfriendly... my friend, Dr. Monteith, filled me in re your comments.) Pardon this handwriting but Henry (Dr. Monteith) carried my typewriter and Nordemende radio out of my home some time ago to get them repaired for me... so meanwhile, if I can't type, I can't communicate. now, see the letter above. George Weiss called me Oct. 18, 1977, long distance from Ireland. He talked for about an hour, requesting I send him the above "copyright of correspondence" in return for a fee of $3,000 (which I could use desperately at this point.) I agreed and he dictated it word by word over the phone at that time. I went to the Post Office and mailed it to him at his London, England, address, as directed. In the following week I made financial commitments based === Page 2 of 7 on George's promise: "Ted, send me this document. You are my friend and you can trust me to send you the money. Have I ever lied to you?" No, George had never lied to me. He had promised, previous to the 1977 Parascience Conference in London, England (to which I had been invited to lecture, in the company of scientists lecturing) that he would get me over there for it - since I had no funds for it. To my amazement he did indeed pay my way over there and back for the Parascience Conference to lecture, and even arranged my stay at a first-class hotel. So I had no reason to doubt George's word with regard to this $3,000 promise. But around the first of November George called; said he had received the document; but could not pay me for it. This was a stunning blow, because I had made solid financial commitments based on George's word. I told him that if the $3,000 did not arrive, I would clobber England... especially London... and create havoc and chaos over there. I told him that my SIs were irked anyway because they had ended the terrible drought in England (I wrote the Queen that I would cause it in advance of the fact - you have that file) yet she never did thank the SIs and me. And I hung up on George in great anger. I telepathed to my SIs and explained the matter to them... they said they would put the matter in balance and teach the English Queen some respect for the SIs and me. What follows... is the action that my "UFO connection" has taken. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 3 of 7 5, 1977 (3 days after my telling George that the S.I.A. would strike.) (3 # Wildcat Strikes by British Power Workers Albany Journal 11/5/77 ## Darken Much of Nation LONDON (AP) -- Buses lurched through darkened Trafalgar Square as lights went out in much of Britain Friday in a wildcat go-slow strike by power workers. Electricity was shut off to millions of homes and offices on a chaotic day of rotated power cuts -- often without warning. Rush-hour commuters heading for their trains at London's Charing Cross Station formed long chains behind those wise enough to bring flashlights to negotiate their way. At least one death was linked to the disruption as cuts hit different parts of the country for up to three hours at a time. An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Doris Yates, was burned to death as she tried to keep warm during a blackout by using a portable gas heater which exploded, fire officials and neighbors said. She had borrowed the heater when her electric heat was shut off. Elsewhere, Britons ate cold meals by candlelight, hospitals postponed non-essential operations, and roads were snarled by the sudden failure of traffic signals. Health authorities made special arrangements for kidney patients to use generator power for their dialysis units. British soccer teams rescheduled their Saturday matches for earlier daylight hours to avoid floodlight outages. In defiance of instructions from their own unions and appeals from the government, leaders of the unofficial strike said they were ready to "flatten the country" by shutting down all power stations if management carried out a threat to stop their pay. The strikers appeared more conciliatory at an evening news conference, when one leader said he hoped "a solution could be found soon. We are looking for a mediator to try to resolve our grievance." The government's National Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service said it would not intervene and told the strikers they had to use normal union channels. This route appeared blocked because the unions have condemned the wildcat slow-downs. The strikers from four different unions -- engineering workers, electricians, transport, and municipal -- are seeking travel allowances, higher shift pay and concessionary prices for their own home electricity. Their go-slow action began to bite on Wednesday and by Friday was affecting 80 of the country's 137 power stations. The strikers are mostly maintenance men and coal-shovellers, and the majority of the nation's 90,000 power workers were not involved, according to the Central Electricity Generating Board which runs the country's state-owned electricity network. The power cuts were ordered by the Electricity Board because of a backlog of maintenance work at power plants, officials said. British Rail, the nationwide passenger train service, kept most trains rolling by drawing power from areas not affected by cuts. But local outages affected signalling equipment and many commuters suffered long delays. Train dispatchers called train departures through bullhorns at Charing Cross station, just off Trafalgar Square. London subway trains ran normally on their own power generators, London Transport said. Nov. 13, 1977 # British Firefighter Strike Nearing LONDON (UPI) -- British firefighters Saturday spent their final hours before striking by rescuing flood victims along the coast and the government appealed to them to reconsider a decision to walk off the job Monday. Tom Ham, chairman of the Greater London Council's fire committee, appealed to Londoners to keep calm. "The strike seems certain to go ahead and we want to keep the risk to life and property as small as possible," Ham said. Newspapers and radio stations put out a list of precautions for householders and emergency telephone numbers for use during the strike. Winds of up to 92 mph and driving rain caused havoc across a wide area of Britain and the fire brigades turned out to help people from automobiles, buses and houses in flooded lowlands. Nov. 13, 1977 === Page 4 of 7 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Gen Del Bernalillo New Mex. 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove Dear Jeffrey... and Dr. Sprinkle, etc., I've sent you, previously, correspondence and affidavits, with my permission for you to use them if you wish in your writings. Of course, those materials remain my own property for copyright purposes for when I write my own book in time to come. But you are free to use them in your own writings, if you wish. Best regards, Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 5 of 7 Ted Owens Gen. Del. Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 20 OCT 1977 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 6 of 7 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 CERTIFIED No. 919291 MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Over === Page 7 of 7 Television Notes HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Thanks in no small part to the runaway box office success of "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," producer-director Jack Webb will bring "Project UFO" to television next February. Webb, who produced "Dragnet," "Adam 12" and "Emergency," will dramatize true-to-life adventures based on the Project Blue Book accounts of U.S. Air Force investigations of unidentified flying objects. Walter... please... send me a copy of the 200 page scientific report that you referred to in phone call. OK? Ted. Jeffrey... please copy enclosed tape, then return this one to me. Thanks. Ted Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7710 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/60be2d4052834f314e46f34a4274a02e.pdf d19bd9756985db2092f891cf01084b2e https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/29a2bdb5ecc57d5102f1332231fb0937.txt 2c2b13bc5aa6e2409af1a1e618597f06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Nov 30, 1977 Jeffrey... just a suggestion. After unloading the U-Haul I've found all my papers & documentation (when with you in Frisco I didn't know where it was, spread among all our stuff... when you asked to xerox it, would have taken days to unload the U-Haul & sort it all out.) OK... I have many many miracles done before === Page 2 of 2 To P. Sprinkle, etc., all well documented. For instance in Phila. alone in the late 60's I pinched out power in 5 states on East Coast; made hurricanes pop up; attached the Stock Market to a loss of 50 billion; attached U.S. military exercises; etc. Affidavits from lawyers on these. I suggest Bernstein fly here... see all this, choose borrow it, take it back for xerox & return it. Dynamite stuff! Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7711 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5dba9e516c1b779371326b1d0221c421.pdf 43a6680adc4a78a1998c152865c58d6f https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a3f95ff50f4341cd5ce42e99e00dbf49.txt 3e0580f180137000151131551a279476 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1977 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 26 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Dec 26, 1977 Mr. Rosy Reserbloom L.A. Rams 10271 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, Calif. Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Box 1303 Bernalillo, N. Mex. 87004 Rosy... I told you, weeks ago, I'd help you win the Superbowl and if you didn't hire me, I'd stop your team. Today I stopped your highly-favored team (and made a liar out of Jimmy the Greek who picked the Rams to win.) Who do you think put your team, a fast team, in ankle-deep mud? Rosy... You never learn! Ted Owens (PK MAN) === Page 2 of 26 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 27 DEC 1977 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 FROM THE DESK OF Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Owner L.A. Rams 10271 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, Calif. Box 1303 Bernalillo, N. Mex. 87004 Dec 26, 1977 Mr. Rozy Rosenbloom Rozy... I told you, weeks ago, I'd help you win the Superbowl and if you didn't hire me, I'd stop your team. Today I stopped your highly-favored team (and made a liar out of Jimmy the Greek who picked the Rams to win). Who do you think put your team, a fast team, in ankle-deep mud? Rozy... you never learn! Ted Owens (PK MAN) === Page 3 of 26 Friday, December 23, 1977 Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove: I tried to telephone you tonight, but you were not there. With PK Man and the UFOs, that can be a calamity; So...I called Dr. Henry Monteith, and gave him the following information: I believe...that the mysterious explosive sounds...around the East Coast...are the SIs work...for the simple reason that I have had the very same explosions accompanied by a flash of light like a camera flashbulb accompanying...half a dozen times in the past...in Seattle, in Maine, etc. As of tonight...be advised...that the SIs will give a demonstration covering the east coast of the United States, perhaps the entire half of the U.S., eastern, if I understand them...as follows: UFO appearances and phenomena. Hurricane winds and storms. Electromagnetic phenomena (EM). Poltergeist phenomena. Deadly air-space (no planes or boats will be safe for 60-90 days). Other-dimensional effects. All to begin...as of tonight...6:10 PM, when I called Henry Monteith when I failed to get you. Henry has a faithful record of the call. Now...I expect all hell to break loose on the Eastern half of the U.S., especially the East Coast! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS...bearing in mind...that the UFOs consider a war going on between them and the U.S. Saw tonight on TV where Hynek stated garbage is causing the strange explosive sounds...just like old times..."garbage marsh gas." Ha ha ha! Fooey on Hynek, as always. He has never changed. Poor man. cc: Dr Monteith SUN. LAST NIGHT, AFTER OUR TALK, THE UFO'S COMMUNICATED AND CANCELLED THE ABOVE! Ted === Page 4 of 26 PS.-- the 'haunted night' last July 19 with the bigfoot creatures and 28 UFOs was the highlight of my whole life -- anything else that has happened pales into insignificance to it! December 21, 1977 Dear Jeffrey -- it was a great pleasure to hear your voice and talk with you yesterday. After which my son and I walked to town (miles) and got your prelim investig. report. That -- is the finest Christmas present I have ever received, Jeffrey. And I can't wait until the other one you mentioned sending, arrives! The SIs, and I, want to express our deepest appreciation to you, but it goes even farther than that. Not long ago Dr. Monteith insisted that I go to work and begin moving things around on tables with my mind. He said that if I could pull a thousand pounds, then I could pull an ounce. I took it to the SIs, and they gave me answers. They told me to tell Dr. Monteith the following: they expressly forbid me to move things on tables, because I require and must have my total psychic energy in order to progress with what they are teaching me and bringing me along. Further, they pointed out that if I had learned by now, over long long years, to pull 1,000 pounds -- then why go backward to pull an ounce! Further, they pointed out that I had already done that.-- knocked scissors off the table with my mind for Dr. Rhine and Louie and two other parapsychics long years ago, in 1946 -- and THEY DID NOT WANT ME TO GO BACKWARD THIRTY YEARS. THEY WANT ME TO KEEP MY POSITION ON THE 'PSYCHIC SPECTRUM' AND HAVE ANY SCIENTISTS WHO ARE ABLE TO, COME TO WHERE I AM, WITH MY BRAIN OF FUTURE MAN AND KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER DIMENSIONAL TECHNIQUES. To my amazement, Jeffrey, you, a young man, a young scientist, are the ONLY scientist, including the "gray heads", to make a breakthrough and "come to where I am" parapsychologically. Rhine couldn't understand; Sprinkle couldn't grasp it; it was beyond Hynek; Dr. Fogel couldn't break through; Targ and Puthoff couldn't grasp it -- only Jeffrey Mishlove, has made it. You can be very proud, Jeffrey, of yourself and your mind -- for having the uncanny ability to understand what the SIs have done, with me and through me. No one else will understand this vital point -- except the SIs and myself -- and you can bet your bottom dollar that the SIs are VERY excited about it! (That you, alone of all the scientists in the world, have made a breakthrough in their (other-dimensional) direction. Backing up in writing what I told you over the phone -- once the SIs are given what they have 'compelled' me for -- the base on the mountain in Oregon -- then their war against the U.S. and our govt. will come to a screeching halt. All negative mechs they have heretofore put into motion, will stop. THEN...once my kids and I ARE THERE COMFORTABLE AND SAFE AND DOING SI WORK IN THAT BASE...THEN THE SIS WILL GO TO WORK TO HELP THE UNITED STATES AND THE GOVERNMENT -- correct the western drought; help our US economy; many other things. Once they have been given what THEY insist that they have -- that base in Oregon -- and I am accorded the respect due their human link to the human race, myself -- they will not do ANYTHING to hurt or injure this country or the people in it. Nothing negative. Please xerox A and B enclosed and make me three copies of each and shoot them right back to me, OK? Also, the SIs gave me dynamic material to tell the scientists in London last September...will type it up for Peter Maddock soon as I can, copy to you. At the time there, don't think that they understood it, or could grasp it. Best to you, always.......... Givens === Page 5 of 26 In Sept '74 in London, Peter Murdoch told me that first they'd invited Uri Geller... but he wanted a bundle. Their second choice as top psychic to be invited was me, PK Man. Perhaps Bernstein would like to mention that. Ted === Page 6 of 26 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 1 DEC 1977 PROCLAIM LIBERTY USA 13c THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND Mr Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 7 of 26 Dec. 20, 1977 Drs. Targ and Puthoff Dr. Hynek Dr. Sprinkle Jeffrey Mishlove Gentlemen: For years I have been pursuing the UFO phenomena in my own manner, and sending materials on to you, with the idea that perhaps some of it would have some value to you pursuant to your own interest in said phenomena. With the exception of three more rather important sets which are already being xeroxd for you...I am stopping the above practice completely...that is, sending my findings to scientists. I shall continue, of course, to work for and with my UFOs, but will keep my findings to myself. To me, at least, they have a great deal of value. (Informational value). C'est finis. Sincerely, Ted Jeffrey...this only pertains to future...has naught to do with our book project in the works. Merry Christmas. Ted === Page 8 of 26 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 21 DEC 1977 HELP THE HANDICAPPED VALLEY FORGE Christmas Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 9 of 26 To Jeffrey Merry Christmas! from Ted Owens Bean Teddy === Page 10 of 26 December 20, 1977 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Jeffrey Mishlove is authorized to enter into negotiations in my behalf...both for scientific projects as well as allied projects... which would include business negotiations. Ted Owens (PK Man) P.O. Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 Ted Owens (PK/Man) === Page 11 of 26 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Dec. 27, 1977 Dear Jeffrey... along with the list of people I gave you to send copies of your wonderful scientific report... please add these: Ken Gregerson, Rt. #1, Box 148-B, Granite Falls, Washington, 98252. Rita, Frances and Maria Kennedy c/o 1502 Melrose St. Garland, Texas 75042 Mari and Murray Zatman 100 Santa Rosa Ave. Santa Rosa, California 95403 Mr. Cohen, Owner Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher and Cohen Law Firm, P.S.F.S. Building, Phila., Pa. Ed and Agnes Ames 225 Center St. Brewer, Maine. P.J. Di Halto 8905 Chambers Pl. N.E. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111 Rosy Rozenbloom, Owner Los Angeles Rams Pro Football Team, 10271 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, California Box 1505 Bernalillo New Mex. 87004 W. P. Bentley 4 Crown Circle Bronxville, N.Y. The previous list for the scientific report, and these new ones... are vitally important to me. OK? Charge me for it off the top from what we make. Also... the $300 I owe you plus $100 interest... off the top. Over === Page 12 of 26 December 6, 1977 Dr. Hynek Dr. Sprinkle I have received an important piece of information...from a scientist, no less. If this information is correct, then it clears up something that has puzzled me for several years. The information from the scientist (who shall remain anonymous, of course) is that both of you "talked about you, Ted, like you were a dog." I received additional information from the same source stating that Drs. Targ and Puthoff, Dr. Max Fogel, and other scientists...treated me with respect. No bad-mouthing there. If the above information is correct...then it explains why...at least a dozen times during the past few years...when I have been on the verge of getting some really big break in my work, with important people...and supplied those people with the names of six scientists who have been receiving my documentation over the years...and they obviously checked with the six scientists...then I was dropped like a hot rock. Since I knew that my work is quite valid and the documentation good, and knew that my Mensa mind is quite good...then I also knew that someone, somewhere, was hamstringing me. If the above information is false, then I must apologize for the misinformation that I have received, and for this letter. Please do let me know if you are innocent of what the scientist alleges, all right? If you do so, then I shall know that you place a value on my material, and shall continue to send it. If I do not hear from you by Christmas...then I shall know that the charges are accurate... and shall discontinue sending you my unique documentation, since it obviously would have no value to you under those circumstances. * It is my hope that you two have not been performing in the above manner...because if so, then you have been, in effect, suppressing me and my work with my UFO connection...thereby setting back severely the hopes of the scientific community to gain greater understanding of the UFO community and how it functions, within a viable temporal framework for all concerned. Ted Owens (PK Man) P.O. Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 Owens * That you have, in fact, been giving out "marshgas" reports on me... === Page 13 of 26 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 6 DEC 1977 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 14 of 26 Jack Anderson c/o National Suggestion Box Box 2009 Washington, D.C. 20013 Warren Smith Box 897 (Friend) Clinton, Iowa. Dr. John Taylor Dept of Math. King's College Strand, London, England WC2R/2LS Charles Jay 233 Pennington (Friend) Morton, Pa. Ralph Nader Center For Study of Responsive Law, Box 19367 Washington, D.C. 20036 George Teixeira 421 Ralston Ave. (Friend) Belmont, California W. D. Bentley 4 Crown Circle Bronxville, N.Y. And I'd like two full copies for my files, Jeff. Take your $300 loan plus $100 interest and cost of these copies out... off the top of our first monies! Thanks, Pal... Ted Owens === Page 15 of 26 Dec. 27, 1977 Dear Jeffrey... please guard this tape well. On it, Dr. Henry Monteith affirms the rash of UFO sightings in the Albury area... I phoned in the question when he was on a radio talk show here. I did it again, Jeffrey! Ted. === Page 16 of 26 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Jeffrey Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Gen. Del. Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Oct. 18, 1977 To Whom It May Concern I, Ted Owens, assign to Mr. George Weiss, 21 Perrin's Walk, Hampstead, London, England, N.W.3, option on copyrights of correspondence, including all signed affidavits, from the beginning of my work. The aforementioned correspondence and affidavits remain my own property, however, for copyright purposes and inclusion in my own books and writings in time to come. This agreement is contingent upon my receiving the full sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) by the date of November 15, 1977. In the event I do not receive the full sum of $3,000.00 by November 15, 1977, then this agreement will be considered null and void and cancelled. Ted Owens (PK Man) *and files relating to my communications with the space intelligents, including all signed affidavits thereof. ---------- To my scientist contacts (both friendly and unfriendly... my friend, Dr. Monteith, filled me in re your comments.) Pardon this handwriting but Henry (Dr. Monteith) carried my typewriter and Nordemende radio out of my home some time ago to get them repaired for me... so meanwhile, if I can't type, I can't communicate. Now, see the letter above. George Weiss called me Oct. 18, 1977, long distance from Ireland. He talked for about an hour, requesting I send him the above "copyright of correspondence" in return for a fee of $3,000 (which I could use desperately at this point.) I agreed and he dictated it word by word over the phone at that time. I went to the Post Office and mailed it to him at his London, England, address, as directed. In the following week I made financial commitments based === Page 17 of 26 2. on George's promise: "Ted, send me this document. You are my friend and you can trust me to send you the money. Have I ever lied to you?" No, George had never lied to me. He had promised, previous to the 1977 Parascience Conference in London, England, to which I had been invited to lecture, in the company of scientists lecturing) that he would get me over for it - since I had no funds for it. To my amazement he did indeed pay my way over there and back for the Parascience Conference to lecture, and even arranged my stay at a first-class hotel. So I had no reason to doubt George's word with regard to this $3,000 promise. But around the first of November George called; said he had received the document; but could not pay me for it. This was a stunning blow, because I had made solid financial commitments, based on George's word. I told him that if the $3,000 did not arrive, I would clobber England... especially London... and create havoc and chaos over there. I told him that my SIs were irked anyway because they had ended the terrible drought in England (I wrote the Queen that I would cause it in advance of the fact - you have that file) - yet she never did thank the SIs and me. And I hung up on George in great anger. I telepathed to my SIs and explained the matter to them... they said they would put the matter in balance and teach the English Queen some respect for the SIs and me. What follows... is the action that my "UFO connection" has taken. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 18 of 26 Nov. 18, 1977 # Five Die As Firemen Still Strike LONDON (UPI) -- Four children and a 47-year-old invalid died in fires in Northern Ireland and Scotland Thursday as inexperienced soldiers with outdated equipment struggled to fill in for the nation's 35,000 striking firefighters. Approximately two dozen soldiers were injured fighting 41 fires across Britain Thursday -- the fourth day of the walkout. Most were overcome by smoke. "The lads are getting very tired and we are worried that exhaustion will lead to mistakes and someone getting killed," said one army officer. There were fears the situation could worsen today, when 600 senior fire officers, who have been advising the soldiers, decide whether to join the strike for a 30 per cent pay hike. Nine persons have died in fires since the strike began, including the five deaths reported Thursday. Choking troops had to abandon a burning $125 million power station east of London Wednesday when they were overcome by smoke. Striking firefighters at a nearby stationhouse refused appeals for breathing devices and foam equipment and officials said the facility would be out of action for nine or 10 months and repairs would cost millions of dollars. Don Bates, general secretary of the Retained Firefighters Union, Thursday charged that picketing firefighters had broken into fire stations during the night and turned in false alarms to call in non-striking, parttime firemen. Authorities disconnected telephone lines to London's 114 fire stations in response to reports the men were using them to coordinate demonstrations and picketing. A boy and his 10-month-old sister died in Belfast Thursday morning when soldiers were unable to fend off flames and flying glass to reach them. Two more children died at a fire at their home in Banbridge, Northern Ireland. A 47-year-old invalid died in Scotland when police and soldiers were unable to get to her through heavy smoke. The troops have fought 121 blazes in London since Monday, but have been hampered by lack of training and outmoded equipment. The strikers are demanding a 30 per cent wage increase from their current $118 a week. The government has refused to budge from its 10 per cent ceiling on raises. More talks between union leaders and employers were scheduled for today. DEAR TED, SORRY MY FRIEND, BUT AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, I AM UNABLE TO PERSUADE ANYONE TO PART WITH ANY MONEY. HOWEVER I AM TRYING VERY HARD AND HOPEFULLY IN THE NEAR FUTURE THE SITUATION WILL CHANGE. TED I KNOW THAT YOU'RE ANGRY BUT PLEASE TRY TO BE A LITTLE PATIENT, HEAVEN KNOWS I'M EQUALLY DISAPPOINTED. WHAT COULD INFLUENCE EVENTS ENORMOUSLY WOULD BE MY BEING IN POSSESSION OF A COPY OF YOUR FILES WHICH DOCUMENT YOUR ADVENTURES IN FRANCE, SCOTLAND, AND SPANISH AS WELL AS ANY MORE RECENT MATERIAL. TED PLEASE TRUST ME AND TRY TO BELIEVE THAT I HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART. O.K. THE BALL IS NOW IN YOUR COURT. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON. LOTS OF LOVE YOUR FRIEND GEORGE. P.S. GO EASY ON ENGLAND, IT WAS STILL ANGRY CONCENTRATE ON IRELAND. EIRE 20 MR TED OWENS ESQ. GEN DEL BERNALILLO NEW MEXICO USA 87004 PAR AVION AERPHOST OE 78 === Page 19 of 26 COPY Nov. 17, 1977 Mr George Weiss, London, England Re: UFO strikes at Britain. Dear George: on your word and promise of $3,000, in return for the document I sent at your request... I made irrevocable financial commitments. Because of the past, I did not dream you would renige (sp.) on your promise. So when you called and went down on your word... my SIs went into action against England on their own. I told you they would, on the phone. Now you've had millions of homes' power blacked out; hurricane winds; floods; and strike along with hundreds of fires... and it will get worse. (The SIs were particularly displeased because Queen Elizabeth ignored my ending the English drought.) If I receive the promised $3,000 soon, I will send you, on loan, all the files I sent to Colin Wilson. Your friend, Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 20 of 26 Nov. 19, 1977 # Queen Target Of Egg Toss LONDON (AP) -- A man hurled eggs at Queen Elizabeth II when she arrived at London's Royal Albert Hall to attend a memorial for the dead of two world wars. She was not hit, but one of the eggs splattered on the rear window of her Rolls Royce about a foot from her face. Two others hit policemen. Police dived into the crowd watching the queen's arrival and arrested a man. Later they said they had charged 42-year-old Bernard Morgan, unemployed, with threatening behavior and causing criminal damage to police uniforms. They said he will appear in court Monday. 11-14-77 SF Chron. # Fatal Storms Lash Northern Europe London Strong winds, rain, snow and heavy seas pummeled northern Europe yesterday, causing widespread flooding and forcing the crews of two storm-battered vessels into lifeboats. Authorities said the storm killed at least four Britons, and two French yachtsmen were feared drowned. The dead included three persons killed in road accidents and a fourth who died when a 4000-ton container ship sank in the wind-whipped North Sea. An international rescue fleet plucked 26 British crewmen and three Danish truck drivers from lifeboats in the North Sea after their vessel, the British-owned container ship Hero, sank in the storm while en route from Denmark to Britain. The Danish naval command said one crewman died in the rescue. West German and Canadian helicopters took part in the operation and the survivors were transferred to ships in the area, including the Canadian destroyer Huron that launched a helicopter for the rescue. Associated Press Nov. 20, 1977 # British Navy Fighting Fires During Strike LONDON (UPI) -- Royal navy sailors Saturday joined exhausted army and air force troops Saturday in fighting fires as Britain's firefighters strike neared the end of its first week. An 85-year-old woman died Saturday morning in a fire at her home in Hull, northeast of London, to become the 16th casualty of the week. But police said that her death -- like the others -- could not be attributed directly to the strike. The firefighters are asking pay increases of 30 per cent over their current salary of $118 a week. The government has countered with an offer of 10 per cent pay hikes. More than 400 royal navy sailors went into service to assist the 9,500 army, air force and marine personnel on fire duty. Like the specially trained air force crews, some of the sailors are equipped with their own firefighters tools and special breathing apparatus. The government said amateur firefighters had been called to more than 2,300 fires since the firefighters walked off the job Monday. It said 70 soldiers have been injured while on emergency duty. Army sources in Northern Ireland said Saturday they feared the provisional Irish Republican Army was stepping up its campaign of fire-bombings as the strike neared the end of its first week. === Page 21 of 26 Nov. 5, 1977 (→ Days after my telling George that the SIs would strike.) (3 # Wildcat Strikes by British Power Workers Albuq. Journal 11/5/77 # Darken Much of Nation LONDON (AP) -- Buses lurched through darkened Trafalgar Square as lights went out in much of Britain Friday in a wildcat go-slow strike by power workers. Electricity was shut off to millions of homes and offices on a chaotic day of rotated power cuts -- often without warning. Rush-hour commuters heading for their trains at London's Charing Cross Station formed long chains behind those wise enough to bring flashlights to negotiate their way. At least one death was linked to the disruption as cuts hit different parts of the country for up to three hours at a time. An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Doris Yates, was burned to death as she tried to keep warm during a blackout by using a portable gas heater which exploded, fire officials and neighbors said. She had borrowed the heater when her electric heat was shut off. Elsewhere, Britons ate cold meals by candlelight, hospitals postponed non-essential operations, and roads were snarled by the sudden failure of traffic signals. Health authorities made special arrangements for kidney patients to use generator power for their dialysis units. British soccer teams rescheduled their Saturday matches for earlier daylight hours to avoid floodlight outages. In defiance of instructions from their own unions and appeals from the government, leaders of the unofficial strike said they were ready to "flatten the country" by shutting down all power stations if management carried out a threat to stop their pay. The strikers appeared more conciliatory at an evening news conference, when one leader said he hoped "a solution could be found soon. We are looking for a mediator to try to resolve our grievance." The government's National Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service said it would not intervene and told the strikers they had to use normal union channels. This route appeared blocked because the unions have condemned the wildcat slow-downs. The strikers from four different unions -- engineering workers, electricians, transport, and municipal -- are seeking travel allowances, higher shift pay and concessionary prices for their own home electricity. Their go-slow action began to bite on Wednesday and by Friday was affecting 80 of the country's 137 power stations. The strikers are mostly maintenance men and coal-shovellers, and the majority of the nation's 90,000 power workers were not involved, according to the Central Electricity Generating Board which runs the country's state-owned electricity network. The power cuts were ordered by the Electricity Board because of a backlog of maintenance work at power plants, officials said. British Rail, the nationwide passenger train service, kept most trains rolling by drawing power from areas not affected by cuts. But local outages affected signalling equipment and many commuters suffered long delays. Train departures called train departures through bullhorns at Charing Cross station, just off Trafalgar Square. London subway trains ran normally on their own power generators, London Transport said. Nov. 13, 1977 # British Firefighter Strike Nearing LONDON (UPI) -- British firefighters Saturday spent their final hours before striking by rescuing flood victims along the coast and the government appealed to them to reconsider a decision to walk off the job Monday. Tom Ham, chairman of the Greater London Council's fire committee, appealed to Londoners to keep calm. "The strike seems certain to go ahead and we want to keep the risk to life and property as small as possible," Ham said. Newspapers and radio stations put out a list of precautions for households and emergency telephone numbers for use during the strike. Winds of up to 92 mph and driving rain caused havoc across a wide area of Britain and the fire brigades turned out to help people from automobiles, buses and houses in flooded lowlands. Nov. 13, 1977 === Page 22 of 26 Nov 16, 1977 Strike Jolts Great Britain LONDON (UPI) - Parliament called an emergency session Tuesday to discuss the strike by 35,000 firefighters. Army troops and volunteers battled hundreds of blazes and Scotland Yard launched a secret plan to trap false alarm callers. One group of striking firefighters expressed fear they would be fired for responding to an emergency call to help evacuate a flaming hospital. The London Fire Brigade Headquarters received 255 emergency calls during the strike's first 24 hours, slightly less than normal for a weekday. Many were false alarms. Good Morning This Balmy Weather Raises The Suspicion Old Man Winter Is Waiting In The Wings To Stab Us In The Back With An Icicle. NEW MEXICO'S LEADING NEWSPAPER AND HOME OPERATED ********** Thursday, November 17, 1977 # British Firefighters Watch Plant Burn Compiled From Journal Wires LONDON - Striking British firemen refused to help inexperienced army firefighters battle a raging blaze Wednesday in a $125 million power station east of London. It was the worst fire in the three-day-old walkout for more pay. The biggest blaze since Britain's 35,000 firefighters went on strike Monday roared unchecked, forcing scores of people from their homes in Tilbury, about 30 miles outside London on the River Thames. A 15-year-old girl trapped in her burning farmhouse in Northern Ireland and a 48-year-old man smothered in a tenement fire in Glasgow, Scotland, were the fifth and sixth persons to die since the beginning of the strike, Britain's first nationwide walkout. The unprecedented strike by virtually all of Britain's full-time firemen turned nasty as strikers squabbled over whether they should aid the soldiers or remain on the picket lines. Some striking firemen abandoned the picket lines to join army troops at an early morning blaze in a London medical school building. But they were heckled and photographed by other strikers who refused to help. "We have a fight on our hands, and we must see that our people don't stab us in the back," one angry striker said. The chief fire officer for Essex County telephoned several fire stations near Tilbert when flames quickly engulfed the 1,200-megawatt, coal-burning power plant. "I asked them to attend with breathing apparatus, but they refused," said Chief Fire Officer Roy Barnes. Three building employes were overcome by thick, acrid smoke that billowed from the building. The soldiers, using 1950-vintage fire tenders, had to withdraw and let the fire burn itself out. Officials said there was severe damage and the plant was in danger of collapsing. The military has not taken modern equipment from fire stations because the Labor government hopes to avoid a Continued on A-2 === Page 23 of 26 A-2 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Thursday, November 17, 1977 # Firefighters Watch Blaze Continued from A-1 picket line confrontation. The soldiers also have been plagued by firebugs, hoaxes and "some idiot with a transmitter" who is jamming communications, authorities say. The striking firemen, members of the Fire Brigades Union, abandoned picket lines three times Tuesday to fight several blazes, including a smoky fire inside a London hospital. The firemen went on strike 9 a.m. Monday over a pay dispute. They argue their average weekly salary of $115 is not enough to make ends meet in inflation-ridden Britain. But Home Secretary Merlyn Rees has said the firemen would not be exempted from anti-inflationary pay guidelines that allow for raises of no more than 10 per cent. About 30 firemen's wives from East London and adjoining Essex County marched through a market place in Romford Wednesday and told passers-by they were fed up with accepting cash handouts from relatives. Some pedestrians clapped and drivers tooted their horns in support. "All we want is a livable wage for our men who do a difficult, dangerous and often agonizing job," said Mrs Susan Rush, 24, one of the march organizers. Her husband works at Romford fire station. Another marcher, Mrs. Maggie Baran, 25, said she earned more as a telephone operator than her 31-year-old fireman husband, Stefan. === Page 24 of 26 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Friday, November 25, 1977 AP Wirephoto # Babysitter And Hope Entertainer Bob Hope chats with Britain's Queen Elizabeth after a variety show at London's Palladium honoring her silver jubilee. Hope teased the queen about becoming a grandmother and congratulated her on her new title, "royal babysitter," after the birth of a son to her daughter, Princess Anne. Scientists The above is one of the primary reasons for this file... which entails the SI's causing chaos in Britain. They, the SI's, were deeply irked because my work with them ended the terrible drought in Britain in 1976 (see that file) yet the Queen did not meet me or greet me for it (see my "before and after" letters to the Queen in the above file)... yet she, and Britain, will honor show biz entertainers. Thus the present punishment from the UFOs for Britain. The SI's spank slow learners and bad children. Ted Owens (PK/Man) Nov. 28, 1977 === Page 25 of 26 Sun. Nov. 27, 1977 # British Viewers Receive a Scare From Eerie Voice WINCHESTER, England (AP) -- "All your weapons of evil must be destroyed," said the deep voice to thousands of television viewers in southern England Saturday night. The startling interruption prompted hundreds of phone calls to police and Southern Television studios. They launched an immediate investigation to track down a suspected pirate transmitter. Unlike the famous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast in America in 1938 that had thousands of listeners believing Martians had landed on Earth, this hoax was not part of the station's program. The six-minute message, said by the speaker to come from the Intergalactic Assn., began shortly after 5 p.m., breaking into a news program. There was no visual signal. "This is the voice of Asteron," the speaker began, "you have only a short time to learn to live together in peace." A policeman said, "Most people had taken it quite seriously. They were frightened and generally scared. We had to send a police car round to calm down one woman." "We don't know what the source of it was or how it got on the air," said a spokesman for the independent television station in London. He said it had been broadcast in only a section of the country south of London and believed it was the first incident of its kind in Britain. "My little girl, Donna, was frightened and started screaming," said Janet Stewart of Basingstoke, about 50 miles southwest of London. "I'm not easily frightened, but at the end I was shaking like a leaf." Scientists... a strange coincidence! While my SIs (UFOs) are clobbering Britain and causing eggs to be thrown at the Queen... this happens. Owens 7 Nov. 28, 1977 Nov. 25, 1977 # Two Die in England As Troops Fight Fires LONDON (UPI) -- Fires claimed two more lives Thursday as British troops battled some of the biggest blazes of the 11-day firefighters' strike. The government said it would call up members of the Marine Band to bolster the beleaguered soldiers. In Northern Ireland, an overnight firebomb blitz touched off seven blazes. Officials blamed the Irish Republican Army. Strikers raced from the picket line in Chorley, 206 miles northwest of London, to aid soldiers fighting a fire in a private home. But they were unable to save its elderly female occupant because of the thick smoke, police said. At Seaforth near Liverpool an elderly man was found dead after a blaze in a house. Thirty people were evacuated from a retirement home in Newcastle when a fire broke out early Thursday. Troops using six "green goddess" fire trucks from World War II brought the blaze under control, but many of the elderly residents were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. The Home Office said 22 people have died in fires since the 35,000 firefighters walked out to back demands for a 30 per cent pay raise. They currently earn $118 a week. More than 100 troops and 17 fire engines were called in overnight to fight London's biggest blaze since the soldiers were drafted to firefighting duty. The fire gutted a textile and paper factory in Bermondsey. Cleveland County soldiers tackled their biggest blaze to date when a timer yard at Domanstown in northeast Britain caught fire. Six engines finally controlled the flames, but the building and adjoining offices were badly damaged, police said. The government announced Thursday it was calling up 165 Marine bandsmen to bolster the ranks of the 9,500 troops on emergency fire duty. The reinforcements from three Royal Marine bands were scheduled to join troops in the West Midlands and the Strathclyde region, military spokesman said. In Northern Ireland, a series of cassette-sized bombs started a massive fire in a Londonderry lumberyard, and three more firebombs were planted in a local pub. === Page 26 of 26 Nov. 27, 1977 # British Firemen, Families March To Press Demands LONDON (AP) -- Ten thousand striking firemen, their wives, children and supporters, marched through the center of London Saturday to press their demands for a 30 per cent pay raise. As they marched, the toll of fire-related deaths since the strike began Nov. 14 rose to 24 when a young man was burned to death in an apartment fire in London's Covent Garden district, police said. Authorities said none of the fire-related deaths during the strike could be blamed on the firemen's walkout, since they would have perished before firefighters arrived. Fire deaths during the strike have averaged two per day. Fire deaths during nonstrike periods average 2.68 per day, but they have dropped during the strike because people are exercising more care to prevent fires, officials said. An arsonist struck London's big Middlesex Hospital for the sixth time in a week, defying tight security to set a blaze in a bathroom of the nurses' home adjacent to the hospital. Men on special 24-hour patrol doused the flames. There were no injuries. Firemen from all parts of the country, including Scotland, joined the march. Chanting "More pay!" they went first to Prime Minister James Callaghan's residence to deliver a petition signed by half a million supporters. It asked the Labor government to set aside its 10 per cent wage guidelines and meet the firemen's demands for a 30 per cent increase over their current average of $115 for a 48-hour work week. The government has rejected the wage demands, refusing to make an exception to its anti-inflation pay policy. About 14,000 troops, backed by air force and navy specialists, have been mobilized to fight the fires across Britain since the strike began. The Fire Brigades Union, claiming strike support is hardening, said senior fire officers in London are now joining the walkout. "In London, more than half the officers have joined the union and are actively supporting the strike. They are not assisting the army at any fires," claimed Trevor Jones, a regional union official. Officers had earlier been coordinating troop movements as fires were reported in the city. Jones also said the public was being "very generous" to strikers, contributing $36,000 to a strike fund. In Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, about 1,200 civil servants joined firemen in a march through the city center for a rally to support of the firemen's strike and to press the government to restore cuts in public spending. There was also a mass rally in Aberdeen, Scotland, attended by striking firemen from throughout Scotland. Strike violence S.F. Examiner 11/17/77 # Britain's fire losses mount LONDON (AP) -- Tension and destruction mounted today in Britain's four-day-old firemen's strike as militants tried to prevent hastily trained soldiers from fighting blazes. The Home Office reported 12 fire-related deaths, including five children in Northern Ireland yesterday and today. Tempers flared during a London power station blaze yesterday when non-striking senior fire officers commandeered a foam engine from a nearby firehouse. The strikers took the truck back, but troops later moved in and drove it away. Strikers picketed some of the army's emergency fire stations to stop senior fire officers, who are acting as advisers to the soldiers, from going in. A team of part-time reserve firemen was kicked and spat upon when it answered one call. Militants also sabotaged some of their own trucks yesterday and jammed station doors to prevent troops from taking the equipment. The Greater London Council, the capital's governing body, said it blanked out a strikers' pirate radio network in retaliation for earlier jamming of a key channel linking an emergency control center with mobile firefighting units. The council said it also cut off telephones at striker-held firehouses. A Defense Ministry official said the army's 10,000 rookie firemen, who went into action when the strike began Monday, were getting "very tired." Major fires across the country taxed their endurance. The mounting toll of destruction highlighted the soldiers' lack of modern equipment and firefighting skill. Legislators chastised the government for "exposing the soldiers to risk by not providing them with adequate equipment." The soldiers, backed by part-time reserve firemen and volunteer groups with buckets and garden hoses, are using 25-year-old civil defense fire trucks brought out of mothballs. Most of the sophisticated equipment used by the 33,000 full-time firemen is locked up in their stations. The firemen, making an average $115 a week, want a 30 percent pay increase. But the government refuses to back off from its counter-inflationary curbs limiting increases to 10 percent. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7712 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b71a642af9b81265e5f2db795930bcde.txt 2a509e35f50d0271bff18d47e7412db3 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5fdc3deb2adbdc37e0a20650679f3514.pdf 0b70bcbba3cbdf3490fd9ea630ed8a41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 January 25, 1978 Dear Jeffrey: Two personable, most intelligent young men in their 20's...have come forth here in Albuquerque...and offered to attempt to get the necessary funds for the SI base... What they propose is that they establish a non-profit organization and raise funds in my name...by placing ads in better newspapers in key cities; possibly using other means. Enclosed is a sample letter of intent that they have worked up. They wish me to give them my personal authorization in writing for them to proceed. Their names are Fred Williams and Stephen Tucker. They are willing to work in cooperation with you, in any way. For information re this matter, contact Fred Williams, area 505, 344-5818, Albuquerque. Cordially, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens The enclosed plan is only tentative; they request your help in re-working the plan. Trouble is, such a plan would tie me up with strings I abhor and can't have... plus there is no time, as I've explained. === Page 2 of 29 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS TED OWENS FUND January 24, 1978 To whom it may concern: The objectives of the TED OWENS FUND are non-profit and educational: to provide fin. support establish a UFO contact base and scientific inquiry into causes of UFO phenomena. Based on voluminous documentation by reliable witnesses from affidavit files collected over the past 12 years and the recent preliminary scientific report on the Owens case by Jeffrey Mishlove of the University of California at Berkeley, it is resolved that none of the contributions will be allocated until a total sum of $250,000 is accumulated. If that sum is not accumulated within two years, all contributions will be returned to their original donors at that time, January 24, 1980. deadline in dispute TW If the amount mentioned above is not collected, the TED OWENS FUND will officially dissolve itself on the same date. If the amount mentioned above is collected before that date, a detailed breakdown of all expenditures will be available on request within 30 days of the attainment of said sum. Donors will retain the right to inquire about the size attained by the fund at any time within the two year period if they send a self-addressed, self-stamped envelope to the TED OWENS FUND along with their inquiries. Stephen J. Tucker, Chairman My commission expires 6/11/79 Betty Jane McMath Notary Public __________ === Page 3 of 29 January 25, 1978 Dear Jeffrey: As you know, this area has one of the largest military and intelligence complexes in the United States...Los Alamos, Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia Laboratories, etc. And, according to Dr. Henry Monteith...they all hate me with a purple passion. They have insulted me and ridiculed me...via Henry Monteith; he their front man and spokesman in his visits to my home. Lo and behold...two young men in their twenties have mysteriously come from literally nowhere...Fred Williams and Stephen Tucker, offering to gather the monies together to get my Oregon base. I ask myself, with so much hate pointed at me from the local military and intelligence...can any possible good come from this tender, sensitive area. I have to answer myself no. Fred Williams is a tall, dark haired boy, 24 years old...who has admittedly worked as an intelligence agent in the past. He also worked at Kirtland AFB. He has an enormous IQ, it seems...can converse at great length on weighty points of physics and science; says that his dad is a scientist, who has his own lab. His wife is a nut who, last week, drew up some kind of affidavit saying she'd kill herself...on and on. Fred is also a jazz musician, playing numerous instruments. He dresses like a door to door salesman, and acts like one, also. Wears blue suede shoes. Very glib; very smart. also a jazz musician...drums; Stephen acts a trifle gay; Fred today said Stephen lives with he and his wife. Figure that one out. Stephen also makes noises like a psychic. Stephen says he is unemployed; has been for some time; and for the last two months has been trying to "get his head together." Fred wants to set up a non-profit organization in my name; make Stephen the head of it, and the handler of the monies coming in. Today they both came over and handed me the enclosed laughable, funny document to sign. I hadn't the heart to just laugh and tell them to get lost. (Fred said he didn't want any percentage of the monies, or financial payment. All he wants is for Stephen to collect the monies for two years until the full amount is collected, then hand it over to me for the Oregon base. And if it isn't collected in full...then send the monies back to the contributors, all 250,000 of them.) That's right. Fred said they planned to run ads in all big newspapers in principal cities of the U.S. asking for $1 contribution from 250,000 people. I asked him today how, if he hadn't the money, and Stephen was broke...they could lay out all the money necessary to pursue the matter. I told them I could not, would not, make a move without consulting you. Am sure it would certainly be best if you can gently close them off. Fred took your phone number to call you. They were pressuring me today for a fast authorization, written, from me, for them to represent me. Sounds horribly like either a con game; or someone setting me up for some nastiness. They stood over me while I typed out the enclosed stuff. So couldn't add this then. I'll mail this tomorrow, with the enclosed. It is interesting that Fred is the expert on all of this fund-raising and organization; Stephen knows nothing about it, he told me...yet Fred wants to put Stephen in as "head" of it all. Ha ha. Oh, phooey. You know, I am a natural target for con men to reap a harvest at my expense. These might just be the first ones. Best to you.... Ted Gwen === Page 4 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQ. NM 871 PM 26 JAN 1978 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE E PLURIBUS UNUM USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Over ----------> === Page 5 of 29 Sir have given me the date for time window at haunted place. Have been instructed to return there this coming July 17 to July 22 or 23. All-night camping sessions... no sleep, just stand & watch & be alert. Only my brain can turn it on. If no base set up by then, forget it. Their rules, not mine. Ted. === Page 6 of 29 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Jan. 5, 1978 * That's the second break-in episode in several weeks. Police amazed Beau & I by getting out to us in about 2 minutes!! Best to you... Ted Dear Jeffrey: Of course, you were right last night...when I exploded with anger because Louie didn't come up with the true facts, and guessed that the SIs would do something negative in retaliation. You were right. They won't. They are not petty. However, can you understand my frame of mind? Already one key person, Hynek, had denied to you an absolute fact...denied or said he couldn't remember my long distance call to him before the Apollo flight. That's one. Then another key person, Louie, gives a totally inaccurate version of what happened. That's two, and was the straw that broke the camel's back! See, the Rhines had been having me over to their house, secretly, to test my qualities as a spirit medium. They did that several times, then the next time I showed up for the mediumship go-round Dr. Rhine surprised me by placing the small group in chairs about ten feet from a table. He, Dr. Rhine, then set up a pair of scissors (about six inches long) securely against some objects on the table...told me that the scissors were secure...and explained that I must make the scissors "fall over" with my mind. I tried for an hour, every way I could think of, then gave up, stood up, said "Dr. Rhine, I'm sorry, but I've tried everything..." at which moment the scissors flew high into the air toward our group then fell onto the floor. Later I asked for and got a written confirmation of the event from Louie, and kept it for years glued into a notebook that I carried around. Until it and many other papers I had were lost in a family move from Phila. Well, the weight of years of frustration lies on me, Jeffrey...so when the second of two scientists refused to divulge absolutely true facts, it was too much for me. Anyway, stay cool...there won't be any catastrophes over that. Incidentally, someone tried to get through our front door last night. * === Page 7 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 1 JAN 1976 Surrender at Saratoga 1777 by Trumbull US Bicentennial 13 cents Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 8 of 29 Jan. 30, 1978 George Delavan Millie Miller Jeffrey Mishlove Dr. Henry Monteith Dr. Max Fogel Dr. Milan Ryzl Peter Maddock Dr. Leo Sprinkle Drs. Targ and Puthoff Gentlemen, and lady Millie: Last July 19, 1977, my son Beau and I witnessed three bigfoot creatures and 28 UFOs just overhead...in northern California in an isolated location...in one single night. Since then it has been my understanding that we were enabled to look through a "time window" into another dimension, that of the SIs, UFO entities for whom I had worked for ten years. One giant UFO, probably as large as a football field, was within a rock's throw of me that night. All right. The SIs (my UFO connection) have informed me that, if I get my Oregon base before this coming July, 1978...then each one of you are invited to join me, and my son Beau, to return once more to "the haunted place" as Beau and I call it, where you should be able to see through the time window and witness the many forms of UFOs overhead and perhaps also the bigfoot creatures some 30 feet away. The SIs have instructed me to bring my guests next July 17 to July 25. We will sleep in the daytime; stay up all night long, every night... until "the" night, when they will appear for us. Of course, the happening will be priceless for each of you...because you will see into another world, as Beau and I did last year. I hope sincerely that the SIs are not telling me wrong; but then, they never have yet, through hundreds of 'miracles' in which I have participated...so I trust them implicitly. There are rules. If our secret place is bugged, or any in the party is wired for sound...or there is ANY contact between our party members and outsiders...then the SIs will not open the time window, and they will not appear. Thus I would warn the CIA and other government agencies to keep far far away from this operation, if true results are to take place. Another rule...NO ONE is to fire a gun or attack in any way the UFOs that appear. Or the Bigfoot creatures. This is a friendly meeting. Any of you attending...can expect to be "taken" by the SIs...hypnotized; examined, programmed, whatever, with resultant amnesia. This can happen, and you should know it. But it will not be done in a hostile manner, nor in a way to injure or harm you. Needless to say, this happening will not be for the fainthearted. This letter may be a bit premature; I do not yet have my Oregon base... but the SIs told me to tell you of all this, in advance of the fact. And to invite each one of you to the gathering. If they appear as they did last July, to Beau and I..."Close Encounters" movie will seem like a cub scout meeting. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 1303, Bernalillo, N.Mex. 87004 Owens === Page 9 of 29 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 31 JAN 1978 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 C === Page 10 of 29 Re: A psycho attacker on dope! Jan. 30, 1978 Jeffrey... a very dangerous situation has arisen here. Puts the focus on the SI anger because my family and myself are not protected in my "host country." As you know, my wife Martha recently returned to us. How she escaped, I do not know. She'd gone to Richmond, Virginia, on her own...and we came here. Then she rejoined us, after about six months. And she told us an eerie story. (Remember that Martha is one of the sweetest persons in the world...but sometime, somewhere, she had brain damage...and she is simple and naive.) She told us that a strange man had picked her up in a park...then beaten her and raped her, and threatened her life. Further, he forced her to use marijuana and hashish. Finally, she managed to get away from him (he intercepted my letters to her and tore them up...but she found the empty envelopes...and he intercepted my phone calls to her and cut them off.) Meanwhile, I had called the police in Richmond and asked them to investigate. They did, most kindly. (See enclosed file.) Now, I have been getting threatening phone calls here from nuts in Albuquerque...harrassing phone calls daily (10 to 20 sometimes)...and now have this added threat of this crazy dope addict from Virginia! What is ironical is...Martha does not give me sex or love or affection, what a man would get normally from a wife. She is just one of the sweetest persons in the world...and my two little kids love her dearly. I do, too. Am sending you this information because you are following me closely, my life, and you should have it, to keep the file complete. PLEASE RETURN THE ENCLOSED PHOTOGRAPH OF JAY WILLIAMS BY RETURN MAIL SO THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM IF HE TURNS UP AT THE POST OFFICE! Also the police letter. And his letter, too. The SIs were right...someone, somewhere, should have set me up with a safe Base in the Oregon mountains, quite a while ago...with two trained guard dogs. Here I am, open and vulnerable...making a shootout eventually a solid fact. And I do not want a shootout...though am a crackshot, a quickdraw expert, and an expert knifeman, plus a fine judo man and a pro boxer. But I do not want to hurt anyone. It seems that is being forced upon me (by the OI's?) Many times in the past I have been jumped by gunmen and knifemen, in gangs...but beat them in my own way, which is why I am still here. But the odds are creeping up on me. Figure out... what will happen to the United States...if the odds beat me. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Tonight she told me he also made her sniff cocaine. === Page 11 of 29 Jan. 30, 1978 Jay Williams, xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx My wife, Martha, has returned to her family. She wants no part of you. She has told me and the kids...how you picked her up in a park; beat her, raped her, forced marijuana and hashish on her...then, when she threatened to call the police and tried to get away from you...you threatened to use your gun and kill the police, there in Richmond, Virginia. Now you threaten to come out here to New Mexico and do some killing, in your letter, which I have. You are obviously crazy. A psycho. And this is the very best advice I can give you. Stay far, far away from me and Martha. If I get my hands on you, after what you did to my wife...I will break both your arms and both of your legs...calmly, and without feeling. If you try to use a gun on me or my family...then you will cease to exist. Perhaps that is what you want. Sincerely, Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 Owens === Page 12 of 29 MISHLOVE ENTERPRISES 2120 West Clybourn Street, Room 307 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 MILWAUKEE PM 12 JAN 1978 ALWAYS ZIP CODE United States 13c Mr Jeffrey Mishlove 2430 Lake Street #4 San Francisco, California 94121 === Page 13 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM PM 17 JAN 1978 Pueblo Art USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 overa -> Ted - I will send it had for you in the you. I hope that had a good year ever better year We are still analysis efforts. movie "Close Encounters" renewed interest unidentified objects C === Page 14 of 29 Ted- I will send this to the last address I had for you in hopes that it will get to you. I hope that you and your family had a good year last year and an ever better year next year. We are still holding in our analysis efforts. Maybe with the new movie "Close Encounters" there will be renewed interest to look into the unidentified observations. Best Wishes, Roland HAPPY HOLIDAYS and happiness always! === Page 15 of 29 NO CONTENT === Page 16 of 29 January 13, 1978 Dear Jeffrey...was charming talking to Lynn on your line...and enjoyable talking to you. She seems to be a dear. I still am completely puzzled as to how I could collaborate with her re PK, despite your attempted explanation. Anyway, it could not conceivably be done before I do my "base" work in Oregon; certainly my base work could not be done from Frisco, as she suggested. If I get the base, she would be most welcome to come there and I would be most glad to collaborate with her...whilst I did the SIs work, simultaneously...if her work did not detract from the SIs work. Got her letter. Most interesting. The envelope of hers...was 10¢ short on postage...four stamps, all upside down and sideways...and the zip code was backward...she put 47008 and it is 87004. Well, Einstein couldn't find his parked car, either. She enclosed a photo slide. Wow...what a broad! Lovely, beautiful. (Unless she took it 20 years ago). Hope you can get the PK project going. If you can, and it's okay, please send me some of the results. I am very interested in what you will find. I am sure that you will find that PK is very real, in the sense that it is a force that can be measured and recorded. I do wish that I could have been there to help you, but I have something else to do. I will be in touch with you from time to time, as things develop. I am sure that we will be able to work together both at the base and in the future. I am looking forward to it. And thank you for the photo slide. I will take good care of it. Enclosed are some of the things that I have been working on. 30 aerial photos of the 67s. 67s are the ones that I have been working on for some time. I have also included some of the data that I have gathered from the 67s. I hope that you will find it interesting. I will be in touch with you soon. Also...here is a copy of the letter that I sent to the Mayor of Santa Rosa, California. It is about the 67s and the 67s during the storms of '67. I have also included a copy of the letter that I sent to the '67 people. I hope that you will find it interesting. I will be in touch with you soon. I had a long talk with the lawyer today. He says that we will have to have a hearing on the 67s. I will let you know when we have a date for the hearing. I am sure that we will win. The lawyer is very good. I will be in touch with you soon. Sincerely, Ted Owens PS... note I told George Weiss SIs would get rougher in England! They just did!!! [Envelope Overlay] R.P. Swank 1378 Berwyn Paoli Rd. Berwyn, Pa. 19312 SOUTHEASTERN PA 194 PM 30 DEC 1977 VALLEY FORGE USA 13c Mr. Ted Owens and family Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 635 PAUL AVE. C/O MILLIE MILLER-APT 1 SAN FRANCISCO, CA. 94134 === Page 17 of 29 January 13, 1978 Dear Jeffrey...was charming talking to Lynn on your line...and enjoyable talking to you. She seems to be a dear. I still am completely puzzled as to how I could collaborate with her re PK, despite your attempted explanation. Anyway, it could not conceivably be done before I do my "base" work in Oregon; certainly my base work could not be done from Frisco, as she suggested. If I get the base, she would be most welcome to come there and I would be most glad to collaborate with her...whilst I did the SIs work, simultaneously...if her work did not detract from the SIs work. Got her letter. Most interesting. The envelope of hers...was 10¢ short on postage...four stamps, all upside down and sideways...and the zip code was backward...she put 47008 and it is 87004. Well, Einstein couldn't find his parked car, either. She enclosed a photo slide. Wow...what a broad! Lovely, beautiful. (Unless it was made 30 years ago). Hope you send soon the "expanded" scientific report to me! Also, please be kind and send a copy to Millie, even though you once angered you with a wrong remark. She's sweet, Jeffrey...and her help to me in the past has been absolutely priceless...to the SIs, aswell as to me. I do wish that you would make it a point to get together with her sometime...have lunch at the Fishermen's Wharf or whatever they call it, as she and I did...and get to know each other. Then...then...you will both appreciate each other. She's something else, Jeffrey...as you are. And two "something elses" should get together! You would never lose by it. Enclosed is last week's card from Roland Swank...the chap who headed 30 aerospace scientists in following my work in hurricanes in the late 67s. Why not call him and query him about it? Hurricane Inez, in particular, talk about! (Note that the very MASS of witnesses to my former phenomenon...seems to comprise a phenomenon in itself!) Also...you should phone Murray Zatman, 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, California 95403 (his wife, Mari)...Murray was my boss in the late 67s during three years where I was controlling hurricanes, bringing in storms over Phila., controlling the Phila. Eagles, making the massive '67 power blackout, etc. (The 1965 massive power blackout in New York... I had sent a telegram 10 days previously to the government, warning them. Have it in my files.) Anyway, in all these old files which you do not have...are many affidavits from Murray Zatman, lawyer, as well as other lawyers. If he tells you true...and has not been "reached" a la the Cape Charles radar expert...he'll make your hair stand on end! All for now. Keep swinging..... Sincerely, Ted Owens PS... note I told George Weiss SIs would get tougher in England! They just did!!! === Page 18 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over -> Thursday, 1/12/78 Dear Jeffrey: I'm enclosing a copy of the letter I received today from Ted Owens. It is confusing to me especially so since I just recently had a quite complete check-up at the Marshfield Clinic and got a fairly clean "bill of health". Now I don't know what to do. Marshfield is considered as good maybe even better than Mayo's. As for the building - I am already doing most of what he suggests. How about your friend he mentions? Is there any chance there? Call or write soon. Love Dad also - Ted mentions $800,000. It is 650,000. === Page 19 of 29 I would be greatly honored... if scientists, etc., in the future, could refer to "my" phenomena as "The Owens Effect" just as they refer now to the "Geller Effect." Ted. === Page 20 of 29 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) I have asked my UFO connection to help you, Hy... and your entire family. Showed them by telepath your building, $500,000 price you want, and maps. Plus your photos. Ted. Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Jan. 3, 1977 Dear Hy... I enjoyed talking with you over the phone. Just received your package, and photos. Frankly, my friend... I am more concerned about your health, than I am about your business. Am rather famous for doing psychic 'readings' on photos... and the impression that I get from your photos... is that you had better get to Mayo Clinic, if you can... and get a thorough scan on your health. I went to Mayo several years ago... and they do a dam good job for you. It is worth every penny, to you. Meanwhile, let us see if we can do something about causing some cash flow to come your way. Attached is a personal disc for you to keep on your person, AND UNDER YOUR PILLOW AT NIGHT. On the separate sheet find three more discs, coded with powers from UFO friends... scotch tape these three discs somewhere inside the building that you want to unload. (Gives the SIs (UFOs) a directional find.) Then we wait, while you throw out classified ads and perhaps buy a mailing list and send a form out to good leads on the building. And remind Jeffrey that he has a friend whom I met in Frisco... who buys buildings like yours and sells them! (He drives a specially made car... a Jensen Interceptor.) Maybe he would be interested. Also... buy a mailing list and throw out leads to the Chicago and Evanston area. Also, why not keep in mind and consider a swap, a trade... for your building for something more interesting and better for you! I wear a disc... but my SIs still expect me to keep swinging... they cannot pull a tooth, remove an infected appendix, or supply cold cash... cause they do not use money. Certain things we still have to do for ourselves. But they will use their strange powers to help you and I. Bye for now.......... your new friend, Ted Owens God bless you, Hy === Page 21 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 10 JAN 1978 Surrender at Saratoga 1777 by Trumbull US Bicentennial 13cents Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Jan. 9, 1978 Dear Jeffrey...if you'd like some dynamic illumination on what I can do...write or call Zatman...a lawyer who lives now in California...I worked for him as a legal secretary in the late 60's...have many affidavits from him...and informed him BEFORE I caused the massive five-state power blackout on the east coast in 1967. I actually made a hurricane for him; before he went on a vacation I told him I would. It appeared on schedule where I said it would. After I'd done a whole bunch of miracles that he was privy to...he called me in and said, over → === Page 22 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 10 JAN 1976 Surrender at Saratoga 1777 by Trumbull US Bicentennial 13cents Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 "Owens, I can't make you out!" I replied, "Well, Mr. Zatman, I'm just your common, ordinary everyday secretary." Ted Owens Murray Zatman 100 Santa Rosa Ave. Santa Rosa, California 95403 His wife... MARI Milk Sugar Q. milk oleo Rice Envelopes === Page 23 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM PM 10 JAN 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 US Bicentennial 13cents Eric McCrossen Jeffrey 1/8/78 # Mondale's Visit Won't Mend Many Trampled Fences Fence mending Vice President Walter Mondale barnstorms in Albuquerque tomorrow evening and Tuesday morning but his schedule doesn't leave much time to lessen growing western resentment about the administration or to provide local Democrats with inspiration for the 1978 campaigns. If the trip isn't more substantive than the preliminary agenda indicates, it likely will have about as much impact as President Carter's just-ended seven-nation junket. The vice president plans to meet with Gov. Jerry Apodaca and a few others Monday evening and then will breakfast with Indian leaders Tuesday morning, tour Sandia Laboratories and minority businesses and then participate in a round table discussion on urban issues with Mayor David Rusk. Nowhere on the preliminary agenda is there mention of the four problems troubling the West, including New Mexico, the most: water, energy, growth and agriculture. Each of those problems is closely interrelated although there seems to be little understanding of that fact by the White House. It is clear President Carter, who is giving the problems short shrift, doesn't understand the role of water in the West. That lack of understanding was evident during the 1976 New Hampshire primary when Carter said he believed enough dams had been built in this country and that he would be reluctant to build any more dams if he was elected president. Not long after his election, Carter moved to strike 19 dams, river channelization and irrigation projects from the budget. He expected to save $5.1 billion. The action was announced without consultation with either the governors or congressional delegations of the affected states, most of them in the West. Congressmen were incensed and called the action naive, arbitrary and illegal. Later, President Carter announced plans for a comprehensive reform of the nation's water resources policy. He also urged the Dept. of Interior to develop regulations to enforce a long-ignored 1902 law which limits the amount of land a farmer can irrigate with water from a federally subsidized dam to 160 acres, a farm size which western farmers say cannot be operated economically. That farm size might have made sense when the plowing was done with horses, but it certainly bears little relation to modern-day farming methods and equipment. The Dept. of Interior has delayed for the time being implementation of such irrigation regulations until it can complete environmental impact studies. The 1902 law affects only the arid 17 western states. But that isn't all. The White House plans to deliver a final water policy proposal in February, a comprehensive reform of the nation's water resources policy. Westerners see the proposal as a move by Washington to usurp traditional state control of water rights. Westerners fear that irrigation and recreational water will be diverted to benefit energy resource development. Their water rights and policies have been developed through years of law and litigation and they are willing to fight to protect those rights. The President's dam and irrigation projects position raises the dander of westerners whose lives, homes, livelihood, communities and recreation all depend upon somewhat uncertain water supplies. Dams hold the winter snow runoff and water from gullywashers that otherwise would be lost to any beneficial use. And like it or not, those dams silt in after a few years and must be replaced with new dams at less satisfactory sites. The rush to develop more energy sources is creating other problems, many water-related, that Washington seems determined to ignore. Development of those sources, of course, demands more water, not only for processing but for the workers such developments require. Realistically, there are limits on the water available although more could probably be captured than is now if the necessary structures were available. But the administration does not seem interested in assuring development of those water resources. Furthermore, the administration seems even less interested in providing help for communities which are or will become boom towns because of energy development. The day when miners were willing to throw up a tent, dig a latrine and wash in an icy stream has long gone. States and communities often lack the necessary funds for additional modern services. Carter's water policies are the jokers in the West's survival deck. If adopted, and carried out, the policies could greatly hamper development of the West's energy resources, which the rest of the nation want. Those same policies could lead to the destruction of the West's agriculture, which helps feed a large part of the rest of the nation. The administration's policies toward the West seem to overlook the social and economic costs that are being imposed by exploitation of the region's vast uranium, coal, oil, gas and shale deposits. It almost seems that the administration wants the West to subsidize national energy development to benefit the more populous areas and to the extreme detriment of westerners. The administration isn't even offering federal help for the new schools, the roads, sewers, police and fire protection and other costs such energy development requires. Mending the political fences which fell during the 1976 presidential election campaign will require substantiality more than vice presidential visits or presidential appointments of state residents to high Washington posts. New Mexico has had what others regard as more than its share of appointments made by President Carter. Two of them, John O'Leary, deputy secretary of energy, and Alex Mercure, assistant secretary of agriculture, are directly involved in matters of the utmost concern to New Mexicans and all westerners. Trouble is, Washington just isn't listening to the West. The writer is editorial page editor of the Albuquerque Journal. === Page 24 of 29 PARADE'S by LLOYD SHEA "STAR WARS" HEROES SPORT MEDALS IN THE HIT MOVIE'S FINAL SCENE SCIENCE FICTION GLUT Inspired by the success of "Star Wars," a potential $200 million money-maker, film producers are planning a wave of space age films. Almost 20 science fiction film projects have been announced for future production. In an effort to board the "Star Wars" train, some studios have even tried to re-release old science fiction thrillers. Paramount, owned by Gulf & Western, recently re-released two classics made in the 1950's: "The War of the Worlds" and "When Worlds Collide." Both died at the box office because they have been shown countless times on television. George Pal, who originally produced both films and is a veteran on "special effects" pictures, is working on a new one, "The Time Machine No. 2," a sequel to his 1960 hit, which he expects to bring in at $2 million--a far cry from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," which cost $20 million. Director George Lucas, who made in England the fabulously successful "Star Wars" for $10 million and sold 40% of his interest to 20th Century-Fox, hopes to do a sequel. This time he plans to sell 20th only 10% of the film. REVIVAL OF 1951 SCI-FI FILM "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE" FIZZLED PARADE • JANUARY 29, 1978 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 30 JAN 1978 USAirmail 31c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 25 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. PM 23 JAN 1978 U.S. POSTAGE 13c E PLURIBUS UNUM A-4 Saturday, January 21, 1978 # Editorials • Comment ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL (T.M. PEPPERDAY, publisher, 1926-1956 H.P. PICKRELL, editor 1926-1964) (C. THOMPSON LANG, publisher, 1956-1971) T.H. LANG, Publisher An Independent Newspaper Published At Seventh St. and Silver Ave. SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico By The Journal Publishing Co. Robert A. Brown, Senior Editor Gerald J. Crawford, Editor Jeffrey... perhaps the below is overstated - I told you "wishy-washy" instead of "insipid" Ted ## Carter Was Uninspiring President Carter's first State of the Union message was disappointing -- to Democrats even more so than to Republicans, to the total American constituency as well as to the Congress to whom his remarks were addressed. (change "apologetic" to "weak" - my Ted) In overall tone it was insipid, and in most respects it sounded apologetic. Yet in no respect was it conciliatory to a Congress that has treated his initiatives dubiously during his first year in the presidency. At no point was there the faintest suggestion of compromise. Although his words were not backed up by an affirmative tone, he actually nettled a Congress under the control of his own party with the chiding comment that "on energy legislation we have failed the American people." === Page 26 of 29 1/19/78 Jeffrey... Kirtland AFB, Sandia Lab & Los Alamos are doing their best to insult me, ridicule me and show me disrespect. However, I have, after some reflection, decided not to waste my time or energy on Los Alamos. Have contacted the SI's and asked them to punish Los Al. Best to you, Ted Owens Jeffrey (from phone call from Henry tonight, 1/18/78) Scientists Who Have Insulted Me.......... "the UFO Connection"...am going to teach will never forget. Show me disrespect. UFOs controlling cities, towns and countries.......... give me and my UFO connection too much trouble lesson in manners. Dr. Henry Monteith mentioned to me last week tists might be interested in my speaking to them. because previously Henry had had trouble general in this area...for an appearance by myself charge a $1,000 fee for my appearance before your se, was the equivalent of my sticking my tongue use Billy Carter charges $5,000 to speak before y what I would have to tell you...would be like e swine. To me, anyway. be lucky if we paid for his gas to get here." All right. Fair enough. So your inference is that what I have to say is nothing. My intelligence, to you, is worthless. My experience to you, is worthless. I have no "clout or punch." Ha ha ha! How you have misjudged me, and my UFO Connection. As of this date, I have no Oregon Base...so what I do, and the UFOs do...at this point in time...is permissible. (Once I get my Base, I am tied to absolutely constructive, not destructive, projects.) Now, you jerks...(I am not a scientist...so I can talk straight)... I am going to teach you a lesson in manners that you will NEVER forget. For five (5) years...this is what is going to happen to your Los Alamos setup. (And I have my UFOs permission on this.) Your air space will be deadly. I myself certainly wouldn't want to be in an airplane in your area. EM effects (electromagnetic) will attack your area, and your experiments. Poltergeist effects will inundate your area...disrupting what you are doing and giving you fits there. Bad weather, storms, drought, hurricane winds, tornadoes, will strike your area. UFOs will appear...over and in your area...and will be hostile to you. And weird, freaky things will happen there at Los Alamos... and your personnel will do weird, freaky things. This isn't anything that I wanted, or planned. It has stemmed from a phone call where Dr. Monteith told me that you insulted me. That is all that it takes. In time to come, you will come to respect me, and my UFO connection. (PK Man) Owens === Page 27 of 29 Jeffrey January 18, 1978 To Los Alamos Scientists Who Have Insulted Me.......... (from phone call from Henry tonight, 1/18/78) I, Ted Owens, PK Man, "the UFO Connection"...am going to teach you a lesson that you will never forget. Not to insult me. To show me disrespect. I have spent ten years controlling cities, towns and countries... I reckon it will not give me and my UFO connection too much trouble to teach you all a lesson in manners. Briefly...to sum up...Dr. Henry Monteith mentioned to me last week that Los Alamos scientists might be interested in my speaking to them. This was amusing to me...because previously Henry had had trouble in getting $20 from a general in this area...for an appearance by myself So I told Henry to charge a $1,000 fee for my appearance before your bunch. This, of course, was the equivalent of my sticking my tongue out at you-all...because Billy Carter charges $5,000 to speak before groups...and naturally what I would have to tell you...would be like throwing pearls before swine. To me, anyway. You answer was: "He'd be lucky if we paid for his gas to get here." All right. Fair enough. So your inference is that what I have to say is nothing. My intelligence, to you, is worthless. My experience to you, is worthless. I have no "clout or punch." Ha ha ha! How you have misjudged me, and my UFO Connection. As of this date, I have no Oregon Base...so what I do, and the UFOs do...at this point in time...is permissible. (Once I get my Base, I am tied to absolutely constructive, not destructive, projects.) Now, you jerks...(I am not a scientist...so I can talk straight)... I am going to teach you a lesson in manners that you will NEVER forget. For five (5) years...this is what is going to happen to your Los Alamos setup. (And I have my UFOs permission on this.) Your air space will be deadly. I myself certainly wouldn't want to be in an airplane in your area. EM effects (electromagnetic) will attack your area, and your experiments. Poltergeist effects will inundate your area...disrupting what you are doing and giving you fits there. Bad weather, storms, drought, hurricane winds, tornadoes, will strike your area. UFOs will appear...over and in your area...and will be hostile to you. And weird, freaky things will happen there at Los Alamos... and your personnel will do weird, freaky things. This isn't anything that I wanted, or planned. It has stemmed from a phone call where Dr. Monteith told me that you insulted me. That is all that it takes. In time to come, you will come to respect me, and my UFO connection. (PK Man) Owens === Page 28 of 29 June 14, 1977 Mr. Andrew Wilson Truth Research Foundation Thornhill Newton Mearns Renfrewshire, Scotland Dear Mr. Wilson: Scientists... you will see from this file that what I told Mr. Wilson I could do, June 14, 1977, has been brought about as this entire file describes (but for a different reason). Owens I am prepared to cause exciting phenomena to occur over and around London... and other parts of England... from the middle of August clear through the month of September. Namely, the appearance of UFOs and perhaps UFO creatures or humanoids; (multiple appearances); great power failures; electro-magnetic and magnetic anomalies; electrical storms and great winds; other weird and strange events. It was a great honor for me to appear before the Parascience Conference last year in London... and address some excellent scientific minds present at that time. While there... I ended the terrible terrible English drought, beginning with rain the first day that I appeared at the Conference... and ending with English towns so flooded that boats were necessary to navigate the streets. While addressing the scientists present, I informed them that I would end the drought... which brought many laughs, since there had been no appreciable rain for months and the English weather experts were projecting no rain for more months to come. Well, I confounded the Weather Experts in England by bringing prodigious rains to England which did indeed end the horrible drought prevalent there. And my "UFO connection" brought it about. Perhaps it is superfluous to add... that I am the only human being in existence who can do what I can do. My brain is half-alien... it has been modified several times by the UFOs... so that I am half-human and half-alien. For years I have been able, telepathically, to communicate with UFOs, and they with me, directly. For cause-and-effect results that could be documented by scientists. On several occasions I have produced UFOs for scientists, under specific conditions, and it is documented. You can check with Dr. Max Fogel, Research Scientist for Mensa, Sumneytown Pike, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, 19436... I produced a UFO specifically over the heads of policemen in a certain area of Virginia within a certain time limit... called in advance to Dr. Fogel. I have his affidavit. I have done the same thing with other scientists but we will leave it at that. Am enclosing a few things which will generally explain what I can do... and it is all documented. Here is my proposition: send me $3,000 in U.S. money. I will then go to work to provide you with what I have outlined above, within the time limit set. Also, I will come to London about the 1st of September with my two children, carrying some excellent documentation that you will enjoy seeing. If you would like for me to lecture for you at that time, I will be delighted to do so, at no charge. And just perhaps... you would be interested in participating in my "UFO safari" at that time (see enclosed letter.) To accompany me... on this peculiar safari... would, I think, be one of the highlights of your entire life. Adventuresome. Perhaps you know my friend Arthur Shuttlewood, 17 Portway, Warminster, England. Or, Ronnie Petrie, 10 Oldtown Place, Hilton, Inverness, Scotland, Phone 36400 office or 38518, home... Ronnie drove me to my rendezvous with UFOs and the Loch Ness creature. Or Eric Romaine, 41 Water's Road, Salisbury, England, Phone 3120... Eric drove me on some of the adventures. Or, Peter Wilson, ex-Sergeant-Major of the English army, Highland Craft Centre, Drumnadrochit, Inverness Shire, Scotland, === Page 29 of 29 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM PM 10 JAN 1978 E PLURIBUS UNUM USA 13 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 37 Antarctic Rocks Yield Life Forms By WARREN E. LEARY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- An abundance of life has been discovered inside rocks from a barren region of Antarctica -- a surprising finding that could change the way scientists search for life on Mars. Discovery of microbes, algae and fungi underneath the surface of certain rocks in Antarctica, one of earth's harshest environments, significantly extends the known limits of life on this planet and offers new hope that some form of life may exist on desolate neighboring worlds, scientists say. The National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, co-sponsors of the antarctic research, announced the findings Tuesday. Drs. E. Imre Friedmann and Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, a husband-wife team of biologists from Florida State University at Tallahassee, found life in light-colored rocks from Antarctica's Dry Valleys region, a frigid, arid area mostly devoid of ice and snow. Similar, but more extreme, conditions were found on Mars by two American Viking spacecraft, which in 1976 searched unsuccessfully for conclusive signs of microbial life. But the unmanned craft were not designed to crack open rocks and peek inside. Dr. Richard S. Young, NASA's chief of planetary biology, said that if Martian life exists only in the interior of rocks, "the design of the spacecraft would be influenced accordingly." "For example, we would search out specific rock types and design a sampler which can open such rocks and provide subsurface samples which can be examined for life forms and organic molecules," Young said. The Friedmanns have looked for life inside rocks for more than 15 years and earlier succeeded in finding living cells inside rocks from hot desert areas of America, Asia and Africa. Friedmann said in an interview that in 1975, he found a layer of blue-green algae inside a Dry Valleys rock sent him by a friend. "But we didn't know if this was widespread and common, or if it was a freak case," Friedmann said. In two subsequent expeditions to Antarctica, the Friedmanns brought back 600 pounds of rocks and found that dark, greenish layer of lifelisted inside semi-translucent rocks where sunlight penetrates several millimeters deep. The thin, face layer rock not only traps minute amounts of water but also protects organisms from outside environment out excessive radiation. pseli... knowledge which you should have. Today was an article about your work... I have looked for life inside rocks for na, in 1920. When I was six years old going to see grampa. Grampa Owens (John worked his way up from waterboy, at 15 cents stone Quarries...to manager of one of the (in years to come he became Vice President of ed methods of cutting out tons of limestone dyes for coloring the stones; many of the gton, D.C., came from grampa's genius and grampa had come home from working in the stone washed and shaved, and was in the kitchen looking at a lizard which he had placed inside a container. "Look here, to me, smiling, his pipe clenched between his teeth, "I big block of limestone today and found this live lizard olid rock in a pocket in the stone." He poked the lizard around inside the container. He went on to tell me that understand how it could live, sealed inside that pocket limestone...and he said he figured that it must be hundreds of years old. He estimated that water managed to seep limestone which the lizard lived on...but without food? live, and I watched it, fascinated. It was white, with lations on it. It reminded me of a chameleon, sort of. er John Owens never lied to me in his entire life. Or anyone . He raised me...I lived with him and granma (Queenie) most ood up through highschool. He was listed in the books, Indiana," a 'Who's Who' of the greatest men of accomplishment of Indiana. pa's character...I know that he found that lizard just where d, under the conditions that he described. You can secure a scientific report about me, by scientists... on Street Research Center, 3101 Washington St., San lifornia, 94115, for $7. go to those limestone quarries around Oolitic, Indiana, and Bloomington, etc., and question old timers in that ted those quarries in long years past...you might get some rmation on life they may have found inside that stone, as (Claude Akins, movie star, was a kid who attended the same did in Bedford, and his father worked at the stone quarry Ted Owens, Box 1303, Bernalillo, New Mexico, 87004 Owens === Page 2 of 37 Feb. 1, 1978 Drs. E. Imre Friedmann and Roseli... Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida I am in possession of factual knowledge which you should have. In the Albuquerque Journal today was an article about your work... and it states "The Friedmanns have looked for life inside rocks for more than 15 years..." I was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1920. When I was six years old I crossed 16th Street one evening to see granpa. Granpa Owens (John M. Owens) at that time had worked his way up from waterboy, at 15 cents a week, in the Indiana Limestone Quarries...to manager of one of the nearby limestone quarries (in years to come he became Vice President of Indiana Limestone; invented methods of cutting out tons of limestone from the ground; invented dyes for coloring the stones; many of the famous statues in Washington, D.C., came from granpa's genius and ingenuity.) This particular evening granpa had come home from working in the stone quarry, had washed and shaved, and was in the kitchen looking at a small white lizard which he had placed inside a container. "Look here, T.," he said to me, smiling, his pipe clenched between his teeth, "I sawed open a big block of limestone today and found this live lizard inside the solid rock in a pocket in the stone." He poked the lizard and it moved around inside the container. He went on to tell me that he couldn't understand how it could live, sealed inside that pocket inside solid limestone...and he said he figured that it must be hundreds or thousands of years old. He estimated that water managed to seep through the limestone which the lizard lived on...but without food? But it was alive, and I watched it, fascinated. It was white, with slight discolorations on it. It reminded me of a chameleon, sort of. My grandfather John Owens never lied to me in his entire life. Or anyone else, either. He raised me...I lived with him and granma (Queenie) most of my childhood up through highschool. He was listed in the books, "Great Men Of Indiana," a 'Who's Who' of the greatest men of accomplishment in the State of Indiana. Knowing granpa's character...I know that he found that lizard just where he said he did, under the conditions that he described. As for me...you can secure a scientific report about me, by scientists... from Washington Street Research Center, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115, for $7. Were you to go to those limestone quarries around Oolitic, Indiana, and Bedford, and Bloomington, etc., and question old timers in that area who worked those quarries in long years past...you might get some valuable information on life they may have found inside that stone, as granpa did. (Claude Akins, movie star, was a kid who attended the same highschool I did in Bedford, and his father worked at the stone quarry of granpa's.) Ted Owens, Box 1303, Bernalillo, New Mexico, 87004 Owens === Page 3 of 37 Antarctic Rocks Yield Life Forms By WARREN E. LEARY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- An abundance of life has been discovered inside rocks from a barren region of Antarctica -- a surprising finding that could change the way scientists search for life on Mars. Discovery of microbes, algae and fungi underneath the surface of certain rocks in Antarctica, one of earth's harshest environments, significantly extends the known limits of life on this planet and offers new hope that some form of life may exist on desolate neighboring worlds, scientists say. The National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, co-sponsors of the antarctic research, announced the findings Tuesday. Drs. E. Imre Friedmann and Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, a husband-wife team of biologists from Florida State University at Tallahassee, found life in light-colored rocks from Antarctica's Dry Valleys region, a frigid, arid area mostly devoid of ice and snow. Similar, but more extreme, conditions were found on Mars by two American Viking spacecraft, which in 1976 searched unsuccessfully for conclusive signs of microbial life. But the unmanned craft were not designed to crack open rocks and peek inside. Dr. Richard S. Young, NASA's chief of planetary biology, said that if Martian life exists only in the interior of rocks, "the design of the spacecraft would be influenced accordingly." "For example, we would search out specific rock types and design a sampler which can open such rocks and provide subsurface samples which can be examined for life forms and organic molecules," Young said. The Friedmanns have looked for life inside rocks for more than 15 years and earlier succeeded in finding living cells inside rocks from hot desert areas of America, Asia and Africa. Friedmann said in an interview that in 1975, he found a layer of blue-green algae inside a Dry Valleys rock sent him by a friend. "But we didn't know if this was widespread and common, or if it was a freak case," Friedmann said. In two subsequent expeditions to Antarctica, the Friedmanns brought back 600 pounds of rocks and found that a dark, greenish layer of life existed inside semi-translucent rocks where sunlight penetrates several millimeters deep. The thin, face layer of rock not only traps minute amounts of water, but it also protects organisms from outside environmental conditions. === Page 4 of 37 45 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 4 FEB 1978 PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 5 of 37 the wh s tim e-tur rose i-ni e i uc rat viet 400 The de vo d ice - The White House partment Friday in- nate of the number volved in the fight- ia and Somalia and viet army general an troops in an ea. briefings, Zeig- White House na- er, and Hooding ate Department the number of ling Ethiopia at === Page 6 of 37 Feb. 25, 1978 # Cuban-Soviet Ethiopia Role Increasing? Los Angeles Times Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The White House and the State Department Friday increased their estimate of the number of Cuban troops involved in the fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia and charged that the Soviet army general is directing Ethiopian troops in an important combat area. At separate news briefings, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the White House national security adviser, and Hodding Carter, the chief State Department spokesman, both put the number of Cuban troops now aiding Ethiopia at more than 10,000. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said there were 2,000 Cuban troops involved in a "combat role" in Ethiopia. Last week, the State Department increased that estimate to 5,000 troops. At the White House, Brzezinski also asserted that Soviet Army Gen. Vasiliy I. Petrov "is in direct command" of Ethiopian troops, augmented by some Cubans, in the Harar region of the country. He said he did not know how long Petrov has been in Ethiopia. Brzezinski also said that the Soviet Union has supplied Ethiopia with 400 tanks, and two MIG fighter planes. The Cubans fighting on the Ethiopian side are organizing themselves into two infantry brigades and one mechanized brigade, he said. The Soviet Union, formerly allied with Somalia, switched sides last year after the United States cut off military aid to Ethiopia and has since poured in about $800 million in military equipment to the African country. In recent weeks, the United States has steadily increased its estimates of Soviet and Cuban involvement in the conflict. Two weeks ago, the State Department said there were 1,000 Soviets, including some pilots, in Ethiopia. Friday's estimates of the number of Cuban troops varied slightly. At the State Department, Carter put it at "8,000 to 10,000 plus," while Brzezinski said there are 10,000 to 11,000 Cuban troops in Ethiopia. The Harar region, where Petrov is said to be directing Ethiopian military operations, is part of the Ogaden, an area about the size of Oregon inhabited by ethnic Somalis. Last summer, Somali forces captured most of the area from Ethiopia, which with heavy Soviet and Cuban backing is now seeking to regain the territory. U.S. policy calls for a cease-fire in the region, followed by a negotiated settlement of the territorial dispute, the withdrawal of Somali troops from Ethiopia and the withdrawal of all Cuban and Soviet military personnel from the conflict. === Page 7 of 37 2/5/78 Jeffrey... whatever you do, please send a copy of the scientific report to Dr. Poher, Director of Sounding Rockets Division, National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France. (You probably have a better address for him.) From the 1974 file you will see that I attached, a controlled, France... after first Owen Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 === Page 8 of 37 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over Going there and seeing Dr. Puharich and being rejected by him. I often read where he & his organization are foremost in the world in UFO work... and I laugh, both in disgust and derision! Ted Owens === Page 9 of 37 Best address Dr Claude Poler, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Ave. E. Belin, 31055, Toulouse, France === Page 10 of 37 2/5/78 Jeffrey... whatever you do, please send a copy of the scientific report to Dr. Poher, Director of Sounding Rockets Division, National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France. (You probably have a better address for him.) From the 1974 file you will see that I attached, & controlled, France... after first Owen Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 11 of 37 going there and seeing Dr. Poker and being rejected by him. I often read where he & his organization are foremost in the world in UFO work... and I laugh, both in disgust and derision! Ted Owens Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 12 of 37 enclosed This written Wed. night, Feb. 8, (before next morn phone call, Thurs. Feb. 9.) (Be Ruby) === Page 13 of 37 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 10 FEB 1978 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE USA 13c E PLURIBUS UNUM Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 14 of 37 enclosed This written Wed. night Feb. 8, (before next morn phone call, Thurs. Feb. 9) 2/8/78 As a world famous psychic... I predict... precog... that President Carter... will not finish out his term! A stroke, something mental or physically severe... No matter, the Vice President will be excellent!!! Owens. === Page 15 of 37 February 24, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove...this evening I saw a horrible sight. A thousand dolphins bludgeoned to death in Japan...witnesses said the dolphins cried like people, as their brains were being beaten out. I was furious with rage. Dolphins are highly intelligent; gentle; wonderful creatures. I went to the SIs and asked permission to strike Japan with a slashing, punishing blow for this crime on nature...perhaps a bad earthquake...meanwhile telling you so that perhaps you could, through your "good offices" let the Japanese know why they were being punished, and never to do it again. But the SIs pointed out to me...that the United States slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese...in its atomic attack on Japan...thus would it be fair to do this thing to Japan now? I see the SI wisdom. But...Japan must be warned. If they repeat their act, then the SIs will allow me to punish the Japanese. Someone...had better pass this warning on to the Japanese. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS.. I told you some time ago the Russians would soon open up aggressively around the world. You witness the sudden tremendous buildup of Soviet tanks & planes & Cubans under the leadership of Petrov, top Russian general... in Ethiopia. (But what the Russians are really after is the African west coast facing the U.S. to setup ICBM bases there pointed our way!) Ted === Page 16 of 37 Mother picnic, rolled into water, Ben Daub, age 2 Bird bath fell on rt leg in cemetery, all thru life rt side injured. Grandpa across street, lizard in store, live. Red head girl appears in sleeping porch, teaches & loves me. Same girl appears at grandpa house in Colitic when (Chedadonga (Pangline, dog howls) strychnine) defind mags in attic and teaches me to read, in one hour, at age 4. (3 boys put me in shed there, threaten w/ knife.) I floated, age 4, in the air when grandma took me to a house to visit. (Rt up the side of the house.) and at Cowboy club yard. Bob Finn. (42) (14) Dad taught me to box, gloves, age 5. Teacher in Kinder or 1st grade mad at me for playing w/ alpha chips when I was already reading fiction mags. Mother puts acid in my eyes "by mistake," about age 3. I eat enough poison to kill 3 men, at age 3, put into candy (grandpa's favorite) lying in our yard. This just after Fawn had been killed with the poison. At age 7 I organize a gang & equip them with homemade blowguns to combat rock-throwing gangs. Fist fights at school almost every day. (Think I had one with Claude Akins, whose dad worked for grandpa) Teacher who knocked me down & dragged me by hair for a block to Melly Box's office. Prather, teacher & head of Scouts, takes me to home and tries sodomy. I escape & he runs out of town before dad got him. (After war II he returned again.) Mother's various punishments. Eva's influence w/ books, toys, etc. When I levitated on board Day Star. Over Babe... pocket knife appeared in st., $5 bill appeared on sidewalk; bulb appeared in jacket pocket, etc === Page 17 of 37 How I made hyp. correction on Rhine's exper. girl in dining hall, East Huge gold & im. dia ring left in washroom on campus. I walked down st. & located it on student. Same ring lost in Galveston off beach... asked Big Lorrie... 10 min. later stepped on it. The fag student who accosted me in lav. on E. campus & Rhine's reaction of fury! Wearing Rhine's too small tux to dance. Correction After becoming a student I don't recall doing anything more w/ Rhine at East Campus. I think then was when I went to homes as medium, etc., which was obliquely set up by Rhine and people he knew. One researcher and the haunted house and the howling dog at back door, etc. === Page 18 of 37 How I made high connection on Rhine - An gold & sm. dia. ring left in a shalled down at a located Same ring lost in Galveston 5 (10 min. later stepped on it. The frog student who accosted me in + threw a reaction of fury! hearing Rhine is too small for to d Correction: After becoming a student doing anything more w/Rhine at E I think Mom was when I went to ha etc., which was obliquely and people he knew. One record house and the howling dog at Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 11 FEB 1978 HELP GOODWILL INDUSTRIES HELP THE HANDICAPPED Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 19 of 37 FROM THE DESCH OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) I like 500,000. But SI's say 200,000 can do. If we wait too long... the amount will not matter. Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Feb. 8, 1978 Dear Jeffrey, Re yours of Feb. 6, 1978. Sad about Dutton. He will live to regret his decision, because a book on my work will be a best seller...with my SIs backing it, invisibly. By all means, encourage your Ron Bernstein to go after the book idea with other publishers. Meanwhile it is my hope that your own book on ESP training will come out and be successful...and I hope that my SIs back it, for my friend Jeffrey. Am sure that it is a fine work, as was your Roots of. The film sounds great...and of course I will cooperate to the utmost with Michael Weise. Lynn Hershman sounds great...and if she can stand my kidding, my Indiana humor, vs. her sophisticated mind...we'll get along great. It is most interesting...that just after 20 of your peers descended upon you re me...you are now getting away from me, and back to your own PhD work. But of course, you are right...your own personal work comes first. And remember my prediction...after you get your PhD, and you will... you will become one of the world's best scientists in your own field. I was vastly amused...with the last three paragraphs of your first page...that I could get tiny funding...to take care of living expenses... === Page 20 of 37 2 whilst it depended upon "completion of preliminary research projects" whether or not I advanced, financially, toward the $200,000 base money. $200,000 in a brief case, in cash!! Just like the Korean payoffs to Congressman. And $20,000,000 in bribes. What's wrong with SI help? for a little bit? I had that opportunity in Frisco, while back there with you in 1977... but from others...yet you will notice that I pulled out, broke...and underwent severe hardships to get here at this tiny spot in New Mexico. My SIs have given me strict orders...to tread water, so to speak...until I get my $200,000 base to work from. Then, and only then, will I take on extra research projects...aside from the projects the SIs give me. If I have to wait until Russia attacks the U.S. and wipes it out, then so be it. No base, no performance. Reminds me of a trained seal, given tiny fish as a reward when it does its tricks. Not for me, or for the SIs. Jimmy Connors, numerous pro football stars, numerous basketball stars, numerous film people...can make a million dollars in a year. I cannot throw a football, wield a tennis racket, or be something I am not in a movie...all I can do...is control cities and entire countries and military exercises on a large scale. Of course, my ability in that regard has no monetary value in today's US values. And now the hostile attitude of govt. agencies and scientists...has driven my work underground, so to speak. The only slip I have made was to warn you and Henry...about the upcoming East Coast horror, that has transpired. If you want to withdraw from the stage and watch, as a bystander from the wings, what happens on the stage...I cannot help that. It will not change...what happens upon the stage of time. Better, I think, for you to stay upon the stage. But...who cares what I think. Obviously no one around at the present time.. Each day that I spend here, in the nothingness of New Mexico...is one less day of magic...for the United States to have in its possession. The price this government is paying...each day...for not giving me and the SIs that base...is horrendous. But only I can see that. I will only live so long. Each day counts. What price could anyone put...on what I can do...in a day? Everything else in this silly world, with its silly values, pales into insignificance. And the SIs stand, invisibly, and watch this human comedy. I agree with you, Jeffrey...that you put in full time on your PhD work, and your school. And I wish you the best of luck, as do my SIs. Of course, taking into consideration the entire picture...your getting a PhD...just might become academic, pardon the expression...considering everything. What a joke, if you got your PhD...and the US is wiped out just thereafter. You know? The SIs need you, and you need the SIs, I think. Perhaps I am wrong, who knows. If other people like Weise and Lynn Herhsman can pick up the ball from you now...well and good. As for being patient on a long-range basis...forget that. As I told you...there is no time. I have been patient for twelve years, but the rope is coming down to its end. For me and the SIs. If no one believes, that, and me, then no one would have believed the other three hundred and forty miracles, either, before I forecast them. I knew that you would get clobbered by your peers...for all they know is...cover it up and sweep it under the rug, and maybe it will go away. Ha ha. I staple your envelopes, because sometimes I have to change it. Owens === Page 21 of 37 Feb. 10, 1978 Dear Jeffrey...re yours of Feb. 5...make that Feb. 8...thanks for sending me the Eisenbud letter. Interesting. I see that he understands. No dope he. Wish he had not referred to my work as an 'act' in Peoria. That is the kind of disrespect from the scientific community that burns me up. In that paragraph he is correct...it would take a team of various kinds of scientists to sum up what I do...which, I believe, is what you stated in the scientific report. But he is wrong about one thing...my 'act' playing in Peoria...because I am not bending spoons or doing thoughtography...I am bending cities, countries, military exercises. There is a difference there. My psychic cause and effect...has much greater scope than the cause and effect of Serios or Geller. Simply, it cannot forever be ignored, whether or not it 'plays in Peoria', whether by scientists or government. In his third paragraph he is correct...what psychic in his or her right mind would step out of the ring where he or she usually fights...and put their reputation on the line trying to do ballet or sculpt when they never had done so? They wouldn't be right bright to do so. It takes years and years to develop a specialty to the point where it is outstanding. In one hour, trying some other medium because they are pressured into doing so by whatever means, they can make a genuine jackass out of themselves. For the world and for scientific journals to laugh at. Let Serios climb up onto the high wire in a circus and try his luck there for ten minutes, walking across it. He would be wise to stick to what he does. Yet I will attempt to cross the bridge. When and if I get the Oregon base, with the $200,000...and nothing less will do, in any way shape or form...I will allow Jeffrey Mishlove to set up any experiment, anywhere, with any scientist in any field...and do my best at doing it successfully for Jeffrey and his scientific friends. And there will be no question of money or fee on my part. * I have done so many things successfully in the field of the paranormal... a regular "rainbow" of effects...and seem to be getting more and more powerful all of the time. There is no telling what I can do, now or in the future. But there will not be any more 'stonewalling' like that of Louie or Hynek. It will all be documented thoroughly, by myself...fore and aft...win, lose or draw on the experimental work! I figured then that a personal phone call to a famous scientist would be even better than a written letter... that the call would be as good as money in the bank. Ha! How I have learned my lesson! And Louie must have breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that I had lost her personal affidavit on the PKd scissors. Ha. What does Eisenbud mean by 'one-shot effects'? Many of my doings were multi-faceted...complex. Certainly not 'one-shot'...and many have been repeated over and over and over. What the hell is an "aequate theory"? Why can't scientists talk out of a dictionary? By the way...I want you to know how very very much the SIs and myself appreciate all that you are doing, Jeffrey. * Pero, I will not be "on call" to anyone; I will do the experiments at my convenience. The Oregon Base work is all important. === Page 22 of 37 Incidentally, the best thing that I can see about Eisenbud...in spite of his nasty crack about my 'act'...and obvious disrespect for the layman...is the fact that he stepped forth into pioneer territory with Serios, where other scientists feared to tread. The man obviously has guts many other scientists do not have...and there will never ever be a great scientist, making truly great discoveries...without that special kind of guts. Wonder how Eisenbud would like me to ask him about his 'act with Serios'? Ha ha. And how it didn't 'play in Peoria.' But in spite of being childishly irked by his crack...I have to admire Eisenbud's obvious objectivity as demonstrated in his letter. The man seems to have both fairness and depth in his thinking processes. And "he do seem to make correct assumptions." Now for your own letter. Let's see. I will be most happy to see your first-chapter 'baby' when it is born. If you can do so, enclose two extras for Millie and George. But if you can't you can't. I have never attempted to create living material in any form...but with SI help, who knows? Many many of the things I have done...I had never before attempted...but got it done nonetheless. Or the SIs did. Whatever. You have hit the nail on the head. What I have done, and am doing even now...is so far ahead of its time that few people can accept it...or even understand it...and that includes scientists on the whole. We will do the interesting, sophisticated experiments to which you refer in your fourth paragraph...AFTER the SIs and I are given our $200,000 for our base and the work there. I have outlined this adequately in the earlier part of this letter. And in yesterday's letter explained the why. Certainly I need the $500 a month...plus a car to become mobile...plus getting out of here to a better environment. But not with strings and pressure to undergo tricks like a trained dog getting a biscuit tossed to it if and when it is successful. To a man like me, that is the sublime insult. $500 a month is a laugh nowadays, Jeffrey, aside from the principle of the thing. Try living decently and adequately with a wife and two children on your back. Ha ha ha. Wait until you get married! But even if I received a lot more money per month to live...it still would not play in Peoria. I am one of a kind in this world...and there are many like Joe Namath, Jimmy Connors, Frank Sinatra, Richard Burton, in their respective fields making a fortune, millions of dollars...and they cannot do what I can do. Would you make them the same offer? Hey, Frank Sinatra...we'll pay you $500 a month for living expenses if.... And it does not matter that 'they' have arrived in their fame and I have not. What I am is a solid, concrete fact. The SIs I had over my head last July 19, were a solid, concrete fact. They are real; I am real. And I am not that far out of show business to be really grossly insulted to have pennies thrown out onto the floor after my 'act' is over. Enough yet. Now for the most interesting part of this letter...last night the SIs 'taught' me, as they do occasionally, while I was asleep. All night long their telepathing came at me. They gave me a birthday present (which is today). It is psychotronic form witnessed by human beings...which maintains the Life Force of a human being, or removes it! I.e., a male sees lovely legs, breasts, buttocks on a female...and this psychotronic form stimulates the male and keeps his Life Force bubbling and flowing. Same in reverse. Most prostitutes eventually attempt suicide because they are forced to === Page 23 of 37 itness the wrong, ugly psychotronic form for them...of tricks for money... in essence distorting the mechanism built into them by Nature...and this, carried on over a period of time creates a cancerous, life-destroying condition in their Life Force. I hope that this is clear for you. If not, question me about it on one of your calls. Older people, who because of their fatness, baldness and obvious progressive ugliness...do not get the opportunity to keep on witnessing the naked limbs and bodies of the opposite sex...therefore the psychotronic form mechanism set up by Nature to keep life going for the human...is diminished more and more until Nature gets the message and eliminates the human with cancer, pneumonia, etc. Also the SIs taught me how to "code" thousands of humans simultaneously, as if they were one disc...think of one entire side of a football stadium being "coded" like one of my SI discs. Also they taught me how to code the head of a human...like I would a disc. Before closing...see the Argosy Winter 1977-78 UFO magazine. In it are two articles by Bill Quinalty. Excellent articles, you'd be surprised. Well, Bill was one of my personal pupils years ago. Came to Cape Charles. Received the very same mind-training that Millie received. And while there he actually witnessed paranormal phenomena! You might drop him a line through Argosy and check it out with him, personally. He has a brain. My last address for him was Bill Quinalty, 7712 Enfield Ave., Apt. 103, North Fork, Virginia 23505. Well, he might still be there. Keep swinging, pal.......... Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 24 of 37 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California, 94115 E PLURIBUS UNUM USA 13c over === Page 25 of 37 There seems to be one great problem! The scientists are interested **only** in what **they** want. They pay no attention to what the SIs want. This seriously needs correction! Ted === Page 26 of 37 My wife Martha returned to us... four months pregnant... from another man! Feb. 16, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove...dear Jeffrey...many things to talk to you about. Was a great pleasure to talk to you for about two hours plus these past two weeks. And it is wonderful to know...that you are doing the first chapter of the book on PK Man. That book...will be the only one...of its kind. Enclosed is a clipping re a "subway coast-to-coast ride" which, unfortunately, is routed through Dallas, Texas. Now, the Dallas-Ft. Worth area is a no-no to the SIs...who have seen me framed, tricked by authorities, twice in that area. I predict that if it goes through Dallas...well, I wouldn't want to be riding on it! This morning I forgot to tell you probably the only time I ever lost my temper fighting. It was when I fought Moose Muscio, another Navy man who before going into the service had been a professional ring fighter in New York...In Lafayette, Indiana, while I was stationed at Purdue in 1943. The Navy was using me...to bolster the Purdue boxing team...and I did quite well, being outpointed only twice in perhaps eight ring fights...and those two losses were when Purdue sent its team out of town and Jimmy Beers was the coach and I positively know that I was doped before those fights cause Beers was in with gamblers...after one fight Beers put me into a car with a beautiful hooker and told me that she was mine for the night (we were in a town away from Purdue at the time. I didn't accept her, but got out of the car.) Anyway, Moose was a really pro fighter (I was not, I was just tough and very good at boxing, but not pro.) Anyway, I came out in the first round with the boxing stance dad had taught me, and Moose nearly killed me with hooks. Hooks were something new to me at that time...I was used to straight jabs and punches, right crosses and uppercuts...but not wild hooks. But the second round I knew how to take him...just put a hand up and block the hook...then counter punch...then I nearly killed him. For two rounds, the last two, I beat Moose from one end of the ring to the other. I had special motivation because in the second round he butted me under the chin with his head, a pro trick. It split one of my teeth and for once I forgot this was a game as dad had taught me...and lost my temper...and I actually put Moose into the hospital! See, dad had taught me at age 6 never to lose my temper in a fight...because that could get me whipped. To keep cool, no matter what. And that always stayed with me, even into some of my wildest, roughest judo fights. As a pupil of Johnny Osako in Chicago in Kodokwan judo...I was slated to meet a Polish man in a randori (fight) the next Friday. But days before that Johnny was teaching us how to beat someone who had me up against a wall strangling me...and double chop him with karate chops. He picked the Polish man to work with me...I stood against a wall and the Polish guy was supposed to put both hands around my neck and choke. I was supposed to come up with both my arms between his hands, split his hands apart, then in the same movement come down with my two palm edges against both sides of his neck. Instead, the Polish guy crossed me and Johnny, and threw a kick-back into me...which was uncalled for. This threw me into an angle of the wall and sprained my back severely. I picked myself up and told Johnny that I'd break the Polish guys arm for that in the oncoming match. I went into the randori that Friday against the Polish guy...threw him with a kickback...he retaliated with a circle throw...then I got him with another kickback with a choke hold...and nearly ruined the Polish guy. But one thing was wrong...Johnny told me that I was GROWLING like an animal...and took the match away from me even though I beat the Polish guy...and incidentally, broke his arm. Of course, I used autohyp in my judo matches...and I'd told myself under auto that I'd have the strength of an animal. One jap blackbelter I fought...I tore part of his jacket off with my bare hands in the bout...and he told me afterward he'd never before ever encountered such hand strength. Thanks to autohyp. === Page 27 of 37 Oh, thinking back...if you wonder how Beers drugged me, his best fighter, before every out of town fight he'd make us drink hot tea, have a slice of toast and a boiled egg, then lie down for a brief nap...before the fight. It was the tea. Later, after I figured out why I was winning every fight at Purdue...but had lost two bouts out of town...I challenged the coach, Beers, to get into the ring with me (he was a Golden Gloves champion) and he refused. Scared witless. He actually got into the ring for a moment...then when I went after him he jumped out and took off his gloves and left. He was smart. I'd have racked him up. Oh, Johnny Osako told me later...after my fight with the Polish guy...that it had been one of the very best judo randoris he'd ever seen. And a detective who worked out with me in Johnny's judo class...Al Valanis...a blackbelt...was the INVENTOR of the modern system of making composite photographs of criminal suspects. He was an artist, and invented the system. I called Henry today...and told him to get back to you, as you suggested. Now, for the proposition I phoned in to you...send somebody to me with a briefcase with $25,000 in cash...I will buy a $12,000 sports car and rent a small U-Haul...and bring out to you all the tremendous files from 1965 to 1970, which you don't have...to xerox...plus do all the experiments you want done, in your letter. Cyclotron, etc. Will spend months there, if necessary, getting it done. This procedure, of course, means nothing to the SIs, whose war will still continue with the U.S. until they and I get the Oregon base. Or...give me that Oregon Caves setup with the hotel and five or six cabins nearby, and the deep cave nearby...plus $100,000...for one year...seal off the usual tourist trade...and I can demonstrate in that year how the SIs can really HELP the United States (worth billions in dollars! lots more than the money taken from that Oregon Cave set up from tourists.) Why not send your scientific report to Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin...they might have me on their show and I'd get some eating money. This morn I got off to you the color photo of Milan Ryzl and myself, plus my personal file. Be sure and let me know if you get it...since the local postmaster is crossing swords with me...then return it within two weeks, if you will be so kind, as it is key to my file. Keep the photo, of course. Or copy it & send it back, hopefully. If I haven't followed up my phone predict to you in writing re Pres. Carter...I predict President Carter will not finish his term. He will "blow a fuse" in his mind...and will not be physically able to continue. Mondale, in his footsteps, will be far superior to Carter, as a U.S. president. This is pure precog...has nothing whatever to do with me or the SIs. Also I predict...that the Russians realize that the backbone of the US fighting power...as it is with US sports...lies with negros in the US...and the Russians will soon open up with a tremendous spy program aimed at turning American negros against US whites...for a revolutionary effect. Oh yes, if and when I do those experiments that you have outlined...I reserve the right to decline any experiments that I feel could be dangerous to me or detrimental to my mental or physical health. I only really trust two scientists...you and Henry Monteith. Henry might front for these stupids, generals and scientists ridiculing me in this area...but Henry will not tell me a lie, no matter what. He's already demonstrated that. He has my confidence.. Please return the snapshot I sent you two weeks ago of the dope addict and psycho who could turn up at this post office, gunning for me, any day. I also picked up the thought from someone who received it there where you are..."maybe it would be better if this nut got Owens." You know that "UFO voice" that came over television in England? Well, it happened after I and the UFOs told George Weiss over there that the UFOs would punish Queen Elizabeth and England. === Page 28 of 37 Incidentally, you recently asked me if I were making PK maps to clobber the US as it is being clobbered, from coast to coast. No, I am not. The SIs are doing it on their own. However, I do not make PK maps anymore. That is obsolete now. The SIs have shown me how to do it, and confine it to, my mind, mentally. This parallels my talk to the scientists in London, England, in 1977. I explained the "how" of that, there, in September '77. The SIs asked me to drop this in: "If there is going to be performance on the part of the UFOs (to help the United States)...there will have to be performance on the part of US humans (to help me, their link to the human race.) Am still laughing at that $500 per month. It's what a lousy secretary makes. I made that in Houston over twenty years ago as a secretary to Nickel Plate Railroad. Also, I have no energy. I have only the energy to make one, single move. For a man 58 years old, which I am, it wipes you out to have to get all belongings in a house or mobilehome into a U-Haul and to a new location, then unload it and spread it all out in the new place. No thanks. One more time. That will be to the Oregon base! If "they" want a psychic...who can do, demonstratively, more than any other psychic in the world...then LET "THEM" PAY FOR IT! The SIs have warned me...not to let anyone, not even a friend, cart off my personal files of documents...but for me to stay right on top of them. But of course, certain hundreds of the documents can be selected, then xeroxd, with me present. Same difference, right? Thought...stupid ass Billy Carter gets $5,000 per lecture...and he's booked solid. Why couldn't I get booked around the US for a year, and I'm the only one of its kind, not a Billy Carter...for thousands per lecture...to get the money for my Oregon base? *On second thought forget it, the U.S. hasn't the time!!* Thought...either I have a precious, priceless value (as is a fact) at $200,000 for the Oregon base...or I am a worthless nothing at $500 a month! Once more I reiterate...remember...as I go, so goes the U.S. The SIs have promised this. And...if I am killed, murdered or destroyed before my time to go...the SIs absolutely guarantee and promise to wipe out the United States en toto! Thought...it isn't exactly that I, as a human, am so far ahead of my time... but the SIs have changed my brain to give me the brain of "future man" as I explained to you in Frisco. That's it for now. Keep swinging. I am 100% with your dad. Hope he got warned enough in time to forestall something, re health. His photo worried me, Jeffrey. But I am all for his unloading his white elephant, and soon! Best to you, always.......... Ted Owens (PK Man) Ted Owens === Page 29 of 37 Jeffrey Mishlove...dear Jeffrey...many things to talk to you about. It was a great pleasure to talk to you for about two hours plus these past two weeks. And it is wonderful to know...that you are doing the first chapter of the book on PK Man. That book...will be the only one...of its kind. Enclosed is a clipping re a "subway coast-to-coast ride" which, unfortunately, is routed through Dallas, Texas. Now, the Dallas-Ft. Worth area is a no-no to the SIs...who have seen me framed, tricked by authorities, twice in that area. I predict that if it goes through Dallas...well, I wouldn't want to be riding on it! This morning I forgot to tell you probably the only time I ever lost my temper fighting. It was when I fought Moose Muscio, another Navy man who before going into the service had been a professional ring fighter in - Jeffrey - E-14 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Thursday, February 16, 1978 UFO War # Physicist Says 21-Minute Coast-to-Coast Ride Possible WASHINGTON (UPI) - A transcontinental subway ride in 21 minutes? That's the proposal of a Rand Corp. physicist who said it really isn't as far-fetched as it might seem. "In order to gain proper perspective, it is instructive to look back over the last 100 years in transportation and see how far we've come," Robert Salter told a meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science. His proposed system is still just in the idea stage. But he said there's no reason it shouldn't work, provided the $250 billion-plus cost can be met. Salter calls the concept "planetran." It would send 200-passenger cars zipping across the country up to 14,000 miles per hour in underground vacuum tubes, riding a wave of magnetic fields as a surfboard rides the ocean waves. At top speed, the super subway could make the Los Angeles-New York run in 21 minutes. But to avoid acceleration forces that would increase your weight by 40 per cent, he said it might be desirable to hold the speed to 6,000 mph. A cross-country trip then would take 54 minutes. Salter's proposed route system would have the main line running from Los Angeles to Dallas to New York with feeder tubes between Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego; from Dallas to Little Rock, St. Louis and Chicago; from Chicago to New York with a stop in Cleveland and additional spurs in Texas, the Midwest and the Northeast. He said the planetran would connect with existing subway, rapid rail systems and airports. Aircraft would cover areas of the nation not linked by the super subway. Salter said the bullet-shaped planetran cars would be much more efficient than airplanes. He estimated the coast-to-coast energy cost for single planetran passenger would be $1. PROPOSED TRANSCONTINENTAL SUBWAY ![Map showing proposed route from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego through Dallas, Little Rock, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland to New York] Ha ha!! Better not!! LEGEND - [ ] PROPOSED ROUTE SYSTEM - [ ] FEEDER TUBES two palm edges against both sides of his neck. Instead, the Polish guy crossed me and Johnny, and threw a kick-back into me...which was uncalled for. This threw me into an angle of the wall and sprained my back severely. I picked myself up and told Johnny that I'd break the Polish guys arm for that in the oncoming match. I went into the randori that Friday against the Polish guy...threw him with a kickback...he retaliated with a circle throw...then I got him with another kickback with a choke hold...and nearly ruined the Polish guy. But one thing was wrong...Johnny told me that I was GROWLING like an animal...and took the match away from me even though I beat the Polish guy...and incidentally, broke his arm. Of course, I used autohyp in my judo matches...and I'd told myself under auto that I'd have the === Page 30 of 37 Ted Owen Box 130 Bernalillo U.S. POSTAL SERVICE NM 870 FEB 18 1978 Harriet Tubman Black Heritage USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 31 of 37 Upon return to Frisco from New Caledonia in 1945 I did a Navy show in a night club with Jimmy Dorsey band. Very interesting! Beau refuses to return to "the haunted place." Henry "sat in" with me one jam session where I was on drums. === Page 32 of 37 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 24 FEB 1978 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE USA 13c E PLURIBUS UNUM Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 33 of 37 ② Then dozens of dogs in and around us began howling and raising hell barking!! First ① Wed. Feb. 22, 1978, 9:45 PM... my wife & I were in living room watching TV. Suddenly a brilliant flash of blue-white light exploded 3 feet to left of my head, like a flashbulb, startling both of us! Ted === Page 34 of 37 ② Then dozens of dogs in yard around us began howling and raising hell barking!! First ① Wed. Feb. 22, 1978, 9:45 PM... my wife & I were in living room watching TV. Suddenly a brilliant flash of blue-white light exploded 3 feet to left of my head, like a flashbulb, startling both of us! Ted === Page 35 of 37 Jeff my name at Duke prisoner I let loose at night to get married (I was O.D.) then what he did to get even w/ officer he didn't like. my fight w/ giant on Day Star. my training Commandos on Day Star w/ knife throwing See Ramadge & his fighters on New Cal. my fight. See crooked decision. See come to Tell Ensign Gomez, call, Brookline, Mass. Crabgame, 2 uniforms, 1/2 dozen shirts === Page 36 of 37 me to help his fighter for champ's fight. What happened. Henry at Jam Session The mysterious man on New Cal I went up on. Heard about the "thing" to put under pillow to send self out at night in museum on nearby island. I tried to get it. The "3 tiny children" who were around me on beach mysteriously on New Cal. Give Beeger & Bill address... tell how I used power to straighten drunk Bill up Lt. Browne, Legal Off. New Cal. (Gotham) Harry L.? === Page 37 of 37 DESK OF Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Feb. 22, 1978...Jeffrey...several weeks ago Beau did something he had never done before...he just vanished for five hours. He left at 3 PM to go up into the nearby mountains with his BB gun...hadn't returned by dark (a first for him) and by 8 PM I called the police. Then I went out into the isolated area in the dark looking for him. An hour later I returned home to find him there. He'd just returned. (While looking for him I saw 3 UFOs quite plainly overhead.) Anyway, he said he'd gone up into the mountains and started back at dusk. He found the enclosed hair in a bush...and thought it so unusual he kept it. Dark now, he somehow "got lost." Meanwhile a helicopter shined a spotlight around him. And he says a "bird" kept flying over him and following him. Ultimately he said he found himself in a town 15 miles from Bernalillo. He turned back into darkness, reversed his path, and found his way through the darkness across the mountains back to Bernalillo. On the way he says he ran down a hill into the side of a cow, and frightened it. To me, it sounds as if the SIs had him for a while...gave him a cover story in his mind. Enclosed is a card of notes, with two key people you could contact for more facts about me, if you want. One was Ensign Somers, of Brookline, Mass., for whom I worked at the Naval Electrical School at Purdue, Indiana, in about 1943. The other man is Lt. Harry Browne, legal officer for whom I worked at New Caledonia from about 1943-1945. I called you last week re these notes...left a message for you...but you didn't return the call so I figured you are quite busy on your work. Ted Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7802 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 February 1978 Didn't have time to read the letter. Didn't put it in special reports. But was that Ted Owens hair in an envelope? https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c10af16566295d868519bae885b967a7.pdf d249dd5c1f658f42335840b48aac5c04 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4be0999dc8e2329c36325541e0d3baa9.txt e678dbfa108cad0841f205fd0b685e26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 17 March 16, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove..........today my landlord sent me a note, and I quote: Mr. Owens, I got the utilities yesterday...they have gone up so much to the point that I have to go up on your rent. I can no longer afford to pay these high prices without increasing the rent...it's costing me like it is I'm going in the hole so when your rent comes due it will be $250.00 per month starting April 5th. I wanted to tell you in plenty of time to think about if you disagree, please let me know. Signed, Mrs. R. A. Longley. All right. We are already paying $195.00 per month for a broken down trailer in which almost nothing works. The leg falls off our kitchen table; the light switch to our kitchen failed some time ago; we have about 15 windows in this mobilehome...and only two windows function; that is, will open. It is strictly a "mickey-mouse" mobilhome, where little if anything is solid or works. I would estimate that the rent here, at the most, should be $95.00 per month. They are now charging us $250.00 per month. Which, of course, we cannot pay. They are trying to force us to move. (We have no car, and no thousands to move, and the dam Longleys know this.) Before we moved here...the outfit in Albuquerque warned us...that places are very hard to rent here...and the common ploy of rentors is to let the rentees in for a while, and get committed...then raise their rent sky-high...and get rich, on a "nothing, i.e., cheap, investment." Which is exactly what my rentors have done. But it goes even further. Only a week ago our landlady (a neurotic religious fanatic who speaks in voices in her nutty church...linked with bawled me out because of imagined things my kids had done around here. Believe me, she is nuttier than a fruit cake. She also thinks that I work for the Devil...because I am linked with UFOs. So she is trying to get rid of us. Now, on two occasions her son, David, has come to my mobilhome at night. He is in his twenties; has done jail time; his wife has left him with their two kids...and first, he asked me if he could borrow a pistol, so that he could go and shoot somebody at a bar nearby. Of course, I refused. The second time, he came in and told me that his father and mother, the Longleys, were "planning the worst for me. Were going to do something real bad to me." This was two weeks ago. They, of course, do not know their son came to our mobilhome next door, drunk, while they were gone. To sum up: we have no way of getting up $800 per month, which this will now require. In a broken-down mobilhome in a crime-ridden area. This can only mean...that the SIs will get even..."as I go, so goes the United States" according to the SIs. === Page 2 of 17 2 Well now...refer to your letter of Feb. 8, 1978: "If you think that this (referring to experiments involving biological materials, radioactive decay, and effects on major pieces of equipment such as a cyclotron) is possible, I have a chance to raise some funds to get things going. Perhaps something like $500 a month or so for you and your family for several months. We could also get you out of New Mexico and back to California in a better environment. Meanwhile we can still keep working towards the base in Oregon." Because of the situation that has arisen here, I am forced by circumstances beyond my control...to accept the above proposition. I have agreed here to pay these lousy people one more rent payment on April 5, for $250. Then after that we are free to go. But how do we get there? I have no car, and we have a big load of stuff to cart along...probably need a Ryder truck to put it in and drive it over there. Would have to send Martha, my wife, by airplane, and she can stay with Millie a bit until the kids and I get over there and get unloaded wherever we are going to stay. And...where would we stay there? (Martha, you know, is over five months pregnant and couldn't stand a long bus ride or truck trip at this stage of her pregnancy.) One other thing, Jeffrey...I know this sounds silly...but if you-all could pull strings and get me on "Match Game", a TV show in Hollywood, I reckon it is...I could win us anywhere from ten to twenty thousand dollars. The show depends a great deal on precog and telepathy, honestly...and at home I call the correct answers 95% of the time. Oh yes...and IQ is important on that game, also. Anyway...there it is. Deal me into the game, and it's go, on the experiments. Best to you, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 3 of 17 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 17 MAR 1978 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 4 of 17 March 3, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove Dear Jeffrey: Last Tuesday night I called Millie and asked her to pass on to you information (because I called you first and could not get you).......... to the effect that the SIs would cause a calamity in California within hours or days, or weeks at the most. Between then and now.......... there have been three spectacular airplane crashes in California.......... the DC-10, the F-105 that exploded, and the prisoner plane. If you are not familiar with these, check with Millie. The DC-10 crash alone was so spectacular as far as news goes..........that it was highlighted here on our New Mexico TV stations. This leads me to believe that the SIs will now begin concentrating on "air space" over the United States, as compared with their former weather demonstrations and fire demonstrat. Remember..........there would be no present war between the UFOs and the US if their one single link with the human race, myself, had been given the Oregon Base money, as they wish. At any rate..........today they communicated with me again..........to say that if I have not been given the Oregon Base money within 90 days..........they, the UFOs, will "meld" or bring together all toxic, radioactive, you name it debris circling up around our globe, our earth..........plus some satellites..........and guide the entire mess down onto the United States! (Please bear in mind that this is not my idea; nor of my doing.) Furthermore, to underscore this letter..........they will produce a massive supernatural sign in the skies over the United States within 90 days! For all to see. Contrary to other opinions, Jeffrey..........I do not believe that the nuclear satellite that crashed down onto Canada..........was engineered by Russia, or by something "defective". I believe that the SIs, with their current "war" with the US, engineered it. Trying to hit the US. Just in case you are not aware of it, my friend..........you and I are in a game..........the likes of which have not been seen since the last civilization vanished from the earth. It isn't our game..........it belongs to the UFOs..........and if the human race prefers not to follow their instructions and advice (like the Oregon Base) then the human race may well vanish, at this point in time. And frankly, at this point..........from where I'm looking..........I couldn't care less. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 Owens === Page 5 of 17 Ted Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 4 MAR 1978 PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California XX 94115 over === Page 6 of 17 When I get the Oregon Base I'll need a computer to run through all my material for long years... to tell me what needs to be reversed!! (If it isn't reversed all the PK effects may keep on growing!) Ask the astronauts if they were, felt, welcome "up there." === Page 7 of 17 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 March 10, 1978 Dear Jeffrey: The first chapter arrived. Very good. A few minor changes might be in order, but on the whole...excellent. I want to thank you...for being instrumental in getting me that $300 from your friend, Oshai. I was down to something like three dollars when it came...so you can imagine... Last night Sacramento had a major power failure...which followed the San Diego power failure couple of days ago...which followed the two major storms which cost Calif. $150,000,000.00...which followed the three major plane crashes; DC-10; F-105 and prisoner plane...which followed my letter to you, and phone call to you, warning that the SIs were going to cause calamity in the hours, days and weeks coming up.... Henry was over last night. The dear soul presented me and my family with a beautiful, huge, brand-new TV set...to replace the set which was shotgunned out of existence some time ago. I tell you, Henry is something else. He mentioned you'd be coming April 6. You will certainly be welcome...will be good to see your mischievous and intelligent face again! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK MAN) Ted Owens === Page 8 of 17 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 11 MAR 1978 United States 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 9 of 17 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 March 10, 1978 Dear Jeffrey: The first chapter arrived. Very good. A few minor changes might be in order, but on the whole...excellent. I want to thank you...for being instrumental in getting me that $300 from your friend, Oshai. I was down to something like three dollars when it came...so you can imagine... Last night Sacramento had a major power failure...which followed the San Diego power failure couple of days ago...which followed the two major storms which cost Calif. $150,000,000.00...which followed the three major plane crashes; DC-10; F-105 and prisoner plane...which followed my letter to you, and phone call to you, warning that the SIs were going to cause calamity in the hours, days and weeks coming up.... Henry was over last night. The dear soul presented me and my family with a beautiful, huge, brand-new TV set...to replace the set which was shotgunned out of existence some time ago. I tell you, Henry is something else. He mentioned you'd be coming April 6. You will certainly be welcome...will be good to see your mischievous and intelligent face again! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK MAN) Ted Owens === Page 10 of 17 PS You wanted a list of some of my pupils taught my SI system incorporating heterohyp, autohyp, and SI mechanisms. Millie. Kennith Gregerson, Rt. 1, Box 148-B, Granite Falls, Washington, 98252. 1-206-691-6830. Bill Quinalty, 7712 Enfield Ave., Apt. 103, North Fork (or Norfolk 23505 Va. Jim Williams, via Parco Castello 2, Partenope Basket, Naples, Italy or...1213 Arch St., Norristown, Pennsylvania. Bernard Brugger, 10171 114 St., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Edyne and Bill Taché, Box 97, Weed, California, 96094. James P. Litsey (Missile Base Commander), 202 N. Rock Road, Apt. 607, Wichita, Kansas, 67206. Bob Schudler, Rt. 3, Box 97, Jacksonville, Arkansas. (Wait, he paid 75 but never arrived for the training!) Albert Heddema, Einderst 82, Kerkrade (L), Holland. Bill Sheffield, 313 Wilson Mills Road, Apt. 201, Chardon, Ohio. James L. Ferguson, Box 02163, Cleveland, Ohio, 44102. === Page 11 of 17 Owens Box 1303 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 ALBUQUERQUE, NM 871 PM 25 MAR 1978 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE E PLURIBUS UNUM USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 12 of 17 cc: Henry, George, Millie. (Pr. Monteith) Saturday, March 11, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove Early this afternoon I called Millie to pass on an urgent message to you. (I follow this procedure after first calling your other number, but do not wish to leave an important message on your recorder-phone arrangement.) The SIs got through to me with surprising information: they have scratched their plan to implode materials from space surrounding earth down onto the U.S. on a 90-day time basis. This will not happen. Instead...they are going to interfere with the spin of our earth, which will cause earthquakes, storms, floods, high tides and tidal waves, fires, lightning attacks, etc., all around the world. They stress that the other countries of the world must be warned of this demonstration of UFO powers upon our earth, our world... so that the countries can be prepared to put out fires, deal with the results of volcanic upsets, quakes, and the like. The SIs are not happy about "time" because in the past they have helped me produce many miracles...yet the scientific community has sneered, in effect, because it took a bit longer for the miracle to come about than I had called in advance. Instead of taking 90 days to end England's killer drought, for instance, it took me (and the UFOs) 120 days, I believe it was, without looking it up. Perhaps it took 150 days...but the UFOs and I got the job done, which was the main thing. So for this above world demonstration...they place no time limit on it whatsoever. The key to understanding that it is the UFOs at work will be...it will all happen relatively at once, that is...within the space of days, or a few weeks. Bang whop in one country; bang whop in another country; bang whop in another country, and so on. Accompanied by UFO appearances in those countries. The SIs told me that my knowledge of them and of working with them for years, is priceless...and that my "brain of future man" which they have given me, is priceless. Because the U.S. has attached no importance to this priceless situation relating to myself...and seemingly will not do so, which would result in the Oregon Base and miraculous work done by myself with the UFOs after that in a constructive manner...then the SIs have decided to attempt to call the attention of the entire world to the "man with the brain of Future Man," and their modus operandi to do so will be the above-described plan on a world-wide scale. I gather they will wait a bit, before putting the above plan into effect...to give other countries of the world a chance to be warned. Summing up: the outer-space debris attack on the U.S. is off; will not happen. Instead, there will be a world-wide demonstration, as outlined above. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 1303, Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004 === Page 13 of 17 Box 1 Bernalillo New Mexico 87004 CERTIFIED No. 664199 MAIL Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 March 20, 1978 Jeffrey: This morning we were notified in writing by the landlord to vacate this mobile home by April 5. Gives us only 15 days to figure out how to move, and where. Ted Owens === Page 14 of 17 Washington Street Research Center, 3101 Washington St. SAN FRANCISCO, California 94115 ========== US A Jeffrey I would like to buy the scientific report on Ted Owens, PK Man sent as soon as possible as printed matter by air. Enclosed is my cheque of US $ 10:- to cover your costs for the report and postage. Yours faithfully Gunvor Hedgren Sent 3/15/78 Jack Address: Mrs Gunvor Hedgren Fack 63, S-782 00 M A L U N G, Sweden ========== === Page 15 of 17 SPARBANKERNAS BANK S-105 34 STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN AMOUNT / BETRAG / MONTANT No S-096101 USD 10:00 PLACE DATE / ORT, DATUM / LIEU, DATE Malung 78.03.10 Pay against this cheque to Zahlen Sie gegen diesen Scheck an Payez contre ce chèque à Washington Street Research Center, 3101 Washington St. SAN FRANCISCO, California 94115 or order oder Order ou ordre 10-00 TO / AN / A Bankers Trust, Company NEW YORK, N.Y. Acc 04-005-095 DRAWN BY / GEZOGEN VON / TIRÉ PAR LÄNSSPARBANKEN DALARNA === Page 16 of 17 Address __________ 4/21/78 Ted Owens 433 S. 1st St. Silverton, Oregon 97381 === Page 17 of 17 Owens 433 S. 1st St. Silverton, Oregon. 97381 PORTLAND, OR 97282 22 APR 1978 VISIT NAT'L WILDLIFE REFUGE. 1903-1978 75TH ANNIVERSARY Harriet Tubman Black Heritage USA 13c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7803 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/89861fd33c56b28c21a8188fc58af62a.pdf 152a774698c1bc1497d27c114ecbd429 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/649d8204f2eb65c72b85bf0e0210a865.txt 1a05855916f52647c53d79ad7465e6c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 4/18 Jeffrey - Your copy. I have another in the ms. files. Bill William Dick General Editor National Enquirer Lantana, FL 33464 Dear Mr. Dick, Enclosed please find one copy of my report on the phenomena associated with Mr. Ted Owens which you requested in your letter of April 11. I am hopeful that you will be able to help finance further research with Owens in exchange for exclusive coverage of the events which I have documented and future Owens demonstrations. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 2 of 3 JEFFREY MISHLOVE 3103 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 (415) 346-7770 William Dick General Editor National Enquirer Lantana, FL 33464 Dear Mr. Dick, Enclosed please find one copy of my report on the phenomena associated with Mr. Ted Owens which you requested in your letter of April 11. I am hopeful that you will be able to help finance further research with Owens in exchange for exclusive coverage of the events which I have documented and future Owens demonstrations. Sincerely, Jeffrey Mishlove Jeffrey Mishlove === Page 3 of 3 H. S. DAKIN COMPANY 3101 WASHINGTON STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 (415) 931-2593 Complimentary Copy - [ ] PURCHASE ORDER - [ ] INVOICE - [x] SHIPPING NOTICE - [ ] RECEIPT To: Mr. William Dick, ORDER NO., DATE 4/78 ---------- ADDRESS General Editor SHIPPING DATE 4/18/78 ---------- NATIONAL ENQUIRER BOOKS RECEIVED BY ---------- Latana, Florida 33464 INVOICE DATE ---------- PAYMENT RECEIPT DATE ---------- | QUANTITY | DESCRIPTION, PRICE | AMOUNT | |---|---|---| | | Lee Sannella, M. D., Kundalini-Psychosis or Transcendence?, 1976, 112 pp, 5.5 x 8.5 in., paperback, $3.95, shipping weight 8 ounces. | | | | H. S. Dakin, High-Voltage Photography, Second Edition, 1975, 80 pp., 8.5 x 11 in., paperback, $4.95, shipping weight 10 ounces. | | | 1 | Jeffrey Mishlove, Preliminary Investigation of Events which Suggest the Possible Applied Psi Abilities of Mr. Ted Owens, complimentary copy. | | | | | | | | Less discount (2 to 19 copies, 40%, 20 to 1,999 copies, 50%) | | | | Shipping charges (see below) | | | | Total amount | | Shipping charges for single copy sales, 15% (U. S. A.) or 50% (foreign air mail) of retail price. For quantity shipments, estimate charges from shipping weight and current rates. Total amount due may be paid with order or, on consignment orders, after books are sold. Unsold books may be returned for refund. Advertising copy for dealers' and distributors catalog listings is available on request. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7804 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4e02a42de4cd51d276c5f21563e520a8.pdf 1064d43848b5fc357cb97e03712ee011 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/725512e14b8b5311c5576d9c13957201.txt b1ab5713eb4c9c2957df402194a2cabd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Mishlove June 4, 1978 The Editor Washington Post Newspaper I phoned your paper long distance three times, last week, re my work with UFOs. Your man there was quite understandably skeptical. I am enclosing some old xerox material to give you an idea of who and what I am. What I am proposing now...is to give a "miracle" demonstration for the Washington Post. But first...let me establish some credibility with you. "Occult America" by John Godwin displays my photograph and discusses my work; hardcover book. "Revelation: Divine Fire" by Brad Steiger, discusses my work; hard cover. "UFO Trek" (Trek) by Warren Smith, pocketbook, has an excellent chapter on my work. "The New UFO Sightings" by McWane and David Graham, Warner Paperback, has a good chapter on my work. "What the Seers Predict for 1971" by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer paperback, contains my 1971 prediction that President Nixon would be forced out of office. (Each year thereafter a chapter appeared in these books containing my predictions, ending in "Predictions for 1977" by Warren Smith, Award Occult paperback, chapter on my work. "The Strange World of Brad Steiger" by Brad Steiger, Zebra paperback, discusses my work. "The UFO-Nauts" by Hans Holzer, Fawcett paperback, discusses my work. Other books as well, but these will give you an idea. In "Psychic Magazine" Volume VII, No. 6, Jan./Feb. 1977, my picture appears with the photos of Prof. Tenhaeff; Prof. Hans Bender; Sir John Eccles; and Dr. John Hasted...all world-famous scientists in the field of parapsychology...and the accompanying story describes my being invited to speak before some of the world's key scientists in London, England, at the Parascience Conference there in 1976. (I was invited back again to speak before the scientists in 1977, and attended.) Address: Psychic Magazine, Box 26289 Custom House, San Francisco, California, 94126. All of the above experts, and books, refer to my position as one of the best psychics not only in America, but in the world. Also I am a member of Mensa. A scientific report was done on me by scientists on the west coast, and a copy can be obtained for $7: Washington Street Research Center, 3101 Washington Street, San Francisco, California, 94115. Now I am going to demonstrate to the Washington Post...and hopefully to the American people through the Post...how UFOs can control any part of our country, at any time. (In the above-mentioned scientific report is a discussion of how I, and UFOs, controlled the San Francisco area after being challenged by scientists to do so.) The entire West Coast from June 5 on through September...will have freakish power blackouts; lightning attacks and storms unusual at this time; and many UFO appearances. The West Coast will, in effect, be under the control of UFOs for this period of time. If you are wise, build a file on this, with this letter heading the file. If you have any questions relating to this, do not hesitate to phone me, or write. Ted Owens (PK Man), 433 S. 1st St., Silverton, Oregon, 97381. Ph: Area 503, 873-6594. June 5 *plus EM anomalies. === Page 2 of 2 Ted Owens 433 S. 1st St. Silverton, Oregon 97381 SALEM, OR 973 PM 5 JUN 1978 US Postage Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7806 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/03fbf969707f313b6449b29689d626d4.pdf 31602bfdf60489b1f2761902431c7303 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5ecbb473e742f69ebb5313dc5ec59ae1.txt 9be2f3a5cd82d24db4459e35d44b58ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 8/14/78 (I was half asleep when you called last Sat. night.) 8/12/78. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1978 Silverton Appeal - Tribune-Mt. Angel News Jeffrey, you asked about Calif. fires. Of course, am putting on a demonstration of lightning attacks, by PK on a map, until Sep. 5. Ted # Psychic predicts violent storms, UFO visits for West by SHARON JENSEN A world known psychic living in Silverton has predicted a summer of unexplainable storms, power blackouts and multiple UFO sightings for the entire West Coast. Ted Owens, acknowledged by some para-psychologists as "the world's foremost psychic," this week made the predictions and released the information to The Appeal and the Washington Post only. According to Owens, known by scientists and government officials throughout the world as "PK Man" (for psychokinesis), the entire West Coast will be the target of the attentions of "Space Intelligences". (Owens shortens the term to "SI's") Owens predicts that "The entire West Coast .......... from June 5 .......... through September .......... will have freakish power blackouts; lightning attacks and storms unusual at this time; and many UFO appearances plus EM (electro-magnetic) anomalies. The West Coast will, in effect be under the control of UFOs for this period of time." Though Owens admits that most are "understandably skeptical", (he took exception to an article in a Salem daily) he says that it is this skepticism that brings the SIs to perform these demonstrations .......... to prove that "they" exist. Ted, his wife Martha, and sons, Beau and Teddy, live at 433 S. First. He moved here, he said, to live a quiet life as a teacher. He feels that this is the work that the SIs had cut out for him and that his years of "demonstrating" were over. Apparently this is not so, for he says the SIs contacted him Friday night to tell him of their plans for the coast, from Northern Washington to the tip of Baja. (continued on next page) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7806 Ted Owens article Angel Times https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b08cf38fc1e9455c08411085e02a0c0b.pdf 2f3ffdeaefab4b0d0cf7495d04bfe386 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4ac54da4d5fa79697cfeaf403250f4bb.txt 4d219bff7ec3695b54567e5c49922441 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 Each "miracle" is a gem of its own. One does not repeat miracles like backing up a tape, and replaying it! Saturday, July 22, 1978 Dear Jeffrey: Thank you for sending the letter from the editor of Harper & Row Publishers. Amusing. Let us hope that he is indeed "persuaded" to publish the book. What irritates the hell out of me is...after doing hundreds of miraculous demonstrations with the help of my UFO friends, and documenting solidly...there is always a newcomer who says, "So you have brought about hundreds of miraculous happenings...but what have you done lately? Now hit this bridge with lightning..." Fooey. As you now know...the SIs have put me back into harness again...and it do feel good! To sum up: After I moved here to Silverton the local paper did a story on me. I had told the reporter, Sharon Jensen, that I would CAUSE powerblackouts on the West Coast; freakish, unusual storms with lightning attacks; and UFO appearances...as well as EM anomalies. She chose to print it that I PREDICTED. Ha ha. Well.... Anyway...so far power blackouts have occurred in six states since that article, that "baffled" the experts (see your file that I sent you.) You got two blackouts in one week where you are, San Francisco area. Furthermore...a UFO came over Silverton here, after that article... and the above reporter interviewed the two respected, elderly women who observed it. (You have that file also.) The reporter came to my house yesterday and told me that people in two adjoining towns had also seen UFOs since that article. Last Friday it was red hot here...had been for a week or so... so while I was picking up a six pack of beer at "My Place" I told the manager there, Nita Chambers, that I would go to work on the sky immediately, and communicate with my UFOs...to bring immediate rain and coolness over the weekend. Now, at that point the Weather Bureau projected a hot weekend with no rain in sight. Uh huh, sure. I went to work and had pouring rain and lightning bolts within hours...and it lasted over the entire weekend. (You have by now the file on that.) The local paper then indicated that they would like me to do yet another demonstration so the SIs came in (like you do sometimes on your recorded phone announcements) and said that they would produce a sizeable earthquake on the West Coast within 15 days. "Friday, July 21, 1978...Dear Mrs. Jensen (reporter for the Silverton Appeal newspaper)...You indicated yesterday that your newspaper would like for me to give another demonstration of SI and my powers. Very well. I will ask my UFOs to cause a sizeable earthquake on the West Coast (not to hurt anyone) within 15 days. I will expect a written confirm from you, if am successful. Signed, Ted Owens (PK Man)" Hope things are going fine for you...and again, congrats on your oncoming marriage! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens * I accepted and sent them the note, in quotes. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 30 2 Touro Avenue Medford, Mass. 02155 November 24, 1967 9:30 am Dear Mr. Owens, Here is your most ardent skeptic reporting in----------with the weirdest non-physical experience of the century. (maybe). You know my hostility regarding the U.F.O. thing; so when I received the chip you sent me I placed it on my bureau and thought to myself, "Ye Gods, the poor misguided soul." And that is where it remained. This morning I was lying in bed awake, saying my little prayer that I repeat often, hoping to help my nervous condition. It goes something like, "God's perfect love, peace, harmony, joy, and wisdom are flowing through my entire being, purifying, cleansing, healing, and restoring my soul, etc.", and suddenly while I was saying this mentally to myself a picture started forming in my mind of its own accord. Not in bright color, and not with any odor of any kind. The accompanying page is the best illustration I could produce. I am no artist. Two men (I knew they were men) were standing in a room in which the entire far wall and side wall were like a computer from ceiling to floor. There were many buttons and levers. I didn't notice any blinking lights. These men were facing the machine and I saw them only sideways. They had shoulder length light hair and wore a type of one-piece suit like some sort of jump suit with close knit cuffs and a sort of wide belt. I was still saying the prayer to myself and thinking how odd it was, and I just let the vision go on. I was not making it; it was forming itself. Then it started to fade. Next I saw a woman. Her back was to me. She had the most golden blond hair I have ever seen. It shone. It was a little below her shoulders, and curled at the ends. She wore what looked like a chiffon gown, very filmy and a long v-cut at the back, and a wide belt. Then that picture started to fade. I tried to get the pictures back, because by this time I was fascinated by the whole thing. It would not return. Then I got an overwhelming urge to go and pick up the chip from the bureau and hold it between the palms of my hands. I did so, and while I held it I repeated the prayer I had previously said to myself. Then the vision of the two men in the room began to come back, and the one nearest me took his two hands and pushed down on a huge lever. It seemed to take some effort on his part. I heard someone say "Free her." Not in actual speaking. An impression of it being said. Suddenly the palm of my hand (left) began to tingle. I held the chip a moment and then knew I should put it down. Bob - let me know if you are not interested in following this action. Ted. === Page 2 of 30 2 vision had faded, and I put my slippers on in the intention of getting dressed, but I got the feeling I was supposed to lie down again, so I did so. Then very vaguely I saw one of the men take my left wrist as if he were feeling my pulse. All the time I was awake, and my eyes were open. I felt a tingling in my hands and wrists to about half way up my arms; more on the left. Then the man looked at the fingernails of my left hand, one by one, or maybe he was looking at the fingers instead. Then he took what looked like a piece of string and measured the base of my skull from behind the left ear to the right ear at the base of my head. Then I saw something I have never seen before. A strange metal contraption of a metal that shone like chrome. It had two round loops that fit over each ear, and a thin band of metal that ran down across the base of my skull, fitting it perfectly. Then I noticed what I took to be a brown clip or plug of some sort on the side by my right ear, behind it, with a cord running down, and I quickly looked at the left side and saw a similar thing. It wasn't there to begin with, so must have been added. I got a bit leery at that point, because I somehow knew it was attached to me even though I was looking at it. That was the weird thing to me. I had no feeling of anything happening, and soon it was removed. I had no vision of anymore people. I next felt that someone was telling me I had a minute tumor in a remote section of my brain that could not be detected by medical doctors. (My own family doctor had told me I had no neurological symptoms). The impression was that it would begin to shrink in size until it completely diminished. I forgot to mention that when I had first laid down again there was an itching on the surface of my skin just below the base of my spine on either side. I had the urge to scratch, but didn't. It went away. Then, after this strange treatment, and impression of a tumor, etc. I had a momentary vision of another woman, a side view. She was garbed the same way as the first, but her hair was longer and not curly, but very blond, and she was quite beautiful. I felt I could get up then, and knew I must write to you while everything was still fresh in my mind. I don't think I've left anything out. Now I have a feeling of great warmth in the left side of my head with a tingling, plus a tingling in my left ear lobe and surface of my left shoulder. It was quite intense to begin with, but is now starting to diminish. Otherwise I do not feel any different as far as the nervous condition is concerned, and I suppose only time will tell, because I am not yet ready to accept the fact that this was anything more than a waking dream due to variety of Thanksgiving goodies having been eaten the day before. I do find it fascinating, however. In all fairness to you, I had to tell you about it. The thing I was thinking to myself as I went to take up the chip to hold it was that I wasn't supposed to do it until Christmas. I will report again further of anything unusual, or of any cure. Sincerely, Phyllis Johnson === Page 3 of 30 COMPUTER TYPE Room Blonde Belt darker hair (her hair was pulled back here and had a clip on either strand) Belt Belt First woman (Second woman similar) This man pushed down A huge lever with both hands Belts looked like dark leather on men. can't be sure on woman. Their suits were slightly Tannish or Brown. Her dress seemed Navy blue. I wish I could draw. Phyllis Johnson === Page 4 of 30 Tina Strumila 409 S. Davis Apt. 1 McMinnville, Or. 97128 Ted Owens World's Greatest Psychic 433 S. 1st Street Silverton, Oregon August 5, 1978 Dear Ted: On July 1st I came to you, not knowing you were the greatest Psychic. I sought you out for help and I received a coded Disc for myself and two children. My husband's sudden death and no answers for so many questions. I still don't know when my husband will be buried, or if we will receive the Insurance money from the Servicemen's Life Insurance Company. I felt compelled to seek help from Congressman Les AuCoin's Office, and they are helping. They are getting my husband's record's together as they were not in the right places and some were lost. I am waiting to hear from their office now. Since receiving the CODED DISC my daughter, Merle and I have not taken them off. At night we just turn the disc around to the back of our necks. Merle is on a very expensive kidney medication for a month now and has to take this for maybe a year. We have no insurance at this time for her, but hope to get her on Medicaid. Congressman David Steward said he would help us to do this also. About eight days after Merle,s wearing the coded Disc she told me of a visitor, waking her up at nite. The first visit she was told to not be frightned. He was aware that Merle was going to call me and he asked her not to awake me as he would not harm her and would be back to see her again. The next nite she said she was awakened again and there was two of the visitors. She was told they were here to help her and offered to take her with them. Merle did not give them an answer and they told her they would be back the next nite for her answer. She said that one of them walked up to me where I was sleeping nearby. Merle can only see a blurred vision without her glasses on. As she was awakened at nite, she was told to not put them on and could not give a discription of them, but she was not frightned and had good feelings toward them. Merle said she asked them where they were from and they said another planet. I called you worried on the 10th and you made me feel better as I could not bear to part with Merle. Merle said they did come back the next nite as promised. She said that they told her they knew that she was needed by her mother and brother and understood that she could not go with them now. They told her they would continue to look after her and help if they can. Merle said they would be contacting her mother later and would help me also. I understand that each nite after they left that Merle would go right back to sleep and remember the next morning every word they said to her. Ted, I know the wearing of the Coded Disc is helping my daughter and myself. My son, David, is unsure. His disc hangs over his bed. Ted, will I get the Insurance money my husband wanted me to have? I know you can help Merle. I hope to bring her there for you to lay your hand on her. I will call you soon for an appointment. I know I have been helped by you. I had been a year without a menstrual period until after my husband died. I seem to be regular now and plan on not taking the hormone pills again. Sometimes I think I will go to pieces with the worries and grief and I seem to sense your hand on my forehead and the tension eases. Ted, I want to know what is ahead of us. Please don't hesitate to tell me anything you feel or know. I would like your advice and guidance. I value your word and friendship. Thank you again. Sincerely, Tina Strumila 409 S. Davis St., Apt. 1 McMinnville, Oregon 97128 === Page 5 of 30 March 1972 The second week in March I was lying in bed about to go to sleep (evening nap). When I saw the figure of a man appear in my bedroom doorway. I thought to myself; I'll ignore him and he'll go away. I closed my eyes and I felt him move towards the bed. I watched him with 1/2 opened eyes as he walked and stopped beside my side of the bed, and just stood there staring at me. I went to sleep. Because even though he was there I knew he meant me no harm. This man was wearing a silver jumpsuit with a silver helmet and a transparent visor. 1972 Spring A few months later I was laying down in the evening. My back was in dreadful pain. I had been going to a chiropractor to straighten out my misaligned back. I hadn't been to him for a while. I could feel that my vertebrae were out of line. So I called on the S.S.'s to help me. I told them I knew that they could do it. If they wanted to. === Page 6 of 30 Answer March 19, 1974 Dear Ted: Well here it is; for what it is worth. I have taken quite a while to send it to you. Just because I was full of doubt and fears. As to its worth. That I am sure now that you are the right person to send this to. Please excuse the way it is written. But if I rewrite it. You may never get it. As you can see by the matter it was written sometime ago. I don't know if this is of any value to you. And I am truly shaken when I read back over my material. I think it is incredible. As always I say, why me I am not special. But I have always been protected and blessed from the early time I was born. I don't know who they are are why me. But this I can tell you quite sincerely. "I am loved." And I wouldn't trade this for anything in the world. Sincerely Margaret A. Duplantis === Page 7 of 30 8/14/78 (I was half asleep when you called last Sat. night.) 8/12/78. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1978 Silverton Appeal - Tribune-Mt. Angel News Jeffrey, you asked about Calif. fires, of course, am putting on a demonstration of lightning attacks, by PK on a map, until Sep. 5. Ted O. # Psychic predicts violent storms, UFO visits for West by SHARON JENSEN A world known psychic living in Silverton has predicted a summer of unexplainable storms, power blackouts and multiple UFO sightings for the entire West Coast. Ted Owens, acknowledged by some para-psychologists as "the world's foremost psychic," this week made the predictions and released the information to The Appeal and the Washington Post only. According to Owens, known by scientists and government officials throughout the world as "PK Man" (for psychokinesis), the entire West Coast will be the target of the attentions of "Space Intelligences". (Owens shortens the term to "SI's") Owens predicts that "The entire West Coast .......... from June 5 .......... through September .......... will have freakish power blackouts; lightning attacks and storms unusual at this time; and many UFO appearances plus EM (electro-magnetic) anomalies. The West Coast will, in effect be under the control of UFOs for this period of time." Though Owens admits that most are "understandably skeptical", (he took exception to an article in a Salem daily) he says that it is this skepticism that brings the SIs to perform these demonstrations .......... to prove that "they" exist. Ted, his wife Martha, and sons, Beau and Teddy, live at 433 S. First. He moved here, he said, to live a quiet life as a teacher. He feels that this is the work that the SIs had cut out for him and that his years of "demonstrating" were over. Apparently this is not so, for he says the SIs contacted him Friday night to tell him of their plans for the coast, from Northern Washington to the tip of Baja. (continued on next page) === Page 8 of 30 Owens says that he has been showing psychic abilities since early childhood. Palmistry and fortune telling were like his ABCs, he said. Owens told us that he alone is the earth's intermediary for the SIs. He related that one night while he was living in Forth Worth, Tex., he was contacted by the SIs. He says that they "modified" his brain so they could communicate with him. He doesn't claim to have ever consciously walked up to the space ship to palaver with the SIs. He can remember only that he and his daughter Lorni spotted a "cigar shaped UFO" while driving in the country. "It seemed like just a minute that we saw the object" he said, "but when I looked at my watch hours had elapsed. From that day my life has changed drastically. This big man with arms that a football player would envy, has flowing white hair and beard and a gentle demeanor that makes him resemble jolly old St. Nick. He has piercing blue eyes and a voice that makes you want to listen as he tells his story, well punctuated with chuckles. He doesn't take himself very seriously but is in deadly earnest about his work. "My purpose here is to help the human race," a race that he is definitely part of, even though he says, the SIs have modified his brain to receive their messages. He takes pupils who wish to have their learning capabilities increased and the whole process takes only three to four days. He works with only their own potential, saying that the process that has changed his life can be withstood by few humans. Owens will also try to help those who find life perplexing, to understand themselves better and set them on a positive course. This he does in short sessions with individuals. The 58-year-old, unassuming fellow says, he wants nothing for himself, but feels compelled to bring a message he feels is genuine to the people of the Earth. And who knows? .......... Maybe we ought to listen. === Page 9 of 30 Major news headlines this morning read: Another government overthrown! -- this time in Peru, and a new premier and government in riot-torn Portugal. Governments are being overthrown at the rate of one or more a month. This morning banner headlines report a bloodless coup overthrowing President Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru. It was a coup by left-wing military officers. These same officers had staged a previous coup in October 1968, overthrowing the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry. Apparently the left-wingers felt that President Alvarado was not making fast enough progress toward communism. General Francisco Morales Bermúdez has now taken over as head of state. He has been prime minister since the 1968 government was overthrown. In riot-torn Portugal, that country has been on the verge of civil war for weeks. Portugal is predominantly Roman Catholic, but communists have been making inroads, just as they have to a greater or lesser degree all over the world. The new premier replaces the communists; he is to form a new government. Apparently this does not end the strife in Portugal, and we shall probably hear of more government changes or civil war. Incidentally, this communist-rightist struggle in Portugal could possibly trigger the prophesied United States of Europe if forces at Rome feel that the time is right. That's certainly an outside possibility. The former Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia died a few days ago. He was just eight days older than I. His government was overthrown by a military coup approximately a year ago. One of the last things he did before the military took him was to send me a letter of congratulation on my 82nd birthday. Many asked me after his imprisonment what had happened to the noted emperor. But I didn't know. Nobody except a few military officers in Ethiopia knew. President Kenyatta of Kenya is also the same age. He told me that he and Haile Selassie were very close friends -- closer than brothers, he said. But at that time he had no knowledge as to the emperor's fate. It is significant that (some mysterious invisible force) seems to be stirring up strife within nations all over the world, as well as strife BETWEEN nations. As I write, reports from Jerusalem and Cairo say that it is now a matter of a day or two before Henry Kissinger succeeds, this time in bringing about an interim peace accord between Israel and Egypt. The peace there will not last. Jerusalem is destined to be the news center of the world in the months and immediate years just ahead. No human effort can bring permanent peace to that center of civilization. It is commendable to try, but it will take a higher power to bring permanent peace there. Last evening I was a guest of honor at a dinner party at the residence of the Israeli ambassador to Japan. Eighteen were present, including the ambassador and his wife, who was a gracious hostess; a former Israeli ambassador to an African nation; and some of my "Japanese sons," members of the Japanese Diet. Nine of the 18 had also been present at an outstanding banquet hosted by the Japanese embassy in Jerusalem just four weeks ago. Some of my "Japanese sons" were also there, along with a few Japanese archaeologists working on the Japanese archaeological project at Tel Zeror, between Tel Aviv and Haifa. At that banquet were the largest number of Israeli leaders that have been present at any such affair in some time. I am personally grateful that I have been in a position to bring about a warm and peaceful relationship between many leaders in Japan and Israel, and also between Japan and Egypt, but it will take a greater POWER than human to bring PERMANENT PEACE between Israel and the Arab world. Yet that PERMANENT PEACE will come IN OUR TIME. You can read of it in the book of Zechariah, the 14th chapter. "PLAIN TRUTH" MAGAZINE SEPT. 20, 1975 Sept. 19, 1975 Scientists... oddly, this organization has sensed a "mysterious invisible force" shuffling and changing governments on a world wide scale. Which is what I am doing with UFO help, as I told you, some time ago. I repeat... Owens (PK Man) and his UFO's are causing this to happen. Owens === Page 10 of 30 Si's have: (as per their predictions through myself) 1964 through present, May, 1967 Thrown off the magnetic equipment of the two scientific expeditions over the South Pole. Showed themselves over the two scientific expeditions, to get it into the paper, as they said they would do. Showed their craft, and their ray, at Waunaque, as they said they would. Made lightning hit things everywhere and get reported in the papers, as they said they would. Sent a huge "fireball" UFO over Philadelphia six days after they said they would, in my prediction. Saved Brenda Sue Pennington, who was given up for dead by her doctors (or they wouldn't have let me in). Produced an early hurricane (Alma) as they said they would. Destroyed, disabled, or ruined the mission of various forms of rockets and missiles going up at Cape Kennedy, as per their predictions. Produced disasters coast to coast, for a demonstration, per their predictions. Produced negative, destructive conditions around the White House, Johnson, and the U.S. Government. Made it rain in Phila., with me calling the shots. Made it rain all over the U.S., reversing the upper atmosphere conditions to do it, according to the N.Y. Times, to break the 6-year drought. Made it rain in India, to break the 3-year drought. Produced a blinding light to confuse the "eye" on Mariner 4. Produced a savage, hurricane-like storm in the Wash., D.C. Capitol. Warned CIA of North Vietnamese attack on carriers off Vietnam. Warned U.S. Govt. of Viet Cong attack with blowguns and poison darts, and poison. Caused a judge in Selma, Ala., to have a complete change of heart re negros and whites. Brought down the Russian spacecraft, Voshkod. Harassed the U.S. Air Force viciously, as it would an enemy..........making the AF Blue Angels crash and collide; AF planes downed everywhere under all kinds of conditions; AF top brass dropped dead, etc. NASA..........they did the exact same thing to Nasa as they did the AF. Made U.S. nuclear sub ram freighter, just days after they said they would. Demonstrated their control over our skies..........by producing staggering airplane disasters. Demonstrated their control over our seas..........by producing ship accidents, fires, attacks by freak waves, etc. Also our naval military..........by producing one carrier accident after another after another after another after another. Same with subs. Produced earthquakes on predicted schedules. Produced lightning attacks at Cape Kennedy, as they said they would, even hitting lightning-proof pad. Put all top U.S. Govt. officials in the hospital with "executive flu" (which was not flu at all, according to the Washington D.C. medical examiners. They have never been able to discover what it was.) Harassed the Needles, Calif. military maneuvers; the NC/SC military maneuvers; and the U.S./Spain military maneuvers, to demonstrate what they can do to our military. Produced hurricanes as predicted, then guided them along predicted routes to target areas, already predicted. === Page 11 of 30 Page Two Demonstrated their control over the Stock Market, by allowing me to predict for them a drop...the Friday before the Market fell about 15-20 points the following Monday. Demonstrated their knowledge of secret activities in the world... by tipping off the U.S. Govt. of certain things which would occur, and which did. Demonstrated their complete control over weather, by ending years-long droughts, causing hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc., and predicted in advance. Predicted Johnson's hospital stays, and surgery, in advance on three occasions. (Surgery on only two). Predicted an attack on or near the White House, and predicted it would be "symbolic". Warned the President by telegram of an oncoming disaster...the New York Blackout, which followed shortly. Demonstrated their control over "total peoples" by defeating the African rebels, who were killing children. Demonstrated their control over space shots and space activity... by predicting in advance what would happen, then making it happen. Demonstrated their communication ability with P K Man (Owens) by telling him when and/or where and/or why they would appear, before they actually did so, as predicted in advance. Demonstrated again their control over "total peoples" by helping Johnson win, then by defeating the Democrats at the polls in '66. Demonstrated their ability to read human minds...by warning in advance of an ex-flyers plans to crash his plane into the White House. Demonstrated their power to heal (Mrs. White, Ft. Worth; Brenda Sue, Washington, D.C.) (Plus numerous others in Ft. Worth) And just caused a power blackout in New York per my request (as requested by Jim Moseley) And just made lightning strike, per my request, (as requested by Margulies, the partner-lawyer of this law firm) and the lightning struck the target area requested. === Page 12 of 30 August 18, 1978 Dear Jeffrey: You called last week, and expressed a deep interest in the several hundred other-dimensional techniques that the SIs have taught me to use. I did have a list of the early techniques, typed, but after your call went through several thousand of my documents but could not locate the list. (Since the early beginnings, they have altered and changed the techniques into a very sophisticated system, as I explained to you over the phone.) Anyway, am enclosing some very early demonstrations...where I used some of the OD techs. I had fabulous success using them. If you have any questions, just give me a buzz. Next, you will see the 1965 letter...where I told Oppenheimer that the U.S. would be wiped out in Viet Nam...and our people would be lucky to escape in rowboats. I was wrong, of course... they were lucky to escape by helicopter! Then there is a list of the things that I accomplished, documented, from 1964 through 1967. It should fascinate you. As I told you earlier...I have a ton of material about my psi-force activity BEFORE 1970, and the beginnings of the files that you have! Next is a magazine article wherein the writer seems to be able to pick up what the U.S. govt. was unable to..."it is significant that some mysterious invisible force seems to be stirring up strife within nations all over the world..." And he was so right. Me and the SIs. Next is my letter to the CIA, George Clark, a cover name, where I warned that "U.S. people in Viet Nam shortly will be lucky to get out in planes, row-boats, sail boats, anything..." Next is interesting material from and to Otto Binder, an expert in the field of parapsychology and science. Next are letters from Otto, who knew what he was talking about, sincere letters (because that was all Otto was, sincere)...re myself and my work...and his intention to write a book about me and my work. He knew, before what is known now..... Last are a few letters out of dozens I have received...of people who have received SI discs...then had UFO entities in their houses and bedrooms afterwards. I trust that my recent earthquake demonstration, just sent to you, was properly documented, fore and aft. And recall that I phoned you, but talked to another man and left the message for you, that I was going to cause those earthquakes...before they occurred. All of my best wishes, and SI best wishes, to you and your lovely new bride, "Janelle No. 5", upcoming! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) [Signature with a symbol of a circle with a horizontal line through it and the name 'Owens' written below it] === Page 13 of 30 March 17, 1972 Dear Otto: Today... the SI's gave me information which you should know! You could also do an article for Saga on it if you like, to supplement your income: "Is The United States Under A Deadly Curse?" I was chatting with my boy, Beau, at lunch today... and for no reason brought up the American Indian. I told Beau it had puzzled me... that the Indian... who must have been closer to UFO's than we Americans are... could have been defeated by the Whites. Suddenly the SI's communicated, and gave me the entire answer! Remember the curses placed on the Egyptian tombs? PK systems, planted, to grow and destroy intruders. Well, the curse didn't stop the intruder from robbing the grave... all it could do was follow the intruder and in time destroy him! Take an example: if ten or twenty armed men decided to crash my house... I could put up a brave fight and take probably half of them with me... but I'd get wiped out. However... with my specialized psi-power knowledge I could "kill" all of them; not only them, but their families... plus the men behind the attackers... and destroy all of them in time; i.e., after they destroyed me, my "curse" would go to work and destroy the attackers, in time. You see? All right. Now follow closely. The American Indians... had their "gods" in mountains, in lakes, in rivers, etc. They had seen UFO's pass into mountains, pass down into bodies of water... and so they called them 'gods'. When the white man came and despoiled the Indians... killed them and drove them into reservations... time and time again Indian medicine-men sent Indian "curses" (PK power) at the white man. (Remember, the SI's are explaining this themselves to me). When the white man went into the Pacific Islands and despoiled the islanders... stealing and raping the beautiful island girls; introducing diseases, etc.... the kahunas (island witch-doctors) sent kahuna curses after the white man, and white man. When the white man went into Africa... and brought unwilling black slaves back to the U.S.... and killed and robbed and plundered the African villages... the African witch-doctors sent African curses (PK power again) after the white man, to destroy him. The same thing occurred with the Eskimos. Now... the Indians could not withstand our U.S. firepower and superior weapons. Neither could the Pacific islanders. Neither could the African blacks. Neither could the Eskimos. But what they could do... was use their tremendous "PK" powers (bear in mind... these 'primitive' peoples were using ESP and psi-force before, long before, our scientists here in the U.S. ever accepted its validity!) (i.e., they were way ahead of us!) to destroy the white man in the U.S. in time ahead! And now it is catching up with us! Think. Our air is polluted; water everywhere is ruined; we are at each other's throats in crime, politics, racism, etc.; our economy is disastrous; our leaders are little less than idiots... and missiles are poised, aimed at us from Russia to destroy us, wipe us out, and wipe us out... is what will happen. Nothing can deter it... BECAUSE THE ACCUMULATED WITCH-DOCTOR, MEDICINE-MAN AND KAHUNA CURSES ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST! It is the end of the 'whip-lash'. It is the caboose on the train. If you have any questions re the above, shoot them to me. I deem this vital material from the SI's. Best.... Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 14 of 30 March 12, 1972 Dear Otto: Yesterday I hauled off and sent you a letter...in reply to your letter advising me to demand something material and "real" from the Si's, as proof of their existence. But my letter was not too well thought out. Today...I can do better. But first let me say...I do not intend trying to do anything about that 50 grand prize, not one dam thing...other than showing your letter to the Si's. So that's that. I am not now trying to write to you and convince you of anything, for you have a strong mind which has taken a stand...and so that would be well-nigh impossible. What I want to do...(because you are such an exceptional man with an exceptional thinking mind)... is point out a few things to you. There is a perfect parallel to me and my case. Moses. Now, do not sneer at that just because you happen to be familiar with Moses and his work. Instead, think about it. I, for instance, on the "spur of the moment" pick up a phone and inform people that I will use mental powers to destroy or hold back or both...Pioneer 10, an hour before it is to go up. The Si's, I know for a certainty, communicated and had me do that. Now, when I made the two phone calls I had no way at all...of knowing what would happen to Pioneer 10. I made the phone calls...on faith. Same with the lava slides. Same with the earthquakes. Same with the hurricanes. And so on. Moses did likewise. He was told by "the Lord" what to do...and he did it. Not knowing whatsoever what the outcome of his informing the Pharaoh of his or that miracle which was to happen...would be. Only after it happened...did he know. He had...faith in its happening. Because he'd seen the results quite often...of the miracles which he proposed to the Pharaoh would happen. The Lord told Moses what to say...Moses informed the Pharaoh...then the miracle (plague) would strike. The Si's tell me what to say...I inform my Contacts...then the miracle happens. When I write my letters to Contacts, or call them...as a miracle...I have no way of knowing whatsoever...how it will turn out, any more than Moses could have known. Both of us...proceed on blind faith...secure in the knowledge that since miracles have occurred before...they will again...after having been informed by our "master"...his Lord and my Si's...that it will. The point I am making is...in your letter you made light of "faith" which presumably the scientists would have to take in my exposition of miraculous happenings through affidavits. My point is...the faith you are making light of...is more powerful than anything else in the world, in its results! Think for a moment. The people, slaves of the Egyptians, of Moses came to him and begged Moses not to make any more "predictions". Just as you told me, "Why kick a dead horse, Moses! Look, they said...you aren't getting anywhere. The Pharaoh is just getting mad at us and making things hard on us. Your 'system' isn't working because he isn't letting us go. So...please stop, Moses, in this foolish procedure. Well...Moses was only following orders. Doing as he was told. He didn't know why, any more than I know why. He didn't know what the outcome would be, any more than I know. He only knew that as he 'predicted' plagues, they happened. I too only know that as I 'predict' miraculous happenings, they mostly happen...and constantly. So he wouldn't quit the seemingly futile pattern given him by "the Lord", just as I have no intention of quitting the "dead horse" pattern, as you put it, given me by the Si's. Now we come to the point of this rambling thing. I can prove (at least to myself) that this "blind faith" on the part of Moses and myself...is more powerful than anything on earth...in its results! === Page 15 of 30 2 This is a fine point...but a dynamic point...which I do not believe any writer in the field of theology...has realized or written about. Perhaps I am wrong, but I've never seen it mentioned before. It was the faith of Moses...blind faith...in "the Lord"...which destroyed the entire Egyptian army. The most powerful force certainly in those parts at that time! Now follow me, in this. Moses had been doing lots of predicting and the miracles had been happening, just as I have been doing. It's as far as I've gotten...not knowing what lies ahead. But we know, now...what lay ahead of Moses. The Pharaoh turned over the slaves to Moses...then began to chase Moses with the Egyptian army. Moses went in the direction the Lord told him to go...never questioning, with blind faith. The "Lord" steered Moses and his people into a cul-de-sac, a blind alley...with no way out, and the Egyptian army blocking the only way of escape. The people must have fought and argued with Moses, saying...why this way? It's to the sea! We'll be cut off! Once on the beach, there will be no escape and we'll be butchered, slaughtered! But you see, Otto...Moses, just like me, had faith, blind faith, in HIS Si's, or "Lord". He knew...that their unreality (he'd never seen his Lord; didn't have a hair of its head or some material part of his Lord to analyze, as the scientists now demand)...no, his Lord was as immaterial as my Si's seem to be. Yet every sword, every knife, every war horse in that Egyptian army could be seen! Was very very real! But he knew that the unreality (I almost dropped the line of thought up there) of his Lord...was more real than the stark, visible reality of the Egyptian army! Just as I know that the seeming unreality and immaterial quality of my Si's...is far more real than any power known on earth! After all, my Si's have demonstrated it time and time again for me...just as the "Lord" demonstrated for Moses. And now we come to the point. Through blind faith to the "Lord" Moses had put his people into a completely untenable, unescapable position. He, Moses, had no way at all of knowing what would or could happen next. He only knew...that because of the miracles the "Lord" had demonstrated in the past...he'd see yet another one. He had blind faith in that. So the unreal, invisible Lord split the sea...Moses and his people escaped in a patently impossible manner (confirming Moses's blind faith)...and destroyed the entire army of the Pharaoh! Thus...the faith of Moses in an unreal, invisible, "dead horse"...resulted in the destruction of the most powerful, real army of that time and place! I hope you understand and grasp what I am trying to say. Suppose, when Moses was predicting the plagues to the Pharaoh...a friend of Moses went up to Moses and said, look, nuthead...you aren't getting anyplace with this! This system of yours is no good...you are kicking a dead horse every time you predict another plague. Why not do something else, like....." Now, Otto...who should he have listened to, looking back through time and history. His friend, well-meaning friend who wanted to make a short cut and use another method...or his "Lord" who had already demonstrated miracle after miracle? I not only rest my case...I'm going to drink it. Cheers. Best.......... Ted. === Page 16 of 30 OTTO O. BINDER STUDIO, FRIEND'S LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518-494-3582 March 13, 1972 Dear Ted: Got your reply to my "get-proof" letter. I feel somewhat humbled by what you said, I won't apologize for what was my sincere effort to resolve a "problem" (about proof) but I realize now my letter was too "enthusiastic"----------I was really hoping the SI's might see it my way and perhaps back you up. You're the one I'm mostly concerned about. I'm sure you don't, but I sometimes feel that the SI's have a rough, tough task "beyond the call of duty". And believe me, I admire the way you've taken a beating (from the authorities etc.) for their sake. Well, I think all this is far too profound for anyone else besides you to see clearly, that is, the SI's motivations and methods. Now remember one thing, it wasn't me you had to convince (not after all the proof I've seen) but the prize committee. The one thing that really startled me----------and I don't think you really mentioned it that clearly to me----------is that the SI's were at first interested in being recognized by earth but now are not. This puts it all in a far different light, and makes my other letter pure drivel. I was still under the impression that they were seeking to break through into human awareness, through you. Pardon me..........I wish you had made that clear when this change of motives came about. But I'm not "scolding" you or anything. Ted, I value our relationship. The most wonderful thing in your reply was that "friends can disagree and still be friends". Amen to that. I probably am too eager to have the world accept UFO's and SI's and all the unknown mysteries of the universe. I'm aching to have the hard-nosed scientists and stuffed shirts in governments get their come-uppance. You know that from the way I've written all my articles, those about you and all others. But I begin to see now that the SI's play a far subtler, or more complicated, game than we can know..........or at least that I can know. Anyway, I'm still agog to know all about their plans and messages etc. that are revealed to you. In short, don't stop those releases! So, in summation, wipe my letter out of your mind if you will as an example of, as you said "trying to make the SI's play by my rules". Nevertheless, even if "hard" proof is out of the question, I think you can still put up a strong case according to your affidavits, and might still get that prize..........if you want it. Listen, there's plenty of time, and I'll go through your material that I have and collect the strongest cases of UFO's appearing at your "command" or request. And any other documented material that would be impressive (though I still think the prize committee will look for "Hardware" proof). Very best, P.S. Your point in requiring affidavits for God and Christ is well taken.......... superb! I stand in surrender! Maybe the SI's will find my letter hilarious..........to them. Hope they get a good laugh out of it..........it is "buffoonery" on my part. === Page 17 of 30 OTTO O. BINDER STUDIO, FRIEND'S LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518 - 494 - 3582 March 14, 1972 Dear Ted: I am delighted to hear you have real friends down in Porto Rico, and who seem so enthusiastic over your venture with the Church of SOTA. I know it will be your crowning glory and do much good for humanity. (There is no doubt in my mind that among your psi-powers you have healing-PK and other ways to directly benefit people.) More power to you! Most of all, I'll be glad for your sake that you won't have to do any of those "rough" jobs of creating or guiding hurricanes and such, and hexing football teams. And I see one of your P.R. friends also was rather horrified at those deeds and particularly aiming doom at the Jupiter probe----------and of course I heard the news last night of it being in "trouble". Well, that should be your last job of that kind. Ted, maybe next I will have something much more exciting and uplifting to write about you----------when your SOTA deeds get going down there. At times I winced at writing up your PK-feats when they involved hurricanes and people's lives or falling planes (Yes, I know that was the SI's responsibility, not yours) and also the football hexing which inevitably led to injuries (as the SI's insisted). I know you had to "follow orders" and disliked hurting people too, and I'm very glad now that you'll be released of those grim deeds, no matter what their justification. A thought----------maybe the SI's had you go through that "nasty" mission in order to "try your soul" or something. (Maybe to see if you had real guts----------which you have.) Maybe they've really been training you for this new SOTA mission, but you had to be "tested by fire" first? Does that make sense to you? If so, your new mission is going to be really exciting and I'll be waiting for every crumb of information about it, don't forget. === Page 18 of 30 I feel in a way, Ted, as if I was your "sponsor" in the past couple years...that isn't the right word but you know what I mean. By writing you up in SAGA I was in effect trying to put you across as a man of awesome PK powers (or SI powers) who could do much good, if given the chance. Well, it seems the big chance has come, in the mysterious ways the SI's (and God) work. I sincerely hope nobody will throw a monkey-wrench in the works and make this thing blow up. Tell me, any idea how soon you might move? Does it depend only on how soon your PR friends locate a house for you to rent? Give me the low down, please. I presume, by the tone of Joe's letter, that it's all practically set---about him rounding up backers down there who will finance your SOTA Church. Let's hope there's no hitch. Your PK-SI-psi-ESP or whatever powers, channeled into new paths for healing and helping people, can be a spark that could set the world on fire---in the right way. Toward a new spiritual outlook, with new understanding toward others, and spreading peace through the world. You know I've always been the same "altruist - "visionary" - "Golden Rule" kind of guy you are. I'll probably feel a little proud, without any right to, for having "promoted" you along the way. I didn't create your success, Ted---you did. I only hung onto your coat-tails, so to speak. Here's hoping I hear only good news from you---that the venture is going through, your PR friends firm and faithful, no hitches, and that the date of your moving is all set. And from me to you, Ted---good PKing for SOTA! Yours Ever, [signature] === Page 19 of 30 March 16, 1972 Dear Otto: Ref yours of the 14, accompanying P.R. file. Yes, it is true...that if and when I get set up with the Foundation in PR I will cease and desist the "rough stuff". But not, I think...for the goody reasons you mention. A Saint I ain't. To understand...remember that the Si's raised me from a baby, seeing that I got trained in judo, football, boxing...rough stuff. I had to be durable, capable of self-defense to the nth degree (right now I have a series of 'systems' to use in case I am attacked physically. A fort couldn't be better protected, than my shell, right now.) The Si's obviously weren't interested in having a mealy-mouthed, two-faced, hypocritical, cowardly representative. And if I had any of those 'bugs' to begin with...they've long been worked out. I can't help it...if "good" people are horrified at my messing up a Pioneer 10. What is overlooked is...if I do this a significant number of times, and I have...that fact in itself is more priceless and important to NASA and our government...than the rocket itself. If you think about it. I am a neuter. Not good...and not bad. The Golden Rule is fine...up to a point. How about the three who came up to my apartment to kill me? Should I, then, have killed them? I could have. As I could have done many times to others who've attacked me in my life with guns and knives. But I didn't. Our own country is the backbone is the Bible, supposedly...and every Sunday a minister somewhere preaches the Golden Rule you speak of. Yet our own govt., according to the papers...dumped nerve gas on the North Vietnamese...has killed a million helpless women, children and other innocent civilians in our stupid, corrupt war on the Vietnamese. Where does the Golden Rule fit in there? Whenever I bring up a cane, or throw a storm or an earthquake...I am teaching somebody, somewhere, who counts...a valuable lesson. And you'd better believe it. What I do...the smallest thing or action...is not lost to those On High, govt. I will be genuinely relieved...not to have to clobber anymore...for as you say, I did not want to, nor did I like it. But it had to get done. I wonder if Moses liked killing all those Egyptian babies...ruining the country and the people with those plagues? I sincerely doubt it. But he had to get it done, too. Yes, the Si's have been "testing me with fire" as long as I can remember...looking back upon it, an advantage. They probably will never stop testing, either. They wouldn't want me to weaken or develop any bad habits...as long as I tote their secret powers and can use them. Come to think of it, perhaps if I had the "easy life" I would weaken, become weak and flabby...whereas adversity would keep me on my toes, sharp, strong. Who knows? But after years of rough adversity...I would welcome some "easy life". Hence I welcome PR Foundation. After I live in PR...if nobody throws a monkey-wrench into it, as you so softly mentioned...I anticipate steering hurricanes away from PR and the U.S... one after another...as fast as they approach. I do not think I can ever miss on this. Then I have plans of making PR the spiritual center of the world. Solid, concrete plans. And am not talking about collar-turned-around, namby-pamby, goody-goody, Sermon-on-Sunday spiritual. Her...fit it! I am talking about...drawing some powerful psi-people there, teaching them in constructive mechanisms (as the Si's allow)...and putting that sort of "powerful motor" to work turning the right kind of lever that can change the world. You are correct. Without your help...the Si's and I couldn't have "gotten our craft === Page 20 of 30 2 off the ground" so to speak. That, the Sage articles did. And equally true is your statement that my psi-powers are awesome...actually, there is no word in the English language to describe my psi-powers and what they can do. What they will do in the future...is much good, as you mention...if given the chance. Since the last letter from PK, which you've seen...there hasn't been a word from PR. I do not know this Freyre. He could be real...or he could be some nut who wants to get some free copies of Sage and a chance to get onto TV. Remember what he said...he asked is it all right if he goes on TV to show the Sage mags? But I am forced to play each card as if it were an ace...whether it might be a deuce or a Joker or not. You see? I...am not omniscient. Namely, the Pres. of the radio station in Mayaguez...seems to be more real and substantive. Well...we'll see. Yes, how soon we move depends entirely on the people in PR. I have exactly $60 to my name...todos. And since it will cost thousands to make the PR move...it is up to them there to get it done. Otto...I wouldn't want you to get the wrong image of me. I am hard, very hard. Hard as a rock. But when it comes to children, little children, or suffering adults...I am as soft as a fluffy pillow. I'll do anything humanly possible to help them. Not because of any Golden Rule. I do not go by rules. If I did I wouldn't have been able to do what I've done. I am a little altruistic; a little visionary...kind of guy. No saintly altruist; no saintly visionary. If I think an entire country, or entire government...needs a spanking with psi-powers, then I'll spank it. If I think an entire country, or government...needs help with psi-powers...then I'll help it. (All with SI clearance, of course.) My scope, and attitude...covers the entire world, Otto...and entire races of peoples. We here in the U.S. tend to limit our scope to individuals, to this party or that party, to this race or that race, to this country...but I do not think in this way at all. Probably because the SI's changed my brain with a radical operation. I.e., I can't...am incapable of...thinking "little". I must, have to, think BIG. Once in a great while, when stung to the quick, like Rhine and Pratt...the human part of me reverts to "thinking little" and I'll let the SI's cuss. But at least it's a sign that the human half of me is still there. You don't have to feel proud of me...because I'll do some "good things" along the way with my truly awesome powers. You can feel proud of me right now...because I am what I am. I am not so much a person...as a power in itself. A developed power...and still developing. But do not worry, my friend...there will be "good things" done in profusion. That, too. As far as your 'hanging onto my coat-tails' all I can say about that statement is...ha! You are as brilliant and "awesome" in your own field...writing...as I am in my field of psi-work. If anything I've hung onto your coat-tails whilst you flew through Sage! Anyway, what's the diff? You have more character and brains...in your little finger...than any thousand top government officials put together, in my own personal estimation. But don't get spoiled, now, because I say such things. I just say what I think...spark straight. If I keep pointing out your good points...Ione won't be able to live with you! Ha ha! You'll say, "Woman! Bring me my slippers and pipe! Feed me a grape now. Remember all those things Ted says I am...move, slave!" Ha ha ha! In closing...I'll join you in your closing 'toast'...good PKing for SOTA! Best wishes to you and Ione..... === Page 21 of 30 OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST OTTO O. BINDER STUDIO, FRIEND'S LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518 - 494 - 3582 October 19, 1970 Mr. Russ Conklin 221 E. California Ave. Las Vegas, Nev. 89104 Dear Mr. Conklin: Enclosed are carbon copies of two more articles about Ted Owens, the PK Man, which will appear in SAGA magazine in March and April 1971. They reveal much more about Ted Owens than the previous two articles, which I presume you have seen. In being the writer who has made a study of Ted Owens and his career, plus having had the privilege of seeing all his personal diaries from 1963 to date, I think I can state his qualifications and the wide variety of his talents with some degree of accuracy. First of all, Ted Owens is no "charlatan" or faker about his PK powers. In his diaries are too many cases where he has controlled and even created lightning storms or other sensational events, to be denied. All of them are documented, with signed affidavits of officials and witnesses. His ESP messages from the SI's (Saucer Intelligences) all "hang together" in a remarkable way, as the enclosed articles show. I wish to stress also that Ted is a member of Mensa (I saw his official membership card), the group of high-IQ people who comprise the top 2% of the human race in intellect. And of course it is obvious that Mensa is not likely to be fooled into accepting any kind of "kook" or self-deluded "psychic" into their carefully selected organization. If Ted is a crackpot, so are all the geniuses of Mensa, which include many psychologists, psychiatrists, and scientists of all types. I wanted to make this clear to distinguish Ted from the so-called "contactees" who claim to have spoken with people in flying saucers and even ridden in their craft (which Ted has never claimed to do). Now, I am not sure what sort of "contract" you had in mind for Ted, whether as an entertainer, PK performer, or colorful personality or what. He can be any of those, and other things too. Let me give a brief rundown as to the possibilities... BOOKS . ARTICLES . SCI-FI . COMICS . UFOLOGY === Page 22 of 30 Entertainer. Ted as you know "projects" before any audience. He has a striking personality, resonant voice, forceful manner----------all the earmarks of a top lecturer or stage entertainer. He is an adept at knife-throwing and has performed for night-clubs and also at the Ringling Circus in this capacity. More than that, he has worked up a repertory of "parlor tricks" that always entrance any group at a small party, including hypnotism. He successfully taught his own methods of hypnotism and autosuggestion (a fat notebook is filled with all his data and classroom statistics) to many thousands in Dallas, Texas, before the AMA inevitably----------because of their unrelenting campaign against "quacks" who cure more people than doctors----------had him "disbarred" in a court action with trumped-up charges. Anyway, he can use hypnotism as an entertaining act without running into them again. Ted is also a crack pistol-shot, fencer, karate expert, and dancer (he taught in one of Arthur Murray's dancing classes). I'm giving all the sidelights of his career in that I'm not sure just which of his many skills would be of interest in Las Vegas. He has mastered no less than 50 professions----------stage magician, jazz drummer, boxer, bodyguard, private investigator, fortune teller, life-guard, speed typist, court shorthand expert, and many more. PK Performer. In this, Ted could excel. He was originally the "rainmaker" and has documented proof of the many rainstorms he produced in drought areas, plus various lightning storms on "order", not to mention hurricanes. But his PK powers extend into other more subtle areas----------seeing the future and telling fortunes, predicting world-wide events, or relaying ESP messages from space. No doubt Ted can also "tailor" his PK powers into other fascinating areas that would impress an audience. PK Healer. This would be a more difficult role for Ted to take up but it is on record that a girl with a smashed skull was given up for dead until Ted used his amazing PK powers to keep her alive. She lives today. Recently, Ted flew to California to use his healing arts on a three-year-old girl dying of leukemia and at this writing she is two weeks beyond the death-date given by her attending doctors....a true "miracle cure". Ted's famous "PK disks", sent to thousands utterly free, are charged with healing power and literally hundreds of letters attest to the miracle cures that followed for many grateful and awed people. Certainly there is some kind of healing power flowing from Ted and his disks. The above are mere sketches of Ted's possibilities, but the important thing is Ted's terrific personality. I have seen letter after letter unabashedly proclaiming how "Impressive" he is, how "inspiring" his words are, what an "amazing person" he is, how his "genius" shines forth, and so on and so on. You can tell each writer was simply bowled over by the sheer magnetic quality of Ted's presence. He "electrifies" people and can catch the undivided attention of any audience the moment he smiles and opens his mouth. For what comes out is always astounding, compelling, awe-inspiring. All this leaped out of his diaries, too, === Page 23 of 30 OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST OTTO O. BINDER STUDIO, FRIENDS LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518 - 494 - 3582 October 19, 1970 Dear Mr. Conklin; As a follow-up to my recent letter, I just want to mention a few very significant items regarding Ted Owens and his weirdly "magnetic" appeal to any and all audiences... Ted has been on many radio and TV shows through the years and in every case the station was startled at the phenomenal flood of mail that came in. Same with SAGA magazine. The editor, Martin S. Singer, will corroborate the fact that Ted's two articles (Aug/Sep 1970) brought in the most mail they ever had. Along with this is the uncanny but true fact that Ted received at least a dozen letters (I've seen them) in which the reader said "something compelled him" to go out and buy SAGA. Ted isn't surprised, however. He notified Martin Singer and myself that the SI's would send down a "ray" to compel many people to buy those issues! Getting back to radio shows, Ted did so good one night on a Philadelphia station that the station managers cancelled other shows and kept Ted on for four solid hours. I don't think even Jack Benny or Billy Graham can make that claim. Speaking of Billy Graham, I think if Ted were ever given the right national hookup he could "out-evangelize" Graham by ten to one---and I don't mean religion. Ted would give more "meaning" to life, and to the mysterious workings of God, than any hellfire-and-brimstone mouthings of the fundamentalists. Ted would get down to the fundamentals beneath their fundamentals. Ted's letters to me are marvels of clarity, profoundness, and humanitarianism. He's a rare soul. Give him his chance on the proper national forum and I think He'll run away with the country...and take them to the stars. To the SI's. I hope that happens. I hope he gets "converts" by the thousand and millions. I hope he gets the chance to found his Church of Sota and expound the Wisdom of The Ages to mankind---from the mouth of the SI's, who may really be the SA's. Space Angels, appointed by a Higher Power to help a sick, sick world, via Ted Owens. So, I sincerely hope his "break" comes. With All Sincerity, BOOKS ARTICLES SCI-FI COMICS UFOLOGY P.S. I'm of a "scientific" nature but not === Page 24 of 30 As Dr. Arnold Zakow said, astrophysicist who checked all of Ted's alleged PK feats, Ted Owens may be the "most brilliant mind on earth today" and one of its greatest "psychics". Dr. Zackow, a researcher into phenomenology and the paranormal, never questioned Ted's PK powers but pronounced them all as genuine manifestations of someone in direct contact with beings far superior to earth-people. Namely, the SI's, from whom Ted derives his fantastic powers. I've written at such length about Ted Owens on my own, simply because I believe this man deserves to be known and acknowledged for his strange and wonderful powers, which could be of great benefit to the world at large---if he is ever given the chance. His talents are hidden under a bushel, sadly enough. I trust this is of some help to you in connection with the unknown contract you mentioned. You can, of course, show this letter to whomever you wish. Below are some of my background data as a writer for 35 years. Sincerely, Otto O. Binder ----------Short stories published: over 500 in various magazines. ----------Books include VICTORY IN SPACE, CAREERS IN SPACE, RIDDLES OF ASTRONOMY, THE PLANETS, THE MOON, ROCKETS AND SPACE TRAVEL, ATOMIC ENERGY, AND Many more scientific works. ----------Contracted as an educational writer by NASA in 1965. ----------Two books and dozens of articles exploring the UFO phenomenon. ----------Science articles contributed to LIVING HISTORY OF THE WORLD (encyclopedia) and other year-books. ----------A science-fiction story, as representative of 20th century thinking, buried in both time-capsules of the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1965. ----------Fourteen stories in world-wide anthologies. ----------The story "I, Robot" used in an accredited English-course textbook distributed through Macmillan Publishers to high-schools of America. ----------Articles on psi-phenomena in several magazines. ----------Honorary member of American Rocket Society and a dozen other space or science oriented groups. === Page 25 of 30 OTTO O. BINDER SCIENCE WRITER SPACE SPECIALIST OTTO O. BINDER STUDIO, FRIEND'S LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518 - 494 - 3582 Feb 22, 1971 ADDRESSEE CONFIDENTIAL Ted Owens has asked me to give my qualifications as a writer, in regard to the articles you read in SAGA magazine, to indicate that they were carefully researched and written. I've been a freelance writer and reporter for some 30 years. My published work includes a dozen science books, many books of science fiction, and a hundred or more science articles for magazines. In the case of Ted Owens, he furnished me with thorough documentation, affidavits, and signed testimonies as to the PK feats he accomplished in the past ten years, as featured in those articles. He also sent me his entire set of personal diaries, which back up all of his feats as they occurred. I am quite convinced that Ted Owens does possess some amazing kind of psychokinetic powers which account for the deeds listed. I have made a thorough study of psi-phenomena in general and therefore know the field. Ted Owens, to my mind, has psi-power potential that has not yet been used fully, which have apparently been bestowed upon him by the SI's (Space Intelligences). I know it all sounds startling but facts are still facts. Science has not yet caught up to the true mysteries of the universe, in my opinion. Sincerely, Otto O. Binder === Page 26 of 30 From Fawcett Book P3142, $1.25, Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut, by Max Flindt and Otto Binder... "Mankind -- Child of the Stars". ABOUT THE AUTHORS Max H. Flindt... ---------- Otto O. Binder Born, 1911, Bessemer, Michigan. Three years college: City College of Chicago, University of Illinois, Northwestern University; majored in chemical engineering. First published story, 1932 (fiction). Over 3 million words published in fiction, including science fiction. Over forty books published, including Victory In Space, Careers In Space, and such astronomical texts as The Moon, The Planets, Riddles of Astronomy, all for school circulation. Under NASA contract in 1966 wrote the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs in chart form for educational purposes. Two UFO books published: Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, Belmont Books, 1969 (re-issued in 1971); What We Really Know About UFO's, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1968. Over 300 articles (nonfiction) published in national magazines, on science subjects and UFO's. Articles for science yearbooks on chemistry, astronomy, physics, and biology. Member of original American Rocket Society, American Interplanetary Society, National Spaceflight Association, Aerospace Writers Association, and so on. Founder and editor of Space World magazine, 1959-63, currently subscribed to by high schools, colleges, and professional people. Wrote for juvenile market: Golden Book of Jets, Book of Space Travel, Book of Atomic Energy, and so on. Syndicated strip, Our Space Age, ran for nine years in some 250 U.S. newspapers and in such foreign countries as Spain, Holland, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and others. Biographical sources: Pilgrims Through Space and Time by J. O. Bailey, Argus, 1947; The Immortal Storm by Sam Moskowitz, ASFO, 1954; in Editor and Publisher, September 10, 1960; Bergen Record write-up, Hackensack, N.J., March 11, 1961; New York Journal American, January 1, 1961; Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, Detroit, 1962-67; Working Press of the Nation, National Research Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1969 to date. Awarded honorary Master's Degree in astronautical science by NASA in 1963, with teaching certificate. Major writing since 1965 in the field of UFOlogy; books, articles analyses, statistics. Exponent of ET (ExtraTerrestrial) theory for UFO's, along with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Dr. Jacques Vallee, and Stanton T. Friedman (nuclear scientist). Latest contribution in the field to research for Max H. Flindt's theory of Hybrid Man and Colony Earth. === Page 27 of 30 November 14, 1974 ALL CONTACTS As you will all know, from this xerox file..........Otto Binder just died. He'd spent years accumulating material and documents re my work..........checking it all out..........etc., and intended to write a book about it, and my life. Obviously, now he cannot. I just drove up to his home in Chestertown, NY, and retrieved the material from his widow, Ione. Now..........I must write the book myself. No other author in the world that I know of, except Otto..........could write it. If you had read the Saga articles, then you understand why. Somehow..........no matter how abstract the action..........Otto understood all of it. None of the other top authors..........let alone the scientists..........understand as much as Otto did. He could grasp it. Well, I've lived it. And worked with it..........and with the UFO entities..........for over ten years. No one in the entire world..........can understand the UFO "mind"..........and actions..........as I can. I've worked with them..........also I am "part" of them, having had my brain modified by them..........so that their telepathic communications lodge in my brain, then are "interpreted" by the human part of my brain for the human race. Thus..........if Otto cannot write the book, with all of his specialized knack and no-how..........then I am the most qualified to do so. It will take me a good, full year to write it..........perhaps more. During this time I need all the help, financially, that you can give me. I have no income at all. Except what some good person contributes to help keep me going, occasionally.. So from now on..........any amount you can send in to help keep me going..........to get this tremendously important book for the human race written and published..........please send it. Since I am the only one of my kind..........a "modified" man, or a human type the SI's call "future man"..........then all of the astounding things that have happened to me in my life; my childhood; my adventures; how I got this way..........must be recorded for posterity. It would be utterly tragic for the human race..........if anything happens to me before this coming book, by me, is completed and published. Sincerely, === Page 28 of 30 MANKIND-- CHILD OF THE STARS by Max H. Flindt and Otto O. Binder Foreword by Erich von Däniken MY UFO "MASTERWORK", TED! WILL DO AS GOOD A JOB WITH YOUR BOOK. -- Otto A FAWCETT GOLD MEDAL BOOK Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut "I know of no work since Darwin that deserves as much attention with regard to the evolution of man." --from the foreword by ERICH VON DÄNIKEN author of CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? MANKIND-- CHILD OF THE STARS BY MAX H. FLINDT AND OTTO O. BINDER === Page 29 of 30 OTTO O. BINDER STUDIO, FRIEND'S LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518 - 494 - 3582 Agreement Subject---book tentatively titled - MY LIFE AS PK MAN by Ted Owens as told to Otto Binder. The arrangements shall be $2000 advance paid by Ted Owens to Otto Binder, plus an additional $500 when the manuscript is half done, and $500 when the ms is completed. We also agree that upon publication, all proceeds shall be divided as follows.......... Otto Binder..........50% Ted Owens..........20% *Millie Miller..........15% **George Delavan..........15% * 238 Olmstead St., San Francisco, Cal. 94134 ** 109 Ashland Ave, Des Plaines, Ill. 60016. All rights will be reserved to Ted Owens. OTTO O BINDER STUDIO, FRIEND'S LAKE ROAD CHESTERTOWN, N. Y. 12817 518 - 494 - 3582 Otto O. Binder Date SEP. 14, 1974 TED - SEND ONE SIGNED COPY TO ME - YOU KEEP THE OTHER Ted Owens Date === Page 30 of 30 T. L. Owens Box 759 Silverton, Oregon 97381 THIRD CLASS Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 C SILVERTON AUG 21 1978 OREG. U.S. POSTAGE 1.05 224539 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7808 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Aug 1978 Article about Ted Owens Also put electronic copy in special reports folder. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d33974e99941b97371ae545b37931977.pdf 8187bfd37f7e4baca50798b0414b0944 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4d2323f4d65ed894ed8f063949905f57.txt 40db38a9cfb8057e9e91cf4187878a16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1978 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 12 STATESMAN SEPT. 7, 1978 # Those honking geese may be trying to give us a warning CORVALLIS (AP) -- If you think you've been hearing things when Canada geese have been "Harronking" in Oregon skies the past two weeks, it isn't your hearing that's all fouled up. It's nature's alarm clock. Federal biologists say waterfowl have been migrating unusually early, possibly escaping what they might sense as a harsh and early winter. Palmer Sekora, project leader for three federal wildlife refuges in the Willamette Valley, said Wednesday that ducks and Canada geese have been flying south over Western Oregon for the past two weeks, at least a month ahead of schedule. Heavy accumulations of ducks have been noticed along the Oregon Coast, and one of several sightings of migrating geese in the Willamette Valley was made by a bewildered helicopter pilot. Ducks and geese normally wait until early October to start their migration south. It is widely believed the migratory instinct is triggered more by the length of the days than the weather. But Sekora said unseasonal storms might have started the birds moving early. "I can't figure out what's going on," he said. None of the migrating geese have been stopping at the valley's refuges. 1. MY AND UFO PSI-FORCE ATTACK ON WEST COAST FOR 90 DAYS CAUSING GEESE ESCAPING WHAT THEY SENSE. 2. CALIFORNIA IS STRUCK BY HURRICANE NORMAN WITHIN PERIOD. SURELY A STORM UNUSUAL AT THIS TIME. Jeffrey Add to 90 Day File, plus see affidavit! Ted 10A, The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thursday, September 7, 1978 # Hikers dead, missing as Sierras get snow CALIF. STRUCK BY HURRICANE!! (ABOUT SEPT. 5) RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) -- Three people died and at least 17 others were missing Wednesday after Tropical Storm Norman dropped heavy snow on hikers in the Sierras. A possible fourth death was reported, but rescuers were unable to reach the location where a helicopter reported seeing a man lying in a sleeping bag with no apparent sign of life. Search and rescue teams in Mono and Inyo counties rescued a number of stranded hikers as the storm dumped up to 5 inches of snow in scattered areas of the mountains, but at least another 17 hikers were unaccounted for. Inyo County sheriff's deputy John Dorsey said the mountain searches were hampered by intermittent rains and overcast conditions. "At this time, we have no way of knowing how many people might be in trouble," said Dorsey. Southern Californians, braced for high waves and flood waters, were spared as the inland mountain areas received the brunt of what force remained in the one-time hurricane. Los Angeles received 0.35 inch of rain, its first measurable amount since April 30. However, Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of California, which produces 40 percent of the nation's raisins, halted its sales worldwide Wednesday until Norman's damage to the 1978 crop could be assessed. Inyo County officials found the bodies of two men and one woman at two locations in the Mount Whitney area, authorities said. Mount Whitney, at 14,495 feet, is the highest peak in the United States outside Alaska. Searchers found the bodies of the two men at the 12,000-foot level. The woman's body was discovered near Lake Sabrina. No identifications were immediately available. A rescue helicopter that flew over the area near where the woman's body was found reported seeing a man lying face down in a sleeping bag. Authorities said the man was believed to be the companion of the dead woman, but rescuers were unable to reach the location given by the helicopter pilot. === Page 2 of 12 September 18, 1978 Jeffrey oh lord! The Editor, The Washington Post. Please refer to my previous files sent to you. Today we are not making earthquakes occur on the West Coast, with the "bullseye" San Francisco. Instead, something is going to occur on a much vaster scale. And...I have no part in it whatsoever. Last Saturday night, September 16, 1978, the UFOs with which I am connected, contacted me telepathically, at my home, and gave me a strange message, at about 9 PM. I called a scientist, Jeffrey Mishlove, in San Francisco, long distance, to notify him, but he was not available on the phone, so I telephoned Dr. Milan Ryzl in San Jose, California, gave him the message and asked him to relay it on to Mishlove. This is the message that the UFOs gave me: They are unhappy about my rough going, and how my excellent demonstrations are being received by humans. So they are going to have to do something about it. They, the UFOs, are going to kick the stuffings out of this planet, this earth, using a combination of psi-force and other-dimensional powers...batter the earth, from one end to the other. The results of this strange attack upon earth: Storms not dreamed of. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Lightning attacks. Floods. Like nothing anyone alive has ever seen. Plus other phenomena, like mental illness worldwide...people behaving crazily...animals, insects, etc., behaving crazily...electromagnetic anomalies and power blackouts everywhere...you name it thusly, and it will happen. They will cease this attack by the first of the year, 1979. This demonstration by the UFOs...will be on a much higher plane...than any ever given before. This is totally the UFOs idea, and their execution of the idea. I have no part in it other than to act as spokesman for them. I am aware that my letters, and this one especially, sound like the ravings of a madman. To anyone not familiar with me and my work, that is. But to those familiar with me and my work...this message will come as a fearsome shock. Once again I refer you to a scientific report done on me and my work, by scientists, available for $7 at The Washington Street Research Center, 3101 Washington Street, San Francisco, California, 94115. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 759, Silverton, Oregon 97381 Owens * Please keep Dr. Ryzl and Jeffrey Mishlove's names in the strictest confidence. Owens === Page 3 of 12 Owens Box 759 Silverton, Oregon 97381 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 Sat Sept 16, 1978 Jeffrey Just talked LD to Elaine Sanders, your friend. Tell her Sunday is not verboten if she wouldn't mind watching pro football with me. (I am sure she thinks pro football is yucky.) Tell her, true, I'm 58, but the motel in Frisco you dropped into while the kids & I were there, had a night club and I sat in and drummed, jammed, === Page 4 of 12 with the hot combo they had there... I didn't miss a beat! Drummed rock solid. Some of the audience bought me drinks after & one man in the audience told me I was a "great" drummer. I also did a floor show there for free, and did psychometric readings on strangers out of the audience, 100% accurate, according to the read-ees. Also recently was on a camp trip with some friends, and unlimbered my throwing knives... and can still throw === Page 5 of 12 them like homing pigeons to the bullseye! (Remembering my smashed elbow several years ago... feared I couldn't throw again.) Tell her I once threw knives around Steve Allen's head on his Hollywood TV show. Anyway... I may be 58, but haha, I'm full of life that she'll not see in other people much mucha vida. One more thing... if she brings her male friend. Be sure to bring his boxing gloves!! Haven't worked out since 1945 with boxing (did master judo === Page 6 of 12 Elaine mentioned a thousand if. Tell Elaine a benefactor has given me 50,000 with no if, to help me. Also, many pupils have given me that thousand to train them with my mind training system, which takes one day, two at the most. Her friend's thousand is a weak offering for what he wants. And I speak with $10 in the bank. But that's me, you know? Ted Next Page === Page 7 of 12 What angers me, and saddens me... is that Mishlove & his associated scientists do not accord me enough respect to send scientists to me with reference to what I am doing.. Like Rodney Dangerfield, "I don't get no respect." me. Who could destroy the world as you-all know it. No respect. A pity. Owens over === Page 8 of 12 PPS... At this point, Elaine, I am disgusted! Have done 432 miracles, many of them most of them thoroughly documented. And no one will help me. Am down to a few dollars now. Suppose... I took the idea... "destroy the human race as it is"... and applied my Psi power to that idea. Show this to Jeffrey Mishlove. Owens PPPS... The above will happen automatically if I'm killed by our govt. Ted over === Page 9 of 12 Tell Elaine... I do need the thousand, to get on balance! It's better than the $40 I now have. But not on an "if" basis. That means enemy to me. Ted. === Page 10 of 12 Sept 26, 1978 Explains the SI's recent jury and radical action. They knew this was coming up in advance! Jeffrey... just a note to tell you that the owner of this house we rent is tossing us out. Says he's selling the house. After we've settled in, got both kids into school; new baby, etc. So... that ruins us. No place to move to (people are waiting in line to get into this swell town, at real estate agencies); no money to move with this time, even if there were a place. Am just filling you in on things so that you can follow the action. I'll bet the SI's are furious over this revolting development! Ted Owens over === Page 11 of 12 Box 759 Silverton, Oregon 97381 SALEM, OR 973 PM 28 SEP 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 That book advance of a "few thousand" would be a life-saver now!!! === Page 12 of 12 When we next meet... I will be a stranger to you! Evergreen Realty, selling house for $27,000. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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They will now strike at the eastern half of the U.S. Ted Owens Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 (Hazel Dell) PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 28 NOV 1978 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 2 of 5 Lifestyles worth nuclear risk? By CARL T. ROWAN April 4, 1979 WASHINGTON -- We Americans face an agonizing question: Will we reduce our standard of living sharply to avoid imperiling our own lives, and those of our children, born and yet unborn? That dilemma is made appallingly real by the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., which released radiation at least 20 miles away from the plant. This mishap, the worst in the nation's history, comes at a time when the United States is considering a vast increase in nuclear energy as part of an almost desperate program to ease dependency on increasingly costly foreign petroleum. Now millions of Americans, perhaps including President Carter, will take seriously the following warning by Dr. Herbert Abrams, professor and chairman of radiology at Harvard Medical School: "The risk of nuclear power is not worth the economic benefits." Abrams is just one of hundreds of distinguished physicians and scientists who cite nuclear power plants as an "unprecedented threat to public health." The Three Mile Island accident gives powerful credence to this warning, and it renders unacceptable the assurances given by the atomic power industry that serious accidents cannot happen. The public now is going to believe a current warning by 300 physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine that an even more serious accident could occur, causing 3,300 deaths, 45,000 injuries, 45,000 cancers over a period of years and so contaminate an area the size of Pennsylvania that it would become uninhabitable. Some will say that these physicians are being alarmist; yet, people who live in the area of the Three Mile Island plant cannot take much comfort from the various statements about the impact on humans of the radioactive gases that escaped. Joseph M. Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tells members of a House subcommittee that the radiation outside the Pennsylvania plant was of such a low level that a person would have to be exposed to it for 34 years for it to cause cancer. But at another time Hendrie says: "The radiation we see is not at a level that I would take casually, however. We regulate on the basis that any exposure is to be avoided." To be sure, many pregnant women in the Three Mile Island area were not taking the situation casually. Especially after Hendrie later admitted that his answers were "speculated." Concern turned to deep fear after an emergency was declared in the area with many pregnant women and children then evacuated. But the hard question remains: Is the risk of nuclear power greater than the benefit? Nuclear plants provided some 13 percent of the nation's electrical needs last year. If we close down all nuclear plants, where do we get the millions of barrels of oil needed to replace nuclear fuels? Are Americans ready to say that to avoid the risks of nuclear plant accidents they will go back to being one-car families, give up their pleasure boats, reduce drastically the fuel used for air conditioning and home-heating? We cannot have it both ways -- a lifestyle based on the gluttonous usage of energy along with an energy-production environment that is free of nuclear contamination -- and even smoke from coal. Let us see what President Carter suggests as a solution to our energy crisis that does not expose us to peril, or what to some will seem like poverty. © 1979, Field Enterprises Inc. Field Newspaper Syndicate A10 3M THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1979 # Radiation level feared too hot to try cleanup By THOMAS O'TOOLE, LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Federal officials raised the possibility Monday that the shutdown Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania is so badly contaminated with radioactivity that it may never reopen to generate electricity. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has raised this question in background briefings it has given senators and representatives from Pennsylvania. The NRC also has raised the question with members of Congress with oversight roles in nuclear energy generation. "It might be a $1 billion mausoleum," said Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., chairman of the Senate public works subcommittee on nuclear regulation. "It might be more expensive to clean up the history of nuclear power," Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., chairman of the House subcommittee on energy and the environment, said. "It's so bad it will be months before any possible cleanup can begin, if indeed a cleanup is possible." There are conflicting reports on how much of Three Mile Island's nuclear fuel has been damaged, how badly it's been damaged and how much radioactivity the damage has released from the reactor into the containment and into the waste water used to cool it. One report had it that up to 50 percent of the 36,000 fuel rods had been damaged. Another report said only 30 percent were damaged. A third report said 10 percent of the rods were dam- === Page 3 of 5 Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Hazel Dell, Wash. SALEM, OR 973 PM 14 NOV 1978 PLEASE MAIL EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS THE LAND OF THE FREE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE USA 15c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California === Page 4 of 5 Owens 200 n.E. 76th St. Hazel Dell, Wash. SALEM, OR 973 PM 14 NOV 1978 PLEASE MAIL EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS USA 15c THE LAND OF THE FREE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California Nov. 21, 1978 Because the U.S. govt & scientists have not given me the Oregon base the hand of the UFO will be turned against the eastern half of the U.S. Did you say an article in Fate? or Reader's Digest? === Page 5 of 5 Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Hazel Dell, Wash. SALEM, OR 973 PM 14 NOV 1978 PLEASE MAIL EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California Jeffrey - follow up on phone message. Sadly, the 11/21/78 US govt & US scientists have neglected PKMan and his UFOs. Now the hand of the UFOs must strike the eastern half of the US, to teach a lesson. 257-2241 Nov. 12, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove the "major-major" demo... The SIs and I can line up anti-matter w/matter, on earth! (An adjustment simple to make, w/psi force & OP power.) 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 14 # THE SOUTHERN U.S.- # TARGET FOR # FLYING SAUCERS By Ronald Drucker See my 1973 letter!! Ted. The late afternoon sun cast weird shadows on the gravel road which snaked up Tennessee's 3,534-foot Mount Cross. Billy Joe Lodnar was tense behind the wheel of his old pickup truck, alert for trouble on the dangerous road, anxious to make campsite by dark. A 35-year-old hunter and outdoorsman with a healthy respect for every treacherous curve on the twisting mountain roadway, Lodnar was haunched low, his chin almost touching the steering wheel, when he first saw the UFO. The luminous, rapidly-blinking object came rushing straight at him--a giant flying craft filling the sky like nothing he'd ever seen before. Lodnar, employed as a shift foreman for a packaging plant in Knoxville, Tenn., had left his wife Sue for a lone weekend of camping and hunting. He bitterly resented any interruption of his plan to relax in the Tennessee mountains alone. His reaction was as usual--not fear, but angry indignation toward the blinking, cigar-shaped flying object. "And it's real! That damned thing is real, all right." Unlike most people who see UFOs, Billy Lodnar already knew something about the mysterious craft now being seen by more people, in more places, than ever before. He'd read books arguing that aliens from space are spying on Mankind from strange airborne platforms often called "flying saucers." Lodnar, however, was a trained observer: he'd been an enlisted bomber crewman in the Air Force and had known airmen who'd seen UFOs. A pilot friend of his had once reported seeing humanoid creatures peering from the portholes of an alien craft. So Lodnar knew what he was seeing. **For some unknown reason, the states below the Mason-Dixon line seem to be a special hunting ground for aliens from space who, some scientists now suspect, are reconnoitering the military installations, missile bases, and defense industries that are concentrated there** ing. And when the blinking orange UFO flew overhead and then whipped around to fly back toward his pickup, Billy Lodnar bristled with resentment. "I was going to spend this weekend hunting!" he cursed aloud--not yet aware that, instead of deer, he would soon hunt the most dangerous game ever stalked by Man. Known for his stubborn streak, Lodnar was acting in character. Securely strapped inside his pickup and armed with a Browning shotgun and a 30-06 scope-mounted rifle, he didn't feel he had to worry. "No damned spaceship is going to spoil my weekend!" *A plane identical to this Navy TC-117D ((top left) was stalked by a UFO over Texas in 1972. An unidentified flying object flew just off the wingtip of a A-4C Skyhawk (left) at the time of Lodnar's sighting.* UFO ANNUAL 15 1972 === Page 2 of 14 Billy Joe Lodnar Ray Michaels Bennie D. Morris He slammed on the brakes and his pickup veered sharply on the gravel. Yanking out the 30-06, he leaped out onto the roadway and dropped behind the front wheel. The UFO descended vertically, filling the darkening sky above him. A glimmer of doubt gnawed at him. Suddenly he wasn't so sure of himself. "That thing is actually going to land!" His first thought was for the teenagers he'd passed in a minibus down near the base of the mountain an hour ago. They might not be reliable, but they were the only people he'd seen the entire afternoon and Billy Lodnar wanted witnesses if he was going to confront a UFO. He also knew of a State Forestry station a few miles back, but remembered, angrily, that it was closed this late in the year. The date was Nov. 11, 1974. But he was worrying about the wrong thing. There were witnesses--plenty of them. The zigzagging UFO had already been spotted by dozens of people along the sheer, tree-covered ridge lines near Knoxville. The pilot of a Marine A-4C Skyhawk on a cross-country flight from Beaufort, S.C., had radioed that the UFO was "acting dangerous" and "flying along just off my wingtip." Military and civilian radar installations tracked the craft for short periods of time, while the Knoxville police department was flooded with phone reports. Significantly, the UFO had hovered for more than a half hour near the top-secret Atomic Energy Commission installation at nearby Oak Ridge. SAGA 16 UFO ANNUAL 1977 It's all documented. And it's frightening. What's most disturbing of all, it seems the entire southern U.S. has recently become the focal point for hundreds of similar UFO sightings. Judy Blum, co-author of Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, claims that a startling number of UFO incidents have occurred south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Dr. Karl Dickins, astronomer at Tennessee Teacher's College, says "There's some special meaning to all these UFO sightings throughout the South . . ." Lodnar sucked in his breath and waited. Across from his truck the road hung precariously over a sunken depression in the mountain slope where a V-shaped gully angled down toward a flat, bush-covered clearing. As Lodnar watched, the UFO settled silently in the open space, a brilliant circle of light standing out sharply among the lengthening shadows. Lodnar could now see that his impression of a cigar shape had been based upon the profile of the craft. It was a saucer, with a tear-like dome rising from its center. Lodnar hefted his rifle and darted across the road. He dropped to his knees, careful to avoid exposing his silhouette on the skyline. Though the temperature was in the mid-30s, he felt sweat on his face. His grip on the rifle was vise-like. The UFO had settled on the ground and a door was opening on its side! Something--somebody--was stepping out! His crouching position was painful. Lodnar wished he'd brought binoculars. To put himself in a better position to cope with the alien visitor, he edged downhill until he reached an outcrop on the slope. He now believed that the aliens hadn't noticed him. The craft seemed to have landed for some other reason. Maybe it's something like recharging batteries, he thought, aware that this didn't make sense but he was unable to think of any other explanation. The man--Lodnar knew it wasn't a man, not a human being--ambled down a ramp from the open doorway. The creature was small and stocky, with a bloated head that was disproportionately large in comparison to its skeletal body. Although 300 feet away and 40 feet uphill, Billy Lodnar could see arms and legs as thin as pipe-stems, a gray skin that impressed him as covered with scales, and the powerful protruding head with thin, slit-like eyes. In stiff, jerky movements the creature walked downhill from the craft. Lodnar cradled his rifle and followed. Even now, Lodnar has trouble recalling his emotions during the ensuing, tension-racked 20 minutes when he slipped through underbrush, staggered downhill, and drew closer to the alien creature. To skeptics who wonder if any of this ever happened, he insists that he felt a compulsion to follow. Two different times he centered the alien in the crosshairs of the scope mounted on his rifle. The terrain was very tricky. It took Lodnar a while to realize that he was moving in a circle. When he was about 20 feet above and 100 feet away from the creature, he realized that the alien === Page 3 of 14 was returning to its craft. The UFO hadn't moved, hadn't made a sound. As the humanoid returned to the ramp extending from the UFO, all of Lodnar's pent-up frustrations churned inside him. The fear had been slow in coming but was now hitting him in waves. And there was resentment, anger. He's going to get away and nobody will ever believe I saw him! I'll be a laughing stock! It was almost completely dark now, but the humanoid stood out sharply when Lodnar lined him up in the telescopic sight, but the hunter couldn't make himself fire. There was really no reason to shoot and, considering the unknown nature of the situation, plenty of cause not to. Lodnar relaxed his trigger finger and watched as the alien entered the open doorway of the UFO. A second creature appeared and seemed to grab the first, to pull him inside. It was as if the creature was being reprimanded by his partner for putting too much trust in the reactions of the curious human who he knew, through telepathy, was stalking him. The door closed and the UFO rose from the ground--in complete silence! Lodnar watched the craft shoot across the peak of Mount Cross, climbing into the night sky. "It was an alien spaceship and it was real!" Lodnar insisted when a Knoxville reporter reached him two days later. "There were people on it--creatures, I mean--from somewhere. I could have shot one of them..." Lodnar, his wife, a reporter, two police officers, and an amateur UFO researcher in Knoxville returned to the mountain on November 15th. In the gully where Lodnar had seen the UFO land, there were broken trees and scorch marks. A policeman, using a device called a cadometer, tried to determine whether the gully had sustained unusually high levels of gamma radiation. Billy Lodnar insists he saw men from another world. Now scientists and scholars are beginning to believe that Lodnar's experience, remarkable as it was, was not at all extraordinary--not in the South where UFO sightings occur with greater frequency than anywhere else in the U.S. For some unknown reason, the southern part of the U.S. seems to be a special "hunting ground" for aliens from space who, some reputable scientists now believe, are reconnoitering Earth from spacecraft usually reported as UFOs. It was in the South that the most prolonged series of UFO sightings, the famous "big flap" of 1957, took place and 308 separate incidents were reported. It was in the South that an F-89 jet interceptor crashed and killed its two crew members after colliding with a UFO near Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 1, 1966. And it was in the South where more than half of the wave of sightings in 1973, the second most intense period of UFO activity in history, took place. In Pascagoula, Miss., on Oct. 11, 1973, two shipyard workers, Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, were taken aboard a UFO by silvery-looking humanoid creatures who examined the pair for more than two hours. The Hickson-Parker story of a UFO "kidnapping" has been verified after physical and psychiatric examinations and the two men were found by the Air Force's Division of Medicine to be sincere and convincing. From Maryland to Arkansas, from the Mason-Dixon Line to the Florida Gulf, the American South has been a hotbed of UFO activity and some regional leaders are suggesting that their part of the country is under attack from outer space! The respected astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, reports that out of 2,500 UFO cases studied by the Air Force's Project Blue Book from 1947 to 1969, more than 1,300 sightings took place in the South. > "...The young Marine helicopter gunner staggered to his feet, tasted blood in his mouth, and reached desperately for support. In his earphones, he heard the panicky voice of the copilot on his radio: '...Hostile... I say again the object is behaving in a hostile manner...request instructions'..." One of the best documented--and most disturbing--southern UFO incidents changed the life of a dark-haired, 26-year-old ex-Marine who's been transformed into a self-confessed "flying saucer freak" since he battled an unidentified object in mid-air over South Carolina on Jan. 7, 1974. Bennie D. Morris, from Greenville, S.C., is a shy young man who doesn't like to publicize his interest in UFOs. It's for this reason that Morris's story has never appeared in print before. Transformed overnight from a skeptic to a believer, Morris wants people to know that he regards UFOs as a subject for serious research--not a "fad" or a "craze." It happened just after dusk on an unseasonably warm, cloud-filled night. A lance corporal in the Marine Corps, Morris was wearing flight fatigues and was braced in the door composition of a UH-1E helicopter as it lifted off from Quantico, Va. for a routine flight to Beaufort, S.C. Also aboard the chopper, which was attached to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, were two officers, a pilot and copilot. At Morris's request, because these men were party to spraying machine gun bullets all over the South Carolina sky, his crew mates will not be named here. As the helicopter climbed over darkening farmland, Morris was battered by the windblast in the open doorway and clung to the mount of his M-60 machine gun for support. "Nice view from down here," he told the two men seated above him in the flight cabin. His voice sounded squeaky over the intercom. "Not much to see," proclaimed the pilot. Then, suddenly, one of the officers exclaimed, "Hey, wait a minute! What's that over there?" Morris saw it at almost the same instant. About a mile off the starboard side of the helicopter, a luminous silver object appeared to be matching the craft's course. At first, Bennie Morris thought it was a commercial airliner. Then he realized that the craft was tear-shaped, surrounded by a halo of opaque white light, and moving from side to side! "That's not an aircraft!"--he began. The silver-white UFO seemed to turn, approaching the UH-1E as it flew through the night sky. Morris heard his copilot reporting the sighting over the radio. He and the pilot chattered nervously on their intercom: Pilot: "I think that's a UFO! You know, unidentified--" Morris: "It's on a collision course, sir! It's coming straight at us!" Pilot: "We're trying to get instructions. Hold tight! I'm going to take evasive action." With brutal force, Morris's stocky, 160-pound body was flung across the chopper's interior as the pilot went into a violent, bone-jarring turn. The young Marine staggered to his feet, tasted blood in his mouth, and reached desperately for support. In his earphones, he heard the panicky voice of the copilot on the radio: "...hostile... I say again, the object is behaving in a hostile manner... request instructions..." Through his open door, Morris saw (Continued on page 77) UFO ANNUAL 17 === Page 4 of 14 Oregonian Dec. 6, 1978 # European maneuvers scheduled WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 14,000 U.S. Army infantry and tank troops will fly to Europe next month in the first such major winter maneuvers in Europe since 1973, defense officials said Tuesday. The exercise follows by only a few months a major autumn deployment of U.S. Army troops from the United States to Western Europe under a 10-year-old program called "Reforger." The "strategic mobility exercises" are intended to demonstrate that the United States can move troops rapidly to reinforce NATO in a crisis. Flying overseas in January will be two brigades and headquarters of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division from Fort Riley, Kan., as well as an armored brigade from the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Fort Hood, Texas. Other units will include a combat engineer battalion from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and some unspecified elements of the National Guard and Reserve. The soldiers will fly in Air Force C-5 and C-141 transport planes, landing at airfields in Belgium, Luxembourg and West Germany. They will engage in field exercises, along with some allied troops, in the area between northern Baden-Wuerttemberg and eastern Bavaria in Germany. A total of some 59,300 tons of equipment, meanwhile, will be carried by sea to ports in Belgium and the Netherlands. Dec. 6, 1978..........Dear Peter Maddock..........you asked me some time ago..........to write out the lecture that I gave to the Parascience Conference in London in 1977, since you were called away and absent at the time..........and I referred you to George Weiss and his tape on it. But I should have given you exactly what you wanted; in the past, you have done. So I not only will fill you in, but will even demonstrate it for you. My speech was extemporaneous..........so cannot recall it verbatim or even all of the twists and turns of it. It depended upon showing documents, but that year you didn't have that equipment, so I was all frustrated. But what it boiled down to: I had, in years past, made an astounding discovery in the field of parapsychology (other than another one, wherein not only are time and space irrelevant and immaterial in ESP work..........so is MASS). All work in the psi field, as far as I am aware, has been done on the OUTSIDE of the subject psychic. I.e., spoons bent; out of body; objects moved on a table; etc. Yet I had discovered a revolutionary method of psi work (in my layman's opinion, at least) wherein the psi work is done INSIDE, WITHIN, the subject psychic (me)! As an illustration, in the paperback book, "What The Seers Predict For 1971" by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith (Lancer), in the chapter on my work, "Ted Owens -- The UFO Prophet", on page 145, is my published 'prediction': "President Nixon will not end in office. Something most unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office." Now at that time Nixon was very popular, and Watergate was far away. (I made this 'prediction' in 1970; took a year to get the book out..........this point is, I think, important.) IT WAS MY INTENT TO GET NIXON OUT OF OFFICE! I used a mental system the UFOs had taught me..........a psi-force attack, if you will..........INWARDLY, UPON THE IDEA of forcing Nixon out of office. And it took some years to get it done, but it was finally accomplished. Then in the paperback book, "What The Seers Predict For 1972" by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Contempora Books, in the chapter on my work, page 140: "The SIs and I INTEND to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was." (Note: this work I began and started..........using the psi-force method INWARDLY, upon the IDEA..........in 1971.) You have been reading about the results in the newspapers since then. Huge amounts of whites have fled Africa, and still are doing so. Again, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1973, I informed Dr. Max Fogel, Director of Science and Education for Mensa, that it was my INTENT to CAUSE a UFO to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and SHOW ITSELF TO POLICE IN THAT AREA. Within days a huge UFO appeared in that exact area, over the heads of police, and I have Dr. Max Fogel's affidavit on it plus the newsclip to prove it. I HAD AGAIN USED PSYCHIC TECHNIQUE INWARDLY..........upon the IDEA..........to cause it to happen. (The idea encompassed time, geography, the UFO to appear, AND SPECIFICALLY OVER THE HEAD OF POLICE. But I had not === Page 5 of 14 2 next yet finished! The day I sent another communication to Dr. Max Fogel (Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1973) in which I told him: "My contention is that the Big Foot, Moth Man, Loch Ness Monster...are SI creatures from another dimension...can pass between dimensions. So what I am going to do is...call them ALL here to the Chesapeake Bay area! In effect, this target area will be the scene for sightings of a Loch Ness Monster in the Bay (Chesapeake Bay)..." Very well. To bring that about I used psychic technique INWARDLY upon the IDEA...and once more it took years, but got it done, finally. I enclosed xerox of my letter to Dr. Fogel; also xerox of the Loch Ness creature actually being witnessed in the Chesapeake Bay. I could give you many many more illustrations of unbelievable things that I have CAUSED to happen, amply documented, by using psi-force and psychic technique INWARDLY upon an IDEA, but by now you have the basics on it. Now it can be argued, as it is in Colin Wilson's new book, "Mysteries", (which I haven't seen yet, but know about) that I am merely employing precognitive ability. This is, of course, ridiculous, since I have upon many occasions caused UFOs to appear in certain places at certain times...and precog, I am sure, does not work quite that way. And causing the Loch Ness creature to appear in Chesapeake Bay? Precog? Ridiculous on the face of it. Also, in further rebuttal of that... I enclose Otto Binder's very fine rebuttal that I am not using precog. Be all that as it may, now a demonstration in your honor. As you can see from today's newsclip military maneuvers are going to begin in Europe. Now, in the late 1960's I gave a demonstration of ATTACKING military maneuvers in Needles, California...and I used the same psi-force, INWARD technique upon the IDEA...of causing chaos and confusion in those maneuvers. What happened was incredible! It could just as well have been a real war! Tanks collided; freak accidents happened all over the place; copters collided or crashed; and so on. I am now going to repeat that same demonstration...using psi-force TODAY, INWARDLY, upon the IDEA of causing chaos, confusion and freak mishaps and accidents in these military maneuvers outlined in the enclosed xerox. ("European maneuvers scheduled") What is interesting is: I have only to do it ONCE. Thus, today will flash the psi-force inwardly, using my own technique given me by the UFOs...and that is that. Now all I have to do is...wait for it to happen, A likely analogy is the camera that gives a photo seconds or minutes AFTER the picture is snapped. One aims, snaps the picture, then waits for it to develope and roll out of the machine. I hope that you were able to obtain a copy of Mishlove's scientific report on my work. You would enjoy studying it, am sure. ($7 to Washington St. Research, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, Calif., 94115 and request report on Ted Owens.) I have missed that great mind of yours, and that big grin of yours, my good friend. Am flying to Sweden in a week or so as the guest of Mrs. Gunvor Hedgren, of Malung (although I'll be in Stockholm). Will probably be seeing Eva Astrom (of Saxons) and that will be great fun. She was the Swedish journalist who covered the 1976 Parascience Conference, remember? All the best to you...and keep swinging! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 6 of 14 Mishlove (Continued from page 82) ever come that late? No, probably Ted didn't know. But why should that stop him? Headline of February 15, 1969--HUGE STORM, TORNADOES RIP FLORIDA. The weather bureau people, quoted by newspapers, tried to pass it off as something other than a full-blown hurricane, calling it merely a "severe winter storm." But when winds roared up to 90 miles per hour, they had to lamely admit that "winds in excess of 74 miles per hour are considered of hurricane force." Thus, Ted had done the impossible in meteorological terms--produced the latest hurricane ever known in the U.S. And if you think that Ted has perhaps secretly studied weather phenomena so thoroughly that he is able to simply forecast unusual storms (without actually creating them), then you'll be balked by his diary and private papers covering his entire life. Not one word about studying meteorology: he just makes his own storms. * During August, 1968, Ted and his family were invited to Maine for a two-week, all-expenses-paid vacation by a group of Maine businessmen. They were interested in Ted's "hurricane hexes," possibly seeing it as a big "cane-busting" enterprise involving the dollar sign. If Ted could make hurricanes "turn" into the coast at will, he could obviously make them turn away if he wished (which Ted had been tirelessly telling the government all along). But wanting more proof of his PK powers and his alleged contact with the all-powerful SIs, they asked Ted to have at least one UFO appear over the area in those two weeks, spectacular enough to make the local papers. Before the two weeks were over, nine flying saucers were sighted by Ted and many other witnesses, one of which received huge headlines. He had simply signalled an "SOS" to the SIs, asking them to "put up or shut up" in his behalf. Acting for Ted, the SIs certainly did put up--and the businessmen shut up. But ironically even in the face of such a startling demonstration, the business group, for some unknown reason, gave up their plan to utilize Ted's hurricane-taming powers. Just how does Ted Owens' PK power work? It is a most fascinating and complex picture. Throughout his diary are "technical" notations about using "16 units of white PK," "1,000 red units," and sometimes enormous jumps into "one million black units." Elsewhere he lists the various kinds of PK units and their specific uses. These are far too abstruse to go into, but it seems that white PK units are for protection, green units for healing, red units for creating storms, and black units for blocking anything he wants to fail. These "units" are the amount of power put into any single PK feat. Then there are the types of PK powers themselves--Space PK, Missile PK, Hurricane PK, Healing PK, and so on. Ted, who once did psi-experiments for Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University, has evidently carried on his own researches into psychokinesis far beyond the elementary Rhine tests where PK merely controls the roll of dice. If PK from the human mind can make a pair of dice come up with certain numbers (as Dr. Rhine has proved in countless "runs") why can't it affect other and bigger things? Things such as the tumultuous air-currents that make up hurricanes, or the powered flights of missiles. Apparently Ted so reasoned, and gradually developed his PK powers to range in many directions, accounting for his amazing repertoire of PK feats, most on a grand scale that would make Dr. Rhine gasp. Yet parapsychologists like Dr. Rhine have never stated there is any limit to PK power, only that they have not yet tapped them. Ted has tapped them, however, and has made a quantitative jump forward in utilizing PK power. But none of this would be possible, as he himself quickly admits, without the aid of the SIs, who specifically chose Ted Owens as their spokesman and have, Ted believes, "operated" on his brain to charge it with the enormous PK power he exhibits. Even more complicated than the PK units of power are the "PK boxes" that Ted uses. These seem to be box-like containers that Ted visualizes in his mind, that emit not only PK forces but other paranormal miracle-working powers. He lists a bewildering array of such PK boxes--Weather Control Box, Universal Mind Box, Poltergeist Box, Wisdom of the Ages Box, and, skipping far down the line, the Angel Box. This last is intriguing in context with the "change-of-heart" feat in Selma, Ala., as described earlier. Ted has a significant note in his diary for March 12, 1965: "I started to hit Selma . . . cops, Sheriff Clark, Wallace, etc. . . . with a black PK. But something told me to put in Angels . . . 100 . . . and a small magic cross on each of those people. Now I know what Jesus meant by love your enemies!" Ted meant that loving your enemies is not just a pious platitude but can work wonders on them that direct opposition cannot achieve. Ted works hard at his PK "spells." In his diary he often mentions being "played out" the next day, or extremely nervous and agitated, and is sometimes forced to stay home from work to recuperate. The honesty and integrity of Ted's diaries are a potent factor in backing up his claims. For instance, Ted at one time felt gnawing doubts about getting messages from the SIs, and felt crawling fears that he was going mad and conjuring up hallucinations. But the SIs expelled his doubts and fears. It is quite impressive to look over Ted's list of "PK feats accomplished" and see that many are marked as occurring in "three days," "five days," or "nine days." Some are even overnight, while others take a month or more. But the numerous close-hitting cases compel one to seek a paranormal rather than a "chance" or a "luck" explanation. One question remains. Is Ted unwittingly using pure precognition and only that? That is, does he have the power (miraculous in itself) to peer into the future and see coming events that turn out true 85 per cent of the time? The SIs and his contact with them could then be sheer mental "window dressing" out of his subconscious mind, as it somehow delves with uncanny accuracy into the future. This would mean too that all his so-called powers are imaginary--that he does not control or make hurricanes, and has never spoiled a space shot with a PK shot. He would, in short, be foreseeing those events by his purely prophetic powers, and nothing more, with his subconscious imagination supplying the rest. But, because of his overwhelming list of "hits," that would still make him the greatest seer of all time, far above Jeanne Dixon or any others today, and even dwarfing the feats of the biblical prophets or the Oracle of Delphi. Explaining a fantastic phenomenon by one even more fantastic is hardly a rational way of solving a riddle. Dr. Rhine would be the first to snort at this explanation, for his precognition experiments with ESP cards have revealed no such enormous prophetic powers in the human mind or psyche. Thus, with the precognitive theory, there is nothing to explain why Ted Owens should alone be able to read the future like a book--unless God himself has lent him divine powers. The other explanation gives us something more rational as a method--that other-dimension beings with their super-science have given Ted PK powers to perform feats he merely announces in advance. And one other strong point backs up Ted's SI-contact claims. There are flying saucers seen all around earth (unless you are a last-ditch skeptic). If the UFOs exist, then the people who fly them exist. Certainly they cannot be ordinary humans but must be far beyond us in intellectual power. Thus, there is no great assumption to make as to the very probable existence of the SIs that Ted claims to talk to. Nor does his contact by ESP--now a well-established phenomenon--in any way stretch the imagination. The pure-precognition theory is barely possible while the SI-contact explanation is more highly probable. On top of that, the SIs have a definite purpose on earth, which they revealed to Ted, that you will find shocking but absolutely believable. But it is far too long to be taken up here and will be disclosed in Part II, in the next issue of this magazine. There, you will hear how Ted Owens now knows the SIs picked him as a child to be their spokesman and representative. How they have trained him for a very specific task of colossal importance. And what the mighty mission (there are no other words for it) is to be. It involves the fate of everyone on earth--man, woman, and child. It will shake you, probably frighten you, but it will also shine a light of great hope for a better world. ★ THE END Next Month: Part II--THE GREAT ANSWER TO WHY THE UFOs ARE HERE! === Page 7 of 14 MENSA A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION CHARTERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 50 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 November 9, 1973 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet", and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFO's and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973. Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owen's letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place. Sincerely, Max L. Fogel Max L. Fogel, Ph.D. Director of Science and Education CHAIRMAN, Herbert Ahrend; FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN, Dr. Emerson Coyle; SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN, Joseph Frisch; EASTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Fred Lowenstein; MID-WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Leo McGowan; WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Ellison Jack; SECRETARY, Irene Turchin; TREASURER, Sander Rubin; LOCAL GROUPS OFFICER, Stuart Furman; RESEARCH OFFICER, Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.; LEGAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Jack Weinstein; MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Vernon K. Schumann; PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Allan Wikman; RECORDING SECRETARY, Carol H. Stephens; SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST, Allan H. Frankle, Ph.D.; EDITOR MENSA BULLETIN, Lee REPRESENTATIVE Ira Solomon; MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, Margot Seitelman. === Page 8 of 14 Tuesday, 2 PM afternoon, Oct. 23, 1973 Dr. Max Fogel, Int'l Research Scientist, Mensa, Phila. Dear Dr. Max...just called your home and left message with Joy to pass on to you when you get home this evening. In August...I communicated with "Control"... the top UFO intelligence that I have worked with and for, for some time...and asked that SI UFO's "turn themselves on" all over the U.S. so that humans could see them; also to demonstrate phenomena. Since then they have done this. But of course...I cannot document that. It is, however, rock-ribbed proof...that I am indeed a link between the UFO's and the human race. Now what I propose to do is this. Am going to communicate again with Control...and ask it to "turn on" the UFO's in this entire Virginia area, so that all the people can see them; and to demonstrate phenomena here. Am talking about Eastern Virginia; the Tidewater area; the Chesapeake Bay area; the Eastern Shore Peninsula on which I live, etc. This demonstration will be to prove conclusively to the scientists studying my work...that my brain has been modified by these creatures in the past; that I am in telepathic communication with them; and that my unique situation is quite real indeed. Also that I am the most powerful human in the world...since I have the incredible other-dimensional powers of the UFO's to draw upon. All right...when UFO's begin to appear here, will take out the newsclips and make up a Contact Letter to get out to you, later. Now it is on record...and this exciting experiment-demonstration begins! Ted Owens (PK Man)(The UFO Prophet) Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Oct. 24, 1973...Wednesday Dr. Max Fogel, Mensa Dear Dr. Max... Yesterday I set up an experiment-demonstration...of my intent to produce UFO's in the skies and all around, here in the Chesapeake Bay area (100 mile radius, with "bullseye" of target this Eastern Shore Peninsula.) But after some thought.. am going to improve upon, and enlarge, the scope of the demonstration! My contention is that the Big Foot, Moth Man, Loch Ness Monster...are SI creatures from another dimension...can pass between dimensions. So what I am going to do is...call them ALL here to the Chesapeake Bay area! In effect, this target area will be the scene for sightings of a Loch Ness Monster in the Bay...sightings of the Big Foot (Sasquatch)...sightings of the Moth Man -- as well as the flying saucers, cigar-craft, UFO lights, etc. It is my intent...to make this area the most UFO and monster-haunted area in the entire world! To do this am reaching out telepathically to bring them all here...TO STAY HERE. It will be "Halloween" all the time in this area...with spooks and goblins and UFO's galore! Gosh, it will be fascinating to see if I can pull off this "miracle"! Have no way of knowing the timing on this. Hours? Days? Weeks? Months? Since their "time" is different than ours...and they have time-windows, too, when they cannot get through...makes it tough. Am talking for appearance, now. Once here will "fix" them to stay in the area, just as the Loch Ness Monster has stayed there for ages. Beau, my boy, wants me to include the tiny 3-foot high critters... humanoid type...so will work at that also. Best..... Ted Owens (PK Man - The UFO Prophet) Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 === Page 9 of 14 Richmond Times-Dispatch, Fri., Oct. 26, 1973 # UFO Seen, Chase City Police Say By John Clement Times-Dispatch State Staff CHASE CITY -- Sam Huff, a policeman for the past seven years, said he watched an unidentified flying object for 15 minutes around 2 a.m. Thursday. Huff said Marion Owen, the Chase City police radio dispatcher, first sighted the object after noticing an unusual light reflection on the window of the police station. Owen radioed Huff, who drove to the west side of town and parked on a railroad bridge, almost under the object, Huff said. Huff said the soundless object, fairly large, with a color that resembled a very bright star, hovered motionless over the town for about five minutes then moved rapidly to the north, reversed direction and returned to a position over his head. It stayed motionless for another five minutes before leading rapidly in a westerly direction, he added. UFOs are probably taken a little more matter-of-factly in this area since two well-publicized and still unexplained sightings occurred in 1967 in nearby South Hill and Lunenburg County. In the South Hill incident, a warehouseman said, in April 1967 that he rounded a curve and encountered an object 12 feet in diameter, standing on three legs, that resembled an aluminum storage tank. The object suddenly left the ground in a burst of brilliant light, he reported. The blacktop street caught fire, and when police arrived on the scene the tar was still hot and smoking. Two months later, a rural Lunenburg County storekeeper said she was startled one night by a thundering roar. She looked out her bedroom window and saw a bright light which she described as so bright "you could see every leaf on the tree." That object also allegedly left burn marks in the highway. Friday, Oct. 26, 1973.......... Dr. Max Fogel, Mensa, Philadelphia Dear Dr. Max: I am tickled pink...to be able to send you this electrifying documentation! First, because the UFO's (SI's) that I contacted telepathically with my special UFO brain...answered almost immediately...very next day, in fact...by appearing in the area I specified in my letter to you earlier plus showed themselves to the police, just as I specified...matter of fact, this UFO made SURE the message got over...by leaving the policeman and then RETURNING! (See newsclip.) Second, am tickled...because this couldn't happen to a nicer scientist than Dr. Max Fogel. As you well know, just a handful of the scientific community had guts enough to let it be known that they are in contact with PK Man..and only you...have guts enough to give me signed confirmations whenever I bring about a "miracle". (Dr. Hynek should dam well have sent me a signed, notarized confirm when I stopped that volcano in Sicily, but nope, he didn't.) So to me...you are "King of the Scientists"! Now, if any scientists that you know want to scoff at me, or your connection with me...simply show them the letters I sent to you last Tuesday and Wednesday..then show them this newsclipping! The SI's LIKE this idea...this experiment-demonstration I have set up...and they have lost no time in acting on it! I had thought perhaps they'd take weeks to show up, but they did it the very next day! So, it has begun! So, to briefly recap...I wrote to you last Tuesday and again Wednesday...telling you that I would communicate with my UFO's (that I have worked with and for 10 years) and ask them to appear within a 100 mile radius of where I live, the Eastern Shore...using this Cape Charles as the "bullseye". Furthermore, I told you I would ask them to show themselves to the police and other responsible persons. Furthermore, I told you I would also telepathically contact the "UFO Monsters" of various kinds...and bring them, also, to this area. Furthermore, in time to come, I told you, I'd make this 100 mile area the "UFO capitol of the world" in essence. All right. Already one UFO has answered my call, and in no uncertain terms, as this Oct. 26 newsclip from the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper points out! Your friend and brother M.... Ted Owens (PK Man -- The UFO Prophet) Box 48, Cape Charles, Virginia === Page 10 of 14 7 S.F. Chronicle Aug. 19, 1978 # Sea Serpent Mystery on Chesapeake Bay Heathsville, Va. Undulating, gliding through the dark water, raising its head, then diving, Nessie of Loch Ness? No, it's Chesapeake Chessie, the sea serpent of Chesapeake bay. A handful of people have reported sighting strange creatures in the bay and a bit upstream in the Potomac river. The descriptions match, if not in size, at least in general appearance. They bear a striking resemblance to the fabled beast of the Scottish lake. Donald Kyker, a retired CIA employee, reported that on July 25 he and his wife, Ann, saw a creature about 25 to 30 feet long and about as round as a telephone pole. He said it stuck its head out of water and then dived. "It wasn't a scary type thing," said Mrs. Kyker. "I'm sure I saw it." John Merriner, head of the ichthyology department at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, said the creature described by Kyker "is one hell of an animal to be in the bay." Merriner said yesterday the institute will question Kyker. "The trail is cold now," he said, "but we will try to track it anyway." Kyker was the first person to report what he'd seen. Myrtle Smoot and her husband, who live in Annandale, were at their summer cottage just down from Kyker's home. Kyker telephoned the Smoots to tell them what he'd seen, and when they looked, there it was, heading toward the bay. Mrs. Smoot said that within an hour they saw three more -- one big, and two small -- heading upriver, and they frightened her. She said the big one was longer than her 36-foot-long porch, and the smaller ones were five to ten feet long. Her husband shot one of the smaller monsters in the neck, she said. "It rose out of the water and disappeared. Having children and grandchildren who swim and ski, we wanted to find out what it was. We didn't know whether it was dangerous, and we figured if we could get one, we could find out what it was." Smoot fired several more shots. The creatures disappeared beneath the water. C. Phillip Stemmer, 53, an electronics engineer who lives next door to the Smoots, was there at the time. He said they looked "like self-propelled logs." "They weren't just three 'some-things' floating there. They were moving faster than the water. They were making wakes," said Stemmer. Mary Lewis, an employee of Virginia Electric Power Co., said that on June 27 she and two cousins were swimming in a pool beside the Potomac, downstream from the Smoot cottage, when they saw several large creatures. "It wasn't porpoises, either," she added, which was the original guess by officials of the Potomac River Fisheries Commission when first told what had been sighted in the river. Associated Press Aug. 21, 1978 Jeffrey Mishlove.......... a few years ago when I was writing to my scientist contacts from Cape Charles..........I told them that I would ask the UFO entities that I am a part of..........to bring UFO creatures to that part of Virginia. It is most interesting..........that it now seems to be happening. Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 759 Silverton, Oregon 97381 Gwen I remember, when I was at Loch Ness in Scotland I sighted the Loch Ness creature twice, and communicated with it!! === Page 11 of 14 "THIS WORLD" SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AUG 27, 1978 # FANTASIA THE MASK worn by a bandit who held up a doughnut shop in Riverside, Ca., was a pillowcase. Wearing it over his head, he lightened the shop till of $60 but, on making his exit, he was forced to raise the case up enough to see out -- because he had neglected to cut eyeholes. A customer got a good enough glimpse of his face for police to make the arrest soon thereafter. BACK PAINS were cured in two patients of a New Jersey physician, Dr. Elmar G. Lutz, of St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic, when he performed a "walletectomy" -- he directed the men to remove the inch-thick wallets, crammed with credit cards, which they habitually carried in their hip pockets. After toting the billfolds in their coat pockets, the men reported complete relief from their pains. CARD-CARRYING tourists Alfred Emanuel Rogers, 52, a gas station owner-operator, and 48-year-old construction company executive Arnold Chandler, both from the Los Angeles area, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of having switched credit cards, claimed to have lost them, and then having taken themselves and their wives on a first-class trip around the world -- each on the other man's "lost" card. SERPENTS were spied in the Chesapeake Bay and slightly upstream in the Potomac River at Heathsville, Va., according to residents who claimed to have spotted at least four creatures, ranging in size between four and forty feet, and, by their description, very much like the fabled Loch Ness monster of Scotland. BLACKJACK, or 21, dealers lacking experience were given tentative aid by the Nevada Gaming Commission, in an experimental new method of dealing the game at the Orbit Inn & Casino in Carson City. Under the new rules, designed to protect the house from losses by green or dishonest dealers, the dealer would not deal his second, face-down card to himself until after the other players had received their cards and made their bets. === Page 12 of 14 Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 VANCOUVER DEC-8'78 WASH. U.S. POSTAGE 41 METER P.B. 635205 Mr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 13 of 14 Jeffrey 695- 9033 Ted === Page 14 of 14 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 20 DEC 1978 HELP GOODWILL INDUSTRIES HELP THE HANDICAPPED USA 15c CHRISTMAS Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7812 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b1773ef467f4ab304b31cca565e5e0bf.pdf 945fbaf237fcc3d2c2602c90dc152b29 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/740cfff354cde34b0e3c0bc607f2ef23.txt 75c07a873d64bd6d6360571b78c1862c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 26 March 13, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, National Enquirer. demonstration... If NE is satisfied then NE gives me $50,000 or $100,000 to pick up my own life again. I see that the huge packages #s 1 and 3 have arrived. Good. You should also have #2 soon. Start with #1 and work 2 then 3. You've never seen documentation like that in your life, and never will again (unless you see more of mine...a ton of it.) Now, down to the purpose of this letter. My UFOs communicated with me last night, and gave me specific instructions to pass on to Enquirer. (While I'm at it...enclosed is my "PK Map" for the control of Florida for one year.) Instructions: Let National Enquirer (from hereonout to be referred to as NE, for the sake of brevity) assemble a huge story, or layout, based on my work over the years (and you'll have more than enough material for it) and issue a "Special Issue of NE" with it. Don't worry...these will sell like hotcakes...BECAUSE MY UFOs WILL SEE THAT THEY WILL. (Some years back when Saga ran some articles on me, I told them that in advance, through Otto Binder...and the articles on me BROKE ALL OF THEIR RECORDS ON SALES! They wrote me and told me that and said they would send me Saga free for the rest of my life, because of it!) Build in, at the end of the special...an announcement that NE is going to USE MY UFO POWERS to bring about world-wide miracles... for a period of two years. To HELP the human race and the land it lives upon. And that it, NE, will from time to time run articles about what I am doing and the results that I am getting in working with my UFOs. Meanwhile let NE move me and my family to a "base" from which I can work, without interruption. (I'd prefer a rented mountain lodge in the Cascade mountains...but we could talk about it.) NE would lease a car for me to use, because I'd have to get to airports in a hurry at times. NE would have to get me a credit card, with which I could purchase tools that I need, or airplane tickets to any part of the world at quick notice, etc. NE would have to send me a certain amount of cash to have at hand each month (because lots of places I would be in, or need something from in a hurry, do not honor credit cards). All right. Then (1) on my own, I would study the world situation and, working with my UFOs (hereafter called the SIs, for spatial intelligences, for brevity) begin Projects to help the human race. End droughts over entire countries that are killing masses of people; block or end wars; guide hurricanes about to strike the U.S. or other places away, so that they will be harmless to people; stop erupting volcanos from wiping out towns around; and so forth. THERE ARE NO LIMITS ON MY WORK, UTILIZING THE HELP OF MY SIs! (2) NE may originate Projects for me to activate, also. It must be borne in mind that each Project must be cleared first with my SIs. If they say "yes", then we go with it. If they say "no"...they have a good reason for that, having infinite wisdom, instead of our finite human reason, and we cannot go with it. All right, my UFOs told me to tell you all of this. Why not phone Jeffrey Mishlove and ask his opinion on it? Owens === Page 2 of 26 March 15, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, National Enquirer. Enclosed find an additional xerox to add to your file on my (and UFOs) demonstration of control of Florida for one year. It is the same map that you already have...except that the Pyramid Creature (PyrCre) (not its real name) has agreed to add its totally different, and devastatingly powerful power... to my Florida Project. Since you are not familiar with PyrCre (my scientists are; they received The Egyptian File after my trip to Egypt) I will xerox The Egyptian File and mail it off to you today, to add to your Florida Project file. Am certain that you will be utterly fascinated by The Egyptian File. Note that on my trip back the airplane ahead of mine was struck by lightning and exploded...but only after I had shown a picture in Saga magazine to some passengers and stewardesses...relating to my work...of an airplane being struck by lightning! Thank you again, Wayne, for calling last night and filling me in on the action at that end. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 3 of 26 THE OREGONIAN, MARCH 11, 1979 # Disclosure, denial of NATO official's alleged Nazi ties stir political storm By JOHN GALE AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- A political storm rooted in events of more than 45 years ago has blown up around Joseph Luns, the Dutch statesman who has been secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since 1971. Luns, now 67, has suddenly been forced to answer for what he did or did not do when he was 22, at a time when Adolf Hitler's Germany was arming and right-wing movements with strong Nazi tendencies were springing up around Europe. In 1933, when Luns was a Roman Catholic law student in Amsterdam, he was listed as a member of the Dutch National Socialist Movement, an organization founded on Nazi ideology. The membership listed in his name, which terminated in 1936, was disclosed for the first time March 1, and since then Luns has come under steady political fire. He has denied ever putting his name down for membership, and he said in a statement published last Thursday through the Dutch government that it was the work of one of his brothers, who later removed him from the movement's rolls. But Luns' first denials, made the week before last in Brussels, headquarters of the North Atlantic Alliance, did not mention a brother. A NATO spokesman at that time described the reports of Luns' links with a Nazi organization as "completely false." This led Socialist Joop den Uyl, a former Dutch premier, to declare in Parliament Thursday that "the credibility of the politically conservative Luns was "at stake," and he called for a full inquiry into "the exactness" of Although Parliament rejected this demand, doubts remained in political circles. NATO officials in Brussels gave no indication that Luns' job as top civilian executive of the alliance would be affected. It has been known for months in Brussels, however, that Luns may be retiring this year, although no announcement has been made and no date set. Luns was unavailable for comment, but a NATO spokesman said the secretary-general was sticking by what he has already stated. Luns served as the Netherlands' foreign minister for 19 years before taking the NATO post. He is regarded as one of the architects of post-war West European unity and a strong advocate of Atlantic partnership. He has struggled to push reluctant European governments, including his own, into a greater share of NATO's defense spending. YET EVEN MORE PSI-FORCE-CAUSED "CHAOS" AT NATO HEADQUARTERS!! -Owens 25 === Page 4 of 26 March 2, 1979 The Florida Demonstration (for Enquirer) to 3/2/80 HURRICANE SEEDS = 6 LIGHTNING BOX = 4 EM ATTACK = FORCE FIELD WATER ATTACK = ((((( UFOs APPEAR = 6 4 HEAT UFO Pacific U.S. Atlantic "PYR CRE" power added March 13, 1979 !!! GULF OF MEXICO FORCE FIELD Mexico === Page 5 of 26 # the contacts regon Mensa Executive Committee: ocal Secretary: Fred Schumacher, 2732 NW Monte Vista Terrace, Portland, 97210, 222-7387. reasurer: Ray Auel, 3744 SW Sweetbrair Drive, Portland, 97221, 222-3349 embership Secretary: Nancy Hudetz, 11925 SW Lanewood, Portland, 97225, 644-4290. rea Coordinators: entral Oregon: Kay Nelson, Box 477, LaPine, 97739, 536-2115. orvallis: John Hackenbruck, 900 NW 31st St., Corvallis, 97330, 752-1778. ugene/Springfield: William Baugh, 4680 Manzanita, Eugene, 97405, 683-1293. edford: Sharon Heisel, 3775 Roads End Blvd., Central Point, 97502, 664-2727. ortland: Jo Head, 4318 SW Hamilton, Portland, 97221, 223-1822 (h), 243-1313 (w). E Idaho: Rayna Faler, 541 SE 10th St., Pocatello, 83201, (208) 233-5529. W Idaho: Roxanne Cummings, 1615 N. 9th St., Boise, 83702, (208) 345-7497. alem: Deon Davis, 3867 Meadowlawn Loop SE, Apt. 6, Salem, 97301, 363-6895. he Rest: MEN Editor: Linda Kelso, 6870 NE Multnomah, Portland, 97213, 252-9912. (MAIL TO: PO Box 4502, Portland, OR 97208) discussion Group Coordinator: Becky Meislahn, 8265 SW Power Ct., Portland, 97225, 292-1653. esting Coordinator: Brewster Gillett, PO Box 3707, Portland, 97208, 287-6237 or 224-8168. lerk to the Exkcutive Committee: JoAnn Welch, 1521 SW 66th Ave., Portland, 97225, 292-3690. tate Coordinator of Gifted Children Programs: Barbara C. Ring, Ph.D., 1657 N. Jantzen Ave., Portland, 97217, 285-2694. lection Counter: Cathy Humble, 1036 NE Meadow Lane, Portland, 97211, 289-9382. IGHT Coordinator: Leo Schober, 1653 N. Jantzen Ave., Portland, 97217, 283-1741 (7-9 PM, usually). # OMEN Oregon Mensa Newsletter Linda Kelso, Editor PO Box 4502 Portland, OR 97208 BULK RATE U.S. Postage PAID Portland, OR Permit No. 1690 # OMEN March 1979 Oregon Mensa Newsletter Vol. 15, No. 3 ## to wit: Fred Schumacher, LocSec Local Secretaries in this organization lead very interesting lives. On a continuing basis, you communicate with interesting people across the street, town, state and world. Meredy Amyx, BULLETIN Editor, feels that at some juncture my career path took a wrong turn and my great promise as a loony fizzled. Probably a good thing, too. Leprechauns are more fun. Speaking of them, Victor Serebriakoff is reported to have repeated his PANG OOZLE BIM THE BOPPIT theatrical success in London. Oregon Mensa is very international. Many Mensans volunteer to do things to help the organization. Sometimes a phone call is necessary to find out who it is that is volunteering. Some nine people have volunteered to host what may well become the oldest established permanent floating OMEN Orgy in the state. You can join the group by calling Joe Pindell, 236-9863. As a result of this searching out of volunteers, a long-time member advised me he had never previously talked to or met another Mensan. He liked the organization, however, and felt it was getting better with age. He volunteered. Mildred Olsson of Drain, Oregon, is a long-time member and new friend of mine. She is a part of the administration of her city, vitally interested in that which is happening around her, and a most charming conversationalist. Travel is difficult for her, and she advises she has been to only one gathering, at John Hackenbruck's some time ago. If you are so inclined, write to her -- the conversation will be delightful. Scott Rooper of Coos Bay, formerly a commercial fisherman, has recently done what people of intelligence do best: adapting. After suffering a disablement that curtailed his seafaring activities, he promptly, with others, organized that area's first large-scale recycling program. The name: Star of Hope. Henry Bunnell is a long time practicing physician. He formerly was a bow and arrow hunter. He has great talent as an artist and as an illustrator for a book of poetry started to draw that which he had pursued. He continues in his hunt but now with a camera. He recommended several good places to eat in his community. One was chosen and guess what? Several of his sketches were on display, of which display I now own several. He owes me some signatures....He felt that after these many years the practice of medicine had become not as desirable as it once had been (to page 3....) === Page 6 of 26 ## mensa OREGON MENSA is a local group of MENSA, an international society in which the sole requirement for membership is a score at or above the 98th percentile on any of a number of standard IQ tests. MENSA is a nonprofit organization whose only purpose is to serve as a means of communication and assembly for its members. MENSA itself holds no opinions, champions no causes, and is not affiliated in any way with any other organizations. Qualification for membership may be determined by tests administered by MENSA or by submission of properly certified prior evidence. Inquiries to the American Mensa Selection Agency, Suite 1R, 1701 West 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223. ## omen OMEN is the official publication of OREGON MENSA, designed to provide a forum for members and information about local group activities. Opinions are of individual contributors, not representative of MENSA as a whole. All MENSA publications may reprint any portion of this newsletter as long as proper credit is given author and source. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is the second Friday of each month for the following month's issue. Although not required, it is requested that copy be single-spaced typed with carbon ribbon, column width MAXIMUM 6-1/8", double space between paragraphs, no paragraph indentation. As space is limited, please aim for single-page submissions. All correspondence addressed to OMEN will be considered for publication unless otherwise requested; unsigned submissions will not be considered; editing may be necessary. PLEASE FORWARD MATERIAL TO: OMEN, PO Box 4502, Portland, OR 97208. CHANGES OF ADDRESS for members should be forwarded both to OMEN and to Margot Seitelman, 1701 West 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Annual dues to MENSA cover members' OMEN subscriptions; additional subscriptions are available at $3.00/year. Occasional advertisements accepted for the benefit of members. REMINDER: If you want to apply for the Mensa Scholarships for 1979, send for an application blank immediately. Deadline is April 15. Application blanks can be obtained from: Mensa Scholarship 1701 West 3rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11223 # 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 2: TGIFSIG, TOO moves to the Swashbuckler, new home for ending the week in good company as described in WBG HOT TIP. 821 SW Third, Portland: look in the back cavern for the inverted wineglasses and the glinted eyes. Free parking after 6 PM. SATURDAY, MARCH 3: March meeting, courtesy of Nancy Hudetz, 11925 SW Lanewood, Portland, 644-4290. BYOB, 8 PM, smoking on the deck. DIRECTIONS: West on Sunset Highway to Cedar Hills Blvd. exit; south two blocks to Lanewood, right on Lanewood to 11925. FRIDAY, MARCH 9: OMEN DEADLINE, second Friday of the month. SATURDAY, MARCH 10: Salem Meeting hosted by Pat Markovich Treece, 8944 Ranay Drive SE, Salem, 363-3309. 7 PM. BYOB, smoking OK, lots of parking. DIRECTIONS: From Lancaster and State, go five miles east on State Street to Howell Prairie Road. Turn right (south) on to Howell Prairie; Ranay is the first street to the left (and only goes left). Disco vs. classical music is this month's lead topic. (More info, help in transportation arrangements from Deon Davis, 363-6895.) SUNDAY, MARCH 11: M-BRUNCH at the Wooden Horse, 11:00 AM. Call Lana Elmer for reservations before March 4 at 222-9259 (evenings). Fun, gaming afterwards at Lana's house: good food, good company on tap. FRIDAY, MARCH 16: AUDIO THEATRE SIG REDOUX: courtesy of Michael Pearce, resurrected due to bad-weather debut: 11575 SW Greenburg Road, Apt. 18, in Tigard, 639-5062, 7:30 PM, BYOB, etc. No TOBACCO (host allergic). Bring pillows and fondness for Fire Sign Theatre, National Lampoon, Monty Python; phone goes to answering machine at 8 PM on the dot: don't be late or get lost. DIRECTIONS: I-5 south to Tigard exit west on 99 to first signal past Joy Theater (Greenburg Road). Turn right on Greenburg, six blocks or so to the Four Oakes Apartments (landmark is a small globe light, lonely sentinel on the left); parking for visitors in front spaces. SATURDAY, MARCH 17: TOGA, TOGA, TOGA!!! A veritable animal house full expected in this first of the "Third-Saturday" get-togethers, billed as a TOGA PARTY, and promising a prize for best nearly-bare back. Gin DeCamp's house, 22225 SW Francis, Aloha. 640-0827 for directions. 8 PM. BYOB and munchies. Short sheets welcome. SUNDAY, MARCH 18: OMEN ORGY at the palatial estate of Joe Pindell, 2102 SE Salmon in Portland, 2-5 PM, 236-9863. Transfer of folding, stapling, etceteras, AND IT'S STILL THE BEST ALL AROUND POTLUCK IN TOWN. First appearance of the soon-to-be oldest established permanent floating orgy in the state (thanks, Fred). WED., MARCH 28: M-MEET, 7:30 PM, to watch HORSE RACING at Portland Meadows, off I-5 to your right at the Delta Park exit (306B). Tickets at the gate: $1.75 Clubhouse, $1.25 grandstand. Up to 4 discount passes are available by SASE to 1001 N. Schmeer Road, Portland 97217, bringing the prices down to $1.25 and 75¢. Wheelchair access easiest to the Clubhouse via elevator. Rendezvous area: the eastern-most aisle of the paddock (where the horses are groomed and saddled before each race). Gather afterwards, whether you went with us or not, at Waddles, off I-5 to your right at the Jantzen Beach exit. Coordinator: Barbara C. Ring, 285-2694. # 15 === Page 7 of 26 other matters Jolly Butler FAREWELL FROM JOLLY....Nine months later and it's Jolly's swan song at OMEN's helm (I always did like to mix it up with metaphors). Along with the sighs of relief and the looking forward to having my weekends free for beach runs and springtime gardening, there IS a bit of reluctance. OMEN got me into the thicket of Oregon Mensa, and I've a hunch that there I'll stay. I'm pleased to have taken OMEN the way of the offset press; and I'm glad I had the sense to pass OMEN on to others when it became burdensome. (It was missing FOUR rehearsals for CHARLEY'S AUNT due to OMEN's needs that made the point, by the way....) AND HELLO TO LINDA.... Next time, Linda Kelso and her staff will bring you OMEN. Linda's already figuring out the ways to parcel out the myriad tasks (and they are legion) and finding new hands to help and pens to write. She's a splendid choice as far as I'm concerned, and I look forward to getting my Mensanews from her. AND THANKS, GUYS.... Oh, stalwart folders-staplers-cooks, I wouldn't have made it without you (and you KNOW who you are). Like the time Val and Cathy Humble and I tackled the nearly-500 OMENs alone.... Oh, Fred and the ExComm, blessings for the endorsement of the great offset leaps and helpful hints at every turn. Oh, Brewster Gillett, without your exceptional crank-iness, those mimeographed OMENs would NEVER have reached a soul. Well, I suppose that's enough eloquence. But the thanks are sincere. I HAD A GOOD TIME WITH OMEN, GUYS. And, needless to say, from time to time, weather conditions permitting, when the mood strikes, all things considered and under the circumstances, chances are REAL good that you'll be hearing from me, now and again. Now, if you're looking for some "KULTCHUR", for example....wanna see an eclipse?...did you hear the one about.... seeyabye. # the calendar PORTLAND LUNCH: Every Wednesday, 12 noon, dining room, Mallory Hotel, 729 SW 15th Ave., Portland. BEAVERTON LUNCH: Monday, March 12 and 26, 11:30 AM, Elmer's, 3455 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton Mall. TGIFSIG: Meets 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM every remaining Tuesday in February at the Encore Restaurant, 512 SW Broadway; and every Tuesday in March at FLOYD'S, Pretty Boy, 1331 SW Washington. Wheelchair access to parts of the restaurant; parking after 5:30 PM on the corner of 13th. Newcomers: look for two inverted wineglasses to M-ark the table; first Ms on site, please invert them. Coordinators: Nancy Hudetz, 644-4290; Barbara C. Ring, 285-2694. TGIFSIG, TOO: Every Friday, 4:30 - 6:30 PM, Swashbuckler, 821 SW Third, Portland. Wine glasses as above. Effective March 2. E & C until. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26: 8:13 AM, Portland: totality begins, only total solar eclipse scheduled for the 48 contiguous states until the 21st century has turned. Skip work, guard you eyes, check your Accutron, and don't miss the dark of the day. 14 (from page 1....) and that a change of interest might be best for all concerned. He is thinking of a new career path on either a temporary or permanent basis. What will it be? Art? yes...on a piece of paper? no...Boston, Mass. a conservatory...modern music...piano...jazz...I should have known. .... years ago...when he touted me off on the jazz pianist at the Timbers... This should not be dragged out. No further comment...at least about the small community assistant librarian...But you see what I mean about LocSecs? Thanks for the election.... # $ symbols Ray Auel, Treasurer stands for passive intellect, which I have not found to be common in Mensa. I want to offer our appreciation to Roger in recognition of his endeavors in support of Oregon Mensa. Again, my thanks for setting up the accounting system and starting the budgeting process. A preliminary budget will be developed and discussed at the March ExComm meeting. Any suggestions or requests can be directed to me or through the other ExComm members or area coordinators. The February Portland meeting at Don and Joanne Dimes' offered warm and tasty hospitality, along with the enjoyment of old and new friends. Thanks. Several discussions recently have reinforced an old feeling of mine. We listen to the voice of Reason and Subject it. Then we select the Right answer -- but whose? # the bylaws Linda Kelso MEMBERS' OPINIONS ON A PROPOSED BYLAWS AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THE DATE OF OREGON MENSA MEMBERSHIP ELECTIONS ARE SOLICITED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. BYLAWS CURRENTLY PROVIDE FOR A DECEMBER ELECTION WITH COMMITTEE MEMBERS TAKING OFFICE JANUARY 1. THE OMEN DEADLINE AS CURRENTLY ESTABLISHED WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEET IN THE MANNER REQUIRED BY THE BYLAWS THIS PAST YEAR. THE MOST RECENT NATIONAL LISTING OF LOCAL OFFICERS WILL BE OUT OF DATE FOR SIX MONTHS. THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS NOT CONSIDERED A GOOD TIME FOR THIS EXTRA ACTIVITY. THE ExCOM PROPOSES THAT ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE IN MARCH, OR APRIL WITH DATES ESTABLISHED PERMITTING ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MEET THE OMEN DEADLINE. WITH OFFICERS TAKING OVER IN MAY, THE NATIONAL LIST WOULD BE CURRENT WITH THE JULY/AUGUST PULLOUT. IT IS HOPED THAT ELECTION ACTIVITY CONCURRENT WITH THE NATIONAL RENEWAL PUSH WOULD STIMULATE INTEREST IN RENEWING MEMBERSHIP. THIS AMENDMENT WILL BE CONSIDERED AT THE NEXT ExCOM MEETING AND IF OPINION SEEMS TO BE FAVORABLE WILL LIKELY BE DRAFTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE MEMBERSHIP FOR VOTE. 3 === Page 8 of 26 # the gifted child Barbara C. Ring, Ph.D., State Coordinator/Gifted Child Programs Results of a national survey on current policies, resources, and services for the education of gifted and talented children in the United States are summarized in an interesting article by P.M. Mitchell and D.K. Erickson, "The education of gifted and talented children: a status report" (Exceptional Children, September 1978). Five categories of data were collected for each state and territory: 1. How many gifted and talented children are identified and receiving services? Two states (out of 35 responding) have identified and provide services to 3% of their total school population. (It is assumed that at least 3% of any normally distributed population can be considered gifted and talented.) Twenty-three states serve 1% or less; the other reporting states fall somewhere inbetween. Oregon is identifying and providing services, but not to the 3% level yet. 2. How many states have an official policy for gifted and talented programs? Forty-three of the 51 states (DC is included as a state) have some sort of written policy guiding education of the gifted and talented. Eight states, the territories, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have no policy base. Oregon has official administrative regulations providing guidelines for identification and education of the gifted. 3. How many personnel are assigned to state leadership roles for gifted programs? Twenty-seven states have at least one full time professional in the area of gifted and talented (4 have two full time persons and two have 3 full time persons). Fourteen states and one territory have personnel assigned at least ½ time. Oregon has, I believe, 95% of Bob Stewart's time as state specialist. 4. How much federal and state money is committed to the programs? The funding question couldn't be adequately answered -- apparently states do their federal and state accounting in different ways. However, in general it was state, not federal, funding that accounted for about 95% of the money spent on programs. I don't know the figures for Oregon's funding, but I believe it also is primarily state money. 5. How many training programs are available for teachers involved in or entering gifted and talented education? Forty-five states reported that at least some of their colleges offered at least one course in the education of the gifted. Forty-two states reported that they offered some kind of inservice training for working teachers. Oregon's universities and colleges offer courses, but not regularly scheduled graduate degree programs. Inservice training has been available. The authors' conclusions were vague. They were trying to compare the situation with a 1971-1972 report, and they found that some aspects are bleak and others encouraging. They state that there is progress, motivation, and a definite evidence that "real and **4** # wonderings Linda Kelso HERE WE GO - ROUND AGAIN! NATIONAL BEAURACRACY IS REVVING UP FOR STILL ANOTHER GREAT BOONDOGGLE AND THEY GET BIGGER AND BETTER. THIS TIME THEY PROPOSE TO "SOLVE" THE GASOLINE "SHORTAGE" WITH A RATIONING PLAN WHOSE ONLY EQUITY IS ITS CONSISTENT OVERALL INEQUITY. AS RECENTLY REPORTED, EACH REGISTERED VEHICLE WOULD BE ALLOTTED A PERCENTAGE OF THE GASOLINE AVAILABLE. COME NOW, THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY! WHAT EVIDENTLY ALREADY HAS BEEN DECIDED BY WHAT KIND OF HEADS ONE WONDERS IS THAT URBAN TEENAGE CRUISING IS EQUALLY AS WORTHY AS RURAL TRIPS TO JOBS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES. THAT IDLE GADDING ABOUT AND UNPLANNED TRIPS ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE AS NECESSARY AS VOLUNTEER SERVICES TO SHUTINS. THAT ANY ENDEAVOR LACKING THE FORESIGHT TO HAVE LOCATED WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CAN GO PLEAD WITH IRAN! IN SHORT, THAT IN THIS COUNTRY THAT PROFESSES TO TREAT ITS CITIZENRY EQUALLY, SOME PEOPLE, SOME BUSINESSES, SOME PURSUITS ARE MORE DESERVING OF CONSIDERATION THROUGH THE HAPPENSTANCE FORTUNE OF LOCATION. THE PLAN PERMITS A "WHITE MARKET" IN RATIONING COUPONS I.E. IF I DO NOT NEED OR USE ALL MINE I MAY LEGALLY SELL THEM TO SOMEONE ELSE. NOW WHAT IF THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAPPENS TO BE A WORKING POOR WHO'S FINALLY LANDED A JOB 20 MILES FROM HOME AND KEEPING THE JOB DEPENDS UPON HIS GETTING TO AND FROM HIS OLD CLUNKER. AND NOW HE CAN'T KEEP THE JOB BECAUSE HE CAN'T AFFORD TO GO BACK AND FORTH - SO THERE HE IS ON WELFARE AGAIN! THAT'S FAIR? TO WHOM? TO HIM - WHO'D LIKE TO UPGRADE HIMSELF? TO THE EMPLOYER WHO'D LIKE TO KEEP HIM BUT CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY ENOUGH SO HE CAN GET THERE? TO YOU AND ME WHO SUPPORT HIM WITH OUR TAXES? TO HIS FAMILY? TO ANYONE? IF I DON'T NEED MY COUPONS, MAYBE I'D LIKE TO SELL THEM AND MAYBE NOT. MAYBE I'D HANG ONTO THEM SO ONCE IN A WHILE I CAN TRAVEL TO A RECREATION AREA AND SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES WHICH DEPEND UPON, YEA EXIST FOR, THE RECREATIONAL TRAVELLER - IF THERE ARE ANY LEFT - THAT I CAN AFFORD TO PATRONIZE. OR MAYBE I WOULD DONATE THEM TO PEOPLE OR AGENCIES WHICH REQUIRE THE USE OF CARS OR TRUCKS TO PERFORM CHARITABLE SERVICES. WILL WE SOON HAVE A THRIVING BUSINESS IN OLD CARS - JUST BECAUSE ANOTHER VEHICLE WOULD BE ENTITLED TO ITS SHARE OF GAS EVEN THOUGH IT NEVER MOVES OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE PUTTING UP WITH MORE CRAP FROM GOVERNMENT THAN MOTIVATED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, BUT SO FAR NOT HAVING TO GIVE UP THE COMFORTS OF LIFE TO DO IT. THE STRUCTURE OF OUR SOCIETY TODAY IS PREDICATED UPON THE AVAILABILITY OF INDIVIDUAL TRANSPORTATION. WILL BUREAUCRATIC INTERVENTION IN THE LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN THE AMERICAN AND HIS AUTOMOBILE BE THE FINAL STRAW WHICH CAUSES US TO GO TO THE POLLS NEXT TIME AROUND AND CLEAN HOUSE IN WASHINGTON? IF SO, THEN THE PROPOSED RATIONING PLAN MAY BE THE BEST THING WHICH EVER HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY. **13** === Page 9 of 26 foggy notions Anne Hinds If nothing else, this winter's weather has been worth talking about. Or maybe cussing about? Photographing it around town hasn't been inspiring, mostly because when the snow is fresh, the weather is gloomy. Another trip up the Gorge, with a tripod to counteract the shivering, was worthwhile. Rays of sun slanting through the cleft of Oneonta Gorge and lighting up the moss on the trees, the churned-up icepack behind Bonneville Dam and the icebound tugs and barges, more ice formations with an other-world look--the camera got more than a usual winter workout. Another trip to search for scenic ice and snow was to Silver Creek Falls. The falls were a disappointment. Evidently it took the gorge winds to build up ice sculptures, because the falls we saw were only minimally iced. A fresh blanket of sparkling snow and clear blue sky made the surrounding farm and woodlands Christmas-card pretty. But no great pictures. The trip back, shunpiking through Silverton (some marvelous turn-of-the-century architecture there), and Mount Angel was more inspiring to the photographer. The Gallon House covered bridge, north of Silverton, was one to add to my collection. Unfortunately, the mindless idiots with spray cans had left signs of their stupidity on the interior. The setting is charmingly rural, with an enormous hop yard to one side. The small cathedral at Mount Angel was a surprise--like an instant trip to Germany. Up above the town, the Abbey overlooks vast stretches of farmland. The new library was impressive, demanding a trip back there to explore further the rare book room. News of Mensans: the name of one of our younger members, Anita Kitts, appears on the credits on the Evening Show. It doesn't seem too many years ago that she capably organized and directed the kids at a Longbow campout in an improvised group of skits that showed early her abilities in that line. The marvelous words Marv Grosswirth wrote in the Bulletin about HYPERBOLIC ACID have brought a flurry of orders. One came from Buffalo, New York, where former Oregon members William and Sherry Carpenter are living. The list of SIGs published in the Bulletin covers such a wide spectrum of interests that it's difficult to choose just one to join. I finally grabbed a bunch of envelopes, stamps, coins, and tape. I wrote to about a dozen and a half, curious to see what they had to offer. The replies are still coming in, but so far, there are a number worth joining. After I hear from the rest, I'll try to summarize what I've learned. Omni, a readable look at science and science fiction, with exciting illustrations, certainly is among the better new magazines. One section, Continuum, is unfortunately printed on silver, a difficult thing to read, but it is worth it to find fascinating bits of information and quotations from other publications. Two of the sources quoted in the February issue are Mensa newsletters, so we know they're reading us. None of the staff are listed in the Register. Next month they're printing in full the Langdon Adult IQ Test--top 2% of the top 2%. 12 lasting commitment has been made to ensure an equal educational opportunity for every gifted and talented student in the United States". I'm not so sure about that "real and lasting" part, since I've seen enthusiasm for these programs come and go, but I am satisfied that Oregon does have, for the time being, a commitment, intelligent leadership, and a modest but steadily growing program. If you are interested further in a national overview, the full study can be obtained from the Council for Exceptional Children, 1911 Association Drive, Reston, VA: The National Commitment to the Education of Gifted and Talented Children and Youth - Summary of Findings from a 1977 Survey of States and Territories, 1978, 94 pp., $6.50. the people Welcome to new members: Helen Clifton, PO Box 764, Redmond, OR 97756 George Cook, 2395 Fisher Rd., NE, Salem, OR 97303 Ronald Grensky, 1356 City View #6, Eugene, OR 97401 Mary O'Donnell, 2211 SW Park Place, Portland, OR 97205 Lynne Persing, 1149 Perry St., #110, Eugene, OR 97401 Jack Smith, 517 East E St., Moscow, ID 83843 Member Ted Owens (PK Man) has just returned from Stockholm, there to administer his famed mind-training program. He's been profiled in the February issue of FATE magazine; and discussed in a new book, MYSTERIES by Colin Wilson, just out from Putnam's. Ms interested in contacting him should look for his consultation ads in the two Portland dailies, under "Personals." Mike and Ann Fostar have gone south, back to the service in Sacramento. In case you need to find 'em, the new address is 4215 Robertson Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95821. Bye, guys: Wednesday lunches won't be the same without you! Recently received by GEN and passed on as a gentle reminder of the true art of book-borrowing, incomplete without the books' return: "Mary Thomas and Donald Acker, having last seen their (separate) copies of THE WOMEN'S ROOM at the TGIFSIGS at Yazzolino's, grow curious." "y" was August, 1978. 5 === Page 10 of 26 the excomm Linda Kelso THE OUTGOING AND INCOMING OREGON MENSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES MET ON JANUARY 27 AT FORENTCO OFFICES. PAST TREASURER ROGER GERBER WAS ICED IN (OR OUT). FRED SCHUMACHER, LINDA KELSO, NANCY HUDETZ AND RAY AUEL PARTICIPATED WITH MIKE PIERCE AND SHARON HEISEL PRESENT AS OBSERVERS. IT WAS PROPOSED THAT THE TIME OF OREGON MENSA ELECTIONS BE CHANGED TO MARCH OR APRIL FOR SEVERAL REASONS: (1) TO CONCUR WITH NATIONAL MENSA ELECTIONS, (2) TO HAVE OFFICERS ELECTED WHEN INFORMATION TO BE INSERTED IN SEMI-ANNUAL BULLETIN PULLOUT SECTION WILL BE MOST CURRENT, (3) REMOVE ELECTION ACTIVITY FROM THE HOLIDAY SEASON, (4) TO MOTIVATE INTEREST IN RENEWING MEMBERSHIP. IT WAS THE CONSENSUS OF THE COMMITTEE THAT AN AMENDMENT TO THE BYLAWS BE PROPOSED TO MAKE THIS CHANGE. MEMBERS' OPINIONS ARE REQUESTED. LINDA KELSO WAS APPOINTED NEW EDITOR OF OMEN WITH MIKE PIERCE TO BE ASSOCIATE EDITOR, KEITH TAYLOR GRAPHICS DIRECTOR AND JOE PINDELL PUBLISHER. TED TODD WILL WORK ON OBTAINING SECOND CLASS MAILING PERMIT. A LOAN OF $150 HAS BEEN OBTAINED FROM NATIONAL FOR THIS PURPOSE TO BE REPAID OUT OF SAVINGS REALIZED WHEN MAILING BEGINS UNDER THE PERMIT. FINAL COPY OF THE OREGON MENSA DIRECTORY WILL BE PUBLISHED PRIOR TO THE MARCH 31 NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP EXPIRATION DATE. IN THE ABSENCE OF THE TREASURER, NO REPORT WAS GIVEN. FRED SCHUMACHER REPORTED A $35 DONATION HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR OMEN. MEMBERSHIP ALLOCATION OF $153 HAD BEEN RECEIVED FROM NATIONAL. NANCY HUDETZ AND SHARON HEISEL, BOTH AREA COORDINATORS, SAID THEY HAD RESPONDED TO FRED'S REQUEST TO ESTIMATE THEIR YEARLY EXPENSES AS COORDINATORS. ROXANNE CUMMINGS REPORTS GREAT SUCCESS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO AREA AND KAY NELSON AND GRACE EDMONDS HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD IN CENTRAL OREGON. JO HEAD WAS APPOINTED PORTLAND LOCAL COORDINATOR TO SUCCEED NANCY HUDETZ. NEXT EXCOM MEETING TO BE SATURDAY, MARCH 31 AT A PLACE TO BE ANNOUNCED. MEMBERS WHO WANT AN ITEM INCLUDED ON THE AGENDA ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT ONE OF THE EXCOM MEMBERS. 6 sub-totals Roger Gerber Rain! After promising to make it easy for Ray Auel to assume the duties of Treasurer, I didn't make it to the first Executive Committee meeting of the year. I started early that morning, with good intentions and a few flakes of snow, for a child care center in the hills above Gresham -- one of my accounts. But the snowflakes raced me through my work. Getting out of those hills was a peanut butter dream, strange perspectives slowly sliding sideways, spinning tread thinner than the hair on my head. Back on the bottom, one inch on the ground and five thousand feet of the stuff coming down, doubting I could climb to our meeting and passing yet another account -- I stopped. Traded duties I might not get to for other duties I might not get back to. And left that customer, ninety minutes later, to rain and clear pavement. Sorry, Ray. We got together at the next Wednesday lunch. I gave him a check, some cash, a short explanation of a non-accountant's books, and the bank account signature card our officers must sign -- and easily could have signed at once, had the rain only started ninety minutes sooner. Coleridge Was A Historian? Poetry never required a suspension of disbelief like the news coming out of the Middle East. Last year, Menachem Begin became the first man in history to be drug, kicking and screaming, to a Nobel Peace Prize. But whether the U.S. can enforce actual peace before the Arabs gain the power to do it for themselves remains to be seen. The Israelis want something called Lebensraum. But perhaps that seems paradoxical only because of the protagonists, and historical proximities. After all, history is filled with examples of nations which wanted war, or at least wouldn't avoid war, because they thought they could win. A nation of religious ascetics, on the other hand, would be unique. Since the West awakened to concepts of personal freedom and fulfillment, few peoples have even attempted it. But this year, we've watched the Persians finally reject the attempts of their king, an enlightened despot, to modernize Iran and force a few secular freedoms down their Shiite throats. Veils flying, they are now marching confidently back into the security of the eighth century. Pardon me, I never thought the West had a patent on insanity, but I did think we had perfected it. Now I see the Enlightenment has had an effect after all. Too bad oil only works in machines; it clearly does nothing to lubricate the mind. "Mention The Idea," He Said So I will. Two months ago, I called attention to OMEN'S financial problem, no more cost-of-materials printer and a growing deficit. I asked for a printing press, or ideas, or a willingness to contribute a few extra dollars. One member sent something better; he sent money. Enough money to keep OMEN even with expenses, and a pledge of continuing support. So I thanked him and asked to report his generosity in my column; but he quoted someone who once said, "It's amazing how much good can be done if we don't care who gets the credit." Still, I want to thank everyone who contributes their time, talent or money to make Mensa work--even though I know it's fun. 11 === Page 11 of 26 Find-A-Roomie for KCAG-79. Meredy Amyx has set up a Find-A-Roomie section in the classified ads of the BULLETIN to help you cut costs in attending the Annual Gathering in Kansas City next June. This is a great way to save money and make some new friends. Get your ad to Margot soon or just shop for a roomie in the classifieds. # San Diego RG '79 goes... Back to Nature **MAY 26-27-28** at the Seven Seas Lodge, Hotel Circle South Come join the fun in America's Finest City! - [ ] Picnic in the park - [ ] Adam 'n Eve contest - [ ] Poolside games - [ ] Square dancing - [ ] Not-so-square disco dancing - [ ] Souvenirs, prizes and lots, lots more! 1/2 PRICE REGISTRATION BEFORE APRIL 1 For information write to Harry Kay, RG 79, PO Box 11511, San Diego, CA 92111 # the local coordinators From Roxanne Cummings, SW Idaho Coordinator: As of December 31, we have several new members. Our total membership is now 39, and that includes three M-couples. We're wondering if perhaps we hold some sort of record for density of Ms married to Ms in a local group!... In case you haven't been able to discern any pattern in our past meeting schedule, let me assure you that we ARE planning, from now on, to try scheduling our meetings on the first Saturday night of each month.... (I) encourage those of you in such far away places as Hermiston and Sun Valley to get in touch with other Ms in your area...even if you can't make it to our meetings in Boise, you owe it to yourself to get acquainted with your fellow Ms: they're usually well worth knowing! (As for a) proctor for the Mensa test: New York is sending the applications to me, and as soon as we have a qualified applicant fill in the form and mail it to New York, they'll send us the supplies we need to conduct the test. "Qualified applicant" is anyone who's had experience in administering tests: school teachers, psychological tests, personnel tests, etc. It's important that we get a test scheduled as soon as possible for the people who've been waiting years (literally) for the test, and we can have more than one person listed as proctor: so any of you who are qualified and might be willing to act as proctor just once, please speak up. (Contact Roxanne for this one, you Ms over there... the more the merrier, eh? ED.) # 10 # the hot tips ********** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ********** SYSTEM DATE: 020979/0831.07 LOG ON: WBG PASSWORD: ENTER TASK NAME: FILMOV FILE MOVE UTILITY - ENTER SINGLE (S), MULTIPLE (M) OR LIST (L) S SINGLE CONTROLLED FILE MOVE - ENTER FILE NAME: TGIFSIG, TOO NUMBER OF SECTORS TO BE MOVED: 347 FROM FILE ADDRESS I.D. : ELEPHANT & CASTLE EFFECTIVE DATE OF MOVE: 030279/1600.00 TO FILE ADDRESS I.D. : THE SWASHBUCKLER 821 S.W. 3RD It's twue, it's twue, TGIFSIG, TOO is finally moving to a new and perhaps more congenial home; The Swashbuckler. Thrill to the strains of live solo guitar - guzzle a far wider variety of recreational chemicals - pig out on incredible happy-hour seafood munchies - park free after six PM - find room to roam in the cavernous rear area - what more could any TGIFSIG, TOO habitue ask? AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE CO-FOUNDERS OF TGIFSIG, TOO Brewster Gillett and Harry Barnett The Swashbuckler - a TGIFSIG, TOO tradition since March 2, 1979 M-MEET GOES PUBLIC - Barbara C. Ring M-Meet is a title I gave to the notion that if I am interested enough to buy tickets for something, there may well be an M or two also willing, and maybe eager, to attend the same event. I invest no ownership in this title--anyone who thinks M-company would be enjoyable may freely use it to solicit their involvement. The secret of success, to my mind, is in assumption of individual responsibility. I select events I wish to attend whether or not anyone else shows up, and I take no role in others' ticket purchases. The result is a hassle-free opportunity to lead the rich, full life, with the occasional and variable bonus of M-company. I would be pleased if each month's calendar contained a variety of M-Meets, potentially enlarging my horizons to encompass a range of activities geared to our various M-interests, -manias, and -foibles. # 7 === Page 12 of 26 the letters From Anne Hinds: THE MUD-PIE DILEMMA, by John Nance. $14.95. Timber Press, Forest Grove, Oregon. Crazy name for a book, THE MUD-PIE DILEMMA; demanding of an explanation. Real mud-pies when we are children and figurative ones as we mature are the tangible results of creativity. The need to show them to others, to receive feedback and praise, is imperative. Creativity flourishes with appreciation. The dilemma is the further need of the artist for more than verbal encouragement. He must support himself with his talent or must subordinate it to other employment. Tom Coleman is a young potter whose porcelain is acclaimed in the Northwest and who is beginning to get recognition across the country. THE MUD-PIE DILEMMA is a journalistic account of four months in his life as he prepares for a major show, mounts the exhibition, and goes on to his next project. It is much more than that, though. It identifies and probes the problems of survival for the creative artist; not just for Tom Coleman, but for any able, determined, serious artist: painter, potter, photographer, sculptor, writer. It is not enough to be an artist. One must also be able to cope with the realities of marketing, an enterprise for which the artist is usually unfitted by temperament. The dilemma of how to maintain artistic integrity and still keep the bills paid is often the crucial one to the success or failure of the artist. Tom Coleman and his family live in a rural area near Canby. His working hours stretch far beyond the traditional forty per week. His wife and sons share in the sacrifice he must make. Only the most determined creative spirit can remain devoted to his craft when the returns are something like fifty cents an hour. The author, John Nance, also wrote THE GENTLE TASADAY, a best-seller. A former Associated Press correspondent, he now lives in Portland. Nance's journalistic style is crisp and beautifully readable, involving the reader in Coleman's day-to-day struggles. The book's charm lies in the evolving portrait of the potter and in the frequent lapses from objectivity as the author identifies with the struggle and draws the reader into the dilemma. Photographs in black and white show the intensity with which Coleman works. A section of color prints gives some feel for the results: the finished porcelain with its flowing shapes, vibrant glazes and vigorous decorations. Here, the reader is convinced, is an artist whose work will reap ever-growing acclaim--if only he can sell enough of it to support his family. Turning out inexpensive, utilitarian pots and tableware can be lucrative. Unfortunately, the audience discriminating enough to appreciate, and buy, his works of art is much smaller. The dilemma, the temptation to forget integrity and make a decent living, is a real one. The answers are not in this book; only the recurring question--the mud-pie dilemma. 8 Tom Coleman's porcelain and stoneware will be shown at the Lawrence Gallery near Sheridan February 17 through March 14. From Barbara Ring: Paul Victor, Mensa Groups Officer, gives a set of rules (Interloc, Jan/Feb 1979) for SIG newsletter-editor relationships that I think have potential for broad application. In part he says, "The newsletter editor's judgment determines the content of the newsletter. The editor knows best what will interest the majority of the members. If that includes omission of controversial material, so be it..." and "...members should demean themselves in a reasonable manner, recognizing that the coordinator/editor does all the work. In Mensa, work is the credo. It's best not to harass the one who is doing the work." I add my thanks to all those editors, staplers, telephoners, bookkeepers, and workers etc. who contribute to my enjoyment of Mensa. the ads GRF DEFENSE FUND SPECIAL OFFERING OREGON MENSA WILL SEND TO THE GRF DEFENSE FUND 25% OF SALE OF THE FOLLOWING: HYPERBOLIC ACID: NONSENSE POETRY BY V. SEREBRIAKOFF, IN CALLIGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATED BY BEV BRECKEN...SOFTBOUND $5.00 AUTOGRAPHED HARDBOUND $9.50 FROM OREGON WITH LOVE, VOLS. I & II: OREGON MENSA POETRY, CALLIGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNE HINDS... SOFTBOUND (EACH) $3.50 HARDBOUND (LIMITED EDITION) (VOL. II ONLY) $7.50 CALENDARS: FEATURING MENSANS' QUOTATIONS, CLEVER AND OTHERWISE, COLLECTORS' ITEMS IN THE MAKING. | | | | |---|---|---| | AVAILABLE - 1975-76-78-79. | (EACH) | $1.00 | | | 10 - 19 - (EACH) | $ .90 | | | 20 - 29 - (EACH) | $ .80 | | | 30 - 39 - (EACH) | $ .70 | | | 40 - 49 - (EACH) | $ .60 | | | OVER 50 - (EACH) | $ .50 | MIX OR MATCH - OLDER CALENDARS ARE IN LIMITED SUPPLY. A SOFTBOUND BOOK OF SCENIC OREGON PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE GIVEN WITH EACH ORDER OVER $15.00. PRICE INCLUDES MAILING. PLEASE NO C.O.D. SEND ORDERS TO: LINDA KELSO OOMSIG 6870 N.E. MULTNOMAH Portland, OR 97213 9 === Page 13 of 26 Whatever in the world could have happened to the bushels of mail that must have followed up your fate article? I could have lived for a year on that; discs, etc. === Page 14 of 26 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver Washington 98665 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 over === Page 15 of 26 Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 12 MAR 1979 HELP GOODWILL INDUSTRIES HELP THE HANDICAPPED USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 ...a note from FATE 2/7/79 Dear Mr. Owens: Thank you for sending your address. We have had many requests for it which we have forwarded to author Jeffrey Mishlove. I assume you mean we can give your address to persons who inquire. Sincerely, B. L. White, Mg. Ed. Dear Jeffrey... will greatly appreciate your putting me in touch with all re the above. Thanks. Ted Owens CLARK PUBLISHING COMPANY • 500 HYACINTH PLACE, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS 60035 === Page 16 of 26 Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 12 MAR 1979 HELP GOODWILL INDUSTRIES HELP THE HANDICAPPED USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Ted Owens 200 N. E. 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 HIGHLAND, CA FEB-7'79 U.S. POSTAGE 10 : OR METER 623461 === Page 17 of 26 March 13, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, National Enquirer. [Handwritten note: demonstration... if NE is satisfied then NE gives me $50,000 or $100,000 to pick up my own life again.] I see that the huge packages #s 1 and 3 have arrived. Good. You should also have #2 soon. Start with #1 and work 2 then 3. You've never seen documentation like that in your life, and never will again (unless you see more of mine...a ton of it.) Now, down to the purpose of this letter. My UFOs communicated with me last night, and gave me specific instructions to pass on to Enquirer. (While I'm at it...enclosed is my "PK Map" for the control of Florida for one year.) Instructions: Let National Enquirer (from hereonout to be referred to as NE, for the sake of brevity) assemble a huge story, or layout, based on my work over the years (and you'll have more than enough material for it) and issue a "Special Issue of NE" with it. Don't worry...these will sell like hotcakes...BECAUSE MY UFOs WILL SEE THAT THEY WILL. (Some years back when Saga ran some articles on me, I told them that in advance, through Otto Binder...and the articles on me BROKE ALL OF THEIR RECORDS ON SALES! They wrote me and told me that and said they would send me Saga free for the rest of my life, because of it!) Build in, at the end of the special...an announcement that NE is going to USE MY UFO POWERS to bring about world-wide miracles... for a period of two years. To HELP the human race and the land it lives upon. And that it, NE, will from time to time run articles about what I am doing and the results that I am getting in working with my UFOs. Meanwhile let NE move me and my family to a "base" from which I can work, without interruption. (I'd prefer a rented mountain lodge in the Cascade mountains...but we could talk about it.) NE would lease a car for me to use, because I'd have to get to airports in a hurry at times. NE would have to get me a credit card, with which I could purchase tools that I need, or airplane tickets to any part of the world at quick notice, etc. NE would have to send me a certain amount of cash to have at hand each month (because lots of places I would be in, or need something from in a hurry, do not honor credit cards). All right. Then (1) on my own, I would study the world situation and, working with my UFOs (hereafter called the SIs, for spatial intelligences, for brevity) begin Projects to help the human race. End droughts over entire countries that are killing masses of people; block or end wars; guide hurricanes about to strike the U.S. or other places away, so that they will be harmless to people; stop erupting volcanos from wiping out towns around; and so forth. THERE ARE NO LIMITS ON MY WORK, UTILIZING THE HELP OF MY SIs! (2) NE may originate Projects for me to activate, also. It must be borne in mind that each Project must be cleared first with my SIs. If they say "yes", then we go with it. If they say "no"...they have a good reason for that, having infinite wisdom, instead of our finite human reason, and we cannot go with it. All right, my UFOs told me to tell you all of this. Why not phone Jeffrey Mishlove and ask his opinion on it? Owens === Page 18 of 26 March 2, 1979 The Florida Demonstration (for Enquirer) 20 21 21 0 __________ HURRICANE SEEDS = 🌀 LIGHTNING BOX = ⚡ EM ATTACK = FORCE FIELD WATER ATTACK = ///// (((( UFOs APPEAR = 🛸 U.S. HEAT UFO Pacific Atlantic Mexico GULF OF MEXICO Fla. FORCE FIELD === Page 19 of 26 March 2, 1979 The Florida Demonstration (for Enquirer) 10 21 210 HURRICANE SEEDS = 🌀 LIGHTNING BOX = ⚡ EM ATTACK = FORCE FIELD WATER ATTACK = 🌊 UFOs APPEAR = 🛸 U.S. HEAT UFO Atlantic Pacific Mexico GULF OF MEXICO Fla. FORCE FIELD === Page 20 of 26 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 13 MAR 1979 PLEASE GIVE TO THE MARCH OF DIMES USA 15c THE LAND OF THE FREE - THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 21 of 26 March 16, 1979 Dear Jeffrey: Our correspondence will be off the record. I do not even make a copy of my letters to you. Your mention of a "finder's fee" for Enquirer is certainly valid. And shall be done. But that..........is minuscule. I have my own way of adding up values. Of course, you yourself have nothing to do with the way that I think, or add up my own value on things. For instance, I place the highest value on some things that other people might not. Three people have been of priceless help to my UFOs and myself. George Delavan, Millie Miller, and Mishlove. (Millie has long dropped out of the 'help' category..........she can't anymore.) But the help she gave, one couldn't put a price on. For instance, she alone linked me up with the Egyptian power! That is, her money did. Your help was not financial..........but was a critical, scientific help where you, with tremendous courage and bulldog determination..........utilizing the scientific report backed by accurate documentation; the Fate magazine story bringing my work out into the open, so to speak, in a critical, accurate way (which of course is the only way and the best way) for other scientists to think about; and because I wish for respect for myself and my work, even beyond money..........your placing my photo with some of the world's best scientists in parapsychology in Psychic mag..........all of these things you've done..........are very important, and without price, to my UFOs and to me. That is why..........when I get big money..........and I will, eventually..........you will share in it..........and believe me when I tell you that I REALLY repay my friends and loved ones! Never doubt it. My wife, Martha, nursed me for six months when I got my knee shot off in Texas. All my other 'friends' left me when it happened. Just this simple, poor little Texas girl who liked me enough..........moved in with me and nursed me, night and day. I couldn't go to the bathroom, or take a bath, without her help. (I only had one leg to walk on; the other leg held excruciating pain.) She had lost her first and only baby, so I promised her that I would see that somehow, in the future, she would have babies of her own. I guaranteed her that. At this date I have seen that she has four babies of her own, one way or the other..........and kept her happy and taken care of since 1956. (She is handicapped.) But the point I am making is..........I pay off, and always in a big way, to my "special people"..........of which you are one. Enough on that. As you surmised, I have absolutely no interest in tossing valuable information to the Mind Science Foundation, with which I have no connection or get any help from. (what lousy English there!) I know exactly where the Skylab will fall. It might interest you to know that I have informed Enquirer that if they take me up on any of my 'deals' I've proffered them..........that my UFOs and I will FORCE the Skylab to fall onto earth AWAY from any populated area, into an ocean, etc. I.e., neutralize its fall, as far as damage to peoples is concerned. === Page 22 of 26 2 So they are in San Antonio, are they? I have found, through hard experience...that NOTHING good comes out of Texas. It is the crookedest, double-crossingest State in America, as far as I am concerned. Utterly ratty. And I should know. Now, the commodities broker. I can cause hot or cold weather anywhere; rains or sunshine. But as you ascertain...I do not do my miracles as a business; only projects to make a point. Of course I need the money; you do, too. And I guess that the SIs wouldn't mind if I did some controlling to make a buck, because they know I have to have it, to survive. This past year has been a horror...we've had THREE houses sold out from under us, forcing us to move. And moving, at my age, is tantamount to gross physical abuse upon my person. It took several miracles, or we wouldn't have had wheels to get out of Silverton, or any way to find a new place to live. So forgive me...if I have a hard, cynical view about anyone, brokers et al, who want miracles from me without putting anything up front for me and my work. If such a broker wants to hire me on a retainer fee basis for one year...and make it absolutely worth while...then I will go to work in earnest for him...and you know that I am hard-hitting and most conscientious in my work projects. And you can have your cut for setting it up. Believe me, my friend...that is the only way to operate! As for my being repaid by a broker for performing miracles with 'credibility'...I can only say that, at this point, if anyone doubts my documented credibility...they have to be stupid, and I wouldn't want anything to do with stupid people. I've spent over 25 years performing miracles to build up my 'credibility' (you haven't seen my DYNAMITE documentation before 1970) and at this stage I am interested only in two things which I haven't heretofore attained...respect and money. I am too weary...of keeping on doing miracles for 'credibility'. Put yourself in my shoes and think about it. If I had done what I have done...in an ORTHODOX way, and along academic lines...I'd have earned three PhDs by this time. And would have respect and money. Yes, my friend...my various PK effects will cause adverse effects upon Florida's citrus crops, as well as other crops there. Bound to. Incidentally, the "Egyptian Power", PyrCre, has joined me in the Florida Project; thought you'd be fascinated to know. I hope that you and Janelle are having lots of post-nuptial joy and happiness. Tell her that if she's smart she'll sell her property at Guerneville. While there I sensed that it was a bad, doomed area. Terrible vibes! Hope it isn't too long before I can call you "Doctor Mishlove" without being fussed at.......... Sincerely, Ted Owens === Page 23 of 26 March 22, 1979 Dear Dr. Miller: It was a pleasure to hear from you. Am a bit tardy, but had to get to Stockholm, Sweden, on a project...and it held me up. Shortly there might be an article re my work in National Enquirer, so you might watch for that. A new hardcover book by Putnam & Son has just been published called "Mysteries", written by Colin Wilson, the famous English author. I feel certain the book would interest you in its thought content. Also it has a nice article on me and my work (he was present in 1976 when I addressed some of the world's scientific greats in parapsych in London...and ended the killer-drought in England.) "UFO Trek" is an excellent paperback book by Warren Smith, which has a chapter on my work (it has also been published under the name of "Book of Encounters." Now, to your letter. Fate must have destined our paths to cross...because your treatise "What Is Thought?" is quite a coincidence in alignment with my mind-training system that I teach a pupil, now and then...the system given to me by my UFOs. There is no other system of its kind in the world and probably there will never be. To explain everything to you...would take a book, so that is not practical. Suffice it to say that the UFOs captured me years ago, modified my brain to make it half-alien, half human...then have worked in cooperation with me to produce over four hundred miracles, all properly documented...some with scientists, some with police, some with lawyers, etc. When I was ten, I considered "thought"...and wondered if other humans "thought" in the same manner that I did, or could it be "different" with each human, as each human's fingerprints differ. For instance, in those early years I "knew" what other school kids were thinking, and what the teachers were thinking...i.e., I quite correctly read their minds constantly...and naively assumed that everyone could do the same. Later on, when I found that others could not...this lead me to wonder about the sameness of human thought...or was it? I.e., does everyone see pictures in their mind, as they think? Does everyone "hear" the words that they are thinking...even as they exchange a better selection of word for another in their "mind"? I wondered "what is a 'mind'?" I "teethed" on hypnosis...becoming an expert at the age of 13, and successfully hypnotizing kids in the neighborhood (and almost got run out of town for it in Bedford, Indiana...because of the reaction of infuriated parents when they found out about it.) Long years later...in Ft. Worth, Texas, after an encounter with a UFO on the road with my daughter present...and then the UFOs gave me, telepathically, a full notebook of instructions on how to train the mind of other humans...I began to work full-time using hypnosis to help people, most of whom had been given up by MDs. I got mental patients back to normalcy; got "impossible" alcoholics straightened out; taught female pupils who had had a mastectomy and had excruciating pain to live with...so that they had no pain at all. And so forth. The upshot was...the AMA framed me, had me arrested, fingerprinted, and put on trial...for "practicing medicine without a license." A la Edgar Cayce. The ironical part of it was...that I was working with doctors and dentists at the time! They wanted to appear at my trial and testify in my behalf, but I was told by the DAs office that if they did the AMA would have them blacklisted...so I wouldn't let them, for their own sake. === Page 24 of 26 2 Of course, that was long long years before I began to do "miracles" and become world-famous. What I have become..........how I did it...and have proven it...of course makes a mockery of the AMA. I am the only one in the world of its kind...no one else in the world can possibly duplicate my work, and prove it by documentation...and the UFOs have given me the "brain of Future Man", they have told me. In your treatise you state..."by the use of thought per se, actual physical changes could be brought about in the tissues of the body..." I have demonstrated that many many times with my pupils...using a combination of mnemonics (to build a "mental imagery" muscle for them; heterohypnosis; autohyp; plus the priceless "mechanisms" to be "built" into the pupil, given me by the UFOs, using light-waking hyp. For instance...I helped pupils get rid of ulcers quite easily, using my method of "thought" teaching. Horrible burns were healed in nothing flat...using the system. And so forth. (My method of working bypasses the conscious mind and trains the Subconscious mind...which in turn works with the biofield, or life-force field, which surrounds each human body.) "I think, therefore I am," said Descartes..." in your treatise. More accurate, I should say, would be..." I am, therefore I think, and what I think, therefore I become." It is my contention that there is an intelligent power EXTERNAL to each of us, that we draw upon for "thought". In London, listening to a scientist describe his subjects' ability to bend spoons while "using their inner psychic powers"...I made a note of disagreement. Rather, the subjects draw upon an OUTER power source, intelligent source, to bring this about. I.e., "thinking and thought" need not necessarily stem from the box upon our shoulders, any more than the television picture we are watching on our TV set originates within the set! It is beamed to us from an outside source (as is our radio program, coming to us from that "head" or "box".) I think that the "Unit of Pure Thought" (your term) resides OUTSIDE the meat and bone of each human, and observes and acts through our external biofield, through the energy of said biofield (EM). (This in answer to your comment..."I cannot say where this "Unit of Pure Thought" resides...") When I formulate a mental picture...there is no "thought" whatsoever preceding it. I.e., I can form different and various mental pictures without a thought about it whatsoever...without mentally ordering it up. This puzzles me when I read your material on p. 50 and 51. I.e., with me, in forming mental pictures, no thought whatsoever need precede that action. In your (A) Brain, (B) Mind notation on p. 51...rather, it is my solid belief that our biofield, externally, is in control of and activates the lump of meat we call our brain...and produces our thought and mental pictures, etc. Just as a broadcasting radio station in Portland, Oregon, sends music into my radio set inside my home in Vancouver, Washington. Need all the energy, mechanics, etc., originate WITHIN our body-mind unit. Your paragraph on p. 51, beginning..."When the "Unit of Pure Thought" does assume command..." describes exactly the modus operandi of the ingenious system the UFOs gave to me to help my pupils change their lives and bodies through their own "thought". === Page 25 of 26 3 Further down on p. 51, it is stated... "This information is gathered into ourselves from the outside world through all our senses." I.e., EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE is entering our mind and body, forming our life, as it were, from the total world as we encounter it. Why not, then, an external intelligence and power source located within our body-mind radius, our biofield (re Kirlian camera observations, etc.) acting as our "General" upon the many "enlisted"-man parts of our body-mind combination? If a plant is threatened... without touching it... it reacts. Why? Does it have eyes to see or ears to hear the threat? No, the threat can even be telepathic. Doesn't the biofield of the plant understand, intelligently, and signal the threat to the physical plant... which then activates the scientific machine monitoring the plant? Yes, I think so. Then why not be the same with a human being, except on a much larger, much more intelligent plane? The "brain", as you call it... then is the computer... just the mechanical computer. The "mind", as it is called... would then be our external biofield sending signals to our brain-computer, activating it as you yourself would activate a metal, mechanical computer built into a cabinet in front of you. The biofield selects, arranges and compiles intelligence, then forwards it to the computer-brain inside the body-cabinet for storage or reaction. My contention: The biofield is aware, intelligently, of much more data and intelligence than the body that it surrounds. It works around the clock... just as the heart of the body within its field works around the clock... to assemble intelligence and pass this intelligence on to the physical brain within its field, which either/or stores that material or acts upon it, then this combined action determines the direction and purpose of the life of the body-mind lying within the intelligence/EM/force-field of the Biofield surrounding the Body-mind. Your treatise states on p. 52... "I believe we should all make the effort to strengthen our capacity for thinking and thereby to elevate the level of thought..." and on to the end of the paragraph. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SYSTEM DOES FOR A HUMAN (the system given me by my UFOs!) "All" SHOULD make the effort; unfortunately "All" would be unable to make the effort. Again, further down.. "You can create an entirely different being..." etc. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MY UFO SYSTEM BRINGS ABOUT! I can train a Pupil with my UFO system... AND CAN COMPLETELY TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND... to give them a "mind" totally superior to that which they have formerly had... IN JUST ONE DAY! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 26 of 26 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR PM 22 MAR 1979 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE THE LAND OF THE FREE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE USA 15c Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7903 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/223039607c26b0b1070b99290db8f675.pdf 18dbc073683c266599dd6fa0e058f01e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 March 2, 1979 The Florida Demonstration, (for Enquiry) to 5/2/79 "is grid" added 3/22/79 HURRICANE SEEDS = 🌀 LIGHTNING BOX = ⚡ EM ATTACK = FORCE FIELD WATER ATTACK = 🌊 UFOs APPEAR = 🛸 Rain for Florida added April 15, 1979 U.S. Cancel Rain PK May 15, 1979, in order to create further heat and drought in Florida!! Atlantic "PYR (RE)" Power added March 13, 1979 !!! GULF OF MEXICO Fla. FORCE FIELD Mexico Pacific === Page 2 of 3 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PORTLAND OR 972 16 MAY 1979 FOUR THE LAND OF THE USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 3 May 15, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, representative of National Enquirer, Lantana, Florida. Dear Wayne: Yesterday my UFOs (the SIs) communicated with me and told me to write and send this letter. Further demonstration!! Since their work in bringing tremendous rains to Florida and ending the drought in Florida...was not recognized nor appreciated...they will utilize one special UFO to beam HEAT down onto Florida...not just heat heat, but TREMENDOUS heat, unusual heat, freakish heat (see my Cleveland, Ohio, file, where this was done before.) The effect will be to create another terrible Florida drought, only worse than the previous drought...amplified perhaps a hundred times. The UFOs told me...that if this is the only way they can prove their reality to humans...in a negative way (ending the drought with rains was a positive way, and you can see how far the SIs and I got with that)...then so be it. You promised me a notarized confirmation, simple statement of fact, re the action just transpired re rains. Please return all of my materials and photographs, since Enquirer isn't going to do a story. Copy what you like, for your files. Thanks very much. Best wishes to you and yours..... Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7905 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9352726a38e2b813b7a22cfd39ac9f24.pdf 28349c0b3dbdef81a94e1ec8e7ec8ce4 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/690acc6fce76450958561ba92d54bec7.txt d5ba71e9b247e550fab9476c43ca1fa4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 Jeffrey Your buddy Harder is hand in glove with Hynek on this cover up. Ted. June 18, 1979 Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, Editor Fate Magazine I have just read the June 1979 issue of Fate magazine, including the criticism of me and my work by a "Judith Gee," of London, England. I would consider it most kind of you if you would allow me a rebuttal to the lady, and publish the rebuttal, in Fate. It is a fact that "I" have guided hurricanes, caused thousands of fires in California, knocked out all the power in five States simultaneously (June, 1967), struck a portion of the United States with so much heat that it buckled sidewalks and popped manhole covers into the air. And so forth. It it also a fact that I have saved humans with healing power; humans told by doctors they didn't have any chance to live. I have saved an entire country with my powers, England, in 1976, which was in the grip of a killer drought so bad that the Thames river was dried up. I gave England all of the rains that it needed to fill the river again and end the horrible drought. Just recently I ended the terrible drought in Florida, giving Florida all the water that it needed. I saved two villages in Sicily some years ago when a volcano erupted and I blocked the hot lava from wiping out the villages in its path. All of the above are amply documented and are on record, with scientists. For years and years, before doing one of my 'miracles', I would first notify certain scientists in writing what miracle I was going to perform, then perform it. (The scientists themselves wrote to me and requested that they be allowed to observe my work.) In 1976 some of the leading scientists in the field of parapsychology met in London, England, and invited me there to lecture before them. Why? Because I had caused snow to fall in an area of California where it had not snowed in this century (first notifying scientists in writing that I would do so.) Thus I have performed both positive and negative demonstrations of miraculous powers. Now, your readers must wonder about the 'why' and 'wherefores' of all this. So I will explain. In the early 1950's I was alone in the Mexican desert, and a UFO captured me and operated on my brain. They changed my brain, making me in effect a two-way sending and receiving set, so that they could communicate with me (telepathy) and I could answer by telepathing to them. As time passed, they taught me many things, such as they are from another dimension (not another planet); that they are composed of pure energy, rather than matter, and never die; that they worked with Moses long ago and helped him do his 'miracles' against the Egyptians and the Pharaoh; that I am their first link to the human race since biblical times (because, although they have tried many times to modify the brains of other humans with potential, those humans died as soon as the UFO entities sent their infinite intelligence into the finite brain of that experimental human); === Page 2 of 7 2 that they are what humans call the 'angels' of our Bible; that they have given me the mind of 'future man' in order to help the human race, if possible...also to observe how other humans will react to such a Future Brain (will they understand it? will they reject it? will they fear it? etc.) just in case they are lucky enough to find another human link such as myself. The purpose of the SIs (contraction for Spatial Intelligences, UFO entities) is to improve the human race, much as a rancher will constantly try to improve his herds of livestock by weeding out the misfits, the sickly, the killers, etc. However, time is running against the SIs, because the human race is about to destroy itself with a nuclear, bacteriological war...just as other civilizations have done before us. Now, the SIs cannot take direct action with humans...as they did in fact have, from Moses, it is against their Law. With one exception. If they have human permission and human choice, THEN they can step in and help. Since I am their only link to the human race then they are free to move with MY human choice and permission. Yet it goes even deeper than that. The SIs do not wish to save a peoples that will not save themselves. I.e., if humans will not understand or believe the "new Moses", or Ted Owens, PK Man, then humans do not believe in the SIs, either. So the SIs have set up conditions: someone, the government, or scientists, or someone...must set up Ted Owens, their human, with a mountain base (a lodge, communications tools, funds for necessary expenditures, etc.) so that he can work for years with them to forestall and negate WW III; also to act as a "fireman" to perform various constructive 'miracles' around the world to help various peoples and countries that need such help. In order to bring about the above, the SIs have been giving both positive and negative demonstrations these past years to impress the government and scientists of their reality. I acted as their 'middle man'...relaying to scientists and government their messages and what they were going to do next (i.e., it was not myself making storms, guiding hurricanes, etc., but the SIs whom I telepathed to.) This would be analogous to a forward artillery observer in a war, sneaking through enemy lines and radioing back to his side the positions of tanks and artillery so that his side can shoot their long range guns at the enemy. It isn't the observer doing the actual shooting. Also, another analogy is the work of Moses, who, with the SIs, clobbered again and again the people of Egypt with terrible, negative demonstrations in order to bring about a wonderful, positive result...the freeing of Moses' people which would eventually lead to a great improvement in the human race...the teachings of the Ten Commandments, etc. So 'my', rather the SIs, demonstrations go on and on (433 to date) without 'the Pharaoh' (U.S. government, my 'host country') or the scientists listening or paying attention. Instead they tend to cover it up and pooh pooh it all...just 'coincidences'. Jeffrey Mishlove is the ONLY scientist who, after doing investigation into my work in depth, has had the courage, in the face of the wrath of his peers, to publish a scientific report on my work with the SIs (see his article in February 1979 Fate magazine; send for a copy of === Page 3 of 7 3 the scientific report as mentioned on page 113 of June 1979 Fate magazine.) In closing...for those readers who might think that my being captured, modified and trained by UFO entities is pure science fiction, bear in mind that U.S. scientists have captured certain dolphins; modified them; and trained them to communicate and perform certain tasks for humans. And for those readers who think that it is silly to believe that I can telepath to UFOs...remember that telepathy is a proven fact. A proven scientific fact. Also remember that over FIVE MILLION people have witnessed UFOs, including scientists, police, and other so-called 'responsible' persons. I.e., since telepathy and UFOs are recognized fact, what is so ridiculous about what I have been saying? Yes, I can sympathize and understand Judith Gee's outlook on the matter. One wonders what she would have thought if she had been one of Moses' people, a slave of the Egyptians in those times, and witnessed "Moses" killing children by the thousands in the Lord's (SIs) name; bring down plagues and pestilence and floods onto the Egyptians (and thus onto Moses' people also). Undoubtedly she would have been of the same opinion at that time. I rest my case. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) "The UFO Prophet" 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 4 of 7 Jeffrey June Omni Magz. (from George Delavan) SAUCER-EYED SPIES # UFO UPDATE By Art Gatti The recent release of top-secret files by the CIA, Air Force, DIA, and others has added the U.S. intelligence community to the throngs who are, if not believers in UFOs, at least ardent collectors of sighting reports and related data. The inability of those files to explain the enigma can only bring us to a single, albeit vague, conclusion: Indeed, there's something there. As far as our national security forces are concerned, the UFOs are not the creation of individual or mass delusions. With all due respect to those servants of pure science determined to keep the statistical 10 percent of unexplainables at 10 percent and no higher, the time has come to give up those mindless rituals with which we face the Unknown. It's time to stop clutching at those reassuring IFOs and to quit kidding ourselves that the 90:10 ratio of identifiables to unidentifiables can ever be reduced to the 100:zilch some debunkers want to believe is possible. If anything settles the irreversible acceptance of the phenomenon, it's that stack of UFO files declassified in the current Freedom of Information (FOI) suit brought against the CIA and USAF by the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS). The declassification of the Air Force Blue Book files a few years back, intended to underplay UFOs by depriving them of their priority status, only served to convince once-uninterested citizens that there was something to UFOs. Maybe it was only a few hundred out of several thousand cases, but they were on official record. That's stale information now, however. It's been a decade since the Air Force stopped investigating. The current suit demands to know what is going on. Not only did the judge rule in favor of CAUS's basic action, but he attached a subsidiary ruling that forces the agency to research files in other departments where there was any interagency communication on UFOs. Peter Gersten, CAUS's legal dynamo, plans to continue the suit against every U.S. intelligence organization, including the "untouchable" and very secretive National Security Agency. In a superficial way, the government has been following judicial directives and submitting to those demands; it has told CAUS essentially what CAUS already knows. But, like the ratio of knowns to unknowns in sightings, that's only 90-percent true -- 10 percent of the information is news, and some of it may have been inadvertently disclosed. The thousands of unexplained sightings in the CIA files are but the raw material from which one would assume some evaluations must have been made; yet most of the files are stamped THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. CAUS hopes further legal action will uncover evaluations of the rest of the material. What Ufologists have been referring to for years as "the '75 flap" has been verified by the documents that CAUS director Todd Zechel obtained in his separate FOI suit against the Air Force. His files chronicle a near infestation by UFOs of sensitive military bases in the continental United States that year, including several pursuits by our planes and radar/ground observation returns. They also show the frequent flyovers in areas where atomic materials were either manufactured or stored. In sifting through more than 1,000 CIA documents, I divided the material into two basic heaps: UFO sightings, theories, etc.; and miscellany, including bureaucratic repetitions, red tape, correspondence, and the occasional "revelatory document." It is this final, minuscule collection that may prove to be of most practical use to Ufologists. If you get a large number of documents sent to you by the CIA, you're likely to get one or two totally unintended enclosures. The CIA sends off documents haphazardly? Definitely. CAUS got a four-page report on the 1950 resolutions of the All-China Store Clerk Workers' Conference. Correspondence proves the agency lied as a matter of policy on UFOs. Referring to one overly insistent citizen, the agency's most prolific letter writer, a memo concludes: "... the extraordinarily noncommittal and evasive answer we were instructed to give Davidson was perhaps the only one possible if we were to avoid crossing up previous statements of our own, and other involved agencies, to this man." A draft of a letter sent to then-Senator Lyndon Johnson advises him precisely how to answer a constituent's queries about UFOs. The letter outlines an uninformative 11-line reply, telling Johnson to answer "along these lines" and "without direct reference to this agency." There's evidence that the CIA regularly monitored private UFO groups while disclaiming any interest in them. File references were found to such groups as the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), to which several pages were devoted, and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), to which one agency official refers as "some crackpot group in the Midwest." A February 1953 memo outlines a CIA policy that was never changed in Double disk over Huascaran Range, Yungay, Peru. 32 OMNI === Page 5 of 7 UFO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 32 subsequent files. It emphasizes the dependence the agency was developing on information supplied by scientists who were members of UFO groups. As its example, the memo cites the findings submitted by Dr. Walter Riedel of the California Committee for Saucer Investigation. In 1952 we were told that the Air Force had convened the Scientific Advisory Committee on Unidentified Flying Objects. We were given the names of five scientists who sat on the so-called Robertson Panel, named for its chairman, H. P. "Bob" Robertson. These names were put to the committee's final report--to this day rejected by most Ufologists as an outright deception of the American public. We were not told then that J. Allen Hynek had anything to do with the panel. People began much later to remember that he was an adviser to the panel. But the files show that some people's recollections aren't quite so good. The panel officially consisted of Robertson, S. A. Goudsmit, Thornton Page, Louis Alvarez, and Lloyd Berkner. Yet, in a letter to agency assistant director Phil Strong, Goudsmit, now deceased, asks, "I wonder if my memory is failing. I do not remember at all that Lloyd Berkner was a member of our committee, but I do remember ... Hynek." Has the Air Force's old Blue Book adviser always been the agency's scientist out in the Ufological cold? It is now acknowledged that it was the CIA, not the USAF, that set up the Robertson Panel. One of Hynek's right-hand investigators is Brad Ayers, a CIA hero of the early 1960s, and 1976 documents included in the batch, but heavily censored, suggest that Hynek's group, the Center for UFO Studies, includes someone who has been monitoring the group for the intelligence community. These revelations may do more than any others to shake up the UFO scene. But, for the newly awakening, the files offer more worldwide, more officially monitored sightings than anything in recent times. I've characterized a few: * A 1958 report of a sighting sent to the U.S. State Department by the British commissioner of the Cayman Islands. * A sighting that same year by the Brazilian Navy that included photos not given to CAUS. * Dozens of sightings along the Soviet border, from as far north as Finland to as far south as Afghanistan, during the 1950s. * In 1959 the U.S. Navy intercepted two Soviet reports of UFO sightings over the Afghani-Soviet border. According to one, a UFO was seen exploding in midair. That incident was later connected to earth-tremor reports. * A 1957 sighting report from the Finnish-Soviet border consisting of three long pages, and two similar reports from the U.S. Army near the Afghan border. Some years earlier, a 1955 sighting report from an Afghan army officer had been passed on through U. S. intelligence channels. * Dozens of sightings in 1965 by an Argentinean weather team in the Antarctic. * A two-page report, dated July 1960, on a sighting by a U.S. Army Geographical Specialist team in Northern Iran. * A two-page report from Finland on four separate sightings of UFOs, one of which created a near-blinding light. * An October 1962 report on a sighting from Czechoslovakia, six pages, five of which are blacked out; a report from within the USSR, three pages, with two blacked out; a summer of 1962 report on several sightings over Kamchatka in the eastern USSR, with sketches enclosed. * Descriptions of color slides, also not included, taken by an Argentinean weather-man-astronomer, showing UFOs around an eclipse. * A sighting by hundreds of witnesses in Czechoslovakia in 1965. * A brilliant UFO over a Russian city in 1977 that shed light like rain on the town. * The 1952 flap in North Africa, which elicited hundreds of reports. And perhaps the most cryptic snatch of incomplete data comes to us from the files of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Dated November 1968, this dossier contains three heavily edited legal-size pages of a report on sightings over Laos and Thailand during the thick of our Southeast Asian adventure: "It is interesting to note that such unknown returns [armed-forces term for UFOs on radar] have been reported since 1965, and yet no unidentified aircraft has ever crashed or been physically observed so it can be identified. Friendly suppression forces have never shot down or hit those unknown intruders, whereas U.S. helicopters and aircraft in Vietnam and Laos have suffered many hits and losses." The data are patchy because the CIA, responding to major flap-year public alarm, gathered information only during certain periods. For this reason, the early and late Fifties are disproportionately represented. The flap of 1975 is being analyzed by Zechel, who has the Air Force's records of those months. His book about those sightings will be published soon. Meanwhile, Gersten is trying to obtain the same information from the CIA. But more "unevaluated information" is not enough. No one believes we scramble jets against things we never bother to evaluate. Are they, as the occasional Ufologist hints, afraid of panicking us with some terrifying analysis or revelation? Do they realize that they terrify some of us more by seeming not to know what to say? But that's probably it in a nutshell: They don't know what to make of the UFO thing. One thing they will have to accept: UFOs are real, and they won't go away. ![Illustration of three people in a vehicle looking at a UFO through the window] Zillbe 127 === Page 6 of 7 March 2, 1979 The Florida Demonstration (for engineers) no - 1 - 1 Jeffrey "is grid" added 3/22/79 HURRICANE SEEDS = $\phi$ LIGHTNING BOX = $\lightning$ EM ATTACK = FORCE FIELD WATER ATTACK = WALL UFOs APPEAR = $\in$ Rain on Florida? added April 15, 1979 U.S. $\circlearrowright$ SI 2 Cancel Rain PK May 15, 1979, in order to create further heat and drought in Florida!! Atlantic Pacific $\infty$ "PYR (RE)" power added March 13, 1979!!!! 5/8/79 Same (power) (* plug in (box) batteries) Mexico GULF OF MEXICO air - space $\circlearrowright$ + 6 Hurricanes!! FORCE FIELD === Page 7 of 7 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 97297 20 JUN 1979 15c OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 15c OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7906 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9da8e5281202df428917b7fc0dfd10e3.pdf 1a618c71d55d5beb58e5c814c216cb89 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8573f2bf7c58320611f3800750c077aa.txt f8ca1b9a303b7c0f78525f0a7271b682 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/698aa5c961c6cbc4741663709a969979.pdf 6d01653477e3100dcc1a96ec853bb931 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/af90db3c363279489c7b249b996a4862.txt ee7ec32c278363e4ca994d24ed0977b2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 Jeffrey July 4, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, Lantana, Florida Today I received a startling message from my UFOs. You had asked me to send you any of my "predictions"...so will pass the "prediction-message" on to you. Or the latest "coincidence", whatever. In near time ahead...it will not be gas that humans are out of... but MILK! The SIs, in their unrelenting attempt to get me set up with a base to work with them to help the human race...are going to utilize another "Moses" mechanism...and simply eliminate most of the humans' live stock! Humans can survive without gasoline. Whether they can survive without any form of milk...is another question entirely. - - - - - - - - - - Prediction-"Coincidence" No. 2 The Rich Gang (world-wide group of power-hungry financiers who live and breathe for power (they already have the money)... will arm mideast thugs and manipulate those thugs into bottling up the Persian Gulf (Hormuz area) thus cutting off oil and gas to the world at large. This will be the excuse for the United States to send military might into the mideast...ostensibly to unplug the Persian Gulf (but really use the excuse to take over the mideast oil operations and oil). Then the fur will fly, as Russia and other countries enter the fray... and the Rich Gang will sell the arms, planes, guns...and pull the strings from backstage to maneuver their way into control of the mideast for future power. Because whoever controls the mideast, pretty much controls the world, n'est-ce pas? (At present the Rich Gang does NOT have control of the mideast (the world's main supply of oil and gas) and this can be mighty frustrating to a criminal gang of millionaires and billionaires dedicated to controlling our world, yet haven't been able so far to obtain control of the mideast...just a small, partial control through key people they've bought and manipulated. The SIs so far have a fine record of eliminating many of the Rich Gang. Hunt of Texas; J. Paul Getty; Rockefeller; Onassis; Howard Hughes, and others, within the recent past. Remember that the objective of the SIs is to save and improve this human race...and quite naturally the elimination of the "bad guys" is necessary...the Rich Gang; Idi Amin; Somoza and other torturing tyrants; Mafia and Syndicate figures; etc. It is a radical operation, true; but sometimes a radical operation can be necessary in order to save the patient. Ted Owens === Page 2 of 7 Owen 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 5 JUL 1979 Architecture USA 15c Mr Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 7 Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 27 JUL 1979 SERVING AMERICA UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE USA 15c THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 4 of 7 July 27, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover (of National Enquirer). To recap: For Enquirer, I ended the Florida drought when you requested that I do so, (in your name). You gave me a notarized affidavit to that effect...and I thought it most kind of you to do so (others have had their miracles from me, then denied me documented proof). Then Enquirer wanted me to produce UFOs in northern California, and sent Harder and crew there to join me. I had been told that I had 4-5 days to produce the required results, and passed that information on to my UFOs, who promised to appear. A "scout UFO" appeared, in plain sight in front of us, about the second day. Harder's wife saw it and told me (she was on top of the cliff above me at the time). But on the third day, prematurely, Harder announced that he was leaving...thus he did, in fact, destroy the project... since the SIs were taking several days to surveil our group and the area around us, in order to avoid contact with govt. agents who might be secretly in hiding in the area...before they made their BIG appearance on the 4th or 5th day. Then Enquirer killed the story...which would have been of great help to me. Thus I was double-crossed by Enquirer, and by Harder. So I informed you then...that I would bring devastating, disastrous HEAT onto Florida and restore the drought ten-fold. Then May 28, 1979, the Palm Beach Post did a story on me...publishing what I had told you I would do...blast Florida with hot heat, as well as hurricanes (6 if I can make them). (See copy of Post attached.) July 16, 1979, Miami Herald article confirms that once again I bring "baffling" weather to an area (remembering that Florida was in a bad drought when you requested I end the drought, and I said give me a couple of weeks...then ended the drought in 10 days. Hynek said that it was just "coincidence", since it had to rain sometime. Okay. So what does estupido Hynek say now? The weather, according to Miami's weather experts, "is again baffling the experts." "About June 1, WHEN THE WET SEASON SHOULD HAVE BEGUN, it stopped raining." "June's average rainfall was 63 percent below normal..." I suppose Hynek considers it a "coincidence" that I deliberately went against the normal weather pattern of rain, to cause heat... AND CAUSED HEAT. How ridiculous some scientists can be... But in show business parlance, Wayne..."you ain't seen nuthin' yet!" Hurricane Bob smacked Louisiana (a miss); Tropical Storm Claudette has drowned out Texas (another miss); but am working my way around the Gulf shores to Florida, and not coincidentally, giving Florida people a chance to prepare themselves for what is ahead (that is, if I can still do hurricane work like I did in the 60's; I had gone on to other, and bigger, things...and doing cane work again is backing up 10-15 years, for me.) My best wishes to you and your family. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 5 of 7 # Wet Season? Miami Herald July 16, 1979 ## Too-Dry Summer May Mean Thirsty Fall South Florida's weather, sometimes as fickle as teenage love, is once again baffling the experts. About June 1, when the wet season should have begun, it stopped raining. Well, not completely. But weathermen are now worried that the lack of rain this summer might cause a water shortage next winter. STATISTICS recently released by the South Florida Water Management District show that June's average rainfall was 63 per cent below normal throughout the 16-county district, which includes Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Coastal areas have fared a little better, getting about half their normal rain. The rainfall shortage is most telling on Lake Okeechobee, South Florida's giant freshwater cistern that is used to recharge East Coast water tables and well fields. The lake, brimming with water last winter and spring -- when water is traditionally scarce -- is a full foot below normal today -- when water is traditionally plentiful. That amount may seem insignificant, but district officials say a foot of water spread across the lake's 750 square miles could take care of Fort Lauderdale's water needs for a year. The reduced level is not considered at crisis level yet, said a district spokesman. === Page 6 of 7 Memorial Day-Congressional Medal of remember those killed in action. Palm Beach Post May 28, 1979 (Florida) # Crazy, Weird Things? - Blame UFOs Palm Beach Post May 28, 1979 Whether Ted Owens is really Mother Nature or not is a matter for discussion, but there is no question the research help provided by free-lance writer Wayne Grover who brought it to our attention. Owens says part of his brain is alien - and he certainly says strange things. By ROBERT BURNS Post Staff Writer A Vancouver, Wash., man, who claims he caused South Florida's April floods and heavy rains by communicating with UFOs, says he is begun a year of disastrous weather for the state as a demonstration of his power. Ted Owens, a psychic "brought up as a boy" by aliens, says Florida will experience drought, intense heat and hurricanes as further proof of his contacts with "space intelligences" for a Lantana-based national weekly newspaper. "The National Enquirer challenged me to a demonstration, so I obliged," he said. Owens says he began the weather March 2. He gave a quick demonstration to end the drought," he said, and asked the UFOs for rain some 10 days before the record downpour of April 25. More than 18 inches of rain fell in Delray Beach. Floods caused an estimated $48 million damage in the county. More is to come, Owens says, from giant UFOs deep in outer space. "One of those will be reflecting the sun's rays down on Florida," Owens said. "It should cause people to do crazy things, weird things." The rays also will cause a drought, drying the water table "from the inside out," Owens said. Next, he forecast hurricanes, storms he's asked to hit the coasts, programmed not to unnecessarily take human life. "Actually the people of Florida should be alerted because they shouldn't get out and drive 50-60 mph in heavy rains," Owens said. Owens told the Enquirer of his weather control plans as early as Feb. 16, saying he would zero a hurricane in on Florida, bring floods to the state, sear the land with heat and sun and produce lightning attacks, all with the aid of the UFOs' electromagnetic power. Earlier predictions for the tabloid paper included war between the United States and China, a gasoline and oil blockade, the political downfall of President Carter and Russian control of most of the world. The Enquirer had little to say about Owens or his predictions. Turn to OWENS, C2 # Expert Puts Little Stock in the Matter Forget Ted Owens' flying saucers, says meteorologist Buck Christian. In forecasting weather he'll take a satellite photo and new radar over an alien's predictions any day. "Last weekend, I spent some time with three aliens and they assured me we wouldn't have any more storms like this last one (on April 25)," joked Christian, head of the National Weather Service's Palm Beach International Airport station. "All kidding aside, I personally don't subscribe to anything like that," Christian said. He'd rather base his forecasts on scientific information. "Those three I spent the weekend with weren't too sharp," he said. But just like Owens, Christian says there will be hurricanes this summer. "They'll be in the southern Atlantic and where they hit nobody knows," he said. "In all due respect - I believe as an American he (Owens) has a right to say it - but I wouldn't put any store in it," Christian said. Instead, Christian says Owens should use his powers to determine more pressing questions. "Check with him and see what the gasoline situation is going to do." - ROBERT BURNS Steve Mitchell 1. NESSNESS 2. COFFEE 3. Cycle === Page 7 of 7 Owens 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 27 JUL 1979 SERVING AMERICA UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE USA 15c THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7907 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 July 1979 Interesting communication with Wayne Grover of the National Enquirer. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a77ea3a7161bdb18c65110d3c8276933.pdf a158bd76f457534a576008822a4c7400 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ad55046ea2ab94e429b3a15372bbb8c4.txt 2c48d32322dbc93e0ea8a543e0a14391 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 11 Aug. 21, 1979 Peter Jordan Re my letter to you yesterday. I will be willing to go along with your proposition... Provided you clear any and all experiments (with me), in advance, with Jeffrey Mishlove. I want to know what I am getting into. Also the "remuneration" would have to meet my standards. Ted Owens x PK / Man x === Page 2 of 11 Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98664 PORTLAND OR 972 PM 22 AUG 1979 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE THE LAND OF THE FREE USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 11 217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083 # Peter Jordan 8/24/79 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, CA 94115 Dear Jeff: My apologies for this ridiculous misunderstanding. At the time I sent you my last letter I had come under an enormous amount of pressure; all my endeavors were being frustrated one after another. I hope you understand Your personal suggestions for experimental designs are excellent. I am thinking of contacting both Gertrude Schmeidler and Berthold Schwartz for collaboration in the project. They are good friends of mine, and have offered their skills and talents in my many poltergeist investigations. On pure speculation, I will gladly pay for Owens flight out to New York (round-trip), as well as half of whatever the feature article I am planning will pay. A written contract to this effect will be provided. Should the experiments fail, however, and plans for publication of the results be abandoned, I will personally pay Owens $100.00 as a courtesy fee. More charitable I could not possibly be. This money will come out of my pocket, and is more of an educational contribution than a financial investment. I would like to see the article go into Omni, but their standards are, as you probably know, exceedingly high. The experiments would have to be tightly controlled, so as to minimize the chances of artifact or chance occurrence. A.S.P.R may not cooperate; Osis can be somewhat unreasonable at times. PRF would surely help, but distance might be a problem there. I will approach Schmeidler about the project next week, and Schwarz too. This may take a little time to piece together. I will strive for perfection. Hope to hear from you soon... Yours, Peter A. Jordan === Page 4 of 11 Peter Jordan 217 Connecticut Rd., Union, New Jersey 07083 NEW YORK, NY -PM 27 AUG 1979 Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, CA 94115 USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE === Page 5 of 11 217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083 # Peter Jordan Jeffrey 8/14/79 Ted Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 Dear Ted: I wrote you over seven years ago, at a time when I had just gotten acclimated to the incredibly bizarre nature of UFOLOGY, and when psychic phenomena was as real a possibility to me as a space colony. Now, in August of 1979, I write you to propose that we attempt to establish once and for all the authenticity of your powers for the general public. To that end, I would suggest that we plan to establish some tests under the auspices of the American Society of Psychical Research, her, in New York City, one of the most well-respected parapsychological institutions in the world. Please be assured that financial remuneration would be made to you prior to your involvement in the experiments, from my own pocket. What I hope to do, you see, is publish a feature article on the tests for a major publication. Jeffrey Mishlove was interested in helping me to publish a book on your experiences and claims, but his cousin, writer D. Scott Rogo, (unfortunately beat me to it. He still says he will support me, and suggested I write you for your own thoughts on the matter. The project would definitely involve your coming to New York City for interviews and, of course, the experiments themselves. Could this be arranged, Ted? You are quite a remarkable individual, but, perhaps because of your mythic-like presence, few have taken serious cognizance of your claims. Its time to change that. I want to help. Let me know what you feel about the proposal. Thanks for your kindness. Sincerely, Peter Jordan === Page 6 of 11 August 20, 1979 Mr. Peter Jordan 217 Connecticut Rd. Union, New Jersey 07083 Dear Mr. Jordan: I have yours of August 14 at hand, and have studied it carefully. You are correct. The American Society of Psychical Research (or Psychic Research?) is a most prestigious and respected organization. The fact that Jeffrey Mishlove (one of the very few scientists I trust) is in the picture, albeit obliquely, puts the stamp of honesty and integrity upon your proposal, as far as I am concerned. He is a brilliant young scientist. I am agreeable to your proposal, Mr. Jordan. The scientific experiments themselves, however, must not contain hypnosis, drugs, or anything of any nature that would cause me to not be in control of myself at all times. It is difficult for me to understand, Mr. Jordan, how I could be tested as other psychics are tested, for the simple reason that I do things other psychics do not do and in a modus operandi which other psychics do not, could not, employ. My powers, to the best of my knowledge, do not fall within the framework of modern science. How does one test an "X" factor? From the framework of symbolic logic, it would seem that I would enter into scientific tests from the standpoint of an invalid premise from the beginning. The proposition would, therefore, be necessarily invalid, it seems to me, at the summing up. I will, however, be willing to go along with your proposition. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 7 of 11 Aug. 23, 1979 Jeffrey Mishlove... Dear Jeffrey: Confirming my phone call to you yesterday, I would be willing to attempt the experiment proposed to you by Dr. Jule Eisenbud that of utilizing parapsychological phenomena to produce life in a test tube. I have never attempted such a thing... but then in 1946, at Duke, when Dr. Rhine & Louisa proposed I make a pair of scissors fall over with my mind... I had never tried that before either (and doubted that I could do so)... but I did, in fact, successfully perform the feat. Perhaps I could do this also. My suggestions re controls were merely that... suggestions. Ted Owens === Page 8 of 11 Jeffrey The 2 weeks is to let cumulative psi/OD power build up in the room! P.S. I wrote the other sheet earlier today. Tonight... more dawned on me! Use a shotgun effect! this idea + challenge excites me! ten experiments simultaneously, not one! Me in a large room, cut in half by tapes, rope or some barrier. I cross that barrier! On the far side of the room, say, 1-5 test tubes set up to "create life." A light that I can turn off, turn on, with my mind. Some object, heavy, that I can knock off a tray with my mind. A cassette tape, recorded, that I can blank out. Film that I can fog. And so on. Now, in the room would be a scientist. He (or she) can walk into either half of the room at any time, to check experiment or to check me. === Page 9 of 11 2 P.S. If the scientist leaves the room for toilet... I leave & accompany while he locks the door to the room. Vice versa, I suppose. Now, as for me... I need to work loose in my own inimitable way. Because I know how to build up my powers and exert them at max capacity! So on my side of the room I need my tape machine (with jazz tape to play); a full set of pro drums to drum on when the mood seizes; a good color TV set with huge screen; a plentiful supply of good cigars (am a chain cigar smoker a la Churchill) and all the Scotch & cold beer that I want. The scientist & I "work" from 8-5 each day. (Oh, I'll have "PK maps" for each experiment on the wall.) Scientist should check room temp because I'll be inviting my SI's in, who are invisible. === Page 10 of 11 3 P.S. You couldn't stand my gaze, so I wish Dr. Ryzl could be the scientist on guard. or Henry Monteith Scientist might want to check my electric, or EM (mind) capacity at any time. So any instruments for this would be OK. I will cooperate in all ways in this respect. World scientists have a rare, unprecedented opportunity herein, to make some exciting parapsych/psi discoveries! Once in a lifetime, as a matter of fact, cause I might not be "on deck" too much longer for them to investigate me + my phenomena. I believe that I can cause some mind-boggling things to happen. Or again, perhaps nothing will happen. Ha ha. But you know me, Jeffrey, and my box score to date. Frankly, I will bet on me! Whoever sets this up would have to give me a thousand in advance to cover my rent + bills for my family back at home. They'd have to give me a nearby motel room + food, plus transport to + from home to the "meet." Ted Owens === Page 11 of 11 CAPE CHARLES VIRGINIA VANCOUVER WASHINGTON August 27, 1979 BERNALLIO NEW MEXICO Greetings, Theodore; ..........MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN.......... When we meet, I will be your EXECUTIONER, personally!!! SO BE IT RAY MEIER - * - P.O. BOX 66 ARENAS VALLEY, NEW MEXICO 88022 TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver, Washington 98665 Jeffrey Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7908 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4bc5232e27d2148fb87ca8b5a2e0212b.pdf 3840c1105ee9dd1f0672d517888856f2 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4946dc7622f994259e3fd8b2ade83be8.txt 1417ee1e29419a4b8db164d1bf0b6a36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 MAIN STREET LOAN, INC. TELEPHONE (206) 693-8651 904 MAIN STREET • VANCOUVER, WA 98660 00401 Pledge of: DATE 7.7.79 mens watch 1. Proceeds to Pledgor $ 10- 2. Other Optional Charges: $ $ 3. Amount Financed (Total of 1 & 2) $ 15- 4. Required Charges: INTEREST: $ 4.50 PREPARATION FEE: $ 3.00 FINANCE CHARGE $ 7.50 5. ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE 54% 6. TOTAL OF PAYMENTS (3 & 4) $ 22.50 Payment due in one lump sum on 8-7 19 79. In event of non-payment of the loan when due, interest will accrue at the rate of $ 7.50 per month, on the unpaid balance. No credit shall be allowed for redemption in less than 30 days. Signature T Owens Address 200 NE 76th St City State LOAN TICKET ON REVERSE SIDE 00401 PLEDGES HELD FOR 120 DAYS MINIMUM REDEMPTION PERIOD 2 DAYS FIREARMS REDEEMED BY PLEDGOR ONLY MAIN STREET LOAN, INC. TELEPHONE (206) 693-8651 904 MAIN STREET • VANCOUVER, WA 98660 00430 Pledge of: Harry Owens DATE 7.5.79 $20 gold piece money clip 14K 1. Proceeds to Pledgor $ 200.00 2. Other Optional Charges: $ $ 3. Amount Financed (Total of 1 & 2) $ 200.00 4. Required Charges: INTEREST: $ 6.00 PREPARATION FEE: $ 9.00 FINANCE CHARGE $ 15.00 5. ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE 49% 6. TOTAL OF PAYMENTS (3 & 4) $ 215.00 Payment due in one lump sum on 8-4 19 79. In event of non-payment of the loan when due, interest will accrue at the rate of $ 6- per month, on the unpaid balance. No credit shall be allowed for redemption in less than 30 days. Signature T Owens Address 200 NE 76th St City Vancouver, Wash. State 98665 LOAN TICKET ON REVERSE SIDE 00430 PLEDGES HELD FOR 120 DAYS MINIMUM REDEMPTION PERIOD 2 DAYS FIREARMS REDEEMED BY PLEDGOR ONLY Jeffrey These are a couple of the tickets I phoned you about. Ted === Page 2 of 4 Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 VANCOUVER SEP 17 1979 WASH. U.S. POSTAGE = 41 : Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research Center 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 3 of 4 Sept 18, 1979 Jeffrey, I found the enclosed today in a box of old papers. Evidently it got lost in the scramble to move out of New Mexico. So am belatedly sending it. Ted & Gwen === Page 4 of 4 2 men use pretty girl as bait to get Kennedy, so he will be killed: - small, wiry, tough, black moustache, martial arts. - 1 to 4 weeks guess - (someone related to Connally) received 9-20-79 (or a few days earlier) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7909 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/3532b27f7b123646d4a2c4603bc76a58.pdf e17b8e9bab053841cf64e2a60c0d0d6b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f75adebe50e0e671faf7bd4101a2bc44.txt e5616b0b2fb41dd3533fe000b17c2ff4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 Oct. 26, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, National Enquirer. The enclosed documentation should **fascinate** you. (1) Xerox of my May 30, 1972, letter to Drs. Hynek, Sprinkle, etc., stating my intent to control the City of Cleveland, Ohio, by various means. See especially: "**The people in the area... behaving peculiarly...**" (2) Xerox of newsclip July 23, 1972, "Heat Stirs Up Crackpots" "...The flow of those claiming to hear the voice of God, receive messages from outer space, or be secret agents on secret missions started to climb last Monday and remained at a high level all week..." (3) Xerox of Otto Binder (famous author) notarized affidavit re my control of Cleveland...and describing my method of working with my UFOs to direct the sun's rays down onto Cleveland...exactly as I have done with Florida (important to keep this point in mind.) (4) Xerox of West Palm Beach article May 28, 1979, "Crazy, Weird Things?" "...More is to come, Owens says, from giant UFOs deep in outer space. 'One of those will be reflecting the sun's rays down on Florida,' Owens said. '**It should cause people to do crazy things, Weird things.**'" (5) Xerox of my "PK Map" used to control Florida, dated March 2, 1979, but with the addition of the two "sound towers" on June 8, 1979, to cause "crazy, weird human behavior" in Florida. (6) Xerox of my letter to you of June 8, 1979: "Just talked to you long distance. Now am going to add something else to "PK" attack on Florida! Other-dimensional sound! This will cause humans, animals, fish, birds...to go cuckoo! **Act completely irrationally.** They can't stand it! Owens." (7) Newsclip taken from today's newspaper, The Oregonian, here, dated Oct. 26, 1979: "(Miami)(AP) STUDENTS, TEACHERS GO 'WILD' "...Students and teachers...went "berserk" Thursday, kicking holes in walls, ripping down doors and (screaming about demons.). 'The whole school went berserk,' said Miami police officer Harry Cunnill. '**Teachers and students were running around tearing up things.**' ...300 students...'Some of the kids were collapsing, falling over,' said Miami Fire Department spokesman Dan LeMay. 'There were students lying on the floor, they seemed to be in a hysterical state...Some other kid said (something supernatural) had possessed him.'..When the police arrived, they found people yelling and screaming (they were possessed), Cunnill said. To sum it up: I have given two demonstrations bringing my aliens (UFOs) into play...one demonstration onto Cleveland; one onto Florida. **Both demonstrations involved the use of a giant UFO to direct the sun's rays onto target...both times for the purpose of causing crazy, weird human behavior inside the target area...and in both demonstrations you can read newsclips of just that happening.** Not only that, but in BOTH instances, demonstrations, the newsclips referred to 'receiving messages from outer space' (Cleveland) or 'being possessed by something supernatural' (Florida). Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 9 C O P Y May 30, 1972 TO MY SIX SCIENTISTS... An now embarking on a fascinating project. One which I believe will delight you, as far as research into psi-force phenomena goes...and one easily checkable. Before going any further...let me stress..that I do not intend to harm anyone at all. Now...I am going to use some of the 150-odd different mechanisms (of which PK is only one) to strike the Cleveland-Akron, Ohio, area, with psi-force directed by my mind...and cause...effects there. Here is what to look for... in time ahead... Power Blackouts there...big ones. More than the usual number of fires. All kinds of electrical disturbances. Lightning storms...with lightning striking many places there. Planes being forced down; power failure, etc. Ships sinking just offshore. Blazing hot drought. The people in the area...behaving peculiarly (more so than usual, that is). Odd animal behavior (dogs, cats, etc.) Possible epidemics. 60-90 mile-per-hour winds. (Si's) Am doing this for a reason, and have cleared it with my Sis. I was badly treated during my last ten days visit there...by some people...and I think, and the Si's concur...that it would be most appropriate...to demonstrate to the people of that area...that I am quite real, and that my connection with the UFO's is quite real. That my "Claims" of documented miracles...are not empty claims. In short, the people there need to be taught a lesson...as only PK Man can teach a lesson. Now, note: any persons there who were friendly to me, and helped me during my visit...like Mike Reineri, of WIXY radio, Alan Douglas, TV Show; Clive Thomas radio show...and so on...they know who they are...these people will not be affected while my PK attack is going on. Also, the people who wear my disk...will not be affected, either. Am setting up this psi-force attack mechanism now, today...and the power will begin to build...as days go by...and I assure you that you will see some mighty interesting things happen...in the Cleveland-Akron area! Ted Owens (PK Man) Remember... I saw you first! I'm telling you what I will do!! Now all news clips from Cleveland-Akron area! Keep it up! - O 4 === Page 3 of 9 Cleveland Swelters for 6th Day in Row Greater Cleveland sweltered again yesterday as stifling heat and humidity continued for the sixth day in a row. The National Weather Service at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport said the temperature again hit 90 degrees -- the fourth time this week. That and the 62% humidity "made for uncomfortable conditions," the weather service said. High was 91 degrees at 4:15 p.m., eight degrees below the record for the date. The humidity was attributed to a southerly wind bringing warm, moist air north from the Gulf of Mexico. A high pressure system settling over Ohio diminished the possibility of relieving winds. THE NORMAL HIGH for this time of year is 83 to 84 degrees, the weather ser-vice said. The record high for yesterday's date was 99 degrees July 22, 1932. The record high for July was 103 degrees July 27, 1941. The weather service anticipates the same temperatures and humidity for today and tomorrow. However, a cold front moving west from the Atlantic coast is expected to drop temperatures Tuesday into their normal range. CLEVELAND ELECTRIC Illuminating Co. said it set a record power consumption yesterday, as 2,860,000 kilowatts were used in one hour. That surpassed the last record of 2,853,400 kilowatts, set Tuesday. City's Streets Are Buckling, Manholes Blow Their Tops Streets buckled and manhole covers popped as the temperature climbed above 90 degrees in Greater Cleveland yesterday. Cleveland police reported a number of calls about ripping streets and exploding manhole covers at 4 p.m., an hour after the mercury hit 90 degrees at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. High for the date was 99 degrees in 1930. The Cleveland street maintenance department said sections of at least 10 West Side streets buckled because of the heat. Buckling also was reported on the East Side. THE STATE HIGHWAY Patrol's Chardon post said two sections of Interstate 90 -- the westbound lane west of Ohio 44 and the eastbound lane near the Little Mountain Road overpass -- also buckled but were quickly repaired by state highway department crews. "In this kind of heat," a patrol spokesman said, "the pavement just explodes." Power was being consumed yesterday at a record clip, as people kept air conditioners, fans and ice-cube making machines running almost continuously. The Heat Is On--and How Heat Stirs Up Crackpots Whenever an extended heat wave hits the city, the crackpots swarm to City Hall to see the mayor, according to Mrs. Rowena Gordon. Mrs. Gordon has served as executive secretary to Mayors Ralph J. Perk, Ralph S. Locher and Anthony J. Celebrezze. The flow of those claiming to hear the voice of God, receive messages from outer space or be secret agents on secret missions started to climb last Monday and remained at a high level all week. ONE OF THE ODDEST was the man who telephoned from what he said was British Columbia. He claimed to be a representative of billionaire Howard Hughes. "Mr. Hughes has heard of beautiful downtown Cleveland and wants to know what it needs," the man told Mrs. Gordon. Mrs. Gordon shot back, "A few million dollars." The man said he would let her know. Billy Graham Talks of the Devil on a Fire-and-Brimstone Night By Albin A. Gorisek Religion Editor It was hotter than Hades at the Stadium last night when Billy Graham talked about the devil and satanism. The temperature was 92 degrees in parts of the upper stands and 96 degrees on the platform where Dr. Graham spoke beneath blazing television lights. The second largest crowd of the Graham crusade, 40,200, filled both levels of the center section of the Stadium. It was young people's night, devoted to Dr. Graham's announced message on youth and the devil. "Ten years ago if I would have talked on the subject to university students I would have been greeted with sneers and laughter," he said. "TODAY'S STUDENTS WANT to know about the devil and witchcraft and the occult." When he came to the platform before the crusade session, Dr. Graham was wearing a salmon-colored sport coat. He took it off for 15 minutes before he spoke, but put it on again and wore it throughout his sermon. When he left the platform, the coat was off again and his sweat-drenched shirt was visible. Note: Billy Graham talks a good game... but, aside from counting the house (and genuflecting) he is impotent. Why, with his "inside" with God and Nixon... didn't he cool things off? Ted === Page 4 of 9 I just slapped Cleveland silly! - Owens. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Ted Owens, known as "The PK Man", informed me in June, 1972, that he was angry at the Cleveland-Akron (OHIO) area... because of the way that key people there had treated him during his visit there to give lectures... and Owens informed me that he would use telepathy to contact four huge giant UFO's positioned around our Earth... and direct these four UFO's to use a technique peculiar to them, the UFO's, to deflect the sun's rays down onto the Earth (much as four giant magnifying glasses)... to converge the rays onto the Cleveland-Akron area. Not long thereafter... the Cleveland-Akron area was stricken with intense heat. The people there were doing odd things, as reported in the newspapers (and as Owens had said in advance that they would); the sidewalks were buckling and crumbling from the heat; power blackouts were prevalent; lightning attacked the area violently; and various unpleasant things happened, as Owens had said would happen, from his connection with the UFO's. He had told me that he would even "hit with PK mechanisms" the Cleveland Browns pro football team... following which the owner, a Mr. Modell, accidentally walked through a plate glass window and is now on crutches. Owens intends to teach the Ohio area... to respect his powers... and his connection with the UFO's... by controlling the Cleveland Browns to lose, this season, many of their games, and especially their key games... and not to be able to win the Super Bowl. Moreover, and perhaps even more interesting... after Owens directed intense heat onto the Cleveland-Akron area... and the heat then struck... the sun itself had tremendous storms and directed energy from these storms down onto the earth, affecting the United States. Such storms on the sun, with blasts reaching down to earth, had never been seen before... and particularly was it puzzling to scientists that it could happen at this time. One noted scientist said that it was like snow falling in July. Could this phenomenon happening from the sun... have any connection with Owens signaling the UFO's to work with the sun's rays? If this were so, then the possibility exists, obliquely, that Owens can control the sun, as it were! (THIS SUGGESTION CAME FROM MR. OWENS HIMSELF) At any rate, all of this is absolutely true and accurate, to the best of my knowledge. Otto O. Binder Mr. Otto Binder (Author) Studio Friends Lake Road Chestertown, New York 12817 Sworn to before me this 14th day of Aug. 1972 Barbara E. Francisco === Page 5 of 9 # Crazy, Weird Things? - Blame UFOs Whether Ted Owens is really Mother Nature or not is a matter for discussion, but there is no question of the research help provided by free-lance writer Wayne Grover who brought it to our attention. Owens says part of his brain is alien - and he certainly says strange things. By ROBERT BURNS Post Staff Writer A Vancouver, Wash., man, who claims he caused South Florida's April floods and heavy rains by communicating with UFOs, says he has begun a year of disastrous weather for the state as a demonstration of his power. Ted Owens, a psychic "brought up as a baby" by aliens, says Florida will experience drought, intense heat and hurricanes as further proof of his contacts with "space intelligences" for a Lantana-based national weekly newspaper. "The National Enquirer challenged me to a demonstration, so I obliged," he said. Owens says he began the weather March 2. "I gave a quick demonstration to end the drought," he said, and asked the UFOs for rain some 10 days before the record downpour of April 25. More than 18 inches of rain fell in Delray Beach. Floods caused an estimated $48 million damage in the county. More is to come, Owens says, from giant UFOs deep in outer space. "One of those will be reflecting the sun's rays down on Florida," Owens said. "It should cause people to do crazy things, weird things." The rain also will cause a drought, drying the water table "from the inside out," Owens said. Next he forecast hurricanes, storms he's asked to hit the coasts, programmed not to unnecessarily take human life. "Actually the people of Florida should be alerted because they shouldn't get out and drive 50-mph in heavy rains," Owens said. Owens told the Enquirer of his weather control plans as early as Feb. 16, saying he would zero a hurricane in on Florida, bring floods to the state, sear the land with heat and sun and produce lightning attacks, all with the aid of the UFOs' electromagnetic power. Earlier predictions for the tabloid paper included war between the United States and China, a gasoline and oil blockade, the political downfall of President Carter and Russian control of most of the world. The Enquirer had little to say about Owens or his predictions. Turn to OWENS, C2 # Expert Puts Little Stock in the Matter Forget Ted Owens' flying saucers, says meteorologist Buck Christian. In forecasting weather he'll take a satellite photo and new radar over an alien's predictions any day. "Last weekend, I spent some time with three aliens and they assured me we wouldn't have any more storms like this last one (on April 25)," joked Christian, head of the National Weather Service's Palm Beach International Airport station. "All kidding aside, I personally don't subscribe to anything like that," Christian said. He'd rather base his forecasts on scientific information. "Those three I spent the weekend with weren't too sharp," he said. But just like Owens, Christian says there will be hurricanes this summer. "They'll be in the southern Atlantic and where they hit nobody knows," he said. "In all due respect - I believe as an American he (Owens) has a right to say it, but I wouldn't put any store in it," Christian said. Instead, Christian says Owens should use his powers to determine more pressing questions. "Check with him and see what the gasoline situation is going to do." - ROBERT BURNS | Steve Mitchell | 1. NESSNESS | 2. COFFEE CUTILL | 3. SO | Cy He | |---|---|---|---|---| Here's More T.......... === Page 6 of 9 March 2, 1979 The Florida Demonstration (for Enquirer) to "grid" added 3/22/79 HURRICANE SEEDS = • LIGHTNING BOX = ℇ EM ATTACK = FORCE FIELD WATER ATTACK = ///// UFOs APPEAR = Θ Rain on Florida added April 15, 1979 May 15, 1979, in order to create further heat and drought in Florida!! Atlantic Pacific Aug. 10, 1979 1 Eggbeater effect to be worked up (storms, canes) in Gulf, to get oil over to Florida beaches. 2 These powers will be used to control the Miami Dolphins pro football team this season, to LOSE. PYR (RE) power added March 13, 1979!!! 5/8/79 GULF OF MEXICO air-space + 6 Hurricanes!! FORCE FIELD === Page 7 of 9 June 5, 1979 Wayne Grover (Copy, approx.) The SI's, PsycGe and I are working to make six (6) hurricanes converge on Florida from differing directions, the "bullseye" to be Lantana, Florida. to the target When the action begins be sure to get you and yours out of Lantana! Ted Owens (PK Man) Plus... deadly air-space over Florida!! Owens June 8, 1979 Wayne Grover Florida now... must watch out for plague - infection, bacterial attack, etc. (Besides fire + explosion.) ps. plus deadly air-space Ted Owens (PK Man) June 8, 1979 (copy) Wayne Grover Just talked to you long distance. Now am going to add something else to "PK" attack on Florida! other-dimensional sound!! This will cause humans, animals, fish, birds... to go cuckoo!! Act completely irrationally. They can't stand it!! Owens === Page 8 of 9 PS-25-01 Lumtorg The Oregonian Oct 26, 1979 # Students, teachers go 'wild' MIAMI (AP) -- Students and teachers at a military school in Miami's Little Havana section went "berserk" Thursday, kicking holes in walls, ripping down doors and screaming about demons after a hypnotism session in a science class, police said. "The whole school went berserk," said Miami police officer Harry Cunnill. "Teachers and students were running around tearing up things." None of the 300 students at the Miami Aerospace Academy was seriously injured, but one unidentified boy was taken to a hospital after he put his hand through a window, police said. Academy President Evaristo Marina said no witchcraft or hypnotism was taught at the school. "This all got out of hand because everybody came at once," he said. "When you are a child and the fire, police, health and media people all come at once you can go crazy. It's like yelling fire in a crowded theater." "Some of the kids were collapsing, falling over," said Miami Fire Department spokesman Dan LeMay. "There were students lying on the floor, they seemed to be in a hysterical state. It mushroomed. Six or seven of them were flaked out all over the place." The fire department received a call about "an unconscious boy," LeMay said. "Some other kids said something supernatural had possessed him." When rescue squads arrived, the boy was conscious, but someone else had collapsed. When the police arrived, they found "people yelling and screaming they were possessed," Cunnill said. === Page 9 of 9 Oct. 9, 1979 Mr. John Oishei Dear John: After your morning phone call, assuring the $700 loan, I then made some solid commitments. And waited for the wire. For days. Calling Western Union every other hour to see if the help had arrived. Finally, on the 4th or 5th, a lady calling herself 'Karin' called... said that you'd given her the money to wire...but that she'd spent a hundred...and that she was an Austrian like yourself in background. So I kept on checking every other hour with Western Union after her call, then gave up. Unexpectedly then I got a call from W.U. saying the wire had arrived, bringing $335. I wish to thank you very much for the help, John. It got half the job done, and as anyone knows, half of something is better than nothing at all. Am sending Jeffrey Mishlove a copy of this, and respectfully requesting that as soon as my $725 advance is received by him, that he send you $355 as soon as he can. I owe you a favor, John. Thanks again. Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 Jeffrey Ted Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7910 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f89c4d9bd49a3105936d9265d968c288.pdf 214ea4ed0acc4c06d161159732637bd4 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c7b36ae8f8e801bab0cc0e56b5898082.txt 2e86868f91a5bb4dceb4ccdcccb27992 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1979 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Nov. 12, 1979 Dear Jeffrey...I lost Rogo's address somehow, so must send this to him via you, okay? Mr. Rogo...I would greatly appreciate it if you would slip the following into our book, somewhere: "My incredible work for the past ten years would not have been possible except for the help of two friends, Millie Miller and George Delavan...because in that span of time I made no effort to make any money, but just concentrated all of my powers on doing miracles. And George and Millie made it all possible to happen. George Delavan, of Des Plaines, Illinois, spent a couple of weeks with me in Cleveland, Ohio, and witnessed the incredible "Cleveland Miracle" at firsthand. (I controlled the City of Cleveland, Ohio, with my mind, causing weird and freakish things to happen, outlined in writing beforehand to scientists.) George has consistently helped me with hundreds of dollars each month for the past ten years, so that I could keep on going with my experiments. My gratitude toward George runs deep. Millie Miller, whom I've nicknamed "Irish" because she has a typical mick face and temperament to match, has, on numerous occasions, stepped into the breach with earth-shaking help when I needed it most. She made it possible for me to go to Europe and have my brain remodified by my UFOs (SIs); to go to Egypt in order for the UFOs to join my brain with the ancient Egyptian Power there among the pyramids in Giza valley; she has purchased invaluable tools for me that I could not afford. She accompanied my boy, Beau, and I, down to "Haunt One" in northern California, to rendezvous with UFOs there. In short, Millie and George are the two best friends that Ted Owens (PK Man) has ever had, or probably ever will have. A newly-acquired friend here in Vancouver, Washington, is "Pixie", a tiny, blonde imp of a female, bubbling over with personality and intelligence. Pixie gave our family her old van to help us out, since we had no wheels and bailed us out of several big jams when we needed help the most. Pixie and I have spent dark nights in isolated places rendezvousing with UFOs which have come right over us, and as she returned to her home on a long drive UFOs followed her car! Pixie is the finest improvisational jazz dancer that I've ever seen dance; compared to Pixie, Lily Christine The Cat Girl is a beginner! Anyway, I have respectfully requested Jeffrey Mishlove and Scott Rogo to tell their readers about the best friends of Ted Owens (PK Man) as outlined above, and hope that they can do so. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 2 Ted Owens 200 E 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 5 NOV 1979 USA 15c THE LAND OF THE FREE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research Center 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 12 April 10, 1980. # Cattlemen hard-hit by Australian drought By PETER O'LOUGHLIN SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Farmers and ranchers around Australia are anxiously scanning the skies for signs of rain that would break what threatens to be the continent's worst drought since the turn of the century. "This drought has all the portents of being a widespread disaster," said Jack Hallam, Minister for Agriculture for the state of New South Wales in southeastern Australia. The state, the nation's most populous and economically important, is also the worst hit by the dry spell. "It's different from other droughts because it covers such huge areas," Hallam said Wednesday after inspecting hard-hit areas. "Even if rain falls soon, the situation is critical. But if we don't get rain, it will be a national disaster," he said. Much of Australia's prime agricultural land has been without substantial rainfall for nine months. In some cases, it has been three years since enough rain fell to fill the reservoirs. "The federal and state governments must realize that the drought conditions are creating a state of emergency in rural Australia," said Maurice Binstead, president of the Cattlemen's Union. "National disaster relief provisions must be reassessed and the buck-passing from state and commonwealth governments must cease," said Binstead. Several state governments have declared disaster areas in their jurisdictions, although responsibility for relief efforts is disputed. Authorities already have declared a drought over an area of 656,000 square miles, almost the size of Western Europe. === Page 2 of 12 n, SW Washington - WORLD "POWER" ATTACK - (LINGER) By JOHN PAINTER of The Oregonian staff Fine volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens will continue to drift down on Portland and Southwest Washington in the wake of a series of Sunday eruptions which closed roads and airports, halted long-haul bus service, caused power outages, begrimed cars and prompted a run on protective face masks. The National Weather Service said that prevailing winds would carry ash plumes up to 16,000 feet to the south-southeast - toward Portland and Columbia Gorge communities. Above 16,000 feet, winds would blow the ash over Southwest Washington. The renewed volcanic activity prompted Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray to expand the restricted "red zone" around the mountain from 5 to 20 miles, limiting access to government, police, media, scientific, certified search and rescue operations and persons with essential business, including loggers and property owners. The ash fallout, which hit such thus-far-untouched cities as Portland, Longview, Kelso and Chehalis, began late Saturday and a large eruption at 2:39 a.m. Sunday was thought to be the second-largest since the dormant mountain became active March 27. A second, smaller eruption occurred at 2:40 p.m., sending a plume of steam and fine ash to 14,000 feet. Overcast skies prevented direct observation of some of the volcanic action, but Don Northrup, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Portland, said plumes were spotted by radar at altitudes up to 11,000 feet until about 6 p.m. Sunday when they tapered off. Some of the ash was so fine that it eluded radar detection. One such cloud was detected just north of Eugene by pilots who unintentionally flew into it. The swirling ash, gritty and mildly bitter to the taste, reduced visibility to near zero in Longview, Kelso and in Chehalis, where 15 cars collided on Interstate 5 in a chain-reaction pileup caused by roiling ash churned up by vehicles traveling too fast for the conditions. More stories and pictures on the effects of Mount St. Helens' ash fallout appear on Pages B1, 2 and 8. It was impossible to confirm whether injuries occurred in the pileup because of heavy phone traffic into Washington and Idaho which caused telephone officials to ask that phone use be drastically restricted. The ash also caused problems in the Columbia River Gorge. Police radio transmissions monitored along Washington 14 indicated zero visibility between Stevenson and White Salmon. Along Interstate 84, Oregon State Police between Hood River cause of low visibility and the slick road surfaces. Power was out in much of the county, and scattered outages were reported in Skamania, Cowlitz, Lewis, Thurston, Grays Harbor, Mason, Clark and Jefferson counties in Washington. Farmers near Toledo, Wash., feared that continued power outages would make it impossible to milk their cows or to heat chicken coops during cold nights. Bonneville Power Administration spokesman Gene Tollefson said the outages were caused by short circuits in transformers and other equipment that occurred when the ash mixed with a light mist that fell over the southern part of the state. The eruption was first observed at 2:39 a.m., when a U.S. Forest Service observation plane flew over the mountain, said Jim Unterwegner, Forest Service information officer. Three minutes earlier, harmonic tremors - subtle tremors that produce smooth sine waves on seismographs - were recorded by geologists at the University of Washington in Seattle. The ash cloud from the earlier eruption eventually was tracked to 40,000 feet above sea level and initially was 2 to 3 miles wide, Unterwegner said. The morning eruption also caused a mud flow in the Pine Creek and Muddy River areas southeast of the mountain. Dwight R. Crandell, volcano hazards specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Note: fourteen (14) different power stations were knocked out!! Owene === Page 3 of 12 June 2, 1980 To With love: I informed you and D. Scott Rogo before you wrote your book... that my UFOs (SIs) were beginning a war against the U.S. Government (by applying psi-force to the idea of making everything go wrong for the U.S. that could go wrong) to force the Govt. to supply them, and me, with the Mountain Base. The attached xerox indicates the pattern that has taken place since. Also, amazingly, the writer somehow has perceived that Carter (U.S. Govt.) "looks hexed!" Ted Owens (PK Man) PS... it is most interesting that three months ago Beau, my son, and I made plans to go to Mt St. Helens this spring on camping trips. I outlined our route on a map and circled Spirit Lake because we had beautiful post cards of it. I wonder if Si-Cee, The Egyptian Power, working with me at the time, mistook it for a "PK Map." Ted === Page 4 of 12 World Power "Attack (Linger)" # Midwest storms spew death and destruction By MICHAEL HOLMES of The Associated Press Tornadoes and violent storms blew through the Midwest on Monday, damaging homes and businesses, ripping down power lines and killing one person and injuring at least 13. The foul weather was mostly in a band that extended from southern Iowa through central Illinois and central Indiana into southern and central Ohio. In western Montana, a snowstorm hit. In Ladoga, Ind., a storm demolished a trailer, killing Twaila G. Emery, 46, authorities said. Her son was hospitalized. In Covington, Ind., two persons were hospitalized after a tornado leveled a hardware store. "We're calling in extra manpower," said state police spokesman Charles Lanman. "We've had reports of extensive damage to the business district in Covington." Floodwaters filled streets in Lafayette, Muncie and Anderson. In southern Iowa, a tornado derailed seven cars of a freight train near Allerton as the storms belted Wayne, Appanoose and Davis counties. Jack Howard, assistant fire chief in Moulton, Iowa, said the storm downed trees and damaged several homes and businesses. Four persons were injured, including one woman who was hurt when the winds moved her mobile home several feet, officials said. "All the windows on Main Street were taken out," Howard said. "There are a lot of trees down. It looks like it blew the whole back wall out of the Post Office. It hit a lot of buildings around town." The Moulton-Udell School also suffered extensive damage. Centerville Police Chief Chuck Dales said the storm hit Appanoose County about 8 a.m., with winds recorded up to 70 mph. "We got wind damage in Centerville, but most of the damage was in Moulton and Numa," said Dales. "In Moulton, there are some gas leaks they're trying to locate. A lot of barns are down," the police chief said. "It turned absolutely black down there and dumped gobs of rain," said Wayne Ellingson of the National Weather Service in Des Moines. A total of five injuries were reported in Numa, Cincinnati and rural Decatur County. The police department also asked residents in Exline, Numa, Moulton and the Centerville area to stay indoors because of the large number of downed power lines. In Illinois, the roof of the Pekin post office collapsed during a driving electrical storm. The National Weather Service said 4 inches of rain drenched Pekin and the Peoria area during the morning. In Macomb, authorities said hail the size of golfballs smashed 15 car windshields. The wall of a house in Wataga collapsed during a rainstorm, forcing the family to flee. Sheriff's deputies in Logan County said two funnel clouds were sighted over Lincoln, which suffered damage to power lines and trees. Oregonian June 3, 1980. === Page 5 of 12 5-15-80 postmark May 15, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: I have now finished my experiment in knocking out "power" and power sources. The tail-end of that file will reach you as soon as I can get it pasted up and xeroxd. Now, beginning today, I will utilize my own powers...the powers of my UFOs (Control)...the powers of PyrCre...and the newly-found powers of Xtolac (Mayan Power), a living entity thousands of years old that my mind joined up with in Uxmal, Yucatan, while I was there recently... to bring tremendous and long-lasting rains to Australia, which is stricken with a killer-drought... to India, in the midst of its worst drought in 70 years... and to Africa, where millions of people are starving and dying because of drought. In a bit will fill you in on the why of it, as soon as I get my Yucatan Report typed up. While I am at it...I will work to bring rains all over the world. Tremendous rains everywhere on earth. Sincerely, Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 6 of 12 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, Wash. 98665 May 20, 1980 Inspector John Baresi U.S. Customs c/o Mexicana Airlines and Luis Valdez Baggage Service 500 World Way, International Airport Los Angeles, California 90045 Gentlemen: This is the most unusual letter that you will ever receive, and perhaps the most important letter you will ever receive...although it deals with a trifling matter. Two pocket knives, spring-blade type, were taken from me by U.S. Customs not long ago. You will recall. I had a bulletproof vest and other items in my duffle bag because I was trying to protect my 9-year old son and myself in Yucatan and I thought Guatemala. I respectfully request...that U.S. Customs send to me the two pocketknives taken away from me. Please. I collect pocket knives, and I had searched for this particular type for 30 years and finally found them in Mexico...only to lose them to you. I plead my case with you now. The knives mean nothing to you. As "contraband" they are not supposed to fall into the hands of criminals for criminal use. I am not a criminal and never have been. They were to be used for letter-openers. It must be assumed that these knives are dangerous. That is most humorous. I, in my mind, have controlled the area of San Francisco...and you can check with a scientist on that: Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. To do that I had to knock out electrical power in the S.F. area, create freak storms and lightning attacks, and produce a UFO that could be photographed for scientists there. You can obtain a copy of the scientific report on that from Dr. Mishlove for $7. Area 415, 346-7770, phone. I controlled the State of Florida...ran hurricanes over it; changed its weather, and did other things...you can check on it with Xan Air Force weather expert, Mr. Wayne Moore, 3232 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, (305) 968-9261. Another scientific investigator has written a full book on my work in this regard: Dr. Scott Gogo, 11132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324, Area 213, 993-1755. It is quite obvious that if I can control a city, a State...then that is indeed far more dangerous than having in my possession two pocket knives, is it not so? I repeat to you...these knives would not be used for any criminal action. Often...the very existence of California might well depend upon your decision upon these pocket knives. It sounds ridiculous, but I urge you to contact the above. There is a hard-cover book written by Colin Wilson called "Mysteries" which describes my work (Putnam and Sons, N.Y.); also "Occult America" by John Godwin (Doubleday, I believe); and many other books have written about my miraculous work. Please...give me back my toys. They are nothing more than that. And the Govt. bends its laws every day for someone somewhere. === Page 7 of 12 Staff photo by BOB ELLIS DISASTER -- Dennis Taber struggled Sunday to save 65,900 chickens left without water by ash fallout from Mount St. Helens, which knocked out power supply necessary to pump water for birds ready for market. Oregonian May 26, 1980 -- POWER ATTACK -- (LINGER) Oregonian May 24, 1980 But no one predicted the awesome fury of Sunday's blast. The desolation of the area is total. Photographs cannot capture the overwhelming horror of it all, and words are grossly inadequate. To say it looks like the surface of the moon is an understatement. To see it from the air in context, surrounded by the lush green valleys and peaks of the Cascade foothills, causes a lump to catch in one's throat. How truly insignificant and powerless man is, compared with the absolute authority of nature. "There was the possibility that they might have had some protection from the high bluff above the lakes," said Graves. "But as you can see, there wasn't any." Over the radio, the helicopter pilot was told to leave the area. The mountain was erupting again. No one knew how severe the eruption might be, and no one takes chances anymore. All flights from the Toledo-Winlock Airport were banned for the rest of the day Friday. The search would have to wait for tomorrow. As the chopper turned its tail to the mountain, Graves' face set into a mask. "I think they're dead. I think they died instantly," he said. "But I'm not going to rest, my wife isn't going to rest, John's parents aren't going to rest until we know, one way or the other. And you'd be the same way, wouldn't you?" * mt. St. Helens was blown up by Ry-All, The Egyptian Power. -- Owens. Note: This mt. St. Helens explosion by Ry-All is just a mere sample of what the Egyptian Power (my close friend) is capable of!! Owens "The Powers" (Control of St. S and the note on the U.S. Govt.) === Page 8 of 12 nty, tangles traffic on freeway By STEVE ERICKSON of The Oregonian staff 5/26/80 - POWER ATTACK - (CLINGER) LONGVIEW, Wash. - A half-inch blanket of gray volcanic ash from erupting Mount St. Helens descended on Cowlitz County Sunday, strangling vehicles and creating treacherous mud. In Longview, there was no view at all. Power was out in much of Kelso. At midday in Kalama, visibility was about one block. "I'll tell you one thing," said Otis Bouchard, operator of the Shell station in Castle Rock, "I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Ash on Interstate 5 "caused a 15-car accident between Kelso and Chehalis" about 4 p.m., said Tad Kajiwara, communications officer in Vancouver for the Washington State Patrol. It is dangerous driving on the ash, he said, adding that the state patrol had not banned traffic there but was "trying to discourage it. If you go at all, you go at your own risk." Mike Riley, sheriff's deputy in Cowlitz County, said I-5 was slippery, and that "as soon as it gets dry it's going to be a real visibility problem, a big dusty highway." Depth of ash in Cowlitz County by Sunday evening ranged from 1/2 inch to 1.5 inches, said a spokeswoman for the county Department of Emergency Services. All along the Cowlitz County section of Interstate 5, vehicles were pulled off the roadway, motorists scrubbing windshields or peering into opened hoods in frustration. When the ash was dry it billowed into clouds as vehicles passed, making visibility spotty and unpredictable. Rain turned the ash almost instantly to mud, filming windshields. At service stations from Kalama to Castle Rock, drivers stopped to hose off muddy windows and refill fast-depleted windshield washer containers. Kevin Schulz, 20, of Vancouver, was driving to Centralia when he stopped at Kelso to wash off the mud. "It was dry, like a dust storm, around Kalama," he said, adding that when the rain began it turned the ash into a compound "like very wet cement. "It was comparable to driving in a bad snowstorm," Schulz said. "Danger is extreme in this area. I'm going to go back home." By the time Emmett Brooks, of 2541 S.E. 179th Ave., Portland, reached Kelso where he had driven for a visit, he was obliged to lean out an open window to see where he was going. He stopped at a gas station to get more windshield washer water, although, he said, "I filled it before I left Portland. "I used it all up and couldn't see anything," Brooks said. "I think it's a mess." Regarding the volcano, he said, "I respected it all the way. With that mountain bulging, anybody knew it was going to blow." When a cloud of ash passed over Castle Rock early Sunday it blotted out daylight. "I woke up at 7 and you couldn't even see anything, it was so dark," said Susan Wilson, who held a diaper over her nose and mouth to filter out the ash. Her sister-in-law, Sharon Wilson, who used a scarf for the same purpose, explained, "It's hard to breathe." It was eerie and nearly deserted in Castle Rock, which was enveloped in a shroud of gray residue. Rain mixed with the ash to make traction doubtful on many roadways. "Out by my place (two miles south of Castle Rock) a car was coming down a hill completely out of control until he hit the guard rail, it was so slick," said Bouchard. The ash was so heavy, he added, it "pulled small trees over my driveway and I could hear branches breaking." For the time being, Bouchard said, Castle Rock was "completely dead. Who's going to get out and move around unless we have to?" === Page 9 of 12 No serious damage - POWER ATTACK - (LINER) Oregonian May 26, 1980 # Two earthquakes rock California (ALSO WARNING TO CALIFORNIA) MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) - Two strong earthquakes registering about 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted a wide area of California on Sunday within 3 1/2 hours of each other. But both quakes were centered in sparsely populated wilderness near the Nevada border, and no major damage or serious injuries were reported. The California Office of Emergency Services in Sacramento said the quakes were felt from Lake Tahoe in the north to Los Angeles and San Bernardino in the south, and from the San Francisco Bay area to Reno, Carson City and Las Vegas in Nevada. The quakes - and numerous aftershocks - brought an abrupt end to Memorial Day holiday activities for hundreds of people in the Mammoth Lakes area, a Sierra Nevada fishing, boating, spring skiing and camping resort near the quakes' epicenters. "A lot of people are leaving town," said Shawna Horns of the Inyo County National Forest Visitor Center. "The main road is jampacked. The gas stations have long lines. All the stores are closed. Mammoth is basically closed." The first quake struck at 9:33 a.m. PDT and registered approximately 6.0 on the Richter scale, said Patti Murtha of the U.S. Seismographic Station at Berkeley. After a series of aftershocks, the second hit at 12:45 p.m. with about equal or possibly greater force, she said. Waverly Person of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Service in Golden, Colo., said both quakes registered 6.0 on the scale, a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. An earthquake measuring 6.0 or greater is considered major and capable of causing severe damage. The first quake knocked down power lines, ruptured some water mains, disrupted telephone service, and triggered rockslides throughout the Mammoth Lakes area, located some 250 miles east of San Francisco and about 30 miles from the Nevada border. At least six persons struck by falling objects - including two hit by rocks at Convict Lake - were taken to Mammoth Lakes Hospital. They were treated and released, said hospital spokeswoman Nancy Dunbar. There were numerous reports of broken windows, glass and china. "It felt like the building was jumping up and down," said Dr. Paul Hildebrand at the hospital. "We have a broken steam line, but no significant structural damage." One man was injured when he fell through a plate glass window after the second quake, said Mammoth Lakes fireman Don Hanna. He said the road to Convict Lake was closed because of fears of more rockslides, and all 92 sites at the campground near Convict Creek were evacuated. At the Mammoth Mountain ski area, lift chairs had to be evacuated by auxiliary power, said Tony Romo, an employee. "It shook the building pretty well, but there were no injuries and just minor damage, just panels falling out of the ceiling," Romo said. At Crowley Lake, about 15 miles from Mammoth, Todd Jensen said "cars were bouncing on the ground." "Some of the people who live at the lake said their refrigerators were flipped over," said Jensen. Betty Schad, who runs the Crowley Lake Store with her husband, said the shocks sent cans and bottles tumbling from shelves. She said dust was rising from canyons in the Sherman Creek Bowl area halfway between Crowley and Mammoth. "And we're having another one (aftershock) even as I'm talking," she said. "Our lights were out for about five minutes, and the phones were out for about five minutes," said Terry Bergfalk, 39, of Porterville east of San Francisco. The Los Angeles City Fire Department called an "earthquake mode" for about 45 minutes after the second tremor. During that time, all crews and trucks were stationed at least 300 feet from their buildings and away from power lines, department spokesman Martin Garza said. === Page 10 of 12 Oregonian May 27, 1980 "Tower" attack - # Floods, fire rake Montana; winds rip Florida, Rockies By The Associated Press Firefighters controlled an 80,000-acre prairie fire Monday in the parched eastern edge of Montana, while rain and snow runoff in the western and central parts of the state pushed streams to flood levels. In Florida, destructive pre-dawn winds battered mobile homes and knocked down trees in two Gulf Coast counties. Authorities reported that two persons were feared drowned and that damage could reach $1 million. High winds also whipped through northwestern Wyoming, prompting a travelers advisory Monday, and up to 21 feet of snow was left in the Colorado Rockies from a spring storm. Elsewhere, heavy rains flooded homes and ripped down power lines in west Texas. Fire coordinator Bill Harpster of Dawson County, Mont., said the grass fire, which was controlled about 2 a.m. MDT, was touched off by lightning Saturday east of Glendive. Fanned by winds from the same storm that drenched the west with record rainfall, the flames spread rapidly northward, jumped the Yellowstone River and raced 20 miles beyond. Early Sunday, winds and temperatures in the 80s sent the fire roaring past startled firefighters who thought they had contained it. The high winds subsided Sunday night. No deaths or injuries were reported from the fire. Harpster said damage estimates probably wouldn't be completed for about a week. Property damage is "minimal," Dawson County Sheriff Howard Hodous said Monday. Cascade County civil defense director Bill Murray said Monday that at least three homes and a dozen businesses in Great Falls, Mont., reported "widespread water damage" from Sunday's record rainfall of 3.48 inches for a 24-hour period. He said city roads were "extensively damaged." Pattee Creek above Missoula spilled over its banks Sunday afternoon, damaging roads and flooding parts of the city's southeast residential section. Steady rain and runoffs also pushed Post Creek over its banks in northwestern Montana, wiping out a fish hatchery and washing over highways. In Florida, two or more windstorms clocked at up to 60 mph struck within minutes of each other about 5 a.m. "It just literally pulled trees out of the ground," said dispatcher Dick Highfield of the North Fort Myers Fire Department. On the state's Gulf Coast, 10 mobile homes were destroyed and 30 damaged severely near Punta Gorda, said John Derr, Charlotte County preparedness coordinator. He estimated damage at $550,000 and North Fort Myers Fire Chief Don Brown in neighboring Lee County said damage there could reach $400,000. Florida police said two persons apparently drowned and one person was burned in incidents related to the storm. A 41-year-old Hollywood, Fla., woman apparently drowned when a small boat her family had chartered capsized off Pine Island shortly before noon, authorities said. A 10-year-old Punta Gorda boy was missing and feared drowned. A Cape Coral man suffered burns when gasoline ignited as he tried to start his 16-foot wooden boat. The boat had been capsized by high winds and then righted by a === Page 11 of 12 oregonian "California Warning" May 27, 1980 # California gets the shakes # Aftershocks rattle Sierra Nevada MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- Dozens of aftershocks rumbled through California's midsection Monday, one day after two powerful earthquakes left a couple hospitalized with serious skull injuries. Authorities warned jittery residents that more major quakes might be on the way. One big aftershock registering 4.7 on the Richter scale struck the Mammoth Lakes area of the Sierra Nevada, about 300 miles north of Los Angeles, at 5:25 a.m., according to the U.S. Seismographic Station at Berkeley. Carl Johnson of the U.S. Geological Survey said the aftershocks were rolling through the region "once every two or three minutes." He said five field teams from the survey had gone to Mammoth Lakes, a resort community of 3,000 near the Nevada state line, with instruments to gain more data on the tremors. The area was spared major damage in Sunday's earthquakes, which were felt over most of California and as far away as Las Vegas, Nev. Numerous rockslides occurred, and some water lines were damaged but were quickly repaired, authorities said. Mono County Sheriff's deputy Randy desBaillets said Monday that authorities were advising hikers "to stay out of the immediate areas because of the possibility of rocks coming down from further tremors." H. William Neard, director of the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., warned that "areas in Sierra Nevada from Bishop to Mono Lake and adjacent regions in Nevada may experience additional earthquakes and associated strong ground-shaking during the next several days. "Thus we have initiated a hazard watch and are alerting other state and federal officials to our heightened concern," he said in a statement to California's Office of Emergency Services. The office's director, Alex Cunningham, said he had been told by the Geological Survey that, based on past quakes, "the likelihood is that aftershock activity will continue over the next several days, and people should take precautionary measures. "I'm not trying to alarm or panic anyone," he added. "We have had 50 to 100 aftershocks. People should take prudent action." In "very serious condition" Monday at Valley Medical Center in Fresno were two hikers caught in an earthquake-caused rockslide at Yosemite National Park, west of Mammoth Lakes. The couple was tentatively identified as Larry and Belinda Samuels, said to be in their 20s and from the Los Angeles area. They had broken limbs and extensive skull injuries, a hospital spokesman said. Six other people reportedly struck by falling objects from Sunday's quakes were treated for minor injuries and released. Jolts from the quakes Sunday were felt from San Francisco to San Diego and in Las Vegas, Nev., to the east, authorities said. The first quake Sunday struck at 9:33 a.m. and registered about 6.0 on the Richter scale, said Patti Murtha of the U.S. Seismographic Station at Berkeley. After a series of aftershocks, the second hit at 12:45 p.m. with about equal or possibly slightly greater force, she said. Seismologists said further data would be needed before an exact measurement could be recorded, but they ruled out a connection with the earthquake activity at Mount St. Helens in Washington. "Power" attack # Quake jolts Peru, Chile AREQUIPA, Peru (AP) -- A moderate earthquake shook southern Peru and northern Chile on Monday, crumbling some old walls in this Andean city and cutting power for 25 minutes. No injuries or major damage were reported. The Geophysical Institute of the University of San Agustine said the quake occurred at 1:42 p.m. EST with an intensity of 4 on the 12-point Mercalli scale. Arequipa is about 620 miles south of Lima in the state of Arequipa, which has a population of 800,000. The institute said the quake was felt over a wide region from the Andes Mountains to the Pacific shore. It said the epicenter was in the Pacific off Tacna, which is near the Chilean border about 120 miles south of Arequipa. Another earthquake earlier in the day shook central Peru, including Lima. Although no damage was reported, the quake was measured on a seismograph at the National Geophysical Institute in Lima as 4.5 on the Richter scale, an intensity strong enough to cause moderate damage in heavily populated areas. The morning quake, recorded at 5:26 a.m., rattled windows in Lima. Its epicenter was placed in the Pacific south of the fishing village of Pucusana, about 35 miles south of Lima. oregonian May 27, 1980 === Page 12 of 12 California Morning Associated Press Laserphoto CLASSROOM -- District Superintendent Marvin Heimshon inspects damage at Mammoth Elementary School caused by earthquake Sunday. Oregon May 28, 1980 # Another quake rocks California MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- The third and largest in a series of major earthquakes hit this High Sierra resort Tuesday, injuring at least seven persons, touching off a gas explosion, triggering landslides and causing widespread minor damage. Aftershocks continued to rumble through the area as the state Office of Emergency Services urged residents to prepare for even more tremblors. "The quakes are all related," said Eileen Rockwell, spokeswoman for the seismology laboratory at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "Nobody is saying there will be more, but after this many we usually do expect more." The quake at 7:51 a.m. Tuesday, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale, was centered 10 miles east of here. It was felt as far away as Los Angeles, 300 miles south; Stockton, 130 miles west; and Sacramento, 150 miles northwest of the epicenter. There were reports of widespread rockslides, broken waterpipes and cracked chimneys and fireplaces, but there were no fires, said Mammoth Lakes Fire Department spokeswoman Bridget Williamson. Seven people were admitted to Mammoth Hospital on Tuesday, mostly for treatment of lacerations suffered when they were hit by falling objects, said hospital spokeswoman Nancy Dunbar. One of the injuries occurred when a gas line exploded at an aquatic research station at Crowley Creek, according to Anita Garcia of the Office of Emergency Services. Seven people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries following the two 6.0 quakes that hit Sunday. Two hikers were listed in stable but serious condition at a Fresno hospital after they were injured in rockslides in Yosemite National Park. One of them, who was eight months pregnant, lost her baby and suffered a broken leg and internal injuries. "Power" Attack Slugged # Midwest tornadoes hurt 8, wreck homes KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- At least eight persons were injured, three seriously, when violent storms swept through the Mid-Continent to sweep through the Mid-Continent. The storms spawned more than 20 tornadoes that also knocked down power lines, uprooted crops and blew the roofs off buildings. At least five persons were injured, three seriously, and several houses were leveled when a tornado touched down Sunday afternoon in a residential neighborhood in the central Ohio town of Croton, authorities said. A second tornado in Croton also caused widespread damage but no additional injuries. Three persons suffered minor injuries and at least a dozen mobile homes were destroyed when a tornado touched down Sunday in a trailer park near Tuscola in east-central Illinois, state police said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 80x Misc newspaper articles Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Misc. articles I believe these are accidental duplicates I have made. Will keep in collection at the moment until I have time to check. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b8c3a18f26bbe4abcc21d2baef7cc7f4.pdf e2fa10d8cd4f745dbbd5fe1b694f4afd https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/11209c5c61fe50d41f6d6c622205d67f.txt 0354191a8383b7591c95c49d7550f0e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 20 LGRAM SERVICE CENTER ODLETOWN, VA. 22645 WU western union Mailgram 4-017572S364002 12/30/79 ICS IPMTIZZ CSP PILC 1 2066959033 MGM TDMT VANCOUVER WA 12-30 0738P EST T OWENS 200 NORTHEAST 76 ST VANCOUVER WA 98665 Note: Wayne Grove The "PK" Psi force cannot carry the football. It can only create opportunities for the Rams to beat Tampa and Pittsburgh. But if the Rams do their darndest and I do my darndest, we'll pull off the Super Bowl win for Carroll Rosenbloom! Ted Owens 12/31/79 THIS MAILGRAM IS A CONFIRMATION COPY OF THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: 2066959033 MGM TDMT VANCOUVER WA 268 12-30 0738P EST ZIP MRS ROSENBLOOM, OWNER LOS ANGELES RAMS 10271 WEST PICO BLVD LOS ANGELES CA 90064 PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO YOUR RAMS TEAM. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT. IN THE PAST I BEAT ROSY (CARROLL) ROSENBLOOM EVERY YEAR, STOPPING HIS TEAM FROM WINNING THE SUPERBOWL. IT WAS A THING BETWEEN US. BUT TODAY I MADE CONTACT WITH ROSY'S SPIRIT OR GHOST AND FOUND THAT HE WAS MOST ANXIOUS TO WIN A SUPERBOWL EVEN THOUGH HE IS DEAD. SO I USED MY POWERS COMBINED WITH COMMUNICATION WITH ROSY, TO HELP YOUR RAMS BEAT THE COWBOYS. NOW, PASS THE WORD ON TO YOUR RAMS. THE VERY GREAT POWERS THAT I HAVE WILL BE WITH THEM, WORKING, WHEN THEY PLAY TAMPA BAY, AND THEN IN THE SUPERBOWL. IN SHORT, ROSY ROSENBLOOM AND I WILL WORK AS A TEAM, WITH OUR COMBINED PSYCHIC POWERS, TO GET ROSY HIS BELOVED SUPERBOWL THAT HE DIDNT HAVE WHEN HE WAS ALIVE. HE STILL WANTS IT. THAT IS, HIS SPIRIT DOES. AND IF MY POWERS WORK, HE WILL HAVE IT. SO TELL YOUR RAMS TEAM THAT MAGIC IS WORKING WITH THEM. A BOOK ABOUT MY AMAZING POWERS, AND MY LIFE, WILL APPEAR NEXT NOVEMBER, CALLED EARTH AMBASSADOR, BY MISHLOVE AND ROGO, PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT BRACE, HARDCOVER. MRS ROSENBLOOM, ROSY AND I ARE GOING TO HELP YOUR BOYS GET THAT SUPERBOWL, BELIEVE IT. TODAY I BEAT THE MIAMI DOLPHINS. YOU CAN CHECK ON THAT. WAYNE GROVE, CARE OF NATIONAL ENQUIRER, 3282 PARADE PLACE, LANTANA FLORIDA 33462. I RAN 2 HURRICANES OVER FLORIDA THIS YEAR, AFTER TELLING HIM THAT I WOULD. CALL HIM AND SEE TED OWENS (PK MAN) 1943 EST === Page 2 of 20 RAMS December 30, 1979 Mr. Wayne Grover, c/o National Enquirer Today I stopped the Miami Dolphins from getting into the SuperBowl Just like I told you I would. (See enclosed map, etc.) It was very hard to do that, Wayne. My problem was to maneuver them into the Steelers; if they had gotten to the Eagles, Tampa Bay, San Diego Chargers or Houston...the Dolphins would have wiped out those teams. So it was vital that I got them to the Steelers, who could be the hammer to hammer them down. And I did, and the Steelers did. Finis. That puts the ribbon around my Florida attack package. Now, this is fascinating. Just following the Dolphin's game was the Cowboys-Rams game. The Rams were no match at all for the Staubach, Dorsett, etc., team. But suddenly Rosy Rosenbloom's spirit, or ghost, whatever, contacted me, and we merged into a unit to control the game...in order to get Rosy's team into the SuperBowl, and win it. (See enclosed telegram to Mrs. Rosenbloom.) You will recall, of course, that years ago Rosy wrote me and begged me not to sink his Colts. But he didn't hire me, and I did sink his Colts. So he traded them for the Rams. Then for years I held his Rams away from the SuperBowl, never dreaming that Rosy would get drowned on vacation in Florida. All right. I am going to try to make it up for Rosy. I am going to do my best to get him the SuperBowl in a few weeks...working with his spirit, or ghost, to do so. It will, of course, require the full effort of his Rams team. If they let down or goof up, forget it. But if they PLAY...Rosy will get his beloved SuperBowl, which was what he lived for. All the best to you and yours, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens * With the superb help of the Steelers. But I caused the Dolphins to fall down and goof up enough to make it happen. === Page 3 of 20 AM SERVICE CENTER _ETOWN, VA. 22645 western union Mailgram 4-014974S006002 01/06/80 ICS IPMMTZZ CSP PTLF 1 2066959033 MGM TDMT VANCOUVER WA 01-06 0832P EST TED OWENS (PK MAN) 200 NORTHEAST 76 ST VANCOUVER WA 98665 THIS MAILGRAM IS A CONFIRMATION COPY OF THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: 2066959033 MGM TDMT VANCOUVER WA 115 01-06 0832P EST ZIP MRS CARROLL ROSENBLOOM, OWNER LOS ANGELES RAMS 10271 WEST PICO LOS ANGELES CA 90064 TODAY CARROLL ROSENBLOOM'S GHOST AND MYSELF BEAT THE TAMPA BAY TEAM. AT THIS POINT I ADVISE YOU TO CHECK WITH SCOTT ROGO 18132 SCHOENBOURN STREET NORTHRIDGE CA. 91324 PHONE 213-993-1799. MY PHONE IS 206-695-9033. HE AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DONE A BOOK ON MY WORK TO GET YOU AND YOUR RAMS PAST THE STEELERS, YOU SHOULD SEND FOR ME AND GET ME IN YOUR BOX ON THE SPOT FOR THE GAME IF I CAN GET IT DONE, ROSY WILL HAVE HIS SUPER BOWL. BUT AGAINST THE STEELERS IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE TED OWENS (PK MAN) 200 NORTHEAST 76 ST VANCOUVER WA 98665 2036 EST MGMCOMP MGM TO REPLY BY MAILGRAM, SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR WESTERN UNION'S TOLL - FREE PHONE NUMBERS === Page 4 of 20 # Rams to bat (I PK'D THIS GAME. TED) 1/7/80 # LA turns Tampa into pumpkin 9-0 By HAL BOCK TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Just when it seemed that time had passed them by, the Los Angeles Rams, of all people, earned a trip to the Super Bowl, of all places. The perennial bridesmaids -- losers in four of the previous five conference championship games -- turned into brides Sunday with a 9-0 victory over Tampa Bay that ended the Bucs' Cinderella bid for the title game and gave the Rams the National Football Conference crown. Frank Corral kicked field goals of 19, 21 and 23 yards, accounting for all the points in the game, and propelling the Rams into the big one Jan. 20 against the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers, who defeated Houston 27-13 for the American Football Conference crown earlier Sunday. Corral, bothered by a bad ankle all year, said he had pulled a hamstring in his kicking leg last week. "A kicker tries to have his leg like a whip, but with the injury I can't get that," Corral said. "All I can do is try and make contact and get it up." That was good enough Sunday, as the Rams put on an awesome defensive show in shutting out the Bucs, who had become popular underdogs after reversing three sad-sack seasons and charging into the playoffs. "I knew it'd be a defensive struggle and I felt it might come down to a couple of field goals," Corral said, "but I never dreamed it would be like this." Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi has been dreaming about a trip to the Super Bowl for some time, and he'll be taking a team that had a 9-7 regular-season record -- poorest of any of the 10 playoff clubs. "It's been so long," he said. "This is my ninth year in the playoffs and always before, it's been frustrating. We've waited for this day a long time." Four times, beginning in 1974, the Rams had played for the NFC title and lost -- twice to Dallas and twice to Minnesota. Each of those losing teams seemed stronger Super Bowl threats than the one Malavasi will take to Pasadena in two weeks. Waiting for the Rams will be the awesome Steelers, shooting for a record fourth Super Bowl crown. "Pittsburgh will be tough, but I'm not afraid of them," said Malavasi. "I'm not afraid of anybody in the NFL." Why should he be? After all, he's already beaten Cinderella. It will be the first time the Rams will play for the National Football League championship since 1951, when they won the title. Four times in the past five years they reached the conference title game only to be eliminated one step short of the Super Bowl. In their fifth try they made it on defense, completely throttling the Bucs and ending Tampa Bay's Cinderella season. With All-Pro defensive end Jack Youngblood playing despite a hairline fracture of his left leg, the Rams' defenders played inspired football and rarely allowed Tampa Bay to threaten. The closest call the Rams had came when Corral, the kicker, made a touchdown-saving tackle against Isaac Hagins following the first Los Angeles field goal. Corral was the last Los Angeles defender and caught Hagins with a rolling tackle at the Bucs' 29. Twice the Rams seemed to have touchdowns, only to lose them on decisions by the officials. First an apparent 4-yard TD run by Cullen Bryant was nullified by an illegal motion penalty, then Preston Dennard grabbed a 20-yard pass from Vince Ferragamo in the end zone but was ruled out of bounds before he had possession of the ball. It was the first time in NFC history that no touchdowns were scored in a championship game. The first quarter was scoreless, but late in the period the Rams launched a drive that carried them to the Tampa Bay 1-yard line. The big play in the march was a 35-yard pass by Ferragamo to Dennard on a third-and-13 situation at the Tampa Bay 39. Bryant went in from the 4 on the next play, but the touchdown was nullified and the Rams were pushed back to the 9. Wendell Tyler picked up 8 yards, putting Los Angeles at the 1, but when two plays failed to dent the Bucs' end zone, Los Angeles settled for Corral's 19-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter. The teams exchanged punts twice before Ferragamo got the Rams moving again. The young quarterback, starting only his seventh pro game because of an injury to Pat Haden, completed five straight passes in a drive that was culminated by Corral's 21-yard field goal with 47 seconds left in the first half. Three of the completions in the drive went to Charle Young, who caught only 13 passes all season. Related story, photo on Page D2. === Page 5 of 20 Eddy & Bern requesting snow. "Enemy" interest in attack on Portland area! Closing Dow Jones 850.09, down 1.62; stocks on Page A14. "Anniversary" of my demo?? # The Ore VOL. 130 -- NO. 37,302 SUNRISE EDITION THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980 # Killer storm to deliv ## Three die; additional snow due By STEVE ERICKSON of The Oregonian staff A snow and freezing rain storm that crippled the Portland area Wednesday was expected to intensify Thursday with a heavy blanket of new snow and freezing temperatures. Three deaths were blamed on the storm, including that of a woman killed Wednesday by a falling tree in Portland, an elderly woman found dead near her Woodland, Wash., home, and a truck driver whose tractor-trailer rig collided with another truck on icy U.S. 730 near Umatilla. The National Weather Service said from three to five inches of new snow **More stories, pictures on the storm are on Pages B1-3, 5, 8.** was expected in the Portland area by early Thursday, making driving conditions "nearly impossible." Snow also was expected to spread into southern sections of Western Oregon and into southeastern parts of the state early Thursday, the Weather Service said, as colder air aloft moved down from the Vancouver Island area of British Columbia. The chance of measurable precipitation in the Portland area was pegged at 50 percent Thursday and 40 percent Thursday night. Three people stranded in snow-bound vehicles in the Columbia River Gorge were rescued Wednesday by an Amtrak train led by a Union Pacific Railroad snowplow. One suffered from frostbite. "As far as we can tell, there isn't CLEAR THE DECK -- Workers remove snow from roof over boats at The storm forced closure Wednesday of all public schools in Multnomah County and in Clark, Skamania and Cowlitz counties in Washington, but all remained open in Washington County and Oregon City. Portland School District officials said late Wednesday that a decision on whether schools would operate Thursday would not be made until early Thursday morning. # 'Limited By STEVE JENNING of The Oregonian staff With snow-laden power lines downed trees blocking city streets many homes without light or heat transportation severely curtailed, land Mayor Connie McCready dec * my [unintelligible] === Page 6 of 20 # Blazer chances: grim oregon Journal Jan. 10, 1980 By KEN WHEELER Journal Sports Writer NEW YORK -- They went six seasons without ever knowing about playoffs. The regular season ended and so did their work. Trail Blazer fans learned to accept that as a way of life. There were 82 games and no more. But then Bill Walton stayed healthy for a season and changed all that. Trail Blazer fans adjusted quickly to the idea that the NBA played in two seasons. The regular season was a prelude. Behind it came the playoffs, the part that really was fun. This may be the season when the thinking again has to be readjusted. One veteran member of the team looked at the cold numbers which lie ahead and sized up the Blazer chances for a playoff spot this season in one word. "Grim." That, he said, "has to be off the record. But that's what it is." It's an assessment with which it would be hard to argue. Left for the Blazers, starting with their game against the Nets in New Jersey Friday night, are 36 games. The idea all along has been that the team needs 45 wins to nail down a playoff position. That means the Blazers would have to go 22-14 the rest of the season -- win two games for each one that is lost. Is there any sign whatsoever that can be done? Making it even more difficult is the fact that 20 of the games left are on the road and only 16 at home. To win 22 more, the Blazers then would have to win every home game left, plus six on the road. Arguing against that coming about are the facts. The Blazers, who follow their game against the Nets with stops in Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and Milwaukee, haven't won a game on the road since Nov. 11. They've lost 12 in a row away from Memorial Coliseum. And Tuesday night's loss at home to Indiana made it eight Portland losses at home this season, equaling the total for last season. Oh, there could be a turnaround. But if there were to be one, wouldn't there have been some sign of it by now? These are not good times for the Blazers. Lionel Hollins, who has missed the last four games with a virus added to an ailing ankle, did not start the trip with the Blazers. He is expected to be along soon, though, maybe even in time for the opening game of this trip. Meanwhile, Maurice Lucas is battling a virus, too. What once was a throat infection now has turned into what he describes as "stomach flu." Ah, when it rains, it's ice. Wins likely will be hard for the Trail Blazers to get on this trip. But other things can be expected. The buildings are tall, so expect the stories to match. Now that the Blazers have touched the east coast for the first time this season, it only stands to reason that before they leave this "media center" of the country, someone will have made a couple of trades in their behalf. It would seem impossible that the Blazers could stop here, en route to their Friday-night game across the Hudson, without at least a couple stories popping up. The prime reasons, of course, are that the Blazers aren't really doing so well in their battle to stay among the leaders in the Pacific Division; that they have a property, Lucas, who would sort of like to be traded; and that there are two teams here who have shown some interest. But, apparently, it'll have to be a new story from that one of 10 days back, that one about how the Blazers had turned down four specific offers from the New York Knicks in a bid by them to pry Lucas free. Interestingly, the story, as printed in Portland, attributed the information "to a source close to the Knicks." In a New York paper, "The offers were confirmed by a high-ranking Portland official." That's the trouble with not having enough wins. Stories take their place. BLAZER NOTES -- Wednesday was a day when the Blazers twice were delayed for de-icing -- not of themselves, but of their aircraft -- but, hopefully, a little of it rubbed off. They were only an hour late out of Portland, delayed while the airline searched for additional de-icing formula. They were held up in Seattle another hour for a second de-icing. This time their Boeing 747 loaded, then pulled into the hangar for the job. Sort of a winter carwash for the big fellow, if you will. === Page 7 of 20 D THE OREGONIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980 SPORTS Indiana beat the Blazers night before last but they didn't even put it in the paper. Owen. Note: This newspaper went to Portland psychiatrists to find out what's wrong with this team. Ha ha ha!! Owen. # Memories of too-early success By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff Bob Gross and Lionel Hollins were 24 when the Portland Trail Blazers' offense was the Picasso of basketball, its defense as effective as the Great Wall. Maurice Lucas was 25 and Dave Twardzik 27 when the Trail Blazers won the 1977 National Basketball Association championship from the Philadelphia 76ers. Now, just 2 1/2 seasons later, the talk in Portland no longer is of championships. Instead the Blazers' modest proposal is to win 45 games and secure a playoff berth. Four players who reached the pinnacle of their profession at very early ages are rearranging their goals for this season. Their sights are set significantly lower. That adjustment can have a profound effect on a player's psyche. Recently, during a losing spell that saw the Blazers lose 16 of 21, opposing players were noticing a change in the personality of the team that once was king. "They are the kind of team that usually fights back from 30 down," said Seattle guard Dennis Johnson after a Sonics' rout of the Blazers Dec. 28. "I didn't see that in them tonight. I didn't see that fight." That aggressiveness has been the trademark of all Jack Ramsay teams, but the fire was missing in many recent losses. Is it hard to restoke the fire after falling from the heights of a championship? The Oregonian asked several Portland-area psychiatrists. "All pro athletes have to cope with expectations from three different levels," said Dr. Gus Proano of Vancouver, "the public, ownership and themselves. "Because of the championship season, everyone has great expectations TOO SOON? -- Did success come too early for young Blazers like Gross and Twardzik (above)? for those players (Gross, Lucas, Hollins and Twardzik). Now you can see they are frustrated and anxious. They're not relaxed. There isn't the feeling that they can predict what they can do." Part of the Blazer problem, according to Dr. Ralph Crawshaw of Portland is that the Blazers still haven't had a proper mourning period for the loss of that championship team. "They have to mourn the loss of the original championship team," Crawshaw said. "The purpose of mourning is to face the past successes and failures and give yourself freedom. You can't go on until you've allowed the natural process of grief to take place. It's called a letdown. It has to be properly attended to. "You have to face the fact that it's never going to be the same. It can't be like it used to be. Unless that is worked through, you can't really build a new team." Several psychiatrists suggested that such a mourning period is especially difficult for players who have accomplished so much so early. "What usually happens when you achieve a lot of success at an early age is that you're not mentally prepared to handle it," Proano said. "A very successful season can be a === Page 8 of 20 Telepathy + PK = telepathic PK T + PK = TPK Owens January 10, 1980 Mr. Scott Rogo Dear Scott: "The worst storm in 30 years" has just struck the Portland-Vancouver area. My alien mind...caused it to happen. This is the run-down on it: (1) While you sat with me, I mentally threw "enemy! Enemy!" at members of the Portland Trailblazers, who SYMBOLIZE PORTLAND... because I had been badly treated in Portland; shamed by the TV studio in front of my kids, as I explained to you. (2) At Christmas, and several other occasions, my boy Beau begged me to "make it snow, Daddy." I wanted to do it for him, but was working on several psi projects and didn't want to set up a PK Map for snow on the Portland-Vancouver area. (3) Last week little Teddy came to me and begged me to "make it snow, please, Daddy." Again, I wanted to, badly...because as perhaps you know I love my children deeply and try to give them everything that they want, if I can. But I explained to him that maybe I had better not make out a PK Map for that, for the reason explained above. Now...at that time there had only been relatively warm weather in this entire area...and just rain, no snow. A few days later all hell broke loose. There is so much snow out around our house that cars cannot drive...it's that deep. We can't even get our car out away from the house. I checked with the SIs. They reminded me of their Sept. 24, 1979, warning, which is enclosed. And: They explained that when I attacked the symbol of Portland... the Trailblazer team...it was exactly like when I attacked the giant radar dome in Virginia and inadvertently wrecked the Chesapeake Bay, later. It brought onto this area the worst storm in 30 years for the area. Made it a disaster area. Also they added one more point (since I had read your excellent book on my work): This area had already been sensitized when I gave the Silverton, Oregon, demonstration, on it...and my powers simply refocused that attack, and amplified it, coupled with the above points to add motivation, hence more amplification. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Beau Owens === Page 9 of 20 Florida News Miami Herald # Keys Water Crisis Irks Residents Jan. 12, 1980 By JANET FIX Herald Staff Writer KEY WEST -- Bill Timmerman would be willing to help avert a water shortage in the Florida Keys by showering with a friend, but he didn't have enough water to shower at all Thursday night. "I'm so irritated I could just scream," said Timmerman, a winter resident since 1951. "For the first time since moving here, I turned the shower on and the water just dribbled down the wall of the stall. Shower with a friend? Ha." Keys residents -- especially those like Timmerman who live in second-floor homes -- were forced to adjust to reduced water pressures Friday while Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority and state officials scrambled to find a barge to carry several million gallons of drinking water from the mainland to the Keys. AQUEDUCT OFFICIALS decided to barge water to Key West in an attempt to counteract reducing water reserves, which shrank to nearly six million gallons the reserves to that level from 20 million gallons the week before. "It's critical now -- we have to barge water in," said Aqueduct Board Secretary Joe Balbontin. "Everybody in the governor's office has dropped everything to find a barge for us." One worker at the desalination plant, which was down Friday for the third time in three days, said, "If this plant isn't up in three days and we they don't barge water down, we'll be out of water." Water consumption during the past several weeks has run about 9.1 million gallons daily. The entire aqueduct system -- if each part is operating properly -- is capable of producing about 8.4 million gallons a day. === Page 10 of 20 Ballard leads Bullet rout Jan. 14, 1980 # Confusing Blazers turn in a clinker By STEVE KELLEY The Oregonian staff LANDOVER, Md. -- Will the real Portland Trail Blazers please stand up? The Inconsistent Blazers, 24-24, showed their darker side again Sunday in a 127-95 loss to the Washington Bullets, 20-21, at Capital Centre. The Blazers shot poorly, were picked apart on the boards and got burned by the fast-breaking Bullet guards. In other words, all of the positive things they showed in their blowout win Friday at New Jersey were missing. And the intensity with which they played Friday disappeared. Greg Ballard, who seems to be settling comfortably into his role as a starting small forward ahead of Bob Dandridge, had a career-high 32 points. And Larry Wright, getting a rare start at guard, put enough zip in the Bullets to zap the Blazers. Elvin Hayes, Ballard and Wes Unseld combined for 39 rebounds as Washington had a convincing 55-45 edge there. "They (Blazers) just weren't blocking out as they have in the past," said Hayes, who had 17 points and 14 rebounds. "They weren't as physical. They might block you out on the first effort, but you could always get them on the second effort today. "They looked tired, like they wanted to go home. It was like they thought they were out of it, out of the Western Conference race. "I can understand it. The Western Conference is much tougher than our conference," Hayes continued. "All we have to do is win four or five in a row and we're back in it." "They can win four or five in a row and still have trouble. That can be very disheartening." The Blazers have been a very confusing team this year. They have been capable of the brilliance of a nine-game winning streak, yet capable of dropping 10 in a row. They can play a marvelous 48 minutes Friday and play a clinker less than 48 hours later. It appears obvious that several things have to happen for Portland to win, and none of them happened Sunday. The Blazers need consistent leadership from their point guards. They got none Sunday. They need consistent points and rebounds from their center. Tom Owens is the only center they have with Kevin Kunnert injured. Sunday, Owens got in foul trouble early and wasn't a factor. There was no help behind him. They need a small forward running cuts, making passes and creating havoc with the defense. Bob Gross had only two points in 23 minutes, and Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay found no one else to turn to. "You have to believe me. I'm not kidding you, I still like the way they execute," veteran Bullet guard Jim Cleamons said of Portland. "But when they have certain people in the game, when they have to rely on the outside shot, they have problems unless they get a lot of rebounds. Today they didn't. "I still love their offense, though. It's the best in the league, a tribute to their coach. They still get the shots they want when they're willing to wait for them." Sunday's game has to rank with the biggest yawners of the season. Beginning in the second quarter, the Blazers' shots stopped dropping. The big Bullet front line took care of the rebounds, and Wright and Clemons stoked the break. The Bullets scored 13 straight points late in the first half to take a 59-36 lead with 50 second left. They never lost their intensity after that. The biggest lead was 119-83 after a Ballard jumper with 3:20 left. Ballard, getting the most playing time of his three-year career lately, has scored 63 points in his last two games. "He's a great shooter, and now he has confidence in his shots," said Bullet Coach Dick Motta. "Now his teammates have confidence in him, too. He's looking for his shot more, and they are looking for him more. "In the past he would get the ball low and not look to shoot," Motta continued. "Now he's going through people. I think I'll leave Bobby (Dandridge) on the bench for a while and keep Greg as a starter." "This is like it was at Oregon with the players looking for me," Ballard said. "At Oregon we would make five or six passes, and then the ball would usually come to me to shoot. "Now that I'm playing more, I know when to take the shot and when to pass it off. That confidence only comes with playing. It makes you more confident overall." Confidence has been only a sometimes thing for Portland recently, and the Blazers now face back-to-back games against Eastern powers Philadelphia (Wednesday) and Boston (Friday). "It looks like the same thing is happening to them as happened to us earlier this year," Hayes said. "They look like they're trying to make adjustments after all their injuries. They're still playing good fundamental basketball, but they sure aren't as physical." BLAZER NOTES -- Ron Brewer was the only Blazer bright light, hitting 11 of 18 shots. He has hit 58 of his last 85 shots through his last five games. . . . Lionel Hollins missed his sixth straight game because of a virus. . . . Dave Twardzik is hobbled with a groin injury. Related stories on Page D2. PORTLAND (95) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Gross | 23 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | Washington | 32 | 4-12 | 1-2 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | | Owens | 19 | 7-14 | 2-2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | | R. Brewer | 38 | 11-18 | 1-2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 23 | | Twardzik | 20 | 0-4 | 2-2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | | Lucas | 35 | 8-16 | 3-5 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | | Paxson | 28 | 6-12 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | | Dunn | 10 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | | J. Brewer | 15 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Jeelani | 20 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | | Totals | 240 | 41-97 | 14-19 | 45 | 26 | 28 | 9 | 18 | 95 | WASHINGTON (127) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Ballard | 34 | 15-22 | 2-3 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 32 | | Hayes | 34 | 7-16 | 3-5 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 | | Unseld | 30 | 5-9 | 3-3 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | | Cleamons | 29 | 4-6 | 2-3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | | Wright | 29 | 6-11 | 4-5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | | Phegley | 17 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | Dandridge | 19 | 7-11 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | | Kupchak | 19 | 4-6 | 3-4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | | Grevey | 16 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | | Porter | 7 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | | Corzine | 6 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | Totals | 240 | 54-100 | 19-25 | 55 | 31 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 127 | Portland .......... 24 16 25 30 -- 95 Washington .......... 28 33 37 29 -- 127 Team rebounds -- Portland 5, Washington 5. Blocked shots -- J. Brewer, Washington; Hayes 4, Wright, Kupchak. Three-point attempts -- Lucas 1-1, Paxson 0-1, Jeelani 0-1, J. Brewer 0-1; Ballard 0-1, Grevey 0-2. Technical fouls -- Kupchak. Turnovers -- Portland 18 for 19 points; Washington 13-13. Officials -- Crawford, Rooney. Attendance -- 9,469. === Page 11 of 20 # Plans Contract Water Tanker Collapse; Navy Barge Proposed Miami Herald Jan. 15, 1980 By JANET FIX Herald Staff Writer KEY WEST -- Florida Keys Aqueduct Manager Dennis Wardlow ordered a tall glass of water and two aspirins Monday as one more hope for obtaining extra drinking water for the Keys went down the drain. Early Monday, aqueduct officials dropped plans to use a Liberian-registered tanker to carry water from the Port of Everglades to Key West because of insurmountable obstacles. HOWEVER, SEN. Vernon Holloway (D., Miami) said late Monday that a Navy barge could be obtained. He said that Wardlow, scheduled to be in Miami for a meeting on the new pipeline with Department of Environmental Regulation officials, would work out the details today. "We're 99 per cent sure that we can get this one," Holloway said, pointing out the Navy barge could carry 325,000 gallons per trip. But Wardlow was less than optimistic after a phone call to the barge captain at Norfolk, Va. "Every this guy just seems to want to give me lip service," Wardlow said. "All he wanted to do was ask questions. He didn't have any answers." Even though the desalination plant continued to operate, water reserves for the Key dropped below five million gallons. THE WATER CRISIS wasn't making hospital life any easier. Fifteen-month-old Kelly Metcalf was to have undergone exploratory surgery Monday, but she didn't have her operation because Florida Keys Memorial Hospital didn't have enough water pressure to flush its toilets. Surgery for the baby and three other patients was postponed until water pressures at the hospital can be brought up to normal levels. Water pressures, normally at 20 pounds per square inch, dropped to two pounds. Six emergency operations, which couldn't be postponed, were performed by frustrated doctors and nurses under "less than desireable conditions," hospital officials said. === Page 12 of 20 # Fastbreaking 76ers clip Blazers 121-110 by STEVE KELLEY The Oregonian staff Jan. 17, 1980 PHILADELPHIA -- Quicker than you can say, "We owe you three," guard Maurice Cheeks turned a gritty, patterned, Portland Trail Blazer-type game into a fastbreaking, freewheeling 121-110 Philadelphia 76er victory over the Blazers Wednesday night. The loss, Portland's 14th in its last 15 road games, seemed as predictable as winter rain in the Northwest. After all, the Blazers were missing starter Tom Owens, who left Wednesday to attend the funeral of his father in New York, and guard Jim Paxson, out because of a hamstring pull. Forwards Kermit Washington, Abdul Jaleeni and Jim Brewer were suffering from the flu. Still Portland, 24-25, was able to put the reins on the potent Sixer fastbreak for more than half the game. Running their disciplined offense cleanly and efficiently, the Blazers were even with Philadelphia at 69 with 5:53 left in the third quarter. Then Cheeks, a second-year guard, took control. First he forced Lionel Hollins into a bad shot that was converted at the other end by Darryl Dawkins. Cheeks pestered Hollins into another turnover that resulted in a Cheeks' layup, then the pesky guard pressured Hollins into a bad pass that led to a graceful, swooping layup by Julius Erving. Erving's drive gave the Sixers six points in only seconds and put them ahead to stay 75-69. Erving had 13 points in the quarter and Cheeks had 12 as the Sixers turned 12 fastbreaks into 18 points and rolled to their 10th win in 11 games. "I could definitely tell that wasn't the natural Lionel Hollins we played tonight," said Cheeks, who took advantage of the fact that Hollins had missed six straight games because of flu. "Last year against me in Portland, he did some things that were really out of the ordinary. He showed me something up there. Tonight he wasn't nearly at full strength." Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay got extraordinary performances out of his starting five, but with his bench weakened he was forced to play all five longer than normal. They finally wilted. Portland stayed within 95-89 with 8:37 to play but was outscored 16-4 as the Sixer bench blew the game open and put Philly ahead 111-93 with 4:25 left. The Sixer bench outscored the Blazer bench for the game 48-22. "They played a very controlled game. It's a very subdued game and it can lull you into a false sense of security," said Erving, who had 26 points and six blocked shots. "We got lulled into that. We thought we were playing well in the first half, but we weren't and we were lucky to be ahead 56-54. Even though they play a very physical game, it seems like they sneak up on you." "We don't play well against well-disciplined teams," said Bob Jones, who came off the bench for 16 Philadelphia points. "We always have trouble with Atlanta because of that. We're primarily a fastbreaking, fast-tempo team and we couldn't do that. We needed a couple of turnovers to get our break going and we finally got them." Credit for that goes to Cheeks, who got three quick personal fouls in the first half and didn't score. "We had to pick up the tempo in the second half and you do that with defense," said Cheeks, who had three steals and five assists in the last half. "We were just going along with their game and that can be dangerous. I came out and played my man a lot tougher. If one guy starts playing defense like that, then usually it starts to rub off on the other players." The difference in the game shows up in fastbreak statistic. Philadelphia, 33-11, converted 28 fastbreaks into 39 points, while Portland had only 13 fastbreak opportunities that led to only 11 points. "We knew if we got into a rat race game with them we would come out on the short end," said Blazer Bob Gross, who had a strong 13-point, five-assist night. "But we had to take advantage of fastbreak opportunities when they came and we didn't." "We went through that bad stretch (in the third quarter) when we took some bad shots and they were getting out on two- and three-on-zero breaks." players who should have been in sick bay, a win over the Sixers seemed like too much to ask of the snake-bitten Blazers. "We felt we had to play almost to perfection," said Maurice Lucas, who played most of his 42 minutes at center. "We played well enough to win, but we made those mistakes in that short stretch and that took us out of it. We're just trying to keep our heads above water so that we can make a run at the playoffs when we get everybody healthy." The road gets no easier Friday when the Blazers play the Boston Celtics. PORTLAND (110) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Gross | 34 | 10-17 | 6-7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | | Washington | 38 | 7-11 | 5-7 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19 | | Lucas | 42 | 7-17 | 3-4 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | | R. Brewer | 39 | 12-22 | 1-1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 25 | | Twardzik | 30 | 5-10 | 3-3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | | Hollins | 18 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | | J. Brewer | 16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | Jeelani | 14 | 3-7 | 2-2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | | Dunn | 9 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | Totals | 240 | 47-99 | 15-18 | 43 | 26 | 28 | 7 | 14 | 110 | PHILADELPHIA (121) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Erving | 34 | 10-17 | 6-7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26 | | C. Jones | 42 | 3-6 | 5-6 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | | Dawkins | 28 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | | Richardson | 20 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | | Cheeks | 32 | 7-9 | 2-2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 16 | | Bibby J. | 35 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | | B. Jones | 21 | 4-8 | 8-9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 16 | | Mix | 19 | 6-11 | 8-11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | | Spanarkel | 9 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | | Totals | 240 | 44-78 | 33-39 | 39 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 16 | 121 | Portland .......... 24 30 24 32 -- 110 Philadelphia .......... 26 30 33 32 -- 121 Team rebounds -- Portland 6, Philadelphia 7. Blocked shots -- Gross, Lucas, Dunn; Erving 6, C. Jones 3, Mix, Dawkins. Three-point attempts -- R. Brewer 1-1, Gross 0-1, Hollins 0-2; Bibby 0-1. Technical fouls -- Washington. Officials -- Gushue, Capers. Attendance -- 11,517. === Page 13 of 20 # Deposed Rosenbloom with the Rams in spirit **BY TED GREEN** **LA Times-Washington Post Service** LOS ANGELES -- The New Orleans Saints' new executive vice president plans to stay home and watch Sunday's Super Bowl game on television. "Unless you know where I can get some tickets," Steve Rosenbloom said. Not many people, he went on, will be more delighted if the Rams upset the Pittsburgh Steelers. The coaches' and players' hard work, Rosenbloom said, and that of his late father, Carroll Rosenbloom, will finally have come to fruition. But then he figures to turn off the TV before Carroll's widow, Georgia Rosenbloom, accepts the championship trophy as Rams owner in front of millions of viewers. "After the game, we do have a lot of packing to do," Rosenbloom said. "Besides, I might be eating a sandwich during the trophy presentation and I wouldn't want to get sick." As any follower of the NFL's version of Family Feud can tell you, Georgia Rosenbloom, 70 percent owner by provision of her husband's will, last summer fired her stepson, Steve, from his job as Rams executive vice president. He had been running the team day-to-day before the ax fell. Now, five months later, he retains his 6 percent share of the team. In less than two weeks, he and his wife will resettle in a home they just bought in New Orleans, where he will take command as the Saints' full-time general manager. But Steve Rosenbloom is still with the Rams in spirit. And that has made for mixed feelings. "I'm rooting for (Coach) Ray Malavasi, for the players, coaches and staff, the people I worked with for seven years," he said. "I'm so glad to see it (a Super Bowl appearance) finally come to pass. "Sure, I would have liked to have been part of this year. But the Carroll Rosenbloom era has come to an end and, with it, his philosophy. The philosophy of the new ownership seems to be the antithesis of his. I couldn't have been comfortable being a part of that, I'm glad I wasn't. That's how I separate the two: that it's wonderful for the team but something I just couldn't share firsthand. "Look, I worked hard along with everybody else. I'm human. I have strong emotional feelings. I specifically told you who I was rooting for and left the rest unsaid. But, now, rooting against the Rams would be rooting against myself. I was part of them; I toiled with them. "That's why I say that, honestly, I don't feel I missed the cigar, that I'm the Rams' odd-man out. I think I got the cigar, anyway. "I've never been concerned with what people outside think; they have their opinion, they're entitled. The thing that's always been important is: 'What do my peers think? How do they feel? They know whether you did the job. The people I worked with know. In that sense, I am a part of it. "I'm not sad for myself. I am sad that my father isn't here to see what he worked so damned hard for. His obsession, getting back to the Super Bowl. Ironically, it's the first time a team has been in the Super Bowl in its own city. Can you imagine how much he'd be enjoying this? At least I'm here to witness it. Believe me, I get a lot of self-satisfaction seeing the Rams in it." Steven Rosenbloom said he has tried to keep a low profile the last two weeks of Super Bowl buildup. He spent almost the entire time in New Orleans getting familiar with his new team and city. But still the calls came. "I'm tired of answering the same questions over and over," he said. "It's just an excuse to bring up the whole tired business again. "They want to know, 'What about C.R.?' 'What about the will?' 'Did you get screwed?' 'Do you hate Georgia?' As soon as the Rams got into the Super Bowl, the phone started ringing. The press has two weeks to fill so they write about everything and everybody. I was expecting it. Sure, the situation is strange, but isn't it a local-interest story, except for the gossip factor? Anyway, they write about the Rooneys (the family that owns the Steelers), so somebody says, 'What about the clowns on the other side?'" Having been ousted from the team his father groomed him to run for 23 years, during which time he worked his way up from ballboy with the Baltimore Colts (Carroll's first NFL team) to executive with the Rams, Steve Rosenbloom is bitter. He's so low-key and says everything in such a soft monotone that it's often hard to sense the bitterness. But it's there, make no mistake about that. During the hour interview, he said the name Georgia once. Instead, he used "the new ownership" or "they." His comments included: -- "If they find out I was here (at the ticket office), they'll probably have a full-scale investigation. Talk about paranoia." -- "After I was fired, I told the players to forget the front office pettiness and go on doing what they do best. My talk had nothing to do with them reaching the Super Bowl, I assure you. But it may have been the last positive thing they heard from ownership all year." -- "When it comes to personalities like the new ownership, you consider the source. Why should I even bother to comment? People make their own judgments." -- "It's funny how the press makes images. There are hollow people with big images, while other people do the work." THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1980 3M C5 === Page 14 of 20 # rips Blazers By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff Jan. 19, 1980 BOSTON -- The third-quarter fade, which has become as much a part of Portland's game as the five-down play or turnout, proved the Trail Blazers' undoing again Friday night as the Boston Celtics ran them into a 111-93 National Basketball Association loss. Boston has a potent fastbreak -- if you don't believe it, ask the Blazers. They stood and watched it for most of the third quarter. Boston outscored them in that period 37-15 and turned a tight, well-played game into a blowout. "I have no explanation for a period like we played in the third," said Blazer coach Jack Ramsay, who was as upset with his team after this one as he has ever been. "We defied all of the fundamental principles of the game and lacked the effort to go with it. In my opinion, both of those things are unpardonable. "It was one of the worst quarters I've ever witnessed a team of mine play. It might be the worst," Ramsay said. "I don't know why we have been having trouble in the third quarters, but we have." There is, however, an explanation for Friday's third quarter. Two players -- Dave Twardzik and Kermit Washington -- continued to hustle and scramble. Several others stood around. For more than a half, the Blazers, 24-26, stayed in their offense and played the 34-11 Celtics evenly. But, when Lionel Hollins came into the appeared to be what some of the Blazers did. Ramsay called their play "ridiculous" after Boston went on a 27-6 spurt to take an 86-66 lead after three quarters. For the second game in a row, Hollins was in the middle of the trouble when things went bad. His quick series of third-quarter turnovers in Wednesday's game at Philadelphia turned things around for the 76ers. "I'm playing the game in a different light now," said Hollins, who was benched for keeps by Ramsay late in the third quarter. "I'm more of a role player now: Come in for three minutes to give somebody a rest, or come in for two minutes if somebody is in foul trouble. "So far I haven't been able to adapt to that role," he said. "I'm not contributing much to the team now. I expect in the next couple of games I won't be seeing much action. I just haven't adapted to the new role. I've lost confidence in my game and I'm not doing the things I normally do. I'm trying to adjust, but it's easy to say and much harder to do it." Knee problems and a virus have limited Hollins to 13 games this season, and the magic he once created has been missing lately. He returned Wednesday after missing six straight games. "The enthusiasm is still there, but you have to execute and that's been missing," he said. "I was sick and spent most of the time just lying around, and I probably got out of shape." game, the shot selections turned sour, the offense stopped. With Maurice Lucas and Hollins shooting and missing from the outside, the Celtics were able to get their running game going. When the Celtics run, they are hard to beat. But when the Celtics are forced to play their halfcourt offense, they can be in trouble. They hit only 6 of 20 shots in the first quarter, and Portland scored 14 straight points late in the quarter to take a 33-21 lead. The Blazers' lead was 47-39 with 2:05 left in the half when the Celtic bench went on a 10-4 tear to pull to 51-49 at halftime. Bill Fitch, the Boston coach who has seen the Blazers' relentless offense grind effectively for an entire game, was scared stiff after 22 minutes. "We were letting them do whatever they wanted to do and they wouldn't let us do anything," said Fitch. "They had us well scouted. They knew what we wanted to do. The only thing they didn't know about was when we sent Larry (Bird) outside to play like a guard. We didn't run that in the games in which they scouted us." With Bird outside and Dave Cowens working hard underneath, the Celtics took off. And when they took off down the court there rarely was a Blazer chasing the play. Cowens made all seven shots he took in the third quarter, when Boston blew it open. "We started getting the ball down low into Dave and that worked," said Fitch, who failed to mention that Lucas was giving Cowens acreage to shoot the ball. "Going to Cowens was like rolling dice -- you keep the same guy rolling them. You don't give up the dice when you are in a hot streak." But, you don't roll over and die when you're in a cold streak, and that The Blazers must post a 21-11 record the rest of the way to get 45 victories and a chance at a playoff berth. Even 45 victories, however, might not be enough. San Diego is starting to open some ground in front of the Blazers, and the battle for the sixth playoff spot in the conference might boil down to Portland and Milwaukee. ## BLAZER NOTES -- Ron Brewer found somebody Friday who can stop Ron Brewer. Himself. His first two shots Friday were fascinating -- a 14-foot air ball shot from 16 feet and a 12-foot flying saucer that hit the side of the backboard and headed toward the Boston end. ### PORTLAND (93) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Gross | 35 | 9-15 | 4-5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 22 | | Washington | 35 | 7-13 | 5-10 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 19 | | Lucas | 32 | 3-13 | 0-0 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | | R. Brewer | 38 | 3-14 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | | Twardzik | 33 | 5-10 | 4-4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | | Hollins | 12 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | | Owens | 20 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | | Jeelani | 13 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | | Dunn | 13 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | | J. Brewer | 9 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | | Totals | 240 | 38-90 | 17-25 | 44 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 23 | 93 | ### BOSTON (111) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Maxwell | 31 | 5-5 | 9-13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 | | Bird | 30 | 6-12 | 5-6 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 18 | | Cowens | 35 | 10-16 | 0-0 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 20 | | Archibald | 28 | 3-6 | 5-7 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | | Ford | 23 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | | Carr | 23 | 7-11 | 0-0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | | Robey | 20 | 3-9 | 1-2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | | Chaney | 20 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | | Henderson | 20 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | | Fernsten | 5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Judkins | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | | Totals | 240 | 44-85 | 21-29 | 45 | 27 | 22 | 12 | 22 | 111 | Portland .......... 33 18 15 27 -- 93 Boston .......... 22 27 37 25 -- 111 Team rebounds -- Portland 10, Boston 10. Turnovers-points -- Portland, 23 for 31 pts.; Boston, 22 for 20 pts. Blocked shots -- Twardzik, R. Brewer, Dunn, Washington; Cowens. *Three-point attempts -- R. Brewer 0-1; Bird 1-1, Chaney 1-1, Ford 0-1, Carr 0-1. Technical fouls -- none. Officials -- Jones, Kersey. Attendance -- 15,320. === Page 15 of 20 Jan. 19, 1980 1-25-80 postmark Jeffrey: Scott has done something I had considered impossible to do! He has "measured" something immeasurable. His book is a work of art. Scientific, analytic... for the scientist or the layman... Tough and uncompromising writing. In my opinion no other professional author or investigator in the world could have written Scott's book but Scott! Could have grasped the subtleties and abstractions involved and laid them out for the average reader to understand. Scott will understand when I raise my glass and say "Cheers!" Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 16 of 20 MAILGRAM SERVICE CENTER MIDDLETOWN, VA. 22645 western union Mailgram 4-016328S020002 01/20/80 ICS IPMMTZZ CSP PTLA 1 2066959033 MGM TDMT VANCOUVER WA 01-20 0941P EST T OWENS 200 NORTHEAST 76 ST VANCOUVER WA 98665 THIS MAILGRAM IS A CONFIRMATION COPY OF THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: 2066959033 MGM TDMT VANCOUVER WA 115 01-20 0941P EST ZIP MRS ROSENBLOOM, OWNER LOS ANGELES RAMS 10271 WEST PICO BLVD LOS ANGELES CA 90064 YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD ME IN YOUR BOX, AS I REQUESTED. THIS WAS THE FIRST MISTAKE. CARROLL'S GHOST WAS WITH ME TODAY TO TRY TO WIN THE SUPERBOWL. MY POWERS CREATED A LOT OF FUMBLES AND INTERCEPTIONS TO HELP THE RAMS, BUT THE RAMS DID NOT CASH IN ON THEIR OPPORTUNITIES. SEE YOUR FILMS. I CREATED TWO INTERCEPTIONS BUT ON BOTH OCCASIONS YOUR RAMS DROPPED THE BALL, LOSING EASY TOUCHDOWNS. I DID MY BEST TO GET CARROLL HIS BELOVED SUPERBOWL. BUT HIS OWN TEAM TOOK IT AWAY FROM HIM. AND THAT IS THE FINAL END OF CARROLL. TED OWENS (PK MAN) 2144 EST MGMCOMP MGM TO REPLY BY MAILGRAM SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR WESTERN UNION'S TOLL FREE PHONE NUMBERS === Page 17 of 20 # Blazers collapse in last two minutes, fall another BY STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff Jan. 21, 1980 MILWAUKEE -- The Portland Trail Blazers are stalking the Milwaukee Bucks for one of the final Western Conference playoff spots. If they don't catch the Bucks, they may look at the last 2:17 of Sunday's game and wonder what might have been. The Blazers, 24-27, squandered an 88-83 lead in that precious 2:17 and lost to the slumping Bucks 89-88 to finish a 1-4 road trip. The loss put the seventh-place Blazers 2½ games behind sixth-place San Diego and 3½ behind Milwaukee in the race for the sixth and last playoff berth. Brian Winters, who hit only four of his other 13 shots, connected on a 21-footer with four seconds left to hand the Blazers their 16th loss in the last 17 road games. A last-second bomb from Ron Brewer at the buzzer, with Sidney Moncrief and Winters double-teaming him, went wide right. This was another one of those games in which the Blazers played well for large periods of the game. They kept the Bucks from fastbreaking, they crushed Milwaukee on the boards and they got strong contributions from Lionel Hollins, Jim Brewer, Tom Owens and Abdul Jeelani off the bench. But those sweet ingredients of victory turned sour in the last 2:17. David Meyers drilled a three-point jumper at 1:19 to pull Milwaukee, 27-23, within 88-86. Then official Mike Mathis made a questionable offensive-foul call on Maurice Lucas that gave the Bucks the ball back with 59 seconds left. Marques Johnson missed a jumper over Kermit Washington and Washington blocked Moncrief's rebound attempt. But Bob Gross fouled Moncrief in the ensuing scramble and Moncrief made one of two free throws to pull within 88-87 at 36 seconds. After a timeout, the Blazers set up their backdoor lob pass for Washington, but Gross' pass was mishandled by the Blazer power forward. The ball went off Washington's hands, off the rim and Meyers rebounded for the Bucks, dribbled past midcourt and called time with 16 seconds to go. "The pass was a little too low and he (Washington) had trouble handling it because of that," said Moncrief, who went up for the ball with Washington. "He didn't receive it in the right spot. Maybe if he had caught the ball first, come down and then gone up again, he would have scored." Winters called his game-winning jumper a "busted play." The Bucks tried to get Johnson free but Portland effectively kept him away from the basket. "They took that whole side of the court away," Winters said. "When I got the ball I saw Richard (Washington) standing there and I went for him. I knew the clock was running out and he gave me a good pick, got me free and I went up with it." The Bucks are a different team from the one that beat the Blazers so badly (by nine points) twice earlier this season. They are missing guard Quinn Buckner, who directed the offense and keyed the defense. They aren't playing confidently. They aren't attacking. Milwaukee is 5-9 without Buckner, who is expected back shortly from his hamstring pull. "Usually we would full-court press a lot against Portland, but we can't do that without Quinn," said Winters. "You need 11 players feeling good to press and we don't have the strength to do that now." The Blazers' strength is in their methodical, patterned offense. It worked well with certain combinations, but broke down with others. For example, when Maurice Lucas was in the lineup, Milwaukee had a 55-32 edge, even though those kinds of statistics are misleading because matchups can change with different substitutions. With Lucas out, Portland was in control 56-34. Portland appears to run its offense through its options more consistently when Lucas is out of the lineup. He had eight turnovers Sunday, often playing out of position at center. Owens, however, had a fine game coming off the bench against the Bucks' weak centers, Kent Benson, Harvey Catchings and Pat Cummings. Owens had 16 points and 13 rebounds as Portland enjoyed a 50-38 rebounding advantage. "Owens is very smart with his body," said Milwaukee's interim coach, John Killilea. "He's a great garbage player. Centers have to really lean on him and nobody did that for us." "This was a big step ahead of the last two games," said Blazer coach Jack Ramsay. "We ran our offense better and we got good shots from it. We didn't collapse when we got behind." Milwaukee led 61-53 with 3:12 left in the third when it appeared the Blazers were going to pull another third-quarter fade. But Hollins made a pair of big plays and Jeelani scored two field goals to pull the Blazers to within one point to start the fourth quarter. Then Portland appeared to have a lock on victory late in the game, until that final, bone-dry 2:17. Instead, the struggling Blazers gave a big lift to the struggling Bucks. "Well, it's one W," Killilea said of the win. "Considering the fact we've got a six-game road trip and Portland is one of the teams chasing us, I would say it was an immense W." BLAZER NOTES -- Portland has 31 games left, 16 at home and 15 away. San Diego has 30 to go, 14 at home, 16 away. Milwaukee has 29 left, only 13 at home. . . . The Bucks blocked 13 Blazer shots and committed only 12 turnovers to 22 by Portland. . . . Moncrief said he wasn't surprised that Brewer, his former Arkansas teammate, took the final shot. "I told Brian (Winters) they would probably go to him. He always took the final shot when we were together at Arkansas. We always looked to him in the clutch. He's a great clutch player." Kermit Washington had four first-half fouls and played only 22 minutes in the game, 9 in the first half. . . . Buck coach Don Nelson was admitted to a Boston hospital Sunday to have his bad back examined. He has a herniated disc. === Page 18 of 20 Soviets, East Germans running Afghanistan By BARRY SCHWEID Oregonian JAN 23, 1980 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of Soviet bureaucrats have moved into Afghanistan to run the government and East German intelligence agents are helping to operate the security system, administration sources disclosed Tuesday. Afghan administrators are being dismissed and, in some cases, executed, as the Soviets attempt to tighten their hold on the pro-Moscow government of Babrak Karmal, the sources said. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said, meanwhile, that the Soviets were airlifting more troops into the country now that Kabul airport has reopened after a severe snowfall. He said there were some 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said the Soviets have taken over direction of the Foreign Ministry and security, with East German intelligence agents assuming the role they also play in South Yemen and Angola. Moslem guerrilla resistance to the Soviet intervention is persisting, Carter said. He said that while intelligence reports are sketchy, Soviet casualties in the monthlong penetration of the Moslem country may have reached 2,000. The Soviets have had advisers in the country for about two years, trying to influence succeeding Marxist governments toward a more pro-Moscow line. Since last month's overthrow of President Hafizullah Amin and his succession by Babrak, viewed by the Carter administration as a puppet, the Soviets have assumed a more prominent position in governmental operations. "The advisers are being a lot more active, and the new administrators have joined them," said one U.S. official who asked not to be identified. President Carter has called the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan "the most serious threat to world peace since the Second World War." In an address Wednesday night he is expected to announce a series of measures he hopes will contain Soviet expansion in Southwest Asia. According to some reports, the Soviets have been training Baluchi tribesmen to foment dissent in neighboring Pakistan. However, a State Department statement said officials could not "confirm with any degree of specificity either that such training is taking place or, if it is, where the training is being carried out." The Baluchis are a restive minority in Iran and Afghanistan as well as Pakistan. Some analysts hold the view that Pakistan's central government could be subverted by exacerbating Baluchi unrest. Jan. 23, 1980 Jeffrey Mishlove: As you know, before Russia attacked Afghanistan I phoned you (and Dr. Monteith) and told you that my SIs told me to warn that the U.S. was in deadly danger, hour by hour, day by day in a way therefore non-existent. Either you or Henry asked and I said an immediate threat of World War Three. So I *warned before the fact. Ted Owens (PK Man) * my SIs (or the Phenomena... "I am very proud of Scott's book!" === Page 19 of 20 D2 3M THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1980 # Blazers hope for November in January **By STEVE KELLEY** of The Oregonian staff The last time the Los Angeles Lakers came to town, Nov. 20, the Portland Trail Blazers handed them a 114-99 licking. Ah, the good ol' days. After that game, Portland was in first place in the National Basketball Association's Pacific Division, one game ahead of the second-place Lakers and 2½ in front of third-place Seattle. That was the last time Portland beat a team with a winning record, and when the Blazers, 24-27, play Los Angeles, 35-15, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Coliseum, they will be looking up from fifth place in the division, 3½ games behind first-place Seattle and 11½ behind the second-place Lakers. "You can just tell we don't have the confidence to win on the road anymore and now we have to start beating the good teams at home.," Blazer forward Kermit Washington said Wednesday. "Winning brings that confidence. When I was at LA (1976-77), we had the best record in the league that year (53-29). I knew that we were going to win everytime we walked onto the court. It was just a matter of how many points we were going to beat the other team by. That's no exaggeration. Even on the road, I knew that with Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar), we would have a good chance of winning." The Blazers play three of their next four games at home before breaking for the All-Star Game. It may be their last good chance to find some confidence for a playoff run. IF THE BLAZERS are looking for bright spots in their dismal performances of the last two months, they might consider their backdoor play, in which Bob Gross lobs the ball underneath for a soaring Kermit Washington dunk. Bill Fitch, the Boston Celtics coach, said in Boston last week that the play, when executed properly, is impossible to stop. Washington agrees. "I was just telling Bucky (Blazers assistant coach Buckwalter) that we are getting it down really well, to the point where we can score on it nine times out of 10," Washington said. "All I have to do is get a step on my man and he has to move so quickly, jump so high and so quick, that it's almost impossible to stop. The only way to stop it is to not let me go backdoor, and that opens up the rest of the options." BLAZER COACH Jack Ramsay, Buckwalter and Director of Player Personnel Stu Inman met after Wednesday's practice and the topic was trade. The Blazers have until Feb. 15 to make a deal. Now that Boston has signed Pete Maravich, the Sixers, who are looking for a guard, are interested in a deal involving Blazers guard Lionel Hollins, whose contract expires at the end of this season. Hollins twisted his left ankle and sat out the last part of Wednesday's practice. LAKER COACH Jack McKinney, who suffered a serious head injury in a bicycle accident Nov. 8, will accompany the Lakers to Portland for Thursday's game. Paul Westhead remains in charge of the team, but McKinney's condition has improved enough to allow him to travel. OREGON STATE center Steve Johnson is rated the fourth-best center in the country, according to the latest scouting report from Marty Blake, whose scouting service is used by most NBA teams. Johnson is listed behind Purdue's Joe Barry Carroll, Duke's Mike Gminski and Minnesota's Kevin McHale. All are seniors except Johnson, a junior who is eligible for the regular draft this season. University of Portland guard Darwin Cook is the eighth-rated guard. === Page 20 of 20 Sept 24, 1979 The SI: "Be careful what you think... because, with the brain of Future Man, as you think, so it will happen. From now on hide your thoughts from other humans." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8001 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9c144ac8c1c6c9889bc3f44aba40ef87.pdf a8ad013d25c67e54b67c675509d755d4 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/47f9703d99da78ee71936b59fb304aa7.txt 35475bec74cef3f8d03cf421d055a3fa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 37 1-505-842-7922 PEFF Feb. 1, 1980 Jeffrey Mishlove D. Scott Rogo Dr. Henry Monteith Added note, 2/4/80: This morning I could not pay my rent and we did not have enough money to buy a loaf of bread. In the papers I read Jabar of the Lakers gets a million dollars this year for basketball. You know what? I am going to kick the LIVING SHITS OUT OF THIS WORLD re the material below! Maybe, just maybe, someone will learn some values! Owens. Heretofore I have only used my powers to control a city, a State, or a country. If you will recall, it was I who stated that I had discovered years ago that not only were time and distance irrelevant in SI...but also...was MASS. In my personal work, I have utilized this principle, plus the fact that my "operator attitude" is perhaps superior to that of any practitioner of parapsych in the world. The combination is necessary. While I am at it...I might as well state that my work, and my findings...are far, far superior to that of all the other parapsychologists in the world lumped together, including Dr. Rhine and his crew. If you can't believe that, study the documentation on me for a while. Now for the purpose of this communication. A book...maybe, perhaps, if, etc., could be published about my work...a year from now. A long year. But...the SIs and I haven't a year to delay...to lag. (While I stumble along, broke, just barely making it day to day, week to week...while basketball and football stars make hundreds of thousands.) Therefore, I am entering into a new high level of activity. A new plateau. And for once, my SIs, the UFOs, will not help me. I am calling in my alternate (but in no way inferior) Power...Tyrere, the Egyptian Power, with which I am linked, like a brother. Together, we will strike out at all power sources ALL OVER THE WORLD. Electric, you name it...we will work to neutralize it. To hell with time limit...I am not working with scientists, so what do I care about a time limit. All over the world...power out...all kinds of power...starting with electricity. That is what we will now be working on. If anything happens to me (government agencies and dirty tricks; murder and assassination) then not only will the United States be destroyed, but the entire white race will be destroyed. The UFOs have to have human choice on that...and I have given them my will and permission. So...I had better stay healthy. Ted Owens (PK Man) Vancouver, Washington 98665 + The comparison is a joke Power Cut THE WORLD Power cut Power cut Power cut === Page 2 of 37 rash of attacks by pit bulls in recent weeks has given South Floridians the jitters. Yet a German shepherd is far more likely to inflict injury. What sets off ferocious, or even docile, dogs? How dangerous is your dog? Feb 3, 1980 Miami Herald By JIM HARDIE Herald Staff Writer Teeth are bared, hair along the back and around the neck stands up. There is a primeval growl ... you are about to be bitten by an attacking dog. It is a terrifying situation faced an average of 16 times a day in Dade County, 10 times in Broward and four times daily in Palm Beach County. In each instance, the dog does bite. "Any dog will bite, given the right circumstances," said Ralph Greenwood of Salt Lake City, president of the American Dog Breeders Association, a kennel operator for 30 years. "One of the meanest dogs I have ever had in my kennel was an Old English sheep dog," Greenwood said. "I had a golden lab retriever once which would bite you the first chance it had. Of course, in both these cases, the biting was out of character for the breed of dog, but it shows that any dog can and will bite." WHAT ABOUT pit bulls? "As a breed of dog, it is out of character for it to bite people," he said. "It can be trained to bite, or by abusing the dog, you can make it mean to people. It is certainly within the character of the pit bull to go after small animals, cats, and it will bite other dogs. But it is not normal for it Turn to Page 6G Col. 1 FROM PAGE 1G to be going around biting people like a German shepherd." In early December, a pit bull mauled a 6-year-old boy in Hollywood as he played in a neighbor's yard. Six weeks later, two pit bulls attacked a 71-year-old woman at her Dade home. On Jan. 26, a man's thumb was bitten off by a pit bull as he attempted to separate that dog and a dachshund that had attacked it. That same day, a 6-year-old girl in Davie was bitten on the cheek and right leg by a pit bull. The term pit bull is used as a catch-all for several similar breeds of dogs, including the bull terrier, the Staffordshire terrier, American Staffordshire terrier and the American pit bull terrier. The United Kennel Club (UKC) registers the American pit bull terrier as an official breed; the American Kennel Club (AKC) does not. The AKC will, however, register an American Staffordshire Terrier, which may also be registered by the UKC as an American Pit Bull. The various breeds have similar appearances; stocky legs, a powerful chest and jaws. Spot in the Our Gang comedies, was a pit bull as was the RCA records' mascot, listening for his master's voice. Coral Gables veterinarian Dr. C.R.J. Mladinich said, "I can't recall one that would even bite. They are unusual pets in a lot of ways. I've never seen a breed of dog that can climb as well as they can ... and also the ones that I've see have been very intelligent. They do have strong jaws. I had one that almost bit his way through a 1 3/4-inch door." Coconut Grove veterinarian Michael Marmesh, who specializes in treating large animals, says, "My personal opinion [is] if you want to pick on a dog, pick on a shepherd. I've have over 300 bites by shepherds." Yet, other dogs go berserk, too: William Crews, 2, was killed by an Alaskan malamute Jan. 5 in Greensboro, N.C., and on Aug. 5 last year, a Siberian husky killed 4-year-old Jose Alvarez in Lakewood, N.J., and 11-year-old Anthony Cottone of New York City was scalped by a St. Bernard. Phil Hoelcher at Landmark Kennel showed a black cocker spaniel in one of his pens. "That dog will bite you the first opportunity it gets," he said. "Like a bad person; this particular spaniel is a bad dog; it is a biter. That is not a characteristic of spaniels. It just so happens, this is a bad dog." BUT IT IS true that South Florida has been having more than its share of dog bites. "For reasons unknown to us, the Greater Miami area is experiencing a virtual epidemic of dog bites compared to the rest of the country," said Jack Recht of Chicago, a statistics expert with the National Safety Council. Here is what is happening: * Dog bites at the rate of close to 6,000 a year are being reported to health authorities in Dade County, 3,620 a year in Broward and 1,630 a year in Palm Beach County. * Dog bites are exceeded only by gonorrhea among the most reported diseases and injuries in the U.S., according to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. * Dog bite is a serious national problem with 1.5 million persons bitten in '79 at a cost of $50 million for medical treatment, according to the National Safety Council in Chicago. "THE PROBLEM is so serious and is accelerating to the point that we have started a campaign called 'You Can Bite Back,'" said Gary Emich, safety manager for the Post Office in Miami. "Last year an average of 1 out of 10 of the 1,300 mail carriers in Dade County was bitten by a dog, and 15 of them had disabling bites which meant they missed one or more days of work." Carriers are asked to report any problems with dogs on their routes. "We send the dog owners a letter and asked them to keep the animals confined during the hours of normal mail delivery," Emich said. "If that doesn't work, we make a phone call. We follow up with a personal visit to try and get the person to cooperate with us." As a last resort, home mail delivery is stopped. "We do everything we can to avoid this," he said. IF A DOG seems about to bite, "Don't run," said Dr. B.S. Austin of South Miami, who has been treating dogs 30 years. "That is the worse thing you can do. In the first place, you are not going to out-run the dog, and your fleeing will only tend to make it come on stronger." Dave Houchins at Landmark Kennel in South Dade has been training dogs for owners in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties for 10 years. He specializes in obedience training. He has been bitten a number of times and has scars to prove it. He offers these suggestions as the best defense: * Face the attacking dog and stand your ground. Do not run. Keep the dog in view without direct eye contact -- an aggressive signal that could aggravate the dog. * Use a commanding voice to try and bluff the dog. This shouting, dominating voice often works for the police in dealing with law breakers, and it will turn many dogs from an attack. Use caution, however, because a hesitating dog might be aggravated by yelling. * Get something between you and the dog. * Stay on your feet, and keep facing the dog. It will prolong the attack if the dog gets you down and gets behind you. "A youngster on a bicycle, could stop and keep the bike between him and the dog," Houchins said. "Or, a child could hold a school book in front of him; a woman could hold her pocketbook with both hands and keep it between her and a dog; a man could use his belt or his rolled up shirt." === Page 3 of 37 Behind the Badge, Cops Left in Limbo Miami Herald Feb 3, 1980 It has been a wild and brutal affair. Each revelation seems somehow more unreal than the one before. Still, after six weeks, this community is not free of it. And we won't be. The fatal police beating of Arthur McDuffie is a case without precedent in my 25 years as a newspaper-man. In the aftermath, much of this community is left with a corrosive mistrust between police and the public they're sworn to protect. As one county officer puts it: "It's going to take a long time to regain our credibility." He speaks the truth. Most ordinary citizens don't see cops as individuals. THE COP is anonymous, part of a mass, an authoritarian figure in uniform, a glisten of the badge, ten the holstered and shiny belt and pistol. I'm sure most people think of reporters as part of a mass, too; but reporters aren't as visible, and certainly not authoritarian. CHARLES WHITED Find police culture and kill a persona. Our reaction is toward police as a group. This is but one of the multiple tragedies spawned out of the McDuffie case. It is also unfair -- as unfair as the mindless, berserk, fatal bludgeoning of McDuffie himself was unfair. And yet policemen and policewomen are individuals. They think and feel the same as you and I. Taken as a whole, cops also tend to be individuals of very high caliber. A university psychologist from Tampa, involved in a continuing project to devise new tests for screening rookie cops, told me the other day: "The thing that impresses us about these young men and women is that so many of them are really outstanding individuals." AT PRESENT, of course, the thrust of the McDuffie case is investigation, fact-finding, accusation and criminal procedure. Next will come trial. At the same time, Dade County's new sheriff has been riding herd on his department, ostensibly mandating the kind of behavior that now will be expected of his troops. It is patently a response to public outcry. Many people, especially black people, are dubious. The point is: Why did it take so long? And why did it take a community tragedy of this magnitude to force the issue? It's no secret that policemen subjected to prolonged exposure to such rough duty can turn sour, develop an inner rage, suffer a phenomenon called "burn-out," which is not unlike combat fatigue. One's rage can flare, overwhelming his own judgement. And who is to blame for this? BEYOND McDUFFIE, there are deep and nagging questions. Beyond McDuffie, there are countless private tragedies. Alex Marrero, 25, was jailed without bond on a charge of second-degree murder. He was a cop, one of four cops accused of actually beating McDuffie, in a frenzy. Louise Perkins read about Alex Marrero in the papers. She read it with shock and disbelief. She sees Marrero with different eyes. Louise Perkins is a kindergarten teacher. One of her pupils is Alex Marrero Jr., age 3. "I want Alex Marrero Sr. as a loving father," she told me. "When I put that little boy down for his nap, he always says, 'I want my daddy. I want my daddy.' We rub his back and tell him, 'Your daddy will be coming soon.'" Louise Perkins, like me, is no expert. She has no answers. She does not condone what happened on Dec. But she feels more needs to be known about what inside men like Alex Marrero. worried Saturday about a little boy, age 3 === Page 4 of 37 Feb. 3, 1980 # As Troubles Plague Miami Herald BY ANDY ROSENBLATT # Police, Crime Grows Dade County residents were raped, robbed, assaulted and murdered in record numbers last year while the Metro Public Safety Department's ability to solve major crimes lagged. That's the gloomy picture that emerges from an analysis of crime statistics compiled by the Public Safety Department. The figures suggest that the department's ability to fight street crime has been adversely affected by a long series of problems and scandals that has plagued Metro police throughout the year beginning with the beating of Nathaniel LaFleur. METRO'S statistics show that: * Major crimes in unincorporated Dade County were up more than 25 per cent in 1979. * The over-all number of arrests made by Metro officers was down 23.6 per cent. * The department was able to solve one of every four major crimes in 1979. Metro was able to solve one-third of all major crimes committed in 1978. Police officials say several factors are responsible for the drop in arrests in the face of rising crime. They cite a hiring freeze, the growing demand for police services and new patterns of crime. But the officials believe the most important reason for the drop in arrests is low morale and lack of community support, the result of several widely publicized police beatings, scandals and departmental shake-ups. "ALL THE NEWS events of the last year have had an effect," said Robert Dempsey, assistant Public Safety Department director. "From the point of view of the officer on the street, the world is falling apart. In the face of everything that's happened in the past year, it's remarkable that we've been able to maintain a level of dedication and service." The most significant drop in arrests occurred in March and April following the LaFleur incident of Feb. 14, which focused community attention on the issue of police brutality. LaFleur, a Liberty City resident, was beaten by several Metro policemen who mistakenly raided his house. The police said LaFleur closed his door on an officer's hand and had to be subdued as he wrestled with detectives. ARRESTS INCREASED slightly in May and June before a steady decline began in July, about the time the department's budget was being reduced, a tax cut proposal was finally put on the ballot and a new sheriff, Bobby L. Jones, reorganized the department in an effort to get more officers on the street. The decline continued through the second half of 1979 in sharp contrast to the growing number of arrests made by the Miami Police Department. Metro made 9,000 fewer arrests in 1979, Turn to Page 5B Col. 1 > FROM PAGE 1B dropping from 40,834 arrests in 1978 to 31,193, a 23.6 per cent decease. Traffic arrests were down 36 per cent, misdemeanor arrests were down 27 per cent and felony arrests were down 10 per cent. Arrests involving major crimes were up 8 per cent, but did not keep pace with the 25 per cent rise in major crimes. Major crime arrests by the Miami Police Department were up 26 per cent in 1979. The total number of arrests by Miami officers was up 32 per cent. Metro officials said the increasing number of routine requests for police assistance and the elimination of a requirement that each officer file a daily performance report listing arrests also contributed to the decline. County Manager Merrett Stierheim recently recommended the hiring of 150 additional police officers. "WE'RE TRYING to emphasize quality arrests, not quantity," Dempsey said. But despite the emphasis on major crimes, the percentage of homicides, assaults, robberies and burglaries solved was also down. Only the percentage of rapes solved increased. Metro reports show that the Public Safety Department solved 27 per cent of the major crimes it investigated in 1979, down from 32 per cent the previous year. Homicide investigations were particularly affected. Metro solved just over half the homicide cases it handled in 1979. In 1978, it solved seven out of every 10. Capt. Marshall Frank, head of the Metro homicide unit, blamed the decline on a rash of drug-related murders. "A DRUG-RELATED homicide requires a lot of manpower," Frank said, "and the chances of solving it are low. They take a lot of time away from our other cases." Chief Charles C. Black, head of the Metro police division, and Sgt. Hugh Peebles, president of the Dade County Police Benevolent Association, said the decline in traffic and misdemeanor arrests was particularly noticeable and indicates that the morale of Metro policemen has been seriously shaken. "We're seeing fewer arrests that are initiated by our officers," Black said. "That affects traffic and misdemeanor arrests the most. People on the road will avoid those kind of cases because they know they're going to have trouble and they feel it's just not worth it. "If you get burned by the stove, you're not going to play with the stove again," Black said. Statistics that would indicate what, if any, effect the beating death of motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie has had on arrests are not yet available. Peebles and Black predicted the McDuffie incident would lead to a further decline in arrests. "The McDuffie incident will have an impact at least initially," Peebles said. "But I think in the long haul the police officers in this community will come back." Note: Seeming odd effect of my [?] force attack on Florida, as noted in other demonstrations on humans, animals, fish, etc. [?] Feb. 16 80 === Page 5 of 37 WHAT CAN YOU DO if a member of your family is being attacked? "The best thing you can use to get a dog away from someone, and keep it away from you, is a chair," Houchins said. "Use the chair just like a lion tamer does. Hold the back of the chair in your hands and use the legs of the chair to get the dog away from the person." A common house broom is another effective tool in dealing with a biting dog, or in aiding someone who is being bitten. He cautions that a dog in pain, such as one which has been struck by an automobile, will act unnaturally and will even sometimes turn on its master. EMICH says the Post Office has studied the problem of dog bite and has pin-pointed what they consider the root cause; it is irresponsible owners. "The biggest single factor is, owners simply do not believe their dog will bite," he said. "They open the door or the fence gate, out runs the dog and boom ... you have a dog bite, then and there." There are no accurate figures on the number of dogs in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Estimates are based on the average of one dog per four persons, which works out to 375,000 dogs in Dade, 250,000 in Broward and 145,500 in Palm Beach County. An attempt to count the dogs in Dade in 1977 under a CETA grant turned into such a fiasco that it was abandoned, mainly because the public would not cooperate. Meanwhile, the dog bites go on at the rate of 30 a day along the Gold Coast. Note. These two pages deal with the 'crazy animal behavior' (like human) that I promised you George H. The force attack & trauma it would cause. Owens 2/5/80 # Doberman Leaped, Broke Her Spine Miami Herald Feb 3, 1980 Lourdes Hormilla lives with the pain and the nightmare of a dog attack five months ago which left her with a fractured spine and torn ligaments in her legs. A petite 95-pounder, she was knocked down on Aug. 15 by a Doberman pinscher as she was making her rounds as a substitute mail carrier in Sweetwater. "I was filling in for the regular carrier who had been bitten on the arm so badly by a German shepherd he had to take some time off," she said. The Post Office issues animal repellent to its mail carriers. It is a spray with a pepper base designed to repel an animal and not injure it. "I HAD BEEN carrying the spray in my hand, but put it down so I could put mail into a box," she said. "I was delivering at a duplex when suddenly the door of the adjoining place opened and out charged the Doberman. It happened so suddenly, I didn't have time to grab my spray. I turned my back because I was afraid it was coming for my throat." The dog slammed her to the ground with such force it fractured her spine. "The dog was biting and I was doing everything I could to kick it off of me," she said. The dog did not give up the attack until it was struck several times by someone who came to her aid. "I SPENT two weeks in a hospital and I was in a body cast," she said. "I have to wear a special corset for my back now. My ligaments still give me problems and I can't stay on my feet very long." She says she wants to get well enough to go back to work because she is sick and tired of being sidelined by the injuries. Much of her time is spent in bed at her home. What advice does she offer about dog bites? "My advice is to dog owners," she said. "They should not train their dogs to bite people. And if they do have a dog that bites, they should keep it away from the public." As an afterthought, she added: "I used to love dogs and not be afraid of them. But now I am absolutely terrified, especially of big dogs. I hate this feeling but I can't help it, now that I've been bitten." -- JIM HARDIE === Page 6 of 37 Saturday, Jan. 26, 1980 THE MIAMI HERALD 3-B # 2 Slain As Dade Reports More Than a Murder a Day By EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer Shots were fired almost simultaneously Friday, killing two men in unrelated murders miles apart. The killings bring the total number of homicides in Dade County for January to 29, more than one a day. One victim was asleep in his own bed. A knock at the door... youths were engaged in a narcotics transaction at SW 68th Street and 59th Place at 10:50 a.m. The suspects were seated in a 1974 Plymouth. Scippio was outside the car. The men inside held his arms and dragged him at a high rate of speed. They made a U-turn in the middle of SW 59th Place, speeded toward for what appeared to be minor injuries, he was released. He was rushed back to the hospital, unconscious, on Tuesday. He remained in a coma until his death Wednesday afternoon. Medical examiners said head injuries killed him. A juvenile surrendered to Metro and was charged FEB. 5, 1980 NOTE: AS SCOTT ROGO POINTS OUT IN HIS EXCELLENT BOOK ABOUT MY WORK, "EARTH'S AMBASSADOR," THERE WAS QUITE AN INCREASE IN CRIME IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA DURING MY PSI-FORCE ATTACK ON SAN FRANCISCO. THE SAME THING HAS OCCURRED IN THE MIAMI AREA SINCE I BEGAN MY PSI-FORCE ATTACK ON FLORIDA. CRIME IN AND AROUND MIAMI HAS SKYROCKETED UPWARDS. AND NOT JUST THE "BAD GUYS," EITHER. THE POLICE HAVE BEHAVED CRAZILY... LIKE TORTURING AND MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE! === Page 7 of 37 Warmer Than Usual, But Some Not Pleased Miami Herald Jan. 26, 1980 It's been warmer than usual this winter, and while the tourists are basking in the sunshine, the tomato farmers are fuming in the fields. High temperatures have been running one-half degree above normal and lows about four degrees higher than usual, according to Elbert Hill, the lead forecaster for the National Weather Service. "The warm weather has really screwed us up," said Jack Campbell, Florida Tomato Packers' spokesman. "Tomatoes come on quicker and in a heavier volume, rather than spread out." The good news is that less electricity is being used during this "Indian winter." Florida Power and Light Co. (FPL) spokesman Tony Bruns said that despite an increase of 100,000 new customers in the last year, usage has dropped. A year ago, he said, FPL customers used 15,120,000 kilowatts of electricity from the first of December to now. This year during the same period, only 14,152,000 kilowatts were used. FEB. 5, 1980 NOTE: NOT ONLY DID I HIT FLORIDA WITH ENOUGH HEAT TO BLOCK OFF THEIR REGULAR RAINY SEASON LAST SUMMER, BUT THAT POWERFUL HEAT ATTACK HAS CONTINUED THIS WINTER (SEE NEWSCLIP ↑). Owens === Page 8 of 37 Pet Pit Bull Bites Off Man's Thumb BY EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer A retired banker's thumb was bitten off and his pet dachshund was critically mauled Friday after the dachshund attacked a pit bull terrier on a leash. "Technically the dachshund was at fault for running loose," said Metro Animal Control Officer Michael W. Baker. "The pit bulldog was very gentle with me. I had no problems with that dog at all," he said. PEANUT, the one-eyed 9-year-old dachshund, "is a perfect watchdog," owner Marie Harris said tearfully. "He just wanted that dog [the pit bull] to get away from his yard. He didn't want him around here." Study Pit Bulls, Schreiber Asks Metro Commissioner Barry Schreiber has asked County Manager Merrett Stierheim to conduct a study of pit bull terriers. Schreiber is considering an ordinance regulating pit bulls, but County Attorney Robert Ginsburg said courts might strike the law down unless a study showed the animals were likely to attack humans. The state already regulates ownership of piranha, a small but voracious South American fish, Schreiber said, and Metro should be able to do the same with pit bulls. Miami Herald Jan. 26, 1980 Her husband James, 62, was in the carport of their Carol City home, at 1851 NW 183rd St., wiping the dust off his auto, shortly after 9 a.m. Peanut was playing nearby when a teenager, identified as Dexter Smith, walked by with a 14-month-old 60-pound male pit bull on a leash, Baker said. Peanut raced at the much larger animal yapping angrily. Harris shouted at him to come back. Peanut, a housepet "who just had a little freedom for a minute around the carport," according to Mrs. Harris, charged. Harris rushed to separate the animals. "THE YOUNG MAN with the dog told him to move out of the way and he would separate them," Baker said. "But the owner insisted on getting his dog away from the pit bull and in doing so he was bitten." "He was trying to get our little dog out of that dog's mouth," Mrs. Harris said. Metro Rescue Lt. Hampton Wade and Fire Fighter Thomas Williams arrived minutes later. "The man walked over to us and said a dog bit him," Wade said. He had his thumb in his hand. He also had numerous puncture wounds in his other hand. "He was very concerned about his dog," Wade said. "He told us the pit bull had him down on the ground and he was amazed at the Turn to Page 2B Col. 2 Man Hurt Trying to Part His Dachshund, Pit Bull FROM PAGE 1B strength the dog had. He said he was trying to keep the dog away from his throat. "He was very cool, considering he just had his thumb bit off. He was fortunate the dog didn't devour it." HARRIS WAS taken to Parkway Hospital, and later transferred to Palmetto Hospital where surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Coll reimplanted the severed digit late Friday. A hospital spokesman said it was "hopeful but not definite" that the thumb could be saved. "It's a very delicate process," said Dr. Manolo Reyes. Harris was in stable condition late Friday. The dachshund survived surgery and is fighting for his life at Dade Animal Hospital. The pit bull is owned by Clayton Way, of 1920 NW 185th Ter., according to Baker. He said the dog had current vaccinations, and has been placed under temporary quarantine. Attempts to contact Way or Smith were unsuccessful. On Dec. 1, a 6-year-old Hollywood boy was attacked and disfigured by a pit bull in a playmate's yard. On Jan. 15, a 71-year-old Miami woman was mauled by her husband's two pit bulls. Police shot both dogs. One survived the wound and was put to death Thursday after 10 days observation for rabies. The woman, bitten on the legs, back, head and face, has been released from the hospital. FEB. 5, 1980 NOTE: I HAD INFORMED WAYNE GROVER THAT MY PSI-FORCE ATTACK ON FLORIDA WOULD CAUSE WEIRD HUMAN, ANIMAL AND FISH BEHAVIOR. THIS HAS ALL OCCURRED, TO A MARKED DEGREE! (ABOVE IS A SAMPLE. THERE'S LOTS MORE!) Owen === Page 9 of 37 World PK Miami Herald Feb 8, 1980 - United Press International **DIGGING OUT of more than a foot of snow, David Brown of Norfolk, Va., tries to get some traction for his car. Tidewater Virginia reeled in the wake of its second-heaviest snowfall in almost a century Thursday with 15 inches at Virginia Beach. In neighboring coastal North Carolina, 7,000 residents were without power as a result of a record 20-inch snowfall.** === Page 10 of 37 - WORLD POWER OUT - 16-A THE MIAMI HERALD Saturday, Feb. 9, 1980 # Year's Biggest Storm Unleashes Snow, Rain Miami Herald Feb. 9, 1980 Associated Press The biggest storm of the winter, stretching from the Rockies to the Smokies, delivered freezing rain, harsh winds and even thunder and lightning with up to 20 inches of snow Friday. At least five people died in the storm. "It hasn't been much fun," said a police dispatcher in Oklahoma. Thousands of vehicles in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri were stranded on snow-packed highways. Some schools were closed in every state between Colorado and North Carolina. The National Guard was out in Missouri and Kansas. "Most snowplows are in the ditch," said Bobbie Nichols, a Greene County, Mo., dispatcher. "Even big trucks are stuck. Some four-wheel-drive vehicles can't get through, and many police cars are stalled." She said 100 to 150 cars and trucks were stranded on one stretch of highway north of Springfield, but emergency vehicles got the occupants to houses, stores and a fire department in the area to wait out the storm. Gov. Joseph Teasdale called on the National Guard to provide emergency services in southwest Missouri. In Mountain Grove, Mo., a 20-inch snowfall was reported. Sixteen to 18 inches was the rule in the area. In the Texas Panhandle, there was less snow but it came after showers, thunderstorms, freezing rain and sleet. Most roads were impassable. Hundreds of cars were stuck, and a motel burned to the ground in Conway because fire fighters could not get to it. Lightning knocked an Amarillo TV station, KFDA, off the air for several hours. Flash flood warnings were issued for much of southern Texas, where warmer temperatures turned the precipitation to rain. Oklahoma traffic was at a crawl - or a slide. The highway patrol reported 2-foot snowdrifts on the Will Rogers Turnpike. In Kansas, where several communities reported 15-inch snowfalls, Gov. John Carlin issued a declaration of emergency and opened two National Guard armories to stranded interstate highway travelers. Interstate 70 was closed for 200 miles in Kansas, but the highway patrol said it was reopened late in the day. In Lawrence, where about 10 inches had fallen by Friday morning, the University of Kansas Athletic Department issued a call over a local radio station for snowmobiles to shuttle prospective football recruits around the snow-packed, hilly campus. By Friday night they'd rounded up eight machines. Bruce DeHaven, athletic department spokesman, said university football recruiters had planned to bring 18 top prospects to the school this weekend for a banquet and a tour of the campus. A 69-year-old woman was killed when her car slid out of control and into a tree near Neodesha, the highway patrol said. A 63-year-old Hiawatha chiropractor and a 60-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man died of heart attacks while shoveling snow. As the brunt of the storm headed east, residents went to food stores in hordes to stock up. Meat, milk, bread and canned goods were disappearing from the shelves in stores all over St. Louis, and Winn-Dixie food stores in Louisville, Ky., reported it had to open additional checkout lines for the influx of shoppers. In Kentucky and Tennessee, schools closed early as major snowfalls were predicted. On treacherous Monteagle Mountain in southeast Tennessee, a man and a woman were killed when a tractor-trailer truck flipped onto its side and crashed into a rock wall. Memphis police said 45 to 50 accidents were reported in the morning rush hour. === Page 11 of 37 Feb. 9, 1980 I PK'd this game, Owens. # Clippers shatter Portland 118-104 SAN DIEGO -- Pro basketball's million-dollar backup center, Bill Walton, reacquainted himself with his old team Friday night, but it was Freeman Williams who stole the evening away as the San Diego Clippers buried the Portland Trail Blazers 118-104. Williams, who led the nation in scoring two straight years at Portland State, had a game-high 29 points -- 22 in the second half -- to help put the Trail Blazers away. Walton played for the first time against his former teammates, managed 13 points in 15 minutes and then talked about the difficulty of making a comeback. It was only the redhead's third NBA game in two years. He missed 160 consecutive contests with assorted injuries. "I just have to pick my spots," said Walton, after the Clippers shoved Portland aside and took over possession of the Western Conference's sixth and last playoff position. "I'm hoping for the best, but I think in the long run it will all come back," he continued. "I've lost a lot of confidence -- not in my game, but in my leg." Walton cannot play back-to-back games and is limited to just spot duty behind regular center Swen Nater. What was supposed to be an emotional night lost a lot of its drama with the news earlier in the day that Maurice Lucas and Lionel Hollins were no longer Trail Blazers. Portland looked listless in falling behind 61-49 at halftime -- even though Williams, starting in the absence of Lloyd Free, got into quick foul trouble and spent most of the half on the bench. Off the sidelines came Joe "Jellybean" Bryant to lift the Clippers with 14 second-period points. The contest would have been over if Blazer Ron Brewer had not had a hot hand (17 points) to offset Bryant's almost perfect shooting. The Blazers, who dropped to 27-30, a full game back of the Clippers, pulled within three points three different times in the third period, the last coming at 82-79. That's when Williams took over, with two darting drives down the lane, to stem the rally. He kept right on going in the fourth quarter. The second consecutive no-show of Free was explained away this time as ankle trouble. Wednesday night the Clippers dispatched a police car to his home when he failed to show for the team's flight to Oakland. Free, who is unhappy with his $140,000-a-year contract and Walton's domination of the newspaper headlines since his return, said he had the flu. "For us to succeed," said Clipper Coach Gene Shue, who at least had his star guard on the bench in street clothes Friday night, "we have to have Lloyd in the lineup. When a player says he's sick, you can't say he isn't sick. But I think it's related to his contract problems." Shue said that Walton "is not the Bill Walton we know. He's a spot player now trying to get himself into shape." The Blazers, who got 23 points from Brewer -- practically their only offensive weapon at times -- and a career high 21 from rookie Jim Paxson -- are not the same, either. PORTLAND (104) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Gross | 31 | 4-8 | 3-3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | | Washington | 43 | 8-13 | 1-2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 | | Owens | 40 | 6-15 | 6-7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | | R. Brewer | 41 | 10-21 | 3-6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 23 | | Twardzik | 6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | Paxson | 32 | 8-10 | 5-7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 21 | | Jeelani | 21 | 4-9 | 4-5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | | J. Brewer | 9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | | Dunn | 17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | Totals | 240 | 41-81 | 22-30 | 30 | 20 | 21 | 7 | 18 | 104 | SAN DIEGO (118) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Smith | 32 | 7-13 | 4-6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18 | | Wicks | 25 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | | Nater | 31 | 3-5 | 4-4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | | Taylor | 39 | 4-14 | 0-0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | | Williams | 32 | 14-22 | 1-2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 29 | | Pietkiewicz | 25 | 3-4 | 2-2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | | Bryant | 35 | 10-14 | 0-0 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 20 | | Walton | 17 | 5-8 | 3-4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | | Barnes | 4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | | Totals | 240 | 51-85 | 15-21 | 43 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 18 | 118 | Portland .......... 27 22 30 25 -- 104 San Diego .......... 31 30 25 32 -- 118 Team rebounds -- Portland 6, San Diego 9. Blocked shots -- Gross, Washington, Williams, Nater 2, Pietkiewicz, Bryant. Three-point attempts -- Washington 0-1, Owens 0-1, Brewer 0-1, Jeelani 0-1, Taylor 1-2, Williams 0-1, Bryant 0-1. Technical fouls -- none. Officials -- Madden, Nies. Attendance -- 12,715. === Page 12 of 37 E The Oregonian SPORTS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1980 # Natt impressive in loss # Hawks' defense dooms Blazers Atlanta's defense forced the Portland Trail Blazers into another sloppy offensive game Tuesday night at Memorial Coliseum and the Hawks walked away with a 95-89 win and their seventh straight victory. The Blazers got within 80-73 on two free throws by Abdul Jeelani, but the Hawks went on a 12-7 run to open up a 92-80 lead with 3:52 to go. In the first half, the Hawks pounded the Blazers inside, but in the last half, they went to their outside shooters. Guards Eddie Johnson and Charlie Criss had six points each in the last quarter, while the Blazer guards scored only three points in the last 10 minutes of the game. John Drew, who always does well against the Blazers, led Atlanta with 24 points. Johnson had 16. Tom Owens, with 22 points, led the Blazers. Ron Brewer had 19. The loss dropped the Blazers, 27-31, a game behind San Diego in the chase for the sixth and last playoff spot in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association. The Hawks, 35-23, gained a game on San Antonio and have a five-game lead in the Central Division. Calvin Natt, making his Trail Blazer debut, played a total of 32 minutes and 6 seconds. He had 10 points in 16:35 at small forward and four points in 15:31 at power forward. The Hawks out-rebounded Portland 52-42, with Drew grabbing 12. The Atlanta guards forced the Blazers to start their offense 30 feet from the basket and the Blazers rarely got the prime inside shots their offense is designed to get. Portland trailed 49-38 at halftime after being behind 47-33 with 2:37 to go. Only Owens, with 11 points, and Natt, with eight, were able to solve the Hawks' defensive riddle. Compounding the offensive problems was the Blazers' ineffectiveness on the boards. Atlanta out-rebounded them 27-14 in the first half despite the fact that leading rebounder Dan Roundfield got his third foul with 11:03 to go in the second quarter and didn't return. The Hawks took advantage of the rebounding edge to fill the fastbreak lanes They scored eight straight points to take a 39-29 lead with 4:52 to go in the quarter. Natt looked impressive. Despite being with the team for only two days, he was able to work within the offense. His last field goal of the first half came on a back-door lob from Bob Gross. The Blazers play in Los Angeles Wednesday (8 p.m., KPTV). BLAZER NOTES -- Dave Twardzik (bruised thigh) missed the game and Jim Paxson got his first NBA start. . . . Backup center Kevin Kunnert was activated before the game, but did not play. He is bothered by tendinitis in his right knee. . . . Hawk guard Armond Hill was ill and missed the game. . . . Natt is wearing No. 33. . . . Blazers President Larry Weinberg has called a press conference for 10 a ATLANTA (95) | | MP | FG | FT | R | |---|---|---|---|---| | Drew | 29 | 7-17 | 10-12 | 12 | | Roundfield | 20 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 5 | | Rollins | 28 | 2-5 | 3-4 | 11 | | Johnson | 35 | 6-16 | 4-5 | 4 | | McElroy | 33 | 3-9 | 2-2 | 1 | | Chriss | 28 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 3 | | Pellom | 14 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4 | | Givens | 19 | 3-8 | 2-2 | 4 | | Hawes | 20 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 6 | | Brown | 14 | 1-1 | 2-4 | 2 | | Totals | 240 | 34-80 | 27-34 | 52 | PORTLAND (89) | | MP | FG | FT | R | |---|---|---|---|---| | Gross | 21 | 1-4 | 2-4 | 2 | | Washington | 38 | 6-13 | 2-6 | 11 | | Owens | 37 | 7-13 | 8-12 | 6 | | R. Brewer | 38 | 7-19 | 5-8 | 4 | | Paxson | 38 | 2-6 | 2-2 | 5 | | Natt | 34 | 7-16 | 0-0 | 7 | | Dunn | 17 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 2 | | J. Brewer | 6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | | Jeelani | 11 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 5 | | Totals | 240 | 34-82 | 21-34 | 42 | Atlanta .......... Portland .......... Team rebounds -- Atlanta 11, Portland 7. Turnovers-points -- Atlanta 15 for 11 pts., Portland 17 for 7 pts. Blocked shots -- Rollins 6, Roundfield 3, Hawes 1, Natt 2, J. Brewer, Washington. Three-point attempts -- none. Technical fouls -- none. Officials -- Strom, Crawford. Attendance -- 12,666. Paramount attendance -- 1,422. === Page 13 of 37 D The Oregonian THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1980 SPORTS # Lakers enjoy 129-103 laugher over Portland LOS ANGELES -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is playing with the enthusiasm of a rookie. The born-again pivot man scored 32 points in three quarters Wednesday as the Los Angeles Lakers laughed their way to a 129-103 National Basketball Association win over the Portland Trail Blazers. Portland, 27-32, was reduced to eight players quickly Wednesday. Dave Twardzik, who missed Tuesday's loss to Atlanta because of a bruised right thigh, got banged on that thigh again early Wednesday and left the game in the first quarter. Twardzik's absence leaves the Blazers without an experienced lead guard and Portland's offense suffers without him. But injury was added to injury later in the first quarter, when center Tom Owens fell to the floor with a sprained left ankle. Portland trailed 23-14 when he left and never really got into the game after that. Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay was forced to use Kermit Washington and Jim Brewer in the middle. Neither one is an offensive shooting threat and that sprung Abdul-Jabbar free to patrol the middle. Looking more like a hockey goalie that a center, Abdul-Jabbar rejected six Blazer shots and intimidated the Blazers away from the middle. Before the game Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay said his team had to stop the Laker fastbreak and force Los Angeles into its halfcourt offense. It had to keep the ball away from Abdul-Jabbar and keep Jamaal Wilkes and Norm Nixon from getting the open-court jumpers. Well, the Lakers, who had lost their three previous games against Portland, ran with abandon and Wilkes and Nixon lit up the Forum for 25 and 14 points respectively. Any doubt about this one went out the window late in the first half. The Lakers outscored Portland 14-2 at the end of the half to take a 59-38 lead at intermission, then scored the first four points of the third quarter to complete an 18-2 tear and lead 63-38. The Lakers, 41-18, still trail first-place Seattle by two games in the Pacific Division race, but they are 25-3 at home and play six of their next seven games in Los Angeles. They look ready to make a late-season charge at the Sonics. The man who will lead that charge will be Abdul-Jabbar, who injured a knee slightly in the third quarter and didn't return. Laker owner Jerry Buss recently gave him a new five-year contract worth about a $1 million a year and he seems to be enjoying his new-found wealth. He hit 15 of 19 shots from the field, made all four free throws and dealt 11 assists. The Laker half-court offense used to consist of a lob pass to Abdul-Jabbar and four guys milling around while he sky hooked or hit a turnaround jumper. Now, when he gets the ball, the rest of the Lakers are running Blazer-like cuts to the hoops and Abdul-Jabbar is passing the ball like Bill Walton in his heyday. "We got the transition game going tonight," said Wilkes, who hit 12 of 16 shots from the field. "Magic (Johnson) and Nixon give Kareem and (Jim) Chones and me a lot of open shots. "We've tried to get more movement around him (Abdul-Jabbar)," Wilkes continued. "We tried to get him one-on-one with his man and when he's one-on-one he can't be beat." The Laker offensive movement kept the four other Blazer defenders occupied and kept Portland from the double and triple teams of Abdul-Jabbar that have been successful for the Blazers. The only good news for Portland is that it didn't lose any ground to San Diego. The sixth-place Clippers lost to Washington Wednesday and still lead Portland by only one game in the race for the sixth and final Western Conference playoff berth. Portland, losers of three in a row, return home Friday to play the Atlantic Division-leading Boston Celtics. === Page 14 of 37 Feb. 16, 1980 As an added note, my daughter, Lorrie, whom I love very much, lives in California. Dr. Henry Monteith Pr. Leo Sprinkle Pra Targ & Puthoff Note: The world should have informed Grove to warn the people before she came. This time it can't be called off!!! But it. H. Today my SI's communicated. They stated: either I get the Hearst Castle in California for five years, as our base, plus $100,000 per year for expenses... or they, The SI's (UFOs) will destroy California! Let the Durham Dandies; The Harder Hard Cases; The Hynek Hyenas and The Los Alamos Animals try to "put this down." If they succeed, as they have succeeded, then they will succeed in destroying California. I guess what I am saying is... let them call our hand! This has a 90 day time limit. (To May 16.) The SI's say time is short. It has to be this way, let the chips fall where they may. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 15 of 37 # Powerful Celts rip Trail Blazers 106-91 OREGONIAN, FEB. 16, 1980 The Boston Celtics showed why they are a contender and the Portland Trail Blazers showed why they aren't Friday in a 106-91 Celtic win at the mausoleum known as Memorial Coliseum. The Celtics, who hold a two-game lead over Philadelphia in the Atlantic Division of the National Basketball Association, got 28 points from Larry Bird and 16 each from Nate Archibald and M.L. Carr in a breezy evening. The Blazers, 27-33, are 0-4 since last week's Maurice Lucas and Lionel Hollins trades. They don't have anybody who is passing the ball with any confidence and even when somebody breaks open in the offense he rarely receives a clean pass. Still, the Blazers trailed only 80-70 with 10:57 to go before their offense went into another of its celebrated slumbers and the Celtics rolled off eight straight points to take an 88-70 lead. Bob Gross finally hit a field goal that ended a 4:24 stretch without a field goal but Portland trailed 92-75. Calvin Natt, who came to Portland in the Lucas trade, and Abdul Jeelani had 20 points each. Natt had 16 in the second half. Kermit Washington added 17 points. But the Blazer offense continues to be a mirage. Portland was missing Ron Brewer (bruised hip) and Tom Owens (strained thumb) for most of the second half, but it is doubtful either one would have made much difference. The Blazers trail sixth-place San Diego by a game and a half in the race for the sixth and final Western Conference playoff berth. The first half may have been the dreariest of a dismal three-month stretch for the Blazers. SINCE HALLO Their offense has disintegrated, Jeelani's jumper, jump shots from Ron Brewer off occasional offensive picks and Washington's offensive rebounds seemed to be their only means of scoring. W E N !! If good offense is as beautiful as a Picasso, then the Blazer offense is as muddled as a finger-painting. The Blazers trailed 51-40 at the half. Bird, picking on Bob Gross, Natt, Jeelani and Washington, had 18 first-half points. The Blazers got 10 from Brewer, nine from Washington and eight from Jeelani, and very little from their set offense. Portland shot .373 from the field in the half, while allowing Boston enough good shots that it was able to hit half of its 40 shots. The Blazers went 3:53 without a field goal early in the first quarter as Boston ran off 10 straight points to take a 14-10 lead. But Portland hung close and trailed only 31-30 with 6:45 to go in the half. === Page 16 of 37 World Power Out PK (beginning) Oregonian TV loss triggers rioting Feb. 17, 1980 By LAURINDA KEYS CHINO, Calif. (AP) -- Several hundred inmates in five units at the California Institution for Men vandalized their dormitories because they had no television and had to eat cold lunches during long power outages, a prison spokesman said Saturday. When a lightning bolt knocked out electricity at the medium-security prison Friday night, for the second time in the day, many of the 375 prisoners in five open dormitories began a fire-setting, furniture-breaking, soap-throwing frenzy that lasted until 2:30 a.m., said spokesman Marvin Ryer. No one was injured, and there was no damage estimate, he said. "Basically, they tore up plumbing, busted windows. It was vandalism, like kids who go in and bust schools," said Ryer. "Lightning had caused the electricity to go out at 10 a.m. and it was out all day until about 5 p.m. Then it went out again at 6:30. They were fed sack lunches at dinnertime instead of a hot meal. And they had no TV. You don't turn off people's TV nowadays." When correctional officers backed by local law enforcement personnel moved in ... WORLD POWER OUT - Floodwaters pummel California for 3rd day Oregonian Feb. 16, 1980 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Heavy rains and blustery winds pummeled Southern California for a third straight day Friday, unleashing floodwaters that set some cars adrift and sent mud and rock cascading from fire-stripped hillsides. The three-day rainfall totaled nearly 4 1/2 inches by Friday afternoon, with an additional 2 to 4 inches expected to pelt the area by midnight Saturday. The total rainfall for the season is more than 13 inches, 3 more than normal by this date. Showers will continue through Sunday, the National Weather Service said. As the storm reached eastward into Arizona, at least two people died, hundreds were stranded and thousands were being evacuated. Elsewhere in the West, heavy rains caused scattered flooding in Utah, and snow and ice made driving perilous in parts of Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. No deaths were reported in California, but two people were hospitalized after being washed from their cars by the rushing water. Hundreds of people were looking for their cars or calling insurance companies Friday in the aftermath of floods that police and residents called the worst they'd ever seen. The ceiling of a Beverly Hills apartment building collapsed "with a shattering noise you wouldn't believe," said its occupant, Mrs. Edward Rothenberg. No one was hurt. A wall of water that witnesses said reached 3 to 4 feet rumbled through the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, sending one car tumbling end over end. The unidentified woman who was driving the car was rescued. She suffered bruises, but was otherwise unhurt. "I've never seen anything like it in my life," said one man whose car also was caught in the flood and came to rest against a toppled mailbox. "This wall of water was coming right at me." During the heaviest rains in predawn hours, neighbors pulled an unconscious man from the muddy water that had washed over Pasadena Glen Road and bent his Jeep in half. Stephen Young, 23, was attempting to drive out of the area when his vehicle got caught by rushing water. He got out and was carried downstream about a half mile before two young girls pulled him out. Young was given first aid for cuts and bruises, then taken to a hospital. At Marina Del Rey, where 6,000 boats are moored, the harbor patrol reported many boats were listing and needed pumping out because of internal flooding. In Glendale, the roof of a supermarket collapsed, apparently because of accumulated rainwater. No one was inside at the time. An undetermined number of people were evacuated from the Pasadena Glen area, threatened by mud slides from hillsides left bare by fires last summer. "It's an area where there are a lot of unpaved roads," Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Lee Jordan said. "There have been some mud slides." Floodwaters and debris forced the closing of the Hollywood Freeway, and mud slides closed four of the five lanes of the westbound Ventura Freeway and the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. Winds that gusted to 40 mph smashed windows in some areas, including exclusive Marina del Rey, and hailstones accumulated on the ground. "In 34 years in Santa Monica, this was the worst I've ever seen it," said Police Lt. Robert Thomas. "Many cars were abandoned in the middle of the street. I saw small cars floating." Firemen in Pasadena put sandbags on a hillside in an effort to keep the hill from collapsing on one home. The storm also caused scattered power outages, including one at Queen of Angels Hospital near downtown Los Angeles. The outage only affected parts of the hospital, and a nursing supervisor said some surgery was done in a hallway. Flooding also hit Midway Hospital, and an official who declined to be identified said damage was "extensive." In West Los Angeles, one resident watched as her subcompact car was washed about 75 yards down the street from in front of her apartment. "The wind was blowing so hard I couldn't even get the window open to get a better look," she said. In the Pasadena-Altadena area, 4 to 6 feet of mud flowed onto a street. === Page 17 of 37 # Flooding hits Arizona, California, Utah ## 11,000 evacuated in Phoenix area By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Feb. 17, 1980 Thousands of residents of Phoenix, Ariz., fled their homes Saturday while surging waters washed out roads and bridges and floated away cars in Arizona, California and Utah. Authorities ordered the evacuation of 11,000 people along the normally dry river beds running through Phoenix, an area of 1.5 million people. New rains moved into Arizona Saturday night, but Gov. Bruce Babbitt said the worst appeared over. "The news is generally positive and encouraging," Babbitt said at a news conference Saturday night. The governor said water releases into the Salt River had dropped and weather forecasters said an oncoming storm would bring less rain than originally expected. Two people drowned in Arizona and a woman died on a rain-slicked California highway during two days of flash floods. In Illinois, where a wind-whipped snowstorm moved in Friday night, police blamed slippery roads for a traffic collision that killed four. Elsewhere, a long-awaited snowstorm finally reached New England, sprinkling many areas with several inches, more than had fallen all winter. "This is a big bright day for us," said Walter Schoenknecht, president of Mohawk Mountain Ski Area in Cornwall, Conn. "For us, winter has finally begun." At Lake Placid, N.Y., site of the Winter Olympics, Gov. Hugh Carey declared a limited transportation emergency after the heavy snowfall stranded spectators, further jammed roads and closed nearby airports. Eight of the 10 bridges spanning the Salt River in its 20-mile run through Phoenix were closed, and no surface crossings were passable. With half the city virtually shut off from the other half, about 650 National Guardsmen patrolled evacuated neighborhoods. Babbitt ordered a state of emergency Friday night as authorities kept an eye on the Stewart Mountain Dam which holds back the 10-mile-long Saguaro Lake about 20 miles east of Phoenix. The governor said federal engineers examined the dam Saturday and reported the structure was in good shape. "I think that our minds are very much at rest on the issue," he said. After a helicopter flight Saturday with state legislators over the metropolitan area, Babbitt told reporters that "damage thus far is relatively limited." An exception was the far west side of the Salt River Valley which showed "tremendous spreading" of water from the rushing rivers, he told a news conference. Maricopa County Civil Defense officials estimated 400 homes damaged in communities on the west and southwest sides of Phoenix, where the Agua Fria and Salt rivers join. Meanwhile, a series of Pacific storms soaked Southern California for a fourth day Saturday after swamping roadways, dumping mud and rocks into hillside homes and washing away automobiles. Winds unofficially clocked at 60 mph tore through the Napa Valley in Northern California on Saturday, knocking down power lines and toppling trees. Heavy rains caused mud slides that forced the temporary closing of a 26-mile stretch of California 17 between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. "It just kind of plowed through the valley," said a reporter for a Napa radio station. "Our antenna has been twisted around the wrong way and our FM station has been off the air for an hour." A building under construction in Napa collapsed. Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman Tony Ledwell said 5,000 to 10,000 customers were without power at one time or another. In San Bernardino, people in a 3 1/2-square-mile area were evacuated when muddy waters began cascading over the top of Harrison Dam. In Laurel Canyon, a woman was hospitalized after her house slid off its foundation into the street. Two children were reported trapped in a house that collapsed in Topanga Canyon, and the torrential rains reportedly were undercutting foundations of some homes in the Pasadena area, Sherman Oaks, Calabasas, and Tujunga and Stone canyons. In Phoenix, Bob Bishop, a Civil Defense spokesman, estimated that 6,000 of the 11,000 residents asked to evacuate had left by midday, some moving in with friends and relatives and others going to the 10 Red Cross and Civil Defense emergency shelters. Workers passed out sandbags at several distribution centers. The National Weather Service said another storm headed toward the area could add another 3 inches to the 6 inches which had fallen by Friday night. In southwestern Utah, where the Santa Clara River had swollen to 10 times its normal width, flash floods washed out roads and bridges, water and sewer lines. The main road to Green Valley in southwestern St. George, Utah, was blocked, isolating 2,000 to 3,000 residents. A bridge of the Virgin River in southern St. George leading to the unincorporated suburb of Bloomington was washed out. Power, water and phone service was interrupted when lines beneath river were knocked out. In Phoenix, the Salt River was flowing at about 170,000 cubic feet per second at midmorning. In December 1978, when hundreds of homes were inundated on the city's southwest side in what the weather service called a "100-year flood," the flow was measured at 135,000 cubic feet per second. === Page 18 of 37 # New Pacific Storm Brings More Rain to a Wet West Miami Herald Feb. 18 1980 - World Power Out - Associated Press A new Pacific storm brought more rain Sunday night to Southern California, where at least seven persons have died in five days of a nearly continuous soaking. In Phoenix, Ariz., some of the thousands of residents who fled raging Salt River waters returned home Sunday after flooding proved unexpectedly mild. Already battered by rain-swollen rivers of mud and water, residents of Southern California cities continued to dig out and protect their property with shovels Sunday night as rain began again. More than 20,000 sandbags were sent to aid hard-hit residents of the Sunland-Tujunga area north of downtown Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES County Sheriff's deputies estimated the storms already had caused at least $3.5 million in damage to property in unincorporated areas of the county. No figures for the city were available, they said. The nearly steady downpour stopped about dawn Sunday, but by 6 p.m. rain was again falling. The National Weather Service said periodic rain was expected to last through Tuesday and issued a flash flood watch Sunday night for most of Southern California. The latest storm in Phoenix on Saturday night dropped less than one inch of rain, instead of the predicted three inches that had prompted warnings of a "500-year flood" and caused the evacuation of as many as 6,000 families. More than six inches of rain has fallen since Wednesday. At least 400 homes were damaged, along with hundreds of streets, roads and bridges. No dollar estimate was available. Flood waters still covered many low-lying areas, and seven of the 10 bridges linking the north with the south in this metropolitan valley of 1.5 million were unusable. ARIZONA Gov. Bruce Babbitt said the main concern was the "colossal" confusion the area could expect today and Tuesday when thousands of commuters jam the three remaining bridges. Babbitt said major employers probably would be asked to stagger work hours and he said the state might operate shuttle buses over the bridges. Rains in California sent tons of muddy water cascading down hillsides, through homes, and washing cars and garages into the streets. One woman was killed when a mudslide tore through her canyon home. In Northern California, rains and high winds flooded highways and snapped lines that knocked out power to thousands. In the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, about 100 workers were applying heavy rock, canvas and plastic sheets to strengthen a levee system weakened by wind-blown waves and high tides. Authorities at the California Flood Center said they were especially worried about Bethel Island, which has as many as 15,000 weekend residents. IN PHOENIX, Babbitt said that despite the improved condition of the Salt, water would continue to flow down the normally dry riverbed through at least the middle of the week. But Salt River Project officials said the runoff on the upper reaches of the churning Salt and Verde rivers was less than the quantity of water surging out of the irrigation control dams that fed the Salt as it surged through the center of Phoenix. === Page 19 of 37 ruggling Blazers beat Golden State By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff Feb 18, 1980 The Portland Trail Blazers beat the only team in the National Basketball Association they probably could have beaten Sunday, the Golden State Warriors, 103-98 at Memorial Coliseum. A win by any other name still is a win and the 28-33 Blazers need any they can find. Sunday's win moved them to within one-half game of the sixth-place San Diego Clippers in the race for the sixth and last Western Conference playoff berth. The Blazers blew a 63-43 third-quarter lead to the talent-thin Warriors. Clifford Ray's only field goal of the night tied the game at 91 with 4:23 to go. But "Instant O," Abdul Jeelani, re-entered the game and gave the Blazers the offensive spark down the stretch that helped them snap a four-game losing streak. After Jim Brewer scored at 3:58, Jeelani hit two free throws to make it 95-91 at 3:18. Neither the 18-43 Warriors nor the Blazers have done much winning lately and the final minutes were a classic example of two teams trying not to lose. The Blazers went ahead 99-93 when Bob Gross made two free throws at 2:06. But two Sonny Parker field goals and a free throw by John Lucas cut the lead to 99-98 at 38 seconds. Golden State had a chance to take the lead after a Blazer turnover with 17 seconds left, but Ray missed badly on a short shot and Lucas missed a followup shot. Jeelani hit two more free throws with six seconds left, then Calvin Natt made a steal on a inbounds pass and a layup with two seconds as the Blazers staggered to their first win since losing Maurice Lucas and Lionel Hollins in trades. Despite missing Kermit Washington (strained hamstring), Portland clobbered the Warriors on the boards. In the first half, Portland was able to out-rebound Golden State 31-14. Many of those rebounds were turned into fastbreaks and the Blazers ran well for half the game. Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay started Jeelani and Natt at forwards in an effort to get some firepower. It worked. Jeelani, who has shown he can score against anybody in the NBA, had 26 points. The Blazer offense seems to move better in open court situations. When their rebounding allows them to run and when their runners fill the lanes, they are capable of putting points on the board But mysteriously, the running game disappeared in the last half and it took a bad shot by Ray and a final turnover by the Warriors to save Portland. "He's earned the right to play," Ramsay said when asked why Jeelani started ahead of Gross. "He's played well and we need firepower in there right now. He's a starter, but a lot depends on what Kermit does. I thought it was better to start Natt and Jeelani because of the need for shooting." Jeelani's last start was Dec. 1 in Houston. "Starting made a difference in my game," said Jeelani, who also had seven offensive rebounds and played fine defense. "I usually have to save my energy for spurts in the second and Note: This game, like the recent Super Bowl, was a classic example of a team defeating the psi-force helping it to win. I attacked the Blazers over the radio. The Blazers got 20 points ahead over the Warriors (who are the lousiest team in all pro basketball). However, my psi force slowly but surely ground down the Blazer lead until the game was tied with a few minutes left. The psi force then set up the perfect win situation for the Warriors. What did they do? Missed not one but two easy, close shots then dropped the ball and let it roll away to the Blazers on their next opportunity to go ahead and win! And that was the ball game. The psi force had the game won and wrapped up in gift paper for the Warriors but the Warriors themselves beat the Force helping them to win! Owens === Page 20 of 37 Soaked Southwest gets more rain By The Associated Press Feb. 18, 1980 A new Pacific storm brought more rain Sunday night to Southern California, where at least seven persons have died in five days of a nearly continuous soaking. In Phoenix, some of the thousands of residents who fled raging Salt River waters returned home Sunday after flooding proved unexpectedly mild. Already battered by rain-swollen rivers of mud and water, residents of Southern California cities continued to dig out and protect their property with shovels Sunday night as rain began again. More than 20,000 sandbags were sent to aid hard-hit residents of the Sunland-Tujunga area north of downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies estimated the storms had caused at least $3.5 million in damage to property in unincorporated areas of the county. No figures for the city were available, they said. The nearly steady downpour stopped about dawn Sunday, but by 6 p.m. rain was again falling. The National Weather Service said periodic rain was expected to last through Tuesday and issued a flash flood watch Sunday night for most of Southern California. The latest storm in Phoenix on Saturday night dropped less than 1 inch of rain, instead of the predicted 3 inches that had prompted warnings of a "500-year flood" and caused evacuation of up to 6,000 families. More than 6 inches of rain has fallen since Wednesday. At least 400 homes were damaged, along with hundreds of streets, roads and bridges. No dollar estimate was available. Floodwaters still covered many low-lying areas, and seven of the 10 bridges linking the north with the south in this metropolitan valley of 1.5 million were unusable. Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt said the main concern was the "colossal" confusion the area could expect Monday and Tuesday when thousands of commuters jammed the three remaining bridges. Babbitt said major employers probably would be asked to stagger work hours and he said the state might run shuttle buses over the bridges. Rains in California sent tons of muddy water cascading down hillsides, through homes, and washing cars and garages into the streets. One woman was killed when a mud slide tore through her canyon home. In Northern California, rains and high winds flooded highways and snapped lines that knocked out power to thousands. In the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, about 100 workers were applying heavy rock, canvas and plastic sheets to strengthen a levee system weakened by wind-blown waves and high tides. Authorities at the California Flood Center said they were especially worried about Bethel Island, which has up to 15,000 weekend residents. "I don't want to predict doom for the whole delta," spokesman Bill Clark said, "but if these weather conditions persist, we could have some real problems." In low-lying southwestern Utah, bridges providing main access to the towns of Green Valley and Bloomington remained washed out, but phones, water, power and sewer service had been restored by Saturday. More than 3 inches of rain fell in the Los Angeles area Saturday, bringing the season's total to nearly 17 inches -- 7 more than normal. In Ventura County, north of Los Angeles, sheriff's officers said Dorothy Thompson, 27, of Simi Valley, was walking in Box Canyon Saturday when she slipped into a drainage ditch, hit her head and drowned. Marlon Shirley, 60, died when a mud slide hit her house in the exclusive Mandeville Canyon area of Los Angeles. Her badly injured husband, Richard, was rescued by two police officers who rode to the top of a hill on a bulldozer. Byron Cox, 11, was reported missing near a rain-swollen creek in the San Dimas area east of Los Angeles. Josh Patlak, 21, of Malibu was rescued early Sunday from the Pacific Ocean where he spent the night after riding a log down Malibu Creek. He was wearing a wet suit and poncho. At least five traffic deaths since Thursday were blamed on the storms. Hundreds of people took refuge Saturday in seven Red Cross evacuation shelters set up in the Los Angeles area. In San Bernardino, a 3½-square-mile area was evacuated when muddy water began cresting the Harrison Dam, but the dam was holding Sunday, said Fire Department spokesman Jim Knight. Telephone and power outages were widespread. In one incident, telephone service was lost to several thousand homes when an out-of-control vehicle sheared off a telephone pole. In Phoenix, Babbitt said that despite the improved condition of the Salt River, water would continue to flow down the normally dry riverbed through at least the middle of the week. But Salt River Project officials said the runoff on the upper reaches of the churning Salt and Verde rivers was less than the quantity of water surging out of the irrigation control dams that fed the Salt as it surged through the center of Phoenix. Engineers said there had been no problems at Stewart Mountain Dam, where deterioration of concrete over several years had led to concern as to whether it could withstand the onslaught. Note: It is interesting to see how my "world psi-force attack on power (electric, etc.) is working, with the aid of 4 giant UFOs and the Egyptian power. The attack will create any condition or situation necessary to knock out the power anywhere in the world. Right now it seems to be using weather in the U.S. to knock out power. Especially note other newsclips describing lightning knocking out power in the same area twice in one day !! Owens === Page 21 of 37 # Rains continue to carve up Southwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Feb. 19, 1980 A deluge in its sixth day carved away more California hillsides and left thousands homeless at an inundated Navy base Monday as "one storm right after the other" rolled in from the Pacific. The fifth in the series of Pacific storms was expected to strike the already saturated area during the night, and a sixth was due late Tuesday or early Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. The death toll climbed to at least 24 in the rainstorms that began last week. The victims included 18 in California, three in Arizona and three American tourists swept away by floodwaters in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border. One person was missing in Arizona after being swept from a raft on a flooded creek. By Monday night, the season's rainfall in Los Angeles had reached 19.33 inches, 9.8 inches above normal for this time of year. Among the latest victims were two Burbank area residents who were killed when a light plane crashed during a storm Sunday night in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Saugus, Calif. Two other persons were seriously injured in the crash. With dams across the Southwest brim full, there was no let-up in the relentless rainstorms in Southern California, where mud slides and high water have caused millions of dollars in damage. "There's one storm right after the other," said weather service forecaster Al Bascomb. "There's so many I can't keep track." Lt. Gov. Mike Curb said he would sign emergency proclamations Tuesday declaring Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties disaster areas. Curb made the announcement after he had been contacted by Gov. Edmund G. Brown's office urging him to declare disaster areas for the three Southern California counties. About 3,000 people were evacuated for the second time in less than 24 hours Monday when more than 550 homes were inundated with up to 5 feet of mud and water at Point Mugu Naval Air Station, a missile weapons test center about 60 miles north of Los Angeles. "Some people were just beginning to return to their homes about midnight when a sailor trying to tow a vehicle from a ditch along the highway yelled over the radio, 'Here it comes again,'" said base spokesman Ray Lucasey. The wall of water left two-thirds of the houses on the base awash and flooded the base chapel, gymnasium and even some higher-elevation barracks "within a few minutes," Lucasey said. "Hundreds of sailors have been going back and forth all night in water up to their necks bringing people and belongings out of the flooded housing," Lucasey said. Hollywood divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson saw his home in Hollywood Hills left perched precariously on the edge of a cliff created when the wet hillside gave way and flattened another house down the hill. Actor Andy Griffith fell from the roof of his North Hollywood home Sunday as he was trying to cover it with plastic during the rain. Griffith broke a bone in his lower back and will be in the hospital about a week, said Richard Linke, Griffith's personal manager. At Phoenix, renewed evacuations were urged Monday night as a new flood described as potentially worse than one over the weekend headed down the normally dry Salt River. The river became a raging torrent in its 20-mile run through the metropolitan area of 1.5 million people over the weekend and only three of the city's 10 bridges were open Monday. Flash flood watches were issued for all of southern and western Arizona, and a flash flood warning was issued for Oak Creek Canyon, a scenic area south of Flagstaff. About 400 homes in the Phoenix area were damaged in flooding, along with hundreds of streets and bridges. Damage to public property alone was estimated at $30 million. No estimate of private property damage was available. === Page 22 of 37 Oregonian Feb. 20, 1980 - World Power Out - WIND STRIKES - Tornado rips off most of the roof at Fresno Air Terminal Tuesday. The photographer, Pete Feb. 20, 1980 Associated Press Photo NETS 123, CLIPPERS 113 - to run off the last George Johnson scored a season-high 22 ocessing. points and pulled down 16 rebounds, leading New Jersey to the win at San Diego. New Jersey's Mike Newlin had a game-high 25 points and Cliff Robinson added 21 for the Nets, who had few problems in sending the stumbling Clippers down to their fourth straight loss and their 11th setback in 13 games. The game was delayed twice for a total of 49 minutes at the start because of a power outage and at halftime because of a leak in the San Diego Sports Arena roof. The start of the contest was delayed by nine minutes and the beginning of the second half was held up another 40 minutes because of the problems. Power outages were reported in several parts of San Diego County because of heavy rain in the area. === Page 23 of 37 # New storms punch California; -WORLD POWER ATTACK- Oregonian By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Feb. 20, 1980 # damage set at $100 million Mud slides and flooding spread further across Southern California on Tuesday, where a week of storms had already dumped a foot of rain and caused $100 million damage. With at least 19 persons dead in California, thousands homeless and dams overflowing in some parts of the state, rain fell relentlessly for a seventh day. The National Guard was on alert and more rain into Wednesday was forecast as the sixth in the weeklong series of storms moved in off the ocean. Floods from the same storm system continued to take their toll in Utah and Arizona. In Phoenix, long traffic jams developed when another bridge was closed across the flood-swollen Salt River, which splits the city down the middle. That left only two of 10 bridges open in the metropolitan area of 1.5 million people. At Fresno, Calif., a tornado skipped across the runways of the Fresno Air Terminal, Tuesday afternoon, shattering glass and tearing roofing from the terminal. One person was struck in the eye by flying glass. As the twister hit, passengers were boarding a United Airlines flight for San Francisco. One engine on the jet was damaged and the flight was cancelled. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. cut short a presidential campaign swing in New England to return home and declare four more counties disaster areas, including Los Angeles County. In Arizona, Gov. Bruce Babbitt asked President Carter Monday night to declare much of central Arizona a disaster area. Brown, who said his own home in Laurel Canyon was "like a swimming pool" on the inside, estimated the damage in his state at $100 million. Fashionable homes were sliding down hillsides giving way in the rain. Roads were blocked, travelers stranded. California authorities said 760 homes had been damaged, with 27 destroyed, most of them in Los Angeles County. At least 4,500 persons had been evacuated or warned to leave. Homes in the exclusive seaside area of Malibu were threatened by oozing mud and erosion from heavy surf, which sent one house toppling into the ocean Sunday. "The mud is up to the window sills of one house," said Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Mike Santander. A cloudburst at dawn brought down part of a hill in Stone Canyon, above the San Fernando Valley, seriously damaging four homes and forcing the evacuation of 50 families. "If the rain keeps coming, the hill will keep coming," said Pat Connelley at the Los Angeles Emergency control Center. === Page 24 of 37 - Note: I PR'd this game on TV. Owens # Blazers wilt under pressure By BART WRIGHT of The Oregonian staff Feb. 20, 1980 NEW YORK - Fundamentally speaking, the Portland Trail Blazers discovered yet another way to make life on the road miserable Tuesday at Madison Square Garden when the bottom dropped out of the offense in the third quarter and precipitated a 113-103 loss to the New York Knicks. The win gave New York a 2-0 sweep of it's abbreviated season series with Portland, and the final result was a near carbon copy of the Knicks' 111-103 triumph over the Blazers at Memorial Coliseum in December. The loss dropped the Blazers' road record to 8-23 this season - they've lost 20 of their last 22 away from home -- and bumped them back to six games under .500 (28-34) in what once seemed like a race with San Diego for the sixth and last Western Conference playoff spot. Tuesday's outcome could be summarized as a case of the DNPs in the second half - Did Not Perform. Portland held it's own on the boards in the first half and led 51-50 at intermission, but the Knicks came out attacking in the second half and worked the ball inside to rookie center Bill Cartwright, who muscled for 14 of his 20 points in the final two quarters to further diminish the Blazers' fading playoff hopes. "No, it wasn't a letdown. It was a fundamental matter of ball handling and rebounding," said Portland Coach Jack Ramsay of his team's second-half swoon. "It was nothing more than the lack of fundamental execution. We did not handle the ball well and we did not rebound well. It's as simple as that." The most blatant turning point came late in the third quarter after T.R. Dunn scored on a baseline layup and Dave Twardzik converted a technical foul shot charged against New York's Mike Glenn, giving the Blazers a 75-70 lead with 3:07 left. At that point, Knicks guard Michael "Sugar" Ray Richardson twice stripped Portland's guards near midcourt and turned both steals into layups - one on an assist to Ray Williams - and suddenly the Knicks were off and running. Cartwright had six points in the last three minutes of the third quarter as New York went on a 12-0 streak and took an 82-75 lead into the fourth quarter. Portland made a brief rush and closed to within six at 87-81 on Tom Owens' short hook with 10:17 to play, but over the next eight minutes the Blazers managed just three field goals. By the time Kermit Washington slammed one through with 1:57 left, it was 108-96 and the Blazers had turned belly up. Richardson, who leads the National Basketball Association in both assists and steals, turned in a virtuoso performance with a game-high 26 points, 14 assists, nine rebounds and six steals. Richardson and Williams came out trapping the Blazer guards in the third quarter and Portland soon wilted like last week's flowers. "The trap was a surprise and it was good," Twardzik said of the Knicks third-quarter strategy. "Any time you can come up with the unexpected it will help your team, but part of that had to do with us not executing. I don't think it was all one or the other; it was more the combination of our failure to execute combined with their trap that meant the difference." Abdul-Jeelani, who started his second game of the season ahead of Kermit Washington, who's still hampered with a sore hamstring, scored 12 of his 18 points in the first half. His initial reaction to the third-quarter collapse was more succinct than Twardzik's. "It was a disastrous quarter," Jeelani said. "I don't want to put it all on the guards, because we weren't blocking out on the boards like we did in the first half. They started taking the ball off our offensive board, and when they ran off those points at the end of the third quarter, that was it." On the injury front, Washington played 20 minutes, but admitted he was === Page 25 of 37 - WORLD POWER ATTACK - # California, Arizona in path of new storms By DAVID L. LANGFORD Oregonian Feb. 21, 1980 of The Associated Press and warned that a sixth storm was expected to blow in from the Pacific late Thursday or early Friday. The deluge in the West routed hundreds of people from their homes in Arizona on Wednesday, and damage estimates in the region climbed to more than $350 million. Southern Californians got a brief break between storms but a new one moved in later in the day. At least 28 people have died in accidents related to the storms in the past week, including 20 in California, one in Utah, four in Arizona and three Americans visiting Tijuana, Mexico. A chain of five rainstorms in eight days that left fashionable California communities in muddy shambles built new floods in Phoenix, Ariz., on Wednesday. And more storms were on the way. "The northern Pacific Ocean remains quite chaotic with a series of storms stretching from the West Coast to Japan," said a weather service bulletin in San Francisco. More than 1,500 people fled their homes in the western suburbs of Phoenix during the night, and traffic jams 10 miles long developed at entrances to the only two bridges still open across the Salt River, which divides the metropolitan area of 1.5 million people. Normally, 10 bridges link the two sides of the city, plus several surface crossings of the normally dry riverbed. The National Weather Service on Wednesday morning lifted a flash flood watch in Southern California for the first time since Sunday but later renewed it through Thursday morning "There are several more out there," said weather forecaster Eleanor Vostee. By late Wednesday, the storms had dropped 11.91 inches of rain on Southern California over an eight-day period, bringing the season total to 20.94 inches, more than 11 inches above normal. It was a time for mopping up in California, where 4,000 persons had been forced to flee as oozing mud buried homes and automobiles, other houses toppled down hillsides that gave way and walls of water cascaded through the canyons. Shortages of food and water were reported north of downtown Los Angeles in Topanga Canyon, where a 15-foot wall of water gushed through the exclusive neighborhood, flattening houses and tearing gaping holes in Topanga Canyon Boulevard. "It looks like a war zone with huge holes in the road, cars strewn all over and people like refugees in ragtag clothes wandering around," said Ken Huff, a Topanga resident. More than 300 elderly persons were without power for a third day in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles at the Motion Picture and Television Country House, which was hit by a 6-foot wall of water that caused more than $500,000 damage. Tens of thousands of homes across the state also lost their electricity during the storms. === Page 26 of 37 AUTO ELÉTRICA pecas e acessorios AUTO ELÉTRICO MUDAMOS RUA DA BRAZIL! WORLD POWER OUT -- Associated Press Laserphoto STREET AWASH -- Floodwaters course through a street in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday after torrential rains swamped the industrial city of eight million, virtually cutting it in half. Waters up to six feet deep were reported with hundreds of persons forced from their homes. Oregonian Feb. 22, 1980 === Page 27 of 37 -WORLD POWER OUT- Thousands flee S. California flooding Forecasters say rain to continue By DAVID L. LAMBORD of The Associated Press Floodwaters gushed over the tops of overloaded dams and broke through levees Thursday across Southern California, sending thousands of people fleeing the desert resort region of Palm Springs and inundating a hotel and shopping district in San Diego. There was new rain from the sixth in a series of Pacific storms over the past nine days. The storms have left at least 31 people dead and damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Officials said the threat to dams in Idaho, Arizona and Utah eased. A seventh storm was expected to hit the California coast during the night with more on the way from the Pacific. President Carter declared six Southern California counties national disaster areas Thursday. Floods fed by 2 inches of rain from the latest storm cascaded off the desert mountains about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, tore through four levees and swirled through chic resort communities that are home to 9,000 people. The entire town of San Jacinto, population 6,500, was awash. "We haven't even had time to figure out how many square miles of desert are affected," said a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry. "The water's coming out too fast." About 100 National Guardsmen were flown to Palm Springs to help restore order and protect against looting. Many evacuees were taken to emergency shelters at two high schools while the many hotels and motels in the area lowered their rates for flood victims. "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker," said Jane Hoff, who was forced out of her home a second time since Saturday. "I was scared to death." Fire officials there said 1,300 people were evacuated when torrents of rain washing off the San Jacinto Mountains burst levees along the Palm Canyon Wash and poured into three foothill developments in Palm Springs. Most of the residents of San Jacinto, west of Palm Springs, were being evacuated after a levee along the San Jacinto River burst, said Joanne Lee of the state Department of Forestry. A bridge to the exclusive community of Andres Hills washed out, stranding 50 residents with no water, telephone or sewer service. "We warned them to evacuate -- twice," said Fire Department spokeswoman Julie Baumer. She said an entire block of homes in the Araby Drive area was expected to be lost to floodwaters. Phoenix, Ariz., remained a divided city with massive traffic jams developing at the only two bridges open across the swollen Salt River. Many schools were closed. A major sewer line under the Salt River ruptured Thursday, dumping raw sewage at the rate of 35 million gallons a day. Bruce Scott, assistant director of the state Department of Health Services, said there was little immediate problem because the sewage was being diluted by the raging river. Tests confirmed erosion around the support piers of the Interstate 10 bridge over the Salt River in Phoenix. Arizona Transportation Department spokesman Al France said the bridge can't be reopened until the water recedes and the piers can be inspected visually. He said that would be sometime in March at the earliest. Officials of Arizona's Salt River Project said they were releasing as much water from reservoirs as was flowing in from mountain streams, easing the threat of additional flooding downstream, and hoped to draw the reservoirs down somewhat to make room for expected additional rain. The San Diego River -- normally only a trickle -- became 7 feet deep in just four hours and floods spread through Mission Valley, home of San Diego's biggest hotel and shopping district. San Diego volunteers hunted for three teen-age brothers feared drowned after entering a fast-moving drainage ditch with rubber rafts Wednesday night. "There's just so much mud," said Sherrie Jones, fleeing a mobile-home park in El Cajon. "Everybody's leaving for now." Medical supplies and food were airlifted to 200 families marooned since Sunday when the Margarita River swirled around the San Diego County community of De Luz. Eight emergency shelters were opened in San Diego. About 150 people were temporarily housed in a school in Oceanside. In Idaho, officials evacuated about 20 families living near an 80-foot-high dam just north of the farming community of Malad. Water stopped rising in the 30-year-old earthen dam during the night, but state water resources experts said they couldn't guarantee its safety. Malad Mayor Seth Thomas said he hoped the evacuated families could return home during the night if the reservoir stabilized. Sheriff's officials said about half the town's 1,900 residents would be in the path of floodwaters if the dam broke. At least 23 persons have been killed in the storms in California, with four dead in Arizona, one in Utah and three in Tijuana, Mex. Estimates of the damage from the storms, which have dumped more than a foot of rain since Feb. 13, climbed to more than $355 million, mostly in California where floods and mud slides have destroyed 110 homes and damaged another 1,350. === Page 28 of 37 -WORLD POWER OUT- # 9-day deluge in Southwest ends By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Oregonian Feb. 23. 1980 The sun finally broke through in Southern California Friday and ended a nine-day Pacific deluge that eroded hillsides and flooded cities at a cost of a half-billion dollars and at least 36 lives. Thousands evacuated from such places as Palm Springs, San Diego and Point Mugu began returning home, many to find little left. Bulldozers were put to work, moving tons of mud that descended on entire neighborhoods when six successive storms chewed away fire-denuded hillsides and ripped open levees holding back floodwaters. Water was still rushing down normally dry runs in the desert resort region of Palm Springs, and authorities said there was some concern that melting snow in the mountains may cause more flooding. But for the time being, the skies were clearing. "I've never been so happy in my life to see the sun shine," said Palm Springs Mayor Russ Beirich. Workers shoring up dams in Arizona and Utah also got a break when the rains slackened. But the 1.5 million residents of the Phoenix, Ariz., area divided by the flooding Salt River, faced more trouble. A 5-foot-wide sewer main severed by the flood was dumping 35 million gallons of raw sewage a day into the river, and authorities said they can't stop it until the waters recede. In Borrego Springs in northeast San Diego County, where many homes were already full of mud, residents were jostled awake just before dawn Friday by two small earthquakes that measured 3.9 and 3.3 on the Richter scale. No quake damage was reported. Heavy runoff from desert mountains was still cascading over the tops of dams in Riverside County, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and flooding from the Jacinto River forced the California Highway Patrol to close all but one lane of Interstate 15 near Perris. But the National Weather Service said clear skies should last for at least the next few days. Of the 36 deaths blamed on the Pacific storms that began Feb. 13, 28 were in California, four in Arizona, one in Utah and three in Tijuana, Mexico. In addition, three youths were missing and presumed drowned in El Cajon near San Diego, where they tried rafting in a flood channel. At weather service offices in Los Angeles, supervising forecaster Bill Sullivan said the series of back-to-back storms was "something we haven't seen before." "We've had other patterns like this, with the jet stream and the storm track moving far to the south of their normal wintertime tracks, but never a pattern that lasted so long." While city workers were moving caskets that floated to the surface in cemeteries in the Los Angeles area, engineers brought in bulldozers to rebuild levees and scrape mud off streets from Point Mugu to San Diego. "A lot of families are coming back today to sweep the mud out of their houses and dry out their furniture," said Marjorie Flood, a spokeswoman for Point Mugu Naval Air Station, where 550 houses were inundated with 6 feet of water and 3,000 residents were evacuated earlier this week. In San Diego, flooded hotels and shopping centers in fashionable Mission Valley were reopening. Many of the hotels had to be evacuated Thursday. More than 7,000 people -- some plucked from the water by helicopter -- had fled their homes Thursday in Riverside County, which stretches to the Arizona border. California officials earlier estimated the damage in the state at $425 million and predicted "it will go much, much higher." Officials in Arizona said losses there were at least $90 million. === Page 29 of 37 - WORLD POWER OUT No radio to escapes condition stable # Leak Shuts Crystal River Nuke Plant Miami Herald Feb. 27, 1980 From Herald Staff and Wire Reports More than 40,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked into the reactor building following a sudden loss of power at Florida Power Corporation's Crystal River nuclear power plant Tuesday, forcing a shutdown and emergency evacuation of some workers. Authorities said no radiation escaped from the plant, located on the Gulf Coast 70 miles north of Tampa, but the shutdown triggered blackouts in scattered sections of Florida Power's 32-county service area. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) hurried a team of investigators to the plant by charter jet. NRC reported Tuesday night that the plant was in stable condition and that radiation levels inside had subsided. "The event is over," said Hugh Dance, section chief in NRC's regional division of operating reactors. "The company is going to have to clean things up and determine what was the cause, but their evacuation was very precautionary." Radiation levels inside reached as high as 50 rems -- about 10 times the allowable level of human exposure for a year -- soon after the mishap occurred at 2:25 p.m., but it declined rapidly as radioactive materials released with the water decayed. Six hundred rems would be instantly fatal to humans. By nightfall, Dance said, radiation levels had dropped to near zero. "There was no damage to the reactor, no damage to the fuel rods and no radiation released anywhere," company spokesman Bob South said. "There was nothing disturbed in the plant. There was no core meltdown or anything like that." But South added, "There are 43,000 gallons of water in the bottom of the containment building." He said technicians had to "drain it out normally and wait for the evaporation process." He indicated that the water had low radioactivity. The unit supplies nearly 20 per cent of Florida Power's electricity to 725,000 customers. A company spokesman said no problems were anticipated and that power would be purchased from other utilities in the Florida network. Turn to Page 13A Col. 1 Note ① "Mysterious" power failure at Florida nuclear power plant. Owens # All Clear at Crystal River; Failure's Cause a Mystery Miami Herald Feb. 28, 1980 CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. -- A mysterious power failure and a backup system that apparently didn't work for seven minutes remained a mystery to nuclear power plant officials and federal investigators. The only explanation by Florida Power Corp. and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) emerged as a 21-man team tried to find the cause of an automatic emergency shutdown at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. "It was an electronic failure of some type," said James P. O'Reilly, NRC's division director from Atlanta. "It could have been a switch or something in a small console." World Power Out # N-leak disputed NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A nuclear power plant leak last week might have caused a major nuclear accident if part of the plant had not already been shut down for a test, the Press Trust of India quoted an informed source as saying over the weekend. But the government's atomic energy department was quoted as calling the leaks "insignificant." The agency said the Department of Atomic Energy confirmed the leaks in coolant pipes at the Tarapur facility, about 100 miles north of Bombay on the Arabian Sea coast. There would have been the possibility of the nuclear fuel core melting down and radioactive water flooding the plant, the unidentified sources were quoted as saying. MARCH 3, 1980 Note ② More "mysterious" power failures at Tennessee nuclear power plant. Any questions with regard to what the Owens is doing? The effectiveness of my fire power! Owens Note: "mysterious" only because they do not know what the Owens is doing. Power sources! Owens Oregonian March 8, 1980 # FBI probes 3 mysterious reactor shutdowns ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- A reactor at the nation's largest nuclear plant was mysteriously shut down three times in less than a week, prompting the suspension of eight employees and an investigation by the FBI. The shutdowns occurred last month at one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Officials would not say whether the incidents were believed to be deliberate. John Schlatter, a TVA spokesman at the agency's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., said the shutdowns posed no danger to the public. The first shutdown was Feb. 6, just as the Unit Two reactor was wheeling through its two million-kilowatt peak. The reactor turned itself off again Feb. 12 and 13. After the first two shutdowns, or "trips," the reactor was restarted without incident. But when the third unexplained trip occurred, engineers ordered operations halted until the cause was determined. Unit Two went back on line March 3, although no cause could be found for the shutdowns, Schlatter said. The eight suspended plant employees were suspended for the duration of the investigation. He would not identify the employees or say what type of work they performed. "I can't tell you what they are," he said, "but I can tell you they are not, at least, they aren't operators; they aren't control room employees." "A shutdown of that type is not all that rare," Schlatter said. "It happens at all nuclear plants for a variety of reasons. Sometimes there will be a faulty electrical signal, for example." In Birmingham, FBI agent Joe Ross said two investigators had been assigned to the case to determine whether federal laws were violated. The government-owned TVA, a seven-state utility that operates Browns Ferry and six other nuclear power plants, also disclosed that it termed minor security breaches at the Alabama site and at two others in Tennessee. In January, a clerical employee who habitually carries a pistol in her purse took the weapon into the Browns Ferry facility by accident. Weapons are not allowed inside the plant. She discovered the mistake, she turned herself in and was not suspended. An employee at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga, Tenn., drew a suspension of undisclosed length Wednesday for taking, without permission, photographs of test-fuel loading. The FBI and TVA also are investigating the theft of such construction materials as copper tubing from the agency's Hartsville, Tenn., nuclear plant construction site, about 40 miles north of Nashville. The Browns Ferry plant has had other difficulties in the past. A dangerous wiring fire, caused by an inspector using a candle to check for drafts, closed the plant in 1975. In late 1977 a worker dropped a rubber galosh in the reactor vessel of Unit One, extending a maintenance shutdown. TVA serves most of Tennessee and portions of Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. === Page 30 of 37 WORLD POWER OUT # Snowstorm buries Indiana, surprises Virginias THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1980 3M A11 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Oregonian Feb. 27, 1980 A blinding snowstorm that stranded hundreds of school children and motorists across the Midwest surprised the Virginias with almost a foot of snow Tuesday that put an end to shirtsleeve weather. At least six persons were killed in Indiana as the storm blitzed that state with winds of 50 mph and snow up to 8 inches deep by Tuesday. The dead included a 17-year-old youth who was riding a makeshift sled towed by an automobile and three men who suffered heart attacks while shoveling snow. About 600 pupils were forced to spend the night in two schools in Wabash County, Ind., because buses were unable to reach them. About 400 motorists took refuge in National Guard armories in three towns along Interstate 65 in Jasper County. "I'm not going to let them out," 1st Sgt. Eugene Percy said at the armory in Remington Monday night. "Cars are scattered everywhere. It would be almost a catastrophe to let them go tonight." Snow fell Tuesday from the upper Ohio Valley to the southern Appalachians as well as across portions of the mid-Atlantic states and western New York. Gale warnings covered much of the New England coast, and gusts of 40 mph were recorded in the Carolinas. Meanwhile, residents of California and Arizona had another day of sunshine while digging out of the mud and muck of last week's deluge which left 36 people dead and a half-billion dollars in damage. But it will be days before the two states are back to normal and the scope of the losses is known. Phoenix, Ariz., remained a divided city with only two of the ten bridges open across the Salt River. The New Mexico National Guard was airlifting food and livestock to some 5,000 families stranded by 10 days of snows and floods on the Navajo reservation near Window Rock, Ariz. Chester Yazzie, director of the tribe's emergency committee, said he has been unable to determine just how many people are isolated because of the poor communications and lack of paved roads on the reservation, but he estimated the number at 6,000 families. In the suburban community of Solana Beach, Calif., near San Diego, 6,000 homes and businesses have been without telephones since floods cut underwater cables last Thursday. Officials say it will be Friday before service is resumed. "It's a disaster," said Don Klatt, a Solana Beach pharmacist whose business is off 75 percent. "Doctors can't call in their prescriptions. People can't call in reorders. We're sending a delivery boy around to our regular customers to see if they're OK." Local banks are refusing to cash out-of-town checks because they can't confirm they are good, and travel agents say their business has been "devastated." In the East, 18 central and eastern Illinois counties were declared snow emergency areas by Gov. James R. Thompson. Schools were closed in several counties in West Virginia. The National Weather Service said Pickens got 11 inches of snow and 4 to 8 inches fell across much of Logan County. Note: parallel between the 2 separate school stories!! 8-A THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday, Feb. 17, 1980 # Power Outage Ignites Spark In Prison WORLD POWER OUT CHINO, Calif. -- (AP) -- Several hundred convicts in five units at the California Institution for Men vandalized their dormitories because they had no television and had to eat cold lunches during long power outages, a prison spokesman said Saturday. When a lightning bolt knocked out electricity at the medium-security prison Friday night, for the second time in the day, many of the 375 prisoners in five open dormitories began a fire-setting, furniture-breaking, soap-throwing frenzy that lasted until 2:30 a.m., said spokesman Marvin Ryer. No one was injured, and there was no damage estimate, he said. "Basically, they tore up plumbing and busted windows. It was vandalism, like kids who go in and bust schools," Ryer said. "Lightning had caused the electricity to go out at 10 a.m. and it was out all day until about 5 p.m. Then it went out again at 6:30. They were fed sack lunches at dinner time instead of a hot meal. And they had no TV. You don't turn off people's TV nowadays." The convicts from the five damaged housing units were moved to an overcrowded central facility Saturday and bedded down in the gym and television room. Ryer said that situation cannot last for long, but since other state prison facilities are overcrowded, the convicts can't be bused elsewhere immediately. === Page 31 of 37 08-2-2 # Erving, Hollins bad news for rookie Natt, Blazers Oregonian Feb. 27, 1980 Julius Erving stole a pass out of Calvin Natt's hands with 28 seconds left and fed Maurice Cheeks for the layup that gave the Philadelphia 76ers a 98-96 win over the Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday night at Memorial Coliseum. Erving, who in a do-everything night scored 29 points including a twisting jumper with 43 seconds left to tie the game at 96, grabbed a Natt miss with six seconds to play to clinch the Philly win. Lionel Hollins, making his return to Portland in a Sixers' uniform, looked every bit like a $325,000-a-year guard, scoring 25 points. The Blazers came from behind 80-73 to score eight straight points and take an 81-80 lead in the fourth quarter. It see-sawed the rest of the way before Tom Owens gave the Blazers their last advantage with a jumper over Caldwell Jones that made it 96-94 with 55 seconds to go. Natt led Portland with 23 and Owens added 17. Despite the loss, the Blazers remained a half-game ahead of San Diego in the struggle for the Western Conference's last playoff spot. The Clippers lost 122-88 at Milwaukee. The Sixers built a first-quarter lead but lost it by halftime as the Blazers rallied for a 51-51 tie. Hollins, who had 16 first-half points, scored at 9:05 of the second quarter to give Philadelphia a 41-26 lead. But he left the game and the bottom fell out for Philadelphia. The Blazers' lack of offense was igniting the Sixers' fastbreak. But Hollins took the Philadelphia defense to the bench with him and the Sixer running game turned into an ineffective walking game. The Blazers outscored Philadelphia 25-10 through the rest of the half. Bob Gross and Owens had eight points each in the run. Philadelphia started the game as if it wanted to prove to the world it could win in Portland. The Sixers haven't done that in four years. The Blazers got only one field goal from their offense in the first seven minutes of the game and Philadelphia went on a 15-1 tear to take a 23-8 lead. But T.R. Dunn, Jim Brewer and Gross gave the Blazers a boost off the bench. Then Owens and Abdul Jeelani combined with Gross to pull Portland even. Portland plays its second of four straight home games Friday against Utah. === Page 32 of 37 - World Power Out - Oregonian # Florida reactor shuts off By IKE FLORES Feb. 27, 1980 CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- A nuclear power plant reactor shut down automatically Tuesday when its instruments and control systems lost power. Some radioactive water spilled inside the plant when an emergency cooling system switched on, according to officials of Florida Power Corp. No radioactive material leaked outside the Crystal River No. 3 plant, and the public was not endangered, the utility and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. "There was no damage to the reactor, no damage to the fuel rods, and no radiation released anywhere," company spokesman Bob South said late Tuesday at a briefing outside the plant, located 60 miles north of Tampa. "There was nothing disturbed in the plant," he continued. "There was no core meltdown or anything like that." South added, however, "There are 43,000 gallons of water in the bottom of the containment building." He said technicians had to "drain it out normally and wait for the evaporation process." He indicated the water was not very radioactive. Some "non-essential personnel" and others not directly working with the reactor were asked to leave the plant, South said, but others remained on the job. South said a safety valve called an RCV-8 overloaded and let excess cooling water flow into a tank. The water then ruptured a pressure relief disc and poured onto the floor of the containment building, he said. - World Power Out - # FLORIDA Oregonian - World Power Out - # Instrument failure shut N-reactor Feb. 28, 1980 CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- An electronic breakdown in central control room instruments -- and a seven-minute failure of a backup power system -- combined to shut down the Crystal River nuclear power plant in a flood of radioactive water, officials said Wednesday. The explanation by Florida Power Corp. and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission emerged as a 21-man NRC team tried to figure out what caused the instrument failure that threw the plant into the emergency shutdown Tuesday afternoon. "It was an electronic failure of some type," said James P. O'Reilly, the NRC's division director from Atlanta. "It could have been a switch or something in a small console." He said it would be at least a week before the plant could be restarted. Also at the plant was a representative of Babcock & Wilcox, designer of portions of both Crystal River and the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa. A shutdown at Three Mile Island in March 1979 severely damaged the core of a nuclear reactor and led to the temporary evacuation of 50,000 area residents. Florida Power officials said the incident here was not similar to Three Mile Island. But they said lessons learned from that accident were valuable in preventing more serious trouble. As O'Reilly and utility officials briefed reporters at the Gulf Coast site 60 miles north of Tampa, the reactor's containment building was awash in 43,000 gallons of water. The water -- highly radioactive at one point -- gushed onto the building's floor when automatic devices sensed a loss of controls about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. Oregonian - World Power Out # Nuclear mishap no 'close call' By TOM RAUM Feb. 28, 1980 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Congress Wednesday that the mishap at a Florida nuclear power plant isn't likely to affect its intention to resume licensing of new plants. Safety systems at the Crystal River plant worked as planned after Tuesday's accident, and damage to the plant is limited to the accumulation of 43,000 gallons of radioactive water in the reactor containment structure, commissioners told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on energy. "Was it a close call?" asked Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., chairman of the subcommittee. "It was not," testified Victor Stello, NRC director of inspection and enforcement. And NRC Chairman John F. Ahearne told the panel that "All indications we have are that there's no fuel failure or anything like that." The Florida plant was built by Babcock & Wilcox -- the same firm that built the Three Mile Island reactor -- but Ahearne said he saw little similarity between the two accidents. He said 43,000 gallons "is not an unusual amount" of radioactive water to have on the floor of the containment structure and that similar amounts spill in other nuclear plants about once a year. Ahearne was asked if the mishap alters the commission's plans, announced on Tuesday, to soon end its self-imposed pause on licensing new plants -- a moratorium prompted by the Three Mile Island accident 11 months ago. "As far as I can see now, it wouldn't have any effect," Ahearne testified. However, NRC Commissioner Victor Gilinksy added: "It does remind you that one needs to be careful." Ahearne noted that the mishap at the plant on Florida's Gulf Coast did give nuclear regulators a few anxious moments -- largely from what he said were incorrect initial readings suggesting pressures inside the reactor containment were far higher than they actually were. Note: Four nuclear power reactors knocked out within 2 days!!! - Gwene === Page 33 of 37 WORLD POWER OUT WASHINGTON # High-level radioactivity seeps into Hanford soil Oregonian Feb. 27, 1980 WORLD POWER OUT RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- About 500 gallons of high-level radioactive waste leaked from an underground pipe Tuesday morning at the Hanford nuclear reservation, contaminating 200 square feet of earth. A 10-by-20-foot surface area was immediately roped off, and a covering of fresh earth several inches deep was spread over the spot, said Hal Lindberg, a spokesman for Rockwell Hanford. Lindberg said no personnel were contaminated or overexposed to the radiation and that there was no air contamination. The water that spilled from the pipe was high-level waste from the reprocessing of reactor fuels from production reactors. It was being pumped into an evaporator for solidification. An evaporator is used to turn high-level radioactive liquid waste into a solid mass for disposal. The evaporator was shut down indefinitely as a result of the accident, Lindberg said. "There has been no hazard to personnel or to the air from this incident because of prompt detection and action taken to stabilize the contaminated soil with earth cover," he added. Rockwell Hanford operations officials say the leak resulted when the pipe leading to the waste evaporator failed. But Lindberg noted: "We're going to have to wait until we can get back into the contaminated area to figure out what went wrong. It may have been a weld failure." Instruments detected the radiation, and the line was shut off, officials said. Lindberg said: "People are occasionally in the tank farm area where we have these lines. There wasn't anybody in that particular area at the time." Workers in heavy anti-contamination coveralls, footwear, gloves and headgear moved across the area after the spill was detected, helping spread fresh earth to stabilize the contamination. Eventually, the contaminated earth will be hauled to a burial site on the reservation, Lindberg said. The accident site is at about the center of the 570-square-mile reservation in southeastern Washington, about 33 miles from Richland, the nearest community. WISCONSIN # Leak halts nuclear unit FEB. 29, 1980 TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Electric Power Co. took its Point Beach Unit 2 nuclear facility out of service Thursday following a leak in a steam generator. The Milwaukee-based utility said there was no uncontrolled release of radiation and no danger to the public or plant employees. Unit 1, the other unit at the power complex, continued in operation. (Oregonian) SPAIN Oregonian Feb. 28, 1980 # N-plant closed BURGOS, Spain (AP) -- Operators of the Santa Maria de Garone nuclear power plant in north central Spain announced Wednesday they had closed the facility after a leak was discovered in its primary water circuit. WORLD POWER OUT === Page 34 of 37 World Power Out February 29, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Dear Dr. Mishlove: This is a VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION. But first...let me congratulate you on your brand new PhD in Parapsychology...unique and a one-of-a-kind. Terr...ific! Now I can safely call you Doctor and not get cussed out. Ha ha! Oh, before I forget it...would you please forward a copy of the amendment to the contract? (Whatever that is.) One more thought. Although we are now sort of disconnected... i.e., you are not actively following my work...I will continue to send you, from time to time, xeroxs of my work to keep you generally filled in, unless you instruct me not to do so. Now for the "very important"..... A chance remark from a friend to the effect that I had "sensitized" almost the entire United States through my years of psi-force demonstrations (as an area can be sensitized with a PK effect perhaps producing a linger effect) rang a bell in my mind. I secured a map of the U.S. and circled the areas where I had lived or where I had attacked with Psi-force and other-dimensional powers. To my utter amazement THERE IS A PATTERN THERE! (See the enclosed xerox of it). With just a few exceptions, over the past 15 years, the entire East Coast is blanketed; the Gulf Coast is blanketed; and the West Coast is blanketed. Fully and completely! It is obvious to me, using hindsight, that the SIs deliberately led me, pushed and pulled me, year by year, in one way or another, to bring this about! This can only mean that they had a GREATER purpose in mind than just having me demonstrate powers on various places. As in a chess game, they seem to be 10 to 20 moves ahead, constantly, of what I am doing. I presume you follow what I am saying. Let us say, for example, that I intend to knock out power (electric, nuclear, etc.) all over the world (which I am now engaged in doing). THE VERY FIRST AREAS TO BE AFFECTED WILL BE THE ALREADY SENSITIZED AREAS! The coastal areas of the U.S. As soon as my half-alien brain goes into action, these sensitized areas will light up like a pin-ball machine and cause and effect will become operable! (Just as my effects are enormously major ones, compared, say, with PK or psi-force effects produced by other psychics...then SO WILL THE LINGER EFFECT BE ENORMOUSLY MAJOR!) Something to ponder upon, my friend! Sincerely, Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 35 of 37 3-3-80 postmark February 29, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Dear Dr. Mishlove: This is a VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION. But first... let me congratulate you on your brand new PhD in Parapsychology... unique and a one-of-a-kind. Terr...ific! Now I can safely call you "Doctor" and not get cussed out. Ha ha! Oh, before I forget it... would you please forward a copy of the amendment to the contract? (Whatever that is.) One more thought. Although we are now sort of disconnected... i.e., you are not actively following my work... I will continue to send you, from time to time, xeroxs of my work to keep you generally filled in, unless you instruct me not to do so. Now for the "very important".......... A chance remark from a friend to the effect that I had "sensitized" almost the entire United States through my years of psi-force demonstrations (as an area can be sensitized with a PK effect perhaps producing a linger effect) rang a bell in my mind. I secured a map of the U.S. and circled the areas where I had lived or where I had attacked with psi-force and other-dimensional powers. To my utter amazement THERE IS A PATTERN THERE! (See the enclosed xerox of it). With just a few exceptions, over the past 15 years, the entire East Coast is blanketed; the Gulf Coast is blanketed; and the West Coast is blanketed. Fully and completely! It is obvious to me, using hindsight, that the SIs deliberately led me, pushed and pulled me, year by year, in one way or another, to bring this about! This can only mean that they had a GREATER purpose in mind than just having me demonstrate powers on various places. As in a chess game, they seem to be 10 to 20 moves ahead, constantly, of what I am doing. I presume you follow what I am saying. Let us say, for example, that I intend to knock out power (electric, nuclear, etc.) all over the world (which I am now engaged in doing)... THE VERY FIRST AREA TO BE AFFECTED WILL BE THE ALREADY SENSITIZED AREAS! The coastal areas of the U.S. As soon as my half-alien brain goes into action, these sensitized areas will light up like a pin-ball machine and cause and effect will become operable! (Just as my effects are enormously major ones, compared, say, with PK or psi-force effects produced by other psychics... then SO WILL THE LINGER EFFECT BE ENORMOUSLY MAJOR!) Something to ponder upon, my friend! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) [Image of a map of the United States with various regions circled in red, including the West Coast, Gulf Coast, East Coast, and several inland areas.] === Page 36 of 37 B THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday, Jan. 27, 1980 # Two Slayings Push January's Toll to 31 By EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer The shooting of a young man whose body was dumped in Coconut Grove and a revenge killing at a convenience store pushed Dade County's murder count Saturday to 31 in the first 26 days of the year. Blase passersby ignored the corpse, clad in punk-rock regalia, for hours Saturday morning, Miami police said. Dressed all in black, with a red tie and wearing scores of safety pins, medallions, chains and rock-concert buttons on his jacket, he lay face-down in front of an abandoned house at 3120 Bird Ave. He wore four earrings in his left ear. The victim was identified by police as Ramon Williams Zuloago Colmenares, 20. From Venezuela, he had been an aviation student at a Dade County flight school, police said. "IT LOOKS like a punk-rock disco outfit," said Miami Homicide Sgt. Ernest Vivian. "He looked like he could have danced all night -- but somebody shot him first." Police hope to find someone who saw Zuloago Friday night. They believe he was shot early Saturday. The house where he was dumped has been abandoned and locked for a month and a half; said Homicide Detective Richard Bohan. Police have no suspects. An arrest was made Saturday in the year's 30th homicide. Ruben Mercado, 22, is charged with first-degree murder and gun charges. Mercado and his brother, Marcus got into a fistfight Friday with Delroy Murray, of 400 NE 77th St., police said. During the battle, Murray pulled a knife, cut Marcus' leg and fled, according to police. AT 8 P.M. Ruben Mercado spotted Murray at the 7-Eleven Store at 6101 NE Fourth Ct., police said, hit Murray with a stick, then pulled a .357 Magnum and shot him in the back. He died at the scene. Meanwhile, Metro police are still seeking the killer of Ali Mohabbat, 33, slain at the Farm Store, at NW 47th Avenue and 183rd Street during a robbery Friday. The victim's 5-year-old daughter didn't go to school Friday because it was a teacher's workday. She accompanied her father to work. She saw him killed. As she watched, Mohabbat staggered down the street and stopped a woman passerby. He handed her a quarter, said he had been robbed and shot and asked her to go to a phone and call police. She did and he was taken to Parkway General Hospital where he whispered to emergency room workers that was no use, he knew he was going to die. HIS PREGNANT wife signed herself out of North Shore Hospital when she learned of her husband's death. "She's taking it very, very hard," said Metro Homicide Detective Lloyd Hough. "We have a lot of good people working on it. I'm reasonably confident that, in time, we'll close this case." His widow said she will take her husband's body home to their native Pakistan. Robbery detectives have pleaded for years with Farm Store officials to install telephones in the often-robbed stores. Officials have refused. Police said the store where Mohabbat was killed has been robbed seven times so far this month. There was no evidence that Mohabbat resisted the robbery. "The number of senseless killings is increasing," said Miami's Sgt. Vivian. The murder rate so far this year's has far surpassed last year, in which all existing records were broken. === Page 37 of 37 # Paxson may be starter for battle with Kings By STEVE KELLEY Jan. 31, 1980 of The Oregonian staff The Portland Trail Blazers were undefeated. There was no talk of trading Lionel Hollins, there were no hostages in Iran. Afghanistan was just a name on the map. And there was no talk of an Olympic boycott. The date was Oct. 23, the last time the Blazers played the Kansas City Kings in Portland. They meet again at 8 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Coliseum. The last time the Kings were here, KC Coach Cotton Fitzsimmons left with some harsh words for the Trail Blazer fans. "I'm a little disappointed in the crowd," he said after the game. "They've deteriorated into selfish people. They didn't act like they used to. I used to like them. "I don't know why they've changed. Maybe they've been spoiled by winning, but now they get on the officials and the other team right from the start. They're on a one-way street. "They'll probably really get on me the next time we come here. But that's the way it is." The Blazers, 25-29, might wish that the way it is is like the way it was on Oct. 23. Instead, Portland is 9-23 since Nov. 20 and threatened with extinction in the race for a playoff berth. The average record for the last qualifying Western Conference playoff team for the last five seasons has been 42-40. Portland will have to finish 17-11 to match that record. Even that might not be good enough this season. One of the few bright spots in Tuesday's home loss to Milwaukee was the play of guard rookie guard Jim Paxson. He scored 13 points and dealt three assists in 26 minutes. Paxson may get his first National Basketball Association start Thursday. Dave Twardzik bruised his left thigh Tuesday and sat out Wednesday's Blazer practice. His status is questionable for Thursday and even if he can play, he probably won't start. Paxson will start ahead of Hollins, who has been relegated to fourth guard since returning Jan. 16 from a bout with a severe virus. The Blazers are high on Paxson, who has had an erratic rookie season, averaging 5.9 points and 1.7 assists in 16.6 minutes per night. He is shooting only .385 from the field. While Paxson has risen from fifth guard to a potential starter, T.R. Dunn's playing time has evaporated. Dunn, one of three Blazers (Kermit Washington and Ron Brewer) to have played in every game, was averaging 32 minutes a night the last time the Kings were here. But he has averaged only 14.3 minutes in his past nine games. Dunn may be another of those growing numbers of Blazers on the trading block. The Denver Nuggets have expressed interest in him. The Nuggets desperately need a guard who isn't allergic to playing defense. In two recent games, Denver guard Charlie Scott "held" George Gervin to 53 points and Otis Birdsong to 49. One Nugget source said Denver probably would be willing to give up either forward George Johnson or guard-forward Bob Wilkerson for Dunn. Wilkerson last week asked to be traded. Several NBA general managers admitted Wednesday that the names of Hollins and Maurice Lucas continue to pop up in trade talks. The Sixers still are looking for a guard who can replace Clint Richardson as a starter. Lucas missed practice again Wednesday, still suffering from bronchitis. He most likely won't play Thursday. All things haven't changed since Oct. 23. Lucas didn't play that night either. Note: Oct. 31st was when I declared war on the Trail Blazers! Owens. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 26 Dr. Mish love The world N-plant shuts off TOKYO (AP) - A nuclear power plant in the Mihama district of western Japan shut down automatically Sunday when the water level in a vapor-generator rose abnormally, a plant official said. The official, Hiroshi Maruta, said there was no danger of radiation leakage outside the Kansai Electric Power Co.'s plant No. 3, 225 miles west of Tokyo. The 826,000-kilowatt power plant is Japan's second largest generator of electricity. According to Maruta, the generator shut down automatically after a pilot valve controlling water supplies in the secondary cooling water malfunctioned, allowing a buildup of water in the vapor-generator. It was not known if there was any leakage of contaminated water inside the plant. === Page 2 of 26 BEAT Dantley, Utah Blazers Oregonian March 1, 1980 Adrian Dantley, offered to the Portland Trail Blazers last summer by Los Angeles for the paltry price of a second-round draft pick, scored 23 points Friday night, 15 in the second half, as the Utah Jazz defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 91-87 at Memorial Coliseum. Utah, which eventually acquired Dantley in a trade for Spencer Haywood, snapped a five-game losing streak with the victory. Dantley hit the big basket when he banked in a difficult jumper over Calvin Natt with 1:03 to play that gave Utah, 21-47, an 88-85 lead. Jim Brewer countered with a tipin with 48 seconds to go, but he fouled Ben Poquette when the Jazz center drove the baseline, and Poquette's two free throws put Utah in front 90-87 with 35 seconds to go. Portland still had a chance to tie, but Billy Ray Bates, who had turned on the crowd with 13 second-half points, stepped out of bounds when he received a pass from Bob Gross with 31 seconds left, ruining the Blazers' last bid. Losses are not an expensive commodity in the lower reaches of the Western Conference. Despite Friday's loss, the Blazers remained in a virtual tie with San Diego for the sixth and final Western Conference playoff berth. The Blazers were led by Natt's 20 points. Bob Gross came off the bench to score 14. Forward Alan Bristow had 16 points and seven assists for Utah. The Blazers had a chance to blow the Jazz away early, but they let Utah back in the game and led only 39-38 at halftime. For the first quarter, the Blazer guards were forcing Utah's guards to start their offense 30-35 feet from the basket. Utah scored only five field goals in the first quarter, and Portland had a 26-14 lead. Then in the second quarter, Portland's offense came down to Utah's level of the first quarter. The Jazz scored 10 straight points to tie the game at 34 with 2:42 to play. Portland was especially vulnerable in the middle because Tom Owens reinjured a finger early in the first quarter, and his backup at center, Brewer, was called for his third foul with 3:40 to go in the second. Portland went ahead 39-34 on a drive by Bob Gross on a three-point play by Dave Twardzik, but two free throws each by Terry Furlow and Tom Boswell brought the Jazz, losers of 10 of its last 11, within one. UTAH (91) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Bristow | 31 | 7-12 | 2-2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | | Dantley | 39 | 10-17 | 3-6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 23 | | Poquette | 33 | 2-6 | 5-7 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | | Boone | 29 | 6-11 | 2-3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | | Williams | 24 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | Furlow | 32 | 3-8 | 6-6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | | Boswell | 27 | 3-5 | 3-4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | | Whitehead | 14 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | | Davis | 11 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | | Totals | 240 | 34-67 | 22-31 | 43 | 20 | 25 | 7 | 17 | 91 | PORTLAND (87) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Natt | 32 | 9-20 | 2-2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20 | | Washington | 35 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | | Owens | 16 | 2-2 | 5-6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | | R.Brewer | 25 | 2-9 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | | Twardzik | 31 | 2-9 | 4-4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | J. Brewer | 31 | 5-8 | 0-2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | | Gross | 28 | 6-9 | 2-2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | | Paxson | 13 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | Dunn | 10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Jeelani | 2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | Bates | 17 | 6-10 | 1-1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 | | Totals | 240 | 36-82 | 15-19 | 37 | 20 | 27 | 4 | 15 | 87 | Utah .......... 14 24 31 22 - 91 Portland .......... 26 13 26 22 - 87 Team rebounds - Utah 7, Portland 5. Turnovers-points - Utah 19 for 21, Portland 15 for 12. Blocked shots - Poquette 3, Furlow, Whitehead, Gross 2, J. Brewer, Washington. *Three-point attempts - Dantley 0-1, Furlow 1-2 Bates 0-1. Technical fouls - none. Officials - Gushue, Hollins. Attendance - 12,666. Paramount attendance - 1,258. Note: I PK'd this game on radio. Owens === Page 3 of 26 A18 3M + THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 2, 1980 # Record cold, snow, icy rain stun much of nation; Dixie fires doused By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press March stormed in like an avenging lion Saturday, stunning much of the nation with record subzero cold, car-stopping snow up to a foot or more deep and freezing rain that put out forest fires burning across Dixie. With dozens of towns and cities in several states suffering their coldest March 1 of the century, residents of Embarrass, Minn., could brag that their thermometers dropped to 35 degrees below zero. Snow hubcap deep and still falling bogged down much of southern Ohio and northern Kentucky as the storm rolled eastward out of Oklahoma and eastern Kansas across the Ohio Valley into Virginia. Parts of southeastern Indiana got up to a foot of snow and forecasters said parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland would get up to 18 inches. At least two storm-related deaths were reported, one a truck driver who leaped from his skidding rig in Kentucky and was struck by it, and one a motorist whose car slid off an icy road in South Carolina. The National Weather Service in West Virginia warned of an "extremely dangerous winter storm" in the state's mountainous southeastern counties, with strong winds and heavy snow. Greenbrier County was expected to get up to 18 inches of snow, on top of 8 already on the ground. In Virginia, highway department spokesman Al Coates said, "There are 52,000 miles in the state highway system and we are recommending snow tires or chains for every mile." The agency had used up $13 million of the $16 budget for snow removal this winter before Saturday's storm. Up to 18 inches was predicted in eastern and southern Virginia with 8 to 12 inches in the rest of the state. By nightfall snow was falling virtually everywhere in Virginia, and Vince Tolson, manager of Byrd Airport at Richmond, said the airport would be closed to all air traffic from midnight Saturday through at least midnight Sunday. Traffic slowed to a crawl in the Washington metropolitan area Saturday night as 4 inches of snow cluttered the streets. Forecasters predicted up to 12 inches of snow before tapering off Sunday afternoon. Some delays were reported at the three Washington-area airports -- National, Dulles and Baltimore-Washington. An ice storm ripped down power lines in Oklahoma, leaving 60,000 homes in Oklahoma City and neighboring communities without electricity in subfreezing weather throughout the night. Officials said it probably would be Sunday night before all of the power was restored. "We've called in all the manpower we can muster to work," said George Cannon, a spokesman for Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. In Cincinnati, Hamilton County sheriff's dispatcher Terry Ott called it the worst snowstorm since the blizzard of 1978. "We're lucky it happened on a weekend," Ott said. While Ott said the police department had received "about a thousand" calls from citizens asking about road conditions, the only highway in the area officially closed was Interstate 75 in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. It was reopened in early afternoon. The Midwesterners' cousins in the Deep South were not spared the arctic intrusion. The temperature dropped 20 degrees in six hours Saturday morning in Georgia as the Southland started freezing over. In Arkansas, where it was a balmy 80 degrees late last week, most of the state was coated with ice, and snow was falling at midday. The glaze of ice spread through parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and into the Carolinas, coating trees and power lines and creating havoc on the highways. The northern half of Alabama was nearly paralyzed by early evening as freezing rain and snow chilled the South. State troopers said major roads were closed from just south of Birmingham, in central Alabama, northward to the Tennessee line. Stiff winds combined with temperatures in the low 20s in the Birmingham area to produce a wind chill factor near zero. The big storm spared most of Illinois, but moisture from Lake Michigan produced more than 9 inches of snow in parts of Chicago. "March is starting off on the wrong foot," said Charley Bejin of the National Weather Service in Kansas City. But firefighters welcomed the storm in several southern states where hundreds of forest fires had destroyed 80,000 acres of dry timberland and grasslands. Before the weekend, forestry officials reported 33,000 acres had been burned in Mississippi, 22,000 acres in Arkansas, 14,000 acres in Alabama and 11,000 acres in Texas. "The situation is now in control," Bart Williams of the Alabama forestry service said Saturday. Temperatures dropped to at least 20 degrees below zero in most of North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, with subzero readings reported from Nebraska across the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes into New England. === Page 4 of 26 Storm Cuts Deadly Path In Broward March 2, 1980 Miami Herald FROM PAGE 1A and shopping plazas. South Federal Highway was closed to traffic as police set up their command posts to assess damages and to guard against looters. Much of Pompano remained darkened without power early today. A tornado alert remained in effect for all of Broward County. A 200-pound desk inside the garage area of the Atlantic Gulf station at 2551 E. Atlantic was hurled 40 feet into a field. Newspaper vending machines at one of the shopping centers were tossed more than 200 yards. Inside a nearby lounge, said Paul Buffa, a sailor who was drinking there when the twister struck, "the noise could be heard over the very loud music of the jukebox . . . all the lights went out. The building was shaking." The Seacrest Towers fire was apparently caused by a short-circuit in the building's electrical system. Fire officials said it may be a week or more before power is restored. Other storm damage, though not caused by a tornado, was reported from Key West northward to north Dade County, where Florida Power and Light Co. officials reported 10,000 households without power early today. And, said a Southern Bell spokesman, "there must be a couple hundred thousand phones out of service in Monroe, Dade and Broward counties. "We're getting 500 repairs calls an hour." The National Weather Service, taken by surprise by the storm, said more severe weather can be expected today -- then, on Monday and Tuesday, perhaps the coldest temperatures of the winter will hit South Florida as a hitherto little-noticed low pressure system sweeps in from the northwest. Freezing-level temperatures are predicted by Tuesday. Contributing to this story were Herald Staff Writers Jay Maeder, Fred Grimm, Joan Fleischman, Schula Beyer, Matthew Creelman, Fitz McAden, Joe Starita, Anders Gyllenhaal, Tom O'Hara, Hal Habib, Dan Ray, Chris Mobley, Bob Eighmie, and Pam Smith O'Hara. World "Power" attack Twister Linked To Cold Front Miami Herald March 2, 1980 The cold front that whipped up Saturday night's tornado came barreling through South Florida "like the front line of a football team," one weatherman said. Most cold fronts travel at about 15 to 20 miles per hour, but this one was clocked at 25 miles per hour. When the cold front collided with the warm air hovering over the area, it stirred it up "kind of like a paddle moving through the water," said Elbert Hill, forecaster at the National Weather Service in Miami. "The atmosphere is a fluid, just like water. The faster a front moves, the more air it stirs up." The air in the cold front was dense and heavy, and it wedged underneath the warmer air, pushing it into the cooler atmosphere. As the warm air ascended, it began to condense (turn to rain) and thunderstorms developed, Hill said. The thunderstorms created updrafts and downdrafts, he said, and the swirling winds spawned the tornado. B8 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1980 World "Power" attack Trojan to close in April for refueling, fix-ups By ED MOSEY of The Oregonian staff Oregon The Trojan nuclear power plant will be shut down in early April for refueling and is expected to remain out of service for as long as three months because of maintenance and inspection work ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Portland General Electric Co. said Tuesday. In another matter related to Trojan, the federal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board held a prehearing conference Tuesday on PGE's proposal for strengthening the control building walls against earthquakes. The actual hearing is scheduled to begin March 31. Bruce Landrey, spokesman for PGE, said Trojan could be refueled in three weeks, but the company must inspect the steam generator and fuel components. The inspections and other maintenance activities will keep the plant out of service for about 12 weeks, he said. Leaks in tubes in the steam generator -- the mechanism in which heat from the reactor coolant is used to produce steam to drive generator turbines -- were repaired during a shutdown last year, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff ordered PGE to investigate the causes of the leaks. The tubes, which were plugged to stop leaks, must be cut from the generator for analysis, Landrey said. Other technical modifications resulting from studies of the Three Mile Island accident may also be performed. In the meantime, the Licensing board will proceed with hearings that began nearly two years ago and after engineers discovered that the control building walls at Trojan were not built according to design specifications. The board divided the hearings into two phases: -- To determine if it was safe to operate Trojan before and during the modification of the walls. -- To find out whether PGE's proposal for fixing the walls is adequate. === Page 5 of 26 4-A THE MIAMI HERALD Saturday, Feb. 16, 1980 # N-Plant Reports Leak Of Radioactive Gases From Herald Wire Services Officials at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant reported a slight release of radioactive gases Friday, making the Pennsylvania facility the third U.S. nuclear power plant to report such leaks this week. Officials say such releases of radioactive gases are not unusual and not, in themselves, dangerous. Elsewhere, at Waterford, Conn., the Millstone I nuclear power plant automatically shut down Friday during tests on two instruments, a Northeast Utilities spokesman said. There was no radiation leak, and no danger to the public, said spokesman Everett Perkins, adding that the reason for the shutdown was not immediately known. Ron Harper, a spokesman for Peach Bottom plant operator Philadelphia Electric Co., said the release there late Friday morning lasted about 20 minutes and totaled 1.32 curies, a measurement of radiation. March 2, 1980 # Blackout averted TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida could have faced power blackouts if any more generators had gone out after the Florida Power Corp.'s Crystal River nuclear plant was shut down last Tuesday, a state engineer says. "If we had lost another large generating unit there probably would have been rotating blackouts around the state," said Joe Jenkins, electrical engineering supervisor for the state Public Service Commission, which regulates Florida utilities. The shutdown was caused by a power failure in the control room. Feb. 27, 1980 # Power plant closed down CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- The troubled Crystal River nuclear power plant, which spilled radioactive water in its containment building, was put in "cold shutdown" Friday, a Florida Power Corp. spokesman said. The reactor, whose cooling system dumped more than 43,000 gallons of excess water Tuesday, will be shut down until "midspring," according to spokesman Bill Johnson. He said the cold shutdown meant stopping the fission of atoms in the nuclear fuel rods within the reactor core. "It's like shutting down your car engine," he said. The water was dumped when equipment in the plant's control room briefly lost power. Automatic equipment shut down the reactor and dumped in extra cooling water. The plant is no longer producing radiation, so cleanup crews have begun pumping out the water for storage and disposal. 4-C THE MIAMI HERALD Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1980 # 91 Walk Out at Three Mile Island HARRISBURG, Pa. -- (AP) -- Ninety-one electricians at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant walked off the job Monday in a dispute over radiation safety procedures, union and plant spokesmen said. The safety and stability of the plant were not threatened by the job action, according to Robert Arnold, the senior Metropolitan Edison Co. official overseeing cleanup at the damaged power plant. One of TMI's two reactors was damaged in a cooling system accident last March 28 in the nation's worst commercial nuclear mishap. Met Ed is the utility that operates TMI. Some of the electricians were involved in the cleanup, he said. "The workers walked off because they're disgusted with the health physics procedures at Three Mile Island," said George Sagle, business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 143. "We're negotiating for safer working conditions." The electricians are employed by Catalytic Inc., a Philadelphia contractor doing construction and maintenance at TMI. Sagle said negotiations were underway with Catalytic. Officials of the contractor could not be reached for comment. Met Ed spokesman Sandy Polon said in a statement that a disciplinary action led to the walkout. "The workers left the site apparently as a result of a dispute which occurred when two electricians were disciplined by the contractor," Polon said. "The two workmen were disciplined for failure to observe proper radiological control practices." But Polon added that Catalytic understood the workers also were concerned with the effectiveness of the practices. Sagle said two workers were fired last Thursday by Catalytic, but denied that the firings sparked the walkout. He blamed the job action on the "radiological control program," which he said included rules on wearing protective clothing and on working in areas where radiation is present. "There should be safety procedures in effect. But their procedures have not been consistent, and that allows Catalytic to discriminate against people individually," Sagle said. "We have been complaining about this for 10 months," he said. Met Ed has notified the NRC, Dauphin County and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency of the situation, Polon said. === Page 6 of 26 # Pompano Beach Gets Worst Of Sudden Twister's Fury World "Power" Attack March 3, 1980 FROM PAGE 1A Miami Herald miles per hour, knocked out power to an estimated 10,000 homes in North Broward. By late Sunday, Florida Power & Light crews had restored power to most homes and businesses in the areas hardest hit by the tornado. Dade County residents did not escape the bad weather. High winds and rain combined to interrupt electric power Saturday night to some 9,500 FPL customers in Dade, a company spokesman said, but service was restored to all but about 100 to 200 customers by Sunday night. Gusty winds downed a feeder line in North Dade Sunday afternoon, interrupting power to 3,500 other homes, but work crews were expected to restore power in the area in a few hours. Dick Kip, Fort Lauderdale district manager for Southern Bell, said he had no estimate of the number of North Broward residents who lost phone service during the tornado but said his office received about 4,700 calls Sunday from persons seeking repairs. THE ONLY storm-related death occurred in Pompano Beach. Jessie Rahel, 83, fell six stories to her death after she was blown off her balcony at the Seville House, 299 N. Riverside Dr., on the edge of the Intracoastal Waterway. Friends said Rahel, an Omaha native, had lived in the Seville House for nine years. "I live in the apartment directly above her," said Fayette Bjorkman. "She was coming to dinner here tonight. She was a beloved person and was always very active in the apartment building." About 20 persons were treated at hospitals for minor storm-related injuries, hospital officials said. St. Amand said the severe storm swooped down from the southwest near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and then hopscotched northeast through Oakland Park, Coconut Creek, Wilton Manors, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach. No damage was reported in Wilton Manors or Coconut Creek, police said. NATIONAL WEATHER Service forecaster Gil Clark said the tornado was spawned from a line of thunderstorms rapidly moving northeast across South Florida. The thunderstorms, he said, were at the center of a low-pressure system that formed in the Gulf of Mexico. "We get thunderstorms all winter," he said. "There was nothing to indicate this storm was any different than the normal situation." Clark said tornados such as Saturday's twister are nearly impossible to predict because they usually are not large enough to be detected by radar. Most witnesses said the intense part of the storm lasted just 30 seconds. A few said the commotion sounded like a hail storm because debris was hitting their condominium or motel rooms. The heaviest damage appeared to center on the intersection of E. Atlantic Boulevard and S. Federal Highway in Pompano Beach -- an area of supermarkets and shopping plazas. Despite dozens of storefronts laid bare by shattered windows, Pompano police reported no looting after the storm. "Most of the businessmen were called during the night and came down to board up their stores," said Lt. David Cassell. "We haven't had a single case of looting." While power was restored Sunday to most sections hit by the tornado, it could be days before power is restored to the Seacrest Towers Condominium, 1609 N. Riverside Dr., Pompano Beach, condominium officials said. A faulty generator filled the 10-story structure with smoke and forced dozens of residents out of their homes at 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The FIRE apparently was caused by a short circuit in the building's electrical system. The blaze was brought under control shortly after fire fighters arrived and no injuries were reported. Officials said they will run temporary power lines into the building today and complete power is expected to be restored by Wednesday. At the Island Club condominium at 777 S. Federal Hwy., Pompano Beach, about 15 to 20 apartments were destroyed in the 10-story Royal Palm building. Disaster chief St. Amand said the few persons left homeless from the storm are staying with friends or relatives and no disaster centers will be set up. campers from nearby Easterlin Park. St. Amand said most of the losses from the storm appeared to be covered by insurance. He said he doubted that the storm area would be declared a disaster or that federal aid would be available to repair damage. Also contributing to this story were Herald Staff Writers Joe Starita, Avram Goldstein, Tom O'Hara, Mike Blumstein and Charles Buhman. === Page 7 of 26 14-A THE MIAMI HERALD Monday, March 3, 1980 # 20 Deaths Blamed World Power Attack # on Record-Breaking Snowstorm Associated Press A record-breaking March snowstorm chilled much of the nation Sunday, spreading a deadly mantle on roads and sending temperatures plummeting. More than 20 deaths were blamed on the storm. The storm moved over the Middle Atlantic Coast after dumping a foot of snow in parts of Indiana and Ohio and extending its grasp as far south as Louisiana. In heading out to sea before reaching New England, the storm continued the pattern of the 1979-80 winter season -- virtually no snow for the Northeast. Snowfall ranged from 18 inches in Greene County in central Virginia to a dusting in New Orleans. Temperature records for the date included readings of 7 below zero in Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., and 15 below in Syracuse, N.Y. About 80 people spent the night on four buses stranded by ice on the Talmadge Memorial Bridge over the Savannah River between South Carolina and Georgia. Highway crews spread sand on the bridge at about 8 a.m., allowing the buses to continue on to Florida. Virginia's Tidewater area was hit by blizzard conditions, with winds exceeding 35 m.p.h. as heavy snow fell. A local state of emergency was declared in Norfolk, which got more than 12 inches of snow, and in Portsmouth. A cheerful National Weather Service spokesman in Norfolk quipped: "Just think of all the stories you can tell your grandchildren." He asked not to be identified. Most roads in the Norfolk area were blocked by snow or abandoned cars, and bus service was discontinued. Six to eight inches of snow fell in the Washington area, but rail and air traffic continued without significant delay, officials said. Byrd Airport in Richmond, Va., was closed because of the snow. In Maryland and Delaware, up to 10 inches fell in some areas, but intermittent sunshine turned much of the snow to slush. President Carter took advantage of the snow Sunday, going cross-country skiing in the Catoctin Mountains near his Camp David, Md., retreat. Some profited from the storm. Eddie Cooper of Pittsboro, N.C., and two friends loaded a four-wheel drive truck and went out to peddle firewood. Snow depths in North Carolina ranged up to six inches. Three to five inches of snow fell in the Birmingham, Ala., area, the most snow in more than 30 years. More than 300 highway accidents -- all minor -- were reported in Birmingham on Saturday. In its wake, the storm left a steadily increasing number of highway deaths -- two in Pennsylvania, six in the Cincinnati area, four in North Carolina, one in Kentucky, two in South Carolina, and two in Missouri. Two men died in a weather-related boating accident in North Carolina and a Michigan snowmobiler was killed when his vehicle fell through ice on a lake near Mount Pleasant. In St. Joseph, Mo., where three inches of snow fell, Helen Watts' body was found by a maintenance man shoveling snow Sunday. Nursing home officials said she was last seen in her bed at 5 a.m. and had apparently wandered outside. Richmond police said the body of an unidentified man in his 50s was found covered with snow in the downtown area. The unusual Virginia storm sent shoppers flocking to supermarkets. Meanwhile, showers were forecast today for the Los Angeles area, drenched by unrelenting rainstorms for more than a week last month. But weather service meteorologist Keith Dickey said the storms were not expected to be "the devil type of storms like the ones we had two to three weeks ago." And in Oklahoma City, power was restored Sunday afternoon to about 53,000 of the 60,000 customers who lost electricity because of an ice storm. === Page 8 of 26 Freak weather for Florida demonstration. # It Was Miami's Coldest March Day, But Warmup Is Due This Afternoon Miami Herald March 4, 1980 FROM PAGE 1A prediction. Frigid temperatures that were forecast for Monday night were expected to threaten vegetable and fruit crops for the second straight night. Cold has damaged strawberry blooms in Plant City and the vegetable crop in Ruskin and Palmetto. It has killed corn in Belle Glade and cucumbers and peppers in Immokalee. Pompano tomato fields have also been damaged. In an attempt to ward off the frost, Pompano Beach farmer Earl Spears kept water flowing around his tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and squash, which already had suffered minor damage. The water helps shield plants or fruit from freezing air. "That's all we can do, and keep our fingers crossed," he said. Also in Broward, agriculture extension agent Jim Cummings said cold had damaged citrus blossoms, landscape plants and such shrubs as hibiscus and ixora. Some shrubbery had turned to mush in the cold, he said. LITTLE CROP DAMAGE had been reported in South Dade. The Homestead area was reported frost free because of a freak twist in the usual wind pattern. North winds that were warmed from their passage across Lake Okeechobee held Homestead temperatures at 35, three degrees warmer than Miami Beach. But South Dade farmers were not about to press their luck Monday night. "Tonight's the one we're worried about," said Jack Campbell, administrative director of Florida Tomato Packers. "Growers who have irrigation systems will have the water on. That's about all you can do." Citrus growers around Lakeland were also planning to use water to protect crops. Some citrus had been damaged Monday when early morning temperatures fell to 25 for as long as five hours. For today, Bill Bigby of Lakeland Citrus Mutual said orange growers would put out sprinklers and smudge pots and turn on wind machines in efforts to prevent further damage. Bigby said damage to crops was undetermined, but was more than slight to the 85 million boxes of Valencia oranges still on the trees and to blossoms that will provide next year's crop. About 120 million boxes, or more than half the crop, have been picked. "We found ice in the oranges this morning," Bigby said Monday. "There is no reason for general panic. But people do panic when there's money involved." Citrus trees in St. Lucie and Indian River counties escaped frost damage, but temperatures as low as 26 virtually wiped out St. Lucie County's 400 acres of truck vegetables, according to agriculture agent Jim McCall. THE COLD permeated the air and the conversation throughout South Florida Monday. Tourists bought sweaters and called home to ask about the weather there. "The tourists are surprised," said Robin Stern, a desk clerk at the Fontainebleau Hilton on Miami Beach. "Disappointed, I'd say." The relatively warm waters of Biscayne Bay steamed in the early morning light as the sun slowly brought the air temperature into the mid-50s. The last time it was so cold in Miami was on Jan. 19 and 20, 1977, when snow fell. Monday, the snow got no farther south than Ocala. But the temperatures -- and the records -- fell everywhere across the South. In Florida, March lows were set in Daytona Beach with 26, Orlando 25, Tampa 29 and West Palm Beach 30. At Miami International Airport, the 32-degree low was colder by 14 degrees than the March 3 record set in 1947. The coldest temperature recorded in Miami was 27 in February 1917. Miami Beach's low was colder by three degrees than the previous low of 35 in January 1971. The coldest Florida temperature recorded Monday was 17 at an agriculture station in Hague, northwest of Gainesville. The warmest low was in Key West, where it was 50. Even that was one degree below the record for March 3, set in 1890. === Page 9 of 26 # Forecasters Catching Heat For Tornado, Non-Freeze Miami Herald March 5 1980 By JOHN ARNOLD Herald Staff Writer Everybody talks about the weather, but lately nobody can predict it. A tornado drops out of the sky in Broward County without warning Saturday and does $7 million damage. And despite dire warnings of a crop freeze Tuesday, the frost refuses to form. Once again, weather forecasters issue reminders that meteorology is an inexact science. "There are many forces in action," said Ron White, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center. "The pressures, the winds, the temperatures -- everything interacts from the surface up to 100,000 feet. Everything has an effect on everything else." Forecasters make their best estimate of what will occur under a given set of circumstances, White said. SEVERAL HOURS before Saturday's tornado in Broward, the radar operator at the Hurricane Center issued a severe weather statement at 6:31 p.m. The statement was provided to Miami news media and it was read over special civil defense telephone and radio transmissions. The statement warned of "a solid line of very heavy thunderstorms 10 miles wide extending on a line from near Belle Glade to Everglades City southwest, well into the Gulf." The statement advised that "the line was moving southeast at 30 miles an hour. This will bring the thunderstorms into western Broward County and Northwestern Dade County and Upper Monroe County during the next hour." At about 8:50 p.m., Eastern Airlines in-house weather forecasters issued a similar advisory. Eastern spokesman Jim Ashlock said the advisory to pilots warned of "a nearly solid line of thunderstorms just west of Miami southeast to Key West." Eastern forecasters said the line was moving southeast at about 20 knots. Pilots were advised to be aware of surface winds gusting up to 40 knots in the vicinity of the thunderstorms. Neither the National Hurricane Center severe weather statement nor the Eastern Airlines advisory contained a tornado warning. "No one could have foreseen that kind of severity of that [weather] cell," said Noel Risnychok, a public affairs specialist at the hurricane center. "The cell was something less than a mile in diameter, and it was contained in a system that was several thousand miles long." At 9:50 p.m., the hurricane center issued its first tornado warning for Broward. Tornado warnings are issued only in the event that a funnel cloud is sighted, Risnychok said. Shortly before the tornado warning, the hurricane center had been advised that a funnel cloud had been sighted in Pompano Beach. The tornado hit there about 9:10 p.m. UNDER the best conditions, a tornado warning is preceded by an advisory known as a tornado watch, Risnychok said. A tornado watch is issued by the National Center for Severe Storms in Kansas City. The weather analysts in Kansas City make a decision about what areas are threatened by possible tornados. Their decisions are based on satellite pictures and other weather data. There was no tornado watch issued for South Florida the night of the Broward funnel clouds. A tornado is generally invisible to radar. Radar can detect a funnel cloud when it is positioned so that radar waves can bounce off it. But when other clouds give the radar an obstructed view, a tornado is indiscernible. Despite the lack of an early tornado warning, forecasters at the hurricane center said they did a better-than-average job Saturday telling people that bad weather was coming. AS FOR THE FROST that did not happen Tuesday, forecasters said it was a matter of timing. Warming winds from off the ocean started blowing four hours before the weathermen thought they would, forecaster Ron White said. "If they [the winds] had held off another four hours, the temperature would have dropped into the low 30s and we would have had the frost inland," White said. The overnight low was 41 de- Oregonian March 11, 1980 # Water aid sought KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- Key West business leaders, aggravated by a water shortage during the tourist season, turned to Gov. Bob Graham for help Monday and threatened to recall members of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority. The shortage eased Monday, but water works officials said it was still critical. Ha Ha!! Florida demonstration, tail end effects. Miami Herald March 4, 1980 # Elementally, Education AS a service to visitors who might not be aware of certain established and reliable truths about this area, it is the policy of this newspaper to reassure them, from time to time, on one point: It is never, ever, this cold in Miami. === Page 10 of 26 Freak weather, Florida demonstration tail end. Miami Herald Was It C-c-old? You Bet But Warmup Is Due Today March 4, 1980 70s Due Back Today After Record Lows Miami Herald By ARNOLD MARKOWITZ Herald Staff Writer March 5, 1980 By MIKE CLARY Herald Staff Writer An arctic breath of winter whistled down the spine of the state Monday, setting a record for the coldest March day since South Florida weather records have been kept. The last time Florida set records for a cold March 4, the Red Army was recapturing 102 towns and villages from German forces in the Soviet Union. In London 178 people were dying in an air-raid shelter panic. Billy Conn was offering to fight Joe Louis for nothing, and Miami housewives were being scolded for wasting vital metals by throwing out tin cans with the garbage. It was a Thursday in 1943. Tuesday, 37 years later, those records were broken. The temperatures dropped to new lows at Tallahassee (21 degrees), Jacksonville (24), Daytona Beach (28), Orlando (33), Miami Beach (45) and Key West (49). Miami International Airport missed its 1943 record of 40 by one degree. The Key West record for the date, 52 degrees, had stood since 1930. On Tuesday, March 4, 1980 -- just as on Thursday, March 4, 1943 -- most Floridians slept through the excitement and woke up not quite so cold as on the previous morning. Then, as now, a warming trend was being forecast. Today's South Florida temperatures should touch the mid-70s, normal for this time, the National Weather Service said. Another cold front is expected to cross the Gulf of Mexico and roll across far northern Florida, causing a five- or 10-degree drop from the 70s and bringing some rain. All the areas that shivered overnight Sunday and Monday should warm up today, the forecasts said. Tuesday the records in Tallahassee and Orlando fell for the third straight day. Daytona, Jacksonville and Miami Beach experienced cold records for the second straight day. But as in 1943, anticipated agricultural damage failed to take place: the temperature did not stay below freezing long enough to inflict serious harm. The low of 32 degrees at Miami International Airport was one degree colder than the record March 33-degree low of March 2, 1941. With a low of 32 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County broke a record low of 35 for the month set in 1932. It could be even colder before the air warms up this afternoon. The monstrous mass of cold air reared back for another frosty exhalation early today before heading out to sea. "This is the kind of system you would expect in January, not this late in the year," said forecaster Ray Biedinger of at the National Hurricane Center. "It's an unusually strong cold air mass, pouring south out of Canada right down the state." The cold also caused Florida Power and Light Company to deliver a record amount of electricity between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Monday as South Floridians switched on heaters after climbing out of bed. FPL spokesman Dave Wolverton said the 9,724,000 kilowatts generated in one hour broke the record of 9,217,000, set Feb. 4 when the temperature was 42. Wolverton said the company had no problem in meeting demand and was prepared to supply another record load to its two million customers. The cold is expected to ease later today as the high pressure system moves off the coast. By this afternoon, temperatures will climb into the mid-60s. And when the mercury falls tonight, it will not fall far. Temperatures will dip only into the 50s. Farmers statewide were finding little solace in that optimistic Turn to Page 14A Col. 3 === Page 11 of 26 (Note: I picked this game over radio. Owens) Oregonian March 5, 1980 # Catch-up fails by 1 # Sikma shot sinks Blazers Passer Jack Sikma turned shooter with 31 seconds left and sank a 10-foot baseline jumper that put the Seattle Sonics up 97-93 en route to a 98-97 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday night in Memorial Coliseum. The loss dropped the 31-37 Blazers into a virtual tie with San Diego in the race for the last National Basketball Association Western Conference playoff berth. The Clippers beat Cleveland on Tuesday. After Sikma's jumper, Portland's Ron Brewer responded with a jump shot just inside the three-point mark with 24 seconds to go. But it took the Blazers 18 seconds before Calvin Natt fouled Gus Williams. Williams made one of two free throws, giving Seattle a 98-95 lead. But Brewer's three-point attempt with four seconds left fell short, and the Blazers had lost their seventh home game in the last 11 tries. The game was decided at guard. Seattle's starting guards, Dennis Johnson and Williams, outscored Blazer starters Brewer and Dave Twardzik 46-10. D.J. had 32 points. Portland scored 10 straight points to take a 89-87 lead with 4:56 to go. But a Wally Walker field goal, two layups by D.J. on passes from Sikma and a Lonnie Shelton rebound basket gave Seattle a 95-91 lead with 1:20 to go. Seattle, 49-20, got 16 points from John Johnson. Natt led the Blazers with 25, and Tom Owens had 17. As usual, the Blazers started slowly but were bailed out by their bench in the first half. Fastbreaking Seattle took a 15-8 lead four minutes into the game, but was outscored 35-18 as Portland took a 44-33 lead with 8:22 left in the half. T.R. Dunn and Abdul Jeelani had six points each and Jim Paxson had four to lead the bench charge. But when both coaches went to their starters, the Sonics got back into the game. Dennis Johnson scored four points, and John Johnson hit a jumper with one second to go in the half, cutting the Blazer lead to 56-55 at the end of a frantic, fastbreaking first half. The Blazers are on the road Thursday at Utah, returning home Friday to play Denver. SEATTLE (98) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | J.Johnson | 31 | 8-16 | 0-0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 16 | | Shelton | 22 | 2-7 | 4-4 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | | Sikma | 35 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | | D.Johnson | 40 | 13-29 | 6-6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 32 | | Williams | 34 | 6-14 | 2-4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | | Silas | 26 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | LaGarde | 13 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | Brown | 22 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | | Walker | 17 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | | Totals | 240 | 43-94 | 12-18 | 54 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 16 | 98 | PORTLAND (97) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Natt | 40 | 11-21 | 3-3 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25 | | Washington | 35 | 7-16 | 3-5 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 17 | | Owens | 33 | 7-15 | 3-5 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | | R.Brewer | 25 | 3-11 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | | Twardzik | 30 | 0-2 | 4-4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | Paxson | 18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | | J.Brewer | 15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | Gross | 8 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | Dunn | 19 | 3-8 | 2-2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | | Jeelani | 13 | 4-5 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | | Bates | 4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | Totals | 240 | 39-87 | 19-23 | 46 | 19 | 19 | 10 | 15 | 97 | Seattle .......... 29 26 22 21 - 98 Portland ......... 31 25 17 24 - 97 Team rebounds - Seattle 5, Portland 4. Turnovers-points - Seattle 17 for 12, Portland 15 for 23. Blocked shots - Sikma 3, LaGarde, Shelton, D. Johnson 2, Owens 3, J. Brewer 2, R. Brewer 2, Washington 2, Natt, Jeelani. Three-point attempts - D. Johnson 0-2, R. Brewer 0-1. Technical fouls - Portland, zone defense. Officials - O'Donnell, Bavetta. Attendance - 12,666. Paramount Attendance - 1,490. === Page 12 of 26 # Owens' problems, loss of timing THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1980 3M E7 # spell trouble for Blazers By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff Last season, Tom Owens proved a lot of points to himself and many in the doubting hierarchy of the National Basketball Association. He proved he had the durability to play every night by playing all 82 games and averaging 34 minutes per game. He proved he could score consistently, averaging 18.5 points and shooting .548 from the field. He proved he was more than just a journeyman center. This season, Owens, 30, started on the same note. After six games, he was 12th in the league in scoring, averaging 21.3 points per game. After 17 games, he was seventh in field-goal percentage at .569 and still was averaging 19.8 points per game. With him at center, the Blazers won 16 of their first 22 games. Then his nightmare began. Between December and March, he went through a long, trying divorce. His father died. He watched as the team went through more personnel changes than the Nixon White House and he endured a series of nagging injuries to his back, fingers and ankle. Not coincidentally, as Owens suffered, so did the Blazers. They are 15-31 since Nov. 20 and clawing desperately for the final Western Conference playoff spot. That struggle continues Thursday at Utah (7 p.m. PST, KPTV). He is averaging 16.4 points per game, but his overall game isn't what it was earlier. "All of the problems have been a big factor," Owens said this week, "especially compared to last year when I played 82 games without any major problems. "I've been out of sync, out of rhythm all year. I went through the divorce and missed some practices with that. That got me out of the blend with the team. My father died and I missed a game and then I didn't start a couple of games. "This last month, well, I'm just disgusted with all of the injuries that have happened to me in that last month. You lose your timing when things like that happen." Owens and small forward Bob Gross have been hurt by the personnel changes. Both players depend on the intricacies of the offense to score their points. That wham-bam timing that springs Owens loose for the short jumpers and rolls to the hoop have been missing as the new players have struggled to learn the offense. Somewhere in the back of Owens' mind, another problem lurks. He becomes a free agent at the end of this season. He is said to be making about $189,000, some of which is deferred money being paid by his former NBA team, the Houston Rockets. Owens and his Chicago-based agent, John Lizzo, have had brief contract talks with the Blazers, but nothing has happened. "We've talked some, but nothing is imminent," Owens said. "I'm trying to just concern myself with these last 14 games. I want to work hard now, try to get into the playoffs. Then after that, I'll sit down and relax and take time to think about my contract. I'm staying out of it now. If they (Blazers management and Lizzo) want to talk, that's fine with me. "Lionel's (Hollins) contract situation got more acute as it went along, it seemed. I'm not that intense about it. If it (signing) could happen, that would be OK, but it's no sweat." Owens even has considered saying arrivederci to the NBA and going to Italy to play. His body has taken a beating this season and the thought of the European circuit, with its shorter schedule and chance to travel, is intriguing. "I've thought about it, especially after talking to John (Roche) and Abdul (Jeelani). They've both played there. I don't think I want to do it next year, but before I stop playing I think I'd like to do it. I still think, though, that I can play a few more years in the NBA. John's advice was that Italy was good for a year, but after that it might get old. "I think I'd like to play about three more years (in the NBA)," Owens said. "But it all will probably be determined on what kind of a (contract) deal can be worked out." Owens had 17 points and 9 rebounds in Tuesday's loss to Seattle and said it was the best he had felt in a month. In other words, he might finally be awakening from the nightmares of the past three months. BLAZER NOTES -- Power forward Kermit Washington didn't make the trip to Salt Lake City and will miss Thursday's game with a badly twisted ankle. The Blazers are hoping he will be ready for Friday's home game with Denver. ... Since beating the Blazers in Portland for only their second win in 12 games, the Jazz has lost two in a row. ... Denver is said to be interested in Owens. However, the Nuggets are not allowed to talk to Owens about a contract until after the playoffs. Nugget Coach Donnie Walsh recruited Owens for the University of South Carolina and guard Roche was Owens' teammate at South Carolina. === Page 13 of 26 Video I had this game over TV. Owens # Blazers buckle to Jazz 117-110 in last minutes By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff March 7, 1980 SALT LAKE CITY -- The fourth-quarter burnout, an all-too-familiar malady for the Portland Trail Blazers, caught them again Thursday in a 117-110 National Basketball Association loss to the bad, bad Utah Jazz. Allan Bristow, a nonentity for most of the game, tucked into a superstar in the final minutes and buried the Blazers, who were playing without Tom Owens and Kermit Washington. In this season of woe for the Blazers, no injury is beyond belief, no illness beyond catching. Owens awoke at 3 a.m. Thursday, suffering from a bad case of flu. He was sent home, leaving the Blazers centerless. Washington, who has been nagged by a bad hamstring and a bad ankles, didn't make the trip. Both players are questionable for Friday's game at home against Denver (8:30 p.m.). Still, as they usually do, the Blazers stayed in the game until the final four minutes. After trailing 52-44 late in the second quarter, the Blazers went on a 12-2 tear to take a 70-66 lead with 7:30 left in the third quarter. They led 78-72 at 4:32, then allowed the 22-49 Jazz team back into the game. And -- here's a familiar story -- when it came time to win the game, the 31-38 Blazers couldn't do it. Bristow turned four minutes of the final quarter into his personal crusade. He had eight points, three rebounds and a key steal in that span as the Jazz outscored Portland 15-6 and took control of the game 113-102 with 1:11 to go. Playing without a center in the National Basketball Association is like playing Russian roulette with five chambers loaded. You're living on borrowed time. The Blazers were limited in the offensive scheme and Jazz center Ben Poquette was freed to help out on defense. Portland's Jim Brewer is a 6-foot-8 forward trying to play center. He started and played 40 minutes. Abdul Jeelani, also 6-8, filled in when Brewer rested. fullcourt pressure well. Ron Brewer regained his shooting eye well enough to score 26 points, but his overall game still is hurting the Blazers. Utah guard Terry Furlow had 25 points and six assists and was guarded much of the night by Brewer. And, it was Brewer's pass that Bristow intercepted and turned into an Adrian Dantley layup at 1:50 that put Utah ahead 110-102. "We were sluggish from the beginning, especially on defense. We weren't responding well to what they were doing," Jim Brewer said. "We struggled the whole game and then in the fourth quarter, we burned out. It's not a matter of effort, but we were getting burned time and time again in the first half and that takes away the effectiveness of your offense." Portland slipped one-half game behind sixth-place San Diego and it looks as if neither team is going to win that sixth and final Western Conference playoff berth. One team will back into it. Portland is 5-9 since the all-star break. The Jazz, however, might be losing by winning. Utah is in a tense struggle for last place in the Western Conference with 21-49 Golden State. The Jazz needs a center in the draft and by finishing behind Golden State, it has a chance for the No. 1 draft selection. BLAZER NOTES -- Portland was outrebounded for the sixth game in a row. This time, however, without Owens and Washington, it was in the cards. Guard Billy Ray Bates connected on two of the most improbable three-point shots you'll ever see in the final minute. After shooting mostly from the perimeter, Calvin Natt moved inside and finished with 24 points. Adrian Dantley punished the Blazers with 30 points. He had 25 in Utah's win at Portland last Friday. The Jazz and Portland finished their series with three wins each. Utah won three of the last four. Feb. 15, 1980 NBA standings WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Seattle | 44 | 16 | .733 | -- | | Los Angeles | 41 | 18 | .695 | 2½ | | Phoenix | 38 | 20 | .655 | 5 | | PORTLAND | 29 | 32 | .475 | 15½ | | Golden State | 17 | 42 | .288 | 26½ | Midwest Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Kansas City | 37 | 25 | .597 | -- | | Milwaukee | 34 | 27 | .557 | 2½ | | Denver | 21 | 39 | .350 | 15 | | Chicago | 20 | 39 | .339 | 15½ | | Utah | 19 | 42 | .311 | 17½ | EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Boston | 43 | 14 | .754 | -- | | Philadelphia | 41 | 16 | .719 | 2 | | Washington | 25 | 32 | .439 | 18 | | New Jersey | 25 | 35 | .417 | 19½ | Central Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Atlanta | 35 | 24 | .593 | -- | | Houston | 30 | 28 | .517 | 4½ | | San Antonio | 30 | 29 | .508 | 5 | | Cleveland | 24 | 37 | .393 | 12 | | Detroit | 14 | 44 | .241 | 20½ | THURSDAY RESULTS At Milwaukee 120, Golden State 103 At New Jersey 137, Utah 96 At Cleveland 114, Indiana 118 At San Antonio 124, New York 128 At Seattle 93, Denver 84 FRIDAY SCHEDULE Philadelphia at Detroit Golden State at Indiana San Antonio at Chicago Milwaukee at Houston Atlanta at Denver Washington at Phoenix Kansas City at Los Angeles Boston at Portland (Note that Portland was beaten by one of the poorest, lousiest teams in the country! Utah. I'm not beating Portland consistently with favored teams... but with lousy, underdog teams! Golden State, Utah etc.) === Page 14 of 26 ① More "mysterious" power failures Tennessee Nuclear Power plant. Any questions with regard to the effectiveness of my power source? Owen Note: "mysterious" only because they do not know what Ted Owens is doing to power source! Owen Oregonian March 8, 1980 # FBI probes 3 mysterious reactor shutdowns ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- A reactor at the nation's largest nuclear plant was mysteriously shut down three times in less than a week, prompting the suspension of eight employees and an investigation by the FBI. The shutdowns occurred last month at one of three reactors at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant. Officials would not say whether the incidents were believed to be deliberate. John Schlatter, a TVA spokesman at the agency's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., said the shutdowns posed no danger to the public. The first shutdown occurred Feb. 10 as the Unit Two turbine was wheeling through its million-kilowatt peak. The reactor turned itself off again Feb. 12 and 15. After the first two shutdowns, or "trips," the reactor was restarted without incident. But when the third unexplained trip occurred, engineers ordered operations halted until the cause was determined. The unit went back on line March 3, although no operational reason for the shutdowns could be found. Schlatter said the eight plant employees were suspended for the duration of the investigation. He would not identify the employees or say what type of work they performed. "I can't tell you what they are," he said, "but I can tell you what they are not. They aren't operators, they aren't control room employees." "A shutdown of that type is not all that rare," Schlatter said. "It happens at all nuclear plants for a variety of reasons. Sometimes there will be a faulty electrical signal, for example." In Birmingham, FBI agent Joe Ross said two investigators had been assigned to the case to determine whether federal laws were violated. The government-owned TVA, a seven-state utility that operates Browns Ferry and six other nuclear power plants, also disclosed what it termed minor security breaches at the Alabama site and at two others in Tennessee. In late January, a clerical employee who habitually carries a pistol in her purse took the weapon into the Browns Ferry facility by accident. Weapons are not allowed inside. When she discovered the mistake, she turned herself in and was not suspended. An employee at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga, Tenn., drew a suspension of undisclosed length Wednesday for taking, without permission, photographs of test-fuel loading. The FBI and TVA also are investigating the theft of such construction materials as copper tubing from the agency's Hartsville, Tenn., nuclear plant construction site, about 40 miles north of Nashville. The Browns Ferry plant has had other difficulties in the past. A dangerous wiring fire, caused by an inspector using a candle to check for drafts, closed the plant in 1975. In late 1977 a worker dropped a rubber galosh in the reactor vessel of Unit One, extending a maintenance shutdown. TVA serves most of Tennessee and portions of Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. === Page 15 of 26 Oregonian March 8, 1980 # Low snowpack jeopardizes NW interruptible power SEATTLE (AP) -- The Northwest has an average snowpack that's 80 percent of normal, according to the latest statistics, and that means the Bonneville Power Administration probably won't have any extra power. "The likelihood is that we are not going to have secondary (interruptible and surplus) power even within the region," said BPA spokesman Gene Tollefson. Interruptible power is that which BPA can shut off in periods of low water. About a fourth of the power Northwest aluminum producers buy from BPA is interruptible. Surplus power is sold to private utilities only after the needs of public utilities are met. Public utilities get a guaranteed supply of power from BPA. "The picture could change for the better if it rains significantly this month," said Bob Griffin, BPA head of scheduling. Aluminum producers can expect "small amounts" of interruptible power at best, Griffin said. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service office in Spokane released the latest figures for Northwest snowpacks on March 1. "We're at about 80 percent of normal," said Conservation Service spokesman Bob Davis. The winter has been strange, Davis said, because storms have dumped near-normal snowpacks in the Cascade Mountains, but have run out of steam by the time they reached Idaho and northern Montana. "We've also had a lot of precipitation at lower elevations, but for some reason it's not reaching the high country," Davis said. World "Power" attack Note: Psi force controlling minds? 9, 1980 World Power Out 2M A21 Oregonian March 9, 1980 # Burglary knocks radio station off air LA GRANDE (AP) -- Radio station KLBM-FM was knocked off the air early Saturday when someone broke into the broadcast station and stole two components necessary for the station to transmit its signal. Nothing else was taken in the break-in. "They knew what they were going after," said the station's news director Bob Maszk. The burglary occurred about 2 a.m. and did not affect KLBM-AM. Maszk said it will be Wednesday or Thursday before the FM station is back on the air. Miami Herald # FPL Nuclear Plant Undergoes Repairs March 4, 1980 Florida Power and Light Co.'s nuclear power plant at Turkey Point was taken out of service Monday night to allow repairs on a "minor technical problem," a utility spokesman said. But the unit was expected to be working by morning, he said. A "small oil-pressure problem" was detected Monday in one of three massive pumps that circulate cooling water through the power unit. And technicians planned to take the unit "off line" to examine the problem during a slack period in power demand, the spokesman said. The spokesman said instrument systems at the plant indicated only a drop in oil pressure. There was no drop in pressure for the water that actually cools the nuclear core. Ken Clark, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Atlanta, said the difficulty was reported to the NRC as "an alarm on inadequate lubricant on a bearing." "It's really not much of a problem," Clark said. # Quick Twister's Toll in Broward Estimated as High as $7 Million By REBECCA ROSS Herald Staff Writer Miami Herald "Power" Attack North Broward County residents cleaned up Sunday after a tornado that took one life, caused dozens of minor injuries and did as much as $7 million in damage to homes and businesses Saturday night. As residents and work crews picked through debris from the sudden storm, South Florida was experiencing bad weather. Blustery winds and steadily dropping temperatures presaged the arrival of a huge cold front that could bring frost tonight. Hardest hit by the tornado were scattered sections in Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Oakland Park and Fort Lauderdale. "Pompano Beach by far got the worst of it," said Broward Civil Defense Director Arthur St. Amand after touring the four cities Sunday. PROPERTY DAMAGE to homes and business in Pompano Beach is estimated at $2 million to $4 million, St. Amand said. The 8:10 p.m. tornado, with winds of up to 100 Turn to Page 14A Col. 1 Miami Herald March 1, 1980 # "Cold Shutdown" Achieved at Plant A "cold shutdown" was achieved Friday at Florida Power Corporation's Crystal River nuclear generating plant where a malfunction Tuesday sent 43,000 gallons of radioactive water gushing six-inches deep onto the floor of the containment building. The shutdown -- termination of fission of the nuclear fuel rods within the reactor core -- was a crucial point in the process of moving ahead in the cleanup operation and eventually getting the plant back into operation. Florida Power spokesman Brock Lucas said the cold shutdown means production of radioactivity within the building has ended and as soon as the radioactive water is pumped out, experts can go into the building to check for damage and to make any repairs. Kelley's remark in newsclip above... "Whatever the mysterious reasons..." === Page 16 of 26 (Note: I fell asleep before this game and missed PK'ing it! Owens) # Hot Blazers burn Lakers 142-121 By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff March 10, 1980 Nobody lets the Portland Trail Blazers do the things they like to do more than the Los Angeles Lakers. The Blazers, who like the whooping crane are fighting extinction, scorched The Pacific Division-leading Lakers 142-121 Sunday at Memorial Coliseum and took a half-game lead over the San Diego Clippers in the race for the last Western Conference playoff berth. Portland, 33-38, trails the Lakers by 17 games in the Pacific Division race, but the Blazers have won four of the five games they've played this season. They play Los Angeles for the final regular-season time in their next game Wednesday at the Forum. Sunday was the kind of game Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay should bottle. But everything the Lakers did played into the Blazers' hands. Los Angeles, 50-21, offered full-court pressure most of the night and that allowed the Blazers the open-court freedom to run their offense. And they ran it better than they have at any time this year. Dave Twardzik ran the ball up the floor and through the Lakers defense with ease. Kermit Washington ruled the inside game. And Tom Owens, who had missed the last two games with the flu, got out of a sick bed to cause Kareem Abdul-Jabbar problems in the middle. Defensively, the Blazers stopped the Laker fastbreak in the important second and third quarters and forced the Lakers into their stand-around-and-watch-Kareem half-court offense. But the Blazer push didn't begin until Ramsay went to his bench. Portland trailed 20-12 with 4:41 to go in the first quarter when Ramsay pulled forward Calvin Natt and guard Ron Brewer and inserted Bob Gross and T.R. Dunn. The Blazers went on an immediate 11-2 spurt. "Their press made it a lot easier for us to run offense," said Gross, who scored 21 points in 23 minutes. "If you're organized to play against the press, and we are, then a press plays right into your hands. "I don't think you can press for a whole game in this league and expect to win. They tried that tonight and it sure didn't work." Even the Portland half-court offense had fun against the Lakers. The Blazers shot .545 from the field and made 31 of 51 second-half shots while scoring their most points of the season and the most points in a half in their history, 84. "I don't think they (Lakers) like to play here," Gross said. "They seemed to come out a little flat tonight, like they weren't ready to play. "They let us run our offense more than anyone else does," Gross continued. "Kareem always lets us get the ball into the center any time we want to. Maybe I shouldn't say that." The center is the hub of the wheeling Portland offense. Owens got the ball enough in the middle to pass off for five assists and the team had 35 assists for the night. "We get more options out of our offense against them than against anyone else," said Owens, who also had 18 points. "We get a lot of baseline cuts and other stuff that we haven't been getting against the other teams." The Lakers' last lead came at 48-47 with 4:56 to go in the half. Then Ron Brewer scored seven points in an 11-1 streak that put the Blazers ahead 58-49. Portland outscored the Lakers 74-47 in the middle quarters. "More important than the fact we won was the way we played," Ramsay said. "We played with the most confidence and intensity we've shown in a long time. All the players got into it." But no one more than Gross. He scored two three-point drives and had 10 points in the pivotal second quarter. After playing only eight minutes last Tuesday in a loss to Seattle, the win was especially pleasing to him. "It's been different," Gross said of his adjustment to the lack of playing time. "It's difficult. I can really feel for someone like T.R., who might play 25 minutes one night and then not play at all the next two games. "It's tough. You can be going pretty good and then you don't play. You can start to lose your confidence." There was no crisis of confidence Sunday. The Blazers were playing in 10-part harmony. Twardzik had a season-high 23 points and six assists. Washington had 22 points and 10 rebounds. Natt and Ron Brewer had 15 points each. And, despite the fact they ran all night, the Blazers committed only 13 turnovers. "Portland just played a very nice game tonight," interim head coach Paul Westhead said. "Kermit Washington always plays very well against us. Shoot, they all do. I don't know why. I have no explanation for it." Ramsay had no trouble finding an explanation. "When Los Angeles started pressuring us a lot, it gave us all of our fastbreaks and that gave us the game," he said. BLAZER NOTES -- The previous Blazer high-point total for a half was 82 against Atlanta in their first season, 1970-71. . . . Their high-point total for the season was 130 on Feb. 23 at Detroit. . . . Abdul-Jabbar had 26 points and 10 rebounds despite missing the last two practice days because of headaches. . . . Abdul Jeelani put a punctuation mark on the evening with a spectacular dunk right before the final buzzer. over!! ① ② Note: See Sheet #1. My plan was to use psi force attack against Blazers over radio, at 7 P.M. I settled in my study chair at 6:30 turned on the radio, and instantly fell asleep! I woke up at 10 P.M. and the game had finished. Without my psi force interference the Blazers had played up to their natural potential and wiped out the L.A. Lakers. The following Wednesday (last night) I was waiting for the Blazers, who played the same Lakers on TV. This time I did not fall asleep, utilized psi force against the Blazers, and controlled every move, every shot, the entire game, to make the Blazers lose. The comparison of these two games (same teams playing) with & without a psi force attack is, I believe, quite significant!! Owens (PK Man) March 13, 1980 Note: I PK'd game on TV. Owens. # Lackadaisical Blazers lose to Lakers 102-94 LOS ANGELES -- That National Basketball Association riddle wrapped in an enigma and known as the Portland Trail Blazers lost Wednesday to the Los Angeles Lakers 102-94. That's the same Lakers whom the Blazers annihilated by 21 points Sunday at Portland. But on this night, the inconsistent Blazers played a miserable first half of defense and were careless with the ball all night. The victory gave the Lakers, 52-21 for the season, a two-game lead over Seattle in the race for the Pacific Division title. The Blazers, 33-39, lead San Diego by a half-game in the battle for the sixth and last Western Conference playoff berth. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led the Lakers with 30 points, raising his career total to 24,004 points -- fifth best in NBA history. Los Angeles put the game away with an 18-8 spurt at the end of the third quarter which gave them a 85-67 lead. After that, the Lakers seemed to loose interest and scored only three field goals in the final quarter. Portland was able to get to 98-91 with 1:30 to go, but that was as close as the Blazers could get. Tom Owens led the Blazers with 23 points; Kermit Washington added 18. The Lakers scored 28 of their 35 field goals from inside 10 feet. The Blazer defense took the first half off as the Lakers executed their way to a 59-49 halftime advantage. Los Angeles had 24 field goals in the half and 19 of them came on dunks, layups and jumpers from 10 feet or less. Abdul-Jabbar, who had 26 points in Sunday's 142-121 Los Angeles win over Portland, had 18 by halftime. Jamaal Wilkes had nine and Magic Johnson eight. The Lakers scored the first eight points of the game and maintained leads of between eight and 10 points for most of the half. An example of the porous nature of the Blazer defense came on the final play of the half. After Portland guard Jim Paxson hit a jumper with 12 seconds to go, the Blazers allowed Laker guard Norm Nixon to drive the length of the court and score on a ridiculously easy jump hook over Owens with two seconds remaining. The Blazers will continue their three-game road trip Friday at Milwaukee and Saturday at Chicago. Oregonian March 13, 1980 === Page 17 of 26 Freak weather for Florida demonstration. Snow Paralyzes Mid-Atlantic Miami Herald March 4, 1980 From Herald Wire Services A new winter storm rolled eastward from the Rockies onto the Plains Monday as residents of the East and South struggled with record snow accumulations and low temperatures. Several East Coast cities were paralyzed with knee-deep snow, and a record freeze hit Florida's billion-dollar citrus crop. The storm left at least 36 dead. The blast of arctic air sent snow flurries as far south as Ocala, Fla., and a full-fledged snowstorm dumped up to two feet of snow in North Carolina and across Virginia into Maryland. Hundreds of travelers along Interstate 95, the major route from Florida to the Northeast, were forced to abandon cars and take to emergency shelters. Parts of the highway were strewn with overturned trucks and abandoned cars. Virginia Gov. John Dalton declared a state of emergency in the central and southeastern regions, buried under up to 18 inches of snow, and called out about 350 National Guardsmen. Curfews prohibiting all but emergency travel were imposed on the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach. Highway crews worked under blinding sun to clear the roads, but gusty winds whipped the Turn to Page 14A, Col. 1 Note: Why not call it the "Owens Effect"? Mysterious 'red sweat' vexes airline experts Oregonian March 11, 1980 MIAMI (AP) -- It sneaks in without warning and bedevils its victim, then vanishes before it can be traced. It's the "red sweat," and Eastern Airlines admitted Monday that the phantom hit-and-run rash has the company's medical experts baffled. It also has Eastern's flight attendants scratching. The red sweat, also described as "pink perspiration," is a mysterious red rash that has been reported off and on for several years among Eastern attendants, said company spokesman Jim Ashlock. But the mystery malady caused little fuss until Monday, when the Wall Street Journal reported on it. "We don't want attendants with red spots," Dr. David Millett, Eastern's aeromedical specialist, told the newspaper. Ashlock said red sweat appeared confined to attendants on New York-based flights headed for Miami and Fort Lauderdale. It strikes both men and women and has afflicted crews on Eastern Airbus A-300s, Boeing 727s and Lockheed L-1011 jets, he said. But it doesn't affect pilots. Or passengers. Or attendants flying similar planes on other routes, he said. "Reports of this phenomenon have been around for months. There have been isolated instances going back several years," Ashlock said. "There was a flurry of it in January. We don't know exactly why." About 150 cases have been reported among 110 flight attendants, he said. Some have been afflicted more than once. The red sweat manifests itself as fluidlike red spots on various sections of the body. Some victims itch. Others say it feels like razor burn. "It's very short term," Ashlock said. "By the time we can get to a doctor, they say whatever it was, they couldn't find it. They tell us the person's as healthy as a horse." Millett reported through Ashlock's office that he'd personally witnessed only three cases and couldn't find much more than "about two little red dots" on the victims. The physician even tried riding around on Eastern flights hoping to catch the rash in the act. Eastern has asked for advice from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Air Force, and Duke and Columbia universities, Ashlock said. "Columbia said it sounded something like 'chrome hydrosis,' which is called pink perspiration," Ashlock said. "Maybe that's where 'red sweat' came from." He said the company did not believe anything in its airplanes would cause the rash. "We're trying to isolate the problem," he said. "We're even looking at makeup to see if the attendants out of New York buy at the same place." === Page 18 of 26 # Deadly Storm Rips Broward Miami Herald March 2, 1980 A vicious tornado struck Broward County Saturday night, killing at least one person, causing a fire at one Pompano Beach condominium and severely battering a second and ripping a miles-long swath of damage from Fort Lauderdale to Deerfield Beach. Weather forecasters said the tornado preceded what could be the worst cold front of South Florida's winter. Dozens of persons were known to be injured. Ten fire units were called to battle a blaze at the Sea-rest Towers condominium at 1609 N. Riverside Dr. in Pompano Beach - no injuries were reported there and rescue workers were evacuating hundreds of residents from the severely wind-damaged Island Club condo, 777 S. Federal Highway. "We're quite concerned about the safety of the building," said Pompano Fire Chief Gene Hedges. Broward's 911 emergency number was out of service. The killer twister hit Broward just after 9 p.m., touching down in South Fort Lauderdale and howling northward, flipping over cars and trailers, uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and blowing out storefronts. Fort Lauderdale's Gold Coast "looks like a battlefield," said one policeman early Sunday. "We didn't even know it was here, and then it was gone," said Pompano policeman Dave Skalsky. "It's a pretty big mess up here," Fire Chief Hedges said. "We're getting people wandering around on the streets. We've got problems with looters. The weather is still unsettled and we're dealing with the after-effects of the storm." Jess Rahel, an 84-year-old widow, was blown off her balcony at the Seville House, 299 N. Riverside Dr., Pompano Beach, on the edge of the Intracoastal Waterway. "My mother was sucked out the balcony," said Cliff Rahel, the dead woman's son. Vacationing from Nebraska with his wife, Rahel said he had been chatting with his mother in her living room when the twister struck. "The storm was coming," he said. "She just walked out to hear the noise, I guess. As people do, they go out to take a look. "The tornado just sucked her right out. It just devastated the balcony." "It just cut through," said one Seville House resident. "It was like a shot out of a gun." "It sounded like a train," said David Sofaer, a Canadian visitor who watched from the lobby of the Renaissance II condominium at 1370 S. Ocean Blvd. as parked autos were buffeted and tossed by the twister. The tornado, apparently related to the leading edge of a savage, non-forecast cold front that began dumping heavy rains over South Florida early Saturday afternoon, touched down near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, police said. Then it moved northward, following a trail just east of I-95 through Oakland Park, Coconut Creek, Wilton Manors, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach. Thirty flights were diverted from the airport. In Oakland Park, at least 50 people were injured by flying glass, police said. A four-square block residential area of Deerfield was struck and there were an unknown number of injuries there. The heaviest damage appeared to center around the intersection of East Atlantic Boulevard and South Federal Highway in Pompano, a commercial area of supermarkets Turn to Page 28A Col. 1 Freak weather, Florida demonstration. HILLSBORO BLVD. DEERFIELD BEACH I-95 DIXIE HIGHWAY POMPANO BEACH COCONUT CREEK ATLANTIC BLVD. FEDERAL HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL BLVD. OAKLAND PARK OAKLAND PARK BLVD. FORT LAUDERDALE SUNRISE BLVD. FT. LAUDERDALE HOLLYWOOD AIRPORT Miami Herald March 2, 1980 - Miami Herald Map Path That Tornado Cut Through Broward County .......... heaviest damage was reported in Pompano Beach === Page 19 of 26 # Florida citrus in peril # Rare Dixie blizzard leaves 36 dead By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A rare Dixie blizzard paralyzed East Coast cities with knee-deep snow and a record freeze hit Florida's 2 billion dollar citrus industry in March storms that have left at least 36 people dead. "We are in serious trouble," said Herb Riley of the Florida Fruit Inspection Service as growers checking millions of acres of groves found oranges frozen on the trees in much of the citrus belt. The coldest blast of arctic air ever to hit Florida so late in the year sent thermometers to record lows from Pensacola to Key West. Snow flurries fell as far south as Tampa and Ocala in Central Florida, the weather service said. Some residents reported seeing snowflakes as far south as Fort Lauderdale. Farther north, a full-fledged snowstorm was dumping up to 2 feet of snow in North Carolina and Virginia. Hundreds of travelers along Interstate 95, the major route from Florida to the urban Northeast, were forced to abandon their cars and take to emergency shelters. Parts of the highway were strewn with overturned trucks and abandoned cars. About 1,000 circus fans were trapped overnight at a coliseum in Norfolk, Va., when a storm described by the weather service as a blizzard dumped 14 inches of snow on the city and officials ordered traffic off the streets. About half of them -- those with four-wheel-drive vehicles or chains on their car tires -- were allowed to leave Monday. Norfolk police and other city workers brought in emergency supplies of blankets from hospitals, milk from the few convenience stores open and disposable diapers from a drug store. They also got insulin for 15 diabetics in the audience. Dave Godfrey, a plumber from Orange, N.J., and his wife were among about 100 stranded travelers who spent the night in the lobby of a motel in Rocky Mount, N.C., where 18 inches of snow was on the ground. "It was fierce," Mrs. Godfrey said. "We couldn't see but a few feet. We saw about 10 trailer trucks overturned. I've never seen anything like it. There were a lot of cars disabled. They were pulled over to the side of the road with no one in them. One man came in here after abandoning his car and walking five miles." Maj. Jasper Harper of the Salvation Army in North Carolina drove from Elroy to Goldsboro early Monday with food for refugees from the storm. "The Lord got us through," he said. "We kept praying and the car kept moving." The storm, which roared out of the Midwest during the weekend, has left at least 13 people dead in North Carolina, six in Ohio, five in Missouri, three in South Carolina, three in Tennessee, two in Pennsylvania and one each in Kentucky, Virginia, Florida and Maryland. Record low temperatures also were recorded Monday in South Carolina, where up to 10 inches of snow was on the ground, and in Georgia where it was 11 degrees in Atlanta and 20 in Savannah. In North Carolina, where up to 28 inches of snow fell in one of the century's most severe storms in that state, the National Guard was called out in three counties to assist stranded motorists. Virtually all commercial travel was shut off. Some highways were impassable to vehicles of any kind, a train engine derailed on icy tracks, and public schools and offices were closed across the state. "A day the Tar Heels will remember," was the way one North Carolina forecaster described it, calling the two-day storm "as close as a Midwestern blizzard will ever come to North Carolina." The eastern part of the state was blasted with winds up to 60 mph and snow 28 to 30 inches deep that shut down the big Marine Corps air station at Cherry Point, N.C. Elizabeth City got 25 inches of snow. Never had such a cold mass of air poured across Florida so late in the winter, the weather service said. "Monday night will be another extremely cold night with frost and freezing temperatures possible over the entire state," the National Weather Service predicted. Associated Press Laserphoto ORDEAL OVER -- Elephants from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus make their way from Scope Arena in Norfolk, Va., to circus train nearby. Circus was stranded during worst snowstorm in Norfolk's history. === Page 20 of 26 World "Power" Attack 14-A THE MIAMI HERALD Friday, Feb. 29, 1980 # Crews Begin Pumping Water; N-Plant Shutdown Set Today From Herald Wire Services CRYSTAL RIVER -- Florida Power Corp. crews Thursday began pumping radioactive water out of the containment building at the Crystal River nuclear generating plant as the reactor core moved closer to a "cold shutdown." "We will have cold shutdown [today], probably in the morning," Florida Power spokesman Bill Johnson said. "But we already have started to take some of the water out. They are taking out 5,000 gallons at a time." He said how long it will take to get all the water out depends upon how long it takes to treat the water and remove all the radioactive materials. RADIATION LEVELS were back to normal inside the containment building, according to James O'Reilly, a regional director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He said the reactor was stabilized and appeared to have sustained no damage to its core. A heat exchange pump vital to the cleanup of the radioactive spill went back into operation Thursday morning, setting the stage for the cold shutdown. The malfunctioning pump was a backup to one that is used to harmlessly dissipate heat from the water surrounding the nuclear core. That heated water normally would be converted to steam to run the turbine electric generator. A temporary loss of power to a control panel triggered a series of events that shut down the turbine generator Tuesday afternoon. The shutdown activated a safety system forcing additional cooling water 6-C .......... THE MIAMI HERALD Friday, Feb. 29, 1980 # DICK DAVIS ## FPC Stock Price Melts After Nuclear Accident FOLLOWING NEWS of its Crystal River nuclear plant accident, Florida Power dropped 3 points to 21 3/4, its lowest price in five years, and closed Thursday at 22 1/2, where it yields 12 1/2 per cent. (Florida Power and Light also touched a five-year low of 19 5/8 where it yields 12 per cent.) The emergency occurred when thousands of gallons of radioactive cooling water spilled inside the containment building and the reactor automatically shut down. Weakness in the stock may have been caused by uncertainty as to when the unit will be brought back into operation, what the total cost of clean-up may be, the possible reluctance of the Florida Public Service Commission to allow recovery and replacement costs which could lower earnings and the tendency of investors to relate the Crystal River accident to the more serious Three Mile Island accident. - World "Power" Attack 3/13/81 # Storm cuts power, more rain forecast About 2,500 homes lost power in the Portland area Wednesday night and another 1,000 were without electric service in Salem after a Pacific storm sent high winds through the Willamette Valley. Portland General Electric Co. public information officer Bruce T. Landrey said winds knocked down power lines and caused scattered outages throughout metropolitan Portland. Landrey said about 1,000 of the utility's customers in North Portland were without service for brief periods Wednesday night, as were another 1,000 in Wilsonville and 500 in Southeast Portland. National Weather Service forecaster John Coparanis said winds had gusted up to 44 mph at Portland International Airport and reached 69 mph at Cape Disappointment, 65 mph at Astoria, and 57 to 69 mph at Yaquina Bay, near Newport. Police and fire dispatchers throughout the Portland metropolitan area reported numerous calls about downed power lines. Rain was heavy in some areas Wednesday, and 1.15 inches fell at Newport on the central coast between Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening. Coparanis said another Pacific storm would hit the Oregon coast by late Thursday and could bring more winds and rain. He said steady rains would continue through Friday. Note: This is my own area. Quakes. === Page 21 of 26 Note: As per my letter, govt. warns California! # Quake preparedness focus of hearings in California 3/14/80 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A state Assembly subcommittee, spurred by a federal agency's statement of concern, plans hearings next month aimed at preparing Californians for disastrous earthquakes. Recent developments suggest more strongly than ever that "we had better start as responsibly as possible, to make people aware that these things (earthquake disasters) are liable to happen, they can happen and we have got to be prepared," Assemblyman Frank Vicencia, D-Bellflower, said. He quoted from a letter received Tuesday from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It said scientists have made "a number of observations in Southern California which suggest that a substantial earthquake may be more probable now than we would normally expect." It said scientists don't know whether unusual geologic changes signal an approaching quake but "it is clear ... that these anomalies must be taken very seriously." Vicencia emphasized that no earthquake is being predicted and he warned against overreaction. But, he told a news conference, "If anything should happen after we have received this information and we had not made the public aware of those concerns, then I think that would be irresponsible." Vicencia said a subcommittee of his Committee on Governmental Organization concluded in January, after 18 months of hearings, that California "is not prepared to respond to a major disaster affecting a metropolitan area." That alleged shortcoming, plus the federal concerns, mean government at all levels must "begin to move ahead quickly with disaster planning and public education, he said. Note: In my letter of Feb. 16, 1980 (copy attached) with a message from my UFOs... note that I state "The people of California should have warning..." Today March 14, 1980, that warning was given to the people of California! Owens Feb. 16, 1980 Dr. J. Allen Hynek Dr. Scott Rogo Dr. Henry Monteith Dr. Max Fogel Note: The world should have warning! I told Grove to warn my people before the Caves. But this time it can't be called off!! As an added note, my daughter, Lorrie, whom I love very much, lives in California. Dr. Henry Monteith Dr. Leo Sprinkle Dr. Targ & Puthoff Today my "I's" communicated. They stated: either I get the Hearst Castle in California for five years, as our base, plus $100,000 per year for expenses... or they, The SI's (TFCs) will destroy California! Let the Durham Dandies; The Kansas Yard Cards; The Hynek Hyenas and The Los Alamos Animals try to "sit this one out." If they succeed, as they have succeeded, then they will succeed in destroying California. I guess what I am saying is... let them call our hand! This has a 90 day time limit. (To May 16.) The I's say time is short. It has to be this way, for the chiefs of a PK Man where they === Page 22 of 26 Storm punishes Northeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The season's "first real nor'easter" plastered the Northeast with up to a foot of snow Friday, turning out schools, darkening homes and giving commuters fits in the slushy big cities. At least four deaths were attributed to the storm, which moved in late Thursday and spent the night unloading snow and freezing rain from Virginia to northern New England. Two people were killed on slick highways in New York, one in Maryland and one in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, flooding hit parts of South Carolina and northern Florida, and residents of Ocean City, Md., were patching up damage from gale winds Thursday night that ripped the roofs off two beachfront motels and caused widespread beach erosion. "I heard - like - trumpets going through my house," said Dennis Sesplankis, manager of the Gateway motel in Ocean City. "It was a weird experience. We lost about four rooms completely - torn off and blown away." An earthen dam holding back a rain-swollen 100-acre lake near Fairfax, S.C., burst Friday morning, sending water 5 feet deep across U.S. 321 and knocking out two bridges and secondary roads. A 50-foot wide stream of water poured across about six miles of woods and farmlands, washing away the foundation of one unoccupied house. Coast Guard officials reported a 50-foot fishing vessel with seven of her nine crewmen still aboard was grounded on Assateague Island, about three miles south of Ocean City inlet. Officials said the crewmen were in no immediate danger but rescue efforts were hampered by rough seas. In the Virginia suburbs of Washington, freezing rain that turned to snow during the night toppled trees onto power lines, blacking out 15,000 homes. Boston school children got a holiday as the storm brought 8 inches of snow, plus rains that flooded parts of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 128. "A lot of cars are getting washed out when they hit the water," said Massachusetts State Police Cpl. Paul Beloff. Rush-hour traffic also was snarled in New York City, where the overnight snow turned to rain and hail and then back into snow. A multiple bus-car accident in the Lincoln Tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey backed up traffic for miles. On Long Island, police said many cars were disabled along the Long Expressway and the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. One officer described it as "a mess, with cars all over the place." In Baltimore, city police were kept busy with numerous fender-benders as motorists made their way to work on the slippery streets. Snow was up to 13 inches deep in the mountains of New York, 5 inches deep in Manhattan. Maryland got about 4 inches, and depths across New England ranged from 3 to 6 inches, with up to a foot expected in some of the mountains. FOAMY WORK - Firefighters spray foam around gasoline storage tank No. 86 which sprang a leak early Friday at Chevron USA Inc., 5531 N.W. Doane St. Cause of leak was unknown, but firefighters speculated bottom weld let go. Company officials said no gasoline entered nearby Willamette River. Gasoline leaks from large storage tank By FRAN JONES of The Oregonian staff March 15, 1980 A leak in a gasoline storage tank in Northwest Portland caused partial shutdown of distribution operations at Chevron USA, Inc., 5531 N.W. Doane St., Friday morning and closed Front Avenue and Doane Street to traffic until midmorning. Several pumper trucks from the Portland Fire Bureau responded to the leak and were continuing to spray foam around the area surrounding the leaking tank throughout the day. Frank Bartich, information officer for the company, said the leak was discovered about 7 a.m. The leaking tank holds about 800,000 gallons of gasoline, Bartich said. It was not known how many gallons were lost, but none had reached the Willamette River. In addition to the firefighters and the company's own emergency crew, Western Environmental Services, a river cleanup service for petroleum companies, was called in with skimmer equipment in the event that any gasoline reached the river. The remaining gasoline in the leaking tank was being transferred to another tank and a river barge, Bartich said. The leaking tank was in the center of the company's tank farm. All electrical outlets were shut off in the surrounding area as a precautionary measure, Bartich said. Bartich said each tank is surrounded by a concrete barrier wall which encloses a sand and gravel trap. Cleanup was expected to be completed by late Friday, allowing the plant to resume full operation. === Page 23 of 26 (note: I PK'D THIS GAME ON RADIO. OWENS.) # Blazers running - but mostly out of time By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff March 15, 1980 MILWAUKEE - There was an important message couched in Friday's 120-110 Portland Trail Blazer loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. The Blazer playoff hopes may ride on how carefully that message was read. The magic of the Jack Ramsay system is lost on the majority of these Blazers. This is a team that functions best on the run. This is a team whose offensive strength lies in its free-lancing. That point came in loud and clear in a second-half rally that saw the Blazers come from 85-59 down to cut a Milwaukee lead to 98-93 with 7:49 left in the game. For most of that time, Blazer Coach Ramsay had a lineup of reserves - Abdul Jeelani, Bob Gross, Jim Brewer, Jim Paxson and Billy Ray Bates - on the floor. After watching an evening of sloppy, unconfident, negative basketball, Ramsay found some players who played positively. The Blazers, 33-40, trail sixth-place San Diego by a half-game in the race for the final Western Conference playoff berth. With nine games to go, it has become clear that, for this team, this year, the Ramsay system is not the solution. The Blazers will have to run for their playoff lives. "We have a good pattern offense, but it seems like we don't take advantage of it," said Paxson, who directed the open-court running game in the second half. "We seem to be uncertain of our patterns. We're not smooth. We're better when we're running." The system was at its best in the days, when Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, Lionel Hollins and others ran it to perfection. As beautiful as that offense ran, this version of it is ugly. After several seasons of Bo Derek, Blazer fans are looking at the Marx Brothers now. But Portland does have some talented, confident one-on-one players like Bates, Jeelani and Calvin Natt. And it has players like Paxson and Gross who function best in a running game. "I definitely think we've got to run more," said Gross, one of the leftovers from the Walton era. "Anybody can run. It's just a matter of getting the other four guys to run with you. And we also need to get guys to take those 15-footers that are available to them." As they have so often this season, the Blazers started the game flatly. They gave the Bucks 14 offensive rebounds in the first half, and Milwaukee, 43-31, stole the ball nine times. The Bucks were comfortably in command by halftime, 64-49. "We bury ourselves with soft offensive and defensive play," Ramsay said. "It's not until the bench people come in that we get something started. Abdul and Billy were taking the open shots, Jimmy (Paxson) was penetrating and we finally got some board work in the last half." Does that mean a lineup change is imminent? "I thought about it before, but we came back and played a couple of good games against Denver and Los Angeles," Ramsay said. "I'd like to run more, but you can't run if you give up 14 offensive rebounds in a half. You can't run taking the ball out of the net. You run with steals and rebounds and then get it going." After the Blazers cut the lead to 98-93, the Bucks awoke to find newcomer Bob Lanier in the low post. He had 10 points in the final 7:30 and the Bucks scored nine straight against the tiring Blazers to take a 118-102 lead with 3:11 to go. "We played some aggressive defense, too," Gross said of the rally by Portland's second five. "We jumped out on switches and created some indecision on their part. They relaxed a little with the big lead, but you could see in their eyes that we were forcing them to take some shots they didn't want to take." Bates had all 14 of his points in the last half and Jeelani scored nine of his 16 during the Blazer rally. Conspicuous by his absence was guard Ron Brewer, who may be relinquishing playing time to the imperturbable rookie, Bates. Brewer made 2 of 9 shots and only played nine minutes in the last half. "He (Brewer) was 1 for 7 in the first half. There's no way he should be 1 for 7," Ramsay said. "He makes the shots in practice. He has to be more aggressive in getting open for his shots and more positive in his shooting." The Blazers play in Chicago Saturday at 5:30 p.m. PST. Look for the second unit to come in running early. **BLAZER NOTES** - Guard Dave Twardzik may have a pinched nerve in his back. "I don't know if he's going to be able to play effectively," Ramsay said. ... Milwaukee, 5-0 against the Blazers, plays them for the last time Tuesday in Portland. ... Twardzik had his streak of consecutive free throws made scissored at 36. ... The Bucks are 14-4 since acquiring Lanier from Detroit. ... Milwaukee had 23 offensive rebounds. **PORTLAND (110)** | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Natt | 33 | 9-16 | 6-8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 24 | | Washington | 24 | 7-13 | 3-7 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 17 | | Owens | 30 | 5-14 | 6-6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | | R.Brewer | 24 | 2-9 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | | Twardzik | 18 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | | Paxson | 30 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | | Dunn | 9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | J.Brewer | 12 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | | Gross | 14 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | | Jeelani | 31 | 5-10 | 6-6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | | Bates | 15 | 6-10 | 1-2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | | Totals | 240 | 41-89 | 27-36 | 44 | 25 | 27 | 12 | 18 | 110 | **MILWAUKEE (120)** | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Johnson | 30 | 6-16 | 1-2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | | Meyers | 33 | 7-17 | 1-4 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | | Lanier | 31 | 5-12 | 8-10 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 18 | | Buckner | 34 | 7-13 | 2-2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 16 | | Winters | 35 | 8-12 | 0-0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 | | Catchings | 17 | 3-4 | 0-2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | | Bridgeman | 24 | 6-12 | 7-8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 19 | | Moncrief | 17 | 3-5 | 3-3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | | Cummings | 15 | 3-11 | 2-2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | | Walton | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Totals | 240 | 48-102 | 24-33 | 55 | 38 | 23 | 16 | 15 | 120 | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Portland | 24 | 25 | 27 | 34 | - 110 | | Milwaukee | 28 | 36 | 31 | 25 | - 120 | Team rebounds - Portland 12, Milwaukee 9. Turnovers-points - Portland 19 for 24, Milwaukee 15 for 15. Blocked shots - Bates, Gross, Jeelani; Lanier 3, Johnson, Catchings. Three-point attempts - Bates 1-2, J. Brewer 0-1, Brew 0-1, Paxson 0-1; Winters 0-2. Technical fouls - Catchings, Buckner. Officials - Evans, Bavetta. Attendance - 10,938. === Page 24 of 26 Portland playoff hopes wane as Bulls win 110-108 Oregonian March 16, 1980 By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff CHICAGO -- For the second night in a row, Billy Ray Bates and Abdul Jeelani dramatically answered the emergency wake-up calls left by the slumbering Portland Trail Blazer regulars. But, for the second night in a row, a tardy Blazer rally went for naught and Portland suffered another playoff-crippling loss Saturday, 110-108 to the long-suffering Chicago Bulls. The loss was especially damaging because it was coupled with San Diego's win over Phoenix, putting Portland 1 1/2 games behind the Clippers in the race for the last Western Conference playoff spot. Except for Saturday's final 16 minutes, however, the Blazers didn't look like a team that deserves to be in the playoffs. Saturday's scenario was similar to that of Friday's loss to Milwaukee. The Blazers, looking hopelessly lethargic, trailed 72-55 with 4:50 to go in the third quarter. It was a boringly slow-paced game played by two lumbering teams until Bates and Jeelani entered in the middle of the third period. Bates and Jeelani. That sounds more like a jazz duo that should be entertaining down on Rush Street. But that pair of relative unknowns did a number on the Bulls at both ends of the court and it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a National Basketball Association future for both of them in Portland. They combined for 43 points in the final 17 minutes of Saturday's game and added some joyful enthusiasm to a game that was played at the pace of a bad sumo wrestling match. Bates, who finished with 26 points and three assists in 20 minutes, found Ron Brewer with a pass for an open jumper at 7:03 that brought the Blazers within 86-85. At 3:54, it was Bates' jumper that pulled the Blazers even at 98. Jeelani scored to tie it at 100. Bates hit two free throws to tie at 102, and Blazer center Tom Owens rebounded Bates' miss at 2:04 that gave Portland a 104-102 lead. But the uncommon denominator in this game was Chicago's 7-foot-2 center Artis Gilmore. The Bulls, 26-48, found Gilmore twice in the low post in the final two minutes and got four points from him, including two free throws with 35 seconds left that put the Bulls ahead 108-106. Gilmore finished with 32 points. Bates has played in only eight games for the Blazers but Coach Jack Ramsay called upon him to get the tying field goal. Hitting jumpers seems as natural to Bates as eating and sleeping, and he kept the Bulls awake by hitting a 20-foot jumper to tie at 108 with 21 seconds left. The play was designed for Bates to take a three-point shot but the defensive pressure from the Chicago guards forced Bates to step inside the three-point arc. This game was the stuff fairy tales are made of: two precocious rookies leading their team out of a hole and into an important win. But Bulls' guard Ricky Sobers doesn't believe in fairy tales. After the Bulls tried unsuccessfully for 19 seconds to get the ball into Gilmore, Sobers drilled a 21-foot jumper with two seconds left that sank the Blazers. Whatever the mysterious reasons, the Blazer regulars aren't playing the game as well as they can. They look hesitant, disorganized, almost distracted. Portland got into trouble early, letting Gilmore get the ball easily in the post where his strike is lethal. Eight straight points gave the Bulls a 42-32 lead with 3:35 to go in the first half and dug the Blazers a hole from which they didn't emerge until the Bates-Jeelani show began its spectacular run. While Bates' rise from Continental League nobody to NBA contributor in three weeks has been spectacular, the development of Jeelani into an all-around basketball player, has been but more subtle. Both Bates and Jeelani may be playing themselves on the eight-man protected list and out of this summer's expansion pool. BLAZER NOTES -- Guard Dave Twardzik was sent back to Portland Saturday evening, his back pains diagnosed as an inflamed nerve in his neck. . . . Forward Calvin Natt has been suffering from a head cold. Note: I PK'd this game by radio. NBA standings WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Los Angeles | 53 | 21 | .716 | -- | | Seattle | 51 | 23 | .689 | 2 | | Phoenix | 48 | 24 | .667 | 4 | | San Diego | 34 | 40 | .459 | 19 | | PORTLAND | 33 | 40 | .452 | 19 1/2 | | Golden State | 22 | 52 | .297 | 31 | Midwest Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Kansas City | 43 | 30 | .589 | -- | | Milwaukee | 43 | 31 | .581 | 1/2 | | Denver | 27 | 47 | .365 | 16 1/2 | | Chicago | 25 | 48 | .342 | 18 | | Utah | 22 | 51 | .301 | 21 | EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Boston | 54 | 18 | .750 | -- | | Philadelphia | 53 | 19 | .736 | 1 | | New York | 36 | 37 | .493 | 18 1/2 | | Washington | 34 | 38 | .472 | 20 | | New Jersey | 32 | 42 | .432 | 23 | Central Division | | W | L | Pct. | GB | |---|---|---|---|---| | Atlanta | 45 | 28 | .616 | -- | | San Antonio | 35 | 37 | .486 | 9 1/2 | | Houston | 35 | 39 | .473 | 10 1/2 | | Indiana | 34 | 40 | .459 | 11 1/2 | | Cleveland | 30 | 43 | .411 | 15 | | Detroit | 16 | 57 | .219 | 29 | FRIDAY RESULTS At Atlanta 88, Boston 87 At Detroit 102, San Antonio 113 At Indiana 104, Philadelphia 94 At Washington 92, Houston 85 At Chicago 101, Seattle 122 At Milwaukee 120, Portland 110 At Los Angeles 132, Denver 126 SATURDAY SCHEDULE San Antonio at Cleveland Boston at New York Portland at Chicago Phoenix at San Diego March 16, 1980 oregonian Note: See NBA Standings To illustrate how potent my psi-force attacks can be on the Blazers (or any team)... note that Chicago has won only 25 games this year!! (Portland has won 33.) So Chicago was the "underdog" team. Yet with psi-force added, Chicago "mysteriously" wins! To underscore what I've just said, last week Portland beat Los Angeles (see NBA standings... L.A. has won 53 games) 142 to 123!! Because I fell asleep and didn't control that game! Which shows what Portland is capable of doing were it not for my psi-force control of the team. Note Kelley's remark in newsclip above... "Whatever the mysterious reasons..." === Page 25 of 26 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR PM 18 MAR 1980 972 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE USA 15c HOME OF THE BRAVE Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 26 of 26 March 30, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Am continuing to fill you in on the always-flowing action of PK Man. The enclosed xerox file is self-explanatory. Mount St. Helens could very well be the spark that sets off Mt. Lassen and ignites the San Andreas Fault...thus bringing about what the SIs warned about earlier, if the Base was not presented. There is, I believe, an excellent analogy between me, among the human race, being able to communicate with the infinite intelligence of the SIs (or The Phenomenon?)...and a single cell, perhaps, in your own body...that somehow learns to communicate with your brain and intelligence...among all the billions or trillions of other cells. That single cell, amazed to discover the fact, tells cells around it...who of course do not believe it...so the one cell asks your Brain to do this, do that...in your body...and it is done...but the other cells think that it is simply "coincidence"...a la Hynek, the Hyena. Years ago an astrophysicist, who met me and investigated me...told me about "dendrites" that had been discovered in the frontal lobe areas of people who had allegedly been taken by UFOs, then died...and secret govt. agencies arranged to do secret operations on their brains to see if they had been affected by the UFOs...and found these "dendrites". It occurs to me that perhaps these dendrites might be the equivalent to transistors in radios, and TVs, and computers. Or, perhaps, chemical implants which would have the same function. Finally, I was talking over the phone last week to a Bell Telephone expert... former employee...when suddenly a voice cut into our conversation, saying: "Berger, call # 3905...get on 3905." I immediately whispered to Millie (Millie Miller, who has moved here to Vancouver) to be quiet...then said loudly in an officious voice, "Please repeat, repeat message." So the man repeated the message. At which point I said in my own voice, "Make that two burgers with french fries." Ha ha. I must have my humor. Anyway, Millie, who was a pro with Bell Telephone, told me that my phone is certainly bugged...and that whoever was taping our call left a switch up, accidentally allowing their conversation get through into our conversation. Amusing, what? Best to you and Janelle.......... 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY # MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW NEW SOUTH WALES APRIL 1980 === Page 2 of 29 EXPLANATION OF USE OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS Decile range numbers are used in this publication as indicators of rainfall in preference to monthly averages. Rainfall, unlike many other meteorological elements such as temperature and pressure, is non-continuous in time and space. As a result the statistical description of rainfall occurrence is quite complex. The best known and most commonly used rainfall statistic is the arithmetic mean (often called the 'average' or 'normal'). Monthly means are computed by adding the rainfalls in a given month over a long period and dividing the total by the number of years of record. Another statistic is the 'median' or '50 per cent' value, which is the value that is exceeded by half the occurrences and not exceeded by the other half. With many meteorological quantities the mean and median values are equal or very close and the use of 'average' for either value causes no confusion. Although this is often the case with annual rainfall, for shorter periods (3 months or less) the mean can differ significantly from the median. As an example let us look at January rainfalls for Sydney, Melbourne and Alice Springs, and Halls Creek July rainfall: MONTHLY RAINFALLS - MILLIMETRES | Place | Month | Mean | Median | |---|---|---|---| | Sydney | January | 95 | 71 | | Melbourne | January | 48 | 36 | | Alice Springs | January | 39 | 15 | | Halls Creek | July | 6 | Nil | It will be seen that in these cases the mean value is not the same as the median value. At Alice Springs the January mean of 39mm is equalled or exceeded in only about 35 per cent of years, and at Halls Creek the July mean of 6mm is equalled or exceeded in about 20 per cent of years. In fact at Halls Creek July rainfall is nil in almost 70 per cent of years although the mean is 6mm. For this reason we prefer to describe monthly, and longer periods up to annual, rainfalls by the median or 50 per cent value rather than the mean. To obtain some idea of the 'spread' or variability of monthly rainfall, the amount which is not exceeded in the driest 10 per cent of years (the first decile) and that exceeded in the wettest 10 per cent of years (the ninth decile) are often quoted. We can imagine these decile values, which are the values dividing each 10 per cent of occurrences from the driest to the wettest years, as giving some indication of rainfall variability. In the Monthly Rainfall Review we use decile ranges. The first decile range (decile range 1) is the range of the driest 10 per cent of rainfalls, the second decile range is the next driest 10 per cent and so on. We consider the middle 40 per cent (decile ranges 4-7) as being 'average' although in some cases the arithmetic mean may lie outside this range. We use the following terminology: | Extent of range | Formal title | Descriptive name | |---|---|---| | Lowest 10 per cent of monthly rainfalls | Decile range 1 | Very much below 'average' | | Next lowest 10 per cent | Decile range 2 | Much below 'average' | | Next lowest 10 per cent | Decile range 3 | Below 'average' | | Middle 40 per cent of monthly rainfalls | Decile ranges 4-7 | 'Average' | | Next higher 10 per cent | Decile range 8 | Above 'average' | | Next higher 10 per cent | Decile range 9 | Much above 'average' | | Highest 10 per cent of monthly rainfalls | Decile range 10 | Very much above 'average' | === Page 3 of 29 METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY WEATHER REVIEW NEW SOUTH WALES APRIL, 1980 CONTENTS | | | PAGE | |---|---|---| | 1. | Introduction | 1 | | 2. | Synoptic Circulation | 1 & 2 | | 3. | Rainfall | 2 | | 4. | Temperature | 2 & 3 | | 5. | Phenomena | 3 & 4 | | 6. | Bushfires and Floods | 4 | | 7. | Normal Meteorological Conditions for May | 4 & 5 | | 8. | Table 1 -- Rainfall District Averages for April, 1980 | 6 | | 9. | Table 2 -- Daily Rainfall at Selected Stations for April, 1980 | 7 & 8 | | 10. | Table 3 -- Irrigation and Hydroelectric Stores water April, 1980 | 9 | | 11. | Table 4 -- Temperatures at Selected Stations for April, 1980. | 10 | | 12. | Table 5 -- Summary of Sydney Observations for April, 1980 | 11 | | 13. | Table 6 -- Summary of Canberra Observations for April, 1980 | 12 | | 14. | Table 7 -- Evaporation and Sunshine at Selected Stations for April, 1980 | 13 | | 15. | Maps for April, 1980 | | | | | Map 1 -- Rainfall -- Isohyets | | | | | Map 2 -- Rainfall -- Distribution of Decile Ranges of Rainfall | | | | | Map 3 -- Maximum Temperatures -- Departures from Normal | | | | | Map 4 -- Minimum Temperatures -- Departures from Normal | | | | 16. | Daily Weather Maps -- 1st to 30th April, 1980. | | === Page 4 of 29 WEATHER REVIEW NEW SOUTH WALES APRIL, 1980 INTRODUCTION Rainfall varied from very much above average in the far west (where district averages were the highest for April since the record rains of 1974) to much to very much below average over the eastern half of the state. Averages for the Hunter, Central Tablelands (South), Metropolitan (west) and South Coast Districts were the lowest ever for April (district records have been kept since 1913) whilst in Central Tablelands (North) it was the least April rainfall since 1923, in the Northwestern Slopes and Northern Tablelands (West) the least since 1942 and in the Northern Rivers and Illawarra Districts the least since 1957. The abundant rains recorded towards the end of the month in the southwest of the state were sufficient to break the five months drought in that area. Generally above average temperatures. SYNOPTIC CIRCULATION In the first five days of the month weak high pressure cells with intervening shallow southern troughs moved over the state and, except for a few light coastal showers, settled weather prevailed. For the next two and a half weeks an intense slow moving high, centred at latitudes 35 to 40 degrees, dominated the charts as it drifted east from the central Bight (6th) to be located southeast of New Zealand by 22nd. Winds were south to easterly in first five days and north to northeasterly 10th to 22nd. There were a few coastal showers most days and local storms in northeastern and central eastern areas on 6th, caused by a "cold pool" in upper atmosphere, otherwise mainly dry weather persisted 6th to 15th. During 16th to 22nd convergence of upper level moisture followed by a large cloud mass from the west brought widespread rain and storms with variable rainfalls in most regions west of the ranges and widely scattered light showers in coastal areas. === Page 5 of 29 N.S.W. During 23rd/24th a southern trough associated with low pressure well south of the continent crossed the state resulting in a spell of south to westerly winds and almost general rain with moderate to heavy falls in southern and central inland districts. For the rest of the month the main feature for the region was the leading ridge of an almost stationary high centred in the Bight. An upper level trough and associated cloud mass moved eastward 25th/26th and generated light to locally moderate showers along the coast then during 26th/27th a small low in the Tasman Sea and the passage of a cold front along the coast strengthened winds in coastal areas. Apart from the coastal rainfalls 26th/27th and one or two very light seaboard showers on the other days, settled weather with south to easterly winds persisted in this week. RAINFALL Highest rainfall totals at Telegraphic Reporting Stations were 129 millimetres at Pooncarie (Lower Darling District), 96 millimetres at Cape Byron (Northern Rivers) and 95 millimetres at Menindee (Lower Darling). Over the rest of the Western District, in the Riverina and over much of the Southwestern Slopes and southern Central Western Plains, in coastal districts north of Newcastle and around Robertson - Berry in the Illawarra District totals were mostly in the 25 to 50 millimetres range. Elsewhere rainfall was generally less than 10 millimetres with scattered areas along the highlands and in the Hunter and South Coast Districts where totals were less than 0.6 millimetres. Details of rainfall are shown in Tables 1 and 2 and on Maps 1 and 2. TEMPERATURES Below average day temperatures were recorded in southwestern districts during first week and in most inland areas during last week of month. Otherwise they were mostly above average, generally by 5 to 10 degrees in northeastern districts in first week and in southern and central inland areas during days 10th to 18th, very high maxima, more than 10 degrees above average were recorded in Metropolitan District on 3rd. -2- === Page 6 of 29 N.S.W. Minima were variable throughout with recordings generally above average mid-month and below average early and late in month. As shown in Table 4 and on Maps 3 and 4 average maximum temperatures were close to average along most of the coast and in a strip of country lying south from Bourke through central western plains into Riverina and above average elsewhere with greatest departures from average 3 degrees above in the Northern and Southern Tablelands Districts, and, average minima were well above in the far west and central western regions and within one degree of average elsewhere. Reported extremes were 37°C. at Tibooburra on 5th and minus 7°C. at Perisher Valley on 28th. PHENOMENA Thunderstorms. Scattered thunderstorm activity was reported in parts of coast and tablelands 6th, 16th, 17th, 19th and 30th, in Riverina and Southwestern Slopes Districts 16th and 17th, in Upper Western District 16th and in Central Western Plains District on 17th. Hail was reported in Metropolitan, Illawarra and Southern Tablelands Districts during afternoon and evening hours of 30th -- in the Warragamba to Bargo area heavy hail associated with heavy rain caused property and stock losses and minor flooding. Fog. Early morning fogs were reported at a few places in coastal and/or highland areas most days. Frost level temperatures were reported in parts of the southern highlands all days except 4th, 16th to 20th, 22nd and 23rd, in parts of central highlands during days 7th to 10th and 25th to 30th and at one or two centres in the coastal plains 8th, 29th and 30th. Dust areas were reported in the northwest on 11th, parts of southwest and central west 16th and 23rd and at places on southern and central tablelands on 23rd. Snow ) ) No occurrences were reported. Tornadic squalls ) -3- === Page 7 of 29 N.S.W. **Gales and Strong Winds.** Gale force winds occurred over New South Wales ocean waters during 9th and 20th to 22nd and there were periods of strong winds in coastal waters 14th to 16th, 23rd and 26th/27th. BUSHFIRES AND FLOODS **Bushfires.** With persistent dry northerly winds mid-month an extreme fire danger rating occurred in the Upper Western, Lower Western and Riverina Districts, as a result the State Minister for Services issued a total ban on the lighting of fires for these districts from 9 p.m. 15th to 9 p.m. 16th. **Flooding.** Nil occurrences. NORMAL CONDITIONS IN N.S.W.FOR MAY With high pressure systems tending to pursue paths over more northern parts of the State, normally the influence of southern depression systems and their predominantly westerly air flow extends gradually northwards over N.S.W. during May. In general, both these controls lead to somewhat lower rainfalls, due to the dryness of the air masses involved. However, frontal systems associated with southern depressions and/or topographical effects, result in slightly higher rainfalls in southern inland districts and on southern parts of the Western Slopes and Tablelands. While average coastal rainfalls in May vary from 75 millimetres in the south to 175 millimetres in the north, a rapid tapering off to 50 millimetres occurs on the eastern slopes and escarpments of the main Divide. Falls average from 50 to 125 millimetres on the South West Slopes and western sides of the Southern Alps, but fall off rapidly from 50 millimetres to 25 millimetres elsewhere from the top of the ranges to the Central Plains. In the far west average rainfall is usually below 25 mm and in many cases less than 12 millimetres. Cyclonic storms are uncommon in May, even in coastal districts. However these occasionally give heavy rains between the coast and Ranges, and on very rare occasions, in inland districts. Monthly totals from 200 millimetres to 300 millimetres on coastal sections are usual on -4- === Page 8 of 29 N.S.W. such occasions, and at times are as high as 375 millimetres, but falls in excess of 500 millimetres per month are rare. While flooding of all coastal rivers has occurred in May, apart from the Murray and Murrumbidgee systems inland rivers are very seldom affected directly. However water from heavy rains earlier in the year usually takes many months in its course to the sea down the Darling River system, so that flooding can occur from this cause. During May, although inland and coastal districts experience average day temperatures varying between $19^{\circ}$C. in the south and $21^{\circ}$C. in the north, the Tablelands report readings below $15^{\circ}$C. and as low as $7^{\circ}$C. in the south. On the tablelands night temperatures are usually below $1^{\circ}$ in the south and seldom above $5^{\circ}$C. in the remainder. In consequence in these regions frosts are common and fairly extensive particularly in the more elevated regions. Over the rest of the State minima usually vary from about $7^{\circ}$C. in the west to $10^{\circ}$ to $15^{\circ}$C. on the coast. Serious bushfires occur during May only when dry conditions have been experienced in preceding months. === Page 9 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 1. RAINFALL - DISTRICT AVERAGES | NO. | DISTRICT | MONTH APRIL 1980 MM | NORMAL APRIL MM | DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL % | |---|---|---|---|---| | 46 | Western (Far North West) | 54 | 14 | +285 | | 47 | Western (Lower Darling) | 85 | 16 | +431 | | 48 | Western Upper Darling | 17 | 22 | - 23 | | 49 | Western (S.W. Plains) | 46 | 23 | +100 | | 50 | C.W. Plains (Southern) | 30 | 35 | - 15 | | 51 | C.W. Plains (Northern) | 11 | 33 | - 67 | | 52 | N.W. Plains (West) | 6 | 32 | - 82 | | 53 | N.W. Plains (East) | 4 | 33 | - 88 | | 54 | N.W. Slopes (North) | 2 | 37 | - 95 | | 55 | N.W. Slopes (South) | 2 | 40 | - 95 | | 56 | N. Tablelands (Western) | 3 | 40 | - 93 | | 57 | N. Tablelands (Eastern) | 23 | 70 | - 68 | | 58 | North Coast (Upper) | 39 | 136 | - 72 | | 59 | North Coast (Lower) | 35 | 149 | - 77 | | 60 | Manning | 51 | 142 | - 65 | | 61 | Hunter | 4 | 83 | - 96 | | 62 | C. Tablelands (North) | 1 | 45 | - 98 | | 63 | C. Tablelands (South) | 8 | 72 | - 89 | | 64 | C.W. Slopes (North) | 7 | 45 | - 85 | | 65 | C.W. Slopes (South) | 16 | 44 | - 64 | | 66 | Metropolitan (East) | 15 | 114 | - 87 | | 67 | Metropolitan (West) | 2 | 74 | - 98 | | 68 | Illawarra | 15 | 104 | - 86 | | 69 | South Coast | 6 | 87 | - 94 | | 70 | S. Tablelands (Goulburn-Monaro) | 6 | 51 | - 89 | | 71 | S. Tablelands (Snowy Mountains) | 10 | 64 | - 85 | | 72 | S.W. Slopes (South) | 39 | 60 | - 35 | | 73 | S.W. Slopes (North) | 21 | 47 | - 56 | | 74 | Riverina (East) | 40 | 36 | + 11 | | 75 | Riverina (West) | 39 | 28 | + 39 | -6- === Page 10 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 2. DAILY RAINFALL - SELECTED STATIONS - FOR APRIL, 1980 (FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS) (AMOUNTS OVER 1.0 MILLIMETRES ROUNDED TO NEAREST MM) | DATE | TIBOOBURRA | BROKEN HILL | BOURKE | BALRANALD | CONDOBOLIN | NYNGAN | WALGETT | MOREE | BARRABA | TAMWORTH | ARMIDALE | TABULAM (MUIRNE) | LISMORE | COFFS HARBOUR | TAREE | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.8 | 3 | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.2 | | | | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.2 | 4 | | | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | | | 16 | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | 0.4 | | 17 | | | 17 | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | 0.2 | 0.6 | 4 | | | 18 | | 0.8 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | 19 | 2 | 15 | | 8 | 1 | | | | | | 0.2 | 0.2 | 3 | 5 | | | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | | | | | 5 | 11 | 2 | | | 21 | 9 | | 3 | | | 3 | | | 0.4 | | 0.4 | | 2 | | 4 | | 22 | | 2 | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | 23 | 37 | 42 | | 24 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 24 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | | | | | 0.6 | | 25 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | 26 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 12 | | 27 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 28 | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.8 | | 2 | 2 | | 29 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | === Page 11 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 2. DAILY RAINFALL - SELECTED STATIONS - FOR APRIL. 1980 (FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS). (AMOUNTS OVER 1.0 MILLIMETRES ROUNDED TO NEAREST MM) | DATE | NEWCASTLE (MARYVILLE) | MUDGEE | BATHURST | COONABARABRAN | DUBBO | SYDNEY | LIVERPOOL | WOLLONGONG | BEGA | CANBERRA CITY | PERISHER VALLEY | WAGGA | COOTAMUNDRA | NARRANDERA | HAY | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | 2 | | | | | 1 | | 13 | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16 | | | | | | 0.4 | | 2 | | | | | | | 3 | | 17 | | | | | | | | | 2 | 0.2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 | | 18 | | | | | | | | | | 5 | 4 | | | | | | 19 | | | | | | | | | | | 0.4 | | | 4 | 3 | | 20 | | | | | 0.4 | | 0.2 | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 1 | | 21 | 6 | | | | 0.4 | 5 | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | | 22 | 3 | | | | | 0.2 | | | | | | | | | | | 23 | 0.4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | 24 | | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.2 | | 0.8 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 30 | 23 | | 25 | | | | | | | | 0.2 | | | | | | | | | 26 | 6 | | | | | 4 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | 27 | 0.2 | | | | | 0.2 | | | 0.6 | | | | | | | | 28 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 29 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -8- === Page 12 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 3. IRRIGATION AND HYDROELECTRIC STORED WATER These figures were supplied by the Authorities controlling the various dams and show the volume of water held in active storage at the end of the month expressed as a percentage of design capacity of these dams. | DAM | STREAM | % AT END OF APRIL, 1980 | |---|---|---| | BLOWERING | TUMUT | 23 | | BURRENDONG | MACQUARIE | (a) 54 | | | | (b) -- | | BURRINJUCK | MURRUMBIDGEE | 32 | | CARCOAR | BELUBULA | 50 | | GLENBAWN | HUNTER | (a) 48 | | | | (b) -- | | HUME | MURRAY | 19 | | KEEPIT | NAMOI | 38 | | LOSTOCK | PATERSON | 64 | | MENINDEE | DARLING | 64 | | PINDARI | SEVERN | 45 | | SNOWY MOUNTAINS SYSTEM | | 41 | | WYANGALA | LACHLAN | 30 | (a) Percentage of design capacity for conservation purposes (b) Percentage of design capacity for flood mitigation purposes. -9- === Page 13 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 4. TEMPERATURES AT SELECTED STATIONS (from daily telegraphic reports) APRIL, 1980. | STATION | MAXIMUM (°C) EXTREME | MAXIMUM (°C) MEAN | MAXIMUM (°C) DEPART | MINIMUM (°C) EXTREME | MINIMUM (°C) MEAN | MINIMUM (°C) DEPART | MEAN (°C) MEAN | MEAN (°C) DEPART | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | ARMIDALE | 27 | 23.4 | + 2.9 | 3 | 7.1 | - 0.4 | 15.3 | + 1.3 | | BALRANALD | 34 | 25.2 | + 1.5 | 5 | 11.8 | + 2.4 | 18.5 | + 1.9 | | BATHURST | 27 | 23.8 | + 2.2 | - 1 | 5.5 | - 0.8 | 14.7 | + 0.7 | | BOMBALA | 27 | 20.5 | + 2.3 | - 1 | 4.9 | - 0.3 | 12.7 | + 1.0 | | BOURKE | 34 | 28.0 | + 0.5 | 7 | 13.7 | + 0.9 | 20.9 | + 0.7 | | BROKEN HILL | 33 | 25.8 | + 2.0 | 5 | 13.4 | + 2.0 | 19.6 | + 2.0 | | CANBERRA CITY | 28 | 22.7 | + 3.1 | - 2 | 6.6 | + 0.2 | 14.7 | + 1.7 | | CONDOBOLIN | 30 | 25.1 | + 0.2 | 5 | 12.4 | + 1.8 | 18.8 | + 1.0 | | DENILIQUIN | 32 | 23.8 | + 1.4 | 2 | 10.3 | + 0.3 | 17.1 | + 0.9 | | DUBBO | 32 | 26.1 | + 1.2 | 6 | 12.2 | + 1.8 | 19.1 | + 1.4 | | HAY | 31 | 24.4 | + 0.3 | 4 | 12.0 | + 2.4 | 18.2 | + 1.3 | | INVERELL | 30 | 26.7 | + 2.2 | 3 | 7.0 | - 0.6 | 16.8 | + 0.7 | | JERRYS PLAINS | 35 | 27.1 | + 1.7 | 4 | 10.2 | - 0.4 | 18.6 | + 0.5 | | LISMORE | 35 | 26.0 | + 0.3 | 10 | 15.0 | + 0.9 | 20.5 | + 0.6 | | MORUYA HEADS | 26 | 21.5 | - 0.2 | 6 | 12.1 | - 0.1 | 16.8 | - 0.2 | | NEWCASTLE (MARYVILLE) | 33 | 24.2 | + 0.1 | 9 | 15.3 | + 0.7 | 19.7 | + 0.3 | | SYDNEY | 33 | 23.8 | + 1.7 | 10 | 15.1 | + 0.6 | 19.5 | + 1.2 | | TAMWORTH | 32 | 26.8 | + 2.0 | 7 | 11.3 | + 1.0 | 19.0 | + 1.4 | | WAGGA | 30 | 24.0 | + 0.8 | 2 | 8.8 | - 0.4 | 16.4 | + 0.2 | | WALGETT | 35 | 28.7 | + 2.1 | 8 | 13.5 | + 0.8 | 21.1 | + 1.4 | | WILCANNIA | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | | YAMBA | 33 | 24.5 | + 0.2 | 13 | 16.6 | + 0.2 | 20.5 | + 0.1 | -10- === Page 14 of 29 TABLE NO. 5 N.S.W. SUMMARY OF SYDNEY OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL, 1980. | ITEM | | MONTH OF APRIL, '80 | NORMAL OR EXTREME | |---|---|---|---| | PRESSURE (reduced to M.S.L.) | | | | | Mean (9 a.m. and 3 p.m.) | (mb) | 1020.5 | 1018.3 | | TEMPERATURE | | | | | Mean 9 a.m. | (°C) | 18.8 | 17.7 | | Mean 3 p.m. | (°C) | 22.6 | 20.7 | | Mean daily maximum | (°C) | 23.8 | 22.1 | | Mean daily minimum | (°C) | 15.1 | 14.5 | | Mean for month | (°C) | 19.5 | 18.3 | | Highest during month | (°C) | 33.5* | 33.0 | | Lowest during month | (°C) | 9.8 | 7.0 | | Days 40°C or higher | (No.) | 0 | 0 | | Days 30°C or higher | (No.) | 1 | 0 | | Days 2°C or lower | (No.) | 0 | 0 | | Days 0°C or lower | (No.) | 0 | 0 | | RELATIVE HUMIDITY | | | | | Mean at 9 a.m. | (%) | 69 | 74 | | Mean at 3 p.m. | (%) | 56 | 65 | | WIND | | | | | Mean speed | (km/hr) | 10.8 | 11.0 | | Strongest gust | (km/hr) | W/83 | WSW/126 | | Days with mean wind | | | | | 63 km/hr or more (gale) | (No.) | 0 | -- | | SUNSHINE | | | | | Mean daily | (hours) | 8.0 | 6.2 | | EVAPORATION (Mascot) | | | | | Total for month | (mm) | 148.8 | -- | | RAINFALL | | | | | Total for month | (mm) | 11.6⁺ | 124.1 | | Rain days (days of 0.1mm or more | (No.) | 7 | 13 | | PHENOMENA | | | | | Days when thunder heard | (No.) | 2 | 1.3 | | Days when hail fell | (No.) | 0 | 0 | * Highest maximum on record, previous highest 33.0° on 10/1969 and 1/1936. ⁺ Lowest April rainfall since 1896 when 4 mm and 4th lowest April rainfall on record. -11- === Page 15 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE NO. 6. SUMMARY OF CANBERRA CITY OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL, 1980 | ITEM | | MONTH OF APRIL, 1980 | NORMAL OR EXTREME | |---|---|---|---| | PRESSURE (reduced to M.S.L.) | | | | | Mean (9 a.m. and 3 p.m.) | (mb) | 1020.5 | 1018.7 | | TEMPERATURE | | | | | Mean 9 a.m. | (°C) | 12.4 | 12.1 | | Mean 3 p.m. | (°C) | 21.9 | 18.7 | | Mean daily maximum | (°C) | * 22.7 | 19.6 | | Mean daily minimum | (°C) | 6.6 | 6.4 | | Mean for month | (°C) | 14.7 | 13.0 | | Highest during month | (°C) | 27.7 | 32.6 | | Lowest during month | (°C) | - 1.6 | - 3.6 | | Days 40°C or higher | (No.) | 0 | 0 | | Days 30°C or higher | (No.) | 0 | 0 | | Days 2°C or lower | (No.) | 2 | | | | Days 0°C or lower | (No.) | 2 | | | | RELATIVE HUMIDITY | | | | | Mean at 9 a.m. | (%) | 69 | 75 | | Mean at 3 p.m. | (%) | 36 | 48 | | WIND | | | | | Mean speed | (km/hr) | | | | | Strongest gust | (km/hr) | NW/ 63 | NW/ 106 | | Days with mean wind 63 km/hr or more (gale) | (No.) | 0 | | | | SUNSHINE | | | | | Mean daily | (hours) | 7.9 | 6.9 | | EVAPORATION | | | | | Total for month | (MM) | 98.8 | 104 | | RAINFALL | | | | | Total for month | (MM) | 6.2 | 50 | | Rain days (days of 0.1 mm or more) | (No.) | 3 | 8 | | PHENOMENA | | | | | Days when thunder heard | (No.) | 0 | 0.9 | | Days when hail fell | (No.) | 0 | 0.1 | | Days of frost | (No.) | 17 | 4.9 | | Days of snow | (No.) | 0 | 0 | | Days of fog | (No.) | 3 | 4.1 | * Highest April mean maximum on record. -12- === Page 16 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 7. EVAPORATION AND SUNSHINE FOR SELECTED STATIONS APRIL, 1980 | STATION | EVAPORATION * MONTHLY (MM) | SUNSHINE MEAN DAILY (HOURS) | |---|---|---| | CANBERRA | 99 | 7.9 | | COBAR | 105 | 9.0 | | COFFS HARBOUR | 164 | 8.1 | | MASCOT (SYDNEY AIRPORT) | 149 | 8.5 | | MOREE | 179 | 10.1 | | RICHMOND | 146 | 8.6 | | TAMWORTH | 191 | 10.0 | | WAGGA | 146 | -- | | WILLIAMTOWN | 153 | 8.5 | * Evaporation measured in Class A pan equipped with bird guard. -13- === Page 17 of 29 145 150 50 25 10 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 10 25 Murwillumbah Lismore Tibooburra Mungindi 54 Moree 50 48 52 Warialda 50 Inverell Glen Innes Yamba 53 Grafton Bourke Walgett 56 Narrabri Coffs Harbour 46 55 Armidale 51 25 Gunnedah Tamworth Coonabarabran Smoky Cape Wilcannia Cobar Nyngan 50 Port Macquarie Broken Hill Scone Manning Heads 49 Dubbo 61 47 Ivanhoe Mt Hope 50 65 Mudgee Cessnock 100 Newcastle Orange 25 Forbes Bathurst Wyong SOUTH Hillston Katoomba Richmond PACIFIC Cowra OCEAN 50 Wentworth 75 25 SYDNEY (TASMAN SEA) 67 Griffith Taralga 50 Hay 25 Leeton 68 Port Kembla Euston Junee 70 Goulburn 25 100 100 Balranald Wagga Wagga CANBERRA Jervis Bay Deniliquin Holbrook 50 Tocumwal 69 10 50 Kiandra Moruya Heads 50 Kosciusko Rainfall 25 Bega below 0.6 mm Bombala 10 10 Eden 10 145 150 NEW SOUTH WALES MAP 1. RAINFALL FOR APRIL, 1980. ISOHYETS. (millimetres) === Page 18 of 29 FOR NEW SOUTH WALES QUEENSLAND SOUTH AUSTRALIA 48 Bourke 51 Nyngan 50 Condobolin 75 Leeton Junee Holbrook Kosciusko (Based on monthly totals from Telegraphic Rainfall Stations) VICTORIA Murwillumbah Yamba Coffs Harbour Smoky Cape Port Macquarie SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (TASMAN SEA) Newcastle Wyong Richmond SYDNEY Port Kembla Jervis Bay Moruya Heads Bega Eden for NEW SOUTH WALES Very much above average Above average 4-7 Average Much below average Very much below average MAP 2. DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL NEW SOUTH WALES APRIL, 1980. === Page 19 of 29 Higher than 1°C. above normal Within 1°C. of normal (±) Lower than 1°C. below normal MAP 3. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR APRIL, 1980. === Page 20 of 29 Higher than 1°C. above normal Within 1°C. of normal (±) Lower than 1°C. below normal MAP 4. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES FOR APRIL, 1980. === Page 21 of 29 # DAILY WEATHER MAPS 1000 K (00 GMT) 1-30 April 1980 Dates are ringed left-hand corner of each map. ### LEGEND Isobars are drawn at 4 mb intervals Cold Front Warm Front Occlusion === Page 22 of 29 1012 1016 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 8 988 992 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1012 1016 1020 1024 9 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1016 1020 1024 1024 1020 1016 10 1012 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1016 1020 1024 1024 1020 1016 11 1012 1008 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1024 1012 1016 1020 1024 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 12 996 992 992 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1024 1012 1016 1020 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 13 1004 1000 996 992 992 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1012 1016 1020 1020 1016 14 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1012 1016 1020 1024 1024 1020 1016 15 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 === Page 23 of 29 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 === Page 24 of 29 1012 1016 1020 1024 XH 1024 1020 24 1016 1012 1008 1004 1020 1016 1012 1008 1000 996 992 988 984 980 984 988 992 996 1000 1004 1008 LX 1012 1016 1020 1024 XH 1024 1020 25 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1012 1012 1016 1016 1020 1024 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 26 1004 1000 996 1000 1004 1008 1012 1016 1020 XH 1028 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1012 1012 LX 1012 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 1020 1016 27 1012 1008 1008 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 H X 1032 1024 1020 1016 1012 1012 1016 1020 1024 1020 1016 28 1012 1008 1012 1016 1024 1020 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 HX 1032 1028 1024 1020 1016 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 HX 1028 1024 1020 1016 1020 1024 1020 29 1016 1012 1016 1020 1012 1016 1020 1024 1020 1016 1012 30 1008 1004 1012 1016 1020 1024 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 H X 1032 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1020 1024 === Page 25 of 29 # NEW SOUTH WALES 145 150 155 Murwillumbah Lismore Tenterfield Goodooga Mungindi 54 58 57 Moree Warialda Yamba 52 Glen Innes Grafton Inverell Tibooburra 48 53 Walgett 30 56 Narrabri 59 Bourke Coffs Harbour Armidale 55 Gunnedah Coonamble 46 51 Tamworth Smoky Cape Coonabarabran 60 Port Macquarie Nyngan 64 Wilcannia Cobar Dalkeith Scone Manning Heads Gloucester 61 Dubbo 62 Broken Hill Bobadah Mudgee Jerrys Plains 47 50 65 Newcastle Mt. Hope Condobolin Ivanhoe Orange Wyong Forbes Bathurst Katoomba SYDNEY Hillston Cowra 63 67 66 REFERENCE TO METEOROLOGICAL DISTRICTS Wentworth 75 68 Taralga Port Kembla 46 WESTERN (FAR NORTHWEST) 62 CENTRAL TABLELANDS (N) Griffith 47 WESTERN (LOWER DARLING) 63 CENTRAL TABLELANDS (S) Goulburn 48 WESTERN (UPPER DARLING) 64 CENTRAL WESTERN SLOPES (N) Euston Hay Leeton 73 70 49 WESTERN (SOUTHWEST PLAINS) 65 CENTRAL WESTERN SLOPES (S) 74 Junee 50 CENTRAL WESTERN PLAINS (S) 66 METROPOLITAN (E) CANBERRA Jervis Bay 51 CENTRAL WESTERN PLAINS (N) 67 METROPOLITAN (W) Moulamein Wagga Wagga Adelong 52 NORTHWEST PLAINS (W) 68 ILLAWARRA 72 69 53 NORTHWEST PLAINS (E) 69 SOUTH COAST Deniliquin Holbrook 54 NORTHWEST SLOPES (N) 70 SOUTHERN TABLELANDS (GOULBURN - MONARO) Moruya Heads Kiandra 55 NORTHWEST SLOPES (S) Tocumwal Cooma 56 NORTHERN TABLELANDS (W) 71 SOUTHERN TABLELANDS (SNOWY MOUNTAINS) 57 NORTHERN TABLELANDS (E) Kosciuszko 71 Bega 58 UPPER NORTH COAST 72 SOUTHWEST SLOPES (S) 59 LOWER NORTH COAST 73 SOUTHWEST SLOPES (N) Bombala 60 MANNING 74 RIVERINA (E) Eden 61 HUNTER 75 RIVERINA (W) 145 150 === Page 26 of 29 N.S.W. such occasions, and at times are as high as 375 millimetres, but falls in excess of 500 millimetres per month are rare. While flooding of all coastal rivers has occurred in May, apart from the Murray and Murrumbidgee systems inland rivers are very seldom affected directly. However water from heavy rains earlier in the year usually takes many months in its course to the sea down the Darling River system, so that flooding can occur from this cause. During May, although inland and coastal districts experience average day temperatures varying between 19°C. in the south and 21°C. in the north, the Tablelands report readings below 15°C. and as low as 7°C. in the south. On the tablelands night temperatures are usually below 1° in the south and seldom above 5°C. in the remainder. In consequence in these regions frosts are common and fairly extensive particularly in the more elevated regions. Over the rest of the State minima usually vary from about 7°C. in the west to 10° to 15°C. on the coast. Serious bushfires occur during May only when dry conditions have been experienced in preceding months. -5- === Page 27 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 2. DAILY RAINFALL - SELECTED STATIONS - FOR APRIL, 1980 (FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS) (AMOUNTS OVER 1.0 MILLIMETRES ROUNDED TO NEAREST MM) | DATE | TIBOOBURRA | BROKEN HILL | BOURKE | BALRANALD | CONDOBOLIN | NYNGAN | WALGETT | MOREE | BARRABA | TAMWORTH | ARMIDALE | TABULAM (MUIRNE) | LISMORE | COFFS HARBOUR | TAREE | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.8 | 3 | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.2 | | | | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.2 | 4 | | | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | | | 16 | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | 0.4 | | 17 | | | 17 | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | 0.2 | 0.6 | 4 | | | 18 | | 0.8 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | 19 | 2 | 15 | | 8 | 1 | | | | | | 0.2 | 0.2 | 3 | 5 | | | 20 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | | | | | 5 | 11 | 2 | | | 21 | 9 | | 3 | | | 3 | | | 0.4 | | 0.4 | | 2 | | 4 | | 22 | | 2 | | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | 23 | 37 | 42 | | 24 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 24 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | | | | | 0.6 | | 25 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | 26 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 12 | | 27 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 28 | | | | | | | | | | | | 0.8 | | 2 | 2 | | 29 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -7- === Page 28 of 29 N.S.W. TABLE 2. DAILY RAINFALL - SELECTED STATIONS - FOR APRIL, 1980 (FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS). (AMOUNTS OVER 1.0 MILLIMETRES ROUNDED TO NEAREST MM) | DATE | NEWCASTLE (MARYVILLE) | MUDGEE | BATHURST | COONABARABRAN | DUBBO | SYDNEY | LIVERPOOL | WOLLONGONG | BEGA | CANBERRA CITY | PERISHER VALLEY | WAGGA | COOTAMUNDRA | NARRANDERA | HAY | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | 2 | | | | | 1 | | 13 | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16 | | | | | | 0.4 | | 2 | | | | | | | 3 | | 17 | | | | | | | | | 2 | 0.2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 | | 18 | | | | | | | | | | 5 | 4 | | | | | | 19 | | | | | | | | | | | 0.4 | | | 4 | 3 | | 20 | | | | | 0.4 | | 0.2 | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 1 | | 21 | 6 | | | | 0.4 | 5 | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 | | 22 | 3 | | | | | 0.2 | | | | | | | | | | | 23 | 0.4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | 24 | | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.2 | | 0.8 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 30 | 23 | | 25 | | | | | | | | 0.2 | | | | | | | | | 26 | 6 | | | | | 4 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | 27 | 0.2 | | | | | 0.2 | | | 0.6 | | | | | | | | 28 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 29 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -8- === Page 29 of 29 15 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 14 1016 1020 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 13 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 12 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 11 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 10 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 9 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 8 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 992 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1028 1024 1020 1016 1012 1008 1004 1000 996 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 88 4/1/80 SIR: Psi-force can be blended into and accompany light rays, sound waves and laser rays! === Page 2 of 88 World "Power" Attack A10 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980 # Ranchers fight to save cattle as Colorado faces new storm By ANDREW ROSENTHAL DENVER (AP) -- Ranchers battled huge drifts in an effort to save freezing cattle from snow and prowling coyotes as the eastern third of Colorado remained isolated Tuesday by a chain of storms that knocked out power to about 3,000 households. "Baby calves are being dropped and dying right on the spot," said Holyoke rancher Joe Ortner. "Some babies are being separated from their mothers. Now the coyotes are starting to work on the calves. I chased some off last night." Parts of the snowbound eastern Colorado plains were completely isolated by the storms. Ranchers and farmers had to look to their neighbors for help in digging out and getting ready for what forecasters predicted would be another bad storm. "You can put on your overshoes and come help," Mrs. Frank Musgrave of Hoyt told a reporter by telephone. Ortner said some families had been trapped at home since last week. "The main thing for us is to get to the vets and get some medical supplies out here," he said, adding the snow was so deep that a four-wheel-drive tractor fitted with a 14-foot cutting blade could not get through. Meanwhile, a National Guard helicopter took off for a reconnaissance flight as the latest in the weeklong cycle of storms abated Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for Gov. Richard Lamm. "Our main worry at this point is the next storm," Sue O'Brien, Lamm's press secretary, said. "The weather service says it's going to hit us hard late tomorrow." Ms. O'Brien said state aid likely would be needed beyond the $7,000 Lamm granted last week to help deliver hay to Yuma County herds. But she said Lamm would not make such decisions until "we have a better idea of what kind of a problem we have." In Kansas, a state disaster emergency was declared in five northwestern counties where the 4 to 5 inches of fresh snow fell early Tuesday. The storm was blamed for holding down the turnout in the state's first presidential primary. The storm also produced up to 1 1/2 inches of rain just to the east of the heavy snow and Kansas officials were worried that it might cause flash flooding in eastern parts of the state. Roads were closed throughout the region by the storm, which followed another snowstorm by less than one day. Ground cover of more than 1 foot was reported in several areas, with drifts up to 20 feet. Disaster crews in Colorado, their helicopters grounded by 30 mph winds, set out in Sno-Cats at daybreak to help ranchers bring hay to starving herds in Yuma County, which was declared a disaster area late last week after the storms. The storms snapped utility poles by the hundreds and power lines were coated with up to 3 inches of ice. Officials of the three rural electric associations serving eastern Colorado said crews began work at dawn. Power would be restored in some areas by late afternoon, but others would be without electricity for up to three more days, officials said. Of primary concern were newborn calves and lambs in northeast Colorado. An estimated 4,000 cattle were stranded in Yuma County. "We've got huge drifts. I'm not sure how deep it is," said Vicky Grey of Ordway. "My husband is out trying to see if he can feed now." Some ranchers said they were able to save their herds by bringing them into feedlots or sheltering them in the lee of farm buildings. "Sometimes they take them right into the house," said extension agent Jane Esarey of Cheyenne Wells. "It's been three years since we had one this bad." "I'm afraid there's not much we can do," said Dave Lawton, operations officer for the Division of Disaster Emergency Services. "We have kind of ruled out helicopter feeding. That gets to be way too expensive and they just can't carry enough hay." The storms were blamed by the state patrol for at least four traffic deaths and may have contributed to the crash of a light plane last Thursday in which 10 persons died. === Page 3 of 88 power Attack" file together and shocked, and frightened, Miami Herald April 2 1980 # April Pool--Storm Was No Joke By MIKE CLARY Herald Staff Writer A violent April Fool's Day thunderstorm, flashing an arsenal of lightning bolts and winds up to 25 miles per hour, roared through South Florida Tuesday, downing power lines flooding streets and taking everyone by surprise. Even forecasters at the weather bureau were fooled. "April is a tricky month," said Bob Case, lead forecaster at the National Hurricane Center. "Time and time again we get burned by something developing right over us. It's like not seeing the forest for the trees." Just three hours before the storm turned the 1 p.m. skies over Miami into nighttime darkness, Case had predicted partly cloudy skies with only a 20 per cent chance of showers. Instead, in the 90 minutes ending at 3 p.m., old "Power" Attack-- the Hurricane Center offices in Coral Gables received 1.96 inches of rain; Miami International Airport was pelted with 2.09 inches; and the gauge in one forecaster's backyard near SW 87th Avenue and Miller Road (SW 56th Street) recorded 2.8 inches of rain. THE NORMAL rainfall total for all of April is only 3.06 inches. The cause of the sneak attack was what Case called "a mid-level disturbance" that rammed into a stationary front that had passed through South Florida late Monday and was considered spent. "The counter-clockwise disturbance recharged the front, and the thing just came screaming through," said Case. "It didn't show up on radar. I never saw it." Approaching from the west, the storm blew thick black clouds over Miami and sent a shower of lightning strikes to the ground below. The temperature dropped rapidly, from 83 between noon and 1 p.m. to 75 at 2:30. Photocells turned on street lights all over Dade. Winds downed power lines in both north and south sections of the county, disrupting service to thousands of Florida Power and Light Co. (FPL) customers, according to a company spokesman. Most power was restored within two hours. STATIC FILLED some phone lines in some older residential neighborhoods, where fuses on above-ground wires from poles to houses were blown out by power surges. Burglar alarms were set off by lightning. Radio station WTMI-FM was off the air for nearly two hours after lightning struck its downtown Miami transmitter. Broward County had rain -- half an inch through the day, the first substantial rainfall since March 1 -- but there was little if any electrical storming. Despite the storm, Case was sticking to his forecast for today: "partly cloudy, warm and muggy." And the chance of rain remains slight, he said. Highs in the mid-80s and lows near 70 are predicted. March statistics show that the 31 days just past offered a potpourri of weather extremes and contrasts: record cold, record heat, two days soggy with rain and 29 days of bone dry. April 5, 1980 # Boston hit by storms United Press International Skies cleared in Louisiana where floodwaters receded storms caused power blackouts in several Boston suburbs and hay was airlifted to cattle stranded by snowdrifts on the eastern Colorado plains. oregon Journal World "Power" Attack-- # Floods swamp South as snow hits midlands oregonian BY DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press April 15, 1980 Swollen rivers poured over their banks across the South Monday, routing thousands of people and snakes, while up to 6 inches of snow smothered spring flowers from Arkansas through the Midwest. At least nine people had been killed by Monday afternoon in storms which brought a weekend deluge to Dixie, record April cold to some towns in the Southwest, and the heaviest snowfalls ever to come so late in the year in Missouri. The abnormal snowstorm brought traffic to a halt on some interstate highways in the Midwest, also closing schools and knocking out power in scattered areas. Floods covered new ground in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, where relentlessly rising rivers breached levees and spilled over makeshift sandbag dikes. "Noah said it's got to stop sometime," said F.M. Perce, civil defense director in Louisiana's St. Tammany Parish, one of the several flooded areas. "We're still looking for the dove with the olive branch." About 1,000 people were evacuated in Jackson, Miss., where the Pearl River drove 17,000 people from their homes on Easter in 1979. The river was expected to crest in the city of 150,000 at about 38 feet -- 10 feet above flood stage -- sometime Tuesday. Exactly one year ago Sunday, the Pearl River reached 43.25 feet at Jackson, sending muddy water to the rooftops of hundreds of homes and businesses. Mississippi Gov. William Winter toured flooded areas by helicopter Monday and said he was "cautiously optimistic" that there would not be a repeat of the 1979 flood. "It looks like we're going to avert the kind of disaster we had last year." === Page 4 of 88 (Did this game on TV. Owens.) # Gift shots propel SuperSonics past Portland Oregonian April 3, 1980 SEATTLE -- Seattle scored 19 of its 25 fourth-quarter points at the foul line Wednesday night to hold off the rallying Portland Trail Blazers 120-110 and take a 1-0 lead in their National Basketball Association best-of-three playoff series. The second game of the miniseries will be played at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Coliseum. Give the Blazers "E" for effort. They had trailed the SuperSonics by as much as 19 points in the third quarter, they had been burned repeatedly by the transition game. They were ready to come unraveled. Give Gus Johnson credit for that. The Sonics' guard poured in 19 of his game-high 35 points in that period, hitting nine straight field goals in the process. He countered a fine performance by Ron Brewer, who regained his shooting touch, and topped a 29-point effort by Billy Ray Bates. Sonics guards were big in Portland Coach Jack Ramsay's game plan. He asked for pressure, he wanted them outside. More than that, though, he wanted to make sure the Blazers understood the importance of being earnest -- early. In Sunday's regular-season finale, Seattle erupted at the tip and Portland played catchup. So the Blazers borrowed the page, hit their first five shots on the way to a 20-14 lead. Seattle called time and returned to outscore the Blazers the rest of the way and take a 30-25 lead at the break. It would get closer, but Portland would never lead again. Bates, who entered the game late in the first period, ran off a string of seven points in the next period to pump life in the Blazers. But Seattle Coach Lenny Wilkens had a counter -- Fred Brown, who got 10 quick points in a 14-4 spurt. Brewer came to the rescue that time. But when Williams got it cranked up in the third quarter, Portland had no answers. Worse, it forgot what Ramsay said about giving the Sonics a running start. They outscored the Blazers 11-2 to start the second half, getting a big lift from Dennis Johnson and rookie James Bailey. Brewer and Bates were busy, but the rest of the Blazers were curiously quiet. When Williams wasn't at the foul line, cashing in on a defensive lapse, he was flitting through the lane or pumping up jumpers from the baseline. In one stretch, he hit nine straight points; in that stretch he had 11 of the Sonics 13 points. By then, however, the Sonics had dug themselves into a little trouble. Jack Sikma and Dennis Johnson were on the bench with foul problems, Bates and Brewer were still calling for the ball and shooting jumpers. They took turns, Portland pulled within four, 101-97. Kermit Washington's rebound deuce answered Tom LaGarde's free throws to keep it close for a moment then the Blazers grew impatient. John Johnson hit two foul throws, Dennis Johnson hit two more and Williams scored his final field goal of the game -- not his final points, however. All the Blazers had left in their arsenal was a Brewer jumper and Bates three-point bomb. Seattle the first back with interest -- as J.J. and Sikma hit free throws -- and its final two points, appropriately, from Williams at the line. Seattle hit only 3 of 18 field goal attempts in the fourth quarter but made 19 of 20 free throws. PORTLAND (110) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Natt | 38 | 7-13 | 1-2 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 | | Washington | 38 | 7-13 | 1-2 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 | | Owens | 25 | 3-7 | 3-3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | | R. Brewer | 29 | 10-23 | 4-7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 24 | | Twardzik | 17 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | | Gross | 20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | Bates | 33 | 11-18 | 6-8 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 29 | | J. Brewer | 23 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | | Paxson | 16 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | | Dunn | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Totals | 240 | 47-88 | 15-22 | 35 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 18 | 110 | SEATTLE (120) | | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Bailey | 19 | 1-5 | 4-7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | | J. Johnson | 32 | 7-9 | 7-8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 21 | | Sikma | 24 | 4-8 | 4-4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | | D. Johnson | 35 | 7-17 | 6-6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 20 | | Williams | 41 | 12-27 | 11-11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 35 | | Shelton | 5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | | Brown | 17 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | | LaGarde | 24 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | | Silas | 11 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | | Walker | 16 | 2-3 | 4-5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | | V. Johnson | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Totals | 240 | 40-88 | 40-45 | 50 | 25 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 120 | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Portland | 25 | 27 | 33 | 25 | 110 | | Seattle | 30 | 28 | 37 | 25 | 120 | Team rebounds -- Portland 7, Seattle 0 Turnovers Oregonian April 3, 1980 # Blazers? Bah! To the sports editor: A frenzied, demoniac coach; a team constantly crying injuries, fatigue and varied excuses for losing; a team enriched by what was a rape of San Diego's personnel; a curly-haired babyish guard who should be called for charging every time he creates a foul for the opposition by swiveling through the positioned opponents. These are the infamous Trail Blazers. And the majority of Portlanders think allegiance is mandatory. Bah, humbug. Jeanne M. Grimm 319 S.W. P St. (Ha ha ha!! Owens.) === Page 5 of 88 - World "Power" Attacks - # Plains stay snowy; Texas flood kills 2 THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980 By The Associated Press Wintry weather refused to release its grip on parts of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska on Wednesday as the third snowstorm in a week swept out of the Rockies, frustrating attempts to rescue stranded livestock. The latest storm forced postponement of a haylift to about 6,000 stranded cattle on the eastern plains of Colorado. Authorities said hundreds of families on farms and ranches remained without power some for the third day, as the latest storm dropped up to 8 inches of snow. Thunderstorms raked the southern Plains. Twisters were sighted in the Wichita Falls, Texas, area, but did no damage. However, more than 2 inches of rain fell in a 20-minute period, prompting flooding. A woman and her 3-month-old grandson were killed at Wichita Falls when a flash flood swept down a drainage ditch where they took refuge as tornado warning sirens sounded. Police said the dead woman, Oma Crawford, 48, of Wichita Falls had taken a safety measure and abandoned a car along with her grandson, Jerry Crawford, and four other people when the tornado siren sounded. A year ago, 46 persons died in a tornado that tore through Wichita Falls. In southeastern Louisiana, nearly 5 inches of rain added to flooding problems. Parochial schools in four parishes around New Orleans closed in the middle of the school day as the downpour threatened to cause flash flooding. And heavy rains deluged Mississippi again, triggering flash floods in southern counties and delaying the hoped-for fall of streams statewide. The haylift had been ordered by Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm for the hard-hit Yuma County in the northeast corner of the state. But snow and zero visibility grounded the National Guard helicopters that were to undertake the mission. National Guard Col. Richard Hatten, who was to direct the operation, flew over the area Tuesday and described the situation as "bad." Some cattle are already dead in the fields and others are down in deep snow and will die unless helped, he said. Four-wheel-drive tractors are scattered across the landscape, abandoned by ranchers who tried but failed to reach their herds with feed, Hatten said. Most roads in Yuma County are blocked, Hatten said, with some drifts reaching 15 feet. Accumulations of an additional 4 to 8 inches of snow were forecast for eastern Colorado by the National Weather Service. Columbian 3-31-80 # County homes lose electricity A car struck a power pole Sunday night, cutting electrical service to more than 800 homes in the area between Battle Ground and Yacolt. Clark County Public Utility District spokesman Mick Shutt said the crash occurred at 8:50 p.m. at Northeast 279th Street and 172nd Avenue. It left 540 homes without power for 2 hours 15 minutes, while another 270 homes were dark until about 1:30 a.m. today. THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980 3M B5 # Anchorage mayor seeks help after freak windstorm ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Anchorage Mayor George Sullivan has asked Gov. Jay Hammond to declare the city and its surroundings a disaster area following a storm with winds up to 120 mph which caused damage estimated at $20 million. The violent winds early Tuesday snapped trees and utility poles and flipped mobile homes and light planes. Shingles, fences, aluminum siding and other debris littered many roads and yards, and entire roofs were torn off some houses in the eastern section of Anchorage. No deaths were reported as a result of the storm which raked Anchorage and then moved north into the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Authorities reported numerous minor injuries, however. "It looks like a war zone," said Chugach Electric Association spokesman Larry Markley. He said more than half the 200,000 residents in the Anchorage Bowl were without power at times Tuesday, some for more than 24 hours. The National Weather Service said the gusts resulted from a weather front which forced violent winds across the Chugach Mountains, into the Anchorage Bowl, then north into the Mat-Su Valley. - World "Power" Attack - # Power loss kills Viking Oregonian 4/3/80 PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Viking Lander 2, one of two historic spacecraft that searched in vain for life on the surface of Mars, has finally ran out of power and turned itself off after working for 3 1/2 years, space agency officials said Wednesday. The billion-dollar mission, long since cut back to monitoring Martian weather and taking periodic pictures to chronicle changing conditions, was described by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a complete success. A twin of Lander 2 is still operating on the surface and "we expect it to go on into the decade of the 1980s," said Frank Bristow of the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. === Page 6 of 88 Oregon Journal April 5, 1980 # Myths surround Mount St. Helens Myths have evolved over the centuries from legends and stories concerning Mount St. Helens. Many of the stories came from Indians who once roamed what is now the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The main tales about the 9,671-foot peak are that the mountain was identified with gods, that evil spirits haunted Spirit Lake below the mountain and that strange apes occupied a nearby canyon. Long ago, a large natural rock bridge spanned the Columbia at a point just above Cascade Locks, according to tribal testimony. The natural arch was known as the Bridge of the Gods. Indians claimed that a wrinkled old witch who was known to them as Loowit or Lady of Fire lived in the center of the bridge and kept what they said was a sacred fire. Tribes from all points came to the bridge for the flame because it was said to be the only fire in the world. Because of the witch's faithfulness to the Indians, their great chief Tyee Sahale bestowed the Lady of Fire with eternal life. But the ugly witch cried as she did not want to live forever as an old, wrinkled woman. Because Sahale could not take away a gift once it was bestowed, he asked the witch to name one wish. She asked that she be young and beautiful, and this desire was granted. When word of the transformation spread, Loowit attracted several admirers. One, Young Wyeast, came from the Land of the Multnomahs to charm her. Another paramour, Klickitat, came down from the north to see her. Young Wyeast and Klickitat, both sons of Sahale, fell in love with Loowit. But she could not choose between them and they began to fight over her. Sahale became angry over the situation and crumbled the Bridge of the Gods, leaving the Columbia River to boil in rath at the point where the arch once spanned the waterway. Mount St. Helens, because of its perfect cone-shaped summit and dazzling white slopes, came to represent Loowit to the Indians. Mount Hood, which rises prideful above the valley floor, represented Young Wyeast. Mount Adams, more rough hewn, was representative of Klickitat. Indian superstition also caused fear of Spirit Lake among the tribes. They weaved stories of demons in and around the lake. One spirit, known as Seatco, forbade the Indians to hunt or fish in the region around Mount St. Helens because they had allowed white men to encroach on their lands. The Indians also told about seeing large, hairy apes in the region. These tales have since been perpetuated by reported sightings of Sasquatches. A group of miners in 1924 returned from working on the east side of Mount St. Helens with stories of being attacked by mysterious apemen at least 7 feet tall with long black hair. March 31, 1980 nia-Davis who set up four dust-sampling instruments near St. Helens. The volcano's activity Sunday was by and large the same -- though the ash may have been a bit thicker -- as the two previous days, when it sat camera-shy behind dense clouds. THE VIEW of St. Helens' peak finally cleared near midnight Saturday, and scientists aboard a Forest Service airplane saw not one but two craters cut into the ice at the peak of the 9,677-foot mountain. The new crater sat 10 yards east of the one first observed when the volcano erupted Thursday. Geologists could not tell if either crater actually cut into rock or just represented holes in the ice capping the volcano's 1,000-year-old original crater. The larger crater was about 150 yards across and the smaller was one-third that size. Scientists said they could easily coalesce as the mountain continues to dry itself out by boiling water in its cone. During the night, a small blue flame could be glimpsed inside the smaller crater. It apparently was produced by burning gases. During one of the thicker belches of ash early Sunday, scientists saw lightning bolts -- some nearly two miles long -- flashing near the ground in the middle of the ash clouds. THEY SPECULATED that the fine ash particles were rubbing together as they tumbled down the mountain's slopes, causing static electricity to discharge. The U.S. Forest Service advised residents of towns sprinkled with ash that the stuff could be mildly corrosive due to sulfuric acid compounds clinging to the ash particles. A few people in Stevenson reported mild irritation of their noses and throats. The ash also had the ability to eat almost imperceptively at cloth and metal, as well as irritate the skin. But the Forest Service said it posed no serious health hazard. The biggest problem for the Forest Service was the hoards of airplanes, all claiming to carry news photographers, clamoring to get near the mountain. At midafternoon, 70 small planes circled the mountain counter-clockwise in an oval 10 miles west of the mountain and 20 miles east. The planes were allowed 10 at a time to within five miles of the mountain. A FEW FLEW illegally to within several hundred feet of the summit. Note: (Spirit entities Lightning bolts Big Foot ...all 3 in my work and activity! Owen === Page 7 of 88 # Air controller may have sent jet toward thunderstorm Knight news service Seattle Times April 17, 1980 MIAMI -- An air-traffic controller at Miami International Airport was removed from his duties during a federal investigation into charges that he deliberately tried to divert a Braniff airliner into a thunderstorm last Thursday. The controller, whose name is being withheld until the Federal Aviation Administration investigation is completed next week, made "references" during the incident to Braniff's policy of refusing controllers free rides, an F.A.A. spokesman confirmed yesterday. The pilot of Braniff Flight 343, carrying 105 passengers from Dallas aboard a Boeing 727, refused the controller's directions, received a new route, and landed without further incident. Braniff filed a complaint with the F.A.A. "The controller (made) references that are quite inappropriate for an air-traffic controller to make," said Jack Barker, F.A.A. spokesman, "and he did make references to the jump seat." The cockpit jump seat is where controllers ride free. The F.A.A. would not give details about the weather conditions the pilot observed. Planes routinely fly safely through rain, but flying into the middle of a large thunderstorm would be hazardous. Sudden updrafts and downdrafts of more than 200 miles an hour can be found in a thunderstorm cell. Braniff is the only airline that does not give controllers free rides, which help controllers understand cockpit procedures. Some airline-industry officials have complained, however, that some controllers abuse the privilege by taking personal trips. A Braniff spokesman said the free rides were suspended because Braniff needed the seats to train new pilots. Florida psi-force still active?? Oregonian 4/19/1980 ## Aquifers tapped for energy depo RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Scientists say they're studying ways to turn the nation's underground rivers into huge energy storage batteries, a $1.1 million idea financed by the Department of Energy. It's similar to geothermal energy except that instead of tapping naturally hot underground water, "We're going to heat some up," says program manager Ken Fox of Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories. The idea, he said, is to pump hot or cold water into natural aquifers from which the heat or cold can later be retrieved for heating or cooling. It's a simple idea, Fox said, compared with other energy technologies. You take excess heat from a power plant or factory and pump it into the aquifer for storage. Later you pump it back up into some kind of heating system. Note: See my recent Xerox w/ message from SI 2 on storing power (energy). Oregonian April 18, 1980 ## Refinery line blows fire CHALMETTE, La. (AP) -- Fire broke out in a high-pressure natural gas line at the Tenneco Refinery south of New Orleans Thursday, sending a billowing torch 75 feet into the air. Firemen got the flames under control in about an hour, after pressure in the line was reduced. Company officials said there were no injuries. Extent of damages was not immediately known, nor were company officials able to determine the cause. The fire was in a natural gas line which feeds cracking units in which crude oil is converted into butane, propane and gasoline. LA. Oregonian April 18, 1980 (Both at same time) MINN. - World "Power" Attack - PIPELINE FIRE -- Associated Press Laserphoto Pipeline company workers Rick Partridge and Walter Mason managed to run to safety and extinguish their burning clothes after a spark triggered an explosion and fire while a pump was being installed in Roseville, Minn. One person was killed and three were injured. === Page 8 of 88 note: I PKd this game on TV. Owens. # Sonics cut off power to Blazers BY STEVE KELLEY April 7, 1980 of The Oregonian staff SEATTLE -- When they have to turn it on, the Seattle Sonics know where to find the switch. They found it early Sunday and turned off the Portland Trail Blazers' season with a 103-86 win. The Sonics' aggressive, switching defense forced the Blazers into a miserable shooting afternoon and was the deciding factor in the decisive third game of the National Basketball Association playoff miniseries. The Sonics begin a best-of-seven series at the Seattle Coliseum Tuesday against Milwaukee. It was their jump shooters who shot the Trail Blazers into the playoffs but Sunday it was the jump shooters who shot them out of it. Calvin Natt and Ron Brewer, who scored 27 points each Friday when the Blazers evened the series at one game each, shot a combined 6 of 30 Sunday against the double-teaming Seattle pressure. The Sonics have been together for three seasons, while some of the Blazers are barely on a first-name basis with each other. The Sonics exploited that very basic difference all afternoon. "The best way to handle them (the Sonics) is to use a lot of switches on defense to beat their double picks, but we can't handle that," Blazer forward Bob Gross said. "No one is confident of their switches because we haven't been together long enough. Indecision on defense will kill you." He who hesitates will get burned by the Sonics' horde of radar-sharp passers. The Seattle left hand is confident of what the right hand is doing. The Blazers' unfamiliar offense still stumbles too often on two left feet. Seattle had 26 assists in the game, the Blazers only 11. "You can go over before a game when you're supposed to switch and when you're not, but the situations don't always work the way you talked about them in the locker room," Blazer guard Jim Paxson said. "You need to be together," he added. "It has to be instinct. We have three or four guys who are new to the organization and that makes it tough to play good, switching defense. That's not an excuse, but there was a lot of indecision." The Sonics took control of this game with a 14-2 spurt early in the third quarter. Their fluid transition game, as graceful as anything you'll see at the Joffrey Ballet, ran the Blazers out of the Kingdome. John Johnson, who had another splendid game, had six points and Dennis Johnson had four in the streak that gave Seattle a 71-48 lead with 7:10 left in the third. "He (JJ) was the key in this game," said Blazer center Tom Owens, who snapped out of his slump and into an 18-point, 16-rebound game. "He's such a good passer and he gets the other players involved. We were able to hold him down in Portland (Friday). He wasn't that involved then, but he had a good game today." As good as JJ's offense was however, his defense was better. He rode Natt into a 3 of 16 shooting day. And when Natt would get by JJ, there was DJ, Gus Williams or some other Sonic parked on his shooting arm. "They were double-teaming me a lot," Natt said. "But my shot was bad. I had the shots and I could have shot better. He (JJ) and the rest of them really made it tough on me when I received the ball up high. If I made a move past my man, there was always someone else. This place (Kingdome) is so spacious that it's hard to shoot here, but they (Sonics) do all right, so that's no excuse. He (JJ) is a good defensive player, but I'm not saying he's the best." Owens, however, was saying that the Sonic team defense might be the best anywhere. "There's always someone else there to deflect the ball," Owens said. "They've been together so long and it shows. It seems every time you take a few dribbles and spin, there's someone to come by and flick the ball away and then they always have a guard releasing. Their transition game comes from their defense and they play very, very good defense." All season long, however, the Sonics had had a bad habit of relaxing with big leads. It's as if they know they can turn the switch back on when it gets tense. The switch was flicked off long enough Sunday to let the Blazers cut the lead to 82-73 with 8:26 left. But Seattle flicked the switch back on during a 12-2 spurt -- six points from Fred Brown -- that had Seattle in front 94-75 with 4:46 to go and looking ahead to Milwaukee. The Blazers shot .409 from the field and when you are playing the Sonics at the Kingdome, that kind of shooting won't do. BLAZER NOTES -- Blazer guard Billy Ray Bates was called for his fourth foul with 2:57 to go in the first half but still finished with a team-high 26 points. . . . The Blazers had 21 offensive rebounds, 10 by Owens. . . . Williams led the Sonics with 21 points and six assists. . . . All of the Blazers will undergo physicals Tuesday. . . . Wally Walker on the Sonic defense: "We didn't allow many open shots. Owens got a few off tips on the other side when we were giving help, other than that, they (Blazers) had to work for all their shots." . . . Sunday's Sonics were much more emotional than the ones who lost 105-95 Friday in Portland. "We were mad," JJ said. "The way we played in Portland, we let them off the hook. There's no damn way they should have won that game." . . . DJ had only 11 points, but he added six steals, six assists, seven rebounds and defensed Ron Brewer. === Page 9 of 88 Bart Wright Oregonian April 7, 1980 # Blazers' loss lifts burden SEATTLE -- The Portland Trail Blazers reacted to their 46th and final loss of the 1979-80 National Basketball Association season as if a great weight had finally been removed from their shoulders. Players greeted reporters graciously and talked with an ease that indicated they were well prepared for this inevitable conclusion. "There are no regrets," said Coach Jack Ramsay of the season that began with nine consecutive wins and ended with four losses in the last five games. "I told the players they had nothing to be ashamed of. It has been a season replete with all kinds of problems and inconsistencies and we overcame most of them to gain a playoff spot." No one could have expected the Blazers to outplay the defending champions on their home floor before 23,546 fans and a national television audience, least of all Seattle forward John Johnson. On Friday, Johnson expressed his thoughts about this Easter afternoon game after Portland whipped Seattle in Memorial Coliseum. At the time, Johnson requested reporters not to print the quote until after Sunday's game. "It's a 12:30 game on Sunday?" Johnson asked Friday. "Well, we're going to run them out so fast they'll be back in Portland in time for Easter services at the church." Johnson was off the mark slightly on that one. Portland came with an underdog's pocket full of desire. For a few brief moments in the final quarter, it appeared as if the Blazers might close with the same kind of rush that lifted them to their overtime win Friday. They had closed a 21-point gap to nine with more than eight minutes to play, but Seattle was in no mood for a repeat. The Sonics soon put Portland to rest, much to the delight of Sonics fans who read a quote in a local paper Saturday in which Billy Ray Bates was predicting a Blazer blowout. "We got it back to nine and had a chance, but they got the momentum back," Bates said. "Instead of us blowin' them out, they blew us out." In a nut shell, that's what happened Sunday, but the thoughts on most Blazer minds were not so much what happened against Seattle, or why they deserved the ignominious fate this season delivered, but rather what shape the team will take next year. Bob Gross, one of three survivors of the championship Portland team of three years ago, was asked Sunday what lies ahead for him with respect to his future Blazer employment. "I don't know," he said. "Limbo, I guess. I really don't know what is in store over the summer or next year." BOB GROSS === Page 10 of 88 4-3-80 Oreg. Journal # Anchorage storm damage hits $20 million ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- Damage has been placed at $20 million in Anchorage alone from a storm that packed hurricane-force winds. The Anchorage Daily News called the violent windstorm the worst disaster to hit the city since the great Alaska earthquake of 1964. Wind and rain battered east Anchorage Tuesday, hammering the city and nearby military bases with gusts clocked up to 130 mph. No deaths were attributed to the sudden, violent storm, but there were many minor injuries. Mayor George Sullivan sent a telegram to Gov. Jay S. Hammond asking the state to take all action necessary to provide disaster assistance. Col. Edward Newbury, head of the state Division of Emergency Services, said that if the extent of damage is beyond the ability of the state to handle, "it would be my recommendation that the governor seek a presidential disaster declaration." The storm struck with little warning in the early morning, demolishing mobile homes, uprooting trees, ripping roofs from homes, flipping light airplanes over and cutting electrical power through a broad swath of the city. The storm also battered Eagle River and Chugiak, towns 14 miles east of Anchorage. === Page 11 of 88 # 'Super' defense snuffs Portland Related story on page 27. April 7, 1980 By AL CROMBIE Columbian Sports Writer SEATTLE -- Through the regular season, the Portland Trail Blazers had the worst offense in the league, and that facet of the game sent them to the sidelines Sunday as they bowed to Seattle's SuperSonics 103-86. The win gave the SuperSonics a 2-1 victory in the playoff miniseries and sends them against the Milwaukee Bucks. The first of that seven-game series is slated Tuesday in the Seattle Coliseum. "You must execute on offense, and you must hit the open shots. We didn't do that. Seattle deserved to win," Blazer coach Jack Ramsay said. Both teams opened the action with an inept display of shooting, but the Sonics ran off to a 10-point lead at 19-9. The Blazers spent the rest of the afternoon in a futile game of catchup. Portland trailed by as few as three and as many as 16 in the second quarter. They fell behind by 23 in the third period, but closed that gap to nine in the final period in their last serious challenge. Sonic coach Lenny Wilkens and one-time Blazer John Johnson said it was Seattle's defense that did the trick, and Portland center Tom Owens gave the defending world champs a nod of congratulations in that department. "They play maybe the best team defense of anybody in the NBA," Owens said. "You can beat your man, but then there will be two or three others coming at you." "We made good switches and it made it difficult for them to get open. We put good pressure on Bates and Ron Brewer," Wilkens said. "I pressured Calvin Natt hard from the first, and he wasn't hitting his jumper. He's good, but he's still just a rookie," John Johnson said. The key objects of the Sonic attention blamed themselves more than their defenders. "I thought I got the open shots, but I just couldn't make the ball drop for me," Ron Brewer said. He was one-for-eight in the first half and finished the game at three-for-14 from the floor. The majority of his shots were short-range jumpers. Natt said he didn't feel any special pressure as he put up his 16 shots, except they wouldn't go in for me today, and I thought I had the opportunities." He hit only three of his 16 shots. Rookie Billy Ray Bates, an object of Sonic concern, shrugs off defense. He led all scorers for the game with 12-for-22 shooting, including a three-point bomb, but with Natt and Ron Brewer not contributing to the scoring, Bates' effort was in vain. "I thought we played hard, but not well," Ramsay said. "We did a good enough job on rebounding and defense to be in it, but our shooting was not the kind you need to win playoff games." "Seattle gambled and double-teamed on defense, but we have the things to counter that. We just couldn't hit the shots we had." Heading for summer vacation after the loss in the Kingdome, Ramsay looked back over the year. "I have no regrets on the season" Ramsay said. "I told the players we had some goals this season -- making the playoffs. We have had a season replete with all kinds of problems and inconsistencies. We overcame them and reached the playoffs. That is a major accomplishment," he said. Jim Brewer, the castoff forward who became a strong backup center, felt the # SuperSonics -- Continued from page 25 The Columbian April 7, 1980 series was decided in last Wednesday's opening game. "This was a lot closer than the scores," he said. "In the opener, when we came from way back and had their lead down to four -- if we could have held it there, pecked away, we could have won that game, and then our home game becomes the big one. Seattle may go around talking loud about being number one, but I think they know we were right there, could have won this series even with the problems we have." Bob Gross, who gave the Blazers a lift in their final rally, shrugged off the loss. "We have so many new people, we don't react automatically on offense or defense. Still, if we could have shot a little better, we would have been in this one all the way." "Calvin (Natt) had shots he normally makes, Ron (Brewer) seemed to be getting clear for those short little jumpers all the time -- but they wouldn't go in. Give each of those guys another four baskets -- that wouldn't be good shooting for them -- and you've got a 16-point swing. It's that simple." "Bill (Bates) is so new he doesn't really know the offense, so when he's in there we have to run everything for his shots. That really limits what we can do." Owens felt that weariness was a factor, although he had his strongest game of the playoffs with 18 points and a game-high 16 rebounds. "They played well, but I think playing down the stretch -- the last games with San Diego -- that made every game there tough, and I think that took a toll," he said. Kermit Washington summed it up in a word, "Confidence." "I don't think we really played with all out confidence in the playoffs or most of the season. When we won those nine straight at the start, we just knew we could go out and win, and we did -- with a lot less talent than we have now. But then we had people hurt, changed people, lost that confidence and some games, and never really got it back. I think that hurt our shooting, too," he said. *JUST BEFORE HALLOWEEN!! Note: Blazer demonstration post-mortem. Owen === Page 12 of 88 # Heavy clouds cover St. Helens on day of rest By LEVERETT RICHARDS April 7, 1980 of the Oregonian staff Mount St. Helens, after spewing ash, steam and fumes for 10 days, wrapped itself in heavy clouds and took a rest most of Easter Sunday. "There has been essentially no change in the level of activity," said Donal Mullineaux, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey geologists monitoring the mountain. "It seems to have established a pattern of tremors and minor emissions which remains unchanged," he said. "This does not indicate either a lull before the storm or a peak of activity to be followed by a decline," Mullineaux cautioned. "It may still go either way." Mullineaux said the peak vented some steam about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, but no emissions were sighted at the time. Later Sunday, however, a crew of scientists landed on the Plains of Abraham on the mountain's northeast side -- near the 5,000-foot level -- and found about three inches of ash on top of six inches of fresh snow that fell Saturday. Meanwhile, earthquakes continued to rock the mountain. Quakes measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale were reported at 10:59 p.m. Saturday, at 4.1 at 9:16 a.m. Sunday and 4.2 at 3:27 p.m. Sunday, officials said. Dave Johnston, a Geological Survey scientist in charge of monitoring the gas, ash and fumes emitted by Mount St. Helens said the mysterious blue flame detected flickering faintly from the bottom of the volcano crater March 29 seemed to always precede a burst of steam and ash by about 15 minutes, "which makes it hard to study." He said this is the first time this phenomenon and its timing has been reported in any volcano before an eruption, although the blue flame has been seen in streams of magma (lava) from erupting volcanoes in Hawaii. He said scientists would use a special "emission spectrometer" like those used by astronomers to analyze the flickering flame the next time it is visible at night. He said a U-2 "spy plane" operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Ames, Calif., would be used to follow fumes if a major eruption should occur, shooting vapor into the stratosphere above 35,000 feet. He said scientists were interested in measuring the volume of gases injected into the upper atmosphere by volcanoes as a first step in measuring the impact of any man-made pollutants which might reach the stratosphere. Johnston said that the volcano Tamboro on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa erupted in 1815, ejecting enough dust into the upper atmosphere to reduce the sunlight reaching the earth by 60 percent. The result in 1816, he said, was "the year of no summer." He said there is no indication that St. Helens could rival Tamboro. The Washington National Guard, which was called out Friday night to assist with roadblocks and crowd control in areas near the mountain, remained on the scene Sunday and would remain "as long as they are needed," officials said. === Page 13 of 88 - World "Power" Attack 2 THE COLUMBIAN Monday, April 7, 1980 Vancouver, Wash. Note: This makes three overturned oil rigs in as many weeks! Another platform dips North Sea oilfield hotel platform Henrik Ibsen tilts at a dangerous angle in Stavanger, Norway, harbor Sunday. The 57 persons aboard the platform were rescued after it began to collapse. The Henrik Ibsen was being prepared to replace the Alexander Kielland platform which capsized in the North Sea on March 27, killing 123 men. Cause of the Ibsen collapse was not immediately explained. (AP photo) Note: The Force is using any and all means to attack "Power" sources... including a volcano reaching out to attack hydroelectric power plants! from deeper within the mountain greater ash content, longer eruptions, style of ejection (continuous and towering as opposed to the present inconsistent and moderate plumes) and the material emitted. Meanwhile, Pacific Power & Light Co. officials said that Swift Dam directly south of the volcano was unharmed after being hit on the north and south shores by earthquakes registering 4.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale. The worst earthquake recorded thus far inside the volcano registered 4.8. Leonard Bacon, a PP&L spokesman, said the quakes occurred early Tuesday, but that the utility was not officially notified of them until Wednesday afternoon. An inspection of the dam revealed no damage, he said. Swift and Yale reservoirs below it have been lowered in anticipation of mud flows which frequently occur in connection with volcanic activity. In other developments, 60 Washington National Guardsmen were called out to assist with roadblocks and crowd control in areas near the mountain. Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray declared a state of emergency Thursday in order to provide such assistance to Skamania and Cowlitz counties. Flocks of tourists and sightseers also have forced authorities to move the roadblock on Washington 504 from milepost 34 to milepost 15. The Washington State Patrol also established four vantage points for those wishing to watch the eruptions without interfering with traffic. The sites are: Stan Hedwell Park at the southbound Interstate 5 exit No. 76; Old U.S. 99, Jackson Highway, south of Mary's Corner at Exit 63; the State Patrol weigh station on I-5 northbound, 15 miles from the Oregon border; and the Washington state Department of Transportation stockpile site on Highway 503 south of the hamlet of Amboy. MT ST HELENS VOLCANO 4/5/80 === Page 14 of 88 Phone 773-94778 Monday Eve April 7-80 ALFONSO DOMEZ Master Decorator of Fine Homes, Offices 22414 COLONY SAINT CLAIR SHORES, MICH. 48080 Jeffrey Dear Ted Owens, you ask me to let you know of any specific changes when I got my disc. Well I am very happy to say my wife Mary Domez is out of hospital & its more than amazing she was so near death couldn't possibly be any closer to death, & now being alive. Easter morning she was able to attend church its just a joyable miracle which I'll never forget. she was so near death the hospital Dr. started to use an electric charger to stimulate her heart, but Mary was awake, & told them not to use stimulator as she was ready to die, & didn't mind dying. Of course by that time you probably had her picture on the wall, & you can see by this writing, how she has improved. We are all amazed, we had the entire church congregation praying for, & that seemed to do no good in fact she got worse. Today April 7th she attended church & was so happy to drive her car. Praise God & the others who ever they are. you may use this letter as a testimonial if you so wish. Mr Owens I sent for a copy of your Physic Powers to San Francisco & sent the seven dollars Money Order, the money order stub I still have as proof, that was nearly a month ago. & I have not received any answer. So again that doesn't look good. what do you think about that? Of course we all thank you & whoever the others may be. Our very best wishes for your success I will try & help you as much as I can because as I said before I am sure you have a great great thing going. Maybe you can prod those people in San Francisco, to wake up & find out why I haven't received my copy. Alfonso Domez THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR MASTER WORKMANSHIP === Page 15 of 88 4-8-80 April 7, 1980 Mr. D. Scott Rogo 18132 Schoenborn St. Northridge, California 91324 Dear Scott: Well, as you can see by the enclosed newsclips, I have successfully done in the Portland Trailblazers, as I told you I would when you were visiting here some time ago getting material for your book on my life. (Incidentally, the completed manuscript that you sent me is excellent not to mention brilliant...what's the current action on it?) As you point out in your and Dr. Mishlove's book, I have been able to successfully demonstrate empirically the application of psi force to pro basketball and pro football games...thoroughly documented, as is this Blazer demonstration since Halloween...ahead of the scientific community. That is, I have trod where scientists fear to tread...and brought it off in a manner to satisfy scientists with proper documentation and procedure. You and Dr. Mishlove have been able to "observe" me, as it were, through newsclips and proper documentation...while I controlled the Portland Trailblazers to an ignominious end in their season. (Bearing in mind that I had nothing against the team itself; but due to the double-cross of Bosley and Boule it was necessary to select a symbol for the city that humiliated me, and teach it some manners (we would hope that they have been taught something.) Of course I will not repeat any further with the Trailblazers...unless I am further double-crossed, insulted, or challenged in some way by the Portland community.) In this Trailblazer file you will easily recognize my "pattern"...crazy, weird happenings a la the Trailblazers...to the extent that they actually contacted a psychiatrist to try and figure out what was wrong with the team; and later on a psychologist to help one of the team. I struck the team, during their games, over either radio or TV with psi force...threw them off their game, made them miss shots they should have made, made them commit errors, and so on. Just as I have done in the past with other teams elsewhere (Baltimore Bullets, Virginia Squires, Philadelphia 76'rs, Phila. Eagles, L.A. Rams, Baltimore Colts, etc., all thoroughly documented and "empirically demonstrated.") I am glad that you were able to actually sit in my study at home...and witness my control of the Trailblazers during your visit, as described in your and Dr. Mishlove's book, which will be published next winter. Best wishes to you and yours... Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) * By Prentice Hall Ted is / was informed === Page 16 of 88 - World "Power" Attack - # Severe Storm Cuts Power, Snarls Dade Traffic ## Homestead Pummeled by Golf-Ball-Sized Hail Miami Herald April 8, 1980 By JOHN ARNOLD Herald Staff Writer Big, slow-moving rain clouds over South Florida Monday poured more than three inches of rain over parts of Dade County, shorting out powerlines, stalling cars and snarling traffic. Hail the size of golf balls fell during a severe thunderstorm that buffeted Homestead with high winds in the early evening. Lightning strikes set fire to utility poles and a vacant house, Homestead police said. In Hialeah, Mayor Dale Bennett declared a citywide emergency Monday afternoon after inspecting flooded intersections where traffic signals had failed and cars sat stalled in hubcap-deep water. It was the first time in the city's history the mayor had declared a weather emergency in anything but a hurricane, said Russ Marchner, city communications director. During Hialeah's state of emergency, motorists were urged to stay off the streets. "It just means that if you don't have to go out, then don't go out," said Hialeah spokeswoman Carmen Gicobbe. HIALEAH CITY officials said six to eight inches of water was surging around apartments at 29th Street and Okeechobee Road. Several vehicles had stalled in water at that intersection. At Palm Avenue and 30th Street, water in the intersection was half a foot deep. The National Hurricane Center at Miami International Airport said three inches of rain had fallen in the Miami Springs area by mid-afternoon. The rain gauge at Miami International recorded 2.42 inches of rain during the 24 hours ending at 7 p.m. Rainfall figures for other parts of the county will not be available until today. Along with rain and high winds, hailstones pummeled the county from North Miami to Homestead, weather forecasters said. Hail in some sections of North Dade measured an inch in diameter. As rain continued to pour through the night, North Miami Beach police advised officers to "find a high piece of ground and sit on it." THE RAIN caused power outages in all areas of the county. A Florida Power and Light Co. spokesman said scores of small, scattered outages occurred throughout Dade all day because of wind, rain and lightning. The spokesman said most outages averaged only a few minutes, but one Miami Shores neighborhood around NE 105th Street was without power for more than four hours because of a lightning stroke to powerlines. Scattered outages occurred in Dade shortly after 7:36 p.m. due to a breakdown in a water pump at FPL's Turkey Point nuclear power plant. One of the reactors was shut down temporarily and other generators took up the load minutes later. The breakdown had nothing to do with "the radioactive part of the system" and was expected to be repaired early today, FPL spokesman Dave Wolverton said. The plant is tied into a regional power network and power was disrupted as far away as Jacksonville, where 53,000 users were without electricity for up to an hour. Weather forecasters had predicted only a 30 per cent chance of rain for Monday, but boosted their estimate of the probability of rain to 70 per cent about six hours before raindrops started to fall. The rain was expected to continue falling through Monday night with a 50 per cent chance of showers today. Today's high may be near 80, he said; the low temperature around 70. Herald Staff Writer Jeffrey Weiss also contributed to this report. World Power Attack Colombian 4-11-80 ### Shrimper towed to port NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) -- A shrimp boat, adrift for three days in the Pacific, was towed to safety at Yaquina Bay Thursday by the U.S. Coast Guard. The tow had been delayed by rough weather. The disabled boat out of Tampa, Fla., had been drifting for three days without power. 4-15-80 Seattle Times ### Cable fire blacks out part of U.S. capital WASHINGTON -- (UPI) -- A fire yesterday morning in an electric cable above an unfinished subway station blacked out a television and radio station and left several thousand Northwest Washington residents without power for hours. A spokeswoman for the Potomac Electric & Power Co. said the fire knocked three 13,000-volt cables out of service. She said about 1,000 electric meters, including those serving television station WTTG, radio station WASH-FM and several apartment buildings and businesses, were out. Several radio and TV stations in the area were able to continue broadcasting by using emergency generators. === Page 17 of 88 # Tornadoes, high wind rip through Midwest, South World "Power" Attack By United Press International Tornadoes and high wind raged from the Gulf Coast to Wisconsin, killing at least two persons, injuring dozens and causing millions of dollars in property damage. The National Weather Service said at least 34 tornadoes in the eastward-moving storm system have touched down since about noon Monday. Severe weather warnings were in effect from Arkansas to Illinois. One man was killed and four persons were injured by twisters in central Texas. A tornado descended the Mississippi town of Corinth early Tuesday. Alcorn County Civil Defense Director Edwin Byrd said the damage was confined to the southeastern section of the city where seven businesses -- including a motel and automobile dealership -- received extensive roof and glass damage. One house and a barn were destroyed and seven homes received roof damage. An Illinois Central Gulf Railroad boxcar was toppled from the tracks and trees and power lines were downed. Electricity was off in the area for several hours. Byrd said the tornado, traveling on and easterly direction from the southwest, touched down several hours after twisters were reported in Tunica County, Miss. and Memphis, Tenn. In Missouri, thunderstorms and a handful of tornadoes caused several injuries and damaged or destroyed at least 50 homes in a fashionable northern subdivision of St. Louis. No deaths were reported in the tornado that hit the Florissant area in north St. Louis County shortly before midnight, police said, and most of the injuries were believed to be cuts and bruises from flying glass and furniture. Other tornadoes were reported in at least three other counties in Missouri. And another twister damaged about 15 houses in Godfrey, Ill., during the night of turbulent weather. Police Chief Gene Collier of Round Rock, Texas, said Majin Ortega, 51, was killed by a twister that flattened a two-story home he was visiting. Another man in the house escaped with a minor injury. Collier said he watched the tornado take the roof from a Round Rock plant nursery, auto supply building and a feed store, and then damage the house where Ortega was killed. Travis County Sheriff Raymond Frank said he estimated damage would be high even though the tornado had hit in a rural area. "I would think we're looking at $1 million plus in damage, but it's hard to assess it all," Frank said. Another twister cut a swath 2 to 3 miles long and 1 1/2 miles wide through Lund, Texas, injuring three persons. The storm moved into central Illinois where a tornado caused several injuries and property damage. A rash of tornadoes swept through northeastern Oklahoma and winds in excess of 60 mph buffeted other parts of the state, leaving at least 10 persons injured and millions of dollars in property damage. Authorities said a 9-year-old boy drowned when gusty winds overturned his family's boat on Foss Lake. Herold Chanley and his wife were watching television when the storm struck. Mrs. Chanley said the first indication of severe weather came when their television antenna snapped off. She said she looked out the window and saw the path of the funnel approaching the house. "It hit and then it was gone, just like that," Mrs. Chanley said. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms moved across Arkansas, causing widespread reports of injuries and property damage. Dozens of trees were uprooted and power lines downed. Hail up to 4 inches in diameter also was reported. In Wisconsin, a series of tornadoes destroyed mobile homes, uprooted trees and snapped power lines. Near Beaver Dam, at least 23 persons were hurt when a tornado destroyed a dozen mobile homes. Arvid Mielke watched as the twister flattened one of the mobile homes he owns. "The whole home is gone entirely," he said. "It picked it up and took it away. I saw the chassis about 2,000 feet away. It just demolished it. There are just the cement blocks laying there." === Page 18 of 88 # Crippling drought hits Southern Australia SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) -- Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month. Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Outback areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon. Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned. 4/7/80 ## news scope April 9, 1980 Prime Minister of Australia Dear Sir: I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services. For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented. You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man). A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work. If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report from the Readers." I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true. === Page 19 of 88 Crippling drought hits southern Australia SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) - Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month. Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Outback areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon. Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned. 4/7/80 news scope 38 April 9, 1980 Prime Minister of Australia Dear Sir: I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services. For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented. You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man). A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work. If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report From The Readers." I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true. === Page 20 of 88 10 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980 Associated Press Laserphoto TWISTER'S PATH -- Woman hunts through debris of Charles Mate home in Florissant, Mo., where a tornado heavily damaged or destroyed more than 100 houses. Florissant twister was one of a "family of storms" that whipped several states. More tornadoes are likely, National Weather Service said. Oregonian April 9, 1980 - World "Power" Attacks - # Tornadoes kill 4 in 13-state region By DAVID L. LANGFORD By The Associated Press Dozens of tornadoes born in a "family of twisters" splintered scores of homes and businesses, killed four people and injured about 100 others in a two-day assault on 13 states. The National Weather Service said that from noon Monday to Tuesday night, 14 tornadoes had hit Arkansas, six had touched down in Wisconsin, four in Missouri, three in Oklahoma, three in Michigan, three in Texas, two in Illinois, two in Mississippi, two in Indiana, one in Kansas and one in Tennessee. Twisters were also reported in Kentucky and Ohio. The National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City warned that more were likely. Tornado watches were posted Tuesday afternoon for parts of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The National Weather Service said the tornadoes and thunderstorms that lingered in the region were "part of a family of storms." While hail the size of baseballs pelted parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas, the twisters tore roofs off houses, schools and churches, ripped down power lines, flattened barns and wrecked airplanes parked at airports, leaving damage in the millions of dollars. Two people died when a tornado hit a trailer park in Kentucky. A man in central Texas died when a building collapsed on him and a boy in Oklahoma drowned when a boat capsized. In the St. Louis suburb of Florissant, where 96 homes were damaged and five were flattened in a tornado late Monday, housewife Janet Eisele told what it was like. "We heard the noise," she said. "My husband and I each reached for a kid to head for the basement, but the pressure was so strong we just couldn't move." The house was damaged, but the family was not hurt. "I didn't hear a thing," said Claude Lunbeck, who had gone to bed minutes before the storm roared through. "It was over in the wink of an eye. I looked up and the roof was gone." In southeastern Kentucky, near Whitley City, a tornado touched down at a trailer park, killing two persons and injuring at least seven. The victims were Vickie Stephens and Leslie Hatfield, according to state police dispatcher Steve House at London. Eight trailers were destroyed and a house was knocked off its foundations. Forty-two persons were injured in Arkansas, including 20 hurt early Tuesday when a twister hit West Memphis, just across the Mississippi River from its sister city in Tennessee. At least $1 million in damage was reported at the West Memphis Municipal airport where a dozen private airplanes were destroyed and at least 10 other planes were damaged. Airport facilities also were hard hit, officials said. In the south Mississippi community of West Lincoln, near Brookhaven, a twister about 6 a.m. ripped the roof off an elementary school, destroyed a school van and damaged several cars. About 16,000 electric utility customers in Arkansas were without power Tuesday after the winds toppled huge steel transmission towers in several areas. Reginald Strunk, his daughter Michelle and his niece Ann were hospitalized after their mobile home near Witcherville, Ark., was lifted 75 feet into the air and dumped onto a pickup truck. In central Texas, one man was killed, another was injured, 15 houses were destroyed and 12 were damaged as tornadoes struck Round Rock, Lund and Elgin. Mijim Ortega, 52, died in his home near Austin. "The building collapsed on him," said Police Lt. Wesley Wolff. In Oklahoma, a 9-year-old boy drowned when a boat on Foss Lake in the west central part of the state capsized in high winds. === Page 21 of 88 Mr. Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver . WASH . 98665 U.S.A. April 9th 1980 Dear Sir, You have been given the mind of "future man" to help the human race if possible. The S.I. have made you their only link with the human race so that the S.I. can step in and help the human race with your human choice and permission. Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in Australia? If the size of Australia is too big to contemplate please consider relieving the drought for say a tenth of the area for a start. How about starting on the northern tablelands and north coast of the state of New South Wales? Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in these areas? Thank You. Do you want me to send you any newspaper articles to confirm the drought and the breaking of the drought if you agree to consider bringing this relief? Best wishes Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. $10 enclosed with thanks BK === Page 22 of 88 Crippling drought hits southern Australia SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) -- Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month. Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Outback areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon. Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned. news scope April 9, 1980 Prime Minister of Australia Dear Sir: I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services. For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented. You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man). A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work. If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report From The Readers." I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true. === Page 23 of 88 April 10, 1980. # Cattlemen hard-hit by Australian drought By PETER O'LOUGHLIN SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Farmers and ranchers around Australia are anxiously scanning the skies for signs of rain that would break what threatens to be the continent's worst drought since the turn of the century. "This drought has all the portents of being a widespread disaster," said Jack Hallam, Minister for Agriculture for the state of New South Wales in southeastern Australia. The state, the nation's most populous and economically important, is also the worst hit by the dry spell. "It's different from other droughts because it covers such huge areas," Hallam said Wednesday after inspecting hard-hit areas. "Even if rain falls soon, the situation is critical. But if we don't get rain, it will be a national disaster," he said. Much of Australia's prime agricultural land has been without substantial rainfall for nine months. In some cases, it has been three years since enough rain fell to fill the reservoirs. "The federal and state governments must realize that the drought conditions are creating a state of emergency in rural Australia," said Maurice Binstead, president of the Cattlemen's Union. "National disaster relief provisions must be reassessed and the buck-passing from state and commonwealth governments must cease," said Binstead. Several state governments have declared disaster areas in their jurisdictions, although responsibility for relief efforts is disputed. Authorities already have declared a drought over an area of 656,000 square miles, almost the size of Western Europe. === Page 24 of 88 # Volcano Sends Lightning Daggers Down Slope Miami Herald March 31, 1980 BY PATRICK MALONE Herald Staff Writer VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Mount St. Helens tossed away its veil of rain clouds Sunday and put on a fuming spectacle for a swarm of small airplanes circling the volcano. Jets of steam sent five-foot blocks of ice hurtling into the crisp blue sky above the volcano. Bursts of steam and ash lasting three and four minutes billowed up to a mile above the mountain and set up a gray haze drifting southeast into neighboring Oregon. At night, the ash touched off long daggers of yellow lightning rolling down St. Helens' slopes. The volcano continued to shake with small earthquakes. Scientists could find no changes in St. Helens' behavior to give any clue as to how long its current modest eruptions might last. As long as the molten rock fueling the ash and steam ejections remain buried deep within the volcano, the belches will be harmless. The volcano's semi-hourly show was largely for the benefit of people who could afford to spend $50 to $275 an hour for an airborne view aboard a helicopter or airplane. That was mostly scientists and news photographers. Sightseers stuck on the ground were not so fortunate. Low-lying cotton-puff bands of cumulus clouds afforded only occasional glimpses of the symmetrical slopes that on a clear day dominate the northern horizon of Portland, 50 miles to the south. Finally, just before dusk, the clouds cleared and the mountain rewarded patient observers with a 10-minute eruption of thick ash. Hundreds of cars stopped along Interstate 5 west of the mountain, hoping for a look at a phenomenon no American in the lower 48 states has seen since 1917. Ash from St. Helens Sunday settled in Glenda Kallas' eyes, 35 miles away, and on Jerry Creek's car, 60 miles to the south. Creek, a Forest Service ranger at Zig Zag, a village near Oregon's tallest peak, Mount Hood, said he planned to collect the ash from his car and put it in a vial. "I just want to show it to my two-year-old son when he gets older." Turn to Page 16A Col. 1 --- # "World Power" Attack # Trojan to close for maintenance, refueling work April 1, 1980 BY ED MOSEY of the Oregonian staff Portland General Electric Co. shut down the Trojan Nuclear Plant at 5:22 p.m. Friday for refueling and extensive maintenance. PGE, the plant's operator, had announced earlier that Trojan would be out of service for at least 10 weeks. The company has been gradually winding down production of electricity at the plant for the last several weeks. Skip Orser, Trojan maintenance manager, said refueling would take about six weeks and maintenance would continue for four more weeks after that. The company usually replaces one-third of the 193 fuel assemblies in the reactor core and places the used units in the spent fuel pool at the plant. This time, however, PGE and specialists from Westinghouse Corp., designer of the reactor system, will pull all fuel assemblies from the reactor vessel so its interior can be inspected. When this is done, the usable assemblies will be returned to the reactor from the spent fuel pool, along with 64 fresh assemblies to replace the used ones. The reactor core contains 95 tons of enriched uranium, divided into three segments. One segment is in the center of the reactor vessel, and the other two surround it. The center segment burns up faster than the fuel in the outside sections and must be replaced. PGE engineers said one of the outside fuel assembly segments would be moved to the center and replaced by fresh fuel. PGE chose this time to refuel the plant because consumption of electricity declines when spring weather turns warm. PGE will call for power it traded to other utilities earlier in order to replace Trojan generation. The company also will buy power from other utilities as needed, spokesmen said. PGE engineers, at the direction of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will remove tubes from Trojan's steam generator to determine what caused them to leak radioactive water from the reactor into the steam system. The tubes were sealed off last year to stop the leakage. Orser said other inspections would be conducted as required by the regulatory commission. In addition, PGE will conduct preventive maintenance on the steam turbine, dismantling it to inspect blades and bearings. The cost of the 64 new fuel assemblies was $27 million, PGE said. An oil-fired plant would burn $500 million worth of petroleum to produce the energy contained in the nuclear fuel, the company said. === Page 25 of 88 - Would "Power" Attack - Oregonian April 13, 1980 # Official links power failure to sabotage SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Power was restored and life returned to normal across this island of 3 million people Saturday after a blackout that lasted through the night. Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo said he suspected sabotage. A radio station reported a previously unknown organization, associating itself with an electrical workers' strike in 1978, claimed responsibility for the power failure and the kidnapping of a plant engineer who was released unharmed. A later call said the group had kidnapped the engineer but was not responsible for the blackout. Executive Director Alberto Bruno Vega and other officials of the Puerto Rico Power Authority said the cause of the blackout that began at 8:30 p.m. Friday had not been determined and it was not known whether sabotage had been involved. Bruno Vega said full service was restored at 2:50 p.m. Saturday. He said there was nothing to tie the blackout to current negotiations with union leaders on a new contract. But Romero, governor of this U.S. commonwealth, told reporters, "I assume it was sabotage" and said police were investigating a possible terrorist link. He said he suspected present or former union members might be behind the blackout. Romero declared a state of emergency, placing the island's 7,000-member police force on alert shortly after the lights went out. The Puerto Rico National Guard also put its 2,000-member force on standby alert. The San Juan Star newspaper quoted power authority sources as saying an explosion in a San Juan power plant may have triggered the outage. The Spanish-language radio station WKAQ quoted a male anonymous caller as saying that "Grupo Estrella," named for an electrical worker who was killed during a power workers' strike in 1978, was responsible for the blackout and the kidnapping of a power authority chief engineer about three hours before the outage. The engineer, Manuel Vazquez Santiago, was released later in a field where the worker was killed in 1978. His hair was cut, his eyebrows shaved and a purple-colored star was painted on his forehead, but he was otherwise unharmed. Bruno Vega said Vazquez Santiago, chief engineer at the authority's Palo Seco plant on the outskirts of San Juan, was kidnapped between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Friday. WKAQ quoted the caller as saying: "We did no physical harm to him. We cut his hair and shaved his eyebrows to demonstrate that we had him in our power. We could have harmed him if we had wanted to." According to WKAQ, the anonymous caller accused the power authority of "violating the collective bargaining agreement" but did not specify how. The caller added, the station said, that the blackout and the kidnapping of Vazquez Santiago were in honor of Saul Rodriguez Estrella, who police claim was killed while trying to sabotage a transmission tower in the 1978 strike. The union denied the police claim at the time. But several hours later, an anonymous telephone caller, in the name of the same group, told the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Dia that the group was responsible for the kidnapping but not for the blackout. Note: The Force is using any and all means to attack "power"... weather, human error, cars, animals, etc. Owens 4/14/80 (this gen. area.) ## Area blacked out A car ran into a power pole on Southwest Cedar Hills Boulevard in Beaverton Sunday night, knocking out a Portland General Electric Co. feeder line. Utility officials said between 1,000 and 1,500 homes were without power for a short period. Oregonian April 15, 1980 ## Critter cuts juice EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Electricity was being restored to the sprawling Michigan State University campus early Monday after a raccoon shorted out some power lines and left about 26,000 students in the dark, campus police said. Oregonian === Page 26 of 88 Note: Of course it must be assumed that power was knocked out in other places below! Owens A.M. FINAL ● ● Monday, April 14, 1980 15¢ - World "Power" Attack - Orleans flood Oregon Journal April 14, 1980 By United Press International Poisonous snakes wriggled through river-like New Orleans streets in the aftermath of a weekend of torrential rains and tornadoes were blamed in the deaths of eight persons in the South. Winter-like conditions hit the nation's midsection. Parts of the Midwest woke up Monday to a surprise spring snow storm. As much as 4 inches of slushy snow fell in parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The National Weather Service predicted wet snow mixed with sleet and rain for Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois and travelers advisories were posted for the areas. Winter wouldn't release its grip on Arkansas and Oklahoma, either, where temperatures plunged to the upper 20s and lower 30s. Oklahoma City's 27-degree reading early Monday broke a 23-year record. In Louisiana, hundreds prepared to flee their homes Monday in what officials labeled the state's worst flooding in two years. Floodwaters were receding in parts of metropolitan New Orleans, but residents found it impossible to navigate their way to work through parts of the city because of high water. Sandbagging operations continued in low-lying subdivisions near the Pearl River, which was expected to crest at near 20-feet - the same level reached two weeks ago, when hundreds of residents evacuated their homes. The area last week was declared a federal disaster area from the April 2 floods. At least two persons drowned in separate boating accidents in New Orleans floodwaters Sunday and three others died in traffic accidents caused by the weather, authorities said. Extensive flooding in Mobile, Ala., was blamed for at least one death, a youngster who was swept into a drainage ditch by the raging waters. In Georgia, heavy thunderstorms, which touched off high wind and scattered tornadoes during the weekend, posed the threat of serious flooding Monday and Tuesday. was in effect for Mobile and Baldwin counties and all of north and west central Alabama. The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding along the Oostanaula River in Georgia. The river was expected to reach 22 feet early at Resaca today and crest between 25 and 26 feet. Georgia was battered by heavy rains all weekend and forecasters warned of still more storms brewing in the west-central part of the state. In Mississippi, tornadoes touched down in two Gulf Coast counties, causing widespread property damage but no injuries. "Our shirt-sleeve estimate of the damage is around $10 million," a Harrison County civil defense spokesman said. Winds clocked at 102 mph raked the Mississippi Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $10 million in property damage. Two persons died in flood-related accidents and at least four others were injured. Tornadoes also caused extensive damage in South Carolina and Alabama. New Orleans police said they had no reports of anyone being bitten by one of the poisonous snakes. Some minor looting was reported in the uptown area, where as much as 9 inches of rain fell. People paddled small canoes through the streets, covered by as much as 10 feet of water, as ducks near the Audubon Park zoo basked in the waters. A few blocks away, two groups of college students paddled their canoes with brooms. "It's the annual New Orleans flood festival," Chris Riviere, one of the students, said. Electrical power was knocked out in Hahnville, La., and deputies were planning to evacuate about 600 persons from the areas of Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands. "Let me tell you, this is a real emergency," one official said. "The real emergency is the flooding - not river flooding - but rain flooding. The entire parish is being flooded in low-lying areas." Tornadoes raged through south and central Alabama, injuring more than a dozen people, and damaging houses and trees. Mobile authorities were also searching for an unidentified man and woman who had last been seen motorcycling and were feared drowned by flood waters. Numerous city streets were flooded throughout the state and a flood watch - World "Power" Attack - Ø 4 === Page 27 of 88 # Hundreds flee rampaging New Orleans flood Oregon Journal April 14, 1980 By United Press International Poisonous snakes wriggled through river-like New Orleans streets in the aftermath of a weekend of torrential rains and tornadoes were blamed in the deaths of eight persons in the South. Winter-like conditions hit the nation's midsection. Parts of the Midwest woke up Monday to a surprise spring snow storm. As much as 4 inches of slushy snow fell in parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The National Weather Service predicted wet snow mixed with sleet and rain for Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois and travelers advisories were posted for the areas. Winter wouldn't release its grip on Arkansas and Oklahoma, either, where temperatures plunged to the upper 20s and lower 30s. Oklahoma City's 27-degree reading early Monday broke a 23-year record. In Louisiana, hundreds prepared to flee their homes Monday in what officials labeled the state's worst flooding in two years. Floodwaters were receding in parts of metropolitan New Orleans, but residents found it impossible to navigate their way to work through parts of the city because of high water. Sandbagging operations continued in low-lying subdivisions near the Pearl River, which was expected to crest at near 20-feet -- the same level reached two weeks ago, when hundreds of residents evacuated their homes. The area last week was declared a federal disaster area from the April 2 floods. At least two persons drowned in separate boating accidents in New Orleans floodwaters Sunday and three others died in traffic accidents caused by the weather, authorities said. Extensive flooding in Mobile, Ala., was blamed for at least one death, a youngster who was swept into a drainage ditch by the raging waters. In Georgia, heavy thunderstorms, which touched off high wind and scattered tornadoes during the weekend, posed the threat of serious flooding Monday and Tuesday. Winds clocked at 102 mph raked the Mississippi Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $10 million in property damage. Two persons died in flood-related accidents and at least four others were injured. Tornadoes also caused extensive damage in South Carolina and Alabama. New Orleans police said they had no reports of anyone being bitten by one of the poisonous snakes. Some minor looting was reported in the uptown area, where as much as 9 inches of rain fell. People paddled small canoes through the streets, covered by as much as 10 feet of water, as ducks near the Audubon Park zoo basked in the waters. A few blocks away, two groups of college students paddled their canoes with brooms. "It's the annual New Orleans flood festival," Chris Riviere, one of the students, said. Electrical power was knocked out in Hahnville, La., and deputies were planning to evacuate about 600 persons from the areas of Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands. "Let me tell you, this is a real emergency," one official said. "The real emergency is the flooding -- not river flooding -- but rain flooding. The entire parish is being flooded in low-lying areas." Tornadoes raged through south and central Alabama, injuring more than a dozen people, and damaging houses and trees. Mobile authorities were also searching for an unidentified man and woman who had last been seen motorcycling and were feared drowned by flood waters. Numerous city streets were flooded throughout the state and a flood watch was in effect for Mobile and Baldwin counties and all of north and west central Alabama. The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding along the Oostanaula River in Georgia. The river was expected to reach 22 feet early at Resaca today and crest between 25 and 26 feet. Georgia was battered by heavy rains all weekend and forecasters warned of still more storms brewing in the west-central part of the state. In Mississippi, tornadoes touched down in two Gulf Coast counties, causing widespread property damage but no injuries. "Our shirt-sleeve estimate of the damage is around $10 million," a Harrison County civil defense spokesman said. === Page 28 of 88 Jeffrey April 14, 1980 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The Space Shuttle has just landed safely, and my son and I are having some refreshment to celebrate...because we had feared for the lives of Crippen and Young. As you know...my UFOs had promised to destroy the Shuttle if their base was not supplied. Now, always before it was I who performed the psi-force work...utilizing a "PK Map" and activating it constantly to bring about the desired result in cooperation with my UFOs. But in this case...and with new modus operandi by my UFOs...the power was not placed into my hands but kept by the UFOs (keep in mind the hundreds of times I caused seemingly impossible things to happen; well documented in advance of the fact. Last night, Monday night, I received a telephone call. The person gave me a strange message. IF THE SPACE SHUTTLE LANDED SAFELY NEXT DAY (today) THEN THE UFO BASE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AS MY UFOs AND I WISHED. My son Beau and I were puzzled by this call...because as far as we knew my UFOs still were intent on destroying the Shuttle. Knowing full well that my mind is monitored around the clock by my UFOs...all of my thoughts and actions...I wondered if this call might be acted upon by my UFOs. This morning my son and I watched the Shuttle get down safely. I telepathd to the SIs to try and get an answer why they had changed their minds...because as far back as I can remember this is the first time (with the exception of Idi Amin) they have not done what they have announced. Their reply was most interesting. They replied that a top secret government agency had determined to have me "hit" by one of their special assassins...killed...if the Space Shuttle were destroyed. The SIs, in their own way of monitoring, had found this out. Therefore they held their hand this time around with the Shuttle. They did not want to lose me...and then have to wipe out the United States in retribution...it simply was not a part of their game plan. Just before the Shuttle began to descend, this morning, I telepathd Control of the SIs, and requested that they somehow save the astronauts when they destroyed the Shuttle. In my new role of "middle man" simply reporting the SI action, things tend to get a bit confusing. But what is not confusing is...is that Crippen and Young are safe at home with their families. So Beau and I are celebrating while we puzzle over the situation. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 29 of 88 - World "Power" Attack # Snowstorm shuts Midwest schools Oregon Journal April 15, 1980 United Press International A furious winter storm gripped the nation's midlands, knocking out power in some areas, delaying travelers and closing schools. In the South, floods spawned by weekend rains subsided in New Orleans, but rivers rose in Alabama. At least nine people -- eight in the South and one in Michigan -- died in weather-related incidents. As much as 8 inches of snow fell in parts of the Midwest Monday. A freeze gripped Arkansas, setting new records. The National Weather Service said the low temperature dipped to 34 degrees, breaking the record set in 1950, and the high was only 45, eclipsing a record set in 1907. The flooding triggered by a weekend of torrential rains from Louisiana to North Carolina began to subside Monday. Police through central and northern Illinois reported snow, slush and rain Monday. Chicago's annual snowfall hit 39.5 inches for the season, just about normal and about half as much as last year. The storm knocked out power to about 70,000 Chicago-area homes at various times during the morning because of a variety of weather-related problems, including high winds. O'Hare International Airport reported delays of more than two hours on many incoming flights. The National Weather Service issued a lakeshore warning from Waukegan, Ill., to Michigan, Ind. Forecasters warned gale-force winds could stir up waves of 6 to 12 feet during the night. In Michigan, a cold spring rain combined with heavy winds to push western Lake Erie over the flood stage from the Ohio line to just south of Detroit. Police using school buses evacuated more than 100 people from their Lake Erie shoreline homes in Gibraltar, one of Detroit's downriver suburbs, and took them to local churches. The flood waters, described as the worst in the area in about seven years, began subsiding by mid-afternoon Monday and many of the dozens of persons evacuated were allowed to return to their homes, police said. Hundreds of homes, however, suffered flood damage, authorities said. Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, accompanied by state and federal disaster officials, helicoptered over flood-stricken New Orleans Monday as residents mopped water from homes and worked on stalled cars. Water slowly receded from homes but covered streets and parking lots in portions of Jefferson Parish, west of New Orleans. Traffic was restricted on many Jefferson thoroughfares and all schools were closed. The National Weather Service said small rivers and streams from east central Louisiana to the Mississippi line were rising. Residents along the Pearl River and other waterways were warned to prepare for high water. The National Weather Service recorded 9 inches of rain in New Orleans during the weekend, but workers said an unofficial gauge at a Jefferson pumping station soared to 15 inches. - World "Power" Attack - World "Power" Attack # Snowstorm Dwindles As Helicopters Aid Stricken Cattle Herds Miami Herald April 4, 1980 United Press International A severe snowstorm in the western Plains dwindled Thursday, permitting helicopters to begin delivering supplies to snowbound residents and feed to starving cattle stranded among huge drifts. Three major snowstorms hit Colorado and the western Plains in less than a week, forcing ranchers to recruit snowmobiles and other snow-going vehicles to reach herds isolated by 20-foot drifts. The National Weather Service reported scattered areas of light snow in parts of the Plains, but sunlight shone in many areas. In northwest Kansas, National Guard helicopters delivered supplies to snowbound residents and feed to stranded livestock that had not been fed for days. Five counties in the area have been declared disaster areas. The break in the snowstorm allowed a helicopter to take off Thursday morning from Otis, Colo., with a load of hay for stranded livestock in the eastern part of the state. "In visible deaths so far, we've got 109 calves and 31 adult animals, but we know lots more animals are just plain buried," Yuma County Undersheriff Frank Scarpella said. "We've got areas that have 22-foot-high drifts." An estimated 2,600 cattle in eastern Colorado were fed Wednesday. Officials have issued a plea for additional feed, helicopters and snow-removal equipment. Several Denver residents volunteered snowmobiles for the work. "Even getting the feed out there, the animals are severely dehydrated," Scarpella said. "Some of them are so far gone, they are going to die anyway even with the feed." Power was restored to some snow-crippled areas of eastern Colorado, but officials said several hundred ranches still were without electricity. The Nebraska National Guard's 195th Armor Battalion, acting on orders from Gov. Charles Thone, began dispatching manpower and equipment to the snow-stricken west and central areas of the state. Guard Capt. John Nollett said jeeps and heavy trucks with chains would be used, mostly for medical emergencies. Leon Vallentine, 15, who has a kidney disease and had been stranded by the storm, was listed in stable condition at Northwest Kansas Medical Center after he was rescued by a Guard helicopter. "It wasn't a life-threatening situation where minutes and seconds mattered, but it was important that he receive care as soon as possible," a hospital spokesman said. Meanwhile, the Automobile Club of Michigan announced profits at Michigan's snow-starved ski resorts skidded by an estimated 33 per cent from last year's banner winter tourist season. 4-15-80 Seattle Post-Intelligencer # Freak Rain Squall Rips Through Seattle Area A rain squall with wind gusts up to 68 miles per hour raced through the Seattle area yesterday afternoon, causing power outages, a rash of minor traffic accidents and knocking down trees and ripping limbs. Seattle City Light's weather monitoring equipment at its power control center near Southcenter recorded gusts up to 68 mph. The weather service said wind gusts up to 52 mph were recorded at Lake Union. There were four or five small power outages scattered throughout the city, said City Light spokesman Mike Walter. Some 100 to 200 customers were affected by the outages, which lasted only two to three minutes. Puget Sound Power and Light did not have any power outages due to the storm. Police said numerous fender-benders occurred all over town during the squall. There were no serious injuries. A tree was knocked down at 20th Avenue and Union Street, and a traffic signal was knocked down at Lake City Way N.E. and N.E. 115th Street. === Page 30 of 88 4-15-80 Seattle Times # Storm slams Seattle area, knocks out power City Light crews were working overtime last night to restore power in scattered pockets throughout the Seattle area after a brief but feisty thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. The midafternoon storm was characterized by driving rain, darkened skies and lightning strikes. City Light recorded gusts up to 68 miles an hour at its weather-monitoring station near Seattle Center. City Light said power was cut in about 50 places from the Federal Way area north to Lake Forest Park. Outage pockets included as many as 200 homes in the Three Tree Point area. "Most of our problem areas involved only 10 to 15 customers, and in many cases only individual homes were hit," said Hugh McIntosh, City Light spokesman. The Weather Service recorded wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour at its Lake Union station. Rainfall from midnight Sunday to 4 p.m. yesterday totaled .36 of an inch at Lake Union. "All it amounted to was an unstable air mass that followed a front that went through here in the morning," a Weather Service spokesman said. "Call it a typical spring storm." 4-15-80 Seat P-9. # Rivers Rampage On in the South Associated Press Bloated rivers poured over their banks across the South yesterday, routing thousands of people and snakes, while up to a half-foot of snow smothered spring flowers from Arkansas through the Midwest. At least nine people had been killed in storms which brought a weekend deluge to Dixie, record April cold to some towns in the Southwest and the heaviest snowfall ever to come so late in the year in Missouri. The abnormal snowstorm brought traffic to a halt on some interstate highways in the Midwest and closed schools and knocked out power in scattered areas. Floods claimed new territory in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, where rivers on a relentless rise breached levees and spilled over makeshift sandbag dikes. About 1,000 people were evacuated in Jackson, Miss., where the Pearl River drove 17,000 people from their homes on Easter in 1979. The river was expected to crest in the city of 150,000 at about 38 feet, 10 feet above flood stage, sometime today. - World "Power Attack" - $\theta$ $\lightning$ === Page 31 of 88 08 Dr. Mishlove MORIN ...WHAT IS THIS? SOME KIND OF JOKE? TAKE US TO YOUR LEADERS MORIN © 1980 MIAMI HERALD Miami Herald April 6, 1980 (Note: lightning insignia on St. Owens.) Some coincidence. Owens === Page 32 of 88 4-15-80 postmark April 15, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove If, perchance, you are putting this "World Power Attack" file together and following it intelligently...then you must be becoming shocked, and frightened, as I am. Being the only human who could do such a thing...I have taken an "idea" and applied psi-force to that idea, utilizing the alien half of my brain to do so. Moreover I have "joined" with my alien UFO contacts and their other-dimensional power...also have "joined" with the ancient Egyptian power entity that I am linked with telepathically...and their infinite powers (each quite different) have joined mine to knock out "power"...any kind of power...electric, nuclear, oil, gas, coal, etc...all around the world. And in this ever-expanding file the pattern of results is easily observable. Let us assume that D. Scott Rogo is accurate in his book...as he may well be...and that what I am really working with is an infinitely-intelligent over-all Intelligence which he has named "The Phenomenon" (but which I prefer to think of as "The Force"...well, what's in a name, eh? They both are the same thing. The Force seems to be able to go through, under or over any obstacle to reach its end. It seems to be able to utilize animals (see the raccoon herein); inanimate objects (see the car herein); human error; storms; lightning attacks; hurricane winds; tornadoes...any and all things to reach its end...which is, in this case, to knock out "power". If anyone wants to argue "co-incidence" such as stupido Hynek...this file has too many cases, and varied cases, which would rule out coincidence. Since this demonstration seems to be following the usual pattern or results...then I expect that, as time goes by, the power will increase in "the idea" and bigger and more dramatic happenings will occur than what has occurred so far into this experiment on my part. So far the largest "area" of power knock-out has been Puerto Rico...all of Puerto Rico. It might well be that The Force will, eventually in this experiment, knock out the "power" in an entire country...even, although it might sound unbelievable...knock out the power over the entire world! It would seem, on the face of it, totally impossible...but from what I have observed of the results of my UFOs and PyrCre, the Egyptian power...and "The Force"...absolutely nothing is impossible! Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 33 of 88 12 Contaminated at San Onofre San Onofre, S.F. Chronicle San Diego County April 17, 1980 A dozen workmen at the San Onofre nuclear power plant were slightly contaminated by radioactive material while trying to repair a leaking steam generator, an inspector disclosed yesterday. Bob Pate of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the contamination of the workers last weekend apparently was minor and "all of the people took showers afterward." "A few took two or three showers," Pate said. "One guy had to wash his beard three or four times." The plant was shut down last week after the leak was discovered and is expected to remain closed for up to two months for refueling. "The people who went inside the generator didn't get much contamination with their plastic suits on, but they got minor contamination on their skin," Pate said. But, outside the generator, he said, "the people didn't anticipate the amount of contamination that would be airborne and didn't have on full face masks, probably because when the sampling was done nobody was in there stirring it up." Maintenance workers and operators were involved. Pate said only about a dozen men underwent decontamination. Associated Press - World "Power" Attack - # Nuclear workers contaminated SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (AP) -- A dozen workmen at the San Onofre nuclear power plant were slightly contaminated by radioactive material while trying to repair a leaking steam generator, an inspector disclosed Wednesday. Bob Pate of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the contamination of the workers last weekend apparently was minor and "all of the people took showers afterward." "A few took two or three showers," Pate said. "One guy had to wash his beard three or four times." The plant was shut down last week after the leak was discovered and is expected to remain closed for up to two months for refueling. "The people who went inside the generator didn't get much contamination with their plastic suits on, but they got minor contamination on their skin," Pate said. But, outside the generator, he said, "the people didn't anticipate the amount of contamination that would be airborne and didn't have on full face masks, probably because when the sampling was done nobody was in there stirring it up." Maintenance workers and operators were involved. Pate said only about a dozen men underwent decontamination. The generator in Unit One converts water taken from the nuclear reactor to steam. Two other units are still under construction. - World "Power" Attack - # The nation Oregonian April 16, 1980 # Reactor shuts off ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- A broken wire caused one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant to shut down Tuesday and another unit cut its power output in half, officials said. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials called it a routine shutdown at the Tennessee Valley Authority plant and said there was no escape of radiation. Ken Clark, an NRC spokesman, said the plant's Unit 2 reactor tripped off at 7:15 a.m. because of a broken wire in the input signal mechanism for the steam feed flow. "The safety systems are such that on certain indications they automatically signal a low-level trip," he said. "It's not a major problem." Craven Crowell, a spokesman at TVA's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., said a maintenance employee working on a steam-flow recorder apparently was responsible for the broken wire. 4-11-80 Oreg Journal # Radioactive water leak closes N-plant SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (UPI) -- Leakage of radioactive water from a steam generating unit at the San Onofre nuclear plant forced operators to start a seven-week refueling operation ahead of schedule. Bob Hull, a spokesman for Southern California Edison Co., operators of the plant, said Thursday the leakage occurred in a contained area and presented no threat to plant employees. The volume of leakage amounted to about 150 gallons a day, below the maximum allowable amount set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. - World "Power" Attack - $\theta$ 4 === Page 34 of 88 Associated Press Laserphoto DISASTER DRILL -- Third graders at Hancock Elementary School in San Francisco huddle together under a desk as part of a mock disaster Friday. The drill was the largest in California history. With mock disaster Oregonian April 19, 1980 # Bay area practices for earthquake SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Helicopters ferried gore-smeared "victims," children crouched beneath their desks and radios cracked with news of disaster Friday as San Francisco, leveled 74 years ago, rehearsed for the next great quake. The exercise, called Cal Medex 80, was the largest in California history. It began at 5:23 a.m. when officials said an earthquake hit registering 8.3 on the Richter scale. That was the same time the earthquake of April 18, 1906, jarred the city into flaming rubble. Much of the action -- involving some 2,500 people, including about 900 National Guard members -- took place at some of the city's hospitals, where triage, a system for choosing and treating the most seriously injured first, was practiced on Guard members in dramatic makeup. Four state helicopters shuffled the injured in and out of casualty centers, including a huge area in Golden Gate Park. Telephones were avoided, simulating expected trouble with phone lines. Radios crackled with messages from medical crews evaluating the hordes of injured in ghoulish makeup. City officials say the test was desperately needed, because experts insist another big quake is on the way. One of the most ominous predictions comes from Bruce Bolt, head of the University of California's seismograph station at Berkeley. He says there is a 50-50 chance that a paralyzing temblor will devastate San Francisco before the '80s pass, leaving thousands dead and much of the city in ruins. Dr. Donald Trunkey, chief of surgery at San Francisco General and a member of the state's Office of Emergency Services medical team, says flatly that the city is not prepared to face a major quake. "It would be a disaster," he said. "It's that simple. We're not prepared." Planners admit they are just beginning to fill the gaps in the city's emergency plan. They expect at least 5,000 deaths, thousands of injuries and acres of destruction, including falling buildings, buckled roads, fires, failed water supplies and a host of other major and minor problems when the great quake hits. The exercise was guided from the main fire station, where Tom Jenkins, an architect with the Office of Emergency Services, directed activities. In a real disaster, Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Phil Day, a retired Army colonel who now is director of emergency services, would run the show. They both traveled around the city Friday, viewing the action. Note: April 16 has passed and no base. Owens. === Page 35 of 88 April 23, 1980 Jeffrey Mishlove As you are aware, I am doing a personal private experiment, utilizing the Davis-Besse N-Power, plus my own subtle, yet fierce powers... to attack all forms of life on a world-wide basis. I do believe that this newsclip confirms all the city-wide life I've set out to snuff out the effective way in my life. I hope you Jeffrey Mishlove, can see that we have an admitted anomaly called "unique" by an expert... Truly the power was knocked out in the nuclear facility even though it was shut down. How many of my demonstrations have been called "one of a kind" or "special" or "the worst within a century" and so on? For a world-wide experiment, it is frightening! Ted Owens PK / Man S *results of my experiment thus far # Contaminated Water Spills From Reactor PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) -- About 2,000 gallons of contaminated water spilled from a nuclear reactor at the Davis-Besse power plant after a power loss triggered a surge of water in the shut down reactor's cooling system, officials said yesterday. Some contaminated water splashed on the pants of a worker and 40 to 60 other workers were evacuated because a ventilation system was knocked out by the power failure, and heat exhaustion was feared, a company spokesman said. The reactor was not operating during the weekend accident, and no radiation escaped from the plant, said Roger Buehrer, public information officer for Toledo Edison Co. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent two more inspectors to the north-central Ohio plant after the accident. Jan Strasma, an NRC spokesman, said a breakdown at a shut down facility was "unusual, nigh unto unique." The accident occurred Saturday during maintenance, officials said. === Page 36 of 88 Washington Research Center 3101 Washington Street San Francisco, CA 94115 April 29, 1980 Dear Ted, I've been thinking about you and your situation lately, so I thought I would drop you a letter to share some of my thoughts with you. As you know, I've been receiving your information about shutdowns at nuclear power plants lately and I think that this is very interesting. Of course, I have no background statistical data base regarding these events, and as I've told you many times, this is necessary to make any logical evaluation of your demonstrations. However, as I recall, you originally stated that this one was not for the scientists. Back in 1976, when we first met and I started following your career, it was my intention to help you then establish some credibility for your work in the eyes of the larger public. My attempt was in terms of well-written, logical letters--and the scientific report on you. The impact of this has been largely minimal. I think there are several reasons for this, which I shall list as follows; (1) Probably most important, what you have done is mind-boggling. Many people are simply not willing to accept that weather control or prediction is even possible. In fact, they are not even willing to seriously examine data, such as the report, which suggests such a possibility. It is too much of a challenge to people's belief systems. (2) There are a number of people, however, who accept the reality of psi. They don't exactly disbelieve your powers, rather they dislike your flamboyant style. It will be to your advantage if you can understand their point of view with sympathy, even if they cannot understand or sympathize with your position. To many of these people you seem evil and dangerous (injuries, plane crashes, forest fires, droughts, accidents, storms, deaths, etc.). To some people you seem crazy, with your insistence on exorbitant (or at least unrealistically negotiated) fees for your services. To some you seem paranoid in your belief that government agents are out to destroy your career, with apparently little thought with how you yourself interfere with your own best interests. To others you seem, at times, like a braggart and egotist--even if your abilities are real. From my point of view, frankly, you are all of these things and also none of them. I think you understand me. Now that I have finally received my doctoral degree, I am in a position where what I have to say is given greater legitimization and credibility. I have the ear of the newspapers, wire services, the business world and the academic world--at least to a larger extent than before. So, to a degree, the first objection that I mentioned above is being overcome. This leaves the second one for us to deal with, if we wish to achieve mutual goals. === Page 37 of 88 old "Power" Attack # Sparks Fly, But Most Of Old Base in Dark Miami Herald March 7, 1980 By JANET FIX Herald Staff Writer KEY WEST -- When a power cable feeding the old Navy base blew up this week, causing a major power outage, switchboards at the City Electric System and U.S. Department of Navy in Washington lit up. And then the sparks started flying. Meanwhile, many of the 35 leaseholders using property on the Truman Annex remain without power. "We've been sitting in the dark since Monday," said Nancy Slickner, head of the Community Mental Health Clinic, a leaseholder. "Everybody knows the power is out, but everybody says it's somebody elses responsibility to fix." WHAT DOES IT mean when the lights go out? It means those little luxuries and modern conveniences such as electric typewriters and air conditioners sit idle as well as the secretaries who use them. The Naval Security Group Detachment was without power for a while. But Navy officials have made sure that the communications group with the capability to monitor ships in the Atlantic Ocean and charged with other top security duties has power by backfeeding through its own line. "A Navy official said those at the top in Washington called immediately to see to it that they got power," Slickner said. "Those of us at the bottom still don't have lights though." Leaseholders have been told it could be another week before the cable was repaired and power restored. U.S. Naval Air Station Commander W. Ivan Lewis said the damaged cable is an out-of-date model that CES doesn't have the capability of repairing. "We will repair the cable if they will pay for all costs," said Capt. Lewis. "Last night, there was another power line failure at Truman Annex -- a transformer blew out. So we didn't get started on the cable repair this morning." ---------- The COLUMBIAN Sunday, March 16, 1980 Vancouver, Wash. # Outage blamed for fish deaths WENATCHEE (AP) -- An estimated 26,000 6- to 9-inch coho salmon are believed to have died at the Chelan County Public Utility District's Turtle Rock Island rearing facility because of a wind-caused power outage this week. A preliminary survey indicated that up to 65 percent of the yearling salmon may have perished for lack of oxygen. They were scheduled for release this spring. Officials say the effect may be cumulative and more may die. The rearing facility is located behind Rocky Reach Dam. District personnel as well as representatives of the state Fisheries Department are assessing the damage to the remaining fish. During Wednesday evening's windstorm, the Rocky Reach substation failed, the PUD reported. At that time, an emergency power supply came on line and repowered the two pumps at the Turtle Rock facility. When the substation came back on line, the switching gear failed to transfer power to one of the pumps. As a result of the pump failure, fresh water did not enter the coho section of the raceway, cutting oxygen supplies. === Page 38 of 88 World "Power" Attack A10 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980 # Ranchers fight to save cattle as Colorado faces new storm By ANDREW ROSENTHAL DENVER (AP) -- Ranchers battled huge drifts in an effort to save freezing cattle from snow and prowling coyotes as the eastern third of Colorado remained isolated Tuesday by a chain of storms that knocked out power to about 3,000 households. "Baby calves are being dropped and dying right on the spot," said Holyoke rancher Joe Ortner. "Some babies are being separated from their mothers. Now the coyotes are starting to work on the calves. I chased some off last night." Parts of the snowbound eastern Colorado plains were completely isolated by the storms. Ranchers and farmers had to look to their neighbors for help in digging out and getting ready for what forecasters predicted would be another bad storm. "You can put on your overshoes and come help," Mrs. Frank Musgrave of Hoyt told a reporter by telephone. Ortner said some families had been trapped at home since last week. "The main thing for us is to get to the vets and get some medical supplies out here," he said, adding the snow was so deep that a four-wheel-drive tractor fitted with a 14-foot cutting blade could not get through. Meanwhile, a National Guard helicopter took off for a reconnaissance flight as the latest in the weeklong cycle of storms abated Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for Gov. Richard Lamm. "Our main worry at this point is the next storm," Sue O'Brien, Lamm's press secretary, said. "The weather service says it's going to hit us hard late tomorrow." Ms. O'Brien said state aid likely would be needed beyond the $7,000 Lamm granted last week to help deliver hay to Yuma County herds. But she said Lamm would not make such decisions until "we have a better idea of what kind of a problem we have." In Kansas, a state disaster emergency was declared in five northwestern counties where the 4 to 5 inches of fresh snow fell early Tuesday. The storm was blamed for holding down the turnout in the state's first presidential primary. The storm also produced up to 1 1/2 inches of rain just to the east of the heavy snow and Kansas officials were worried that it might cause flash flooding in eastern parts of the state. Roads were closed throughout the region by the storm, which followed another snowstorm by less than one day. Ground cover of more than 1 foot was reported in several areas, with drifts up to 20 feet. Disaster crews in Colorado, their helicopters grounded by 30 mph winds, set out in Sno-Cats at daybreak to help ranchers bring hay to starving herds in Yuma County, which was declared a disaster area late last week after the storms. The storms snapped utility poles by the hundreds and power lines were coated with up to 3 inches of ice. Officials of the three rural electric associations serving eastern Colorado said crews began work at dawn. Power would be restored in some areas by late afternoon, but others would be without electricity for up to three more days, officials said. Of primary concern were newborn calves and lambs in northeast Colorado. An estimated 4,000 cattle were stranded in Yuma County. "We've got huge drifts. I'm not sure how deep it is," said Vicky Grey of Ordway. "My husband is out trying to see if he can feed now." Some ranchers said they were able to save their herds by bringing them into feedlots or sheltering them in the lee of farm buildings. "Sometimes they take them right into the house," said extension agent Jane Esarey of Cheyenne Wells. "It's been three years since we had one this bad." "I'm afraid there's not much we can do," said Dave Lawton, operations officer for the Division of Disaster Emergency Services. "We have kind of ruled out helicopter feeding. That gets to be way too expensive and they just can't carry enough hay." The storms were blamed by the state patrol for at least four traffic deaths and may have contributed to the crash of a light plane last Thursday in which 10 persons died. === Page 39 of 88 my birthday. Owens THE MIAMI HERALD Saturday, March 8, 1980 # Eight Suspended In Reactor Probe From Herald Wire Services ATHENS, Ala. -- A reactor at the nation's largest nuclear plant was mysteriously shut down three times in less than a week, prompting the suspension of eight employees and an investigation by the FBI, federal officials said Friday. The shutdowns occurred last month at one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Officials would not say whether the incidents were believed deliberate. John Schlatter, a TVA spokesman at the agency's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., said the shutdowns posed no danger to the public. The first shutdown occurred Feb. 10 as the Unit Two turbine was wheeling through its million-kilowatt peak. The reactor turned itself off again on Feb. 12 and 15. After the first two shutdowns, or "trips," the reactor was restarted within a matter of hours. But when the third unexplained trip occurred, engineers ordered operations halted until the cause was determined. On March 3, the unit went back on line though no operational reason for the shutdowns could be found. Schlatter said the eight plant employees were suspended for the duration of the investigation. He would not identify the employees or say what type work they performed. "I can't tell you what they are," he said, "but I can tell you what they aren't. They aren't operators, they aren't control-room employees." Oregonian March 21, 1980 # Protest disrupts royal tour BRIDGWATER, England (AP) -- Police Wednesday dragged protesters from the path of Prince Charles' car as he arrived to inspect Britain's first commercial gas-cooled nuclear reactor. About 35 protesters, including women with children, moved to block the car carrying the heir to the British throne as it approached the Hinkley Point power station in Somerset County near here. Three demonstrators flung themselves in front of the car, slowing it almost to a standstill. Police pulled them to the side of the road. The demonstrators said they feared the power station would pose health and environmental dangers, and cited the leak of nuclear material last year from the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor near Harrisburg, Pa. Briefly Miami Herald # N-Plant Out 2-3 Months Fla. march 12, 1980 The Crystal River nuclear plant, shut down by an electronic failure two weeks ago, will stay down for two or three months for repairs and refueling, a Florida Power Corp. spokesman says. Utility officials said they hope the troubled unit can be returned to commercial operation by late May or early June, in time to meet peak summer demand. "We hope to begin the refueling cycle shortly after the first of April and be able to run the unit hard this summer" said William Johnson, company spokesman. An alternative that had been considered was to make the repairs mandated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and restart, waiting until fall to take the unit off-line for the weeks-long refueling operation. But this would have meant operating at limited capacity through the summer. March 8, 1980 # Faulty Circuit Shut N-Plant Fla. Miami Herald ORLANDO (AP) -- A missed connection between an electrical circuit board and a tiny pin caused the emergency shutdown of the Crystal River nuclear power plant, federal officials said Friday. They said, however, investigators still are not sure whether the problem was caused by a flaw in the circuit board or by faulty installation, or if similar problems exist at other nuclear plants. Florida Power Corp. spokesman William C. Johnson said the investigation determined the circuit board "did not make a firm connection with one of the pins. That resulted in an eventual shorting out of the 24-volt circuit in the drawer which then set off a chain of events leading to shutdown. The exact scenario of the shutdown is still being studied." The plant, situated on the Gulf Coast about 70 miles north of Tampa, automatically shut down Feb. 26 when the power supply to the control systems was suddenly interrupted. Then 43,000 gallons of radioactive water from the plant's cooling system spilled onto the floor of the containment building, which houses the nuclear core. The water was pumped out and the plant is in "cold shutdown." No exact time has been set when it will become operational. WORLD "POWER" ATTACK!! Owens === Page 40 of 88 Miami Herald March 9, 1980 # Aqueduct Officials: Keys Have Only Half-Day Reserve of Water By JANET FIX Herald Staff Writer KEY WEST -- Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority officials Saturday said that there isn't enough drinking water in reserve tanks to last a half-day, and warned residents that they must cut all but essential water use immediately or there won't be any water at all. "This time there's no other choice. People either conserve or we'll be out of water," said Billy Ladd, engineering supervisor for the desalination plant on Stock Island. "We're in really bad trouble." Water reserves throughout the Keys dwindled to a 4 million gallons Saturday. The normal daily consumption is about 8 million gallons. WATER PRESSURE has been reduced to the lowest level allowed by state law, 20 pounds per square inch (psi). To make matters worse, the reverse osmosis plant on Rock Harbor, which generally produces 600,000 gallons a day, broke down at 5:30 p.m. Officials didn't know when the plant would be back in operation. "We either have to conserve water or we'll be sucking mud instead of water by midnight." -- FKAA board member Ed Jackson water or we'll be sucking mud instead of water by midnight," FKAA board member Ed Jackson said. After struggling for two days, workers managed to get the desal plant, Key West's primary source of drinking water, back into operation late Friday night. The breakdown coupled with heavy water demand by residents and tourists have made the situation critical. Only a week ago, reserves, which normally total 25 million to 30 million gallons, was at about 10 million gallons. Anything below a 15-million-gallon level is considered "critical." Much of the reserve supply may be unavailable anyway. At several of the tanks around the county, pressure may be lost if water levels dip below about 2.5 feet. MEANWHILE, the demand for water remained high Saturday as residents complained bitterly of insufficient water pressure. Nearly 8.7 million gallons were used -- about 300,000 gallons more than the entire aqueduct system is able to produce. "We're selling everything we can pump," one desal plant worker said. "I don't see how they can let the situation get as bad as this," exclaimed Kathy Greenwood, who lives in a second-floor apartment here. "I can't even flush my toilet. We haven't had a dribble of water in the faucets since Friday night. I have stuff floating in my toilet. It's unsanitary." Aqueduct board members Ed Jackson and Joe Balbontin Saturday sought help from state Sen. Vernon Holloway (D., Miami). Holloway said he has arranged an emergency meeting between FKAA officials and Gov. Bob Graham in Miami today. === Page 41 of 88 Miami Herald March 10, 1980 # Ocean Becomes the Bathtub As Keys' Water Runs Short By JANET FIX Herald Staff Writer KEY WEST -- Residents and tourists flocked to swimming pools and beaches here Sunday, not to worship the sun but to take baths that many couldn't get at home because of a critical water shortage. Water reserves in the Florida Keys dwindled to about four million gallons -- the lowest point water officials could remember. The normal daily consumption is about 8.5 million gallons -- about the same amount that is produced daily. "I've never seen so many locals coming out for a swim," said a pool manager at one of Key West's luxury hotels. "One guest called to ask if the pool was clean enough to swim in because so many people came out to bathe in the pool yesterday." "People used to ask for rooms by the water," quipped one employe at the Pier House Inn. "Now they ask for rooms with water." Dwindling reserves have also caused pressure levels in the tanks to drop so low that water only dribbled out of first-floor faucets. And many residents in upper-story homes have been without water since Friday. Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority and state officials apparently can't decide whether a crisis exists. Three FKAA board members Saturday asked Sen. Vernon Holloway (D., Miami) to seek help from Gov. Bob Graham. But Graham called Holloway Sunday afternoon to say he had been told there was no emergency. "How embarrassed could I be?" Holloway said later. "I got several calls from commissioners saying the problem [Sunday] was worse than on Saturday, that people are using buckets of water to flush toilets. "Then the governor says that Billy Ladd [engineering supervisor at the Stock Island desalinization plant] told him that there no longer was an emergency down there. I don't know what's going on down there. I know this thing isn't contrived." LADD COULD not be reached for comment Sunday night. But FKAA board member Joe Balbontin said that "some wires got crossed" when Ladd's message was relayed to Graham through several state officials. Sunday night, Holloway said he had spoken again with Graham, who said he would check into the legality of using emergency money for a reverse-osmosis plan. The governor also said he would check this morning to see that a plant is built immediately, Holloway said. But aqueduct officials say a reverse-osmosis plant is not an answer to the immediate problem. It would take months for a plant to be put in operation. In the meantime, no decisions have been made to ration water. The Keys depend on the mainland for much of its water supply. About 6.2 million gallons of fresh water are pumped daily from Florida City through an 18-inch, 130-mile pipeline. Built in the 1940s to supply the Navy installation here, that line now serves 60,000 residents and thousands of tourists annually. A new pipeline is two years away from completion. The Keys also depend on a reverse-osmosis plant at Rock Harbor, which produces about 540,000 gallons daily, and on production from the 13-year-old desalination plant on Stock Island. In particular, continual breakdowns at the desalination plant, which produces 2.2 million gallons daily, aggravate the problem. The latest breakdown, on Thursday, shut the plant for two days. Key West's Conchs have grown accustomed to continual water shortages. "We use buckets of water to flush our toilets," said Ellen Martin, a Key West retiree. "And we laugh at the looks on tourists' faces when they ask for a glass of water and the waitress says, 'We don't have any.'" Some don't laugh, however. "We've got a lot of old folks out here who have to go down to the first floor to get water from the fire hydrants to drink," said a 68-year-old man living on the fifth floor of the Senior Citizens Center. "We haven't been able to take a shower in two months." Turn to Page 10A Col. 1 10-A THE MIAMI HERALD Monday, March 10, 1980 # Keys' Water Is Critically Short Note: "Linger effect" from Florida demonstration. Owens. === Page 42 of 88 OLD "POWER" ATTACK # n-plant explosion injures 3 workers MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Three construction workers remained hospitalized Monday -- one of them in critical condition -- following in a gas explosion at Consumers Power Co.'s nuclear plant construction site near Midland, officials at a Saginaw hospital said. The explosion occurred Saturday in the auxiliary building at the plant, while construction workers for Bechtel Corp. were checking a leak in a "Mapp" gas line, said Consumers project superintendent Thomas Cooke. The gas was used for steel-cutting construction equipment, and is similar to that used to fuel an acetylene torch, Cooke said. He could not be more specific. The damage, which Cooke called "not major," was confined to an electrical junction in the auxiliary building, and did not involve any nuclear elements. MARCH 18, 1980 Miami Herald March 11, 1980 ## TVA Suspects Worker KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -- An investigation into a series of mysterious shutdowns at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama was narrowed Monday to one worker. But Tennessee Valley Authority officials said no motive or cause was apparent for the "trippings" that cost users $2.8 million. Miami Herald # Turkey Point Turbine on List For Inspection March 7, 1980 Herald Staff and Wire Reports The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered inspections at 11 nuclear power units nationwide, including the Turkey Point unit south of Miami, to detect possible cracks in Westinghouse turbines in use at the plants. NRC spokeswoman Sue Gagner said the cracks pose no nuclear danger. The turbines are located outside the containment structure that protects the nuclear reactors. Turbines are driven at high speed by steam power produced by the nuclear reactor. The turbine spins a shaft that powers electrical generators. "We do not consider this a terrible serious safety concern," Gagner said. "It is something that we're looking at." She said one Westinghouse turbine failed last month at the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant in Massachusetts. Excessive vibration damaged the turbine discs and blades, she said. Gagner said the NRC was concerned about the remote danger that a turbine or piece of a turbine could become detached while spinning at high speed and penetrate the nuclear containment structure. "It is highly improbable, but it is something we're looking at in order to be conservative," she said. Florida Power and Light spokesman Tony Bruns said the utility was aware of the problem before the NRC warning. The utility had discovered cracks in the turbine at Turkey Point III. That turbine on the Turkey Point III unit has already been replaced, Bruns said. The turbine in Turkey Point II will be inspected when the unit shuts down for refueling later this month. The turbine for FPL's St. Lucie I nuclear plant will be inspected when the unit routinely shuts down next week, Bruns said. Other plants receiving the NRC warning include Commonwealth Edison's Zion I unit north of Chicago; the Surry II in Surry, Va.; Robinson near Darlington, S.C.; Point Beach I near Manitowoc, Wis.; Palisades near South Haven, Mich.; Indian Point Units II and III, 25 miles north of New York City; Beaver Valley I, near East Liverpool, Ohio, and Arkansas I near Russellville, Ark. === Page 43 of 88 oh yes? if "commonplace" then why are they trying "to determine what caused the current crisis"?!! 20-A THE MIAMI HERALD Tuesday, March 11, 1980 # Tourist Finds Soft Drink Order Doesn't Mix With Water Crisis (Note: Result of Fla. Demonstration) By JANET FIX And ROBERT RIVAS Herald Staff Writers KEY WEST -- Dalon Schmidt couldn't even get it his way at Burger King Monday. He got his Whopper -- no cheese -- but was told to forget the orange soda. "Sorry, it's the water shortage," a Burger King employee said sheepishly. "There isn't enough water to mix with the soda." Schmidt, of Marion, Ohio, shook his head and muttered something about reliving a bad dream. "I was here last year at this time," he said. "The Keys were having a water crisis then." WATER CRISES have become commonplace in the Florida Keys over the last few years. Newspaper accounts dating to 1976 reported that water reserves "are critical" and "immediate and severe conservation measures" must be started. Monday, after water reserves had already dwindled to 4.5 million gallons -- about half the normal daily consumption -- Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (FKAA) Manager Dennis Wardlow ordered mandatory conservation measures that will remain in effect until reserves rise above 15 million gallons. Water pumped into homes and businesses will be shut off between midnight and 5 a.m. every day in an effort to fill reserve tanks. # Florida News Drug Bills OKd .......... 8C they knew a water shortage was imminent, called upon Gov. Bob Graham to investigate the Keys water crisis. THE CHAMBER want the governor to appoint a "blue-ribbon" panel of engineering and accounting experts to determine what caused the current crisis. HA HA Meanwhile, FKAA officials were awaiting word that Graham would release state money to buy a reverse-osmosis plant. But Graham's press secretary, Steve Hull, said Monday night that the governor has been monitoring the Keys water situation for several weeks and doesn't plan any immediate emergency action. "The governor plans to talk with members of the legislative delegation from the keys while their in Tallahassee during legislative hearings and then make a determination what the next step will be. "OUR OFFICE of Disaster Preparedness is in constant contact with the officials in that area and is monitoring the situation, but in terms of any emergency action, there is none planned at this time," Hull said. FKAA officials said consumers don't have to worry that the water is contaminated, even though it's being pumped at below standard pressures. Officials said that purity tests are made daily, boil order would be issued if tamination is found. But many residents say don't believe the FKAA officials. "Are you kidding? I'm not to drink that water," said Chris Faden, 69, one Key Wester boils water or buys bottled water. "It's got to be unsanitary. I have use three buckets of water just flush my toilet." WARDLOW ALSO announced that the pressure would be reduced to 10 pounds per square inch (psi) in the aqueduct system, except during peak consumption hours of 7-8 a.m., noon to 1 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. when the pressure would be raised to 25 psi. State health laws require that water pressure be kept above 20 psi. But Wardlow said the actions were necessary because of "critical water storage levels ... and the failure of the general public to curb consumption." He warned that anyone caught washing cars, watering lawns or filling swimming pools will have the water cut off completely. Marathon resident Fletcher Brown, 73, says the mandatory conservation orders don't bother him. "Heck, that's been going on already," he said. "I got up in the middle of the night last week for a drink of water and I couldn't get a drop of water out of the faucet ... not one single drop." The conservation measures failed to appease Key West businessmen. The Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce, accusing FKAA officials of "sitting on their hands" while === Page 44 of 88 Would First N-War Strike In U.S. Kill 185 Million? Miami Herald March 12, 1980 London Observer Service LONDON -- About 88 per cent of the population of the United States, or nearly 185 million persons, would be killed outright by a full-scale Soviet first-strike at the American homeland. This is just one of a number of horrifying scenarios set out in dry scientific detail in an American report, The Effects of Nuclear War, compiled by the Office of Technology for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The report examines the effects of a range of nuclear attacks, including the ultimate horror of an all-out strike by all but 10 to 15 per cent of the Soviet Union's 22,000 warheads, aimed at U.S. military sites and industrial and population centers. Similar U.S. attacks on the Soviet Union would produce a lower number of fatalities: between 40 and 50 per cent of the population if there had been no warning and evacuation; between 22 and 26 per cent if the Kremlin had had time to order evacuation. These lower figures are explained partly by the more scattered nature of the population of the Soviet Union, and partly by the higher yield of Soviet warheads. The document concludes that even a limited nuclear attack would do "enormous" damage. An attack on U.S. oil refineries by 10 Soviet missiles could produce as many as 20 million deaths. Post-blast damage could be equally catastrophic. Millions injured in the blast eventually would die from lack of medical attention. Millions might starve or freeze. Cancer and genetic defects would affect many millions over the 40 years after the attack. "What is clear is that from the day the survivors emerged from their fallout shelters a kind of race for survival would begin," the report says. One side of this race would be the restoration of production of food, energy, clothing and the means to repair damaged machines. The other side would be the consumption of food and goods, which might be at a rate that would destroy all means of economic recovery. Note: I can handle this... so that it does not happen!! But not... without the Base. Gwenz === Page 45 of 88 3-14-80 Oregonian # Quake preparedness focus of hearings in California LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A state Assembly subcommittee, spurred by a federal agency's statement of concern, plans hearings next month aimed at preparing Californians for disastrous earthquakes. Recent developments suggest more strongly than ever that "we had better start, as responsibly as possible, to make people aware that these things (earthquake disasters) are liable to happen, they can happen and we have got to be prepared," Assemblyman Frank Vicencia, D-Bellflower, said. He quoted from a letter received Tuesday from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It said scientists have made "a number of observations in Southern California which suggest that a substantial earthquake may be more probable now than we would normally expect." It said scientists don't know whether unusual geologic changes signal an approaching quake but "it is clear ... that these anomalies must be taken very seriously." Vicencia emphasized that no earthquake is being predicted and he warned against overreaction. But, he told a news conference, "If anything should happen after we have received this information and we had not made the public aware of those concerns, then I think that would be irresponsible." Vicencia said a subcommittee of his Committee on Governmental Organization concluded in January, after 18 months of hearings, that California "is not prepared to respond to a major disaster affecting a metropolitan area." That alleged shortcoming, plus the federal concerns, mean government at all levels must "begin to move ahead" quickly with disaster planning and public education, he said. Ted - Here is a 2nd copy if needed Note: In this file you can see that the people of California have been warned, just as my earlier letter to you (stating that California will be wrecked by the UFOs & Ps. Cs. if the Base is not forthcoming)... also contained my statement that the California people should be warned of possible disaster ahead! Owens 2 === Page 46 of 88 Miami Herald March 16, 1980 # Brown Snow Shakes Up Folks in Central Maine AUGUSTA, Maine -- (UPI) -- Snow falling in central Maine was dirty even before it touched the ground and no one seemed to know why. The snow started turning yellow or orange-brown late Friday afternoon. Bewildered residents started putting calls through to the Bureau of Air Quality Control for answers. Officials at the Department of Environmental Protection were just as confounded by the occurrence. "We've taken samples and put them in the refrigerator for tests," said David Leake, the DEP's public information director. "Evidently, it ranges from a yellowish color to an orangey-brown color. We don't have any way of knowing what's causing it." Leake urged residents everywhere in the state to write the agency if they notice discolored snow in their communities. "We know it's happened in central Maine," said Leake. "But we want to know what kind of area this stuff fell over, for some idea of tracking this thing or what caused it." He said the dirty snow should not be dangerous, or a health hazard, but was just a "scientific phenomenon." Note: Red Sweat & Brown Snow. # Snow, Rain Plaster Northeast, Big Cities Miami Herald March 15, 1980 Associated Press The season's "first real nor'easter" plastered the Northeast with up to a foot of snow Friday, shutting down schools, darkening homes and giving commuters fits in the slushy big cities. At least four deaths were attributed to the storm which moved in late Thursday and spent the night unloading snow and freezing rain from Virginia to northern New England. Snow was up to 13 inches deep in the mountains of New York and five inches deep in Manhattan. Maryland got about seven inches and depths across New England ranged from three to six inches, with up to a foot expected in some of the mountains. TWO PEOPLE were killed on slick highways in New York, one in Maryland and one in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, flooding hit parts of South Carolina and northern Florida and residents of Ocean City, Md., were patching up damage from gale winds Thursday night that ripped the roofs off two beachfront motels and caused widespread beach erosion. "I heard, like, trumpets going through my house," said Dennis Sesplankis, manager of the Gateway motel in Ocean City. "It was a weird experience. We lost about four rooms completely -- torn off and blown away." An earthen dam holding back rain-swollen 100-acre lake near Fairfax, S.C., burst Friday morning, sending water five feet deep across U.S. 321 and knocking out two bridges and secondary roads. It sent a 50-foot wide stream of water across about six miles of woods and farmlands, washing away the foundation of one unoccupied house. In the Virginia suburbs of Washington, freezing rain that turned to snow during the night toppled tree onto power lines, blacking out 15,000 homes. BOSTON SCHOOL children got an extra holiday as the storm brought three inches of snow, and rains that flooded parts of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 128. "A lot of cars are getting washed out when they hit the water," said Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Paul Beloff. Rush-hour traffic also was snarled in New York City, where the overnight snow turned to rain and hail and then back into snow. A multiple bus-car accident in the Lincoln Tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey backed up traffic for miles. On Long Island, police said 200 cars were disabled along the Long Island Expressway and the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. One officer described it as "a mess with cars all over the place." Oregonian # Tornado injures 2 MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A tornado ripped through a gymnasium roof Monday, destroyed six homes, leveled three buildings, cut off power and injured two persons. Elam Carlton, superintendent at Oakland High School, said: "The roof was blown off part of the gymnasium, and there was scattered damage throughout the school. Many of the students were inside when it hit, but there were no emergency procedures under way because it hit without warning." March 28, 1980 === Page 47 of 88 N-plant explosion injures 3 workers MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Three construction workers remained hospitalized Monday -- one of them in critical condition -- following in a gas explosion at Consumers Power Co.'s nuclear plant construction site near Midland, officials at a Saginaw hospital said. The explosion occurred Saturday in the auxiliary building at the plant, while construction workers for Bechtel Corp. were checking a leak in a "Mapp" gas line, said Consumers project superintendent Thomas Cooke. The gas was used for steel-cutting construction equipment, and is similar to that used to fuel an acetylene torch, Cooke said. He could not be more specific. The damage, which Cooke called "not major," was confined to an electrical junction in the auxiliary building, and did not involve any nuclear elements. MARCH 18, 1980 Miami Herald March 11, 1980 TVA Suspects Worker KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- (UPI) -- An investigation into a series of mysterious shutdowns at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama was narrowed Monday to one worker. But Tennessee Valley Authority officials said no motive or cause was apparent for the "trippings" that cost users $2.8 million. Miami Herald Turkey Point Turbine on List For Inspection March 11, 1980 Herald Staff and Wire Reports The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered inspections at 11 nuclear power units nationwide, including the Turkey Point unit south of Miami, to detect possible cracks in Westinghouse turbines in use at the plants. NRC spokeswoman Sue Gagner said the cracks pose no nuclear danger. The turbines are located outside the containment structure that protects the nuclear reactors. Turbines are driven at high speed by steam power produced by the nuclear reactor. The turbine spins a shaft that powers electrical generators. "We do not consider this a terribly serious safety concern," Gagner said. "It is something that we're looking at." She said one Westinghouse turbine failed last month at the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant in Massachusetts. Excessive vibration damaged the turbine discs and blades, she said. Gagner said the NRC was concerned about the remote danger that a turbine or piece of a turbine could become detached while spinning at high speed and penetrate the nuclear containment structure. "It is highly improbable, but it is something we're looking at in order to be conservative," she said. Florida Power and Light spokesman Tony Bruns said the utility was aware of the problem before the NRC warning. The utility had discovered cracks in the turbine at Turkey Point III. That turbine on the Turkey Point III unit has already been replaced, Bruns said. The turbine in Turkey Point II will be inspected when the unit shuts down for refueling later this month. The turbine for FPL's St. Lucie I nuclear plant will be inspected when the unit routinely shuts down next week, Bruns said. Other plants receiving the NRC warning include Commonwealth Edison's Zion I unit north of Chicago; the Surry II in Surry, Va.; Robinson near Darlington, S.C.; Point Beach I near Manitowoc, Wis.; Palisades near South Haven, Mich.; Indian Point Units II and III, 25 miles north of New York City; Beaver Valley I, near East Liverpool, Ohio, and Arkansas I near Russellville, Ark. === Page 48 of 88 entists Agree: No One Can 'Win' a Nuclear War Oregonian March 18, 1980 by DR. FREDERIC SOLOMON And DR. MARY COLEMAN A BELIEF that the United States should be able to win an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union appears to be one foundation of George Bush's approach to military and foreign policy. He rejects the idea that nuclear war has no winners. Bush foresees "survivability" of industrial potential, command and control functions, and a "percentage of the citizens" - even if "everybody fires everything he has" in a nuclear exchange. As physicians, we are dismayed and alarmed by these pronouncements of a respected political leader, because current medical knowledge shows Bush's assumptions to be dead wrong. Earlier this month, a group of distinguished physicians and natural scientists met in Cambridge to review the medical consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Harvard and Tufts medical schools and Physicians for Social Responsibility. At the conference, renowned authorities documented the futility of medical disaster planning for nuclear war. Effective civil defense and ecological recovery were likewise shown to be essentially impossible. CONSIDER this information, presented at the symposium: The single bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the explosive force of about 15 kilotons (15,000 tons of TNT). Nuclear weapons in present-day arsenals range in size from one kiloton to 20 megatons (20 million tons of TNT). Today the United States has over 30,000 nuclear bombs, and the Soviet Union has 20,000. In an all-out nuclear exchange, all major population and industrial centers would be hit, both in the United States and the Soviet Union. Such an exchange could be complete in one hour. At least 90 percent of the population of both countries would die as a direct result of the thermonuclear blast and radiation. The survivors, many of them blind and grievously injured, would have to cope with an environmental and ecological catastrophe. Worldwide fallout would contaminate the earth for thousands of years. Plant and bacterial mutations, the disappearance of most birds and mammals, alterations in the earth's temperature, and other atmospheric changes would result in disease, famine, and floods on an unprecedented scale. Drs. Solomon and Coleman have practices in Washington, D.C. AFTER an all-out nuclear war, most of the ozone layer in the earth's atmosphere would be destroyed, according to Professor Henry Kendall, a physicist at M.I.T. The sun's rays would then become terrifying and dangerous. Anyone in the world whose uncovered skin is exposed to daylight would risk incapacitating sunburn within 10 minutes and lethal sunburn within an hour. Skin cancer would become rampant. In the long run, only insects can be assured of survival in such a post-war world. The Cambridge conferees offered conservative estimates of the effects of one 20-megaton thermonuclear bomb upon one large city. Such a bomb would be 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb used on Hiroshima. If the bomb exploded on ground level on a clear day it would create a fireball 1 1/2 miles in diameter, with temperatures of 20 million to 30 million degrees Fahrenheit. Every structure and every living thing in the downtown area would be vaporized. Within a 10-mile radius the blast wave, 180-mph winds, and fire would inflict death or injury on almost every human being. At least 50 per cent would die immediately. Even at 20 miles from the explosion, half the population would be either killed or injured by the blast pressure and heat. Thus a single nuclear device would result in tens of thousands of life-threatening burn injuries. The entire United States has intensive-care facilities for fewer than 2,000 such cases. Many would be killed by random spontaneous fires fueled by oil-storage tanks, natural-gas lines, gasoline, and liquid-natural-gas tanks. These fires might coalesce into an enormous firestorm, 1,200 square miles in area, fanned by 100-200-mph winds, creating temperatures capable of cooking and asphyxiating those in shelters. Altogether, immediate death would come to 2.2 million inhabitants of a metropolitan area like Boston with a population of three million. Survivors of the fires would be exposed to lethal or sublethal doses of radiation from short-term fallout. Even mild winds of 20 miles per hour would carry fallout as far as 150 miles, where everyone exposed would receive a lethal dose within 24 hours. This would cause incurable acute-radiation sickness, with decreased resistance to infection, and inevitable death within one to two weeks. Sublethal doses would produce stillbirths, fetal malformations, leukemia, and cancer. In subsequent generations, if any survived, genetic damage would appear. Hospitals would be destroyed, and most medical personnel would be among the dead and injured. There would be millions of corpses. Food, air, and water would be contaminated. Survivors would die soon from starvation, dehydration, radiation sickness, and infections. These estimates are for only one bomb. Population centers are known to be targeted with many bombs. Yet some political leaders still talk confidently of "winning" a nuclear war, including one in which, as George Bush puts it, "everyone fires everything he has." Note: Read this carefully. Then you can comprehend why my UFOs are desperately trying to get me the Base, so that I can block the above action. (Even to wrecking California.) Owens === Page 49 of 88 Note: Like the UFOs at Dallas airport some years ago, the cover-up... the people in Fla. were getting scared... it was hurting business... so they thought up the life-vest ploy. Owens Thursday, March 20, 1980 THE MIAMI HERALD 15-A # Red Ink Culprit in Flaky Mystery 'We're convinced within the realms of science and the realm of the universe that this is our problem and that we have solved our problem.' -- Dr. David P. Millet Eastern Airlines' medicine director FROM PAGE 1A they do not have carbon dioxide cartridges for inflation. New vests with new, thick deposits of ink tend to flake when pulled on and off over the head. The flakes then tend to spread on the skin -- unnoticed and usually helped by a victim's own hands. They lodge in the sweat pores and masquerade as a rash or even, when smeared or viewed through beads of sweat, as red sweat. Before the vests first came under suspicion last Thursday, the airline had checked everything from stewardess cosmetic kits to water to air-liner cleaning fluids looking for the source. Two flight attendant supervisors, Arnie Petrosino and Sandy Wheeler, finally found what the airline was looking for, last Thursday on Flight 406, a night coach from Fort Lauderdale to Newark. Petrosino questioned a flight attendant shortly after takeoff. She said she had just experienced the itching and tiny rash after taking off the "demo only" vest. The same thing happened the day before after she demonstrated the vest. But the day before that, she demonstrated a different type of vest and got no rash. When Wheeler tried on a vest, she also developed the rash. The next day, red flecks taken from attendants' skin were compared in the laboratory with flecks removed directly from the vests. Eastern used a computerized energy dispersive X-ray attached to a scanning electron microscope and a computerized micro infrared spectrophotometer, which isn't even on the market yet. The flecks matched. Other airlines using the same company's life vests have reported no red rashes, but Millett said he did receive some "rumors and anonymous calls" about possible outbreaks elsewhere. The vests flake easily. Winnie Gilbert, Eastern's vice president for in-flight services, got a dot of "red sweat" above her right eyelid after demonstrating the vest at a news conference Wednesday. One nagging problem is that a few of the reports of red sweat, 3-5 per cent in Millett's estimation, didn't seem to involve life vests. The company is continuing to investigate those, he said. Physicians from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati aided in the investigation. The Transport Workers Union, representing the flight attendants, was hesitant to lay the case finally to rest. "We hope this cures it all," said Dorothy Payne, health and welfare officer for TWU Local 553. "All we can do is wait and see if the reports end." === Page 50 of 88 Miami Herald Mystery Solved: No Sweat 3/20/80 By PATRICK MALONE Herald Medical Writer The combined resources of two federal health agencies and the nation's second-largest airline say they have cracked the mystery of red sweat afflicting Eastern Airlines flight attendants. The answer: red ink. The ink flakes off the words "DEMO ONLY" stenciled on Eastern's demonstration life vests. The high-altitude medical mystery had spooked Eastern employees and puzzled officials since January. Red spots and a pinkish ooze were the symptoms. Eastern flight attendants flying usually in A300 Airbuses, usually between Florida and New York, always on routes that passed over deep water, were the sole victims. The vests, worn only by flight attendants and demonstrated only on flights over water, were stenciled in red ink, "Demo Only." Tiny flakes from the ink produced what seemed to be a rash and pinkish-red sweating in nearly 100 Eastern flight attendants during the past three months. It took a scanning electron microscope, a computerized micro-infrared-spectrophotometer, two federal health agencies, the full medical resources of the nation's second largest airline plus two very shrewd flight attendant supervisors to solve the great red sweat mystery. The demonstration vests have been removed from the planes. "We're convinced within the realms of science and the realm of the universe that this is our problem and that we have solved our problem," Eastern's director of flight medicine, Dr. David P. Millett, announced Wednesday. The ink flecks caused itching in some of the victims but are no health hazard, he stressed. The red sweat was so nicknamed because it seemed to color its victims' sweat as well as give them a tiny rash on the face, neck, hands, chest or thighs. The disease was laid to rest as no disease at all barely a week after it was revealed as a baffling ailment unheard of in medical science. The vests, manufactured by American Safety Equipment Corp., of Miami, are stamped "Demo Only" to indicate that Turn to Page 15A Col. 1 - BILL FRAKES / Miami Herald Staff Source of the Red Sweat: the Words 'DEMO ONLY' on Life Vest Eastern Airlines' Diane Dillon displays culprit in 'mysterious disease' === Page 51 of 88 Power, blankets earth in a red glow. I believe this "Red Sweat" is Pyr-Cee's "signature" on its work just as in my UFO demonstrations the SI's have used people named "Owens" as their signature!! Owens # dicts EAL Attendants Miami Herald By PATRICK MALONE Herald Medical Writer It happens about 1 1/2 hours after takeoff. Always on Eastern Airlines planes. Usually on New York to South Florida trips. Usually on the European-built A300 jet. A flight attendant feels light-headed, then experiences a stinging sensation on the skin. Then wetness on the face or neck. The attendant wipes at it, and the hand comes away with a pinkish-red fluid. It is another case of red sweat. More than 80 Eastern flight attendants have complained of red sweat, dubbed that for lack of a better term. Most cases have occurred this year, though some date back several years. The sweat affects both sexes. Pilots and passengers have not been afflicted. It appears suddenly along with a pinprick red rash on the skin, sometimes on the face and neck, also on the chest, abdomen, back and thighs. The red sweat usually lasts only a minute or so, but the rash can linger for hours and cause itching and burning. IT DOES not seem to be blood. It may or may not be sweat. What causes red sweat is a mystery to Eastern officials and aviation medical experts around the country. Skin specialists say the outbreak is unheard-of in medical history. The flight attendants union is upset enough that it may call for grounding of the Airbus A300, a 240-passenger plane that Eastern has flown since December 1978, if a solution is not forthcoming within a month. But Eastern officials are frustrated by a lack of evidence. The skin oozing usually is gone by the time a doctor can see it. Eastern's director of flight medicine, Dr. David Millett, rode three round trips from New York to Miami, looking for cases. He found four attendants with isolated red dots on their skin, but no red sweat. One evening, Eastern sent investigators to Fort Lauderdale to pick up a towel smeared with red sweat. The laboratory analysis of the pink blotch reported human perspiration mixed with makeup. Nothing else. "Spooky," says Dr. Millett. But very real, he says. "A will-o'-the-wisp," says Eastern's public relations chief, Jim Ashlock. REPORTS OF the malady are Turn to Page 4A Col. 1 # Is Baffling An Airline FROM PAGE 1A pouring into Eastern and the Transport Workers Union. Some attendants have experienced it two and three times. A male flight attendant noticed it on a flight from Kennedy Airport to Mexico City Jan. 25. "Bleeding slightly from the pores on my face," he described it. On Feb. 1, a woman attendant noticed it on a flight from Miami to Kennedy. "I once again broke out in blood spots on my upper chest and upper-left forehead," she reported. "I feel this incident is happening all too frequently. I am naturally very concerned." On Feb. 16, another woman attendant: "On a Fort Lauderdale turnaround I noticed a small amount of blood on my forehead on the southbound trip. Then when we switched planes to return to LaGuardia, just before we started boarding, I noticed many small red pinpricks in the pores on both hands, the majority on my right hand. Several when touched smeared red." Eastern has turned the Airbus inside out looking for a cause. The atmosphere in the plane was checked for irritating gases. CLEANSERS USED on the plane were checked for anything unusual not used on other airliners. Cosmetics used by the flight attendants now are being checked. So far, all leads have produced nothing. Concerned about the reputation of its new plane, Eastern officials are quick to note that no other airline using the A300 has had problems with red sweat; that cases have been reported, though isolated, on L1011s and DC9s; that in most cases, only New York to Florida flights have been affected. SEE ABOVE!! And the victims are predominantly flight attendants based in New York and New Jersey. Only a few living in Miami have sweat red. Dr. Harvey Blank, chief of dermatology at the University of Miami, has never heard of an epidemic of colored sweat, whatever the color. "There's nothing that makes sweat red. Physiologically, it just can't happen," says Dr. Stephen Mandy, a South Dade dermatologist who treats many Eastern flight attendants, though none with red sweat. Veterinarians note that one animal has naturally red sweat. But the hippopotamus has answered no questions so far for the Eastern attendants. A HEREDITARY condition can make people develop colored sweat, but it is constantly that color, not just for a few minutes. The condition itself is rare and doctors have seen black sweat, violet sweat and brown sweat -- but not red sweat. Some chemicals can turn sweat or the oil on the skin colors, and doctors believe one will eventually prove the culprit. For example, ninhydrin, a chemical commonly used by police detectives to pick up latent fingerprints, can turn sweat blue. Actual blood in the sweat is a sign of a serious blood disease and would not occur without other signs of illness. All of the Eastern victims have been otherwise healthy. Eastern officials first thought the ailment could be a kind of mass hysteria but now believe its cause is something as yet undetected in the environment. The oozing and the rash don't last long, and the worst problem, besides cosmetic embarrassment, seems to be itching and burning of the skin for a few hours. Long-term problems are unknown, but that is no comfort to the Eastern attendants. === Page 52 of 88 Oregonian March 21, 1980 # Brewer s **By STEVE KELLEY** **of The Oregonian staff** Ron Brewer gets paid for shooting the basketball. When he's hitting his jump shot, leaping off the court and flicking his wrist with that textbook follow-through, he is as big a bargain as the Portland Trail Blazers have. When the jump shot isn't falling -- and lately it hasn't been -- Brewer's game is no bargain at all. He doesn't have the overall floor game, the ball-handling skills and defensive instincts to carry him when he is in a shooting slump. When he's not hitting, Brewer does a lot more sitting. Brewer's shooting difficulties have lingered for more than a month. The Blazers thought it was serious enough that Dr. Bruce Ogilvie, a pioneer in sports psychology, met with Brewer in Salt Lake City earlier this month to discuss the problem. "I was going through my slump, and the Blazers made him (Ogilvie) available to me," Brewer said Thursday. "He had seen me play at the first part of the season and then later, when I was in my slump. He told me I was second-guessing myself. I wasn't playing with those killer instincts. I was just laying back and watching for the outcome." As the slump worsened, Brewer became more reluctant to shoot. He began to pass up open shots, and that stalled the rest of the offense. "I had already seen some of the things he (Ogilvie) was talking about," said Brewer, who probably will be matched against Paul Westphal when the Blazers meet the Phoenix Suns at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Coliseum. "But I didn't think that I should just keep shooting when I was shooting bad. I thought it was better to get my teammates involved." Brewer has hit only 39 percent of his shots during the last six games, but there have been some signs that he is climbing out of his prolonged slump. He hit 11 of 17 shots Tuesday in the victory over Milwaukee and scored 12 fourth-quarter points in the overtime victory Wednesday at Golden State. But when he was asked if Ogilvie's counseling helped him, Brewer just smiled. "I think I helped myself more than anybody," he said. "No one else can tell you how to solve a problem, when you know what you've been doing for a long time. I just realized that you got to keep on doing the thing that got you to where you are. I'm a good shooter, and I've got to take my shots." A slump can have a snowball effect. Brewer said he got caught in an avalanche of self-doubt. "At first I was missing shots I normally make, and then I started thinking to myself, 'I shouldn't be missing those shots.' That's when I started to take time and started aiming the ball. "Now, I've settled down and just started shooting," he said. "You just have to keep your head together when you're in a slump, and it will take care of itself." Like most of his teammates, Brewer also is reaping the benefits of a 6-foot-4 phenomenon known as Billy Ray Bates. Just as Magic Johnson gave the Los Angeles Lakers a joie de vivre this season, so Bates, called "an acorn of gold" by Utah Coach Tom Nissalke, has done it for Portland. He's enthusiastic and loose. He's done wonders for the mental state of the uptight Blazers. Bates is a motivator, one who influences, and that is what Brewer has needed. Earlier in the season, the Blazers always went to Brewer when they needed an important basket. Now, however, Bates has taken some of that scoring responsibility off Brewer. "With him on the floor, you tend to get a lot of open shots," Brewer said. "When he has the ball in his hands, things happen. He's what I call a miniature Darryl Dawkins. "He does all those artistic dunks and that pumps us all up. We always go to Billy Ray first in layup drills. He does one of those dunks, and that gets the fans ready. It's not just a routine drill after that, because everybody is watching us. "He is so effective. All he needs is the ball in his hands." === Page 53 of 88 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 23, 1980 # Unseasonal storm batters Northeast; fi By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Newborn spring threw a tantrum Saturday, assaulting the Northeast with roof-ripping winds, heavy snows and driving rains that caused the worst floods in 25 years in some areas. Communities were awash across New York and New England, where up to 9 inches of rain fell. Many bridges were gone, water was waist deep across some roads and highways. Hundreds of families abandoned their homes, others were isolated. At least five persons were killed in weather-related accidents Friday and Saturday. They included a 26-year-old Maryland woman blown into the path of an oncoming car in the suburbs of Washington, where winds were clocked at more than 60 mph. While gale-force winds pounded the Eastern states from Virginia to New England, 2 feet of snow were dumped in parts of western New York state near Buffalo and parts of northwestern New Jersey and Massachusetts got at least a foot. "It looks like we've got kind of an isolated section of New Jersey that's getting clobbered," said Ben Scott, chief meteorologist at the weather service bureau at Newark International Airport. "Some places had 10 to 12 inches and it's still coming down." Flooding caused the greatest problems in upstate New York. "We've got people stranded all over the place," said Sheriff Thomas Mayone in Ulster County, N.Y., one of the regions under a state of emergency. "It's a heck of a mess." The Town of Middleburgh in Schoharie County, N.Y., was cut off from the outside world as floods blocked two state highways. But many of the residents had been evacuated Friday when the creeks started to rise. All roads in Kingston, N.Y., were closed and 60 to 80 families were evacuated. Also hard hit by flash floods were the New York towns of Woodstock, Saugerties, Olive, New Paltz and Shandaken. The National Weather Service said the flooding in parts of New York and New England was the worst since 1955, the year of the last major flood in the Northeast. The town of Tannersville in southeastern New York State had received 9 inches of rain since Friday morning. In Massachusetts, where the Westfield River surged over its banks after 3 inches of rain fell, Westfield Police Chief Gerald O'Connor also said the water was the highest it's been in his city since the 1955 flood. Students attending a dance at a high school in Huntington, Mass., found their routes home blocked by water. While state police led some of them home in a convoy, 23 students and a dozen adults spent the night in the school. At 3 a.m. they were playing basketball in the gym. Massachusetts police closed several stretches of U.S 20 between West Springfield and the Berkshires hilltown of Becket. Winds clocked at more than 60 mph Friday night at National Airport in Washington knocked out scores of windows in high-rise buildings in the Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria. Falling trees damaged houses and brought down power lines in several areas around Washington, and winds toppled some trucks on the highways. Winds in the Newark, N.J., area lifted the entire roof from a bank and part of the roof of a department store. Heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday also caused flooding in Mississippi and Tennessee and at least 17 persons were injured when tornadoes touched down in Alabama and Georgia. In New York, the giant twin towers of the World Trade Center swayed in 50 mph winds Friday, triggering an automatic shutoff that briefly trapped 60 people in high-speed express elevators. Freak winds in Los Angeles ripped a bench from the pavement and hurled a 73-year-old woman 50 feet into the street, but she escaped serious injury. In Detroit, electrical service was out in some homes and businesses for as long as 18 hours, after a storm swept into southeastern Michigan early Friday. In Jackson, Miss., the Pearl River flooded city streets, and flash flooding in Tennessee forced evacuations in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Fayetteville. # quickly Columbian March 27, 1980 Power fails, homes go dark as sun rises An unexplained equipment failure today plunged 6,400 Clark County homes into darkness, just as many persons were preparing to leave for work. The outage hit three substations from Felida north to Ridgefield and lasted up to an hour. Clark County Public Utility District spokesman Mick Shutt said the substations were knocked out when a Bonneville Power Administration transmission line shut down as if there were a short in the neighborhood distribution system. PUD crews checked main lines and, finding nothing amiss, flipped switches, returning power. One area had its lights restored after 35 minutes but most were closer to one hour, starting at 6:50 a.m. In Ridgefield, postmaster Chet Scott said carriers had to use flashlights to sort mail. He laughed and added: "I thought (Mount) St. Helens had erupted, and we were all covered up with ashes." === Page 54 of 88 Sunday 9 PM to Sign-off Street II," Lottie (Lalla Ward) arrives on a holiday with a new interest in men. Louisa: Gemma Jones. Olive: Helen Ryan. Howard: Richard Morant. Major Smith-Barton: Richard Vernon. Pearl: Pauline Quirke. Mary: Victoria Plucknett. (60 min.) 12 IN SEARCH OF 9:30 5 JEFFERSONS Lionel and Jenny's hopes for their first home are dashed when their mortgage application is rejected. George: Sherman Hemsley. Louise: Isabel Sanford. Lionel: Mike Evans. Jenny: Berlinda Tolbert. Helen: Roxie Roker. Tom: Franklin Cover. Sweeney: Arthur Rosenberg. Bentley: Paul Benedict. Florence: Marla Gibbs. 12 GOOD NEWS 10PM 3 SHADES OF GREENE--Drama Two stories: "Alas, Poor Maling" and "Mortmain." In the first, a man is embarrassed by his stomach's imaginative rumblings. Sir Joshua: John Boxer. Hythe: Clifford Parrish. (60 min.) Fun in the year of the family BICYCLE RIDER BACK PLAYING CARDS They're guaranteed THE UNITED STATES PLAYING CARD COMPANY Subsidiary of Diamond International Corporation A-40 TV GUIDE MARCH 23, 1980 6 TRAPPER JOHN, M.D.--Drama Trapper's ex-wife Melanie (Jessica Walter) brings an abandoned baby to the hospital unaware the infant is infected with a contagious--and deadly--disease. Trapper: Pernell Roberts. Gonzo: Gregory Harrison. Riverside: Charles Siebert. Starch: Mary McCarty. Ripples: Christopher Norris. Jackpot: Brian Mitchell. Slocum: Simon Scott. (60 min.) Guest Cast Veronica .......... Imogene Coca Mother .......... Kaye Ballard Father .......... Philip Bruns 10 FREE TO CHOOSE--Economics MARCH 23, 1980 10:30 11P 8 HOT HERO SANDWICH--Children Author Judy Blume, Hal Linden, Olivia Newton-John and Christopher Reeve are interviewed. Also: the Persuasions sing "Train a-Comin'" and "Return to Sender." (60 min.) 11: 11: 10 MYSTERY! The new Mrs. De Winter (Joanna David) finds Manderley dominated by the memory of "Rebecca" in Part 2. Maxim: Jeremy Brett. (60 min.) 3:30 2 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS The Atlanta 500, taped at the Atlanta International Raceway. Among the NASCAR drivers expected in the field are Buddy Baker, who won this event last year at a record average speed (165.951 mph); and Bobby Allison, the 1978 winner. Estimated purse: $175,000. . . . The Triathlon, an incredible test of endurance in which competitors swim 2.5 miles on the open ocean, bicycle 112 miles around the Hawaiian island of Oahu and run a 11: 12: close up Sunday 3 PM to 5 PM regulation, 26-mile-plus marathon--all on the same day. Commentators include Jackie Stewart, Al Michaels and Jim Lampley. (90 min.) 6 FISHING WITH ROLAND MARTIN Featured: swampland bass-fishing. 4 PM 3 EIGHT LIVELY ARTS 6 FISHIN' HOLE Bass fishing in La Grange, Texas. 8 JACQUES COUSTEAU The adventures of two young fur seals who join Cousteau's ship Calypso on a voyage to the Caribbean. (60 min.) 10 WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW 4:30 3 CONSULTATION--Health 6 FACE THE NATION 10 WALL STREET WEEK--Louis Rukeyser 12 IN SEARCH OF An examination of earthquake detection features a look at California's San Andreas fault. 5 PM 2 6 8 NEWS 3 BOOK BEAT "The Divas" is discussed by baritone TENSPEED AND BROWN SHOE 8 PM 2 SAVAGE SAYS: THE MOST DANGEROUS BIRD IS THE JAILBIRD It was one of those days. First, a visit from E.L.'s parole officer, who suspects the slippery Tenspeed (Ben Vereen) of "scamming some penthouse again." Then there's Phyllis Lattiger with a "ticklish problem." But before she can explain, two goons haul her away. "You wanna stay alive?" they advise. "Forget this." But Lionel (Jeff Goldblum) can't forget--about Phyllis or his partner's brush with the parole board. "I'm staying in George Hamilton's beach house," E.L. reluctantly confesses. "I'm feeding his hawk. I just delivered it and offered to take care of it while he's in Europe." Re-enter Phyllis, who wants the boys to help her get free of her hotheaded mobster boy friend--the same Tommy Tedesco Lionel and E.L. once sent up the river. Tommy's idea of justice: "We're gonna dust these guys." Tommy: Richard Romanus. Phyllis: Shelley Smith. Johnny: Richard Dimitri. Chip Vincent: Larry Manetti. Craig: Woody Eney. (60 min.) Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen TV GUIDE A-29 === Page 55 of 88 March 23, 1980 Oregonian # Rally fails, Blazers fall to Suns I picked this game on radio Paul Westphal and Leonard Robinson squelched a Portland Trail Blazer rally in the fourth quarter to preserve a 111-100 National Basketball Association victory for the Phoenix Suns at Memorial Coliseum Friday night. The Blazers lost no ground in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot, however. Seattle nicked San Diego 103-95 to keep Portland one-half game ahead of the Clippers in the Pacific Division standings. Portland is 35-41; San Diego is 35-43. Portland will play San Diego at 7 p.m. Sunday in the coliseum. Portland trailed by as many as 19 points early in the third quarter, but an 11-point period by Tom Owens brought the Blazers back back to within 10 at 80-70 going into the final 12 minutes. Phoenix moved out to a nine-point lead midway through the final period, but Billy Ray Bates came off the bench for an eight-point spree in a span of 2:55. His last basket in the spurt brought the Blazers within 94-92 with 4:27 left, but Robinson hit two baskets and Westphal hit a pair of free throws and two field goals to make it 104-94 for the Suns with 1:34 left. Robinson and Westphal each scored 23 points for Phoenix, while Bates led the Blazers with 16. A comatose second quarter put the Blazers in a 53-38 hole at halftime. The speedy Suns ran fastbreaks through the muddied Blazer defense for repeated layups and foul opportunities. The Suns hit 13 of 15 at the line for the half while Portland hit 2 of 4. It was poor shooting, rather than fouls, that put the Blazers behind. They hit a respectable 11 of 22 to stay within four (27-23) at the first-quarter break, but went in the tank for just seven field goals in 24 shots in the second period. Portland had only three points to show for the last 3:27 of the second quarter. PHOENIX (111) Oregonian # Bart Wright March 23, 1980 # Bates reflects changing times Phoenix Suns assistant coach Al Bianchi was moved to reflect on events of another time Friday night after watching his team methodically wear down the Trail Blazers 111-100 at Memorial Coliseum. Bianchi was talking in moody, sentimental tones. Certainly, this wasn't Portland, this place where rowdy fans turned ugly and littered the basketball court with coins, ice and garbage in displeasure over the officiating of Jake O'Donnell. And what happened to the Trail Blazers, that well-disciplined unit of efficiency? The team Phoenix had just beaten had no sense of its own offense in the first half, and when it made its run at the Suns in the second half, it was led by some freewheeling free agent fresh out of the Continental Rat Ball League. "That was scary out there," Bianchi said of the shower of litter. "This crowd never used to be like this. It was always hard to win here, but at least the crowd wasn't like this." "Bates?" Bianchi said, "Yes, we've heard of him, we know he can play. What surprises me is not that he's in the NBA, but that he's with this team." "It really tells you something about this league, doesn't it," Bianchi asked rhetorically. "When you consider it wasn't that long ago that this team was on top of the world and people were talking about dynasty and all that. Now, it's just three years later and they are relying on a guy from the Continental League to get them into the playoffs." What it says about the league is that a team can tear itself apart a lot faster than it can build itself up. And the shower of refuse indicates how frustrated the fans can get when they see their beloved winners deteriorate into a collection of mismatched parts with no apparent sense of purpose. Until the Blazers are finally relieved of the misery of this unpleasant season, there is little on the team to get excited about outside of that aforementioned refugee from the nether world of pro basketball, free agent Billy Ray Bates. BILLY RAY BATES 2 === Page 56 of 88 Oregon Journal 3-24-80 # Powerful spring storms bring blizzards, floods By United Press International Powerful storms brought torrential rains and a blinding blizzard on the first weekend of spring. Floods claimed at least four lives and a fifth person was presumed drowned. A flash-flood warning was in effect Monday for Connecticut and flash-flood watches were posted for parts of Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. Heavy weekend rains forced about 440 New York families from their homes. A concoction of rain, sleet, snow and whistling winds hit Iowa Monday morning, temporarily knocking out power for at least three suburban Des Moines towns. The National Weather Service said the state could expect 3 inches of snow. A blizzard warning was issued Sunday night for southwestern and south-central Kansas. In parts of the state, 35 mph wind, whipping as much as 15 inches of snow, made traveling almost impossible. In New York, the Red Cross said more than one-quarter of the evacuated families lived in Schoharie County. Many rivers in central and southeastern New York reached their highest levels in several years. A man trapped in his car in the Greene County hamlet of Leeds was washed away Saturday by the flooding Catskill Creek, troopers said. State police reported another storm-related fatality when Randall Wood, 19, a Hobart College freshman from Auburn, Mass., was killed when he fell into a runoff gorge of Seneca Lake south of Geneva early Saturday. In Connecticut, two youths died and a third man was presumed drowned in weekend boating accidents on rivers swollen by 5 inches of rain. John Throckmorton, 16, and John Sussenguth, 17, both of Wilton, were swept into the gushing Norwalk River in Wilton and drowned after a raft they and another teen were riding capsized. Gregory Wilson, 16, was pulled to safety by police and later treated for exposure and released. In another boating accident, police called off a search at nightfall Sunday for Donald Cornwall, 44, of North Haven, who was presumed drowned when a canoe he and a companion were in capsized as it went over a falls on the Mill River in Sleeping Giant State Park. The search resumed Monday. The Connecticut River crested at 2 to 3 three feet above its 16-foot flood stage and the Housatonic crested but was expected to be above flood stage until Monday. Northern Mississippi residents braced under a flash-flood watch Sunday night as a new storm system threatened to dump more rain on the state's already swollen rivers and streams. "The ground is still saturated from last week's heavy rainfall," the Weather Service said. "Therefore, most of what falls tonight will run off into streams and rivers that are already swollen." In Kansas, a Dodge City resident said the conditions were dangerous there, as drifting snow and 30 to 35 mph wind made travel hazardous. "Everybody's just kind of dug in," said Frank Guff of Dodge City. "Nobody has any business being outside." 3-24-80 Oregon Journal # Flood-swollen lake receding LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (UPI) -- Flood-swollen Lake Elsinore -- now three times its normal size -- has finally started to recede. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers measured a nearly half-inch drop in the water level Saturday, the first time the spreading lake has stopped growing in more than a month. The lake crested Friday at 1,265.72 feet above sea level -- 20 feet deeper than it was earlier this year -- then fell four-tenths of an inch Saturday. Officials said the trend will continue if there are no heavy rains. The rising waters left many homes submerged -- rooftops pock the lake surface and utility poles poke out of the murky marsh. Riverside County spokesman John Jacobs said up to 300 houses, mobile homes and businesses were flooded, and 230 more were damaged. Nearly 700 permanent trailers and mobile homes, and 250 permanent businesses were damaged or moved to higher ground. The small resort community suffered an estimated $34 million in damage -- $25 million to private property and at least $8.7 million to public property. Oregonian 3-25-80 # Blizzard maroons travelers JETMORE, Kan. (AP) -- More than 100 travelers huddled in a church in this small southwestern Kansas town Monday after spending the night on pews and behind the pulpit when they were stranded by one of the worst blizzards in the state this century. The 135 unexpected guests at the United Presbyterian Church, including a baseball team from a Colorado junior college, were among thousands across the state who took refuge from the snowstorm at motels, National Guard armories and even a city jail. The storm left up to a foot of snow in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where rescue crews freed dozens of people stranded in snowbound vehicles Sunday night. Near Dodge City, in western Kansas, an armored personnel carrier was pressed into service to break through drifts and rescue more than 40 motorists, some of whom had been stranded in their cars for up to 16 hours. Drifts as deep as 3 feet and abandoned cars prevented snowplows from getting through. "The area is paralyzed," said Phil Shideler of the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds up to 45 mph accompanied the fast-moving storm and reduced visibility to near zero in some spots. "You could write a novel about this," said the Rev. Stan Adamson of the church in Jetmore, which has a population of about 1,000. He described how two young mothers and their children were separated from other families in their party when their car made it to Jetmore but two other cars became marooned north of town. "They were really worried because there were children in the other cars. The mothers were here from 6 o'clock until about 9:30, and then the sheriff came in carrying the kids. It was quite a poignant reunion. There were a lot of tears and kisses," Adamson said. The Storms are "The Force" reaching out to knock out power forms. Owens === Page 57 of 88 PK'd on radio. Owens. # Clippers' expectations pfttt . . . By NORM MAVES JR. March 24, 1980. The Oregonian staff Now is as good a time as any to file the San Diego Clippers under "great events that forgot to happen." Right in there with the Spruce Goose, Anzio, Adlai Stevenson and the reunion of the Beatles. Mathematically, it's not over. The Clippers are 1 1/2 games behind Portland in the race for the last Western Conference playoff spot with three to go. But only a near-perfect combination of San Diego wins and Portland losses will save the season -- temporarily -- for a team which had every reason last fall to anticipate participation in the National Basketball Association playoffs. Remember last September? The Clippers, who had barely missed the playoffs last season, had just signed perhaps the best center in the NBA. They had a reborn Lloyd Free running a backcourt full of prospects. They were predicted to finish anywhere from second to fifth in the Pacific Division. Now that same franchise is fighting for air, knowing that its next breath could be its last. If Sunday night's 98-91 loss to the Trail Blazers is indeed the end of the road, it somehow figured to end the way it did. There were the Clippers, down 64-44 early in the third quarter and seemingly putting up only a token fight. Then they summoned what was left of their strength and their depleted bench nearly brought it off. Expectably, a couple of bonehead plays at the end contributed to the loss. But consider for a moment how the Clippers have managed to stay in it this long. In order to obtain Bill Walton, they had to give up the heart of their 1979 rebounding strength, Kermit Washington; then, Walton broke a bone in his foot and missed the first 60 games. During all that time, three guards -- Lloyd Free, Freeman Williams and Brian Taylor -- and a playing-out-of-his-mind Swen Nater carried them. Free sulked about his contract, and even when Walton came back for 14 games, the combinations never clicked. Then Free declared himself out for the season. "It's been frustrating for me," said Taylor. "I've known what it's been like to be on a championship from the ABA (New York Nets) and I thought that when we signed Bill that we could be right back there. "But Kermit was still in the picture back then. When he left, he took a real rebounding force with him. After giving him up, we lost Bill for 60 games. Back then we figured that if we could just hang on until he came back, we could make a run at the playoffs." Even the addition of Walton didn't change much. "When Bill came back, his feet were still hurting him," continued Taylor, who talked while bags of ice were being taped to his shooting shoulder. "The combinations didn't click." It was a lesson, said Taylor, on distinguishing potential from reality. "We hoped to be, on paper, a great team," he said. "But all season long it's been like trying to put the pieces in the puzzle. Everybody hopes to have a great team on paper, but it's one thing to be a great team on paper -- it's another to have that manifest itself on the court." Williams, who in his second season has become a bona fide NBA player, felt the same way. "It was such a big thing then," he said. "They all said 'San Diego is going to be a winner, San Diego is going to be a winner,' but it never came off. We have made a good run at the playoffs, and we're not out of it yet. It took us a while to get together, but we have stayed alive this far." Now San Diego's chances look slim. They get a home court crack at the Blazers Thursday, but finish at Los Angeles and Phoenix; Portland plays Kansas City at home Tuesday, then finishes at San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle. "It doesn't look good," conceded Taylor. "But even if we don't make it, we can still say we gave it our best shot. I think that I, and the team, can say we gave it our best shot under these circumstances, then we can still hold our heads up." === Page 58 of 88 4-8-80 Note: This rig Scotland rig destroyed within days!! Of course, oil & gas are (Power) source. Owens Tuesday, March 25, 1980 THE MIAMI HERALD 5- # Warning of Blowout Unheeded; 2 Dead, 4 Lost on Offshore Well Miami Herald 3/25/80 (See rig overturn off Scotland within days.) GALVESTON, Tex. -- (UPI) -- An offshore gas well exploded during drilling operations Monday. Crewmen -- warned in advance of a possible blowout -- jumped into the Gulf of Mexico to escape the flames. Six workers apparently were killed and 29 others were injured. Two bodies were recovered from the platform 95 miles southeast of Galveston, and another four crewmen were listed as missing and presumed dead. An emergency medical technician flown to a Shell Oil Co. rig where the injured were taken in the predawn hours by boat said he learned from talking with survivors that they tried to save the well after experiencing drilling problems. Pennzoil of Houston operated the platform. "The drill hit a gas pocket and bucked back up. They said they tried to drill on through it but it didn't work. I think they were trying to save the rig, trying to keep it from blowing out," said David White, senior supervisor for Galveston Emergency Medical Services. He said the men had "six minutes warning" but chose not to heed it. When the well blew, "most of them jumped over the edge into the water and then the boats picked them up," he said. "They had emergency ropes. There were a lot of rope burns on hands." Pennzoil spokesman Bob Harper said one well had been drilled from the platform. The well blew out about 12:15 a.m. and burned throughout the day. Wildfire expert Red Adair of Houston sent crews to the platform to try to extinguish the blaze. The first helicopter flight of injured left the rig about 6 a.m., White said. John Sealy Hospital admitted 11 of the 29 persons treated for burns, fractures and other injuries. By late afternoon, all 11 were reported in fair condition or better. The victims were not identified. All but one of the workers were employed by Pool Offshore Co. of Harvey, La. The other worker was employed by Pennzoil. The dead were identified as Richard D. McDonald, 30, of Friendswood, and Douglas James Sparks, 23, of Houston, by the Galveston County Medical Examiner, who ordered autopsies. Columbian 4/2/80 - World "Power" Attack - # Snowstorms kill calves, leave homes powerless By AP, UPI The third snowstorm within a week was moving today into the Great Plains where heavy snow already on the ground hampered efforts to restore electricity and rescue cattle. In the South, rivers climbed in Louisiana, flooding homes and an interstate highway. As a new storm began to move in from Arizona, Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm on Tuesday ordered a National Guard helicopter to drop hay to 6,000 snowbound cattle. A thousand families were without power on the state's eastern plains. "Baby calves are being dropped (born) and dying right on the spot," said rancher Joe Ortner of Holyoke in northeast Colorado. "Some babies are being separated from their mothers. Now the coyotes are starting to work on the calves. I chased some off last night." The snow storm which dumped up to 4 inches in northern Arizona was heading northeast toward the Plains and winter storm watches were posted for southeastern Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska. "It will be dangerous for young livestock," said John Eakin of the National Weather Service in Denver. A surprise April Fools' Day storm blustered into Southern California Tuesday and floodwaters from the rising Pearl River trickled into Louisiana homes near New Orleans. The National Weather Service said the Pearl approached 20 feet Tuesday, exceeding the highest officially recorded crest of 19.7 feet in April 1900. A low-pressure system over Arizona spread rain across sections of the extreme southwestern United States. Travelers advisories for snow were in effect for the central Arizona mountains and northwestern New Mexico. The NWS said the low would move across Colorado toward the mid-Mississippi Valley today, bringing more snow to the Central Rockies and Western-Central Plains tonight. === Page 59 of 88 3 1/2 Oregon Journal 3-27-80 # Sea floor 'collision' bends NW, spawns its volcanoes By PHIL ADAMSAK Journal Staff Writer The Pacific Northwest's volcanoes and California's earthquakes have the same cause, according to a leading Oregon geologist. And the San Andreas fault is involved in both. Professor Brian Baker of the University of Oregon geology department says the Northwest slowly is being bent out of shape by a "collision" with the floor of the Pacific Ocean. He says the bending causes "stretch marks" -- deep cracks in the crust -- that fill with molten rock and occasionally erupt as volcanoes. Baker is a scholar of "spreading," which is the way molten rock flows to the surface of the Earth through cracks, and pushes the sides of the cracks apart. He lived for 17 years in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, one of the few places where spreading happens on dry land and can be watched. Mostly it happens on ocean floors. About 200 miles off the Oregon Coast a rift called the Juan de Fuca Ridge shoves the Pacific floor toward land. It doesn't move fast -- only about 2 meters a century. But in geological terms, in a million years it amounts to 20,000 meters or about 11 miles of movement by a sheet of rock 4 miles thick. Pressing northeast, the oceanic plate slips beneath the continental plate, slanting toward the planet's molten depths. The friction is immense, and the strain is felt through most of the Western states, all the way to the east slope of the Rocky Mountains. Coastal California releases the pressure in earthquakes along the San Andreas fault. Up here, it's different. A pattern of stretch marks begins in Western Arizona, runs through Nevada and Northern California, arcs through Central Oregon, along the Cascades and northward into Puget Sound. A pattern of volcanoes follows the cracks. Some of these hardly fit popular notions of volcanoes. They form low, gently sloping shield-shaped mounds slowly piled up by oozing magma. Others, like the pinnacles of the high Cascades, become so-called composite volcanoes. A series of eruptions builds like a layer cake. Mount St. Helens is one, and so is Mount Hood. Occasionally one explodes. That's what happened at Crater Lake 7,600 years ago. Ralph Mason, retired state geologist, says red-hot ash, pebbles, and even boulders roared out of Mount Mazama in a glowing red cloud on 100-mph wind, scorching the countryside for 35 miles. In a few hours the firestorm halted, but a plume of steam and pumice shot 14,000 feet into the sky and drifted on a south wind for days. Traces of it can be found in Washington, more than 200 miles from the volcano. Eventually the top of the mountain collapsed into a huge bowl scoured out by the eruption and was filled by rain and snow to form Crater Lake. CRACKED UNDER STRAIN -- Tugged crosswise by the Pacific Ocean floor, the Pacific Northwest is wrinkled and cracked, and molten rock breaks through to make volcanoes. I.E. Mt. St. Helens activation presumably could ignite the San Andreas fault (affect it) causing massive Calif. earthquakes. Oregon Journal 3-24-80 # Rainier UFO sitings climb SEATTLE (UPI) -- Fighting in Afghanistan and unrest in Iran has prompted numerous visits by unidentified flying objects to the Mount Rainier area, according to Wayne S. Aho. "When there is unrest in the world, the U.F.O.s start coming, to warn us of our folly," says Aho, whose New Age Foundation has been studying U.F.O.s for 25 years. "There is almost a mathematical curve for these things." Aho says a number of sightings of "bright, moving lights" have been reported near Elbe and Ashford, Pierce County, just outside Mount Rainier National Park. Aho's group believes the mountain is one of the major landing zones for U.F.O.s, dating from the first recorded "modern-day" sighting of U.F.O.s in 1947 by a Boise, Idaho, lumberman. Note: It is most interesting that both of my "signs" or "signatures" have now revealed themselves at Mt. Rainier & close by Mt. St. Helens blue lightning & UFOs. === Page 60 of 88 Oregonian World "Power" Attack march 27, 1980 # U.S.'s biggest nuclear utility indicted in security case By ROBERT PEAR New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The Commonwealth Edison Co., the country's biggest nuclear utility, and two of its officials were indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiracy and false statements relating to alleged breaches of security at the company's nuclear power plant on the Mississippi River at Cordova, Ill. A Justice Department spokesman, Dean St. Dennis, said the indictment represented the first time such charges had been brought against a nuclear power company. The nine-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Ill., said the company and two senior employees had conspired to evade compliance with a security plan for operation of the plant, known as the Quad-Cities Nuclear Station. The security plan had been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal agency that licenses atomic power plants. At its headquarters in Chicago, Commonwealth Edison issued a statement saying, "The company believes it is not guilty of any wrongdoing, has violated no laws and intends to defend itself and its employees vigorously." William Harrah, a spokesman for Commonwealth Edison, said the company, which provides electricity for northern Illinois including Chicago, was the biggest nuclear utility in the country. He said that about one-third of the company's total generating capacity was nuclear, but that the company used that capacity to generate 40 percent to 45 percent of its electricity. The superintendent of the Quad-Cities plant, Nicholas Kalivianakis, and the plant's security director, Walter Meehan, were also named as defendants. Harrah said that both men were still working for the company. The indictment alleged that as part of the conspiracy, the defendants ordered security guards to falsify records by omitting the fact that protective doors leading to the vital area of the plant had been found unlocked and unguarded. The indictment also said that the defendants had ordered the guards to omit from their records the discovery of unescorted visitors in protected and vital areas of the plant. The alleged conspiracy continued from early 1976 to April 1977, the indictment said. Company officials said that the Quad-Cities plant consists of two boiling-water reactors with a combined capacity of more than 1,100 megawatts. Commonwealth Edison was charged in all nine counts of the indictment. Kalivianakis and Meehan were each charged with conspiracy and with six counts of false statements. The maximum penalty for each count of conspiracy or false statement is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned April 9 before Judge J. Waldo Ackerman in U.S. District Court in Springfield. There are 67 nuclear plants licensed to provide electricity in the United States, and combined they supply slightly more than 10 percent of the nation's electricity. Wednesday's indictment came amid a continuing controversy over the adequacy of security precautions at nuclear installations. Most of the concern has been directed at facilities that manufacture nuclear material for weapons and fuel for the Navy's nuclear fleet. But experts also worry about the possibility that a terrorist gang might seize a reactor near a major American city and then use conventional explosives to breach the containment wall, permitting the release of large amounts of radiation. It is because of such worries that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has in recent years upgraded security requirements at all nuclear facilities. World "Power" Attack === Page 61 of 88 The Oregonian # Two nuclear plants shut down By The Associated Press March 24, 1980 Equipment problems prompted the shutdown Sunday of reactors at two nuclear power plants, including one in Connecticut that went out of service for the fifth time in five weeks. Officials at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., said operators shut down the No. 2 unit after discovering a malfunction in a device that reheats water as it is circulated through a steam generator. There was no release of radiation, officials said. In Southport, N.C., the No. 1 nuclear reactor at the Brunswick plant, owned by Carolina Power and Light Co., automatically shut down at 1 a.m. when a water level indicator malfunctioned, according to a company spokesman. Mac Harris, public relations officer for the utility, said small amounts of radiation were released inside the containment building, but that they were well within permissible levels. No radiation was released outside the plant, he said. # Washington Oregonian March 22, 1980 ## Fear noted near plant WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civic leaders from central Pennsylvania told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday that riots could erupt if the agency allows radioactive gas to be vented from the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Six people, including a psychologist, a clergyman and a hospital administrator, said the fear of radiation might drive thousands of residents near the facility to violence. "We're fearful of some kind of riots or something up there if the deterioration continues," said Jane Lee, a farmer from Etters, about six miles from the plant. "As a psychologist, I'm scared. Unless people get a realistic feeling that they're in control of their lives again, their anger is going to be increasing," added Robert Colman of Harrisburg. The NRC met for about an hour with the spokesmen, who calmly advised the commission that its wisest course might be to abandon plans to restore the stricken plant. miami Herald 3/14 ## N-Plant to Close For Fuel, Repairs Florida Power and Light Company's nuclear unit No. 1 on Hutchinson Island will be shut down this weekend for refueling, maintenance and minor modifications ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The work will take an estimated eight weeks, said Harry Schindehitte, FPL district manager. "We anticipate having enough generation to meet all demands while the nuclear unit is down, but it will mean using more oil, which is expensive." Maintenance will include replacing one-third of the steel rods containing uranium fuel pellets and rotating the remaining rods. The work was ordered by the NRC after the Three Mile Island accident, but FPL was allowed to delay modifications until the shutdown for refueling. While the plant is closed, drain pans will be installed under motors that run pumps circulating reactor coolant water. In some plants, oil from pumps has dropped onto hot pipes. - World "Power" Attack - ## Fire hits N-site MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Fire destroyed a temporary office complex Wednesday at the site of Consumers Power Co.'s nuclear plant under construction here. It was the second fire this week at the complex, which was used by utility workers to draft operating procedures for the nuclear facility, said Consumers spokesman Norm Saari. 3/27/80 where i. - World "Power" Attack - # Work stoppage at Hanford ends Oregonian 3/27/80 RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The 2,300 workers idled by a labor dispute at the Hanford nuclear projects Nos. 1 and 4 could begin returning to work Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the Washington Public Power Supply System. The workers walked off the job March 14. Neil Strand, WPPSS managing director, said managers involved in the dispute met with management Tuesday to resolve the issues. The unions agreed to provide the contractor, Atkinson-Wright-Schuchart-Harbor, with assurances that no more work stoppages would occur. Fred Read, project manager of the contractor, said it would take two or three days to gear up to normal work levels and rehire the 2,300 workers. Federal Judge Robert McNichols on Monday issued a restraining order against the two unions primarily involved in the dispute. The order resulted from an unfair labor charge filed by the contractor. Plumbers - World "Power" Attack - === Page 62 of 88 F The Oregonian THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1980 ---------- # Blazers get chance at parole By STEVE KELLEY of The Oregonian staff SAN DIEGO -- Who would have thought the Portland Trail Blazers would open the season with nine straight wins? Who would have thought the injury jinx that hounded them the last two seasons would follow them again to the point that trainer Ron Culp still has a no vacancy sign hanging on the injured reserve list? Who would have thought the team could rebound from a 10-game losing streak and the loss of Lionel Hollins and Maurice Lucas to still be in a strong position to make the playoffs? The playoffs are the NBA's way of saying "I'm sorry" to some of its less fortunate teams. It's parole, a second chance for some teams that have struggled to keep their records near .500. The Blazers could clinch the sixth and final Western Conference playoff spot Thursday with a win here over the Clippers, beginning at 7:30 p.m. (KPTV). Both teams have three games remaining, and Portland has a two-game lead on the Clippers. If the teams finish in a tie, the Clippers will earn the playoff spot because they will have a better record within the Pacific Division. **Rookies to rescue** Who would have believed that San Diego, a team that entered the pre-season with Bill Walton, Lloyd Free, Brian Taylor and Swen Nater, would be missing from the playoffs? Who would have believed that Portland would have to count on major contributions from four rookies -- Calvin Natt, Billy Ray Bates, Jim Paxson and Abdul Jeelani -- to challenge the Clippers? It has been a strange and strained season for Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay. All the personnel changes have turned the basketball court into a laboratory. He has been forced to experiment with different combinations and different options on his offense. 5 === Page 63 of 88 Oregonian March 27, 1980 # Steele may be facing final days as Blazer SAN DIEGO -- Larry Steele is still a card-carrying member of the Portland Trail Blazers, but one can only wonder if this may be his last road trip as a Blazer. An early season knee injury has rendered Steele hors de combat and has placed him on the periphery on the team, which plays the Clippers Thursday. Contractually, Steele has another year remaining with his Blazer employers, but in reality, because of injury and age, he is a player with one foot out the corporate door. Steele will soon be 30 years old. The addition of Calvin Natt, the expected return of Mychal Thompson and the expansion draft are all working against Steele remaining a Blazer. Steele is not playing coy over his future with the Blazers. Cornered in a motel coffee shop Wednesday, he was asked what he thought his chances were of not being exposed to Dallas in this summer's expansion draft. "None," he said. He gave the same answer when asked what his chances were of being picked up by the new Dallas franchise, then backed off slightly. "None is pretty strong," he said. "Maybe slim and none would be better." When Steele departed the scene after damaging his right knee in a game at Chicago, the Blazers were 12-4 and looking, if not like world beaters, at least not like losers. Since then, the season has been one crazy quilt of injuries, trades, losses, slumps, streaks and perhaps the most extended two-team playoff race since Alphonse stumbled into Gaston. The Portland-San Diego playoff situation has been strained beyond all reasonable lengths and neither club displayed a willingness to stand up and take control until the Blazers dredged free agent Billy Ray Bates from that bastion of basketball effluvia known as the Continental League. With the benefit of relatively detached sideline observation, Steele was moved to admit that while the Blazers appear to have a playoff berth all but locked up, the prospects for advancement in the impending miniseries with either Seattle or Phoenix do not look encouraging. Bart Wright "If you are going to be completely objective about it, you couldn't predict this team could beat either Seattle or Phoenix," Steele said. "But in a (three game) miniseries, anything could happen, especially with a guy like Billy Ray on the team. I'm not saying they can't beat one of those teams two out of three, but it doesn't look good." The overriding question that has dogged this team all year, is simply, what in heck has gone wrong? The offense that worked so well two years ago is sputtering along lifelessly, with infrequent shots of courtwise adrenalin courtesy of Dave Twardzik. "It's been weird, huh?" Steele offered. "They're running a fluid, consistent type offense that needs players who understand the concept. It only takes one player to disrupt that consistency. "Now, with Billy Ray and Calvin, they have some shooters who can take you out of that continuity," Steele said. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing those guys, they are the ones who are getting them in the playoffs; it's just that anyone who was around two years ago on the 50-10 team knows this one doesn't come close to having that kind of consistency." The best offense is the one that is suited to the talents of the individual players. "I don't know if it's suited to this team or not," Steele said. "I'll put it this way: I have my doubts, but how much can you change this late in the season? "It has been a very unusual year for these guys, so weird that you could probably blame it on anyone and make some kind of case, but I think it goes back to injuries. If you could get statistics on how many games we've had the same lineup and compare that to the teams with good records, I think that would answer a lot of questions." For himself, Steele will continue rehabilitating the knee that was surgically repaired last month, and if it responds, he'll try to play next year, somewhere, anywhere. After nine years as a pro, Steele doesn't want it all to end here, standing on the outside looking in at a team that has been inexplicably transformed from a model of efficiency to an inconsistent slam-dunking, jump-shooting club that will inevitably meet its match when it squares off with the more purposeful playoff teams. Steele sees what's happened, but with his career at the crossroads, he finds explanations for the Blazer's current state of affairs as elusive as everyone else on this junket, who have all observed at various times what a long, strange trip this season has been. 4 === Page 64 of 88 Hotler "Power" Attack World "Power" Attack - (see "Ray" below!!) # Citizens nearest mountain evacuate quickly, calmly Story on Page One also By ALAN K. OTA of The Oregonian staff 3/28/80 For some it started with the rattle of window glass. Others heard the loud, explosive "sonic boom." But most didn't know what had happened until hearing about it on television or radio. The reaction of residents close to the erupting Mount St. Helens volcano was calm, as the Cowlitz and Skamania County, Wash., sheriffs' offices set up roadblocks on two main roads in the sparsely populated area 10 to 15 miles northwest and southwest of the snow-covered peak. The greatest concern of emergency services officials in Washington and Oregon centered not on what happened initially Thursday afternoon, but on whether the eruption would worsen and raise the specter of damaging runoff, mud slides and emissions of ash or other volcanic material into the air. Thursday evening, deputies moved the roadblock on Washington 504 on the northwest side of the mountain, the road closest to where the eruption occurred, from about 15 miles to 8 miles away from the mountain, citing an apparently lesser danger. Jim Thomas, head of programs and plans for the Washington Department of Emergency Services, said decisions on roadblocks and resident notification were being left in the hands of sheriffs. Gov. Dixy Lee Ray toured the mountain in a Washington State Patrol plane Thursday afternoon but made no decisions about dealing with the eruption, Thomas said. The man living closest to the action, Harry Truman, 84, owner of the Mount St. Helens Lodge several miles from the northwest foot of the volcano, kept a pledge not to budge despite warnings from sheriff's deputies in the area. Others weren't so reluctant. Phil Dodd, timber management specialist with the U.S. Forest Service station about 12 miles southeast of the volcano, said he led out a car caravan of 35 workers and their families and about six residents of the North Woods summer cabin development near the station. Their departure was made by planned evacuation route over 26 miles of winding forest road to Carson, Wash., after the initial eruption. Dodd, like many others near the mountain, heard a loud boom "like a muffled explosion on a rockpile" shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration banned aircraft flight below 20,000 feet altitude in a radius of 10 miles from St. Helens, doubling a ban with a five-mile radius that was issued Wednesday as a precaution. In Oregon, Harvey Latham, administrator of the state Emergency Services Division, said emergency plans were on a "standby" basis. "It's very small," Latham said. "But I'm sure it's working up to something good." A student of the volcano's history, Latham contended that the last eruption in the mid-19th century scattered debris as far as Montana. At the earth-filled Swift Creek hydroelectric dam operated by Pacific Power & Light Co. about five miles from the southern flank of the volcano, some workmen opted to leave as a precaution, according to public information officer Glenn Gillespie. It was not a general evacuation, however, he said. The closest of three dams on the Lewis River south of St. Helens, Swift Creek Dam was built in the 1950s to withstand the equivalent of the worst recorded event on the mountain - a mudslide that occurred about 6,000 years ago, according to PP&L officials. In the event of a major eruption, the dam's reservoir would be partially drained, Gillespie said. Even a major eruption likely would not be a major threat to the Portland area, according to Latham. One possible problem would be large emissions of ash that could raise the acidity of city water reservoirs, making water distasteful but probably still drinkable, and cause breathing problems for persons with respiratory ailments. Portland city officials said the threat of ash to the city's Bull Run Watershed, about 50 miles from St. Helens, was slight. "The wind currents aren't likely to pull ash this way, according to our information," said the administrator of the Bureau of Water Works, Carl Gobel. The sheriff's roadblock on Washington 503 was located just east of Cougar, Wash., about 10 miles from St. Helens on Thursday night. Margaret Olson, who operates the chateau-style Beaver Bay Cafeteria 1.5 miles east of Cougar, said she wasn't planning to leave yet but wouldn't hesitate when the time came. "All I'm going to worry about is just getting myself and my dogs out," she said. "That's all I care about. The material things don't matter. They can be replaced." Note: Within range of this dangerous, exploding volcano, are five hydroelectric power dams plus Hanford Nuclear Power Plant.!! Oregonian 3/28/80 ERUPTION SITE - Steam and ash erupted from the north side of Mount St. Helens in Southwest Washington Thursday, opening a slash at 7,000-foot level on the snow-covered mountain. The eruption was the culmination of a series of earthquakes which began March 20. It was the first eruption of the volcano since 1857. World "Power" Attack === Page 65 of 88 - World "Power" Attack - Note: Hazel Dell is where I live; the point from which I am attacking "power." "owners" # Blackout darkens homes in Hazel Dell, Ridgefield VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The lights went out Thursday morning in about 6,400 Hazel Dell and Ridgefield homes after three Clark County Public Utility District substations lost their power, said PUD spokesman Mick Shutt. The outage was from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the substation involved, he said. Tripped breakers somewhere in the Bonneville Power Administration supply system that feeds the substations caused the 6:50 a.m. outages, Shutt said. All power loss was west of Interstate 5, he said. Bonneville representative Gene Tollefson said from Portland that an unidentified problem in the PUD lines caused the breakers to trip. Oregonian - World "Power" Attack - === Page 66 of 88 - world "Power" Attack - (Oil is a power source. Another such rig capsized last week in Gulf of Mexico) # Dozens trapped in overturned oil rig Oregonian 3/28/80 OSLO, Norway (AP) - A "hotel" platform with more than 200 North Sea oilfield workers aboard capsized and overturned Thursday night. Rescuers battled gale-force winds in the darkness to pull men from the towering, frigid waves. Reports said seven persons were known dead, but dozens were trapped under water or were believed to have been swept away from the rescue area. Authorities said early Friday morning that 102 persons were rescued and nearly 85 others on a nearby production rig were evacuated by British and Norwegian helicopters, ships and divers fighting winds of up to 80 mph. They said many of the platform survivors were injured. Edinburgh reporter Mike Lloyd of Independent Radio News, who was in contact with oil men in Scotland, said, "Rescue work is still going on, but nothing much can do done until it gets light." There was a strong feeling that the missing had no hope of survival, Lloyd said. Some survivors clambered onto an adjacent platform, while others made it to rafts or lifeboats, reports said. About 50 men were said to be trapped, but still alive, in a movie theater that was under water. Estimates of the number of persons aboard when the platform capsized ranged up to 225, and nearly all were said to be Norwegian. A spokesman in Norway for Phillips Petroleum Co. said a huge wave driven by winds of about 50 mph collapsed one of the platform's five legs just as men were passing to and from it during a shift change, and the structure turned over in the sea. "Hotel" platforms, on which oil workers live, resemble apartment buildings on stilts. Phillips, which made the first strike in the Norwegian North Sea more than 10 years ago, chartered the platform. A Phillips spokesman said the dead were found in water near the platform. He said 16 of those rescued had clambered onto an adjoining platform and 75 were in lifeboats and rafts. The whereabouts of the other survivors at the time they were rescued were not immediately known. The spokesman said it was feared that those wearing just life jackets were swept out of the search area by the storm. The British Defense Ministry said 28 men managed to climb aboard a life raft dropped by a Royal Air Force search plane. A spokesman at the Royal Air Force rescue center at Pitreavie Castle, Scotland, said a rescue plane acting as a communications link with search teams and rescue centers reported that about 50 persons were believed trapped in the movie theater. Press Association, the British domestic news agency, quoted a rescue center spokesman at Stavanger as saying that those in the theater were believed alive, that the platform "is floating upside down and we are hoping to send divers and diving bells down." It quoted a company spokesman in Norway as saying that some aboard could have been Americans and British catering staff. The report could not be confirmed. A company spokesman said the 85 workers evacuated were from the Edda production rig 300 yards from the capsized platform, including some Americans, were taken to the neighboring Ekofisk field installations. The identities of the Americans were not immediately known. A company spokesman said oil and gas production in the area was halted. At midnight, the Royal Air Force announced helicopters were abandoning the rescue effort because of continuing bad weather, but that ships and planes were continuing the search. "This is a catastrophe," said Oyvind Roth, a spokesman for Phillips in Stavanger, Norway, which had chartered the platform owned by the Stavanger Drilling Co. "The accident happened just in the middle of a shift when workers were moving from the production platform to their living quarters." The Pitreavie Castle rescue center said the stricken rig was beginning to break up in the high seas and that people had been spotted floating below the surface of the water. The "Alexander Kielland" platform is located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea oil fields in the Edda field, which neighbors Ekofisk where a 1978 Phillips oil rig blowout spilled thousands of tons of oil into the ocean. | 0 | 100 | |---|---| | Miles | | | | Oslo | | | NORWAY | | | Stavanger | | OIL PLATFORM | | | CAPSIZES | DENMARK | | North | | | Sea | | | AP | | === Page 67 of 88 World "Power" Attack # Conspiracy Charges Filed On Nuclear Power Utility Miami Herald 3/28/80 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Commonwealth Edison Co., the nation's largest atomic power utility, ordered guards at its Cordova plant to conceal security violations, a federal grand jury has charged in the first criminal indictment of a utility in a nuclear-security case. The grand jury charged the utility and two employees with fraud and conspiracy in connection with the plant's security operations from January 1976 to April 1977. The nine-count indictment said Pinkerton guards at the Quad-Cities Nuclear Station were ordered not to record discovery of unlocked and unguarded doors to vital areas and not to record unescorted visitors in such areas. An Edison spokesman said the charges were not related to the operation of the two nuclear reactors. He said the company believes it "has violated no laws and intends to defend itself and its employees vigorously." The utility, its plant superintendent, Nicholas Kalivianakis, and Security Director Walter Meehan are to be arraigned April 9. The indictment alleged that Edison and the two officials failed "to record such information in security records" as required by NRC regulations. It said Edison and the officials knew records presented to the NRC "did not accurately and truthfully reflect security operations." Edison was named in all nine counts. Kalivianakis, 48, of East Moline, and Meehan, 59, of Morrison, were named in seven counts each. Edison is the nation's largest operating utility and largest nuclear utility, according to spokesman Bill Harrah. It serves the northern fifth of Illinois, including Chicago. The utility owns 75 per cent of the Quad-Cities Station. Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. owns the rest. World "Power" Attack March 24, '80 4-A ********** THE MIAMI HERALD # Problems Shut 2 Nuke Plants Associated Press Equipment problems prompted the shutdown Sunday of reactors at two nuclear power plants, including one in Connecticut that went out of service for the fifth time in five weeks. Officials at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., said operators shut down the No. 2 unit after discovering a malfunction in a device that reheats water as it is circulated through a steam generator. There was no release of radiation, officials said. In Southport, N.C., the No. 1 nuclear reactor at the Brunswick plant, owned by Carolina Power and Light Co., automatically shut down at 1 a.m. when a water level indicator malfunctioned, according to a company spokesman. Mac Harris, public relations officer for the utility, said small amounts of radiation were released inside the containment building, but that they were well within permissible levels. # Shutdown of Trojan requested Oregonian 4/1/80 Portland General Electric Co. should shut down its Trojan nuclear plant now instead of April 9 because of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, an anti-nuclear participant in federal hearings said Monday. Eugene Rosolie, member of the Coalition for Safe Power, urged the U.S. Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to order Trojan shut down now rather than in about one week, when the plant is scheduled to be refueled. PGE announced earlier that it would refuel Trojan and do maintenance on the steam generator. Bruce Landrey, a PGE spokesman, said the reactor is coasting toward a shutdown about April 9. The plant will be out of service 12 weeks, he said. The federal board began hearings Monday in Portland on the adequacy of PGE's plans to strengthen the plant's control-room walls against earthquakes. PGE discovered in the spring of 1978 that there had been errors in construction of the walls. The board did not hear arguments on Rosolie's request Monday. PGE officials say the eruption of Mount St. Helens probably will not affect the Trojan site. Nevertheless, PGE has stationed technicians at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest headquarters in Vancouver, Wash., where scientists are gathering data on the volcano. Landrey said the move was a precaution and that seismic equipment at Trojan had detected no earth tremors there. He said the Trojan sensing equipment would not register small tremors. It is set to pick up ground movement at levels that might affect operation of the plant, he explained. # Picket shuts plant BOARDMAN (AP) -- A single picket shut down Portland General Electric Co.'s coal-fired plant in Eastern Oregon Monday. (POWER PLANT) PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said the picket was disgruntled about lack of reimbursement for time off and doctor bills attributed to ozone inhalation at the plant last week. The picket, who was not identified, quit Saturday, then showed up Monday with a sign that read "This job unfair to me." Oregonian 4/1/80 === Page 68 of 88 # Wall Street Goes Wild as Silver Drops 3/28/80 Miami Herald By MARTIN MERZER Herald Business Writer The financial troubles of a Texas billionaire, the world's largest owner of silver, sparked a devastating drop in the price of that precious metal Thursday and one of the wildest days ever endured by Wall Street. The inability of billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt to repay more than $100 million in loans from some of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms resulted in this series of rapid-fire events: * The price of silver, which reached a peak of $50.35 an ounce in January and was posted at $15.80 an ounce Wednesday, plummeted by 32 per cent Thursday and closed in New York at $10.80 an ounce. * The stock market suffered one of its broadest drops in history. Virtually all major indices finished with sharp declines -- all, that is, except the closely watched Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks. Some 705 stocks plunged to 12-month lows; a grand total of two stocks reached new highs. The Dow fluctuated wildly, plunging by more than 25 points a half-hour before the close and then staging a staggering rally to end the day at 759.98, off 2.14 points from Wednesday's close. * The financial integrity of several of Wall Street's largest brokerage houses was questioned amid concerns that they could not withstand any losses that might be suffered through loans to Hunt or his group of silver speculators. In each case, the firms said they could weather the storm. But trading in the stock of one brokerage firm, the Bache Group, was halted for 10 days on the order of federal securities officials, and trading in the stocks of several other firms was halted temporarily by the New York Stock Exchange. * A special NYSE surveillance committee met into the night, apparently to investigate the financial status of several Wall Street firms. In addition, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a federal agency that regulates trading in === Page 69 of 88 # Hunt empire staggers under silver crash, rattles market **By STEVE LOHR** New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The plummeting price of silver Thursday shook the enormous, $2 billion silver empire of Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt of Dallas, pressing them to raise millions of dollars in cash and throwing Wall Street into a furor. Fears of a headlong sell-off in silver and the possible collapse of the Hunt empire sent the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 25 points at one stage in hectic trading of more than 60 million shares. The upheaval threatened at least one major brokerage house, prompting government intervention to prevent stampede selling in its shares and driving the price of silver still lower. Silver closed the day at $10.80 an ounce, down $5 from Wednesday's price and far below its January high of $50.05. The tumult was touched off by a sharp fall in silver futures prices Wednesday, which generated a flurry of margin calls by brokerage houses, requiring investors who bought silver on credit to put up more cash to maintain their equity in their holdings. Investors routinely buy silver and other commodities largely on credit, or margin. Margin is a down payment of a small percentage of the total purchase price. Hardest hit were the Hunt brothers, who since last summer have built up silver holdings of more than 200 million ounces. Their widely publicized purchases of silver helped push its price up from $6 in early 1979. According to bankers and silver traders, at least some of those purchases were made on credit. With falling silver prices and soaring interest rates, their hoard has become all the more costly to carry. Apparently strapped for cash, the Hunts reportedly were forced to sell some of their securities holdings to raise money on their silver futures positions. According to traders, the Hunts were caught in the classic pinch. If they sold silver to raise the needed cash, they faced the near certainty of driving down the price still further and touching off a snowballing process. By market accounts, the Hunts have lost more than $1 billion in recent weeks. Equally hard-pressed was Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, a brokerage firm that has been the Hunts' silver brokers for years and is 5.6 percent owned by the Hunts. A Bache spokesman said the Hunts had failed to meet the margin requirements first imposed late Tuesday, and that the firm had proceeded to liquidate some of the Hunt silver holdings to meet the margin calls on Wednesday morning. "We've been dealing with the Hunts for about eight years, and Tuesday of this week was the first time they didn't meet (a margin call)," said Elliot J. Smith, executive vice president of Bache. Smith said that, in accord with the policy of his firm, the Hunts were informed by telephone Wednesday morning that, unless the position were covered, Bache would begin liquidating some of their silver holdings. "They said they were not sending money or collateral," Smith said. Apparently as a result of the liquidation, the margin debt by the Hunts to Bache Halsey Stuart Shields currently stands at about $100 million, down from more than $200 million a few days ago, according to Wall Street sources. "That's about right," said one Bache executive, who declined to provide any other details. Hunt could not be reached for comment Thursday. In an unusual afternoon action, the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday suspended trading in the Bache Group Inc., the parent company of the brokerage house, because of "undisclosed material corporate events relating to commodities futures trading accounts maintained by customers with the firm." Although commission officials would provide no further details on that action, the statement clearly referred to the Hunts' failure to meet their margin call. Underscoring the urgency of the Hunt situation and the possible effect on the financial markets, the government decision to suspend trading in Bache took place at an emergency meeting of top SEC and Treasury Department officials Thursday afternoon. The circumstance of the session also reflects the unexpected nature of the problems surrounding the Hunts' financial pinch. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees trading in futures contracts, met twice Thursday to consider curbing silver futures trading but after a late-afternoon session, decided not to act immediately. Instead it scheduled a midmorning meeting for Friday. Late Thursday night, Bache requested a meeting with the futures commission at which it intends to ask for a suspension in silver trading, officials of the Commodity Exchange Inc. reported. The concern about the financial health of Bache, and other brokerage firms with which the Hunts held accounts, results from exchange and governmental regulatory requirements on margin accounts. These accounts allow clients, in effect, to borrow from the brokerage firms to buy commodities or securities on margin. The margin account must be backed up with collateral, usually either in commodities or negotiable securities of some type. The underlying collateral must be kept at a given percentage of the total holdings of a client, such as the Hunts. When the market price of the collateral declines, the brokerage house places a margin call to the bearer of the margin account, telling him to send in more collateral to maintain the required percentage of collateral backing. ![NELSON BUNKER HUNT] NELSON BUNKER HUNT === Page 70 of 88 Note: I PK'd game on radio. Owens. # Phoenix pressure proves too much; Blazers fall 114-100 PHOENIX -- If Portland has a choice of opponents in the National Basketball Association playoff miniseries, Friday's performance in Phoenix indicates the Blazers had better choose Seattle. The Suns' quick, double-teaming defense pressured the Blazers into 22 first-half turnovers and built up a 26-point second-half lead before Phoenix coasted to a 114-100 triumph. The victory gave Phoenix, 54-27, a sweep of the season's six-game series against the Blazers and left the Suns one game behind Seattle in the race for second place in the NBA's Pacific Division. If Phoenix ends its season with a victory over San Diego Sunday and Portland beats Seattle in the Kingdome, Portland will meet the Suns in the best-of-three miniseries. Should Seattle and Phoenix end the season in a tie, the Suns will take second place by virtue of a 4-2 record against the Sonics in head-to-head play. Eight consecutive points by Paul Westphal moved the Suns from a 22-point halftime edge to a 69-43 lead. The Blazers cut that lead to 14 by the three-quarter mark, but could move no closer than 11 in the final period. Billy Ray Bates led the Blazers with 20 points, 18 of them in the second half, and Calvin Natt finished with 17. Walter Davis led the Suns with 20, followed by Westphal's 16 and Truck Robinson's 14. After the tumult and shouting had died down following Thursday's playoff-clinching win over San Diego, the Blazers came crashing quickly back to reality against the Suns. They committed 12 first-quarter turnovers and allowed Phoenix seven layups in an opening period that must have had CBS wondering why it didn't have a rerun of the "The Rockford Files" to show in place of the game. Phoenix stole the ball 16 times in the first half, setting a new Veterans' Memorial Coliseum record for steals in a half, en route to a 59-37 lead. The Blazers finished with an astronomical 22 first-half turnovers, shot .357 for the half and were hopelessly out of the game, trailing 43-26 with eight minutes still remaining. The Blazers conclude the regular season Sunday in Seattle. The first round of the NBA playoff miniseries will begin Wednesday against either Phoenix or Seattle, the second-place finisher in the Pacific Division. The only Blazer home game in that best-of-three series will be Friday. BLAZER NOTE -- Portland is concerned about the sore right knee of backup center Jim Brewer. === Page 71 of 88 More pictures on Page A21 By JOHN SNELL 3/29/80 of The Oregonian staff Mount St. Helens stepped up its geologic performance Friday with a series of eruptions that sent smoke more than a mile above the mountain and shot hundreds of boulders nearly 1,000 feet into the air. The volcano, dormant for nearly 123 years before Thursday, also spewed a cloud of ash, some of which settled in communities more than 50 miles away. The eruptions on the 9,677-foot peak continued with clocklike regularity Friday, with explosive eruptions occurring every 30 minutes, a federal geologist reported. Light ash had begun to cover the flanks of the mountain by early Friday afternoon, and mud flows were reported to have nearly reached timberline at the 4,400-foot level. Geologist Dan Miller of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver said the mountain "spent the afternoon pulsing away" in what he called "vigorous eruptions." Miller said he was on the mountain shortly after 5:30 p.m. Friday and saw "black blobs" of rocks thrown above a cloud cover at 10,000 feet altitude. Miller said hundreds of small boulders shot about 500 feet above the clouds -- nearly 1,000 feet above the mountaintop. He said the rocks ranged from the size of tennis balls to others more than 3 feet across. The mountain was obscured by clouds throughout most of the day, and scientists were unable to determine whether additional fissures or craters had developed as a result of the eruption. No molten rock had been observed as of Friday, and there were no reports of injuries or missing persons. Ash from the mountain had dusted the Washington communities of Trout Lake and Glenwood, some 50 miles from the summit, and apparently caused a light haze in Goldendale, 70 miles away along the Washington bank of the Columbia River. The mountain, rocked by increasingly frequent earthquakes since March 20, erupted with an explosion of smoke, steam and ashes at 1:48 a.m. Friday. "It was really something to see with a man's eyes," said Walt Sutton Jr., 24, a self-employed carpenter from Amboy, Wash., who was on Cooney Point, west of Mount Mitchell, when the volcano exploded. Sutton said that from his vantage point 11 miles south of the mountain, the eruption could not be felt, "but there was a kind of whistling sound, like elk bugling, or at least that's what it sounded like to me." "I've hunted and been here all my life, and I know every mountain from here to Mount Adams," he said. "But this was a once-in-a-lifetime thing to see. We were looking right straight at it and it started going off with the moon light lighting it up. It was real beautiful." Sutton, who escorted an Oregonian reporter and photographer to the vantage point, said the initial eruption was timed at 17 minutes and appeared to have triggered at least one avalanche. A second eruption started at about 2:45 a.m. and was of shorter duration. "There was more smoke, but it wasn't as pretty, either," he said. The Forest Service verified a third eruption at about 3 a.m., said public information officer Dave Seesholtz. Steam and ash were seen as high as 16,000 feet above sea level, or more than a mile above the summit, he said. The eruption lasted 57 minutes. More than a dozen ash eruptions lasting anywhere from two to 45 minutes were observed Friday morning, and by midafternoon the mountain was experiencing "major explosive episodes" occurring every half-hour, Seesholtz said. James Moore and Don Swanson of the Geological Survey office in Menlo Park, Calif., were taken by helicopter to the 5,500-foot level of the mountain to collect ash samples. The samples were to be flown to Denver for laboratory examination, said Jim Unterwegner of the Forest Service, but examination using hand-held magnifiers appeared to show that no molten lava had been emitted so far. Moore said the east side of the mountain was covered with ash. Unterwegner said later that an "ash avalanche" had occurred on the southeast flank of the mountain. The series of eruptions did not pose any immediate threat to human life, but law enforcement authorities said they would be strictly enforcing the closure of roads to the mountain. Skamania County sheriff's deputies announced shortly after 7 p.m. that no one -- including police -- would be allowed past established roadblocks without written authorization from the Forest Service. Scientists, property owners and reporters had been allowed past the barricades earlier. An immediate concern of geologists and Forest Service personnel was the formation Friday of a potentially suffocating mass of dust and gases on Shoestring Glacier, moving down the mountain's southeast slope. Such flows can produce a "superheated avalanche" that can move at speeds up to 110 mph, but scientists could not say how fast it was moving on St. Helens because of cloud cover. Paul Hammond, a Portland State University volcanologist, said the "pyroclastic flow" contains a variety of gases, including carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. "It tends to be quite suffocating," Hammond said. "If people are caught in its path, they can be severely burned. It tends to burn the bark off trees." If the flow continues down the slope, it could reach Pine Creek and eventually Swift Creek. Geologists said the flow could contaminate the area's water, forcing closure of campgrounds for an unknown length of time. A Geological Survey bulletin written before the eruption, titled "Potential Hazards from Future Eruptions of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington" said that a mud flow from the volcano could cause a massive flood in Swift Creek that could lead to the failure of Swift Dam, a hydroelectric project operated by Pacific Power & Light Co. "A mud flow of very large volume, for example, could raise the level of the reservoir faster than water could be discharged safely," wrote study authors Don R. Mullineaux and Dwight R. Crandell. "If a volcanic event led directly or indirectly to the failure or overtopping of Swift Dam, a catastrophe would result." PP&L engineers lowered the Swift Dam reservoir Friday morning by running water through the turbine. Company spokesman Glenn Gillespie said the reservoir would be brought 100,000 acre-feet below its maximum capacity to protect against flooding. The Geological Survey study urged a drawdown of at least 100,000 acre-feet and said additional storage capacity would be desirable as a safety margin, the volume of which could change from season to season according to the likelihood of very heavy precipitation and runoff that could result from a major storm. The study also said that gases emitted from the volcano could injure both === Page 72 of 88 Note: There's an odd synchronicity here. I work with UFOs, probably called "gods" by the Indians. They refer to "The Great Spirit" which equates with the Rogo/Mishlove "The Phenomenon" (which I prefer to call "The Force." And The Basis for my UFOs and I is for the purpose of bringing peace to the human race! # Indian legend reveals St. Helens' lonely spirit "Loo-Wit" was the sole guardian of the Bridge of the Gods. "PK Man," you could say, is the sole guardian of "the Bridge of the UFO Gods." Owen By JEANIE SENIOR 3/29/80 Correspondent, The Oregonian TROUT LAKE, Wash. -- In Klickitat Indian legend, Mount St. Helens is called Loo-Wit, the guardian of the Bridge of the Gods. Loo-wit tried to keep peace between "the great snow mountains," the brothers Wy'east (Mount Hood) and Klickitat (Mount Adams) when they fought over beautiful Squaw Mountain, today called Sleeping Beauty, in the Trout Lake Valley. In his book "Legends of the Klickitat," published in 1933, Clarence O. Bunnell relates the story of the fall of the Bridge of the Gods as told to him by members of several mid-Columbia Indian tribes. During their battle over beautiful Squaw Mountain, the legend says, the two mountains "stomped upon the ground and shook the earth in their wrath; again they darkened the heavens with their smoke and ashes and, casting aside their beautiful white robes, poured forth great streams of liquid fire that painted their sides in blazing colors of war." The two mountains blew so many white-hot stones at each other that the Bridge of the Gods collapsed under the weight of the rocks. Loo-Wit, an old, toothless woman in the form of a mountain, was posted by the Great Spirit to guard the bridge and to remind the brothers of their folly in fighting over Squaw Mountain, and to show them that beauty in women is never permanent. Loo-Wit tried valiantly to stop the fight. "Failing in her efforts, she stood by her post and did her best to save the bridge from destruction," Bunnell wrote. Because she was caught between the warring mountains, Loo-Wit was "badly burned and battered by the great hot rocks which they threw at each other." When the bridge collapsed, Loo-Wit fell into the Columbia River with it. THE FORCE * The Great Spirit heard her moaning and saved Loo-Wit from the river, telling her she would be rewarded for her bravery and integrity. Loo-Wit asked to be made young and beautiful once more. The Great Spirit changed her physical appearance, but did not make her young in spirit. Loo-Wit took her place among the great snow mountains, but remained solitary because her family and friends had all passed on. So, the legend concludes, she withdrew from the main mountain range and settled herself far to the west, "aloof, unconcerned, . . . the youngest and most beautiful, yet the oldest of all the snow mountains." * The Force (my term) = "The Phenomenon" in Rogo/Mishlove book. -- World "Power" Attack -- 3 === Page 73 of 88 A8 2M THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1980 # In America, Europe Arrests, vigils mark TMI date By The Associated Press Fifty-six anti-nuclear protesters were arrested Friday at the New Jersey headquarters of the utility that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in one of several demonstrations on the first anniversary of the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident. At Middletown, Pa., about 200 people, including reporters, gathered in a yard just a few hundred feet from the damaged Three Mile Island plant. The nuclear foes lit white candles and sang a protest song at 4 a.m., exactly the time when a series of mechanical breakdowns and human errors triggered the accident March 28, 1979, and radioactive gas escaped from the plant. The plant now sits virtually silent on a speck of land in the Susquehanna River, 10 miles from the state Capitol in Harrisburg. It has become a symbol of anti-nuclear activism around the world and was the focal point of protests across America and Europe. Peaceful anti-nuclear observances were conducted at power plants and utilities in Connecticut, Virginia, California and Texas, and more were planned throughout the weekend. About 200 people demonstrated peacefully at the corporate headquarters of General Public Utilities in Parsippany, N.J.; 56 of them were arrested after they entered company property. Some of the protesters jumped a 4-foot snow fence, and others tried to shoulder through police lines. Police carried away some of the demonstrators and loaded them into buses. Those arrested were being charged with criminal trespass. About 40 people demonstrated outside the gates of Northeast Utilities in Berlin, Conn., and two women handing out pamphlets were arrested for interfering with employees entering the facility, authorities said. At Three Mile Island, area residents paraded before a microphone to express fear and anger over the accident. One of several signs and banners read: "Close TMI Or We'll All Die." "Now's the time to talk about that monstrosity just behind me. I hate that plant, I hate that plant," said Terry Roth of the anti-nuclear March 28 Coalition, which organized the two days of commemorative observances. "Shutting down that plant is one of the most important things of my life," she added. A woman who said she survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 35 years ago called the crowd "hibakkusha," a revered Japanese word that means survivor of a nuclear catastrophe. "Although my health is now weak, I have come all the way from Hiroshima to here to appeal for a world that is free of nukes," said 59-year-old Chisako Odoriba through an interpreter. Some speakers carried babies, shed tears or spoke in trembling voices. "My life has been a total disaster since the accident. I'm tired of being lied to. I feel like a hostage in my own home," said Barb Nace of Harrisburg. Cailin Patterson, an 11-year-old Harrisburg girl, added, "So-called accidents like TMI affect children the most. We don't want to grow up thinking that someday we may get cancer. We don't know whether to believe grownups anymore." - World "Power" Attack - Note: "The Phenomenon" will utilize any means to neutralize "power" around the world! (Electric, nuclear, coal, oil, etc.) Owen 3 === Page 74 of 88 Note: Bev + I recently spent 3 days in Hermiston. # Ozone leak fells 33 at Boardman 3/29/80 HERMISTON (AP)) -- At least 33 construction workers from the Boardman coal-fired power plant have been treated at a Hermiston hospital for minor exposure to ozone, a doctor said Thursday. Dr. Bruce Carlson, an attending physician at Good Shepard Hospital, said 24 workers were treated Wednesday and another nine on Thursday. Some 400 workers ended a one-day walkout at the plant site early Thursday after complaining of the smell of ozone during the testing of equipment. The 33 workers were treated in the emergency room but none was admitted to the hospital, Carlson said. The symptoms included chest pains, dizziness, nausea, headaches, sore throat and nose irritation, he said. Portland General Electric Co. officials had said there was no danger from the ozone leakage during testing of an electrostatic precipitator. The machine removes fly ash and normally produces ozone while operating. Plant construction manager Ad Starner said it was hard to tell the number of workers absent from the site Thursday because there is normally a 10 percent absentee rate every day. At least one state health inspector was at the site Thursday. Starner said the ozone leaked into the main part of the plant because two dampers were opened during some duct work. He said monitoring equipment would be used during further testing. PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said the ozone was measured at .01 parts per million Wednesday noon, or 10 times less than an amount to become concerned about. The walkout occurred about 10 a.m. He said about 1,100 persons are currently employed at the site. === Page 75 of 88 Oregon Journal 3-29-80 # Suns burn lethargic Blazers By KEN WHEELER Journal Sports Writer Note: This game I PK'd over the radio. PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Luckily for the Trail Blazers, the Suns stayed inside. Had they worked the outside of Veterans Memorial Coliseum here Friday night they likely would have swiped the tires off the bus in which the Blazers planned their escape. That's about all the gambling, quick-handed Suns didn't steal, though, in pasting the Blazers 114-100 to make it a season's 6-0 sweep as the two readied themselves for the playoffs next week. Luckily for the Blazers, this wasn't a game they had to have, not after they clinched the only playoff berth they could reach with their win in San Diego a night earlier. Maybe that's where the makings for this whacking were formulated, too. At least most of the Blazers laid the blame there for this flat showing. An emotional letdown, they explained. Only Coach Jack Ramsay wouldn't buy. There were times during the first half, times during those minutes when the Blazers were being buried by an avalanche of Phoenix fast breaks, that the frustration and dissatisfaction Ramsay felt was as evident as though the words had been tattooed on his forehead. "I don't like to play that kind of basketball," he said later. "That is ridiculous under any kind of circumstances." Ramsay, you could say, had suffered no emotional letdown after Thursday's win. Still ahead for the Blazers is a final game of the regular season Sunday night in Seattle -- and, with it, the determination of who they will meet in the first round of the playoffs next week. Should the Blazers beat Seattle, it's likely they would be matching themselves against these same Suns in the opening three-game series, scheduled for next Wednesday and Friday night with a third game, if necessary, set for Sunday afternoon. Only the Friday game will be played in Portland. Phoenix trails the Sonics by one game in the battle for second place in the division and has only to play San Diego here Sunday to finish its season. If the Suns win that game and the Blazers beat Seattle it would move the Suns ahead of the Sonics in the seedings because they built a 4-2 margin in their head-to-head meetings. They then would play the Blazers. (Continued on page 11)★ 7 === Page 76 of 88 Highest Paid According to Hollywood producers, the highest paid screen star is Steve McQueen, born March 24, 1930. McQueen--whose last film, "Enemy of the People," was so bad it couldn't get a full release in this country--has two additional films scheduled for release this year, "Tom Horn" and "The Hunter." Reportedly he was paid $3 million for each, now wants $5 million before he will even read a script. "The way it goes with McQueen," explains one producer, "is that you send a check for $5 million to his agent, Marvin Josephson. After the check clears, you send the script to McQueen. He has script approval, director approval, cameraman approval, leading lady approval, publicists approval, and a couple of other approvals. If he agrees to star in your production, he keeps the check. If he doesn't, the check is returned to you. "There is such a shortage of bankable film stars that the superstar now rules the roost. Can you imagine Marlon Brando asking for and getting $2.75 million for 11 days' work on "The Formula"? The way inflation is going, McQueen is almost sure to ask for $10 million per picture in another five years." Note: I stay broke... can only control cities and countries with my mind. McQueen gets millions imitating people. Human values. Gwen Steve McQueen in film "The Hunter," to be released this year Paramount Pictures PARADE • MARCH 30, 1980 9 === Page 77 of 88 The Seattle Times Sunday, March 30, 1980 The Times' opinion and comment: A volcano erupts: The view from down here "We are dancing on a volcano." - M. De Salvandy to the Duke of Orleans, 1830 THE word volcano derives from Vulcano, an island north of Sicily that the Romans thought to be the entrance to the netherworld - the domain of Vulcan, god of fire. In his subterranean furnace, Vulcan made thunderbolts for his father, Jupiter, and arms and armor for other gods and heroes. Each year, the Romans celebrated "Volcanalia," a festival with special rites aimed at protecting mere mortals from Vulcan's destructive fire. Today we can laugh at such ancient, pagan rites. Or can we? The eruption of Mount St. Helens has touched a deep chord in most of us. There is something elemental, almost mythical, about the mountain's violent stirrings. It rivets our fascination. We go about our normal business, calm on the surface, making little jokes - but there is something vaguely unsettling underneath. One of our most basic reference points is transforming itself before our eyes. All of our modern achievements in science, technology and engineering are humbled by the awesome spectacle of an active volcano. We can dam or bridge the widest rivers, harness or unleash the atom, even send men to the moon and back. But all our efforts seem to pale next to the prodigious powers of the planet itself. Earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, cyclones and other natural phenomena humble us, too, but volcanic eruptions are especially mind-boggling, perhaps because the biggest of them have been so staggering in scope: - When Oregon's Mount Mazama blew its top centuries ago, almost 10 cubic miles of mountain filled the air, falling as ash as far away as Montana. - When the island of Krakatoa was obliterated in 1883, the explosion was heard 3,000 miles away; ash encircled the world and turned sunsets red for more than a year. - When Mount Pelee exploded on Martinique in 1902, 30,000 people were killed by a glowing cloud of incandescent gas more than a mile thick. - The spectacular steamblast eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea in 1924 tossed eight-ton boulders a mile from the volcano's vent. As a figure of speech, we sometimes use the word volcano to describe wars, revolutions or other political or religious upheavals. Such analogies are not apt. We flatter ourselves and slight nature. There are no human powers or forces that can rival those of nature. As the old saying goes, one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. We stand in awe of this rumbling, smoking, steaming mountain. As we watch, wait and listen, we are all kin. Note the tie-ups to the Indian Loo-Wit, the spirit who guarded the entrance or bridge to "the Gods." !! See xerox attached. Owens Synchronicity Lightning is my sign. (And we just had blue lightning (eerie, they called it) at Mt. St. Helens. Owens Toledo MAYFIELD DAM MOSSYROCK DAM COWLITZ R. Silver Lake Castle Rock TOUTLE R. SO. FORK MT. MARGARET New crater opens MT. ST. HELENS SPIRIT LK COWEEMAN R. Kelso I-5 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT KALAMA R. Kalama ARIEL DAM Woodland LEWIS R. SWIFT CR. DAM YALE DAM YALE LAKE Cougar Amboy ORE. Portland 45 miles NORTH 3/23/80 === Page 78 of 88 Oregonian 3/30/80 World "Power" Attack # Anniversary of Three Mile Island accident sparks protests nationwide THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 30, 1980 3M A15 By The Associated Press About 7,000 people heard anti-nuclear songs and speeches Saturday at a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., to commemorate the anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident. It was the largest of a series of protest rallies around the nation. In Missouri, 26 demonstrators were arrested on charges of trespassing on the grounds of a nuclear generating station. In Oregon, the state Democratic Party voted at a convention in Seaside to include an anti-nuclear plank in its platform. It calls for the shutdown of the Trojan power plant near Rainier, the state's only nuclear generating station. Organizers of the Harrisburg demonstration hoped to draw 10,000 people to the state Capitol, which is just a few miles from the plant, but a cold drizzle cut into attendance. One banner held by a participant read, "Hell No, We Won't Glow." Entertainment was provided by singers Stephen Stills, Pete Seeger and Linda Ronstadt, who said she felt strongly enough about nuclear power to overcome a reluctance to "mix music and politics." Seeger said, "If we don't stop nuclear power the poor may inherit the earth, but they'll inherit such a dump they won't want it." Rock music was also heard on the Capitol lawn at Montpelier, Vt., where about 100 people gathered as a prelude to a demonstration Sunday at the Vermont Yankee atomic power plant in Vernon. In Austin, Texas, about 200 people heard anti-nuclear speeches and music outside the statehouse. A solar-powered sound system carried the music in a rally by about 200 people outside the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power plant near Chattanooga, Tenn. A rally also was held in Baltimore Saturday, and another was staged in Russellville, Ark. Police arrested 26 persons who entered the grounds of a nuclear generating station in Callaway County, Mo., and charged them with trespassing. They were released on their own recognizance and ordered to appear April 18 in county circuit court. Other protesters were arrested Friday in New Jersey, Texas and Connecticut. The New Jersey arrests were at the Parsippany headquarters of General Public Utilities Corp., which owns the Three Mile Island plant. Trespassing charges were filed against 67 of the approximately 200 people participating in the rally. Protests were also held Friday in Nebraska, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Maryland, Arizona, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Tennessee. A few hundred feet from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Middletown, Pa., 200 people began a candlelight vigil at 4 a.m. Friday, the same time when a series of mechanical breakdowns and human errors triggered the accident March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident at a commercial nuclear plant in the United States. Overheating and loss of cooling water brought the reactor close to a meltdown and caused some release of radioactive gas. In a televised debate on nuclear energy in Harrisburg, panelist Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said: "The people of America and the people of Harrisburg don't trust the experts any longer. The experts don't have any credibility. Nuclear power is a failure and doesn't have a future." 4 === Page 79 of 88 - World "Power" Attack Oregonian 3/30/80 # Radio broadcast panics islanders PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia (AP) -- A realistic radio documentary about a 1964 tidal wave combined with a power outage to frighten many residents of this Vancouver Island town, officials said. "One man left work to get to his family," after hearing the Friday evening broadcast, said Wayne Moore, an announcer for radio station CJAV. "One man tried to charter a plane." The station was broadcasting a documentary on a tidal wave that hit 16 years ago. The program began with a simulated news report on the approach of a wall of water, and at that instant a failure at a local power substation blacked out the Alberni Valley. Power was restored five minutes later, but by that time a lot of people were jittery. "I know that MacMillan Bloedel (a pulp company) was making plans to evacuate," said Mike Kindratsky, an auxiliary constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Moore said company employees began moving trucks to higher ground. Officials said they didn't know whether anyone actually left town after hearing the tidal wave report. CJAV employees said the 35-minute documentary was promoted in advance, although it appeared some people had not heard about it. "We had a bunch of calls about that ... asking if it was true," said Kindratsky. Moore said the station switchboard "was lit up solid for about 15 minutes." After power was restored, CJAV began the program again from the beginning. However, 10 minutes later it was forced to interrupt the show again to offer reassurance that there was no tidal wave and that the program was a dramatization. === Page 80 of 88 3-30-80 Oregonian # Radio broadcast panics islanders PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia (AP) -- A realistic radio documentary about a 1964 tidal wave combined with a power outage to frighten many residents of this Vancouver Island town, officials said. "One man left work to get to his family," after hearing the Friday evening broadcast, said Wayne Moore, an announcer for radio station CJAV. "One man tried to charter a plane." The station was broadcasting a documentary on a tidal wave that hit 16 years ago. The program began with a simulated news report on the approach of a wall of water, and at that instant a failure at a local power substation blacked out the Alberni Valley. Power was restored five minutes later, but by that time a lot of people were jittery. "I know that MacMillan Bloedel (a pulp company) was making plans to evacuate," said Mike Kindratsky, an auxiliary constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Moore said company employees began moving trucks to higher ground. Officials said they didn't know whether anyone actually left town after hearing the tidal wave report. CJAV employees said the 35-minute documentary was promoted in advance, although it appeared some people had not heard about it. "We had a bunch of calls about that ... asking if it was true," said Kindratsky. Moore said the station switchboard "was lit up solid for about 15 minutes." After power was restored, CJAV began the program again from the beginning. However, 10 minutes later it was forced to interrupt the show again to offer reassurance that there was no tidal wave and that the program was a dramatization. When the broadcast was repeated later, only one person called the station, Moore said. Seattle Times 3-28-80 # Disaster ## Phones out in Ore. test, but radios worked HERMISTON, Ore. -- (AP) -- Not everything went smoothly yesterday in a drill to test emergency-services readiness for any disaster that might hit Umatilla County in Northeastern Oregon. Among the phony disasters that were part of the scenario were a nerve-gas leak at the Umatilla Army Depot, a crack in the Cold Springs Dam, a gas-line break between Hermiston and Umatilla and a school-bus crash near McNary. In Salem, State Police Supt. John Williams said his telephone in the capitol command center didn't work. And he said there was no one in the teletype room at the state police headquarters to receive a message sent from the Hermiston state-police office. Williams and Harvey Latham, administrator of the state Emergency Services Division, said their agencies' teletype machines are outdated and inadequate in any case, and that they need money to buy more modern machines. On the plus side, Williams said, the drill gave his agency a chance to test a new radio-signal-relay network that allowed the Salem headquarters office to talk directly to the Pendleton and Hermiston offices by a two-way radio. === Page 81 of 88 - World "Power" Attack - # Democrats' platform asks Trojan shutdown By SANDRA McDONOUGH 3/30/80 of The Oregonian staff SEASIDE -- The Democratic Party of Oregon began hammering out a typically liberal party platform Saturday, taking stands against nuclear power and capital punishment and in favor of gay rights, gun control and legalizing cultivation of marijuana. About 500 Oregon Democrats gathered at the Seaside Convention Center this weekend for the party's biennial platform convention. Following the pattern of the last decade, the convention was dominated by young, liberal Democrats. An example of the platform convention's liberal overtones was debate over the energy planks for the 1980 platform, particularly its proposal calling for decommissioning of Portland General Electric Co.'s Trojan Nuclear Plant. A similar proposal was adopted for the party's 1978 platform. During debate over the Trojan plant issue, opponents of nuclear power said the volcanic activity on Mount St. Helens illustrates the precariousness of the Trojan plant site near Rainier. "The fault that Trojan exists on is engaged in nuclear activity -- and for the people of Portland there is no evacuation plan," said John Stewart, a Lane County delegate to the convention. Some Democrats opposed the anti-Trojan platform, saying it was "extremist and irresponsible" at a time when the nation faces an energy shortage. "We have no alternative if we shut down Trojan at this time. Are you going to shut off your electricity if we shut down Trojan?" asked Terry Ogle, a Clatsop County delegate. "Yes," yelled scores of convention delegates. === Page 82 of 88 Oregonian March 30, 1980 # Spokane silver traders bemoan crash SPOKANE (AP) -- "It's the worst crash in the history of metals," said an anguished Spokane silver trader after the price of the precious metal plunged to around $10 an ounce. Two months ago, silver, the lifeblood of the Spokane Stock Exchange and of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho, was selling for a heady $50. The drop sent shock waves around the mining district, and Tom Dillon, president of the Spokane exchange, said, "A lot of people will be hurt." There was no margin trading allowed on the exchange, he said, and brokers discouraged people from getting too extended about trading. As an example of the volatile nature of mine stocks, Dillon cited Hecla Mining Co. In 1979, it was a star performer on the New York Stock Exchange when it rose from $4.50 to $55. Thursday, Hecla closed at $21, down 4 3/4. The one-day drop in price was 21 percent. Analysts say the long-term outlook for silver prices after Thursday's drop is a mystery. The price began to collapse Wednesday when rumors circulated that Nelson Bunker Hunt might sell his vast holdings because Hunt announced that he and four Arab investors wanted to borrow money by issuing bonds backed by more than 200 million ounces of silver. Hunt is widely believed to be responsible for the huge gains in silver prices since it was $6 per ounce 15 months ago. The bond offer was interpreted to mean that even the huge Hunt fortune could not keep the price of silver up, and the panic to sell was on. Earlier this year, brokers estimated an average price of $25 an ounce for this year. At that price, the value of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District's estimated 1980 production of about 15.6 million ounces would be $390 million. If the average price for the year remains at $10, the district's silver production would be worth only $156 million. "It hurts the district, and it hurts the entire state economy," Dillon said. At Pacific Coast Coin Exchange, there was no silver at hand on Thursday, in sharp contrast to earlier scenes when crowds lined up to sell silver at about $30 and $40 an ounce. Oregonian March 30, 1980 # Reverberations in market expected from silver crash By KRISTIN GOFF NEW YORK (AP) -- The upheaval in financial markets this past week may have widespread and lingering effects. The tailspin centered on problems in the silver market and worries about the fortune of the late Texas billionaire H.L. Hunt's heirs, who amassed huge amounts of silver. But with confidence in the economy already sinking in the face of high inflation and low economic output, some analysts think the silver crisis may go a long way to further erode confidence. Caught in a squeeze of high interest rates and slumping silver prices, Nelson Bunker Hunt and associates were unable to meet a call of in excess of $100 million additional margin, according to Bache Group Inc., the parent company of the brokerage house which handled the Hunt family's silver trading. The result was a liquidation "in excess of $100 million" of silver futures contracts held by the Hunts and sales of some of their stock holdings, according to Bache. That sent a scare through financial markets in general. The New York Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 25 points at one stage during panicky trading Thursday before recovering almost all of that loss in the final half hour. Silver prices dropped $5 an ounce Thursday to $10.80, which was the lowest close since last August. Gold and commodities, ranging from grain to pork bellies, also dropped. Things calmed down a bit Friday. But as one broker said, "The reverberations will be felt for a long time." "When you see markets falling so fast, it chills people's thinking about everything," including capital expenditures and business inventories, Albert H. Cox, president of Merrill Lynch Economics, told a reporter. Lawrence Chimerine, chief economist at Chase Econometrics, however, cautioned against making too much of the economic consequences. "I have been somewhat pessimistic (about a recession) for a while. What's happening in the commodities market (reflects) the realization that a recession is coming and a reaction to speculation" in silver. The price of silver jumped from about $6 an ounce 15 months ago to more than $50 in January before falling back to its recent lows. The markets' responses, said Chimerine, "is consistent with a significant recession and some moderation of inflation this year. But when you consider all the factors, I wouldn't reach the conclusion that the world is coming to and end." === Page 83 of 88 # Silver's luster dims after Wall Street fright By CHET CURRIER 3/30/80 Oregonian NEW YORK (AP) -- After the events of the past few days, some Wall Streeters might be just as happy if the word "silver" weren't spoken in their presence for a while. But it will be some time before the last is heard of the silver crisis that rocked the stock and commodity markets, the wealthy Hunt family of Dallas and the Wall Street firm of Bache Group this past week. The biggest jolt came Thursday afternoon amid forced selling of huge amounts of silver the Hunts had accumulated, financing their purchases in part with loans from Bache and other brokerage firms. After soaring from $6 an ounce a year ago to about $50 by January, silver prices suddenly lapsed into a decline, apparently putting the Hunts in a bind. Not only were their profits rapidly disappearing, but the silver they owned was losing value as collateral on their loans. At the middle of this past week, Bache said it issued a "margin call" to the Hunts, requesting more than $100 million worth of additional collateral. When the Hunts didn't respond immediately, Bache began selling silver to cover the debt. That selling accelerated the decline in the silver price, driving it down to $10.80 late Thursday from $15.80 the day before in New York. On Friday it edged back up to $12. The stock market also nosedived briefly to its lowest level in five years. It quickly rebounded in the final minutes of Thursday's session and continued to rally sharply Friday. For the week, however, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials still posted its seventh straight weekly loss with a net decline of 7.50 at 777.65. The New York Stock Exchange composite index dropped 1.42 to 56.82, and the American Stock Exchange market value index tumbled 23.89 to 228.89. Big Board volume averaged 46.16 million shares a day, against 37.14 million the week before. Though the markets steadied Friday, it was still an anxious day in the financial community. Harold Williams, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was among the financial leaders and regulators on hand to oversee efforts to untangle Bache's problems resulting from the silver squeeze. Trading in Bache's stock remained under a suspension ordered Thursday afternoon by the SEC. The shares last traded at $8, down $1.25 from their close Wednesday. At the same time, various authorities were beginning what is likely to be a lengthy inquiry into the causes and lessons of the situation. === Page 84 of 88 March 30, 1980 Howard Main Street Pawn Shop Dear Howard: Last Saturday, March 22, while I was there, you said: "Ted, if you are a world famous psychic, why can't you tell me whether silver and gold are going up or going down...and the timing is important." I explained to you that ordinarily I do not do that sort of thing...work with stocks or stock market or gold or silver. That night, at 6 PM, my mind gave me the answer...gold and silver would fall, go down, drop, in the days ahead. Early next Monday morning I phoned you and told you that. By Monday evening gold had dropped $33 an ounce. crashed Wed. & Thursday On Tuesday the bottom dropped out of the silver market, and it went down. I had told you that I am 93% correct, ordinarily. Does that check out? If you had been a rich man acting on my advice...we'd both be rich by now... The watch I bought from you for $150...is utterly worthless. You had it fixed. Okay. Just days later it ceased to function. I sent it to a very real expert on old watches (see xerox of his letter, enclosed) and there is a part missing...no way to get another or make another...so the watch is just junk. Dammit. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 * You explained that you do business in gold and silver. PS...Hunt and I are old enemies...we have a genuine personal feud. What happened to him couldn't happen to a nicer feller. PPS... In other words, my friend, it only took two days for my prediction to be completed accurately!! === Page 85 of 88 Get diff. forms of Power* merge it, and store the merged, for future use. * Elec., nuke, etc. March 30, 1980 Above is the definitive formula and massive answer to energy-power for the United States. ---------- Electric power is generated, then stored. Nuclear power is generated, then stored. Solar power is generated, then stored. Etc. Next, the various forms of stored-up power are blended into a whole; you might say a "summed-up power," and then the "summed-up" power is stored, for present and future use. Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 86 of 88 By JOHN SNELL and JOHN PAINTER JR. 3/31/80 of The Oregonian staff Blocks of ice 5 feet across were thrown from the peak of Mount St. Helens on Sunday afternoon, and ash from the smoldering volcano began falling in parts of northwest Oregon, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist reported. The ice-carrying eruptions began at 1:08 p.m., said Don Mullineaux, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist who specializes in volcano hazards. A second ice-carrying eruption occurred at about 2:30 p.m. and was followed 15 minutes later by a "sharp" earthquake, which apparently helped trigger an avalanche on the north side of the volcano at the 6,000-foot level, officials said. Mullineaux said the ice blocks ranged between 3 and 5 feet in length and were "the biggest chunk of anything that has come out of the volcano thus far." Scientists said they believe that the two craters that formed on the peak of the 9,677-foot mountain would soon merge into one, giant crater. The first crater formed early during the volcanic eruptions. The second crater was discovered Saturday night. The mountain erupted earlier Sunday morning for nearly 20 minutes, and an eerie blue lightning was seen arcing between the two craters on the summit. Forest Service information specialist Sylvia Brucchi said geologists believe Coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens has been aided by reporters Steven K. Wagner, Stan Federman, Beth Fagan, Leverett Richards, Steve Erickson and Don Bundy. More pictures, stories about the mountain on Pages B1, 3. the lightning was caused by static electricity discharges, much like those caused when shoes shuffle across a carpet. The early-morning eruption threw a cloud of smoke and ash as high as 16,000 feet above sea level -- more than a mile above the peak. Geologists said it was the highest plume measured thus far. During the eruption, a black cloud of ash with a frosting of white steam rose, drifting south and a little east on the wings of a northwest wind. For 20 minutes, the restless mountain spewed tons of grayish ash that boiled and tumbled east. At 7:51, the ash cloud was lit by the brilliant flash of lighting. At 7:57 a.m., the performance ended as abruptly as it began, leaving a drifting cloud of black ash at least 10 miles long. Note: my "sign:" ANGRY MOUNTAIN -- Mount St. Helens belches ash and steam early 3/31/80 Oregonian Sunday in a continuation of its daily spectacle. Volcano threw gritty pumice as far south as Wemme in eastern Clackamas County near Mount Hood. Observers noticed lightning flashing between two craters on peak. Staff photo by RANDY WOOD 3 3/4 === Page 87 of 88 - WORLD "POWER" ATTACK - NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SHUT DOWN # Arrests made in nuclear plant protest CHRISTOPHER GRAFF 3/31/80 VERNON, Vt. (AP) -- Dozens of anti-nuclear demonstrators in a crowd that had numbered 1,000 were arrested Sunday night for blocking the main gate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Police began making arrests around 7 p.m., when plant workers who were going off duty sought to drive their cars out the gate but found the way blocked. About 50 protesters had been arrested by 9 p.m. The demonstration, timed to coincide with the anniversary of last year's accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, followed a rally in nearby Brattleboro, Vt. The demonstrators marched the five miles to the plant carrying American flags and banners proclaiming "No Nukes" and "Yankee Go Home." Soon after the more than 1,000 demonstrators had arranged themselves outside the 540-megawatt plant Sunday afternoon, plant security chief Bill Penniman told them to leave. "You are trespassing and you are not welcome on these premises," he said. "Please leave immediately." Then police waited three hours for darkness and falling temperatures to thin the crowd to several hundred before making arrests. Under a glare of lights from the huge plant, troopers walked into the crowd and began choosing individuals for arrest. None resisted, although some had to be carried to police vans. The vans carried them to state police barracks where officials said they would be cited for trespassing and then released. At about 8:30 p.m. some 50 state troopers marched through the crowd to the main gate, clearing a path for the departing plant workers' cars. In an earlier protest, about 7,000 persons gathered for anti-nuclear songs and speeches in Harrisburg, Pa., on Saturday to commemorate the TMI anniversary. In addition, 13 persons -- eight of whom refused to give their names -- remained in jail in New Jersey on Sunday following their arrest for trespassing on the corporate headquarters of General Public Utilities Corp., the owner of the stricken Three Mile Island reactor. Vermont authorities had prepared for similar civil disobedience. Unlike last September, when Vermont's correctional and court systems were clogged by protesters withholding their identities, police said they would photograph and fingerprint arrested demonstrators but would not ask for their names. "The state is willing to do what it can to prevent a crippling of the courts and justice system," said R. Paul Wicks, who represented Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling at the scene. Inside the plant, workers began shutting down the reactor to allow technicians to repair a leaky steam valve and make other minor adjustments. === Page 88 of 88 Sonics hand humbling defeat to Blazers By STEVE KELLEY 3/31/80 of The Oregonian staff SEATTLE -- Maybe the Portland Trail Blazers were playing possum Sunday, or maybe Seattle is that much better than the Blazers. That will be decided in this week's playoff miniseries. But the Blazers were emotionally flat for the second game in a row and suffered another humbling defeat, 135-104 to the Seattle Sonics. The Blazers and Sonics will meet in the opening of the three-game series Wednesday at the Kingdome. Seattle will enter the playoffs with five straight wins over Portland. The Sonics, 56-26, got the Blazers down early and stomped all over them. It was 44-26 after 18 minutes and only got worse. When Ron Brewer hit a jump shot with 5:40 to go in the first half, it was the first points scored by a Trail Blazer guard. The Sonic guards already had scored 25 points. The Blazers, who lost 114-100 Friday at Phoenix after clinching a playoff spot Thursday with a win over San Diego, closed the season at 38-44 with two spiritless performances. The question that must be answered is whether they can turn back on the emotion that helped them overtake San Diego in the stretch run. "The way we played tonight, it was like we just wanted to get the season over with," forward Calvin Natt said. "They (Sonics) let us know what they can do tonight, but the guys on our team won't play like that Wednesday." "I'm physically real tired from that stretch drive we made to get into the playoffs," center Tom Owens said. "He (Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay) told us after the game that we have no chance to do anything if we play like this in the playoffs. "We have to get mentally adjusted to playing the way we were playing. We have to get it back together." Even though they lost five of six to the Sonics this season, most of the Blazers think they have a better chance in the playoff against Seattle than they would have had against Phoenix. If the Blazers had beaten Seattle on Sunday, they would have started the playoffs against the Suns. "I think the forwards have an easier time against Seattle, but the guards might have had a harder time with Seattle," Natt said. "I've asked a lot of the guys about that." The Blazers had a hard time Sunday with the forwards, guards, centers and reserves. All 10 Sonics scored in double figures. "This game meant a lot to us and not very much to them," Sonic forward John Johnson said. "We wanted to get them down early so there wouldn't be any mistakes. Once we got them down we demoralized them. "But this game is irrelevant now," JJ continued. "This game was really unfair. We got their key people in foul trouble, and by the second quarter it was over with. I wanted to put them away early because I know this isn't the end of them seeing us." Just as the Trail Blazers prefer to play Seattle in the miniseries, Seattle is pleased to be playing Portland. The alternative for the Sonics, if they had lost Sunday, would have been Kansas City, 47-35. "I'd rather play Portland because it's closer, Kansas City's had a better year, and they (Kings) are playing better now." JJ simply smiled when he was told that Natt preferred to play the Sonic forwards. "I could understand why," he said. "It's because our forwards don't get the acclaim that our guards get. But our total frontline is a good as any frontline in basketball. You win championships with the frontline. "Guards, of course, are important, but you look at the teams with only good guards and most of them are on vacation now unless they have a good front line." "When Lonnie Shelton comes back (out with an injured knee), he'll be another positive factor for us." The game was meaningless for Portland as far a playoff positions were concerned, but Ramsay kept the locker room doors closed longer than usual after the game and lectured the team on the importance of intensity. "We need a complete turnaround by Wednesday," Ramsay said. "We had a long run to make the playoffs. We were emotionally satisfied with that. We had no spirit in these games." Do the Blazers know what they can do? "No," said forward Bob Gross. "We have too many new faces who aren't familiar with what we can do. We're just not well organized now. They (new faces) are not familiar with what we can do and we're trying to incorporate them into our offense. It limits us in what we can do." The game may have been meaningless but the margin of victory was noticeably upsetting to the Blazers. "It wasn't even a game," said a Blazer who asked not to be named. "It's better not to say anything about this one." BLAZER NOTES -- There were many examples of the Portland futility hidden in the statistics. Seattle scored nine of its 14 first-quarter field goals on layups. . . . Portland had 13 turnovers in the first quarter, 20 by halftime. . . . All 10 Sonics who played scored in double figures. . . . Shelton had an arthroscopic examination Tuesday on his injured right knee but the Sonics say he'll be ready by Wednesday's playoff opener. Shelton said Sunday that he hoped to practice on Monday. . . . The series will continue at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Portland, then come back to Seattle, if necessary, on Sunday. . . . Blazer backup center Jim Brewer missed the game because of an injured right winner of the mini-se west Division winner best-of-seven series. Billy Ray Bates score points in the fourth qu 12 Blazer points in a ro ers finished 12-29 on finished 22 games behi sion leader Los Angele the second-place Sonics PORTLAND ( | | MP | FG | FT | |---|---|---|---| | Natt | 23 | 5-8 | 2-2 | | Washington | 38 | 8-17 | 2-2 | | Owens | 28 | 6-11 | 2-5 | | R.Brewer | 30 | 4-15 | 2-2 | | Twardzik | 18 | 1-3 | 2-2 | | Paxson | 11 | 1-4 | 0-0 | | Bates | 21 | 6-16 | 2-4 | | Jeelani | 29 | 4-15 | 2-4 | | Dunn | 16 | 1-9 | 0-0 | | Gross | 30 | 7-9 | 2-3 | | Totals | 240 | 43-107 | 16-24 | SEATTLE (1 | | MP | FG | FT | |---|---|---|---| | Bailey | 25 | 6-11 | 0-0 | | J. Johnson | 26 | 7-11 | 1-2 | | Sikma | 21 | 5-7 | 0-0 | | D. Johnson | 30 | 5-12 | 2-2 | | Williams | 23 | 10-19 | 3-5 | | Silas | 23 | 5-13 | 4-4 | | Brown | 25 | 6-7 | 2-2 | | LaGarde | 27 | 3-8 | 4-7 | | Walker | 22 | 4-9 | 3-3 | | V. Johnson | 18 | 4-6 | 4-4 | | Totals | 240 | 55-103 | 24-31 | Portland Seattle Team rebounds -- Portland 17, 4, LaGarde. Blocks shots -- Natt 2, Owe *Three-point attempts -- Bal Williams 0-1. Technical fouls -- none. Turnover-points -- Portland 11-7. Officials -- Rush, Bavetta. Attendance -- 24,520. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8004 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a2cd6307bdbec369c0e6a967bd3ff617.pdf e63d15179ee20f05818e3dbe3bcd25bb https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/fdb920bfa8f9838ce66b73fe1e21acc3.txt af25ef0c69bd50e431987392b7133e6f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 Throughout the southern half of Queensland, April rainfall has been very much below average and the rainfall deficiencies in the southern third of the State have been exacerbated. As very little rain is usually recorded during the next few months over the areas of Queensland that are affected by drought there is little prospect of relief before August or September. A similar situation applies over the eastern half of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Unless exceptional rain occurs during winter, rainfall deficiencies will persist until at least spring. Over the Northern Territory the wet season appears to have finished and the next five to six months are normally dry. The map shows the extent and severity of rainfall deficiencies as at the end of April while the tables provide statistics of rainfall in and near the affected areas. === Page 2 of 3 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY DROUGHT REVIEW AUSTRALIA NUMBER 118 Issued May 1980 === Page 3 of 3 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY GPO Box 1289K MELBOURNE VIC 3001 STATEMENT ON DROUGHT ISSUED BY THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF METEOROLOGY 6 MAY 1980 The acting Director of Meteorology, Mr R.B. Crowder, said today that most of the eastern half of New South Wales, parts of the Australian Capital Territory, eastern Victoria and the southern third of Queensland, were still experiencing serious or severe rainfall deficiencies at the end of April. During the latter half of April, substantial and widespread rain fell over a large area of South Australia, Victoria and southwestern New South Wales. The rain was sufficient to break the five-month drought over this area. In many places falls of over 100 millimetres were recorded. The rain-bearing system that alleviated the drought did not extend into Gippsland in Victoria, or to the South Coast, Southwest Slopes and Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. Consequently these areas are relatively dry and require substantial rainfall to overcome the existing deficiencies. In Tasmania rainfall was close to, or above, average during April, with some good falls in the northeast. This relieved the dry conditions over most of the State, but there are still areas on the east coast near Swansea that require further rain to overcome the previous rainfall deficiencies. Widespread rain fell over Western Australia during the third week of April as a series of cold fronts crossed the southern half of the State, bringing the first significant rain to this area since last spring and providing relief from the very dry conditions. These systems brought the first substantial rain to pastoral areas for several years. Follow-up rains during the next few months are needed to replenish water supplies and soil moisture. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8005 Australia Drought Review Statement no 118 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4bbb5a7f4ab86858de6b6d6c39c3ebdb.pdf f8e5d19b56336a31dbd7ded4b965d03c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/71ed1ea4ed48c21323d0d75994026ecc.txt 878bb2057b4a49f53a1042b907c72d62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 INTRODUCTION In May heavy rains occurred in parts of eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales. A complex weather system persisted over the east coastal area during the first ten days of the month and caused flooding on rivers from the Logan to the Hastings. The Northern Tablelands (East) and the Upper North Coast districts of New South Wales received the highest ever May rainfall and, in adjacent districts, totals were near record. Some stations registered record May totals over 500 mm. May rainfall was also very much above average in the Central Western Plains district of NSW and the East Central Coast district of Queensland. In Western Australia widespread rains fell during the month over the Murchison and Southeast districts and surrounding areas when low pressure systems moved across the State. Local flooding occurred in many areas due to the intensity of the rain. Elsewhere May rainfall was mostly average, although the lower south-west of Western Australia and the Midlands district of Tasmania were much below average. Rainfall for Autumn (March-May) was about average over extensive areas of the continent. Notable areas above average included the northeast of South Australia, southwest New South Wales and northwestern Victoria, and also a large area from the west coast of Western Australia towards the interior of the continent. Well below average areas included the agricultural parts of Western Australia, southwest Queensland, the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and East Gippsland in Victoria. Western Australia A large area of well above average rainfall extended from the West Gascoyne district through the Murchison to the southeast district. Most of the rain in the first two districts fell in the last week of the month. Elsewhere rainfall was about average, apart from below average totals in the lower southwest. Autumn rainfall was above average in the Gascoyne, Murchison and Northeast districts. In the remaining districts Autumn totals were mostly average except for much below average totals in the North and South Central districts. Northern Territory Some moderate rains occurred in the Alice Springs district about the 21st to the 22nd of the month, but elsewhere falls were mainly scattered and light. Autumn rainfall has been mostly average except in the Victoria and Barkly districts where totals were below average. === Page 2 of 4 South Australia May rainfall was average in all districts except the Lower Southeast, which was below average. A dry March, a wet April and an average May resulted in average autumn rainfall in the south and west and above average autumn rainfall in the northern districts. Totals in the Far North and Lower North were much above average. Queensland May rainfall varied generally from average in the west of the state to well above average towards the east. Heavy rain in the Moreton and East Darling Downes districts in the first ten days of the month and in the East Central Coast about the 23rd, led to very much above average totals in these districts. The Brisbane area had the highest May rainfall on record. Autumn rainfall showed a similar pattern being below average in the west and mostly average in the east. A notable exception was the much below average total in the Port Curtis district. New South Wales Much of the area that had been very dry at the end of April received substantial rain in May. In the first ten days of the month heavy rain fell in the northeast of the State, while good rain fell on the western slopes of the ranges about the 28th and 29th of the month. Record totals for May fell in the Northern Tablelands (East) and the Upper North Coast districts, and rainfall in the Central Western Plains (North), the Northern Tablelands (West) and Lower North Coast was very much above average. Elsewhere in the State May rainfall was average or above. Although May rainfall in the Hunter and Central Tablelands (North) and Southern Tablelands was average, totals for autumn were well below average in these districts. Autumn rain was below average in the Metropolitan, South Coast, Central Tablelands (South) and Northwestern Plains. Elsewhere autumn rainfall was average or above, with well above average totals in the Northern Tablelands (East) and Lower Darling districts. Victoria May rainfall was average apart from below average amounts in the Upper Northeast and the West Central districts. Autumn rain graded from above average in the Mallee and Wimmera to much below average in the East Central and East Gippsland districts. Tasmania May rainfall was generally average or above, but a notable departure was the Midlands district, which was much below average. Very heavy rain fell on parts of the east coast on the 29th and 30th, resulting in flooding of some rivers. The autumn rainfall was mostly average except for below average amounts in the Midlands district and on King Island, and a much above average total in the Derwent Valley. === Page 3 of 4 VIC Omeo Wilsons Promontory Rainfall deficiencies 3 months 1 February - 30 April 1980 QLD Rockhampton Bundaberg Windorah Charleville BRISBANE Tibooburra Bourke Narrabri NSW SA Dubbo Mt Hope Whyalla SYDNEY ADELAIDE Wagga Jervis Bay CANBERRA VIC Shepparton Bendigo Colac MELBOURNE Launceston TAS HOBART Serious Deficiency Severe Deficiency Rainfall deficiencies based on a selected network of telegraphic reporting stations. Rainfall deficiencies 5 months 1 December 1979 - 30 April 1980 Rainfall deficiencies === Page 4 of 4 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY MONTHLY RAINFALL REVIEW AUSTRALIA MAY 1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8005 Australia Monthly Rainfall Review Report https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e00ca4d9acb275dadb012b44a94aee02.pdf 2a8b0ff43f85d8a8222091b1c82ea0ee https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/de9cd53113416681ac418ee75824fa41.txt b43026de55e6bf522ea51c5778611179 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW NEW SOUTH WALES MAY 1980 === Page 2 of 7 WEATHER REVIEW NEW SOUTH WALES MAY, 1980 INTRODUCTION Heavy rains in the first ten days and during the last week of the month resulted in above to very much above average rainfall for May over most of the northeast quarter of the state, in the Central Western Plains and adjacent sections of surrounding districts, Metropolitan, most of Illawarra and scattered small sections of southern districts. These rains significantly eased the drought situation which had existed during past six months. Rainfall was much below average in parts of the Western and Eastern Riverina Districts and average over the rest of the State. District averages were the highest on record for May, since records commenced in 1913, in the Upper North Coast (previous highest 1921) and Northern Tablelands (East) (previous highest 1963) and among the highest ten per cent on record in Northern Tablelands (West), Lower North Coast, Manning and Central Western Plains. Brief moderate to major flooding in coastal rivers north from the Hastings. Cool days with about average temperatures, mild nights with much above average minimum temperatures. SYNOPTIC CIRCULATION The widespread relief rains in New South Wales resulted from complex low pressure developments 6th to 12th and 26th to 31st. During the first period a small low developed off the south Queensland coast 6th/7th, persisted there until 9th then moved southwestward across New South Wales to the Adelaide region 10th/11th. the complex system which formed there then moved eastward across southern New South Wales during 11th/12th - flood rainfalls were received along the north coast and nearby tablelands, heavy falls along remainder coast and nearby tablelands and over much of the western plains and slopes, variable falls occurred elsewhere. In the latter period, following the passage of an upper trough, a surface low moved northeast from Adelaide === Page 3 of 7 N.S.W. region to central New South Wales during 27th thence southeastward into Tasman Sea, low pressure persisted over southern districts for the next few days. From 26th to 31st extensive cloud bands moved eastwards across the state. Rainfalls during these days were moderate to heavy in most inland districts and light to moderate on the coast. Other low pressure developments during May were southern troughs and associated cold fronts, which moved across the state 16th/17th and during 20th. With the second trough moderate snow fell on the Snowy Mountains otherwise with these changes there were only light showers in southern inland areas and along parts of the coast and tablelands. During the rest of the month New South Wales was under the influence of slow moving highs, which at eastern Australian longitudes followed a more south than normal May eastward path until the last week when centres were located at Queensland latitudes. Apart from seaboard showers mainly settled weather was associated with the highs, however upper level developments led to thunderstorms in the central east and heavy rains on north coast during 1st and rain in the northern border regions during 22nd when also a cloud mass over Queensland dipped into New South Wales. During the first half of the month winds were chiefly north to easterly and in second half southerly. RAINFALL Highest rainfalls for the month, 300 to 600 millimetres, were recorded along the coast north from Nambucca Heads, around Comboyne in the Manning District and on the eastern half of the northern tablelands and were 3 to 5 times higher than the May average. Over the rest of the northeast quarter rainfalls varied from 50 to 200 millimetres while in the northwest they generally decreased westward from 50 to less than 10 millimetres in the Tibooburra and Wilcannia areas. Along the central coastal fringe and in the Blue Mountains region of Central Tablelands District most totals were in 100 to 200 millimetre range with highest 361 millimetres at Robertson (Illawarra), on south coast totals were generally 50 to 100 millimetres. In central and southern districts from -2- === Page 4 of 7 N.S.W. tablelands westward rainfalls varied considerably with highest recordings 100 to 200 millimetres in the central western plains region - Trundle - Wyalong - Gubbata and in southwestern slopes area from Cootamundra south to border and on the nearby Snowy Mountains and lowest falls less than 10 millimetres at Ivanhoe (Southwestern Plains District) and in the Jerilderie - Urana region of the Riverina district. At the following centres rainfalls for this month are the highest on record for May :- | District | Location | Rainfall | |---|---|---| | Upper North Coast District | Byron Bay | 426 millimetres | | | Casino | 377 " | | | Kyogle | 417 " | | | Lismore | 428 " | | | Murwillumbah | 543 " | | | Tweed Heads | 509 " | | Lower North Coast | Meldrum | 558 " | | Manning District | Comboyne | 559 " | | Northern Tablelands (East) | Bonalbo | 314 " | | | Drake | 328 " | | | Tabulam | 375 " | | Northern Tablelands (West) | Tenterfield | 186 " | | Central Western Plains | Coonamble | 230 " | Highest total at Telegraphic Recording Station was 636 millimetres at Mullumbimby (Upper North Coast). Further details of the month's rainfall are shown in Tables 1 and 2 and on Maps 1 and 2. TEMPERATURES Temperatures were generally below average in the third week, variable during last few days and above average for the remainder of the month. As a result of the cloudy wet spells average maxima for the month were mostly near average and average minima much above average. Average maxima were 1 to 2 degrees above average in far western border regions and over much of the southeast, average minimum temperatures were about average in the small areas in the -3- === Page 5 of 7 N.S.W. Riverina and Western Districts where rainfall was much below average. Reported extremes were 32°C. at Casino on 12th and minus 8°C. at Perisher Valley on 18th. See also Table 4 and Maps 3 and 4. PHENOMENA Thunderstorms. A few storms were reported; in coast and/or tablelands and western slopes districts -- in the northern half 1st, 10th, 14th, 28th and in the southern half 5th, 11th, 27th and 28th, in the northwestern plains area 4th and in several regions in the western half of the state 27th and 28th. Waterspouts were reported off Coffs Harbour on 14th. Hail was reported in the Snowy Mountains area on 4th, at Coffs Harbour on 10th, at Cabramurra (Southwestern Slopes) on 11th and at Broken Hill (L. West) and Nyngan (C.W. Plains) on 28th. Snow. On the Snowy Mountains there were light snow showers overnight 11th/12th and moderate snowfalls 19th/20th, at 9 a.m. 20th Thredbo reported 10 centimetres snow and at 9 a.m. 21st Perisher Valley 12 centimetres. Fogs were reported on most days in coastal and/or highland areas, they were widespread 16th and 27th but otherwise well scattered to isolated. On 16th they caused traffic delays in the Metropolitan District whilst in the first and last weeks of the month some areas of fogs in tablelands districts persisted into afternoon hours. Fogs were reported in the Riverina District on 1st, southern and central western regions 12th, 13th and 31st and in most western districts 28th, 29th and 30th. Frost level minimum temperatures were recorded on the Snowy Mountains daily 1st to 8th, 12th to 14th and 31st, they were more widespread on the southern highlands 15th to 17th and reported in most highland areas frequently extending into western districts and occasionally into coastal plains areas 18th to 26th. -4- === Page 6 of 7 N.S.W. Dust } Tornadic squalls } Nil occurrences reported. Strong winds and gales. During 6th/7th strong winds developed in north coastal waters and on 7th gales in northwestern Tasman Sea. These conditions gradually eased from the north as they spread southwards to the south coastal and southern New South Wales ocean waters in the next four days, by 12th conditions had moderated in all areas. During this period, as well as strong winds, there were periods of gales in coastal waters. There were further periods of strong winds in coastal waters 15th/16th, 19th to 21st and 28th to 31st and gales in southern ocean waters 28th to 30th, gales also occurred in the Snowy Mountains region 19th/20th. BUSHFIRES AND FLOODS Bushfires No occurrences. Flooding The very heavy rains early in the month caused moderate to major flooding in Tweed, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 8th to 10th and moderate flooding in Bellinger, Nambucca and Macleay and Hastings Rivers 8th to 10th. Apart from traffic disruptions and some household evacuations reported damage appeared to be minimal. NORMAL CONDITIONS FOR JUNE IN N.S.W. Although for most purposes the commencement of winter occurs in June, climatologically by this time the season is already well advanced. The west to east path of high pressure systems usually reach their most northern limits during June, when they pass over northern N.S.W. and southern Queensland. Concomitantly southern depression systems affect most of the State, giving a predominantly westerly air circulation over N.S.W. This air being relatively dry gives little or no rain, except where orographical uplift occurs, or when intense frontal systems associated -5- === Page 7 of 7 N.S.W. with southern depressions, affect the more southern inland districts. Under these conditions areas in the lee of ranges and mountains such as coastal districts show a continued falling off in average rainfall. While in general average rainfall still decreases from 75 millimetres to 150 millimetres along the coast to 25 millimetres or less in the interior of the State, the effect is to a large extent masked by higher rainfalls on the western slopes and the tablelands. This is particularly noticeable in the South West Slopes and Southern Highlands, which now become the highest rainfall areas in the State. Average falls of 200 millimetres are received on the southern highland sections and 100 millimetres on the Central Tablelands, tapering off to 25 millimetres in central and far western sections and 50 millimetres on the eastern part of the Tablelands. Cyclones are not unusual in June in coastal regions of N.S.W. but are rare inland. In years when these are experienced, heavy rains and floods occur, and monthly totals of 500 millimetres or more recorded, in coastal sections. Totals of nearly 1400 millimetres have been received in one month and daily totals of over 600 millimetres at isolated places in coastal areas on a few occasions. In consequence flooding of coastal streams is occasionally experienced, but in inland both floods and cyclonic storms are very rare. However, on occasions when rain cyclones move to the southern highlands, the melting of snow by heavy rain, can result in disastrous floods in the Murray and Murrumbidgee River system. While average daytime temperatures range from 4°C. on the Southern Highlands to 10°C. on the Central and 13°C. on the Northern Tablelands, readings between 13°C. and 18°C. are normally experienced elsewhere and sometimes reach 21°C. on the North Coast. Night temperatures usually vary between -1°C. and 2°C. on the Tablelands and Highlands and from 2°C. to 6°C. elsewhere. However the influence of the Tasman Sea is noticed in seaboard sections where readings below 4°C. to 7°C. are rare. -6- Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8005 New South Wales monthly weather review report https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c1933cc36f84cdd7d9d6baca6733d46f.pdf 7890c1dbdcaaeae5b22fc051675c1f95 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/abe9af31232f43d1ad2f95aad6f6c98b.txt 807102e60f911a04bc76641b91393653 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 3 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY # DROUGHT REVIEW # AUSTRALIA NUMBER 119 Issued June 1980 === Page 2 of 3 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY GPO Box 1289K MELBOURNE VIC 3001 STATEMENT ON DROUGHT ISSUED BY THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF METEOROLOGY, 6 JUNE 1980 The acting Director of Meteorology, Mr R.B. Crowder, said today that rainfall during May had been above average over much of eastern Queensland, northeastern New South Wales and on parts of Tasmania's east coast. Districts in which rainfall for the month was near the highest on record include the North Coast, Northern Tablelands and the Central Western Plains in New South Wales and parts of Moreton and the East Darling Downs in Queensland. Extensive flooding occurred around Grafton, New South Wales, in the first half of the month. During the three months ending 31 May 1980, near to or above average rain has fallen over much of Australia. Exceptions to this include far western Queensland, the areas around Gladstone in Queensland, Moree in New South Wales, and a band from the Great Dividing Range to the coast, southwards from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and including northeast Victoria and Gippsland. One large area of continuing severe rainfall deficiency (for the 6 months ending 31 May 1980) is along the New South Wales-Queensland border, and includes parts of the Darling Downs and the Northwest Slopes and Plains. Other smaller areas of severe deficiency exist in far southwest Queensland, the Hunter and Central Tablelands in New South Wales, and parts of the lower Northeast and West Gippsland in Victoria, with === Page 3 of 3 pockets in Victoria's West Central District, west of Melbourne. In Queensland, for the six month period December 1979 to May 1980, parts of the Darling Downs, Warrego, Maranoa and far southwest districts are still in a situation of serious rainfall deficiency. In New South Wales, parts of the Northwest Slopes and Plains, the Northern Tablelands and the Hunter and Manning districts are still experiencing a serious deficiency. This is in contrast to the extreme northeast of the State, where the flood rains brought a break to the drought during the month. The far southeast of New South Wales, and much of eastern Victoria, is still in a seriously rainfall deficient situation, with parts of the New South Wales Central and Southern Tablelands, the Southwest Slopes and the South Coast being affected, together with much of northeastern Victoria and Gippsland. Parts of central Victoria are also in a situation of serious rainfall deficiency. A significant easing of the drought situation along the east coast of Tasmania resulted from the widespread rain that fell in the last week of May. The map shows the area and severity of rainfall deficiencies, and the tables give statistics of rainfall for selected stations in and near the affected areas. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 Australia Drought Review Statement no 119 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/875b5b9221c122243c8ff02a0b5fee2d.pdf 746093e0778cf62662af9846887fa0cb https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e1e6049ff012a9d0b4bddba13e575656.txt 9187650a78a3f93d21646ec54d121eb5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 15 Note: These earlier newsclips from Australia became misplaced and am just now getting them to you. Please put in World Rain Attack "in proper date order. Owens, 6/18/80. BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th St., Vancouver WASH 98665 U.S.A. April 9th, 1980 Dear Mr Owens, Having dispatched a letter of request to you this day in which I sought your aid in dispersing this drought which covers New South Wales (one of the states of Australia) and, indeed, most of the Australian continent, I now send some news-cuttings in confirmation. Yes, Mr Owens there is a drought and your help is needed to bring drought-breaking rains and good follow-up rains. I hope you give your human choice and permission. Thank You But for many graziers this will soon become financially impossible -- it would cost $650 to hand feed a cow for six months. **Affected areas** Many farmers are slaughtering stock and this number will soon spiral. average, with half of these on agistment in Queensland since mid-1979. The rest are foraging in the scrub for feed. WALGETT has been a drought area since last May. It has not known a good rainfall since December 1978. Farmers say their stock is already weak and will most dams are almost dry and even if good rain came now there would be no suitable winter growth of fodder -- only green shoots full of water. YASS had some rain in February but it was patchy and missed many properties. There is little feed and hay and grain is very expensive. BEGA's dairy production is slipping. There was a big storm in January but the rain was so heavy that most of it ran off the land and only a fraction soaked into the soil. HILLSTON has not had a good rainfall for about three years. Most properties still === Page 2 of 15 D/10 Mr. Bruce Kell 4 Torrington Road Strathfield NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA I began this work for Aust. late! But I use a nap until July 15. Owens MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver. WASH. 98665 U.S.A. April 9th 1980 Dear Sir, You have been given the mind of "future man" to help the human race if possible. The S.I. have made you their only link with the human race so that the S.I. can step in and help the human race with your human choice and permission. Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in Australia? If the size of Australia is too big to contemplate please consider relieving the drought for say a tenth of the area for a start. How about starting on the northern tablelands and north coast of the state of New South Wales? Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in these areas? Thank You. Do you want me to send you any newspaper articles to confirm the drought and the breaking of the drought if you agree to consider bringing this relief? Best wishes Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. $10 enclosed with thanks BK Note, Dr Mishlove: Mr Kell asks for rain on New South Wales... and more specifically (see his ltr of April 3 enclosed) on Armidale & Kempsey. I get it done; to do. See enclosed. Owens June 9, 1980 === Page 3 of 15 D/10 OK Mr. Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver . WASH. 98665 U. S. A. April 9th 1980 Dear Sir, You have been given the mind of "future man" to help the human race if possible. The S. I. have made you their only link with the human race so that the S. I. can step in and help the human race with your human choice and permission. Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in Australia? If the size of Australia is too big to contemplate please consider relieving the drought for say a tenth of the area for a start. How about starting on the northern tablelands and north coast of the state of New South Wales? Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in these areas? Thank You. Do you want me to send you any newspaper articles to confirm the drought and the breaking of the drought if you agree to consider bringing this relief? Best wishes Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. $10 enclosed with thanks BK === Page 4 of 15 MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76TH Street Vancouver WASH. 98665 U.S.A. BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA April 30th 1980 Dear Ted, Thank you for the UFO Disc and the thoughtful inclusion of magazine material and copy of letter to the P.M. concerning the Australia-wide drought. The P.M.'s name is MALCOLM FRASER. He has often been quoted as the originator of the phrase "LIFE WASN'T MEANT TO BE EASY" and being a farmer-grazier-rancher-cattleman as well as academically qualified, he should appreciate the vagaries of nature especially lack of rain. However he could not send public money. I had no idea you would approach him personally. By the way the full version of the above quotation is from George Bernard Shaw: " LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE EASY MY CHILD BUT TAKE COURAGE IT CAN BE DELIGHTFUL " So please, Ted, use my small contributions towards bringing rain to Australia, especially those parts of New South Wales which include Armidale (Northern Tablelands) and KEMPSEY (the North Coast of N.S.W.) === Page 5 of 15 BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA April 30th 1980 Disc and the give material and concerning the MALCOLM FRASER as the originator IT MEANT TO BE EASY rancher-cattleman qualified, he should of nature especially not send public money. would approach him version of the above Bernard Shaw: BY MY CHILD small contributions tralia, especially those include Armidale KEMPSEY (the North Coast of N.S.W.) AIR MAIL PAR AVION rec'd. 270.00 check Letter. Am going to send Aust. drought AUSTRALIA 15c Forest Kingfisher AUSTRALIA BARRIER REEF ADDRESS MAIL TO PRIVATE BOX NO. IT EXPEDITES DELIVERY MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76th Street Vancouver WASHINGTON 98665 U.S.A. C. 270 Ric on Wall no "Course..." (Northern Tablelands) and === Page 6 of 15 BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA April 30th 1980 MR. TED OWENS 200 N.E. 76TH Street Vancouver WASH. 98665 U.S.A. Dear Ted, Thank you for the UFO Disc and the thoughtful inclusion of magazine material and copy of letter to the P.M. concerning the Australia-wide drought. The P.M.'s name is MALCOLM FRASER. He has often been quoted as the originator of the phrase "LIFE WASN'T MEANT TO BE EASY" and being a farmer-grazier-rancher-cattleman as well as academically qualified, he should appreciate the vagaries of nature especially lack of rain. However he could not send public money. I had no idea you would approach him personally. By the way the full version of the above quotation is from George Bernard Shaw: "LIFE IS NOT MEANT TO BE EASY MY CHILD BUT TAKE COURAGE IT CAN BE DELIGHTFUL" So please, Ted, use my small contributions towards bringing rain to Australia, especially those parts of New South Wales which include Armidale (Northern Tablelands) and KEMPSEY (the North Coast of N.S.W.) === Page 7 of 15 2. I am aware that help is needed for your work and research and I am aware that should you place my photo on your Healing Wall, any healing would be maximised. However my first thought and object in contacting you, was to ask assistance and intercession to bring rain to this parched continent of Australia. I doubt if you would respect me very much if I now choose to dump Australia and concentrate on my own personal needs. Additionally I know you have advertised a course for $50 so I feel I could take this course personally (plus extra for say $20 AIR MAIL postage). total - - - - - - - - - - $ 70 Maybe I could include a donation which could be halved as being towards drought relief of Australia $ 100 personal relief through "Healing Wall" $ 100 I trust this arrives safely cheque for $ 270 Yours faithfully Bruce Kell P.S. Please excuse bank check but it is difficult to obtain United States Currency to the ABOVE amount. BK. === Page 8 of 15 8 June 1980 Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) 100 NE 76th Street Vancouver Washington 98665 U.S.A. Revered Sir, This short article from a recent newspaper should be of interest to you in your research and development. Regretfully news editors are "on strike" or a more detailed article may have been printed. Best wishes Respectfully, Bruce BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA P.S. $10 encl. === Page 9 of 15 Mr. TED OWENS, (PK MAN) 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, WASH. 98665 U.S.A. 12th June 1980 Dear Mr. OWENS, Revered Sir, I should have some further visual aids before the end of the month but I wondered if you care to view the enclosed chart as soon as possible because of the immediate relevance of the figures in a time-wise sense. There is no doubt that two cities mentioned in a previous note, have been placed just outside the area of serious rainfall deficiency. Thank you for your continued interest and for retaining your objectives . With best wishes to yourself and your auspicious friendship Bruce Kell BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD, N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA === Page 10 of 15 Friday June 13th, 1980 Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, WASHINGTON 98665 U. S. A. Dear Mr Owens, Revered Sir, Unfortunately there is a hold up in preparation of the Monthly Weather Review for New South Wales for May 1980. However, I enclose the M.W.R. for N.S.W. for April 1980 together with some rainfall maps for Australia (April also) and a rainfall deficiency map for South-East Australia. The latter map I have already forwarded to you under separate cover. Once again I thank you for your continued interest, with best wishes for yourself and your auspicious friendship. Bruce Kell BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA. P.S. ENCL $20 === Page 11 of 15 Mr. TED OWENS (PK MAN) 200 NE 76th STREET, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 98665 U. S. A. 18th June 1980 Dear Mr. Owens, Revered Sir, I enclose two more rainfall maps prepared at the BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY and I hope they are suitable for your research purposes. Thank you for your thoughtful enclosures with your recent letters. The prospects which open before you are certainly scintillating, interesting and exciting. Unfortunately, the publishers HARCOURT, BRACE representative in Australia says that Earth's Ambassador is not listed in the 1980 catalogue. I shall write direct to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlowe for a copy unless the local rep. is able to find it in a supplement to his normal catalogue. Thank you again. We have been distressed to learn of the devastation caused by the exploding volcano Mount St Helens. Our T.V. newsprogram showed the volcanic ash settling like dirty snow over the city of Portland. OR but fortunately some rain helped to wash the ash away. Again, best wishes to yourself and your auspicious friendship, Bruce Kell BRUCE KELL, 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA P.S. Encl $20. === Page 12 of 15 6-26-80 postmark Jeffrey June 24, 1980 Dear Bruce: Let us not stand on formality. I will call you Bruce; you call me Ted. Thank you very much for the $40 that I received today to help in my work. (What I really need is about a thousand a month for a year, to do what I have to do. What Australia needs is a vast amount of rains, everywhere; what I need are the monies to keep on bringing the rains to Australia. But I realize that of course you could not supply that; it is a pity that the country of Australia, somehow, could not.) The information that you have just sent re the month of April (the official reports) is excellent; superb. Thank you so much. Do try and secure much the same for May, if and when you can, all right? Now with regard to the book that the scientist has written. Not long ago the Editor of which Mr. D. Scott Rogo and Dr. Mishlove informed me that Harcourt Brace, had wanted the book very much and given them an advance of $5,000 to write it...had had their Editor resign, and a new Editor was hired...who negated the book and took half of the advance monies back. So the scientists now have the book in the hands of two other publishing houses in order to have it published. I have a complete copy of the book in ms. form, and it is a marvelous work...a scientific, critical evaluation of ten years of my work under the observation of scientists. Since no one else in human history (after biblical times) has been able to perform what I can do and document it satisfactorily with scientists...the book, naturally, is one of a kind. Never one before like it, and there will never be another like it. It is possible that Dr. Mishlove might furnish you with a copy of the manuscript, if you covered the expense of xeroxing it, postage, etc. It runs to about 300 pages, I believe, and is very big and heavy. There is no need to be "distressed" about Mt. St. Helens. It is one of my demonstrations (negative) to pressure the U.S. Government into providing me with a base so that I can do the kind of work that I want to, around the world, from that secure base. (Other negative demonstrations are also at work.) Years ago I gave a positive demonstration with a volcano in Sicily...Mt. Aetna...stopping it and saving the villages on its side from lava flow. Yes, much ash has fallen onto Portland and onto my city, Vancouver, which is close to Portland. My family and myself all wear special NIOSH TC-23 masks outside in order to filter out the microscopic silica contained within the ash which fills the air. (About 70%-80% silica; tiny, microscopic "knives" which the lungs cannot expel once inhaled and which will chop up the lungs on the inside within 3-5 years time ahead. My last giant demonstration was to control the State of Florida (Miami, etc.,) for one complete year. For information about that you can write to an Air Force weather expert who observed the demonstration from beginning to end and who is writing a book about it. His name is: Mr. Wayne Grover, 3282 Parade Pl., Lantana, Florida, 33462. You can tell him that now I am doing with you what I sort of did with him...except this time I am controlling an entire continent instead of just a State in the U.S. My work in controlling Florida is discussed in length in "Earth's Ambassador" by Dr. Mishlove and Rogo, incidentally. * which will cost 2-5 million dollars (also covering my expenses for 5 years to get the "world" job done. === Page 13 of 15 2 It occurs to me that perhaps I should go into the methodology that I am using to bring about the results that I am bringing, and will bring, onto Australia...vast amounts of rain. Floods, most probably, overall, but that cannot be helped. You, Bruce, are my "forward artillery observer" in Australia. As you know, in a war someone often must sneak through enemy lines with a radio, find enemy artillery, and radio back the position of the artillery so that his own side can then shoot missiles, cannon, etc., in order to eliminate the enemy artillery. You are my eyes and ears in Australia, and you "radio" me via your maps and information so that I can do my work. I, in turn, am the "forward artillery observer" for the UFOs that I work with and for...and have for long years, documented with scientists. (This, too, is discussed at length in "Earth's Ambassador".) It is my duty to use a "PK Map", a map of Australia, (crudely drawn, it is true;) utilizing the psi-force symbols to be placed into action each day by my UFOs. Each day I "activate" this special map of Australia,...that is, putting the psi-force into action mentally...and telepathing the whole thing to my UFOs...who then make the necessary weather changes for Australia, to bring rains (that is why UFOs were seen there recently.) Close liaison, therefore, is necessary between myself and my UFOs. Joining us in this is The Mayan Power, Xtolac, with whom I just recently made contact in Yucatan, for the first time...being guided by my UFOs to the right place to do so and instructed by them in just how to go about it safely. You make inquiry about as is Xtolac The Egyptian Power, "PyrCre"...short for Pyramid Creature. This is a living entity...invisible, true, but so are X-rays and they can also be deadly. It was placed in the Giza Valley area ages ago by my UFOs in order to guard the key pyramids and temples in the area. Not from robbery of gold, silver and jewels...but to guard the priceless wisdom and knowledge left there for those to come with an alien brain who know how to "tap" these "libraries" of infinite knowledge. My UFOs took me there, to the "key" places, and instructed me in how to link up with the tremendous living entity there (its name is not really PyrCre, but I am not allowed to divulge the real one...so it must be called PyrCre). Also I was given an encapsulated "dose" of in my mind the priceless wisdom, knowledge and understanding...which slowly unfolds as time passes and as my half-human, half-alien brain is able to absorb it safely. I hope that the above gives you a bit of insight into the giant picture of which the majority of humans would only be able to see a tiny corner of. (Improper English, but correct thought.) Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS... after I end Australia's drought completely I'll send you a copy of my UFO file! === Page 14 of 15 Mr. Ted Owens P.K. Man 200 NE 76th Street VANCOUVER WASH. 98665 U.S.A. Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA 16th May 1980 Dear Ted, I enclose some newsclippings reference the breaking of the drought in certain parts of Australia, in particular the north coast and the northern tablelands for which I specifically asked your help. Thank You. Please understand the need for "follow up" rain. I have not heard from you since sending a bank check on April 30th. Perhaps I shall enclose S.A.E. with this short note. (AIR MAIL is always expedient) Thank you for the UFO Disc. (I sent $10 to Western Research Center but perhaps it went astray.) Trusting you are keeping well and enjoying life, Yours faithfully, Bruce. === Page 15 of 15 Mr. Ted Owens PK man 200 NE 76th Street VANCOUVER WASHINGTON 98665 U.S.A BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 MAY 17, 1980 Dear Ted, Yes. You have shown what you can do for one part of Australia and I have already forwarded to you by AIR MAIL, documentary ie. newspaper evidence of ending the drought for those specified areas. I now enclose some more drought clippings for areas which have not received 'your considerable attention, with the plea "NEXT PLEASE?" Thank you for listening to my plea and prayers. With best wishes yours faithfully, Bruce Kell. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 8 a Sydney newspaper (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, April 9, 1980 # NSW farmers slaughter stock Please RAIN is needed ARMIDALE is a city in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales ++++++++++ KEMPSEY is a city on the North Coast of New South Wales. ++++++++++ BOURKE WALGETT ARMIDALE KEMPSEY GILGANDRA MUDGEE HILLSTON FORBES HAY YASS COOMA BEGA SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN - [x] Won't recover until spring even with rain - [x] Will recover if rain falls before first frosts - [ ] Not badly affected by drought The worst affected areas of drought-stricken NSW === Page 2 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Thursday Island - Wyndham - Katherine - Weipa - Cooktown - Cairns - Willis Island - Broome - Derby - Hall's Creek - Normanton - Tennant Creek - Townsville - Port Hedland - Mt Isa - Hughenden - Mackay - Mundiwindi - Alice Springs - Longreach - Rockhampton - Giles - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Carnarvon - Meekatharra - Oodnadatta - Charleville - Taroom - BRISBANE - Wiluna - Laverton - Cook - Tarcoola - Marree - Bourke - Moree - Grafton - Geraldton - Kalgoorlie - Eucla - Ceduna - Port Augusta - Tamworth - Dubbo - PERTH - Mildura - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - Vagin - Esperance - ADELAIDE - CANBERRA - Albury - Albany - Horsham - Portland - MELBOURNE - Sale - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES April 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km 1:27 500 000 Thursday Island === Page 3 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Katherine - Wyndham - Derby - Broome - Halls Creek - Tennant Creek - Port Hedland - Mundiwindi - Alice Springs - Carnarvon - Meekatharra - Wiluna - Laverton - Geraldton - Kalgoorlie - Cook - Tarcoola - Eucla - Ceduna - PERTH - Wagin - Esperance - Albany - Thursday Island - Weipa - Cooktown - Cairns - Willis Island - Normanton - Townsville - Mt. Isa - Hughenden - Mackay - Longreach - Rockhampton - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Charleville - Taroom - Oodnadatta - BRISBANE - Marree - Bourke - Moree - Grafton - Port Augusta - Mildura - ADELAIDE - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - Horsham - CANBERRA - Albury - Portland - MELBOURNE - Sale - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES 3 months - 1 February to 30 April 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km ---------- 1:27 500 000 === Page 4 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Weipa - Thursday Island - Katherine - Wyndham - Cooktown - Willis Island - Cairns - Normanton - Townsville - Broome - Derby - Halls Creek - Tennant Creek - Mt. Isa - Hughenden - Mackay - Port Hedland - Alice Springs - Longreach - Rockhampton - Mundiwindi - Giles - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Charleville - Oodnadatta - Carnarvon - Meekatharra - Wiluna - Marree - Bourke - Moree - BRISBANE - Laverton - Cook - Tarcoola - Tamworth - Grafton - Geraldton - Kalgoorlie - Ceduna - Port Augusta - Eucla - Mildura - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - CANBERRA - ADELAIDE - PERTH - Horsham - Esperance - Albany - Portland - Sale - MELBOURNE - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES 3 months - 1 March to 31 May 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km 1:27 500 000 CP-157 === Page 5 of 8 10 Very much above average 9 Much above average 8 Above average 4-7 Average 3 Below average 2 Much below average 1 Very much below average - Ashmore Island - DARWIN - Yirrkala - Thursday Island - Weipa - Katherine - Wyndham - Cooktown - Derby - Normanton - Cairns - Broome - Willis Island - Halls Creek - Tennant Creek - Townsville - Mt Isa - Hughenden - Port Hedland - Mackay - Longreach - Alice Springs - Rockhampton - Mundiwindi - Giles - Birdsville - Bundaberg - Carnarvon - Charleville - Oodnadatta - Wiluna - Meekatharra - BRISBANE - Laverton - Marree - Bourke - Moree - Grafton - Geraldton - Cook - Tarcoola - Kalgoorlie - Tamworth - Port Augusta - Dubbo - Eucla - Ceduna - Mildura - Newcastle - SYDNEY - Wollongong - ADELAIDE - CANBERRA - PERTH - Horsham - Albury - Esperance - Albany - Sale - Portland - MELBOURNE - Burnie - Zeehan - HOBART DISTRIBUTION OF DECILE RANGE NUMBERS OF RAINFALL BASED ON DISTRICT AVERAGES May 1980 100 0 200 400 600 800 1000 km ---------- 1:27 500 000 CP-157 === Page 6 of 8 Mansfield VIC Wilsons Promontory Rainfall deficiencies 3 months 1 February - 31 May 1980 QLD Bundaberg Augathella Taroom Adavale Roma Kingaroy Durham Downs BRISBANE St. George Cunnamulla Tenterfield Tibooburra Walgett Armidale West Kempsey SA NSW Dubbo Newcastle SYDNEY West Wyalong ADELAIDE CANBERRA Kiandra VIC Moruya Heads Shepparton Bendigo Ararat MELBOURNE Gabo Island Sale Colac Wilsons Promontory Serious Serious Deficiency Severe Severe Deficiency TAS HOBART Rainfall deficiencies - 1 Dec 1979 to 31 May 1980 Rainfall deficiencies 1 DEC 79 to 31 MAY 80 FROM TEXT: IN PARA. 4, THE WORD "IN" SHOULD CODE "NEW SOUTH WALES". === Page 7 of 8 BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RAINFALL MAP OF NEW SOUTH WALES FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS ONLY M 2 SCALE IN KILOMETRES 0 100 200 400 at Latitude 33° S QUEENSLAND CORAL SEA AUSTRALIA SOUTH SEE INSET TASMAN SEA VICTORIA DISTRICT RAINFALL SUMMARY | DISTRICT | MEAN FOR APR. | PERCENTAGE DEPARTURE | From normal | |---|---|---|---| | 46 Western (Far North-west) | 34 | 205 | | | 47 Western (Lower Darling) | 83 | 701 | | | 48 Western (Upper Darling) | 17 | 25 | BELOW | | 49 Western (South-west Plains) | 46 | 100 | ABOVE | | 50 Central Western Plains (S) | 30 | 15 | BELOW | | 51 Central Western Plains (N) | 11 | 47 | | | 52 Northwest Plains (W) | 8 | 82 | | | 53 Northwest Plains (E) | 2 | 95 | | | 54 Northwest Slopes (N) | 4 | 93 | | | 55 Northwest Slopes (S) | 3 | 93 | | | 56 Northern Tablelands (W) | 5 | 88 | | | 57 Northern Tablelands (E) | 39 | 72 | | | 58 Upper North Coast | 33 | 77 | | | 59 Lower North Coast | 31 | 66 | | | 60 Manning | 4 | 96 | | | 61 Hunter | 1 | 98 | | | 62 Central Tablelands (N) | 7 | 85 | | | 63 Central Tablelands (S) | 16 | 64 | | | 64 Central Western Slopes (N) | 5 | 87 | | | 65 Central Western Slopes (S) | 2 | 96 | | | 66 Metropolitan (B) | 15 | 84 | | | 67 Metropolitan (W) | 15 | 84 | | | 68 Illawarra | 16 | 84 | | | 69 South Coast | 10 | 85 | | | 70 Southern Tablelands (Goulburn-Monaro) | 10 | 85 | | | 71 Southern Tablelands (Snowy Mountains) | 39 | 35 | | | 72 Southwest Slopes (S) | 21 | 36 | | | 73 Southwest Slopes (N) | 40 | 11 | ABOVE | | 74 Riverina (E) | 39 | 39 | | | 75 Riverina (W) | 39 | 39 | | Rainfall for APRIL Ending 9 a.m. 30/4/80 Rainfall totals are shown in millimetres. Issued by direction of the Director of Meteorology under the authority of the Minister for Science. PROJECTION Albers Conical Equal Area with two standard parallels 16° 30' S. and 34° 30' S. Above average rainfall Issued from the Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney N.S.W. on 1/5 19 80 at NOON am/pm Prepared by the Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne. August 1977 === Page 8 of 8 Mansfield VIC Wilsons Promontory Rainfall deficiencies 3 months 1 February - 31 May 1980 QLD Bundaberg Augathella Taroom Adavale Kingaroy Roma BRISBANE Durham Downs St. George Cunnamulla Tenterfield Walgett Armidale Tibooburra West Kempsey SA NSW Dubbo Newcastle SYDNEY West Wyalong CANBERRA ADELAIDE Kiandra VIC Shepparton Moruya Heads Bendigo Ararat MELBOURNE Gabo Island Sale Colac Wilsons Promontory SA = SOUTH AUSTRALIA QLD = QUEENSLAND VIC = VICTORIA NSW = NEW SOUTH WALES TAS = TASMANIA Serious Rainfall Deficiency Serious Deficiency Severe Rainfall Deficiency Severe Deficiency TAS HOBART Rainfall deficiencies - 1 Dec 1979 to 31 May 1980 31 MAY 1980 FROM TEXT: IN PARA. 4, THE WORD "IN" SHOULD READ "NEW SOUTH WALES" OFFICIAL CHART PREPARED FROM OFFICIAL FIGURES Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Even good rai # in their thousands # Drought set to linger for six months Thirty per cent of NSW farmers will have to endure the drought for at least another six months. But rain could save thousands of other farmers whose properties are now gripped by the drought. For rain to be effective it has to come before the first winter frosts, which stop the growth of feed for farmers' stock. The first frosts have already hit the tablelands and southern NSW. In the north-west of the State there has been no rain for up to two years. There is no adjustment facilities for stock to graze in unaffected areas in the whole of NSW. The nearest agistment is at Longreach in central Queensland, 1500km by stock route from Armidale and 2000km from Cooma, two of the worst affected drought areas. As a result two-thirds of the State's farmers are hand-feeding their stock. But for many graziers this will soon become financially impossible -- it would cost $650 to hand feed a cow for six months. ## Affected areas Many farmers are slaughtering stock and this number will soon spiral. In the Hillston area about half-a-dozen farmers have already slaughtered their entire stock of several hundred cattle and several thousand sheep. Many farmers have kept only a handful of selected young breeders and others are holding out in the hope of rain. All of the State's 17 main irrigation dams are below normal capacity. Seven are less than 40 per cent full. They are: Burrinjuck (near Yass, 33 per cent of capacity), Blowering (Tumut, 23), Keepit (Gunnedah, 39), Wyangala (Cowra, 35), Dartmouth (Albury, 39), Hume (Albury, 27) and Chaffey (Tamworth, 17). ## Below normal Here's how some of the worst affected areas have been hit: BOURKE had its last big rainfall 16 months ago and has been declared a drought area for a year. Stock numbers are 50 per cent down on average, with half of these on agistment in Queensland since mid-1979. The rest are foraging in the scrub for feed. WALGETT has been a drought area since last May. It has not known a good rainfall since December 1978. Farmers say their stock is already weak and will be in trouble by winter. There has been virtually no wheat crop this year and there is little hope of any next year. ARMIDALE will have no pasture growth until September. All streams have dried up, and there has been little rain since November. Stocks are 30 per cent down on normal. Record numbers have been sold at local sales by farmers unable to provide sufficient feed. It has been almost impossible to buy hay. MUDGEE experienced its last big rainfall in October, but was only declared a drought area last month. Fodder and water are going quickly. A spokesman for the Pastures Protection Board said the situation was desperate. FORBES has had only brief scattered showers during the past six months and has been listed as drought-stricken since January 1. Most dams are almost dry and even if good rain came now there would be no suitable winter growth of fodder -- only green shoots full of water. YASS had some rain in February but it was patchy and missed many properties. There is little feed and hay and grain is very expensive. The June wheat-sowing is in danger because good rain is needed to prepare the paddocks. Most cattle are being hand-fed. # Parts of NSW still hit by drought In spite of above-average rainfalls in May, parts of New South Wales are still suffering severely from drought, according to the acting Director of Meteorology, Mr R. B. Crowder. He said one drought area in particular is along the NSW Queensland border including the North-West Slopes and Plains. Other areas include parts of the Central and Southern Tablelands, the South-West Slopes and the South Coast. The rainfall for May was the highest on record for the North Coast, Northern Tablelands and Central Western Plains. The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, June 7, 1980 COOMA had its last good rain in February last year. There have been a few showers since but nothing to encourage much-needed pasture growth. Ironically the only rain which fell last month was on Cooma Show Day. Farmers have been hanging on to cattle in the hope of rain but have been selling sheep in large numbers. A spokesman for the Pastures Protection Board said the Monaro district had not had worthwhile rain for about a decade. BEGA's dairy production is slipping. There was a big storm in January but the rain was so heavy that most of it ran off the land and only a fraction soaked into the soil. HILLSTON has not had a good rainfall for about three years. Most properties still with stock remaining, now rely on underground bore water. But Mr Max Watson of the Pastures Protection Board said: "Once this dries up it will be the end." === Page 2 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) The Sydney Morning Herald, Wed, April 9, 1980 11 # Drought 1980: 'portents of a disaster' ## Call for water bores The State Opposition Leader, Mr Mason, said yesterday that a massive, co-ordinated water-boring program was needed to lower water shortages in drought-affected areas of NSW. He proposed that the existing subsidy of 25 per cent of the cost of putting in new bores be increased to 50 per cent. From the outskirts of Sydney to the central slopes of the western plains, NSW is withering under drought. Throughout the State pastures are brown and bare, many farm dams have dried up and homesteads have run out of water. When expensive hand-feeding of fodder cannot be afforded, stock are beginning the slow march to starvation. Drought 1980 is different to those of recent decades. It is not restricted to the semi-arid western regions but has struck even the normally drought-free eastern districts of the State. More than 75 per cent of NSW has been officially declared drought affected. This was the scene inspected yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Hallam, on the first day of a tour of the drought areas. At the end of the day at Walgett he said: "This drought has all the portents of being a widespread disaster. "It's different to other droughts because it covers such huge areas of the State and at the same time other States are also suffering. "Even if rain falls soon the situation is critical. But if we don't get rain it will be a national disaster. "At stake is the NSW 50 million sheep herd, six million cattle and the welfare of 75,000 landholders." The 37-year-old minister, who was allocated the agriculture portfolio only four weeks ago, walked through the dry beds of farm lands, saw the hand-feeding of cattle and listened at woolshed gatherings to the requests of landholders for assistance. At Camden, dairy farmers requested a 6.5c-a-litre increase in the price of milk to help overcome their drought problems. # Major crisis: cattlemen From JOSEPH GLASCOTT in Walgett Mr Bob Wilson, chairman of the Dairy Farmers' Association, said dairy farmers in the district were buying fodder from as far away as Victoria at up to five dollars a bale to help save their herds. Mr Rowan Moore, of Glenmore, said he was struggling to maintain his milk quota by spending up to $300 a week on fodder. His father, 93-year-old Mr Val Moore, a pioneer of the Camden district, said it was the worst drought he could remember, except perhaps for 1901. Camden dairy farmers said Sydney might face milk rationing if the drought continues. At Mudgee farmers said the district was in a critical situation. Unless rain fell in the next two weeks there would be no pasture growth for winter. The veterinary inspector for the Mudgee Pasture Protection Board said graziers had the choice of allowing stock to die, sending them on agistment, of which little existed, or hand-feeding at exorbitant prices. One grazier, Mr George McDonald, of Rylstone, asked for assistance to send starving stock to abattoirs for production of meat meal. Mr Gil Wahlquist, secretary of the Mudgee Wine Grape Growers' Association, said Mudgee's vineyard harvest would fall by 30 to 60 per cent this year. At Walgett, Mr Hallam was told that most farm dams were dry. There had been no run-off rain since 1977. Mr Hallam promised to consider requests from graziers for increased low-interest drought loans, and increased subsidies for the cartage of water and fodder. The most critical drought in 50 years combined with falling US beef prices faced Australian beef producers with a major recession, the Cattlemen's Union president, Mr Maurice Binstead, said yesterday. The Minister for Agriculture, Mr Hallam, has declared 44 of the State's 58 Pasture Protection Board districts drought areas. All areas in the State have received lower than average rainfall over the past nine months. For most districts, it is the worst drought since 1964. Mr Binstead said the long-term consequences were alarming. Federal and State Governments must realise that drought conditions were creating a state of emergency and current relief provisions had to be reassessed. The seriousness and spread of the drought through much of eastern Australia meant the only alternative for cattlemen was to sell stock now before their condition deteriorated further, resulting in short-term market depression. Meat prices would initially fall as the producers were forced to sell but prices would rise again as production fell. "Fluctuating export prices have severely damaged industry confidence and uncertainty will be increased by drought conditions," he said. Smaller producers were selling out and there was no incentive to increase the national herd, reducing potential to increase export earnings. Mr Binstead said Australian consumers would once again pay the penalty for lack of stability in the cattle industry. A more immediate impact would be felt in country towns and cities, where severely reduced cash flow for cattlemen meant sharp falls in sales of machinery, materials for improvements and general commodities, and reduced employment opportunities. The Pastures Protection Board provides subsidies for farmers in drought-declared areas to help them to move fodder, livestock and water. Drought loans are provided through the Rural Bank. The Water Resources Commission is having no difficulty in meeting irrigation demand this summer but many town water supplies are affected. Dams feeding the metropolitan area are at 73 per cent of capacity and the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board says water restrictions are unlikely in the near future. === Page 3 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Friday, June 6, 1980 # CONCERN **Drought aid to Q** CANBERRA -- The Federal Government has agreed to provide further drought assistance to Queensland. Prime Minister Fraser said the Federal Government's decision followed an approach from the Queensland Premier. # Bjelke wins big drought aid boost The Federal Government is to provide further drought assistance to Queensland, the Prime Minister said yesterday. Mr Fraser told the annual convention of the United Graziers Association of Queensland that the Government's decision followed an approach from the Queensland Premier Mr Bjelke-Petersen. The announcement incorporates extensions to the National Disaster Financial Assistance arrangements. From today: THE maximum concession applicable to road transport concessions will be increased from 40c to 50c a kilometre for a loaded cattle truck, and from four cents to five cents a tonne a kilometre for fodder and water. THE freight concession on water cartage will be extended to the carriage of water on properties to points beyond the farm gate. This concession, however, will not apply to transport of water between points within farms. A 50 per cent concession will apply to the cost of transporting essential machinery and equipment to affected properties to or from where fodder is available. This concession will apply only to equipment which is an essential part of drought mitigation practices. IN addition and because of the severity of this drought, the rate of concession payable on all rail and road transport movements of fodder, water and stock will be increased from 50 per cent to 75 per cent. This additional concession will apply for the duration of this drought only. Joh . . . . . . . . . . concession With thanks and felicitations yours respectfully, Bruce Bruce Kell 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA. Encl $10-- WHO is YOUR "EGYPTIAN POWER" ? === Page 4 of 21 2 THE SUN Friday, May 9, 1980 2 # FLOODS SWAMP DROUGHT TOWNS 5/9/80 RISING floodwaters and landslides have isolated the northern NSW town of Bellingen, blocked three lanes of the Pacific Highway near Lismore and cut many minor roads. People went to work by boat in Bellingen today as heavy rains broke the 10-month drought with a vengeance. The Weather Bureau predicts more rain and State emergency services in the north are on full alert. Moderate to major flooding is expected at Murwillumbah, Lismore, Nambucca and Kempsey. "There is a lot of water north of Taree and more areas are expected to go into flood," a Weather Bureau spokesman said. "It could get much worse." Some northern centres have had 304mm (12in) of rain during the past four days -- too much for the parched land to handle. === Page 5 of 21 # STORMS # SWAMP # NORTHERN # NSW | | | | |---|---|---| | DROUGHT | HIGHWAY CUT | MURWILLUMBAH | | BROKEN HILL | FLOODING | LISMORE | | | | CASINO | | | | COFFS HARBOR | | | ARMIDALE | BELLINGEN | | | GALE WARNING | | | | | NEWCASTLE | | | SYDNEY | | | | WOLLONGONG | | "Daily Telegraph" Australia May 10, 1980 Continued === Page 6 of 21 Sydney Morning Herald FIRST PUBLISHED 1831 AUSTRALIA MAY 10, 1980 # Dry areas of north are flooded State Emergency Services in northern NSW were preparing for possible major flooding last night as further heavy rain was forecast for areas formerly listed as drought-stricken. The dramatic change from drought to flood in the area has occurred within 48 hours. Flood warnings were issued yesterday for the Tweed, Richmond, Bellinger, Nambucca, MacLeay and Hastings, Wilson and Clarence Rivers. But overall, the drought has not been broken yet. There has been only light rain west of the Great Dividing Range. More is needed, according to the Weather Bureau. In the northern coastal areas there has been widespread minor flooding. Bellingen, north west of Nambucca Heads, was isolated for most of yesterday. About 30 people were evacuated from their homes at Marx Hill, near Bellingen, when the Bellinger River rose to 6.8 metres at noon. A spokesman for the State Emergency Services at Grafton said he expected the position to ease overnight. The Pacific Highway was blocked about six kilometres south of Nambucca Heads last night as the Nambucca River continued to rise. ## Heaviest rainfall The heaviest rainfall reported by the Weather Bureau was at Meldrum, just south of the Queensland border, where 369mm fell in the 36 hrs to 9 pm. Heavy pockets of rain fell in the upper reaches of the Clarence River. Although the situation was beginning to ease last night further rain would cause minor flooding. Several major roads in the area were cut by minor flooding, including the Pacific Highway north and south of Grafton. Traffic was forced to use a high-level bypass. The Gwydir Highway, west of Grafton, was cut for several hours at Mulligans Bluff after a 13-metre landslide. Further south, a State Emergency Service spokesman at Taree said many of the roads and bridges to Wauchope had been closed by floods along the Hastings River. Caravan parks at Lismore and Murwillumbah have been evacuated. At Lismore, declared a drought-stricken area only eight days ago, some flooding was expected. A policeman said: "The river is rising steadily and is expected to reach its peak about 6 am. "No one, however, is prepared to guess how extensive the flooding will be." ### TODAY'S WEATHER Metropolitan: Rain. Windy. Max temp: City 21, Liverpool 21. Pollution: Low. NSW: Rain with heavy falls Central and North Coast. PAGE 31: Full details, map and flood warnings. === Page 7 of 21 Continued (Australia) May 10, 1980 More than 5000 people around Bellingen on the NSW north coast are cut off by the flood-swollen Bellinger River which has swamped major access roads. And for many other northern NSW communities, the worst is yet to come. Lismore received minor flooding and the situation is expected to worsen today. More general rain is forecast for today. In Sydney, the forecast is wet but easing tomorrow. Late last night, the Richmond River had risen to 10m at Lismore and was expected to break its banks early today. Co-ordinator of the State Emergency Service in Lismore, Mr Bob Phillips, said people had already been evacuated and more would probably leave their homes today. An SES officer in Casino said last night: "It doesn't look good." # Storms lash towns From P1 In the second rescue, three crew members of the 10m sloop Ible were rescued in heavy seas off Taree by an Indian freighter, the Apj Karen. The freighter's captain said the three men, Trevor Hancock, of Sydney, Jim Lee, of Cremorne, and Stephen A. Godman, of Frankston, Victoria, were all in good health and sleeping off ## Vans moved "We expect a lot of farmers at small towns such as Woodburn will be hit. "It's no good trying to sandbag the river banks if it breaks its banks, that's it." At Lismore, SES workers expect the crisis to come early today. "If the river goes over 10m it will flood the business area of the town," one said last night. "A lot of business people have stayed back tonight to make preparations for the peak. "If it's over 10 metres they'll have to move their goods out . . . if they've got time." Yesterday, most minor roads around the two towns were cut by floodwater and more than 60 caravans were moved to higher ground from low-lying caravan parks. A flood boat was used to take a sick child from the township of Lester, 10 km south-west of Lismore, after it was feared floodwater would cut off the town. At Bellingen, emergency workers used boats to ferry supplies over flooded roadways, and two families in East Bellingen were evacuated to save them being cut off. But by last night, local authorities were confident the river would recede enough to allow normal access to the district today. Bellingen was worst-hit among the NSW northern coastal towns. Light rain also fell on many of the State's drought areas but there was not enough rain to substantially ease the situation. For the six hours to 3 pm yesterday, Broken Hill received 3mm, Narrabri, 19, Walgett, 7, Armidale, 12 and Coonamble, 11. In Sydney, falls of about 3mm caused minor traffic delays, but there were no reports of major flooding. ## Holed Six yachtsmen were snatched to safety as one yacht sank and another was set adrift in stormy seas off the coast north of Sydney yesterday. Three crew of the 9m sloop Kehaar were winched aboard the Wales rescue helicopter about 2 pm after their yacht was holed and dismasted by a huge wave and washed on to Long Reef. The Kehaar, sailing from Newport to Elizabeth Bay, was towed off the reef by the helicopter and a surf rescue jet boat, but she sank soon after being taken in tow by the police launch Nemesis. The three men, Andy Devine, 38, of Bronte, Guy Monteith, 21, of Potts Pt and Allan Nagy 20, of Maroubra, were not hurt. Continued P2 === Page 8 of 21 4--THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN May 10-11 1980 # Homes flooded, sport cancelled after record rain By HARRY DAVIS RAIN which has lashed Brisbane for a week, causing evacuations and traffic chaos, eased on Friday, too late to save many sporting events from cancellation. The deluge of 355 millimetres (14.2in) which fell in the first nine days of the month up to 9am on Friday already exceeds the previous record of 352mm (14in) for the whole month set in 1876. Brisbane also had its heaviest 24-hour rainfall on record with 149mm (5.9in) recorded at the weather bureau in the 24 hours to 9am on Friday. The previous 24-hour record was 142.7mm (5.6in) set on May 9 last year. Police and State Emergency Service volunteers used rescue boats to evacuate families from flooded houses in low-lying outer suburbs. Large areas of drought-stricken north-western NSW received soaking rain, bringing fresh hope to thousands of farmers. The NSW north coast, which was gripped by drought last week, is now preparing for serious flooding following 425mm (17ins) of rain in some districts. Gales and rain have cut roads, ruined vegetable crops, inundated pastures and sugar cane crops, and ripped out banana trees. The rain in Brisbane caused the cancellation of the Oaks Day race meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday. This was replaced by an emergency meeting on the sand course at Albion Park. Many other sporting events, including major football fixtures, were either postponed or transferred to other grounds. The annual City-Theiss Toyota rugby league match, scheduled for Sunday, may be played at Lang Park on Tuesday night. A decision will be made after a ground inspection on Saturday. All metropolitan rugby league fixtures have been postponed until Sunday week. Rugby union games set down for Ballymore Park at the weekend have been put off but officials were still seeking alternative grounds late on Friday. In soccer, ground inspections by the referees association will decide whether matches in Divisions 1 and 2 will go ahead. Both divisions are involved in the Soccer Pools. Matches in Divisions 3 to 8, Colts divisions and South-East Queensland League have all been postponed. The State League game between Mt Gravatt and the North Queensland team, Mareeba, at Dittmar Park, Mt Gravatt, has also been postponed. Australian rules under-17s and under-19s matches scheduled for Saturday have been postponed and a decision on other club fixtures on Sunday will be made late on Saturday. Women's athletics and hockey and men's cricket fixtures have been cancelled. === Page 9 of 21 THE SUN-HERALD, MAY 11, 1980 # Mother's Day starts off sunny Heavy rains have now cleared NSW, after breaking the drought in some areas and easing it in others. ### Mike Bailey's WEATHER Mothers' Day promises to be mostly fine, although there will be some cloud and the chance of afternoon showers in some districts. Coastal areas will again be mild to warm and humid, with fog, mist and cloud this morning. Sydney's temperatures should reach the low to mid 20s and winds will be light to moderate northwest to north-east. Seas and swell, which have been heavy for the past few days, are abating and will be less dangerous for boating or even surfing today. A cooler south westerly change will enter the south-west of the State today, bringing a few showers and isolated thunderstorms. That change should reduces both humidity and temperature levels as it moves across to the coast in the next day or so. Talking of movement, the low pressure system responsible for much of the heavy rain over the past few days really took flight in a hurry on Friday night - and moved in a most unusual direction. It had been off the southern Queensland coast for about four days when it shot through like the proverbial "Bondi tram," and moved south-west through Dubbo in Central Western NSW. Strong winds and some of the best rains for months accompanied its passage, and showed again just how quickly our weather can change from drought to minor floods. Dorrigo is a classic example of the contrasts. That area was declared drought stricken on May 1, and just 10 days later it has recorder 584 mm of rain. The town is second only to Mullumbimby, with 610mm so far this month. While the rain has provided a needed boost to crops such as oats and barley, it has come a little too late to boost pasture growth prior to winter. SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART DATE 10-5-80 TIME NOON NOTES ON THE CHART: The low responsible for heavy to flood rains along the NSW northern coasts has moved south-southwest wards. It is now centred over the Riverina and should continue southwards. Rain is contracting into southern parts of the State and should ease to showers. In the north it should be mainly dry. Another low and cold front have crossed the Bight. A colder change should spread over southern inland NSW. Some showers and thunderstorms are expected with this system. Fogs will be widespread. **Northern Rivers:** Early morning fogs. Isolated showers but mild with sunny periods. NW to NE wind 10-15 knots. Flood warning current for the Richmond River. Outlook Monday: generally dry with NW to NE winds. **Mid North Coast:** Early morning fogs. Flood warning for Clarence and Macleay rivers. Mild day with showers and chance of isolated thunderstorm. NW to NE winds 10/15 knots. Seas mainly slight. Moderate easterly swell. **HUNTER:** Morning fogs. A shower or two but sunny periods. NE winds 10-20 knots. Further outlook: generally dry and cool. **South Coast and Illawarra:** A strong wind warning is current for E to NE winds 20-30 knots at times at first but easing. Showers or rain periods will also ease to a few showers. Outlook Monday: generally dry with cooler westerly winds. **Northern Tablelands:** Morning fogs. Light to moderate NW winds. A shower or two with cloudy periods. Further outlook: generally dry with NW winds. **Central Tablelands:** Morning fogs. A shower or two with moderate NW winds. Further outlook: generally dry with cooler SW to W winds. **Southern Tablelands:** Morning fogs. Cloudy periods with rain periods or showers, mainly in south. Risk of a thunderstorm. Winds freshening. **North West Slopes and plains:** Mild with cloudy periods and a shower or two at first clearing. Morning fogs. Light to moderate W to NW winds. Outlook Monday: generally dry and mild. **Central West Slopes and Plains:** Rain or showers easing. Overnight or morning fog areas. Light to moderate NW winds. Outlook tomorrow: Generally dry. Cool SW winds. **South West Slopes:** Cloudy with rain periods easing to a few showers during day. Risk of thunderstorm. Winds tending west to SW. **Riverina MIA:** A few showers persisting with the risk of a thunderstorm as winds tend colder moderate SW. Further outlook: Generally dry and cool with westerly winds. **Lower Western:** Becoming generally dry with winds tending cooler SW to S. Further outlook: Generally dry and cool. **Upper Western:** A few showers persisting with the risk of a thunderstorm. Winds tending colder moderate SW. Outlook tomorrow: Generally dry and cool with westerly winds. **RAINFALLS** In the 24 hours to 9 am yesterday general rain fell over NSW. Falls were heavy in the north and central coasts, northern tablelands, north-western slopes and plains districts and in the Blue Mountains region of the Central Tablelands and light to moderate with isolated heavy falls over the remainder of the State. Highest reported falls included: 145mm at Meldrum (Lower North Coast), 125mm at Dorrigo (Lower North Coast) and 120mm at Katoomba (Blue Mountains), and inland, 85mm at Nyngan (Central West Plains), 56mm at Narrabri West (North West Plains) and 37 mm at Hillston (Riverina). By yesterday morning winds were moderating along most of the coast and rain and drizzle was easing and gradually contracting Southwards. Rainfall at Observatory Hill 21mm, highest reported suburban fall 66mm at Glenorie. ## SYDNEY BRIEFLY Early fog and mist patches. A partly cloudy day with the chance of a few late showers. Mild to warm and humid. North-east to north-west winds. Seas abating to slight on a decreasing swell. Max temperature in the low to mid-20s. === Page 10 of 21 AUSTRALIA DAILY TELEGRAPH, Monday, May 12, 1980 Australia, Africa, India Special - World Rain Attack - # Floods easing as rain stops The NSW north coast flooding eased yesterday and no more rain is forecast for at least a few days. Flooding peaked on Saturday in the area after several days of rain and heavy storms. At Lismore, the town most affected by the floods, the crisis came at 7 am on Saturday. The Richmond River reached a height of 10.31m - just 20cm below a major flood classification. Many roads were closed and farmers were forced to move stock to high ground. But yesterday, cattle and sheep were brought back to the lower paddocks. The Pacific Hwy near Kempsey and Grafton was covered by waters yesterday afternoon but the route was officially open, with detours bypassing the worst areas. At Grafton, the Clarence River reached 6.4m at 3 pm on Saturday. According to State Emergency Service measurements, that made it a major flood although they reported damage and disruption were minor. The major rivers in the area - the Clarence, Tweed, Hunter and Richmond - were still swollen yesterday but levels were dropping. The storm causing the rain has moved south-east into the Tasman Sea. ## Drizzle The tail of the storm will bring thunderstorms to the south-east corner of NSW today but the rest of the State, including the drought-stricken western areas, will remain dry. Broken Hill, Narrabri, Walgett, Armidale and Coonamble all had falls under 20mm on Friday, as did Bourke, White Cliffs and Wilcannia. But it was little more than drizzle. To noon yesterday no falls had been reported since Saturday morning. But the rain was too light to ease the drought. SYDNEY can expect a dry day with sunny periods and a temperature range of 14 to 24 deg C. Frosts are expected on the NSW Northern Tablelands. === Page 11 of 21 AUSTRALIA # It was the driest April of the century Coastal areas of New South Wales will have more drought-easing showers in continuing cool and partly cloudy conditions this morning. But sunny periods will return as the rain contracts to the north later in the day. Some drizzle patches moved across the western side of the ranges in the past day or so. They were not nearly enough to relieve the areas worse affected by the drought, and today will bring more dry and mostly sunny weather warmed by winds slowly turning northerly. Winds near the coast will continue to be mainly south-east to easterly in the 5 to 15 knot range, with mainly slight seas on a low swell. Sydney's maximum temperatures will be in the low 20s -- continuing to be rather mild to start the school holidays. That old saying about time being "as slow as a wet week" seems to have special connections with the city's weather in the opening days of May. For the second successive year, we've begun the "merry merry month" with persistent showers. Rainfall for just the first three days of May is already ahead of the total for April -- which at 12 mm was the driest for that month so far this century. The first week of May last year was close to the wettest in all of 1979, with 98mm dumped on the city, but it came from a system different to the one bringing us the current moisture. A coastal trough, fed by moist south east winds from a strong and very slow-moving high pressure system just east of Bass Strait, is responsible this time. Last year, it was an upper atmospheric trough moving down from Queensland, which brought a better spread of rain across the State -- again aided by a slow moving high, typical of late autumn. That system failed to give anything like the snow and hail reported around Bargo last Wednesday night, triggered by very cold air in the upper atmosphere. On the subject of snow, school holiday skiers won't find immediate joy in our Snowy Mountains, where resort operators are still waiting for the first falls of the autumn. Around Sydney, fogs are likely to become more widespread in the next day or so as the skies clear. This will allow the cool nights to chill moist air for a spread of the fog patches so far confined mainly to the Western Suburbs and the Blue Mountains. This city usually has more fogs in the months of April, May and June than at any other time of the year -- but there's been little evidence of that so far, a pattern again similar to 1979. ## Mike Bailey's WEATHER ### SYDNEY BRIEFLY Early cloud and showers, breaking to sunny periods. Light to moderate south to south-east winds. Mainly slight seas, low swell. Maximum temperatures in low 20s. SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART 3-5-80 NOON ISOBARS -- 1016 -- (Value in millibars) COLD FRONT WARM FRONT SEAS Slight Moderate Rough Very Rough WINDS Calm 10 km/h 20 km/h 40 km/h 60 km/h 80 km/h 100 km/h RAINFALL Previous 24 hrs. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE -- BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY -- SYDNEY NOTES ON THE CHART: A strong high pressure system is located east of Tasmania and is only slow moving. This system is maintaining a moist SE to NE flow along the NSW coast with resultant showers. Further west of the divide generally dry weather is being experienced with NE winds. An upper air trough now moving over southern New South Wales will cause local thunderstorm activity in the south east of the State as it moves eastward. Little change however is expected in the general pattern REGIONAL FORECASTS Northern Rivers: Some showers, heavy at times but easing with SE to NE winds 15/20 knots. Cool to mild. Further outlook: Mild, a shower or two, NE winds. Mid North Coast: Some showers easing with SE to NE winds 10/20 knots. Cool to mild. Further outlook: Mild, a shower or two, NE winds. Hunter: Some showers, the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. E to NE winds 10/20 knots by day. Cool. Further outlook: Cool to mild with NE winds and a shower or two. South Coast/Illawarra: Some showers mostly clearing but the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. Cool with E to NE winds 5/15 knots. Further outlook: Generally dry and cool to mild with NE winds. Northern Tablelands: Cool and cloudy with some drizzle mainly in the east. Risk of thunderstorms developing. Light to moderate SE/NE winds. Central Tablelands: Some morning fog or frost patches, afterward mostly clearing but the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. Winds E to NE, light to moderate NE. Cool. Outlook: Generally dry and mild with northerly winds. Southern Tablelands: Early morning fog or frost patches. Sunny periods but the risk of a thunderstorm or two developing. Winds light E to NE, mild to with northerly winds. North West Slopes and Plains: Some cloud with a shower or two possible eastward. Morning fog or frost patches. Winds tending light NE. Further outlook: Mild and dry with NE winds. Central West Slopes and Plains: Morning fog patches on top parts and highland frosts, though a risk of thunderstorms developing in the east. Light NE winds. South-west Slopes: Morning fog patches and highland frosts. Mild and partly cloudy day with the risk of thunderstorms developing. Light NE winds. Riverina/MIA: Mild mostly sunny day with light NE winds. Further outlook: Mild, northerly winds. Western: Mild and mostly sunny with light to moderate NE winds. Further outlook: Mild to warm, northerly winds. Lower Western: Mild and mostly sunny with light NE to N winds. Further outlook: Mild to warm northerly winds. TIDES TODAY Fort Denison: High 5.01 am (1.4 metres); 4.40 pm (1.6 metres). Low 11.02 am (1.3 metres); 11.06 pm (1.7 metres). SUN, MOON SUN: Rises 6.32 am, sets 5.11 pm. MOON: Rises 8.19 pm, sets 9.43 am. PLANETS | | Rises | Sets | |---|---|---| | Mercury | 5.41am | 4.45pm | | Venus | 10.05am | 7.27pm | | Mars | 1.51pm | 0.46am | | Jupiter | 1.48pm | 0.50am | | Saturn | 2.47pm | 2.25am | WORLD WEATHER | | | | |---|---|---| | Amsterdam, clear | 12 | 18 | | Athens, cloudy | 13 | 21 | | Bahrain, clear | 24 | 28 | | Bangkok, clear | 27 | 32 | | Beirut, clear | 16 | 19 | | Belgrade, cloudy | 13 | 18 | | Berlin, cloudy | 4 | 12 | | Bogota, clear | 7 | 21 | | Brussels, clear | 8 | 15 | | Buenos Aires, clear | 8 | 17 | | Cairo, sandstorms | 18 | 38 | | Chicago, clear | 13 | 21 | | Copenhagen, clear | 4 | 12 | | Curitiba, cloudy | 12 | 22 | | Denpasar, clear | 23 | 33 | | Dublin, clear | 8 | 11 | | Frankfurt, clear | 7 | 20 | | Geneva, cloudy | 9 | 15 | | Helsinki, clear | 0 | 8 | | Hong Kong, cloudy | 21 | 25 | | Honolulu, cloudy | 21 | 29 | | Jakarta, cloudy | 24 | 32 | | Jerusalem, clear | 16 | 30 | | Johannesburg, clear | 10 | 22 | | Kiev, cloudy | 9 | 20 | | Kuala Lumpur, rain | 24 | 33 | | Lima, clear | 18 | 23 | | Lisbon, cloudy | 10 | 18 | | London, cloudy | 8 | 15 | | Los Angeles, cloudy | 14 | 19 | | Madrid, cloudy | 6 | 18 | | Manila, cloudy | 24 | 35 | | Mexico City, cloudy | 10 | 25 | | Miami, cloudy | 19 | 28 | | Montreal, cloudy | 9 | 23 | | Moscow, cloudy | 10 | 20 | | Nadi, fair | 21 | 32 | | New Delhi, clear | 27 | 40 | | New York, cloudy | 16 | 23 | | Nicosia, cloudy | 11 | 26 | | Oslo, clear | 6 | 17 | | Paris, cloudy | 10 | 20 | | Rio de Janeiro, cloudy | 18 | 34 | | Rome, clear | 9 | 22 | | San Francisco, cloudy | 16 | 17 | | San Juan, clear | 25 | 32 | | Sao Paulo, cloudy | 16 | 27 | | Seoul, clear | 9 | 22 | | Singapore, rain | 25 | 33 | | Stockholm, clear | 8 | 12 | | Taipei, cloudy | 21 | 26 | | Tel Aviv, cloudy | 18 | 30 | | Tokyo, clear | 10 | 20 | | Toronto, cloudy | 10 | 18 | | Vancouver, cloudy | 8 | 22 | | Vienna, clear | 8 | 16 | === Page 12 of 21 RAIN LIFTS CROP OUTLOOK Page 3 MAY 15, 1980 "THE LAND" NEWSPAPER SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 0-25mm 50-100mm 25-50mm 100mm+ The above is a sketch map of the state of New South Wales one of the "Eastern States" of Australia. It shows the recent rainfall THANK YOU Approx conversion factor: 100mm = 4 inches of Rain Bruce Kello P RE E === Page 13 of 21 Rain brightens outlook "The Land" Newspaper (Australia) May 15, 1980 # Record crop now possible Hopes for a near-record wheat crop received a boost this week following widespread rain across the State. Wheatgrowers had planned to increase the area under wheat by five per cent to 3.4 million hectares before the drought conditions set in. But further follow-up rains will be needed in the next three weeks for this sowing to eventuate. Principal winter cereals agronomist with the NSW Department of Agriculture, Mr Bob Komoll said if good weather prevailed for the rest of the season a crop equal to the record 6.6 million tonnes of 1978-79 was still possible. The Riverina had already received follow-up falls and sowing was well underway. But he said it was generally too early for many farmers in the north to start sowing wheat. Coonamble agronomist, Mr Greg Fenton said some district farmers would not risk waiting for follow-up rain and would start sowing wheat in the next week. At Dubbo the regional director of agriculture, Mr Brian Clinton said farmers west of the city were getting ready to sow lupins, oats and barley. Some wheat could be sown he said but farmers would generally wait for further falls. Wagga agronomist, Mr Ken Simmons said the follow-up rain was just what farmers wanted. Farmers were still preparing their ground but the bulk of the district's wheat crop would be sown in the next two weeks. Bourke agronomist, Mr Doug Campbell said the rain was scattered with about 14mm falling near the town and at Cobar. But at Nyngan up to 75mm fell and many farmers were ready to start sowing. At Griffith, Department of Agriculture officer, Mr Pat Keenan, described the rain as a "beautiful" follow-up. Falls of between 30 and 40mm as far out as Hillston were reported and most farmers would soon be sowing. Moree agronomist, Mr Max McMillan said there was little rain in the western part of the district but in the east falls were up to 200mm. Many farmers would sow forage oats and barley. Follow-up rain was needed for sufficient sub-soil moisture to sow wheat. At Gunnedah up to 62mm were reported giving farmers the chance to "line up" wheat seedbeds according to district special agronomist Mr Rob Browne. Farm manager of Auscott Pty Ltd, Warren, Mr Neil Sowerby with one of 38 pickers valued around $50,000 each held up by rain last weekend. The farm at Warren received around 70 mm, while properties 15 miles west received up to 125 mm. # Rains delay cotton harvest The rain of the past week has had little effect on the cotton harvest which is more than half over according to Namoi Valley Co-operative agronomist Mr Andy Mengersen. "Generally I think everyone is thrilled with the rain as it takes much of the pressure off the area", he said. Mr Mengersen said the rain was variable but in areas where it was heavy the main effects on the cotton would be the delay in picking. Some cotton could be down graded in quality but it was too early to tell. This week "The Land" presents a special Cotton Feature starting on page 25. === Page 14 of 21 Rain brightens outlook "The Land" Newspaper (Australia) May 15, 1980 Record crop now possible Hopes for a near-record wheat crop received a boost this week following widespread rain across the State. Wheatgrowers had planned to increase the area under wheat by five per cent to 3.4 million hectares before the drought conditions set in. But further follow-up rains will be needed in the next three weeks for this sowing to eventuate. Principal winter cereals agronomist with the NSW Department of Agriculture, Mr Bob Komoll said if good weather prevailed for the rest of the season a crop equal to the record 6.6 million tonnes of 1978-79 was still possible. The Riverina had already received follow-up falls and sowing was well underway. But he said it was generally too early for many farmers in the north to start sowing wheat. Coonamble agronomist, Mr Greg Fenton said some district farmers would not risk waiting for follow-up rain and would start sowing wheat in the next week. At Dubbo the regional director of agriculture, Mr Brian Clinton said farmers west of the city were getting ready to sow lupins, oats and barley. Some wheat could be sown he said but farmers would generally wait for further falls. Wagga agronomist, Mr Ken Simmons said the follow-up rain was just what farmers wanted. Farmers were still preparing their ground but the bulk of the district's wheat crop would be sown in the next two weeks. Bourke agronomist, Mr Doug Campbell said the rain was scattered with about 14mm falling near the town and at Cobar. But at Nyngan up to 75mm fell and many farmers were ready to start sowing. At Griffith, Department of Agriculture officer, Mr Pat Keenan, described the rain as a "beautiful follow-up." Falls of between 30 and 40mm as far out as Hillston were reported and most farmers would soon be sowing. Moree agronomist, Mr Max McMillan said there was little rain in the western part of the district but in the east falls were up to 200mm. Many farmers would sow forage oats and barley. Follow-up rain was needed for sufficient sub-soil moisture to sow wheat. At Gunnedah up to 62mm were reported giving farmers the chance to "line up" wheat seedbeds according to district special agronomist Mr Rob Browne. Farm manager of Auscott Pty Ltd, Warren, Mr Neil Sowerby with one of 38 pickers valued around $50,000 each held up by rain last weekend. The farm at Warren received around 70 mm, while properties 15 miles west received up to 125 mm. Rains delay cotton harvest The rain of the past week has had little effect on the cotton harvest which is more than half over according to Namoi Valley Co-operative agronomist Mr Andy Mengersen. "Generally I think everyone is thrilled with the rain as it takes much of the pressure off the area", he said. Mr Mengersen said the rain was variable but in areas where it was heavy the main effects on the cotton would be the delay in picking. Some cotton could be down graded in quality but it was too early to tell. This week "The Land" presents a special Cotton Feature starting on page 25. === Page 15 of 21 SYDNEY MORN. HERALD MAY 17, 1980 # Down on the farm in droughty country denly appeared in the distance framed by the bleak sides of a road cutting. It was a bright exhausted shade of blue. We seemed to be rushing towards a blighted quarantine area, another planet. In autumn, this country is usually emerald green. But now the bare hills look like upturned earthenware bowls; the uncultivated paddocks are indistinguishable (except up close) from the freshly-ploughed ones, all uniformly brown. Around Cowra, in the central west, the last good rain -- in August -- was followed by grasshopper hordes. Now they and the grass have vanished. There's no sign of the once-reliable lucerne, either. The Department of Agriculture estimates that the three types of lucerne aphid (the spotted, the blue and the pea aphid), all accidentally imported since May 1977, cause about $30 million worth of damage to the State's lucerne crop each year. How did the creatures get here? No one knows. Many people in country towns keep horses, and let them graze on vacant lots, but they have to buy hay during the drought. So at present it costs more to keep a horse in hay than a car in petrol -- about $30 a week. In some paddocks around here there's nothing above ground-level except crows and camel-melons. The melons are noxious -- they send horses blind. Their small relative, the paddy-melon, is reputedly poisonous but so bitter that it would take remarkable willpower to eat one. Only children like these hardy vegetables: they throw the little ones at each other and hollow out the big ones to make jack o'lanterns. The crows sit there confidently, sleek drought kings who feast on dead sheep. Water-diviners are kept busy these days, looking for the fabled "underground stream." Some diviners use the traditional forked stick, but most favour metal -- a piece of bent fencing wire, or even grandmother's wedding-ring on a thread. These diviners, usually old men, seem to have great faith in their own powers -- as do the property-owners who engage them. They are a great annoyance to the bore-sinking contractors who are called in after the diagnosis and told where to dig -- for the underground stream is a myth except in limestone country, and this is porphyritic granite. The drought brings out generosity in some people, meanness in others. Old feuds are shelved as neighbours share water (for dams and wells are drying up all over the place). On the other hand, some farmers deliberately graze their stock on the reserves and the road (known as the "long paddock"), thereby conserving their own land and destroying the feed for legitimate drovers. We're told about a recent duststorm, the worst in local memory. Sometimes you couldn't see your outstretched hand, and never more than 10m ahead. It blew for about seven hours. Thousands of tonnes of good topsoil were airborne; there are drifts of soil like snow against the fences. The paddock soil is loosened by overstocking -- of sheep, horses, cattle. When the grass is gone, it's dust. Sometimes taking to the "long paddock" is the only way to keep stock alive. They have to face the hazards of traffic as well as thirst. Sheep, because of their teeth and jaw structure, can forage where cattle can't, grubbing out grass stems and roots from almost underground. They are the gambler's pieces: during a drought, you can buy them cheaply -- perhaps from a bankrupt property further inland. If it rains there's a good profit -- and if it doesn't, the sheep starve quietly to death. But overstocking isn't always due to greed. It's easy to miscalculate. One farmer describes the misfortune of his 40 fowls: he had to economise, and was feeding them a quarter of a kerosene-tin of wheat each day. "Jeez, I knew I was underfeeding those poor chooks," he said, "but I didn't realise how starved they were till a willy-willy came along and picked them all up -- carried them right across a little dam. Some fell in -- the heavy ones." As we're driving along a dirt road, we see a fine wallaby sitting in a paddock; we stop, walk to the fence: he doesn't flinch, just stares back. The search for food has brought him out of the bush. In the bush, there's no evident damage. The natives are tough. The little lichens that crunch underfoot now will soften like sea-sponges when it finally rains. Only the kangaroo tracks everywhere are signs of distress. When we left Cowra the useless-looking clouds were still hanging about, as they'd been for days. Occasionally they'd produced a sprinkle, "enough to lay the dust." But it takes at least 50mm of consistent rain to break a drought like this. It was a nightmare trip back to Sydney: soon the wind and rain began; the car leaked, as usual, and gusts of wind kept lifting its bonnet -- we had to fasten it down with luggage straps. Curtains of rain lashed the road -- as with the dust storm, you couldn't see more than 10m ahead. Nature specialises in ironies: back there in the droughty country, it hadn't rained at all. === Page 16 of 21 THANK YOU FOR COASTAL RAIN AND FOR RAIN ON NE corner of New South Wales. BUT NEXT PLEASE? 14 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, May 17, 1980 14 (AUSTRALIA) The dam is nearly empty and the horse is almost belly-deep in the mud as he stretches for the last of the water. The grasshoppers have been and the rains haven't come; only the crows are eating well in the Central West. SALLY McINERNEY has just returned from a visit to her home town near Cowra. It was a long way from downpour-sodden Sydney. SOME people think that when it's raining on them it's raining everywhere else as well. Indeed, when you're caught in one of the coast's special deluges it's hard to believe in the simultaneous existence, not more than a couple of crow-flights away, of droughty country where there's been no real rain for nearly a year. Last week I went - for a couple of days - to the district classified as the Central Western Slopes and Plains. It's quite a long journey, particularly in an old Renault 4. Sydney was wet and cold when we set out; the Blue Mountains were wintry, with wind and scudding rain. At chilly Lithgow the sun sprang out for a second, as if to prove it still existed, and that was the last sight of it until we reached the drought country - which sud- $ ightarrow$ CONTINUED === Page 17 of 21 (AUSTRALIA) DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saturday, May 17, 1980 7 NEXT PLEASE? # DRY TOWN IN DAM UPROAR Hundreds of angry Mudgee residents attended a protest meeting yesterday over the State Government's failure to complete the Windamere Dam. Shops were closed in the drought-stricken town, in central western NSW, for the meeting in the RSL Club. In 1970 the Windamere Dam project, which was to augment Mudgee and Gulgong's water supply, as well as provide water for irrigation, was announced by a State Liberal MP, Mr Jack Beale. The dam was to have cost $10 million. Some local people said the project was an election ploy to return the Askin Liberal Government. Nothing happened until 1973 when the Whitlam Labor Government gave a grant to Mudgee Shire Council for by-pass road construction. Last Tuesday, Mudgee Shire Council imposed further stringent water restrictions, the most severe in the area's history. Unlike other towns, Mudgee has received hardly any rainfall in the past month and the water situation is critical. The vegetable industry is threatened with extinction as the Cudgegong River which supplies Mudgee's water, has stopped running Shire president Mr A. W. Cox, told the meeting the council was "snubbed by the State Minister, Mr Gordon, who found time to go to Dubbo to welcome a few animals at the zoo but could not come to Mudgee." Mr Cox said: "Is it any wonder that after 10 years, $20 million spent on property resumptions and no work being done, that we are so angry?" Mr Jim Curran, State MP for Castlereagh, whose electorate next year will be enlarged to contain Mudgee and the Windamere Dam area, told the meeting the dam would now cost $46.5 million. (DAILY TELEGRAPH) (AUSTRALIA) MAY 17, 1980 # DROUGHT AID 'DODGING' Good falls of rain in some parts of NSW had not ended the drought, Country Party leader Mr Punch said yesterday. Mr Punch said drought relief was still necessary in many areas and even in areas where rain had fallen drought relief measures should not be forgotten. A drought co-ordination committee should be formed, with representatives of primary producers organisations, chambers of commerce, pastures protection boards, councils and government departments which would constantly review drought relief needs. It was also essential that a national committee be established with representatives from all States to look at ways of minimising the effect of drought. Mr Punch said the best way to combat drought was prevention measures. ## Hand-outs Under the present system, farmers who spent money at the right time and money on drought relief measures on their properties were often disadvantaged compared with those who did nothing themselves and looked to governments for hand-outs as soon as a dry spell began. It was the role of government to provide assistance between droughts to help landholders to prepare for the recurring dry periods. Mr Punch said that through the present drought the NSW Government had tried to avoid giving aid. It had tried to blame the Federal Government and had ignored the impact of the drought in urban areas. Mr Punch said even where rain had fallen, the benefit would be limited because winter was near. === Page 18 of 21 DAILY TELEGRAPH, Tuesday, May 27, 1980 # TOWN WANTS A PIED PIPER TO RID IT OF MICE Mudgee, in the NSW central west, is looking for a modern-day Pied Piper. First the town was hit by drought. Now it is mice. With the worsening of the drought and the almost non-existent supply of fodder for sheep and cattle, field mice are invading Mudgee homes in their thousands. Shops have sold out of mouse traps and poison bait is almost unobtainable. One resident told a special meeting of the local council that mice in plague proportions had entered her's and neighboring homes. ## In bedroom Another said: "I have lived here for 12 years and we have never had any mice until now. "They even come into the bedroom." But the assistant health surveyor, Mr Peter Wakeling, said: "I am unaware that there is such a problem." Mr and Mrs G. Wesley, of Third St, said it was "ludicrous" that the health surveyor knew nothing of the problem. Mr Wesley said: "I have complained about it to the council at least twice." Councillor Carmel Croan said: "I want to know why it wasn't followed up and brought to councillors' notice." The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, June 3, 1980 # Largest sowing in years possible Recent rains may lead to the largest wheat sowings in NSW in the last decade. Mild climatic conditions are also expected to boost pastures in some of the worst drought-affected areas. The principal winter cereals agronomist of the NSW Department of Agriculture, Mr Bob Komoll, reported in The Land newspaper last week, said the rain had fallen at the right time for major sowings in the central and northern grain districts. Much of the southern and Riverina districts were already sown and the total could now reach 3.4 million hectares of wheat, said Mr Komoll. This compared with the record 4.03 million in 1968-69. However, substantial rain would have to fall in the northwest for the state to be able to reach the 6.6 million tonnes crop of 1978. Falls had been recorded around Tamworth, the Liverpool Plains and north and west of Moree which had missed much of the rain two weeks ago. === Page 19 of 21 SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART DATE 28.5.80 TIME 9 a.m. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY - SYDNEY FORECASTS The Weather Bureau last night issued these forecasts and warnings for today: WARNINGS: Strong wind warning for coastal waters. Gale warning for the Tasman Sea. STATE: Showers and thunderstorms in the east, tending to rain on the south coast but clearing north of the Hunter. Becoming dry on the western plains. Wide-spread morning fogs. Light to moderate SW to SE winds inland, SW to SE winds, strengthening along the coast with seas rising to rough. Increasing swell. METROPOLITAN: Some morning showers and fog patches, then fine. Cool southerly winds strengthening on the coast. Seas rising to rough. Moderate swell. NORTHERN RIVERS: Early showers and morning fog patches, clearing to a fine day. NW to SW winds gradually strengthening to 20-30 knots on the coast. Seas offshore. Moderate swell. MID-NORTH COAST: Some early showers, storms, and fogs, clearing to a fine day. NW to SW winds strengthening during the day and reaching 20-30 knots in coastal waters with seas rising to rough offshore. A preliminary strong wind warning is current. HUNTER: Morning fog areas. Some showers or thunderstorms clearing to a fine day. Light W to S winds strengthening to 20-30 knots on the coast. A strong wind warning has been issued. Seas rising to rough and moderate swell. ILLAWARRA, SOUTH COAST: Rain periods and local thunderstorms with some heavy falls. SW to SE winds strengthening to 20-30 knots on the coast. Seas rising to rough. Moderate swell. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Morning fog areas then fine and cool. W to SW winds becoming fresh at times. RAINFALL Rainfall of 5mm or more for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday: UPPER WESTERN: Angledool 34, Bourke 21, Brewarrina 6, Collarenebri 29, Coolabah 8, Lightning Ridge 23, Louth 7. LOWER WESTERN: Broken Hill 8, Menindee 14, Euabalong 24, Ivanhoe 5. NORTHWEST PLAINS: Boomi 13, Barren Jctn 17, Moree 10, Narrabri 22, Pallamallawa 13, Wee Waa 37. CENTRAL WESTERN PLAINS: Canbelego 26, Coonamble 72, Gilgandra 38, Girilambone 13, Gulargambone 41, Narromine 9, Nevertire 3, Nyngan 11, Quambone 31, Warren 11, Bogan Gate 6, Peak Hill 6, Tottenham 9, Trundie 8, Ungarie 24, Yalgogrin Nth 31. RIVERINA: Cargelligo 13, Carrathool 5, Darlington Pt 10, Goolgowi 6, Griffith 6, Gubbata 28, Hay 9, Hillston 6, Maude 6, Rankin Springs 19, Henty 10, Howlong 9, Lockhart 11, Narrandera 17, The Rock 15, Tocumwal 30, Whitton 11. NORTHWEST SLOPES: Ashford 8, Barraba 8, Bingara 23, Bonshaw 6, Rawdon 11, Delungra 6, Gravesend 11, Warialda 10, Amman 10, Bendemeer 10, Blackville 37, Boggabri 24, Breeza 23, Gunnedah 18, Manilla 10, Mullaley 33, Premer 33, Quirindi 16, Somerton 20, Tambar Springs 43, Tamworth 11, Werris Creek 23, Willowtree 18. CENTRAL-WEST SLOPES: Binnaway 60, Coolah 30, Coonabarabran 78, Dunedoo 21, Mendooran 35, Tooraweenah 34, Canowindra 6, Cudal 16, Dubbo 5, Eugowra 18, Forbes 11, Grenfell 10, Molong 16, Parkes 10, Wellington 19. SOUTH-WEST SLOPES: Barmedman 32, Burrinjuck Dam 45, Cootamundra 42, Gundagai 30, Junee 10, Koorawatha 17, Quandialla 23, Stockinbingal 42, Temora 31, Wyalong 43, Young 5, Adelong 35, Albury 15, Batlow 48, Caouramurra 25, Holbrook 8, Hume R'voir 12, Khancoban 5, Sydnecurra 12, Tumbarumba 33, Tumut 35, Wagga 15, Wagga MO 17. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Inverell 6, Tingha 8. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Gulgong 22, Mudgee 26, Rylstone 14, Bathurst 5, Blayney 7, Cowra 13, Lithgow 13, Oberon 13, Orange A/port 21, Trunkey Ck 9, Wyangala 17. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Canberra M 21, Cooma 14, Crookwell 13, Delegate 8, Frogmore 6, Goulburn 10, Gunning 18, Nimmitabel 11, Queanbeyan 18, Taralga 12, Tumut 35, Canberra City 31, Adaminaby 18, Berridale 23, Dalgety 16, Perisher Valley 17, Thredbo (C'back) 17. NORTHERN RIVERS: Cape Byron 13, Murwillumbah 10, Tweed Heads 26, Yamba 5. MID NORTH COAST: Gloucester 5. HUNTER: C'nock (Nulkaba) 5, Denman 18, Dungog 6, Gosford 13, Gresford 6, Jerrys Plains 12, Mangrove Mtn 12, Maryville 35, Merriwa 15, Moonan Flat 10, Murrurundi 21, Paterson 5, Scone 19, Singleton (Army) 6, Williamtown MO 6, Wyong 10. ILLAWARRA: Berry 6, Camden A/pt 7, Campbelltown 5, Jervis Bay 11, Kiama 7, Nowra (Council) 8, Robertson 6, W'gong (Uni) 6. SOUTH COAST: Araluen 5, Bega 8, Braidwood 5, Candelo 11, Eden 12, Green Cape 10, Merimbula A/pt 9. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 5, Baigowlah 6, Bexley 5, Bondi 7, Gordon 5, Mascot MO 6, Mosman 7, Newport Bch 12, Pymble 5, Sydney 5, Turramurra 5, Waverton 7, Auburn 5, Glenorie 7. SHIPPING EXPECTED ARRIVALS Today SEA PRINCESS, Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal, no time. XAIO SHI KOU, Point Piper Anchorage, no time. SHINNICH MARU, Bank Anchorage, no time. MARCONA, 7 Darling Harbor, no time. EXPECTED DEPARTURES Today ADUARA, 11 Woolloomooloo, no time. WAITAKI, 4 Darling Harbor, no time. TRICOLOR, 5 Darling Harbor, no time. ALEXANDRIA, 7 Glebe Island, no time. CHUBA MARU, 4 White Bay, no time. TIDES Tomorrow: HIGH: 8.40 am (1.4m), 8.50 pm (1.8m). LOW: 2.42 am (0.3m), 2.23 pm (0.4m). SUN: Rises 6.49, sets 4.54. DAILY TELEGRAPH, Thursday, May 29, 1980 Bruce Kell (Australian Correspondent) 4 Torrington Road Strathfield 2135 New South Wales (NSW) Australia === Page 20 of 21 STORE STOCK REVIEW Sydney Morning Herald Friday May 30 1980 # Rain brings widespread relief Good falls of rain over a widespread area of NSW during the week have broken the drought in some parts with falls of over three inches. Special sales of sheep and cattle since late last week have been well attended with main strength stemming from Victoria, South Australia and Southern NSW. Before the rain which began last Tuesday, values for stock were irregular with poorer conditioned sheep and cattle cheaper. However better quality lines were generally firm to dearer. The joint special cattle sales at Barraba and Manilla on Wednesday saw a particularly strong market for weaner age lots and included excellent sales such as Hereford heifers, 5 to 7 months, poor and stunted making $92 and the steer portion $108. Poll Hereford steers, 14 months $232, Hereford cows, aged and joined to Herefords, $198. At Casino all but one pen was sold from the yarding of 1,500 on Monday, with South Australians and Victorians providing strong competition against local restockers. Sales included, Hereford steers, 18 months, $203, 12 months and very good quality $181, 10 months, $144, Hereford heifers 14 months $148, 10 months $135 and 8-9 months $129. Values were from $5 to $20 cheaper at the big Roma (Qld) yarding of about 9,400 cattle with mature steers experiencing the biggest loss. Bullocks sold from $228 to $328.50, steers 20-24 months $165.50 to $250.50, weaner steers, $51 to $162.50, heifers 12-15 months $84.50 to $160.50 and cows and calves $132.50 to $247.50. At the Narromine First Cross Breeders Sale on Wednesday all 4,500 sheep were cleared but values were below prices expected. Top price was $42.50 for 360 July-August drop ewes which went to Cootamundra. Other sales included 120 July drop $42, 150 June-July drop $38.50, 230 July drop $36 and 125 March-April drop $38.50. Prices rose for good quality sheep by up to $3 at the large yarding of $3,000 at Deniliquin with widespread Victorian restocks competing with buyers from South Australia and the local district. Bristow: Frank SYDNEY MORNING HERALD NEW. SOUTH. WALES FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1980 THE NEXT DOOR ON THE RIGHT IS THE E DEPARTMENT. CHAP TIMING HOW LONG HE DID HIS BREATH IS BRISTOW ONE FOR CHIEF # Drought over, big wheat crop likely Timely State-wide rain has not only marked an end to the drought, which was beginning to cause deep concern to the sheep and cattle industry, but has set the scene for a bumper wheat crop. Rain has fallen at the right time for major wheat plantings in the central and northern grain districts. In addition generally mild weather should now give pastures a boost in the worst affected of the drought regions. Throughout most of the State's rural producing areas (except the far west) there has been good rainfall in the past few days. In most regions it has been of the order of 75mm. The good rain will halt the rundown in stock, placing some upward pressure on meat prices in the short run. While this week's rain was a welcome relief to farmers they need good following rains to ensure that they will see a good grain crop in the spring. PAGE 9: On the path of a drought-resistant wheat strain. PAGE 14: Stock review. NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIA === Page 21 of 21 DAILY TELEGRAPH, Friday, May 30, 1980 39 # WEATHER, SHIPPING ## FORECASTS The Weather Bureau last night issued these forecasts and warnings for today: **WARNING:** Strong wind warning for coastal waters south of Moruya heads. Gale warning for central Tasman Sea Ocean waters. **NSW:** Showers and thunderstorms on the far south coast and southern alps. Some showers or drizzle on western slopes of the ranges contracting southwards. Mainly dry on the coast and on western plains. Morning fog areas. Winds mainly W to SW, of light to moderate strength inland, and moderate to fresh on the coast, winds strong at times on the south coast, seas slight inshore, but moderate to rough off the south coast. Low to moderate swell. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Fine. 10-15 knot W to SW winds. Seas slight, low to moderate swell. **MID NORTH COAST:** Fine. 10-15 knot W to SW winds. Seas slight, low to moderate swell. **HUNTER:** Early fog patches and few showers, clearing to fine. W to SW winds 10-20 knots. Seas slight inshore, low moderate swell. **ILLAWARRA SOUTH COAST:** Some showers and thunderstorms in the south, but dry north from about Moruya Heads. A strong wind warning is current. South of Moruya 20-30 knot W to S winds. Northwards from Moruya, 15-20 knot SW to W winds. Seas slight to moderate inshore. Moderate swell. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Morning fogs and drizzle on the west side clearing to fine and cool. Moderate W to SW winds. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Drizzle and fog areas on west slopes breaking in the afternoon. Dry on the east side. Cool W to SW winds. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Some thunderstorms in the south at first, showers through the day, cool to cold, gusty W to SW winds. **NORTH WEST SLOPES AND PLAINS:** Fog and drizzle areas in the east clearing to generally fine afternoon. Cool. Light to moderate W to SW winds. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES AND PLAINS:** Drizzle and fog areas clearing to mainly fine cool, partly cloudy afternoon. Light to moderate SW winds. **UPPER WESTERN:** Early fogs clearing to fine and cool to mild. Light winds. **LOWER WESTERN:** Morning fogs. Fine cool partly cloudy afternoon. Light winds. # RAINFALL Rainfall of 5mm or more for the 24 hours as at 9 am yesterday: **UPPER WESTERN:** Coolabah 5. **NORTHWEST PLAINS:** Gwabegar 10, Baradine 6, Bellata 12, Bogabilla 26, Garah 5, Narrabri West 18, Wee Waa 12. **SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART** DATE 29.5.80 TIME NOON (Map showing weather patterns over Australia with labels for Pt Hedland, Darwin, Alice Springs, Townsville, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart. Isobars marked 1000, 1004, 1008, 1012, 1016.) | ISOBARS | 1016 | SEAS | WINDS | RAINFALL | |---|---|---|---|---| | (Value in millibars) | | Slight | Calm | | | COLD FRONT | | Moderate | 10 km/h | Previous | | WARM FRONT | | Rough | 20 km/h | 24 hrs | | | | Very Rough | 40 km/h | | | | | | 60 km/h | | | | | | 80 km/h | | | | | | 100 km/h | | | | | | and over | | DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY - SYDNEY **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Coonamble 18, Gilgandra 8, Girilambone 22, Gulargambone 18, Narromine 37, Nevertire 17, Nyngan 29, Quambone 20, Trangie 24, Warren 32, Bogan Gate 60, Peak Hill 74, Trundle 68, Ungarie 8. **RIVERINA:** Maude 11, Ariah Park 22, Barellan 39, Coolamon 5, Leeton 8. **NORTHWEST SLOPES:** Ashford 19, Barraba 17, Bingara 10, Bonshaw 33, Coppa Ck, Rawdon 10, Delungra 15, Gravesend 7, Warialda 10, Bendemeer 18, Blackville 12, Boggabri 14, Gunnedah 24, Premer 10, Quirindi 16, Somerton 55, Tamworth MO 45, Werris Creek 13, Willowtree 19, Woolbrook 11. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Coolah 13, Dunedoo 9, Mendooran 16, Cudal 19, Dubbo 44, Eugowra 11, Forbes 33, Manildra 18, Molong 26, Parkes 30, Wellington 21. **SOUTHWEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 33, Burrinjuck Dam 11, Grenfell 19, Gundagai 7, Junee 24, Koorawatha 12, Temora 19, Young 31, Adelong 16, Batlow 9, Tumbarumba 7. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Armidale 6, Bundarra 10, Deepwater 38, Emmaville 42, Glen Innes 28, Guyra 18, Inverell 15, Tingha 16, Uralla 9, Walcha 6, Bonalbo 25, Lower Creek Tabulam 11, Tabulam (Muirne) 16. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Gulgong 16, Mudgee 10, Rylstone 7, Bathurst 15, Blackheath 18, Cowra Airport 11, Hill End 13, Katoomba 45, Kurrajong Hght 14, Lithgow 15, Mt Victoria 23, Oberon 20, Orange Airport 19, Rockley 13, Springwood 14, Trunkey Creek 13, Wyangala 10. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Canberra M 5, Crookwell 16, Goulburn 47, Gunning 34, Taralga 27, Yass 30, Canberra City 7, Perisher Valley 5. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Cape Byron 19, Casino 24, Grafton 21, Lismore 25, Maclean 27, Murwillumbah 18, Tweed Heads 12, Yamba 40. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 9, Coffs Hbr MO 10, Dorrigo 14, Kempsey 6, Macksville 10, Meldrum 14, Smoky Cape 7, Bulahdelah 5, Gloucester 11. **HUNTER:** C'nock (Nulkaba) 7, Denman 6, Dungog 10, Gosford 8, Gresford 10, Mangrove Mtn 17, Maryville 7, Merriwa 13, Moonan Flat 15, Murrurundi 11, N'castle (Nbys) 9, Paterson 7, Raymond Tce 5, Scone 7, Singleton (Army) 8, Stroud 6. **ILLAWARRA:** Bowral 23, Camden Airport 27, Campbelltown 15, Greenwell Pt 15, Jervis Bay 9, Kiama 13, Robertson 82, Wollongong 15, W'gong (Uni) 42, Nowra (RAN) 5. **SOUTH COAST:** Milton 9. **METROPOLITAN:** Ashfield 13, Balgowlah 10, Bankstown MO 14, Bexley 34, Bondi 6, Concord 13, Cronulla 22, Epping 12, Five Dock 11, Gordon 12, Hornsby 11, Hurstville 19, Mascot MO 8, Mosman 13, Pymble 11, Sydney 11, Turramurra 16, Wahroonga 13, Waverton 8, West Lindfield 16, Auburn 15, Glenorie 6, Liverpool 9, Penrith 45, Richmond MO 9. # SHIPPING - [ ] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 19 FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1980 Oregonian "POWER" ATTACK (LINGER) # Barricades to ring storm-stricken city GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities said Thursday that they plan to seal off this suffering city of 40,000 people where tornadoes crushed 700 homes and businesses and left water and power systems in shambles. Police Chief Howard Bacon said law enforcement officers and the 260 National Guardsmen helping patrol the streets would throw up barricades at all entrances to the city Friday, sealing the town off for the weekend to keep away looters and sightseers. Meanwhile, an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew remained in effect. "We want to keep away people who would like to come in here and see the damage," Bacon said. "We're sealing the city of Grand Island off. It's better to be safe than sorry." Authorities said four persons were killed during Tuesday night's furious assault by up to seven twisters. Two other residents died after suffering apparent heart attacks while cleaning up the mess. Four persons were arrested Wednesday night and early Thursday for violating the curfew or petty theft, and another was charged with assaulting a police officer. But Bacon said that generally, "looting has been minimal." While the city strived to return to normal, Mayor Robert Kriz said officials were worried about the possibility of fire breaking out in the city, which had been without water pressure for nearly 48 hours. "This is scaring us," said Kriz as crews worked to restore electrical power to homes and businesses. "We're scared that the businessmen will turn on the juice, and that the building will have been shaken and damaged, and that there will be an explosion and fire," the mayor said. Other city officials said arrangements had been made with fire departments in nearby communities to rush water tank trucks to Grand Island should a blaze break out. City Attorney Keith Sinor said the tornadoes left about 700 structures, including more than 50 businesses, uninhabitable. Assistant City Attorney Bill Shreffler said 34 persons were "unaccounted for" Thursday afternoon. Sinor emphasized, however, that the 34 are not considered dead or missing because many could have been out of town or staying with relatives and not in contact with city officials. Scores of volunteers, including private construction firms with heavy equipment, began biting into the rubble that covers five separate areas of devastation. TV broadcast on this announced World "Power" Attack # Twisters hurt 80, damage 3 states By The Associated Press Tornadoes and violent thunderstorms roared through Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia on Tuesday, smashing mobile homes and injuring more than 80 people. Philadelphia police said a motorist was killed when a tree fell on his truck. Western Pennsylvania bore the brunt of the de- Owen massive Power blackouts!! Owen THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1980 3M A9 struction, with nearly 80 persons taken to four hospitals in the region, most of them with minor cuts and bruises. At least three injuries were reported in Maryland and four in West Virginia. The storms were part of a system that lashed the Midwest over the weekend and on Monday, killing two persons and injuring at least 35 in four states. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said between seven and 12 twisters touched down in a path from the extreme northern end of Westmoreland County east to Indiana County. At Edgewood Estate Mobile Home Park in Armstrong County, witnesses said between 50 and 75 units were blown apart. About 60 park residents were taken to area hospitals. June 4, 1980 === Page 2 of 19 - "Power" Attack (Linger Effect) - Oregon Journal, June 4, 1980 # Twisters kill five in 3-state sweep By United Press International Late spring tornadoes devastated parts of Pennsylvania, Nebraska and West Virginia, killing at least five persons, injuring scores of others and leaving thousands homeless. In Grand Island, Nebraska's third largest city, at least five persons were killed when a series of tornadoes swept through Tuesday night, leveling most of the business district, tearing roofs from at least four apartment complexes and trapping residents in their homes with downed power lines and collapsing walls. Most electrical, gas and water service was knocked out throughout the city of 32,000. Hospitals neared capacity with injured and utility crews were out in full force trying to fix power lines and stop gas leaks. Tornadoes also ripped through southern Ohio and Maryland, injuring several persons. High winds snapped power lines in Washington, Virginia and Maryland. Thunderstorms whipped by 60 mph winds crashed into New York at rush hour Tuesday, toppling utility poles and snarling traffic for millions of commuters. Flights at local airports were delayed up to an hour by the storms. In Pennsylvania, heavy rain accompanied by winds of up to 65 mph hit the eastern part of the state, cutting off electricity to 50,000 Philadelphia residents and claiming the life of Steven Paolino, 27, who was killed when a tree struck by lightning fell on him. Nine tornadoes destroyed more than 250 mobile homes and injured 150 persons in what the National Weather Service called the "largest tornado outbreak ever" in western Pennsylvania. One of the hardest hit areas was Apollo, Pa., in Armstrong County. "It took about 50 (mobile) homes," said Rich Cappo of Apollo. "Thirty of these are completely destroyed. Some of those homes are stacked three high." In Kiski Valley, about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, more than 200 mobile homes were toppled and 15 homes damaged. "It's a disaster area," an eyewitness said. "Trailers are strewn around like matchsticks." A 35-mile-wide thunderstorm spawned at least four and up to seven twisters in Grand Island within a three hour period, said a National Weather Service meterologist. Millions of dollars in property damage was reported and more than 1,000 people were left homeless. About 27 persons were reported missing. At least eight persons were injured, including four members of one family, when a tornado stormed through Preston County West Virginia. Police said the tornado touched down at least five times in the West Virginia communities of Reedsville and Kingwood, destroying at least three houses and seven mobile homes. - "Power" Attack - # Layoffs begin RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- A major contractor for Hanford nuclear projects Nos. 1 and 4 has begun laying off workers as part of an expected weekend shutdown at the two plants. Layoffs began Tuesday. Fred Read, project manager for Atkinson-Wright-Schuchart-Harbor, said members of four unions who are refusing to show up for work are forcing all his firm's operations to grind to a halt. AWSH employs about 2,450 of the 4,000 people working on the projects. The work stoppage is expected to stop all work at the plants. K.F. Nowakowski, spokesman for the Washington Public Power Supply System, said other contractors will stop working when they run out of things to do. Ironworkers were hit first by the layoffs. A total of 525 ironworkers left the two plants Tuesday, said ironworkers union spokesman Pat Sanders. Electricians and other workers are also being laid off, he said. Oregonian June 5, '80 - "Power" Attack - # Bolts to blame SATSOP, Wash. -- Overstressed bolts in a crane boom probably caused the collapse of a 500-foot steel tower crane at the construction sites of two nuclear power plants here May 28, results of an ongoing investigation indicate. The tower crane fell apart after it was struck by the broken boom, causing millions of dollars of damage and slightly injuring three persons when it fell into the Project 3 Reactor Auxiliary Building. Orville Trapp, Washington Public Power Supply System manager of engineering. Oregonian June 8, 1980 - World "Power" Attack (Linger) - # Israel suffers second power outage TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Israel suffered its second nationwide power failure in eight months Tuesday. Utility officials said they did not know the exact cause of the blackout. Some factories, hospitals and newspapers switched over to their own emergency generators, but most of the country shut down early when the electricity failed shortly after 3 p.m. Oregonian June 4, 1980 === Page 3 of 19 "Power Attack (Linger)" # Power surge ties up traffic SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A power surge at a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. substation Wednesday knocked out a 10,000-volt power feed line to the Municipal Railway, leaving several thousand commuters stranded. The surge at 7:32 a.m. also caused a momentary power loss affecting most of the San Francisco bay area, said Dennis Pooler, a PG&E spokesman. Except for the Municipal Railway outages, there was no substantial loss of electrical service to utility customers, he said. The effect on the city transportation system was more substantial. "We are really in a bind," said Jim Leonard, director of public affairs for the Public Utility Commission. Leonard said six trolley lines in the city were not operating and that diesel buses were being routed to pick up stranded commuters. "That, of course, will leave the diesel bus routes short," he said. Pooler said the power surge was caused by a "flashover" at the PG&E Martin substation that caused a 230,000-volt transmission line to be knocked out for a few seconds. The surge caused a ripple effect to other substations throughout the bay area, he said. The surge apparently was caused by early morning rain. "We're not sure, but apparently some water seeped into the substation where some dust had settled," Pooler said. "The dust acted as an electrical conductor, causing an arc, or flashover." Oregonian June 5, 1980 "POWER" ATTACK # Twister hits three states By The Associated Press A tornado churned through parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania late Friday, knocking down a number of rural buildings, trees and power lines, but causing no serious injuries, authorities said. Two children suffered minor cuts and bruises when their mobile home in Carroll County, Ohio, was demolished by the twister, according to the Carrollton Fire Department. Several unoccupied buildings near the residence also were damaged, a spokesman said. The twister then spun through Jefferson County, Ohio, around 8 p.m. A farmer told the county sheriff's office he saw the tornado pass along a ridge, uprooting trees amid a cloud of flying debris. Oregonian June 7, 1980 WORLD RAIN ATTACK # Storm slashes Scots NAIRN, Scotland (AP) -- A freak tornadolike storm struck this seaside resort Thursday, flipping over dozens of vacation trailers and blowing out windows. Nine persons were reported injured, two seriously. The scene at the town's trailer park was like "something from a war," said a witness. "There's nothing left -- just pulp." More than 40 trailers were overturned. Torrential rain, accompanied by thunder, lightning and large hailstones, quickly flooded roads in the northern Scottish town, situated near the battlefield of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie's Scottish Highlanders were defeated by the English army in 1746. "It was more like a tornado than anything else. It was all over in 10 minutes, but everything came to a standstill," said town official Fiona Campbell. "It was like the tropical storms you see on the pictures. I have never seen anything like it in my life." Oregonian June 6, 1980 === Page 4 of 19 Saturday, June 7, 1980 15¢ # Experts find volcano blast odd mystery By JAMES LONG Journal Staff Writer How did Mount St. Helens erupt violently enough to flatten 12 miles of forest without killing any of its known victims by the blast? This is one of many mysteries facing scientists in the wake of the May 18 eruption that took the lives of at least 24 persons and left another 50 missing. Although the eruption has been compared with a 25-megaton nuclear bomb explosion, not even the three victims found within a mile of ground zero were killed by the blast, Dr. Don Reay, King County, Wash., medical examiner, said Friday. "This has been one of the surprising things, the general lack of blast injury," agreed Dr. Larry Lewman, assistant Oregon medical examiner whose office performed eight of the autopsies. Of the 22 victims studied thus far, three died of burns, 17 died of apparent suffocation from inhaling large amounts of hot ash, and two died of delayed lung failure from inhaling hot ash, the doctors reported. Tim Hait, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist, said the USGS, too, is puzzled by the lack of explosion-caused deaths. "It's one of the fascinating questions that has come up, and we've certainly wondered about it," Hait said. "Trees were knocked down 12 miles to the north. Cameras were knocked off their tripods. "There were a lot of signs of blast. But as to why people didn't show an effect, I have nothing to contribute. We (USGS) have no hypothesis right now." At the University of Oregon Center for Volcanism, professor Gordon Goles speculated that the shock wave of the eruption was sub-lethal because it moved perhaps at the speed of sound rather than supersonically. "A supersonic shock wave moves faster than the atoms in the air can get out of the way," Goles explained. "This means there is high energy at the front of the wave, and a vacuum behind it. People get compressed and decompressed very rapidly. This is what happens in a blast and why it kills." Although most of the victims died as an immediate result of ash-plugged air passages, the medical examiners also found signs of potentially fatal heat damage in the lungs. Reay said the hot ash -- estimated at 300 degrees Fahrenheit many miles from the crater -- did two things in the lungs: * Seared the mucous lining, causing swelling and an accumulation of fluid. * Seared and impaired the cilia, tiny hairs that grow in the throat and on top of lung cells and pass large, invading particles out of the lungs like a bucket-brigade. "Most of these people were overcome so quickly that the thermal effects didn't make any difference," Reay added. The only people whose deaths were attributed directly to burns were members of a prospecting party working within a mile of the crater when the eruption occurred, Reay said. Oregon Journal A normal-speed sound wave doesn't pile up a battering-ram of air atoms and doesn't create a vacuum behind itself although the total amount of energy can still be extremely large, Goles went on. "A rough illustration," he said, "is that a man can lean into a strong wind without being blown over -- but a billboard might be knocked down because the wind is pushing on a larger surface. "We could guess that the trees went down mainly because they present a large surface area for a shock wave to push on." Goles, too, said he was "surprised" by the medical examiners' findings that people weren't killed by blast. He said the evidence will have an important bearing on determining the physics of the eruption, "although it's tragic and unfortunate that the evidence comes to us this way." According to Lewman and Reay, the normal signs of percussive deaths are ruptured eardrums and other organs affected by sudden compression and decompression. Note: The Mt St Helens explosions... a warning from the SIs and Pyrlve!!! Owens * + RE the Base === Page 5 of 19 Oregon Journal June 11, 1980 "Power" Attack and Florida Demonstration (Linger Effect) # Twister slams Palm Beach By United Press International hurricane strength! A tornado packing 92 mph winds ripped through the Palm Beach International Airport, damaging or destroying 40 to 50 small aircraft and causing an estimated $1 million in damage. In Columbus, Ind., a workman was killed when a gust of wind during a violent thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon lifted the roof from a condominium under construction and hurled it to the ground, striking Walter Eugene Hamilton, 52. A second worker was treated for arm and rib pains and later released from a local hospital. The thundershowers in the West Palm Beach storm dumped more than 2 inches of rain on the county. Power lines were down in many areas and trees toppled. Florida Power & Light Co. reported scattered power failures affecting about 500 families. The National Weather Service said the tornado at Palm Beach International Airport touched down shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday. The damage estimate of $1 million was made by Alan Richter, the county Civil Defense communications coordinator. He said there were 40 to 50 planes damaged or destroyed -- some of them flipped onto their backs. Tornadoes also swept through portions of Texas, Colorado and Kentucky, causing no injuries and only minor damage. The Great Lakes region remained unusually cool with night temperatures nearing the freezing mark, but the mercury climbed past 100 degrees in the southwestern desert Tuesday afternoon. The official hot spots reported in Arizona included Coolidge and Casa Grande with 112 degrees. Tucson and Phoenix trailed with 106 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered from west Texas to eastern Colorado and lingered over the Atlantic seaboard. The National Weather Service reported much of the nation suffered near record-breaking severe weather during the past two weeks, including about 350 tornadoes that killed six people. Preliminary figures showed 1,000 reports of severe weather received at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. Forecasters issued nearly 100 severe thunderstorm and tornado watches during the period from May 25 to June 7, in addition to numerous warnings issued by local National Weather Service offices. Preliminary figures for the states having the most tornadoes during the period included: Indiana 35, Iowa and Nebraska 29, South Dakota 28, North Dakota 27, Minnesota 26, Kansas 23, Illinois 21, Texas 18, Ohio 16, Wisconsin 15 and Pennsylvania 13. In Buffalo, N.Y., where the sight of snow is usually nothing new, June snow has become a novelty. The National Weather Service said traces of graupel, a hard snow somewhere between sleet and regular snow, were recorded early Wednesday. Oregon Journal, June 16, 1980 (2) # "Power" Attack Storms, tornadoes kill four By United Press International Weekend tornadoes and thunderstorms ripped through Maryland and Virginia, killing at least four persons and cutting off electricity to thousands in suburbs around the nation's capital. Much of the Midwest was pummeled by high wind and heavy rain. More than 100,000 power outages were reported Sunday in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs surrounding Washington, D.C. Two tornadoes touched down in northern Virginia in Fairfax County. A boat capsized Sunday in a reservoir near Laurel, Md., drowning a 5-year-old boy and his uncle. Divers searched for the boy's body Monday. A day of sailing on the Potomac River turned into an ordeal for a party of four when their boat capsized in winds gusting to 65 mph, killing one person who was caught in the rigging of the boat. Police reported another man was struck and killed by a tree. The National Weather Service warned that the upper Great Lakes region may be in for unusually cool weather for late spring. Frost warnings were posted Monday for extreme northern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota. === Page 6 of 19 WASH. SEATTLE WENATCHEE ABERDEEN TACOMA 90 OLYMPIA ELLENSBURG 5 YAKIMA LONGVIEW MT. ST. HELENS ASTORIA WOODLAND VANCOUVER Columbia River TILLAMOOK PORTLAND HOOD RIVER THE DALLES ARLINGTON SALEM 0 75 NEWPORT ORE. Miles OREGON JOURNAL newsmap by Morrow FALL ZONE -- Shaded area indicates where ash from Thursday night eruption of Mount St. Helens fell. Ash covered 4,500 square miles. As an early morning rain began to fall, the ash turned to slippery muck and travel became extremely hazardous in some places. "It's terrible out there," said Cindy Johnson of West Linn, who drove into Portland early Friday. "It was just like somebody was dumping mud on you. It was like mud clods coming down." There was no major traffic problem on Interstate 5 in Oregon, but the Washington State Patrol said several automobiles stopped operating north of Vancouver when their air filters became clogged with ash. U.S. 30 from Portland to St. Helens was hazardous, and drivers were limited to 15 mph. Portland police, wearing face masks and goggles, waited out the heaviest part of the ash storm in fire stations, precinct (Continued on page 1A) ★ June 13, 1980 CLAUDIA J. HOWELL/Oregon Journal GHOST TOWN, U.S.A. -- Main Street in Vancouver, Wash., U.S.A., has an eerie appearance as ash from Thursday night's Mount St. Helens eruption descends on the city. Areas north and west of Portland reported the heaviest accumulations of the gray, dust-like ash. "Power" Mark Oregon Journal June 13, 1980 Continued === Page 7 of 19 "Tower Attack" June 13, 1980 Oregon Journal # St. Helens eruption spews grit over 4,500-mile area By JAMES C. FLANIGAN and ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writers With a boom heard more than 135 miles away, Mount St. Helens spewed volcanic ash 10 miles high late Thursday night and spread the gray grit over 4,500 square miles in Oregon and Washington. The eruption -- the third major blast of atomic force since May 18 -- left dozens of Pacific Northwest towns coated with the fallout, caused evacuation of 1,500 persons near the mountain and brought an order for a limited state of emergency Friday in Portland. A huge dark, anvil-topped mushroom cloud was spotted by an Eastern Airlines crew as their jetliner passed near the peak about 9 p.m. Thursday. The major eruption, which took place at 9:11 p.m. and coincided with a violent harmonic tremor, was described by an observer aboard a U.S. Forest Service plane as looking "like an atom bomb -- very, very black, mushrooming way up." Radioing back to ground geologists at the volcano watch center in Vancouver, Wash., the observer declared, "This is really a dandy!" He said the plume was two to three miles across, very dark, with no steam apparent in the volcanic cloud. In rapid order, the Oregon emergency operations center in Salem was activated, Portland Mayor Connie McCready ordered city police into a Phase 2 alert, and a flash flood warning was put into effect for streams running off the mountain toward populated communities in the Columbia River Basin. A 15 mph speed limit was ordered in the city. Some areas around Portland reported a quarter-inch covering of ash during the night, and city officials said there was more ash on the streets than fell when the mountain last exploded May 25. Airspace in a 150-mile radius of the mountain below 55,000 feet was closed by the Federal Aviation Administration and all commercial flights in and out of Portland International Airport were cancelled. The FAA later gave the go-ahead for flights to resume at 6:15 a.m. Friday after a 6½-hour ash fallout warning was lifted by the National Weather Service at 5 a.m. Friday. No injuries were reported during the period of heavy eruptions, which extended from 9 p.m. Thursday to 2:15 a.m. Friday. The ash began falling rapidly in the metropolitan area like heavy gray snow about 11 p.m. Thursday. Counties in Oregon reporting substantial dustings of the ash were Multnomah, Clatsop, Lincoln, Tillamook, Columbia, Yamhill, Clackamas, Washington and Marion. In Washington, the ash hit Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania, Wahkiakum and Lewis counties. Light fallout also was reported as far north as Tacoma and as far east as Hood River. From winds at approximately 35,000 feet, the ash drifted out over the Pacific Ocean on a southwesterly air flow. Winds at 50,000 feet carried more ash northeasterly from the mountain to give Yakima and Spokane a light dusting but not enough to measure. Weather forecasters said that ash blown over the Pacific could move back inland somewhere over Northern California and then sweep around northeast as far as Idaho within the next 48 hours. **Additional volcano coverage is on pages 1A, 1B, 7 and 14 of today's Journal** Continued === Page 8 of 19 # *Ash spews over 4,500 square miles (Continued from page 1) buildings and restaurants responding only to emergency calls. Most people were reported taking the situation calmly, however, as the morning commuting hour began. Persons were advised to stay home and indoors and do not drive unless absolutely necessary. The ashfall came as events of Portland's annual Rose Festival moved toward the climatic Grand Floral Parade Saturday. City crews were flushing downtown parade route streets in preparation for the march and cars were kept off the line of route. When the ash began falling like heavy gray snow, the downtown waterfront Fun Center was closed early Thursday night. Navy ships, which have arrived for the festival, were docked along the seawall when they received an unwelcome new coating to match their military gray exteriors. The tiny mountain community of Cougar, now accustomed to evacuation, was buffeted by marble-sized chunks of pumice and other volcanic debris as a heavy smell of sulfur hung over the town. Most of the 15 remaining Cougar residents left their homes immediately, although a few soon returned. Cowlitz County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Covington said, "Some of the diehards don't believe it's really serious. They came out and after a while they went back in again." Other more populated areas also were evacuated as emergency officials recalled the May 18 eruption that left scores of people dead or missing and devastated 156 square miles around Mount St. Helens. The flood watch, ordered at 10 p.m. Thursday, was a precautionary measure. People were told to be prepared for quick action in case of sudden rises in the streams in the Toutle, Kalama and Lewis River basins and the Cowlitz River downstream to the Columbia. Schools in Clark County, Wash. which still were not closed for the summer, were shut down Friday. Some power outages were reported as the combination of rain and ash shorted out electric lines. In the Hazeldell area of Vancouver, 8,400 homes were darkened at 1:50 a.m. Friday when five substations were put out of operation. By mid-morning, all but 2,800 homes were back on line. In Portland, 200 to 500 customers of Portland General Electric in the southwest section of the city lost power. Pacific Power & Light Co. reported it lost two transmission lines, one to Woodland, Wash., and one to Merwin, Wash., but no customers were affected. A spokesman said it was thought the heavy ashfall caused trees to collapse on the lines in the Lewis River area. No problems were reported at the Trojan nuclear plant near Rainier, 30 miles from the volcano, where filters have been installed over all intake systems. Pete Rowley, chief spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey, said the latest eruption appears to be of less intensity than the Sunday, May 25, blast even though more ash was reported this time on the ground in Portland than experienced in the dusting 18 days ago. The eruption came on the eve of a Friday the 13th high earth tide created by the moon's near approach to the Earth. The upcoming earth tide had created fear that the volcano was ready to blow again. Rowley pooh-poohed the idea originally, saying such an occurrence "would set science back about 10 years." Friday, he hedged his stand somewhat. "I cannot attribute this steam and ash eruption to a moon-tide theory, but I also cannot discount it." By dawn Friday, the mountain had stopped venting. Harmonic tremors, which indicate movement of magma inside the volcano, had subsided. The University of Washington Geophysical Center in Seattle reported "a very large event" recorded on its earth movement machine at 9:11 p.m. Thursday. Most of those evacuated Thursday night near the danger zone were loggers who have returned to the area. When the mountain erupted, the military and civilian search and rescue operation at the Toledo, Wash., airport was called back into service, although there were no reports of anyone unaccounted for throughout the long night. "Power Attack" Oregon Journal June 13, 1980 Continued === Page 9 of 19 # As 'neighbor' blows # Cougar residents wait it out By JULIE TRIPP of The Oregonian staff "POWER ATTACK" JUNE 14, '80 COUGAR, Wash. -- A frog, bravely or maybe just plain stupidly, croaked a 12:30 a.m. greeting Friday from near the swimming pool at the Lone Fir Resort here, while a German shepherd, left behind in the evacuation rush, barked defiantly at the sky that rained pumice pinballs. Besides the brave -- or stupid -- news crew, there was not a living soul in downtown Cougar. The tourist resort that has been the jumping off point in the past for countless vacationers and fishermen was an ashen, eerie ghost town, enlivened only by the spitting and crackling of short-circuited power lines. The never-say-die Cougar residents traveled five miles west to Jack's Sporting Goods and Cafe, but they didn't leave the danger zone. They returned to their homes Friday at dawn after keeping an all-night vigil during the worst ash fall and pumice shower this Southwest Washington town has seen since Mount St. Helens awoke in March. Twenty of them spent the night at the cafe, refusing to return through the gritty rain outside that guaranteed to ruin cars along with dispositions. Once they knew the mountain's ashy brooding would drive them no greater distance, they settled in to wait it out. It started around 9 p.m. Thursday, while Dottie Elmire was watching "Barnaby Jones," and Renee Corso was in the shower. Mrs. Elmire runs the Cougar Store and Ms. Corso works for the U.S. Forest Service. "You could hear the mountain whooshing, it sounded like a waterfall," said Mrs. Elmire. When Ms. Corso heard the sound "like wind in the trees," and after she received a warning phone call from the Forest Service, she grabbed her coat and ran outside to find her neighbors and get her car. "About halfway down the road, I realized I was getting hit in the head with rocks," she said. Chunks of pumice from one-half to one inch in size beat down on her. Not far away, 6-year-old Scottie Livingston got in the car while his mother and other relatives gathered up the dogs. Alone in the car, the boy became frightened by the pounding of pumice, the noise and confusion. "Scottie kept yelling 'Help me! Help me!' on the way down from Cougar," said his mother, Lois Livingston. The boy calmed down when the family reached Jack's Sporting Goods. By late evening he was telling people, "This is my first volcano, you know." "Mine, too," said Jean Ragsdale, who owns the store with her husband, with a tone that makes you believe she hopes it'll be her last. The ash at Jack's was about a quarter of half-inch deep, getting thicker closer to the volcano and towards Cougar, where it piled up to about an inch. The electricity, which threatened to go out all night with spasmodic blackouts, finally quit at 7 a.m. and was out for three hours or more. Limbs across lines and blown transformers had taken their toll. Another refugee at Jack's, the retired Harvey Halverson, passed the pre-dawn hours by sweeping ash off the cafe carpet, and grumbling lightheartedly about his futile attempt with his wife to get some disaster assistance from federal officials in Kelso. "Those disaster people," he said, then paused. . . "The only thing they put out is their breath, and they draw that in again." Elizabeth Reese, the doughty 84-year-old who runs Reese Store and has lived near Mount St. Helens for 47 years, stayed at her home near Jack's. Friday she reported that she is "doing just fine among the ash particles" and that the rain is helping wash it away. "We can live with it, I guess, if this is the way St. Helens is going to treat us," she said. Staff photo by RANDY WOOD NO FUN -- Jean Ragsdale shows size of pumice stone that fell on Cougar, Wash., Thursday night. Continued === Page 10 of 19 # Rain holds down ash problems Photos on Page E4 By STAN FEDERMAN, LESLIE L. ZAITZ and JOHN SNELL of The Oregonian staff POWER ATTACK JUNE 14, 1980 Mount St. Helens remained relatively quiet Friday night, except for an occasional plume of white steam, in the wake of a Thursday night eruption that left a blanket of ash over lawns, homes and cars throughout Western Oregon and Washington. The six-hour eruption, the second-most violent since the mountain reawakened March 27, scattered a thin layer of gritty ash from Seattle as far south as Medford and from The Dalles to the Pacific Ocean. However, a steady, oft-times heavy rainfall that began within hours of the blast and lasted all of Friday helped wash down most of the ash in Portland and Vancouver, Wash. The Portland Rose Festival Association said it would continue with its scheduled events, including Saturday's Grand Floral Parade. Portland public works crews labored Friday to flush streets clear along the parade route. The National Weather Service predicted cloudy skies for Saturday morning with intermittent drizzles, which were expected to end shortly before the parade begins at 10 a.m. A rainy morning would please state health officials. If it doesn't rain and the volcanic ash dries and becomes stirred up, they recommend that parade participants and spectators alike wear face masks or stay away entirely. Seismologists at the University of Washington reported late Friday that Mount St. Helens was resting quietly. The frequency of small earthquakes on the mountain also continued to decline, they said. "The mountain is essentially dead right now, seismically," said Pete Rowley, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. But he added that though silent now, "it (the mountain) could do the same thing again it did Thursday night." concern that an all-day Friday "cleanup" of the ash by both public and private water customers had sharply lowered water reserve levels. White steam plumes from the mountain continued on and off Friday, while visibility remained poor. Washington State police reported varying amounts of ash accumulations on highways; some had large amounts of it, others were practically bare. Portland International Airport reopened Friday morning, after shutting down for several hours earlier to avoid ash-related problems with aircraft. Additional details on Pages E1, E3. A Geological Survey helicopter crew that landed on the north flank of the mountain Friday may have found the reason for the "red glow" that some observers reported during Thursday's night's eruption. Rowley said they found evidence of large incandescent pyroclastic (hot ash) flows in the Spirit and Clearwater Lake areas, and in the upper Toutle River Valley. About 20 persons were evacuated from areas immediately surrounding the mountain Thursday night, but they were allowed to return to their homes Friday. There were no reports of injuries, deaths or missing persons resulting from the latest eruption. "Evacuation is an advisory thing," said Rhonda Brooks of the Washington Department of Emergency Services. She said she had no idea how many persons might still be in the "red zone," which extends in a 20-mile radius around the volatile mountain. Some 13,000 Vancouver families were without electricity from one to five hours Friday as heavy ash loads on power lines caused outages in the Clark County Public Utility District. Vancouver officials also expressed === Page 11 of 19 "Power" Attack # Colorado reactor has leak PLATTEVILLE, Colo. (AP) -- Electrical generation at the Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant was shut down Tuesday because of a malfunction which caused a minute release of radioactivity into the reactor building, the plant's operating company said. Public Service Co. of Colorado said the helium circulator system at the plant malfunctioned at about 6 a.m. Officials said a small amount of radioactivity escaped into the reactor building but that there had been no measurable release into the atmosphere. Don Warembourg, Public Service's manager of nuclear production, said radiation monitors at the plant boundary showed no increase in normal background levels. "The problem in the helium circulator at no time presented a safety problem to the plant employees or the public," Warembourg said. "The helium circulator problem is a reliability problem, not a safety problem." Warembourg said a modification to the helium circulator system would be made when the plant is shut down for refueling early next year in order to prevent any recurrence of the problem. Public Service officials said they hoped to get the plant back in operation within the next couple of days. They said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm had been notified of the incident. Fort St. Vrain, which has the only high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in North America, has been beset by a series of minor incidents over the past few years, including a small fire in its turbine room, a perplexing series of temperature fluctuations in the reactor core, and other instances where small amounts of radioactivity were released into the atmosphere. Oregonian 6/18/80 === Page 12 of 19 Sunday March The Atlanta Journal and # Elberton Unveils Mystery Stones United Press International ELBERTON, Ga. - The northeast Georgia community of Elberton - "the Granite Capital of the World" - attempts to return to normal following Saturday's dedication of six massive granite monoliths constructed in the spirit of England's Stonehenge and shrouded in as much mystery. Called the Georgia Guidestones, the monuments were conceived and paid for by an anonymous group who sent a front man using the pseudonym of Robert Christian to the grave-marker shop of Joe Fendley last June. Between 200 and 300 people turned out Saturday as U.S. Rep. Doug Barnard pulled a sheet of black plastic from the monument. Barnard told the windswept crowd that the 10 "guides," short pieces of advice for future generations carved in various languages on the stones, warned that the United States must preserve its resources because society and government are limited. When Fendley was first told of the mysterious project, he called Wyatt Martin, president of the Granite City Bank, and asked him to meet with Christian. "As soon as I heard his accent, I knew he wasn't from Alma or Waycross," Martin said, but what Christian had to say was more important than the way he spoke. Christian told Fendley and Martin that he wanted to erect a monument, suitably inscribed, which would act as a guide for generations which would succeed the present one - a generation he partly expects to be all but wiped out in a nuclear war. has been no public opposition despite the potential controversy of the first guide, which comes out strongly in favor of birth control. "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature," the inscription reads. The others are primarily common sense suggestions. Martin said he knows the true identity of the mysterious Robert Christian, but he says he will keep it a secret. "When I die, the secret will die with me," he said. Martin said Christian told him he represented a small group of individuals who were interested in the future of mankind and felt it incumbent upon themselves to leave a mark for others to follow. "He said he had visited the standing monuments throughout Europe and was particularly impressed with Stonehenge," Martin said, "but Stonehenge has no purpose, it is up to man's imagination." Stonehenge, a circle of huge stones in southern England, is believed to have been erected in stages almost 5,000 years ago. Scientists are not sure who erected the stones, or why. The most probable explanation is the monument served as an astronomical laboratory or sort of open-air temple, or both. After visiting rock quarries throughout the United States, Christian came to Elberton, the home of 30 granite quarries and 65 granite plants. A sign in the center of town proclaims the city is the granite capital of the world. Christian directed the effort to build the monument, Fendley supervised the cutting of the stones, and Martin acted as a funnel for the financing from the anonymous group. The six stones weigh a total of 107 tons. Four of the slabs, each 6 feet wide and 16 feet tall, are placed in a partial circle with a center stone, or gnomon, which is 3 by 16 feet, and a capstone, which is 6 by 9 feet. Each of the four major stones is inscribed with 10 guides, or quasi-religious precepts, in eight languages representing the current major population groups - English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, classical Hebrew, Swahili, Hindu and Spanish. The top slab of Georgia Guidestones is shown at left. Each of the four major stones is inscribed with 10 'guides,' or quasi-religious precepts, in eight languages representing the current major population groups - English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, classical Hebrew, Swahili, Hindu and Spanish. The capstone has been inscribed with an additional message - "Let these be guidestones to an age of reason" - in sanscrit, Babylonian cunieform, Egyptian heiroglyphs and classical Greek. A hole has been bored through the gnomon to align with the North Star and two slots were cut to align with the midwinter and midsummer solstices. A hole was also cut in the capstone to provide a sundial. The site selected is a small hilltop on the northern edge of Wayne and Mildred Mullenix's Double-Seven ranch. Under provisions of the sale, Mullenix will retain grazing rights to the land for two more generations and will generally keep it under his supervision with several special provisions, including a prohibition against planting shrubbery above nose-height within the five-acre plot set aside as the monument ground. There are plans to eventually encircle the present monument with additional stones aligned to follow the moon, providing a complete astrological pattern. 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OMEGA Photo NEAR YOUR HOTEL # DRIVING IN MEXICO Now you have digested the speed limits, highway signs and rules of the road as they apply to Mexico. But something seems a little wrong: out of place, so as to speak. You quickly realize theory and reality are miles apart. At the last stop sign you heeded, everyone behind you honked his horn, and getting around those "glorietas" circles would cause your mother-in-law to have a cardiac arrest; not such a bad idea, but the thought came much later. Apparently, you conclude, the rules of the road as you know them are out in Mexico. Anarchy is what you finally conclude after going through the standard name calling game of; "they're all mad, crazy, bonkers, nuts, etc." After a while it's not the accidents you've seen, it's just you're amazed you haven't seen tenfold more. Ah, but you see amigo, there are rules, it's just the subtleties are not easily discernable. Here are some ideas to keep you out of trouble: 1.- Like in sailing, there is an overlap rule. Simply stated means whenever you overlap the car on your left or right side you have the right of way. 2.- Never worry about what is behind you, just make sure you overlap the guy on your sides. 3.- Never give a signal to pass, you are merely inviting to be cut off. Never give up your position unless it means instant death to the other guy, and then think about it twice-time permitting. 4.- Never expect a break, unless you're a blond female, preferably with blue eyes. 5.- If your going to mess with the other guy, make sure you have more power than he does. If you don't, ignore him 6.- Sorry ladies, but in Mexico beware of women drivers. 7.- Stay away from buses. They are merciless. The same for trucks, except they don't move so fast. 8.- Be prepared, when you are passing, for the other guy to accelerate so you will be caught in no man's land entering the curve or coming over the hill. He is out to kill you, make no mistake. The way to prevent this is by taking a look at the car the other guy is driving and his age. Remember the more power under the hood rule. 9.- There is nothing wrong in passing on the inside, even if it means getting over on the dirt shoulder. Not recommended with less than ten years driving in Mexico experience, but it may happen to you so don't be surprised. 10.- "El que pega-paga". Universal rule meaning he who hits-pays. 11.- Never confide in any right of way rules except the overlap rule, so you are best off not knowing them. 12.- Never ignore a cattle crossing sign. I mean never. Assess the terrain around you, it is usually indicative of cattle in the area or not. Now there is a lot more we can say on the subject, but this hopefully will give you a good start on the survival game. 10 GUIDE magazine === Page 14 of 19 Oregonian A6 3M May 8, 1980 THE OREGONIAN, Associated Press Laserphoto ETHIOPIAN FAMINE -- Leaf-thin child cries in refugee camp for drought victims near Kenyan border. Area has been without rain for two years, and an estimated 1.5 million people have been forced into refugee camps to be kept alive by food "bombings" from relief organizations. === Page 15 of 19 Seattle Post-Intelligencer May 8, 1980 # Heartbreaking Cry of Hunger -AP PHOTO ********** A LEAF-THIN child puts his hands to his head and cries for food in a refugee camp for drought victims in the Ethiopian province of Gemy Gofa near the Kenyan border. The area has been without rain for more than two years. An estimated 1.5 million people throughout Ethiopia and neighboring countries have been forced into famine camps where they are barely kept alive by food dropped by plane given through various relief organizations. === Page 16 of 19 # POPE VISITS AFRICA DROUGHT AREA Continued from 12th Page dresses he has made in each of the African nations he has visited. The pontiff's appeal came at a time when conditions in the Sahel have improved. An international aid program is now focused on efforts to get at the roots of some of the region's problems--which reached their worst in the drought of 1972-74--and which include overgrazing and practices that speed erosion. In turn, these ills led to widespread famine and the deaths of tens of thousands from starvation. The hope of the aid program directors now is to improve basic food production to minimize the impact of future droughts and to develop reserves of food for such emergencies. The Pope had flown to Upper Volta from Accra, the capital of Ghana. He received a motorcade welcome featuring a dozen bands blaring African songs of worship and celebration as he drove past the multitudes along the paved but dusty main street--between mud walls, stalls and tiny shops. The Pope was in Upper Volta for just over five hours, but his appeal for the Sahel gave the stopover special significance. He said he was addressing his plea to the international organizations already involved in trying to solve the problems of the region, to individual nations, asking from them "generous aid." He also called on scientists to find ways to halt the spread of the desert. Crisis after crisis has occurred for the nations of the Sahel, as drought, erosion and a variety of related problems have led to starvation, the loss of valuable forage, grazing and crop land and the death of millions of livestock. The streets of Ouagadougou, a city of contrasts, are lined with trees, their lush spring foliage surprising when contrasted with the dessicated outlying districts. Most streets are unpaved and dusty, like the square where the Pope celebrated Mass, but a lush lawn was growing in front of the residence of the president, Gen. Sangoule Lamizana. The Pope's visit to Upper Volta and his coming here brought him for the first time to nations where animists, or spirit worshipers, are in the majority and where Muslims outnumber Christians--4 to 1 in Upper Volta, 2 to 1 in the Ivory Coast. "The Muslim Community of Upper Volta Extends Its Spiritual Saluations," a banner over the main street of Ouagadougou proclaimed. In his address to Catholic bishops there, the Pope urged mutual respect between Catholicism and Islam and collaboration for the common good. A4 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1980 # Millions in Ethiopia face famine threat, journalist reports By HARALD MOLLERSTROM STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A new famine caused by a severe drought threatens millions of Ethiopians, according to officials from relief agencies and a journalist who recently visited the stricken East African country. If major relief efforts do not begin soon, hundreds of thousands of people may die of starvation, Swedish journalist Lisbeth Hellberg quoted Ethiopian officials as saying on a tour of the stricken region. The Soviets regularly help Ethiopians crush guerilla movements. But one official, when asked if the Russians had offered assistance in dealing with the famine, was quoted as telling the Swedish journalist, "We've got friends who help us with military hardware, but when we need other assistance we have to turn to the West." Ms. Hellberg said she saw only one Soviet helicopter bringing in food to the stricken area. About 1.5 million people are living in famine camps and more refugees come in each day, officials say. Ms. Hellberg visited a refugee camp at Kalem, near a dried-out river at the border between Ethiopia and Kenya, and said she saw about 5,000 starving people arriving daily. She visited a small village which had lost 5,000 animals in recent weeks and where the population only had boiled water with sugar to eat, she said. "The area has not seen rain for the last two years. We saw people digging holes several meters down in the river bed with their hands without hitting water -- nothing but soil. Seven hundred people died at that camp the week before we arrived," she told The Associated Press. Hakan Landelus, secretary general of the "Save the Children" agency, who also visited Ethiopia, said: "It is impossible to describe the situation with words." "When Ethiopian Social Minister Kassa Kabede told me that more than 5 million inhabitants were directly affected by the drought, I thought the figures somewhat exaggerated," he said, adding the famine is much worse than he expected. Ethiopian officials apparently held back information about the situation at first, thinking they could handle it themselves. But the country is running out of relief supplies, so in a desperate attempt to receive aid, officials took representatives of Western embassies and 30 foreign relief agencies on a nationwide tour, Ms. Hellberg said. At a camp in southern Ethiopia, the journalist said she saw 230,000 people starving and refugees pouring in daily. In Ogaden, a province disputed by Somalia and Ethiopia, two old DC-3 planes are airlifting four tons of food each day to Jijia and Debre-Dawa, but about 30 tons a day are needed. In that province, more than 1 million out of 3 million people are starving, Ms. Hellberg said officials told her. Another 500,000 animals have died in the last three months, she added. "There were people who had traveled 300 kilometers (187 miles) on camels only to find a poisonous waterhole," she said. Officials fear the crisis will reach the proportion of the Wollo province famine in the early 1970s which claimed 200,000 lives. "If there is no rain we will have 10,000 more refugees within a week and about 100,000 before the end of this month," Agelle Ashenati, a health ministry official, was quoted by the Swedish journalist. "The entire country is hit by the drought, but the Southern parts have taken the worst brunt," Landelus said. "The country needs water, food and medicines." Ms. Hellberg said Ethiopian authorities have been sending assistance to the stricken regions since January but that the government is running out of supplies. === Page 17 of 19 12 Part I-Sun., May 11, 1980 Los Angeles Times * # Pope Appeals for African Drought Aid By LOUIS B. FLEMING Times Staff Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast-In the dust of a sun-baked square in Upper Volta, the heart of the stricken Sahel, Pope John Paul II on Saturday sounded a world appeal for the victims of the region's persistent drought. "I, John Paul II, bishop of Rome and successor of Peter, raise my voice pleading for I cannot be silent when my brothers and sisters are threatened," he said. "I raise the voice of those who have no voice, the voice of innocent people who are dead because they lacked bread and water, the voice of fathers and mothers who have seen their children die without understanding or who still see in their children the effects of the hunger they have suffered, the voice of generations to come who must not live any longer with this terrible threat weighing on their lives." Above, as he spoke, 45 broad-winged vultures circled slowly in a hot wind. The appeal was made at midday in Ouagadougou, the capital of Upper Volta, one of the world's poorest nations, before the Pope flew here to Abidjan, the capital of one of the continent's most prosperous nations and the last stop on his 10-day tour of Africa. Close to a million people lined the streets of this thriving West African city to give him a welcome equal to that at his first stop eight days ago in Kinshasa, Zaire. On Saturday night the Pope celebrated Mass in a 50,000-seat stadium under a huge lighted cross, and Ivorian television broadcast the ceremony live to Christians around the world via satellite. He was praised on arrival earlier in the day by the nation's president, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, for speaking out on world issues. At Ouagadougou, a quarter-million people filled the shadeless central square, ignoring temperatures over 100 degrees to hear the pontiff. "It is a question of international justice," he said, "above all toward nations that too often face these threats while others find themselves in geographic and climatic conditions that, by comparison, one must call privileged." Sounding a call for more international help for the Sahel, the six-nation sub-Saharan region of more than 20 million people that has experienced devastating drought, he insisted: "Solidarity in justice and love must not know frontiers or limits. Hear my appeal. Everyone, I beg you, hear this appeal, hear these voices from the Sahel and of all these nations that are victims of the drought, without exception. And to you I say: 'God will reward you.'" It was his major address of the day and the single most important statement on social justice in a series of addresses. Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 Note: Very luminous. The Pope can only "appeal." But PK Man can get the job done. - Owens Oregonian # Famine strikes Africans By BOB DIETZ May 10, 1980 KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)-Drought and war have forced millions of starving people into refugee camps in Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia, and hundreds of thousands face famine, relief officials said Friday. Thousands already have died. Crops maturing in the fields offer hope that the shortages in Uganda will ease by July. But food reserves are vanishing. The situation is growing more critical every day. Only the relief distribution programs have kept it from getting out of hand," John Woodland of Oxfam, the British aid group, said Friday. The World Food Program, another relief agency, estimates 500,000 face famine in Uganda. Corruption, inefficiency, indifference and low morale have embittered many aid experts here, officials said in interviews. Most agencies have sidestepped the government in distributing food, they said. "I wouldn't dream of using the government to distribute what we bring in. Too much of it would simply disappear," an aid official said. Black market food prices exacerbate the situation, officials say. Half-liter containers of milk, officially pegged at about 35 cents, are sold illegally on Uganda street corners for about $3.50. In war-torn Ethiopia, officials this week turned to the West with a desperate appeal for drought relief. Relief officials estimate 1.5 million people are in refugee camps. Ethiopia's rulers, who apparently suppressed news of the disaster earlier, took Western diplomats and relief agency representatives on an official tour. Ethiopian officials said that in the Ogaden region alone more than a million of the region's 3 million people are starving. === Page 18 of 19 Rains - WORLD RAINS - THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1980 # face disease, rustlers in battle to live By BOB DIETZ KAABONG, Uganda (AP) - Several times a week, Sister Rosetta walks in the fields around the mission school and collects bodies to bury in the cemetery. "More people have died here in the last two months than in the previous 20 years," said the 35-year-old Italian nun, surveying more than 15 fresh graves. "A student told me he can't walk 50 steps in the bush without coming upon a body. And yet, if we had transport and medical facilities, we could treat these people. They wouldn't have to die." The fields of Karamoja, a vast undeveloped area in northeastern Uganda, have produced little this year. Three years without rain have scorched the region, arid at the best of times. Disease rakes the nomadic population of 400,000 Karamojong cattle-herders. Armed gangs, immune to reprisal, destroy entire villages, killing hundreds and seizing any cows that have survived the drought. Famine is gripping parts of Ethiopia, Somalia, northern Kenya and Uganda for the second time in seven years, turning millions into refugees and killing tens of thousands of people. Karamoja's problems are among the most severe in this nation of about 13 million people. Rain returned six weeks ago and in a few days painted a deceptive green across the hills around Kaabong, a remote settlement of 1,000 persons near the Kenyan border. The rain was too late and too heavy. Some planted fields became swamps and relief trucks foundered on rutted, muddy trails. Some plots are beginning to sprout but the chickpeas and maize won't mature for at least 45 days. Until then, relief supplies are the only hope for tens of thousands. Western aid officials say only 2,400 tons of emergency food have reached the region this year; 60,000 tons are needed in the four-month period to avert starvation. When food shortages developed in Kenya, officials kept 8,000 tons of maize meal they had agreed to supply. Ethiopia made 4,000 tons available but the food must be flown to Karamoja at a cost of $23,000 for each shipment of 30 tons. Only the United States and Oxfam, the British relief agency, have provided funds, and the airlift is going slowly. Political instability and corruption in Uganda cause many donors to shy away. Melissa Wells, American head of the United Nations Development Program in Uganda, estimates that 100 persons a day starve to death in Karamoja. A Roman Catholic priest says the daily figure could be as high as 500. Since the Karamojong culture allows burial only for clan chiefs and their first wives, many dead lie where they fall. Sometimes parents strip the clothes from dead children and leave the bodies near the mission. Students help lift the bodies from furrows and thickets, wrap children in white sheets and bury them at the mission with adult corpses, two or three in each unmarked grave. Decayed bodies are burned in the fields. The Rev. Elia Ciapetti, senior priest at the Catholic mission, says about three-quarters of the cattle in Karamoja - hundreds of thousands of animals - have been taken by armed gangs. Since the Karamojong consider their herds as money in the bank, the normally poor region has been plunged into deeper poverty from which it will take years to recover. Robber gangs rule supreme after defeating elements of both the Tanzanian and Ugandan armies in skirmishes that took hundreds of lives. The Tanzanians, who stayed on after expelling dictator Idi Amin a year ago, pulled back to the administrative town of Moroto several weeks ago. The Ugandan army, weaker than the Tanzanians, has made no serious attempt to gain control. Rustlers use automatic rifles and anti-tank grenades looted nine months ago from an Amin armory in Moroto. Gangs of 200 or more live in the bush, undetected until they attack. There seems little chance in the immediate future that the government will be able to defeat the outlaws militarily. In their half-starved condition, thousands of Karamojong have died of cholera and other diseases. Some 100,000, a quarter of the population, are believed to have fled the region, spreading disease and increasing pressure on limited food stocks elsewhere. Foreign aid personnel say cholera and typhoid fever have killed more than 1,000 in the past month around Mbale, Uganda's third-largest town, south of Karamoja. Neighbors of the Karamojong have reacted violently. Reports of stonings of refugees are common. At Katakwi, in the Teso area, villagers fearing Karamojong incursions put their household goods on their heads and drive their cattle 10 miles south every night. Hastily organized militia groups, armed with scavenged weapons, are posted every few miles along the main road leading from Karamoja. Around the mission, hundreds assemble every morning, holding empty bowls in hope that food will be distributed. More than 320 children live at a mission orphanage set up three weeks ago for famine victims. === Page 19 of 19 As 'neighbor' blows # Cougar residents wait it out By JULIE TRIPP of The Oregonian staff "POWER ATTACK" JUNE 14, '80 COUGAR, Wash. -- A frog, bravely or maybe just plain stupidly, croaked a 12:30 a.m. greeting Friday from near the swimming pool at the Lone Fir Resort here, while a German shepherd, left behind in the evacuation rush, barked defiantly at the sky that rained pumice pinballs. Besides the brave -- or stupid -- news crew, there was not a living soul in downtown Cougar. The tourist resort that has been the jumping off point in the past for countless vacationers and fishermen was an ashen, eerie ghost town, enlivened only by the spitting and crackling of short-circuited power lines. The never-say-die Cougar residents traveled five miles west to Jack's Sporting Goods and Cafe, but they didn't leave the danger zone. They returned to their homes Friday at dawn after keeping an all-night vigil during the worst ash fall and pumice shower this Southwest Washington town has seen since Mount St. Helens awoke in March. Twenty of them spent the night at the cafe, refusing to return through the gritty rain outside that guaranteed to ruin cars along with dispositions. Once they knew the mountain's ashy brooding would drive them no greater distance, they settled in to wait it out. It started around 9 p.m. Thursday, while Dottie Elmire was watching "Barnaby Jones," and Renee Corso was in the shower. Mrs. Elmire runs the Cougar Store and Ms. Corso works for the U.S. Forest Service. "You could hear the mountain whooshing, it sounded like a waterfall," said Mrs. Elmire. When Ms. Corso heard the sound "like wind in the trees," and after she received a warning phone call from the Forest Service, she grabbed her coat and ran outside to find her neighbors and get her car. "About halfway down the road, I realized I was getting hit in the head with rocks," she said. Chunks of pumice from one-half to one inch in size beat down on her. Not far away, 6-year-old Scottie Livingston got in the car while his mother and other relatives gathered up the dogs. Alone in the car, the boy became frightened by the pounding of pumice, the noise and confusion. "Scottie kept yelling 'Help me! Help me!' on the way down from Cougar," said his mother, Lois Livingston. The boy calmed down when the family reached Jack's Sporting Goods. By late evening he was telling people, "This is my first volcano, you know." "Mine, too," said Jean Ragsdale, who owns the store with her husband, with a tone that makes you believe she hopes it'll be her last. The ash at Jack's was about a quarter or half-inch deep, getting thicker closer to the volcano and towards Cougar, where it piled up to about an inch. The electricity, which threatened to go out all night with spasmodic blackouts, finally quit at 7 a.m. and was out for three hours or more. Limbs across lines and blown transformers had taken their toll. Another refugee at Jack's, the retired Harvey Halverson, passed the predawn hours by sweeping ash off the cafe carpet, and grumbling lightheartedly about his futile attempt with his wife to get some disaster assistance from federal officials in Kelso. "Those disaster people," he said, then paused. . . . "The only thing they put out is their breath, and they draw that in again." Elizabeth Reese, the doughty 84-year-old who runs Reese Store and has lived near Mount St. Helens for 47 years, stayed at her home near Jack's. Friday she reported that she is "doing just fine among the ash particles" and that the rain is helping wash it away. "We can live with it, I guess, if this is the way St. Helens is going to treat us," she said. Staff photo by RANDY WOOD NO FUN -- Jean Ragsdale shows size of pumice stone that fell on Cougar, Wash., Thursday night. Continued Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 Newspaper articles USA https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2a221b2fea1d187d2181472fe053739d.pdf 0e86444eac44fa39bf12982cd0792294 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/0e1874f2f08ee77d9505198b1dcd4f68.txt 2a3ba02dbb4eab6ec986950d9eb2e093 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/09cf1bf9b6dc18d190d1ccdaf15c5aee.pdf b0ae9799e24a180e3cf538e3d1f40d1c https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b0e70aa1f3cb04388494e191ce278222.txt d4a8fc6df2d92ea7fe4f4a5e5f8d042f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 4 # Crippling drought hits SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) - Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month. Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Out-back areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon. Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned. 4/7/80 **news scope** April 9, 1980 Prime Minister of Australia Dear Sir: I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services. For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented. You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man). A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work. If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report From The Readers." I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true. # Southern Australia === Page 2 of 4 - World "Power" Attack - Note: Antolin is in Puerto Rico. Power knocked out. Also Power knocked out in Israel - twice! - 0 - April / 29 - 80 Ted: Hello!!! Here I am. Better. Ted, although late, I have to inform you of the many appearances of UFOs, and their occupants in the island since October '79. Just two weeks ago there was a blackout in the whole island and many UFOs were seen in Ponce, in the south, and over Levittown, in the north coast of our island. There were (seen) occupants of UFOs of all sizes and aspects. That's all now, Ted. Health and happiness to you and the kids. Yours, Antolin From: A. Rodriguez, Jr., 1362, San Bernardo, Altamesa, P.R. 00921 === Page 3 of 4 June 16, 1980 Jeffrey - World Rain Attack - Australians report UFOs PERTH Australia (AP) -- Australians in the bush country who witnessed last year's fiery plunge of Skylab are seeing things again. Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object have been reported over Kalgoorlie, 370 miles east of here. The manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in Kalgoorlie, Stanley Brown, said he received hundreds of calls Wednesday night reporting various descriptions of a fiery object in the sky. Note: Experts following this file are well aware that I am employing powers from my UFOs (SIs) as well as The Mayan Power, Xtoloc, to produce vast rains onto Australia to end that country's dangerous drought. This appearance of UFOs over Australia at this time is the signature of my UFOs affixed to my rain project. I.e., they are saying, in effect, "Owens' UFOs are here in Australia, working to bring the vast rains that he wishes." Owens P.S. also note that the SIs, Xtoloc, & I have produced rains in Australia in spite of the fact that the drought was predicted to last for six months. === Page 4 of 4 Well then, let me put it this way. Return my two spring blade knives or California will probably be wrecked. By UFOs. Owens 6/8/80 May 20, 1980 Inspector John Paresi U.S. Customs c/o Mexicana Airlines San Luis Valdez Baggage Service 500 World Way, International Airport Los Angeles, California 90045 Gentlemen: This is the most unusual letter that you will ever receive, and perhaps the most important letter you will ever receive...although it deals with a trifling matter. Two pocket knives, spring-blade type, were taken from me by U.S. Customs not long ago. You will recall. I had a bulletproof vest and other items in my duffle bag because I was trying to protect my 9-year old son and myself in Yucatan and I thought Guatemala. I respectfully request...that U.S. Customs send to me the two pocketknives taken away from me. Please. I collect pocket knives, and I had searched for this particular type for 30 years and finally found them in Mexico...only to lose them to you. I plead my case with you now. They mean nothing to you. As "contraband" they are not supposed to fall into the hands of criminals for criminal use. I am not a criminal and never have been. They were to be used for letter-openers. You must be assumed that these knives are dangerous. That is most humorous. In my mind, I have controlled the area of San Francisco...and you can check with a scientist on that: Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. To do that I had to knock out electrical power in the S.F. area, bring freak storms and lightning attacks, and produce a UFO that could be photographed by scientists there. You can obtain a copy of the scientific report on that from Dr. Mishlove for $7. Area 415, 346-7770, phone. I controlled the state of Florida...ran hurricanes over it; changed its weather, and other things...you can check on it with an Air Force weather expert, Mr. Wayne Jones, 3270 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, (305) 968-2261. A scientific investigator has written a full book on my work in this regard: B. Steiger, 11327 Dearborn St., Northridge, California, 91324, Area 213, 363-1721. Is it quite obvious that if I can control a city, a state...then that is indeed far more dangerous than having in my possession two pocket knives, is it not so? I pledge to you...these knives would not be used for any criminal action. ...the very existence of California might well depend on your decision. Two pocket knives. It sounds ridiculous, but I urge you to contact the above. There is a hard-cover book written by Colin Wilson called "Mysteries" which describes my work in detail; also "Occult America" by John Godwin (Doubleday, 1972) and other books written about my incredible work. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8006 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Feb 8, 2026 June 1980 was a huge month incorporating a lot of articles covering April May and June. There was a very strong theme Australian weather and also a tremendous amount of letters. I went the extra mile of creating a lot of folders to categorize the themes and letters to make them easier to find. Australia does appear as a theme in some months but it was very big for June material. Lewis https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/bca25d2caf9b99a839d095acb3084138.pdf 2a952fa1cc2621c9d38b0ce1e769c883 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/defd07e82af3a79da6f5e55071db2527.txt 369014b105a683b0d508c02b3e6a6344 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 D. SCOTT ROGO 18132 SCHOENBORN ST. NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA 91324 (213) 993-1799 JUNE 5, 1980 DEAR TED: I JUST GOT IN FROM NEW YORK, AND WANTED TO SEND YOU AN UPDATE ON THE BOOK. THERE, I GOT THE WHOLE STORY AS TO WHY HBJ REJECTED THE BOOK. THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT WAS GIVEN THE GO AHEAD BY THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. SHORTLY AFTER THE CONTRACT WENT OUT, SHE RETIRED FROM THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS. THE NEW MAN IN CHARGE DECIDED, FOR FINANCIAL REASONS, TO CUT BACK HARCOURT'S LIST AND FELT THAT "PSYCHIC BOOKS" WOULD BE THE FIRST TO GO. SO THERE WAS NOTHING SINISTER IN THE LOSS OF THE CONTRACT. PRENTICE-HALL IS CURRENTLY TAKING A BEATING ON A UFO BOOK THEY ISSUED, SO THEY ARE NOT DOING ANY UFO BOOKS AT PRESENT. OUR BOOK IS NOW IN THE HANDS OF BALLANTINE BOOKS AND DIAL PRESS. I WILL HEAR FROM THEM IN DUE COURSE. BEST WISHES Scott === Page 2 of 2 June 8, 1980 Dear Scott, Saga did 5 articles about me with Otto Binder. Following which Saga replaced the Editor who had OK'd the articles on me and my work and from there on in "PK Man" was persona non grata in Saga. Nunca mas. Nothing "sinister" there either, right? Owen * also, Otto dropped dead. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 46 Jeffrey - "Power" and Rain Attack - July, 1980 # Violent wind buffets Utah; SW roasting Oregon Journal By United Press International A squall line of violent wind clocked at up to 70 mph shocked Salt Lake City, tearing a gaping hole in the copper dome of the state Capitol, downing trees and causing an undetermined number of power outages. In the Southwest, where the oppressive heat wave again baked a three-state section of the Sun Belt, authorities said the record temperatures are linked to as many as 51 deaths and forecasters said a tropical storm may be needed to blow the deadly high pressure system out of the area. High wind blew into Salt Lake City at about 5 p.m. Monday, uprooting trees and shattering windows in buildings. A number of minor injuries were attributed to the gale. Utah Gov. Scott Matheson said the damage to the state Capitol was so extensive the entire copper dome topping the building probably will have to be replaced. The wind ripped through the metal covering, exposing the wooden framework beneath the copper panels. A Utah Power & Light Co. spokesman said the heavy wind and lightning produced by the squall "played havoc" with the utility's distribution system. Medical authorities were able to confirm heat was the primary cause of 27 deaths in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, most of them elderly people without air conditioning, and it appeared to be a contributing factor in another 28. The searing heat also killed 3½ million chickens in Arkansas, curtailed activities at children's summer camps in Texas and filled transient emergency shelters in Dallas beyond capacity. In Dallas-Fort Worth, a record high of 105 Monday made it the hottest June since 1898, when the National Weather Service first began keeping records, and a spokesman said the outlook for the next two weeks is grimly familiar -- "above normal temperatures and no precipitation." Showers were scattered across the western half of the nation early Tuesday, reaching from the Great Basin and Southern Plateau through the Central Rockies and into Northern Minnesota. Strong wind ripped through Hayes, S.D., and hail peppered Kanosh in Western Utah. Kanosh also received more than an inch of rain in less than an hour. Skies were clear over most of the Pacific Northwest and the southern half of the nation while clouds covered New England, parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. Repair crews worked Monday to restore power to about 31,000 utility customers left in the dark by storms in Maryland and by the worst storms to hit parts of Southern Illinois in two decades. UPI BREEZY -- Wind up to 70 miles an hour Monday ripped away a large portion of the copper sheathing from the dome of the Utah State Capitol. Gov. Scott Matheson said the dome is so badly damaged it probably will have to be replaced. === Page 2 of 46 # Encounters of the first kind in the Manly area To a growing number of people UFOs are more than pie-in-the-sky optical illusions easily explained as meteors, weather balloons and headlights on clouds. Particularly in Manly-Warringah, which is right in the thick of things. Manly-Warringah has one of the highest percentages of sightings in Australia, says Frank Wilks, president of UFO Projects of Australasia. "It has more sightings than can be accounted for by the number of people in the area," he said. "Most sightings in Australia are on the east coast, where the bulk of the population is, but places like Frenchs Forest, Narrabeen and Palm Beach have had more than their fair share of sightings over the years." One of the latest sightings was by people in Bambara Road, Frenchs Forest. Last Saturday night something that looked like a smoke ring, with lights around the edge, hovered over the street then moved off slowly. It was seen by about 10 people. By Harriet Veitch Mr Wilks is investigating it. "I try to get to every sighting I hear of," he said. "Mind you, I've had some nuts over the years and I no longer jump out of bed at 3 am." "For some reason there are many good sightings in Manly-Warringah and off the coast there." "Not just strange lights in the sky, but things that can be called unidentified flying objects." According to Mr Wilks most UFOs around are seen moving along "lines" above the ground, as though they were following a road. Mr Wilks and some friends have plotted a line, roughly north/south, along the east coast of Australia, but he does not know why Manly-Warringah seems to have been singled out by whatever UFOs are. To Page 7 # UFO 'sighted' over street From Page 5 "Manly-Warringah has had some of the most interesting sightings in Australia," Mr Wilks said. "Years ago someone saw a strange creature cross the road in Narrabeen; in the 1960s a draughtsman sketched a UFO he had seen on a beach and there have been some good sightings off the coast." "There was one where a fisherman went out to investigate some lights because he thought someone was in trouble." "The sea was very rough but where the lights had been was a circle of calm water. His radio wouldn't work but his diesel engine did." "For some reason we aren't sure of, UFOs stop petrol engines but not diesels. It has probably something to do with the electrical system." When Mr Wilks investigates a sighting he works backwards, trying to work out how something was caused, rather than assuming something was there to cause it. He likens the calm water to the way water is flattened by the down-draught of a helicopter, but there was no helicopter around. Mr Wilks thinks there may have been a UFO above the fisherman, and its force-field was holding down the water. "UFOs seem to have some sort of force-field that prevents them hitting things; they appear to deflect around objects then get straight back on course," he said. The RAAF also takes reports of UFOs and investigates them, and will investigate the latest Frenchs Forest sighting. Mr Wilks says the RAAF often amuses him with its explanations offered for UFOs. "Usually the air force says it was a weather balloon or a meteor," he said. "Once it said both to two separate people about the same sighting." === Page 3 of 46 ## "Power & Rain Attack" TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1980 Oregonian Associated Press Laserphoto TORNADO STRIKES -- Residents of trailer park in Aberdeen, Md., inspect rubble after tornado struck Sunday, injuring 10 residents and wrapping one home around a telephone pole. # Tornado damage heavy; 35 injured BALTIMORE (AP) -- A string of hurricane-force thunderstorms and apparent tornadoes that whipped across Maryland caused millions of dollars worth of damage, authorities said Monday. Electricity was still out to more than 29,000 homes and businesses in the Baltimore area, which appeared to have sustained most of the damage from Sunday's storms. At least 35 people were injured in storms that packed winds gusting up to 90 mph, police and hospital officials said. The most seriously hurt, Patricia Taylor, 28, of Baltimore, was listed in fair condition with back injuries. She was injured when a tree fell on her car. National Weather Service teams were inspecting debris and damage in parts of Baltimore and in Baltimore and Howard counties to see if the storms actually were tornadoes. Baltimore Public Works Director Frank Kuchta estimated that damage from the storms in the city alone totaled several million dollars. At the Baltimore Zoo, where five people were injured when an apparent tornado touched down in the children's section, workers from the city Forestry Service cut up large trees toppled by the winds. Associated Press and United Press International "Power and Rain Attack" # Storm damage extensive in Maryland BALTIMORE (AP) -- A string of hurricane-force thunderstorms and apparent tornadoes that whipped across Maryland caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Electricity was still out to more than 29,000 homes and businesses in the Baltimore area, which appeared to have suffered most of the damage from Sunday's storms. At least 35 people were injured in storms that packed winds gusting up to 90 miles an hour. The most seriously hurt, Patricia Taylor, 28, of Baltimore, was listed in fair condition with back injuries. Seattle Times 7/1/80 The Southwest's worst heat wave in more than 25 years continued to take a heavy toll yesterday, with at least 61 deaths blamed on the triple-digit temperatures, crops withering in the fields and timberland going up in smoke. Fires racing through parched forests in Colorado and Arizona had blackened more than 36,000 acres. Poultry farmers in Arkansas, where millions of chickens died in sweltering coops, predicted losses could reach $5 million. Cows in Texas reportedly were giving less milk than normal. The mercury surged again in Texas, where temperatures over the weekend set new records. Wichita Falls recorded 110 degrees. It was 105 degrees at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 102 at El Paso, 100 in Lubbock and Abilene and 103 in Waco. Readings generally were three to four degrees higher Sunday. The mercury has topped 100 degrees in most Texas cities for more than a week, about three weeks in El Paso. Wichita Falls recorded 117 on Saturday, Dallas had two straight days at 113, flanked by two days at 112. Similar highs were reached in Oklahoma, where forecasters called it the worst heat wave since 1953. Texas medical examiners say heat stroke has claimed 10 victims and the deaths of 35 other people were potentially related to the heat. In the Texas heat wave of July 1978, 24 people died of heat-related causes. Doctors in Oklahoma said eight people had succumbed to the heat in that state, including a young Army officer who collapsed on a training field at Fort Sill and died early yesterday at a hospital. Health officials in Arkansas, counted eight victims of the heat, including six who died of heat stroke. In Dallas County, Texas, where 30 of the heat-related deaths were reported, the ages of the victims ranged from 6 months to 103 years. But the infant was the only victim under 50. Texans were urged to stay out of the blazing sun and keep their air conditioners or fans going. The Dallas Power & Light Co. said people who need air-conditioning to stay healthy should not turn off the cooling units to save on electric bills. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported that a highway near Drumright, Okla., had buckled due to extreme heat. A spokesman said State Highway 99 had warped -- with a strip of pavement about 24 feet wide and 3 feet long rising to a height of almost 4 feet. === Page 4 of 46 - Power and Rain Attack - # Thunderstorms, tornadoes sweep through Missouri KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Thunderstorms packing 80 mph winds and spawning at least five tornadoes swept across central and eastern Missouri Wednesday, unroofing businesses in Cuba and damaging a hospital in Festus. At Osage Beach, officials said Greg Deffenbaugh, 8, was seriously injured when high winds tore the roof off a wing of his parents' motel and dropped it on him. He was transferred to a Columbia hospital after surgery at Lake of the Ozarks hospital. Other minor injuries were reported at the hotel, which authorities said was heavily damaged. In Festus, patients at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital had been evacuated to hallways when the storm struck. "We had 10 or 12 windows blown out, some in areas where patients had been," said Mary Bean, evening supervisor. "And our southeast roof is damaged -- some of it is off." The National Weather Service said a small tornado touched down at Cuba in Crawford County, a second was sighted near Gerald in Franklin County and a third at Vineland in Jefferson County. Paul Wilcox of radio station KTUI was in Bourbon when a tornado touched down. "I saw people's faces go from smiles at having some rain to horror when it got black," he said. "It got black as midnight." Oregonian 7/3/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Thunderstorms kill two Oregon Journal 7/3/80 By United Press International At least two persons were killed in violent thunderstorms packing winds up to 80 mph that struck five states, stripping off roofs, overturning mobile homes, knocking out power and almost causing a mine disaster. Looting was reported in Missouri and Illinois. The relentless Sun Belt heat wave, blamed for 120 deaths, moved into its 11th day Thursday, forcing water rationing in some areas. Parts of southern Illinois were devastated Wednesday by the second major storm siege in less than a week. State disaster officials estimated Wednesday's storm damage at $15-$20 million. Looting was reported in West Frankfort, Ill., and much of a six-county area was under curfew. Gayla Musgraves, 7, drowned while boating with her family in Lake Kinkaid near Murphysboro, Ill. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through portions of Kentucky, claiming the life of Frank Bishop, 32, who was killed by a tree that fell on his mobile home in Edmundson County. In Missouri, high winds blew a motel roof into a swimming pool and a 9-year-old boy was seriously injured. Scattered looting was reported in Festus. Storm winds gusted to 80 mph in both southern Indiana and Illinois. About 200 miners were trapped in the Ziegler No. 4 mine east of Johnston City, Ill., because of a power failure. The men got out safely when emergency power equipment was brought in to assist them. KSGM radio station announcer Bob Scott stayed on the air while the storm roared through Chester, Ill. "I've never been scared before but I was scared today," he said. "I looked out a picture window and saw the new metal roof of Randolph County Courthouse blow off in huge sheets -- some of it hitting the side of our building." Dozens of mobile homes were overturned and hospital spokesmen reported 55 persons injured in Carbondale and Murphysboro, where officials scrambled to find emergency housing for homeless storm victims. === Page 5 of 46 Town left powerless by twister 7/5/80 SULLIVAN, Mo. (AP) -- Two days after a tornado touched down nearby, the lights were still out in this central Missouri town on Friday. So were the freezers, refrigerators and air-conditioners. "Everything that I had in the refrigerator has been spoiled," said Barbara Snider. "I really thought the power would be on by the next morning." Widespread outages were reported Wednesday in the wake of a severe thunderstorm that lashed eastern Missouri and Illinois. One tornado spawned by the storm touched down in Cuba, about 16 miles west of Sullivan, causing an estimated $5 million damage. At the request of Gov. Joseph Teasdale, state disaster officials toured the area to see what could be done. But Cuba Mayor Carl Hunt was not optimistic about getting state aid. "They didn't seem to think we were bad enough," said the mayor Friday. "And I've got news for them: they don't know what they're doing, as usual." Many people have found friends with power and stored their perishable food. Severe storms rip Midlands; eight perish 7/4/80 By United Press International Thunderstorms that lashed a wide area of the nation's midsection were blamed for at least eight deaths and 100 injuries. National Guard troops were ordered to duty to guard against looting in storm-ravaged sections of Illinois and Missouri. Scattered showers and thunderstorms were reported early Friday from Nebraska to the Dakotas. A tornado touched down near Selby, S.D., 20 miles east of Mobridge, late Thursday and wind damage was reported to the south at Akaska. Wind gusting to 70 mph was reported in other parts of the state. High wind whipped Miles City, Mont., and golfball-size hail battered Liberal, Kan. Showers also were reported over parts of Wisconsin and Illinois and as far south as northwest Texas and central Kansas. Widely scattered showers dampened the Atlantic Coast and the Pacific Northwest. A twin-engine plane crashed in a thunderstorm Thursday at Rockford, Tenn., killing all five persons aboard, authorities said. Civil Air Patrol spokesman Frank Thornburg said the plane was en route to Troy-Oakland Airport near Detroit from St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport in Florida. One death was reported in Illinois, one in Kentucky, and another in Indiana as a result of thunderstorms. Looting plagued sections of Illinois and Missouri and National Guard troops were ordered to duty. Curfews were imposed in some areas. Estimates of storm damage in Illinois alone ran to $20 million. (Related story on page 25) === Page 6 of 46 this is the big one!! They now know!! Owens "Power" and Rain Attack Balky reactor spurs call for shutdown tests By STAN BENJAMIN Oregonian 7/4/80 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided Thursday to order test shutdowns of 24 nuclear power plants in an effort to find out why an Alabama plant mysteriously balked during a routine shutdown last weekend. Victor Stello, the NRC's director of inspection and enforcement, told the commission that the reactor -- Browns Ferry Unit 3 -- was brought to near-zero power generation despite the malfunction and there was no risk of an accident. But the unexpected, and still unexplained, shutdown failure raised concern in the NRC because of the vital importance of the mechanisms which control a reactor's power production and which are relied on to shut it down instantly in an emergency. Further tests and studies will be conducted on the Alabama reactor this weekend in an effort to determine the cause of the malfunction, he said. On Monday, the NRC staff will telephone the operators of the 24 other boiling water reactors around the nation and tell them how to test their shutdown mechanisms. No Oregon or Washington plants will be included in the test shutdown. Stello said the staff may order both manual and automatic shutdowns, from low-power levels, to make sure the systems are working properly and to gather detailed information which might help explain the Browns Ferry failure. Such tests, he said, would take each reactor out of operation for about 2½ days. According to an account of the Browns Ferry incident given by Stello: Last Saturday, Browns Ferry Unit 3 near Decatur, Ala., underwent a routine, gradual shutdown for maintenance. Operators reduced its power level to 30 percent of full power and then threw the "scram" switch to complete the shutdown. Control rods should have slid quickly into the reactor among its radioactive fuel rods, interrupting the exchange of atomic particles -- neutrons -- which creates the power-producing "chain reaction." The rods slid into place in one-half of the reactor. In the other half, 13 control rods slid completely into place while 76 others moved only partially into position. The operators hit the switch again and 16 more rods moved completely into place. Another try, and 22 more rods moved into position. When the operators prepared for another try, a water level sensor took over and automatically triggered still another "scram" which finally moved the rest of the rods into place -- 12 minutes after the first attempt. In an emergency or accident requiring rapid shutdown, the loss of 12 minutes could create serious problems, even worse, until the malfunction is explained, the possibility remains that whatever caused it could on another occasion interfere more severely with the control rods. But in such an unlikely case, a reactor still can be shut down by injecting into its cooling water a "poisoning" chemical that stops the chain reaction even without the control rods. Note: my psi-force attack to knock out "power" and cause rainstorms... has been so successful that the Fed NRC, noting nuclear plants being knocked out all over the U.S., is shutting down 24 nuclear plants in order for tests to be held. Note the words "mysteriously" and "unexpected" above. Owens === Page 7 of 46 the people speak Oregon Journal July 4, 1980 # Let's stop scare talk about ash A few days ago I heard a reporter say that Gov. Atiyeh is declaring the state of Oregon a disaster area. The Oregon Journal June 13 sketch, showing the ashfall zone after the June 12 eruption, shows that ash fell on a small part of the northwest corner of Oregon only. The tremendous publicity about the ash problem in Portland and the governor's declaration have given the rest of the country the idea that the state of Oregon is covered with ash. Recently I talked on the phone with my sister from another state. When I mentioned that we were planning to cut firewood in the forest, she said "How can you in all that ash?" My opinion is that 90 percent of the state is ash free. The campgrounds are clean. It appears that people involved with the Portland area see that area as Oregon state. I have seen nothing in the newspapers or heard nothing on TV news saying that most of Oregon is untouched by ash. Why not mention that, too? Barbara Weir 4785 Hutson Drive Parkdale In the Oregon Journal June 21 (p. 3.) I see that money is being allotted "to combat the adverse publicity from Mount St. Helens' eruption." Since the publicity came in the form of news, it seems that news would be good media for changing this ashy picture of our state. For openers, there could be those clinic buckets filling up daily with the torsos of tiny human beings. History is eloquent with the fate of nations practicing infanticide. None has ever gotten away with it. We are daily, insultingly, fracturing the Divine Law given to mankind on that other belching mountain long ago, accompanied by the roll of thunder and the flashing of lightning. Three out of four Oregonians refuse to honor their Creator by any kind of regular worship. Apparently the only way left for Him to get our attention was to give us a sudden sample of what "volcanic wrath" really means. Can anyone peering into that fiery cauldron ever again lightly dismiss the reality of hell? "Stop! Look! Listen to Him!" Isn't that the message from the mountain? Hylde M. Pike 16052 S. Springwater Oregon City # Volcano a warning? In other words, the Creator of the beautiful Mount St. Helens wilderness has us by the short hairs. What might we have been doing wrong here in Oregon and Washington that could cause His anger to erupt? Oregon Journal July 4, 1980 Dr. Mishlove: This gentleman, Mr. Pike, states the case precisely and accurately!! I have told the scientists that my work, and powers, parallel that of Moses, of Biblical days. I also warned the scientists before Mt. St. Helens even got started that my UFOs (Moses' "Lord") and Pyr-Cee, the Egyptian Power, were going to create a terrible destructive effect... as a sample of what they can do (see above "sample,") unless the Base were supplied to me in order to save countless hundreds of millions of people! My warning was not heeded; the Base was not forthcoming; therefore the SIs and Pyr-Cee gave us a slight sample of the back of their hand... Mt. St. Helens! Ted Owens (PK Man) 7/11/80 === Page 8 of 46 Midwest rain lingers; Southwest stays hot By The Associated Press Rain lingered Thursday over parts of the Midwest, a reminder of deadly thunderstorms that killed six people in four states, while the Southwest suffered through another day of a killer heat wave in its 12th day. Damage from tornadoes and thunderstorms topped $20 million and power was out in many communities. In Indiana, road crews used snowplows to clear mud from highways. The University of Evansville canceled Friday classes when water lapped at the tops of doors in some low-lying classrooms. The heat-related death toll reached 101, with 61 in Texas, 19 in Arkansas, 14 in Oklahoma, five in Kansas, and one each in Mississippi and Missouri. The Mississippi victim was a Vicksburg man who died of heatstroke -- the state's first heat-related death during the spate of triple-digit temperatures. The temperature at Dallas reached 108 degrees at 3 p.m. Thursday, breaking the record for the 11th straight day but had dropped to 107 by 5 p.m. Other Texas temperatures reported at 5 p.m. were 113 degrees in Wichita Falls, 105 in Abilene and 103 in Waco. A line of thunderstorms extended from the Atlantic Coast to the Plains, stretching as far as central Oklahoma. The temperature in Oklahoma City reached 105, tying the daily record set in 1894. The low in Tulsa was 80, with the high climbing to 103. A National Weather Service forecaster in Oklahoma said scattered showers could be "an indication of some improvement" in the heat wave. "I still think it will be hot, but maybe only in the upper 90s to 102," said the forecaster who asked not to be identified. North of the thunderstorms, temperatures were sharply lower, and Chicago set a low temperature record for the date with a reading of 51 -- one degree off the mark set in 1968. Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky were hard hit Wednesday night by raging winds and rain, hail and tornadoes, and the storms also rumbled through Missouri and Louisiana. Storm-related deaths numbered four in Kentucky, two in Illinois, and one each in Indiana and Missouri. Three of the dead were children swept away by flash floods. Damage in Illinois was estimated at more than $20 million and six counties were declared disaster areas by Gov. James R. Thompson. Fifty people were treated at hospitals for injuries, and officials estimated up to 60,000 people lost power for a time. Among the hard-hit communities in Illinois, where storms swept an area bounded by the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, was West Frankfort, a city of 8,900. The local National Guard unit patrolled the streets Thursday, watching stores where windows were blown out. Much of the city lost power and an overnight curfew was in effect there and in several nearby communities. 54 Oregon Journal, July 2, 1980 (2) # Rain douses Arizona timber fires By United Press International Rain quenched a rash of Arizona timber and range-land fires and state officials are optimistic the worst of the fire season is over. In Colorado, however, the upcoming Fourth of July holiday continued to make fire watchers very nervous. Firefighters Wednesday mopped up damage from Colorado's largest forest fire ever. The state kept in force a stringent ban on open campfires and outdoor smoking that will be especially crucial with the numbers of people expected to flock to mountain forest areas for the holiday weekend. "We've got to keep our guard up," said Forest Service spokesman Jerry Chonka. "We have had a little cooler weather and some rain, but the situation still is critical." Widespread rain in Arizona allowed firefighters Tuesday to extinguish most of the dozens of lightning-caused blazes that dotted the state, while fire crews managed to get lines around others. === Page 9 of 46 "Power and Rain Attack" # Death toll reaches 106 as heat wave holds on Oklahoma July 5, 1980 By The Associated Press The killer heat wave entered its 12th day Friday in the South and Southwest with the death toll at 106, and a health official in Texas said even more people might die while celebrating the holiday outdoors. Heat-related deaths were reported in seven states: 61 in Texas, 21 in Arkansas, 16 in Oklahoma, 5 in Kansas and one each in Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri. Scattered thunderstorms brought some clouds and rain to west-central Texas, but the moisture evaporated soon after hitting the ground -- dried up by triple-digit temperatures. More than two dozen Texas cities recorded temperatures of 100 or more Thursday, but on Friday a shift in wind direction from southwest to southerly brought slightly cooler air from the Gulf of Mexico. Dallas-Fort Worth had 104 in its 12th consecutive record hot day. Wichita Falls had 107 and Lubbock, El Paso and Amarillo were in the 100s, but the rest of the state had temperatures in the 90s. * Dr. Elliot Salenger, head of the Dallas County Health Department, said deaths could increase over the long holiday weekend. "People will go running, jogging, sunning," he said. "They'll be drinking alcohol and get dehydrated. They'll go on with their holiday plans even though it's over 100 degrees." He said many would not alter holiday plans despite relentless heat, "and they'll get sick and some will die." The National Weather Service said there was no sign of cooler weather in store for the next 10 days -- possibly longer. Elsewhere in the nation, scattered thunderstorms were reported, with heavy storms in Kentucky and Indiana. In Louisville and Lexington, Ky., high winds wrecked a garage and uprooted trees, ripping part of the roof from television station WKYT. All Fourth of July activities in Lexington were called off because of the storm, said WKYT news director Ken Kurtz. No injuries were reported. A severe thunderstorm swept through Topeka, Kan., Friday night, damaging part of the concrete roof on grandstands at the Shawnee County Fairgrounds just after the start of a Fourth of July concert, authorities reported. Four minor injuries were reported. The continuing heat wave brought water shortages to parts of Oklahoma, and the water tanks were empty in Noble, a town of about 2,000, leaving only the water that was still in the lines. Voluntary water rationing was under way in Tulsa and McAlester. Many heat victims were elderly people living alone in homes without air conditioning. Some, found alive with body temperatures of 106, were plunged into ice water by medical workers in vain attempts to save their lives. State and local officials have pleaded with residents to stay quiet and keep air conditioners running, despite the drain on electric power facilities. In Arkansas, the state Office on Aging has ordered air conditioned senior citizens centers opened to the poor and old. The heat wave has created record demands for power, water, beer and such appliances as air conditioners and fans. In some areas, farmers say they will need federal aid if rain does not fall soon on their crops and pastures. === Page 10 of 46 Oregonian "POWER & RAIN ATTACK" Jeffrey # Thunderstorms, twisters buffet U.S. midsection The Associated Press JULY 6, 1980 Thunderstorms and tornadoes raged through the nation's midsection Saturday knocking out power to more than 100,000 residents, killing one man and injuring at least 20 people. Meanwhile, the death toll from the 13-day heat wave in the South and Southwest climbed to 137. Rain, wind and tornadoes hit parts of Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, and claimed one life in Michigan. At least 12 people were injured in Ohio, three in Missouri, four in Indiana and one in Michigan. On the East Coast, a violent thunderstorm ripped through much of Virginia, killing one person, knocking down trees, overturning small planes and boats and leaving thousands with out power. An unidentified fisherman at Waller Mill Pond in York County died when a tree or tree limb blew into his boat and caused it to sink, the York County Fire Department said. Eleven people involved in boating mishaps were rescued from the James and York rivers, authorities said. Officials in Texas said heat-related deaths seemed to be abating, and medical examiners reported no heat deaths linked to outdoor Fourth of July activities. The latest victims were like most of the others -- elderly people in homes without air conditioning. Dallas broke its 13th consecutive daily temperature record with a 103-degree reading, while Wichita Falls hit a record-breaking 106. Galveston was the state's cool spot, with a 90-degree reading. Alabama reported its first apparently heat-related death when the body of Elijah Frank Gibson, 59, of Columbiana was found Saturday slumped over the steering wheel of his car. Meanwhile, about 100,000 customers of Commonwealth Edison Co. in the Chicago area were left without power by a thunderstorm early Saturday that packed winds up to 82 mph. No injuries were reported in the storms that swept the north and north-central parts of the state. Some 35,000 people elsewhere in Illinois were still without power from storms earlier last week. Crews worked to restore electricity, but utility spokesmen said it might be Sunday before power was fully restored. In Bloomington, Ill., Mayor Richard Buchanan said a two-block downtown area "looks like a war zone" with heavy damage to roofs and blown-out windows. Early estimates of damages caused by Ohio storms topped $1 million and were expected to go higher as officials began evaluating the wreckage. High winds overturned a mobile home in Zahn's Corner, near Piketon, and injured five people inside. They were treated at a hospital. Widespread power outages were reported in parts of rural north-central and northwest Ohio, and in areas of Columbus and Toledo. Many roads were blocked by fallen trees. There were reports of heavy property damage in Ohio's Logan County where at least six persons suffered minor injuries. One person was slightly injured in Paulding County, where a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department said a tornado wrecked two homes and a barn and damaged three houses. Power was out in much of downtown Lancaster, Ohio, a city of 40,000, and police asked motorists to stay off the roads because of fallen trees. In Quincy, Mich., Zelda Fickel, 64, of Montpelier, Ohio, died of a broken neck when high winds toppled a 4-foot-diameter tree on a trailer at a campground, sheriff's deputies said. About 1,200 customers in the Detroit area lost power temporarily. Three tornadoes were reported in northeast Missouri. One overturned a mobile home in Sublette and tossed a nearby camping trailer down a hill, injuring three people slightly. The others overturned mobile homes and damaged a machine shed and barn in Knox County. === Page 11 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - Australia 158 SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, JULY 6, 1980 158 # CROWDS JAM SKI RESORTS AFTER HUGE SNOW FALLS RECORD crowds poured in to ski resorts this weekend after the first big falls of the season. Following a week of blizzards and huge snowfalls, resorts saw sunshine for the first time in seven days. Blizzard conditions have prevailed in the NSW Alps since last Friday week, bringing with them the best falls of snow since 1968. When the sun peeped through yesterday thousands of skiers poured into the snowfields. Accommodation was at a premium and hundreds of visitors spent the night camped in their cars outside the National Park's limits. At daybreak they moved in to the resorts and by 7.30am ski lift ticket offices were doing a roaring trade. At Thredbo all but the sponars and karel T-bars were operating. ## High winds, icy roads But visibility was reduced to 100m on the high Crackenback area. At Perisher more than 8000 people poured in by 9.30am to use the 12 T-bars operating. High winds prevented the use of the chairlifts and skiers were restricted to the lower levels. The average depth of snow at Perisher was 109 cm - 67cm more than at this time last year. Thredbo reported an average depth of 85cm and both resorts had excellent skiing on 12cm of new, overnight snow. Visitors to Guthega had to contend with icy roads, blocked in parts by drifts of snow up to one metre. Roads into Thredbo were open and although chains were not required to get in to the resort, the Alpine Way became jammed with skiers who had panicked. Instead of following instructions, they put chains on their vehicles and a long line of traffic banked up in the early morning. ## Skiers stranded Department of Main Roads workers used all available machinery to open the road to Perisher Valley and Smiggin Holes and traffic flowed freely all morning. On Friday night about 50 skiers were stranded in the Perisher area by an enormous two-hour dump of snow and had to use tracked vehicles to get back to their lodges. The road to Smiggin Holes had drifts up to one and a half metres and many cars became snowbound. They were towed out of the area at first light so that traffic could flow freely. The present high hanging over New South Wales is locking the resorts in to continuous snowfalls and although the weekend was fine, more snow has been predicted for this week. An added bonus for NSW skiers visiting both Thredbo and Perisher is that draught beer is flowing freely. The areas are being supplied from Victoria. While the NSW Alps are experiencing these huge falls of snow, New Zealand is suffering. Snowfalls on both islands have been poor and have restricted the ski tourist trade All Victorian resorts have reported excellent falls. === Page 12 of 46 84 Acton Avenue, RIVERVALE WA 6103. July 8th, 1980 Mr. B. Kell, 4 Torrington Road, STRATHFIELD NSW 2135. Dear Bruce, Thankyou for your letter of July 6th. I am sorry to say, that I do not have any documented material on the case you mentioned. To my knowledge, there were radio reports about the sighting and very little appearing in our press. During a newscast on radio, mention was made of a truck driver who claims to have seen an unusual solid object land in a paddock, in the area of the reported sightings. As I have been unsuccessful in locating this witness, my investigations are at a complete standstill. Should I uncover more data I shall be more than happy to forward the information to your friend in the U.S. Sorry I have not been of much help and I do thankyou for your interest. Yours Sincerely, Jeff Bell UFO RESEARCH (W.A.) === Page 13 of 46 (2) Oregon Journal, July 10, 1980 15 nation "Power" and Rain Attacks # Indiana tornado kills 2, hurts 23 Oregon Journal July 10, 1980 By United Press International Two persons died and more than a score were injured by a tornado that ripped through Rushville, Ind., crushing residents inside their demolished homes and snapping power lines. Afternoon temperatures Wednesday soared past the 100-degree mark over the Southwestern deserts, the southern and central Plains and the lower half of the Mississippi Valley. Since the heat wave began more than two weeks ago, 233 persons have died in heat-related incidents in 10 states. The tornado ripped through Rushville, a small town about 40 miles east of Indianapolis, about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the twister swooped down on the community, sending the walls crashing in around many residents. "One man said he was closing a window when it hit. He said there was no wind or anything and then the house just literally exploded," said the Rev. Paul Palusko, pastor of Main Street Church. "Another man said his house was just leveled around him, flat as a table." Myrtle Sweet was thrown from her mobile home when the storm crashed through her lot. Rescue workers found her body in a vacant field several yards from her demolished trailer. "Three or four homes were completely demolished," said a spokesman for the Rushville Police Department. "People were crushed in the houses and were taken to hospitals by private cars. Some were taken to Indianapolis. We don't have an accurate injury or death count at this time." ![Photograph of a demolished airplane hangar with damaged light aircraft inside.] United Press International HANGAR DEMOLISHED -- Wind of more than 100 mph hit Waterloo, Iowa, causing major damage to Waterloo Municipal Airport. Dozens of private planes and hangars were demolished Tuesday, including this hangar at Neiderhauser Airways, a private flying service at the airport. === Page 14 of 46 (2) Oregon Journal, July 10, 1980 15 # nation "Power" and Rain Attacks # Indiana tornado kills 2, hurts 23 Oregon Journal July 10, 1980 By United Press International Two persons died and more than a score were injured by a tornado that ripped through through Rushville, Ind. crushing residents inside their demolished homes and snapping power lines. Afternoon temperatures Wednesday soared past the 100-degree mark over the Southwestern deserts, the southern and central Plains and the lower half of the Mississippi Valley. Since the heat wave began more than two weeks ago, 233 persons have died in heat-related incidents in 10 states. The tornado ripped through Rushville, a small town about 40 miles east of Indianapolis, about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the twister swooped down on the community, sending the walls crashing in around many residents. "One man said he was closing a window when it hit. He said there was no wind or anything and then the house just literally exploded," said the Rev. Paul Palusko, pastor of Main Street Church. "Another man said his house was just leveled around him, flat as a table." Myrtle Sweet was thrown from her mobile home when the storm crashed through her lot. Rescue workers found her body in a vacant field several yards from her demolished trailer. "Three or four homes were completely demolished," said a spokesman for the Rushville Police Department. "People were crushed in the houses and were taken to hospitals by private cars. Some were taken to Indianapolis. We don't have an accurate injury or death count at this time." United Press International HANGAR DEMOLISHED -- Wind of more than 100 mph hit Waterloo, Iowa, causing major damage to Waterloo Municipal Airport. Dozens of private planes and hangars were demolished Tuesday, including this hangar at Neiderhauser Airways, a private flying service at the airport. === Page 15 of 46 --- "Power" and Rain Attack --- Oregon Journal 7/11/80 # Lightning, tornadoes kill at least six By United Press International Tornadoes claimed at least two lives and injured nine others in South Carolina and lightning-charged thunderstorms killed four people in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Lightning killed two hikers at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, a farmer in Shelby County, Ky., and a 15-year-old boy who was struck in Virginia while three brothers watched. Surfside Beach, S.C., Police Chief Henry Meeks said young Donald Everett Tench Jr. of Charlotte, N.C., was killed while sitting on the bench during a Little League baseball game. In Sumter County, S.C., a tornado toppled a dugout during an intramural softball game at Shaw Air Force Base, killing an airman and injuring at least eight other persons. In Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Dispatcher Anne Anderson said lightning struck the Double Springs Gap Shelter, killing two backpackers and seriously injuring a third, 2 miles south of the heavily traveled trail. A dairy farmer was struck and killed by lightning while attending a Holstein cattle show at the Shelby County Fairgrounds in Kentucky. Three other men were injured, one critically. tive sterilizations and say medical reasons sometimes used to justify the procedure at some Catholic hospitals are insufficient. In a seven paragraph statement Thursday, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops said contraceptive sterilizations were "forbidden and totally alien" to the mission of Catholic hospitals. --- "Power" & Rain Attack --- # Iowa winds leave airport in shambles WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) -- Winds clocked at up to 105 mph shrieked through northeastern Iowa early Wednesday, causing damage estimated at more than $5 million at the Waterloo airport alone. The winds tossed light aircraft and National Guard helicopters around, ripped the roof from a large hangar containing 12 twin-engine or larger planes and wrecked 22 of, 32 hangars containing one aircraft each. The five members of the Larry Baker family of Dunkerton just northeast of Waterloo suffered minor injuries when the winds overturned their mobile home. Baker said he suffered bruised ribs and broke some bones in his hand when he broke out windows to get his children out. Charles Lowjowsky, a mechanic at the airport, escaped injury when the wind lifted the front end of an Ozark Airlines DC-9 about 10 feet off the ground. He said he was in the DC-9 and all he could do was "ride that baby until it came down." Oregonian July 10, 1980 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, JULY 13, 1980 3M C7 # cano disaster plan is available in Hood River schools, churches and private homes, the group was told. But a number of warnings notes were voiced. If eruption of the mountain causes flooding down its northern slope into the Hood River drainage, the floodwaters could wash out a number of bridges that provide escape routes from the upper valley. Hood River City Manager Bruce Erickson said flooding also could take out water supply lines from the area's two major water sources, Crystal Springs and Cold Springs. In the event of a severe eruption, Bonneville Power Administration would cut off power supply lines to the Hood River valley to eliminate arcing and other fire hazards, said Ted Perry, Hood River Electrical Cooperative manager. And flooding down the Hood River undoubtedly would wash out Pacific Power & Light Co.'s Powerdale Dam and generating plant on the river, which supplies power to the city, said PP&L Manager Roy Cederstam. Lynch said planners selected the 15-mile evacuation zone because Middle Mountain, southwest of the central valley community of Odell, provides a natural barrier and because in the St. Helens blast area the severest damage was confined to about 15 miles, Lynch said. In addition, law enforcement units can easily control access to the 15-mile zone, by road blocks at Tucker Bridge on Oregon 281 and west of Hood River on Oregon 35. The 2 1/2-hour meeting ended with Hood River Police Chief Dick Kelly asking, "Has anyone heard any reports about the mountain?" After a short period of silence, Kurahara looked around the room and said, "Did anybody hear anything?" === Page 16 of 46 "Power" & Rain Attack THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1980 3M C5 # Utilities handle load as heat wave persists By The Associated Press The unrelenting heat wave in the South, Southwest and Midwest is bringing record-breaking electricity demands to utilities and may bring record-breaking bills to consumers who have to pay for the power. "Each day we go on, the air conditioners stay on longer," said Neil Nelson, construction manager for the Northern States Power Co. in Sioux Falls, S.D. "Everybody wants to keep cool." Utility officials contacted in an Associated Press survey Friday said they were managing to meet the demand for electricity without problems so far. Charles Kelly, director of corporate communications for the Arkansas Power and Light Co., said a new nuclear power plant has helped produce the record amounts of electricity needed. "You begin to be a little more nervous the longer it goes on," said Kelly, "but we don't anticipate any problems." An unofficial tally by the AP, compiled from local reports, indicates more than 330 people in 14 states have died of heat-related causes during the heat wave, now in its 20th day in some areas. The toll includes 87 deaths in Texas, 83 in Arkansas, 39 in Missouri, 33 in Oklahoma, 30 in Tennessee, 15 in Mississippi, 13 in Kansas, 11 each in Georgia and Illinois, five in Louisiana, four in Alabama, three each in Kentucky and Indiana and one in Nebraska. In Dallas, the temperature has topped the 100-degree mark every day since June 23, with the thermometer hitting an average of 105 degrees most days. In contrast, the average temperature in the period from June 23 to July 6, 1979, was 97 degrees. "Some of the bills are as high as 94 percent greater than the same billing period of 1979," said Jim Lawrence of the Dallas Power & Light Co. He added, however: "You have to keep in mind that last summer was extremely cool for Dallas, and we had a (9.7 percent) rate increase last October." Another Dallas Power spokesman, Don Wilson, said usage set an all-time record of 2.29 million kilowatts (2,290 megawatts) July 2, but he said capacity is 4.6 million kilowatts (4,600 megawatts). South Dakota communities, produced 202 megawatts of electricity Thursday afternoon, a record, but below the company's capacity of 269 megawatts. "It's the biggest peak we've experienced in the history of our system," said Gene Tagtow, the utility's manager in Huron, S.D. "It's strictly because of the air conditioning." All three Nebraska public utilities have broken previous record usage levels this week. The Omaha Public Power District, for example, set a Thursday afternoon record of 1.35 million kilowatts (1,350 megawatts), according to spokesman Roger McCarthy. "We've been fortunate. The equipment has worked very well through the hot spell." McCarthy said customers' bills would "depend on how they watch that thermostat. There's going to be increases." Ed Crosby of the Alabama Power Co. said, "Homeowners can expect high bills, but there's no way to estimate a percentage or money figure yet." He said demand reached a record Thursday, 6,760 megawatts of electricity Thursday, breaking a 1978 mark of 6,670 megawatts. "We are coping," he said. Kelly said Arkansas Power and Light will try to help customers. The number of "cooling hours" during which customers are using air conditioners is 200 percent more this year than it was last year, he said, adding: "We'll have many people getting well over $200 monthly bills. Certainly we'll try to cushion the impact." The utility is advertising a special plan that allows customers to average payments over an entire year. Hal Hudson, a spokesman for Kansas Power and Light Co., Kansas' largest, said the estimated average residential use of electricity is up by one-third -- from 750 kilowatt hours a month to 1,000 kwh. He also said rates have risen since last year, increasing 21 percent and pushing the cost of 1,000 kwh to $55.47. Hudson said Kansas Power has been able to meet the demand for electricity, although there have been isolated outages because the heat is blowing neighborhood transformers. Northwestern Public Service Co., which serves 51,762 customers in 108 === Page 17 of 46 Reactor shutdown successful MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- The first of two shutdowns ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission went smoothly Saturday at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant while officials prepared to fix a leaky valve, a spokesman said. "Everything was successful. There were no problems whatsoever," spokesman Steve Stoll said of the shutdown that began at 8 a.m. and was completed at noon. He said the plant would "cool down" for about seven hours Saturday before two technicians climbed into the dry well surrounding the reactor to try to repair the leak. The NRC has ordered Vermont Yankee and 23 other reactors to conduct test shutdowns within the next two weeks to try to determine why a similar plant in Alabama refused to shut down on command two weeks ago. It took operators at the Alabama plant 12 minutes and several tries to shut down the reactor after they had reduced power to about 30 percent. Stoll estimated that the Vermont plant would be brought back to full power Saturday night and then reduced again early Sunday when a mandated "automatic" shutdown test would be conducted. Officials at the plant had planned to wait for the required shutdowns to fix the leaky recirculation valve. But Stoll said they decided to conduct the shutdowns this weekend because the leak "is the type of thing that could get worse." The leak, first noticed Thursday when radiation monitors showed a slight increase in levels within the dry well, is "only a whisk of steam," Stoll said. He said officials did not know how much radioactive water had escaped. Stoll said technicians would enter the dry well, remove old packing in the valve and replace it with new packing. "It will be very simple maintenance," he said. The weekend shutdown marks the third outage for Vermont Yankee in the past month. The reactor shut down June 13 to replace a valve that was leaking thousands of gallons of radioactive water into the containment area. On June 17, a drain valve failed, tripping an automatic shutdown. Stoll estimated that the repairs and tests would be completed and the facility back to full power by Monday morning. Oregonian July 13, 1980 REMEMBER WHEN THEY USED TO BLAME LOUSY WEATHER ON THE CHINESE A-BOMB TESTS? WE NOW HAVE A NEW SCAPEGOAT! BRITISH BLAME WIMBLEDON RAINS ON MOUNT ST. HELENS === Page 18 of 46 D32 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1980 Associated Press Laserphoto FATAL ACCIDENT -- Tacoma City Light electrician Gordon W. Egan is administered to after he came in contact Tuesday with a 110,000-volt power line at a substation, triggering a blackout of a large part of the Tacoma metropolitan area. Egan, of Tacoma, died later in a hospital. World "Power" + Rain Attack # Fatal contact with line blacks out large area Oreg. 7/16/80 TACOMA (AP) -- A 58-year-old Tacoma City Light electrician suffered fatal injuries when he came in contact with a 110,000-volt power line Tuesday, and the incident triggered a power outage that blacked out a major portion of the Tacoma metropolitan area, a utility spokeswoman said. The electrician, identified as Gordon W. Egan of Tacoma, was badly burned in the accident and died about an hour later at St. Joseph Hospital, said Sue Veseth, assistant manager of the utility's media office. Ms. Veseth estimated that some 75,000 customers, or more than three-quarters of those served by the utility, were without power for approximately an hour late Tuesday morning after the accident at the Cowlitz Substation. Nearly all of Tacoma and large areas of surrounding suburbs stretching from Gig Harbor to Lakewood, McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis were without power during the outage. Local hospitals switched to emergency generators, Pierce County's law enforcement communications system was disrupted temporarily and traffic lights throughout the county were shut down by the outage. Details of the accident were sketchy, but sources said a Tacoma City Light crew was working on a two-way 110,000-volt transmission line that can handle power being transmitted in or out of the substation. A City Light spokeswoman said the crew was moving one end of the line from one terminal to another. Service on several Pacific Northwest Bell telephone exchanges, including many of the phone numbers for Pierce County's emergency services, was disrupted during the outage because of overloaded circuits, said Bernie Kanesta, a telephone company spokeswoman. The problem was caused by "people calling to find out what the power outage was all about," she said. World "Power" and Rain Attack # Thunderstorms tear across mid-America Oreg. By United Press International 7/17/80 Violent thunderstorms ripped across the midsection of the nation, causing extensive damage and at least four deaths from Wisconsin to New England. Three dozen high-temperature records Wednesday were broken from the South through the Midwest, and the death toll from the heat wave rose to 807. The storms moved eastward from early morning to late afternoon Wednesday, traveling from Minnesota to New York. Early morning thunderstorms threatened to upset the Republican National Convention in Detroit and closed Chicago's O'Hare International Airport -- the nation's busiest -- for about an hour. A Chicago man vacationing at a summer home on Magician Lake in Cass County, Mich., was killed when a tree smashed into the cottage where he was sleeping. In Chicago, Streets and Sanitation Commissioner John Donovan said cleanup could cost $200,000 and take 10 days. He called the storm "one of the biggest ones we've had in a few years." The storms dumped more than an inch of rain and sent wind gusts of 65 mph across New Jersey. Spokesmen for three utility companies said power was knocked out to more than 45,000 residents. A man was killed outside Wilmington, Del., late Wednesday while sawing a fallen tree knocked over by heavy wind. Authorities said the man touched a fallen power line and was killed immediately. === Page 19 of 46 20 Oregon Journal, July 16, 1980 (2) - World "Power" & Rain Attack - # Tornadoes, high wind lash Plains United Press International Police in Eau Claire, Wis., declared a state of emergency and ordered all businesses closed Wednesday to deter looters taking advantage of a destructive blast of tornadoes and high winds that ripped through the city late Tuesday. The relentless heat siege that has plagued the Southwest, South and Midwest continued Wednesday with no end in sight. The death toll from the heat has risen to more than 700. Tornado and hail-laced thunderstorms whipped through the northern Plains and moved as far east as the southern Appalachians Tuesday, causing wind damage to some homes in Minnesota and killing geese in South Dakota. Several tornadoes and winds of up to 112 mph were reported in the Eau Claire area late Tuesday night and early today. Deputy Fred Hoversholm said the storm knocked out electrical service to most of the county and ripped roofs off some buildings. No fatalities were reported, but there were several injuries. "It's just a mess," Hoversholm said. "Everything is shut down." Businesses were asked to remain closed today and only emergency travel was allowed on the streets. Hoversholm said the Eau Claire Sheriff's office had received scattered reports of looting. Tornado watches were in effect early today for parts of Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. Tornadoes touched down in Miami, Fla., near Northville, S.D., and in Arco, S.D. In Missouri alone almost 200 people have died from possible heat-related causes. In Dallas, which has recorded 24 straight days of 100-plus temperatures, officials said there has been an increase in child abuse caused by a summer version of "cabin fever." The Carter administration agreed to provide the $7 million in emergency federal funds to purchase or rent fans, air conditioners and provide transportation and other support services for the elderly and low-income in Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Kansas. === Page 20 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Soviet food production hard hit by weather MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet citizens may have to rely on cabbage, bread and potatoes to keep their stomachs full this winter. Figures released Wednesday showed milk production down 4 percent and meat production down 1 percent during the first six months of 1980, and newspaper accounts said foul weather was playing havoc with the nation's vegetable crops. In some area, vegetable crops "are lying under water" following heavy rains, the newspaper Leninist Banner said. Some fresh fruits and vegetables are available in the private farmers' markets in Moscow, but they are nearly twice as expensive as they were this time last year. The weather, the historic foe of Soviet agriculture, has not helped a bit. There was a late spring in most areas. Important fruit-growing regions in the southern republics were ravaged by a surprise heavy frost and even snow. And the western, or European, part of the Soviet Union is suffering a cold, rainy summer. An editorial Wednesday in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda complained about the quality of the fruit and vegetable crops now ripening. It mentioned a state farm in the southern republic of Azerbaijan that delivered a crop of fresh cabbage of which 23 percent was spoiled by the time it got to market. "Time is pressing, and all installations (for storage) should be built and ready for the harvest," Pravda warned. "One should not permit the crop to spoil, to perish." Reports continue filtering in to Moscow of major population centers in the provinces that are virtually out of meat, milk and butter. People with friends or relatives in Moscow have come to rely on food parcels - "some sausages" - sent by train. The Economic Gazette, a Soviet weekly, said the output of milk on all Soviet farms was down so far this year by 1.473 million metric tons and that pork production was down 932,000 head. Oreg. July 17, 1980 world - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Heavy rains flood farmland in Poland WARSAW (AP) - Heavy rains, in some parts of Poland the heaviest in 250 years, resulted in the flooding of 2.5 million acres of cultivated land, Polish radio reported Tuesday. Especially hard hit were the western and northern Polish provinces, the report said. Flooding also caused problems in urban transportation in the city of Bydgoszcz. In Grudziadz, northern Poland, the swollen Vistula river forced some factories to stop working. Oregonian July 16, 1980 # Fierce Storms Kill 10 Berlin - World "Power" + Rain Attack Ten people were killed in southern East Germany during the weekend by fierce thunderstorms that uprooted trees and tore down electricity lines, the official ADN news agency reported yesterday. June 16 1980 SF Chronicle Associated Press === Page 21 of 46 World "Power" and Rain Attack # Violent storms sweep upper Midwest; 3 killed By The Associated Press Violent thunderstorms swept the upper Midwest Wednesday, killing three people, leaving scores of communities without electricity and disrupting meetings of at least two delegations to the Republican National Convention in Detroit. Meanwhile, the heat wave, which has killed nearly 700 people, continued to bake sections of the South and Midwest. The Massachusetts delegation to the GOP convention hustled to the basement of its Plymouth, Mich., hotel when a tornado watch was posted for the area. The power went off as the Michigan delegation was meeting with former Republican presidential contender George Bush at a hotel near the Detroit airport. "I guess God was mad at George Bush for releasing his Michigan delegates," said Michael McLaughlin, the state's commerce department director and a Bush delegate. Winds gusting to 80 mph smashed Lessenger Junior High School on Detroit's northwest side, breaking windows and injuring two summer-school students. The storm flooded two 50-foot sections of Interstate 94, a main artery into Detroit, forcing police to blockade one lane of the freeway. A 10-year-old boy was killed when debris fell on him at his parents' home on Magician Lake near the town of Sister Lakes in southwestern Michigan, officials said. In Ann Arbor, Mich., employees of the National Weather Service and other government workers fled their third-floor offices in a federal building when an 80-foot glass wall began shaking violently during the storm. At historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., the storm smashed windows in the replica of the Wright Brothers bicycle shop while at nearby Ford Motor Co. offices, spokesman Paul Preuss said, "The telephone system is practically kaput" because of the storm. Air controllers evacuated the control tower at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for a short time, closing the airport for an hour Wednesday morning. Winds of more than 75 mph damaged a DC-8 cargo jet, and two smaller planes were blown over. Some 100,000 people in the Chicago metropolitan area were without power because of the severe rainstorms. Fierce thunderstorms Tuesday night in Minnesota downed power lines, overturned mobile homes, felled trees, knocked out telephone service and broke windows in many buildings. Up to 3 inches of rain fell in some areas as winds gusted up to 86 mph. A woman drowned in Prior Lake near Minneapolis when a pontoon boat capsized. Another woman died in northwestern Wisconsin when her mobile home was knocked over in a rural area between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The Eau Claire airport reported winds of 112 mph which knocked out much of the power in this city of 45,000. Electricity still had not been restored by early Wednesday, authorities said. Thunderstorms early Wednesday morning moved from eastern Nebraska across the upper Mississippi Valley into Wisconsin, with tornadoes in west-central Wisconsin and Minnesota. The central and eastern Gulf region also had thunderstorms, and scattered showers were reported in New England. The heat prompted Alabama Gov. Fob James to declare a state of emergency Tuesday. A state of emergency was put into effect Monday in Missouri. Associated Press Laserphoto ONCE MORE! -- Elaine Sims of Ann Arbor, Mich., moans over latest disaster to her automobile after high winds toppled a tree onto her car which she had just gotten back from a repair shop. Thunderstorms packing winds up to 80 mph raced across southern Michigan Wednesday morning. Arg. July 17, 1980 === Page 22 of 46 Oregon July 10, 1980 # Heat ties record in Dallas; forecast offers no relief By The Associated Press Temperatures at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport hit 100 degrees again Thursday, marking the 25th consecutive day the temperature has been 100 or higher in the area and tieing a record set in August 1952. Nationwide, an unofficial count by The Associated Press shows a total of 935 heat-related deaths in 19 states. The hardest hit state is Missouri with 234 deaths -- state health officials said the toll in a normal year is 10. The National Weather Service said that although thunderstorm activity over the Gulf of Mexico had increased in the past week, a good sign for a potential change in Texas' torrid weather, there was no end in sight of the heat wave. Fred Ostby, director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, predicted at least another five days of searing weather in the South, Southwest and Midwest. Ostby wouldn't make any prediction beyond that. "It's a very tricky business, trying to predict when this thing will end and break up," Ostby said. Forecasters say a routine high-pressure system stalled over Texas in late June and then expanded to cover the Midwest and South. Ordinarily, easterly jet streams keep air masses moving and mixing with low-pressure systems, creating cool air and thunderstorms. But that hasn't happened, and meteorologists can't explain why it hasn't. Georgia Gov. George Busbee declared a state of emergency as hospitals across the state reported sharp increases in emergency room visits and admissions because of the heat. Note: ① I hate Texas with a purple passion, of all the U.S. States... because I was double-crossed not once but twice in Texas, on a major scale, which caused me grievous harm. Anyplace, or anybody, doing such a thing to Ted Owens, the PK Man, is thereby doomed to terrible retaliation from other-dimensional Powers. This action has occurred over and over and over again, thru the years, as an individual would double-cross me and then later would be killed in a car crash or drop dead unexpectedly from a brain hemorrhage or whatever. I could cite a dozen such happenings. ② In all of my major demonstrations of psi-force, and working with my UFOs (control of Florida, etc.) strange, mysterious things occur which the authorities cannot explain (or which haven't happened in this century, or haven't happened in several hundred years, etc.) $\Theta$ Owens === Page 23 of 46 MANLY DAILY DATE 14 JUN 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # Strange lights appear again in coast skies **By Spencer Ratcliff** Strange things continue to happen in the skies over Manly-Warringah, with yet another UFO sighting reported yesterday. Sixteen people have now reported seeing a total of three different unidentified flying objects in the past few days. The first mystery object was spotted over the Frenchs Forest-Belrose area last Saturday night. It was described as "a smoke ring with lights around it". The RAAF and a Sydney group called UFO Research Project are investigating. Yesterday another witness to the smoke ring object spoke up, but described it as "a light red flare with a pale centre". The witness, Mrs Peggy Irvin, of Beaconsfield Street, Newport, was baby-sitting her three grandsons at the time. "We were watching television when we looked out the window and saw what looked like a red flare," Mrs Irvin said. "The object hovered high in the sky for a couple of minutes and then moved lower in a southerly direction and hovered again. "We were not frightened because it was so far away, but I am convinced it was a UFO." A second UFO was reported over the Hawkesbury-Dee Why area on Tuesday night, and a third sighting came to light yesterday. "It was three bright orange rings positioned in a triangle," Mrs Wendy Robertson, of Milga Road, Avalon said. "I was driving back from exercise classes at Narrabeen, and as I turned into Whale Beach Road from Barrenjoey Road, I saw the object. "It was really luminous -- I couldn't take my eyes off it." Mrs Robertson's sighting was at 8.50 pm. * See Page 5 (Continued) === Page 24 of 46 Glowing UFO Spotted Over Buenos Aires June 16, 1980 S.F. Chronicle Buenos Aires An unidentified flying object "buzzed" Buenos Aires city airport Saturday night and was also sighted in several western provinces of Argentina, airport officials reported yesterday. Control tower officials at Aeroparque on the shore of the River Plate told journalists that a glowing, spherical craft with a misty halo appeared a few hundred yards away flying slowly toward them. It finally soared away and disappeared, and control tower instruments registered nothing, they said. The pilots of two airliners waiting to take off also sighted the object. Airline officials in the city of Cordoba saw a luminous ring, and an unidentified flying object was sighted in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe. Reuters Note: Just interesting. Volcano blamed for rain LONDON (AP) -- A British scientist says dust from Mount St. Helens volcano is the likely cause of Britain's cold, rain-sodden summer that soaked Wimbledon tennis last week and is bringing a flood of grumbles to the London Weather Center. Staff at the center have grown so tired of members of the public blaming them personally for the weather that they issued a statement Thursday aimed at putting the record straight. Professor Hubert Lamb, founder of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, says dust from the volcano has merged into a veil covering the northern part of the hemisphere. "The quantity of dust emitted by St. Helens could be as great as that which came from the great explosion at Krakatoa, which caused a noticeable cooling of global weather," he said. The explosion on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 caused massive destruction and created tidal waves that killed thousands. Britain also had cold, wet summers in 1903 and 1912 following severe volcanic eruptions in different parts of the world, Lamb said. Last month was one of Britain's wettest Junes in more than 100 years, the London Weather Center said, although final figures have not yet been worked out. July 1 was the coldest July day in London for 34 years, with a maximum reading of 55 degrees Fahrenheit. The summer of 1978 was even worse, the center's statement said, while a spokesman added: "Believe it or not, we are just as fed up with the weather as everyone else... It will improve eventually, and it's not the end of the world." === Page 25 of 46 (W.A. COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) The Geraldton Guardian DATE June 20. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO evidence at Ogilvie? **Farmers at Ogilvie, 70km north-east of Geraldton, believe that four circular depressions that look like landing pads, found on a property, could have been made by an unidentified flying object.** The "pads" are 1.3 metres in diameter, 10 centimetres deep and evenly spaced at 8.7 metres apart. They are in a soft barley paddock, but are rockhard. There are no tracks leading to them except those of a 7-tonne tractor owned by the property owner. The owner, Mr Eric Parker, who until now has never believed in UFOs, said today that the tractor's marks were no way compared to the apparent pads. He said that he and his brother had been spreading the crop with urea when they came across the pads, which could have been caused by at least a 100-tonne weight. "Whatever it is, it couldn't be man-made," Mr Parker said. "I never believed in UFOs before, but now I'm just about a strong believer." A farmer on a nearby property, Mr Kevin Chick, said he saw a light rising from the ground on the Parker's property two weeks ago. He said he did not report the sighting because, he thought his eyes might have been playing tricks. "I couldn't say if it was a UFO," he added. Mr Chick said: "It was one o'clock in the morning and you're half asleep; you can't be sure what you've seen. "You sometimes see lights coming down, but I definitely saw a light going up. "I mentioned it to the wife and she just laughed. "I've been over to see the pads and the whole paddock is soft but the pads are very hard." Ogilvie schoolteacher, Mr Lindsay Bolton, took his class of eight to see the pads and measure them. It is his exact measurements which have been reported. "They were circular, indented, and rock hard," said Mr Bolton. "They have been compacted by a very heavy weight. "We could only look at them, measure them, and we came back and discussed them." === Page 26 of 46 Note: Vancouver was put on a world-wide map before daily and weekly news-papers in the USA, in spotlight By STEVEN K. WAGNER The Oregonian, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wash. - For an area roughly the size of Torrance, Calif., Clark County has spent more than its share of time in the national spotlight this year. "Can you believe what's happened already in 1980?" said one Vancouver resident. "And local residents aren't sure what to make of it. "I'd suspect they'll have a really big impact," he said. "Who wants to come out here with this kind of stuff happening?" Cindy Garden was more optimistic. "Maybe it's Vancouver good," she said. "And maybe it's kinda very good. It's something to think about. Maybe we're jinxed or something." Rapidly melting snow caused a hillside to collapse onto an 81-car Burlington Northern train carrying deadly anhydrous ammonia through Ridgefield. Nineteen cars, including two tank cars carrying the material and four engines, were derailed and 20 families were urged to evacuate their homes. Killed were train engineer Charles Maughlin, 53, and brakewoman Koral Watters, 24, both of Seattle. Ms. Watters was believed by National Transportation Safety Board officials to be the first female crew member in American rail history killed while performing her duties. On Feb. 10, less than a month later, authorities got their first break in the legendary, eight-year-old Dan Cooper skyjacking, the nation's only unsolved airliner hijacking. Brian Ingram, 8, found about $6,000 of the $200,000 Cooper escaped with when he bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet Nov. 24, 1971. The money was found on a beach near the Columbia River in Vancouver. Ingram's parents, Dwayne and Patricia Ingram, of Vancouver, gave the money to FBI agents, who announced the find Feb. 12. Cooper parachuted late Thanksgiving Eve over Ariel, authorities believe. He was on a Portland to Seattle flight, and no trace of him or the money had turned up until the Ingram find. A month and a half later, on March 27, Mount St. Helens - northeast of the county - became the first volcano in the 48 contiguous United States to erupt since Mount Lassen blew its top in 1917. It was not until May 25, though, that Clark County felt the physical effects of the volcano. That afternoon a major eruption occurred on the mountain. Volcanic ash heavily dusted Vancouver, forcing motorists and pedestrians to wear surgical masks and cloth to keep from breathing the ash. Since the first eruption, scientists from around the world and federal emergency crews have based their operations in Vancouver. "The notoriety will help the area," one resident - who would not identify himself - said of the exposure. "It'll put the area on the map." "All the signs around here say 'Welcome to Vancouver, USA.' Now people will know we're that place across the Columbia river instead of 300 miles north (in Vancouver, British Columbia)," Merle Pederson of Vancouver said he expects the notoriety to have a major effect on the county. Power attack Winds rake Great Falls GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - A vicious windstorm with gusts up to 80 mph battered Great Falls Wednesday night, uprooting trees, toppling power lines and ripping roofs off several homes. One man suffered minor injuries and was treated at a hospital and released. No damage estimate was available. Residents reported seeing a black funnel cloud sweep toward the city of 54,000, but the National Weather Service said the storm, which struck at 7:20 p.m., was not a tornado. Kathy Parish said she saw a black cloud heading toward her apartment building. "It just got real black, and we headed for the ground floor," she said. "The whole building shook - then it just took the roof off the building." The winds tore four light planes from their moorings at Great Falls International Airport and downed power lines throughout much of the city, including lines to Montana National Guard headquarters. 6/26/80 === Page 27 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - THE MERCURY, HOBART DATE 23 JUN 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE - AUSTRALIA G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY, 2001 # Willy-willy cuts path of destruction PERTH. - Hundreds of homes were damaged by a willy-willy which tore a three kilometre path of destruction through Shoal Water Bay, south-west of Perth on Saturday. Roofs were torn off, windows smashed and fences demolished by the freak gust. The willy-willy, which residents described as like a tornado, swept through the area about 1 pm. Power lines were brought down and police and volunteer firemen blocked off roads. Firemen from Rockingham said that the willy-willy swept in from the north over the ocean and belted into Shoalwater Bay. It carved a 100-metre wide path, ripping out trees and scattering debris, towards Safety Bay. Dozens of emergency servicemen and firemen clambered over roofs with tarpaulins to give protection to the damaged homes. One resident, Mrs Lorraine Cooney, said the gust hit with an enormous bang. Trees in her front garden were snapped off and scattered into a neighbor's yard. At another house two young children were home alone when the gust ripped tiles from their roof and scattered sheets of iron across their yard. Petrice Davidson (12) said that when the winds hit she told her seven-year-old brother Kali to get under his bed. "We were watching TV and heard loud thunder and the willy-willy came," she said. "Kali was looking out the window and tiles were scattered everywhere and bits of plaster fell off the ceiling. "It was pretty scary." Her father, Mr Dean Davidson, estimated it would cost about $5,000 to repair the roof of his home. A total of 38 houses were severely damaged and others had minor damage. No injuries were reported. # Blizzards to the ski The Weather Bureau warning of blizzards in the Southern Alps has skiers smiling for the first time this season. Gale force winds reaching 60 km/h accompanied by heavy snowfalls were forecast for last night and today. They were expected to bring the first good coverings of the season to the Snowy Mountains slopes. Although resorts were gearing up for a rush by frustrated skiers, early reports from the mountains yesterday said conditions were poor. Cross-country skiers were warned to stay on poled ski trails because of the high winds. Roads to the resorts were still open last night - except the Cabramurra-Khancoban road and the Ke was c Creek. Mot to becaus wind c Cold winds the B with li ing fr the cl at Liv Daily Telegraph June 28, 1980 Henry Baskerville, 57, said. "We evacuated the girls downstairs to a safer place but all we could do was sit and wait," he said. About an hour later the wind ripped the roof off the three-storey building and hurled it into the street. Police closed roads in the area as sheets of roofing iron crashed into the street and nearby buildings. Part of the roof and porch of the Blue Danube Motel in Katoomba collapsed about 7.30 a.m. as guests began breakfast. "There was a big bang and the power went off," said one of the proprietors, Mrs Lilly Ujvary. The Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Bath was also damaged by the wind. Despite the widespread damage rescue workers had to move only two families from their homes. === Page 28 of 46 - World "Power and Rain Attack" - 2-THE AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980 # State to bear brunt of $4.5m flood bill THE West Australian Government will bear the brunt of the $4.5 million loss resulting from flooding of the Carnarvon area on Sunday. Even as people were being evacuated from their houses, the Minister for the North-West, Mr Ian Laurance, and representatives of local authorities were meeting to set up a disaster relief committee. The biggest claim will come from vegetable growers in the area. Their crops are worth $4 million a year and it is estimated that half has been destroyed. Banana plantation owners seem to have fared better, losing about $500,000 of an annual crop worth about $3 million. But this figure could rise rapidly if floodwater does not drain away within the next three days. Much of the damage to plantations came when a levee bank 16km upstream from the town burst on Sunday, washing away crops but bringing a reprieve to Carnarvon by allowing the Gascoyne River to drop. It had already flooded outer suburbs and threatened to sweep through the town centre. Property damage has been estimated at $2 million. The State Government will make cash grants to relieve personal hardship and industry can apply for loans. Interviews to assess personal cases will start today. The Carnarvon Shire clerk, Mr Allan Taylor, welcomed the Government's early moves and said it was important local residents saw quick action. He said the shire would also have to meet heavy bills to replace roads washed away by the flood. But Mr Taylor said the most damaged residential area in east Carnarvon could have been protected. "The State Government has had a levee plan on the drawing boards for the area and even offered $4.5 million for its erection, but community resistance stopped the program," he said. # Floods subside Flooding appears to be subsiding in the West Australian town of Carnarvon and officials believe the danger has passed unless more rain falls. More than 100 people were lifted from properties around the town when a flood levee burst. 3 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, June 24, 1980 3 # Praying for a dry spell RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged Carnarvon, Western Australia, are praying that no more rain will fall in the next few days. Floodwaters stopped rising early yesterday as people inspected damage to their homes in the town's eastern suburbs. The waters had stopped only a few centimetres below the front steps of many homes but damaged furniture and carpets in others. Gascoyne Road in flooded Carnarvon STRANDED residents row to and from their homes THE FINANCIAL AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980-3 === Page 29 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - 2-THE AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980 # State to bear brunt of $4.5m flood bill THE West Australian Government will bear the brunt of the $4.5 million loss resulting from flooding of the Carnarvon area on Sunday. Even as people were being evacuated from their houses, the Minister for the North-West, Mr Ian Laurance, and representatives of local authorities were meeting to set up a disaster relief committee. The biggest claim will come from vegetable growers in the area. Their crops are worth $4 million a year and it is estimated that half has been destroyed. Banana plantation owners seem to have fared better, losing about $500,000 of an annual crop worth about $3 million. But this figure could rise rapidly if floodwater does not drain away within the next three days. Much of the damage to plantations came when a levee bank 16km upstream from the town burst on Sunday, washing away crops but bringing a reprieve to Carnarvon by allowing the Gascoyne River to drop. It had already flooded outer suburbs and threatened to sweep through the town centre. Property damage has been estimated at $2 million. The State Government will make cash grants to relieve personal hardship and industry can apply for loans Interviews to assess personal cases will start today. The Carnarvon Shire clerk, Mr Allan Taylor, welcomed the Government's early moves and said it was important local residents saw quick action. He said the shire would also have to meet heavy bills to replace roads washed away by the flood. But Mr Taylor said the most damaged residential area in east Carnarvon could have been protected. "The State Government has had a levee plan on the drawing boards for the area and even offered $4.5 million for its erection, but community resistance stopped the program," he said. # Floods subside Flooding appears to be subsiding in the West Australian town of Carnarvon and officials believe the danger has passed unless more rain falls. More than 100 people were lifted from properties around the town when a flood levee burst. 3 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, June 24, 1980 3 Gascoyne Road in flooded Carnarvon STRANDED residents row to and from their homes # Praying for a dry spell RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged Carnarvon, Western Australia, are praying that no more rain will fall in the next few days. Floodwaters stopped rising early yesterday as people inspected damage to their homes in the town's eastern suburbs. The waters had stopped only a few centimetres below the front steps of many homes but damaged furniture and carpets in others. THE FINANCIAL AUSTRALIAN Tuesday June 24 1980-3 === Page 30 of 46 - "Power" Attack - Oregon Journal June 26, 1980 # NW dam operators begin sickout By JAMES C. FLANIGAN and MIKE WEISS Journal Staff Writers Supervisory personnel Thursday took over powerhouse operations at U.S. Army Corps of Engineer dams in four Western states as civilian, hourly employees began a sickout in protest of what they claim is an inadequate pay boost. Nearly 80 percent of hourly personnel at federal dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers were off the job Thursday morning. As many as 400 powerhouse operators and maintenance personnel in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho could be involved if the action spreads to all regional dams operated by the Corps. The sickout involves power installations on the river systems. However, Corps officials vowed to keep power flowing through the Northwest by using management personnel. A spokesman for the workers, who asked not to be identified, said they intend to maintain the sickout until midnight Sunday. "The Corps has pushed people to the point where we have to protest," he said. The spokesman said the 4.66 percent wage increase Monday triggered the sickout because the workers, a non-union group, don't negotiate their wages and expected about a 12 percent wage hike. He said public law specifies the wages should be adjusted to an average of what employees at private utilities are earning and the Corps' increase falls substantially short of that figure. One example given was that journeymen electricians earn $12.50 an hour in public utility employment while Corps employees receive $11.76, even after a recent 4.6 percent adjustment. The job action was first detected Wednesday at Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, where at least half of the 60 power trades personnel who ordinarily work at the dam failed to report for their shifts. There was a pledge from the management staff at Chief Joseph Dam to keep operations going. "We intend to keep it operating at full installation. Diana Smith, a Corps representative in Portland, said the sickout was because of a 4.66 percent pay raise granted workers May 25 under the Carter administration's proposed wage-price guidelines limiting the amount of pay increases granted. Civilian personnel called in sick at The Dalles, John Day, McNary, Ice Harbor and Little Goose dams. Corps officials awaited shift changes early Thursday before assessing the impact of the job action. Ms. Smith said hourly personnel at Libby Dam in Montana earlier indicated they would join the sickout if McNary workers were off the job, but there was no immediate word whether they had refused to work. power, depending on whether we have any problems," said Leon Moraski, a Seattle-based engineer for the Corps, which operates the hydroelectric facility. Mary Thomas, a public information officer for the Corps, said the Chief Joseph Dam walkout involved the powerhouse operators, electricians and powerhouse mechanics. Chief Joseph Dam is in Central Washington, downriver from the giant Grand Coulee Dam. Grand Coulee is operated by another federal agency. Graveyard shift workers at McNary Dam near called in sick early Thursday and officials there said six supervisory personnel were keeping the facility operating. Normally 65 employees work at the Sources at Dworshak Dam near Orofino in Northern Idaho said personnel there were on the job Thursday. Dworshak is the only Corps-operated dam in the state. Also reported operating normally was Detroit Dam on the Santiam River in Oregon. Charles Cook, chief of operations at McNary, said he and the five other supervisory personnel keeping the facility operating are prepared to stay at the dam until hourly workers return to their jobs. He noted that the dam largely is automated and officials anticipate no difficulty if equipment does not break down. Cook said McNary workers called in sick, complaining of "whatever (ailment) they could think of." === Page 31 of 46 "Power" Attack - + Rain Attack # Texas heat wave leaves two dead By United Press International Clyde Millican ignored the record heat wave searing Texas and kept his air conditioner switched off, intent on saving energy and whatever he could of his $300-a-month Social Security income. The 78-year-old retiree died of heat stroke -- one of two victims of a heat wave that has set records across Texas for three days and brought El Paso a record 17 straight days of 100-degree-plus weather. The National Weather Service said Friday that there is no relief in sight for Texas. Dry weather also persisted in the northern Plains, gripped by a drought that has withered crops and rangelands and inflicted millions of dollars in damage. Hot, dry weather and high winds combined in Colorado to spread a forest fire over as many as 5,000 acres in the White River National Forest. The blaze was first spotted in a 500-acre area of the northwestern Colorado forest but quickly spread because of the dry winds. Millican was found unconscious in his Dallas home Tuesday -- when the temperature hit 106. Authorities said the elderly man had just a table fan to stir the air. Relatives said he lived on a fixed income and was attempting to save on his utility bill by not turning on the air conditioner. The medical examiner Thursday ruled that Millican died of heat stroke. In Fort Worth, a man working outside on his house Tuesday was overcome by heat and was rushed to a hospital, his body temperature at 106 degrees. He died of heat exhaustion, authorities said Thursday. The temperatures in Dallas-Fort Worth hit 113 Thursday -- the hottest day in history. In the Dallas suburb of Garland, the heat felled the power system several times. Water shortages were reported in much of Texas. McAllen, Brownsville, Pharr and Raymondville, all in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, ordered water rationing. "We are having a little bit of a problem," said McAllen Public Works Director Jim Stinson. "We're pumping about as much water as we can produce." Thundershowers, however, spread over the South and dotted scattered sections of the Northwest. Heavy thunderstorms and high winds buffeted portions of New York state, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines in Orleans and Genesee counties. Hail the size of golf balls pelted Biloxi, Miss., and Daytona Beach, Fla., got nearly an inch and a half of rain in four hours. Showers stretched along the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to Delaware and scattered thundershowers dotted parts of North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana and Idaho. Officials said the Montana rains did nothing to ease a drought that has withered parched farm and ranch lands in the eastern part of the state. Winds gusting up to 80 mph blew across South Dakota, where temperatures of more than 100 degrees baked residents of Rapid City, Pierre, Philip and Pickstown. 6/27/80 === Page 32 of 46 --- "Power" Attack --- # 'Sickout' spreads to federal dams throughout NW By JOHN PAINTER JR. June 27, 1980 of The Oregonian staff A "sickout" protesting pay raises spread to 19 federal hydroelectric dams in Oregon, Washington and Idaho Thursday, as officials began preparing demand notices ordering workers back on the job. At least 120 hourly workers, who are non-union federal employees, stayed at home to protest a 7 percent wage increase for fiscal year 1980. The raise was at least half a percentage point below the pay levels recommended by the National Council on Wage and Price Stability. Returning workers must have a note from their doctors if they claimed illness as a reason for absence, said Diana Smith, an Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman. Otherwise they will receive no pay for missed work. The government also had the authority to discipline workers for an "illegal strike" because walkouts are forbidden by federal law, she said. About 40 percent of the approximately 300 hourly employees at 18 of 21 of the Northwest power dams operated by the corps were out, officials reported. The action also involved Grand Coulee Dam, operated by the federal Water Power Resources Bureau. Although details of the so-called sickout were difficult to obtain, Ms. Smith said it was her understanding that the movement began last weekend at Grand Coulee. The dispute there, triggered by slightly different issues, apparently prompted some hourly workers -- mechanics, electricians, janitors and powerhouse operators -- at Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River to start a four-day sickout. But active leadership of the movement appeared Thursday to be at McNary Dam on the Columbia immediately below Chief Joseph. There, workers called on all workers at dams to call in sick. John Vollner, a senior operator at McNary and apparently a spokesman for disgruntled employees, said the government had not kept its agreement to pay them on a par with private industry. According to Vollner, the 7 percent wage ceiling imposed by the Carter administration as an inflation fighting measure left federal workers about $1-per-hour behind their private sector counterparts. However, John Ulrich, a corps spokesman, said the difference was 50 cents-an-hour; the difference between the $12.26 base pay level asked and the $11.76 granted. Hourly workers at dams earn between $7.05 and $15.53 hourly. The workers received a 2.33 percent wage hike last October and an additional 4.66 percent last month, for a total pay boost of 6.99 percent. In Washington, D.C., Mike Gelb of the Council on Wage and Price Stability confirmed that its wage guidelines were "generally higher" than the administration's lid. He said the council's wage recommendations ran between 7.5 percent and 9.5 percent. The facilities most directly affected by the sickout were Chief Joseph, McNary, John Day, The Dalles and Bonneville dams on the Columbia River; Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental and Ice Harbor dams on the lower Snake River and Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana. === Page 33 of 46 Australia 86 DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saturday, June 28, 1980 # NUGAN IS SENT FOR TRIAL The chairman of Nugan Group Ltd and three employees were committed for trial for conspiracy yesterday. The Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr C. R. Briese, found there was sufficient evidence to go before a jury after a hearing which began in Central Court in 1978. The four men are Kenneth Leslie Nugan, described as the head of Australia's largest proprietary fruit and vegetable packing and distributing company, Robin Edgar Shearer, Thomas Anthony Hill and Robert Lyle Jones. They were charged by the Corporate Affairs Commission with Francis John Nugan, who committed suicide in January. They allegedly conspired to defeat the course of justice at Sydney between May 2, 1973, and May 26, 1978. Mr Briese committed them for trial at the current sitting of the Supreme Court. # WEATHER, SHIPPING SYNOPTIC WEATHER CHART DATE 27-6-80 TIME NOON (Map showing weather patterns over Australia with labels like Pt Hedland, Alice Springs, Townsville, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, and HIGH/LOW pressure systems) | ISOBARS | 1016 | SEAS | WINDS | RAINFALL | |---|---|---|---|---| | (Value in millibars) | | Slight S1 | Calm 0 | 60km/h | Previous | | COLD FRONT | | Moderate M | 10 km/h 40km/h | | | | WARM FRONT | | Rough R | 20 km/h 100km/h | 24 hrs. | | | | Very Rough VR | 40 km/h and over | | | DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE - BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY - SYDNEY - World "Power and Rain Attack" - # FORECASTS The Weather Bureau last night issued these warnings and forecast for today: WARNINGS: A graziers alert is current for the slopes and highlands. A strong wind warning is current for NSW coastal waters from Sydney to Nowra and a gale warning for the southern highlands and coastal waters south from Nowra and adjacent ocean waters. STATE: Rain areas will contract to the East and South, but some snows and local thunderstorms are expected as cold to SW NW winds tend cold west to SW reaching gale force at times on the southern highlands, some snow is expected about the Snowy Mountains. Seas will be moderate to rough offshore on a low swell. CITY: Rain periods easing to a shower or two with the chance of a thunderstorm as NW winds tend colder gusty westerly in the morning. Sunny periods developing. Seas moderate to rough offshore on a low swell. SYDNEY WATERS: A strong wind warning is current. NW winds 20/30 knots tending west to SW in the morning. Rain periods will ease to showers. Seas will be rough offshore on a low swell. There is a chance of a thunderstorm with the change. NORTHERN RIVERS: Some rain clearing during the day. NW winds freshening to 15/25 knots and tending W to SW. Seas moderate offshore. Low swell. MID NORTH COAST: Some rain clearing during the day. NW winds freshening to 15/25 knots and tending W to SW. Seas moderate offshore. Low swell. HUNTER: Rain clearing early in the morning but a few showers persisting. NW winds freshening to 20 to 25 knots and turning cool. Gusty W to SW in the morning. The chance of a thunderstorm with the change. Seas moderate to rough offshore. Low swell. SOUTH COAST AND ILLAWARRA: A gale warning is current for NW winds 30 to 40 knots turning W to SW 30 to 40 knots in the morning. Rain clearing to a few showers and the chance of thunderstorms. Seas becoming very rough offshore. Low swell. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Rain easing to a few showers later in the day. NW winds strengthening and turning colder W to SW during the day. A sheep weather alert is current. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: NW winds becoming strong and squally and turning very cold W to SW early in the morning. A few showers and the chance of a thunderstorm with the change. Some sleet on the peaks. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Very cold W to SW winds. Strong and squally. Showers and thunderstorms. Snowfalls above 1000 metres. Winds reaching gale force in parts and a gale warning and graziers alert are current. === Page 34 of 46 Oregonian June 28, 1980 -- "Power" Attack Associated Press Laserphoto SPILL IN BAY -- Barge bearing 85,000 barrels of fuel oil for Florida Power & Light Co. plant at Bradenton, Fla., near Tampa Bay, leaks into bay waters. Another barge was to pump it out. Barge sprang leak after grounding in channel leading from Gulf of Mexico into Tampa Bay. -- Rain Attack -- Note: This area. July predicted to be cooler, wetter than normal By LEVERETT RICHARDS of the Oregonian staff July 2, 1980 Forecasters were predicting partly sunny weather Thursday in the wake of thunderstorms that stripped some trees, shrubs and gardens of foliage in the Beaverton and Tigard areas late Wednesday. But the outlook for the next month is for lower than normal temperatures and higher than normal rainfall throughout the Willamette Valley. Thunderstorms that flooded streets and struck trees with lightning bolts in the Beaverton area also added to the woes of Willamette Valley farmers. Those who grow cherries for the maraschino market have suffered serious losses from rains cracking their fruit even before it is ripe, said Tom Valterza, Department of Agriculture spokesman. "Their cherry crop is not a total loss, but it is not up to normal," he said. Strawberries have suffered from rot due to the rain as well as from heavy ash fallout in some areas, he said. The prolonged rainy, cloudy weather has hit the hay crop in the Willamette Valley particularly hard, he said. "Much of the hay crop is still standing, well past its prime, because it has been too cool and wet to cut. It loses its nutritive value fast once past its prime," he said. Farmers who have cut their hay have suffered heavy losses from mold and rot for lack of drying weather. Others have chopped their hay and let it ferment for use as silage, he said. "This will mean a hefty increase in prices for livestock owners who have to buy their hay," he said. Growers of row crops also will suffer if they don't get some growing weather soon, he added. "It is the wettest year since 1971 so far," Valterza said. Light rain was recorded throughout most of Western Oregon overnight, but thunderstorms dumped up to an inch in isolated areas. === Page 35 of 46 June 28, 1980 -- "Power" Attack Associated Press Laserphoto SPILL IN BAY -- Barge bearing 85,000 barrels of fuel oil for Florida Power & Light Co. plant at Bradenton, Fla., near Tampa Bay, leaks into bay waters. Another barge was to pump it out. Barge sprang leak after grounding in channel leading from Gulf of Mexico into Tampa Bay. -- Rain Attack -- Note: This area. July predicted to be cooler, wetter than normal By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff July 27, 1980 Forecasters were predicting partly sunny weather Thursday in the wake of thunderstorms that stripped some trees, shrubs and gardens of foliage in the Beaverton and Tigard areas late Wednesday. But the outlook for the next month is for lower than normal temperatures and higher than normal rainfall throughout the Willamette Valley. Thunderstorms that flooded streets and struck trees with lightning bolts in the Beaverton area also added to the woes of Willamette Valley farmers. Those who grow cherries for the maraschino market have suffered serious losses from rains cracking their fruit even before it is ripe, said Tom Valterza, Department of Agriculture spokesman. "Their cherry crop is not a total loss, but it is not up to normal," he said. Strawberries have suffered from rot due to the rain as well as from heavy ash fallout in some areas, he said. The prolonged rainy, cloudy weather has hit the hay crop in the Willamette Valley particularly hard, he said. "Much of the hay crop is still standing, well past its prime, because it has been too cool and wet to cut. It loses its nutritive value fast once past its prime," he said. Farmers who have cut their hay have suffered heavy losses from mold and rot for lack of drying weather. Others have chopped their hay and let it ferment for use as silage, he said. "This will mean a hefty increase in prices for livestock owners who have to buy their hay," he said. Growers of row crops also will suffer if they don't get some growing weather soon, he added. "It is the wettest year since 1971 so far," Valterza said. Light rain was recorded throughout most of Western Oregon overnight, but thunderstorms dumped up to an inch in isolated areas. === Page 36 of 46 I am daily using psi and other dimensional force to control world weather... and this action is causing weather anomalies. Owens Oregonian June 29, 1980 # Searing heat continues; death toll at 18 DALLAS (AP) -- City and electric power company officials pleaded with residents Saturday to keep home air conditioners running or seek public shelter from a heat wave that already has been blamed for at least 18 deaths. The mercury climbed to 117 in Wichita Falls Saturday afternoon, breaking the all-time record high of 116 set Friday. The record high for June 27 in Wichita Falls was 108, set in 1928. At 4 p.m., it was 112 at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, breaking the record for the date of 103 set in 1930. Dallas-Fort Worth registered 113 for the second day in a row Friday, the highest ever recorded. The early summer heat wave pushed temperatures to the 100-degree mark for the fourth straight day Saturday in Oklahoma. Residents of Albuquerque, N.M., endured their seventh straight day of 100-degree weather. Palm Springs, Calif., reported a reading of 110 degrees at midafternoon. In Los Angeles, midafternoon readings were in the mid-80s, and Los Angeles County lifeguards said beach attendance was high. Kansas and Missouri, however, got a breather from the hot spell, with Saturday's readings in the 80s and 90s. The artificial turf at Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium registered 140 degrees Friday night, and the city set a record at 108. At least 18 people in Texas have died of heatstroke or natural causes possibly aggravated by the heat. Hospital emergency rooms have been swamped with heat exhaustion and heatstroke victims. Dallas County medical examiners said the heat could have played a role in the deaths by natural causes of three people brought in Friday night and early Saturday. Field agent Bill Lene said autopsies would be performed on five more people who died Saturday to see if the heat was responsible. "Any time you have a big shift in the temperature, there are more people dying ... in un-air-conditioned areas," Lene said. "We can't always determine if the heat brought on the deaths, but it figures in the investigation. When it's 95-100, we don't see this." Officials reported an illegal alien was found lying on a street near a hospital in the border city of Laredo. The unidentified man had a temperature of 110 and was immersed in ice water, but he died Thursday. At least five of the Dallas-area victims were found in homes with either no air conditioning or broken units. One man had turned the coolers off to save money. ## Why Texas Swelters Low pressure over Oklahoma traps high pressure over Texas ********** Southwesterly winds bring warm air from higher elevations into the low pressure system ********** Air builds-up at higher levels and is pulled downward by the high pressure system ********** Warm falling air prevents clouds from forming ********** The air is trapped in the system becoming stagnant and warmer Ft. Worth Dallas Southwesterly Winds - World "Power" & Rain Attack - # Texas still sweltering; storm rakes Maryland Columbia 6/30/80 By The Associated Press Rapidly moving weather systems spawned tornadoes and violent thunderstorms in parts of the North and Northeast, but oppressive heat still baked Texas and other sections of the South and Southwest today. A sudden storm hit Baltimore late Sunday afternoon, injuring dozens and leaving thousands without power. A tornado touched down in a crowded children's zoo and high winds overturned a stage at a German folk festival at the Baltimore waterfront. In addition, authorities said at least five people were reported missing in boating accidents in Maryland as a result of the storm. In Illinois, two men were killed in a fire in a mobile home which authorities said was struck by lightning. Authorities in Alabama said heavy thunderstorms rumbled across the central part of the state Sunday evening, causing widespread power outages and at least three injuries in the Tuscaloosa area. Hail, high winds and thunderstorms were recorded across most of New York state Sunday afternoon and evening, leaving some roadways flooded, power out in spots and tree branches strewn about, but apparently little major damage. The National Weather Service in Buffalo said at least four funnel clouds drifted over western New York, but none apparently touched down. In Ulster County, where heavy rains caused severe flooding in March, more than 3 inches of rain fell in one downpour but authorities said streams were within their banks Sunday night. Meanwhile, the week-long heatwave that has been blamed for up to 42 deaths in the Southwest persisted. The heat has been also blamed for aggravating forest fires in Arizona and the Colorado Rockies. In Wichita Falls, Texas Sunday, the mercury reached a record 112 degrees. === Page 37 of 46 Oregonian June 29, 1980 - "Power" stack - (nuclear shut down) # After 4 minutes Radioactive gas venting halted MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Radiation alarms sounded four minutes after authorities began releasing radioactive krypton gas from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant Saturday, forcing a delay in the long-awaited venting effort. Tests showed no excess radiation was released in the 8 a.m. incident, but officials ordered tests Saturday night to work out problems with radiation detectors. The radioactive gas was released into the reactor's containment building when the system was damaged by overheating on March 28, 1979, in the nation's worst accident involving a commercial reactor. The gas must be removed before workers can begin cleaning up the building. A picnic celebrating the long-awaited venting effort was held through the afternoon near the plant. Met Ed employees and their families wore buttons reading "Friends and Family of TMI." Police reported no mass exodus of anxious residents, and some people even had garage sales advertised as "Krypton Venting Sales." Saturday's venting was stopped because the alarms indicated that excessive amounts of radioactive particles were being released. Later tests by Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's operator, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicated the readings were not accurate and that the releases were the minimal amount expected. Harold Denton of the NRC said the problem occurred because the initial rush of krypton through the monitors causes an overly high reading before the flow stabilizes and the monitor settles to a true reading. The alarm that caused the delay was on a monitor designed to detect radioactive dust particles that may escape filters as the gas is pumped from the building. Sensors to detect radioactive gases such as krypton did not go off. "What happened was the monitor saw krypton and thought it was particulate," Denton said. During a five-hour testing period that began at 5 p.m., authorities planned to process the krypton at a very slow rate and watch the response of the radiation monitors. But the testing was shut down temporarily at 7:08 p.m. because thunderstorms in the area hampered off-site monitoring, said Met Ed spokesman David Crippen. The off-site monitoring mainly involved "people out in the field with instruments," Crippen said. "We just can't have them standing out there in thunderstorms." The test venting had increased the flow of air through the system from 5 to 10 cubic feet per minute at 5 p.m. to 75 cubic feet per minute when the procedure was shut down shortly after 7 p.m., Crippen said. No abnormalities were observed, he added. Robert Arnold, chief of the recovery effort for Met Ed, said the earliest that routine venting would resume would be 2 p.m. Sunday. Crippen said Saturday night's temporary shutdown was not expected to delay that. Arnold said a few thousand curies of krypton could be released during the testing period. The containment building holds gas with radioactivity of 57,000 curies. Denton said the instrument response was not foreseen because it had not been tested with sufficient amounts of krypton. Up to 300 cubic feet of air passed through the system before the shutdown, releasing 12 curies of krypton gas to the air. That was just a fraction of the 57,000 curies to be emitted during the next two to four weeks. === Page 38 of 46 - World "Rain" Attack - 6/29/80 # Rainy weather wreaks havoc with Wimbledon courts, play By WILL GRIMSLEY WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- One of the British newspapers Saturday carried a half-page cartoon showing Wimbledon's Center Court completely engulfed in water, a rescue boat in the background and an umpire on his stand beneath an umbrella, pointing. "Miss Navratilova went down just about there!" the caption says. Such is the story of the 103rd All England Championships, plagued by intermittent showers, thunderstorms and hailstorms, delays and frustrations. Oldtimers say they don't remember a more miserable Wimbledon in terms of weather. Fred Hoyles, the official referee, said the tournament was 100 matches behind going into Friday's play and at least one full round off schedule. "We managed to pick up 20 matches Friday, when there was no interruption for the first time this week," Hoyles said. "If there is no other rain, we hope to pick up 20 or 30 a day." Squalls still were playing around the southeast coast of England as the first week drew to an end, and there was no assurance that the tournament would get a blessing for the final week's competition. Forecasts have been favorable. However, Londoners long ago learned that "favorable" in a weather forecast means "don't bet on it." While the blue-coated All England committee is gritting it out and loyal fans are taking the punishment without a whimper, the weeping skies are getting on the nerves of the competitors. "I was tiptoeing over the court, it was so slippery out there," said defending champion Martina Navratilova after being forced to three sets by South Africa's Tanya Harford. "I was afraid I might hurt myself. I couldn't tell whether the ball was going to bounce two feet high or five feet to the left." John McEnroe, the U.S. Open champion and No. 2 seed here, complained that players weren't able to adjust themselves properly to the conditions. "Half the time you don't know when you're going on or how long you'll play," he said. Tracy Austin, second-seeded in the women's division, agreed with McEnroe. "It's exhausting just waiting around the locker room," she said. "You think you may play in 40 minutes, and then the rain will come. Then you get on the court, play 30 minutes, come back and wait some more. On Tuesday, I stayed around until 7 o'clock and still didn't get to play." Forced to three sets by Barabara Potter in Saturday's third-round match, Austin said: "The court was so chopped up, I couldn't return service. I felt I was playing in a mud puddle." Associated Press Laserphoto WEATHER EYE -- Defending Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova peers from dressing room window. Scene has been rainy since famed English tennis tournament began last week. Billie Jean King, six-time singles champion and holder of a record 20 Wimbledon titles in all divisions, said the backlog was particularly tough on players entered in more than one event. "You play one match and then rush out and play another," she said. "It's very exhausting. You can't concentrate on the singles, for instance. You don't want to let your partners down." Billie Jean is the tournament's "iron woman," teaming with Navratilova in women's doubles and Dick Stockton in mixed doubles. Several other players are in two events. Bjorn Borg, seeking his fifth straight men's crown, concentrates on singles. The intermittent storms have been sweeping old Wimbledon since the first day, in and out, causing delays lasting from a few minutes to several hours. Friday -- the fourth day -- was the only session of the opening week that managed to be completed without interruption. There was a slight delay at the opening of Saturday's play, but the rain subsided and the program continued under leaden skies on soggy grass. But the fans, armed with raincoats and umbrellas, continued to queue up for close to a mile on Church Road, waiting to get into grounds where many are lucky to catch a glimpse of one match. === Page 39 of 46 Note: Using my Powers, am going to get rain and food to World Owens EAST AFRICA A Harvest of Despair The world's hungriest continent reels under a new famine After the famine that killed an estimated quarter of a million people in West Africa in the early '70s, the 36-member United Nations World Food Council vowed to create a world without hunger within a decade. Today that ambitious goal seems more distant than ever. Over the decade, Africa has become the world's hungriest continent. Food production has increased by about 1% a year, while its population has grown nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"-a euphemism for widespread famine- 23 are in Africa. West Africa still suffers from chronic drought, but the deadly hunger there has been brought under control with emergency food supplies from developed nations. But now famine has struck again, this time in East Africa. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports: From the sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases. The situation is not likely to improve in the near future. The FAO warns that "unfavorable crop conditions" now prevail in almost every nation in East Africa and that without massive infusions of outside aid, several million East Africans may starve; thousands are dying every day. Says Robert Kitchen, a United Nations official in Nairobi: "From the Red Sea south, this area is on a collision course with disaster." The tragedy is in part the result of drought. For the past two years, the normally dependable rains that usually begin in March have arrived behind schedule-or not at all. This has disrupted planting from Somalia to Mozambique. In Kenya, a six-week delay in the rainy season contributed to a decline in milk production from 700,000 liters to 400,000 liters a day; milk, butter and baby formula virtually disappeared from the stores. Human failings have been even more detrimental. In Kenya, says a U.N. expert, "90% of the trouble comes from bad marketing policies." Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market. It also agreed to supply 8,000 tons of emergency food to Uganda, where the harvest had been destroyed during the chaos of Tanzania's war against Idi Amin. When last year's cereal crop fell short by 400,000 tons, largely because farmers stopped planting, the country cut off the shipments to Uganda after supplying only 80 tons, and was forced to buy heavily on international grain markets after accepting a U.S. donation of 60,000 tons. In Tanzania, the lack of modern storage facilities forced the government to export 259,000 tons of grain and other food stuffs last year-almost enough to cover the 280,000-ton shortfall it expects in 1980. The natural and man-made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched to the area by the post-Amin regime have often joined in the attacks on the local populace. In late May, Tanzanian soldiers barged into the Catholic hospital in Abim, dragged away five patients, including a six-year-old boy, and shot them to death outside the hospital gate. A week later, Ugandan troops invaded the hospital and killed five staff members. The famine in Karamoja has broken down all sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse." What is needed is a complete overhaul of food production systems in the region: irrigation networks to increase the harvests, modern silos in areas like Tanzania to store the surplus, and better distribution methods to get the food to those who need it. But even if these ambitious plans are vigorously carried out, they cannot save the multitudes that are starving now. Says an FAO food expert: "No matter what we do now, millions will die." Adds World Food Council Executive Director Maurice Williams: "I wish I could say I had hope for the future, but I fear that we are headed for a period of permanent food crisis in Africa." Unable to feed her child, a woman in Karamoja begs at a mission "No matter what we do now, millions will die." 34 TIME, JUNE 30, 1980 === Page 40 of 46 Australia MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1980 Sydney Morning Herald 32 PAGES 20 CENTS* - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Wind tears through Blue Mts By RICHARD MACEY Strong winds which lashed the Blue Mountains yesterday left widespread damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Police, State emergency workers, fire-fighters and volunteers, some from as far away as Blacktown, had answered 96 calls for help by 6 pm. The wind, which reached 110 km/h, spent most of its force in Wentworth Falls, Katoomba and Blackheath, where dozens of homes, shops and buildings were unroofed. ## 'Roof going up and down' More than 20 girls were sleeping in their rooms at The Assembly of God Commonwealth Bible College in Katoomba when the wind began tearing at the roof about 3 a.m. "The roof was going up and down and we knew it was going to come off," the elderly couple from a house in Tablelands Road, Wentworth Falls, because the windows had blown in," the State Emergency Controller for the Blue Mountains, Mr David Sanson, said. "The whole place was vibrating in the wind and we thought it was going to come down," Mr Sanson added. "The winds were incredible," Mr Sanson said. "They were the strongest I have seen in my six years up here." The roof of another home in Tablelands Road was torn away as a workman, Mr Paul Janovics, hid inside. ## Two hurt as wall collapses "I was really scared," he said. "The wind only lasted a second but that was enough to rip off the roof and do about $2,000 damage." Builders completed the house only on Friday. Two State Emergency Service workers suffered minor abrasions when part of a garage wall collapsed on them as they were trying to secure the roof of a house in Wentworth Falls. In the Snowy Mountains, the worst blizzard for eight years blocked roads and stranded weekend travellers. A spokesman at the Cooma Visitors' Centre said the whole of the mountains area was covered with an average 75cm of snow after heavy falls which began on Friday night. Travellers at Guthega were still snowed-in last night. Many people had to be carried from Thredbo in cross-snow transports. The weather bureau expects snow to continue above 1,000 metres in the Snowy Mountains. PAGE 3: Pictures of damage; story of rescue in high seas. === Page 41 of 46 World "Power" and Rain Attack # South sizzles as tornadoes batter East Oregon Journal 6/30/80 By United Press International Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms battered states from the Atlantic to the Midwest, forcing panic-stricken visitors to flee for cover at the Baltimore Zoo. Another round of oven-like temperatures was expected to bake the Southwest Monday. Clean-up and utility crews worked to restore power and clear away debris from a series of violent thunderstorms Sunday that raked parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. The Dallas County Medical Examiner's office said relentless heat was responsible for at least five deaths. Another 25 in the Dallas area and three others in Fort Worth are being investigated as possibly heat-related. Brutal heat also was responsible for four deaths in Oklahoma and three in Arkansas, for an area-wide total of 40 possible heat deaths. With the exception of a 6-month-old girl, the Dallas victims have been older than 50, most of them unable to afford air conditioning. Jack Paup of the National Weather Service said North Texas' temperatures likely will moderate slightly during the next few days before the heat wave eases on Thursday. "Each day will probably be 1 to 2 degrees cooler than the day before," he said. "But it's still going to get up above 105 for a while." Dallas recorded a record 108 degrees Sunday, with the mercury peaking at 112 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Triple-digit temperatures caused an Oklahoma highway to explode. About 4,000 people were enjoying an afternoon in the Baltimore Zoo Sunday when a tornado ripped through the grounds, downing hundreds of trees, injuring three persons and killing three birds. Trees fell on top of animal cages, killing two storks and a vulture and causing an estimated $50,000 in damages. Most of the zoo's 12,000 animals were unharmed. "It was pretty scary. My kids were doing pretty good until the adults started screaming and hollering," said Lawrence Littleton of Salisbury. "We rushed to the elephant home. A couple of people fell and were trampled." In a nearby trailer park, a tornado injured 10 persons, overturned six trailers and damaged or destroyed 18 others. Raging thunderstorms and 75 mph winds raked Southern Illinois, leaving up to 60,000 residents without electricity and causing up to $300,000 in damage in what some officials said was the worst storm in two decades. Power company technicians and clean-up crews worked Monday to clean up debris and restore power to about 20,000 residents. Hardest hit was Murphysboro, a town of about 10,000, where three tornadoes were sighted and Mayor Michael Bowers declared a state of emergency. Thunderstorms knocked out power for almost 30,000 homes in three southern Pennsylvania counties. Fires started by lightning caused minor injuries to 14 firefighters who battled blazes in Dauphin County and in Eden, Pa. "Power + Rain Attack" ## Leak shuts nuclear unit RED WING, Minn. (AP) -- Northern States Power Co. will shut down one unit of its Prairie Island nuclear generating plant because of a radioactive leak, a company spokesman said Tuesday. Steve London, media services supervisor, said Unit 1 would be shut down because the "leakage rate has increased." He would not supply any figures. The leak was discovered late Saturday night in the steam generator of Unit 1, utility spokesman Wayne Kaplan said Monday. "The leak is barely detectible and has not affected plant operations," Kaplan had said in an announcement Monday. "The total amount of radioactive gas being vented into the atmosphere is well below the limits allowed for safe operation of the plant." He said officials had not determined the cause of the leak, which was described Monday as .006 gallons of radioactive water per minute. Oregonian 7/2/80 "Power" Attack ## N-shutdown 'safe' KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman said Saturday an early morning shutdown was carried out safely at a unit of the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama despite a malfunction involving the reactor's control rods. "There was no release of radioactive material," TVA spokesman Mike Butler said. "There was no danger to the public." Butler said 68 of 185 reactor control rods failed to fully insert in the reactor core when the unit was manually tripped to begin a four-day shutdown to repair a leaking feed water line. Oregonian 6/29/80 === Page 42 of 46 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Maryland twisters injure 34 Seattle Times 6/30/80 BALTIMORE - (AP) - At least 34 persons were injured yesterday and power was knocked out as a line of tornadoes and thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high wind swept through Maryland, authorities said. The injured included five persons hurt when a twister touched down in the children's section of the Baltimore Zoo, police reported. About 61,000 homes and businesses in the Baltimore area remained without electricity after the storms, which had at one time knocked out power to up to 100,000 customers. A major highway south of the city was blocked by toppled lines and trees. On Chesapeake Bay, Maryland marine police reported five people missing in boating accidents. Two of those were occupants of a rubber raft which capsized near Fort Smallwood in Baltimore County. Marine police said dozens of boats were capsized and at least three destroyed as the rapid line of storms swept across Chesapeake Bay. City hospitals reported at least 22 injured. They included those from the zoo, at least eight others hurt while attending a German festival in the city's Inner Harbor, and two city fire fighters whose engine swerved off a road to avoid a tree that crashed in front of them. Ten persons were hurt when a tornado smashed into a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a military installation about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore, state police said. Hospital officials said the other injuries were to persons in scattered locations. According to a police spokesman, the main link between Baltimore and Annapolis, Ritchie Highway, was closed by downed power lines and fallen trees. The tornado hit the zoo around closing time. Five people were taken to hospitals. One child was sprayed with broken glass, another victim was a woman, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage, and a third victim, a woman, was trapped in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Details were not immediately available on the other injuries. No animals escaped, zoo officials said, but several birds in the zoo's collection were killed when a tree fell on top of them. A zoo official said there were about 4,000 people at the zoo when the tornado hit. - World "Rain" Attack - # Mexico rain not enough MEXICO CITY (AP) - Rain sprinkled the scorched farm lands of northern Mexico last week, but a yearlong drought is still causing crop and livestock damage and threatening the supply of electricity to Mexico City and its suburbs. "The rains are going to help a little, but not enough," said Manuel Muruato, a weather bureau official in the northern state of Chihuahua. He said heavy rains had fallen in the mountainous regions of Urique, Chinipas and Guadalupe y Calvo, along the Chihuahua-Sonora state border. But there was only light rainfall in the lowlands around Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, where there are more cattle ranches and farm land, Muruato reported. Temperatures in the drought area are still peaking at 107-111 degrees, according to weather office reports. Oregonian 6/29/80 - drought fair - === Page 43 of 46 - "Power" and "Rain" Attack - # 34 injured as tornadoes rip Maryland Oregonian June 30, 1980 **By LINDA DUFFIELD** BALTIMORE (AP) - At least 34 people were injured Sunday as power was knocked out as a line of tornadoes and thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high wind swept through Maryland, authorities said. The injured included five people hurt when an apparent twister touched down in the children's section of the Baltimore Zoo, police reported. About 61,000 homes and businesses in the metropolitan Baltimore area remained without electricity six hours after the storms, which had at one time knocked power to up to 100,000 customers. A major highway south of the city was blocked by toppled lines and trees. On Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Marine Police reported five people missing in boating accidents. Two of those were occupants of a rubber raft which capsized near Fort Smallwood in Baltimore County, they said. City hospitals reported at least 22 injured, including those from the zoo, at least eight others hurt while attending a German festival in the city's Inner Harbor and two city firefighters whose engine swerved off a road to avoid a tree that crashed down in front of them. Hospital officials said the other injuries were to people in scattered locations. Two other injuries were reported by Marine Police - a woman in shock and a child who swallowed water. They were taken to hospitals after being removed from a boat on Chesapeake Bay. Ten persons were hurt when a tornado smashed into a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a military installation about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore, state police said. Two of the injured - one from the zoo and one from a boat accident in the Chesapeake Bay - were flown to University Hospital's shock-trauma unit in critical condition. Marine Police said dozens of boats were capsized and at least three destroyed as the rapid line of storms swept across the Chesapeake Bay. One man was injured when his boat sank in high winds and he was struck by a second boat. One of those at the shock-trauma unit was an unidentified woman whose leg got caught in part of the stage at the Inner Harbor when it was blown over. "The storm hit at 4 p.m. and the stage was the first thing to go. People were everywhere and they were hit by flying debris and they were slipping and falling in the mud, but the crowd was fantastic, there was no panic," said Pamela Somers, operations director for special events for the city. According to state police spokesman William Clark, Ritchie Highway, the main link between Baltimore and Annapolis, was closed by downed power lines and fallen trees. Clark said three other tornadoes touched down in St. Marys County in southern Maryland late Sunday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. Police Sgt. George Bewley said the tornado "slammed into the zoo around closing time..." Five people were taken to hospitals from the zoo, according to officials. One child was sprayed with broken glass, another victim was a woman, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage and a third victim, a woman, was trapped in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Details were not immediately available on the other injuries. "No animals escaped to the best of our knowledge," said Zoo Director Steve Graham. But he added that several birds in the zoo's collection were killed when a tree fell on top of them. - "Power" Attack - # Dam workers face discipline over 'sickout' The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awaited shift changes Friday to see if nonunion civilian hourly employees would heed a warning that they face disciplinary action if they continue their "sickout" over a federal wage freeze that limited government pay increases. Several hundred powerhouse operators and maintenance personnel joined the sickout at 18 dams in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana to protest what they view as an inadequate wage boost. McNary Dam workers were calling in sick again Friday after only two of 60 hourly employees showed up Thursday. The dam near Umatilla has the earliest morning shift change of the hydroelectric facilities on the Columbia River system in Oregon. Army Corps of Engineers supervisors have taken over jobs normally performed by the hourly employees and officials have pledged to keep electricity flowing from turbines installed in the dams. Oregon Journal 6/27/80 Related story, page 4 === Page 44 of 46 World "Power" and Rain Attack # Tornados, Wind And Rain Injure 30 in Maryland June 30, 1980 BALTIMORE (AP) -- A series of tornados, accompanying heavy thunderstorms and high winds, swept across Maryland late yesterday afternoon, injuring at least 30 people, authorities said. Maryland Natural Resources Police said two occupants of a rubber raft were missing and presumed drowned in Chesapeake Bay. City hospitals reported at least 20 injured, including four persons hurt when what police said was a tornado slammed into the children's section of the Baltimore Zoo. Eight of the 20 were injured, some by flying debris, at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, a waterfront park where a German festival was under way, according to Pamela Somers, operations director for special events for the city. Ten people were hurt when a tornado smashed into a trailer park at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a military installation about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore, authorities said. Two of the injured -- one from the zoo and one from a boat accident in Chesapeake Bay -- were flown to University Hospital's shock-trauma unit in critical condition. Marine police said dozens of boats were capsized and at least three destroyed as the rapid line of storms swept across Chesapeake Bay. One man was injured when his boat sank in high winds and he was struck by a second boat. Charles Franklin, a spokesman for Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., said at least 100,000 customers in the metropolitan area were without power last evening and said there was no indication when the power would be restored. One of those at the shock-trauma unit was an unidentified woman whose leg got caught in part of the stage at the Inner Harbor when it was blown over. "The storm hit at 4 p.m. and the stage was the first thing to go. People were everywhere and they were hit by flying debris and they were slipping and falling in the mud, but the crowd was fantastic, there was no panic," Mrs. Somers said. According to state police spokesman William Clark, Ritchie Highway, the main link between Baltimore and Annapolis, was closed by downed power lines and fallen trees. Police Sgt. George Bewley said the tornado "slammed into the zoo around closing time...." Four persons were taken to Provident Hospital from the zoo, according to zoo officials, police and hospital officials. One child was sprayed with broken glass, another victim was a woman, who reportedly suffered a miscarriage, and a third victim, a woman, was trapped in a car crushed by a fallen tree. Details were not immediately available on the fourth injury. === Page 45 of 46 Note: Using my powers, am going to get rain and food to this part of the World Owens EAST AFRICA # A Harvest of Despair ## The world's hungriest continent reels under a new famine After the famine that killed an estimated quarter of a million people in West Africa in the early '70s, the 36-member United Nations World Food Council vowed to create a world without hunger within a decade. Today that ambitious goal seems more distant than ever. Over the decade, Africa has become the world's hungriest continent. Food production has increased by about 1% a year, while its population has grown nearly three times as quickly, from an estimated 350 million to 470 million. Of the 29 countries classified by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as suffering from "abnormal food shortages"--a euphemism for widespread famine--23 are in Africa. West Africa still suffers from chronic drought, but the deadly hunger there has been brought under control with emergency food supplies from developed nations. But now famine has struck again, this time in East Africa. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports: From the sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million refugees from the unresolved conflicts in Ethiopia's Eritrea, Tigre and Ogaden areas swelter in squalid relief camps, where thousands have already died from malnutrition and a host of hunger-related diseases. The situation is not likely to improve in the near future. The FAO warns that "unfavorable crop conditions" now prevail in almost every nation in East Africa and that without massive infusions of outside aid, several million East Africans may starve; thousands are dying every day. Says Robert Kitchen, a United Nations official in Nairobi: "From the Red Sea south, this area is on a collision course with disaster." The tragedy is in part the result of drought. For the past two years, the normally dependable rains that usually begin in March have arrived behind schedule--or not at all. This has disrupted planting from Somalia to Mozambique. In Kenya, a six-week delay in the rainy season contributed to a decline in milk production from 700,000 liters to 400,000 liters a day; milk, butter and baby formula virtually disappeared from the stores. Human failings have been even more detrimental. In Kenya, says a U.N. expert, "90% of the trouble comes from bad marketing policies." Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market. It also agreed to supply 8,000 tons of emergency food to Uganda, where the harvest had been destroyed during the chaos of Tanzania's war against Idi Amin. When last year's cereal crop fell short by 400,000 tons, largely because farmers stopped planting, the country cut off the shipments to Uganda after supplying only 80 tons, and was forced to buy heavily on international grain markets after accepting a U.S. donation of 60,000 tons. In Tanzania, the lack of modern storage facilities forced the government to export 259,000 tons of grain and other food stuffs last year--almost enough to cover the 280,000-ton shortfall it expects in 1980. The natural and man-made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched to the area by the post-Amin regime have often joined in the attacks on the local populace. In late May, Tanzanian soldiers barged into the Catholic hospital in Abim, dragged away five patients, including a six-year-old boy, and shot them to death outside the hospital gate. A week later, Ugandan troops invaded the hospital and killed five staff members. The famine in Karamoja has broken down all sense of humanity and cooperation among the local people. Relief workers watched recently as adult men snatched chunks of meat out of the mouths of children gathered around the bony carcass of a freshly slaughtered cow. Says a missionary: "This is a microcosm of everything that can go wrong in Africa: no food, no security, no medicine. And it can only get worse." What is needed is a complete overhaul of food production systems in the region: irrigation networks to increase the harvests, modern silos in areas like Tanzania to store the surplus, and better distribution methods to get the food to those who need it. But even if these ambitious plans are vigorously carried out, they cannot save the multitudes that are starving now. Says an FAO food expert: "No matter what we do now, millions will die." Adds World Food Council Executive Director Maurice Williams: "I wish I could say I had hope for the future, but I fear that we are headed for a period of permanent food crisis in Africa." Unable to feed her child, a woman in Karamoja begs at a mission "No matter what we do now, millions will die." TIME, JUNE 30, 1980 === Page 46 of 46 SUMMER VACATION PLAN FOR FAMILY CAMPING EXXON DISREGARD PACIFIC OCEAN NORTH BEACH Oysterville Ocean Park Nahcotta Klipsan Beach Long Beach Seaview Ilwaco Fort Stevens Hammond Warrenton Astoria Svensen Knappa Wauna Westport Clatskanie Marshland Rainier Prescott Goble Deer Island Columbia City St. Helens Warren Scappoose Linnton Portland Vancouver Camas Washougal Skamania North Bonneville Cascade Locks Stevenson Carson Cook Underwood White Salmon Bingen Lyle Wishram Maryhill Rufus Biggs Miller Celilo The Dalles Mosier Hood River Cascade Locks Bridal Veil Corbett Troutdale Fairview Gresham Milwaukie Gladstone Oregon City West Linn Lake Oswego Tualatin Sherwood Newberg Dundee Lafayette McMinnville Amity Sheridan Willamina Grand Ronde Otis Lincoln City Gleneden Beach Depoe Bay Otter Rock Agate Beach Newport South Beach Seal Rock Waldport Yachats Florence Gardiner Reedsport Winchester Bay Lakeside Hauser North Bend Coos Bay Charleston Bandon Langlois Port Orford Gold Beach Brookings Harbor SALEM Keizer Brooks Gervais Woodburn Hubbard Aurora Canby Molalla Silverton Mt. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8007 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e39264f8713c936509134668705a8eec.pdf 4c3891654193075104bd0e9a2b9ef4ff https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/89b947dbf867889e75ac4c1a6986dad1.txt 65c4019b876877630e0469d178f86246 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY. DROUGHT REVIEW AUSTRALIA NUMBER 120 Issued July 1980 I got this in my other job and saved it for some other time. It is a classic. It has done more to help me understand himself than anything else I have read. It is as rare as England! "Get lost, Owens." Ted === Page 2 of 5 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY GPO Box 1289K MELBOURNE VIC 3001 STATEMENT ON DROUGHT ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF METEOROLOGY ON 8 JULY 1980 The Director of Meteorology, Dr J.W. Zillman, said today that on the basis of the five-month period ending 30 June 1980 only a few relatively small pockets of severe rainfall deficiency remain in Australia. Parts of the Northwest Plains, in the vicinity of Moree, New South Wales, constitute one such area; the other is made up of the southern section of the New South Wales South Coast and parts of East Gippsland and northeastern Victoria. On the basis of a three-month period, on the other hand, a small area around Corrigin and Kondindin, in South Central Western Australia, is also in a severely deficient rainfall situation. In addition to the above, some areas of the country continue to be in a state of serious rainfall deficiency. Rainfall in June over most of Queensland - except for parts of the North Coast - was much below average. This has lengthened the period of serious deficiency in the southwest of that State. In New South Wales, much of the Hunter district and a small area of the Northwest Slopes are in a similar condition for the five-month period, despite near average June rainfall. Much of the New South Wales Northwest Plains, and extending over the border into Queensland's West Darling Downs, is also seriously deficient in rainfall, on this basis. Further south, serious deficiencies continue on the South Coast and Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and in northeastern Victoria. In contrast to the areas of rainfall deficiency, parts of Australia received rainfall that was very much above average for June. Most significantly, the De Grey, Fortescue and Gascoyne districts in Western Australia were in this category, and damaging floods occurred at Carnarvon. Rainfall was also very much above average for June in the Southeast of Western Australia, in the Lower North of South Australia, and in East Central Victoria. The map shows the extent and severity of rainfall deficiencies at the end of June, while the tables provide statistics of rainfall in and near the affected areas. === Page 3 of 5 INTRODUCTION In June average to well above average rainfall occurred over most of southeastern Australia, much of which was associated with a storm towards the end of the month. Falls over the far southeast of New South Wales were, however, very much below average. In Western Australia rain bearing systems that moved southeastwards across the upper west coast caused very much above average June rains in the Fortescue, West Gascoyne, Murchison and Southeast districts. In the southwest of the State, the month's rainfall was about average apart from a below average amount in the North Central district. June rainfall was well below average over most of Queensland and extending into inland northern New South Wales. Greater than average rainfall for the three months (April to June) was received over a wide area of country extending from the northwest coast of Western Australia, across the interior of that State, and through South Australia into western New South Wales and northwestern Victoria. The West Gascoyne and Murchison districts of Western Australia received record amounts of rain for this period. Heavy rain in May resulted in greater than average falls for the three months April to June between Bundaberg and Port Macquarie. Elsewhere in southern Australia the three months' rainfall totals were chiefly about average, the main exception being the very much below average totals over the extreme southeast corner of the continent. Very much below average rainfall totals for this period were also recorded in Queensland's Far Southwest district. Western Australia In June very much above average rains occurred in the Fortescue, West Gascoyne, Murchison and Southeast districts. The Kimberleys were rainless, which is usual for June. Elsewhere the month's rainfall was average or above, except for a below average amount in the North Central district. The three-month rainfall, April to June, showed a similar pattern. There was an extensive area of very much above average rainfall extending from the northwest coast across the interior with the West Gascoyne and Murchison districts receiving record amounts. In the North Central district, rainfall was much below average for this period. Northern Territory In June the usual rainless conditions were experienced in the southern areas except for some isolated rain around Nhulunbuy in the Arnhem district. The Alice Springs district received some light falls. The three month's rainfall, April to June, varied from above average in the Roper-McArthur and Alice Springs districts to below average in the Arnhem and Victoria districts. === Page 4 of 5 South Australia June rainfall was mostly above average with well above average amounts in the Upper and Lower North, West Central, Murray Valley and Murray Mallee districts. For the three months rainfall totals were above average throughout except for average totals in the Lower Southeast district. Districts recording very much above average totals were the Far North and the Lower North. Queensland June rainfall was well below average, being rainless in many districts, the only exceptions to this being the average to above average totals recorded in the South Peninsula and North Coast districts. Rainfall for the three months varied from above average in the Herbert, East Central Coast, and Moreton districts to very much below average in the North Peninsula and the Far Southwest districts. New South Wales June rainfall was mostly about average. However much above average totals were recorded in the Lower Darling district and very much below average totals were recorded in the Northwest Plains (East), South Coast and Snowy Mountains districts. The three-monthly rainfall was also mostly average. However, the Lower Darling and Northern Tablelands (East) districts received very much above average amounts for this period, while the South Coast and Snowy Mountains received very much below average amounts. Victoria All districts received average or better than average rainfall for June. Very much above average totals were recorded in the East Central district. The three-monthly rainfall was well above average over most of the west of the State and average elsewhere. Nevertheless, very much below average totals were recorded in East Gippsland. Tasmania June rainfall was average, except for a below average amount in the Derwent Valley district. The three-monthly totals were average in all districts except Midlands and Southeast where totals were below average. === Page 5 of 5 QLD Windorah ● Hungerford ● Goondiwindi ● BRISBANE Walgett ● Tamworth ● SA NSW Merriwa ● Wyong ● SYDNEY ADELAIDE ● CANBERRA ● Beechworth ● VIC MELBOURNE ● Sale ● Launceston ● TAS HOBART Rainfall deficiencies based on a selected network of telegraphic reporting stations. Serious Deficiency Severe Deficiency Rainfall deficiencies 5 months 1 February - 30 June 1980 Rainfall deficiencies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8007 STATEMENT Australia Drought Review Statement no 120 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c850cd8e36b2398acd46929825065e8d.pdf a725c092208c6ded4faf7da056d7c0d1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f7799ef9714ce780a759fd2699250240.txt ce65476f33e805f5b7facb64ceca5f4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 63 LIFE/STYLES Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aug. 5, 1980 8/5/80 # Did St. Helens Cast a Shadow Over Weather Of the World? World Power and Rain Attack By Julie Smith The volcano, some say, is making the world's weather all ash backwards. Mount St. Helens is being blamed for Texas baking, England soaking and Seattle graying. In England, an eminent climatologist says St. Helens could be the culprit. "IS the volcano affecting the weather?" Here is the response of weather watchers most knowledgeable about the possibility: It is unlikely but not to be discounted that the May 18 volcanic eruption is changing the earth's climate. First a discussion of dust particles, for example, plummeted to nighttime levels. "There are pockets as it were of ash being detected around the world still from that eruption," says J. Murray Mitchell, senior researcher for climatology at the Environmental Data and Information Service in Maryland. It takes a sensitive laser beam to see the ash. The layers are roughly estimated to be a half mile thick and 500 to 1,000 miles long and a few hundred miles wide. "But the amount of ash still up in the high atmosphere is so small" Note: It isn't Mt St. Helens changing the world's weather. It is PK Man's "Power and Rain Attack!!" Owens === Page 2 of 63 # UFOs & Psychic Experiences Linked to Natural Disasters **By LARRY MASIDLOVER** UFOs spotted in the vicinity of Washington's Mt. St. Helens before the volcano erupted add astounding new evidence to a massive computer study that links natural disasters with UFO sightings. Strange, hovering craft appeared just prior to the explosions, according to Robert Gribble, an official of Seattle's National UFO Reporting Center. "The first eruption was in March and we had a series of sightings just 50 miles northwest of the mountain in January," he said. "People were reporting large triangular-shaped objects moving at very low altitude. "Then a few weeks before the major eruption of May 18, a family made a daylight sighting of two large silver disc-shaped objects about 50 miles west of the mountain in January. "What's more, over the years we've come up with several hundred cases where UFO sightings have come either prior to, during or immediately after earthquakes," he said. Dr. Henry Monteith, a top government scientist who has spent years personally researching UFO reports, explained that UFOs probably cluster around natural disasters out of sheer curiosity. "Volcanic activity, for example, would be of extreme interest to the occupants of UFOs," he noted. Canadian scientist Dr. Michael A. Persinger recently finished a huge computer study which linked UFO sightings not only with natural disasters, but also poltergeist activity and psychic phenomena. His findings correspond with the sightings near Mt. St. Helens in Washington state. "Many UFO and unusual psychic events occur before the manifestation of a severe earth jolt or volcanic explosion," concluded Dr. Persinger, who analyzed more than 6,000 reports from all over the world of strange and unusual events of the last 160 years. "Many often occur in bursts some months or weeks before the occurrence of mid-magnitude seismic shocks." And these psychic events and appearances of UFOs may actually someday help us predict natural catastrophes, he says. **SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE in 1906 (above) followed reports of psychic experiences. And recent eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington (right) came shortly after UFOs were spotted near the volcano.** Dr. Persinger, associate professor of psychology and director of the environmental psychophysiology laboratory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, cited these startling examples: * On April 16, 1906, "a number of people in San Francisco received psychic experiences that something odd was about to happen," Dr. Persinger said. * "Two days later, the business district of San Francisco was destroyed by the great quake. At that same time there was a violent eruption of Vesuvius in Italy, volcanic eruptions in the Canary Islands and eruptions in Japan." * In 1967, dozens of people in Caracas, Venezuela, reported that they saw "little men, odd-shaped objects and ghosts before and after a July 31 earthquake." * In July 1972 in Missouri, there were various reports of giant humanoids, obnoxious smells, hairy creatures, UFOs, fireballs and disembodied voices -- during a huge solar storm. * Between July 7 and July 27, 1966, many people in the Salt Lake City area of Utah reported sighting a giant bird "usually described as a prehistoric flying reptile. Following that, balls of fire were reported in Utah and other parts of the country." * Just days before a series of earthquakes struck the Gulf of California region in March of 1969, there was a nationwide rash of UFO sightings. The same period saw widespread reports of strange creatures and humanoids. * In March of 1974 fish fell from the sky over northern Australia. And several months after that, the city of Darwin, in that region, was devastated by a cyclone. NATIONAL ENQUIRER Page 5 === Page 3 of 63 Aug. 6, 1980 # Heavy rain hits Kansas United Press International Thunderstorms stretched from the Texas Panhandle through the middle Mississippi Valley, bringing up to 5 inches of rain to parts of Kansas and causing property damage in Oklahoma. Heavy rain and lightning storms also flashed from New Jersey to New England Tuesday, causing power outages, downed power lines and the death of one motorcyclist who was struck by lightning. Vermont police said James Kelley, 22, of Melrose, N.Y., and a companion pulled their motorcycles off U.S. Route 7 and into a clump of trees to wait out a heavy thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning struck Kelley about 6:30 p.m., killing him. His companion was admitted to Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington. The heat wave returned to Dallas, Texas, where temperatures again rose above 100 degrees Tuesday after a one-day respite. Temperatures also passed the century mark in Oklahoma, and state officials said a severe water shortage will spread throughout the state if there is no relief from the six-week drought. Thunderstorms brought some welcome rainfall to Kansas -- but maybe too much in some areas. The National Weather Service reported 4 1/2 inches at Elmo, near Salina, and nearly 5 inches at Ellenwood. The thunderstorms hit central Kansas at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, causing numerous power outages. # Missouri, Kansas Get Needed Rain Kansas City Thunderstorms soothed drought-parched farms in Missouri and Kansas yesterday. Nearly 2.5 inches of rain soaked Topeka, Kan., which had gotten less than an inch and a half of rain the previous two months. The heavy rains over eastern Kansas and northern Missouri brought some relief to the drought-parched area, but triggered widespread minor flooding. The storms marked a second straight day of rain for some areas. The two-day rainfall for some sections of Kansas exceeded 5 inches. Aug 7-1980 S.F. Chronicle United Press # 30 Kids Drown in Storm Jakarta More than 30 schoolchildren drowned in a storm about 900 miles northeast of Jakarta last week, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. United Press Aug 6-80 S.F. Chronicle Aug 1-1980 Seat Times # Grass fires hit many areas Fast-moving grass fires blackened thousands of acres of parched land in the Midwest, West and Southwest yesterday. High winds, lack of rain and general drought threatened to make the situation worse. About 250 grass and woods fires in the past few days have destroyed 6,000 to 7,000 acres in Missouri. Idaho fire fighters yesterday contained a 6,200-acre blaze 20 miles east of Grasmere, after extinguishing a 920-acre range fire north of Mayfield late Wednesday. Both fires were caused by lightning. === Page 4 of 63 - "World" "Power" "and Rain Attack" - # Dangerous Hurricane Allen threatens Jamaica By IKE FLORES KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, one of the most dangerous storms ever in the eastern Caribbean, pummeled the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic as it brushed past and headed for Jamaica with winds of 170 mph. At least two persons were reported killed in Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The killer storm claimed 16 lives Monday in a devastating blow at the tiny island of St. Lucia. Eight deaths had been reported earlier, and officials said eight more bodies were found Tuesday in the towns of Soufriere and Choiseul. A radio distress call said two persons perished when a boat capsized in the wind-tossed harbor of Port au Prince, the Haitian capital, as the eye of the storm swept within 20 miles of Haiti's southwestern coast. Haiti's national radio said there was heavy damage in the coastal cities of of Les Cayes and Jacmel, and it was feared there were some deaths. It said the roofs of many buildings in Les Cayes blew away, roads were washed out and there was heavy flooding. An official at the Agricultural Ministry in Port au Prince said it was believed that the coffee crop, a major source of income for Haiti, had been virtually destroyed. Jamaica is expected to receive the full force of the hurricane early Wednesday, and Prime Minister Michael Manley went on national radio and television Tuesday night urging residents in low-lying areas to "move out now." He added, "I ask for God's blessing for this night." Forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurricane Center in Miami was asked about the possibility of the hurricane making a landfall in the United States, and said that was "something we won't know about for two or three days. A lot can happen to it after it goes through the islands, but nothing immediately indicates any strong signs or strong chances" it would strike the United States. Miami, the closest U.S. city, is about 575 miles north-northwest of Kingston, but Cuba lies between Jamaica and Miami. At 9 p.m. EDT, the U.S. National Weather Service in Miami said the "one-in-a-century type storm" had maximum winds of 170 mph and was about 20 miles south of the southwestern tip of Haiti and 180 miles east-southeast of Kingston. It said the hurricane, moving at about 20 mph, had turned slightly toward the northwest but was expected to resume a more west-northwesterly course. It said Allen's eye was located near latitude 17.8 north and longitude 74.0 west. The service said hurricane-force winds extend 60 miles to the north and 40 miles to the south, with gale-force winds fanning outward 175 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south. It reported hurricane warnings were in effect for Jamaica and southwestern Haiti, gale warnings were up for the southern zone of the Dominican Republic and a hurricane watch was ordered for the Cayman Islands. Strong winds and heavy rains would spread over eastern Cuba Tuesday night, the service said. Havana Radio reported Cuba's five eastern provinces, including Guantanamo, where the U.S. Navy has a large base, were placed on alert. The most recent storm to cause serious damage in Jamaica had winds of 75 mph -- less than half the force of Hurricane Allen -- when it struck on Aug. 17, 1951. That storm, unofficially called Charlie by weather forecasters, killed more than 150 people, caused severe damage in Kingston and destroyed the city of Port Royal. No hurricane has been potentially more destructive than Allen since Hurricane Camille caused widespread death and destruction along the U.S. Gulf Coast in 1969. Manley's government announced the closing of the international airports at Kingston and Montego Bay as of 7 p.m. and ended all bus service in Kingston as of 8 p.m. The government airline, Air Jamaica, suspended all flights Tuesday afternoon. Kingston radio stations asked that churches remain open to receive refugees. The opposition Jamaica Labor Party, locked in an election campaign with the ruling People's National party, said it was suspending political activities and instead would aid storm victims. Ralph Brown, minister for local government, said the first effects of Allen should be felt at about 3 a.m. Wednesday. At midday Tuesday, Kingston's streets were clogged with traffic, and nobody was seen boarding up windows or stocking up on supplies. "But that's typical of Jamaicans," said the owner of one small shop downtown. "They want to make sure it's really headed this way before they do any work to prepare. Everybody always waits until the last minute." In Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, 12-foot waves crashed against the seawall along the oceanside Avenida George Washington. In addition to the deaths on St. Lucia, Allen caused extensive damage on the eastern Caribbean island nation of 115,000 people. Roofs were ripped off numerous buildings, including the main hospital, in Castries, the capital. Agriculture Minister Peter Josie, in a radio address to St. Lucians, said, "This is certainly a time of crisis. It is time to come together and work to rebuild this country." He said people were jamming emergency relief headquarters seeking food. Tyrone Sutherland, a weather officer at the town of Vieux Fort near St. Lucia's southern coast, estimated 70 percent of the buildings there were damaged. Officials in Barbados, just south of the point where Allen entered the Caribbean from the Atlantic on Sunday night, reported 125 homes damaged, power lines down and almost 100 fishing boats destroyed or damaged Monday. They said they had received no reports of deaths or serious injuries. The hurricane was so intense that Puerto Rico, 250 miles away, received gusts up to 70 mph that knocked down trees, closing many roads Monday. Civil defense officials in San Juan said that by early afternoon Tuesday all but one road had been cleared. Hurricane Allen has the destructive potential of hurricanes that claimed 2,400 lives in Cuba in 1932 and more than 2,000 lives in Puerto Rico in 1899. It is a Category 5 storm, the worst level on the Miami hurricane center's scale of destructive force. Forecasters say Allen is only the sixth or seventh Category 5 hurricane in this century. - "World" "Power" and Rain Attack - === Page 5 of 63 World "Power" and Rain Attack Hurricane Gains Force, Rends St. Lucia CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, the most intense storm to ravage the eastern Caribbean in this century, delivered a devastating swipe at St. Lucia island yesterday, destroying hundreds of homes and causing at least eight deaths, officials reported. Planning Minister Michael Pilgrim called it "a national disaster." Weather service officials in Puerto Rico said the killer storm was still gaining strength, with winds peaking at 160 mph. Based on the plunging barometric pressure in the eye of the storm, the officials said it was the most intense hurricane to move through the eastern Caribbean's hurricane alley in this century. Allen, also the first hurricane of the season, swept just north of Barbados and south of St. Lucia and then moved westward, churning the open sea with its fury. Hurricane watches were ordered in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola. Weather service officials said the storm probably would not strike any land area for at least 12 hours, but Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands should expect heavy weather. Barbados was pummeled as Allen passed and there were unconfirmed reports of two storm-related deaths there. St. Lucia officials said there were eight known deaths on the small island and the toll was expected to rise as rescue teams looked for missing persons. The savage winds blew away part of the roof over wards at Victoria Hospital in Castries, the capital of St. Lucia. But Pilgrim said the greatest damage was inflicted in the Vieux Fort area at the southern tip of the island. Telephone service was disrupted, but Pilgrim said reports from Vieux Fort indicated the zone was "in a terrible state." He said his own home in the southern district had been "smashed apart." Uprooted trees fell across power lines and blocked roads, Pilgrim said, and torrential rains caused mudslides in some areas. A Venezuelan navy ship visiting Castries ran aground and scores of small boats were swept away, other officials said. All reports indicated that the banana crop, St. Lucia's main source of export earnings, was heavily damaged. World "Power" and Rain Attack Hurricane hits Barbados; winds, rain cause havoc BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, the first hurricane of the season, lashed this Caribbean island with gusty winds and heavy rain Sunday night, toppling power lines and flooding low-lying areas. There were reports of roads blocked by fallen trees in the sparsely populated northern part of the island. Hundreds of Barbadians went to community hurricane shelters but thousands more remained in their homes, and traffic was still moving on streets with the eye of the hurricane less than 40 miles to the east. By 8:30 p.m. much of the Bridgetown area was without electricity and the island's television station was knocked off the air by the power failure. Bridgetown's international airport was shut down Sunday afternoon. Supermarkets and hardware stores, usually closed on Sundays, opened for business in the morning so people could make last-minute preparations for the storm. Windows in some houses were boarded up as officials put the island on full hurricane alert. Barbados, with a population of 250,000, is 1,700 miles northeast of Venezuela. Residents of other Caribbean islands also were getting ready for Hurricane Allen, which was thrashing the sea with winds up to 125 mph. At 9 p.m. EDT, the National Weather Service office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said that the center of the hurricane was near latitude 13.2 north and longitude 59.5 west, placing it very near Barbados. It reported the storm was moving toward the west at about 20 mph, and a slight turn toward the west-northwest with a decrease in forward speed was expected during the next 24 hours. Maximum winds are 115 to 125 mph near the center, the weather service said, and gale force winds extend 125 miles to the north and 75 miles to the south. === Page 6 of 63 - World "Power" and Rain Attack - # Hurricane death toll hits 25 Aug 6, 1980 KINGSTON, Jamaica (UPI) - Mighty Hurricane Allen's 135 mph winds battered Haiti and the northeast coast of Jamaica Wednesday, then took dead aim at the tiny Cayman Islands and western Cuba. Allen's assault on the Caribbean left 25 people dead and caused millions of dollars in damage to Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Haiti and Jamaica. Hurricane forecasters warned that even though Allen's winds had dropped from a high of 170 mph, the storm could gain strength and if it continues on course "will go through the Yucatan channel and on into the Gulf." "Allen is not a dying storm," Miami hurricane forecaster Gil Clark said. "He has just lost strength because of his passage through the land masses. There is still the possibility the hurricane will become extremely severe again." In Jamaica, rising water covered roads along the bay at the capital of Kingston and the explosion of transformers on power poles could be heard over the howling winds. One death was reported when a man was electrocuted by a fallen electrical wire. Most of the damage was along the northeast coast where flooding inundated several towns. In the capital of Kingston the winds eased and the rain stopped. The city was coming back to life with pedestrian and motor traffic. But vultures could be seen circling eerily in the sky. There were four deaths reported unofficially in Haiti, where many more were injured by corrugated tin roofs - commonly used on shacks built by the poor - hurled through the air. Three people in Jeremie, on the northwest coastline of the southern peninsula, drowned and a child died in Port au Prince when a house collapsed on him. The hurricane killed 20 people in its slash across the Windward Islands before it hit the southwestern tip of Haiti with peak winds of 170 mph. It lost some power over the mountains. "Allen is moving towards the west-northwest at 20 mph," hurricane forecaster Neal Frank said. "The center is expected to pass over the Cayman Islands this afternoon and over western Cuba late tonight and early Thursday." At 6 a.m. PDT, the center of the storm was skirting the north-central coast of Jamaica 215 miles east of Grand Cayman Island and 115 miles east-southeast of Cayman Brac. Air Force reconnaissance reports indicated the central pressure was 956 millibars, or 28.23 inches of mercury. Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 135 mph with hurricane force winds extending outward 55 miles to the north and 35 miles to the south of the center. Gale force winds extended outward 175 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south. Clark said it was too early to know whether the storm would pose a threat to Mexico or the United States. But, he said, "if it turns into the Gulf it could hit the United States." Beverly Lewis in the Office of Disaster Preparedness said many roads in Kingston had been blocked by fallen utility poles and live wires were popping in the streets along the waterfront. Allen, described by forecasters as the third "great hurricane" of the century, made a slight shift to the north late Tuesday, causing officials to order a hurried evacuation of posh resort areas along Jamaica's northern coast. The area was reported safe from the harshest of Allen's winds early Wednesday. Ms. Lewis said the small parishes of St. Thomas and Portland, on the less densely populated northeast corner of the island nation, were expected to get the worst of the hurricane's fury. People fled the massive flooding on the northeast coast and crammed into emergency shelters on higher ground. Communications systems remained intact over most of the island, but intermittent power failures were reported frequently. As an emergency measure, radio stations were allowed on the air only one at a time to update residents on the storm. Ms. Lewis said more than 100 schools, churches, community centers had been opened as shelters in the two provinces. Volunteers pressed every car, bus and truck into the evacuation effort, she said. "Police in both parishes reported that people have heeded our appeal to leave their homes and go to the shelters," she said. Hurricane forecaster Paul Hebert said, "This is the most intense hurricane the eastern Caribbean has ever seen." The streets of Port Au Prince, Haiti's capital, were clogged with fallen trees and rubble. Telephone service between the city and the impoverished southern section of the island, where Hurricane Hazel's 125 mph winds killed an estimated 1,000 people in 1954, was out. Allen ranks No. 5, the highest rating of intensity. Storms that devastated the Florida Keys and just below the 1935 Labor Day Storm that devastated the Mississippi-Alabama Gulf Coast in 1969, which wrecked the Camille. === Page 7 of 63 CONTACTS August 6, 1980 Using my own psi-force methods and working in collaboration with my UFOs, The Egyptian Power and The Mayan Power... I have discovered to my own satisfaction that I can indeed control all or part of Earth (in specific ways) (weather, situations, ideas, populations.) There is no doubt whatsoever about it, in my experienced estimation; my work in coming to this conclusion, was not based on scientists or scientific procedures. It could not possibly be since the forces that I am working with do not have power physics that fall within the area of Earth science. Only my half-human, half-alien brain could properly evaluate my procedure and results. And it has done so. The work is valid. Owens (PK Man) PS... Should any humans kill me... even instantly... then a post-effect, which has been set up by myself and the UFO, quite like a post-hypnotic procedure, will be activated and the Earth and most of the human race === Page 8 of 63 - World "Power" + Rain Attack - Hurricane Allen death toll reaches 68 By IKE FLORES Oreg - Aug. 7, 1980 KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Hurricane Allen roared toward western Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday night, leaving behind at least 68 dead and a swath of devastation stretching more than 1,000 miles across the Caribbean. The furious storm raked Jamaica with 100 mph winds and torrential rain earlier Wednesday and skirted the Cayman Islands on its way north and west. Hurricane-whipped waves dragged a dozen people from their homes and into the sea at Port Maria on Jamaica's north coast, killing five of them, according to Jamaican news reports. One man was electrocuted by a downed power line and two others died in storm-related incidents. Officials feared the toll would rise dramatically with reports from isolated areas. The death count so far: 8 in Jamaica, 41 in Haiti, 3 in the Dominican Republic and 16 on the tiny eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia where Allen struck on Monday. In nearby Dominica, one person was missing and feared dead. Extreme western Cuba and the Isle of Pines were expected to suffer from the storm late Wednesday and early Thursday, and Allen's violent eye was expected to approach the northeast portion of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early Thursday, the National Weather Service said. If the storm threatens the United States it is not expected to be for several days. New Orleans, La., is 700 miles north-northwest of Havana. A gale warning was issued for the Florida Keys, on the northern fringe of Allen's course Wednesday night. Small boats along Florida's coast, 50 miles south of Fort Myers, were warned to stay in port. The storm, about 400 miles southwest of Miami, was moving west-northwest at 20-25 mph toward the Gulf of Mexico. In its 9 p.m. EDT report, the weather service said Allen had taken a slight westward turn and the eye of the storm was near latitude 20.3 north and longitude 82.3 west, or 180 miles south of Havana and 300 miles east of Cozumel, Mexico. Hurricane-force winds spread 75 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the center. Gales extended outward 200 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south. The weather service said Allen's sustained winds of 135 mph were expected to surge again after it moved away from the Cayman Islands and aimed for western Cuba and Mexico. Port authorities in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and oil-rich Campeche Bay suspended all navigation in the area and warned ocean-going ships to take "maximum precautions." They said they took the action not only because of Allen but also because of a tropical depression hovering over Campeche Bay. The port authorities said they also are keeping in close touch with Pemex -- the Mexican state petroleum monopoly -- because of its many offshore rigs. Eastern Cuba has already had a brush with the storm. Havana Radio quoted civil defense officials as saying more than 110,000 people were evacuated Wednesday from low-lying areas in the five eastern Cuban provinces. Electricity was reported out in parts of Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, 600 miles southeast of Havana, and 17,000 people were evacuated. Jamaican officials reported heavily damaged crops, saying the banana crop was hit severely. Prime Minister Michael Manley announced a $1 million allocation to farmers who lost their crops and estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people remained in shelters and evacuation centers. === Page 9 of 63 Aug 7-1980 S.F. Chronicle # Super Hurricane Allen Churns Toward Cuba **Kingston, Jamaica** Killer Hurricane Allen, already blamed for 49 deaths in a devastating surge across the Caribbean, battered Jamaica with 100 mph winds and blinding rain yesterday, then roared past the Cayman Islands heading for western Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. The storm tore at the southern part of Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, overnight before crashing into this island's normally tourist-packed northern coast. Amateur radio operators reported up to 40 percent of the houses were destroyed near Les Cayes on Haiti's southwestern coast. At least 30 deaths were confirmed in Port au Prince and the area due south of the Haitian capital, a U.S. Agency for International Development official said. Officials feared the toll would rise dramatically with reports from isolated areas. The death count so far: 30 in Haiti, 3 in the Dominican Republic and 16 from Monday when Allen slammed into the tiny eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia with 175 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Allen's sustained winds of 135 mph were expected to surge again after it moved away from Jamaica to the open water near the Cayman Islands and aimed for Cuba. The storm, some 400 miles south of Miami, was moving northwest at 20-25 mph toward the Gulf of Mexico. Fringe winds from Allen began Back Page Col. 1 - world "Power" and Rain Attack - # KILLER HURRICANE ALLEN **From Page 1** whipping Florida's Keys last night, and forecasters urged Keys residents to secure their boats and any loose objects around their homes. Havana Radio quoted civil defense officials as saying more than 110,000 people were evacuated yesterday from low-lying areas in the five eastern Cuban provinces. Electricity was reported knocked out in parts of Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, 600 miles southeast of Havana, and some 17,000 people were evacuated. Port authorities throughout Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and oil-rich Campeche Bay suspended all navigation in the area and issued radio warnings to ocean-going ships to take "maximum precautions." They said they took the action not only because of Allen but also because of a tropical depression hovering over Campeche Bay. The port authorities said they also are keeping in close touch with Pemex - the Mexican state petroleum monopoly - because of the many offshore rigs. Behind the hurricane, Jamaican officials said there was a general power failure along the northern coast because transmission lines were torn down. Communication with the area was cut off. Sketchy reports received by the government-run Jamaica Radio said parts of Port Maria, on the northern coast due north of Kingston, were under five feet of water and many houses were destroyed in Port Antonio, a city said to have felt less of the storm's fury. Hurricane Allen had pounded the end of Haiti's southern peninsula with heavy rain and fierce winds Tuesday night as the storm's center passed within 20 miles of the tourist town of Les Cayes, officials said. Many of the peninsula's 300,000 residents are poor peasants who live in flimsy primitive huts. The Haitian Agriculture Ministry feared the effects of the storm on the nation's coffee crop, a major source of income. Associated Press === Page 10 of 63 Storms in Dakotas, Wisconsin leave death, injury, fire in path by United Press International Aug 8, 1980 Seat Times Lightning set pastures ablaze in South Dakota yesterday and thunderstorms and tornadoes surged from the Dakotas to Wisconsin, smashing homes and businesses and killing at least three people. A 13-year-old girl from Maryland was killed yesterday by a wind-hurled tree branch at Trout Lake in Northeastern Wisconsin. Authorities said she was on a canoeing expedition and was camping in the area when the storm struck. One man was electrocuted by storm-felled power lines in the village of Birchwood, Wis., late Wednesday. A barn collapsed under the wind's assault in Wisconsin's Burnett County, killing a farmer who was inside milking cows. At least five people were injured by a twister that raked the tiny hamlet of Colfax, N.D., ripping up crops and causing widespread damage. Two of the five were hospitalized but neither was seriously hurt. Lightning touched off a fire that blackened about 2,800 acres of pasture land in South Dakota's Hand and Buffalo counties early yesterday. Fires raged in drought-stricken grasslands of Northeast Oklahoma. Four fires officials said they apparently were set by an arsonist. $ heta$ $ ext{\lightning}$ world "Power" & Rain Attack 3 die in Midwest storms United Press International Tornadoes and thunderstorms that already have killed three persons in Wisconsin again cut a swath through the north-central portion of the country from Minnesota to upper Michigan. Thunderstorm activity was prevalent in Wisconsin and Minnesota early Friday for the third straight day. Tornadoes and high winds that hit Wisconsin late Wednesday continued into Thursday and have been blamed for the deaths of two men and a 13-year-old girl. ereg. P. Aug. 8, 1980 Residents of the Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas, to Mobile, Ala., braced for Hurricane Allen, battening down property and purchasing survival supplies. Officials said a hurricane watch could be posted for Brownsville Friday night if the storm, packing 150 mph winds, continues on its present path. Showers and thunderstorms extended across the lower Great Lakes and in the West from southeastern Wyoming into the Nebraska panhandle. Showers also were scattered through New Mexico. "Power" & Rain Attack Floods Kill Hundreds New Delhi Swollen by torrential rains, India's holiest river, the Ganges, has flooded hundreds of villages and killed more than 360 persons in the disaster-striken state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said yesterday. S.F. Chron. 8/8/80 United Press === Page 11 of 63 - World "Power and Rain Attack" - Aug 8-1980 Seattle Times # India's Ganges River floods hundreds of towns; 366 die WORLD Compiled from news services NEW DELHI -- Swollen by torrential rains, India's holiest river, the Ganges, has flooded hundreds of villages and killed more than 360 people in the disaster-striken state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said yesterday. The Ganges, worshiped by millions of Hindus, has risen above its banks along its entire 900-mile course through Uttar Pradesh, the Northeastern Indian state whose population of about 100 million is roughly half that of the United States. Since heavy rains and massive flooding hit a month ago, the death toll in the state has risen to more than 500, with 366 of those deaths attributed to the Ganges and its tributaries, the officials said. The latest reports from the region said the Ganges and its tributaries have submerged hundreds of villages, forcing residents to higher ground and leaving cholera and jaundice in their wake. Several major towns were under several feet of flood water. Most of Jaunpur, an ancient town of about 50,000 people, was flooded by the Gomti River, and half the population had moved to higher ground, officials said. In the mountainous region of Garhwal bordering China, 40,000 people were stranded by landslides caused by heavy rain, the Press Trust of India reported. Flood control officials were working against the clock to release water from two dams across the river from the Gomti, a tributary of the Ganges that was 6 feet over the flood level. === Page 12 of 63 Aug 8 - 1980 Seat Times # Wall collapses in textile fire Fire fighters scramble to avoid a collapsing wall at the DJH Facemate Corp. textile mill in Chicopee, Mass. Fire broke out Wednesday when lightning struck a four-story warehouse. The blaze raged for about 15 hours, wiping out a second building. The mill's owners said they hope to have the plant running again early next week. === Page 13 of 63 World Power and Rain Attack Hurricane lashes Yucatan resorts, threatens Texas By GORDON MOTT orig. 8/8/80 MERIDA, Mexico (AP) -- Hurricane Allen roared north of the Yucatan Peninsula early Friday and into the south-central Gulf of Mexico, leaving 72 dead in its 1,200-mile rampage and aiming its killer force in the direction of Brownsville, Texas, less than 600 miles away. The U.S. National Weather Service reported at midnight that Allen was moving west-northwest at 18 mph and "if the present course and speed continues a hurricane watch will be required for portions of the Texas and northeast Mexican coast early Friday morning." It said the storm was located about 585 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, that highest winds were 165 mph and that "Allen continues to be an extremely dangerous hurricane." The weather service said hurricane-force winds extended 75 miles north and 50 miles to the south of the eye, and that gale-force winds extended 200 miles north and 100 miles south. Allen's fringes pounded Isla Mujeres and other pleasure resorts on the Mexican peninsula Thursday before moving north toward the Gulf Coast of the United States. The storm surged as it churned through the 150-mile-wide Yucatan Channel, which was closed to navigation by Cuba and Mexico. Tens of thousands of people fled the storm, which already had caused millions of dollars in damage on several islands. No casualties were reported by the mayor of Isla Mujeres, but 800 residents fled. About 5,000 people fled Cancun, the lush resort on the Yucatan mainland -- across from Cozumel where about 4,000 people fled their palm-thatched homes, officials said. On the eastern side of the peninsula, authorities mobilized Red Cross workers and declared an emergency. 400 emergency workers and sent 100 to communities in South Texas. Residents of the resort areas on South Padre Island on the Texas coast were boarding up their homes and businesses. The weather service said Allen "is now the strongest ever observed in the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the second strongest Atlantic hurricane in modern records. Several others, however, have claimed many more lives." The most intense hurricane of modern times was the unnamed, so-called Labor Day hurricane of 1935 that hit the Florida Keys with winds that varied from 200 to 250 mph and killed more than 400 people. Allen had basically followed a west-northwest route since building to hurricane force off the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia early Monday morning. The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said Thursday the hurricane battered Isla de la Juventud, the "Island of Youth" formerly called the Isle of Pines, 30 miles off Cuba's western coast, ruining its citrus and tobacco crops. There were no reports of casualties on Isla de la Juventud, although the island was crowded with 25,000 high school students from Third World countries there to study on scholarships. Havana radio reported three people were electrocuted as fringes of the hurricane howled past Cuba Tuesday. That brought the death toll to 72, including eight in Jamaica, 41 in Haiti, three in the Dominican Republic and 16 on the tiny eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia. In nearby Dominica, one person was missing and feared dead. About 2,500 oil rig workers fled their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as far north as Texas and Louisiana, and a spokesman for Pemex, Mexico's state petroleum monopoly, said about 2,000 workers and technicians had been moved from offshore installations in oil-rich Campeche Bay. A helicopter evacuating oil workers crashed 60 miles off the coast of Louisiana, and the Coast Guard said at least four of the 13 persons aboard were found dead. The Red Cross alerted an estimated Cuban officials have evacuated more than 200,000 people and 46,000 cows in seven provinces because of the storm. They included 20,000 people from the Isla de la Juventud, about 90 miles south of Havana, and 17,000 people from Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, 600 miles southeast of Havana. Earlier, the hurricane pounded Jamaica's northern coast, sweeping about a dozen people into 20-foot seas, drowning five of them. Note: Just several months ago Teddy (my son) and I went to Merida and the UFOs linked up my alien mind with the ancient Mayan power, Xtoloc. Teddy and I then went to Cancun! (Cancun Caribe). After our return home I began my World "Power" and Rain Attack with Xtoloc beaming blue rays across the Earth to cause psi-force effects. Owens 8/14/80 === Page 14 of 63 Fri., Aug. 8, 1980 San Francisco Chronicle 3 # Allen Gains Fury, Menaces the Gulf Merida, Mexico Hurricane Allen, now the second strongest storm on record, howled past the Yucatan resort islands with 185-mph winds yesterday on a wobbly path toward the western Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane, killer of at least 83 people on its rampage through the Caribbean, drove 2600 tourists, most of them Europeans and Americans, out of plush hotels on Isla Mujeres and Cancun, where 75-mph winds and 18-foot waves whipped the beaches. The full brunt of the hurricane was tearing into the dense jungles on the unpopulated northeastern tip of Yucatan. Forecasters said Allen's uncertain path and a large high pressure system over the southeastern United States made it impossible to predict where the storm might strike next. At 6 p.m. yesterday, the Miami Hurricane Center said if the storm continues its slow west-northwest track, "it will be necessary to issue a hurricane watch for portions of the Texas coast early today." Coastal residents from Alabama to Mexico already were making preparations for Allen, which was the third most intense hurricane on record when it ravaged Haiti Tuesday with 170-mph winds. It lost much of its strength on the mountainous island. But Allen's winds increased to 185 mph as the storm swept into the Yucatan Channel, and the central pressure fell to a new low, 26.55 inches, making it the second mightiest Atlantic hurricane ever. Only the 1935 Labor Day storm that killed 408 people in the Florida Keys was stronger. The Hurricane Center said, however, that with part of the storm over land, Allen might once again lose some of its strength. Cuba escaped with a glancing blow after the center of the storm passed south of the island yesterday. But the islands east of Cuba still were counting the dead and the damage. Initial damage reports from only two islands, St. Lucia and Martinique, came to $60 million. Haiti reported 50 deaths, and the toll is expected to rise. There were 17 dead in the Windward Islands, most of them on devastated St. Lucia; six in Jamaica, three in Cuba and three in the Dominican Republic. In addition, at least four people were killed in the crash of a helicopter evacuating workers from offshore oil rigs in the Gulf. Nine others were missing. On the Yucatan island of Cancun, about 1100 tourists were forced to flee the Sheraton, Camino Real and Club Med beachfront hotels (also Cancun Caribe!!) Military transport planes from the United States, Venezuela, Great Britain and Canada were flying food, medical supplies, portable toilets and radios to St. Lucia, hardest-hit of the Windward group. The storm virtually wiped out the tiny island's banana crop, and officials estimated damages at more than $10 million. United Press === Page 15 of 63 - World "Power" & Rain Attack - # Powerful earthquake shakes three nations By FREDDY CUEVAS PUERTO CORTES, Honduras (AP) -- A powerful earthquake shook eastern Central America just before midnight Friday, causing at least one death and collapsing dozens of buildings in towns along the Caribbean coast, authorities reported. They said the quake, centered in the Gulf of Honduras off this old banana port, registered between 6.5 and 6.8 on the Richter scale. It struck here at 11:47 p.m. -- 10:47 p.m. PDT -- and was felt in much of Honduras, Belize and parts of Guatemala. Almost all of the reported damage was in Puerto Cortes or in the nearby Guatemalan town of Puerto Barrios. But Honduran officials noted that communications had been knocked out to many villages on the coast and in the northern Honduran hills. The tremor sent tens of thousands of terrified residents in all three countries fleeing from their homes, authorities said. The only fatality reported was a man in the city of San Pedro Sula, 30 miles south of here, who suffered a heart attack when the tremor struck, the Red Cross reported. Puerto Cortes fire department officials said at least 75 wooden houses collapsed here, and three persons were injured by falling walls or ceilings. Part of a hotel also crumbled, and a refinery of Texaco Caribbean and a rail line owned by United Brands were damaged, the officials said. In Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, two houses collapsed, but there were no injuries reported. In Belize City, about 100 miles north of the reported epicenter, authorities said the quake was felt but there were no reports of damage. The area of Belize between here and Belize City is sparsely populated. The tremor was not felt in Guatemala City, 200 miles southwest of the epicenter, or in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, 150 to the southeast. org. Aug. 10, 1980 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Villagers poisoned KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Forty-five people died and 65 were seriously ill from eating poisonous wild mushrooms and berries in Nepal villages where drought and recent severe earthquake damage have caused food shortages, an official source said Saturday. The source said the government has rushed medical teams to the villages in Surkhet district, 180 miles southwest of Katmandu. A strong earthquake July 29 jolted 11 villages in the far northwest region of this mountainous central Asian kingdom, killing at least 83 persons and injuring 700 others. org. Aug. 10, 1980 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Winds crush trailers TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- More than 50 trailers at three suburban mobile home parks were smashed as thunderstorms packing winds with gusts of hurricane force swept through metropolitan Phoenix. Only minor injuries, most caused by broken glass, were reported from Sunday evening's storm. Most of the trailers are used mainly by winter visitors and were vacant. Capt. Gary Ells of the Tempe Fire Department said that many residents of the parks got out when they felt their homes shaking in the wind. Jim Bond, a free-lance photographer, said some of the mobile homes, which were flung as far as 200 feet, "looked like a giant had stepped on them. They were all smashed apart." org. 8/12/80 === Page 16 of 63 ## Allen Weakens but Texas Feels Its Punch CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) -- Hurricane Allen rolled ashore yesterday, flooding coastal cities and causing heavy losses in Texas' citrus crop, then spawned numerous inland tornadoes that caused widespread damage and 20 injuries. The once-gigantic ocean storm, however, spared the state the overwhelming disaster that residents had feared. Allen was downgraded to a tropical storm at 5 p.m. as it rolled up the Rio Grande through Laredo toward the northeastern Mexico mountains. It had hit the coast at an almost unpopulated stretch of ranchland. "We've been blessed," said Gov. Bill Clements of the hurricane's less than spectacular landfall. "There's a great difference between what we anticipated and what we received. I think we've handled it very well. But God's handled it better." Brownsville, predicted target of the storm that killed 128 people in an awesome, 4,000-mile course across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, escaped with downed power and telephone poles, a chaos of debris on city streets and the short-lived annoyance of failed electrical and fresh water service. As 110 mph winds and 9-foot tides moved up the coastline, a few boats and yachts were sunk and beachfront houses were flooded. But the most obvious damage and the only injuries occurred later, when tornadoes spawned from inland squalls struck San Marcos and Austin in central Texas. Twisters were spotted at a half-dozen other locations around Texas. At San Marcos, a twister hit a nursing home, campground and apartment complex, injuring 20 people, three seriously, including some people who had fled the coast in advance of Allen. "The nursing home and the apartments had some damage, but the injuries came from the campground," said Gary Nelson, assistant administrator of the Hays Memorial Hospital. The biggest twister hit Austin's airport, destroying three hangars, a National Guard weather truck and 60 planes, including one owned by Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, and damaging three more hangars and another 30 to 40 aircraft. The swirling cloud skipped over the World of Pentecostal Church across the street from the airport where 1,500 people were attending services. "We all got down and prayed," said Bill Moran, who was in the church. "We were thanking God after it passed on. We're still singing songs and celebrating." Despite widespread damage along the coast and from the isolated tornadoes that struck both rural and metropolitan areas yesterday, celebration was common throughout south Texas and northeastern Mexico, where 146,000 people had crowded into refugee centers to ride out the storm. A crippled Liberian tanker loaded with 11.8 million gallons of crude oil was rocked by hurricane-force winds, but remained firmly aground off the coast near Corpus Christi. Coast Guard officials said the 37 crew members were safe and that the vessel was in no immediate danger of breaking up. From its beginnings as a small cluster of clouds and wind off the coast of Africa 11 days ago, Allen had grown into the second-largest hurricane ever born in the Atlantic, peak winds eventually reaching 185 mph. It killed 128 people in its journey through the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and scores of thousands of Texans fled inland as it approached the U.S. mainland. But, having moved to within 40 Back page, Column 1 *World* "Power and Rain Attack" *Oregonian* Aug. 11, 1980 === Page 17 of 63 The Star 8/12/80 # WHY OUR WEATHER # HAS TURNED CRAZY By MICHAEL MUNRO THIS summer's blistering record-breaking heat wave is the awesome beginning of a series of parched summers and bitterly cold winters around the world, according to leading weather experts. The STAR's meteorologist, Barry Schilit, said the earth was entering a 30-year period of famine, droughts, floods and extreme summers and winters. "For the next 30 years or maybe even a little longer we will be faced with a trend of severe temperatures at both ends of the barometer," he said. "For the past 40 years, scientists and meteorologists around the world gauged our present weather patterns and set the range of our temperatures. "But what we are now learning is that those years were only 'pussycat years.' Years when Mother Nature was simply very kind to us and did little harm." Schilit believes the globe will return to the Dust Bowl period of the turn of the century, the Twenties and most of the Thirties. "Now many scientists regard the Dust Bowl period as the normal and average natural activity on earth," he said. Schilit's theory is supported by Edward Carlstead, chief forecaster for the National Meteorological Center in Washington, D.C., who said our present weather pattern had occurred in the past 25 or 30 years. "It runs in sort of a cycle but we have not yet been able to determine why or how," he said. "We know what caused that unbearable heat wave across the U.S. but can only guess as to how it actually happened." Carlstead said the parched and cracked 16-state belt which suffered through the 29-day heat wave was caused by hot air locked in the atmosphere centering on the Midwest, U.S. "Because of the lack of winds across the continental U.S., the high pressure or hot areas interlocked and couldn't move out of their position," he said. "It took several high pressure spots to be in particular areas at the same time for the phenomenon to occur." James Wagner, a meteorologist with the prediction branch of the Climate and Analysis Center of the National Weather Service in Washington, D.C., said the heat wave would be... === Page 18 of 63 - "Power" and Rain Attack - Seattle Post-Intl. Aug. 12, 1980 Haiti Finds 140 Bodies in the Mud United Press International Officials on the island of Haiti, wrecked a week ago by Hurricane Allen, reported yesterday the discovery of another 140 bodies in the muddy ruins of the country, pushing the death toll from the storm's trip from the Lesser Antilles to the coast of South Texas to almost 275. Allen raked Haiti with 170-mph winds last Tuesday when the storm passed the island on its way toward the Gulf of Mexico and eventual landfall on the tip of South Texas. Officials, digging steadily since the storm clouds cleared, initially had reported 80 deaths. Haitian Planning Minister Edouard Berrouet said yesterday, however, that reports from the field by U.S. and Haitian search teams had increased the total to 220. "This is the worst hurricane damage we have ever had," Berrouet said. He said most of the fatalities were in isolated rural villages which had only mud and stick homes, and he said the number of dead may go higher. He estimated 165,000 makeshift homes had been destroyed. With the new deaths, Hurricane Allen's toll was: Haiti, 220; St. Lucia, 16; Dominican Republic, 3; Jamaica, 8; Guadeloupe, 1; Cuba, 3; 13 in an evacuation helicopter crash off Louisiana; 4 in an oil rig off Louisiana, and between 4 and 7 deaths in South Texas. Police in Corpus Christi, just north of where Allen's eye crossed the coast, found two bodies: one woman in her 70s who repeatedly refused police help in leaving her car, stalled in flood waters, and a man whose body was found in his flooded home. Two other Texans suffered heart attacks and died during the storm and police in Galveston reported one fisherman was missing and that they received eyewitness reports of two other fishermen being swept away in high waves. In Corpus Christi, Lt. William Chako said late Saturday police in North Beach saw the woman's car stalled on a peninsula prone to flooding but the woman would not accept police help. "She had opportunity to get out, she refused us the first time," Chako said. "The second time she said a gentleman she knew was going to take her out." Chako said he did not know what happened to the man, but he apparently never showed up. The car was found completely submerged. The second death in Corpus Christi was that of a man who was found in his North Beach home. Hurricane Allen's winds -- once clocked at 185 mph -- dropped to 30 mph Monday as the storm continued to break up and spread dark clouds over Texas and Northern Mexico. Those clouds, however, dumped torrential rains that in some areas broke months-long droughts but in other areas pushed swollen rivers over their banks and sent hundreds fleeing their homes. Even as Texas Gov. Bill Clements toured the muddy coast, the National Weather Service was posting flash flood warnings throughout southern and western Texas where rains between 5 and 12 inches had been falling for 24 hours. Clements flew over the most heavily damaged areas -- the citrus rich Rio Grande Valley and the Brownsville-to-Corpus Christi coastal area -- and also observed a Liberian tanker driven aground with 37 crewmen and 20 million gallons of crude oil by Allen's winds. State meteorologist Tom Larkin said Allen was virtually dead over the Mexican mountains, 90 miles northwest of Laredo. "The center separated from the main mass of thunderstorms and showers," he said. "It continues to dissipate." === Page 19 of 63 Texas nurses bruises. 'Allen' dissolves over Mexico BY SUSAN STOLER HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- The remnants of Hurricane Allen, once described as the second strongest Atlantic hurricane of the century, dealt Texas a parting blow with widespread flooding Monday and dissolved into a soggy mess over Mexico. The storm failed to deliver the knockout punch forecasters anticipated, but Texas was nursing bad bruises in places and at least two deaths were believed caused by the storm. A deluge that brought up to 16 inches of rain to some areas drove thousands from their homes Monday, but many others among the 200,000 storm evacuees began heading home. Corpus Christi police reported finding two apparent hurricane victims in the city's North Beach area. The bodies of Ruby Bohler, 63, and her small dog were found in a partially submerged station wagon that had been washed into a ditch, police said. She was believed to be the storm's first victim in the United States, not counting two others who died of heart attacks. Later in the day, police found the body of a 52-year-old man along the North Beach shore. He was not immediately identified, and the circumstances of his death were not known. Department of Public Safety troopers had reported three people drowned Monday on flooded State Highway 44 as they tried to return to Corpus Christi, but later said the three were rescued on the highway -- considered impassable because of high water -- when floodwaters swamped their cars. All three were reported in good condition. Virtually all roads were closed by high water from Port Aransas and Corpus Christi, on the middle coast, to the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Roads were open elsewhere, and the Red Cross said all but 25,000 of the 106,000 people who sought refuge in 236 emergency shelters had left Monday. Serious flooding was reported in the Hill Country of Central Texas and in the Big Bend of Southwest Texas. "This is the worst flood we've ever had," said Mayor Ronald Case of Edinburg, a community of 20,000 where 13 inches of rain fell. To the south, Nueces County Commissioner J.P. Luby, after a boat tour of Mustang Island south of Port Aransas, said a 4,000-foot-long seawall was destroyed. And County Judge Bob Barnes estimated total damage in the Corpus Christi area alone would top $100 million. In the Coastal Bend evacuated about 2,000 people to shelters in the Alice area and about 450 to Kingsville as 16 inches of rain built floods 5 feet deep. National Guardsmen and volunteers helped. About 850 were sheltered in an Edinburg junior high school Sunday night after floodwaters rose to four feet. The National Guard was called in because there weren't enough fire departments, a resident said. "We'd go to a house to pick up somebody and all the neighbors would run out of their houses and climb on the truck," she said. "We had people wading through four feet of water to get to shelters." The National Weather Service predicted the Nueces River, near Corpus Christi, would rise to seven feet above normal. Barfield Bay, near Kingsville, had tides 9 to 10 feet above normal. About 2,000 evacuees spent the night in Hidalgo County shelters, with 500 more in La Joya, said Red Cross spokesman Jerry Lessard, which already had been closed. About 850 were sheltered in an Edinburg junior high school Sunday night after floodwaters rose to four feet. The National Guard was called in because there weren't enough fire departments, a resident said. "We'd go to a house to pick up somebody and all the neighbors would run out of their houses and climb on the truck," she said. "We had people wading through four feet of water to get to shelters." The National Weather Service predicted the Nueces River, near Corpus Christi, would rise to seven feet above normal. Barfield Bay, near Kingsville, had tides 9 to 10 feet above normal. === Page 20 of 63 - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Streams Flood And Chase Off Ohio Families UPI Rain-swollen streams surged over parts of Ohio yesterday, chasing scores of families from their homes. Remnants of Hurricane Allen doused south Texas, spurring floods but easing a long and deadly drought. Potent storms that thundered across Ohio, dumping eight inches of rain in 36 hours in some areas, sent rivers and streams surging over their banks. Scores of families fled the rising waters of Leatherwood Creek in the eastern Ohio hamlet of Quaker City. Most of the village's 600 residents were forced from their homes. Seattle P. Int. 8/13/80 ---------- A2 Aug. 13, 1980 THE OREGONIAN, # The world # Toll hits 650 in monsoon NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Monsoon rain fell and river flooding continued Tuesday in northern India as the nationwide toll of flood-related deaths rose to at least 650, news reports said. The highest number of casualties occurred in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, where at least 430 people died, the Press Trust of India said. The Ganges River, regarded as holy by millions of Hindus, overflowed its banks in many places, submerging vast areas of cropland and sweeping into hundreds of villages, the United News of India said. - World "Power and Rain Attack" - ---------- - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Disaster declared President Carter has declared parts of Texas major disaster areas because of the damage from Hurricane Allen, the White House announced Tuesday. The declaration permits the use of federal funds in relief and recovery efforts in areas of the state hit by the storm last weekend. Oreg. 8/13/80 ---------- - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Chopper Crash Cuts Power Electric power from Ellensburg to Moxee was cut for more than 2 1/2 hours yesterday when an Army helicopter crashed into a Bonneville Power Administration line. There were no injuries, but the 9:15 a.m. crash ignited a small brush fire, which was quickly extinguished. Capt. Michael Thomsich, spokesman at the Yakima Firing Range, said the two-man observation helicopter from Fort Lewis was checking fence lines when a main rotor severed the line. The mishap occurred three miles north of Yakima, between the firing center and Yakima. Seattle P. Intel. 8/13/80 === Page 21 of 63 "Power" + Rain Attack - LUMBER'S WAREHOUSE/SHOWROOM Associated Press Laserphoto CRUISING - Cambridge, Ohio, residents boat past partly submerged warehouse Thursday after rains caused flooding in eastern Ohio town. # Rain still falling in Ohio, but floodwaters receding Aug. 8/15/80 CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) - Light rain fell early Thursday, but water was receding from this city's worst flood in almost half a century. The Guernsey County sheriff's department said Thursday that floodwaters dropped about 2 feet overnight. Houses and businesses remained flooded, however, and families who left home to escape rising water continued to stay with friends on higher ground. The sheriff's department directed traffic away from streets blocked by water. Ohio 40 eastbound, Ohio 209 to the south and Guernsey County Road 35 were closed. The National Weather Service said showers and thunderstorms were expected in Ohio through Thursday night. Four to 8 inches of rain fell here in a 48-hour period this week. The weather service called the flood the worst since 1935, when Wills and Leatherwood creeks reached a depth of 25 1/2 feet. Officials estimated the damage at $25 million. The area is a flood plain. Mayor C. Charles Schaub said residents are accustomed to high water, but nothing this bad. No injuries have been reported. Wednesday, water receded slowly and evacuated families stayed at the homes of friends and family on higher ground. Al Justus, Columbus division representative of the Red Cross, said the organization set up shelters in local churches, but they have not been used. === Page 22 of 63 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power plant deactivated SACRAMENTO Calif. (AP) -- The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which shut down automatically after an equipment failure earlier this week, was put into "cold shutdown" Wednesday to allow inspection of a steam turbine. In an automatic shutdown the reactor and its cooling system are kept warm, allowing a fast resumption of power generation, but under cold shutdown the entire plant is deactivated, said Cindi Rich, spokeswoman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. She said it can take a week to 10 days to resume full power production after a cold shutdown. The plant had been scheduled to be put back in service Wednesday. The plant shut down Tuesday morning when a power inverter failed, giving a false instrument reading of high water pressure in the nuclear reactor, according to utility spokesman Jeff Marx. While the plant was shut down, utility technicians did some "routine maintenance" that had been scheduled for Saturday. Ms. Rich said a "cold shutdown" was ordered after it was decided that problems with a turbine required closer inspection. oreg. 8/14/80 # Brush fires burn areas in 3 states By The Associated Press oreg. 8/15/80 A 10,200-acre fire in rugged brushland northwest of the Grand Canyon was contained Thursday in the largest of a series of brush fires in Western states. In northeastern Utah a 2,015-acre blaze cleared hikers from a popular back-packing area, and a 6,000-acre range fire spread north of Boise, Idaho. The fire 15 miles north of the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park in northwestern Arizona was started by lightning Tuesday, said Jack DeGolia of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He said 67 firefighters, four aerial tankers, five ground pumpers, two helicopters and one spotter plane fought the blaze, which was contained about noon. A smaller fire in steep and inaccessible Snap Canyon, 50 miles southeast of Littlefield in northwest Arizona, spread to 1,000 acres after jumping a road. DeGolia said 50 firefighters were expected to bring it under control during the night. The two major Arizona fires were among seven ignited in BLM ground by Tuesday night's lightning. The five others were controlled earlier. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Barry Wirth said 440 firefighters and a 60-member support crew were fighting the Murdock Basin fire in the Wasatch Forest, about 20 miles east of Kamas in northeastern Utah. Officials feared afternoon winds would spread the blaze. The fire, first reported Monday, is southwest and moving toward the High Uintas Primitive Area, but Wirth said the primitive area was in no immediate danger. The blaze has forced the evacuation of a number of hikers. Wednesday, 25 campers were moved away from Echo Lake and others were evacuated from Marshall Lake as a precautionary measure. The Idaho range fire near Horseshoe Bend doubled in size from Wednesday night to Thursday and dusted Boise with a fine layer of ash. === Page 23 of 63 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power plant deactivated SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which shut down automatically after an equipment failure earlier this week, was put into "cold shutdown" Wednesday to allow inspection of a steam turbine. In an automatic shutdown the reactor and its cooling system are kept warm, allowing a fast resumption of power generation, but under cold shutdown the entire plant is deactivated, said Cindi Rich, spokeswoman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. She said it can take a week to 10 days to resume full power production after a cold shutdown. The plant had been scheduled to be put back in service Wednesday. The plant shut down Tuesday morning when a power inverter failed, giving a false instrument reading of high water pressure in the nuclear reactor, according to utility spokesman Jeff Marx. While the plant was shut down, utility technicians did some "routine maintenance" that had been scheduled for Saturday. Ms. Rich said a "cold shutdown" was ordered after it was decided that problems with a turbine required closer inspection. oreg. 8/14/80 # Brush fires burn areas in 3 states By The Associated Press oreg. 8/15/80 A 10,200-acre fire in rugged brushland northwest of the Grand Canyon was canyoned Thursday in the largest of a series of brush fires in Western states. In northeastern Utah a 2,015-acre blaze cleared hikers from a popular back-packing area, and a 6,000-acre range fire spread north of Boise, Idaho. The fire 15 miles north of the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park in northwestern Arizona was started by lightning Tuesday, said Jack deGolia of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He said 67 firefighters, four aerial tankers, five ground pumpers, two helicopters and one spotter plane fought the blaze, which was contained about noon. A smaller fire in steep and inaccessible Snap Canyon, 50 miles southeast of Littlefield in northwest Arizona, spread to 1,000 acres after jumping a road. DeGolia said 50 firefighters were expected to bring it under control during the night. The two major Arizona fires were among seven ignited in BLM ground by Tuesday night's lightning. The five others were controlled earlier. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Barry Wirth said 440 firefighters and a 60-member support crew were fighting the Murdock Basin fire in the Wasatch Forest, about 20 miles east of Kamas in northeastern Utah. Officials feared afternoon winds would spread the blaze. The fire, first reported Monday, is southwest and moving toward the High Uintas Primitive Area, but Wirth said the primitive area was in no immediate danger. The blaze has forced the evacuation of a number of hikers. Wednesday, 25 campers were moved away from Echo Lake and others were evacuated from Marshall Lake as a precautionary measure. The Idaho range fire near Horseshoe Bend doubled in size from Wednesday night to Thursday and dusted Boise with a fine layer of ash. === Page 24 of 63 August 15, 1980 Contacts I hope that you are paying close attention to these files that I am sending you. Using my psi-force powers, my UFO contact, my Egyptian contact, my Mayan contact... I am working daily to knock out power around the world and create violent storms and rainstorms and lightning attacks (my symbol: $\theta$) around the entire world! Owens === Page 25 of 63 HAVOC -- Residents of Brady's Bend, Pa., survey the devastation to their community caused by flash floods. "Power & Rain Attacks" # 7 die in Pennsylvania flooding BRADY'S BEND, Pa. (AP) -- Flash floods spawned by heavy thunder-storms swept across mountainous west-ern Pennsylvania Friday, drowning at least seven people, washing away build-ings and cars and burying roads under mudslides. A county coroner said the dead in-cluded a couple and their 4-year-old daughter. One woman said she saw the family swept from the top of a pickup truck. "They all got out of their truck and sat on the roof and started yelling for help," said Helen Bartoe of Brady's Bend. "But no one could reach them." Gov. Dick Thornburgh declared a disaster emergency in eight communi-ties in the three-county flood area, which had been saturated by heavy rain during the past 10 days. The declaration makes it easier for local governments to begin cleanup and sets up a traffic-con-trol system. "Streams were full out of their beds. It swept whole homes away. There was just no stopping it," said Marc Hillwig, director of the Armstrong County Emergency Management Agency, who flew over the area Friday morning. He estimated damage would exceed $1 mil-lion. About 500 families live in the flood area of Butler, Armstrong and Clarion counties. All of the victims drowned, said Armstrong County Coroner Robert Welch. He said an undetermined num-ber of people were not accounted for. Welch identified the victims as Hes-ter Crissman, 67; E.R. Custer, about 60, and his wife, Bertha, 62; and Wilson Robinson, no age available, his 36-year-old wife, Betty, and their 4-year-old daughter, Amy, all of Brady's Bend. The identity of the seventh victim was not available, but state police said the body was found in the Allegheny River near Ford City. At least one body was pulled from the rampaging Allegheny River. Hospitals reported four people were treated for minor injuries. State highway crews were dis-patched to the area to remove mud and debris from blocked highways. Two mass care centers were set up for resi-dents unable to return home. The National Weather Service said a series of thunderstorms began Thursday afternoon and continued for eight hours, until just after midnight. The flooding was centered in a 20-square-mile area about 60 miles north of Pitts-burgh. Brady's Bend, a small town on a horseshoe bend of the Allegheny, was among the worst hit, having received up to 4 inches of rain. Orig. 8/16/80 # Firefighters return to bases The 400 firefighters who fought and controlled the stubborn 515-acre Bohemia Creek forest fire near Oakridge began returning to their bases around the state Friday. The fire started at noon Monday and was fought through the week by U.S. Forest Service personnel. No new fires were reported Friday morning on Forest Service lands. Also under control Friday was a 140-acre range blaze about 10 miles from Madras. Don Smurthwaite, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management, said the fire was one of four lightning-caused fires that broke out Thursday. The other three, smaller ones in the Lakeview area, were also controlled by Friday. Crews with the state Department of Forestry con-trolled nine man-caused fires throughout the state Thursday and Friday. None of the fires reached large proportions. A 500-acre brush blaze near Chief Joseph Dam in Washington was reported controlled Friday morning by Steve Robinson, spokesman for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Robinson said his department's major concern was the Mount St. Helens area. "There are still hundreds of fires beneath the ash in the devastated area around Mount St. Helens," he said, "and we are approaching the most precarious time of the year from the standpoint of dry winds in the downed timber around the mountain." If the area at fairly high velocity," Robinson added that if the downed timber around the mountain were fired into a major blaze, "it could be a bigger catastrophe than the May 18 eruption itself." He said firefighting crews were working in the devastated area daily, using infrared film to locate hot spots beneath the ash. "The trees are in a very dry condition," he added, "and we are trying to locate and extinguish as many of the hot spots as we can before the late August and September winds begin blowing through the area." Orig. 8/16/80 === Page 26 of 63 Aug. 16, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove D. Scott Rogo Today the Sts (my UFOs) communicated to me the following intelligence: "When the book you have written about me and my work appears in bookstores across the land, as it is written ... then they will withdraw their war against the U.S. government."* (As they did once before against Cape Kennedy when I became a member of Mensa. And they kept their word then.) This is their word on it. So the sooner your book is published and in bookstores, the sooner the U.S. govt. will begin to "get the breaks." Owen * For not providing the Base that they want === Page 27 of 63 - "Power" and Rain Attack - # Outages tied to weather SEATTLE (AP) - More than 5,000 Puget Sound homes were without electricity for up to two hours Sunday as an unusually strong weather system sent 30-mph winds through the region. City police said they responded to several distress calls from overturned sailboats and cordoned off several downtown streets because of blowing debris from a skyscraper under construction. No injuries or damages were reported. The largest power outage occurred in the Queen Anne Hill area, where 2,500 customers of Seattle City Light were without electricity for about 90 minutes. The municipally owned utility also reported several smaller shortages. City Light spokesmen said warm summer weather caused trees to grow faster than normal and the first strong wind of the season sent many branches crashing into power lines. Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which serves some 500,000 customers in nine Western Washington counties, reported three major outages that left 1,500 homes without electricity. Chris Curtis of Puget Power said customers on Bainbridge Island and in the Hollywood Hills and the Inglewood areas of Bothell experienced major outages caused by falling trees and branches. Kerry Edwards of the Snohomish County Public Utility District said outages affected about 1,000 customers - about 600 in Brier, 125 in Edmonds, and 250 on south Camano Island. Aug. 18, 1980 - "Power" and Rain Attack - # Rains offer relief in Plains, Midwest By The Associated Press Heavy rains finally drenched parched farm land in the Great Plains and parts of the Midwest during the weekend, providing some relief for brown and dry pastures and fall-seeded crops. But the steady showers that extended from Montana and Wyoming eastward into the Dakotas and south to Kansas were too little and too late to help the spring-planted wheat and corn crops in some areas. "The growing season is over," Tom Conlon, superintendent of the North Dakota State University agriculture station at Dickinson, said. "We expect a frost in 30 days. For all practical purposes it's no help. The pastures are all overgrazed, and any benefit to the grain crop is long past." The storm system that began Saturday in southern Idaho and moved across Montana into South Dakota produced some heavy rainshowers. Glendive, Mont., recorded 4 inches of rain Saturday, more than since the official crop season began April 1. In Eastern Montana, the Bureau of Land Management reduced its fire danger rating on its grazing and timberland from "moderate" to "low" after an inch of rain dampened the dry area. Meteorologist David Olsen of the National Weather Service in Billings, Mont., said the rain, combined with expected cooler temperatures, would improve dried up and overgrazed Montana pastures. "This is certainly going to help them out," he said. In Nebraska, agriculture officials said the wetter weather was too late for already-damaged crops, such as corn, but could help such summer plantings as sorghum and soybeans. More than 2 inches of rain fell early Sunday in Omaha, flooding streets and basements in the northwest section of the city. South-central Kansas was drenched by more than 4 inches of rain Saturday night, with some flooding reported in Wellington, south of Wichita, in low-lying areas and city streets. Several twisters swirled through Kansas Saturday, tearing the roofs off barns and damaging Redwing Airport in Augusta. No injuries were reported, but damage at the airport was estimated at $1 million. Rains earlier in the week helped the Illinois soybean crop. "This could ward off a disaster, but we won't have a record soybean crop this year," grain analyst Gary Ellis said of the Illinois Farm Bureau after Wednesday's and Thursday's rainfall. Corn yields will be down in Illinois to 108 bushels per acre - compared with 128 bushels per acre last year. # Pennsylvania flood toll reaches $42 million BRADY'S BEND, Pa. (AP) - Damage estimates in this flood-ravaged community climbed to $42 million Sunday as state and local officials added up totals to enable Gov. Dick Thornburgh to request a federal disaster area declaration. Joseph Ketchum of the state Department of Community Affairs said Thornburgh would make a formal request Monday. The declaration would allow residents to apply for low-interest loans to rebuild homes and businesses. Thornburgh declared parts of three counties a state disaster area Friday. Meanwhile, officials and volunteers slushed through a blanket of mucky debris Sunday to search for a woman and 2-year-old boy believed missing in the Sugar Creek flash flooding, which killed at least seven people. Doubling in size late Thursday as more than 4 inches of rain fell within a half-hour, the creek overflowed and swept away at least seven houses and more than 100 cars. Flooding continued Friday. Police said heavy machinery was brought in Sunday to clear debris and vegetation from the banks to aid the search. "We have volunteer workers tearing apart debris piles still looking for the missing persons," said Marc Hillwig, Armstrong County civil defense director. About 360 people were staying with friends, relatives and others who volunteered living quarters. State police on Pennsylvania Route 68 were allowing only residents, their relatives and officials into the area. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said damage to private property in Butler, Armstrong and Clarion counties was estimated at $25 million. The cost for public property was set at $17 million, he said. Aug. 18, 1980 === Page 28 of 63 August 1, 1980 Jeffrey... Just a note confirming my phone call to you informing you that the SIs (UFOs) are readying an 8 on the Richter scale earthquake for California (entire length) in hours, days or weeks. Owens (PK Man) === Page 29 of 63 (A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) South Western Times Bunbury DATE July 1. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # GALE-FORCE WINDS LASH SOUTH-WEST THE weekend's early sunshine gave no hint of Sunday's gale-force winds which littered the South-West with damage. Gusts of up to 48 knots (90 km/h) ripped through Bunbury and surrounding areas, accompanied by 20 mm of rain. The mid-winter storm blacked out large parts of the South-West, while fallen trees and power lines were an ever-present danger to motorists. In Bunbury, the local State Emergency Service group was put on stand-by at the height of the storm, around midday. At the woodchips berth the extreme force of the winds caused a 46,000-tonne carrier to drift away from its berth. Extra ropes were passed to the ship and two tugs were called in to keep the giant ship in place. The tugs were kept on stand-by until 3 am yesterday when harbour master Bob Allsop considered the danger had passed. Captain Allsop said that the ship's wind gauge recorded more than 90 km/h at the height of the crisis. In Victoria street, drinkers at the morning session at the Bunbury Hotel got a shock when the roof covering the hotel's verandah was peeled back by the wind. Fallen trees were also reported on the Old Coast road, but there were no accidents. Strong winds also caused another traffic hazard when water from Leschenault Inlet was blown across the road at Australind. ## Blackouts SEC crews worked throughout the afternoon repairing faulty fuses and fallen power lines which caused temporary blackouts in some areas. There were no major break-downs like the one which left Mandurah without power for most of the day. The only favourable legacy of Sunday's storm is likely to be the rain, an Agriculture Department spokesman says. Farmers welcomed it, although the strong winds may have damaged some vegetable crops. The damage exposed three of the hotel's rooms to the driving rain and hotel staff worked frantically to save furniture. ## Struggle Staff on the roof struggled in the wind and rain to nail down sections that were only partly damaged. The wind also knocked down the hotel's TV antenna and drove it through the kitchen ceiling. No one was hurt, but damage is estimated at thousands of dollars. At Dardanup, council employees worked in appalling conditions to remove several large trees which blocked the Dardanup-Boyanup road. But their efforts could not save one Perth motorist who failed to stop in time to avoid a falling tree. The man was unhurt, but his van was extensively damaged. === Page 30 of 63 Thursday, July 3, 1980 SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY # National Market Guide # Heavy rain in most NSW Moderate to heavy rains were received over most of W during the past week. Heaviest falls were recorded on the South West Slopes, where 110mm fell at Cabramurra, followed by 104mm at Tumbarumba and 101mm at Khancoban. Most consistent rains fell on the Central West Slopes, with most stations registering 25-35mm. Bundie headed the registrations in the North West Slopes with 43mm. Other falls included 40mm at Bendemeer and 20mm at Premer. On the Central Tablelands, Orange topped with 68mm followed by Hill End 60mm, and Wyangla and Mudgee with 45mm. Moderate rains were recorded on the Plains areas, including 28mm at Gulargambone, 21mm at Tottenham and Coonamble, and 17mm at Trangie. # The week's rainfall Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended July 1, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology: **UPPER WESTERN:** Milparinka 6, Tibooburra 5, White Cliffs 5, Wilcannia 3, Wanaaring 4, Louth 6, Tilpa 5, Bourke 7, Byrock 12, Brewarrina 12, Collarenebri 7, Coolabah 10, Ford's Bridge 6, Gulgong 14, Enngonia 3. **LOWER WESTERN:** Broken Hill 10, Menindee 17, Pooncarie 26, Wentworth 10, Balranald 6, Euabalong 24, Ivanhoe 19, Mossgiel 14. **NORTH-WEST PLAINS:** Boomi 2, Mungindi 14, Walgett 9, Bellata 6, Bogabilla 3, Moree M.O. 2, Narrabri West 15, Burren Junction 6, Wee Waa 10. **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Carinda 12, Coonamble 21, Girilambone 15, Nyngan 13, Warren 13, Trangie 17, Narromine 21, Quambone 23, Condobolin 30, Peak Hill 15, Tottenham 21, Trundle 2, Tullamore 14, Gooloogong 15, Bogan Gate 26, Yalgogrin North 19. **RIVERINA:** Barham 21, Cargelligo 16, Darlington Point 15, Griffith 14, Gubbata 13, Hay 19, Maude 20, Moulamein 3, Rankins Springs 15, Ardlethan 17, Ariah Park 18, Carrathool 19, Conargo 18, Coolamon 14, Deniliquin 20, Finley 20, Grong Grong 16, Henty 26, Howlong 29, Jerilderie 14, Lockhart 18, Narrandera 20, Rock 20, Tocumwal 21, Urana 18, Whitton 14. **NORTH-WEST SLOPES:** Ashford 10, Barraba 8, Bingara 10, Bonshaw 6, Delungra 11, Gravesend 9, Warialda 8, Yetman 6, Bendemeer 43, Boggabri 15, Breeza 12, Gunnedah 18, Manilla 16, Mullaley 17, Nundle 43, Premer 20, Quirindi 27, Somerton 14, Tambar Springs 5, Tamworth M.O. 21, Werris Creek 27, Willowtree 28, Woolbrook 32. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Binnaway 16, Coolah 48, Coonabarabran 33, Dunedoo 27, Mendooran 25, Tooraweenah 28, Canowindra 32, Cudal 24, Dubbo 29, Eugowra 25, Forbes 32, Manildra 33, Molong 36, Parkes 37, Wellington 30. **SOUTH-WEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 18, Burrinjuck Dam 69, Cootamundra 34, Grenfell 49, Gundagai 36, Junee 20, Kootawatha 38, Quandialla 31, Stockinbingal 28, Temora 28, Wyalong 21, Young 43, Adelong 108, Albury 47, Batlow 141, Cabramurra 138, Holbrook 36, Humula 82, Reservoir 38, Khancoban 82, Tarcutta 44, Tumbarumba 107, Tumut 67, Wagga 30, Wagga M.O. 33. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Armidale 14, Bundarra 13, Deepwater 13, Emmaville 15, Glen Innes 17, Guyra 17, Inverell 12, Tenterfield 11, Tingha 18, Uralla 28, Walcha 31, Drake 17, Lower Creek 1. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Mudgee 45, Rylstone 30, Bathurst 32, Blackheath 12, Cowra Airport 34, Hill End 60, Katoomba 13, Kurrajong Heights 4, Lithgow 27, Mt Victoria 16, Oberon 53, Orange Airport 68, Rockley 44, Springwood 3, Trunkey Creek 47, Wyangala 45. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Bombala 1, Canberra M. 24, Cooma 1, Delegate 12, Frogmore 41, Goulburn 12, Gunning 34, Nimmitabel 1, Queanbeyan 18, Taralga 65, Yass 39, Canberra City 31, Adaminaby 26, Berridale 5, Dalgety 1, Perisher Valley 103. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Cape Byron 1, Yamba 1. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 1, Dorrigo 1, Kempsey 1, Bulahdelah 2, Forster 1, Gloucester 1, Laurieton 2, Port Macquarie 1, Sugarloaf Point 4, Taree 2. **HUNTER:** Cessnock (Nulkaba) 7, Clarence Town 3, Denman 18, Dungog 4, Gresford 5, Jerrys Plains 18, Maryville 3, Merriwa 18, Murrurundi 44, Newcastle (Nobbys) 3, Norah Head 1, Paterson 4, Raymond Terrace 3, Scone 14, Williamtown M.O. 3. **ILLAWARRA:** Berry 1, Bowral 8, Camden Airport 3, Jervis Bay 3, Kiama 1, Picton 2, Robertson 4, Wollondilly 4, Wollongong (Uni) 2, Nowra (RAN) 2. **SOUTH COAST:** Batemans Bay 14, Braidwood 7, Gabo Island (Vic.) 3, Green Cape 11, Merimbula Airport 2, Milton 2. **METROPOLITAN:** Balgowlah 1, Bankstown 2, Concord 1, Cronulla 4, Epping 2, Gordon 2, Hornsby 2, Hurstville 3, Mascot M.O. 1, Mosman 1, Palm Beach 3, Pymble 2, Randwick 1, Sydney 1, Turramurra 2, Wahroonga 2, West Lindfield 2, Glenorie 3, Liverpool 2, Penrith 1, Richmond M.O. 3, Westmead 1. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES NIL 0-5 5-25 25-UP # INTERSTATE RAINFALL Most of the Continent received moderate falls over the past week with heavier falls in the south east. There were moderate falls in most districts of Tasmania with heavier falls in the northern half of the State. Maximum fall was 110mm at Lake Mackenzie. **TASMANIA** Northern 11 mm, Southeast 3, West Coast 44, East Coast 5, Derwent Valley 3, King Island 4, Midlands 8, Central Plateau 6. **QUEENSLAND** Peninsula South 2 mm, North Coast (Barron) 24, North Coast (Herbert) 19, Central Coast (East) 3, South Coast (Moreton) 2. **WESTERN AUSTRALIA** De Grey 6 mm, Fortesque 63, West Gascoyne 96, East Gascoyne 22, Murchison 71, North Coastal 28, Central Coastal 74, South Coastal 39, Central North 17, Central South 21, Eucla 4, South Eastern 32, North Eastern 4. **VICTORIA** Mallee 0.1 mm, Wimmera 0.3, Western 3, North Central 0.8, Central 15, Northeast 0.1, Gippsland 2, Metropolitan 4, Ouyen 0.8, Apsley 2, Weeraproinah 11, Shepparton 0.6, Broadford 4, Rosebud 16, Omeo 0.6, Pt. Hicks 9, Cheltenham 6. **SOUTH AUSTRALIA** Western Agricultural 1 mm, West Central 3, East Central 2, Murray Valley 1, Murray Mallee 1, Upper Southeast 3, Lower Southeast 2. # SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker. Moderate rains are indicated in many areas of New South Wales during July and best rains are indicated on the Far North Coast. But rainfall should be light on portion of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. Reasonably good rains are indicated on the Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina during August, with light to moderate rains elsewhere. Rainfall should be poor during September, with moderate rains in October. DISTRIBUTION: Showers are indicated on July 3. === Page 31 of 63 B. KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA 6 July 1980 Dear Ted, Revered Sir, Please remove my photo from your Healing Wall. Please sever all connections with me, viz: no postal or telephonic communications whatsoever. Please do not use my name and address in any articles or publications but instead permit me to retain some anonymity with initials e.g. "Mr. B.K. of Sydney, Australia." Please do not contact me in any way shape or form whatsoever, and I shall hope you accept my sincere regrets. To-morrow 7th July I shall write to explain this unfortunate but necessary decision. Please do not use my letters for publication. With best wishes and personal regards from Bruce. === Page 32 of 63 THE MERCURY, HOBART DATE 11 JUL 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO upsets radio station AN unidentified flying object at Swansea early last night put an amateur radio station off the air. The operator of the radio station, Mr Maurice Glover, said a strange noise through his transceiver blocked transmission for a few minutes. He went outside and saw a brilliant circular white object drop from the sky and pass about 50 metres above Swansea Lodge, a boarding house at Swansea on the Tasman Highway. Another radio operator in Launceston reported sighting the same object moments later. ---------- NEWCASTLE MORNING HERALD NEWCASTLE, N.S.W. DATE 29 JUL 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO investigation UFO experts will make a six-month investigation in the Cape Otway district of western Victoria to try to uncover more information about the disappearance of Mr Frederick Valentich. Mr Valentich, 20, disappeared without trace in a hired Cessna 182 on the night of October 21, 1978, after reporting to Melbourne Flight Control that he was being buzzed by a shape that was 'not an aircraft'. ---------- Geelong Advertiser Victoria DATE July 7. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # Fresh move on mystery Victoria's UFO buffs are making another attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of pilot Freddy Valentich near Cape Otway in 1978. The Victorian UFO Research Society has appealed to people who might have witnessed unusual phenomena around the time Valentich disappeared to contact them so the information can be assessed. Valentich's light plane vanished on a flight to King Island in October, 1978. Just before his disappearance, Valentich had radioed that a strange object was hovering above him. The society's vice-president, Mr. Paul Norman, said yesterday his group was keen to solve "one of the greatest mysteries in Australian aviation history". "There is solid evidence that UFOs were seen in the area," he said. "There were a lot of reports from the Warrnambool area of strange noises and there are other reports of compass deviations in the Cape Otway area. "We will interview any witnesses of phenomena, check out any photographs that may have been taken, investigate landing sites, and of course we will respect confidentiality if people desire." Mr. Norman said the society was in contact with the top researchers and scientists in the field, and its reports went to sister organisations world-wide. === Page 33 of 63 World "Power" + Rain Attack # Thousands evacuated # Hurricane bears down on Texas By SUSAN STOLER BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Hurricane Allen, a "pulsating" storm that has killed at least 87 people on a Caribbean rampage, bore down on the Texas coast Friday, roiling the Gulf of Mexico with super-charged winds and chasing thousands of people inland. Forecasters said the hurricane could strike the United States Saturday. Friday night, first evidence of the storm was due in the Port Lavaca area, north of Corpus Christi. Weather forecasters in Victoria said a 15- to 20-foot surge of sea water preceding the storm would reach San Antonio Bay, Port Lavaca Bay and Espirito Santo Bay before midnight. The forecasters said flooding could reach inland as far as one mile and that a total evacuation should be completed by then. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from the 450-mile Texas coast, where a hurricane warning had been issued Friday morning for all but 50 miles. Officials said 14,000 people were evacuated from Port Lavaca, about a third of the way from Corpus Christi to Galveston. A seven-mile traffic jam developed on U.S. 37 from Mustang Island to Corpus Christi, officials said. And Friday evening in Galveston, traffic on Interstate 45, a heavily traveled, 40-mile corridor to Houston, was "at a standstill," said Melody McLellan of the Galveston County Civil Defense Office. Allen killed at least 87 people in the Caribbean and a helicopter with 13 aboard went down off the coast of Louisiana during the evacuation of an oil rig. Friday, two days after the helicopter crash, police reported at least four men missing when a drilling barge overturned in the gulf as it was returned to harbor. An undetermined number of people were rescued. The hurricane was rated extremely dangerous by the National Hurricane Center, which gave it a rare Category 5 ranking -- the highest possible. The center said Allen was the second most powerful Atlantic storm on record. The strongest was an unnamed 1935 storm, nicknamed the Labor Day storm, which killed 408 people in the Florida Keys. In Fort Worth, National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Scott said Friday afternoon: "Our best guess is that the center of the storm will touch land somewhere north of Corpus Christi, but we won't make a definite prediction until six to 10 hours before landfall, and we don't expect that until tomorrow afternoon. "We have told every location from Brownsville to Louisiana that evacuation would be wise," he added. At 8 p.m. CDT, Allen's eye was about 275 miles east-southeast of Brownsville -- and traveling west-northwest at 15 mph. Highest sustained winds were measured at 150 mph, up from 135 mph earlier in the day, the weather service said. Hurricane-force winds extended outward 75 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the center. Gale-force winds extended 200 miles north and 100 miles south. The weather service predicted tides could be as much as 15 to 20 feet above normal at some points. That would flood most escape routes from the offshore islands. "We have a potentially extremely dangerous storm," weather service meteorologist Andy Anderson said in a briefing in Dallas. "It essentially fills the Gulf of Mexico. Radar shows we are going to have a lot of the Texas coast affected." Thousands of people fled as Allen skirted the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico Thursday. Fifteen-foot waves crashed into the northern peninsula, but officials reported no injuries or serious damage. Allen has kept to a west-northwest route across the Caribbean and into the gulf since it became a hurricane near the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia Monday. It damaged coffee, banana and tobacco plantations, destroyed countless flimsy peasant huts and knocked out power and communications lines during its rampage through the islands. Anderson said Allen probably would bring some temporary relief to north-east Texas cities suffering from a 2-month-old heat wave. "But after the hurricane has gone inland and dissipated and is no more," he added, "it will depend on what kind of system we find ourselves in. What I'm saying is it could just be temporary relief." Anderson said Allen is a "relatively well-behaved storm as far as track" and described it as "pulsating" because wind speeds build to 200 mph, then drop to 135 mph. Related stories on Page A10. Associated Press Laserphoto HURRICANE PICTURE -- A satellite picture taken Friday afternoon shows the spiraling bands of heavy rain and thunderstorm clouds associated with dangerous Hurricane Allen in the Gulf of Mexico. === Page 34 of 63 BRUCE KELL 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA 7th July 1980 Mr. TED OWENS, 200 NE 76th STREET, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 98665 USA Dear Ted, Revered Sir, Thank you but please do not use my name and address in any articles or publications. It should be sufficient to use initials such as: " Mr. B.K. of SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA". Thank you. And now I think we should dissolve all ties that have been so carefully nurtured by respect and gratitude and good will. For my part, my Repatriation (Veterans') Department medical doctor- psychiatrist insists that I drop all contact and that I withdraw completely and immediately for my own state of health. Therefore under medical direction I am bound in honour to conform to orders of withdrawal or else I lose the honours of war. Let there be no recriminations but let good will remain for your special endeavours on behalf of suffering humanity. Regretfully on my part, I advise that the old signs and symptoms are re-appearing and these are danger signals to the trained medical practitioners. So "Thank you" but that's the finish or I am finished. Please do not use this letter for publication. With best wishes, Bruce === Page 35 of 63 Thursday, July 10, 1980 The LAND SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY National Market Guide Light rain in most NSW Light rain was received over most of New South Wales during the past week. Heaviest falls were recorded on the South West Slopes with Cabramurra and Batlow receiving 56 millimetres, and Burrinjuck Dam recording 28mm. Reasonable falls were also recorded on the Southern Tablelands, with 43mm at Perisher Valley, followed by 19mm at Thredbo, and 16mm at Crookwell. On the North West Slopes, Bendemeer topped with 34mm, followed by Woolbrook with 15mm and Willow Tree with 13mm. Consistent falls were registered on the Central Tablelands. Orange received 30mm with Oberon and Trunkey Creek recording 20mm. In the Riverina, Tocumwal recorded the highest fall of 15mm. INTERSTATE RAINFALL Most of the continent received moderate falls over the past week with heaviest falls in the Southern states. Consistent rains fell in Tasmania and Victoria with Lake Margaret in Tasmania registering the maximum fall of 122mm. The heaviest falls in Victoria were recorded at Wonthaggi and Trafalgar, which both registered 54mm. Moderate falls were registered in South Australia with the top fall at Stirling, which had 36mm followed by 34mm at Bridgewater. TASMANIA Northern 53 mm, Southeast 33, West Coast 64, East Coast 37, Derwent Valley 21, King Island 47, Midlands 15, Central Plateau 37, Flinders Island 47. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Fortescue 1 mm, West Gascoyne 3, East Gascoyne 5, Murchison 2, North Central 7, Central Coastal 32, South Coastal 31, Central North 6, Central South 14, Eucla 4, South Eastern 6, North Eastern 8. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Northwest 8mm, Far North 11, Western Agricultural 25, Upper North 35, North east 16, Lower North 67, West Central 34, East Central 55, Murray Valley 26, Murray Mallee 20, Upper Southeast 29, Lower Southeast 34. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES NIL 0-5 6-25 26-UP DARWIN PERTH ADELAIDE SYDNEY The week's rainfall- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended July 8, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology. UPPER WESTERN: Wilcannia 1, Angledool 14, Bourke 7, Brewarrina 1, Byrock 3, Cobar M.O. 6, Collarenebri 2, Coolabah 7, Enngonia 2, Ford's Bridge 9, Lightning Ridge 5, Louth 2, Tilpa 2. LOWER WESTERN: Menindee 1, Pooncarie 4, Wentworth 7, Balranald 8, Euabalong 20, Ivanhoe 1, Nymagee 11. NORTHWEST PLAINS: Boomi 13, Burren Jctn. 3, Gwabegar 11, Pilliga 6, Baradine 21, Bellata 5, Bogabilla 8, Garah 12, Moree M.O. 5, Narrabri West 8, Pallamallawa 8, Wee Waa 4. CENTRAL WEST PLAINS: Carinda 10, Coonamble 13, Girilambone 5, Gulargambone 4, Narromine 11, Nevertire 7, Nyngan 3, Quambone 11, Warren 6, Bogan Gate 14, Condobolin 18, Peak Hill 16, Tottenham 4, Trundle 16, Tullamore 4, Ungarie 11, Yalgogrin Nth. 14. RIVERINA: Barham 7, Cargelligo 17, Carrathool 13, Darlington Pt. 13, Goolgowi 4, Griffith 6, Gubbata 8, Hay 8, Hillston 7, Maude 11, Moulamein 8, Rankin Springs 17, Wakool 3, Ardlethan 5, Lockhart 15, Narrandera 11, The Rock 19, Tocumwal 20, Urana 9, Whitton 15. NORTHWEST SLOPES: Ashford 13, Barraba 9, Bingara 13, Bonshaw 7, Croppa Ck. Rawdon 19, Delungra 14, Gravesend 9, Warialda 15, Yetman 12, Bendemeer 33, Blackville 12, Boggabri 12, Breeza 12, Gunnedah 14, Manilla 13, Mullaley 6, Nundle 23, Premer 16, Quirindi 18, Somerton 11, Tambar Springs 16, Tamworth M.O. 21, Werris Creek 15, Willowtree 17, Woolbrook 31. CENTRAL WEST SLOPES: Binnaway 7, Coolah 5, Coonabarabran 23, Dunedoo 15, Tooraweenah 23, Canowindra 12, Cudal 23, Dubbo 5, Eugowra 9, Forbes 15, Manildra 12, Molong 17, Parkes 18, Wellington 14. SOUTHWEST SLOPES: Barmedman 18, Burrinjuck Dam 36, Cootamundra 26, Gundagai 14, Junee 10, Koorawatha 24, Quandialla 11, Stockinbingal 12, Temora 21, Wyalong 16, Young 27, Adelong 27, Albury 23, Batlow 56, Cabramurra 78, Holbrook 22, Hume R'voir 21, Khancoban 10, Tarcutta 10, Tumbarumba 31, Tumut ville 25, Glen Innes 23, Guyra 19, Inverell 12, Tenterfield 13, Tingha 10, Uralla 24, Walcha 27, Drake 1, Lower Creek 2, Tabulam (Muirne) 1. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Gulgong 3, Mudgee 23, Rylstone 10, Bathurst 24, Blackheath 1, Cowra A/port 8, Hill End 28, Katoomba 2, Lithgow 9, Mt. Victoria 5, Oberon 26, Orange A/port 36, Rockley 11, Springwood 1, Trunkey Ck. 34, Wyangala 30. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Bombala 5, Canberra M. 7, Cooma 2, Crookwell 21, Frogmore 25, Goulburn 6, Nimmitabel 2, Queanbeyan 9, Taralga 15, Yass 3, Canberra City 8, Adaminaby 11, Berridale 3, Dalgety 1, Perisher Valley 60, Thredbo (C'back) 21. NORTHERN RIVERS: Murwillumbah 1. MID-NORTH COAST: Bellbrook 1, Gloucester 1, Taree 1. HUNTER: C'nock (Nulkaba) 1, Clarence town 6, Denman 4, Gresford 1, Jerry's Plains 7, Mulbring 1, Murrurundi 25, Paterson 4, Scone 2, Singleton (Army) 1, SOUTH COAST: Bega 1, Braidwood 2, Eden 2, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 18, Green Cape 3, Merimbula A/pt. 1, Montague Is. 3. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 1, Baulkham 1, Bankstown 1, Epping 1, Five Dock 1, Gordon 1, Hornsby 1, Hurstville 1, Mascot M.O. 1, Mosman 2, Palm Beach 1, Turramurra 1, Wahroonga 1, West Lindfield 2, Auburn 1, Liverpool 1. SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker. Rainfall should be moderate in a large part of New South Wales during July, with best falls on the Far North Coast. Light rains are indicated on part of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. The Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina should receive reasonably good rains during August with light to moderate rains in the rest of the State. Generally poor rainfall should occur during September, followed by === Page 36 of 63 B. KELL, 4 TORRINGTON ROAD, STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA JULY 11th, 1980 MR. TED OWENS, 200 NE 76th Street, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 98665 U. S. A. Dear Ted, Revered Sir, Having sent several newsclippings over the past few weeks or even months, you may be wondering where is the NEW SOUTH WALES WEATHER REVIEW for May 1980 as published at the Bureau of Meteorology in SYDNEY N.S.W. ? As I explained already, the Publications section is over one month behind because of a breakdown in the machine which prints the Monthly Review and because of a strike by the Administrative and Clerical Officers of the Public Service for a 5 per cent interim pay rise. The strike takes the form of go slow and lack of service to the public. I won't be surprised if they never publish the M.W.R. for May 1980 but I shall certainly be very annoyed. Meanwhile we just have to wait patiently. I have covered the blizzard and previous UFO sighting as best I can: ie June 8-13th and June 28-29th (reversed) respectively. Sometimes there is a newspaper blackout on these events especially if there are more lurid feature articles available to the local press. Thank you for your continued interest Yours faithfully, Bruce Kell ( BRUCE KELL ) === Page 37 of 63 I had told Bruce that I wished the Aussie govt. would send me a thousand a month (to cover our living expenses) while I give Australia the rain it needs to recover from its terrible drought. Evidently he gave it a go, with negative results. Bruce 4 TORRINGTON ROAD STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 AUSTRALIA July 13th, 1980 Dear Ted, Revered Sir, It was naive of me to believe that an individual could approach a politician holding sway in government and receive a reply. In the first place the politician is surrounded by a buffering of bureaucracy and secretaries who make sure that nothing difficult or touchy is placed on the politician's desk. Therefore any letter to a leading politician must run a gauntlet of disinterested people whose role is to keep the politician out of touch with grass roots requests. In this way existing governments are voted out rather than alternative governments are voted in. If we look to history e.g. Bastille Day (France) is celebrated July 14th, U.S.A. Independence Day is celebrated July 4th, there are many examples. Best wishes Bruce === Page 38 of 63 EDITOR - PUBLISHER: VLADIMIR GODIC 2A CASTLE AVENUE, PROSPECT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5082 TELEPHONE: (08) 445435 ASSOCIATE EDITOR: HOLLY I. GORISS 27 EASTWOOD STREET, BABINDA, QUEENSLAND 4861 AUSTRALIA TELEPHONE: (070) 671297 UFO Research Australia newsletter July 14, 1980 Mr Ted Owens Mr B. Kell 4 Torrington Road STRATHFIELD NSW 2135 Dear Mr Kell, Many thanks for your letter of July 6 and the request to send the information on UFO sighting and Adelaide tornado to Mr Ted Owens in the U.S.A. I regret, but we were unable to find any information on the above in the Adelaide press or elsewhere and we received no reports on these incidents. May I suggest you write to Mr Jeff Bell of UFO Research (WA) who may be able to help you especially since Kalgoorlie is situated in the Western Australia. You may not be aware of the fact that I have resigned from my position as the Liaison Officer for the UFO Research (SA) in order to concentrate all my efforts on publishing the UFO Research Australia Newsletter, and that this position has now been taken over by Mr Keith Basterfield. The official address of the group is now GPO Box 497, Adelaide SA 5001, and any future requests in regards to UFO sightings etc., should be directed to him. Your $ 6.00, which you sent for the postage to Mr Owens is being returned herewith. I have received your subscription order for the Newsletter for Mr Ted Owens for which I thank you and enclose the receipt. I have posted Vol 1 No 1 and Vol 1 No 2 newsletters to Mr Owens today via Air Mail as requested. Yours sincerely, (V. Godic) P.S. The address of UFOR (WA) Mr Jeff Bell UFO Research (WA) 84 Acton Ave. RIVERVALE WA 6103 === Page 39 of 63 PERTH DAILY NEWS DATE 16 JUL 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # Storm leaves pa of destruction By Kim Jordan People at Falcon, south of Mandurah, were faced with a clean-up today following yesterday's 90 seconds of destruction. A cockeyed-bob hit the small community yesterday afternoon, smashing windows, ripping roofs apart and sending tree branches flying. The force of the wind was so great that photos from wrecked cars, punctured car tyres and planks of wood littered the Bunbury Highway metres from the damaged homes. Jack Booth, of Thera Street, the worst hit in the housing area, said the wind hit with tremendous force. "It sounded like a train. "I found a piece of asbestos had gone into one of my car tyres. Bits of branches and trees across the road littered our back yard," he said. Ralph Noble and his wife Lorna were hit hard. The winds blew in front windows of the house and the force of the air in the house ripped the ceiling and the roof tiles into the air. Their son Andrew, 13, slept in the front room of their house and was shattered around him. Large bangsi trees in the Noble's backyard was splintered by the wind. People living in Falcon said State Emergency Service workers, the police and the SEC were on the scene within 10 minutes of the wind hitting. Mandurah police were today making a full assessment of the damage at Falcon. The drought in the Central Wheatbelt was also hit by high winds yesterday. Crops, only centimetres high and struggling to survive, were further damaged by the dust storm. * The Weather Bureau forecasts a fine day with light winds for today and morrow with a maximum of 18 degrees. An overnight low of 7. # Heat wave total reaches 1,100 dead United Press International National Guardsmen are distributing fans to parched residents of St. Louis and Kansas City to provide relief from the killer heat wave blamed for more than 1,100 deaths in the South, Southwest and Midwest. Missouri Gov. Joseph Teasdale Friday ordered 250 guardsmen to relieve weary volunteers who have carried hundreds of fans to the elderly and poor. "They (guardsmen) may be working as long as this heat lasts," said Bruce Jacques, a spokesman for the governor. "There are a growing number of needy who need the fans. These people may have to be on the job for several weeks, depending if the heat breaks." Teasdale also requested the state be declared a disaster area, calling upon President Carter to provide $20 million in federal funds to pay residents' soaring utility bills. A total of 1,105 heat-related deaths have been reported nationwide. Missouri has been hit the hardest, with some 264 deaths blamed on the searing heat. Another 138 people have succumbed to the heat in Tennessee; 120 in Arkansas; 96 in Texas; 92 in Alabama; 85 in Georgia; 74 in Kansas; 62 in Illinois; 55 in Mississippi; and 35 in Oklahoma. Louisiana and Kentucky both have recorded 23 heat deaths and nine other states report one or more. While Teasdale was issuing his call for federal help, a group of psychics holding a convention in St. Louis predicted cool breezes were not long away. Members of the Psychic Entertainers Association predicted the heat wave would abate in exactly 10 days. In Oklahoma, the state government turned to God for help. Gov. George Nigh, saying he had received numerous calls and letters requesting the action, issued a proclamation declaring Sunday as a day of prayer for rain. "Oklahomans in time of great need have traditionally turned to God through prayer and sought his help and guidance. Therefore, I, George Nigh, do hereby declare Sunday, July 20, a special day of prayer for rain and call upon all Oklahomans to join with me in this endeavor," the proclamation said. # Typhoon hits China HONG KONG (UPI) -- Typhoon Joe, packing winds of more than 100 mph, bore down on southern China Tuesday but first took its toll on Hong Kong, bringing the crown colony to a virtual standstill. Two persons died in Hong Kong as the typhoon approached and 59 others were injured by broken glass and falling debris. The deaths occurred when scaffolding on a construction site collapsed hurling one workman to the ground and killing one passerby. The typhoon roared through the northern Philippines Monday. === Page 40 of 63 P.O. Box 92, NORTH PERTH. 6006. W.Aust. 22nd. July 1980. Mr. Ted. Owens, 200 N.E. 76th. Street, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON. 98665, U.S.A. (Copy to Mr. Bruce Kell) Dear Mr. Owens, Herewith the only information which I have been able to locate regarding the report of sightings in the Kalgoorlie Area. The Perth U.F.O. Research Group, although it has one or two members residing in or near Kalgoorlie, did not receive anything other than the information contained in the clipping from the local (Perth) daily, "The West Australian". Much the same information is contained in the clipping from the Kalgoorlie (bi-weekly) "The Kalgoorlie Miner" which is printed in Perth by (I think) the "West". Sorry that I am unable to give any further news, but in order to help you get some idea of the area mentioned in the clippings, I have included a map on which the towns (in some instances only localities) are marked. You probably know that this is a particularly sparsely populated region and was the area (very roughly) where Skylab finally ended. I trust that this will be of some use to you and that you will be able to fit the reported facts. If either the writer or Perth U.F.O. Research Group can be of any further assistance please don't hesitate to ask. Regards from Perth, Western Australia !! Stanley E. Harper HARPER. === Page 41 of 63 A2 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1980 # The world ## Soviet writer flies to West LA Times-Washington Post Service MOSCOW -- Vasili Aksyonov, one of the Soviet Union's most popular novelists and screenwriters, left Moscow Tuesday to live in America, ending years of censorship tussles and escaping a total ban that had been slapped on his works here. Aksyonov, 47, his wife, Maya, and three other family members flew to Paris Tuesday afternoon to travel and live abroad on two-year Soviet exit visas. He plans to settle in the United States and has invitations to work and teach from several universities. Aksyonov's departure achieves much for Soviet authorities, who long have been eager to ensure his silence here while avoiding the kind of Western criticism that internal exile or a political trial would trigger. A member of the so-called "fourth generation" of new Soviet writers who emerged to stir up the Moscow literary world during the Khrushchev thaw of the early 1960s, Aksyonov has been a particular target of the authorities for the past two years. ## Priests beseeched VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Priests in Europe and North America should volunteer to serve in poor areas of Latin America and the Philippines to help relieve the shortage of Roman Catholic clergymen there, the Vatican said Tuesday. "The faithful are in danger of falling away from the Christian life," and a "sharp drop" in the number of priests worldwide "has severely plagued the church during the last 10 years," the Vatican said. ## Floods hit India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- More than half the population of India has been displaced or otherwise affected by monsoon rains and floods, and the situation in the northern states is "turning from bad to worse," an official spokesman said Tuesday. Reports from across the country said torrential rains, high water and earthslides have caused misery to nearly 350 million people in 11 states since late June. Floods claimed at least 32 more victims Tuesday, All-India Radio said, raising the three-week death toll to 380. The houses of 50 million people have been reported damaged or wrecked and countless others were forced to seek temporary refuge from the water. Associated Press Laserphoto ACTOR ILL -- Peter Sellers suffered a heart attack Tuesday and was rushed to a London hospital. He has had a series of heart ailments over the last six years and wears a pacemaker. He is in intensive care. July 23, '80 === Page 42 of 63 # Photographing a mystery Here are the key figures in the Ogilvie UFO mystery that developed late last week. When farmer Kevin Chick of East Ogilvie, (pictured, right) was out seeding three weeks ago on a cloudy night, he was startled at 1am to suddenly see a light rise up in the air from his neighbor's property, and disappear up into the mist. He rang his neighbor Eric Parker the next morning and said "Hey Eric, you'd better watch out. Something strange was in your paddock last night - perhaps it's the little green men paying you a visit." The two men laughed and forgot about it, until three weeks later when Eric and his brother ran over four deep indentations in a paddock near Eric's house. As Kevin put it "when you actually see such perfect and symmetrical 'pads' left in the ground and the earth compacted as if a huge weight had caused it, well, it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck." Eric Parker (above) demonstrates the size of one of the pads which were still plainly visible after three weeks of heavy rain. Lindsay Bolton (below) and his little school of eight pupils came down to the paddock and carefully measured the pads. Each was exactly 1.3 metres across and 8.7 metres apart. "I have put it down to some heavy force that can't be explained. I don't really believe in that UFO stuff," Lindsay said. Eric Parker and his wife Marlene feel strongly that they must have had a visit from some strange craft but there are no scorch-marks on the ground, and a bank of trees nearby looks undisturbed. Was it a UFO? And why did it land in Eric Parker's paddock? The whole thing remains a mystery, but the deep indentations bear silent testimony to the fact that something had been there. As one man said "If it makes a return visit, I won't hang about to find out if the inhabitants are friendly, that's for sure." - [x] Pictures Ted Smith - [x] Story Zara Bellett === Page 43 of 63 A2 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1980 # The world ## Soviet writer flies to West LA Times-Washington Post Service MOSCOW -- Vasili Aksyonov, one of the Soviet Union's most popular novelists and screenwriters, left Moscow Tuesday to live in America, ending years of censorship tussles and escaping a total ban that had been slapped on his works here. Aksyonov, 47, his wife, Maya, and three other family members flew to Paris Tuesday afternoon to travel and live abroad on two-year Soviet exit visas. He plans to settle in the United States and has invitations to work and teach from several universities. Aksyonov's departure achieves much for Soviet authorities, who long have been eager to ensure his silence here while avoiding the kind of Western criticism that internal exile or a political trial would trigger. A member of the so-called "fourth generation" of new Soviet writers who emerged to stir up the Moscow literary world during the Khrushchev thaw of the early 1960s, Aksyonov has been a particular target of the authorities for the past two years. ## Priests beseeched VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Priests in Europe and North America should volunteer to serve in poor areas of Latin America and the Philippines to help relieve the shortage of Roman Catholic clergymen there, the Vatican said Tuesday. "The faithful are in danger of falling away from the Christian life," and a "sharp drop" in the number of priests worldwide "has severely plagued the church during the last 10 years," the Vatican said. Associated Press Laserphoto ACTOR ILL -- Peter Sellers suffered a heart attack Tuesday and was rushed to a London hospital. He has had a series of heart ailments over the last six years and wears a pacemaker. He is in intensive care. from bad to worse," an official spokesman said Tuesday. Reports from across the country said torrential rains, high water and earthslides have caused misery to nearly 350 million people in 11 states since late June. Floods claimed at least 32 more victims Tuesday, All-India Radio said, raising the three-week death toll to 380. The houses of 50 million people have been reported damaged or wrecked and countless others were forced to seek temporary refuge from the water. World "Power" and Rain Attack -- ## Floods hit India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- More than half the population of India has been displaced or otherwise affected by monsoon rains and floods, and the situation in the northern states is "turning July 23, '80 === Page 44 of 63 (W.A. COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) Geraldton Guardian DATE June 24. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730. SYDNEY. 2001 === Page 45 of 63 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1980 # world # Kidnappers seize 3 teens FLORENCE, Italy (AP) -- Three masked kidnappers broke into an isolated villa near here Friday and seized two teen-age daughters of a prominent West German television commentator and their cousin as they were sunbathing, police and Interior Ministry officials said. Abducted were Susanne Kronzucker, 15, and her sister Sabina, 13, daughters of television moderator Dieter Kronzucker. Also seized was Martin Wachtler, 15, son of an agricultural engineer, they said. The family was visiting the villa on vacation. The kidnappers entered the villa at Barberino, 22 miles south of here. They locked the Kronzucker parents in a storeroom, seized the children and drove away. # Typhoon hits Luzon MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Typhoon Kim, the second tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this week, walloped the northern island of Luzon Friday with peak winds of 115 miles an hour, triggering massive flooding in Manila and elsewhere. There were no immediate reports on casualties. The official death count from Typhoon Joe, which roared across Luzon on Monday, reached 31, and eight other people were reported still missing. Reports from Vietnam and southern China said Joe caused massive damage when it struck those coastlines in mid-week. A spokesman for the Philippines weather service said Kim, its winds down to 115 miles an hour from 137 mph, came ashore in northeastern Luzon, where officials said Typhoon Joe had left more than 300,000 people homeless. The two storms caused millions of dollars in damage to crops and property on Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. Hardest hit was Isabela province, 120 miles northeast of Manila. Note: this quake was caused by "Power & Rain Attacks". Owens # Rare quake shakes 14 states By The Associated Press Org: 7/28/80 A "very rare" earthquake centered in northern Kentucky rattled residents Sunday in at least 14 states from Michigan to South Carolina and in parts of Canada. No deaths or injuries were reported, but hundreds of buildings in Kentucky sustained damage, mostly minor. Don Finley of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake registered 5.1 on the Richter scale and was centered about 45 miles southeast of Cincinnati and 50 miles northeast of Lexington, Ky. He said a preliminary reading of 5.8 had been lowered after further checks. He said there was no known record of other earthquakes in that area. Waverly Person, a geophysicist with the survey's National Earthquake Information Center, said quakes were "very rare" in that part of the United States and that eastern quakes rarely register above 4.0. Scientists said that unlike California earthquakes, which are triggered when two large plates of the earth's crust move against each other along one of several faults, Sunday's quake occurred in an area that has only one plate and no fault. Scientists are not certain what causes earthquakes that are centered in the interior of a plate. The earthquake was felt in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Alabama, and also was recorded in southern Ontario. At Detroit's Tiger Stadium, 40,000 baseball fans watching the Tigers battle the Oakland A's noticed the stadium sway, and were told by the announcer that they had felt an earthquake. "The fans all looked at one another, but there wasn't a stampede to get out," said police officer Mike Werner, who was stationed in an upper deck. For the most part, the quake caused mainly puzzled and excited those in its path. Telephone calls from residents who felt something were reported at police and sheriff's offices in places as widespread as Asheville, N.C., and Cairo, Ill. "I was upstairs when the radiator started to jiggle and then the whole house rattled," said Fran Zaniello, a college English instructor who lives in Fort Thomas, Ky., about 20 miles south of Cincinnati. "I went downstairs and said, 'Hey, I just felt an earthquake,' and everybody laughed." In Maysville, Ky., 70 miles northeast of Lexington on the Ohio River, state emergency officials said an estimated 200 buildings were damaged. Most of the damage was merely broken windows and chimneys, but some of it was more severe. Near the Kentucky state capital of Frankfort, 25 miles west of Lexington, Joel Mans said the earthquake "busted the whole back side of my house" and that other homes in his subdivision had similar damage. "It knocked me out of my chair," said Sgt. William Krueger at the Indiana State Police Operations Center in Indianapolis. He said calls were coming in "from all over." Switchboards at Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tenn., radio stations lit up with calls shortly before 3 p.m. Residents reported dishes rattled for several seconds. The tremor was felt throughout the central Ohio area as well as in the Cincinnati and Cleveland areas. === Page 46 of 63 (2) Oregon Journal, July 28, 1980 25 # Rare earthquake rumbles through U.S. mid-section By United Press International A moderate earthquake centered in Kentucky -- the region's first in almost 50 years -- shook and shattered windows from Alabama to Canada, toppled chimneys, knocked ornamentation off Cincinnati's City Hall and rocked Detroit's Tiger Stadium while a game was in progress. No serious injuries were reported in Sunday's temblor, which measured 5.1 on the Richter scale. It shook an area from Alabama to southern Canada and from Illinois to North Carolina for about 15 seconds, causing some damage. The quake toppled chimneys, fractured building foundations, broke windows and terrified people. Seismologists said it was centered in Marysville, Ky. -- about 45 miles southeast of Cincinnati and 50 miles northeast of Lexington, Ky. -- believed to be the first ever recorded in northern Kentucky. The quake surprised seismologists but not psychic Barry Bowman of Middletown, Ohio. Just hours before the tremor hit, Bowman predicted Ohio would be hit by an earthquake this year. Alyine Dunn, who lives about 9 miles west of Frankfort, Ky., said, "My sister and I were sitting on the couch when we felt it. I looked at her and she looked at me and I thought we'd lost our senses. "A pot of flowers was vibrating on the television and the grandfather clock, which hadn't been running, began chiming, and two old kerosene lamps nearly vibrated off the shelves. We could also hear the garage door springs rattling," she said. Cincinnati police said ornaments and bricks were shaken from the City Hall and damaged a sidewalk and steps, and the chimney at St. Paul's Church was shaken away. A street near the City Hall was blocked for about two hours by the falling bricks. The quake rocked Tiger Stadium in Detroit and Cleveland Municipal Stadium, where rain delayed and eventually washed out the Indians' game with the California Angels. **MICHIGAN** Detroit Lake Erie **OHIO** **INDIANA** Cincinnati W. VIRGINIA Lexington VIRGINIA Bristol **KENTUCKY** **TENNESSEE** === Page 47 of 63 July 28-1980 Oregon Journal # Severe lightning storms lash broiling Southwest By United Press International The hot, dry weather that has broiled the Southwest for weeks produced a series of lightning storms that touched off brush fires, the largest of which burned 2,000 acres on the eastern slopes of Mount San Jacinto in California. Heavy thunderstorms brought large hail and high wind to the upper Midwest late Sunday. Fires still were burning Monday from the U.S.-Mexican border to as far north as the Sequoia National Forest. "Old Mother Nature is working against us," said California fire spokeswoman Linda Donaker. She said containment efforts are hampered by the "very remote, very steep and very rocky terrain." "The wind is very, very erratic," she said. "We've got thunderheads you wouldn't believe. We're getting a lot of lightning strikes out here." Carlos Garza of the National Weather Service said the weather pattern is not particularly unusual. "This is normal for the summer time," Garza said. "We have a little bit of moisture moving in from the Gulf of Mexico, and with the heating, we are seeing a lot of activity." "There are thunderstorms throughout the desert, but no measurable rain has been reported from the Mexican border to Palm Springs," he said. "We are seeing a gradual decrease in the moisture, so the situation should ease some in the next day or so." In Arizona, firefighters Sunday fought dozens of lightning-caused blazes. In all, more than 44,000 acres of northwest Arizona desert and rangeland burned during the weekend. Thunderstorms covered a wide area from the lower Mississippi Valley across the Tennessee and Ohio valleys to the lower Great Lakes. Storms also were reported along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and southern Rockies. The National Weather Service reported that large hail pelted South Dakota and Minnesota late Sunday. The hail was accompanied by high wind that downed trees in Backus and Park Rapids, Minn. Strong wind also was reported in the South as part of another band of storms. In Lufkin, Texas, wind gusting to 58 mph was reported. Wind damage also was reported at Alexandria and Verda, La. Earthquakes rock N. India, Nepal Seat Times July 31-80 KATMANDU, Nepal -- A series of earthquakes rocked Northern India and this mountain kingdom, collapsing houses and killing at least nine persons in the foothills of the Himalayas, it was reported yesterday. A quake Tuesday measured 6.7 on the Richter scale. More than 20 small quakes -- the strongest registering 5.2 on the Richter scale -- occurred until midday yesterday. Seat Times July 31-80 # Rain floods Ukraine, damages crops MOSCOW -- A prolonged period of heavy rain in the agriculturally important Ukraine has caused extensive flooding and damaged crops, homes and utilities, the Soviet press reports. There was no mention of casualties. Aug 1-1980 Seattle Times # Quakes claim 16 lives NEW DELHI -- (AP) -- The death toll from a series of earthquakes in Northern India and Nepal was placed at 16 yesterday, United News of India said. It listed 13 deaths in Pithoragarh district, bordering the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Oregonian DNESDAY, JULY 30, 1980 # No major fires reported # Lightning sweeps E. Oregon A Tuesday afternoon lightning storm swept through the Vale-Burns areas, close on the heels of a lightning storm Monday that ignited 63 spot fires. Bureau of Land Management officials said all of the spot fires were controlled, and no large fires were reported after the Tuesday lightning strikes. Fire danger remained high in the eastern part of Oregon, and the lightning fronts were moving eastward into Idaho. The U.S. Forest Service reported scores of lightning strikes in the Fremont, Deschutes, Ochoco and Malheur forests, but all were quickly controlled. Crews mopped up on the fires Tuesday, using aerial drops of retardants in some cases. Crews with the State Department of Forestry Tuesday were battling a 50-acre timber blaze on Edgewood Mountain, about three miles northeast of Klamath Falls. Light winds caused additional problems at the fire, being fought by about 50 firefighters, aerial retardants and a dozen pieces of ground equipment. Firefighters contained a fire south of Forks, Wash., that burned over 130 acres of forest land and $1 million worth of state-owned timber. Explosives crews had to blast firefighting trails into the rugged Olympic Peninsula mountain area. Note: the kids and I planned, on a map, to vacation at Spirit Lake near Mt. St. Helens. Then the volcano blew up and wiped out Spirit Lake. Next we planned, on a map, to go to Lost Lake near Mt. Hood. Then Mt. Hood acted up and alarmed the experts. Finally we planned, on a map, to drive to Forks for a vacation in the nearby woods. - World "Power" and Rain Attack - === Page 48 of 63 Storms Bring Some Heat Wave Relief Dallas Roving storms yesterday eased a heat wave that has been blamed for more than 1200 deaths in 24 states, and provided Arkansas farmers with prayed-for rains. But Dallas -- cooled by rain Monday -- got another day of 100-degree heat yesterday. The storms were not extensive enough to help substantially the crops and rangelands in much of the Midwest and the Plains states. Billions of dollars in crops, cattle and poultry have been wiped out by the heat. Food Industry officials said prices would rise substantially. Forecasters disagreed whether the nation had seen the last of the killing heat. In Dallas, forecasters had said the 100-degree weather was over. But temperatures climbed at midafternoon and pushed to 100 degrees again. A summer-long drought ended abruptly in eastern Arkansas. Up to 6 inches of rain doused the Arkansas communities of Wynne and Marianna in four hours, prompting flash flood watches. And cool weather came with the storms. The storm system also brought cooler weather to beleaguered Missouri and Kansas, but significant rainfalls failed to materialize in the two parched states. Temperatures dipped to the 70-degree range in St. Louis, where more than 100 heat-related deaths have been reported since July 2. Hundred-degree weather that seared New Jersey and New York ended yesterday as the storm system that cooled the midlands pushed eastward. The mercury soared to 102 degrees in New York City on Monday, and water and power use soared with it to record levels. But the temperature was only in the 80s at midday yesterday. In Chester, Mass., the mercury climbed to 101 degrees Monday. Then a storm blew up. Nearly a half foot of rain doused the area; 60 mph winds toppled trees, and hail pelted houses and cars. The storm system also ended a brief run of record heat in Baltimore and parts of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. July 31-1980 Seattle Times Rain helps fight California fires A half inch of rain moistened parched areas of Southern California yesterday, helping fire fighters contain some of the more serious of the dozens of blazes that have blackened thousands of acres in central and southern parts of the state. In Arizona, where lightning storms have set off new fires every night for more than a week, fire officials shuttled fire fighters and equipment from blaze to blaze. Lightning strikes in sun-baked undergrowth have caused most of the fires, which have been fanned by gusty winds. Temperatures in the 100s and rugged terrain have hampered fire fighters. 7-24-80 Seat. Times Volcano blows top in Soviet Far East MOSCOW -- (AP) -- A dormant volcano on the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted in a 2-mile-high tower of ash and gases, the Russian news agency, Tass, said yesterday. The report said that the razor-backed peak, dormant for the past 30 years, exploded into activity in the sparsely populated region, blasting away a lake that had formed in its crater, but no injuries were reported. It did not say when the eruption occurred. Volcanologists boarded airplanes to view the 6,500-foot-peak. The mountain is 40 miles east of Petropavlovsk, in a region dotted with volcanic peaks. Tass said the peak, Mount Gorely, has a series of 11 smaller craters, and that scientists called it "one of the most interesting subjects for study." Since 1975, specialists have been watching the growth of neighboring volcano, the first time, they say, that scientists are able to observe the birth of a new mountain. The scientists said they accurately predicted the eruption, which began with a series of earth tremors on the mountainous peninsula. Among their projects, the Kamchatka scientists are trying to harness volcanos as an energy source and have 100 separate geothermal sources on the peninsula. July 28, 1980 Oreg Journal Clouds black out London LONDON (UPI) -- Freak clouds 6 miles thick blacked out London during the Weekend and brought the worst July thunderstorms in a decade. "I've never known it so black in day time," said a London Weather Center official of Saturday when the center's sunlight meter dropped to a reading of zero. During the heavy rain, power supplies to some villages were cut off, roads were flooded and two women golfers were hospitalized with injuries from a lightning bolt. - World "Power & Rain Attack" - === Page 49 of 63 # Photographing a mystery Here are the key figures in the Ogilvie UFO mystery that developed late last week. When farmer Kevin Chick of East Ogilvie, (pictured, right) was out seeding three weeks ago on a cloudy night, he was startled at 1am to suddenly see a light rise up in the air from his neighbor's property, and disappear up into the mist. He rang his neighbor Eric Parker the next morning and said "Hey Eric, you'd better watch out. Something strange was in your paddock last night - perhaps it's the little green men paying you a visit." The two men laughed and forgot about it, until three weeks later when Eric and his brother ran over four deep indentations in a paddock near Eric's house. As Kevin put it "when you actually see such perfect and symmetrical 'pads' left in the ground and the earth compacted as if a huge weight had caused it, well, it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck." Eric Parker (above) demonstrates the size of one of the pads which were still plainly visible after three weeks of heavy rain. Lindsay Bolton (below) and his little school of eight pupils came down to the paddock and carefully measured the pads. Each was exactly 1.3 metres across and 8.7 metres apart. "I have put it down to some heavy force that can't be explained. I don't really believe in that UFO stuff," Lindsay said. Eric Parker and his wife Marlene feel strongly that they must have had a visit from some strange craft, but there are no scorch-marks on the ground, and a bank of trees nearby looks undisturbed. Was it a UFO? And why did it land in Eric Parker's paddock? The whole thing remains a mystery, but the deep indentations bear silent testimony to the fact that something had been there. As one man said "If it makes a return visit, I won't hang about to find out if the inhabitants are friendly, that's for sure." * Pictures Ted Smith * Story Zara Bellett === Page 50 of 63 Mr. Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St., Vancouver, Washington 98665 U. S. A. June 5th, 1980 Dear Mr. Owens, Revered Sir, Under separate cover, further documentation is forwarded as requested. I hope we have no quarrel with these figures for rainfall which are acquired and tabulated at great cost to the government of the commonwealth of Australia. Although the rainfall individual figures may be unaudited, you can be sure that the auditor-general provides that the costs associated with acquiring and tabulating those figures are subjected to rigorous audit procedures acceptable to general business practice. Oliver Twist was the name of a novel written by the nineteenth century English writer Charles Dickens. As a young boy in an orphanage, so the story goes, but you would know the story of how Oliver asked for "More". The writings of Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century helped bring about the stirring of the social conscience which led to much needed reforms in England. Donation for $280 is enclosed with best wishes to yourself and your auspicious friendship Respectfully, Bruce BRUCE KELL, 4 Torrington Road, STRATHFIELD, N.S.W. 2135 AUSTRALIA === Page 51 of 63 (Australia) Thursday, June 12, 1980 'The LAND' 53 # SECTION 5 -- WOOL -- STOCK -- PROPERTY # National Market Guide # Most NSW rain in South ### INTERSTATE RAINFALL The continent remained mostly dry over the past week, with some scattered light falls near the coast and ranges. In Western Australia there were widespread showers over the lower south-west coast, with lighter falls on the north coast and agricultural areas. Maximum fall was 19 mm at Dwellingup. Queensland received scattered light falls in the peninsula and east coast districts, with a top fall of 25 mm at Sandy Cape. In South Australia there were light to moderate falls in most districts except the interior. Heavier rains fell in the upper north area, with a maximum of 33 mm at Bruce. **QUEENSLAND** Peninsula South 6 mm, North Coast (Barron) 1, North Coast (Herbert) 13, Central Coast (East) 5, Central Coast (West) 2, Central Highlands 10, Central Lowlands 2, South Coast (Curtis) 19, South Coast (Moreton) 27, Darling Downs (East) 30, Darling Downs (West) 26, Maranoa 14. **VICTORIA** Mallee 12 mm, Wimmera 11, Western 10, Northern 6, North Central 10, Central 16, Northeast 6, Gippsland 27, Metropolitan 13, Mildura 26, Halls Gap 18, Weeaproinah 33, Tungamah 14, Wallaby Creek 29, Powelltown 65, Mt Hotham 23, Tanjil Bren 87, Ringwood 20. **TASMANIA** Northern 16 mm, Southeast 25, West Coast 26, East Coast 61, Derwent Valley 14, King Island 14, Midlands 17, Central Plateau 21, Flinders Island 33. **WESTERN AUSTRALIA** North Kimberley 0.2 mm, De Grey 4, Fortescue 47, West Gascoyne 53, East Gascoyne 29, Murchison 31, North Coastal 16, Central Coastal 42, South Coastal 40, Central North 10, Central South 10, Eucla 12, South Eastern 18, North Eastern 9. **SOUTH AUSTRALIA** Northwest 12 mm, Far North 4, Western Agricultural 28, Upper North 26, Northeast 12, Lower North 26, West Central 36, East Central 40, Murray Valley 25, Murray Mallee 24, Upper Southeast 20, Lower Southeast 18. Except for light to moderate falls in some districts, there was little or no rain in New South Wales during the past week. Heaviest falls were recorded in the Illawarra region, reaching 32 mm at Jervis Bay, followed by nine mm at Kiama and two mm at Berry and Robertson. Leading recording on the South Coast was 11 mm at Gabo Island (Vic.). Other falls in the area were two mm at Green Cape and Eden. Bombala and Nimmitabel headed the registrations on the Southern Tablelands with four mm, followed by two mm at Frogmore and Dalgety. Two mm of fresh snow fell at Thredbo. In the Hunter the top registration was 12 mm at Norah Head, with six mm at Raymond Terrace and three mm at Newcastle. # The week's rainfall-- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 10, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology: **UPPER WESTERN:** White Cliffs 2, Wilcannia 4, Angledool 2, Bourke 5, Brewarrina 10, Byrock 11, Cobar M.O. 6, Coolabah 17, Enngonia 5, Ford's Bridge 3, Lightning Ridge 4, Louth 0.6 Tilpa 1. **LOWER WESTERN:** Broken Hill 13, Menindee 13, Pooncarie 13, Wentworth 22, Balranald 3, Euabalong 5, Ivanhoe 6, Nymagee 10. **NORTH-WEST PLAINS:** Boomi 3, Mungindi 1, Walgett 4, Baradine 10, Bellata 2, Bogabilla 3, Garah 2, Moree M.O. 1, Narrabri West 3, Pallamallawa 1. **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Carinda 5, Coonamble 14, Gilgandra 16, Giritambone 8, Narromine 11, Nevertire 14, Nyngan 5, Quambone 9, Trangie 1, Warren 8, Bogan Gate 11, Condobolin 5, Peak Hill 8, Tottenham 5, Trundle 9, Tullamore 7, Ungarie 4, Yalgogrin Nth. 5. **RIVERINA:** Barham 6, Cargelligo 6, Carrathool 9, Darlington Pt. 6, Goolgowi 9, Griffith 13, Gubhata 4, Hay 4, Hillston 13, Maude 10, Rankin Springs 13, Wakool 8, Ardlethan 13, Ariah Park 10, Berrigan 13, Conargo 9, Culcairn 8, Deniliquin 6, Finley 10, Grong Grong 7, Henty 9, Howlong 18, Jerilderie 10, Leeton 5, Lockhart 9, Narrandera 10, The Rock 10, Tocumwal 12, Urana 7, Whitton 8. **NORTHWEST SLOPES:** Ashford 3, Barraba 4, Bingara 4, Bonshaw 7, Croppa Ck, Rawdon 5, Delungra 2, Gravesend 2, Warialda 3, Yetman 3, Bendemeer 10, Blackville 13, Boggabri 7, Breeza 8, Gunnedah 11, Manilla 4, Mullaley 5, Nundle 20, Premer 9, Quirindi 19, Somerton 8, Tambar Springs 9, Tamworth M.O. 7, Werris Creek 17, Willowtree 17, Woolbrook 12. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Coolah 14, Coonabarabran 17, Dunedoo 16, Mendooran 15, Tooraweenah 37, Cudal 14, Dubbo 17, Eugowra 8, Forbes 15, Manildra 9, Molong 9, Parkes 16, Wellington 15. **SOUTHWEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 6, Burrinjuck Dam 15, Cootamundra 14, Grenfell 5, Gundagai 11, Koorawatha 7, Quandialla 7, Temora 11, Wyalong 7, Young 6, Adelong 12, Albury 14, Batlow 13, Cabramurra 20, Holbrook 12, Hume R'voir 17, Khancoban 13, Tarcutta 10, Tumbarumba 15, Tumut 16, Wagga 11. **NORTHERN TABLELANDS:** Armidale 9, Bunclarra 4, Deepwater 11, Emmaville 6, Glen Innes 4, Guyra 7, Inverell 2, Tenterfield 3, Tinpha 5, Uralla 8, Walcha 6, Drake 2. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Mudgee 14, Rylstone 16, Bathurst 16, Blackheath 11, Cowra A/port 7, Hill End 23, Katoomba 11, Kurrajong Hts. 7, Lithgow 19, Mt. Victoria 18, Oberon 21, Orange A/port 21, Rockley 12, Springwood 5, Trunkey Ck. 20, Wyangala 5. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Bombala 5, Canberra M. S, Cooma 3, Crookwell 8, Delegate 4, Frogmore 8, Goulburn 3, Gunning 8, Nimmitabel 10, Taralga 5, Yass 13, Canberra City 5, Adaminaby 1, Berridale 2, Dalgety 5, Perisher Valley 4, Thredbo (C'back) 8. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 1, Bulahdelah 3, Forster 2, Sugarloaf Pt. 5, Taree 1. **HUNTER:** C'nock (Nulkaba) 6, Clarence town 9, Denman 7, Dungog 6, Gosford 8, Gresford 10, Jerrys Plains 8, Mangrove Mtn. 25, Maryville 7, Merriwa 8, Moonan Flat 19, Murrurundi 21, N'castle (Nbys) 9, Norah Head 22, Paterson 11, Raymond Tce. 15, Scone 15, Singleton (Army) 8, Stroud 4, Williamt'n M.O. 10, Wyong 8. **ILLAWARRA:** Berry 2, Bowral 3, Camden A/pt. 5, Campbelltown 3, Greenwell Pt. 4, Jervis Bay 32, Kiama 10, Picton 3, Robertson 8, Wollondilly 5, W'gong (Uni.) 3, Nowra (RAN) 1. **SOUTH COAST:** Batemans Bay 1, Bega 2, Braidwood 4, Eden 4, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 12, Green Cape 2, Merimbula A'pt. 2, Montague Is. 2, Moruya Hds. 2, Pambula 2. **METROPOLITAN:** Balgowlah 7, Bankstown 5, Bexley 7, Bondi 7, Concord 10, Epping 7, Five Dock 7, Gordon 5, Hornsby 9, Hurstville 6, Mascot M.O. 8, Mosman 7, Newport Bch. 9, Palm Beach 9, Pymble 7, Randwick 10, Sydney 8, Turramurra 8, Waverton 5, West Lindfield 5, Auburn 9, Glenorie 8, Liverpool 4, Richmond M.O. 4, Westmead 9. # SEASONAL FORECAST ### Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker Good general rains should be experienced throughout New South Wales during June, with heaviest rains on the North Coast and portion of the Northern Tablelands. Rainfall should be moderate in a large part of the State during July. Light to moderate patchy rains are indicated during August and September. Moderate rains are indicated in many areas during October. Distribution: Rain is indicated on June 14. === Page 52 of 63 SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY National Market Guide Good rain in most NSW Good rains fell in most regions of New South Wales during the past week, with heavy falls recorded in some areas. On the Central West Slopes, Coonabarabran headed the registrations with 88 mm, followed by Binnaway with 60 mm, and Mendooran and Tooraweenah with 35 mm. Cabramurra received the highest rainfall in the Southwest Slopes with 88 mm. Other top falls in the area were 60 mm at West Wyalong, 57 mm at Blow, and 55 mm at Burrinjuck Dam. Moderate to heavy rains were received in the western areas of the State. These included 34 mm at Angledool, 29 mm at Collarenebri, 25 mm at Bourke and 23 mm at Lightning Ridge. On the Northwest Plains, Baradine topped the registration with 44 mm, followed by 37 mm at Wee Waa, and 34 mm at Boggabri and Narrabri. The coastal areas also received good rains. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES NIL 0-5 6-25 26-UP Interstate RAINFALL Most of the continent received widespread rains over the past week. In Queensland there were general falls with occasional heavy rains on the north and central coasts, and in the southeast corner. Innisfail topped with 84 mm, followed by Cape Moreton with 42 mm, and Nannaford 41 mm. General rain fell over most areas of Western Australia, including 60 mm at Kalbarri, and 62 mm at Onslow. In South Australia there were light to moderate falls in all districts with heavier falls in the north. Maximum fall was 53 mm at Jamestown. Victoria received light falls in most districts, with heavier falls at Warburton 26 mm, Mt Beauty 23 mm, and Cape Otway 11 mm. Northern Territory had light falls over most of the Top End and over the Alice Springs area. The week's rainfall UPPER WESTERN: Tibooburra 2, White Cliffs 2, Wilcannia 1, Angledool 34, Bourke 9, Brewarrina 7, Byrock 2, Enngonia M.O. 5, Collarenebri 29, Coolabah 1, Girilambone 4, Ford's Bridge 1, Lightning Ridge 23, Louth 7, Tilpa 1. LOWER WESTERN: Broken Hill 11, Menindee 15, Pooncarie 6, Wentworth 1, Balranald 1, Euabalong 27, Ivanhoe 6, Oxley 13. NORTH-WEST PLAINS: Boomi 16, Burren Junction 21, Gwabegar 33, Mungindi 27, Pilliga 30, Walgett 33 Baradine 44, Bellata 30, Bogabilla 62, Garah 20, Moree M.O. 7, Narrabri West 52, Pallamallawa 16, Wee Waa 49. CENTRAL WEST PLAINS: Carinda 24, Coonamble 90, Gilgandra 46, Girilambone 36, Gulargambone 59, Narromine 17, Nevertire 42, Nyngan 41, Quambone 23, Warren 31, Bogan Gate 74, Condobolin 16, Coolamon 25, Culcairn 17, Forbes 84, Ungarie 32, Yalgogrin North 17. RIVERINA: Barham 1, Cargelligo 13, Carrathool 6, Darlington Point 10, Goolgowi 11, Griffith 9, Gubbata 37, Hay 14, Hillston 21, Maude 17, Moulamein 2, Hay Springs 19, Wakool 9, Ardlethan 14, Jerilderie 5, Barellan 55, Berrigan 4, Corowa 16, Coolamon 25, Culcairn 17, Deniliquin 5, Finley 27, Grong Grong 23, Henty 12, Howlong 9, Jerilderie 6, Leeton 16, Lockhart 11, Narrandera 20, The Rock 18, Tocumwal 34, Urana 4, Whitton 15. NORTH-WEST SLOPES: Ashford 27, Barraba 27, Bingara 35, Bonshaw 39, Cherry Creek, Rawdon 21, Delungra 24, Gravesend 18, Warialda 20, Yetman 50, Bundemeer 33, Blackville 49, Boggabri 38, Gunnedah 37, Gunnedah 46, Manilla 26, Manley 44, Nundle 65, Premer 44, Quirindi 36, Somerton 77, Tambar Springs 38, Tamworth M.O. 70, Werris Creek 44, Warialda 47, Woolbrook 22. CENTRAL WEST SLOPES: Binnaway 60, Coolah 59, Coonabarabran 89, Dunedoo 38, Mendooran 51, Tooraweenah 34, Canowindra 16, Cudal 41, Dubbo 72, Eugowra 20, Forbes 45, Manildra 36, Molong 51, Parkes 50, Wellington 48. SOUTH-WEST SLOPES: Barmedman 69, Burrinjuck Dam 66, Cootamundra 51, Gundagai 14, Junee 10, Grenfell 42, Quandialla 32, Stockinbingal 75, Temora 56, Wyalong 50, Adelong 56, Albury 15, Batlow 66, Cabramurra 91, Holbrook 11, Hume Reservoir 13, Khancoban 33, Tarcutta 37, Tumbarumba 44, Tumut 37, Wagga 18, Wagga M.O. 19, Young 26. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Armidale 8, Bundarra 12, Deepwater 42, Emmaville 46, Glen Innes 29, Guyra 21, Inverell 24, Tenterfield 4, Tingha 24, Uralla 14, Walcha 10 Bonalbo 51, Lower Creek 31, Tabulam 12, Tabulam (Muirne) 16. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Gulgong 49, Mudgee 37, Rylstone 25, Bathurst 21, Blackheath 29, Blayney 10, Cowra Airport 32, Hill End 62, Katoomba 52, Kurrajong Heights 15, Lithgow 20, Mt Victoria 39, Oberon 39, Orange Airport 41, Rockley 28, Springwood 20, Trunkey Creek 28, Wyangala 30. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Bombala 18, Canberra M. 27, Cooma 20 Crookwell 33, Delegate 13, Frogmore 20, Goulburn 74, Gunning 52, Nimmitabel 32, Queanbeyan 21, Taralga 43, Yass 63, Canberra City 39, Adaminaby 19, Berridale 29, Dalgety 21, Perisher Valley 27, Thredbo (C'back) 23. NORTHERN RIVERS: Cape Byron 32, Casino 25, Grafton 21, Kyogle 22, Lismore 27, Maclean 29, Mullumbimby 14, Murwillumbah 28, Tweed Heads 38, Yamba 45. MID-NORTH COAST: Bellbrook 11, Bellingen 12, Coffs Harbour M.O. 10, Dorrigo 14, Kempsey 7, Macksville 11, Meldrum 14, Nambucca Heads 1, Smoky Cape 8, Bulahdelah 9, Comboyne 6, Forster 2, Gloucester 16, Laurieton 4, Port Macquarie 4, Sugarloaf Point 3, Taree 14, Wauchope 5. HUNTER: Cessnock (Nulkaba) 21, Denman 24, Dungog 17, Gosford 25, Gresford 17, Jerrys Plains 17, Mangrove Mountain 29, Maryville 59, Merriwa 34, Moonan Flat 28, Mulbring 18, Murrurundi 40, Newcastle (Nobbys) 19, Norah Head 14, Paterson 17, Raymond Terrace 10, Scone 32, Singleton (Army) 19, Stroud 11, Williamtown M.O. 18 Wyong 18. ILLAWARRA: Berry 27, Bowral 27, Camden Airport 37, Campbelltown 29, Greenwell Point 26, Jervis Bay 16, Kiama 28, Nowra (Council) 12, Picton 89, Robertson 92, Wollondilly 21 Wollongong (Uni.) 52, Nowra (RAN) 13. SOUTH COAST: Araluen 5, Batemans Bay 6, Bega 26, Bodalla 6, Braidwood 6, Candelo 11, Eden 43, Gabo Island (Vic.) 76, Green Cape 51, Merimbula Airport 43, Milton 11, Montague Island 14, Moruya Heads 6, Pambula 41. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 22, Balgowlah 21, Bankstown 22, Bexley 46, Bondi 18, Concord 17, Cronulla 29, Enpping 18, Five Dock 26, Gordon 23, Hornsby 17, Hurstville 38, Mascot M.O. 22, Mosman 23, Newport Beach 22, Palm Beach 31, Pymble 20, Randwick 21, Sydney 25, Turramurra 24, Wahroonga 17, Waverton 21, West Lindfield 26, Auburn 22, Glenorie 20, Liverpool 20, Penrith 50, Richmond M.O. 12, Westmead 3. VICTORIA Mallee 1 mm (Manangatang 5), Wimmera 0.4 (Harrow 3), Western 4 (Weeaproinah 20), Northern 3 (Cobram 29), North Central 4 (Alexandra 13), Central 4 (O'Shannassy 16), Northeast 9 (Walwa 20), Gippsland 3 (Wilson's Promontory 11), Metropolitan 4 (Bayswater 9). TASMANIA Northern 13 mm, Southeast 6, West Coast 87, East Coast 3, Derwent Valley 22, King Island 9, Central Plateau 18, Flinders Island 18. QUEENSLAND Peninsula North 3 mm, Peninsula South 3, Lower Carpentaria 5, Upper Carpentaria 25, North Coast, Barron 37, North Coast, Herbert 79, Central Coast, East 77, Central Coast, West 47, Central Highlands 35, Central Lowlands 21, Upper Western 5, Lower Western 4, South Coast, Curtis 28, South Coast, Moreton 29, Darling Downs, East 16, Darling Downs, West 33, Maranoa 41, Warrego 30, Far South West 8. WESTERN AUSTRALIA North Kimberley 14 mm, East Kimberley 0.2, West Kimberley 18, De Grey 7, Fortescue 9, West Gascoyne 18, East Gascoyne 1, Murchison 27, North Coastal 20, Central Coastal 47, South Coastal 29, Central North 15, Central South 15, Eucla 9, South Eastern 13, North Eastern 2. SOUTH AUSTRALIA Northwest 13 mm, Far North 4, Western Agricultural 9, Upper North 19, Northeast 20, Lower North 19, West Central 1, East Central 1, Murray Valley 2, Murray SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker Rainfall should be good throughout New South Wales during June, with heavy rain on the North Coast and part of the Northern Tablelands. Moderate rains are indicated in many areas of New South Wales during July with light to moderate patchy rains during August. Similar conditions are indicated during September. Moderate rains are expected in a large part of the State during October. Distribution: Rains are indicated on June 5 and 6. Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 3, in millimetres as recorded by the === Page 53 of 63 Daily News, Thursday, June 12, 1980 # Hundreds report Kalgoorlie UFO KALGOORLIE, Today: Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object over Kalgoorlie last night resulted in hundreds of calls to local radio stations. The Kalgoorlie manager of the ABC, Stanley Brown, said though descriptions of the UFO varied, the reports all indicated that the object entered the atmosphere to the north-east of the city and travelled in a southern trajectory towards Esperance. Sightings of the object were received from there and from as far east as Eucla. He said the first report at 7.51pm had come in from Mr Jack Cashman, of North Kalgurli Mine, who had seen a large object, bright at the front and trailing a yellow green and white tail about 10 degrees above the horizon. ## Skylab Mr Cashman had described the sighting as similar to those that accompanied the re-entry of Skylab into the earth's atmosphere on July 12 last year. Mr Brown said workers at the Kalgoorlie nickel smelter had simultaneously reported the object travelling at between 400 and 500 metres. They had claimed the object appeared to have two sections, a large leading section trailed by a smaller section. To many it appeared not so much as a meteor or satellite, as an actual craft. Mr Bill Barrett, of Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie, confirmed this but added another section which he said followed the other two. A worker at Somerville, with two of his friends, was next to report sighting the object. He said it appeared to be about 30 metres long and was visible for five minutes. The passage of the object was accompanied by flames and sparks though there had been no noticeable noise or rumbling as had been heard at the time of Skylab. Mr Brown said local commercial radio announcer Mr Clive Murray had reported receiving many similar calls about the same time. The most spectacular of these was from truck-driver Ron MacDougall who was driving on the Esperance Highway towards Norseman on his way to Melbourne. Mr MacDougall claimed to have seen the object actually leaving the ground in an area near Salmon Gums, though he accepted angles could be deceiving. The area of his sighting coincided with a report late last year of an object falling on the same area, though searches conducted by the Esperance Civil Defence Organisation failed to find any evidence at the time. Mr MacDougall said he watched the object for about 15 minutes Australians report UFOs: PERTH (Australia) (AP) -- Australians in the bush country who witnessed last year's fiery plunge of Skylab are seeing things again. Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object have been reported over Kalgoorlie, 370 miles east of here. The manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in Kalgoorlie, Stanley Brown, said he received hundreds of calls Wednesday night reporting various descriptions of a fiery object in the sky. Aug. 18, 1980 === Page 54 of 63 THE KALGOORLIE MINER, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1980 # UFO brings hundreds of telephone calls Widespread sightings of an unidentified flying object in the sky above Kalgoorlie on Wednesday night resulted in hundreds of calls to local radio stations. The manager of the ABC in Kalgoorlie, Mr Stanley Brown, said that though descriptions of the UFO varied, the reports all indicated that the object entered the atmosphere to the north-east of Kalgoorlie and travelled in a southern trajectory towards Esperance. Sightings of the object were received from that town and from as far east as Eucla. The first report at 7.51pm had come in from Mr Jack Cashman, of the North Kalgurli mine, who had seen a large object, bright at the front and trailing a yellow, green and white tail, about 10 degrees above the horizon. Mr Cashman had described the sighting as similar to those that accompanied the re-entry of Skylab into the earth's atmosphere on July 12, last year. Mr Brown said workers at the Kalgoorlie nickel smelter had simultaneously reported the object travelling at between 350m and 450m. They had claimed the object appeared to have two sections, a large leading section trailed by a smaller section. To many, it appeared not so much as a meteor or satellite as an actual craft. Mr Bill Barrett, of Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie, confirmed this, but added another section, which he said followed the other two. A worker at Somerville, with two of his friends, was next to report sighting the object. He said it appeared to be about 30m long and was visible for five minutes. The passage of the object was accompanied by flames and sparks, though there had been no noticeable noise or rumbling as had been heard at the time of Skylab. Mr Brown said that a local commercial radio announcer, Mr Clive Murray, had reported receiving many similar calls at about the same time. The most spectacular of these was from a truck-driver, Mr Ron MacDougall, who was driving on Esperance Highway, towards Norseman, en route to Melbourne. Mr MacDougall claimed to have seen the object actually leaving the ground in an area near Salmon Gums, though he accepted that angles could be deceiving. The area of his sighting coincided with a report late last year of an object falling on the same area, though searches conducted by the Esperance Civil Defence Organisation failed to find any evidence at the time. Mr MacDougall said he watched the object for about 15 minutes and believed it had risen from a spot about 600m from where he was, at a speed of 500 km/h to 650 km/h. He reported being terrified by his experience. Mr Brown said there had been reports recently of an American spacecraft in trouble and it was conceivable that its re-entry into the atmosphere accounted for last night's sightings. However, there had also been unconfirmed reports that a Russian space vehicle, similar to Skylab, was experiencing problems. It was coincidence that the object sighted this week seemed to be travelling along a trajectory almost identical to that followed by Skylab, though in the opposite direction. The Department of Transport in Kalgoorlie confirmed last night that many calls had been received. The duty officer at the Kalgoorlie Bureau of Meteorology had first reported the object to the DOT. A subsequent check revealed no aircraft in the area which could have fitted any of the descriptions received. === Page 55 of 63 Thursday, June 19, 1980 THE LAND 59 SECTION 5 WOOL - STOCK - PROPERTY # National Market Guide # NSW rain mostly coastal Rain in NSW during the past week was mostly confined to coastal areas. Heaviest falls were recorded on the Mid-North Coast where Port Macquarie received 79 mm. Other top falls in the area included Smoky Cape 74 mm, Sugarloaf Point 31 mm, and Forster 27 mm. In the Northern Rivers area, Cape Byron recorded 45 mm with Mullumbimby and Yamba each recording 15 mm. Leading registration in the Hunter last week was 57 mm at Newcastle, followed by 39 mm at Gosford and 29 mm at Williamtown. Most centres in the Illawarra registered good rains with heaviest falls being 69 mm at Jervis Bay, 18 mm at Wollongong and 16 mm at Robertson. On the Southern Tablelands, Perisher Valley received 75 mm, Adaminaby 12 mm and Cooma four mm. Cabramurra headed the registrations on the Southwest Slopes with 27 mm followed by 21 mm at Khancoban, 10 mm at Adelong and four mm at Cootamundra. The only other area of the State to record rain was the Northern Tablelands, but falls were light. Glen Innes topped with five mm followed by Tenterfield with two mm. No rain was recorded in the Western areas of the State or on the Plains. # INTERSTATE RAINFALL Dry conditions prevailed over most of the Continent during the past week with isolated moderate falls in some areas. In Queensland, there were isolated heavy falls on the north coast with lighter falls in the peninsula area. Maximum fall was 48 mm at Innisfail. Western Australia received scattered moderate falls in the north coast and far south west. Top recording for the week was 51 mm at Barrow Island followed by 40 mm at Learmonth and 15 mm at Hamelin Pool. TASMANIA Northern 31 mm, Southeast 11, West Coast 44, East Coast 5, Derwent Valley 2, King Island 10, Central Plateau 6, Flinders Island 7. QUEENSLAND Peninsula North 1 mm, North Coast (Barron) 3, North Coast (Herbert) 9, Central Coast (East) 1, South Coast (Curtis) 2, Darling Downs (East) 3, Warrego 2, Far Southwest 1. VICTORIA Mallee 7 mm (Manangatang 15), Wimmera 12 (Minyip 22), Western 10 (Woorndoo 22), Northern 7 (Tatura 14), North Central 11 (Wallaby Creek 23), Central 17 (Kinglake 37), Northeast 9 (Bonegilla 17), Gippsland 14 (Tamil Bren 49), Metropolitan 20 (Preston 30). WESTERN AUSTRALIA North Coastal 0.6 mm, Central Coastal 6, South Coastal 19, Central North 0.6, Central South 7, Eucla 12, South Eastern 8, North Eastern 1. RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION IN MILLIMETRES DARWIN BRISBANE SYDNEY ADELAIDE PERTH NORTHERN RIVERS: Cape Byron 85, Casino 5, Grafton 15, Kyogle 9, Lismore 13, Maclean 53, Mullumbimby 33, Murwillumbah 19, Tweed Heads 40, Yamba 53. MID-NORTH COAST: Bellbrook 26, Bellingen 49, Coffs Hbr. M.O. 63, Dorrigo 47, Kempsey 59, Macksville 22, Meldrum 28, Smoky Cape 163, Bulahdelah 44, Comboyne 71, Forster 97, Gloucester 35, Laurieton 104, Pt. Macquarie 134, Sugarloaf Pt. 45, Taree 103, Wauchope 77. HUNTER: C'nock (Nulkaba) 21, Clarence-town 16, Denman 11, Dungog 16, Gosford 39, Gresford 14, Jerrys Plains 14, Mangrove Mtn. 44, Maryville 39, Merriwa 8, Moonan Flat 6, Mulbring 7, Murrurundi 7, N'castle (Nbys) 53, Norah Head 63, Paterson 23, Raymond Tce. 31, Scone 3, Singleton (Army) 2, Stroud 41, Willamt'n M.O. 33, Wyong 41. ILLAWARRA Berry 8, Bowral 10, Camden A/pt. 13, Campbelltown 20, Greenwell Pt. 25, Jervis Bay 94, Kiama 28, Picton 12, Robertson 17, W'gong (Uni.) 35, Nowra (RAN) 11. SOUTH COAST: Batemans Bay 1, Bega 1, Eden 4, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 11, Green Cape 3, Merimbula A/pt. 3, Milton 5, Montague Is. 1, Pambula 3. METROPOLITAN: Ashfield 24, Balgowlah 52, Bankstown 19, Bexley 43, Bondi 46, Concord 23, Cronulla 68, Epping 43, Five Dock 47, Gordon 54, Hornsby 43, Hurstville 19, Mascot M.O. 50, Mosman 48, Newport Bch. 40, Palm Beach 53, Pymble 54, Randwick 38, Sydney 30, Turramurra 27, Wahroonga 52, Waverton 45, West Lindfield 39, Auburn 25, Glenorie 38, Liverpool 23, Penrith 13, Richmond M.O. 19, Westmead 25. # The week's rainfall- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 17, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology: LOWER WESTERN: Menindee 3, Pooncarie 2, Wentworth 1, Balranald 2. NORTHWEST PLAINS: Bogabilla 2, Moree M.O. 1. CENTRAL WEST PLAINS: Ungarie 2, Yalgogrin Nth. 3. RIVERINA: Carrathool 1, Griffith 1, Hillston 1, Maude 1, Moulamein 3, Wakool 2, Conargo 2, Coolamon 11, Deniliquin 4, Finley 4, Henty 4, Tocumwal 6. NORTHWEST SLOPES: Ashford 1, Barraba 2, Bingara 1, Bonshaw 3, Delungra 2, Warialda 2, Yetman 2, Bendemeer 9, Blackville 3, Boggabri 1, Breeza 8, Gunnedah 7, Manilla 7, Nundle 3, Premer 1, Quirindi 3, Tambar Springs 1, Tamworth M.O. 4, Werris Creek 5, Willowtree 2, Woolbrook 15. CENTRAL WEST SLOPES: Manildra 1, Parkes 1, Coonabarabran 1. SOUTHWEST SLOPES: Burrinjuck Dam 12, Cootamundra 5, Gundagai 9, Koorawatha 1, Wyalong 1, Adelong 16, Albury 3, Batlow 33, Cabramurra 31, Holbrook 3, Hume R'voir 3, Khancoban 26, Tarcutta 12, Tumbarumba 23, Tumut 27, Wagga 3, Wagga M.O. 4. NORTHERN TABLELANDS: Armidale 7, Bundarra 2, Deepwater 6, Emmaville 5, Glen Innes 11, Guyra 6, Inverell 1, Tenterfield 17, Tingha 1, Uralla 5, Walcha 5, Bonalbo 6, Drake 12, Lower Creek 6, Tabulam 9. CENTRAL TABLELANDS: Mudgee 1, Rylstone 4, Bathurst 2, Blackheath 19, Cowra A/port 1, Hill End 8, Katoomba 33, Kurrajong Hts. 26, Lithgow 21, Mt. Victoria 22, Oberon 14, Orange A/port 3, Springwood 20, Trunkey Ck. 5, Wyangala 2. SOUTHERN TABLELANDS: Bombala 2, Canberra M. 1, Cooma 4, Crookwell 7, Delegate 4, Frogmore 2, Goulburn 3, Nimmitabel 6, Queanbeyan 1, Taralga 4, Canberra City 2, Adaminaby 13, Dalgety 2, Perisher Valley 32, Thredbo (C'back) 24. # SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker Moderate rains are indicated in many areas of New South Wales during July with the best rains on the far North Coast. However, rainfall should be light on portions of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. Reasonably good rains are indicated on the Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina during August, with light to moderate patchy rains elsewhere. Generally poor rainfall is indicated during September. Moderate rains should occur in a large part of the State during October. Distribution: Showers are indicated on June 22 to 26. === Page 56 of 63 (W.A. COUNTRY NEWSPAPER) Geraldton Guardian DATE June 24. 1980 ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730. SYDNEY. 2001 === Page 57 of 63 Thursday, June 26, 1980 -- THE LAND 55 SECTION 5 WOOL -- STOCK -- PROPERTY # National Market Guide # Heavy rain on NSW coast Heavy rains continued along the NSW coast during the past week with isolated lighter falls inland. Heaviest falls were recorded in the Northern Rivers district where 98mm fell at Cape Byron. Other falls in the area included 23mm at Yamba and 14mm at Casino. Most consistent rain fell on the Mid-north Coast. Top falls were 47mm at Comboyne, 39mm at Bulahdelah and 35mm at Forster and Port Macquarie. Newcastle headed the registrations in the Hunter with 47mm, followed by Williamtown with 32mm and Raymond Terrace with 26mm. The Illawarra and South Coast recorded light to moderate falls with a maximum of 14mm at Berry. Bateman's Bay followed with 11mm. On the Southwest Slopes, Khancoban topped with 12mm. The only other falls were four mm at Batlow, Cabramurra and Wagga. The Tablelands areas received general rains with most falls under 10mm. Top registrations included nine mm at Deepwater, seven mm at Emmaville, five mm at Thredbo and four mm at Orange and Wyangla. The only other region to record any rain was the Central West Slopes where Molong and Parkes received three mm and Forbes two mm. ## INTERSTATE RAINFALL Except for isolated heavy falls in Western Australia, the Continent remained mostly dry over the past week. Maximum fall in WA was 120mm at Nyang, with 46mm at Onslow, and 36mm at Carnarvon and Learmonth. **QUEENSLAND** North Coast (Barron) 10mm. North Coast (Herbert) 40, South Coast (Moreton) 7, Darling Downs (East) 3. **TASMANIA** Northern 18mm, East Coast 6, Midlands 8, Derwent Valley 1, Central Plateau 12, West Coast 27, King Island 28, Flinders Island 4. **SOUTH AUSTRALIA** Northwest 8mm, Western Agricultural 18, Upper North 6, North-East 1, Lower North 12, West Central 24, East Central 23, Murray Valley 8, Murray Mallee 7, Upper South-East 12, Lower South-East 17. **WESTERN AUSTRALIA** West Kimberley 0.4mm, De Grey 9, Fortesque 32, West Gascoyne 12, East Gascoyne 22, Murchison 14, North Coastal 15, Central Coastal 22, South Coastal 23, Central North 7, Central South 5, Eucla 12, South Eastern 15, North Eastern 15. **VICTORIA** Mallee 5mm (Walpeup 10), Wimmera 9 (Halls Gap 39), Western 11 (Wecapromah 35), Northern 6 (Avoca 14), North Central 10 (Trentham 22), Central 10 (Gisborne 18), Northeast 7 (Mitta Mitta 19), Gippsland 3 (Inverloch 12), Metropolitan 11 (Box Hill 18). # The week's rainfall -- Rainfall registrations for New South Wales for the week ended June 24, in millimetres, as recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology. **CENTRAL WEST PLAINS:** Bogan Gate 1. **RIVERINA:** Darlington Pt. 1, Ardlethan 1, Ariah Park 2, Berrigan 4, Coolamon 1, Culcairn 1, Finley 1, Grong Grong 1, Jerilderie 2, Lockhart 1, Narrandera 2, Tocumwal 2, Urana 2. **NORTHWEST SLOPES:** Bendemeer 1, Woolbrook 2. **CENTRAL WEST SLOPES:** Cudal 3, Forbes 2, Manildra 1, Molong 3, Parkes 3. **SOUTHWEST SLOPES:** Barmedman 1, Burrinjuck Dam 2, Cootamundra 2, Gundagai 3, Wyalong 2, Young 1, Batlow 4, Cabramurra 4, Hume R'voir 1, Khancoban 12, Tarcutta 3, Tumbarumba 4, Tumut 2, Wagga 1, Wagga M.O. 4. **NORTHWEST TABLELANDS:** Armidale 1, Deepwater 9, Glen Innes 7, Guyra 1, Tenterfield 4, Bonalbo 2, Drake 2, Lower Creek 1. **CENTRAL TABLELANDS:** Mudgee 1, Katoomba 2, Lithgow 1, Mt. Victoria 2, Oberon 1, Orange Airport 4, Trunkey Ck. 3, Wyangala 3. **SOUTHERN TABLELANDS:** Bombala 1, Cooma 2, Crookwell 2, Frogmore 1, Nimmitabel 1, Taralga 1, Yass 2, Adam-inaby 2, Dalgety 2, Perisher Valley 4, Thredbo (C'back) 5. **NORTHERN RIVERS:** Cape Byron 102, Casino 14, Grafton 2, Kyogle 4, Lismore 5, Mullumbimby 11, Murwillumbah 2, Tweed Heads 7, Yamba 23. **MID-NORTH COAST:** Bellbrook 1, Bellingen 7, Coffs Hbr. M.O. 10, Dorrigo 21, Kempsey 9, Meldrum 8, Nambucca Hds. 9, Smoky Cape 23, Bulahdelah 39, Comboyne 49, Forster 44, Gloucester 18, Laurieton 49, Pt. Macquarie 35, Sugarloaf Pt. 34, Taree 14, Wauchope 23. **HUNTER:** Clarencetown 28, Dungog 21, Gosford 6, Gresford 19, Maryville 37, Murrurundi 2, N'castle (Nbys) 47, Norah Head 22, Paterson 12, Raymond Tce 26, Scone 2, Stroud 16, Williamt'n M.O. 34, Wyong 2. **ILLAWARRA:** Berry 15, Bowral 2, Greenwell Pt. 6, Jervis Bay 14, Kiama 9, Robertson 6, Wollondilly 3, W'gong (Uni.) 3, Nowra (RAN) 7. **SOUTH COAST:** Batemans Bay 11, Bodalla 2, Braidwood 1, Gabo Is. (Vic.) 8, Green Cape 1, Moruya Hds 4. **METROPOLITAN:** Balgowlah 6, Bankstown 1, Bexley 8, Bondi 9, Concord 4, Cronulla 1, Epping 4, Five Dock 1, Gordon 3, Hornsby 2, Hurstville 5, Mascot M.O. 5, Mosman 5, Newport Bch 11, Palm Beach 8, Pymble 4, Randwick 6, Sydney 8, Turramurra 4, Wahroonga 3, Waverton 7, West Lindfield 4, Auburn 2, Glenorie 3, Westmead 1. # SEASONAL FORECAST Special to "The Land" by Lennox Walker. A large part of New South Wales should receive moderate rains during July, with the best falls on the Far North Coast. Light rains are indicated on part of the Southern Tablelands and Central West. The Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West, South West Slopes and Riverina should receive reasonably good rains during August, with light to moderate rains occurring in the balance of the State. Poor rainfall should occur during September, although moderate rains are indicated in many areas during October. Distribution: Showers are indicated in June 29. === Page 58 of 63 10 -- SPORT -- JUNE 29, 1980 COMMONWEALTH BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY # WEATHER A cold, strong and gusty south-westerly airstream is circulated between a low pressure system centred south of Tasmania and a high cell near the head of the Bight. This broad airflow has brought widespread shower activity and snowfalls to the ACT region in the wake of a front now in the Tasman Sea. Expected developments: Pressure systems are expected to move slowly eastwards. Cold, windy, showery conditions will persist for another day or so although showers should become confined to the higher parts of the ACT. Strong, gusty westerly winds will ease and conditions will clear as the high pressure approaches early in the week. Yesterday's weather: Rain eased to showers in the morning but mostly overcast conditions persisted over the region. Snowfalls were reported about the ACT ranges. Westerly winds were strong and gusty, and maximum temperature were a few degrees colder than average. Elsewhere: For the 6 hours to 3pm, mainly light scattered showers were reported in the southeast inland quarter of NSW, and local light showers were reported in the far west and coastal parts. Nil falls were reported elsewhere. The highest recorded registration was 17mm at Perisher Valley. Snowfalls occurred in the Central and Southern Tablelands and the Southwest Slopes. Temperatures ranged from below normal to well below normal in inland parts and near normal along coastal parts. Extremes of maxima were 23 degrees at Murwillumbah to minus 3 degrees at Perisher Valley. Northwest to southwest winds were chiefly moderate to fresh, but strong to gale force at times. CANBERRA YESTERDAY Temperature: 3am 4, 9am 3, 3pm 5, 9pm 5, max to 9am 11, 9am to 3pm 6. Minimum Screen 3. Grass -1. Humidity: 3am 87pc, 9am 81pc, 3pm 82pc, 9pm 70pc. Evaporation: 24 hours to 3pm 7.2mm. Rainfall: Average annual rainfall for past 40 years 633. Rainfall for 1979 398.4. Rainfall to date for 1980 257mm. Corresponding period 1979 213mm. Average for June 37mm. June rainfall for 1979 4.8mm. June rainfall to date 35.5mm. 24 hours ended 9am 25.6mm, 12 hours ended 9pm 3.0mm. Wind (km/h): 3am NNW/11, 9am NNW/19, 3pm N/19, 9pm NW/28. Maximum gust NW/78, at 0910. Barometer: 3am 1002, 9am 1001, 3pm 1000, 9pm 1001. FORECASTS FOR TODAY WARNINGS: A strong wind warning and a sheep weather alert are current. CANBERRA: Cold with fresh to strong westerly winds. Showers becoming confined to the ranges and falling as snow above 1000 metres. Forecast maximum: 9 degrees. Canberra Lakes: Westerly 20-25 knots. CAPITALS Forecasts | City | Max | |---|---| | Sydney, windy | 15 | | Melbourne, showers | 12 | | Brisbane, fine, windy | 20 | | Adelaide, showers | 14 | | Perth, fine | 19 | | Hobart, showers | 10 | | Darwin, fine | 32 | Yesterday's temperatures and humidity | City | Max | Hum 3pm | 9am | 3pm | pc | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Canberra | 6 | 3 | 81 | 82 | | | Sydney | 15 | 11 | 47 | 44 | | | Melbourne | 12 | 7 | 71 | 62 | | | Brisbane | 22 | 15 | 64 | 38 | | | Adelaide | 15 | 7 | 76 | 82 | | | Perth | 16 | 5 | 76 | 39 | | | Hobart | 9 | 8 | 93 | 100 | | | Darwin | 30 | 21 | 74 | 46 | | The cloud pattern over Australia at 2.20pm yesterday # The world NEW YORK, Saturday (AAP-AP). -- Weather yesterday: | City | Min | Max | |---|---|---| | Hong Kong, rain | 26 | 29 | | London, variable | 10 | 20 | | New York, cloudy | 21 | 28 | | Paris, cloudy | 11 | 17 | | Rome, clear | 19 | 27 | | Singapore, cloudy | 26 | 32 | | Tokyo, cloudy | 23 | 28 | | Toronto, cloudy | 19 | 29 | Amsterdam cloudy 15 19, Athens clear 24 34, Bahrain clear 30 37, Bangkok clear 28 31, Beirut unavailable, Belgrade rain 15 22, Berlin cloudy 10 17, Bogota rain 10 17, Brussels cloudy 5 20, Buenos Aires clear 8 13, Cairo clear 22 38, Caracas clear 20 29, Chicago cloudy 19 33, Copenhagen clear 11 18, Curitiba clear 6 14, Denpasar clear 24 34, Dublin clear 8 19, Frankfurt rain 11 18, Geneva rain 10 16, Helsinki cloudy 14 19, Honolulu clear 22 30, Jakarta clear 25 34, Jerusalem clear 19 32, Johannesburg clear 6 19. Kiev clear 11 22, Kuala Lumpur cloudy 24 32, Lima cloudy 15 18, Lisbon clear 12 25, Los Angeles clear 19 32, Madrid clear 11 27, Manila cloudy 23 33, Mexico City cloudy 12 23, Miami rain 23 32, Montreal cloudy 22 28, Moscow clear 14 25, New Delhi cloudy 25 34, Nicosia clear 22 41, Oslo cloudy 11 15, Rio de Janeiro rain 16 28, San Francisco clear 12 21, San Juan cloudy 26 33, Sao Paulo cloudy 14 15, Seoul cloudy 17 24, Stockholm cloudy 14 18, Sydney cloudy 10 18. UNSPORTING WEATHER # Rain plays havoc with fixtures Rain seriously affected local sporting fixtures yesterday, causing many cancellations and postponements. All Canberra League soccer games, except those played in Cooma, and all junior league soccer were cancelled. All junior Australian football matches were cancelled. Junior rugby union grades seven to 11 were called off, but all other games were played. The Marist College first XV match against Daramalan College was cancelled. Canberra district minor rugby league under-14 representative training was cancelled. Schools cross country were cancelled and the schools' cross country competition at Lotus Bay was cancelled. All senior women's hockey games were postponed, but today's games will be played. They have been transferred to the Deakin Mint playing fields. All junior boys' hockey was cancelled. All grades of Belconnen netball were cancelled, as well as all matches that were to be played at Southwell Park. The Canberra Greyhound Club made late arrangements to run a small fixture yesterday to enable interstate bookeepers to field. Training for the Canberra South Marching girls' teams was cancelled. The second round of the AWA Clarion-Polymedia sprint rally series, which was to be held at Blewitts Pine Forest today, has been postponed. === Page 59 of 63 Australia June 29, 1980 # Canberra Times # Winds bring rain and snow to the ACT ## Woman dies in storm Winds gusting up to 45 knots brought snow and plenty of rain to Canberra, Queanbeyan and the high country yesterday. Sheep-weather, high-wind and road-weather warnings were issued last night and a spokesman for the Bureau of Meteorology forecast continuing cold and wind with snow in the higher parts of the Territory. In Canberra a maximum temperature of 9 degrees is expected today. The bureau reported that 1.2mm of rain had fallen over Canberra between 9am and 3pm yesterday and snow had fallen at Orroral Valley, Honeysuckle Creek and North Belconnen. "I can guarantee you it won't stay on the ground", he said, but it might be visible on the hills around the city if conditions were good. Falling trees caused minor damage to two houses in Warramanga and Wanniassa during strong wind about 9pm on Friday, Canberra police said. Snow was falling around the Kosciusko Chalet yesterday afternoon and the verdict from a spokesman there was, "It'll certainly last. It's just a little difficult getting out the back door." Forty-five centimetres of snow and winds gusting up to 45 knots had been recorded. The Basin Poma and Pulpit T-bar lifts were both operating. A 34 year-old woman was killed instantly on the South Coast yesterday when she was struck by the bough of a tree which broke off during a wind storm. She was working with her husband on the property they own at East Lynne, a small town north of Batemans Bay, when the storm began. The police at Batemans Bay said last night they could not issue her name until her relations travelling overseas had been informed of her death. Despite the wind, many people ventured out on the slopes and several of the area's nine lodges were full. The word from Perisher was similar. The snow "hasn't stopped all day it's unbelievable. Hopefully it'll keep up for a while". There was "heaps of snow" (40cm) and "quite a few" people skiing. The Mitchell, Bass, Flinders and Sturt lifts were all operating as were the Burke, Captain Cook and Scott lifts at Smiggin Holes. Thredbo, too, got its share. There was 25 to 30cm of new-packed snow and chains were needed 10 kilometres out of Jindabyne. Graders had been working clearing roads since the fall began during the night. Chains were required on the Kosciusko Road from Waste Point to Perisher, on the Alpine Way from Penderlea to Thredbo Village, on the Guthega Road from Island Bend turn-off to Guthega and on the Snowy Mountains Highway from Adaminaby to Talbingo. The Alpine Way was closed from the Khancoban end, the Smiggin Holes to Perisher creek link road was closed to all traffic, as was the Cabramurra-Khancoban road. These conditions could change at any time and travellers were advised to check with the Cooma Visitors Centre for reports of the latest conditions. Canberra police said yesterday afternoon that the Mount Franklin road was closed at Condor Creek and was impassable in some areas, even for four-wheel drive vehicles, and the Corin Dam road was closed at its intersection with the Tidbinbilla road. Both roads were covered in snow and dangerous and people were warned to stay away. The Boboyan road was also closed due to deep snow. The Canberra races, and junior soccer, junior Australian football and junior boys' hockey matches were cancelled yesterday because of the weather. 'Going to the dogs'. -- Sport 1; 'Unsporting weather'. -- Sport 5 === Page 60 of 63 - World "Power" & Rain Attack - 12 SPORT - JUNE 29, 1980 Canberra Times Australia # Rainy days Sad sight at Canberra races yesterday - the betting ring deserted after the day's racing had been cancelled because of heavy rain. === Page 61 of 63 # High winds maul Blue Mountains Canberra Times, June 30, 1980 Australia SYDNEY: Westerly winds reaching 100km/h flattened fences, tore down powerlines and trees and unroofed at least 70 houses in the Blue Mountains yesterday. In a day of howling winds and of huge seas off the NSW coast: A state of emergency was proclaimed covering the Blue Mountains towns of Katoomba, Leura, Blackheath and Medlow Baths. At least 96 calls for help were answered by State Emergency Services teams. Six men, two injured, were rescued by a container ship off Terrigal, central NSW coast, when the seas threatened to sink their powerless 11-metre trawler. A man was drowned and another was rescued when they fell into the swollen seas off Sydney beaches. Civil-emergency rescue teams in the Blue Mountains estimated last night that damage would reach tens of thousands of dollars. A Katoomba Council spokesman said last night, "The winds blew hard in the morning and then came these huge, sustained gusts exceeding 100km/h. Tiles just flew everywhere and sheets of iron and timber went sailing into backyards and on to footpaths and streets. "We lost power for most of the day and even tonight complete power won't be on until the morning. Literally dozens of power lines came down and crews from the electricity department will have to work flat out for hours yet". Most damage was done to Wentworth Falls, Katoomba and Blackheath. Dozens of homes, shops and buildings were unroofed and windows smashed. Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done to the elegant Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Baths. At the Assembly of God Bible College at Katoomba students ducked for cover and sprinted inside as trees were blown over. A big section of the college roof was sent flying into the quadrangle within seconds, narrowly missing the running students. More than 20 girls were sleeping in their rooms at the college when the wind began tearing at the roof. "The roof was going up and down and we knew it was going to come off", the college administrator, Mr Henry Baskerville, 57, said. "We evacuated the girls downstairs to a safer place but all we could do was sit and wait". Part of the roof and porch of the Blue Danube Motel in Katoomba collapsed about 7.30am as guests began sitting down for breakfast. "There was a big bang and the power went off", one of the proprietors, Mrs Lilly Ujvary, said. The State emergency controller for the Blue Mountains, Mr David Sanson said, "We had to get one elderly couple from a house in Tablelands Road, Wentworth Falls, because the windows had blown in. The whole place was vibrating in the wind and we thought it was going to come down". The police reported that the Great Western Highway between Katoomba and Mount Victoria had been closed several times during the day because of fallen power lines and uprooted trees. Mr Sanson said the only people injured were two SES workers who had suffered minor abrasions when part of a garage wall collapsed on them as they were trying to secure the roof of a house in Wentworth Falls. Six rescued as trawler sinks. -- Page 3. === Page 62 of 63 Canberra Times To serve the National City and through it the Nation (AUSTRALIA) MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1980 18 Pages, plus TV-Radio Guide liftout. Price 20 The moods at ski resorts last night were mixed - some jubilant about the heavy snow falls, but others exhausted after a chaotic weekend clearing roads and rescuing people. Police and rangers were searching last night for the rider of a motor cycle found abandoned about 5.30pm yesterday on the Alpine Way, near Pilots Lookout. Jindabyne police said last night that the bike, registered in Queensland, had keys in the ignition and carried some of the rider's personal belongings. Poor visibility and 60-knot winds caused buses to slide off the road and a few minor accidents. A spokesman for the Kosciusko National Park said conditions were "pretty bad" and labelled the people who moved around in the area as "slightly insane". A spokesman for the Cooma Visitors Centre said it was the worst blizzard in the mountains for eight years. Mr Walter Spannering, of Guthega, said last night it was a "dull picture" with 60 people, including 30 adults from the Canberra YMCA, staying there last night unable to get out. A family from Croydon Park, Sydney, Mr and Mrs Gleb Kondakows, and their two children, finally arrived at Guthega at 10.30pm on Saturday night after leaving Sydney at 4.30am. Last night Mrs Lydia Kondakows, still trapped at Guthega, said it was an "experience of a lifetime". The family had reached the park gates at 1pm on Saturday and had been told the road was open but chains were required. But, about an hour later, their car had got stuck near the cross-section of the Links and Guthega roads. Mr Spannering had come down to them at 4pm and had gone on to Jindabyne to seek help from the Department of Main Roads, which operates the Sno-cats in the area. He had returned at 5pm but there was still no Sno-cat. He had given the family a lift in his utility, but it, too, had got stuck. Three of the men then walked nearly seven kilometres in blizzard conditions to Guthega. They had returned to the family with Mr Spannering's Sno-cat. At the same time a DMR Sno-cat also arrived. The family had arrived at Guthega about 18 hours after leaving Sydney. Their car is still abandoned on the road. A spokesman for Thredbo, Mr Ludwig Rabina, was more enthusiastic about the weekend, describing it as "bloody fantastic". There was about 45 centimetres of snow in the village and he predicted beautiful skiing when the weather cleared. Operators at Perisher and Thredbo have been packing the snow all weekend, but both resorts reported a quiet weekend, with about 500 visitors each. A spokesman for Perisher, Mr Harold Droga, said there was about 90 centimetres of snow in the valley. The Alpine Way was closed between Thredbo and Khancoban and chains were needed from Penderlea to Thredbo. Similarly, on the Kosciusko road chains were needed from Wilsons Valley to Perisher and on the Snowy Mountains Highway from Adaminaby to Talbingo. The Guthega road was closed from the power station to Guthega, but it was expected to open late last night. The Smiggin Holes to Perisher link road and the Cabramurra-Khancoban roads were closed. A woman killed when the bough of a tree she was sitting under fell on her at a property at East Lynne, about 20 kilometres north of Batemans Bay on Saturday, was Mrs Janette Clayton, 34, of East Ryde, Sydney, police report. Her husband, Mr John Clayton, 46, was knocked unconscious by the bough. When he regained consciousness, he took his wife to Batemans Bay Hospital, but she was dead on arrival. The couple had been clearing land on the property and were taking a spell when a storm struck. === Page 63 of 63 - World "Power and Rain Attack" - # Graziers facing stock losses By FRANK LONGHURST Canberra Times June 30, 1980 Australia # No power 'till today' Power could not be restored to the Brindabellas until today because "there was too much snow and it was too dangerous", a spokesman for the ACT Electricity Authority said late last night. The electricity was cut off at 3.55am yesterday. Mr Peter Dowling, of 'Brindabella' station, said the road was closed from Piccadilly Circus, where there was 30 centimetres of snow, to Mount Franklin, where there was 60 centimetres of snow. Graziers in the ACT and surrounding districts are expecting to lose from 10 to 15 per cent of their livestock if the weather of the past couple of days continues for a day or two. The most vulnerable stock are early lambs, new-shorn sheep and pregnant ewes. Graziers will find little comfort in the forecast for today, which predicts showers, falling as snow in the higher parts of the ACT, with cold, fresh to strong westerly winds and a maximum of 10 degrees after an overnight minimum of three degrees. The Weather Bureau has issued a sheep-weather alert for today. No stock losses were reported by district graziers over the weekend although sheep-weather alerts had been issued. Mr Richard Glover, grazier, of Bowning, said last night that the cold snap over the weekend was beginning to cause problems as some graziers in the area had already begun shearing and the shorn sheep now had to be sheltered. He expected the shearing season, which normally began in the first week in July, to be held up by at least a week as sheep which were penned awaiting shearing had to be turned out until the weather improved. No lamb losses were reported as the lambing season had not yet begun, but pregnant ewes were being sheltered and handfed. Mr Glover said there would be "significant losses in shorn sheep and early lambs if this weather continues for another day or two. "The continuous sleet and rain with cold wind all day is the type of weather that kills stock, as they will not move around to feed but stay in one spot all day". Other graziers in the ACT and surrounding districts expressed fears for stock if the rain and cold winds persisted. Widespread hand-feeding will be necessary over the next few days and beyond if the weather does not improve. In Canberra, storm damage was limited to fallen trees - 12 across roads - power-line breaks and some roof tiles lifted in Belconnen, Watson and Downer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8008 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/45e64ca06ac536b25876e12cbea6d1c6.pdf fc92bad1c13f5f871e7f4c0a20552a52 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2f11ffbb04bfe262159a01f1ed942a0c.txt 255907207107343810e3983c8932f6d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) $\theta$ $ℇ$ Sept. 3, 1980 CONTACTS Something most unusual has taken place re my work with UFOs. First, to sum up: The UFOs have tried to get a Base for me to work from, so that I would be able to utilize their powers properly to help the human race en toto, block wars, and so on. Ali can make 8 million dollars in one night fighting, but the U.S. Government is unwilling to put up 5 million for the UFO base. The UFOs are, therefore, at war with the U.S. Government... (and I am quoting them)... until such time as the U.S. Government cooperates with them by providing said Base. * Last Monday they communicated with me and gave me a special message to pass on to you. It involves California. However, my own human choice must agree with the UFOs in order for them to carry out their plan for California, and I chose for the first time to disagree with them... at least, for the nonce. (I point out here that before I can take any action and utilize the special abilities that they have given me I must communicate with the UFOs and get their permission on it, so this procedure is a two-way procedure.) This Monday they communicated with me again. They want to do three things, and I gave my human permission for them to do so. (1) They are going to build a superior "intelligence" into the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico... designed to attack the United States. (2) They are going to utilize a form of "time distortion" against the United States. (3) They are going to build "disorientation" into the United States at a very high level. The resultant effects from these procedures will escalate until the Base is provided, as mentioned above. Sincerely, Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) * also they told me to warn President Carter that a foreign country wants Reagan as President and has put the machinery in motion here with hired killers to eliminate Carter. I phoned this info to Scott Rogo yesterday, hoping that he could tip off Carter (Remember Pres. Johnson and the flare? Nixon & Cubans? I was correct then!) Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND OR 972 3 SEP 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 2 of 2 Church of Sota (Secrets of the Ages) $\theta$ $͇$ September 5, 1980 CONTACTS I have astounding news for you! Day before yesterday I sent you a notice that my UFOs were taking three new actions to put pressure on the U.S. Government for their Base. These actions are entirely foreign to the previous 400-odd "miracles" they have brought about and which I have documented, some of which have been described in the scientific report by Dr. Mishlove; also the book which Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo have written about my work. I sent you what they told me to tell you...but I was greatly puzzled about "disorientation" and "time distortion" and giving the oceans a super-intelligence with which to attack the U.S. coasts. For one thing, in documenting this new development, what would I look for in the newspapers? I.e., how does one document a disoriented and time-distorted nation and government? INSTEAD, Also for the very first time...my UFOs instructed me NOT to make up a "PK Map" ON PAPER. They telepathd the necessary picture for me to activate mentally. The extraordinary thing about this ploy is...even if I were given hypnotic drugs or put under hypnosis...it would be utterly impossible for me to describe in words or writing the "PK Map" picture they gave me to activate! At any rate...last night at 9:30 PM they communicated and explained to me quite clearly what was puzzling me! What they have done is...place a "cover" or "lid" over the United States which will give off the VERY SAME EFFECTS as the mysterious effects through the years in THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE! I.e., you might say that they have TRANSFERRED the Bermuda Triangle phenomena to the United States proper! And as I understand their communication...the effects of this action will selectively affect most...the U.S. Government! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens $͇$ P.S. To explain to me the difference between all previous phenomena the UFOs have brought about and this new phenomena... the difference is analogous to a simple game of chess compared to a game of chess played on six levels simultaneously!! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 10-6-80 Owens: working with Greenpeace calling off all negative demonstrations Steve McQueen, offered to heal cancer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8010 Newspaper Files Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Feb 10 2026 Yes just one document in October 1980. Just by chance I asked Jeff about the note and he Said it was his notes from a phone call with Ted Owens. Lewis https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a1476067d42a94e3b5888d9b040ff965.pdf 3b6d351ab9b329a84db9d02e9a8b4f76 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/dc9bdd0a7398c496902527c7e62fb8f2.txt f4eb9bd73563dbc2cf930a4cc38a95a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 Nov. 22, 1980 Jeffrey CONTACTS: I have a huge file of pertinent documentation to xerox and send to you, along with a 2-page cover letter of explanation. However... right now I've just enough money to feed the family for five days... a big stack of bills which I cannot pay... so... I will have to wait 4-8 weeks to be able to afford sending you the xerox file that you need to match up with the cover letter. Yet, I am going to send the cover letter herein. Keep it on ice and later, when the file it matches up with arrives, append it to that file. Cordially, Ted Owens ( PK Man ) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8011 Newspaper Files https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/1cf702aa2ea4a302365a39164f98ccff.pdf 73e5e1abba01989e14a113c265170224 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7aec6455e710298d8df4c8f8031ff49b.txt d247c13875261c61e244d33d45d0e33f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Dec. 27, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove You will recall that I phoned you a while back and told you that my SIs were going to attack high up in government. Since then President Carter's mother broke something and went into hospital; President Carter was wiped out in the election; and today President Carter broke his collar bone. Owene === Page 2 of 2 # Carter breaks collarbone in cross-country skiing fall BY HARRY F. ROSENTHAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Carter broke his left collarbone Saturday when he fell while cross-country skiing down a slope near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., the White House said. White House spokesman Rex Granum said Carter was flown by helicopter to the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, where X-rays showed he had fractured the clavicle near where it connects to the breastbone. "The president was skiing down a slope when one of the skis caught on a rock and he fell on his elbow, left elbow and shoulder," Granum said. Granum quoted Carter's doctor, Rear Adm. William Lukash, as saying the president was in "considerable pain." The president was given medication for the pain, Granum said, and probably will require medication for several days. He said Carter was placed in a "figure-eight harness" to keep his shoulders immobilized and will have to wear it six to eight weeks. Carter does not plan to curtail his activities and will go to New Orleans as expected next week for the Sugar Bowl, the presidential spokesman said. "He'll be able to shake hands and write because it's his left arm," Granum said, adding that the president is right-handed. Granum said that although the president was in pain, he was not in a bad mood. "He was joking about it with people at Bethesda," he said of the injury. Carter left the hospital about 5 p.m. to return to Camp David. His wife, Rosalynn, was with him as he boarded the helicopter. The president was smiling and waved to reporters with his right arm. He was wearing a tan raincoat, but his left arm was not through the sleeve. The president was taken by car from the hospital to the waiting helicopter. Granum said Carter was treated Associated Press Laserphoto AFTER THE FALL -- President Carter climbs the steps of his helicopter on the grounds of Bethesda Naval Hospital Saturday. Carter was flown to the hospital for treatment after he fell and broke his collarbone while cross-country skiing near the presidential retreat at Camp David. Capt. Bart Sleemnos, chairman of the Bethesda orthopedics department, as well as by Lukash. Carter, who is 56, has frequently cross-country skied during his four years in office, Granum said. He said Lukash was with Carter skiing, along with Mrs. Carter, Marine aide John Kline and two Secret Service agents. The accident took place about 3 p.m., Granum said, during Carter's second skiing outing of the day. The presidential spokesman said that, specifically, Carter had fractured the medial aspect of the left clavicle, the part of the collarbone nearest the breastbone. The collarbone connects the breastbone to the shoulder. "This is, incidentally, the same clavicle he fractured as a midshipman at the Naval Academy in a jujitsu class," Granum said. He said Carter was skiing down a slope on a nature trail in about 3 inches of fairly fresh snow when he fell. Asked how steep the slope was, he said he didn't know. After the accident, Carter went back to Aspen Lodge on the grounds at Camp David, a short walk, and Lukash put the president's arm in a sling and immobilized his shoulder, Granum said. The president underwent a full physical examination last January, and Lukash said then that Carter was in excellent health and fully capable of dealing with the strain of the Oval Office. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 Soviets, East Germans running Afghanistan By BARRY SCHWEID Oregonian JAN 23, 1980 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of Soviet bureaucrats have moved into Afghanistan to run the government and East German intelligence agents are helping to operate the security system, administration sources disclosed Tuesday. Afghan administrators are being dismissed and, in some cases, executed, as the Soviets attempt to tighten their hold on the pro-Moscow government of Babrak Karmal, the sources said. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said, meanwhile, that the Soviets were airlifting more troops into the country now that Kabul airport has reopened after a severe snowfall. He said there were some 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said the Soviets have taken over direction of the Foreign Ministry and security, with East German intelligence agents assuming the role they also play in South Yemen and Angola. Moslem guerrilla resistance to the Soviet intervention is persisting, Carter said. He said that while intelligence reports are sketchy, Soviet casualties in the monthlong penetration of the Moslem country may have reached 2,000. The Soviets have had advisers in the country for about two years, trying to influence succeeding Marxist governments toward a more pro-Moscow line. Since last month's overthrow of President Hafizullah Amin and his succession by Babrak, viewed by the Carter administration as a puppet, the Soviets have assumed a more prominent position in governmental operations. "The advisers are being a lot more active, and the new administrators have joined them," said one U.S. official who asked not to be identified. President Carter has called the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan "the most serious threat to world peace since the Second World War." In an address Wednesday night he is expected to announce a series of measures he hopes will contain Soviet expansion in Southwest Asia. According to some reports, the Soviets have been training Baluchi tribesmen to foment dissent in neighboring Pakistan. However, a State Department statement said officials could not "confirm with any degree of specificity either that such training is taking place or, if it is, where the training is being carried out." The Baluchis are a restive minority in Iran and Afghanistan as well as Pakistan. Some analysts hold the view that Pakistan's central government could be subverted by exacerbating Baluchi unrest. Jan. 23, 1980 Jeffrey Mishlove: As you know, before Russia attacked Afghanistan I phoned you (and Dr. Monteith) and told you that my SIs told me to warn that the U.S. was in deadly danger, hour by hour, day by day in a way therefore non-existent. Either you or Henry asked and I said an immediate threat of World War Three. So I *warned before the fact. Ted Owens (PK Man) *my SIs (or "The Phenome... I am very proud of Scott's book! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800123 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9dda99b11a267680e2881c54ccf2294d.pdf d2267be9e662c0657b98756e092f8c51 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e7c5735c8facf357043f856bbf53e26e.txt bf93a37ad5cf5eedbe36ac2f2285167b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 Jeffrey Mishlove c/o Washington Research Center 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 April 28th '80 Dear Jeff, I am in the process of writing my own paper. Could you ask Ted if I can have permission to use his term SIs the next time you see him or correspond with him, or could you tell me where I can get in touch with him. I wrote to an address in Fate magazine somewhere in Oregon. Could you ask Ted if he got my letter? Most importantly could you reinforce upon Ted that he must be more aware of the struggle between good and evil, and his role in that struggle. The spiritual underworld exists as sure as you and I exist. It is a kind of anti-spirit which can convert to spirit and spirit can revert back to it, with the loss of energy of course. This is part of the quantum aspects of the spiritual which I explore in my paper. Let him remember, and let all others who do the same remember, as I'm sure they know in their hearts and needn't be told, that converting spirit into anti spirit by means of distorting it, and reaping the benefits of the energy given off by this destruction, is of benefit only to the individual perpetrator of the evil, and contributes to the 'natural' state of the universe which is atrophy, or the dissipation of energy and the consequent dissemination of matter. Time is also altered but I won't go into that here. Let is suffice to say that turning the supernatural, parapsychological and panaphysical to evil means is a sure way to the rapid destruction of the human race, and according to the strength and efficiency of that evil power and Mr. Owens' is no doubt considerable, the effect will be far greater than you have in fact imagined. I think with some simple, carefully well placed guidance, I and other people, and the intelligences who are assisting us, can bring Ted round to the side of good, in no time at all if he lets us. Times have changed since Moses. And times have changed since Jesus a thousand years later. What we need now is a universal (international) spirituality, working to steer humanity toward future harmony with the Divine Order of the Universe, and this can only be done in conjunction with the Great Will behind that Divine Order which is in everyone of us. On the other side however we have the inevitable abyss. Mr. Ted Owens must, instead of helping us to rush towards that abyss, start helping is to put the brakes on. Yours Sincerely, === Page 2 of 2 6-20-80 P.S. Jeffrey I hope I haven't been too outspoken about Ted's evil qualities, but I feel it is wrong to pussy foot around issues never uttering anything but non-committal trivia, like the politicians and other establishment figures. I can only assume they have the same level of comprehension in private as they do in public. Look at the current situation in the world and see if I'm not right in saying I think this is a cause of a lot of the difficulty, of people not getting up and saying what they think even if they're wrong. At least it might bring out something in other people which they might not of even known they had. Could I impose upon you still further and ask you to some address of of people, Vallee, Harder, Sprinkle & Schwartz in particular. I think they would make a splendid partnership of one sort of another. I too am in need of a lot of help and guidance having embarked on this adventure only slightly more than a year ago. 6/20/80 Jeffrey: Someone should enlighten this dumb humans what my primary aim is to save 3 billion humans on this earth... utilizing the power of my UFOs, the Egyptian Power and now the Mayan Power. And what I am fighting for is a home to do it from. Best to you & Janelle... Ed O & Wena * No other requisite. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800428 Letter to Jeff Mishlove from Ted Owens https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f64fb30fab6d0d95b7fd20c995568202.pdf cf1af98a8fb8230f7763502469c30e46 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/56b6f6af257e01d126a043f7f03b4e94.txt 482777fc8d3fa229dd7f3abeb403cd26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 June 8, 1980 Mr. H. L. Hingorani Researcher, "Life Beyond" Foundation Harnik House 9, Sadhu Vaswani Road Pune 411 001 (India) Dear Sir: Re yours of May 23, 1980. You ask if I can travel to India and give some kind of exhibition...etc. I can improve on your suggestion. My powers can save India. As I understand it India is in the worst drought in 70 years. Very well. I can end that drought and save India. Not only that, I can do many, many other things to help India get onto balance, grow, and become a healthy country. And a happy country. (the Black Book.) No, I cannot send you a "copy" of that which the UFOs have entrusted me with. You offer me a visit to India...or at least you are "tempted" to do so...for several months, expenses paid. Thank you, that is very kind of you. However, the only way that I could come to India would be if the top leader of India (President, Premier, etc.) would send me a round trip, first class air ticket, with assurance that I would be the guest of the government of India for a week or two weeks (the maximum time that I could spend there.). It is of utmost importance, of course, that my personal security be assured while in that country. I am not interested in a fee, monies, or whatever, for saving India. Time is of the essence, however. I have no interest in "after we die" and so forth. Sorry about that. You can secure a scientific report about my work from Washington Research Center, 3101 Washington Street, San Francisco, California, 94115, written by scientists for scientists. Many, many books have written about me and the miracles that I have done. Too many to list here. Enclosed you will find some xeroxd material which might give you some idea of what it is that I do. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 * I am, even now, using my vast powers to bring rains to India to end its drought completely; yet I could do it much more effectively if I could be there if even only for a few days. * Enclose $10.00 for it, if you send for it. * I do, however, greatly appreciate any financial contribution to my work and research from any === Page 2 of 5 H. L. HINGORANI RESEARCHER. "LIFE-BEYOND" FOUNDATION HARNIK HOUSE, 9, SADHU VASWANI ROAD, PUNE 411 001. (INDIA) PHONE 23013 Ted Owen s- The UFO Prophet, 200 N.E. 76 St., Vancouver, WA-98665., USA. Date 23-5-80. Respected friend of humanity, Sub: Search & Research on 'Whether life consciousness continues beyond physical death and whether it could be contacted rationally by persons yet living on this earthly plane." We have come across your advertisement of page 21 of Fate Magazine-Dec-79, which is worded as under: "Secrets of The Masters". The only training of its kind in the world. By Ted Owens, the UFO Prophet. See Feb. 1979 FATE Magazine article by scientist (re Owens psychic work). Read about Ted-Owens in "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson, Putnam's, hardcover; "Occult America". by John Godwin. Double day, hardcover: and "UFO Trek", by Warren Smith, Zebra Paperback. Can you kindly device some scheme for a visit to India, for some kind of Exhibition to prove to the world that super powers are possessed by your Holiness. It is stated that you have complete hold over secrets of the Black-Book given to your goodself by Aliens from another dimension. Could you kindly favour us with the copy of the syllabus which you have created for ordinary human being. Your mind training system can only be digested with the help of your other dimensional powers of the master, Ted Owen and because U.F.O. gave this extraordinary secret system to Owens to teach to certain Key humans, in its easily understandable arrangements. Please send complete booklet with details---------- After reading the details of your further advertisement we are tempted to invite your Holiness for a visit to India atleast for two months and all your expenses while travelling in India and lodging and boarding will be met with this Foundation. === Page 3 of 5 Recently we have received a book "After we die, what then ?", published by George Meek, Metascience Corp, publication division, Franklin-NC-USA). Please study this in depth and inform us your reactions for the, same. We are very much impressed with the language and the pictures and the experience of the author including the photography of the departed person e.g. Fig-20 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shortly before his death and Fig-21 photograph of his produced at his request by Spirit helpers two months after his death. Please help us in the research rationally and scientifically and send us some literature or typed letters to enable us to progress in this research. In the service of humanity, (H.L.HINGORANI) ---------- Ted Owen s- The UFO Prophet, 200 N.E. 76 St., Vancouver - WA-98665. U. S. A. ---------- भेजनेवाले का नाम और पता:- SENDER'S NAME AND ADDRESS:- H. L. HINGORANI Researcher, "Life-Beyond" Foundation HARNIK HOUSE, 9, SADHU VASWANI ROAD, PUNE 411 001, (INDIA) भारत INDIA 30 भारत INDIA 30 INLAND LETTER इस पत्र के अन्दर कुछ न रखें NO ENCLOSURES ALLOWED === Page 4 of 5 May 28, 1980 "Report From the Readers" Fate Magazine I have just recently returned from Yucatan, and examined my mail which had accumulated in my absence. There was a copy of June 1980 Fate Magazine, and in your section there was an article: "Ted Owens, where Are You?" written by a Stan Farnsworth. Now, although I get dozens of such requests each month from all over the world...to modify the weather here, there and everywhere... I could easily recall Mr. Farnsworth's letter. You see, I use my psychic ability to "probe" those who write to me, and quite often I am correct with my results. Certainly, I was correct with Mr. Farnsworth. I perceived that here was a person with a nasty twist of mind; a person eager to make fun of me in some way. Therefore I tossed his letter into my 'nut' file. (Quite obviously, anyway, I cannot go "marching off in all directions" and modify the weather all over the globe for every Tom, Dick and Harry who demand it.) Your readers might just as well know, therefore, that I am not available to them...my time and energy...upon demand...to satisfy any of their psychic requests. I channel my time and energy, very carefully, in order to obtain maximum results. It occurs to me that perhaps your readers might like to know just what I am doing around the world with regard to weather. I will enlighten them to this extent: to help a friend of mine in Canada, Mr. Fred Oshanek, box 28, Sask., Canada, S0A 3T0. I have known Mr. Oshanek for years. He is a very fine person. And I have changed the weather for him, during those years. Recently he wrote to me and told me that the farmers need rain, and I have replied to him that I will bring him and his friends all the rain that they need, for their farms. A Mr. Bruce Kell, 4 Torrington Road, Strathfield, Australia, NSW 2135, wrote to me on April 9, 1980, and informed me that much of Australia was in terrible drought, and the lives of billions of people and animals were on the line. Would I bring Australia rains? I told him that I would do so, and since then rains have come to Australia (although I have not finished the job yet; much more rains are needed until the drought is completely over...and I will finish ending that drought for Australia.) (I also sent a letter at that time to the leader of Australia, Hon. Frazier, informing him of my action.) And because Africa and India are caught up in killer droughts, I am going to bring tremendous rains to those countries, continents, in order to end those droughts. In the days, weeks and months ahead. Millions and millions of people's lives are at stake. All right, enough of weather. Now, in my copy of July, 1980, Fate magazine I note an article, "Holy Moses" in which a Judith somebody criticizes me and my work. (She seems to be very stupid; why doesn't she send to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove at 3101 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115, and include $7 plus airmail costs for a scientific report on my work...if she thinks that I am invalid?) At any rate, in order to answer her article I merely have to refer to her last paragraph: "Finally, his claim that the UFO entities aim to improve the human race is, as we Cockneys say, a bloody nerve! If this is their aim, history shows they are prime bunglers. We can look back on 1000 years of === Page 5 of 5 2 humanity's troubles -- from Attila the Hun through Hitler and his Nazi cutthroats. Where were the UFOs and the "SIs" through all this?" The answer is simple, JG. Humanity had, and still has, too many Judith Gees... both in the layman field and in the scientific field... so that attempts by UFOs to help and improve the human race were mainly neutralized by Judith Gee types. I am positive that Moses, Ezekial, John The Baptist and others working with and for the UFO angels had their Judith Gee attackers too, at those times. In closing, I read the excellent article written about Dr. J. B. Rhine by Martin Ebon. It was a shock to me because no word had come to me that Dr. Rhine had passed away. Long years ago I was his secretary and engaged in some psychic experimentation with him, and he dictated his book to me to type for him, "The Reach of the Mind," published by William Sloane and Associates. Certainly, Dr. Rhine and his wife, Dr. Louisa Rhine, have to be two of the finest scientists that the world has ever known, in their chosen field. But I was surprised at an error on Mr. Ebon's part. He states that they "had no son." They certainly did have a son. His name was Robbie, and he was a fine boy. The Rhine's adopted Robbie because some years passed and they were childless. After his adoption then they had three daughters (natural children). I only mention this because I do not think it fair to Robbie to be left out of the "credits"... i.e., being the son of such famous parents. (Perhaps something occurred and the Rhines do not want the above mentioned... therefore it would be best not to bring it up, yes?) Sincerely, Owens Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800505 & 8005028 & 800608 letters to and from Fate Magazine https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/a80e6d7d5d588fb4fa8b281c1678d428.pdf 5a121d6d78ff91075cb0f11a3334f776 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/832b310c82500580efd40bef32b71cd6.txt e0a6a63c80d7233ceb62f700d510af55 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 May 15, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: I have now finished my experiment in knocking out "power" and power sources. The tail-end of that file will reach you as soon as I can get it pasted up and xeroxed. Now, beginning today, I will utilize my own powers...the powers of my UFOs (Control)...the powers of and the newly-found powers of Xtolac (Mayan Power), a living entity thousands of years old that my mind joined up with in Uxmal, Yucatan, while I was there recently... to bring tremendous and long-lasting rains to Australia, which is stricken with a killer-drought... and to India, in the midst of its worst drought in 70 years... and to Africa, where millions of people are starving and dying because of drought. In a bit will fill you in on the why of it, as soon as I get my Yucatan Report typed up. while I am at it...I will work to bring rains all over the world. Tremendous rains everywhere on earth. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 2 of 2 WORLD RAIN PROJECT MAY 15 1980 UFO (ESPECIALLY AUSTRALIA, AFRICA AND INDIA), TO END DROUGHTS RAINS ON THE WORLD UFO UFO UFO (XTOLAC) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800515 Letter to Jeff Mishlove and knocking out power drawing as part of letter https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/0d6c022a4edb34b76e80d7ea85958b0d.pdf ea8ecb7cbd956eacb71f63158c0f93de https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/f9242d7c2988892b14e9049bacb448ee.txt c1ce64d551577fbd83fb5fb6b13bf69f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 9 May 18, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research Foundation 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 Dear Dr. Mishlove: I have successfully located and linked up with the ancient Mayan entity left by my UFOs ages ago to guard the Mayan mental treasures (located in or near key pyramids and temples, just as the Egyptian entity was created and left to guard the mental treasures in the key pyramids of Giza Valley and surrounding area)...and I now have full access to its powers. Its name is Xtolac; it is the very first humanoid entity of the three powers that I am now linked up with, and close friends with. The trip to Yucatan was most interesting, and the details will be contained in this report. It should be of great value to the human race, because no other human being has, or could, do what I have done and am doing. Remember the background: my mind is half-alien, half-human...made that way by the UFOs that "captured" me long years ago. My mental (telepathic) contact with my UFOs is "Control"...the dark, shadowy face on the screen with which I exchange communication. And I have access to, and can use, the infinite powers of my UFO friends, just as they agree to the project or demonstration. You are aware of the voluminous documentation over the years which bears all of this out, and which will withstand scientific scrutiny. My second mental, telepathic contact is "PyrCre"...the deadly Egyptian entity whose powers I have access to...and what is even more important to me, is my close friend. (Thank God for that!) I mention the above because it will be a most important and relevant factor in this report, later on. Some odd things occurred on the trip...my glasses case containing expensive sunglasses vanished from my leather case, never out of my possession. Teddy's Mickey Mouse watch and best blue jacket vanished. In Merida Teddy was holding our room key which was attached to a thick plastic handle...and the key dropped off. I examined it closely and could see no way that this could have happened. There was no opening in the metal ring holding the key to the plastic. Later, in Cancun, I was holding our hotel key attacked to a thick plastic handle and the key dropped off. Again, upon examination, I could see no way for it to occur. Upon returning home my son Beau came to me with a look of astonishment on his face. He held two halves of a huge comb that he carries. He had been combing his hair when the comb suddenly fell into two pieces. The unusual angle is that the comb is unbreakable. And today my key ring containing the key to my study, among others, simply vanished into thin air. Oh yes, and while Teddy and I were at the Mariott Hotel in Marina del Ray, California, one of my Yucatan tapes, side 7 and 8, vanished from my room table. I suppose that this suggests some form of poltergeist phenomena, unless my UFOs are trying to tell me something. At any rate...not long ago I was in my study at home when my UFOs telepathd and instructed me to go to Yucatan and find the Yucatan entity, intelligence, and make full contact with it. This after ten years of waiting for their signal on it. (In Cape Charles, Virginia, in 1970, I had planned to do this very thing...obtained maps, contacted a Robert Skalnak Smith down there as a likely guide...but the UFOs didn't give me the go-ahead on it. So, I waited === Page 2 of 9 2 and waited, for ten years, until they did give me the go-ahead recently. I immediately called "Irish" (Mille Miller) who had moved to an apartment near us here in Vancouver from San Francisco, and discussed the matter with her. At the time I had exactly $24 and some pawn tickets. She said that she would get back to me on it. (As you know, Irish was responsible for my being able to get to see the scientist in France; go to Scotland and England to get my brain remodified by my UFOs; then got me to Egypt where I linked up with the Egyptian power.) Shortly thereafter she called and said that she had gone to a bank and obtained a loan (which would take her three or four years to pay off, so that this trip could be made. The UFOs had told me that I would need $5,000; Irish could only obtain $4,300...$700 short. I mention this point because later in the report you will note how accurate my UFOs were in their estimate. I then got in touch with George Delavan, who agreed to cover my home expenses during my absence (George, as you know, has kept me going in my work and research consistently, month after month, year after year). I obtained proper maps of the Yucatan area from AAA, which warned me about Guatemala being dangerous at this time for Americans (my plan entailed going to Mayan ruins at Guatemala). I set up Irish with my checkbook to pay my bills while absent; with correspondence she could answer for me; access to my daily mail; and switched my phone calls over to her to cover. Now, my UFOs had instructed me to take Beau with me (my 17 year old). I sounded him out on it, but he was completely negative to the idea. This wasn't like Beau at all...we've been on many adventures together, and he has always been eager. So I sounded out Teddy on going with me (my 9 year old). He jumped at the chance. Then I understood. Teddy, Beau and I had been "taken" by my UFOs on numerous occasions these past recent years...and of course we had been programmed, done with the consummate precognitive skill of my UFOs. Thus, it was meant to be, and evidently my UFOs wanted me to understand the "why" of it. Irish brought the money to me; I bought an expensive camera that would be needed on the trip, plus other supplies, and ordered the round-trip plane tickets, paid off a big bunch of bills that required being taken care of, and we were ready, Teddy and I. We flew to L.A.*, then switched planes from United to Western, I think it was, and went on to Mexico City. The last time I had been in Mexico was 25 years ago; so I had forgotten most of my Spanish, but remembered that the Del Prado was a good hotel, and that Sanborn's on Madero was one hell of a good restaurant. So we checked in at the Del Prado. By this time I had used up 3/4 of my first expensive tape when it suddenly went haywire...the same thing that had happened in Scotland and in England...and I had to chuck it away. I wanted to linger in Mexico City for a few days while we grew accustomed to Mexico, the climate, the people...and I needed to obtain some necessary tools to use in Yucatan and Guatemala. (In my duffle I had brought a bullet-proof vest; a blackjack; two fine throwing knives from my old night-club act; a brass knuckles, and an old WWII British Commando knife which has a blade that slides out of the handle. We were headed for jungle and possibly jaguar (el tigre, tiger) and the lord knows what else...also crazy militants a la Iran, in Guatemala...and I fully intended to be armed in some way to protect Teddy and myself, if possible.) Oh, let me back up a wee bit...on the plane to Mexico City there was a young girl, Nancy, age 23...in the company of another female (tough and poisonous; yuk) and Nancy and I conversed a bit. She wanted to read the small amount of literature about me and my work that I always take with me out of the country for identification purposes. When we reached Mexico City Nancy went her way, we went ours. * The night before leaving Teddy was ill with 102° fever. I called Irish and she got him well. === Page 3 of 9 3 Back at the Del Prado, I began to acquaint Teddy with some Spanish words and phrases. And he learned them quickly. I wanted to take him to the Plaza de Toros on Sunday for the bullfights, but drat our luck, it was closed down for four weeks, so he had to miss that. In the big park just opposite our hotel Teddy met a little boy, Juan, in an odd way. Teddy was flying his toy helicopter and it flew up into a tree, about fifteen feet up. I was scratching my head, wondering how to retrieve it for Teddy when suddenly a little boy Teddy's age, dirty and in raggedy clothes, scooted past us, shinnied over a fence, went to the tree, shinnied up the tree and got Teddy's toy. He brought it back down to us with a big smile on his face and in his eyes. Then he walked away. I stopped him and sent him and Teddy over to an ice-cream stand for ice-cream treats. The little boy was ocho anos, eight years old; had no mother or father; carried an open cigar box containing little candies which he sold at the park just to get something to eat to keep him alive. Well, he and Teddy played all afternoon together, sailing the helicopter. Juan spoke no English whatsoever, and Teddy no Spanish (just buenos dias; adios, and muchas gracias.) But they didn't need a common language. Never did see two kids have more fun together. That night I couldn't sleep, and at 4 AM woke Teddy up and we went out to find a restaurant. Just one was open. On the way over to it we passed a darkened shop doorway and curled up inside, fast asleep, was a tiny boy, dirty and raggedy, and I explained to Teddy that there were thousands of such little boys asleep in doorways all over Mexico City this night, most of them hungry, without a home or mother or father. We went to the restaurant and Teddy got a fried chicken meal. I drank about five orange juices (for a long time now I've had no appetite for food whatsoever). While seated inside the restaurant we witnessed a sad sight. Another tiny boy, about six years old, dirty and raggedy, waited just outside the front door of the restaurant, watching the restaurant manager like a hawk. The instant the manager would turn his back on the front door the tiny street urchin would dart inside the restaurant and hide behind chairs and tables and work his way to the side room of the restaurant. There he would beg scraps of food off the diners and, with his hands full of food scraps, backtrack out of the restaurant, still hiding behind chairs and tables with his eye on the manager, until he'd managed to sneak back out the front door. I strolled over and looked through the window. Up at the corner were five other little dirty street urchins, his friends, and he was sharing the scraps with them. Teddy and I watched in amazement as he repeated this operation five times while we were there, successfully, without being caught by the manager. Then I understood why. One time the manager half-turned, glimpsed the tiny hungry lad, and quickly turned away with his back to the boy. He wanted it to happen. Wanted the kid to get his food for the day. Probably, I explained to Teddy, the manager had himself been one of these street urchins when he was little. Teddy couldn't eat his chicken, so we wrapped it in a large napkin and took it with us. As we neared our hotel we looked inside the dark doorway and that tiny boy (about 5) hadn't moved, his arm underneath his head for a pillow. I said to Teddy, "Why don't we give him your chicken?" Teddy brightened up at that so we shook the boy gently; he half woke up and we gave him the bundle of chicken. He snatched it out of my hand, put it underneath his head so that no one could steal it, and went back to sleep. I put some pesos into his other little hand, and Teddy and I went back to our hotel room. In the morning we checked the doorway again and the tiny boy was gone...but the bundle of chicken was still there, untouched. I theorized that the police had found him and taken him away to get him into a barracks that they have for such kids (with a hot meal in the morning before they are turned loose again) and the police hadn't bothered with the chicken. === Page 4 of 9 3 1 / 2 While in Mexico City I obtained the only English newspaper in the hotel... and to my surprise there was an article about Jeffrey Mishlove getting his doctorate... the only human in the world to do so in the field (I sent you a copy of it.) Another strange thing occurred... while at the Del Prado Teddy began to draw one picture after another... pictures of a god, or entity... which I could only recognize as Mayan or Aztec. So I theorized that the Mayan Power we were seeking was talking through Teddy. The god in the pictures had nine eyes, nine toes, etc. (Note: I put them into my wallet... I just walked over to take them out and add to this file... and they are gone. Vanished.) The picture was like one of those seen on the wall of a temple. Next he began to draw some more pictures... I secured one and it was of PyrCre, the Egyptian Power. * The hundreds of dollars, meanwhile, were flowing out. The Del Prado hotel bill for three days was $160.00. One single breakfast of two fruit plates and five glasses of orange juice was $9.00. A taxi cost $10 to $20 to get about, and to the airport. I could easily see that we wouldn't be able to complete my whole plan, financially. We had four areas on the map to get to, even before Guatemala. I figured we wouldn't be able to get to more than two of the areas... and forget Guatemala! In order to get to all of the areas, and Mayan ruin locations, and Guatemala, we'd need $3,000 to $5,000 more, than we had. It was most amusing that before we left Vancouver, I didn't really know where we were going, or what we'd do when we got there. Just like previously in Scotland and England... but the UFOs had shown me the way. In this case I thought, even while in Mexico City, that Merida was in Quintana Roo province. Ha ha. Later I discovered that it is in the province of Campeche. Just to show you how little I knew. In my hotel room at the Del Prado I broke out the map and made my plan. We'd fly to Merida and rent a car. Then we'd drive down to Uxmal and set up a base there because there are ruins and pyramid at Uxmal that we have to get to. * Also in Mex. City I found a pocket knife for my knife collection I'd been seeking for 30 years! Bought two of them and named them "Eeny" + "Meeny." But when we flew back to Los Angeles a Customs agent took Eeny + Meeny away from me. I was furious!!! === Page 5 of 9 3 1/2 (In Merida, Yucatan, at Hotel El Balam (Jaguar) In the small swimming pool at the hotel an amusing thing occurred. Teddy was beside the pool when a little bird with a white stripe on its head flew down beside Teddy...and won't leave Teddy's side! It's been there for half an hour, about a foot away from Teddy. Teddy talks to it, and it chirps back to Teddy. (This is out of sequence...but I might forget it, and it is very important. After we returned from our trip to Vancouver, Teddy and I were alone in my study watching TV when suddenly the screen went blank and filled with what looked like white clouds...and a low voice talked to us; I don't know for how long...not in English, but a weird sort of language...then the regular show came back on. This had happened once before in Cape Charles, Virginia, when Beau and I were watching a TV show alone...and the picture went off and there, sitting looking at us, were five humanoid creatures...but not human...just staring at us...after a bit the regular show came back on.) (Back in Merida) That night the Power in the area made telepathic contact with me...and told me that el tigre, the jaguar, was not the Power of the Mayans, as might be thought. Instead it's something like a huge snake or serpent with colored feathers...of course that put me in mind of PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, which resembles a huge owl but covered with colored feathers. The next thing that happened was that that little bird flew inside our room in the hotel (no screens on the doors or windows...all open...we're on the second floor). It seemed determined to get to Teddy. We got the car at Hertz next day. Had a lot of trouble, because we didn't have a credit card, and they couldn't comprehend cash...made them suspicious. Took us an hour to rent it. A good car, we named it "Smoothy"...had to put up $635 in cash just for a deposit alone! Refundable later on when we got to Cancun. === Page 6 of 9 4 (Backtrack to Mexico City) Still concerned about proper weapons for our ultimate destination... I scanned some taxi drivers until I found the right one... and Teddy and I took a cab ride. I told the driver that I needed a gun; where could such be obtained? He told me that a gun was illegal in Mexico, and that I had better not get one. Then another thought occurred to me... 30 years previously I had seen a certain type of knife in a movie... a springblade. I broached this to the driver, and he smiled and drove us quite a distance to a large store... and dam if that store didn't have the exact knife that I had been searching for for 30 years! (I collect pocket knives, I might add. It's a psychological thing going back to my childhood when my granpa raised me and he bought me Buster Brown boots with a pocket-knife in them... and I loved granpa dearly and somehow this spread on to pocket knives later in life; their collection.) I bought two of the knives. Then I had the driver take us to Chalpultepec Park and Lake and Zoo. Finally, we prepared to take Mexicana Airlines from Mexico City to Merida, in Yucatan. It is a small airline, and the only link between Yucatan and Mexico City; air-link, that is. Guess who flew on our small plane with us? Nancy and her companion. Teddy and I had arranged to name our trip "Project Jaguar" before we even left Vancouver and started. So synchronicity struck. Merida turned out to be a sprawled out little town of 50,000 (largest "city" in Yucatan). Its streets and shops somehow reminded me of the narrow streets of Paris. Its two good hotels downtown faced each other. Now, before leaving Vancouver the booklet AAA gave me said that in Merida there was a good hotel called Casa de Balam. So I told the cab driver to put our things out in front of this particular hotel. We were chatting, the driver and I, in Spanish, when he amazed me by telling me that "Balam" meant el tigre, jaguar. I hadn't known that; the meaning of the word 'balam'. We got up to our room in this hotel, where I found a hand-made clay ashtray with a large Mayan jaguar in bas relief on it (which I immediately impounded into my duffle and replaced with an expensive ash tray I bought in a shop in town next day). I then took Teddy down around the corner to an open-air cafe, owned and run by a man who couldn't speak a word of English, and I ordered two bowls of sopa lima, lime soup, for Teddy and I, and some cold beers. I invited the owner to sit with us and have a beer. And I got the shock of my life. Suddenly I was speaking fluent, I mean fluent, conversational Spanish, with the owner! Remember, I hadn't been in spanish territory or spoken the language for about twenty-eight years! And even back then most of my 'language' was comprised of hand-gestures and mime to bolster the few words and phrases I could put together. But here and now, I was speaking in a solid flow of Spanish! Suddenly I understood. In 28 years my mind had become very powerful, in a psychic way... and I was probing his mind telepathically and coming up with words and phrases fluently out of HIS mind! We lined up a car, and I shuddered at the expense. 10,000 pesos for two weeks. That's without gas, motels, food. I see them about it tomorrow at the agency. Next day: Hertz gives us fits! No credit card? Just cash? They were very suspicious and made me put up $635 U.S. in cash just for a deposit, besides all the other costs. OK. The car seemed like a good one, and Teddy and I named it "Smoothey" because it did drive so smoothly and so fast (at one point or two I did 150 mph in it). The entire Hertz staff stood outside the Balam Hotel watching Teddy and I anxiously as I tried to go around the block and get pointed in the right direction for Uxmal, in the frantic traffic that is common to Yucatan and Mexico. But we finally got untracked, and on the right road out of Merida. === Page 7 of 9 5 QUAINT We drove for quite a long while through quaint villages with houses having thatched roofs, and like that, and women carrying vases and bundles on their heads...much like they did beside the Nile River in Egypt. Finally we reached the ancient ruins of Uxmal, and a hotel beside the jungle nearby. The Mision Hotel. We got there late in the afternoon, and the ruins are closed up by the authorities at 6 PM...and unlike England and Scotland there would be no climbing over high, spiked walls here. They have guards and patrols here. Now, at this point Uxmal was simply the starting point for us. I have sixteen other key points spread out all over Yucatan that I thought necessary to get to. We checked in at the Mision Hotel...and who was at dinner? Nancy, with her woman companion, that's who, in the dining room. Some coincidence. The same two who were on the plane with us from Mexico City, then from Mexico City to Merida. Everything up until now had been to get Teddy and I in the right place, all set, to make our run. We were set now, in the right place to begin...and hell, half our money was gone already from all expenses incurred so far. I couldn't see how we'd possibly reach our objective...to link up with the Mayan Power. Wednesday...we're on the edge of the jungle...and we dearly love all of the jungle sounds. Birds of all kinds calling to each other...anteaters running around...and so forth. I've got it on tape. There's a very strange ticking noise on the tape recorder that's never been there before (or after, either). There are colored flowers all around; tall palm trees; thick underbrush and jungle; all kinds of colored birds flying around. I'll get some photos to show the beauty of the place. Last night I had a terrible nosebleed. Not just a nosebleed. It poured and poured. One of the worst nosebleeds in my life. And being an ex-ring fighter I've had some dandies, in my time. Teddy and I started for the ruins, then I discovered that the car was short of gas and oil...and we had to turn around and drive back towards Merida to the town of Muna, the nearest gas station. That's the way it is down here, or over here, wherever. You can drive 50 miles before you find a gas station. Or a 100. So you have to be very careful, especially with what you are paying for the distance on the car. One thing that startles me is...I can read all the Spanish road signs with no problem. Teddy and I pulled off at a thatched hut restaurant in the middle of nowhere, and I got some cold beer. And we bought the two tiny daughters of the owner some candy. We bought some small, woven baskets for home. Then, chatting with the owner in Spanish, I made a discovery. He said, with great feeling...that he was not Spanish, although that was the language we were speaking. He said I am Mayan, not Mexican. The word for cat in Spanish is gato...but in Mayan it is cet. So, darned if these folks aren't almighty proud of their Mayan ancestry, and language! (Note: I didn't pick any Mayan words out of the air, like I'd been doing with the Spanish!) === Page 8 of 9 6 Oh, by the way, this morning for breakfast Teddy and I had fruit plates... at the Hotel... just to show you the expense involved here... on a plate was one little piece of watermelon, two little pieces of pineapple and three little slices of cantaloupe. One plate wasn't enough for Teddy, so he had two plates. We also drank five glasses, small, of orange juice. The bill came to $15.00 U.S. This is interesting enough to mention... I asked Teddy if he knew why I was here. He said sure, you are working. I said no, I'm not working. He said then you're playing. No, I said, I'm not playing, either. I am hunting... just like some people hunt lions and tigers, I am hunting... but what I'm hunting is a brain, thousands of years old... a brain that can't be seen. It's here somewhere in this tip of Yucatan, and that's what we're searching for now. I found an old tunnel beneath the Pyramid of Uxmal, and telepathed to Control and PyrCre and asked their assistance in making friends with the Mayan Power that exists in Yucatan in the same way that PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, exists in Egypt. I told them that I come as a friend; not to rob the Pyramids or try to seek treasure... and that I respectfully request permission from the Mayan Power to approach it, telepathically. Then PyrCre and Control of the UFOs made a cross (or "X") of light over my location... each one made a beam of what seemed like light so that they intersected over my location... la cruce de luce... at Uxmal... they showed it to me in my mind... and evidently this is the only way that I could approach the Mayan Power that exists... so I wait now to see what happens. I have just met with The Mayan Power. It wasn't what I thought it would be, at all. It was a huge face, like that of PyrCre, but completely different. This was the face of a wrinkled old man, but it had great beauty in it. Peacefulness. It had a headdress on top, with all colors of the rainbow... like feathers... I told this old man that I was seeking wisdom, knowledge and understanding... I was a friend requesting permission to approach him. He said then, "look into my eyes and you will have wisdom, knowledge and understanding"... and I looked into his eyes and there were no eyeballs at all, like human eyes would have... but there was the sky and Nature and azul... blue sky, blue water... all of Nature and Nature's secrets were in his eyes. His eyes weren't eyes like your or my eyes... they were like windows that you could look through... there was beauty that words could not express. After a short while he said, "it is enough for now" and the face faded and I had knowledge that while I had been looking into his eyes I had been receiving encapsulated knowledge which would unfold as time went by and as my mind would be able to absorb it. So there is no doubt now... I have linked up with The Mayan Power. It's a great relief... because I didn't know what to expect... whether it would be like a jaguar, a snake, or whatever. But instead, a leathery old, crinkled, reddish-colored face... humanoid. I didn't notice a nose or mouth or ears much... just the face and eyes and headdress... but great beauty and peacefulness emanated from The Mayan Power. Tranquility, if you will. I just thanked Control of my UFOs and PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, telepathically, for making it possible for me to approach The Mayan Power. Without the cross of light that they laid down over this location I am sure that I could not have approached The Mayan Power. It is sort of like a secret door... or a time window... that they opened for me... and only they could have provided it. Amazing. I am making a list of questions now to ask The Mayan Power the next time I contact it. Tomorrow, I suppose. What's it called? How many times do I approach it to be taught? Can I contact it the same as Control and PyrCre from anywhere? And is there another location in Yucatan that it would want me to go while I am here? === Page 9 of 9 7 While I think of it...Teddy and I have been finding beautiful red flowers... which suddenly appear on our table, or on the ground in front of us...they seem to come from nowhere...and just a few minutes ago, after I made successful contact with the Mayan Power, Xtolac, a beautiful shirt just simply appeared in front of us on the ground, brand new, and it fit Teddy to a t. Both Teddy and I believe that it is a "magic shirt" that Xtolac, The Mayan Power, wants him to have and wear. Teddy and I returned to our room at The Mision Hotel in Uxmal...when an odd thing happened. Our room opens onto a patio overlooking the grounds...and there is a tree next to our patio. Well, into this tree flies a little bird...seemingly the very same little bird that followed Teddy around in Merida...it has a white stripe on its head. It sings and chirps to us...flies inside the door of our room then back out again onto a limb of the tree. Always the same limb. Teddy and I name it White Top (it has a yellow breast). It just stays ther, hour by hour, on that same limb, chattering at us. Down below us there is an anteater (here called oso armaguerra, or something like that); also little baby spotted deer with their mama...the babies about as big as my hand. Wednesday night...I am explaining the Mayan Power to Teddy; that it covers the ancient key Mayan pyramids and temples like an invisible blanket...or an x-ray effect, guarding them -- but that its "personality" or characteristics are totally different than its brother Egyptian Power, PyrCre, in that it is not destructive. PyrCre, the Egyptian Power, can be infinitely destructive, to a degree beyond human comprehension. And the SIs (my UFOs) can be very rough when they want to be, too, with their Powers. But the Mayan Power deals with beauty, tranquility, creativity, wisdom, knowledge, understanding...its makeup is entirely different than PyrCre or the SIs, and to get what it is...the essence of it...down onto paper in English is well-night impossible. I have seen it and experienced it, but can hardly describe it to others of the human race. Just to look through the eyes of Xtolac...is an experience of indescribable beauty and perhaps I should say "goodness". Note: I get no feedback on all my xeroxing... and since this takes lots of time and trouble, I think I'll pass on the rest of it. Get tired of "talking to myself." Owens 8/20/80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800518 Letter to Jeff Mishlove UFOs and Mayan entity https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/79c45230b053440ee46c6fb03c925480.pdf 70bd654a1edea4fba4ec322d376c8477 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9ceffec80af4a6469ec7742e51eff493.txt a2f24bce0622d9f2a455c9f790fa404a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 Note: I notified Dr. Mishlove others sometime ago that my UFOs (SIs) were going to war against the U.S. until The Race is provided. Owens U.S. News & World Report June 2, 1980 # Tomorrow. A LOOK AHEAD FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL Newsgram 2300 N Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 Disaster after disaster--natural and man-made, at home and abroad--are crowding in on Jimmy Carter, bedeviling him and the country. On the Pacific Coast, eruption of Mount St. Helens will scar the Columbia River basin, disrupt thousands of lives and the local economy for decades. Not much the President can do about that, except inspect--and send money. In Florida, the vicious form of racial violence that engulfed Miami hints at a new type of urban strife--more coldblooded, calculated than in the '60s. In New York State, 710 families may be uprooted, moved from the Love Canal area--first of what could be many victims of contamination from chemical dumps. Overseas, the President is routinely being blind-sided by allies. . . . On Iran, Britain's default on the promise to impose meaningful sanctions could unravel the international effort to free the American hostages. On Afghanistan, many of the allies are bucking Carter, refusing to boycott the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of that country. On the Mideast, the Western Europeans threaten to undercut Israeli-Egyptian talks by endorsing creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank. On East-West relations, the French are getting more and more two-faced, playing games with the Kremlin and eroding what's left of American leadership. Across the Pacific, the military takeover in South Korea threatens to split that country, hobble its economy and prompt North Korea to make trouble. Chances that Carter can persuade Seoul's generals to relax their grip are slim. Over all, Carter looks hexed, facing many complex riddles all at once. Down on Main Street, the economy is not going by the book, either. The recession now is shaping up as a "V" downturn--like this: A sharper drop than anticipated, then a rebound early next year. That's the way more and more economists see it. Plenty of signs of a rapid slide are flashing, making Carter's talk of a mild slowdown unlikely-- Growth in people's income came to a standstill in April, prompting consumers to spend less money for the first month since June, 1979. Industry is operating plants at the lowest level in three years. Profits are falling--down 2.6 percent last winter, after adjustment for inflation. Retail-store sales are punk. The jobless, now numbering more than 7.27 million, are increasing, could reach 9 to 10 million before peaking. To hear the country's purchasing managers tell it, the economy sagged dramatically (over) U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 11 === Page 2 of 5 June 2, 198 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT this is Florida Sure, an "act" from my man. "lingering frustration". If I am de-pilled, the U.S. will go. - Irene # Rage in Miami A Warning? Three days of racial fury left 15 persons dead--9 blacks and 6 whites--took a financial toll of close to 200 million dollars. As the smoke cleared, the country wondered whether the rioting was an omen. A nation stunned by the worst outbreak of racial violence in 13 years is asking: Does the Miami eruption signal a return to the turmoil that afflicted America's big cities in the 1960s? The answer people want to hear is "No." But black leaders and many others see chilling evidence that frustrations in the nation's ghettos may once again be nearing the boiling point. Cited are the deepening recession, growing unemployment and sharp cutbacks in social services--all of which are eroding the gains made by blacks in the early 1970s. What's more, the hostility between blacks and police is again on the rise in many communities. In some cities, too, friction is growing between black residents and other minority groups, mainly Hispanics. **Danger: Flammable.** "I would pray and hope and work that there would be no more violence in our cities this summer," declares Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "But when you have these kinds of depressed conditions, you create the classic symptoms for a riot." The conditions that fueled the Miami outburst are seen as far from unique. Asserts the Rev. Jesse Jackson: "There is a Miami in every American city." The racial violence in Miami, the worst in this country since 43 persons died in a 1967 riot in Detroit, claimed the lives of 15 persons--9 blacks, 6 whites--and injured more than 300. Damage was estimated at nearly 200 million dollars from a wave of fires and looting that lasted for three days before subsiding on May 20. What set off the Miami disorders was a police-community conflict, raising fears that similar tensions elsewhere might have the same effect. "There is no single issue that ... has the potential for serious disorder as police use of deadly and excessive force," says Robert Lamb, Jr., a regional director of the U.S. Community Relations Service. The Miami rampage began on the evening of May 17 after the acquittal by an all-white jury of four white police officers accused of bludgeoning to death Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance salesman who had sped through red lights on a motorcycle. Angry blacks took to the streets, chanting McDuffie's name and charging that this was only one in a string of recent incidents in which police escaped punishment for brutalizing black citizens. In many other cities, too, police episodes have deeply aroused feelings in the ghettos--feelings that local black leaders fear could erupt into violence with the right chain of events. **Bruised expectations.** Whatever the spark, the basic tinder would be economic frustration, the experts say. For many blacks, the hopes raised after the riots in the 1960s--for better jobs, schools, housing and social services--have been dashed. While the outright segregation that once spurred black protests has vanished, other hurdles to joining the mainstream of American life remain. "Blacks can now sit in restaurants and use the restrooms, but those businesses are still owned by whites," says Shirley Porter, president of the New Orleans NAACP. "Our economic involvement has not grown since the '60s." Black hopes were raised during the Vietnam War, a period in which the economy was steadily expanding. Now the nation is being buffeted by double- Where Death, Destruction Reigned (Map of Miami showing areas of greatest violence, Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach, and Downtown) U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 19 === Page 3 of 5 2 out of the 3 have been PKd by me. Owens happens," reports Jim Hayes, director of a New Orleans community group. Some black and race-relations experts also are encouraged by President Carter's decision to dispatch Atty. Gen. Benjamin Civiletti to Miami to investigate the longstanding complaints against the local police and prosecutors. Federal officials asked a grand jury to consider civil-rights charges against the four officers acquitted in the McDuffie case, and Civiletti pledged that all members of the troubled community would get "a fair shake." Whether this response will be seen as a positive signal by blacks in other cities is open to question. In the days following the Miami uprising, sporadic violence broke out in Tampa and continued in Wrightsville, Ga., where trouble began in April. Some blacks insist that calm will prevail only if there is a broad attack on WIDE WORLD During the 1967 riots, Newark looked like the stage set of a war movie. their basic social and economic problems--not merely more studies like those produced after the disorders of the 1960s. "Americans have tragically short memories," offers Miami's Professor Dunn. "A commission will be appointed, boards and panels will meet, and not a damn thing will be done, and that's why I'm worried." He adds: "The tragedy of Miami is the country's tragedy. It could happen anywhere." *This story and the one that follows were written by Associate Editor David F. Pike, with reporting assistance from Jeannye Thornton in Washington, Linda Lanier in Miami and the magazine's nine domestic bureaus.* 22 # In Three Cities, Uneasy Calm--And Rising Fears The ingredients for violence exist in any big city--and many small ones. Here, in profiles of three cities, are reasons why there is worry. **New York City.** "There is a seething type of calmness here," says Isaiah E. Robinson, Jr., chairman of the city's Commission on Human Rights. "It's like a powder keg about to blow." Civil-rights leaders cite two major factors that could lead to trouble. One is the deteriorating economy, which has produced a jobless rate estimated at 40 percent among nonwhite youths. The other is a feeling among minorities that they are being forced to bear the brunt of the city's financial cutbacks. Mayor Edward Koch is castigated for his plan to close a municipal hospital in Harlem. "That action tells us they don't care whether we're sick or we die," says Horace W. Morris, executive director of the New York Urban League. Mayor Koch believes that race-related riots could break out in any big city--and he blames the federal government. "The conditions of the urban centers are abominable, and it is a result of federal neglect," he says. **Cleveland.** This city was rocked by rioting in 1966, and many of the problems that caused that outburst still have not been solved. One continuing source of tension here, as in Miami, is bad relations between blacks and police. In a city that is about half black in population, nearly 90 percent of the police are white. Last year, an FBI agent was fatally shot in a Cleveland housing project. U.S. Representative Louis Stokes, a black, recalls: "When they brought the body out, the crowds there cheered. That, to me, was a symbol of police-community relations." Feelings such as these surfaced again last month when a black city councilman charged that police handcuffed him and threw him in a police car as he was helping a family in his district. The black community feels there is delay in investigating that incident. Other tensions are building up in Cleveland. Large-scale busing for school integration is to begin next autumn. An open-housing program has raised blacks' suspicions that it is being used to move them out of the inner city and weaken their political power. They remember what happened in Hough, the preponderantly black section where the 1966 riots took place. Today Hough "is almost a deserted city," says William Wolfe, president of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland. Blacks have gained some power in city government. They hold 14 of 33 city-council seats and once elected a black mayor. But that doesn't solve the blacks' problems, says Stokes. He predicts: "What happened in Miami could happen in any major city today. The nation is playing with a powder keg." Says Larry Hines, an official of the Urban League: "I'm not predicting a riot. But Cleveland is ripe for racial unrest." **Newark.** Many buildings that were wrecked in the 1967 riots here still lie in rubble--and still smouldering is the black anger that precipitated those riots. About 65 percent of Newark's residents are black, and many others are Hispanic. The estimates of unemployment among nonwhite teen-agers range as high as 80 percent, and one civil-rights leader believes that the economic statistics portend a summer of unrest. Other factors, however, could work to contain trouble. One is the ascendance of blacks to political power. Newark has a black mayor, a black majority on the City Council and a black police director. Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson says that it is police-community conflict--not the economy--that sets off racial riots. He points hopefully to the community-relations program of the Newark police. "As long as we don't have any incidents of police abuse, then we'll have very little chance of an explosion," he says. "The ingredients are here to cause a riot," says Bobbie Cottle, acting president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Newark. "But I'm optimistic that we're doing some of the right things to abort trouble." U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 === Page 4 of 5 "Linger effect" Power Attack; also California warning. Owens # Exploding Volcano: Full Impact Yet to Come U.S. News & World Report June 2, 1980 **Weather, crops, fishing and timber industries--and taxpayers, too--will feel the fury of nature's attack at Mount St. Helens.** The impact of the devastating eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington will be felt for months--and perhaps years--to come. * Crops such as wheat and apples have been badly damaged by the volcanic fury, and later growth also may suffer. * The timber industry in the Northwest could require years to recover. * Weather will be affected over much of the earth, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. * Water supplies in some Northwestern communities have become so clogged that a major cleanup effort is necessary. * Fish in nearby streams were killed by the millions, and shortages of some species appear likely in future years. * Electrical power in parts of the Northwest may face disruptions. * Transportation routes--from river shipping to highways--will require extensive repairs. * Long-term--but as yet undetermined--health problems may have been created. Many of these problems could be aggravated considerably if Mount St. Helens continues to erupt periodically, as it has in the past. Agricultural experts are particularly worried that the spread of more ash could kill much of the Northwest's wheat crop. Even without further emissions of ash, the cost of repairing damage inflicted by the eruption may exceed 1 billion dollars--with much of that to be paid for by local, state and federal taxpayers. President Carter, who flew to Washington on May 21 to assess the damage, declared the state a major disaster area, thus making residents eligible for low-interest loans. **Bomblike blast.** The devastation began on May 18, when an explosion, estimated at 500 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, ripped off the top 1,200 feet of the 9,700-foot volcano near Vancouver, Wash. In less than seven days, a cloud of volcanic gas containing some toxic chemicals and minute particles of radioactive substances spread over most of North America. Scientists say that within several months the cloud--invisible to the naked eye in most regions--will cover the Northern Hemisphere in the stratosphere above 55,000 feet. It is expected to last about two years before completing its fall to earth. The environmental effects are considerable, although they tend to decrease as distances from the volcano increase. The greatest economic impact is expected to be to the agriculture and timber industries in Washington and Idaho. The logging industry in central Washington suffered the greatest initial economic damage--estimated at 500 million dollars or more. Officials say that some small logging companies may never recover from the loss of equipment--and enough trees were lost to build 200,000 single-family homes, roughly a fifth of the number of housing units to be started this year throughout the U.S. Forest companies have not completed surveys of the damage, but many experts believe the destruction will not appreciably affect the price of lumber to consumers in the long run. At present, the lumber industry is working at far less than capacity because so little new housing is being built. The impact of the destruction of timber may be felt, however, when home building revives. Another consequence of the explo- Volcanic convulsions May 18 caused numerous deaths and left a broad band of destruction across three states. The logging industry could take years to recover from volcano's blast. Initial Path Of Volcanic Ash Noon, May 18 Mount St. Helens erupts 8:29 a.m., Pacific daylight time, on May 18 Noon, May 19 Noon, May 20 Noon, May 21 Note: Scientists expected the volcanic cloud to disperse over North America in a matter of days. USN&WR map U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT 29 === Page 5 of 5 Washington, Idaho and Oregon, and covered farm animals and crops over a wide area. In some sections of western Idaho, ash drifts of 1 foot or more were reported. Other damage resulted from mudslides and floods caused by material dislodged by the mountain. Many homes, bridges and highways were devastated and shipping channels were clogged by silt. More than two dozen vessels were trapped in the harbors in or near the Columbia River--the major port of Portland, Oreg., in particular. Officials said it could take a year or more to clean up Portland's shipping channel. Damage to water routes was estimated at 15 million dollars. The explosion also took its toll of roads and communication lines, which were disrupted over wide areas of Washington and Idaho, leaving thousands of persons stranded. Still another worry: Blowing and shifting ash will clog electrical generators or transformers, disrupting electrical supplies in large portions of the Northwest. Geologists have redoubled their studies of the mountain to try to determine whether any more big eruptions are imminent. They hope instruments will reveal considerably more about origins of the spectacular explosion of Mount St. Helens that occurred 8 minutes after a moderate earthquake. **Blowing its top.** Some scientists think the tremor may have triggered the eruption. Geologists say the peak exploded following the buildup of pressure from gas and magma--molten rock--inside the mountain, which had lain dormant for 123 years. The blast emitted thousands of tons of volcanic ash into the atmosphere, and its aftereffects were responsible for at least 30 deaths. Another hundred or so residents and campers who had decided to remain near the mountain despite previous upheavals were still missing in late May. The most immediate damage from the blast, which created a mile-long crater on the north side of the mountain, occurred as a glowing avalanche of hot ash and gases raced 17 miles down the Toutle River Valley. Huge trees were blown down like matchsticks, and dozens of bridges and homes were wiped out. The initial blast also destroyed hundreds of deer, elk and other wildlife. Some geologists believe the emissions of ash from the volcano may continue for as long as 20 years. Says Sam Frear, a Forest Service official in Washington: "We're entirely at the mercy of the mountain." U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, June 2, 1980 - [ ] Pacific Ocean Active and dormant volcanic areas USN&WR map # Violence From the "Ring of Fire" The eruption of Mount St. Helens signals increased earthquake and volcanic activity around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, including the U.S. mainland. Scientists say this "ring of fire," containing more than 60 percent of the world's 600 known active volcanoes, is showing signs of some of the greatest potential volcanic violence in recent history. The area extends in a broad semicircle from the west coast of South America up to Alaska and down the western side of the Pacific Ocean and through Japan and Indonesia. Scientists already have predicted that, in addition to continuous volcanic activity around the ring, large earthquakes are likely to occur in Japan, Alaska, California and Mexico in the next few years. Seismologists also say the eruption of Mount St. Helens could mean that such seismic activity will prove to be more extensive than they had forecast. About 50 volcanoes have been active in the U.S. during recorded history. Almost all are along the U.S. portion of the ring of fire in the Cascade Mountains of California, Washington and Oregon, on the Alaska peninsula and the Aleutian and Hawaiian islands. **Plates and hot spots.** Scientists explain volcanic activity in that area of the U.S. by a new geological theory called plate tectonics, which maintains that the earth's outer face is composed of about a dozen huge plates. As these constantly moving plates slip and slide over each other, the immense pressures inside the earth cause volcanoes to erupt through weakened points in the planet's crust. The Pacific's ring of fire is the result of such activity, geologists say. The almost continuous volcanic activity in the Hawaiian Islands is not caused by such plate movement, however, but by a stationary hot spot in the earth's crust, according to scientists. As the massive Pacific plate moves over this hot spot, new volcanic islands are created. Geologists have watched Mount St. Helens far more carefully than others on the U.S. mainland, since it has been more active and more explosive during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the contiguous United States, according to a government scientist. **A critical study.** Because much still needs to be learned about volcanoes, scientists hope that the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which could continue for years, will give them a chance to study nature's mightiest display as never before. As one geologist explains: "Volcanoes are windows through which the scientist looks into the bowels of the earth." Many experts believe that this intense study of Mount St. Helens will provide little evidence that the incident foreshadows anything like the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 or Krakatoa, also in Indonesia, in 1883. The Krakatoa explosion, which scientists say released energy that was equivalent to nearly 30 hydrogen bombs, caused tidal waves that killed 36,000 people in Java and Sumatra and cooled the earth's climate for nearly two years. "I'd say this eruption of St. Helens is rather typical of volcanic eruptions," said Murray Mitchell, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climatologist. "It's the kind of thing you expect to happen somewhere around the world every few years." 31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800602 US news world report https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b2f05303f79e19df27f941cdf7130025.pdf 1e8befe01c7924ee318efb00c4370d21 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/251bae23c2b222271da463239c5978e0.txt 99163c06b231501223b373b641492278 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 The discovery of mystery marks in a barley paddock near Ogilvie has led to speculation that they might have been made by an unidentified flying object or UFO. Bulging newspaper cutting files show that UFOs are not unknown in Australia which has the highest frequency of sightings in the world. They have caused a stir over Meekatharra and been shot at over Eucla--to mention just a couple of stories. MICHAEL PARRY talked this week with a leading Perth ufologist and to others who are firm believers that there really is something out there besides space. # 'It landed for repairs' Perth Weekend News (Australia) June 28, 1980 (Continued) Mystery marks reported last week on a farm near Geraldton--probably were left by a UFO which landed after malfunctioning. That is the personal theory of George Hume, spokesman for the Perth UFO research group, who visited farmer Eric Parker's property at Ogilvie, 80km from Geraldton, to examine the marks. He found the four circular marks, 1.3m across and evenly spaced 8.7m apart, had left depressions 10cm deep in the barley paddock. "I believe it was a UFO which put down to repair a malfunction," Mr Hume said. "In my own experience they don't land unless they have to. "They are obviously of a superior technology, but they do have malfunctions." Mr Hume believes in UFOs and that they come from other worlds. This belief is based on more than 30 years' study of the subject. Mr Parker, on the other hand, was very sceptical about such things--until he found the marks three weeks ago. ## Quiet At first he kept quiet about them. He wanted to be sure they were not a hoax. But then, when he could find no earthly explanation for them, he contacted the UFO group. Mr Parker drives a 14-tonne truck and even when fully laden it leaves little impression on the ground. He believes whatever made the marks would have had to weigh 100 tonnes. "We didn't find radiation in our tests but we did find extra carbon deposits from earth from the last ring." The research group will record the Ogilvie markings and hope one day it will all make sense. "The trouble is there is never any conclusive proof, but I believe there are so many different types," Mr Hume said. Mr Hume . . . "Other worlds" Note: My UFOs put their "signature" on working with me to end the Australian drought. Owens "Whatever it was couldn't have been man-made," Mr Parker said. "I never believed in UFOs before. But I do now." Mr Hume, who visited Ogilvie with the group's investigator, Jim Cooper, took samples of the earth for analysis. He also interviewed a neighbouring farmer, Kevin Chick, who saw a light rising from the general vicinity of the marks on the night of June 1. "This was at 1am but he didn't say much at the time because he thought he might just have been tired and imagined it," Mr Hume said. "But he did mention it to his wife who corroborated this. He said he saw a light going up, which is unusual. We get them reported coming down but rarely going up." Mr Hume said the marks were unique and he knew of no other reports of anything similar. There were no approach marks of any sort and he was convinced something had landed, then taken off again. There were no burn marks near the depressions, unlike the five indentations or rings found in Sawyer's Valley last year and studied by the group. === Page 2 of 2 PERTH WEEKEND NEWS DATE 28 JUN 1980 ---------- ANZ PRESS CLIPPING SERVICE G.P.O. BOX 1730, SYDNEY. 2001 # UFO Actual photos of UFOs are few and far between, but this picture is a classic of a sighting on July 16, 1952. It was taken by a photographer in the U.S. Coast Guard at the Salem, Massachusetts air station. The objects flying in V formation were reported as being brilliant white and circular in shape. The picture was taken through a window screen with a size 4/5 camera at infinity, 1/50 of a second, and the sighting was corroborated by a companion witness and later officially released. # They all laughed at sighting story In the early hours of June 17, 1969 Vern and Wendy Durant, of Coolbellup, saw a flying object hovering over the Wesfarmers warehouse in South Fremantle. The incident was not reported in local newspapers -- the Press, radio stations, police and other bodies all laughed at the Durants. I saw an account of their experience in Flying Saucer Review, an unspectacular little British publication which investigates and reports unusual UFO cases. Today, 11 years after the sighting, Wendy Durant is still a firm believer in UFOs and is adamant that the events she saw that night actually happened. "We had a cleaning contract at Westfarmers and were busy inside about 5am when a man came in and said he'd just seen a UFO," she said. "I didn't hear him properly, but Vern told him to go away, we were busy. "The man went out then rushed in again to say the thing was taking off. "We went outside and the whole sky was lit up like daylight. We saw this thing shaped like a barrel about 10 metres long go up and move towards the Newmarket Hotel. "Then it swooped back again and my husband picked up a brick to throw at it." The Durants, who had their children with them, decided to go home. They pointed the object out to a number of early-morning travellers, including a milkman who panicked and drove away at the sight of the UFO. "The man who first told us about the UFO was a big fellow, usually so calm and self-assured," she said. "That night he was terrified. He had run his car into a ditch avoiding the thing which he said was battleship grey in colour and on the ground at one point. "I never believed in UFOs before but I have since. I can understand people who have never seen anything doubting us--friends still pull our legs when we mention it--but it did happen." * The Perth UFO research group meets on the second Thursday of each month at 14 Aberdeen Street. Visitors are welcome. The group's office number is 2716604. (Continued) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 800628 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e7b05c7883e986cd703898857147ce41.pdf fd0c554fc53f7bd9cf60aa0a5bd2c73a https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/c6460cfd0945ac10579df053fa4e3462.txt c19d18305cab3e885ac7faafb4231f05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 2 (2) UFO (SI) War vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. Whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the 'Pattern' whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 2 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and lost; people will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State! Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age: I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 801117 Letter to contacts https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/0fa268a4e973bf56e001b118036bc48a.pdf 8797007b4d7487ff6ae039a67e83e03e https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9d4483452d1983c90d9906ef4b97429c.txt 90aec3a7b13800c956f9ebdfd532df3e https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/4153aa3c34666ca6353601a0ce4f607e.pdf 6e374d77ab805345ff6e4e1c27f880b4 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/2652615d36d554ab902527f6ca288b6d.txt 592cf4bdf254ea0d092354c2a8c983d2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 5 QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES MIN lengt Scan style. ELECTR Swiss C to shave guarante head gua More barga tastic FISHI FM HI RIFLE MOVIE BEADE FLASHI TRANSI CARDIG SPINNI STOP W WRIST MODEL WATER Prod THE ME TED OWENS - FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer - but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist! By Otto O. Binder === Page 2 of 5 istration by David Packman 0 wan pow it? Wei his Q. A. to de mus enou Q. A. that I use Bullw Q. A. exerc scienc to for tional the m in th ing at Heav Ali, Cham ling name Q. H tra The weapons are silent, invisible, and many times deadlier than bombs and bullets. For example, there's a "knockout" force capable of dropping people in their tracks at a distance of 2,000 miles; there are "impulses" that can kill plants and birds (and possibly men); and there's "suggestology," the transmission of telepathic commands to large groups of people who obey them blindly and instantly. These are but a few of the fantastic new parapsychological armaments that are being developed--and tested--in ESP laboratories around the world, especially in Russia and Red China. Has WW III started and is the U.S. at this very moment suffering a # PSYCHIC PEARL HARBOR 16 - [ ] SAGA === Page 3 of 5 istration b Our want power it? We Weigh his ans Q. Wh mu A. Ba Al to deve muscles enough Q. Isn A. Yes ing that is a I use a Bullwor Q. Wh A. The tion exercise science to four tional n the mos in the ing athl Heavyw Ali, W Champi ling Ch name o Q. How trai Jac jun sho res wit Bul **One eminent American scientist, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his reputation, stated emphatically: "There are four known forces in the universe--gravitational, electromagnetic, and two nuclear 'binding' forces. If psi force proves real it will be the fifth power in the cosmos and the greatest of them all!"** Unlike all previous wars in the norma sory and physical world, all the psi-gun pointed *one way*--from the Sino-Soviet B ward the heart--or brain--of the U.S. Ar doesn't even know yet it's being attack cause it's both an undeclared war an undetected war, so far. Fortunately, this incredible battle of has barely begun. The enemy has devise the crudest mental weapons; they are mental rather than operational. There time for America to build up a psychic ament for protection, or even retaliatio enemy, however, is banking on American and ignorance of the "occult" to win. That this weird psi-war is already und is apparent to those whose minds are o the existence of paranormal powers. Ye open minds, especially among the auth are rare in the Western world. How people here in materialistic, no-nonsense ca believe in simple basic telepathy, let mental levitation, astral projection, pr tion, psychokinesis, and all the other un 18 ☐ SAGA === Page 4 of 5 Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help amazon.ca amazon.ca Delivering to Balzac T4B 2T Update location Books Search Amazon.ca All Amazon Haul Best Sellers AmazonBasics Prime Deals Store Electronics New Releases Home Music Books Sports & Outdoors Home Improvement Automotive Health & Household Mercy - Watch Books Advanced Search New Releases Amazon Charts Best Sellers & More The Globe & Mail Best Sellers New York Times Best Sellers Children's Books Textbooks Kindle Books Audible Audiobooks Livres en français Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult > UFOs HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE By TED OWENS Audible sample Follow the author How to Contact Space People Paperback - Dec 15 1969 by Ted Owens (Author) 3.4 (15) See all formats and editions New Saucerian presents the original version of psychic Ted Owen's "How to Contact Space People!" Owens, a Native of Virginia, astounded the world with his many predictions, particularly in the field of betting and gambling. He claimed to be able to change the course of hurricanes, tornados, and other tragic events with his mind - and the help of the Space Brothers. These reprints have been handled with the utmost care, and in some cases are better than the originals (which were hastily printed on small presses). Report an issue with this product | Print length | Language | Publication date | Dimensions | ISBN-10 | |---|---|---|---|---| | 96 pages | English | Dec 15 1969 | 21.59 x 0.56 x 27.94 cm | 1497512409 | See all details There is a newer edition of this item: Kindle Edition $9.99 Available instantly Audiobook $0.00 with membership trial Paperback $24.74 Other New from $24.74 $24.74 FREE delivery Tuesday, April 14 on your first order Or fastest delivery Sunday, April 12. Order within 11 hrs 19 mins Delivering to Balzac T4B 2T - Update location In Stock Quantity: 1 Add to cart Interest-Based Ads Notice We show interest-based ads (sometimes referred to as personalized or targeted ads) to display features, products, or services that may be of interest to you. To learn more, or to adjust your preferences, please refer to our Interest-Based Ads page. Continue Shopping No Backups for 1608 Days Check that "Seagate Backup Plus" is available or select a new disk. Hello, sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders === Page 5 of 5 Ted Owens on "How to Contact Space People" - Works - Albuquerque Museum 4/10/26, 12:38 PM aM Home > Works # Ted Owens on "How to Contact Space People" **Publisher** Published by Albuquerque News Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1962 - 1980 **Date** ca. 1975 **Medium** gelatin silver print **Dimensions** 9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (24.1 x 18.9 cm) **Classifications** Photography **Credit Line** Albuquerque Museum, gift of The Outlook **Object number** PA1982.205.214 **Description** Ted Owens sits on a couch amongst piles of books and papers. The surface of the couch on either side of him and a coffee table in front of him are filled with stacked and opened publications. Pictures and posters are propped up on the back ledge of the couch which lean against an ornately patterned wall. The pictures and book covers depict various creatures and alien-like figures. Some of the books are his own authored nonfiction, "How to Contact Space People." Ted is balding and has a very large, fluffy, groomed beard and mustache. He wears a lot of jewelry including multiple necklaces, a large silver cuff bracelet and multiple large rings. He wears a button-down short-sleeved shirt with two pens in his breast pocket. He hovers his outstretched hands over one another and looks at the camera without a smile. "How to Contact Space People" was published in 1969. Ted Owen was out-spoken about being abducted by alien intelligence who imported knowledge into him which included supernatural powers, such as controlling weather and natural forces. **On View** Not on view **Terms** **Locale** Page 1 of 2 https://albuquerque.emuseum.com/objects/136324/ted-owens-on-how-to-contact-space-people Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 81x Saga Magazine article about Ted Owens Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 February 1981 Article mentioning Ted Owens "Ted Owens--Flying Saucer Missionary by Otto O Bonder. Unclear on name of publication. Saga Magazine? Pages cover, 16 and 18,. I made a copy and put in Special Reports folder. Also, there are several yellow post-it notes in articles in February 1981 that appear rather new. No idea what they are there for. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/d2d5c2455edb1d76b7c1806eea7b1453.pdf 434175060ba5e37a2ae02fd1c795c7aa https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/87964de88e31649d6a2d612057bfeb62.txt ecd880e33d6f868ea4f05e5df7c8d749 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 1 January 1981 Nothing in folder Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8101 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 January 1981 Nothing in folder https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/ab83a28c5b75ef66abf40848093ca8f0.pdf 55b14d6fb485172bd89406affd288733 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/6298de52024889a423f9bb01aca12e95.txt 68ba490a380d524321f842785008a282 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 22 Power outage hit parts of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho NEVADA IDAHO Burley UTAH Salt Lake City Evanston Glen Canyon Dam Colorado River WYOMING Rock Springs MONTANA CANADA ARIZONA NEW MEXICO COLORADO # Outages continue in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Isolated power outages were reported in Utah Friday as residents returned to work and play following a statewide blackout whose cause continued to elude utility engineers. At 11:38 a.m. Thursday, the lights went out in Utah Power & Light Co.'s service area stretching from the Utah-Arizona border to southern Idaho and Wyoming. A few major power lines popped, elevators froze, ski lifts dangled above the slopes and many businesses and schools closed early. Power began coming back in some areas within an hour after the blackout, and by 6 p.m. electricity was back in all but a few areas. Company officials said Friday that a "key element" in the state's biggest blackout was difficulty with a 345,000-volt transmission line in Salt Lake County. But they discounted earlier reports from the Western Area Power Administration that the failure of a 230,000-volt power line near Antimony, Utah, could have caused the outage. # 'One in a million' event cuts power in three states SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -- Power company officials say a "one in a million" series of events shut off electricity to 1.5 million people in three Western states for up to seven hours, snarling traffic, closing offices and stranding people in elevators and on ski lifts. Lights began flickering across Utah at 11:30 a.m. Thursday and within minutes the entire system of Utah Power and Light Co. shut down. The power went off throughout Utah and in several small communities of southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming. It was nearly seven hours before the utility restored power to all of its customers. Downtown Salt Lake City was blacked out for almost three hours. A Brigham Young University student, Simon Tang, was severely injured when he tried to exit a stuck elevator in a dormitory and fell four floors. He underwent surgery and was listed in serious condition Friday. Utah Power spokesman Grant Pendleton said engineers won't know the exact cause of the blackout for two or three days, "but all the evidence points to a one in a million sequence of events, any one of which wouldn't have knocked out the system by itself." A 230,000-kilowatt line from Glen Canyon Dam snapped near the small town of Antimony in south-central Utah when a cross-bar on a tower collapsed, he said. At the same time, three high-voltage lines in the Salt Lake Valley malfunctioned. Surges in the line tripped automatic switches, which cut off the Utah Power system from interconnecting grids. They also shut down the company's seven steam generating plants. CONTACTS Remember when I knocked out the power in five States in 1967 (documenting it fully in advance of the fact)? Well, here I've done it again my current "Power Attack PK". I also have a huge bundle of similar, if smaller, power knockouts to xerox and send you (whenever I get some money to xerox it, then mail it out to you.) Owene 1 === Page 2 of 22 Blackout snarls Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The failure of three power generators early Thursday blacked out more than half of Mexico, stranding commuters and creating rush-hour traffic jams here, and cutting power to Acapulco and Guadalajara, the nation's second largest city. The blackout struck this capital city of 15 million at 7 a.m., the height of the morning rush hour, trapping people in subways and elevators. An estimated 2 million automobiles were snarled in a massive traffic jam after traffic signals failed. City officials mounted an evacuation effort to free passengers from the subway system. No accidents or deaths were reported during the first hours of the failure. Officials said the outage had shut down the entire electrical supply grid for Mexico, from the Nayarit state on the northwest coast to Chiapas state on the southern border. They said it was impossible to estimate how many people or how wide an area were affected. The blackout had little or no effect on home heating, since most people do not have central heating and temperatures were expected to rise into the 70s. Ironically, the blackout came 24 hours after federal electrical official Alberto Escofet Artigas told union electrical workers that greater installed capacity in the Mexican power system would mean "no blackouts in 1981." Power was out here for a full hour at first and returned sporadically for about 30 minutes during the next three hours. The Federal Electricity Commission said they were trying to bring power in from a generator in Matamoros on the northeastern extreme of the country near Brownsville, Texas. org. 1/16/81 2 === Page 3 of 22 Dec. 27, 1980 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove You will recall that I phoned you a while back and told you that my SI's were going to attack high up in government. Since then President Carter's mother broke something and went into hospital; President Carter was wiped out in the election; and today President Carter broke his collar bone. Owen Note: This is different, (second-sending.) Owen === Page 4 of 22 - Prediction to Dr. Mishlove - orig. 1/12/81 # Diverticulitis hits Sen. Baker WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker was admitted to a Washington hospital Sunday evening for treatment of an intestinal disorder that is giving him "considerable pain," an aide to the senator said. Baker, R-Tenn., began to experience abdominal pain shortly after a noon appearance on the NBC television program "Meet the Press," according to spokesman Ron McMahan. Later Sunday, Baker was admitted to Sibley Hospital. McMahan said the senator's doctors have issued a preliminary diagnosis of acute diverticulitis. The spokesman said Baker is in no danger but "he is in considerable pain." Diverticulitis is an inflammation of the intestinal tract that results from the formation of a small pocket, or diverticulum, in the intestinal wall. McMahan said Baker would remain in the hospital so that doctors could perform a series of tests, including X-rays and blood tests. These were expected to take at least 48 hours. McMahan said that until those tests are complete, he could not say how long Baker might be hospitalized. Baker currently is a central figure in the hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations committee on the nomination of Alexander M. Haig Jr. to be secretary of state. Baker has a history of intestinal problems, McMahan said. He suffered an attack of diverticulitis once before, "about three years ago," according to the aide. Baker was placed in a room near his wife Joy, who has been at Sibley Hospital for the last four weeks, suffering from a gastric ulcer. McMahan said Mrs. Baker is expected to be released later this week. - Prediction to Mishlove - # O'Neill taken to hospital WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. was treated Tuesday night at Bethesda Naval Hospital for a prostate inflammation. O'Neill, who has had prostate problems in the past, was flown by helicopter from the Capitol to the hospital. After the brief treatment, he walked out and was driven home, an aide said. O'Neill "was in pain" when he went to the hospital, said his aide, Gary Hymel. Terry Shook, a spokesman for the hospital, said it "was just a minor prostate problem. He seemed to be in no real distress" when he left. orig. 1/7/81 - St warning - # President fights pain WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Carter is "still pretty uncomfortable" the day after a skiing accident in which he broke his left collarbone, a spokeswoman for the White House said Sunday. However, spokeswoman Kate King pointed to a meeting Carter was holding Sunday with three Algerian diplomats at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., to show the president was "not out of commission." Carter broke his collarbone Saturday when he fell while cross-country skiing down a slope on the grounds of the Camp David compound. He was flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital in a Washington suburb for X-rays and treatment. Then he returned to Camp David. White House spokesman Rex Granum said at the time that Carter was given medication for pain and fitted with a harness to hold his shoulders in place. Carter will have to wear the harness six to eight weeks, but Granum said the president did not expect to greatly curtail his activities. orig. 12/29/80 === Page 5 of 22 # Carter breaks collarbone in cross-country skiing fall By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Carter broke his left collarbone Saturday when he fell while cross-country skiing down a slope near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., the White House said. White House spokesman Rex Granum said Carter was flown by helicopter to the Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, where X-rays showed he had fractured the clavicle near where it connects to the breastbone. "The president was skiing down a slope when one of the skis caught on a rock and he fell on his elbow, left elbow and shoulder," Granum said. Granum quoted Carter's doctor, Rear Adm. William Lukash, as saying the president was in "considerable pain." The president was given medication for the pain, Granum said, and probably will require medication for several days. He said Carter was placed in a "figure-eight harness" to keep his shoulders immobilized and will have to wear it six to eight weeks. Carter does not plan to curtail his activities and will go to New Orleans as expected next week for the Sugar Bowl, the presidential spokesman said. "He'll be able to shake hands and write because it's his left arm," Granum said, adding that the president is right-handed. Granum said that although the president was in pain, he was not in a bad mood. "He was joking about it with people at Bethesda," he said of the injury. Carter left the hospital about 5 p.m. to return to Camp David. His wife, Rosalynn, was with him as he boarded the helicopter. The president was smiling and waved to reporters with his right arm. He was wearing a tan raincoat, but his left arm was not through the sleeve. Associated Press Laserphoto AFTER THE FALL -- President Carter climbs the steps of his helicopter on the grounds of Bethesda Naval Hospital Saturday. Carter was flown to the hospital for treatment after he fell and broke his collarbone while cross-country skiing near the presidential retreat at Camp David. Capt. Bart Sleemnos, chairman of the Bethesda orthopedics department, as well as by Lukash. Carter, who is 56, has frequently cross-country skied during his four years in office, Granum said. He said Lukash was with Carter skiing, along with Mrs. Carter, Marine aide John Kline and two Secret Service agents. The accident took place about 3 p.m., Granum said, during Carter's second skiing outing of the day. The presidential spokesman said that, specifically, Carter had fractured the medial aspect of the left clavicle, the part of the collarbone nearest the breastbone. The collarbone connects the breastbone to the shoulder. "This is, incidentally, the same clavicle he fractured as a midshipman at the Naval Academy in a jujitsu class," Granum said. He said Carter was skiing down a slope on a nature trail in about 3 inches of fairly fresh snow when he fell. Asked how steep the slope was, he said he didn't know. After the accident, Carter went back to Aspen Lodge on the grounds at Camp David, a short walk, and Lukash put the president's arm in a sling and immobilized his shoulder, Granum said. The president underwent a full physical examination last January, and Lukash said then that Carter was in excellent health and fully capable of dealing with the strain of the Oval Office. === Page 6 of 22 Tues. Night 1/20/81 (Message from SI 2) Fly Contacts xerox All forms of OD creatures + aliens turned loose onto higher US Govt. Yes, this is a war! Unseen, nothing any one one understand... but a real war!! (Note: Beau was in room with me when this message came in. After, a plastic case jumped out of the waste basket near Beau) === Page 7 of 22 Jan. 17, 1981 Jan 1-21-81 postmark Contacts: If you are not hearing much from me, do not imagine that I am inactive! I am just broke, that's all. No money to xerox... personal possession in the pawn shop... but... this has nothing to do with my incredible powers. The SIs and I are more active than we've ever been! And the xerox file, if I can ever afford to get it done, will spell out that fact. Russia's threat, is not America's #1 fear. My UFOs are. They are sure, they are consistent and they are deadly. And they always keep their word! Owens === Page 8 of 22 Jeffrey November 21, 1980 Vice President Elect George Bush 710 North Post Oak Road Suite 208 Houston, Texas 77024 Dear Mr. Vice President: This communication is of the utmost importance to you. First, for the sake of credibility, let me state that I attended Duke University and am a member of Mensa, the prestigious high-IQ organization of the world...upper 2% of the world's population. If you will read the enclosed book ms. then you will understand that I must be the most dangerous human being that the world has ever known. The book was written by a scientist; co-authored with an expert in the field of parapsychology. It is a scientific, critical analysis of my work based on documentation with scientists over a period of over ten years. My work is in the field of "psi force"...which is much, more more powerful and deadly than nuclear force or any of the other forces found in physics. You have absolutely no one in your intelligence agencies...or anywhere else in your government community...with my abilities. In this letter I am placing these abilities of mine at the disposal of yourself and President Reagan as a major tool to mend and heal the many and varied problems confronting the United States at this point in time. Should you have any questions with regard to the "how" it could be done, using "psi force"...I would be glad to discuss them with you. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 9 of 22 super-psi power (from page 102) thinking the took rides in telepathic "computers" im-ited their ficti...heir minds to ward off lusions, says Kenselves; screen the UTs with "mind-ray atoms" to about cra... people around them from won't bombardment; * To utilize their "healing hands" where needed, and also project the "heal-ing green" color to the mentally wounded; * To release victims from "sleeping sickness" caused by a psi sleep-ray that blacks-out the brain. Remember the So-viet experiments in "ESP knockout forces" which worked at distances of up to 2,000 miles. * To form "psi army units" for "ESP counterattacks." As this eerie battle of minds continues the unknown legion of human channels is mobilizing according to the above plans, and is forming a formidable psi com-mando force that will crush the Sino-Soviet-Mutant alliance in its bid for world power. Also mentioned is what will happen af-ter the war. Millions of "casualties" will be healed by the BKs psi miracles and a "psi peace corps" will be formed. By the time the psi-war horrors end, all people on earth will finally be aware that "oc-cult" forces are a reality and that human-ity will emerge into a new "Psi Age." The change will be more revolutionary than that brought about by the discoveries of steam power, electricity, nuclear power, computers, or space rockets. It's important to note that Ted Owens' role in the psi-war picture is most unusu-al. He has been uniquely trained it seems to wield awesome PK-powers and perhaps has a special task to fulfill when zero-hour comes--the "unknown mission" he has been told about by the SIs. Think of Ted Owens guiding or even creating storms that strike Russia, hurl-ing great lightning bolts on Red China, aiming PK forces to wipe out enemy psi-stations, sending ESP "static" into Sino-Soviet psychotrons. One almost would think that Ted's enormous mind-over-matter powers were developed by the SIs only for some great future battle. Consider Ted's latest memo. He men-tions that he asked the SIs about his re-cent "mind expansion" in which he talks directly to "Control" and also handles PK of greater power. "They did an odd thing," he says. "Showed me (in mental pictures) a tiny firefly in a bush, blinking off and on. With each blink, the light around the firefly got brighter, covered more area. Soon the entire bush was ablaze with the firefly's light. Then the area around the bush lit up; then the en-tire valley... and the countryside. Then the blaze illuminated several states... off and on, off and on. Finally, they took me high up where the astronauts go... looking down, and seeing that entire por-tion of the globe blazing with the light, off and on..." Ted is quite puzzled by this strange "answer" from the SIs. Could it be a sym-bolic preview of how he will be helping de-fend America in the psi-war? Of how his great PK-power, like a tiny firefly at first, will begin to grow and protect greater and greater areas of the U.S., of how his terrif-ic psi-potential eventually will form a "mental shield" over North and South America? The "off and on" aspect is significant, because the brain operates in "pulses" or in pulsating brain waves. The Soviet sci-entists often refer to "psi pulsations" in their research. Thus it is quite possible that Ted Owens is our ultimate weapon to destroy the psi-might the enemy will turn against America. Let us sincerely hope so. If not, we face psi forces that will blow all the minds in America and make us a nation of brain-less slaves--unless we fight back with the psi-aid of the saucer entities. * THE END # NEW DRUG SCANDAL *(Continued from page 53)* on the cough reflex." (Italics have been added to emphasize that the various chemicals in a cough mixture can actually work against each other.) There's no evi-dence that a combination of drugs is as ef-fective as a full dosage of a single drug that works directly on the particular cough. Also, whenever drugs are used in combination there's an increased danger of adverse side effects. Mouthwashes. If you believe all the claims for mouthwashes you've heard on television commercials over the years, you're in for a terrible letdown. The NAS-NRC study is, to say the least, skep-tical about all those pretty-colored gar-gles. It says that their medicinal value is about equal to that of salt water, and sug-gests that mouthwash manufacturers be made to drop all those claims about their products controlling breath odor, destroy-ing bacteria that cause bad breath, and re-lieving throat pain. A year later the FDA went to work. Posting a notice in the *Federal Register* it formally advised the makers of nine brands of mouthwashes to stop making such claims in their ads. The nine brands involved were: Pepsodent Antiseptic Mouthwash, Cepacol Mouthwash Gargle, Micrin Oral Antiseptic, Betadine Mouth-wash Gargle, Isodine Gargle & Mouth-wash; also Tosis, Sterison, Kasdenol, and Tyrolarsis mouthwashes. Then, in November 1971, the FTC got after Listerine, which has a hold on nearly half the $200 million a year mouthwash market. The FTC charged Warn-er-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., which makes Listerine, with falsely advertising that Listerine prevents or cures sore throats and makes colds or sore throats milder than they might have been. It also objected to an ad which claims that kids who gargle with Listerine twice a day have fewer colds and miss fewer days of school. Predictably, Warner-Lambert is denying and fighting the false advertising charge. And the TV commercials for Lis-terine still say, "Kills germs--the kind that can give you bad breath." Sleeping Aids. The Senate Subcom-mittee on Small Business, headed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, recently heard a lot of testimony on the efficacy of popular sleep-ing remedies. Over 90 nonprescription sleeping aids are available to the general public. Most contain an antihistamine called methapyrilene hydrochloride. Anti-histamines can make one drowsy, but this particular one, methapyrilene, was report-ed to have just about the weakest hypnot-ic effect of all the antihistamines. FDA Commissioner Edwards was asked to testify about the efficacy and risk of sleeping aids containing methapyrilene. Dr. Edwards said, "The efficacy is ques-tionable, let's put it that way... We don't feel that the risk of the dose that is commonly being used is significant, but there is a risk in regard to this particular drug if used in large enough amounts. And obviously it can be used in large enough amounts if you take enough of this par-ticular drug." You should understand that antihista-mines of any kind, including this one, re-act in accordance with a person's physi-ological makeup. Instead of being se-dated, some persons react the opposite way--they're made restless and nervous. According to Dr. Edwards, other frequent side effects are: mouth dryness, blurring of vision, dizziness, ringing in the ears, and gastrointestinal irritations. Quite a list! Can sensitive users be identified before-hand? Not at all--so there's an apparent danger to many people. Want more data? Three well-known in-vestigators have made carefully con-trolled studies of how methapyrilene hy-drochloride acts on sleep. They found that 40 milligrams of the chemical is no more effective than a placebo (sugar pill) when tested in either normal or insomniac per-sons. The drug failed to hasten the onset of sleep or to improve the quality of sleep. Note again that this involved 40 milli-grams; the average sleeping aid pill you buy at your drugstore contains only 25 milligrams. One important effect meth-apyrilene had was in suppressing that phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Move-ment (REM) sleep. When REM sleep is suppressed on one night it can lead to in-creased REM sleep on subsequent nights--accompanied by unpleasant dreams and nightmares! This reaction in turn can lead a person to resume taking the drug in the belief that he needs it for restful sleep. Thus a psychological de-pendency can be created--great for sales, but not for health. Pain Relievers. Analgesic products--the medical term for pain relievers--represent the biggest volume of consumer spending in the OTC market. In 1969, the most re-cent year for which statistics are avail-able, we spent $102.2 million for aspirin and other ingredients like Bufferin and Anacin. Another $95 million went for non-aspirin products used to relieve head-ache, arthritic pain, and rheumatic pain. Note that the largest amount Ameri-cans spend goes for products that combine aspirin with other ingredients. More is spent on these products because they cost more; obviously, they cost more because they contain several drugs instead of only one. So the big question, the one we all have a right to ask, is this: "Are these more expensive combination drugs any more effective than plain old aspirin, which can be gotten for as little as 20 *(Continued on page 106)* === Page 10 of 22 PREMIERE ISSUE # SCIENCE DIGEST NOV/DEC 1980 $2.00 ## RITUAL AND DECEIT YOUR BRAIN'S REPTILE HERITAGE ## CANNIBALISM IN AMERICA TODAY ## BEYOND DARWIN A NEW VIEW OF EVOLUTION ## AMAZING MACHINES THAT MOVE PLANETS ## JASTROW THE CASE FOR UFOs ## NO JEALOUSY FOR AMOROUS LEPCHA TRIBE PLUS LIQUID PEOPLE, SCIENCE OF LIVE SEX RESEARCH, H-BOMBS ON MARS, STAR OF BETHLEHEM 0 75470 08702 === Page 11 of 22 BY ROBERT JASTROW Can you imagine a form of life as far beyond man as man is beyond the worm? Science assures us that such highly evolved beings must exist on the stars and planets around us, if life is common in the Universe. These extraterrestrials are not like the flower children in Close Encounters of the Third Kind or the cowboys of Star Wars. They are creatures whom we will judge to be possessed of magical powers when we see them. By our standards, they will be immortal, omniscient and omnipotent. They are the kinds of creatures who would be capable of a trip to the Earth from another star. How can these bizarre notions be supported by science? Here is the evidence. One hundred billion stars like the Sun surround us in our galaxy alone; according to indirect but solid astronomical evidence, many have planets made of the same ingredients as the Earth; these planets have water and air and the same vicissitudes of climate as the Earth; the molecules on their surfaces enter into the same chemical combinations, subject to the same laws of chemistry and physics, as molecules on our planet. All the necessary elements for the evolution of life are present--simple, unthinking life at first and complex, intelligent life later on. On the basis of these considerations, I believe that life is common on the many planetary systems in the cosmos. Moreover, recent discoveries in astronomy prove that if life exists on other planets in the Universe, most of this life is far older than life on the Earth. The discoveries relate to the so-called Big Bang theory, which holds that the Universe began with a gigantic explosion. The Big Bang theory has now been proved to be a fact by the Nobel Prize-winning work of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who discovered the remnant of the primordial flash of light and heat that filled the Universe at the time of the great explosion. In other words, they discovered a relic of events that actually took place shortly after the beginning of the world. Although many astronomers had resisted the Big Bang theory, the Penzias-Wilson discovery has convinced very nearly the last doubting Thomas. The importance of the Big Bang in a discussion of UFOs and life on other worlds is that it tells us when the world began; it tells us the age of the Universe. An astronomer can calculate on the back of an envelope how long ago the Big Bang occurred. That moment marked the birth of the Universe. The result of the calculation is that the Universe came into being 20 billion years ago. The Earth, on the other hand, was born only 4.6 billion years ago. That result comes from measurements of the ages of meteorites and from the ages of the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Since meteorites and the moon are relatively unchanged samples of solar-system material, dating back to the birth of the planets, their age is thought to give a good estimate of the age of the Earth. Thus, many planets circling distant stars are 5, 10 and even 15 billion years older than the Earth. It follows that the Earth is a very recent arrival in the cosmic family of planets, and man is among the youngest denizens of the Universe. Of course, the fact that life elsewhere is older than man does not necessarily mean that this life is more intelligent. However, other scientific evidence suggests that this is likely to be the case. Throughout the last 300 million years of life on Earth, only one seemingly universal trend can be discerned in evolution; this is the trend toward greater intelligence. Since before the fishes left the water, the most intelligent form of life present on Earth in each era has been the rootstock out of which new and still more intelligent forms have evolved. The line of increasing intelligence stretches unbroken from the fishes to the reptiles to the mammals, the primates and man. Apparently, intelligence--which permits a flexible response to changing conditions--has a greater survival value than any other single trait. Now we come to a critical point. Why should a line of evolution that has proceeded unchecked for hundreds of millions of years suddenly stop at the particular level of intelligence that we call "human"? Homo erectus had less brain power than Homo sapiens has; the successors to Homo sapiens should have more. If the past is any guide to the future, our descendants a billion years from now will surpass us in intelligence. And if the Earth is typical of planets in the cosmos--and everything we know in astronomy and geology tells us that it is--intelligent beings who live on planets billions of years older than the Earth have already reached that advanced level of intelligence that our successors will only achieve in the distant future. This argument, proceeding step by step on the basis of evidence acquired in the basic scientific disciplines, leads to the conclusion that life on other worlds is not only billions of years older than man, but also billions of years beyond him in intelligence. What does a billion years mean in the evolution of intelligence? For an answer, look again at the fossil record. One billion years ago, the highest form of life on the Earth was a simple, wormlike animal. The creatures who dwell on planets a billion years older than the Earth must possess an intelligence that surpasses ours by as much as we surpass the mindless, soft-bodied creatures who burrow through the soil of our gardens. These considerations bring me full circle to my opening statement: According to the best scientific evidence, intelligent # THE CASE FOR UFOs By the end of this century, we should know if we're alone in the cosmos. Scientific evidence indicates superior beings from other worlds are apt to find us. === Page 12 of 22 U F O s | Name | Age | Chance for Life | |---|---|---| | A. ALPHA CENTAURI | Approx. the same as the Sun (4.6 billion years) | Good*. This triple star is about as old as the Sun, thus was formed when the Universe had large amounts of carbon, oxygen and other elements essential for life. | | B. BARNARD'S STAR | Old as the Universe (20 billion years) | Poor. Too old, no carbon, etc., available when this star formed. | | C. WOLF 359 | 20 billion years | Same as above. | | D. LAL 21185 | 20 billion years | Same as above. | | E. SIRIUS | 300 million years | Poor. It is a young star; any life would be primitive. | | F. UV CETI | Uncertain | Poor. It is a flare star, emitting bursts of lethal, ionizing radiation. | | G. ROSS 154 | Younger than the Sun (?) | Fair, if star is not too young. Red color means star may not emit sufficient light of suitable wavelength for photosynthesis. | | H. ROSS 248 | 20 billion years | Poor. Too old. See note on Barnard's star. | | I. EPSILON ERIDANI | Approx. the same as the Sun | Good chance for planets and good chance for life. BEST BET. | | J. ROSS 128 | Same as the Sun | Good chance for planets; fair chance for life. See Ross 154. | | K. L 789-6 | 20 billion years | Poor chance for life; too old. | | L. 61 CYGNI | 20 billion years | Same as above. | *Double or triple stars such as Alpha Centauri are often classified as poor for life because any planets around these stars would be thrown out of the system by the changing force of gravity. However, recent calculations show that if a planet is close to one of the stars (less than one-quarter of the distance between them) its orbit is stable. (Right) THE DOZEN NEAREST STARS outside our solar system. (Above) Dr. Jastrow's estimate of the chance of life for each. life on other worlds is likely to be as far beyond man as man is beyond the worm. Why is it so important, in a discussion of UFOs, to establish a scientific foundation for the existence of races more intelligent than man? The answer is related to the fact that the distances between the stars are so enormously great. If a UFO reaches the Earth, its crew must have covered those enormous distances somehow; they must have started out from someplace beyond the edge of our solar system. They cannot come from the Earth's sister planets, because no intelligent life exists in this solar system except on our own planet. All the evidence acquired by NASA spacecraft in the past few years regarding Venus, Mars and Jupiter points to that conclusion. It follows that UFOs, if they arrive here, have come from another star. There is the rub. The closest star to the Sun is 25 trillion miles away, and it would take one million years to cover that enormous distance with the fastest rockets known to man. Our science and engineering are not adequate to meet that challenge; a trip to the stars is beyond our reach at the present time. But in another billion years, our descendants--possessed of highly evolved minds and with a science and engineering far beyond ours--should be able to undertake an interstellar voyage. And what our descendants can do a billion years in the future, other races, a billion years older and more evolved than man, should be able to do today. My conclusion is that UFOs--visitors from another star--are a scientifically sound concept because science tells us that it is reasonable to believe in the existence of forms of life older and far more intelligent than man. Has the Earth already been visited by these older, more advanced beings? The first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel records a remarkable incident that took place several thousand years ago. After an account of what seems to be a landing and an exploration by unusual beings, apparently metallic in construction, verse 24 describes their departure: "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters. . . ." Anyone who saw a Saturn V rocket take off will remember that the thunderous roar sounded like Niagara Falls. Nothing man-made except the launch of a rocket sounds like that. Are such visits occurring at this moment? Dr. Allen Hynek has made a study of reported UFO sightings and concludes that several are unmistakably UFOs--Unidentified Flying Objects. He cannot say whether these unidentified objects have come from another star, but there are good reasons for believing that such extraterrestrial contacts--either visitors or messages--are more probable today than ever before in the history of our planet. Since about 1960, television stations scattered across the Earth have been spraying their signals into space at a million-watt level. In the course of the last 20 years, that expanding shell of television signals, moving away from the Earth at the speed of light, has traveled 240 trillion miles; it has now swept past more # EZEKIEL'S UFO Have extraterrestrial beings already visited us? Ezekiel's account of the "wheel" in the Old Testament has been called an accurate description of a flying saucer, perhaps with windows or lights, that landed on Earth thousands of years ago: ". . . behold, a whirlwind came out of the north . . . and a fire . . . and out of the midst of the fire . . . came the likeness of four living creatures. . . . And every one had four faces, and . . . four wings . . . and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass . . . their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps . . . [each had] one wheel upon the earth. . . . The appearance of the wheels. . . was like unto the color of a beryl . . . and their appearance and their work was . . . a wheel in the middle of a wheel. . . . As for their rings they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them. . . . And when the living creatures . . . were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. . . . And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters. . . ." Ezekiel 1:4-24 King James Version Robert Jastrow is Professor of Earth Science at Dartmouth College and Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University. 84 Science Digest--Nov/Dec 1980 Opening illustration by Guy Fery === Page 13 of 22 2 Oregon Journal, January 12, 1981 (2) Note: In a book published some years ago I warned readers that Las Vegas and Nevada were PK'd and not to go there! Owens (MGM HOTEL FIRE AT LAS VEGAS, BOMBING AT LAKE TAHOE ETC.) United Press International FATAL CRASH -- A chartered, "gambler's special" bus, returning to California from Las Vegas, Nev., skidded on a rain-slicked desert highway near Palmdale, Calif., and came to rest on its side Sunday. One man died and 27 were injured in the wreck that threw some passengers 30 feet from the bus. === Page 14 of 22 THEY HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE TED OWENS--Space Intelligence Agent and outstanding psychic who not only forecasts major events but has hexed them to happen RON WARMOUTH--New York-based seer whose stock market predictions have earned fortunes for his housewife and film-star clients WITCH HAZEL--America's miniskirted practitioner of "white magic," whose spells work for good, not evil, in the new age of witchery DOC ANDERSON--Georgia's backwoods mentalist whose uncanny foretellings of earthquakes and other major world disasters have astounded scientists everywhere Plus KOMAR, the prophet who receives messages while lying on a bed of nails, COUNTESS AMAYA, the gypsy seeress, REVEREND MARION OWENS, the psychic photographer, and world-renowned psychometrist DOROTHY SPENCE LAUER These are just some of the internationally acclaimed mystics you'll meet in these pages... prophets, mystics and clairvoyants whose predictions in the past have proven astonishingly accurate. Do they now hold the answers for 1972? NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED--COVER PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. === Page 15 of 22 CONTEMPORA BOOKS $1.25 78682-125 # WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1972 Will a new president bring great joy to America--and to you? Will your money buy more or less? Is a cancer cure in the offing? DOROTHY SPENCE LAUER, DOC ANDERSON and 17 other famous psychics reveal their amazing forecasts for the critical year that lies ahead . . . BRAD STEIGER WARREN SMITH === Page 16 of 22 Russia will be astating droughts followed by floods. The schor chaotic condition. Farmer vote will be im- localities elections. The elderly who resent prevailing come out to vote in a strong block. newspapers in different localities will disappear the scene. # Ted Owens, Predictions From Space Intelligences In a letter dated May 23, 1971, we received from Ted Owens, the man who claims he serves as Earth's intermediary for Space Intelligences, details of "one of the most exciting things" that he had ever done. "You know, of course," he reminded us, "how I have documented in advance . . . creating three simultaneous hurricanes . . . guiding hurricanes against the predictions of the Hurricane Center in Miami . . . ending droughts . . . creating droughts . . . making UFO's appear over cities . . . and so on, for about 250 miracles. Here is a new one. For the first time I have gone one-on-one with a molten, lava-belching volcano!" The astounding Ted Owens told us that he had specified to columnist Larry Maddry of the (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot that he would try to save Sant-Alfio, Sicily, the village that lay in the path of erupting Mt. Etna, by Sunday, May 23rd. In the letter, Owens told me that his UFOs had saved the village, and he went on to tell us exactly how it happened. "Last Thursday, I read where the fiery molten lava was pouring down on this town of Sant-Alfio in Sicily. The news item read that the lava couldn't miss--the people and the town were directly in its path. So I picked up the phone and called Larry Maddry, reporter for the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk and told him that I would use my considerable powers 134 and telepath to the UFO intelligences that I am linked up with to save this village and its people. On that day, Thursday, I sent a letter to him (Maddry) backing it up in writing with copies to Otto Binder and two scientists who are overseeing my work. (It is thoroughly documented.) "I used a shotgun approach--my own brain, plus telepathing to SI control--to bring this about. "Saturday night, two days later, the fiery flow of lava--a mile wide and eighteen feet deep--burning up everything in its path, miraculously diverted and flowed to one side of the town, saving the 4,000 people there. "No finer demonstration of SI power would you ever want to see. I told four very responsible people two days in advance specifically what I was going to try to accomplish. And I accomplished it." Along with his letter, Owens sent a newsclip that headlined, "Lava diverted past town." According to the Associated Press, a "flaming river of lava" from Mt. Etna was suddenly diverted from the village of Sant-Alfio and had begun a two and one-half mile path down the Cavagrande Canyon to the sea. The new course had no town or village in its path. A few days later, Owens sent us a full-page story in the Virginian-Pilot that chronicled "The Day Heywood Hale Broun Came to Town." The reason for CBS' colorful sports essayist's coming to Norfolk had been to interview Ted Owens on his amazing documented ability to, ostensibly, psychically "zap" professional football teams. Owens is a prolific letter writer to his "contacts," and we receive on an average of two letters a week advising us on the activities of the Space Intelligences and their Earthly emissary. We must admit that he has told us which teams have been singled out to be on some kind of cosmic smear list, and, fantastic as it may seem, something invariably happens to key players on those teams. Of course, one does not have to be voodoo'ed to sustain a barrage of injuries in the less-than-gentle world of professional football. On April 3, 1971, Ted Owens sent the following open letter to all pro football teams: 135 === Page 17 of 22 "The attached newsclip (telling about Johnny Unitas' injury and Tom Matte's attack of bleeding ulcers) is a special delivery letter to you from my SI's (UFO intelligences). What am I talking about? "Weeks ago, Don Klosterman, General Manager of the Colts, dropped me a line inquiring about my reason for using "PK" (psychokinesis) on the World Champion Colts. I answered and explained that I must demonstrate each year my incredible powers by holding back the winner of the Pro Championship the preceding season, as I have done with the Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, and now must do with the Colts. "I warned Mr. Klosterman and Mr. Rosenbloom, Sr. specifically and clearly that my mental attack had already been placed in motion against the Colts, was affecting them now, and if they intended to hire me (for $100,000) they had better do it quickly before the PK began to tear the team apart. (You don't believe this? Then check with the two gentlemen.) "They ignored me (always a terrible mistake, but no one seems to learn from it) and two of their fine stars are zonked, Unitas and Matte, both in the same hospital at the same time, both struck down in the same time period of 24 hours. "Also, just recently, my number two PK target, the Cowboys, have had two star players . . . and one of their coaches zonked. "And the regular season hasn't even begun yet! "I keep on giving these fantastic demonstrations of how my 150 or more other-dimensional powers can take pro teams apart, stop them cold, etc., yet none of them seems to want this hair-raising power on their side! This, to me, is unbelievable. "Last year, I stopped approximately fifty million dollars worth of pro football teams. This coming season . . . let's see, what's thirteen times ten million?" The May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated took official notice of the PK man in their "People" section: ". . . back in February Owens decided to cast a spell upon the Baltimore Colts. And charge $100,000 to unhex them. Now, was it Owens' fault that Johnny Unitas tore his Achilles' tendon, Tom Matte got appendicitis and Sam Havrilak sprained his ankle? Well, when a Philadelphia writer challenged Owens to 'prove you can do something' the PK man announced he would hex Tom Woodeshick of the Eagles, and within 15 minutes, Woodeshick was ejected from the game for fighting. Colt owner Carroll Rosenbloom has dropped Owens a polite note requesting him to remove Baltimore from his list of losers. 'If you will advise me as to a course of action which we could follow . . . I will do whatever I can to comply,' Rosenbloom wrote. But the question seems to be, will he come across with $100,000?" Although Ted Owens generally limits his sports activities to hexing football teams with PK, he claims that he also whammied a basketball team this year when coach Gene Shue of the Baltimore Bullets made the mistake of publicly refusing Owens' offer of assistance over television. "They had a right to refuse the PK man," he said, "but not over television." Within moments of the insult to his pride, Owens telephoned the Baltimore Sun and told them that he would have his revenge. The Milwaukee Bucks downed the Bullets 102 to 83. "I sat by my television set and followed the game play by play," Owens told us. "Everytime the Bullets got the ball, I called in power on the court so they would make mistakes. My power would then throw off their timing and make them miss their shots. After the game, the Bullets admitted that they got enough shots at the basket to have provided them with a winning margin, but they simply could not get their shots through the hoop!" In last year's annual, we told you Ted Owen's incredible story of how he has established mental contact with the SI's, who are using his brain as a receiving station for their telepathic messages. Owens, who was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1920, says that he first acquired his contact with the Space Intelligences one night in 1965 when he was living in Fort 136 137" === Page 18 of 22 Worth, Texas. He and his daughter were driving in the country when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared and came floating toward their automobile. No space-suited aliens stepped forth to converse with Ted, but he writes in his book *How to Contact Space People*: "From that day on, my life changed radically . . . while in Fort Worth, I gave my daughter, Lornie, several demonstrations of making lightning strike in certain areas during thundershowers, I was playfully experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces." Ted, a married man with three sons in addition to his daughter, Lornie, is also a member of Mensa, the high intelligence society, proving, at least to several peoples' satisfaction, that he is no dummy on any level of consciousness. "Not only are my regular ESP powers outstanding in the world," Ted told us, "but combined with these powers, I am able to communicate with, and receive answers from, UFO intelligences--and prove it! I am able to utilize these powers from their world, or dimension, in this, our own dimension and world." Owens prefers to call his strange friends "Spatial Intelligences," and he says that they have "fantastic, awesome powers." Ted Owens claims that he is the only psychic in the world who can cause and create major national and international events to happen. He says that he had documented such occurrences time and time again. He points out Otto Binder's articles in Saga magazine, his frequent letters to "contacts," and the fact that he is working ". . . under the scrutiny of three of the world's best scientists, two of them internationally famous." One of the scientists, Owens says, has given him a notarized affidavit pertaining to one of his psychic feats. "At present I am using my powers and the SI powers to try and stave off a Russian nuclear strike," Owens told us ominously. "If you're reading this now, we will have been successful!" In regard to his predictions, Owens reminded us that he 138 would not attempt to pinpoint time exactly, because ". . . in psychic perspective, one can most times tell you what is going to happen, but not exactly when it is going to happen. That's just how it is." Ted warned us that his material would probably "shock, horrify, and or infuriate your readers. But I can't help it. I'm telling it just like it is." The spokesmen for the SI's told us that we would have to understand that he and the SI's were presently forced to give negative demonstrations in order to bring financial cooperation from the U.S. Government. "Just as Moses did in his time, and in exactly Moses' own way," he commented grimly. "By plagues." Assuming that the U.S. Government will still not have cooperated with Ted and the SI's by the time this book is released, here is what Owens sees in store for 1972: **Weather Phenomena** During the winter of 1971-'72, there will be unprecedented weather phenomena. Snowstorms, vast and deep. Hurricane winds and unseasonal tornados. Rainstorms marked by violent lightning attacks. Terrible floods. In the summer of 1972, there will come searing heat and drought. Fires will start mysteriously, everywhere, with no logical explanations. Hurricanes will strike Florida. Then there will come another winter of record-breaking snowstorms, hurricane winds, and tornados. **Money and the Stock Market** By 1972 the Stock Market will either already have crashed to bits, worse than in 1929, or it will do so shortly. The false god of money will be taken away from the American people. Hopefully, it will be replaced by some of our older, truer values and the old pioneer spirit. **Animals, Birds, and Fish** Animal lovers may now know that PK similar to that planted long ago in Egyptian tombs to attack and destroy 139 === Page 19 of 22 those who might come later to plunder has been issued by myself to protect animals, birds, and fish all over the world. This type of PK is called "hunter PK" and it envelopes each animal, bird, and fish. Those humans who wantonly and wastefully kill creatures for nonsurvival purposes will thus activate this invisible, deadly shield and release it to track and to punish them in its own time. In 1971, after I first issued this particular PK project, hundreds of baby seals were killed in Alaska in order to sew up their pelts into fur coats. I had already sent the PK out around the world to protect animals, fish, and birds. Well, when they loaded up all those poor, little, pitiful furs onto a sealboat, what happened? Blocks of ice converged on that boat from every direction, crushed it, and sank it, furs and all. This is how PK works. ### Mysterious Forces from Bodies of Water The SI's have ordered humans to stop polluting lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans within three months time or they will have the bodies of water--which carry a combined intelligence which humans know nothing about--attack human beings in their own way. As of this time, the governments have done nothing, so you might expect all sorts of things going on against humans coming from bodies of water in 1972. This will not be a good year to go swimming, fishing, or boating. It could cost your life. ### Rains in Africa In Africa the rains will come and fill up the empty rivers, streams, and water holes where wildlife go to obtain their water. I have set this up in 1971, and the PK should be working up great power for this in 1972. The SI's and I intend to drive out all whites in Africa and to stop the needless killing of wildlife there. We shall return the country to its native blacks so that the country can once again become healthy and grow. The animals will then multiply, and Africa can once again become the wonderful "cradle of the Earth" that it once was. 140 ### Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. ### Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making ... and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. ### Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 === Page 20 of 22 earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out! Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972 The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia. Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972. The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970). I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers. In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season. 142 The above discussed sports demonstration can possibly be shelved in the event that one of the above-named teams should hire me to help it. In this case, I shall remove the thirteen-team PK attack and simply help my team win as many games as it can, which should be considerable. You will know if this happens, because it should appear in the newspapers--if the team allows it to be publicized, that is. After making his predictions for 1972, Ted Owens informed us that if he should receive the financial backing to carry out certain SI assignments, much of what he had prognosticated would not come to pass. "Because then I will be using my powers to stop wars all over the Earth, to stop hating, killing, and corruption, to stop pollution of all kinds, and so on," he said. How will we know if Ted obtains the necessary backing to carry out his work? "I will issue a statement to the newspapers which will probably be carried nationwide, and you will see it," he told us. "The only thing that will not be changed is the space-PK. Earth must be cleared up first; mankind must be brought back into proper balance with Nature. And that will take years to clear up, with me working full time with the SI's. God bless you, and keep you!" And there we have Ted Owen's predictions for another year. Owens never fails to stir up controversy with his SI point of view, and program hosts who have had him as a guest on radio and television talk shows state that he always keeps the lines humming. Interested readers may contact Ted Owens, the PK man, at Box 3134, Norfolk, Virginia 23514. 143 === Page 21 of 22 PORTLAND, OR 972 PM 5 FEB 1981 ALWAYS USE ZIP CODE Owens 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Washington Research 3101 Washington St San Francisco, Calif. 94115 with born other in outer even in charge... THEY merely reporting the act. Sincere Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens UFOs are doing is typical "Earth" procedure." And something can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped idency by certain key individuals. Once he attained y they are repaid by him with key government s so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they pay back, those that give them their goal. gave me the following message to by the time the Space Shuttle is estroy the Space Shuttle (which has communicate with is myself, and I am ions Room inside the Mountain Base when dy placed the mechanism for the ie into activation. (I.e., the to 10 nuclear bombs which are ed to the Space Shuttle right now away, to go off after launching.) sons for this weird procedure... one their "other-dimensional" time and er, between now and then gives the uttle time to "build up" in intensity. Man at the center of the Base and defuse the destructive OD force the Space Shuttle not only will be do what they can to aid in the ay, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. ts associated NASA program... or truction. ion dollar project balanced against lly and quite ridiculous... except After all, I hit two space shots and as it was in launch mode, and the ightning). And this time I am not ing the shots in the matter. I am de. One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness... and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. === Page 22 of 22 What the UFOs are doing (see below) is typical "Earth procedure." And something government can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped into the Presidency by certain key individuals. Once he attained the Presidency they are repaid by him with key government positions, and so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs obtain what it is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they then reward, pay back, those that give them their goal. January 5, 1980 TO ALL CONTACTS My UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and gave me the following message to pass on: If their Mountain Base is not supplied by the time the Space Shuttle is launched by NASA..........they guarantee to destroy the Space Shuttle (which has cost some 8 billion dollars). Naturally, the one human being they can communicate with is myself, and I am to occupy and operate the World Operations Room inside the Mountain Base when and if it is supplied. They further stated that they had already placed the mechanism for the complete destruction of the Space Shuttle into activation. (I.e., the Space Shuttle might just as well have 5 to 10 nuclear bombs which are invisible, but nonetheless real, attached to the Space Shuttle right now with the time mechanism set and ticking away, to go off after launching.) They told me that there are several reasons for this weird procedure..........one of which is a time differential between their "other-dimensional" time and Earth time..........and the 60-90 days, whatever, between now and then gives the destructive power aimed at the Space Shuttle time to "build up" in intensity. Delivery of the Mountain Base..........with PK Man at the center of the Base and activating the Base..........will automatically defuse the destructive OD force now aimed at the Space Shuttle. I.e., the Space Shuttle not only will be safe and not destroyed, but the SIs will do what they can to aid in the Space Shuttle program. The U.S. Government can have it either way, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. Powerful destruction of it, as well as its associated NASA program..........or powerful help and aid for it with no destruction. Simply as a matter of values..........an 8 billion dollar project balanced against a 5 million dollar Mountain Base? And you can all say that the above is silly and quite ridiculous..........except that you know my "track record" in the past. After all, I hit two space shots with bolts of lightning..........one on the ground as it was in launch mode, and the other in outer space (where there is no lightning). And this time I am not even in charge..........THEY are. THEY are calling the shots in the matter. I am merely reporting the action from their side. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness..........and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 93 Polish strikers claim By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER GDANSK, Poland (AP) -- Strike leaders claimed Wednesday that government negotiators agreed in preliminary talks to meet their main demand of independent trade unions. But Poland's deputy premier indicated later that bargaining was not over on the point. Such an agreement would hasten the end of Poland's worst labor crisis in a decade and give workers in a Soviet-bloc state their own unions for the first time ever. "There is general agreement between strikers and the government on forming free and independent trade unions," Andrzej Gwiazda, one of the workers' negotiators, told reporters after emerging from closed-door preliminary talks with government officials. But Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski said on Gdansk radio and television Wednesday night that "these demands have to be discussed within the present trade union," which is run by the state. He said negotiations would resume Thursday. At the same time, in Moscow the official Soviet news agency issued a tough commentary attacking "anti-socialist" elements within Poland that it said were striving to push the Soviet ally "off the socialist road." There was no overt sign, however, that Moscow was planning to intervene in the Polish crisis. Little detail was available on the reported agreement, and it was not clear what further approval was needed at higher levels of the government. The strike leaders had said earlier they would be willing to back off on many of their other demands if the government would concede on the issue of free trade unions. If unions independent of the government are established, analysts said, it could mean a loss of power for the Communist Party unprecedented in the Soviet bloc. The strikes have already advanced beyond a level many thought possible in the East bloc, and have prompted Poland's shaken leadership to warn of "events that could lead to a national catastrophe." The demand for free trade unions appears to amount to a scrapping of controlled unions prevalent in the Soviet bloc. The Gdansk workers' list of 21 demands also includes offers of free elections, a more open government structure, as well as of the release of political prisoners. Reports of an agreement on unions "are serious reminders from Poland's leaders that they remain a socialist power," the Soviet news agency Tass said from the border. Storm whips sea MIAMI (AP) -- A strong system of disturbed weather churned through the Atlantic east of the northern Windward Islands Wednesday and forecasters said there was "a good chance" it would develop into Tropical Storm Danielle. But the tropical depression, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and centered roughly 550 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, did not have the same characteristics as Hurricane Allen when it formed in the same area earlier this month, Paul Hebert, forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said. Allen killed more than 200 people during a rampage through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. oreg. Aug. 28, '80 === Page 2 of 93 -"Power" + Rain Attack- # Earthquake devastates 10/11/80 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- An earthquake devastated the city of Al Asnam and its surrounding rural areas Friday and the government reported "thousands of victims." The first tremor was far stronger than a quake that killed 1,657 people in the same city 26 years ago. A spokesman for the Information Ministry said late Friday that it was too early to give a death toll, saying rescue workers were still searching shattered buildings and homes. The quake struck the city, 150 miles west of Algiers, at 1:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. PDT) and was followed by a second tremor two hours later lasting more than a minute. Al Asnam has 125,000 inhabitants. The official Algerian news agency APS described the quake as "a catastrophe" but did not give a precise number of how many people were killed or injured. The government mobilized army, air force, police and civil defense units for an emergency relief operation to help the injured and homeless and search for bodies in ruined buildings. Civil and military workers evacuated many injured people, APS said. The government reported whole apartment buildings had collapsed. Old and prefabricated buildings on the outskirts of the city also shuddered and fell, causing more casualties, the officials said. "Large fissures, some deep, run across the countryside and in some places the road has collapsed," APS said. "Whole families are gathered at the roadside, having fled their ruined homes." Officials closed roads leading into the city for safety reasons and security services turned back "the curious," APS reported. Communications with the market and manufacturing town were cut. There was no immediate estimate of the number of victims, but the official radio said first reports indicated the quake damaged 80 percent of Al Asnam's buildings. APS said the earthquake destroyed the city's main hospital, central mosque and courthouse and leveled the civil defense headquarters, main department store, a girls' high school, two large housing complexes and many other buildings. The quake affected a number of surrounding towns, including Ain Defla, Beni Haoua, El Abdia and Sendjaf, APS said, adding that about 10 percent of the houses and some larger buildings such as mosques and factories were destroyed there. In 1954, an earthquake measured at 6.4 on the Richter scale leveled Al Asnam, then called Orleansville. Friday's quake was measured at 7.5 on the scale at a seismological station in France. The U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake information center said the quake was followed three hours later by an aftershock that registered 6.2. -"Power" + Rain Attack- # Twisters, rain rip Midwest United Press International A band of late summer tornadoes and thunderstorms swept through the upper Mississippi Valley, downing power lines and damaging homes. At least eight persons were treated for minor injuries. Three tornadoes touched down near St. Cloud in south-central Minnesota late Wednesday. Eight residents of the Bel Claire Acres mobile home park were treated and released from a St. Cloud hospital after the tornado ripped through the park. Police restricted all travel into and out of the area to residents while rescue squads helped injured persons. Damage estimates were not immediately available. Another twister downed trees and felled power lines in Stearns County. A spokesman for the sheriff's office there said several gas lines also were broken during the storm. 9/4/80 -"Power" + Rain Attack- # Short kills power to Florida homes CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- A loose test lead triggered a short-circuit which shut down the Florida Power Corp. nuclear plant at Crystal River and cut off power to thousands of homes around the state, a company spokesman says. Service was restored soon after the Tuesday outage, said Florida Power spokesman Bill Johnson. The 825-megawatt unit was at full load when the mishap occurred around 1 p.m. Johnson said about 60,000 customers of Jacksonville Electric and Miami-based Florida Power & Light were affected. Florida Power Corp., based in St. Petersburg, serves some 750,000 customers in 32 counties along the Florida Gulf Coast. 9/1/80 # Floods sweep India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Six people were missing Sunday after floodwaters swept away a car near Jabalpur, central India, the United News of India reported. In Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, officials and army troops used boats to evacuate thousands of marooned villagers in Banda district where rain-swollen rivers flooded large areas. UNI said that at least 500 villages in Banda, 300 miles southeast of New Delhi, were hit by floods from the Ken and Yamuna rivers. It did not report any casualties. More than 1,000 deaths have been reported nationwide since the annual floods began in June. About 800 have died in Uttar Pradesh. === Page 3 of 93 Seattle Times 9-24-80 # Pacific tropical storm acts more like a hurricane MIAMI -- (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Hermine, intensifying rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico after lashing Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula, built up to near hurricane strength yesterday and headed for the Northeast Mexican coast. The National Hurricane Center said that at 6 p.m. Hermine was centered near latitude 19.6 north, longitude 94.6 west, about 100 miles east-northeast of Veracruz, Mexico. The storm's top winds, which were down to 45 miles an hour when it emerged into the Southwest Gulf of Mexico early in the day, had intensified to 65 m.p.h., and Hermine was headed west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. Officials at Mexico's Meteorological Service said the storm was headed toward offshore oil rigs in the Gulf. Hermine, just 10 m.p.h. shy of becoming a hurricane, was expected to reach that status late last night. A forecaster, Miles Lawrence, said the storm was expected to remain on a west-northwest course through today. SF Chronicle 9-3-80 # Violent Storms In Tulsa Area Tulsa, Okla. Thunderstorms brought as much as six inches of rain to the Tulsa area yesterday, and two teenagers were injured by lightning during the downpour, authorities said. Streets in some areas were flooded, and thousands of homes and businesses were without power in the eastern section of the city and nearby Bixby. Rainfall averages of one and two inches were common throughout the northeast section of the state, weather officials said. Fourteen-year-old Charles Arthur of Bixby said he was helping pump gasoline at the convenience store where his father works when he was stunned by a bolt of lightning. "I thought I'd been electrocuted at first. It knocked me to my knees, but I got up and started running for cover," he said. "It turned my arms blue and red and purple all at the same time." The youngster was treated for minor burns, and released from St. Francis Hospital. Sixteen-year-old Tammy Ryan, also of Bixby, was struck by lightning on the way to school. Officials at St. Francis said she was admitted for observation, and was in good condition. Associated Press By HAYNES JOHNSON WASHINGTON -- In this tall end of summer, when millions of Americans are on vacation and the pace of national life slows, ominous sounds fill the airwaves. The talk is of weapons and war, strength and survival. The Republican presidential candidate evokes Vietnam as a "noble cause" and warns darkly of the precedent of Korea, "our first 'no-win war,' a portent of much that has happened since." The Democratic administration, countering charges of national military weakness, responds with rhetoric of its own and lets it be known we have developed a wondrous new weapon, an "invisible plane" code-named "stealth" whose configuration defies enemy radar. The radio reports the rumor that five American hostages have been executed in Iran, stirring further forebodings. It is as if somehow, in this lazy season of drift at the beginning of a new decade, we are stumbling into an abyss with no one capable of checking the fall. The analogy with the summer of 1939 just before war began, when an American living in Paris wrote in his diary that "everyone's daily life seems to be saturated with these feelings of apprehension," is, one hopes, false. But as an indication of the kind of discourse we will be hearing in the next two months of the presidential campaign, last week's words hardly in- oreg: Aug. 26, '80 San Francisco Chronicle 5 Wed., Sept. 3, 1980 # Dam Bursts Above Town -- 12 Die Arandas, Mexico At least 12 persons drowned and up to 50 are missing in a flash flood triggered by the rupture of an aging dam high above the town of Arandas, rescue officials said yesterday. They said Red Cross workers and rural policemen were wading into waist-high mud along the banks of the Colorado River in search of more victims. The wall of water swept away at least 50 homes === Page 4 of 93 - "Power" & Rain Attack - D8 3M THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, SEPTEMBER 7, 1980 # Tropical storm brings rain, flooding to Texas BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- This Texas port and its neighboring cities were awash in floodwaters Saturday, drenched by up to 17 inches of rain as newborn Tropical Storm Danielle splashed inland and collapsed. One woman was known to have drowned and police were searching for two more people who might have been in a car with her when it plunged into 20 feet of water in a flooded Beaumont underpass, according to Police Sgt. Martin Goldbeck. Almost every street and highway was flooded in this city of 116,000 people Saturday morning, and the scene was much the same in nearby Port Arthur. While there were no big evacuations, numerous residents were forced to flee as the water rose during the night. Many residents in the area chose to remain in their homes, barricading their property with sandbags. "We've got flooding all over the city," Goldbeck said. At Port Arthur, a police spokesman who declined to be identified said 60 to 80 percent of all the streets in the city were flooded. City dump trucks were used to patrol the streets of Port Arthur, an industrial community of 60,000 near the Texas-Louisiana border. "Our regular police cars just won't make it in the deep water," the spokesman said. Tornado warnings and flash flood watches were issued for most of southeastern Texas. Danielle -- the fourth named storm of the 1980 hurricane season -- also spawned a tornado northeast of the Texas community of Alvin. Oreg. Sept. 7, 80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Thunderstorm rakes Tulsa TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Violent thunderstorms dumped as much as 6 inches of rain on the Tulsa area Tuesday, and two teen-agers were injured by lightning during the downpour, authorities said. Streets in some areas were flooded and power was knocked out to thousands of homes and businesses in the eastern section of the city and nearby Bixby. Thunderstorms averaging between 1 and 2 inches were widespread throughout the northeast section of the state, weather officials said. Charles Arthur, 14, of Bixby, said he was helping pump gas at the convenience store where his father works when he was stunned by a bolt of lightning. "I thought I'd been electrocuted at first. It knocked me to my knees, but I got up and started running for cover," he said. "It turned my arms blue and red and purple all at the same time, but the color is starting to come back." The youngster was treated for minor burns and released from St. Francis Hospital. Sixteen-year-old Tammy Ryan, also of Bixby, was struck by lightning while going to school. Officials at St. Francis said she was admitted for observation and was listed in good condition. Oreg. Sept. 3, 1980 Associated Press SF Chronicle 9-3-80 # Etna Ends Eruption Catania, Sicily Mount Etna ended a one-day eruption yesterday but volcano experts kept away from the mountain for fear it would begin blasting lava and boulders into the sky again. United Press === Page 5 of 93 --- "Power" & Rain Attack --- # Metro notes ## Waste bill gains ballot An initiative designed to prohibit transportation of non-medical radioactive waste into Washington for storage will be put to voters in that state in the upcoming Nov. 4 balloting. The sponsors of Initiative 383, the Don't Waste Washington Committee, reported they have 124,888 valid signatures, and needed only 123,711. The committee is attempting to prevent Washington from being the site of a national storage area for spent nuclear fuels. Initiative 383 would not affect any radioactive waste generated within Washington, according to committee statements. The Seattle-based group is concerned about the safety of nuclear waste transportation. ## Power restored Power was restored early Sunday morning to West Portland and Gresham after separate power outages that lasted less than two hours, a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman said. Spokesman Bruce Landrey said unidentified persons threw steel barricades off the Southwest Vista Avenue bridge over Canyon Road, hitting a 13,000 volt power line and causing an outage from 2:38 a.m. to 3:42 a.m. Area of the outage was from Northwest Overton Street to Southwest Market Street, and from Southwest 21st Avenue to Washington Park, Landrey said. A car struck a power pole at Southeast 223rd Avenue and Stark Street at 12:22 a.m., causing outages in the Gresham area, Landrey said. Power was restored in different areas at 1:37 a.m. and 2:21 a.m., he said. ## Volcano stays quiet The Mount St. Helens volcano was "extremely quiet" overnight Saturday, a spokeswoman for the University of Washington Geophysics Program, which monitors the mountain, said Sunday. She said a few rockfalls and small avalanches near the crater were measured, but there was no major seismic activity. ## Closure scheduled Beginning Sept. 1, Northeast 96th Avenue south of Lombard Street will be closed to traffic for three weeks during working hours. Robert E. Johnson, Multnomah County traffic engineer, said the closure is necessary because contractors for the Port of Portland will be moving large amounts of fill material across the road. 9/1/80 --- "Power" & Rain Attack --- ## Rain spreads across nation United Press International Showers and thunderstorms dotted the nation from the Gulf of Mexico through the middle and northern Atlantic Coast and from Texas to the Rockies. In New England, Rumford, Maine, received nearly an inch of rain and the communities of Bridgeport, Conn., and Washington, N.H., both received nearly three-quarters of an inch late Tuesday. 9/3/80 === Page 6 of 93 oreg. Sept. 2, '80 # The nation - "Power and Rain Attack" ## Poison found in residents AJO, Ariz. (AP) -- People living near a Phelps Dodge Corp. smelter have absorbed high levels of arsenic and copper, according to a recent federal study. But the report, prepared by the Research Triangle Institute for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Disease Control, does not say what concentrations might jeopardize the health of residents here or in other test sites in New Jersey, Oklahoma and Montana. The report was released last week. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has said the death rate from lung cancer increases consistently with an increased degree and duration of exposure to arsenic. to about half the city's 18,000 residents, authorities said. No injuries were reported in the storm, which hit shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday as scattered thundershowers swept through Maine and other parts of New England. ## Wedding costs job EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- A teacher who is married to a divorced man has won a delay of her dismissal from a Catholic high school here, but she says she's been told to find a new job for the 1981-82 school year. The Evansville diocese prohibits employment in the schools of divorced Catholics who remarry. Although Debra Willis does not directly violate that rule, church and school officials say it still applies because of the divorce and remarriage of her husband, Gary, a Baptist. ## Winds cut power WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) -- Electrical service was back by Monday morning after a fierce thunderstorm with high winds that had uprooted trees and telephones and knocked out power ## Pliers win standoff DALLAS (AP) -- Police say a man who allegedly accosted another man with a screwdriver but was fended off with a pair of pliers has been arrested for investigation of aggravated robbery. - "Power & Rain Attack" # Mollusks close nuclear plant LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) -- Unit Two of Arkansas Nuclear One near Russellville is jammed up with clams and Arkansas Power and Light Co. officials don't know when they will get it back in operation. The power plant unit was not put back on line as expected Monday, primarily because the reactor was still infested with thousands of Asian clams. Last week, AP&L officials discovered the pesky mollusks were slowing the flow of water through a backup cooling system of the reactor. They worked all weekend to flush them out of the water supply, spokesman Gene Harrington said, but enough remained Monday to keep the reactor shut down. Harrington said the problems began when larvae slipped through water filters, lodged in flow tubes and matured into large clams. A similar problem has plagued nuclear reactors all over the country, he said. oreg. P. Sept 16, '80 Oreg. Sept. 2, 1980 # Crew escapes unharmed as gas well explodes MANSFIELD, La. (AP) -- Flames shot 200 feet above parched woodlands near this northern Louisiana city Monday after a nearly completed natural gas well blew wild, authorities said. The four men working on the rig got off just before it caught fire and were unhurt, said Larry Oswald, general manager of the C.L. Morris Drilling Co., which owns the well. "All I know is we just hit a pocket of gas and the well come to see us," said an unidentified C.L. Morris employee. Oswald said the blaze started within seconds of the blowout. He said Boots and Coots, a Houston company which specializes in fighting oil and gas fires, was called to the well, which exploded between 4 and 5 a.m. as the crew was getting ready to drill. About $350,000 to $450,000 worth of equipment was destroyed, Oswald said. "There's no telling what damage it may cause by the time it's gotten under control," he said. DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Deputy Kenny Roberts said that in addition to engulfing the rig, the blaze melted a fuel line and 500 gallons of diesel fuel poured onto the ground, where it caught fire. "It didn't explode. It's just burning," he said. The fire spread to a nearby forest, extremely dry after a summer of high temperatures and little rain, but the fire was quickly controlled, Roberts said. 9-23-80 SF Chronicle # Pigeons Black Out Bay Homes - "Power & Rain Attack" Seven thousand Oakland residents lost electrical service yesterday when pigeons on a 12,000-volt line took off in unison, causing two wires to touch and short circuit, a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokesman said. Power was restored to all but 600 customers within 90 minutes of the 9:17 a.m. incident at Staten Avenue and Van Buren Street near Lake Merritt. The spokesman said restoration of power to the remaining customers was expected by late yesterday. === Page 7 of 93 - "Power & Rain Attack" - Sect. Times 9/25/80 # Tropical storm Hermine blamed for eight deaths VERA CRUZ, Mexico - (UPI) - The tropical storm Hermine bore down on the heart of Mexico's Gulf Coast yesterday with winds gusting up to 74 miles an hour and claimed its first eight victims - far to the south in Guatemala. "There are strong and violent winds from the north, and Hermine is very close," said Dr. Cesar Luna of the Mexican Meteorological Service in Vera Cruz. The storm was lashing the city with heavy rain, and Luna said it could come ashore between Santecomapan and Punta Roca, towns 16 miles apart about 75 miles north of Vera Cruz. Guatemalan police said a mudslide triggered by Hermine's rains buried a bus late Tuesday 45 miles west of Guatemala City, killing eight people, four of them children. Other mudslides closed the Pan American Highway that runs through the heart of Guatemala. # Two killed by quake in Japan TOKYO - (UPI) - A powerful earthquake, the second in two days, jolted Tokyo and surrounding towns early today, killing at least two people and injuring 59, police said. The quake, registering 6.4 on the Richter scale, was the most powerful to hit Tokyo in six years and was followed by four minor tremors, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said. Two elderly persons, one in Tokyo and the other in neighboring Kawasaki City, died of heart attacks attributed to the quake shaking the area, police said. At least 59 people were injured from falling objects, authorities said. The temblor yesterday registered 6 on the Richter scale. A2 THE OREGON # Few takers Vietnam env - "Power & Rain Attack" By PETER ARNETT NEW YORK (AP) - Olive branch extended, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach moved purposefully along the corridors of this year's United Nations General Assembly. His country was in its 35th year of continuing war, at odds with weather that has buffeted rich rice lands with two devastating typhoons in a recent month, and isolated politically from much of the world. He had come on an annual mission to seek accord with former enemies, and peace with the present ones. But there were few takers. "We are prepared to proceed with - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Thunderstorms rip Midwest, kill flier Oreg. J. Sept 23, '80 By United Press International Violent thunderstorms from Oklahoma to the Ohio Valley killed at least one man and injured several others. The storms, with 65 mph winds and large-size hail, turned afternoon skies black Monday and brought torrents of rain. A line of violent thunderstorms moved into southern Illinois late Monday, leaving at least one man dead. John Riddle, 27, of Orient, Ill., was killed when his Cessna 150 plowed into a wooded area during a violent thunderstorm shortly after takeoff from a Benton, Ill., airport. In Michigan, at least three persons were injured as the storms tore through the state. Detroit Edison Co. spokesmen said about 25,000 customers were without service in southeastern Michigan because of the storms, which struck the southwestern part of the state at midafternoon and then rolled eastward, hitting hard in extreme southeastern lower Michigan. Monroe County sheriff's deputies said the storms caused extensive damage north of Monroe, Mich., ripping up dozens of trees, power lines and telephone poles. "We've really got a mess down here, I don't know if it was a tornado or what, but it just went through and tore up everything," Sgt. George Hill said. There were scattered reports of street and highway flooding, as well as downed trees, power and telephone lines throughout the tri-county Detroit metropolitan area. Heavy thunderstorms in southern Indiana produced several reports of funnel clouds. Trees were uprooted by what authorities called "straight line" winds in some areas. The showers were produced by a cold front that sent temperatures plummeting from the 80s, before the storms hit, to the 60s. - "Power & Rain Attack" # Typhoon hits isle, China PEKING (AP) - Typhoon Norris killed three people and dumped about a foot of rain on Taiwan and then hit China's largest city of Shanghai, causing at least two deaths and numerous injuries, flooding, power failure and damage to grain crops, according to reports reaching here Friday. The typhoon struck Thursday in Shanghai, where the ground had already been saturated by about 20 days of rain, reports said. Oreg. J. 8/30/80 - "Power & Rain Attack" # Winds rake town ADA, Okla. (AP) - Two persons were injured - one critically - and thousands of dollars in damage was caused by high winds that roared through this southern Oklahoma town. The wind storm Thursday evening collapsed the roof of a bank's covered parking lot onto several cars, ripped the roof off a lumber yard, knocked down power poles and shattered numerous windows, said Gene Smith, Ada civil defense director. Oreg. J. 8/30/80 === Page 8 of 93 old model gun (sets off) begins or terminates SI & coded action. "Power & Rain Attack" Television crews cry over lost juice VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Television crews said they were disappointed Friday when they arrived in Vancouver for a weekly Mount St. Helens news briefing. The briefing was held at the Bonneville Power Administration's J.D. Ross Complex, which has been without power for several days. As a result, film crews faced the prospect of being unable to use their lighting equipment. "What do you mean there's no power?" asked a KATU cameraman after Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Joyce Routson informed him an auxiliary power system would have to be set up. There was reason to complain: The Ross complex is located adjacent to a Bonneville power substation. Ore: 9/28/80 A2 . 3M THE OREGONIAN, TUE Aug. 26, '80 "Power & Rain Attack" The world Temblors' toll 13 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Strong earthquakes that rocked the northern Indian state of Kashmir early Sunday killed at least 13 people and injured at least 40 others, the United News of India reported Monday. Three of the injured were reported in critical condition. The news agency said at least 80 houses were destroyed in the two tremors, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. More than 500 homes were damaged. UNI said the casualties could climb higher because the government was awaiting reports from inaccessible parts of the state. First reports Sunday said only three had died. The report said many cattle also perished in the quake, whose epicenter was near Dharamsala, 240 miles north of New Delhi. Reports from Pakistan said the tremors were felt in Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi, but no damage or casualties were reported. 9/13/80 Storms rip two states United Press International Thunderstorms driven by high winds ripped through Kansas and Missouri, tearing the roof off of an apartment building in Kansas City, Kan., and causing power outages throughout the two-state area. "Power & Rain Attack" "Power & Rain Attack" 4 dead, many lost in Mexico flood ARANDAS, Mexico (UPI) -- A rain-swollen river spilled over its banks and washed away dozens of homes, killing four persons, injuring three others and leaving scores missing and perhaps dead, authorities said Tuesday. "It was panic," said Maria Ramirez, a nurse at the Social Security Hospital in Arandas, a town of about 30,000 about 200 miles northwest of Mexico City in the state of Jalisco. "Near the river it looked like a hurricane." "The authorities said there are only four dead, but there are a lot of missing," she said. Most homes within a block of the Colorado River that flanks the town were washed away by the swirling waters, she said. Ore. S. Sept 2, '80 === Page 9 of 93 A2 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1980 # The world ## Etna erupts; lava reported CATANIA, Sicily (AP) -- Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano, rumbled and spewed molten rock Tuesday, but authorities said the eruption posed no immediate threat to the island's residents. A northeastern crater at an altitude of 8,400 feet opened up with a violent explosion, hurling rocks into the sky. The blast opened two more craters -- one at the top and the other at the base of the 10,958-foot summit. Clouds of smoke and ashes covered the area, but by late afternoon they began to drift toward the sea, authorities reported. Two lava flows were reported to have emerged from the craters, but authorities, after studying their speed and the route, said there appears to be no danger to nearby villages. ## Ganges floods city NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- India's largest river, the Ganges, flooded much of Benares, a holy Hindu city, and 19 more people drowned in flood waters in northern India, reports said Tuesday. Several areas of Benares, 500 miles southeast of New Delhi, were under knee-deep water and hundreds of people were evacuated to safer places, the United News of India reported. Almost 1,150 flood-related deaths have been reported in India since monsoon rains began in late June. chief, took control of the archipelago's largest island, Espiritu Santo, in late May. Papua New Guinea forces, brought in by Lini's government to quell the remnants of the rebellion, captured the last rebel stronghold Sunday and [missing text] Stevens. 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Leder [missing text] daughter [missing text] ## Te [missing text] a [missing text] === Page 10 of 93 Oregon Journal, September 22, 1980 11 Drenched Wisconsin fights floods By United Press International High water carried away rural Wisconsin bridges and threatened dams along the Mississippi River, prompting the National Weather Service to issue flash flood watches on the first day of fall. Five inches of rain hit Trempealeau and Jackson counties, Wis., Sunday, with more possible Monday. No deaths or injuries were reported Sunday, but 40 persons were evacuated from their homes. Flash flood watches also were in effect for extreme southeastern Minnesota, where the Root River was nearing flood stage. Wisconsin officials said weekend rain caused an estimated $500,000 damage to roads in Jackson County, and the Black River Falls business district incurred thousands of dollars of damage when the Black River overflowed its banks at noon Sunday. At one point, two La Crosse County sheriff's deputies had to abandon their squad car because of high water. "We need a barge, not a squad car," one officer told his dispatcher by radio. Wisconsin 53 was closed Sunday north of Galesville because of mud slides. Washouts and mud slides also caused heavy damage in southwest Jackson County near Melrose, officials said. In Windsor, Conn., 90-degree heat was blamed for sending 16 persons to hospitals. Ore. J. Sept. 22, '80 8/21/80 Disabled ship heads to Miami By DAN SEWELL MIAMI (AP) -- The SS Norway, the world's largest cruise ship, began steaming slowly back home Wednesday after a power failure that had left the luxury vessel's 1,600 passengers without running water or air conditioning and the ship motionless for a day. The ship was moving at 13 mph (usual cruising speed is 16 mph) and was about 533 miles east-southeast of Miami by Wednesday afternoon, said officials of Norwegian Caribbean Lines, the ship's owner. It was expected back in Miami on Friday, a day ahead of schedule. The ship's bars would remain open until it gets back to Miami, and passengers, who paid from $630 to $1,415 per ticket, will receive 100 percent refunds in Miami, plus a 50 percent discount on a future seven-day cruise, said Ric Widmer, NCL vice president of marketing. "The ship is cool and fully air conditioned, the plumbing is working properly and the kitchen facilities are functioning normally. All scheduled meals are being served with regular menus," he added. NCL at first only canceled Wednesday's scheduled stop in the Virgin Islands and added a Friday stop in Nassau to the Norway's seven-day cruise schedule. But after several hours of delay in getting the ship moving Wednesday, NCL scuttled the alternate route and ordered the Norway back to Miami. In addition to the passengers, the ship carried 800 crew members. "Most of the passengers really wanted to go to St. Thomas and they weren't satisfied with the change," Widmer said. "The captain of the Norway and the management of NCL have decided that in the best interest of the passengers on board and to assure adherence with the scheduled departure (of next week's cruise) this Sunday, the Norway would return directly to Miami," Widmer said. A breakdown in the 1,035-foot ship's electrical switching system was blamed for the power failures that left the ship dark and hot Tuesday. Beer and soft drinks were passed out and cold meals were served in place of the usual chef-prepared dinners. The generator was restored late Tuesday night, and engines were restarted early Wednesday. But the ship had fallen a day and a half behind schedule while adrift about 150 miles north of the Caicos Islands in the southern Bahamas. (Note: This is the ship that was the S.S. France ... which the family and I once sailed on to France! Owens) === Page 11 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Flood toll rises MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- New rain storms hit the southern Philippines Monday, and flood waters inundated seven more towns in a region where relief workers have reported 198 deaths from month-long flooding. A Red Cross spokesman said the floods, triggered by downpours that began Dec. 19, had left several thousand people homeless. The official Philippine News Agency said at least 16 people were missing. 1/7/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Record cold grips eastern U.S. By United Press International Three men fell to their deaths in a series of accidents on a fog-shrouded bridge on the Ohio Turnpike, and temperatures dropped to record lows Friday as arctic cold chilled the Midwest and Northeast for the second consecutive day. A thick fog hovering over an Ohio Turnpike bridge in Fremont, Ohio, led to the deaths of three men -- Richard Hill, 36, Seaford, Del.; Earl T. Gregory, 37, Uniontown, Ohio; and Roy Rogers, 28, Mosherville, Mich. Ohio Highway Patrol Sgt. Michael Porter said the series of accidents involved 11 vehicles late Thursday. He said a tractor-trailer rig driven by Hill slammed into the rear of another truck at the bridge, throwing Hill out of the cab and over the bridge guard rail to his death on the ice-covered river 60 feet below. Porter said Gregory and Rogers both died a few minutes apart when each man, stopped by accidents on the bridge, stepped over the guard rail and fell to his death on the ice. Witnesses said the fog was so thick the victims apparently were not aware there was no ground on the other side of the guard rail. Record low temperatures iced the eastern third of the nation. The mercury dropped to 8 below Friday in Providence, R.I., breaking a 13-year record of minus 5. Subzero temperatures were recorded throughout Ohio. Findlay had a record 10 below, Youngstown 7 below, Toledo 11 below and Cleveland 5 below. Pennsylvania also had its share of subzero readings, with Tobvanna checking in at minus 15, Philipsburg at 6 below and Bradford had a minus 4 reading. The temperature nosedived to 18 below zero in Watertown, N.Y., early Friday and the National Weather Service forecast similar readings for much of New England and the Northeast. Subzero temperatures in New York City forced at least 107 elderly and poor residents, some without heat or hot water for weeks, into a heated shelter provided by authorities. "We all sleep together in our clothes," said Deborah Harvey, who took her four children to the public shelter in search of a warm place to sleep. "It's so cold. For us there was no Christmas or New Year's. The kids complain, but they know mommy can't help it." A 52-year-old Boston man, Henry Humbrick, was found frozen to death Thursday after he apparently fell down his front steps. Scattered snow wafted lightly across the Plains and into the Great Lakes region from North Dakota to Michigan. Light snow also fell early Friday in portions of New York State and West Virginia. Skies were clear along the Eastern Seaboard through the eastern gulf states and the southern Rockies. Isolated showers and clouds dotted the Pacific Northwest and fog lingered over the valleys of central California. (Related storm stories on page 16) === Page 12 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Worst Eastern snow in 25 years kills 30 - Power + Rain Attack - By United Press International A wind-driven snowstorm that buried northwestern Pennsylvania under 2 feet of snow - the worst in 25 years - unleashed its fury on the Northeast again Wednesday, including parts of New York state, where snow already was "waist-deep." Travel advisories were issued Wednesday for the eastern Great Lakes. Forecasters said the area could get another 4 inches of snow before the storm abates. Snow squalls buried Erie, Pa., with 12 inches of snow Monday and up to a foot more on Tuesday. Erie Mayor Louis Tullio said it was the worst storm since 1956. Schools closed, more than 100 travelers abandoned their cars on Interstate 90 and Pennsylvania officials declared a snow emergency. Western New York was deluged with more than 18 inches of snow. Up to 5 inches of snow blanketed Connecticut. The storms that brought winter back to much of the nation this week were blamed for at least 30 deaths. Strong wind whipped across the northern Plains to the Northeast, dropping temperatures to single digits and below zero. The cold front prompted freeze warnings in Florida, where Tallahassee had a low of 21 Wednesday. Tampa recorded a high Tuesday of 50 degrees, the coldest ever for Feb. 3. Red Oak, Iowa, notched a record 16-below. Shenandoah, Iowa, plunged to 19 degrees below zero. Both readings broke records set in 1956. The temperature at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., which had a record 26 below Tuesday, was 11 below Wednesday. In Pennsylvania, four brothers trapped overnight on Presque Isle Bay near Erie, where they were ice-fishing when the snowstorm hit, found their way to safety Tuesday. To keep warm during the night, they had to burn their fishing poles. Five members of a Milltown, Ind., family - including four youngsters - died Tuesday when a fire apparently caused by a wood-burning stove swept their two-story frame house on one of the coldest nights of the year. Three persons drowned in Minnesota - a man when his car plunged through the ice of the Mississippi River and two teenage boys when their snowmobiles went through thin ice on George Lake. A Vermont man died in a fall on ice and a New York truck driver was killed in a collision during a blinding snowstorm. Sixteen other persons died earlier in highway accidents blamed on icy roads, three died in a North Carolina fire Sunday and a cross-country skier was killed in an avalanche in Utah. Wind up to 30 mph raked the storm along the eastern shore of Lake Erie in New York. The Chautauqua County community of Cassadaga reported "waist-deep" snow. Aug 2/4/81 United Press International HELPING HAND - Good neighbors pitch in to help uncover a car buried under 24-inch snowfall in Erie, Pa. A wind-driven snowstorm has buried western Pennsylvania, and more is expected. === Page 13 of 93 Projects PK - (Power Attack) # Radioactive leaks prompt shutdown at Trojan plant By DON BUNDY of The Oregonian staff ONG 1/23/81 The Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier will be shut down next Friday to repair leaks in tubes that contain radioactive reactor cooling water, allowing radioactive gases to escape into the atmosphere. Bill Babcock, a spokesman for Portland General Electric Co., which operates Trojan, said the leaks are well within limits established by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and would have no significant impact on the environment. The leaking tubes are within four steam generators housed in Trojan's reactor containment building. The steam generators serve as giant heat exchangers where reactor cooling water travels under high temperatures and pressures through a network of tubes surrounded by water. The water turns into steam when it comes into contact with the hot pipes. Leaks in the tubes allow the radioactive reactor cooling water to contaminate the steam, which is piped to the generating turbines and then to a condenser, where it cools and changes from vapor back into water. Babcock said the problem was that radioactive gases contained in the steam would not condense into liquids. The turbines and condensers operate in a vacuum to reduce friction and increase power production, but since gases in the system will not condense, those gases must be drawn out to maintain the vacuum and prevent pressure from building up. Babcock said the gases drawn out pass through a filter and past radiation monitors before they are discharged into the atmosphere. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission permits Trojan to emit five millirems of radioactivity each year. If the gases being emitted now were to continue to escape for a full year, they would represent less than 1 percent of the NRC limit, Babcock said. He added that Trojan has never exceeded the limit. Millirems measure the health effects of radiation exposure, and five millirems are equivalent to radiation exposure a person would receive on a round-trip coast-to-coast jet flight because of his relative closeness to the sun. Presently, 300 gallons of water a day from Trojan's reactor cooling system are leaking into the steam system, Babcock said, while the NRC allows 1,440 gallons of leakage per day for all four of Trojan's steam generators. Babcock said each steam generator contains more than 3,000 reactor cooling tubes. He said the leaks were detected in July, but by August had produced only two to five gallons of leakage per day. Subsequently, power production at Trojan was reduced to 40 percent of the plant's 1,100-megawatt capacity. When it was brought back up to full capacity, the leakage began to increase, Babcock said. "The holes are so small that they are self-plugging," he said. "If you don't disturb the system and there are no temperature changes, then little particles will lodge in the holes and plug them." However, when the system is disturbed, the particles plugging the holes are dislodged, causing the leakage to increase. Babcock said Trojan would be shut down for about two weeks starting Jan. 30 and the steam generators would be drained and the leaks located. The leaking pipes then would be blocked off and no longer used, he said. Babcock said that when the leaks were first detected, PGE officials hoped they would not increase significantly before April and could be repaired during Trojan's scheduled 45-day refueling shutdown. However, when the leakage steadily increased, it was decided to go ahead and repair the system before the NRC limit was reached. Babcock said PGE officials expect no problems replacing the electricity normally generated by the plant. Replacement power will be obtained by increasing production at the new Boardman coal plant in Eastern Oregon and through power purchases from other utilities, Babcock said. Projects PK - # Rain adds to quake woes JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI) - At least 1,700 people are trapped on mountain slopes in rugged Irian Jaya province, where a major earthquake last week killed 261 persons, officials said Monday. Bad weather has prevented rescue helicopters from reaching 1,700 villagers who face starvation in the Jaya Wijaya mountains, officials said. The quake, measuring 6.2 on the open-ended Richter scale, jolted the province, 2,200 miles east of Jakarta, Tuesday, triggering massive landslides that swept away village huts, roads and cut off communications in the area. ONG 1/26/81 === Page 14 of 93 - "Power" Attack - # Iran claims its oil exports continue, while Iraq's stop By The Associated Press Iran is exporting oil without difficulty through the Persian Gulf and selling it to its allies despite its 90-day-old war with Iraq, Iran's deputy minister of oil said Saturday. He said Iraqi oil production had ceased. Meanwhile, diplomatic sources in Damascus, the Syrian capital, reported a series of explosions last week in Iraq's oil center of Kirkuk had brought Iraqi crude oil supplies - exported via Syria - to a total halt. There was no immediate comment from Iraq. Hasan Sadat, who headed Iran's delegation to last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Indonesia, told a news conference in Tehran that Iran's first priority in resuming oil exports was to look after its friends "who have helped us during the war." Sadat said the second priority was to supply countries who did not participate in the U.S.-sponsored economic embargo against Iran following the seizure of the 52 U.S. hostages 413 days ago. "We will sell to countries that helped us during the U.S. sanctions," said Sadat. He has directed Iranian oil affairs since Oil Minister Mohammed Jawad Bequir Tunguyen was taken prisoner in late September by Iraqi troops near Iran's oil refining city of Abadan. Sadat mentioned no countries by name and refused to disclose how much oil Iran was exporting, saying the matter was considered a military secret. "The Iraqis are ready to spend a lot of money to know the amount of oil we are exporting," he said. Asked about Iraqi exports, Sadat said Iran had learned through intelligence reports that Iraq was not producing oil at this time. Sadat also indicated negotiations had resumed with the Soviet Union over the resumption of exports of natural gas. Gas exports were cut off nearly a year ago when the Soviets balked at stiff price increases imposed by Iran. Mideast analysts in Beirut have said Iran was getting out some exports through the Persian Gulf oil terminals on the islands of Kharg, 120 miles southeast of the embattled Shatt al-Arab estuary, and Levan, 400 miles south of the waterway. The analysts said there were no firm estimates of Iranian exports, but they were believed to be in the vicinity of 100,000 barrels daily compared with pre-war figures of 700,000 to 900,000 barrels a day. Oreg D. 12/21/80 Note: Oil is one form of "power" of even - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Powerful storm leaves 5 dead By United Press International A powerful storm that paralyzed New Mexico and West Texas with 3-foot snowdrifts and left five persons dead edged into the Texas Gulf Coast region Wednesday with heavy rains and high winds. The snowstorm, which dumped up to 16 inches of snow from the southern Rocky Mountains to West Texas Monday and Tuesday, lost intensity as it moved southward. Gale warnings were issued for the southern Gulf Coast of Texas from Brownsville to Port Arthur. More than an inch of rain doused Corpus Christi and Alice. Light snow dusted the already snow-laden northern and western portions of Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The storm reached as far north as the Oklahoma panhandle, with 6 inches of snow recorded in Boise City and Guymon, Okla., before it turned to rain. Five deaths were blamed on the storm - three in New Mexico and one each in Oklahoma and Wyoming. A 10-inch blanket of snow covered West Texas and piled up in 3-foot drifts, bringing schools and businesses to a close and creating nightmarish conditions on snow-packed highways. Lubbock was buried under nearly 10 inches of snow, bringing the city's snowfall for the month to more than 21 inches, and breaking a 24-year-old record for the most snowfall in one month. Frigid temperatures and blustery 25 mph winds from the northeast iced roads, which became littered with abandoned vehicles. Oreg D. 11/26/80 Columbian 11-9-80 # Growers blame volcano for causing heavy rains YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Fruit growers in Benton County claim ash eruptions from Mount St. Helens helped trigger unusually heavy rain that caused $27 million in damage to their crops. Bumper cherry crops were forecast until June 13, when 18 hours of steady rain caused the fruit to split. Damage problems were later compounded when cherries became soft during shipment because of water they had absorbed. Members of the Benton County Emergency Board agreed Thursday to forward the $27 million disaster damage assessment to the state, after meeting with several orchardists from Benton and Yakima counties. William Zabel, a Benton County cherry grower, told the county board National Weather Service officials in Portland "are quite sure the particles that were emitted acted as a seeding process. There was rain forecast but the particles caused it to rain longer or more intensely. We wouldn't have been hurt if it hadn't rained for 24 hours straight." The volcano had major eruptions on May 18, May 27 and June 12. Will Gerlitz, a Benton County extension agent, said statistics show there 1.49 inches of rain in May and .84 inches in June recorded at Prosser. - "Power" + Rain Attack - The St. G - "Power" Attack - # Winds close Egyptian port ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) - Hurricane-force winds whipped 20-foot seas along Egypt's Mediterranean coast Thursday, pounding more than 50 ships anchored outside this port which was closed for the second day by foul weather. Cairo radio reported 58 vessels waiting at anchor beyond the harbor at Alexandria, Egypt's largest port. Wind gusts were measured at about 80 mph, the broadcast said. Oreg D. 12/12/80 === Page 15 of 93 - Calif. PK - greg: 11/29/80 # Wind shift helps firefighters; area declared disaster By RICHARD DE ATLEY SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Winds shifted favorably for firefighters Friday, turning the Panorama fire away from the edge of a small town as President Carter declared three California counties disaster areas because of five days of flaming destruction. The office of Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. estimated fire damage in Southern California since Nov. 15 at $64,795,200, including $50,812,500 damage to private property. An estimated 106,275 acres of watershed have been destroyed, the governor's office said. Two fires were contained Friday as 6,000 firefighters, aided by aerial tankers, managed to whittle to five the 10 major fires that have burned 82,750 acres of brush and timber, destroyed or damaged 310 homes and claimed four lives since Monday. The Panorama fire had threatened Devore for the third straight day, burning four sheds on the outskirts of town Friday morning. But then northeasterly Santa Ana winds turned southwesterly, reversing the flames, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Evan Griffith. "I think this is the break we've been looking for," Griffith said. But the fire did not completely reverse itself and was burning brush untouched during its threatening descent toward Devore. "It's all watershed being burned now," Griffith said. While the mostly evacuated town seemed out of danger, residents were being advised against returning immediately. The arson-caused 21,800-acre Panorama fire destroyed 280 homes, damaged 47 and destroyed or damaged 53 other structures. Devore was threatened again Friday after the fire jumped a containment line. In the Panorama fire alone, property damage was estimated at $28.8 million and watershed worth an estimated $6.5 million had been lost. The fire had taken four lives and caused 2,194 injuries, all but 36 classified as minor. tinued to wane Friday, but isolated gusts of up to 50 mph were reported. Monday, the winds gusted at 100 mph, sending white-hot flames from the Panorama fire onto hundreds of homes in the northern San Bernardino suburb of Northpark. Aerial tankers, some capable of dropping 3,000 gallons of fire retardant, went aloft Friday despite gusts through Cajon Pass -- always one of the windiest spots in Southern California. Devore is in the middle of the pass. "There's no immediate danger to people right now," said a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy. Interstate 15 through Devore was closed to traffic Friday after the blaze jumped the freeway. Elsewhere, winds abated. The 2,355-acre Sycamore fire, five miles east of the Panorama blaze, was contained Friday as was the 6,800-acre Lakeland fire in Riverside County southwest of Lake Elsinore. At the lake, some homes and roads still lie under water from last winter's floods. Three other fires in San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles counties were controlled Wednesday and Thursday. Residents and firefighters have made three straight days of back-porch stands at several homes in Devore, where one $40,000 house was the only home known to have burned. It caught fire Wednesday. "I haven't slept or seen a shower or bath since Monday," said Devore resident Jim Leslie as he cleared brush from his home. "This fire cost a week's work for my father and myself." Carter's declaration covers San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange counties, making fire victims eligible for low-interest federal loans. Brown requested the declaration Thursday. "It's devastating," Brown said of the destruction after touring the fire area and eating Thanksgiving dinner with firefighters. "It's like some kind of a war zone." Northeasterly Santa Ana winds con- Newsweek 12/1/80 ## "Power" Attack ## The Lake That Vanished Away Lake Peigneur in southern Louisiana is only 3 or 4 feet deep, but it's a good spot for shrimping and catching catfish. Leonce Viator Jr. and his nephew, Timmy Doré, were out fishing one afternoon last week when, suddenly, a giant whirlpool formed alongside Jefferson Island, a 640-acre rise near the southeast shore, and the lake began draining under them like an unplugged bathtub. "The lake started to dry up. It seemed to me the world was coming to an end," Viator said. "I told Timmy we better get out of there." The two managed to struggle safely back to dry land. But within an hour, a yawning crater had emptied the shallow 1,300-acre lake and swallowed up almost everything on or near it--including five houses, nine barges, eight tugboats, two oil rigs, a mobile home, most of the Live Oak botanical gardens entirely, authorities ordered it evacuated. Total Loss: By the weekend, the situation appeared to have stabilized--though water continued pouring in from neighboring bayous and marshes, through the drained lake and down the crater. Although no one was hurt in the spectacular collapse, property damage was enormous. The ill-starred Texaco drilling rig alone was worth $5 million--and Diamond Crystal Salt Co., which owns the Jefferson Island mines, declared its operations there a total loss. The company would not say how much the Jefferson mines were worth, but it promptly slapped Texaco, Inc., with a lawsuit asking for "many millions of dollars" in damages. Texaco officials claimed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with Diamond Crystal's knowledge, had given them permission to drill off Jefferson Island. "We don't know what shafts are down there," said Texaco spokesman Max Hebert. "If someone had come to us and told us not to drill that well, we would not have drilled." Ib Ohlsson--NEWSWEEK === Page 16 of 93 # 'It's raining fire' in California Seattle Times 11/25/80 - Calif. PK. - "Power & Rain Attack" - SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - (UPI) - Screaming winds gusting to 100 miles an hour fanned several fires out of control yesterday, charring more than 13,000 acres of brush and timber and destroying at least 240 homes and other buildings. Thousands of residents were forced to evacuate. Six fire fighters were hospitalized for smoke inhalation and eye irritation. Police reported scattered looting in this area 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and National Guard units were dispatched to the scene to patrol. Officials said two of the fires were "man-caused" and all were raging out of control. A 4,000-acre blaze that erupted shortly before noon in Waterman Canyon north of San Bernardino was pushed by high winds down toward a housing tract at the base of the mountains. LaVae Martinez, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry, said 240 structures had been destroyed and a minimum of 150 of those were homes. "It's probably much higher than that," she said. Fire officials said later at least six separate fires were burning in San Bernardino. "It looked like it was raining fire," one resident said. A 1,500-acre fire that broke out in San Bernardino yesterday afternoon less than 4 miles east of the first blaze was burning an undetermined number of homes on Route 330, leading to Big Bear Lake, and threatening the huge Shadow Mountain Trailer Park, officials said. A spokeswoman said the fire was about 5 miles north of Patton State Hospital, but the 1,200-patient institution was not yet threatened. Officials said several buildings on the campus of Cal State San Bernardino were burning and several structures at Arrowhead Springs, a former resort that now serves as international headquarters of the Campus Crusade for Christ organization, were engulfed. Authorities closed Highway 18, the main route to the San Bernardino Mountain resorts, because of the raging flames. Miss Martinez said the Waterman Canyon fire was started by an arsonist and was being driven by 45-mile-an-hour winds - gusting to 95 miles an hour. Authorities ordered the evacuation of hundreds of families from a large residential area on the northern edge of San Bernardino and established a relief center at the National Orange Show Grounds. In the Angeles National Forest, about 20 miles west of the Waterman Canyon blaze, a third fire, fanned by winds gusting to 100 miles an hour, charred more than 8,000 acres on the slopes of Mount Baldy, a popular ski resort. About 500 year-round residents of Mount Baldy Village were urged to evacuate, but fire fighters managed to protect the village and no homes were reported destroyed. Brush fires in five Southern California counties earlier this month charred more than 50,000 acres, destroyed more than 60 expensive homes and resulted in one death. Seattle T 11/25/80 - 4 Projects PK - MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - The worst floods to hit the southern Philippines in two decades sent more than 300,000 people fleeing to high ground and claimed at least 71 lives, authorities said Monday. Heavy rains during the past 26 days caused rivers to swell and inundate six provinces 450 to 600 miles south of Manila. In some low-lying areas, only television aerials could be seen poking through a sea of brown water, authorities said. The Ministry of Social Services said 331,000 people were evacuated. About 165,000 of them were left homeless. Eleven more deaths were reported Monday, bringing the overall death toll to 71, mostly by drowning. Some of the deaths were caused by intestinal and respiratory ailments. The Manila Weather Bureau said heavy rains were reported pelting the area Monday. But in Manila, the weather has been fine the past month, with the sun occasionally breaking out of generally cloudy skies. - 4 Projects PK - # Cutter's skipper faces court-martial NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Saying it would allow "a fine officer to defend his actions," a Coast Guard official Monday ordered a court-martial for the captain of the cutter Blackthorn, which collided with another ship in Tampa Bay and capsized, killing 23 guardsmen. Admiral Paul A. Yost, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, said the panel of officers will determine whether Lt. Cmddr. George J. Sepel was negligent in the Jan. 28, 1980, accident on Florida's Gulf Coast. Yost said the Blackthorn's officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. James R. Ryan, would face non-judicial punishment, a less serious proceeding. "There is no presumption of guilt," Yost said. "This is the opportunity for a fine officer to defend his actions." The accident occurred as the Blackthorn, based in Galveston, Texas, was leaving Tampa Bay and the 586-foot tanker Capricorn, loaded with 151,611 barrels of oil, was headed in. The marine board that investigated the collision decided there was human error on both sides. === Page 17 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Investigators swarm over site of fatal crash oregon. 1/22/81 SPOKANE (AP) -- A 13-member team from the National Transportation Safety Board began its investigation Wednesday into the crash of a Cascade Airways commuter plane that killed seven people and injured two others. But it could be months before the federal investigators can decide what caused the Beechcraft 99 to crash on its approach to Spokane International Airport shortly before noon on Tuesday, said team spokesman Brad Dunbar. Visibility was near the minimum safe limit when the twin-engine commuter plane clipped a hill, crashed and burst into flames four miles short of the runway. The pilot was landing with the aid of instruments because of fog, said Burleigh Stokes, deputy chief of air traffic controllers at the Spokane airport. Meanwhile, a team of pathologists and forensic dentists at Sacred Heart Medical Center tried to positively identify the charred bodies of six men and one woman killed in the crash two miles west of Medical Lake. That, too, could take a long time, said Dr. Lois Shanks, Spokane County coroner. Dental records of all the victims were sought from their families. Cascade officials said the dead included Capt. David Weinberger of Seattle, the pilot, and First Officer Paul Davis of Walla Walla. A Cascade official said a passenger manifest was used to tentatively identify the other victims. They were listed as Dr. Roger Hamstra, Denver; Carolyn A. Law, Yakima; Dan Dolan, who was employed in Yakima and has relatives in Casper, Wyo.; Ron Robertson, Crystal, Minn.; and Andrew Breland, Seattle. The two survivors, thrown from the severed tail section, were James Eagle, 37, Yakima, co-owner of several Spokane restaurants, and Stephen Tarnoff, 30, Federal Way. Sacred Heart Hospital said Eagle was in critical condition. The plane was en route to Spokane from Moses Lake. The flight originated in Seattle and stopped in Yakima. The flight's schedule called for a 10-minute stop in Moses Lake, but it remained on the ground for more than an hour. Jim Abrams, a Jet Air Inc. employee who refuels Cascade planes in Moses Lake, said the plane did not refuel or require maintenance. He said he presumed it was waiting for fog to lift in Spokane. Tarnoff, in stable condition at Deaconess Hospital with a fractured leg, told his wife by telephone there was no warning that the plane was going to crash. "He told me he was sitting by the window, and the first thing he realized was looking out the window and seeing trees come flying by," said Schlinda Tarnoff, 27. "He tried to say something, but couldn't. He put his head between his legs, and the next thing he remembers is being thrown out of the plane and the fire," she said. Tarnoff was reluctant to take the flight, she said. "My husband called me before he took off and said he was feeling really apprehensive about it. He hates to fly, especially in small airplanes," she said. The crash of Flight 201 was the first that involved loss of passenger lives in the Spokane-based commuter airline's 12-year history, said spokeswoman Vicki Kellogg. The plane blipped off radar screens at the airport at 11:28 a.m. After striking the hill, it traveled about a half-mile and plunged 300 feet to the ground. The pilot "should have been approximately 1,000 feet higher, probably about 4,000 feet or a little higher," said Airport Director Floyd Creasman. "Why he was low, I don't know." Elevation of the airport is 2,372 feet. Did the pilot radio for help? "Not that I know of," Creasman said. "There's no indication of any abnormalities," said Tim Komberece, Cascade's director of flight operations. "The whole thing doesn't make a damned bit of sense. Not one damned bit." A2 3M THE OREGONIAN - 4 Projects PK - # The world ## AF crashes fatal to 10 HAMSTEIN, West Germany (AP) -- Two U.S. Air Force planes crashed in Europe Wednesday at separate sites and at least 10 servicemen were killed, the U.S. Air Force and other sources said. Eight crewmen were dead and one was missing after a C-130 transport crashed on take-off from this air base near the Franco-German border, the Air Force reported. In Spain, a U.S. Phantom F-4D jet crashed 60 miles northeast of Guadalajara, killing its two occupants, Air Force sources said. An Air Force statement said the German crash site was within the Weilerbach storage area just northeast of the Ramstein base. There was no damage to the ammunition storage site, and there were no injuries on the ground, a spokesman said. He declined to identify the victims pending notification of next of kin. oregon. 1/15/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Snowstorm shocks East By The Associated Press A heavy snowstorm forecasters didn't see coming until they "looked out the window" mired the cities of the Northeast in half a foot of snow Wednesday, boggling traffic and closing schools. Two people killed on icy roads in Maryland brought to 19 the number of deaths blamed on the unusually harsh winter weather in the East in this first week of the new year. Much of New England already has been coated with more snow than fell all of last winter. The storm, which dumped up to a foot of snow in a sweep from the Michigan through the Ohio Valley into New England, left 5 to 7 inches in New York City and its suburbs where forecasters had predicted 1 to 3 inches. Wilmington, Vt., got 8 inches in six hours. Accumulations ranged from 8 to 12 inches in northwest Pennsylvania. oregon. 1/8/81 === Page 18 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Nuclear plant fire baffles authorities PARIS (AP) -- French authorities say they have been unable to determine the cause of a fire at a nuclear reprocessing plant last week that resulted in the contamination of three people. A labor union at the plant contends as many as 400 people were affected. French newspapers Saturday charged officials with attempting to cover up the severity of last Tuesday's incident at the plant in La Hague, near the coastal city of Cherbourg on the English Channel. A fire that broke out in a silo containing nuclear waste was extinguished in a few hours, but not before three workers were contaminated by high-level radiation from the fumes, plant officials said. The labor union covering the plant's 2,500 workers contended that as many as 400 others were contaminated to a lesser degree. "It was a very serious accident that officials have vainly tried to hide," the tabloid Le Quotidien said in a front page article Saturday. The daily Le Matin reported that contamination traces had been found six miles from the plant. oreg. 1/11/81 # Doomsday clock advanced The hands of the nuclear doomsday clock now stand at four minutes to midnight, reflecting international tensions that are pushing the world closer to nuclear disaster, a group of scientists said Wednesday. Editors and advisers of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous clock ahead three minutes because "hard-liners" have taken control in both the East and the West. "People are actually discussing the possibility of winning a nuclear war," said Dr. Berard T. Feld, editor of the magazine. 1/15/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Quake jolts California SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. (AP) -- A widely felt earthquake struck San Benito County early Wednesday morning, sparking phone calls to officials from Monterey to Marin. No damage or injuries were reported from the 3:42 a.m. quake. Its magnitude was put at 4.5 on the Richter scale by the University of California-Berkeley seismographic station. The quake was centered just west of San Juan Bautista, about 80 miles southeast of San Francisco, seismologists said. # Doctors settle lawsuit JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A man who claimed he was permanently disabled after being prescribed too much medication has settled his malpractice suit out of court for $950,000, his attorney says. The settlement came as the trial was about to begin. Paul David Curl, 39, said in the suit that he suffered "permanent ... neurological deficits" after doctors prescribed too much Dilantin, a drug commonly used to treat seizures. Four doctors and four insurance companies and malpractice funds were named as defendants in the suit. Their lawyers either declined comment or couldn't be reached. - 4 Projects PK - # Meningitis hits Marin SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) -- Marin County health officials are baffled by an outbreak of bacterial meningitis that has killed one youngster and struck 11 others in the past two months. Dr. Theodore Hiatt, the county's chief of public health, said Tuesday the outbreak apparently has been confined to Marin, where it has hit all parts of the county. oreg. 1/8/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Japan storm clears; rescue efforts begin TOKYO (UPI) -- Thousands of army troops and policemen began full-scale rescue work Friday, digging Japan out of its worst snow storm in 18 years, officials said. National police officials said the storm that began Dec. 28 left 33 persons dead and 31 missing. Dozens of houses were destroyed or damaged and more than 100 persons were injured. A government mission led by Kenzaburo Hara, director-general of the National Land Agency, flew to Toyama in northern Japan for to inspect damage in the region. Weathermen said blue skies returned for the first time in nearly two weeks along Japan's coast, which received the brunt of the storm. Police said 28 persons were reported dead in 11 provinces along the coast, the nation's least-developed area, which is marked by rugged mountains. The dead included eight persons caught in an avalanche that crushed four houses in the small village of Sumon in Niigata province Wednesday. Police said 17 mountain mishaps were reported in storm-lashed peaks in the Japan Alps, killing five mountaineers. A search was under way for 31 others who were missing. Nineteen others were injured, nine of them seriously, they said. The storm, descending from a massive Siberian cold front, piled up 11 inches of snow, isolating remote towns and villages. It was the worst snowfall since 1963, weather forecasters said. oreg. 1/9/81 === Page 19 of 93 Greg J. 1/7/81 ROWF ROWF RAWF! WOOF GROWL ROWF! EARTHLING! TO MARK THE BEGINNING OF EARTH YEAR 1981, I HAVE COME TO LAY AT YOUR FEET THE SECRET OF ETERNAL PEACE! IT'S HOPELESS. - 4 Projects PK - # 4 Eastern states declare water emergency By JOHN J. GOLDMAN LA Times-Washington Post Service NEW YORK -- Governors declared a water emergency Thursday for 21 million people in parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware as a prolonged drought caused levels in reservoirs to fall dangerously. Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York City said a similar proclamation would be issued for the city in the next few days, and he called for extensive voluntary conservation until formal mandatory plans were announced. Meeting in Trenton, N.J., the four governors, all members of the Delaware River Basin Commission, said they planned to limit water withdrawn from the Delaware by New York City and some municipalities in New Jersey. Rainfall in the Delaware River basin has been down 30 percent since May. The basin commission controls water use for a 13,000-square-mile area of the four states. "We are trying to make this a matter of consciousness-raising," Koch said. He attended the governors meeting in Trenton along with Mayor William Green of Philadelphia. New York City and municipalities near it are facing the most serious water shortage in more than a decade. Little rain during the summer and a smaller-than-anticipated snowfall have left New York City's reservoirs at 32 percent of capacity -- the lowest level in 15 years. New York City takes 800 million gallons of water a day from the Delaware River. Under the new conservation measures, however, the city will receive 520 million gallons. Delaware River water, stored in three reservoirs, normally supplies half the city's daily needs. The rest of the city's water comes from reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains and in nearby Westchester County. The emergency declaration was the first step -- barring unexpected precipitation -- in an escalating series of conservation measures. Officials in New York City are considering banning the use of fire hydrants to clean streets and halting car washing except by businesses that recycle water. More extreme plans also are being examined, including restricting the flow of water into apartment houses and office buildings. For the time being, however, the stress will be on voluntary conservation. Greg J. 1/16/81 Note: PK Man needs 5 million for a Base with which to use UFO Powers to block a nuclear war (nuclear clock is now 4 minutes to 12) and help the human race. Instead... Reagan spends 8 million on Inauguration dildoes, and so on and so on. To quote the above: "it's hopeless." Too many stupids in the human race for it to survive! Owen === Page 20 of 93 NATIONAL AFFAIRS Pauline Lubens-Trenton Times Low water: Kelly leads his troops across the Delaware River, the depleted Lake Tappan Reservoir in New Jersey # Drought in the Northeast On Christmas morning former Philadelphia City Councilman John B. Kelly Jr. led his detachment of Revolutionary War soldiers down to the Delaware River. What they saw was disheartening: the four boats that were to carry them across the river to New Jersey, in the annual re-enactment of Gen. George Washington's crossing of 1776, were locked in ice. Worse, Kelly saw that even if the boats could be freed, the river was too low-30 inches below normal-to land on the Trenton side. So for the first time since the pageant began in 1952, the disappointed band of Continentals marched into New Jersey on the bridge at Washington Crossing. It was the coldest Christmas on record in much of the Northeast-the temperature fell to 29 below zero in Buffalo, N.Y.-and the cold snap has aggravated a drought that has plagued New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware for six months. Last month the Delaware River Basin Commission issued a "drought warning," calling on the 20 million people who get all or part of their water from the shrunken river to cut consumption. Just before Christmas the commission cut back New York City's allotment of Delaware River water from 800 million gallons a day to 560 million. Mandatory rationing, backed by fines, is in effect in six northern New Jersey counties and in eastern Pennsylvania. New York City's reservoirs, normally nearly full at this season, stand at 38.5 per cent-a fifteen-year low. The shortage developed quickly, helped along by a lack of planning for a sunny day. New York's reservoirs were brimful after a wet spring, but the rains stopped in June, and July and August were hot and dry. By the end of September precipitation in the area was 10 inches below normal. The city, hearing the gurgle of danger grow louder, began a crash program to plug leaks in its ancient water mains. It was too late to begin metering residential water use, although the idea had been advanced since the droughts of the mid-1960s. 'At the Brink': In northern New Jersey the drought showed just how archaic the state's water-delivery system is. A patchwork of small private and municipal water companies compete with each other with little coordination. "New Jersey's water-supply system constantly stands at the brink of disaster," warns Darryl F. Caputo of the Upper Raritan Watershed Association. The long-range solution may be a state authority to consolidate water delivery. "We have more water companies in the state than we have municipalities," laments Environmental Protection Commissioner Jerry F. English, who is asking for the power to merge weak water companies, a pipeline network to share what water is available and funds to build two new reservoirs. Conservation efforts in the four-state region have cut water use, but not by enough. New Jersey and Pennsylvania officials had hoped to reduce consumption by 25 per cent; the actual cutback has been closer to 10 per cent. Unlike last summer, when drought struck the Southwest, there are no cattle bones whitening by the roadside as warnings to the citizens of Newark or Brooklyn. "People in major cities have a visceral view of water," observes Delaware Basin Commissioner Tim Weston. "If it comes out of the tap, everything is OK." In New York City water use has actually increased as the city's population has gone down. To raise water-consciousness, Mayor Edward Koch made a well-publicized appeal to restaurants to serve water only when the customer requests it. This week a television-and-poster campaign will make its appearance, intended to turn millions of city youngsters into volunteer drought-police, timing their parents' showers and taking soundings on their sisters' baths. It is not likely that anyone will go thirsty in the Northeast soon, but restrictions on industrial water use-even plant closings-are a possibility by next summer. In a severe emergency New York would turn to the Hudson River-but could pump only about 70 million gallons a day, of questionable quality, compared to its 1.5 billion-gallon daily consumption. A happier solution would be plenty of rain, although by now the amount of rain needed would probably be enough to cause flooding. The problem is aggravated by the early freeze, which prevents moisture from soaking into the ground. Water officials, scanning the cold blue skies for signs of rain last week, took little comfort from the National Weather Service forecast for the rest of the winter: cold-and drier than normal. JERRY ADLER with SUSAN AGREST in New York and bureau reports NEWSWEEK/JANUARY 5, 1981 New York warning Don't let the water run while your father is shaving. === Page 21 of 93 - 4 Projects PK # 3 injured in Navy plane crash OAK HARBOR, Wash. (AP) -- Three Navy Reserve members were injured Sunday as they jumped from a P-3A aircraft after it crashed in a landing attempt at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, base officials said. The P-3A, a four-engine turboprop plane used in anti-submarine warfare, crashed without prior indication of mechanical or other problems in clear, calm weather "right in the center of the runway, right in the center of the field," said Lt. Richard Chandler. "As I understand it, they were in a landing configuration and then it just crashed," Chandler said. "It just happened right out of the blue." He said the $22 million plane "turned on its (right) side," causing the wing to tear partly out of the fuselage. Leaking fuel caught fire, and all seven persons aboard leaped from the aircraft, he added. "Evidently, everyone was strapped into their seats, anticipating a normal landing," Chandler said. In bailing out, Chief Petty Officer William L. Beckey, 34, of Oak Harbor, suffered a back injury, while Chief Petty Officer James E. Stensland, 38, of Redmond, and Lt. Cmdr. Richard B. Hawley, 33, of Ellensburg, each suffered a broken leg, Chandler said. He identified the others on the flight as the pilot, Lt. Cmdr. William L. Goodman, 34, of Auburn; the co-pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Ken Krull, 36, of Kennewick, and two other crew members, First Class Petty Officer Carter J. Tull, 33, of Preston, and Lt. John W. Hersch, 30, of Seattle. Six of those on the plane were from Reserve Patrol Squadron VP-69 and the seventh was from Reserve Patrol Squadron VP-0122, Chandler said. Damage to the plane was extensive, and investigators were summoned to determine the cause of the crash, he added. - 4 Projects PK org. 1/19/81 org. 1/12/81 # Arctic air numbs New England By The Associated Press A fresh blast of arctic air swirled into the already frozen Northeast on Sunday, snarling traffic on ice-clogged waterways from New England to Maryland. Foot-long ice blocks bobbed in Chesapeake Bay where the Coast Guard restricted navigation to steel-hulled boats. Maryland State Police used a helicopter to rescue Robert Meredith late Saturday after his 41-foot boat was trapped in ice on the bay. Meredith, an oysterman, shivered in near zero temperatures for 11 hours before being rescued. "I had a stove, but the cold just overpowered it," he said. "It was 5 degrees when I got on the helicopter. They explained to me I wouldn't last until morning." Traffic through the Cape Cod Canal was suspended Friday when large ice floes blocked the waterway, which permits ships to bypass the Massachusetts cape, saving 150 miles. The canal's principal users are barges carrying petroleum products from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Rhode Island to Boston, Chelsea and Revere in Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine, and Newington, N.H. The poor sea conditions also cut ferry service to Nantucket to one round trip a day, a spokesman for the service said. The spokesman said the 5,000 year-round residents of Nantucket, an island 36 miles off the Massachusetts coast, are "pretty well stocked" with supplies. "It would take maybe two weeks of that (no ferry service) before they have real trouble," he said. In Florida, citrus growers called a freeze watch Sunday after the National Weather Service predicted temperatures as low as 28 degrees. Florida Citrus Mutual in Bartow planned to monitor weather conditions throughout the night and issue an alert if heaters and smudge pots were needed. Two gas companies in eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod, serving 84,000 customers, declared a gas emergency Saturday as the continued cold weather depleted their supplies. The Lowell Gas and the Cape Cod Gas companies asked schools and factories in the area to close Monday and Tuesday to help conserve the natural gas supply. Lowell Gas blamed the emergency on higher demand, the colder-than-normal winter and transmission problems. The frigid Canadian air also dropped temperatures well below zero from the eastern Dakotas through the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes, but no records were set. Along the eastern seaboard, the temperature slipped to 2 in Atlantic City, N.J., and to 4 below zero in Providence, R.I., both records for the date. And the coldest spot in the nation was Watertown, N.Y., where the mercury hit 32 below zero on Sunday morning. The temperatures dropped to 9 Sunday morning in New York City. High winds and bitter cold forced officials to cancel racing at Aqueduct. A spokesman said the track planned to reopen Monday. City officials said that since the cold weather began Christmas Day, they have received nearly 400,000 calls from residents complaining about no === Page 22 of 93 -4 Projects PK- Oregon Journal, January 26, 1981 190 drown as flood hits S. African town CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI) - A / Lungsburg, and 21 of 34 residents at an wall of water ripped through the farming on age home drowned in their beds un- town of Laingsburg Monday, drowning cole to escape the floodwaters. nearly 200 people and leaving thousan* homeless in the worst natural disaster South Africa's history. Police said as many as 190 people are feared drowned in flash floods, which burst dams, washed out bridges and stranded trains. Police said the figure could go higher as reports trickle in from outlying villages. The entire southern Karoo region, a normally arid region the size of Ohio, was declared a disaster area by Prime Minister Pieter Botha. Police reservists from all over the coun- try were flown in to help civil defense teams, and 14 helicopters from Oudt- shoorn air base dropped medical teams and supplies. Five persons who clung to a roof for almost 12 hours were rescued by a heli- copter, but two others drowned when they slid off a roof as a helicopter ma- neuvered to pick them up. Thousands of people were left homeless in Laingsburg, 170 miles northeast of Cape Town, when the usually sedate Buf- falo River - fueled by three days of heavy rains - burst its bank in the pre- dawn hours and roared through the main streets. Three dams burst, adding to the torrent. All roads into the area were cut off by rockslides and water. A bus loaded with at least 50 black commuters was swept off a bridge near "The town is gone, finished. Most of it As underwater," said police Col. Herman Morkel. "It looks like a battlefield. Cars are piled on each other and bodies are all over the place," he said. A tent city housing victims has sprung up near the police station - one of the few buildings not under water .... The natio. -4. Projects PK- Train crash injures 76 NEW YORK (AP) - A rush-hour train jammed with 800 passengers "slammed into a steel bumper guard at the Staten Island ferry terminal Mon- day morning, injuring 76 people. Eight were hospitalized. Most of the injured were standing when the train slammed into the bump- er and were hurt when they fell. The force of the crash knocked the bumper guard into a waiting room wall. "There was broken glass. Everyone went flying on top of one another," said Julia Barbaccia of Staten Island, a pas- senger in the second car of the four-car train. "I have no idea what happened." said William Chase, a conductor whose Torehead was cut in the accident. "I was waiting for us to make our stop. We were going slow and normal like it is all the time and suddenly everyone was on the floor." An electrician checking the train later said devices to protect its nine sets of brakes from ice and snow had not been activated. No reason was given for the failure. -4 Projects PK- Salt Lake fog depresses city for 11/2 months org /24/81 GEORGE TIBBITS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A 11/2-month-long siege of fog and smog is driving people nuts in Salt Lake, mental health officials say, while ski resort operators in the nearby mountains are going broke this snowless winter. The National Weather Service offered hope Fri- day, saying the thick, clammy stick-in-the-throat murk should break by the weekend. Forecasters also said there was a good possibility of some snow for the nearly barren Wasatch Mountain ski resorts, which have lost millions of dollars. Residents have gotten used to forecasts predicting an end to the fog, only to wake up to more, but this time, says weather service meteorologist Rich Doug- las, there's a "strong chance" of getting cloudy and wet weather. Since Dec. 6, Salt Lake has had just three fog-free days. The fog has contributed to hundreds of minor traffic accidents and closed Salt Lake's airport for days before the Christmas holidays. Worse, says Kent Griffiths, director of Cotton- wood Hospital's counseling center, some people are angry and frustrated about the weather in a way he's never seen before. He says the workload at his and other mental health centers has been heavier than usual, with many people complaining about the fog. Rick Bangerter, assistant director of the Salt Lake County Crisis Intervention Center, says there was an 8 percent to 10 percent increase in calls over the holidays, with many callers saying the weather was making them depressed. Griffiths conducted an informal survey among about 100 hospital staff members and center clients, asking, "How's the weather affecting you?" "It was amazing," he said. "People had an immedi- ate response. They hated it." People said they were "more irritable, more grumpy, more snappish," Griffiths said. "People were talking about it and expressing a lot of anger," he said. "Even on the (television) news now, they're joking that they're threatening to shoot the weather man if it doesn't change." Salt Lake Valley is a natural bowl that traps tem- perature inversions. Fog and smog build when moist surface air is trapped by colder air at higher altitudes. This year, unusually strong high pressure has kept Jout air-clearing wind and storms, Douglas says. The same high pressure mass that allowed arctic air to freeze the East earlier this month kept Salt Lake residents in the murk. But he said high pressure over Utah has started to shift east, which could allow southwestern air to move in, possibly bringing showers and snow === Page 23 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Fog, snow, ice disrupt travelers By The Associated Press org: 12/30/80 A mantle of fog shrouded cities on both coasts Monday, disrupting travel by airplane or car, while much of the Midwest endured another assault of freezing rain and snow. Airports were closed for a time in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, New York and Boston as dense fog settled over wide areas around the country. The fog spread from Southern California to Oregon on the West Coast and from Virginia to Maine in the East. In the heartland, icy conditions on the highways caused numerous accidents. In Wisconsin, where up to 5 inches of snow fell before the storm moved on Monday morning, at least three deaths were attributed to slick roads. Maryland had dense fog as well as slippery roads, forcing authorities to close a four-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Hancock for several hours during the night. Snow and freezing rain fell from Wisconsin, across northern and central Illinois into Ohio and Michigan. The thermometer took another dip in New York, glazing roads in the upstate areas. Icy conditions and fog were blamed for a 44-car pileup on Interstate 84 near Stormville Mountain late Sunday afternoon. - 4 Projects PK - # Stuck truck, smashed dock snarl commuter ferry runs SEATTLE (AP) - Ferry service on the Hood Canal and Vashon Island runs was disrupted by accidents Monday, snarling commuter traffic during the evening rush hour, Washington state ferry officials said. Commuters were forced to drive some 100 miles around Hood Canal after a truck became stuck on the South Point loading dock, blocking access to the ferries at 1 p.m. through the night. Earlier Monday, the trouble-plagued ferry Issaquah rammed the dock in West Seattle, knocking the Fauntleroy terminal out of service for three to four weeks. Ferries on the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth run were re-routed to the downtown ferry terminal at Pier 52. "We're saying it's pilot error" in the Fauntleroy accident, said ferry system spokeswoman Karen Stern. Capt. Bob Beaudry was relieved of command after the collision, and an investigation was ordered, she said. "Contractors estimate it will take three to four weeks for repairs," she said, but an estimate of the damage and further details on the accident were unavailable. "The ferry made a hard landing at Fauntleroy," said spokeswoman Alice Collingwood. "The boat apparently was not damaged and nobody was hurt." The Coast Guard inspected the Issaquah after the collision and said it could return to service, she said. A steel gate on one end of the vessel was bent by the collision. org: 12/30/80 Note: my prediction to Dr. Mishlove!! Owens # The President Takes A Painful Ski Spill UPI The Carters leaving Bethesda: Bad break It seemed a perfect antidote for the President's post-election blues. Enough snow had finally fallen in the Catoctin Mountains for cross-country skiing, and nobody was looking forward to it more than Jimmy Carter. He spent 90 minutes on the trails of Camp David last Saturday morning, and headed out again after lunch with his wife, Rosalynn, White House physician William Lukash and several others. But on a nature trail behind Aspen Lodge, one of Carter's skis struck a rock and he pitched forward--smashing his left elbow and shoulder into the snow-covered ground and fracturing his left collarbone. (PYRCRE) Despite "considerable pain," according to Lukash, Carter walked back to the lodge. The doctor fitted him with a sling and a figure-eight harness to immobilize his shoulders, then a helicopter flew them to Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington. There X-rays confirmed the break--near where the clavicle joins the breastbone--while Carter joked about it. The First Patient must take painkillers for several days and wear the harness up to eight weeks. But since Carter is right-handed, the injury was not expected to impede his official duties--or his plans to attend the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Day. face-to-face interviews with the finalists for Secretary of Agriculture; otherwise, Reagan did business by telephone and tapped several of his nominees without having met with them at all. He seemed rather to be clinging to his last weeks of private life at home with Nancy and, for Christmas, his four children. The President-elect confessed his sadness to a group of reporters admitted during the holidays for a peek at his tree. "At the same time, there's an eagerness on the part of both of us to get on with it," he said--but plainly not quite yet. Newsweek 1/5/81 PETER GOLDMAN with THOMAS M. DeFRANK, ELEANOR CLIFT, GLORIA BORGER and HOWARD FINEMAN in Washington === Page 24 of 93 OKS: 1/5/81 # Freeze deepens in North, East - 4 Projects PK - By MICHAEL KUCHWARA of The Associated Press Bitter arctic air remained frozen over much of the nation Sunday, keeping temperatures below zero from Minnesota into New England for the second day in a row. One death was attributed to the cold snap, and hundreds of patients were evacuated when a Cleveland hospital lost heat. Meanwhile, citrus growers in north and central Florida began to brace for a freeze expected in their areas Monday morning. Forecasters said Sunday that even the Everglades in South Florida could have frost by Tuesday morning, which would mean trouble for winter vegetable growers. The mercury dropped to 3 below zero in Cleveland early Sunday as 270 patients were transferred from Mount Sinai Hospital after a boiler explosion knocked out the hospital's heating system. "We carried out the transfer on the grounds that we couldn't take any chances," an unidentified hospital official said. "The hospital never did get cold. It had just started getting cool when the boilers were put back into operation," said hospital spokeswoman Ruth Jacobowitz, adding evacuated patients were returning to their rooms Sunday. A maintenance worker suffered minor injuries in the Saturday blast, which snapped natural gas lines to the boilers. About five hours after the heat went off, Ms. Jacobowitz said, hospital workers began transferring patients to other medical facilities nearby. First to be moved were those in intensive care units, mothers and their infants and pediatric patients. All but 90 were transferred before the boilers were restarted early Sunday. The icy storm system swept into the Northeast Saturday from Canada, bringing snow squalls from the Great Lakes and Upper Ohio Valley into western New York. The frigid blasts chilled already frozen areas even further Sunday. Old Forge, N.Y., a village in the Adirondacks, recorded 42 below zero, while several cities along the Canadian border, Potsdam, Watertown and Plattsburgh, all shivered in readings of 30 below or colder. "Nothing will start, nothing will move this morning," said state trooper Chris Judd in Herkimer County in eastern New York. Hardly anything was moving in Portland, Maine, where the temperature sank to 18 below. The American Automobile Association said it received more than 70 calls an hour Sunday from motorists asking for help in reviving dead batteries. "We just totally destroyed the record," said National Weather Service meteorologist Dean Gulezian, describing frigid conditions in Houlton, Maine, as the temperature plunged to 41 below. In Wisconsin, where the mercury slipped to 12 below zero in Green Bay, 7 below in Milwaukee and 5 below in Madison, the Weather Service listed sky conditions in Madison as "ice crystals - when it's so cold that the precipitation just sort of freezes right out of the air." Residents of Embarrass, Minn., were more than red when the temperature sank to 45 below Saturday night and temperatures across Minnesota were not much higher Sunday. International Falls reported 37 below and Bemidji recorded 35 below. In New York City, where the temperature sank to 5 Sunday morning, the city's Heat Complaint Bureau added 13 extra people to its 35-member staff to handle calls from cold apartment dwellers. Perry Lindsay Jr., the bureau's director, said complaints were expected to exceed the number received Christmas Day, when some 1,200 people telephoned the bureau in a single hour. Several Northeastern cities experienced record low temperatures for Jan. 4, including Providence, R.I., 9 below; Worchester, Mass., 7 below; Windsor Locks, Conn., 7 below; Syracuse, N.Y., 18 below; and Binghamton, N.Y., 9 below. - 4 Projects PK - # Arctic wind buries, chills U.S. east of Great Lakes By United Press International Arctic air blasted the East Saturday, leaving parts of Pennsylvania buried in 9-foot snowdrifts, confronting New Yorkers with flesh-freezing cold and battering the Carolinas with winds too strong to measure. The onslaught of road-glazing snow and cold weather, in its third day, has been blamed for at least three traffic deaths - one in Michigan and two in Pennsylvania. Weather station attendants at North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain estimated winds hit nearly 140 mph atop the 5,964-foot mountain Friday. Winston Church, manning the weather station, said the winds broke the wind meter, which only has a capacity to read winds of up to 100 miles per hour. The mountain resort area is closed for the winter and the weathermen are the only people who remain on the mountain. Winds of up to 60 mph howled across Pennsylvania. Snow already on the ground was whipped up into blinding clouds, then stacked in 9 foot drifts in parts of Somerset County. The mountains of Maryland were buried in up to a foot of snow. Ice and snow made the going slippery from Maryland to New Hampshire and snow squalls pestered the Great Lakes region. The storm sent temperatures plummeting to zero and below as it thrust through the Northeast. Roads soaked by a runoff from snow melted by warm weather Thursday and early Friday froze, making travel hazardous. Up to 5 inches of snow stacked up in sections Massachusetts south of Boston and other parts of the state got 2 inches or more. Rhode Island got up to 4 inches of snow and southern New Hampshire got 3. Classes were canceled Friday in Westerly, R.I., public schools, where classes had been scheduled to make up for a month-long teachers' strike in September. "The cold will be accompanied by very strong winds and chill factors will be generally in the dangerous category," forecasters said. In New York City, forecasters said zero temperatures would be made even more chilling by 30 mph winds, which would push the wind-chill to nearly 50 below - cold enough to freeze exposed flesh. oreg. 1/3/80 === Page 25 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Deadly nationwide flu epidemic looming ATLANTA (UPI) - Traditional influenza indicators, including the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia in major cities, edged toward a nationwide epidemic Thursday, the national Center for Disease Control said. Preliminary information indicates a fullblown flu epidemic is under way in activity out there," a CDC official said Wednesday, adding that one indicator - the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia in 121 major U.S. cities - pointed toward a growing health problem. "Pneumonia and influenza deaths are again over the epidemic threshold for the fourth consecutive week," said John Brennan, a public health adviser with the CDC. He said the exact number would not be known until the CDC compiled its weekly report Thursday. Brennan said the Pacific and mountain states as well as the New England area sporadic flu activity now are having regional outbreaks. People 65 or older are advised to get flu vaccinations, Brennan said. He described the vaccine "amantadine" as being 70-80 percent effective against three types of influenza - B-Singapore, A-Brazil and A-Bangkok. A-Bangkok, the virus that is causing most of the recent illness, the CDC said, is a comparatively new virus against which most people have no natural immunity. Therefore, it is capable of spreading and causing extensive illness. Greg V. 1/8/81 New York state, with other states reporting regional or sporadic outbreaks. Most of the cases were blamed on the virus A-Bangkok, a prototype of the A-Hong Kong microbe that touched off a worldwide influenza epidemic 12 years ago. "There appears to be a lot of influenza appear to be the principal contributors to excess mortality, but pointed out: "These data are not complete as yet and must be looked at in light of morbidity (the number of flu cases) and laboratory data." Officials trying to gauge the severity of the outbreak said they still were studying information collected by the CDC's extensive influenza surveillance network, which includes state health departments, hospitals and "sentinel physicians." Brennan, who said reporting of flu cases had been delayed by the holiday, noted that in addition to increased deaths, some states that had been reporting only - 4 Project PK - ### NYC coldest in 108 years NEW YORK (UPI) - The temperature in Central Park plunged to zero degrees Thursday, breaking New York's 108-year Christmas Day record, the National Weather Service reported. The record was set at 6:30 a.m., when the thermometer dropped to 3 degrees. It broke the previous record of 4 degrees, set in 1872. At 7 a.m., the temperature dropped to 2 degrees. And at 8 a.m., it fell further to zero. Greg V. 12/25/80 - 4 Project PK - # Fruit fly emergency declared SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A state of emergency declared by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. may help stave off more quarantines by foreign countries on California-grown fruit, says the head of the state's effort to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly. "That, in many ways, may be the chief benefit of the declaration," said Jerry Scribner, a deputy director of the state Agriculture Department. Brown's declaration Wednesday made Santa Clara and Alameda counties eligible for special state aid to combat the fly, which has been a problem since June. Traditional eradication efforts, such as ground spraying of pesticides, have failed to stem the infestation, and agriculture officials fear the flies may spread to other prime agricultural areas, including the San Joaquin Valley. About 500 square miles is under state quarantine, meaning fruit cannot be shipped out of the area unless it's fumigated. Several countries already ban the importation of unfumigated fruit, and others have threatened to slap on a quarantine of any California fruit because of the outbreak. The emergency declaration plan calls for selective ground spraying and quarantine removal and disposal of all fruit and vegetables that could be nesting places for the so-called medfly. The state Office of Emergency Services was directed by Brown to coordinate the mobilization of the California Conservation Corps, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Fish and Game Department and the spraying crews of the state transportation Department. In addition, Brown ordered Frank Schober Jr., commander of the state National Guard, to call for guard members to be mobilized. Greg V. 12/26/80 === Page 26 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - H8 # Dreaded Asian bug on loose By DALE RUSSAKOFF Times-Washington Post WASHINGTON -- A tiny Asian beetle hiding inside a burlap bag slipped into the United States this fall and traveled inconspicuously to a spice warehouse in Moonachie, N.J. Then, on Oct. 27, a government inspector found it. Now, a federal agency, Congress, two Baltimore spice companies and a dozen other businesses in five states have mobilized in a massive, expensive scramble to search out and destroy the dreaded khapra beetle before it multiplies. The beetle, one-eighth inch in length, is the world's most destructive pest for stored grain and food products, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It ruined millions of dollars of American grain in the 1950s and 1960s and was eliminated only after a $15 million, decade-long campaign. Almost 15 years later, the khapra beetle is back. First sighted on Oct. 27 at the Mincing Spice Co. in New Jersey, it has since turned up in 13 other sites, including four in Baltimore. And the search for what one official calls "the fearsome invader" goes on. U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors across the country expect to spend the next month tracking down every item that had contact with the contaminated spice bags. Then they will inspect all concerns that handle spices and used bagging, a USDA official said. So far, he stressed, no beetles have been found in grain supplies. "The fear is not that we will have a major infestation in the Northeast," said USDA's Don Woodham, the nationwide coordinator of the khapra beetle project. "The fear is that with the normal movement of cargo, it will find its way into the grain industry." The beetles came closest to grain in the port of Baltimore, one of the nation's main grain-exporting points and the site of three large grain elevators. Agriculture inspectors found the beetles in a little-used warehouse on a pier operated by the Chessie System, but not in grain supplies. Baltimore inspectors also found the pests in three other locations -- the historic McCormick Co. building, which emits scents of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon that waft over the popular Inner Harbor; Baltimore Spice Co. in Garrison; and Premium Bag Co. in East Baltimore -- making that city the leader so far in the number of khapra beetle sightings. The discovery of the beetles generated tremendous publicity in the old port city, conjuring up images of "The Beetle That Ate Baltimore," and causing public relations traumas for the spice companies. "We didn't find it funny at all," said Jack Felton, spokesman for McCormick. "We never had anything like this before. The rumor got out that the place would be closed for two weeks, that the place was infested." In fact, beetles were found only on the first floor and on the roof, not in areas where they could contaminate spices, Felton added. "This company was founded in 1889 and there's never been any question of the integrity of our product," he said. Once inspectors found the beetles, the search-and-destroy mission ran into a bureaucratic roadblock: there was no money left in the Agriculture Department budget to fumigate the contaminated plants. Congress had not appropriated money for khapra beetle fumigation since the mid-'60s, when the pest was eliminated in the United States, and virtually all of the $2.5 million in contingency funds were exhausted in a battle against the Mediterranean fruit fly. 12/26/80 - 4 Projects PK - # Floods force Canadians to evacuate HOPE, British Columbia (AP) -- Evacuations were under way here Friday as record rainfall and warm temperatures created massive flooding in southwest British Columbia and Vancouver Island. In addition, washouts, mudslides and the threat of avalanches closed major highways, snarling holiday travel plans for thousands and leaving much of the province cut off from the rest of Canada except by air. In Hope, located about 70 miles east of Vancouver in southern British Columbia, a new riverside subdivision of expensive homes was evacuated as a logjam holding back about 26 feet of water on the Coquihalla River showed signs of giving way. About 2.8 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period and the forecast called for continued heavy rain Saturday. Adding to the problems was warm weather which melted the snowpack and created avalanches and mudslides. The Coquihalla, a tributary of the Fraser River, was blocked about four miles upstream from Hope. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that if a barricade of debris piled up by a logjam at a narrow rock gorge collapsed, a sizable portion of the town would be under water about 20 minutes later. In Princeton, 40 miles east of Hope, Mayor Sandra Henson said a trailer park was threatened by the Chilameen River. Authorities could not say when the floodwaters would crest in either community. The Trans-Canada Highway through the Fraser Canyon was closed by a washout 10 miles north of here. Also severed were Canadian Pacific Rail's main line at Gordon Creek and the Canadian National main line at Hope. 12/27/80 === Page 27 of 93 AY, DECEMBER 27, 1980 -- 4 Projects PK -- oreg. # East, South freeze as S. California suns, NW soaks. By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A Siberian deep freeze pushed the mercury to historic lows from New Orleans to New England and floods washed across the Pacific Northwest on Friday, while record December warmth lured thousands to the beaches of Southern California. Temperatures dropped more than 100 degrees from the West Coast to the East Coast, like a frozen steak broiled only on one end. More than 2 inches of rain in 24 hours in western Washington and Oregon swelled rivers over their banks, closing some highways and prompting evacuations of low-lying areas. In the East, where the thermometer plummeted as low as 26 degrees below zero, cars refused to start, some trains quit running, and city officials were deluged with thousands of calls from tenants complaining of no heat. "We're getting bombarded," said Frank Gesualdo, chief of the city code enforcement office in Newark, N.J. "Some landlords don't provide enough heat, some buildings are old. Even the good homeowners, because of the economic pinch, are bringing the heat up slowly." On Christmas Day in New York City, officials reported getting 1,200 complaints about no-heat in just two hours. At least six people were found dead of exposure on city streets in Washington, Boston, Chicago and Latrobe, Pa., and Philadelphia authorities said the cold contributed to the death of one man there. Others died in dozens of fires as heaters were turned on full force. Fire officials in Shirley, Mass., blamed the cold weather and a faulty wood stove for a fire that claimed the lives of a family of four. "It's the only thing that could have caused it," said Rudy Kurtyka, deputy fire chief. "We found it stocked up with wood. I imagine they were really pushing it because it was so cold." Boston authorities blamed the cold for the death of a man found unconscious by police. Two homeless residents of Washington, D.C., died of exposure Christmas Day. Another man was found dead in the doorway of a building in Philadelphia and authorities said that he appeared to have been ill, but the cold contributed to his death. The cold was also blamed for the deaths of a man found dead at the train station and one found half-frozen into a snowbank Thursday in Chicago. New Orleans reported a record 27 Friday morning. It was 26 below zero in Burlington, Vt., and 2 below in Atlantic City, N.J. Some other subzero records included: Elkins, W.Va., -11; Portland, Maine, -20; Boston, -4; Concord, N.H., -13; Hartford, Conn., -14. Forecasters blamed the cold on a high-pressure front that drifted in from Siberia. By contrast, Los Angeles had its warmest Christmas Day on record, a balmy 85 that drew 300,000 to the beaches of Southern California, with more of the same on Friday. There were similar readings in Arizona, but in Miami, tourists who had fled to Florida found chilly weather in the 40s. # High-flying thief puzzles police ISLIP, N.Y. (UPI) -- A 727 jet was stolen from Hollywood-Burbank Airport and flown cross-country in a zigzag pattern, landing a day later at a Long Island airport, where the locked aircraft was surrounded Monday by puzzled police. No suspects were in custody. "We have no idea how to get into this thing," said Suffolk County Duty Officer George Hayes. "The door's not open and the boarding gate isn't down. I don't see how you get down out of this thing and close it up again." Burbank Police Sgt. Frank Miller said the Boeing airliner, owned by Bahamian-based Constance Leasing, was stolen Saturday night from the facilities of Tiger Air Services, Inc., where it was being refurbished. Tiger employees contacted Federal Aviation Administration controllers at Palmdale, Calif., who traced the plane to over Las Vegas, where it descended, changed its course and headed toward Denver, Miller said. Controllers said the plane, which normally requires three people to operate and had fuel for three hours, then backtracked to Tuba City, Ariz., changed its course again and headed for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where it landed in Fort Worth for several hours to refuel and then took off again, Miller said. "An air controller in Memphis (who spoke with the pilot) indicated the pilot had a foreign accent," Miller said, but added nothing else was known about the plane thief or thieves. Miller said traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., followed the plane to New York where it landed Sunday at MacArthur Airport in the Long Island community of Islip. Suffolk County police told Burbank police the plane had been recovered -- more than 26 hours after the plane was stolen, Miller said. 4 Project PK === Page 28 of 93 4 Projects PK # Ice glaze has East in snarl By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Newborn winter on Tuesday spread a layer of ice from Georgia to New England that caused hundreds of traffic smashups and at least 10 deaths, while thousands of holiday travelers were stranded in fog-bound airports in the West. Cars and trucks smacked into each other like shuffleboard pucks as freezing rain and snow turned roads and highways into "sheets of glass" from Atlanta to Atlantic City, N.J., and beyond. "God knows how many accidents there have been," said one police officer in Richmond, Va., where authorities stopped counting at 230 and were only investigating collisions involving injuries or damage of more than $500. Rush hour came to a crawl in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, where an inch of snow fell in one hour and then turned to rain that quickly froze. A bus turned over on Long Island as the treacherous combination reached New York City. School children got an extra day of Christmas vacation in many communities. Icy roads were blamed for accidents that killed four people in Virginia, two people in Maryland and South Carolina and one each in Georgia and Kentucky. Up and down the Eastern seaboard, the story was much the same. "We have so many accidents we can hardly tell one from another," said a state police dispatcher on the John F. Kennedy Highway in Maryland. "It was like an ice rink," said police Lt. James Tynan in Brigantine, N.J., where a bridge was iced over. "The cars were getting halfway up and then slipping down into other cars." "All shady spots and all bridges are solid sheets of ice," said Lt. W.H. Elroad of the South Carolina state police in Greenville. "We've had our share of wrecks." "The best thing people could do would be just stay home," said a state police officer in Delaware, where the highways were strewn with jackknifed trucks and abandoned cars. "It's crazy to drive in this weather." 4 Projects PK # Sneaky storm slows East to a crawl By United Press International A surprise storm spread ice and snow across much of the East early Tuesday, snarling rush-hour traffic from Washington to New York and causing a flurry of minor traffic accidents. Some schools not already closed for Christmas vacation called off classes. Freezing rain surprised the nation's capital in the early morning, encasing Washington-area roads in ice and forcing many area schools to close. More than 150 cars veered off ice-glazed roads in Richmond, Va. The ice storm, which began around 4 a.m., prompted police to urge motorists to stay home and kept buses off the roads for several hours. Minor traffic accidents were reported across the Washington area. Virginia and Maryland State Police reported many jackknifed tractor trailer trucks blocking traffic along Interstate 35 near Interstate 495. Snow and ice swept through southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and northern Delaware, turning the morning rush hour into a nightmare. About 35 schools in the Delaware Valley closed for the day and about 35 more postponed opening for one or two hours. Rain began in Philadelphia about 3:30 a.m. and turned quickly to snow. Philadelphia reported an inch of snow and the accumulation was thicker in southern New Jersey. Authorities said traffic slowed to 10 mph or less on Interstate 95 and the Schuylkill Expressway during rush hour. Police reported many fender-benders in the Philadelphia suburbs but no major accidents were reported. Light snow pushed north and east into New York City, slowing rush-hour traffic. The storm took the area by surprise, striking just hours after forecasters said the region's prospects for a White Christmas appeared dim. Bone-chilling temperatures broke records Monday in New England and light snow fell in the upper Midwest. New England again appeared to be the cold spot of the nation with sub-zero temperatures reported in Maine early Tuesday. Near-zero temperatures were reported in the northern Plains. Readings in the teens were common throughout the Great Lakes region. Thick fog swirled across the runways of airports throughout California early Tuesday, causing intermittent closures of airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. The fog closed Los Angeles International Airport for the third straight day, forcing planes to divert to nearby facilities - when they were open. Heavy fog enveloped the airport about 1:45 a.m., forcing the cancellation of about 25 flights since midnight. In the Bay Area, San Francisco International Airport shut down from 9 to 9:30 p.m. The dense fog moved in on Oakland International, about an hour later, and both were closed off and on throughout the night. Patrolman Cornelius Robinson of Richmond, Virginia's capital, said more than 150 accidents were reported late Monday and early Tuesday, including one 32-car pileup on I-64 near the Shockoe Valley Bridge. "It's incredible outside," said one police dispatcher. "The cars are backed up and there are people stranded all over the place. There's just no traction." Police cautioned that only those motorists who absolutely must go out should try to drive on the slippery streets, which sent many cars spinning like tops as they slid uncontrollably into one another. === Page 29 of 93 # Crash survivor believes pilot erred - 4 Projects PK - SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) -- One of two men who survived a commuter airline crash that killed seven persons Tuesday said from his hospital bed Wednesday he believes the pilot who died in the crash miscalculated his approach to Spokane International Airport. Steven Tarnoff, 30, Federal Way, Wash., said that despite earlier reports of heavy fog, he could see the runway at Spokane International shortly before the plane scraped several trees and then slammed into a hilly slope Tuesday morning, 3 miles short of the runway. "The next thing I knew (after the scraping sound), we were making a forced landing. It became more and more violent. We finally came to a dead stop. At that time I didn't believe it was happening, I thought I was having a dream. I looked around me and there was a lot of smoke. People were just lying in the aisles. I got up and didn't realize my ankles were broken. "I drug myself out the emergency door and rolled about 10 feet away from the plane, only to see one other gentleman. I rolled back to the plane and begged the man to roll with me. I dragged him with his belt. I managed to get him down the hill. I then rolled another 10 feet and layed there. I didn't believe it had happened. It wasn't until the rescue team got there that I realized it had really happened." The "other gentleman" apparently was the other survivor, James Eagle, 37, Spokane, who remains in critical condition with multiple injuries. Initial reports said the plane burst into flames on impact, but Tarnoff said there was "black smoke" coming from the plane, which apparently was gutted by fire a few minutes later. He said as far as he could tell, no one else was moving around after the crash. He said he was not "blown" out of the tail section, but, rather, was sitting in the middle of the craft. Tarnoff, an ex-Navy man who now works for a pharmaceutical firm, said he sensed they were about to crash when he heard the scraping sound beneath the plane. "It sounded like when you are driving your car near a tree or some bushes." He said there was no sudden loss of power nor even any warning that something was amiss, other than sound. "Someone said just before the crash that it felt like we were in in for a rough landing. I shot back that it was more than a rough landing and put my head between my legs. Nothing else was said, by the pilot or anyone. "I'm only speculating, but I think he (pilot David Weinberger, Walla Walla) hit a small fog bank that he didn't realize was there. There's no question in my mind that he made a mistake. The visibility to the airport was clear. We could all see it. And we did get into a little fog, but not to the extent that you couldn't see it. I'm not knowledgeable enough to discuss equipment, but as a passenger, I could see the landing strip." There also was a lot of lateral movement (by the plane), back and forth, before scraping and the crash, Tarnoff said. Asked if he had heard from NTSB officials or Cascade Airways since the accident, Tarnoff said: "I've heard from no one and I'm extremely annoyed at that. Not so much as an apology from the airlines. I couldn't be angrier at this time about that." Then, he added: "The only thing I feel right now is a great deal of relief. I'm very fortunate to be alive." Tarnoff was traveling with one of the men who didn't survive, Dr. Roger Hamstra, Denver. The two were to address a medical meeting Tuesday at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. The other victims were the co-pilot, Paul Davis, Walla Walla; Caroline Law, Yakima; Hamstra, D. Dolan, R. Robertson and Andrew Breland. Hometowns of the last three were not immediately available. Ore. 1/22/81 ## Ships collide in dense fog LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Two large merchant ships collided Saturday in dense fog 18 miles off the coast of Oceanside, and one sustained "pretty heavy damage" and began taking on water, a Coast Guard spokesman said. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the 9:40 a.m. collision of the Philippine-registered Trans-Ocean Ram and the Claire A. Tsavliris, a Greek-registered ship. Ore. 12/23/80 ## - 4 Projects PK - ## Nuclear lab truck righted FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- Air Force personnel used a crane Saturday to right a Department of Energy truck that overturned while carrying classified material to a federal nuclear laboratory in New Mexico. The 18-wheel truck overturned Friday on icy Interstate 25 about 10 miles north of Fort Collins, Colo. It was rerouted Saturday to Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, where its contents will be loaded onto another truck, a DOE spokesman said. DOE officials declined to say what was in the truck. The vehicle was en route from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., to Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico when the accident occurred, said David Jackson, an Energy department spokesman in Albuquerque, N.M. No one was injured in the accident, officials said. Armed guards from the Air Force and the Department of Energy cordoned off the area for 19 hours, rerouting traffic onto a service road. I-25 was opened Saturday morning, the state patrol said. "There is no hazard to the public as a result of this accident, other than what would have happened through any other truck accident," said Jackson. Jackson said the truck's payload was classified information and that the truck was designed to "withstand any kind of accident." Ore. 12/23/80 === Page 30 of 93 Calif. PK # LA remains in fog's grip; air traffic halts for 6 hours LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Heavy fog shrouded Los Angeles for a second day Monday, disrupting the flights of hundreds of jetliners for six hours and jamming airports with stranded holiday travelers. Visibility in some places was reduced to a few feet during the day, causing numerous traffic accidents. Weather forecasters called for more of the same Tuesday. "We'll still have extensive fog along the coast," said National Weather Service spokesman Al Dascomb. "It'll probably be as bad as it's been." Late Monday, Dascomb said earlier predictions that low clouds would replace the fog Monday night and Tuesday morning proved premature. Instead, cold air was expected to continue moving from the ocean over the warm land, creating more fog. The fog closed Los Angeles International Airport for six hours after dusk Sunday and blocked incoming flights until 10 a.m. Monday. "The whole system is backed up," airport spokesman Alfred Dubiel said. "Our closure affects airports all over the country. They're delaying flights at Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose -- anybody that feeds airplanes into this system. I imagine hundreds of flights are affected." 12/23/80 Nevada PR # Auto ignites jet fuel spill LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- Thousands of gallons of jet fuel gushed from a ruptured pipeline west of the Las Vegas Strip Monday and at one point erupted in flames, sending up a fireball, authorities said. The spill, which forced the closure of several major streets, apparently was ignited by a spark from a passing automobile, said Capt. Ralph Dinsman of the Clark County Fire Department. No injuries were reported. The automobile "ignited the fumes, sending a ball of fire 40 to 50 feet into the air, burning telephone and electric lines," Dinsman said. 12/23/80 Project PK 12/80 # 'Round, 'round went the car -- by itself FOLSOM, Calif. (UPI) -- A teen-ager who left his car idling in a parking lot while he visited a store was somewhat surprised when he returned to find the driverless vehicle zooming around in circles on the street. The car, which had a gear defect, performed its circular self-drive for 20 minutes Saturday but fortunately avoided any pedestrians or other vehicles. Firefighters finally managed to stop the runaway car by dousing it with 250 gallons of water. "It was the strangest sight," Folsom firefighter Russ Acker said. "At first we thought there was someone in it trying to hit the cops. It would spin into the street and then into the parking lot and then back into the street again, over and over. It looked like something out of the movies." Although the car's door was open, police and spectators feared to enter it. They called the Fire Department to spray the runaway vehicle in hope of shorting out the electrical system. The torrent of water finally flooded the carburetor, officials said. The unidentified driver, who had been trying to repair a defective gear shift, left the vehicle idling in the parking lot while paying a brief visit to the supermarket. Project PK # Workers flee nuclear plant SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A false alarm warning of high radiation levels prompted evacuation of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant for an hour Monday, the plant's operator reported. Radiation monitoring instruments apparently were at fault, said Jeff Marx, spokesman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. He said the instruments indicated high radiation levels outside the plant at 8:50 a.m. 12/23/80 Calif. PR # Sewage fouls beaches LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Sunshine and temperatures approaching the 80s lured thousands of Southern California sun-worshipers to the beaches during the weekend -- despite the stench and health hazards from raw sewage polluting 7 miles of shoreline. Health officials closed the beach to swimmers indefinitely because of a ruptured sewer siphon that allowed millions of gallons of raw sewage to flow into the ocean. Authorities managed to plug the siphon Sunday, but said it will be midweek before the affected beaches are free of pollutants. 12/15/80 Fla. PK # Florida's red tide studied TITUSVILLE, Fla. (UPI) -- Researchers planned more tests Tuesday in an investigation of the red tide that has caused irritation to the eyes, noses and throats of residents along the tourist beaches of Florida's east coast. Since Nov. 17 the red tide -- caused by rapid growth of bacteria in seawater -- has been moving steadily south from St. Augustine, sending wind-borne toxins shoreward. 12/9/80 === Page 31 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Canine disease level remains high By JOAN LAATZ Journal Correspondent oreg. 12/30/80 SALEM -- Canine parvo virus, the highly contagious and often fatal disease that causes intestinal hemorrhaging in dogs, is continuing to take its toll in Oregon, according to state Department of Agriculture figures. No one appears more surprised than Dr. Mike Daly, epidemiologist for the department, who said he had believed that the number of cases had significantly decreased since this summer when it was reported to have reached epidemic proportions in some areas. However, a check this week of recent reports from veterinarians around the state revealed that the number of cases reported in November reached an all-time high of 2,061. Of that amount, 1,183 cases occurred in Multnomah County. Daly said he hadn't checked the reports recently and had thought the disease peaked in September when 1,382 cases were reported in the state. "I'm surprised by the figures. I guess we just weren't hearing much about it," Daly said. "I was talking to some veterinarians yesterday (in Salem) and they said they're still seeing it, but not in the numbers they were before." He said he thought the disease had run its course and moved on to another area, which is characteristic of many diseases. Dogs are highly susceptible when a new disease strikes an area, but, after a while, they "become immune to an extent," Daly said. Reports for October and November show that the number of cases of parvo virus have increased steadily since what was believed to be the peak in September. November showed the greatest jump, with an increase of more than 700 cases over the 1,354 reported in October. Incomplete figures for 1980 (December reports are not yet available), show a total of 5,995 cases of parvo virus reported in the state. The majority of those occurred in the Portland area "because that's where the population is," Daly said, but the disease appears to have touched most parts of the state. Some areas, including Harney County in Eastern Oregon and Jefferson County in Central Oregon, "have been completely unscathed," he said. Figures on deaths resulting from parvo virus are not available, but according to Daly, "There were quite a few." Despite increasing figures, Daly was quick to caution against alarm. The increase in reported cases may be due to late arriving laboratory confirmations, he said. The reporting system "is never that accurate," he said, and reports frequently run at least one month behind. He said many of the cases reported in November actually may have occurred one or two months before. Veterinarians are reluctant to report cases as parvo virus until lab confirmations are made, Daly said. The Agriculture Department sends cards to all veterinarians in the state each month asking them to report parvo cases. Daly said the cards are not always returned promptly. An increase in awareness of the disease also could explain the rise in reported cases, according to Daly. He said recognition of parvo virus, a fairly new disease believed to be a mutation of feline distemper virus, "is not that easy of a diagnosis." He added that symptoms, including marked lethargy, accompanying fever, vomiting and diarrhea, are very similar to poisoning. Dogs can be protected against parvo virus if they are vaccinated. Although the vaccine was in short supply last summer, Daly said, it now appears to be readily available. According to veterinarians, parvo virus is spread primarily through dog feces and vomit and can live on the ground for years. Although the virus is not known to affect humans or other animals, it can be transmitted by them. Humans can carry the virus on their shoes, skin or clothing. Veterinarians suggest that persons who come into contact with an afflicted dog wash their clothes and bodies with a solution of one part bleach to 30 parts water. ---------- - 4 Projects PK - # Misfortune on the trail The accident along the cross-country trail he was skiing near his Camp David retreat is an unfortunate way for President Carter to conclude his presidency. It may, however, have been symbolic of the woes that pursued his four-year stewardship. Many a time the Carter administration set off on a course of action, only to have it end in shambles because of accident or events beyond its control. It would fight inflation and find the nation plunged into recession. It would concentrate on recession only to see inflation heightened. The president would negotiate a release of the hostages in Iran, only to learn the people on the other side lacked authority to carry out their commitments. So he would send in a commando raid to save the hostages, and then see it fail in helicopter breakdowns in a desert storm. World peace would be pushed through detente with the Soviet Union, and then break down under the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Even the more successful initiatives in an energy policy for the nation and peace in the Middle East had their unforeseen frustrations. Such has been the plight of the presidency of Jimmy Carter. He did not need the broken collar bone as a final blow. But he got it honestly, continuing to be active to the end. We wish you a speedy recovery, Mr. President, and a minimum of discomfort as you complete your duties. oreg. 12/30/80 === Page 32 of 93 - Calif. PK - Org J 12/3/80 # Plane collision raises brushfire deaths to 7 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) - Two air tankers used to bombard flames during the devastating Southern California brushfires collided during a picture-taking exercise on their way home, killing two men in a fiery desert crash. Killed in the crash were pilot Clyde Alford, 50, and Ron Letness, about 30, also of Tucson. Pilot Ken White, 56, and co-pilot Gary Garrett, 41, both of Tucson, were uninjured. The deaths raised the toll to seven killed in the nine-day siege of major brush and timber blazes that have destroyed 383 homes, blackened 80,000 acres and caused $72 million in property damages in Southern California. The four-engine propeller-driven planes, under contract to the U.S. Forest Service to dump water and fire retardant on brushfires, hit one another Tuesday afternoon over Indio, Calif., on their way back to Arizona. Officials said the air tankers made contact as one plane passed over the other during a special photo exercise. The reason for the maneuver was not known. One of the converted C-54 aircraft crashed to the barren desert floor and burst into flames, killing its two occupants and strewing debris over a 3-mile-wide area. The other tanker made an emergency landing at nearby Palm Springs Airport, about 120 miles east of Los Angeles, without injuring either of the two men inside. "It was the worst thing I've ever seen," said witness Dave Baldridge, a construction foreman with Southern California Edison. "It was just flat." - M. De vs. U.S. Govt. - # Driver accused of ramming sub GROTON, Conn. (UPI) - A peace protester has been charged with commandeering a van and ramming it into a $1 billion Trident submarine during launching ceremonies for another Navy sub. Peter J. Demott, 33, of Baltimore, was charged with criminal trespass and reckless endangerment and was held on $25,000 bond pending a hearing Monday in New London Superior Court. The incident Saturday went largely unnoticed by about 4,500 people attending the launching of the USS Baltimore, a fast-attack submarine, at General Dynamics Corp.'s Electric Boat Division shipyard. No one was injured in the incident and a shipyard spokesman said damage to the Trident "appeared to be negligible, but the van was badly wrecked." The spokesman said the van's driver was unloading the vehicle in an area roped off from the public when DeMott commandeered it. He backed it up to the unfinished, unnamed Trident, slamming into its rudder five times before stopping. The behemoth, 900-foot, 18,750-ton vessel, the first of seven Tridents, moved to the side about one foot, witnesses said. When asked why he did it, DeMott replied, "For peace." A second man from Baltimore was arrested several hours earlier when he laid down at the shipyard gates at the start of a local protest by about 25 anti-nuclear demonstrators. The $450 million Baltimore is part of the Navy's new Los Angeles 688 Class fast-attack submarines. org. 12/15/80 - "High In Government" PK (as told to rep. have) # U.N. officials die in crash DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - A light aircraft crashed 70 miles northwest of this East African capital, killing 10 people, including eight United Nations officials, a U.N. spokesman said Saturday. One of the dead was identified as an American. He said the crash occurred Friday night and that remains of the crash victims were being brought to Dar es Salaam. The dead were identified as K.K. Apeadu of Ghana, the U.N. Development Program representative to Tanzania; H.M. Caspari, an American, the UNDP assistant representative; Caspari's British wife, Helen Lewis-Jones, Tanzanian coordinator for the United Nations food and population program; M. Poikolainen of Finland, a Tanzanian-based Food and Agricultural Organization program officer; J. Mfuru, a Tanzanian and UNDP program officer; D.C. Ea and K. Baldwin, both Rome-based British officials of the FAO, and H. Chen of China. org 12/7/80 - M. De vs. U.S. Govt. - # 'Dead' satellite back on line NEW YORK (AP) - An X-ray astronomy satellite that had been out of commission since an unexplained failure in August has inexplicably resumed operation, scientists announced Wednesday. The resumption means the National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite, known as the Einstein Observatory, should provide another four to six months of data on X-rays from space, said Harvey Tananbaum of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Launched in November 1978, the satellite has already outlived its design life of one year. But scientists had hoped to extend it to three years by a careful hoarding of its gas propellant. The satellite has made the most detailed survey ever of X-ray emissions from stars, galaxies and the distant, mysterious objects known as quasars. X-rays reveal the presence of high-energy processes that cannot be detected with visible light or radio waves. Its future was thrown in jeopardy when two of its four gyroscopes would not restart after they were shut down by an on-board computer error Aug. 27, Tananbaum said. At least three gyroscopes are needed to point the satellite's X-ray telescope. Scientists were forced to use the remaining gas to keep its solar panels pointed toward the sun. Virtually all observing was halted. But Saturday, after hundreds of attempts to restart the two gyros, one of them began working again. "It's sort of like hitting the side of your television set to try to stabilize the picture. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don't," Tananbaum said. org. 12/11/80 === Page 33 of 93 # Pine beetle epidemic surges through forests south of Bend By JIM KADERA of The Oregonian staff After devastating more than 1 million acres in Northeast Oregon forests, mountain pine beetles have reached epidemic levels in the public and private forests south of Bend. The outbreak in the Umatilla, Malheur and Wallowa-Whitman national forests killed more than 1 billion board feet of lodgepole pine in a decade. The epidemic in the Deschutes, Winema and Fremont national forests and on adjoining lands will take about two decades to kill more than 500 million board feet of lodgepole, according to U.S. Forest Service estimates. Just as happened in the northeastern forests, a variety of problems and opportunities await public and private timberland managers. The problems include salvaging pine stands before commercial values are lost, the danger of fire in dead, unlogged stands, and local efforts to spray residential pines to delay losses. Opportunities include reforesting and managing new stands to avoid some of the problems that lead to a beetle outbreak. The epidemic south of Bend is not an expansion of the same beetle population from the other forests. It began because of the same type of conditions that enable outbreak, according to Paul Some 147,000 infested lodgepoles and 11,000 Ponderosas were tallied on 60,000 acres in the Fremont forest. The losses were 103,000 lodgepoles and 3,000 Ponderosas on 58,000 acres in the Winema. Recreationists will observe effects of the epidemic when they return to their favorite campgrounds in the next few years. Unless the outbreak can be slowed, once-scenic recreation sites will be stripped of pines in a short time. The Deschutes forest expects to release a beetle management plan to the public in February, according to Greg McClarren, forest information officer. A rough draft of the plan suggests that four approaches are available, depending on objective and amount of timber infested. "Logging will be the first line of defense on public and large private lands," the draft states. "This method would utilize the wood by cutting and milling the trees before the beetles have had a chance to spread. "Cutting infested trees for firewood is another use. However, the material cannot be left in the forest or stored in wood piles where the beetle can emerge and spread to other trees. Infested wood can be treated to prevent beetle survival." A second tactic would be to delay loss of most lodgepole stands by five to ten years by logging the dense overma- Washington PORTLAND Oregon Bend Crater Lake Klamath Falls California EPIDEMIC -- Areas most affected by beetle outbreak are near Newberry Crater, Crane Prairie and Wickiup reservoirs and Wanoga Butte. "wild fire" spread to the larger and more valuable Ponderosa pines, he in- # Rain, warmth trigger rash of Idaho floods By The Associated Press Triggered by a week of steady rain and unseasonably warm temperatures, northern and western Idaho creeks and rivers began flooding Friday, washing over roads and bridges and threatening some homes. "It doesn't appear that it's very serious as of yet," said Paul Massie of the state Disaster Services headquarters in Boise. "But there's always the potential." After days of steady rain, plus temperatures in the high 50s that melted snow up to the 11,000-foot level, many northern Idaho streams were near flood stage. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings Friday for Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai and Shoshone counties in northern Idaho. The agency said the Coeur d'Alene River at Enaville reached 74.1 feet by late afternoon, 2 feet above flood stage. The river was expected to rise to nearly 75 feet by early Saturday. The St. Joe River at St. Maries was at 32.1 feet. Flood stage is 32.5 feet. The river was expected to peak at 38 feet Saturday. The Coeur d'Alene River at Calder, which has a flood stage of 43 feet, was expected to reach 47 feet by daybreak Saturday. Just west of Pinehurst, Shoshone County road crews were working to shore up a dike on Northbank Road to prevent the flooding of 24 homes. "We are in danger of losing the dike," said county spokesman Earl Howard. Support beams on the Fourth Street Bridge in Pinehurst were being washed away by logs and debris from the high waters, Howard said. Stanley G. Witter Jr., spokesman for Washington Water Power Co., said rain and high temperatures were producing more water than hydroelectric stations could use for generation, so excess water was being spilled over dams. "We don't like to see the snowpack disappearing in the mountains at this time of year, particularly when loads are down as they are now," said Witter. Because of the mild weather, power loads have been running about 60 percent of normal the last couple of days, he said. Massie said his reports from people in the area indicated little concern, with few homes threatened. The weather service reported the Weiser River in western Idaho reached flood stage of 9 feet by 5:30 p.m. Friday. === Page 34 of 93 # Flooding threatens towns, closes highways By KATHY McCARTHY of The Associated Press (Washington) residents put away their Christmas presents and pulled on their hip boots Friday as balmy temperatures and drenching rains forced rivers over their banks, washing away houses and closing roads. Also, temperatures in the high 50s and low 60s melted what was left of a light snowpack in the Cascades. The National Weather Service in Seattle predicted heavy rains would not ease before Saturday. The worst flooding has been reported in Snohomish County, where dozens were evacuated from the communities of Index, Darrington, Sultan and Verlot and officials worried about the strength of dikes. "Right now, I'd say it's worse than it has ever been in 100 years," said Sultan Mayor Harold Love. No major problems were reported in Southwest Washington's Cowlitz and Toutle river areas downstream from Mount St. Helens, where authorities had worried that silt deposits from the volcano's May 18 eruption would limit the rivers' carrying ability, despite dredging efforts. However, high water forced closure of northbound lanes on the Interstate 5 bridge over the Toutle River in Cowlitz County. Traffic temporarily was reduced to one northbound lane after U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials became concerned that support structures for the bridge had been weakened by the heavy runoff, said Jim Addison, corps spokesman in Portland. By midevening, northbound traffic was rerouted altogether. Addison added that corps officials were concerned about sediment washing down the Toutle since a spillway failed Thursday on one of the river's containment dams north of Camp Baker on the north fork. Chuck Bellinger, a corps engineer at Castle Rock, said information on the damage to the containment dam's spillway was sketchy. He said a similar dam on the south fork of the Toutle was working as designed. Washington 504 was closed at Kid Valley on the Toutle, downstream from the volcano, after a bank washed out at the approach to a temporary pontoon bridge thrown up to replace a bridge destroyed in the mountain's May 18 eruption. In 1975, floods considered the worst of the century in Washington caused an estimated $70 million in damage. Hundreds were evacuated and six died two years later, in December 1977 flooding. In some places, the worst may be yet to come. The Skagit River, predicted to crest late Saturday at 11 feet above flood stage, was expected to threaten downtown Mount Vernon, said county flood control engineer Don Nelson. He said the threat matched that of a 1951 flood. Skagit County officials planned feverish sandbagging efforts in Mount Vernon. Nearly half an inch of rain fell Friday morning at Quillayute, Wash., on the Olympic Peninsula and Seattle reported 1 1/4 inches in the past two days. Forecasters said major flooding was in progress or predicted for several Western Washington rivers, including the Elwha, Skagit, Snohomish, Skykomish and Snoqualmie. Several other major highways were closed by high water and numerous county roads were disabled. Some residents were plucked from their homes by air and boat near Monroe, where an emergency center was set up. Authorities said at least seven houses were swept away in Index, seven in Sultan and two or three near Darrington. The main road leading to Index, a community of 500, was cut off. Darrington's drinking water supply was knocked out when a pipe broke Tuesday, Lewis said. Another 75 to 100 people were evacuated from Cape Horn in Skagit County. McLaughlin said the Skykomish basin probably was experiencing flooding as severe as any in the last 20 years and added that residents between Monroe and Snohomish should leave the area. In Pierce County, the Nisqually River crept within four feet of the McKenna Home for the elderly and handicapped, but it was then holding steady. Buses were readied to evacuate the 135 patients, if necessary. Tacoma City Light was forced to release water periodically Friday from its Alder Dam, upstream on the Nisqually, but the river did not inundate McKenna. Cranes were dispatched to break up a log jam that threatened an old U.S. 99 bridge over the Nisqually River on the Thurston-Pierce county line, said Lt. Chuck Graef of the Thurston County sheriff's office. A Red Cross shelter was set up to handle any lower Nisqually flood victims. A few people also left their homes along the sparsely populated Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Several families of the Lower Elwha band of the Clallam Indians left their low-lying reservation. Major highways disrupted Friday included U.S. 12 over White Pass, closed between Morton and Packwood due to high water, and U.S. 2 over Stevens Pass, closed from Monroe to Baring because sightseers were hampering evacuation efforts. High water, mudslides and fallen trees on U.S. 101 on the Olympic Peninsula cut that highway at several points Friday, forcing detours. The rain was brought in by warm air flowing from near the Hawaiian Islands to the Pacific Northwest, forecasters said. ## Volcano erupts MARION ISLAND, Indian Ocean (AP) -- A long-silent volcano has erupted on this remote island 1,152 miles southeast of Cape Town causing no injuries or property damage, the South African transport affairs department said. The island, one of the Prince Edward chain, is a South African possession. About 20 weather and research technicians are its only inhabitants. The eruption scattered elephant seals that normally feed near the volcano, but attracted penguins who warmed themselves near the lava, officials said. ## Flooding extensive MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Police said rain-swollen rivers and melting snow caused extensive flooding Saturday in large areas of northern and central Spain, damaging crops and property but taking no lives. Officials evacuated scores of people from small villages along the rivers and reported rail and telephone communications cut in portions of the Basque area including Santander, Leon and Burgos provinces. === Page 35 of 93 Red tide can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. Earlier this year, PSP contamination forced Maine officials to ban shellfishing along the state's coast after several people were hospitalized. Steps were being taken to ban shellfishing from Jacksonville south to Cocoa, but that probably would not go into effect until the state conducted more tests, King said. Nevada quake rattles Lake Tahoe, Reno TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) -- An earthquake registering 5.1 on the Richter scale shook the Sierra Nevada north of Lake Tahoe Friday but, aside from broken dishes, little damage was reported. The tremor was felt most distinctly in Nevada, Sierra and Plumas counties, but people in Sacramento and Reno, Nev., also felt the jolt. "It was quite strong here and we felt it all right," said Allene Wright at the Loyalton Sierra Booster, a biweekly newspaper in Sierra County. "At my daughter's across the street, things fell off the mantel." The University of California Seismograph Station at Berkeley said the quake, which struck at 10:21 a.m. PST, was centered between Truckee and Reno, north of Lake Tahoe, a lightly populated mountainous area. Sheriff's offices at South Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Nevada City, Quincy and Grass Valley reported many telephone calls including a few reports of broken dishes. The Nevada County sheriff's office said a woman near Cedar Ridge reported a cracked ceiling and a loosened chimney pipe. A caller told the Grass Valley Union newspaper there were waves on Donner Lake, near Truckee. In Reno, alarmed guests at Harrah's 26-story hotel said they felt the earthquake strongly on the upper floors. A security guard at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City said chandeliers in the lobby began to sway. The Richter scale is a measure of ground movement as registered by seismographs. Every increase of one number, say from 4 to 5, indicates a 10-fold increase in magnitude. A quake registering 5 can cause considerable damage in a populated area. The north Lake Tahoe area was shaken by two earthquakes 40 minutes apart Sept. 12, 1966. They were measured at 6.0 and 5.3, according to University of California records. The earthquake that triggered the destruction of San Francisco in 1906 has been estimated at 8.3 on the Richter scale, although it occurred before the scale was devised. 'Red tide' blamed for mist By MATT BOKOR DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Toxic "red tide" has been blamed as the culprit behind an irritating mist that has plagued hundreds of people on North Florida beaches and health officials say they are relieved to know it was nature's work all along. "It could have been a lot worse," said Frank Landrove, environmental health director in Volusia County. "By a lot worse, I mean it could have been man-made." Residents and tourists here had been complaining for almost two weeks of irritated throats, eyes and noses because of the mist that seemed to be rising off the sea. It got so bad Wednesday that lifeguards in the Daytona Beach area were told to leave their towers. Some donned surgical masks to filter out impurities that were blamed on the red tide, a microorganism that in concentration can give seawater a reddish tint. Officials said they had a hard time detecting red tide because it did not turn the sea red or cause a large fish kill. Some dead fish were reported in the New Smyrna Beach area, and officials said more reports could come in. Dr. Hubert King, Volusia County's health director, warned residents and beachgoers to use common sense and leave areas if they feel uncomfortable. Landrove advised people with respiratory problems to remain indoors until the problem is resolved. Wind-whippe Pictures on Page E10 By PAUL SIMON SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Winds up to 50 mph flung flames from one town to another Wednesday and forced the evacuation of a mountain hamlet as a flock of Southern California brush fires raged out of control for a third day. Four people have died and more than 350 homes have gone up in smoke as 65,000 acres have been consumed by 10 separate fires fanned by the treacherous southerly airflow called the Santa Ana, or "devil winds," that sweeps down from the mountains. Damage is estimated at $44 million and officials say the rash of fires, engaging about 2,000 firefighters, is one of the worst in California history. An 11th blaze broke out Wednesday 100 miles to the northwest in the Los Padres National Forest and rapidly burned more than 2,000 acres in Ventura County. Officials said winds were light and no structures were in the path of the fire. The most destructive blaze, the 13,000-acre Panorama Canyon fire, had moved north out of San Bernardino and into the rural town of Devore. But winds shifted and pushed the fire back uphill toward the mountain hamlets of Rim Forest and Twin Peaks. The entire community of Rim Forest -- about 50 homes 10 miles east of Devore -- was evacuated. Earlier, the flames played hopscotch === Page 36 of 93 # San Bernardino invaded # California fires sear 100 homes By YARDENA ARAR SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Winds howling up to 95 mph sent three fires roaring through 13,500 tinder-dry acres of forest and brush Monday, setting 100 to 200 houses aflame and forcing hundreds of foothill residents to flee. The most serious was the 8,000-acre Panorama fire that started about 75 miles east of Los Angeles in the Upper Waterman Canyon in the San Bernardino National Forest north of the city. Fanned by the high, northeasterly Santa Ana winds, that blaze swept down the hills and stormed through a 10-square-block area within San Bernardino city limits. "There are fires reported all over the city," said San Bernardino fire spokesman Jimmy Jews. "We have one block that has been destroyed. We're talking $80,000, $90,000, $100,000 homes, four- to five-bedroom homes." Debbie Ottoson, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry, said between 100 and 200 houses were destroyed or damaged in the Panorama fire. "We won't have a definite structure count until the fire is contained," she said. U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Debbie Salow said the fire was believed arson-caused. Jews said between 300 and 400 homes had been evacuated, with residents fleeing to centers in the National Orange Show grounds and Richardson Junior High. But some stayed. Harold Willis said it took only about an hour and 15 minutes for his $350,000 home on a bluff commanding a 180-degree view of the San Bernardino Valley to go up in smoke. "The fire came down in a huge ball (from the hill above)," Willis said. "It was just like a holocaust. Then the fire went over the house and started on down the hill below. We thought we had escaped. "But apparently some sparks blew in under the garage door and started a fire inside the garage. By the time we discovered it, it was just too late to get any fire trucks up here. There were just not enough to go around. They had houses burning all over the place, so we just stood there and watched it burn." No deaths and only minor injuries were reported. Jews said the fire's advance appeared to have slowed down by early evening. About three miles to the east, the Sycamore fire burned several structures and more than 500 acres of brush in the City Creek area. Ms. Ottoson, the state forestry spokeswoman, said that fire was moving southeast toward the Highland area, threatening more homes. The third fire was in the Mount Baldy area of the Angeles National Forest, about 20 miles west of San Bernardino. At least one summer cabin and 5,000 acres of timber went up in flames that had advanced to within less than a few hundred yards of Mount Baldy Village and were still on the move. Officials feared the entire village might be destroyed. "It's all around us," said Jean Adams, whose husband, Earl, owns the Snowcrest Lodge several miles north of Mount Baldy Village. "It's real close. Everyone was asked to evacuate, but we've decided to stay." She said firefighters were making a stand at the Zen Center across the road from the lodge. In the village, fire vehicles lined the main street and crews fought desperately to keep flames from racing down the western ridge and into the town. Monday's fires came just 10 days after firefighters controlled a 6,600-acre Bradbury fire, which developed about 20 miles southwest of Mount Baldy and in six days destroyed 55 homes and damaged 27 others for a loss of $25 million. One man died of a heart attack when he fled the flames. Angeles National Forest planning chief Art Smith said the Baldy fire apparently began "in an abandoned campfire in the Baldy Notch area near the top of the ski lift" and then was pushed southwest toward the village by the high winds. Both national forests were closed to all public entry except for residents and persons with special permits. The high winds, which were expected to last through Tuesday, precluded use of air tankers to fight the blaze. One light plane that did attempt a reconnaissance flight was unable to see the flames. # Bombed casino to reopen in May THE OREGONIAN, STATELINE, Nev. (AP) -- The Lake Tahoe hotel-casino shattered by an extortionist's bomb Aug. 27 is expected to be back in full operation by May. Vice President Richard Kudrna said the 11-story Harvey's Resort Hotel would be rebuilt at a cost of $12 million, which would be borne by the resort's insurance company. The repair will cover "everything that needs to be put back the way it was before the incident," Kudrna said. The main casino and two restaurants were back in business two days after the bomb blast. The 196 hotel rooms, a restaurant on top of the hotel and a portion of the casino have been closed because of structural damage caused by the explosion. The bomb went off shortly after an attempt to meet an extortionist's demand for $3 million in exchange for information on how to disarm the bomb went awry when the alleged extortionist failed to show at the drop site. The FBI is continuing its search for the extortionists, but neither its investigation nor a $200,000 reward fund has succeeded in turning up any suspects in the case. # 3 die in air crash ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) -- Three people were killed Saturday when two military aircraft collided during a test flight just offshore of Seacliff Park here, authorities said. Wreckage of the Hughes YAH-64 helicopter and T-28 single-engine airplane fell about a half-mile off the Encinitas coastline and into the town as well. San Diego County lifeguard Sgt. Bill Hunt said debris was scattered throughout a wide area of the ocean. The T-28 pilot parachuted to safety after the crash. "We felt the impact, an explosion, and saw debris falling into the water," said Greg Villanueva, a 40-year-old architect from nearby Irvine, who saw the accident. === Page 37 of 93 4-Projects PK Currents in the News # U.S. Will Feel Cold's Impact for Months Unusual winter weather--too cold in the East and too dry nearly everywhere--is causing problems that will plague Americans for much of 1981. Already evident are jumps in food and fuel costs--the result of temperatures that froze gardens and groves in Florida and forced shivering Easterners to turn up the heat. Even after winter ends, its repercussions will linger. This year's grain crops may be short as a result of too little snow this winter. Water shortages are likely to worsen in much of the East and parts of the West. Behind the nation's uncommon winter is a weather system rooted on the other side of the globe. Arctic air from ice floes off Siberia crossed Canada and caused record-low temperatures on the Eastern Seaboard. A persistent high-pressure zone over the Rocky Mountains--which funneled the Arctic air into the East--blocked arrival of moisture-bearing storms from the Pacific. It all spelled trouble for millions of people. While hundreds of ski-resort workers were laid off in the Rockies, welfare recipients lined up outside the governor's office in Rhode Island to demand money for heating fuel. Natural-gas supplies ran so low in Massachusetts that Governor Edward King ordered the closing of gas-heated schools. Many businesses in New England shut down for lack of heat. Heating-oil bills topping $400 a month became a reality as refiners jacked up prices. The cold wave boosted utility bills in the Washington, D.C., area alone by 10 million dollars a week. Waterways were frozen from the St. Lawrence River south to Chesapeake Bay. Prices of fish, lobsters and oysters nearly doubled as fishermen left nets and dredges on icebound boats. Northerners who fled to Florida to escape the cold wound up walking on the beaches in overcoats. Citrus growers watched helplessly as up to 20 percent of their orange crop froze on the trees. Wholesale prices jumped sharply. Also wrecked by the Florida freeze were crops of lettuce, beans, tomatoes, peppers and squash. Within days, supermarkets across the U.S. boosted produce prices 25 percent or more. Florida's vegetable growers quickly began preparing new crops that may help bring prices down by spring. But citrus prices are likely to remain high for many months if damage to the state's orange trees proves lasting. In some areas, alarm over the winter's drought rivaled concern about the cold. The Delaware River Basin Commission--made up of the governors of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware--declared a drought emergency after a dry spell shriveled water supplies to the lowest level in 15 years. The order banned such activities as noncommercial car washing and routinely serving water in restaurants. Western farmers, hit by drought last summer, feared they were not getting enough snow to provide moisture for a good 1981 grain harvest. In South Dakota, snowfall is 75 percent below normal. Governor William Janklow warned: "We're looking at a disaster the likes of which we haven't seen since the '30s." Still another problem: Barges ran aground on the Mississippi River, which fell to its lowest level in 111 years. The National Weather Service, seeing little relief ahead, says the weather through mid-February is likely to stay unusually cold in the East and abnormally dry in the West. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Jan. 26, 1981 "Power" & Rain Attack # Quake rescue efforts chided By CLARA HEMPHILL NAPLES, Italy (AP) -- Rescue teams used trained dogs Wednesday to sniff out people buried alive in the rubble of the Italian earthquake, Europe's deadliest in 65 years. Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni resigned, apparently in response to charges of delay in aiding the victims. The Italian military command said the death toll had reached 3,000, and 1,300 people were missing after the Sunday night quake. The Interior Ministry said more than 2,000 bodies had been recovered but gave no precise figure. The Interior Ministry released the text of Rognoni's resignation letter to President Sandro Pertini. He said he was quitting "to relieve the government of tensions that would tend to frustrate its activities, which absolutely must be freely carried out at this time." Rognoni added, "I have a tranquil conscience." The Cabinet fired the government's representative in Avellino, the hardest-hit province, and Pertini went on national television to criticize rescue operations. "Those who failed must be punished," he declared. The reason for dismissing the Avellino official, Attilio Del Befalo, was not given, but local Communist Party officials and the press had criticized him for delays in getting aid to victims. The military command said the quake injured 5,000 and made 200,000 homeless when it struck the poverty-stricken southern region. The quake damaged the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, Naples Archeological Superintendent Fausto Zevi said in a statement. He said the ruins, 14 miles southeast of Naples, suffered damage in about 100 places but provided no details. Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The quake also destroyed 1,000 objects and cracked walls in the Naples National Museum, Zevi said. Rain fell in some parts of the disaster zone and the national weather bureau forecast heavy showers Wednesday night, turning to snow by the weekend in mountains where many villages were stricken. "We need food and clothes but mainly we need arms to dig," said Raffaele Farese, an elderly man in Conza, a village east of Naples where hundreds are still missing. "It would be a miracle if anybody is still alive but that (digging) is the only way to save any body." In Lioni, a hill town east of Naples, Marta Enza stood vigil over a pile of concrete where her sister, Anna, and a 3-year-old niece still are buried. "The soldiers aren't coming here yet because only two are buried here," said Marta's fiance, Sergio Brux, staring at 30 soldiers pulling bodies from the rubble of an apartment building. Military search teams rescued a woman alive nearly three days after the quake from the ruins of her home in Santomenna, near Salerno. They pulled out two others alive in Sant' Angelo dei Lombardi, north of Conza. === Page 38 of 93 # 4 die in firestorm in San Bernardino By PAUL SIMON SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Four people died and about 400 were injured in a firestorm fed by erratic winds up to 60 mph that churned across the foothills of San Bernardino, charring 257 homes and forcing thousands to flee. Tuesday, officials called it the worst fire in the city's history. Acting Gov. Mike Curb declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County, citing property damage estimates of $44 million. The fire was one of nine raging across 50,000 acres of brush and timberland in Southern California, damaging or destroying more than 300 homes and forcing the evacuation of an estimated 10,000 people. In San Bernardino, an industrial city of 115,000, a fire believed caused by arson erupted Monday and swept across the northern edge of the city. Thousands of people abandoned their homes as the fire charred 12,000 acres in the city and in the San Bernardino National Forest to the north. "We just thought it would stay up there for awhile. Then everyone started running," said Caroline Moseman, whose home in the North Park area of the city was destroyed. About 1,900 firefighters battled the San Bernardino fire, the worst of the fires burning in five counties. But aircraft could not be enlisted in the fight because of the high winds. Firefighters bulldozed swaths of brush or timberland to hold the fires in check. In some areas the firefighters sought to block the blazes by starting their own controlled fires, called "back-fires." The charred bodies of an elderly couple were found in their yard by sheriff's deputies after their children reported them missing, said city fire spokesman Jimmy Jews. One San Bernardino man suffered a fatal heart attack while watering down his property to ward off the fire, and a woman died of a heart attack after being evacuated from her home, Jews said. At least 257 homes were either damaged or destroyed in that blaze, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Joanna Guttman. Jews said at least 180 of the homes were in ruins. "Without a doubt, it is unequivocally the worst fire we've ever had," he said. Police said they arrested four looters in the city's fire-stricken North Park area. Except for California 15 and 138, all roads into the fire area were closed Tuesday. Curb, speaking in Los Angeles for Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who was in Washington, D.C., said his emergency declaration would make low-cost loans available to stricken residents. He said 400 people were injured. Few serious injuries were reported. Meanwhile, seven homes were destroyed and another 56 damaged in the Indian Truck fire south of Lake Elsinore, and two cabins burned in a fire on Mount Baldy. The fires came only 10 days after the 6,600-acre Bradbury fire, about 20 miles south of Mount Baldy, which caused $25 million damage and one death. The 10,000-acre Indian Truck fire consumed seven homes and damaged 56 structures in the Holy Jim and Trabuco Canyon areas of Orange County. Firefighters were trying to keep the flames away from about 175 homes valued at $500,000 to $1 million in the exclusive Costa de Caza area. About 80 of Costa de Caza's 500 residents left voluntarily, and the Joplin Boys Camp also was evacuated. The fire flared up Monday in Riverside County, seven miles north of Lake Elsinore, and during the night jumped a ridge into Orange County. The Mount Baldy fire, the first of the blazes to flare up, swept through 10,000 acres of timber in the Angeles National Forest and was heading southwest toward the more populated San Antonio Heights and Cucamonga Canyon areas. It had destroyed two cabins, but firefighters managed to keep it from slipping into the canyon village, most of whose 1,000 residents had left. Meantime, a fire in the hills above Rancho Cucamonga, about halfway between the San Bernardino and Mount Baldy fires, had burned between 150 and 200 acres. The Grand Fire three miles southwest of Lake Elsinore had blackened 5,000 acres and prompted evacuation of residents of Lakeland Village. A fire in the Prado Flood Control Basin about 15 miles northwest of the lake, near Corona, destroyed a dairy and 300 acres of brush and was almost fully contained and half controlled Tuesday morning. Los Angeles County fire officials reported 40 percent containment, but five miles of open line remained on a brush fire that broke out early Tuesday and blackened 2,600 acres as it raced down Malibu and Stokes canyons toward the ocean. Some residents in Malibu and Stokes canyon, about 30 miles west of Los Angeles, were being evacuated, and two major area roads were closed, the California Highway Patrol reported. County fire spokesman Dick Friend said the fire burned parallel to a 1970 blaze that eventually burned all the way to the coast and destroyed 200 homes for a loss of $16 million. About five miles east of the big fire in San Bernardino, a fire that had blackened about 3,000 acres of brush-covered hillside in the San Bernardino National Forest was reported 25 percent contained. Some 490 U.S. Forest Service employees from 16 national forests in Oregon and Washington are helping to fight brush and forest fires in southern California this week. The largest contingent from the Northwest is the 60 firefighters dispatched from the Roseburg-based Umpqua National Forest. Related story on Page A6. === Page 39 of 93 B2 . 3 + W THE THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1981 # U.S. experts deny volcano affects weather in Japan SEATTLE (AP) -- U.S. Weather experts deny claims by their Japanese counterparts who say the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens is responsible for an unusually severe winter in northern Japan. "We can't rule out the possibility that the volcano had some effect," said Murray Mitchell, a senior climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration center at Silver Spring, Md. "But I, for one, am not convinced we can blame such things on any one factor such as a volcanic eruption." In a telephone interview, Mitchell said the massive plume from the eruption contained too little sulfur dioxide to form sulfuric acid droplets that would linger for months in the upper atmosphere, screening sunlight from the Earth and altering climate conditions. Two Japanese meteorologists began mentioning Mount St. Helens as a possible weather villain when northern Japan continued to experience the heaviest winter snows in two decades. The severe winter followed an unusually cool summer that caused severe crop damage. Motokazu Hirono, a geophysicist at Kyushu University, said radar probes of the stratosphere over Japan detected ash-induced aerosol particles five to six times normal density. "There seems to be some shielding effect from volcanic ash in the atmosphere," Hirono said. "The dynamics of the atmosphere are very complex," he continued, "but the possibility that the volcano has changed Japan's weather is there." The heavy snowfall in Japan has resulted in at least deaths and almost 500 injured. "I agree with the Japanese completely that the dynamics of the atmosphere are very complex," Mitchell said. "I think the weather has been unusual in many parts of the world, both last summer and this winter both." "I, for one, am not convinced we would not have most of this 'unusualness' coming at us even if there were no volcanic eruptions anywhere in the world, even if the sun were pouring radiation at us at exactly the same amount all the time." Mitchell said U.S. climatologists, who concentrate on North America, explain cold weather in the East and cold and drought in the West by factors such as unusual temperature distributions in # N.J. water crisis deepens By ROBERT HANLEY New York Times News Service TRENTON, N.J. -- Mandatory water rationing was extended from 114 to 202 communities in New Jersey Saturday, and Gov. Brendan Byrne ordered all of them to begin drafting emergency preparation plans for "possible failure of water supply systems." In a news conference permeated by an atmosphere of growing crisis, Byrne said that "maybe" a 40-day supply of water remained for about 3 million people in the northeastern part of the state, and his aides for the first time raised the possibility that firemen may be ordered to let buildings burn if reserves slump to a 10-day level. The prospect of unextinguished residential or industrial fires was described by Col. Clinton L. Pagano, superintendent of state police, as a last-resort contingency to save the last remaining water for drinking. "The drought situation is critical," the governor asserted, stressing again fices, schools and factories. Pagano disclosed during the conference that planning was nearly complete for a series of increasingly severe water-saving steps his emergency preparedness staff would propose to the governor as supplies dwindle. The initial proposal, he said, would come at the 30-day reserve level and include shutdown of industries using the heaviest volumes of water. Those closings would continue to broaden as supplies diminish, and if the forced conservation does not prevent a final 10-day supply, firemen responding to alarms would be under orders only to save people from burning buildings and not use hydrants, Pagano said. In the event that reservoirs and faucets do run dry, Pagano also disclosed that his staff is currently drawing plans to marshal tanker trucks and freight cars to haul water from vast and still bountiful groundwater acquifers in southern New Jersey, particularly in the Pine Barrens in Ocean County to # Meningitis strikes throughout Texas By SHARON HERBAUGH HOUSTON (AP) -- Health officials vaccinated students, teachers and staff members of a southside Houston elementary school Monday, hoping to curtail an unprecedented meningitis outbreak that has killed 10 people and afflicted at least 53 others statewide. Dr. Robert A. MacLean, deputy city health director, said inability to pinpoint the source of meningococcal meningitis prompted the decision to vaccinate the 765 pupils, faculty and employees of Dodson Elementary School, where five pupils have been stricken by the disease and one has died. Last week, health investigators took more than 1,500 throat cultures and 150 blood samples from Dodson teachers, pupils and their relatives in an effort to determine the source of outbreak at the predominantly black school in a poor section of downtown Houston. Results of the throat cultures showed 10 percent of those sampled were carriers, people who are infected with the disease without becoming ill. Officials said the figure was no greater than expected. Health officials said detailed investigations must be done on cultures of ill patients to determine whether the disease was transmitted by one person. Houston Independent School District officials also sent more than 400 letters to parents of Fondren Elementary School students Monday, explaining that a 5-year-old kindergarten pupil had contracted the deadly and contagious disease. However, MacLean said, no vaccinations are planned at Fondren, located in southwest Houston. Ten Texans have died and 53 others have been stricken with meningococcal meningitis since Jan. 1, according to Jan Simons of the Texas Health Department in Austin. She said the figure will rise as reports, delayed in the mail, are received from city and county health departments. === Page 40 of 93 # Blazers tackle road 'chuckhole' Note: When I pursue a team with pai force, below Journal Sports Writer Gwen is what happens. BY KEN WHEELER Journal Sports Writer SAN DIEGO -- Dressing the transit system in fancy clothes was folly from the start, the native New Yorker smirked. He pointed out to the Trail Blazers some new buses crawling the streets, nice looking buses in that sea of yellow cabs. These buses had glass in the place of graffiti, big hunks of glass which ran all the way down from a rib at the top of the bus to halfway down its waist. "Look nice," said the citizen, "but look at the glass. Nearly every pane is cracked. What they didn't think about was all the chuckholes in the streets. The bus hits one of those and a pane of glass breaks." Maybe it didn't occur to the Blazers at the time, not when they were in New York last weekend for a game with the Knicks. But the message was obvious. Aren't the Trail Blazers lucky that the upper halves of their bodies aren't windows. Talk about chuckholes. Now the Trail Blazers can tell you about chuckholes in the road. Here they are for a meeting with the San Diego Clippers tonight still looking for that first road win of the season. And this is the 14th time they have marched. On top of that, they've seen their luck grow increasingly sour even at home and they now tote a string of five losses in a row into this game, and have lost 16 of their last 20. Talk about chuckholes. Let the Trail Blazers tell you about theirs. Take it by the numbers. In the first road game of the season the Blazers were at Utah. The Jazz opened the second quarter with a 12-2 run. The Blazers lost by 10. Game No. 2 was at Golden State. Early in the third period, the Blazers were ahead by 19. By the end of the quarter it was tied. The Warriors won by three. Game No. 3, at Seattle. The Blazers were down by 14 in the first period, down by 17 in the second. They lost by 13. Game No. 4, at San Antonio. It was an even ball game most of the way until the Spurs ran six points in a row inside the last four minutes. The Blazers lost by eight. Game No. 5, at Kansas City. The score was tied early in the third period before the Kings ran a string of 14 in a row. The Blazers lost by 17. Game No. 6, at Los Angeles. The Lakers swaggered into a lead of 25 points in the third period, then had to hang on as Blazers missed three shots in the final seconds. Lakers won by one. tried to catch up. They lost by four. Game No. 11, at Boston. Wipeout. Wipeout. Wipeout. This whole night was a chuckhole, the Celtics up by 23 in the first quarter, by 31 later and the Blazers losing by 25. Game No. 12, at Philadelphia. The Blazers where ahead by four at the half, then opened the second half by shooting 1-for-17 from the field. In the midst of that, the 76ers outscored them 17-2. The Blazers lost by 13. Game No. 13, at New York. The Blazers were down by 12 with the fourth quarter's start. They did come back for a lead, then lost it on a three-pointer at the buzzer. New York won by one. How are those for chuckholes? In every Blazer game on the road, it seems, there has been a big one, a period when no shot (Continued on page 39) ★ Game No. 7, at Dallas. No part of the game was good for the Blazers. Still they trailed by only five in the third period when the Mavericks went on a 15-4 tear. The Blazers lost by seven. Game No. 8, at Denver. This one was close all of the way, the Blazers ahead by seven in the third period before losing by two. Game No. 9, at Phoenix. In this game, the Suns went on a 13-4 spree, scored nine in a row, then scored eight in a row another time. Blazers lost by 12. Game No. 10, at Atlanta. The Blazers fell behind by 17 in the first quarter, then - Bern. Δ Attack - Disorientation # Firefighters die as planes collide orig. 12/3/80 PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Two Arizona men helping fight Southern California brush fires were killed Tuesday when two C-54 air tankers collided during an aerial photography session. The men who died, pilot Clyde Alford, about 50, and Ronald Letness, about 30, both from Tucson, were in a four-engine plane that crashed and burned in the desert after the collision, police said. The pilot of the second firefighting plane, Kenneth White, 56, and his co-pilot, Gary Garrett, 41, managed to land safely at Palm Springs Airport, 10 miles away. White and Garrett, also of Tucson, were uninjured. Sgt. Keith Stinson of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said Alford apparently misjudged the location of the second plane after flying under it. The tail section of Alford's plane was damaged and one of the other plane's left engines was clipped. The plane that made it back to the airport had visible damage to one wing flap, officials said. Rescue crews had difficulty reaching the crash site in rugged terrain about 25 miles east of Palm Springs. The plane's wreckage was reported scattered over a three-mile area. Stinson said all four men were believed to be employees of a Tucson firm that had a firefighting contract with the U.S. Forest Service. Both planes had taken off from Hemet-Ryan Airport in Hemet and were returning to Tucson. The last of the big brush fires that scorched six counties was contained Tuesday after 423 homes and cabins and more than 140 square miles of timber and brush were scorched. # ★ Blazers minus Kermit for 5th straight game (Continued from page 35) will fall but all hope comes tumbling down. Of course there have been some untidy matters at home, too. A person could cite the game in which the Blazers were ahead of Kansas City by 19 in the second quarter but lost the game by one point. Or one could mention the game with Milwaukee when the Blazers were leading by eight at the end of the first period, then saw the Bucks run 18 in a row and eventually win by four. There was a meeting in Portland, too, with tonight's foe, the Clippers, in which the score was even in the fourth period before San Diego scored eight in a row, then went on to win in overtime. How about the home game with Utah? The Blazers were even at 75-75 in the fourth quarter, then saw the Jazz swing off on an 18-6 spree, finally winning by eight. Chuckholes. Let the Trail Blazers tell you about chuckholes. Missing for the Blazers tonight -- for the fifth game in a row -- will be Kermit Washington. He's still out with a pulled stomach muscle. But lucky the Trail Blazers are, lucky that their injuries haven't been more serious considering the size of the chuckholes they keep running into. But, really, are they running into them or digging them? === Page 41 of 93 Calif. PK- 12/1/80 Greg. P. # Rats scurry from brush fires; flooding likely SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) -- All but one of Southern California's devastating brush fires was contained Monday, but authorities warned of two new dangers -- disease-carrying wild rats and winter flooding. The starving rats moved down the charred slopes around San Bernardino during the weekend to search the wreckage of fire-ravaged homes for food. U.S. Forest Service officials said winter rain come could send floods rolling down the hills. That could prove as devastating as the fires, which killed four and caused over $70 million in damages. Police shot dozens of the wild rats during the weekend. The hungry rodents had left 140 square miles of still-smoldering high desert brush and mountain timber in the San Bernardino National Forest. "There's some real big ones up there," Sgt. Brad Hilder said. "We're concerned with two areas -- disease and injury. These things are about 10 inches long and they carry all sorts of diseases." Rats are known to carry bubonic plague, and police said that if the sudden rodent infestation continues, they will call in health authorities and pest control agencies to get rid of them. More than 2,000 firefighters worked through the night battling the last of the seven major brush fires still not contained Monday -- the week-old fire in the Cleveland National Forest, 15 miles southeast of Orange, Calif., where 29,000 acres had been charred. Instead of encircling the blaze and letting it burn out within a fan-shaped perimeter, the firefighters worked along a 7-mile line that ran down slopes and dipped into canyons to save every acre possible, said John Corbett, a Forest Service spokesman. Firefighters hoped to have that blaze fully contained Monday. Another fire that burned 6,000 acres in the Los Padres National Forest, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, was fully contained in the rugged, remote mountains, but firefighters did not expect to get it fully under control until later Monday. The brush fires destroyed a total of 320 homes and 49 sheds and garages, blackened about 80,000 acres, racked up $50 million in personal property damage and $22 million in damage to the watersheds, and created the possibility of serious winter flooding. Greg. 12/2/80 # Secret Service auto bumps Reagan car LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Secret Service vehicle carrying the usual weaponry to protect a president from attack bumped into the back of Ronald Reagan's limousine Monday. The president-elect was not injured. "The governor is fine. He suffered no ill effects," said David Prosperi, a press spokesman for Reagan. The accident occurred when Reagan's motorcade stopped abruptly for a red light. Larry Schief, a Secret Service spokesman in Los Angeles, said the accident resulted from a brake problem. Bern. Attack # Strange mist puzzles scientists in Florida ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -- An "alien" substance in the misty sea air has nauseated beachgoers and residents and killed dozens of seagulls and other birds along a 45-mile stretch of Florida's east coast during the past week. Scientists are puzzled by the source of the colorless, odorless substance, which causes stinging eyes, scratchy throats, coughing fits and nausea. No one has been hospitalized as a result, but Volusia County Health Department Director Dr. Hubert King said that hundreds of people between Flagler Beach and New Smyrna Beach have experienced temporary discomfort since the problem was first reported Nov. 17. King said Audubon Society members found "several dozen dead birds, primarily seagulls, a heron or two and some sandpipers" at New Smyrna Beach near where residents have complained of the hay-fever-like symptoms. So far, scientists are baffled and say they have no idea what killed the birds or what the substance is except that it is some kind of "particulate or gaseous" matter. "We are looking at air pollution per se -- industrial, chemical or natural matter of some type," King said. Greg. P. 11/27/80 Bern. Attack # Fire on cutter kills man NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An engine room fire aboard the Coast Guard cutter Durable killed one man Thursday as the vessel moved through the Gulf of Mexico toward homeport in Brownsville, Texas, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The spokesman at Coast Guard district headquarters in New Orleans said the Durable was dead in the water and the aircraft carrier Lexington was steaming to its aid. Greg. J. 12/5/80 Nevada PK # Plane crash kills two MARYSVILLE, Wash. (UPI) -- A 41-year-old pilot and his unidentified woman passenger were killed Sunday in the flaming crash of a twin-engine plane into a brushy backyard, the Snohomish County Sheriff's office reported. Robert Ericksson of Redmond and the passenger died instantly in the crash of the Cessna 320 about six miles northwest of Marysville. The plane, based at Paine Field in Everett, was returning from Reno, Nev. when it went down and burst into flames on impact at 3 p.m., about 150 yards behind the home of Joe and Jeanne Bridges. Greg. P. 12/1/80 === Page 42 of 93 # Bitter cold, snow snarl East Coast By United Press International A blustery snowstorm preceded a bitter cold drop in temperatures Wednesday in New York, creating hazardous driving conditions and making life miserable for morning rush hour commuters. A cold blast of Canadian air dropped temperatures into the teens and below in the Great Lakes and New England. At least three weather-related deaths were reported. Ohio residents woke up Wednesday to 2 to 6 inches of new snow. Up to 14 inches of snow covered some northern Ohio counties where strong winds were expected to cause blowing, drifting and hazardous driving conditions. From 2 to 3 new inches of snow fell in southwestern Pennsylvania; Allentown and Erie reported 4 inches. Travel advisories were posted for the western portion of the state, where many schools were closed. Roads were snow covered over all of Indiana Wednesday, making travel dangerous. Indiana's northwest area was the hardest hit, with many schools closed and strong winds caused drifting. Another 4 inches or more was expected in the area near Lake Michigan. Five inches of snow had fallen by morning rush hour and another 2 inches were expected before the storm ended Wednesday in New York, already reeling from a potential drought, a flu epidemic and thousands of unheated homes. City officials called in 344 sanitation workers two hours early Wednesday to man snow plows and clear the way for commuters. No major traffic tieups or accidents were reported. Railroads and transit authority officials expected minor delays but no major problems. New York public schools were open as usual, but several suburban school systems canceled classes because of the snow. In sharp contrast to the bitter cold of the East are the relatively balmy temperatures in the Northwest. But those enjoying the mild winter in the Pacific Northwest may not realize that the weather is so good it could bring on a power shortage next summer. Power watchers -- not to mention ski resort operators whose season is in financial ruins -- are concerned over the dwindling snowpack in the Cascade Range brought on by mild temperatures and heavy rainfall during the past few weeks. "What we've got so far is pretty sick," Bob Davis, a snow survey supervisor for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, said Tuesday. "In the Yakima Basin, it looks like we're in the 40 percent-of-normal category. In the Wenatchee Basin, it's a little less, probably 35 percent." The snowpack is currently at the same levels of 1977, when a severe drought ravaged the state. However, Davis said so far this year there is a higher water content in the snow, which means more power generation. Davis said the prospect for more snow soon isn't too good. "The 30-day outlook is for more of the same," he said. "If it doesn't improve, we're going to be hurting for water." Tennessee school children in 14 counties and three cities got the day off Wednesday because of snow and ice. Schools in Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri had to cancel classes Tuesday. Warm weather embraced the Southwest, with the mercury climbing to 80 degrees in Los Angeles Tuesday. But a band of bitter cold air -- with temperatures ranging from below zero to the 20s -- stretched across the Great Lakes into New England, making the day nearly unbearable for hundreds without heat in their homes. New York Mayor Edward Koch opened an armory in Manhattan, complete with 700 cots and blankets, for the more than 2,000 poor and elderly residents who live in apartment buildings without heat and hot water. With temperatures well below freezing, the city received 2,322 calls from heatless tenants. One caller who boiled water and kept her oven turned on for heat said it was "amazing people have to go through these things in this day and age." # Haywire robot destroys self GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI) -- Researchers say a robot, undergoing testing for use in the nuclear industry, ran amok at the University of Florida's Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics and destroyed itself. No one was hurt in the accident last weekend, but the robot, a multi-jointed mechanical shoulder, arm and hand that appeared to develop a mind of its own thrashed about to its own destruction, officials said Wednesday. "We had a hardware failure," said graduate student Harvey Lipkin, the only person present during the incident. "We believe the automatic control system went haywire, burned out a component and the arm was driven with force into its supporting stand. It ripped the shoulder off. It happened before I could hit the 'kill' switch." Lipkin said he was safe behind the control desk out of reach of the robot's metal arm, but added, "If someone had been standing there they could have been hurt badly." The young operator said the accident pointed up the need for better cut-off controls on the device, which is being developed under government and industry grants for industrial uses, including the maintenance of nuclear reactors, in environments considered hostile to humans. By DON DUNCAN SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington's "banana-belt" smugness has been severely jolted the past 10 months by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, extensive flooding and tree-toppling winds. The truth is, except for hurricanes, tornadoes and interminable heat waves, "God's Country" has tasted most of the heavy artillery in nature's varied arsenal. Since last April, the natural-disaster box score reads: Sixty-five presumed dead, countless animals lost, tens of thousands of acres of timber toppled, scores of homes destroyed, millions of cubic yards of volcanic ash spread around the world, rivers choked with mud. The eventual pricetag: over a billion === Page 43 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Bad weather closes roads, rail lines into B.C. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Freak weather has turned the Christmas holiday into a nightmare for thousands in British Columbia as washouts, mudslides, freezing rain and threats of avalanches closed all major highways and rail lines into the province. Rain combined with melting snow from unseasonably high temperatures drastically raised river levels in many southern areas of the mainland, with Squamish, Princeton and Hope the main danger spots. Rain also forced closure of highways on Vancouver Island, while in the north ice and snow combined to stall travel. At least $3 million to $4 million damage has been done to highways, with damage reports still coming in, Highways Minister Alex Fraser said Saturday. Two helicopters and a hovercraft were evacuating residents of Squamish and Brackendale, two communities about 30 miles north of Vancouver. More than 500 people were evacuated from low-lying homes in the area Saturday and were being housed in schools at higher elevations. Volunteers at Princeton, about 120 miles east of Vancouver, were piling sandbags along river banks Saturday as the Tulameen River began to rise again. Emergency officials at Hope, about 80 miles east of Vancouver, said residents evacuated Friday because of flood danger could be returning home late Saturday. About 60 residents of an expensive new subdivision were evacuated when RCMP and emergency personnel feared that collapse of a logjam in the flood-swollen Coquihalla River would release a 25-foot-high wall of water onto the community. But police said later that water was making its way around the jam, diminishing the threat. # 'This is ridiculous,' Billy Ray says points 'don't m- By KEN WHEELER Journal Sports Writer Billy Ray Bates and hard times have met before. Born the son of a Mississippi sharecropper who died when Bates was six, Billy Ray knows something about scratching it out. And he knows something about batting, about hanging tough, something about not losing hope when there doesn't seem much reason to keep it. It wasn't until last spring when the Trail Blazers, in their desperation of the moment, signed him out of basketball's minor league, a place where his star finally had a chance to shine after he had flunked tryouts with Houston and Philadelphia. And things took an upturn. And now Billy Ray, after that folk-hero spring of last season, sits in puzzlement along with the rest of the Trail Blazers and tries to figure out what's happening. Tuesday night in Memorial Coliseum the Trail Blazers returned from a four-game string of defeats on the road to make it five losses in a row, getting knocked off by the poor-record New Jersey Nets 118-105. Overall, the record now is 16 losses in the last 20 games as the Blazers continue to stumble and tumble with only the expansion Dallas Mavericks owning a worse record than their own. Billy Ray's thrust, the third-quarter work of rookie Kelvin Ransey and the second-half work of Calvin Natt were about the only things the Blazers could look back on and label as positive. === Page 44 of 93 THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981 3M D5 Vancouver flight - PK - # Search for plane foiled by bad weather VANCOUVER, Wash. - Bad weather prevented an air search Wednesday for a single-engine plane that vanished Monday afternoon during an eight-mile flight over Vancouver, a spokesman for the Washington Division of Aeronautics said. Ground search teams from the Civil Aeronautics Patrol, the Clark County sheriff's department and the Coast Guard checked a few leads Wednesday but found no trace of the plane or its pilot, Don Rudebaugh, 28, said sheriff's Sgt. Sid Larrabee. Rudebaugh, a mechanic and pilot for Aircraft Specialties of Vancouver, left the Clark County Aerodrome about 1 p.m. for an eight-mile southwesterly flight to Pearson Airpark, where the plane was due for repairs, Larrabee said. Two Coast Guard boats patrolled an area on the Columbia River near the Interstate 205 bridge, where an oil slick was sighted Wednesday morning, but found no trace of the plane, Larrabee said. John Trudel of Troutdale, who is co-owner of the plane with Al McKenzie of Gladstone, Ore., said a plane was tracked by Portland International Airport personnel flying at a low altitude toward Vancouver Lake on what would have been a normal low-altitude approach to Pearson Airpark. The plane vanished from the tracking screens shortly thereafter, Trudel said. An Aircraft Specialties spokesman said Rudebaugh was "a well-qualified pilot," and Trudel said he was baffled that the plane would vanish "in the strangest set of circumstances I've ever heard of." He said the weather at the time "was bad, but not what an instrument pilot would call bad weather." Trudel discounted the theory that Rudebaugh flew somewhere else with the plane. "He is very conscientious and has a good reputation as a pilot," Trudel said. "And in the cold weather, he didn't even take his jacket with him." - 4 Projects PK - # Europe struggles in heavy snow LONDON (UPI) - Heavy snowfall, high wind and avalanches have swept across Europe, stranding a prime minister, grounding a princess and causing numerous deaths. In Greece, a snowstorm and icy wind prevented Princess Margaret of Britain from taking a helicopter trip Thursday to the ancient theater of Epidavros. Instead she went shopping in Athens and toured the Benaki Museum. Greeks shivered in freezing temperatures and snow blocked a national highway near Lamia and Larissa while gales delayed domestic flights. Four persons, including a 4-day-old infant and a 62-year-old pensioner, reportedly died of hypothermia. Avalanches killed four German tourists in the Arlberg region of Austria during the week and 6,000 persons were stranded in ski resorts. Continual snowfall brought 10 feet of fresh snow, and skiers were warned not to leave their lodges. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who was vacationing at Lech, Austria, had to wait three days before he could be flown out in a helicopter Wednesday. Palermo, Sicily, had its first snowfall since the winter of 1962. It knocked out electricity in the city for three hours Thursday, caused traffic jams and forced closure of the airport. The storm began before dawn and by the time residents went to work their cars were covered with 4 inches of snow. In central Tuscany, frigid temperatures iced the main highway linking northern and southern Italy. More than 50 vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction collision. Six days of some of the worst snow since 1968 have blanketed Switzerland. Roads were closed, mountain passes blocked and villages cut off. A doctor and his wife escaped unhurt when an avalanche swept away their Alpine chalet in Evolene. Oreg 1/9/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Wind, snow bring misery to wide area By The Associated Press Deadly winds pushing heavy thunderstorms roared out of the Great Lakes Wednesday after dumping more snow on the Midwest. Winter's meanest storm caused flooding and power outages from Florida to New England but also brought welcome rain. The death toll rose to 27. Fog snarled air traffic in New York City, and snowdrifts of up to 5 feet forced police to close highways in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where 14 inches of snow fell overnight, and some communities declared snow emergencies. In the Carolinas, windstorms killed three people, damaged homes and businesses and brought down power lines. Power outages also were reported in Georgia, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania. Records for low temperatures were set or matched in at least a dozen cities, including North Platte, Neb., where a minus-22 reading tied the mark established in 1899. Three men froze to death in Colorado, Idaho and Iowa. Bitter cold froze natural gas wellheads and power-plant feeder lines in Texas, forcing utilities statewide to declare an emergency and ask residents to curb demand. Two men burned to death in a Fort Worth apartment, and authorities said they had been using the kitchen range for heat. Temperatures along the western Gulf Coast were in the teens Wednesday after hitting highs in the 70s and 80s Tuesday. Meanwhile, the deaths of seven people in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin were blamed on the strain of shoveling snow. Slick highways forced authorities to cancel school for youngsters from the plains of Oklahoma to the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Oreg. 2/12/81 === Page 45 of 93 Are aliens just watching us or getting set for invasion? Nat'l Examiner 2/17/81 2 spokesman John Williamson. "If the satellite had exploded, there would be at least one piece that would have shown up on radar. The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) can track an object no bigger than a basketball 23,000 miles up, so they would have certainly located some-thing," said Williamson. "If it had been pushed into a different orbit by a malfunction of its engine, NORAD would have located it when it reached its nearest point to Earth. But that hasn't happened either," said Williamson. Barry thinks aliens may have been watching the Sat-com 3 ever since its launch from Cape Canaveral. "Cape Canaveral seems to be one of the favorite checkpoints for UFO activity. UFOs are usually reported in heavy concentrations around the Cape three days before a launch," he said. The satellite should have stayed in its orbit for years, according to Jim Kukowski, a spokesman for NASA, which handled the satellite's launching. "It was a communications source for television programs and telephone calls. Another Satcom satellite will be launched in June to replace it. But we just don't know what happened to the first one," he said. --by NAOMI WADE 1 ONE of our satellites has vanished in space, and scientists fear it was snatched out of its orbit by UFOs! The 1-ton Satcom 3 communications satellite disappeared suddenly from radar screens -- its fate remains a bizarre mystery. "A few seconds earlier it was working beautifully and sending back all kinds of data. Then it simply vanished," said Robert Barry, head of the Twentieth Century UFO Bureau in Yoe, Pa. "Someone out there is showing a lot of interest in our activities down here. We already know that UFOs have been scrutinizing our satellites, and this isn't the first time a satellite has vanished mysteriously," Barry told the Examiner. The $20-million satellite may now be in the hands of curious aliens, examining it for information. "I suppose they'd want the same thing from it as we would want from one of their spaceships," said Barry. "But imagine if they had plucked a manned spacecraft from orbit! The implications would be tremendous," he added. Satcom 3 is just another entry on a growing list of incidents between Earth spacecraft and UFOs. "The Soviets have lost satellites of their own. Their Molniya satellite disappeared the same way, and we know that our Gemini missions and the Soviets' Salyut space lab were buzzed by UFOs," said Barry. RCA, which owned the Satcom satellite, is puzzled as to its whereabouts. "We've lost our satellite and we have no idea what happened to it," said RCA === Page 46 of 93 - UFOs vs. U.S. Govt - over: 11/14/80 # Rapid deployment test undeterred by deaths By LISETTE BALOUNY CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The fatal crash of a U.S. military transport plane marred Thursday's start of operation Bright Star, the first test of America's rapid deployment force to defend Western oil supplies in the Middle East. The 11 men and two women aboard the C-141 were killed, military authorities said. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the plane, one of several involved in the 1,400-person military exercise, was on its final approach to an Egyptian military airport when it crashed into the desert dunes "in a fireball that lit up the night sky." The plane crashed two to five miles short of the runway at Cairo West Air Base during a banking turn under clear night skies just before midnight Wednesday, according to Maj. Gen. Jerry Curry, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington. He said an investigation had begun but that the Air Force had no idea of the cause. The plane was attached to the 62nd Airlift Wing based at McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma, he said. The joint exercises of about 1,400 Army troops and airmen include units from the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Ky. An Egyptian Defense Ministry spokesman said Bright Star would continue. Pentagon officials have stressed that the joint Egyptian-American operation was planned well before the outbreak of the Persian Gulf war between Iran and Iraq. They say the two-week exercise is to give the Americans the desert practice they need to live up to the U.S. commitment to defend the Western oil supplies pumped from Mideast oil fields. The war has cut off oil production in Iran and Iraq, and the fighting threatens the Strait of Hormuz, through which sail tankers bearing much of the world's oil. The charred debris of the giant transport plane, which was capable of carrying 154 people, was spread over more than half of a square mile northeast of the base. A spokesman from McChord said, "It was carrying supplies for the rapid deployment exercise, and that's why there were so few on board." Military police surrounding the site told reporters and photographers that they had orders to shoot anyone approaching the area. In Washington, defense officials said reports indicated the plane was carrying some unspecified explosives, liquid oxygen equipment, trucks and spare parts. An embassy spokesman in Cairo said the explosion may have been caused by the fuel but discounted the possibility that weapons on board were to blame. American military officials, including the operation's commander, Marine Lt. Gen. Paul X. Kelly, were on the site investigating the debris, the guards said. A similar crash three months ago killed two Americans. Their F-4E, one of 12 fighter bomber jets, was involved in operation Proud Phantom, a joint U.S.-Egyptian exercise that lasted 90 days. It was designed to give American pilots and crewmen experience in the fiercely hot Middle East deserts. The cause of that crash is still under investigation. In Washington, the Air Force said the dead included Airman 1st Class Karen L. Marti of Springfield, Mass.; Senior Airman Martha M. Misko of Chatsworth, Calif.; Capt. Patrick A. Welsh of Vancouver, Wash.; Capt. Bradford B. Hirschi, who was born in Cedar City, Utah; Senior Airman Raymond J. Bianchi of Buffalo, N.Y.; Senior Airman Geoffrey L. Galvin of Houston, Texas. Also killed were Staff Sgt. David L. Harer of Cape May, N.J.; Tech. Sgt. Lonnie G. Hoye of Lewiston, Idaho; Staff Sgt. Gary T. Payne of Clear Lake, S.D.; Senior Master Sgt. Gerald J. Stryzak of Horsham, Pa.; Tech. Sgt. Robert S. Tuggle of Satellite Beach, Fla.; and Staff Sgt. Glenn R. Williams of Wheelersburg, Ohio. The 13th victim's name and hometown were not released pending notification of next of kin. The bodies were flown to the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein, West Germany, then to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, military authorities said. Gen. Mohsen Hamdi, an Egyptian Ministry of Defense spokesman, said at a news conference arranged before the crash that any such incident would not affect the military operation. Hamdi said the joint exercises, scheduled to run until Nov. 25 when the last Americans leave Egypt, represent "continuing military cooperation between the United States and Egypt." But he reiterated that although the Egyptian government was allowing American forces to "use" base facilities, it was "not giving permanent bases." - U.S. S.S. A. Attack - # Coast Guard ends search NEW YORK (AP) - Terming the decision "regretful," the Coast Guard Monday ended the 10-day search for the missing freighter Poet and announced that a marine board will begin an inquiry into the mysterious disappearance. Vice Admiral Robert Price called union leaders representing the vessel's 34 crew members to Governors Island to inform them of his decision, reached when aerial crews found no trace of the vessel. The 500-foot ship disappeared after it left Philadelphia on Oct. 24, bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a cargo of 13,500 tons of corn. 11/18/80 === Page 47 of 93 - Ben. Attack? - E26 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1980 # Oil workers evacuated; rare hurricane stalls "Power" + Rain Attack MIAMI (AP) -- Oil companies began evacuating hundreds of workers from rigs and work barges in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday as a rare November hurricane stalled 450 miles south-southeast of New Orleans. Hurricane Jeanne reached minimal hurricane status at midmorning when its sustained winds hit 75 mph, 1 mph above the threshold. It was expected to hold its position through Tuesday with little change in strength, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. "The steering currents in the vicinity are just about balanced," said forecaster Joe Pelissier. "There's no air flow tending to move it in any direction ... the large-scale atmospheric pattern has more or less stagnated. This could go on for the next two days." At 5 p.m. EST, the storm hadn't moved in three hours and still was centered near latitude 24.0 north, longitude 87.5 west. Gale-force winds extended outward 150 miles to the north and 100 miles to the south as Jeanne and a large high-pressure system over the eastern United States combined to cause rough seas over the north-central and northeast gulf, areas dotted by offshore oil rigs. Small-craft operators along the Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas, to Tarpon Springs, Fla., were advised to remain in port, and marine interests elsewhere along the northern gulf were advised to be aware of the storm's movement. Pelissier said the hurricane probably wouldn't strengthen and might weaken as it sat churning in the gulf. "I'm rather surprised it became a hurricane at all," he said. "There's been a couple cold fronts through the gulf this fall and that makes the air a little cooler and drier than it is in September. As soon as some of this drier air penetrates the circulation it would have a weakening effect." Forecaster Gil Clark said the stall was first indicated in reports from Air Force reconnaissance planes that flew through the storm Tuesday morning. Earlier reports indicated the storm was moving to the north-northwest at about 6 mph. Clark also said that the new information prompted forecasters to relocate the estimate of the storm's center to a point south and west of the position the center reported earlier. The last November hurricane to hit land struck Miami on Nov. 4, 1935, said public service forecaster Alvin Samet. One hit the Tampa Bay area on Nov. 30, 1925, and one swept across the Florida Keys on Nov. 15, 1916. All three were minimal hurricanes, Samet said. He said there have been other November hurricanes that did not reach land. Jeanne achieved tropical-storm status with sustained winds of at least 39 mph on Sunday as it moved northward through the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba. The 1980 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30. Although local and state government in Louisiana took a Veterans Day holiday, some agencies called in workers Tuesday to monitor the storm. Chevron USA Inc. said it probably would evacuate about 900 offshore workers and other oil companies -- Gulf, Shell and Texaco -- said they were closing down some operations and moving in everyone but those required to keep operations going. "We don't fool around in these situations," said spokesman Newell Schindler of Chevron. "About 9 a.m., we gave the order to secure and shut in as necessary," Schindler said. "We are now moving in all large, movable equipment like work barges and so forth." The weather service said residents in the 16 Louisiana parishes should check supplies of canned food, bottled water, flashlight and radio batteries, and other emergency provisions. Even if it doesn't hit New Orleans, Lamieux said his board expected the "effects of high winds, and combined with the high pressure system north of us, will give us higher tides." "The high tides should affect the lake (Pontchartrain), the Industrial Canal, the Intracoastal Waterway and other connected waterways," Lamieux said. Ore. 11/12/80 Ore. 11/13/80 # The North Copter crash takes 3 lives TALENT (AP) -- Rescue teams removed on Wednesday the bodies of three crew members of an Army helicopter that crashed on a fog-shrouded butte in southwestern Oregon. Officials at Fort Lewis, Wash., identified the victims as Warrant Officer Charles M. Falcone, 29, the pilot; 2nd Lt. Andrew W. Stocker, 24, the co-pilot; and Pfc. Gerald F. Court, the crew chief. Searchers in an Army helicopter spotted the wreckage early Wednesday after noticing that several trees had been sheared off on Anderson Butte, about 20 miles south of Medford near the Oregon-California border. The Huey helicopter, on a training mission from Fort Lewis, was with four others and about to return from the butte area late Tuesday, Fort Lewis spokesman Steve Stronjvall said. "The first four made it off in the fog with no problems," Stronjvall said. "The fifth was lost in the fog." 3 die in helicopter crash JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- Three servicemen died and one was seriously injured Sunday when a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crashed and caught fire during a demonstration at an air show at Joliet Park District Airport, authorities said. No one on the ground was injured. "It hit the ground, it bounced up, flew in the air, and the tail section just kind of broke off and it nosed over sideways," said Dan M. Collins, 18, an airport employee who witnessed the crash. "Then the fuel caught fire." Sgt. H.G. Washington, a Marine public affairs officer, said the helicopter was part of the Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 776 of the Marine Air Control Group 48 stationed at Glenview. === Page 48 of 93 - Berm. A Attack - AY, NOVEMBER 13, 1980 # Storm's threat called minimal MIAMI (AP) -- Jeanne, the most powerful hurricane to work its way so far north in the Gulf of Mexico this late in the season, drifted slowly south of New Orleans Wednesday and forecasters said it may not reach land with any punch. The chilly waters of the Gulf sapped the strength of the storm, the first November hurricane in 14 years. At 5 p.m. EST Wednesday, the storm, with winds of 75 mph, was centered about 400 miles south of New Orleans, near latitude 24.0 north, longitude 90.0 west. Gale-force winds extended 150 miles north of the hurricane and 100 miles to the south. The storm was moving west at about 5 mph. But forecasters said it was doubtful that Jeanne would reach land with any significant force. "Everything's against it," said Gil Clark of the National Hurricane Center. "It probably won't make it to land." Jeanne, the first Atlantic-area hurricane to form in November since 1966, was farther north and west than any tropical storm recorded so late in the season. "We've had a few in the Gulf before, but never one that's made it this far north and west," Clark said. "Our records go back to 1886." "We think it's going to weaken, because it's completely surrounded by dry air from a front that's pushed from behind, plus the water temperature is rather cool," he added. Meanwhile, a Coast Guard spokesman in Miami reported Wednesday that a commercial barge sent from Key West, Fla., several days ago to pick up a disabled Coast Guard helicopter began taking on water in heavy seas south of the hurricane Tuesday and sank moments after its three crewmen were rescued. The 85-foot motorized barge Acquarius sank 270 miles west-southwest of Key West, according to the spokesman, Greg Robinson. The amphibious helicopter has been floating in the Gulf since last Thursday, when it lost power while on a routine patrol, Robinson said. He said the cutter Dependable, which has been standing by the helicopter since taking its crew aboard, rescued the barge crewmen. org. 11/13/80 - U.S. Berm. A Attack - ? # Helicopter crash kills three fliers JOLIET, Ill. (UPI) -- A Marine helicopter performing at an air show stalled for a split second, catapulted to the ground and burst into flames, killing three servicemen and seriously injuring another, police said. Several thousand persons at the Joliet Park District Airport's 50th anniversary celebration Sunday witnessed the accident, but all were more than a half mile from the crash site. The UH-1 "Huey" helicopter, stationed at Glenview Naval Air Station, stalled as it pulled up sharply from a low-level, high-speed pass, witnesses said. A rear rotor touched the ground and the copter flipped over and exploded on impact in a grassy field. "It was on a maneuver at the east end of the airfield, going straight up when it seemed to stall," one witness recalled. "It came down and started skipping across the field and, in the process, started breaking apart." Two of the four servicemen on board were dead at the scene, police said. The other two were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in critical condition, but one died 2½ hours later. Marine Maj. Joseph Hutton said police and firefighters crawled underneath the twisted wreckage and cut a hole through the bottom of the craft to reach the victims because the doors were jammed. Charred pieces of metal were strewn about the field. Military officials have not determined the cause of the crash, and pilot error has not been ruled out, Hutton said. org. Sept. 22 '80. - U.S. Bermuda A Attack - # Foul fumes fell diners HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) -- Police and health officials tried to determine Saturday what triggered the release of noxious fumes that sickened 60 people at the Sleigh House Restaurant. The restaurant was closed at least until Monday, but another restaurant about a mile down Dixwell Avenue, Jimmies, reopened Saturday following an apparently similar, but smaller, incident in which at least one person was sickened Friday night. Police said they believed the two incidents, which occurred within half an hour of each other, were unrelated. The first incident occurred at the Sleigh House Restaurant, where 60 people, many of them attending a wedding reception, were overcome by fumes, police said. Initially, police said they believed the Sleigh House problem was caused by an exhaust leak from a gas-fired hot water heater. Police continued their investigation Saturday, joined by state health officials and arson experts, but no further information on the cause of the leak was available. org. 9/21/80 U.S. "A" Attack? Early PK. # Smog warning issued in LA LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Elderly people, small children and people with breathing problems were told to stay indoors and avoid strenuous activity Friday as officials issued the second health warning in two days because of heavy smog in Southern California. Air quality inspectors checked factories and power plants again to make sure they complied with strict air pollution rules, as the oxidant-sulfate smog stung people's eyes and lungs. The same brown smog that had settled on Los Angeles on Wednesday remained in the air Friday. org. Sept. 6, '80 === Page 49 of 93 Boys ride eight hours when driver gets lost GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Two hyperactive boys were back with their parents in Lowell Wednesday morning after their school bus driver got lost on the tangle of interstate highways outside Boston on her first day on the job and took the youths on an eight-hour ride. They wound up 70 miles past their destination, on the opposite end of the state, with the bus out of gas, police said. A police search had been under way for several hours in eastern Massachusetts when Jeffery Mason, 10, Ronald McGaunn, 11, and their bus driver, Shirley Allard, were discovered out of gas on Interstate 91 near Greenfield, about 70 miles west of their intended destination, late Tuesday afternoon. The two boys, described by their parents as hyperactive, had been picked up from their homes about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday for the 20-mile ride to the Gaebler School in Waltham. "I still don't believe it," said the bus driver, Mrs. Allard, 45, of Lowell. "I will turn in my resignation. It was just a wasted day. I just want to go back home. "They thought I was kidnapping the children," she said. "For cripes sake, I have six grandchildren." Greenfield police were called in on the case after the station wagon school bus, belonging to the S&S Transportation Co. of Lowell, was towed into a Greenfield service station. Mrs. Allard didn't have the cash to cover the $32 fee and couldn't contact anyone at the bus company. When the three arrived at the police station, there was an all-points bulletin on the teletype for the missing boys, police said. "After questioning her, we are satisfied she was just lost," said Greenfield police Sgt. Joseph Gagner. "As far as we are concerned there is nothing criminal." Nevada nuclear test site leaking radioactive gases LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- "Small amounts" of radioactive gas leaked from the site of an underground nuclear test, but the gas was not expected to pose a health hazard, the Department of Energy said Friday. The gas, which began seeping Thursday night after a test earlier in the day, had not left the confines of the 1,350-square-mile Nevada Test Site, said department spokesman Dave Jackson. Jackson said the gas leak was detected as soon as it occurred by sensitive instruments and that radiation monitoring teams were immediately sent into the area, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. "The weather conditions are such that we do not believe it will leave the test site," Jackson said. "There is no indication of a health hazard on the test site, and there have been no accidental exposures to radiation from the seepage." He said the radioactive gas "has not been detected beyond the borders of the test site and is not expected to leave the Nevada Test Site." The National Weather Service said there were light and variable northwest winds at the test site Friday morning. The winds were only about 5 mph, not strong enough to blow the radioactive gas from the the test site, said weather service spokesman Lester Dodd. Cause of blast baffles officials FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) -- About 2,000 people returned home Saturday while investigators puzzled over the cause of a chemical plant explosion that sent a cloud of poisonous chloride gas into the air. Two plant workers were seriously hurt, and 16 other people were treated for smoke inhalation in the Friday night blast, which damaged several mixing chambers and a smokestack at the Great American Chemical Corp. plant. City officials ordered an evacuation of nearby areas. About a half-mile of the area's major highway, Massachusetts 12, remained closed Saturday, and local freight traffic on the Boston & Maine Railroad was rerouted. "Everybody was allowed to return to their homes at about 2 a.m., although some chose not to until things settle down more," police Lt. Edward Gallant said Saturday. Firemen continued to pour water on one of the mixing chambers Saturday to keep it cool until the remaining vinyl chloride and polyvinyl chloride gas could be removed, fire department officials said. The fire marshal, meanwhile, was expected to spend several days trying to pinpoint the cause of the blast. The plant, about a mile from downtown Fitchburg and 45 miles northwest of Boston, combines gases and water to make plastic pellets used in the manufacture of toys and other products. The injured employees were working in the plant's processing center when the mixing chambers apparently overheated and exploded, knocking down one of the concrete walls of the building, authorities said. It was not immediately clear how many of the factory's 15 mixing chambers were involved. The injured men were admitted to a hospital with burns and cuts. Deputy Fire Chief James Keane said automatic sensing devices at the plant detected leaking gas shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. He and other firefighters responded and saw a "thick, heavy, white, dense cloud lying near the ground" when they arrived at the plant. "I got out of my car and started ordering the men to take their positions when it exploded," Keane said. === Page 50 of 93 SEPTEMBER 21, 1980 # Military secretive - SI vs. U.S. Govt - U.S. Bermuda Attack - # Titan II warhead 'lost' after blast By STEVE BREWER DAMASCUS, Ark. (AP) -- Air Force rescue workers had to search through debris-strewn pastures for a nuclear warhead after a Titan II missile silo exploded in Arkansas, according to a sheriff and others who monitored military radio transmissions. Conway County Sheriff Carl Stobaugh said he learned from the transmissions that the warhead atop the intercontinental ballistic missile was hurled several hundred feet in the pre-dawn blast Friday that killed one Air Force sergeant and injured 21 other maintenance workers. He said he learned that the warhead had not been moved by Saturday night and that the Air Force was working on it at the site. Neither the Pentagon nor the Strategic Air Command in Omaha, Neb., would comment on the location of the warhead or whether the missile was armed with a nuclear weapon. The Washington Post quoted a government source as saying the Air Force was planning to truck the warhead from the Damascus site "as soon as possible" to the Little Rock Air Force Base and then to another site for study. In an arrangement worked out between the Air Force and Arkansas state officials, the Air Force must notify state law enforcement authorities if it plans to move any nuclear weapons so the state can provide a convoy, the newspaper said. Bob Lyford, Gov. Bill Clinton's aide for emergency services, said no such request for police escort had come into the governor's office. Transcripts of radio transmissions monitored by the Arkansas Gazette while rescue workers were searching for the injured indicate that the warhead was clearly lost for a time. At one point came this exchange: "Air Force to Command One. Anybody that goes along that area now, have them look around to see if they can pinpoint the warhead." "Roger, I understand. Is there any danger as far as approaching it and radiation?" "At this particular point, it's unknown, but no one thinks so at this point." According to Stobaugh, the transmissions said the warhead, which was eventually recovered intact, was catapulted 300 to 400 feet in the blast, which left a debris-strewn crater 250 feet wide. Lt. Gen. Lloyd Leavitt, SAC vice commander, told reporters at a news conference Saturday at Little Rock Air Force Base that the missile was reduced to bits and pieces. He flew to Arkansas Saturday morning and said he "looked in the hole where formerly the missile was." "We have about the worst case we could have in terms of a Titan accident," he added, but he said it was important that there were no civilian injuries. Leavitt referred to the incident as a "catastrophic failure of the Titan II." He also refused to discuss whether a warhead was on the missile, repeatedly turning the question aside. Leavitt said the Air Force does not know which of several possibilities caused the explosion but that an investigation board has been empaneled and has begun its probe. When questioned about the shattering of the 740-ton concrete and steel silo door, Leavitt said it was easier to destroy from the inside. The door had been publicized as being adequate to withstand all but a direct nuclear hit. Leavitt said portable vapor detectors carried by Sgt. David Livingston and Sgt. Jeff Kennedy "pegged," or registered, the highest level possible on the equipment while the two were inside the silo early Friday. The highest possible reading was still below explosion level, Leavitt said. The two were ordered out when the equipment "pegged" because the officials said conditions were not safe even with special suits. Leavitt said the men did nothing to cause the explosion, to the best of his knowledge. "We don't know which of several elements caused the explosion," he said. Air Force Secretary Hans Mark had said Friday that there was "absolutely no evidence of radioactive debris in the area" and that "the warhead is not in danger of being ignited because it was designed with fail-safe devices." Related story on Page 4 === Page 51 of 93 Chemicals poison Caribbean - Bermuda Attack - By MARLISE SIMONS LA Times-Washington Post Service MEXICO CITY -- A mysterious discharge of highly toxic chemicals into the Caribbean off the northern coast of Puerto Rico has caused two deaths in the Dominican Republic and poisoned millions of fish in one of the world's richest fishing grounds. The Dominican government has banned all fishing until further notice, issued nationwide warnings against seafood consumption, and seized all fish in markets, shops and restaurants as waves of dead fish continue to wash ashore in that island nation. Although the dangerous chemicals probably will be diluted over the next several days, there is rising concern that the poisoned waters will be carried northwest toward the Bahamas and the Florida coast, where American and other fleets work important fishing grounds. Reached by telephone, Dominican authorities said they had already found several unmarked 55-gallon barrels in the area with liquids containing mercury, chlorine, sulfur and phosphates. Because there have been no reports of sea accidents, they said they believed the substances were dumped deliberately. Navy Capt. Narciso Almonte, director of the Dominican Department of Fisheries, said that on the basis of the currents, the chemicals were believed to have entered the water near the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico. First evidence of the disaster came Tuesday when Puerto Rican fishermen found thousands of dead fish floating in the water off their western coast. Vast blankets of dead fish then began to appear on the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic. The currents carried the poisoned waters and dead fish both to the north and the south coasts of the island of Hispaniola, which the Dominican Republic shares with Haiti. Despite immediate government warnings on radio and television in the Dominican Republic, presidential spokesman Franklin Dominguez said, at least two persons have died and some 90 have suffered ill effects. To trace the cause of the disaster, Dominican officials said they were in touch with their counterparts in Puerto Rico, where fishing was also halted in certain areas. The officials said they had not discovered any hints of the origins of the chemicals because the barrels they found showed no writing or symbols of any kind. Almonte said analysis of the chemicals in the barrels "coincided exactly with the analysis of the water, the dead fish and the seaweed." Almonte said in a report that two types of liquid were discovered in the barrels: "One was very dark, one light. Both were very thick, with a strong smell." Oregonian Sept 15, '80 - U.S. Berm. Attack - Explosion Rocks Oakland Rail Yard A deafening explosion yesterday in the West Oakland Southern Pacific Railroad yard was heard 15 miles away and shattered windows in nearby structures, but it caused only minor injuries to two workmen. Southern Pacific officials and the Oakland Fire Department are investigating the cause of the explosion, which occurred at 8:15 a.m. in a metal shed where tools and welding equipment, including acetylene gas, were stored. A Southern Pacific spokesman said workmen Anthony Ruiz, 25, of Oakland, and Glenn Cozzetti, 27, of Hayward, entered the garage shortly before the blast and boarded an uncovered work truck. When Cozzetti turned on the ignition the explosion occurred. The metal walls of the shed were blown out, windows within a 100-foot radius were shattered, pipes in the building were bent and much of the equipment in the area was damaged, Southern Pacific spokesman Stan August said. Ruiz and Cozzetti were taken to Providence Hospital with first and second degree burns on their faces and hands. "It looks like we have a bad sunburn," Cozzetti joked on the phone from his hospital room. "We're lucky to be alive." He said "everything happened real fast. The explosion was so loud my ears were ringing. We just ran out of there thinking there would be a fire." Southern Pacific's August said a fire did not follow the blast, and there were no subsequent explosions. "We're trying to find out how it happened. Right now it's still a mystery," he said. Fire department officials said the explosion appeared to have been an accident. SF Chronicle Sept 24 1980 - U.S. Berm. Attack - Deadly sheep virus in state Seat Times 9/25/80 YAKIMA -- Blue tongue, a deadly sheep virus which has appeared in Washington three times in the past 10 years, is decimating a Wapato flock, authorities say. The present outbreak of the virus, which is transmitted by a biting gnat, began in Pasco during the last week of August, says Dr. John Doherty, state veterinarian for the Department of Agriculture. Blue tongue also has been reported in various other places in Eastern Washington. "The number of deaths statewide has been very few, other than in the Yakima area," said Doherty. "The highest mortality has been in the flock at Wapato." Les Weaver and his wife Janice, of Wapato, bought their entire === Page 52 of 93 - U.S. Bern. Attack # Advice offered on tampon risk Oreg. 9/27/80 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- U.S. Surgeon General Julius Richmond says women can avoid risk of toxic shock syndrome if they stop using tampons. "If any woman has any questions about her use of tampons, she should get in touch with her physician," Richmond said in a speech Thursday night at the Upstate Medical Center. "There are other products that she can use if she doesn't wish to use tampons." The disease, which has killed at least 29 women since 1975, has been linked to use of tampons, but researchers are trying to determine just what the link means. The Center for Disease Control has received reports of 299 cases of toxic shock this year, and the Food and Drug Administration has warned women to avoid using Procter & Gamble's Rely brand, which has been linked most often to the disease. Procter & Gamble earlier this week recalled the product from store shelves. Doctors are confused by the relationship of the disease to tampons, Richmond said. "In the process of improving them, they may have introduced a harmful agent," Richmond said. Mort Lebow, a spokesman for Richmond in Washington, said the surgeon general's advice lays out the specifics of the problem but was not a flat-out recommendation that women stop using tampons. "It's a personal decision on their part," the spokesman said. - Braining & Effect # Pair talk lost pilot to airport Members of an airborne traffic reporting team from a Portland radio station were credited with an air rescue Friday morning when they led a 29-year-old pilot to a safe landing at Hillsboro Airport after she apparently became lost in low clouds. Lynn Padgham, a graduate student at the University of Oregon, said she was on a flight from Daniels Field near Eugene to Pearson Airpark in Vancouver, Wash., when she ran into thick clouds near Portland International Airport. "I was flying visual reference at about 3,500 feet," Ms. Padgham said, "and when I ran into thick clouds I dropped my altitude to about 2,500 and the clouds were still too low to see the ground. "I turned around instead of into the clouds and was circling trying to decide what to do." Traffic reporter George Rusk and pilot Mick Hickethier of KYXI radio had heard her radio calls for help and managed to make visual contact with her. They then lead her into the Hillsboro Airport. "I was very grateful to the guys," Ms. Padgham said, "that they picked up the call and realized I was pretty scared." The flight was one of the requirements in Ms. Padgham's study toward a private pilot's license. Oreg. Sept 13, '80 ...on confi... the helicopter ... Naval authoritie... scene. Identities of the ...e not immediately availab... # 7 Die at Air Show BIGGIN HILL, England (AP) -- A British-piloted American World War II bomber crashed at an air show yesterday commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and killed its seven-man crew. Scotland Yard said two of the dead were American airmen stationed in England. A witness said the twin-engined A-26 Invader nose-dived into a grassy bank, narrowly missing a street of houses, and "disintegrated in a big ball of flame." Scotland Yard identified the Americans as Chief Master Sgt. Donald Thompson, whose wife was at the airfield when the plane crashed, and Sgt. Kevin Vince, 24, both based at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire. Neither Thompson's age nor either man's home town was available. - U.S. Bern. Attack # Copter Tragedy JOLIET, Ill. (UPI) -- A military helicopter demonstrating maneuvers === Page 53 of 93 - Boom. Δ Attack - DAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1980 # Amtrak on 100 inju DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (AP) -- An Amtrak passenger train stopped on the tracks was struck head-on by a Conrail freight near the Dobbs Ferry station Friday afternoon, and police estimated that as many as 100 persons were injured. A congressman said the Amtrak train was on the wrong track. There was no initial report of fatalities, and a spokesman for one hospital where between 30 and 40 injured passengers were taken said most had cuts and bruises but did not require hospitalization. Rep. Peter Peyser of New York, one of the first persons at the scene, said the freight train was supposed to be the only train on the track. "How this Amtrak train got on the same track is a mystery," he said. Three of the Amtrak cars derailed and fire broke out in a food service car, apparently because of a short-circuit on the electrical third rail. Screaming passengers kicked open windows in order to escape, according to one reporter at the scene. Hospitals reported treating a total of 88 persons and admitting 14, including at least two crewmen. Others were treated at the scene. "We had just stopped. There was a crash. The other train ran into us," said Dr. Dennis Fabian of New York City, a passenger on the Amtrak train, which carried about 225 passengers. "It wasn't as bad as it could have been. A few people were hysterical and there were some crying children," he said. A witness, Mark Walter of Dobbs Ferry, said the Amtrak train passed him and stopped. "I saw this freight train coming around the bend. There was a big crash, a screeching for about 10 seconds. The Amtrak train moved backward." Conrail spokesman Bob VanWagoner said it was the first head-on collision in 10 years involving Conrail trains. "It is Conrail's responsibility to know where the trains are," he said. He added that the Amtrak train passed a control tower in Tarrytown to the north of Dobbs Ferry. The injured were taken to five area hospitals including Dobbs Ferry Hospital, St. John's Riverside in Yonkers, White Plains Hospital, Phelps Memorial Hospital in North Tarrytown and Westchester Community Medical Center in Grasslands. "It sounded like an earthquake" when the two trains hit, said Bob LaColla, an employee at the Chart House restaurant near the station. "The Amtrak train is still pretty much on the track and the freight just climbed right up on top of the engine. The bottom of the freight motor is sitting on top of the Amtrak train. It just kind of crushed it," he said. "We have no guess even at this point about the cause," said Jung Lee, an Amtrak spokesman. Amtrak officials said at about 4:30 p.m., Amtrak train 74, the Empire State Express, collided with the Conrail freight train that was bound for Albany from the Bronx. - N.S. Germ. Δ Attack - Seattle Times 9/17/80 # Rare red tide kills fish throughout Caribbean SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- (UPI) -- Scientists speculated yesterday that millions of dead fish found floating throughout the Caribbean recently may be victims of a rare area-wide outbreak of "red tide." At least one person died in the Dominican Republic after eating a poisoned fish, authorities said. Red tide, which recently forced authorities in Maine to close the state's coastline to most fishing, occurs when certain sea algae multiply at an unusually high rate, tinting the ocean red and consuming so much oxygen that fish literally smother. Authorities have reported massive fish kills from the Bahamas, south to the Dutch island of Curacao just off the coast of South America, west to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and east to Puerto Rico. Officials in Curacao urged local fishermen to stay in port and asked residents to stop eating fish until further notice because of this week's fish kill there. "Apparently, it has been occurring in the whole Caribbean," said Omar Munoz, executive director of the Caribbean Fisheries Management Council in San Juan. Several scientists contacted agreed that reported fish kills seemed to have been caused by red tide or a similar phenomenon, but said no one had proved this. "Such a widespread outbreak would be unusual for the Caribbean," said Jack Dammann, head biologist for the Caribbean Fisheries Council. Richard Hoogland, in charge of the National Institute of Marine Sciences' regional environmental office in Florida, said the recent passage of Hurricane Allen, coupled with water temperatures several degrees higher than the usual high 80s, may have led to an outbreak. Scientists said Allen and other storm conditions, combined with warm temperatures, would help such algae to flourish. === Page 54 of 93 Greg J. 11/5/80 SI vs. U.S. Govt. Wednesday. # Reagan demolishes Carter November 5, 1980 15¢ SI vs. U.S. Govt. # Four airmen injured in missile accidents PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) -- Air Force officials may be taken to task for their failure to swiftly report two chemical leak accidents that injured four servicemen working at Titan II missile sites near Tucson. Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz, whose district includes the area encompassing 18 missile sites, will "certainly ask the Air Force why he and other members of the delegation weren't informed of this," an aide told UPI on Friday night. Ken Burton, a press aide for Udall contacted in Washington, disputed Air Force official's contention the incidents this week were "minor." "Coming on the heels of the accident in Arkansas, four people hospitalized . . . what can I say," Burton said. "Considering the history of this weapon and some of the problems that occurred elsewhere, I wonder if the public would agree this was just a minor incident." The first accident occurred Tuesday when a small amount of oxidizer leaked from a pump in an equipment area adjacent to a missile silo near Benson, according to an Air Force statement released Friday. In an unrelated accident Thursday at a missile silo near Oracle Junction, two crewmen working with testing equipment were exposed to "re-agent" -- a chemical used to detect oxidizer vapors -- when a small amount of that chemical leaked. There are 18 Titan II missile sites surrounding Tucson. Arizona is one of three states, Kansas and Arkansas being the others, that contain the missiles. "I want to stress in both cases that no evacuation was necessary and none was undertaken," Major John Alexander said. "At no time was there any danger to any civilians. It was not in a missile launch duct, both (incidents) were in equipment bays. The equipment that was involved was physically separate from the missile itself." Greg J. 11/5/80 "Not a satellite" - Greg # UFOs on election night declared satellite pieces BEND (UPI) -- The "unidentified flying objects" that lighted Northwest skies election night were parts of a satellite reentering the earth's atmosphere, Federal Aviation Administration officials said Wednesday. The satellite, which was sighted as far north as Everett, Wash., and as far south as Eugene, is a "classified matter," an FAA spokesman said. Central Oregon police agencies said scores of callers reported the UFOs about 7 p.m. David Taylor, a Bend builder, described the sight as "glowing objects emitting some kind of vapor trail." He said, "You couldn't distinguish any shape, but they flew side by side and maintained the same altitude, distance apart and speed." Taylor said the UFO flew quietly and had no blinking lights, which normally indicate manmade aircraft. The FAA spokesman indicated the object probably broke up as it entered the atmosphere. There was no report that it landed. Greg J. 11/6/80 === Page 55 of 93 - Calif. PK - Note: The below entries occurred soon after I informed Jeffrey that the SIs were modifying their attack to go after high officials in govt. (They took care of Carter & Co. too!!) Gwen # Other Levees Are In Danger SF Chron. 10/24/80 By Stephen Magagnini and Scott Blakey Chronicle Correspondents Holt, San Joaquin County The aqueduct carrying drinking water for more than a million Bay Area residents was threatened yesterday after a section of a Santa Fe railroad embankment, holding back the flood of a September levee break, ruptured under the wheels of a lumbering freight train shortly after 2 a.m. Millions of gallons of water crashed against the pipeline's support pylons and inundated the 5200-acre Upper Jones Tract on which they stand. "There is a potential for damage - a potential for all kinds of things," said a clearly worried David Vossbrink, a spokesman for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which owns the water pipeline. The flood also threatened a pipeline carrying jet fuel from the Port of Stockton to Travis Air Force Base. The 275-foot break in the levee was expected to grow by another 20 or 30 feet, but the flow of water gradually lessened yesterday afternoon as the water level began to equalize on each side of the ruptured embankment. A temporary telephone line running beside the Sante Fe roadbed - replacing lines destroyed in the September flood - was severed by the embankment's collapse, cutting service to nearly 100 families in the sparsely populated area, about 40 miles east of San Francisco. Three farm families still living in the tract were evacuated in the pre-dawn hours as the floodwaters, at an estimated 11 million gallons a minute, poured through the breach and slid across the fields. Five other families who had lived on the tract had left after the first levee break. No lives were lost, and no injuries were reported, but railroad locomotives were pitched into the Back Page Col. 1 - UFOs vs. Govt. - # Hospitalized Stennis due to remain 'few more days' BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Sen. John C. Stennis, admitted to Keesler Air Force Base hospital for observation after complaining of abdominal pain, will remain hospitalized for "another day or two," a base spokesman said Saturday. Stennis, 79, spent a good night Friday night and his abdominal condition continued to improve, the base spokesman said. Rex Buffington, a spokesman in the senator's Washington office, said Stennis took part in a series of recent Democratic Party gatherings to promote the re-election of President Carter and complained of stomach problems Thursday night after an address in McComb. Stennis checked into the hospital about 3 a.m. Friday. Eph Cresswell, a Stennis aide, said the senator was in good health and had few problems since a gallbladder operation several years ago. Stennis was shot in the stomach and left leg when attacked outside his Washington home in 1973, but had fully recovered from those injuries. Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a long-time member of the chamber's Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, was first elected to the Senate in 1947. He is an attorney and served 10 years as a state circuit judge before his election. Greg. Nov. 2, 1980 - UFOs vs. Govt. - # Solon in critical condition after heart attack at mall LAUREL, Md. (AP) - Rep. Gladys N. Spellman, D-Md., remained unconscious and in critical condition Saturday after suffering a heart attack while campaigning for re-election. Her opponent ceased campaign activity and said "our prayers are with her." A spokeswoman at the Greater Laurel-Beltsville Hospital said Mrs. Spellman's heart rhythm stabilized Saturday morning, more than 12 hours after she had been brought to the hospital from a nearby shopping mall where she was judging a Halloween costume contest. Lissa Vogt, the spokeswoman, said the next few days would be crucial in determining the 65-year-old third-term Democrat's recovery. Mrs. Spellman represents Maryland's 5th District. "In any heart attack, the first 48 hours are crucial for the patient," said Ms. Vogt. "It can go either way." Mrs. Spellman "is just holding her own," she added. Mrs. Spellman, who had suffered a heart attack once before, had been on the campaign trail since the May primary when she defeated her only Democratic opponent by a nearly 8-to-1 margin. She has been considered the overwhelming favorite to beat Republican challenger Kevin R. Igoe, a former budget analyst in the Treasury Department. Igoe, who has never held elective office, could not be reached for comment. Margaret Beazley, office manager at the Igoe for Congress headquarters in College Park, said in a prepared statement: "Our prayers are with her and her family. We have ceased all campaign activities." Mrs. Spellman was stricken at about 6 p.m. Friday at the Laurel Town Center Mall while campaigning. The mall is part of a shopping complex where an assassination attempt was made on former Alabama Gov. George Wallace in May 1972, on the eve of his victory in Maryland's presidential primary. Greg. Nov. 2, 1980 === Page 56 of 93 - Calif. PK - Oreg. P. 11/7/80 SHREDDED METAL - The side of a compressed air chemical plant in Richmond, Calif., was blown out Wednesday by a nitrous oxide blast. There were no injuries. United Press International # Nitrous oxide blast shreds plant RICHMOND, Calif. (UPI) - A tanker truck being loaded with nitrous oxide exploded at a compressed air chemical plant Wednesday night, blowing out three sides of the building and jolting residents up to 50 miles away. The only worker inside the plant was not injured, despite being knocked down by the tremendous blast. There were no serious injuries among residents who breathed the non-toxic fumes or were struck by flying glass. The truck, containing 36,000 pounds of nitrous oxide, commonly known as "laughing gas," blew up inside the three-story Puritan Bennett Chemical Corp. plant and burst into flames, sending a huge cloud of non-toxic vapor into the sky. Flying glass and metal fell 3 miles away, and area residents covered their mouths to avoid inhaling the gas. Authorities tried Thursday to determine what caused the tanker to explode about 9:00 p.m. PST. Firemen wore air tanks to fight the flames, which were extinguished an hour later. Damage is expected to top $1 million, a company spokesman said. Note: I informed Jeffrey before this 7.0 quake that the SI's planned to strike San Francisco area with a 7.0 quake! Owens Aftershocks rumble - Aftershocks of Saturday's earthquake in Northern California and Southern Oregon jarred the California coast Sunday and early Monday. The earthquake Saturday measured 7.0 on the Richter scale. Oreg. P. 11/10/80 === Page 57 of 93 Note: I told Millie Miller before this happened that my UFOs would "blow up missile sites" NATIONAL AFFAIRS # Arkansas's Missile Scare Just before 3 a.m. last Friday the sky over Damascus, Ark., turned bright white. Seconds later a thunderous explosion jolted the area and a gigantic red-orange cloud billowed into the air. Chunks of debris, some as big as cars, tumbled to earth. "What the hell happened?" shouted a stunned local news photographer. "The son of a bitch blew," an Air Force captain screamed back. A Titan II missile had exploded in its silo, and though it was not known to the public at the time, the blast catapulted the missile's multi-megaton nuclear warhead into an empty field 200 yards away. The warhead--hundreds of times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima--was never in danger of detonating, and officials said no radioactive debris was released. But it was the scariest accident in the history of the country's ICBM program. One airman, Sgt. David Livingston, died of chemical pneumonia after inhaling toxic fumes; another was in critical condition. Twenty more were hurt and about 1,400 people were evacuated from the area. Some blamed the incident on the Titan II's liquid-fuel system, which they believe is inherently unsafe. But Air Force Secretary Hans Mark insisted that was not the case. "The problem here was not one of equipment failure," he said. "The problem was a pure [human] accident." As Air Force officials explained it, a maintenance team was working on the third level of the 146-foot-deep silo the evening before the explosion. One of the technicians accidentally dropped a wrench socket and it fell 70 feet, puncturing the thin skin of the missile's first-stage fuel tank. Toxic vapors from the aerozine-50 fuel began to rise, and the workmen evacuated the silo. A fire--perhaps ignited by a spark from the falling wrench--flared in the engine, triggering an automatic-sprinkler system that poured 100,000 gallons of water into the silo. The water doused the fire but failed to cover the leak. With the vapor concentration in the silo still rising, the missile crew ordered a standard emergency evacuation of everyone within 2 miles. Combustion: About six and a half hours after the fuel tank was punctured, two members of a specially trained emergency team entered the silo's access chamber in preparation for plugging the leak. They found that the vapor concentration was still rising--and the mixture of vapor with oxygen in the air increased the chance of spontaneous combustion. Just as the workers were leaving the access chamber, the vapor did explode--setting off the rest of the fuel in the missile. The force of the blast was stupendous, demolishing the 750-ton concrete roof of the silo and hurling the warhead out of the silo. Experts said there was no chance that the warhead itself might go off. Its core of plutonium is surrounded by a ring of enriched uranium wrapped in another ring of high explosives; all the outer-layer explosives must be fired at precisely the same instant to trigger a nuclear reaction. The accident did set off a chain reaction of fear in the surrounding community. "My first thought was that we were all going to die," said one eyewitness. Within hours most residents within a 10-mile radius had relocated in a high-school gymnasium or a National Guard armory. It was precisely the sort of situation Arkansas legislators had long fretted about. Only three days before the accident, Sen. David Pryor of Arkansas had won passage of a measure calling for early-warning systems at all 54 Titan II sites, which are in Arkansas, Kansas and Arizona. Phase-out? The liquid-fuel Titan is the biggest and oldest ICBM in the U.S. inventory. Since deploying it in 1963, the Air Force has switched to solid-fuel missiles. Plans were made to begin phasing out the missiles in the early 1970s, but Henry Kissinger ordered them kept as bargaining chips during the SALT I negotiations. Now they are kept in service more for political than strategic reasons. They are a tiny fraction of the 1,054 ICBM's in the U.S. arsenal, but they are so big they enable the U.S. to compete with the Soviet Union in the megatonnage numbers game. But the cost has been significant. In 1963, 53 workmen were killed when a welder's torch sparked an explosion in an Arkansas silo. In 1978, seven people were hospitalized in Damascus after toxic vapor seeped into the air. Nevertheless, in the ensnarled politics of strategic balance, it is unlikely that the Titan will be retired anytime soon. DENNIS A. WILLIAMS with DAVID C. MARTIN in Washington and RONALD HENKOFF in Arkansas *The damaged silo in Arkansas: Should the Titan II be retired?* 1 Workman drops wrench, which falls 70 feet. 2 It punctures thin metal skin of missile, and fuel vapors fill silo. 3 About 8 1/2 hours later, vapor and rocket fuel explode, blowing roof off silo. Missile disintegrates and warhead is catapulted 200 yards from silo. WARHEAD CONCRETE SILO ROOF ENGINE VAPOR PUNCTURE Ib Ohlsson--NEWSWEEK *The warhead landed 200 yards away* NEWSWEEK/SEPTEMBER 29, 1980 33 === Page 58 of 93 Note: my UFOs cleaned out Carter & Co. Remember, there was war against U.S. govt and Carter was head of the govt. - Owens # Pollsters split over failure to predict landslide By KENNETH REICH LA Times-Washington Post Service Leading national pollsters were in deep disagreement -- and squabbling among themselves -- Wednesday as to just why their surveys gave no clear advance indication of the lopsided Ronald Reagan victory. Reagan's nationwide victory margin in the popular vote was 10 percentage points. Executives of the Gallup and CBS-New York Times polls insisted that there was a big last-minute trend to Reagan and that they completed their polling just a little too early to catch it. "The same thing happened with Harry Truman in 1948," a Gallup official lamented. But executives of the Louis Harris and NBC-Associated Press polls insisted just as strongly that there was no such last-minute trend and that it was false perceptions of the prospective voter turnout and inadequate "weighting" of raw poll data that led to errors. Outside the polling business, political experts tended not to be so understanding. "It was another collapse of polling," said one California Democrat who had said weeks ago that President Carter's chances in California were "zero." "They missed it again. It was a volatile election and they missed it." Barry Sussman, director of a Washington Post national poll that saw President Carter leading Reagan 47 percent to 43 percent five days before the election, said that as far as he was concerned, both sides of the other poll argument were right, and he might not be so eager to the last week of the next el "If you're wrong, you look silly and if you're right, no one remembers," he said. The Los Angeles Times Poll conducted its last nationwide survey one month before the election, from Oct. 5-9. It showed Reagan leading Carter 40 percent to 36 percent. Some of the pollsters, searching for explanations, were not kindly to each other, or to their critics and questioners. David Neft, executive vice president of the Harris poll, described reports of a big Reagan trend at the end of the campaign as "absolute nonsense." "There was no trend," he said. "From the time after the debate (a week before the election) we got the same results. We had it 45-40 for Reagan. The undecideds were 15 percentage points." "Polls are subject to error," he said, pleading, however, that this election had seen "one of the most dramatic late shifts ever recorded." Even the White House got into the argument. A Carter aide said that presidential pollster Patrick Caddell's surveys had shown the President leading Reagan as late as Saturday "but then the bottom dropped out." With the exception of the Harris organization, the latest public surveying was done Saturday afternoon. Harris, polling until Monday, showed Reagan with a 5-point lead and called the election for him. - UFO war against U.S. govt. - Owens # Light on the Road to Damascus Titan terror explodes in the Arkansas hills Shortly after sunset one day last week, a maintenance worker on the third level of a silo housing a 103-ft. Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile near Damascus, in the Arkansas hills north of Little Rock, dropped the socket of a wrench. The 3-lb. tool plummeted 70 ft. and punctured a fuel tank. As flammable vapors escaped, officials urged the 1,400 people living in a five-mile radius of the silo to flee. The instructions: "Don't take time to close your doors -- just get out." And with good reason. At 3:01 a.m., as technicians gave up trying to plug the leak and began climbing from the silo, the mixture of fuel and oxygen exploded. Orange flames and smoke spewed out, lighting up the sky over Damascus. The blast blew off a 750-ton concrete cover. One worker was killed; 21 others were hurt. Officials reported that no radiation leaked from the missile, which was tipped with a multimegaton nuclear warhead. But the explosion was the second accident of the week involving U.S. nuclear weapons: the first was a fire at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N. Dak., that damaged a B-52 bomber thought to be carrying 32 short-range, nuclear missiles. The incidents reopened the debate over the safety of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, particularly of the 54 liquid-fuel Titan II missiles, which date from 1963. 18 of them are based in Arkansas, the rest in Arizona and Kansas. Air Force Secretary Hans Mark, a rocketry expert, insists that the Titans are not obsolete and are "a perfectly safe system to operate," despite 40 mishaps in ten years, two of them resulting in deaths or injuries. At the very least, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas demanded, the Air Force should set up a more effective warning system for Titan II sites. Said he: "Right now we are using the Paul Revere method -- word of mouth." What was once a Titan II missile silo is now a gaping crater, 250 ft. wide === Page 59 of 93 14 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1980 - Berm. Δ Attack - # Salem pilot's body lifted from crash ASHLAND (AP) -- State police removed the body of a Salem man from the wreckage of a light plane Thursday on the northeast slope of Mount Ashland in Southern Oregon. Lt. Jerry Norris said the victim, Gerald B. Bull, 55, was alone in the single-engine plane. Norris said the wreckage was spotted by an Oregon Aeronautics Division search plane that began looking for the missing aircraft Thursday morning. The plane had been reported missing Wednesday night, Norris said. The search plane found the wreckage after detecting signals from an emergency transmitter. The transmitter automatically begins sending signals upon impact. Mount Ashland is a 7,523-foot peak 10 miles south of the town of Ashland near the Oregon-California border. The Federal Aviation Administration was to begin Friday trying to determine the cause of the crash. State police said the plane's tanks still had fuel in them. Associated Press Laserphoto DEATH PLANE -- Wreckage of the plane that carried Salem businessman Gerald B. Bull, 55, to his death lies on the northeast slope of Mount Ashland, 10 miles south of the town of Ashland. The body of Bull, pilot and only occupant of plane reported missing late Wednesday, was removed by state police Thursday. Oreg 10/18/80 08/12/01 # Detonation injures five - Bermuda Δ Attack - LA GRANDE (AP) -- An explosion injured five men, two critically, while they worked on a gas pipeline project near here Monday afternoon, Oregon State Police said. Edward J. Elliott, 34, Bend, suffered fractures and burns after a powerful explosives charge accidentally detonated, Trooper John Smith said. Elliott was listed in critical condition at Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande. Clarence Harris, 54, La Grande, received massive head injuries from the explosion and was transferred in critical condition to Kadlec Hospital in Richland, Wash., officials said. James Welch, 36, Redmond, and Norman E. White, 22, La Grande, received multiple cuts and bruises from flying rocks and debris. They were listed in satisfactory condition at Grande Ronde Hospital. Louis Ellis, 60, Lyle, Wash., was treated and released, officials said. "They were blowing ditch for this new pipeline," Smith said. "They still haven't been able to figure out what happened." - Bermuda Δ Attack - # Gas fire seen for miles PAMPA, Texas (AP) -- A spectacular fire touched off by a natural gas explosion and visible for more than 100 miles was brought under control early Tuesday when gas company workers shut off the flow of gas, officials said. The explosion sent smoke and flames an estimated 2,000 feet into the air Monday night. The fire caused the sky to glow and was visible as far away as Hutchinson, Kan., and Altus, Okla., more than 120 miles away, officials reported. The noise of the explosion was heard 40 miles away. No one was injured before the fire was brought under control, according to Roberts County Deputy Sheriff Robert Cowlins in Miami, Texas. Oreg 10/22/80 === Page 60 of 93 - Bermuda $\Delta$ and "Power" Attack - THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980 3M B REVIEWING THE RUINS -- Investigators and photographers use crane to observe wreckage of industrial helicopter that crashed Monday on store roof in City of Industry, Calif. One worker was killed and two others suffered minor injuries after aircraft lost power while installing air conditioning unit. Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 61 of 93 Calif PK Oreg: 10/5/80 A24 3M # LA gets little relief from smog LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The weekend brought the promise of some relief for Southern Californians who have suffered through five days of thick smog and sticky heat. But officials warned that despite the easing of conditions which trapped the pollution inside the mountain-ringed South Coast Air Basin, it may take several days for the thick cloud of smog to dissipate. In Imperial County, a crop-duster's plane crashed in heavy fog early Saturday morning about five miles northeast of the town of Imperial, killing the pilot. The plane burst into flames on impact, sending off clouds of toxic fumes from its load of chemical pesticide. The pilot was identified as Homer V. Ward of the tiny community of Calipatria along the Salton Sea. Glenn Wyler of the Air Quality Management District in suburban El Monte said the inversion layer -- atmospheric conditions that act like a cap holding the smog inside the basin -- raised to 2,000 feet Saturday. "Ordinarily, that is enough to help bring a little more relief than it has," Wyler said. "But because of the stagnation condition, it is taking a little longer than usual to bring down the smog levels." During the smog siege last week, the inversion layer of warm air was as low as 800 feet. Second-stage smog advisories -- warnings that the ozone content of the air has passed dangerous levels -- were issued for five consecutive days, from Monday through Friday, as the tea-colored cloud squatting over the populous region got increasingly thicker and residents curtailed many outdoor activities. U.S. Bom. Attack? # Bomber crashes BIGGIN HILL, England (AP) -- A British-piloted American World War II bomber crashed Sunday at an air show commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Its seven-man crew was killed, and Scotland Yard said two of the dead were American airmen stationed in England. A witness said the twin-engined A-26 Invader nosedived into a grassy bank, narrowly missing a street of houses, and "disintegrated in a big ball of flame." Oreg: 9/22/80 Bermuda Attack # High seas stall efforts to secure drifting rig KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- Ten-foot seas in the north Pacific stalled efforts Saturday to secure an oil drilling platform drifting helplessly for a third day with 18 men aboard, the Coast Guard said. A Coast Guard spokesman said the weather was improving, lessening the danger to the men aboard the platform Dan Prince, but he added, "There's always some element of risk." The tugboat Smit New York and the cutter Boutwell were standing by the platform early Saturday about 740 miles southwest of Kodiak. A Coast Guard damage control team was waiting for the seas and 21-knot winds to subside before boarding. The 208-foot, triangular Dan Prince was set adrift late Thursday when 60-knot winds and 40-foot seas knocked loose a helicopter pad that cut the tow cable between the platform and the Smit New York, the Coast Guard said. The falling pad caused some damage and flooding but no injuries, the platform's crew reported. "There's three feet of water awash on the main deck, but the bilge pumps are handling it. Nobody is 'hyper' about it at this point," Coast Guard Lt. Jim Hatfield said early Saturday. "We're going to put some men aboard and determine the damage. And hopefully it can continue its trip," he said. The Dan Prince was under tow from Norton Sound on Alaska's northwest coast to the African nation of Ivory Coast. The platform is owned by Scout Shipping of Monrovia, Liberia, and operated by J.L. Offshore Drilling of Copenhagen, Denmark. Oreg: 10/19/80 California PK # LA still coughing LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Residents who would like to step outside for a breath of fresh air are out of luck -- and out of clean oxygen -- as smog-laden haze continues to hang over the city. Only high desert and mountain areas in the four-county Los Angeles basin were expected to escape the unhealthful air Thursday, weather forecasters said. Oreg: 10/10/80 Y, SEPTEMBER 27, 1980 U.S. Bom. Attack # The nation Oreg: 9/27/80 # Silo town falls ill GUY, Ark. (AP) -- A fog that looked like a "light snow" blew into this tiny community shortly after a Titan II missile silo exploded five miles away last week, and officials say about two dozen residents, including the mayor, have been sick ever since. The residents are complaining of nausea, burning sensations in their noses, throats and lungs, and dry, salty lips, although none apparently has become ill enough to be hospitalized. Benny Mercer, mayor of the community of 200, puts the blame squarely on the toxic fumes that seeped from the silo. Lt. Gen. Lloyd R. Leavitt, vice commander of the Strategic Air Command, said Air Force calculations indicated toxic fumes had not reached Guy and, in fact, had not gone more than one mile from the silo. But Mercer said the fog, which arrived about an hour after the explosion, melted within 15 minutes and the Air Force did not take measurements soon enough to detect it. The silo blew up last Friday after a wrench socket dropped by a workman ruptured a missile fuel tank. One person was killed and 21 were injured. The warhead from the missile was ejected from the silo and was later taken to a weapons plant in Amarillo, Texas, to be analyzed. === Page 62 of 93 'Bigfoot' visits ON. P. 10/9/80 farmer MAYSVILLE Ky) (UPI) - Authorities are investi- gating reports of the sight- Ing of a large, long-haired creature with "glowing animal-like eyes" at the Isolated home of a Mason County farmer last week- end. Charles Fulton, 39, told county authorities he fired with two shots a .22-caliber pistol, but said it seemed not to affect the creature, which loped off at a "slow-motion kind of gallop." Fulton and his family were at their rural home in a heavily wooded area watching television last Saturday night when another child came into the living room and said some- one was turning the back door knob. Thinking the child was playing a prank, Fulton made him sit and watch TV. "A few minutes later, something liked to have tore my front door off," Fulton told authorities Wednesday. He said he opened the door and saw a creature more than 7-feet tall stand- ing there, covered with long whitish hair. "It was standing on two feet like a human and its head was taller than the door frame, which is 6 foot 8," Fulton said. Opening the door appar- ently startled the creature, which ran off the porch. Fulton went back in, put on his coat and got the pis- tol. He then went to the back yard, where he spot- ted it standing between an outbuilding and the house. It was then he noticed its "glowing eves and hair like a horse's mane," he said. "I fired at it twice from about 30 feet away and don't see how I could have missed." He said the creature turned slowly and "ran off at a slow-motion gallop." His wife, Wanda, 36, and several of the children said they also saw the Creature from inside the house. Tuntun uiscounted ine possibility the creature was a bear because of its upright position, and said it certainly was not à man in costume. The sighting was the first of an ape-like crea- ture in Kentucky for more than two years. At that time, motorists on the Pen- nyrile Parkway In western Kentucky saw a large hai- ry creature bound off into the woods. Robert Gardiner, 40, a big game hunter for 20 years, is convinced he has found the lair of Bigfoot in the hills of southern Ohio near McArthur. note: The the Big foot creatures alvinox. 20 fect from my boys & I in northern California had glowing red eyes " and silvery whitish hair, name as this Ky report Ovens Org. 10/11/80 - Calif " PK"- Asbestos discovered In aqueduct By RICHARD DE ATLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) - Heavy con- | centrations of asbestos have been found in the California Aqueduct, which sup- plies drinking water for 12 million peo- ple, but water officials said Friday that the water was safely filtered before reaching anybody's faucets. "We're not aware of any studies that Indicate there's any health haz- ards," said David Kennedy, assistant general manager of the Metropolitan Water District. Asbestos is a known cause of can- cer, but Kennedy said that more than 99 percent of the fibrous mineral is re- moved by water district filtration plants and that customers are receiving no more than they normally would get from their surroundings. Some 129 communities in Los An- geles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties use water from the Metropolitan Water District. The aqueduct also feeds small water districts in Avenal, Bakersfield and the Antelope Valley, which also have safely filtered their water. The aqueduct, which runs 440 miles between the San Joaquin Valley and Riverside over the Tehachapi Moun- tains, apparently picked up the mineral In rain runoff from asbestos mines just south of Coalinga in Fresno County about 175 miles north of Los Angeles, Kennedy said. Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.'s office asked the state Department of Re- sources Friday to submit a plan to ¿ dredge sediment from the aqueduct south of Coalinga, said Brown aide Gray Davis. Such a project could cost $2 mil- lion and take five to six months to com- plete, he said. Changing the runoff flow around the aqueduct near Coalinga is another possibility, state water officials sug- gested. The affected area of the aqueduct was designed so that "upland drainage goes Into the aqueduct to increase the flow when they get a flood," said John Gaston, chief of the Sanitary Engineer- Ing Section for the state Health Services Department in Sacramento. Gaston said the runoff was designed "long before we had any idea that as- bestos was a problem" and at the in- stigation of the federal government, which supplied funds for the joint pro- ject. - 4.5. Bron. A Allack- Encephalitis widespread 8/4/ 9/27/80 ATLANTA (AP) - Unusu- ally widespread outbreaks of encephalitis, which causes in- flammation of the brain, have been reported in the United States this year, particularly along the Gulf Coast, the na- tional Center for Disease Con- trol reported Friday. St. Louis encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease, has hit hardest in Houston, which has had 18 confirmed cases and 12 suspected cases, the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Two deaths were reported in the area. Eight other con- firmed cases were reported in neighboring Gulf Coast coun- ties. One case of another strain of the disease, eastern equine encephalomyelitis, occurred In Michigan. It was the first case in Michigan of a human contracting the disease, which usually affects horses, the CDC said. Also Plave in new Mexico! The standard for measuring asbestos is millions of fibers per liter, but tests of aqueduct water taken below the Teha- chapis, 80 miles south of Coalinga, showed billions of fibers per liter, "The filtration process is ... getting 99 percent of it out," Kennedy said. Asbestos is everywhere in the state, health officials have said. The state rock, serpentine, is a type of asbestos, and the fibers float freely in the atmos- phere. There are no standards for accept- able levels of asbestos in drinking wa- ter, and most tap water In the state has a "background level" of 10 million to 20 million fibers per liter, Kennedy said. The problem was discovered after officials In the city of Thousand Oaks, monitoring their system because it used asbestos pipes, found levels higher than estimated and asked the water district to run tests. "We started running some samples and gradually tracked the thing down over the last four to five months," Ken- nedy said. === Page 63 of 93 hat him nie Hunt- ing. escapees. Mrs. cover blades in four scheme three other in- in getting st .. said. ties said the blades June 27. ed on new inc with conspiracy & charges resulted fro operation involving pay state officials for ate insurance contrac .. police officer Despite th relative calm black, low-in neighborhood. ing 14 juvenif they refused t said. e attacks, police reported in the predominantly come north Philadelphia Twenty people, includ- es, were arrested when o leave the area, police (ed to theft ARIO, Calif. (AP) - A car be- g to a missing Brink's employee ated in the $1.55 million theft of 4,250 gold Krugerrand coins from the security firm has been found at Ontario International Airport, police said Wednesday. Rick Cunningham, a 21-year-old employee in Brink's Los Angeles gold vault, has been missing since June 25, the day before the theft of the 180 pounds of South African coins was dis- covered. Cunningham was charged with two counts of grand theft July 3. "There have rock and brick ous," said a po District station identified. been a few incidents of throwing, nothing seri- lice officer at the 22nd who asked not to be Aug. 28, '80 Illness kills boy ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A rare but deadly disease caused by an amoeba found in Florida freshwater lakes has claimed its fourth victim - a New York youngster who spent his vacation swimming at Walt Disney World's River Country. The disease, encephalitis, attacks and brain, doctors Florida children ea appears to have be of another youngst Protests continue PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Angry youths attacked three news photogra- phers after storming out of a communi- ty meeting here in the second straight night of violence following the fatal shooting of a black youth by a white the Shutter OUR === Page 64 of 93 - UFO Attack - # Band illness baffles health officials By PHIL ORAMOUS oreg - 10/18/80 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Baffled health officials and physicians searched Friday for the cause of an illness that struck nearly two dozen members of a high school band simultaneously during a football game. The entire 140-member Carver High School band was rushed to hospitals Thursday night after several fainted following a halftime performance. Twenty-two were admitted and treated with a universal antidote. An undetermined number of others, who showed symptoms, were treated and released. All of those admitted were listed in stable condition Friday, and hospital officials said some might be released Friday. The students had consumed soft drinks from a concession stand, and some had eaten candied apples from a convenience store before the game. Dr. William Roper, Jefferson County's health officer, said his agency was investigating. And a Health Department spokeswoman said the food service division and disease surveillance unit had joined forces in the search for the cause. Officials gave no indication when they expected results from tests on the youngsters and on the foods consumed. At first doctors suggested the soft drinks could have been poisoned. But not all members of the band had the symptoms, which included chest pains, headache, stomach cramps, nausea and vomiting. Several parents in a hospital waiting room said their children had stopped for candied apples on the way to the game, and one hospital was conducting tests on apples at the store. "It would sound like someone put something in the drinks," said Phillip Rogers, a pharmacist at the Poison Control Center at Children's Hospital. He said he based his conclusion on a report from a physician at one of the hospitals. "The symptoms really don't fit the pattern of food poisoning," Rogers said, adding that it normally takes 12 to 36 hours for its symptoms to begin. Police Capt. Richard Lambert said police learned last week of threats against the band and had provided extra security at last week's game. There were no incidents. Lambert said the threats were linked to juvenile gangs operating in the guise of high school fraternities. Sgt. John Rumsey of the family services division said police would wait for the results of the Health Department investigation before considering its own investigation. The incident occurred during a game against Glenn High School at Lawson Field in east Birmingham. # Schools warned on tampon sales oreg - 10/18/80 SALEM (AP) - A warning has been issued to state education officials asking that doctors and attorneys be consulted on whether tampons should be banned from school restrooms. Verne A. Duncan, state superintendent of public instruction, issued the warning Thursday to 311 local superintendents and community college presidents. He asked officials to make sure that no restroom dispensers carry Rely tampons, the brand closely linked with toxic shock syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease mostly suffered by menstruating women. "If the machines have other tampons, we have asked that a check be made with local health authorities for what to do with them," said Bentley Gilbert, Duncan's executive assistant. "If they are dispensing tampons, we have asked them to check with their legal counsel and insurance companies," he said. He said state Health Division officials recommended the warning because of heavy publicity about possible connections between tampons and toxic shock syndrome. "We just sort of want to double remind people about the risks of using tampons, but tampons have not been ordered out of the schools," said Kristine Gebbie, Health Division administrator. "The thinking is, if a woman became ill or was to die of toxic shock, the practice would be to sue everyone you could think of," Gilbert said. No Oregon school has been named in lawsuits associated with toxic shock syndrome. The state Health Division has reported 17 confirmed cases of toxic shock in Oregon, but none resulted in death. Those affected in Oregon were women between the ages of 13 and 36. Note: if outbreak of toxic shock, bubonic plague, etc. New Fla. plague. # More pet stores under quarantine Rabies By The Associated Press Two Bird Hut pet stores in Southeast Portland were placed under quarantine Friday by state and federal agriculture officials after it was learned that their birds might have been exposed to Exotic Newcastle disease. The disease, which can kill birds and poultry, produces symptoms similar to a cold. The disease has not been confirmed at the Bird Hut shops, said William Prichard of Salem, veterinarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He said test results should be available by Wednesday or Thursday. Prichard said a customer bought a blue and gold macaw from a Portland shop that received a shipment on Aug. 22 of contaminated exotic birds from Pet Farms in Miami. The customer then traded the macaw to the Bird Hut, which already had a blue and gold macaw. One of the macaws was at the Southeast Division Street store and one was at the store on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard. As a precaution, Prichard said, both shops were placed under quarantine. The shops cannot sell or receive birds until after test results are available, Prichard said. If Exotic Newcastle disease is confirmed, he said, the shops will be under quarantine for 30 days. Prichard said 556 birds that either had Exotic Newcastle disease or had come into contact with it have been killed in Oregon in the past two months. The birds were at 12 stores. Exotic Newcastle disease was confirmed at Safari Pets and Pet Kingdom in the Portland area and the White Whale Pet Shop in Klamath Falls, Prichard said. Quarantines at those shops soon will be lifted, and they, like all the other shops, will be reimbursed for destroyed birds, Prichard said. oreg - 10/18/80 === Page 65 of 93 4 San Francisco Chronicle Wed., Oct. 1, 1980 - Berm. ┳ Attack - "Reorientation" # Army Secret On Page 1 SF Chron. 10/1/80 Brownfield, Texas An Army team that was airlifted into this South Plains town on a secret training exercise got lost, and found itself on the front page of the local newspaper. The six-man team -- armed with machine guns and other weapons, and dressed in military garb -- was dropped at the Brownfield airport Friday, and was "to get in and out without notice," Army Major Tony Caggeiano said yesterday at the Pentagon. The team was to have ended its mission at an auxiliary Air Force base nine miles north of town, Caggeiano said, but ended up at Ruben Martinez' farm house six miles east. Martinez called the Terry County sheriff's office, which dispatched deputies. Brownfield News Editor Don Arnwine intercepted the call on the police monitor and went to investigate. Arnwine met the sheriff's squad car returning from the farm and noticed some soldiers in the car. He followed the car to the sheriff's office and photographed the men. At that point, Arnwine said, a sheriff's deputy told him, "I want that film." Arnwine refused. He said he was told it was a matter of "national security." "Your boss will hang if the pictures are printed in the paper," the deputy said. Arnwine ran the story Sunday after getting little, if any, information out of the various military branches. He also enlisted the aid of U.S. Representative Kent Hance, D-Lubbock. Martinez said the six men arrived at his house during a rainstorm about 9 a.m. They identified themselves as being from the Army, and asked to use the telephone. Martinez became suspicious and refused. He offered them shelter in his barn, where they changed into dry clothing and ate food they were carrying. Martinez told Arnwine that the men later returned to the house and began knocking on the door and peering through the windows. He then called the sheriff. When Sheriff Homer Parker arrived, he ordered the six men to unload their weapons. Martinez told Arnwine, and they did. Associated Press - Bermuda ┳ Attack - "Reorientation" THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1980 # Jetliners avoid midair crash ATLANTA (AP) -- A midair collision between two Eastern Airlines jetliners approaching Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport was averted when one pilot took "evasive action," the Federal Aviation Administration said. The near-miss occurred at 8:18 a.m. Tuesday, about nine miles northeast of the airport, FAA spokesman Jack Barker said. Eastern Flight 399, a Boeing 727 carrying 121 people (114 passengers, seven crew), and Eastern Flight 453, a Lockheed L-1011 carrying 191 people (180 passengers, 11 crew), both were approaching the airport on the city's south side at an altitude of about 6,000 feet, Barker said. The pilot of the Boeing 727 took "evasive action -- I don't know if he flew up, down or what" to avoid a collision, Barker said. The FAA began an investigation of the incident, Barker said. Human error evidently caused the near-collision, but it has not yet been determined whether air traffic controllers or the pilots were responsible, he said. "We're playing back computer tapes of what happened" and interviewing pilots and controllers, Barker added. The tapes include conversations between pilots and the flight tower, and between controllers and their supervisors, he said. Both aircraft have been grounded for examination, he added. Eastern officials had no comment on the incident except to say the matter was being investigated by the FAA. Flight 399 was on the final leg of a trip from Charlotte, N.C., to Atlanta via Greenville, S.C., Barker said. Flight 453 was heading to Atlanta after stops in Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. According to map calculations, the incident occurred over populous DeKalb County, just southwest of the Atlanta suburb of Decatur. - U.S. Bermuda ┳ Attack - # Man dies in explosion of derailed oil tank car CUSTER CITY, Pa. (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a derailed oil tank car being emptied by cleanup workers Saturday, killing one person and seriously burning two others, authorities said. Susan Torrey, a spokeswoman for nearby Bradford Hospital, said the dead man was Phillip Winter, 31, of North Collins, N.Y. She said two men were listed in critical condition with burns. Seven others, including firefighters and cleanup workers, suffered from shock and inhalation of petroleum fumes. Two were hospitalized in satisfactory condition, she said. Winter was employed by the Winter Railroad Service of North Collins, according to a company spokeswoman. Bradford Fire Chief T-------------------- id the explosion occurred as workers used a high-pressure pump to empty oil from the derailed tank car. "There was no fire," Shay said. "But it could have been a vapor explosion from inside the tank." Bradford Fire Capt. John Rimer said two men were working inside the tank car when the explosion occurred. One of the two was covered with crude oil, he said. A third man on the cleanup crew was outside the tanker. The men were clearing debris from a train derailment Wednesday night that forced about 100 people to flee their homes for several hours. More than 20 cars of an 84-car freight carrying crude oil and caustic soda jumped the tracks near this McKean County community. - U.S. Berm. ┳ Attack - # Error vents radioactive gas HADDAM, Conn. (AP) -- A small amount of radioactive gas was released into the atmosphere Friday when a chemist opened the wrong valve while making routine tests at the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant, officials said. The release at 10:55 a.m. lasted 3½ minutes and did not pose a public health hazard, said Anthony Nericcio, a spokesman for Northeast Utilities. Oregon 9/27/80 === Page 66 of 93 This is why the SI's warned Millie & me not to go into Bermuda Triangle!! Nation 10/30/80 Illinois State Representative Yourell's photograph of the Kalia III, dinghy and body # Drugs and Death on the High Seas ## A Bahamian triangle of smugglers and unwary skippers A soft warning to the thoughtful skipper on the possibility of hijacking. The U.S. Coast Guard advises owners of yachts cruising in the Bahamas and Caribbean to be very careful about taking on hitchhikers and paid hands. Even a rescue at sea should be approached with caution. It is an unusual cautionary note in these days of pleasure cruises in the Bahamas and the Caribbean, where the legends of bloodthirsty pirates like Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte survive only in tourist brochures. But the warning, published in the respected Yachtsman's Guide to the Bahamas, is aimed at putting modern skippers on their guard against today's version of piracy: yachtjacking by drug smugglers who use tiny Bahamian cays as bases for shipping cocaine and marijuana from Latin America to South Florida. Just how many yachts have fallen prey to smugglers is unknown; unless the boats or debris from them turn up, the U.S. Coast Guard lists missing yachts as "overdue pending further developments." But skippers in marinas along the Florida coast are increasingly convinced that many of them are not simply missing. Three incidents in particular have heightened boatowners' apprehensions: * In the logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at Pipe Cay." Six days later, Illinois State Representative Harry Yourell, 62, and son Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood and littered with debris, including Patti's spectacles and bikini bra. Yourell told TIME Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Cate: "I haven't seen anything as bad since the South Pacific in World War II." Yourell radioed the authorities, who sent a plane to fly over the cay. But by the time the police arrived by boat a day later, the body had apparently slipped into the sea and disappeared. Nassau authorities inexplicably claimed that there never had been a body until Yourell angrily made public his photographs of the scene. Bahamian authorities now acknowledge that a constable aboard the plane spotted the body and that the yacht was a shambles as described by Yourell (though they insist, despite accounts from at least three eyewitnesses, that there were no shotgun holes or embedded pellets in the yacht). * Retired Armonk, N.Y., Businessman Lester Conrad, 68, and Philadelphia Stockbroker Walter Falconer, 60, set out in calm weather five months ago aboard Conrad's sleek 45-ft. Polymer III from Great Harbor Cay for West Palm Beach, a seven-hour cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have switched on if the boat had sunk. Smugglers would find the Polymer III especially attractive because of its speed (22 knots), 3,000-mile cruising range and six-ton cargo capacity. * Thomas Loberg, 63, and Wife Rignor, 62, believe that they and their 47-ft. cruiser Rig-n-Tom were nearly lured to disaster near Chub Cay last year by a fake S O S. The radio caller mysteriously requested Rig-n-Tom's position rather than giving his own. A traveling companion, Pat Vaughan, happened to be reading about misleading distress calls in The Island, Peter Benchley's fictional account of modern Bahamian piracy, and urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared on the horizon and began chasing Rig-n-Tom. The intruder veered away, however, when Loberg put his yacht under the lee of a friendly sailboat. Such close encounters on the high seas have caused many skittish yachtsmen to arm themselves before sailing in Bahamian waters, despite the authorities' insistence that there is no cause for concern. But there is no denying that the drug trade is booming in the small cays. Says Skip Nichols, 33, a Fort Myers marina operator: "Right where Kalia III was found, I have watched drug transactions with my binoculars." There are so many isolated cays--at least 2,000 among the 700 or so islands in the Bahamas archipelago--that the traffic is difficult to police. But some spots have become notorious among yachtsmen, including Norman Cay, just 30 miles from Pipe Cay. Norman Cay is four miles long and has an airstrip and marina. The key was once a happy watering hole for passing sailors, but it has been declared off limits to them by a new owner. Bahamian authorities raided Norman Cay last January, arrested 30 people and seized an undisclosed quantity of cocaine and marijuana. Many Florida-based yachtsmen accuse Bahamian authorities of being reluctant to act against the smugglers for fear of jeopardizing tourism. This is denied by Bahamian officials, who insist that the islands remain a peaceful playground for yachtsmen. Still, warns Skip Nichols, "If you're not careful, you can get run over by those high-powered drug boats." TIME, SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 === Page 67 of 93 Calif. PK # Smog still heavy LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The lungs of Southern Californians labored through the seventh straight day of a choking combination of fog and smog Monday. Also, poor visibility prompted the diversion of some airplanes. Conditions were predicted to worsen Tuesday. Except for the mountains and deserts, skies throughout the four-county air basin were expected to be unhealthful for everyone again Tuesday, the Air Quality Management District said. Airplanes were diverted from Burbank Airport because of early morning fog and they continued to avoid the airport in the afternoon, said chief air traffic controller Dean Cooper. "Some of them are not coming in, perhaps because of the haze," Cooper said. The inversion layer, which had lifted somewhat to 2,000 feet during a weekend respite from rush-hour freeway fumes, dropped to 1,000 feet Monday and was expected to drop to the 800-foot level which predominated last week. reg. Oct 7, '80 -- Berm. Δ Attack -- # Search near end for lost freighter NEW YORK (AP) -- The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that it would suspend its search for clues to the mysterious disappearance of the 12,000-ton freighter Poet if nothing turned up Thursday. "Tomorrow will be the last active day of the search," Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Craig Jud said. "If nothing turns up, the search will be suspended pending further developments." Any clues found at a later date could re-open the investigation, he added. On Wednesday, six airplanes -- three Coast Guard, two Navy and one Air Force -- searched an area of 16,640 square miles 500 to 1,000 miles south of the southern tip of New Jersey and east of Delaware Bay. The searchers have now covered more than 200,000 square miles, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The 552-foot vessel sailed from Philadelphia on Oct. 24 bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a cargo of grain. It was last seen passing Cape Henelopen, Del., and has not been heard from since. The search began Nov. 8 after five days of broadcasts to other ships produced no word of the Poet. The ship's disappearance was more puzzling, Jud said, because it happened in a highly trafficked area and despite the presence on board ship of a self-activating Emergency Long Range Transmitter, which triggered by exposure to salt water. The transmitter sends off signals for anywhere from two to 10 days once activated, he said. As hopes waned, Cathryn Warren, whose husband Leroy A. Warren Sr. is captain of the ship, said she was "very, very worried." Her daughter, Gail Von Bussenius, reached at the Warren's Bel Air, Md., home, said: "We're just waiting to see what's going on. Mostly, we're just waiting to hear from the rescue squads ... the Coast Guard. "We haven't heard anything from the company," she added. 11/13/80 -- California PK -- 10:35 PM July 27, 1980 on phone Jeffrey Mishlove 7.8 on Richter quake closing in on California in hours, days, or a few weeks. Irene Warning to Jeffrey Mishlove -- I thought earthquakes. She thought otherwise. Irene # Continuing smog grips LA area in choke-hold By RICHARD DE ATLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Under a tea-colored blanket brewed by a burning sun and pollution, people wept and wheezed Thursday as eye-stinging smog kept its choke-hold on Southern California a third straight day. Temperatures were a little cooler Thursday after the hottest Oct. 1 in 74 years. The smog was expected to ease as fog and low clouds raised the inversion layer holding polluted air over the region. However, the Air Quality Management District predicted the smog would continue Friday and suggested motorists stay home this weekend. Wednesday's high of 97 in Los Angeles was the hottest since 1906. "This has been the worst two weeks for as long as I can remember," said John Strycula, coach of the Citrus Junior College football team in the San Gabriel Valley suburb of Azusa, one of the areas hardest hit by smog. "We go more for mental preparation than physical exertion at times like these," he said. "There's no heavy running or anything like that." "I just pray I don't run out of ice cream like I did last Friday," said Tony Naranjo, manager of the Friendly Freeze ice cream stand in Azusa. Usually only a Southern California phenomenon, the smog spread its brown pallor to the San Francisco area Wednesday and caused the first Bay area smog alert since Oct. 2, 1978. San Jose choked on its worst smog in two years as temperatures jumped to 97, the highest for the date. A survey of hospitals Thursday showed few patients were checking in with respiratory complaints resulting from the smog, but Los Angeles County Health Department spokesman Tony Tripi warned: "It may be that smog is killing us by inches." reg. 10/3/80 === Page 68 of 93 "Power + Rain Attack" At Least 30 Die In Mexican Rains Mexico City 9/29/80 At least 30 people died and the homes of 175,000 others were damaged in southeastern Mexico after three days of torrential rain caused by tropical storm Hermine, government officials said yesterday. Reuters Japan Volcano Erupts Tokyo Mount Shintake, on Kuchierabu island 43 miles south of Japan's southern island of Kyushu, erupted yesterday for the first time in nearly 4 1/2 years, spewing smoke and dust 6600 feet high. SF Chron. 9/29/80 United Press Mosquitoes kill 40 head of cattle Note: Birds knock out power. A buzzard knocks down a govt. craft. Mosquitoes attack! Just note. Gwen COLLEGE STATION, Texas (UPI) -- Huge flocks of mosquitoes, hatched by the floodwaters of Hurricane Allen, have killed cattle by draining their blood, officials say. The experts said the mosquitoes have been brought under control but that at least 40 head of cattle died on one ranch in only the second recorded instance of mosquitoes killing cattle in the United States. Mosquito eggs are dependent upon water to hatch, and the summer drought kept the eggs deposited in the fields of the coastal plains from hatching until Hurricane Allen shoved ashore in August. With Hurricane Allen came high tides, and the marshes of Brazoria County, south of Houston, were included in the floods. With the floods came the mosquitoes. "I've never seen anything like it -- I can't remember when the mosquito population got quite this bad," said J.C. McNeil IV, director of the Brazoria County mosquito control office. Stephen Perry Jr., who owns a ranch near Jones Creek, lost nearly 40 head of cattle. Although Perry could not be reached for comment, experts said the likely cause of death was loss of blood from attacks by mosquitoes. Dr. Bruce Abbitt of the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at Texas A&M was involved in autopsies of three of the animals. "The interesting point (of the autopsy) was the cattle were anemic," he said. "They had very little blood left in them." Air Force jets collide over Britain; 2 killed LONDON (UPI) -- Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbolt jets collided over England's North Sea coast on Tuesday and one of the pilots drowned in the frigid sea along with a British airman who tried to rescue him. The other American pilot, Maj. Stephen P. Kaatz, 36, parachuted over land and was not injured, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said. The two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt-II jets collided during a training flight from the Royal Air Force base in Bentwater, Suffolk, to the Wainfleet Range 100 miles north in Lincolnshire. The second pilot parachuted from the stricken plane and landed in the wind-swept North Sea but soon was spotted by a RAF Sea King rescue helicopter. With the helicopter fighting a stiff wind, a British airman was lowered by cable to the pilot, but became entangled in the straps of the American's parachute, an RAF spokesman said. "When they were being winched aboard, the wind spun both men around and they got further entangled in the helicopter's cable," the spokesman said. The RAF first said the helicopter pilot cut the cable, but a spokesman later said the cable had snapped and was not cut. Within minutes a U.S. Air Force "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter was on the scene and hoisted the American and Briton aboard, but both were dead, the RAF spokesman said. S.F. P. 11/8/80 === Page 69 of 93 Gwen 10/5/80 # Study links Monday, heart attack fatalities VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- A study shows that for men who die of heart failure without any prior record of heart trouble, the chances are better than 1 in 3 that Monday will be the fatal day, a Canadian cardiologist says. Dr. Simon Rabkin is a member of a team studying 3,983 men who were eligible for pilot training in World War II and still were physically fit in 1948. Since the study began in 1948, 63 men without any record of heart problems died suddenly of heart attacks, and 22 of them died on a Monday. Totals for other days of the week were seven on Tuesday, six on Wednesday, 13 on Thursday, five on Friday, four on Saturday and six on Sunday. "Usually, you would expect this to be spread out evenly over the week," Rabkin said in an interview. Because women weren't included in the survey, Rabkin said he couldn't speculate on whether Mondays are dangerous for them. Results of research by a University of Manitoba team, including Rabkin, now of Vancouver, appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of American Medical Association. The article said two-thirds of the places where the 63 men died suddenly were known. Three out of four deaths reported at work occurred on Monday, while seven of 15 deaths at home were on Monday, and 10 of 23 deaths at other locations occurred on Monday. Among men who died of heart trouble after earlier cardiac problems and among men who died of cancer, no significant difference was found among the days of the week, Rabkin said. He said the question of whether the day of the week was a factor in heart-attack deaths rarely had been studied before. The men surveyed live in all parts of Canada and cover a wide range of occupations and social strata. A study in a Scottish hospital suggested that Monday was a bad day for sudden heart-related deaths but failed to take into account whether the patients had previous heart trouble, Rabkin said. A study of U.S. death certificates from 1962 to 1966 showed a small bulge on Monday, but previous heart trouble wasn't considered in that study, either, he said. 10/17/80 Note: I am sure I know the answer to what puzzles the scientists. For men who work, brain waves do not maintain a constant rhythm or speed. These mens' minds are geared to working all week, Mon. -- Fri., relaxing over the weekend... then snapping back like a rubber band to begin over again on Monday. And sometimes the "rubber bands" break! (On the "snap-back.") Gwen === Page 70 of 93 Wed., Oct. 1, 1980 San Francisco Chronicle 5 U.S. Govt PK # Pilot Earns His Wings -- And a Buzzard's Too Milton, Fla. A student pilot was forced into his first solo flight and landing after his Navy trainer plane collided with a turkey buzzard at 2500 feet and his instructor bailed out, officials said yesterday. The student safely landed the T-34C, the crumpled buzzard still in the cockpit, at a civilian airport at Brewton, Ala., after the collision Monday, a Navy spokesman said. According to the spokesman, the student, Marine Lieutenant S. R. Hoenie, was knocked unconscious and the instructor, Marine Captain Dean Lucas, was temporarily blinded when the buzzard crashed through the canopy. "The glass was swirling around the cockpit and flew straight into the instructor's face," the spokesman said. "He suffered temporary loss of vision and was cut around the eyes." Lucas, an instructor at Whiting Field near Milton in the Florida Panhandle, then bailed out of the plane, apparently thinking the student had done the same, the spokesman said. But Hoenie hadn't, and the craft was without a pilot for a few seconds. "The unconscious student may have slumped over in the cockpit and the instructor wasn't able to see him," the spokesman said. "Nobody knows what happened for certain." Hoenie regained consciousness and realized he was alone just north of the Brewton airport, according to the spokesman. "We don't know whether the plane was flying straight and level. But it was at such an altitude that he was able to regain control of the plane," the spokesman said. "He'd never soloed before, but he landed without incident." The instructor, meanwhile, parachuted safely north of Brewton. He was taken to a hospital and treated for cut around the eyes and on the upper part of his body. Hoenie suffered a shoulder injury. Associated Press Note: Birds also knocked out Power!! See "Power" PK file. G.W. U.S. Govt PK # Hang Glider Crash At China Lake Kills Navy Pilot SF Chron. 10/1/80 China Lake A Navy pilot died yesterday when the motorized hang glider he was flying crashed during tests at China Lake Naval Weapons Center. Commander Dennis E. Becker was in a low-level flight when the lightweight aircraft tumbled onto dry-bedded Mirror Lake, said base spokesman S. G. Payne. The craft, the Mitchell Wing 10-B, is one of several light craft being tested by the Navy for possible military use, Payne said. Becker was one of five Navy personnel assigned to the project. # Plague Closes Park Sacramento Bubonic plague among ground squirrels has forced officials to close Plumas-Eureka State Park near Blairsden in southern Plumas County. SF Chron. 9/30/80 Associated Press # PCBs Pollute Huge Area In Oakland By Dale Champion California's largest known PCB waste contamination problem has been uncovered at General Electric Company's big east Oakland repair yard, and cleaning up the pollution could cost millions of dollars, the state Department of Health Services disclosed yesterday. The highly toxic wastes, spilled over 40 years from heavy electrical equipment using PCB insulating fluids, are spread over the 24-acre GE property at East 14th Street between 54th and Seminary avenues. "It looks like the cleanup costs will be in the multi-millions of dollars," said Harvey Collins, chief of Health Services' hazardous materials management section in announcing the massive pollution problem. Collins said one solution under consideration is the removal of more than 200,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil, a project estimated to cost between $30 million and $50 million. Probings for PCBs -- polychlorinated biphenyls -- at the GE yard, Collins said, show that the contamination reaches to depths of 15 to 20 feet. The chemical compounds, which are extremely stable and highly resistant to fire, have been identified as the cause of numerous serious health disorders and are suspected of causing cancer. They also are a major environmental hazard, especially in waterways, where they can enter the food chain and magnify in concentrations as they move from smaller SF Chron. Oct 1, '80 Back Page Col. 4 === Page 71 of 93 Orig 10/17/80 # Atlanta probes child slayings, disappearances By PEGGY WALSH ATLANTA (AP) -- Police began organizing door-to-door foot patrols Thursday and community leaders signed up volunteers for weekend searches as the investigation intensified in the unsolved slayings and disappearances of 14 black children. The action came one day after police revealed that the body of a youth found in 1979 has been identified as one of six black children previously listed as missing. The identification of the body of Alfred James Evans, 14, of Atlanta brought to nine the number of children under age 15 killed in Atlanta or south suburban East Point in the last 15 months. Five other black children are still missing. The body of Evans, who was suffocated, was found last July four days after he disappeared, but positive identification by dental records was not made until Wednesday. Police officials gathered Thursday to plan a door-to-door campaign to gather information about the killings and disappearances. Angelo Fuster, Mayor Maynard Jackson's press secretary, said "hundreds of policemen" would be on the patrols, and the City Council was considering a curfew for children under age 15. Meanwhile, the United Youth Adult Conference, a non-profit social services agency, scheduled searches over the next several Saturdays of areas where children were reported missing. "We've had more than 200 volunteers so far," conference spokeswoman Helen Taylor said. "All sorts of people are volunteering their time and services. We've had medical technicians, off-duty policemen, students, everybody. They all want to help find something to solve this thing." This Saturday's search will concentrate on the area where 7-year-old Latonya Wilson, the only female among the missing children, was reportedly taken from the bedroom of her home on June 22. The slayings of the children, combined with the deaths of four black toddlers and a black teacher in a furnace explosion at a day-care center Monday, has riddled the black community with fear and distrust. Police have said the furnace explosion was an unrelated accident, but some blacks have expressed fear that the incidents are somehow connected. Jackson, who like most of the city's hierarchy is black, held news conferences each day this week, urging parents to discourage Halloween "trick-or-treating" and calling for a $100,000 reward for information about the dead and missing. The fund already totals $30,000. Parents' groups and religious leaders have coordinated efforts in recent weeks to provide children with safety tips, and neighborhood businesses have organized to provide safe places for children to go if they are afraid. The latest victim was Charles Stephens, 12, whose asphyxiated body was found a week ago. Contacts: As a top world psychic... I know that the Klu Klux Klan is behind the above. Doing it * Also, am sure that they are using the facilities of the Atlanta S.P.C.A. "humane" Society to asphyxiate the little children (a la dogs & cats.) the symbolism of dogs... or animals with negro kids... appeals to their twisted evil minds. Owens (PK Man) * They are trying to provoke an open war between blacks and whites! === Page 72 of 93 Fate Mag Nov. 1980 # Update . . . . . . . . By Jerome Clark DOES TIBET HAVE A "LOCH NESS MONSTER"? A Peking newspaper story this past June reports that a remote Tibetan lake harbors a dangerous monster "as big as a house." The creature, described as having a "very long" neck and "comparatively big" head, is said to have killed a farmer who was rowing in a small boat on the lake, which is located 420 miles from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. MOVE OVER, NESSIE -- HERE'S CHESSIE! Meanwhile, back in the United States, two separate groups of people claim to have seen a creature swimming in the waters of the Potomac River. Near Oak Grove, Va., 59-year-old farmer Goodwin Muse, who with his wife and four friends saw the thing on June 14, says, "It looked like a snake . . . from 10 to 14 feet long" and about five inches in diameter. It was visible for 15 minutes as it swam 40 to 50 feet offshore. On June 22, several persons spotted it from a boat. Their description matched Muse's except that they put its length at 25 feet. In 1978, 30 persons saw a similar creature on the Potomac near Chesapeake Bay. Reporters dubbed it "Chessie." (1980) (1980) BIGFOOT LEAVES BIG FEET IN IDAHO. Residents of rural Fort Hall, Idaho, believe a Sasquatch family left huge tracks in the area recently. The prints, discovered over a two-week period between late June and early July, were eight, 12 and 16 inches in length and somewhat wedge-shaped. The middle-sized prints had four toes, apparently the result of a deformity. Authorities did not speculate on the identity of the presumed animals but in mid-July, Fort Hall policemen heard weird screeching sounds and smelled a "strong pungent odor" -- phenomena traditionally associated with Bigfoot. JEANE DIXON SEES THE FUTURE . . . As a professed psychic Jeane Dixon has far more 78 Note: Several years ago I wrote to Dr. Max Vogel, a scientist for Mensa... and told him that I'd bring UFOs and the Loch Ness monster "to Chesapeake Bay. Following that many people saw the Loch Ness monster in Chesapeake Bay. This seems to be a second series of such sightings. This has been a caused happening (by myself). Owen === Page 73 of 93 near area where Teddy and I linked up and merged with the ancient Mayan power, Xtoloc. We were Uzmal THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 9, 1980 15 # Cancun carefully planned paradise By GLENNA SYSE Field News Service CANCUN, Mexico -- Pronounce it Khan, as in Genghis, then coon as in raccoon. Emphasis on the second syllable please. And note that it helps if you raise your right shoulder on the coon and squint a little with the left eye. Certainly plan to look superior. If you've been here, you're entitled, because you're way ahead of the crowd. This sun-smooched resort on a sliver of sand off the northeast coast of the Yucatan didn't even exist seven years ago. The Mexicans just invented it. In fact, the story is that it is a computer baby. The government south of the border decided that Acapulco, Cozumel and Puerta Vallarta were not all things to all sun-and-sea freaks, so they decided to start from scratch. They got out the machine and into it they programmed such things as climate, accessibility, history, fishing, sights to be seen, etc. And Cancun was born. And so here it is, a carefully planned brand-new paradise for swimmers, snorklers and sybarites, not to mention manufacturers of Coppertone and maps. A decade ago it was just sunrise and sunset, dunes and a few Mayans. Now 30,000 live here, mostly to service the lineup of luxury hotels, restaurants and shops that are sparsely dotted along the skinny snake of sand, 14 miles long and just one-quarter of a mile wide. Great care has been made to protect the environment and keep the neon dim. They say Cancun is never going to be a honky-tonk, and I hope they keep their word. To date, it is unsullied -- a place to get away from it all without giving up room service. There's one subject to get rid of up front. Cancun is 130 miles from Chichen Itza, where the mighty pyramid El Castillo reigns. And it is close to other famous Mayan ruins. Tulum is a 75-mile trip. It is a small walled city on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean. Photo by BARBARA JORDAN CHICHEN ITZA -- El Castillo pyramid, reached with a 130-mile drive through the jungle, is one of the remarkable Mayan ruins to visit during a stay in Cancun, Mexico. The ride through the scrubby jungle was of some interest, especially when they say that anteaters and jaguars are out there along with iguanas, spider monkeys, ocelot, deer, turkeys and wild pigs. But even jungles get repetitious after a while. There is a stop to snorkel at Xel-Ha, a natural aquarium with all kinds of bright little fish darting through the coral, and to lunch by the languid lagoon at Akumal Beach. Once in Cancun there is golf on an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones course; shopping (you are expected to bargain) at the Mauna Loa and El Parian shopping centers, although I did best at the La Casita downtown; go parasailing for $25; fish for tuna, marlin, sailfish, mackerel or grouper; or explore the state of Quintana Roo and visit its capital Chetumal; or sample Cozumel. One voyage is a must, and that's the cruise on the Fiesta Maya to Isla Mujeres. It's a happy ship, well-supplied with rum, a live orchestra and a glass bottom in need of Windex. As it churns along the peninsula, one can see workers on the shore, some busy with chisels, others languishing in hammocks, which in itself is the pleasant dichotomy of the Mayans, the friendliest and warmest people one could ever meet. === Page 74 of 93 Note: Fascinating! My phone call to Miben SF last week when I told him the SI's were going after top U.S. govt. individuals. Owen # Miss Lillian undergoes hip surgery AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) -- Lillian Carter, President Carter's 82-year-old mother, was reported in good condition Thursday evening after undergoing surgery for a broken hip. "Miss Lillian withstood the two-hour operation extremely fine and now is in the recovery room," said Dr. John H. Robinson III, her attending physician. Mrs. Carter tripped on a rug about 8 a.m. as she got up to turn on a television set, said James R. Griffith, administrator of Americus-Sumter County Hospital. She was admitted to the hospital about 9 a.m. During the late afternoon operation, a team of physicians including an orpedist and an internist inserted a pin in Mrs. Carter's right hip, Robinson said. "We do not anticipate any unusual problems for she is in good condition," he said. "It's too soon to determine how long she will be required to remain in the hospital." On hand at the hospital during the surgery were Mrs. Carter's son, Billy; his wife, Sybil; and Mrs. Carter's daughter, Gloria Carter Spann, Robinson said. The physician said he spoke with President Carter earlier in the day by telephone. "She is in good spirits and is receiving the usual medication for such treatment," Griffith said prior to the surgery. "Her physician said it was just a fractured hip which could be repaired by surgery." White House press secretary Jody Powell said the president spoke by telephone with his sister and his mother's doctor about the accident. Powell said the president's mother relayed a message to her son through the doctor that Carter shouldn't worry and she would talk to him "when I get through messing around with the doctors." Powell said no decision had been made on whether Carter would go to Georgia to visit his mother. Mrs. Carter was born Aug. 15, 1898, in Richland, Ga., about 20 miles from Plains, and earned a nursing degree at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She was married in 1923 to James Earl Carter Sr., a peanut farmer and businessman. Org. Oct 3, 1980 Note: In pursuing daily activation of the Mayan-UFO PK map it seems that it causes explosions everywhere... ships explode, oil rigs explode; # Eight hurt as coal dust explosion levels factory CINCINNATI (UPI) -- Coal dust was blamed Thursday for a massive explosion that leveled a foundry factory, injured eight workers -- four critically -- and left one person unaccounted for. A search was under way for a man who had made a delivery to the Hill & Griffith Co. factory near the time of the explosion Wednesday. The whereabouts of Robert Wifke, 34, co-owner of the Wilke Sheet Metal Co., were unknown. Listed in critical condition Thursday at General Hospital were factory workers Floyd Coldiron, Raymond Bruney, Paul Ganghoff and Rodger McGuffy. Less seriously injured were two other workmen and a couple employed at the factory. The explosion leveled the 100-by-400-foot brick and timber building where 15 persons were working and caused a three-alarm fire. "I couldn't see because the coal dust was too thick," said employee Bill Thesing. "There was coal dust all over the place. It was pitch black. You couldn't see your hand in front of you." Fire Chief Norm Wells blamed the explosion on the coal dust. "This is a factory that manufactures foundry equipment. They use pulverized coal in their process, so we suspect it was a coal dust explosion." Tuesday, two coal dust explosions at Commonwealth Edison's coal-fired plant in Pekin, Ill., injured seven persons -- one still in serious condition -- and caused $100 million in damages. Thesing was not injured by Wednesday's blast but said he was "rolled" by the force of the explosion. "I was sitting in a chair with wheels on it in the shipping office about 20 feet away from where the explosion was," he said. "I heard a big blast and it started my chair rolling. It gave me a helluva ride. I remember hitting the wall." Org. J. 10/16/80 The papers are full of such massive explosions. I am certain that it is caused by my current activity. Owen 10/17/80 === Page 75 of 93 "Time" Distortion (i.e. a different age or time.) (The SI & I were badly treated by Los Alamos "Time Distortion" & other scientists in New Mexico! U.S. Beam - Attack - ? (Guene) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1980 # Age-old scourge bubonic plague ## on rise in New Mexico By MATT MYGATT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Bubonic plague -- the scourge that littered the lanes of medieval Europe with bodies -- has struck 11 people in New Mexico this year, killing three of them. Bubonic plague is a rare disease, but it hits New Mexico harder than any other state. "There is no question that the disease is endemic in the rodent population in New Mexico," said Dr. Jonathan Mann, assistant state director for health promotion and disease prevention. Fleas transmit the disease from animals to humans -- a pet dog or cat might kill an infected rodent, a flea might hop from the rodent to the dog and the dog might carry it home. The disease can be transmitted between humans when it reaches the pneumonic stage, the victim's coughs spewing the virulent plague organism into the air to infect other humans. However, New Mexico has never registered a human-to-human plague case. "The risk of plague is higher in adolescents and children," Mann said. "This probably has to do with their relationship with dogs and cats -- they maybe are more likely to have close contact with the dogs and cats." Plague symptoms include a high fever, a general feeling of sickness usually accompanied by painful swelling of the lymph glands in the neck, underarm and groin areas. In the 30 years since 1949, when a Taos physician who had seen plague cases in California diagnosed the first one in New Mexico, 97 people have caught the plague. Seventeen of them died. Forty-four of the cases occurred in the first 25 years of that span. But in the past five years, there have been 53. "Clearly, the number of cases is increasing significantly," Mann said. "This is the first century of our experience with plague in the United States, and it's too early to know how it's going to behave. It may die out, or it may become a more difficult problem in the years to come." The plague reached this country around 1900, Mann said, when disease-ridden fleas hopped rides on freighters from China, then jumped ship on the shores of California. "From 1900 to 1908, all cases that occurred in the United States were from urban rat populations," Mann said. "In 1908, the first case of human plague from exposure to a squirrel was noted in California." "It apparently spread from its beachhead in the California port cities from urban rat populations to wild rodent populations all over the Western United States," he said. "Plague is considered a medieval disease, but it's not," Mann continued. "It was only basically in the late part of the last century and the early part of this century that the mysteries of how it is transmitted, how it spreads and how it exists in nature were discovered." === Page 76 of 93 - 4 Projects PK - # Death toll rises to 50 in storm By United Press International The season's worst attack battered the East Coast with howling winds, rain and snow for the second day Thursday, aided by bitter cold that left the Midwest under a sheet of ice. At least 50 deaths were blamed on the storm. High-wind warnings were posted from southern New England into New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and gale warnings were issued from New Jersey to Florida and Mississippi. A freeze warning was posted over north-central Florida and Texas. The storm, which dumped more than a foot of snow from Colorado to Michigan, moved into the Northeast Wednesday and spread rain and snow down the Eastern Seaboard. Arctic air, combined with fierce wind, dropped wind-chill factors down to a life-threatening 84 below in the Midwest and headed east. The storm was blamed for at least 50 deaths -- eight in Iowa, seven in Illinois and New York, five in Kansas, four in Louisiana and three each in Texas and Missouri. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan each reported two storm deaths and Ohio, North Carolina, Colorado, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania each had one. org. 2/12/81 org 2/25/81 # U.S. drops Hells Angels case SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- The government's multimillion-dollar attempt to prosecute Hells Angels motorcycle club members and associates for conspiracy in drug trafficking failed after two trials and almost 14 months in the courtroom. When a second trial jury declared itself deadlocked but leaning toward acquittal Tuesday, U.S. Attorney G. William Hunter said he would not seek a new trial. "Justice has been done," said Hunter, who estimated the government spent $4 million to $7 million in the long case. Defense attorneys, however, estimated the government cost of trying to prosecute the club members at between $10 million and $20 million. A mistrial was declared by U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick when the nine-man, three-woman jury said it was deadlocked hopelessly after 10 days of deliberation totaling 46 hours. Note: And I can't get the five million ufo. Base to save the human race! Owens - Attack - # Search fails to find plane VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Ground crews continued to search Friday for a single-engine plane that disappeared Monday during a five-minute flight over Vancouver, said the search coordinator, Newell Lee of the Washington state Division of Aeronautics. Lee described the disappearance of the plane as "very mysterious and very puzzling." He said the search is focusing on the area around Lewisville Park north of Battle Ground. Don Rudebaugh, 28, a mechanic and pilot for Vancouver-based Aircraft Specialties, left the Clark County Aerodrome Monday afternoon on an eight-mile flight south to Pearson Airpark where the plane was to have been repaired. Helicopters from the 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron in Portland had helped in the search and were standing by in case they are needed, Lee said. Fixed-wing aircraft will be employed as soon as weather allows them in the air, he said. org. 2/15/81 Note: A few days later Vancouver earthquake. Owens - 4 Projects PK - # Thousands flee floodwaters PORT JERVIS, N.Y. (AP) -- More than half of the 4,000 people driven from their homes on both sides of the rain-swollen, ice-clogged Delaware River began to return to their houses Thursday evening, officials said. The flooding occurred in the pre-dawn hours Thursday when a huge ice jam at the New York-Pennsylvania border sent the river over its banks. A state of emergency remained in effect in the twin cities of Port Jervis and Matamoras, Pa. The mayors of the two cities closed schools Thursday so the buildings and city churches could be used as temporary shelters. "This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life," said Mayor Joseph Ricciardi of Matamoras. Most of the homes in the Pennsylvania town were without heat Thursday night, and authorities said many families had moved to higher ground to stay with relatives. New York Gov. Hugh Carey asked the federal Small Business Administration to declare Orange County a disaster area Thursday. Carey's office said an initial survey of the flood's effects in Port Jervis showed damage to 101 commercial and manufacturing establishments and 525 single-family residences. About 500 basements in Matamoras were flooded and about a dozen homes suffered structural damage from the ice, officials said. The hardest hit part of Port Jervis was the lower half of the city on the riverfront. The private Doctors Sunnyside Hospital was closed and its 27 patients were evacuated to St. Francis Hospital in the uphill section of the city. org. 2/13/81 - Attack - # Hunt continued for lost plane PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) -- Two helicopters and two fixed wing planes resumed the search Saturday for a light plane with one occupant missing since Thursday, a state Aeronautics Division spokesman said. The craft failed to land after the pilot requested runway clearance. "The weather is spotty in spots but it is expected to get better this weekend," said LeMoine Stitt, spokesman for the division, which is coordinating the search. On Friday, an air search of the rain-drenched northern Olympic Peninsula failed to find any sign of the plane or its pilot, Jim Perkins of Sequim. org. 2/15/81 === Page 77 of 93 Quake rocks Greece; 12 die, hotels topple ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- The official death toll Wednesday rose to 12 with scores injured in an earthquake that collapsed four hotels in towns around Athens and forced residents of the capital to sleep outdoors or flee the city. The earthquake, recorded by the Athens Seismological Institute at 6.6 on the open-ended Richter scale, struck Tuesday night and was followed by a series of strong aftershocks. Police reported 12 persons died because of the earthquake and 55 were injured. With the exception of government offices, where many failed to appear for work, all offices, schools and banks in Athens were shut Wednesday. The only shops open were food stores. Four hotels collapsed near Corinth. A railway bridge connecting Athens with the region was closed and landslides forced detours on the highway to the area. Villages and small towns between Athens and the epicenter suffered more than the capital. One of the 12 people known dead was killed in Vrahati, a town along the Corinth Gulf coast, when an eight-story hotel crumbled. One person was missing and feared dead in the ruins. In Megara, 30 miles southwest of Athens, four people died and 10 were injured by falling masonry, authorities said. In Halkis, one woman was killed, and in Vrahati, a woman was found dead under debris, authorities said. In Athens, a woman died of a heart attack in the middle of the street and another was killed when she jumped from her second-floor window, police said. In Corinth, where some damage was reported in old buildings, 34 people were hospitalized for injuries. The institute said the epicenter was in the Gulf of Corinth, 44 miles west of Athens, around a group of small islands known as the Alcyons. Athens has been relatively immune to earthquakes but Corinth is a frequent victim. In Athens, many people took blankets and spent the night in public squares or parked cars. org 2/25/81 SITE OF QUAKE -- A strong earthquake rocked Athens and other parts of Greece, killing at least 12 persons and toppling hotels in towns around Athens. - 4 Projects PK - Jet crashes on runway; 34 injured By JACKIE HYMAN SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- An Air California jetliner with 109 persons aboard crash-landed Tuesday while trying to avoid another plane on a runway at John Wayne Airport, injuring at least 34, officials said. The plane's fuselage was cracked open, an engine was torn from a wing and its landing gear was ripped off. The twin-engine Boeing 737, Air California's Flight 336 from San Jose, was carrying 104 passengers and five crew members when the crash occurred at dusk as the plane was landing at the airport in Orange County, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Most of the injuries were minor, said Thomas Kaminski, director of communications for Air California, a commuter airline serving California, Nevada and Oregon. "Apparently there was another aircraft on the runway," said a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman who asked not to be identified. The Air California pilot "was issued a go-around" to keep circling the airport, the spokesman said, "but we're not sure if he heard it." The FAA spokesman said the plane "made a hard landing and then bounced and went into the dirt to the right of the runway. Apparently the landing gear was down. "It was torn off when the plane went into the dirt." The plane came to rest in a dirt and grass area that separates the airport's two north-south runways. "The left engine is gone, it's broken off," said George Thomsen, president of Thomsen Aviation at the airport. "The airplane is cracked in the center. It didn't actually separate completely. The aircraft is broken. It's lying over on its left wing with the right wing in the air." Air California officials said the plane's nose wheel gear collapsed, toppling the plane sideways and dragging the right wing along the runway. A fire broke out in the right wing, wheel well and fuselage, but firemen from a station only 200 yards away blew the flames away from the passenger section while the plane was evacuated. Passengers left the plane via emergency evacuation chutes. org 2/18/81 - 4 Projects PK - Temple damaged ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Worried archaeologists Friday reported significant earthquake damage to the Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis, symbol for 2,500 years of the glory of ancient Greece. The ancient marble columns, which have survived fire, invasion and air pollution erosion over the centuries, suffered cracks that experts described as serious although they were barely noticeable to a reporter's eye. The cause of the damage was an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, which struck Greece with shattering force Tuesday night. It was followed by 652 aftershocks in 24 hours from an epicenter in the Gulf of Corinth, 60 miles southwest of Athens. The quake left 15 persons dead. org 2/28/81 === Page 78 of 93 - $\Delta$ Effect - (Disorientation) # Toll at 13 after quakes rock Athens By GILLIAN WHITTAKER ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Panicky Athenians streamed out of the city Wednesday after Greece was hit by two strong earthquakes that killed 13 people and injured dozens of others in collapsed houses and hotels. The quakes damaged the east and west faces of the famous Parthenon, including two corner columns of the ancient temple on the 2,500-year-old Acropolis overlooking Athens. Police said five people were reported missing after the quakes hit the country during the night. The capital city was almost deserted by midafternoon as people drove into the countryside, fearing that more buildings might collapse in new tremors. "People must understand that they are suffering unnecessarily by staying out in the open now if they are sure that their houses are safe," Premier George Rallis said on a tour of the worst-hit areas. "Houses that didn't suffer from either the first or second large quakes have proved that they can stand." The two quakes registered 6.6 and 6.3 on the open-ended Richter scale. Their epicenter was 42 miles west of Athens in the Gulf of Corinth, the Athens Seismological Institute said. Corinth, 40 miles west of Athens, was one of the hardest-hit cities. The shocks destroyed five hotels in the area around the gulf and collapsed more than 200 houses, police said. The quake was the strongest in Athens in recent years. Many Athenians panicked when lights went out and windows shattered. Thousands spent the night in the open, huddled around makeshift fires or wrapped in blankets. # Sighting spurs rare-bird alert WARRENTON (AP) -- A Siberian sandpiper, never before seen in the continental United States, has been spotted at the mouth of the Columbia River, prompting a rare-bird alert. "This is probably the rarest bird to occur in Oregon in at least a decade and possibly the last century," bird expert Thomas J. Crabtree said Friday. Crabtree, a member of the board of directors of the Audubon Society's Salem chapter, took color photographs of the bird Tuesday at Fort Stevens State Park. He said bird watchers were coming from Seattle and other points in Oregon and Washington in hopes of getting a glimpse of the sandpiper. "We call it a rare-bird alert," Crabtree said. "But it's not a formal declaration of the Audubon Society." The spotted redshank is 11 inches long. It is gray with a white breast and red legs. The bird has been feeding alone on a south jetty northwest of Astoria. Crabtree said he could not tell whether it is a male or female. Crabtree, a deputy state public defender who is a member of Oregon Field Ornithologists, said the bird's presence on the West Coast is comparable to having a Canada goose show up in Japan. Two species of spotted redshanks breed in the northern parts of Asia and Europe, Crabtree said. A few members of the European group, which breeds in Norway, have been seen in the summer along the Eastern coastline of the northern United States and Canada. This is the first spotting anywhere in the continental United States of an Asian redshank in the winter, Crabtree said. He said the birds migrate southward to Japan and Indonesia. But at this time of year, Crabtree said, the sandpiper normally would be heading north to breed in Siberia. "It must be terribly confused," said Crabtree, who speculated that the bird made a wrong turn and came down the Canadian coast instead of going down the Siberian coast. Crabtree said an Audubon Society publication, "American Birds," and another book, "Rare Birds of the West Coast," have no records of an Asian sandpiper seen this far south. He said there are 16 recorded sightings in the Aleutian chain. In 1970, he said, an Asian spotted redshank was seen near the Reifl Bird Refuge near Vancouver, British Columbia. oreg. 2/28/81 "We were out almost all night," said pensioner Costas Zorios as he slumped in his car with his wife and two grandchildren. In Kinetta, between Athens and Corinth, teams worked for eight hours to save Evanghelos Bouraias, a hotel owner who had been trapped in the ruins of his collapsed hotel. Schools were closed in all areas affected by the quakes. Rallis said most school buildings had withstood the shocks, however, and would open Thursday. The premier added that it was up to local authorities to persuade people to return to their homes. All military units and public services were placed in a state of readiness to deal with emergency situations. The Athens Seismological Institute said 465 tremors registering more than 3 on the Richter scale were recorded after the first shock. Of those, eight registered between 4.5 and 6.3 on the scale. Eng 2/26/81 # Bus hurtles off highway, killing 10 QUANTICO, Va. (AP) -- A commuter bus crashed through a guardrail on Interstate 95 Wednesday afternoon and hurtled down an 80-foot embankment into a creek. Police said at least 10 people were killed, including the driver, and 14 were injured. "The bus driver just went off the right side for no apparent reason. It's very mysterious," said State Trooper S.G. Gregg, who was in charge of the investigation at the scene about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. "As he started to the right lane everything was normal," said Wayne Richey, a Colonial Heights truck driver who witnessed the crash. "All of a sudden he just kept going to the right... right into the guardrail, skimmed the guardrail, hit the corner of the bridge (over the creek) just like a piece of paper being blown by the wind. He just went airborne over the side of the bridge." Donald Harvey and Wayne Mason, two Fairfax County firefighters who witnessed the accident, helped some of the injured from the bus, which came to rest on its side in Chopawamsic Creek in about a foot of water. The front of the bus was demolished. State police closed the southbound lane of the highway so U.S. Park Police helicopters could land to take victims to hospitals. "It was complete chaos, mainly in the front of the bus," Mason said. "The motor was still running. We turned that off, and water was running through the bus." Gregg said it had not been determined if the driver had a heart attack or if there was a mechanical failure. Gregg 2/19/81 === Page 79 of 93 - my personal PK on Enquirer for their double-cross. Gwen (2) Oregon Journal, March 3, 1981 19 # TV star set to battle tabloid in court HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- The National Enquirer, the supermarket tabloid that it is the most widely circulated newspaper, has long targeted celebrities as topics for discussion. Personalities have long criticized what they call The Enquirer's cheap shots, the so-called "inside story" of their romantic flings, divorces and personal problems. And this week, the motion picture, television and recording industry will be watching closely as Carol Burnett tackles the media giant in a multimillion-dollar libel suit. Miss Burnett claims an item printed in the paper five years ago presented her as being drunk and disorderly at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, arguing with Henry Kissinger and spilling wine on a diner. The star filed suit soon after the article appeared, refusing to settle out of court, saying, "Every time they tried to settle I said: 'No. I want to go to trial. You are the bad guys." Much of the paper's five million circulation can be traced to its stories of marital strife, broken romances, alcoholism and drug addiction among celebrities, often attributed to "friends" or "insiders." Miss Burnett, champion of many stars who also are suing The Enquirer, plans to appear Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, asking $5 million damages. The trial is expected to start the following week and will probably last for about two weeks, court sources said. Watching with interest will be Dolly Parton, Ed McMahon, Phil Silvers, Rory Calhoun, Shirley Jones, Paul Lynde, Hedy Lamarr, Rudy Vallee and others who have accused The Enquirer of abusing them in print. A total of nine other celebrities have filed suits against the tabloid seeking a total of $62.5 million. "This is the first time anyone has gone to court with The Enquirer," said Marty Ingels, who with his wife Shirley Jones is suing the newspaper for $10 million. "It's an important day for all of us. If Carol wins her suit, it will open the floodgates for the entire field of libel." The Enquirer called Miss Jones "a crying drunk" and said Ingels cheated his movie-star clients. It quoted a Parton friend as describing her as "the Genghis Khan of country music," said Calhoun was dying of cancer, and called Miss Lamarr a pathetic recluse and Lynde a drunken trouble-maker. McMahon, accused of undergoing a face lift among other things, sued the newspaper for $2.5 million, saying The Enquirer "preys upon the public's appetite for scandal and gossip." "Carol's spent more in attorney's fees (an estimated $200,000) than she'll ever collect from The Enquirer," Ingels said. "But she encouraged us to hang in there." Miss Burnett said the implication that she was a heavy drinker triggered her suit. She said she would stay with the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. "If this sucker goes for 50 years, I'm going to be there in a rocking chair facing the jury." William Masterson, an attorney with the New York law firm of Rogers & Wells, will represent The Enquirer. "Our defense against Miss Burnett's charge is that even if the item was incorrect, it wasn't defamatory," he said. "Even if there were some inaccuracies or if it were harmful, it was retracted in April 6, 1976," Masterson said. The item was printed March 2, 1976. Miss Burnett denies there is any truth to the item except that she was in a restaurant and did meet Kissinger. Enquirer publisher Generoso Pope Jr., who publishes the paper in Lantana, Fla., and his top spokesmen say they discourage fabrications and have dismissed three or four staffers in a decade or so for faking news. Ingels charged The Enquirer contacts sources, generally people who come in brief contact with celebrities (waiters, hair-dressers, doormen) and pays them cash to "recall" situations or conversations that never took place. === Page 80 of 93 Note: Copy of letter I sent to VP George Bush. Owens This communication is of the utmost importance to you. Who are the most dangerous humans in the world? The key people who invented and are furthering atomic and nuclear power? Hitler? No. Before going further let me state that I attended Duke University and am a member of Mensa, the high-IQ organization of the world (upper 2% of world's population). If you will read the enclosed book (in the hands of publishing people in New York and written by a scientist, also an expert in the field of parapsychology) === Page 81 of 93 2 then you will understand that I am the most dangerous human being that the world has ever known. (Please do not misunderstand me and misconstrue the above. This is not a "threatening" letter. The book will explain what kind of letter it is.) You have absolutely no one in your intelligence agencies, or in your government... with my abilities, and in this letter I am placing these abilities within the reach of yourself and President Reagan, to help the United States. === Page 82 of 93 - Blazer PK - ore 12/1/80 # Pressure's on Ramsay to right Blazers Thanks in no small measure to rumored signs of life in their two most recent road losses, the Portland Trail Blazers were able to return home Sunday without having to wear disguises to avoid public ridicule. But any continuation of the sorry performances offered by this talent-thick team and funny masks may yet find their place in the Blazers' wardrobe. Let's face it, the Blazers of 1980 stink. They were a better team last year when injuries and questionable trades debilitated the troops faster than Coach Jack Ramsay could say, "If we run our offense and play the way we know we can play, we can still have a very good basketball team." You've heard that before, and so has everyone in the National Basketball Association. But as this interminable season lurches into December one important fact has become crystal clear -- the Blazers are going nowhere, probably not even out of the Pacific Division cellar. With 30 percent of the schedule completed, the Blazers already have crapped out in the playoff game. If anyone thinks Portland has a chance to gain a berth, then certainly post-season hopes must exist for those bad jokes in Cleveland and Detroit. Both have better records than the Blazers. After 25 games, Portland has managed only four more wins than the Dallas Mavericks, the only team in the 23-team league with a worse record. Seldom in sports do teams with such blatantly obvious talent take the gaspipe so early. This is a team, you have to remember, that plucked five first-round draft choices in the past three years, yet it plays as if the roster is stocked from Claudia's AAU team. Bart Wright Fact: Portland has won 7 of 12 home games against a collection of 11 opponents which has included only four teams with winning records. Fact: Portland has lost 13 of 13 road games. Fact: Projected at that percentage over the balance of the season, the Blazers would finish 23-59. Fact: To reach the standard playoff measuring rod of 45 wins, the Blazers need 38 more in their remaining 57 games, which translates to a .667 winning percentage. Could they win 20 of their remaining 29 home games? Sounds unrealistic, but if you care to dream and can accept that record it means Portland would have to go 18-10 on the road to attain 45 wins. That's impossible for a team that discovers ways to lose with a two-point lead and five seconds to go as it did in New York Saturday. Countless theories are sure to be advanced to explain this collective choke job, but the collar has to be tightest around Jack Ramsay's neck. Ramsay's knowledge of basketball is on a par with any coach on the globe, and it surpasses most. But complicated play diagrams don't win in the NBA, players do. The trick is to stockpile the talent, keep the troops happy and run teams out with the exploitation of individual skills. The Blazers' lineup and the inner roles of each player change almost daily, leaving players confused and frustrated. In one game, for example, Mychal Thompson might be a center, a power forward and then a quick forward. Against Philadelphia Friday, rookie Kelvin Ransey had a bad shooting day but dished out eight assists in the first half. A couple of early mistakes in the second half and Ransey was strapped to the bench. This season's playoff hopes may be over, but if the Blazers are to play close to their potential in the last four months, Ramsay should take off the chains. That same strategy might make him a winner in Detroit where persistent rumors have him landing next year. Owner Larry Weinberg has delivered a vote of confidence in the coach, but that will wane as the dollars dwindle, which they are at the closed circuit telecasts at the Paramount. The Blazers averaged 1,546 a night last season at the Paramount, but it has tailed off to around 1,000 a night this year. Only winning will improve the financial picture, and with the talent on hand, responsibility for the win-loss column falls on the coach. December 2, 1980 CONTACTS Note: I controlled the above "Trailblazer" pro basketball team last year, and wrecked them. They are the "symbol" for Portland, where my boys and I were insulted, mistreated. It isn't nice to mistreat and insult PK Man. Pursuant to my nature I am continuing the wrecking process this season also. (You have last year's file.) I track this team by TV and radio with my alien mind... and then strange things happen to them! Owens === Page 83 of 93 Judge Jeffrey - in "10 year file" should be my PK of the Beatles. (67 to 70) Contacts B-17 bomber. Atl. & Pac. poisoned w/ 100,000 drops 1/3 of barrels are leaking. Affects oxygen produced by oceans. Oxygen reduction affects animal life on earth. 1/2 to 1/3 oxygen diminish. Affects dogs, cats, horses, first... before humans! (4 dogs, 100 bites, kills) Zoo animals die, 4. Elephant dies. === Page 84 of 93 It's like me + 3 Powers are an "overlay" over the US! If no base (5 mil) is forthcoming shortly - I'll take money away completely from US 11/10/80 The SI's told me last night that they are going to give me a new Power!! Gwen Contacts What I have done, so miracle, is now squared (as in math power). 7 billion to Iran for hostages? 400 million to Chrysler - but no measly 5 million for the UFO Base Note: I am standing on the sideline, watching my UFOs put together a machine of absolute ruin & disaster for the U.S. govt. (because they are refused their base) while the scientists & govt. try to ignore me & my UFOs! Gwen === Page 85 of 93 Contacts Pliers jumped out of my hand. Next day loaf of bread jumped off of grocery store shelf. Next day candy bar jumped off of grocery store shelf. Then the scissors moved & hung Jan. 2, 1980 5 logs jumped off a stack of logs 20 feet away w/ Beau & me watching. NO way it could happen. Note: Constant phenomena, "Poltergeist" in character, psychokinetic in effect, which is occurring near me almost daily now (Jan. 30, 1981). Gwene Tonight... my tray of food jumped off the table. Several hours later my scissors jumped off the table. 10/17/80 Nov. 20, 1980 Bottle opener jumped off the table! Later... at Keil's grocery a carton of Coca Cola jumped off the shelf five feet away. John the manager saw it. Scratched his head in puzzlement. === Page 86 of 93 Outbreak hits NW hospital SEATTLE (AP) -- Harborview Medical Center staffers are keeping a close eye on pneumonia cases after an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease there, Dr. George W. Counts, chief of infectious disease at Harborview, said Saturday. Counts said he doesn't think Legionnaires' disease was involved in deaths at the hospital. "I don't think it was involved in the deaths, although there is no way to exclude that it had a role," he said. The disease was first discovered at Harborview in lung tissue samples from four patients who died there between four and seven weeks ago. It also was found in another patient, who was treated and recovered. The disease is suspected in two other cases, said Dr. Harold E. Laws, Harborview medical director. Counts said Saturday that the four patients who died were in the intensive care unit and were affected with Adult Respiratory Disease Syndrome -- an advanced respiratory shock. Legionnaires' disease "is a pneumonia," Counts said. The symptoms are similar and both diseases are most likely to occur in hospital patients who are seriously ill, in trauma from serious injury, or just getting out of surgery. He said hospital staffers are especially observing patients with respiratory problems, both in and out of intensive care. He said Legionnaires' disease is not communicable, nor is it necessarily fatal. "If patients are treated with erythromycin, a fairly common antibiotic that doctors are very familiar with, then most cases will recover," Counts said. "Those that don't get treated have a fairly high fatality rate," he added. The disease was first found in 1976 at the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia. Since then, "much of the mystery about Legionnaires has been cleared up," Counts said. The source of the infections seems to be within Harborview's 300-bed facility, Laws said. TSS believed widespread DETROIT (UPI) -- New studies reveal that toxic shock syndrome strikes many more women than previously believed, making it almost as common as measles. A federal disease specialist says the mysterious and often-fatal ailment is on the increase. Dr. Bruce B. Dan, an epidemiologist with the federal Center for Disease Control, said Wednesday that there also is additional evidence that TSS, which has been linked to the use of tampons, is triggered by an unidentified strain of a common germ. But Dan cautioned that federal officials are not yet ready to take any action beyond warning women of the potential dangers. In a presentation at the 108th meeting of the American Public Health Association, Dan said recent data in Utah and Wisconsin show the syndrome occurs as frequently as 15 out of every 100,000 menstruating women. Dan The nation Disease hits Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An outbreak of a form of dysentery among mentally retarded children at county nursing homes led to the death of a 7-year-old boy and the closing of school, the Utah Department of Health reported Thursday. In addition to that child, who died of complications, 10 children were infected with shigellosis and officials said 50 to 60 more residents appeared to have symptoms of the disease. Operators of three nursing homes and the Utah State Training School at American Fork have been ordered to prevent patients from leaving and visitors from entering, the health department said. Craig Nichols, state director of communicable disease control, said the staffs and residents of all the affected homes have been put on antibiotics to stop the spread of the infection while survey teams try to find the source of the outbreak. Nichols said Thursday that he hoped to locate the source in 10 to 14 days. Health officials became aware of the outbreak Nov. 13 when a nursing home reported several cases of diarrhea among retarded children, Nichols said. Officials declined to name the nursing homes but said the death did not occur at the Utah State Training School. Note: Yet another "plague"! Owen Gonorrhea outbreak reported in LA ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest single outbreak of a relatively new strain of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea has been reported in Los Angeles, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The outbreak "is going to be much more difficult to bring under control" than earlier outbreaks because the cases are "from almost every health district in Los Angeles County," said Dr. Paul Wiesner, director of the CDC's Venereal Disease Control Division. From Aug. 1 to Oct. 17, 149 cases of the strain -- which is caused by penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae or PPNG -- were reported in Los Angeles County, the CDC reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. That raises the total for 1980 to 175 cases, compared to 11 cases reported in the county from March 1976 through December 1979. "It's the single largest outbreak of PPNG in the country," said Wiesner. Note: A few of the "plagues" resultant from the Four Projects. Owen === Page 87 of 93 The reason the US govt won't supply its base even though the Uprosh has enough documented proof for scientists -- all the govt. is interested in is what I have with my 3 powers, as a weapon. So they keep me under surveil. watching how far I can go with my 3 powers in a destructive, negative way. My personal powers now have squared over my previous 500 miracles! "A democracy can no longer survive or exist in this modern world" $\rightarrow$ 1/3/80 Nov. 10, 1980 Prediction: Pres. Reagan will expire in near future and Bush will take over (ex-CIA) then the CIA will be in the saddle calling the shots!! Owen === Page 88 of 93 Sept. 12 1980 Talk about Synchronicity this after a radio announcement by Hal Owen said a female pilot in a plane headed for Vancouver, Wash., from Eugene, Ore, became disoriented and had to be led in to a landing by another airplane!! Contacts I'm here, connected with and able to use far more power than all the other power on earth combined... yet I must use it negatively, destructively... until someone gives my UFOs + I our safe base! Owens 10/26/80 === Page 89 of 93 UFO vs U.S. Org. N. 9/26/80 # Mideast war could trigger money economic chaos Note: The SIs may very well use this method of attacking the U.S. govt. by causing such a situation. Owens United Press International Giant oil tankers still moved slowly into the Persian Gulf Thursday on the fourth day of the Iran-Iraq war, but energy specialists warned a prolonged shutdown of Gulf shipping lanes could drive the United States into the worst depression in its history. The United States and its European allies held discussions on the formation of an allied naval force to protect the 24-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf through which 40 percent of the Free World's oil flows. Some 17.3 million barrels of oil pass through the strait each day. The United States imports 2 million barrels a day of Persian Gulf oil, or about 9 percent of total U.S. oil needs. Japan relies on the gulf for about 70 percent of its oil and Western Europe for 45 percent. In Paris, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz told French President Giscard d'Estaing that Iraq does not want to interfere with shipping in the Gulf. In New York, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said the Carter administration has "contingency plans for an interruption of oil supplies, but we do not think that will happen." But Western observers expressed concern that Iran would attempt to blockade the Strait of Hormuz to put world pressure on Iraq to withdraw from Iranian territory. Iraq claimed its forces had seized Khorramshahr, Iran's major oil port. The fighting has forced the two warring OPEC nations to halt oil exports totaling 2.7 million barrels a day. Iraq, which had been exporting about 2 million barrels daily, said it would begin moving its oil exports to Tripoli through a 550-mile pipeline that has a capacity up to 1.4 million barrels a day. In Paris, the International Energy said several tankers entered the Gulf through the Strait Thursday despite some insurance-related delays. An estimated 30 ships waited outside the gulf until assured of berthing space to avoid high insurance surcharges for time spent in a war-risk zone, the IEA said. The economic livelihood of the industrialized world is at stake in keeping the Persian Gulf open. Three oil pipelines from the Gulf States now move little more than 2 million barrels a day. Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill told Congress Monday that the United States has enough oil in stock to withstand a foreign oil shock that lasted longer than the four-month Arab oil embargo in 1973. But a recent Library of Congress study estimated the loss of 2 million barrels a day of Persian Gulf oil would reduce U.S. economic growth by 2.3 percent, add 2.5 percentage points to the U.S. inflation rate and raise pump prices by 98 cents a gallon over a two-year period. However, a sustained Gulf cutoff would exact a far heavier economic toll because it would activate the IEA's emergency trigger mechanism under which the United States and 19 other nations have agreed to share oil supplies. Analysts said the United States, which produces 55 percent of its own oil needs, would be subject to a 40 percent oil shortage under the IEA trigger and unprecented economic hardship. "The United States would withstand the loss of 2 million barrels a day of imported oil by rationing gasoline, lowering speed limits, setting thermostats below 65 degrees and burning more coal," a U.S. oil economist said. "But if the United States adhered to the IEA trigger, we'd be cut back from current consumption of about 18 million barrels a day to less than 12 million barrels and sharing a 40 percent crude shortage with everybody else," he said. "It would mean a worldwide depression of unprecedented proportions." === Page 90 of 93 20 Oregon Journal, October 21, 1980 (2) television "Power & Rain Attacks" # CBS documentary dissects Saudi Arabia's oil reserves By KENNETH R. CLARK UPI Television Reporter NEW YORK (UPI) -- The CBS News crew doesn't just report in a documentary. It dissects -- and the scalpel correspondent Ed Bradley wields Tuesday night on Saudi Arabia cuts exceedingly fine. Bradley leads the camera through an increasingly vulnerable treasure chest containing one-fourth of the world's known oil reserves and succeeds in a series of interviews in proving his opening contention that, "We have no treaty. . . no written commitment, but we have no choice but to defend it." The oil picture that unfolds in Bradley's narrative is unsettling. "Without Saudi Arabia's oil, the entire northeastern United States would be plunged into darkness," Bradley says by way of introduction. "Without it, our military and economic alliances would collapse." But oil, as an exposed jugular vein for the Western world, isn't the only subject of "CBS Reports the Saudis," slated to air at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Channel 6. In 60 sweeping minutes, Bradley paints a picture of people in an ancient culture whose only law is the Koran and whose view of a 20th century they've never quite joined reflects the desert where "survival of the fittest" is more than just a phrase. Within that matrix lies a possible thorn for some. Try as he will -- and in several interviews, he patently does try -- Bradley is unable to find a single Saudi woman who will condemn the system that condemns her to a lifetime beneath the veil. As headmistress of a once-unheard-of school for girls, Cecille Rouchdy comes across about as liberated as a woman can get. But she bristles at Bradley's prodding about the Saudi lack of equality between men and women. "Why should you always look upon it whatever is different from your society is wrong?" she asks. "In this society, they still feel a woman should be protected. And why shouldn't we? If we can be spoiled in our society, why do you want us to be unspoiled. . . ? We're happy to be protected. . . You keep saying, 'equality.' I think it's jealousy." Western feminists are not likely to applaud, but anyone who sincerely wants to know what's happening in the volatile Persian Gulf where World War III may be in gestation will find this documentary illuminating. BRADLEY WHEN CHARLES KURALT comes off the road Oct. 27 to anchor the CBS "Morning" news, he'll bring along a weatherman with a reputation for having a crystal ball secreted somewhere among his isobaric charts and barometers. Gordon Barnes will report from Washington, and one anecdote from the sports world precedes him. It seems last December, the Minnesota Vikings -- about to meet Los Angeles in the National Football League playoff -- asked Barnes to give them a weather forecast for the day of the game. He said rain, so the Vikings asked for a rainy training ground. He sent them to Tucson, Ariz. While the Rams practiced beneath sunny skies on a dry field, the Vikings scrimmaged in mud and drizzle. They came out of it to beat the Rams -- in the rain. THE OPENING GAME of the World Series was to NBC what a cup of chicken soup is to a man with a head cold. The network captured 51 per cent of the massive New York audience and 45 per cent of the one in Chicago with its televised play-by-play. The A.C. Nielsen Co. estimates the game was seen in 25.6 million homes, nationwide -- a figure that breaks down to 68 million people. That's the largest audience for a World Series opener in television history. But it still has room to grow. As of Sept. 1, Nielsen says the United States has 77.8 million homes with television sets. === Page 91 of 93 oreg 11/14/80 WE ALREADY HAVE A TOXIC AND ATOMIC WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM Note: The above picture accurately illustrates what will absolutely happen in time ahead to the United States if Ted Owens (PK Man) is murdered or dies before his time (due to human cause); or if The Base is not supplied to Ted Owens and his UFOs in near time ahead. Owens PS it will not result from "atomic wastes." === Page 92 of 93 Why not try a really impossible demonstration ?? The SI's + I, Xtolac + Pyro... focus on the sun and the moon to cause one hell of an anomaly !!! Note: 10/17/80 Made this note in September, then Note: the newsclip below re the major flare on the sun, with others to follow... was caused by a combination of UFO - Egyptian - Mayan - action. About a month ago the SI's communicated and told me that something more drastic would have to be done since Mishlove's book was rejected; the Base has not been forthcoming; I have no funds or proper tools and so on. I made this note, and called George Delavan and Millie Miller... (perhaps I mentioned it also to Dr. Mishlove and Wayne Grover.) The SI's stipulated no material PK map and gave me a mental PK map to use (same as the Bermuda Triangle effect on the U.S. now in effect.) Owen 10/17/80 - Sun + Moon PK Attack - Solar flare disturbance expected BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) - Scientists predict a major flare on the surface of the sun will produce magnetic storms in the Earth's atmosphere and disrupt some communications. Tom Metzger, duty forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the X-3 flare began about 1:38 a.m. EDT Tuesday and peaked 34 minutes later. Metzger predicted a minor storm in the Earth's magnetic field beginning tonight. He said the storm could affect radio communications, radar power relay and satellite systems. The official also said the solar region where the flare originated is expected to produce more flares. 10/15/80 === Page 93 of 93 - Sun & Moon PK - # Large solar flare spotted BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) -- Federal scientists reported a major solar flare, but say it is not expected to disrupt communications on Earth. Thomas Metzger, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster, said the flare occurred at 6:42 a.m. PST Wednesday. It was detected by sensors aboard NOAA satellites in orbit 22,000 miles above the equator. Metzger said the flare occurred in a "very large," active sunspot region that had just rotated into view of the Earth. 11/7/80 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8103 (1 of 2) Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 March 1981 two folders Yes, there are two March 1981 folders. I named there March 1981 (1 of 2) and March 1981 (2 of 2). 1 of 2 has dates mostly in many months of 1980 2 of 2 has dates covering many months of 1980 and 1981 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e74979abfaa9b81181e3712ed78a5b72.pdf ab55726f5cb47ea5b6c0ca6533af97ba https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e8410f81ad633ddf4aae525904ac102f.txt caffa34e47b4945d137c5c43c0487228 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/fb1568f1a081f6f28bc9ddd0bf290651.pdf 44576a06346b3d1c22287b3d3040fd19 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/21f89c5aaae35ca3d323546331709854.txt cab35d474ae7a88d3072c7f4d2a51716 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 139 Vancouver # Second UFO sighting reported A second unidentified flying object emitting a "motor-like noise unlike an airplane or helicopter" has been reported in the Portland metropolitan area. Glenn Turner, 6901 SE Division St., said he saw a red light, appearing to be about two feet long, moving from northeast to southwest about 10 p.m. Wednesday near SE 168th Ave. and Division St. He added that it moved with a foreign sound, but he thought it was some kind of combustion engine. "I worked 16 years at Moffatt Naval Air Station and am familiar with aircraft noises and this, didn't sound like them" Turner reported. Tuesday night, Oregon State Police officers, St. Helens policemen and a CB operator at Ridgefield, Wash., reported seeing an orange light descend into the Columbia River and later become airborne again. As it rose, it emitted a whiny noise. Note: My SI's are making sure that my message gets across! Owens 3/20/81 Wednesday, Mar. 18, 1981 Vancouver, Wash. THE COLUMBIAN # UFO group seeks data on sighting By THOMAS RYLL Columbian Writer Bright orange lights and a strange noise over the Columbia River between Ridgefield and Woodland Tuesday morning have attracted the attention of a UFO investigating organization in Chicago. J. Allen Hynek is founder of the eight-year-old Center for UFO (Unidentified Flying Objects) Studies. He said in a telephone interview this morning that a Sandy, Ore., "investigator" for the center would be interviewing witnesses. They say they saw a glow and heard a loud screeching noise between 4 and 5 a.m. The event has bewildered several law enforcement officers who saw the lights. They included Sgt. Russ Yokum of the St. Helens, Ore., Police Department and Oregon State Police Trooper Tom McCartney. "I always look for a natural explanation," said Hynek, former chairman of the Northwestern University astronomy department in Evanston, Ill. "This was a good sighting in that it has many witnesses who are independent." Hynek said his organization gathers information on strange sightings from over the world. Paris Allen Braden, of Sandy, who joined the organization less than a week ago, will be interviewing witnesses, Hynek said. Braden reportedly has worked at a similar job in Oklahoma, although Hynek said he was "not sure of his experience." Donald Atkin, a Ridgefield citizens band radio operator, reportedly saw a light in the fog near his house and talked with McCartney and Yokum. Atkin broadcast the whining sound - like a ship's sonar - over his radio and it was tape-recorded by one of the officers. The eerie noise, which may have been distorted somewhat by the CB radio, was broadcast numerous times by Portland radio stations Tuesday. An announcer on KGON, a rock music station, said on the air Tuesday afternoon that dozens of callers had asked to hear the recording. "It was a whining sound, not like any aircraft engine I have heard," Trooper McCartney said. A spokesman for the state police office in Columbia City, Ore., said officers combed the area of the sighting Tuesday and found no evidence of an aircraft landing. Several callers reported the event and their information was checked out but nothing found, she said. "This is not something we're going to start pursuing," said Dick Henderson, head of the Federal Aviation Administration district office in Hillsboro, Ore. No aircraft have been reported missing in the area, with the exception of a light plane that disappeared Feb. 9 between Pearson Airpark at Vancouver and Clark County Aerodrome. Henderson speculated the light might have been a flare and said it might have been a helicopter or float-equipped aircraft involved in an illegal drug delivery. Henderson flew to Mount St. Helens Tuesday and said he examined the sighting area from the air. "If somebody knew what they were doing they might have been able to land there," Henderson said. "But I don't know what the surface is like." There are numerous low, flat areas in the vicinity. Hynek of the UFO center said his organization is a group of scientists "who have become interested in this problem." He said he asked the investigator to locate the witnesses on a map and draw lines of sight in an attempt to pinpoint the location of the strange lights. He (CB radio operator Atkin, who could not be reached by The Columbian this morning) saw a flare or at least a glow in the sky and heard some kind of noise," said Henderson. "I don't know. It could be a prank. It was St. Patrick's Day, you know." === Page 2 of 139 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 3 of 139 # Inquiries into rumor spread tale of gun assault on Bush THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 22, 1981 WASHINGTON (AP) -- For days, it's been the hottest rumor in a city that thrives on gossip about the mighty and powerful of government: that Vice President George Bush had been shot at and suffered a minor wound on a Capitol Hill street late one night. The rumor spread so quickly and widely that Bush, exasperated, finally asked the FBI to interview him about it last Friday -- even though the FBI was not conducting an investigation, according to The Washington Post. The Post, in Sunday's editions, traced the birth and spread of the rumor, detailing how efforts by various news agencies to track it down actually spread it further. The rumor has no basis in fact, the Post concluded. That was the same conclusion drawn by several Associated Press reporters who also heard it and tried to pin it down. White House press secretary James S. Brady was asked Saturday about the persistent rumor, and he insisted it was "without foundation." Depending on the teller, the story had various embellishments, but generally, the basis of the story was that Bush had been shot and grazed in the arm on a Capitol Hill sidewalk. The rumor began, the Post said, when a young woman artist ran into the street late one night last month, trying to help the victim of a traffic accident. At the scene, she saw a policeman she knew. He told her, she says, that Bush had been shot nearby. The policeman says he told her no such thing. When the artist, who declined to be named, returned to her apartment, she turned on the television and radio to hear more details but heard nothing. Seeking information, she then called both wire services, the Post and a television station. The woman told the Post she believed the policeman because she had come to know him several weeks earlier when she had witnessed a murder and the policeman was one of the law officers who arrived. The day after the traffic accident, the artist told a friend what she thought she had heard the policeman say about Bush. In turn, her friend told two of his friends, including a person who worked for columnist Jack Anderson. From there, the rumor spread, the Post said, despite denials that anything like it had occurred. The denials came from the Secret Service, police, the U.S. attorney and Bush' press office. At one point, the newspaper said, two Post reporters visited a District police official, who denied that anything had occurred. But the reporters saw a pad of paper on his desk with Bush's name, the word "assault" and information about a time, date and place. Eventually, then, the rumor grew to include the word that the Post had a "police report" on the case. In fact, the newspaper said, the official's words on the paper were his notes of a conversation police had with a television reporter who had called to try to track down the rumor. When the rumors reached Bush, he was angry and unbelieving, the Post said. The rumor even became part of a White House press briefing Tuesday, the Post said, when Larry Speakes, President Reagan's deputy press secretary, was asked if Reagan "was concerned about the large number of rumors circulating" about the alleged incident. Speakes, according to the briefing transcript published by the Post, promised he would "check on the president's concern ... of the rumor of rumors." But none of the exchange was apparently printed or broadcast, the Post said. === Page 4 of 139 Jeffrey IMPORTANT !!! Monday, March 23, 1980 CONTACTS Yesterday my UFOs (SIs) took, captured, my two sons and myself and today we are more dead than alive! What happened is as follows: Yesterday morning, Sunday, my UFOs communicated ("the Call") and told me to take Beau (18) and Teddy (9) out into the woods. Remember, my UFOs appeared in multiples over this general area a week ago and were seen by many reputable witnesses; police, etc. I told Beau, but couldn't figure out how to do it because we had no money and were out of gas for the old van. Beau said he'd saved up about four dollars in his "piggy bank" and would use this for the gas that we needed. We dug up a local area map...and decided on a place we hadn't been, Battleground Lake Park, about 8-10 miles from Vancouver. We chose an isolated location, and built a fire. After dark Beau said "Dad, why don't you signal the SIs to come to us?" Teddy said "Oh, no, please, Dad...don't! If I saw them I think that I'd die." Well, I decided to do it, and proceeded to signal them in the way that I do. Afterward the kids and I roasted some hot dogs on sticks and cooked some coffee over the fire. It became as dark as ink around us. Beau and Teddy said that they smelled a skunk. We heard a loud metallic "whack!" at the location of our old van, Tuffy, and investigated with drawn gun, but could find no looter. Next we heard a woman screaming. Sounded like she was a block away. Simultaneously dogs, wolves and coyotes by the dozens...plus ducks in the nearby lake...raised hell by barking, howling and quacking. Next a UFO appeared in plain sight before us, through the woods. It was a blazing white "star" that would appear brightly for a bit, then vanish to a glow (like the old-fashioned sparkler firework that would throw off sparks for a bit then all that would be left was a glow of heat from the empty sparkler)...then it would appear at a new angle, or new location, flare up into brightness again, then vanish and glow briefly...here, there, high, low. Shortly after this Beau and Teddy heard "somebody" running in the dark within ten feet from us near the van...Beau said must have been wearing heavy boots because it sounded like that. I grabbed the flashlight and gun but once again couldn't find the "looter". Then Beau yelled he'd heard a noise 20 feet away and I turned the flashlight there and we saw some creature about 2-3 feet long, white with black spots, vanishing from view. Funny thing is, no one of us could identify it as an animal of any sort. Then Beau and Teddy said that they smelled a skunk very strongly. We searched the area of the campsite (see receipt enclosed) but could find no skunk. Teddy asked me, "Daddy, what time is it? You should watch your watch, just in case the SIs capture us!" I gave him points for being so dam smart at age 9. (Remember the missing time for me two nights in a row at that old abandoned castle in Scotland some years ago...and I was checking the time every minute or two.) At 8:10 PM I grew sleepy; so did Teddy and we crawled into the back of Tuffy and went to sleep underneath blankets while Beau stayed up. About 1 AM Beau woke us. There was that woman screaming again at the top of her lungs...and about 50-100 dogs, coyotes and wolves barking and howling. Quite a ruckus. Teddy and I got up and we built a new fire. Soon we got the distinct impression that we were being watched, and figured that it might be some camp looters planning to jump us (it is common now in parks and camps in Washington) so we packed up our gear and drove out away from Campsite 19. We drove a ways away to a new campsite. For some reason Teddy and I couldn't stay awake at all...so we went to bed again in Tuffy, while Beau stayed awake in front of the van. After a while he yelled that the same big ball of fire with a tail that we'd seen some years ago in Southern Oregon had flown over the van. Then he and Teddy smelled the skunk smell again. It began to rain heavily. I simply couldn't awaken. I was fully conscious and keenly aware of all that was going on...but couldn't get up and be counted "awake". Next Beau said that he saw, in the rear view mirror, a "black cloud in the shape of a cigar" just over our van. Next there was a loud "whump" on top of our van. Beau and I theorized that perhaps a * The "screaming" mentioned herein is the same "screeching" noise witnesses heard last week from UFO seen here! The SIs put another magic stick in our van! We discovered it today, Tuesday. === Page 5 of 139 PS... during the night action of the van shaking and rolling us around... I could hardly breathe and coughed continually. Ted. 2 cougar had jumped on top of our van (one had, some years before, in southern Oregon). We listened for the sound of padding footsteps of some animal. But no footsteps. Then the van began to shake. The shaking actually threw us around inside the van. I yelled at Beau that perhaps it was an earthquake. Teddy was scared witless, naturally. We rolled around inside that van like marbles in a skillet for what seemed like quite a long while. I heard one single loud scratching noise. Suddenly Teddy sat up and yelled "Dad, something pushed me on the head!" I told him to lie back down again. All through this action I kept trying to go back to sleep; just the opposite of my combative character. And I might point out that at no time was I asleep per se. I was in a state between asleep and awake. Like hypnosis, I suppose. (The same thing happened when we took Millie, a friend of ours, out into an isolated area to call out the UFOs and eight of them appeared.) Finally all three of us managed to get to real sleep; Beau up front, Teddy and I in the back, with the rain pouring down with its drumming noise on the metallic van top. Daylight finally arrived and we awake and started to drive off for home. I asked Teddy what he had meant during the night when he said that "something pushed his head." He said that something had "pulled his hair, tickled his feet, and pinched his arm" (his right arm, in three different places that he indicated, and then it was that I knew we'd been drawn up into the UFO that Beau had seen... accounting for the loud roof noise...resulting in our being rolled and shaken about inside the van...and in a physical exam of some sort given to Teddy.) Oh yes, and let me mention here that while we were being rolled around hours before inside the van Beau had called to me that the car lights wouldn't turn on. I told him to try the strong flashlight. (I'd put in two new batteries, tested on my battery tester.) He said that the flashlight wouldn't turn on, either. This morning, on returning home, I discovered that my two watches and alarm clock that I had carried in the van...were all wrong. The left hand watch, a Universal Geneve, had stopped completely. It is usually quite accurate. The right hand watch, an Omega, was 8 minutes wrong. The Alarm clock was 8 minutes wrong also. And to add to that...when we left the first campsite (19) our car wouldn't work right...motor kept going dead and Beau had to keep starting it up again. It never does that. So undoubtedly (to me) a UFO had affected our van and my time pieces, and us. Arriving home Beau and Teddy collapsed into bed and slept for hours and hours. And I fell asleep in my chair in my study. Also my wife and baby fell asleep some time ago (it is now 6 PM) and are in fact still deep asleep. Ted Owens (PK Man) Bo Owens Teddy Owens PS...I forgot a few details. Along with the van lights and flashlight not turning on...Beau reported that our van compass, attached to the dashboard...was spinning wildly...also both kids got sick at their stomachs (Teddy wanted to throw up)...also Beau got out of the van early at daylight and examined it and found tiny footprints on the roof and hood...humanoid, about six inches long, with three toes. The heavy rain washed them all away later but one...and I got a photograph of it with my camera after returning home. It's still there. The footprints were in a reddish stain. (This same thing happened to us long years ago in Arizona.) PS... another "detail" I forgot to mention... after the kid and I came to, we found that our van had been moved or displaced 50 feet away! PS also Beau up in front of the van, told me that the steering wheel was turning by itself!! inside the van === Page 6 of 139 Note: Campsite 19, (see below) where UFO and accompanying phenomena occurred, appeared, for my sons and I last night at Battleground Park, Wash. WASHINGTON STATE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION CAMPING PERMIT (PLACE IN HOLDER AT CAMP SITE) NAME: LAST FIRST M.I. Owens Ted DATE SITE NO. VEHICLE LICENSE NO. STATE 3/22/71 19 CLG-71 Wash TE TR MH PC O NUMBER OF PEOPLE 3 | | FEE | NIGHTS | TOTAL | |---|---|---|---| | HOOK UP SITE | $ 4.50 | X | $ | | SURCHARGE | | X | | | NON-HOOK UP SITE | 3.50 | X | | | CAMPING RESERVATION FEE | | | 4.50 | | ORANGE L D HOOK UP SITE | 2.25 | X | | | ORANGE L D NON-HOOK UP SITE | 1.75 | X | | | WHITE PASS - DAY | FREE | | | | GREEN PASS | FREE | | ANNUAL FEE | | DAY USE RESERVATION | | | $5.00 | | GROUP CAMPING AREA | | RES. FEE | | | FEE $.25 + | SURCHARGE X | NO. PEOPLE X | NIGHTS | TOTAL -> $ CHECK OUT TIME IS 3:00 P.M. CAMPER-PLEASE SEE REVERSE SIDE P & R 0-220 (6-79) A217298 Owens Crude sketch of footprint in red stain left on our car from last night. Owens (it is a bigger in size than this.) Ted === Page 7 of 139 March 24, 1981 Added notes: Since our UFO encounter at Battleground the kids and I have discovered the following: - My hair has turned yellow on the back of my head. - There are large deep purple scars on Bean's right and left arms, as if a clamp had been attached to both sides of the arm, producing "instant" purple scars. - On my right arm and right leg are five sets (twos) of needle marks! Like .. . . .. etc. Also one triangle of needle marks .:. (All twos marks are perfectly concentric!) Triangles too. - Teddy is covered all over with needle marks in twos and several triangles, plus one puffy needle mark below his larynx at the base of the throat, perfectly centered. - We couldn't get Bean to strip to examine him. I think the UFOs programmed him to refuse it. We wouldn't have known most of this if Millie Miller hadn't asked to come over and inspect us. The results... were scary!! PS... at campsite 19 my left wristwatch stopped shortly after 8 PM. At 8:30 PM sharp the same screeching sound began. Owens PS... also have discovered that since Sunday and the encounter there's a bald spot on the back of my head that wasn't there before! Another brain modification? ϕ === Page 8 of 139 SPACE SHUTTLE January 5, 1980 TO ALL CONTACTS government can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped into the Presidency by certain key individuals. Once he attained the Presidency they are repaid by him with key government positions, and so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs obtain what it is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they then reward, pay back, those that give them their goal. My UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and gave me the following message to pass on: If their Mountain Base is not supplied by the time the Space Shuttle is launched by NASA...they guarantee to destroy the Space Shuttle (which has cost some 8 billion dollars). Naturally, the one human being they can communicate with is myself, and I am to occupy and operate the World Operations Room inside the Mountain Base when and if it is supplied. They further stated that they had already placed the mechanism for the complete destruction of the Space Shuttle into activation. (I.e., the Space Shuttle might just as well have 5 to 10 nuclear bombs which are invisible, but nonetheless real, attached to the Space Shuttle right now with the time mechanism set and ticking away, to go off after launching.) They told me that there are several reasons for this weird procedure...one of which is a time differential between their "other-dimensional" time and Earth time...and the 60-90 days, whatever, between now and then gives the destructive power aimed at the Space Shuttle time to "build up" in intensity. Delivery of the Mountain Base...with PK Man at the center of the Base and activating the Base...will automatically defuse the destructive OD force now aimed at the Space Shuttle. I.e., the Space Shuttle not only will be safe and not destroyed, but the SIs will do what they can to aid in the Space Shuttle program. The U.S. Government can have it either way, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. Powerful destruction of it, as well as its associated NASA program...or powerful help and aid for it with no destruction. Simply as a matter of values...an 8 billion dollar project balanced against a 5 million dollar Mountain Base? And you can all say that the above is silly and quite ridiculous...except that you know my "track record" in the past. After all, I hit two space shots with bolts of lightning...one on the ground as it was in launch mode, and the other in outer space (where there is no lightning). And this time I am not even in charge...THEY are. THEY are calling the shots in the matter. I am merely reporting the action from their side. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness...and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. === Page 9 of 139 nation One dead in space shuttle accident CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Space agency and Rockwell International engineers, operating under government secrecy, Friday investigated the nitrogen gas accident that killed one technician and marred an otherwise successful dry-run launch of the space shuttle Columbia. Five Rockwell International technicians were stricken Thursday after completion of the mock launch when they entered the shuttle's engine compartment, filled with nitrogen during the dry run as a fire prevention step. Deprived of oxygen, the five began suffocating immediately. One technician, John Bjornstad, 50, of Titusville, died and the other four were hospitalized. One was in critical condition Friday. A fireman who pulled them to safety also was treated. Engineers of both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Rockwell, the shuttle contractor, immediately began investigations. Tape recordings detailing activity on launch pad 39-A have been impounded. Richard Barton, a spokesman for Rockwell International, said he was in the launch area with a reporter from National Geographic magazine and they both heard a "return to work" signal before the accident occurred. "It came over the P.A. system," said Barton. "I heard it. (The reporter) heard it. It was about 8:45 or 8:50 a.m." -- about two hours after the mock launch. Hugh Harris, NASA's chief spokesman at the Kennedy Space Center, would not confirm or deny the report, saying such information is privy to the NASA team investigating the accident. It was not known if someone erred by failing to stop the nitrogen purge of the engines or by failing to warn the workers to stay away. They would not have smelled anything peculiar on entering the deadly compartment. The rehearsal, with astronauts Robert Crippen and John Young in full suit and taking the cockpit controls, was one of the last major tests that the nation's first reusable rocket plane will be put through before making its maiden launch, tentatively set for April 7 -- and already more than two years behind schedule. The accident is not expected to affect the launch date. Thursday's mishap was the first death associated with a launch or pre-launch operation since astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a launch pad flash fire during an Apollo countdown test in January 1967. Space agency officials said that nitrogen, the major component of air, is harmless but in this case replaced the oxygen needed for breathing in the engine area. Barton said breathing nitrogen has a suffocating effect. Soviets rearrest dissident MOSCOW (UPI) -- Anatoly Marchenko, one of the most longstanding Soviet dissidents who has spent most of his adult life in labor camps and prisons, has been rearrested on unknown charges, dissident sources said. Marchenko, 44, has been living outside Moscow since his release from a labor camp sentence about a year ago. FATAL SCENE -- Workers in December 1980 file photograph examine chamber of space shuttle Columbia, where one man was killed and five others injured in accident Thursday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At time of picture, spacecraft was in vertical position, but it was in horizontal position Thursday. (No pictures of the shuttle were allowed Thursday) Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 10 of 139 Space shuttle accident kills 1, hurts 5 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- One worker was killed, a second was critically hurt and four others nearly asphyxiated Thursday when they entered a nitrogen-filled engine compartment of the space shuttle Columbia after a rehearsal for next month's launch, NASA officials said. The accident marred a "super" dress rehearsal of the shuttle's first launch at the Kennedy Space Center, but space agency officials in Washington said the accident was not a result of any flaw in the shuttle and that there would be no change in the launch schedule. The shuttle, delayed repeatedly by technical problems in the past two years, is to lift off sometime during the week of April 5. It was the first launch-pad fatality at the space center since a Jan. 27, 1967, flash fire killed three Apollo I astronauts during a pre-launch test. Five Rockwell International employees were working in the aft section of the orbiter near the engine compartment when they were overcome shortly after 9 a.m. EST, officials said. A Kennedy Space Center security guard also was overcome when he went in to help. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesmen said it was unclear why the five men went into the compartment. "Right now, we just don't know what they were doing in there," said space center spokesman Chuck Hollinshead. "It all happened in a matter of minutes, and we haven't had time to interview people yet to find out exactly what procedure they were doing." But Rockwell spokesman Dick Barton said the men apparently entered the compartment after hearing an announcement clearing technicians to return to work on the launch pad. "I just happened to be in the area, and I heard the announcement: 'Clear for return to normal work.' Regretfully, it was not," Barton said. "They were just doing their normal jobs. All our people were waiting around for the test to end. The guy who died was the senior mechanical technician, and each of our men was assigned different duties in the compartment." Added another Rockwell official, who asked not to be identified, "It was a goof-up." The technicians apparently removed an access panel and entered the compartment, unaware it had been purged of oxygen and filled with pure nitrogen. "The aft portion of orbiter normally is filled with nitrogen to get all the oxygen out," said space center spokesman Rocky Raab. "That is done to prevent fires in that area and to prevent anything explosive from seeping in there." The workers, unaware they were moving into a "nitrogen purge" zone, were felled quickly by the lack of oxygen, Raab said. "There is no way you can see or smell that you're moving into an area that lacks oxygen," Raab said. "The whole compartment is purged. We insert nitrogen to get rid of the oxygen and other gases. It is normally a closed area, and you can only get into it by going through access panels." As officials evacuated launch pad 39-A as a precaution, emergency medical teams treated the men at the scene and then rushed them to the Major Health Facility at the space center. Doctors worked frantically on John Bjornstad, 50, of Titusville, but he died aboard a helicopter en route to the Titusville hospital, Raab said. Another technician, Forrest Cole of Merritt Island, Fla., was stabilized, flown to the Titusville hospital and later airlifted to Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, where he was placed in intensive care in critical condition with brain and lung swelling. A third man, William Wolford of Rockledge, Fla., was hospitalized in Melbourne for observation. The three others were released after treatment, officials said. The two other Rockwell technicians were identified as Nicholas Mullon and Jay Harper, and the security guard, an employee of Wackenhut Corp., was identified as Don Largent. Wackenhut spokesman Dick Wilson said Largent and other guards helped rescue the Rockwell workers. NASA and Rockwell officials quickly appointed boards of inquiry to investigate the accident. Charles Gay, director of the Expendable Vehicle Program, was named to head the NASA committee. The incident came shortly after NASA officials proclaimed that the rehearsal "went super." === Page 11 of 139 television Greg P 3/20/81 # Country's no fad for Akins By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Western duds, country music, drawls and good old boys are all the rage these days, and wallowing in the glory of it all is Claude Akins, a man ahead of his time. His name alone is redolent of squeaking fiddles, weathered faces, yokel patois and down-home values. As the star of NBC's "Lobo," in which he plays a hick sheriff from Georgia's outback assigned to special duty in Atlanta, Akins can gawp at tall buildings and wonder at sleek ladies and indoor plumbing with the best of 'em. Providence quarried Akin from a block of Americana. His Cherokee ancestry is clearly chiseled into his strong face. He's broad-shouldered and barrel-chested. The timbre of his voice rivals Mount St. Helens. Akins, moreover, is the quintessential square in the best sense. He is a God-fearing man who has been married to wife Therese for almost 30 years. But until recently he was typecast as an uncouth character. Good old boys, for the most part, were depicted in TV and movies as rednecked bigots, criminals, racists and all-purpose heavies. FOR WHATEVER reason, country folk, especially Southerners, did not unite to fight the image, not even to appeal to the ACLU as other groups or minorities almost certainly would have done. So Claude spent a large share of his acting career playing rube heavies in the likes of "The Caine Mutiny" and "From Here To Eternity," clodhopper comedy roles in movies and episodic TV. Claude, however, should never be mistaken for the characters he plays. Although he was born in the hamlet of Nelson, Ga., Akins was reared in Bedford, Ind. and attended Northwestern University. He is a sophisticated man in many respects whose early background included Shakespeare. He came to Hollywood in 1950 after starring in "The Rose Tattoo" on Broadway. "They made a heavy out of me right away," Akins said good-naturedly. "I guess my size and my face convinced them I would make a good menace. I didn't mind. Even when I played the worst sort of villain I tried to sneak in some good qualities so the people would feel sorry for me when I died. "Everything turned around when I starred in 'Movin' On' for a couple of years on TV. It was a success because it was about the work ethic and a decent, honest man who liked to help people. "And that's what I think is happening around the United States right now. People are turning back to their rural roots, a return to solidarity. I think that's the reason so many people, including me, voted for Reagan. "It's reflected in popular country music, like the lyrics of Merle Haggard's new song about Muskogee, Okla. The words of Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson tell a story people want to hear. "GOOD OLD BOYS aren't the heavies anymore. Everybody enjoys seeing Burt Reynolds pictures when he plays country boys. "It seem to me, people are looking for something lasting and good, and what is more lasting and secure for a mobile society which works for big, impersonal corporations than the land itself? "The old verities have to be pretty strong to overcome the freaky '60s when all the music and values went goofy. That began to fade in the '70s when the country was running scared internationally. "There's a simplicity in country dress and music which everyone can understand. The kids of the '60s are now paying taxes and things look different to them. If they burn things down now, they've got to pay for them." Akins is convinced "Lobo's" popularity reflects the times. He asks, "Where else in TV is the central figure a sheriff con man? And where else is the main character surrounded by the funniest man in TV -- Mills Watson who plays Deputy Perkins -- and the most gorgeous guy on the tube -- Brian Kerwin who plays my other deputy and is the finest young actor in town? "You put these three country boys down in the middle of Atlanta where they aren't wanted and you've got a truly original set of circumstances. "THE MOST IMPORTANT thing of all is that the show is genuinely funny. The crew ruins about a third of our takes because they're laughing so hard." "Lobo" has had indifferent ratings, often pre-empted for NBC specials, confusing viewers. It has never been aired more than two consecutive weeks, making it a part-time series opposite "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley." In its first year, "Lobo" was set in Orly Hot Springs. The move to Atlanta was a network brainstorm to hype the big city ratings. Note: As you know, I was raised in Bedford, Indiana. As I recall Claude Akins went to school with me. We got into a fist fight one day that lasted a half an hour. His dad worked for my grandpa. Grandpa was Vice President of Indiana Limestone. Akins' dad worked in the stone quarry. Then he got onto the Bedford police force as I recall and got to be Chief. One day us kids went into the police station (next door to the house where I lived) and Akins' dad fired a .45 pistol behind my back, into the floor to scare me. I jumped a foot in the air. Owens === Page 12 of 139 Jeffrey March 18, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have taken it upon themselves to back up; place their "signature" -- on the document which I wrote to you two days ago (copy of which is attached). You may safely assume, therefore, that that particular document contains great importance to my UFOs. That is, my UFOs want that document taken quite seriously. Here is the most peculiar chain of events as they happened: Two days ago (Tuesday) I was in my study at work on one of my research projects when my UFOs communicated. I jotted down the gist of their communication so that I could type it and xerox it next morning and mail it to you. Suddenly the phone rang. It was my friend, George Delavan, calling from Des Plaines, Illinois. He was inquiring about my work. I read the UFO communication to him long distance. Next morning, Wednesday, I typed up the UFO communication, xeroxd it, and mailed it off to you. (By the way, I also mailed the new, huge "4 Projects File" off to you on Tuesday morning, the day before...same day the UFOs communicated with me.) Later in the day on Wednesday there were television broadcasts about UFOs being seen in this area. I immediately went out and got newspapers and sure enough, the night before, Tuesday night, UFOs were in this general area at the time they communicated with me. Were seen and heard, that is, by reputable witnesses. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS... also note herein that power was knocked out in Portland on Monday, 3/16/81... "for no apparent reason." (See newsclip herein.) Close proximity to UFOs usually results in power out. PPS... I explained to Scott Rogo when he visited me that my UFOs had told me that they had three UFOs near me at all times in order to monitor me. Evidently they decided to let themselves be seen in order to strengthen my credibility with humans. (The files you get, etc.) === Page 13 of 139 Tuesday March 17, 1981 The Columbian Section 2 Page 9 UFO Area has close encounter; no one knows what kind By BILL STEWART Columbian Writer It could have been little green men -- what more appropriate on St. Patrick's day? -- or perhaps it was an illegal drug delivery. But whatever it was, a lot of officials were scurrying around this morning along the Columbia River between Ridgefield and Woodland. There was talk of an airplane crash and of an unidentified flying object. Some residents reported seeing an "orange ball" in the sky. An Oregon State Patrol trooper even tape-recorded the noise that accompanied a red glow in the sky. Coast Guard officials were somewhat miffed, after sending two boats to the scene, to discover that no one reported that the "crashed" object later "uncrashed" and flew away. A Ridgefield man apparently saw something and discussed it on citizens band radio. That conversation was overheard by a Washington State Patrol trooper, who relayed it to Vancouver where it was telephoned to the Clark County Sheriff's Office. That report was of a "big red glow, and a loud screeching noise when the object went into the river." Ridgefield is about two miles east of the Columbia. Dick Henderson, director of the Federal Aviation Administration area office in Hillsboro, Ore., speculated that the object might have been a craft heading to or from the Scappoose, Ore., airport, or, he speculated further, might have involved a drug operation -- especially since there was a 56-minute gap between first and last sighting. Henderson said there were no aircraft reported missing or overdue in the area. The aviation official also said some of the details, such as the noise reported, did not match helicopter or high-performance aircraft sounds. Coast Guard spokesman Norm Swenson said the Oregon police report at 5:05 a.m. resulted in the scrambling of a crew to run a 32-foot patrol boat from the Portland station to St. Helens, Ore. A private boat from the Coast Guard Auxiliary was dispatched from St. Helens. "The Portland boat got all the way there and found nothing," Swenson said today. "Someone reported it down but did not report it when it went back up again." Cascade Helicopters, based at Scappoose, said it had no units in the air at that hour. === Page 14 of 139 Columbia River UFO oreg J. 3/17/81 # 'Big orange ball' eludes police By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer Sure and 'twas St. Patrick's Day, a time known for hoaxes, but when people report a flying object -- even a bright orange ball -- going into a river it must be investigated. Particularly when the sighting is verified by officers of the law with such names as Patrick Gallagher, Thomas McCartney and Dick McGrew. At 4:44 a.m. Tuesday, the log of the Oregon State Police station at Milwaukie recorded a call reporting that "a big orange ball" hovered a few minutes and then went into the Columbia River near St. Helens. Subsequently, the unidentified flying object was seen to emerge from the river and fly off into the dawn. State police and the Columbia County sheriff's office sent patrol cars to the area. The Coast Guard put a boat into the water at Portland to head for St. Helens and dispatched a helicopter from Astoria. Trooper Thomas McCartney and two sheriff's deputies saw the object and recorded its sound, according to Officer Pat Gallagher of the OSP district headquarters. When it started up again, some 45 minutes after the initial plunge, it reportedly did not sound like it was powered by an aircraft engine. "It didn't sound like any aircraft I'm familiar with," Gallagher said after listening to the tape recording. Meanwhile, a citizens' band radio operator, identified only as "Lucky 13," told officers he watched the object from Ridgefield, Wash., and took a picture of it before it went into the river. He said it sounded like a turboprop aircraft. When the object emerged from the water, fog distorted the view for observers. And Warrant Officer McGrew of the Coast Guard said the fog delayed arrival of the Coast Guard boat from Portland. State police received several conflicting reports about the object, including that its lights were seen to go off and on. In a short period, 10 different entries about the object were entered on the log at OSP headquarters. Police checked the control towers at Portland International and Hillsboro airports, plus the Air Force and Emanuel Hospital, which has a helicopter ambulance, but no one had a report of an aircraft which might have been in the area. State Police Cpl. Fred Barmore said there was a chance that a helicopter was involved in some illegal activity, such as making a narcotics delivery or pickup. "You have to investigate a thing like this," he said. There were others, however, who suspected leprechauns were at work. HA HA! O'Looley ## 1,200 homes lose power Electric power was cut off early Monday to approximately 1,200 North Portland homes and businesses for about 50 minutes. A malfunction occurred in underground cables leading to Portland General Electric's substation at 6616 N. Lombard St. PGE spokesman Steve Mueller said the power outage began about 6:50 a.m. when three separate cables "went out for no apparent reason." After restoring service, company crews were trying later in the day to find the cause of the malfunction. Oreg J. 3/17/81 === Page 15 of 139 # Police, CBer report UFO An investigator with the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago will be dispatched to Portland later this week to look into the reported sighting of an unidentified flying object Tuesday morning near the town of St. Helens. An Oregon State Police trooper, a St. Helens police officer and a citizens band radio operator in Ridgefield, Wash., all claim to have seen two large orange balls hover over the Columbia River about 4:25 a.m. The CB operator, Donald Atkin, transmitted the sound made by the second object over his radio, and state police Trooper Tom McCartney recorded it. "The recording is like nothing I've heard before," said Mark Rodeghier of the Chicago center. "It's a rather odd sound, like a high-pitched machine. It's not the sound of a helicopter or a plane." The center is a non-profit association of scientists formed in 1973 to act as a clearinghouse for information on UFO sightings. Investigators have some technical background and are given instruction in questioning witnesses. Some investigators for the center live in Washington and Southern Oregon, Rodeghier said, and one will be sent to Portland this week. "We are going to get a tape of the sound and bring it to Chicago, where an acoustical expert on our staff will analyze it," he said. "He will be able to tell if it is a hoax." The incident began when McCartney was in the St. Helens police station. He heard, via the police radio, St. Helens police Sgt. Russ Yokum say that he had spotted an orange ball in the sky. Yokum said he wanted someone to confirm the sighting. McCartney went to the Columbia County Courthouse and met Yokum. From there, they said, they saw a bright orange dome. While watching the object, McCartney and Yokum, via a radio in McCartney's patrol car, heard Atkin report that he saw an orange object near his home in Ridgefield, which is across the river from where McCartney and Yokum were standing. The two officers moved to higher ground and said they spotted a second orange ball, which appeared to be on fire and looked like a downed plane. They said the first ball disappeared. McCartney called his dispatcher, who checked with the Portland airport, which reported no planes in trouble. Atkin then reported that the craft had gone into the river but said he had taken a picture of it before it hit the water. A U.S. Coast Guard boat was sent to the scene but was recalled after Atkin reported that the craft had taken off. Atkin and Yokum could not be reached for comment Tuesday. McCartney released all information about the incident through a written news statement. A Federal Aviation Administration official in Portland said his agency would not investigate the incident. 3/18/81 === Page 16 of 139 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens PS... of [?] my son Beau, a [?] === Page 17 of 139 Jeffrey THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1981 # The Northwest ## Pair saved by bulldozer Two U.S. Geological Survey scientists were rescued Wednesday night from the swollen Toutle River by a bulldozer operator who drove his vehicle halfway across the swift current and pulled them from a sand bar to safety. Steve Johnson of Castle Rock, Wash., a bulldozer operator for C. Mourer Construction of Puyallup, Wash., was told of the men's plight by Charles Mourer, president of the company who saw them from shore. The firm has been excavating mud in the area, about 1 1/2 miles downstream from Interstate 5. The men, wet but unhurt, were identified as Charles Swift of Tacoma and David Meyer of Vancouver, Wash. "He had to go down the river a mile and a half to get at them," Mourer said in a telephone interview. "It was good, tough water, but he brought them out." The incident began about 6 p.m. and ended around 8. The men were with the USGS Water Resources Division and had been taking water samples when they became stuck. Mourer said Johnson drove the bulldozer some 750 feet into the middle of the river, plucked the men from a sandbar where their boat had run aground and drove them through the water to safety. The boat was removed from the sand bar Thursday morning. "The problem was deep water between them and the shore on both sides," Mourer said. "They couldn't walk to shore. We had removed volcanic debris there on another contract and Steve knew the area." ## Suspect arrested VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man who allegedly robbed the Stable Tavern in Vancouver early Thursday was captured after the bar owner and bartender went across the street to an all-night restaurant and found him drinking coffee. The incident began at about 1:45 a.m. when a man, brandishing an automatic pistol, entered the bar, ordered patrons to lie on the floor, fired one shot into the ceiling and fled in a car with a bag filled with money. After things calmed down, the two employees went across the street for coffee. There they recognized the robbery suspect. Clark County Sheriff Frank Kanekoa said Anthony Wayne Blackhorse, 35, was arrested early Thursday morning and charged with first-degree armed robbery and possession of stolen property. Robert Leon Stanton, 26, and Vincent Allabush Epker, 30, later were arrested and charged with first-degree possession of stolen property, possession of a sawed-off shotgun and possession of marijuana. All three men, whose addresses were unknown, were being held Thursday in Clark County Jail. Note: This below happened at the Stable Bar & Pool Room last night. (It's a block from home; I go there a Thursday night to play pool.) Last night was Thursday. I was coming over to play but fell asleep watching TV, and missed the shooting. If I had been there, I guarantee you there wouldn't have been anyone on the floor to be robbed!! Scott Road played pool with me at this place (it's in his & Dr. Mishover's book) and Scott knows my character. Had I been on the end of this man's gun... it would have sounded like 7-7-7!!!, cause I ain't clockin' the "robber" trip!! - Owens === Page 18 of 139 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th Vancouver, Wash 98665 PORTLAND, OR 972 MAR 18 PM 1981 THE LAND OF THE FREE THE HOME OF THE BRAVE USA 15c Dr. Jeffrey Michlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 19 of 139 Ted Owens 200 NE 76th St Vancouver, Wash. 98665 PORTLAND, OR MAR 30 PM 1981 U.S. POSTAGE 35 To Jeffrey Mishlove 3101 Washington St. San Francisco, California 94115 === Page 20 of 139 jack anderson Pentagon goes sci-fi WASHINGTON - If you thought "Star Wars" was just an expensive fantasy of George Lucas, you are mistaken. The Pentagon is spending millions of dollars on research that sounds like science fiction, including efforts to destroy Soviet missiles with the power of thought. At a secret, guarded laboratory in the basement of the Pentagon, a small band of scientists is working on projects that would make Jules Verne blush. They are exploring the possibility of using ESP, psychokinesis, and other parapsychological phenomena for military purposes. This long-distance telepathic influence or visualization of nuclear events is enthusiastically urged the world through the power of positive thinking. Proponents of ESP weaponry say it is as revolutionary as the atomic bomb. What physicists say is another story. Supporters of "psychic warfare" claim that psychic weapons sank the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher in 1963. They also say the Soviet nuclear disaster in the Urals in 1958 was caused by a long-distance explosion. The justification for the Black Projects Brigade's secret budget - at least $6 million last year - is that there is an ESP gap between the United States and the Soviet Union, where intensive research has been going on since the 1930s. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Russians have already demonstrated the lethal potential of psychokinesis weapons on flies and even frogs. In fact, the late Josef Stalin hoped to develop ESP weapons as a stopper equalizer in the days of American nuclear monopoly. Stalin's successors in the Kremlin, sophisticated though they are, seriously believe they can develop such thought-provoking, not to say mind-blowing, devices as "hyperspatial howitzers," which can transmit a nuclear explosion in Siberia to the White House faster than the speed of thought. Or, in the words of one report, Soviet scientists are working on "photonic barrier modulators," which can filter human brain patterns and induce death or illness from miles away. There even is speculation that the microwave radiation the Soviets beamed at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1953 to 1975 was some kind of an ESP attempt at mind control. U.S. scientists have yet to offer a scientific reason for the low-level microwave transmissions, which were apparently harmless. When my associate Ron McRae queried some respected physicists on ESP weaponry, the response was general skepticism. One scientist, between guffaws, compared the psi-tech forest project to a World War II attempt to train seagulls to drop their guano on the periscopes of German submarines. But it's no joke to the psi-p team in the Pentagon basement. They believe, for inspiration, the psychic warriors have posted a sly quotation on the headquarters wall. It's from the late Admiral William Leahy, chief of naval operations in World War II, and it says: "The a-bomb is the biggest fool thing we have ever done... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert on explosives." CHAZ OWENS CONTACTS This article is amusing to me. Why? Because no one else in the entire world has the tremendous psi-force power(s) that I have and have proven hundreds and hundreds of documented times. Yet these government tales-in-the-woods sit in their secret basement room trying to make a quantum jump to my level of knowledge and ability. That... is amusing. Owens === Page 21 of 139 2 # jack anderson # Dabbling in dark arts WASHINGTON - Last month, I revealed a Pentagon secret that raised eyebrows from coast to coast. To the thousands of skeptics who wrote in, no, I don't take hallucinogens. The brass hats are. Indeed, dabbling in the dark arts. They are seriously trying to develop weapons based on extrasensory perception. If the research is successful, the next war could be won presumably by casting an evil eye on Moscow. The true believers are convinced that our national security can be preserved only by spending millions of dollars on such comic-strip concepts as the "hyperspatial howitzer," which supposedly could transmit a nuclear explosion in the Nevada desert to the gates of the Kremlin with the speed of thought. Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.C., for example, is a respected five-term congressman and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. He has advocated psychotronic weapons with the tenacious courage of some death-defying marvel. He has teetered but ever righted himself on the trembling high wire, keeping his balance against the unseen push and pull of mighty interests, inching his way forward a few more yards to his goal. By Pentagon standards, not much money has been invested on psychic warfare - a trifling $6 million. Rose thinks the United States should be spending a lot more money on these ethereal weapons. "They could make every other weapon obsolete," he told my associate, Ron McRae, urgently. The congressman is quite correct; the Buck Rogers weapons would certainly make plain old nuclear bombs obsolete - if they should ever work. One such weapon, it turns out, has been blessed with an Air Force contract. It's an anti-missile system that would throw a time warp over the North Pole. Incoming Soviet missiles would fly into the time warp and explode harmlessly in the past - perhaps blowing up Cmdr. Robert Peary or, if the time warp mechanism was tuned to really high frequency, killing a few dinosaurs. The National Security Agency, to cite another example, has tried to use ESP to crack Soviet codes. When the agency's computers have failed to break the secret codes produced by the Kremlin's computers, the NSA technicians have enlisted the help of local astrologists and palm readers. So far, according to my sources, the swamis have been no more successful than our computers. But the Ouija-board warriors are still trying. Reporting on the bizarre research that goes on in the Pentagon is not without its hazards. Several self-styled psychics have accused me of being an unwitting victim of Soviet success in the field. I am, they say, acting under long-range Kremlin hypnosis intended to persuade the American populace that Pentagon attempts to close the "psychotronic weapons gap" with the Soviet Union are a ridiculous waste of money. I must confess that long-range hypnosis, like the hyperspatial howitzer, happens to be one of the key weapons in the voodoo warriors' arsenal. But there are more skeptics than advocates. One critic of ESP warfare, physicist Martin Gardner, characterizes the budget for psychotronic weaponry as a monetary "black hole," into which bad research sucks good money forever. Others suggest the ESP efforts should be classified as "Top Stupid." The lips of Pentagon spokesmen, meanwhile, are sealed. They will not confirm or deny that the programs exist. GET A HORSE!: As a freshman member of Congress, Rep. James Coyne, R-Pa., is no big wheel on Capitol Hill. But at least now he can get around on his own wheels, without a chaperon. After driving for weeks on a learner's permit, Coyne finally got his driver's license. Most of Coyne's troubles stemmed from speeding violations - three in the last few years - but one suspension involved an argument over a fine for driving with an expired inspection sticker. He's currently being sued by two youths as the result of a collision last April. Coyne insists he has learned his lesson - and he recently passed his driver's test. "The three-point turn was tough, but I executed it flawlessly," he said. "Now if I can only get Mom and Dad to let me have the car on Friday nights." org II 2/5/81 === Page 22 of 139 Contacts PS... if you will study this newsclip file carefully, keeping in mind my various PK attacks, it will be a parapsych education for you! Owens The enclosed file of chaos, accident, power wiped out, etc etc... was a caused effect by my three Powers, UFOs, Xtotae (Mayan Power) and Pyr Cor (Egyptian Power.) Take just one effect... power knocked out... caused by every conceivable happening! Fire, storms, airplanes, wind, cars, human error, etc etc. This is the way an idea which is PK'd works. Note that half of all Mexico was blacked out, and prior to it the experts said that it could not happen! (By the way, please take the "Four Projects Letter" sent to you not long ago and append it to the front of this file.) Elsewhere in this file you will find the pattern reflected in the newsclips which pertains to the Four Projects Letter. Although this information goes out to only seven contacts (scientists and friends) it is hoped that the U.S. government will learn === Page 23 of 139 of it, understand, and supply the five million dollar Base which the UFOs require (with me in it, to do my positive works for the human race.) If this does not occur within a reasonable length of time, then my UFOs will simply cause the U.S. to go broke... i.e., take the money away from America! (They have instructed me to pass this information on.) It is a sad joke that Reagan spent eight million dollars on his inauguration... enough to buy two Bases for my UFOs (they only require one.) Muhammad Ali, the fighter, made eight million dollars for one fight... enough to buy two UFO Bases (they only need one.) Thus it gets sicker and sicker, in the eyes of my UFOs. If this sort of thing continues, according to my UFOs, then the country of America, the United States, has no reason to continue to exist. Owen === Page 24 of 139 Note: The huge enclosed file documents the below. If you are puzzled by any of the clips, will be glad to explain. Owens 2/17/81 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and lost; people will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State: Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age: I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. === Page 25 of 139 2 (2) UFO (SI) war vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the "Pattern" whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 26 of 139 The Psychic Science Special Interest Group, Inc. President & PSI-M Editor Rich Strong 7514 Belleplaine Dr Dayton OH 45424 (513) 236-0361 Trustees Kathy Cook Peter Lewis Don Ranville Ellen Rogers Dick Uhen Rich Strong Membership: Ellen Rogers 9410 SW 190th St Perrine Fl 33157 Librarian: Lynn Holland 2279 Berrycreek Dr Kettering OH 45440 Book Review Editor: Wilma Kupfer 27591 Mills Av, #J Euclid OH 44132 Interest Area Editor Coordinators: Auras/Mediumship: Barbara Rogers Dowsing: Leon Woodworth Healing: Kathy Cook Out-of-Body: John Attamack Premonitions: Dottie Ranville Psychometry: Dennis Rick Brown Regional Coordinators: North Central Kathy Cook Rocky Mountain Marilyn Skiba 7 Feb 80 Dear Ted, Thanks so much for the packet of materials; I had just sent some copies of Psi-M to Jack Anderson the previous day. I'm sending a package of S.I.G. materials to you at book rates in another mailing which I hope you may find of some value. We seem to be working towards the same objectives; maybe it would be good to share activities and resources. In Particular, and within the framework of our current operations, we're looking for a Coordinator-Editor for the area of PK. If you feel this would be worthwhile for you, we would be happy to print your thoughts as a regular article in Psi-M. It is necessary that you be a Member of the Sig, of course. Also, Harper Fowley has asked for a presentation at the Derbytown A.G.; I'd be happy to share the platform with you at that time, if you are planning to attend. ? Other than Sig activities, I suppose that other things will be happening; I assume you know what I mean by this and why I do not know exactly what they will be. Best, Rich Note: This is in Mensa. Owens. * A Non-Profit Educational and Scientific Research Non-Private Foundation Corporation of Ohio for the purpose of promoting the awareness and practice of the psychic sciences and arts for the benefit of the community (no political or religious activities). === Page 27 of 139 The Mississippi River at Memphis: 'It could snow every day until spring and we would still be short of moisture' Mike Maple SPECIAL REPORT - 4 Projects PK - # The Browning of America Just outside Phoenix, which gets less than 8 inches of rain a year, the fountains shoot high into the arid air, gurgling defiance of the laws of evaporation, advertising the subdivisions whose green lawns eat further and further into the Arizona desert. But in parts of the Texas High Plains, the water that made farms green with cotton and melons is giving out; land is now brown with tumbleweeds, which farsighted agronomists are investigating as a cash crop. And in stately Greenwich, Conn., surely one of the last places from which civilization will vanish, suburban patrons guard water like Bedouins, and town officials lay plans for slit-trench latrines against the not-too-distant day when the reservoirs may run dry. **Drought, waste and pollution threaten a water shortage whose impact may rival the energy crisis.** For decades, Americans have used water as though their wells would never fail. But in just a few months they have come to realize how close to bottom they really are. Twice in the past year, the great engine that fills the nation's reservoirs and runs its streams has gone awry, dumping rain uselessly over the ocean and parching the land. It has made farmers edgy about next summer's crops and Easterners panicky about next week's baths; some communities report less than a month's supply of water in their reservoirs. The big snow and rainstorm across the country last week may have signaled the breakup of the dry weather pattern, but it will take a spring of more than twice normal rainfall to bring the Northeast's reservoirs back to a safe level before summer. Rain, in fact, is not the answer to the nation's most serious water problems. Even in the driest years, rain across the country enormously exceeds water use. The trouble is that the nation's water resources are badly out of balance. The Northwest has a big surplus, for example, while the agricultural states of the Southwest scrap for the last salty dregs from the Colorado River. The water wars Hollywood made famous in "Chinatown" have erupted once again, as dry Los Angeles tries to tap its wet neighbors to the north. The Federal government has spent billions of dollars to divert water so farmers can grow crops on arid land, but that creates trouble of another kind; mineral residue from decades of irrigation has poisoned once fertile soils. Pollution is a problem, too. Acid rain is killing the fish in Adirondack lakes, and America's drinking water has been tainted with substances as exotic as PCB's and as commonplace as highway salt. Most alarming of all, vast underground reserves of water, deposited over thousands of years, have been seriously depleted in a matter of decades. All water comes as rain from the sky, but 92 per cent of it either evaporates immediately or runs off, unused, to the oceans (page 30). One-quarter of the water that irrigates, powers and bathes America is taken from an ancient network of underground aquifers. In 1950, the nation took 12 trillion gallons of water out of the ground; by 1980, the figure had more than doubled, and each day, 21 billion more gallons flow out than seep in. Water from the great Ogallala Aquifer (map, page 28), which stretches from West Texas to northern Nebraska, is being used up, as irrevocably--and some 26 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 28 of 139 David Stoecklein-Photounique Irrigation sprinklers in New Mexico: 'The West never accepted the wisdom of God when he didn't put all the water there' would say as wantonly--as the oil that lies beneath it. "It varies, depending on where you are," says Nebraska water planner Michael Jess, "but there are some people projecting that as early as the year 2000, there will be parts of Nebraska with their water supplies so depleted that farming may never return." The nation's water outlook now is frighteningly reminiscent of the oil outlook a decade ago--affording, cynics say, a matchless opportunity to make the same mistakes again. And in this pinch, Saudi Arabia is not going to be of much help. Hidden Costs: The energy crisis and the water shortage are inextricably linked. The limiting factor in irrigation tends to be the high cost of electricity to run the pumps as the water table recedes. California's vast State Water Project uses almost as much electricity to pump water around the state as all the people of Los Angeles use--and beginning in a few years, when the old cheap contracts expire, farmers are going to see that cost reflected in their water rates. Lack of water threatens some of the 30 gasohol plants planned in Iowa, and may limit the development of oil shale in Colorado; another Battle of the Little Bighorn looms over a proposal to divert water that now flows through a Crow Indian reservation for a coal-slurry pipeline. With the Mississippi River at historic lows in recent weeks, barges were backed up for as long as five days awaiting dredges to clear a safe channel between Cairo, Ill., and Memphis--a reminder that water-borne transport is usually the most energy-efficient way to move goods. Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products--in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher--they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table. The water that will make next year's steaks lies frozen now in the subsoil of the Corn Belt, and within the next few weeks Ted Spiegel--Black Star NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 (COVER) 27 === Page 29 of 139 THE WATER CRISIS: ITS CAUSES GO DEEPER THAN THE WEATHER America's most immediate water problem started when a high-pressure ridge of air stalled over the West this winter, forcing moist Pacific winds to detour north over Canada. The resulting weather pattern has simultaneously parched the Northeast, the Southeast and large parts of the nation's midsection--but the best meteorologists don't know why. What's worse, rivers and lakes from Pittsburgh to Portland are polluted with acid rain, chemicals like PCB's and coliform bacteria from sewage. Below ground, water is being withdrawn from an ancient network of aquifers faster than it is flowing in. As fresh water moves out, salt water seeps in from oceans or underground salt deposits; aquifer water containing 3 per cent sea water may remain undrinkable for thousands of years. HIGH-PRESSURE AREA DROUGHT WIND PATTERN Acid rain contaminates lakes in the Adirondack Mountains. LOW-PRESSURE AREA Colorado River NORMAL WIND PATTERN Mississippi River AREAS OF SEVERE DROUGHT WASH. N. H. VT. ME. MONT. N. D. MASS. ORE. IDAHO MINN. WIS. S. D. WYO. MICH. GREAT LAKES R. I. CONN. N. J. DEL. MD. IOWA PA. NEB. NEV. OHIO IND. ILL. UTAH COLO. MO. W. VA. VA. KANS. KY. CALIF. ARIZ. N. C. TENN. OKLA. ARK. S. C. N. M. MISS. ALA. GA. TEXAS LA. FLA. SURFACE-WATER POLLUTION COLIFORM-BACTERIA POLLUTION PCB, PBB AND PVC POLLUTION LONG ISLAND SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OGALLALA TUSCALOOSA OCALA TEXAS GULF MAJOR AQUIFERS AREAS OF GROUND-WATER DEPLETION SALINE-WATER INTRUSION Sources: U.S. Water Resources Council; NOAA/USDA Joint Agricultural Weather Facility Ib Ohlsson--NEWSWEEK 28 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 30 of 139 - 4 Projects RK - SPECIAL REPORT farmers will have to decide how much grain it will support. Much of the nation's farmland is dangerously dry, following a hot, dry summer and a snow-poor winter. Last week's blizzard helped, "but it could snow every day until spring and we'd still be short of moisture," warns Sam Knipp of the Kansas State Farm Bureau. With heavy precipitation, farmers will plant more corn, the most water-sensitive major crop; if it stays dry, many will probably plant soybeans, sorghum and milo. In Iowa, where last summer's blazing drought brought back memories of Dust Bowl desolation, at least some farmers seem to have decided. "I don't think I'll be planting quite as heavy as usual," says Wilbur Mann, who farms 357 acres near Moorhead. "I'm going to leave more space between the rows, the same as we did in the '30s. Nineteen-eighty was the closest I've seen to those days. I sure hope 1981 isn't any closer." Around New York City, the period most often evoked by the drought was the mid-1960s, when a series of dry years threatened to empty the city's upstate reservoirs. At the worst of that crisis, the reservoirs were down to 25 per cent of capacity. This time the drain has been frighteningly swift. The reservoirs, literally brimming with water after last spring's rains, emptied to 31 per cent before last week's storms. Pray for Rain: New York, which declared a drought emergency Jan. 19, faced the problem in the way it knows best. It began a public-relations blitz, led by the irrepressible Mayor Edward Koch, who posed for the press shaving in the approved manner, with the basin filled and the tap closed. Measures like that helped the city reduce its daily water use by 150 million gallons. But beyond that there was little anyone could do but pray for rain--preferably late at night so fickle citizens would not peer from their windows and wrongly conclude that the need for conservation was past. Even harder hit were smaller cities and towns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, some of which were reduced to scavenging for water in abandoned strip-mine pits. In eastern Pennsylvania, residents have been put on a spartan 40-gallon-per-day regimen, enforced by fines and jail terms. The Northeast and Midwest were victims of the same phenomenon: a high-pressure ridge anchored over western Canada that forced the moisture-rich winds from the Pacific far north of their normal course, where the arctic wrung them dry before they dipped back over the United States. A low-pressure region on the East Coast, meanwhile, sent Gulf storms spinning far out over the Atlantic, bypassing thirsty Easterners like New York taxicabs at rush hour. A stable high-pressure system had also caused last summer's dry weather, but in both cases it was the persistence of the pattern that was so unusual and destructive. Meteorologists groped for explanations: in ocean temperatures, in the sunspot cycle, even in the dust sent sky-high by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Theories that the Northeast was entering a long period of drought were guesses at best. But a disconcerting report came from Columbia University climatologist Edward Cook, who studied three centuries of Hudson River Valley tree rings and discovered that what the Northeast now regards as normal weather has in fact been an unusually stable interlude. "The period from 1900 to 1960 was less variable, with fewer extremes of wetness and dryness, than the preceding 200 years," he found. That stable era may now have ended--but it was during those years, and for those conditions, that the Northeast's water systems were planned and built. Easterners may not have been thinking much about the Ogallala Aquifer last week, but it could soon be as familiar to resource-minded Americans as the North Slope. Named after an Indian tribe that once roamed the High Plains, it is perhaps the largest underground reserve of fresh water in the world--an estimated 2 billion acre-feet* trapped in sand, gravel and silt laid down by the rivers of the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. As the ancestral *An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover 1 acre 1 foot deep; it is the equivalent of 325,851 gallons. NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 1925 1955 Photos by Ted Spiegel--Black Star Measuring the damage: A telephone pole records how land sank because of a half century of pumping in the San Joaquin Valley, a farmer inspects the soil for salt damage from irrigation 29 === Page 31 of 139 SPECIAL REPORT streams cascaded down--and eroded--the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains, they carried along sand and gravel to the lowlands. In time, the flood plains coalesced, and since rain was plentiful during Pleistocene times, water saturated what is now the aquifer. Eventually it was trapped between a layer of impermeable shale on the bottom and an erosion-resistant cap rock on top. Bottom: Those ancient waters now trickle through West Texas cotton fields and spurt from the quarter-mile-long arms of center-pivot irrigation systems, making hundreds of circles of green corn in the Nebraska plains. Each year farmers withdraw more water from the Ogallala than the entire flow of the Colorado River. But because sparse rain barely penetrates to the aquifer, very little water flows back in. Water tables are falling from 6 inches to 3 feet a year, and, on average, the Ogallala has 40 years of useful life remaining; in some localities the bottom will be reached much sooner. A. Wayne Wyatt, manager of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 in Lubbock, Texas, likens the problem to "taking money out of a checking account faster than you put it in; sooner or later, you're going to come up with a zero balance." Already, irrigated acreage is declining in five of the six states that draw water from the Ogallala, with predictable results: lower yields and a shift down the water scale from corn crops to cotton or sorghum. Northwest of Lubbock, where 20 inches of rain marks a lush year, farmer Y. F. Snodgrass has had to cut back his irrigated land from 80 acres to 50 in the past few years; he harvested 375 pounds of cotton per acre on the irrigated land, 25 pounds on the dry land. "I just cannot cover the territory with the water I have," he told NEWSWEEK'S Ronald Henkoff. Through the 1970s, corn production in the High Plains of Texas averaged over $170 million a year. Gerald Higgins, an economist with the Texas Department of Water Resources, predicts that "corn will disappear from the Texas High Plains within the next few years." Texas law acknowledges that the underground water will run out eventually: farmers get a ground-water depletion allowance, just as wildcatters get one for oil. But like most states, Texas lets its farmers pump away. The last American frontier is underground, where miners, developers and big farmers race each other to the bottom of the aquifer. "They get rich quick," notes Berkeley geographer Richard Walker, "and when the bonanza is over, they expect the Feds or the state to bail them out." The land bears the scars on its surface: so much ground water has been drawn up by Arizona cotton and alfalfa farmers that the desert floor between Tucson and Phoenix is laced by cracks up to 25 feet wide. For years, Houston slowly sank as water was sucked from beneath it; California's San Joaquin Valley has dropped by nearly 30 feet in some places. The compacted subsoil loses its capacity to hold water, so that even if pumping stopped the aquifers could never fully recharge. There are innumerable large and small aquifers underlying the United States, supplying nearly one-half its drinking water. Unfortunately, their complex geology does not conform to property lines or state boundaries. "One well can change the entire hydrologic configuration," observes Georgia state geologist William H. McLemore. "When an industrial pump is turned on in Jesup, its effects can be seen in Savannah," 40 miles away. Heavy pumping from the Ocala Aquifer has created a "cone of depression" 50 miles wide beneath Savannah and is slowly sucking ocean water toward the city's wells. It is not a problem yet, and may not be for years, but engineers are studying whether it may someday be necessary to reinject fresh water into the aquifer to re-establish the pressure balance. Pollute: A nation's health can be read in its water, and not even 4 trillion gallons of rain a day can dilute the results of decades of folly and greed. Rain falling through the sulfurous air of the Northeast occasionally reaches the ground with the acidity of lemon juice, poisoning fish in the high Adirondack lakes. Salt spread on icy roads has leached so deeply into the aquifers supplying dozens of Massachusetts communities that citizens on low-sodium diets have been warned to drink bottled water. Cattle feedlots in Iowa, pesticide-laden potato fields in Long Island and bacteria from human sewage have all contaminated precious ground water. Municipal treatment plants can clean and recycle biologically polluted water. But they are not much help when it comes to chloroform, benzene, PCB's and the whole spectrum of chemical pollutants that have been found Christoph Blumrich--NEWSWEEK HOW THE NATION SPENDS ITS WATER The supply from the sky is plentiful, but the United States can use only a tiny fraction of what it gets. So the nation is overdrawing its ground-water supply. (All figures are in billions of gallons per day.) Precipitation 4,200 Evaporation 2,787 Streams to Canada, Mexico and oceans 1,328 Input into ground water 61 Withdrawn from ground water 82 Deficit: 21 Domestic 7.3 Power generation 1.4 Manufacturing and minerals 8.2 Public lands 1.4 Agriculture 87.7 Consumption 106 Source: U.S. Water Resources Council 30 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 32 of 139 SPECIAL REPORT in the wells of many states--and that may prove to be carcinogens. A growing number of Americans are afraid to drink the water that comes into their homes, and the situation will get worse as scientists learn to detect pollutants with even more frighteningly polysyllabic names. Engineer Robert Weimar of Camp, Dresser & McKee summed it up: "The hysteria is caused by quantum leaps in evaluating what's in the water." Laymen sometimes naively think of aquifers as swift-running underground streams, and assume that they cleanse themselves like a river. But water moves sluggishly underground--perhaps only tens of feet a year--and purifies itself slowly, if at all. Had the town fathers of Bedford, Mass., known that, they probably would not have situated an industrial park right above the aquifer that supplied 80 per cent of their drinking water. Bedford had to close its wells when tests found trichlorethylene, and the town now buys most of its drinking water from surrounding towns. "The contamination of ground water is almost irreversible," warns James E. Smith, a top Environmental Protection Agency official. "Once it's done, there's damned little you can do about it." Even the seemingly innocent practice of irrigation can cause ecological havoc. Irrigation water carries dissolved salts, which build up in poorly drained soil as the water evaporates and eventually make it impossible to grow most crops. By 1990, as much as a quarter of California's immensely productive San Joaquin Valley could be threatened. The situation is reversible, although at great cost. Farmers can take their land out of production for two to five years, wash it clean with huge quantities of water and then install perforated drainage pipes underground. In the San Joaquin, the Interior Department has begun to build # Israel: Good to the Last Drop By American standards, Israel is a hydrological disaster area. Its 25 inches of annual rainfall--a drought in many other countries--falls at the wrong time in the wrong place, soaking the remote northern hills in winter while leaving the south and center dry in the summer. The Sea of Galilee, Israel's only reservoir of fresh water, lies 696 feet below sea level and miles from major population centers. And Israel's Arab neighbors bitterly dispute rights to the Jordan River, the largest of its three meager streams. Yet no one goes thirsty in Israel. An eclectic mixture of age-old habit and computer-controlled engineering squeezes every last drop out of what water there is. Since 1950 the country has increased its water utilization from 17 per cent to almost 95 per cent. Experts attribute such success largely to shrewd planning. When Israel became a state in 1948, the founding fathers immediately proclaimed all water a national property and entrusted it to an independent agency known as the Tahal. "We did not wait for a crisis," recalled Yaacov Vardi, a founder of Tahal. "We spent money, we used our best brains, we worried. And, of course, we knew that our backs were against the wall." **Clouds:** As its first priority, the Tahal began collecting water from every possible source. Along Israel's 125-mile-long coast, engineers dug 30 wells per mile to trap 10 billion gallons of fresh water annually before it could seep out under the sea. Planes regularly seed clouds with silver iodide to encourage rain, while kibbutzniks and farmers burn the chemical in special generators on the ground. The land and air attacks on clouds have swollen rainfall by about 15 per cent. The Tahal distributes its bounty through a system of canals, pipes, tunnels and wells. Each year it channels close to 90 billion gallons of fresh water across the length and breadth of Israel. So flexible is the system that its pipes served Israeli troops stationed at the Suez Canal before the recent pullback from Sinai. At Avdot, deep in the Negev desert, ecologists from Ben-Gurion University have refurbished a 2,000-year-old network of dry riverbeds and stone-lined conduits to direct the runoff of rain from the hills to nearby fields. Modern technology ensures that farmers use no more water than their produce requires. Sprinklers have given way to drip irrigation. Computers monitor air temperature, humidity and wind speed and adjust the amount of water delivered to the roots of the crops. In one test, a region that had yielded 9.52 tons of melons per acre using sprinklers produced 17.2 tons with drip irrigation. Genetic engineers have also joined the battle to preserve water. A miniature peach tree developed by government scientists can be planted at the astonishing density of 3,200 trees per acre (compared with the normal 120). Because the trees grow so close together, they can be drip-irrigated and their fruit harvested quickly. Researchers have divided all fruits and vegetables that are grown in Israel into four categories, according to their tolerance for salt. This allows water managers to stretch scarce irrigation water by mixing fresh and brackish supplies. New varieties of cucumbers, tomatoes, melons and peppers, developed by careful cross-breeding, thrive in water whose salt content is five times greater than normal. **Fees:** Israel actively encourages its citizens to save water, combining the carrot of public-service announcements with the stick of stiff fees. Jerusalem households pay 25 cents for their first 4,227 gallons of water each month, but 50 cents for each 264 gallons beyond that. No industrial plant can be built unless water commissioner Meir Ben-Meir has approved its water-recycling plan. "To get a license to dig a private well is via dolorosa," says Ben-Meir. Not every scheme has worked. An experiment to prevent evaporation from the Sea of Galilee by covering it with alcohol failed when winds blew aside the cover. An effort to retain moisture in the soil by spraying it with silicones proved too expensive. Still, Israel has exported its hydrological know-how to 28 countries. "What we've done is take the existing knowledge and apply it on a large scale," said Yaacov Vardi. "We used all Israel as a laboratory." PETER GWYNNE with MILAN J. KUBIC in Jerusalem  Shlomo Arad *Plastic-covered tomatoes: Moisture control* NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 35 === Page 33 of 139 SPECIAL REPORT by the mountains they found instead; as it is said in the West, water flows uphill to money. Water has inflamed far more passions in the West than whisky, and by far the greatest clashes have been over the Colorado River. It is an insignificant river in the nation's over-all water picture; with an annual flow of 13.5 million acre-feet, it is about the same size as the Hudson--but so vital to the West that barely 10 per cent of its waters are allocated to Mexico. Because of a tangle of interstate compacts and court decisions, Mexico and the seven states through which the Colorado flows actually have legal rights to use more water than it contains; until now, luckily, the states have not taken their full shares. But that may change by the late 1980s, when the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project will begin delivering more than a million acre-feet a year to fast-growing Phoenix and Tucson. The water the CAP will provide years from now is already being fought over in court, as Arizona challenges the Interior Department's decision to allocate one-fourth of the project's flow to a dozen small Indian tribes. California--which for decades has consumed part of Arizona's share of the river water as well as its own--will have to surrender much of its neighbor's share. California's water economy faces some difficult adjustments, and Los Angeles, particularly, is not likely to give up much water without a fight. One of the oldest Western water wars, in fact, is now seething again in southern California. It pits the Los Angeles Bryce Flynn--Picture Group **Worrying: Waiting on line to buy safe water in Massachusetts** what is essentially a sewer for 4 million acres of farmland: the "San Luis Drain," a $300 million, 188-mile concrete ditch, will carry irrigation runoff north to the Sacramento River Delta near San Francisco. The last hundred miles have yet to be built--and it remains to be seen if President Reagan's Interior Department will allocate the funds to complete it. Damage: An even more mind-boggling project is well under way southwest of Yuma, Ariz., where the depleted Colorado River crosses into Mexico burdened with the irrigation runoff from 150 nearby farms. After the Mexican Government complained that its allotment of Colorado River water was too salty to be of use, the Interior Department conceived a $356 million desalting plant to remedy the damage done to the river--sucking up nearly 100 million gallons a day, removing most of the minerals and then depositing the water back into the riverbed. The project includes a separate canal paralleling the river to drain the brine into the Gulf of California. (The plant will work by reverse osmosis, passing the water through a membrane impermeable to salt molecules. In theory the process can be applied to sea water, but it would be much more expensive because sea water is saltier.) Such grand projects are in the great tradition of the Far West, where for decades the meager supply of water has been stretched by adding liberal amounts of money--frequently the Federal government's. (In return, Westerners point out, they feed much of the rest of the country.) "The Western states never accepted the wisdom of God when he didn't put all the water there," the EPA's Smith wryly observes. Nor have they been stymied Adrian Wecer--Kappa **Conserving: Washing the diapers with the bath water** water-supply system against the residents of Inyo County, 250 miles to the north. The first round was fought more than 60 years ago, when a dam and aqueduct began diverting the Owens River to slake the thirst of the growing city. Desperate farmers tried to blow up the aqueduct, a tactic that some darkly hint has been only temporarily shelved. The renewed war, which so far has been fought mostly in the courts, was touched off in 1970 when Los Angeles built a second aqueduct to the Owens Valley and began pumping ground water through it. No one denies that Los Angeles bought the legal rights to the water in the early years of the century; but valley residents question the city's moral right to turn their settlement into a desert. Huge Surpluses: By reaching a long arm north, southern California has managed to keep its water supplies growing faster than its multiplying population, and there has usually been plenty left over to sell at bargain prices to the big Central Valley farmers. "In a normal year," asserts Berkeley's Walker, "the water projects 36 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 34 of 139 have huge surpluses. And agriculture plans on those surpluses." But with supplies from the Colorado River due to decrease, the water-hungry south is looking even farther north. A new battle is raging over the Peripheral Canal--a proposal to cut a 400-foot-wide ditch, 43 miles long, around the eastern rim of the Sacramento River delta, drawing off billions of gallons into the mouth of the great California Aqueduct. Gov. Jerry Brown strongly supports the $5 billion-plus project, but opponents have forced the issue to a referendum, which must be held by June of next year. San Franciscans envision the canal sucking so much from the Sacramento River that salty bay water would back up into the delta, a potential ecological hazard. More important, they see it as the first step of a massive water grab ultimately aimed at drawing off their last free-flowing rivers. Their fears are not groundless: history records many grand proposals to convert the Northwest into a watershed for Los Angeles and the Central Valley farmers. Rivers as far away as the Snake in Idaho and the Yellowstone in Montana have been eyed covetously. Plans have been proposed to tap the Columbia River, although the energy required to lift it over Oregon's mountains may have stood in the way; one engineer suggested a $20 billion fiber-glass pipeline to parallel the coastline along the ocean floor. Grandest of all schemes was the proposed North American Water and Power Alliance, which would have run water from the Yukon down to Mexico and from the Great Lakes to the Pacific, at a cost estimated in 1964 at $200 billion. Walker dismisses all such schemes as preposterous. "It reflects the water users' conviction that there's no need to worry about conservation when there's a whole continent to go after," he says. "There's no end to peoples' imagination when there's a buck to be made." Tidal Backwater: Nature has a way of reasserting itself over such hubris. The West might do well to study a report by two Louisiana State University professors who recently concluded that not even the Army Corps of Engineers will be able to stand against the Mississippi River when it decides to switch its channel at a point 250 miles upstream from New Orleans. The shift--which Professors Raphael G. Kazmann and David B. Johnson say is inevitable and could come as early as next spring if the river floods--will send North America's biggest river cascading down the peaceful path of the Atchafalaya River toward Morgan City, La.--ripping out highways, gas and oil pipelines and anything else in its path. The new channel would leave New Orleans on a tidal backwater without drinking water; it would also do $4 billion or more of damage in carving its path to the sea. The Army Engineers are confident that a $216 million construction project will keep the river in its present channel, but pessimists point out that the Mississippi has switched back and forth along many paths since long before the Army Engineers came on the scene. "It's going to be a mess," Kazmann warns. Whether or not the West learns to defer to nature, there are signs that it is bowing to economic reality. Voters in Tucson--who recalled three City Council members in a revolt against higher water rates in 1976--have decided to accept a rate hike after all, and have cut their per-capita consumption by more than a quarter. The government's century-old policy of encouraging the settling of the West through cheap water is increasingly viewed as an anachronism; there is no need to lure settlers to the Sun Belt. The old pork-barrel approach to Western water projects in Congress is also breaking down. "We've gone four years without a new water-projects-authorization bill," observes Gerald D. Seinwill, acting director of the U.S. Water Resources Council. "There are new members [of Congress] who see they can be re-elected without bringing home a dam." Farmers are beginning to realize that they can no longer use 90 per cent of the water in some Western states. As Arizona's cities have boomed, central Arizona farmers have grudgingly agreed to limit the amount of ground water they use--a possible first step toward a state buy out and retirement of their lands after the year 2000. That will be expensive, but by no means the most painful adjustment the nation will have to make. The rain will continue to fall, but Americans will have increasingly difficult decisions to make about what to do with it on the ground. Piping pure drinking water hundreds of miles to wash cars and sprinkle lawns may no longer make sense. The aging cities of the Northeast may have to spend billions to replace their leaky water mains. New York, which began talking about metering all of its water during the last big drought, may finally have to do it--if only to learn how much water it loses to leaks each year; the city puts the figure at 3 per cent, but one New York state official maintains the loss is five times that. In Colorado, a handful of self-sufficient homeowners have already installed the hydrologic equivalent of the all-solar house: a $15,000 system to treat and endlessly recycle every drop of water used in the home. Americans who have learned to car pool may soon be pooling pools as well. Maximum Efficiency: Farmers have begun to lay expensive pipes that drip a measured quantity of water right at a plant's roots, replacing open furrows and sprinklers that sloshed water all over the landscape. Laser-guided earthmovers grade huge fields as flat as hockey rinks, for maximum efficiency in spreading water. The U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix has developed infra-red thermometers that can scan acres at a time from the air and identify, by elevated leaf temperatures, which fields need water. Measures such as these will help the nation stretch its water supplies, but in the long run Americans will have to learn that the era of cheap water, like the era of cheap energy before it, is over. Even while the airborne thermometer is being tested in Phoenix, the University of Arizona in Tucson is studying the economic potential of tumbleweed, a ragged shrub that flourishes throughout the West on almost no water. Shredded and pressed into logs, it makes a very nice fireplace fuel. It is unlikely, though, to take the place of corn--and it is a sad irony that the nation that made its deserts bloom may soon be scrounging them for weeds. Recycling: A closed home system uses and reuses 1,500 gallons Ted Spiegel--Black Star JERRY ADLER with WILLIAM J. COOK in Washington, STRYKER McGUIRE in Texas, GERALD C. LUBENOW and MARTIN KASINDORF in California, FRANK MAIER in Chicago and HOLLY MORRIS in Atlanta NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 37 === Page 35 of 139 - UFOs Over My Area - oreg. 2/14/81 # Earthquake rattles Eugene to Seattle An earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale shook Western Oregon and Western Washington late Friday, rattling dishes, windows and even large buildings, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Forest Service/U.S. Geological Survey volcano information center in Vancouver, Wash. said the quake did not appear to be related to Mount St. Helens. The center said aftershocks were recorded for several minutes after the initial tremor. The quake began at 10:09 p.m., as measured by the University of Washington's geophysics program, which said the epicenter was 25 miles east of Centralia, Wash. The earthquake that immediately preceded the massive May 18 eruption of Mount St. Helens measured 5.1 on the Richter scale. Callers quickly swamped news media and police and fire telephones with inquiries. The Oregonian logged calls reporting the quake as far west as Forest Grove and east of Sandy. The tremors were felt as far north as Everett, Wash., as far south as the Eugene-Springfield area and in the Yakima Valley east of the Cascades. "It's big, and it was definitely felt in Seattle," said Steve Bryant, a spokesman at the University of Washington geophysics center. "It shook for a long time, the strongest we've had here," said Thelma Vink, a resident of Longview in southwest Washington. "Certainly things were swinging here, though nothing fell off." In Yakima, located in central Washington, a quake "was felt all over the whole Yakima Valley," said Roger Clark. "I guess it shook some furniture here and there." In Olympia, "It rattled this building and the light fixture was swinging about half an inch," said Associated Press newsman Bill Mertena. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in a local area. A 7 reading is a 'major' quake, capable of widespread heavy damage. A reading of 5 is considered capable of causing considerable damage. A 5.5 quake is five times stronger. Contacts This happened here last night. My son Beau and I were in my office when suddenly the floor began waving up and down like a boat rocking in water. It lasted quite a while. Then we ran and wakened Teddy (9) and snatched up the baby (3) and ran outdoors into the open, just in case the old house fell in. However, what is important is... the night before I told Beau that my SIs (UFOs) could cause an earthquake by being over an area!! I feel that the SIs, who monitor my every thought and action, were demonstrating this for us!! Their reality Ted Owens (PK Man) Beau Owens Feb. 14 1981 === Page 36 of 139 note: where I live, Irene Ore P. 2/14/81 # Strong quake rattles Portland, NW areas SEATTLE (UPI) -- A "big" earthquake centered near Mount St. Helens rolled through much of the Northwest Friday, shaking buildings in Seattle and Portland and touching off a rush of phone calls from thousands of people who thought the unpredictable volcano might be erupting. University of Washington scientists said the earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter Scale and put its center about 12 miles north of the volcano near Elk Lake, an area that has been seismically active ever since the catastrophic eruption on May 18. Minor aftershocks continued into the night around the earthquake's center, according to Steve Bryant, spokesman for the University of Washington geophysics department. Authorities reported the 10:11 p.m. quake was felt as far north as southern Canada, as far south as Salem, Ore., and as far east as Yakima, Wash. "It had a soft, wavy, kind of rippling effect," said Dick Swigert, dispatcher with the Lewis County Sheriff's Office in Chehalis, about 40 miles from the volcano. "It was very strong," said Swigert. "We're on the fourth floor of a solid concrete building and we felt it for a full minute." Thousand of people jammed the sheriff's office with phone calls asking if the earthquake was caused by the volcano, Swigert said. Police in Seattle said they received hundreds of calls from worried residents, many wondering if the earthquake was somehow connected to Mount St. Helens. Some said they could feel everything shake for about 10 seconds, about the same length reported in Portland. Bryant said the quake lasted 10 minutes and 50 seconds at its center. According to A. B. Adams, geophysicist at the University of Washington, the earthquake was not associated with the movement of magma within the volcano or the growth of its lava dome. Rather, it was part of an ongoing movement of faults located just north of the volcano, he said. The epicenter of the quake was reported to be almost directly north of Portland and several Portland-area police agencies and east of Kelso, Wash., at a point of critical stress in an Oregon-Washington geological "shoving match," according to a recent theory published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. The theory says that Western Oregon, from the Cascades to the coast, is being pushed out into the Pacific Ocean by a spreading bulge in the Oregon-Nevada high desert. The moving block includes half of the Washington Cascades, but not coastal Washington. It stretches from Mount Rainier down through Oregon to Redding and Eureka, Calif. # Jittery callers flood telephone lines here Telephone switchboards at The Oregon Journal, local radio and television stations and several Portland-area police agencies lighted up like Christmas trees with calls from residents who felt the shake. Several excited callers said they felt their homes and buildings shake moments after the earthquake. One caller said her swag lamp "swung back and forth like a pendulum" while others reported glass shaking in their cupboards. A police dispatcher said the jolt knocked the "IN" and "OUT" mailboxes off a desk at the Portland Police Bureau's East Precinct. Some residents said their pets reacted "strangely" during the quake's duration. One nervous caller asked: "That wasn't a neutron bomb, was it?" But police throughout the area reported no major damages from the earthquake locally. Spokemen for both Portland General Electric and Pacific Power & Light Co. also said they had received no reports of any power outages or other electrical problems from the quake. However, telephones were ringing literally off the hook at Pacific Northwest Bell offices in Southwest Washington and Northwestern Oregon. PNB spokeswoman Esther Nelson said the number of operator assisted calls made within an hour after the 10:11 p.m. quake was 150 percent higher than those normally recorded during that same time period. But other than a few delays in connecting the calls, she said the phone company experienced no serious operational problems. Linda Raybern, of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, said OMSI seismographs recorded the earthquake's duration as 8 minutes 15 seconds, although the heaviest duration was about 90 seconds. === Page 37 of 139 FATE MAGAZINE 500 Hyacinth Place, Highland Park, Illinois 60035 Area Code (312) 433-4550 February 10, 1981 Ted Owens 200 N.E. 76th St. Vancouver, Wash. 98665 Dear Mr. Owens: Thank you so much for sending us a copy of Scott Rogo's article "The Strange Odyssey of Jan Leslie" from UFO Report. We had not read this before--at least I had not--and it certainly is interesting. In fact, it's amazing that you can teach someone to do this. But then we have followed your career for many, many years and in itself it is amazing. We are in the midst of our first blizzard of the winter and I am torn between finding it very beautiful -- the hawthorn tree outside my window is completely in bloom in white. It is never this full of blossoms in the spring. But the driving is hazardous and we have had to give up a trip to the Chicago Loop where Curt was scheduled to give a talk at a meeting honoring a friend of ours. Almost every one has left the office because of the danger of being stuck along the highway in the dark. But we live only 10 minutes from here and so should not have a problem. It is always nice to hear from you. Best wishes, Mary Margaret Fuller Mary Margaret Fuller Editor === Page 38 of 139 - 4 Projects PR - # If There's No Relief From Drought- Water shortages, barren ski slopes and stunted wheat-that's only the beginning of economic losses unless rain and snow bring relief. The crunch of a severe drought is now spreading across much of America, raising alarms about crop damage and higher prices for food next summer. In late January, millions of New Yorkers and others living along the East Coast came under strict orders to cut down on water consumption or pay stiff fines. Resorts in the western part of the U.S. have been closed much of the winter because a lack of snowfall left ski slopes barren. Barges are stranded in the Mississippi River by low water. On the Great Plains, the vital winter-wheat crop is stunted and in danger of being blown away by dust storms. Unless heavy rain and snow fall before spring, farm economists fear that agricultural losses could run into the billions of dollars and send food prices soaring far beyond the 12 to 14 percent increase that government economists have projected for 1981. When it all started. The trouble began last summer when lack of rain and record-high temperatures scorched the nation's midsection, damaging wheat, corn, soybean and peanut crops and killing millions of chickens and turkeys. The drought has since spread east and west, leaving few areas of the country untouched. One of the hardest-hit regions is along the East Coast, where climatologists describe the drought as the worst in 15 years. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that water in the lakes and rivers from Connecticut to Mississippi is averaging only 79 percent of normal for this time of year. New York City's reservoirs have dropped to 29 percent of capacity, and the city could run out of water in four months without rain or heavy snow. The Delaware River, one of the region's most important sources of water, is flowing at 32 percent of capacity. About 7.5 million people in Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York are under restrictions against washing cars at home, watering of lawns and other nonessential uses of water. Restaurants are not serving any water unless requested by patrons. Violators in many areas are subject to fines of up to $1,000. New York City has doubled the number of water inspectors to enforce the ban. Police are instructed to issue tickets for abuses they spot while on patrol. New York City residents have been asked to voluntarily limit daily water consumption to less than 90 gallons per person, 30 to 35 gallons less than normal, or face greater restrictions-"waterless days," for example. In the Washington, D.C., area, the Potomac River is flowing at only 81 percent of normal. The nearby Occoquan Reservoir is down to a 45-day supply of water, forcing officials in suburban Virginia to declare a water emergency. Persons caught washing cars, watering lawns or operating ornamental fountains are subject to a $500 fine. Parts of the Midwest also continue to suffer. The Chicago area has received only 15.3 inches of snow, compared with a normal average of 23.2 inches for this time of year. In Kansas, reservoirs are drying up and underground-water tables are falling, leaving many small towns with a precarious water supply. The community of Hamilton has been hauling water from nearby Eureka since mid-January. The municipal lake for Edgerton, south of Kansas City, is dry, and the town is buying water on an emergency basis from Olathe. The Mississippi River, one of the nation's main transportation arteries, is flowing at about 90 percent below normal, causing barges to run aground in narrow, shallow channels. Boats that get through cannot carry full loads. At one point, 97 towboats and 1,600 barges had to wait while a dredge worked frantically to cut a new path through the river bottom's heavy sand. The Corps of Engineers estimates that the barges carried enough cargo to fill a line of semitrailers stretching from New Orleans to Philadelphia. ![A dry lake that provided water to Edgerton, Kans., reflects the severity of drought in the Midwest.] A dry lake that provided water to Edgerton, Kans., reflects the severity of drought in the Midwest. "Losses to operators are running well into the millions of dollars," says John Donnelly, president of the Nashville-based Ingram Barge Company. At Memphis, where river traffic was closed in early January, the Mississippi is at the lowest stage since record keeping began in 1934, says Chief Petty Officer John Davis of the Coast Guard's headquarters in that city. "The cheapest juice." The Tennessee Valley Authority's hydroelectric production is the lowest since 1945. Warns a spokesman for the massive system: "Hydroelectricity is the cheapest juice you can get. It could have an impact on electrical rates." Growers in Volusia County, Fla., which claims to supply 70 percent of the world's ferns used in floral arrangements, blame the drought for an estimated 20 million dollars in losses. The damage occurred in mid-January when the underground-water table dropped 10 to 15 feet in 8 hours, causing well pumps to suck mud. The water was needed to provide a continual spray that protects the tender ferns from freezing. "A third of our business went down the tube in one night," laments Larry L. Loadholtz, Volusia County's extension agent. Dry weather in Western states has residents recalling the devastating U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 9, 1981 49 === Page 39 of 139 1976-77 drought that caused millions of dollars in economic losses and forced some communities to curb water use. Heavy rains and snow in late January brought a measure of relief to the Pacific and Rocky Mountain states; however, meteorologists say that much more is needed before the drought is broken. The National Weather Service reports that California rainfall in mid-January was below the level of the same time in 1976, when the drought began. San Francisco received a heavy downpour on January 28, but city officials warned that rainfall since June 30 has totaled slightly less than 6.2 inches--which is about half of the 12.06 average. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is so worried that it has voted to spend $75,000 on seeding clouds over the city-owned reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada. The project will begin in early February if the drought continues. # Drought's Wide Reach - [x] Extremely severe drought - [ ] Severe drought - [ ] Moderate drought USN&WR map--Basic data: NOAA/USDA Joint Agricultural Weather Facility The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and other Western mountain chains was averaging about 70 percent of normal in late January. The runoff from the snow into streams, rivers and reservoirs provides about 75 percent of the region's water supply. "Even if we get normal snowfall in the next three months, we would be only 50 to 70 percent of normal by the end of the season," declares Tom George, director of snow surveys for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Oregon. Western ski-resort operators are hoping that late-season snows will enable them to recover from what so far has been a disastrous period. "It's the worst ski year ever at Breckenridge," says Art Bowles, vice president of Breckenridge Ski Corporation in Colorado. The resort, located 70 miles west of Denver, closed December 28 because it did not have equipment to make artificial snow. Bowles reports that 250 workers were laid off and that lift-ticket revenues were down 25 percent from last year. In late January, only 10 percent of the ski runs in Steamboat Springs, Colo., were open. The town estimates that it has lost 6.5 million in business. At Mount Ashland in Southern Oregon, only three workers were on the job through most of January, compared with a normal 97. At the same time, only 200 of the usual 1,000 ski-industry employes at Mount Hood in Oregon were on the payroll. As devastating as they are, the economic losses this winter are insignificant when compared with what could happen if the drought is not broken before the spring-planting season for corn, soybeans and other crops. Carl Anderson, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, predicts that a continuation of the drought could cause an 18 percent increase in U.S. food prices. The only crop seeded so far is the winter wheat that is grown mainly on the Great Plains from northern Texas to Nebraska. Farmers report that their crops are stunted by a lack of moisture. "This is as bad as it was in 1936, as far as the moisture and weather are concerned," says Clee Ralston, who farms near Augusta, Kans. High winds, too. Without snow that usually covers the fields at this time of the year, the wheat crop is vulnerable to the sudden cold snaps that often hit the Plains states in late winter. The high winds that usually start whipping across the plains in February pose another danger. "If we get wind before we get moisture, we could lose a lot of wheat," says Robert Huser, who farms near Syracuse in western Kansas. Adds Ellis Burton, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Denver: "If we stay dry through February, we'll have a brown cloud from the east slope to the Kansas border." Although planting time is still more than two months away, corn and soybean farmers in the Midwest also are worried. Iowa, the nation's top corn producer, has received only 5.5 inches of snow since October, and subsoil moisture is inadequate in 81 percent of Illinois, the No. 2 corn producer. Bob Swanson of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture says this winter is the driest in nearly 100 years. In spite of the dry weather, many farmers remain optimistic that enough rain will fall during the spring months to allow the planting of their crops. If not, then the country is in for some hard times. Says Texas Agricultural Commissioner Reagan Brown: "We need 1981 to be a good crop year. We have no real backlog of grain in storage. If we have another drought, it would be terrible, an absolute disaster for this country." DUANE HOWELL--DENVER POST Snowless ski slopes this winter have idled workers at resorts in Colorado and other Western states. 50 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 9, 1981 === Page 40 of 139 --- Return of the Crashed Saucers and Little Men --- # LETTER/ANNOUNCEMENT FROM GRAY BARKER (After typing letter below I went through it and drew in some crude boxes for you to check as you go along and find items that interest you. This does not obligate you to order, but will help to remind you when you're ready to fill in order blank.) Catalog No. 11 Dear Friend, Well, here's another brand-new catalog with many exciting new items, and this one will outdate any previous sales literature you've received from us. Before going into our "pitch" on what's new I'd like to thank our regular readers for the excellent response to our last mailing. I also want to thank those who wrote us, helping us get the rough edges off our new computerized mailing list. Some of you who were subscribers to GRAY BARKER'S NEWSLETTER but who weren't on the computer as such checked their name codes, and let us know so that we could correct this. We're not sure we have all of these instances corrected, so again we ask you to check the code right on top of your name on our mailing label. If this code begins with "X11" or "X15," this means that you are a subscriber and that your subscription expires with No. 15. In this case you should have received this catalog inside the No. 11 NEWSLETTER. If you are not a subscriber your code probably begins with "C" such as "C80," which means your last purchase from us was in 1980 (No need to pay any attention to the rest of the code it can tell us how much and what sort of material you ordered). This code can be sorted by the computer so that we can eliminate names from which we have not received orders in quite some time, and so cut down our costs for unwanted mailings. If your code reads "X11" this means your subscription expires with this issue, No. 11, and that we'd appreciate your sending in your renewal. The Crashed Saucers - [ ] If you aren't a subscriber you'll certainly want to send in for the current No. 11, for it follows up on the fascinating material on crashed saucers and their occupants, allegedly retrieved by the military. This is because of the tremendous interest generated by the new book by William Moore and Charles Berlitz titled "The Roswell Incident," and by the release of the popular movie, "Hangar 18" (which we reviewed in the last issue). And since Moore/Berlitz have brought to light some information about a mysterious nobleman, Baron Nicholas E. Von Poppen, and how, as a scientific metals photographer, he was employed to photograph a crashed disc and its occupants, I've decided it is time to finally tell all of this bizarre story -- Since the Baron is now deceased and can no longer be threatened with deportation for talking. Elgar Brom has set down all of these events in a fascinating new book. It is of large, 8 1/2 x 11" size with easy-to-read type and illustrated by space artist Carol Ann Rodriguez. It is excitingly written and difficult to put down once you have the first chapter. Order "SAGASHA -- THE MYSTERIOUS DUST FROM OUTER SPACE" ..........Just $7.95 New Tape Recordings - [ ] Our cassette tape recordings continue to grow in popularity, particularly since we have been adding new contemporary material to our list of historical recordings. If you don't have a cassette player you're missing out on an opportunity to be up to date on a lot of UFO material. You can find recording playback machines at a nearby discount store at very low prices, and you might check your newspaper for ads on them. Take a look at what we've added since our last catalog. - [ ] "HOW TO CONTACT UFO'S" by Ted Owens. We've been trying for months to get Ted Owens to make us a master tape which could instruct us on how to utilize some of the same remarkable powers imparted to him by the SI's (Space Intelligences), but until now he has elected to keep his instruction on a one-to-one or small, in-person group basis. Naturally, Owens' time is limited and such instruction is costly. Now with inexpensive cassette tape, more people can benefit from his teachings. Most of you know about Owens and his remarkable "track record" of making valid prophecies; of his abilities to make UFOs appear at will, and his powers to bring on or stay off natural calamities such as droughts and hurricanes. At last you can hear the dynamic voice of Owens as he explains how half of his brain is UFO, the other half human; how his claims have been backed up by scientists. And although you, yourself, may not possess these powers, he instructs you on how to employ your own natural psychic powers (although they even may be dormant) to not only influence daily events, but to bring about UFO sightings! For a limited time, while our supply lasts, we will include one of his coded SI discs, containing the powerful symbol of the SI's and which are purported to bring good luck and increase your psychic powers! But let me qualify what I have just said: I am personally still skeptical about all of this, but not quite skeptical enough to fail to warn you to use extreme caution in exercising the powers he can help you develop. Not all UFOs have proven to be friendly (lately we have had the abduction cases!). Be sure to have at least one other person with you when you try the contact experiment. Hidden deep within many of us are tremendous powers that lay dormant. If Ted Owens can help you to unleash these powers, be careful! You wouldn't want to drown all of your neighbors in a flood!!! All of our tapes are priced at $7.95 each. - [ ] "UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE" by Stanton Friedman. Friedman is an atomic scientist now devoting full time to UFO research. Friedman takes a scientific "nuts - [ ] "DOCUMENT 96 (Containing the German Saucer Story and Startling Evidence that UFOs may also be U.S. Military Devices)" We published this large 8 1/2 x 11" 124-page lavishly illustrated book back in 1968. Our edition of 1000 copies sold out quickly and it has long been out of print. Yet it has been one book customers have regularly inquired about. But due to rising printing costs and tight money we were never able to bring out another regular edition. Frankly, this is a book we didn't expect would sell at the time of publication, but it fascinated us personally. Written by a scientist (using the pseudonym of Frank Martin Chase), it was partly technical in nature, and explored the then relatively unpopular theories of Nazi and U.S. military UFO origin. But the book was profusely illustrated by the author, offering 30 full-page drawings. They were both of technical nature, and interesting treatments of actual landing cases, with illustrations of the occupants as described by witnesses. Customer inquiries about this book have stepped up considerably after the leak about "Project Stealth" and publicity about The Philadelphia Experiment. So we again are making this interesting work available. ..........$25.00 These Michael X. books which we dropped from our last catalog, are once again available, but as Limited Edition Reprints: - [ ] YOUR PART IN THE GREAT PLAN $6.95 - [ ] VENUSIAN HEALTH-MAGIC $12.95 Books by Daniel W. Fry again available in Limited Editions Reprint, but this volume combines two books, previously titled THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT and ALAN'S MESSAGE TO MEN OF EARTH. This combination volume is now titled just "THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT" and is available at just ..........$12.95 UFO Authors in Search of a Publisher - [ ] If you have written a worthwhile book, but cannot find a publisher, or if you cannot afford the tremendous cost of bringing this out through a subsidy publisher, why not talk to us. If you can furnish such a book, already prepared in clear typescript, maybe we could reproduce a limited number of copies without demanding an arm and a leg. We might also be able to sell some copies for you. - [ ] THE SAUCERIAN Issue No. 1. Almost 30 years ago I laboriously cranked out 200 copies of a 31-page magazine which I called THE SAUCERIAN, not knowing what I was getting myself into. Goodness, my arm was sore after doing this on a manually cranked office spirit master printing machine! It was not exactly a MAD magazine but it did sell for 25¢ which, indeed, was pretty "cheap." Three years ago I sold my last remaining spare copy at $50.00. Due to the light blue printing of the "Ditto" process, we could not reproduce the magazine itself, but found we could reproduce the backs of the master sheets which were typed with a ribbon installed. Although the type comes up clear and highly readable, there is a great deal of toning to the pages. The cover has a reproduction of an eye-witness drawing === Page 41 of 139 MEN IN BLACK Cadillacs & Laser Beams By JOHN KEEL And Others AN MIB ADVISORY/ INFORMATION PACKAGE MIB in huge black Cadillac terrorizes Jersey couple -- Mystery Man nabbed on Long Island -- MIB in Ohio -- MIB seize young man's UFO photos -- Answers on the way -- Much More! More than 115 large 8½ x 11" pages of UFO/MIB items, articles, photos and drawings. Through the pages of rare back issues of SAUCER NEWS you can view actual photo of MIB and his huge Cadillac, read how editor invited to meet MIB, UFO convention delegates followed, Researcher Hushed Up--More! Photo of USSR-held UFO occupant! Contained in Issues Nos. 69, 70 & 73, $3.00 ea. If purchased separately, now all three in MIB Info Package for only $4.95. Order now, supply limited! MIB INFO PACKAGE $5.95 FRANK E. STRANGES Ph.D. PRESENTS *MORE THAN 50 Photographs of UFOs, and UFO Investigators & Personalities! SAUCERAMA REVISED ENLARGED FIFTH EDITION $5.95 You are about to read a comprehensive report regarding the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects. By introducing this subject through the media of bookstores, Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television, Universities, Colleges, High Schools and Church groups, the author has attempted to produce sufficient information not only to stir your imagination, but also to encourage healthy thoughts regarding the possibility that Earth IS being visited by beings from other planets . . . a possibility, that according to many scientists may become a REALITY in this generation. Flying Saucerama PUBLICATIONS BY GENE DUPLANTIER SPACEDUST Articles By: * Gray Barker OUTERMOST WAS DR. JESSUP MURDERED BY THE 'SILENCE GROUP'? STRANGE CASE OF DR. M. K. JESSUP The mystery of Dr. M.K. Jessup is one of the strangest in the history of Ufology. His death, officially labeled "suicide", has been widely questioned by researchers who knew the noted astronomer and UFO investigator well. There was, for example, the case of the strange annotated books, and the secret edition of one of Dr. Jessup's books titled "The Varo Edition". These annotations, together with letters from a mysterious Carlos Allende, told of an alleged secret Naval experiment and of disappearing ships and men. "THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. M.K. JESSUP" is a volume which explores these mysteries, along with other facets of Jessup's strange actions before death. Did Jessup follow up his intention, outlined in letters to close friends, to communicate after death? Dr. Jessup's interest in psychic and occult subjects is explored fully, with verbatim quotations from the famous Mark Robert. Did Jessup "Know too much"? Did he take his own life rather than to face the terrifying truths he had learned? THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. M.K. JESSUP", (Edited by Gray Barker) will help to clear up some of these mysteries. No. 406-600 $7.95 NEW! tapes EXCITING NEW AUDIO CASSETTE TAPE RELEASES Tape 25: HOW TO CONTACT UFOs by Ted Owens. At last you can hear the dynamic voice of Owens as he gives you practical instructions for inviting UFOs to land, and to increase your natural powers. Use these psychic powers to bring about events you will into being. $7.95 Tape 35: UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE by Stanton Friedman, an atomic scientist now devoting his full time to UFO research. Explains in every-day language how it is possible for UFOs to come from outside our solar system. $7.95 Tape 36: AFTER THE INTERRUPTED JOURNEY by Betty Hill. What has happened since the abduction of Barney and Betty Hill by UFO occupants? Learn how she is still in contact with them. $7.95 Tape 26: THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT by Gray Barker. Hear this spellbinding account direct from the lips of Gray Barker, along with other investigators and witnesses. An exciting audio record of one of the greatest coverups in U.S. history! $7.95 Tape 30: THE COMING POLAR FLIP by John White. Leading scientists, and psychics as well, predict a disastrous change in the Earth's Axis! $7.95 Tape 31: UFO PROPHECIES by Jane Allyson. Hear how she was contacted from outer space, and what the space people predict for our futures. $7.95 Tape 32: STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE by oceanographer Jim Thorne. Thorne tells how an expedition he formed encountered strange forces and how Atlantean ruins were discovered. $7.95 Tape 33: MY CONTACT WITH VISITORS FROM SPACE by Marc Brinkerhoff, who has been contacted by space beings since he was only six years old. $7.95 Tape 34: THE CONTACTEE ENIGMA by John Keel. This new tape, recorded in 1980, follows up Keel's "Men In Black" tape and tells us what has happened since his earlier tape lecture. $7.95 See Opposite Page For More Tapes === Page 42 of 139 FLYING SAUCERS IN THE BIBLE by Virginia Brasington. A lively, though reverent and non-sectarian approach to UFO sightings and events from Genesis to Revelation. You'll want to take a new look at The Bible after perusing this revealing work...$17.50 EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION by Don Elkins. This first book by Elkins consists almost entirely of communications from space people..........$25.00 FLYING SAUCERS FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR, OR HAVE THE POLES REALLY BEEN DISCOVERED by Marshall B. Gardner, 1920. Possibly the earliest "Hollow Earth" book..........$17.50 BOOK OF ADAMSKI AT LAST-MANY SECRETS OF GEORGE ADAMSKI ARE REVEALED IN... "GRAY BARKER'S BOOK OF GEORGE ADAMSKI" Expert Believes George Adamski's photos are REAL... Moon Probes confirm Adamski's claims... Adamski tells "How to know a space man if you see one"... Adamski's Fight with the Silence Group. REPRINT...$17.50 PIONEERS OF SPACE by George Adamski. The privately printed and controversial first book by Adamski which commands as much as $200.00 on the rare book market (If you can find it)..........$35.00 THE CASE FOR GEORGE ADAMSKI'S CONTACTS WITH FLYING SAUCERS, privately printed by Richard Ogden and very rare. Volume 2 Only available at this time, (Vol 1 to be released when we obtain original)..$25.00 A SPACE WOMAN SPEAKS by Rolf Telano. Rare book contains messages from a female space person....$7.95 FLYING SAUCERS FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR by Dr. Raymond E. Bernard. This is the book, long out of print, which preceded his famous HOLLOW EARTH book..........$15.00 THE HOLLOW EARTH by Dr. Raymond E. Bernard. This is the original Saucerian Press edition, which contains additional material at the end of the regular text..........$25.00 (Note when ordering this edition be sure to state it is the reprint, for we have another edition of this book elsewhere in this catalog) "THE BOOK OF SPACE SHIPS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE EARTH" By the God of a Planet Near The Earth & Others Have space people communicated with Earth. Anonymous scientist says "Yes"! Here are the amazing messages of the space people from the various planets in our solar system. Widely acclaimed by our readers. Whether you are a skeptic or a believer in saucers you'll be impressed by these messages of love, advice and scientific information. REPRINT....$17.50 only, and this brings everything up to date. The following listings are available for $1.00 each and a SACE. The $1.00 can be deducted from your first order of $10.00 or more. FATE MAGAZINE back issues (we have hundreds) UPDATED BOOKS STILL UNSOLD FROM MY OCCULT LIBRARY I'M SELLING. RAY PALMER'S FLYING SAUCERS (Sace only, no charge for this). (We can also supply a long, detailed printout listing every issue of FLYING SAUCERS, along with authors included and subjects discussed in each issue for printout charge of $20.00). THE SHAVER MYSTERY AND THE INNER EARTH By TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY At long last the TRUTH about the most astounding mystery of our time can be told without unneeded psychic trimmings and distorted editing. Direct from the pen of Timothy Green Beckley comes the book that is officially approved by Richard Shaver himself. In this volume you will learn the amazing truth as to the actual origin for the Flying Saucers and why they are coming to Earth. You'll read some of the most hair-raising and chilling accounts ever put down on paper. Such as the disappearance of Steve Brodie and his capture by the Dero. Of attacks on surface people by various creatures whose existence cannot be denied. REPRINT..........$25.00 "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" By Ted Owens The runaway best-selling Saucerian Book. Ted Owens tells us about his communication with the "SI's" (Space Intelligences). He has been able to predict the great Eastern Blackout, influence the occurrences of Hurricanes, and perform other marvels as a result of this vast knowledge he obtained from beings not of this Earth. Owens (known as "The Philadelphia Prophet") tells YOU in this book how YOU can contact the "SI's" and obtain wonderful benefits from the superhuman knowledge you can obtain. Warning! If you are not sincerely interested in contacting these beings, or if you wish to use these great powers for selfish purposes, do not order this book. It is powerful medicine! The "M" DISC, containing the symbol of the Space Intelligences has worked wonders for many people as a parapsychological focal point for these great powers. Many readers have acclaimed "HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE" as the most important book ever published in this field. REPRINT..........$12.95 SMOKING, YOU MAY WANT TO USE AS A CANDY TRAY. $3.00 'PICTORIAL HISTORY OF CRYONICS' BY UFO RESEARCHER MICHAEL G. MANN, NOT ABOUT UFO'S BUT ABOUT 'FROZEN DEATH' ILLUS. 40-PP $2.00 'PROBE, THE CONTROVERSIAL PHENOMENA MAGAZINE SUMMER 1967. PUB BY JOSEPH L FERRIERE & ARMAND LAPRADE. 8 1/2 X 11", 64PP SPECIAL FEATURING AL K BENDER & THE MIB. 10 PP OF PHOTOS. $3.00 'PROBE, SPRING, 1967 (RARE) KEELEY, HENDER- SHOT 'SPECULATIONS ON HOW EARTH-MADE SAUCERS MIGHT FLY. $5.00 'RAY PALMER'S NEWSLETTER' SPECIAL ISH DEVOTED TO EXPOSE OF KENNEDY ASSASINATION & ANALYSIS OF ZAPRUDER FILM. $7.50 'SAUCERIAN BULLETIN' ED BY G BARKER 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 14-PP BOOKLET. OTIS T CARR'S PLAN TO BUILD FLYING SAUCER. TEXT OF CONTROVERSIAL 'STRAITH' LETTER TO GEO ADAMSKI FROM U S STATE DEPT. REJECTED AS SPURIOUS BY GOVT. $3.00 'SAUCERIAN BULLETIN' VOL 4 NO 1. 32-PP 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 BOOKLET. VISIT WITH AL K. BENDER AFTER HUSHUP BY MIB W/PHOTOS. FAMOUS MONGUZZI PHOTOS OF SAUCER & OCCUPANT. DERO & TERO. $5.00 'THE SAUCERIAN BULLETIN' 6-PP 8 1/2 X 11 FORMAT. 2 DIFF ISSUES: NO 16 - T LOBSANG RAMPA WRITES ABOUT UFO'S.......... NO 17 - LARGE FOTO OF OTIS T CARR'S HIS SAUCER MODEL. $1.00 EA. 'THE SAUCERIAN REVIEW' EDITED BY GRAY BARKER. 1956 6X9 PB 99 PP. REVIEW OF 1955 SAUCEREVENTS. ARTICLES BY JESSUP, ADAMSKI, HOPKINSVILLE KY 'INVASION' - CANADIAN FS STATION. MANY ILLOS. FINAL ISSUE OF 'THE SAUCERIAN' THOUGH THIS ONE PUBLISHED AS AN ANNUAL. A FEW COPIES LEFT AT $25.00 'THE SAUCERIAN' SPRING, 1955. SAME FORMAT AS 'SAUCERIAN REVIEW'. 62 PP. STRANGE CASE OF OLIVER LARCH BY F EDWARDS. ARTICLES BY ADAMSKI AND JESSUP. STRANGE MESSAGE RECEIVED BY RADIO LISTENERS DURING JOHN OTTO'S BROADCAST DIRECTED TO SPACE PEOPLE. $15.00 RARE UFO PUBLICATIONS FROM 1950'S, 60'S, MANY PUBLISHED BY SMALL UFO RESEARCH GROUPS. HAVE MANY DUPLICATES OR CAN PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY TWO-SIDED REPRODUCTIONS. WE ARE NOW DEVELOPING COMPUTER ACCESS TO THIS MATERIAL, AND OUR ABILITY TO QUOTE YOU IS IMPROVING DAILY. ----------UFO BIBLIOGRAPHIC COMPUTER ACCESS---------- S.A.U.C.E.R.S. IS ENGAGED IN AN EXTENSIVE DATA PROCESSING PROJECT WHICH EVENTUALLY WILL ACCESS A LARGE BODY OF UFO AMATEUR & PROF PRESS SERIALS. WE WELCOME INQUIRIES FROM FUNDED PROFESSIONALS. ************************************************** ORDER FROM: GRAY BARKER, BOX 2228, CLARKSBURG, WV 26301 U.S. ADD $1.00 PER ORDER PP & HNDLG. Send us your Want List Of Out-Of-Print Books and Other Publications. === Page 43 of 139 74 FATE Chesley W. Carter, Newfoundland senator and chairman of the Canadian Senate's Health, Welfare and Science Committee, is a staunch and outspoken champion of further radionics research. He thoroughly studied the results of Dr. Klich's work and expressed his feelings in no uncertain terms: "About Dr. Klich's radionic experiment near Fredericton," he told me, "I have to admit that the circumstances surrounding it were terribly inefficient and ineffective. The forest area he treated with radionics had the lowest spruce budworm egg count anywhere and Dr. Klich was forced to carry out his test under great pressure with inadequate equipment and far too hastily. Personally, I fully advocate further experiments under more ideal conditions. I think the results that have been achieved so far fully justify further experimentation, sufficiently extensive to answer all questions and carried out under such conditions as to provide definite proof either for or against the efficiency of the radionics method." Professor Brown, on the other hand, seemed to have a clear understanding of the opposition. Klich was depressed by the apparent double-dealing and trickery of the opponents of radionics, Dr. Brown said, adding, "I know Dr. Klich has become discouraged with the present setup. It appears that provincial forestry authorities depend on the federal forestry authorities and the refusal of the federal forestry division to explore the radionics method while at the same time endorsing the chemical method, raises the suspicion that there may be a tie-in somewhere with the chemical industry. "The cost of the radionics method is only a fraction of the cost of chemical spraying and the potential savings alone justifies a fuller investigation . . . If there is truth in it, sooner or later the truth will come out because the truth cannot be suppressed forever." Not forever, perhaps, but long enough to waste the most productive years of scores of lives and hold back human progress. "Like electricity or dowsing," the Record reported, "no one can explain radionics . . . Dr. Ray Brown of the University of New Brunswick and Dr. Frederick Conron deserve medals for their courage in making positive statements about [psionics]. Most scientists are so fearful of losing face or tarnishing their image that they prefer to remain anonymous, or even to be negative, regardless of the cost to their country . . ." RADIONICS and psionics represent a true study of the workings of mind and its influence on the real world. Because of a few exaggerated claims made by overzealous amateurs 50 years ago, however, practically the entire scientific community now ignores the case for or against psionics; the door seems to have been effectively and forever closed. Personally, I think the door should be opened. I've spent many years looking into the matter and my firsthand experience in the use of radionics quite frankly scared hell out of me. But the truth will eventually emerge, as it must. In his book Lifetide, Dr. Lyall Watson observes, "The stuff of parapsychology, supernature and the occult is partly flotsam, thrown up to the surface of life by currents and eddies in the Lifetide . . . Some of what is in the tide is useful and significant and some is bound to be senseless and absurd . . ." Dr. Watson points to Carl Gustav Jung's admonition: "The best, just because it is the best, holds the seed of evil, and there is nothing so bad but good can come of it." Long after Dr. Abrams' monumental breakthroughs in radionics we know only a little more about the capacity of the unconscious. But it does seem to be inextricably intertwined with Universal Mind, its workings transduced (foggily by some, with crystal clarity by others) by the brain; its capacity therefore must be limitless. At least we now realize that it is indeed possible for mind -- whether through psionic devices or new as-yet-unsuspected kinds of circuitry -- to be directly aware of what is happening to people and things beyond the five physical senses. When we consider that the molecular biologists tamper with and manipulate genetic material in laboratories everywhere, risking bizarre crossovers such as human/animal and even human/spider genes, it doesn't seem possible that these same scientists are terrified by the possibilities of the misuse of psionics. Jeffrey THE GREAT PSIONICS PUT-DOWN 75 Wouldn't it be truly awesome to learn that a group of human beings somewhere suddenly developed the power to influence distant objects, to affect the growth of forest and farmers' crops? Suppose tomorrow's headlines shouted that this group could now control hordes of insects or any other living creature, the health of human beings, even their brains? Who would be safe from such an invincible enemy? One who could strike tracelessly from any distance? Are such things possible with psionics? Is this what terrifies some scientists? If so, they would be well-advised to reconsider. Such things may already have happened -- and if they have, it stands to reason that they are happening now. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination. I'm deeply concerned but I'm also optimistic because -- from what I've seen and experienced -- Universal Mind seems to have decreed specific kinds of human development to come at certain points of the space-time continuum. Call it a Higher Power or whatever you will. I'm firmly convinced that the freedom of humans to do themselves serious or irreparable harm is severely limited. And this applies to our use of germ warfare, genetic manipulation, super-intelligent machines, atomic holocausts -- or psionic control of the entire biosphere. Of course this is what I am talking about!! "Project PK" Ted O. A GRAVE UNDERTAKING THE CITIZENS of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., apparently regard leadership of the city as a grave undertaking. The city's last four mayors -- Luther Kniffen, John Morris, Walter Lisman and Thomas McLaughlin -- have all been funeral directors. -- Tom Mooney. === Page 44 of 139 Piatees, Gr - 4 Projects PK - 3 4/6/81 # Another quake frays Greek nerves ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Another strong earth tremor rocked Greece early Thursday, causing few casualties and little damage, but the nearly constant vibration of the earth during the day frayed the nerves of the normally cool Athenians. "I feel my nerves stretching to breaking point," said Marianna Veremis, a secretary who was leaving the capital city in search of an open area. "I feel like screaming. I can't even cry. I'm afraid of what I might do. I feel this mounting fear and each time I wonder if I'll survive the next one (shock)." Police said 176 houses in rural areas collapsed and hundreds of walls were cracked by a tremor Wednesday measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, and by Thursday's largest tremor, measuring 5.8. Two people died of heart attacks apparently sparked by fear, and several dozen were injured. "I can't go back to my house alone, just the thought terrifies me," said a 32-year-old journalist, who had stayed at her desk and worked stolidly through quakes Feb. 24-25 measuring 6.6 and 6.3 on the Richter scale. Those quakes left 18 dead and caused some damage to the Parthenon and other antiquities. Cars were parked in squares, open spaces and on the median strips of main roads for their owners to use as a refuge overnight. Some people pitched tents by the side of the highway between Athens and Piraeus. Car dealers moved their new stock out of showrooms they feared might collapse. The quakes all stem from an epicenter in the Gulf of Corinth 42 miles west of Athens. They would have caused much more damage if their source were on land instead of in the sea, according to seismologists. But the dozens of tremors have frightened many of the 3 million inhabitants of the capital, some of whom thought their city would never be touched by an earthquake. In recent history, the city, built on a rock, has never felt more than a minor tremor. - 4 Projects PK - # Killer winter storms sweep across nation By The Associated Press 4/6/81 A capricious late winter storm surprised the urban Northeast with almost a foot of snow in some places Thursday, while renewed floods and mudslides blocked highways in California and torrential rains washed parts of the Southland. On Staten Island in New York, a tractor-trailer rig plowed into a disabled bus in the midst of the snowstorm, killing one man and injuring 10 others. In Tallahassee, Fla., where 5 inches of rain fell during the night, a man drowned when his car was swept from a flooded street into a lake. A 31-year-old Los Angeles man was killed Wednesday night when traffic backed up on the Artesia Freeway and his car was hit from the rear, immediately bursting into flames. As the unpredictable snowstorm approached New York City, where up to 10 inches was expected before it was over, chief meterologist Ben Scott of the National Weather Service at Newark International Airport said, "It's the kind of situation that turns my hair gray." Scott said the hazardous traveling conditions would grow even worse during the night. "We're expecting the temperature to drop to the low 20s, and the wet snow will freeze," he said. And more wintry storms were expected to sweep across the country in the coming days. In Colorado, where as much as 22 inches fell earlier this week, weather forecaster John Lein said if an approaching storm gets any stronger "we'll all be digging out our cars again this weekend." Steady rain -- and heavy snow in some areas -- fell on much of Southern California, posing a serious flood threat to already soaked canyon areas. La Tuna Canyon Road in the Tujunga-Sunland area of Los Angeles was closed by mudslides, and one lane of the Santa Monica Freeway in Santa Monica was closed by flooding. Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was closed by snow. Avalanche warnings remained in effect at Mount Baldy, where one skier was killed and another briefly trapped by a slide last weekend. === Page 45 of 139 PENTAGON # Anti-war movement emerging in America By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) - Disturbed by increased U.S. military involvement in El Salvador, a fledgling anti-war movement is emerging in America, and it is drawing support from veterans of Vietnam War protests of a decade ago. On campuses and at churches, the new peace movement has conducted teach-ins and vigils to protest the sending of more U.S. weapons and military advisers to El Salvador's embattled junta. A hunger strike and "day of solidarity" are planned for later this month. And in May, the hallmark of the anti-Vietnam War era will return: a march on the Pentagon. "There is a tremendous awareness that this (U.S. involvement) looks like what happened around Vietnam," said Heidi Tarver, coordinator for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. "People are saying, 'We're not going to be taken in again.'" Ron Kovic, a former leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, said hundreds have been attending West Coast campus teach-ins against President Reagan's Salvadoran policy. Because of the Vietnam experience, he said, opposition to growing U.S. involvement in El Salvador "has been very sophisticated and has come very quickly...." "The protest is inevitably going to build, and it will involve Vietnam Veterans Against the War.... I don't think another American boy should have to die for another mistake." Janet Shank of the North American Committee on Latin America said initial teach-ins on El Salvador's civil war attracted mostly members of religious groups or others with longstanding interest in Latin America. But she said the "second wave" of those attending the teach-ins consists of "people who are middle-age now, but were active in the Vietnam era." Sister Pat Haggerty says her Maryknoll order of the Roman Catholic Church has been flooded with requests for speakers on El Salvador. The talks have been attracting "a wide cross-section" of people, she said. "There is a lot of indignation about how (facts about El Salvador's civil war) have been repressed in the U.S. media and misrepresented by the State Department," Sister Haggerty said. She argued that instead of being an example of Soviet expansionism - as the State Department has suggested - the conflict is a "people's struggle for liberation and against repression." The teach-in, a favorite tactic of anti-Vietnam War activists, has been the main tool of critics of Reagan's Salvadoran policy. But like the Vietnam protesters of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Salvadoran activists plan to intensify their protests through the spring with vigils, hunger strikes and demonstrations. Critics of the U.S. policy plan to stage a demonstration in Ottawa during Reagan's visit to Canada next week. A "national day of solidarity," preceded by a two-day hunger strike, is scheduled March 24 to mark the first anniversary of the murder of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, a critic of the ruling junta. That protest is being sponsored by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, an umbrella group organized last October by religious and left-wing organizations concerned about Latin America. It claims 85 chapters nationwide. Some protest groups also are coupling their opposition to increased military aid to El Salvador's junta with attacks on President Reagan's proposed cuts in social programs. "U.S. - Hands off El Salvador! Money for Jobs, Human Needs, Not for the Pentagon," reads a flyer for a May 3 march on the Pentagon scheduled by a group called the Peoples' Anti-War Mobilization. The newly formed group is a coalition of student and civil rights groups, liberal and left-wing religious leaders, and former anti-Vietnam War activists. Among the sponsors are anti-war figures Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Harvard Professor George Wald and author Noam Chomsky. But the leadership of the new movement appears to be coming primarily from religious groups, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, which has been active in peasant reform movements throughout Latin America. Earlier this week, nearly the entire leadership of the U.S. Catholic Church called for a cutoff of U.S. weapons shipments to El Salvador, favoring instead a negotiated settlement to the civil war. THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1981 # Storm buffets two-state area By The Associated Press A snowstorm driven by winds gusting to 50 mph plastered Colorado and southwestern Nebraska with snow up to 2 feet deep Wednesday, blocking highways, closing schools and causing numerous traffic accidents. The near-blizzard conditions in Colorado forced the closing of eight interstate and state highways and turned out schools in Denver, where 9 inches of snow fell, and several other communities. "We've had so many accidents in Douglas, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, we can't begin to count them all," said state patrol dispatcher Douglas Rolfe. "Our officers can't go to all the accidents, and motorists have been instructed to exchange names and phone numbers and make accident reports within 24 hours." No deaths were reported Wednesday, but a cross-country skier was killed Tuesday in an avalanche in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado where 2 feet of snow had accumulated. The National Weather Service said a succession of four or five storms was expected in the area during the next week to 10 days. As the storm moved into Nebraska, forecaster Jim Zoller of the National Weather Service in Omaha said, "They're getting awful close to blizzard conditions in Chase County right now, and power lines are threatened by this wet snow and wind." In Colorado, Interstate 70 was closed from Aurora to Limon, where 6-foot drifts were reported. Colorado 40 from Limon to Kit Carson also was blocked, the state patrol said. Rolfe said roads were impassable from Denver to areas east of the foothills. Other highways closed included portions of Colorado 52, Interstate 25, Colorado 83, Colorado 86, Colorado 24 and Colorado 94. Weather forecasters urged residents to stay off the highways except in emergencies and predicted the storm would continue in parts of the state through Thursday. The storm was caused by an intense cold front that moved into the area of the Colorado-Kansas border early Tuesday morning, said National Weather Service spokesman John Lein. "The cold spot is bumping moisture from the Texas Gulf area into the state," Lein said. "The circulation off the cold spot is moving the storm all over the state." === Page 46 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # Frigid arctic air blasts Northeast into deep freeze By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press This tough young winter landed another heavy blow Saturday, stunning the Northeast with record subzero cold that swooped down from Canada. Forecasters warned residents to guard against frostbite as the mercury dropped as low as 38 degrees below zero in New England. Strong winds made it feel as cold as 80 below. Troubleshooters in New York City brought in volunteers to help answer thousands of calls from apartment dwellers complaining of no heat. Even colder weather was forecast for Sunday. Automobile clubs were deluged with calls to jump-start cars with dead batteries. The arctic blast, which followed a similar assault Christmas Day, set records in many areas normally accustomed to severe cold. The reading of 21 below zero at Alpena, Mich., broke the record of 3 below set Jan. 4, 1979. Burlington, Vt., also had a record minus 21. But the coldest spots in Vermont were Georgia and Milton, where the thermometer plunged to 38 degrees below zero. At the top of Saddleback Mountain ski area in Rangeley, Maine, the temperature was also 38 below. While a spokesman for the resort said some skiers had been out on the slopes, he added, "They're all in the lodge now." The National Weather Service said a storm system over the Gulf of St. Lawrence pulled the arctic air down from Canada and was generating northwesterly winds that created a chill factor of 30 to 80 degrees below zero. The frigid air plunged southward across the Plains and gradually spread over the Ohio Valley. Readings were below zero from the Dakotas to Michigan with temperatures from 20 below to 30 below zero across northern Minnesota. Snow spread over much of the upper Ohio Valley, and snow squalls south of the Great Lakes left 8 inches in six hours in Erie, Pa. In the meantime, fog settled over the Pacific Coast and the western Gulf Coast regions, reducing visibility to near zero in southeastern Texas. The fog forced cancellations or diversions of dozens of flights from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The National Basketball Association game in Phoenix between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Phoenix Suns was postponed because the Sonics' flight did not stop in Seattle to pick up the team. Louisiana state police shut down Interstate 10 bridges on both sides of New Orleans, saying the fog was so thick troopers couldn't even find cars already involved in "a batch" of accidents. One accident on the westbound bridge involved 12 to 15 cars, troopers said. Unlike last winter, which dumped precious little snow on the Northeast and brought the $3.5 billion ski industry to the brink of bankruptcy, the record cold and small but frequent snowstorms this season have been a boon to winter sports enthusiasts. Even in the frigid cold Saturday, skiers were out in some places in New England. At the base of the Sugarloaf ski area in Carrabassett Valley in Maine, it was 15 degrees below zero, and a strong wind was blowing. But a spokesman said skiers were on the slopes. "It's been an excellent week," he said. In New York City, Frank A. Dell'Aira, assistant commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said that because of budget cuts his department is unable to handle thousands of complaints from tenants without heat. Another housing official said he asked employees of the Central Complaint Bureau to volunteer to work extra hours this weekend, assisting 22 regular workers answering phone calls about the lack of heat. The American Automobile Association in Milwaukee had received 130 service calls by 10 a.m. Saturday -- three times the normal amount -- and expected 300 by afternoon. Oveg: 1/4/81 - Nevada PK - # Lady Luck quits Nevada's resorts By MITCHELL LANDSBERG RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The year 1980 may be recalled as the year recession gutted Nevada's golden goose. A bombing at Harvey's Resort Hotel at Stateline, a tragic fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, and sidewalk killings Thanksgiving Day in Reno all left the impression that Lady Luck finally may have deserted the state's glittering casinos. More ominous still was the news that Nevada's "recession-proof" industry might be dependent on the outside economy after all. For the first time in anyone's memory, inflation outstripped the growth of gaming revenues during at least one quarter of 1980. During the third quarter of 1980, casinos took in $636 million, up by 7.76 percent from the $590.3 million they took in during the same period in 1979. But third-quarter inflation hovered at around 14 percent. "Things are not too good," said Gaming Control Board member Jack Stratton at the time. "We're a little concerned." Nevadans have been keeping a wary eye on Atlantic City, N.J., where gross gambling revenues of $1.05 billion were reported from May 26, 1978, when the first casino opened, through November 1980. More casinos are opening regularly, and with higher air fares, the fear is that many Eastern gamblers may be choosing the Atlantic Coast resort instead of Nevada. For Nevada, the year started out on a gloomy note, with casino operators in the northern part of the state trying to figure out where their winter business had gone. "This town is a bummer right now," said veteran Reno gamer Pick Hobson in January. "Inflation is our biggest problem -- nothing hurts us more." About the same time, University of Nevada-Reno economist Bill Eadington was pondering the future of the industry. "Analyzing the situation is so difficult," said Eadington, "because there are so many factors involved. Right now, nobody can say with any certainty how the industry will change and react to challenges over the next few years. But we do know there's some catching up to do on the demand side." Spring came and several major Las Vegas resorts announced layoffs. By the end of summer, casino operators were admitting the recession was beginning to hurt. In September, the accounting firm of Laventhol & Horwath announced the results of a survey showing that 62 percent of the state's gambling operators felt the recession had a negative impact on business. On the Las Vegas Strip, 88 percent said their business had been seriously hurt. "The times are just tough, by gosh, tough all over," said Stratton in November. He added that, contrary to his earlier belief, "we're not recession-proof." Of course, the economy was not all that was hurting Nevada gaming. There was the problem of image. The disasters did not help. Nor did the problems of the Aladdin. When the state Gaming Commission shut down the Aladdin Hotel's casino in Las Vegas July 10, it was the largest casino closure in Nevada history. The shutdown climaxed more than a year of legal maneuvering between hotel owners and state officials. 12/27/80 === Page 47 of 139 - Nevada PK - Oreg. P. 11/28/80 RENO, Nev. (UPI) -- Three Oregon residents were among 27 injured when a woman veered her black Lincoln Continental onto a bustling sidewalk in the heart of Reno's casino district Thursday. Jean Kohler, 51, of Lebanon, Ore., was reported in serious condition in Washoe Medical Center. Anna Massingham, 36, of Fall Creek, Ore., was in satisfactory condition. Daniel Massingham, 41, also of Fall Creek, was treated and released. Five persons struck by the woman's car were killed. Two other Pacific Northwest residents, Bob Haun, 44, and Shirley Haun, 45, of Emmett, Idaho, were injured. Haun was listed in serious condition. Police said Friday that the woman apparently planned to kill as many holiday gamblers as she could. Terrified pedestrians dived frantically into casinos and behind parked cars Thursday afternoon when the motorist sent her car careening for more than a block down the crowded sidewalk on the city's main street in front of three casinos. Police Lt. Dick Kirkland said the woman, identified as Priscilla Ford, 51, of Reno, muttered vulgarities as she was escorted into police headquarters. She was charged with five counts of murder and 21 counts of attempted murder. Bail was set at $500,000. "It would be very difficult to believe that this thing could have been an accident," he said. Another police official said Ms. Ford made a voluntary statement that she had planned the rampage. Police Capt. Don McKillip said he could give no explanation for the act, but that the woman apparently was trying to kill as many holiday gamblers as she could. "The victims looked like mannequins," a witness said. "There were bodies on the hood and windshield of the car and it just kept going." The black Lincoln Continental knocked down dozens of people on the sidewalk in front of the Cal-Neva Club, Harrah's and Harold's Club casinos. It struck several other cars and sped under the glittering gateway arch across Virginia Street that heralds the northern Nevada resort town as the "Biggest Little City in the World." Police estimated there were more than 1,000 people on the stretch of Virginia Street at the time. Ms. Ford was arrested when the car had to slow in heavy traffic. Kirkland said the woman, who suffered no injuries herself, last worked as a gift wrapper at Macy's department store. Three critically injured victims of the auto rampage underwent surgery at Washoe Medical Center, where 17 persons, many of whom suffered broken arms and legs, were kept overnight. Ten others were treated and released for minor injuries. Washoe Coroner Vern McCarty identified the dead as Paul A. Nitzel of Sunnyvale, Calif.; Josephine Starkey, 53, Sparks, Nev.; Jolene Cranmer, 20, New York; Iva Britain, 80, and John Koschella, 60, both of Reno. - Four Projects PK - # First cholera case since 1978 reported ATLANTA (AP) -- Florida has reported the first case of cholera since 1978 in a person who has not traveled outside the United States, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The center, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, said the patient was a 46-year-old woman who experienced diarrhea, abdominal cramps and vomiting on Nov. 29. Tests indicated the woman had eaten some raw oysters from an approved area of Apalachicola Bay in the days prior to her illness, the CDC said. An investigation is under way to determine if the woman contracted the disease from eating the oysters, which can carry a cholera-producing organism in their fecal material. In recent months, routine monitoring of portions of Apalachicola Bay that are open to oyster harvesting has shown fecal coliform levels to be within the limits required by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program, the CDC said. Oreg. 12/20/80 - Calif. PK. - # Police told to kill dogs CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) -- Police have been ordered to shoot stray dogs in this border town following the discovery of a sixth rabid dog, and Imperial County health officials say they fear they are "sitting on a keg of dynamite." There have been no reports of humans catching the disease, but 28 children and adults, including an 8-month-old infant, have undergone anti-rabies treatment. All of those cases were precautionary, but three of the victims had been bitten by a rabid dog. Calexico Police Chief Humberto Hernandez ordered his officers Friday to begin shooting on sight all stray dogs. A similar order has been in effect in Mexicali, across the border in Mexico. Health officials say more than 100 dogs have been destroyed in Calexico, El Centro and Brawley. "The only way to stop this thing before we get human (victims) is to get all the dogs off the streets," Imperial County Public Health Director Dr. L. Lee Cottrell said Friday. Oreg. 12/14/80 - Calif. PK - # Air Force destroys secret satellite - PK vs. U.S. Govt. - VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) -- An Air Force missile ferrying a satellite into space veered off course Monday night and had to be destroyed by radio command. Capt. Thomas Clarkson said the non-explosive Atlas booster missile carrying a "classified" satellite was destroyed as a safety precaution and came down far out in the ocean. The missile, described as "bigger than a Minuteman and smaller than a Titan" missile, was launched at 11:18 p.m. and destroyed seven minutes later after it inexplicably deviated from its flight path. Oreg. P. 12/9/80 === Page 48 of 139 - Nevada PK - # 100 hurt in blaze at Vegas Hilton By PATRICK ARNOLD LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- A fire erupted and "jumped from floor to floor" at the 30-story Las Vegas Hilton Tuesday night, injuring more than 100 people and shooting flames 100 feet up the side of one of the world's largest hotels. Clark County Coroner Dick Mayne said there were no fatalities. The blaze, reported at 8:07 p.m. and brought under control by about 9 p.m., followed by less than three months the disastrous fire at the nearby MGM Grand Hotel in which 84 people died and more than 700 were injured. Some guests at the 2,783-room stone-fronted Hilton broke windows and screamed frantically for help after the fire erupted on the southeast corner of the eighth floor and quickly spread as high as the 24th floor, sending smoke wafting over the nearby Las Vegas Strip. Helicopters evacuated people from the roof, and ambulances rushed to the hotel. Several sheets could be seen hanging from eighth-floor windows. Authorities at Desert Springs Hospital said they had received 100 people who were being treated for smoke inhalation. "The most seriously injured were taken by helicopter from a convention center near the Hilton to Valley Hospital. An emergency room spokesman at Sunrise Hospital said that facility was receiving "a bunch" of injury victims, most of them suffering smoke inhalation. He said none had burns. Some injured guests also were being taken to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Witnesses said that while the flames were at their height, people were hanging out of windows and authorities were telling them to get back inside. Authorities also lifted some people off the roof in helicopters, said Rodney Davis, desk officer at the nearby Royal Americana Hotel. He said half the building was dark and that the flames for a time reached up the side of the building at least 100 feet. Capt. Ralph Dinsman, a Fire Department spokesman, said the blaze started from unknown causes on the eighth floor and then "jumped from floor to floor." More than two hours later, white smoke was still pouring out of the building but the flames were subsiding. A Hilton reservations spokesman in Los Angeles said four conventions were under way at the fully booked hotel. "Yes, there is a large fire at the Hilton. I've got to go," said an unidentified official who answered the Fire Department's telephone number. A desk clerk who answered the telephone at the hotel said there was a fire but that he did not have time to talk. He then hung up the phone. Andy Williams and Juliet Prowse were among the performers booked for Tuesday performances in the showroom at the Hilton, which is about two miles from the 26-story, 2,076-room MGM Grand Hotel. In an interview following the MGM Grand fire, Fritz Huebler, manager of the Las Vegas Hilton, said his hotel "has the highest degree of safety. Like everyone else, we review it every month or so." === Page 49 of 139 Casino hotel fire kills 8, hurts 300 LAS VEGAS (UPI) -- The second deadly fire to strike a crowded Nevada gambling resort in less than three months blazed Tuesday night through the Las Vegas Hilton, the largest hotel in the United States, killing at least eight persons and injuring about 300. Police suspected arson and questioned four persons, but no charges were filed and all were released. "At this time we think someone other than the persons questioned started the fire," a police spokesman said. "We have no leads on other suspects. We have determined that there is definitely evidence of arson." Trapped guests in the 2,783-room hotel screamed from broken windows, made makeshift escape ropes of torn sheets, scrambled for helicopters on the roof and plunged to their deaths from upper floors. Helicopters circled the smoke-shrouded roof. A spokesman for Valley Hospital said its helicopter ambulance took off 20 people and the fire department airlifted firefighters to the roof. The 30-story hotel -- second largest in the world after the Rossiya in Moscow -- is only about two miles from the MGM Grand Hotel, where 84 people died in a blaze Nov. 21. The Hilton blaze was a nighttime sequel to the MGM fire, which broke out during the day. "You couldn't help but think of the MGM fire," said singer Andy Williams, appearing at the Hilton with dancer Juliet Prowse, who was getting dressed for his show when he was told to leave the building. "I'm glad it was handled so well. "It's a shame. It's not good for Las Vegas to have two fires so close together." Ed Knowels, a Toledo bank executive staying at the hotel, said "no fire alarms" were activated during a fire. In a telephone interview with station WSPD in Toledo, Knowels said, "There were no fire alarms in this hotel. "My wife heard a commotion in the hall and went to the door; people were going down the fire escape. We heard people coming down the hall saying the hotel is on fire. "Luckily we were on the second floor, (and) when we got to the ground level we went out and could see the flames in what they call the east wing of the hotel. "This is 30 floors up. The sight was something I'll never forget. People were breaking out windows. It was pure panic." Knowels said the hook-and-ladder companies could not get above the 10th floor. "There was one woman... they had broken out a window. I assume her husband, had his arms around her from the back in a bear hug," he said. "She was completely hysterical. She wanted to jump out. He had to restrain her. I saw that go on for 20 minutes." Fire Chief Roy Parrish called the fire "suspicious," saying three separate fires had erupted. Parrish said the main fire broke out near an elevator lobby on the eighth floor and smaller fires broke out later on the second and third floors. Three of the bodies were found near that eighth floor lobby, according to coroner's officials. "We strongly suspect arson and we are treating it like it is arson," Police Sgt. Darrel Huff said. The fire erupted with "an explosive type of force," he said, and "the presence of arson investigators is more than a routine circumstance." Fire department Capt. Ralph Dinsman said he had received reports of a smaller, fourth fire that were still being investigated. Police questioned and released four men, including one a witness saw "acting suspiciously on the ninth floor just after the fire started," Huff said. The man was detained when the witness pointed him out to police in the crowd watching the blaze, Huff said. By daybreak, the Clark County fire department had identified all but one of the eight victims. "There may be as many as 10," said Deputy Fire Chief John Pappageorge, "But I stress maybe because sometimes you get double counts." The hundreds of guests forced to flee, leaving their belongings behind, were put up at other Las Vegas resorts. Hilton officials said they would be allowed to return to their rooms later in the day to retrieve their luggage. Hospitals reported treating 242 patients -- 29 of whom were firefighters, and more than 100 of whom were admitted overnight. About 200 others were treated at an emergency medical facility set up in the city's convention center. Many were treated for smoke inhalation and released -- including entertainer Natalie Cole, daughter of the late Nat "King" Cole -- but 103 were held for treatment of more serious injuries. The most serious fire broke out about 8 p.m., broke a window and "hopped from floor to floor" up the outside of the building to the roof, the fire chief said. As usual, even in disaster it was difficult to discourage the hard core gamblers whose business built such lavish resorts. As flames billowed from the upper stories, a security guard ran through the ground floor casino, insisting to gamblers: "This is the last hand and I do mean the last hand." === Page 50 of 139 - Nevada HK = # Arson blamed in fire at Vegas Silverbird LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- Arson was to blame for a fire that forced the evacuation Tuesday of about 1,000 casino patrons at the Silverbird Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, fire officials said. The fire was definitely arson, said Clark County Fire Department spokesman Ralph Dinsman, who described the fire as "very minor." He said fire officials had no suspects. "It was very suspicious in nature from the time we first arrived," said Dinsman. There were no injuries in the fire, which quickly was brought under control by firefighters. Arson also was blamed for a fire Feb. 10 at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel which killed eight people and injured 200 others. Former Hilton busboy Philip Cline has been charged with murder and arson in that case. A smoky fire at the MGM Grand killed 85 people last November and injured 704. Tuesday's fire caused minimal fire damage to a basement room below the showroom stage and smoke damage to other areas of the basement, fire department officials said, adding that 14 units responded to the blaze. Oreg. 3/5/81 === Page 51 of 139 NATIONAL AFFAIRS egate Edythe C. Harrison, a founder of one of the groups. "No more." Falwell's problems don't end in Virginia. Moral Majority says it has chapters in all 50 states, but because each group is allowed to adopt its own agenda and tactics, the loose network has already caused some discomfort for Falwell. In Maryland, Moral Majority leaders recently condemned a bakery for selling gingerbread figures that were explicitly sexual. Business soared as a result. In California, a Moral Majority spokesman this month joined in announcing a $3 million media crusade against San Francisco's large and powerful gay community, comparing homosexuality to murder and calling for capital punishment. It was too much even for Falwell, who called it a "strange deal... that to me is ridiculous and unthinkable." Falwell hopes to remain above such local frays and says he has "no problem censoring my own people publicly," if they go too far. Moral Majority has hired Charles E. Judd, a political consultant with Republican Party experience, to run training sessions for his local leaders around the country. Moral Issues: The big question is just how far Falwell intends to take religion into politics. Not very far, he insists. His principal concern, he says, is his ministry, a multifaceted operation that includes the 18,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, the weekly "The Old-Time Gospel Hour" now televised on 380 stations and two schools. He recently set up a fully tax-exempt educational foundation to help in fund raising, and he now expects his "total ministry" will collect $70 million in 1981--up $10 million from 1980. He is offering free editorials to more radio stations, hoping to bring the number to 250 stations, and he expects to apply for TV licenses to run 100 of the new "mini-stations" the Federal Communications Commission is now considering. His message, Falwell says, will be less explicitly political than heretofore. "I want to stay with the moral issues totally--the human life amendment... strengthening the traditional family, the Christian school movement." But the line between religion and politics is very thin on such issues as abortion and school prayer, and some politicians in Virginia worry that Falwell is determined to play a behind-the-scenes role in state politics. The test will come this year in the race for governor, which will probably pit Democratic Lt. Gov. Charles Robb (Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law) against Republican Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman. If Falwell does use his pulpit as a partisan platform, he may well become a controversial issue in the election--raising once again the question of the proper role of the church in American politics. MICHAEL REESE with HOWARD FINEMAN in Virginia # Fire in Las Vegas--Again Kansas City marketing executive Jerry Ingram parted the curtains of his ninth-floor hotel room and saw shards of glass raining down on the swimming pool below. He dashed into the hallway and jumped into an elevator with two other men. The car went only one floor before the doors burst open into an inferno. Ingram crawled through the burning hallway and eventually reached safety, but his two companions were later found dead near the elevator. On the sixteenth floor, Bruce Glenn of Plymouth, Minn., dangled from a towel he had attached to his window, then lost his grip and plunged to his death. On the tenth floor, Harry and Lorraine Gaines from Los Angeles retreated to their bathroom and stuffed wet towels under the door and in the air ventilator, all to no avail. The elderly couple was found dead of smoke inhalation. For the second time in three months, flames raced through the elevator shafts, hallways and up the sides of a lavish Las Vegas hotel last week. Fire fighters evacuated more than 4,000 guests and employees from the 2,783-room Las Vegas Hilton--including more than 100 in helicopters from the roof. But the fire claimed eight lives, injured 242 people, caused $10 million in damage--and prompted renewed calls for Las Vegas hotels to upgrade their outmoded fire-protection systems. Like the MGM Grand Hotel, where a spectacular fire last November killed 84 people, the east-wing section of the Hilton that burned had no sprinklers, no smoke detectors in rooms, no public-warning systems and only a manual-pull alarm system that apparently failed to work. Deliberate: Authorities immediately suspected arson and arrested Philip Bruce Cline, a 23-year-old Hilton busboy who had called in the first alarm. Cline, who had quit school in the ninth grade, had a history of psychiatric problems and had worked briefly at other Las Vegas hotels, including the MGM. Under questioning, Cline told police he had accidentally set some eighth-floor curtains ablaze with a marijuana cigarette while committing a homosexual act. But authorities were not convinced. Three other fires had broken out while fire fighters battled the first--one in a second-floor storage room, one in a third-floor service elevator and one in a ninth-floor fire hose that had been stuffed with combustible material. One couple said they saw stairway doors propped open with room-service dishes in what seemed a deliberate attempt to draw smoke to other floors. Police were still searching for other leads, but meanwhile they charged Cline with eight counts of murder and one count of arson. If convicted, he faces the death penalty under Nevada law. MELINDA BECK with JOE CONTRERAS in Las Vegas Smoke engulfs the Hilton Hotel, suspect Cline: A case of arson? UPI photos 24 NEWSWEEK/FEBRUARY 23, 1981 === Page 52 of 139 Strange Sonic Signals from Space In order to demonstrate their powers, the SI's will send out sonic signals to Earth from their four huge space craft stationed around this planet. These signals will cause abnormal insect, animal, fish, and bird behavior. This should be occurring often in 1972, and all kinds of strange things will be taking place which will probably affect your own life in one way or another. Space Intelligences to Halt Earth's Rocket Programs In 1972 NASA will be fortunate indeed to get even one rocket off the ground. The SI's have ordered all space work to stop completely until humans have themselves under control. Suppose you had a farm next to another farm, and on the other farm you could see mad dogs fighting and killing each other. Would you want these mad dogs to make their way over onto your farm? So it is that the SI's want us humans to stay out of space orbit, off the moon, away from other planets until we have grown up enough to stop our own wars and halt our own pollution problem. In order to keep us on Earth, they have set up a deadly PK attack in space orbit and in outer space, also. They have warned the U.S. Government not to send any more humans up. (At this writing, three Russian cosmonauts recently went up, planning on spending two weeks; they came down in a few days. The newspapers reported both "human and mechanical" trouble. Then the U.S. shot up a $73 million Mars rocket, two years in the making . . . and it fell back into the ocean. NASA was unable to explain why this happened.) And so it will be. Trouble in Nevada It would be wise to stay away from the state of Nevada. The SI's have begun demonstration against the modern Sodom and Gomorrah of Reno and Las Vegas, and all sorts of things have begun to happen--earthquakes, riots, sinking 141 Note: My prediction printed in a book years ago. Owens === Page 53 of 139 earth. I have just received a report from a reliable source that says the ground level of Nevada has begun to sink. So stay away from Nevada--or the PK may get you there if you don't watch out! Russia to Gain Superiority in 1972 The Big Red Bear will be kingpin of the world in 1972. Ahead in weapons capability and in scientific capability, they will, in effect, rule the world. But Red China will be quietly sneaking up behind Russia. Hostility Against U.S. from North and South of the Border Both Mexico and Canada will be openly hostile towards the U.S. in 1972, and I expect the borders of those countries to be sealed off partially, or completely, against visiting U.S. citizens. South American nations will really express hostilities against the U.S. in 1972. The SI's to Control Pro Football Teams It is estimated that a few hundred million people watched the Pro Bowl playoff in 1970 (A game which I controlled, by the way, hitting the Cowboys with PK to make them lose. Remember that freak double-tip which led to the winning touchdown for the Colts?). In 1972, I will be attacking, play by play, game by game, thirteen pro football teams--my most ambitious PK undertaking yet in the field of sports (I controlled five in 1970). I am now talking about the winter of 1971-'72, culminating in the Pro Bowl World Championship Playoff. Here is a list of the Unlucky Thirteen: The World Champion Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Cowboys, Jets, Bears, Redskins, Chargers, Dolphins, Rams, Broncos, Eagles, Patriots, and Oilers. In controlling these thirteen teams and causing them to be the losers, I will be demonstrating further the great powers that I have through the SI's. In all aspects of my work, overall, I have never dropped below 85% success, and usually the percentage is higher. In sports, I have never failed in attacking a team over a season. 142 === Page 54 of 139 - Nevada PK - Close-Up of America # What Gambling Does for--and to--Las Vegas **Day and night, from blackjack to baccarat, the action goes on in a desert oasis. Behind the profits, however, is a much different story.** LAS VEGAS Maggie, the nearsighted cocktail waitress, sees how to get money for the $1 blackjack table. She pawns her eyeglasses. Bert, the bankrupt dentist, caps off another caper. He charges airline tickets to his credit cards and sells them for stakes to shoot craps. Forget blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps. In Las Vegas, the most attractive odds you can find are the people themselves. There's "Pittsburgh Al," who works as a casino card dealer and spends his time off as a player and admits, "If I break even, it's a win." And 6-foot-1-inch Janet, who dances bare-breasted in the Folies Bergere and lives at home with her mother, a Nevada state senator, to save money for college. And Benny Binion, who keeps 1 million dollars cash on display in his casino and who mutters, after losing $777,000 to a player on one roll of the dice, "I didn't feel nothin'." Round-the-clock the action flows, round and round the wheel of fortune goes, slows, and up comes a lucky number: One billion, four hundred and twenty-three million, six hundred and twenty-three thousand, one hundred and two. That's dollars. And that's how much Las Vegas took from its gambling guests in gross winnings over the past year. Just how lucky this tinseled town is, is another matter. Other numbers keep turning up, too. There were 34,257 serious crimes last year--including 92 murders--giving Las Vegas the nation's highest per capita crime rate. There are 10,000 prostitutes active in the city--a number equal, according to Census Bureau figures, to 1 out of every 9 women in the area between the ages of 15 and 39. The state has the highest alcoholism rate in the country and a suicide rate more than double the national average. All that's in addition to a storm of casino and hotel fires, including two this winter that killed a total of 92 people and injured more than 900. A federal law-enforcement official says, in wonderment, "When I first came here, I kept asking myself, 'This is part of America?'" Indeed it is, and what happens here has implications for the rest of the nation. Other states--notably New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, California, Florida and Louisiana--are flirting with the notion of licensing casinos as New Jersey did in Atlantic City in 1978. This is the 50th-anniversary year of that experiment in Nevada--and what it has done for, and to, the state is clear. **The playground grows.** In 1931, when the first casino opened legally, there were 91,000 people living in the state--and 300,000 cows. Old-timers say Las Vegas had five blocks of paved streets, and the way out of town was a dirt road to Los Angeles that took three days to drive. Today, Nevada is the nation's fastest growing state, with 799,000 residents. Gambling is the most important industry, contributing 100 million dollars, or nearly half the state's annual tax revenues. Because of this jackpot, there is no state income tax, and the sales tax is only 3.5 percent. Las Vegas now is a clean and sprawling city that sparkles, under blinking, rippling neon signs that tower hundreds of feet above the casinos along "the Strip." An estimated 65 percent of all jobs in the state are due, at least indirectly, to the gambling industry, and in Las Vegas, median family income is $21,000, ranking it in the nation's top 10 percent. The city has come to call itself the live-entertainment capital of the world. At least, it is a prime source of income for some of the most famous performers. Jerry Lewis gets $75,000 a week for one show a night. Frank Sinatra is paid $50,000 for each of his 1-hour shows. Wayne Newton, because he performs here year-round, makes 10 million dollars annually--spent conspicuously on two Rolls Royces, a Bentley, three Mercedes-Benzes, a helicopter and a house so huge that it is one of the two landmarks pointed out by airline pilots during approaches. The other is Boulder Dam. Drawn by the gambling and lavish shows, 656,024 convention delegates came last year and dropped 227 million dollars. Many players fly in from as far away as Hong Kong and Macao, for, as local columnist Elliot Krane puts it, "You don't have to know the language to understand topless dancers." Las Vegas boasts that it has the most extensive convention facilities of any place; 45 major hotels with nearly 48,000 rooms. Because gambling is so profitable, hotelmen say they can charge $50 for a room that would cost $100 in New York or San Francisco. "I'd be a fool to say gambling has not been good for the state," says Harry Reid, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Commission. "This is just a big hunk of desert. It's the seventh-largest state in landmass, but only on a small bit of that will a blade of grass grow. People come here, and what they spend comes from some place else. It's not made on the tables." Yet Reid argues that any state trying to follow Nevada's lead will find that social costs far outweigh Casinos' neon signs that cost as much as 1 million dollars each keep Las Vegas brightly lighted from dusk to dawn. 66 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 9, 1981 === Page 55 of 139 any economic benefits. Although the state seeks an image of mob-free gambling, Reid admits, "organized crime is still around." He also notes that because of their economic power, the casinos are to Nevada what cattle are to Wyoming, what oil is to Oklahoma. So it is that Senator Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), who counts President Reagan as "best friend," also has spoken of his "good friendship" with Morris B. "Moe" Dalitz, identified by federal agents as a founding member of the national crime syndicate. So it was that Dalitz was named "Man of the Year" here by the local cancer society in 1977, and his tribute was read by a justice of the Nevada Supreme Court. And so, too, did the Gaming Control Board decide on February 11 that another friend of the President's, Frank Sinatra, who was barred from Nevada's gambling industry for 17 years because of purported ties to organized crime, could now be licensed for a role in managing Caesar's Palace, whose top two officers have been banned by New Jersey gambling authorities for being too close to the mob. The Justice Department's organized-crime strike force has tried for over a year to ferret out Mafia links to the casinos--and in the process has outraged the state's political leaders. Senator Howard Cannon (D-Nev.) has called for a congressional review of strike-force operations. Nevada's senior federal judge, Roger Foley, has called the strike-force chief here "schizophrenic." Another federal judge, Harry Claiborne, who lunches often with casino owner Binion, says the strike force is "a bunch of crooks." And Senator Laxalt has accused the strike force of harassing the gaming industry and said he will use his influence with the Reagan administration to cut back the probe. "Now I feel," complains a federal investigator, "like I'm in the front lines fighting, and a truce is being negotiated behind my back." But Nevada, too, has reason to feel embattled. Trouble and tragedy have turned up for the past year as regularly as snake eyes on the crap tables. Last November 21, a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel took 84 lives and injured more than 700. On February 10, a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton, for which a busboy has been charged with arson, killed eight and injured more than 200. In other incidents, arsonists set fires that were quickly extinguished at the Dunes and at the Royal American, and flames damaged or destroyed several other casinos around the state. Indicative of how vital gambling is here, the MGM Grand fire put 4,500 employees out of work--and the state's jobless rate shot up 1.4 percent. Gaming revenues also have been squeezed as a result of the nation's economic problems in general, by soaring airline-ticket prices in particular, and by competition from Atlantic City casinos to some extent. Casino operators profess not to be worried by competitors and at the same time warn that any other states that follow the Nevada example are likely to be sorry. Gambling has worked well here, they say, because the state is relatively isolated and has catered to those who can best afford it. Putting casinos in metropolitan areas, they claim, will tempt people who cannot afford to lose. "If I lived where there was no legal gambling," says a casino manager, "I'd do everything in my power to keep it out because of the dirty money. Look, there's big money out on the floor today from drugs. A guy robs a bank or makes a drug score, he comes in with $20,000 and we don't ask him where he got it. We're not the FBI. The type of people it brings into the community--I take their money but I wouldn't take them home for dinner." Disdain for those who gamble is voiced by many along the Strip. Buck, a retired casino owner, says, "I always classed them with that religious group called the Penitentes. They always try to punish themselves. They're not satisfied until they're broke." That firm belief is why casino operators are unworried when a player wins big. Walt Devlin, once a high roller, says one time he won $20,000 at blackjack, and the pit boss told him, "Anything you want to eat or drink, any woman you want, we'll get it for you. Just don't take the money down the street because you're just renting it." Devlin, now director of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling, Inc., and no longer a betting man, is a case study of the "degenerate" gambler: "I've gone through three marriages, been arrested six times and imprisoned twice for passing bad paper, locked myself in a mental institution, made two suicide attempts, tried 19 different religions and blown something like 5 million dollars." According to research by the University of Michigan, there are an estimated 1.1 million compulsive gamblers nationwide and only 12 hospital beds available for their treatment. Recently, says Devlin, the gaming industry in Las Vegas has begun offering financial support for research and treatment of pathological gamblers. Gaming tables like this roulette wheel net the casinos millions of dollars nightly. Golden heart? For all that it's a city that panders to greed, Las Vegas can be--some times in some ways--a soft touch. One day a bum walks into Binion's Horseshoe and asks the owner for a free drink. No, says Binion, but treats him to a steak. At Christmas, the Stardust and Fremont hotels gave 1,003 food baskets to the poor. The Frontier and Union Plaza casinos open their midnight shows free to airmen from nearby Nellis Air Force Base. Entertainers like Bill Cosby, Liberace, Rich Little and Joan Rivers perform free each year to raise money for a children's home. What startles visitors is that behavior considered immoral elsewhere is acceptable here. Prostitution is legal in Nevada--except around casinos, where the management doesn't want hookers taking gamblers away from the tables. Yet prostitutes operate illegally and openly in the best hotels, often with the connivance of the bell captain, because, as a casino manager says, "It all goes together, like tonic with gin, like sauce on spaghetti." One night a stranger asks a woman at a bar what she does, and she says, "Oh, I'm a shill." She explains that hers is a respectable job; she is paid to play baccarat, with chips provided by the casino and which she can't cash in, to lure players to the table. Las Vegas is different from any other place because, for good or bad, hypocrisy hardly exists. That lets columnist Elliot Krane define the town as one where "you don't have to have any credentials so long as you have money." That also defines honesty--as it is understood on the playing tables of Nevada. In the words of Senator Laxalt, "We do up front what most states do in the back room." By JOHN S. LANG U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, March 9, 1981 67 Haha!! Bull!! Note: I can state personally + accurately that Las Vegas is vicious and cruel to the poor!! Irene === Page 56 of 139 # Vegas Death Toll Of 100 Expected - Nevada PK- ## Bodies Still Hunted SF Chron. 11/24/80 By Katy Butler Chronicle Correspondent Las Vegas The death toll in the disasterous MGM Grand Hotel fire -- which authorities concede could have been prevented -- is expected to exceed 100 when bodies still buried in the blackened ruins of the 26-story luxury hotel are uncovered, weary fire officials predicted here yesterday. With 83 confirmed deaths, it has already become the second-worst hotel fire in U.S. history, and one official gloomily predicted that it will turn out to be the worst. Uncounted hundreds are recovering from injuries received in last Friday's fire in Las Vegas, and authorities have listed more than 300 guests of the mammoth gambling complex as missing. The vast majority of those not accounted for, however, are presumed to have left Las Vegas and returned home. Yesterday, searchers were slogging through the blackened, watery cavern that was once an elegant casino, moving pieces of the fallen ceiling in an effort to find more victims. "When this is over and all the bodies have been counted," predicted Fire Battalion Chief Leroy Leavitt, "we're going to find this will be the biggest hotel fire in the nation's history." The worst U.S. hotel fire occurred on Dec. 7, 1946, when 119 people died in the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta. Leavitt said bulldozers might be needed to remove tons of charred debris that tumbled into the basement and gaming area as a result of the blaze, which might have smoldered for as long as eight hours in the ceiling above the hotel's first-floor delicatessen. When completed in 1973, the MGM Grand's casino had no fire sprinklers -- which building codes now require for new highrise hotels in Las Vegas -- but its safety features were approved under a questionable ruling by then-Building Inspector John Pisciotta. "There's no question the fire could have been stopped if the Back Page Col. 5 - Texas PK- UPDATE Newsweek 12/22/80 ## Summer Drought: A Grim Harvest "It like to make a beggar out of me, the heat wave did," says Alabama farmer Irby Davis. The drought that singed the nation's midsection last summer suffocated hens in Georgia, produced cotton bolls no bigger than bumblebees in Mississippi and beans the size of BB's in Arkansas. "I've been in agriculture all my life," says Louisiana Secretary of Agriculture Robert Odom, "and this is the worst year for farmers I have ever seen." The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has estimated agricultural losses between $13 billion and $16 billion. Texas was the state hardest hit. The temperature in Dallas topped 100 degrees on 42 consecutive days. "I don't think there was a single commodity that wasn't hurt in a bad way," says a spokesman for the Texas Department of Agriculture, which has estimated crop and livestock loss at just over $1.5 billion--or a full 15 per cent of the state's 1979 cash receipts in agriculture. Don Enger, who has 1,100 acres of cotton in the high-plains area of Texas, got only four-tenths of a bale per acre, against a full bale last year. He stands to lose $25,000. Says Enger stoically, "I don't want to give the impression we're starving to death. Our life-style won't be affected that much, but my farming will. I won't purchase new farm equipment next year, I'll put down less fertilizer and I'll plant in a skip-row pattern. You learn to cope. It's all part of farming." Some growers actually profited. Because he had enough water for irrigation, Enger's brother-in-law, Boyce Middlebrook, weathered the drought and harvested almost 1½ bales per acre. Now, with the general cotton shortage, he is getting top prices. "He's just one of the lucky ones," notes Enger, "and very few of us were lucky." The meager harvest comes at a bad time for farmers. The credit crunch that sent planting loans soaring last spring forced Enger and Davis: Beans the size of BB's and bolls no bigger than bumblebees === Page 57 of 139 Smoke rises from the M-G-M Grand: A rush for the choppers like the fall of Saigon Photos by Dusty Willison-Sipa-Black Star raced through the casino's "eye in the sky," a concealed catwalk fitted with one-way mirrors through which security men monitored the gaming. At that early hour the tables below were nearly empty, and the handful of diehard gamblers at first ignored the smell of smoke. "Some were still demanding one last play," a croupier said. "But we closed and left-fast." A wall of flame suddenly roared through the hall, and gardener Ray Hutchison, working outside, looked up to see a frantic exodus. "The casino girls were running out with cash drawers in their hands, and dealers were running out stuffing chips in their pockets," he said. Behind them, ten stragglers burned to death. Confusion: The flames quickly incinerated the casino's highly flammable Hollywood decor. Somehow, the alarm system failed: investigators said its controls, located in the basement, had quickly melted in the raging blaze. Dense, acrid smoke poured up the elevator shafts and stairs, and on the floors above, sleeping guests awoke to confusion and terror. A scream woke New York retailer Thomas Bowman; he ran upstairs to try to rescue his wife's parents. "Hundreds of people were yelling, 'Don't go up!'" Bowman recalled. He went up anyway, and saved them. By 7:30, smoke was trickling through the upper floors and Rich Stamer, alone in suite 533A directly above the burning casino, could smell it. Above Stamer's balcony, a woman was trying to shinny down a rope; she lost her grip and fell. Stamer was deluged with shards of glass as the occupants of higher floors smashed out their windows. On the ninth floor, Tom Bowden prepared to clamber down a fire ladder. "When I got onto the ladder, I discovered blood all over me. At first I thought I had been cut-but it was blood falling down from the floors above." Dozens of fire trucks ringed the burning hotel and hundreds of dazed guests wandered around the grounds in their night clothes. Paramedics ministered to the injured and a makeshift morgue opened across the street. In all, officials estimated, nearly 8,000 guests and employees had been in the M-G-M Grand when the fire broke out; firemen found the last terrified survivor late that evening. "People panicked," was a hotel guard's explanation for the toll. But the charred ruin posed questions of its own: why the alarm system failed, and why, most of all, Las Vegas officials had never required sprinklers in the casino. TOM MORGANTHAU with JOE CONTRERAS in Las Vegas "Nevada PK" Hook-and-ladder rescue and the pleasure palace's burnt-out portico: Where were the sprinklers? Newsweek 12/1/80 43 === Page 58 of 139 - Nevada PK - Los Angeles Times Kerkorian and his fire-gutted Las Vegas hotel: A leisure-time empire on the line UPI # MGM's Dicey Future The death count from the MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas mounted to 84, with another 500 on the injured list. Local fire officials said preliminary investigation of the wreckage disclosed several major violations of the fire code, and lawyers filed the first of what is expected to be a series of multimillion-dollar negligence suits against the company. And on Wall Street, skittish traders last week bid MGM Grand stock down 31 per cent, saddling the company's controlling shareholder, Kirk Kerkorian, with a $64 million paper loss. Indeed, the hotel company seemed beset on all sides, its reputation in disturbing disrepair and its financial future in serious question. MGM Grand is one-half of the leisure-time empire Kerkorian formed last June when he split the old M-G-M properties into a film company and a hotel-casino concern. MGM Grand had profits of $34 million in the year ended Aug. 31, most of it from the Las Vegas operation; it has a second hotel in Reno, and plans to shell out $200 million to open a third in Atlantic City. Chairman Fred Benninger assured investors that the company had "adequate insurance" to cover all its losses and that it continued to be "financially sound." But many gambling analysts had their doubts. They agreed that the insurance would cover the costs of remodeling the Las Vegas hotel for a reopening now set for next July. But they were not sure that the company's liability coverage--widely estimated at around $30 million--would be sufficient to protect MGM Grand should it be found guilty of negligence. The first suit, filed by eighteen guests from Mexico, asked $175 million in damages. It will be years before the liability questions are finally settled. Meanwhile, even Benninger concedes that ground-breaking for the proposed Atlantic City hotel-casino, originally scheduled for early next year, will have to be postponed for "several months." It could take a lot longer than that. MGM Grand has borrowed $40 million for initial construction on the project and has set aside another $35 million from its internal cash flow. But that leaves $125 million still to be raised--and given the company's cloudy outlook, the money will not be easy to obtain. "I just don't think they'll go into Atlantic City in the foreseeable future," says analyst Alan Snyder of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., a Los Angeles brokerage firm. Heavy Debts: Given all the uncertainties, many observers were surprised last week when Benninger said MGM Grand would continue paying its 44-cent-a-share annual dividend. "It would be more responsible for them to omit the dividend," says gambling-industry analyst Dennis Forst of Bateman, Eichler, Hill & Richards in Los Angeles. But for Kerkorian, the decision may be a blessing: he has borrowed heavily in his attempt to add Columbia Pictures Industries to his stable (NEWSWEEK, Oct. 13)--pledging his holdings of MGM Grand, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. and Columbia itself as collateral--and he may well need the $7 million annual dividend on his hotel shares to meet his obligations. Only Kerkorian himself knows how leveraged he really is and whether he will continue his run at Columbia, and last week he was unavailable for comment. But for the moment, at least, his investment in MGM Grand Hotels looked as uncertain as a roll of the dice at a Vegas casino. HARRY ANDERSON with JOE CONTRERAS in Las Vegas forced to step down before Bally Manufacturing was granted a temporary license for Bally's Park Place. But Bally is not yet home free; the commission says it has evidence that the firm is closely tied to organized crime, and it could well turn down Bally's application for a permanent license when hearings are completed next year. Finally, general manager William Dougall and director of operations Paul Syphus were ordered out at Harrah's Marina, owned by Holiday Inns, while the commission investigates charges that they were involved in a prostitution ring that serviced high rollers at Harrah's Las Vegas operation. Harrah's permanent license also could be in jeopardy. The Jersey sweep may even have repercussions in Nevada, where Jack Stratton, a member of the state's Gaming Control Board, says his group will now study any new information uncovered in New Jersey that might warrant re-examination of Nevada's casino operations. Canceled Plans: Predictably, there are growing complaints that the commission has gone too far and could eventually cut the flow of jobs and tax dollars the gaming industry has produced. Resorts International, the Dunes Hotel and Holiday Inns are all said to have abandoned plans to construct new facilities in Atlantic City, primarily because of the commission's tougher stance. And in the wake of the fire at its Las Vegas hotel-casino, MGM Grand Hotels seems likely to postpone its plans to expand eastward (box). But there are no immediate signs that the commission is about to ease up--even if it runs the risk of wounding the gambling goose that lays all those golden eggs. "Our people want to do their own investigations and do them thoroughly," says Ben Barowsky, a spokesman for the gaming commission. "This is not a driver's license; when it comes to a casino, you must prove your integrity again and again." Given the history of the gambling business and the state's new tough stance, the Atlantic City licensing battle may just have begun. TOM NICHOLSON with DAVID T. FRIENDLY in New York and bureau reports NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 === Page 59 of 139 "SPACE SHUTTLE" January 5, 1980 TO ALL CONTACTS (see below) is typical "Earth procedure." And something government can understand. I.e., President Reagan was helped into the Presidency by certain key individuals. Once he attained the Presidency they are repaid by him with key government positions, and so on. Standard Earth procedure. The UFOs obtain what it is that they desire (Mountain Base) and they then reward, pay back, those that give them their goal. My UFOs communicated with me (SIs) and gave me the following message to pass on: If their Mountain Base is not supplied by the time the Space Shuttle is launched by NASA...they guarantee to destroy the Space Shuttle (which has cost some 8 billion dollars). Naturally, the one human being they can communicate with is myself, and I am to occupy and operate the World Operations Room inside the Mountain Base when and if it is supplied. They further stated that they had already placed the mechanism for the complete destruction of the Space Shuttle into activation. (I.e., the Space Shuttle might just as well have 5 to 10 nuclear bombs which are invisible, but nonetheless real, attached to the Space Shuttle right now with the time mechanism set and ticking away, to go off after launching.) They told me that there are several reasons for this weird procedure...one of which is a time differential between their "other-dimensional" time and Earth time...and the 60-90 days, whatever, between now and then gives the destructive power aimed at the Space Shuttle time to "build up" in intensity. Delivery of the Mountain Base...with PK Man at the center of the Base and activating the Base...will automatically defuse the destructive OD force now aimed at the Space Shuttle. I.e., the Space Shuttle not only will be safe and not destroyed, but the SIs will do what they can to aid in the Space Shuttle program. The U.S. Government can have it either way, thusly, with the Space Shuttle. Powerful destruction of it, as well as its associated NASA program...or powerful help and aid for it with no destruction. Simply as a matter of values...an 8 billion dollar project balanced against a 5 million dollar Mountain Base? And you can all say that the above is silly and quite ridiculous...except that you know my "track record" in the past. After all, I hit two space shots with bolts of lightning...one on the ground as it was in launch mode, and the other in outer space (where there is no lightning). And this time I am not even in charge...THEY are. THEY are calling the shots in the matter. I am merely reporting the action from their side. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) wens One other detail: up until recently the UFOs have attacked California quite severely (you will see it in the "California PK" files when and if I ever get the monies to xerox it for you. However, a recent knife and license (which I am not at liberty to explain to you) require that they repay the kindness...and they will do so by greatly alleviating the California PK attack; and helping California in some ways. === Page 60 of 139 "Most cassettes are afraid of me." -Stevie Wonder- A lot of cassette makers have probably considered asking Stevie's opinion about their performance. But he's such a perfectionist, they may have been scared off. Not TDK. TDK SA's Super Avilyn magnetic particle revolutionized high bias cassette music. No rock is too hot to handle. Classical music keeps all of its dynamic range. Jazz sizzles without a hiss. There's headroom for all the challenge and drama of music. For Stevie, "It's a little music machine that delivers the best sound, for its size, I've ever heard." There's good reason. Its 250 components are checked thousands of times; 1,117 checkpoints for the shell alone. And SA is guaranteed a lifetime.* Enough to please any perfectionist. * In the unlikely event that any TDK cassette ever fails to perform due to a defect in materials or workmanship simply return it to your local dealer or to TDK for a free replacement. © 1980 TDK Electronics Corp., Garden City, N.Y. 11530 Supplier to the U.S. Olympic Team Look for TDK in bright new packages SA-C90 @TDK TDK The Amazing Music Machine. UPDATE D. Ford Connolly The Fishers at Johnson Space Center: 'He's still learning things I already know' # The Astronauts: Ready for Launch For the astronauts, the final months are the hardest. Technical problems have plagued the space shuttle, but NASA now plans to launch Columbia this spring, and pilots John Young and Bob Crippen are getting ready for the maiden voyage. "They're working twelve hours a day, six days a week, and they spend the seventh day reading the things they didn't have time for during the other six," says former astronaut Alan Bean, who supervises the crew's training. The shuttle, which carries a seven-man crew, is a unique space vehicle. It will rocket into orbit, return to earth, refit and fly again, like a standard airplane. Its mission: to ferry people and equipment into space for experiments and repairing satellites. The shuttle may also be used to build military bases in space--or even as a platform for laser weapons. Columbia and three sister craft are already booked for 42 flights through 1984, and NASA has 80 astronauts training at Houston's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Unlike the homogeneous corps of the past, the group includes eight women, three blacks and one Hispanic. Many are scientists or physicians, rather than military officers. New technology makes their training remarkably sophisticated. In practice sessions, computers allow instructors to program complicated emergencies. Recently, NASA created 40 different malfunctions for a simulated orbital flight. The five computers aboard the orbiter carry more information than Apollo or Skylab and represent a move toward astronaut autonomy. The shuttle pilots will be less dependent on the Mission Control Center in Houston and tracking stations around the world. The space rookies advance through a strict regimen. Last year's recruits still do classroom work, studying everything from astronomy to orbital mechanics. Others have already moved to technical assignments. Guion Buford Jr. is writing an instruction manual for the third and fourth payloads, which consist of research projects sponsored by Canada, France, Belgium and Japan. Kathryn Sullivan, a geologist, has practiced shooting infra-red photographs from a B-57 jet. In the process, she set a new, unofficial altitude record for sustained flight by a woman: 63,300 feet. **Revised Opinion:** Bean says the women have performed well. In a simulated water landing, 50 trainees wearing parachutes took turns dropping off the back of a moving boat and trying to get their heads above water quickly. "Only two went to that position on the first try, without any coaching," says Bean. "Two women. I always thought we were letting women do what was instinctively a man's job. I don't think that anymore." Anna and Bill Fisher would agree. Anna, 31, joined the shuttle program in 1978; her husband was selected last June. As a result, she says, "Bill is still learning things I already know. Just last night, I was giving him some advice--on how I handle radio calls and set up things for doing an instrument-landing approach." Anna is drawing up plans for a work station outside the shuttle where an astronaut can repair some of the tiles that keep the craft cool during re-entry. At 5 feet 4 inches and 110 pounds, she occasionally has trouble with physical tasks. But when that happens, says Anna, "I have no hesitation in asking a man to give a hand." EILEEN KEERDOJA with LOUIS ALEXANDER in Houston NEWSWEEK/JANUARY 5, 1981 === Page 61 of 139 1/23/81 - Space Shuttle (NASA) PK - # Door knocks rocket awry CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A door from the top of a launch tower fell onto a Delta rocket Thursday, knocking the rocket from its upright position and into the tower, space agency officials said. No one was injured. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesmen said the damage was "considerable". The rocket was being prepared for a satellite launch March 12 when the accident, believed the first of its type in NASA history, occurred. The incident had no connection with the reusable space shuttle, which is scheduled for its first launch on March 17 from another pad. "Officials don't know how much damage has been done, and nobody knows whether the launch will have to be delayed," said NASA spokesman Hugh Harris. reg. 1/23/81 <u>Contacts</u>: Perhaps you thought my <u>warning</u> of Jan. 5, 1980, re NASA... had no validity. Read that letter of warning again! This incident is not targeted on the Space Shuttle. Not yet. But the <u>Power</u> is <u>there</u>... and <u>working</u>. Owens ( PK Man ) === Page 62 of 139 Dec. 29, 1980 Contacts: Just now (6 PM) the SI informed me that if the Base were not provided before the NASA Space Shuttle goes up, then they will destroy it! (80 billion dollars down the drain.) over Ted Owens SI warning re destruct! # U.S. shuttle transported for final tests Photo on Page One CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Bolted nose-up across a huge crawler-transporter, America's first space shuttle was mounted on its launch pad Monday for final tests before its maiden flight to space and back next year. Several thousand spectators and space program workers turned out to watch the orbiter Columbia's snail's-pace journey from its assembly building, marking a major milestone in the program. "If you don't believe how great this is, wait till March. Just wait till March," said John Young, the astronaut-pilot who is to command the Columbia's first flight, scheduled for March 14. The entire shuttle assembly -- orbiter, external tank and twin rocket boosters -- was rolled out on its mobile launching platform Monday morning after a five-week checkout in the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building. The shuttle's 3½-mile trip to launch pad 39A took about eight hours, with the transporter crawling along a rock-covered road at 1 mph or less. Once there, a snag developed in transferring the mobile launching platform to which the shuttle was attached onto the pad. A NASA spokesman said a small steel access tower on the pad's surface had to be cut away. The entire operation was completed at 8:05 p.m. EST. "I'm looking forward to a very successful launch at the end of March," said Kennedy Space Center director Dick Smith, shortly after the 10 million-pound load began its trip to the pad. But Smith and George Page, the shuttle launch director, said they believed simulated countdowns, engine test firing and other work necessary at the pad would delay liftoff to the end of March or early April. The reusable craft is designed to be a space "freighter," ferrying satellites, scientists and various research projects into orbit and back to Earth. Young and co-pilot Robert Crippen, dressed in blue flight suits, were on a wind-blown platform Monday with officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other dignitaries. The next milestone for the $8 billion program, now three years behind schedule, will be a cluster-firing of the Columbia's three engines about Feb. 10. === Page 63 of 139 # Shuttle stakes high as rehearsal nears - 4 Projects PK - By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD New York Times News Service CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Standing on the launching pad here, a decade of fitful development behind it and the future of the nation's space program riding on its success, the space shuttle Columbia is primed for a critical ground test that could clear the way for the revolutionary flying machine's maiden orbital voyage, scheduled for early April. A countdown rehearsal, identical to the real thing in almost every respect, is set to begin after midnight Monday at the Kennedy Space Center. All systems in the spaceship, a 184-foot-tall cluster with the delta-wing orbiter Columbia mounted on a huge fuel tank and bracketed by two solid rocket boosters, will be activated and checked out. Fuel will be pumped in and the tanks pressurized. Then, if no unresolvable problems arise, Columbia's three main rocket engines will be ignited at 7:43 a.m. Wednesday, throttled to full power and shut down after only 20 seconds. The spaceship will be held to the pad by eight metal bolts while instruments monitor the engines' performance for any disturbing sputterings or vibrations, anything to suggest that they are less than ready for the planned three-day, 36-orbit test flight. Watching with the greatest personal interest will be the astronauts for the first mission, John W. Young and Capt. Robert L. Crippen of the Navy. Awaiting the results with them will be the thousands of engineers and officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who have known so many frustrations -- the project is three years behind schedule and, depending on who is counting, at least $1.5 billion over budget -- and who cannot help but feel the pressures attending the first flight. Much is at stake, for these reasons: -- This will be the first time that American astronauts have ventured into space in almost six years, since the Apollo-Soyuz joint mission with the Soviet Union in July 1975. This will be the first time in the American space program that a new rocket system or a new craft has been flown into space by astronauts without at least one prior unmanned test. Chimpanzees preceded astronauts aboard Mercury, and automated shakedown flights were conducted first for Gemini, Apollo and the Saturn 5 moon rocket. -- The shuttle is the most complex flying machine ever built. A hybrid airplane-spacecraft, the shuttle orbiter is the first space vehicle designed to return to a runway landing so that it can be flown again and again. NASA predicts that this will eventually make going into space less expensive and more common. -- Columbia is intended to be the first of a fleet of shuttles, with four or five ships in operation by the mid-1980s as a versatile space transportation system replacing nearly all of the present throwaway rockets. The shuttles will haul satellites into orbit and service others and also serve as a platform from which scientists can conduct experiments. Future space operations by NASA, the Defense Department, other government agencies, the European Space Agency and other foreign customers will be increasingly dependent on the shuttles. Young and Crippen speak of the risks of the first shuttle flight with considerable reluctance. They are test pilots, and the acceptance of risk is a condition of employment and, it would seem, an expression of their being. "We obviously think it's safe or we wouldn't be flying it," Young said recently at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. As for taking up a spaceship that has not previously been tested unmanned, he said: "Every spacecraft before that we've flown unmanned the first time, we could have flown it manned and been successful." No one still active in the NASA astronaut corps has had more experience with more spacecraft than Young, who turned 50 in September. He was the pilot on the first manned test of the Gemini spacecraft in March 1965 and the following year commanded the Gemini 10 mission. He flew to the moon twice on Apollo, once with Apollo 10 in the lunar-orbiting flight that preceded the first landing and as the commander of the Apollo 16 lunar-landing mission. The 43-year-old Crippen, on the other hand, will be making his first trip into space, though he has been waiting since 1966. That was when he was selected as a research pilot for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which was canceled before anything got off the ground. He joined the NASA astronaut corps in 1969 and served on several support crews for the Skylab project. Org. 2/15/81 Org. 2/16/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Test postponed CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A critical test-firing of the space shuttle Columbia's main engines has been pushed back 24 hours, until Thursday, because bad weather delayed last-minute repairs and preparations, a space agency spokesman said Sunday. Spokesman Mark Hess said Kennedy Space Center officials agreed at a one-hour meeting Sunday to postpone the test-firing until 7:45 a.m. Thursday. The countdown for the test is to begin at 7:15 p.m. Monday, Hess said. He said officials from National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C., were due at Cape Canaveral Monday to give the final go-ahead for the firing of the shuttle's three main engines. If final approval is given, a launch dress rehearsal will be conducted Monday evening, Hess said. The reusable shuttle, designed to blast off like a rocket and glide back to Earth like an airplane, is targeted for launch on April 7. The $8 billion program already is three years behind schedule. === Page 64 of 139 - SI Destruct - # Professor keeps eye on outer space law By DAVID SPEER JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- When the space shuttle rockets into space this spring, a University of Mississippi professor wants to make sure it doesn't run afoul of the law. Dr. Stephen Gorove of the Ole Miss law school is an expert on how domestic and international law applies to outer space. He has published two books on space law -- the most recent being "The Space Shuttle and the Law" -- and helps put out The Journal of Space Law, the only journal in the world devoted exclusively to the legal problems arising from trips beyond our world. "Really, the launching of the space shuttle will probably be the most significant event that has taken place since the beginning of the Space Age," Gorove said. "I think that the potentials are just enormous. "It is going to open up my field -- insurance, legal problems, criminal jurisdictions, civil liability. It's an enormous field which is opening up entirely new possibilities for government and industry." Gorove said the thorniest question of law, as it applies to the shuttle, is when and where the craft is considered a spaceship and where it might be considered an airplane. "Space law should be applied to the shuttle," he said. "In the current state of the technology, it is a spacecraft. If it is going to someday in the future fly as an aircraft flies, then we will have to take another look at it." The question of spacecraft or airplane is important because different laws apply to the two types of vehicles, he said. Space law is set down in four principal treaties, which set jurisdictional boundaries and liability limits and help officials deal with problems of liability in case of accidents and in insurance coverage, Gorove said. A fifth treaty -- the moon treaty -- is currently being considered by the United States. Although much of space law is taken up with civil responsibility, insurance and damage claims, the question of criminal jurisdiction also has been raised with manned space projects such as the space shuttle or future space colonies. obs. 2/17/81 # Test begins for shuttle CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A crucial countdown rehearsal began Monday night that will determine if the space shuttle Columbia is ready to carry two astronauts into orbit in April on its maiden voyage. The 2½-day test, already delayed 24 hours, was intended to exercise all elements of the shuttle's system for the first time. The countdown started at 7:15 p.m. EST when electrical power was fed into the reusable space vehicle. If there are no problems, the test will end at 7:45 a.m. EST Thursday when the count reaches zero and the space shuttle's three main engines are fired for 20 seconds while the vehicle remains locked on its launch pad. The shuttle is targeted for its first launch on April 7. - Shuttle PK - # Repairs may delay launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Repairs on the space shuttle's huge external tank are being delayed by modifications to the launch tower complex -- and the delay threatens to set back plans for an early April launch, space agency officials said Wednesday. A team of 20 specialists arrived here this week to begin repair work on insulation on the tank, damaged in a fuel-loading operation Jan. 20. But they can't begin the job, expected to take 13 days, until special access platforms are finished. Officials said the changes to the shuttle's launch tower were about a week behind schedule, threatening an early April launch date. The tank was damaged when extremely cold fuels were pumped in, causing an outer layer of insulation to come unglued from the tank's aluminum walls. The tank's 1.5 million pounds will provide the basic thrust to get the reusable shuttle into orbit. The repair work is expected to begin this weekend. Meanwhile, leaders of striking machinists and maintenance workers have scheduled another negotiating session with Boeing Services International and a federal mediator Thursday. Some 1,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked off their jobs Feb. 20, minutes after the successful firing of the shuttle's main engines. They are in dispute with Boeing over cost-of-living increases tied to their salaries. obs. 4/5/81 === Page 65 of 139 - Shuttle PK - # Strike mars successful shuttle test By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Columbia, the flagship of America's space shuttle fleet, proved Friday that at long last it is ready to ferry men into orbit as its three powerful engines fired in a critical, 20-second test that spewed flame and thunder over the launch area. "The operation of the engines was fantastic," said launch director George Page. "It raises the confidence of everyone here that we can proceed toward a launch in early April." But the optimism was tempered when, right after the test, more than 800 machinist union members walked off their jobs at the shuttle launch pad in a labor dispute with the Boeing Co. The strike, which came without warning, initially jeopardized some post-firing operations, including defueling and purging fuel tanks. Richard Smith, director of the Kennedy Space Center, said the machinists performed vital support operations and a prolonged strike could force postponement of Columbia's planned April 7 launch date. Smith said Boeing has a strike plan including the use of outside help to do the machinists' jobs, but until it is implemented he could not forecast the impact of the walkout. oreg 2/21/81 The machinists timed the strike to gain maximum attention. They said they walked out after the firing so they wouldn't be made scapegoats if the exercise was delayed. But the labor problem was forgotten for a while Friday as space agency officials savored Columbia's success in clearing the last major hurdle on its way to changing the way America operates in space. It was a bright spot after a series of technical problems that delayed Columbia's orbital debut more than two years. "I'm still a little dazed at this point that those final hours of the countdown went so smoothly," Smith said. - Shuttle PK - # Shuttle test off schedule CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Launch crews fell far behind Tuesday in the countdown rehearsal for the space shuttle Columbia, raising the possibility a crucial test-firing of the ship's engines might be delayed by yet another day. The test firing, set for Thursday, will determine whether -- after delays of more than two years -- the Columbia is finally ready to carry two astronauts into space in April. Project officials called a hasty meeting Tuesday night after the rehearsal, which started Monday night, fell six hours behind schedule. They announced later they were adding an additional 8-hour, built-in hold in hopes the firing can still be conducted Thursday. oreg 2/18/81 - Shuttle PK - oreg J. 2/21/81 # Strike perils shuttle CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Labor unrest suddenly has become the primary threat to an early April launch of the space shuttle Columbia, the rocket plane grounded for more than two years by technical trouble. Fifteen minutes after the Columbia passed a crucial 20-second test firing Friday, hundreds of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers walked off their jobs at the Kennedy Space Center. - Shuttle PK - # Strike imperils launch of U.S. space shuttle CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Union and company officials met with a federal mediator for 3 1/2 hours Monday and then recessed talks over a machinists' strike which threatens to delay the space shuttle Columbia's first flight. The parties "are so far apart" the mediator recessed negotiations to let them reconsider, said Al Evenson, labor relations manager and chief negotiator for Boeing Services International. Another session was expected in about a week. Over 1,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers went on strike Friday after the successful testing of the shuttle's main engines. The strikers seek higher wages, a cost-of-living allowance and better insurance and retirement benefits. Boeing has assured Kennedy Space Center officials the walkout will not delay the April liftoff of the reusable space vehicle, which is designed to carry satellites, scientific projects and astronauts into orbit, then return to Earth on airplane-type wings. Company supervisors and others will fill in for the absent workers. Evenson said over 100 supervisors have arrived from other Boeing operations. "In addition, we plan to hire as many local workers as we need to continue operations," he said, adding he could not estimate how many would be hired. Space Center Director Richard Smith said Friday that the walkout "jeopardized" the timetable of the shuttle, already two years behind schedule. "We feel we'll be able to meet the launch schedule and support shuttle activities," Evenson said Monday. The machinists, who earn an average of $10.50 an hour, control generators, the loading of fuel and the purging of fuel lines. Boeing is also responsible for building and maintaining access platforms on the launch pad. The most recent machinists' strike against Boeing was three years ago and lasted 111 days. oreg 2/24/81 === Page 66 of 139 # Plagued by costly delays, first space shu One First of three articles By PATRICK YOUNG 3/1/81 Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON -- The United States is looking ahead to a time when astronauts roar into Earth orbit almost routinely. But that all depends on the space shuttle -- a craft 12 years in the making, two years late, 27 percent over budget, untested in space and plagued by problems. Columbia, the first shuttle intended for inhospitable space, awaits its maiden voyage from launch complex 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its crew -- astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen -- also await the flight, now scheduled no earlier than April 7. They repeatedly express the view that Columbia will carry them without serious mishap through their 54 1/2-hour mission. "We obviously think it's safe or we wouldn't be doing it," Young says. It is not a view shared universally. During its development, the shuttle has suffered well-publicized problems with its main engines and the "tiles" that protect it from the intense heat of re-entry. Despite Columbia's successful engine test Feb. 20, some still wonder whether these troubles have been completely corrected. The shuttle, by any standard, is a craft bold in concept and remarkable in advanced technology. The approximate size and weight of a DC-9 jetliner, it is designed to roar into space like a rocket and land like a glider, time and time again. It is, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration likes to boast, the world's first reusable spacecraft. With it, the agency envisions frequent flights and space feats impossible with expendable rockets and the one-use-only craft of the past -- the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules. "The shuttle will turn out to be much more than any of us can project right now," predicts Alan M. Lovelace, NASA's acting administrator. "Once we successfully fly, it will provide so many opportunities for growth and applications that I think even the most visionary people will turn out to have underestimated it." The Pentagon, too, is counting on the shuttle's success. And while people in and out of NASA familiar with the craft express confidence that the shuttle will succeed, they realize a disastrous failure would cost far more than the lives of two astronauts. "The shuttle is the mainstay of everything we have coming up in space in the next 10 years," says Jerry Grey of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "NASA has so much riding on the shuttle that a major failure could mean the end of the civilian space program." "That is an extreme view, and I don't think it will happen. But the public is not ready for a failure. If the shuttle should fail, it would remove all of NASA's credibility about its ability to operate." NASA officials don't see their future as quite that bleak. But they acknowledge that a disaster would provoke a major reassessment of NASA and the shuttle program by the public and Congress. Over the years, NASA has earned a reputation for solving the most delicate of space problems -- from guiding spacecraft to pinpoint rendezvous with distant planets to bringing home safely the three Apollo 13 astronauts after an explosion crippled their craft on the way to the moon. Now it faces another difficult challenge in bringing the shuttle to its full potential. "NASA has staked its future for a decade on this so far untested vehicle," says Noel Hinners, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and a former associate administrator at NASA. "Over the next few years it has got to make it work." In a nation seemingly rediscovering its pride of nationhood, the space shuttle could prove symbolic of a new beginning. It could put Americans back in space, working regularly in an environment dominated for nearly six years by Soviet cosmonauts. The last three American astronauts in space rendezvoused in Earth orbit with two Soviet cosmonauts in 1975. Since then, the Russians have sent aloft more than three dozen humans. Cosmonauts have logged more than twice the 22,493 hours American astronauts have spent in space, and two Russians hold the record for the most time on a single flight -- 185 days. "I feel a bit embarrassed nationally by how the Soviets have outrun us, given our resources," says a university scientist long active in the space program. If the United States is to re-establish its pre-eminence in manned-space operations, the shuttle is vital. The nation has no other way to launch astronauts, and it would take a decade to develop a new manned craft. The shuttle concept evolved from a "what next?" study that began in September 1969, two months after the first manned landing on the moon. Such missions as a manned flight to Mars were considered and rejected by a presidential committee. The wave of the nation's space future, the committee suggested, should be a reusable spacecraft. NASA spent two years on cost, engineering and design studies. The project won President Nixon's approval in 1972. Under pressure from the White House to keep costs low, the space agency estimated the shuttle's development costs at $5.1 billion in 1971 dollars. The program's projected cost through the first four shuttle flights is now $9.6 billion in 1981 dollars, equal to $6.5 billion in 1971 dollars -- a cost overrun after inflation of 27 percent. During most of the 1970s and even now, much of NASA's financial resources went to the shuttle, leaving other space programs wanting. "Science and applications suffered a great deal by the fact the shuttle was the central focus of the space program; that is a matter of firm fact," says James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, discoverer of the Earth-girdling radiation belts that bear his name. Among the projects postponed or delayed because of the shuttle's costs: Galileo, an orbiter and atmospheric probe to Jupiter; a twin-craft look at the sun's two poles called the International Solar Polar Mission; and the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar, a craft to Note: Ten billion down the drain if the five million Bra does not appear. Gwen === Page 67 of 139 - Shuttle PK - # Comeback In Space **America's first shuttle into space could have a big impact on future exploration--and on energy, science and military strategy, too.** KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. America's comeback in space rests heavily on the stubby wings of a new-style spaceship named Columbia, poised now for its maiden voyage. Already two years behind schedule and still facing critical tests before its launch, Columbia carries the hopes of a nation that once ruled supreme in space, but which has not sent astronauts into orbit for half a decade. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials feel that the delays have been used well because Columbia is the most sophisticated flying machine ever built. The program has cost 8.8 billion dollars so far--3 billion over budget--and three more shuttlecraft are being constructed. **New era.** "If the orbiter flies as we expect, then America will have the best spacecraft in the world," said one space official. "It will carry us into a new era, a revolution in space." Columbia is the first element in a space-transportation system that experts believe one day will shuttle people into and out of orbit on a routine basis. It is expected to turn space from a pioneering frontier into a settled domain of human activity. The shuttle will make it possible to transfer cargo to and from space at a fraction of the cost of old, expendable spacecraft. Experts forecast it will lead to factories and laboratories and, one day, perhaps, even cities in space. The first shot in this revolution comes in April when the Columbia will be launched from here on a 54½-hour, 36-orbit flight that will be a crucial test of the space-shuttle concept. For political reasons, in this age of cut-to-the-bone budgets, the first flight of Columbia may be the most important mission ever for NASA. Should the craft experience a major failure, space officials worry that it would be difficult to get from a cost-conscious administration and a skeptical Congress the funds needed to recoup. "This is probably the toughest flight we've ever had," said Robert Thompson, manager of the space-shuttle-program office. "It's very important to the nation." If shuttle flight is a success, man may take advantage of the environment of space, where there is no air or gravity, for unique jobs. Already planned is a space telescope that will orbit at 310 miles, far above the obscuring influence of clouds and smog. It will give a view of the stars 50 times sharper than anything on earth and open vistas never before seen. The shuttle will be able to haul into space the building blocks for vast structures where people could live. Many industrial processes that are impossible on earth can be performed in orbit. As one astronaut noted: "We could move the filth of our factories out of earth's envelope and into limitless space." Space factories may be able to produce useful metals and alloys, crystals of unique purity and size for the electronic industry, and medicines impossible to make on earth. Communications satellites, for the first time, will be recoverable. As a result, they could be built more cheaply. If they broke, the shuttle could return them to earth for repairs. This alone may save millions of dollars. For the U.S. military, the shuttle is considered essential. It will launch navigation and spy satellites vital for defense in an uncertain world. Even energy problems could find a solution with the shuttle. It could be used to dispose nuclear-energy wastes in space. Or shuttle crews could construct a satellite to harvest sunlight, beam it to earth as microwaves, which could then be converted to electricity. For a craft that carries such formidable responsibility, the space shuttle lacks the grace and sleek lines of a modern airship. On the launch pad, the shuttle system resembles an ungainly silo flanked by huge pointed candles. The winged orbiter clings to the silo side, almost as an afterthought. **Two years late, but on the launch pad at last, the Columbia is being prepared for an April mission.** **Huge fuel tank.** The silo is a massive tank that will be loaded with 1.6 million gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen to fuel the main rocket engines aboard the orbiter during launch. The candles actually are two powerful solid-fuel rocket engines that, with the main engines, will hurtle the spacecraft into orbit. The solid-fuel engines burn for only 2½ minutes but consume 1 million pounds of propellant and travel almost 180 miles. Then they are jettisoned, parachuted to the ocean and recovered for reuse. Columbia itself is a gawky, delta-winged craft that fits well its nickname of "Dumbo, the space truck." The crew, which can include up to seven astronauts, rides in a double-deck cab that, by Apollo standards, is spacious. The backbone of the craft is a 60-foot-long cargo bay that can hold up to 65,000 pounds. The 122-foot-long orbiter is a combi- U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 23, 1981 === Page 68 of 139 nation of spacecraft and airplane. Although it is launched by rocket engines, as are conventional spacecraft, it returns to earth to land on a runway, as does an airplane. While other spaceships are used once and discarded, Columbia will fly repeatedly for 100 missions or more. From the complex of rocket engines in its stern to the electronic brains in its bow, the space-shuttle orbiter incorporates the most advanced flight technology yet developed. Its three main rocket engines are more complex than the Saturn engines that launched Apollo missions to the moon and pound for pound are five times as powerful. Yet the shuttle engines have a precision that was undreamed of in the Apollo days. They are controlled with a throttle, and every part is monitored. A computer, for instance, tests each valve 50 times a second to make sure the rocket operates smoothly. Ten years of research and testing went into development of a tile shield that covers the underside of the spacecraft like an overcoat of bricks. The tiles, made of a foam silicate, protect the spacecraft from the 2,000 degrees of heat generated during the return from orbit to earth. They are so efficient at dissipating heat that they can be handled by the bare hand within seconds after glowing cherry red. But the tiles are also fragile. They can be dented easily with a fist, and workmen must wear white gloves when installing them, a tedious job that takes hours for each piece. There are more than 30,000 tiles, and no two are alike. Each was designed for a specific place on the hull and must be installed within tolerances of thousandths of an inch. Five computers on the Columbia monitor every system aboard the spacecraft. Astronauts can order them to give reports on a televisionlike screen in the cockpit. The computers also guide the spacecraft during liftoff and re-entry, the most critical times of each mission. Theoretically, according to engineers, # From Launch to Launch: How Space Shuttle Will Work Orbiter flies in space for up to 30 days. Rocket engines Cargo bay carries 32½ tons External fuel tank is discarded 10 minutes after launch. Crew compartment can carry 7 astronauts 2. Solid-fueled rocket engines are jettisoned 2½ minutes after launch and parachuted to the ocean for recovery. 5. Re-enters atmosphere; tile shield glows red from heat. 1. Launch. 6. Lands on runway. 7. Refurbished in 2 weeks for new mission. U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 23, 1981 59 === Page 69 of 139 the shuttle orbiter could be brought to an earth landing without the touch of an astronaut, though this is unlikely to be tried. While in space, the orbiter is controlled by small rocket thrusters. In the atmosphere, it is guided by flaps on wing and tail, as is an airplane. When Columbia is returning from orbit, it enters a region of hypersonic speeds where no winged craft has flown before and control is uncertain. Says Christopher C. Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Center: "There's no wind tunnel in the world that can test all of the Mach numbers [supersonic speeds] the orbiter will encounter." This unknown factor substantially raises the risks of the first mission. Experts admit that they are apprehensive about this part of the first flight and will breathe more easily when it's over. "Get me beyond that first flight, and the risks are a lot less than going to the moon," says Kraft. "On the cheap." Development of the shuttle system followed a tortuous path of problems and low funding. NASA officials admit they tried to build the shuttle "on the cheap" and that some of the short cuts in design and testing proved disastrous. The tiles were found to be inadequate for the stresses they would confront and had to be strengthened. A system for bonding the tiles to the hull did not work, requiring months of redevelopment. Rocket engines exploded and burned with frightful regularity, and a research team had to be called in to correct the trouble. The problems continue. A test loading of supercold propellants in the silolike tank last month caused part of an insulation blanket to separate from the tank's hull. The problem delayed a final rocket test firing until this week and caused the first launch date to be pushed back by weeks. These and all the other problems are being solved, but no one will know how well until the gray, early hours of launch day in April. On that day, the flight crew, veteran astronaut John Young and rookie Robert Crippen, will strap themselves into the cockpit, their windows looking straight up into the Florida sky. Ninety minutes later, pumps start propellant flowing at the rate of half a ton per second, and the main rocket engines burst to life. They strain against lock arms for 6 seconds as the engines build up thrust. The whole shuttlecraft rocks 19 inches forward, and the astronauts, if they choose to, can watch the launch tower move slowly past. Then it rocks back, and in that moment the solid rocket engines ignite, providing 5 million pounds in additional thrust. Almost instantly, the craft is streaking toward space. In 2½ minutes, it is 27 miles up and 150 miles down range. The solid rockets fall away, and the main engines continue to fire. At about 10 minutes, the main engine propellant is expended, and the large tank, the only part of the system not reused, drops away to burn up in its fall to earth. Two smaller engines ignite, fed by on-board propellant, and the Columbia is drilled into orbit. For two days, Young and Crippen test systems aboard the spacecraft, including a critical exercise of the large cargo-bay doors. Then, while the craft is over the Indian Ocean, they fire the two small rocket engines to slow their flight. This drops them out of orbit at 18,000 miles per hour. Columbia is precisely angled to take the intense heat caused by atmospheric friction. Tiles on its hull glow red. There are no propulsion engines running. Columbia is now a glider plane, using its immense speed to fly. Within minutes, it crosses two oceans and approaches the U.S. mainland. Young rocks the craft left and right to lose speed as it streaks over the coastline south of Monterey, Calif. The astronaut guides the craft over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., makes a steep left turn and aims for a landing on a runway in a dry-lake bed. The wheels touch at 200 miles an hour, and the craft rolls thousands of feet before coming to rest. At that point, says a space engineer, "We'll all breathe again." - [ ] By PAUL RECER, who also wrote the next article # Enter the Specialist-- A New Breed Of Astronaut **In the shuttle era of space travel about to open, the military-type elite of past glories is making room for others--including women.** JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Tex. Shannon Lucid is a 38-year-old matron with three children, a house in the suburbs and a fondness for gourmet cooking. She's also an astronaut. John Lounge wears glasses, enjoys playing chess and reading history, and one day hopes to become a construction worker. He's an astronaut, too. William and Anna Fisher are physicians who specialize in the emergency treatment of people injured in auto accidents, bar fights and domestic disturbances. They also are astronauts. These and scores of others are members of a new style of astronaut corps that is preparing to lead America into a new era in space. They are unlike any group ever before selected. No more are American astronauts strictly an elite company of military-trained test pilots assigned mainly to Astronauts Robert Crippen, left, and John Young spend hours in the cockpit of Columbia testing systems and practicing for their crucial mission. 60 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT === Page 70 of 139 Important Note: (I phoned this communication sent me by my UFOs to Rogo.) Owens The SIs are going to destroy everything in orbit around the Earth!!! Satellites; all; everything!! Owens 3/7/81 === Page 71 of 139 Projects PK - "Power" Attack # Blackout affects 1.5 million in Utah, nearby states By RON BAKER SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A power failure struck all of Utah and parts of Idaho and Wyoming Thursday, knocking out electrical service to more than 1.5 million people, cutting off radio and television stations and disrupting telephone service. Ski lifts, elevators and traffic signals also lost power during the blackout, which occurred at 11:38 a.m. MST. By 6:30 p.m., 95 percent of Utah Power & Light Co.'s 450,000 customers had their electricity back, according to David Mead, a spokesman for the company. By that time, five of the company's 12 operating coal-powered generating units also were back on line, he said. One man was injured in Provo when he pried open the door of a stuck elevator and fell four floors, dislocating both knees. Hospitals quickly switched to standby power. A spokesman for University Medical Center in Salt Lake City said an open heart operation continued even as the lights flickered. Further operations scheduled for Thursday were postponed. Temperatures in the region were cold, with the afternoon reading at Salt Lake City in the 30s. Many people use natural gas for heat, but the electrical failure meant furnace fans were out of service. The Western Area Power Administration blamed the blackout on a downed 230,000-volt power line extending from Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona to Sigurd, Utah. But Mead said the downed line, near Antimony, Utah, couldn't be solely responsible. "It may have been a contributing factor, but I can't believe it would cause all this," he said. Another UP&L spokesman, Grant Pendleton, said that after the system was fully restored, engineers would be able "to do the detective work" necessary to find the cause of the outage. That could take a day or more, Pendleton said. Mead said the utility was bringing in power from neighboring utilities in Idaho and Arizona to restart its six coal-powered plants. Automatic safety devices shut down the plants, he said. Some business telephones were knocked out of service when phone exchanges, which depend on local power, went down. oreg. 1/9/81 "Power" Attack PK 40 die in hailstorm ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- At least 40 persons were killed by a fierce six-minute hailstorm that flattened brick homes and uprooted trees and electricity poles in a northeast Pakistan community, official reports said Saturday. 3/7/81 Associated Press Laserphoto BLACKOUT -- Utah Power & Light Co. officials try to find cause of power blackout affecting 1.5 million people in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. === Page 72 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # TVA reactor's alarms fail in control room CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Civil defense authorities were put on alert for about an hour Monday when operators at the Sequoyah nuclear power plant said they had lost electricity to control room alarm systems. The alert was declared over at about 3:30 p.m. EST when the Tennessee Valley Authority, operator of the plant, said it had completely restored power to the alarms, which would sound in case of a breakdown or other plant emergency. TVA spokesmen said similar power failures have occurred twice within the past few weeks at the $1.9 billion plant north of Chattanooga. None of the outages presented a major problem because the plant's reactor is out of operation while maintenance work is being done, said spokesman John Schlatter. Monday's power failure did not affect the control room instruments themselves, Schlatter said. "The instruments still worked. The operators could still read the instruments, but the alarms to the instruments were off," he said. "It's just an alert that something is not exactly right," Larry Suiter, deputy director in Nashville for the state Office of Emergency Preparedness, said. He said he was unable to say what caused the power failures. Suiter said civil defense authorities in Hamilton and Bradley counties were notified. Sequoyah is located in northern Hamilton County about 15 miles north of Chattanooga, and the area within a 10-mile emergency planning radius of the plant cuts into Bradley County. Last Wednesday, a site emergency was declared when an operator incorrectly opened a valve that allowed radioactive water to fall on 14 plant workers inside the reactor building. TVA officials said the operator misunderstood a verbal order. That emergency was declared over after about 30 minutes and health checks showed the men had suffered no harmful radiation contamination, TVA said. The federal utility's plant generates electricity for a TVA network that serves 2.7 million customers in Tennessee and parts of Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. oreg. 2/17/81 - "Power" PK - # Nuclear plant leaks BORSSELE, Netherlands (AP) -- A Dutch nuclear power plant was closed down for repairs after some "slightly radioactive" steam escaped through defective packing around a manhole cover, a spokesman for the Zeeland electricity authority said Wednesday. He said there was no danger in what he described as a minor leakage and the steam was confined within the plant, a 465-megawatt unit feeding power into the national grid. The spokesman said the steam leakage occurred Monday during the starting-up process after an eight-week closure to replace nuclear fuel and carry out a general overhaul of the seven-year-old plant. The plant is expected to be operating again by the weekend, he said. oreg. 4/5/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Storm causes flooding along coast Oregon coastal rivers were receding Monday night after a major storm front swept across Western Oregon earlier in the day, causing some minor flooding. Another winter storm was expected to hit the northern coast about noon Tuesday, and the National Weather Service said the area probably would remain in jeopardy of flooding through Wednesday. Monday's storm brought gusty winds and balmy temperatures to much of the state. The mercury hit an unseasonable 62 degrees in Portland between 3 and 4 p.m., a record for the date. The state's warmest city was The Dalles, which recorded 63 degrees. Occasional showers with partial clearing was forecast for Tuesday morning in Portland, with heavy rains later in the day. High temperatures around 60 were again expected. Monday's storm resulted in several downed power lines in the Portland area, which left several thousand persons in Aloha, Cedar Hills and Milwaukie without electricity for brief periods in the late afternoon. In Tillamook County, where some rivers went over their banks early Monday, streams were receding slowly by evening and flooding pressures had eased considerably. Mary Priss, Tillamook County director of emergency services, said Monday night that the Wilson, Trask, Kilchis and Tillamook rivers were going down as rains slackened. She said there was still some high water at the edges of U.S. 101 north of Tillamook, but the highway was passable. At one time Monday, the highway was covered with upwards of 5 inches of water. County officials had been bracing for an expected new storm Monday night, but Ms. Priss said the front was approaching slower than expected and would not reach the area until about noon Tuesday. About 250 homes and businesses lost electricity for about an hour Monday morning in Tillamook when winds gusting to 55 mph knocked tree limbs down on power lines. The Coast Guard lighthouse at Yaquina Head also suffered a 90-minute outage, but emergency generating equipment kept the light in operation. In Washington state, six rivers were expected to crest Monday night above flood stage, but authorities planned no evacuations and property damage was seen as minimal. Flood warnings were in effect mostly for nearby fields and roads -- for the Elwha, Satsop, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Snohomish and Chehalis rivers. A Seattle forecaster for the National Weather Service said that although heavier rains had stopped by late Monday, a new storm could continue the threat of flooding Tuesday and Wednesday. The forecaster said Monday's rainfall was far less intense than the Christmas weekend rains that caused $9 million property damage in Snohomish, Cowlitz and Skagit counties. The Cowlitz and Toutle rivers near Mount St. Helens had considerable rises early Monday, but by late afternoon had crested and were receding fairly rapidly. ly. oreg. 2/17/81 === Page 73 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # 'Destruction derby' on I-5 By BENNY EVANGELISTA JR. of The Oregonian staff 1/4/81 A Clackamas man was killed in a traffic accident in East Multnomah County Tuesday morning, and early morning commuters on Interstate 5 across the Columbia River found that scores of other accidents caused by black ice and fog had backed up traffic as far as Hazel Dell, Wash. Heavy fog was again forecast for Wednesday in the Portland area. About 50 vehicles were involved in the Tuesday accidents on Interstate 5, including a truck leaking cold liquid nitrogen. In another accident, an ESCO Corp. tractor-trailer jackknifed and spilled sand containing a small amount of low-level radioactive zirconium onto the Sauvie Island Bridge roadway. Officials said the spill was not dangerous. At about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, Norman Neal Howze, 22, of Clackamas was killed when a pickup truck he was driving went out of control on a curve as it traveled west on Northeast Glisan Street, shearing a utility pole at the base near Northeast 205th Avenue and ejecting Howze, said Bart Whalen, Multnomah County sheriff's department spokesman. The utility pole held a Portland General Electric Co. local feeder line and power was knocked out in the immediate area for about 46 minutes, said PGE spokesman Bill Babcock. Later on Interstate 5, traffic had been slowed, possibly by a number of small, unreported accidents, before the first major wreck, a multi-car accident near North Marine Drive, was reported at about 5:50 a.m., said Lt. Dan Noelle, Portland police public information officer. As Officer Vernon Bowers arrived, his patrol car was struck by another vehicle, Noelle said. Traffic slowed even further when a motorcycle fell over, and other drivers stopped to help, Noelle said. Officer Dave Kline, who came to help Bowers with the first accident, had his patrol car struck by a truck over the Columbia Slough at about 6 a.m., Noelle said. At around 6:05 a.m., an Airco Industrial Gases tractor-trailer, hauling about 5,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen to Boise, Idaho, changed lanes to avoid the snarl ahead and collided with another truck, said Bob Fletcher, Airco distribution superintendent. Fletcher said truck driver John Nolten stopped the truck about 200 yards down the road, where the liquid nitrogen leaked from a damaged valve onto the highway. The nitrogen created a visible vapor, which "intensified the fog already there," according to Noelle. A third car changed lanes, but a fourth, driven by Ellis H. McMillan, 81, collided with the second car, which then hit the first car, Noelle said. McMillan was cited for following too close to the car in front of him, Noelle said. The drivers were treated for minor injuries and released from nearby hospitals. At about 9:30 a.m., the ESCO Corp. tractor-trailer carrying zirconium sand slipped on ice and jackknifed while crossing the Sauvie Island Bridge, said Whalen. No injuries were reported, but sheriff's deputies were concerned that the radioactivity in the "three to four yards" of sand spilled would pose a danger to the area. However, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, which was contacted about how to handle the spill, and ESCO said the amount of radioactivity in the zirconium was so small that it did not qualify as hazardous waste. "At that point it became a destruction derby," Noelle said. Police estimated that about 50 vehicles in both directions, including about four other tractor-trailers, were involved in accidents of some kind, bringing traffic to a grinding halt for some time, Noelle said. On Interstate 84 at about 9:05 a.m., three persons were slightly injured in a three-car chain reaction pileup in clear weather and dry roads, Noelle said. A car driven by June S. Kloeppel, 56, slowed near Northeast 21st Avenue before reaching flares set for a stalled car that had been cleared, Noelle said. A second car driven driven by Julie Ann Bradley, 20, slowed behind the first car, Noelle said. "Power & Rain Attack" # The nation Oreg. 12/9/80 # Ice storm kills seven By The Associated Press An ice storm blamed for at least seven deaths caused a "demolition derby" on Midwest highways Monday and left thousands without electricity in subfreezing weather from Oklahoma to Minnesota. The snow and freezing rain that moved across the Plains over the weekend formed a glaze of ice an inch thick that tore down power lines and made driving impossible in many areas. Trucks jackknifed into ditches, and stalled cars were abandoned where they stood. Cars literally slid out of driveways with the slightest push. Hundreds of schools were closed and several interstate highways were impassable. Two Nebraska teen-agers were killed at Waterloo Saturday night when their car went out of control on icy U.S. 275, authorities said. One-vehicle accidents on slick roads in Otoe, Lincoln and Hall counties Sunday claimed three lives, and a truck driver was killed Monday when his rig skidded out of control on icy Interstate 80 in Omaha. As the ice storm moved into north-central Kansas Sunday, Orville Hess, 33, of Halstead was killed when his car skidded on the icy pavement of Interstate 70 east of Goodland and rolled over. - 4 Projects PK - # Electricity restored SHERIDAN (AP) - Electricity was out for less than 30 minutes Wednesday afternoon in a wide area southwest of Salem. Sheridan District Manager Roger Meyer of Portland General Electric Co. said the outage, covering about 500 square miles, affected 8,000 customers. He said homes and businesses in Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde were without power for 12 minutes, and customers in Amity and Dayton were without power for 21 minutes. Meyer said an undetermined number of customers in the Coast Range between Sheridan and Lincoln City also lost power. Meyer said the outage apparently was caused by work on a Bonneville Power Administration line that disrupted service at PGE substations in Amity, Sheridan, Willamina and Grand Ronde. Oreg. 1/29/81 === Page 74 of 139 oreg 2/17/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Flood waters recede; new storm due soon A lull between storms allowed flood-swollen rivers across the Pacific Northwest to recede somewhat early Tuesday, but the National Weather Service warned that the flood threat is not over. The next Pacific weather system was reported racing toward the coast, packing more rainfall. At the same time, gale warnings were expected to be flying again and the combination of wind and sea conditions was expected to create mid-day high tides about a foot above normal. The high tide at Tillamook Tuesday - highest for the month - was forecast for 8.9 feet at 11:16 a.m. Most Oregon rivers with flood potential had crested or were expected to crest Tuesday morning and the weather service hydrologist at Seattle said a similar condition should prevail in Washington state. The Wilson River at Tillamook was still over its banks, but the sheriff's office said there were no problems with the high water. Gusty winds Monday afternoon and evening caused a few reported minor power outages in the Portland metropolitan area. One which effected the Cedar Hills Shopping Center lasted from 3:10 to 5:02 p.m., Monday. An estimated 250 homes and businesses were without power for an hour early Monday in Tillamook. The Yaquina Head Coast Guard lighthouse also lost its primary power for a brief period, but operated with emergency generating equipment. - 4 Projects PK - # Fallen limb cuts power Two power outages apparently caused by a tree limb falling on a feeder line left 1,500 West Linn homes without electricity for about two hours Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman for Portland General Electric Co. said. The first outage occurred near the Marylhurst Education Center at 5:57 p.m. and affected about 750 homes, spokeswoman Sheri Anderson said. The second outage occurred about 6:30 p.m. and was related to the first, Ms. Anderson added. Another 750 homes along a one-mile stretch of Oregon 43 were affected, she said. oreg 2/25/81 - 4 Projects PK - oreg 2/21/81 # All power nearly restored SEATTLE (AP) - Almost all Western Washington residents who lost electrical service in a major windstorm Thursday had their power restored by Friday evening, authorities said. The pre-dawn storm Thursday knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers in the Puget Sound region. However, by Friday evening only 175 customers in Puget Sound Power & Light Co.'s service area were without electricity, including 100 people in Thurston County, 50 in Bremerton and 25 in Pierce County, said utility spokeswoman Debbie Miller. In Seattle, City Light said fewer than 50 customers were without power Friday. Tacoma City Light estimated fewer than 2,000 customers were without service early in the day, and the Snohomish County Public Utility District had restored service to all but a dozen customers. The windstorm also toppled two radio and television towers in Tacoma and claimed one life before vanishing as quickly as it came. KTPS-TV, Channel 62, and KTOY-FM, both public stations, remained off the air Friday. KTPS manager Bob Slingland said limited television service might resume next week. Meanwhile, flood warnings remained in effect Friday for the Chehalis and lower Yakima rivers, with a forecast of increasing rain. During Thursday's storm, the National Weather Service clocked winds gusting at 40 to 50 mph in the Seattle area and 60 to 65 mph gusts at Hood Canal. - 4 Projects PK - # New England storm upsets power, traffic By United Press International Strong winds raked New England Thursday, swirling the more than 2 feet of snow from a storm that knocked out power to thousands of homes and snarled traffic, but was "gold from the sky" for ski resort owners who thought the season was lost. The storm, centered over the Atlantic east of Cape Cod, Mass., launched its second-day attack Thursday with rain, snow and high winds. Gale warnings were issued for the coast from Maine to Massachusetts. Travel advisories were posted for most of southern New England and a storm warning stretched up to Maine. Another storm gathering in the Southwest brought thundershowers and hail to California and snow in the mountains of California and Nevada. More than a foot of snow fell in the Sierra Nevadas Wednesday as a chilling storm that dumped rain and hail in the San Francisco Bay area moved inland. oreg 2/26/81 === Page 75 of 139 - Power & Rain Attack - # Pacific storm batters region (4 Projects PK) 2/20/81 By JOHN PAINTER JR. of The Oregonian staff A Pacific storm hammered the Pacific Northwest from Eugene to Seattle early Thursday, killing a Seattle man and causing power outages and extensive damage throughout the region. Bradford Brown Felton, 31, died of head injuries suffered in the storm, Seattle police said. A King County deputy medical examiner said Brown died after he climbed naked to the roof of his apartment about 3 a.m. Thursday and was blown off, falling 40 feet to the pavement. Brown was "apparently intoxicated," the medical examiner's report said. Rain, wind and lightning blew away tree limbs, set off burglar alarms and caused minor flooding and widespread annoyance, but no serious damage was reported locally. As late as Thursday afternoon, lightning, hail and winds up to 40 mph were reported in East Multnomah County. In the Portland metropolitan area, pre-dawn winds gusting to more than 60 mph dropped tree limbs on electric utilities' feeder and tap lines, causing widespread power outages. Lightning strikes also blew out fuses on power poles. The two biggest Portland-area outages were in Clark County, Wash., where 11,350 customers lost power about 2:45 a.m. when high winds downed a power line supplying four substations. That outage encompassed the Vancouver Mall, Hazel Dell and Minnehaha areas. HERE The second outage affected 5,700 customers, mostly commercial, including the Clark County Public Utility District building in downtown Vancouver. Camas and Washougal, Wash., also suffered larger outages than did Portland. The outages in Portland ranged in size from a downed feeder line in the Northeast Killingsworth Street area, which left about 450 homes without electricity, to severed tap lines that darkened one to 24 homes each. Among the Portland victims of power losses was the National Weather Service, whose teletype service was inoperable for about five hours. Spokesmen for Portland General Electric Co. and Pacific Power & Light Co. said the outages were widespread. Homes in the West Hills and parts of Washington County were dark, as were residences in North, Northeast and Southeast Portland. There were also blackouts in Salem, Gresham, Brightwood, Zigzag and Government Camp, according to Dave Eagon, a PGE spokesman. He added that at 2:30 a.m., 50,500 PGE customers were without power. Repair crews were on the street about 3 a.m., and spokesmen said power was restored quickly. The major damage in the Portland area was at Holly Farm Mall in Oak Grove, where winds ripped about 6,500 square feet of colored metal roofing off the upper portion of the structure. Throughout the metropolitan area there were reports of limbs down and windows blown out, but the incidents were not extensive. To the north, the storm's toll was greater. More than 100,000 persons were without electricity in Western Washington early Thursday, and winds gusting to 65 mph blew down two broadcast towers in Tacoma. Walla Walla reported gusts to 75 mph. The weather service reported minor lowland flooding along streams in Western Oregon and Washington. The Army Corps of Engineers said an access road bridge was washed away at a dam project on the Toutle River near Mount St. Helens, but there was no damage to equipment. Along the coast, traffic reportedly was snarled by mudslides on roads in Lincoln and Tillamook counties. Oregon 6 near Tillamook was reduced to one-lane traffic because of a slide. In Portland, forecasters predicted decreased winds Friday, with a slight chance of showers. Sunny, dry weather was expected for the weekend. The high Friday was expected from 55 to 60 degrees. - power Attack PK - # Copter makes forced landing Oreg. 3/1/81 A helicopter carrying two men to measure snow levels made an emergency landing in Mount Hood National Forest Saturday when the engine "disintegrated," a Multnomah County sheriff's spokesman said. Neither man was injured when the five-seat craft, owned by Columbia Helicopter Service of Aurora, landed at about 12:17 p.m. about six miles southwest of Bonneville Dam in the Larch Mountain area, said pilot Dwight Reber, 38, of Aurora. "We're sitting up there fat, dumb and pretty and all of a sudden, things start to happen all over," Reber said. The tail section struck the ground first before the helicopter came to a halt in a field about 10 feet from a few large tree stumps, Reber said. Reber and Stan Fox, age and address unavailable, an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, completed their 20 minute snow survey mission before contacting rescuers, Reber said. Both men were picked up by a helicopter from Horizon Aviation Inc. of Aurora and taken to Troutdale Airport about 2½ hours after the crash landing. Reber said he had begun landing procedures about an eighth of a mile from the landing site and was 100 feet from the ground when he noticed a sudden drop in power. Fox reported hearing an explosion, Reber said. Reber pulled the nose of the helicopter up to get as much wind power as possible to turn the helicopter rotors, the "hairiest 'flare' landing I've ever made," he said. "That's what saved our lives," Reber said. "The guy beside me couldn't believe it." The engine "just blew up," but the landing was so soft that the rest of the craft was not damaged, Reber said. Reber and Fox were on a monthly contract mission to survey snow depth and density levels for the Department of Agriculture and were making the last stop of the day when the engine failure occurred, Reber said. Note: Lots of these past months, planes & copters. - Gwen - 4 Projects PK - # Tragedy averted PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A small airplane crash-landed on a busy residential street Wednesday, just missing a nursery school and homes and blacking out 1,000 homes and businesses when it knocked over a utility pole. Roofers at work on a nearby home pulled the bleeding pilot, Lee Demetz, 39, of Doylestown, from the plane's smoking wreckage. He was taken to Nazareth Hospital where he was treated for lacerations of the head and back injuries. "It's a miracle," said Roslyn Karwitz, principal of the nursery school, where 120 boys and girls were at the === Page 76 of 139 - "Power" Attack - # Storm leaves path of woe Photo on Page One By The Associated Press A powerful Pacific storm dumped 2 feet of snow in the mountains and almost 3 inches of rain in the lowlands, triggering mud slides, flooding and power outages Monday in California as it pushed across the Rockies. A skier was killed in an avalanche, a boy was swept four miles down a rain-swollen drainage channel and the Goodyear blimp was slammed to the ground and ripped open when the storm moved into California Sunday. As it marched eastward, the storm also pounded much of Utah, Colorado and Arizona with heavy snow and rain, creating hazardous driving conditions. In California, the storm left damage from the Mexican border to the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles. In Mission Valley near San Diego, 24 people were evacuated from an apartment house when nearly 3 inches of rain collapsed the ceilings of two apartments and leaked into other units. Mud slides closed roads in Mission Valley and La Tuna Canyon in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland. Water up to a foot deep on the Long Beach and Santa Monica freeways hampered commuters Monday morning and flooding also was reported on many city streets. Lightning and winds up to 35 mph caused power blackouts in many areas, and a truck hit a power pole in the North Park area of San Diego, knocking out the lights for hours in 750 homes. Bozidar Govorcin, 31, of San Pedro, Calif., died after being buried under 6 to 8 feet of wet snow Sunday in an avalanche on Mount Baldy. His brother, skiing with him, also was trapped in the snow but escaped serious injury. Heavy snow Sunday stranded a group of Girl Scouts near Big Pines in eastern Los Angeles County and a group of Boy Scouts in San Gabriel Canyon. All were reported safe. org 3/3/81 ADVERTISEMENT - "Power" Attack PK - # Faulty valve idles N-plant KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A valve malfunction Saturday shut down a reactor at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant near Decatur, Ala. In addition, a fire damaged a computer at the utility's nuclear plant being built near Spring City, Tenn., officials reported. Meanwhile, TVA engineers began initial phases of a procedure to restart the first reactor at the Sequoyah nuclear plant near Soddy Daisy, Tenn. The unit has not been operating for several months while engineers try to correct kinks in the machinery. TVA spokesman Steve Wynkoop said the automatic shutdown of the Unit 2 reactor at Browns Ferry occurred shortly after midnight as technicians tested one of eight main steam isolation valves. One valve failed to close fast enough, causing an imbalance in the steam lines and triggering the shutdown. The reactor should resume operating this weekend, Wynkoop said. He called the shutdown routine and unrelated to a radioactive leak at a separate unit of the plant Friday morning. More than 80 workers fled a unit at Browns Ferry at about 9:30 a.m. Friday when radioactive gas leaked from a valve that should have been closed during a repair. No one was overexposed to the radiation and there was no public health threat, officials said. The workers returned to the plant by noon. At the construction site of the Watts Bar nuclear plant near Spring City, Tenn., a short circuit apparently sparked a fire in a digital computer system in the communications room of the facility's control building Saturday morning, Wynkoop said. The plant fire brigade extinguished the flames within 30 minutes. The computer system controls the alarm system for the plant's switch yard, main transformers and some generator functions. One of the two reactors at the $2 billion facility is scheduled to begin operating next year. The plant is midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga. org 4/8/81 === Page 77 of 139 BUSINESS # A Cruel Winter's Tale The weather gods must be angry. All last week the Eastern Seaboard was locked in a deep freeze as arctic winds swept as far south as Miami. In other regions temperatures were warmer than usual, and that was almost as bad: the long run of dry, balmy days compounded the damage of the drought that has plagued much of America since last spring. From the ice-bound fishing villages of Massachusetts to the snowless ski slopes of California, the forecast was the same--hazardous economic fallout unless the winds shift soon. The frigid East was clearly hardest hit. Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King declared an "energy emergency" last week when the state's distribution and storage systems for natural gas could not keep up with stepped-up demand. He ordered all gas-heated schools to close and asked non-residential customers of the Boston Gas Co. to lower thermostats to 55 degrees. The state has been promised Federal intervention to bring an extra 24 million cubic feet of natural gas through Boston Gas pipelines, but King warned of a possible "industrial shutdown." Food was airlifted to Nantucket, whose sea routes to the mainland were clogged by ice, and fishing fleets were frozen into their harbors up and down the coast. Gloucester landings were down to just 451,000 pounds of fish a week, compared with 1.3 million pounds a year ago. Consumers will pay the price: scallop-lovers can expect to pay at least an extra $1 a pound in weeks to come, and lobster prices will soar to $7 a pound or more--$2 higher than last year's level. Juice Gap: Consumers will also be paying more for orange juice. Florida farmers tried to save citrus groves by warming them with smudge pots or spraying them with water so the ice formed cocoons against the frost, but state officials estimated that 20 per cent of the orange crop will be wiped out. That means 49 million fewer gallons of frozen-juice concentrate this year, and Brazil, the world's leading exporter, quickly suspended its own shipments, hoping to cash in on a runup in international prices. Florida's huge tourist industry was suffering, too. The coveted lounge chairs by the pool at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel were empty, and Eden Roc Hotel manager Frank Thorn reported that 20 per cent of his bookings were not showing up. Some travelers showed, then quickly turned tail. Marilyn Radovsky, president of Caramar International Travel Corp. in Long Island, N.Y., sent a group of clients to the Florida Keys, only to get a call the night of their arrival "asking would I please get them out of there and to someplace warm." High and Dry: In many states around the country the problem was less winter chill than it was water. With reservoirs at the lowest level in two decades, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware declared water emergencies. In the Midwest the water level has fallen dramatically in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, causing massive traffic jams of barges and tugboats. And farmers fear that the lack of snow cover on crops seeded last fall may leave them vulnerable to winter winds. The sparse snowfall in the Rockies and California's Sierras has practically crippled the West's ski areas. Six of Colorado's 32 ski resorts were closed last week, and others were advising expert skiers not to bother. Even at big areas such as Vail, which have enough snow-making equipment to make up for Mother Nature's stinginess, business was below par. The West's plight was the East's delight, and skiers were flocking in record numbers to the slopes of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Unfortunately, there is very little relief in sight. Last week the National Weather Service released a 30-day forecast predicting continued subnormal cold for the East, sun-baked warmth for the West and dry weather almost everywhere. Whatever the weather gods hold, they apparently have not been propitiated. MERRILL SHEILS with bureau reports Sunning skiers at Vail, icebound Massachusetts harbor and Florida oranges in an icy cocoon: The economic effects will linger long after the bad weather passes Kevin Galvin John Dickerson--Today 68 1/26/81 NEWSWEEK === Page 78 of 139 Bern. Δ PK (Disorientation) # Snowfall drives out Utah smog By GEORGE TIBBITS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- After seven weeks of nearly non-stop fog and smog, Utah's first major winter storm of the year dumped up to four feet of much-needed snow on ski areas and Wasatch Mountain watersheds. A foot of snow had fallen in parts of Salt Lake City by Saturday morning, clogging streets and causing dozens of minor traffic accidents. Poor visibility contributed to a close call Friday at Salt Lake International Airport when an Air Force jet clipped wires on a high-voltage power line. The jet landed safely. Thick, clammy fog and smog besieged the Salt Lake Valley for all but three days between Dec. 6 and Jan. 24, causing mental health officials to worry about the psychological effects of the dreary weather on residents. Mental health centers reported an increased number of contacts over the holidays, with many people saying the fog was making them irritable, frustrated or depressed. A low pressure system pushed the murk out of the valley a week ago, but the smog still was having an effect over the weekend. Utah Power & Light Co. officials said several minor power outages occurred when contaminants left by smog on utility pole insulators became wet and shorted out lines. -- 4 Projects PK -- # Snow, rain, wind rake California By United Press International Strong winds gusting up to 60 mph moved in Wednesday on the heels of a snowstorm that dumped up to 2 feet of snow in Nevada and Northern California, offering hope to ski resort operators who feared a completely disastrous season. The storm brought rain to lower elevations in California, easing fears of a drought. San Francisco received nearly 2 inches of rain Tuesday. Storm warnings were issued along the Northern California coast, where 60 mph wind raked Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, and gale warnings were issued for central California and Oregon. Inland, storm warnings were posted for the mountains of northern and central California and the Tahoe Basin of Nevada. A travel advisory for strong winds also was in effect for the southwestern mountains of California. Light snow fell from the Dakotas to New England, and much of the Southeast had rain. The San Francisco rainfall pushed the city's seasonal total since June 30 to 6.19 inches -- still only half of the 12.06 average. More than 2 feet of snow covered the mountains of western Nevada, coming as a financial lifesaver to ski operators who have seen more rocks than snow on the slopes. Mount Shasta, Calif., got 8 inches of new snow. Winnemucca, Nev., got 2 inches. Forecasters said the storm could dump up to 4 feet of snow before moving on Thursday. Some ski resorts in California may be able to open for the first time this season because of the new snowfall. Those that have opened will be able to expand their operations. In California's central valley, rain meant foothill grass might start growing, giving relief to livestock growers who have been forced to buy hay to feed their cattle. Still, the storm caused problems for some people. Thousands of Incline Village, Nev., residents were without power for an hour Tuesday when a 120,000-volt line transmission failed. Avalanches were feared in some mountain areas. oreg 1/28/81 -- 4 Projects PK -- ## Electricity restored SHERIDAN (AP) -- Electricity was out for less than 30 minutes Wednesday afternoon in a wide area northwest of Salem. Sheridan District Manager Roger Meyer of Portland General Electric Co. said the outage, covering about 500 square miles, affected 8,000 customers. oreg 1/30/81 -- 4 Projects PK -- ## AF jet clips power lines SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- An Air Force jet fighter landed safely Friday at Salt Lake International Airport after clipping wires on a high-voltage electrical transmission line, an Air Force spokesman said. The accident caused lights to flicker in the Salt Lake area, but power was diverted from the transmission lines to avoid a major blackout, said a Utah Power & Light Co. spokesman. The pilot of the F105 was not injured, although the plane received some light damage to its wing tanks and a landing gear plate. oreg 1/31/81 -- "Power" Attack -- # The world ## Earthquake injures 30 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- An earthquake rocked the Colombia-Venezuela border Wednesday, injuring at least 30 people. Officials said the tremor collapsed two church towers, damaged houses and downed power lines. There were no reports of deaths. In an interview broadcast from the Colombian border town of Cucuta, Caracol Radio quoted a fireman as saying the tremor was the strongest felt there in three decades. Cucuta, with a population of 350,000, is in northeastern Colombia, three miles west of the border and 250 miles northeast of Bogota, the capital. Cucuta hospitals reported admitting 30 injured in the first hour after the quake struck, the radio said. The broadcast reported the quake cut 50 percent of the city's telephone and electric service. Venezuelan authorities measured the tremor at 5.2 on the Richter scale. The quake, which hit at 12:36 p.m. EST, had an epicenter 220 miles northeast of Bogota. oreg 11/27/80 === Page 79 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - (Power outage) # Outage hits 11,000 homes VANCOUVER, Wash. - About 11,000 Vancouver-area homes were without power for 40 minutes Thursday night when a car hit a power pole guy line. The line snapped, tangling with transmission lines and shorting out five substations. The pole was at the corner of Northeast 72nd Avenue, just outside of the city limits, according to Mick Shutt, communications manager for the Clark County Public Utility District. Shutt said the accident occurred at about 5:40 p.m. oreg. 1/23/81 - 4 Projects PK # Storms pound California with big waves, wind, rain oreg. 1/24/81 LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Pacific storm sent waves crashing onto the Southern California shoreline Friday from San Luis Obispo to Mexico, smashing pleasure boats and eroding beaches as the first drenching rain of the year splashed the area. Meanwhile, a blustery storm eased its assault on the Northern California coast, moving eastward to dump long-awaited snow on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. As rain fell after daybreak in Southern California, authorities searched for an unidentified 17-year-old Marine swept to sea by raging waves Thursday as he stood at the edge of Ocean Beach cliffs in San Diego. Waves reached as high as 18 feet on west-facing beaches, while some swells mounted up to 25 feet. They tossed around 100 beached twin-hulled catamarans in Santa Barbara Harbor, 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, hurling the boats into parking lots and into each other. At the same harbor, a 41-foot sailboat was hurled into Stearns Wharf and two people aboard had to be rescued by firefighters. "It has been pretty rough - even rougher than last year, wild. We started getting the really big waves on Monday and by Wednesday every other wave was breaking over the rocks," said Marge Benke of Carpinteria, whose Santa Barbara County beachfront home was splashed by waves Thursday. Some 250 miles south, heavy pounding by breakers up to 18 feet high brought down an abandoned portion of the Imperial Beach pier near San Diego and broke up part of a concrete parking lot at Carlsbad State Beach Park. Cars and several pedestrians were sloshed down an ocean-front street Thursday in Imperial Beach. More than 3.5 inches of rain Thursday drenched Eureka, breaking a record for the date set in 1972. Strong winds toppled trees and power lines and caused a 40-minute power outage in Quincy. Winds of up to 45 mph damaged seven fishing boats in Trinidad, 17 miles north of Eureka, and waves up to 16 feet smashed through a 60-foot section of seawall near Ferndale, forcing the closure of Matolle Road, a major route in the area. Some residents of Rio Del Mar south of Santa Cruz had to be evacuated briefly after swells of more than 20 feet broke over a seawall and shattered windows on several houses. - 4 Projects PK - # Snow, rain finally fall as storm buffets West LOS ANGELES (AP) - A powerful Pacific storm pumped high winds across California Wednesday, heaping mounds of snow on High Sierra winter resorts, dumping rain on thirsty lowlands and apparently causing a fatal plane crash. The National Weather Service predicted another storm could reach the state by Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Pacific storm's leading edge dumped up to 6 inches of welcome snow in the Colorado Rockies, breaking a two-month snowless spell in that popular ski resort region. The National Weather Service said a high pressure system that had been parked over the West's Great Basin for two months had shifted eastward, allowing moisture to enter the area. Snow also was expected to fall in Utah, another resort area where snowfall has been light this winter. In Newhall, 30 miles north of Los Angeles, a twin-engine courier plane carrying bank checks crashed shortly after taking off in the teeth of gale-force winds shortly after midnight Wednesday, killing its pilot and a passenger, authorities said. The Beechcraft 18 took off for Las Vegas from Van Nuys Airport at 12:25 a.m. and disappeared from control tower radar screens a short time later. Neither victim was immediately identified. Winds from the storm, the second to hit the state in a week, reached 70 mph as it lashed the San Francisco Bay area and tore trees out of the ground in the Valencia-Newhall area, as well as power lines in West Los Angeles, where 44,000 customers of the city Department of Water and Power lost electrical service briefly. Some 30 California Conservation Corps workers were sent to the Sacramento River delta to strengthen a levee, which was eroded by wind-driven water. Officials said there was no immediate danger any of the delta's rich farmland would be flooded, but added that high water next weekend might create problems. Rain caused traffic snarls during the morning rush hour in Southern California, where trucks jacknifed or overturned on several major freeways and "fender benders" were plentiful, said California Highway Patrol Officer Lou Barrett. There were reports of two to three feet of snow in the Sierra. oreg 1/29/81 === Page 80 of 139 Snow, mudslides - 4 Projects PK - # Fresh storm lashes California By RICHARD DE ATLEY of The Associated Press The third Pacific storm in a week swept into California Thursday, choking mountain roads with snow and threatening to unleash mudslides in rains whipped by winds that hurled an oak tree through the front of a Northern California nursing home. "This storm is now intensifying as it moves into the state," National Weather Service forecaster Don Webster said. Forecasters originally predicted the latest storm would be the weakest of the lot. But the weather service issued midmorning bulletins for the northern and central parts of the state, warning of severe weather from the storm, including powerful thunderstorms, funnel clouds, gusty winds and heavy downpours of rain. The California Department of Transportation announced temporary closure of several mountain highways due to heavy snow, or required chains on all vehicles except four-wheel drives. Snow levels for northern mountains were expected to drop to 3,500 feet and to 4,500 feet for southern mountains. The storm was expected to diminish by Friday afternoon, followed by a weekend of fair, blustery weather, the weather service said. A winter storm warning for snow, gusty winds and up to three inches of rain was issued for Southern California. Residents whose houses survived brush fires that wiped out hundreds of homes in San Bernardino and Los Angeles kept a close watch on the denuded hills, using sandbags and makeshift water channels to ward off flooding and mudslides. Downtown Los Angeles recorded 1.65 inches of rain from the storm as of Thursday. The California Highway Patrol said flooding, rocks and mudslides had made the Pacific Coast Highway from Los Angeles north to Malibu dangerous for all travel. Part of one busy boulevard in the Los Angeles foothills was described as "curb-to-curb mud." In Pebble Beach, 130 miles south of San Francisco, the storm washed out first-round play in the 40th Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tournament. Flooding and power blackouts were reported on the Monterey Peninsula, where more than three inches of rain had fallen on the tourney's three courses since Tuesday. oreg 1/30/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Rainstorms threaten start of Crosby golf PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A series of Pacific storms, producing what has come to be known as "Crosby weather," lashed the Monterey Peninsula and threatened to disrupt the start of the 40th Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tournament. The first of two fronts swept over California's central coast Tuesday and dumped about 2 inches of rain on the three courses used for the famed event. The courses were flooded. The waters reached into the pro shop at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. Pools and puddles formed in bunkers and low-lying areas of the fairways. Winds accompanying the storm ripped limbs from trees that knocked out power lines to more than 1,000 customers. The courses were closed to practice Tuesday and opened only half the day Wednesday when sun broke through briefly in the morning. But the National Weather Bureau warned that the sunny period was merely a lull between storms. Another larger, probably wetter storm was expected before the Thursday start of the 72-hole tournament. "If we get another one like the last one, we're probably out of business, at least for Thursday," said Jack Tuthill, tournament director for the PGA Tour. He toured the courses, Pebble Beach, Cypress Point and Spyglass Hill, Wednesday and found them "not too bad. Spyglass is probably the worst. They're wet, but they're playable - right now. If we get more rain, well, we'll just have to wait and see." In any event, Tuthill said, so-called winter rules would be in effect, with players allowed to lift, clean and place balls in the squishy, soggy fairways. Jack Nicklaus, who will play with former President Ford as his amateur partner, flew down to the desert at Palm Springs Wednesday to find a practice facility. He was scheduled to return for his tee time Thursday at Cypress Point. The format calls for the 168 pros, each with an amateur partner, to play one round on each of the three courses before the field is cut for the final round Sunday at Pebble Beach. "It's going to be Mud City out there," said Tom Watson, the four-time player of the year and leading money winner who is opening his 1981 campaign in this, one of his favorite tournaments. "I'm pleased with the way I'm swinging the club. I'm eager to get started," Watson said. oteg 1/29/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Plane down, 2 walk away MUKILTEO, Wash. (AP) - A Vancouver, Wash., pilot and his passenger escaped injury late Monday when their single-engine airplane made an emergency landing south of Mukilteo, authorities said. The pilot was identified as Marvin Alfred. The identity of the passenger was not immediately known. Alfred was on a trip from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle when his plane lost power near Paine Field in south Snohomish County. He said he did what he was supposed to: "I went through the checklist as I should have ... pushed the mixture in, switched tanks, made sure the mag was on ... Beyond that, it's only by the grace of God that anybody lives through anything." Shortly after 6:30 p.m., the plane came to rest on an embankment along State Route 525 two miles south of Mukilteo. oreg 2/17/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Quake jolts Bay Area SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPI) - A moderate earthquake jolted a wide swath of the San Francisco Bay Area early Thursday, brief-ly knocking out power in one area and rousing people from their beds, but causing no injuries or damage. The University of California seismographic station said the 4:48 a.m. quake registered 4.5 on the Richter scale and was centered about 8 miles east-northeast of San Jose - the second moderate quake to shake the area in little more than a week. oteg 1/15/81 # Power outage affects 1,000 Portland General Electric Co. customers in the Cedar Hills area were without power from 3:10 p.m. to 5:02 p.m. Monday after wind blew a tree over lines near U.S. 26 at Southwest Murray Road. About 1,000 customers were affected by the outage, a PGE spokesman reported. === Page 81 of 139 (2) Oregon Journal, January 16, 1981 # declared in East quantitites. Unless it can be mass-produced synthetically, it will remain scarce and costly. Mrs. Karafotas, who suffers from usually incurable cancer of the lymph nodes, received 3 million units, or three one-thousandths of a gram, in her first injection. The test goal is doses as high as 198 million units. tal's subway system. Authorities said 24 pedestrians were injured, one fatally, in traffic accidents in the city. No reports of injuries were available from other parts of the country. The blackout hit Mexico City during the morning rush hour Thursday. - 4 Projects PK - Storm assaults Japan TOKYO (UPI) -- Heavy snow in northern and western Japan has killed another seven persons in the past three days, raising to 50 the number who died in blizzards this winter, authorities said Friday. The three-week winter storm, one of the worst in recent decades, also has destroyed houses and paralyzed traffic, and damage has been reported in a third of Japan's provinces, police said. New tremor jolts Italy NAPLES, Italy (UPI) -- For the second day, an earth tremor sent citizens fleeing into the streets early Friday in the region devastated by Italy's Nov. 23 killer earthquake, police reported. Police said there were no reports of new casualties. Blackout sweeps Mexico MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- A massive power outage lasting for six hours cut off electricity in most of Mexico and trapped more than 40,000 commuters in the capital's subway system. - 4 Projects PK - Former Rep. Celler dies NEW YORK (UPI) -- Emanuel Celler, a member of the House of Representatives for a half-century who wrote much of the country's major civil rights legislation, died of pneumonia Thursday at his Brooklyn home. He was 92. A family spokesman said Celler was ill for several months and developed pneumonia earlier in the week. Celler first won election to the House in 1922, and it was the only elective office he ever sought. In 1972, after 25 terms in the House and 22 years as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Celler was ousted in a hard-fought Democratic primary race by Elizabeth Holtzman. She relinquished the Brooklyn seat in 1980 so she could pursue her unsuccessful attempt to run for the U.S. Senate. - 4 Projects PK - # Midwest, East thaw from cold By The Associated Press The Midwest and East warmed up Saturday after record cold that contributed to at least 10 deaths. But homeward-bound holiday travelers were hampered by snow and freezing rain in the mid-Atlantic states and fog that shut airports in California for several hours. South Carolina got its first snowstorm of the season as 4 inches fell in the Charleston area Saturday, snarling traffic on icy roads. Twenty cars piled into each other on the Cooper River Bridge in one accident, but no one was seriously injured. Light snow fell over much of southeastern and south-central Virginia, where bridges and overpasses were treacherous. North Carolina's central and southern coastal counties were dusted with up to an inch of snow. In southeastern Georgia, sleet, freezing rain and snow knocked down trees and utility lines, cutting off power to 4,000 Savannah Electric & Power Co. customers during the night. The Georgia State Patrol said one man died after his vehicle skidded on an icy bridge. Around the nation, 293 people had died in traffic accidents by Saturday afternoon since the start of the Christmas holiday Wednesday evening. The National Safety Council estimated that 650 to 750 might be killed before the weekend officially ends at midnight Sunday. Most parts of the Midwest and Northeast had readings in the 20s and 30s Saturday, after three days of temperatures that often plunged below zero. - 4 Projects PK - # Siberian By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The "strange" Siberian cold wave punishing the East stunned Florida on Tuesday with a record killer freeze from Tallahassee to Miami that hung icicles on orange trees and glazed vegetables in their fields. Florida Power & Light Co. was forced to impose rotating 20-minute blackouts on cities along the entire peninsula as the coldest weather since the turn of the century put a strain on generating plants in many areas. The power outages affected about 250,000 homes and businesses. In Massachusetts, Gov. Edward J. King declared a statewide energy emergency Tuesday, urging customers of Boston Gas Co., New England's largest natural gas company, to lower their thermostats or risk school and factory closings. Records for the coldest day ever in January fell across the Southeast -- 7 degrees in Wilmington, N.C., 8 degrees in Tallahassee, Fla., and 14 in Savannah, Ga. -- while many cities of the Northeast logged new lows below zero. The deaths of two people in Florida, one in Tennessee and another in Virginia were blamed on the cold as the toll mounted. A city agency in New York reported it has received 9,500 calls this week from tenants complaining of no heat or hot water, bringing the total to 65,000 since Christmas Day. Mayor Edward Koch personally stepped in to investigate the problem. An organization of utilities serving most of New England reported a record use of electricity for the first 12 days of January, up more than 12.5 percent over the same period last year. Customers of Philadelphia Gas Works were asked to lower their thermostats 5 to 20 degrees because of potential shortages. The cold wave that has fishing boats frozen to their docks in New England and fuel barges ice-bound in Chesapeake Bay may have wiped out 20 percent of Florida's bountiful orange crop, the equivalent of 49 million gallons of concentrated orange juice, citrus officials said. Temperatures ranged from 20 to 26 degrees in most of the citrus belt of Florida. === Page 82 of 139 THE OREGONIAN, TUE # Harsh, brutal cold keeps grip on East By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A lingering freeze that slipped in from Canada petrified most of the nation east of the Rockies Monday, stalling countless cars, threatening power blackouts in some regions and pushing temperatures to record lows in more than 20 cities from Georgia to Maine. At least five deaths -- other than traffic fatalities -- were blamed on the brutal cold that moved into the Northeast over the weekend. In Boston Monday, a man and his 4-year-old son were overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Police said the fumes came from a gas space heater that was the only source of heat in their apartment. In Philadelphia, a 66-year-old man found Sunday covered with a single blanket in an unheated trailer died from what hospital authorities described as severe exposure and possible cardiac arrest. In Bucks County, Pa., an 86-year-old man was killed when he slid down an embankment and fell through the ice into a shallow stream, and at Braddock, Pa., a 65-year-old man froze to death when he stumbled and fell in the snow outside his house Saturday night. Cities along the Eastern Seaboard reported the coldest Jan. 4 in history ranged from Athens, Ga., with 11 degrees, to Caribou, Maine, with 20 below zero. Temperatures were below zero from the Upper Mississippi Valley through the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley to the Northeast and were below freezing in northern Florida. Car batteries went dead, fuel lines froze, water pipes burst, ships crunched through ice-clogged waterways and electrical generators were pushed to their limits. Automobile clubs couldn't keep up with the service calls. A number of schools closed when their heating systems failed. In New York City, the Central Complaint Bureau tried in vain to get help to thousands of residents huddled in apartments with no heat, with the wind chill outside making it feel as if it were about 30 degrees below zero. "The old people are the worst," said Dorothy Bonadie, one of the bureau's phone operators who lost heat and hot water in her own apartment Christmas Day, but got it back two days later. "You hear from a 90-year-old lady who says she has to stay in bed all day because there's no heat in her apartment. Then she starts to cry. The old people just keep talking and crying." A spokesman for the bureau, which got 8,074 calls Sunday and 2,475 more by noon Monday, said it will take a week to respond to all of the complaints. In Philadelphia, the mayor's Fuel Service hotline reported getting about 2,000 calls between Friday and early Monday from people with heating problems. In Hartford, Conn., city officials also reported getting "hundreds" of calls from disgruntled apartment dwellers. "It's the worst I can remember," said Jim Nanny, supervisor of the Hartford housing code enforcement office, who has been taking complaint calls at the office for 14 years. With record subfreezing temperatures across North Carolina -- 6 degrees in Greensboro and 8 in Asheville -- Duke Power Co. warned of possible rotating blackouts unless its customers voluntarily cut back consumption of electricity. "We're not crying wolf," said Alex Coffin, a spokesman for the utility. "This is an emergency. We have a critical strain on our system caused by the extreme cold weather." Utilities in New Hampshire and Massachusetts also reported that consumption of electricity was at record levels. The cold also forced at least two schools to close Monday in Massachusetts. The 420 students of Pioneer Valley High School were sent home when the water supply system froze, and the pupils of St. Thomas the Apostle elementary school in West Springfield were dismissed when the heating system failed. Maryland authorities also closed seven schools in Prince Georges County. # Snow, cold grip Europe PARIS (AP) -- Heavy snow and freezing temperatures in Europe this week have cut off electricity to parts of France, sent killer bands of wolves into provincial Yugoslavian sheep pens and caused a massive traffic snarl in Brussels, Belgium. As the worst winter onslaught of the century persisted in the southeastern portion of the United States, several European nations across the Atlantic were experiencing one of the coldest and snowiest winters in recent years. One of the hardest hit areas has been France, where new snow fell Tuesday in the south near the Pyrenees Mountains on the Spanish border. Parisians were surprised with a rare snowstorm Monday. Record demands for electricity and downed power lines have left six of France's 90 department-states without any electricity. Some 480 technicians have been working to fix the lines, but officials said it is doubtful power can be restored before the end of the week. Stores have run out of candles in the blacked out regions, and fur-lined after-ski boots are in heavy demand. In Limoux in the Mediterranean coast, snow collapsed the roofs of three buildings. In one, the falling timbers destroyed 2,000 bottles of the town's famous sparking white wine, Blanquette de Limoux. Tens of thousands of Italians left homeless by the massive Nov. 23 earthquake struggled with snow and icy rain that have pelted southern Italy for five days. The temperature rose above freezing for the first time in a week in some quake-stricken areas of Southern Italy, but many of the roads remained blocked by up to three feet of snow. More than 140,000 of the the homeless still live in tents, campers and railway cars after refusing relocation to government-requisitioned hotel rooms and villas away from their towns and villages. Health officials said many children and the elderly are suffering from respiratory ailments. Schools have reopened, and truckloads of relief material, including toys for children, arrive almost every day from other parts of Italy and overseas, the officials said. === Page 83 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # Vast storm brings more woe to frozen East By DAVID L. LANGFORD Of The Associated Press A vast storm assaulted much of the eastern half of the nation with freezing rain, sleet and snow Tuesday, bringing more trouble to a region stung by a record four-day cold wave that has killed at least 14 people. While cities along the Eastern Seaboard posted new low temperatures, highways across the Midwest turned to menacing sheets of ice. Some superhighways were blocked, and many schools didn't open because buses couldn't run. In St. Louis, Cincinnati, Peoria, Ill., Cleveland and down to the Tennessee Valley, cars slid into ditches and trucks jackknifed. As the the storm moved eastward, the frigid weather moderated slightly, but the mercury was expected to plummet again with its passing. Ann Arbor, Mich., was ticketed for up to 10 inches of snow, with lesser amounts in the East. Apartment dwellers in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago continued to complain by the thousands that they had no heat. The deaths of 13 people, not counting traffic fatalities, have been blamed on the big freeze that moved in last weekend to make the first week of January one of the coldest on record in the Northeast. The deaths, mostly the result of exposure, occurred in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts. For example, Jennie N. Guerrant, 88, of Maidens, Va., was found lying outside her house by two high school students whose family had cooked her meals and cut her firewood for years. Exposure also was cited as the cause of death of Carmelo Vasquez, 46, who was found living in an abandoned house with no heat in Atlantic City, N.J., while the temperatures dropped to near zero. A truck driver was killed Tuesday when his rig went out of control on an icy highway near Hardy, in northern Arkansas, and struck a guard rail. He was identified as A.L. Stoelting, 44, of Mooresville, Ind. With frost reaching as far south as Florida, cities posting new record temperatures Tuesday included Atlantic City, with 4 degrees, and Baltimore with 8. In Toms River, N.J., 10,000 residents were without electricity for 9 1/2 hours after a Jersey Central Power & Light Co. transformer failed Monday night. Power was restored Tuesday morning. oreg 1/7/81 As the temperature fell to 12 degrees -- with the wind-chill factor making it feel 2 below zero -- police drove through the shore community using loudspeakers to awaken residents and urge them to leave for warm buildings. An emergency shelter was set up at a local high school. The freezing rain Tuesday morning snarled traffic throughout much of eastern Missouri. Numerous schools were closed, and a number of accidents were reported. The highway patrol said jackknifed tractor-trailer trucks blocked Interstate 44 in St. Louis. Schools also were closed in five counties in Southern Illinois, an underpass on U.S. 51 north of Centralia was closed for several hours, and Interstate 57 was blocked at Kinmundy by an overturned truck. "Power Attack" - # 97 women, children die in fire DANACIOBASI, Turkey (AP) -- As weeping peasant women washed the bodies, bulldozers and the village men dug trenches Tuesday to bury the 97 women and children killed when a propane lantern touched off a flash fire at an engagement party. None of the men at the Monday night party in a stone cottage perished because, following rural Turkish tradition, they were in other rooms, segregated from the women. According to one of the men, the lights went out because of a power failure, and in the confusion a baby knocked over a propane lantern and some of the gas leaked out. When the lantern was lit, the gas exploded in a burst of fire that ignited other propane lanterns and the flames engulfed the room. Among the dead was Dondu Daggelen, the newly engaged 16-year-old girl. The tragedy occurred in her parents' home. Only some 50 village women were not at the party, and they were joined by women from the area to wash and wrap the bodies, loaded aboard horse-drawn wagons and dump trucks. Many of the bodies were those of infants. Men who were not straightening the sides of the burial trenches with shovels stood on the snowy hillside, chanting Moslem prayers. Officers from the martial law command arrived in Danaciobasi, 75 miles southeast of Ankara, and milled about. Yasar Evci, 47, lost his wife, 6-year-old daughter, sister-in-law, niece and grand-niece. He said he heard the women scream and tried to enter their room but was driven back by the intense heat. He was burned on the hand. oreg 11/26/80 === Page 84 of 139 Wind-driven storm sweeps Midwest; 7 killed - 4 Projecto Mx - By LOUISE COOK of The Associated Press org- 2/11/81 Driven by high winds, the biggest storm of the winter swept from the Rockies to the eastern Great Lakes Tuesday, bringing blinding snow and bone-chil- -ling cold that contributed to at least seven deaths. Tornadoes struck to the south, meanwhile, killing at least one person in Texas and hitting a grade school in Alabama. Two of the students, a bus driver and another employee were seriously injured. The snow - and the wind that made it feel like 40 or 50 below zero in many places - stretched from Montana to Ohio, sending shivers through more than a dozen states. Schools were closed, and officials plead- ed with people to stay home and keep off icy roads where drifting, blowing snow made it hard to see more than a few feet. The road conditions were blamed for fatal acci- dents in Iowa, Michigan and Kansas. There was a massive pileup Tuesday on Interstate 80 at Altoona, Iowa, and police officer Kenneth Kincaide said four people were killed. A 16-year-old girl from Eaton Rapids, Mich., was hit by a car as she walked to school Tuesday morning, and a Lost Springs, Kan., woman died Monday night when her car collided with a truck. A snowmobiler who became separated from his party near West Yellowstone, Mont., Saturday was found frozen to death across the border in Idaho Monday night. "It's a killer storm moving in," said Al Zimmer- man of the sheriff's department in Walworth County in southeastern Wisconsin. Forecasters predicted 1 to 6 inches of new snow, with winds of up to 35 mph Tuesday night. The National Weather Service said Tuesday after- noon that a blizzard warning was in effect for eastern Nebraska and added that near-blizzard conditions pre- valled across Kansas and Iowa. Winter storm warn- ings continued in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Mich- igan, Wisconsin and Kentucky. The snow accumulations, however, were not like- ly to be big enough to ease the drought in most parts of the country. The weather service says it takes 10 inches of snow to provide the amours of moisture in 1 inch of rain, although the amount varies depending on whether the snow is-wet or hry. Scattered power failures were tied to the cold. Between 400 and 500 homes in Helena, Mont., many of which use electricity for heating, were without power for more than three hours Tuesday morning in temperatures of 27 degrees below zero. The cold in Montana even forced a ski area, Bridger Bowl, to close for the day. There were warnings that driving would become more dangerous as the day wore on, and airports reported delays and, in a few cases, closings. "It is highly recommended that persons cancel all travel plans this afternoon and evening as travel will be near-impossible," said the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa. "Right now, it's getting worse as the day goes along," said Cliff Schlough, maintenance superintend- ent for the Dane County Highway Department in Madison, Wis. "We're looking for 40-mile-per-hour winds tonight and then it will be really bad. ... The roads might not be plugged up, but you won't be able to see." Temperatures in Denver dropped 13 degrees in one hour as the cold front moved into Colorado. The high- 2-17-81 POISON PLANT ON RAMPAGE A POISONOUS giant weed is rapidly spread- ing across the eastern U.S. and causing an epidemic of painful skin disease, ac- cording to top plant ex- perts. The plant, the giant hogweed or cow parsnip, inflicts an agonizing rash on those who handle it in direct sunlight. The weed has already gained a firm foothold in New York, and scientists fear it is becoming much more widespread. "Nobody has done a careful study of its range or origin," said Dr. Peter A. Hyypio, a botanist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. ** We think it was in- troduced into this country as an ornamental plant, although that's only an educated guess." The hogweed's spectac- ular size makes it attrac- tive as an ornamental plant. It grows up to 20 feet tall in the first year, its umbrella-like clusters of white flowers blooming in late June or early July. Children who use its hollow stems as peashoot- ers or "telescopes" often suffer painfully for their unwitting contact with the plant's poison sap. The irritating chemical in the plant is psoralen. It raises large blisters that result in a burning sen- sation and can easily be- come infected, according to Vancouver, B.C., Can- ada, skin specialist Dr. John Mitchell. After the blisters, ugly brown marks appear. These may last for years. The rash is often mis- taken by doctors for impetigo, a contagious disease. The way to beat the blisters is to apply cool compresses and protect them from infection. If they do become infected, see a physician, Dr. Mit- chell advises. Anyone noticing a giant hogweed growing in his neighborhood this spring should cut it down before it grows to full size. Since the irritating substance only becomes active in sunlight, "Cut it on a cloudy day or at night," said Dr. Mitchell, "and then stay out of the sun next day." Inches overnight. were closed Tuesday because of the snow, and the state House of Representatives canceled its afternoon session. The National Weather Service forecast up to 6 inches of snow during the day, with an additional 4 Schools in more than a dozen Michigan counties hazardous throughout the state. way patrol said drifting snow, combined with fog and winds gusting up to 35 mph, made driving conditions === Page 85 of 139 - Bermuda Attack - # Plane crashes kill 12 holiday travelers By The Associated Press Twelve people flying to Thanksgiving dinner engagements were killed Thursday in the crashes of two private planes in Washington and Idaho. In Washington, six members of a Yakima family died on a flight to Seattle when their plane crashed and burned in bad weather east of Mount Rainier National Park, authorities said. Yakima County sheriff's deputies identified the victims as William Cahoon, 38, a real estate agent and civic leader who owned the twin-engine plane; his wife, Nyle; his mother, Mildred; and the couple's three children, Erin, 10, Doug, 16, and David, 12. Mike O'Connor, duty officer for the Federal Aviation Administration in Seattle, said the plane went down 4½ miles north of Mount Baldy, east of Chinook Pass, after the pilot reported engine trouble on a flight from Yakima to Boeing Field in Seattle. Weather in the area was "extremely bad," with snowshowers and low clouds, O'Connor said. After a radio message in which Cahoon said he was returning to Yakima, "radio and radar contact with them was lost," O'Connor added. Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Ward said ground crews used U.S. Forest Service roads to reach the crash site, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, four hours after the initial report and found the wreckage still burning in the fog. The bodies were not immediately recovered, he said. He said George Cahoon, the pilot's brother, told authorities the family was headed for a Thanksgiving dinner in Seattle. "Apparently they lost an engine," Ward said. "I think power went out, possibly a fire. They did have navigational problems, because they radioed to us they were turning around ... to go back." O'Connor said it was unusual to find a crash site that quickly under such conditions. "It was too sloppy weather to have any kind of an air search," he said. "Normally, you don't get that lucky." William Cahoon was active in several civic organizations, including the Jaycees, Chamber of Commerce and YMCA, and in state and local organizations of real estate agents. At Driggs, Idaho, a small twin-engine plane carrying six people and a dog nose-dived into a fiery crash just several hundred feet short of the Driggs airport runway, said Teton County Sheriff Ted Trout. Visibility was about 100 yards at the time of the early morning crash, he said. Trout said he received a call shortly after midnight from a farmer's wife who said she heard a plane in trouble above her home. By the time he arrived, Trout said, the plane had crashed and was in flames. All the victims apparently died instantly, he said. Two bodies had been thrown from the plane, and all six were burned beyond recognition. The victims were identified as James Clay of the San Francisco area; his three children, Stacey, 17, Cameron, 13, and Mitch, 11; and his brother, Charles Teague Clay of Lake Tahoe, Nev. The sixth victim was Perry Anderson of California. The group had flown from California to Driggs to spend Thanksgiving. Trout said the crash apparently occurred at 12:07 a.m., the time a watch worn by one of the victims stopped. - 4 Projects PK - # Tornado hits schoolhouse in Alabama BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) -- A tornado ripped through several buildings Tuesday, including a school where 1,000 children were in class, and authorities said 62 people were injured, four of them seriously. Owen Liles, principal of the Bay Minette Middle School, said he heard the tornado coming as it dipped down from a fast-moving storm system about 8:30 a.m. and ran to warn the students on the intercom. But by then the windows were tearing out of the building and the roof was coming off. The tornado also hit a few small businesses and several homes in the area, and some of the injured came from those places. Nine nearby houses were destroyed by the twister, and 15 were extensively damaged, according to the Red Cross. State troopers said that after the tornado passed through, roads leading to the area were closed because of downed power lines and natural gas leaks. But many parents rushed to the school in blinding rain to check on their children. Police described the scene as "an awful mess." Fifty-seven people were treated at Bay Minette Hospital, where administrator Gary Farrow said the injuries were "primarily superficial." He said four were referred to other hospitals, four were admitted for further treatment and there could be more as the examinations continued. Two students with serious injuries were taken to South Alabama Medical Center at Mobile. Tommy Johnson, 14, suffered head injuries and underwent surgery late Tuesday. Fred Munsey, 13, also had head injuries. Both students were listed in guarded condition. A bus driver and a canteen worker at the school also were seriously hurt. A door struck the canteen worker, Sarah Harris. The bus driver was not immediately identified. === Page 86 of 139 - "Power" Attack - ITALY # The Quake: 'The End of Fifteen hours after the earthquake that devastated southern Italy last week, a health officer radioed a desperate message from the village of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi. "Eighty per cent of the town has been destroyed," he cried. "Hundreds of people are buried under the rubble, but so far no one has come ... The road is open. Why has no one come?" A full day after the earthquake, the first outsiders arrived in the mountain village of Teora. "Are you the rescuers?" exclaimed the first man to run up to them. "Thank God, you've come. There are 300 people under this rubble and some of them are still alive." The new arrivals were not rescuers. They were journalists. Two days after the quake, help arrived in Sinerchia, another village in the Apennine mountains. But it consisted of food, not digging equipment. "There are people under there screaming, 'Help, don't let me die like this'," wailed one resident. "And they bring us food." *Digging out: After the town of Balvano was flattened (left), the street became a morgue (bottom left); in Avellino, rescue workers dug through rubble to reach the living--and to bring out the dead* AGF ADN Kronos TEAM Claire A. Nivola-NEWSWEEK ITALY Power out * Aversa * NAPLES * Pompeii * Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi * Avellino * Lioni * Teora * Calabritto * Laviano * Salerno * Eboli * Balvano * Potenza * Brienza ITALY Rome Naples YUGOSLAVIA Adriatic Sea Tyrrhenian Sea 0 100 Miles NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 === Page 87 of 139 the World' The earthquake was Europe's deadliest in 65 years. The tremor shuddered from Sicily to the Alps (map). Around the epicenter in southern Italy, always a regional synonym for poverty, nearly a hundred towns crumbled into rubble. "It was the end of the world, enough to drive you mad," said Father Salvatore Pagliocchi, the parish priest in Balvano, where the church collapsed during Mass, burying 50 people. The quake badly damaged historic ruins that had survived at Pompeii, and demolished a nine-story apartment building in Naples. The official count of the dead stood at more than 3,000, and some rescue workers predicted that it might climb to 10,000. The tragedy was compounded by the ineptitude of the Italian Government. It minimized the quake at first and was slow to take action when the dimensions of the devastation became clear. When the relief operation finally began, it was bumbling and disorganized. Many people who survived the quake died later in swirling snowstorms for lack of housing, food or medicine. Both President Alessandro Pertini and Pope John Paul II toured the ravaged area and quickly discovered that the furious villagers wanted to see rescuers instead. Pertini fired the prefect of hard-hit Avellino Province for incompetence and unleashed a blistering attack on the government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani. "There have been serious failures," he declared. "Whoever has failed must be punished." Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni quit in response, but Forlani refused to accept his resignation for fear that his whole government might fall. It was still possible, however, that the final aftershock of the earthquake might be the collapse of Italy's latest house-of-cards government. 'No Reports': The quake began at exactly 7:36 p.m.; stopped clocks all over southern Italy attested to the time. The tremors recorded 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale--strong enough to do vast damage in an area inhabited by 7 million people, many of them living on precarious mountain slopes. Everywhere, buildings collapsed; many victims died instantly, while debris buried others alive. But the first report on Italy's state-run television said: INTERNATIONAL "Fortunately, there are no reports of damage or loss of life." The Interior Ministry clung doggedly to the figure of 350 dead--and turned away some international aid--long after aerial photographs showed village after village atumble with destruction. When Pertini saw the destruction for himself, he broke into tears. "There are no words," he said to survivors in Potenza. "They die upon the lips." Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, a poor farming town of 4,000 people east of Naples, was one of the hardest hit. NEWSWEEK'S Elaine Sciolino arrived there after the earthquake. Her report: The blue and white welcome sign--"Benvenuti a Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi"--still stood at the town's entrance. But now it was difficult to imagine what Sant'Angelo once looked like. The quake hit suddenly, and after about 40 seconds all but a few buildings had crumbled. Nothing was left in the central piazza; the city hall and the only café, the Corrado Bar, were gone. Collapsed walls exposed abandoned rooms of houses that were still standing--furniture in place, chandeliers undamaged, paintings and rosaries still hanging on walls. Usable roads were blocked by cars filled with people from the north in search of their families. Twenty-four prisoners, freed when the jail collapsed, decided to direct traffic instead of fleeing. They had nowhere else to go. The town's official death toll was several hundred, but about a thousand people were still missing. There was hope that some of the missing still were alive: 42 hours after the quake, a middle-aged woman was 'Enough to drive you mad' (clockwise): An anguished Pope comforts the injured in Potenza; in Laviano, a woman's body hangs from the ruins of her home, while soldiers prepare coffins for the victims Michel Ginies--Sipa-Black Star Arturo Mari--Sipa-Black Star Michel Ginies--Sipa-Black Star NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 51 === Page 88 of 139 INTERNATIONAL pulled from the rubble of her apartment, conscious but unable to speak. She was rushed to a makeshift hospital (the regular hospital had collapsed, killing an unknown number of patients). There was no one in charge of the rescue efforts--or, for that matter, in charge of what was left of the town. The mayor and his family, most of the town's other officials, the parish priest, the local union representative and the police chief were all believed dead. 'It's Chaos': Fire brigades set up tents and a soup kitchen on the town's sports field, and there seemed to be enough food, water and blankets. But rescue operations were haphazard. "Would you believe that there is not one blowtorch in the whole town?" a fireman asked as he tried to cut through a metal barrier with a wire cutter. A major of the Italian Financial Police was in tears as he said: "It's chaos. There's absolutely no coordination. I was sent here to help, but what can I do?" When Pertini arrived, a man whose sister was buried raged at him: "Why have you come here? It's just publicity for television." Many villagers were left to dig for their relatives themselves. One man, who lost his wife and one of his three children when their modern five-story condominium crumbled, dug with his bare hands for twelve hours to rescue his 11-year-old son. When he finally got to the boy, he embraced him--and watched the child die in his arms. "They all might have been saved if help had come," he said softly. "How many more are still trapped in there?" The situation in Sant'Angelo was repeated over and over, not just in ramshackle villages, but even in Naples, where at least 15 per cent of all the buildings suffered serious damage. Thousands of people, either homeless or terrified of another quake, camped out in piazzas and other open spaces under tents made of any available material, including cardboard held together with string and tape. City officials, fearing an outbreak of disease, sent a Sanitation Department truck around the piazzas to spray the crowds with disinfectant. Black-marketeers made the most of the situation, doubling the price of bottled water and charging as much as $1,000 for a wooden coffin. And prisoners in Naples's maximum-security prison tried to break out in the chaos, setting off riots in which four prisoners were knifed, one fatally. Said Clemente Lepre, a male nurse at a makeshift hospital: "This city is possessed by fear." But fear was quickly giving way to rage at the government's inefficiency. In one village 150 people sat on railroad tracks to protest the lack of aid. President Pertini was berated at every stop on his tour. When he landed at the tiny town of Laviano, one man cried out: "The helicopter should have arrived yesterday for the rescue, not today for the spectacle." The other well-meaning and anguished visitor from Rome, Pope John Paul II, quickly sensed the mood of despair. "For those who tell me they can no longer pray, I say, pray with your suffering," he advised the survivors in Balvano. Even the Pope did not receive the warm welcome that usually greets his visits. "With every passing moment our hope of finding survivors dwindles," said one top-ranking rescue official. "Now we have the Pope, and hundreds of officials had to be mobilized for him." The government was so oblivious to the scale of the disaster that for two days it turned down an offer from the United States of 1,000 tents and five helicopters. The Swiss offered medicine, the West Germans a military field hospital and the French a team of surgeons--and they all received the same chilly initial response. Five days after the quake, one colonel involved in the relief operation estimated that half of the afflicted villages still had not been reached by military aid teams. In Laviano, the mayor complained that local men who had been working in West Germany and Switzerland reached the town before the army did. When Rome finally got into action, it had no emergency plan, although successive governments had been talking about drawing one up for ten years. Asked about the government's crisis program, Giuseppe Zamberletti, head of the commission to aid earthquake victims, snapped: "What general plan? Everybody has his own general plan, and they all contradict each other." Forlani's Christian Democratic government had a litany of excuses: the earthquake happened on a Sunday night, when the Cabinet was playing host to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; the terrain of the stricken area was hilly and difficult; communications and roads were cut by the quake, and rescue efforts were hampered by thick fog and even thicker traffic jams. "It's impossible to make a national plan of public security for cases like this," insisted Interior Minister Rognoni. "It's not like wartime." Such excuses roused President Pertini to react. Looking haunted, he appeared on television. "There was not the immediate aid that there should have been," he declared. "Groans and cries of despair rose up from the ruins of those buried alive." That was an unprecedented slap from an Italian President, whose office is largely ceremonial. Rognoni promptly resigned "to relieve the government of tensions." But Prime Minister Forlani, turning down the resignation, had his own view: "The words of the Chief of State were not directed at criticizing the government work." Scandal: In fact, almost everyone was criticizing the government. Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, whose party belongs to the ruling coalition, declared: "There was too much inaction, too many delays." Communist chief Enrico Berlinguer offered to form a new government. No one took his proposal too seriously, but all the criticism came at a bad time for Forlani's six-week-old government, already reeling from a scandal over oil-price fixing. While the politicians argued, the situation was getting even more desperate for the survivors. Snow had begun to fall. Some campsites were ankle deep in water, and many of the later deaths were attributed to exposure to the rain, wind, cold and snow. Rescuers continued to pull a few survivors out of the rubble. But some villages were simply bulldozed and sprayed with formaldehyde to prevent infection from rotting corpses. Forlani approved a $1.3 billion relief package for emergency aid and housing. But many of the survivors were aware that 35,000 people were still living in makeshift housing after losing their homes in a Sicilian earthquake nearly thirteen years ago. If Forlani fails to survive his own crisis, the fall of an Italian Government would be a minor casualty of another historic trauma for the Italian nation. Stunned survivors: 'Cries of despair rose from those buried alive' Sipa-Black Star JOHN BRECHER with ELAINE SCIOLINO in southern Italy and RITA DALLAS in Rome NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 52 === Page 89 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # Stubborn cold wave in Eastern U.S. taxes utilities, patience By DAVID L. LANGFORD Of The Associated Press A persistent cold wave that has set records almost daily since Christmas pushed another cloak of painful arctic air into the East on Monday, forcing emergency measures to keep people warm. The Canadian blast sent temperatures to new lows in nearly two dozen communities from Florida to Massachusetts, far below zero in many areas. As natural gas started running out in parts of Massachusetts, more than 15,000 schoolchildren were told to stay home. Some factories closed. Lights flickered and went out for a time in a few cities as the increased demand for electricity over-taxed generating facilities. Citrus growers in Florida spent the night in their groves, burning fires to save the tender fruit. Even colder weather was on the way. Ice-breakers plowed through choked waterways, trying to keep shipping lanes open. Water pipes froze in hundreds of homes in Baltimore and a break in a main line shut off all the water for the 1,500 homes and business in Smyrna, Del., from late Sunday until late Monday morning. Apartment dwellers in New York City, where the mercury dipped to a record-tying 2 degrees Monday, threatened a rent strike unless something was done immediately to restore heat to thousands of homes. About two dozen residents of a city housing project, chanting "no heat, no rent," picketed outside the Housing Preservation and Development Agency. They claimed 14 of the 20 buildings in the Cooper Square urban renewal area had been without heat or hot water during the cold wave. "Babies are put to bed bundled in snowsuits, and apartments are heated by keeping ovens going all night," said one tenant, Ese Varses, who carried her 7-month-old daughter on her arm as she picketed. Elizabeth Martinez, who lives in the Bronx, was one of about 50 people who sought shelter from the cold Sunday in a National Guard armory. She told what it's like living in an apartment with no heat, with children 1 and 2 years old. "My little one's hands were green and swollen from the cold," she said. "The water was frozen in the toilet bowl, and to wash my children, I got pans of water from across the street and heated it on my electric stove." The mercury was below zero Monday across most of the northeastern quarter of the nation, including portions of the Ohio Valley, with Old Forge in the Adirondacks of New York reporting in at 43 below. Among cities reporting record sub-zero temperatures were Beckley, W.Va., minus 3; Harrisburg, Pa., minus 4; Hartford, Conn., minus 14; Newark, N.J., minus 1; Providence, R.I., minus 8; Williamsport, Pa., minus 12. Paul Carpenter of the National Weather Service in Kansas City said the cold wave "looks like it could continue for a while." "It looks likely to continue for a week or two," he said. "but it's impossible to say when it could change." Oreg. 1/13/81 # Storm claims 12, slows yule travel - 4 Projects PK - By United Press International A snowstorm swirling across the nation's breadbasket prompted a spate of minor traffic accidents during morning rush-hour traffic in Chicago and threatened to create hazardous driving conditions for holiday travelers. A winter storm that began early Tuesday along the East Coast moved over the Atlantic early Wednesday. The storm left 12 dead -- four in Virginia, three in South Carolina, two in Maryland and one each in Georgia, Kentucky and New Jersey. Most of the victims were killed when autos skidded out of control on icy highways. The new snowstorm, moving east across the upper Midwest, was blamed for deaths in Iowa and one in Kansas. Police said a 10-month-old infant was killed and six persons were injured late Tuesday when two cars collided on an icy road near Bassett. A middle-aged woman was killed when her car slid into a Greyhound bus and then rolled into a ditch on ice-coated Iowa Route 6 near Lewis. Police said three bus passengers were treated for injuries. Two to 4 inches of snow fell in Chicago and surrounding suburbs, sending many early morning motorists skidding off highways and into other cars. Heavy, wet snow snapped power lines serving several north suburbs, leaving 2,000 homes without power for a short period of time early Wednesday. # Winds Disrupt Area Clark County Tribune 2-24-81 Winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour knocked out power lines and ripped branches from trees early Thursday morning, causing traffic tie-ups for early morning commuters. The wind and raging storm hit its hardest about 2:30 a.m., resulting in hazardous driving conditions and flooding in low areas around the county. Tree limbs, trash cans, and various other loose items, blown about by the high winds, added to the dangers. "Power" Attack PK === Page 90 of 139 4 Projects PK THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1981 3M # Florida's citrus, vegetable crops suffer losses Story on Page One also By IKE FLORES ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The first killer freeze in four years may have destroyed up to 20 percent of Florida's bountiful orange crop Tuesday as temperatures broke records set as long ago as 1886. As growers braced for more frigid temperatures to come, Gov. Bob Graham, declaring an emergency, lifted weight limits on trucks hurrying frozen citrus to processors. Farther south in the "winter vegetable basket" of Dade County, the nation's largest producer of vegetables this time of year, officials said it also appeared damage to crops could be severe. National Weather Service spokesman Alvin Samet in Miami said Tuesday capped a five-day period among the "top 10" coldest since 1911. Officials at Florida Citrus Mutual, a cooperative based in Lakeland representing 15,000 growers, put their loss at the equivalent of 49 million gallons of concentrated orange juice, or about 36 million 90-pound boxes. Orange juice prices jumped as reports of the damage reached commodity markets. On the New York Cotton Exchange, the price of frozen concentrate futures rose by 5 cents a pound, as much as is allowed to increase in a day's trading. The latest increase brought the price to 88 cents a pound. Damage to grapefruit was less serious. Records fell with the thermometer throughout Florida early Tuesday, with a reading of 8 degrees in Tallahassee that broke a 1971 record of 11, and a morning low of 13 in Jacksonville, 2 degrees below the previous January record set 95 years ago. In Tampa, a 22-degree reading broke the record set in 1905. Miami had 32, the coldest for the date since 1962, and tourists seeking respite from cold weather back home shivered on Miami Beach, where a record low of 36 broke the 43-degree mark set in 1962. At least two deaths were blamed on the cold. A St. Petersburg man apparently rolled over a charcoal grill he was using to heat his apartment and died in the resulting fire. A Jacksonville man apparently fell asleep outdoors and died of exposure. Utility companies reported record demand forced rotating blackouts from Miami to the Florida-Georgia border. Florida Power & Light, the state's largest electric utility, said peak demand reached an estimated 10.7 million kilowatts Tuesday morning, topping the record 10.55 million the previous night, spokesman Luis Muniz said. "The rotating outages of up to 30 minutes each were required to balance demand with supply," he said. The interrupted service affected approximately 250,000 of the company's 2.1 million customers, he said. Bobby McKown, Citrus Mutual executive vice president, said, "Preliminary assessments indicate most growers expect damage to be on a par with the January 1977 freeze, when the equivalent of 50 million boxes of oranges and juice yield was lost." The winter vegetable area south and west of Miami was severely hit. "We have suffered a severe freeze," said U.S. Agriculture Department spokeswoman Jo Ann Dellinger. Oreg. 1/14/81 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1980 -- 4 Projects PK -- Oreg. 12/25/80 # Man survives 27,500-volt jolt SUFFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- A 24-year-old man who grabbed power lines and received a 27,500-volt electric charge as police watched was in serious condition with burns and a broken neck, officials said. "We are amazed that he survived," a spokesman for the Connecticut Light & Power Co. said Tuesday. The Florida electric chair voltage that ended the life of convicted murderer John Spenkelink last year was 2,250 volts. Police said Bernard Smart of Springfield, Mass., slammed his car Monday into a storage building at the local Springfield Sugar & Products Co., where he worked, then climbed a utility pole. Ignoring pleas to climb down, Smart grabbed two power lines carrying 27,500 volts, police said. His body created a short circuit, blowing a fuse and knocking out power to more than 2,100 electric customers. The explosive force of the spark knocked Smart 25 feet to the ground. He broke his neck in the fall. A physician who treated Smart when he arrived at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield said Smart was alert and had a normal heartbeat. Except for leg burns, he showed no ill effects from the electric shock, the doctor said. "It doesn't seem to have affected him," he said. "I can't explain it. I don't know why it didn't do more." Power company officials said they had been told Smart had been fired early Monday, but police said they could not confirm his job status. === Page 91 of 139 # NW rivers bulging in record warm spell By STAN FEDERMAN of The Oregonian staff Wet and warm weather, which produced flooding rivers and record high temperatures around Western Oregon, was expected to continue Friday as a new storm headed toward the Pacific Northwest. Washington state was expected to bear the brunt of that storm. Regional river forecasters late Thursday warned that the Clackamas River near Clackamas was expected to rise 3 feet above its 13-foot banks at about 4 a.m. Friday. Residents living along the river in the area were cautioned to keep abreast of further forecasts on radio and television and to remain in touch with local authorities. Four rivers in the Tillamook area spilled over their banks by midafternoon Thursday and major flooding occurred in the town's main business district. The problem was aggravated when a 10-foot span of dike holding back the Kilchis River broke two miles north of the city, allowing the water to spill into nearby pastureland and flood U.S. 101 with upwards of 4 feet of water. Police were allowing only trucks to move through the area late Thursday night. The Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers all surged over their banks near Tillamook. Several homes along the Wilson River were surrounded by water, according to Mary Priss, coordinator for Tillamook County Emergency Services. She said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was attempting to repair the Kilchis dike -- and also was inspecting a dike on the Wilson near the city that showed several breaches. Elsewhere the National Weather Service issued flood warnings for the Siuslaw River and Coquille River basins. The South Fork of the Coquille was expected to go 4 feet over its banks at Myrtle Point during the night. The Mapleton area east of Florence on Oregon's central coast had 5.3 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending at 5 p.m. Thursday. High water brought traffic to a snail's pace on Oregon 126 east of Florence. Flood warnings were also issued for the Marys River at Philomath, Luckiamute River at Suver in Polk County and South Yamhill River at Whiteson. Other flood-troubled spots included Harrisburg along the Willamette River north of Eugene and the Johnson Creek drainage in Southeast Portland. The raging creek went over its banks by as much as 2 to 3 feet Thursday, causing huge "lakes" in some Southeast Foster Road areas. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Department blocked off the road between Southeast 103rd and 112th avenues Thursday night because of high water. The barricades were expected to remain through the night. A rock and mud slide above U.S. 30, the scenic Columbia River Highway in the Columbia Gorge, blocked both the highway and Union Pacific Railroad tracks one mile east of Multnomah Falls. The slide occurred shortly before noon Thursday. Two trains had to be rerouted to the Washington side before Union Pacific crews cleared the tracks by 6 p.m. Police indicated that the old highway would not be cleared until at least Friday morning. A tree fell on a Portland General Electric power line before noon Thursday, just west of the Southwest Canyon Road tunnel, creating a power outage affecting 1,000 homes, the Washington Park Zoo and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Service was restored by 1:30 p.m. Officials said wind apparently felled the tree. Despite the almost constant rain Thursday, four cities, including Portland, registered record high temperatures for Christmas. Portland recorded a high of 64 degrees at 10 p.m. Thursday, easily beating the old yule day mark of 59 degrees set in 1972. Pendleton, Eugene and Salem also reported record temperatures Thursday. Forecasters predicted occasional rain with some clearing periods Friday and Saturday for Portland and the Willamette Valley. They said a new storm is moving toward the Pacific Northwest but said Washington state should bear the brunt of it over the weekend. Mild temperatures were expected to continue with highs in the low 60s and lows near 50 degrees predicted for Friday in the Portland area. "Portland's previous Dec. 26 high mark is 59 degrees -- and we're probably going to see that broken also," said a National Weather Service spokesman. In Southwest Washington, flood alerts were issued for smaller rivers such as the Washougal and Wind, but there were no warnings for major rivers such as the Toutle, Cowlitz, Kalama or Lewis. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesmen said the Toutle and Cowlitz -- close to the Mount St. Helens volcano -- were remaining "well within their banks." Unhappy ski resorts saw the rains wash away any hopes for holiday skiing. Timberline skiing on Mount Hood was closed Thursday because of rains and high winds, but officials said they hoped to reopen Friday. Additional details on Page B4. === Page 92 of 139 AY, DECEMBER 26, 1983 Note: Simultaneous record "warm" on West Coast. # East has white Christmas, shivers in sub-zero cold By The Associated Press Northerners bundled up Thursday for a frigid but white Christmas as arctic air swept the eastern half of the nation and temperatures plummeted to record lows in dozens of cities. One of the coldest spots was Old Forge, N.Y., in the Adirondacks, where the morning low was 36 degrees below zero. One of the region's perennial cold spots, atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, had a reading of 34 degrees below zero on Christmas Eve, but that didn't bother Jeff Tirey, who spent Christmas in a weather observatory atop the peak in the White Mountains. Tirey, a weather observer, had a Christmas tree in the observatory and planned a traditional turkey dinner with a fellow observer and a guest. The icy weather interfered with the annual re-enactment of Gen. George Washington's Revolutionary War crossing of the Delaware River. Shore activities at Washington Crossing, Pa., went on as usual, an official of the event said, but the actual crossing of the river was canceled because of ice on the river and high winds that produced a wind chill factor of 40 degrees below zero. At Albany, N.Y., the Christmas temperature read 20 degrees below zero at 9 a.m. EST, but gusty winds produced in a wind-chill equivalent of 67 degrees below zero. In nearby Syracuse, N.Y., where the temperature plummeted to 22 below, about 4,000 people were without power for six hours after a failure of switching equipment. Power was restored at 8 a.m. EST. Power also was out temporarily for about 2,400 people in the Connecticut towns of Bethany, Southington and New Canaan. New York City was warmer, at 1 degree below zero at 8 a.m. EST, but that still shattered a 108-year record for Christmas Day. The previous record there for the date was 4 degrees above zero, according to the National Weather Service's National Severe Storm Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. Detroit also nipped a record of 7 below set in 1872 with a 7 a.m. EST temperature of 8 below zero. And the 8 below at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport broke a record 6 below set in 1924. Temperatures fell to 7 below in Boston at 9 a.m. -- the coldest Christmas since 1957 when it also was minus 7. Worchester, Mass., had a reading of 10 below zero. Blustery northwest winds that gusted to 40 mph produced wind-chill factors of 70 degrees below zero. New records of 10 degrees were set in Roanoke, Va., and Lynchburg, Va., according to the weather service. The old records were 12 degrees, set in 1976 in Roanoke, and 14 degrees, set in 1930 in Lynchburg. Old records also were broken in several New Jersey cities. In Newark, the temperature plummeted to zero, well below the 1968 record of 11 degrees, and Atlantic City recorded a temperature of 9 degrees. The old record in the gambling city was 10 degrees, set in 1896. Few regions besides the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley saw Christmas-morning snow, but much of the nation got at least a dusting from snow that fell the day before. St. Louis had its first white Christmas since 1967. Travelers' advisories for snow were posted Christmas Day in Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia. Associated Press Laserphoto RECORD COLD -- Judy Hybrandt of Los Angeles protects face as temperatures in New York City dipped to 1 degree below zero Thursday, making it coldest Christmas there in 108 years. === Page 93 of 139 Oregon Journal -4 Projects PK- Blazers need glass slipper - page 17 Wellness Bag is back - page 41 FINAL EDITION Final ********** Wednesday, January 9, 1980 15c # Storm paralyzes Portland; thousands without power ## Gorge buried by deep snow By ROLLA J. CRICK and PHIL HUNT Journal Staff Writers Ice and snow combined Wednesday to shut down highways, schools and disrupt power service both in Portland and throughout much of the Pacific Northwest - on the anniversary of the January 1979 freezing rain storm that devastated Portland. Hood River and Cascade Locks were buried under a deepening blanket of snow. ### Journal delayed Because of a power outage that struck The Journal plant early Wednesday, today's edition is a combination of the 2, 3 and 4 dot editions. Power went out at 3 a.m. and was not restored until 5:30 a.m. Because of the single, earlier edition, there are no closing stock market figures, although a summary of stock market activities is on page 9. snow, ranging up to 5 feet in places, while hundreds of people were being housed under emergency conditions in armories, schools and churches. Skamania County, Wash., across the Columbia River from Hood River, battled a blizzard and many people were stranded in cars and awaiting rescue along Washington State Route 14. The only vehicles allowed to move were four-wheel drive rigs with chains on all four wheels. The National Weather Service posted freezing rain and snow warnings for the Portland metropolitan area and issued travel advisories for locally heavy and blowing snow in the Columbia Gorge and through the Cascades. A 2-inch additional accumulation of snow was predicted for Portland and snow showers were expected to continue through Thursday. Johnson Creek, a perennial trouble spot for flooding in the Portland area, was rising and expected to crest about noon today. Oregon people were advised Bell said it had about 1,500 to 2,000 phone lines reported down and anticipated the number would rise during the day. General Telephone Co. said that service between East Multnomah County and Portland was out. Most Portland area public schools and colleges were not operating Wednesday as snow continued to fall during the day. Schools in Southwest Washington also were out. At mid-morning Wednesday, with the weather worsening in Eastern Multnomah County, the sheriff's office reported people were stranded with live electric wires draped over their cars because of broken power poles near SE 90th Ave. and Powell Blvd. INTERSTATE 80N was closed from 181st Avenue to Hood River because of blizzard conditions. An avalanche caused closure of Oregon Highway 35 between Hood River and U.S. 26 across Mount Hood. Seattle, which was hit hard Tuesday, continued to have its problems Wednesday with 5 to 6 inches of snow downtown and more in outlying areas. Schools, many offices and some buildings were closed while police expressed fear Seattle might experience a repeat of its paralyzing snow storms of 1950 and 1916. The Journal was without power for 2 1/2 hours, forcing it to combine two Wednesday editions into one. When power was off in the Oregonian-Journal building, it stopped operation of computer terminals and delaying production of newspapers. Newsroom crews operated with candles and manual typewriters to gather and record what was happening. About 40 to 45 stranded motorists in the Columbia Gorge were to the Bonneville Dam auditorium for the night and schools at Cascade Locks and Hood River were turned into emergency shelters. Picture coverage of the ice and snow storm that struck Northwest Oregon is on pages 8 and 16. Sheriff's deputies were using their vehicles Wednesday RAMP JAM - Five big tractor-trailer rigs and an assortment of smaller vehicles slithered and bumped into each other and against guardrails early Wednesday on the freeway ramp from I-405 off the Fremont Bridge leading to US 30. A few above, the freeway was caught in the ice. # Mayor declares state of emergency By NELSON PICKETT and DIANE CARMAN Journal Staff Writers Portland prepared to pull all stops Wednesday to aid citizens left without food, power and emergency medical care. Mayor Connie McCready recessed the City Council meeting Wednesday morning to declare a "limited state of emergency." That gave her the legal authority to he will recommend to the mayor that an emergency shelter be established at a local high school, possibly David Douglas. He said he was coordinating efforts with the American Red Cross and the Portland School District. He said he also would recommend that the city designate a single emergency number at the Kelly Butte Communications center to handle calls for food, shelters. "Our first priority is to remove down trees blocking streets," Lindberg said. "We're just going full blast with tree crews along major arterials," he said. Lindberg said one of his major concerns was the fact that a "substantial number" of Portlanders would continue to be without heat or electricity for at least another 24 hours because of downed power lines. The county's 14 snow plows have been operating continuously since early Tuesday, Tom Lynch, director of Operations and Maintenance, said. There are about 900 miles of roads in the county to clear with about 200 miles of them considered arterial, he said. "Our next big worry is what happens # Outage closes schools BEAVERTON - A power outage closed the Beaverton High School and left as many as 4,000 residents without power for 2 1/2 hours Tuesday. Dave Eagon, a spokesman for Portland General Electric Co., said the outage was caused by a "fault" in the 40,000-kilowatt substation that serves the area. The failure, which occurred about 10 a.m., was not weather-related, he said. Full power was restored by 12:35 p.m. Joe McArthur, planning engineer for the utility's Western Division, said power crews were hampered in their efforts to repair the failure because they were snarled in traffic jams, the result of traffic lights that were out of service. McArthur said the affected area was generally bounded by Allen Boulevard, Murray Road, Center Street and SW 98th Avenue. 12/10/15 === Page 94 of 139 - 4 Projects PK - # East, Midwest glisten from deadly ice, snow By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An arctic snowstorm paved the way for Santa's sleigh across much of the nation Wednesday, bringing record sub-zero cold to some areas and the first white Christmas in years to others. Treetops glistened from the northern Rockies, across the Midwest into Massachusetts, where despite the Currier & Ives pictures on Christmas cards, there has been enough snow to measure only 20 times in the past 109 celebrations of the holiday. St. Louis was destined for its first white Christmas since 1967. But if the snow fulfilled a dream for children, romantics and ski lift operators, it was a nightmare for others. The wind-driven snow, which left accumulations of 1 to 4 inches in most areas, was blamed for at least seven deaths as cars and trucks skidded out of control in numerous accidents in the path of the storm. At least 13 people had been killed on icy highways the day before. A shuttle bus carrying senior citizens back from a Christmas Eve lunch slid out of control in Glen Aubrey, in south central New York, killing two and injuring 10. In Kansas City, Kan., a Trailways bus skidded and overturned on Interstate 70 during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring 25 passengers, including six who were hospitalized. In Ohio, six people were injured in a 15-car accident on Interstate 70 east of Zanesville. A bitterly cold Christmas Day was in store for most areas covered by the arctic air. Pence, Wis., reported 11.5 inches of snow and the thermometer was below zero from northern Montana to Minnesota. In central North Dakota, Roseglen measured a low of 31 below. A record set in 1917 was broken when the mercury dipped to 28 below in Williston, N.D. The reading was the same in Glasgow in eastern Montana. It was 12 below in Minong, Wis. In Chicago, which got 4 inches of snow, flights in and out of busy O'Hare International Airport were delayed for up to 30 minutes. Power was knocked out for about 2,000 homes in the suburbs of Schaumburg and Des Plaines. An Eastern Airlines flight from New York City to Albany was forced to return to New York without landing because of heavy snow. In Colorado, where the storm left a half a foot of snow in the mountain ski areas, authorities said it also left a sheet of ice on the interstate highways in the Denver area. Denver police reported dozens of accidents, including five major multicar pileups at the peak of the rush hour. Among those killed on the slick highways was Jordes Holm, 66, whose car skidded and hit a tractor-trailer rig about three miles west of Canton, S.D. In Wisconsin, Sylvia Hanes, 30, of Oconto, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a pickup truck on U.S. 41, six miles north of Oconto. Oreg. 12/25/80 "Power Attack" # 3,000 homes lose power Portland General Electric Co. repair crews Friday will inspect three underground transformers that exploded and blacked out 3,000 Southwest Portland homes for about two hours Wednesday night, a company spokesman said. The three 25-kilowatt transformers may have exploded because water leaked into their underground vault at Southwest First Avenue and Harrison Street, said spokesman Bruce Landrey. But no definite cause had been determined, he said. The explosion caused only minor damage and no reported injuries. A power surge shot through feeder lines to a substation and darkened street lights and homes around Southwest Marquam Hill Road, Southwest Barbur Boulevard, Southwest Corbett Avenue and Southwest Macadam Avenue, Landrey said. Electricity was fully restored by about 10:15 p.m., he said. The nearby University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital have separate feeder lines and were not affected by the outage, Landrey said. Oreg. 11/28/80 - 4 Projects PK - # Two counties lose power MANTEO, N.C. (AP) -- Repairmen were trying to restore power to two counties that lost electrical service Sunday morning during bitter cold weather. Forestry stations and homes with heat were taking in shivering victims of the outage. Authorities in Dare and Currituck counties took emergency steps after power was knocked out to the Atlantic coast counties, leaving thousands of people without heat. A spokesman for Virginia Electric and Power Co. said as many as 15,000 people were affected. He said workers hoped to have the power back Sunday night. - 4 Projects PK - "Power Attack" # Freak mishap blacks out Clark County VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A car snapped a guy wire supporting a power pole Thursday evening, setting off a chain reaction that blacked out 13,900 customers of Clark County PUD from 40 minutes to 3½ hours. The outage ranged from Orchards north to Battle Ground. An estimated 11,000 customers were without power for 40 minutes and the remainder for the longer period. A spokesman for the utility said that when the guy wire broke it flipped onto distribution lines and then onto higher voltage transmission lines serving five substations. The mishap occurred on NE 72d Avenue south of 99th Street. There was some damage to the distribution lines, the utility spokesman said. Oreg J 1/23/81 "Power Attack" # Power failure delays newspaper Failure in an underground power cable left the Oregon Journal newsroom without power for nearly two hours Tuesday morning. The power was out from approximately 5:20 a.m. to 7:05 a.m., leaving electronic editing equipment useless. The 2-dot edition of The Journal was delayed by the outage. Later editions of the newspaper were not expected to be affected. Oreg. J. 12/2/80 === Page 95 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Arctic cold, snow slap upper Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An arctic storm Tuesday attacked the upper Midwest with blinding snows and subzero cold that glazed highways and sent hundreds of cars and trucks skidding, resulting in at least four deaths. Snow driven by winds of 35 mph accumulated up to 8 inches deep as the storm swept across parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. The mercury dropped to 18 degrees below zero at International Falls, Minn., the coldest spot in the contiguous states. It was 15 below at Valentine, Neb. Slick highways and driving snow were blamed for two traffic deaths in Nebraska, one in Iowa and one in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, which got its heaviest snowfall since February, state police warned motorists to stay off the treacherous highways. The snow, generally about 5 inches deep in most of the state, fell on top of ice that formed following earlier rains in some places. U.S. 151 near Mineral Point, Wis., was blocked for about three hours during the night when a semi-trailer rig uprooted 30 feet of guardrail and overturned. No injuries were reported. The snow was whipped around by northerly winds up to 35 mph. Gale warnings were posted on Lake Michigan. Some homes lost electricity as the high winds and ice tore down power lines. A spokesman for Wisconsin Electric Power Co. in Milwaukee said extra work crews were called out. In Milwaukee, the storm produced the heaviest snow since Feb. 25, when 5.6 inches was recorded. The fast-moving storm dumped up to 8 inches of snow on parts of Michigan in its sweep toward the East. Schools were closed in Alpena because many of the roads in the area were impassable and visibility was reduced to a quarter-mile. Freeway speed limits were reduced to 20 mph along Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan because of the billowing snow. All of the main roads in the Upper Peninsula were snow-covered and slippery. Nebraska authorities said sleet and light snow contributed to two fatal accidents in the Omaha area. William H. Payne, 55, of Omaha was killed when his semi-trailer went over a bridge embankment. John A. Benham, 78, of rural Anita, Iowa, died when his car went out of control. Ore. 12/3/80 - "Power" Attack - # Blast causes power outage An explosion in a Portland General Electric Co. underground vault in downtown Portland Wednesday night knocked out power for several hundred PGE customers and businesses and some radio and television stations. Dave Eagon, PGE spokesman, said crews were working to restore power that went out at 8:19 p.m. after the explosion in the underground vault at SW 1st Ave. and Harrison St. He said PGE crews were attempting to determine the cause of the explosion. Eagon said the power outage covered a large area of Southwest Portland, extending to Council Crest, where some of Portland's television and radio transmitter towers are located. He said it not known how many customers were left without power, but added that three feeder lines, each capable of serving up to 1,000 customers, were knocked out. Ore. P. 11/27/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Seven die in explosion, fire as tank truck, train collide KENNER, La. (AP) - A tank truck carrying a flammable liquid collided with a train and exploded in a residential section of this New Orleans suburb Tuesday night, killing seven people, deputies said. Ruth Barnett, a spokeswoman for the Kenner police, said the victims included six people who died when a nearby bar, Chuck's and Buck's, burned to the ground and a 6-month-old girl was killed in an automobile caught in the blast. The truck driver, identified as Glendon R. Russey, 36, of Baton Rouge, a driver for Mobil Oil, was booked into jail on seven counts of negligent homicide, officials said. The blast and ensuing fires plunged the area into darkness due to electrical outages and forced the evacuation of 200 to 300 people from surrounding homes. Only shattered hulls remained of four vehicles caught in the blast - an 18-wheeler and its cab, another tractor cab, a pickup truck and a car at the crossing. A gaping hole remained where the tank exploded. The first blast, followed by other explosions, blew down utility poles and set others afire. Two hours later, firemen were still toppling burning utility poles while electrical lines crackled overhead. The train, an Illinois Central Gulf freight, was quickly moved out of the area. Apparently unaffected by the blackout was the New Orleans International Airport, just a few blocks away. Ore. 11/26/80 === Page 96 of 139 # Blustery storm punishes Oregon "Power" Attacks - Ore J 12/22/80 An estimated 1,000 people in the Milwaukie area were without electric power for more than two hours Sunday night as a "baby" storm dropped trees into power lines in a salute to the official beginning of winter. The southern edge of the storm caused a rash of traffic accidents in the San Francisco area and was blamed for two deaths on the Golden Gate Bridge. More than an inch of rain fell on Portland, and wind gusts to 60 miles an hour raked the Tillamook area. A spokesman for the Tillamook County sheriff's office said, "It was a baby storm, but it knocked a few trees down and some power lines before it quieted around 4 a.m." The storm moved into Idaho by daylight, but gale warnings continue to fly along the coast. A flood warning for Tillamook County also remains in effect, but authorities said the amount of flooding will be minor. The Wilson River near Tillamook is expected to crest at 11.5 feet, the Nehalem River at Foss is not expected to reach flood stage and the Nestucca, Siletz and Alsea Rivers elsewhere on the coast are within their banks. Portland General Electric Co. reported that it restored power to Milwaukie customers by 10:45 p.m. Sunday. Other scattered outages were reported at Gresham, Oregon City and Salem. The storm pushed out of Oregon the fog that caused air stagnation advisories and pollution alerts through much of last week. It also caused a rise in temperatures to the 50s and low 60s. Thick fog returned to California, however, on Sunday, causing a multi-car pileup on the San Diego Freeway near Long Beach. Three people were injured. Bitter cold prevails in the Northeast. It was 21 below at Massena, N. Y., 20 below at Limestone, Maine. The American Automobile Association in Boston reported receipt of "about 125 calls an hour" from people with dead batteries and frozen fuel lines. A Brookline, Mass., fuel company reported 200 weekend calls from people who ran out of coal or oil and many of them had no money with which to buy fuel. Oregon Journal, December 1, 1980 27 # nation Nevada PK + "Power" Attack ## High wind fails to halt Reno gaming RENO, Nev. (UPI) - Wind gusting to 80 mph knocked out power to thousands of homes in the Reno area during the weekend but failed to disrupt gambling. The casinos just turned on their auxiliary generators. Storm-force wind early Sunday knocked down trees, snapped or pulled down power lines and shattered billboards. Downtown Reno was without power for nearly an hour and 5,000 area homes had no electricity for several hours. ## news scope Nevada PK 12/1/80 Ore J ### Treatment refused BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) - A Buffalo newspaper says a woman accused of killing six persons and injuring 25 others when she drove her car through a crowded Reno, Nev. street, declined treatment after being psychologically evaluated at a mental health clinic. Priscilla Ford, 51, was tested at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center in late 1978 and early 1979, the Buffalo News reported Saturday. A preliminary diagnosis showed Mrs. Ford might be paranoid and schizophrenic, but she refused treatment and also refused to take medication, the News said. The paper quoted sources at the psychiatric center as saying Mrs. Ford talked about "decapitating people" during evaluations. "Bermuda Triangle Attack" ### Radar fails, planes just miss NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - A radar breakdown at Norfolk International Airport over the weekend left 16 local airports without radar and might have led to a near-collision between an airliner and a light plane, authorities said. An air traffic controller said a close call came about 2 p.m. Sunday, when a 110-passenger U.S. Air flight bound for New Orleans narrowly missed a twin-engine Beechcraft near West Point, Va. === Page 97 of 139 VOL. 130 -- NO. 37,573 ★★★ MON Hundreds die as earthquake jolts Italy IDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1980 66 PAGES 20 CENTS "Power" & Rain Attack- By CLARA HEMPHILL NAPLES, Italy (AP) -- A massive earthquake struck southern Italy Sunday night, killing more than 350 people and injuring hundreds of others as scores of buildings, including at least one church, collapsed, officials reported. They expressed fear the death toll would rise as rescue teams reached tremor-isolated towns in the mountainous area. Officials said more than 100 people perished in the town of Balvano, 75 miles east of Naples, and most of the victims were crushed when a Roman Catholic church caved in during evening services. The parish priest, the Rev. Salvatore Pagliuca, told an Italian reporter: "There were at least 300 people at the Mass tonight, including many children. The front wall collapsed as people were trying to get out." The priest's vestments were ripped and covered with dust from his efforts to free some of the victims. Balvano has a population of about 3,000. In Aversa, north of Naples, authorities said the belltower of a 16th century church collapsed and killed the parish priest, his mother and another woman. Another 70 persons were reported killed in Pescopagano, near Balvano, where a hospital, homes and the police barracks were damaged. Other death reports came from police and rescue teams reaching stricken towns and villages. Early Monday, authorities had received reports of damage in 29 cities and towns, with some buildings up to five stories high toppled by the quake and its aftershocks that rattled Italy from Sicily to the Alps. A heavy fog hung over much of the disaster area as the government sent in bulldozers, tents and medical teams. Trains were halted south of Naples, and traffic was blocked on highways. Police in Naples said inmates panicked at the Poggioreale prison, and officers hurled tear-gas grenades and fired submachine guns into the air to block an attempted escape. The first jolt hit Naples as many people were sitting down for their Sunday evening dinner. Thousands of people in this port city 120 miles south of Rome jammed the streets, afraid to return to their homes. Local officials called for spotlights to aid rescue teams and asked for tents for the homeless. Doctors canceled a strike scheduled for Monday so they could care for the injured. In Potenza, 90 miles east off Naples and near Balvano, an official said virtually all of the city's 50,000 residents fled to nearby hills and were spending the night in their cars or out in the open. Police said eight bodies were removed from a collapsed building in Potenza, and a television reporter there said hospitals were filled with the injured. Police also reported at least eight people were killed in Naples, including a 7-year-old child. The Interior Ministry said the quake's epicenter was at Eboli, a town near the Bay of Salerno and 30 miles southeast of Naples. The ministry reported the main shock struck at 7:34 p.m. and was followed by seven others over the next six hours. Authorities said Naples, Salerno, Avellino and Potenza were the major cities affected. Army and police helicopters flew over the area at dawn to survey the damage. Officials said fires broke out in some towns because people left their stoves on as they fled their homes. Firefighters pulled two babies, still alive, from rubble in the town of Serino. The quake cracked walls of a hospital clinic in Sorrento, 17 miles southeast of Naples, and toppled the cathedral belltower in Avellino, 28 miles east of Naples. The U.S. Geological Survey at Golden, Colo., reported the quake registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. Rescue efforts from the north were hampered by damaged road and rail links, and telephone and electricity lines were down in many places. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo, a native of the area, interrupted his talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who were in Rome on an official visit. Luigi Iannone, who was driving near Salerno when the quake struck, told rescuers: "I saw the buildings move like the waves of the sea, and the electric cables and trolley car lines dropped onto my car. It was something terrible." In Naples, a city of about 1.5 million people, news photographer Franco Effe said the hospitals were crowded with injured. "Everyone is in the street. There's lots of panic," he said. === Page 98 of 139 © Bart Bartholomew--Black Star A flaming horizon, San Bernardino devastation: The worst conflagration in a decade NATIONAL AFFAIRS # Fire Storm in California Grapefruit-size balls of fire--pieces of what had been roofs--hurtled at 90 mph past the ears of stunned fire fighters in the North Park section of San Bernardino, Calif. Nearby, a rescue vehicle screeched to a halt before one of the hundreds of homes in the neighborhood that had been reduced to cinders and a chimney. In the front yard lay the scorched bodies of Earl Welty, 83, and his wife, Edith, 82, who had been caught in the raging, wind-swept flames as they tried to run for shelter. Cradled in the old man's arms was a puppy, also burned to death. Twenty miles away, in Waterman Canyon below the peak of Mount Baldy, Joseph Cimino spent frantic hours moving his horses to safety and watching houses literally explode. "We couldn't save my daughter's house," he recalled later. "The winds were terrific. It was like a rainstorm--but of fire." In tindery hillside areas stretching 100 miles from Malibu on the coast to San Bernardino inland, the "devil winds" swept across southern California again last week, propelling fires that incinerated holiday turkeys in abandoned homes and caused the worst damage in a decade. The latest wave of fires--coming only days after blazes had destroyed 73 houses and 60,000 acres of property--claimed four lives, 323 homes, 150 other buildings and 84,000 acres of land. Officials estimated structural damage at $42 million and watershed damage at another $40 million. The destruction is practically a seasonal hazard for residents in the region's scenic hills and mountains. Each fall, high-pressure weather fronts build up over Nevada and Utah, creating warm desert winds--the Santa Anas--that sweep through mountain passes to the low-pressure areas along southern California's coast. The area is almost always extremely dry, and a single spark can create a blaze that moves like a giant blowtorch. Hurricane Force: The worst property damage was in San Bernardino's North Park, dubbed "Chimney Row" by survivors. One fire broke out nearby just as a new round of Santa Anas came roaring down the mountainside, gusting to hurricane force and leaving inhabitants little time to react. "I ran out my back door and saw the back wall on fire," said one woman. "By the time I ran down the driveway to the front of the house the whole place was gone." A few tried to save their homes by hosing down the roofs; one man suffered a heart attack in the process. Officials said they found unspecified "incendiary devices" where the fire began. 'Chimney Row': In the inferno, no time to react Photos by Len Lahman--Visions An abandoned campfire started another blaze at the foot of Thunder Mountain near the Mount Baldy ski area. June Mitchell, 24, one of hundreds who tried to clear out, loaded her Volkswagen with her skis, books, records and pets, then walked away to say goodbye to neighbors. Somebody stole the car. Along the Ventura Freeway--at the same spot where a huge 1970 fire had started--a power transformer blew up, sparking flames that the winds carried down Malibu Canyon toward the seacoast. The biggest fire, in which officials suspected arson, began near Lake Elsinore and burned 28,000 acres. By the end of the week the winds eased and fire fighters managed to bring most of the fires under control. President Carter declared three counties disaster areas, enabling property owners to qualify for low-interest Federal loans, and there was little doubt that most would choose to rebuild, many of them on the same sites. But even those who escaped the fire must still worry about the water next time: when the rainy season finally arrives, it will almost surely trigger floods and mud slides across the fire-denuded landscape. DENNIS A. WILLIAMS with MARTIN KASINDORF in San Bernardino NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 8, 1980 - "Power" Attack - 39 === Page 99 of 139 Following arrest - Power "Attack" - Note: Here, Vancouver. Helicopter pilot's lice. By BENNY EVANGELISTA JR and STEVEN K. WAGNER of The Oregonian staff The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the license of a 24-year-old helicopter pilot Tuesday afternoon for "recklessly endangering lives" during a high-flying journey this week that authorities said stretched from the Portland-area to the Oregon coast. The pilot, Gregory L. Bonome, who gave home addresses at both 12656 S.E. Stark St. and in Clatskanie, was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, driving an aircraft under the influence of an intoxicant and violating air traffic regulations, said Vancouver, Wash., police Capt. Robert King. Bonome's father posted $500 bail Tuesday morning, King said. Richard Henderson, chief of the FAA's General Aviation District Office at the Portland-Troutdale Airport, said Bonome's license was revoked under unusual, "emergency revocation measures" that were "the most extreme thing we can do as far as enforcement." He said reports that Bonome on Sunday and Monday had made numerous unauthorized landings, had flown after allegedly consuming alcohol and had piloted in "a reckless manner endangering the lives of himself, his passengers and those on the ground were serious enough to demand immediate revocation of his license." Vancouver police arrested Bonome after a helicopter landed in a parking lot at Clark College, shortly after clipping a power line at Interstate 5 and 29th Street in Vancouver at about 9 p.m. Monday. Kimberly Brooks, 19, of Scappoose, a passenger in the helicopter, was also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting reckless endangering, King said. A $300 bail was posted by her family Tuesday morning, King said. A second woman fled from the helicopter after it made the bumpy landing at Clark College, but she was not being sought by police, said King, who added that her identity was not known. No injuries were reported, but the downed I-5 power line started several small fires in bark dust along the highway, King said. Power went out in about 1,100 homes in the surrounding area for as long as three hours and 40 minutes said Mick Shutt, a spokesman for the Clark County Public Utility District. Bonome said in an interview Tuesday that he did not have anything stronger than coffee during the eight hours before landing in Vancouver. FAA rules prohibit pilots from flying within eight hours after drinking alcohol. King said a fifth of alcohol was DOWNED CHOPPER -- Heliocopter pilot Greg Bon (right) talks with craft's former owner, Arden Danie in Clark College parking lot in Vancouver, Wash., T "It was foggy and nighttime and I didn't see the wire," Bonome said of the I-5 power line. "I hit it, the copter jiggled and I took the first spot that was lighted and pulled in. "I looked at the damage and got a gun stuck in my face," Bonome said. King said when Washington State Patrol troopers arrived where the copter had landed, they had to turn off the craft. He said it took authorities a while to figure out how to turn off the helicopter engines. "There were five or six cops in the front seat trying to figure out how to shut it off," Bonome said. "It was kinda funny." Also on Monday, Bonome was cited in Cannon Beach for illegally landing his craft within city limits at about 4:30 p.m., said Cannon Beach police Cpl. Steven Barnett. Barnett said Bonome told him he landed in Cannon Beach "to have a drink at a local establishment." 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Below-freezing temperatures stretched from Wyoming to Lake Superior. Winds gusting to 58 mph persisted in New Eng-land. Snow and freezing rain stretched across Oklahoma and Kansas, with an inch reported at Gage, Okla., and Dodge City, Kan. The storm also swept the Texas Panhandle with snow and ice. Heavy rains soaked Arkansas, with Jonesboro and Little Rock recording more than an inch. The ice storm glazed streets and sent cars skidding from Texas to Iowa, killing eight people. Six persons died on ice-slicked roads in Nebraska, one in Kansas, and one in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported Interstate 40 from Oklahoma City west to the Texas state line was covered by a solid sheet of ice. A bus carrying students from Concho Indian School careened into another vehicle late Monday near El Reno, Okla., killing one person in the auto. Power lines encrusted with ice knocked out power in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and rain-soaked telephone cables in Oklahoma City left 19,000 residents without phone service. The freezing rain and drizzle, turning to snow overnight, persisted in Kansas for a second day, triggering scores of traffic accidents and killing one man. "We have had nothing but accidents," said a Wichita police dispatcher. "I couldn't begin to tell you how many injuries." Frozen power lines left thousands of residents in Salina and Russell, Kan., without electricity. A transformer in Hutchinson, Kan., was knocked out, leaving 1,500 people without power or heat. The Salvation Army provided temporary shelter for some. Scattered snow showers spread a coat of up to 6 inches over northern and eastern New Mexico, dropping power service to Albuquerque. Some 50,000 public utility customers lost electricity early Monday morning. A 45-minute blackout for the University of New Mexico took place at noon and evening classes in Albuquerque public schools sent students home running at noon. === Page 101 of 139 Calif. PK - "Power" Attack # Fire peril eases in seared California oreg p. 11/26/80 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (UPI) -- Hot, howling winds that drove demon brush fires through Southern California's exclusive neighborhoods for three days, turning them into charred war zones and killing at least four persons, began to diminish Wednesday. Winds packing gusts up to 90 mph dipped to 30 mph in most areas, giving the 4,000 firefighters on the lines some hope of containing the eight separate fires that have so far blackened more than 50,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 500 homes, some valued up to $750,000. "The winds have died down and we have been able to hold the fires," said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Charles Coval. There were no estimates on when the fires would be controlled. Four persons, including an elderly couple, died Tuesday in the swift-moving flames that forced more than 15,000 residents to flee -- many with only the clothes on their backs. Thousands who had left their homes in terror Monday returned Tuesday to incinerated neighborhoods that resembled a scorched war zone. In some cases, looters had picked through the charred rubble for valuables that didn't melt or go up in smoke. Specially trained Air National Guardsmen from Wyoming were called in to join California and Texas units in battling flames in the San Bernardino National Forest. By afternoon, four C-130 air transports and 22 Air Guardsmen from Cheyenne, Wyo., were flying missions, dropping thousands of gallons of retardant over the fire. The most destructive blaze, the 12,800-acre arson-caused Waterman blaze, was blamed for an estimated $29.5 million damage -- $25 million in property losses and $4.5 million in watershed damage. At least 268 structures were destroyed and 66 were listed as damaged in the foothills above San Bernardino, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. Acting Gov. Mike Curb declared the fire-stricken regions of San Bernardino County disaster areas, opening the way for formal requests for federal aid and loans. Fire officials said late Tuesday that the fire "has been quiet" and that the blaze was 10 percent contained. Earlier, Earl Welty, 83, and his wife, Edith, 82, were caught in the firestorm. The couple's charred bodies were found in their front yard. The old man was clutching his dead puppy in his arms. Another victim, Joseph Benjamin, 54, collapsed while helping neighbors water down home his home, and he later died. Rosa Myers, 64, suffered a fatal heart attack while being evacuated from her home, which was not destroyed. At least 65 persons, most of them firefighters, were treated for minor eye injuries and the effects of the choking, black smoke. Eight looters were arrested Monday night. Troops were ordered in to patrol burned-out neighborhoods. The Mount Baldy fire, caused by an abandoned campfire and the biggest blaze at 14,500 acres, destroyed 12 vacation cabins and still was raging out of control Wednesday morning in heavy timber. A 4,000-acre blaze, set by an arsonist about 10 miles southwest of Waterman Canyon, briefly threatened the community of Rancho Cucamonga. One home was destroyed and the 25,000 residents were told to prepare to evacuate. Another blaze, started by a downed power line about 6 miles east of the Waterman fire, was reported 60 percent contained early Wednesday. In San Diego County, a 700-acre blaze erupted Tuesday afternoon along Interstate 15 in the Poway area. No structures were threatened immediately. The Trabuco fire, burning 7 miles north of Lake Elsinore, destroyed four homes and was raging out of control early Wednesday after scorching 8,000 acres. Another 7,000-acre blaze near Lake Elsinore was unchecked. In Los Angeles County, a 2,600-acre blaze in Malibu Canyon was reported 95 percent contained late Tuesday. [Map of Southern California showing fire locations in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside Counties] LOS ANGELES COUNTY Agoura Angeles National Forest San Bernardino Nat'l Forest Crestline San Antonio Heights San Bernardino SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Los Angeles ORANGE COUNTY Cleveland National Forest Riverside Corona RIVERSIDE COUNTY Elsinore Pacific Ocean === Page 102 of 139 # Dying winds slow spread of California brush fires "Power" and Rain Attack -> + Calif PK LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Erratic wind that whipped firestorms across 50,000 acres of Southern California -- causing the destruction of scores of homes and $25 million in damage -- died down early Monday and slowed the advance of the flames. Wind that gusted up to 90 mph at times Sunday and fanned several blazes on tinder-dry hillsides decreased to 10 to 20 mph. Fire officials estimated the fires could be contained later Monday or on Tuesday if the wind does not kick up. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes and at least one death was blamed on the fires. At least 61 homes were destroyed and 30 others were damaged. Entire communities were evacuated with some people fleeing with only the clothes they wore. There also were scattered reports of looting and people suffering from smoke inhalation. The wind blew down power lines, sparking a 100-acre fire in Malibu and knocking out water pumps, adding to the confusion in some areas where residents struggled to hose down their houses with falling water pressure. "THE FIRE knocked out the water system because there was no electricity," said Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Dick Friend. "Most of the houses that burned had swimming pools with a large water supply right there that wasn't tapped, but we couldn't get at it." In some neighborhoods, the flames raged in virtual firestorms as the winds picked up red hot chunks and tossed them from house to house. The Bradbury and Duarte area 40 miles east of Los Angeles, had $25 million in damage as flames raced across 12,000 acres. Los Angeles County fire spokesman Jim Davids said the blaze was 30 percent controlled, but burned out of control on the northern flank towards the Angeles National Forest. Nearly the entire population of the exclusive foothill community of Bradbury was evacuated as 13 homes valued at $500,000 each exploded in flames and four others were damaged. In Duarte, 36 homes were destroyed and 24 were damaged. Four homes were destroyed in Duarte and 24 were damaged. Most of the 15,000 residents of Bradbury moved out early Sunday. One of them, Dr. John Hervey, 47, suffered a fatal heart attack while trying to save his property. WORLD FAMOUS race driver Mickey Thompson saved his Bradbury home using fire extinguishers from the dozen race cars in his garage. Six of the cars were left a twisted mass of black metal. A brush fire in the hills of the Sunland area, 10 miles northwest of downtown, destroyed at least eight ranch-style homes as residents led dogs and frightened horses through the snowstorm-like swirl of ash. The Sunland flames traveled southeast towards Burbank and Glendale and scorched about 10,000 acres of brush. One Burbank neighborhood less than 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles was forced to evacuate late Sunday, but a Burbank city fire spokeswoman early Monday said no homes were threatened. "We hope to have the fire contained by this morning if the wind doesn't pick up," said Sandy Hawthorne. evg: 11/17/80 === Page 103 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Snowstorm puts skids under life back East By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A storm that left the cow towns and oil cities of West Texas and Oklahoma mired in snow a foot deep sped eastward into the Appalachians and the Middle Atlantic states, a weatherman's surprise that paralyzed traffic, closed schools and shut off power to thousands. The accumulation of up to 17 inches was the heaviest November snowfall on record in places and the deepest at any time of year during the last decade in other areas. Three traffic deaths were blamed on the storm, including two people who were killed when a church bus flipped over Sunday on a rain-slickened highway near Luling, Texas, also injuring 36. "We got a bunch of ice and a bunch of snow on top of that," said a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety in Lubbock, where 11 inches had accumulated by Monday morning. "It all adds up to one big problem. It's slick and hazardous any way you want to go out of Lubbock." By midday, the storm system had reached Appalachia, spreading the first snow of the season 1 to 4 inches deep in an area from West Virginia's Northern Panhandle to the Laurel Mountains of Pennsylvania. Eight inches of snow blanketed Pittsburgh, interrupting school bus service for homeward-bound students. Some youngsters waited three to four hours for a ride home, said Pat Crawford, a school district spokeswoman. Operations at Pittsburgh International Airport were running about 20 minutes late "and getting longer," operations manager Jim King said. Crews were busy plowing runways to keep them clear. A spot check of Pennsylvania State Police barracks turned up numerous reports of skidding and sliding accidents, but no serious injuries were reported. "Some lanes are tied up because of accidents and because people can't get up the hills," a spokeswoman for the state police said. "Nobody has their snow tires on." Later in the evening, snow began to fall in New York and New Jersey, with up to 6 inches expected in some rural areas by morning. In New York City, a crew of 227 salt spreaders was put on alert, while New Jersey officials said the snow and freezing rain would provide welcome moisture for the parched northern part of the state. A spokesman for the American Automobile Club in Oklahoma City said hundreds of motorists were calling for help. "Most of the wreckers are getting stuck," the spokesman said. "We've lost four so far." Oregon 11/18/80 Associated Press Laserphoto COLD TROUBLE -- Roxy Rider and Bud Ansley inspect their demolished carport and damaged cars Monday following snowstorm in Amarillo, Texas. The snow was measured at 4 inches, with up to a foot elsewhere in the state. === Page 104 of 139 - 5th vs U.S. Govt Attack - # 13 perish in AF plane crash CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force transport plane en route to desert maneuvers with Egyptian troops as part of a U.S. Rapid Deployment Force crashed at an Egyptian air base, killing all 13 aboard, U.S. officials said. A U.S. Embassy spokesman and the Pentagon in Washington said the six crew members and seven passengers, all Air Force personnel, were killed late Wednesday. The plane crashed as it approached for landing at the Cairo West Airbase, where about 700 men from the Rapid Deployment Force, half the battalion-sized contingent headed for the joint exercise, arrived Wednesday. The rest of the contingent began arriving Thursday. The embassy spokesman said the crash occurred shortly before midnight. The cause and details were not known. An investigation is being conducted, he said. The aircraft, flown by a crew from the 62nd Military Airlift Wing from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state, was participating in joint exercises of the American Rapid Deployment Force and Egyptian military forces. Names of the dead were being withheld until relatives are notified. The 100,000-member Rapid Deployment Force is being readied by the Pentagon for possible use in the event of any threat to Western access to Persian Gulf oil. The joint exercises are scheduled to last 12 days. About 700 men from the 101st Airborne Division, led by the RDF commander, Lt. Gen. Paul Kelly, arrived Wednesday at Cairo West airfield. About as many were to land on successive flights throughout Thursday to bring the total contingent's strength to 1,400. Backed by 12 A-7 warplanes, the troops will to stage joint maneuvers with the Egyptians, sometimes using live ammunition, in vast stretches of desert surrounding Cairo West airfield. The base, one of Egypt's largest, is about 40 miles west of Cairo near the desert highway connecting the capital with the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. The American troops came in C-141 and C-5A Galaxy transports. The airlift, which includes support personnel and equipment, involves about 100 flights. - "Power + Rain Attack" - # Human error blamed for air traffic mix-up CLEVELAND (UPI) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has concluded that a technician caused the electrical problem that knocked out the Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center Tuesday night, causing diversions or delays for about 200 aircraft over the eastern United States. FAA spokesman Warren Hollsberg said the failure of the center's primary power and the subsequent failure of back-up generators caused 113 aircraft to be diverted out of the Cleveland center's air space and that 95 others were delayed en route or on the ground. Holsbert said the Cleveland Center failure, believed to be the first such loss of both primary and main back-up power at an FAA control center, began when an FAA technician was preparing to do preventive maintenance on the power system. "As he was taking the back off a switching box to the power conditioning system, he dropped it," he said. "It was made of metal and it apparently fell across an electrical bus and shorted it out. There was such a large surge of voltage that it caused the transformer to blow out and that's where the difficulty arose." He said the FAA concluded, "It was a human error." - 5th vs U.S. govt. - # U.S. pilot dies in plane crash SARAGOSSA, Spain (UPI) -- A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed and his co-pilot injured in the crash of their F-4 Phantom jet, which was brought down by a collision with a bird. The Phantom, based in Spangdahlem, West Germany, was on a practice firing run Thursday at the Bardenas Reales range in Navarre province in northeastern Spain when the accident occurred. The Spanish Civil Guard said the body of the dead officer was discovered amid the wreckage of his F-4, 15 miles from the firing range. The Civil Guard said the co-pilot was found 3 miles from the downed plane, suffering from severe shock. Both men paratuted from the plane, the police said. The co-pilot told Air Force authorities the plane crashed after flying into a large bird while executing a firing practice maneuver. - U.S. Beam. Attack - # Air traffic controls fail ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The automatic portion of the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Albuquerque did not function for 12 minutes over the weekend, but a Federal Aviation Administration official said no delays or near misses were reported. Chuck Ricketts said the outage probably was caused from within the system's computer programming. Air traffic controllers used a backup system, a broad-band radar system. The center controls air space from the California border to about 150 miles east of Amarillo, Texas. U.S. Beam. Attack - # Air control systems break down By BOB SECTER LA Times-Washington Post Service LOS ANGELES -- The computer that tracks all aircraft over Southern California and a key piece of equipment relied on as a backup mechanism were out of order simultaneously for more than an hour earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times learned Thursday. "Disorientation" The rare double failure Tuesday caused delays and confusion in the air traffic system and forced air traffic controllers to resort to operations that one controller described as more appropriate to "the days of the DC-3 than of the 747." While some controllers complained of tense situations caused by the simultaneous breakdowns, no near misses of aircraft were reported during the episode, which lasted from 1:40 p.m. to 2:43 p.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration records. Still, John Calipault, president of the Ohio-based Aviation Safety Institute, an independent industry watchdog group, described the situation caused by the twin failures as "potentially catastrophic." === Page 105 of 139 # nation/world ~ "Power" & Rain Attack ~ + Berm. $\triangle$ Attack # Freak tropical storm veers in Gulf NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Jeanne, a freak November hurricane that quickly lost its punch, became more erratic Thursday and took a northwesterly course. Jeanne wandered Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico to about 325 miles south-southwest of New Orleans, centered at latitude 25.5 north and longitude 91.5 west, leaving forecasters uncertain of the storm's landfall. Little change is expected until Friday. The National Weather Service predicted the storm would remain on a general northwesterly course Thursday, moving at 5 to 10 mph. It had been moving west. Berm. $\triangle$ 11/14/80 Winds accompanying the tropical storm are just below hurricane force at 70 mph, and gale-force winds extended 200 miles to the north and 50 miles to the south of the center. Forecasters warned that tides ranging up to 4 feet above normal along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas posed a continuing threat of beach erosion along the Texas coast. Before the storm lost its hurricane status late Wednesday, it dropped almost 2 feet of rain and cut power in Key West, Fla., before moving into the central Gulf of Mexico. Although the waters receded rapidly, damage to cars and businesses was estimated at almost $1 million. One Key West resident took advantage of the flooding to water ski down Main Street -- pulled by a pickup truck. Jeanne covered little ground Wednesday, moving fewer than 100 miles westward. Forecaster Joe Pellisier at the National Hurricane Center predicted that Jeanne would move into colder, drier air Thursday or Friday and lose still more strength. "I don't think this storm will come ashore as a hurricane -- probably not even as a tropical storm," he said. "It's just a matter of watching its course and keeping abreast of where it is -- but as far as taking any action, that would be premature," he added. Before Jeanne passed into the Gulf of Mexico, it forced evacuations in Cuba and damaged the tobacco crop. Swells of 15 feet were reported near Brownsville, Texas, posing the threat of beach erosion. Tides were expected to run up to 4 feet above normal. More than 3,500 offshore oilfield workers in the Gulf of Mexico fled as Jeanne approached, causing millions of dollars of losses in production and through the cost of evacuations. 10 Oregon Journal, November 13, 1980 (Z) ~ She vs Govt. ~ U.S. - Berm. $\triangle$ Attack - # Army seeking clues to crash of helicopter in S. Oregon Army authorities Thursday were probing the cause of a helicopter crash in Southern Oregon Tuesday that killed three Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers. Copter parts were to be taken back to Fort Lewis to determine what happened. The wreckage of the Huey chopper was found at mid-morning Wednesday, and the Jackson County sheriff's office in Medford said all three aboard the aircraft were dead. The military helicopter was one of five on a training mission between Roseburg and Medford, according to Army officials at Fort Lewis. It disappeared Tuesday afternoon in foggy weather. "The weather was real bad," an Army spokesman said. "It was foggy. Four choppers got off, the fifth one disappeared in the fog." Those aboard the helicopter were the pilot, co-pilot and the crew chief, all from Fort Lewis. Their names were not immediately released. An air and ground search was conducted until dark Tuesday after the helicopter was reported missing about 2:35 p.m., and the search was resumed with about 40 participants at daybreak Wednesday. The helicopter was found about 10 a.m. in the Anderson Butte area 10 miles south of Medford. The Army spokesman said the helicopters were dropping off some Army Rangers Tuesday who were on a demolition exercise. All five copters were from B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry at Fort Lewis. The wreckage was strewn across the forest floor at site approximately 500 yards from where the helicopter had taken off. It was discovered when part of the search party noticed a gash in the trees apparently caused by the blades of the aircraft. - Berm. $\triangle$ Attack - **Copter, news team missing** BOCA RATON, Fla. (UPI) -- A helicopter carrying an NBC news team that covered the evacuation of Haitian refugees from Cayo Lobos in the Bahamas is reported overdue at its Boca Raton base Thursday, and Radio Bahamas said it has crashed. Three NBC-TV journalists and a pilot were aboard the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter, chartered out of Boca Raton when it vanished in the Caribbean. Radio Bahamas said the helicopter crashed Wednesday night in the waters off South Andros, killing all aboard. The Coast Guard began Berm. $\triangle$ 11/14/80 === Page 106 of 139 - "Ponce" & Rain Attack - + Calif PK # Thousands flee MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1980 # California brush fires By TAMARA JONES LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thousands of residents fled hillside homes Sunday as brush fires fanned by powerful winds raced across 30,000 acres in six Southern California communities, destroying more than 100 homes -- some valued at more than $1 million. Officials blamed at least one of the largest fires on arson. One man died of a heart attack as he fled his burning home in the Bradbury area, where the worst fire destroyed or damaged 80 homes, officials said. Mickey Thompson, a race driver, suffered minor burns when flames engulfed his house in the same area. Smoke and ash blown by the northeasterly Santa Ana winds fell over much of the area, in some cases several miles from any of the fires. "It looks like evening here. There's no sun to be seen," said William Baker of San Clemente where the sky was darkened by smoke from a blaze 30 miles away. A fire burned for a time above Pacific Palisades, where the home of President-elect Ronald Reagan is situated. But city fire officials said the blaze was contained and never threatened any homes. Residents of Bradbury, a rustic community of less than 10,000 people 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles, were advised by authorities to evacuate after a roaring firestorm covered 10,000 acres. Sheriff's deputies arrested two looters as they allegedly searched the ruins of homes, valued up to $1.3 million. Mary Stratton fled her $300,000 home just before it burned to the ground. "Of course, we'll rebuild -- look how lucky I am just to talk about it," she said. John Hervey, 47, suffered a fatal heart attack as he fled his burning neighborhood, said officials at Santa Teresita Hospital. The Bradbury fire started Saturday and then was blown out control by early morning winds gusting to 90 mph. The other fires erupted Sunday and also were fed by the high northeasterly winds. In Riverside County, near Lake Elsinore, 12,500 acres were destroyed and one home under construction burned in less than five hours as 50 mph winds pushed the blaze toward the community of Fallbrook. Riverside County sheriff's deputies said they believed the fire was arson and said they had an unidentified man in custody. In Carbon Canyon, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, several horses died and two homes were damaged when fire scorched 5,500 acres. The blaze was threatening the small community of Olina, as well as petroleum storage tanks and a nearby warehouse containing ammonium nitrate, an explosive fertilizer. A 8,500-acre fire that destroyed eight homes in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland crested a ridge overlooking Burbank, and residents of some apartments on the edge of that city and nearby Glendale were advised to evacuate, fire officials said. "The fire is almost on top of us. It's just a few hundred feet from us. This is a terrifying experience," said Burbank resident Jack Elwood who said he was going to hose down the top of his house. Two homes were destroyed near Malibu when a fire erupted at 5:30 a.m. and quickly burned through 100 acres, but the blaze was reported extinguished a few hours later. As fire trucks struggled up the narrow hillside roads of Bradbury, residents frantically moved down the roads to safety, some in hastily packed station wagons jammed with belongings, others leading bucking horses. Many homes burned to the ground before men and equipment could reach them. In some cases, firefighters were able to get to burning residences but watched helplessly as flames destroyed the structures because there was no water pressure. The high winds had knocked out power to booster pumping stations in the hilly area. About 30 animal control officers from the Los Angeles City Department of Animal Regulation who were participating in the current city workers' strike went back to work to rescue animals in the Sunland fire, said Francis Keane of Volunteer Services to Animals. Hundreds of firefighters were on the line battling the blazes, and the state Office of Emergency Services said more personnel were being called in from the northern and central part of the state to aid in fighting the fires. The sprawling Angeles National Forest just north of Los Angeles was closed early Sunday due to high fire danger as humidity dipped to 11 percent in Southern California, the National Weather Service reported. === Page 107 of 139 # Powerful earthquake rocks West Coast ## Temblors rattle S. Oregon towns By DAVID EINSTEIN EUREKA, Calif. (AP) -- The most powerful earthquake in Northern California in more than a half-century shook a 500-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast early Saturday, knocking homes off foundations and injuring five people when a car and truck plunged from a collapsed highway overpass. Scientists said the quake measured between 6.6 and 7.1 on the Richter scale, and one resident of this coastal community said it "felt like the end of the world." But overall damage was believed slight in the largely rural area. The tremors were felt in several Southwestern Oregon communities. Chairs, desks and beds shook in Brookings, Klamath Falls and Medford, witnesses said. "One guy called this morning to complain that he'd been thrown out of his waterbed," said Terrie Yock, a dispatcher for the Brookings Police Department. "You bet we felt it." Ms. Yock said the shaking began about 2:29 a.m. "It woke me up," she said. "The doors were rattling and the bed was shaking." Similar tremors were felt in Klamath Falls and Medford, although there were no reports of damage or injuries. "It was kind of moderate," said Kathy Davis, a Klamath Falls police officer. Carlene Hunt, a Medford Police Department dispatcher, said her switchboard became "jammed with calls, more calls than we could handle" shortly after the quake. "I barely felt it," she said. "I think it was aftershocks." Police officials in Roseburg and Eugene said the quake was not felt that far north. Mayor Bob Iles of Rogue River said it felt "like a train coming through the house." "I felt the house move," Iles said. "The windows were making kind of a tick-tock noise." "Could you tell me what happened last night?" Ruth King of Grants Pass asked in a call to the sheriff's office. She said she was awakened when her house "began moving." Wayne McKy, 47, a native of the Grants Pass area, said it was the first time he had felt an earthquake in the area. "The candy dish lid was shaking," said former Southern California resident Elizabeth Kempin of Colonial Valley, near Grants Pass. "But I did wonder if I was dreaming." Five members of a Eureka family were injured, two critically, when their car crashed off a shattered overpass on U.S. 101 and a pickup truck smashed down on top of them, police said. The truck driver sustained minor injuries. The quake, at 2:28 a.m., temporarily knocked out electricity to some 7,500 homes, but Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said power was quickly restored. It was the most powerful quake in the area since a 7.2-magnitude tremor on Jan. 22, 1923. Don Finley of the National Earthquake Information Service at Golden, Colo., said that the last time there was a larger earthquake in the 48 contiguous states was Aug. 17, 1959, when a 7.1 magnitude quake at Hebgen Lake, Mont., killed 28 people and injured many others. At least 10 aftershocks in excess of 4.0 Richter were recorded in the two hours following the quake. The strongest was 4.9, according to the University of California at Berkeley. "It scared me to death," said Josie Byrd, 39, of McKinleyville, about 15 miles north of Eureka. "I felt like I was on a ship. My whole bed was rocking." Scientists disagreed on both the quake's magnitude and epicenter, but they agreed that Eureka, a city of 24,000, was close to the focal point. The University of California Seismographic Station in Berkeley said it registered 6.6 on the Richter scale of ground motion and placed the epicenter 10 miles southwest of here. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said it measured 7.0 and was centered 20 miles northwest of Eureka. Meanwhile, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu placed the magnitude at 7.1. It said there was no evidence the quake generated a tsunami, or tidal wave. At least one person was treated for a heart attack at Eureka General Hospital, a spokesman said. Two houses in Fields Landing, seven miles south of here, were shaken from their foundations, and a house in nearby Humboldt Hill was set afire by a candle being used when the power went off, authorities said. No injuries were reported. Windows shattered and goods fell from their shelves, merchants said. However, no major damage was reported. Some gas and water mains also ruptured. A closed PG&E nuclear reactor and two fossil-fuel power generators at nearby Salmon King were undamaged, said Al Seefeldt, a division marketing supervisor. The two operating generators shut down when circuit breakers tripped, he said. The quake did no damage to the building containing nuclear fuel for the reactor, which has not been used in four years, he added. The Richter scale measures the release of energy as indicated by ground motion. A 7.0 quake is considered "major," capable of causing widespread, heavy damage. The 1906 San Francisco quake, which claimed 700 lives, occurred before the scale was developed but has been estimated at 8.3. === Page 108 of 139 - "Power" + Rain Attack - Ore P. 11/7/80 # Five-inch rain reported in volcano area A major Pacific storm dumped an estimated 5 inches of rain near Mount St. Helens Thursday night, but the main rivers remained below flood stage despite the runoff from the volcano's deluded slopes. The downpour also left nearly 4 inches of rain in the north coastal mountain areas of Western Oregon and Western Washington. A total of 1.63 inches of rain was recorded by the National Weather Service in north of the mountain recorded 5 inches of rain. A National Weather Service hydrologist at Seattle said the amounts were so high he would term them as "unofficial," but elsewhere in the state the storm did dump almost that much water. At Frances, in the coastal drainage system, 3.3 inches were recorded as the official figure. Snoqualmie Pass got 3 inches. At Cinebar, northwest of Mount St. Helens, 2.1 inches were recorded and at and 1.80 inches at Newport. The weather service warned of potential problems from trees toppling as high winds batter them and the root systems give way in the soggy ground. Flooded streets were problems throughout the area, as leaves clogged storm sewers and puddles swelled into ponds blocking off some neighborhood streets. The wet weather is expected to continue through the weekend, with showers and partial clearing periods forecast for Saturday and winds gusting up to 20 mph at times. Portland. Gusty winds whipped power lines, causing minor outages in Beavercreek, Orient, Colton and along Bridgeton Road, according to spokesmen from Portland General Electric and Pacific Power & Light Co. Residents kept a wary eye on high water in the ash-choked Toutle and Cowlitz rivers in Southwest Washington and the Wilson and Nehalem rivers near the Oregon coast. The weather service reported at dawn Friday that the rain was tapering off and all major streams in the area were expected to remain below flood proportions. The Toutle River near Silver Lake crested about 7 a.m. and the Cowlitz River at Castle Rock was expected to crest at 10 a.m. The Cowlitz was expected to show a total rise of 5 feet from Thursday morning by the time it crested at Castle Rock and forecasters predicted it would rise another 1 1/2 feet at Kelso by the time it crested there Friday afternoon. Despite the heavy rains, the weather service said it would take a lot more rain before the rivers would reach flood stage. The rivers "have been quite low and now are not anywhere near flood stage," a spokesman said. A network of precipitation gauges is expected to be installed around Mount St. Helens soon. Meanwhile, one gauge at Mount Mitchell south of the volcano was reported to have collected 4 inches of rain in 24 hours and one at Abernethy Peak Ohanapecosh, in the upper Cowlitz basin, 2.8 inches fell in 18 hours. Strong winds raked the volcano during the storm, but it remained seismically quiet. Some minor flooding was reported in a Cowlitz River tributary that was not affected by the May 18 eruption that sent tons of debris down the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers into the Columbia River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that the extra water from the latest storm was being contained by a retention barrier the corps built east of Camp Baker. The corps is rushing dredging of the Cowlitz to create a channel allowing greater water flow and plans to continue dredging as conditions warrant during the winter. During heavy rains last weekend, the corps estimated the retainment dam along the South Fork of the Toutle trapped 50,000 to 100,000 cubic yards of silt. The U.S. Geological Survey has predicted 400 million cubic yards of silt will wash off the volcano's slopes and into the Cowlitz or Columbia this winter. There was some ponding in places along the lower Cowlitz Thursday night due to local runoff and water from Arkansas Creek backed up and over the Highway 411 detour. Power outages were reported in Eugene and Tillamook, where high winds were a problem. Rainfall was recorded at 1.51 inches at Eugene, 1.11 inches at Brookings, 1.77 inches at Olympia, 1.34 inches at North Bend, .99 of an inch at Seattle - "Power" + Rain Attack - ## Tigard area loses power TIGARD - A major part of Tigard was without power for more than an hour Friday morning when a mechanical failure occurred at a Portland General Electric Co. substation. Ore 11/14/80 - "Power" + Rain Attack - ## Leaks hit 2 nuclear plants By The Associated Press Small leaks of radioactive gas were reported Sunday at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant at Lusby, Md., and at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant at Delta, Pa. The radioactive gas released from the Calvert Cliffs plant posed no threat to the public or plant employees, plant officials said. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. said the leak - which released about two-hundredths of a millirem of radiation at the plant's boundary - was caused by a faulty valve mechanism in the plant's water purification system. The release at Peach Bottom's Unit 2 reactor reached 44 percent of the maximum amount permitted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Philadelphia Electric Co. Ore 11/17/80 === Page 109 of 139 Power + Rain of Mack - # Record snow overpowering in Northeast By The Associated Press A record November snowstorm blamed for 16 deaths across the nation assaulted the urban Northeast with unexpected intensity Tuesday, crippling communities unprepared for foot-deep snows so early in the season. In much of New England it was the heaviest snow ever to fall so early in November. Some areas recorded more than half as much snow as fell all of last season. The snow, more than a foot deep in places from Pennsylvania through New England, snapped leaf-laden tree limbs, ripped down power lines and left thousands of homes without electricity. Motorists caught without snow tires or chains skidded into ditches and slammed into other cars and trucks in chain-reaction pileups. "There were footprints on the Parkway," said a Port Authority bus driver in Pittsburgh who encountered numerous motorists walking away from their stalled cars. In Massachusetts, where accumulations ranged from a few inches to 10 inches in the Berkshires, several communities were caught with their snowplows in mothballs. "It took the city by surprise," said Pat Crawford, a spokeswoman for the city schools in Pittsburgh, where students at five elementary schools were stranded when the snow started falling Monday afternoon. The snowstorm, which left record November depths of up to 17 inches in parts of West Texas and Oklahoma Monday, signaled the start of a good ski season in New England. In New Hampshire, 8 to 10 inches had covered the southern part of state, with almost 12 inches reported in Springfield. Forecasters said never had snow been so heavy so early in November since records have been kept. Earlier, two traffic deaths in Texas on a rain-slick road and one in Oklahoma were blamed on the storm, which in one day left eight times the normal November snowfall in Oklahoma. As the storm moved eastward, four people died in separate snow-related road accidents in Ohio, three were killed in similar accidents in New York, two in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey. In addition, a 9-year-old boy in Armstrong County, Pa., was found dead in his backyard swimming pool after he went outside to shovel snow, and deaths were reported in Concord, N.H., and Holyoke, Mass., when two men suffered apparent heart attacks from shoveling snow. Oreg. 11/19/80 === Page 110 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Satsop crane mishap third to strike project SATSOP, Wash. (AP) - Shifting topsoil or a snagged load may have caused the third major crane accident in 15 months at the twin nuclear power project near this Grays Harbor County town, an engineer said Tuesday. Larry Shapiro, an engineer for Zurn Industries Inc. of Tampa, Fla., said insurance investigators had identified two possible reasons why a 40-ton concrete column fell 55 feet and broke into pieces at the bottom of a reactor cooling tower Monday. The pre-cast column broke free and fell from a massive crane with a 150-ton lifting capacity after dangling precariously for about 30 seconds, enough time for workers to get out of the way and escape injury, said Mary Ann Johnson of the Washington Public Supply System. After the massive chunk of concrete fell from the boom of the crane to the bottom of the shell of the WPPSS No. 5 reactor's cooling tower, the boom fell across the circular top of the tower shell and broke into four pieces, she said. Parts of the boom still dangled from guy wires Tuesday, she said. Damage was estimated at $200,000, but the accident probably will have little if any effect on construction schedules, she added. Zurn, based in Tampa, Fla., has a $25.2 million contract to build the two cooling towers. Shapiro said the reason for the accident "was not pinned down exactly." Outside engineers probably will visit the WPPSS No. 5 reactor site "to make the engineering evaluation" of the accident, and a final report may be issued within a week or two, Shapiro said. One possibility was that the column "was snagged... on some reinforcing bar" atop the tower and then unbalanced the crane when it snapped free, he said. "We know that the load had touched the reinforcing bar," Shapiro added. The other potential cause was that ground shifted beneath the crane. Shapiro said the ground in the area is mostly a mixture of soil and gravel over sandstone. The No. 5 reactor is less far along in construction than the neighboring No. 3 project, where the cooling tower was capped on Friday. In August 1979, the cab of a Zurn crane was crushed by a falling support form for one of the cooling towers. The driver fled in time to escape injury. Three workers received minor injuries last May in the spectacular collapse of a 500-foot stationary derrick crane, a multimillion-dollar accident later traced to bolt fatigue. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Valve idles TVA reactor CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power plant, beset by equipment trouble during preproduction testing, may remain shut down most of this week, TVA spokesman Steve Goldman said Sunday. The plant was shut down automatically last week because of pump problems, but plant operators had hoped to put the $1.46 billion plant back in operation Sunday for 50 percent power trials on Monday. New problems with a pressure control valve are delaying startup of the plant, 15 miles north of Chattanooga, he said. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Con-Ed blamed WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (UPI) - The head of a task force investigating the leak of 100,000 gallons of water that flooded the Indian Point No. 2 nuclear power plant, said Wednesday he believed the accident was the result of "operator problems and design problems." Victor Stello, head of the Nuclear Regulation Commission's office of inspection and enforcement, told reporters after a day-long hearing in White Plains he felt Con Edison's procedures and the design of the plant in Buchanan produced the problems that led to the flooding. === Page 111 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # 23 inches of rain hits Key West in 24 hours KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- A record of more than 23 inches of rain in 24 hours inundated Key West Tuesday, leaving streets flooded and clogged with abandoned cars, closing schools and blacking out electricity and telephone service in some areas. The rain, which already had broken an all-time 24-hour mark of 19.88 inches on Nov. 13-14, 1954, continued to fall Tuesday evening at the rate of one to two inches an hour, National Weather Service forecaster Ray Boucher said. Late Tuesday night, however, radar indicated the heavy thunderstorms that had hung over the Lower Keys were moving south over the Florida Straits at about 10 mph. Forecasters said the torrential rains should slow and that only moderate to light rain was expected over the next several hours. The deluge was not connected to Hurricane Jeanne, which was stalled late Tuesday night about 450 miles south-southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, Boucher said. The thunderstorms had stalled over Key West -- the southernmost point of the continental United States -- early Tuesday and didn't budge all day, Boucher said. The rains had extended into the middle of the island chain, but he said Key West was the only island with such heavy rainfall. Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in the Lower and Middle Keys and motorists and boaters were advised to avoid travel until the weather cleared. The Key West police department asked residents and visitors to stay off the streets, and Monroe County school officials said all schools in the Keys would be closed Wednesday. A spokeswoman at the sheriff's department in Key West said some people were evacuated on four-wheel-drive vehicles, but could give no details. Southern Bell Telephone Co. asked people to use their telephones only in emergencies. Many residents reported trouble making calls and there was no power in some areas. "It's deep," one policeman said of the water flooding the streets. "We've got some streets with four feet of water. We've got cars floating down the street." oreg. J. 11/12/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Downed wire blacks out Douglas area SUTHERLIN (UPI) -- Parts of central Douglas County were without power for more than an hour Saturday evening when a wire fell across a 115,000-volt transmission line in Sutherlin, Pacific Power & Light Co. reported. The community of Sutherlin was blacked out for nearly two hours and Oakland was without electricity for more than 1 1/2 hours before service was restored, PP&L spokesman Glen Gillespie said. Winchester and some areas surrounding Roseburg were blacked out for brief periods, he said. The outages began shortly after 5 p.m. Sheriff's deputies said witnesses reported three loud explosions at a transformer in Sutherlin. Rescue crews were dispatched to the scene when a "live" wire fell to the ground. No injuries were reported. oreg. J. 11/10/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Twisters, snow hit South, Plains By United Press International Three tornadoes ripped through southern Mississippi, overturning trailer homes and downing power lines, and the first snow of the season fell in many areas from the central Plains to the lower Ohio Valley. Travelers advisories were in effect early Tuesday across eastern and southern Nebraska, extreme northwestern Missouri and much of Iowa, covered by 6 to 7 inches of snow. Several persons were reported injured late Monday by the twisters, which caused widespread damage near McComb and Eunice, Miss. At Morrow, Miss., the National Weather Service said two trailer homes were toppled, power lines were downed and trees were ripped up by the twisters. The tornado near Eunice caused crop damage and also downed trees and power lines. Heavy thunderstorms produced high winds, hail and nearly 5 inches of rain across southern Louisiana and Mississippi, prompting flash flood warnings. More than 6 inches of snow fell at Grand Island, Neb., established a record for the month of October. More than a half-foot of snow fell on the Colorado Rockies. A travelers' advisory was issued in northwest Iowa as the snow changed to slush on the roadways. Iowa residents shrugged off the early snowfall. "It's happened before," said Weather Service spokesman Andrew Brewington in Des Moines, where 7 inches of snow fell Monday. "Last year, here in Des Moines it (the first snow) was received Nov. 12. Snowfall is just one of those things." "This is not really anything ... it's unusual, but not earth-shattering." Showers and thundershowers were reported from eastern Tennessee to southern Louisiana. Light snow fell early Tuesday across parts of Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. Light rain and snow fell from the Mississippi Valley to the mid-Atlantic Coast states. oreg. J. 10/28/80 === Page 112 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power blackout puts vote in dark While many Oregonians knew the outcome of some races even before they went to the polls, some voters in Northeast Portland were in the dark -- literally -- when they made their choices Tuesday. A brief power outage at Woodlawn School, 7200 NE 11th Ave., caught some voters inside their curtained booths at Precincts No. 3004 and 3006. However, quick-thinking clerks rummaged for flashlights and cigarette lighters so voting could continue. Power was restored to the school in about 15 minutes, but one relieved precinct worker that the period "seemed a lot longer." Oreg. J. 11/5/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Winter attack hits early in Midwest United Press International A blustery storm brought up to a foot of snow and an early winter to eastern Montana and western North Dakota early Thursday, knocking out power and creating hazardous driving conditions. The National Weather Service said heavy, wet snow and gusts to 40 mph reduced visibility to near-zero. A bus bound for Minot, N.D., carrying 11 persons skidded off the road late Wednesday about 7 1/2 miles north of Kenmare. Kenmare Patrolman Tim Zeltinger said the snow delayed rescue efforts but it didn't appear anyone was seriously hurt. "That bus is just buried," Zeltinger said. "We've just been getting a whole slew of snow. We get snow early, but not this much." The storm knocked out power from Havre to Big Sandy, Mont., and as far south as Loma early Wednesday. Montana Power Co. district manager Charles Cox said winds and heavy snow pushed down about two dozen utility poles and snapped power lines, causing the blackout. A half-foot of snow fell at Lewistown, Mont., and more than a foot was reported at the higher elevations in the mountains. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Snow swoops down on Rockies, East By United Press International Heavy snow in the central Rockies amounted to 8 inches in Montana and 4 inches in Wyoming and Colorado, while thunderstorms swept portions of the Southern Plains. The first snow of the season fell Sunday on the triangle of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, and a massive cleanup began in New Jersey, where powerful wind caused millions of dollars in property damage and forced more than 170 persons from their homes. Heavy snow warnings were in effect for the mountains of central Colorado, and travel advisories were issued from southwestern South Dakota to eastern Colorado. The heaviest snow reported was in Great Falls, Mont., where up to 8 inches fell. Thunderstorms swept through western Oklahoma and north-central Texas. Rain changed to snow over portions of South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa as temperatures fell during the night. About 6 inches of snow fell in the Terra Alta, W.Va., area, with about 3 inches remaining on the ground by noon. Three-inch snowfalls were common in other mountainous areas, and the mercury plunged to 17 degrees at Snowshoe, W.Va. Up to 5 inches of snow fell in northeast Ohio. Three inches of snow fell in northwest Pennsylvania, and up to 2 inches layered higher elevations of the Laurel Mountains. Advisories for stockmen and hunter were posted over southwestern Montana, and travel advisories were issued for parts of Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska. New Jersey cleanup operations were centered in Cumberland County, especially along the Delaware Bay, where more than 170 people were forced to flee. Residents were returning to their homes Sunday to assess damage. "All along the bay they were hit hard," said civil defense worker David Yates. Reports of damage to homes, cars and boats were "in the millions. They're still counting it up," he said. High wind also battered New England as crews began to clean the debris from a furious rainstorm Saturday. Three deaths were reported in Connecticut, one a Milford firefighter who drowned Saturday when his rowboat overturned. Oreg. J. 10/27/80 # Oil drilling rig drifts in Pacific KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) -- An ocean-going, oil-drilling rig with 18 men aboard remained adrift but secure early Saturday in 35-foot North Pacific seas about 400 miles south of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Island chain, the Coast Guard reported. Spokesman Jeff Moustafa said heavy weather snapped the tow line between the oil rig, "Dan's Prince's," and the Dutch tug "Smit New York" Wednesday night, leaving the rig to bob in high swells. The weather also reportedly destroyed the rig's helicopter pad. Oreg J. 10/18/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - Note: Have you noticed how many oil rigs have caught on fire or blown up or fallen down since the SI's began their "Power" attack? Owens === Page 113 of 139 Bad valve blamed in blast NEW CASTLE, Del. (UPI) -- Leaking fumes caused an explosion at an Amoco plastics plant that killed five workers and injured 28 others, a state investigative team says. A report released Thursday by the state fire marshal's office and the Delaware Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said the fumes escaped through a leaking valve Tuesday as polypropylene was being pumped from a reactor at high pressure. The escaping vapor rose and mixed with the atmosphere, causing the explosion, the report said. oreg. 10/25/80 Note: Have you noticed how many mysterious, unexplainable, "blasts" and explosions have taken place all over the U.S. since the SI's have begun their attacks? Owens -- "Power" & Rain Attack -- THE OREGONIAN, THUR # Drilling rig goes down; crew of 18 evacuated KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- An offshore drilling rig from which 18 crew members were evacuated sank early Wednesday in the stormy North Pacific about two hours after capsizing while under tow, the U.S. Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported. The 18-member crew of the platform Dan Prince was evacuated Monday night by the Coast Guard cutter Boutwell, which reported the sinking after periodic checks Tuesday night. At 5:25 a.m., the rig sank in deep water about 600 miles south of Kodiak, rescue center spokesman Lt. Tom Nichols said. Sonar tracking lost the platform as it descended below 200 feet, he said, adding that he is uncertain how deep the water is at that location. The cutter remained on the scene, waiting for daylight to see if there was any debris to be picked up and whether an oil slick would result. The Coast Guard estimated there were about 1,500 barrels of fuel oil aboard the platform. When the Boutwell checked the rig at 3:45 a.m., it discovered the triangular platform was on its back with its three 75-foot legs sticking up in the air, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Fancher. The tug Smit New York cut the tow line when the rig went bottom up, he said. Earlier, Fancher had predicted that the rig would sink before the night was over because it was taking on water and the seas were too rough to put anyone aboard to refuel pumps to control flooding in two leaking ballast tanks. Seas were running about 14 feet with 18-knot winds. Loose gear rolling around on deck added to the problems, the Coast Guard said. The platform, owned by Scout Shipping of Monrovia, Liberia, was on its way from Norton Sound on Alaska's northwest coast to Ivory Coast, Africa, when a severe storm last Thursday tore the helicopter pad loose. The pad sliced through the towline and the rig drifted for two days until the weather moderated enough to reattach another line. Under the battering of 25-foot seas and 50-knot winds, cracks 8 to 12 feet long appeared along the base of the 208-foot-long deckhouse. Originally, plans were to tow the platform to Honolulu. Then it was decided that Seattle would be a better destination, but the deteriorating condition of the rig finally made it impossible to move it anywhere, Fancher said. The rig went down about 1,000 miles from where the luxury cruise ship Prinsendam sank earlier this month, he said. oreg. 10/23/80 # The nation -- "Power" & Rain Attack -- # Snowstorm kills 3 By The Associated Press A blinding snowstorm across the Rocky Mountains downed power lines, closed roads and killed three people, two of whom died in a train wreck during a blizzard in Wyoming. Tornadoes in the Plains injured at least seven people Thursday, and two twisters that swept through southwest Arkansas early Friday injured several people. The extent of those injuries was not immediately known. In Wyoming, where as much as 2 feet of snow fell during autumn's first snowstorm, two Union Pacific trains collided Thursday afternoon near Laramie, officials said. Two men were killed, and two others were seriously hurt. "We know it was blowing very hard up there," according to Union Pacific spokesman Joe McCartney, who said the weather was probably a factor in the crash. One train crashed into the rear of the other train, authorities said. The storm also contributed to the death of a Colorado man whose light plane crashed while he was attempting an instrument landing at the airport in Rock Springs, Wyo., officials said. The snow forced the closing of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Walcott Junction and the closing of two sections of U.S. 287. In Montana, authorities reported that 2 to 4 feet of snow accumulated in some mountain regions. The snow clogged roads near the 10,940-foot Beartooth Pass south of Red Lodge. oreg. 10/18/80 === Page 114 of 139 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Tornado lashes trailers, injures four in Louisiana LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- An unstable air mass hanging over Texas and Louisiana on Saturday spawned a tornado that lashed a Lafayette trailer park, injuring four people, authorities said. As the storm shifted back into Texas it "became better organized," dropping hail the size of golf balls in San Antonio, said Robert Johns of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City. The twister struck the Shiloh Place trailer park in Lafayette during a heavy rainfall and was on the ground about 15 seconds, witnesses said. One trailer was ripped from its moorings and tossed over three parked cars before it fell the ground in splinters. A second trailer was blown to pieces, and a third was overturned and shoved against another trailer, authorities said. Vermillion, Lafayette and St. Landry reported from 3 to 6 inches of rain in six hours Saturday, and a flash flood watch for the southern half of the state was in effect until midnight. Julian Nevarez, National Weather Service forecaster in charge for New Orleans, said the heavy weather evolved from a series of squall lines that preceded a cold front into Louisiana. 10/19/80 # The world - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Typhoon hits Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Floods unleashed by Typhoon Betty washed away scores of houses Tuesday as the most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines in 10 years headed for the country's main island of Luzon with winds reaching 161 miles an hour, officials said. The Philippine National Red Cross said at least 440 people were homeless after floods triggered by continuous heavy rain destroyed their houses in Albay Province, 200 miles southeast of Manila. No casualties were reported. A weather bulletin said the typhoon, earlier expected to hit land Wednesday morning, had picked up speed and now was headed for a landfall in the town of Casiguran, 137 miles northeast of Manila. 11/5/80 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Plutonium canister recovered RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- A plutonium storage canister which ignited earlier this month and contaminated two workers was recovered Friday from the sealed-off laboratory, officials of Rockwell Hanford said. The incident occurred Oct. 9 at the Z Plant while two workers were performing what spokesmen described as a routine packaging procedure. Rockwell spokesman Hal Lindberg said the canister was recovered without incident. He said the recovery was the first entry into the contaminated laboratory since the incident occurred. Cleanup crews had been working to decontaminate rooms around the laboratory and, with that out of the way, they said they were able to concentrate on the laboratory itself. The canister contained less than half an ounce of the plutonium oxide powder, Lindberg said. The container burst open when the oxide ignited, apparently by spontaneous combustion, he said. Officials at the time said it was the first known incident of such a circumstance ever occurring. They said they will now begin trying to find out why it happened and to see what steps can be taken to prevent it from happening again. 11/1/80 - "Power" + Rain Attack - # 50 Workers at Atom Plant Exposed to Low Radiation New York SF Chron: 10/24/80 About 50 Consolidated Edison Co. workers were exposed to a low level of radiation when they tried to repair a 100,000-gallon water leak at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant, the utility said yesterday. The exposure last Friday, amounting to nine or 10 millirems, is not unusual for employees who maintain the reactor, said Pat Richardi, a utility spokeswoman, adding: "It's about half as much as you'd get from a chest X-ray." The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and utility officials were at the reactor yesterday trying to determine the damage caused by the leak. The leak was caused by a faulty weld in a 10-inch pipe that carries water to cool the reactor. The reactor halted when the malfunction occurred, and the water has been pumped into holding tanks where it will remain until it can be processed to remove any radioactive particles, Richardi said. Associated Press - "Power" + Rain Attack - # Shuttle power shut down The federal space agency is trying to find out what caused an automatic shutdown of a test version of the space shuttle's main power plant. The power plant developed trouble and shut down 10 seconds after it was ignited for a planned 581-second firing Monday, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The agency said the problem was in one of the three clustered engines. The power plant was being tested near Bay St. Louis, Miss. The first manned flight of the shuttle, scheduled for March 10, is not expected to be affected by Monday's problems, the agency said. 11/5/80 === Page 115 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - 80 3M A9 # New fire imperils homes LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A fire of suspicious origin headed into an unpopulated area after burning 15 square miles like a blowtorch Tuesday, and Southern California's "devil wind" pushed another fast-moving fire that threatened expensive homes in Ventura County. One firefighter was seriously burned by the first blaze, which threatened homes in Orange County as it roared across nearly 8,000 acres of canyons and oil lease land in Santa Ana Canyon. The fire destroyed two oil wells and reportedly burned to death some cattle trapped on blazing pasture land. As the Santa Ana Canyon blaze sped away from the residential area, firefighters turned their attention to a brush fire 100 miles to the northwest in Ventura County. "This one is just going crazy on us. It's moving in two different directions now," said Ventura County fire spokeswoman Diane Morgan. With the fire racing toward the ocean, expensive homes in the Thousand Oaks-Newbury Park area were imperiled. As Orange County residents had done only hours earlier, the Thousand Oaks homeowners donned bandanas against the choking smoke and began dousing shingle roofs and dry grass with garden hoses in an effort to keep the flames back. Mike Smith, a resident of the exclusive Lynn Ranch area of Thousand Oaks, said the flames were within a quarter-mile of his house. "We can hear the cracking sound of the fire, and the animals are all going crazy," he said. "Our dogs are running in circles. . . . A couple of neighbors have already packed their cars." At least 2,500 acres had burned about five hours after the blaze erupted at 8:45 a.m. Arson was suspected in the Santa Ana Canyon blaze since the fire started in two places, according to Bev Tinker, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry. As winds gusted up to 50 mph, flames blackened 7,000 acres 30 miles east of Los Angeles in Santa Ana Canyon, for which the legendary "devil wind" was named decades ago. Forestry Department spokesman Ted Pfeiffer said the blaze has "the potential of destroying a lot of structures." The winds also caused a power blackout in Yorba Linda. The oil wells were destroyed and a liquid propane gas tank was threatened near Prado Dam, where the fast-moving fire started, the Forestry Department said. Construction worker Gary Ridley was working on one of the many new housing tracts in Santa Ana Canyon when the fire suddenly roared in. "The flames were jumping at least 500 feet across the new home pads that were built and are coming this way," said Ridley, who fled. Diane Taylor, a resident, said she could see flames from upstairs windows in her $180,000 home in Yorba Linda. "It was scary," she said. Fourteen families evacuated voluntarily to a Red Cross center in the gymnasium at Anaheim's Canyon High School. eteq. 10/29/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - By ALAN K. OTA of The Oregonian staff 11/9/80 Thunderstorms raked Portland Saturday with what city officials called the most intense rains of recent years, flooding basements and causing logjams of traffic at 100 water-gorged intersections as residents ducked for cover and bailed out. Dick Schmidt, in charge of city street crews, said that the short, intense storms that occurred between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. were as strong as any the city has seen in the last century. "The intensities for short durations were in the range of hundred-year storms," he said. The National Weather Service reported that just over half-an-inch of rain fell at Portland International Airport, outside the storm's center, between midnight and 4 a.m. Saturday. But a weather service forecaster who declined to be identified said that accumulations of up to 2 inches may have occurred in other harder hit parts of the city, falling mainly around midday. Residents of the Southwest Portland hills were greeted earlier Saturday morning by a smattering of hail. At the height of the rainstorm, the city Public Works Bureau received telephone calls reporting 100 flooded intersections and 30 homes with basements flooded by backed up sewers, mostly in the Southeast and Southwest areas of town. Three emergency street crews were called into action at 11 a.m. Ken Upshaw, who dispatched the crews, blamed the high number of flooded intersections on the intensity of the rains and on strong winds earlier in the week that littered streets with gutter-clogging leaves. "We think that last week all the winds dropped all the leaves. It was weird really. All the leaves suddenly fell off," Upshaw said. "Then so much rain fell that the system couldn't handle it." The flooding was not confined to low-lying areas. At midday, "Even places where it was sloped and normally should have drained, water was piling up fast," Upshaw said. He praised numerous residents who helped street crews by unplugging leaf-jammed sewer grates with rakes and shovels, reducing the scope of the water problems. "A lot of them have been through this before," he said. The heavy rains also were blamed for a power outage that affected a portion of downtown Portland Saturday night. Glen Gillespie, a spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., said the rain flooded an underground electrical vault, interrupting service from about 7:30 p.m. to 9:26 p.m. in the area between Southwest Harrison Street and Columbia Boulevard from Fourth to Fifth avenues. # The world - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Quake toll at 36 AL ASNAM, Algeria (AP) -- Severe earth tremors rippled through this North African city Saturday, injuring at least 36 persons and further damaging what remained of the city after a death-dealing earthquake last month, the Algerian Press Service reported. The news agency said 13 persons were critically injured and evacuated to hospitals at Oum-Drou, Sendjas and Oued Rhiou. The others were given first aid treatment. Most injuries were caused by falling debris from buildings damaged Oct. 10 in the earthquake that virtually destroyed the city, leaving 400,000 people homeless and at least 10,000 dead or missing. Many of Saturday's casualties were people who had returned to their damaged homes after tent housing was filled. eteq. 11/9/80 === Page 116 of 139 - "POWER" + Rain Attack - # Storm batters East; outages extensive By The Associated Press A storm packing gale-force winds and heavy rain rolled northward along the East Coast Saturday, knocking out power to nearly 200,000 homes in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, and forcing the evacuation of undetermined numbers of people in low-lying areas. Ships were stranded in the turbulent Atlantic, coastal roads were closed by flooding and erosion, and homes and buildings were damaged by flooding and winds that gusted up to 75 miles per hour. A coastal flood and storm warning was in effect for the southeast coastal region of New England, and gale warnings were posted for the Connecticut shoreline. Residents of two shoreline towns in Connecticut and a 15-mile-wide strip of southern New Jersey on the Delaware Bay were evacuated. "The situation is really messed up," said Massachusetts State Police Cpl. James Sartori. "It's a dangerous situation." Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Brien said waves as high as 20 feet along the New Jersey coast impeded relief efforts, and a state police spokesman said low-lying coastal areas in Cumberland and Cape May counties were under at least 3 to 4 feet of water. "A lot of the people are staying," O'Brien said. "People in Cape May, where the water is not quite as high, are just taking their belongings and climbing up high in the house. They seem more concerned with protecting their belongings from looters than anything else." A volunteer firefighter evacuating residents in a suburb of Milford, Conn., was swept away and drowned when his boat capsized. Rescuers used boats to evacuate at least 50 people in Milford and about 40 in Fairfield, officials said. "There is heavy torrential rainfall throughout the state," Sartori said in Massachusetts. "There are 60 mph winds with gusts up to 70 mph on most Interstate routes. Flooding is definitely a problem in most of our lower basin areas." He blamed two highway accidents, which left one person in critical condition, on poor visibility and slippery roads. National Weather Service officials said the 2- to 3-inch rainfall marked the beginning of a return to normal rainfall in the region, which has been beset by drought. But water company officials in New Jersey noted that this year's rainfall was as much as 15 inches below average, and they expect no change in Gov. Brendan T. Byrne's mandatory water rationing order in 114 northern New Jersey communities. The weather service said the storm was spawned along the South Carolina coast Friday and intensified as it moved north into New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. The Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center at Governor's Island, N.Y., said six vessels were in distress off the Atlantic coast. Search efforts had failed to locate the sailing vessel Alguearan, about 300 miles off the coast of Delaware, said Brian Taylor, a spokesman at the center. He did not know how many people were on board. The 300-foot Panamanian freighter Ocean Endeavor ran aground less than 50 yards off Barnegat, N.J., Saturday, Taylor said, but it did not appear to be leaking any of its 45,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Thad Allen in Atlantic City, N.J., said the 14 crew members chose to remain aboard the Ocean Endeavor until it floats free or is towed off. The Coast Guard cutter Point Battan was damaged by 20-foot seas as it began a mission to aid another sailing vessel, the Myra, reported in distress about 300 miles off the Delaware coast with an undetermined number of people on board. The Point Battan limped back to port, and the Liberian tanker Navios Crusader was standing by the Myra. oreg. 10/26/80 Winter Attack # Winter arrives in Europe oreg. 11/5/80 LONDON (AP) -- Winter came early to much of Europe Tuesday, producing unseasonably cold weather with below freezing temperatures and ice and snow hazards. Worst hit in Western Europe by the freak late-fall conditions were Austria and West Germany, where motorists already had been hindered by snowfalls. In West Germany, 23 Alpine passes were closed as temperatures dipped into the upper 20s. Traffic was congested on many roads in Austria, where snow has not fallen this early since 1929. Farmers were taken by surprise and attempted to complete fall chores. Eight inches of snow fell in the Italian Alps. Tarvisio, a town near the Austrian border, had a record low for the date of 19 Monday, while motorists were warned to slow down on the superhighway between Bologna and Florence. Temperatures in Paris were near freezing for the second straight day. In the Vosges Mountains, the thermometer dropped to 5 degrees. Below average temperatures accompanied by fog, frost and gales hit Britain. Although skies in London were clear and fall colors richer than usual, overcoats and scarves were pulled out early. In the Netherlands, ice skaters headed for the canals to take advantage of the early freezing conditions. In Eastern Europe, temperatures in Czechoslovakia dipped dramatically with snow falling two weeks earlier than usual after a spell of record mild weather. In Yugoslavia, farmers called in extra help to harvest wheat, corn and sugar beet as snow covered their land. Wolves in Serbia have been descending on villages devouring dozens of sheep. Some of Europe escaped the wintry weather. Sweden and Finland had normal conditions for this time of year, while Portugal had a late burst of summer sun. === Page 117 of 139 - "Power" and Rain Attack - A12 3M THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1980 # Atlantic searched for lost ship By KARL SWANSON NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. and Canadian aircraft searched the Atlantic again Sunday for a freighter missing with a crew of 33 for more than two weeks. Officials said a freak storm added a "possibly ominous element" to the disappearance. The 522-foot Poet was reported missing Oct. 25, the day after it left Cape Henlopen, Del., with a load of corn bound for Port Said, Egypt, the Coast Guard said. As many as 10 aircraft from the United States, Canada and other points have searched up to 400 miles offshore without sighting the freighter. The aircraft have covered thousands of square miles of ocean. The day after the Poet set out a freak storm lashed the sea off New York and Massachusetts, roughly the area the ship was cruising. High wind and waves and heavy rain that day added a "possibly ominous element," a Coast Guard spokesman said. The Poet should have radioed its position daily, but as of Sunday no contact had been made. It did not pass through the Straits of Gibraltar on Saturday as scheduled. The Poet, registered in the United States, is owned by the Hawaiian Eugenia Corp. of New York. No representative of the company could be reached for comment Sunday. The Coast Guard knew little of the Poet beyond the length, number of crew, destination and that it was a troop carrier before being converted to haul corn. 980 (2) Calif. "PK" IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ![Photograph of a collapsed railroad embankment and flooded area] United Press International WIPED OUT -- A makeshift Santa Fe railroad embankment that collapsed Thursday destroyed $3 million in crops and threatens the water supply of 1 million people. Burrowing beavers and the weight of daily train traffic are blamed for weakening the levee. oreg. 10/25/80 === Page 118 of 139 - CALIF PK - Note: I warned Jeffrey this was coming up soon. Saturday, November 8, 1980 15¢ # Major earthquake shocks California, south Oregon EUREKA, Calif. (UPI) -- A severe earthquake early Saturday jolted the Northern California coast along an extension of the San Andreas fault, smashing windows, toppling store goods and snapping a major highway overpass. Several injuries but no deaths were reported. By some measurements, the quake was the strongest to hit the continental United States in more than a year. The earthquake at 2:36 a.m. shook a 500-square-mile area from southern Oregon to the San Francisco Bay Area and measured between 6.6 and 7.1 on the Richter scale. A U.S. Geological Survey reading of 7.0 made the quake the strongest to hit the lower 48 states since a quake of the same intensity struck the Mexican border near El Centro, Calif., on Oct. 15, 1979. It was the largest quake in the earthquake-prone Eureka area since a 7.2 quake in 1923. Jim Marrone of the University of California seismograph station in Berkeley fixed the facility's estimate of magnitude to 6.6 and placed the center about 10 miles northwest of Eureka, barely in the Pacific Ocean and about 250 miles north of San Francisco. Four aftershocks were felt in the hours after the temblor, which struck about 50 miles north of where the main San Andreas fault swings west into the Pacific. Seismological centers in Hawaii and Japan said there was no danger from tidal waves. A tidal wave after the 1964 Alaska quake left 13 dead in Northern California. There were reports that some homes were knocked "out of alignment" with their foundations by the latest quake. The sheriff's office at Eureka reported that an overpass 8 miles south of Eureka collapsed onto Highway 101. Two cars fell 30 feet onto the rubble below, which closed the highway, a major coastal link between California and Oregon, for two hours. "Two vehicles went with it when it went," said an officer at the scene. The Highway Patrol said two adults and three children inside one of the vehicles were injured, some seriously. The "jaws of life" -- huge metal-cutters -- were used to remove them from the wreckage. The lone occupant of the other car was not injured. None of the injured was identified immediately. A firefighter quoted the driver of one car as saying he thought he had a flat tire, then saw blue lights on the horizon -- apparently from arcing power lines -- and realized there was an earthquake. === Page 119 of 139 # Thousands flee rubble - "Power & Rain Attack" # Quake rocks Mexico; toll at 31 By JOE FRAZIER City 10/25/80 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A deadly earthquake ripped through southern Mexico Friday, sending tens of thousands of people fleeing into the streets as adobe and brick buildings crumbled. Mexico City skyscrapers rattled and swayed. Authorities said at least 31 people were killed. Hardest hit was the town of Huajuapan de Leon, near the epicenter of the quake. The Red Cross said 15 persons perished and more than 250 were injured when a crowded public market building, two hospitals, a secondary school, the city hall and scores of houses collapsed. Two deaths were reported in the nearby village of Acatlan. Roads into the Huajuapan de Leon and Acatlan were blocked by earthslides, and the federal government dispatched three police helicopters to assist rescuers. Marie Gomes of Hayward, Calif., said she was sitting in her 11th-floor room of a Mexico City hotel "when the chair began to sway. I remembered that people told me to get into a doorway in case of an earthquake, so I did and prayed to God it would stop shaking." Four students and a teacher were reported killed in the town of Tehtuitzingo, southeast of Mexico City, where a school building collapsed. Seventy other children escaped unhurt. To the south, three deaths were reported in San Pedro Yeloixtlahuaca, but the Red Cross had no details. In the historic city of Puebla, 70 miles east of Mexico City, officials said at least 180 children suffered minor injuries when they panicked at a sports event and fled, falling over one another. Red Cross officials in Puebla said at least two children died in the village of San Mateo Xolco when dozens of houses collapsed. They said the quake destroyed about 70 percent of the rural village, which lies between the volcanos Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl. The officials said a woman was killed in central Puebla and two others perished when a wall near a prison fell on them. Police in Mexico City said one man died here when he was hit by a falling beam. The Red Cross said two persons died of heart attacks, apparently related to the quake, and about 40 persons were treated for injuries and hysteria in the capital. A professor and a student were hurt when a wall fell on them at Metropolitan University. The quake, felt in a broad belt over south-central Mexico and northern Guatemala, was centered about 150 miles southeast of Mexico City and registered 6.5 on the Richter scale -- a jolt capable of doing severe damage, according to the U.S. Earthquake Information Center at Golden, Colo. The tremor came at 8:55 a.m. and lasted for more than a minute. It was felt as far away as Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala 600 miles to the southeast, and in the Mexican gulf port city of Veracruz. Mexico City police said the quake shattered windows and caused gas leaks that started some fires. Two policemen were hospitalized with burns suffered while trying to stop a gas leak. === Page 120 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # olcano's fiery eruption rows ash to Coos Bay By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer A light hit-and-miss dusting of volcanic ash was reported as far south as Coos Bay early Friday following the sixth major eruption of Mount St. Helens. The restless volcano cut loose with a roar at 9:58 p.m. Thursday, sending a glowing lightning-laced plume of ash 8 miles high. Within minutes, gritty gray pumice was falling on Cougar, Wash., 12 miles south-west of the volcano. Ash fell in parts of the Portland metropolitan area by mid-night, at Newport on the Oregon Coast at 4:10 a.m., and at Coos Bay, 250 miles from the volcano, near 6 a.m. As in the June 12 eruption when ash blanketed the Portland area, police advised motorists to cut speeds to reduce the amount of ash blowing in the air. Heavy fog was more of a problem than the ash in many parts of Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon. The total amount of ash expelled by the volcano in the new eruption seems to be less than in previous major blasts, so the effect on the Northwest is not expected to be as severe. The eruption was short-lived. All seismic activity had ceased by 10:30 p.m. For the first time, a fiery red glow was seen by Forest Service pilots as the eruption began and scientists said it undoubtedly was molten rock. Steve Malone, a spokesman for the University of Washington Geophysics Department, said the glow may have occurred during other eruptions, but this was the first time the mountain has erupted at night under clear skies. "No doubt it was the magma . . . and it was red hot," Malone said. "It was highly gas-charged, so that it explodes quite violently." There was no indication of a flow of molten debris down the side of the mountain as in the massive May 18 eruption when 1,300 feet of the mountain was blown away, 250 square miles was turned into a lunar-like wasteland and 62 persons were left dead and missing. Pilots reported that the red glow inside the volcano's mile-wide crater was visible until nearly midnight. Scientists were waiting for a good look at the inner crater to see what had happened to the lava dome that built up inside of it after the last major eruption on Aug. 7. Don Peterson, U.S. Geological Survey scientist in charge of the Mount St. Helens project, said the Thursday night eruption "was the kind of event that could have poked a hole in the lava dome." The eruption was predicted at 8:42 p.m. as being "imminent." The warning came following several "Class B" tremors and an earthquake at 7:02 p.m. measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale. Because tremors continued, as they have before previous major eruptions, a volcano alert was issued. The U.S. Forest Service put out an advisory saying, "There are several minor continued seismic actions at this time and it is felt that an eruption may be possible or may be imminent." Just before the advisory, the volcano rumbled and shot a plume of ash and steam 1,000 feet skyward. Seismologists at the University of (Continued on page 2) * ![Map of Oregon and Washington showing ash pattern from Mount St. Helens] ASH PATTERN -- Newest Mount St. Helens eruption moved ash mainly southwest with light fallout reported in Hood River, Portland, Vancouver area, Salem, Newport and Coos Bay. oreg. J. 10/17/80 === Page 121 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - A10 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1980 # Snow buries Rockies; tornadoes cuff Plains By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The first major snowstorm of autumn attacked the Rocky Mountain states Thursday, clogging roads with chest-high drifts and ripping down power lines while tornadoes whipped through the Plains. Twisters smashed houses and barns and injured several people in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma, while 10-inch snows crippled towns and cities such as Billings, Mont. In Wyoming, the storm, which started moving in Wednesday, apparently contributed to at least one fatal auto accident and the crash of a light plane that killed one man. In Freemont County, searchers Thursday found six of eight people who had been lost in the rugged mountains, but two teen-age hunters were still missing. Caught in the path of one of the tornadoes was Randy Gordon, 26, of rural Burden, Kan., who watched the roof of his house being snatched away. "I just heard the thing starting to crunch, and I told my wife to hit the floor," Gordon said. "I just kind of heard a growling noise, then I heard the wood spitting." Along the Rocky range from New Mexico to Montana, the story was much the same: Highways were closed, schools were out and the heavy wet snow snapped tree limbs that brought down power lines leaving thousands of homes without power. In Wyoming, where 10 inches of snow accumulated in Rawlins and elsewhere, Interstate 80 was closed from Cheyenne to Walcott, more than 100 miles to the west, the Highway Patrol said. Laramie, Wyo., got 8 inches, and a patrol spokesman said all highways serving the home city of the University of Wyoming were closed. The 9,000-student university canceled classes, as did Albany County public schools. U.S. 287 was shut off between Rawlins and Casper, the patrol spokesman said. In Montana, the state Highway Department said snow up to 4 feet deep clogged roads near the 10,940-foot Beartooth Pass south of Red Lodge. The scenic highway along the Wyoming border will not be reopened until spring. Oreg: Oct 17, '80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Backhoe cuts line, darkens Macadam An underground power line severed by a backhoe caused a temporary outage to customers of Portland General Electric on Macadam Avenue Thursday afternoon. Oreg. 10/17/80 - "Power" and Rain Attack - # Storms sweep Midwest United Press International Thunderstorms, tornadoes and damaging winds swept through the central Plains, ripping the roof off a home in Nebraska and overturning cars in Colorado. A winter storm system brought heavy snow to the northern Rockies, with up to 7 inches reported in some spots. Nearly a dozen tornadoes were reported in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado late Wednesday. The twisters overturned cars east of Boulder, Colo., said the National Weather Service, and damaged homes and farm buildings near Wichita, Kan. A tornado tore the roof off a home near North Platte, Neb. Winds of 60 mph blew through Kansas City, and hail the size of softballs was reported in the Nebraska Panhandle. J.P. 10/16/80 === Page 122 of 139 (note: My UFOs are causing all this fracas. Oil + gas are a "power" form. "Power + Rain Attack" - Owens) THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1980 - Greg. 9/24/80 # Retaliation for Iraqi bombing of Iranian refinery may hit home in West Story on Page One also By YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM New York Times News Service LONDON -- The reported Iraqi bombing of Iran's huge Abadan refinery represents a significant blow to Iranian industry. Diplomats fear retaliation that could be felt throughout the Western consuming world. Lloyd's, the London society of insurers, was tripling rates for cargo moved in the area and issuing only 24- and 48-hour coverage amid diplomatic warnings that Iran might try to block passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage at the mouth of the Persian Gulf that separates Iran and Oman, in an attempt to interrupt Iraq's oil sales to other countries. Such a move would shut off the key flow of oil to the West, for more than 40 percent of the non-Communist world's oil supply moves through the gulf daily to international markets. The Persian Gulf is the outlet for oil exports not only from Iran and Iraq, the world's second-largest oil exporter, but also from Saudi Arabia, which is the largest, and Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain. Although some of these nations have alternate outlets, the bulk of their oil is shipped through the Persian Gulf. The oil industry estimates that Iran produces roughly 1.5 million barrels a day, and it exports less than a million barrels. The United States imports no oil from Iran. Of the two nations, Iraq is clearly the more important factor for global supplies. Its daily rate of production is 3.5 million barrels, and 3.3 million barrels of that are exported. The principal purchasers of Iraqi oil, industry sources say, are France (500,000 barrels a day), Brazil (400,000), Italy (200,000) and Japan (200,000). The United States, directly or indirectly, receives about 100,000 barrels of Iraqi oil a day. There has been a glut of crude oil on international markets, with the daily rate of production running 2 million to 3 million barrels more than demand. Enough oil for 100 days of global consumption is already present in stocks of oil stored throughout the world. **Map of the Region** - TURKEY - Tigris R. - Euphrates R. - SYRIA - Tabriz - Caspian Sea - Tehran - Nineveh - Mosul - Kirkuk - Hamadan - Qasr-E-Shirin - Sumar - Baghdad - IRAQ - IRAN - Dezful - Ahvaz - Abadan - Basra - Shatt al-Arab - SAUDI ARABIA - KUWAIT - Persian Gulf - 0 200 MILES THEATER OF WAR -- Map shows major cities bombed in Iran and Iraq. The dotted line locates the 300-mile front along which Iraqi ground forces struck Tuesday, as reported by the state-run Baghdad radio. Diplomatic sources in London said that an Iranian warning Tuesday -- that all waterways adjacent to Iran were war zones and that all ships were to stay out -- was the first signal that international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz could be impaired. So far, these sources said, the only hazards to navigation have been in the Shatt al Arab estuary that divides Iraq and Iran and where the fighting is centered. "At the start of the fighting, we just didn't anticipate that things were going to get that bad," said one Western diplomat here who has regional responsibility for the Persian Gulf. === Page 123 of 139 Greg Oct. 1980 "Power" + Rain Attack # 20,000 feared dead in Algerian quake By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH AL ASNAM, Algeria (AP) -- Ambulance sirens wailed ceaselessly through this devastated Algerian city Saturday after the second killer earthquake in 26 years flattened most of the buildings, and officials feared as many as 20,000 people might have perished. The cries and moans of trapped victims could be heard from under tons of rubble more than 24 hours after Friday's midday quake largely destroyed this normally quiet market city. Rescuers amputated arms or legs of some of the victims in order to free them. Food and drink were passed to some of those trapped. In Algiers, officials said between 5,000 and 20,000 inhabitants of Al Asnam and surrounding towns may have died in the disaster. There was no official toll of the victims, and a spokesman for the Algerian Red Crescent, the equivalent of the Red Cross, said it was impossible to make an accurate estimate. Medical teams and supplies were being sent from many nations at the appeal of the Red Crescent. Roads to the city were scarred by gigantic cracks and clogged with convoys of cranes, bulldozers, ambulances, water trucks and relief supplies converging from all parts of the country. There was almost no local equipment available to move the giant blocks of steel and concrete that held many of the victims. The city of 125,000 inhabitants, located astride a major seismic fault 150 miles west of Algiers, was devastated by an earthquake 26 years ago. On Sept. 9, 1954, Al Asnam -- then called Orleansville -- was virtually destroyed. More than 1,600 inhabitants were killed and about 15,000 seriously injured. "This was far worse than 1954," lamented an old man grimly surveying the wreckage from a street corner. Friday's quake registered 7.5 on the Richter scale, according to a seismological station in France. Some of the seriously injured were taken to distant hospitals by helicopter. Four camps were set up for the homeless survivors. More than 6,000 tents were distributed by the military authorities, together with blankets, clothing and emergency food supplies. Throughout the city, electricity, water supplies, telephones and sewers were cut, and officials said they could give no estimate of how long it would take to restore them. There were reports of serious damage and heavy casualties in mountain villages between Al Asnam and the Mediterranean coast. The towns of Oued Fodha, El Attif and Sendjaf were reported hardest hit. The reports could not be confirmed because highways and bridges suffered extensive damage and many of the villages were cut off. Al Asnam's four-story hospital was a near-total ruin. Several high-rise apartment blocks, built to house low-income families left homeless by the 1954 quake, were demolished. The city's largest hotel, the Chelif, was wrecked, and its concrete roof lay at ground level. Rescuers said 350 guests and staff members were believed to have died in the building. One rescuer said some victims were freed after trapped limbs were removed in emergency amputations with knives or axes, without anesthetic. === Page 124 of 139 --- "Power & Rain Attack" --- # New tremors panic ravaged Al Asnam By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Oreg. 10/14/80 AL ASNAM, Algeria (AP) -- A new series of aftershocks rumbled Monday through Al Asnam, panicking the terrified survivors of the earthquake that devastated this city and hampering desperate rescue efforts. Twenty miles south, the mountain village of Bordj Bounaama was leveled, but no one was killed, the official Algerian news agency reported. The shock, felt at 8:45 a.m. local time, destroyed 40 to 50 empty houses in the village and registered 5 on the Richter scale. An unknown number of villagers and at least 30 houses were destroyed there in the first earthquake Friday. The tremors felt in Al Asnam, some also registering a 5 on the Richter scale, caused no apparent damage. But for the tens of thousands of homeless, the reminder of last Friday's catastrophe was enough to drive them from their tent camps in terror. In an apparent effort to prevent further panic, the news agency issued a communique declaring, "There is no reason to fear the mild earth tremors still being felt from time to time." The rescue efforts, more urgent for the knowledge that time was running out for those still alive in the ruins, kept up around the clock. Teams of workers using cranes and giant earthmovers pried apart the concrete and twisted steel to save the injured and retrieve the dead. The official count of bodies was 1,600, but the Algerian Red Crescent relief organization estimated 5,000 to 20,000 dead. There was no government estimate, but some officials said there was reason to hope the toll would be lower. Algeria began a week of mourning for its dead, and the government declared the entire province of Al Asnam, with more than a million inhabitants, a disaster area. President Chadli Benjedid organized emergency measures from a tent headquarters in the city. More than a fifth of the population is believed to have been affected in some way. Outlying villages that had been cut off by landslides and ruined bridges yielded more dead and injured as army helicopters flew south and north into the remoter areas between Al Asnam and the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of injured have been rescued and hospitalized, but the greatest need was to reach those trapped in the wreckage since the quake flattened many of the city's buildings and badly damaged most of the rest. More than 1,600 died in a 1954 quake here, and a police officer said that more than a week later people still were being found alive in the ruins. "With that precedent in mind, we do not intend to give up hope of finding survivors for a long time yet," the officer said. Small children who lost their parents in the disaster wandered aimlessly through the streets. Teams organized by a women's group gathered them up, and others were cared for by volunteer families or by any relatives who could be located. There was no electricity in the city, and generators powered the floodlights for all-night rescue operations. French and Swiss Alpine rescue teams with avalanche dogs joined the thousands of troops, police, firemen, construction workers, miners and civilian volunteers hunting in the rubble for anyone left alive. --- "Power & Rain Attack" --- # Flood kills 240 Nigerians IBADAN, Nigeria (AP) -- Floods that surged through this provincial capital last weekend have killed at least 240 persons and police were continuing their search for bodies, the Nigerian News Agency reported Wednesday. Police initially reported 33 persons dead in flooding caused by a 12-hour rainstorm Sunday. The news agency, quoting newspaper reports here, said the mortuary was "packed" in this city, the capital of Oyo province in southwestern Nigeria. Oreg. Sept. 4, '80 --- "Power & Rain Attack" --- # Explosion cause sought PEKIN, Ill. (AP) -- Inspectors searched Tuesday for the cause of two coal-dust explosions that flashed through Commonwealth Edison's Powerton generating plant before dawn, injuring some 15 workers. The blasts may have done more than $100 million worth of damage to the plant and may force it to stay shut down for six months or more, the utility said. "There was fire everywhere," said Dave Cannon, who was working at the time of the 4 a.m. explosion. "It followed up all the belts, and that was it. I felt the heat and it knocked me down." Oreg. 10/14/80 === Page 125 of 139 - "Power" + Rain Attack # Rains Pound West Texas San Angelo, Texas Heavy rains brought by the remnants of tropical storm Danielle pelted a wide area of Texas yesterday, sending torrents of water down creeks and rivers. Flash flood watches and warnings were posted from west of Austin to just east of the Midland-Odessa area. Little property damage was reported, but the rain hampered travelers by causing minor street and highway flooding. Some ranch roads were temporarily closed by high water. The National Weather Service warned stockmen and campers in semi-arid areas of possible high, fast-moving water in creekbeds and rivers dried out after the three-month drought. The rain Monday and yesterday -- up to nine inches in a 24-hour period at Paint Rock, east of San Angelo -- was also attributed to the storm, which came ashore last weekend. SF Chron. 9/10/80 Associated Press -- "Power and Rain Attack" # The world # 6 die in typhoon TOKYO (AP) -- Typhoon Orchid ripped through the southern island of Kyushu and parts of western Japan Thursday, killing six people and injuring 33 before moving out to sea, authorities reported. One person was reported missing after Orchid moved into the Japan Sea and appeared to lose some force. Police said more than 3,100 houses were flooded and domestic airlines canceled more than 200 flights on 82 routes, including those to Tokyo and Osaka. By evening, police said 137 landslides had occurred and four small boats sank in the storm. In the last two days, parts of Kyushu recorded 28 inches of rain. Org. Sept. 12, 1980 -- "Power" + Rain Attack - Org. Sept. 19, 1980 # Floods, burst dam claim 100 in India By BRAHMA CHELLANEY NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A burst dam and flash floods caused by torrential rains killed at least 100 people and marooned about 87,000 in southeast India, according to reports received from the stricken area Thursday. The rains brought to 1,700 the number of deaths throughout India from cloudbursts, windstorms, washouts and floods since the annual summer monsoon began three months ago. The latest flash floods damaged or wrecked more than 50,000 houses, four bridges, two power generating stations, highways and railroads in the southern states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, the United News of India reported. Officials said they expected more deaths to be discovered in the two states, which have been cut off from the rest of the country by the swirling waters. Orissa Revenue Minister K.C. Lenka said after an aerial survey that he "saw thousands of people perched on rooftops and trees. I fear heavy loss to life and property," the news agency reported. The reports said food packets were being airdropped over the flood-ravaged region and that authorities were removing bodies, including those of three government officials. An earthen dam on the flooded Bansadhara River in Orissa state broke, sending a tide of water rushing through Korapur county, about 350 miles southeast of Calcutta. All-India Radio said the torrent left two towns with a combined population of 52,000 under 10 feet of water. It swept away hundreds of cattle and damaged most of the homesteads in the district, the news agency reported, and "only three buildings could withstand the fury." Electric power and communications lines were broken, cutting off the area from outside contact, the radio reported, and railroad service was suspended in the area. It said the dam broke after four straight days of incessant rain. In neighboring Andhra Pradesh state, flash floods swamped more than 92 villages. === Page 126 of 139 Note: UFO war against U.S. Govt. Owens 9/8/80 SPECIAL REPORT ![Image of a shut-down steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio] John Alexandrowicz Shut-down steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio: As the great industrial engines slow, the nation's standard of living is in jeopardy # An Economic Dream in Peril In the chronicles of the wealth of nations, there has never been anything quite like America. Its vast natural resources provided the raw material for ever greater riches as they fired a prolific industrial engine that was the envy of the world. Decade by decade, Americans produced and enjoyed an ever growing cornucopia of goods and services. Generation after generation gained in material well-being and in confidence that its children would do even better. If the streets were not actually paved with gold, as some immigrants imagined, Americans could at least expect that a pot of plenty lay just over the horizon. But lately the rainbow seems to have blurred--or even broken. For the past decade, Americans have watched helplessly as the purchasing power of paychecks has been mercilessly eroded. They have raided their savings, sacrificing future security to present needs. Many of their jobs are in jeopardy--and some have disappeared forever. Meanwhile, they have seen once-proud industrial plants age and close. The flood of foreign imports that jams every highway and clutters every store counter is an ominous reminder that the competition is gaining. No longer can the poor count on working their way steadily toward a better life. And no longer do Americans share the great expectations of generations past. For the first time, public-opinion polls show that the average U.S. citizen is not at all sure that his children's lot will be better than--or even as good as--his own. What has gone wrong? Every expert has a pet villain, from a purported erosion of the work ethic to the indisputable rise of OPEC. Labor leaders cite foreign competition. Businessmen blame high taxes, bruising regulation and the U.S. Government's deficit spending. Economists excoriate the stop-go fiscal and monetary tactics of Federal policymakers. And everyone cites the insidious inflationary spiral that has plagued the American economy since the Vietnam War. The truth is that it is most likely a witches' brew of all these ills that is sapping the vitals of industry and slowing the growth of America's productive capacity (page 53). Economist Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seems to be on the mark when he calls it "death by a thousand cuts." Prescriptions: Last week Jimmy Carter unveiled his plan for reversing the decline--a politically timely package that addresses everything from job creation to business-tax reform. "We have the greatest human and physical resources of any nation on Autoworkers picket Toyota dealer in Michigan: A pet villain for every group ![Image of autoworkers picketing a Toyota dealer with a sign that reads "CARTER LETS AMERICAN WORKERS DOWN"] Eric Smith--Gamma-Liaison 50 NEWSWEEK/SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 === Page 127 of 139 "Power" + Rain Attack # Indian dam overflows; 36 more die in floods BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) -- Flood waters overflowed India's largest dam, swamped power lines, flooded towns and plunged the state of Orissa and its 25 million residents into darkness Saturday. Local officials said 36 people were killed in the flooding, boosting the week's death toll to more than 260. The nationwide flood fatality toll since the start of the annual monsoons this summer now has passed 1,750, according to unofficial reports, and the Flood Control Division forecast more torrential rain and windstorms through Monday. Indian army helicopters lifted off into choppy gray skies over Bhubaneswar on Saturday, carrying American-labeled food packages to victims of this flood-ravaged areas, where many were said to be clutching to life atop trees or perched on rooftops. The rain-swollen Mahanadi River swept over 200-foot-high Hirakud Dam about 300 miles southwest of Calcutta after six days of uninterrupted rain. The waters submerged high tension lines and knocked out electric power in the entire state. Officials appealed to adjoining states for power and said some electricity could be restored by Sunday morning. Military units worked to reach thousands of people marooned in Orissa and adjoining Andhra Pradesh state, which border the Bay of Bengal in southeastern India. Many areas were cut off, and the casualty toll was expected to rise. The United News of India said 1.3 million cubic feet of water per second was sweeping over Hirakud Dam into the heavily populated Delta downstream. Water surged through the streets of Sambalpur, one of the state's largest cities, downstream from the dam, All-India Radio reported. Ore. Sept 21, 1980 World "Power" + Rain Attack # Troops take power plants SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Troops took over the country's five electric power plants, which had been occupied by disgruntled workers for 23 hours, and returned electricity to the capital Friday afternoon. Officials said no one was injured the military operation. About 100 armed national guardsmen backed by two small tanks surrounded the Soyapango power plant on the outskirts of San Salvador, forcing 250 electric workers to evacuate it. Technicians had restored power to all parts of the capital by 3 p.m., 23 hours after the blackout began. It was not known immediately if electric power was returned to the rest of the country, but officials said national guardsmen also took over the four power plants that had been occupied outside San Salvador. A national guard captain who declined to be identified showed reporters three automatic rifles, a submachine gun, two gasoline bombs and a dozen explosive devices he said the workers had inside the Soyapango plant. Jose Morales Erlich, a member of the ruling junta, said in a national radio broadcast the government conceded to the workers' demand to rehire 35 compatriots discharged for participating in a an unsuccessful general strike last week called by the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Front. Ore. 8/23/80 "Power" + Rain Attack # Power Failure Pollutes S.F. Bay A electrical failure at the San Jose sewage treatment plant has led to the discharge of 4 million gallons of partially treated sewage into San Francisco Bay. It was the second spill caused by an electrical failure in as many months, and the latest in a series of spills that have plagued the Peninsula facility for some time. Plant officials reported that a short circuit in the electrical system Sunday shut down power in the secondary treatment system for nearly two hours Sunday. Sewage treated in the plant's primary system had nowhere to go but into the bay, they said. Mayor Janet Gray Hayes has asked for a report on the problem from plant officials. S.F. Chron. Oct. 1, '80 "Power" + Rain Attack # Winds cut city power High winds caused two power outages in parts of Portland Thursday night and Friday morning. In the Friday outage, 1,500 customers lost power for nearly two hours when winds blew a tree limb into a Portland General Electric Co. substation at Southeast 49th Avenue and Stark Street, said PGE spokesman Steve Mueller. The power went off at about 4:50 a.m. in the area from Northeast Halsey Street to Southeast Division Street and from 32nd Avenue to 50th Avenue, Mueller said. Thursday night, 890 Pacific Power & Light Co. customers lost power for 25 minutes when winds blew a tree across lines at Northeast 46th Avenue and Siskiyou Street, said PP&L spokesman Leonard Bacon. The outage affected homes in the area between Northeast 39th and 46th avenues, and Northeast Siskiyou and Stanton streets, Bacon said. Oreg. 10/11/80 This was the former S.S. France that first to France on oil # 'Dead' ship regenerated MIAMI (AP) -- The generators of the SS Norway were restarted late Tuesday, after the ship was left stranded at sea without power and crew members said the propellers on the world's largest cruise ship would be turning again early Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. The 1,035-foot Norway had been dead at sea about 150 miles north of Caicos Island in the southern Bahamas since 1 a.m. Tuesday, said Maggie Dukes, spokeswoman for Norwegian Caribbean Lines. The Norway was carrying 1,600 passengers and a crew of 840, officials said. Oreg. 8/20/80 === Page 128 of 139 Associated Press Laserphoto HIGH WATER -- Flood waters surround home and crane in Kenna, W.Va. Water rose so fast in some areas that there was no time to save items. "Power" + Rain Attack # Governors request help as rain, floods continue By The Associated Press Flash floods and storm rains renewed an assault on mountain communities of West Virginia and neighboring Kentucky, and authorities appealed to Washington for help Friday, saying, "We can't take any more." Gov. Jay Rockefeller asked President Carter to declare 17 West Virginia counties a federal disaster area following a week of severe flooding that has devastated entire communities. The governor said preliminary estimates of the damage already have topped $8.5 million, and that the $300,000 in available state emergency funds was not nearly enough to pay for temporary housing and assistance for hundreds left homeless. Friday, in neighboring Ohio, Gov. James A. Rhodes requested Carter to declare five counties in the eastern part of the state a major disaster as a result of flooding earlier this month that left damage estimated at about $6.9 million. Tuesday, Carter approved a request from Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh for federal assistance in cleaning up after recent flooding that caused an estimated $42 million in damage and killed nine people in that state. No deaths or serious injuries have been attributed to the latest storms. The overnight rains brought fresh flooding to parts of Kanawha, Putnam and Roane counties in West Virginia and much of neighboring southeastern Kentucky, where the National Weather Service said 3 to 4 inches fell in a two-hour period. "Power" + Rain Attack # Leak shuts nuclear plant in Tennessee CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Operators at the Tennessee Valley Authority's new Sequoyah nuclear plant discovered a water leak Sunday and shut the reactor down about six hours after it began generating electricity. TVA spokesman Steve Goldman said workers at the plant near Chattanooga discovered a leak in the sealed water supply tank about 5 a.m. and shut down the operation two hours later. Goldman said the plant had been generating electricity at about 30 percent capacity for five hours when operators found the leak. "This is normal for a new machine," Goldman said. "It's like a new car. It has bugs." On its first attempt at operation Friday, the reactor was taken to 10 percent capacity for 90 minutes when it had to be shut down because of a high water level in a steam turbine's drainage tank. Steam from reactor-heated water spins the turbine that cranks the power-producing generator. Once everything is working properly at the $1.46 billion plant, TVA officials say they plan to gradually increase operation until full power is reached in early November. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission delayed granting TVA full-power licensing at the Sequoyah plant for about a month while commissioners debated whether the reactor building could withstand the internal pressure of hydrogen gas in a serious reactor accident. At Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., hydrogen produced in the reactor filled the sealed building around the reactor and officials feared it would explode. The accident occurred Sept. 28, 1979. Since then, NRC officials have granted two full-power operation licenses, one to Sequoyah on Sept. 16. Bermuda Δ Attack # Sky fireball Soviets' rocket debris TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A flaming ball that streaked across the skies and plunged into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week apparently was the fiery remains of a Soviet rocket that had been in orbit for seven years, according to the North American Air Defense Command. The brilliant streamer appeared to come down in the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of Tampa Bay at about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. At first it was thought to be a meteorite or possibly a burning aircraft. U.S. Coast Guard patrol boats and a sheriff's helicopter searched the area for about 90 minutes until reports of other sightings across the southeastern U.S. ruled out the possibility of an airliner crash. Del Kindschi, a NORAD spokesman in Colorado Springs, Colo., said the object probably was a rocket body used to launch a Soviet satellite called Cosmos 549 on Feb. 28, 1973. NORAD keeps a catalog of satellites, spent rockets and other debris in orbit around the Earth. === Page 129 of 139 Note: This in contrast to "Customs treatment of PK Man!!!" - Evans # Get Out of Town # --In a Hurry ## Special care for Chip Carter In a small bar in Mexico Beach, Fla., Jimmy Carter's eldest son Chip was drinking beer with several other young men on the afternoon of July 20, 1977. His companions included the skipper of the Foxy Lady, a drab work boat that Carter, who was vacationing that month with then Wife Caron and Son James at her family's house near Panama City, had chartered on several occasions. Indeed, Carter was arranging with the owner to use the Foxy Lady for a fishing trip with 20 or so friends. Unknown to Chip Carter, now 30, law enforcement officials were getting ready to stage a major drug bust in the Panama City vicinity that very night. Because of its isolated beaches, tree-lined inlets and intricate inland canal system, the resort area had become an important entry point for marijuana smuggled from Colombia. From an informant, U.S. Customs Service officials had learned that as much as four tons of high-grade Colombian marijuana was due to arrive that night aboard the 48-ft. trimaran Two-Too Much and would be sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers. But then Customs officials suddenly learned that Chip Carter was drinking beer with the owner of the Foxy Lady. Not only was the boat to be used in the smuggling, but the owner had tipped off the law about the operation. Authorities suspected that several of the young men in the bar might also take part in the smuggling. Officials then and today have no indication that Chip knew anything about the illegal activities of his drinking buddies. Nonetheless, until now, the tale of his possible entanglement in a drug bust has been carefully hushed up, chiefly to save his father from embarrassment. TIME has learned that the Customs officials' initial fear was that the smugglers might spot Chip's Secret Service escorts and call off the operation. The officials thus informed the Secret Service only that a major drug raid was planned soon and that they should take special care not to let Chip out of their sight. Customs officials told the agents nothing about the expected involvement of the Foxy Lady and her owner. Two Secret Service agents went to the office of Larry Chambers, then Customs patrol supervisor for the area, to find out about the raid. They mentioned that Chip would soon be going fishing aboard the Foxy Lady. Chambers recalled last week that he nearly fell out of his chair when he heard the news. "Jesus Christ!" he exclaimed, "That's a boat that is going to be seized in the dope bust." According to Chambers, one of the agents replied, "My God! Chip is out right now drinking beer with the owner and some other young guys." Chambers immediately called his supervisors, and within minutes Deputy Commissioner of Customs Robert Dickerson, who is now director of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, called him back from Washington. Soon, Secret Service Director Stuart Knight, Treasury Under Secretary Bette Anderson and Dickerson headed for the White House to consult with Robert Lipshutz, who was the President's legal counsel. While Knight and Lipshutz went into the Oval Office to tell the President about their predicament, Dickerson phoned Chambers, who told him that there was nothing to implicate Chip with the drug ring but that "he could get hurt [during the raid] or he could jeopardize the case." According to Dickerson, Knight and Lipshutz "came back [from the Oval Office] with the word to get Chip out." Dickerson further told Chambers that the President would soon phone his son and tell him to leave Panama City, within 15 min. of the call, Dickerson says. Chip was taken by the Secret Service by car to Plains, Ga., leaving his wife and son behind. She later substituted for him at a news conference with local reporters. Asked last week why Chip was whisked away so quickly, Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin first said that it was for reasons of safety. Then he conceded: "Perhaps saving the President from political embarrassment did have something to do with it." Chip could have been held for questioning by law officers if he had been in the immediate area at the time of the raid, especially because of his chat in the bar with some of the suspects and his plans to charter the boat. The raid went off as scheduled: shortly after midnight on July 21, the Two-Too Much unloaded 1,000 kilos of marijuana into the Foxy Lady and more into three much faster boats. The boats sped to shore and crept through inlets to some old docks. When the marijuana was transferred to three trucks, the circling planes switched on their spotlights, while law enforcement officials moved in. Not a shot was fired as they arrested 18 people, ages 20 to 34, and confiscated the marijuana, the Two-Too Much, three smaller boats, seven cars and trucks and 16 weapons, including pistols, shotguns and Army AR-15 rifles. The Foxy Lady and her infor- FOXY LADY MEXICO BEACH, FL. The craft that the President's son was hiring for a fishing expedition Exclaimed the Customs man: "That boat is going to be seized in the dope bust!" Campaigning for his father Whisked away by the Secret Service. TIME, SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 25 === Page 130 of 139 Note: Not a meteorite! one of my UFOs. # Meteorite interests scientists By BARBARA CURTIN Correspondent, The Oregonian SISTERS -- Staff members of a Eugene planetarium hope to begin searching this weekend for a large, "extremely rare" meteorite that reportedly fell west of here Sunday morning. William Suggs, director of the Lane Educational Service District Planetarium, said he has received 20 to 25 calls this week from central Oregonians who saw a meteor streak across the sky about 10 a.m. Sunday. "All of them agree that it was very brilliant, blue-white in color, and that it passed across the sky in a generally east-west direction," Suggs said. "In a number of cases, the witnesses saw a dark object fall to the ground after the flame went out." Meteors -- pieces of heavenly matter that burn as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere -- are often seen at night. However, daytime reports are "extremely rare" and suggest that the piece of falling matter was very large indeed, Suggs said. The last comparable instance occurred during the early 1970s. Witnesses all over the Western states, including the crew of a commercial airliner, reported seeing a fireball streak across the sky in broad daylight, Suggs said. The resulting meteorite -- the object that survives a fall through the Earth's atmosphere -- might measure several feet in diameter and weigh several hundred pounds, Suggs said. Geologists and astronomers are anxious to study such meteorites to learn more about what the universe is made of and the forces that move it. If the meteor has a high metallic content, it could be sensed by special instruments aboard an aircraft. That would simplify the process of searching the rugged, forested area, Suggs said. "Metallic" meteorites, composed of nickel and iron, make up 77 percent of the meteorites found on Earth. "That's because they're so dense that you know right away you have something different," Suggs said. Less common are "olivene" meteorites, composed of a lighter rocky material, he said. Some meteorites are combinations of the two types. A large meteorite would likely have come from the asteroid belt, Suggs said. It would probably have no connection with the Perseid meteor shower the Earth passed through in mid-August. Those meteors are smaller and composed of material left over from comets, Suggs said. They rarely survive the friction of the fall to Earth. Oregon State Police Trooper Kent Brandon was one of those from the Prineville area who saw the fireball cross the sky. oreg: 8/29/80 "Power" & Rain Attack - # Floods claim 900 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Devastating floods from the annual monsoon rains in India and Bangladesh have taken almost 900 lives and forced 7 million people from their homes, news reports said Tuesday. Worst-hit was Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, the country's most populous region, where 677 deaths have been reported since the flooding began in June. The nationwide death toll in India was placed at about 875. The United News of India said 2 million Indians were homeless after floodwaters entered towns and villages in the sprawling state. It added that about 20,000 villages were damaged by rising waters that covered 6.9 million acres of land. Indian army troops joined civilians in manning 900 boats in massive rescue operations in Ballia county in eastern Uttar Pradesh to evacuate marooned villagers, UNI reported. Troops were placed on alert to assist civil authorities with rescue work in Bihar state, UNI said. In West Bengal and Assam states, in eastern India, troops in boats shifted thousands of flood victims to higher ground. Twenty-five persons were reported to have been swept to their deaths Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh and 12 deaths were reported in Assam state. 8/20/80 Aug 21-1980 Seattle Times # Lightning kills 10 people ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- Ten people were killed by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm in Sawat District, 200 miles northwest of Islamabad, press reports said yesterday. The Seattle Times P.O. Box 70, Seattle, Wa. 98111 === Page 131 of 139 - "Power" and Rain Attack - Thursday, October 2, 1980 The Seattle Times E 3 # Cyclone in India kills 12, injures 25 BOMBAY, India - (AP) - A cyclone struck India's western state of Maharashtra, killing at least 12 people and injuring 25 others, the United News of India reported yesterday. Local officials said the storm damaged hundreds of homes and knocked out power and communication lines in Dhule County, about 170 miles northeast of Bombay. - World "Power" & Rain Attack - TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1980 # Hundreds flee floods in three Eastern states By The Associated Press. oreg. 8/19/80 Heavy rains overflowed streams and rivers Monday in parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania already saturated by several days of rain, triggering flash floods and forcing hundreds of people from their homes. Rapidly rising floodwaters reached roofs in some parts of northern West Virginia, and the National Guard was called out in the Morgantown area to help open emergency shelters. Many residents lost electricity and telephone service, and two radio stations in Morgantown were knocked off the air. Several highways were blocked by water and debris. "I've lived here 32 years, and I've never seen anything like this," said Alice Conner, who lives along Middle Grave Creek in West Virginia's Marshall County. "We can never remember rain in the Morgantown area this severe," said Phil Zinn of the National Weather Service. He said 3.79 inches of rain had fallen in 6 1/2 hours. About 200 families were left homeless in the small mining community of Osage, W.Va., near Morgantown, and officials said about two dozen flooded houses were damaged beyond repair. Storms, some accompanied by heavy lightning, began building in eastern Ohio late Sunday night and moved into northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania early Monday. The region has had heavy rainfall for the past several days. Up to 6 inches of rain sent small streams over their banks and left the Ohio towns of Wellsville and Salineville under knee-deep water. Mudslides closed parts of Ohio 45, Ohio 39 and Ohio 7, and a gas main ruptured in the center of Wellsville. Many homes in Wellsville lost electricity, and some of the nearly 5,900 residents sought shelter on higher ground. Sheriff's deputies in Salineville, a town with about 1,700 residents, worked through the night to clear debris that had floated onto roads. In Pennsylvania, about 100 people had been evacuated briefly from their homes in the Pittsburgh area and in Greene County, about 50 miles to the south, but flash flooding was described as minor. "Everything's pretty well under control," said Bob Davis of the Greene County Emergency Management Agency. === Page 132 of 139 - "Power" & Rain Attack - Ore. J. 10/10/80 # Eight contaminated by plutonium blaze RICHLAND, Wash. (UPI) -- A small amount of scrap plutonium powder being packed for storage unexpectedly flashed into flames, contaminating eight workers at Hanford Atomic Reservation with the deadly radioactive substance. An unidentified man and woman, who were handling the container of plutonium oxide in a top-secret laboratory Thursday, underwent several hours of scrub-downs to remove the fine powder from their skin. The extent of their contamination will not be known, however, until body scans can be performed, possibly Friday. Two other workers were found to have ingested a small amount of plutonium powder, but were sent home pending treatment with a chemical "chelating" agent to help remove the substance from the body. The four other contaminated workers were treated and released immediately. The fire itself caused no damage to the laboratory in the Rockwell Hanford Co. "Z" Plant, part of the nation's nuclear weapons program, but the room was sealed Friday for cleaning and investigation purposes. Thursday's contamination incident was the latest in a long series at Hanford, which has handled large quantities of radioactive materials since it was created during World War II to develop the first atom bomb. The fire left Hanford officials puzzled because plutonium oxide, unlike metallic plutonium, does not normally flash to flame. One Rockwell official said it was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing happening. Peggy Bennett, a public relations representative for Rockwell, said the two workers had placed about 10 to 15 grams of the scrap radioactive substance in a small "slip" container about the size of a tuna fish can, which was then placed in a plastic bag and sealed. The bag was to be placed in what she termed a "food can" for storage until later reprocessing. "At the point they were putting the slip can into the food can, there was a poof," she said. "The flames came up and the operator extinguished the fire very quickly." - "Power" & Rain Attack - Ore. J. 10/10/80 # Short Trojan shutdown noted Oregon's Trojan nuclear power plant shut down automatically last Friday but was restored to service in less than seven hours, Portland General Electric Co. reported Thursday. The shutdown occurred while work was being done on control circuits of Trojan's main electrical generator, PGE said in the plant's operations report covering the seven days ending Oct. 8. PGE spokesman Bruce Landrey said it appeared that some action taken during that control circuit work sent a signal to the control system indicating something was wrong that required the plant to shut down, when in reality nothing was wrong. The Friday incident marked the first time that Trojan was out of service since completion of the plant's annual refueling and maintenance July 17. The shutdown occurred at 2:01 p.m., power generation was restarted at 8:30 p.m. and full production was reached at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, PGE reported. During September, Trojan operated at an average of 98.9 percent of capacity output, producing 768.9 million kilowatt hours of electricity. - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Power outage kills salmon WOODLAND, Wash. -- An electrical outage caused the loss of 1,000 adult salmon in a collection facility Thursday below Merwin Dam on the Lewis River. Dr. Roy Hamilton, fishery biologist for Pacific Power & Light Co., said power was temporarily lost to pumps circulating water through the fish collector. A disturbance on the regional grid caused the generating unit at the dam to shut down at 2:47 p.m. By the time power was restored, the concentration of salmon already had died for lack of enough oxygen in the water. About 80 percent were chinook and the rest coho salmon destined for trucking above the dam and artificial spawning at Speelyai hatchery operated by the power company. In spite of the loss, says Hamilton, there will be enough eggs to supply the hatchery because additional salmon are arriving at the collecting facility and 2,000 already are in the hatchery holding pond. Ore. J. 10/10/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Doctors list two 'safe' after plutonium mishap RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Doctors who tested a man and woman exposed to deadly plutonium while working on the Hanford nuclear reservation said Friday that neither received internal contamination above federal occupational standards. Dr. Bryce Breitenstein of the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation reported both the Rockwell-Hanford scientists were released following preliminary examinations, said U.S. Department of Energy spokesman Bob Newlin. "They will continue to be monitored for the foreseeable future to be sure that any lingering contamination is expelled from the body," Breitenstein said. He also said no ill effects were expected. The woman has no "internal deposition," said Newlin. The man received lung exposure "at or below allowable occupational standards," while his general internal contamination level was "well below standards," the DOE official said. Eight employees of Rockwell-Hanford, which processes plutonium under contract to the DOE, were exposed to plutonium oxide Thursday when a container of scrap plutonium the size of a tuna fish can flashed in flame, Newlin said. One man who was detained received a sunburn-like burn on the back of one hand. Officials said the powdery substance scattered after the flame occurred. The man used a dry chemical fire extinguisher to douse the blaze. It was the second accident involving radioactive materials at the large southeastern Washington nuclear reservation in a week. Ore. J. 10/11/80 === Page 133 of 139 - California Attack - # Disastrous Delta Flooding Blamed on Burrowing Beaver SF Chron. Sept. 29 '80 By Stephen Magagnini Chronicle Correspondent Holt, San Joaquin County A burrowing beaver may have caused a levee break that drowned 5700 acres of ready-to-harvest farmland in the San Joaquin Delta 10 miles west of Stockton. That theory was advanced yesterday by farmers, engineers and state and local officials who have been battling the flooding since late Friday. Yesterday they prayed that the roiling waters would not rupture a fragile 5½-mile stretch of railroad track, less than three miles southeast of the breach. That track is all that protects three East Bay Municipal Utilities District aqueducts 40 yards away. They supply drinking water to more than a million residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties. If the soft Santa Fe Railroad right-of-way doesn't hold, an additional 45,000 acres of farmland could be flooded. A fleet of barges and a chain of hydraulic railroad cars dumped tons of rock and dirt into the 275-foot-wide, 50-foot-deep levee breach and along the north side of the railroad tracks as the floodwaters, agitated by northwesterly winds up to 15 miles an hour, chewed in some places to within six feet of the tracks. The waters began to seep under the railroad embankment at numerous points, and officials feared that two- to-three foot waves, coupled with a high tides last night and 10 a.m. today, might cause the levee along the track to buckle. Four 12-person California Conservation Corps crews placed canvas along the slope of the railroad track and fortified the seepage points with sandbags. By yesterday, the flood had destroyed about $5 million worth of corn, tomatoes, beets, sunflower seeds, millet, asparagus and potatoes that were within days of being harvested, said the local reclamation district engineer, George Rabb. About 60 full-time workers and several hundred seasonal workers were left jobless. The effects will be Back Page Col. 5 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Bangkok flooded BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Flooding in this sprawling capital of 4.2 million residents reached the critical level Friday. Several low-lying areas were submerged in chest-high water. The Education Ministry ordered schools closed for an indefinite period and many city dwellers in the worst affected areas resorted to boats as a means of transport. It took four hours for some motorists to inch their way through the 16 miles of traffic from the airport to downtown Bangkok. Oreg. 10/4/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - # Storm becomes hurricane MIAMI (UPI) -- The seventh tropical storm of the Atlantic season, about 200 miles southwest of Newfoundland, has become Hurricane Georges. Forecasters said two others, Earl and Frances, could reach hurricane strength Monday. None was considered a threat to land. Hurricane forecaster Miles Lawrence said that if both Earl and Frances become hurricanes while Georges still is, it would be "unusual, but not completely unheard of" to have three simultaneous Atlantic hurricanes. Oreg. J. 9/8/80 - "Power" & Rain Attack - 10/8/80 Oreg. J. # 2,000 await evacuation after eruption PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (UPI) -- Police prepared Wednesday to evacuate 2,000 villagers living near Mount Ulawun, which erupted Monday night with the force of several atomic bombs. The 7,500-foot volcano on New Britain Island spewed ash 7 miles into the sky Tuesday, blocking out the sun. Although reports indicated the initial explosion had ended, rock and ash still were falling over an 18-mile radius and authorities were uncertain whether the volcanic activity had ended. "We are keeping a close watch on the volcano and at this stage there is a 50-50 chance we'll have to move them (the villagers)," a police spokesman in Port Moresby said. Four government launches are standing by to evacuate the villagers if the ash continues falling or if there is a further eruption, he said. The tribesmen of New Britain refer to Mount Ulawun as "the father." The volcano is the highest peak on New Britain and has been active off and on since the early 1960s. Its last major eruption was in 1978. About 300 villagers from the Ulamona Catholic Mission at the foot of the volcano already have left the area by foot or by canoe. No casualties have been reported yet, although lava is reported to have destroyed many village plantations and gardens on the side of the volcano. Volcanologists in the East New Britain provincial capital of Rabaul, 80 miles southeast of Mount Ulawun, said the volcano erupted with the "equivalent of several atomic bombs" and could be felt up to 43 miles away. === Page 134 of 139 - "Power & Rain Attack" - # DELTA FLOODING From Page 1 SF Chron. 9/29/80 felt throughout the San Joaquin Valley as truckers, mechanics, cannery workers and warehousemen have been idled by the disaster. "It's a chain reaction," said Vasco Giannini, 61, who owns 1900 acres of farmland along Highway 4, about a mile and a half from the railroad track. Giannini said that if the track doesn't hold, Upper Jones Tract - 5000 acres to the south - and Roberts Island - another 40,000 acres to the east - could be wiped out. Friday afternoon, fishermen discovered a break in the earth-and-stone levee at Empire Cut on the west side of Lower Jones Tract, more than 5000 acres of rich farmland belonging to 20 landowners. Water from the Middle River poured over the below-sea-level island, submerging 20 buildings, an elementary school and the Nomellini Duck Club, Rabb said. Telephone lines were knocked out, and Pacific Gas and Electric lines were shut off yesterday and will have to be rerouted before the waters knock them over, officials said. Within two days, the island was under 25 feet of water. No one was reported missing or injured, but 10 families lost their homes and 200 residents of Lower Jones Tract and several neighboring islands had been evacuated, officials said. The biggest loser was Five Star Farms, whose holdings included 2500 of the 5700 flooded acres on Holland Tract. Rudolfo Mussi, who owns 40 percent of Five Star, said 400 acres of sunflower seeds and another 1700 acres of corn were ready to be harvested this week and 400 acres of beets "maybe next month and we never picked one hair. We lost over $2 million ourselves." a beaver den. Dutra Construction, the Rio Vista firm hired by the reclamation district to fill the break and fortify the railroad tracks, teamed with a Lodi trucking firm and used 32 trucks to haul tons of riprap rock to the levee around Lower Jones Tract. The firm, whose crews have been working round-the-clock since the break, has two crane barges dumping rock at the break and another 16 barges hauling from 4000 to 6000 tons of rock a day. But Rabb said it will take about a ton of rock to fortify each foot of the 5 1/2-mile track under ideal conditions; to close the breach will require "a minimum of 70,000 tons of rock and 150,000 cubic yards of earth fill." It will take from 45 to 60 days to fortify the track and plug the More on the flood on Page 2 gap in the levee and another four months to pump out the flooded island, said Bill Dutra, the firm's owner. He estimated the total cost of the reclamation at $5 million. Dan Nomellini, a contractor, engineer, attorney and trustee for the local reclamation district, worked hard yesterday to try to persuade the State Water Resources Board to ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide money and manpower for the rescue effort. Jim Savage, a a self-described "old-time flood fighter" with the Corps of Engineers, said the railroad embankment "is an unknown." The Santa Fe Railroad built the embankment and the adjacent channel in 1906 using a fill of mud and interwoven weeds with no compaction, Johnston said. "It's all peat," he said. "You kick it with your feet and it blows away. In 74 years, the water never hit it - until Saturday night." Mussi, 66, said he's been farming in the Delta since 1932, "and I never had something happen to me like that. I got no experience with the flood. I think it was (caused by) an earthquake or a beaver hole because we're around it (the levee) all the time." Bill Helms of the State Flood Control Center discounted the earthquake theory. (A quake of 4.4 on the Richter scale 22 miles south of Stockton Friday hit after the levee gave way.) Other officials, including Rabb, supported the beaver theory. Bob Johnston, superintendent of Dutra Construction, said beavers, muskrats and other rodents burrow into the levees above the water line, but an unusually severe winter caused higher tides that may have flooded # Viewers Torch Radio Tower That Fuzzed TV Sugarloaf Key, Fla. Television viewers angered by a new radio transmission tower that marred their TV reception apparently were responsible for a fire that knocked WVFK-FM off the air, officials said yesterday. Police said arson is suspected in the $75,000 blaze, which halted the two-week-old station's programming Monday night. "It was sabotage," said station owner E. Stratford Smith. WVFK's transmitter is in this Florida community, about 20 miles north of the station's studios in Key West. The fire destroyed the transmitter, the building housing it and other equipment. Smith, who offered a $1000 reward, said he is uncertain when the station might resume broadcasting. Smith said many callers had complained of interference with reception of broadcasts from Miami. SF Chron. 9/10/80 Associated Press === Page 135 of 139 Columbian 9/21/80 # Collision "Power & Rain Attack" Evergreen High School's football game was called and nearby residents missed a crucial scene of "Shogun" Friday night when a car smacked into a power pole and doused the lights. According to sheriff's deputies, the crash occurred at 9:20 p.m. when a white Chevrolet swerved into an oncoming car driven by Wesley M. Hansen, 15604 N.E. 18th St., in front of the high school, 14300 N.E. 18th St. The Hansen car veered to the right and ran into a power pole, breaking it off. The Chevy turned around and returned, hitting the broken pole lying in the street and ramming the Hansen car again. The driver then pulled over and ran away on foot, according to the report. Betty J. Hansen, also of 15604 N.E. 18th St., was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph Community Hospital with reported back and neck injuries. She was treated and released. Officers confiscated the Chevrolet and were looking for the driver Saturday. The collision disrupted power to an estimated 1,200 households and officials at the Evergreen-Battle Ground game called it quits, giving Evergreen a 12-0 victory in the third quarter. Meanwhile, area residents were without power for about 40 minutes, just enough time to miss the big battle scene in "Shogun." Power was restored to most homes by 11 p.m., officials said. Battle Ground fans who went home after the interrupted game discovered about 2 a.m. Saturday that their power had been cut off when another car struck a power pole at the intersection of Fairgrounds Road and Grace Road. Power to about 4,350 homes in Battle Ground, Brush Prairie, Hockinson, and La Center was cut, but restored to all by 9:15 a.m. Saturday, said Clark County Public Utility (Note: this a 2nd one) "Power & Rain Attack" # 2000 Towns Flooded in North India New Delhi Rain and flooding rivers swamped about 2000 villages yesterday, killing 43 people and displacing thousands in Uttar Pradesh state. The United News of India quoted officials in Lucknow, capital of the nation's most populous state, who said that the flood toll in the state had risen to 1578 since the summer monsoon began three months ago in northern India. Water overflowing the banks of the Ganges, India's largest river, and its tributaries have submerged 42,591 villages and damaged or destroyed 4.5 million houses in Uttar Pradesh, the hardest hit state, UNI reported. Military units were conducting massive rescue and relief operations in southeastern India, where about 350 people perished in the past week, UNI said. Air force helicopters dropped thousands of food packets over the flooded region yesterday, and troops rescued almost 6000 stranded persons in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states. S. F. Chron. Sept 25, 1980 Associated Press "Power & Rain Attack" # Texas hit by floods; heat gone WICHITA FALLS, Tex. (AP) -- Floodwaters from a weekend of torrential rain sloshed into homes and across highways in North Texas on Sunday and a brutal heat wave was broken across the Lone Star State. With more than 8 inches of rain reported at some places within a 24-hour period ending Sunday morning, the National Weather Service posted flash flood watches and warnings for almost all of North Texas. Rain continued to fall on waterlogged prairies and flatlands. Rising water inched into houses in several communities from the Red River to Abilene. The Texas Highway Department reported several roads closed by water. "We had some flooding in houses last night and a shelter was opened for feeding people," said Red Cross worker Jan Beal in Wichita Falls on Sunday. "The Wichita River is full to overflowing and if we get more water there's not going to be any place for the runoff to go. "I'm just not convinced that it's over with. We're playing the waiting game and that's the toughest game to play." S. F. Chron. Sept. 29, 80 San Francisco Chronicle 13 Disoriented? U.S. Bern. Attack Tues., Sept. 23, 1980 # A Wrong Turn Into East Germany Hildesheim, West Germany Three U.S. soldiers lost their way yesterday during NATO maneuvers in northern West Germany and strayed across the border into East Germany, a military spokesman said. A statement from Allied spokesmen at Hildesheim, center of the largest NATO maneuvers in the area since World War II, said the driver of a U.S. Army medical vehicle lost his way and took a wrong turn in darkness and dense fog. The soldiers, members of 17th Engineer Battalion, Second Armored Division, inadvertently crossed the unmarked border with East Germany, tried to reverse, but found their vehicle stuck in mud, the spokesman said. The soldiers "realized where they were, removed all maps, weapons and equipment from the quarter-ton vehicle and returned to West Germany, abandoning the mired vehicle," the statement said. United Press === Page 136 of 139 - "Power + Rain Attack" ✓ Viet Typhoon Death Toll Budapest At least 134 people died and 47,000 homes were ruined in a typhoon and subsequent floods this month that hit six of Vietnam's northern provinces, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported yesterday from Hanoi. It said the typhoon Ruth was the worst to reach Vietnam since 1955. SF Chron. Sept 24, '80 Associated Press 9-24-80 Seat. Times Typhoon leaves 47,000 homeless BUDAPEST, Hungary - (AP) - At least 134 people died and 47,000 homes were ruined in a typhoon and subsequent floods this month that hit six of Vietnam's northern provinces, the Hungarian news agency reported yesterday from Hanoi. It said the typhoon Ruth was the worst to reach Vietnam since 1955. Contacts Fill in on SI's pro football "gift." Explain "Time Distortion" The world - "Power + Rain Attack" Rebels hit power plant ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Insurgents sabotaged an electric power substation in the Afghan capital of Kabul and authorities have increased security in response to a new wave of guerrilla attacks, Western diplomatic sources said Thursday. The attack on the power station ended a lull that Western sources attributed to successful infiltration of underground groups by Afghan government agents. The sources, quoting reliable Afghan residents, said the substation was near Kabul University campus. In apparent reaction to the renewed underground activity, security has been increased at government offices. Soviet forces, here since December to help the Marxist regime fight insurgent Moslem tribesmen, put five armored personnel carriers outside Radio Afghanistan headquarters. Oreg: 9/26/80 - "Power + Rain Attack" Fish die at dam WOODLAND, Wash. - A loss of power to pumps in the fish collector caused the loss of about 1,000 adult salmon at Merwin Dam Thursday. An early morning power disturbance on the regional grid caused one of three generating units in operation at the dam to shut down, said a spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates the Lewis River dam. By the time the power was restored to the fish collector pumps, the salmon in the collector were lost. - "Power + Rain Attack" Storm spins floods MEXICO CITY (AP) - Heavy rains spun from Tropical Storm Hermine caused flooding in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Chiapas Thursday, driving thousands of persons from their homes, authorities said. Thirteen persons were reported missing in the two states, located east and southeast of here. In Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas, two small dams broke and two bridges across the Pan-American highway gave out, but no injuries were reported, police said. Authorities evacuated about 2,000 persons in low, lying areas to higher ground. Oreg: 9/26/80 - "Power + Rain Attack" 17 die in Japan flood TOKYO (AP) - Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in southwestern Japan on Saturday killed 17 people and injured 34, police said. Police said the rains in Kyushu, one of Japan's main islands, destroyed 46 houses, partially damaged 39 others and flooded more than 18,000, affecting about 20,000 people. Oreg: 8/31/80 Rebel's son slain === Page 137 of 139 Storms in Midwest; Air Crash Kills Three "Power" & Rain Attack St. Louis A raging storm caught a small plane approaching a St. Louis airport through early-morning fog yesterday. The craft crashed two miles short of the runway, killing three Baptist ministers. A blast of autumn-like air moving east over the Plains collided with hot weather and touched off thunderstorms that spawned tornadoes, unroofed houses, snarled air traffic and toppled power lines. Takeoffs and landings were interrupted by the storm at Lambert St. Louis International Airport late Tuesday. A single-engine plane apparently making a landing approach to Spirit of St. Louis Airport early yesterday crashed in heavy rain and fog, killing the ministers. A fourth clergyman was critically burned. Killed were the Rev. Donald W. Lombard, 36, of O'Fallon, Mo.; the Rev. Lawrence P. Thompson, 45, of St. Clair, Mo., and the Rev. Russell B. Spurgeon, 47, of suburban Maryland Heights. The survivor, the Rev. Kenneth P. Spilger, 30, of suburban Glasgow Village, suffered second- and third-degree burns and was in serious condition at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur. The clergymen were returning from a one-day religious seminar in Kansas City when the rented plane, piloted by Spurgeon, went down, authorities said. Two tornadoes tore up homes in the Coweta, Okla., area. Winds felled power lines in northeastern Oklahoma late Tuesday, causing power outages and lightning sparked several fires in the area. Lightning set two oil tanks ablaze near Haskell, Okla. "All they can do is stand by and wait for it to burn out," said a Haskell police spokesman. Temperatures plunged as the storms moved through Oklahoma. In Tulsa, the high Tuesday was 101. Yesterday morning the temperature was 50. Thunderstorms that raked Illinois late Tuesday and early yesterday left thousands of residents without power. United Press S.F. Chronicle Sept. 18, 1980 9-23-80 Last Times Tropical storm hammers Belize, Yucatan; 'Kay' roars in Pacific Compiled from news services note: Another came hits where I was. MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Hermine punished parts of Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with wind and rain yesterday. The storm's highest winds remained 5 miles an hour shy of hurricane strength at 70 m.p.h. Forecasters said Hermine's overland journey was almost certain to weaken it and keep it from blossoming into the season's seventh hurricane. In San Francisco, the National Weather Service said yesterday that Tropical Storm Kay, with winds up to 90 miles an hour, was 1,500 miles southwest of San Diego. The storm was moving northwest at about 12 miles an hour, the Weather Service said, with sustained winds of 70 miles an hour and gusts to 90 miles an hour. The storm was expected to weaken in the next 24 hours. "Power" & Rain Attack Lab fire exposes 8 ATOMIC POWER RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Eight employees of Rockwell-Hanford Operations were contaminated in a plutonium fire at the Department of Energy's Hanford site near here Thursday. A small container of plutonium scrap caught fire and was immediately extinguished in a plutonium processing facility, said Jim Donahue, Rockwell-Hanford personnel director. The eight requested that their names not be released, Donahue said. He said the material was confined to the laboratory and adjacent hallway, which have been sealed off. Two employees who received contamination were undergoing decontamination at the site, he said. One of the two received a minor burn to the back of his hand while extinguishing the fire, Donahue said. Six employees were slightly contaminated during recovery but were decontaminated and released, he said. Diag: 10/10/80 "Power" & Rain Attack Storms hit Midwest United Press International Violent thunderstorms lashed the Midwest, downing power lines and prompting officials to interrupt takeoffs and landings at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. Temperatures were varied across the country, with searing heat in the Deep South. High winds drove sheets of rain across Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan Tuesday. 9/17/80 === Page 138 of 139 9-23-80 Seattle Times Up to 20 inches of water covers downtown Black River Falls, Wis. "Power + Rain Attack" # Floods peril dams on Mississippi **United Press International** Relentless rain marked the end of summer in Wisconsin yesterday. Roads were blocked in the western part of the state and dams along the Mississippi River were in danger of being washed away. Up to 6 inches of rain fell on Wisconsin over the weekend, triggering mudslides and sending muddy water spilling over river banks. Several roads were buried by mud and water and some rural bridges were washed out, officials said. No deaths or injuries were reported, though residents were forced from their homes in Galesville and the Black River Falls area. Officials said the rain had caused $500,000 damage to roads in Jackson County. Officials in Black River Falls said up to 20 inches of water covered Main Street when the Black River overflowed its banks. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. "I talked to an old-timer who said this is the first time there has been water on Main Street since 1911, and that's the year the town got wiped out," said Arthur Frederikson, emergency government director for Jackson County. Deer hunters were stranded by high water in rural areas but officials said they were in no danger. Game officers rescued three hunters by boat. === Page 139 of 139 SF Chronicle Sept. 11, '80 # Quake Experts Convene To Study an Earth Puzzle By Charles Petit Science Correspondent Pasadena Strange activity that seems to be increasing beneath the crust of California impelled some of the nation's leading seismic experts to convene yesterday for a series of meetings that may one day result in the first official government prediction of an earthquake. The session was the first meeting of a semi-official panel of top government and university earthquake scientists trying to puzzle through the mounting evidence that movements as yet poorly understood are shifting the surface of Southern California. Nobody at the meeting claims to know what is going on along the southern stretch of the San Andreas fault system. But they know the ground is stretching and relaxing in odd ways while emitting fluctuating amounts of radon gas, shifting its magnetic field and causing water levels in wells to go up and down in seeming concert with the occurrence of earthquakes. And it appears that general earthquake activity not just in Southern California but in the whole state and perhaps the whole Western hemisphere is on the rise after a 15-year period of relative quiet. As a result, the experts are now planning to meet frequently and regularly to compare the results of their observations and to determine when or whether to take the first steps toward an official quake prediction. Barry Raleigh, coordinator of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Prediction Program, headquartered in Menlo Park, called the meeting on the campus of the California Institute of Technology both because Southern California appears overdue for a big quake, and because of the tremendous amount of confusing data pouring from the networks of instruments that dot the fault-ridden region. "If we have a seismic gap anywhere in the United States that deserves study, Southern California is it," he said. ## Militants Demand Ban on Newspaper Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe Militants of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's party demanded yesterday that the country's biggest daily newspaper be banned -- a protest against groups opposing a plan to move 17,000 armed guerrillas into this community outside Salisbury. As was the case Tuesday, copies of The Herald, whose owners and senior editors are white, were burned while demonstrators chanted war songs, waved flags of the ZANU-PF Party and carried signs. United Press dous improvements in understanding of earthquakes in recent years, "we are not in the prediction mode yet." "But if we don't keep all our data in a central file someplace, we really have no hope of ever predicting earthquakes," he declared. The geological survey recently formed a group called the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Panel, and a similar body exists on the state level. However, no agency before yesterday existed specifically to analyze the vast amounts of data that might lead to a prediction. In addition to the geological survey and Caltech, members of the ad hoc committee formed yesterday come from the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara campuses of the University of California. Its chairman is Dr. Don Anderson, director of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory. At the meeting yesterday, to be followed by others every few months, members of the panel as well as other earth scientists reviewed some of the unsettling indications that something unusual is going on beneath the southern third of the state. Karen McNally, a Caltech researcher disclosed how dramatical ly earthquake activity has stepped up statewide since 1977. Quakes such as the Mammoth Lakes swarm earlier this year, the Imperial Valley quake last October and the Livermore earthquake in January indicate that after a period of quiescence "what we are witnessing may be a return to historically higher seismic activity." For instance, she said, between 1932 and 1956 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater struck California an average of every 10.7 months. From 1956 to 1977 the interval increased to five years, but since 1978 it has stepped up in tempo to every six months on average. Moreover, many of the recent quakes lie in a band from the Imperial Valley near the Mexican border to Mammoth Lakes, almost due east of San Francisco. Whether it is coincidence or not, this is the belt carrying most of California's volcanoes less than 3 million years old, and is the southern extension of the zone of volcanism that includes Mount Lassen, Mount Shasta and Mount St. Helens. But Caltech geophysicist Clarence Allen said it is unlikely there is any direct cause-and-effect relationship between Mount St. Helens and California earthquakes. Ha ha! Try the St. ! $\theta$ ## L.A. Teachers Still Aren't Assigned Los Angeles With the start of school only a week away and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on busing expected any day, thousands of teachers still didn't know yesterday where they would be working amid the uncertainty surrounding court-ordered desegregation. And this, teachers union officials said, may lead to scores of formal union grievances filed against the district on behalf of disgruntled teachers. Associated Press Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8103 (2 of 2) Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 March 1981 two folders Yes, there are two March 1981 folders. I named there March 1981 (1 of 2) and March 1981 (2 of 2). 1 of 2 has dates mostly in many months of 1980 2 of 2 has dates covering many months of 1980 and 1981 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/08075c0e4ea6203e442fffbe5a3791c6.pdf 9e4d22f11bdc5ee15e70f47b0ebfea83 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/9d71ca36f90de1d8777a7ae5371b8a36.txt 26631764e800a4b50f8928b5962af003 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 2 HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE MY UFOs DOUBLE-CROSSED!! Owens === Page 2 of 2 April 14, 1980 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The Space Shuttle has just landed safely, and my son and I are having some refreshment to celebrate...because we had feared for the lives of Crippen and Young. As you know...my UFOs had promised to destroy the Shuttle if their base was not supplied. Now, always before it was I who performed the psi-force work...utilizing a "PK Map" and activating it constantly to bring about the desired result in cooperation with my UFOs. But in this case...and with new modus operandi by my UFOs...the power was not placed into my hands but kept by the UFOs (keep in mind the hundreds of times I caused seemingly impossible things to happen; well documented in advance of the fact. Last night, Monday night, I received a telephone call. The person gave me a strange message. IF THE SPACE SHUTTLE LANDED SAFELY NEXT DAY (today) THEN THE UFO BASE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AS MY UFOs AND I WISHED. My son Beau and I were puzzled by this call...because as far as we knew my UFOs still were intent on destroying the Shuttle. Knowing full well that my mind is monitored around the clock by my UFOs...all of my thoughts and actions...I wondered if this call might be acted upon by my UFOs. This morning my son and I watched the Shuttle get down safely. I telepathd to the SIs to try and get an answer why they had changed their minds...because as far back as I can remember this is the first time (with the exception of Idi Amin) they have not done what they have announced. Their reply was most interesting. They replied that a top secret government agency had determined to have me "hit" by one of their special assassins...killed...if the Space Shuttle were destroyed. The SIs, in their own way of monitoring, had found this out. Therefore they held their hand this time around with the Shuttle. They did not want to lose me...and then have to wipe out the United States in retribution...it simply was not a part of their game plan. Just before the Shuttle began to descend, this morning, I telepathd Control of the SIs, and requested that they somehow save the astronauts when they destroyed the Shuttle. In my new role of "middle man" simply reporting the SI action, things tend to get a bit confusing. But what is not confusing is...is that Crippen and Young are safe at home with their families. So Beau and I are celebrating while we puzzle over the situation. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8104 UFO double crossed https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/409b086f53732e7a86429bf553b600cd.pdf 2320971d966e92d2805ffc9c6f6118a4 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/721102619d41ad4e63217b22f9464b0f.txt 0811ba06089a9ea5cfc2fe8bdd974a31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 29 April 3, 1980 CONTACTS (Scientists, et al) I presume that you have noticed...that I informed you in writing BEFORE the freakish, fatal accident at the Space Shuttle...that my UFOs were attacking the Space Shuttle. I presume that you have noticed...that I informed you in writing BEFORE President Reagan was attacked, shot...that my UFOs were going to attack those higher-ups* in the U.S. Government. Just one "coincidence" after another after another...isn't it. And when The Space Shuttle goes up next week...or whenever...my UFOs will be after it to destroy it...like a bolt of lightning going after and zapping a steel bridge. After which another "coincidence" will have occurred. Owens * I am, of course, assuming that President Reagan is a "higher-up" in the United States government. === Page 2 of 29 The reason the US govt won't supply its base even though it has enough documented proof for scientists -- all the govt. is interested in is what I have with my 3 powers, as a weapon. So they keep me under surveil. watching how far I can go with my 3 powers in a destructive, negative way. My personal powers now have squared over my previous 500 miracles! "A democracy can no longer survive or exist in this modern world" → 11/3/80 |||| . . . Nov. 10, 1980 Prediction: Pres. Reagan will expire in near future and Bush will take over (ex-CIA) then the CIA will be in the saddle calling the shots!! Gwen === Page 3 of 29 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 29 # Inquiries into rumor spread tale of gun assault on Bush THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 22, 1981 WASHINGTON (AP) -- For days, it's been the hottest rumor in a city that thrives on gossip about the mighty and powerful of government: that Vice President George Bush had been shot at and suffered a minor wound on a Capitol Hill street late one night. The rumor spread so quickly and widely that Bush, exasperated, finally asked the FBI to interview him about it last Friday -- even though the FBI was not conducting an investigation, according to The Washington Post. The Post, in Sunday's editions, traced the birth and spread of the rumor, detailing how efforts by various news agencies to track it down actually spread it further. The rumor has no basis in fact, the Post concluded. That was the same conclusion drawn by several Associated Press reporters who also heard it and tried to pin it down. White House press secretary James S. Brady was asked Saturday about the persistent rumor, and he insisted it was "without foundation." Depending on the teller, the story had various embellishments, but generally, the basis of the story was that Bush had been shot and grazed in the arm on a Capitol Hill sidewalk. The rumor began, the Post said, when a young woman artist ran into the street late one night last month, trying to help the victim of a traffic accident. At the scene, she saw a policeman she knew. He told her, she says, that Bush had been shot nearby. The policeman says he told her no such thing. When the artist, who declined to be named, returned to her apartment, she turned on the television and radio to hear more details but heard nothing. Seeking information, she then called both wire services, the Post and a television station. The woman told the Post she believed the policeman because she had come to know him several weeks earlier, when she had witnessed a murder and the policeman was one of the law officers who arrived. The day after the traffic accident, the artist told a friend what she thought she had heard the policeman say about Bush. In turn, her friend told two of his friends, including a person who worked for columnist Jack Anderson. From there, the rumor spread, the Post said, despite denials that anything like it had occurred. The denials came from the Secret Service, police, the U.S. attorney and Bush' press office. At one point, the newspaper said, two Post reporters visited a District police official, who denied that anything had occurred. But the reporters saw a pad of paper on his desk with Bush's name, the word "assault" and information about a time, date and place. Eventually, then, the rumor grew to include the word that the Post had a "police report" on the case. In fact, the newspaper said, the official's words on the paper were his notes of a conversation police had with a television reporter who had called to try to track down the rumor. When the rumors reached Bush, he was angry and unbelieving, the Post said. The rumor even became part of a White House press briefing Tuesday, the Post said, when Larry Speakes, President Reagan's deputy press secretary, was asked if Reagan "was concerned about the large number of rumors circulating" about the alleged incident. Speakes, according to the briefing transcript published by the Post, promised he would "check on the president's concern ... of the rumor of rumors." But none of the exchange was apparently printed or broadcast, the Post said. === Page 5 of 29 # President wounded by gunman, in good condition after surgery ## Press aide critical; 2 others hurt By JACK NELSON and GEORGE SKELTON LA-Times Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan was shot by a young gunman Monday and underwent immediate emergency surgery for removal of a bullet that lodged in his left lung. Doctors described his condition after an operation of less than two hours as good and said that his life was never in serious danger. Surgeons removed fragments of a .22-caliber bullet that had penetrated his lung by three inches. Three other persons were seriously wounded in the assassination attempt: White House press secretary James S. Brady, 40; Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, 31; and District of Columbia policeman Thomas Delahanty, 45. A bullet passed through Brady's brain, leaving him in extremely critical condition. John Warnock Hinckley Jr., 25, of Evergreen, Colo., was pounced on and arrested at the scene of the shooting by Secret Service agents and police officers. He was charged with attempting to assassinate the president and assault with intent to kill a police officer. Roger Young of the FBI described the weapon as a "Saturday night special" and said it was purchased at a Dallas gun shop. The gunman fired six shots in rapid succession at Reagan as the president and his party left the Washington Hilton Hotel following a speech to a union convention. He fired at close range, from a distance of no more than 10 to 15 feet from the president, witnesses said. The assassination attempt touched off an air of national crisis, with Vice President George Bush hurriedly flying back to the capital from a speaking engagement in Texas in case he was called on to assume presidential duties. The Senate adjourned early, and in New York City, both the New York and American stock exchanges halted all trading. Immediately after returning to Washington Monday evening, Bush told reporters in the White House briefing room: "I can assure the nation and a watching world the American government is functioning fully and effectively." Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said Bush would preside over a Cabinet meeting Tuesday and would meet with congressional leaders later. Earlier, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and other members of the Cabinet gathered in the "situation room" of the White House, where all national crises are monitored. Haig, grim-faced and dressed in a pinstriped suit, appeared highly nervous as he told reporters in reply to their questions that he was "in control" pending Bush's return. After his operation, Reagan's condition was described by doctors as so good that he would be able to make decisions of state by Tuesday. Dr. Dennis O'Leary, dean of George Washington University Hospital for Clinical Affairs, said that the president was in the operating room for two hours, but 45 minutes of that time was spent making certain that there was no bleeding in the abdominal cavity. The bullet that hit Reagan entered under his armpit, ricocheted off his seventh rib and penetrated the lung. The lung collapsed, but physicians re-inflated it in the emergency room before the operation. The president received 2½ quarts of blood in transfusions prior to the operation, but none during the surgery. Dr. O'Leary said that the bullet and fragments of it never came closer than several inches from Reagan's heart. He said the president was "an excellent physical specimen" and despite his age of 70, was "physiologically young." O'Leary said his "guesstimate" was that the president could be well enough to leave the hospital within two weeks. There is no reason to believe that there would be any significant postoperative problems, O'Leary said. The surgery was performed by two physicians on the hospital staff -- Benjamin Aaron, a cardiovascular surgeon, and Joseph Giordano, head of the hospital trauma team. Reagan was smiling and walking on the sidewalk outside the hotel, approaching his limousine, when several persons in a small crowd nearby shouted, "Mr. President." He turned toward the crowd as shots rang out. The president looked stunned as a Secret Service agent quickly shoved him into the waiting limousine. The car sped off to George Washington University Hospital. He walked unassisted into the hospital, holding his right hand to his left chest, a spot of blood showing on his shirt. And he remained conscious before the operation, joking with aides and friends who visited him. Reagan said to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck." And he told a close friend, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., "Don't worry about me. I'll make it." Greg March 31, 1981 === Page 6 of 29 Associated Press Laserphotos ACTION, REACTION -- As shots are fired, President Reagan stops waving to crowd, top, looks back toward sound and grimaces as fast-reacting Secret Service agents hustle him into his limousine outside a Washington hotel Monday. Reagan, wounded by one bullet that penetrated his side, was rushed to a hospital. === Page 7 of 29 He winked at James Baker, White House chief of staff, as he was being wheeled into the operating room and told his physicians, "Please tell me you're Republicans." Despite the president's joking, the shooting and the seriousness of the injury left Washington and much of the country in a state of shock. The Senate was reconvened shortly after 6 p.m. by the majority leader, Sen. Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn, so that Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo., an Episcopal priest, could deliver a prayer for the president, another for the other victims and a third one for the country. In his prayer for the president, Danforth said, "Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy. . . . Restore him to health." Praying for the country, Danforth said, "Grant us thy help in this hour of need." The FBI, which assumed jurisdiction of the investigation into the shooting, said that it had no indication that anyone except Hinkley was involved. "All the information we have now points to the fact that he was the only one," an FBI spokesman said. A light rain was falling as Reagan, bareheaded, walked toward his car and waved at the crowd outside. Hank Brown, a cameraman for ABC-TV who filmed the shooting, said the suspect did not say anything, but "just opened up and continued squeezing the trigger." The gunman was among a cluster of several persons, including reporters and onlookers, who were standing behind a velvet rope used to cordon off the crowd. Pandemonium broke out as the shots were fired. Brady, McCarthy and Delahanty all slumped to the sidewalk. Mike Deaver, a top Reagan aide, and several other aides accompanying the president ducked at the sound of gunfire and escaped injury. An aide carrying the "black box" suitcase containing emergency communications equipment scampered to safety and then disappeared, apparently accompanying the president to the hospital. The scene, filmed by television crews and telecast repeatedly across the nation, was chaotic. Three victims were crumpled on the sidewalk, bleeding profusely, and officers, many with drawn guns, swarmed over the gunman and yelled to onlookers to "Get back. Get back." The Secret Service agents brandished Uzi's, Israeli-made submachine guns that the service has been using for several years. Brady, pudgy and balding, known for his affability and sense of humor, lay face down. He raised his head once or twice and then was still. Someone placed a handerchief under his head but a pool of blood had already formed on the sidewalk. A handgun was lying near his head. The other victims lay nearby, almost within reach of Brady, both lying still. Washington suddenly became a city of wailing sirens as ambulances rushed to the scene to carry the wounded to hospitals. # Hinckley kin asked to dine with Bush son HOUSTON (UPI) -- The brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., the man accused of shooting President Reagan, was to have been a dinner guest Tuesday night at the home of Vice President Bush's son, Neil, the Houston Post said in a copyright story Tuesday. Neil Bush, who lives in Denver, said Monday his family knew the Hinckley family because they'd made large contributions to the vice president's campaign. He said he once met Scott Hinckley, but could not recall meeting his younger brother, who is accused of shooting Reagan and three other men Monday. Bush's wife, Sharon, said the dinner was canceled. Scott Hinckley is vice president of his father's Denver-based oil firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp. He could not be reached for comment. 3/31/81 === Page 8 of 29 CIA eyes hocus-pocus March 30, 1981 WASHINGTON - In James Bond circles, nothing is too farfetched to be dismissed. The Central Intelligence Agency, for example, has been toying for years with the idea of using extrasensory perception in its work - spurred on by the suspicion that the Russians have somehow succeeded in opening an ESP gap. I've already reported on the Pentagon's $6-million-a-year research to develop ESP weapons that can brainwash or incapacitate enemy leaders by thought transfer, deliver nuclear bombs instantaneously thousands of miles away by psychic energy, or even create a protective "time warp" to make incoming Soviet missiles explode harmlessly in the past. These wacky projects have support from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which reports that the Russians have been doing intensive research in the field for nearly 50 years. The DIA even credits the omnipotent Kremlin scientists with successfully demonstrating ESP's deadly potential on insects, a possibility that should bring joy to farmers and backyard gardeners - and strike terror in the insecticide industry. The CIA, though historically less alarmist about the Red Menace than the Pentagon spooks are, has also been monitoring Soviet ESP research and pondering the possibility of less bizarre psychic weapons. A top-secret report on the subject by a CIA scientific expert has been examined by my associate Dale Van Atta. The analysts estimated that "the Soviet military and KGB have had a covert applied parapsychology program since the mid-1960s." This was the period when the CIA was experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs on unsuspecting Americans and with foot powder that would make Fidel Castro's beard fall out. The CIA warns that the Soviets may be "ahead of the U.S. in parapsychology." Evidence of Soviet progress is sketchy because the Kremlin's voodoo scientists, the CIA suspects, have gone undercover. Intelligence sources estimate that at least 200 Soviet experts in various disciplines are working on ESP weapons development. The CIA report identified several specific areas of suspected Soviet study: - "Electrostatics of telekinesis," or the ability to move objects by mental concentration. - "Extremely low frequencies of electromagnetic radiation for information transmission." This may have been what the KGB was up to when it bombarded the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation for nearly 20 years. - Application of theories involving links between the way the human brain and electronic computers operate. - Remote monitors and stimulators to determine - or influence - another person's physical condition by telepathy, like a Haitian witch doctor might try. - High-frequency analysis of an electroencephalogram - a sort of wiretapping of someone's brain waves. The area of Soviet ESP research that really has the CIA's mouth watering is the possibility of "remote viewing" by telepathy from thousands of miles away. Who'd need a mole in the Kremlin if a psychic sitting at a desk in Washington could zoom in mentally on a super-secret Soviet missile site or a Politburo meeting? === Page 9 of 29 April 8, 1981 Best wishes to my friends, Jeffrey and Janelle Mishlove... from Ted Owens (Bogardé) === Page 10 of 29 # 'And Don't Move' (Martha Owens is the distaff half of Bogarde and Lovella, a knife-throwing act which works clubs throughout the West but the couple lives in Phoenix. Her husband, Ted, began throwing knives as a hobby and turned professional at 21, both as an instructor and as a performer. Mrs. Owens is a relative newcomer to show business. In her story she tells how she came to be in it and reveals some of her reactions on stage.) ### by Martha Owens THE NEXT TIME YOUR husband throws a dirty shirt on the floor, think about me. Mine throws knives at me. Around me, I mean. He set me straight on that the first time I met him. I asked what a big board leaning against a wall was for and he said a knife-throwing act. "You mean somebody lets you throw knives at her?" I asked. "Around," he said, "not at." "She must be crazy!" "You want to try?" he asked and I told him, not me. A FEW WEEKS LATER he asked me again. I don't know which part of me, Czech or Cherokee, said yes. I had seen him work in the meantime and it looked safe enough. He told me how to stand with my hands folded and elbows pulled in close. "And don't move," he said, but he could have saved his breath. I was too scared to. "I never hit anybody yet," he said when he walked away. I guess he said that to make me feel better. It did help a little but not enough to keep me from thinking to myself, I hope he doesn't break his good record with me standing here. THE FIRST ONE HIT somewhere near my left ear. I didn't see it coming because he told me not to look at him. I heard it hit though. It made the same "thonk!" a broom handle makes banged on a table. I felt it hit, too, so hard it made my head bob. I was all set to let it go at that but he was reared back to throw another one so I stood still. He threw six all told, three down each side even with my head, waist and legs. "That wasn't too bad, was it?" he asked. I STEPPED AWAY from the board and took a quick look at where I had been standing. "It was all right, I guess," I said, "but, boy, I sure wouldn't want to make a living that way!" "Why not?" he asked me. "We could work up an act." I don't remember exactly what I said then, but I let him know quick I didn't think much of the idea. He asked me a lot of times after that and finally convinced me, but he had to marry me to make me say, yes. TED HAD WORKED with partners before, and solo too, but he wanted our act to be different. He had seen others at nightclubs and places like that and on TV, and he wanted to outdo them. He came up with some tricky ones he says only we do. For example, he throws a knife through a hat (with me in it!), throws backwards looking in a mirror, and throws 20 knives into a five by six foot board which, when you figure how much room I take up, doesn't leave much room! There are some things we do only one other act does, he says, like busting a balloon I hold in my teeth and a blindfold throw. I got kind of a creepy feeling when he told me how he got the idea for the blindfold throw. He said when he was a kid he saw a movie with Eric Von Stroheim playing the part of a knife-thrower whose wife was fooling around with another man. He, her husband, decided to kill her by missing on purpose. He figured he could say it was an accident and, being blindfolded and all, nobody could prove it was murder. I wasn't doing anything wrong, but even so...! WE WORKED ABOUT A year and a half before Ted was satisfied we were ready. Our first appearance was on a TV show in Seattle (we appeared on the Steve Allen Show later on) and then we began working nightclubs. A funny thing happened at one place--and with the blindfold throw, too! The only time I move my hands is when I tap a thimble at the place where Ted is to throw. Some heckler tried to be funny and tapped on his table behind Ted. My husband turned around and made like he was going to throw that way. I don't know who was scared the most. I yelled and the people at the table ducked. I guess he shook them up so they'll never try that again. Usually, though, people are quiet during our act. Nightclub managers have told us we scare people sober which Continued, next page. === Page 11 of 29 Continued from page 21. is pretty good publicity for our act and more business for the nightclub. WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, I was supposed to pull the knives out of the board while he announced what we were going to do next. Some were buried so deep, I had a dickens of a time. One night I got hold of a real stubborn one and put my knee up against the board so I could get a real tug at it. The audience laughed and Ted didn't know what was going on until he turned around and looked. That was enough for me and now he pulls them out. I didn't want to look like a nut. Our act is pretty serious so we play it straight. Sometimes in the part where I hold a balloon in my teeth, Ted will build up suspense a little by missing once or twice on purpose. To be frank about it, it makes me jumpy too. I want him to get it over with fast, but not for the reason most people think. I've learned to live with knives hitting close to me, but balloons popping scare me. People think I'm kidding when I tell them that, but it's the truth. Most people have the wrong idea about a knife-thrower's partner. Either they think she is scared green or bored stiff. With me, it's somewhere in the middle. WORKING ALL THIS while with Ted has taught me to trust his skill, but at the same time I know what could happen. Once a reporter asked me what I thought about while the act is going on. I guess he thought I was going to say I thought about what I was going to fix for lunch the next day or about a dress I had seen in a store window because he looked surprised when I told him: "I think about those knives." Bimbo's 365 Club SAN FRANCISCO "HOME OF THE GIRL IN THE FISH BOWL" === Page 12 of 29 $30 on tickets to "Funny Girl" on Broadway, and then had to leave at intermission. His wife was stricken with appendicitis. Jimmy Conway's, has engaged Alan Franks as manager. Honey is needed at home where her husband Lew is recuperating from a heart attack. . . . Willard L. Dougherty, former national sales manager with RKO-General radio in Boston, has joined WRCP, Rust Craft Radio's new local outlet. . . . Restaurateur Frankie Bradley has 4000 reasons for worrying about "Drat! The Cat!" . . . Richard Levinson and William Link, who started here as Mask & Wig scripters, are writing "The Courting of Millie Standish," which Steve Allen plans as a vid series to star his wife, Jayne Meadows. . . . Incidentally, the knife-throwing team of Bogarde and Lovella, who were featured on "The Steve Allen Show," have moved into town. THEY TELL US: Jimmy Toppi says the $5000 he is giving Louis Rodriguez is the biggest guarantee he ever handed out in his long career. Louis gets the 5G's when he meets Johnny M . . . MARCH 14 Evening sibling. R. G. Brown, Marian Mercer, Osmond Brothers, New Christy Minstrels, Nick Castle dancers, Colin Romoff orchestra. (60 min.) 5 PETER GUNN--Mystery "Death Across the Board." Wealthy sportsman Harley Bernard would like to know who murdered his stable manager. Gunn: Craig Stevens. Bernard: Robert Warwick. Scooter: Ned Glass. Rousseau: James Lydon. Wally: George Selk. 11 13 NEWS :20 9 NEWS--John Willis :30 5 DRAGNET--Police A man is kidnapped and Friday and Smith have the job of finding the kidnapers and victim. Jack Webb, Ben Alexander. 9 TRAILS WEST--Drama As a joke two miners offer their friend a great deal of money if he will wed the homely waitress. Aggie Filene. Virginia Lee, James Best, Steve Mitchell. 11 PAUL COATES--Interview 13 COUNTRY MUSIC TIME :00 2 5 7 9 NEWS 3 6 8 10 NEWS 4 COLOR NEWS--Jack Latham 11 TOM DUGGAN--Interviews 13 MOVIE--Mystery Starlight Theater: "Man on the Run." (English; 1950) An Army deserter becomes innocently involved in a killing. Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey. (90 min.) :15 4 COLOR JOHNNY CARSON 9 MOVIE--Comedy "Sitting Pretty." (1948) A suave and sophisticated stranger is hired as a baby-sitter and works wonders with three children. Clifton Webb, Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara. (90 min.) :20 5 STEVE ALLEN--Variety Steve's guests include Alexander King, singer Joanie Sommers, jazz pianist Pete Jolley and the knife-throwing team of Bogarde and Lovella. Donn Trenner orchestra. (90 min.) :30 2 MOVIE--Melodrama Late Show: "She Devil." (1957) L.A. TV Debut. A tuberculosis victim is injected with a new serum. The cure works but the patient undergoes a mysterious change. Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, Albert Dekker. (One hour, 45 min.) 3 10 COLOR JOHNNY CARSON 6 MOVIE--Comedy "Good Sam." (1948) A department-store manager has a reputation as an incurable Good Samaritan. Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe. 7 BAT MASTERSON--Western "The Secret is Death." Bat tries to find out why the town of Cheyenne has been hit by a crime wave. Bat: Gene Barry. Garrickson: John Larch. Ellie: Allison Hayes. Calhoun: George Neise. 8 STEVE ALLEN--Variety Steve's guests include comedian Louis Nye and singers Buddy Greco and Jennie Smith. Donn Trenner orchestra. (90 min.) 12:00 7 MOVIE--Drama "Lady in Distress." (1942) A husband is consumed by an insane jealousy of his wife. Michael Redgrave, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas, Hartley Power. (90 min.) 12:30 11 MOVIE--Drama "The Mighty McGurk." (1946) A young English orphan attaches himself to an ex-heavyweight champion who is now working in a Bowery saloon. Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Edward Arnold, Cameron Mitchell. (Two hours) 12:45 9 MOVIE--Drama "Rachel and the Stranger." (1948) During the early pioneer days, a man and his bride settle in the Ohio frontier territory. Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully. Late news follows the movie. 1:00 4 NEWS 1:15 2 MOVIE--Comedy "His Excellency." (English; 1956) The appointment of a new governor of Arista, an island in the Mediterranean, sets off a series of events that keep the island in turmoil. Eric Portman, Cecil Parker. Late news follows the movie. 2:30 11 MOVIE--Double Feature 1. "Northwest Passage." See Sunday 1:30 P.M. Ch. 11 for details. 2. "Billy the Kid." (1941) The young outlaw is hired as a "persuader" by the czar of the countryside. Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard. TV GUIDE A-75 THURSDAY If She Looked At Him With A Wife's Eye-View === Page 13 of 29 The Hat Trick "With me in it!" 'And Don't Move' Continued from page 21 SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! WED. THRU SAT., THE FANTASTIC BOGARDE' And LOVELLA SHOWS AT 10 P.M. and 12 A.M. "THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS AND EXCITING KNIFE THROWING ACT" . . . FEATURED LAST SUNDAY IN "ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS! . . . FEATURED ON STEVE ALLEN AND ED SULLIVAN T.V. SHOWS!" PLUS - MIND READING AND HYPNOTIST! === Page 14 of 29 BEACON Thursday, December 19, 1963 # Knife-Throwing Target Shakes Without Music By JIM WATTS Beacon Staff Writer Pardon me, if my typing is twisty. Not dance-like, exactly, but shimmery. I'm more or less still shaking from an experience foreign to Caspar Milquetoasts: I was a target for a professional knife-thrower. A fellow from Arizona, Ted Owens, is in town appearing at the Stardust Supper Club in the act, Bogarde and Lovella. He's Bogarde when working; Lovella is his wife, Martha. He hurls daggers at her as she leans against a king-sized backboard. The point is (no pun intended) he pins a border of steel around her and nobody flinches but the audience. My anxiety? Well, to get this story, Bogarde, who also is a hypnotist and mind-reader, assured me a first-person account would not be valid unless I subbed for Lovella. Sort of a practice session. As a rule, most practice sessions--rehearsals really--are chock full of flaws. This ran through my mind and I could picture myself chock full of punctures if Bogarde wasn't up to snuff. I don't know which world Bogarde was in at the time he propositioned me for blade bait: Hypnotic or mind-reading? It would seem he surely must have been in a hypnotist mood to be able to convince this one of the non-danger involved standing up there while he threw weapons my way. If he had been in the mind-reading temper, he surely would have been on my wave-length and detected the misgivings swirling around in my head. Apparently, Bogarde was merely in a knife-throwing frame of mind. In any event, hypnotized or no, I played the pigeon. Bogarde emphasized my main contribution was to stay rigidly still. This works well in theory, but at face-down-time, with that steel coming at you lickety-split, some have a compulsion to dance--and with no music! Nonetheless, this writer stood reasonably composed, though some viewers maintained it was because of a state of shock. The first knife thudded into the backboard a hair's breadth from my left ear. I wasn't sure whether I really heard it go by, or whether part of the hearing organ was attached to the blade and I was getting delayed sound--like maybe an echo. Before I had time to worry, however, knife No. 2 thonked into the board on my right, microbes away. Rapidly now came knives Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6. I was surrounded by silverware with no penchant for eating. Somehow, the appetite had waned, much like my ambition for a long life. Came the applause and I reawakened. Anybody who says there isn't a little ham in all of us had better not tarry around a packing plant. Because, when that clapping started, yours truly forgot his moments-before cowardliness and despite amateur status in the entertainment department, took three bows before he realized the folks were cheering Bogarde, not the stiletto fodder. Two or three colas later, the shakes set in, though, friends and it's then one appreciates Methuselah's wisdom. Nowhere in the Bible, I am told, does it relate anything about Methuselah being the foreground part of a knife-throwing act. But, then, really, who wants to live 900 years with rock 'n' roll, taxes and Ben Casey? Bogarde and Lovella appear three times nightly at the Stardust Club, at 9:30, 11:30 and 1:30. OTHER BITS: Impressionist Gary Wells and exotic dancer Angel Wild are winding up their second busy week at the T-Bone Entertainment Restaurant. Bub Calvert and the T-Tones have backed them superbly . . . An added attraction at the Stardust Club Friday and Saturday nights will be the singing-comedy team of Jay Hoyle and Sue Wilson, a fresh young combination that proved a hit last week . . . The Debonaires play Friday and Saturday nights for dancing at The Combo Club, from 10 to 2. Featuring Larry Hurst on lead guitar, the group has Junior Prater on saxophone, Tom Beard at the piano, Jim Block on drums and Johnny Holt plucks the base. The Debonaires claim to play anything on request, from rock 'n' roll to jazz and back to blues . . . Steve Manor and The Shadows hold forth at Seneca Lounge and the Mark IV combo plays for dancing at The Beefeater Inn . . . Tonight, at Civic Playhouse, Norman Lee and his orchestra play for dancing at a Christmas party open to the public . . . The Elmer B Trio is at the Spur Club Friday and Saturday nights, and there is public dancing nightly at the Sunset Club. ## Superstitious Note LOS ANGELES -- If you are superstitious, please note: When Richard Boone was injured in that auto accident, he was in the process of filming a show for this program. It was show No. 13. VICTORY THIS AD AND ONE PAID ADMISSION ADMITS 2 1.--"MISFITS" Clark Gable-Marilyn Monroe 2.--"JACK THE GIANT KILLER" Kerwin Mathews 3.--"TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE" Chubby Checkers New Year's Eve Dance Wichita's Biggest New Year's Party Dance to the Tune of BOB HUNTER'S LANCERS Full 7 Piece Band Complete Food Service from 6 p.m. Dancing from 10 'til 2 Floor Show 11:30 p.m. Noisemakers, Serpentine & Balloons $6.00 per couple--No stags Make Reservations Early AM 3-5002 CIVIC PLAYHOUSE Christmas Party? Let us cater your office Christmas party. We handle all the details--you enjoy yourself. T-BONE Be modern with MOEN NEW KITCHEN FAUCET === Page 15 of 29 NO CONTENT === Page 16 of 29 CHAMPAGNE RUE 365 BIMBO ΣΟΣ AM '64 === Page 17 of 29 BIMBO'S 3 6 5 RUSTY DRAPER REVUE LES BOGARDES 3 SHAGGY GORILLAS LUNCH DINNER === Page 18 of 29 LAVISH REVUES BIMBO'S 3 6 5 THEATRE Restaurant ARTHUR LEE SIMPKINS THE MARQUIS FAMILY LANDIS DANCERS WORLD'S BEST DINNER HOME OF THE GIRL IN THE FISHBOWL FINEST THEATRE RESTAURANT ANYWHERE === Page 19 of 29 ACME CIRCUS OPERATING CO., INC. PRESENTS THE WORLD'S LARGEST CIRCUS CLYDE BEATTY - COLE BROS. CIRCUS Roland Butler PERMANENT ADDRESS VAN SKIKE BUILDING, SARASOTA, FLORIDA ---------- Contract and Agreement ---------- To whom it may concern : This 13 day of May, 1965. I Charles Fuller, side show manager of Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus. Agree to pay the sum of $300.00 - Three Hundred Dollars for services rendered as described below. Amount to be paid to Mr. Bogardi Owens, as agent and sole representative of afore named acts, This amount is to be payment in full for services rendered at Philadelphia Penn., Circus Grounds May 20th thru May 31st 1965. Mr Bogardi Owens agrees to present the acts known as Bogardi & Lovella, and consisting of Knife Throwing (2 people) + 1 girl to asst. when needed. Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus also agree to furnish meals at the show cookhouse for any persons working as performers is afore said acts. Due to the dangerous nature of these acts, Clyde Beatty Cole- Bros. Circus assume no responsibility or liability for injury or disablement to any persons involved in presenting afore said acts. Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus also agree to furnish, without charge transportation from Washington D.C to Philadelphia Penn., for persons required to present afore said acts. This agreement made and signed this 13 day of May, 1965 between Charles Fuller as party of the first part and Mr. Bogardi Owens as party of the second part. Signed : Charles L Fuller Party of the first part. Bogardi Owens Party of the second part. DEC 7 1979 Martha Washington Owens === Page 20 of 29 12TH ANNUAL BE PREPARED EAGLE SCOUT RECOGNITION DINNER === Page 21 of 29 PLAYBOY GRAND OPENING SAN DIEGO COUNTY COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Twelfth Annual Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner PROGRAM MASTER OF CEREMONIES .......... WILLIAM E. GOETZE Program Chairman J. HARVEY CHAMBERS .......... WELCOME Council President EAGLE SCOUT CHRIS THOMAS .......... INVOCATION Post 946, Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church DINNER OPENING CEREMONY .......... ORDER OF THE ARROW Honor Camping Society ENTERTAINMENT .......... PRESENTED BY REGIS PHILBIN Town Criers Bogarde - Lovella SPECIAL GUEST .......... PETER GRAVES Television Star EAGLE SCOUT ROBERT MURPHY .......... OUR EAGLE SPEAKER Troop 147, El Cajon Trinity Catholic Church JOHN ACKERMANN Scout Executive JAMES DEMPSEY .......... GUEST SPEAKER President, General Dynamics-Astronautics CLOSING CEREMONY Jerry Lee Pecht H.M.S. BOUNTY ROOM Thursday, February 21, 1963 . SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (DEL WEBB'S) OCEANHOUSE === Page 22 of 29 PLAYBOY GRAND OPENING 3596 University Avenue • San Diego 4, Calif. Friday and Saturday evening, June 14 and 15, 1963 From 8:00 P. M. PLAYBOY features an all new Cocktail Lounge and Night Club open to the public. DANCING • COCKTAILS • ENTERTAINMENT ★ Jack Cooper ★ Bob Montaque ★ C. C. Jones Floor Shows -- Featuring BOGARDE & LOVELLA The most dangerous and exciting knife-throwing act in the world. Extra Sensory Perception -- Hypnotism Mind Reading Three Performances -- Fri. & Sat. 9 - 11 - 1 P. M. From the Desk of: REGIS PHILBIN Ted: Thanks so much for the fine show Thursday night. Everyone enjoyed it very much and I've received some excellent comments on it. I'm enclosing a clipping you left with me sometime ago. Thought you might like to keep it. Good luck with Steve Allen. Best, Regis Philbin 14 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Fri., Aug. 9, 1963 Orien W. Fifer Jr. He Doesn't Wear Trenchcoat, Either Nice guy, too. ********** A lot of folks migrate to Phoenix. Insurance men, auto salesmen, carpenters, newsmen and about every other type of wage earner. But something new has been added in recent weeks. The knife-throwing team of Bogarde and Lovella, man and wife, has taken up residence here with their children. A few months ago they appeared on the Steve Allen TV show, and Bogarde framed him in foot-long knives. ********** TEN UNIVERSITIES are represented in the 17 new interns at Maricopa County Hospital. The University of Oklahoma leads the list with four: Thomas Alexander, Donald Ferrell, Curtis Kimball and Larry Young. The others: Sherman Butler, Stanford; James Coles, University of Colorado; Michael Edwards and Alan Suddard, University of Minnesota; Edward Gross, University of The Philippines; Daniel Gutierez and Alan Stutz, University of Illinois; William Koch, Ariel Thomann, and John Sherman III, Baylor; John Melvin, University of Texas; Richard Raynor, Missouri, and John Wick, Temple. One of these days out-staters may be the exception. That is, when Arizona has its own medical school. KABC-TV NEWS CARL GEORGE AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY ABC TELEVISION CENTER HOLLYWOOD 27, CALIFORNIA NO 3-3311 === Page 23 of 29 NEIL MORGAN April 10 and he'll face a noisy reception planned by San Diego's Committee to Entertain Patrick O'Connell, made up of his admirers in the San Diego Rowing Club. Among them will be Superior Court Judge Vincent A. Whelan, John Howley and Clyde O. Davee, all of whom have visited O'Connell in Ireland. . . Ted Owens, the San Diego knife thrower who appeared last Friday night on the Steve Allen TV show, depends on more than a steady throwing arm to hit the mark. He's trained in auto hypnosis and extrasensory perception. . . A law violator appeared in Municipal Court, alert enough to notice that the label on Judge Donald Smith's cigar read "Crooks." MEMO FROM OUR MAN FRIDAY: "Dear N.M. A note signed by the 'Observer of All the Team Work' says he read the item about Louis Lieblich, the director of the United Jewish Fund having a Catholic secretary, and says there's another mentionable team at the Jewish Community Center. On Executive Director Joe Astor's team are Carol Parkerson, a Lutheran; Mary Schneider, a Catholic, and Lorraine Hudson, a Presbyterian." College Area Kiwaniannes are holding their annual benefit rummage sale tomorrow at the College Grove Center. Featured offering is a wooden shaft number 6 iron, valued by its owner at $1,500, and priced for quick sale at $1.75. . . State mortgage bankers' idea of a "survival kit," which they issued to each of their convention delegates at the Hotel del Coronado, included aspirin and headache powders, stomach alkalizers and adhesive bandages. . . Members of the Oceanside-Carlsbad TOPS club, the weighty reducing society, hold their meetings at the Oceanside Moose Lodge. . . Elizabeth Taylor checked in at Hotel del Coronado, but she didn't cause much of a flurry. This Elizabeth Taylor was a Camp Fire Girl from Glendale. PLAYBOY IN SAN DIEGO "Where the Brightest People Meet" 3596 University Avenue • San Diego 4, California • Phone 281-0937 June 17, 1963 Dear Bogarde: We appreciated the high-calibre quality of your truly amazing entertainment during our Grand Opening for our Playboy Club. We wish to recommend highly any of your acts to those night clubs seeking unusual entertainment. Best regards. Sincerely, Bob Michaels, Manager. === Page 24 of 29 W. Beach Biloxi # SHOW CLUB W. Beach Biloxi ## Greatest Show On The Gulf 9 P.M. Continental Style THE FANTASTIC # BOGARDE' And LOVELLA "THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS AND EXCITING KNIFE THROWING ACT" FEATURED LAST SUNDAY IN "ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS! FEATURED ON STEVE ALLEN AND ED SULLIVAN TV SHOWS!" PLUS - MIND READING AND HYPNOTIST! ### SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! * Others In The Show Include Camile, The Pocket Size Edition Of Jane Russell, Bunny Holiday Dancing The Way Her Mother Never Taught Her. Carla and Honey Bare You Can't Afford To Miss . . . BUNNY HOLIDAY Daring Doer ********** CARLA KNIGHT . . DARLING DANCER CAMILLE . . . Tiny Tripper HONEY BARE . . . Petite Posturer # The RUSTY DRAPER Show MAY 3-20 with cast of 35 featuring BOGARDE and LOVELLA Open 365 days of the year # BIMBO'S 365 THEATRE RESTAURANT 1025 Columbus Ave. GR 4-0365 LUNCH DINNER AFTER THEATER === Page 25 of 29 HOTEL Buena Vista SAFFORD, ARIZONA MATADOR COCKTAIL LOUNGE • Featuring our "Moment of Truth" Special ARENA DE TORO • Dancing and Refreshments under Arizona Stars EARL V. PERRIN General Manager IN THE SHADOW OF MT. GRAHAM REFRIGERATED December 16, 1963 Bogarde c/o Southwest Booking Corp. Hotel Westward Ho Phoenix, Arizona Dear Bogarde; We here at the Buena Vista Hotel want to commend you on the fine show that you and Lovella performed during your recent engagement at our Matador Room. You have a fine versatile act which certainly draws customers attention. Needless to say, your shows stimulated a jump in business. The people of Safford are still talking about the death defying performance. Also many expressed amazement over your mind reading and hypnotic feats. Best of luck in all your future bookings and we hope to see you and Lovella soon. Best personal regards. Sincerely, Earl V. Perrin SAFFORD'S LARGEST & FINEST ON U. S. HIGHWAY 70 === Page 26 of 29 X TH INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE DEAF Banquet Show Dance CISS AAAD 27 JUNE -3 JULY 1965 X international games the deaf WASHINGTON, D.C. featuring An International Performance "ARABIAN NIGHTS" SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1965 - REGENCY ROOM, SHOREHAM HOTEL - HALL & PARK, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL WASHINGTON, D. C. === Page 27 of 29 ### Honorary Chairman LYNDON B. JOHNSON President of the United States ### Patrons BYRON R. WHITE Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ROBERT F. KENNEDY (New York) United States Senator ANTHONY J. CELEBREZZE Secretary Health, Education and Welfare LEVERETT SALTONSTALL (Mass.) United States Senator HOMER THORNBERRY Judge, United States District Court AVERY BRUNDAGE President Comite International Olympique KENNETH L. WILSON President United States Olympic Committee EDWARD P. F. EAGAN President People-to-People Sports Committee WILSON H. ELKINS President of University of Maryland LEONARD M. ELSTAD President of Gallaudet College STAN MUSIAL Chairman President's Council on Physical Fitness ### Comite International des Sports Silencieux PIERRE BERNHARD, France President S. ROBEY BURNS, USA Vice President C. WLOWTOWSKI, Poland Vice President ANTOINE DRESSE, Belgium Secretary General ROGER LONNOY, Belgium Interpretor D. VUKOTIC, Yougoslavia Board Member J. LUOMAJOKI, Finland Board Member P. SOUTIGUINE, Russia Board Member O. DAHLGREN, Sweden Board Member O. RYDEN, Sweden Past President CISS J. P. NIELSEN, Denmark Past President CISS ### American Athletic Association of the Deaf EDWARD C. CARNEY President BERT POSS Vice President JAMES A. BARRACK Secretary-Treasurer HERB SCHREIBER Publicity Director and Chairman of A.A.A.D. Hall of Fame JERALD M. JORDAN Chairman International Games of the Deaf HARRY M. JACOBS President Emeritus ### Tenth International Games for the Deaf Committee S. ROBEY BURNS Chairman Emeritus JERALD M. JORDAN General Chairman LEON AUERBACH Assistant Chairman THOMAS O. BERG Games Director RICHARD M. PHILLIPS Liaison Officer RONALD E. SUTCLIFFE Finance Officer FREDERICK C. SCHREIBER Publicity Director ALEXANDER FLEISCHMAN Local Chairman ARTHUR KRUGER U.S.A. Team Director RICHARD CASWELL Purchasing and Awards === Page 28 of 29 # Program OFFICIAL INTERPRETER Yerker Andersson MESSAGES OF GREETINGS Delegates from 29 Nations MESSAGE OF WELCOME Jerald M. Jordan, General Chairman + + + SHOW BIZ PRODUCTIONS presents "ARABIAN NIGHTS" THE SULTANS DANCERS Eight beautiful girls THE GENIE OF THE MAGIC LAMP featuring Ken Sherburne, terrific unicycle and juggling routine, with fire THE DANCING JETERS line of girls THE HAPPY JESTERS featuring 6 yrs. old Mike and 4 yrs. old Paul in comedy acrobatics THE MAGIC MAHARAJAH featuring Josef Smiley & Company--illusions THE BUCCANEER BEAUTIES line of girls LORRAINE DEBOE beautiful girl tap dancer CAPTAIN SILVER & THE GOLDEN FANTASY BOGARDE & LOVELLA a knife throwing act Music furnished by GENE DONATI === Page 29 of 29 DEAF OLYMPICS SPONSORS HONORED Gerald Jordan of Gallaudet College (left), chairman of the Deaf Olympics to be held here June 27-July 3, presents Olympic cuff links and passes to Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y.; Justice Byron White, and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R-Mass., honorary sponsors.--Star Staff Photo. Kennedy Asks Support for Deaf Olympics United Press International The Senate was asked yesterday by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, (D-N.Y.,) to give "wholehearted support" to a series of Olympic Games where the Athletes will never hear the shouts from the crowd. Kennedy told his colleagues that more than 1000 athletes from 29 nations will compete in Washington June 26 through July 3 in the 10th annual International Games for The Deaf. "Surely these games inspire and challenge young men and women burdened by deafness to aspire to wider roles of leadership and usefulness in society," he said. President Johnson is honorary chairman of the games and the sponsors include Kennedy, Associate Supreme Court Justice Byron White, Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, (R-Mass.,) and Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8104b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/65261bfee284125738b96b6d006c6f6a.pdf 4506f6677cf4543ab5ff60032cf2dbd1 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/b19d29d700a777e727d2c0a100692ade.txt ed3a4d48b188de21136683083a82de9d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 April 27, 1980 Mr. Steve Kelley, Oregonian Sports Columnist. I enjoyed the composition of your article re my parapsychological work (psi) "The Force Be Agin' You." And your piece of work was most accurate. The only mild rebuttal that I might make would be with regard to "He calls it documentation." Your readers might have been interested to learn that all of those pounds of books and magazines wrote about me and my work only after the authors had researched carefully the proper documentation in the various matters. I.e., I would certainly consider Stan Hochman's newspaper article "documentation." After all...as with the rest of those pounds of "documentation"...I earned it by performing for Hochman, as you know. It also would have been nice if your readers had been told that I have proper affidavits from prominent scientists to the effect that I have produced startling parapsychological phenomena...such as controlling a huge radar installation with my mind; producing UFOs to be seen by the police or to be photographed by scientists; and so on. Now, I have given the matter of the Trailblazers some thought. Since I am "treading water", so to speak...until I somehow get that Mountain Base that I told you about...I have made a definite decision with regard to the Trailblazers next year. I am notifying my scientist-contacts today...that I will use all of my psi-force powers to influence the Trailblazers next season (Fall and Winter of 1980/1981) culminating in their falling apart at the seams a la Eagles, Squires, Rams...and being eliminated at the Championship Playoffs, if they in fact get that far. I will track them, game by game, via TV and radio...and the scientists can watch the results of the psi-force attack, which should be devastating. The early part of next season for the Trailblazers should be easy for me to handle, due to the "lag effect" from my earlier work on them (that is what devastated them early in the season this year...the lag effect from the attack last season.) "Lag effect", by the way, is not my term...it is a scientific term, applicable to certain parapsychological phenomena. Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo discuss "lag effect" in the book which they have written about my work, "Earth's Ambassador". My UFO connection also approves of my stopping the Trailblazers cold next season because it will give me "combat practice" for the time ahead when my powers must be used against formidable foes (re the Otto Binder article in Saga). Cordially, Ted Owens (PK Man) 200 NE 76th St. Vancouver, Washington 98665 === Page 2 of 7 The Oregonian SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1981 Morning after Steve Kelley The Force be agin' you Ted Owens had retired from sports. After using his supernatural power to put whammies on the Philadelphia Eagles, the Baltimore Colts and the Virginia Squires in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Owens was content to leave the world of sports and spend his time ending droughts and helping mankind. But Owens was forced out of retirement this season. Like Muhammad Ali, Owens came back to fight again. This time the opponent was the Portland Trail Blazers. The popular belief after the Blazers lost their playoff mini-series to Kansas City was that inexperience, impatience and troublesome shooting were responsible for Portland's early vacation. Owens says he knows better. The truth, according to Owens, is the games were out of the Trail Blazers' hands. They were the victims of PSI (psycho-kinetic) force. The force was against them. "They had no chance once the PSI force was applied to them as only I know how," said Owens, a Vancouver, Wash., resident, who says he carries out the earthly game plans of other-world intelligences. Owens predicted the Blazers' doom early in the season in a letter to The Oregonian and reaffirmed his belief in March that they were heading for a quick playoff exit. Blazers got away "I had a hell of a time beating them," admits Owens, a member of the high IQ club Mensa. "I had them zeroed-in early in the year (when they were 7-19), but then they managed to get away from me. "Against Kansas City I let them have everything I had. When Kansas City would have the ball, I would sit (in front of the television) as quiet as a mouse. I didn't want to draw attention to the court. But as soon as a Trail Blazer touched the ball, that's when I went to work. "I put the PSI force on the floor and an intelligence attaches itself to the Trail Blazers and makes them drop balls, make mistakes and miss the basket. It's beautiful. As the power builds up on the floor, the team falls apart. It follows along like a bird dog and waits until it spots a weakness. Then it jumps in and takes advantage." But why the Trail Blazers? What did they do to have this close encounter of the worst kind? Why did they have to meet Dr. No? "They didn't do anything," Owens said. "But I was supposed to be a guest on the TV show AM Northwest. I got to the show and they told me they were overbooked. I couldn't go on. "I was in shock. I decided I was going to have to play rough and teach them some respect. Since the Blazers are the symbol of Portland, I decided I was going to have to use the PSI force against them." For those who doubt Owens' mumbo jumbo about other-world intelligences, whammies and the like, he produces pounds of newspapers, magazines and books. He calls it documentation. Blazers powerless Philadelphia sports columnists write about the damage Owens did to the Eagles. Norfolk, Va., writers discuss the ruin he wrought on the Squires and Colts. Owens provides a book that lists him among the world's top 40 psychics. "I think that left alone, without the PSI force, the Blazers would have been successful in the playoffs," he said. "But once the force was built up, they were powerless to do anything about it. Poor (Jack) Ramsay would jump up and down in frustration when his players would fumble the ball, but it was out of his control." Now, Owens says his point has been made and the force is off the Blazers. "Sports is a superficial thing, but it's an excellent way to demonstrate PSI's power over a small group of men." In an effort to leave nothing to chance in their quest for a championship, maybe the Blazers should draft Owens and use his PSI power. If there's room for a team dentist, surely there is room for a team psychic. "Work for (owner) Larry Weinberg? You mean the Beverly Hills flash?" Owens asked. "Never. I think he has treated them very badly. To run a team properly you have to be near the team. "I think he (Weinberg) should be aware of something. I used the force on the Eagles and (owner Jerry) Wolman went broke. I used it against the Squires and (owner Earl) Foreman went bankrupt. . . . "I'm just saying that he should be aware that his fortunes could take a turn for the worse. It's very problematical." Kelley named sports columnist Steve Kelley, a sportswriter for The Oregonian since 1976, has been named the paper's daily sports columnist, Sports Editor Larry Shaw announced Friday. Kelley, who has covered the Portland Trail Blazers the past three seasons, will write a daily column appearing Thursday through Monday, Shaw said. The 32-year-old Kelley was named Oregon sportswriter of the year in 1979 and before covering the Blazers covered the Portland Timbers soccer team. He began his newspaper career with the York Dispatch in Pennsylvania and worked in the sports departments of The Daily Chronicle in Centralia, Wash., and The Daily Olympian in Olympia, Wash., before joining The Oregonian's sports staff. Kelley spent one year at the University of South Carolina and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1971. "Kelley will give The Oregonian an added dimension to its overall sports coverage," Shaw said. Steve Duin (pronounced dean) will assume Kelley's responsibilities of covering the Trail Blazers, Shaw said. 4/18/81 === Page 3 of 7 Bird, defense spark Celtics past 76ers 91-90 By ALEX SACHARE BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird's 23 points and brilliant team defense down the stretch, completed their remarkable playoff comeback Sunday by wiping out an 11-point second-half deficit and beating the Philadelphia 76ers 91-90. The victory moved the Celtics into the National Basketball Association's championship series against the Houston Rockets. "If you were writing a Hollywood script for the last game between Boston and Philadelphia, you couldn't write a better one," Celtics Coach Bill Fitch said. "I said it before the game and I'll say it again now: It's a shame somebody had to lose this series." Boston, which has had to rally in each of the last five games of this brilliant series, erased a seven-point deficit by holding Philadelphia without a field goal in the final 5:23. "That defense is no surprise," said M.L. Carr, Boston's rugged reserve guard. "We've been playing that kind of defense all year." And when it ended, the victory touched off a wild celebration that saw more than a thousand fans spill onto the court, surround the Celtics and usher them off the floor. "This is the greatest feeling that I have ever had as a professional athlete," Carr said. "When it ended, I felt like Sugar Ray Leonard when he won the gold medal at Montreal and blew kisses to the crowd. "I did the same thing." Naturally, the mood was entirely different in the Philadelphia locker room. "We had some opportunities," 76ers forward Bobby Jones said. "We had our chance but couldn't do it. It's an awful feeling. I can't say we choked because we were there at the end with a chance to win. But we lost and they won -- that's the bottom line." The 76ers led 67-56 during the third quarter and clung to an 89-82 advantage with 5:23 left in the toughly fought seventh game of the Eastern Conference finals. But Boston scored nine straight points, the last four by Bird, while holding Philadelphia scoreless for 4:54. Cedric Maxwell sank one free throw and Nate Archibald sank two, center Robert Parish made a turnaround jumper and Bird converted two free throws to tie the score 89-89 with 2:51 to go. Bird, the 1980 rookie of the year, then came back with a 15-foot bank shot from the left side for a 91-89 lead with 1:03 to play. Following a pair of turnovers, Philadelphia had a 3-on-1 fastbreak, and Maurice Cheeks was fouled by Gerald Henderson with 21 seconds on the clock. He made just one of two free throws to leave Philadelphia trailing by one. Carr missed a 20-footer for Boston, and Philadelphia's Bobby Jones gathered in the rebound and called timeout with one second left. Jones' inbounds pass bounced off Maxwell and hit the top of the backboard, and the Celtics had the emotion-charged victory. As the final buzzer sounded, more than 1,000 spectators from the capacity crowd of 18,276 at Boston Garden poured onto the famous parquet floor in a jubilant celebration. By winning, the Celtics became the fourth team in NBA history to capture a best-of-seven playoff series after falling behind 3-1. The others were the 1968 Boston Celtics, 1970 Los Angeles Lakers and 1979 Washington Bullets -- all of whom also did it in the semifinal round. Of the three previous comeback clubs, only the 1968 Celtics -- who also beat Philadelphia in the semis -- went on to take the title. The current Celtics are hoping to match that and win the 14th championship in the history of the tradition-steeped franchise when they take on the Rockets in the final, which opens here Tuesday night. The Celtics began their comeback by beating Philadelphia 111-109 here Wednesday night, hitting the last eight points of the game and holding the 76ers scoreless for the final 1:51. Friday night, the Celtics ended an 11-game losing streak in Philadelphia by rallying from a 15-point second-half deficit to win 100-98. And Sunday, they applied the finishing touch. 5/4/81 PHILADELPHIA 90 -- Erving 11 1-2 23, C. Jones 6 0-0 12, Dawkins 7 2-3 16, Hollins 10 0-0 2, Cheeks 3 6-7 12, B. Jones 5 3-3 13, Toney 4 0-0 8, Mix 2 0-0 4. Totals 39 12-15. BOSTON 91 -- Maxwell 9 1-5 19, Bird 8 4-7 23, Parish 7 2-2 16, Archibald 3 7-11 13, Ford 3 1-2 7, Robey 1 2-4 4, Carr 1 0-0 2, McHale 0 1-2 1, Henderson 2 2-2 6, Fernsten. Totals 34 22-35. | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Philadelphia | 31 | 22 | 22 | 15 | -- 90 | | Boston | 26 | 22 | 23 | 20 | -- 91 | Three-point goals -- Bird. Fouled out -- None. Total fouls -- Philadelphia 27, Boston 18. Technical -- Bird. A -- 15,320. SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS KNOWING After attending Duke University and Dr. J. B. Rhine in parapsychology, and learning that time and space are irrelevant in ESP... I went on through the years doing my own unique research in that field and discovered that not only time and space are irrelevant... but so is MASS. Now I have stumbled upon another amazing fact during my own research in psi-force. I have discovered "Displaced Lag Effect." "Lag Effect", as you know, is the continuation of psi phenomena after the psi-force project has been terminated, for a period of time. In 1968 I notified sports writers and others in authority that I would personally beat the Philadelphia 76'ers team by using my mind, over television and radio. At the time I notified them the Celtics were down 3 to 1 in the championship playoffs. That meant that I had to use my powers to make Philadelphia lose three straight games. And I did just that. My deed was documented and is on record. Now, just recently I stepped once again into the sports arena to use psi-force to stop the Portland Trailblazers in the championship playoffs. That, too, is documented. Following that, the Celtics once again lined up against the 76'rs... and once again the games became 3-1 in favor of the 76'rs. At that point I told my son, "You know, thirteen years ago this same thing happened and at that time I was in the picture with recent active work with psi-force against the Trailblazers re-activated that 13-year-old psi-force form, or mechanism, that I used then, now at this time in the Celtics/76'rs series?" And so it happened. The games became 3 and 2; 3 and 3... and last night, one more time, the Celtics came from 3-1 behind to win over Philadelphia. (See newsclip.) Since such a happening is a rarity (only the 4th time in history) I am convinced that the 13-year-old psi-force mechanism was re-activated. Thus, psi-force in this case worked something like the displacement effect in the Zener card experiment. I.e., once a psi-force mechanism is constructed it can once again come alive under the proper situation or conditions, if the original creator of the mechanism is tied into it. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 7 May 4, 1981 Note: my UFOs communicated with me... to write this, below, at 12:15 P.M. today. -Owens # Scientists and Contacts You must remember... that I am able, with my half-alien mind... to apply psi-force to an idea, to make that idea come to pass. (Recall that it was published in a book some years ago that I would cause all whites to be driven out of Africa. Since then all hell has broken loose in Africa and whites have left that country in tremendous numbers.) Now, my UFOs want their Base. Do you realize that my UFOs and I are entirely capable of transferring terrorism from Ireland, Africa, etc etc here to the United States?!! The U.S. govt. got their Space Shuttle back safely. Now my UFOs want their Base. -Owens === Page 5 of 7 May 6, 1981 10:30 PM. Called D. Scott Rogo-- he didn't pay attention -- said he had company. Called Dr. Mishlove -- told him the same thing: (1) A terrible political blow will be struck against the U.S. in 30 days. (2) The SI's will destroy the Space Shuttle & NASA if the UFO Base is not soon provided. * Owens * Somebody must understand that the SI's are not bluffing. Owens 2 Space Shuttle PK -- Oregon Journal, May 6, 1981 (2) # Fall kills space site technician CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Kennedy Space Center officials are trying to find out why a construction worker fell more than 100 feet to his death while making preparations for the space shuttle's next launch. Anthony E. Hill, 22, of Rockledge, Fla., struck the concrete apron of Launch Pad 39B and was pronounced dead Tuesday at Jess Parrish Hospital in Titusville. He had been working on the metal framework of the service structure for September's launch of the shuttle Columbia. Hill was the third technician to be killed at the center while working on the space shuttle program, and the 12th victim directly associated with space activities at Cape Canaveral. "We have no idea how it happened," said Clifton Reeves, project manager for Wilhoit, a structural steel construction firm based in nearby Titusville. Hill worked for Wilhoit, which had raised the planned 241-foot service structure to a height of 212 feet when the accident occurred. On March 19, two technicians for Rockwell International -- the space shuttle builder -- were fatally exposed to nitrogen released into the shuttle's aft engine compartment after a test. === Page 6 of 7 jack anderson # Pakistan aid perilous WASHINGTON -- Several weeks ago, I warned that the United States was inviting another Iran-style disaster in the Middle East by cozying up to Pakistan's hated dictator, Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq. Since then, according to the latest intelligence reports, the situation has deteriorated inside Pakistan. Yet the Reagan administration, instead of backing away from this potential nightmare, is planning to commit the United States even more deeply to Zia's unpopular, repressive regime. Secret foreign intelligence cables reviewed by my associate Jack Mitchell reveal that the "Shah Syndrome" is already beginning to materialize in Pakistan: American citizens have been assaulted in broad daylight on the streets of the country's largest cities -- for the sole reason that they are identified with the United States, which is supporting their detested dictator. Surrounded by shameless yes-men, Zia has delayed three times the free elections he promised, has instituted unprecedented martial law and has arrested and tortured thousands. He is caught in a vicious circle of his own making: The more he cracks down on his countrymen, the more unpopular he is and the more vocal his opponents become. This then causes him to tighten the screws still more. But though Zia sits precariously on a powder keg, White House policymakers seem determined to provide him with the latest in military technology. The reasons are the same as those advanced to justify support for the shah: The United States needs a "dependable ally" in the region to confront the Soviet Union, and Saudi Arabia must be protected to assure a continued flow of oil. But diplomatic sources warn that time may be running out on Zia, just as it did for the shah. Pakistan's highest judges have refused to go along with the general's kangaroo courts in which defendants are convicted without benefit of witnesses, lawyers or appeals. Lawyers have also shown their distaste for the dictatorship by openly supporting prominent colleagues who have been arrested on trumped-up charges and tortured. The recent burning of a DC-10 at the Karachi airport was officially termed an accident, but government insiders say it was sabotage. Still the repression continues. Newspapers carry photographs of cruel floggings, and the possibility has been discussed of punishing adultery by publicly stoning the transgressors to death. Education is deteriorating; Zia and his generals have closed down schools as a means of curbing opposition. The government has also increased censorship of the media. Yet it is this hated dictatorship that the White House seems determined to identify with, trying to prop up Zia's shaky regime with hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. If there are dissenting views in the administration, they have been effectively silenced by Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The really sad part of this is that the administration's policy may actually help to achieve exactly the opposite of its intended goal: By helping Zia, we could drive the opposition -- which includes virtually all political parties -- and the people of Pakistan into Soviet arms. That would make Zia's downfall doubly disastrous for the United States. org 5/6/81 Note: The U.S. govt. provides hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan... which "goes down the drain"... yet will not provide PK man/UFOs with 5 million dollars for a UFO Base operation... which Base, once provided, could do more to aid the U.S. than all other foreign countries combined! Owens === Page 7 of 7 Scientists: I will appear on TV's "Faces + Places" May 14, throwing knives (of all things). For those of you who might be interested in my agility, coordination, digital dexterity etc at age 61... you perhaps could have an associate in this Portland-Vancouver area view the show and report to you. Owens **Thursday Evening Programs** See listings for details. | | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2 | Mork & Mindy | Bosom Buddies | Barney Miller (CC) | Taxi | 20/20 | | | 3 10 | Wilderness | Good Neighbors | Sneak Previews | To the Manor Born | Cousteau Odyssey | | | 6 | Waltons | | Magnum, P.I. | | Bob Newhart | | | 8 | Real Kids | | Movie: Dracula | | | | | 12 | Movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | | | | News | | **EVENING** **6 PM** 2 ABC NEWS-Frank Reynolds 3 10 INSIDE STORY-Magazine Hodding Carter anchors a scheduled report on the media's use of confidential sources. Also: Bob and Ray. [Pre-empts regular programming.] 6 CBS NEWS-Rather/Drinkwater 8 NBC NEWS-John Chancellor 12 KUNG FU-Drama Chief Dan George as a dying warrior in search of his preordained burial site. (60 min.) **6:30** 2 NEWS 3 10 EARTH, SEA AND SKY 6 M*A*S*H Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is enraged by a colonel (Charles Aidman) who seems to love his job-predicting casualties. 8 TIC TAC DOUGH-Game **7 PM** 2 FACES AND PLACES-Magazine Segments on a knife-throwing school; women's rugby. 3 10 STATEHOUSE '81 6 MERV GRIFFIN From Hollywood: Publisher Kal Rudman ("Friday Morning Quarterback"), the Marshall Tucker Band. (60 min.) 8 FAMILY FEUD-Game 12 HAPPY DAYS AGAIN-Comedy Richie (Ron Howard) makes his debut into journalism-loading papers onto trucks. Henry Winkler. Frank: Jed Cooper. Otis: Ted Gehring. Potsie: Anson Williams. # Inside Story **Covering the press that covers the news.** What are the rights and responsibilities of the press, especially to you, the news consumer? Hodding Carter anchors "Inside Story," a weekly half-hour magazine devoted to the examination of news-gathering, its problems and its performance. **Thursday 6 pm** **3 10** This ad made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting MAY 14, 1981 TV GUIDE A-79 # Faces AND Places MAGAZINE FOR AND ABOUT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Featuring: MARY STARRETT KEV REILLY RON CARLSON ELAINE MURPHY PATTY LOEW Get a free Faces and Places T-shirt for any story idea used on the air. Watch Faces and Places for details. WEEKNIGHTS 7:00PM KATU 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8105b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e544da5f50516fa6771adeea809f5a79.pdf c8080e5d66332742a9a91f968f6f1c37 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/48603da94c6bde52b7115d5eab0ed837.txt 9567c514b9fed314e40196d7375db94f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1980 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 10 P.S. For those of you who might be interested a new book is out having a description of my work in it: "UFO Encyclopedia" by Margaret Sachs. (Huge paperback.) June 2, 1981 Scientists and Contacts ... Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo have written a true and accurate account of my work. Their book... has been unfairly blocked from being published. (My UFOs say the matter is invalid, and I believe them.) My UFOs have communicated tonight... that if the Mishlove/Rogo book about my work is not truly bought for publication this summer and published... then they, the UFOs, will destroy the U.S. Stock Market, far worse than in 1929. The UFOs have my permission. Ted Owens "PK Man" === Page 2 of 10 May 30, 1981 P.S. Interesting note: The SIs have told me that they are also going to attack U.S. scientists who conspire to block them and block me. Owens Scientists and Contacts As you know, from my letter to you of May 6... my UFOs told me that because their Base ($5,000,000) had not been provided (with me, PK Man, as the mainspring), they were going to attack the "higher-ups of government." I even telephoned this fact to Dr. Mishlove in San Francisco. Naturally I assumed this to mean the United States government since I was aware that my UFOs were "at war" with the U.S. govt. Then followed the shooting of President Reagan. Then the shooting of the Pope... and I began to realize that my UFOs had all humanity in mind. Then President Roldos of Ecuador was killed. Then President Mesa of Bolivia quit. Then President Rahman of Bangladesh was killed. And I realized that my UFOs were going to strike all around the world at "higher-ups in government (not only the U.S.). They are escalating their attack.. I can only hope that their Base is provided soon. Owens === Page 3 of 10 - UFO "Higher Ups" - (Reagan, Pope, Roldos) # Ecuador president killed QUITO, Ecuador (UPI) -- President Jaime Roldos of Ecuador was killed in a fiery plane crash in a mountainous border region near where Ecuadorian troops clashed with Peruvian forces in a brief border war earlier this year, the government said. All nine people aboard the Beechcraft SK-200 were killed in the crash Sunday afternoon, including the president's wife, Marta, and Defense Minister Gen. Marco Subia, a government statement said. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado immediately assumed the presidency for the remaining three years of Roldos' five-year term. Roldos, 40, was the youngest chief executive in the Western Hemisphere. The government announcement said the U.S.-built presidential plane crashed and burned near the village of Guanchañama, 30 miles north of the border between Ecuador and Peru. Reports from the crash site said the nine bodies were burned beyond recognition. Also aboard the plane were Subia's wife, two army colonels and three crew members. In Washington, President Reagan sent a telegram to Hurtado saying he and the American people were "shocked and saddened" to learn of Roldos' death. "Please accept our deepest condolences and our sympathy as we join the Ecuadorian people in mourning this terrible loss," Reagan's telegram said. Roldos was flying to an army outpost on the tense Ecuadorian-Peruvian border, the site of several bloody clashes in January, when the crash took place. Elected in 1979 as the candidate of the Popular Forces Party, he was swept to power in a landslide victory after nine years of civilian and military dictatorship. Born Nov. 5, 1940, in the tropical port of Guayaquil, Roldos graduated at the top of his law school class, was elected leader of a national student federation and later taught law and served as an assistant university dean. He served two years in the national legislature before it was closed by decree in 1970, and was a member of the commission that drew up a new constitution in 1978. Among other changes, the new charter lowered the minimum age for the presidency from 40 to 35, making Roldos' election possible. Roldos and his wife are survived by two teen-age daughters and a 10-year-old son. 5/25/81 - UFO "Higher Ups" - # Bolivian president gives up army control, says he'll quit By TOM FENTON LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- President Luis Garcia Meza, his authority eroded by two military revolts in as many weeks, stepped down as army commander Tuesday and said he would surrender the presidency Aug. 6. In a nationwide radio address during a ceremony in which he was replaced as army commander by Gen. Humberto Cayoja, the president pleaded for support, announced two other key army staff changes and called for a meeting of military commanders July 17 to choose his successor. July 17 is the first anniversary of the coup during which he seized power. Senior military officials said Garcia Meza decided to step down from the army command under strong pressure from district military commanders. Foreign political analysts based in La Paz saw the move as an effort to ease Garcia Meza out peacefully and avoid a bloody confrontation between units of the armed forces. Garcia Meza, who ousted a fledgling democratic government, has been unable to get U.S. recognition or international financing needed to restructure Bolivia's $4 billion foreign debt. "What we asked for was a restructuring in the military high command. He apparently has accepted our suggestions," Col. Felix Villaroel, army 6th Division commander, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Trinidad, 250 miles northeast of La Paz. Garcia Meza told military leaders at the ceremony Tuesday at Miraflores army headquarters: "It is my duty to ask you to collaborate with me to designate my successor July 17, so that we can turn over command of the nation next Aug. 6." The president also said Col. Lucio Anez would replace Gen. Jorge Aguila Teran as army chief of staff and that Col. Faustino Rico Toro would take Anez's job as head of the military academy in La Paz. Garcia Meza had commanded the academy before the coup. Garcia Meza said his regime was launched "with absolute unanimity," but admitted dissension had been growing. "I want to tell you we have done everything possible to carry out our mission despite the criticism ... and obstacles," he said. 5/27/81 === Page 4 of 10 Score: 5 so far, but recently the whole thing got out of hand. (1-7-81) "For higher ups" - (Rahman, Rafiq, Patu, Abdullah, Pasha, Anis, (2) Rana, Rahman.) {For your} Oregon Journal, May 30, 1981 # Bangladesh president assassinated ZIAUR RAHMAN ...slain by army rebels NEW DELHI, India (UPI) - A disgruntled general leading army rebels and separatist guerrillas assassinated President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh and eight aides in the city early Saturday, official Dacca radio reported. Gen. Manzur Ahmed, commander of the army in eastern Chittagong province, led mutinous troops and leftists agitating for independence in the attack. Under Zia, 45, commonly called Zia, impoverished Bangladesh had become one of the largest recipients of U.S. aid. The assassins shot Zia, two aides and six body guards as they slept in the district guest house at 3:30 a.m., the radio said. Bangladesh army Chief of Staff H.M. Ershad called on Manzur, whom Zia had demoted, according to the radio monitored in India. Vice President Abdul Sattar declared a national state of emergency, cutting all outside communications and halting all flights to and from Bangladesh, the radio said. Sattar put all major towns in Bangladesh under indefinite curfew. A radio announcer interrupted chanting from the Koran, Islam's holy book, to announce intermittently: "A grave emergency has arisen threatening the security of the country by internal disturbance." A council in Chittagong, where Zia proclaimed Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971, also took over the provincial radio station and proclaimed a revolutionary council had taken over the nation. Vice President Abdul Sattar took control of the government from Dacca, Zia's official assassination was announced over the state radio. Sattar called for the suspension of all individual rights during the indefinite state of emergency and declared a 40-day mourning period. Zia was assassinated in the midst of a major shake-up of ministers in his cabinet, but regional political observers and diplomats doubted the assassination was planned from inside Zia's government. Hasina Sheikh, a leading Zia opponent and the daughter of former President Mujibur Rahman, who died in a coup in Aug. 15, 1975, returned to the Bangladesh capital two weeks ago. She received a tumultuous welcome staged by Zia's chief opposition, the Awami League, and vowed to avenge her father's death and seize control of the Bangladesh government. "A grave emergency has arisen threatening the security of the country by internal disturbance," a radio announcer repeated between 15-minute stretches of the holy book, on Dacca radio Saturday afternoon. "There will be no change in the country's foreign policy," Sattar said, his voice choked with emotion. He said that cabinet ministers and the positions of the Election Commission, the communications closed down shortly before noon. Officials locked the gates to the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi and closed their offices. The 45-year-old Ziaur, was swept to power by the army in 1975 following a period of turmoil in the Moslem nation after the assassination of Bangladesh's first leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He often traveled to Chittagong, a troubled hill district in eastern Bangladesh, to supervise his agricultural and social reforms. === Page 5 of 10 nation/world Iranian commission condemns Bani-Sadr ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr has been found guilty of violating the constitution and the case will be handed over to the public prosecutor, Tehran radio said Monday in a deepening of Iran's power struggle. Mohammad Yazdi, a representative of hard-line Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai, also said Bani-Sadr's newspaper and several other publications are breaking the law, hinting that Moslem fundamentalists will tighten control of the media. A special three-man commission of inquiry, established by Ayatollah Khomeini in March to investigate the split between Bani-Sadr's moderates and Rajai's extremists, in a four-hour meeting Sunday concluded the president violated the constitution, the radio said. In the broadcast monitored in Ankara, Yazdi said the commission "by a majority vote deems it necessary to introduce the offender to the people and to hand in the evidence to the office of the public prosecutor." In a March 16 decree, Khomeini banned political speeches on the dispute between moderates and extremists and also set up the three-man commission to investigate. The commission found that "Bani-Sadr in his speech to air force personnel in Shiraz and in his last two newspaper interviews violated the 10-point order issued by the Imam (Khomeini) and acted at variance with the constitution." Details of Bani-Sadr's remarks were not cited by the radio and the president's office had no immediate reaction. Yazdi said Bani-Sadr's refusal to approve ministers named by Rajai following a recent vote in the fundamentalist-controlled Parliament was unconstitutional. PLO's top man in Brussels slain BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) -- A gunman Monday assassinated Naim Khader, the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Belgium, police said. Khader, 41, was hit by five bullets as he left his home at 9 a.m. in the suburb of Ixelles to go to his office. He was dead by the time an ambulance arrived. Police said the gunman, wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, fled on foot. He was first chased by a postman and then by a young man in a car, but they lost his trail. Police later found the raincoat and the umbrella a block away. Officers with police dogs went to the spot. Khader was the seventh PLO representative abroad to be killed in the past 10 years. Three PLO representatives were killed in Paris, one in 1972 and two in 1978; others were slain in Nicosia, in 1973, and in London and Kuwait in 1978. Khader was born at Zabadeh, on the West Bank of the Jordan River. He came to Belgium after the 1967 Middle East war and married a Belgian woman. He held a law degree from Brussels University and had worked unofficially for the PLO before he was appointed head of the organization's Brussels office when it was set up in 1976. He represented the PLO in the European Community as well as in Belgium. The PLO office in Brussels issued a statement saying the assassination of Khader "the authors of which are without any doubt the Israeli secret services, is added to the list of the numerous Palestinian victims of Zionist aggression." It called on "all friends who love democracy and freedom to condemn this aggression and to support the struggle of the Palestinian people." A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy said: "This type of accusation is not new. It has been the same in the past, notably after the assassination of the PLO representative in Paris, Ezzedine Kalak, Aug. 3, 1978. We know, however, that the different Palestinian movements kill each other." After the killing of the PLO man and his deputy in Paris in 1978, two Jordanians of Palestinian origin were arrested. They were sentenced last year to 15 years in prison. A spokesman for the Belgian foreign ministry said: "We condemn all violence from wherever it comes and we deplore that Brussels is no longer free from such attempts like there have been in London and Paris." Sympathy rebuffed PEKING (AP) -- Taiwan has refused to accept telegrams of condolence sent from Peking to relatives of Soong Ching-ling, the widow of Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Mrs. Sun, whose husband led the 1911 revolution that overthrew China's last emperor, died Friday of leukemia at the age of 88. Shortly before her death, she was named honorary president of China. === Page 6 of 10 Jeffrey (When are they going to listen? Ted) # Fiery jet crash on USS Nimitz kills 14 Note: This is a two billion dollar carrier separate from the 100,000,000 in planes!! Gwen By MATT BOKOR JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- An electronic warfare jet on a night training mission crashed in flames on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, killing 14 people, injuring 48 and damaging at least 19 other aircraft aboard the world's largest warship, Navy officials said Wednesday. A Navy helicopter pilot who flew to the 1,092-foot-long carrier after the crash reported seeing "just a big mess of aircraft." The accident occurred shortly before midnight Tuesday 60 miles off the Florida coast. The dead included all three crewmen aboard the EA-6B Prowler jet, which is used to jam enemy radar and radio signals. The Marine Corps jet is of a type that was temporarily grounded last year because of a history of fatal accidents. Based on initial reports from the scene, a Navy spokesman who asked not to be identified said the jet apparently "landed a little right of the center line, and on a carrier deck there isn't any room for an error like that." Cindy Williams said her husband, Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Williams, who was injured and evacuated to Jacksonville, told her he thought a bomb had exploded. "He told me he just couldn't get out of the way," she said. An apprentice hospital corpsman from the Jacksonville Naval Air Station who helped evacuate the injured said the situation on the flight deck was still confused a few hours after the crash. "People were still running around not knowing what to do," the serviceman said. "The sick bay was filled." GEORGIA Atlantic Ocean Jacksonville Crash On USS Nimitz FLORIDA Tampa AP The Navy said the cause of the crash was under investigation, and that results might not be released for six months. Vice Adm. George Kinnear, commander-in-chief of the Naval Air Forces Atlantic, flew to the warship from Norfolk, Va., the Nimitz's home base. The jet "crashed on impact" at 11:51 p.m., sparking a blaze that spread quickly to other aircraft on deck before ship firefighters extinguished it, said Cmdr. Jim Lois, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces Atlantic. "As far as I know, weather was not a factor," he said. Lt. Cmdr. Ken Pease, spokesman at the Navy's Norfolk air station, said it took 70 minutes to extinguish the fire. Pease said about 20 aircraft were destroyed or damaged. Destroyed were the EA-6B and three F-14 aircraft. There was major damage to four A-7 aircraft and one F-14 and minor damage to one F-14, five A-7s, one A-6, three S-3 helicopters and one H-3 helicopter. Lois said damage to the carrier was confined to the flight deck area. Capt. Larry Hamilton, chief public affairs officer for the Atlantic Fleet, said preliminary information was that the damage "was not extraordinarily heavy." "The carrier most likely will be able to do a quick turnaround," Hamilton said. The Navy withheld names of the dead and injured until all relatives were notified. But Lt. Col. John Haynes, a spokesman at the Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Air Station, where the jet was based, said the dead included the three Marines from his facility on the plane and 11 Navy personnel on the ship. He said the family of only one of the victims had been notified and that military authorities were unable to reach the families of the others. He said some of the relatives might have gone to Fort Lauderdale, which was to have been the ship's next port of call. A team of doctors was airlifted from the naval station here to the Nimitz to help treat 27 injured people in the ship's sick bay. Twenty people were flown to the Naval Regional Medical Center at Jacksonville for treatment, and one man was hospitalized in St. Vincent's Hospital in critical condition. Some 300 Navy personnel, an estimated 60 of them doctors, reported to duty in a recall of medical center personnel. Most of the injured were being treated for lacerations, second- to third-degree burns, internal injuries or fractures, officials said. === Page 7 of 10 May 28, 1981 Scientists and Contacts See my letter to you of May 6, 1981, attached. Note: Recently I warned most of you that my UFOs (SIs) had communicated and warned that the United States would be dealt a smashing blow, either militarily or politically or both. The SIs were not making a precognitive prediction. They were going to make it happen... and they did, by causing this terrible accident to U.S.'s largest nuclear warship, the Nimitz. All the SIs want... is their 5 million dollar Base in the mountains. Until they get it, they will continue to put this sort of negative pressure on the U.S. govt., U.S. scientists, and the "higher ups" of the world (who could easily supply their Base.) Ted Owens (PK Man) JET WRECK -- Aerial view of bow of USS Nimitz shows damage done to flight deck. Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 8 of 10 May 6, 1981 10:30 P.M. Called P. Scott Rogo--he didn't pay attention -- said he had company. Called Dr. Mishlove -- told him the same thing: (1) A terrible political/military blow will be struck against the U.S. with in 30 days. (2) The SI's will destroy the Space Shuttle & NASA if the UFO Base is not soon provided. * Owens * Somebody must understand that the SI's are not bluffing. Owens 2 Space Shuttle PK -- Oregon Journal, May 6, 1981 (2) # Fall kills space site technician CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Kennedy Space Center officials are trying to find out why a construction worker fell more than 100 feet to his death while making preparations for the space shuttle's next launch. Anthony E. Hill, 22, of Rockledge, Fla., struck the concrete apron of Launch Pad 39B and was pronounced dead Tuesday at Jess Parrish Hospital in Titusville. He had been working on the metal framework of the service structure for September's launch of the shuttle Columbia. Hill was the third technician to be killed at the center while working on the space shuttle program, and the 12th victim directly associated with space activities at Cape Canaveral. "We have no idea how it happened," said Clifton Reeves, project manager for Wilhoit, a structural steel construction firm based in nearby Titusville. Hill worked for Wilhoit, which had raised the planned 241-foot service structure to a height of 212 feet when the accident occurred. On March 19, two technicians for Rockwell International -- the space shuttle builder -- were fatally exposed to nitrogen released into the shuttle's aft engine compartment after a test. === Page 9 of 10 # Nimitz returns in disaster's wake United Press Interna **DEADLY CARGO** -- The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz steams to its home port of Norfolk, Va., -- its flight deck littered with aircraft damaged in a night flying exercise mishap that claimed the lives of 14 crewmen and resulted in injuries to 48 others. A burnt portion of the EA-6b aircraft that crashed while trying to land on the flight deck is entangled in two F-14 jets that were damaged in the mishap. Damage is estimated at $100 million. Story on Page 18. oreg J 5/28/81 # Nimitz steams home to shocked families oreg J 5/28/81 NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- The nuclear carrier USS Nimitz steamed home Thursday carrying the bodies of 14 crewmen killed when an electronic warfare plane crashed on landing and ignited a deadly ball of fire that swept across the deck and injured 48 others. Twenty-seven crewmen injured in Tuesday's accident also were aboard the gigantic flattop, said Lt. Cmdr. Tony Hilton. All but four of the injured crewmen on board have returned to duty, he said. Relatives of crewmen were expected to line Pier 12 at the Norfolk Naval Base, but Hilton said the Navy had not planned a special welcome for the crew, which he said had been numbed by the tragedy off the Florida coast. A year ago Wednesday, President Carter joined a hero's welcome for the Nimitz on its return from a nine-month deployment in which the carrier served as a staging area for the unsuccessful commando raid to free the Americans held hostage in Iran. A team of Navy Safety Center investigators will determine why the Marine EA-6B jet missed its landing on the mammoth 92,000-ton carrier late Tuesday, hurtled into 19 parked jets and set fires that caused an estimated $100 million in damages to some of the Navy's most sophisticated warplanes. Lt. Cmdr. Bill McLoughlin of the Atlantic Fleet Headquarters said the senior official aboard the Nimitz has probably reviewed videotapes of the Prowler's crash-landing during a nighttime "electronic warfare exercise." All landings aboard the carrier are recorded, he said. The carrier left for its home port Wednesday, it had been bound for the Caribbean before the crash. Burned pieces of the EA-6B Prowler, an electronic warfare plane that missed its mark in a landing attempt on the Nimitz late Tuesday, had to be separated from two mangled F-14 Tomcat fighters. Prowlers stationed on the West Coast were taken out of service for two days in February 1980 following a series of crashes, Cmdr. Tony Hilton said Thursday. He said he believed 14 fliers were killed in the crashes. "But the crashes were all out on the West Coast," he emphasized. "They did not involve planes on the East Coast." A Navy spokesman Wednesday said the grounding was for "internal maintenance with fuel." Damage to the carrier, one of the world's two largest warships, and its 4 1/2-acre steel flight deck is described as "minimal." === Page 10 of 10 - UFOs warned! - # Nimitz, injured return to port NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Crewmen of the aircraft carrier Nimitz returned to their home port and the arms of 1,000 waiting relatives Thursday, and the ship's commander said a flight deck crash that killed 14 people and injured 48 occurred after a jet "drifted to the right" while landing. Damage was estimated as high as $100 million, and some of the 20 aircraft that were struck or burned in the crash and ensuing fire could be seen on the flight deck of the 1,092-foot-long, nuclear-powered carrier -- the world's largest warship. Some had their noses bashed in and others their tops cut off and wires hanging out. Capt. Jack Batzler, commanding officer of the Nimitz, who was on the bridge when the crash occurred just before midnight Tuesday off the northern coast of Florida, said the Marine Corps radar-jamming jet landed "not in the right position." "The EA-6B started with a fairly standard approach, slightly high ..., and the aircraft drifted to the right, hit three A-7s parked right of the bow line ... impacted with the first F-14," he said. The landing signal officer had called for more power, telling the pilot he was not in a good position for landing and should fly off for another try, Batzler said. He didn't do it, and Batzler would not speculate why, pending the official investigation. "Pilot error would be an obvious thing to jump to, but we don't for certain know if any other factors might have been involved," said Vice Adm. Gus Kinnear, Naval Air Forces Atlantic commander, who visited the ship Wednesday. Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin O'Brien, one of the firefighters who helped extinguish the shipboard blazes within 70 to 80 minutes, said the jet "came in and clipped a helicopter and then turned across a tractor and decapitated the person in it," "It clipped three A-7s, went broadside into an F-14 and finally flipped over onto the catwalk," he said. "Three people in the crash-and-salvage crew were killed when a missile went off 10 feet away. I was 30 feet away, but it blew in the other direction." The three men on the Marine electronic warfare plane were killed, along with 11 Nimitz crewmen on the deck. Several men said they were injured some 60 minutes after the crash in a secondary explosion that scattered shrapnel across the deck just as firefighters thought they had extinguished the blaze. One of the bodies was not recovered, Batzler said, "and we have not determined whether he remained on the ship or went over the side." Mrs. Alta Cragun of Orem, Utah, said she had been told her son, 1st Lt. Laurence D. Cragun, the crashed plane's electronics officer, was officially listed as missing at sea and presumed dead. The wreckage of the EA-6B and three F-14 Tomcats was dumped over the side Wednesday. The planes were too badly damaged to be repaired and posed a danger to the crews working on the deck, Batzler said. Three F-14s and four A-7s sustained major damage. Nine other planes received minor damage but were repaired within the day, according to Cmdr. Fred Lewis, the Nimitz's air wing commander. Dale Stewart, 19, with a bandage around his fractured knuckles, stitches up his chin and a piece of a tooth missing, had been on deck, under a plane. Associated Press Laserphoto NIMITZ HEADS HOME -- Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz sails toward Navy base at Norfolk, Va., Thursday morning, following fatal crash of jet on flight deck Tuesday off coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8106b https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/474b0643fd0443ddfd436cb4cd034245.pdf 74c25cee01dadaa87e162a69aabf1654 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/255b1d2b6e855b198d2fc4d7d3836df6.txt cc6ff89da4a4111e30ae50332f01ff3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 128 August, 1981 Scientists: Please, carefully notice: since warning Dr. Michlove re my UFOs attacking "higher ups" in government... note this file of Presidents, leaders of countries (and their close assistants) who have been under attack... attacks orchestrated from another dimension... from my UFOs!! * Owens * Because of no Base provided. Or book. === Page 2 of 128 UFO sighted over Tibet PEKING (AP) -- An unidentified flying object with six glowing rings was sighted last month in Tibet, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday. Xinhua said the sighting was made July 24 by the deputy director of the Tibetan Meteorological Bureau and confirmed by witnesses in Lhasa and three other cities. Oreg. 8/6/81 July 8, 1981 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As I have explained to you before...my present work with my UFOs is as different from my old work (of making lightning strike targets; guiding hurricanes; having UFOs appear in a certain area; etc.) as night is different from day. During those years of documented, miraculous demonstrations it was I who was in control. Now it is my UFOs who are in control...while I, their only human two-way contact, report to the human race what it is that they are doing, and why. BUSILY SENT My UFOs have been busy at work since my last file to you. They have been striking at "higher ups" in government, leaving an easily-read pattern behind them. See the enclosed "UFOs 'higher ups'" file and you will understand. My UFOs began in the U.S. with Reagan and Brady, then began to move their work around the world...as leaders and presidents of other countries became hors de combat in one way or another. (Please keep in mind that my UFOs are not using powers that humans can use on Earth...i.e., they can direct certain of their power at the "idea" of leaders of countries and top governments being eliminated...their power flows through that "idea" and causes the idea to happen and come into reality. Being familiar with the way that my UFOs "think" it is my strong belief that their "get higher ups" power is wending its way back again, full circle, to the U.S. This power will not cease until the Base is provided. It will keep on working its way around the world to take out "higher ups" and leaders in WAYS many and varied, but always with the same result. Also enclosed is the "UFOs 6 Projects" file, containing newsclips which show the "tracks" of where the UFOs have been and what they have been doing, to put pressure on the U.S. Govt. and scientists to provide the Base. As you read the many-faceted chaos contained in the newsclips it might be well to read once again my initial letter to you explaining the "6 projects" of the UFOs (the attack on "higher ups" came afterward) so I have included a copy of that initial letter in this file, along with a few other pertinent copies sent you previously but which it would be well for you to re-read, if you care to do so. Plagues, pestilence, All of the fire, flood, explosions, and other wild, chaotic happenings revealed in the enclosed newsclips are effects, and my UFOs are the cause. There isn't much time to avert a nuclear shootout with Russia and my UFOs want that Base quickly...and they are willing to sledge-hammer the U.S. as well as other world governments (who could also provide the monies for the Base WOULD BE CHANGE if they so wished) until they get it, and then TO BRING able to TO the powers they are now using negatively TO POSITIVE, peace on Earth and help the human race. (Owens PK Man) August 4, 1981 Note: Read the last paragraph then note the chaos of air controllers striking, creating chaos in the federal government plus deadly air space. Do you think the SIs are not * IN A CLOCKWISE MOTION === Page 3 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Attacks by sharks worrisome By DAVID CHANDLER MIAMI (AP) - The cry "Shark!" is being heard with alarmingly increasing frequency in the waters off Florida and the Bahamas these days, leaving experts and experienced divers puzzled by the spate of attacks. "Some weird stuff is happening," Bob Marx, a 25-year-veteran diver, said as he recuperated in his Satellite Beach home from an attack by a 12-foot mako shark. He was attacked Aug. 7 while skin diving east of Little Isaac Bank in the Bahamas. "I've never seen anything like it," he said. "I've spent my life in the water, and this sort of aggressiveness never happens. It's like a magic potion is in the water and the sharks are freaking out." Marx's was the third shark attack reported in the Bahamas this year. Seven other swimmers or surfers have been struck off Florida, including 19-year-old Christina Wapniarski, who was killed when a shark tore apart her leg after a catamaran she and three others had been sailing capsized Aug. 11 off Daytona Beach. In a normal year, marine experts say, two or three shark attacks are recorded in Florida and two in the Bahamas. At the University of Miami, shark researcher Samuel Gruber said he had no explanation for the increased attacks. "I don't have any theories, except maybe that the reporting is getting better. For some reason there is a relatively high increase in the incidence of attacks," Gruber said. "I expect two attacks a year in Daytona, two a year in the Bahamas; occasionally someone gets bitten in the Keys." "We're working with sharks every day - tagging and tracking. I haven't seen anything different, nothing unusual except that there seem to be a lot of shark attacks." Orig 8/20/81 August 20, 1981 Scientists, Contacts: This newsclip is very important. It directly addresses itself to my letter to you of November 17, 1980, copy attached. In that letter read "(c) Ocean Attacks." Owens "It's like a magic potion is in the water -" He's right, of course. There is a "magic potion" in the water. Owens - Now see my files on getting the "List" - === Page 4 of 128 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS Note: The huge enclosed file documents the below. If you are puzzled by any of the clips, will be glad to explain. Gwen 2/17/81 My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and lost; people will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State! Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age! I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. === Page 5 of 128 22 FATE .......... BE RICH! .......... THIS book will startle you because it uncovers the secrets of wealth buried 1900 years deep which command you to be rich. In just 2 hours of some of the best reading of a lifetime you will learn how to apply The Law of the Higher Potential - how to DIVIDE & GROW - in your daily pursuits, no matter what they are. 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Surprisingly they are not necessarily related. They include some species of beetles, spiders and centipedes. The glycerol produced by the bugs lowers their freezing temperature. In addition, it helps some of them slow their metabolisms to a state like hibernation. This state conserves energy so they can last out the winter without eating. Other bugs use the antifreeze to help them survive in a frozen state. In these bugs the glycerol accumulates inside the cells, preventing the delicate living interiors from freezing, while the fluid outside the cells freezes, producing ice crystals throughout their bodies. Duman finds that in some species such as hornets only the queens survive the winter. They mate just before going into hibernation and the eggs develop over the winter. FINDING OUR WAY IN RECENT years science has discovered that various creatures use many techniques to find their way about in this world. They use the polarization of the sun's rays, internal clocks, tiny magnets in their heads that serve as compasses and celestial navigation, and some (like Hansel and Gretel and their bread crumbs) lay chemical trails along the ground which they can follow on their return. Others, like a species of African stink ant called Paltothyreus tarsatus, find their way even when the sky is completely overcast and when the top layer of soil is removed, which eliminates using a chemical trail. Now Bert Holldobler of Harvard has announced their secret. He concludes that the midget brain of P. tarsatus carries a "snapshot" of the ant's surroundings as it leaves the nest. The ants locate themselves within this picture and only use other clues such as chemicals if the picture goes awry. Holldobler determined this by making an artificial sky for the ants, reproducing the patterns of the trees in the forest canopy. Then he turned this around and the ants set off for home in the wrong direction. It's reasonably obvious that this also is one of the ways humans find their way about. We have mental pictures of our surroundings, and I'm sure we would be equally confused if some giant cosmic scientist reversed our environment. BY CURTIS FULLER SEE BY THE PAPERS UFOs & Projects 23 THE TOOL USERS PALEONTOLOGISTS are taking a new look at old fossils to see if they have overlooked any evidence of human activity. It turns out, according to a brief report in the January 23 issue of Science, that petrified bones as old as two million years carry previously unnoticed signs that, one way or another, stone tools were used on them. Patricia Shipman of Johns Hop- HYPNOSIS can change your life - FREE! Release the power of your mind! End bad habits, form good ones. WEIGHT LOSS • STOP SMOKING • CONFIDENCE • MEMORY • INSOMNIA • ESP • PROSPERITY • SALESMANSHIP • BETTER RELATIONSHIPS... dozens more programs. Now on cassettes, 8-tracks for instant use. Get FREE Catalog and Special Offer! 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Box 157, Port Crane NY 13833 Healing: Kathy Cook, 2307 Regency Ct., Fairborn OH 45324 Mediumship: Barbara Rogers, 200 Grace St., Oxford NC 27565 Out-of-Body: John Attamack, 707 Louise Circle, #281, Durham NC 27705 Premonitions & Prediction Bank: Dottie Ranville, 519 Margaret Dr., Fairborn OH 45324 Psychokinesis: Ted Owens Psychometry: Rick Brown, 400 Luray Ave #11-A Johnstown PA 15904 Techniques: Randall Kryn 1031 Winonah, Oak Park IL 60304. Anti-Crime Team: Jeff Atwood, 4406 Harrison Rd., Kenosha WI 53142. === Page 7 of 128 Contacts PS... if you will study this newsclip file carefully, keeping in mind my various PK attacks, it will be a parapsych education for you! Owens The enclosed file of chaos, accident, power wiped out, etc etc... was a caused effect by my three Powers, UFOs, Xtotae (Mayan Power) and Pyr Coe (Egyptian Power.) Take just one effect... power knocked out... caused by every conceivable happening! Fire, storms, airplanes, wind, cars, human error, etc etc. This is the way an idea which is PK'd works. Note that half of all Mexico was blacked out, and prior to it the experts said that it could not happen! (By the way, please take the "Four Projects Letter" sent to you not long ago and append it to the front of this file.) Elsewhere in this file you will find the pattern reflected in the newsclips which pertains to the Four Projects Letter. Although this information goes out to only seven contacts (scientists and friends) it is hoped that the U.S. government will learn === Page 8 of 128 of 1st, understand, and supply the five million dollar Base which the UFOs require (with me in it, to do my **positive** work for the human race.) If this does not occur within a reasonable length of time, then my UFOs will simply cause the U.S. to **go broke**... i. e., take the money away from America! (They have instructed me to pass this information on.) It is a sad joke that Reagan spent eight million dollars on his inauguration... enough to buy **two** Bases for my UFOs (they only require one.) Muhammad Ali, the fighter, made eight million dollars for one fight... enough to buy **two** UFO Bases (they only need one.) Thus it gets **sicker** and **sicker**, in the eyes of my UFOs. If this sort of thing continues, according to my UFOs, then the country of America, the United States, has no reason to continue to exist. Eve === Page 9 of 128 July 20, 1981 Scientists... I am being tracked and attacked by a Russian psi agent. The kind of character who can break your spine at 1/2 mile range, mentally. He's made one pass at me, and failed, because of my half alien mind. This is no joke. I am quite serious. And I know what I'm talking about. * Owens * The SIs have given me the proper counter attack for his next pass at me. === Page 10 of 128 Added note: Perhaps it is difficult for some of you to understand how my UFOs can cause leaders and Presidents to be fired, shot, resigned, and so forth. Let me explain. Take a "higher up"... a top echelon person of this or another government. My UFOs can cause some unstable person to attack him; cause him to be in a car wreck; cause people to turn against him and throw him out; cause him to develop a terminal illness; cause him to make wrong, self-destructive decisions (I got Nixon; he decided not to destroy his tapes, i. e., he self-destructed. If you think I didn't get Nixon, see my prediction published in a book "What The Seers Predict" before he self-destructed. It was without precedent. My UFOs and I, however, have great confidence in our ability to cause our effects!) If we do not get our UFO base soon - the power aimed at higher-ups will be escalated. Do you think the medfly plague in California is an accident? Not on your life. Ps-G-I, my Egyptian Power working with my UFOs, is causing the plague just the same as It did in Moses time when Moses worked with my UFOs and they inflicted the insect plague on Egypt. Keep on ignoring me... and watch the slow destruction of the United States and its "higher ups." Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 11 of 128 Guarding Reagan Since the assassination attempt on March 30, Ronald Reagan has become the best-protected U.S. President of modern times. Reagan not only wears his bulletproof vest on almost all public occasions, but members of the public who wish to hear him speak at conventions and dinners must first undergo metal-detector tests before being granted entrance. Moreover, the newsmen who cover the President are subject to search and examination by the Secret Service. In addition, Reagan's two California residences--the Sky Ranch, north of Santa Barbara, and the Pacific Palisades house he has for sale at $1.9 million--are guarded by Secret Service agents round the clock. Secret Service protection of the empty Pacific Palisades house may in fact be a violation of the law, which permits the expenditure of only $10,000 for the guarding of a second Presidential residence. Far more than $10,000 has been spent since the Reagans left the house eight months ago. But no one has seriously carped about the possible infraction. Sensitive to critics of its competency and its dubious record of protecting Presidents, the Secret Service is determined to safeguard this one from all possible harm. Reagan's daily schedule is no longer publicized in geographic detail; decoy limousines are driven and parked to confuse possible assassins; agents escort Reagan from one wing of the White House to the other; when he lands at out-of-town airports, Reagan is quickly hustled into a helicopter and flown to the landing site nearest his quarters to eliminate a lengthy motorcade. The Secret Service is executing a policy of "better doubly safe than sorry." PARADE AUGUST 9, 1981 9 "higher ups" warning! Plague alert given Reagan By MAUREEN SANTINI SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- President Reagan is taking precautions against bubonic plague, which was found last month near the mountaintop ranch where he is vacationing. "The White House was recently advised by the county health department of the possibility of bubonic plague being in proximity to Rancho del Cielo," said a statement issued Saturday by the traveling White House. "Routine precautions as recommended by the county health department are being taken." Those precautions include not handling wildlife and tucking trousers into boots, said deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes. The plague was found last month in a wood rat less than a mile from Reagan's ranch in the Santa Ynez mountains about 20 miles from here. Bubonic plague, which claimed many lives in Europe in the Middle Ages, has not been found in the ranch area since last month. Dr. Daniel Ruge, the president's physician, reported through White House press aides Saturday that he had been advised of the possibility of the plague before the president arrived here Thursday night. No thought was given to canceling the trip, however. Speakes said Reagan was taking "the normal precautions that his neighbors are taking." Asked whether there was any danger, the press spokesman replied, "If you disregard precautions, there's a possibility." Reagan was spending the day horseback riding with his wife, Nancy, clearing brush from trails and piling wood. A contingent of striking air traffic controllers planned to picket the gate outside Reagan's ranch Saturday, but there was little chance the president would see them because the gate is four or five miles from his adobe home. Asked whether Reagan would be informed of the picketing, Speakes replied, "Somebody may mention it, but it won't be any major briefing." 8/9/81 === Page 12 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Bolivia chief bows to rebels' demands By JOHN ENDERS oreg 8/5/81 LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, bowing to the demands of army rebels in eastern Bolivia, resigned as president Tuesday night and asked the three-man military junta to govern the country. In a brief speech from the presidential palace carried by the state-controlled radio network, the right-wing former army commander said: "Above any reasons of pride and vanity comes the fatherland. For this reason I have decided to turn power over to the junta of commanders. "I leave the presidency, but everyone should know I will remain alert to the possibility that this process we have begun may be sidetracked." His reference to "this process" was to his administration, which he had called a government of "national reconstruction." The junta, composed of the commanders of the army, air force and navy, was expected to meet with ranking military officers from throughout the country and name another president from their ranks. Observers said it was unlikely the junta would try to govern as a council, because such efforts at joint rule in the past have failed. There were indications before Garcia Meza made his nationwide address that the 52-year-old general would step down to avoid a bloody confrontation between his backers and the insurgents. Among the major charges made against his year-old government were wide-spread violations of human rights and alleged involvement of ranking officials in the illegal cocaine trade. The successful coup was the fifth attempt launched since May against Garcia Meza, who overthrew the civilian government of President Lidia Gueiler in July 1980. He had said months ago that he would resign Aug. 6 and have the junta name a successor, but then he reversed his position last month and said he would stay in office. === Page 13 of 128 Plane crash kills Torrijos BY INDALECIO RODRIGUEZ PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Gen. Omar Torrijos, the political strongman who forged the treaty with the United States giving Panama control of the Panama Canal, has been killed in a plane crash, the national guard reported Saturday. A spokesman said five others in the light plane also perished when it crashed Friday in a remote jungle area 60 miles west of the capital. He said the wreckage was found Saturday and the bodies have been recovered. "The guard leadership has met with President Aristides Royo and Vice President Ricardo de la Espriella to make arrangements for a state funeral," a statement released by the national guard said. Torrijos, 52, was commander of the guard, which serves as Panama's army. The statement said Torrijos' body will lie in state for 24 hours starting Tuesday morning, and the funeral will be held in the Don Bosco Church. A television announcement by Maj. Domingo O'Calagan said Torrijos' plane disappeared after taking off for the short flight between the cities of Penonome and Coclesito and the wreckage was spotted by the pilot of a search plane early Saturday. The national guard said Torrijos, the country's military and political leader for the past 13 years who once described himself as a "dictator with a heart," was making a routine check of guard outposts. He maintained a residence in the peasant community of Coclesito. A helicopter flew to the crash site to transport the bodies of the six victims to Panama City, the national guard said. Torrijos won agreement in 1977 with then-President Carter for the pact that turns sovereignty of the Panama Canal over to Panama by the end of the century. The controversial treaty was ratified in 1978, and Torrijos jumped into a canal lock during the celebration. Carter issued a statement from his home in Plains, Ga., calling Torrijos' death "a tragic loss for the people of Panama and all who admired him as a wise and effective leader." "I knew him personally as a dedicated and unselfish man committed to a better life for those who looked to him for leadership," Carter said. The White House said President Reagan "expressed his most sincere condolences to the family and Panamanian people" and announced he would send a delegation to the funeral. "Gen. Torrijos is one of the outstanding figures in Panama's history who repeatedly displayed profound concern for the welfare of the people of his country and who took an active interest in various regional matters," Reagan's statement said. "It is our expectation that our government will continue to work coop-ment." One well-placed Panamanian said at the time, "Torrijos was tired of being called dictator, and that was no small factor in his decision to step down and move ahead with some constitutional reforms." Although the title was abolished and the executive eratively to give meaning to the hope expressed publicly by Gen. Torrijos that our nations will live together peacefully." Col. Florencio Flores was named to succeed Torrijos as commander of the national guard during a meeting of the guard leadership and government officials, including President Royo. Flores, 50, was the guard's chief of staff, and diplomatic sources said he was considered second only to Torrijos in political power. Torrijos, born in Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, Feb. 3, 1929, was the son of schoolteachers. He studied in El Salvador's military school and graduated as a second lieutenant in 1953, returning here to hold a variety of military posts. He was named military aide to President Arnulfo Arias in Oct. 1968. Less than two weeks later, Torrijos and Col. Boris Martinez led a coup that toppled Arias. The next year, Torrijos effectively took sole power by exiling Martinez and taking the title of brigadier general. A newly elected assembly in September 1972 gave him full civil and military powers for a six-year term. In October 1978, Torrijos surprised Panamanians by stepping down after 10 years as chief of government. functions were passed to a new president, Torrijos retained control over the new government as commander of the national guard. The new president, Aristides Royo, was handpicked for the post and made no secret of his admiration for Torrijos. Associated Press Laserphoto TREATY SIGNED -- Then-President Carter embraces Panama leader Omar Torrijos in Washington after 1977 signing of Panama Canal treaty. Torrijos died in a plane crash Friday in Panama. Murder, suicide suspected BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Fernand Spaak, chief aide to the president of the Common Market and a member of one Belgium's most influential political families, was killed by a shotgun blast fired by his wife who then electrocuted herself in the bathtub of their Brussels apartment, police said Sunday. Police refused to speculate on the motives for what they labeled a murder-suicide. They said the 52-year-old statesman and his Italian-born wife, Anna Farina, were found Saturday morning by a son-in-law. Neighbors said the Spaaks had been separated for some time, and he was living alone in his sixth-floor apartment in a fashionable district of the capital. East German leader dies BERLIN (AP) -- East German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Kohl, who was the communist country's first diplomat to West Germany, died after a serious illness, the official East German news agency ADN reported Saturday. He was 51. Kohl played an important part in negotiations between the two Germanys after 1970 and became East Berlin's representative in Bonn from 1974 to 1978. The news agency did not identify the cause of Kohl's death. === Page 14 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Spanish king injured in fall MADRID, Spain (UPI) King Juan Carlos, Spanish head of state, left the Red Cross hospital in Madrid Monday after having spent the night for treatment of injuries received in a fall. The king assured journalists and bystanders that he was all right. He was hurt late Sunday in a freak accident at the Zarzuela Palace when he slipped and fell against a glass door. His injuries included extensive cuts and scratches on his arms. Juan Carlos 6/22/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # N-codes left behind President Reagan went to dinner early, and as a result he found himself without the codes he needs to launch a nuclear attack. Reagan unexpectedly left the White House 20 minutes ahead of schedule Tuesday night in a motorcade for a dinner honoring Dr. Loyal Davis, the stepfather of first lady Nancy Reagan. Among those left behind was Cmdr. Bill Schmidt, one of the officers who carries the black briefcase containing the codes, which are rarely more than a few paces away from the president when he leaves the White House. 7/16/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # China ousts party chief Hua Guofeng By MICHAEL PARKS LA Times-Washington Post Service PEKING - Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng has resigned, admitting "serious errors" of leadership, at the start of a meeting of the party's policy-making Central Committee, Chinese sources said Monday. Hua, who had fought for a time to retain the post, is expected to be succeeded by Hu Yaobang, the party general secretary and the chief lieutenant of Deng Xiaoping, the powerful party vice chairman. The 215-member Central Committee is also discussing a controversial and long-delayed assessment of the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung in an attempt to balance his achievements and mistakes, venerating him as a great revolutionary but abrogating most of his policies. Taken together, Hua's replacement, a long-expected but still difficult move, and the formal Mao reassessment will mark the end of the Maoist era in China. Serious differences on both questions delayed the meeting for more than nine months. Also on the Central Committee's agenda, the sources said, are a reaffirmation of the policy followed for the past 2 1/2 years under Deng's leadership, particularly the restructuring of the country's economy and his proposals for reorganizing the party. A full review of Chinese foreign policy, especially the emerging alliance with the United States, Japan and Western Europe, has also been drafted for the Central Committee's consideration, the sources said, and will probably be issued in July. 6/23/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Bomb wounds top Khomeini aide By United Press International A bomb planted inside a tape recorder exploded Saturday, injuring Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's defense aide during a mosque ceremony, Radio Tehran reported. The radio said Sayed Ali Khamenei was rushed to the hospital where he was to have surgery. There was no word on his condition. "At the beginning of this ceremony, a bomb that had been placed inside one of the tape recorders (in front of Khamenei to record his speech) exploded and wounded Mr. Khamenei," the radio said. The assassination attempt took place in south Tehran as Khamenei was speaking at a mosque ceremony after noon prayers, the radio said. "Details of the assassination attempt will be broadcast later," the radio said. Khamenei is Khomeini's representative on the policy-making Supreme Defense Council. Khomeini's other man on the council, Mustafa Chamran, was killed on the Susangerd front of the Iran-Iraq war earlier this week. Khamenei also is Tehran's chief religious leader, responsible for leading prayers. The attack on Khamenei came as the deposed President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, in a message sent to Iranians from his hideout, said he will "disclose documents and tapes" incriminating his fundamentalist foes, Turkish newspapers reported from the Iranian capital. The leading Turkish national daily Hurriyet's correspondent Bulent Eranac reported from Tehran that thousands of copies of Bani-Sadr's printed message were distributed across Iran and "caused a tumult among the people." The Gunaydin daily said tapes of Bani-Sadr's message recorded in his own voice also were available in Tehran. Bani-Sadr disappeared June 10 and according to a Kurdish leader based in Oslo, Norway, is living in west Iran's mountainous region, which is controlled by anti-Khomeini Kurdish guerrillas. 6/27/81 The former president was fired Monday by Khomeini and 50 people were executed on political charges, including support for Bani-Sadr, after the dismissal. 6/27/81 Khamenei is a leading parliament member from the Islamic Republican Party that led the campaign for Bani-Sadr's impeachment June 21. Khamenei also is Khomeini's personal representative on the nine-man Supreme Defense Council that handles the conduct of Iran's 9-month-old war with Iraq and is the council's official spokesman. Khomeini received groups assigned to the battlefront with Iraq and told them in a speech broadcast Saturday by Tehran radio: "There are wolves waiting in ambush, all of whom want to return this country to its previous (monarchical) state. Let them be disappointed." 6/28/81 Related story on Page A2. - UFOs "higher ups" - === Page 15 of 128 PM ousted in Bulgaria SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Veteran political figure Stanko Todorov was replaced Tuesday as prime minister of this Soviet bloc nation, the state news agency BTA said. Grisha Filipov, a Communist Party Politburo member and secretary of the party Central Committee, was named to the post and asked to present a list of new ministers to Parliament, BTA said. The announcement came as a surprise to Western diplomats who said it might have been the latest move in longstanding efforts of government and Communist Party Chief Todor Zhivkov to limit the accumulation of power by other politicians. "Zhivkov has a record of moving people around," one diplomat said. "This has been going on for the past 25 years." The change was expected to have no effect on the overall policies of Bulgaria, long guided by Zhivkov, and a firmly pro-Moscow member of the Warsaw Pact. The Bulgarian news agency said Todorov, 60, had been elected chairman of the country's newly elected Parliament. The change amounts to a demotion in Bulgaria's communist hierarchy. -- UFOs "higher ups" -- Japan's Ito resigns post in tiff over U.S. alliance TOKYO (UPI) -- Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito resigned Saturday in a dispute over Japan's military relations with the United States, and Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki immediately appointed former foreign minister Sunao Sonoda to replace him. Suzuki said Ito's resignation will have no effect on relations with Washington. The new foreign minister was serving as health and welfare minister. Ito told a hastily called news conference he submitted his resignation Friday night and resisted Suzuki's pleas to stay on. Also resigning was Vice Foreign Minister Masuo Takashima, the top career diplomat in the ministry, and the one thought to have contradicted Suzuki earlier in the week, escalating the dispute over the meaning of the term "alliance" as used following Suzuki's meetings in Washington last week with President Reagan. Ito's resignation was seen as a major setback for the Reagan administration, which has been pressing Japan to assume a greater defense role in the region. "In order to take responsibility for causing confusion over wording of the (U.S.-Japan) joint communique, I am resigning the post of foreign minister," Ito said. The word "alliance" was included in a joint communique issued in Washington May 8 after a two-day summit between Reagan and Suzuki to discuss defense issues between the two nations. Suzuki, facing sharp criticism at home over concessions to the United States on defense spending, denied the word implied a military alliance with Washington. But Ito told reporters Monday, "Of course, it would be absurd to talk about an alliance without a military sense." Suzuki immediately rejected Ito's remark and said he had merely repeated the phrase "U.S.-Japan alliance" coined by the late Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. -- Higher Ups -- Plane crash kills leader QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- President Jaime Roldos, his wife and seven other people were killed Sunday when their executive plane crashed in the Andes mountains near Ecuador's southern border with Peru, the presidential palace announced. Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado issued a statement saying the Cabinet and leaders of the House of Representatives met in emergency session, with Hurtado named to assume the presidency. House President Raul Baca Carbo was to replace Hurtado as vice president, it said. The report said there were no survivors aboard the British-built Avro, a twin turboprop plane. Other victims were listed as Roldos' wife, Martha; Defense Minister Gen. Marcos Subia and his wife; two military aides, Lt. Col. Hector Torres and Lt. Col. Armando Navarette; the pilot, Maj. Marco Andrade; a co-pilot, Lt. Galo Romo; and a stewardess, Solidad Rosero. -- UFOs "higher ups" -- Indian judge drops case in 'plot' to kill Mrs. Gandhi NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A judge Thursday dismissed the government's case against five men suspected of sabotaging a jetliner in an alleged plot to kill Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The case was thrown out by Bombay magistrate A.D. Kale after another defendant claimed he had been beaten into a false confession and India's Central Bureau of Investigation said it had failed to produce adequate evidence against the five. Authorities announced April 27 that about a week earlier control cables were found cut on an Air-India Boeing 707 that was scheduled to fly Mrs. Gandhi to Europe and the Middle East May 5. It was not clearly explained why the cables would have been cut so long before the scheduled start of Mrs. Gandhi's trip. The jetliner was repaired and resumed regular passenger service. Mrs. Gandhi made her official trip on another plane. Six employees or former employees of Air-India were arrested in the case. A senior airline technician, Suresh Imamdar, whose case was being handled separately from the five others, told the magistrate he was kicked, beaten and punched during interrogation by CBI officials and forced to confess. === Page 16 of 128 Blast kills Iran leader, 68 others -ufda "higher ups"- By United Press International The death toll rose to 69 Monday in the bomb attack that killed the heir-apparent to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other ranking members of the ruling Islamic Republican Party in the bloodiest blow to Iran's revolutionary government. Rescue workers are still looking for survivors or more bodies in the wreckage of the party headquarters that was destroyed by a powerful explosion Sunday night. The officials Pars news agency said at least two blasts ripped through the building as party chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti was addressing the regular weekly meeting. Beheshti, 52, supreme court chief justice, mastermind of the clergy's hold on power and regarded as Khomeini's successor, was killed along with at least four Cabinet ministers, six deputy ministers and 20 members of the Majlis (parliament). Khomeini, who rarely ventures from his north Tehran home, apparently was the only prominent figure not at the rally. Tehran radio quoted a coroner's spokesman as saying the known deaths stand at 69. The figure is expected to rise as the search of the rubble went on. Majlis Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who along with Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Rajai narrowly escaped injury in the attack, said the bombing was the work of "committed agents of the U.S.A." in league with Iraq. Other prominent officials also accused the United States of masterminding the attack, the severest blow to the Islamic regime since it toppled the late shah in February 1979 and seized power. Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of Tehran in what Pars described as peaceful demonstrations. Witnesses reached by telephone said demonstrators carried the pictures of Beheshti and Khomeini and shouted, "We are the party of God and Khomeini is our leader" and "Death to the enemies of Islam." Khomeini called the attackers "savage beasts" and said, "martyrdom for several dear ones... will not force the nation to retreat. "Ranks will be closed," he said. "The cry of the nation will increase." Tehran Radio said Khomeini met in emergency session with government officials and named Prosecutor-General Ayatollah Seyyed Abdolkrain Musavi-Ardabili as Beheshti's successor as supreme court justice. Rajai urged Iranians to be calm but "report any suspicious matter" and declared Monday and Tuesday holidays. A week of mourning began immediately for the victims. Tehran radio said funerals for the "martyrs" would be held Tuesday and that it would be "one of the greatest funerals" ever witnessed in Tehran. The bombing followed a week of executions of supporters of ousted President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and opponents of the mullahs ruling Iran. Islamic militants searched the country for the dismissed president, who has gone into hiding. A total of 61 people have been executed since Bani-Sadr's impeachment last Sunday. oreg J 6/29/81 -ufda "higher ups"- Hua forced to resign PEKING (UPI) -- The Communist Party announced Monday that Hua Guofeng, the late Mao Tse-tung's hand-picked successor as chairman, has resigned, becoming the first party boss to be forced out of power in China. An official announcement also said Hua resigned as chairman of the military commission. Hu Yaobang, 66, a close associate of powerful Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, who was the driving force behind the unseating of Hua, was named as the new party chairman. Hua was demoted to vice chairman, the announcement said. Deng assumed the post of chairman of the party's military commission, in effect making him supreme commander of the 4 million-member Peoples Liberation Army. oreg J 6/29/81 === Page 17 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Teen fires blanks at Queen Elizabeth By ED BLANCHE LONDON (AP) -- A British teenager, described as a jobless former marine wearing a Prince Charles and Lady Diana souvenir button, ran up and fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II from a range of 10 feet Saturday as she rode horseback through London in a pageant watched by millions. The monarch was startled but unhurt and continued on to the Trooping of the Color, the biggest ceremonial event of the royal calendar marking her official birthday. Several policemen and a scarlet-coated British army guardsman pounced on the young man, who reportedly had been waiting hours for the monarch to appear. As he was dragged away in handcuffs by agents of Scotland Yard's Special Branch, there were shouts in the crowd of "lynch him." Authorities identified him as 17-year-old Marcus Simon Sarjeant of Folkestone, England, and charged him under the 1842 Treason Act with "willfully discharging at the person of Her Majesty the Queen a blank cartridge pistol with intent to alarm her." The charge carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. Sarjeant was scheduled to appear Monday in Bow Street magistrates court. The 55-year-old monarch's horse, Burmese, reared at the noise of the blanks, and one witness reported that a "look of fear" flashed across the queen's face. Her husband, Prince Philip, and the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, spurred their mounts to shield the queen, seen by thousands in the crowd and millions more watching on television. But Elizabeth, dressed in a scarlet military tunic and black riding skirt, controlled the horse, and within a minute she was again smiling and waving. Scotland Yard sources said the attack was certain to lead to a tightening of security around the royal family -- particularly before the July 29 wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. Masses of visitors are expected to jam London for the event. Neighbors of Sarjeant described him as a "quiet, well-behaved" youth who "never got into trouble." Friends said he joined the Royal Marines last year but left after three months because he did not like the "bullying." The British military allows enlistees a three-month trial period. Sarjeant had been unemployed since leaving the military, his friends said, and was living with his family in a modern, three-bedroom home. "I have known him for some time now," said Sean Dixon, 16. "But I couldn't call him a close friend. He just wasn't like that. He never got close to anyone." A Scotland Yard spokesman said the gunman, who had been standing in the crowd lining the royal route, fired the blanks from a "good replica" pistol -- a realistic copy of a handgun that can be adapted to shoot bullets. The incident came as the queen was riding from Buckingham Palace to Horseguards' Parade for her annual inspection of the British army's elite Guards regiments. The inspection ceremony, in which she took the salute before 1,000 guardsmen, is known as The Trooping of the Color. It marks the monarch's official birthday and is the foremost event in the queen's year. April 21 is the queen's actual birthday. Greg 6/14/81 - newsbreak - - UFOs "higher ups" - # Junta seizes Bolivia A military junta took over the government of Bolivia Saturday, the Catholic newspaper Presencia reported. The newspaper said Gen. Humberto Cayoja has accepted the resignation of President Luis Garcia Meza and the army has taken control of La Paz. Greg 6/27/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Surgery planned AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) -- Lillian Carter, mother of former President Carter, will enter a hospital here Sunday for surgery to remove a small tumor near her left breast, her doctor said Friday. Dr. John H. Robinson said a preliminary examination indicated the tumor may be malignant, but the prospects for full recovery from the operation are good. Greg 6/27/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # 3 Spanish officers jailed MADRID (AP) -- The army ordered three officers imprisoned Wednesday in an investigation of a possible new plot against King Juan Carlos. Police said several civilians, including two senior government employees were being questioned for links to the alleged plot. A terse Defense Ministry statement announcing the officers' arrest said they had been placed in preventive detention for "possible signs of conspiracy." The statement did not link the arrests with an attempt against the 43-year-old monarch. Greg 6/25/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Leader attacked DUESSELDORF, West Germany (AP) -- A man on crutches attacked West German President Karl Carstens before an audience of about 1,000 people at a national convention of the handicapped, authorities said. The hefty 28-year-old rose from his wheelchair at the conclusion of a speech and shouted, "Now I want to say something. The resistance of the handicapped is not being taken seriously," according to witnesses at the meeting Thursday. The man identified by federal authorities as Franz Christoph, a childhood victim of polio, approached Carstens, who seated near the speakers' stand, and swung his body from his crutches, bumping the president, witnesses said. The mass circulation Bild-Zeitung reported Christoph rapped Carstens across the shin with his metal crutch. Carstens pushed Christoph away with his hand, and the president's bodyguards subdued him, police said. The man was not arrested, according to the Greg. 6/20/81 === Page 18 of 128 - UFO "higher ups" - # Ayatollah fires Iranian president By SCHEHERAZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dismissed Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr from office Monday and then appealed to the fugitive former chief of state to return to the Islamic revolutionary fold as a "writer and thinker," Tehran radio reported. The conciliatory move by the 81-year-old supreme leader appeared aimed at extracting the ousted president from an underground alliance with leftist and opposition activists at home and at stopping him from linking up with exiled monarchy supporters abroad. A sizeable portion of Khomeini's one-hour prerecorded broadcast speech was addressed directly to the 47-year-old Bani-Sadr, who has been reported moving from one hideout to another in Tehran since the final move to impeach him was mounted in Parliament a week ago. "I did not want what happened today to happen," Khomeini said of his dismissal of Bani-Sadr following an overwhelming vote by the fundamentalist-controlled Parliament Sunday, which proclaimed the Western-educated economist incompetent to stay in office. "But you did not listen to my advice. . . . You did not stop your interest in these corrupt and criminal (leftist) groups, and they drew you to your destruction," Khomeini said. The Tehran prosecutor's office said 25 people have been executed at Evin Prison since Saturday's street clashes, which pitted Bani-Sadr's supporters and three Marxist and Maoist groups against Islamic fundamentalists and Khomeini's revolutionary guards. Statements from the Tehran revolutionary prosecutor's office said 23 of the 25 people executed were leftist rioters from the Marxist-Islamic Mujahedeen Khalq, the Marxist-Leninist Fedayeen Khalq and the Maoist People's Workers Party. The other two were identified as journalist Ali Asghar Amirani, found guilty of "corruption on Earth," and another person described as a collaborator with the secret service of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The ayatollah appeared to offer to stop legal proceedings against Bani-Sadr when he said: "There is always room for repentance. Repent and take a step toward God, and God will accept your return. Your honor will return to you and so will your dignity." Shortly after Parliament's impeachment vote was announced, Tehran revolutionary prosecutor Ali Quddosi issued a summons to Bani-Sadr to answer charges of "anti-Islam and anti-revolution." Quddosi called for Bani-Sadr's arrest wherever he is seen and warned people against sheltering the former president or helping him flee the country. "We believe he is still in Tehran and hope we will arrest him soon," said an official at Quddosi's office when reached by telephone in Tehran from The Associated Press office in Beirut Monday evening. - UFO "higher ups" - # Prankster tests security PORTLAND HARBOR, England (AP) - A 19-year-old prankster tossed a package through the open window of Queen Elizabeth II's car as the monarch was passing through the seafront near here Friday, raising new concern about the royal family's security. Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, were passing through a naval dockyard here when a young woman threw the parcel, containing a T-shirt and leaflet, into the car. Police grabbed the student, Joanne Disley, but later released her without charge because, they said, it was a college prank. June 13, during the Trooping the Color ceremony in London, the queen was startled by a youth who fired six blank shots near her. - UFO "higher ups" - # The world # Ex-minister dies in battle BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Former Iranian Defense Minister Mustapha Chamran was killed Sunday on Iran's western battle front where heavy fighting against Iraqi troops has been reported recently, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. Chamran, who was the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's representative on Iran's Supreme Defense Council, "was martyred this morning in Dehlavieh," an Iranian village near Susangerd 21 miles from the Iraqi border, the news agency said. Tehran radio said later that Chamran and two people with him were killed when they were struck by fragments from a mortar shell. - UFO "higher ups" - # 2 gunmen wound Iranian candidate NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Two men shot and slightly wounded Habibollah Asgarowladi Musulman, one of the four pro-government Iranian presidential candidates, Monday in Tehran, Iran's official news agency Pars reported. One gunman was killed and the other committed suicide after capture, Pars said. In another development, Pars said the government-appointed education director in Iran's secessionist Kurdistan province was shot and killed by "armed insurgents." It identified the man only as "Yousefi" and did not disclose either the place or the date of the killing. Musulman, like the other three candidates, is a member of the ruling fundamentalist Islamic Republic Party. Pars said Musulman's right hand was slightly wounded when two gunmen opened fire on him as he was leaving his Tehran home. Musulman's bodyguards returned fire, killing one of the assailants and wounding the other, the report said. The second man committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill while being taken to prison after being treated in hospital, Pars said. One of the bodyguards was also wounded. The 49-year-old candidate reported from his hospital bed that he was in good condition and that he hoped he would soon regain his health "so that I can continue to serve the deprived masses," Pars said. The agency did not identify the assailants, and no opposition group claimed responsibility. The victim blamed the attack on the United States, Pars said. === Page 19 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # No. 2 Iranian among 24 killed in Tehran blast By SCHEMEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti, the No. 2 man of Iran's revolutionary regime, and at least 23 others were killed Sunday by an explosion that blew up the ruling Islamic Revolutionary Party's headquarters in Tehran during a meeting of party leaders, Tehran radio announced. Others killed included Transport Minister Musa Kalantari, Energy Minister Abbaspur, Hojatoleslam Mohammad Montazeri, the Tehran prayer leader, and a number of members of the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, the broadcast said. The government radio station said the bomb was planted by "mercenaries connected to the U.S.A." A statement from the Provisional Presidential Council, of which Beheshti was one of the three members, said the bombing was "an obvious sign of the despair and bankruptcy of the counterrevolution." Beheshti, the president of the Iranian Supreme Court, was regarded as the second-most powerful man in Iran behind Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Khomeini's probable successor. He was the leader of the Islamic Republican Party, which controls the Majlis and the government. The party led the campaign for the impeachment of fugitive ex-President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. Pars, the official Iranian news agency, reported that at least 30 people were injured in the explosion. It said that by daybreak Monday workers were still digging in the rubble, but most of the bodies had been removed. About 90 people were inside the building when the explosion occurred, the news agency reported. The roof of the meeting hall collapsed and eyewitness reports indicated there was more than one explosion, according to the news agency, which said "counterrevolutionaries" were behind the explosion. An explosion less than one hour later wrecked Swiss Air's Tehran office, the news agency said. No one was injured in the blast. A booby-trapped tape recorder exploded Saturday at a crowded Tehran mosque where the Islamic Republican Party's chief spokesman and cleric, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, was speaking. His shoulder and collarbone were injured. Amid the signs that secular nationalists have gone underground to violently battle the country's clergy-run government, the Iranian government executed eight more left-wing activists. Tehran radio announced that eight leftist Fedayeen Khalq members went before firing squads at daybreak Sunday in the Caspian Sea resorts of Chalus and Nowshahr and in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. They were found guilty of "corruption on earth" and taking up arms against the Islamic republic to "wage war against God," according to the broadcast. That raises to 62 the number of executions by government firing squads in nine days. Fedayeen Khalq is an outlawed Marxist-Leninist group that teamed with other leftists and nationalists in staging last week's anti-government riots to protest Bani-Sadr's impeachment and removal from office. The ex-president has not been seen in public in 18 days. Switzerland's Justice Ministry discounted Sunday a Kuwaiti newspaper report that Bani-Sadr had escaped to Switzerland. "He would need a visa to enter Switzerland," said ministry spokesman Ulrich Hubacher in Bern. "And none has been issued to him. And we have no evidence that he entered Switzerland illegally." Knowledgeable sources in Tehran reached by telephone from The Associated Press office in Beirut said there has been an increase in bomb attacks and riots in Iran's major cities since Bani-Sadr was impeached by Parliament last Sunday. The sources said they consider the bombings evidence that an underground urban guerrilla warfare by opposition groups is under way. Saturday's attempt to kill Khamenei came when he was speaking in a post-prayer question-and-answer dialogue with a mostly female audience at south Tehran's Abu-Zar mosque. oreg 6/29/81 The mass assassination came after a week of disturbances and violence touched off by the ouster of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, the French-educated economist who led the opposition to the clergy. The Islamic... A2 - UFOs "higher ups" - TH # Violence growing in Iran 6/30/81 Story on Page One also By EARLEEN F. TATRO BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- The Tehran bombing that killed 34 top Iranian government officials and scores of their fellow fundamentalists was the deadliest strike yet in what appears to be a fast-emerging campaign of violence by the secular opposition. # Analysis Among those killed in the destruction of the party headquarters was Supreme Court Chief Justice and party leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, revolutionary Iran's most powerful figure after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the explosion, but government officials blamed anti-clerical leftists, and beyond them the United States. Other Tehran observers reached by telephone also said they believed it was the work of the increasingly militant left. === Page 20 of 128 UFOs "higher ups" # Coup topples Gambian regime DAKAR, Senegal (UPI) -- Opponents of President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara of the West African nation of Gambia overthrew his regime Thursday while he was in London for the royal wedding. There were reports of gunfire in Banjul, capital of Africa's smallest nation, but no indication of whether there were casualties. First word of the takeover came from Radio Banjul, which said a National Revolutionary Council seized power from Jawara, the nation's leader since it won independence from Britain in 1965. The radio gave few other details, but diplomatic sources said reports reaching Dakar identified the new head of government as Kukli Sanya. It was not clear whether Sanya is an opposition political leader or a member of the Gambian Field Force, a paramilitary security organization that serves as the tiny country's army. But it is known that the Gambian Field Force took part in the coup. Communications installations were seized by troops and Banjul's airport was closed. Dawda's vice president, Assan Musa Camara, had been acting as chief of state in Jawara's absence. There was no immediate indication of Camara's whereabouts. The country, whose official name is The Gambia, is a sliver-like nation that is no wider than 30 miles. Its land area totals 4,361 square miles and lies astride the Gambia River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean on the subtropical West African coast. It has a population of about 600,000, a coastline 48 miles long and is bordered on three sides by Senegal. The capital of Banjul, formerly known as Bathurst, has a population of 40,000. Oreg J 7/30/81 ## Currents in the News "higher ups in govt." # Why Top Officials Are on Their Guard The attempt to assassinate President Reagan has spawned a torrent of threats against the Chief Executive that has authorities worried. Since Reagan was shot March 30, the Secret Service says it has investigated a "substantial number" of people declaring their intention to kill the President. Among them: * Edward Richardson, 22, was indicted after being picked up in New York on April 7. He was armed with a revolver. Police said he had vowed in several letters to kill Reagan as a result of a "prophetic dream" he had about John Hinckley, who is accused of shooting the President. * Steven Seach, 58, a Pennsylvania school-kitchen worker, was arrested April 6 after coworkers allegedly said that he mentioned the Reagan shooting and said he wanted to "finish the job." * Ronald Peppler, 23, a Los Angeles transient, was apprehended on April 8 by police who traced a phone call from a man threatening Reagan. * Harold T. Smith, 34, was jailed in Raleigh, N.C., on April 8 for allegedly threatening Reagan. He had spent six years in prison for threats against Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford. Experts were not surprised by the surge of threats. "An assassination attempt stirs up similar thoughts that have been in the minds of many psychotic people," says Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist at Washington, D.C.'s St. Elizabeths Hospital, which handles mental cases that arise in the capital's court system. Although most threats against the President are made by mentally ill persons who rarely try to carry them out, all are checked by the Secret Service. Reason: A widely publicized crime often brings imitations. In 1975, just 17 days after Lynette Fromme pointed a gun at President Ford, Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at him. Now that new threats against Reagan are pouring in, security is being tightened. More agents guard Vice President Bush when he makes public appearances. Major news organizations have agreed to a White House request to omit details when publishing Bush's daily schedule, and they are expected to do the same with Reagan's after he leaves the hospital. Hinckley is believed to have used a newspaper listing of Reagan's schedule to locate the President on March 30. Analysts predict that the next few months will be a tense time for high public officials. Says Eugene Stammeyer, a Washington psychologist: "The people ventilating their feelings now by making threats may be less dangerous than the typical assassin--those who brood in their rooms until they build up a head of steam and do something. They are the people who are really destructive." WIDE WORLD Suspect Richardson. Secret Service steps up protection for Bush. * one newspaper said 300 !! === Page 21 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Two top generals held in failed Bolivian coup By JOHN ENDERS LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - The Bolivian army's commander and chief of staff were arrested in an aborted coup Saturday against President Luis Garcia Meza, who seized power less than a year ago in this revolt-prone nation where the average government lasts little more than 10 months. "It failed because of the treason of some and the bribery of others," chief of staff Gen. Lucio Anez Rivera told The Associated Press by telephone from army headquarters after the brief, bloodless attempt failed to unseat Garcia Meza. He said he and Gen. Humberto Cayoja, the army's national commander, were under detention on the orders of Garcia Meza, who rallied the support of several armored units in La Paz to crush the coup. The government press office said: "Those responsible for the act of insubordination, which had a minimum of backing from a small segment of the Tarataca Regiment, have been relieved of their commands and will be judged in a military court of law." The statement said Garcia Meza remained president, "has the full backing of the armed forces and the general consensus of the populace." Anez Rivera claimed disaffected officers outside La Paz were carrying on the revolt, which started here at dawn when tanks and troops began massing in the capital, sealing off the roads and surrounding the presidential palace. A military communications transmission announced Garcia Meza had been "relieved" of the presidency. Despite the announcement, there were indications the rebellion was stumbling when commanders of the army, navy and air force closeted themselves at the army headquarters in an apparent effort to reach a consensus. Anez Rivera did not elaborate on why the revolt crumbled. He told the AP he and Cayoja were taken into detention, apparently a kind of house arrest, 20 minutes before he was reached by the AP. There were no reports of bloodshed in La Paz, although movement was strictly controlled. The overthrow of Garcia Meza would have installed Bolivia's 191st government since Simon Bolivar's independence fighters ousted the Spanish colonialists in 1825. The 52-year-old president acknowledged the steady erosion of his authority last month when, after two revolts in two weeks by district military commanders, he said he would step down as the army's commander and resign the presidency Aug. 6. Garcia Meza named the 47-year-old Cayoja to succeed him as army commander and army representative on the three-man governing junta May 26. Three days later, Garcia Meza replaced the navy's commander and junta representative, leaving only the air force command and junta seat, held by Gen. Waldo Bernal, intact. oreg 6/28/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - LONDON (AP) - Rioting flared anew in five English cities Monday night, with Leicester the hardest hit as street mobs battled police and looted shops in the 11th straight night of urban violence to grip Britain. A police spokesman in the Midlands city of Leicester said hundreds of youths, both blacks and whites, threw bricks, bottles and stones in a "concerted attack" on police. Other cities caught up in the latest frenzy of rioting were Derby and Nottingham, also in the Midlands, Liverpool in the northwest and Huddersfield in the north, police said. They said the violence was less serious than on previous nights. The Leicester spokesman said the trouble followed the pattern of the disturbances Sunday night and erupted in the predominantly black Highfields area, where mobs of youths set parked cars afire. Police who arrived on the scene ran into a hail of projectiles, he said. In nearby Derby, a police traffic office was set ablaze by youths hurling gasoline bombs, but the fire was snuffed out quickly and there were no injuries, officials reported. The new rioting came hours after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appealed to Britons to settle their differences. Her home secretary said convicted rioters would be put in army camps if there was no room for them in overcrowded jails. Moments after the prime minister issued her plea for peace, a protester threw a tomato, narrowly missing her. Home Secretary William Whitelaw said he was determined to see riot suspects brought swiftly before magistrates. He said plastic bullets, water cannon and armored vehicles would be made available to the nation's police chiefs. Whitelaw, in comments relayed by Conservative politician Edward Gardner, said rioters convicted of serious offenses would be put in army camps if necessary. More than 2,500 people have been arrested since the rioting started July 3, and the courts have moved into high gear to deal with them. Mrs. Thatcher spoke in Liverpool, the scene a week ago of the worst rioting since the violence started. London and six other English cities, as well as Dundee, Scotland, were hit by new disturbances Sunday night. "We have to try and get over it," the prime minister told a press conference after meeting with community leaders at Liverpool City Hall. "We have to pick up the pieces and build afresh." As she left the building, a tomato and several rolls of toilet paper were hurled at her from a crowd of 1,000 people protesting her economic policies. The tomato passed within inches of her head. The rioting in Dundee was the first to break out in Scotland during the wave of violence. Sixteen people were arrested as youths hurled firebombs at police vehicles and smashed shop windows. Welsh Secretary Nicholas Edwards told the House of Commons there was a "huge danger" that Wales would be the next to explode. org 7/14/81 === Page 22 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # American Nightmare And yet it goes on, and on, and on... Why? - Robert F. Kennedy on the murder of Martin Luther King, 1968 Suddenly, like a nightmare in instant replay, it was going on again: the faceless, rootless loner with a pistol and a lunatic mission washed up within shooting distance of the American Presidency and the American dream. Yet again, television screens burned with the sickening imagery of assassination-Ronald Reagan walking and waving through a misty Washington rain, a Saturday-night special pop-popping bullets out of a crowd, the bodies of White House press secretary James Brady and two lawmen blown hurt and bleeding to the sidewalk, the Secret Service slamming a stunned and wounded President into his limousine and racing against death to a hospital. The news this time was good for Reagan and the others, and the omens for their recovery were favorable. The most grievous wound of all was struck to the soul of a nation-the discovery that its public life is not yet safe from the fantasies of madmen or the shadow of the gun. "I Forgot to Duck": Whatever saving grace could be found in the carnage on T Street owed mainly to Reagan himself, grinning like the Sundance Kid into the face of death, and to the extraordinary resilience of the government he had inherited only 70 days before. The President walked into George Washington University Hospital on his own with his blood oozing away, an undetonated explosive bullet in his chest and his fighting spirit very much intact. "I forgot to duck," he kidded going into two hours of surgery. "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia," he kidded again coming out. His sang-froid spread to his colleagues, gathered in the White House Situation Room to install Vice President George Bush as acting President had the need arisen. It did not. Reagan resumed some semblance of command within eighteen hours-and the government, in the insistent word of the White House, "did not skip a beat." Yet the mere fact of the attentat by an overprivileged underachiever named John W. Hinckley Jr. was evidence enough that the eighteen-year death trip begun with the assassination of John F. Kennedy cannot yet be counted over. Hinckley, like most of his forebears in the American past, was the agent of no discernible cause larger than his own dementia-a Valium-dulled stew of rock songs, Nazi scriptures and an unrequited passion for the teen-age movie star Jodie Foster. But he is as well the child of the bloodiest generation in the history of America's public life and popular culture. JFK fell into the bull's-eye when Hinckley was 8, Malcolm X when he was 9, King when he was 12, Bobby when he was 13, George Wallace when he was 16, Gerald Ford when he was 20, Vernon Jordan and John Lennon when he was 25. He saved cuttings on some of them, and on their assailants, and read them to mean that murdering Reagan would be regarded-even honored-as a "historical deed." He was wrong, of course; the disturbing lesson of the attempt on Reagan was not that Americans condone or encourage public violence but that they have grown numb to it. Hinckley did have his admirers in isolated pockets-the seventh-graders in Tulsa who cheered this TV shooting as they had J. R.'s on "Dallas" a year ago and the occasional callers to radio phone-in shows asserting that Reagan got what he deserved. What was more disquieting was the widespread that's-life acquiescence with which * OR MY UFOs ... Lynene Instant replay: A pistol spat bullets, a stunned and wounded President was slammed into his car-and, beyond a line of fallen bodies, lawmen pinned Hinckley to the wall © Sebastiao Salgado Jr.-Magnum NEWSWEEK/APRIL 13, 1981 many more Americans received the news and switched channels to something else, once the initial vertigo wore off and the medical bulletins turned favorable. "Nobody was shocked," said Frank Mankiewicz, the old Kennedy hand who now heads National Public Radio. "Suddenly, it goes with the territory. Everybody knows what presidents do: they run for office, they push bills through Congress, they make speeches-and they get shot at." The swift return to what Reagan might call normalcy was due at least as much to his own iron-horse example, shaking off his wounds and his post-op pain as if he were 50 instead of 70 and chafing for his return to the White House as early as this week. "We could all say, 'Boy, that was a close one'," said Jack Casey, a Detroit political consultant. "The President signaled to us that life goes on." For a day likely to live as long as his Presidency, he was the Duke defending the Alamo, Teddy Roosevelt taking a slug in the chest en route to a speech and waving away help until he had finished. His approval rating in an ABC News/Washington Post poll bounced 11 points, overnight, to 73 per cent. "General Patton or George Gipp couldn't have done it better," a Pittsburgh political scientist said. "He'll have an image of an almost mythic hero about him now." He will need those resources and more in the weeks ahead, running the government from a sickbed through a particularly difficult passage. An Administration accustomed to running on delegated authority seemed to tick on nicely enough without him. But the crisis in Poland was heating dangerously near to what Reagan's men considered the flash point (page 62), with the President still in the hospital and his Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, freshly bruised by his rattled behavior in the first hours after the shooting. The Reagan economic package, moreover, was at a delicate moment of gestation. The Senate voted during the week to cut the budget deeper, by $2.8 billion, than Reagan had asked, and the Urban League's Jordan-himself scarred by sniper fire-pronounced it "no time to argue with a President." "Maybe the congressmen will feel sorry for me and pass my tax bill," Reagan told a visitor; still, he was champing to get back to work lest his program falter without him. ### Once again, a loner with a pistol fires on a President-and once again a nation stands in the shadow of the gun. The Wrong Track: The less tangible danger was that John Hinckley had shot up more than a President and his retinue-that his .22-caliber Röhm RG-14 had wounded the American spirit as well at a moment when it had seemed so promisingly on the mend. In surveys by Reagan's polltaker Richard Wirthlin, public support for the view that the nation has somehow "gotten off on the wrong track" had dwindled sharply, from 77 per cent last June to 47 per cent only a fortnight ago. But the attempt on Reagan's life brought home how fragile that spirit is and how resigned Americans have become to periodic armed assaults on it. It has become a given that the open society cannot surely identify the dangerous men and women in its midst, or keep them from moving about at will, or even prevent them from buying weapons meant only for murder. With Reagan's wounding, Congress rang with impassioned cries for tightened gun control-and defeated whispers that, however popular, it will not pass. To do nothing at all is to surrender to the possibility that the attempt on Reagan was not the last-that the shadow of the gun has become a deadly fact of American life. "Does anybody know what the guy's beef was?" Reagan mused, puzzling with the rest of the nation over the scrambled shards of John Hinckley's life. The real nightmare for America was that it didn't matter-that any crowd anywhere may conceal a tuned-out loser with a pistol in his pocket and a grievance to avenge in blood. PETER GOLDMAN 29 === Page 23 of 128 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1981 # After shooting - Mysterious fever hit Reagan By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (AP) -- A week after President Reagan was shot and wounded last spring he went through a second medical crisis -- a mysterious and persistent high fever that caused some of his doctors to think further surgery was necessary, says a medical writer who reconstructed the case. Little was told the public about the nature of Reagan's worrisome condition and one doctor went through a ruse to keep the George Washington University Hospital staff and the public from knowing that the president was sicker than generally known, according to John Pekkanen. Pekkanen, winner of several awards for his medical reporting, reconstructed Reagan's experience in a 15,000-word article in the August Washingtonian magazine. The article also says: -- The first official photograph of a smiling Reagan in a robe, standing with his wife, was cropped to take out a nurse, standing to Reagan's immediate left, holding a Pleur-evac device connected to a chest-tube coming out from under his robe. -- In a security lapse, a medical voyeur -- a doctor with no business being there -- wandered up to Reagan's bedside and stared intently at the president for a time. He refused to leave and had to be escorted away by hospital security people. -- When doctors were preparing to operate on Reagan to remove the bullet from his chest, they needed to know the caliber of the bullet. The FBI first told a Secret Service agent it could not say what it was. Then when the Secret Service agent shouted and insisted that the doctors had to know at once, the FBI incorrectly said the bullet was a .38-caliber. "If time had been a more critical factor, the misinformation about the bullet could have been more costly," Pekkanen wrote. Reagan's second medical crisis started on the Thursday night following the shooting on Monday, March 30. His temperature shot up to 102, his color worsened, he became more tired and his white blood count went up, Pekkanen said. The next day the fever continued and that night Reagan experienced chills. X-rays indicated fluid in the lungs, suggesting pneumonia. Surgeon Benjamin Aaron ordered a bronchoscopy to try to clear the bronchial tubes, the article said, and surgical resident David Gens was sent to pick up the black case which contained the bronchoscope. In checking it out, he lied to the nurse who asked who it was for, then taped over the case so others would not know what was inside. Although hospital spokesmen told of the president's rising temperature, they said nothing about the debate among the attending physicians over whether a second operation would be needed. Reagan was spitting up fresh blood, and that worried Aaron. That and the X-rays suggested to Aaron that Reagan could be vulnerable to a major lung bleed, the article said. "At one point," it said, "Aaron considered the possibility of going back in and surgically removing the left lobe, the source of the president's problem." Dr. Dennis O'Leary, chief medical spokesman, asked about Pekkanen's account Thursday, agreed that doctors were divided over whether a new operation might be necessary. "There were a couple of gatherings of consultants," he said. "The dilemma was an obvious one, because no one was sure the cause of the bad turn." "People ranged from the optimistic to the cautious and the concerned," he said. "We have hand-wringers like everyone else." He said nothing was told the public about the possibility of surgery because an operation was never imminent. An announcement would have been "inappropriately alarmist," he said. Finally, drugs took care of the problem. The fever broke on Tuesday, eight days after the shooting, and the crisis ended Thursday, Pekkanen wrote. The article revealed another sidelight of Reagan's hospitalization. It said that after Reagan's operation, nurse Joanne Bell had to scold him to get him to go to sleep. At 4:30 a.m. on the day after the shooting, she put a gauze pad over his eyes so he could sleep in the semidarkness of the recovery room. "Within seconds," Pekkanean wrote, "he had the pad off and was talking again. She walked back to the president's bed, took the pad in her hand, and said, 'Mr. President, in the most polite way I can tell you, when I put this over your eyes, that means I want you to shut up.' "He looked at her, winked, and took a 45-minute nap," the article says. Associated Press Laserphoto NURSE MISSING -- Medical writer John Pekkanen says in magazine article that first official photograph of president after assassination attempt eliminated nurse standing to Reagan's left. # Panama mourns Torrijos PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Panamanians Sunday mourned the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, the political strongman who died in a jungle plane crash and left a potential power vacuum at the southern tip of troubled Central America. A helicopter brought Torrijos' charred body to the capital Sunday. President Aristedes Royo and family members viewed the body, which was to lie in state Monday with the funeral to be held Tuesday. It was not known who would represent the United States, which planned to send a delegation, as did most countries in the hemisphere. === Page 24 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Drifter admits royal threats LONDON (AP) -- An American said to believe he is Jesus Christ reincarnated pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening the lives of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Magistrates ordered Ronald Zen, 42, of New York City, to undergo three weeks of psychiatric examination in custody before sentencing. "He believes he is born again as as a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Buddha being Jesus Christ," prosecutor Colin Cleugh said. Meanwhile, the British teen-ager accused of firing blank shots near the queen during a June 13 ceremonial parade was arraigned Wednesday. Marcus Sarjeant, 17, faces a maximum of seven years imprisonment for the action, which aroused widespread concern about the apparently lax security surrounding the royal family. No date has been fixed for his trial. Cleugh told the court Zen sent a padded envelope to the queen containing a painting of a bomb with the word "Boom!" next to it and a message: "This is the bomb to blow her to hell." The envelope was intercepted by postal workers. Zen also sent a letter to the London office of Time magazine threatening to kill Charles and Diana on their July 29 wedding day, Cleugh said. Another of Zen's letters -- this time to a London bank -- threatened to set fire to 100 London banks to "relieve the suffering of the world's poor." Under questioning, he told police he would not have been capable of carrying out the death threats, but "intended to damage property," Cleugh said. Zen, who had held more than 50 jobs since dropping out of high school, joined the Zen Buddhism cult last year and changed his name from Ronald Rosario Rampolla, the prosecutor said. oreg 7/2/81 Note: You think my UFOs attack on the world's "higher ups" isn't being noticed!! Owens - UFOs "higher ups" - news break NO WORLD LEADERS SHOT TODAY. TAPE AT TEN. BENSON THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC WASH. POST WRITERS oreg 5/26/81 === Page 25 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # But coalition holds # Portuguese chief resigns By PATRICK REYNA LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Francisco Pinto Balsemao resigned Monday as Portugal's prime minister since the 1974 revolution, but the three parties in his center-right coalition pledged to remain in power. The coalition, called the Democratic Alliance, met in emergency session after Pinto Balsemao resigned over a rift in his moderate Social Democrat Party that he said had made it "impossible to govern." In a statement released after that meeting, the Cabinet ministers expressed "unanimous support for and solidarity with the decision taken." "This is not the end of the Democratic Alliance," said Diogo Freitas do Amaral, whose conservative Social Democrat Center ranks second in the coalition. Goncalo Ribeiro Teles, leader of the tiny Monarchist Party, told reporters his group also would stay with the in the coalition to form the third Democratic Alliance government since 1976 and the 14th Portuguese government since the revolution. "The monarchists insist that the Democratic Alliance program be carried out with or without Pinto Balsemao," he said. Pinto Balsemao, a 44-year-old former journalist, was scheduled to hand in his formal resignation to President Antonio Ramalho Eanes at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The prime minister won a 37-15 confidence vote Saturday in the Social Democrat national council but resigned anyway. As the dominant coalition partner, the Social Democrats have the right to choose Pinto Balsemao's successor. But the party has not scheduled a national council meeting until next weekend, indicating a possible power struggle between hard-liners and moderates, political observers said. Pinto Balsemao co-founded the Social Democrats seven years ago with his predecessor as prime minister, Francisco Sa Carneiro, who died in a plane crash. He succeeded Sa Carneiro in January but was considered too liberal by many of the late prime minister's followers. One of the party's four vice presidents quit last month over political differences with Pinto Balsemao, and a second resigned as social affairs minister. The opposition Socialists said in a statement that the government's problems should not be taken as a sign of crisis for Portugal's democracy, which was formalized in constitution in 1976, two years after a military revolution ended 40 years of right-wing authoritarian government. A Communist Party statement repeated earlier calls for dissolution of Parliament, the establishment of a caretaker executive and holding of early elections. - UFOs "higher ups" - already negotiated over a long period of time and agreed to by all the delegations," the group said in a statement delivered by its chairman, Inam Ul Haque of Pakistan. ## Portuguese premier quits LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -- Premier Francisco Balsemao resigned Monday after failing to silence criticism of his leadership by rebels in his ruling coalition. The 43-year-old Social Democrat announced his resignation at a meeting of the party's national council. He had warned he would continue as party leader only if a confidence vote for him was unanimous. He was opposed by 15 members of the council. - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Portuguese regime quits LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -- Social Democratic Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao submitted the resignation of his 7-month-old coalition government Tuesday to President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. On leaving the presidential Belem Palace after an 85-minute audience, the 43-year-old lawyer and journalist said he presented his Cabinet's resignation and that Eanes would release a statement. "The government will continue to function until a solution is found," Balsemao said without indicating whether Eanes accepted the resignation. He said he "trusts the Social Democratic Party will find a solution" for the crisis, but in a clearly uncompromising mood, challenged the vocal party minority that forced him from office to find his successor. === Page 26 of 128 Judge links CIA head Casey to fund-raising scandal Stock Deals in the '70s - "UFOs" "higher ups" - S.F. Chron. 7/15/81 Accused CIA Official Quits Washington Max C. Hugel, hand-picked by CIA Director William J. Casey to be chief of the agency's clandestine operations, resigned yesterday because of allegations that he participated in fraudulent securities transactions when he managed an electronics business in the 1970s. Calling the allegations, made by two former business associates, "unfounded, unproven and untrue," Hugel submitted a letter of resignation to Casey. The letter said the allegations had become "a burden which I no longer believe is fair to impose on the administration, the agency," and his family. Casey immediately named John H. Stein, a career CIA employee, to succeed Hugel in the sensitive post of deputy director for operations. The charges and sudden resignation presented the Reagan administration with an unwelcome controversy at a time when it is trying to gain passage of major tax-cut legislation and avoid public airing of internal foreign policy disagreements. The immediate repercussions appeared to include a slight chilling in the relationship between the White House and Casey, who managed President Reagan's election campaign last year and has acted as a close adviser to the president. Officially, the White House said that Reagan was "saddened" by the events that led to Hugel's resignation. Officials, however, emphasized that Hugel was not nomi- Back Page Col. 1 CIA Chief Misled Investors In Former Firm, Judge Rules New York CIA Director William Casey and seven other members of a now-defunct New Orleans agribusiness firm knowingly misled investors in raising $3.5 million for the firm, a federal judge has ruled. Judge Charles Stewart of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan said that Casey, a board member and secretary of Multiponics Inc., permitted distribution of a circular for a security offering that contained false and misleading details. The circular also omitted key facts about the company's financial dealings. Stewart ruled in an opinion disclosed yesterday. The judge's findings were contained in a partial "summary judgment" on May 19. The ruling came as a result of a suit filed in 1974 by investors in Multiponics, a firm that Back Page Col. 1 981 - "UFOs" "higher ups" Italy reshuffles military leaders ROME (AP) -- The Italian government reshuffled top military posts Saturday in response to the secret Masonic lodge scandal that brought down the 40th post-war Italian government last May. Premier Giovanni Spadolini's five-party Cabinet named Gen. Vittorio Santini, formerly commander of NATO land forces in southern Europe, as Italy's joint chief of staff. He replaces Adm. Giovanni Torrisi, who quit last week after being linked to the lodge scandal. Gen. Umberto Capuzzo, commander of Italy's para-military police Carabinieri was named new army chief of staff. - "UFOs" "higher ups" - Top Iranian theoretician gunned down By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Assassins in a speeding car shot and killed the top theoretician of Iran's ruling party Wednesday and Iranian firing squads executed 11 more persons, including a Harvard-educated cancer specialist. The deaths brought the number of leftists put to death in three days to 38 and the number of assassinations to 260 since former President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was ousted June 22. - "UFOs" "higher ups" - Iran ministers resign BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- All of Iran's cabinet ministers and ranking civil servants Saturday submitted their resignations to President-elect Mohammed Ali Rajai, the state-run news agency PARS reported. The move clears the way for Rajai, elected overwhelmingly in the July 24 elections, to choose a new prime minister. S.F. Chron. 8/1/81 === Page 27 of 128 A6 UFO, 6 Projects - laganas 75 goot. ) 13Meu, THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981 Iranians pack streets to mourn dead leaders BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - More, blow at the Moslem clergy-dominated than a million chest-heating Iranians screaming "Death to Americal' packed the streets of Tehran Tuesday at the mass funeral of 72 revolutionary lead- ers killed in a bomb blast. Banner-waving mourners shouted "America is the enemyy' as the six doz- en flag-draped coffins were carried from Parliament House to the martyrs' section of Tehran's Behesht Zahra Cemetery in a six-hour funeral. Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ru- hollah Khomeini blamed an under- ground Marxist group for Sunday's ex- plosion at the ruling Islamic Republican Party's central headquarters in Tehran. Khomeini, the 81-year-old patriarch of Iran's Islamic revolution, said in a message read over Tehran radio by an announcer that the blame for the bomb- ing rested with "blind hearts who claim to take part in crusades for the people." A literal translation of Mujahedeen Khalq, an opposition group that blends Islam with Marxism, is "people's cru- saders." "You are breathing your last breaths," Khomeini warned. "You are going to hell." Sunday's blast struck a devastating Islamic Republican Party only days af- ter it had consolidated its hold on Iran's revolutionary government with the ouster of moderate President Abolhas- san Bani-Sadr. The party's leader, Chief Justice Avatollah Mohammad Beheshti, was killed in the explosion, as were four government ministers, eight deputy ministers and 23 Parliament members. according to the latest Tehran radio toll. Beheshti, considered the second most powerful man in the country next to Khomeini, engineered Bani-Sadr's impeachment by Parliament June 21. Tehran radio said at least two of the victims were buried in their home- towns. At the beginning of the funeral, Par- liament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani told the mourners, "How can anyone ask us to let them go after this horrify- ing massacre?" The crowd roared back, "Death to the leftovers of the devil (America)." A spokesman for Tehran's revolu- tionary police said in a telephone inter- view that an undisclosed number of sus- pects had been arrested in connection with the bombing. -info, "higher ups"- Polish leader Kania faces party struggle Greg 5 -7/16/81 WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - A vicious power struggle to wrest control of the Polish Communist Party from Stanislaw Kania was reported under way Thursday, only hours after his predecessor Edward Gierek and six members of his disgraced regime were purged from the party. Sources at the party's emergency con- gress said all other issues had been swept aside by behind-the-scenes battles to win support from the 2,000 delegates in the Unprecedented secret ballot to choose a party leader. While the party struggle was under way in Warsaw, talks in the labor strong- hold of Gdansk to avert a strike by 40,000 Baltic coast dockworkers broke down Thursday and the leaders of the Solidarity union chapter went into emergency ses- sion to decide whether to walk out. Kania, who replaced Gierek last Sep- tember, faced a challenge by at least sev- en other candidates - four of them con- sidered pro-Moscow hardliners - in an increasingly wide-open race. The congress met behind closed doors Thursday to be- gin the lengthy selection of a newly ex- panded 200-member Central Committee with 70 alternate members, after which the party secretary will be elected by se- cret vote of the entire congress. "Personal issues and manipulation con- nected with them have become the chief item of the congress," a source said. The world Zambia tells pair to leave JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -Two American diplomats have been ordered to leave Zambia, appar- ently on spying charges, one of the dip- Jomats confirmed early Tuesday in a telephone interview from the Zambian capital, Lusaka. Michael O'Brian, head of the Lusaka embassy's information arm, the Interna- tional Communications Agency, added: "I would prefer not to comment." He confirmed, however, that Zambia had ordered him and David Fin- ney, a political first secretary, to leave "shortly." He said he did not know the exact charge against him but replied when asked about reports that he had been accused of spying, "I assume those are the charges." Ojeg 6/23/81 - 4For " higher wfor "- CIA faces Columbia 7/15/8. WASHINGTON (AP) - CIA Director William J. Casey faces a federal judge's ruling that he misled investors in a business venture in the late 1960s. The CIA's spy chier resigned Tuesday after allegations of stock manipulation Max Hugel, whose appointment irked career intelligence officers, resigned as the agency's deputy director of operations Tues- day. hours after The Washington POST published allegations that in 1974 he slipped information about a firm he headed to two "all Street brokers. -UFOs "higher we"- Labor leader succumbs WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fred J. Kroll, who in 1978 halted most of the coun- try's railroad traiffic with a nationwide strike, died Thursday after a long bout with leukemia. He was 45. Kroll was president of the Brotherhood of Rail- way and Airline Clerks and was one of the fastest- rising young labor leaders in the nation AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland called Kroll's death "a tragic loss for the labor movement." Funeral services will be held Monday in Bethesda, Md., where Kroll resided with his wife and three daughters. A delegation from the AFL-CIO Execu- tive Council, which opens its summer meeting in Chi- cago Monday, will attend ojeg57/31/8, the funeral. === Page 28 of 128 CIA spy chief resigns amid allegations By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN WASHINGTON (AP) -- Max Hugel, a millionaire outsider whose appointment irked career intelligence officers, resigned Tuesday as overseer of the CIA's spy network hours after a report that he slipped inside information about a firm he once headed to two Wall Street brokers. Hugel called the allegations by two former business associates, recounted in Tuesday's Washington Post, "unfounded, unproven and untrue." "These allegations ... have become a burden which I no longer believe is fair to impose on the administration, the agency, my family and the splendid men and women who work with me," he added in a letter of resignation to CIA Director William J. Casey. Casey accepted Hugel's resignation with "deepest regret" and immediately named career CIA official John Stein as Hugel's successor. At the White House, chief spokesman David R. Gergen said that Casey discussed the impending Post story last Thursday with White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III and White House Counsel Fred Fielding, and that Fielding met later with Hugel. The Washington Star quoted sources Tuesday as saying Baker told Casey to get rid of Hugel, but Gergen said Hugel was not pressured to quit. "He resigned on his own initiative and with consultation with Mr. Casey," Gergen said. Gergen said he expected no official investigation, noting that a five-year statute of limitations applies to the kind of allegation made against Hugel. He said it will be up to Casey to decide whether to review why the CIA's background check of Hugel had not turned up the allegations. Although the CIA does not announce in-house appointments, it was learned in mid-May that Casey had selected Hugel, a 56-year-old New Hampshire executive who had worked with Casey on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, to be deputy director of operations. As "DDO," Hugel, whose intelligence background was limited to some postwar work with the Army in Japan, was in command of the agency's clandestine service. That made him responsible for intelligence-gathering around the world and for the CIA's most delicate work -- covert operations, such as supporting guerrilla fighters in some countries or attempting to influence foreign politicians. MAX HUGEL Former CIA officials immediately raised a howl of protest that Hugel was grossly unqualified, but Casey's closeness with Reagan allowed him the freedom to pick his own man. Casey defended Hugel as an aggressive businessman who had worked well as an organizer of ethnic groups in the Reagan campaign and would bring an independent view to the activities of the clandestine service. Eventually, Casey's predecessor in the Carter administration, Stansfield Turner, came to the nominee's defense, arguing that Hugel should be judged on his performance, not his background. Cord Meyer, a longtime CIA official who revealed Hugel's appointment in the newspaper column he writes, said: "I feel they recognized their mistake and moved quickly to repair it. I thought Casey was taking a very long gamble putting him in that job because of his inexperience, perhaps an unnecessary one because there were so many qualified men to fill it." Meyer hailed the choice of Stein, who he said has experience in CIA headquarters and abroad and has served for the past four years as deputy chief of operations. "I should think the troops would be well pleased with Stein," Meyer said. "It will improve morale all around." The State Department's 1974 Biographic Register lists only one John Stein, a Yale graduate now 48. The register shows that Stein served as a foreign service reserve political officer, a typical CIA cover, in Belgium, The Congo, Cameroon, Cambodia and Libya. The columnist said in an interview: "I've heard some rumors that the 'old boy' network was behind this, but that's not true so far as I know. I didn't know about this when I wrote the column, and apparently these men went to The Post on their own." Hugel went to the Post in person last Friday to challenge the charges the paper was preparing to publish. He was accompanied to the four-hour meeting by his lawyers and Stanley Sporkin, CIA general counsel. Upon learning of the information the paper planned to publish, Sporkin told Post editors he had to "make a recommendation," apparently to Casey about Hugel. Casey, who once headed the Securities and Exchange Commission, which investigates the kind of allegations made against Hugel, brought Sporkin to the agency earlier this year from the SEC, where he had built a reputation as a tough head of its enforcement division. Hugel released a statement Monday night through his lawyer, Judah Best, that said he had "never made a penny of unlawful profit or done anything else to bring discredit upon my company, my family, myself or the United States." The Post quoted New York brothers Thomas R. McNell, 49, and Samuel F. McNell, 47, as saying they and Hugel participated in a series of prohibited practices in 1974 to promote the stock of Hugel's electronics company, Brother International Corp. They said Hugel gave them inside information about the company's potential earnings in advance of disclosure to other investors and improperly funneled $131,000 to their brokerage firm, McNell Securities. === Page 29 of 128 - "UFOs higher ups" - # Stewart to retire from Supreme Court By KEVIN M. COSTELOE WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Potter Stewart, a longtime swing vote between conservatives and liberals, announced Thursday his retirement after 23 years on the Supreme Court. The vacancy sparked speculation over President Reagan's pledge to name the first woman to the nation's highest bench. Stewart, who personified a middle-of-the-road approach to interpreting the Constitution, gave no reason for the publicly surprising decision to leave the court July 3. "Now that it is time to go, I leave with the hope that the Supreme Court will be in good and wise hands," Stewart said in his retirement letter to Reagan, dated May 18. Reagan, who learned of Stewart's decision in a secret Oval Office meeting a month ago, said he has made no decision upon a replacement but added that he was "always" looking for a woman to appoint. "We have been quite some time just basically preparing for any future appointments," the president said. "There will be an announcement shortly." Reagan's choice will require Senate confirmation. The president's deputy press secretary 6/19/81 - "UFOs higher ups" - By JUAN M. VASQUEZ LA Times-Washington Post Service 6/28/81 MEXICO CITY - With astonishing speed, Jorge Diaz Serrano has gone from being one of the most powerful men in Mexico to being practically a non-person. The former director of Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly, Diaz Serrano was considered to be one of the handful of men who might become president of Mexico next year if he could overcome strong opposition within the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. His strength stemmed from the leadership of Pemex, which rose from 15th position among world oil producers in 1976 to No. 4, just behind the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and the United States, in 1981. But his status as a presidential contender - indeed, as a public figure - ended suddenly June 6, when he resigned from the government after failing to win backing for a politically unpopular $4-a-barrel reduction of Mexican oil prices. Other highly visible Mexican officials have fallen from grace from time to time, but the political demise of Diaz Serrano and its aftermath goes beyond the fate of one individual. It illuminates the political system of Mexico, the race for the presidency and the increasingly important role of oil. Much of the credit for Mexico's growth as a petroleum power was given to Diaz Serrano, a wealthy industrialist with a background in the oil business. He took over the powerful Pemex job after his close friend, Jose Lopez Portillo, became president in late 1976. Since then, Mexican production of crude oil has tripled to about 2.55 million barrels a day. The average volume of crude oil exports in 1980 was 827,750 barrels a day, almost an eight-fold increase over 1976. From 1976 to 1980, the annual value of oil exports increased from $311 million to $10.3 billion, giving the country the opportunity to overcome its Third World economic problems and develop into a fully industrial state. The oil discoveries opened a new chapter in Mexican history, raising political and social expectations as never before, and at the center of all the activity was Diaz Serrano. He was traveling to China one day, meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba another day, visiting Pemex installations all over Mexico, giving speeches frequently, and, in the process, garnering more media attention than any other government figure except, of course, the president. But since the day he left government June 6 and went into seclusion, Diaz Serrano has disappeared from the news, except as a target of criticism. From the president on down, no one mentions his name, even while discussing the simmering oil price controversy. A14 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1981 - "UFOs higher ups" - # Not a team player # Drug agency chief quits under fire By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON (AP) - Drug Enforcement Administrator Peter B. Bensinger resigned under fire Tuesday but expressed confidence that the Reagan administration would succeed in reducing drug availability. An administration official, who asked not to be named, had disclosed last week that the DEA leader would be replaced and Bensinger announced Tuesday that his last day would be July 10. "I'm leaving with no animosity to this administration, the Department of Justice or the White House. Each administration, and I've served in three, is entitled to its own team," he said. 6/17/81 And, he added, "I think a reduction in drug availability can and will be achieved during the Reagan administration and without my functioning as administrator." The official who discussed Bensinger's departure indicated that he was not viewed as a team player but rather had campaigned in Congress to protect his agency. "I don't need a reason as to why my tenure will be concluded next month," Bensinger told reporters at a morning news conference. === Page 30 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - TOP OF THE WEEK Newsweek APRIL 13, 1981 # The President's Close Call It was an American nightmare in instant replay--a deranged loner named John W. Hinckley Jr. (right) pumping a fusillade of explosive bullets into the President, his press secretary, Jim Brady, and two law-enforcement officers. Ronald Reagan, 70 years old and 70 days into his Presidency, walked through a serious chest wound with extraordinary bounce and grit, and the omens for the others were good. But the carnage in Washington placed the nation once again under the shadow of the gun. UFOs Reagan had barely reached the hospital when Newsweek began deploying a team of reporters and photographers for what became a 29-page SPECIAL REPORT on the assassination attempt and its consequences. The package includes an hour-by-hour account of the shooting and its aftermath, a close-up of Hinckley and his bizarre fantasy, the stories of how surgeons saved Reagan and Brady and how the government kept running without a full-time President, and separate articles on the psychological profile of assassins, on whether the risks they pose to public men can be cut--and on why prospects for gun control remain dim despite the shooting of a President. Page 25 - UFO attack on govt. "higher ups" - # Haig suffers double loss in infighting By JEROME R. WATSON Field News Service oreg 4/2/81 WASHINGTON -- On the eve of his Middle East diplomatic tour, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig is emerging as a double loser after embroiling himself unnecessarily in two controversies in recent days. Haig, believed still to harbor presidential ambitions of his own, has lost some respect and goodwill within the administration and may well have hurt his long-term political prospects. That is the view of some high administration officials, who also contend privately that Haig has come off a poor second best politically to Vice President George Bush -- a potential rival for the presidency in 1984. First came Haig's public and unsuccessful campaign to prevent President Reagan from naming Bush, instead of Haig, as his "crisis manager." This move shocked and angered top White House aides, who were astounded that Haig would violate one of Washington's most obvious, if unwritten rules: Never engage the president in a public fight if you work for him. Some Reagan aides privately viewed Haig's maneuvering on the crisis manager issue as a serious tactical misstep that raised questions about his temperament and judgment. After that flap, one White House senior staffer said, "Haig has privately threatened to resign eight or nine times already, but he hasn't made the threat directly to the president -- and if I were he, I wouldn't." ALEXANDER HAIG The implication was that Reagan, who abhors staff dissension, might not try to dissuade Haig from quitting. Some Reagan aides also maintained that Haig had further strained his relations with the White House by complaining to some of his associates that the White House had given the crisis post to Bush in order to promote Bush's political fortunes at the expense of Haig's. Such griping, if it really occurred, was seen as an unseemly display of ambition by an appointee of a president who was only recently installed in office and had not renounced seeking a second term in '84. Just as the dust was settling over Haig Flap Number One, along came Number Two -- seen by administration sources as much less significant than the first, but a debit for Haig, nonetheless. After Reagan was shot Monday afternoon, Haig and other Cabinet members gathered in the White House Situation Room, partly to be available if it were necessary to transfer presidential powers to Bush. A majority of the Cabinet can approve such a transfer when a president is disabled. Haig then decided it was necessary to assure other nations and the American public that the government was functioning normally. He therefore appeared in the White House briefing room to offer those assurances. Although this action had not been cleared with Bush or top Reagan aides, the White House later said Haig acted correctly. === Page 31 of 128 note: my UFOs influencing people to attack the "higher ups" in government - Gene - UFOs "higher ups" - # Government in Iran resigns; 22 executed By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Iran's government went through the formality of resigning Saturday to pave the way for a new Cabinet, authorities announced 22 more executions and ex-President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr moved from one Paris suburb to another to avoid assassins. His supporters in Iran shot and killed two revolutionary guards in a patrol car in the Caspian Sea town of Amol and set off a bomb that killed three fundamentalist Islamic politicians in the central city of Shiraz, the official Pars news agency said. Tehran radio quoted the president of Iran's military courts, Mohammadi Reyshahri, as saying seven persons have been arrested in connection with Bani-Sadr's escape from Iran to France aboard a military plane Wednesday. France granted him political asylum. The broadcast did not name the people arrested. Tehran radio's broadcast on the Cabinet said Mohammad Ali Rajai, Iran's prime minister and president-elect, accepted the resignations of all the ministers and asked them to remain until a new prime minister is chosen. Rajai was elected a week ago to replace Bani-Sadr. By DAN DORFMAN - UFOs "higher ups" - # inside business A federal judge has ruled that William J. Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, knowingly misled investors in a $3.5 million fund-raising effort for a now-defunct New Orleans company, Multiponics Inc., while serving as a board member and secretary of that corporation. Judge Charles Stewart of the Southern District of New York concluded that Casey was one of a number of Multiponics officers and directors who permitted distribution of an offering circular in conjunction with the fund-raising effort when they expressly knew the memorandum contained both false and misleading information and omitted material facts that were detrimental to the company's prospects. The judge's findings - which were set forth in a "memorandum decision" last May 19 and have thus far escaped public disclosure - represent an outgrowth of a suit filed by unhappy Multiponics investors in October 1974. Multiponics was organized in January 1968 to engage in farming operations, the agricultural business and the acquisition of land in connection with these activities. The company subsequently went bankrupt in February 1971 after it was unable to raise sufficient financing to continue in operation. A public offering had been contemplated, but never came to pass. Casey, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and head of the Export-Import Bank during the Nixon and Ford administrations, refused to comment on Judge Stewart's findings. # 10th suspect to imperil Reagan held HATBORO, Pa. (UPI) - A 42-year-old man, at least the 10th person taken into custody for allegedly threatening President Reagan during the past two weeks, is being held under $50,000 bond. James T. McCaughey, a knitter with a local fish net company, was scheduled to be formally charged Monday with threatening to kill Reagan and assaulting a Secret Service agent who arrested him, authorities said. McCaughey, of Hatboro, Pa. - a suburb of Philadelphia - was taken into custody Saturday shortly after allegedly making a telephone call to the Secret Service, threatening Reagan, a Secret Service spokesman said. The rash of threats against Reagan has occurred following the attempted assassination of the president two weeks ago. Reagan, shot in the chest, returned to the White House Saturday after being hospitalized for 13 days. A Secret Service spokesman said McCaughey would be charged in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia with threatening to kill Reagan and with assaulting a Secret Service agent who arrested him. McCaughey already has been charged with assaulting two local policemen who assisted in his arrest. Ron Muller, owner of a meat and sandwich shop below McCaughey's apartment, described McCaughey as "a quiet guy, loner. I always saw him walking around by himself," he added. The other nine suspects who allegedly threatened the president's life were taken into custody in Raleigh, N.C., suburbs of Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Salisbury, Md., Marion County, Mo., St. Louis, Mo., and Tifton, Ga. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Nicaragua's 'Cmdr. Zero' resigns MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) - The Sandinista's famed "Commander Zero," Eden Pastora, resigned as Nicaraguan Deputy Defense Minister to join the guerrilla war "of another people" - presumably in nearby El Salvador. "I march to where there is the stench of gunpowder," Pastora said in a resignation letter Wednesday to Defense Minster Humberto Ortega Saavedra. "Believe me it is not easy to write this letter (considering) the real possibility of death in this new step in my life," he said. "I go moved by the Sandinista spirit and my quality as a provincial person, a mixture of worker and peasant." Pastora left Nicaragua for his farm in Costa Rica with deputy interior minister Valdivia Hidalgo Herrera, who also resigned his post Wednesday, Sandinista Commander Bayardo Arce said. A hero of the 1979 civil war that deposed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Pastora earned his nom de guerre "Commander Zero" in the spectacular August 22, 1978, takeover of the National Palace in Managua. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Nominee critical after fire President Reagan's nominee to represent the United States on the World Bank was reported in critical condition at a Washington hospital Monday with injuries suffered in a minor fire at the prestigious Cosmos Club. Wilson Schmidt, 54, was staying on the third floor of the club Sunday night when the fire started in an overstuffed chair, apparently from a discarded cigarette, District of Columbia fire officials said. === Page 32 of 128 Note: When my UFOs told me they were going to attack the "higher ups" in the U.S. government, (and I reported it to scientists in advance of this shooting) they were not just joking. I was. # What the Doctors Did "I can't breathe," whispered Ronald Reagan. He was sweating and gray-faced, sagging toward the floor as he walked into the emergency room and was lifted onto a wheeled table. Quick hands began stripping off his clothes. "We don't think he's hit," said a Secret Service man. "We think he broke a rib when we pushed him against the car." But a doctor had already spotted the bullet hole in the President's suit jacket--and the medical team at George Washington University Hospital that was to save the lives of the President and his press secretary was already well into its practiced routine. The President was exhibiting early symptoms of shock. Though alert, Reagan was gasping for air and sweating, and his blood pressure had dropped. Paged on the hospital's speakers, Dr. Joseph M. Giordano, head of the trauma team, hurried to the emergency room, where Reagan's blood pressure quickly recovered after he lay down. The doctor gave the President a local anesthetic and then inserted a tube into the lung cavity just beneath the bullet hole under his left arm. Other physicians and technicians drew blood samples, hooked up an oxygen mask and intravenous tubes to monitor blood gases and administer blood, and inserted a catheter to measure urine flow. On a chest X-ray, the bullet showed up as a white spot in the lower lobe of the left lung. It had torn a 3-inch furrow through the lung, deflating it as it went. But the physicians couldn't be sure whether they had spotted the entire bullet or whether fragments had broken off and struck organs in the abdominal cavity. Further X-rays of the abdomen reassured them. Meanwhile, the President continued to bleed steadily through the tube in his chest. Quickly, the trauma team set up more than a dozen units of blood and prepared for transfusion. Although Reagan is type O-positive, at first they used O-negative, which can be given to anyone regardless of his blood type, and later used O-positive to replace the 2½ quarts lost from the time of injury. In many such gunshot wounds, the lung reinflates and the bleeding stops when the chest tube is inserted, and the bullet can be left where it is without any risk. But Reagan continued to bleed. "What are we doing, Joe?" asked Dr. Sol Edelstein, chief of the emergency room. "Are we headed to ICU or are we headed to OR?" Edelstein wanted to know whether intensive care would be enough, or if an operation was urgent. Surgeon Benjamin Aaron, 47, decided to operate. As the team prepared for the 200-foot journey to the "heart room," fully equipped for major chest and heart surgery, Edelstein cautioned the technicians: "We are going slow, slow, slow." The President was propped at a 30-degree angle on the wheeled cart, or gurney, awake and talking to his wife and aides as he passed; his vital signs were still "rock stable," a doctor said later, and there was no need to risk anyone stumbling over one of the tubes threaded into him. In the operating room, the team gave the President an intravenous dose of the anesthetic thiopental sodium and then passed a tube down his throat so that a respirator could aid his breathing. Then they put him to sleep with nitrous oxide administered through a mask. "We will follow routine trauma protocol," Giordano announced to his colleagues. The first order of business was peritoneal lavage, a procedure to double-check for injuries in the abdominal cavity. Giordano made a small incision under the navel and pumped a clear liquid into the abdomen. The liquid that drained back out seemed free of blood, showing that no organs had been damaged. But to make sure, the fluid was sent to the lab for analysis. After 45 minutes Giordano turned his patient over to the thoracic surgeons, Aaron and Dr. Katherine Chaney. Incision: The President was turned on his right side with his arms taped in front of him. The team removed the chest tube to get more room and then made a 6-inch incision, from under the left nipple to the left side. The President's ribs were spread apart by a metal retractor and, wearing a lamp on his forehead, Aaron peered into the chest. He first removed a large clot of blood and then began searching for the bullet. The surgeon determined that neither the heart nor the aorta, the body's main artery, had sustained any injury. But failing to find the bullet, he ordered another X-ray--a side view of the chest. After half an hour Aaron found the "Devastator" explosive slug, removed it with a probe and handed it to a Secret Service agent, who carried it away in a metal cup. It had failed to explode on impact, but was flattened to the size and shape of a dime, suggesting that it had ricocheted off the Presidential limousine before striking Reagan. Aaron then sutured the tear in the lung, removed the retractor and closed the incision. Christoph Blumrich--NEWSWEEK ## How the surgeons treated Reagan's wounded chest and James Brady's injured brain. # Ohio congressman dies WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Tennyson Guyer, R-Ohio, died at his Washington home early Sunday, apparently in his sleep, his press secretary said. "There has been no official cause of death," said Joseph Jansen, who confirmed the news from the district office in Lima, Ohio. Jansen said Guyer's wife, Mae, told him the 67-year-old lawmaker apparently died peacefully. "Mrs. Guyer wasn't aware there was any problem until she awoke this morning and discovered him," Jansen said Sunday. Jansen said Guyer suffered "a slight heart attack about 1976," but there had been no complications. 4/13/81 "In fact, he had been in better health in recent years than at any earlier time," Jansen said. "He was getting along real well. He's been putting in a minimum of 10 to 12 hour days at the office and had shown no signs of any problems." Guyer, a member of Congress since 1973, was a senator in the Ohio General Assembly from 1959 to 1972 and was mayor of Celina, Ohio, from 1940 to 1944. In Congress, Guyer served on the House Veterans Affairs Committee and most recently headed the special House subcommittee investigating MIAs (missing In action) in Southeast Asia. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Carter denied privileges Former President Carter is not eligible for military commissary privileges, the White House military office said Tuesday. Edward V. Hickey, who heads the office, said Carter does not qualify for the right to shop at Defense Department commissaries, which sell food at reduced prices to military personnel and their families. Hickey said the question of whether the former president can shop at base post exchanges, which sell other goods, is up to the three service secretaries. Phil Wise, Carter's chief of staff, inquired several weeks ago whether Carter, who served as an officer in the Navy, is eligible to shop at the commissaries. The Defense Department ruled a few weeks ago that Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, was not eligible for commissary privileges. The ruling followed disclosure that the household staff at the LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas, had been shopping at area commissaries for about five years. 5/5/81 === Page 33 of 128 Flurry of threats target president - UFO. " higher yes"- WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Secret his aides know he would be loathe to go Service says there has been an upsurge in along with them. threats against President Reagan and Vice President George Bush since the assas- Sination attempt against the president last week. The Secret Service declined Wednesday to divulge the number of threats, but un- confirmed reports said there had been as many as 300 since Reagan and three oth- ers were shot by a gunman March 30. At least three men were picked up this week for allegedly making threats. They were: Edward Richardson, 22, arrested in New York Tuesday; Steven E. Seach, an employee at a suburban Philadelphia boarding school, arrested Monday; and Ronald Peppler, 23, described as a tran- sient, arrested Wednesday night in a Los Angeles Skid Row hotel lobby. Several inquiries are under way on pos- sible new security measures to prevent a repetition of last week's shooting. The recommendations will be turned over to the White House, which also has a study under way. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said nificance of what some have termed a on NBC's "Today" program the presi- failure by government agencies to moni- tor potential threats to the president. dent's schedule and travel plans probably will no longer be available for publication John Hinckley Ir because of the attempt on Reagan's life. Bush's appointments no longer are be- ing issued for publication. Regan said a decision on the president's schedule and on "how much publicity will be given his advance trips" will be made when he re- turns from the hospital. Regan said the FBI might seek more on the pa authority to deal with suspicious persons. ing wrift There also are suggestions Reagan's Regan sai publio appearances be limited, although Dnes 4/9/81 5. - "For "higher ups"- Kissinger loses spot on elite GOP council WASHINGTON (UPI) - Henry Kissinger, who rose to fame and power as secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, has been dumped from the board of the elite Council on Foreign Relations. Winston Lord, president of the 60-year-old private council, called the Kissinger bump a "fluke." But another group member said the opportunity to vote against Kis- singer "was too good to pass up ... The Washington Post reported Thursday that Kissing- er was defeated this week in his bid to be elected to a second term as a board member of the New York-based council, for years the international home of the Republi- can Party. Kissinger was one of nine candidates for eight board seats. Word trickled out Monday about the outcome of the vote, triggering some wrath and consternation among several council officials. David Rockefeller, the board's chairman, expressed his alarm in a formal statement. He said he was sure most of the 24 board members regarded Kissinger as one of the country's "most out- standing public servants" and "deeply regret his retire- ment from the board of directors as a result of the election." Lord, a longtime Kissinger aide, was quoted by the Post as saying the defeat of Kissinger is "really a fluke." OrRIN 6/19/8, oreg 7/29/8, - "FOR " higher where - Haig fires ambassador for 'indiscreet' remarks By GEORGE GEDDA 1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert G. Neumann, who became U.S. ambassa- dor to Saudi Arabia just two months ago, has been fired because of "indis- creet remarks" he made about Secre- tary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. in a private meeting last week, informed sources said Tuesday. The sources said Neumann criticized Haig during a meeting with Senate For- eign Relations Committee chairman Charles Percy, R-III. Haig became aware of the remarks and fired Neu- mann within 24 hours after receiving White House authorization, according to the informants, who asked not to be identified. An aide to Percy refused to describe what Neumann told the senator. "He wouldn't do that because he wants am- bassadors to be able to speak to him freely," said the press aide, Scott Co- hen. "And also, he and Neumann are old friends so he would not do that." The session with Percy was attend- ed by a State Department note-taker and another official from the depart- ment's Middle East Bureau, according to a congressional source who asked not to be identified. with try at the Na three pis Oct. 9 - was in to The FE of the ar The world -1/01" higherape- Nationalist killed SALISBURY Zimbabwe (AP) - An assassin killed/a top officiabol a South African black national- ist movement in suburban Salisbury, authorities said Saturday, Joe Gqabi was shot and killed at point-blank range as he was leaving his home in Ashdown Park Friday night, Zimbabwe's information minister, Nathan Sha- muyarira, told reporters Gqabi's body was found outside his house in the middle-class suburb soon after the shooting. Police found a rifle, silencer and nine spent car- tridges near the scene of the shooting, Shamuyarira said. Shamuyarira condemned the slaying, but did not speculate who might have been responsible. Gqabi was a leader of the African National Con- gress, or ANC, the main black nationalist organization campaigning for an end to white-minority rule in South Africa. South African police sought him fo political offences. The ANC is outlawed in South Africa but ha offices in several black African nations, as well as i several foreign capitals. greg 8/2/8, "Here you have to have a delicate bal- ance between protection and politics." Re- gan said. "He's a politician. He likes to be with people; he was elected by people. Now, to prevent that man from getting close to people . . . is wrong, so we're going to have to balance that off." Bush has had extra security since the attack on Reagan, in evidence Tuesday night when he attended a dinner at the same hotel where Reagan was attacked. Noting that a Washington newspaper carried both Reagan's and Bush's sched- ules the day the president was shot, Bush's press secretary Peter Teeley said, "It's a different thing for reporters to know where he's going to be, as opposed to putting it in print." "I don't want this press office to be responsible for a man with a gun in his hands and the vice president's schedule in his pocket," remarked one White House aide. Meantime, Regan played down the sig- === Page 34 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Poles shake up cabinet, propose massive layoffs WARSAW, Poland (UPI) -- Prime Minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski announced a major cabinet shake-up Friday in a bid to revive the nation's faltering economy, a day after he told a Soviet-bloc economic summit Poland could solve its crisis on its own. The move, which involved condensing 11 economic related ministries into six and the firing of eight cabinet ministers, came a day after the government proposed a drastic austerity program, including laying off 1.2 million workers, to pull Poland back from the brink of bankruptcy. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, meanwhile, was expected in Warsaw later in the day, apparently carrying a warning from Moscow against liberalization before the Polish Communist Party Congress opens July 12. Jaruzelski's bold move was one of the most sweeping cabinet changes the Polish government has seen and the most extensive shake-up since the labor unrest began a year ago. The prime minister, an army general, announced the changes in a nationally televised address to Parliament which was winding up a two-day session on the nation's economic crisis. In one key post -- the mining and energy ministry -- Jaruzelski appointed another general, Czeslaw Piotrowski. Coal production has slumped heavily in the past year, especially since the five-day work week was instituted, and coal exports -- once Poland's chief foreign currency earners -- have dropped off, angering the Soviet Union and other East bloc allies. The government economic program presented to Parliament Thursday said the five-day week for miners was inviolable, and other means must be found to increase production. The prime minister flew back from the East bloc's COMECON economic alliance summit in Sofia, Bulgaria, to announce the changes. Jaruzelski had told the COMECON prime ministers' meeting that while Poles "appreciate the intentions" of a sharp Soviet warning letter last month, the belief has been strengthened that "the party, by reconstructing its leading role, is able to fulfill its historical mission (and) lead the country out of crisis with its own resources." Deputy Prime Minister Zbigniew Madej outlined the chaos in Poland's economy to the first session of Parliament Thursday, using nationalism to appeal for workers to immediately adopt the slogan "The homeland is in need." Madej, the planning commission chairman, said industrial output this year had dropped 18 percent in May and national income was predicted to drop 15 percent. Oregonian 7/3/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Reagan faith in Casey withstands court ruling By TERENCE HUNT Oregonian 7/16/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan has full confidence in William J. Casey and wants him to stay on as CIA director despite a ruling he knowingly misled investors in a 1960s business deal, White House officials said Wednesday. The federal judge's May 19 ruling against Casey surfaced Tuesday within hours of Max Hugel's resignation as chief of clandestine operations. Hugel, a Casey confidante, denied allegations published in The Washington Post that he improperly slipped inside information on a firm he once headed to two Wall Street brokers. He said he was stepping aside to avoid having the allegations harm the administration and his colleagues at the CIA. While Reagan was publicly backing Casey, CBS said that Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., was telling his colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee that Casey should be replaced. Goldwater is chairman of the committee. Goldwater, who was not directly quoted, has been unhappy with the way Casey has been running the agency and was particularly perturbed by the appointment of Hugel, CBS said. But Cable News Network said Goldwater called the CBS story "a malicious lie." Cable News quoted Katherine Grammer, an aide to Goldwater, as saying that Goldwater had spoken to Casey Wednesday and told Casey the Senate panel would look into the charges. Ms. Grammer also told Cable News that Goldwater told Casey, "I think everything's going to be all right." The court ruling against Casey came in connection with an unrelated business deal in which a group of unhappy stockholders charged in a civil suit that Casey and other directors of a now-defunct firm misled them in attempts to solicit investors. - UFOs "higher ups" - By GEORGE LARDNER JR. LA Times-Washington Post Service Oregonian 7/16/81 WASHINGTON -- The CIA has a reputation for making the strictest security checks in the U.S. intelligence community, but its investigation of Max Hugel appears to have been a hurry-up, seven-day job that failed to sound even a mild alarm about his complex business career. Hugel, who held one of the CIA's most sensitive posts, wasn't particularly helpful himself. His dealings with two Wall Street brokers in the early 1970s involved what Hugel described as attempted "blackmail," but he said he saw no need to report this or other details of the acrimonious relationship when he joined the agency earlier this year. The CIA's investigation posed a sharp contrast to the measured pace outlined in an official description of the agency's standard procedure. Reaction from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee indicated that the Hugel matter could cause problems for the Reagan administration on Capitol Hill. As deputy director for operations, the post he resigned Tuesday, Hugel had access to the government's top secrets and directed the agency's global network of covert intelligence agents. The first interviews concerning Hugel were conducted by the CIA's Office of Security beginning Jan. 14, just one week before Hugel started work at the agency, and the last were completed on Jan 16. === Page 35 of 128 WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1981 # Brown denies illegality in misuse of computer By GEORGE REASONS LA Times-Washington Post Service SACRAMENTO - Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., his office wracked by unprecedented controversy over alleged misuse of a computer for political purposes and by charges of a cover-up, admitted Monday making blunders but denied doing anything illegal. In his first public defense since Wednesday, when the California Fair Political Practices Commission recommended a criminal investigation into actions of some of Brown assistants, the governor accused the commission of unfair tactics and called its charges of possible criminality "nonsense." The two-term governor, who wants to run for the U.S. Senate next year, insisted at a press conference that he was unaware that lower-level employees in his office were considering use of a state-leased computer for future Brown campaigns. Brown said the original plan for the computer was to expand his "outreach" communications with constituents throughout California, but "some political uses were considered without my authorization." Speaking in an almost non-stop staccato, the governor said, "I now believe that a number of mistakes were made in establishing and organizing outreach efforts from the governor's office. "Additional mistakes and even serious errors of judgment were made when the Los Angeles Times article appeared (Dec. 6) and the FPPC investigation got under way." In its report, the commission, which launched the investigation after disclosures by the Los Angeles Times, said it was unable to develop sufficient evidence to establish violations of the Fair Political Practices Act because the governor's office did not cooperate. "The commission cannot state with complete confidence that it has actually received all relevant documentary evidence, nor can it warrant that the information it does possess is entirely accurate," the report said. The governor insisted that his office cooperated fully with the commission. # Wildlife group calls for Watt's removal By G.G. LaBELLE WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's largest conservation organization broke its longstanding silence on Interior Secretary James Watt with a flourish Tuesday. It asked President Reagan to fire him. Jay D. Hair, executive vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, said the stand was taken after a membership survey demonstrated overwhelming opposition to Watt's policies after his six months in office. "Sad to say, we have reached the point where removal is the only option that we see open to the president," Hair said. "He places a much higher priority on development and exploitation than on conservation. . . . He pays lip service to environmental protection. . . . He is working to undermine or circumvent many of our basic environmental protection laws." Hair said the federation's poll showed Watt was "out of step not only with the views of conservation leaders . . . but with the mainstream of American thought on conservation issues." "He has quite frankly lost the confidence of Americans who are concerned about our environment," he said. Hair made the announcement at a news conference, saying he had just come from a meeting with White House officials at which he presented a letter to Reagan asking Watt's removal as secretary. === Page 36 of 128 - UFOs "higher up" - # Brady suffers major seizure **By EVANS WITT** WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary James S. Brady suffered a major seizure Monday, a new and worrisome side effect of the head wound he sustained in the assassination attempt on President Reagan March 30. The "grand mal" seizure struck Brady shortly after he had breakfast in his George Washington University Hospital room, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said. Doctors immediately treated the seizure with intravenous medication and anesthesia, Speakes said. At midafternoon, physicians at the hospital reported Brady still was under anesthesia in the recovery room, a statement issued by the White House said. The statement added that Brady was being monitored continuously by electroencephalograph, an electronic device which monitors brain waves. Brady's vital signs were reported to be normal at midafternoon. Such seizures are "not exactly unexpected in cases of this type," Speakes quoted Dr. Daniel Ruge, the White House physician, as saying. Experts say many brain injuries are frequently followed by seizures. Brady suffered massive brain damage when a bullet struck him in the forehead. This seizure may be only the first of a series that could trouble Brady for the rest of his life, Speakes said. A neurosurgeon not connected with the case said such seizures are common with injury to the frontal lobe of the brain, as sustained by Brady. If a series of such seizures should follow, this could mean post-trauma epilepsy, he said. The surgeon, who asked not to be identified, said this form of epilepsy if it develops can be controlled by drugs and has a good remission rate. Richard Ellis, a public relations representative at the hospital, described the seizure as a "sudden loss of consciousness immediately followed by a generalized convulsion." Ellis said a brain scan did not show a cause for the seizure and did, in fact, show continued healing of Brady's brain damage. He said the seizure's impact on Brady could not yet be assessed. "It can be very serious or not so serious," Speakes said. "They are still evaluating how it will affect Brady." Speakes said that such a seizure would not necessarily leave any noticeable effects. "In most cases, you are unchanged in your effects after the patient has come out of it," Speakes said. 8/4 - UFOs "higher up" - # Shotgun blasts wing Texas state legislator AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- An assailant who was apparently lying in wait fired four shotgun blasts at a state legislator Friday, wounding him in the left elbow, police said. Police said they had no suspects and knew of no motive for the shooting. Mike Martin, a freshman Republican from the East Texas town of Longview, was listed in good condition in Brackenridge Hospital. Leslie Smith, his former campaign manager, said four shotgun pellets struck Martin but passed through his flesh without breaking any bones. Smith said Martin, who crusaded to require the teaching of "creation-science" in the public schools, had received threats in the past but never reported them or took them seriously. "His attitude is he doesn't understand, if this is tied to the threats, why anybody would be interested in a state representative. The job just isn't that big a deal," Smith said at a news conference. Martin, 29, who has a wife, a 3-year-old son and a 6-week-old daughter, was shot at about 2:40 a.m. as he got out of his car in a trailer park where he is living in a recreational vehicle during a special legislative session. Martin's car, bearing official plates and a bumper sticker reading "I Am Bound for the Promised Land," was between him and the gunman. The passenger-side windows were blown out and the car had 17 holes in it. Police Lt. Pete Neal said the assailant apparently fired from about 90 feet away, based on the location of 12-gauge shotgun shells found. Lt. Neal said 90 feet was a "maximum range" for a 12-gauge shotgun with "double-0" buckshot. The lieutenant said it "would appear" that someone was lying in wait for Martin. Each shotgun shell contains nine pellets, according to Sgt. Robert Ballard, "and all it takes is one in a vital zone to kill." Smith said Martin had worked until about 11 p.m. with a secretary, Mary Booth, then went back to his legislative office to write letters. Smith said Martin habitually worked until 2 or 3 a.m. 8/1/81 - UFOs "higher up" - # Iranian murdered 7/24/81 Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran -- Hojatoleslam Hassan Beheshti, a cousin of assassinated Iranian strongman Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti and a candidate for parliament, was murdered Thursday, the last day of the country's violent campaign for the presidency and parliamentary by-elections. Hojatoleslam Mohieddin Fazel Harani, another parliamentary candidate, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the southern town of Eghlid, Radio Tehran said. Three of people were wounded in a flurry of some 100 bullets, the radio said. The presidential election, necessary because of the impeachment of president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, appears to be a shoo-in for Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai. His three opponents endorsed him earlier this week. About the only unknown will be the voter turnout. Radio Tehran said that Hojatoleslam Beheshti, a 36-year-old theology teacher, and his 4-year-old nephew were shot to death when Beheshti opened the door of his home in the central town of Isfahan to men saying they had a letter for him. The killers fled and have not been identified, but Radio Tehran called them "counter-revolutionary hypocrites." In a separate incident in Tehran, Mohammad Hassan Jamshidi, an Islamic security official, was shot and killed by two attackers at his home, the Iranian Pars news agency reported. The exact motive of Thursday's assassinations, the latest in a series of attacks and government reprisals, was not immediately known. But Radio Tehran blamed the Eghlid attempt on "the agents of America and the feudalists of the region." Hojatoleslam Beheshti's cousin, head of the ruling Islamic Republic Party (IRP), was killed in a devastating bomb attack at party headquarters here June 28. Four ministers and 27 deputies were among the 74 people who died in the blast. The latest assassination followed a warning Wednesday by Tehran revolutionary prosecutor Assadollah Lajevardi, who is known for his role in the execution of hundreds of opponents of the clerical regime. === Page 37 of 128 - UFOs "higher ups" - # jack anderson ## Accidents aid Castro WASHINGTON -- Within less than three months, mysterious plane crashes have eliminated two of Fidel Castro's potentially most dangerous rivals in the volatile politics of Latin America; Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and Ecuador's President Jaime Roldos. No one has made a connection between the Cuban dictator and the deaths of Torrijos and Roldos -- much less suggested that Castro's agents were responsible for the plane crashes. But stranger things have happened in the violence-prone political arena of Latin America. And there is no doubt that Castro has profited by the convenient departure of two charismatic leaders who had contested the Cuban's self-proclaimed role as the foremost voice of independence in the Western Hemisphere. Panamanian officials are still investigating the cause of the air crash that took Torrijos' life. Bad weather over the jungle was a reasonable explanation. But it may be more than mere coincidence that Torrijos' firm control of Panama -- and his successful negotiation of the treaty under which the United States relinquished control of the Panama Canal -- had won him respect across the Latin American political spectrum. On grounds of ego alone, that would have been enough to infuriate Castro. But Torrijos also had made no secret of his distaste for the Cuban dictator's support for leftist guerrillas in Central America. Torrijos' opposition to Castro was especially significant because he once had been one of the Cuban's closest allies. In 1974, for example, Torrijos was the first leader in the hemisphere to recognize Castro's government -- over the objection of the Organization of American States. After the Sandinistas' victory over Nicaragua's dictator Anastasio Somoza, Torrijos and Castro jointly agreed to give the new government "respectful help." But while Torrijos withdrew his military forces from Nicaragua, Castro sent in still more troops. Torrijos was furious, and cooperation between the two dictators ceased. In a confidential cable filed after Torrijos' death, U.S. Embassy political analysts in Panama warned the State Department that his absence "weakens the forces of reform and opposition to Cuban influence in the Caribbean area." State Department sources confided privately to my associate Bob Sherman that they expect U.S.-Panamanian relations to suffer as the result of Torrijos' death. President Aristides Royo is considered a weak leader who may well decide to use the United States as a scapegoat to distract Panamanians from their own very real problems. Adding to the problem is the fact that Torrijos co-opted a significant portion of his domestic political opposition by giving them jobs in the government. With Torrijos' iron control now gone, these political extremists of the right and left may feel free to pursue their own goals. Pulling Uncle Sam's beard is always a popular sport among political factions in Latin America, so the chaotic situation left in Panama by Torrijos' death can only hurt the United States. And whatever hurts the United States pleases Castro. It's UFOs!! The United States aside, Castro can contemplate the post-Torrijos situation in Panama with anticipation. The prospect of political turmoil, as various factions vie to succeed the fallen strongman, can only give Castro hope of yet another Caribbean conquest. Castroism thrives on chaos. org J 8/11/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Top Khomeini judge reported assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Assassins shot and killed the personal representative of Iranian leader the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the northeastern Iranian city of Gorgan Tuesday, Tehran radio reported. The official Pars news agency reported earlier that chief religious judge Seyyed Kazem Noor-Mofidi escaped the machine-gun attack on his entourage. But the later radio report said the judge, also leader of the Friday prayers, died in a hospital after the attack. Two bodyguards also were killed in the shooting, the radio said. org 8/12/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Attack hurts bishop MUNICH, West Germany (AP) -- A man squirted liquid into the faces of Roman Catholic Bishop Matthias Defregger and a parish priest as they walked into a church in Munich Saturday. Both clergymen were slightly injured but it was not immediately clear what liquid the attacker used, police said. A police spokesman said the attacker, identified as a Munich clerk, refused to give any indication of his motive. He was taken into custody for questioning. The bishop was a major in the German army during the Nazi regime. At org 8/16/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ## Princess robbed MENTON, France (AP) -- Jewels reportedly worth $4.1 million were stolen from the Riviera villa of Princess Maria-Sol de Mesiade-Lesseps, a relative of Spain's King Juan Carlos, informed sources said Saturday. If the value is confirmed, it would be the biggest Riviera robbery since the theft of $18 million in jewels from the villa of a member of the ruling family of Qatar 12 months ago. The princess and local police would make no comment on the reports. org 8/16/81 === Page 38 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Power blackout hits south England, Wales LONDON (UPI) -- Breaks in three major power lines cut electricity to millions of homes, factories and hospitals in south and southwest England and Wales Wednesday in the worst accidental supply disruption since 1962. Ten counties lost power for between 90 minutes and 4 hours when three links in the National Grid electricity network failed within 10 minutes of each other soon after 9 a.m. (1 a.m. PDT), electricity officials said. A spokesman said it was the worst power failure not caused by industrial action since 1962. Aug 5/6/81 SAME DAY!! - UFOs 6 Projects - # Copenhagen hit by blackout COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- A break in an electrical cable plunged Copenhagen into darkness for two hours Tuesday night in a major blackout halting all trains, elevators, traffic lights and radio broadcasts. Police reported no major incidents, "but the full effects of the blackout will not be known until tomorrow morning," a spokesman said. "We have had extra patrols on the streets and although there has been some extra trouble and criminal activity, it has certainly not been as widespread as one might have expected." Aug 5/6/81 # Danes left in dark COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Government and public utility officials were investigating the cause of a massive power failure that left the Danish capital and the mainland of Zealand blacked out for as long as two hours Tuesday night. Joergen Gullev, a spokesman for the publicly owned Danish power company NESA, said as many as 1 million customers were affected by the power failure, which started shortly before 9 p.m. Aug 5/6/81 Note: See all the power blackouts caused by my UFOs throughout this file!! Also, these clips will show you how hard and persistently my UFOs are attacking "power" over the world!! (This could also apply to the "higher ups," Presidents etc who are being eliminated in one way or another... such leaders having, of course, "power." Owens === Page 39 of 128 51,788 *** - 2 of 6 projects (was against U.S. govt.) (Also, blow against U.S. economy promised.) # Air controllers told: Return By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air traffic controllers illegally walked off their jobs Monday and crippled commercial flights in the first nationwide strike of federal workers in history. President Reagan called them lawbreakers and a federal judge imposed accelerating fines that could total $4.75 million in a week. Reagan, taking a hard line, sought imprisonment of the strike leaders. But U.S. District Judge Harold Greene here refused to grant a government request that he imprison Robert E. Poli, president of the striking Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and 10 of his colleagues. Greene fined Poli $1,000 a day for the strike's duration but took no action against the other 10. Finding the union in contempt of court for ignoring an earlier back-to-work order, Greene said to allow such strikes "would be to invite chaos." The union will be fined $250,000 if the strike is not over by 8 p.m. Tuesday, Greene said; $500,000 more the next day; and $1 million a day for the next four days after that. Asked if he would obey the court, Poli said, "If the question is 'will the strike continue,' the answer is yes." Reagan said any striking controller who refused to resume work within 48 hours would be fired. Reagan was uncompromising. "I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning they are in violation of the law, and if they don't report for duty within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated," the president said. He noted that controllers promised not to strike when they took their jobs. Pictures on Page A8. More stories and photos on Page B4. But the strikers held firm under the pressure and said that no matter how much the union was fined, it had only $3.5 million in its treasury. "If we're all fired, I want to know who's going to work the airplanes," Poli said in response to Reagan's ultimatum. Criminal charges of violating the law against strikes by federal employees, which could bring a year in prison and fines of $1,000, were filed Monday night against 22 union members -- some of them leaders and some of them rank-and-file workers in 11 cities. In federal courtrooms across the country, federal judges, acting at the request of U.S. attorneys, signed temporary restraining orders requiring controllers in their regions to go to work. Some 2,500 supervisors and non-union controllers filled in for the absent controllers with military controllers standing by to help. But the nation's air traffic was disrupted and the airlines said they were suffering "severe financial losses." The Pentagon has ordered 370 trained military air traffic controllers to help handle plane movements in 12 major cities from coast to coast, it was announced Monday. The military controllers, all certified by the FAA, "will require instruction in local airspace and procedures, so it will be a period of days before they actually become operational," the announcement said. Administrator J. Lynn Helms of the Federal Aviation Administration estimated that 29 percent of the unionized controllers were ignoring the strike call and working. The FAA directed airlines to halve Monday's scheduled flights at 23 major airports, but Helms said by Tuesday 75 percent of the nation's 14,200 scheduled daily commercial flights might be permitted to operate. The government said it was safe to fly even with most controllers off the job, but a Federal Aviation Administration official in New York told of a "near miss" over northern New Jersey about noon Monday -- though it was not suggested the incident was related to the strike. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis vowed not to resume bargaining with the controllers' union until the strike ends. He said any controller still on strike at 11 a.m. local time Wednesday would never again get a job with the government. He said that was true no matter how many were on strike. But striking controllers appeared ready to stand fast. Doug Ramsey, president of a local in Salt Lake City, said of the president's threat: "If he figures on firing 13,000 controllers to solve the problem, he's in for a very rude awakening. It would take two to three years to hire enough controllers to get the air travel system back to the way it is now." "We may have a difficult time" replacing strikers, Lewis acknowledged but said the government would open new schools, if need be, to "start training people." FAA officials, speaking anonymously, acknowledged that firing large numbers of air controllers would create a severe problem. They noted it takes three years to produce a fully skilled controller. The airline industry estimated the strike might cost the U.S. economy a quarter of billion dollars a day. It was the first official nationwide walkout by any group of federal employees, although postal workers participated in a wildcat strike in the Northeast and other scattered locales in 1970. Three Air Force jets brought senators back to Washington in time to participate in the final debate and vote on Reagan's tax-cut proposals. Fifty-five senators signed a letter to be sent to all controllers warning that the Senate would block any settlement arising from an "illegal" strike. A new pay scale would have to be approved by Congress. oreg 8/4/81 === Page 40 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - (war against U.S. govt.) # CIA: Enemies laugh while friends despair By CORD MEYER ONG 8/8/81 WASHINGTON - Now that the smoke of dubious battle has cleared from William Casey's successful struggle to survive as CIA director, Reagan officials are trying to assess the real damage and to determine what can be done to repair it. Contrary to assurances that this episode has passed harmlessly away like a brief summer storm, President Reagan's ability to deal with foreign threats has been seriously weakened. As one Western European intelligence official remarked, "You have become a laughingstock among your enemies and the despair of your friends." He was not referring to the incidental damage done to the reputation of individuals involved in this affair but to the institutional wreckage left behind by the exposure of the first attempt by the Reagan administration to mount, via the CIA, a covert action operation of some size and significance. Whether the operation was aimed at strengthening the opposition to Col. Moammar Khadafy's dictatorial rule in Libya or directed at reducing Khadafy's influence in some other African country, the unhappy fact remains that such an operation was exposed even before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had completed their secret review. To guard against just this kind of security breach, the law providing for congressional oversight of the CIA covert action was amended last fall to reduce from eight to two the number of committees that have to be informed. The hope was that behind the closed doors of the intelligence committees with their good reputation for security, congressional reservations about any secret project could be resolved without devastating publicity. That hope has now been proved illusory. Although the identity of the leakers is not yet known, the chronology and content of their revelations throw a good deal of light on their motivation. Just as Casey was reeling under senatorial criticism for his appointment of the hapless Max Hugel, his judgment was brought further into question by a press story that the House Intelligence Committee had taken the unusual step of warning the president in writing against a covert operation in Africa that Casey had approved. Compounding the damage, the next leak charged that the secret plan called for an escalating paramilitary campaign against Khadafy and his possible assassination. Although Hugel had alarmed the House committee in his presentation, White House staffers, congressional sources and intelligence officials are convincing in their unanimous denial that the plan itself contained any authorization for assassination or paramilitary activity. By making a reasonable proposal appear wildly irresponsible, the anonymous leakers were trying by misinformation to kill two birds with one stone. Timing their revelations to coincide with allegations about Casey's past financial dealings, they obviously hoped to remove from the scene a man who is known to believe that discreet American support to democratic forces abroad may sometimes be necessary. Secondly, these faceless leakers are so opposed to covert action of any kind that the damage to American interests seemed a small price to pay for demonstrating that the congressional review process is bound to self-destruct. Certainly many will argue that this threat of unauthorized leaks makes any covert action impossible. Predictably, Khadafy has made the most of these exaggerated revelations and has posed on Libyan radio as an innocent target of CIA assassination plotting. Even more damaging is the apprehension that such self-destructive publicity fosters among our Western allies. Cooperation with friendly intelligence services is often essential to political action operations designed to keep alive a democratic movement under siege by heavily subsidized Soviet proxies. But European experts warn that it will be a long time before any foreign intelligence service dares expose itself to the hazards of the congressional review process. If this leak were the only recent one of its kind, it might be explained away as a unique aberration but in another damaging disclosure Carl Bernstein, in the July 18 issue of the New Republic, spelled out in excruciating detail the channels through which he claims the CIA is helping arm the Afghan rebels. In a mind-boggling mistake of judgment, the Voice of America broadcast this story in its English-language service to Russia and the rest of the world, appearing to officially confirm Soviet charges of American involvement. Instead of talking about how it intends to unleash the CIA, the Reagan administration's first priority is to find and leash the leakers. In the CIA, officers who had access to the African project are being required to take lie detector tests, and, if there was an internal leak, there is a high probability that the guilty will be identified and fired. But the members and staffs of the two congressional committees have accepted no such discipline. Until they do, their protestations of innocence must be taken with a grain of salt. Cord Meyer, a syndicated columnist, formerly served as an official in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. === Page 41 of 128 - UFOs & Projects (attack on U.S. Govt.) - + "deadly air space" # Reagan to fire airport strikers oreg J 8/3/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Air traffic controllers walked off the job just after dawn Monday in defiance of a back-to-work order. President Reagan issued an ultimatum that strikers will be fired in 48 hours if they do not return to work. The administration also moved to impound the $3.5 million strike fund of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and to decertify the union. The Federal Aviation Administration said it asked the major commercial airlines to reduce their flights by 50 percent beginning at 8 a.m. PDT. "We hope to ease that later," an FAA spokesman said, adding the decision on what flights to cut rests with the carriers. The union said more than 80 percent of the 17,000 controllers were striking. Reagan, in an impromptu news conference at the White House, noted it is illegal for federal employees to strike and said: "I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning, they are in violation of the law. If they don't report for work in 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated." U.S. District Judge Joyce Green ordered PATCO officials to appear in court at 5 p.m. Monday to show cause why union members should not be held in contempt of court for violating its back-to-work order. The Justice Department obtained the temporary restraining order before the strike began at about 7 a.m. local time. "We are bringing the full force of the Justice Department down on the controllers," said Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis. The strike forced one airline -- Pittsburgh-based USAir -- to cancel all of its flights until at least noon. Other airlines tried to continue their normal flight schedules, as supervisory personnel took over for the striking controllers. Of the 17,000 controllers nationwide, 15,000 are members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Train and bus lines reported their switchboards flooded with inquiries and reservations, and many people booked flights Sunday night to be sure of getting to distant cities before the strike Monday. "I don't want to get stuck or have to ride a bus all the way home," said Frank Singleton, a Detroit businessman who was in New Orleans but heading to Albuquerque, N.M., on the next leg of his trip. The strike could ground more than half the nation's 800,000 daily air passengers, cost the airline industry $80 million a day and idle up to 65 percent of all air traffic. The FAA said it had 2,400 supervisors and 150 military controllers available to replace the striking controllers, but they could handle only 40 to 50 percent of all air carrier flights. Most of the flights under 500 miles would be grounded. At the White House, spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan was "personally disappointed" at the walkout and directed decertification of PATCO and impoundment of the strike fund. Despite a temporary restraining order prohibiting the strike and threats of imprisonment and fines, it appeared early Monday that most union controllers obeyed their union and walked off the job. Jim Stakum, a PATCO official, said the union is prepared to stay out for at least one month, as picket lines were formed outside several FAA facilities. "I am ready to go to jail," said Steve Wallaert, president of Norfolk, Va., PATCO Local 291. PATCO said using "unqualified military personnel" as "strike-breakers" would "place the flying public at great peril." "Basically, what we're looking at first is safety," said Lewis. "We're going to do everything we can to keep it safe, but there are going to be delays." PATCO, seeking a 32-hour work week, better retirement benefits and a $10,000 raise that would put top controller pay at about $59,000 annually, rejected the government's last contract offer of a $50 million package and negotiations broke off at about 2:30 a.m.. (Related story, picture on page 2) - UFOs & Projects - ## Air Force grounds F-16 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Air Force says it has grounded the F-16 fighter-bomber for an undetermined length of time because of problems with its flight control computer. The force of 269 planes, most of them attached to the Tactical Air Command, was "temporarily restricted from flight" after one of the sleek single-engine jets crashed near Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Wednesday and killed the pilot, an Air Force spokesman said Friday. oreg J 8/8/81 - UFOs & Projects - ## Missing chopper sought KODIAK, Alaska (UPI) -- A search was conducted in the Gulf of Alaska on Saturday for a Coast Guard helicopter that apparently crashed with four men aboard while on a mission to help a disabled fishing boat. oreg J 8/8/81 === Page 42 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Savage summer storms sweep across England LONDON (UPI) -- Savage summer storms swept across England and dumped more than an inch of rain on the capital in just over an hour Thursday, flooding subways and shops, snarling traffic and knocking out equipment at Heathrow Airport. Thunderclouds plunged London into semi-darkness. In Manchester, where flooding 4 feet deep was reported, more than 3 1/2 inches of rain fell on the city, the most in a day since 1877. A tunnel carrying express trains from the north into London was flooded and subway passengers paddled out of King's Cross station, one of several to be shut down in the storms which lashed the city most of the day. Lightning knocked out transmissions from Capital Radio. The station was back on the air 15 minutes later, broadcasting "Raindrops are falling on my head." A spokesman for the Royal Automobile Club said flooding caused major traffic tieups, but it said roads were "not impassable." The storms terrified passengers in aircraft stacked over Heathrow. "We bumped up and down for over an hour and then there was a terrific flash and a bang and we thought the plane had been hit," said Grace Burnett of New York. "I've been in a lot of storms in the air, but this was the worst," said Joss Taylor, of Los Angeles. "It was a relief to get down." Flights to the United States were delayed and officials said the storms affected equipment used to transmit routing information to pilots. A TWA flight from Los Angeles carrying Natalie Cole, singer-daughter of the late Nat King Cole, was diverted to Manchester. A spokesman for the London meteorological center said 1.33 inches of rain fell in less than 90 minutes. "It was like somebody threw a bucket of water over you," he said. Scotland Yard reported severe flooding in central London and said its information room was working "flat out" to deal with emergency calls. Greg J 8/6/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Storms flail plains United Press International Storms scattered tornadoes across the central Plains, the Ohio Valley and the Northeast Wednesday. A small airplane headed for Nebraska crashed in a northeast Iowa cornfield during heavy rain Wednesday. The pilot and two passengers were injured. Thunderstorms developed late Wednesday over the northern Plains and moved into the upper Mississippi Valley early Thursday. Heavy rain threatened central Nebraska and Iowa with flooding Thursday. Up to 6 inches of rain fell in Nebraska Wednesday. A severe thunderstorm watch was posted Wednesday over central and eastern Minnesota. Greg J 8/6/81 - UFOs & Projects + # Nation's first commercial rocket fails MATAGORDA ISLAND, Texas (UPI) -- Test-firing the engine of America's first commercial rocket was supposed to bring private enterprise into the space age. But something went wrong on an isolated Texas launch pad. The Percheron rocket blew its top. Engineers for Space Services, Inc. said they believe the failure of a tiny liquid oxygen valve sparked Wednesday's spectacular explosion of the slim white rocket, costing the fledgling venture $1.2 million and setting them back at least six months. No one was injured. "Welcome to the rocket business," said SSI spokesman Charles Chafer. The 55-foot Percheron rocket, scheduled for a test launch later this month, was nearing the end of a five-second "burp" test when the top two-thirds suddenly blew 200 feet into the air. Four chunks of the rocket's nosecone landed harmlessly back on the ground -- well clear of the closest observers, a team of engineers huddled 600 feet away in a nearby sandbagged trailer. The rocket's base stayed bolted to the launch pad through three explosions. "We're disappointed, of course, but we'll keep going," Chafer said. SSI believes it can place business communication satellites in space cheaper and faster than the government -- which currently has a five-year waiting list of companies. Greg J 8/6/81 === Page 43 of 128 # The world - UFOs & Projects - ## Saboteurs hit power grid JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Saboteurs attacked the national electrical power-supply system -- hard-pressed to meet the demands of a Southern Hemisphere winter -- at three locations Tuesday, police said. The limpet mines that police said were used are trademarks of the outlawed African National Congress, which seeks the overthrow of South Africa's white-minority government. The congress, in a statement issued in Tanzania, claimed responsibility for two of the blasts. The black nationalist organization also has attacked power installations in the past. Police said the limpet mines, which can be attached to any metallic surface, blew up parts of major power stations at Camden, 130 miles southeast of Johannesburg, and Arnot, 100 miles northeast of Johannesburg. An electrical transformer under construction on the outskirts of the capital of Pretoria also was damaged, police said. All three attacks took place at about 2 a.m. No one was injured. The government-run Electricity Supply Commission refused to say how much the attacks on the rural power stations would affect the capacity of the country's national power grid. System shortages recently forced power cutbacks in selected areas. Commission spokesman C.J. Uys said the system was coping well, despite the explosions, "but we are working to a tight schedule, and our undertaking depends on matters not going awry." - UFOs & Projects - ## 25 die in monsoon NEW DELHI (AP) -- A four-day downpour resulted in the deaths of at least 25 persons and left 100,000 homeless in the city of Jaipur, about 120 miles southwest of here, authorities said Tuesday. More than 500 people were missing after 20,000 homes collapsed, roads flooded, airports closed, and power and water services were disrupted in what local authorities called the city's worst rains. An overflowing dam flooded at least six nearby villages, officials said. Monsoons that started June 1 have resulted in the deaths of 354 persons nationwide. oreg 7/22/81 - UFOs & Projects - ## China may seek flood-relief funds PEKING (AP) -- Chinese authorities are deciding whether to seek international disaster aid following the world's deadliest flood in 20 years, but officials were still inspecting the two provinces damaged in the deluge. Rescue efforts continued Tuesday along the subsiding Yangtze River while civil affairs officials toured Sichuan and Hubei provinces to determine the scope of the disaster that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives. The Chinese Red Cross Society said Tuesday it is discussing whether to seek international assistance. The United Nations office in Peking said it has not yet been notified of a request for aid. China, which long has rejected foreign disaster aid, already has accepted international disaster relief for the victims of a severe flood last fall in central Hubei province. The rain-swollen river -- China's biggest -- rolled safely through its most dangerous section Monday night, contained by massive dikes. The swirling water spared the vast central China plain in Hubei province, where the rice harvest is under way. The Chinese government reported that 200,000 people have been mobilized to guard the dikes along the Yangtze's lower reaches. oreg 7/22/81 === Page 44 of 128 Associated Press Laserphoto TOUCHDOWN -- Tornado whirls through North Dakota Thursday, menacing cities of Bismarck and Mandan. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Tornadoes rip area in N. Dakota By GORDON HANSON BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- At least four tornadoes born of fierce thunderstorms raked central North Dakota, leveling farm buildings, killing cattle and scattering haystacks and swathed grain. No injuries were reported. The farm area of Morton County, southwest of Bismarck, took the heaviest damage when two twisters roared through Thursday night. A huge funnel was visible from Bismarck and Mandan as civil defense sirens blared shortly after 6 p.m., but no town in the area was hit by a twister. Ron Raps of the National Weather Service in Bismarck said twisters were sighted in western and southern parts of the county, as well as parts of McLean and Wells counties. No estimate of total damage was available, but farmers reported barns and outbuildings were flattened, farm animals killed and injured and crops beaten down. The storm also downed power lines in southern Morton County, according to the sheriff's office. Raps could not estimate how many twisters swept through the region. "Those same clouds may go up and come down a few minutes later," he said. "We had reports of the same funnel cloud probably a dozen times. People see them from different directions, different towns." Raps said one twister tore along the ground southwest of Mandan for at least half an hour at the height of the storms. "It sounded like a freight train," said Willard Griffin, a farmer south of the town of Mandan who was working in the fields when a twister descended. Griffin said he lost 12 farm buildings, including a cattle shed, a hog barn, four granaries and a machine shop. Some of his pigs were crippled, and his haystacks were scattered in the winds. Griffin, his wife and son took refuge from a twister by crawling into a narrow culvert under a road. "You could just barely get into it," Mrs. Griffin said. "We could hear the tornado roaring as it went over us. A mouse was going around in there, and I didn't enjoy that much. And it was dark." John Richter, who farms near the town of Glen Ullin, finished swathing his grain moments before the tornado struck. As Richter watched from a nearby hillside, the twister cut a path 90 yards wide along a half-mile stretch of the field. "It took the grain up into the air and spread it around," he said. At the Clifford Nelson farm, a tornado picked up 23 head of Hereford cattle and slammed them to earth. Twenty were killed, and three with broken legs had to be shot. === Page 45 of 128 22 Oregon Journal, May 14, 1981 (2) Contacts Note: Remember, the U.S. power is what the SIR are attacking! Owens # Nation's electrical grid vulnerable to sabotage, war WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The United States is unprepared to respond to an attack on its electricity system that could cause coast-to-coast blackouts and resulting havoc, Congress has been warned. In a report released Wednesday, the General Accounting Office said damage to the national power grid through sabotage, terrorism or war could eliminate vital functions ranging from defense plants to hospitals. "The consequences of such a power outage could be staggering," the congressional watchdog agency said. "Without power, everything in our modern society naturally grinds to a halt." The GAO blamed the Energy Department for failing to make emergency plans as required by a 1969 executive order and again by Congress three years ago. It noted that an official of the agency's Emergency Electric Power Administration, in a December 1979 memo, said "resources to carry out this effort were insufficient and stated the program was barely alive." The GAO said the agency needs to beef up its administration and plans for managing a disruption and subsequent restoration of the system after attack. The report suggested Congress give the agency a deadline for developing the plans and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency monitor the effort. It said recent studies by the Corps of Engineers, the Energy Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency all found the complex electricity generation and distribution system highly vulnerable. The system is "the mainspring of our industrial economy" although it is taken for granted "until the lights go out," the report said. The 600 megawatts of installed electrical generating capacity supply 30 percent of the nation's energy needs by means of 365,000 miles of high-voltage lines. (and my UFOs!! Owens) -- UFOs & Projects -- # Rain, hail, tornadoes slash Iowa, Missouri By United Press International Severe thunderstorms that rapped Iowa and Missouri with tornadoes, hail and nearly 5 inches of rain, destroying several buildings and aircraft, moved into the upper Midwest Monday, slightly subdued. Up to 9 inches of rain Sunday swamped southeast Texas, forcing the evacuation of about 90 families in the Lake Livingston area. Some homes in the Onalaska area were reported completely under water. There were no injuries. Floodwater began to recede Monday. Thunderstorms moved into Iowa late Sunday, soaking some areas with nearly 5 inches of rain. Several buildings were destroyed, along with several airplanes at an airport near Osceola. No one was injured. Golfball-sized hail battered the Iowa communities of Corydon, Afton and Reinbeck, and Tarkio and Glenwood, Mo. Thundershowers Monday stretched from the Central Plains into the western Great Lakes, along the Gulf Coast and the south Atlantic Seaboard. More than a half-inch of rain fell at Marquette, Mich., and lesser amounts doused Wisconsin. Texas officials evacuated the Lake Livingston families when Long King Creek rose to dangerous levels. The families were taken to schools. "We evacuated 70 to 90 families in the entire county," Polk County Deputy Sheriff Bob Grissom said late Sunday. "We got them out before the water got high," Grissom said. "Now it's impossible to get through. But we've been lucky so far. We've had no casualties in the county." Lake Livingston is about 60 miles north of Houston. Grissom said some homes in the Onalaska area were completely under water. "We had to evacuate about 20 families during the night (from Onalaska)." oreg 6/8/81 -- UFOs & Projects -- # Ship runs aground NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The USS Detroit, a 795-foot supply ship, ran aground Wednesday in Chesapeake Bay at almost the same spot where the battleship Missouri got stuck 31 years ago. The Navy said the Detroit -- which carries extra fuel, ammunition, food and other supplies to service other Navy ships -- was nearly full when it went aground while heading into Hampton Roads. Navy spokesman Lt. Ross Kudlick said there were no injuries among the 500 crew members and no flooding or apparent damage to the vessel. Barges unloaded fuel Wednesday afternoon to lighten the 53,600-ton vessel in the hope it could be pulled off the sandbar at high tide. oreg. 6/11/81 === Page 46 of 128 At Satsop - 6 Projects PK - 4/3/81 # Radiation blamed on loose screws SATSOP, Wash. (AP) - Loose screws on a machine used to X-ray piping welds at the Satsop nuclear power plant construction site probably mean a Satsop worker was doused with a small amount of radiation, officials say. For some unknown reason screws were loosened on a metal faceplate on a radiography machine, a spokesman for the Washington Public Power Supply System said Thursday. WPPSS is building twin plants at Satsop. The machine contains a pellet of iridium-192, a radioactive metal which emits gamma rays, said Richard Romanelli. "He or she undoubtedly was exposed to some radiation, but it would have been a small amount," Romanelli said. WPPSS officials say they do not know who tampered with the faceplate. Removing the faceplate - if indeed it was removed at all - would not have given a person access to the iridium pellet, he added. The tamperer is in no danger from radiation and is not a danger to others, Romanelli said. The maximum radiation would have been equivalent to a dose received in a conventional X-ray, Romanelli said. "We'd like to find out who it was and why the device was tampered with. It's potentially hazardous to tamper with those kinds of devices and we'd like to educate (the person)," Romanelli said. The screws were discovered loosened on the 50-pound machine at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in a room in the WNP-3 reactor auxiliary building. The loosened screws were noticed by Tim Kitzberger, a licensed radiographer employed by Peabody Testing Co., which uses the equipment to test pipe welds. Under normal working conditions, the machine operator stands at a distance, triggering a cable that forces the pellet enclosed in a tube to emerge from the machine and expose the X-ray film, Romanelli said. The state Department of Labor and Industries and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission were notified of the incident, he said. In addition, a WPPSS health physicist arrived at the site Wednesday to determine how much radiation may have escaped from the machine. - 6 Projects PK - 3/24/81 # Snow halts traffic, cuts power By The Associated Press A spring snowstorm buried parts of Virginia and North Carolina with up to 2 feet of snow Monday, blocking roads and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. And at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, where 23 inches of snow fell, shopkeeper Winston Church said he had to make his way through the slippery snow to feed the bears and crack ice so the deer on the mountain could drink. Elsewhere in the state, the snowstorm broke records set half a century ago. The storm Sunday night and Monday dumped up to 20 inches of snow on some parts of southwestern Virginia. "You know how March is - just like a mule," said James Merriman, a plant operator at a filtration plant in Martinsville, Va., where 8.2 inches of snow fell. "You can't predict what it'll do." Virginia State Police said there was 10 to 14 inches of snow in Wythe, Smyth, Bland, Pulaski, Carroll and Bland counties. Falling thick on power lines, the snow wiped out service to more than 17,700 Appalachian Power Co. customers from Botetourt County south to the North Carolina border. Sunday, the North Carolina Highway Patrol closed Interstate 40 near Old Fort after traffic backed up. The patrol said the highway was expected to be out of service until late Monday. Records of more than 50 years fell in some areas of the state as the storm moved toward the Atlantic, harbingers of spring notwithstanding. lotte northeast to Kerr Lake. From 3 to 6 inches of snow fell from the Virginia border north of Raleigh-Durham southwest to the extreme southern mountains, and about 6 inches to nearly a foot of snow fell from Roxboro in Person County along the Virginia border to Greensboro and then southwest through the foothills. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Rocket test delayed MATAGORDA ISLAND, Texas (UPI) - Technicians trying to put a private enterprise rocket into space are taking the weekend off and coming back next week for another attempt to fire up the engine. Attempts to ignite the engine for a 3-second test Friday failed because kerosene fuel leaked onto the black powder igniter. Twice technicians tried to set the engine off but twice they brought the countdown to zero and nothing happened. 5/1/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Cruise missile fails WASHINGTON (UPI) - For the first time in four tests, one of the Navy's Tomahawk cruise missiles, launched from a submerged submarine off the California coast, malfunctioned and crashed onto a test range in Nevada, the Navy has announced. The missile flew over California in its third launching from a submarine and the fourth in a series of tests using a new precision guidance system, the Navy said. 7/3/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Blame fixed on loose nut in nuclear plant shutdown CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) - A mysterious rattle that forced the latest shutdown of Florida Power Corp.'s nuclear power plant here has been traced to a loose nut from the reactor's core, utility officials said Thursday. A preliminary analysis by Babcock & Wilcox, the plant's designer, indicated that a 1-inch threaded steel cylinder recovered from the reactor's steam system was a nut from the top of a tube that houses control-rod mechanisms. Confident that there would be no further complications, officials of the St. Petersburg-based utility said they planned to put the 825-megawatt unit back into service within the next few days. 4/3/81 "Taking into consideration the information provided by Babcock & Wilcox and our own detailed study, we have a high degree of confidence that we can go ahead with a restart in the next few days," said Florida Power spokesman Larry Shriner. "We feel very confident it's a safe thing to do." If the small metal cylinder is one of nearly 3,000 nuts in the reactor core, there should be no problem in restarting the unit, utility officials said they were told by the manufacturer's research plant in Lynchburg, Va. The utility also conducted its own study before the decision was made to put the plant back into operation, Shriner said. === Page 47 of 128 The day the cows flew - UFOs & Projects - # Twister slams E. Washington DEER PARK, Wash. (AP) -- While Neal and Loretta Cotner sat in their living room watching television, their cattle were sailing through the stormy skies of Spokane County, a neighbor says. The neighbor, Jerry Bisbee, says the twister that lifted the cows off the ground during Monday night's storm set them down again no worse for their journey. Bisbee, a neighbor of the Cotners, said the twister touched down just east of here Monday night, flattened a shed and gave the cows the ride of their lives. "It was just like a piece of dynamite hit it. The roof blew off, the sides blew out, the cows went flying," he said. Then, he said, the roof settled back down. No injuries were reported. Spokane County Sheriff's deputies said the wood-and-metal shed was leveled. National Weather Service specialist Jim Mitchell said he didn't know what caused the twister. The Cotners raise beef cattle and hay on their farm just east of Deer Park. Mrs. Cotner says they have six cattle and a week-old bull calf. "The neighbors say the cows were in the shed. Everybody saw it but us. We know Brownie (the mother of the newborn calf) was in there though. We know she went through the electric fence because it was busted and she was on the other side when we found her," she said. Brownie weighs a ton. Tuesday morning, the animals stayed in a far corner of their field. "They are not even coming in for water. They are staying a long way away. But we counted noses last night after it happened and they were all up and OK," Mrs. Cotner said. Another neighbor, Barbara Scott, along with her family watched what she could see of the twister. "We saw the twister and saw it sit down in the trees before we couldn't see anything anymore," she said. "I was trying to keep the four kids quiet. It was a black cloud about two blocks across and it definitely was a twister funnel came down out of it. There was a red hue and you could see through it. "It was beautiful just before the cloud came over. As the cloud went over our house, it poured. It wasn't drops, it was steady buckets." Mrs. Scott said there was other evidence of the twister, such as flattened flowers. oreg 6/24/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Rainstorms lash Midwest United Press International Rainstorms Monday battered New Mexico and the Midwest, where weekend storms packing tornadoes and hurricane-force winds downed power lines and spawned minor street flooding. The storms rolled across Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa with nearly 100 mph winds Sunday, knocking down trees and damaging some buildings. Flooding was reported in Nebraska, swamped by more than 3 inches of rain. oreg 6/29/81 - 6 Projects PK - # High radiation doses hit Japan N-workers TOKYO (UPI) -- A radioactive leak, hushed up for 40 days by the operators of a chronically defective nuclear power station, exposed 56 workers to high radiation doses in the worst nuclear plant accident in Japan's history, the company revealed Tuesday. The Japanese government, which lifted the lid on the cover-up Monday, ordered a complete review of the accident-plagued Tsuruga plant -- Japan's second-oldest atomic plant, and 21 other nuclear complexes across the country to prevent similar incidents. "This should never happen again," Rokusuke Tanaka, the Cabinet minister in charge of charge of nuclear facilities, told Parliament in a report on the worst nuclear accident in the history of Japan, which relies on nuclear plants for 16 percent of its electricity. The report said an estimated 45 tons of highly radioactive waste spilled from the storage tanks March 8 at the Japan Atomic Power Co's Tsuruga plant in a sparsely populated area on the Sea of Japan 225 miles west of Tokyo. The company admitted 56 workers were contaminated during a three-hour cleanup operation in which they hauled radioactive water from the plant in buckets and then mopped the floor March 8-9. Another cleanup was made April 15. oreg 4/21/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Lifeguards pluck 3,000 from sea LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Southern California lifeguards pulled about 3,000 people to safety as riptides caused by rough seas made weekend swimming hazardous, officials said Monday. None of the estimated 600,000 people who packed the beaches was reported drowned. However, crews searched for a teen-ager reported missing Saturday night while swimming with friends near the Hermosa Beach pier. Three other youths were rescued in that incident. An estimated 1,600 people were rescued in Los Angeles and Orange counties on Sunday, while about 1,300 were rescued Saturday in Los Angeles County alone. oreg 6/30/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes rake Midwest, Florida By The Associated Press A Missouri woman was killed and her son critically injured Sunday when a tornado blew apart their mobile home, authorities said. Tornadoes, heavy rains and high winds tore through much of the Midwest and Ohio Valley, felling trees and snapping power lines. Bonnie McClure, 23, was killed and her 2-year-old son Kennie critically injured when their mobile home was uprooted. In Florida, heavy thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes that briefly knocked out electricity at the Orlando International Airport and blew the roof off a house. The airport was shut down for a half-hour during the height of the storm. High winds tore down two tents and overturned a trailer at a fair near Lexington, Ky. Five persons were slightly injured, authorities said, including a man who was briefly trapped inside the overturned trailer. Lexington Mayor Jim Amato said damage in the city was "very extensive." In Missouri, where heavy rains triggered flooding in the central part of the state, authorities said a tornado extensively damaged Warrenton, about 40 miles west of St. Louis. oreg 6/22/81 === Page 48 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 21 die in Midland storms By United Press International Residents from Texas to Michigan, besieged by a three-day assault of tornadoes and flooding that left at least 21 people dead and thousands homeless, braced Tuesday for another round of fierce storms. Tornadoes struck again Monday - in Wisconsin, Indiana and Oklahoma - and severe flooding forced the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people in central Kansas. Storms that pummeled the Midlands from the Plains to the East resulted in at least 21 deaths in the last three days. Texas reported eight deaths, Ohio had six, Minnesota had three, Illinois had two and Pennsylvania and Maryland had one each. The damage may not be finished. Severe thunderstorms or tornado watches were posted early Tuesday from northern Texas into central Illinois. Showers stretched from southwestern Texas to the Great Lakes. Thunderstorms Tuesday drenched south central Texas, leaving up to 5 inches of rain in Kerrville. The National Weather Service said sharp rises were expected in a number of rain-engorged waterways. Since the Memorial Day weekend, flooding has taken 22 lives in the Austin and central Texas area and caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Heavy wind Monday night knocked down power lines and trees in central Illinois, and a tornado struck a motel and appliance store in Lafayette, Ind. Lightning late Monday struck a Little League baseball diamond in Lewisville, Texas. Two youngsters were injured. Some 13,000 homes in Minnesota's Twin Cities area were without power late Monday after a series of tornadoes ripped through the cities Sunday, leaving three people dead, 90 injured and up to $80 million in damages. Nearly 2,000 people were evacuated in waist-deep flooding in central Kansas, where the governor declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard to help rescue flood victims - some from the roofs of their homes. The dike on the Arkansas River broke in five places Monday night, making an island out of the town of Great Bend, Kan., which had been flooded by 13 inches of rain in 24 hours. Pat Flack stood on the doorstep of her home in northwest Great Bend, watching as the waters surged through her front yard. "I really didn't think it would get up this high, but just two hours ago this yard was dry," she said. Said another resident, "This is an island, the whole city is. And it's getting deeper." Up to 3 inches of rain Monday soaked Madison, Wis., causing extensive damage to many homes and businesses. A 9-year-old Sun Prairie boy was seriously injured when he was sucked into a flooded culvert. United Press International WEATHER MENACE - Funnel cloud cut through south Minneapolis Sunday, leaving almost 100 persons hurt, thousands homeless and millions of dollars in damages. Minnesota and other Midland residents cleaned up Tuesday, bracing for a new wave of fierce storms. Vittorio was found along a highway outside Modena, near Bologna, early Tuesday. - UFOs & Projects - # Mexico City flooded MEXICO CITY (AP) - City residents swept, bailed and pumped water out of their homes Tuesday in southern parts of the capital, flooded after a day of heavy rain. Eleven flooding deaths were reported outside the capital, police said. Local newspapers said as many as 5,000 people abandoned their homes because of the flooding. # Mount Etna erupts CATANIA, Sicily (AP) - Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, erupted Tuesday with a powerful explosion from a crater on its west slope, authorities reported. The state institute of vulcanology here said the crater was spewing intense smoke, but there was no lava flow or seismic activity. In March, a major eruption forced evacuation of a nearby village. - 6 Projects - # Philadelphia Electric Closes Down a Unit Of Atomic Power Plant PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Electric Co. said it would remove unit No. 2 of the Peach Bottom atomic power station from service to replace a recirculation pump seal. Repairs to the seal are expected to take about five days, but Philadelphia Electric plans other maintenance that will require an additional five days. A company spokesman said the unit was being closed down manually, after the seal had failed. The utility said radiation wasn't released and plant personnel weren't injured. === Page 49 of 128 Malfunction damages Goldendale windmill GOLDENDALE, Wash. (UPI) -- A mechanical malfunction resulted in serious damage to a $6 million, 350-foot-tall windmill -- the world's largest model -- on a ridge overlooking the Columbia River, officials reported Monday. Three giant windmills built by the Boeing Co. under government contract to generate electricity were dedicated officially May 29 when Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., symbolically threw a switch tying them in to the regional power grid. But 11 days later, during a test of its ability to shut down in an emergency, the blade on one windmill failed to "feather" and it "went into an overspeed condition," said Joe Holmes, Boeing spokesman in Seattle. "The generator was damaged and will have to be replaced," he said. "There was damage to the drive train, too." Holmes said the amount of damage would be determined by a team of Boeing engineers who were sent to the scene to investigate. The two undamaged windmills were shut down after the accident and will not be operated until the engineers figure out how to prevent the problem from occurring again, he said. It is unlikely the damaged unit will be repaired before September, he said. Holmes said the malfunction was not a serious setback for the windmill program because it happened during the experimental stage and should help engineers improve the machines. "We don't welcome a malfunction, but when they happen, this is the time when we want it to happen," he said. Boeing built the machines for the Bonneville Power Administration on a 2,600-foot-high ridge overlooking the Columbia, 127 miles east of Portland, Ore. Each windmill is 350 feet tall with a single 300-foot-long blade -- looking something like a giant airplane propeller mounted on a cylindrical tower. The first "MOD-2" unit was completed in December; by April, all three machines were supplying power to the regional grid. At maximum capacity, each windmill can generate 2.5 megawatts of electricity. Together they could supply about 2,400 homes. Power from the demonstration models costs about 10 cents per kilowatt hour, which is not now competitive with other forms of generation. But Boeing estimates that "wind farms" of 100 or more such units could bring the cost down to a reasonable 4 cents to 5 cents per kilowatt hour. Holmes said Boeing is negotiating with other utilities around the nation to obtain orders for more windmills. The company has estimated the machines could be mass produced for about $2 million each. By JAMES C. FLANIGAN and DON HAMILTON Journal Staff Writers Poor weather and high winds Monday hampered recovery efforts on 11,235-foot Mount Hood and 14,400-foot Mount Rainier after separate climbing accidents Sunday claimed 16 lives. Officials said the mountaineering tragedies were the worst in modern memory for the two tallest peaks in the Pacific Northwest. Eleven climbers were buried under tons of glacial ice that tumbled down Mount Rainier in Washington and part of an Oregon climbing group of 16 was swept down the slopes of Mount Hood in a chain-reaction fall that left five dead and others injured. Rangers said that the accident on Rainier was the worst in the history of Mount Rainier National Park. A veteran rescuer on Mount Hood said the accident there was the worst since 1953, when 15 members of a church group were hurt while climbing the mountain. A ground party under the direction of Hood River County Sheriff Robert Lynch set out at daybreak Monday from the Cloud Cap Inn, at the 3,500-foot level of Mount Hood, in an effort to recover four bodies. Wind was reported blowing at 30 mph and fog enveloped the peak. The sheriff's office identified the dead as Jim Darby, 35, of Newberg; Garth Westcott, 35, of Bend; George Anderson, 36, of Boring, and Larry Young, 30, Corvallis. The fifth victim, Leah Lorenson, 30, of Vancouver, Wash., suffered a heart attack and died at 10:40 p.m. Sunday in Portland Adventist Medical Center as doctors vainly performed a "hands on" heart massage to revive her. The climbers were on a Mazama Club outing marking the first day of summer when they fell "just like dominoes" in an area near where two climbers were killed June 6. The tragedy occurred at about 12:30 p.m. when 12 members of the 16-member Mazamas climbing party slipped and fell to the 8,700-foot level in the Elliot Glacier area. Several climbers were roped together and started the domino-like effect, knocking others down the side of the steep ridge when they started falling, a spokesman for the Hood River County sheriff's office said. Members of the sheriff's office and Tornado-ravaged town sealed off by officials EMBERSON, Texas (AP) -- Authorities sealed off this tiny north Texas town Thursday to prevent looting following a tornado that flattened nearly two dozen buildings and injured 30 people. "Emberston is just gone. It just got Emberston. There's no doubt about it," said Lamar County sheriff's deputy John Williams after the twister, 200 to 500 yards wide, ripped through the town Wednesday night. In a three-minute rampage, the tornado leveled 22 buildings, including a church where a worship service was in progress. The twister knocked out power in the unincorporated town near the Texas-Oklahoma border, and utility crews worked Thursday to restore electricity and telephone service for its 80 residents. One insurance agent estimated damage would total at least $520,000. "It was so big, I never really saw a funnel, just a wall of debris coming at me," said one resident, Doug Winn. Eight people were admitted to hospitals in nearby Paris, but none of their injuries was considered serious, spokesmen said. Most of the injuries were "a lot of broken bones and shrapnel wounds from the whirling debris," Williams said. "Thank God, all the people are accounted for," Williams added. "Nobody is missing -- not even any little boys who might have been out smoking behind the barn." The tornado cut a two-mile-long swath of destruction, destroying two buildings in nearby Sumner before slamming into Emberston. === Page 50 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 50 felled by heat at Phoenix parade (2) Oregon Journal, June 18, 1981 17 By United Press International Scorching heat felled about 50 people at a Lions Club parade in Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday and fueled brush fires in California. The National Weather Service said there was no relief in sight. Temperatures soared to 109 degrees in downtown Phoenix Wednesday afternoon and hovered at 95 degrees during the night. Parade-watchers collapsed from exhaustion and dehydration, authorities said. "I hear they were dropping like flies over there," a National Weather Service forecaster said of the Lions' gathering, which attracted people from all over the nation. About 20 people were treated at Good Samaritan Hospital. "People just weren't used to the Arizona heat," a nursing supervisor said. "Basically, we just gave them liquids to drink and cooled them off. We checked them over and then sent them home." Flooded rivers in Indiana and Kansas, meanwhile, kept hundreds of residents away from their homes again Thursday, and firefighters in California sought to contain the last of several fires that erupted in broiling heat, killing a boy. Two deaths were blamed on storms Wednesday in the Southeast and Midwest. The heat wave still gripped Arizona and Northern California Thursday, with temperatures heading for the 100-degree mark. Thunderstorms pounded the Southeast Thursday, and scattered showers lingered over the Carolinas. Isolated thunderstorms soaked the upper Mississippi Valley into northern Michigan. - 6 Projects PK - # Salem power cut by crash SALEM -- A widespread power outage in the Salem area was caused near midnight Sunday when a car sheared off a power pole at Market and Evergreen streets, dropping several lines and shorting out connecting boxes. Salem police said the driver of the car, who was not injured, was cited for driving while under the influence of intoxicants. He was identified as Michael Anthony Rice, 26, of Salem. Portland General Electric Co. crews worked until after daylight Monday to restore power to the area. Oreg 5/4/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Wild weather claims 22 lives By United Press International Thousands of flood victims returned Wednesday to their homes in Kansas, but rivers from Texas to Vermont swelled to dangerous levels from storms blamed for at least 22 deaths. Sizzling heat Tuesday covered the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to New York, resulting in record electricity loads and the deaths of thousands of chickens. But a cold front pushed thunderstorms packing high winds over the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic Coast Wednesday. Winds were clocked at more than 60 mph across western New York and Pennsylvania. Near Pittsburgh, gusts downed trees and power lines. At least 22 deaths have been attributed to the four-day onslaught of tornadoes, flooding and thunderstorms -- eight in Texas, six in Ohio, three each in Minnesota and Illinois, and one each in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Hail and rain pelted downtown Richmond, Va., Wednesday afternoon, damaging trees and power lines. About 21,000 people lost power during the height of the storm. Wind up to 55 mph battered the Plains, causing scattered power outages in Nebraska and Minnesota. Two deaths were attributed to the storms -- a Virginia man who touched a powerline toppled during the storm, and an Iowa construction worker who was injured fatally when the wind blew part of a roof on him. Florida residents, baking under 100-degree temperatures for six days in a row, looked forward to a cooling trend Thursday, which forecasters said could bring afternoon rainshowers. Thousands of chickens have died in the heatwave, and power officials warned that electricity use might have to be cut. More than 450 people in Indiana stayed away from their homes because of flooding on the Little Calumet, Tippecanoe and Kankakee rivers. The Williams Ditch dike on the rising Kankakee near Shelby was holding with reinforcements of sandbags. Officials warned that a break in the dike could force evacuation of 2,000 people. In Kansas, the waters of the Arkansas River and Walnut Creek -- which flooded Great Bend with 6 feet of muddy water and damaged 2,430 homes -- receded. Many of the 4,000 people evacuated in Monday's flood returned home, but the Red Cross said up to 200 residents stayed in shelters Wednesday night. Oreg. 6/19/81 # Sugar feints with witch doctor CHICAGO (AP) -- A specter is hanging over Sugar Ray Leonard; the specter is a "witch doctor." That, Leonard said Thursday, is why he hasn't scouted Ayub Kalule in person for the World Boxing Association junior middleweight title bout in Houston. "Kalule's got a witch doctor and I want to stay clear of him," Leonard said from Houston in a telephone news conference. "I don't believe in it, but I want to stay my distance; I don't trust him. "I heard my mother and father talk about voodoo and witchcraft; there may be some truth in it." A gold medalist in the 1976 Olympics, the 25-year-old Leonard has since steamrolled to a 29-1 professional record -- including 20 knockouts -- and the World Boxing Council welterweight crown. Now the world junior middleweight throne beckons Leonard, and his opponent will be Kalule, a 5-foot-9, 154-pound Ugandan southpaw who is undefeated with 36 victories and 28 knockouts since 1976. The Leonard-Kalule bout, part of a triple-bill "Welterweight Astrowars" to be aired on closed-circuit television across America, will take place in the Houston Astrodome June 25. The 27-year-old Kalule, now a resident of Denmark, reportedly sent to his native Uganda for a "witch doctor" to help prepare him for his United States debut against Leonard. Officials of New York-based Top Rank Inc., which is promoting the bout, said in a press release handed out to reporters that Kalule's "witch doctor" has stopped tornadoes and floods and made crops grow. === Page 51 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Flames sweep California; hundreds abandon homes 6/16/81 SAN DIEGO (UPI) - Wind-whipped flames engulfed dozens of homes, forced hundreds to flee fires sweeping their neighborhoods and blackened nearly 12,000 acres of brush in the third day of a searing Southern California heat wave. The fires fueled by dry desert winds and 100-degree-plus mercury readings destroyed at least 15 homes and damaged 27 others in seven Southern California counties. Fast-moving flames traveling over a hill in the Rancho Bernardo section of San Diego County forced the evacuation of 100 families Monday afternoon. Fire officials said the families may be allowed to return Tuesday. To the north in Orange County, fire exploded through a housing tract Monday, leaving eight families homeless. Officials said the $2 million blaze was caused by "bottle rockets" - illegal fireworks. "The winds just took that fire and spread it all through the other houses," said Capt. Bill Simpkins of the Orange City Fire Department. "We've got some leads on a suspect and we're investigating it." Record-breaking temperatures soaring past the 100-degree mark combined with the dry, desert winds gusting to 40 mph made the atmosphere volatile - and ripe for fires. By 9 p.m., temperatures had cooled to only 85 in San Diego and 87 in Los Angeles. A 500-acre fire roared down a canyon into the fashionable section of Spring Valley in southern San Diego County, destroying at least five homes and damaging a dozen others. The fire was burning out of control at nightfall. In the 800-acre Rancho Bernardo blaze, the roofs of five homes were scorched by flames and 30 other homes were still in danger early Tuesday. Fire spokesman Bob Sawyer said the fire was still out of control and no one knew when it would be contained. In the southern portion of the county, two brushfires merged Monday afternoon to form a 1,500-acre blaze in the rugged Tierrasanta area. Elsewhere in Orange County, a home in Laguna Niguel sustained $60,000 damage and a home in the Cowan Heights area suffered about $175,000 damage. County fire spokesman Mike McKee said four firefighters suffered heat exhaustion in the Cowan Heights blaze and another was burned on his hands. In nearby San Juan Capistrano, a fire caused about $1.5 million damage to a nearly completed condominium. McKee said 13 of the 28 units were destroyed. Electrical wires downed by the high winds ignited a 30-acre blaze in one part of Orange County. In Riverside County, 16 fires were ignited by noon and some 7,000 acres scorched. All the fires were contained except for three 1,000-acres blazes in remote, uninhabited areas of the county. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry said one home and two structures were destroyed in a 100-acre fire at Lake Elsinore in Riverside County and one structure was lost in Rubidoux. The Air Force reported late Monday that a 650-acre brush blaze was burning unchecked on the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. "No missile launch pads of other buildings are threatened at this time," said Airman Robert Craig. In Los Angeles, a rash of small blazes kept firefighters busy, but no structures were lost. The largest was a 100-acre fire in the Mission Hills area, said spokesman Steve Ventura. An electrical fire in an apartment complex caused $160,000 damage and injured five firefighters. One firefighter was treated for second and third-degree burns on his upper body while the others were treated for smoke inhalation at Queen of Angels Hospital. Four major brush fires scorched about 500 acres in the county. - UFOs & Projects - # Vicious storms lash midlands; 13 perish By United Press International National Guardsmen patrolled streets Monday from Minnesota to Ohio, where a barrage of tornadoes and thunderstorms damaged hundreds of homes, knocked out power to thousands and injured nearly 150 people. At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storms. In vicious weather assailing the nation's midsection during the weekend, four people died in both Ohio and Texas, two in Illinois and Minnesota and one in Maryland. Two others were missing in Texas. The Minnesota deaths included one man who died following Sunday's Twin Cities tornadoes and a man who was struck by lightning during a softball tournament at Long Prairie. Nine others were injured. More than 80 people were injured in Minnesota and Ohio reported at least 60 people injured. Five tornadoes swept through Minneapolis and St. Paul Sunday afternoon, flattening homes and cars and causing millions of dollars in damage in about 35 minutes. More than 100,000 people in the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas lost power during the assault. Authorities said they received numerous reports of looting in the areas struck by the tornadoes. Hardest hit was suburban Roseville, where the tornado shattered windows, flipped cars and mangled signs at the Har-Mar Shopping Center. As many as 50 homes were damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of trees were knocked down or uprooted, smashing cars. Thousands of people were evacuated in widespread flooding in Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, but most returned to their waterlogged homes Sunday. Thunderstorms hovered over central Texas for the sixth day Monday, where weekend storms flooded rivers and creeks with 13 inches of rain, forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people. 6/15/81 === Page 52 of 128 UFOs & Projects # S. California fires spread Oreg J 6/17/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Blaze sears wine country Oreg J 6/22/81 NAPA, Calif. (UPI) -- A huge wind-whipped fire roared out of control through the Napa Valley wine country Tuesday, threatening several small towns. At least 39 plush homes valued from $250,000 to $500,000 were destroyed in the blaze authorities said was deliberately set. State forestry spokesman Nick Fowler said the blaze was sparked by four individual fires set within minutes and miles of each other along the Silverado Trail that runs along the eastern side of the lush vineyard valley, which provides much of America's choice wine. The vineyards and wineries, themselves, were said to be in no immediate danger. Darkness forced fire investigators from the scene late Monday, Fowler said, but they "came to the decision" the blaze was deliberately set. Seven people were treated for burns and smoke inhalation suffered in the inferno, which gained in fury as the four brush fires converged late Monday and swept through grass and brush dried by searing 100-degree temperatures. Officials said "several" firefighters also were injured slightly, but they could not say exactly how many were hurt. "This is fire country . . . but it's not been like this in 10 to 15 years," said Byron Carniglia, chief ranger of Napa-Lake County Forestry District. Carniglia said bulldozers were working through the night trying to halt the hungry blaze that already had cut an 11-mile swath through the valley and was burning its way toward the more populated town of Fairfield to the southeast. Near dawn, as fire officials prepared to launch airplanes laden with fire retardant chemicals, the blaze already had reached the dry, rolling hills 10 miles northwest of Fairfield, which straddles U.S. 80. Winds gusting up to 50 mph swept the fire along the Atlas Peak ridge, charring over 28,000 acres and destroying 65 structures. An army of 600 firefighters fought to contain the blaze, which left 200 residents homeless. Air tanker support was grounded for the night because of the dense smoke, which could be seen from San Francisco 50 miles to the southwest, and firefighters had to rely on 87 engines and other ground-support equipment to chase the fast-moving blaze. LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Firefighters enduring temperatures of more than 100 degrees fought blazes still raging Wednesday throughout Southern California, where flames have damaged or destroyed at least 40 homes and charred more than 35,000 acres of brush. Desert winds have diminished, but the sweltering heat, low humidity and tinder-dry brush still played havoc with firefighting efforts. Several fires that broke out earlier in the week were controlled by firefighters, but others remained unchecked and many more blazes erupted Tuesday in counties from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. Fire fed by 105-degree temperatures and erratic winds destroyed three houses and damaged three others in the Mount Washington area of Los Angeles Tuesday. Five prize Great Danes died in one of the homes. The biggest fire, a 10,000-acre blaze in Riverside County, temporarily threatened Mount Palomar space observatory and prompted voluntary evacuation of the small community of Aguanga Tuesday night. Three mobile homes were consumed by flames. Firefighters contained a 7,200-acre fire at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County and predicted full control by dawn Wednesday. Fire spokesman Steve Vittum said no missile sites or buildings were threatened by the flames, but about a dozen cattle perished in the blaze. A rash of fires in San Diego County scorched more than 12,000 acres during a two-day period, destroyed five homes and damaged two others. A 4,000-acre fire in the exclusive Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego that damaged one house was almost under control Tuesday. An 8,000-acre fire in the Tierrasanta area also was expected to be contained. - UFOs & Projects - THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1981 B2 255-8400 31 Associated Press Laserphoto WET WORK -- Madison, Wis., taxi driver bails water out of cab after 2½ inches of rain fell in three hours, flooding businesses and streets. Oreg 6/17/81 === Page 53 of 128 # At least 2 killed by summer's first storms - UFOs & Projects - **DANGEROUS SKY** - A white funnel cloud appeared during the weekend over Olathe, Kan., a far suburb of Kansas City, as part of a weather system that spawned storms that killed at least two people. A number of tornadoes were sighted in the Kansas City area but none touched down. United Press International - UFOs & Projects - **Twisters, rain sweep nation** United Press International A series of tornadoes touched down in eastern North Dakota late Thursday, and heavy rains prompted flood watches Friday in Arizona and Oklahoma, where up to 6 inches of rain caused flooding in some areas. A storm 25 to 50 miles east of Oklahoma City unleashed rainfall at rates of 4 inches per hour Thursday, causing flooding from Prague south to Seminole. About 6 inches of water flooded Oklahoma 51 about 3 miles west of Tahlequah, Okla. Greg J 7/31/81 United Press International Summer's first thunderstorms packing tornadoes, hail and torrential rain pummeled the Midwest and the Atlantic Coast for a second day Monday. At least two people died in the storms and thousands were left without power. Firefighters in northwestern Florida worked a fourth day Monday trying to contain a lightning-sparked fire that burned hundreds of acres near Panama City. Thunderstorms hovered over the Midwest and stretched to the Atlantic Coast into Florida early Monday in a repeat of action Sunday, the summer solstice. A flash flood warning was issued for west central Illinois, deluged with up to 6 inches of rain. At least two deaths were blamed on the storms - a Warrenton, Mo., woman killed when high winds swept through the town Sunday, and a death in the central Illinois community of Littleton. Nearly 30 injuries were reported in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. The storms Sunday hurled tornadoes from South Dakota and Minnesota across Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania and into eastern Florida, causing scattered property damage and power outages. Wind of up to 70 mph blew down trees at Fort Knox and Lexington, Ky., and across northern Iowa. Heavy rain accompanied the storms, dumping nearly 3 inches at Orlando, Fla., more than 2 inches at Parkersburg, W.V., and more than an inch at Findlay, Ohio. Six crews of firefighters stood guard Monday over a blaze near Panama City, Fla., that burned 700 acres of timberland and raged to within a quarter mile of the tiny bayfront community of Southport. The fire cooled down overnight but fire officials were not hopeful. "It'll jump its fire lines, we know that," said Ralph Williams of the Division of Forestry. "We know that it will after the sun and wind come up. We just don't know where." A brief storm hit Virginia with hail and heavy rain Sunday night, knocking out power to 10,000 residents in the Richmond area. Virginia Electric and Power Co. officials said power should be restored Monday. Fierce, straight-line winds, first thought to be a tornado, struck Missouri Sunday, damaging nearly a dozen houses in the Warrenton area and injuring up to 10 people. Heavy rain triggered flooding 3 feet deep that briefly stranded travelers in Jefferson City and swept away one car and a boat. Thunderstorms and tornadoes battered southern and central Illinois Sunday night, damaging buildings and leaving several hundred residents without power. Greg J 6/22/81 - UFOs & Projects - **Flooding in China takes heavy toll** PEKING (AP) - The heaviest rains in 32 years caused four rivers in southwest China's Sichuan province to overflow their banks, killing or injuring 40 to 50 people, stranding hundreds of thousands and inundating nearly 1 million acres of farm land, officials said Wednesday. Greg 7/15/81 === Page 54 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 14 die as violent thunderstorms hit Midwest Story on Page One also By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press 6/15/81 Lightning, floods and tornadoes killed at least 14 persons as thunderstorms churned across central and eastern states over the weekend, forcing hundreds of homeowners to flee rising waters. Sunday afternoon, a storm system in Minnesota spawned tornadoes that chewed through the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. At least 76 people were injured, two of them critically, officials said. There were no reports of fatalities due to injuries, but one man reportedly collapsed and died of a heart attack as a funnel appeared. In Texas, authorities said two people drowned Sunday and two more were missing in the swift-flowing waters of the Pedernales River, swollen by heavy rains that have produced widespread flooding. One boy was dead and more than 100 were injured in flooding in Illinois, while a twister claimed livestock in Iowa, and hail piled nearly 2 feet deep on some parts of Nebraska. In the tiny Ohio community of Cardington, a tornado Saturday carved a path of destruction that Gov. James Rhodes said was proportionately the worst in the state's history. About 171 homes and 29 businesses were heavily damaged by the storm, which hit the community of 2,000 around 3:45 p.m. Saturday and left 50 people homeless. Killed were Donald W. Carson, a 9-month-old infant who died of storm-related injuries; Leo Bingman, described as being in his late 60s, who died of a heart attack; Thelma Olsen, 62, who died Sunday after being pulled from wreckage; and Maxine Danner, 67, whose cause of death was not available. About 100 Ohio National Guardsmen helped keep order and guard against looters Saturday night. Scattered looting was reported several hours after the storm. Flooding in Texas has claimed at least 20 lives in southeast Texas in the past three weeks, including two Saturday and two more Sunday. Witnesses told law enforcement officers that four people were swept away Sunday after they walked out into the swollen Pedernales River, stepping on rocks that were still above the water. But when they tried to return to shore they slipped and fell into the rushing stream. Two bodies were recovered, and law enforcement officials were searching for the other two persons. Many other central Texas rivers continued to spill from their banks Sunday as heavy thunderstorms pounded the waterlogged area with as much as 4 inches of rain an hour. Hundreds fled their homes in Austin, San Antonio, San Marcos and surrounding towns after the latest round of flooding began Saturday. Since Memorial Day, the floods have done at least $35 million in property damage, mostly in the Austin area. In northwestern Ohio, Rhodes declared the flood-ravaged town of Findlay a disaster area Sunday afternoon and called out 75 National Guardsmen. Findlay Fire Department spokesmen said about 400 people had to be evacuated because of the flooding. David Wobser, Findlay safety service director, said Rhodes surveyed the town after inspecting tornado damage at Cardington. Wobser said the flooding caused damage over about a 50-square-block area in Findlay. - UFOs & Projects - # Up to 3,000 die in Iran quake BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A strong earthquake rocked southeastern Iran early Thursday, and Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai said between 1,500 and 3,000 people were killed, Tehran Radio reported. Rajai told his countrymen the disaster was so large that "it is impossible to compensate for it without public aid and the revolutionary sacrifice of you heroic people." Earlier, a spokesman for the governor general's office in stricken Kerman province said between 1,000 to 1,500 people were killed. A Tehran Radio dispatch from the province said more than 1,500 seriously wounded were moved to hospitals. In Gol Bagh, hardest-hit village in the province, 500 to 600 people were injured and "rescuers still are pulling victims from the massive rubble," a spokesman for the governor general's office said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press here. Two-thirds of Gol Bagh's houses were destroyed and more casualties were feared in the area, which has 40,000 inhabitants, he said. Tehran Radio said food, medicine, blankets and Red Crescent -- Iran's Red Cross -- personnel were being flown in by helicopter; the injured were ferried out to undamaged hospitals on return flights. The quake registered 6.9 on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. Spokesman Don Finley said the quake was centered around Kerman, about 500 miles southeast of Tehran. 6/12/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Power failure hits SW city 7/28/81 An estimated 1,000 customers of Portland General Electric Co. in the industrial area of Southwest Portland lost power Monday afternoon, according to a company spokesman. Dave Eagon said the outage occurred at 1:27 p.m. He said the area was near SW Thomas and Gibbs Streets, extending to SW Montgomery Street. Cause of the outage was not immediately known. - UFOs & Projects - # Twisters hit Minnesota 8/1/81 United Press International Thunderstorms carrying gales up to 60 mph pushed across the Northern Plains into the Southeast Saturday ahead of an advancing cold front. Two tornadoes touched down in Minnesota. Sizzling temperatures lingered over the Southwest. Bullhead, Ariz., became the nation's hottest spot with a 112-degree reading Friday. Heavy rains pounded the Mississippi Valley late Friday. More than 2 inches of rain fell in Lockwood, Mo., and more than 1 1/2 inches hit Kansas City, Mo. Two tornadoes touched down in a lake and an open field in Grant County near Hoffman, Minn., as heavy thunderstorms moved through the area. No injuries or damages were reported, officials said. Large-sized hail accompanied thunderstorms into South Dakota and southeastern Minnesota. Baseball-sized hail was reported northwest of Rapid City, S.D., near Whitewood, and golfball-sized hail pelted Alexandria, Minn. Temperatures Friday in western Texas surpassed the 100-degree mark. === Page 55 of 128 - UFO 61 Projects - # Israeli planes destroy Iraqi atomic reactor JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Israeli air force planes "completely destroyed" the Iraqi atomic reactor near Baghdad Sunday, the Israeli government said in a special announcement Monday. "On Sunday, June 7, the Israeli Air Force went out to attack the Ossirak atomic reactor near Baghdad," the announcement said. "Our pilots fulfilled their mission completely. The reactor was completely destroyed." The announcement said all the Israeli planes returned safely to their base. The government explained its surprise attack by saying, "For a long time, we have been following, with deep concern, the establishment of the Ossirak atomic reactor. Reliable sources have no doubt, and we have learned, that it (the reactor) is intended, despite the camouflage, to create atomic bombs." "The target of these bombs was Israel," the announcement said. The announcement said Iraq's ruler, Saddam Hussein, had announced Iraqi intentions outright. It said when the Iranians hit the reactor last October in the early days of the Iraqi-Iranian conflict, Hussein indicated the attempt had been in vain because the reactor was established for use against Israel. The Israeli announcement said the atomic bombs the reactor could produce, either with enriched uranium or plutonium, were of the same type that were dropped on Hiroshima in World War II. "Thus was created a danger to the existence of the nation of Israel," the announcement said, adding that highly reliable sources gave Israel two dates for the completion of the reactor and its activation -- the beginning of July 1981 or the beginning of September 1981. "In a short time, the Iraqi reactor would have become operational," said the announcement. "Under these conditions, the Israeli government could not have taken the responsibility for the reactor (which) would have been hot." "It would have been impossible in this way to hit it. Any attack on it would have caused a leakage of radioactive gen, where a police officer died trying of Mittenwald, where the Isar River re-c paddling a kayak drowned; and in the Austrian Tyrol and Vorarlberg provinces, where flooded streams swept away two people. been... tion of at whose dictation at all to drop the and on its population. Greg J 7/23/81 Greg J 6/8/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Tokyo blacked out TOKYO (AP) -- A violent thunderstorm caused a blackout that left about 100,000 houses without power for one to two hours Wednesday, a Tokyo Electric Power Company spokesman said. He said lightning struck more than 100 places, cutting power transmission lines and affecting other power facilities. # Four die in floods MUNICH, West Germany (AP) -- Floods in southern Germany and along the Austro-German border killed four people, authorities reported Wednesday. Three were still missing. Bavarian police said the deaths were in the flooded Rothbach River near Regen, where a police officer died trying to recover a canoe; the Isar River near Mittenwald, where a British soldier paddling a kayak drowned; and in the Austrian Tyrol and Vorarlberg provinces, where flooded streams swept away two people. - "Power" attack - # Paper clip causes glitch SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Space officials blame a paper clip for one of the minor problems encountered during the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia in April. Joseph E. Mechelay, mission evaluation manager, said that an overlooked paper clip began floating around inside a power supply box, causing a short. When a circuit breaker failed to correct the problem, a switch was made to a backup supply. - UFO 6 Projects - # storms kill two, injure 30 By The Associated Press Greg J 6/9/81 Severe thunderstorms, spawning high winds and tornadoes, rolled eastward from the Illinois prairie into the hills of western Pennsylvania, leaving at least two people dead and injuring more than 30 others, authorities said Tuesday. In Wyoming, heavy rains in the rugged mountains adjoining Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks flooded highways and campgrounds Tuesday, and residents of the Shoshone River Valley were urged to move to high ground. Indiana authorities said 20 people were injured when twisters peppered the northern part of the state late Monday. Damage was estimated at $2 million. A tornado slammed into Churubusco, 10 miles northwest of Fort Wayne, where about half the town's buildings -- including several century-old wood-frame houses -- were damaged. Nearly every tree in town was uprooted, one state policeman said. Five people were injured near Peru, Ind., when a tornado tossed five mobile homes in the air. In Ohio, 66-year-old Winifred Reamsnider died of a heart attack and other injuries after her mobile home northeast of Columbus in Knox County was tossed by a tornado. Her husband, Ray, was injured. - Space Shuttle PK - # 2 firefighters die in Florida blaze CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Two volunteer firefighters, their tractor hung up on a stump, tried in vain to flee an onrushing brush fire before it engulfed them, killing both men. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Scott Manness, 32, and Beau W. Sauselein, 33, both of Titusville, Fla., were fatally injured Monday when the lightning-sparked fire turned on them in a wildlife refuge near the Kennedy Space Center. They were digging a fire line when a sudden shift of wind gusting to 45 mph swept flames back toward them. Donald Pfitzer, a spokesman for the agency, said Tuesday the men were fighting one of four stubborn brush fires. Greg J 6/10/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # India satellite falls from orbit NEW DELHI, India (UPI) -- India's sophisticated eye-in-the-sky satellite failed to stay in orbit Tuesday and began tumbling to Earth, the Press Trust of India said. "The mission of Rohini-2 satellite launched from Sriharikota on May 31 has failed and the satellite has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere," PTI reported. The Indian Space Research Organization said the satellite was getting hotter as it dropped through the denser layers of the atmosphere. Greg J 6/9/81 - UFO "higher ups" - # newsbreak # 'Blanks' fired at queen A man fired several "blank shots" a few feet from Queen Elizabeth as she rode on horseback Saturday at the traditional Trooping the Color ceremony near Buckingham Palace in London. No one was hurt. The man was dragged to the ground and arrested as police came running from all directions. Millions of television viewers witnessed the incident. Greg J 6/13/81 === Page 56 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Killer heatwave sizzles South United Press International Thunderstorms and tornadoes rumbled along the Gulf Coast Thursday but didn't bring enough rain to crack a sweltering heat wave that has killed eight people. Temperatures rose to 96 degrees and higher in the South Wednesday, before nighttime storms rolled in with high winds, hail and heavy rain. Forecasts called for sizzling temperatures past 100 degrees again Thursday. Eight people have died in the heat - seven in Georgia and one in Alabama. But authorities said some of the deaths were aggravated by the victims' dangerous efforts to cool off. Thunderstorms and tornadoes battered the Midwest late Wednesday, causing some property damage, but no injuries. The storms came just as residents in Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa tried to clean up from devastating storms earlier this week that caused millions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses and crops, and swelled rivers to flood stage. Flood warnings were issued Thursday for northeastern and central Missouri and northern Illinois. A thunderstorm watch was posted Thursday for southern Iowa, northern Missouri, West Virginia and Ohio. Firefighters in California contained a huge windswept brushfire in Napa County, which burned 23,000 acres, destroyed 120 structures and caused $30 million in damages. Lightning touched off more than 20 small fires in the Gila, Santa Fe and Cibola national forests in New Mexico. Heavy rains, hail, wind and thunder and lightning rocked southeast sections of Georgia, and a tornado struck a pasture near Okeechobee City, Fla. A twister near Claxton, Ga., destroyed a mobile home and knocked another off its blocks. Fierce winds tore down trees and power lines in Evans County, but authorities were unsure how many people were affected. The mercury rose to 96 degrees in Columbus Wednesday, when authorities found the seventh heat victim in the southwest Georgia city. Another heat-related death was reported in Phenix City, just over the state line in Alabama. Three of the victims were sitting in front of fans - a dangerous practice in a heat wave. "You're supposed to sweat," said Muscogee County, Ga., Coroner Don Kilgore. "If a fan is directly on you, it'll stop you from sweating. It dries your skin and that's one of the major symptoms of heat death." All but two of the victims were elderly. An 82-year-old victim was found under blankets in bed, with every window shut. The National Weather Service in Atlanta said this month may become the hottest June on record in Georgia, with temperatures averaging 81.6 degrees the past 23 days. It has not rained in Columbus since June 12. The National Center for Disease Control said approximately 200 people die nationwide each summer from heat-related causes. oreg 6/25/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes blast Twin Cities By GALE TOLLIN oreg 6/15/81 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Tornadoes chewed through the Minneapolis-St. Paul area Sunday afternoon, causing "extensive" damage as they smashed windows, ripped up trees and crushed cars. At least 76 people were injured, two of them critically, officials said. There were no reports of fatalities resulting from injuries, but officials said a man who was standing in his yard when a funnel appeared collapsed and died of a heart attack. A tornado that touched down in Roseville, a suburb just north of St. Paul, caused "extensive" damage, a Ramsey County sheriff's department spokesman said. The twister plowed through a small shopping center, leaving shattered windows, twisted metal and building insulation strewn across a parking lot. Several customers were cut by flying glass, and the roof of a nearby insurance firm was ripped off. A few miles to the southwest, in southern Minneapolis, officials said a tornado touchdown injured at least eight persons as it uprooted trees, sometimes smashing them into automobiles, and downed power lines. The roof was ripped from a park pavilion and dumped into a nearby lake. "It looked like a giant came through, chewed everything and spit it out," said Midge Docken, a resident of southern Minneapolis. In the absence of Gov. Al Quie, vacationing in Norway, Lt. Gov. Lou Wangberg ordered the 120 National Guardsmen dispatched to the Roseville area at the request of the Ramsey County sheriff's department in St. Paul. John Graff, chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities, said the storm system spawned at least three tornado funnels, and "each one was stronger than the one before." One touched down in southern Minneapolis, he said, while the other two appeared north of St. Paul. The twister that hit Roseville smashed into a restaurant, a car wash and the shopping center, where operators estimated about 500 people were shopping in a grocery store. An employee of the grocery store, Tim Rank, said he was in the produce department when he heard a tornado bulletin on the radio. Rank said he went to the front of the store to warn clerks and customers, and a few moments later the funnel appeared, headed for the store. Rank said he and other employees pushed customers to the rear of the store. He said he looked back just in time to see the front windows blown in. A man identified as Emmel Pennis 56, of Edina, south of Minneapolis, was rushed to Fairview-Southdale Hospital after he suffered a heart attack when the first tornado appeared. He died a short time later. - UFOs & Projects - # Twisters hit Texas United Press International Tornadoes and thunderstorms packing baseball-size hail raged through north central Texas Friday and Saturday, causing millions of dollars in damages, and two Iowa men were killed in a plane crash blamed on overcast skies. Tornado warnings were issued for portions of northeast Texas and western Louisiana Saturday and residents, keeping a wary eye on rain-swollen creeks, braced for more rain. A flash-flood watch also was issued for Oklahoma, except for the Panhandle. At least one person in Grand Praire, Texas, was slightly injured Friday by flying glass in the twisters, which uprooted trees and ripped off roofs. A thunderstorm that had moved through Dallas before dawn Friday was thought to have weakened a 30-foot branch on an old oak tree that fell into a group of spectators at the Byron Nelson Classic golf tournament, killing one man. oreg 5/9/81 === Page 57 of 128 Oregon Journal, June 10, 1981 Killer storms swamp Pennsylvania By United Press International Thunderstorms that sent floodwaters rushing through homes in Wyoming and Pennsylvania, causing millions of dollars in damage, spread Wednesday from North Dakota to the Ohio Valley. Stifling humidity choked the East Coast. At least one person was missing and presumed drowned in the thunderstorms -- a Pennsylvania man who was swept from his porch by rushing waters of the flooded Sage Run Creek. Six others were injured. A 22-month-old boy died of apparent heatstroke in Phoenix, Ariz., where temperatures reached 109 degrees Tuesday. Authorities said the child was left in a closed van while his parents worked nearby. The temperature in the van rose to 122 degrees. Severe thunderstorms gathered early Wednesday over North Dakota, and extended from the northern Plains to the Ohio Valley. Tornado watches were issued for parts of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Thunderstorms and tornadoes from the same system swept through the Midwest Monday, killing one person, injuring more than 20 others and causing more than $2 million in damage to homes and businesses. Pennsylvanians tried to mop up from storms that ravaged western parts of the state late Monday and early Tuesday with more than a half-foot of rain. Damage was estimated at more than $65 million in Venango County, which bore the brunt of the storm. Forty-one miles of highway were damaged and 15 bridges were washed out or rendered unusable. Rain finally subsided in Wyoming and Idaho, where a 3-inch downpour in 48 hours flooded rivers and washed out bridges, threatening homes and damaging property. Two lightning-sparked fires that burned about 107 acres of national forest land in New Mexico were brought under control Tuesday, but a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said dry woodland conditions make more fires possible. In the East, high temperatures combined with rising humidity to make most residents sticky and uncomfortable. Almost everyone, that is. "I love it. Hot weather is for poor people -- I'm one of them -- and grasshoppers," said Sarah Scott in Richmond, Va., where high humidity combined with a 93-degree reading. "Living is easy. Get a watermelon and sit under the shade tree. You can't do that in the winter." Rain in Pennsylvania flooded the Sage Run, Lower Lightning blacks area GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (AP) -- A lightning bolt that knocked out a power transformer left much of the Grand Canyon and its tourist facilities without electricity for 15 hours before service was restored with a portable substation, authorities said Tuesday. "All power was restored at 5:38 a.m.," said Martha McKinley, an Arizona Public Service Co. spokeswoman. "We were able to get a portable substation from Payson to Flagstaff, and that was installed and connected at 3:10 a.m." The outage affected the canyon's South Rim, where most of the lodging and other tourist facilities are located. Associated Press Laserphoto SPOUSE RESCUE -- Barrie Hampton, police department chaplain in Great Bend, Kan., carries his wife, Pat, also a city employee, through flood waters to her car. Thousands were evacuated earlier in the week from their homes in this central Kansas town of 17,000 and had to be shifted from shelter to shelter as the flood waters from the Arkansas River and Walnut Creek rose. Bus crash kills 3, hurts 37 CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- A runaway "gambler's special" tour bus lost its brakes coming down a grade and rammed broadside into a small station wagon Monday, killing three people and injuring 37 others, police said. The coroner's office identified the dead, all in the station wagon, as Gerald Wheat, 38; his wife Alma, 34; and their son Andrew, 11, all of San Francisco. A daughter, Robin, 8, suffered head injuries and was taken by helicopter to a Reno hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. The family had been visiting relatives in the Reno area. The Nevada Highway Patrol listed all 36 people aboard the bus as injured, although most suffered only bumps and bruises and were released after being treated at hospitals. Several were being X-rayed for possible broken bones. === Page 58 of 128 UFO & Projects Tornado rips Denver area DENVER (AP) -- A tornado tore through the Denver area Wednesday, injuring at least 40 people, many of them at a suburban shopping center that was badly damaged, officials said. It was one of at least a dozen twisters spawned by a powerful storm system. As evening approached, police began receiving scattered reports of looting, and the Colorado National Guard was called in to quell any trouble in suburban Thornton, the hardest-hit area. "An MP (military police) company of 100 armed men is taking position in the area," said John Truby, spokesman for the Colorado Division of Disaster Emergency Services. "There's a great deal of chaos and damage up there, and we want to make sure nothing gets out of hand." There were also reports of looting in southwest Denver, where the tornado first touched down, and Denver police said they increased security there. Damage was scattered across at least 100 city blocks in Thornton and along a 30-mile line from southwest Denver to Fort Lupton, officials said. The worst damage and most of the confirmed injuries were reported in northeast Thornton, where the tornado tore off the roof of the D&B Shopping Center and smashed all the windows of an apartment building before continuing on a northeasterly path through part of neighboring Northglenn. Most of the injured were taken to Valley View Hospital in Thornton, where officials said 31 people were treated for cuts and bruises and released. Nine people were admitted, but their conditions were not known, a hospital spokeswoman said. But Truby said six people were seriously hurt, and one teen-age girl reportedly was in critical condition. An ambulance driver said one of the injured "was just knocked over by the force of the wind. He was walking along the street and it just bowled him over." One weather-related death was reported. A woman was hit by lightning near Brainard Lake in Boulder County, and two other women with her were injured, officials said. There was no immediate damage estimate. The storm not only inflicted damage on property but caused scattered electrical blackouts and interrupted telephone service, utility officials said. Streets were flooded and creeks overflowed after heavy rain and golf ball-size hail fell throughout the area, police said. Tornadoes are rare in the Denver area, although two have touched down north of the city during the past six days. The tornado struck first in Lakewood and southwest Denver shortly after 2 p.m. and skipped and churned along a 30-mile-long arc for the next hour or so, hitting in Thornton, Northglenn, Fort Lupton and near Platteville. The all-clear was sounded about 3:30 p.m. "There was one major tornado that rode through town and hit Fort Lupton," said forecaster Tom Schweid of the National Weather Service. "It hit Sloans Lake, stayed on the ground quite a while, went through the north business section through Thornton and hit Fort Lupton." Susan Gelck, one of people taken to Thornton's Valley View Hospital for treatment of minor injuries after the twister hit Thornton, said: "We looked out the window and saw a tornado ripping the roof off the Albertson's (grocery store) across the street. "Then as I was walking down the steps this man yelled at me, and I turned and saw the roof fly off the building behind me. I just stood there crying and screaming for a few minutes." UFO & Projects Ramming Japanese ship costs sub skipper's job TOKYO (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy stripped the veteran captain of command of a Polaris missile submarine and reprimanded him and another officer for the April 9 ramming of a freighter that killed two Japanese seamen, the U.S. Embassy said Monday. An embassy spokesman said U.S. officials had notified the Japanese government of the action, taken as the result of a continuing Navy probe of the ramming of the Japanese freighter Nissho Maru by the USS George Washington. They noted that the American officer can appeal. "The commander of the submarine was relieved of his command and was issued a letter of reprimand," an embassy statement said. "In addition, the officer of the deck was issued a letter of reprimand." Military sources said letters of reprimand usually block chances for promotion, and in most cases the affected officers resign their commissions. Cmdr. Robert D. Woehl, 41, was skipper of the George Washington, the first American submarine to carry Polaris missiles, and Lt. Roy Hampton was officer of the deck at the time of the "hit-and-run" incident in the East China Sea. The Nissho Maru sank within minutes the 13 survivors in the 15-man crew said. The survivors drifted in lifeboats for 19 hours before being rescued. The Navy did not report the accident to the Japanese for 36 hours. A preliminary Navy report said the sub made sonar contact with the freighter moments before the collision but the contact was not heard or acknowledged by the officer of the deck. The sub was at periscope depth -- not far below the surface -- on a training mission, trying to avoid detection by a Navy P-3C Orion patrol plane. The Navy said the sub surfaced after the collision but noted no distress signs from the Nissho Maru. Navy Secretary John Lehman Jr. said the United States had accepted liability for the collision and expected to pay damages estimated by the Navy at more than $4 million. Japanese lawyers notified the Navy they expected the claims for the loss of lives, the freighter and its 1,200 tons of raw cotton to be about $4.2 million. UFO & Projects Laser device fails Air Force test WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force's effort to develop a revolutionary laser weapon failed in a secret attempt to use high-intensity light to destroy a 2,000 mph target, it was learned Tuesday. "The test failed and we don't know why," said Col. Bob O'Brien, spokesman for the Air Force Systems Command, when asked about the airborne experiment over the China Lake, Calif., range Monday. Had it succeeded, the effort to destroy a supersonic air-to-air missile with a laser beam shot from a special laboratory plane would have marked significant progress toward a weapon that would change drastically the character of warfare. Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto also acknowledged failure of the test. O'Brien said a concentrated beam of light was aimed from a modified KC-135 plane at a Sidewinder missile that had been fired from an A-7 fighter-bomber. === Page 59 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MAY 31, 1981 3M # Taxiing jetliners lose way in Vancouver airport fog VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Passenger jets have gotten lost in the fog while taxiing to the terminal after landing at Vancouver International Airport, according to an airport official. However, equipment is being installed to prevent such incidents from recurring, said Dave Brandt, air traffic control tower supervisor. "There were a couple of occasions where airplanes got lost taxiing on the airport causeway" after landing in heavy fog last winter, Brandt said. A surface guidance system now being tested at Montreal's Dorval Airport will be installed in Vancouver this summer, Brandt said. The equipment is designed to let air traffic controllers keep track of airplanes on the ground and direct planes to the correct location. There is currently no guidance system for planes once they have landed in Vancouver. "It's the same as driving a car in the fog," Brandt said. "They (airplane pilots) are following the yellow lines and the yellow lines split up, and they follow the wrong one or something and they get lost." Brandt was asked about reports that 10 such incidents occurred last winter. "I thought there were a lot less than that, but I'm not sure," he said. In each incident, a major passenger plane wound up at the wrong airline terminal or used the wrong taxiing lanes, but none was involved in an accident, Brandt said. "I guess any time an airplane gets lost on an airport runway, it's serious," he said. When asked whether air travelers should be leery of landing in Vancouver during fog, Brandt said: "No, I don't think so. It certainly doesn't bother me." # Floods force evacuation HOUSTON (AP) -- Rising floodwaters in two southeast Texas counties Sunday forced at least 100 families from their homes, washed out a railroad line and collapsed two dams, officials said. "We've had a pretty good bit of major flooding in the west part of the county near Kickapoo Creek," said Polk County Chief Deputy Rick Voelker. "There are some houses under water there, and we've had major flooding in Livingston." He said about 30 families were evacuated near Kickapoo Creek west of Livingston and another 80 families had been moved along Long King Creek in Goodrich, eight miles south of the Polk County seat, and more evacuations were planned. Voelker said he had no reports of injuries or deaths in the three flood-stricken areas, but some families in Goodrich were refusing to leave their homes because they were afraid of looting. Two people died last week when floodwaters hit Central and South Central Texas after five straight days of rain. - UFO 6 Projects - 6/8/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # N-coolant leakage shuts power plant ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- Technicians began repairs Saturday on a cooling system leak that sent 10,000 gallons of radioactive water into the nation's largest nuclear power plant and forced the shutdown of one reactor, said a spokesman for the Brown's Ferry plant operators. Workers found the leak shortly after midnight around the stem of a discharge valve on one of two recirculation pumps in the drywell surrounding the reactor, one of three reactors at the huge plant, said Bob Boyer of the Tennessee Valley Authority. "We are looking at probably a day or so to finish the repairs," he said. "We are also going to do some other minor maintenance in there. If we don't have any other problems, we hope to have the unit back in service early this week." The leak, which began Thursday, posed no threat to plant personnel or to the public, said Jim Hufham, director of TVA's emergency control center in Chattanooga, Tenn. All the spilled cooling water was contained within the drywell and recirculated by a drainage system, and no radiation was released, TVA officials said. The drywell, with steel-reinforced concrete walls several feet thick, is the primary containment structure surrounding the reactor. It is "the first line of protection for plant employees and the public from the radiation generated by the nuclear reactor when it is operating," Boyer said. "Valve leaks are just real common occurrences," he said. "The unit was shut down primarily because of the location of the valve. If it were located in another part of the plant, we could have gotten to it and fixed it probably without shutting the unit down." TVA declared a "site emergency" at the plant when drains in the drywell indicated water was leaking at the rate of 21 gallons per minute, Hufham said. The nuclear plant is about 10 miles southwest of Athens, which has a population of about 14,000, and 10 to 15 miles northwest of Decatur, Ala., with a population of about 48,000. 6/24/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Rain, rain go away! By CHARLES B. STEERS Journal Staff Writer The man looked sadly at the diminutive tomato plants standing in rain-dappled puddles and then turned his face skyward. With water streaming down his lined face, he fixed his gaze on the menacing clouds and screamed: "Enough already!" This, most certainly, will be the Year of the Green Tomato. And it may very well be the Year of the Disappearing Strawberry and the Year of the Non-Existent Cherry. Frustrated gardeners, melancholy farmers, and disgruntled golfers are beginning to wonder if they should offer a sacrifice to the sun gods, or if they should be sticking pins into a voodoo doll of the weatherman. And they're not restricted to Oregon, either. Farmers in Washington are wondering if they'll be able to salvage any of the state's bountiful strawberry crop. Last year it was the volcano, this year over-abundant rain. What could be in store next year? Termites? This isn't a record rainfall for June -- yet. The wettest June on record, according to the National Weather Service was 1954 when the service measured 3.58 inches of precipitation at the Portland International Airport. As of 5 a.m., Saturday, this June's rainfall is 3.18 inches, only .4 of an inch from a tie with 1954 and there are 11 days to go. Oreg 6/20/81 === Page 60 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Rash of tornadoes, rains blister Wyoming to Texas United Press International Thunderstorms that hurled more than 20 tornadoes from Wyoming to Texas snapping power lines and trees, shattering windows and resulting in at least one lightning death, pounded the breadth of Texas with rain Thursday. Fifty people were injured in Denver, where nine tornadoes plowed through northwest suburbs Wednesday. One young woman caught in the twisters' path is in critical condition. A New Jersey woman hiking with two friends near the Continental Divide northwest of Denver was struck and killed by lightning during a hailstorm. Her two companions were slightly injured. Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm said he would declare an emergency to allow the National Guard and the state patrol to protect property from looters. Damage was extensive. The tornadoes snapped power lines, blew out windows, uprooted trees and ruptured a gas line, forcing evacuation of the nearby area, in their 45-mile path from Denver to Platteville. A forecaster for the National Weather Service in Denver said the tornadoes were the most severe in recent Denver history. In Michigan, lightning struck the outside wall of a first-grade classroom in Roscommon Wednesday, burning a 4-inch hole through the wall. None of the 20 children in the classroom were injured. Thunderstorms swept across Texas, dumping up to 5 inches of rain in eastern areas, and persisted Thursday. Flash flood warnings were issued for five counties Thursday. Several tornadoes were reported northwest of Lubbock, Texas, but there were no injuries or damage. The storms lumbered into Oklahoma, where one twister damaged a two-block area in south Oklahoma City and rainwater flowed 3 feet deep. Up to 3 inches of rain swamped southern Kansas, prompting a flash flood watch Thursday. Six tornadoes touched down in open fields near Greensburg, but no damage or injuries were reported. In Wyoming, two tornadoes touched down in rural areas -- one near Cheyenne and one near Casper. There were no injuries or damage. In the Denver area, where a young woman was injured, the suburb of Thornton was hardest hit. - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes spawn disaster declaration THORNTON, Colo. (AP) -- Gov. Richard Lamm Thursday declared four counties a disaster area after inspecting suburban neighborhoods where 46 people were injured and $9.5 million worth of property was destroyed in the worst onslaught of tornadoes ever recorded in the Denver area. The worst of about a dozen twisters sighted Wednesday cut a mile-long path through this city of 40,000 people, destroying at least 87 homes and causing most of the injuries. An estimated 600 buildings were damaged throughout the metropolitan area. One woman was killed by a bolt of lightning while hiking 50 miles northwest of Denver. Seven people remained hospitalized Thursday, one of them in critical condition. - UFOs & Projects - # Thunderstorms kill 3 By United Press International At least three deaths were blamed on fierce thunderstorms that pounded the southern Plains Wednesday and roared into the Tennessee Valley, urging rain-swollen rivers over their banks. Rivers rose near flood stage in Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee. Flash flood warnings were posted Wednesday for those areas and minor flooding was reported in Vernon, Texas, west of Wichita Falls. High winds clocked at more than 70 mph accompanied thunderstorms through the Plains and a series of tornadoes rolled through Texas. A cold front in the West that moved heavy rain into Utah caused some flooding and mudslides. About 8 inches of rain fell Tuesday in Oxford Dam, N.C. In Texas, tornadoes touched down in Rockport, Lakeview, Wellington, Matador and Crosbyton. A funnel cloud was also cited near Pittsburg, Texas. No damage or injuries were reported. A tornado was reported near Edmond, Okla., where winds were clocked at more than 70 mph. Large hail flailed Edmond and heavy rain continued Wednesday. Another twister was sighted at Hollis, Okla. Intense thunderstorms and winds clocked at 43 mph moved into Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday. Authorities in Nashville said a man and his two young stepchildren drowned in a rain-swollen drainage ditch after a downpour. "The (drainage) ditches in these apartment complexes collect a lot of water," said Ray Burgess of the National Weather Service in Nashville. "They (the victims) were playing in it after it rained. "They just happened to be playing in the wrong spot." - UFOs & Projects - # Storms rip across U.S. United Press International Fierce thunderstorms rampaging across the Plains flung lightning bolts that knocked out power and left Oklahoma lawmakers in the dark, and a tornado touched down in South Dakota Saturday. Heavy rain pounded a swath of the nation from the Southeast to Texas' Rio Grande Valley on Friday. Tornadoes were sighted in Florida and a cloudburst caused minor flash floods at a Christian youth camp in Colorado. Fierce storms pummeled Rapid City, S.D., Saturday with hail and high wind and a tornado touched down 37 miles east of the community, but no injuries or damage were reported. === Page 61 of 128 GONIAN, JUNE 14, 1981 Tornado kills 3 - UFOs 6 Projects - Storms ravage Midwest, Texas By CAROL R. STERNHELL of The Associated Press Three people were killed and at least 45 were injured Saturday when a tornado tore through Cardington, Ohio, while in northern Illinois and south-central Texas heavy rains and flash flooding left two people dead and forced dozens to flee. Gov. James A. Rhodes called out the Ohio National Guard to secure the area and traveled to Cardington along with the head of the state disaster services agency, said spokesman Chuck Shipley. John Harbough, a supervisor at Morrow County Hospital in nearby Mount Gilead, said two people, including an infant, died during treatment and a third was dead on arrival. The infant was identified as 9-month-old Donald William Carson. The other identifications were withheld pending notification of relatives, Harbough said. As heavy thunderstorms swept through Illinois, Texas rivers and creeks spilled over their banks for the third straight day, closing streets and highways. A Chicago woman, Irena Zenullahi, 33, drowned when a dinghy she was aboard, caught by the sudden weather change, capsized in Belmont Harbor on the city's North Side, police said. The woman, who could not swim, and her three companions aboard the boat were pitched into the water. The three others swam to safety. In Texas, a Houston man drowned after a pickup truck he was in washed into Bedias Creek in Madison County at about 12:30 a.m. The body of Billy McFerrin, 45, was found at about 4:25 p.m. on a barbed wire fence about 15 feet from the truck, said Department of Public Safety Trooper Charles DeFord. Officials said McFerrin was one of four people who climbed from the truck after it plunged into the flooded creek. The other three reached safety. Late Friday, rescue workers in Frio County recovered the body of Alfred Breeden, 82, of Devine, who was swept away when a wall of water overturned a fire truck that was carrying him and three fellow campers to safety. The Ohio tornado "pretty well tore the town up," said Morrow County Deputy Sheriff Carroll Sears. "We've got buildings down, trees have been uprooted, power lines are down, we've got gas leaks, and people are injured." He said some people were trapped in damaged buildings. The tornado ripped through the community of about 2,000 at about 3:45 p.m., according to meteorologists. The Red Cross set up a disaster center at a school and the sheriff's office and the state Highway Patrol sealed off the town. Only residents and those involved in emergency operations were allowed-in. In Illinois, thunderstorms pelted the Joliet area, forcing as many as 100 east-side residents to leave their homes when Hickory Spring creek flooded its banks, said Fire Chief Ed Spahn. No injuries were reported, he said, but cars were stalled and viaducts were flooded. He said people were being encouraged to stay off the roads. orig 6/14/81 - UFOs 6 Projects PK - Ammunition plant blows RADFORD, Va. (AP) -- An explosion at the Army Ammunition Plant injured nine people Wednesday, a spokeswoman at Radford Community Hospital said. William H. Coughlin, spokesman for Hercules Inc., the firm that operates the sprawling explosives plant for the Army, confirmed there had been an explosion but gave no further details. The blast occurred about 1 p.m., a fireman at the Radford Fire Department said. Two of the injured were taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville by helicopter and another was flown to a Roanoke hospital, said Mary Alice Davis. The rest were treated at hospitals in this southwest Virginia town, she said. No other details were immediately available. orig 5/7/81 - Space Shuttle PK - Second man dies in Canaveral fire CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A firefighter died Tuesday of burns suffered in a blaze that killed another man when they were trapped aboard a bulldozer in a thunderstorm-fanned brushfire on Kennedy Space Center property, officials said. Beau Sauselein, 32, of Titusville, died at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville of third-degree burns on much of his body, officials said. He had been hospitalized there Monday in critical condition. Scott Maness, also 32, of Titusville, died Monday at the Jess Parrish Hospital in Titusville, said National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Mark Hess. The two firefighters were employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The 500-acre fire still was burning Tuesday but was under control, a NASA spokesman said. It was the first fatal accident this year for firefighters who have been battling a four-month string of more than 10,000 brush and timber fires that have consumed 441,000 acres in Florida during one of the state's worst droughts. orig P 6/9/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - Fierce storm rips East Coast states By United Press International Thunderstorms packing hurricane-force wind battered the Mid-Atlantic states, leaving more than 100,000 people without power Friday in Maryland and New Jersey. Dozens of Maryland residents were injured in the storm. At least four people were being treated at hospitals. Rain threatened new flooding in Missouri and the National Guard was called to Lafayette, Ind., in the wake of a tornado and a fierce storm. Forecasters predicted a cold front pushing downward from Canada by the weekend will break the South's heat wave that has killed eight people in Georgia and Alabama. More rain and thunderstorms were forecast Friday for Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware, lashed by savage storms Thursday. Wind clocked at 90 mph tore through Baltimore, Md., and in Allentown, Penn., 75 mph wind ripped a roof from a children's center and uprooted trees. orig P 6/26/81 === Page 62 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Texas braces for floods in continuing downpours By United Press International Texas braced for possible flash floods Friday from relentless rain that has inundated homes, triggered mudslides and been blamed for at least two drownings. One victim died trying to warn neighbors to flee. Thunderstorms caused by the hurricane season's first tropical depression unleashed a tornado Friday in Galveston, Texas, and dumped more than 2.5 inches of rain on the Gulf city. One injury was reported as a result of the storm, which also threatened to flood the Louisiana coast. Thunderstorms that spawned more than a dozen tornadoes in Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma stretched across Texas Thursday, dropping up to 5 inches of rain. Much of Texas was under a flash flood watch today, where rainstorms lingered. The tropical depression formed Thursday night over the western Gulf of Mexico and Friday was packing sustained wind of 35 miles an hour - centered about 75 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The twister that touched down on the west end of Galveston Island Friday damaged homes, an apartment complex and several cars. Police said one person was cut by flying glass. The body of a Fort Hood soldier was recovered from a tree near Florence, Texas. Authorities said the 30-year-old man drowned in Mountain Creek while trying to warn residents to flee their homes. "We understand he was down there to help warn people to get out, that the creek was up," said sheriff's spokesman Bert Wilkerson. "Normally, it is just a little trickle, but get a good rain and that son of a gun can get 300, 400 feet wide." A 10-year-old Waco boy was presumed dead after falling Thursday into a rain-swollen drainage ditch, which runs 14 blocks underground into the Brazos River. The search for his body continued Friday. The heaviest storms extended from near Waco to Laredo. The west Texas community of Fluvana got nearly 5½ inches of rain. # Storms in Midwest, Texas claim 20 lives By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press Authorities in Texas pulled more bodies out of swollen rivers Monday as the death toll from a weekend of torrential rain and tornadoes in the central and eastern parts of the nation rose to 20. States of emergency were declared in Kansas and Ohio as surging rivers and creeks went over their banks and roared into homes. In Minnesota, crews began clearing away trees and buildings flattened by a major tornado that skipped across Minneapolis-St. Paul and surrounding suburbs, killing two and injuring almost 100. In Ohio, officials continued tallying the damage from a twister that devastated the old mill town of Cardington, taking four lives. In addition, three people were killed by lightning and 11 people drowned in the thunderstorms, flooding and high winds which began Saturday from Texas to Maryland. National Weather Service forecaster Guy Gray in Kansas City, Mo., said the storms formed along a slow-moving cold front stretching from the Great Lakes to Texas. Showers were expected Monday from Texas through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and into New England. Up to 15 inches of rain fell overnight in parts of Kansas, forcing the evacuation Monday of hundreds of people in and around Great Bend, soaked by up to 4 feet of water. A few minor injuries were reported as volunteers took to canoes and rowboats to help rescue people from water-filled homes. Kansas Gov. John Carlin declared states of emergency in Barton and Pawnee counties. In Missouri, at least seven people were injured Monday as high winds surged through southeastern Kansas City, causing an explosion at a gas station, tossing cars around, blowing out store windows and flattening a doughnut shop. Authorities said they had not confirmed if the wind was a tornado, but homeowner Roy Vickers said there was no doubt in his mind that a twister had touched down. "It sucked 18 inches of water out of my swimming pool," he said. In Oklahoma, residents of a mobile home park and motel in Bristow were evacuated when 5.4 inches of rain fell in less than an hour. # Crash cuts Salem power SALEM (AP) -- Hundreds of people were without power early Monday after an automobile hit an electric pole, collapsing lines and shorting out connecting boxes, authorities said. Salem police said Michael A. Rice, 26, Salem, was arrested for investigation of drunken driving after he smashed into a power line at about midnight Sunday. He was not injured. About 1,000 Portland General Electric customers lost their power for an hour, spokesman Dave Eagon said. # Hanford reactor shut down RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The N reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation was shut down Monday morning for the seventh time since March 11. UNC Nuclear Industries spokesman Fred Park said the shutdown was caused by an overloaded motor on one of the pumps that supply cooling water to the condenser. UNC operates the reactor for the Department of Energy. When asked about the high number of shutdowns, Park said he didn't find the number too high. After an outage of 10 months, problems can be expected, he said. The reactor was out of operation during a 10-month labor dispute, which ended in March. # Flooding Kills 17 MUSCAT, Oman (AP) -- Police reported 17 people killed, eight missing and "enormous damage" from flooding when a thunderstorm and torrential rains hit Oman Sunday. In the neighboring United Arab Emirates a hailstorm wreaked havoc and killed four people. A government statement reported that an unidentified freighter sank near the Oman shoreline Sunday and a small boat capsized in the storm. Highway traffic halted, and Oman police urged caution, warning that more torrential rains were predicted. In the United Arab Emirates, ships were ripped from moorings, houses were destroyed and thousands of livestock were killed as shelters crashed. === Page 63 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Fire damages ammo ship; 6 hurt NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- An engine room fire aboard a Navy ammunition ship, the third blaze aboard a Navy vessel in less than a week, injured six sailors and left the USS Nitro disabled in the Mediterranean Sea off Crete. The 512-foot ship with a crew of 315 was towed to a naval facility at Souda Bay on Crete for repairs, while the injured were flown to the Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Atlantic Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Mike Cherry said Tuesday the exact cause of the fire, which broke out Monday during operations 60 miles off Crete, was unknown. However, Navy officials described it as "a fuel oil fire." Although the Nitro was loaded with "all kinds of naval ordnance," Cherry said there was no danger of the ammunition exploding because it was stored a safe distance from the fire. It took firefighters 1½-hours to control the blaze. Because the fire disabled the ship's engines, the vessel was towed back to port. Two of the victims were identified as Donald J. Nicholson, 26, a machinist mate from Queens Village, N.Y., and Christopher Buckridge, 22, a fireman from North Valley Stream, N.Y. Both were in "guarded condition" as a result of eye burns and smoke inhalation. The four other victims, whose names were not released pending notification of their families, suffered "minor" smoke inhalation, officials said. The Nitro fire is the third blaze reported on a Navy vessel recently. Fourteen crewmembers were killed and 48 injured the night of May 26 when a plane crashed while landing on the nuclear carrier USS Nimitz off Jacksonville, Fla., and touched off a fireball. A "minor" fire broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise Monday night at the Bremerton, Wash., shipyard, but was quickly doused by ship's firefighters. Oreg 6/3/81 # Alabama nuclear plant leaks radioactive water By PHIL ORAMOUS ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- About 10,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from a reactor cooling system at the nation's largest nuclear power plant Friday, forcing the shutdown of a reactor but releasing no radiation into the surrounding area, officials said. The water was recirculated and purified and no one inside the plant was contaminated, according to Jim Huffham, director of emergency control for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the Browns Ferry power station near this northern Alabama town of 14,000 people. He said the accident posed no danger to plant personnel or the public. Joe Gilliland, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Atlanta, said there was "no major safety problem" at the plant. "We don't think it's very serious in terms of our emergency guidelines," Gilliland said. "Our designations for anything potentially serious range from an 'unusual event' to a 'general emergency.' It looks like this was an 'unusual event.'" he said. "It's something that requires immediate attention, but it does not necessarily mean there's any imminent danger." The water leaked inside a drywell, the primary containment structure which surrounds the reactor, according to TVA spokesman Gil Francis in Knoxville, Tenn. Oreg 5/23/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - - UFOs 6 Projects PK - # Soviet peak erupts MOSCOW (AP) -- A volcano erupted Tuesday night on the Soviet Far Eastern island of Atlasov and debris covered a town on a nearby island with ashes up to 10 inches deep, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. The news agency said streets and buildings in the town of Severo-Kurilsk were covered with ashes and that schools had been closed. It made no mention of injuries and said businesses there still were operating. The report said the gas-and-ash cloud after the eruption in the Kurile island chain north of Japan went six miles into the air and drifted up to 625 miles. It was the first time the volcano had erupted in nine years, the report said. Atlasov island itself is uninhabited. The town of Severo-Kurilsk is on the nearby island of Paramushir. Oreg 4/30/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - A8 3M THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1981 # Twisters spark flooding in Gulf states By The Associated Press Tornadoes lashed parts of Texas and Louisiana Friday as a storm rolled in off the Gulf of Mexico with heavy rain that drenched central and southeastern Texas for a second day, spawning widespread flooding. A 10-year-old boy swept into a storm sewer the day before was found alive in central Texas, but two other people died in Texas and one was missing in Louisiana. Several people were injured by tornadoes in Louisiana, and residents of some low-lying areas in Texas were forced to evacuate. At Waco, Texas, 10-year-old Emiliyio Pena was found alive Friday afternoon by rescuers searching a 13-block-long storm sewer. The boy apparently was carried into the sewer Thursday after being swept into a creek while riding his bicycle with friends. In Louisiana, the heaviest damage reported Friday was at Louisiana College in Pineville, where a tornado damaged classroom buildings and knocked out power, a school spokesman said. One student was hospitalized after being hit by a falling tree limb. Most of the 1,250 students were evacuated, school spokesman Randy Wyrick said. Two factory workers were hospitalized after being slashed by flying glass, Pineville Fire Chief Henry Coleman said. Oreg 6/6/81 === Page 64 of 128 - UFOs Projects - THE Summer blazes blacken acreage in five Western states OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1981 3M A15 By The Associated Press Firefighters threw a line around a 73,000-acre brush fire in Idaho as California fire crews struggled Sunday to contain a slow-moving blaze that blackened 2,200 acres of overgrown brush. Meanwhile, scattered rain, cooler temperatures and higher humidity helped slow the advance of the more than 27 fires of at least 100 acres each raging across Alaska, and blazes in New Mexico roared through parched, remote forests. In Utah, firefighters controlled a blaze on an Army testing site. Nearly 800 people California helped fight a 3-day-old fire in the remote Ventana Wilderness. Fire information officer Steve Beck said four miles of fire line had been placed around the blaze, but "More than half the job still remains to be done." Firefighters were aided by air tankers and helicopters dropping water and retardant on the fire. Two horses and eight mules, usually used to ferry supplies to wilderness rangers, were being employed to bring in water and food to firefighters on the lines, said Beck. In Idaho, fire crews were beginning to go home after a range fire that was touched off by lightning near Shoshone was contained Saturday. The fire was the largest of three major Idaho range fires this week. Three firefighters were killed Friday while flying to the scene. In Utah, Interagency Fire Center spokesman Barry Wirth in Salt Lake City said a 5,200-acre range fire south of Dugway Proving Ground had been controlled late Saturday. The fire was started Thursday night by a lightning strike on Army land and spread south. Bureau of Land Management officials had declared the fire contained Friday, but gusty winds caused it to flare up again. The fire, which burned mostly in grass and sagebrush, was about 75 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Fishlake National Forest spokesman Ron Sanden said seven small fires were either controlled or contained in the southern Utah national forest, along with a fire on private property and one on BLM land. Crews were investigating whether one of the fires was set, whether deliberately or accidentally, but the rest were caused by lightning, he said. About 20 blazes, most of them smaller than four acres, were sparked by lightning in New Mexico forests. Scott Steinberg, fire information officer at Gila National Forests, said most of those fires were being fought by parachutists or airborne tankers. An Interagency Fire Information Center spokeswoman in Fairbanks said 69 fires were burning Sunday in Alaska, bringing the year's total to 573 fires. Blazes have destroyed more than 400,000 acres of timber and tundra - an area about half the size of Rhode Island - since the beginning of the year. The largest fire covers more than 187,000 acres near Dune Lake, southwest of Fairbanks. While there have been no injuries reported from the scattered fires, 40 elderly persons and children were evacuated last week from Minto because of heavy smoke from the Tatalina fire, which has blackened 73,000 acres of state-owned land west of Fairbanks. About 320 firefighters were battling the Tolovana blaze, which is raging five miles north of the Tatalina fire and has scorched 47,000 acres. - UFOs Projects - AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) - At least four persons drowned and a search was under way Monday for at least 10 other others missing in the city's worst flooding in recent memory. "We've had four apparent drownings so far that we know of," said police Sgt. Larry Walker, "and there's probably going to be others out in the county." He said all of the victims were motorists caught in flash flooding that struck the city late Sunday. No identities were immediately released. Meanwhile, fierce thunderstorms packing golf-ball-size hail flung tornadoes across portions of the Midwest and Texas and flood waters ebbed in Montana, where hundreds of evacuated residents began to return to their homes Monday. One tornado, in Bartlesville, Okla., flattened several homes and injured four persons. Skies began clearing in Montana where the heaviest rains in two decades spawned widespread flooding. Hundreds of people in Cascade County prepared to return to their homes as civil authorities geared up for clean-up efforts. In Austin, city street and bridge crews estimated as many as 5,000 vehicles were stranded by high water that also forced the evacuation of an estimated 40 persons from their homes. "This is the worst flooding I can recall," Chief Doug Palmer, a 20-year fire department veteran, said Monday. - UFOs Projects - Monsoon swamps Bangkok BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) - Record monsoon rains have swamped Thailand's sinking capital, turning city streets into running streams with boats replacing municipal buses as the favored form of transportation. Bangkok, once known as the "Venice of the Orient" for its network of canals, was hit by the edge of a massive storm front from China that dumped a record 7.1 inches of rainfall on the city Sunday. Florida has 5 new sinkholes 5-15-81 Columbian ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Dominick Cipollone's garden has disappeared and a Tampa homeowner's driveway was swallowed up as five new sinkholes developed in central Florida, where drought is making the ground give way. Cipollone knew something was wrong Thursday when he went out to water his garden and couldn't find it. Where vegetables and wine grapes once flourished, a crater gaped. The crater - estimated at 50 feet in diameter and 40 feet deep - developed during the predawn hours Thursday in a residential area north of Winter Park, where officials still were watching a sinkhole that opened last week, estimated at 400 feet wide and almost 100 feet deep. A third central Florida sinkhole opened up Thursday in an orange grove area in Auburndale, about 45 miles southwest of Orlando. It was reported as 60 feet wide, but only about 5 feet deep and nibbling at a roadway. Traffic was blocked, but no houses were threatened. Meanwhile, a hole about 20 feet wide and 15 feet deep was growing larger in a barren field north of Lakeland, and soil engineers planned a trip to Windermere to assess a sinkhole that began growing in the sandy soil on the edge of Lake Bessie and spread into the backyard of a home. The 75-foot wide crater had expanded to within 10 feet of a sundeck. Floods claim 175 in India NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Flash floods caused by monsoon rains marooned thousands of people in the western state of Gujarat Monday. The nationwide toll of flood-related deaths was placed at 175 by United News of India. The agency said authorities ordered the residents of more than 100 villages in Gujarat to flee to high ground because 14 dams were overflowing. Gujarat Irrigation Minister Amarsinh Choudhry told the state legislature in Gandhinagar that 46 persons perished in floods that swept away 3,284 cattle and wrecked more than 14,000 homes. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 14 more flood-related deaths were reported Monday, raising the toll there in three weeks of heavy rains to 105, UNI reported. The other deaths were reported at various locations in rain-lashed western and northern === Page 65 of 128 - UFO & Projects - # Flash floods devastate Texas capital; 10 die By KEN HERMAN AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Flash floods turned gentle streams into torrents that swept through the Texas capital early Monday, killing 10 people, leaving eight others missing and carving a path of destruction that looked like "a week of hurricanes." "I think we are fortunate we didn't lose more lives, when you look at the devastation," Mayor Carole McClellan said as Austin began drying out from the vicious overnight flood. Austin Police Lt. R.R. Roundtree said at midday that eight people were confirmed dead. Later, he said two more bodies had been found. Four of the victims died in or near Shoal Creek, a usually quiet stream that cuts through a residential section of Austin and empties into Town Lake. Most of the other deaths involved motorists who got stranded in rising water and drowned. Police said one unidentified woman's body was found in the back seat of a Cadillac perched 12 feet above the ground in a tree. Another eight people were reported missing. Four of them were last seen in a canoe on Town Lake, said Curtis Weeks, public information officer of the Travis County sheriff's office. Up to 7 inches of rainfall, which fell from late Saturday night until early Monday morning, pushed Shoal Creek into homes, tearing out walls and soaking floors and furniture. "It looks like we had a week of hurricanes," Cam O'Keefe said as she looked at the damage. Mike Sheridan, a hotel night auditor, said he watched as a "whirlpool" in a drainage ditch swallowed a pickup truck, killing one man and injuring another. "I fear there are still people unaccounted for out there," he said, gazing at the ditch that usually carries no more than a trickle of water. Police cadets combed Shoal Creek for more bodies. Motorcycle police roamed the damaged areas, and two arrests on looting charges were reported. "People were carrying stuff out of some of the flooded businesses," one resident said. "I saw them carrying some barbecue grills and other stuff." The flood water reportedly swirled to depths of 20 to 30 feet, causing widespread damage in the business district. It receded as quickly as it collected, and schools opened on time Monday. The rainfall total at Austin Municipal Airport was only 4.13 inches, but there were unofficial reports of 6 to 7 inches of rain at various locations. Many Shoal Creek area residents emptied their homes early Monday, lining their yards with wet furniture. Doors and windows in many homes were washed away. "The woman in this house and her son were holding onto a tree on the front lawn," said Kayo O'Keefe, Cam's husband, as he looked at a house with a gaping hole in the garage wall. The O'Keefes helped throw a rope to the woman. Mrs. O'Keefe said water crashed off structures like waves bouncing off the coast. org 5/26/81 - UFO & Projects - # Montana rivers begin to recede org 5/26/81 HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Swollen rivers began returning to their banks and flood refugees began returning to their homes Monday as five days of rain over western Montana gave way to clearing skies, authorities said. "The flooding is receding throughout the state," said Col. C.L. Gilbertson, head of the state Disaster and Emergency Services office. "We don't anticipate any further flooding problems." State and federal officials, meanwhile, were trying to assess the extent of the damage left by the four-day flooding. Gov. Ted Schwinden planned to ask for federal disaster assistance. Weather service officials said more rain was developing west of the Continental Divide and would move east during the day. Hydrologist John Fasler said the new rainfall could amount to half an inch in some areas but probably would affect only smaller streams. They said the Clark Fork at Missoula was dropping and was expected to fall below flood stage by midday Tuesday. # Campers saved YELLOWWOOD STATE FOREST, Ind. (AP) - About 20 campers were rescued by conservation officers in boats, but a few others were stranded Monday after refusing offers of help when heavy rains flooded parts of Yellowwood State Forest, officials said. A small group of campers who didn't want to abandon their recreational vehicles elected to remain until the water receded enough so they could drive out of Horseman's Camp, said state conservation officer Jeff Atwood. "Several are relaxing and enjoying the sunshine," he said, adding there was "no high risk" because the campers who stayed behind were on dry land surrounded by water. Meanwhile, 25 residents of nearby Trevlac returned to their flooded neighborhood Monday after many spent the night in a church or the fire station. - UFO & Projects - # More eruptions hit island AGANA, Guam (AP) - Mount Pagan erupted twice Sunday, spewing huge clouds of smoke and ash and causing further devastation to the remote Pacific island of Pagan 300 miles north of here. No injuries were reported. A small team of scientists from Hawaii who were on the island studying the volcano reported they were safe after the two new eruptions. All 53 Pagan residents were safely evacuated after the volcano erupted May 15 for the first time in 55 years. The U.S. Trust Territory vessel Fentress was anchored offshore in position to rescue the scientists if necessary. The ship radioed news of the eruptions to the Marianas Islands capital of Saipan, 200 miles south of Pagan. The May 15 blast covered much of the island with ash and lava flows. The residents, including 32 children, fled their village and took refuge in seaside caves until they were rescued by a Japanese freighter the next day. They are now on Saipan, staying with relatives until they can return home. Sunday's eruption produced a new lava flow, descending from the 1,800-foot volcano with a 1,000-foot-wide, 20-foot-deep leading edge, according to information relayed to the Fentress by the scientists. The new flow covered the island's small dirt airstrip, which was already partially covered by a flow from the initial eruption, the scientists said. org 5/25/81 - 6 Projects PK - # N-unit leaks radioactivity SHIPPINGPORT, PA (AP) - A "minor, unplanned" release of radioactivity occurred early Saturday at the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant's Unit 1, the Duquesne Light Co. reported. The release lasted about two minutes and presented no danger to the public, said utility spokesman Bill Ott. "The release occurred during an efficiency test of the steam generator system," Ott said. The steam generators normally do not contain radioactive material, but such material is used as a tracer for water droplets when tests are conducted, he said. "While this test was being performed, a feedwater control valve malfunctioned, causing a safety valve on one of the steam generators to open. Some of the low-level radioactive material was released to the atmosphere with the steam," he said. org 5/3/81 === Page 66 of 128 - UFO 6 Projecto - W. Montana rivers flood; search begun By BOB ANEZ HELENA, Moni (AP) - Rampaging rivers in Western Montana hooded homes, washed away roads mi knocked out power to at least one hospital Satur- day. Six people were feared missing, and more than 50 stranded schoolchildren had to be airlifted from a mountain camp. Almost all 800 residents of Belt, 20 miles east of Great Falls, were evacuated early Saturday because officials feared a nearby natural dam made of debris might give way. Fire Chief Gary Gray said the water began reced- ing later but would have to drop another 2 feet before residents would be allowed back. The National Guard used helicopters to rescue about 52 Helena schoolchildren and 10 adult counse- lors stranded in a mountain camp near MacDonald Pass. Motels in Helena were open to some of the more than 700 people stranded by floodwaters. Police watched for looters on Helena's streets, and the Na- tional Guard ferried people from remote areas. The flooding began Friday after two days of heavy Oljar said about 30 Guardsmen were at the school rainfall, striking hardest at Helena, Belt, Basin and with portable generators and other emergency equip- Deer Lodge. Gov. Ted Schwinden, who surveyed sev- ment. eral flooded towns by air, said Saturday that damage was "in the multimillions of dollars." Schwinden said he was "reasonably confident" the state could obtain a federal disaster declaration for the flooded counties, and federal officials suryeyed the areas to determine damage. The Boulder River School and Hospital, a facility for the mentally retarded 30 miles south of Helena, wawithout electrical power said Paula Walker, a spokesman for Schwinden. National Guard Col. John Associated Press Laserphoto HIGHWAY CLOSED - Flooding on the Little National Guard Maj. Gerald Wood said a helicopter crew was searching for a couple reported missing in the Crow Creek area in the Elkhorn Range west of Townsend. He said there may be as many as six Blackfoot River forced closure of Interstate 90 people missing in the area. near Garrison, Mont., Friday, while a few drivers risked getting through on a frontage road as ris- ing water cascaded over it. Water levels were rising in the Boulder River, but Ms. Walker said there were no plans to evacuate the institution. Lewis and Clark County sheriff's Deputy Bill Fleiner said more than 100 barrels labeled "toxic chemicals" belonging to American Chemet Corp. at East Helena were floating through East Helena and fields to the north. He said state disaster officials were asked to determine what was in the 55-gallon barrels. Ong. 5/24/81 - NÃO 6 Projecto- Twisters, rain pelt Midwest United Press International A band of thunder- storms pelted Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas with tornadoes, hail, gusty winds and up to 4 inches of rain that flooded streets of southern Missou- ri. Several homes and trail- ers were damaged or de- stroyed in the storms Sun- day, but there were no in- juries. The storms moved north Into St. Louis early Mon- day with heavy rain. Street flooding was report- ed in Union, Mo. A funnel cloud swept across Arkansas City. Kan., collapsing the roof of the city's civic auditorium. popping plate glass win- dows from a number of downtown businesses and destroying several trailer homes. Up to 3 inches of rain caused minor flash flood- ing in southern Missouri. The normally tranquil Blue River rose 7 feet above its banks in some sections of Kansas City, and many low-lying intersections were under water. The Rock Creek stream in nearby Independence, Mo., also was flooded. ereg 5/20 8 NE Portland 2 loses power A power line burned out Monday eve- ning at the Pacific Power & Light Knott Street substation knocking out electricity to several thousand Northeast Portland customers for nearly an hour. Power was out between NE Broadway, Schyler Street, Union Avenue and 13th Avenue, said PP&L representative Bar- bara Douglas. Work crews Tuesday will try to deter- mine the cause of the outage, she added. The power went out at 4:55 p.m. and was restored 58 minutes later. 5/18/86 ong = Tornado strikes Washington farmland MOSES LAKE, Wash. (UPI) - A tor- nado Monday afternoon touched down 15 miles southwest of the Grant County Air- port and roared through a farming area for about four minutes before dissipating. "We observed it at 4:30 p.m. and it dissipated at 4:34 p.m.," said an air traffic controller at the airport. The funnel moved northeast, "pretty much through open farm land." There were no reports of damage, said a Grant County Sheriff's Department rep- resentative. LIMFO 6 Projecto- Florida drought to continue MIAMI (UPI) - Weather forecasters expected no break Monday in drought conditions threatening south Florida with more giant sinkholes, a possible 50 per- cent water cutback to 4.5 million resi- dents, and spreading wildfires in the Ever- glades. "You're not going to like what I have to say," Donald L. Gilman, head of the Long Range Prediction Group of the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Md., said Sunday. "The forecast for mid-May to mid-June is listed as less- than-normal precipitation for the whole of Florida and the southern part of neighbor- Ing states." oreg 5/20/81 === Page 67 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Plane crash kills 4, sets building afire REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- A twin-engine U.S. Forest Service plane crashed into a warehouse Monday, killing all four men aboard and starting a fire that destroyed up to $10 million worth of firefighting equipment stored in the warehouse, officials said. Forest Service spokesman Royal Mannion said the equipment loss would hinder firefighting in northern California this summer and that equipment would have to be brought in from other areas. The pilot, who had just taken off on a flight to Chico to check another Forest Service aircraft, encountered trouble with one engine and was circling back to the field when the plane crashed into the warehouse roof, assistant airport director Hank Woodrum said. The dead were identified as Larry Pettibone, pilot and air unit manager; George Mendel, fire management officer; Joe Hohl, an electronics technician, and mechanic Roscoe Bertolucci, all based at the center. No one was reported hurt on the ground. "We were very fortunate to get everyone out of the building," said Glenn Bradley, deputy Forest Service supervisor. He said people were working in an office directly below the crashed plane. "There is nobody missing," he said, "and nobody (in the building) was hurt." Ernie Loveless, a spokesman for the California Division of Forestry, said the warehouse contained supplies estimated to be worth from $7 million to $10 million and ranging from hoses to parachutes to be used in nine Northern California counties. The fire also destroyed the Forest Service communications center for Northern California, administrative offices, a weather station and the base camp for airborne smoke-jumping teams, the Forest Service said. Warehouseman John Ramirez would have been in the burning building had he not been summoned to the complex office along with four other workers to pick up some wooden pallets. "It sounded like a big explosion, like - UFO 6 Projects - # Amid turmoil, U.S., Japan cut naval exercises THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1981 TOKYO (AP) -- Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to cancel the final two days of joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan following public indignation over damage to commercial fishing gear during maneuvers, Japanese authorities said. It was the first suspension reported since Japan and the United States began joint naval exercises in 1957. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yoshinori Katori, said the U.S. Embassy informed the ministry late Thursday that it agreed to a Japanese request to end the joint exercises on Friday, two days earlier than originally planned. But the U.S. Embassy duty officer said Thursday night he could not confirm the report. Japanese fishermen claimed that warships caused more than $400,000 in damage to long-line salmon nets in the Sea of Japan last Friday, and additional damage in maneuvers this week. The newspaper Asahi criticized the Japanese Self Defense Agency for selecting a time for the maneuvers when the salmon fishing in the area is at its peak. A diplomatic battle continues over which of three navies -- American, Soviet or Japanese -- was to blame for damaging commercial fishing nets in the area. A Defense Agency spokesman quoted Joji Omura, director-general of the Self Defense Agency, as saying that, "So far there is a very small possibility that Japanese naval forces and U.S. naval ships are responsible for the incidents, but we have decided to suspend the joint exercises after discussing the incidents." Although damage to the fishing gear is believed to be relatively minor, and while it remains unclear whether U.S., Japanese, or Soviet ships in the area damaged the fishing equipment, the controversy has added to political trouble over Japan's military relationship with the United States. Last Saturday, Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito quit the government after domestic criticism that Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki let President Reagan maneuver him into a dangerous, new military relationship with the United States during a summit in Washington on May 7-8. Earlier, the April 9 collision between a U.S. Polaris missile-equipped submarine and a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea aroused Japanese public opinion, because the submarine crew did not conduct rescue operations. - UFO 6 Projects - # Sinkhole gobbles house, pool, cars WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- A giant sinkhole gulped down a house, six expensive imported cars, a camping vehicle and part of a car lot Saturday in this central Florida town, and devoured the deep end of a municipal swimming pool and the backs of business buildings. "It started last night, and it started growing really fast this morning," a police dispatcher who declined to give her name said Saturday afternoon. "When I was out there about an hour ago, it was at least two city blocks wide. You couldn't get close enough to the edge to see the bottom." Observers said the spreading hole, which severed water and power lines for a few hours, was as large as 1,000 feet wide and 170 feet deep by nightfall and was still growing a few inches an hour. "I think it's stabilizing right now," Barbara Nuss of the Winter Park police said Saturday night. "It's hard to tell this early if it's stopped for good. It'll stop for a while and all of a sudden a whole section will fall in." Sinkholes, common in much of Florida, often result when underground water tables are lowered, allowing soil to dry out and shrink. They also may form when water dissolves limestone layers. === Page 68 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Quake wreaks havoc with desert town By JERRY SCHNEIDER WESTMORLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook this desert community Sunday, destroying at least seven buildings and damaging more than 600 others, cutting off water supplies, damaging an irrigation canal and causing a road to "just sink out of sight." No injuries were reported. "It's a miracle no one was hurt," Mayor Ron Rodriguez said of the quake that registered 5.6 on the Richter scale and jolted people out of their beds in this community of 1,600. The quake struck at 5:09 a.m. PDT and caused extensive damage to this community, where many structures are built from adobe and red brick. Adobe is sun-dried clay. Westmorland was declared a local disaster area -- clearing the way for officials to seek state and federal assistance -- after Rodriguez and county officials surveyed the damage and tacked up condemnation signs. "Anything with adobe in it is in trouble, and any buildings that are damaged are being condemned," Rodriguez said. Demolition crews were busy Sunday afternoon leveling two badly damaged adobe and stucco commercial buildings that had been condemned as safety hazards. Thirteen other commercial buildings were damaged, as were 70 percent of the town's 900 homes. Six mobile homes were knocked off their foundations, and a bell crashed 20 feet to the ground from the steeple of St. Joseph's Church. Five of the homes were so heavily damaged they were condemned, but officials said the residents of four of them refused to leave. Officials could not immediately put a dollar estimate on the damage. Sunday's was the largest in a "swarm" of about 40 quakes above magnitude 3.0 that have rattled this area since Friday evening. Hundreds of smaller quakes also were recorded. Officials at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said they expected the seismic activity to continue for some time in this area. "There have been a great number of smaller (tremors) -- so many that we just can't keep track. The seismograph just keeps jiggling and jiggling," said Dennis Meredith, a spokesman for Cal Tech. The state Department of Transportation closed four-lane state Highway 86, the town's main street, for fear buildings along the street might collapse. It took 10 hours before workers restored the supply of drinking water. Meanwhile, potable water was trucked in from the nearby community of Calipatria and from private water companies. The Vail Irrigation Canal, an offshoot of the All-American Canal that brings water from the Colorado River to this agriculturally rich area, broke and caused some flooding before it was repaired. And scores of "mud pots" -- areas of bubbling mud -- were reported in fields. Meredith explained that mud pots, in which water is squeezed to the surface, are one of a number of soil anomalies that can occur after an earthquake. The quake was felt in a wide area of Southern California, from San Bernardino in the north, to Calexico on the Mexican border to San Diego on the coast. Slight tremors were barely felt in Yuma, Ariz., 55 miles southeast of here. Westmorland is just south of the Salton Sea in the Mojave Desert, about 225 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 20 miles north of the Mexican border. It is in the same area where, in October 1979, a devastating quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale injured some 100 people, destroyed 13 homes and businesses, and damaged 1,500 other buildings in nearby El Centro. - UFO 6 Projects - # Jet crash kills aerobatic pilot By RON BARKER HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) -- An Air Force Thunderbird aerobatic jet crashed Saturday during an air show for up to 80,000 spectators at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, killing the pilot. The victim was Capt. David L. "Nick" Hauck, 34, a native of Mingo Junction, Ohio, stationed at Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, Nev., Tech. Sgt. Dale Clements, a Thunderbird spokesman, said. No other injuries were reported. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but witnesses said the jet appeared to have engine trouble. Clements said Hauck was the 13th Thunderbird pilot killed since the first team was formed in 1953. Two were killed performing in air shows and the rest died either in practices or en route to shows. His aircraft, a T-38 Talon jet, crashed in an open field about 250 yards short of the south end of the base runway at 3:18 p.m. The crash site was just outside the base's borders. Hauck, a 1971 graduate of the Air Force Academy, had been with the Thunderbirds for a year. He previously had been assigned to the Tactical Air Command and flew F-4 Phantoms. He was married and had two children. "I feel my flying with the Thunderbirds is an opportunity of a lifetime," Hauck was quoted in Air Force news release issued at the demonstration. "I'm honored to have been selected to represent the United States and the U.S. Air Force." The twin-engine jet was one of two planes performing at the time. The planes also perform in a six-jet team based at Nellis. The Thunderbirds were at Hill as part of the base's 40th anniversary celebration. The other pilot was not hurt. Between 75,000 and 80,000 spectators watched the planes perform intricate aerial maneuvers above the base runway. The crash site was not visible to the spectators. Air Force spokesman Capt. Phillip Johnson said the cause of the crash was not immediately known, but witnesses said the plane appeared to be having engine trouble, and there was no engine noise just before the crash. Johnson said the Air Force would investigate. The witnesses said that after its pass over the spectator area, the jet turned and headed toward the runway with its landing gear down. The plane passed over several homes in the area, then hit the ground and apparently cartwheeled before coming to rest on a small hill in the grassy field, witnesses said. Officials said two horses in the field were killed. The first indication the crowd had that an accident had occurred was when crash equipment was brought out and began heading toward the south end of the air base. The Thunderbirds began performing in 1953 and now fly Northrop T-38A Talons, supersonic jet trainers with a top speed of over 800 mph. In 1980 the team put on 92 air shows before an estimated total of 6 million people on its 210-day schedule. The team has performed before more than - "Power & Rain Attack" - # Belgrade flooded BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- About 250 buildings were destroyed and 5,000 more houses were under water in Belgrade Wednesday in the worst flood in 40 years. Tens of thousands of people were fighting the fast-rising waters of the Sava and Danube rivers, and 10 of Belgrade's 15 municipal districts were placed on partial "mobilization" alert. === Page 69 of 128 . wu system. - 6 Projects PK- Hail bombards Umatilla area PILOT ROCK (AP) - Authorities were assessing the damage Friday after a severe spring storm bom- barded parts of Umatilla County with hailstones the size of golf balls Thursday night. The hailstones broke windows, dented cars and mobile homes, stripped trees and caused some crop damage along a swath between Pilot Rock and Milton- Frepuster. "We've never seen anything like it," said Iris Doherty of Pilot Rock. "Some of the hailstones bounced 10 feet into the air when they hit." The hail broke windows in the Doherty home and outbuildings. "It beat screens right out of the frame," she said. "Everything's a mess," said a spokeswomen at the Umatilla County Road Department. "Mostly in the Weston, Athena and Milton-Freewater areas." County Commissioner Bob Ten Eyck said he saw newly seeded pea and wheat fields washed out around Athena and Weston. "There's lots of crop damage. A lot of real estate got moved last night. It looks pretty serious," Ten Eyck said. Hazel Weis reported 10 of her cherry trees downed on Winesap Road near Milton-Freewater. At Tum-A-Lum, northeast of Milton-Freewater, cherries and apples were damaged. Mud and debris washed onto county roads over a wide area, while trees blocked other roadways. At Pilot Rock, some residents picked up the big hailstones to save. "I got a half dozen of them and put them in my freezer," said Gordon Byrnes, a Pilot Rock city fire- man. Rancher Bill Etter reported three-quarter-inch hailstones pelted his farm. The storm caught Harper Jones, Pendleton, on Battle Mountain. He told the National Weather Service that bail broke his rear-view mirror and dented his car hood Deg. 5/2/81 MFO 6 Projects- Floods ebb in Alabama United Press International Seven-foot floodwaters that forced hundreds of Mobile, Ala., residents to cling to trees and evacuate their homes receded Thursday. Two separate ship collisions, injuring 85 people, were reported in dense fog along the Atlan- tic coast. A cold front moved into the Northwest Thursday, scattering rain and snow over Montana and plung- ing temperatures to near freezing levels. Traveler advisories were issued for Montana, Wyoming, Colo- rado and Idaho. Some snow fell in higher mountain elevations Wednesday and about 6 inches of snow covered Rodgers Pass in Montana. Thunderstorms swept the Rocky Mountains, spreading hall, high winds and tornadoes from Wyo- ming to New Mexico. No injuries were reported in the tornadoes although one twister near Tucumcari, N.M., uprooted trees and a power line. Storms soaked the Ala- bama Gulf Coast Wednes- day, dropping up to 13 Inches of rain in seven hours on Mobile. Floodwa- ters surged to 7 feet through thousands of homes, forcing some resi- dents to climb trees to avoid being swept away. ore J 5/7/81 - yFo 6 Projecto - Coal-fired plant shut down again BOARDMAN (AP) - Portland General Electric has shut down its 530-megawatt coal-fired power plant here, one week after it was restarted following 10 weeks of repairs. The breakdown is the third for the plant since November, and officials blamed a problematic turbine. PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said Wednesday that crews are taking the turbine apart but that they may not know until Sunday if it caused the current shut- down. The plant was shut in late November and restarted Jan. 22 after workers noted a vibration in one of three high-speed turbines that power the plant's massive generator. The plant was shut down again Feb. 12 for the same problem. Repairs were completed by Westinghouse Corp., the turbine manufacturer, and the plant was started up again April 27. Eagon said the plant was operating at 450 mega- watts when the vibration occurred again Tuesday. Although the company's Troian nuclear plant at Rainier was shut down for refueling May 1, Eagon said, the breakdown of the Boardman plant hasn't created a power-supply problem. He said spring runoff created surplus power at hydroelectric plants, which the company is buying. However, the company is unable to sell surplus power from the Boardman project to a California utility because of the shutdown, he said. org 5/8/81 Cruise ship loses powergl MIAMI (AP) - The SS Norway, the world's largest passenger liner, was re- ported dead in the water due to a power failure Friday night some 500 miles southeast of Miami, and company offi- cials said its 1,780 passengers would be transferred Saturday to two sister. The power loss is not as serious as one that paralyzed the 1.034-foot ship for 28 hours in August, said Fran Se- vick, a spokeswoman for Norwegian- Caribbean Cruise Lines. move in the water." "The ship is not blacked out," Ms. Sevick said. "It does have some electric- ity. It doesn't have enough power to She said the power loss was due to "intrusion of foreign materials into the boiler water system." She declined to elaborate but said it was not the same problem that struck the ship last sum- Ms. Sevick said the company decid- ed to transfer passengers to the Sun- ward II and the Starward because it was uncertain how long repairs would take. The two ships were en route Fri- day night to rendezvous with the Nor- way. (S. S. France - 6 Projects PK- ships. mer. way had been canceled. Ms. Sevick said a seven-day cruise scheduled to depart Sunday on the Nor- EDT to report the problem. Lt. Phil Centonze of the Miami Coast Guard station said cruise line offi- fals called the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office in Miami about 8 p.m. . "The owners and agents claim the situation is in hand and they're not ask- ing for our assistance," Centonze said. oreg. 5/2/81 === Page 70 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects PK - # Cargo ships collide in fog; no cr By R.D. GERSH PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- Two large cargo ships collided in dense fog Wednesday off the Virginia coast, leaving a diesel oil slick on the Atlantic and forcing 28 crewmen into lifeboats for more than two hours. No injuries were reported and both ships headed for port under their own power, spokesmen for the 5th Coast Guard District headquarters said. There was no immediate explanation for the 7:20 a.m collision 25 miles southeast of Cape Henry. The vessels involved are the 471-foot Hellenic Carrier, a Greek vessel, and the 820-foot Lash Atlantico, a U.S. Prudential Lines ship. The Hellenic Carrier "does appear to be leaking (diesel) oil," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Fred Maldonado. The ships would not be allowed into the shipping lanes leading into the port of Norfolk until the Coast Guard inspected them, he said. Twenty-eight crewman from the Hellenic Carrier huddled in lifeboats lashed to the side of their ship until they were picked up between 10:45 and 11 a.m. by the bulk carrier Eastern Saga, out of Hong Kong. They were transferred to the Navy destroyer Spruance, which was diverted to the scene from operations in the area. Neither the Navy nor the Coast Guard knew if the Spruance would bring them back to shore or if they would be transferred again. The Hellenic Carrier's captain, first officer and chief engineer stayed aboard to take it into Norfolk. An estimated 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled, but Maldonado said the slick 15 miles from - UFO 6 Projects PK - # April blizzards blast Britain LONDON (AP) -- The worst April blizzards of this century swept across the British Isles Saturday, piling snow drifts up to 6 feet deep, causing misery to humans, death to new-born lambs and destruction of early vegetable crops. Weather forecasters saw no respite. A spokesman for the Meteorological Office commented, "It could snow until June." He refused to say if he was joking. There was no immediate report of loss of life to humans, but farmers in England and Scotland said thousands of lambs born within the past week were wiped out by hypothermia or pneumonia. They are highly vulnerable shortly after birth, a National Farmers Union spokesman said. He also reported that early vegetables planted outside greenhouses suffered severe damage. Those grown in greenhouses will cost consumers more because farmers had to turn up the heat just when they normally would lower it. Royal Air Force rescue helicopters were out in what were described as appalling weather conditions to search for stranded motorists. "Disorientation" # 83 hurt as ships collide in fog NEW YORK (AP) -- A freighter and a commuter ferry with instrument problems collided in heavy fog Wednesday in New York harbor, injuring 83 passengers, none seriously, according to harbor and hospital authorities. Four of the injured were admitted to two hospitals in the area, said spokesmen at the institutions. There were differing accounts of which way the Staten Island ferry American Legion, carrying 2,500 passengers, was headed when it was struck amidship at 7:20 a.m. by the bow of the SS Hoegh Orchid. The ferry, with a bashed-in port side, returned to Staten Island under its own power. The freighter, with a 2- or 3-foot dent in its bow about five feet above the water line, went to a Brooklyn dock. The captain of the ferry, Joseph Zaccone, and his assistant, Francis Tanner, were reassigned to dock duty pending investigation, Transportation Commissioner Anthony Ameruso said later in the day. Ameruso, whose department runs the 2-million-passenger-a-year ferry service, said the boat "was following the normal procedures for operation in heavy fog -- use of radar, fog horn, radio contact and lookouts." The collision was the second major accident for the American Legion in 2½ years. On Nov. 7, 1978, 250 passengers were hurt when the ferry missed its Manhattan slip in fog and rammed a seawall. Passengers aboard the ferry saw the freighter coming, but indistinctly, "like a large gray shadow coming out of the fog," according to Matthew Bendix, 17, of New Brighton. "After we got hit, we interlocked and saw some of the crewmen from the freighter." The ferry had left Staten Island at 7:05 a.m. on the 5-mile, 25-minute run past the Statue of Liberty to the lower tip of Manhattan. The 515-foot Hoegh Orchid was Brooklyn-bound with a cargo of tea and coffee from Indonesia. There was no word of whether any in its crew of 28 to 30 were injured. - UFO 6 Projects - # Florida fire rages MIAMI (AP) -- Four wildfires in drought-stricken South Florida merged into one and raged out of control Sunday as state officials warned that "hardship" lies ahead unless the state gets rain soon. Forecasters said there was still no immediate chance that Florida would get the heavy rains it needs to end what may be the worst drought in state history. Fires and sinkholes have been among the most visible signs of the drought. No new sinkholes were reported Sunday; fire dispatcher Janet Miller at Everglades National Park said four blazes in the 570,000-acre Big Cypress Preserve had merged and the single blaze was being battled by about 15 firefighters. The Big Cypress fire forced the closing of Alligator Alley, one of only two east-west highways across the Everglades, for nearly a day. The highway was open to traffic Sunday. Fires in Orange and Seminole counties were controlled by Saturday, fire officials said. At least nine sinkholes have formed in the parched Central Florida earth in the past week. - UFO 6 Projects - # Grand Canyon darkened GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (UPI) -- Workers planned to hook up a portable electric substation at the Grand Canyon Tuesday to restore power. The popular tourist attraction was plunged into darkness when lightning struck a transformer Monday, forcing an estimated 2,000 visitors and an undetermined number of nearby residents to spend a night without power. === Page 71 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Trojan begins 10-week maintenance shutdown THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1981 3M The 1,100-megawatt Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier was being shut down Friday for annual maintenance and refueling, according to officials at Portland General Electric Co., which operates the plant. Bill Babcock, a PGE spokesman, said the plant would be inoperative for about 10 weeks. In the meantime, PGE will buy low-cost hydroelectric power from the Bonneville Power Administration and rely on its 550-megawatt Boardman coal-fired generating plant in Eastern Oregon to meet customer demand. Bart D. Withers, vice president of the utility's nuclear division, said some 500 additional workers will be involved in maintenance while the plant is down. Refueling will be performed by specialists from Westinghouse Electric Co., which designed the Trojan reactor system, though they will be assisted by Trojan personnel. It will be the third refueling at the plant since it went on line in December 1975, he said. Other major work scheduled during the shutdown include an inspection of the main generating turbine, replacement of seals in two reactor cooling pumps and plugging of the first two rows of tubes in two of the plant's four steam generators. The steam generators act as heat exchangers, transferring heat from the reactor cooling system to a steam-production system that powers the turbines and generators. Trojan was shut down earlier this year to allow repairs to leaks that had developed in steam generator tubes, allowing minute amounts of radioactive gas to be emitted into the atmosphere. - World Projects PK - # April blizzards batter Britain LONDON (AP) -- The century's worst April blizzards swept southward across England and Wales Sunday, leaving hundreds of motorists stranded in 5-foot snowdrifts, thousands of homes without electricity and seven people missing. Troops using Land-Rovers were called out to restore damaged power lines and tow snowbound cars, officials said. Agriculture groups said the situation "could be a disaster" for lamb raisers and "disastrous" for dairy farmers. They warned that croplands could be flooded when the snow thaws. "The weather has gone bananas," said a police spokesman in the Midlands industrial city of Birmingham, 100 miles northwest of London. Late Sunday, the London Weather Center predicted more snow falls over much of the Midlands and southern England through the night, with a gradual thaw predicted by Monday afternoon. It said the cold weather, sleet and rain would move to London and the southeast of Britain. Snow fell through most of the day on counties stretching in an arc from Lincolnshire, through the Midlands and Wales to Devonshire after hitting Scotland and northern England on Friday and Saturday. Temperatures, which average about 57 at this time of year, hovered around 32. Police in the worst-hit counties, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, Avon, Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the West Midlands, reported their busiest weekend this year. Two brothers, ages 21 and 12, were missing, feared drowned when a gas cylinder exploded aboard their yacht in heavy seas off the North Devonshire coast, police said. The brothers and a 16-year-old girl took the yacht out of Ilfracombe harbor, fearing it would be battered against the wharf by driving winds. The girl was rescued by helicopter. Oreg 4/27/81 Cape Canaveral, Fla. A fire came within two miles of facilities at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday before fire-fighters began to bring it under control, a Division of Forestry spokesman said. SF Chron 7/16/81 Fire Burns Close To Space Center The fire in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge had scorched up to 5000 acres of scrubland normally under water but dried by the lingering drought, said forestry official Ray Edwards. Associated Press WHO - 6 Projects - # Baseball-sized hail, winds batter Texas FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Thunderstorms pounded North Texas with baseball-sized hail, rain and winds up to 90 mph, killing one motorist, knocking out power and causing damage estimated Saturday at tens of millions of dollars. A similar storm killed one man in Oklahoma and injured eight other people, doing damage estimated at $2 million by the Highway Patrol. Hardest hit in Texas was Fort Worth and surrounding Tarrant County, where storms Friday night and early Saturday caused damage that could "as much as double" the $45 million in damage from a hail storm last year, said Ben Meyers of the county Civil Defense. Alan Moller, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said that in Fort Worth "damage was intense and easily into the millions of dollars." Despite the widespread damage -- which included hundreds of broken windows, caved-in roofs and many downed power lines -- only two people in Fort Worth were injured. Both suffered minor cuts from flying glass. Near Aledo, west of Fort Worth, a tornado reportedly touched down Friday night, wrecking several mobile homes and injuring one man slightly. "The tops came off and the walls came down" on the homes when the twister hit, said resident Bill Pounds. On Saturday afternoon, two tornadoes swept Bell and Hill counties in Central Texas, about 75 miles south of Fort Worth. One twister damaged barns and a cotton gin, but no injuries were reported. "We had some looting in Lakewood, but we've curbed that pretty well," Tarrant County Sheriff's Sgt. J.P. Burns said Saturday. Lakewood is a Fort Worth neighborhood. At least three 18-wheelers were blown over on a Fort Worth freeway, said police Sgt. Larry Spigler. And the power outages knocked the Dallas-Fort Worth area's three major television stations off the air for a time. Heavy rain moved across Oklahoma and East and North Texas -- bringing up to 7.5 inches of rain in Burkburnett, Texas, some 130 miles northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in other areas. Some flooding was reported, forcing scattered evacuations in Dallas, Arlington and Grand Prairie and washing out railroad tracks and closing two roads in Tarrant County. Oreg 5/10/81 === Page 72 of 128 5-10-81 Columbian # Jurors convict California trio in robbery trial Note: they caught the thing who shot up the place when I play pool. 5/10/81 By BILL STEWART Columbian Writer Three California men, referred to in a Vancouver trial as "three musketeers," were convicted Friday on charges stemming from a March robbery of a Hazel Dell tavern. The jury reached its verdict at 8:45 p.m., slightly more than seven hours after being handed the case by Clark County Superior Court Judge J. Dean Morgan. Morgan, who was playing the trumpet in the orchestra for the Peanut Gallery musical "Carousel," was called away during the first act to hear the verdicts. The weeklong trial brought tight security because sheriff's deputies feared a possible breakout attempt might be staged by the trio's friends. Some spectators were searched outside the court by a contingent of deputies armed with a portable metal detector. Judge Morgan, seeking to protect his jurors, kept them together day and night. Other than a brief scuffle in the stairwell to the jail, the trial was quiet. The scuffle resulted in bruises and a cut eyebrow for one suspect, and a window was shattered. One of the three defendants goes on trial Monday before the same judge on a charge of robbing Diamond Jim's Restaurant. And that man will be tried a week later with one of the others on a charge of being ex-convicts in possession of firearms. The defendants, and their verdicts from Friday, include: Peter Charles Acuna, also known as Anthony Wayne Blackhorse, 35, was found guilty of first-degree robbery of the Stable Tavern, guilty of second-degree assault by threatening a man with a gun during that robbery, guilty of first-degree possession of stolen property (a car), and guilty of second-degree possession of stolen property (money from the Stable). The seven women and five men in the jury also returned special verdicts which found Acuna used a deadly weapon in the robbery and assault, thus requiring a longer minimum prison sentence. Vincent Allabush Epker, 31, charged in the Diamond Jim's robbery, and Robert Leon Stanton, 27, were convicted on identical charges of possessing the car stolen from a Portland car dealer, possession of money from the tavern, and rendering criminal assistance to Acuna after the robbery. Deputy Prosecutor Roger Bennett withdrew a pending charge of possessing a firearm which had been filed against Stanton, saying there was insufficient evidence. That meant there are no other actions against Stanton, so Morgan agreed to sentence the man sometime this week. Sentencing of the other two was postponed until after their other trials are completed. The jury decided that Acuna robbed the tavern, and that the three then shared the money and a six-pack of beer. One of the three defense attorneys, in closing arguments, characterized the men as the three musketeers, a phase then repeated in Bennett's closing comments. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1981 - info 6 Projects - # Japanese N-plant ordered shut down TOKYO (AP) -- The Japanese government Tuesday ordered a nuclear power company to shut down its Tsuruga plant for six months while an estimated $1.1 million worth of safety measures are put into effect. International trade minister Rokusuke Tanaka previously pledged to "rigorously punish" the Japan Atomic Power Co. for its failure to report a series of radioactive spills at the reactor 200 miles west of Tokyo. Tanaka, touring the western Japan plant, said he would extend the shutdown unless he is satisfied by the security measures. Officials said the disciplinary action, the first of its kind ever taken against a nuclear power company was harsher than an indictment. The maximum fine that could have resulted under criminal prosecution would have been $465, Tanaka's aides said. The nuclear company announced five board directors will be reprimanded and 18 employees held responsible for the accidents will be disciplined. The punishments were not announced but were expected to be pay cuts. The latest leak, discovered March 8 and termed by authorities the worst in Japan's nuclear history, exposed 56 workers to low-level radiation. The company insists the workers were never in danger, and the International trade ministry said in a report that Tsuruga at no time threatened to become an accident similar to the one at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island. - 6 Projects PK - # Outages, snow hit Spokane SPOKANE (AP) -- A wave of power outages blacked out about 25 percent of Spokane and some outlying communities Monday morning as a rare May 4 snowstorm made its way through the region. Some areas received an inch or more of snow, but most of it had melted by midmorning. However, Washington Water Power Co. spokesmen said not all the outages were weather-related. The outages blacked out traffic signals in many parts of the city, turning intersections into "free-for-alls" and causing a rash of minor traffic accidents, Spokane police said. The trouble started at 3:45 a.m. with equipment failure, said utility spokesman Stanley Witter Jr. That problem put a large area of Spokane out of commission until 6 a.m. Crews rerouted transmission service and restored power to most of that area, but scattered outages caused by the equipment problem continued through noon. At 7:23 a.m., the utility "lost a transmission line into the substation," Witter said. He said the fallen power line shorted out distribution lines, blacking out a large part of southeast Spokane. Witter said service to most customers was restored by 9:30 a.m., but several schools reported problems throughout the morning. Another area was blacked out when the same transmission line knocked out power at the Ross Park Substation, Witter said. oreg 5/5/81 === Page 73 of 128 - World & Projects PK - THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MAY 3, 1981 P8 # Violent rains bring death, destruction, chance of relief By ANDREW TORCHIA Oreg 5/3/81 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A month of violent rain has killed hundreds of people, threatened the lives of thousands more and drowned tens of thousands of goats and sheep in East Africa. But the rain, if it continues, promises the first good harvests in several years and partial relief from endemic famine. In Tanzania, the rain came as if in answer to a president's prayer. Julius Nyerere, asserting that his country faced the gravest food crisis in 20 years of independence, told 18 million Tanzanians in mid-March that a third of them could face starvation if it did not rain before the month ended. The weather met the deadline, breaking the worst drought in 40 years. Somalia's two main rivers, the Juba and Shebelle, were at their lowest levels in 30 years when rains came there. Hippopotamuses were standing shoulder to shoulder in shrinking pools, and the two rivers, the main water sources for more than 4 million Somalis and more than a million refugees from Ethiopia, were down to an estimated 10-day supply. Across a region stretching 1,875 miles north to south, peasants and Western aid workers rejoice in a seeming last-minute reprieve from a disaster of huge proportions. But food experts say there is no end in sight to eastern Africa's long-term food shortages, the result of changing diets and populations that grow faster than grain production. Spokesmen for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome say it is too early to say whether the rain has saved the region from famine. One heavy rain is not enough to restore crops, they say, and it takes years to rebuild livestock herds virtually wiped out by drought. Even in normal times, eastern Africa is no longer self-sufficient in the domestically grown cereals, mainly maize (corn) and sorghum, on which it depends. It has also become a heavy wheat importer because it grows little wheat, and demand, particularly in urban areas, is growing. By all predictions, Western donor countries, already providing tens of millions of dollars in food aid every year, are going to be asked for more in the years ahead. Allocations last year from World Food Program stocks included $18.8 million for Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya. There were sizable additional donations from other agencies and individual countries. Donors from 27 countries and the European Common Market have earmarked $34 million and 1.56 million tons of grain for eastern Africa since September, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. A Western farm analyst in Tanzania said the rain may prevent an emergency. "The harvest definitely won't be normal, but it may just mean belt-tightening rather than famine," he said. After three years of poor crops, diplomats say Tanzania will need rain extending into June, longer than the usual wet season, to build up reserve stocks. Meanwhile, East Africans are coping with the most widespread floods in years. Floods killed at least 20 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, nearly a third of the population, in coastal Djibouti, the former French territory at the entrance to the Red Sea. After two years of severe drought, it rained more in five days there than in all of 1980. Flash floods in central Somalia threatened more than 70,000 Somalis and refugees. The country lacked helicopters and had only a few boats for evacuation. Dozens of other deaths were reported from floods and avalanches in the eastern region. Police said 13,500 goats and sheep were washed into Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Floods tore a 330-foot hole in a dam on an irrigation project at Katilu, which produces the only maize grown in the arid, nomad region near the lake. In Ethiopia, 12,041 sheep, 181 cattle and 142 camels were reported swept away by floods into the Rift Valley near Dessie, a northern administrative center. Here is a country-by-country rundown on food and weather conditions in East Africa: -- KENYA: Self-sufficient in maize until about four years ago, Kenya will import 450,000 tons of maize this year, according to statisticians. The United States is expected to donate 70,000 tons. The Food and Agriculture Organization reports that about 275,000 Kenyans are receiving famine relief, about the same number as last year. Livestock herds, cut in half by nearly two years of drought, could take 8 to 10 years to recover. Government forecaster Stephen Njoroge said: "Most areas of the country will get above-average rain. We are also forecasting a very good spread of rain over the season. We should have a good crop." -- SOMALIA: Deputy Planning Minister Mohammed Omar Giama estimates a grain deficit of 470,000 tons this year. Somalia is expected to produce 345,000 tons. The United States appears set to provide 60 percent of the donated food, aid officials say. -- TANZANIA: Farmers who planted four times last year and watched each crop wither are switching from maize to less palatable but more drought-resistant crops such as sorghum, millet and cassava. Foreign exchange reserves, needed to buy grain in world markets, are near zero. The Agriculture Ministry recently asked the Bank -- UGANDA: The rain has broken a drought in Karamoja, the arid and neglected northeast region where all 250,000 Karamojong tribesmen have been living on famine relief for nearly nine months. "We think we can stop the feeding entirely in August, after the harvest, if all goes well," said Nils Enquist of Sweden, the World Food Program representative. "Cattle raiding has subsided. The Karamojong are planting more than they have in years. They have never had it so good." - 6 Projects PK - # Reactor shut down RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The N reactor at Hanford was shut down Monday morning because of a suspected failure in one of the reactor's 16,000 fuel elements, a spokesman said. Oreg. 3/24/81 3-15-81 Columbia # Two-car accident cuts power to area A traffic accident that left a Portland woman with minor injuries also left 1,147 Cascade Park-area residents temporarily without power Saturday afternoon. Sheriff's deputies said the 2:45 p.m. crash occurred at Southeast McGillivray Boulevard and Chkalov Drive. The two-car crash caused an estimated $1,000 damage to a Clark County Public Utility District switching module, according to the report. Drivers were Thomas J. Terrill Jr., 1403 S.E. 147th Ave., and Ethel L. Morrison, Portland. Neither was cited. The woman was treated for minor injuries at St. Joseph Community Hospital and released, a hospital spokesman said. The crash left most of the customers without power for 50 minutes, a PUD spokesman said. He said 128 of the customers had to wait until about 5:45 p.m. for their power to be restored. The switching module is a metal box containing a mechanism that allows work crews to cut off power to specific areas. The module was not repaired Saturday, but workmen were about to run temporarily lines around it to restore power to the area, the spokesman said. === Page 74 of 128 - UFO & Projects - # Florida farms dry up; federal relief sought MIAMI (AP) -- Florida's agriculture secretary asked for federal aid Tuesday to provide water to drought-stricken pastures, while fires continued raging across normally swampy parts of the southern half of the state. "Ponds and streams are going dry as the drought clings to the peninsular area" of Florida, Agriculture Secretary Doyle Conner wrote to the U.S. Agriculture Department. "Relief of any kind would be welcomed." Conner asked the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service to help farmers drill wells and install pipelines to pastures to relieve the feed-grass shortage. He said federal emergency feed assistance programs were in effect in 35 counties and seven more might be added. Water management authorities planned a meeting Wednesday on further restriction of water usage in populous southern Florida where, as of May 18, only 10 inches of rain had fallen since Jan. 1. During the same period last year, weather officials recorded 17.06 inches at Miami International Airport. Forest fires spread through southern Florida's Big Cypress Preserve, scorching more than 100,000 acres. New fires erupted in the central section of the state, authorities said. Late in the day, thundershowers in the Panhandle and off the Gulf Coast raised hopes for relief in hard-hit central and southern Florida. "That's an indication of the potential," said forecaster Bob Casey at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. About 7 feet of water is needed to bring the water level in Lake Okeechobee -- the central water supply for South Florida -- to its normal 17 1/2 feet above mean sea level. "I hate to say it, but we almost need a hurricane," said Larry Nunn, spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District. Officials said the lake was within inches of the point at which water would stop flowing into the canal system -- Increasing chances the district would order water usage cut in half. Nunn said the water level in Lake Okeechobee dropped about another inch Tuesday, to a level of 10.74 feet above sea level. "The magic figure is 10.5," he said. "At 10.5 we experience great difficulty in moving any water to South Florida from the lake because it will have dropped to a point where it is equal to the level of land." oreg 5/20/81 - UFO & Projects - # Island ruled disaster area HONOLULU (AP) -- Acting Northern Marianas Gov. Francisco Ada declared volcano-ravaged Pagan Island a disaster area Tuesday and was considering asking President Reagan to do the same -- a move that would make the trust territory eligible for federal disaster funds. All of the island's 53 residents were evacuated Saturday, after a day of suspense in which authorities were uncertain whether they had survived the explosive blast that belched ash 40,000 feet into the air and sent lava streaming to within 300 yards of their village. They were picked up by the Japanese freighter Hoyo Maru after taking refuge from excessive heat and a rain of hail and lava in seaside caves. oreg 5/20/81 - UFO & Projects - # Rivers recede; many stranded By GARRY J. MOES HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Floodwaters receded Sunday in western Montana, but hundreds of people were still stranded by high water or unable to return to their flooded homes. More rain was forecast. In addition to the people evacuated after the flooding started Thursday, about 150 people were evacuated early Sunday from flooded homes along the Clark Fork River between Clinton and Missoula, on the western side of the Continental Divide. Five members of one family, including a 6-month-old child, were rescued in a National Guard helicopter Sunday morning from the Crow Creek area in the Elkhorn Mountains near Townsend, east of Helena, where they had been trapped by high water. The worst flooding was near Missoula, where the Clark Fork crested Sunday morning at 13.3 feet -- 2.3 feet above flood stage, according to the National Weather Service. Hundreds of homes and businesses also were flooded in other areas, principally in the Helena Valley just east of the Continental Divide. Scattered thunderstorms were forecast over western Montana Sunday and were expected to become more numerous Monday. The National Weather Service said some of the storms could produce brief heavy rain that could cause small streams to leave their banks again. State, federal and local government officials were assessing damage in preparation for a request for a presidential disaster designation and emergency funding. Sketchy preliminary estimates put the damages well into the millions of dollars. Gov. Ted Schwinden visited the state's flooded Boulder River School and Hospital for the severely handicapped, southeast of Helena, and said high water and loss of power and heat were posing a "really serious problem." "But they're hanging in there," he said. All of Boulder River's patients were being kept in one building. Electricity was restored by Sunday morning, but the facility was without heat. Schwinden praised National Guard troops and local law enforcement officers for preventing any "serious people problems, in terms of life-threatening situations." Emergency crews were ready for a break. "My wife and I are starting to wonder what our kids look like," said Rick Leavell, head of disaster services in Missoula County, whose wife has been working with him as a volunteer. At Belt, along Belt Creek southeast of Great Falls, officials said there was hope that scores of homeless people could return to their houses by Monday morning. Church services were canceled Sunday for two Helena Valley congregations -- Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church and Valley Baptist Church -- in the floodwater area. Officials of a new church nearing completion -- Green Meadow Community Christian Reformed Church -- said flood damage would delay its opening until June. Forecasters said the Clark Fork River would drop slowly Sunday but remain above flood stage. The crest was predicted to reach St. Regis near the Montana-Idaho border during midafternoon. oreg 5/25/81 3-31-81 # Aqueduct Shut LOS ANGELES -- Earth movement in the area of the big Sylmar earthquake has damaged the Los Angeles Aqueduct, forcing officials to close for repairs the 338-mile system that brings 60 percent of the city's water. United Press === Page 75 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - A24 3M THE OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1981 # In Florida # 2 new sinkholes swallow land By IKE FLORES ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- Two new sinkholes opened up Thursday, one just five miles from the huge sinkhole that has swallowed part of Winter Park. Police blocked off the areas and residents of threatened homes hurriedly moved out. A crater that threatened two homes here was discovered when Dominick Cipollone went out to water his garden -- and found it was gone. "There was this big hole and it hadn't been there last night," said Cipollone, 76. "You read about Winter Park but you never think it can happen here. But it can happen here." "I was shocked. I never expected that," he said as neighbors helped him move his belongings out of the two-bedroom house. While Cipollone and neighbor John McClellan were moving out of their homes on either side of the sinkhole in this suburban Orlando town, people living nearby "have been alerted as to possible evacuation," said John Spolski of the Seminole County Sheriff's Department. The crater was just north of the huge Altamonte Mall, one of Florida's largest shopping centers. A third sinkhole was reported Thursday in Auburndale, about 45 miles southwest of Orlando. Auburndale police spokeswoman Angie Kidwell said no houses were threatened immediately by the 60-foot-wide, five-foot-deep sinkhole, which was nibbling at a road in an area of orange groves. Police blocked all traffic from the road, she said. Geologists said the sinkhole here was about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep in the center. "Nobody can guarantee anything, but I personally think the subterranean activity has ceased," said Seminole County engineer Bill Bush. The limestone cavern that created the hole when its top collapsed "may have filled itself up," Bush said. "We're going to stay here and monitor to see if there's any further danger, but the probability is it has stabilized." As spectators gathered, Seminole County deputies blocked off a three-block area. Utility workers cut off power to the two threatened homes and several other nearby houses. "It's frightening really," said Mary Williams, who lives near the Cipollone and McClellan homes. "When you don't know what you're going to find when you get up in the morning, that's something." Soil engineer Bryant Marshall said central Florida has a geological history of "ancient sinkhole activity." He said many of the lakes and other depressions in the region were formed by sinkholes thousands of years ago. "Due to the porousness of the area, we still have some of that sinkhole activity, as you can see," added Bush. - 6 Projects PK - # Twisters, storms slam nation By United Press International Thunderstorms hurled tornadoes across the South, destroying much of tiny Hurtsboro, Ala., and killing two people, then spread eastward Thursday. Westerners braced for another spring snowstorm gathering over Colorado. Storms packing hail and high winds Thursday stretched along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to New York -- remnants of fierce storms that left two dead and 23 injured in Alabama. Twisters struck Wednesday in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia -- one not far from former President Carter's hometown of Plains, Ga. Torrential rain, hail and lightning were reported from Mississippi to South Carolina. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. Winds up to 75 mph and more than an inch of rain lashed Jacksonville, Fla., and hail pounded Cecil Field and Orange Park, Fla. Nearly an inch of rain soaked other areas of Florida. In the West, plagued this spring by a series of storms, another snowstorm was gathering in Colorado and northern Arizona. Greg J April 2, 1981 - UFO 6 Projects - # Power outage hits Dallas DALLAS (AP) -- A flash fire sparked by a flooded electrical vault knocked out power to a large part of downtown for about an hour Monday, stranding some people in high-rise elevators, officials said. Dallas Power & Light Co. turned off power to the northeastern quarter of downtown at about 10:30 a.m. CDT after the fire broke out, said Terry Griffin, community service manager. Heavy rains during the weekend flooded an underground electrical vault, where equipment is stored, causing an underground cable to short out, he said. The utility said most service was restored by 11:27 a.m. Greg 7/7/81 MONDAY, MAY 18, 1981 - UFO 6 Projects - # Weekend storms rock Arkansas; 5 injured By The Associated Press Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms roared across Arkansas late Saturday and early Sunday, leaving at least five people injured and more than 50 houses damaged. Some minor flooding also was reported. In Colorado, a welcome weekend storm dropped up to 11 inches of snow in tinder-dry mountains, where the forest fire hazard had been rated high, and also dropped more than an inch of rain on the eastern plains, officials said. In Arkansas City, Kan., a funnel cloud spawned high winds Sunday that tore off most of the copper dome at the Union State Bank and collapsed the roof at the civic auditorium, authorities said. The winds also caused roof damage at several downtown businesses and some homes, shattered some windows and knocked down trees in the south-central Kansas city of 14,000 people three miles north of the Oklahoma state line. No injuries were reported, but police estimated damage in the thousands of dollars. A tornado watch was issued Sunday for parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, and heavy rain in northwest Kansas was causing flooding along the Smoky Hill River. The Dumas area in southeast Arkansas was the hardest hit by the weekend storms, with preliminary property damage set at about $400,000, said George Cosey, director of the state Office of Emergency Services. 5/18/81 3-13-81 # Quarantine Ends SF Chronicle Newport Beach A quarantine has been lifted on seven miles of Orange County coastline where 6 million gallons of raw sewage poured into the ocean from a broken sewer line. However, Newport Bay, which received the bulk of the contamination, remained closed. Associated Press === Page 76 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Carrier's impending return sparks controversy By WILLIAM CHAPMAN LA Times-Washington Post Service TOKYO -- The impending return to port of the U.S. aircraft carrier Midway sparked a new anti-nuclear controversy Thursday, prompting Japan at one point to suggest that the ship's arrival be postponed. The mayor of Yokosuka, the carrier's home port, presented the top U.S. Navy official in Japan with a request to delay the Midway's expected return next week, and the city made a similar appeal to the Japanese government. The government, worried about the rising anti-nuclear sentiment, tentatively asked U.S. officials here if it would be possible to postpone the ship's docking, according to reliable sources. Officials at the U.S. Embassy threw cold water on the suggestion. By the end of the day, Japanese sources said the government would not press the issue with a formal request. But the fact that American officials were tentatively sounded out on the possibility of delaying the ship's port call was taken as a sign of the intense pressure felt by the government on the nuclear issue since the controversy erupted over U.S. ships carrying atomic weapons. A statement by Rear Adm. Donald L. Felt, however, expressed irritation at the Yokosuka mayor's request that the Midway stay out of port a bit longer, saying the effect on morale for 3,000 dependents would be "devastating" if the ship's return is delayed. Publication of statements by former American officials that U.S. ships have routinely carried nuclear weapons into Japanese ports began the controversy 10 days ago, forcing the government on the defensive. Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki persistently has denied those statements. The Midway has become the new focal point of attack by leftist and anti-nuclear forces, which have planned to stage a large demonstration when the ship docks at Yokosuka. It is expected June 5, although no date has been officially announced. The Midway carries F-4, A-6 and A-7 fighter and attack planes that normally are believed to carry nuclear weapons. It has been away from port since Feb. 23 on deployment in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Since the controversy erupted last week, public sentiment against nuclear weapons has been noted most frequently in port cities such as Yokosuka, where ships of the U.S. 7th Fleet call frequently. Yokosuka Mayor Kazuo Yokoyama presented a citizens' appeal to Felt Thursday, asking that the Midway's return be postponed because of "deep concern" about nuclear weapons. It said the docking would be "inappropriate" at a time when citizens have such "deep suspicions" about whether U.S. ships bring those weapons into ports or Japanese waters. Nuclear weaponry is still a sensitive topic in Japan. - UFO 6 Projects - # Trojan worker struck; clothing contaminated A Westinghouse Corp. employee preparing the reactor at the Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier for refueling had his clothing contaminated early Monday when he was struck by a piece of machinery used to loosen bolts on the reactor head. Bill Babcock, a spokesman for Portland General Electric Co. which operates the plant, said it was believed at first that the worker, John Nix of Spartanburg, S.C., might have a broken leg, so he was transported to St. John's Hospital in Longview, Wash. Although Nix was only bruised, Babcock said, he was found to have picked up a small amount of radioactive contamination on his clothing. The "barely detectable" contamination was not found until Nix had reached the hospital, Babcock said, but no one received a serious exposure. The amount of contamination, Babcock said, was four to five times less than the natural radiation contained in the materials of a gas-fueled lantern mantle. There was no contamination of Nix's skin, he said. Babcock said the machinery that struck the worker had just been used to loosen the bolts on the reactor head and was being lifted clear of the reactor vessel by a small crane when it dropped, striking the worker as it bounced. The accident occurred about 1:40 a.m., he said. He said the contamination apparently occurred as Nix was moved into an air lock in the plant's reactor containment building and a protective suit was removed. "He must have brushed against something on the way in," Babcock said. The plant has been shut down since May 1 for refueling, and the reactor head must be removed to extract old radioactive fuel rods and insert new rods. Nix had returned to Trojan later in the morning, Westinghouse officials said, but was not expected to return to work until he had recuperated from his bruises. The mishap triggered what is termed an "unusual event" at the plant, which is the lowest category of accident that can occur. Accidents are labeled as unusual, emergency, site emergency or general emergency, depending upon their severity. Under the regulations of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, any accident must immediately be reported to county, state and federal governments. - 6 Projects PK - # Three Mile N-plant cites bankruptcy fear MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (UPI) -- The operator of the accident-stricken Three Mile Island nuclear power plant could go bankrupt at tax time next month, a senior plant official says. Robert Arnold, chief operating officer of General Public Utilities Corp. Nuclear Group, warned Wednesday that the plant's financial condition is "as serious as it has been since the (nuclear) accident" two years ago. The firm facing possible bankruptcy is GPU's subsidiary, Metropolitan Edison Co., which operates Three Mile Island. The cost of the 1979 nuclear accident has been estimated at $3 billion, with $1 billion to go for decontaminating the highly radioactive facility and $2 billion to pay for replacement electricity. Arnold said Wednesday that Met-Ed needs $22 million from its banks to pay Pennsylvania taxes on April 1. === Page 77 of 128 Note: This is the ship I was on, - 6 Projects PK - Greg 5/3/81 ona. Gwene # Ill-fated cruise ship steams toward Miami By NICOLAS B. TATRO ABOARD THE NORWAY (AP) -- The SS Norway, the world's largest cruise ship, steamed toward Miami Saturday after its second breakdown in eight months left 1,780 passengers without electricity and water for 24 hours. Some passed the time watching the crew throw chickens to circling sharks. Others fumed. "This is definitely my first cruise and my last cruise," one woman yelled when all hot food service stopped Friday. She declined to be identified or say how much she paid for the seven-day cruise, which cost as much as $1,450 for some. Capt. Aage Hoddevik said the Norway received sufficient power to start again early Saturday. He insisted the ship was never in any danger during the outage and no passengers had suffered health problems. "Of course, it was not an emergency," he said. The Norway was expected in Miami Monday after canceling a scuba-diving stop. The Norwegian Caribbean Lines in Miami said the firm was working on a refund program, and that the boiler breakdown was not as serious as the electrical wiring outage that paralyzed the ship for 28 hours in August. The plush 15-year-old, 1,034-foot-long ship, formerly the SS France, underwent a $50 million renovation in 1980. But all the luxuries provided little relief for sweltering passengers during the ordeal. Ralph Doran, 38, of Toronto, bedded down under the lifeboats to get a breeze that his non-functioning air conditioner couldn't provide. "If I'd known we were going to camp out I'd have stayed at home and gone to the woods," he said. Anne Coyne of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said: "I love this ship and I would go again. It's a real Cadillac but maybe it's a lemon." She said she was grateful the ship was moving again. "I'd use an oar to row it there if necessary," she added after a night in an airless cabin. Eileen Newton of Fort Lauderdale, noting that many of the passengers had not been able to wash, said, "Now we want is the water. That's the worst part." 3-23-81 # Tourist from space? The as-yet unidentified flying, floating, glowing and screeching object seen by several persons up near the Trojan nuclear plant last Tuesday morning should win this area a few more headlines as the anniversary of Mount St. Helens' tantrum nears. It's certain that some will connect the UFO and the volcano, however much informed opinion suggests otherwise. Further investigation may reveal all the light and sound to have been related to drug smuggling, as law-enforcement officials at first suspected. Until that or some other revelation is nailed down, however, we'll all be free to speculate about the UFO. Our theory is that word of the volcano has passed through space to the Intragalactic Travel Agency, and Tuesday morning's event was the first tourist bus from Alpha Centauri making the Mount St. Helens tour. Maybe it was no such thing, but can all the committees trying to decide what to do with the mountain overlook the possibility? Probably. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Tornadoes slash Texas By United Press International A cold front gripped tornado-plagued Plains states and thunderstorms threatened flooding in Colorado and portions of the Southwest Friday. Five tornadoes touched down in Texas Thursday, including three near Sundown, southwest of Lubbock, and twisters were reported near Joplin, Mo., and Denver. No injuries were reported. Thunderstorms flailed Colorado, triggering a tornado watch Friday for the eastern part of the state. Sections of the Texas Highway 70 were submerged under more than a foot of water. Flash flood watches were posted Friday for the eastern foothills of Colorado, Kansas, southwest Oklahoma and the eastern panhandle of Texas. A cold front extended from Arkansas into the Plains region. A twister was sighted about 20 miles east of Joplin, Mo., and high winds toppled trees in downtown Joplin. Golf-ball size hail pelted the region. Winds blasted through Haskell, Texas at more than 60 mph and into Thalia, Texas at over 65 mph. Heavy rains, accompanied by golf ball-sized hail, lashed southwestern Arkansas and central Texas Thursday. In Frederick, Okla., about 3 inches of rain fell in an hour and water was 3 to 4 feet deep in some streets. About 3 1/2 inches of rain fell in a few hours at Monkato, Kan., where a flood watch was posted. Heavy rain fell as far north as northwest Nebraska, where more than 2 1/2 inches pounded the town of Valentine. A flash flood watch was still in effect for low-lying areas near Mississippi's Tombigbee River -- swamped by more than 9 inches of rain during the past few days. Rainshowers doused Iowa and dotted most of the Mississippi Valley. Some scattered showers lingered over the Atlantic Coast, hitting parts of northern Maine, and stretching into the eastern Ohio Valley. Clear skies prevailed over the Southeastern half of the nation, the northern Plains and over the Great Basin. Thundershowers fell Thursday over parts of drought-stricken South Florida where temperatures soared into the 90s. Greg 5/29/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Killer storms sock Midwest United Press International Thunderstorms pounding the Midwest with hail, rain and heavy winds for the fifth day spun tornadoes across Kansas and Missouri and unleashed lightning that was blamed for at least one death and two serious injuries. A woman in Kincaid, Ill., was electrocuted Monday night when lightning struck a telephone line while she was talking to her grandmother, causing the phone to explode in her hand. Christian County Coroner Thomas E. Doyle said Vicky Foster, 29, the mother of two children, was killed instantly. In Jackson Junction, Iowa, two high school girls were struck by lightning while crossing a field near Turkey Valley High School. They were in serious condition at a hospital Monday. In Rochester, Minn., with the storms that battered the Midwest Monday, downed trees and buildings and swelled rivers to near flood stage. At least one tornado and numerous funnel clouds raked Kansas, but no injuries. Greg 5/14/81 === Page 78 of 128 -6 Projects /K- N-sub's sonar detected fated ship WASHINGTON (UPI) - A U.S. nuclear missile submarine cruising at periscope depth made sonar contact with a Japanese freighter moments before colliding with the cargo vessel. But the Navy said Tuesday that the offi- cer directing the submarine's movement at the time did not acknowledge receiving the information. "At this stage in the investigation it is not clear that the collision could have been avoided had the sonar information Deen acted upon promptly," a Navy report said. ₡ Sonar contact is obtained by bouncing high-frequency sound waves off nearby objects. -The preliminary finding backed the submarine commander's report in saying the sub left the scene without attempting to pick up survivors because no one on the sub or in a nearby Navy plane knew the Japanese vessel was sinking. Japanese authorities filed a $2.7 million claim for damages against the Navy Fri- day in the collision of the USS George Washington and the Nissho Maru in the East China Sea, the report said. The small freighter, two of its crew and its cargo of 1,200 pounds of raw cotton were lost. The submarine sustained only minor damage to its conning tower. The 31%-page report was timed to coin- cide with the U.S. visit of Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, and was delivered to him in New York. It generally takes months for such a report to be completed. The collision provoked charges in Japan that the submarine, loaded with 16 nu- clear-tipped Polaris missiles, refused to surface and search for survivors because it did not want to risk exposing nuclear secrets. The collision occurred April 9 on a rai- ny, overcast morning with visibility rang- ing from good to poor, the report said. The sub was running at periscope depth en route to South Korea Drag 5/6/81 - calif. PK- Sewage dumped in harbor NEWPORT BEACH Calif (UPI) - The world's largest pleasure boat harbor and five miles of beach were quarantined be- cause a section of a pipeline burst, forcing officials to pump more than 6 million gal- lons of untreated sewage into the waters of Newport Harbor. Officials warned Sun- day that other places along the line could also burst. weg 3/8/81 UFO 6 Projects (Texas) - Texas flood death toll reaches 10 AUSTIN Texas (UPI) - Residents in the Texas capital dug out Tuesday from toot-deep mud left by the worst flooding in a half century. Cleanup crews pulling cars from mud-choked streams found 10 victims and fear the death toll will rise. A 7-inch downpour sent Shoal Creek - normally a picturesque, meandering stream - roaring out of its banks during the Memorial Holiday weekend, wreaking "damage in the "multi-millions" of dollars to homes and businesses. The four reported missing are believed drowned, including a woman and child swept away by the flood. Police and vol- unteers trudged along creek banks throughout the day in search of more bod- les. Mayor Carole Mcclellan immediately asked Gov. Bill Clements to declare Austin a disaster area. Authorities described the flooding as the worst in the city since 1935. While city crews pulled cars from streams and ditches, neighbors along Shoal Creek in one of the city's oldest and plushest residential areas, helped each other drag mud-covered furniture from their flooded homes to dry. "I've lived along this creek since 1947 and it's never been like this," said Sam Kinch Jr. as he surveyed Shoal Creek Boulevard and yard after yard filled with furniture. "It's miserable. These people are in shock." Heavy property damage also occurred in a commerical area near Shoal Creek, with at least five car lots in the area suf- fering extensive damage. The creek was choked with cars. Most of the dead were caught in cars washed from crossings by the rapidly ris- ing water that turned normally placid creeks in Texas' hill country into raging rivers, At one point, water from Shoal Creek lapped the bottom of traffic lights 30 feet high. The flood peaked early Monday before many residents awakened and by late af- ternoon, Shoal Creek had drained and pic- nickers and joggers enjoyed the sun in parks nearby. Others searched for friends who were missing. Johnny DeLeon and fellow workers from an auto dealership took off work to join the search. "We're looking for a friend's girl friend," DeLeon said, wringing water from his gloves and wiping sticky mud from his shirt. "She disappeared last night after 9 o'clock and hasn't been seen since. She was supposed to pick up her grand- mother at the hospital this morning, and she never showed up. Her car also is miss- ing." Later in the day, police confirmed his friend was among the dead. It also was a day for remembering heroes like Steve Treadwell, who saved a man barely clinging to a stop sign as wa- ter kept rising. "I couldn't turn my back on the old boy," said Treadwell. "I would have felt like a heel. Someone had to help him. The guy was obviously getting so tired, he was about to let go and he would have been sucked right up to the bridge and he would have drowned." Greg J 5 / 26/8, === Page 79 of 128 - UFO & Projects - # Japan leaders fuel anti-U.S. fervor oreg 5/22/81 TOKYO (UPI) -- Japan canceled a joint navy exercise with the United States because of fishermen's protests and the main opposition party Friday announced a 20-day nationwide campaign against Japan's alliance with America. The latest strain in U.S.-Japanese ties came at the end of a week in which Secretary of State Alexander Haig put off a visit to Japan after disclosures that U.S. vessels armed with nuclear weapons have visited Japanese ports under a secret agreement. The Japanese government has steadfastly denied the existence of such a pact in the nuclear sensitive nation whose policy forbids the manufacture, possession or introduction of nuclear weapons because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. But the chief opposition Socialist Party planned to question the government policy Friday. The questioning will center on Japanese commitments to increase its defense budgets following a summit meeting between Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and Ronald Reagan, May 7-8, and the wording of the communique that spoke of a Japan being part of an alliance with the United States. "We will continue to pursue this matter at the Diet (parliament), but we need to generate a popular grass-root movement so that the issue will not peter out," said Party Chairman Kazuo Asukata. Asukata and party officials said the party will begin a 20-day nationwide campaign to protest the U.S.-Japan alliance with demonstrations in major cities and around U.S. bases. The protest, they said, will culminate with a rally of 100,000 Japanese on June 10. "The meetings will oppose the U.S.-Japan military alliance contained in the joint communique," Asukata said of the protests. Both the Japanese Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy said Friday they have called off a five-day Naval exercise in the Northern Sea of Japan because of fishermen's protests that U.S. naval vessels sliced salmon nets in the first week of the maneuvers. The U.S. contingent, a 12-ship squadron led by the missile cruiser Bainbridge, and 10 Japanese warships began steaming away from the the war game zone Friday. (Related picture, story on page 2) - 6 Projects PK - # Alaska peak spews steam GULKANA, Alaska (AP) -- Mount Sanford, a 16,208-foot peak in southeastern Alaska with no known volcanic history, spewed a plume of steam and ash Saturday, according to the pilots and passengers of airplanes flying nearby. The pilot of a Japan Air Lines 747 reported to the flight service station at Gulkana that a plume of steam and ash extended about 50 miles southeast of the peak in the Wrangell Mountains, about 200 miles northeast of Anchorage. Dana Anderson, who was at the Gulkana airport when the report came in, said she and some companions flew to within five miles of the summit. She said a steam plume was rising about 1,500 feet above the mountain and that ash was visible on the snow and ice as far as 15 miles south of the peak. oreg. 4/12/81 DEADLY TORNADO -- A funnel cloud in Minnesota slashes a swath in which two people were killed and almost 100 others were injured. The tornado in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area leveled several buildings. Associated Press Laserphoto A10 3M - UFO & P.T. - THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1981 - UFO & Projects - # Fire stops reactor LOUISA, Va. (AP) -- An electrical transformer fire sent smoke billowing from a nuclear power plant Friday, frightening people who live near the isolated plant. There were no injuries and no release of radioactivity, and evacuation of the Virginia Electric & Power Co.'s North Anna plant was not required, Vepco spokesman August Wallmeyer said. He said the reactor shut down automatically and at no time was there any danger. The fire was extinguished in about an hour at the plant, which is about 90 miles southwest of Washington. === Page 80 of 128 - 6 projects PK - # Joyrider bent on ruin catches town dozing GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) -- A 47-ton stolen bulldozer was taken on a destructive pre-dawn joyride Friday, smashing 17 cars and trucks, snapping power poles and ramming through the walls of three apartment buildings, police said. Damage along a 2½-mile stretch of this sprawling coal mining town in northeastern Wyoming was estimated in the millions of dollars. No serious injuries were reported, but a policeman, who pumped shotgun slugs into the bulldozer's engine in a futile effort to stop it, sprained his ankle. About 30 people were evacuated from eight townhomes when the 24-foot machine, which stands 12 feet tall, cut into a natural gas line. Nearly a half mile of streets were torn up and six utility poles and a light pole were toppled during the hour-long siege. The bulldozer finally stalled after its driver bailed out and it crunched through the wall of an apartment building, police said. Police accused John D. Thompson of bailing out of the still-moving machine as it approached the occupied fourplex, police said. Thompson was being held Friday on $100,000 bond in the Campbell County Jail after he was arraigned in justice of the peace court on a charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. But County Attorney Terry Preuit said he expected other charges to be filed early next week. "Before you can file a destruction of property charge, you have to have a ball park figure of what the damages were," he said. "That may be a little bit coming." Thompson's next court appearance will be in district court, where a judge will consider a defense motion that the man is mentally unfit to proceed with the criminal prosecution. No date has been set for that hearing. Gillette Police Chief Don Schneider said Thompson was arrested about 5:20 a.m. Friday after a policeman spotted him two blocks from the spot where the machine came to halt. Police declined comment on a motive. Police said the incident started about 3 a.m. when somebody stole the tractor from a lot on the east edge of Gillette. The bulldozer was the type used to strip coal in the mines that surround the city. The driver took off into an nearby residential section and started crushing cars, driving through utility poles, ravaging lawns and knocking down fences. DESTRUCTION PATH -- Vehicles and apartments lie in ruin after stolen bulldozer cut path The tractor finally came to rest on the garden-level floor of a fourplex apartment building after it crashed through the side and stalled, the roof of the building resting on its cab. J.C. Carnes, who lived in the lower apartment, said his bed ended up "curdled" in front of the tractor blade, but that the four people in the apartments escaped before the Caterpillar hit. Police said witnesses reported seeing a man bail out of the cab before its final crash. Dennis Tjaden, who lives in an adjacent apartment building, said he watched the bulldozer demolish his car, then drive out onto the street and head back toward his apartment building. It gouged into the corner of the building, ripping through Gillette, Wyo., early Friday morning. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. open a corner bedroom where a 9-year-old boy had been sleeping, he said. The machine then crashed through the wall of the neighboring fourplex and came to rest. Spot power outages were triggered by collapsing power poles. Gillette Fire Investigator Dave Mueller said the townhomes were evacuated when the gas line was broken by a "ripper tooth" mounted on the rear of the tractor to break up rocky soil. Police said the driver periodically lowered the tooth into the streets during his drive. 5/2/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Doomed jet 'held no secrets' United Press International DEATH SCENE -- Crews examine wreckage of an Air Force missile-satellite tracking plane in a field near Walkersville, Md. The aircraft blew up Wednesday and plummeted "like a fireball," witnesses said. All 21 persons aboard the plane were killed. WALKERSVILLE, Md. (UPI) -- Air Force research teams Thursday began investigating the mysterious crash of a $50 million missile-satellite tracking plane that apparently exploded on a training mission, killing all 21 persons aboard Military officials insisted that no classified equipment or materials was aboard the EC-135N, the military's version of the Boeing 707 jet, which was on a routine training mission from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Sources at Wright-Patterson said, however, that $50 million plane was carrying 30,000 pounds of computer equipment. The EC-135N tracks missiles and unmanned satellites. Andrews Air Force Base officials, who rushed research teams to the scene, said it could be weeks before the cause is determined. The FBI and Federal Aviation Administration also sent investigators. Witnesses said the plane appeared to explode in a "fireball," raining hunks of metal and military documents on the countryside. Military and civilian officials said radio and radar contact was lost with the EC-135N at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday when it was about 28,000 feet over Maryland. The aircraft was due to return to Wright-Patterson after making a U-turn over the Atlantic Ocean. Merhle Duvall said he heard "another jet" in the area as the EC-135N went down and speculated that the Air Force plane may have been trying to avoid the other jet in overcast skies when it began to go into a spin. However, Sgt. Cleveland Parker, a spokesman at Andrews Air Force Base, said he had "no report at all" of another plane in the vicinity. 5/7/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Storms kill 207 MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Hundreds of families were homeless and at least 207 people dead after two tropical storms and a tornado struck in rapid-fire succession, officials said Sunday. Officials said tropical storm Lynn caused mud slides and brought torrential rain when it slammed across the main island of Luzon on Saturday. Bridges were torn out and three towns in the Aurora province northeast of Manila isolated. The official Philippine News Agency reported 10 fishermen drowned during the storm's approach. 7/6/81 === Page 81 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Hazardous problems targeted at nuclear plant **Aug. 5/11/81** ATLANTA (AP) -- The Savannah River Plant, the sole source of raw materials for U.S. nuclear warheads, has been experiencing problems that the plant operator says have "nuclear hazard potential," a newspaper reported Sunday. Aging equipment and human errors are threatening the safe operation of the 27-year-old nuclear reactors at the plant, 25 miles downriver from Augusta in South Carolina, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution said in their combined Sunday editions. The newspaper said its report was based on more than 700 pages of previously secret internal plant safety documents that were opened for a reporter's inspection by the U.S. Department of Energy. "The number of incidents due to personnel and equipment failures has been trending upward since 1975," according to one safety report covering the last half of 1978. It was prepared by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the contractor that designed and built the plant for the government and has operated it since 1953. "The exact causes are unknown," the report said, "but a combination of more thorough reporting of incidents, aging of equipment and personnel turnover are possible contributing factors." The plant's acting manager, Richard Denise, said the number and type of the reported incidents "is not considered alarming." In the most recent reports, Du Pont says that twice a week last year the plant suffered some incident that had "nuclear hazard potential." Each such incident created a risk of radiation exposure for workers or the public, the newspaper said. Such episodes totaled 38 in 1975, 54 in 1976, 49 in 1977, 72 in 1978 and 108 in both 1979 and 1980, the newspaper said. An example of such incidents, it said, occurred in May 1978 when a spacing device, used to separate reactor fuel elements stacked in an underwater storage area and to ensure against radioactive chain reactions, was found to be missing at one reactor. The device had been omitted for two years and no one had noticed. The upward trend was anticipated because of personnel turnover and increased requirements for reporting such incidents, said Denise, who formerly was assistant director for licensing for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "The number of incidents broadly defined as 'having nuclear hazard potential' are of concern, but an examination of the type and severity of these incidents established that this categorization is often not indicative of an actual nuclear hazard," he said. The plant, located inside a 300-square-mile pine forest just north of the Georgia border, originally had five nuclear reactors. The newspaper said three of those still were in operation. The newspaper said none of the reactor incidents ever has been announced publicly, and that the safety reports are not filed with any federal or state regulatory agency. Nevertheless, the newspaper said no employee ever has been injured by a radioactive process at the plant. - UFO 6 Projects PK - # 11 persons die as storms sweep over Midlands United Press International Thunderstorms that lashed the Plains from Texas to Michigan with heavy rain, wind and tornadoes spread to the Southeast Friday. At least 11 deaths and scores of injuries were blamed on the storms and dozens were left homeless. Persistent rainshowers stretched Friday from Texas to the Carolinas, already soaked by more than an inch of rain. Heavy rain was reported in Alabama, southern Mississippi and the western portion of the Carolinas. Texas was hard hit by fierce storms Thursday, and 22 tornadoes roared across southeast Missouri the night before. More than 30 people were injured and 80 left homeless in the Missouri twisters. National Guard troops helped weary emergency crews in cleanup duties Friday, as state officials promised aid was on the way. The storms were blamed for 11 deaths -- two in Texas and three each in Missouri, Michigan and Louisiana. Three people were killed in a head-on collision of a pickup truck and a car during a rainstorm in Benson, La. Michigan authorities said a small airplane crashed in rain and thick fog, killing all three men aboard. Rescuers searched three hours in dense fog before finding the wreckage. Two people were killed by tornadoes in Missouri, and an elderly man died of a heart attack when a twister struck his community. Near Houston, one man was killed while trying to land his small airplane at the height of a thunderstorm that roared across southeast Texas, flipping mobile homes and knocking out electrical power. A three-vehicle accident on a rain-slicked highway in Houston killed one person and injured several others. Parts of Texas were drenched with 2 inches of rain an hour. Wind up to 60 mph downed power lines, felled trees and overturned trailers and vehicles from Columbus to Beaumont. Twenty people were injured in Sealy, one of the hardest hit towns. The American Legion Hall was used as an emergency shelter. 4/24/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Cause of power outage sought NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Utility engineers searched Sunday for the cause of a power failure that left more than a quarter-million homes and businesses without electricity in steamy, record-tying July heat. Saturday's outage, which knocked out trolleys, traffic lights, air conditioners, telephone computers and radio stations across the city and up to 40 miles away, was first blamed on a tree entangled in power lines. However, "it's not resolved yet; it's still being studied," said Jack South Utilities. The power failure came as the monster hit a humid 96, tying a July record set in 1951. The blackout affected customers of three utilities and extended from Covington and Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain to the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. It began at 4 p.m. Most power was restored by 7:45 p.m. 7/20/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # Copter crash kills four NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- A "Sea Stallion" cargo helicopter on a training exercise crashed Sunday on the deck of the amphibious landing ship USS Guam and burst into flames. Four Marines were killed and 11 other Marines and sailors injured, the Navy said. The helicopter smashed onto the deck of the 592-foot vessel and burned during amphibious maneuvers by a Pennsylvania Marine reserve squadron. All four Marines killed were aboard the helicopter. 7/20/81 # Building falls into bay SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Firemen doubt that anybody was inside an abandoned two-story building that collapsed through Pier 64 and into San Francisco Bay Sunday. "It sounded like an explosion and caved in quickly," said Jesse DeJesus, who was fishing nearby when the building collapsed. He said he thought he heard hammering from the direction of the building just before it fell. === Page 82 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - # Submarine collision still a nautical puzzle By J. RICHARD NOKES Editor, The Oregonian Oreg 5/8/81 THE PRELIMINARY report of the Reagan administration to the visiting Japanese prime minister concerning the tragic sinking of a Japanese merchant ship after a collision with an American submarine leaves major questions unanswered. They probably will not be answered until the results of a court of inquiry, and possibly a court martial, are known. The first report, in which the United States accepts responsibility for the collision and resulting loss of two lives, was issued hurriedly in an attempt to head off any unpleasant questions by Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki in his discussions with President Ronald Reagan. NOKES The submarine, the USS George Washington, was engaged in an exercise in foul weather in which Navy patrol planes were hunting the nuclear craft. At one point the George Washington raised its periscope and made radar sweeps without detecting the surface ship because of high seas. The boat's underwater sound gear (sonar) did detect the Japanese freighter when it was close by, and the sonar shack notified the conning tower, which failed either to note the information or to acknowledge it. That brings up serious question No. 1: Why did not the sonar officer keep repeating the information until it was acknowledged? It is mandatory procedure on shipboard for the officer of the deck, who is in operational command of the vessel during his watch subject to orders of the captain, to acknowledge any communication. The fact that such a piece of vital information was not acknowledged should have elicited immediate repetition from sonar. A second question would ask why the information was not received by the conning tower or why it was ignored if received. According to the report, the submarine's captain, Cmdr. Robert E. Woehl, ordered a search after the collision and saw the merchant ship but after short observation concluded it was not in any distress. He then ordered the submarine to an area about eight miles from the collision scene. This brings up other major questions: Why was the search for and examination of the Japanese vessel such a casual thing? Should not the captain of the submarine at least have exchanged signals with the merchant craft to ascertain if it were or were not in distress? Apparently, that vessel attempted to radio a distress signal, but its antenna was crippled by the collision. The submarine did advise a naval command in Japan of the collision but did not indicate its seriousness, so the shore command did not immediately advise either the Japanese government or Washington, D.C. Since a collision at sea, especially in peacetime, is one of the most serious of all sins in the Navy, this raises another serious question: When a nuclear submarine, one of the prides of the fleet, is involved, should not a shore command be alert to transmit the word to the highest authority at once instead of waiting 24 hours? So far there is no indication that under the seagoing rules of the road the freighter was anything but innocent of blame. Certainly the Japanese will not be quick to forget and forgive. - 6 Projects PK - # 5 burned by steam CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Five workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power plant were burned Sunday by non-radioactive steam that leaked during tests, a TVA spokesman said. Spokesman Alan Carmichael said no nuclear fuel had been loaded in Unit 2, where the leak occurred, and there was no danger of radiation. "They were disassembling a valve on a steam line and had closed others upstream," Carmichael said. "But when they started taking the valve apart, it began releasing steam and five men were burned." Oreg 4/20/81 Note: "Meteors?" Perhaps a PI message to Shealla # Meteors light sky MIAMI (AP) -- A spectacular meteor shower lit up the early morning Florida sky Sunday in a blue flash visible from the Keys to the Panhandle. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chris Nettles in Miami said that after receiving numerous inquiries about a mysterious light, he called the Civil Defense National Warning Center in Olney, Md., and was told it was "Lyrid's Meteor Phenomenon." "It's fairly common for this time of year," Nettles said. Gerald Mays of the Civil Defense warning center said the official explanation was a meteor shower, which he said was reported to the center at 12:59 a.m. Sunday and apparently was seen by people as far south as the Florida Keys and as far north as Panama City in the Panhandle. Oreg 4/20/81 Note: Ha ha! Not "marsh gas"? Owens # Aurora borealis # Light show prompts calls It wasn't Mount St. Helens, and it didn't have anything to do with the space shuttle. Rather, it was a spectacular and somewhat rare show of an aurora borealis that had Western Oregon residents staring into the sky Sunday evening. Callers from throughout the area reported a show of red, yellow, blue or green lights in the sky around 8:15 p.m. Norman Smale of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry confirmed that the lights were an aurora borealis, or "northern lights." Smale said that while such displays are not common in Oregon, Sunday's event was even more unusual in the range of colors observed. "We seldom see the yellows, the blues and greens here," he said. The phenomenon results when sunspots shoot out charged particles which are caught by the Earth's magnetic field. As they pass through the atmosphere, they glow, much like charged particles in a neon tube. The different colors result from different gases becoming ionized. The lights are most commonly seen in more northerly latitudes. Oreg 4/13/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Power outages shift shuttle tracking duty VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- Two power failures at this base that was to track the space shuttle's landing and coordinate with chase planes forced the work to be switched to Edwards Air Force Base less than an hour before touchdown Tuesday, the Air Force said. Vandenberg's primary power source failed at 8:55 a.m., and backup generators broke down when a cable burned out 45 minutes later, said Capt. Frank Bradley. The shuttle made a perfect landing at Edwards at 10:22 a.m. Oreg 4/15/81 === Page 83 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Predictable fallout from Trojan accident URGENT: The Trojan nuclear power plant shut down under emergency conditions this morning when a pump blew up in the face of an electrician... It was not immediately known whether any radiation was released. The preceding urgent news report, released last Monday by The Associated Press in New York, is a scare story, albeit an unintentional one. It earns that label not because of gross inaccuracies but because of incompleteness. In short, it was premature and speculative; consequently, it risked inciting panic. Ever since the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, the news media nationally have grappled with the problem of how news gatherers should respond to a real nuclear disaster. Our recommendation: with caution. Monday's initial reporting by KGW radio and, subsequently, The Associated Press suggests that caution and restraint can get sideswiped by perceptions that a potentially catastrophic event - a big news story - is breaking. That other major news agencies in Oregon did not leap on this wagon demonstrates that some of the media lessons learned from Three Mile Island are being observed. Nevertheless, there was predictable fallout from Monday's premature wire service report. News teams in New York and Los Angeles were alerted to prepare to fly to Oregon. A Japanese news agency was aroused. The inflammatory words in the "urgent" bulletin - "emergency," "blew up," "radiation" - sent false signals to other news agencies, suggesting to them that Oregon might be undergoing a Three Mile Island repeat. News agencies confronted with tips of a possible nuclear power plant accident should pin down the essential facts before presenting the story to the public. Responsible coverage of a potential or reported nuclear accident dictates verifying the details, preferably with a variety of sources. Single-source reporting on such a sensitive story - one that has the potential for panicking the public - serves everyone poorly. Oreg 4/23/81 - 6 Projects PK - Note: A message from God re ?? # Tornado levels church; toll of 9 dead feared TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A tornado smashed a country church filled with Easter worshipers Sunday night, killing at least four and possibly nine people, police said. Bixby police dispatcher Lloyd Blalock said an undetermined number of people were hurt when the Liberty Heights Freewill Baptist Church collapsed shortly before 9 p.m. The twister also slammed into a nearby trailer park, police said. Police said rescue workers were still searching 1 1/2 hours later for occupants of the church in Bixby, south of Tulsa. Police reports of the number of deaths ranged from four to nine. Details were sketchy after police cordoned off the area to reporters. Bixby sustained widespread storm damage, as power and telephone lines fell throughout the area. Blalock asked a radio station reporter to call the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Red Cross for him because his radio system was dead. The tornado was part of a severe storm that snapped power and telephone lines throughout the Tulsa area and destroyed an undetermined number of homes, authorities said. Cheryl Blonsky, a Red Cross worker, said officials were looking for space to set up a shelter for the homeless. A Civil Defense spokesman said police were asked to help control looting that broke out in Bixby soon after the evening storm abated. Oreg 4/20/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Reactor shut down RICHLAND, Wash. (UPI) - The N reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was shut down Wednesday morning when a speed control device failed on one of the reactor's drive turbines. The reactor could remain shut down for several days while repairs are made, officials said. The dual-purpose reactor is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by UNC Nuclear Industries. Oreg 4/16/81 - 6 Projects PK - - Note 6 Projects - # Car hits PGE pole; power loss results A car that crashed into a Portland General Electric power pole Sunday afternoon on Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard knocked out electricity for about 1,000 customers, a PGE spokesman said. A feeder line serving the Palatine Hills area of Southwest Portland and parts of downtown Lake Oswego lost power about 3 p.m., spokesman Bruce Landrey said. Power was restored in half the homes by about 3:22 p.m. and the rest at about 4:15 p.m., he said. The driver of the car was not injured in the crash, in the 11000 block of Terwilliger, Portland police reported. Oreg 4/20/81 # Power failures cripple island NASSAU, Bahamas (UPI) - Workers toiled Wednesday to restore electricity to the Bahamas, which has been hit by a 6-day-long series of power failures that left residents foraging for food and sparked a mass exodus of nearly 10,000 grumbling tourists. Lights blinked on in half the city's business district Tuesday, but after four hours they went off. The other half of the city got some steady electricity for the first time since Monday, when the whole of New Providence Island went dark after a weekend of partial power failures. The government-owned Bahamas Electric Corp. struggled to repair equipment they said fell into disrepair during a three-week slowdown by protesting employees. The general manager of the utility said he hoped to have power restored to residential areas by Wednesday night. Oreg 7/8/81 === Page 84 of 128 A6 2M THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, APRIL 26, 1981 # 3rd leak at N-plant admitted TOKYO (AP) -- The Japan Atomic Power Co., under fire for covering up a major radioactive waste overflow last month, disclosed Saturday that 45 workers were exposed to radioactive waste in another unreported accident at the same plant in January. Power company officials said radioactive materials dripped out of three holes in piping connecting waste-water condensing tanks Jan. 19 and 21 at the Tsuruga plant 192 miles west of Tokyo. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which has been investigating plant operations since it was disclosed recently that 16 tons of radioactive waste water spilled out of a tank in a March 8 accident, said the January leak was small and confined to the tank room. Ministry officials said the 45 workmen involved in repairing the piping and cleaning up the waste were exposed to a maximum of 92 millirems -- a measure of radiation -- and an average of 55 millirems per day. The power company safety standard allows exposure of 100 millirems a day. Officials of the Tokyo-based power company said the leak was not reported because it was minor and occurred when the plant was closed for a periodic safety check. But ministry officials, who were said to be "chagrined" by the latest in a series of revelations of slipshod operations at the Tsuruga plant, ordered an immediate investigation into the leak. The Yomiuri Shimbun, a major daily newspaper, also reported that the radioactivity of the glutinous waste material was so high that work to fill up the holes had to be carried out with workers rotating every five seconds. The accident was the fourth this year that Tsuruga plant officials failed to report to the government. # Quake jolts Greece ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A strong earthquake rocked western Greece early Saturday, causing panic but no casualties or serious damage, authorities said. The Athens observatory said the quake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and was centered in the Ionian Sea, 175 miles northwest of the capital. Police said the tremor sent people in the town of Ioannina rushing into the streets as power supplies were cut and some houses sustained minor cracks. # Explosion in flight kills 21 aboard jet By LINDA DUFFIELD WALKERSVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A military jet exploded into a "ball of fire" over a farm Wednesday, killing all 21 crew members and scattering bodies, debris and possibly classified documents over a wide area, authorities said. Air Force Major William Campbell confirmed that all those aboard the sophisticated missile-and-satellite tracking aircraft were killed. Authorities at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington reported 20 bodies had been recovered by late Wednesday. Residents who witnessed the crash just north of this western Maryland community described the $50 million EC-135-A plane as a mass of flames before it struck the ground. "It looked like a ball of fire," said Edward Watson, vice president of operations for the Maryland Midland Railroad, which halted service on its line adjacent to the crash site. "It apparently blew up in the air," said A.E. Appleby, police communications officer at the Frederick state police barracks. The Pentagon said the aircraft, which looks like a Boeing 707 with a huge, bulbous nose, was based at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where it was assigned to the 4950 Test Wing. A Wright Patterson spokesman, Air Force Maj. Edward Robertson, denied reports that the jet was carrying classified documents. "There were no classified documents on board the airplane," he said. But a source in the Pentagon, who asked not to be identified, said Wednesday evening that there were classified documents aboard the aircraft. Robertson said an Air Force crew was on the scene, attempting to identify the bodies that had been found and to locate the missing body. The cause of the crash remained undetermined Wednesday evening. Robertson said he had no evidence that the plane had been sabotaged. "I don't have anything that would go one way or the other on that one," he said. The Air Force said the plane, an advanced range instrumentation aircraft, was carrying sophisticated radar equipment and equipment used to track missiles and satellites. It was on a test flight and left the base early Wednesday morning. The area in central Frederick County was sealed off by state police and military officials from nearby Fort Detrick were sent to the scene. Members of the media were taken in groups of eight to the site late Wednesday afternoon. "There were bodies all over the place," said state police Lt. Grover Sensabaugh, who was at the site shortly after the crash. Local radio stations were asked to broadcast state police requests that residents who found documents from the aircraft turn them in to local authorities, according to Jane English of WZYQ-FM in Frederick. # The nation ## Power line tower felled SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah Power & Light Co. tower carrying a 345,000-volt power line was chopped down by "saboteurs" Saturday, a company spokesman said, but there were no power outages. Grant Pendleton, the spokesman, said the three-pole, 90-foot wooden structure was toppled by someone wielding a saw or ax. He said the company was considering the incident "an act of sabotage" and that the FBI was investigating. However, FBI supervisor Bill Rumph in Salt Lake City said, "The facts do not indicate any jurisdiction by us." "That's a big line. It can carry at least 400,000 kilowatts. It's the highest voltage line on our system," Pendleton said. He said the line was a main transmission artery to the Four Corners area where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona meet. === Page 85 of 128 # Severe droughts causing devastation in many parts of world By CHRIS ANGELO The Associated Press From India to Africa to Brazil, drought has withered crops, dried up water holes and reservoirs and driven thousands, especially women and children, to unfamiliar lands in search of food and water. February storms broke the drought in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. Although weather officials described it as being one of the largest abnormally dry periods in the world, the effects were nowhere near the drought devastation in other parts of the world. It will be at least another few weeks before forecasters can say if there is any relief in sight for East African countries, where drought, combined with civil strife and impoverished economies, is causing the greatest human suffering. "I have talked to people who had walked 28 days to get to a food station, women who started with six children and arrived with only two. The rest died on the way," said a United Nations official who recently visited the East African region. He asked not to be identified. Many women in food-short, drought-stricken areas try to breastfeed children up to 6 years of age, said Beth Griffin of Catholic Relief Services in New York, one of numerous voluntary agencies providing aid. Often the women are so malnourished that they have stopped lactating and their last attempt to save their children fails. Women, children and elderly men crowd refugee camps and feeding stations, aid officials say. Younger men stay behind with their herds or have been killed in political violence. The East African drought affects Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and extends south to Tanzania. Also drought-stricken are parts of southern and western Africa, India, China, northeastern Brazil and Australia. The American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service estimates that about 15 million people are affected by the combination of drought and other problems in East Africa, where for several years rains have been insufficient or come at the wrong time or in such heavy downpours that there were droughts and floods at the same time. The outlook for this year's rains will be known in late March or early April, when the rainy season begins, he said. He said crop prospects for this year, however, are "very bad." There is no reliable estimate of drought-related deaths because many of those victims are nomads who move across borders or refugees fleeing political violence. Also, drought deaths cannot be separated from those of other refugees. President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania said recently that his country "is facing its most severe famine in 20 years of independence." Three years of poor harvests have worsened the impact of drought, and the country no longer has the funds to buy large amounts of food abroad, he added. Leon Davico, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said two important riverbeds at a remote refugee camp in Somalia are dry and he has seen people "scratching the ground with their nails in an attempt to dig for water." Here is a summary of the situation in some of the other most seriously affected drought areas: SOUTHERN AFRICA -- In Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, South Africa, particularly KwaZulu and other parts of Natal province along the Indian Ocean, and South-West Africa, crops and cattle were affected in varying degrees in 1980. Water had to be trucked to many locations and some cattle died, but there were no reports of mass human starvation. In Mozambique, probably the hardest hit in southern Africa, two years of drought cut agricultural production in half. Now the problem is floods that have caused further crop losses and hampered relief operations, the official news agency AIM reported. South Africa, the breadbasket for much of Africa, will have to import wheat this year for the first time in more than a decade. But there also the problem now is floods. WESTERN AFRICA -- In general, the last rainy season, from April to September, was good and the situation is greatly improved from the severe drought several years ago, according to Galal Magdi, executive secretary of the U.N. Capital Development Fund and an adviser on the Sahel region. Aid is still needed and will be for about three more years, until development projects yield results, he said. INDIA -- In Rajasthan state, bordering Pakistan, three consecutive dry years have forced herders to seek pasture in neighboring states and farmers to switch to jobs on relief projects, building roads, deepening canals and working on mining projects. More than 15 million people, half the state's population, are suffering from the drought, but it has caused no deaths, Bhatnagar said. The situation is expected to worsen as people await the monsoon rains which normally arrive in July. BRAZIL -- Farmers in Brazil's drought-ridden, impoverished northeast flee by the thousands each year to urban coastal centers in search of a better life. But often they are trapped in a web of urban poverty, living in the shantytowns that border the wealthy neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities. Some 13 million people live in Brazilian states most severely affected by drought, which annually sears thousands of acres of crops and is blamed for the deaths of thousands of head of livestock. NORTHERN CHINA -- The area has received lower-than-normal rainfall for the past 1 1/2 years. A U.N. disaster relief coordinator's mission said the drought, particularly in Hebei Province, was the worst in 37 years. "More than 20 million people are seriously affected by losses of 30 to 50 percent" of agricultural production due to drought and floods, the officials said. AUSTRALIA -- Ninety percent of New South Wales, the country's most populous state, has been under a drought declaration for 18 months. Also affected in the southeastern part of the country are southern Queensland and parts of Victoria, and in the west, southwestern Western Australia. The drought is blamed for the loss of 5.6 million sheep, or about 4 percent of the national flock. Drinking water has been rationed in some areas. MEXICO -- Rainfall has been abundant so far this season, ending last year's prolonged drought, described as the worst in half a century. The most recent count indicated 40,000 cattle died and another 120,000 had to be slaughtered before reaching full weight, leaving herds 20 percent below normal this year. === Page 86 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # 11 tornadoes rip across Midwest By LINDA WEINSTEIN of The Associated Press 4/12/81 Tornadoes and thunderstorms packing high winds, heavy rains and hail tore through parts of the Midwest, injuring a dozen people and causing extensive property damage in at least three states, officials said. Nine tornadoes hit Iowa and two touched down in Indiana Friday, the National Weather Service said. Thunderstorms rumbled across parts of Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, producing flash floods and knocking out power in some areas. In Iowa, a tornado ravaged Melbourne, a town of 660 people in the central part of the state, Marshall County authorities said. Six people were slightly injured, and 65 were left homeless by the twister, which damaged 25 houses and several mobile homes as it cut a path a quarter-mile wide and nearly four miles long, officials said. Three other people were injured in an auto accident as the tornado swept five cars off a highway south of the town, authorities said. They were taken to a Des Moines hospital. The tornado, which touched down shortly after 6 p.m. Friday, also blew down power lines and damaged gas lines, which began to leak, the Marshall County sheriff's department said. Authorities also reported tornadoes in Wayne, Decatur and Marion counties. High winds in Sumner, a town of 2,200 in the northeastern corner of Iowa, caused heavy damage to at least two houses and also damaged a low-rent housing project for the elderly and three schools. No injuries were reported, however. Henry Hochberger, manager of the housing complex for the elderly, said several windows were broken by high winds and blowing debris. He said one woman had gone to bed just moments before a board crashed through a window where she had been sitting. Sumner Elementary School lost one-third of its roof, authorities said. Windows were reported blown out of the high school and the junior high also was damaged. In the Des Moines area, near-zero visibility, high winds and slick pavement were blamed for an accident in which three people, including a 2-year-old girl, were injured. - 6 Projects PK - # Navy accepts merchant ship collision blame By RICHARD HALLORAN New York Times News Service 4/21/81 WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr. announced Monday that the Navy has accepted liability for the sinking of a Japanese merchant ship after a collision with a U.S. nuclear submarine. The accident occurred April 9 when the George Washington, the first American submarine to carry nuclear ballistic missiles, and the Nissho Maru, a freighter carrying cotton, collided in the East China Sea. The captain and the first mate of the freighter were lost at sea while the rest of the 15-man crew spent 18 hours in life rafts before being rescued. They claimed that the submarine surfaced but left the scene almost immediately. Lehman's statement said the Navy had accepted liability "to preclude lengthy litigation and permit the Navy to enter promptly into negotiations with all involved parties." Japanese lawyers have advised the Navy, officials said, that total claims may come to $4.2 million. That would include compensation for the 2,350-ton Nissho Maru, 1,200 tons of cotton and claims made by survivors and relatives of the lost seamen. The quick action by the Navy also appeared to have been taken in an attempt to dampen a storm of criticism in Japan, where the incident has given anti-American elements an emotional argument against Japan's alliance with the United States. Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, who is scheduled to visit Washington early next month, has said that he intends to bring up the incident when he meets with President Reagan and other senior administration officials. The Navy is conducting an investigation by questioning the survivors of the sinking and the captain of the George Washington and its officers and crew in Guam, where the submarine sailed after the collision. Lehman's statement said that accepting liability "in no way is intended to predetermine the personal liability and responsibility of the commanding officer and the crew members of the George Washington." Cmdr. Robert D. Woehl was listed as the captain of the submarine. # Navy Declares War Against Stray Cats Norfolk, Va. The Navy has declared war on stray cats that have infiltrated the Norfolk Naval Air Rework Facility, destroying important documents, startling employees by jumping from under desks, and leaving their mark in other ways. The Navy at first set 15 cat traps that operate like rabbit traps. Although the traps worked, some facility employees began aiding and abetting the enemy. They put out food and water for the cats and liberated some of the trapped animals. Frank Purdy, a safety and health official, has warned employees in a message that "more drastic action" will be taken if they don't stop helping the cats. "I love cats," Purdy said in his message, "but the work site is not the place for them... This is causing unsafe and unhealthy conditions for both the employees and the cats." Six to 10 cats prowl the naval facility's offices and hangars, according to Sharon White, a spokeswoman for the huge complex at Norfolk Naval Air Station where about 4200 workers renovate jet planes and missiles. As for where the cats are coming from, she said, "We don't know for sure." Reports indicate that they may be from nearby Navy and civilian homes. SF Chronicle 3/13/81 Associated Press - 6 Projects PK - # Florida area requests aid WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Bob Graham was asked Wednesday to declare 16 counties a drought disaster area, as Lake Okeechobee fell to a record low 9.84 feet above sea level and temperatures soared. "We have been in touch with the governor's office and the Bureau of Disaster Preparedness, but we haven't received any formal word back yet," said Enid Atwater, spokeswoman for the South Florida Water Management District. If Graham grants the declaration, the district could become eligible for state aid, which district officials hope will pay for a possible cloud-seeding project over Lake Okeechobee, a vital source of fresh water for South Florida. The water district's governing board will meet Friday in Plantation Key to decide whether to begin seeding clouds. Ms. Atwater said the board probably would approve a seeding plan because the lowness of Lake Okeechobee is becoming more critical daily. "The reason we're under the gun is because the program is started by August 1st the meteorologists tell us there probably isn't any sense in starting it at all," she said. If the board approves the plan, seeding could begin by July 24, she said. 4/16/81 === Page 87 of 128 TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1981 - UFOs & Projects - # From wind turbine # Damaged generator, blade to be removed Crews next week will begin removing the 94-ton generator and 100-ton blade from atop the 200-foot tower of the world's largest wind turbine near Goldendale, Wash. The wind generator, one of three dedicated May 29, was damaged June 8 when the 350-foot blade failed to feather and ran too fast, burning out the generator, said Joe Holmes, a spokesman for Boeing Engineering and Construction Co. The last 45 feet of the tip of the blade is designed to feather automatically like an airplane propeller to maintain a constant speed of 17 1/2 revolutions per minute in any wind up to 45 miles an hour. In last month's incident, the speed of the rotor reached more than 20 rpms for a minute before it automatically shut down, Holmes said. He said the gear box, which steps up the 17 1/2 rpms to 1,800 rpms to turn the generator, was undamaged, but the generator will have to be replaced. The nacelle that houses the generator and blade also will be removed for further tests to help determine the cause of the malfunction. Cost of the repairs has not been determined, Holmes said. The experimental units, which cost about $4.6 million each, are financed by the U.S. Department of Energy. The project is administered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Bonneville Power Administration, which will market the 7,500 kilowatts of power that will be generated by the three turbines when they are in full operation. The other two wind generators, which had been operating since December 1980, have been shut down until the cause of the June malfunction is determined. No date has been set for resumption of operational tests of the two undamaged units, said Gene Tollefsen, a BPA spokesman. The generators, designed to produce more power than any other operational wind turbine in the world, are located 17 miles southeast of Goldendale on the crest of the Goodnoe Hills. - UFOs & Projects - # Storms batter Asian coasts; toll hits 277 MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - Tropical storm Lynn sent giant waves crashing into 11 coastal towns, leaving more than 65,000 people homeless and bringing the death toll from two storms in the past week to 220, relief officials said Monday. "I have never seen waves as big as those," said Rosauro Francisco, 51, a former police chief in Palo, one of the storm-thrashed towns on Mindoro Island. Another storm lashed northern India Sunday, leaving 57 people dead and forcing more than 2 million to rush to high ground as swirling rivers flooded their banks, officials said. Soaked villagers clinging to their meager possessions waded through floods in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Tripura in an attempt to escape the rushing muddy water ripping apart their mud and thatch houses. Fifty-seven people drowned or were crushed to death by falling walls in the impoverished flatlands of Uttar Pradesh during a week of incessant rain, officials said. More than 5,000 villages populated by nearly 1.5 million people have been marooned as road and rail lines disappeared under brown water in Uttar Pradesh, they said. Lynn, meanwhile, was heading for Hong Kong, where the government opened its 124 typhoon shelters and the carrier USS Midway put out to sea to avoid causing havoc inside the storm-swept harbor. Lynn struck Friday and left 16 people dead and two missing. Tropical storm Kelly, which pounded the Philippines at mid-week, killed 194 people, the National Disaster Coordinating Center said. Org J 7/6/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Train spill forces hundreds to flee THORP, Wis. (AP) - Hundreds of people were evacuated for several hours in two northwestern Wisconsin counties Friday after a train derailed, spilling about 17,000 gallons of a corrosive chemical that formed a slow-moving cloud. Two Soo Line employees and a sheriff's deputy were taken to the hospital at Stanley after the chemical spilled from two holes in a tank car. The workers did not require treatment, but Deputy Mark Cattanach, 24, of Neillsville remained hospitalized. His condition was not immediately known. The derailment, three miles east of Thorp, caused formation of a cloud of gas that moved slowly to the northwest. Evacuations were ordered in the towns of Thorp and Withee in Clark County and the towns of Taft and Aurora in Taylor County. Dave Weitz, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said the chemical, acetic anhydrite, can cause respiratory and eye damage. It is described as corrosive rather than toxic. About 600 people sought refuge at Thorp High School, but most had been permitted to return home by midmorning after the chemical was neutralized with lime. Acetic anhydrite is normally used in the manufacture of cellulose acetate and is a dehydrating agent also used in the handling of fatty and volatile oils. - UFOs & Projects - # Blackout spoils vacations NASSAU, Bahamas (UPI) - Some 10,000 tourists who flocked to New Providence Island to enjoy its beaches, quaint Bahamian streets and lively casinos instead found sweltering rooms, dark restaurants and scant fresh water. Three days of flickering power outages became a total blackout Monday and tourists lured to the island by the annual "Goombay Summer" promotion fled from an airport getting electricity from emergency generators. "It's the worst vacation I ever had in my life," said Barbara Oliveto of New York City. Officials blamed the blackout on electrical equipment that fell Org J 7/7/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Official found shot to death DONORA, Pa. (AP) - A state official was found shot to death in his basement one day after a grand jury named him in an investigation of alleged government corruption. Authorities believe he killed himself. "I feel in my heart I did nothing wrong, but I know I can't stand the pressure I'll have to bear," said an unsigned note found beside the body of field auditor Lloyd Hickman, 60. Penn P 12/81 Org J 7/7/81 === Page 88 of 128 Subway wreck in NYC kills 1 NEW YORK (AP) -- One subway train plowed into the rear of another when 63-year-old signal lights failed outside a Brooklyn subway station Friday, officials said, killing a motorman and injuring more than 100 passengers. John Simpson, president of the Transit Authority, said the signal lights that failed had been installed in 1918, adding that their failure was only one symptom of the decaying transit system. The accident occurred less than 14 hours after the basic transit fare was boosted to 75 cents. The motorman of the Manhattan-bound No. 2 train that ran through the lights was pinned in the wreckage for about three hours after the accident and was pronounced dead when he was removed by emergency service personnel. Authorities said they did not know whether the motorman, who was identified as Jessie Cole, 36, died on impact or while rescuers tried to extricate him. Cole began as a conductor in 1970 and became a motorman in 1971, according to the Transit Authority. Simpson said the lights were under repair Friday and went out completely five minutes before the accident, which occurred at 1:50 p.m. He said the second train apparently went through a failed signal without making a radio check and rammed into the first train at about 10 miles an hour. "It would appear to be human error," Simpson said. But he acknowledged the failure of the signal lights provoked the mishap. An estimated 1,000 passengers were aboard the two trains. The city's Emergency Medical Service said about 100 people were injured, with 60 taken to three hospitals and about 40 treated at the scene. Two of the hospitalized passengers were unconscious and more than a dozen were taken out on stretchers, but hospitals later reported no critical injuries. The accident occurred outside the Utica Avenue station, when one No. 2 train ran into another. Both trains were Manhattan-bound, according to transit police. Police said service on the No. 2 line was terminated at Atlantic Avenue during the rescue efforts. The crash occurred the same day the basic fare was raised from 60 cents to 75 cents. Transit officials have said a second fare increase, to $1, may be necessary. 2 die in derailment TRINIDAD, Colo. (AP) -- A freight train hit a bridge washed out by a flash flood Friday and two locomotives plunged into 25 feet of water, killing two crewmen. The accident, which occurred about 15 miles east of Trinidad, claimed the lives of the engineer and head rigman, said Joseph Reyes, a Colorado & Southern spokesman. Eugene flier, 4 others perish in Alaska crash ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- An Air Force team flew Tuesday to a remote landing strip in the Aleutian Islands to determine what caused the crash of a Strategic Air Command reconnaissance plane with a crew of 24 aboard. Five airmen were killed and a sixth was missing and presumed dead in the crash Monday, said Lt. Col. Floyd McKee, director of public affairs for the Alaska Air Command. The RC-135, a military version of a Boeing 707, crashed while landing on Shemya Island, 500 miles east of Siberia, after a five-hour flight that began at an Air Force base near Fairbanks. Killed in the crash were: Maj. William R. Bennett, 36, Eugene, Ore.; 1st Lt. Loren O. Ginter, 28, Collins, Mo.; Capt. Larry A. Mayfield, 34, Knoxville, Tenn.; Master Sgt. Steven L. Kish, 37, Williamsport, Pa.; and Staff Sgt. Harry L. Parsons III, 24, Chula Vista, Calif. Officially listed as missing but presumed killed was Staff Sgt. Steven C. Balcer, 24, Addison, Ill., an Air Force spokesman said. The 18 survivors, six of them seriously injured, were transported 1,400 miles to a hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage. The six were listed in serious but stable condition with injuries that included burns, severe bruises, a broken leg and fractured ribs, said McKee. "The airplane is down on a runway and it burned in an extremely hard fire," said McKee. Investigators from March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif., were sent to try to determine the cause. The RC-135 was outfitted as a "high-altitude collection platform used for worldwide strategic reconnaissance," the Air Force said. It began its flight at Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks. Wind rips into fiery east Texas By United Press International High wind that preceded the season's first tornadoes in the Southwest moved Wednesday into the tinder-dry region of east Texas, already charred by wildfires burning out of control. Winds and tornadoes Tuesday raked New Mexico and Texas, flipping mobile homes and bringing traffic to a standstill. There were no serious injuries. A funnel cloud was reported near Wichita, Kan., and thunderstorms gathered over Kansas and Oklahoma. Strong wind that whipped fires out of control in seven Southern states for the last four days subsided Wednesday, and forecasters said there was a chance of rain in some areas. But a Texas Forest Service spokesman predicted that Wednesday would be the worst day for fires in east Texas in a long time. Fires powered by 20 mph wind gusts already have charred 600 acres. The spokesman said 54 fires were reported Tuesday and some continued unchecked. Thousands of acres have been blackened from Florida to the Carolinas, routing residents from their homes and ruining millions of dollars worth of timber. In west and north Texas, two injuries were reported in tornadoes and high wind that toppled barns, clipped trailer homes and tore down power lines. In Gainesville, two men suffered minor injuries when wind gusting to 65 mph toppled a tree onto their vehicle. Severe thunderstorms drenched much of west and north Texas. Several tornadoes were reported in Denton County. Another tornado was spotted on the ground at Josephine, Texas, knocking down a barn, and authorities said other buildings were damaged by wind clocked at 50 to 60 mph. === Page 89 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # Short circuit stops Trojan temporarily Oreg 4/21/81 The Trojan nuclear plant shut down for more than seven hours Monday and an electrician suffered first- and second-degree burns when a short circuit flared in the plant's electrical system that controls water supply to the steam-powered generators. The plant's reactor core was not involved in the accident, and no release of radioactivity was reported. Harald Johnsen, 37, of Longview, Wash., a Portland General Electric Co. electrician, was listed in stable condition with burns to the face and hands at St. John's Hospital in Longview, across the Columbia River from the 1,100-megawatt power plant. He was being kept overnight for observation, according to a nursing supervisor. Johnsen was working on an electrical circuit breaker to a service water booster pump in the plant's turbine building when the short occurred in the breaker, PGE officials reported. The booster pump helps raise the pressure of cooling water for various room coolers, emergency diesel units and auxiliary cooling units. The electrical mishap occurred at 8:54 a.m. when the plant was operating at about 88 percent of capacity. The plant went back on line at 4:10 p.m., gradually bringing capacity up to 40 percent. "The plant will hold at that capacity level for 24 hours, at which time conditions will be evaluated," said Dave Eagon, a PGE public information officer. Eagon noted that since April 13, plant operators had been decreasing its power capacity by about 1 percent daily to prepare for a complete shutdown May 1 for annual refueling and maintenance. That shutdown normally would last about 65 days, he said. It was not known yet how the Monday accident might affect the refueling and maintenance schedule, Eagon said. He added that PGE was studying the exact cause of the short circuit to determine if it was a mechanical failure or worker error. The short circuit caused the valves, which control the flow of water to the plant's four steam generators, to fail to properly control that flow of water, company officials said. When the water level in the generators then fell below a set minimum, control rods were automatically dropped in the reactor core, effectively shutting the plant down, PGE officials added. The generators produce the steam to turn the four power turbines at the plant. "The plant shut down exactly as it was designed to do," Bruce Landrey, another PGE public information officer, said. Landrey said the damaged circuit breaker was to an auxiliary water booster pump that was not in use at the time of the accident. He said the short circuit caused damage to the surrounding electrical system. Officials with the state Department of Energy who monitor the plant reported that Johnsen was using an electrical meter when the short circuit occurred. Jim Hanchett, a public affairs officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's regional office in Walnut Creek, Calif., said two NRC resident inspectors were assessing the company's response to the accident and that primary investigation of the accident would be done by PGE. "Right now, we don't have any problems with the way they are responding and following up," he said. He said electrical malfunctions are probably one of the primary causes of unscheduled nuclear reactor shutdowns across the country. If the malfunction was caused by workman's error, Hanchett said he would expect the company to "take some procedural steps to make sure the error is not repeated." - 6 Projects PK - # N reactor starts, stops RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - The start-up of Hanford's N reactor was interrupted late Saturday due to the apparent malfunction of an oil pump on one of the reactor's drive turbines, officials say. The reactor was initially shut down March 31, when technicians had to replace malfunctioning components in a flow meter on one of the reactor's 1,003 process tubes. The start-up will be resumed, spokesmen said, when the nature of the malfunction is officially determined and the necessary corrections are made. The dual-purpose reactor produces plutonium and steam for electricity. It is operated for the Department of Energy by UNC Nuclear Industries. Oreg 4/5/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Southern forests in flames By United Press International Tired firefighters and forestry officials Thursday hoped that lingering rainshowers would turn to downpours to extinguish raging fires that have blackened thousands of acres of Southern timberland. An epidemic of fires has erupted from North Carolina to Texas in recent weeks, fed by high winds and dry conditions dating back to the drought of last summer. Arson, however, was blamed on fires in Texas and the Carolinas. Rainstorms Wednesday doused many of the blazes, but officials said a heavy soaking is needed to eliminate the fire threat. Oreg 3/19/81 - 6 Projects PK - # Soviet east flooded MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan has had as much rain in two days as sometimes falls in a whole year, and floods have killed three people and injured several, the government newspaper Izvestia said Friday. Izvestia did not say how many inches of rain fell, but said the flooding had washed away much acreage of planted cotton and caused unspecified property damage. The Soviet press also reported that an unseasonably late snowfall in the southern Soviet republics of Armenia and Turkmen damaged fruit trees already in bloom. Oreg 4/4/81 === Page 90 of 128 -6 Projects PK- # Killer tornado saws through Tulsa Drought disaster declared -6 Projects PK- TULSA, Okla. (UPI) - A tornado ripped through southeast Tulsa and its nearby suburbs Sunday night, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others - some in a church - and destroying dozens of houses and mobile homes. Four other bodies were found earlier and officials said all the victims came from a small mobile home park in Bixby that was wiped out by the twister which apparently touched down at least four times late Sunday. Killed were Zeak Taylor, 69, of Broken Arrow, who was visiting his daughter at the mobile home park; Michael McCaslin, 28; his wife Charlotte, 27; their daughter Tonya, 10, and their son Chris, 6. The Highway Patrol said 10 people were admitted to hospitals and dozens of others received less serious injuries. "They were flying people out of here so fast we really couldn't keep track. We lost all our power and everything, so it really made it rough," a Bixby police dispatcher said. The power was restored Monday. Public Service Co. of Oklahoma said 5,800 homes were without power for a time. Property damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. Tulsa police blocked off a strip 1 mile wide and 2 miles long in an industrial section of south Tulsa and officials in Bixby also barricaded an area to prevent looting. The storm sent a cover over an apartment complex parking lot in Tulsa crashing onto cars. At least 56 people were injured and dozens of houses and mobile homes were damaged or destroyed as the tornado smashed through southeast Tulsa County, authorities said. A number of the injured were rushed by emergency helicopter to Tulsa's St. Francis Hospital. Hospital officials said of the injured, 46 people were treated at hospitals. Three people were listed in St. Francis in critical condition and and five others were in serious condition. Most of the injuries involved lacerations and fractures, authorities said. Witnesses said the tornado hurled a telephone pole through a pick-up truck. The Red Cross opened up a shelter in a Tulsa elementary school for people left homeless. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Bob Graham declared a disaster emergency Monday in parched Southeast Florida, freeing up to $100,000 in state money for a cloud-seeding project aimed at replenishing shrunken Lake Okeechobee. Florida has received only 2.5 inches of precipitation in this year's "rainy season," a far cry from the average 16 inches, according to Jack Maloy, South Florida Water Management district director. "We still don't seem able to break the back of this drought," Maloy told Graham. # Etna's lava oozing toward city, river CATANIA, Sicily (AP) - Molten lava streaming from Mount Etna threatened to engulf a nearby town of 12,000 people Wednesday and to cut the flow of water to a power station. The lava, which split from two to three streams Wednesday, is moving toward the Alcantara River, which meanders through the town of Randazzo. One of the streams stopped within half a mile of Randazzo, 25 miles north of Catania and perched on the northern slope of Europe's tallest and most active volcano. The lava cut two railway lines and has destroyed vineyards, woodlands and vacation homes in its path. No casualties had been reported. If the lava reaches the river, which provides hydroelectric power and irrigation to eastern Sicily, it could disrupt the water flow enough to cut the input to the power station. Professor Mario Cosentini of the Catania International Vulcanology Institute said the lava flow has slowed considerably. "If it keeps up its present pace the third stream may reach the river sometime overnight," Cosentini said. "The situation is fluid and unpredictable, but there seems to be no immediate danger to the people." Hundreds of soldiers and paramilitary police were standing by for possible evacuation of the town where some people fled their homes during the night, returning at daybreak. Experts continued helicopter flights over the volcano to check the situation. The volcano began showing signs of restlessness in late February with a series of minor eruptions. Numerous tremors jolted the area Monday and Tuesday, followed by a violent eruption early Wednesday. A spectacular explosion in 1979 killed nine tourists during the volcano's strongest eruption in 24 years. Since then the upper rim of the two mile high volcano has been closed to tourists. === Page 91 of 128 - 2150 6 Projects - # Giant sinkhole threatens town WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) -- A giant sinkhole gulped down a house, six expensive imported cars and part of a car lot Saturday in this central Florida town and was nibbling at other buildings and a municipal swimming pool. "It started last night, and it started growing really fast this morning," a police dispatcher said Saturday afternoon. "When I was out there about an hour ago, it was at least two city blocks wide. You couldn't get close enough to the edge to see the bottom." Observers said the sinkhole, which severed water and power lines for a few hours, was as much as 1,000 feet wide and 170 feet deep at 5:30 p.m. and was still growing a few inches an hour. Sinkholes, common in much of Florida, often result when underground water tables are lowered, allowing soil to dry out and shrink. They also may form when water dissolves limestone layers. Residents and owners of homes and businesses near the sinkhole, warned to leave until it stopped growing, hastily rented trucks and began moving furniture and inventories. The engulfed house was described as a small, wood-frame cottage. For most of the afternoon it was mostly intact, resting at a slant inside the hole, but later in the day it slipped from sight. - 6 Projects PK - # Florida fires still burning MIAMI (AP) -- Fires in southern Florida that have scorched nearly 100,000 acres of grasslands in and around the Everglades spread further Wednesday. Weather forecasters said no rain was in sight. "We need a good rain, 2 or 3 inches," said dispatcher Peter Karayeanes of the state Forestry Division in Dade and Monroe counties. But forecaster Allen Cummings of the National Weather Service in Miami said no relief was expected. org 4/9/81 Mysterious hole in Winter Park, Fla., is devouring town. The cars, all said to be expensive Porsches, were from a car lot on one side of the sinkhole, the Orlando Sentinel Star reported. City and utility crews worked to reroute severed water, telephone and power lines and police kept curious spectators from getting too close to the edge. By evening, the hole had eaten away the dirt around the swimming pool and it looked "like it's going to go," said Barbara Nuff of the Winter Park police. The backs of several businesses also began to fall into the pit, she said. The hole also ate a camping vehicle. org J 5/10/81 - 4 Projects PK - # Hundreds of fires rage across forests in South By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Wildfires by the hundreds crackled through tens of thousands of acres of woods and brushland of the South on Monday, fueled by blustery storm winds and unchecked by a sprinkling of rain. The fires, many of them deliberately set, have killed one man, injured several firefighters, and razed several buildings in a renewed outbreak that began over the weekend in Alabama, Florida, the Carolinas and the Virginias. In Alabama, where 5,488 fires so far this year have charred about 210 square miles -- more than was claimed all of last year -- 47 of the state's 67 counties were under a fire alert, including three added Monday. More than $5.7 million in timber already had gone up in smoke, officials said. Cynthia Page, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Forestry Commission, said thunderstorms which moved into parts of the state Sunday night did more harm than good with inconsequential rains and high winds "drying out the land that much faster and spreading the fires that were already burning." She said 201 fires covering 19,828 acres were still burning Monday. A home and a church were among several buildings destroyed. In the Florida Panhandle, a fast-moving fire had burned about 6,000 acres of prime pineland about 10 miles south of Bronson in Levy County and was still out of control late Monday afternoon in what officials called one of the most damaging fires in an already severe season. "It has got miles of dry woods ahead of it and the wind is blowing it fast," said District Forester Marvin Mills of Ocala. Winds gusting to 50 mph Monday uprooted trees in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and also fanned the fires that had claimed about 6,500 acres since the weekend. Tom Hegele of the North Carolina Forest Service said that of the 229 fires reported since Sunday more than a third were deliberately set. "I imagine it could be as high as 35 percent," Hegele said. "Arson appears to be higher than what we normally have." By Monday afternoon, Hegele said 36 fires, which blackened 580 acres, had been contained. - 6 Projects PK - # Twisters, hail wreak havoc over Midwest By United Press International More than 80 mph wind and blustery thunderstorms streaked across the Plains states into the Midwest Saturday, spawning hail and tornadoes and forcing a jetliner to make an emergency landing. At least three people were killed Friday and up to 30 homes were destroyed when a tornado touched down in West Bend, Wis. The twister lifted two railroad cars off the tracks and triggered power outages in the West Bend area. Another tornado in Oshkosh, Wis., blew off a 40-foot section of wall at a manufacturing plant south of Oshkosh. A 2-year-old boy was killed Friday when a series of tornadoes ripped through Iowa. Warren County officials said Gayle David Kennedy, of Sandyville, was being carried by his mother from their mobile home when high winds toppled a tree. A sheriff's deputy said the tree "landed on the kid's head." Thunderstorm and tornado warnings were posted over the Mississippi Valley Saturday. Winds up to 87 mph Friday in northern and central Illinois forced a United Airlines DC-10 to make an unscheduled stop at O'Hare International Airport. At least five people were seriously injured and 25 to 35 suffered minor injuries when the aircraft hit severe turbulence during a flight from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J. org 4/5/81 === Page 92 of 128 In Japan 4-26-81 Columbia - UFOs & Projects - # N-firm admits mishaps - World & Projects PK - TOKYO (AP) -- The Japan Atomic Power Co., under fire for covering up a major radioactive waste overflow last month, disclosed Saturday that 45 workers were exposed to radioactive waste in another unreported accident at the same plant in January. Power company officials said radioactive materials dripped out of three holes in piping connecting waste-water condensing tanks Jan. 19 and 21 at the Tsuruga plant 192 miles west of Tokyo. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which has been investigating plant operations since it was disclosed recently that 16 tons of radioactive waste water spilled out of a tank in a March 8 accident, said the January leak was small and confined to the tank room. Ministry officials said the 45 workmen involved in repairing the piping and cleaning up the waste were exposed to a maximum of 92 millirems -- a measure of radiation -- and an average of 55 millirems per day. The power company safety standard allows exposure of 100 millirems a day. Officials of the Tokyo-based power company said the leak was not reported because it was minor and occurred when the plant was closed for a periodic safety check. But ministry officials, who were said to be "chagrined" by the latest in a series of revelations of slipshod operations at the Tsuruga plant, ordered an immediate investigation into the leak. The Yomiuri Shimbun, a major daily newspaper, also reported that the radioactivity of the glutinous waste material was so high that work to fill up the holes had to be carried out with workers rotating every five seconds. It was the fourth accident this year that Tsuruga plant officials failed to report to the government in what has become a major scandal in this nuclear-sensitive nation. The plant was closed on April 1 when a worker disclosed that cracks in a cooling water tank on Jan. 24 had allowed the release of small quantities of radioactive materials. It then was revealed there had been a similar mishap Jan. 10. The company had failed to report these two incidents at the time and they did not become evident until a major spill, the third incident unreported by the company, was revealed a month after it occurred. After it was found that seaweed near the plant recorded levels of radioactivity 10 times normal, plant officials disclosed that on March 8 a worker forgot to shut off a valve and 16 tons of radioactive sludge poured out of a storage tank, with some seeping into the sewage system running to the sea. A total of 56 workers were engaged in cleaning up the spill, some using buckets and mops, but the company has denied that any worker was exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity. Newspapers reported that Koichi Takagi, mayor of Tsuruga City, a port town of 63,000 eight miles from the power plant, said that with the series of accidents "we can no longer trust the government. Every nuclear power plant in Japan should suspend operations for comprehensive checks." Japan has 22 operating nuclear reactors, supplying 12 percent of the nation's electricity needs. # Drought Areas of the World June '81 Oreg J - UFOs & Projects - Associated Press map PROBLEM AREAS -- Droughts (dark areas) throughout world are reported the severest of recent years. === Page 93 of 128 - Bermuda $\Delta$ Attack - # Agent Orange cleanup complex By MIKE HENDRICKS oreg 3/16/81 BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) - This city's tallest building, centerpiece of a modern, multi-million-dollar downtown government complex, is a landmark of the chemical age, an empty monolith filled with deadly dioxins. What started out as a routine electrical fire in the State Office Building on Feb. 5 eventually released some of the most toxic chemicals on Earth throughout the interior of the 18-story structure. Only a few people wearing protective garb and respirators are allowed inside. The 725 state employees, separated from their offices and files, are working elsewhere while officials try to figure how to make the building safe again. Officials who initially approved a routine cleanup, and called it off when the gravity of the situation was realized, are awaiting advice from a panel of international experts. Those who once thought the cost of the cleanup would run into the thousands of dollars are talking about millions of dollars. More than $1 million was spent on the aborted cleanup attempt. What happened in the building Feb. 5 apparently has never happened before in this country, but authorities say it could happen again in most of the nation's large office buildings. Binghamton Fire Chief Ed Faughnan says his investigators have not completed their study of the fire, but they do know that more than 180 gallons of coolant laden with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly known as PCBs, leaked out of the building's electrical transformer into the fire. The intense heat and oxygen combined with the PCBs to produce an even more deadly poison, dioxin, the same form of dioxin found in Agent Orange, widely used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. Lawsuits by veterans in America blame Agent Orange for a host of physical ailments and birth defects. The poisons spread through the building, coating ventilation shafts, desks, drapes and restroom facilities with what appears to be a layer of black soot. In the early cleanup, contaminated water from toilets inside the building was flushed into the city's sewer system. The severity of the situation was not immediately understood. The deadliest chemicals were not discovered until eight days after the fire, after several workers had walked through contaminated areas without protection. "We've been trying to comprehend the magnitude of this incredible, astounding incident, which, quite frankly, none of us could believe was happening for the first time anywhere right here in quiet Binghamton," said Dr. Arnold Schecter, the Broome County health director. Schecter, who is a professor of preventive medicine at the state university's medical school here, walked through a contaminated area in his street clothes. He doesn't mince words when discussing the seriousness of the problem. "We now have a new environmental hazard to live with," he said in a recent interview. "We have a unique event here that could only happen in the 'chemical age.' Nothing quite like this has ever happened before, not in an office building this way, not in a city. What happened here had happened only in the laboratory. "The question that is raised by all this is: Do we have this health hazard in most office buildings across the country?" Transformers using coolant containing PCBs are common throughout the country, Schecter said. In 1979, after a similar, but less extensive, incident in Toronto, the Canadian government banned such transformers. The Binghamton fire and explosion came at 5:30 a.m., Schecter said. "If this had happened at 9 a.m. in a building like the World Trade Center (in Manhattan), there would have been a lot of dead people, and a lot of people whose health would have to be monitored the rest of their lives, and a lot of babies with health problems. There would be chaos," Schecter said. Still, as many as 500 people were exposed to the dangerous chemicals, including one pregnant woman who worked in an office in City Hall that shared a common cleanup workers who unknowingly tracked dioxins in with them, Schecter said. "We're faced with a problem we don't know much about," he said. "We don't know much about the medical consequences or exposure to low level PCBs and dioxins." The chemicals contaminating the building have been linked to cancer, are known to attack the liver and nervous system, cause fetal damage, and remain in the human body, he said. Two workers involved in the initial cleanup say they will sue the state, contending they were not informed of the dangers they faced. The reactions of state officials have ranged from alarm to attempts at humor. Gov. Hugh Carey, for example, offered to drink a glass of PCBs and clean the building with a vacuum cleaner. The remarks caused a small furor in Binghamton, and the governor later backed off, saying he had only meant to warn New Yorkers of what he called overreaction to the contamination. Schecter said that a glassful of the toxins in the building would kill Carey. "It's Agent Orange, essentially, not just PCBs in that building. They're all bad," he said. "Depending on the governor's system, he would be dead within a few minutes or hours." - UFOs 6 Projects - # New Orleans power restored after outage NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A power failure left more than a quarter-million homes and businesses without electricity for hours in humid, 96-degree heat Saturday, and utility officials said the cause of the outage might take days to trace. No emergencies or serious problems were reported from the blackout within a circle encompassing Covington and Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. The problem at first was blamed on a tree entangled with a power line leaving the Little Gypsy power plant at Norco, just west of New Orleans. But officials later ruled that out. Spokesmen for three power companies said power, which was interrupted at 4 p.m., was restored by 7:45 p.m. to almost all of the affected customers. The blackout came to an area that thrives on air conditioning at the hottest and most humid time of year. Not only air conditioners went out when the power failed. So did traffic lights, trolleys, radio stations and computers serving telephone circuits and other electronic systems. Hospitals and other emergency services immediately went to backup generators. Some people were trapped in elevators between floors at the downtown Hilton Hotel but were rescued quickly, police said, and the New Orleans Police Department computer bombed briefly, but no serious disruptions were reported. Those affected included about 180,000 of 200,000 customers of New Orleans Public Service Inc. in the city, another 100,000 or more people served by Louisiana Power & Light Co. in New Orleans' eastern and western suburbs, and some of the 40,000 others served by Central Louisiana Electric Co. in St. Tammany Parish. oreg 7/19/81 === Page 94 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Missouri readies for heat By United Press International A band of thunderstorms rumbled from the Plains into southern New England, threatening low-lying areas with more flooding Friday, and Missouri officials braced for a "lion in summer" heat wave. The 30-day National Weather Service forecast for July predicts peak daytime temperatures in Missouri to range between 87 and 97 degrees. Even though forecasters said the range is only 3 degrees above the normal high, state officials are bracing for what they call "the lion in summer." "A heat wave acts like a lion going through a pack of antelopes," said Hugh Mooney of the city's Health Division. "It picks off the weak ones." A year ago this week record-high temperatures were blamed for killing the sick and elderly people in St. Louis. When the heat abated in August, more than 100 people had died. Scattered thundershowers fell in southwestern Texas and southern New Mexico. In Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas, more than 2 inches fell and about an inch hit in Lafayette, La. Another set of thunderstorms stretched over much of the East, from the lower Mississippi Valley to New York. Isolated thunderstorms in the South prompted a tornado in Florida. A twister reportedly touched down about 4 miles west of Carol City. No injuries or damages were reported. Flash flood watches were posted Thursday night and early Friday for southwestern Nebraska, western Maryland, northwestern Virginia and eastern Colorado. Torrential rains spawned flash floods in the southern Nebraska Panhandle. Albin, Neb., got 9 inches of rain. Up to 4 feet of water swamped a section along U.S. 30 near Bushnell, Neb. "There were some cars in it, but everyone got out all right," a Kimball County sheriff's dispatcher said. "Water is over the highway in that whole area." But the rain brought no improvement to moisture-short eastern Nebraska. The storm hit as crop experts announced a drought, freeze and plagues of insects had already cost Nebraska winter wheat growers more than $100 million in lost yields. About 2 inches of rain fell in Broken Bow, Neb. and more than an inch soaked Ainsworth, Neb. Heavy rain and flooding brought agricultural losses in Indiana to more than $1.2 billion - twice the amount originally estimated. Gov. Robert D. Orr announced the estimate Thursday, saying damages were equal to nearly one-third the total value of the state's average annual crop. Intense rains swept much of the East and the Southeast. Nearly 3 inches of rain fell at Pinson, Ala. And 2 inches of rain fell on the Birmingham, Ala., area in a few hours, flooding streets northeast of the city. Macomb, Miss., got an inch and a half of rain. Heavy rains also were reported in parts of Georgia and Pennsylvania, but there were no reports of flooding or storm damage. Another round of record cool settled over northern Florida, with temperatures in the 60s. But warm, humid weather hugged much of the rest of the South. Fair skies and balmy temperatures were the rule in the West. Oreg J 7/3/81 THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1981 - 6 Projects PK - # Officials probe elevator fires By The Associated Press Oreg 4/9/81 Fire officials in Texas and Nebraska Wednesday began investigating explosions at two grain elevators that killed at least five people. The town of Bellwood, Neb., was evacuated because of fears that the weakened elevator would collapse on homes and businesses. "It looks like she's going to fall," Sheriff Leo Meister said of the Farmers Co-Op grain elevator in Bellwood, a town of 360 residents. A man was killed and two people critically injured Tuesday when the elevator exploded in a shower of tons of grain and concrete. Later in the day, firefighters began the dangerous task of draining two 29,000-gallon propane tanks located underneath the structure. In Corpus Christi, Texas, grain dust explosions and fires ripped the sides and tops off the Corpus Christi Public Grain Elevator's towering grain silos Tuesday. Four people died and 32 were injured. Two people were missing Wednesday. In the Gulf Coast city, workers on bulldozers and a huge crane removed huge chunks of concrete and tangled metal supports, glass and rubbish from the damaged silos. the elevator when it exploded. It can hold 5.6 million bushels. Firefighters on a huge crane doused several small fires still burning on the catwalk of the elevator tower and in the damaged silos, said E.E. Irwin, acting fire chief. Fires smoldered overnight on the roof and on a conveyor belt but had not reached the grain in the silos, Irwin said. Many of the damaged silos were empty or half full when the explosion occurred, he said. The crane also was used in the search for the missing. "That's the only way we'll get them out," Irwin said. "That structure just can't hold people. There are no floors left." - UFOs & Projects - # Floods claim 3,000 in China By PHIL BROWN Oreg 7/18/81 PEKING (AP) - Floods from a three-day downpour roared through China's most populous province, leaving 3,000 people dead, 50,000 injured and 400,000 homeless, officials said Friday. Houses crumbled, bridges collapsed and survivors were chased to high ground by the province's worst floods in 76 years, Sichuan provincial authorities said. By Friday, rescuers had saved all of the 300,000 stranded people, flooding abated, power was restored and most of the 650 affected enterprises resumed production, but river boat traffic was still suspended, authorities said. Water began receding as runoff poured into the mighty Yangtze River after more than 18 inches of rain fell in the southwest Chinese province between Sunday and Tuesday. "The major concern of the government is the 400,000 homeless masses who need the government to provide them with food and clothing and to help rehabilitate their production," said one provincial official. Sichuan's floods are the world's deadliest since October 1960, when 6,000 people died in one flood in Bangladesh and 4,000 in another. Losses have not been calculated, but more than 2 million acres of farmland were reported flooded and two-thirds of the crops ruined in the province, which has one-tenth of China's 1 billion people. === Page 95 of 128 Greg P. March 30, 1981 # Storms lash Midwest By United Press International Thunderstorms lashed the nation's mid-section, sending a tornado churning through Illinois farm country, and heavy rain drenched portions of the South Monday. A tornado touched down at Prophetstown, Ill., Sunday, and golfball-size hail pelted Buffalo Lake, Minn. High winds raked across Iowa. Property damage totaling thousands of dollars was reported in Illinois and Iowa, but there were no injuries. High winds swept westward into the Sierra Nevada and the northeastern foothills of Colorado. Wind gusts reached 50 mph at Boise, Idaho, Sunday and nearly 90 mph at Twin Falls, Idaho. Downpours stretched from the Mississippi Delta through the Ohio Valley Monday, bringing badly needed rain to parts of the midlands. Meridian, Miss., reported nearly 3 inches of rain late Sunday, Columbus, Miss., had more than 2 inches and 1 1/2 inches fell at Huntsville, Ala. Winds gusting to 55 mph lashed Gulfport, Miss. An inch of rain soaked most areas of Tennessee. More than half an inch of rain fell at Evansville, Ind., but officials, worried about the danger of fires in the state, hoped for even more moisture. Indiana forestry officials, coping with drought-like conditions, said Sunday two blazes during the week destroyed 350 acres. The tornado in western Illinois wiped out power in the Prophetstown area. "I was so scared I couldn't see straight," said Mary Gluff, a Prophetstown police spokeswoman. - 2R0s 6 Projects - # 3 fires rage in Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Three major fires continued to rage out of control Monday in Utah, burning more than 72,000 acres, but the high winds and lightning that hampered weekend firefighting efforts died down. "The weather has definitely changed in our favor," said Melody Fairbourne, public information officer for the Interagency Fire Center in Salt Lake City. However, fire officials could not predict Monday when the blazes would be contained. The fires began Friday and Saturday when lightning ignited juniper, cheat grass and sagebrush near City in western Utah and at Promontory Point at the north end of the Great Salt Lake. Greg 7/28/81 TWISTER'S WRECKAGE -- A tornado whipped through the small south Alabama town of Hurtsboro Wednesday and virtually no structure escaped damage. The death toll was put at two with a score injured. - 6 Projects PR - # Tornado devastates Alabama town By SCOTT SHEPARD HURTSBORO, Ala. (AP) -- A tornado swept away shanty homes and splintered wood-frame dwellings in this Alabama hamlet Wednesday, roaring through with a force that "blew the town away." Officials said two people died, a score were injured and at least 160 were left homeless. Virtually no structure escaped damage, as the twister demolished walls, ripped off roofs, and wrecked homes and commerical buildings for about a half-mile on either side of the main thoroughfare through town. It leveled dozens of buildings in commercial and residential blocks, and left the town of 750 residents without water, power or communications. Eight people were hospitalized with injuries and 15 others were treated at hospitals and released, said State Civil Defense spokesman John H. Lewis. Lewis said 25 homes were completely destroyed, 12 were seriously damaged and 26 were moderately damaged, with some 160 residents either left homeless or forced to live with relatives or friends until repairs are made. Red Cross workers said a door-to-door check turned up only 20 people totally without shelter Wednesday night. "It literally blew the town away," said Russell County Sheriff Prentis Griffith of the twister, which struck at about 3 a.m. Sixteen Alabama National Guardsmen were sent to handle traffic control, said Civil Defense duty officer Richard Cartwright. Cartwright said that initially about 300 people sought shelter at a Red Cross aid station in the United Methodist Church. Lewis said water was being trucked in by the National Guard and that officials hoped the water system would be operational again Thursday. Alabama Power Co. officials said they hoped power could be restored by the end of the week. But they said perhaps 50 percent of the buildings couldn't accept power because of damages. Many of the homeless were poor people who live in wood-frame or shanty homes, officials said, adding residents of more expensive, sturdier dwellings also were forced out by the tornado. Greg 4/2/81 - 2R0s 6 Projects - # Rocket payload lost at sea TOKYO (AP) -- The instrument payload from a Japanese experimental rocket plummeted into the Pacific Ocean Sunday when a parachute failed to open, Japanese space agency officials said. Officials of Japan's National Space Development Agency sent search teams looking for the rocket nose cone containing the payload, but said the chances of recovery were "remote," the Kyodo news agency said. An NSDA announcement said officials were investigating the mishap. The 2.4-ton rocket was launched Sunday morning from Tanegashima Island in southwestern Japan to study whether high-quality semiconductors can be manufactured in the weightlessness of space, a space center official said. Greg 8/3/81 === Page 96 of 128 Blaze injures 16 in Las Vegas hotel BY PATRICK ARNOLD LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- A fire confined to a luxury suite on the fifth floor of Caesars Palace hotel-casino injured 16 people Wednesday and forced hundreds to flee the hotel's 12-story central tower, authorities said. It was the third sizable hotel fire in the gambling resort city in less than five months. Smoke poured from fifth-floor windows, and breaking glass showered the ground as people raced out to the parking lot behind the luxury hotel. Fleeing guests and hotel employees made their way past gamblers, who continued to play blackjack, roll dice and pull slot machine handles in the casino despite a strong smell of smoke, after the fire erupted at 10:05 a.m. Coincidentally, a convention of burglar and fire alarm companies is being held at Caesars Palace this week. "You'd never think you'd find yourself in the middle of a casino with a nightgown on," said hotel guest Helen Ginsburg of Denver. She and her husband, Morris, who were on the sixth floor just above the room that caught fire, said they reported the blaze to the hotel operator, then looked into the hallway and saw hotel maids pounding on doors to evacuate guests. "I was right across the hall when I heard the (smoke) alarms going off," said maid Linda Holmes. "When I got down by the pool I saw all the flames coming out the windows." Guests and employees later were allowed to return to all but the fifth floor of the hotel tower. The cause of the fire that erupted in a five-room suite was not known immediately, said Clark County Fire Capt. Ralph Dinsman. Nor was it known whether the suite was occupied. The blaze was in a portion of the 1,736-room hotel that had no sprinklers, but Caesars Palace is in the process of installing them in the area, Dinsman said. Fire alarms and smoke detectors in the area worked, he added. "We have 10 civilian injuries -- most of these are minor -- and six firefighters are injured. One is quite serious," Dinsman said. Fire Capt. Donald Warren suffered second-degree burns and was listed in satisfactory condition in the burn unit of Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Dinsman said he did not know how many of the injured were hotel guests. Caesars World, in a statement from Los Angeles, said none of the injured was a hotel guest but declined to identify any of them. The blaze broke out just across the street from the fire-ravaged MGM Grand Hotel, where a fire last fall killed 84 people. A fire Feb. 10 at the Las Vegas Hilton killed eight persons and injured 198. Firefighters encountered heavy smoke at Caesars Palace, and "when they opened the door of the suite they were met with intense heat," Dinsman said. He added: "This is the type of fire we have all the time at these hotels -- a one-room fire. But because of the smoke spread, it could have been minor or it could have been serious." Trojan, on 1 day, shuts off After less than 24 hours of operation, the Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier automatically shut down again at 7:40 a.m. Friday because of problems in a reactor cooling pump, Portland General Electric Co. reported. PGE spokesman Bill Babcock said the plant was operating at about 35 percent capacity when technicians noticed a high temperature reading for a bearing in one of the four big cooling pumps that circulate water in the reactor. The pump's oil level also was low. Crews were reducing power to examine the situation when the plant's control equipment "tripped" and shut it down automatically, Babcock said. PGE had intentionally shut down the installation May 1 for refueling and maintenance and did not restart the reactor until Thursday. It was taken up to 35 percent of its 1,130-megawatt capacity at the rate of about 3 percent per hour in preparation for some tests required by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. But then the automatic shutdown intervened. Babcock said Trojan may be inoperable "for a few days" while crews take care of the pump. The shutdown was not expected to affect power supply to PGE customers because streamflow in the Columbia River still was providing enough hydroelectric power to meet demand, he said. PGE had not anticipated taking the plant up to full power for at least another week, he said. Babcock said Friday's incident involved no release of radiation or radioactive material. Southeast ravaged by forest fires By The Associated Press Officials in the fire-ravaged Southeast have issued stern warnings to arsonists as this year's forest fires destroyed more than a half-million acres in three states, far surpassing the total damage from fires in 1980. Fires raged Saturday in thick pine timberland, brushland and marshes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Florida and Alabama despite bans on open-air burning. Officials blamed March winds sometimes gusting to 50 mph, lack of rainfall, tinderbox-dry debris from the 1979 hurricane Frederic and arson. At least six people have been arrested on arson charges in Florida, and officials said "several arrests" were possible in connection with fires on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. "Many of these fires are arson ... around half are deliberately set," said Paul Wills of the Florida Division of Forestry. "Some are set through bad motives and some through curiosity." Despite the widespread destruction of commercial timberland valued in the millions of dollars, an industry spokesman said the fires have had little impact on the lumber business because housing starts are down. More than 205,000 acres in Alabama have burned this year, topping 1980's total of 116,000 acres. While the northeast part of the state is under a fire alert, nine counties in the south have been declared drought areas. The declaration means penalties will be imposed against open-air burning in forests, grasslands, wild lands, marshes or trash. In Florida, where rainfall has been 12 to 18 inches below normal during the past six months, nearly 272,000 acres have been lost to fire in the first 2½ months of the year, said forestry spokesman Larry Amison. === Page 97 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # U.S. sub hits, sinks Japanese ship org J 4/10/81 TOKYO (UPI) -- A U.S. nuclear submarine collided with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea, sinking the cargo ship and leaving 13 crewmen drifting in a rubber dinghy for 18 hours before their rescue by a Japanese destroyer, authorities said Friday. Two freighter crewmen are missing. The U.S. Navy said the USS George Washington, the first of the strategic Polaris missile subs, sliced into the engine room of the freighter Nissho Maru Thursday morning 110 miles southwest of Sasebo, Japan. The 2,350-ton freighter sank about 15 minutes later. The submarine, which was carrying Polaris missiles, sustained no damage to its nuclear plant or weapons systems, a U.S. Navy spokesman said. But a Pentagon spokesman said minor damage was done to the external area of the conning tower. None of the sub's crewmen were injured. The Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said two members of the freighter crew are missing. Thirteen survivors were found drifting 18 hours after the collision in a rubber dinghy 40 miles off the Japanese coast. Japanese officials said they did not know of the collision until Friday morning, nearly a day after the accident. The Japanese first received news of the freighter's sinking when the destroyer Akigumo picked up the survivors. The George Washington surfaced after the collision to offer assistance to the freighter, but "the vessel disappeared from sight due to poor visibility caused by fog and rain," a Navy statement said. U.S. aircraft operating with the submarine conducted a "low-level search of the area" after the crash but "sighted no vessels or personnel in distress," the Navy said. The submarine then submerged. The Navy refused to say where it went. "We do not discuss submarine locations," the spokesman said. The Navy statement, issued 36 hours after the accident, said American authorities "deeply regret this unfortunate incident" and that an investigation is under way. Asked why the accident was not reported immediately to Japanese authorities, a U.S. Embassy official said, "Such matters will be the subject of an investigation. "Further comments will not be appropriate at this time." Japanese officials quoted the survivors as saying they saw a black submarine surface at the rear of the ship after the collision and then dive out of sight. The George Washington was commissioned June 9, 1959, and was the West's first ship to be armed with ballistic missiles. The submarine has 16 tubes for Polaris missiles, but it was not immediately known whether it was carrying a full complement of the nuclear weapons. The sub is 381 feet long and has a normal complement of 140 crewmen -- 12 officers and 128 enlisted men. Japanese officials quoted the freighter's survivors as saying they saw a "star insignia bordered with a white line" painted on the submarine. Military experts noted that the area is one of the routes used by warships from the Soviet base at Vladivostok. The Soviet Union has 125 submarines, including 60 nuclear-powered craft, operating in the Far East, according to Western military figures. ![Map showing the collision area in the East China Sea between China, Korea, and Japan, near Kyushu and Vladivostok.] - UFOs & Projects - # Tornadoes strike BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- An estimated 7,000 residents of southeastern Louisiana were without electricity Saturday after tornadoes and high winds ripped off roofs and tore away power lines. No injuries were reported as three twisters and accompanying high winds and rains hopscotched through the area late Friday. The winds pulled the roofs from a country club at LaPlace and a bank at Walker. Gulf States Utilities reported Saturday that downed lines and other troubles stemming from the storms knocked out service to 5,800 customers in East Baton Rouge. Another 1,200 customers in other areas also were affected, said utility spokeswoman Priss Gallagher. One tornado was reported near Baton Rouge's Ryan Airport, but no damage was reported. Another tore a roof off a recent addition to the Belle Terre Country Club as 13 children and seven adults were sitting in the clubhouse. At the small Livingston Parish community of Walker, deputy sheriffs said a tornado touched down in the middle of town about 5 p.m., lifting the roof off the Livingston Savings Bank and scattering road signs. A sheriff's spokesman said the bank was closed when the twister hit. org 7/12/81 === Page 98 of 128 - 6 Projects PK - # N-plant worker dies in plunge SATSOP, Wash. (AP) -- A Satsop nuclear power project worker fell 140 feet to his death Friday while working inside the WNP-5 reactor containment building, said Dale Dobson, Washington Public Power Supply System project manager. The victim was identified as Michael H. Critchley, 41, a boilermaker from Tacoma, said WPPSS spokesman Richard Romanelli. The man was welding on the containment building's steel shell for Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Dobson said. It was the third fatality at the project within a month. Two carpenters fell to their deaths March 9 while working on the WNP-5 cooling tower. Preliminary reports indicated the man had his safety belt tied to a hook that gave way when he leaned back to perform some welding, plunging him to the bottom of the containment vessel, Dobson said. However, Romanelli said later, "Our best information now is that Critchley was doing work that did not require him to be secured with a safety belt." Romanelli said other types of work at that elevation require workers to be secured. He said Critchley apparently was on scaffolding and put his weight on a steel cable-and-post system set up for protection. Somehow, it didn't support his weight and he fell, Romanelli said. Dobson said CB&I co-workers and other craftsmen walked off the job after the fatality in respect for the worker, not in protest. Ebasco Services Inc., the construction manager at Satsop, was flying corporate safety officials to the site to launch an investigation, Dobson said. A WPPSS safety team and CB&I investigators also will probe the accident, he said. Dobson said CB&I had logged 125,000 consecutive man hours without an accident before Friday's fatality. He said the company, which is fabricating and erecting steel walls inside the two reactor buildings, staged a party for its workers last month in celebration of the good safety record. - 6 Projects PK - # Spring storms leave 5 dead By The Associated Press Severe storms Thursday killed two people in Texas and tornadoes in southeastern Missouri left three dead and did about $10 million in property damage. In Texas, a young man was killed in an auto accident on a rain-slicked San Antonio street, officials said, and a man was killed in the crash of his small plane outside Houston. In Missouri, a 10-year-old girl died early Thursday of injuries suffered Wednesday night when a tornado leveled her South Prairie house. Other Missouri tornadoes flattened a bank in DeSoto, killing a bank officer, and an elderly man died of a heart attack after a twister damaged his home in Malden. There was one tornado reported in Texas Thursday, touching down in the Magnolia Gardens housing project in Beaumont. Heavy rains flooded streets and accompanying winds and lightning tore down trees and power lines, which started several house fires. There were no reports of injuries, and damage estimates were not immediately available. The Department of Public Safety also reported extensive damage to mobile homes in Sealy, where many people suffered minor injuries. An unidentified man died when a small plane crashed during a violent thunderstorm driven by 60-mph winds, police said. No damage or injuries were reported on the ground. In San Antonio, a 19-year-old man, who also was not identified, was killed when a car in which he was a passenger skidded on a wet street, struck another vehicle and slammed into a utility pole. The storm knocked windows out of several Houston buildings and downed power lines. Traffic was snarled by high water on freeways and streets. Scaffolding and a steel beam from the 75-story Texas Commerce Tower being built in downtown Houston apparently were blown loose by high winds and fell on top of the fifth floor of an annex to the Houston Chronicle building across the street. Projects PK - THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1981 # Water leak shuts nuclear plant By MICHAEL HOLMES TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Leaking radioactive water has shut down the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, but no radiation escaped into the environment, utility officials said Tuesday. "There is no danger to employees or the public," said Roger Buehrer, spokesman for the Toledo Edison Co. He said the nuclear plant near Port Clinton was shut down Monday night and will not return to service for several weeks. The leak, located in a small tube in one of two steam generators, is less than a half gallon per minute. Although the water is radioactive, there is no danger of release of radiation in excess of Nuclear Regulatory Commission standards, Buehrer said. He said the word "leak" is almost misleading because the radioactive water is going "from one system to another." "It's not spilling onto the floor or going into the environment. It's in the system. It's being put back into a holding system." Buehrer said the leak began "almost imperceptibly several weeks ago." Toledo Edison officials decided to shut down for repairs now rather than later because electricity consumption in April usually is the lowest of the year. The company's coal-fired Bay Shore plant is expected to be back in service Sunday after six weeks of maintenance. === Page 99 of 128 # Computer failure - 6 Projects PK - # Columbia liftoff scrubbed by NASA By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Columbia, the grand hope of America's future in space, was grounded Friday for at least two days while specialists sought to find the snag in a computer program that halted the crucial, final count to lift-off on the space shuttle's trial flight. For six hours, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen were strapped into the Columbia cockpit, tilted skyward on top of 500,000 gallons of volatile fuel, waiting for the "go" command that never came. The $10-billion shuttle stood Earthbound when it should have soared. The nation, shut out of space flight for six years, had a little longer to wait. Computer trouble stopped Columbia. The countdown clock, which had been moving effortlessly to zero, stood still at 16 minutes. Instead of riding the first reflyable spaceship on its trial run, Young and Crippen crawled out of the hatch on their hands and knees, disappointment engraved on their weary faces. "It was just one of those things," Crippen said. "Y'all did real good," Young told his flight controllers. "We're sorry we didn't go." Experienced test pilots both, they didn't let the setback get them down. They talked with their families, ate dinner, and planned to be in bed by 4:30 p.m., just as they did to be rested for Friday's wake-up call. For Saturday, they scheduled two hours of flying, practicing emergency landings. Their next chance to fly the shuttle will come no earlier than Sunday morning - at 6:50 a.m. again - but officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had set no firm date. (On Portland television - if the launch proceeds - KGW plans to start live coverage Sunday starting at 3 a.m.; KATU and KOIN plan to start coverage at 3:30 a.m.) Hours after the flight was scrubbed, experts were still trying to find the hitch in a computer program that caused a backup computer to stop communicating with four primary computers. The computers control the spacecraft from liftoff to landing. Delays and postponements have always been part of the U.S. man-in-space program, and the shuttle has had more than its share. Its first flight comes two years and billions of dollars behind schedule. In the tense minutes between the launch target and the decision to scrub for the day, a Houston controller told the astronauts, "You have to excuse the delay, gentlemen; all the ducks weren't in a straight line." Said Young: "That's okay." The scrub came 3 1/2 hours after Columbia was to launch into the first of its 36 planned orbits. Later, when he followed Crippen out of the cockpit, Young plainly looked tired and discouraged. He managed only a wan half-smile. Crippen, too, as he crawled on his hands and knees out of the small opening, appeared weary. Both men had been described as eager to take the Columbia aloft and frustration showed on their faces. NASA experts isolated the problem in the program - or main set of instructions - fed into the five computers aboard the shuttle. But space center spokesman David Alter said, "That leaves 10 or 15 major test areas they still have to reach into." Another space center spokesman, Paul Bohn, said, "It could be a wrong letter or a wrong word in the program." "If we want to launch on Sunday, we'd have to have the problem well understood by late tomorrow," Neil Hutchinson, the launch team flight director at Houston, told reporters. "If we don't, it might be a while." "There are a lot of meetings going on, trying to understand the timing down to the millisecond," said Hutchinson. What was to have been the triumphant curtain-raiser on a new transportation system that would make up for America's absence in space, turned into a Friday morning fizzle. A half-million people endured miles-long lines of traffic and lost a night's sleep only to have to turn around and fight the same traffic going home again in sunny midday. Related story on Page A9. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Jumbo jet lands safely after losing all power THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1981 By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) - A United Airlines jumbo jet carrying 325 persons lost power in all four engines and dropped 13,000 feet Sunday, but each engine was restarted and the plane landed safely in Honolulu, federal and airline officials disclosed Wednesday. An investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board has interviewed the crew of the Boeing 747, but so far no reason has been found for the engine failure, said board spokesman Brad Dunbar. Each of the engines has been inspected and "found to be completely trouble-free," added FAA spokesman Fred Farrar. United officials said the airplane is back in service. They said that while the engines were out, the plane glided in a gradual descent and the passengers probably were not even aware of the problem. The incident over the Pacific Ocean about an hour east of Honolulu involved Flight 35, which was flying from Newark, N.J., to Honolulu with a stopover in San Francisco. Reports to the FAA and the safety board revealed that the Boeing 747's No. 1 engine stalled as the plane was cruising at 39,000 feet about 3:10 a.m. Honolulu time Sunday. Within seconds, the other three engines also flamed out. The crew attempted to use normal procedures for restarting engines during flight but were unsuccessful. The captain dipped the nose of the jetliner slightly to pick up speed and, using "ground-start" procedures, got the No. 1 engine started again, authorities said. A short time later, the other three engines were restarted. FAA and safety board officials could not say how long the engines were out. But United spokesman Charles Novak said in Chicago that the No. 1 engine was restarted "within seconds" and all three engines were running and stabilized in less than five minutes. The plane glided from an altitude of 39,000 feet to 26,000 feet while the engines were being restarted. Dunbar said the safety board would continue its investigation into the incident. He said the likelihood of all engines of an aircraft flaming out during flight is extremely rare and that in recent years he recalled only one other such incident, involving a jetliner flying off the Florida coast several years ago. === Page 100 of 128 - 6 Projects OK - # Shuttle shot put off 2 days Greg J 4/10/81 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- A puzzling problem in the space shuttle's vital electronic brains Friday forced a probable two-day delay in the launch of astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen on the first orbital test flight of the Columbia. Young and Crippen spent more than five hours lying uncomfortably on their backs in the shuttle's cockpit, only to learn that they will have to do it all over again. The problem concerned one of five computers in the revolutionary spaceship, the most advanced manned spaceship ever built. The pesky computer was unable to communicate with the other computers. The countdown came to within 9 minutes of blastoff at 6:50 a.m. when the computer problem developed. Hugh Harris, the launch control spokesman, said the earliest date the astronauts can take off on the shuttle's maiden test flight is 6:50 a.m. Sunday. The problem must be resolved before the ship can be cleared for takeoff. Crew fatigue was the overriding factor in the decision to call off Friday's launch try. After engineers in Houston reported "no joy" in an attempt to clear up the computer problem, launch director George Page and Richard Smith, director of the Kennedy Space Center, made the "scrub" decision. The Columbia is the world's first reusable spaceship. Its launch has been set back more than 2½ years by a variety of technical problems. Friday's problems, however, were of the kind not unexpected on a new spacecraft during the final hours of the countdown to launch. It was apparent as the morning dragged on that the astronauts were getting tired of waiting. "How are you holding out up there?" Page asked the astronauts at one point. "Just laying here, you know," replied Young, the veteran flight commander who was strapped on his back in his spacecraft seat, a position doctors have said the crew could hold for no more than six hours. "Getting uncomfortable at all?" Page asked. "We're getting there, George," Young replied after a long pause. "We're getting there." The Columbia is the first manned spaceship to rely so heavily on computers to perform critical operations. There are four redundant main computers and then the backup which could take over to perform the most critical functions if all the other units should fail. Harris said Sunday is the earliest launch date, because it takes 24 hours to clear the ship's external fuel tank before it can be filled again with more than 500,000 gallons of frigid liquid oxygen and hydrogen. The initial weather forecast for Sunday is encouraging. Air Force meteorologists said conditions similar to the excellent weather Friday are likely Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of people on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center and in surrounding areas were disappointed by the launch delay. Young, 50-year-old veteran of four spaceflights, and space rookie Crippen, 43, crawled into Columbia's two-level cabin at 4:19 a.m. after smiling and waving to spaceport workers when they left their quarters. "You wouldn't believe all the chow we have packed on this thing," Young said on a communications link to ground control center shortly after entering the spaceship's lower deck where the food is stored. - 4 F D & C Projects - # 27,000 without power in storm By United Press International Fierce thunderstorms packing 70 to 85 mph winds pushed across the southern Plains into the mid-Atlantic region, leaving about 27,000 people without electrical power. Temperatures soared past the 100-degree mark in the southwestern half of the nation. Thunderstorms continued Wednesday in Oklahoma and heavy rain poured into central North Dakota. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms fell Wednesday over the upper Mississippi Valley and northern Rockies. A mid-Atlantic thunderstorm Tuesday hit Virginia the hardest. Heavy rain poured into Oklahoma and Arkansas and scattered thunderstorms fell in southwestern Minnesota. About 27,000 people in Norfolk and Richmond, Va., were left without electrical power. Authorities reported extensive damage at Virginia Beach Junior High School, where windows were blown out and a wall collapsed. Greg J 7/24/81 - NFO "Power" Attack - Greg J 7/11/81 (A joke, but apt.) [Illustration of a woman sitting in a chair holding a paper labeled "ELECTRIC BILL" with a worried expression. A thought bubble shows a scene of fighter jets flying over a power plant labeled "POWER & LIGHT CO. NUCLEAR PLANT."] ELECTRIC BILL POWER & LIGHT CO. NUCLEAR PLANT. === Page 101 of 128 April 6, 1981 Scientists # 'Funny thing' in Forum (See page 22) # Kings oust Blazers game conference semifinal series against the Suns on Tuesday night. Kansas City is a team which has learned how to live with adversity. With 16 games left in the season, Phil Ford, who was NBA rookie of the year two years ago and started in every game last year, was sidelined with an injury to the orbital area of an eye and hasn't played since. At the time, the Kings seemed on their way to a third-straight playoff spot since Fitzsimmons took over the reins after the 1978 season. Without Ford, one of the NBA's premier guards, it didn't appear as if the Kings could make the playoffs for the third straight time -- something that hadn't happened to the franchise since it was called the Cincinnati Royals and Oscar Robertson was in mid-career in 1965. The Kings had lost their penetrator, the leader of the attack. Fitzsimmons had to regroup and slow the tempo down so that Kings could play without Ford. Early in the second period, with the Blazers leading 41-26, it appeared that the Kings wouldn't make it to Phoenix, and all the Blazer bags packed for a 5 o'clock departure from Portland Sunday afternoon would be checked through to Phoenix. "They had us on the ropes," admitted Fitzsimmons, who called timeout with his team trailing by 15 points. "We just told them no more bad passes, work the ball and get the game tight. A tight game was our game." THEN I STEPPED IN WITH Psi FORCE Two Southeast Conference products -- Reggie King (Alabama) and Ernie Grunfeld (Tennessee) -- were the key factors in the Kings' comeback. King, who scored only 25 points in the first two games, led the Kings with 28 points, 20 of them in the second half as Kansas City, which had taken its only lead of the first half with 11 seconds left at 49-48, four times opened up 12-point leads in the fourth quarter. Last night the Portland Trailblazers pro ball team had Kansas City down by 15 points and was threatening to run away with the game... so I stepped in and used psi-force to turn the game around and make certain that Portland was beaten. I have done this two years in a row. The reason for not allowing Portland to advance in the championship playoffs? Because my sons and I were humiliated on a Ch. 2 TV show in Portland. Since the Portland pro ball team is the big symbol for Portland... then I destroy the "symbol" each year. It isn't nice to double cross PK man! Owens === Page 102 of 128 # Four die as explosions demolish grain elevators CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) -- Searchers Wednesday hunted for three missing workers in the rubble of a 14-story dockside elevator, ripped by a series of fiery explosions apparently touched off by machinery sparks. Three men were known dead and 33 were injured. Several hours after the Texas elevator blasts, a grain elevator at Bellwood, Neb., exploded, killing one man and critically injuring two others. One witness compared the Texas blasts, which occurred as fine grain rolled into the elevator Tuesday, to an atomic bomb blast. Fires fed by plastic grain bags still were burning early Wednesday. Damage to the nearly gutted Corpus Christi complex, which consists of three clusters of silos and a 180-foot-high concrete control tower located beside a channel to the Gulf of Mexico, was estimated at $30 million. Four silos were blown apart and 54 of the facility's 153 silos were heavily damaged. An official of the Federal Grain Inspection Service said the facility, owned by Producers Grain Co-Op of Corpus Christi, was one of the "cleanest" in the nation and said the explosions could have been much worse if it had not been so well-maintained. Under the right conditions, an ounce of grain dust can be more explosive than an ounce of dynamite. To prevent such explosive conditions, the Texas company recently installed a dust collection system that cost about $3.5 million. Officials early Wednesday identified the three missing people as employees of the Nueces County Navigation District and a security guard. Searchers hunted for them throughout the night. Memorial Hospital identified two of the dead as Alfredo Canales, 52 and Richard Pierce, 44. The third victim, Jose Valdez, 32, died at Spohn Hospital. Thirty-three workers also were reported injured. Army and Coast Guard helicopters had to dart through smoke to airlift victims -- most suffering from burns -- to hospitals. The explosions occurred during the confusion of shift change, but the owners believed about 50 men were in the building at the time. Seven federal grain inspectors also happened to be on the scene -- within 20 yards of the source of the explosion. Six of the inspectors were hospitalized and two were in critical condition. As the grain dust exploded, heavy concrete silos crumbled to the ground and roaring fires raced through the elevator complex. Smoke was visible for miles away. Workers in an iron foundry a mile away felt the severe vibrations. "It blew one big piece of cement, about 10 to 15 feet wide and just as long, onto a nearby road," said Darrell Johnson, assistant manager of a grain terminal nearby. "It was at least 75 to 80 yards away and halfway imbedded into the blacktop." # Damage heavy -- # 8 die as storms rake Midwest By The Associated Press Fierce winds and tornadoes flipped cars and mobile homes Saturday and left behind a crazy quilt of wreckage in a half-dozen states. Eight persons died, and an estimated 125 people were injured. The National Weather Service said about 20 tornadoes and 121 severe storms were reported. Harry Gordon of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., called it "the most widespread storm system so far this spring." The storms also brought rain to the parched area. "They do some benefit, but they do some damage," Gordon said. The weather service said 11 tornadoes were sighted in Iowa, three in Wisconsin, two each in Nebraska and Kansas, and one each in Illinois and Oklahoma. Other reports said two tornadoes touched down in Missouri, and high winds also struck Indiana. Most injuries were minor, but the devastation was traumatic. "We had little children who had been cut by flying glass," said Jackie Wicklund of the West Bend, Wis., Red Cross. Three people died, and at least 50 were injured in West Bend when high winds wrecked 90 structures. The police chief estimated damage at $15 million, while the mayor estimated damage at $6 million. Three other people were killed in storm-related traffic accidents. "It's gone. There's nothing left. But the five of us are out and alive," Helen Urbaniak said of her West Bend home. A twister touched down in Calumet County, Wis., about 50 miles north of West Bend, injuring six people in a mobile home park. Rainstorms packing winds up to 90 mph lashed southwestern Illinois and parts of Missouri overnight. The storms wrecked houses, knocked out power and injured 20 people, 15 in Granite City, Ill., and five in Edwardsville. Extensive damage was reported in Edwardsville, a town of 11,000 people. Officials cordoned off the city Saturday, barring all but emergency vehicles, cleanup crews and residents. Guards were posted to prevent looting. In northwestern Illinois, some 130 cars were damaged by high winds in and around the Quad Cities Airport. Sixty houses were damaged in Milan, where police said three or four people were injured. During a thunderstorm, a 2-year-old boy from Sandyville, Iowa, was killed by a falling tree limb over the Missouri-Illinois border. Twenty-one of the 154 passengers were injured, and seven were hospitalized. The jetliner made an unscheduled landing in Chicago. In Joplin, Mo., a man was electrocuted when he touched a power line that had been downed by high winds. A friend was burned in a rescue attempt, and at least three other people were injured by high winds that raked the state. Officials said the storm system spawned at least two tornadoes in Missouri. One damaged grain storage bins, a cotton gin and a water plant in Malden, said police spokesman Vernon Earnheart. The other tornado tore the roof from a farm building in New Hampton, authorities said. Thunderstorms brought tornadoes, hail as big as golf balls, heavy rain and strong winds to Nebraska, sending temperatures plunging as much as 20 degrees in an hour Friday in Omaha -- from 73 degrees to the mid-50s. Two inches of rain fell in Milford. Many buildings were damaged or destroyed. In one case, a concrete block structure between two silos on a Lancaster County, Neb., farm was leveled except for a door frame and one tier of blocks, but the silos were untouched. Winds up to 94 mph were reported Friday in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, wrecking an airplane hangar and downing power lines. Major airports were closed briefly. # Electricity outage blackens Montreal MONTREAL (AP) -- A power station failure knocked out electricity to most of Montreal Island and nearby areas for about an hour during the morning commuter rush Wednesday. The outage affected an estimated one million electricity customers in and around this Canadian city. Hundreds of businesses were temporarily closed, and people were reported trapped for a time in downtown elevators. But authorities said the city's subway system used reserve power to get trains to the nearest station, and Dorval Airport continued normal operations with emergency power sources. === Page 103 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Fruit fly spraying plan ready By JOAN SWEENEY and TRACY WOOD LA Times-Washington Post Service LOS GATOS, Calif. -- If a last-ditch effort to get a restraining order fails Monday, the controversial aerial spraying to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly will begin just after midnight Tuesday in a heavily populated, 120-square-mile area in California's Santa Clara Valley. Although Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. originally opposed the aerial application of the insecticide malathion because of possible human health hazards, he reluctantly ordered it Friday and said that he was forced to do so by the Reagan administration. Brown acted after Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block threatened an immediate federal quarantine on California produce if the governor did not authorize the aerial spraying sought by California agricultural interests. Despite the federal concern, state officials said Sunday that Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger had refused to allow helicopters assigned to the spraying task to be based or to have use of any U.S. military bases in the area. Weinberger overruled Secretary Block and Navy officials who had given permission to base the choppers at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, state officials said. They had hoped to use the field 4 miles southeast of San Francisco for security, safety and convenience reasons. The Pentagon said Sunday that an immediate statement would be available on Weinberger's action. There has been strong opposition among some residents of the area to be sprayed -- which contains 315,000 homes and an estimated population of 787,500. Officials have reported receiving threats that the helicopters would be shot down. Asked if these threats were the reason that state officials had hoped to use Moffett Field, Jerry Scribner, deputy director of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and director of the Medfly project, said, "We aren't ignoring those threats by any means, but we aren't over-reacting to them." In announcing Weinberger's decision on the helicopters, Richard Rominger, director of the state Food and Agriculture Department, said, "He (Weinberger) had heard about the protests against the aerial applications, and he didn't want to be involved." Scribner said, "There seems to be a conflict between the secretary of agriculture and the secretary of defense." Rominger said that both he and Block had tried in vain to get Weinberger to change his mind. "He flatly refused after I argued with him for quite a long time," Rominger said. Meanwhile, a hearing was scheduled Monday morning in San Jose Superior Court on the request by Santa Clara County and several cities in the area for a temporary restraining order against the aerial spraying. A federal judge in San Francisco denied a similar request Friday. If the request is again rejected, the aerial spraying will begin at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday in the northernmost areas of the Medfly infestation that threatens California's multibillion-dollar agricultural industry. Project officials announced Sunday that the spraying area had been expanded into San Jose after maggots were found in three of the city's neighborhoods. A project spokesman said the spraying boundaries would probably expand again during the program. The first night of spraying will cover 19 square miles encompassing parts of the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. This area contains more than 100,000 homes. The choppers will move southward through the Santa Clara Valley on three succeeding nights to cover the entire infested area. The aerial applications will be repeated five times. The choppers will avoid sensitive areas such as hospitals and reservoirs, which officials said would be marked on the ground with portable searchlights and lighted balloons. The balloons - UFOs & Projects - # Huge Floods Hit China San F. Chr. 7/16/81 Beijing The heaviest rains in 32 years caused four rivers in southwest China to overflow their banks, killing or injuring 40 to 50 people, stranding hundreds of thousands and inundating nearly a million acres of farmland, officials said yesterday. The rains, accompanied by high winds that uprooted trees, began Sunday in Sichuan province, officials said. The Jialing, Fu, Tuo and Min rivers and their tributaries overflowed. Train service was interrupted by cave-ins and many highway bridges collapsed. Sichuan, with 100 million people, is China's most populous province. The official Xinhua news agency said water from the four rivers would converge today to form the greatest Yangtze River flood peak since 1949, and would threaten the Gezhouba dam, China's biggest hy-dro-engineering project, now under construction on the river. - UFOs & Projects - # U.S. units take trouncing in NATO competitions By JOHN J. FIALKA Washington Star Service 7/20/81 WASHINGTON -- Tank and bomber crews from what are supposed to be some of the most combat-ready units in the U.S. military have been beaten in several recent military competitions by their NATO counterparts. The poor U.S. showings, coming at a time when the Reagan administration's defense policy is focused on the need to buy more weapons, may offer further evidence that manpower and training problems are more critical than hardware needs. The most dismal result occurred last week, when a squadron of four U.S. B-52 bombers finished last among seven bomber squadrons competing in an annual Royal Air Force strategic bombing contest in England called "Double Top." The U.S. crews, part of a Strategic Air Command unit at Marham, England, finished 13th, 15th, 19th and 22nd among 22 bombers in the contest. They were beaten by crews of RAF Vulcans -- medium bombers which have far less sophisticated electronic equipment than the B-52H, the latest version of the B-52 used by the United States. Both bombers were first introduced in the 1950s. An Air Force spokesman admitted that the U.S. showing was the worst in the recent history of the contest, which the British have won consistently since 1976, the last time U.S. B-52 crews won it. Lt. Lou Lambert, a spokesman for SAC headquarters in Omaha, Neb., said SAC officials "have not yet analyzed why we did so poorly." An RAF source, who asked not to be identified, said the British fliers were stunned by the low U.S. showing. "Technically the B-52 should come out better," he said. "They have more redundancy, better avionics. The edge is the experience of our operators." The contest consisted of a series of low-level bombing runs under the same conditions and in the same Northern European environment that the B-52s would confront in their primary wartime missions. In a second major military competition, U.S. tank crews drawn from the 3rd Armored Division were beaten by units from Belgium and West Germany in the Canadian Army Trophy Competition, a tank shooting and maneuvering contest held in Germany in June. U.S. tankers, who have never won the contest since they first entered in 1977, finished 5,000 points behind the winning West German unit, 1,300 points behind the Belgians and barely 300 points ahead of teams from Canada and Great Britain. === Page 104 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 10 perish in vast heat wave 7/15/81 By United Press International Cooling rainstorms lingered Wednesday over the northern Plains but offered little hope of quenching a sizzling heat wave from Nebraska to Florida. At least 10 deaths were blamed on the heat, including a baby whose temperature rose to 109. More than a half-foot of rain and wind up to 63 mph lashed the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska Tuesday, dropping temperatures into the 90s. Only minor storm damage was reported. Remnants of the storms persisted Wednesday. But the mercury soared past the century mark in southern Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma into Georgia and northern Florida. Forecasters said the hot weather will last through Friday. At least 10 heat-related deaths were reported in the last four days of blistering temperatures and high humidity in Iowa. Five of the dead were elderly. The latest victims were 20-month-old Floyd Holmes Jr., Robert E. Bonstrom, 60, and John Kemach, 88, all of Des Moines. Bonstrom was found dead in his home Tuesday, officials said. Wednesday's edition of the Des Moines Register reported that two other elderly persons died from the heat Sunday. Bonstrom's death appeared to be heat-related, officials said, noting that there was no fan or air conditioner in the man's home -- where the temperature was about 95 degrees. The baby, who was found "unresponsive" in his crib Tuesday, had a body temperature of 109 degrees. Medical authorities tentatively blamed his death on heat stroke. Health officials advised older people to stay in air-conditioned areas. About 200 donated fans have been distributed to elderly and handicapped residents in Des Moines this week. Since Saturday, temperatures have peaked in the mid-90s across Iowa, with some locations reporting highs in the lower 100s. Humidity has been as high as 85 percent. Savannah, Ga., recorded 103 degrees, breaking the record of 101 degrees set in 1951. Jacksonville, Fla., hit the 102-degree mark and Daytona Beach, Fla., broke a 1946 record with a reading of 99 degrees. Fierce winds and rain swept the upper Plains. In Omaha, Neb., Warren Anderson, 11, suffered two broken legs and head cuts when he was pinned under a huge limb that fell from a tree near his home as a thunderstorm pushed through the city. He was pinned under the limb for 10 minutes before he was freed. Anderson and two other boys were playing in the street under the tree when high winds toppled two limbs. Anderson was taken to a hospital where he was listed in serious condition. In Plattsmouth, Neb., heavy rain triggered street flooding and wind knocked down power lines. Power outages were reported throughout the city of about 6,400. The basement wall of a home collapsed and at least four homes were damaged by falling trees. Many windows were broken by hail. "It's been a real zoo," said Connie Mossey, a police dispatcher. Wind damaged garages attached to two homes in Utica, Neb. - UFOs & Projects - THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1981 # N-plant shut down fifth time CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- The Crystal River nuclear power plant has been shut down for the fifth time this year, this time after a cooling fan and its backup both malfunctioned, Florida Power Corp. officials said Wednesday. The huge 825-megawatt unit was pulled out of service late Tuesday. It is expected to be out of service for 10 days to two weeks while the fans are repaired, said Larry Shriner, spokesman for the St. Petersburg-based utility. The 36-inch fans are used to cool essential cables and wiring in the reactor cavity -- an area between the reactor vessel and an inner shield wall in the containment building. No damage to the reactor was reported and no radiation release was detected, Shriner said. The first fan malfunctioned Monday and technicians switched to the backup, Shriner said. That fan malfunctioned Tuesday, the temperature went from a normal 120 degrees to 250 and a shut-down was ordered. "Too high a temperature from a lack of air flow could cause damage to the nuclear instrumentation system," Shriner said. The plant, which helps supply electricity to 805,000 customers, was taken off line in mid-February because of deteriorating pump seals. A few weeks later, a worker accidentally tripped an emergency signal that caused a shutdown. Later, a nut in the reactor core broke loose and set off an alarm system, again forcing a shutdown. And two weeks ago, lightning struck an electrical switching yard nearby, forcing the plant out of service. The fans were made by Babcock & Wilcox, which designed the Crystal River plant as well as the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa., that was damaged in 1979 in the nation's worst commercial nuclear power accident. - UFOs & Projects - # Navy Fires Live Missile Accidentally Norfolk, Va. A live conventional missile was accidentally launched from a Navy destroyer toward the Caribbean resort island of St. Croix but apparently dropped harmlessly into the sea, the Navy announced yesterday. A Navy spokesman said the Harpoon missile, containing 215 pounds of "high explosive," was launched from its pad aboard the Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer Coontz Tuesday and disappeared without a trace. He said the Coontz tracked the missile on radar until it disappeared over the horizon. Lieutenant Commander Ken Pease said the missile "was programmed to detonate on impact. When it hit the sea, it would go off." Pease said the island of St. Croix was in the missile's trajectory and within its 60 nautical-mile range, but an "exhaustive search" turned up nothing to indicate it hit the island or any vessels. The Coontz, which was participating in exercises with 18 other ships, was about 50 miles southwest of St. Croix when the incident occurred. The Harpoon is programmed to find and destroy enemy ships. Navy officials said a target distance is set in its computer and it seeks the target on its own. Pease said he did not know how the Harpoon was fired, but noted it took place during routine maintenance preparatory to a test-firing Sunday. 7/16/81 === Page 105 of 128 - UFOs & Projects (This plague by the Egyptians as power as with Moses) # Disaster status sought as flies spread By LORETTA NOFFSINGER LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. asked President Reagan to declare three California counties a federal disaster area Wednesday, saying a spreading infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies is out of control. Brown's announcement came as officials learned that an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies had spread closer to rich California farm lands while efforts to destroy it by spraying pesticide from the air fell further behind schedule. "The increased magnitude of the infestation constitutes a disaster which is now beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the state and local counties, Brown told Reagan in a letter released Wednesday night. "California faces the threat of an economic disaster of unprecedented proportions by the virtual shutdown of the state's $14 billion agriculture industry by federal order," Brown added, referring to threats of a federal quarantine on California produce by the Reagan administration. Officials of a joint state, federal and local eradication program had expected to spray 45 square miles with the pesticide malathion by early Wednesday. But after two nights of spraying, only 7½ square miles had been covered with the sticky mist while the area known to be infested by the Mediterranean fruit fly grew by twice that much. Aerial spraying of malathion, a commonly used backyard pesticide, began in the hopes of halting the medfly in the residential neighborhoods of the Santa Clara Valley, south of San Francisco. Some agriculture officials have predicted doom for the state's $14 billion farming industry, which produces half the nation's fruit and vegetables, if the medfly spreads to nearby commercial farm areas and southeast to the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Brown said the quarantine of the three infested counties he is asking disaster funds for already has affected 11,000 farms, ranches and businesses at a loss of $4.2 million. Designation as a federal disaster area would make low-interest loans available to people, businesses and local governments that suffer losses because of the infestation and the fight against it. A spokesman in Washington said Wednesday that the White House had not yet received Brown's letter and had not been contacted by Brown on the request. The battle against the medfly began 13 months ago when the fruit flies were found in neighborhoods lush with peach, plum, orange, apricot, lemon and other fruit trees. More than $23 million has been spent in the unsuccessful attempt to wipe out the medfly, which officials think was imported here from Hawaii. The eradication effort received a setback Tuesday when an outbreak was discovered in Milpitas, a community to the east of the previous 129-square mile infested area. At a news conference Wednesday, project director Jerry Scribner said the Milpitas area had been added to the total spraying area. The new area is more than twice the size of the 7½-square-mile area sprayed by helicopter Tuesday and Wednesday, Scribner said, although the exact size was not known. The discovery raised fears that the pest had spread far beyond the original boundaries of the infested area. Scribner was particularly concerned because the newly discovered larvae were at least two miles apart. "It is disheartening in terms of the additional area that must now be included," he said. He said the spraying program was behind schedule because there was not enough time to prepare. In addition, mechanical problems have cut into the scheduled helicopter force. But Scribner was optimistic that the ground lost since early Tuesday, when the spraying began, would be made up. org 7/16/81 - UFOs & Projects # Fire destroys cable at Grand Coulee Dam GRAND COULEE, Wash. (AP) -- Fire broke out early Monday in an oil-filled, high-voltage cable tunnel that serves a generator at Grand Coulee Dam, the world's largest power producing dam, a Bureau of Reclamation official said. Nine cables that carry electricity to the dam's switchyard were destroyed, said bureau public affairs officer Craig Sprankle. The fire was believed to have started in a cable carrying oil to cool high-voltage cables, Sprankle said. The power unit was shut down while firefighters from the bureau's plant-protection unit and volunteers from nearby communities battled the smoky fire with water and foam, he said. "We can't get into the tunnel, but we can see when the flames are beat back, and we can see that nine cables have been destroyed in the upper end," he said of the mile-long tunnel. Sprankle said no power was lost because of the fire, although the capability to generate power was cut. He said the Bonneville Power Administration, which buys electricity from the dam's generators, switched to the Snake River dam system for the roughly 1,900 megawatts that the fire shut off. "What happens is that all the power goes into one big pool. When the fire started, the BPA threw a switch and power from the Snake River system entered that pool to make up the difference," he said. Damage could not immediately be assessed, Sprankle said. "They noticed smoke coming out of the tunnel about 1:45 a.m., and we've been up there fighting it ever since. We're trying to keep a concrete wall divider cooled down to prevent the smoke from spreading into another cable tunnel," he said before the fire was contained about noon. The gigantic concrete structure on the banks of the Columbia River produces 6,200 megawatts and has six of the largest electrical generators in the world. org 7/21/81 === Page 106 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects (2) Oregon Journal, July 21, 1981 # Midwest storms injure over 30 By United Press International Flash flood watches were issued Tuesday from Missouri to Pennsylvania, where sudden cloudbursts, winds up to 77 mph and a half dozen tornadoes snapped power lines, flooded streets and injured more than 30 people. The storms first whipped through Missouri and Illinois, leaving 25 people injured Monday in the St. Louis area and eight others hurt in Illinois. A tornado plowed through a mobile home park in suburban Tulsa, Okla., later Monday, overturning a dozen trailers and injuring several people. Power outages triggered by the storms left more than 107,500 people without electricity in Missouri and Maryland. The storm reached into Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Maryland late Monday and early Tuesday. A flash flood watch was issued for western Pennsylvania. Two rivers in central Missouri, inundated by rain the past two days, were above flood stage and rising. A fierce rainstorm rolled into Baltimore Monday, dumping a half-inch of rain in 20 minutes and knocking out power to about 7,500 people in the northwest section of Washington, D.C., and Prince George's and Montgomery counties. Thunderstorms and winds up to 63 mph battered western Pennsylvania, ripping roofs off two buildings, damaging several homes and downing power and telephone lines in a widespread area. In Wisconsin, minor street flooding was reported in Milwaukee and several twisters touched down near Oshkosh in Fond du Lac County. Charles Budnick said he grabbed his 1-year-old daughter, Chloe, and ran when a tornado flattened his barn. "I had just finished doing the dishes when all of a sudden I heard a loud sound of wind. I ran to the back of the trailer, grabbed my baby, ran outside and was going to run to the milk house (in the barn), but then I looked up and saw this funnel cloud bouncing up and down on top of the barn," Budnick said. "I then ran across the street and laid in the ditch covering my baby. It (the tornado) was long and narrow ... God it was spooky." - UFOs 6 Projects - # Fires consume rangeland By The Associated Press oreg 7/27/81 Fires sparked by lightning consumed about 79,500 acres of rangeland and juniper and aspen trees Sunday in what fire officials said was the worst rash of blazes in Utah in years. Four houses also were destroyed in the fires. The two biggest blazes were burning out of control near the western Utah community of Oak City, and officials feared the two might merge and threaten more property. In Idaho, Bureau of Land Management crews controlled an 87,000-acre range fire near Shoshone late Saturday. The blaze was the largest in Idaho this year. # Blast rocks propane plant ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- An explosion early Sunday destroyed a building where propane gas is produced, forcing a temporary evacuation of the area and leaving 700 customers without gas, authorities said. A railroad tank car holding 300,000 gallons of liquid propane behind the building and two tanks with 45,000 gallons were undamaged, but another tank filled with vapors buckled. If any of the cars or tanks had exploded, they would have destroyed all buildings on the street and threatened the business district about two blocks away, Fire Chief Jerald Fournier said. - UFOs 6 Projects - # 10 hurt, 3,000 flee in Utah propane fire MOAB, Utah (UPI) -- A bolt of lightning triggered an explosion at a giant underground propane reservoir Saturday, shooting flames 100 feet into the sky, seriously burning 10 people and forcing 3,000 others to flee a 10-square-mile area for four hours. Firefighters spent hours after the blast late Friday hosing down burning surface pipes and small tanks atop the reservoir to prevent fire from spreading into the reservoir itself and igniting the 5 million gallons of stored propane. "It's (the fire is) just about out now," Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland said at about 4 a.m. MDT. "We don't think there's any danger anymore so we're going to let people go back home." The Moab Police Department had evacuated a 10-square-mile business and residential area at midnight near the natural salt formation reservoir because officials had warned that if the main reserve of propane ignited "it could take everything within a mile-and-a-half radius with it," Grand County Sheriff's Sgt. John Meacham said. Nyland said propane pipelines feeding into the main reservoir had been shut to prevent further spread of the fire and officials would let the fires still blazing on a couple of 30,000-gallon propane surface tanks burns themselves out. Police said eight of the injured were tourists camping at a recreational camp ground separated from the reservoir by a fence. The other two were workers at the propane storage facility. Hospital officials said all ten were in "critical to serious" condition. "The trailers and the cars that were parked right next to the fence were just totally destroyed," one police official said. oreg 8/1/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # U.S. loses control of mine WASHINGTON (UPI) -- With the help of a French oil company, Canada has wrested control of one of the world's richest mines away from the United States over U.S. government objections. The development was part of a $3 billion acquisition of Texasgulf Inc., a major U.S. minerals and oil firm, announced Tuesday by the French-government controlled Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine, one of the world's 10 largest oil companies. As part of the deal, the Canada Development Co., which owns 37 percent of Texasgulf, will trade its shares for the Kidd Creek Mine, discovered and developed in the mid-1960s by Texasgulf as a major zinc, copper, silver, lead and cadmium mine. The mine is located on 110,000 acres near Timmins, Ontario. Its 1980 production was 4.3 million tons of rich ore. The U.S. government made a futile attempt to block the takeover two weeks ago when the Committee on Foreign Investment, headed by the Treasury Department, asked Elf Aquitaine and the Canadian company to put off attempts to buy Texasgulf stock. The firms refused. oreg 7/29/81 === Page 107 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects - Tornadoes rip Plains states United Press International Thunderstorms that battered the northern Plains with tornadoes, hail and winds up to 75 mph whipped across the region again Monday. There were no reports of severe damage or injury. Thunderstorms persisted over southeastern Montana and the western Dakotas Monday. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for most of South Dakota through the morning. Hail 2 inches in diameter pounded Billings, Mont., Sunday and winds up to 75 mph were recorded at Medora, N.D. Tornadoes struck Shelby and Hardin, Mont., and several twisters hit Minnesota. Another tornado was reported in south central New Mexico. The tornadoes knocked down trees and power lines in Red Lake, Minn. The storm also knocked out power for a brief time, and marble-sized hail shattered several business windows. Rainstorms also stretched from Arkansas to Michigan and over South Carolina. Storms in Arkansas Sunday dropped up to 2 inches of rain in one hour. 8/3/81 - UFO 6 Projects - Flood, snow kill 12 in Europe 7/23/81 VIENNA, Austria (UPI) - The Danube River, swollen by some of the heaviest rains in 124 years, flooded highways and rail lines and left provincial towns accessible only by boat Thursday although the high water was reported receding. The torrential rains coupled with a freak summer snowstorm left 12 people dead in eastern and western Europe. Floodwaters blocked the main highway and a railroad line along the Danube's right bank and traffic had to be re-routed because the river rose over the emergency level of 24 feet, officials said. But officials said the danger of a new crisis appeared over with an end to the heavy rains earlier in the week. A few villages along the Danube could be reached only by boat because of flooding in provincial areas of Austria. "We have had the heaviest rainfalls since 1857 in the past four days," an Austrian government official said. "The damage done by the floods cannot yet be estimated, but it will certainly run into millions of dollars." Four people were reported drowned in the Danube as a result of the flooding. In West Germany, four people, including a 2-year-old girl, were reported drowned in floods. Three mountaineers were found frozen to death in a remote hut blocked by avalanches in the high Alps of France. In Czechoslovakia, one person was drowned in the floods of the Vltava River in the western outskirts of Prague during rescue actions, the CTK news agency said. "Hundreds of houses had to be evacuated along the Elbe River that flooded large parts of the rural area near the town of Melnik in central Bohemia," CTK said. Floods on the Danube from Germany threatened Austria. - UFO 6 Projects - California steps up war on Medfly 7/25/81 LOS GATOS, Calif. (UPI) - California, target of quarantines by other states fearing spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly, is intensifying its attack on the destructive pest. Ground stripping of fruits and vegetables was expanded Friday to more than 900 square miles, including 26 cities. Officials said a 500-member "police force" of civilians and state workers will go door-to-door to enforce a massive stripping order issued to 1 million residents of the Santa Clara Valley. In Washington, D.C., five states told the U.S. Supreme Court that their quarantines against California produce are necessary to protect public health and local agriculture. The arguments were in response to California's challenge to the blockade of fruits and vegetables the states imposed to prevent the spread of the fruit fly. California earlier in the week asked the high court to stop Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina from "prohibiting or restricting the movement" of its fruits and vegetables. Trucks carrying California produce have been turned back at roadblocks in several states. California officials told the court that the states' restrictions are more severe than necessary. They also maintained that because the infestation is confined to three counties, the regulations are unnecessary because most produce being shipped is grown in other areas of the state. In the Santa Clara Valley, south of San Francisco, aerial spraying of malathion in the $53 million war to destroy the pest was increased to include 227 square miles of the three-county quarantined area where 161 nests of larvae have been found in such fruits as apricots, peaches and apples. Stripping of all fruit, originally ordered by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. July 1, was complied with only partially, prompting the stricter enforcement, officials of the eradication project said. The world - UFO 6 Projects - Floods hit in England LONDON (AP) - A line of violent thunderstorms swept across Britain Thursday, triggering widespread flooding but bringing some relief from the hottest weather of the summer. In the northwest industrial center of Manchester, where 3 1/2 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, a landslide damaged a major suburban highway. Other flooding was reported in Staffordshire and Cheshire, where a police officer said: "It has been almost like a monsoon for three hours. The drains could not cope." In London, floodwaters shorted out sections of the city's subway system, and the Blackwall tunnel under the River Thames was closed for a time. The black storm clouds were so dense that the capital's streets at noon were as dark as night. At Heathrow airport, a ground technician was knocked to the runway by lightning. His ears were singed, but he was otherwise unhurt, an airport spokesman said. 8/7/81 === Page 108 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Iranians say thousands may be dead in quake Oreg 7/30/81 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- At least 700 people were killed in southeastern Iran's second earthquake in six weeks, and the final death toll could be between 3,000 and 4,000, Iranian officials said Wednesday. First reports listed 700 people dead and 440 injured in the quake that struck Kerman province Tuesday night, and "efforts to recover the bodies of other victims are continuing," Tehran radio said. Abdolhossein Sayeh, governor-general of the province, told Iran's official Pars news agency that the final death toll from the quake could be between 3,000 and 4,000. He said that as many as 90 percent of the houses were demolished in some villages. Pars said rescue squads immediately started digging bodies and survivors from the ruins and evacuating the injured to emergency field hospitals set up at Kerman, the provincial capital. Helicopters were being used to fly in rescue teams and evacuate hundreds of wounded because the earthquake blocked mountain roads. A Pars correspondent reporting from the area said terrified people rushed into the streets when the first tremors struck, shouting "Allah Akbar" -- "God is great" -- and kneeling down to pray. The stricken area is less than 50 miles from the village of Goldbagh, flattened by a June 11 quake that killed 1,000 and injured 1,500 others. The Tehran Seismological Institute said the latest quake measured between 6.7 and 7 on the Richter scale. # The world - UFOs & Projects - ## Mexico shaken MEXICO CITY (AP) -- An earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Mexico's Pacific Coast near the resort of Zihuatanejo Saturday night and rocked buildings in this capital more than 200 miles away, authorities said. No injuries or deaths were reported. A spokesman for the Tacubaya Seismological Center in Mexico City said the epicenter of the tremor was 217 miles southwest of the capital. It struck near the mouth of the Rio Balsas in the state of Guerrero, close to the industrial port of Lazaro Cardenas, the spokesman said. ## India floods take 41 lives NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Flash floods killed 41 people Sunday in Rajasthan, raising the 10-day toll of flood-related deaths in the northwestern state to more than 1,000, United News of India reported. The agency quoted local officials as saying floods in the Chaksu region, 155 miles southwest of New Delhi, destroyed 40 villages and killed more than 400 residents during the past three days. Army troops and government workers rescued nearly 7,000 marooned people Sunday, UNI said. Oreg 7/27/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Thunderstorms, twisters hit eastern U.S.; 5 hurt By United Press International Powerful thunderstorms carrying 60 to 70 mph wind hurled tornadoes into southeast Ohio and Virginia Tuesday. Five people, including two children, were injured. The storms left more than 3,000 Missouri residents without electrical power and gully-washing rains forced residents from flooded homes in Oklahoma and Indiana. A severe-thunderstorm watch was posted late Tuesday over eastern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay. A tornado hit both sides of the Ohio River at St. Marys, W. Va., and Newport, Ohio. The tornado ripped through four house trailers in a wooded area near Newport Township, Ohio -- injuring five people. Oreg 7/29/81 A Coast Guard helicopter plucked three persons from a sinking sailboat in Canadian waters of rainswept Lake Erie. The three, all identified as residents of Lorian, Ohio, were in good condition, authorities said. A tornado also touched down in Chantilly, Va. No injuries were reported. Strong 60 mph wind blasted Vienna, Va., and 70 mph gusts were clocked at Staunton, Va., and Hickory, N.C. Heavy rain in Hobbs, N.M., flooded streets and some houses and businesses, causing dozens of cars to stall. National Guard troops were placed on standby to assist in possible evacuations, said Joe Harvey, city manager. Storms dumped up to 8 inches of rain on northeast Kansas and Missouri Monday, flooding several highways and roads and forcing at least one family from its home near Brown Grove, Kan. Backed-up rain water triggered the collapse of a 100-foot section of a concrete block basement wall at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant at Topeka. There were no injuries. - UFOs & Projects - Oreg 7/28/81 By United Press International More than 6 inches of rain drenched the Midwest and East, stranding thousands of New York commuters and forcing 150 Missouri residents to flee the Salt River, swollen above flood stage Tuesday by a planned release of floodwaters. The violent thunderstorms, part of the same system that swirled across the Midlands during the weekend, brought gray skies and cool temperatures to the northern half of the nation. Heavy rain persisted from Texas to Indiana, where flash flood watches were posted through early Tuesday. In northeast Missouri, floodwaters that had backed up behind a temporary dam protecting the Clarence Cannon dam project coursed down the Salt River Monday, flooding fields and threatening homes and businesses. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the floodwaters to save the dam project by cutting a 400-foot-wide notch in the cofferdam. Officials went door-to-door warning about 150 people to leave their homes and farms in the path of the swollen river. The river was expected to rise 13 feet above flood stage at New London, Mo., Tuesday and even higher if more rain falls. "The only thing we know for sure is that it will go above 32 feet at New London," said Mel Doernhoefer, spokesman for the corps. "It depends on what kind of rain we get." Bob Mount, president of Airmasters Sheet Metal Inc. in New London, evacuated much of his equipment. "We expect to be in 5 feet of water when it is all over," he said. "It's going to be one heck of a cleanup." The floodwater release was expected to set construction back about a year on the $254 million project. === Page 109 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # 5,000 feared dead as Iranian quake flattens villages ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- A powerful earthquake rumbled through Iran's southeastern Kerman province, killing at least 700 people and injuring 400 others, Tehran Radio said Wednesday. The area's governor said the toll could go to 5,000. The quake, measuring 7.3 on the open-ended Richter scale, was centered in the Anduhjerd region, 520 miles southeast of Tehran and 35 miles from the city of Kerman, the provincial capital, Pars news agency said. Tehran Radio, stressing its death toll of 700 was based on the first report from the area, said at least 40 deaths and 400 injured were in Kerman city. Kerman Governor-General Abdolhossein Saveh told Pars "4,000 to 5,000 people are predicted to have lost their lives" in the Tuesday evening quake. He did not elaborate on the estimate. The quake rocked the area at 8.53 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after Moslem residents of the area broke their Ramadan fast. It rumbled through and flattened villages in the Anduhjerd, Shahdad and Golbaf regions. "About 90 percent of the area has been destroyed and a great deal of casualties have been inflicted," Pars said. It said roads in the area were blocked and officials are trying to open them to speed rescue operations. Doctors were flown to the area to aid stricken residents, it added. Pars said rescue helicopters had trouble reaching the affected villages because of the height of the mountains in the region, but that a team of doctors had gotten to Kerman. The U.S. Geological Survey in Washington said the quake measured 7.3 on the Richter scale. At least 3,000 people died when another quake struck the area June 11. Another 7.7 Richter quake in 1978 at Tabas, north of the Kerman region, killed more than 15,000 people. Pars said three days of mourning have been declared for the victims of the latest disaster. oreg J 7/29/81 Note: The Egyptian Power (helping my UFOs) is causing fires and explosions like this all over the U.S. & overseas. - UFOs & Projects - # Blast kills 5, levels building GRANTSVILLE, Utah (AP) -- A pre-dawn blast turned an explosives manufacturing plant into a fireball Thursday, leveling the concrete building and leaving "not a trace" of the five people working inside, officials said. A federal investigator said the blast may have been sparked by lightning or a mechanical malfunction. Another blast was averted after workers capped a leak in a 10,000-gallon tank of flammable material. "If all the people were in the plant -- five -- we can only assume they are all dead," said Tooele County Sheriff Walt Shubert. The concrete building was "blown away" shortly after 4 a.m. MDT by the first in a series of blasts, Shubert said. "There is just a hole in the ground" 35 feet deep where the plant was, he added. As fire from the first blast at the Mining Services International plant spread to containers of solid and plastic explosives, at least two other explosions occurred, officials said. "It's highly speculative at this point, but apparently some spark or some sudden shock set it off," Nicholas Dereta, resident agent for the Salt Lake City office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said Thursday afternoon. "It could have been a bolt of lightning striking the area -- that would have been enough of a shock to cause the explosives to detonate. It could have been some kind of machinery shorted." He said investigators had determined the center of the blast was in an area near the plant's holding tank, where explosives are stored in a semi-liquid form before packaging or further processing. The federal agency's investigation by three field agents and a support staff of three could take up to 10 days, Dereta said. Even then, investigators may never pinpoint the exact cause of the blast. "There are just too many variables and not much to go on when all you've got left is a ... crater. I'm not sure we'll be able to pinpoint exactly what happened," he said. Debris from the 4,000-square-foot building rocketed three-quarters of a mile in all directions, and there was "not a trace" of human remains in the wreckage, Shubert said. oreg J 7/31/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Generator fire to curb NW power By United Press International A cable fire that knocked out power production in three Grand Coulee Dam generators Monday will have an reduce federal power deliveries to California and Pacific Northwest utilities, a Bonneville Power Administration spokesman said. Gene Tollefson said before the fire broke out BPA "was running a heavy generation schedule," sending 3.8 million average kilowatts of power from the Columbia River system to California and 2 million to private Northwest utilities. He said this distribution of non-firm power was because of the availability of surplus water. Idle generators in federal Snake River dams were started up to replace the 1.9 million average kilowatts lost because of the Grand Coulee fire. "However, we can't do that for long -- only for a matter of hours," said Tollefson. He explained that operating more Snake River generators reduces the supply of water in the dams' reservoirs. "It is only a makeshift measure to carry out our schedules" of power deliveries, he said. A cutoff in this non-firm power deliveries to California and Northwest private power companies was likely in the near future, Tollefson said. He said because of the fire water from Grand Coulee reservoir was spilled over the dam at the rate of 90,000 cubic feet per second rather than going through the turbines. "We were planning on curtailing non-firm deliveries in any event because of the (forthcoming) lack of water and, at the same time, because of lack of water, thermal power plants like the Trojan nuclear plant (near Rainier) were being brought back" into production, Tollefson said. oreg J 7/21/81 === Page 110 of 128 SIs have begun their attack on U.S. economy. # jack anderson # Gold cheating bared **org 7/30/81** WASHINGTON -- With a minimum of publicity, Treasury agents have raided coin dealers in several U.S. cities and have seized fake gold Krugerrand coins. In Houston, for example, the costly counterfeits were so well minted that they even fooled jewelers. Most of the bogus coins were forged from lead and painted with gold. The forgers sought to capitalize on the public's covetous interest in almost anything that glitters. This raises a question that goes beyond petty scams: Could big-time criminals, with the right connections, tamper with the gold ingots in international commerce? In an earlier report, I revealed that ingots, certified as 99.9 percent pure, had been found by a variety of assayers to contain traces of silver, nitrate, copper, zinc, iron and other elements. The impurities would make a difference in value of thousands of dollars in a 1,000-ounce gold bar. The allegedly diluted ingots came from Engelhard Industries, one of the giants in the bullion business, whose spokesman said he was "shocked" at the discovery. If this should be at all typical of the ingots locked in the nation's bank vaults, the enormity of the scandal would be beyond normal newspaper adjectives. "We can make mistakes in other areas," said Engelhard's vice president, Joe Feldstein, "but in this case, we have to be purer than Caesar's wife." This raises still another question: Who oversees the purity of the precious metal that is traded on the open market? The disturbing answer is that the testing is controlled by a tight little cartel of bankers and refiners. They are loath to let the sunlight into their boardrooms or to change their archaic procedures, even when confronted with evidence of slipshodness. The only real test for purity is to drill holes in the ingots and analyze the shavings. But the refiners and bankers have successfully fought this procedure, arguing that it would damage the bars. The ASTM standard calls for holes in specified locations to chemistry of sample ingots. Spokesmen for the society acknowledge that the standards aren't designed to "prevent fraud" but merely to "facilitate commerce." But an ASTM insider told my society officials he could produce a gold bar loaded with impurities which would pass the standard. The hole-drilling, say critics, is an antiquated and inadequate method of preventing gold tampering. Some critics contend it is no more effective than the crude assaying method that the Greek scientist Archimedes discovered 2,200 years ago. He became so excited watching water overflow at a public bathhouse, according to legend, that he ran home without his clothes, shouting "I have found it!" What he had found was that some metals, being more dense than others, displace more water. He applied the lesson of the bathhouse to prove that his king's crown wasn't pure gold, but was flawed with alloyed silver. Far more than a king's crown is at stake in today's burgeoning gold market. Yet, incredibly, no one seems concerned about the ineffective testing standards. Officials of the Commodity Exchange, the gold trading market, appear indifferent to the possibility that bullion they are offering may contain impurities. And federal bureaucrats, who will raise a ruckus over the size of the paper used for letter writing, are not disturbed over the industry's testing methods. Wrote an official of the U.S. Mint: "We're not in the business of certifying or recognizing assayers or assaying techniques." In fact, the Mint referred inquiries back to the industry-dominated group which referred inquiries back to the Mint. **UFOs & Projects** **org 7/21/81** United Press International GERMAN FLOODS -- A West German soldier paddles an inflatable rubber boat around the village of Wasserburg, Monday to inspect damage caused by the worst floods in the Inn Valley since 1899. The valley flooded following a heavy downpour. Associated Press Laserphoto ROCKET EXPLODES -- Disaster strikes Thursday rocket engine test planned by Space Services Inc. on Matagorda Island, Texas, as rocket exploded, causing a brief unplanned launch. **Type PK + UFOs & Projects** # Test explosion setback to firm LA Times-Washington Post Service MATAGORDA ISLAND, Texas -- The first private rocket designed to orbit the Earth blew into four pieces on the launch pad at the south end of Matagorda Island Wednesday, sending debris more than 500 feet in the air but injuring no one. Charlie Chafer, a spokesman for Space Services Inc. of Houston, which owned the rocket, said: "No cows, no alligators, no whooping cranes, no people are hurt. All I can say is: Welcome to the rocket business." It was a severe setback for the group of Texas entrepreneurs who hope to send the first commercial rocket into space. Chafer said the explosion will cost the firm $1.2 million and set back the fledgling rocket venture at least six months. "But we aren't going to stop. This is pretty damned exciting," he said. The explosion occurred at the end of a five-second test designed to determine whether the thrust from the engines would be adequate for a flight, scheduled Aug. 12. **org 8/7/81** === Page 111 of 128 400 miles Caspian Sea Tabriz Tehran IRAN Kerman Province IRAQ KUWAIT Persian Gulf SAUDI ARABIA Midwest storms claim three lives By United Press International Thunderous rainstorms that dropped nearly 6 inches of rain and hurled tornadoes across the Midlands pushed rivers near flood stage from Texas to Indiana Monday. At least three people drowned in the weekend storms and eight others were missing in the water. More than 1 1/2 inches of rain within two hours forced closure of a 10-mile stretch of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. Heavy rains also caused flooding in the New York subway system, and lightning knocked out rush-hour train service for 60,000 commuters from New Jersey. A flash flood warning was issued for northern Indiana, where Bowmen Creek spilled its banks near South Bend on Sunday. A flash flood watch also was posted in Texas over the lower Rio Grande Valley, south-central areas and the coastal bend. A wall of water up to 8 feet high crashed through a canyon filled with swimmers and campers east of Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, sweeping away as many as eight people. The body of one drowning victim was recovered, and about 20 people were rescued by helicopter. The search for victims was suspended late Sunday and was to resume Monday. Sheriff's Lt. Vincent Becerra said it had rained hard about 12 miles north and east of the canyon, but not in the camping area so the people were not expecting a flood. "Reports vary from 6 to 8 feet, a wall of water that came rushing down and caught the people by surprise," Becerra said. An Elkhart, Ind., firefighter and a man he was trying to rescue drowned in a rain-flooded drainage ditch Sunday. Two other men swept into the culvert were rescued from a drainage pond a block away. Thunderstorms and tornadoes rolled across northern Indiana late Saturday and Sunday, washing out two bridges near South Bend and damaging roofs and cars west of Lafayette. Goshen received nearly 6 inches of rain. More than 5 inches of rain soaked Kansas, closing at least one highway and a bridge and swirling floodwaters over streets. Heavy rain swamped three counties east and south of Pittsburgh, Pa., Sunday. Further south, more than 2 inches of rain hit Charleston, S.C., and 3.1 inches of rain fell at Waynesboro, Ga. Tornadoes were reported in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and West Virginia. Winds subsided in Utah, allowing crews to make some headway in curbing 60,000 lightning-sparked fires that charred two mountain communities near Oak City, a Mormon community of 425 people. Firefighters controlled a 7,000-acre fire west of the Great Salt Lake and were cutting a circle around an 11,800-acre blaze on Promontory Point north of the lake. A tornado ripped the roof off a hotel in Indiana, Pa., forcing the evacuation of 40 guests. Windows were shattered and several cars were damaged, but no one was injured. A twister near Neese, S.C., lifted a mobile home and "when it came back down there wasn't much left," said a sheriff's dispatcher. QUAKE TOLL -- Death toll in Iran's Kerman province in second devastating earthquake in seven weeks is estimated at 8,000. 8,000 deaths est. in Iranian earthquake ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Working through the ruins of smashed villages in sweltering heat, rescue teams dug out scores of bodies Friday to raise to more than 1,300 the official death toll in Iran's devastating earthquake, Tehran Radio said. U.N. officials estimated 8,000 were killed. Tehran Radio said rescue workers recovered another 100 bodies from the rubble being cleared since the quake -- measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale -- struck southeastern Iran's Kerman province Tuesday night. In Geneva, the U.N. Disaster Relief Organization said an estimated 8,000 people were killed in the quake and another 1,000 hospitalized. Tehran Radio said searchers have recovered the bodies of more than 1,300 victims. Iranian relief teams Thursday flew more tents, food and medical supplies to as many as 60,000 people directly affected by the earthquake that hit Kerman province Tuesday, toppling buildings and flattening a string of villages. Medical teams sprayed the wreckage of buildings with disinfectant to prevent outbreaks of disease and Tehran Radio broadcast urgent appeals for baby food bottles. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dispatched a personal representative to supervise the airlift of supplies to the area of the country to Kerman, 60,000 miles south-east of Tehran. Bakeries as far north as Mashhad were ordered to prepare bread for the stricken area. === Page 112 of 128 (2) Oregon Journal, July 31, 1981 13 EXPLOSION DEBRIS -- Warren Wheeler of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms walks through the wreckage left by a series of explosions in a Utah plant that killed five persons. The workers vanished in a 50-foot crater left by the huge blast. Only their cars, behind Wheeler, remained. United Press International - UFOs & Projects - (caused by Egyptian Power, which is setting off fires and explosions everywhere. One # Utah explosive plant blast kills 5 GRANTSVILLE, Utah (UPI) -- Federal agents say they may never know what triggered three violent explosions Thursday that disintegrated a mining detonator manufacturing plant and its five workers. But residents of the small farming community of Grantsville will never forget the day a huge fireball reduced the factory to a moon-like crater on the western Utah desert. "We estimate the first blast had the force of 14 tons of TNT," said Nick Dereta, agent in charge the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Utah. "They never knew what hit them." The plant manufactured a high-intensity explosive used as a "booster charge" to ignite less-volatile blasting material used in mining. The booster is 1.4 times as powerful as TNT. Dereta said the cause of the blasts may never be determined. He said the explosions probably were accidental and may have originated in the plant's chemical mixing area. But another BATF agent, Warren Wheeler, said they might have been touched off by a lightning storm that buffeted the region 50 miles west of Salt Lake City during the predawn hours. All the victims who vanished in the explosions lived in the town of 3,000. Among them was one of Utah's outstanding high school athletes -- Phillip Diderickson, 18, who graduated from high school in June after winning state titles in football, baseball, basketball, tennis and track. "I can't remember anything that comes even close to this," said Larry Harrison, a resident for 16 years and coach at Grantsville High School. "This is a tragedy no matter what," Harrison said. "But when it hits a community the size of Grantsville, there isn't anyone who isn't touched by it. This will be a source of conversation here for a very long time." === Page 113 of 128 MOAB. Utab (AP) - An explosion at a propane storage plant sent a ball of fire roaring into an adja- cent campground, injuring 10 people and forcing the evacuation of some 3.000 Moab residents, authorities said. An 8-year-old boy died Saturday after being burned in the Friday night blast, which Police Capt. Daniel Ison said apparently was touched off by light- ning Nine other people were injured, several of them critically, in the 10:15 p.m. explosion at the Doxol Storage Plant north of this southeastern Utah town. Two of those injured were employees of the bulk propane plant, Ison said. The other injured were stay- ing at the Slick Rock Campground. The dead boy was identified as Mike Davies of Montrose, Colo., according to John Dwan, a spokes- man for the Unversity of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. The explosionknocked out power to about 7,000 households in the area for most of the night, forcing delays in airport flights and hampering communica- tions, said Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland. Power was restored at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. John Maecham estimat- ed that 3,000 people were evacuated from the north end of town following the explosion. They were sent to churches and schools and were allowed to return home about 3:30 a.m. after the fire was contained, Ison said. A small fire burned at the propane plant through midmorning, police said. "It appears a lightning strike may have ruptured a main feeder line," Ison said. Electrical power flick- ered, and then came an explosion with "about a 250- foot fireball," he said. tson said crews had to shut valves feeding three 20,000- to 30,000-gallon propane tanks before the fire could be contained. The ruptured line fed those tanks from two underground 5-million-gallon warehouses of propane and butane. "The tanks themselves did not explode," he said. Nyland said flames shot from the propane plant and struck vehicles parked in the back row of the privately owned campground. The injured were first taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Moab and to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo. Spokesmen at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City said six of the in- jured were flown to the center's burn unit, with another awaiting transportation from Grand Junction. All of those taken to Salt Lake were in critical condition. Two people were in critical condition at Grand Junction, and a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition in a Denver hospital. The blast was the second major explosion in Utah in two days. Early Thursday, a blast at an explosives manufacturing plant near Grantsville, 20 miles west of Salt Lake City, killed five people, sent a 500-foot fireball into the sky and left a 150-foot-deep crater. The cause of the Grantsville explosion has not been determined! Oreg 8/2/89 Raging fires sear southern Greece - "FOR 6 Projects / so Florida) Sink hole swallows lake SACRAMENTO, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico, never known for its abundance of water, is even drier now that a 31%-acre lake has disappeared down a funnel- shaped sinkhole Crystal Lake at Camp Wehinahpay in the Sac- ramento Mountains has disappeared down a sinkhole that suddenly appeared in the lake's limestone bottom. Roy Chrisman, camp ranger at the Consquistador Boy Scout Council retreat, said most of the fish that lived in the lake also disappeared down the sinkhole." However, Bob Dugas, scoutmaster of Troop 270 in Carlsbad, said about 40 fish were saved when they settled into a small pond at one end of the lake bed. He and Chrisman scooped up the fish by hand and trans- ferred them to clean water outside the lake, Dugas said. The hole in the lake's bottom looks like a 20-foot- deep funnel, Chrisman said. It is 12 feet in diameter at its top, in the floor of the lake, and 18 inches at its base. He estimated that it took about 10 hours for the lake, which is 8,000 feet high, to run dry. However, Chrisman said he believed the hole could be patched with concrete and drilling mud. "It seems very repairable," he said org 8/9/81 land, killed at least three people, of thousands of acres of wood- week, have destroyed hundreds The fires, some of which have been burning for a threatening the birthplace of the Olympic Games. ATHENS, Greece (UPI) More than 4,000 army troops aided by special firefighting planes and helicopters bat- tled fires raging across southern Greece, including one -UPos & Projection- Oregon Journal, August 7, 1981 (2) 16 birthplace of the Olympic Games across the river Alfios. The flames raged Friday within 5 miles of ancient Olympia, threatening the age-old giant pines around the half-million olive trees and 10,000 goats and sheep. more than 100,000 acres of forest and pasture land, a The blazes in the southern Peloponnese have destroyed factories and a cinema in the suburbs of Athens. scope news stroyed scores of houses, four injured 35 people - most of them firefighters - and de- === Page 114 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Defense satellite has new problem CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) -- Air Force space engineers have stopped their new military communications satellite from wobbling in its orbit above the equator but they have not solved its electronics problems. There are problems with the power system of the satellite, which was launched Aug. 6 from Cape Canaveral as part of a worldwide communications network, the Air Force said Wednesday. The 4,100-pound satellite "wobbled" when fired into stationary orbit 22,300 miles over the equator. Gray said that problem has been overcome. oreg P 8/13/81 - UFOs & Projects (2) - Oregon Journal, August 13, 1981 # Trojan nuclear plant shuts itself down twice in week Oregon's Trojan nuclear power plant twice this week shut itself off unexpectedly, but both times returned to operation within a few hours, Portland General Electric Co. reported Wednesday. At 9 p.m. Sunday, the reactor shut down automatically after a water pump stopped circulating water to the cooling tower because of a false signal that oil pressure in the pump was low. The pump was not damaged and power production was resumed by midnight, PGE spokesman Bill Babcock said. At 1 p.m. Monday, technicians checking oil pressure switches on the plant's circulating water pumps inadvertently caused the reactor to shut itself off. The plant was producing power again by 4:30 p.m., Babcock reported. Last week, Trojan operated at 85 percent to 100 percent of capacity. Extreme heat outdoors kept the plant's cooling tower from functioning properly at full power production, so electricity output was cut back to a level that produced a volume of heated water the cooling tower could cope with. - UFOs & Projects - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant was shut down Thursday, probably for 45 to 50 days, because of broken blades on a turbine in a non-nuclear portion of the facility, its operator said. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District noticed high vibrations just before 4 a.m. in one of three steam-driven turbines that generate electricity at the plant, said district spokesman Brad Thomas. He said some of the blades on the turbine rotor appeared to have broken off, throwing it out of balance. Plant superintendent Pierre Oubre estimated the shutdown at 45 to 50 days, Thomas said. oreg P 8/14/81 - UFOs & Projects - # 200 lightning fires burn 20,000 acres Nearly 200 fires sparked by lightning burned across 20,000 acres of Oregon Friday night as firefighters struggled to contain the blazes. Friday afternoon, firefighters controlled a 7,230-acre blaze that had jumped fire lines about 25 miles north of Vale, said Don Smurthwaite, a Bureau of Land Management spokesman. A fire is "contained" when fires lines are built around it and it is kept from advancing. Firefighters have a blaze under "control" when crews begin to reduce its size. The rangeland fire north of Vale had been contained Thursday afternoon, but winds gusting to 50 miles per hour caused the flames to leap across fire lines Thursday night and head east. Firefighters who had been from the blaze the BL Another fire, reported at 4:30 p.m. Thursday on BLM and private land about 40 miles northeast of Burns, is expected to be contained by Saturday morning, Smurthwaite said. The fire had burned about 2,000 acres of grass and brush by late Friday, and officials could not estimate when it would be controlled. The blaze was one of about 40 lightning-caused fires reported by the BLM Friday. The fires on BLM lands have burned more than 12,000 acres. The state Department of Forestry reported 52 new fires, and the U.S. Forest Service reported 100 fires of 10 acres or less that either started during a night of lightning and thunderstorms or began Friday. The numbers fluctuated into the night. The largest covered about 1,500 acres of sagebrush and timber about 20 miles northwest of Burns. Crews contained that fire about noon Friday, he said. Smurthwaite said the thunderstorm that touched off the fires resulted in as many as 100 lightning strikes per hour, according to the BLM equipment that monitors such storms. State Forestry Department crews were busy Friday evening with 52 fires in Northeast and Central Oregon, said Linda Gabrielson, a department spokeswoman. The largest of those fires were the 700-acre Squaw Creek fire near Pendleton, a 350-acre fire south of Baker and a 450-acre fire near Unity. Ms. Gabrielson said crews had contained all the larger fires and most of the smaller blazes. A 700-acre fire started at midday Friday southwest of Maupin and was burning through grass, juniper and brush toward the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The cause of that fire, which started on private land, was unknown, Ms. Gabrielson said. Fire crews were carefully watching the skies, as the U.S. Weather Service forecast more thunderstorms for the northeastern part of the state Saturday afternoon. oreg P 8/15/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Soviets report heavy flooding MOSCOW (UPI) -- Dozens of villages were inundated and thousands of buildings destroyed in floods caused by torrential rains in the Soviet Far East, newspapers reported Wednesday. There was no report of casualties in the flooding that struck the Khabarovsk region, near the border with China. oreg P 8/12/81 === Page 115 of 128 - UFOs & Projects + Fla. PK - # Missile downs errant blimp CUDJOE KEY, Fla. (AP) -- A runaway military radar balloon was shot down by a U.S. Air Force fighter over the Gulf of Mexico to "preclude an airspace safety hazard," officials say. The 180-foot balloon, laden with $3.5 million worth of radar equipment, was located Tuesday. The experimental zeppelin, nicknamed "Airman Fat Albert," had snapped a 12,000-foot cable as it was being pulled home Monday night to Cudjoe Key Air Force Station, officials said. The tether broke during a "routine inhauling" because of impending stormy weather, 20th Air Division spokesman Sgt. Larry Reetz said. Fishermen spied the drifting balloon and gave chase. The search was joined by the Coast Guard, Air Force and Navy. "Fat Albert" was finally downed by missiles fired from an F-4 aircraft about 165 miles west-northwest of Key West after airmen spotted it at an altitude of 25,000 feet, Lt. Susan L. Hankey said from Fort Lee Air Force Station, Va. Air Force personnel planned to retrieve the downed balloon, she said. oreg 8/13/81 - UFOs & Projects + Nevada PK - # Floods devastate Nevada farm area oreg 8/13/81 OVERTON, Nev. (AP) -- Residents of the Moapa Valley were digging out from under tons of sticky mud Wednesday as disaster officials tried to assess the damage left by floods that swept through several small farming communities. Gov. Bob List asked President Reagan on Tuesday to declare the valley -- a fertile strip of green winding through desert -- a disaster area to make it eligible for federal funds. Two floods spawned by a thunderstorm Monday night swept through the valley and hit Overton, a community of 1,700 persons on the shore of Lake Mead, forcing some 700 people from their homes. There were no major injuries, although one elderly woman was swept away by a 4-foot wall of water and found Tuesday buried to her hips in mud. She was hospitalized in Las Vegas and reported in stable condition. Granville Bowman, the Clark County public works director, said officials had not yet determined the amount of losses. "If someone gave me $5 million right now, I bet you could spend it in a hurry up there," he said. He said the "majority of the homes" in the area were "hit some way or another." County health officials said drinking water in some areas of Overton, Glendale and Logandale was contaminated when pipelines from water wells were ruptured by the flood. Residents were urged to boil their drinking water. The first flood, which came when a levee ruptured in a canyon, swept without warning through a mobile home park and damaged many of its 120 residences. The second flood occurred about four hours later when small earthen dams on the normally placid Muddy River gave way. B4 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDI Beverly Gloucester Trains Collide Boston Atlantic Ocean MASS. AP - UFOs & Projects: Disorientation - # Trains collide head-on; 3 die By FRED BAYLES oreg 8/12/81 BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) -- A commuter train filled with homeward-bound sunbathers collided head-on Tuesday with a freight train channeled onto the same track because of construction. Authorities said at least three people were killed and 27 were injured. "Somebody got the wrong train orders," said Roger Bergeron, a Federal Railroad Administration inspector. "One of those trains was given the wrong information." The dead included either two or three bodies still inside the wreckage late Tuesday, said state police Detective Lt. Francis O'Connor. He said railroad offi- - UFOs & Projects - # Rains sweep India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Monsoon rains and flooding rivers swamped several districts of central and western Indian on Monday, knocking out power and communication lines and isolating oreg 8/11/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Power lines kill skydiver SHERIDAN -- A Kennewick, Wash., woman was killed Sunday when high winds blew her into Portland General Electric Co. power lines while she was skydiving. Katherine Marie Zettergren, 44, jumped with three companions when the wind blew her away from her colleagues and into the power lines near Rock Creek Road, west of here, said Yamhill County Sheriff Sgt. Jim Carroll. Carroll said Ms. Zettergren had jumped 43 times before the accident that killed her and knocked out power in the area. "She just didn't seem to come down in the jump area," said Kathy Raymer of Pacific Parachute Center. Ms. Raymer said the jump area is about 5 acres. Dr. Lloyd Ragan, Yamhill County medical examiner, said, "She had injuries but the cause of death was probably electrocution." oreg 8/10/81 === Page 116 of 128 upon 6 projects - # State still swelters in blistering heat Oregon continued to swelter Sunday as record temperatures drove residents to public pools and beaches, and plagued firefighters battling a blaze that burned 2,500 acres on the outskirts of Redmond. Before the Redmond fire, the U.S. Forest Service issued a special "red flag" alert Sunday. Forest Service firefighting crews in Oregon and Washington were alerted, and all days off were canceled, according to Tony Percival, a Forest Service spokesman. "A red alert means an east wind will sweep down the Cascade slopes over exposed slopes, drying out (the forests)," Percival said. "A west wind has more moisture in it, so this makes forest fire danger extremely high." "From now on it will be extremely dangerous," Percival said. "The high temperature is drying things out and the east wind (gusting to 40 mph) adds to the problem." Forecasters for the National Weather Service said the dry, hot weather would continue Monday and Tuesday with highs exceeding the 100-degree mark in many locations. The weather service hinted at some relief in its three- to five-day forecast, calling for a gradual cooling trend in Western Oregon. Highs Wednesday through Friday are predicted to be in the relatively cooler 90-100 range. Portland's high was 105 Sunday. The previous day's 107-degree high matched the city's record high temperature, which was set July 30, 1965. In Medford, where the temperature rose to a record 114 degrees Saturday, the high Sunday was 111 degrees. Eugene's 108-degree temperature broke that city's all-time high, and Salem's 108 matched its all-time high. Although the central and southern coastal areas reported cool temperatures in the 60s and 70s, Tillamook had a high of 102 and Astoria had a high of 96 Sunday. Firefighters controlled a 500-acre fire in Klamath Falls Sunday afternoon. The blaze destroyed a mobile home and threatened at least 42 other dwellings. The fire began Friday on private land adjacent to a 1,700-acre area that burned a week ago. Oregon Department of Forestry officials said about 300 firefighters were on the scene Sunday. There were at least seven recreation-related drownings during the weekend in the Portland area, but no substantial number of pet or livestock fatalities were reported from the heat. At Multnomah County's Rocky Butte Jail, 4,500 pounds of ice was delivered Saturday and Sunday in an effort to help inmates keep cool, officials said. The ice was set in front of fans to cool the air. Multnomah County Fire District 10 hosed off the roof to help keep temperatures bearable. Across the Columbia River at Vancouver, Wash., Clark County Jail inmates not satisfied with relief provided from the heat broke two wash basins in the north tank, causing flooding. Four light fixtures were also destroyed. The inmates were returned to their cells after cleaning the mess following the 1 p.m. disturbance, said Sheriff Frank Kanekoa. There were no injuries and no damage estimate was available. Meanwhile, in Portland, there were 10 cases of heat exhaustion reported Saturday to area hospitals, and hospital officials said persons began calling early Sunday seeking advice on how to stay cool and avoid heat-related problems. Portland area department stores reported increased demand for air conditioning units, fans and other cooling items. "We've sold everything we could get our hands on -- the warehouse is empty, and the phone is ringing constantly," said Bill Tryck, a manager of a Fred Meyer store in Beaverton. Minor power outages as a result of overloading, winds and overheated power lines were reported in Southeast and Southwest Portland. oreq 8/10/81 ### Northwest Temperatures | City | Temp | |---|---| | Seattle | 99 | | Spokane | 91 | | Yakima | 102 | | Astoria | 96 | | Portland | 105 | | Salem | 108 | | The Dalles | 105 | | Pendleton | 97 | | Eugene | 108 | | Redmond | 93 | | North Bend | 72 | | Medford | 111 | | Klamath Falls | 95 | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1981 2 for 6 Projects : 7.5 govt. war against # Two workers missing in rocket lab explosion By BOB ROBINSON KEYSER, W.Va. (AP) -- An explosion ripped through a rocket propellant laboratory along the Potomac River, scattering debris more than 1,000 feet and leaving no trace of two workers apparently killed in the blast, officials said. The explosion late Monday left a large crater where the wooden laboratory had stood. The concussion was felt seven miles away. It was the third fatal explosion in 20 years at the Navy Ordnance System Command's Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, a sprawling complex in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The center is operated by Hercules Inc. under a Navy contract. "It happened so quickly. It's just one big ball of fire, and it's over," said M.P. Thompson, Hercules manager of general services. Authorities could find no remains of Charles W. Folk, 26, of Mount Savage, Md., or Bruce Legeer, 25, of Cumberland, Md. Hercules officials said the men were inside the building at the time of the blast. Dr. James Bosley, Mineral County coroner, signed death certificates after viewing the scene. The blast scattered debris "a thousand feet away," said John Burch, the center's quality assurance director. "There is no building any longer." The 1,000-square-foot, wooden building was surrounded by timber and earth so that, in case of an explosion, the force would be vented skyward to protect propellants in other buildings. About 100 similar buildings are evenly spaced throughout the complex. "They're all designed to do exactly what it did -- contain an explosion right there," Thompson said. The explosion was felt in neighboring communities in West Virginia and Maryland, but Thompson said some workers in the 425-acre complex did not realize anything had happened. "I felt it in my apartment, and I'm seven miles away," said Steve Richards, a newsman for Cumberland, Md., radio station WTBO. "It was like a rumbling sound. The place shook like a bad thunderstorm." Propellants were mixed in the building for a variety of rockets and experimental models, Thompson said. A center spokesman said rocket propellant ingredients are classified information, but Thompson said all were explosive. === Page 117 of 128 - UFO 6 Projects "deadly spies + war against U.S. govt. - # Canadians balk at U.S. flight aid By United Press International Some flights between the United States and Canada were delayed or rerouted Monday as Canadian air traffic controllers, saying the strike by U.S. controllers has made border skies unsafe, refused to handle the traffic. The Air Transport Association, representing major U.S. airlines, reported controllers in Montreal and Toronto began refusing early Monday to clear flights into the United States. Delta Air Lines also said one of its flights was turned back at Montreal, where an Air Canada spokesman said some controllers were claiming equipment problems. No delays were reported in flights out of Winnipeg, Vancouver or Calgary. The Canadian government threatened disciplinary action against any controllers who refuse to handle U.S. flights. FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman said there had been "sporadic refusals" by Canadian controllers Monday morning, but he said the protest did not appear widespread. "All we can tell you is that there have been a couple of instances where they refused to grant clearances, but it's not very widespread. . . . It's been so minor that we haven't been able to get a handle on it," Feldman said. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis was optimistic. "A number of countries have started this," he said Monday, citing a turnaround over the weekend in France. "We've worked them all out. We're working with the Canadian government." However, the boycott threat forced U.S. officials to reroute international air traffic that normally flies over Canada and Feldman reported that Canada's government used some supervisors early Monday to handle some U.S. flights. "The Vancouver controllers have been replaced with three supervisors who are handling the traffic normally," Feldman said, after one flight from Alaska to Seattle was diverted over the Pacific Ocean. Transport Canada warned its air traffic controllers that every refusal to handle flights between Canada and the United States could result in a fine of up to $5,000 or a jail term of one year. Announcement of the boycott was made late Sunday by the Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which vowed to stop handling all but emergency U.S. flights to back up some striking 12,000 members of their U.S. counterpart, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. **org J 8/10/81** - UFO 6 Projects - # Fires scorch 83,000 acres By The Associated Press Forest fires raced unchecked across 83,000 acres of timber and brushland in five Western states Monday, chasing hundreds of people from their homes and sending at least 35 buildings up in smoke. Erratic gale-force winds and record heat that topped 100 degrees in places helped fuel the flames that pushed across parts of California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Utah. In Nevada, about 600 firefighters, backed up by three air tankers, battled a dozen fires started during a lightning storm Sunday. About 400 residents were evacuated, but they were allowed to return Monday afternoon. One of the fires, on Mount Rose about 15 miles south of Reno, had destroyed about 5,000 acres and 25 structures while the second was burning out of control over 2,600 acres halfway between Reno and Carson City. Officials were not sure how many of the structures were homes. Robert Platt, an emergency room physician at the Washoe County Medical Center, said several people were treated for smoke-related injuries. In Northern California, 10 fires had consumed nearly 43,000 acres and several buildings. The exact number of structures destroyed was not known because firefighters could not get into some areas. Temperatures in parts of Northern California were climbing toward 110, including the area of an 18,000-acre fire in Lake and Mendocino counties that destroyed at least 10 structures, including the Scott's Valley Community Center, at least two homes, a $150,000 microwave television relay station, a mobile home and two barns. There were reports of 20 homes burning, but Beth Tustin, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry, said firefighters had not been able to get in to check. "It's still too hot," she said. About 700 firefighters were battling that blaze, aided by six air tankers, six helicopters and 27 bulldozers. The Lake County sheriff's department evacuated the outskirts of Lakeport, a city of 3,800 residents about 110 miles north of San Francisco, as the fire headed that way Monday morning. Two other fires in the area burned about 3,800 acres, officials said, and a fourth, 18 miles north of Lake Berryessa, burned about 7,000 acres. Five homes were lost in a fire that burned 1,500 acres in the Inyo National Forest on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, according to Forest Service dispatcher Larry Armas. Officials said that fire was started by children playing with matches. East of Sacramento, in El Dorado County, a fire started by a traffic accident charred about 2,600 acres of timberland and forced officials to close Highway 50 in the area. In Idaho, a wind-whipped range fire ignited by sparks from a train eight miles east of Dietrich had claimed 30,000 acres of sagebrush and range grass and still was out of control, according to Dale Chatteron, a dispatcher for the Bureau of Land Management. More than 250,000 acres of grazing land in the Shoshone district of southern Idaho has been burned by range fires this summer. In Utah, winds up to 50 mph fanned flames over 2,000 acres of brush in Echo Canyon, near Coalville. The winds blew smoke over Salt Lake City, 40 miles away. **neg 8/11/81** === Page 118 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # No quick relief likely from high-rise mercury Ore. J. 8/10/81 Oregon's 1981 record-breaking heat wave entered its fifth day Monday with only slight relief expected by midweek, according to the National Weather Service. Elsewhere, thunderstorms were reported throughout the western United States to Arizona, but they were not far enough north to break the hot spell in the Pacific Northwest. Flash flood watches were posted over southwestern Utah and northern Arizona and a high wind warning was in effect over northern Utah. The hot spell in Oregon has contributed to a rash of fires and power outages, the latter blamed in part on the heavy demand for air conditioners. At least eight persons have drowned in Oregon during the heat wave. Portland area hospitals treated a number of cases of heat exhaustion. Temperatures in Portland rose above 100 Sunday for the third straight day and things look much the same for Tuesday with the high expected in the 100 to 105 range. Sunday's high reached 105, shattering the old Aug. 9 record of 102 set in 1967. The reading was still two degrees short of the city's all-time top of 107 set in July 1965. Another 100 or more degrees Monday will not set a new record for consecutive 100 degree days in Portland. In July 1941, the city saw five straight days with readings of 100 or more. The inferno started Thursday when temperatures reached 99. Friday saw a high of 102. Saturday it hit 107 -- tying the city's record high -- and Sunday saw a top temperature of 105, recorded between 3 and 4 p.m. at Portland International Airport, the city's official recording station. Some other high temperatures Sunday around the state included 111 in Medford, 108 in Eugene which was a record high, Salem 108, and Astoria 96, exceeding the record for the month. Several temperature records tumbled in Washington Sunday. Olympia's 104 degrees broke an all-time high and 99 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport tied the previous record. A record 97 degrees was recorded at Quillayute. Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies Monday were to resume searching for a man about 40 years old presumed to have drowned in the Sandy River Sunday afternoon after jumping from the Troutdale Bridge. For about two hours, deputies dragged the area where he was seen swimming about 5:30 p.m., but they quit when their boat developed problems. A 16-year-old Eugene youth drowned Saturday evening after his boat capsized at the mouth of the Nestucca River in Tillamook County. Mike Davis and a companion were boating in the surf at the mouth of the river when the accident occurred, said a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter from the Astoria air base spotted the body in the ocean Saturday night about ¾-mile south of the mouth of the river. But an attempt to retrieve the body failed when it slipped from its life jacket. A search helicopter returned to the area Sunday. Two boys drowned in separate incidents Saturday afternoon. Robert Richard Tweet, 10, of Milwaukie, died Saturday after he slipped from his inner tube on the Clackamas River near the west end of Cross Memorial Park. Rescuers found the youth pinned beneath a large rock, but were unable to bring him to the surface, Clackamas County sheriff's deputies said. Levi Harley Pesterfield, 5, of 2831 SE 59th Ave., drowned during a family picnic Saturday at Benson State Park. He was swimming in a designated area at the time. Emanuel Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival. Two men who drowned Friday in the Seine Creek inlet to Hagg Lake have been identified as Santiago Martin-Garcia, 19, and Abel Mandujano Martinez, 28, both of Cornelius. A spokesman for the Washington County sheriff's office said one of the men waded into the creek and called for help when he got in over his head. Two men went in to help, but Martin-Garcia's brother, Raymon, 25, was the only one to return. A door left open in the hot weather let in more than a cool breeze Saturday. An armed robber took advantage of the easy entrance and escaped from a Southeast Portland residence with jewelry and an undetermined amount of cash. The heat wave also set the scene for health problems, with the state Department of Environmental Quality terming the air "unhealthful" this weekend. They continue warning people with respiratory ailments to avoid exertion and to stay indoors. Portland communities may feel the effect in more ways than dripping foreheads, however. - UFOs & Projects (deadly air space) - # Pilots given fake commands WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Three times since air traffic controllers went on strike commercial aircraft have been radioed bogus commands -- once in Florida and twice over the center of the country -- the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. The FAA, the Federal Communications Commission and the FBI all are investigating those incidents, FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said. "We have no evidence of who's doing it," he said. "We have nothing to do with anything like that," Robert Poli, president of the striking Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the "phantom voices" and investigations Friday. "If I found out about anything like that happening, I would turn the people in myself," said the union chief, who said he has warned striking controllers any type of sabotage would "destroy us." (There has been no interference with communications at Portland International Airport, according to Harold John, tower chief.) Sending a bogus transmission to a pilot would violate FCC regulations and any charges involving endangering public safety likely would have to come from the Justice Department, said Farrar. "In no case has a hazardous situation resulted. In each case, either the controller or pilot involved recognized the instructions as false and they were either ignored or countermanded," said the FAA spokesman. Ore. J. 8/14/81 (Related stories, picture on page 2) === Page 119 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - # San Joaquin Valley faces spraying as pest spreads By PETE JACOBS LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) -- The Mediterranean fruit fly has spread to the San Joaquin Valley, the heartland of California's $14 billion-a-year farm industry, and officials said Friday that aerial pesticide spraying would be started immediately in the area. Worried agriculture industry officials said winds could spread the fly over the entire valley within days. The discovery Thursday of six of the crop-destroying flies in the town of Westley represents the biggest setback in state officials' 14-month effort to keep the pest from spreading from largely residential areas to important commercial farms. Authorities said aerial spraying of malathion would begin just after midnight Friday over a 30-square-mile area 12 miles southwest of Modesto. Gordon Tween, deputy director of the medfly eradication project who flew by helicopter to the newly infested area, said the federal government would quarantine at least 81 square miles by late Friday. "Quarantine is going to be tough in here because you've got commercial produce right next door that moves to other parts of the country and the rest of the world," said Tween, who called the latest discovery "a very grave risk" to the state. Three counties near San Francisco -- Santa Clara, Alameda and San Mateo -- already are under federal quarantine, which requires that produce be treated with chemicals or cold before being shipped from the area. More than 500 square miles of Northern California have been sprayed with malathion and more than $25 million has been spent on eradication efforts, but the fly has continued to spread. The pest lays its eggs in 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables; California grows half the nation's produce. Three flies were found Thursday in traps in Westley, 20 miles southwest of Modesto. They were confirmed as wild male Mediterranean fruit flies, said Richard Steffen, a eradication project spokesman. Previous spraying has been done by helicopter, but officials said they may bring in fixed-wing military aircraft. Project director Jerry Scribner ruled out blanket spraying of the San Joaquin Valley, saying massive spraying would cost the state millions of dollars and "you're not guaranteed you're doing anything but pushing the fly down to levels that are undetectable." immediate, we mean immediate. Today." The summer harvest of peaches, apricots, tomatoes and grapes is under way in the valley. California produces 66 percent of the nation's peaches, 97 percent of its apricots and 92 percent of its grapes. The state's aerial spraying program was ordered by a reluctant Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. when the federal government threatened a quarantine of the entire state, which farmers say could mean economic disaster. The latest area to be sprayed was Livermore, 14 miles west of the San Joaquin Valley. Three helicopters dropped bait laced with malathion on the city of 48,000 Thursday night after the discovery of a fertile fly there Monday. Project officials announced Thursday that an area north of Santa Cruz and outside the main quarantine area would be sprayed next week as a result of the discovery of a fertile fly there. A 9-square-mile area near Milpitas was added Thursday. In Sacramento, Assembly Minority Leader Carol Hallett said Friday that she will initiate impeachment proceedings against Brown unless he turns the fruit fly battle over to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She accused Brown and Scribner of "reacting to the medfly instead of taking the preventative measures called for long ago." Brown could not be reached for comment. Gray Davis, his chief of staff, called the impeachment threats "pure political posturing." - UFOs 6 Projects - # High wind, heavy rain lash central states region By United Press International Scattered thunderstorms packing 60 mph winds lashed the Midwest late Friday, dumping more than 5 inches of rain in Iowa and sparking a tornado in Illinois. No injuries were reported. Heavy rains pushed across the southern Rockies, through the Midwest and into the Northeast late Friday. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued early Saturday over Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. A flash flood watch was also posted for Lake, Cook and Bureau counties in northern Illinois. Several highways in northern Illinois were closed because of flooding Friday, the Illinois Department of Transportation said. The Savanna, Ill., Fire Department said a tornado touched down at the southern edge of the city. No injuries or damages were reported. Blustery winds were clocked at more than 60 mph in Milledgeville, Ill., and Clinton, Iowa. About 5 inches of rain soaked Clinton, Iowa, and 2.5 inches of rain fell in Des Moines in just 30 minutes. Des Moines officials said water was standing 4 feet deep in some parts of the city. Madison, Wis., was hit with almost 2 inches of rain and almost an inch fell in Chicago. Heavy rains in the West prompted flash flood watches early Saturday for western Arizona. Richard Rominger, director of the state Department of Food and Agriculture, said the spread to the San Joaquin Valley "was really not unexpected. Entomologists have been predicting we'd be very fortunate if something like this didn't happen." "We anticipated that it might happen," said Clark Biggs, spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation, saying that prevailing southerly winds could spread the flies through the valley within a couple of days. "It scares the bejabbers out of us," said Les Hubbard of the Western Growers Association. State Assemblyman John Thurman, D-Modesto, chairman of the Assembly's Agriculture Committee, said the new find means "we must have immediate spraying of that area, and we must put out many more traps. And when we say === Page 120 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Fire danger remains high as crews fight NW blazes Oreg. 8/16/81 Fire danger continued high to extreme in Eastern Oregon Saturday as firefighters battled timber and rangeland blazes set off during thunderstorms late last week. Lightning has caused nearly 200 fires since Thursday, and at least six of those continued to burn out of control Saturday. A fire that burned 6,240 acres of private and federal land 50 miles northwest of Condon was contained by crews at 6 p.m. Saturday, according to the Bureau of Land Management. Firefighters expected to control that blaze by 10 a.m. Sunday. Don Hostetter, BLM public affairs officer, said a blaze near Vale called the Sheeprock fire covered 500 acres of federal land six miles north of Castle Rock by Saturday afternoon. Fire dispatchers could not predict a containment or control time for that fire Saturday night. A 7,200-acre fire 30 miles north of Vale that had jumped fire lines earlier this week was again contained late Friday. The BLM said the blaze continued to burn within lines into Saturday. About 50 miles to the west, firefighters worked to control a 2,000-acre blaze near Beulah Reservoir. That fire was contained Saturday. A fire is contained when fire lines are built around it and it is kept from advancing. It is controlled when firefighters begin to reduce its size. The King Mountain fire, five miles north of Unity, was controlled Friday evening after burning 700 acres of private grassland, said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry. The Salisbury Junction fire, 10 miles south of Baker, was contained Friday afternoon, and 80 firefighters were on the line Saturday working to control the blaze, Smith said. The fire covered 400 acres of private land. There is no containment time estimated for the Squaw Creek fire, 18 miles east of Pendleton, which has burned 750 acres, Smith said. Another fire in the same area also has not been contained, he said. The Telephone Ridge fire, 13 miles east of Pendleton, received five loads of fire retardant Friday after it began to spread rapidly, Smith said. The fire has burned 650 acres. Four miles south of Ukiah, a 90-acre fire also is uncontained, Smith said, adding that 80 firefighters were working to contain that blaze. Meanwhile, five blazes scorched nearly 1,500 acres in Idaho, and 35 small fires were reported scattered across Washington, The Associated Press reported. In Idaho, one blaze burned 800 acres of land about 20 miles east of Burley, said acting fire management officer Fred Wood. A few acres of private graze land were burned, but no buildings were threatened, he said. A second fire in Idaho burned 650 acres on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation about 15 miles southwest of Pocatello. It was contained Friday afternoon, Wood said, and declared out Saturday night. A third Idaho fire burned about 15 acres of mountainous area before crews extinguished it at 4 p.m. Saturday. All the Idaho fires were caused by lightning, Wood said. Lightning also sparked at least 35 small fires in Eastern Washington Friday in the Wenatchee National Forest. All the fires, which burned on less than an acre each, were contained quickly, but fire management officer Lana Thurston said more lightning-caused fires were expected. - UFOs & Projects - # 39 airmen drug probe suspects Oreg. 8/16/81 OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) -- Thirty-nine airmen, including 14 security policemen and nine who had access to sensitive information, are suspected of using or selling drugs at Offutt Air Force Base, the Air Force says. Master Sgt. Sam Curley of the base public relations office said Friday the 39 airmen were singled out in an investigation conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. "The investigations indicate that there was some on-duty use of marijuana," said Curley, who declined to release the names of suspects. "There was no on-duty sale or transfer of marijuana." Nine of the airmen, Curley said, had duties involving classified information or they worked in restricted areas. He would not elaborate. Offutt is the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command. Curley said the nine have been denied access to the information and restricted areas pending results of the investigation, which also involved amphetamines. The airmen are from nine units. The results of the investigation will be given to unit commanders who will decide what, if any, penalty will be imposed. Curley said the 14 security policemen have been removed from normal duties pending the outcome of reviews of their cases. Others allegedly involved are weathercasters, maintenance workers, medical technicians and medical administrative specialists. The units are the 3902nd Air Base Wing, the 3902nd Civil Engineering Squadron, the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, the 3902nd Security Police Squadron, Air Force Global Weather Central, the First Aerospace Communications Group, the Strategic Communications Division, the Ehrling Bergquist Regional Hospital and the 554th Intelligence Exploitation Squadron. "Seven of the airmen are allegedly involved with sales and transfer of marijuana and other dangerous drugs, while 32 are allegedly involved with the possession and use of marijuana," Curley said. Some of the investigations go back as far as last March, Curley said. He said he did not know when the cases would be resolved by the unit commanders: "It could take a week to a month for these reviews." Because "there are a wide variety of actions a unit commander can take," Curley said he would not speculate on possible penalties for airmen found guilty of using or selling drugs, but, "removal from the Air Force is an option for a proven serious offense." Curley said most of those under investigation have been airmen for less than five years and are between the ages of 18 and 26. === Page 121 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects # Fires blacken six Western states Record temperatures for the fifth straight day have sparked a series of fires in six Western states that have blackened thousands of acres of valuable forest, farm and rangeland, caused evacuation of hundreds of people and burned several homes. Fires were reported burning Tuesday in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California and Utah. The tinder-dry conditions have resulted in closing broad sections of Oregon and Washington forest lands to logging and other activities that might spark fires. Firefighters battled two out-of-control range fires in the Steens Mountain area south of Burns that have blackened more than 4,600 acres. One of the blazes, believed sparked by an unattended campfire near the Blitzen River 15 miles from Frenchglen, consumed an estimated 3,600 acres in a remote area that is difficult to reach. Another Steens fire, started by lightning, had burned 1,000 acres by Monday night. A fire in steep terrain south of Mount Ashland on the California-Oregon border destroyed a house near Colstin Monday afternoon and threatened to spread from the Klamath National Forest into the Rogue River National Forest. Conditions were termed "hot, dry and miserable" near Tiller, 30 miles southeast of Roseburg, where 200 firefighters succeeded in trailing a fire early Tuesday that consumed 500 acres and threatened a schoolhouse and several homes. Wayne Miller, administrative assistant for the Douglas Forest Protective Association, said no structures were burned but that it was touch and go for a time. A barn was reported afire Tuesday morning near Azalea. It was filled with animals and "millions of dollars of precious instruments." Another barn burned near Canyonville Monday night. A brush fire that blackened 3,000 acres on the outskirts of Redmond and caused evacuation of nearly 150 people was controlled Monday. It left at least six homes destroyed, four people injured and more than $1 million damage. A new brush fire was battled during the night Monday north of Redmond, but no homes were threatened. Flash floods and high wind added to the problems in Nevada where several hundred persons fled their homes. Major highways were closed because of the flooding. Police reported that several people were unaccounted for, although there were no confirmed deaths or injuries. At one point, temperatures in Las Vegas dropped within minutes from 100 degrees to 75 while 70-mph winds kicked up sand and debris. A range fire burned out of control Tuesday near Lake Tahoe, one of two that have turned 9,000 acres of suburbs and brushland into a federal disaster area. More than 2,000 firefighters were reported battling blazes in Western states, hampered by above 100-degree temperatures in many places and gale-force winds elsewhere. A large grass fire was reported near Rattlesnake Mountain on the Rockwell-Hanford facility in Washington, but no structures were threatened. In the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, dust kicked up from the crater of Mount St. Helens made visibility poor. oregon 8/11/81 # Dams collapse in downpour BY TIM DAHLBERG GLENDALE, Nev. (AP) -- Several earthen Muddy River dams collapsed as a "terrible downpour" lashed southern Nevada, releasing a wall of water that trapped an elderly woman in mud, drowned cattle and forced 700 Moapa Valley residents to flee. The dams burst as a fast-moving summer storm dumped more than an inch of rain on southern Nevada Monday night. The storm's 68 mph winds knocked out power at 100,000 homes in the Las Vegas Valley. "We worked the areas over and we feel there is nobody dead," said Lt. Don Wellington of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police. An elderly woman was swept away when a four-foot wall of water rushed through an Overton trailer park. Wellington said Lillian Martin, 85, was found Tuesday buried up to her hips in mud. She was in stable condition at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas. Overton, at the valley's south end, was hardest hit. A police spokesman said the south end of the community was "under water." Authorities said up to 300 cattle were killed and 1,000 cattle were missing in the Moapa Valley, a dairy area about 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. "There was a terrible downpour out there last night," said Red Cross spokeswoman Cathy Whitney. "At this point I'm really not certain about the true extent of the damage." Meanwhile, in Tucson, Ariz., about 40 families were evacuated from their homes as a 5-foot wall of water rolled through the Canada del Oro wash on Monday. Winds were clocked up to 80 mph as severe thunderstorms rolled across the state. The storm knocked out electrical service for about 100,000 Las Vegas customers of Nevada Power Co., said spokeswoman Jane Strobel. Traffic signals were out and tree limbs were reported down all over town. At McCarran International Airport, air traffic backed up over the storm until ground conditions permitted landings, said Federal Aviation Administration specialist George Mankey. - UFOs 6 Projects # More fruit flies found in Florida TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) -- The discovery of a fifth Mediterranean fruit fly in east Tampa sent spray crews Saturday into an area outside the original infestation zone. The discovery was outside the 17-square-mile spray area zoned by agriculture officials after the discovery of the other four Medflies, but still was within the 48-square-mile quarantine area imposed by federal and state agriculture departments. The discovery was a blow to agriculture officials, who had gone almost five days without any trace of a Medfly, and increased the threat to the state's $4 billion produce industry. A United Airlines 727 jetliner carrying 135 passengers from Chicago ran low on fuel and was forced to land at the tiny Needles, Calif., airstrip. The pilot landed safely on the 5,000-foot runway 100 miles south of here, and the passengers and crew were bused to Las Vegas. At Kingman, Ariz., a mobile home lost its roof and another was damaged in the winds. Rains caused flash floods there and in southern Mohave County, the National Weather Service said. Officials said the evacuation in Tucson began at about 3:30 p.m. but families were allowed to return to their homes early in the evening. Officials reported no injuries or major property damage in the flood, which began to recede about 5:30 p.m. === Page 122 of 128 -NFU 6 Projects - 16 Oregon Journal, August 13, 1981 (2) # Furious rain, wind, hail batter nation from South to California By United Press International Thunderstorms lashed parts of the South and the West Thursday as tornado-like wind estimated at 120 mph overturned 30 railroad cars and ripped roofs from buildings in Southern California. Heavy rain prompted flash flood watches Thursday in Arizona, southeast-ern Nevada and northern New Mexico. A flash flood warning was issued Wednes-day night for central Utah. Officials said the wind knocked over 30 cars of a freight train standing in a South-ern Pacific yard. About six of the cars were empty petroleum tank cars. "We estimated the wind at about 120 mph," said fire Capt. Felipe Aguilar. He said he thought the storm was a tornado. A National Weather Service spokesman in Indio could not confirm whether the blast was a tornado. A severe thunderstorm watch was post-ed late Wednesday for the southern tip of Nevada, southeast California and western Nevada. Dime-sized hail pelted southern Nevada about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. One-inch hail was reported about 70 miles east of San Diego, Calif. The furious 15-minute storm Wednes-day in Indio, Calif., unleashed wind that toppled mobile homes and damaged palm trees. Police said no injuries were report-ed, although blown-out traffic signals sparked a rash of minor car accidents. "It cut a path through the eastern por-tion of the city," said police Lt. Warren Holcomb. "It knocked down telephone and power poles and blew off portions of rooftops to numerous residences and busi-nesses." Tucumcari, N.M., got nearly 2 inches of rain in six hours and Clovis, N.M., got nearly an inch. A frontal system spread showers and thunderstorms into the south Atlantic and Gulf Coast states Wednesday. Stronger storms dumped hail at Phenix, Ala., near the Alabama-Georgia border. Firefighters sweating in sizzling heat slowly gained the upper hand over range and brush fires that charred more than 126,000 acres in five Western states, de-stroying dozens of homes and $30 million worth of timber. === Page 123 of 128 - UFOs 6 Projects - (Pyocne) # Moth damage soars in Northeast New York Times News Service ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gypsy-moth caterpillars did a record amount of damage in the Northeast in 1981, eating the leaves off trees covering at least 9 million acres from Maine to Maryland, according to estimates by forestry experts. That was twice the area defoliated last year, they said. "This is the greatest defoliation or infestation that has ever been recorded in the Northeastern United States," said Peter W. Orr, an official of the U.S. Forest Service at its regional office in Broomall, Pa. Next year will be as bad or even worse in the Northeast, Orr predicted, unless the moths -- which are in a stage of their life cycle when they do no damage -- are controlled by parasites, predators, weather or disease. Moreover, there have been indications that the gypsy moths were spreading across the nation, pest-control officers for the state said. Minor infestations have been reported in Virginia, West Virginia and Arkansas, and male moths have been trapped in North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, and as far west as California. Previously, the moths were confined to the Northeast. Forestry experts disagreed on how long the gypsy-moth problem would last. "This should be the tail end of an upswing in the population cycle," said Dr. Warren Johnson, professor of entomology at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "Nature has a way of controlling population explosions." But Michael Birmingham, chief of the Forest Inspection and Disease Management Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, said, "We have had four years of gypsy-moth damage, and each year it seems to get a little worse." A more accurate indication of the 1982 crop of gypsy moths will come this fall, when teams of foresters go into the woods and start counting gypsy-moth egg masses. The economic effects of the damage caused by the moths, particularly in the loss of growth of timber trees, were described as enormous, although no precise figures were available. One estimate, made in the 1970s, indicated that timber losses could average about $14 an acre over a period of five years. If that figure holds, it could mean a loss in 1981 alone of at least $28 million for the Northeast. # California, Florida step up medfly attack By The Associated Press California crews expanded efforts to track the Mediterranean fruit fly Sunday after the discovery of an egg-laden fly outside a three-county area under quarantine because of the destructive pest. Meanwhile, authorities in Florida readied a single helicopter for a dawn pesticide assault Monday on a Tampa neighborhood where three dead medflies were found last week, the first trace of the tiny fly in Florida in 18 years. Supervisors of Santa Cruz County, Calif., where the fertile female fly was discovered, scheduled a meeting to discuss the problem Monday, the first day of the apple harvest. The fertile fly was found 30 miles outside a 267-square mile area under quarantine where officials announced Saturday the discovery of two other female flies, neither of them fertile. One was found in San Jose, and the other was discovered in nearby Morgan Hill, according to medfly eradication project spokesman Dick Thompson. An expanded, intensified attack on the pest was to be launched in California this week. But workers immediately began expanding their fly-trapping program. Florida officials set up traps in and around an area where ground-spraying crews doused trees with the pesticide malathion over the weekend in hopes of containing any possible fly infestation. In Texas on Sunday, state House members voted 100-1 to give Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown more authority and money to deal with the fly threat. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, allows the commissioner to order inspection of vehicles entering Texas for evidence of pests or diseases without first declaring a quarantine. oreg 8/10/81 === Page 124 of 128 - NFDA 6 Projects - # Canadians disrupt air traffic flow **United Press International** Trans-Atlantic travelers faced more delays and flight cancellations Tuesday as a boycott by Canadian controllers choked the flow of U.S.-European air traffic. Flights between the northeastern United States and Europe were rerouted south of Canadian air space -- cutting off the most direct flight path. The action by Canadian air traffic controllers also continued to disrupt some flights between the United States and Canada. At the same time, U.S. authorities braced for more possible snags because of plans by Australian controllers to refuse to handle U.S. flights, effective Tuesday. A similar boycott beginning Saturday is planned by Portuguese controllers. Dutch controllers said they will decide Tuesday or Wednesday whether to act. "There will be delays (in all trans-Atlantic flights) and the recommendation is that international travelers keep in contact with their own local carriers," said spokesman Dick Stafford of the Federal Aviation Administration. "We expect the delay situation to continue through the greater part of today." Groups representing foreign controllers charge that U.S. flights have become unsafe since President Reagan fired 12,000 controllers, now in the ninth day of a nationwide strike, and began manning U.S. control towers with non-striking controllers, supervisors and military controllers. Meanwhile, the Reagan administration Tuesday planned to resume its attempt to persuade an administrative law judge to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization as the bargaining unit for striking U.S. controllers, who walked out Aug. 3. Further federal court action also was pending Tuesday on massive fines against the union. A meeting to set long-term flight schedules until the air traffic system returns to normal -- the administration says it could take two years to rebuild the air traffic system -- was set Tuesday among airline representatives, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and FAA chief Lynn Helms. At New York's Kennedy Airport, some European flights arrived at least 10 hours late Tuesday, but airport officials said they expect no delays in departures. In Britain, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said the normal flow of summer season air traffic -- 450 flights a day -- had been cut to only four flights per hour because of the Canadian boycott. Airlines across Europe were given an average of five hours' notice of when each would be able to claim one of the quarter-hourly take-off slots, creating airport chaos and disappointment for travelers. At London's Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest, nine U.S.-bound flights were scrapped Tuesday morning, and a spokesman described the situation as "chaotic." British Airways, which canceled five U.S.-bound planes, put out a sign warning "it is impossible to predict times" and stopped checking in Canadian flights. William Robertson, head of the 2,200-member Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Association, charged Tuesday that "trans-border flight safety has been severely jeopardized" by the U.S. air controllers strike. - NFDA 6 Projects - # 5 days of searing heat bake state ### Official Portland scorching score The heat goes on, but relief is on the way. After a fourth straight day of temperatures of more than 100 degrees in Portland Monday, the National Weather Service is predicting a Wednesday high of 88 degrees. Tuesday, the temperature was expected to reach 98 degrees. Monday's all-time high of 107 degrees, recorded at 4:10 p.m., tied Portland's all-time high temperature, reached in July 1965 and matched Saturday, it was enough to shatter the Aug. 10 high of 102 degrees set in 1971. Dr. Larry Lewman of the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's office reported Tuesday that there has been a substantial increase in deaths of elderly people, "some of which may be heat-related." He added that some from heart or lung disease and the current heat wave introduced stress that they could not resist. Medford on Monday continued to receive the brunt of the onslaught of hot air as temperatures reached 110 and above for the fourth day in a row. Only once before -- in July 1940 -- had the temperature hit 110. High temperatures elsewhere around the Pacific Northwest included 109 in the Dalles; 107 in Salem; 106 in Eugene; 104 in Walla Walla, Wash.; 101 in Yakima, Wash.; and Olympia, Wash.; 98 in Seattle, and 99 in Pendleton. The heat provided the opportunity for what some might call sick humor in its 3:40 p.m. weather service wire report from the National Weather Service. In its sub-titled "the chance for measurable rain or snow," the weather service wire report told the chance: "zero through Tuesday night." Those seeking comfort from electric fans or ice for cool summer drinks were disappointed as area residents all but stripped local stores of those items. Liz Lane, of Beaverton, unsuccessfully searched for a fan in five department stores last weekend. There were some minor power outages and the problem was not as severe as it was last weekend. Main electrical circuits in many homes were tripping Monday night under the crunch of air conditioners. Portland General Electric was advising air conditioner users to let the machines off for a few hours to let the circuit cool down if the system shuts down, a PGE spokesman said. Many Portland residents returned to work Monday after a weekend of jostling through crowds at area beaches, lakes and parks in attempts to escape the heat. Many fled to the coast where regions of the Oregon Coast where temperatures were substantially lower. But many motorists grew heated anyway when faced with massive traffic jams along coastal roads. "It was a zoo around here Sunday," said Robert Moore of Otter Rock. "Traffic was bumper to bumper all day along the eight mile stretch between Newport and Otter Rock." At least 60 persons were treated at Portland area hospitals for heat-related ailments, according to a check by the Journal. Others have been flooding police switchboards with requests for help. Official high temperatures for Portland for the past week, as monitored by the U.S. Weather Service at Portland International Airport, were: | Day | Temp | |---|---| | Tuesday | 81 | | Wednesday | 86 | | Thursday | 88 | | Friday | 99 | | Saturday | 102 | | Sunday | 107 | | Monday | 105 | | Tuesday | 107 | === Page 125 of 128 - UFO_ 6 Projecto - Navy jets down 2 Libyan fighters oreg J 8/19/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Two U.S. Tomcat fighters, fired at by a pair of Lib- yan warplanes, shot down the Soviet-built jets in a minute-long dogfight Wednesday over disputed waters of the Mediter- ranean Sea, the Pentagon said. The U.S. government formally protest- ed what it called the "unprovoked" attack by two SU-22 Libyan jets, which it said occurred "in international air space over international waters in the south-central Mediterranean Sea." However, a Libyan diplomat in London charged that the U.S. fighters violated his country's air space over a section of the Gulf of Sidra covered by a broad territori- al claim by Libya that is not recognized by the United States. A Libyan military spokesman, quoted by government-run Tripoli radio, charged that eight U.S. fighter planes attacked the two Libyan jets as they were carrying out "routine reconnaissance and inspection flights" over the Mediterranean. He charged that the incident "endangered world peace." THE PENTAGON SAID the F-14s, sta- GREECE SICILY Mediterranean Sea MALTA USS Nimitz REPORTED AREA OF CONFLICT Tripoli Benghazi Gulf of Sidra LIBYA 0 200 miles UPI BATTLE SCENE - Map details area where U.S. Navy fighters shot down two Libyan warplanes after they at- tacked the F- 14s from carrier Nimitz. tioned on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz, were taking part in a 6th Fleet exercise about 60 nautical miles off the Libyan coast when they were ap- proached and fired upon. They downed the Libyan jets with heat- seeking missiles, then returned safely to the Nimitz. The pilot of one of the single- seat SU-22s was seen parachuting from his downed aircraft, the Pentagon said. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the formal U.S. protest was lodged through diplomatic channels in Belgium. In Brussels, a special meeting of the NATO Council was called at American request. Diplomatic sources said the Unit- ed States was expected to inform the council of the attack and the downing of the Libyan jets. Weinberger, relying on the official U.S. position on the limits of Libyan sovereign- ty, insisted the 6th Fleet exercise was not intended to provoke Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy, whom the Reagan ad- ministration has labeled a ringleader of international terrorism. "No, I couldn't consider it a provocation because they are international waters," he told a morning news conference. "There's no basis for any claim in the area where this incident took place that they were national waters or anything other than international waters." IN LOS ANGELES, vacationing Presi- dent Reagan was awakened and informed of the attack at 4:24 a.m. Vice President George Bush, other members of the Na- tional Security Council and congressional leaders also were notified. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "We regret the attack that made it necessary to take the action," but reiterat- ed the U.S. position that the exercises were being held in international waters. The Pentagon said the U.S. jets were fired upon, then "took action in response and shot down both Libyan aircraft at 1:20 a.m. EDT." Weinberger and Gen. Phillip Gast, di- rector of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the two Libyan planes were flying north, away from Libya, and first were spotted by the American planes on radar. After making visual contact, one of the Libyan planes fired a Soviet-made Atoll missile while the other fired his guns at the U.S. planes. Both American aircraft answered the attack by firing AIM-9L Sidewinder mis- siles, which struck their targets, downing the Libyan planes. "THEY WERE FOLLOWING interna- tional rules of engagement that would govern this kind of situation and carried out their instructions and carried them out extremely well," Weinberger said of the response by the U.S. pilots. The SU-22 is one of the Sukhoi series of Soviet-built fighters - an updated ver- sion of the plane used by Syria during the 1973 war in the Middle East and is consid- ered a poor match for the more sophis- ticated F-14. Pentagon officials said the encounter lasted only about one minute. The Defense Department last week an- nounced that the 6th Fleet would hold maneuvers off the Libyan coast, within the 120-mile limit Khadafy has set for his country's territorial waters. As late as Tuesday, the State Depart- ment reiterated for reporters the Reagan administration's contention that the exer- cises would not encroach on legitimate Libyan territorial interests as recognized by the U.S. government. "The U.S. government is protesting through diplomatic channels this un- provoked attack, which occurred in inter- national air space over 60 nautical miles from nearest land," the Pentagon said Wednesday. Weinberger told reporters there was no reason to have expected the Libyan at- tack. However, less than 24 hours before the attack, an editorial by the government- run Libyan news agency JANA called the U.S. maneuvers "armed provocations" and vowed that Libya would "fight in defense" of its territory. "THE FACT THAT these maneuvers are taking place proves America's real intentions and proves the bloodthirsty ter- rorists are pressing ahead with their plans to continue their aggression against the Libyan people," the editorial said. The Pentagon said the 6th Fleet exer- === Page 126 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Dennis churns up Atlantic Seaboard MIAMI (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Dennis churned up the Atlantic Seaboard with renewed vigor Wednesday, leaving south Florida swimming in nearly 20 inches of rainfall. Forecasters warned residents along the Georgia and Carolina coasts to prepare for a possible hurricane. No injuries were reported in Dennis' three-day visit to Florida, but forecasters warned that the tenacious storm could become more of a threat to life and property in the next few days. Gale warnings were posted for the coasts of extreme northeast Florida, Georgia and South Carolina as the storm, with peak winds of about 50 mph, moved up the Atlantic off northeast Florida. The center was about 40 miles east-southeast of Jacksonville, Fla., and moving northward at about 10 mph. It was expected to maintain that course but slow somewhat later Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami warned of severe thunderstorms, gusty winds and the possibility of a tornado or two in the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina on Wednesday. It also said conditions generally favor strengthening of the storm's velocity but added that the proximity of land would slow the process. Forecaster John Hope said late Tuesday that if the storm did gain strength, it could approach hurricane strength of 74 mph during the day. Hope urged residents along the coasts of North and South Carolina to "monitor the progress of the storm closely as a threat to those areas will develop today if the storm strengthens and maintains its projected north northeasterly course." Many south Floridians who were hoping Dennis would help alleviate the state's months-long water shortage got more than they bargained for -- flooded streets, power outages, evacuations and snarled traffic. Over three days, Dennis dumped 19.83 inches of rain on suburban Kendale Lakes and 18.84 inches on the farming community of Homestead. Both are south of Miami. Forecasters, meanwhile, were watching a new tropical depression that formed Tuesday in the central Atlantic, 1,200 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Hope said the depression, with highest winds of 35 mph, is expected to move west for several days and could intensify into a tropical storm. - UFOs & Projects - # Lightning plagues NW firefighters By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer Lightning, striking as frequently as five times per minute, ignited numerous fires Tuesday afternoon and night east of the Cascades in Washington and Oregon. Most of the blazes were small, however. About 20 fires were started in the Burns district alone in Oregon. Most of the blazes were small, however. Two fires merged into one 50 miles northeast of Lakeview and had blackened 5,000 acres by Wednesday morning, the Bureau of Land Management reported. Another 3,000 acres burned near Steens Mountain. There were scattered rain showers, sometimes strong enough to knock down wheat, but not where they were of much help against the fires, BLM officials said. Elsewhere in Oregon, planes dumped retardant on a lightning-caused fire near La Grande in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, and a stubborn fire 16 miles southwest of Klamath Falls that started Sunday was brought under control. Jim Fisher, spokesman for the Oregon State Forestry Department, said 21 new fires were reported on state-protected land, 13 of them lightning-caused. Eight were in the John Day area and five near Klamath Falls. All were under control and in mop-up stages Wednesday. Lightning set a substantial blaze in the Pasayten Wilderness in the Okanogan, Wash., area, abutting the Canadian border. It is in an area where crews must be brought in by helicopter, or hike three hours. Allen Gibbs, Okanogan National Forest spokesman, said significant winds were forecast for Wednesday afternoon, and the fire already is crowning, or burning from treetop to treetop. The blaze, however, is in an area of green meadows, and fire bosses hope to use them as a natural firebreak. More than 16,000 gallons of retardant were dropped on the blaze late Tuesday. Contained is a 388-acre fire at Blue Lake west of Tonasket, Wash. It has been burning out of control since Sunday. === Page 127 of 128 - UFOs & Projects - # Jet runs off runway; 3 passengers injured FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A Pan American World Airways Boeing 727 ran off the end of the runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday while attempting to take off, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Firefighters and paramedics immediately evacuated the jetliner, said FAA spokeswoman Gerri Cook in Atlanta. Three passengers suffered minor injuries, and there was some damage to the aircraft, though the extent was not immediately determined, said FAA spokesman Jack Barker. Spokesman Dick Stull at Broward General Hospital said a woman was treated for possible head and neck injuries, and her husband was also being treated. A third man suffered a sprained ankle, Stull said. A short time later, a firefighter who had been sprayed in the eye with foam was brought to the hospital, Stull said. Cook said the landing gear of Pan Am Flight 953, bound for Houston and Las Vegas, collapsed when the jet aborted a takeoff, ran off the end of the runway and became mired in the mud. Barker said National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the scene, along with FAA inspectors. "It appears the pilot aborted the takeoff, but why we don't know," Barker said. The FAA spokesman said reports that a "mystery voice" had ordered the pilot to abort the takeoff were false. "That's the first thing I checked when I found out it was Fort Lauderdale," Barker said. Last week, several airports around the country, including Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, reported "mystery voices" had tried to give bogus instructions to pilots. The jet carried 58 passengers and a crew of seven, said Harvey Berman, an airline spokesman in New York. "I want to emphasize this had nothing to do with the air traffic controllers strike," Berman said. # Airliner, light plane nearly collide By WILLIAM G. BLAIR New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- An airliner carrying 118 passengers and a private light plane were reported to have nearly collided over New Jersey Sunday evening, but just how close they came was in dispute Monday between the pilots. The airline pilot, who filed a near-midair collision report with the Federal Aviation Administration after landing at Newark International Airport, claimed the private craft had flown within 200 feet of the larger plane, according to Irving Moss, a spokesman in New York for the federal agency. Moss said the private pilot, in an interview Monday with the FAA, maintained that the closest he got to the airliner was 2,000 feet. An investigation was opened into the incident, reportedly the second "near miss" over New Jersey since the unionized air controllers walked off the job Aug. 3. Moss said there were no injuries in the incident and "no indication of controller error." The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, the union representing the 12,000 controllers who went on strike, has been contending that the use of substitute controllers endangers the lives of air passengers. For one passenger aboard the fully loaded Boeing 737 of People Express Airlines, there was no doubt about the nearness of the light plane, which the FAA said was being flown by Richard R. Hough of Morristown, N.J. "I thought I was going to die," the passenger, Emanuel Kelmenson of Jericho, N.Y., said Monday. "It was right in full view, coming toward us at a right angle, and I thought it was going to shear off the wing." Both planes veered up and away from each other, he added. "I'd never experienced anything like that before -- right there in living color!" Kelmenson exclaimed. "I don't plan to fly again until things are back to normal." The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday at an altitude of 5,000 feet about 25 miles northwest of Morristown as the Boeing 737 was descending on its approach to Newark Airport. The plane, one of nine 737's that make up the fleet of the recently established airline, had left Buffalo at 6:35 p.m. Harold Pareti, manager of the People Express, said it "appears from the company's preliminary investigation that our flight was under positive air traffic control by the New York air traffic control center and was at its assigned altitude and location." "Upon visually sighting the other aircraft," Pareti continued, "the People Express captain took all of the necessary and correct procedures." The airline declined to identify the plane's captain. The FAA's Moss said the private plane, a Grumman Widgen, which seats five, was flying under visual flight rules at the time of the incident. These rules, he said, require the pilot to "look out for other planes and avoid them" but they do not specify the distance to be kept. Moss said Hough had told the FAA he "saw the People Express aircraft from a distance of 3,000 feet, made a right climbing turn and did not come any closer than 2,000 feet from the other aircraft." Nevertheless, Hough, a 63-year-old businessman with 20 years of flying experience, said in an interview with a reporter, "It was much too close for comfort." After the incident, Moss said, the Widgen continued its flight and landed at the Mercer County Airport near Trenton. aug 8/18/81 === Page 128 of 128 - Util 6 projects - "deadly air space" # Light planes collide over San Jose; 1 dead By JOHN RICE SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Two light planes collided over San Jose and crashed onto the grounds of the main library Monday, killing one person and injuring two, police said. "They just crashed in midair," said Norma Rodriguez, a secretary at the library. "There was no other sound than the sound of the two planes colliding. I looked up and they were just spinning down toward the grounds." The 12:50 p.m. accident involved a Cessna 172 two-seater and a four-seat Piper Cherokee, both bound for San Jose Municipal Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration tower at the airport. The pilot of the Cessna, James Elbert Moses, 47, of Santa Clara, was killed, police said. The injured, both aboard the Piper, were Robert Short, 54, of Mountain View and pilot Bruce Marlow, 25, of Los Altos, according to San Jose Hospital spokesman Richard Peryam. He said they were both in stable condition. "They were talking to the tower, but they had the responsibility for separation between themselves," said an FAA spokesman, who hastily hung up the phone before giving his name. Both were operating under visual flight rules, he said. Ira Furman, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, also said preliminary indications were that the pilots were flying under visual flight rules and were not under the jurisdiction of controllers. "The tower had cleared the 172 to land, and the other plane had not contacted the tower for clearance," said FAA spokesman Alex Garvis. FAA investigators were sent to the scene, and firefighters were at the crash site. One plane landed in a grassy area just behind the library building, and another landed on top of two cars in the library parking lot, said Ms. Rodriguez. She was outside at the time. "I started running back to work. I thought they had landed right on top of the library," she said. ereg 8/18/81 3 Associated Press Laserphoto COLLISION DEBRIS -- Wrecked planes lie on ground near San Jose, Calif., library after colliding in midair Monday. One plane fell onto parked cars (upper right); the other landed across street. The pilot of one plane died. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 52 Recession 'spreading' Factory production was down by eight-tenths of 1 per-cent in September, and the Federal Reserve Board sees the second straight month of decline as "another sign that the recession is spreading." Reductions in industrial output were widespread by major types of goods and by industry. The decline is the same as in July 1980, during the depth of last year's recession. MY UFOs (SIs) CONTINUE THEIR ATTACK ON THE U.S. STOCK MARKET AND U.S. ECONOMY (AS PER MY WARNING LETTER OF JUNE 2, 1981, COPY ENCLOSED) Owens Sept. 29, 1981 === Page 2 of 52 - Fed's attack economy - # Wall Street down early, comes back Columbian 9/28/81 NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market braced today for a predicted "blue Monday," but the selloff, after early widespread losses, was less severe than expected despite disarray on stock exchanges in Europe and Japan. By late morning, U.S. stock prices had begun a recovery from their initial drop. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks, down nearly 15 points at 10:30 a.m. EDT, cut its loss to 4.57 points, at 819.44, an hour later. In New York foreign exchange and bullion trading, the dollar was losing ground gained earlier in Europe and the price of gold on the Commodities Exchange Inc. was off $8.90 an ounce, to $421. Silver prices also were lower. Stock traders were still reeling from last week's large losses on the New York Stock Exchange when they came to work today amid reports of "mass hysteria" on the London Stock Exchange and the largest single-day drop in history on the Tokyo exchange. Dealers in London cited predictions last week by investment adviser Joseph Granville of major declines on the world's stock exchanges, including what he forecast to be a "blue Monday" today on the already weakened NYSE. "You have to look at today as a culmination of a decline that's been going on since June," said Larry Wachtel, first vice president at Bache Halsey Stuart Shields. "Now it's reaching a climactic stage." Investors' concerns over high interest rates and the federal deficit helped push the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to a 16-month low. Many analysts say President Reagan's proposed reductions in federal spending are seen as insufficient in the markets, and in any case will not be received favorably in Congress. * See my letter of June 2!! (next Xerox) === Page 3 of 52 interested a new book is out having a description of my work in it: "UFO Encyclopedia" by Margaret Sachs. (Huge paperback.) June 2, 1981 Scientists and Contacts ... Dr. Mishlove and D. Scott Rogo have written a true and accurate account of my work. Their book... has been unfairly blocked from being published. (My UFOs say the matter is invalid, and I believe them.) My UFOs have communicated tonight... that if the Mishlove/Rogo book about my work is not truly bought for publication this summer and published... then they, the UFOs, will destroy the U.S. Stock Market, far worse than in 1929. The UFOs have my permission. Ted Owens "PK man" === Page 4 of 52 MARKET IN BRIEF UP 919 UNCH. 323 NYSE index 66.43 .... +1.47 S&P Comp. 115.53 ... +2.76 Dow Jones Ind. 842.56 .. +18.55 SEPT. 28 Volume 61.32 million Issues Traded 1,901 DOWN 659 Stocks dive in markets worldwide Story on Page One also By MARK S. SMITH LONDON (AP) -- The London Stock Exchange led a string of world markets into a breathtaking plunge Monday in trading that one broker likened to a tree fall without a parachute. About $6.4 billion in British stock value was wiped out of investors' accounts in a market already drained by two weeks of losses totaling $25.81 billion. The London Financial Times index of 30 industrials dropped 17.2 points to close at 457.5, roughly comparable to a drop of 31 points in the Dow Jones index of 30 industrials on the New York Stock Exchange. At one point, the London average was down nearly 30 points, but a closing rally cut the losses. "A trend, once started like this, usually goes too far," said John Brew, analyst for the London brokerage house Grieveson Grant. The downward trend hit the New York Stock Exchange in early trading, with the Dow Jones index falling almost 15 points. But a dramatic late rally pulled the Dow up to 842.56 at the close, up 18.55 for the day. The fall in the London market -- the worst-ever Financial Times index drop was 24 points in the midst of a change in government in March 1974 -- was just one of several spectacular falls in world markets Monday. In Tokyo, the Nikkei-Dow index for 225 major issues slumped 302.84 to close at 7,037.12, the worst single-day plunge ever. "It was as if the bottom of a bucket had fallen off," one Tokyo broker said. Stock market takes plunge as budget doubts persist By JAMES PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) -- An index of blue-chip stocks hit a 16-month low Thursday, and other issues were mixed as a skeptical market awaited President Reagan's proposals to further cut the federal budget. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, which had been up nearly 6 points earlier in the day, fell 5.80 to 835.14, its lowest level since its 831.06 close May 21, 1980. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index fell 2.3 to 292.12, its lowest mark since June 24, 1980, when it finished at 289.46. Declines outnumbered advances by a 4-3 ratio on the New York Stock Exchange. Big Board volume totaled 48.88 million shares, against 52.70 million in the previous session. Prices had moved slightly higher by midday but retreated after a White House forecast for a fiscal 1982 federal deficit of $42.5 billion. Separately, the Treasury Department said the budget deficit in August narrowed to $5.12 billion but that for the current fiscal year it totaled $64.83 billion through August. MARKET IN BRIEF UP 629 UNCH. 435 NYSE index 66.42 ....... -0.32 S&P Comp. 115.01 ....... -0.64 Dow Jones Ind. 835.14 ....... -5.80 SEPT. 24 Volume 48.88 million Issues Traded 1,874 DOWN 810 newsbreak U.S. economy 'a lot worse' The nation's industrial production dropped by 0.4 percent in August, the biggest decline since last year's recession, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. A Chicago bank official, citing recent measurements of inventory buildup and lackluster retail sales, said the economy "is beginning to look a lot worse." In Hong Kong, shares plummeted to their lowest level of the year, 1,245.26 on the Hang Seng index, a drop of 105.75. In Zurich, the drop was the worst in 6 1/2 years, 5.3 points on the Credit Suisse stock index, which closed at 230.0. In Paris, the Bourse market indicator dropped 3.57 percent for the day, having been off by 4.76 percent at midsession. The Toronto stock market plunged 54.48 points in early trading but recouped to 1806.62 by 1 p.m., down only 5.86 points for the day. Other sharp drops were reported in Singapore, Frankfurt and Sydney. Dow Jones Average 30 Industrials Sept 25, 1981 1980 M J J A S O N D 1981 J F M A M J J A S 956.25 956.14 940.10 924.49 917.15 932.42 940.19 931.57 936.09 964.62 974.58 976.40 971.72 955.67 958.90 936.93 942.54 920.57 892.22 872.81 861.68 836.19 824.01 Low 805.20 High 968.72 Low 997.75 High 1026.35 High 946.25 Low 881.47 1020.35 1007.11 992.80 995.59 996.19 992.87 1006.28 972.78 933.34 August '81 April 1981 1980 === Page 5 of 52 London panic sets off $3.9 billion stock loss LONDON (AP) -- The value of stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange fell by more than $3.9 billion Thursday and the market plunged deeper into one of its worst slides in history following a sell signal by Wall Street guru Joseph Granville. Dealers talked of "utter confusion" and "hysteria" as the decline continued for a second day. A banner headline in the afternoon London Standard read, "Panic on the Stock Exchange." "In this mood anything can happen," said Alan Butler-Henderson, economic strategy chief at Hoare Govett stockbrokers. "The mood is negative enough to suggest that we have not seen the bottom of the slide yet." The Financial Times index of 30 industrial stocks, the mostly widely quoted barometer of the London exchange, lost 5.7 points over the day to close Thursday night at 489.1, after having been 17.4 points down only a half-hour earlier. The decline erased $3.93 billion from British stock values, bringing the two-day loss to $10 billion, according to Datastream International Ltd., a financial information service. At one point Thursday, the losses looked as though they would be even larger, but dealers said a "technical reaction" to the earlier price slump led to a late rally. British stocks took a 20.5-point plunge Wednesday after Granville gave sell advice in a London radio interview, saying "even an 82-year-old grandmother should be short on stocks." The interview was broadcast as brokers were coming to work and the market -- already nervous over predicted higher interest rates -- nosedived. It was the sharpest one-day decline since March 1, 1974, three days before former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath resigned following the Labor Party general election victory. That day, the market fell 24 points, to 313.8. Greg 9/25/81 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Wednesday, September 16, 1981 Industrials Decline 7.80 as Analysts Cite Fear of a Deep, New Recession - UFOs attack economy - By JAMES A. WHITE Stock analysts in growing numbers have come up with a fresh reason for the market's poor performance: fear of a deep, new recession. As evidence, they cite yesterday's stock action in which the market gave a weak shrug to short-term interest rate declines and then fell abruptly late in the session on continued slow volume. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had shown a modest 3.62-point gain at midday, deteriorated rapidly in late afternoon to produce a 7.80-point loss to 858.35. "We think what is bothering this market is the prospect of a recession over the next several quarters," says Alan R. Shaw, manager of market analysis for Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. "The market is reacting in a classical way to the possibility of economic contraction." Alan Poole, research vice president at Laidlaw-Coggelhall Inc., says that the "effect of the recession will be highly visible by the end of the year and I think it will be much more serious than most people think." He discounts the widely cited belief that stock prices will recover as interest rates decline. "I think interest rates will drop as the economy gets worse, and in that case, both the market and the economy can go down together," Mr. Poole says. Abreast WAY. WA. 9-18-81 35 CENTS Losing Friends Reagan Program Stirs Worries in New Area: The Currency Markets Money Traders Have Doubts About Fight on Inflation, And Dollar Falls Sharply Is the Fed Under Pressure? By JOHN M. LEGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL President Reagan is suddenly losing his last friends on Wall Street--and on Threadneedle Street and Bahnhofstrasse, too. Foreign-exchange traders in New York, London, Zurich and other world financial centers were, until this week, the President's staunchest supporters. They stuck by him and drove up the value of the U.S. dollar to levels that hadn't been seen in years, even after the plunging bond and stock markets in this country signaled deep misgivings about his economic program. But now the sentiment in foreign-exchange markets has changed--with a vengeance. The dollar has dropped for seven days in a row, including a decline yesterday against most currencies (see story on page 10. Against the West German mark, the standard by which many traders measure the U.S. currency's movements, the dollar has plummeted 4% so far this week. It has sustained comparable declines against other major currencies. And the overall drop from its 1981 high on Aug. 10 now amounts to a staggering 11%--a "rather frightening" decline, says Eugene H. Rotberg, the vice president and treasurer of the World Bank. - UFOs attack economy - Mart hits 16-month low NEW YORK (UPI) -- Stocks plunged to a 16-month low Thursday when an early rally collapsed under the weight of news that indicated the economy, plagued by high interest rates and deficits, might be headed into a severe recession. Trading was moderately active as the Dow Jones industrial average, which had been ahead about three points at midday, skidded 11.51 points late in the day to 840.09, the lowest level since it finished at 831.06 on May 21, 1980. The Dow has fallen 32.72 points the past four sessions and technical analysts said selling accelerated after it failed to hold at its previous 1981 low of 851.12 set last week. The New York Stock Exchange index lost 0.99 to 67.83, a new 1980 low, and the price of an average share decreased 42 cents. Declines routed advances 1,170-355 among the 1,903 traded at 4 p.m. EDT. Investors still are worried about high interest rates, prospects of a huge federal budget deficit and a steep recession. Newton Zinder, E.F. Hutton vice president, said "bad economic news is hurting the market, I think we're in a recession and I think its deepening." So do many other economists who were alarmed at a 10.7 percent drop in August housing starts. Greg 9/18/81 DOW JONES -11.51 === Page 6 of 52 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1981 # Stocks plunge to new lows By VARTANIG G. VARTAN New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- Prices plunged to new lows for the year on the New York and American Stock Exchanges Friday following an ominous forecast by Joseph Granville, a prominent market adviser, and investor disappointment over President Reagan's televised speech Thursday night. "The markets were reacting primarily to Granville's predictions and, secondarily, to the fact that the president's proposed new spending cuts were not judged sufficient," said Stewart J. Pillette, associate director of research for Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. It was a day of shock encompassing Wall Street and Main Street. "Margin calls are going out to many people who bought stock on credit," a broker for one major firm declared. "And more margin calls probably will be issued next Monday." Total margin debt was last reported at a near-record $14.3 billion. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 11.13 points, to 824.01, finishing at its lowest point since May 15, 1980, at 822.53. Since this year's peak in late April, this most closely-watched barometer of the market has dropped 200 points -- marking the most sustained selloff since the infamous bear market year of 1974. The Amex market value index, composed of more speculative issues, sank 15.36 points, its second largest decline on record, to 278.76. Meanwhile, the bond market also experienced a sinking spell that sent government bonds to record yields exceeding 15 percent. On a European tour far from his home base of Holly Hill, Fla., the 57-year-old Granville sent fresh tremors through the stock market. In a telephone interview with the Dow Jones news service in Paris, he predicted that Sept. 28 "will go down in financial history as a Blue Monday." The investment adviser also said that he would not be surprised if the Dow industrials hit "the 700's" in the next few days. Earlier this week, Granville forecast that the Dow could slide to between 550 and 650 by the end of next year. Granville is best remembered for his "sell everything" advice to clients, delivered by phone calls and flash telegrams, that sent the Dow plunging nearly 24 points Jan. 7. Trading that day swelled to 92.9 million shares, shattering all volume records on the Big Board. Although he is credited with calling several major market turns in the last three years, Granville does not possess an infallible forecasting record. His critics point out that he missed the huge slide in stock prices in 1973 and 1974. "Stocks are on the bargain counter," he declared in April 1973, when the Dow was hovering around the 950 level. He remained optimistic through much of the following year, although the Dow did not hit bottom until Dec. 6, 1974, at 577.60. How do Wall Street professionals regard Granville? "I don't take him seriously," replied a partner at one investment firm. "The market's been declining for months and now he's jumping on it. He's like a Pied Piper. When he plays his flute, his followers listen." Meanwhile, President Reagan's speech Thursday night proposed $13 billion in additional spending cuts and $3 billion in increased taxes for the fiscal year 1982. "He proposed too little in the way of cuts for the federal budget," said David Jones, an economist for Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., dealers in government securities, stated. Stock prices have been spiraling downward since this spring under the pressure of investor worries about high interest rates, prospects for a swelling budget, signs of a business slowdown and -- more recently -- a surge of margin calls that often causes forced selling of securities. 3M MARKET IN BRIEF SEPT. 25 UP 156 UNCH. 222 DOWN 1,503 Volume 54.39 million Issues Traded 1,881 | | | | |---|---|---| | NYSE index | 64.96 | -1.46 | | S&P Comp. | 112.77 | -2.24 | | Dow Jones Ind. | 824.01 | -11.13 | While losses in stock market averages are measured in points, the attrition in actual market value has been enormous. Between the Dow's high in April and the close of trading Friday, the market value of 5,000 common stocks on the Big Board, the Amex and the over-the-counter arena plunged $255 billion, according to Wilshire Associates, a financial services firm in Santa Monica, Calif. This figure far exceeds the total assets of $160 billion invested in money-market mutual funds. Trading volume on the Big Board rose Friday to 54.4 million shares, the largest turnover in a month since Thursday's 48.9 million. === Page 7 of 52 Industrials Bump 16-Month Low, Closing at 840.09 in Active Trading By VICTOR J. HILLERY As investors focused on signs of a deteriorating economy, the stock market tumbled. The Dow Jones industrial average bumped its lowest level in almost 16 months in active trading. Analysts cited the Commerce Department announcement that housing starts fell 10.7% in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 937,000 units. There also was news that General Motors will cut truck production next week. In addition, analysts were reducing earnings estimates. The industrial average, down 21.21 points in the prior three sessions, skidded 11.51 points to 840.09, its lowest level since it closed at 831.06 on May 21, 1980. The transportation and utility indexes also were down sharply. More than 1,100 New York Stock Exchange issues lost ground, three times the gainers. Wall St. Journal London Quotes Sag; Last Week's Decline Was Biggest Since '76 9-21-81 A WALL STREET JOURNAL News Roundup Prices plunged Friday on the London Stock Exchange in nervous trading. Tokyo quotes advanced slightly. In London, the Financial Times industrial share index plummeted 16 points, to 515.4. The market's index fell a total of 38 points last week, the biggest drop since the sterling crisis of 1976. One major factor unnerving the London market, analysts said, is trader concern that a recent increase in British interest rates won't be adequate to bolster the pound and curb bank lending. Added to this was the poor performance on Wall Street Thursday and a gloomy comment by the Bank of England on near-term prospects for the British economy. President defensive as stock market dives By CLIFF HAAS WASHINGTON (AP) -- While President Reagan declared "I'm sure not going to take the blame" for a plunge in the financial markets, chief aides said Friday that the quest for a balanced budget by 1984 will require further cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, federal retirement and other benefit programs. But the administration backed off plans to cut minimum portions in the millions of school lunches served across the country. Budget Director David Stockman said that proposal was "a bureaucratic goof that we're going to change." Stock and bond prices plunged and interest rates rose on the markets Friday, an apparent indication that Wall Street wasn't encouraged very much by Reagan's economic address to the nation Thursday night. The Dow industrials dropped 11.13 points. Asked if he took the market's performance as a vote of no confidence, Reagan snapped, "That keeps us even." He said he wasn't bothered by falling stock prices "because I don't have any (stock)." As to why the market was down, Reagan said, "I don't know, but it started yesterday ... and I guess it's continuing on down. I don't know what the reason is, but I'm sure not going to take the blame." "I'm going to go by the phone calls and telegrams that have been coming in since last night's speech, and they are running 3- or 4-to-1 and better in our favor." Stockman confirmed that the administration was withdrawing a plan to cut the minimum portions of meat, vegetables, bread and milk that schools must serve to children. Meanwhile, Republican leaders said Congress likely will cut the defense budget next year by more than the $2 billion recommended by the president. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr., R-Tenn., said his colleagues "almost certainly" will go deeper. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois agreed, although he said a proposal from liberal GOP members to slash $9 billion from defense goes too far. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, Stockman and Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, met with reporters to amplify the president's pitch Thursday night for additional spending reductions. The president recommended across-the-board reductions of 12 percent in non-defense and non-benefit programs, slashing the federal work force by 75,000 jobs, cutting back on federal loan guarantees and abolishing the departments of Education and Energy to achieve $13 billion in savings for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Also included was a call for $3 billion in additional tax revenues through the elimination of "abuses and obsolete incentives in the tax code." "When we first announced our economic recovery effort last February, our national illness was clearly inflation. ... This new round of reductions is simply one more initiative in that effort" to fight inflation, the Treasury secretary said. He added that the hefty tax cuts Congress enacted this summer "would force us to live within our means. They would force us to continually examine our spending patterns and to reduce or eliminate those programs which aren't necessary or aren't working." Related stories on Pages B11 and C7. arg 9/26/81 === Page 8 of 52 # Sell-off punishes world's stock marts NEW YORK (UPI) -- Prices opened sharply lower on U.S. stock markets Monday in what flamboyant American market guru Joseph Granville predicted would be a "blue Monday" in Wall Street history. By midday, the London stock market suffered its worst setback in 7 1/2 years. The huge Tokyo stock exchange, where 600 million shares are traded daily, sustained the biggest drop on record for a single session. Stocks also skidded in Sydney, Australia, and in Hong Kong. A half hour after the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 14.27 to 809.74. Trading was hectic. Numerous stocks on U.S. exchanges were delayed in opening because of a heavy rush of orders. Gold plummeted more than $20 an ounce in early trading on European money markets. The dollar showed renewed strength abroad. Gold, silver, copper and grains opened lower on U.S. commodity markets. Last week Granville, who was on a European tour, issued a gloomy outlook for world stock markets and on Friday, he forecast Monday would be a "blue Monday" in U.S. financial history. Some panelists on the widely followed "Wall Street Week" television show said Granville's statements in Europe were "like hitting a person on crutches with a baseball bat" with the market already on the skids. Prior to last week, the closely followed Dow average fell 170 points since mid-June. When asked about Granville's prediction of a blue Monday, U.S. Budget Director David Stockman said on ABC's "Good Morning America" show Monday: "One day doesn't make a trend, and we're going to have to wait and see." In London, the Datastream computer calculated that $8.28 billion was wiped off market values by early afternoon, bringing to $23.58 billion the amount lost since the middle of last week. The Financial Times index of 30 Industrials on the London exchange plummeted 29.4 points to stand at 445.3 by the afternoon. The decline was the worst in London since March 1, 1974, when the index fell 32.8 points as the market opened and another 25.5 points within 30 minutes when it became apparent that then Prime Minister Edward Heath's Labor government was about to fall. # Stock prices stage dramatic rebound By MARTHA M. HAMILTON and JAMES L. ROWE JR. LA Times-Washington Post Service NEW YORK -- Wall Street was poised for a panic Monday that never occurred. With stock prices collapsing across Asia and Europe, prices plummeted at the opening of the New York Stock Exchange before staging one of the biggest one-day rallies of the year. By the end of the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average had climbed 32 points to close up 18.55 points. After a brief selling flurry that drove the Dow down nearly 15 points in the first half hour of trading, U.S. investors changed their minds about Armageddon. At the close the Dow had registered its biggest one-day gain since March 15, when the Dow barometer rose 19.09 points. Analysts said Monday's turnaround was the biggest mood swing they could recall. "It's possible it was a climatic ending to a bear market," said Leslie Alperstein, director of research at Bache Halsey Staurt Shields Inc., a major brokerage firm. Others, however, were less sanguine about a stock market that has dropped steadily since early July and has been in the doldrums since April, when the Dow average was 1,024. Donald I. Trott, chairman of the investment policy committee at the brokerage firm A.G. Becker, foresaw a volatile stock market Tuesday followed by a strong rally. Then, however, he saw a renewed decline in stock prices. Trott's firm handles transactions for many European investors, and when the day began at Becker, many of its clients had placed huge orders to sell their U.S. stocks. Many told their brokers to sell at prices substantially below Friday's closing prices, anticipating a substantial price decline at the opening of trading on the New York exchange, the world's biggest securities market. Those investors were saying, in effect, "I want out at any price," according to Trott. In Tokyo the Nikkei Dow Jones index fell 302.84 to 7,037.12, the biggest single-session drop in history, however, it was up 66.58 points in early trading Tuesday. In London, where stock prices have been sliding for two weeks, the Financial Times index was down 22 to 452.7, the biggest overall decline since 1974. The story was similar in Australia and in the rest of Europe and Asia. Selling was strong during the first hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. About 17.5 million shares of stock changed hands, compared with 12.9 million Friday. But most of the sellers were either foreign investors or individual investors. "It was the medium-to-small investor who said, 'The sky is falling,'" according to Pat Ryan, chief trader at the Washington brokerage firm Johnston, Lemon & Co. Inc. When the Dow average fell below 810, about 10:30 a.m., however, the big institutional stock buyers -- pension funds, university endowments and insurance companies -- began to buy. The Dow average shook off all its losses by 1:30 p.m., then weakened between 2 and 3 p.m. But in the final hour of trading Monday it climbed more than 20 points. Florida stock prognosticator Joseph Granville -- who last January triggered a market panic here when he cabled the 3,000 subscribers to his market letter that they should "sell everything" -- made investors in Europe, Asia and the U.S. jittery last week when he predicted more bad times for stock prices and a "Blue Monday" on the New York Stock Exchange, during which prices would fall by record amounts. Related story on Page A13. === Page 9 of 52 An Appraisal 9-21-81 Wall St Journal # Despite Signs Low Point Is Near, Few Analysts See Reversal at Hand By CHARLES J. ELIA The stock market is being hammered by forces that aren't likely to let up for a while. Forced selling out of margin accounts, broad-scale reductions of earnings estimates and a gathering push by institutions into cash as their quarterly reporting deadline approaches are taking a heavy toll. Analysts say there could be a silver lining in the storm clouds if all this leads to a "washout" of sellers in a crescendo of volume. Though painful, such a selling climax could set the stage for a recovery in stock prices. But, although some market watchers are seeing some developments that usually appear near market low points, few believe conditions are ripe in the market for a reversal of the recent downtrend. Margin debt, the amount owed by those buying stocks on partial credit, dropped $600 million in August to $14.27 billion from its June-July record levels. But the amount of borderline margin debt increased substantially, and this deterioration in debt quality has exacted heavy costs in the stock market this month. "We estimate that another $1 billion to $1.5 billion of margin debt is gone since late August," says Ned Babbitt, president of Avatar Associates, which manages $50 million of assets. "We think there's more to go." Much of the margin-debt liquidation occurs when traders choose to avoid putting up more cash to hold stocks that have declined sharply in value. Many such decisions have to be made by 2 p.m. on the day after a trader gets a call to put up more money or be sold out, and this has contributed to abrupt price drops in late afternoon trading. Last Thursday, for example, more than eight points of the 11.51-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average occurred after 2 p.m. Brokers report that the pace of margin calls, which have been moderately heavy for several weeks, accelerated in the past few days. This element of forced selling has come into a marketplace characterized for some time by a marked unwillingness among investors to bid for stocks even in a declining market, a condition reinforced by the increasing frequency with which Street analysts have begun to cut earnings estimates. Thus, even a long-awaited decline in short-term interest rates and the first signs in a long while of firmness in the bond market last week haven't helped much to stop the market's descent. Furthermore, only a glimmer of the institutional nervousness that analysts equate with a selling climax has appeared. Last Wednesday and Thursday, blocks of 10,000 shares or more climbed to 42% of total New York Stock Exchange volume, with twice as many sold on downticking prices than on upticks. But few are funneling proceeds of such sales into other issues; rather, institutions appear more desirous of ending the quarter showing high cash reserves. Analysts expect to see broader and more panicky selling before they consider the market sold out and the decline arrested. Even though Big Board turnover has been increasing (it reached 48 million shares Thursday) over the low levels recorded earlier this month, "We haven't seen any meaningful increase" of technical significance, says Anthony Tabell, of Delafield, Harvey, Tabell, a unit of Janney, Montgomery Scott. "Basically, it would be good to see a washout day of 80 million shares," he says, an event he would consider more likely to mark the end of the market slide than the current situation. "The one thing the market is unlikely to do, based on history, is to quietly turn around and move slowly upward in an orderly fashion," he adds. "This would be a highly uncommon aftermath in a market which has developed the downside momentum this one already possesses. This market either will wash out or die, and if it dies it could be several months, possibly the end of the year, before any meaningful upside move takes place." Avatar's Mr. Babbitt, who has had 90% or more of the firm's funds in cash reserve for several months, says that his monetary and sentiment indicators have turned positive but that he's still lacking encouragement from his momentum studies. "We're beginning to be positive and we can move 35% to 40% of our cash into stocks pretty quickly, but we don't know when our third set of factors will improve. We're still waiting." ### Abreast of the Market **DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS WEEKLY CLOSE** WEEK ENDED SEPTEMBER 18, 1981 835.19 DOWN 36.62 **MARKET DIARY** | | Fri. | Thu. | Wed. | Tue. | Mon. | (a) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Issues traded | 1,886 | 1,908 | 1,896 | 1,896 | 1,897 | 2,116 | | Advances | 472 | 368 | 415 | 634 | 599 | 461 | | Declines | 1,027 | 1,157 | 1,102 | 820 | 930 | 1,463 | | Unchanged | 387 | 383 | 379 | 442 | 368 | 192 | | New highs | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 14 | | New lows | 245 | 170 | 129 | 74 | 74 | 422 | (a) Summary for the week ended September 18, 1981. **DOW JONES CLOSING AVERAGES** | | Friday | | Yr. Ago | Since | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | | 1981 | Change | % | 1980 | % Chg. | Dec. 31 | % | | Ind | 835.19 | -3.90 | -0.46 | 963.74 | -13.33 | -127.80 | -13.26 | | Trn | 345.51 | -2.26 | -0.65 | 346.52 | -0.29 | -52.59 | -13.21 | | Util | 104.34 | -0.93 | -0.88 | 112.34 | -7.12 | -10.18 | -8.90 | | Cmp | 327.08 | -1.95 | -0.59 | 355.98 | -8.12 | -46.33 | -12.41 | Ex-dividends of Detroit Edison Co. 42 cents lowered the utility average by 0.15. The above ex-dividend lowered the composite average by 0.08. **OTHER MARKET INDICATORS** | | | 1981 | Change | % | 1980 | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | N.Y.S.E. | Composite | 67.27 | -0.56 | -0.83% | 74.81 | | | Industrial | 76.59 | -0.73 | -0.94% | 86.99 | | | Utility | 37.86 | -0.23 | -0.60% | 39.17 | | | Transp. | 62.69 | -0.38 | -0.60% | 68.59 | | | Financial | 69.35 | +0.01 | -0.01% | 71.25 | | Am. Ex. | Mkt Val Index | 300.33 | -5.34 | -1.75% | 340.06 | | Nasdaq | OTC Composite | 184.27 | -1.44 | -0.78% | 195.33 | | | Industrial | 179.89 | -1.55 | -0.85% | 183.38 | | | Insurance | 179.89 | -0.74 | -0.41% | 183.38 | | | Banks | 130.37 | -0.68 | -0.52% | 116.54 | | Standard & Poor's 500 | 116.26 | -0.89 | -0.76% | 129.25 | | | 400 Industrial | 130.19 | -1.15 | -0.88% | 146.83 | | Wilshire 5000 Equity | 1217.585 | -11.013 | -0.90% | 1335.791 | Market value, in billions of dollars, of N.Y.S.E., Amex and actively traded OTC issues. **TRADING ACTIVITY** Volume of advancing stocks on N.Y.S.E., 11,904,000 shares; volume of declining stocks, 30,203,200. On American S.E., volume of advancing stocks, 1,215,300; volume of declining stocks, 3,936,000. Nasdaq volume of advancing stocks, 5,021,900; volume of declining stocks, 9,076,700. **Friday's Market Activity** A half-hearted stock-market rally attempt failed Friday and the Dow Jones industrial average slipped to another 16-month low in moderately active trading. === Page 10 of 52 - The attack economy - # Plants threat to economy, panel says JOHN HAYES the Oregonian staff SEATTLE -- The Washington Pub- Power Supply System has no chance continuing construction of its No. 4 No. 5 nuclear power plants without pardizing the entire Northwest econ- y, a two-state panel of business ex- tives said Friday. But a forced abandonment of the projects, expected to cost some $13 ion, could send the supply system receivership, allowing creditors to ach plants 1, 2 and 3. The result could ll be the largest economic shock the rthwest has ever faced -- an eco- nic catastrophe that could sacrifice rs of economic growth and jeopar- e the credit of regional institutions far into the future, the panel members said. The panel, whose report was eager- ly awaited by energy experts and bond analysts from coast to coast, stated that only one alternative offered hope of avoiding severe economic consequences without exposing the Northwest to power shortages in the early 1990s: halting construction of WPPSS plants 4 and 5 for up to 2 1/2 years, while a re- gional consensus is reached on whether the plants are needed. The panel members were appointed in late July by Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh and Washington Gov. John Spellman. Chosen for their experience in large business enterprises, they were George Weyerhaeuser, head of Weyerhaeuser Co.; Edward Carlson, president of UAL Co.; and John Elorriaga, president of U.S. Bancorp, the parent firm of U.S. National Bank of Oregon. Plants 4 and 5 are a regional "asset" worth preserving, Weyerhaeuser said. "While what is there is costly, it would be even more costly to duplicate with new construction elsewhere." "We approached our task as busi- nessmen, not power experts," Carlson said, opening a heavily attended press conference here to release the report. Among the panel's findings were: - A new, higher estimate of the cost of building plants 4 and 5, which originally was pegged at $3.2 billion. The panelists said the plants, 23 percent and 14 percent completed, would come in at about $13.2 billion if a way could be found around the financial obstacles in their path. - That if plants 4 and 5 were being planned by businessmen such as the pa- nelists, they would not have been start- ed before the total financial arrange- ment had been signed and sealed, Weyerhaeuser said. And, in a situation similar to the one confronting WPPSS, "Every effort would be made immedi- ately to reduce all further cash outlays, critically examine the need for the pro- ject and, most importantly, secure the financing needed before proceeding fur- ther." - The greatest danger the WPPSS managers have exposed the region to is that an abrupt financial collapse of pro- jects 4 and 5 could lead contractors to attempt to legally attach the supply sys- tem's assets, including plants 1, 2 and 3, leading to a decadelong economic and power supply crisis in the region. Though the Federal Bonneville Power Administration has purchased the even- tual output of the first three plants whether they ever produce any electric- ity or not and, in effect, is paying for their construction, the plants are owned by WPPSS and therefore are susceptible to takeover by supply system creditors. - In contrast to the energy deficits predicted by the BPA and the utilities for the late 1980s, the panel concluded that 2,400-megawatt capacity of plants 4 and 5 would not be needed to avert shortages until after the end of the dec- ade. - The costs of preserving the $2.25 billion already invested in the two plants should be spread evenly through- out the Northwest. If that is done, the cost of keeping the plants in cold stor- age for 2 1/2 years may be as low as $180 million, the panel members said. - If the region's aluminum indus- try, private utilities and public utilities that have not so far invested in the WPPSS program agree to help pay the cold-storage financing costs, electricity rates would go up regionwide by only about 0.1 cent, they said. Related stories on Pages A21-23. Oreg 9/19/81 - The attack economy - # Housing starts hit six-year low point WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's already se- vere housing slump worsened in August, with new construction of single-family houses hitting its lowest point since the government began keeping track more than two decades ago, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Overall, housing starts hit their lowest rate since February 1975, at the bottom of that year's recession. By all accounts, record high interest rates were to blame. Builders began construction on new single-family homes at an annual rate of 591,000 in August, a de- crease of 16.4 percent from July and the lowest rate since the government began keeping such statistics in 1959, Commerce officials said. Housing starts for all categories totaled an annual rate of 937,000 during the month, down 10.7 percent from July and not much above the 904,000 rate of February 1975, the report said. The only lower rate was the 843,000 of October 1966. In addition, the report said building permits for future construction fell 5.5 percent in August, the fourth straight monthly decline and an indication that no upswing is in sight. Starts had risen 1 percent in July, while permits fell 5.2 percent. "What's really happened is that the government statistics have finally caught up with reality," said Mark Riedy, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, a trade group whose members originate many of the nation's home loans. Oreg 9/18/81 === Page 11 of 52 Pessimism costs Dow 6.75 points By VARTANIG G. VARTAN New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- Stock prices sank Wednesday across a broad front as the Dow Jones industrial average barely missed setting a closing low for the year. The Dow fell 6.75 points, finishing at 851.60. Earlier, it was down more than nine points. This indicator closed at a 15-month low of 851.12 on Sept. 8 amid investor worries over high interest rates and the size of the federal budget deficit. Contributing to Wednesday's setback was a statement by Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, that recent declines in short-term rates do not signal that the Fed is easing its restrictive monetary policy. Volcker told the Senate Budget Committee that he believed the Fed remained "reasonably on target" in being able to manage the money supply. Although recent concerns about the stock market have centered on the high level of interest rates and the federal budget, Edgar W. Kann, managing partner of Ernst & Co., noted increasing worries over the prospect of lower 1982 earnings for many companies. "In order to lick inflation, the nation must go through a recession," he said. "I can see the Dow industrials falling as low as 750 by the middle of next year." Eastman Kodak fell 7/8, to 63 3/8, after dropping 1 1/2 points Tuesday in response to estimates of reduced 1982 earnings by some analysts. Noon rally fails; Dow down 36.62 New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The stock market continued to retreat Friday and set new lows for 1981 with selling pressure particularly evident on the American Stock Exchange. The broad setback encompassed virtually all market groups. The Dow Jones industrial average, unable once again to sustain a rally attempt around noon, dropped 3.9 points, to 836.19. This marked its lowest closing since 831.06 May 21, 1980. For the full week, the Dow fell 36.62 points, despite improving bond prices and declining short-term interest rates -- normally favorable factors for the equity market. Analysts noted that since June 15, the Dow has plunged 175 points, which constitutes one of the sharpest sustained declines within the last dozen years. Friday's volume on the New York Stock Exchange eased slightly to 47.4 million shares from Thursday's turnover of 48.3 million. Reflecting further weakness in natural resource issues, the Amex market value index fell 5.34 points to 300.33. It had set an all-time high of 380.36 as recently as Aug. 13. This week's drop in the index was 30.72 points. Investor concern over high interest rates and the size of the federal budget deficit has been cited repeatedly as the chief causes of the stock market decline in recent months. But additional concerns have been surfacing, according to analysts. "One factor in the latest weakness in stocks is that Wall Street has been slashing earnings estimates for 1981 and 1982," said John R. Groome, research director for the United States Trust Co. "Estimates are being cut for companies in numerous industries, including forest products, building, automobiles and chemicals. "As for falling prices on the Amex, I think that the increase in margin calls to brokerage-house customers who bought stocks on credit is another factor. A lot of people speculated by purchasing stocks on margin in hopes of takeovers." As one example of recent cutbacks in profit estimates, Joseph J. Doyle of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. lowered his earnings projections for stocks in the lodging industry earlier this week. "Lodging industry conditions in the past couple of months have gone from weak to weaker," he noted. Elsewhere, Eastman Kodak fell 1 point, to 61 5/8, Friday. It dropped 4 5/8 points on the week, after some analysts cut their earnings projections for 1982. MARKET IN BRIEF SEPT. 18 UP 473 UNCH. 386 DOWN 1,027 Volume 47.35 million Issues Traded 1,886 | NYSE index | | | |---|---|---| | 67.27 | -0.56 | | | S&P Comp. | | | | 116.26 | -0.89 | | | Dow Jones Ind. | | | | 836.19 | -3.90 | | Fed warning batters market NEW YORK (UPI) -- Stocks suffered their third straight loss Wednesday amid investor concerns about Paul Volcker's warnings on the economy, deficits and interest rates. Trading was moderate. The Dow Jones industrial average, which surrendered 7.80 points Tuesday, dropped another 6.75 points to 851.60, bringing its three-day loss total to 21.21 points. The New York Stock Exchange index lost 0.52 to 68.82 and the price of an average share decreased 11 cents. Declines topped advances 1,103-404 among the 1,885 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT. Big Board volume totaled 43,660,000 shares compared with 38,580,000 traded Tuesday. Trading was halted on the Big Board from 12:36 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. when a fire alarm went off accidentally, forcing evacuation of the building on a rainy day. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker told Congress "inflation will not be brought under control without persistent restraint on growth in money and credit." He said a recent dip in the federal funds rates banks charge one another for overnight loans did not signal the board had eased credit. Most of the nation's major banks, responding to the federal funds rate decline, have cut their prime lending rate to corporate customers to 20 percent from 20 1/2 percent. This small decline disappointed many traders. DOW JONES -6.75 === Page 12 of 52 Rally fails; Dow posts 16-month low NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average slumped to a 16-month low Thursday as the stock market yielded to renewed selling pressure. Analysts said recession fears and concern over the federal budget deficit helped choke off an early rally attempt and send the market to its fourth consecutive loss. High-technology glamour stocks sustained some of the biggest damage. Metals issues also tumbled on word of the government's plans to begin selling silver from its stockpile beginning next month. Dow Jones' average of 30 blue chips, up almost 3 points in early trading, closed at 840.09, off 11.51. The average, which has fallen 32.72 points since the start of the week, stands at its lowest level since it finished at 831.06 on May 21 of last year. In early trading, analysts said the depressed prices of many stocks attracted some tentative buying. But they said it soon became apparent that the advance was attracting little support, and sellers took over again. Recession fears were reinforced by word at midafternoon that housing starts fell 10.7 percent in August to an annual rate of only 937,000 units, brokers noted. They also said the market was depressed by concern that falling stock prices might soon begin touching off stepped-up margin calls -- demands by brokers for additional collateral on stock purchases made using borrowed money. When stockholders in such cases are unable or willing to put up that collateral, the broker normally must sell stock from their accounts to bring them within legal credit limits. Such forced sales can put additional downward pressure on the market. MARKET IN BRIEF SEPT. 17 UP 368 UNCH. 382 DOWN 1,158 Volume 48.30 million Issues Traded 1,908 NYSE index 67.83 .......... -0.99 S&P Comp. 117.15 .......... -1.72 Dow Jones Ind. 840.09 .......... -11.51 Drop in prime rate fails to curb Wall Street slide NEW YORK (UPI) -- The stock market, which staged a midday rally, fell Tuesday even though most of the nation's banks cut their prime lending rate. Trading was slow. The Dow Jones industrial average, which surrendered 6.66 points Monday, lost another 7.80 points to 858.35. It had been ahead more than three points at midday and off a point at the outset. The New York Stock Exchange index shed 0.45 to 69.34 and the price of an average share decreased 19 cents. Declines topped advances 827-634 among the 1,895 issues traded. Big Board volume totaled 38,500,000 shares compared with 34,040,000 traded Monday, the slowest session in 5½ months. Investors apparently remained concerned that the Reagan administration would not be able to cut the federal deficit enough and that government borrowing needs would remain high, keeping pressure on interest rates. Wall Street registered concern that President Reagan reportedly said over the weekend he would propose only small defense spending cuts in order to try to put the budget in balance. Reagan, who insisted he would stick to his goal of a $42.5 billion deficit in 1982, met with Republican leaders who presented him with proposals to cut next year's budget $16 billion to $17 billion. Congressional sources said the proposals included more than twice the president's suggested cutbacks in military spending and 82 reductions in social programs. But no final decisions have been made. The Securities Industry Association, apparently tired of the harping from Washington, sent a letter to Reagan expressing its confidence in the long-term impact of his policies. The association also pointed out that it could not control the forces of the market. DOW JONES -7.80 The Sunday Oregonian SEPTEMBER 13, 1981 Market woes soften prices of NW stocks By DONALD J. SORENSEN of The Oregonian staff Since mid-June, the stock market has been in a tailspin that has dragged many stocks to bargain basement levels. And along with them have gone many Northwest issues. On June 15, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 1011.59. The next day it started down and kept going until last Tuesday when it hit 851.12, the lowest since June 3, 1980. That was a drop of about 16 percent in nearly three months. The sharp decline has raised havoc with Oregon and other Northwest stocks. Very few of them have escaped unscathed. For some, the losses have climbed to more than 40 percent. The largest setbacks were absorbed by Edwards Industries and Oregon Metallurgical Corp., each shedding nearly 50 percent of their value. Oremet has been one of the hottest stocks of the last two years, riding on the interest in strategic metals. Now, however, it is at its lowest level in more than a year. Edwards, a real estate and development company, has been under pressure for some time because of the difficulties of the housing industry. The slide has touched all segments of the regional market, but industrial issues have been particularly hard hit. Floating Point Systems, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, Trus Joist, Intel, Tektronix and Precision Castparts all lost 20 percent or more. Forest products stocks such as Louisiana-Pacific, Bohemia, Medford Corp., Georgia-Pacific, Longview Fibre and Dant & Russell have been in the same range. Among consumer goods, Nike and Pay 'n' Save were big losers. Financial losers included Equitable Savings, off more than 20 percent. Comprehensive Care, a health care company and one of the strongest performers in the regional over-the-counter market the last two years, sloughed off more than 30 percent. Despite the plethora of heavy losses, a few local issues have been able to make a respectable showing, even registering some gains. These include Fred Meyer, Nordstrom, Fabric Wholesalers, Cascade Corp., American Guaranty Financial Corp. and Northwest Natural Gas. All of these either lost less than a point or gained a fraction. The accompanying table lists regional stocks that lost more than $1 between June 15 and Sept. 8, with closing prices on the two dates and the dollar and percentage losses. Bid prices are used for over-the-counter stocks. Prices have been adjusted for stock splits and stock dividends. === Page 13 of 52 Romantic island life grows more popular By RICHARD D. LYONS New York Times News Service CANARY ISLAND, N.Y. -- "This is heaven," Robert Langley said with a sigh as he sat in the glass-enclosed veranda of his new stone-and-wood vacation home on the St. Lawrence River. "I've always wanted to own an island." Langley, his wife, Lizbeth, and their five children are from Binghamton, N.Y. But they travel extensively and have lived abroad for long periods, and they say it is here that they have finally found the solitude they have been seeking. An increasing number of other affluent people appear to be seeking it as well, for in the last several years there has been a sharp increase in the demand for privately owned islands. Real-estate companies specializing in islands have sprung up in Manhattan, Miami and elsewhere. A new magazine called Islands is to start publication in California next month, and a series of events in this area of the Canadian border has apparently whetted appetites for ownership of one of the Thousand Islands, situated north of Watertown, N.Y. One reason was expressed by William Levy, a 64-year-old corporation president from Wilmington, Del., who bought St. Elmo Island, two miles southwest of here, last month. "I feel a lot more secure here," he said, explaining that he had enjoyed the outdoors for many years at a summer home in Ontario to the north. "I became disturbed by the increasing nationalistic feeling there, and I simply feel better being here." To achieve his heightened sense of security, he paid $150,000 for the island and its three-bedroom, two-bath house. One recent morning six boats were tied up at his dock, with more expected as other lunch guests arrived. Robert W. Kemp, president of the real-estate company that handled the sale of Canary and St. Elmo Islands, said the "Quebec scare," as the separatist movement is often called here, had helped fuel demand for island property. "There also appears to be an awful lot of money around here that once was in the stock market," he said, "but now is being invested in the sort of real estate the purchaser can enjoy as well as watch appreciate in value." The asking price for Canary Island, for example, rose more than 40 percent in the last two years, finally selling for more than $100,000. Some island properties in the river here in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties have risen dramatically in price in recent years, while others have not budged -- including the castle on Jorstad Island, a rose-hued granite building with a five-story bell tower and two huge boathouses, perhaps the biggest, most romantic white elephant on the St. Lawrence. Frederick G. Bourne, the Singer sewing-machine magnate, bought the island in 1896, then imported 90 Italian stonemasons to fashion a $4 million castle for his wife. Eight years in construction, it has 46 rooms and an indoor squash court, and it comes complete with suits of armor, medieval weapons, 18th-century furniture and a maze of secret passages inside the walls of the vaulted rooms. The 10-acre island, a sliver of which is in Canada, is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harold George Martin, who are both ministers and who use it as a retreat for Bible study groups and missionaries. "I'm just hooked on this place," Mrs. Martin said recently over tea in the oak-paneled library. Yet the Martins, who have spent large sums of money maintaining and restoring the castle, conceded that its upkeep was beginning to overwhelm them. They have put it on the market for $5 million but concede that they would probably take a good deal less. "The engine of the motorboat conked out the other night and I had to paddle four miles," Martin said. "If someone had asked me to set a price at the time, I would have replied, 'Do you have a shiny dime?'" Sept. 20, 1981 Scientists & Contacts: This tiny island and "castle" would be perfect for my UFO Base!! To go into the why would take too long to explain to you. But I assure you, it would be perfect. It could probably be bought for 3 million. It would then take 1 million to put necessary equipment into the Castle (electronic, etc.) repair it, and defense it. The last million... $500,000 to pay off an important debt and $500,000 for expenses over a 3-year or 5-year period. Many of you have a connection somewhere that can bring this about, I urge you to do so quickly! Why? Because the UFO Base, whether this Castle Island or a huge lodge on a mountainside... is the only means of averting The Last War... WW III... according to my UFOs. Owens === Page 14 of 52 SEPTEMBER 21, 1981 New York Times News Service photo MAGIC ISLAND -- Jorstad Island, on the market for $5 million, offers a 46-room mansion with indoor squash court, a maze of secret passages, and collection of suits of armor, medieval weapons and 18th-century furniture. === Page 15 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - # Crash kills Thunderbirds' chief By ALAN L. ADLER CLEVELAND (AP) - The commander of the Air Force Thunderbirds flying team was killed Tuesday when birds were drawn into the engines of his T-38A Talon jet, causing it to crash into Lake Erie upon takeoff from Burke Lakefront Airport. A second airman parachuted to safety from the flaming wreckage. An Air Force spokesman said the flock of birds drawn into the engines of the plane piloted by Lt. Col. David L. Smith caused them to malfunction. Smith, 40, became the second Thunderbird pilot to die this year and the 14th in the 29-year history of the precision flying squad, the Air Force said. Hundreds of spectators and countless downtown office workers watched in horror as the jet plunged into the lake. "I heard a sizzle... a hissing, sizzling and saw flames," said Kathy Nehamkin, suburban operations manager for a rental car agency, who saw the crash from her booth in the terminal. "I looked up and saw the plane. It was only a couple of feet off the ground. The pilot had the presence of mind and turned out over the lake to avoid crashing on the runway." Smith and Staff Sgt. Dwight Roberts, 31, the crew chief riding tandem behind him, both ejected from the plane. But while Roberts' parachute opened, enabling him to land safely on the 6,200-foot Burke runway, Smith's ejector seat chute did not have time to open, according to Gen. Wilbur L. Creech, commander in chief of the Tactical Air Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Smith, originally from Rossville, Ga., died when he landed on rocks next to the lake and rolled into the water. Burke, from Lexington, N.C., was released from a hospital after treatment of minor injuries. Creech said the birds flew in front of the ascending jet and were sucked up by both engines. Flight interference from birds is not unusual, but Creech said the birds in both engines forced the engines to "flame out" and malfunction. The jet was climbing at a speed of about 185 mph, according to Jim Jannette, a spokesman for the Thunderbirds, who completed three days of participation in the Cleveland National Air Show Monday. Fifty members of the Las Vegas-based group - nine officers and 41 enlisted men and women - were in Cleveland with eight aircraft for the Labor Day weekend show. The T38A, lauded as the first supersonic jet used for fighter training, has been used by the Thunderbirds since 1974. Jannette said that since the death in May of Air Force Capt. David "Nick" Hauck, the Thunderbirds have been flying with only six of the T38A jets. Hauck died May 9 while performing in an air show at Hill AFB outside Ogden, Utah. LT. COL. D.L. SMITH UFOs war with US Govt. I have heavily PK'd Las Vegas! (Long ago.) Gwen oreg 9/9/81 - UFOs & Projects - # One killed, two injured in carrier plane crackup SAN DIEGO (UPI) - One crewman was killed and two others injured in the collision of two planes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Indian Ocean. The Navy said Monday Petty Officer 1st Class Garrel M. Powers of San Diego was killed in the accident. The names of the two injured men were not released pending notification of relatives. "From the details we have you can assume the dead and injured were flight deck people," a Navy spokesman said. Senior Chief Joe Ciokon of Pacific Fleet Naval Air Force headquarters said the accident occurred about 6 p.m. EDT Sunday when an A7E Corsair in a landing approach collided with an F-14 Tomcat taxiing on the carrier's deck. Ciokon said the crew of the F-14, from Fighter Squadron 51, ejected on deck and were recovered without injury. He said the Tomcat rolled over the side of the ship. The Corsair, from Attack Squadron 22, pulled up and landed later without incident, he said. The Navy did not give the carrier's specific location for security reasons. In an unrelated incident, a search and rescue operation was launched from the Kitty Hawk in an attempt to recover a crew member who fell overboard about 10 hours after the first accident, the Navy said. The Navy said it would not attempt to recover the $17 million F-14 because the water was too deep and refused to say if the two-man plane was carrying a missile. Five years ago, the loss of a similar plane armed with a Phoenix missile resulted in a multi-million-dollar salvage operation designed to prevent the Soviet Union from trying to recover the plane and its missile from the North Sea. In an unrelated incident, a Kitty Hawk crewman was lost overboard several hours after the aircraft accident. A search failed to find the crewman, whose identity was not released. The Kitty Hawk incident was the second fatal crash on a U.S. carrier in the past four months. A U.S. Marine Corps electronic combat jet crashed on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz, 60 miles off Jacksonville, Fla., on May 26, killing its three-man crew and 14 others. Forty five men were injured. oreg 9/8/81 Note: At this same approx. time on TV it was announced that also an airplane fell off the carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower and was lost. But... this did not appear in the Portland or Seattle newspaper! Gwen === Page 16 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1981 # AF plane downed by mistake EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) -- The Air Force has confirmed that one of its F-4 Phantom fighters mistakenly shot down another Air Force jet over the Gulf of Mexico last April, The Pensacola News-Journal says. The Air Force has blamed the mistake on an inadequate briefing, failure to follow procedures and a target plane that looked like one of the expensive F-4 jets, the newspaper reported Sunday. During an April 15 training exercise south of Panama City, Fla., an F-4 flown by Capt. Harry Cook fired a missile that struck another F-4, which then crashed into the Gulf. The $3.3 million jet's two-man crew ejected from the burning plane and was rescued. "I guess in the end analysis, the fact that I misidentified my wingman as the drone (target plane) was the main cause of the accident," Cook told military investigators. The fighter that went down was attached to the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing at Ramstein Air Base In West Germany. The accident report was released by the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at U.S. Air Force headquarters in Europe, the newspaper said. An earlier report, obtained from the Air Force Inspection and Safety Center at Norton Air Force Base in California, indicated that Cook, who was piloting a jet designated as Star 01, said "Oh, my God" seven seconds after his navigator, 1st Lt. Bruce W. Radford, fired the missile. Both Radford and the navigator of the command plane, Star 05, could then be heard saying "Knock it off, knock it off, eject." Less than a minute later, after Capts. Malcolm Dixon and Charles G. Salee ejected from the stricken Star 02, the flight commander reported he could see "two good chutes." The earlier report, made public in July, drew no conclusions about the cause of the accident. - UFOs & Projects - # Jet crash, lightning set more NW blazes oreg J 8/20/81 By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer Fire crews gained the upper hand Wednesday over the major forest and rangeland fires in the Pacific Northwest, but lightning strikes and a Navy jet crash set more blazes. At the same time, Bureau of Land Management fire bosses at Prineville in Central Oregon reported that the burning index, a measure to indicate the seriousness of the fire threat, was at 90 -- "the highest we've ever seen it." Lightning set 31 new fires Wednesday afternoon and evening in BLM lands in Eastern Oregon. A Navy EA-6B jet on a training mission from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Wash., crashed on the Olympic Peninsula Wednesday afternoon and the wreckage sparked a forest fire near the Hoh River. Firefighters in Oregon expected to contain a 3,000 acre blaze in brush and juniper on Steens Mountain Thursday. - UFOs & Projects - # Outage stalls shuttle test CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The space shuttle Columbia "lifted off" Wednesday afternoon 3 1/2 hours behind schedule in a major dress rehearsal for its scheduled Oct. 9 launch. An electrical failure late Tuesday threw the simulated launch behind schedule. Problems later came up in computer programming, but officials said the programming problems were related to the simulation. At 3:35 p.m. EDT Wednesday, as astronauts Joe Engle and Dick Truly sat in the Columbia's cockpit in full space garb, launch was simulated. 9/10/81 oreg 9/10/81 - UFOs & Projects - # T-Birds grounded NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (UPI) -- Officials at the home of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds precision flying team have canceled remaining performances because of the death of the team's leader. Lt. Col. David L. Smith, 40, died Tuesday when he hit the ground after ejecting from his T-38 "Talon" jet after it apparently struck a flock of birds on takeoff from Cleveland. Col. Michael Carnes, commander of the 57th Tactical Training Wing and Smith's superior, said "it was a routine departure -- no acrobatics involved." Carnes said birds being sucked into jets is not a common problem, but it is "one that we are constantly aware of." He said the Air Force will conduct an investigation of the crash, although "we have no doubt very seriously that the accident could have been prevented." 9/10/81 seat. f.r === Page 17 of 52 U.S. backs S. Africa UFOs "higher ups" - BY RANDALL ROBINSON On the evening of July 31 in front of his home in Salisbury, Zimbabwe, Joe Gqabi was shot to death. Gqabi headed the Zimbabwe offices of the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC). The ANC, organized in 1912, is waging a military struggle to bring majority rule to Africa's last and strongest bastion of white supremacy, the Republic of South Africa. Both ANC and the government of Zimbabwe have charged the government of South Africa with responsibility for Gqabi's murder. South Africa remains silent. So, thus far, does the United States. And for good reason. U.S. policymakers knew well in advance of South Africa's plans to carry out a program of political assassinations against ANC leadership in Zimbabwe and the other nearby countries that host ANC operatives, Zambia and Mozambique. And yet, after announcing last spring a new policy toward South Africa of "constructive engagement," Washington did nothing to stop the murder of Joe Gqabi. Why? To help me find an answer, I put a different question to a State Department official recently. "When U.S. intelligence reveals that A is about to assassinate B, what criteria are used in deciding whether or not to warn B or dissuade A?" Answer: "We make such decisions on a case-by-case basis depending on who A and B are." Risking simplism, we help the side we want to win. In this case the current administration very badly wants South Africa to win. It perceives South Africa to be a reliable friend, a valid and stable regime, a militarily strong pro-Western fixture in southern Africa and, most importantly, a bulwark against the creepy crawling tentacles of godless communism. The other stuff that drives South Africa's majority of 20 million Africans to the brink of revolution, the administration chooses to overlook as a kind of courtesy to a friend. South Africa is the only country in the world that constitutionally enshrines racism and denies the majority of its citizens the right to vote on the simple basis of race. ANC prefers a system where all citizens of age are constitutionally guaranteed the right to vote. South Africa sets aside 87 percent of the land mass for a white minority of 4 million and the worthless remains for 10 times as many Africans. ANC would seek a unitary South Africa in which citizens irrespective of color are entitled to live and own land whenever they like. South Africa denies Africans freedom of speech, assembly, fair trial, the right to bearing arms and due process of law. ANC naturally believes this is wrong. In short, ANC favors a system much like the one we are said to have. Albeit, while last year some 1,300 South African government military officials visited the U.S., Oliver Tambo, the president of ANC, will now find his name on a State Department list of "undesirable" entrants. Why? Hell, let's be frank. Against the backdrop of its own racial preference and broad geo-political objectives, this administration doesn't care much about what happens to South Africa's black majority. Or perhaps it does inasmuch as it doesn't want that black majority overthrowing the established white government. After all, a friend is a friend no matter what he does. Joe Gqabi is dead. Symbol of a policy wrong. What does all this say about America? Randall Robinson is an executive of Transafrica, a Washington, D.C. based organization aimed at fostering resources between the United States and emerging African nations. orey P 8/22/81 UFOs "higher ups" - UFOs "higher ups" - Armed gunmen attack home of Iranian official By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The home of Iran's prosecutor-general was attacked Monday by opponents of the fundamentalist regime who threw grenades and engaged in a shootout with his guards, Tehran radio reported. The official, Ayatollah Rabbani Amlashi, remained inside the house and was not harmed during the 5:30 a.m. attack, according to the broadcast monitored here. Two attackers, one of the guards and a garbage collector were reported injured. Tehran radio said three of the attackers were arrested at the house, while others were captured after a chase to a nearby gasoline station. The official Pars news agency quoted Amlashi's guards as estimating up to 15 gunmen took part in the attack. Opponents of the Iranian fundamentalist regime led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have intensified their guerrilla warfare campaign since the June ouster of moderate Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president. The government has responded by cracking down on its opponents, executing more than 400 people and arresting scores of others. The attack on Amlashi's house took place shortly before Khomeini declared opposition leaders do not have the allegiance of even one Iranian in 10. orey 8/25/81 "Otherwise they would have stayed here," the 81-year-old revolutionary patriarch said in a clear reference to Bani-Sadr and Massoud Rajavi, the Mujahedeen Khalq guerrilla leader. Both fled to Paris on July 29 and were granted political asylum. In a 30-minute speech broadcast by Tehran radio, Khomeini called on the "deceived youths" responsible for the two-month campaign of bombings and assassinations to renounce their exiled leaders and repent. "Now that they clearly realize the treason committed by their leaders against our country and their pro-American attitude, there is no more excuse for them to remain as enemies of Islam. These youths should return to the bosom of Islam," Khomeini said. He denied as "propaganda conspiracy hatched by imperialists" claims by Bani-Sadr and Western news reports that the Tehran government had purchased arms from Israel for the war against Iraq. "We do not consider Israel important enough to establish relations with," Khomeini said in the speech delivered to a group of Iranian emigrants and police officers at his Hosseinieh Jamaran residence in Tehran. Israel has not commented on the reports in keeping with a policy not to discuss its arms sales. UFOs "higher ups" - Leader steps down THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Caretaker Premier Andries van Agt stepped down as parliamentary leader of his party Monday but said he still was available to head a new coalition government. Political observers said van Agt's decision to step aside as leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal Party would reduce his chances to become premier again if the attempt to form a center-left coalition succeeds. Van Agt will remain premier until formation of a new coalition government based on elections held May 26. UFOs 6 Projects - 500 villages flooded NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Monsoon rains and the flooding Ganges River swamped 500 villages in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, leaving thousands of people homeless, the United News of India reported Monday. The government said this year's summer monsoon had claimed 533 lives so far, caused estimated damage of nearly $300 million and flooded about 4 million acres of farmland. orey 8/25/81 orey P 9/11/81 UFO reported over China PEKING (UPI) - The official Chinese news agency said Friday an unidentified flying object spotted over Tibet July 24 also was seen in Peking and least 12 other provinces. In one account, peasants in Guizhou Province spotted an unusual "star," which in about two minutes sprouted a tail, encircling the center of the object in five spirals. === Page 18 of 52 # Explosion kills Iranian president, PM By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A powerful explosion ripped through the prime ministry in Tehran Sunday, killing Iran's president and prime minister, Tehran radio announced Monday. Five other people were killed in the explosion, and 13 others were wounded, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. Tehran radio reported first that President Mohammad Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Hojatoleslam Mohammad Javad Bahonar had been taken to a hospital. Hours later it reported they were dead. The Times of London correspondent in Tehran, Tony Alloway, said he was told "Mr. Rajai had lost his legs." Pars said three of the bodies were "burned beyond recognition" in the explosion and fire that followed. In a broadcast interview, Iran's Parliament speaker condemned the explosion as a "last-ditch effort by American hirelings," a term used by the clergy-led regime to describe its opponents. The speaker, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, also said the two leaders were together in the room where the explosion took place. "Just as our evening session was due to start ... we heard the sound of an explosion, followed by a thick column of smoke rising from the prime minister's office building," the Parliament speaker said on the broadcast monitored in Beirut and London. "The session began, and it was only later that we learned that the explosion had occurred in a room in which President Rajai and Premier Dr. Bahonar were gathered with several others." Executive Affairs Minister Behzad Nabavi told Tehran radio some of the "14 or 15" people walked out of the room after the explosion. "But the rest suffered severe injuries and were taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, the president and the prime minister were among the latter group." Pars said ambulances and a helicopter were used to transport the injured and dead. The explosion at 3 p.m. local time in the stone-and-glass building touched off a fire, but Pars said the blaze was "fully under control" within 2½ hours after the explosion. Although no group claimed responsibility for the blast, the explosion highlighted the urban guerrilla campaign that secular leftist foes of the Islamic fundamentalist regime have been waging for two months. Iran has been rocked by political violence since the June ouster of moderate President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. June 28, an explosion at the ruling Islamic Revolutionary Party headquarters in Tehran killed more than 70 political leaders, including Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, considered the second-most powerful figure in Iran after revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Rajai, who had been prime minister of the revolutionary regime, was elected without serious opposition to succeed Bani-Sadr in July. Bahonar then was appointed to fill the vacant post of prime minister. Tehran radio said the Iranian Cabinet was called into an extraordinary session at sundown by Rafsanjani to discuss "important matters of state, including the explosion at the prime minister's office." The ayatollah's regime has arrested thousands of leftists and executed more than 470 "counter-revolutionaries" since the end of June. Bani-Sadr and top underground opposition leader Massoud Rajavi, who heads the underground Islamic-Marxist Mujahedeen Khalq organization, escaped from Tehran aboard an Iranian air force plane to Paris July 29. Both were granted asylum by France. They have been predicting that Khomeini's regime would not last more than a few months. In his message to the nation over Tehran radio, Rafsanjani said Iran's "Islamic revolution should, and would, continue its march" despite "unpleasant events, which we are always ready for." Associated Press Laserphoto MOHAMMAD ALI RAJAI Related story on Page A4. 8/31/81 === Page 19 of 52 - UFO "higher ups" - # Blast kills Iran officials; U.S., Bani-Sadr blamed By United Press International Iranian President Mohammed Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar were killed in a bombing that demolished the prime minister's office and set off massive demonstrations Monday of mourners chanting "death to the U.S.A." Iran's decimated Islamic leadership convened an emergency committee to confront the latest crisis which was touched off by the Sunday night blast and the presidential council declared five days of mourning. Chanting "death to Bani-Sadr" and "death to the U.S.A.," crowds of mourners gathered in front of the Parliament building in Tehran to begin the funeral procession, the official Pars news agency said. Loudspeakers broadcast tape recordings of speeches by Rajai and prayers for the health of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Pars said. Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's Parliament, addressed mourners in front of the Parliament and said he was speaking to "an immense and unprecedented gathering of angry people -- angry people who have reached their limit . . . and who scream for revenge, punishment and justice." Khomeini told followers who gathered at his north Tehran home that the regime would be unshaken by the killings. "Whatever the office of those who are martyred . . . our nation will elect others in their place," he said. Tehran Radio said "several million" people took part in the funerals of Rajai and Bahonar. The daring Sunday attack came only two months after the devastating bombing of the ruling Islamic Republican Party headquarters killed 74 people and only a week after ousted President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr predicted five assassinations -- including Rajai and Bahonar -- would cause the fundamentalist Islamic regime to collapse. In Paris, Bani-Sadr denied any role in the bombing but said, "They (Rajai and Bahonar) themselves brought on their own deaths." The official radio said a government employee and an elderly woman walking on the street also were killed when the bomb exploded, engulfing the building in flames that singed trees across the street. "The room where the bomb exploded was completely demolished. No door or windows left," said a Revolutionary Guard who was on the scene within 15 minutes. "President Rajai and Prime Minister Bahonar have joined the army of the revolution's martyrs," Tehran Radio said, adding that the two men gave their lives "in the path of the prophets . . . for the cause of Islamic justice." The new council blamed "the enemy's fifth column, the servants of imperialism and Saddam" -- repeating the accusations against Iranian guerrillas, the United States and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made after previous assassinations. The exile headquarters of the left-wing Mojahideen Khalq guerrillas in France said the bombing was "a very natural response of the Iranian people to the crimes of Khomeini and to the executions of the Mojahideen." The regime has executed more than 600 opponents since Bani-Sadr was ousted June 22 and forced to flee to asylum in Paris. Tehran Radio gave no immediate details of the presidential council, but opposition sources maintained Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani constituted the provisional ruling body at a Cabinet meeting held 3½ hours after Sunday's 3 p.m. blast. It appeared likely that Rajai and Bahonar were "already dead at the time or in a hopeless condition," one opposition source said. One report said Rajai lost both his legs in the blast. Their time in office was brief. Rajai, who was prime minister, took Bani-Sadr's place as president after forcing his removal in June and Bahonar then succeeded Rajai. - UFO "higher ups" - # Official kidnapped GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Special army and police anti-guerrilla units pressed a nationwide search Wednesday for kidnapped Public Health Minister Roquelino Recinos Mendez, a military source said. The sources refused to be identified by name or give details for security reasons. Witnesses and friends of his family said Recinos Mendez, 57, a country doctor turned politician, was kidnapped Monday night a few yards outside his home in a residential area in the southwest section of the capital. Recinos Mendez is the only member of President Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia's Cabinet who drove his own car and did not have bodyguards. The other nine ministers invariably go around in armored cars, followed by one or two. - UFO "higher ups" - # Egypt church leader exiled CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- The ousted pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church will be exiled to a desert monastery because he is "determined to oppose the state," President Anwar Sadat's official party newspaper reported Monday. Egypt's Parliament named a committee Sunday to review other tough new measures invoked by Sadat to combat political opposition and sectarian feuding between Coptic Christians and Islamic fundamentalists. Sadat ousted Pope Shenouda III Saturday for engaging in politics, a move greeted with mourning by Egypt's six million Christians in the overwhelmingly Moslem nation of 43 million. The newspaper Mayo, official journal of the ruling National Democratic Party, said the Coptic pontiff was responsible for inciting the Copts to violence in clashes with Moslems over a period of several years. === Page 20 of 52 UFO "higher ups" # Bombs hit embassy in Peru By KERNAN TURNER Oreg 9/1/81 LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A string of bombings before dawn Monday struck the U.S. Embassy, the American ambassador's residence and four companies with U.S. connections, causing damage but no injuries, police said. Hours later a man was arrested when he tried to enter the House of Representatives with a package that congressional sources said contained nine sticks of dynamite. Police said later, however, that the package held a carton of sparklers and no dynamite. The man, identified as 44-year-old Santiago Chuquibaucaas, told police he had bought the fireworks for a birthday party, investigators reported. They said Chuquibaucaas was held for additional questioning. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. buildings. U.S. Ambassador Edwin G. Corr, who escaped injury, told reporters later that the explosions were part of a terrorist attempt to create confusion in Peru. Corr and his family were awakened by an explosion in their back yard. Corr, his wife, Susanne, and their 16-year-old daughter Phoebe were sleeping on the second floor facing the front yard of the palatial, colonial-style residence, when explosives were tossed over the back wall, the spokesman said. The Corrs' two older daughters had spent their summer vacation here but left recently to resume their studies at the University of Oklahoma. A police source said a Peruvian guard fired several times at a red vehicle speeding away from Corr's residence, but it was not known whether the vehicle was hit. Bombs exploded nearly simultaneously at the embassy and at the Ford Motor Co., the Bank of America, the local Coca-Cola bottling plant and the G. Berckemeyer and Co. administrative office, which represents the Carnation Co. in Peru. The milk company belongs to a family related to the late Ricardo Berckemeyer Pazos, former ambassador to the United States. The embassy spokesman said someone threw an explosive, believed to be several sticks of dynamite, over the front gate at the embassy building. The building faces a major downtown avenue. A Marine guard, who was the only person inside the U.S. mission at the time of the explosion, was protected by a bulletproof glass cage, embassy spokesman Joseph Marek said. "There was absolutely no warning," Marek said. "The assailants didn't identify themselves in any way, shape or form. They didn't leave any messages behind or call to identify themselves." Police bomb squads said they had not made any arrests or established a motive. In Washington, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said that while the United States is taking no extraordinary measures in response to the bombing of U.S. diplomatic facilities in Peru, "we are clearly taking precautions to protect the lives of American diplomats and civilians living and working overseas." Corr, a career diplomat appointed in November by President Carter, has maintained a low profile here and had good relations with the government of President Fernando Belaunde Terry, who took office a year ago. Belaunde's confirmation that Corr will soon be replaced by Frank Ortiz, a Reagan appointee, has brought severe criticism from local newspapers. Ortiz's nomination has not been presented to the U.S. Senate for approval, although State Department sources have confirmed it is imminent. The leftist press has accused Ortiz, who is political counselor of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, of being a CIA agent. UFO "higher ups" # Bahrain envoy dies MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Britain's ambassador to Bahrain, David Gordon Crawford, died of heart failure here Sunday, the Gulf News Agency reported. He was 53. Oreg 9/7/81 UFO "higher ups" # Junta picks new leader LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- This impoverished South American country, which gained independence from Spain 157 years ago, got its 192nd president Friday. The three-man military junta named junta member and army commander Gen. Celso Torrelio Villa as the new president. His designation came after three days of meetings by the junta that has been running Bolivia since Gen. Luis Garcia Meza stepped down as president Aug. 4. Air Force Gen. Waldo Bernal, senior member of the junta, made the announcement. It was expected that a new army commander would be named and he and the air force and navy commanders would return to their military duties. Torrelio Villa was installed in a ceremony at the presidential palace attended by the armed forces leaders. === Page 21 of 52 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Explosion kills Iranian prosecutor ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Iran's military prosecutor-general Ali Qoddousi was fatally wounded Saturday when a powerful explosion ripped through his office in downtown Tehran. It was the second major bombing this week against high-ranking members of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic regime. Qoddousi was the clergyman responsible for trying military personnel. He was rushed to the hospital with leg injuries and underwent surgery but died soon after, a hospital spokesman said. "Brother Qoddousi is martyred," he said. The spokesman gave no additional details. In another development, Tehran Radio said Iran's police chief died Saturday of injuries suffered last Sunday when a bomb exploded in the prime minister's office, killing President Mohammed Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar. The Tehran Radio report, monitored in Ankara, was the first news that police chief Col. Hushang Vahid Dastgerdi also was injured in last week's explosion. "I was 20 meters from the building when the bomb went off and I saw the terrace of the second floor collapse," Hojjatoleslam Reyshahri, the Islamic judge who heads the military courts, said in an interview with Pars following Saturday's attack. Reyshahri said Qoddousi's "leg was burned and he was rushed to the hospital," according to the Pars report, monitored in Ankara. "The explosion appears to have been in the middle of the building," a police spokesman reached by telephone said. Other witnesses reached by telephone said security forces set up road blocks around the wrecked building. Iran's chief justice, Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardebili, Friday empowered security forces to make mass arrests in the search for the those responsible for the bombings. Chief government spokesman, Behzad Nabavi, said Thursday that employees of the prime minister's office were arrested and the Mojahidden Khalq guerrilla organization was the prime suspect in the investigation into the bombing. org J 9/5/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - A2 2M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981 # President ousted in Central Africa By GREG MacARTHUR PARIS (AP) -- The Central African Republic's army said it ousted President David Dacko Tuesday -- almost two years after a French-backed coup drove his cousin, self-styled emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, into exile and returned Dacko to office. Army commander Gen. Andre Kolingba announced on government radio in Bangui, the capital, that Dacko had agreed to step down because of ill health. Kolingba also said he took power because of six months of "political tension" in the country. It was the second time Dacko was been deposed from the presidency. The first was by Bokassa 15 years ago. The general suspended the constitution and called on ministers in the Dacko regime and his supporters to remain at their homes until further orders, government radio said. Reports from Bangui said Dacko was told to remain at his farm in Mokinda, about 60 miles from the capital. A broadcast on Radio Bangui said a military committee headed by Kolingba would replace Dacko. It said the membership of the Military Committee of National Redress would be announced Wednesday. All political parties have been suspended indefinitely, the radio said. The landlocked former French colony in the heart of Africa maintains close ties with Paris. In Cherbourg, France, Defense Minister Charles Hernu said the 1,600 French soldiers stationed in Central Africa would be consigned to their barracks. "I think what is happening now is a passing of powers," he said. He described the coup as "a purely Central African affair." A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the French ambassador in Bangui "had been informed in a letter by Mr. Dacko himself that he was handing over power to the army because of reasons of health." The spokesman added that Dacko, 51, was "believed to have heart problems," but a source at the Central African Embassy in Paris said he had heard no such reports. Dacko had been president from independence in 1960 until he was overthrown and jailed by Bokassa in 1966. Bokassa was driven into exile in a French-backed coup in 1979 and Dacko assumed the presidency. In his second shot at running the country, Dacko never managed to get a firm grip on its economic problems, which had been exacerbated by 14 years of Bokassa's extravagant rule. Last March, Dacko was elected to a six-year term after receiving 50.2 percent of the vote in a race against four other candidates, including former Prime Minister Ange Patasse. The losers claimed the election was rigged, and their supporters staged violent demonstrations in Bangui. Dacko declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew, which was lifted about a week later. In July, Dacko declared a state of emergency and banned all political parties but his own in a crackdown after the bombing of a Bangui movie theater in which three people were killed and === Page 22 of 52 THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1981 - UFO "higher ups" # French envoy killed by gunmen in Beirut. By FAROUK NASSAR BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Three gunmen firing pistols and a machine gun killed French Ambassador Louis Delamare in a bloody afternoon ambush Friday. In Paris, the French government denounced the slaying as a "cowardly assassination" that apparently had been intended as a kidnapping. The 59-year-old career diplomat died in nearby Barbir Hospital 15 minutes after his Lebanese chauffeur rushed him there. The official coroner's report said Delamare sustained 11 gunshot wounds in the head, chest and right arm. The attack was close to the spot where U.S. Ambassador Francis E. Meloy and economic counselor Robert O. Waring were kidnapped from their bullet-proof limousine in June 1976 during Lebanon's Moslem-Christian civil war. Their bullet-riddled bodies later were found. Delamare's assassins escaped, and Beirut newspapers said they had not received any claims of responsibility. The official Iraqi news agency said a pro-Iranian group calling itself the "al-Hussein Suicide Squads" claimed responsibility. The allegation by Iraq, which is at war with Iran, could not be confirmed independently. Lebanese government sources said authorities were investigating whether a pro-Iranian group staged the attack. A police spokesman, who declined to be named, said the assassins struck shortly after noon when Delamare was being driven from the French Embassy to his mansion in mostly Moslem west Beirut for lunch. As the ambassador's 604 four-door sedan trance to leaped f. spokesm. At fi ambassador's sedan at gunpoint and attempted to jerk open the doors," the police spokesman said. "When the doors held, the attackers opened fire on the ambassador from the right side window of the back seat." The spokesman said, "The assailants rushed back to their car. The (gunmen's) driver had kept the car's motor running as the three assassins staged the fatal ambush." In Paris, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson said the attackers were trying to kidnap Delamare. He did not elaborate. A doctor at Barbir Hospital, who requested anonymity, said attempts to resuscitate Delamare's heart failed and he was pronounced dead at 1:55 p.m. French President Francois Mitterrand denounced the slaying of Delamare as "a cowardly assassination." The French Foreign Ministry in Paris issued a statement saying, "This criminal act can only serve to aggravate the tragic climate which covers Lebanon." In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan was "shocked and saddened by the news" of Delamare's death and extended his deepest sympathy to the ambassador's family, colleagues and friends. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim expressed shock at the slaying and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat sent a telegram to Mitterrand saying "condemns this crime." - UFO "higher ups" # Police slay terrorist chief BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Police shot and killed the leader of Spain's terrorist GRAPO gang in a gunfight Saturday after he refused a telephone appeal to surrender in his surrounded Barcelona hideout. A police inspector fatally wounded Enrique Cerdan Calixto, 31, after he leaped from his apartment window to a roof in his underwear and exchanged pistol fire with police for nearly an hour, police said. Cerdan had been hunted for 18 months after escaping from Zamora prison in northwest Spain, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for killing two policemen. He was the leader of the Maoist-line GRAPO -- the Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Group of the First of October -- and the last "dangerous" GRAPO chief still at large, police said. reg 9/6/81 - UFO "higher ups" # Explosion kills prosecutor By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Iran's general revolutionary prosecutor was assassinated in his Tehran office Saturday by a firebomb explosion so powerful it knocked the balcony off the building, officials said. He was the fourth senior official in the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime to be slain in a week. Tehran Radio also said a gunman was wounded in a shootout in front of Iran's parliament and a spokesman for the Iranian revolutionary police command said an investigation into a suspected coup plot was under way. The official news agency, Pars, said the revolutionary prosecutor, the Hojatoleslam Ali Qodussi, died in Tehran's Hospital 5 1/2 hours after he was from his bombed-out of Qodussi's funeral Radio Tehran, monitored in Beirut, said the bomb appeared to have been planted in the library room directly below Qodussi's second-floor office. The broadcast said the blast injured another man in the prosecutor's office. Pars quoted the head of the military's Islamic revolutionary courts, the Hojatoleslam Mohammad Reyshahri, as saying he was 20 yards from the building when the bomb exploded. "I saw the terrace of the second floor collapse," Reyshahri said. The state radio in its evening broadcast said the Supreme Judicial Council appointed the Hojatoleslam Hussein Musavi Tabrizi, head of the revolutionary court in northern Iran's East Azerbaijan Province, to succeed Qodussi. The council accused the United States of complicity in the latest assassination. The radio quoted a council statement as saying, "Once more the hands of American fifth column has out of the sleeves of the hypocrites in the form of Qodussi's murder." "One passenger returned fire and he was wounded. The cab driver and the rest of the passengers were arrested. None of the guards was injured," the state-run radio said. Parliament is in recess until Sept. 20, and it was not known if the shootout and the assassination of Qodussi were connected. However, a police spokesman, who requested anonymity, told The Associated Press in Beirut that the suspected plot was hatched by the Mujahedeen Khalq, the main underground leftist organization involved in a 10-week-old anti-government campaign of bombings and assassinations. This particular plot followed a series of recent clashes we have had with armed political organizations such as the Mujahedeen, the Peykar, and the Fedayeen Khalq," the spokesman said. He was answering a question about a report that the Islamic fundamentalist regime had broken a counter-attempt and === Page 23 of 52 - UFOs & Projects & attacks on Stock market!! Knocking out its "power" was symbolic!! - # Power outage darkens lower Manhattan By RICHARD T. PIENCIAK NEW YORK (AP) -- An explosion and fire at a generating station knocked out power to much of lower Manhattan for four hours Wednesday, trapping office workers in elevators, snarling traffic, closing financial markets and creating transit chaos for homebound commuters. Traffic lights went out, telephones went over to emergency power and police jammed intersections where traffic lights were out, creating paralyzing street gridlock. Traffic control agents were dispatched, and some private citizens stepped in to direct traffic to help solve the giant tie-up. An eyewitness said he heard two explosions at the Consolidated Edison station, but the company said it had not determined what caused the blast. Four hours after the blackout started, power was restored to all areas. "We know there was an explosion. What caused the explosion we're not sure. We lean toward some sort of industrial accident," said a fire department spokesman. Paul Cohen, a Traffic Department control agent standing in the middle of a downtown intersection, said that with traffic lights out "people just do what they want. It's bedlam over here. There are a lot of tempers." "I've been sitting here for about one hour," said Rolando Reyes as he listened to the radio in his idling sports car at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street at about 6 p.m. Mayor Edward I. Koch, who escorted one woman off the Brooklyn Bridge to a nearby hospital when she appeared faint, was happy with his city's behavior during the blackout. "I am told people are acting splendidly. In this city, when it rains, it pours," he said. Flashlights and candles lighted the way down darkened stairwells for workers trapped in skyscrapers. Many people were drinking beer on the street. But many bars were closed because they were without power and electric cash registers would not work. Telephone service was switched to emergency power, but dial tones were slow in coming. Lines of people at downtown phone booths stretched 20 deep. Subways slowed to a crawl with signal lights affected. Bus stops were jammed with displaced subway riders. Before power was restored, Lawrence Kleinman, a Con Edison spokesman, said there was no danger of the kind of problem that has blacked out the whole city in the past. "The problem is contained within the area that has been affected," he said. All police in lower Manhattan precincts were held on overtime and all task force members from other boroughs were dispatched to Manhattan. Twenty hook-and-ladders were dispatched to rescue those trapped. Koch said at a news conference that the city was bearing up well under the problems, which affected only the southwestern quarter of Manhattan. John Mulligan, a Fire Department spokesman, said there were widespread reports of people trapped in elevators. He also said that officials from Macy's department store at Herald Square said that the store's emergency lighting had failed as well. Ellen Weiman, spokeswoman for the city's Emergency Medical Service, said three people were being treated for minor injuries at Macy's. Deputy Fire Chief John Fogarty, one of the officers in command at the scene of the fire, which burned for 2½ hours before being put out, said: "We're not sure what caused the explosion or explosions." "But the explosion caused the transformer to burst its seams, spilling some of the 3,000 gallons of lubricating oil that cools the transformer," Fogarty said. "That created a percolator effect. As the oil outside burned, more oil leaked out, feeding the fire." 9/10/81 UFOs attack US economy The Stock Exchange closed down at 4. Note: my UFOs could not be more direct than this! Some time ago I wrote you and informed you that my Is a telepathed to me that unless the Base and/or Book was forth coming they would knock out and destroy America's Stock Exchange (a la 1929) some time in the Fall. Here they knocked out all power in the Stock Exchange... Their way of co-signing my message to you... of the deep gravity of the situation! Not only that but it follows the other bad news in this file! Owens === Page 24 of 52 BURGER KING Associated Press Laserphoto TRAFFIC TIE-UP -- Commuters on New York City's Avenue of the Americas look for alternate routes Wednesday after power outage stalled subways. === Page 25 of 52 Note: I warned some time ago that unless the Base and/or Book was forthcoming, the SI told me that they would attack and destroy the Stock Market (and U.S. economy.) This is the value they place on the Base and Book. Owens 9/9/81 PS... after that, MILK. "-U.S. economy attack" # U.S. economy starts steep downhill slide Oreg J 8/20/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - The national economy jolted into reverse in the spring quarter, declining even faster than first believed, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The inflation-adjusted gross national product, which raced ahead at an 8.6 percent annual rate in the first quarter, fell at a rate of 2.4 percent in the April-June period, pushing the economy halfway to one traditional definition of a recession - two consecutive quarters of negative GNP. Corporate profits, hampered by high interest rates as well as the weakening national economy, fell even more abruptly than the nation's output in the second quarter after rising in the January-March period, the new report said. But inflation began to subside as it often does when a nation's economic growth fades. The Commerce Department originally had estimated a 1.9 percent decline in second-quarter inflation-adjusted GNP - the total of the nation's output of goods and services - and the revision was relatively small. And it came amid speculation that the decline was no fluke and that the July-September quarter will not be much better. Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, conceded recently that "there's some possibility we're in a recession right now." And several private forecasting firms are predicting a negative GNP report for this quarter. However, analysts are agreed that there will be no steep downturn such as the decline at an annual rate of above 9 percent in the spring of last year, a recessionary plunge by all accounts. In fact, Otto Eckstein, whose Data Resources Inc. in Lexington, Mass., is forecasting negative GNP in the third quarter, was reluctant to say such a report would amount to a new recession. In a recession, he said Wednesday, people get laid off and business deteriorates drastically. The most recent government figures show employment actually rising, and business has not experienced an enormous deterioration, he said. Oreg J 8/18/81 # Stagnant mart plunges toward year's low mark NEW YORK (UPI) - The stock market, with little in the news background to stir up buying, plunged to its second lowest level of the year Monday as the investment community tried to figure out the course of interest rates and the economy. Trading was relatively slow. The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 industrial stocks, which lost 7.42 points Friday, surrendered 10.18 points to 926.75. That put the Dow at its lowest level since 924.66 on July 22 and not far from the 918.09 finish on Dec. 16, 1980. The New York Stock Exchange Index shed 0.72 to 76.28 and the price of an average share decreased 31 cents. Declines topped advances 1,156-390 among the 1,891 issues crossing the New York Stock Exchange tape. | DOW JONES | |---| | -10.18 | Big Board volume totaled 40,840,000 shares, down from the 42,580,000 traded Friday. The slowed-down trading reflected Wall Street's concern about the Federal Reserve's report late Friday that the nation's basic money supply soared $5.1 billion in the latest week and loan demand shot up $3.69 billion as the result of takeover bids. Normally, those figures would hint that the Fed would be reluctant to ease its restrictive credit policies soon and that interest rates won't come down significantly anytime soon. But many analysts believe the latest figures were a fluke because of the speculative activity that went on during the protracted three-way fight for Conoco that Du Pont won. The companies involved lined up credit in the billions. There was little movement in short-term rates and that added to investor uncertainty. === Page 26 of 52 UFOs attack on US economy - (no book) # Inflation rate hits 15.2% orig P 8/25/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Inflation leaped back into double digits in July, with consumer prices up 15.2 percent at an annual rate - mainly because of rising food and housing costs, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. At the same time, the government said the real earnings of Americans plunged by more than in any month since May of last year. The Consumer Price Index for July was up 1.2 percent for the month alone after seasonal adjustment. If maintained for the next 12 months, the inflation rate would be 15.2 percent, the department said. The rate of increase has not been as high since March of last year. The major change for the month was in food prices, up 0.8 percent for the month. The overall inflation index had benefitted UFOs attack economy - (no book) # Mart suffers broad loss NEW YORK (UPI) - Despite a late rally in Dow Jones industrial average issues, the stock market generally suffered a broad loss Tuesday as Wall Street pondered the course of interest rates and inflation. | DOW JONES | | |---|---| | +1.72 | | The Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 20.46 points Monday to a 13-month low, gained 1.72 to 901.83 after being down nearly 10 points to around 890 at midday. But the broader-based New York Stock Exchange index surrendered 0.34 to 72.58 and the price of an average share decreased 15 cents. Declines routed advances 1,256-345 among the 1,900 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT. These figures said the paper value of all NYSE issues plunged $37.8 billion in the past two sessions. Late buying in blue-chip issues was done by bargain hunters who found stocks attractively priced after the recent slide. Also, many traders replaced borrowed shares they sold earlier in hopes the market would go down. Big Board volume totaled 50,000,000 shares compared with 46,750,000 traded Monday. The bond market, which fell to a record low Monday, steadied. The dollar was strong in international markets. Gold was lower. How long the market's rebound will last is not known. Analysts said Wall Street was stunned by the government's report that consumer prices rose 1.2 percent in July, the largest rise in more than a year. Analysts said the inflation figure means that interest rates are likely to remain high. orig P 8/26/81 - UFOs attack economy - (no book) # Bond market sinks to record low NEW YORK (UPI) - Bond prices sank to record lows Monday with the government and municipal market "almost in a rout" that could severely curtail the ability of states and cities to raise money for needed services. "The bond market is a disaster and it's the result of an inevitable collision between heavy Treasury borrowing crowding out the tax-exempt and private sector and the tight monetary policies of the Fed," David M. Jones, economist at Aubrey G. Lanston & Co. government bond house, said. The key Treasury long-bond (13 7/8s of 2011) had fallen to 95 5/8, bringing the yield to 14.55 percent. All Treasury issues from three to 30 years out were at record low prices. But hardest hit is the municipal market. The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority 12% of 2011, which sold last week at par, was down to 94 Monday and there's little hope that things will improve in the near-term. "Next Monday we're pricing a Washington Public Power Supply System issue that's guaranteed by the U.S. government at yields approaching 13 1/2 percent," a spokesman for Salomon Brothers said. "When a triple-A government-backed issue has to pay this kind of yield it doesn't look good for lesser-rated tax-exempts." Monday's rout came after the Federal Reserve reported an $800 million jump in the money supply in the latest reporting week on the heels of a $5.1 billion increase the week before. William V. Sullivan Jr., senior vice president at Bank of New York, said, "That eliminated any prospect for further softening in the federal funds rate from the current 17-18 percent range. "There's no retail buying in the second-ary market and as a result inventors are on dealers' shelves," Sullivan said. "You cannot own bonds yielding 14 1/2 percent and carry them in your inventories at 18 percent." Jones said the "crowding out" of the tax-exempt and corporate sectors by heavy Treasury borrowing has put the tax-exempt market in a "near crisis." "Top-rated companies have access to needed funds, but lesser-rated borrowers are loped off first and that's exactly what's happened to states and localities," Jones said. "The market has been flooded with housing and industrial revenue bonds and now borrowing for old-fashioned purposes such as highways and other essential services is being pushed back." orig P 8/25/81 === Page 27 of 52 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wednesday, August 26, 1981 SECTION 2 # Economic Fears Roil Bond Market, Putting Borrowing Plans in Disarray SIA attack economy BY TOM HERMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK--"Bonds. "The dawn of a new bull market. "Bonds are undervalued. . ." Well, if bonds were undervalued when Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith said that two months ago, they're even more undervalued now. Bond prices plunged to record lows this week. The persistent failure of interest rates to fall has created chaos in fixed-income markets, producing huge investor losses, at least on paper. The plunge has disrupted the borrowing plans of corporations and of city and state governments, many of which had expected to sell bonds this summer to partly free themselves from the burden of costly short-term debt. The most recent upward lurch in interest rates has helped send the stock market tumbling and made more intense the financial stresses in many industries, especially those related to housing. "It's doomsville for just about anybody connected with the building industry," says Jack W. Zimmerman, who owns a construction company, a real-estate management firm and a group of lumber stores in northern Michigan. An increasing number of companies, financial analysts expect, will scale back their plans for capital spending because they can't afford the interest. UFOs attack economy # Flies near LA prove fertile; spraying starts By JOHN RICE Greg 8/27/81 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The medfly crisis spread to Southern California Wednesday after two fertile flies were trapped near Los Angeles. Officials warned of "economic disaster" and made immediate plans to quarantine the area and begin pesticide spraying. Two of five Mediterranean fruit flies found Tuesday in the suburb of Baldwin Park were confirmed to be fertile. Three more flies were discovered Wednesday in the same region, 260 miles south of the 3,140-square mile area in Northern California that has been under quarantine. Maggots were also found in Baldwin Park, indicating at least two generations of medflies in the residential area 20 miles east of Los Angeles. "We could very well see economic disaster here," said Earl McPhail, agriculture commissioner in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles. Aerial pesticide spraying started Wednesday night over a 9-square-mile area of Baldwin Hills, Irvine and West Covina, along with fruit-stripping and ground-spraying programs, said George Strathearn, deputy director of the state Food and Agriculture Department. An informal quarantine of 81 square miles was established around the area, with a formal quarantine decision expected by Thursday night, said county Agriculture Commissioner Paul D. Engler. A fertile fly also was confirmed Wednesday in Oakland, about 15 miles north of previous finds. Medfly project spokeswoman Annie Zeller said aerial pesticide spraying would start over a 12-square-mile area of the city Thursday night. The Southern California finds "will probably have an influence on whether other states impose a quarantine on the entire state of California," said Baker Conrad, spokesman for the Council of California Growers. But Karen Darling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said a statewide federal quarantine is not likely. "The threat of a statewide quarantine is no different than it was yesterday or last week," she said. "We don't see the medfly find in the largely urban area of Los Angeles makes a statewide quarantine threat." Total losses in crop sales and the cost of fighting the medfly could now reach $1 billion, said Jack King, spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation. "This is definitely a bad day and a setback," King said. The medfly quarantine includes all of San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties and parts of San Benito and Stanislaus counties. The medfly can prey on some 200 varieties of California produce with an annual worth of $4.7 billion. California is the leading -- or only -- producer of many fruits and vegetables, and a quarantine on its crops could lead to shortages of some produce nationwide, farm officials here say. Medfly fighters earlier in the day learned that Japan had refused to back off from strict restrictions on California produce designed to prevent the fly's spread across the Pacific. Officials in Tokyo announced that fruit imported from non-infested areas of California may have to be fumigated, and that fruit from infested areas will be entirely banned. === Page 28 of 52 8-28-81 Wall St. Journal # Stocks of Potential Merger Targets Flounder as Industrials Drop 10.18 - SI attack economy - By VICTOR J. HILLERY Recent speculative merger candidates floundered yesterday as the general market nose-dived. The Dow Jones industrial average bumped another 13-month low in trading of nearly 44 million shares. "There's increasing skepticism that the Reagan administration will be able to balance the budget," commented Julius Westheimer, partner at Baker Watts & Co., Baltimore. Investors feared that interest rates will have to continue at high levels for an extended period with a severe impact on the economy. The industrial average started yesterday with a drop of about seven points and ended at 889.08, down 10.18 points, and at its lowest level since it closed at 885.92 July 10, 1980. In its retreat since mid-June the index has lost 122.91 points. The transportation average also fell sharply yesterday, but the utility indicator rose. More than 1,000 New York Stock Exchange issues turned down, twice the gainers. "Except for the utilities, there wasn't any interest on the buy side," observed Dudley A. Eppel, senior vice president of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. "The public is out of this market--it's strictly institutional." The concern about interest rates weighed on the market despite cuts made yesterday by Marine Midland and other banks in the fee they charge on loans to brokers, to 18% from 19%. Also, the rate on federal funds, which banks lend to one another, slipped below 17%. "I'm afraid we'll see further weakness in the stock market until there's improvement in the interest rate and economic situation," asserted Art Ammann, research director at Boettcher & Co., Denver. **Abreast of the Market** Wall St. Journal WAY, WA 8-28-81 35 CENTS # Credibility Gap # Stocks' Drop Reflects Fear That Basic Flaws Mar Reagan's Program ## Skeptics See Growth Checked By Fed Policy as Deficits Expand U.S. Borrowing ## Were Taxes Cut Too Much? - SI attack economy - What ails the financial markets? Why do they seem to be sending disparaging signals about President Reagan's economic program--a program officially advertised as a problem-solving blend of tax cutting, budget paring, deficit ending and inflation fighting that Wall Street presumably would love? The stock and bond markets have been sinking like a stone dropped into the Potomac. The reason is a growing conviction that the Reaganite program is undermined by an inherent contradiction, say many economists all across the liberal-to-conservative political spectrum. *This article was prepared by Wall Street Journal staff reporters Lindley H. Clark Jr. and Tom Herman in New York and Kenneth H. Bacon in Washington.* Wall St. Journal 9-3-81 # Expected Drop In Interest Rates Depresses Dollar ## Currency Hits 7-Week Low Against the German Mark During Slow Trading Day "SI attack economy" By JOHN M. LEGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Expectations of lower U.S. interest rates and heavy selling on the International Monetary Market in Chicago drove the dollar sharply lower in thin foreign-exchange trading. The day's activity took the dollar to its lowest point against the West German mark in seven weeks, leading some specialists to conclude that market sentiment has turned against the U.S. currency for the time being. Despite a slight rise in some U.S. short-term interest rates, "people feel interest rates have peaked," said Victor H. Drapala, chief forward dealer at Marine Midland Bank, New York. | CURRENCY RATES | New York Wed. | Home Mkt. Wed. | New York Tues. | |---|---|---|---| | | (In U.S. dollars) | | | | British pound | 1.8510 | 1.8420 | 1.8390 | | Canadian dollar | 0.8363 | 0.8358 | 0.8300 | | | (In foreign units to U.S. dollar) | | | | French franc | 5.8100 | 5.8375 | 5.8775 | | Japanese yen | 229.30 | 230.05 | 230.30 | | Swiss franc | 2.1345 | 2.1520 | 2.1515 | | West German mark | 2.4230 | 2.4410 | 2.4515 | Based on average of late buying and selling rates. Home markets: London, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo, Zurich and Frankfurt. | GOLD PRICES | | | | |---|---|---|---| | | (In U.S. dollars per troy ounce) | | | | Comex Wed. | London PM Wed. | London AM Wed. | Comex Tues. | | 434.00 | 430.00 | 431.50 | 426.90 | Comex based on settlement price for gold for delivery in current month on Commodity Exchange in New York. London based on morning and afternoon price fixings of five major dealers. The closely watched federal funds rate, which is the interest charged on overnight loans between banks, traded as high as 20%, up from the previous day's average 17.52%. However, the funds rate often trades wildly on Wednesdays, when banks must settle their reserve accounts with the Federal Reserve System. As a result, traders thought the high funds rate was "an aberration and will trend lower over the near future," Mr. Drapala said. "Interest rates went up again. Despite all of this, the dollar went down," said Horst Duseberg, executive vice president of European American Bank, New York. "It doesn't make much sense anymore." === Page 29 of 52 Stock market plunges NEW YORK (UPI) -- Despite a late rally, the stock market plunged to a 15-month low Tuesday as interest rates remained at near-record highs and brokers began to call on speculators to put up cash for their accounts. Trading was moderate as the Dow Jones industrial average, which plunged 30.53 points last week, including 5.33 Friday, skidded 10.56 points to 851.12, the lowest level since it finished at 843.77 on June 3, 1980. DOW JONES -10.56 It had been down about 16 points at mid-afternoon, however, and came back toward the end of the session. Selling was pronounced from the outset following the Federal Reserve's report late Friday that there was a $1.5 billion surge in the nation's money supply, which put pressure on the board to keep credit tight. The New York Stock Exchange index dropped 1.31 to 68.24, a 1981 low, and the price of an average share decreased 56 cents. Declines routed advances 1,411-211 among the 1,887 issues traded at 4 p.m. EDT. The American Stock Exchange common stock index plunged 14.22 to 323.06, the lowest level in 1981. The price of a share dropped 69 cents. The National Association of Securities Dealers' NASDAQ index of over-the-counter issues lost 4.84 to 184.79, a 1981 low. Big Board volume totaled 47,340,000 shares compared with 42,760,000 traded Friday. The market was closed Monday for Labor Day. Rumors send mart skidding NEW YORK (UPI) -- The stock market, already battered by high interest rates and Labor Day holiday fever, plunged to a 15-month low following rumors that the nation's money supply is about to soar in the next couple of weeks. DOW JONES -17.22 The Dow Jones industrial average, which tacked on 1.52 points Wednesday, skidded 17.22 points to 867.01, the lowest level since it finished at 863.92 on June 10, 1980. Selling accelerated late in the day following rumors, according to some top analysts, that a leading advisory service was predicting that the nation's money supply would surge in the next couple of weeks. This speculation hit a lazy Wall Street late in the day as many investors were leaving early for the Labor Day holiday. According to the rumors, the burst in the money supply is expected to be reported by the end of the month. The New York Stock Exchange common stock index lost 1.31 to 70.25, a 1981 low, and the price of an average share decreased 56 cents. Declines routed advances 1,243-304 among the 1,867 issues traded. Blackout silences computers NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock exchanges closed early, financial computers couldn't "talk" to each other and telephones didn't work in the towers of the nation's financial crossroads yesterday after a power company transformer exploded in lower Manhattan. But traders in foreign exchange and currency markets reported little impact from the loss of power caused by an explosion and fire at a nearby power plant. "At 3:26 (p.m. EDT) the lights just went out," said Robert Balme, a New York Stock Exchange employee. "Five minutes later the bell rang" and trading was suspended for the day, about 30 minutes early. "People remained on the floor for sometime afterwards -- eventually they left." At the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York a few blocks uptown, emergency power units kept an uninterrupted flow of electricity to the computers. The computer system did fail for 27 minutes, however, for what may have been an unrelated reason, said Fed spokesman Richard Hoenig. Because of telephone and power failures nearby, banks were unable to make electronic transfers of funds and securities to the Fed, which in turn relays them, through its system, to banks around the country. Making matters worse, he said, the failure occurred on a Wednesday, the day banks settle their accounts for the preceding seven days. By JAMES A. WHITE Stock prices fell across the board yesterday in moderate trading that pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a 15-month closing low despite a mild recovery in the final hour. The industrial average, after showing a loss of 15.79 points at 3 p.m. EDT, finished with a decline of 10.56 points to 851.12, its lowest level since the close at 858.02 June 4, 1980. With the latest decline, the index has fallen almost 173 points from its eight-year high of 1024.05 April 27; more than 100 points of the slide have come in the past month. "In terms of the damage that has already been done, you would have to say that this is a climactic performance," said Larry Wachtel, first vice president of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc. He noted that the 860 level on the industrial average, which some analysts had hoped would provide the staging area to halt the downtrend, quickly evaporated in the morning under the weight of concern about continuing high interest rates and the federal budget. The drop in the industrial average brought its decline over the past six sessions to 41.10 points, including 5.33 points Friday. Volume rose yesterday to 47,340,000 shares from 42,760,000 Friday, with almost all of the increase coming in the last-hour rally effort. Declines outnumbered advancing issues by a seven-to-one margin. Trades of 10,000 or more shares totaled 605, against 649 Friday. Losses were deeper for many, less-seasoned secondary issues on the American Stock Exchange and over-the-counter market. Analysts said investors were forced to take a stand and buy some of the "beaten-down stocks," which would curtail further forced selling because of margin calls. Newton Zinder, vice president at E.F. Hutton & Co., also said that margin calls "were definitely picking up. We are at a climactic stage, with forced selling accelerating the decline." He termed the late recovery attempt a "slight technical rebound that has little significance." Oil issues were active and mostly lower. Exxon fell 5/8 to 31 1/4; Texaco, 5/8 to 35 1/4; Mobil, 3/4 to 27, and Belco Petroleum, 2 3/4 to 25 3/4. Superior Oil, whose chairman resigned Friday, dropped 2 5/8 to 31 5/8. Standard Oil (Ind.) fell 3 to 52 1/4. Zapata Corp. jumped 3 1/4 to 31 1/4; Occidental Petroleum rose 1 1/8 to 27 1/8. 'A Ticking Time-Bomb' Bache's Mr. Wachtel called the deterioration in margin levels "a ticking time-bomb waiting to go off." However, he said that investors may believe "this is the time to stand and buy some of these beaten-down stocks." === Page 30 of 52 9-10-86 sent P.S. - UFOs "symbolic talk" # Market inches up before Wall Street's power blew NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock prices edged upward yesterday before a fire at an electrical transformer in lower Manhattan blacked out much of New York's financial district and stopped trading 30 minutes early. NYSE trading was halted just after 3:30 p.m. EDT when an explosion and transformer fire knocked out a power plant on nearby 14th Street. The American Stock Exchange did not lose power, but closed anyway because the processing computer it shares with the Big Board was affected, said Eugene Caulfield, assistant vice president of the Amex's floor operations. UFOs attack economy 9-9-81 Wall St. Journal # Coal Producers Are Surprised, Worried As European Market Suddenly Turns Flat By CAROL HYMOWITZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The European market for the abundant U.S. supplies of steam coal has suddenly turned flat, surprising and worrying American coal producers. Nearly everyone in the U.S. coal business has been counting on booming exports of steam coal to European nations that want to reduce their dependence on oil. Last year, exports of the utility fuel surged to 26.8 million tons from 14.1 million tons in 1979; and total exports to Europe, which grew to 45.7 million tons from only 1.7 million in 1979, accounted for most of the growth. Consequently, many coal producers have been scrambling for spiraling sales overseas and building new mines and mine machinery, as well as new ocean port terminals, while railroads, barge-line companies and ocean shippers also have been expanding to meet the expected boom. But in recent weeks, demand for U.S. steam coal on the European spot, or cash, market--where more than 50% of all U.S. steam coal exported to Europe is traded--has slackened considerably, coal brokers say. Demand for metallurgical or coking coal, the kind the U.S. has been exporting for decades, also has weakened. Big coal producers and coal haulers who have long-term supply contracts say they're somewhat protected from the spot market slowdown. But some concede that European coal buyers aren't rushing to negotiate new contracts. And some customers overseas are even trying to renegotiate current contracts "so deliveries scheduled for this year won't be delivered until next year," says an executive at a coal trading company in New York. Wall St. Journal 9-10-81 # REVIEW & OUTLOOK - UFOs & Projects - ## Wall Street and the Budget President Reagan has returned from the West to discover that it's the White House, not Santa Barbara, that the Apaches are circling. They're all uttering the same blood-curdling cry: "Look what's happening on Wall Street!" We hope the President and his troops continue to avoid panic because this may prove to be the biggest test yet of their nerves. It calls for a cool- === Page 31 of 52 Crews contain blazes; lightning ignites more UFO 6 Projects Oregon 8/20/81 Most major range and forest fires in Oregon and Washington were reported contained by Wednesday evening, although afternoon lightning storms touched off dozens of smaller fires in Central and Eastern Oregon. A fire on Steens Mountain in Southeastern Oregon that had burned about 3,000 acres of brush and juniper was expected to be contained Thursday, fire officials said. An estimated 3,200 lightning strikes pelted Eastern Oregon between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon, with a triangular area bounded by Burns, Prineville and Baker the hardest hit, said Don Smurthwaite, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management. At least 20 new fires, ranging from one to 100 acres, were started in Eastern Oregon Wednesday afternoon. The BLM also reported that lightning sparked 21 fires Wednesday morning on rangeland between Burns and Steens Mountain, but all were confined to two acres or less. The Venator Butte fire along the Oregon-Nevada border south of Lakeview had covered 5,500 acres of range before being contained about 7 p.m. Wednesday, said Bill Keil, a BLM spokesman. The fire was expected to be controlled about 10 a.m. Thursday. Two fires caused by lightning Monday merged to form the Venator fire before they were contained by a crew of 20 firefighters, aided by a bulldozer, a grader and four tanker trucks. The Bone Creek fire, east of Alvord Lake in the far southeastern corner of the state, covered 2,500 acres of rangeland before being contained about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Keil said. The fire was expected to be controlled about noon Thursday. Smurthwaite said, "A few other fires burned up to 900 acres, but they burn fast and then run out of fuel, making them comparatively easy to stop." Keil said a 10-acre fire near Prineville could be troublesome because of easterly winds and dry juniper. The Oregon Department of Forestry reported 13 lightning strikes on state land Wednesday morning and more by Wednesday evening, but none covered more than a half-acre before being controlled. The U.S. Forest Service reported that a 105-acre fire in the Hilgard area of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest near La Grande was contained Wednesday with the aid of 40 firefighters and aerial tankers. UFO 6 Projects Officials seek coliform source CENTRALIA, Wash. (UPI) -- An organic pollutant of unknown origin has contaminated four rivers in Southwest Washington and environmental health authorities say they are mystified. The pollutant, fecal coliform bacteria, was first discovered in the Skookumchuck River three weeks ago and forced closure to swimming of Schaefer Park in Centralia. Lewis County health officials confirmed Wednesday that coliform bacterial counts 20 times as high as what is normally considered the maximum safe level have been detected in the Newaukum River. Regional water samples also revealed high bacterial counts in the Deschutes River in Thurston County and the Chehalis River in Lewis County. Oregon 8/20/81 The bacteria can cause a variety of health problems including skin rash, respiratory difficulties and hepatitis. Health officials issued no warnings about the danger with the exception of the Schaefer Park and Skookumchuck River closure. An official with the Lewis County Environmental Health Department said no announcement of the high bacterial counts in the Newaukum River was made because there are no designated swimming areas on the river under the county's jurisdiction. County health officials checked sewage treatment plants in the area, but found no apparent source of the coliform bacteria. They had been unable to determine whether the samples taken from the rivers were human or animal bacteria. UFO 6 Projects Oregon 8/20/81 Dennis threatens new fury WILMINGTON, N.C. (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Dennis shrieked through North Carolina's desolate Outer Banks Thursday with gale-force wind and blinding rain and headed out to sea where warm Gulf Stream waters threaten to strengthen it into a hurricane. Pushing rain as far north as Maryland, the storm dumped up to 12 inches in some areas of the finger-like stretch of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast, populated with fishing villages and small resort towns. Some wind gusts reached 58 mph just off Cape Fear, N.C., but the brunt of the storm's sustained 55 mph wind stayed offshore. Some roads were under water and scattered power outages were reported, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. At least three storm-related deaths have been reported since Dennis came ashore Sunday in south Florida and then turned into the Atlantic for its northbound journey. Gale warnings were in effect from Cape Lookout, N.C., north to Chincoteague Inlet, including the Outer Banks and on Chesapeake Bay from Windmill Point southward. Gale warnings were lowered south of Cape Lookout. At 6 a.m. the broad center of the storm was about 45 miles west southwest of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Dennis was moving toward the northeast at about 15 mph and forecasters said it should move northeastward off the Outer Banks later Thursday. Highest wind was 55 mph, mainly in squalls, and forecasters said reconnaissance reports and surface observation indicated some strengthening was occurring as the storm moved toward the sea, increasing the likelihood it would reach hurricane strength later Thursday as it moved over the warm Gulf Stream. The storm, born Aug. 6, straddled land and water as it moved up the Carolinas' coast Wednesday, chasing boats, military aircraft and vacationers inland and naval ships out to sea. Cape Lookout reported gusts up to 46 mph Wednesday night, and rain that began falling well ahead of the storm caused flooding in some low-lying coastal areas, authorities said. In North Charleston, S.C., police said an elderly man and woman were killed in a two-car collision early Wednesday on a street inundated by rain. 9-2-81 Seat. Times First, Capitol Hills have power failure About 2,500 residents of the First Hill and Capitol Hill areas were left without electrical power about a half hour yesterday when part of a tree severed an overhead line at Crawford Place and East Union Street. Hugh McIntosh of City Light said the power outage occurred at 3:59 p.m. and was repaired by 4:35 p.m. The area was bounded roughly by East Republican Street, East Marion Street, the freeway and 23rd Avenue and 23rd Avenue East. UFO 6 Projects === Page 32 of 52 Storm claims 2; vacationers leave UFOs & Projects - Oreg 8/20/81 CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Dennis crept along the East Coast Wednesday, claiming two lives as it passed South Carolina's historic cities and headed toward its coastal resorts. The National Weather Service said the storm could build to near hurricane force if it remained over the warm sea waters. Witnesses said highways out of the Grand Strand, South Carolina's popular beach resort area, were jammed with vacationers fleeing the oncoming storm. Gale warnings were up from Brunswick, Ga., to Virginia as Dennis roughly followed the path of Hurricane David, which left millions of dollars in damage and several dead along this part of the Eastern Seaboard in September 1979. "Everyone's gearing up for potential problems," said Ross Miller, director of the Emergency Preparedness Division of the South Carolina Adjutant General's Office. The Coast Guard in Charleston said that if conditions worsened, the Intracoastal Waterway would be closed so drawbridges would not interfere with the evacuation of residents from the outlying barrier islands. By midafternoon, authorities on several Charleston-area barrier islands were considering evacuating residents, but no final decisions had been made regarding residents on Folly Beach, Sullivan's Island, the Isle of Palms, Seabrook Island and Kiawah Island. Street flooding was reported in Charleston and Myrtle Beach. The deaths of an elderly man and woman in a traffic accident in North Charleston were attributed by local authorities to storm-related street flooding. About 70 A-10 jet fighters were moved from the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base to England Air Force Base in Alexandria, La. Jets from the Charleston Air Force Base and Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C., were sent to other airfields. But the Marine Corps decided to keep its jets at its air station in Beaufort. Seven of the smaller ships at the Charleston Naval Base, including destroyers, cruisers and frigates, were sent out to sea to avoid the storm. The Red Cross in North Carolina dispatched workers to staff emergency headquarters in Charlotte, Wilmington, New Bern and Myrtle Beach, S.C. At 6 p.m. EDT, the storm's center was near latitude 33.0 north, longitude 79.2 west, or about 50 miles south-southwest of Myrtle Beach. It had picked up northward speed to 15 mph, with top winds of 50 mph mainly in squalls to the east. "The center may move more parallel to the Carolina coast than earlier anticipated," said forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "Should this occur, the landfall will be delayed and winds could increase to near hurricane force." "It just hasn't made up its mind yet," said John Purvis, chief of the National Weather Service's Columbia bureau. "The thing has curved more toward the northeast and it's skirting the coast more and more." Small boats were warned to stay in port. Forecasters predicted thunderstorms, gusty winds and possible tornadoes in the coastal regions of the Carolinas. ays drown UPI) -- Eleven Colombian realizing they would be de- on reaching port, jumped into the Houston ship channel in a desperate bid for freedom. Two drowned and four others are missing. The other five reached shore and were arrested. Harris County sheriff's officers resumed their search of the 40-foot-deep water Friday for the four missing men. Cholera erupts in Texas UFOs & Projects ATLANTA (UPI) -- Health officials are on the lookout for cases of cholera in two Texas counties after the death of one man from the disease and the hospitalization of another, the national Center for Disease Control said Friday. The CDC also said the spread of cholera could not be ruled out in diarrhea illnesses that 40 others in the two Texas counties, summer. Cholera, an acute intestinal disease, is transmitted mainly through ingestion of contaminated water. Oreg J 8/21/81 Cubans' release opposed ATLANTA (UPI) -- A small group of Cuban refugees were ordered released Friday by a federal judge, but government attorneys are arguing that 225 other detainees should remain in prison. Justice Department attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob late Thursday to stay part of the order he issued Wednesday releasing 381 Cuban refugees from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where they are detained. Storm Dennis downgrades CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) -- A hurricane for only a few hours, Dennis downgraded to a tropical storm Friday as it thrashed the North Carolina coast. Atlantic, the storm, with top winds of 75 mph, was about 75 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras at 11 a.m. EDT. It was moving north-northeast at 15 mph. UFOs & Projects Probe's key Story on Page One also Oreg J 8/27/81 By RICHARD COLBY of The Oregonian staff PASADENA, Calif. -- Nobody at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory really believes in the "Great Galactic Ghoul," the evil spirit, jokingly blamed for both Soviet and U.S. space probe failures in the early 1960s. After all, most missions have gone satisfactorily since then. But Bruce Murray, laboratory director, happened to mention the ghoul to Edwin Meese, counselor to President Reagan, when Meese visited the laboratory Tuesday. A few hours later, Voyager 2 developed a problem, and the ghoul suddenly was revived. Failure of a rotating arm on the space probe, however, came at a time when nearly all of the craft's important work near Saturn was completed, said the Voyager's chief project scientist, Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology. UFOs & Projects Storms hit Midwest United Press International Thunderstorms spread across the Plains into the Midwest and most of the Mississippi Valley Tuesday, flooding streets and knocking out power in northeastern Illinois. Lightning bored a hole through the roof of a house in Illinois late Monday. Oreg J 8/25/81 UFOs & Projects - Wave sweeps Scouts away HONG KONG (UPI) -- A mammoth wave crashed onto a remote beach, engulfed seven Boy Scouts on a camping trip and swept them out to sea, police said Tuesday. They said the freak wave drowned one 17-year-old. Rescuers fished out four of the boys. Two others are missing and presumed dead. The campers were with the 7th Hong Kong Scout Group and were on an outing to Tai Mong Tsai, a remote beach in the New Territories where they were watching 10-foot waves pound the beach when the giant wave came up. 8/18/81 Oreg J === Page 33 of 52 - UFde 6 Projects - oreg J 8/24/81 # 24 known dead in Japan in wake of Typhoon Thad TOKYO (UPI) -- Typhoon Thad, Japan's most powerful storm in 16 years, swept out to sea Monday, leaving at least 24 people dead and 18,000 homeless in flooding and landslides. Police said they fear the toll of death and destruction will climb as rescue workers search the 21,000 homes in 21 provinces hit by the typhoon's torrential rain Sunday. The rains washed away roads, railway lines, bridges and farm crops and left 24 dead, 100 injured and 19 missing. Thad slashed across central Japan and by Monday had crossed over the western edge of the main northern island of Hokkaido onto the open sea traveling 45 miles per hour with center winds of up to 65 mph. In Ryugasaki city, 40 miles north of Tokyo, an embankment along the nearby Kokai River gave way Monday, flooding muddy water into the small town of 15,000. Police ordered the evacuation of 5,000 homes in the city and by mid-morning more than 1,000 residents had fled to schools on high ground. Officials said the gap in the embankment had widened from 60 to 120 feet and some 2,500 homes were flooded. Efforts to reinforce the embankment were under way but authorities held out little hope of stemming the torrent of water pouring into the city and surrounding rice fields. Police said no casualties had yet been reported at Ryugasaki, but in the city of Suzka, on the main island of Honshu, a flash flood caused by a broken embankment washed away 10 residents. # 50,000 flee China flood PEKING (UPI) -- Most of the 50,000 people trapped by flooding in Shaanxi province have been brought to safety by rescuers, the official People's Daily reported Monday. Heavy rains had caused serious flooding in the central China province and "up to 50,000 people were surrounded by flood waters in the whole province," People's Daily said. The flooding had killed at least 13 people in Shaanxi and 51 in the neighboring province of Sichuan in a disaster that affected hundreds of thousands of people earlier this month. - UFde 6 Projects - # Four men hurt in crash of Forest Service copter UKIAH (UPI) -- A U.S. Forest Service helicopter attempting to land at a lookout station was buffeted by high wind and toppled 100 feet to the ground Sunday, injuring the pilot and three crew members. District Ranger David Price said the "helitac" crew, which delivers firefighters and equipment in Eastern Oregon, was making a service flight to the Madison Butte lookout about 25 miles west of Ukiah when the accident occurred at about 11 a.m. "They had a pretty strong head wind and were about 100 feet off the ground when the wind switched 180 degrees and they fell," Price said. Pilot Rick Morton, 34, Seattle, and crew members Greg Durfey, 33, Pendleton, and Steve Franks, 25, of the Ukiah area, were taken by air ambulance to St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton with back injuries. The other crewman, Miles Hancock, 20, Pendleton, was treated and released. Hospital officials said none of the injuries were serious. oreg J 8/24/81 - UFde 6 Projects - 8/31/81 # Spruce budworm blight hits epidemic scale DENVER (AP) -- The western spruce budworm has infested more than 1.2 million acres of forest land in Colorado and is moving into neighboring Western states, U.S. Forest Service officials say. The Denver Post reported in a copyright story Sunday that although the infestation has reached epidemic proportions in Colorado, no statewide or federal control program has begun. Because the infestation has become so widespread, any attempt to control it would be futile, John Lott, Colorado State Forest Service entomologist, said in interviews last week. "There is a lot that could have been done a couple of years ago, but not much that can be done now," Lott said. "If we had proposed a statewide aerial spraying program three years ago, it just would not have been tolerated. Now that the damage has set in, spraying probably would not work. It would be cosmetic." Lott said a chemical control program was not undertaken because the infestation was not expected to become epidemic. "We were fooled, and admittedly, we have egg on our face," he said. Budworms have become even more widespread than the pervasive mountain pine beetle, forestry spokesmen said. The budworm has infected more acreage that the pine beetle. The budworm, however, is slower to kill a healthy tree, taking up to five years. In the Rocky Mountain region, the budworm attacks Douglas fir, grand fir, white fir, subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce and western larch. Forests from Wyoming to southern New Mexico have been infested with the budworm, the Post said. Along the Front Range of Colorado, more than 1 million acres of trees have been attacked by the insect, according to the Post. Major outbreaks have been reported in Montana, Idaho and Arizona, the Post said. The budworm has infested more than 148 million acres of forest in North America, and has threatened the timber industry, wildlife habitat and recreation in many forests. === Page 34 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - # 2 drown, 3 vanish as strong ebb tide closes Columbia bar Greg J 8/24/81 - UFO "water attack" - ASTORIA (UPI) -- Two people drowned, three were missing and three others were injured when three boats capsized in a strong ebb tide along the Oregon and Washington coasts Sunday, the Coast Guard reported. Extremely dangerous sea conditions prompted the Coast Guard to close the Columbia River bar to pleasure boats for three hours Sunday afternoon, delaying the return of more than 150 vessels. Two boats capsized within moments of each other near the south jetty of the Columbia River, Coast Guard Petty Officer Steven Mackey said in Astoria. Two brothers aboard one of the boats were reported in satisfactory condition in Ocean Beach Hospital in Ilwaco, Wash., a hospital spokesman said. They were identified as Sidney Harrel, 62, and Horace Harrel, 71, both of Milwaukie, Ore. Two aboard the other boat, a 16-foot pleasure craft, were killed and a third was missing, Mackey said. The dead were identified as Emil Smith, Port Orchard, Wash., and Lola Walls, Dysart, Iowa. Missing and presumed drowned was Kenneth Strohecker, Portland. All were about 80 years old. THE BAR, where the Pacific Ocean and the Columbia River meet, was closed to pleasure craft at 12:10 p.m. and reopened about 3:30 p.m., although Coast Guard motor lifeboats continued to warn weekend sailors to stay inside the main channel due to the treacherous bar conditions. The two capsizings off the river's south jetty were witnessed and reported to the Coast Guard by people aboard the boat Yellow Jacket, which picked up two people from the ocean. A Coast Guard motor lifeboat from the Cape Disappointment station near Ilwaco, Wash., retrieved the other two. The Coast Guard had nine vessels and two helicopters from nearby stations searching for other accidents among the estimated 500 small pleasure and commercial boats which departed before the bar closure. Fog hampered the aerial search, forcing the Coast Guard to drop smoke bombs to pinpoint the location of one overturned craft. Waves were reported at about 6 feet, but had been as high as 15 feet. A Coast Guard official said crews were experiencing difficulty keeping boats away from the bar during the closure. Some boaters were ignoring both radio and visual warnings. Lt. Cdr. John Sprague at the Cape Disappointment facility said his station responded to at least a dozen vessel breakdowns caused by extremely high seas. He said a maximum ebb tide around noon Sunday caused swells and large breaking waves, buffeting boats caught where the ocean and river meet. SEA CONDITIONS improved late Sunday as the tide turned, but a small craft advisory continued along the Oregon Coast for local rough bar conditions. The Coast Guard in Tillamook closed the bar there at 6 a.m. because of high seas. One fishing boat departed during the closure, as commercial boats are not affected by closure orders, which apply only to pleasure boats. There were three other boating accidents involving 14 people off Oregon Saturday as pleasure boaters and salmon fishermen out on the last weekend of the season crowded the seas. Irvin Bryant, 60, and Ronald York, 45, received compression fractures of the spine when a big wave struck their skiff off the Columbia's south jetty. They were listed in satisfactory condition Sunday at Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City. Another boater was treated for a neck injury in Astoria. - UFOs & Projects - # Power failure dims fair SALEM -- A portion of the Oregon State Fairgrounds plunged into darkness Wednesday night, and the fair was closed early after a Portland General Electric Co. transformer in northeast Salem failed. Some 40,000 persons were at the fair when the outage occurred at 10:40 p.m., affecting about a third of the north and west portions of the fairgrounds. It was at least 20 minutes before an emergency transformer had restored electricity to most of the grounds and 70 minutes before all electricity went back on, Fair Deputy Director Don Hillman said the fair generator did not go on immediately because its battery was dead. Three rides were affected by the outage, but two were on the ground, he said. An emergency generator restored power to one aerial ride, the ferris wheel, within about five minutes, he said. No injuries were reported, and there was only one instance of looting. Greg J 9/4/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Consulate bombed EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Two firebombs were thrown at the U.S. Consulate in Edinburgh Saturday, causing only minor damage and no injuries, police said. They said no motive was known. No other details were available. Greg J 9/6/81 === Page 35 of 52 - UFO 6 Projects - # 'He looked me in the eyes,' says 'lucky' shark survivor - UFO "ocean attacks" PENSACOLA, Fla. (UPI) -- Ted Best says he never will forget the eyes of the wounded Mako shark when it took his leg in its jaws -- and figures he's lucky to be alive with the memory. The 6-foot shark, apparently "out for revenge," attacked the 19-year-old snorkeler after he shot it with his spear gun. "I was pretty scared because I knew what they can do to you," Best said Monday, a few hours after surviving the attack. "When he hit my leg I didn't know how bad it was. "I just remember looking at his eyes. He looked me in the eyes. I'll never forget that." He came out of the encounter with a clean wound on his thigh that will keep him on crutches for at least four days. The shark departed with a spear wound. Best's was the second attack in Florida waters in two weeks. A 19-year-old girl was killed by a shark on the Atlantic side of the peninsula Aug. 10. Best said he was snorkeling in 12 feet of water Monday afternoon off the Gulf Island National Seashore Park, looking for shells about 50 yards offshore, when two sharks approached. "They went out of sight for about 10 or 15 seconds and I came up for some air and went back down," Best said. "No sooner had I found a shell and turned around and here he was a-comin'. He was putting it on pretty good. "The next thing I knew -- I guess it was a Mako -- he was right up on me. I hadn't provoked him. I hadn't shot a fish to make blood or anything. "They've always minded their own business, but these two looked like they were out for revenge or something," Best said. "I always carry a spear gun and I shot him. I pulled the spear out of him, but before I could get it back in the gun, he hit me." Best said the shark released his leg and moved away and he struck out for shore. One of the sharks followed him and he saw "a black form" behind him in about 7 feet of water, but it disappeared. Breaking his facemask on a piling in his haste to get out of the water, Best limped to his car and drove to the park ranger's station half a mile from the beach. From there, he was flown by helicopter to the hospital at Pensacola. He said his wound was "about 6½-by-7 inches across. I don't know how many punctures. I guess there's about a hundred -- all small ones." The deepest, he said, were about three-quarters of an inch. The important thing was that the shark let go cleanly, rather than ripping flesh from his leg. Greg J 8/25/81 - UFO 6 Projects - # GI cars in Germany burned in new attack By United Press International Seven automobiles were set on fire and destroyed at an American military housing area Tuesday in the second attack on an American installation in West Germany in two days, the U.S. Army said. In Frankfurt, an annex to a Social Democratic Party headquarters also was set on fire by terrorists in a campaign against American nuclear arms in Western Europe. The star of the Red Army Faction -- the name used by the leftist Baader-Meinhof terror gang -- was painted on the building along with slogans that read: "The SPD is carrying out atomic arming with the U.S. government." SPD are the initials of the Social Democratic Party. The burnings came less than 24 hours after a car-bomb exploded at the Ramstein Air Base, injuring 15 people arriving for work at the U.S. Air Force European headquarters. Two Americans, including a brigadier general, were still in the hospital Tuesday. In what the State Department labeled a "bizarre" outburst of anti-American attacks, bombs also exploded Monday in Lima, Peru, rocking the American Embassy, the ambassador's residence and factories and offices of four American companies. The Army said seven cars were set aflame early Tuesday at different locations inside the military housing area in Wiesbaden, 18 miles west of Frankfurt. The gas tanks of the cars apparently were punctured with an ice pick and the gasoline was ignited, the Army said. All eight cars were destroyed. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper said in an editorial that hysterical attacks against the Reagan administration were fueling anti-American sentiment in West Germany and supplying terrorists with an excuse for attacks on Americans. With the outbreak of bombings in West Germany and Peru, a State Department official said it was a "bizarre weekend." But he added that there was no evidence the attacks were part of a new terrorist campaign against the United States. Greg J 9/1/81 - UFO 6 Projects - Seat Times # Whale sinks yacht 8-30-81 LONDON -- (AP) -- A British couple and their dog, rescued from the Atlantic Ocean after a whale sank their yacht, were aboard a Dutch freighter yesterday bound for Philadelphia, the Royal Air Force said. === Page 36 of 52 3M MAN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, AUGUST 30, 198 1: UPOR 6 Projects Showers break drought; wildfires still rage Light showers ended a 47-day dry spell in the light, variable winds, increased humidity and a tem- falling rock in the steep terrain. Portland area Saturday, while two fires continued to perature drop should improve conditions, Kiser said. spread elsewhere in Oregon. Strong winds kept more than 800 firefighters busy on two blazes that remained out of control Saturday evening in Klamath County. Winds of up to 25 mph caused the Coyote fire to jump lines in Southern Oregon timber land. The fire has burned an estimated 1,000 acres on private land and 3,000 to 4,000 in the Fremont National Forest, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bob Kiser. Kiser said about 360 firefighters were battling the man-caused blaze that began Friday in ponderosa pine about 50 miles northeast of Klamath Falls. There was no estimate on when the fire would be contained, but About 500 firefighters struggled to contain anoth- er blaze that had burned an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 acres of timberland about 15 miles north of Klamath Falls. The Sucker Springs blaze began on the Winema National Forest about 3:30 p.m. Friday and spread to state-protected private and federal Bureau of Land Management land. On Saturday firefighters were hampered .by 20- to 25-mph winds from the north- west, which caused the fire to jump lines and spread substantially, said Mark McKelvie, Oregon Depart- ment of Forestry spokesman. No houses were threatened by the fire Saturday, but one firefighter suffered a minor leg injury from a Meanwhile, firefighters controlled à 40-acre fire on Forest Service land, near Ukiah, about 50 miles south of Pepeleton power outage in parts of North and Northeast Portland caused several thousand Pacific Power & Light customers to lose electricity for 47 minutes Saturday, said Glenn Gillespie, PP&L spokesman, After a long dry spell, the light rains soaked dust that had collected on a ceramic insulator at Northeast 6th Avenue and Lombard Street, causing electricity to arc and set the pole on fire, knocking out a transmitter and a 57,000-volt line at 6 p.m. The outage interrupted service at three substations until power could be rer- outed. Portland had received 0.05 of an inch of rain by 4 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Clear skies were expected by Sunday afternoon with highs predicted in the 70s. - UFOR 6 Projecto Terrorists bomb U.S. air base RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, West Germany (UPI) - A bomb believed planted by ter- rorists damaged the headquarters building of the U.S. Air Force in Eurone Monday, injuring 18 Americans and two Germans, the Air Force said. Two of the Americans were seriously hurt and were being treated at the Land- stuhl.U.S Army hospital. The bomb went off in a parking lot outside the Air Force headquarters build- ing, which also serves as headquarters for the NATO air force for central Europe. The West German federal prosecutor's office said a preliminary investigation in- dicated terrorists were responsible for the bombing, the third this year at an Ameri- can installation. Police in southern Germany sought two automobiles seen near the guarded Ameri- can Air base near Kaiserslautern before the explosion. The Air Force announcement said the cause of the explosion in the parking lot had not been determined, but German po- lice said the bomb went off in an automo- bile, blowing its hood over a five-story building and injuring people within 100 yards. "Damage was limited to the joint head- quarters building and to vehicles in the parking area," the American announce- ment said. "Windows were blown out, partitions, interior walls, equipment and furniture received some damage !!! The U.S. Air Force fire department put out fires in vehicles, but there were no other fires, the announcement said. Of the injured, seven American Air Force personnel and two Germans were taken by helicopter to Landstuhl. The oth- er 11 were treated at Ramstein Air Base and released. oreg J 8/31/81 ENG. NETH. W.GERMANY BELGIUM · Bonn GERMANY LUX. · Kaiserslautern FRANCE Ramstein AFB 0 100 SEOUL, South Korea (UPI) - Typhoon Agnes hit South Korea with the heaviest ram of the century, flooding southwestern coastal areas and causing considerable loss of life and property, police said Thursday. The Central Anti- Disaster Headquar- ters in, Seoul report- ed 13 people killed and 13 others miss- news scope @ing in rain spawned by Typhoon Agnes swirling off the southern coast. The figures are expected to rise as com- munications are restored. A report by the official Yonhap news agen- cy said the 13 to 26 inches of rain during the two-day period killed 27. Another 14 were missing. The news agency said the rain also left 28,000 people homeless and destroyed 5,900 houses. Officials gave initial estimates of $8 million property damage OR 1 9/3/8 === Page 37 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - $\rightarrow$ $\phi$ $\lightning$ # Lightning causes new blackout DENVER (AP) - A lightning bolt knocked out electrical power Monday to more than 150,000 customers in most of Montana, southern Idaho, northern Wyoming and one Colorado town, utility spokesmen said. An estimated 150,000 Montana Power Co. customers east of the Continental Divide lost electricity when lightning hit a 340-kilovolt line between Four Corners, N.M., and Pinto, Utah, Montana Power spokesman Russ Cox said. The blackout just after midnight also affected 1,800 people in southern Idaho and 800 in southwest-ern Colorado. An undetermined number were affected in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. Montana Power lost its entire system - three coal-fired plants and 13 hydroelectric units. The plants tripped off automatically to protect themselves from a power surge from the lightning, Cox said. The Montana blackout last two hours in most areas, but Cox said some remote areas were still out after dawn Monday. Some Montanans were late for work because electrical alarm clocks went off late and Mountain Bell spokeswoman Crystal Hahn said the telephone numbers for a recording of the time "were really busy." The blackout did not affect Butte, Missoula and other points west of the divide, Cox said. There were apparently sufficient connections between Montana Power and Washington Water Power Co. to maintain service there, he said. Idaho Power Co. spokesman Bob Brown said hydroelectric units at Striker, Thousand Springs, Twin Falls and Shoshone Falls went out, affecting about 1,800 customers in Boise, Twin Falls and Salmon for two hours. In northern Wyoming, Buffalo, Sheridan and Lovell lost power for about 10 minutes, said Bob Tarantola of Pacific Power & Light Co. Seibert said Colorado-Ute Power Co. in western Colorado reported a 230-kilovolt line tripped, causing one coal-fired plant to shut down briefly and creating a blackout in Mancos, a town of about 800 people in southwestern Colorado. "They don't know for sure, but apparently it (the power failure) was due to lightning strikes on a 340-kilovolt line between The Montana Power Co. and the Four Corners area," Mark Seibert of Colorado Public Service Co. said. oreg 9/1/81 - UFOs & Projects - # 8 people lost; hundreds flee By United Press International National Guard troops stood watch in a steady rain Tuesday and police hunted for four people missing in flash floods that raked southern Texas. Three other young brothers were swept out of their beds and to their deaths. Lightning in Indiana was blamed in the death of an elderly man. A flurry of tornadoes and nearly a foot and a half of rain left hundreds of Texans homeless. Police evacuated one Texas jail - swimming to safety with four prisoners. Storm wind clocked at 92 mph off Galveston Island ripped a 450-foot freighter from its moorings Monday and slammed it into another vessel. Another band of explosive storms dumped gully-washing rain on the Midwest, sending Ohio residents fleeing from their homes in boats and washing out roads in parts of Wisconsin. In Indiana, lightning from a storm that flooded the northern part of the state and washed out several bridges was blamed for an early morning house fire Monday that killed Byran Titus, 84, of Fairmont. Floods in Texas forced more than 500 people - including 100 nursing home patients - from their homes in Hallettsville, Shiner and Moulton. More than 17 inches of rain soaked some areas. A dozen National Guard troops were ordered out in Hallettsville to assist in the evacuation and to prevent looting in downtown stores. In Shiner, a flash flood swept four young brothers out of their beds in a trailer home and carried them away. oreg 9/1/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Hundreds flee Texas floods By United Press International Torrential downpours and flash floods, legacies of a dying tropical depression, surged across parts of south Texas Monday and forced hundreds of people from their homes. To the north, a cold front sent thunderstorms rolling over the Plains and across the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Seaboard. Flooding was reported in parts of the northern half of Indiana and flash flood warnings were issued for many areas. Nearly 6 1/2 inches of rain deluged Bucyrus in northwest Ohio. Flash flood warnings were posted for nearby counties. Showers spread over parts of the Southwest and dotted southern Florida. Cloudy skies were the rule in much of the West, though fair skies graced California. Gully-washing rain swept south central and southeastern Texas. More than 9 inches of rain fell in the Seguin, Gonzales and Geronimo, Texas, area. San Antonio was doused by 2 to 4 inches of rain. Heavy rain in the Kenedy area forced the evacuation of about 300 people, police said. "The evacuations began about midnight and are continuing," police spokesman Bob Snow said. Part of the town was without telephone service and school officials canceled classes Monday. oreg 8/31/81 === Page 38 of 52 # Downpours flood Texas, Midwest THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981 ## Five dead in south Texas flooding By MACK SISK SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- Residents of south Texas kept an eye on rising rivers Tuesday as they began cleaning up the muddy mess from floodwaters that killed at least five people and forced hundreds from their homes. Rivers swollen by up to 18 inches of rain from the remnants of a tropical depression churned out of their banks in the Coastal Plains area Monday. Some rivers continued to rise Tuesday and heavy rains persisted. Seven tornadoes danced across Galveston Island, ripping a 450-ton freighter from its moorings, slicing the roofs off buildings and damaging an airport hangar. Downtown streets were inundated with up to 4 feet of water. Street flooding also was widespread in Houston. Lavaca County Sheriff Hilmer Woytek estimated 100 people were evacuated, including residents of a nursing home in Shiner. "We had 6 feet of water in the jail," the sheriff said. "It's the worst we've ever had." Gov. Bill Clements ordered a contingent of about 20 National Guardsmen to Hallettsville to prevent looting. Don Minear, owner of a discount store, said he lost almost everything when the store filled with 6 feet of water. Ila Stratman, city secretary in Shiner where 16 inches of rain fell, said 50 to 60 homes were flooded there. "We have five confirmed dead," said Linda Smith, a volunteer answering phones at the temporary sheriff's headquarters in an old telephone building. Gregory Hights, 16, saw his three brothers carried away by floodwaters that demolished their mobile home in Shiner: Glenn Hights, 17, Johnnie Hights, 15, and Bradford Hights, 13, drowned. Authorities said the bodies of two other victims were found Tuesday morning near Rocky Creek between Hallettsville and Yoakum. Hights said he was awakened about 2 a.m. by water lapping at the mobile home. The boys' mother was in the hospital and their father was away at work. He said he and his three brothers made it to a nearby house, but water began to flow in through a broken window. Hights said he and one of his brothers decided to get on the roof, but the house began floating away. "I panicked a little bit," he said. "I told myself to stay calm, that God would help us. I started crying and praying. It (the house) was moving real fast and then we hit a tree. The house just flew up. The roof just took me under. I saw John. He was calling my name. He said, 'Greg, Greg.' I couldn't do anything." ## Gypsy moth infestation battled in Salem area By PEGGY SAND Correspondent, The Oregonian SALEM -- While California battles the Mediterranean fruit fly, Oregon is having its own problems with the gypsy moth. "It's the most serious pest problem in the state," said Bill Wright, assistant administrator in the Oregon Department of Agriculture's plant division. State officials discovered an infestation of gypsy moths Aug. 1 in south Salem. Field workers are now combing the area, one-half mile in radius, to detect the moths so they can be destroyed in the caterpillar stage next spring. If the gypsy moth went unchecked, it could devastate trees statewide, Wright said. According to John Mellott, state entomologist in charge of the project, each caterpillar can eat a square foot of leaf surface every 24 hours. Last year, Mellott said, 5 million acres of trees were stripped by gypsy moths in the northeastern United States. If a conifer is stripped of its foliage, it will die, but a maple or oak can survive several seasons of stripping before it is killed. "In the Northeast, the trees looked like the dead of winter in the middle of summer," Wright said. The gypsy moth was brought to Massachusetts during the last century by a man who was experimenting with silk production. The gypsy moth is being brought to Oregon by persons who have vacationed in or moved from the Northeast. Last spring, Mellott said, one moth and egg mass in Salem was found through the efforts of a grade school child. Mellott was conducting a mini-course on the gypsy moth at five Salem schools and instructed the children to tell people who had come from the Northeast to call the agriculture department. The student gave the information to one woman who called to say she had moved from New England. Agricultural officials then investigated and found a moth at her home and destroyed the insect. The moths and their larvae can be brought from the East Coast on a variety of items such as recreational vehicles, toys or lawn furniture. Small traps to lure the moths have been set by agriculture officials throughout the state. Only one moth has been found in Oregon outside the Salem area -- in east Portland. Wright said, however, that the area did not appear to be infested. Mellott said several dozen moths have been detected by nine workers making a door-to-door search in the south Salem area. This winter, he said, agriculture officials will decide how the caterpillars will be destroyed when they hatch in the spring. Among the alternatives are pesticides and viruses. The gypsy moth consumes the foliages of many familiar Oregon trees such as oaks, apple, alder, birch and maples. Wright said Douglas fir is not known to be a favorite of the moth, but that the moth could be a potential threat to the timber industry. He said the most severe threat would be a quarantine on lumber shipments. Agriculture officials are urging all persons who have vacationed or moved from areas infested with gypsy moths to call the agency's plant division in Salem. === Page 39 of 52 - UFOs & Projects - # Missile misses U.S. plane by several miles By FRED S. HOFFMAN 8/27/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - A missile apparently launched from North Korea at a U.S. Air Force spy plane missed the high-altitude jet by several miles, the Pentagon said Wednesday. "The crew of a U.S. Air Force SR-71 flying in South Korean and international air space reported sighting a contrail and subsequent air burst several miles distant," the Pentagon statement said. "The incident posed no threat to the aircraft, which landed safely." The statement did not flatly accuse the North Koreans of shooting at the "Blackbird" reconnaissance plane, but said, "If a missile was launched, it could have originated from any one of a number of missile sites in North Korea." In Santa Barbara, Calif., presidential counselor Edwin Meese III said Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told Reagan of the incident during their meeting at Reagan's ranch Wednesday. "The president was concerned about it obviously," said Meese, who also attended the meeting. "But there weren't really enough details yet from the Defense Department. They were still evaluating the situation." Asked if the United States considered the incident a provocation and was thinking about responding, Meese said, "I think that's up to the Defense Department to evaluate the situation, which they are doing." Meese said, "No one was hurt and our plane was not endangered." He said it was flying in international and South Korean airspace but said he didn't know the nature of its mission. The SR-71, which the Air Force calls one of the fastest and highest-flying aircraft, travels more than 2,000 mph at altitudes above 80,000 feet. A successor to the U-2 spy plane, it carries a crew of two. The Pentagon said the plane involved in the Wednesday incident was on a "routine mission." The Pentagon refused to say how near the plane was to the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea or to North Korea itself. The Defense Department and the Air Force rarely discuss SR-71 operations, but it is known that the plane has been used in past years to spy on China and communist Vietnam. There have also been unconfirmed reports it has been used to photograph North Korea. The Pentagon said there have been no similar incidents in the past and that no other planes were involved. The incident comes a week after two U.S. Navy F-14 jets were fired upon by a pair of Libyan jets while the American forces were conducting training maneuvers off the Libyan coasts. The U.S. jets shot down the two Libyan planes. - UFOs & Projects - # U.S. protests N. Korean missile attack By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States Thursday condemned as "an act of lawlessness" North Korea's firing of a missile at a high-altitude American spy plane in South Korean and international air space. At the same time, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer warned that the United States "will take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the future safety of our pilots and our planes." Fischer also asserted that "we intend to continue to fly these routine flights." President Reagan, vacationing in California, was told of the Korean incident Wednesday morning, about 8 1/2 hours after it happened, said spokesman Larry Speakes. He said Reagan was satisfied he had been informed of the incident soon enough. Reagan was not told of another such incident, the shooting down last week of two Libyan jet attack planes by U.S. Navy jet fighters off the Libyan coast, until about six hours after his aides learned of it. The Defense Department announced Wednesday night that an SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance plane, manned by a crew of two, "reported sighting a contrail and subsequent air burst several miles distant." The Pentagon said the plane was unharmed and landed safely. The wording of the Pentagon announcement indicated that the missile probably came from North Korea but did not say specifically. However, Fischer told reporters Thursday, "We now have confirmation that early yesterday (Wednesday) North Koreans fired a missile at a U.S. Air Force plane flying in South Korean and international airspace." Tensions between U.S. and South Korean forces on one side and the North Koreans on the other have frequently been high in the area along the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, and there have been a number of ground clashes over the years. In a harshly worded indictment of the North Koreans, Fischer expressed "serious concern at this act of lawlessness which constitutes a violation of international law, the Korean military armistice agreement and accepted norms of international behavior." In warning that the United States will act as necessary to assure the safety of U.S. pilots and planes in the future, Fischer did not indicate what measures would be taken. He said the North Koreans had not yet responded to a call by the U.S. command in Seoul for a meeting Saturday of the U.N. Armistice Commission "to protest directly to the North Koreans this violation of the 1953 armistice agreement." Meanwhile, Fischer said the United States is contacting the governments of China and the Soviet Union to request that they convey "our deep concern over this incident to North Korean authorities and that North Korea avoid any repetition of such dangerous activity." He noted that both China and the Soviet Union have friendship treaties with North Korea, and that China, a signatory of the 1953 agreement which ended the Korean War, is a member of the armistice commission. That commission, which meets at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, also includes North Korea, the United States and South Korea. === Page 40 of 52 # Engineers puzzled # scientists still baffled By ROBERT LOCKE PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Voyager 2's camera platform, jammed shortly after the ship sailed past Saturn, apparently came unstuck late Wednesday, although engineers said they still didn't know what the problem was or if it's really solved. "We are not permanently stuck," said program manager Esker Davis. "But... (the platform) is not operational yet," he said. Davis said mission engineers had been trying all day to command Voyager to rotate the jammed platform -- which also carries five scientific instruments -- about 1.2 degrees back. Instead by mistake they ordered it moved forward 10 degrees. Somehow, voyager successfully obeyed that command. # Storms hit East United Press International A cold front pushed thunderstorms along the southern Atlantic Coast and across the Gulf Coast region early Thursday. A tornado touched in northern Dade County in Florida, but no injuries were reported. Tropical Storm Gert headed east of the Bahamas Islands Thursday and storm warnings were posted over the southeastern and central part of the island. A storm watch also was issued for the northern part of the Bahamas. More than an inch of rain fell in heavy showers Wednesday in northern New England and the thunderstorms knocked out power to about 15,000 Connecticut homes. # Flood toll mounts PEKING (AP) -- Flooding from nearly two months of heavy rain has wiped out more than 2 million acres of wheat and soybeans in China's far northeast corner, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. The summer rains killed about 2,000 people, the reports said. The U.S. Embassy said Wednesday that it has donated $25,000 to help buy food, clothing and fertilizer for victims of the floods in southwest China's Sichuan province, which suffered the largest number of casualties. === Page 41 of 52 # U.S.-NATO base bombed in Germany - UFOs "higher ups" By SIEGFRIED KNAUER RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, West Germany (AP) - A bomb believed planted by terrorists exploded outside the joint U.S.-NATO air command headquarters here Monday, wounding a U.S. general, 17 other Americans and two West Germans. The blast came at a time of growing opposition by many West Germans to U.S. defense policies. Two weeks ago an American military facility in Berlin was bombed, but there were no injuries. No one claimed responsibility for Monday morning's explosion. West German sources said it was believed to have come from a bomb placed in a Volkswagen sedan in a parking lot outside the headquarters buildings of the U.S. Air Force Europe and the NATO air command. The explosion, which occurred at 7:20 a.m., catching early arrivals for work, hurled passers-by to the ground, shattered windows and interior walls up to 100 yards away, witnesses said. A car engine was flung onto the roof of a five-story building, police said. The most seriously injured were Brig. Gen. Joseph D. Moore, assistant deputy chief of staff for operations of U.S. Air Force Europe, and Lt. Col. Douglas R. Young, an operations officer with the USAFE command. Both were reported in stable condition at the U.S. Army hospital in nearby Landstuhl, where they were taken by helicopter. Air Force officials said several other people were treated and released. "There were two loud blasts, one right after the other - Bam! Bam! - as if a Phantom jet had broken the sound barrier," said Staff Sgt. Harry Baske, an eyewitness. "It's a miracle that no one was killed," he said. "A half-hour later and there would have been a massacre." Shortly after the explosion, security guards sealed off the base to all but "mission essential" personnel. Military police in full battle dress and carrying M-16 rifles ringed the parking area. But Air Force spokesman Maj. Tracy McCollester insisted base operations continued normally. U.S. officials also stepped up security at other installations in West Germany, where some 260,000 U.S. troops are stationed. In Frankfurt, military police searched for bombs at the post exchange, the headquarters of the U.S. V Corps and other installations without turning up any more devices. The West German Federal Criminal Office took over investigation of the Ramstein explosion. The last bombing at a U.S. military installation took place Aug. 18, when two small pipebombs went off at a garrison in West Berlin. There were no injuries and damage was minimal. In 1972, four U.S. servicemen were killed in two explosions at V Corps headquarters and at the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe in Heidelberg. Several members of the ultra-leftist Baader-Meinhof Gang were arrested and convicted in the attacks. After Monday's explosion, West German television quoted security sources as saying they were expecting a terrorist attack against U.S. facilities. The network said plans for an attack on the Ramstein base were found in the apartment of Baader-Meinhof member Julianne Plambeck, who was killed last year in a traffic accident near Heidelberg. Anti-Americanism has heightened in West Germany because of U.S. defense policies, particularly plans to station a new generation of U.S. missiles in Western Europe and President Reagan's decision to build neutron warheads. West Germans have staged numerous anti-war marches and rallies, some of them around U.S. military garrisons. Signs reading "No more war, Americans out" have been smeared on walls in several cities. The Christian Democratic Union, a conservative party in opposition to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's center-left government, blamed the Ramstein blast on anti-Americanism within "leftist circles" in West Germany. Peter-Kurt Wuerzbach, defense spokesman for the CDU, warned that if the anti-American trend continued, it could lead the U.S. government to re-examine its defense commitments in Western Europe. Bernhard Vogel, premier of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where the base is situated, expressed his outrage over the "criminal attack" and called on West Germans to "stand together with the American friends" who helped guarantee the country's national security. The U.S. military has been the target of terrorist attacks elsewhere in Europe as well. Two years ago, Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., then NATO's supreme commander and now U.S. secretary of state, narrowly avoided injury in a bomb assassination attempt in Belgium. Oreg 9/1/81 === Page 42 of 52 # Fire, explosions blacken chemical plant Many fires + explosions have been caused over U.S. by the Egyptian Power, Owens By RICHARD READ of The Oregonian staff oregonian 8/30/81 KALAMA, Wash. -- Hundreds of containers of toxic chemicals exploded in fireballs visible up to 25 miles away during a fire that began late Friday at the Kalama Chemical Inc. plant. Two firefighters and two plant employees were injured, and an Oregon State Police trooper went to Columbia District Hospital in St. Helens complaining of dizziness after a thick cloud of smoke drifted toward him across the Columbia River while he was patrolling on U.S. 30. The two company employees were injured as they helped fight the blaze, said Greg Conn, production superintendent for the firm. Bradley Porter, 20, was treated for neck strain and released, and Donna John, 27, was admitted for acute lower back strain, the St. Johns Hospital spokeswoman said. Ms. John was reported in satisfactory condition Saturday evening. Firefighters Michael Imboden, 31, of Kalama and Stephen Morrill, 27, of Longview were treated for toxic inhalation and released, said a spokeswoman at St. Johns Hospital in Longview. The trooper, Ron Ruecker, 26, of Columbia City, was admitted for observation for possible toxic inhalation but was later released, according to a nurse at the hospital. Conn identified the chemicals involved as benzaldehyde, benzoic acid and phenol, which are used for industrial purposes ranging from plywood resin application to food preservation. Wayne Ostermiller, director of manufacturing for the company, said that approximately 500 50-gallon drums and 16,000 bags of chemicals were destroyed. He said the chemicals involved are reasonably flammable but not toxic when burned. Conn, however, explained that of the three chemicals, phenol is the most dangerous. Officer James Pine of the Kalama Police Department said firefighters "could feel a burning sensation on their faces ... The firemen said the back spray from their hoses felt like needles pressing against their faces." Ralph M. Rodia, assistant manager of the accident prevention division of the Oregon Workers' Compensation Department, told The Oregonian Saturday that phenol "is a deadly material" that can be absorbed through the skin. "It has a corrosive effect on skin tissue ... Fumes from smoke could lead to irritation such as the needlelike sensation reported by the firemen." Kalama Fire Chief Mike O'Neil said no cause had been established for the blaze, which sparked several spot fires during the late morning. "As far as we can tell, the fire started in the benzoic acid storage area, which is the confusing part since that chemical would have to reach 120 degrees centigrade to ignite," Conn said. There was no immediate damage estimate, according to company officials and the Kalama Police Department. Witnesses said flames reached 1,000 feet into the sky and billowed into a mushroom-shaped cloud. 8-30-81 Columbian ## Crash cuts power in La Center area Electrical power was cut to nearly 1,300 utility customers in the La Center-Pioneer area for up to 70 minutes Saturday after a car struck a guy wire, a Clark County Public Utility District spokeswoman said. Judy Hanke of the PUD said power was out to 675 customers from 11 to 11:51 a.m. and to 611 more from 11 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. The outage was caused by a car hitting a guy wire next to Timmon Road north of Summit Grove, breaking a support pole, she said. A 12 The Seattle Times 8-30-81 ## NATION Compiled from news services ## Storm brings tornadoes to Texas coast A tropical depression with top winds up to 35 miles an hour moved inland from the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, spawning at least two tornadoes in Southern Texas. No injuries were reported. A flash-flood watch was in effect along the coast of Texas and Louisiana as tides two to three feet above normal and up to five inches of rain were forecast. Shrimpers and some oil-rig workers returned to shore because of high seas. The depression formed Friday over the western Gulf of Mexico and moved inland yesterday. A mobile home at Aransas Pass, Tex., was destroyed by a tornado which also damaged a seaside lodge, police said. Officers reported a tornado in Hidalgo County, Texas, that caused minor damage at a mobile-home park near Mission. === Page 43 of 52 Utah propane blast Associated Press Laserphoto BLAST -- Plumes of flame shoot 1,000 feet above Kalama Chemical Inc. during fire at Kalama, Wash., plant Friday night. Hundreds of drums of toxic chemicals exploded in fire, forcing closure of nearby Interstate 5. === Page 44 of 52 Utah propane blast kills boy, injures nine Sunday, Aug. 2, 1981 Vancouver, Wash. THE COLUMBIAN MOAB, Utah (AP) -- An explosion at a propane storage plant sent a ball of fire roaring into an adjacent campground, injuring 10 people and forcing the evacuation of some 3,000 Moab residents, authorities said. An 8-year-old boy died Saturday after being burned in the Friday night blast, which Police Capt. Daniel Ison said apparently was touched off by lightning. Nine other people were injured, eight of them critically, in the 10:15 p.m. explosion at the Doxol Storage Plant north of this southeastern Utah town. Two of those injured were employees of the bulk propane plant, Ison said, while the rest were staying at the Slick Rock Campground. The dead boy was identified as Mike Davies of Montrose, Colo., according to John Dwan, spokesman for the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Rueben Scolnik, who was staying at the campground, said the explosion "was just like a movie scene." "My trailer lit up like a Christmas tree. I put my shoes on and that is what saved my life, because if I had left the trailer first, the blast would have got me," he said. "We had just turned the TV off and heard this explosion," said Charles Nye of Yuma, Ariz., another camper. "We just got the hell out of there, didn't even bother to close it up. The explosion blew some people right out of their tents. One man, about 50, was blown clear over to our trailer. We got him some help and then we took off." Ison said a main feeder line at the plant apparently ruptured and burned. "It appears a lightning strike may have ruptured a main feeder line," he said. Electrical power flickered off momentarily, then came back on, he said. The explosion then occurred with "about a 250-foot fireball," he said. The explosion knocked out power to about 7,000 households in the area for most of the night, forcing delays in airport flights and hampering communications, said Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland. Power was restored at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. John Maecham estimated 3,000 people were evacuated from the north end of town after the explosion. They were sent to churches and schools and were allowed to return home at about 3:30 a.m., after the fire was contained, Ison said. A small fire that had burned at the propane plant was extinguished Saturday afternoon, police said. Nyland said the fire had been fueled by gas leaking from a storage tank and a valve. "Nothing's burning out there now," said sheriff's deputy Alan West. "We're just picking up the pieces now." Ison said crews had to shut valves feeding three 20,000-to-30,000 gallon propane tanks before the fire could be contained. The ruptured line fed those tanks from two underground 5 million-gallon warehouses of propane and butane. "The tanks themselves did not explode," he said. Nyland said flames shot from the propane plant and struck vehicles parked in the back row of the privately owned campground. The injured were taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Moab and to St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., and Children's Hospital in Denver. Spokesmen at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City said six of the injured were flown to the center's burn unit, with another awaiting transportation from Grand Junction. All of those taken to Salt Lake were in critical condition. Two people were in critical condition at Grand Junction and a 16-year-old boy was in critical condition in a Denver hospital. The blast was the second major explosion in Utah in two days. Early Thursday, a blast at an explosives manufacturing plant near Grantsville 20 miles west of Salt Lake City killed five people, sent a 500-foot fireball into the sky and left a 150-foot-deep crater. The cause of the Grantsville explosion has not been determined. Memorial services were held Saturday for three of the dead. Services will be held Monday for the other two. All the dead were Grantsville residents. # Power outage dims fair SALEM (UPI) -- Festivities at the Oregon State Fair were cut short at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday after an electrical failure left about 3,000 Salem area residents and the fairgrounds without power for up to three hours, officials said. About 40,000 people were attending the fair when the failure, caused by a transformer problem that idled two 13,000-volt Portland General Electric Co. lines, occurred, officials said. Traffic leaving the fair was snarled and homes as far north as Gervais were without power after the malfunction, officials said. Normally, the fair closes at 10 p.m., but because of the blackout it closed early, officials said. Although no one was stranded on rides, there was a 20-minute delay in starting the fair's backup power system, officials said. Bill Babcock, a PGE spokesman, said power was restored to all areas by 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Attendance at the fair has climbed to a six-day total of 412,262 for the event, which runs 11 days and ends on Labor Day. Last year, attendance for the first five days of the fair was 323,278, officials said. Fair organizers hope attendance will top 700,000 this year. === Page 45 of 52 Sunday, August 30, 1981 Columbian - 2 for 6 Projects - # Lightning strike causes major outage in West The Associated Press Lightning struck power lines in Arizona and set off a chain reaction Saturday that left more than a million people in California and Nevada without electricity for up to three hours, power company officials said. The lightning strikes isolated the two states from a power grid that distributes electricity through several Western states. Lights went dark and refrigerators and air conditioners were silent from Northern California to the Mexican border and east to Las Vegas, Nev. The shutdowns started at about 1:30 p.m. and lasted from nine minutes in Southern California to more than three hours in the Las Vegas area, where residents sweated out the failure in 107-degree heat. Nevada Power Co. officials said about 80,000 customers in the western section of Las Vegas were affected, but casinos escaped the blackout because they are in another part of the city. All power was restored by late afternoon. In Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, nearly one-third of the 3 million people served by Southern California Edison Co. were hit by a nine-minute blackout beginning at 1:32 p.m. Some 120,000 people in San Diego County also felt the outage, and in the city of Los Angeles, customers of the Department of Water and Power were affected. In Northern California, officials at Pacific Gas & Electric reported scattered outages from Chico, 160 miles north of San Francisco, to San Luis Obispo, 190 miles to the south. A Southern California Edison employee said the problems focused on the Pacific Inter-tie system by which West Coast utilities share electricity. California utilities automatically began drawing extra power from Oregon, and that drain felled another supply line, cutting off California and Nevada from the Northwest. California utilities were able to generate enough power on their own to bring their systems back up, but its was late in the evening before the power grid was restored. No outages were reported in Arizona or in Oregon. - 2 for 6 Projects - (2) Oregon Journal, September 4, 1981 # New storms threaten to hike flood waters United Press International Thunderstorms rolled from the Gulf Coast to Pennsylvania Friday, feeding already glutted rivers and streams and threatening to touch off new deluges in flood-swept Pennsylvania and Texas. Heavy rain also threatened to flood parts of West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Michigan. Remnants of tropical storm Emily, about 150 miles north of Bermuda, could move into middle and northern Atlantic states Friday. Forecasters said Emily was stationary Thursday, but was expected to reach hurricane intensity Friday. Storm wind was clocked at 70 mph in the Bermuda area. Authorities readied emergency evacuation plans Friday for the Johnstown, Pa., area and said families that just returned home after spending Wednesday night in emergency shelters could be forced to flee again if heavy rain persisted. In water-logged South Texas, floods kept hundreds of people from their homes and hampered the search for an elderly man who wandered off in a flooded area after being removed from his home by boat. Rain spread from the Gulf Coast to the southern and central Appalachians, Ohio and parts of Michigan. Other thunderstorms spread over parts of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Dalley, W.Va., got nearly 2 1/2 inches of rain. Pearsall, Texas, got nearly 1 1/2 inches of rain in an hour and Mobile, Ala., got more than an inch in 30 minutes. Up to 3 inches of rain caused scattered minor flooding in parts of southeastern Michigan. 9/4/81 9-2-81 Seattle Times # Low NASA-satellite orbits laid to engineer's fuel error WASHINGTON - (AP) - The failure of two satellites to achieve their desired orbits last month has been traced to an engineer's failure to make sure the launch rocket was filled with fuel, the space agency said yesterday. "It was simple human error," said Ken Senstad, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "It's the first time in memory that something like this has ever happened as far as I know." Although the Delta rocket's second-stage fuel tank was 260 gallons short of capacity, the two satellites launched August 3 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California made it into orbit and the scientific experiments they are designed for will not be affected, Senstad said. The mistake in loading fuel simply resulted in the two spacecraft achieving lower orbits than had been planned, the spokesman added. - 2 for 6 Projects - === Page 46 of 52 New flash floods threaten Texas By United Press International Texans mopping up floodwaters that killed five people braced Wednesday for more flash floods as new thunderstorms filled rivers already surging more than 20 feet over their banks. Hundreds of residents fled to higher ground. Flash flood watches were posted for the northern half of Louisiana and central and southeastern Texas, where between 1 and 4 inches of rain was expected. Officials said damages already have reached into the millions of dollars from 19 inches of rain that fell between Sunday and late Tuesday in south Texas, where some rivers were 20 feet above flood stage and rising. Police in Cuero, Texas, about 30 miles southeast of Hallettsville -- the scene of the worst flooding Monday -- evacuated about a dozen families after U.S. Weather Service officials predicted the Guadalupe River would rise a record 23 feet above flood level Wednesday. In Bucyrus, Ohio, heavy rains Tuesday flooded low-lying areas, leaving almost 6 1/2 inches of water. Disaster teams Wednesday were assessing flood damage to homes, businesses and churches. Off the Atlantic Coast, a tropical storm was reported early Wednesday about 550 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and 100 miles west of Bermuda. Forecasters said Tropical Storm Emily was expected to drift to the Northeast and increase in strength. In Shiner, Texas, three teenage brothers were swept from their beds Monday and drowned, and two men whose cars were washed away at Rocky Creek were killed Tuesday by the raging floodwaters. "I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it doesn't rain more," Shiner Police Chief John Ideus said. He said officials were watching the weather Wednesday and were a "bit more prepared." The dead were identified as Glenn Highs, 17; his brothers Johnny, 15, and Bradford, 13; Herman Reyna of Yoakum, and Sam Goode Jr. of Hallettsville. The Department of Public Safety said rescue workers have accounted for all those reported missing, but the Lavaca County sheriff's office said as many as four people still might be unaccounted for. "Witnesses saw three people in a car get washed away," Lavaca County Deputy Sheriff Shella Perkins said. "Other people saw a man get swept away and we found his lunch bucket nearby." National Guardsmen were ordered to Hallettsville and other flooded Texas communities to prevent looting. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in the areas around Houston, Appleby, Hallettsville, Shiner and Moulton. Officials said 180 nursing home residents near Yoakum had to flee because of high water. Most of the elderly and disabled crowded into the Yoakum Community Center. In Victoria and points downstream, the Guadalupe river Tuesday was running at 27 feet and expected to hit 30. Thunderstorms moved into the Mississippi and Ohio Valley Tuesday. A few showers doused New Mexico, Arizona, Northern Idaho and Montana and Washington Tuesday night. About an inch of rain hit Chattanooga, Tenn., and Millville, N.J. had a little more than an inch. (Picture on page 2) Cattle brucellosis reported in Idaho ST. MARIES, Idaho (AP) -- The first cases of cattle brucellosis reported in northern Idaho in 20 years have been found in the St. Maries area. Dr. Harvey Myers, an epidemiologist with the Idaho Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Health, said the disease was detected recently in two herds in the Benewah Valley. Seven cattle in a 15-animal herd and five in a 100-head herd were found to be infected, he said. He said he knew of no other cases north of the Salmon River. The disease affects the reproductive system, causing abortions. Vandals torch more American Army cars at German base BONN -- (AP) Vandals set fire to seven American-owned or rented cars at Wiesbaden and painted anti-American slogans on walls yesterday, a day after an explosion injured 20 people at United States North Atlantic Treaty Organization air command headquarters. Authorities ordered security strengthened at American military installations. Some of the vandalism was directed against buildings of the Social Democratic Party, leader of the government coalition -- apparently because of its agreement to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe. West Germany's federal criminal office reported no further developments in its investigation of Monday's bombing at Ramstein Air Base. Eighteen Americans and two West Germans were injured in the blast. Two of the injured remained hospitalized yesterday, the Air Force said. In Bonn, Federal President Karl Carstens deplored the attack. The third against American garrisons in West Germany this year, but the first to cause casualties, Carstens said in a statement that despite the bombing, most West Germans "remain convinced of the necessity of common defense in the NATO alliance and German American friendship." German and American officials said they had no proof yesterday's vandalist was part of a coordinated terror campaign against American facilities. The United States has about 290,000 military personnel in West Germany. === Page 47 of 52 - UFOs 6 Projects - # 5.8 quake jolts Southern California By KATHY HORAK LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An offshore earthquake with a punch equal to 1,000 tons of dynamite shook the southern half of California Friday, causing skyscrapers and bridges to sway and disrupting telephone service. No major damage or injuries were reported. The quake, which struck at 8:51 a.m., produced seismograph readings of 5.1 to 5.8 on the Richter scale. It was the strongest to hit Los Angeles since Feb. 9, 1971, when a quake registering 6.4 killed 65 people. Friday's earthquake was centered in the San Pedro Channel near Santa Catalina Island. It was felt from Arroyo Grande in San Luis Obispo County to the Mexican border 300 miles south. The quake occurred on Los Angeles' 200th birthday. "It may have been that the supernatural spirits were wishing Los Angeles a happy birthday," said Tom Sullivan, press secretary for Mayor Tom Bradley. A housekeeper cleaning a patio in suburban San Pedro said the temblor sent a quarter-inch-wide crack through the concrete. "I was standing out there cleaning, and I just watched the crack go along about 20 or 30 feet," said Leora Rousselle. "It was a horrible feeling." The 365-foot-high Vincent Thomas Bridge, which connects Los Angeles and Terminal Island, swayed, but was not damaged, the Bridge Authority said. All trains between San Diego and Los Angeles were halted while bridges were inspected. "We stopped at each bridge we came to so they could check for damage," said Mike White, who was aboard an Amtrak commuter train from San Diego to Los Angeles. On Santa Catalina Island, closest to the epicenter and 26 miles offshore from San Pedro, a Los Angeles County sheriff's department spokeswoman said a single strong jolt was followed by trembling ripples for about 20 seconds. "It shook us good," Carrie Prim said. "At first it was a real sharp jolt that really got your attention, then it kind of rolled after that, and the lights started swinging." Canned goods and bottles tumbled from shelves. "It was a little bit scary. We have those quart bottles on the top shelf, and you could see them touching against each other. It made a little bit of noise," said Tony Golen, assistant manager of Boys Market in Marina del Rey. The University of California at Berkeley about 400 miles from Los Angeles reported a Richter reading of 5.5, as did the UC seismograph in San Diego. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena reported that the quake registered 5.1, while the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo., put the quake at 5.8. "The reason these values are different is that it's an imperfect system on the first hand, and it's looking at different frequencies on the other hand," said Caltech seismologist Stephen Cohn. The California Division of Mines and Geology said a Richter reading of 5.5 is equivalent to a 1,000-ton dynamite blast. The 62-story First Interstate Bank building in downtown Los Angeles "started bouncing first. Then it started swaying," said Robert Baylor, who was in the executive dining room at the top of the building. The emergency telephone system at police headquarters in Los Angeles was briefly disrupted by the quake, said officers who quickly opened the city's Emergency Center in the basement of police headquarters. reg 9/5/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1981 # Flooded Amarillo soaked again AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- More rain fell Monday as crews with hastily installed pumps tried to empty Amarillo neighborhoods submerged under floodwaters 5 feet deep. Gov. Bill Clements, declaring a state of emergency, sent about 30 Texas National Guardsmen into the city Sunday. About 40 people were evacuated during the weekend as a manmade lake spilled from its banks and into apartment complexes and businesses, including the Western Plaza shopping mall. The Olsen Manor Nursing Home was emptied Sunday as water crept toward the building. The N.S. Griggs and Son funeral home had to move everything -- bodies and all -- to another funeral home across town, police said. All residents of one apartment complex were forced to leave after water caused serious structural damage. Evacuees were taken to a church and a Red Cross center set up nearby. Arthur Fields, owner of Afco Asphalt and Paving, offered Monday to bring free sand in his dumptruck to anyone who needed it. Amarillo police chief Jerry Neal said officers began issuing citations for "joyriding" to drivers who disregarded barricades and plowed their vehicles through flooded streets. Several businesses that normally close for Labor Day probably would have to keep their doors shut a little longer, waiting for the water to ebb, city officials said. Although less than an inch of rain fell in any 24-hour period during the weekend, the area already had been saturated by heavy rains through the past two weeks. Although the water pumps were designed to pump the manmade lake, crews Monday concentrated on the streets. Friday, the city commission approved the purchase of $250,000 worth of pumping equipment after heavy rains flooded businesses and knocked out electric and telephone service to some parts of town. The only flood-related injury reported was a woman who received an electric shock in her apartment. Electric service subsequently was turned off to a 10-block area hit hardest by the floods. Police quarantined the area after sewage began backing up. === Page 48 of 52 - UFO 6 Projects - # Ohio, Michigan cities flooded by rainstorms By The Associated Press Oreg 9/5/81 Floodwaters swamped streets in Ann Arbor, Mich., and filled thousands of Toledo, Ohio, basements Friday, and Hurricane Emily churned far out to sea in the Atlantic east of New York City. A cold front spread rain across the Appalachians and the Great Lakes region. Thunderstorms were scattered from Texas to Florida, across the southern Plains and the southern Rockies. More than four inches of rain fell on Ann Arbor. Six inches of rain fell Thursday on Toledo, covering streets with up to four feet of water and forcing officials to evacuate 22 homes. After a few hours of sunshine, drizzle returned to Toledo Friday, and stores reported heavy sales of pumps. Barbara Ashley said water reached nearly the first-floor ceiling at her home. She and her three children climbed out of a second-story window to the garage roof, where they were rescued by a fire department boat. Mrs. Ashley said her family has lived in the home 12 years, and flooding had "never been close to this bad." The Medical College of Ohio was forced to use back-up generators after water flowed into the basement, shorting out electrical circuits and disrupting telephones. Normal power was restored early Friday and no medical problems were reported. But a hospital spokesman said it could take up to two weeks before power is fully restored to the entire medical college campus. Flooding also forced the evacuation of four families along the Raisin River at Blissfield, Mich., and another four at Adrian, along the river. "Most of the rivers in Michigan have plenty of grasslands around them, so they don't generally have serious problems," said Gary Charson, a weather service hydrologist. Hurricane Emily swelled tides along the northern Atlantic Coast as it moved north. It was 700 miles east of New York City on Friday and was expected to weaken, but two oil companies stopped oil and gas explorations off the coast of Massachusetts due to high seas. Meanwhile, a tropical depression north of the Virgin Islands strengthened into Tropical Storm Floyd. Floyd was moving northwest, away from Puerto Rico. Skies were sunny over the northern Plains. - UFO 6 Projects - # Fires, outages hit wide area in West Seattle Times 8/30/81 Compiled from news services Forest fires burned out of control yesterday in southeastern Oregon, Idaho and Northern California and a power failure affecting Los Angeles, Sacramento and Las Vegas was believed to have been caused by lightning in Arizona. The shutdowns started at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday and lasted from nine minutes in Southern California to more than three hours in the Las Vegas area, where residents sweated out the failure in 107-degree heat. Nevada Power Co. officials said about 80,000 customers in the western section of Las Vegas were affected, but casinos escaped the blackout because they are in another part of Las Vegas. All power was restored by late afternoon. Outages affecting at least 350,000 customers in Southern California were reported from National City to Lakeside in San Diego County, in the city of Los Angeles and in Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles, officials said. In Northern California, officials at Pacific Gas & Electric reported scattered outages from Chico, 160 miles north of San Francisco, to San Luis Obispo, 190 miles to the south. A P.G.&E. spokeswoman said she did not know how many customers were affected. Utility officials said the power failures centered on the Pacific Inter-tie system by which West Coast utilities share electricity. The Bonneville Power Administration in Portland said a pair of lines feeding 500 kilovolts from Arizona to the Los Angeles area were hit by lightning which in turn shut down five lower voltage lines from Arizona to California and Nevada, said Gene Tollefson, B.P.A. spokesman. Idaho fire fighters contained a 38,000-acre range fire near Dubois yesterday morning. Meanwhile, a 650-acre timber fire burned out of control near Packer Creek about 50 miles east of Boise. Another 17,000-acre range fire burned out of control in the Big Desert area 40 miles west of Blackfoot, Idaho, but was expected to be contained yesterday. Two fires, both believed caused by man, broke out near Klamath Falls, Ore., Friday afternoon and were burning out of control late yesterday. In Northern California, a 1,200-acre fire was out of control in the Central Sierra Mountains despite the efforts of 800 fire fighters and aerial tankers from Boise. Washington fire fighters were mopping up near Enumclaw, where a fire was contained Friday after burning across 300 acres and damaging timber worth about $1 million. Jess Harper, 20, an inmate fire fighter from the Clearwater Corrections Center, was injured when he was struck by a rock. He was taken to the infirmary at the Corrections Center at Shelton where he was in good condition. === Page 49 of 52 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Deluge prompts SW flood alerts By United Press International Heavy rains across the Southwest threatened to flood low-lying areas and rain-swollen rivers in the desert slopes of California and parts of New Mexico and Arizona Tuesday. A deluge in the Hemet, Calif., area Monday forced at least 10 residents from their homes and drowned nearby alfalfa and onions fields. "This rainfall came down so suddenly that even sheriff's deputies couldn't move their vehicles," said Will Donaldson, a California Division of Forestry spokesman. "They couldn't see the roadway." The deluge struck at 5 p.m. Monday and by midnight the flood waters had subsided. Highway 74 in the center of the flood zone was reopened to traffic "with caution" just before midnight, Donaldson said. A man who said he was hit by lightning while climbing on Tahquitz Rock, 25 miles east of Hemet, during the storm escaped serious injury and was treated at a local hospital and released, Donaldson said. A flash flood watch was issued early Tuesday for the California mountains in Los Angeles, Inyo, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial and San Diego. A watch also was posted over Arizona and for southeastern New Mexico, including Roswell and Carlsbad. Torrential rains washed streets and fields Monday in Riverside County, Calif., trapping scores of people in cars and homes and closing a portion of Interstate 15. No injuries were reported. High waters and rockslides blocked Highway 90 west of Hillsboro, N.M., and flash floods were reported Monday night. Thunderstorms were scattered along the southern coast of Texas and from New York state through the Appalachians and southeastern Louisiana to the Atlantic Coast. Showers and thunderstorms pushed across the Midwest Monday, soaking Wisconsin, western lower Michigan, Illinois and western Indiana. Some rain also hit Arkansas and Florida Monday night. More than 1 inch of rain fell at Daytona Beach, Fla., in six hours and 1 inch fell at Chicago. Violent riptides forced Virginia Beach, Va., police to close beaches for the second time in two days. About 40 people were pulled from the water Sunday. oreg J 9/8/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Rain floods S. California area LAKEVIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Residents mopped up on Tuesday after muddy floods damaged more than 50 homes, and the National Weather Service warned that more thunderstorms were on the way. Forecaster Frankie Shaw said the new storms would be "scattered and spotty" and could affect areas of Riverside, San Diego and Imperial counties. Monday's rains triggered flash floods that swept down mountainsides. Hardest hit was the town of Juniper Flats, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, which was drenched under 4½ inches of rain and "hail the size of eggs," said Joanne Lee of the California Department of Forestry. Floodwaters and mud also surged into homes in Lakeview, Hemet, Homeland and Nuevo and snarled traffic when cars mired in the muck. No serious injuries were reported. Ms. Lee said her agency passed out 2,000 sandbags and more than 10 tons of sand Monday, but few had time to prepare. "We normally don't have floods this time of year, so people weren't prepared," Ms. Lee said. "Most people have their carpets and furniture soaked." "It done a heap of damage around here," said Nellie Vipone of Juniper Flats, a fire department volunteer. "The winds knocked over sheds and trees, and the hail broke windows and tore paint off buildings." "The furnishings in our living room and den are completely ruined," said her neighbor, Evonne Finch, as she surveyed the foot-deep mud and water in her house. In Lakeview, about eight miles north of Juniper Flats in the Lakeview Mountains, Don Havard said he and his wife Carol pulled out as the floodwaters neared. "We'd seen it tumbling down," Havard said. "It got worse and worse and we just gave up." oreg 9/9/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Torrential rains swamp Texas, East By United Press International South Texas residents mopped up on Wednesday after torrential rains swamped roadways and knocked out electric power. Lightning killed a motorcyclist in Texas and a man drowned on a flooded roadway in New York. Showers and occasional thunderstorms scattered over most of Texas early Wednesday into southeastern Wyoming, reaching across the eastern half of Nevada and the southeastern third of California. A flash flood watch was posted over much of central Utah until midnight. Heavy rains hit New York Tuesday and Domenico Bossi, 65, drowned when he tried to swim from his car on a flooded entrance ramp of the Bronx River Parkway, police said. Bossi's car plunged into 10 to 12 feet of water on the southbound entrance of the highway, police said. Highway police said the parkway ramp was later closed, but apparently flooded because of a water main break in the area. More than an inch of rain had fallen in the area Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms with 36 mph winds flooded the Flatbush terminal railroad station in New York and knocked out electrical power. Storm winds also cut power in parts of the Bronx and upstate New York. Long Island Railroad spokesman Michael Charles said the Flatbush terminal was inundated with 1½ feet of water late Tuesday, flooding major tracks and covering the station's switches and signal lights with sand and silt from nearby construction sites. About 15,000 Connecticut utility customers lost power early Wednesday when severe thunderstorms crashed through the state. The largest single outage was reported in Naugatuck, where about 8,300 customers were in the dark. Electricity was restored to most of the homes within hours. In Texas, Allan G. Wenzel, 23, was riding his motorcycle when lightning hit a freeway access road next to him and knocked him off the bike, a witness told police. oreg J 9/9/81 === Page 50 of 52 "Plague" Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1981 Vancouver, Wash. THE COLUMBIAN 7 # Quick-killing disease arouses concern in Miami MIAMI (AP) -- The Dade County medical examiner's office has been flooded with inquiries from alarmed neighbors of a 6-year-old boy who died of a rare disease that swept through his bloodstream in a matter of hours. Joel Adam Beatty first said he was feeling ill Sunday night. Monday he was watching television in the den when his mother went upstairs to make a bed. When she returned, the blond, blue-eyed boy had stopped breathing. Anne Sirman, a nurse who lives next door, tried to resuscitate the child on the kitchen floor. But by the time paramedics arrived at the Beattys' suburban Naranja Lakes home Monday, the boy was dead. Thirteen hours had passed since he first felt sick. Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner, said Joel died of Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, caused by bacteria called meningococcus. The bacteria spread through the bloodstream, destroying vital adrenal glands and affecting blood coagulation. The syndrome usually claims five or fewer lives yearly in Dade County, but "this year we've had more than our share of cases," said Wetli. Joel's death is believed to be the ninth in 1981. A 49-year-old woman was hospitalized Monday suffering from the disease, officials said. 9-10-81 Seat. P.I. # In the jaws of a bear (Nature against humans) SPOKANE (AP) -- When a 700-pound grizzly bear burst from a mountain thicket and sank its fangs into 22-year-old Russ Lawrence's shoulder, the Spokane man thought he was about to become the animal's next meal. "I kept wondering if the grizzly was going to eat me or not," Lawrence said yesterday, recalling the terrifying attack Sunday in the northwest Montana section of Glacier National Park. "I kept asking the Lord if this was my time. I told myself that if the bear was going to eat me, I hope he makes it quick," he said. Lawrence and Willie Boltz, 23, of Sterling, Colo., were hiking at the 6,800-foot level of Heaven's Peak about five miles northeast of Lake McDonald when the bear attacked. "We were walking up a dry creek bed and Willie was about six feet in front of me, when all of a sudden I heard this crashing in the brush and then some really loud huffing and puffing," Lawrence said. "At first, I thought it might be a wolf. Then I saw it was a big grizzly bear. I yelled to Willie it was a bear and to run," said Lawrence. He described the animal as being 6 to 7 feet tall on its hind legs. "My instinct was to run," he said. "The bear was right behind me and I just knew he was going to jump me. I hit the ground and rolled up into a ball the best I could." As he dropped to the ground, however, the bear bit his shoulder. Three puncture wounds still remain. "After he bit me, the bear just kind of flew right over the top of me and I slid into a log. It took off after Willie," he added. Boltz said he saw the bear chasing him, so he ran into the brush and started climbing a tree. "I must have been about six feet up that tree and the bear was climbing right up after me," Boltz recalled. "I kicked him in the nose as hard as I could, but not before the grizzly gouged a chunk out of my boot." The bear tried to reach Boltz again, but got wedged between two trees. "I climbed higher," Boltz said. "I prayed all the time I was climbing that tree." After 10 minutes of stalemate, the animal ambled off. Once reunited, the two climbers headed back down the mountain, reaching Lake McDonald three hours later. Lawrence received first aid for his wounds. The two admit they were hiking in an area "off the beaten path" and that a park ranger had warned them it was grizzly country. # Sadat furious at U.S. media 9-10-81 Seat. P.I. MIT ABUL KOM, EGYPT (UPI) -- President Anwar Sadat assailed the American media yesterday for its coverage of his crackdown on dissent and lost his temper with one reporter, saying he deserved to be shot for asking a particularly sensitive question. "At another time I would have shot him, really," Sadat said, referring to NBC correspondent Paul Miller. "But this is democracy," he added. Sadat's temper flared at a rare news conference he called to defend a series of drastic measures he said were necessary to safeguard national unity and prevent trouble-makers from fomenting Moslem-Christian strife in Egypt. The measures included the arrest last week of some 1,600 people and the dismissal of the head of the Coptic Christian Church, Pope Shenoudah III. The government also took over some 40,000 mosques to prevent them from being used for political purposes. Sadat likened Egypt to a patient and himself to a doctor who prescribed an "electric shock" to jolt the nation to its senses and avoid a repetition of last June's bloody clashes between Moslems and minority Copts. He denounced the American media for what he said were "distorted" suggestions that Egypt was unstable and its characterizations of his crackdown as dictatorial. === Page 51 of 52 U.S. hit by teacher strikes Strikes by teachers are disrupting the opening of school this week for youngsters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Michigan, Idaho and New York. Philadelphia was the only severely affected major city, so far, as teachers chanting "solidarity forever" were arrested on picket lines. According to the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, there have been less than 30 strikes by teachers this year, compared with 80 this time a year ago. The smaller American Federation of Teachers says it has had seven strikes so far this year, compared with 17 a year ago. 208 teachers arrested The Philadelphia School District called off the scheduled opening of classes today for 213,000 students because of the two-day-old walkout by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which represents 21,000 employees including 13,000 teachers. A police officer, who declined to be identified, said 208 picketing teachers were arrested and taken to the sheriff's detention center at city hall for violating an out-of-court agreement with the city school board to limit picketing to no more than four persons at any entrance of any school building. Eleven other smaller Pennsylvania school districts have teacher strikes affecting some 30,000 students. In Rhode Island, North Providence officials abandoned attempts to open school for 3,600 students yesterday when teachers refused to report to class without a contract. A total of 1,856 teachers struck seven school districts in Michigan: Chippewa Valley schools, Huron Valley schools, Madison schools, Walled Lake schools, Fraser schools, Decatur School and Sanilac intermediate schools. Long Island strike In New York, lay teachers at six parochial schools on Long Island and in the borough of Queens went on strike Tuesday, delaying the opening of one high school in Queens where 2,300 students are enrolled. Officials at four Long Island schools, where 8,700 student are enrolled, said classes began as scheduled yesterday. The remaining school in Queens is to open Monday. Thirty teachers went out on strike yesterday in a small eastern Long Island community, East Moriches. In New Jersey, Penns Grove in the southern part of the state was struck by more than 100 teachers Tuesday after talks broke off over salary. Also on Tuesday, Camden teachers voted to accept a two-year contract providing an 8.5 percent salary increase. In Idaho, about 40 Wilder School District teachers and aides began picketing the district's two schools yesterday after negotiations failed to produce a contract a day earlier. Classes were being held as usual, however, using substitute teachers. S. California Edison To Continue Idling Nuclear Power Plant By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter ROSEMEAD, Calif.--Southern California Edison Co. said additional problems at its San Onofre nuclear generating station will keep the plant idle until further tests of certain plant systems can be completed. The nuclear plant was closed last Thursday because of a malfunctioning voltage regulator. The closing was scheduled to last only about 24 hours but was extended when two valves failed to operate correctly during the closing. A spokesman said the utility wouldn't know how long the plant would be closed until it received an engineer's report. San Onofre was reactivated last month after being closed for about a year and a half to repair corroded tubes. A spokesman said the plant has been temporarily closed "about half-a-dozen times" since it reopened. Digging Out Dixie Carter of Lakeview (Riverside County) shoveled mud from around her house yesterday after sudden rains caused freak flash floods on Monday. The deluge closed roads in the area and damaged more than 50 homes in Lakeview, Hemet, Homeland and Nuevo. The National Weather Service warned that more rain could fall today. (Calif.) === Page 52 of 52 September 10, 1981 The SIs have telepathed not to waste my psi energy attacking the Portland Trailblazers, as I had planned. So that is off. 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Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 64 - my UFOs will attack this exercise! Owens # 'Bright Star' exercises to show U.S. commitment LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The United States plans to land Marines from amphibious assault ships at Oman and Somalia and drop 82nd Airborne paratroopers over western Egypt next month in the most dramatic demonstration to date of America's ability to aid its friends in the region, officials said Monday. To underscore the emerging alliance, and as a reaction to pressures from Libya, the plan calls for Egyptian and, tentatively, Sudanese troops to join the maneuvers in Egypt's western desert abutting Libya. The exercise, called "Bright Star," would be much larger than last year's 10-day exercise around Cairo, which involved only U.S. and Egyptian troops. This one is tentatively expected to last from Nov. 9 to Dec. 6 and involve U.S. ground, air and naval forces in exercises over thousands of miles. "The idea is to assure countries over there that we could come to their aid in a hurry," said one official, acknowledging that fears about Libya's stepping up military activity in Chad and Sudan added a sense of urgency to this second "Bright Star" exercise. Owens 10/13/81 Jeffrey ## Contacts My UFOs have instructed me to notify you that they are going to attack these "Bright Star" Exercises (see clipping above) in order to wreck and/or damage the Exercises in order to show other countries that the U.S. cannot protect them! Since the Base has not yet been provided my UFOs assume that another large-scale demonstration is necessary. In "Bright Star" planes and helicopters should have accidents; U.S. personnel should make wrong decisions and errors leading to materiel and personnel accidents. The entire "Bright Star" Exercise will be one great rolling disaster for the U.S. and U.S. forces, according to my UFOs, who plan to make that happen. Owens === Page 2 of 64 - UFOs attack on "higher ups" - # Sadat assassinated - UFOs "higher ups" - Schmidt hospitalized BONN, West Germany (UPI) - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spent a comfortable night after being fitted with a heart pacemaker and may be well enough to leave the hospital this weekend, a government spokesman said Wednesday. The one-hour operation at Koblenz military hospital Tuesday aroused concern about the 62-year-old Schmidt's ability to handle the restive left wing of his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt was admitted Monday with what was called a feverish infection and a government statement said doctors decided to operate after discovering the risk of a rhythmical disturbance in Schmidt's heart. org J 10/14/81 org J 10/6/81 CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Rebel soldiers assassinated President Anwar Sadat Tuesday in a grenade and machine gun attack as he reviewed a military parade in a Cairo suburb, hospital sources said. The 63-year-old Egyptian leader was rushed by helicopter from Nasr City, an eastern Cairo suburb where an attack against his life occurred, to the Maadi armed forces hospital, in southern Cairo, where he underwent emergency surgery. The president later died of his wounds, hospital sources said. The cabinet was summoned into emergency session and a special announcement was expected later today. Parliament will meet at 11 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT Wednesday.) (Senate GOP leader Howard Baker said Sadat had died of wounds suffered in the assassination attempt. Baker said he had been informed of Sadat's death by Vice President George Bush.) Also wounded in the assassination attack were Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, some foreign diplomats and three American military observers at the parade. There were no reports of troop activity or any indications of a move against the government. - UFOs "higher ups" - Finn up, walking HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - There has been no change in the condition of Finland's 81-year-old President Urho Kekkonen, officials said Thursday. "The president has been up, and he has taken brief walks daily," a statement from the president's office said. Kekkonen, who has been president for more than 25 years, came down with the flu Sept. 11. The flu later caused slight cerebral hemorrhages and led to "difficulties in thinking and lapses of memory," officials said. Kekkonen's duties have been taken over temporarily by the prime minister, Mauno Koivisto, in accordance with the constitution. org 10/9/81 The U.S. State Department in Washington said three American military officers were slightly wounded. The firing occurred at about 3:40 a.m. PDT nearly two hours after the parade, which commemorates the October 1973 war, had started at Nasr City, an eastern suburb. 9-22-81 S.F. Chron Government Again Falls In Belgium - UFOs "higher ups" - BRUSSELS (Premier) Mark Eyskens submitted his government's resignation to King Baudouin yesterday after the center-left coalition broke apart over aid to the steel industry. A brief statement from the royal palace said the king had accepted the resignation and asked Eyskens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, to stay on as caretaker premier. There were reports that Sadat's personal secretary, Fawzi Abdel Hafez, was killed. The Cairo spokesman said some of the attackers were either killed or captured. - UFOs "higher ups" - Marcos laughs at rumors MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Ferdinand E. Marcos, laughing on government television Tuesday, denied what he described as rumors that he was gravely ill and had sunk into a coma. org 9/30/81 Associated Press Laserphoto HOSPITALIZED - Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo was reported in "good shape" Saturday after suffering a heart attack Friday in Rio de Janeiro. The 63-year-old retired general has pledged to restore democracy to the Latin nation after 17 years of military rule. org 9/20/81 === Page 3 of 64 10-22-81 postmark Jeffrey... a very important file. Ted Owens MY UFO ATTACK "HIGHER-UPS" HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE.... Owens Contacts Is there any doubt in your mind about my UFOs attacking "higher ups"? Consider this: Moshe Dayan, heart attack! (Israel) Schmidt, heart attack! (Germany) Figueiredo, heart attack! (Brazil) And... within the space of a few weeks! Of course, the SI's use any and all methods as the enclosed file demonstrates. Owens PS... You might well ask... what "higher up" is next? === Page 4 of 64 - UFOs attack on "higher ups" - # Sadat assassinated - UFOs "higher ups" - **Schmidt hospitalized** BONN, West Germany (UPI) - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spent a comfortable night after being fitted with a heart pacemaker and may be well enough to leave the hospital this weekend, a government spokesman said Wednesday. The one-hour operation at Koblenz military hospital Tuesday aroused concern about the 62-year-old Schmidt's ability to handle the restive left wing of his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt was admitted Monday with what was called a feverish infection and a government statement said doctors decided to operate after discovering the "risk of a rhythmic cal disturbance" in Schmidt's heart. org J 10/14/81 org J 10/6/81 CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Rebel soldiers assassinated President Anwar Sadat Tuesday in a grenade and machine gun attack as he reviewed a military parade in a Cairo suburb, hospital sources said. The 63-year-old Egyptian leader was rushed by helicopter from Nasr City, an eastern Cairo suburb where an attack against his life occurred, to the Maadi armed forces hospital, in southern Cairo, where he underwent emergency surgery. The president later died of his wounds, hospital sources said. The cabinet was summoned into emergency session and a special announcement was expected later today. Parliament will meet at 11 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT Wednesday.) (Senate GOP leader Howard Baker said Sadat had died of wounds suffered in the assassination attempt. Baker said he had been informed of Sadat's death by Vice President George Bush.) Also wounded in the assassination attack were Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, some foreign diplomats and three American military observers at the parade. There were no reports of troop activity or any indications of a move against the government. - UFOs "higher ups" - **Finn up, walking** HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - There has been no change in the condition of Finland's 81-year-old president Urho Kekkonen, officials said Thursday. "The president has been up, and he has taken brief walks daily," a statement from the president's office said. Kekkonen, who has been president for more than 25 years, came down with the flu Sept. 11. The flu later caused slight cerebral hemorrhages and led to difficulties in thinking and lapses of memory, officials said. Kekkonen's duties have been taken over temporarily by the prime minister, Mauno Koivisto, in accordance with the constitution. org 10/9/81 A military vehicle broke away from the march, stopped and soldiers ran toward the reviewing stand. The U.S. State Department in Washington said three American military officers were slightly wounded. The firing occurred at about 3:40 a.m. PDT nearly two hours after the parade, which commemorates the October 1973 war, had started at Nasr City, an eastern suburb of Cairo. 9-22-81 S.F. Chron # Government Again Falls In Belgium - UFOs "higher ups" - (Premier Mark Eyskens submitted his government's resignation to King Baudouin yesterday after the center-left coalition broke apart over aid to the steel industry. A brief statement from the royal palace said the king had accepted the resignation and asked Eyskens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, to stay on as caretaker premier. There were reports that Sadat's personal secretary, Fawzi Abdel Hafez was killed. The Cairo spokesman said some of the attackers were either killed or captured. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Marcos laughs at rumors MANILA, Philippines (AP) - President Ferdinand E. Marcos, laughing on government television Tuesday, denied what he described as rumors that he was gravely ill and had sunk into a coma. org 9/30/81 Associated Press Laserphoto **HOSPITALIZED - Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo was reported in "good shape" Saturday after suffering a heart attack Friday in Rio de Janeiro. The 63-year-old retired general has pledged to restore democracy to the Latin nation after 17 years of military rule.** org 9/20/81 === Page 5 of 64 # Israeli statesman Dayan dies of heart attack at 66 - UFOs "higher ups" **MARCUS ELIASON** TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Moshe Dayan, Israel's most famous soldier-statesman, whose black eyepatch became a symbol of the Jewish state in war and peace, died of a heart attack Friday in a suburban Tel Aviv hospital. He was 66. Dayan as foreign minister was a key figure in molding the historic Egyptian-Israeli peace accords with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and died 10 days after Sadat was assassinated by Moslem extremists while watching a military parade in Cairo, Egypt. Dayan, treated for cancer two years ago, was admitted to Sheba Hospital in suburban Tel Hashomer Thursday complaining of chest pains. Government spokesman Uri Porat said Dayan had suffered a heart attack. Egypt's minister of state for foreign affairs, Butros Ghali, said in Cairo that Dayan "played a main role" in the peace negotiations, and added, "He was among the Israeli politicians who believed in the possibility of achieving a peaceful coexistence and peace between the Palestinians and Israel." Before becoming a peacemaker, Dayan was a soldier -- a bold battalion commander in the 1948 war for independence, chief of staff in the 1956 Sinai campaign and defense minister in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars. He once described himself as a man who reacts to changes and sometimes helps "create them." That occurred in 1979 when then-President Carter flew to Israel in a last-ditch attempt to win the Egyptian-Israeli agreement. Dayan suggested concessions that included an accelerated withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Sinai, seized by his soldiers in the 1967 Six-Day War, and the peace talks surged forward. Carter's office in Plains, Ga., issued a statement saying Dayan's "dedication and tireless effort at Camp David helped to bring about a blueprint for peace between Egypt and Israel and all their neighbors. We will miss this great statesman and courageous leader." In Washington, President Reagan said Dayan "became to many the symbol of Israeli resolve -- the resolve of a great people to be free and independent -- and a resolve shared by the people of the United States." Dayan's stepdaughter, Nurit Hermon, said Dayan died at 8:30 p.m., shortly after Israelis began observing the Jewish sabbath. Israel television interrupted its regular program to announce the death, but there were no public displays of mourning, and Tel Aviv's streets were virtually deserted because most Jews were celebrating the sabbath in temples or their homes. The television broadcast gave the time of death as 8:15 p.m. It said Dayan's condition deteriorated sharply in the afternoon when his blood pressure dropped and breathing difficulties developed. The hospital's heart unit "improved his condition, but it remained unstable," according to a medical bulletin read over television. "In the early hours of the evening, a further deterioration occurred in his general condition. Various treatments were of no avail, and Knesset (Parliament) member Moshe Dayan died this evening at 8:15." Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered a state funeral to be held Sunday. Dayan's close associates said burial would be in Nahalal, a farm settlement 10 miles west of Nazareth where Dayan grew up. They said he would be buried in the family plot next to the graves of his parents, who were immigrants from Russia, and his brother Zorik, who was killed fighting in the 1948 war. Dayan's first ministerial posts were in the former Labor Party government, but he was foreign minister in Begin's conservative Cabinet from 1977 to 1979, when he resigned and became an independent. Shimon Peres, chairman of the Labor Party, said Dayan was "a great Jew, a brave fighter and an original statesman" who "astounded the whole world with his extraordinary capabilities." Dayan underwent surgery for cancer of the colon in June 1979 and later wrote movingly of his successful battle against the disease. He was among the first of Israel's native-born Sabra generation to win high office, moving up through the military ranks. He was appointed military chief of staff in 1954 and directed the army's 100-hour smash across the Sinai Desert to the Suez Canal in 1956. Dayan, who wore the eyepatch after his left eye was shattered by a bullet in World War II, won more glory as defense minister in the 1967 war but was widely blamed for Israeli shortcomings in the 1973 war. He was forced out of office when the late Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned in April 1974, but he made a comeback after Begin's conservative Likud bloc invited him to serve as foreign minister three years later. State television said Dayan's second wife, Rachel, 55, and daughter, Yael, were at his bedside. Dayan is survived also by his first wife, Ruth, whom he divorced in 1971, and two sons, Assaf, a movie actor, and Ehud, a farmer. Oreg 10/17/81 Obituary on Pages A6, 7. === Page 6 of 64 re: About a year ago I wrote to Mrs. Sadat at Cairo, and told her who I am, my powers and power-contacts... and requested that she ask her husband President Sadat to bring me and my family to Egypt and provide the UFO Base. This action on the part of Sadat would insure great help for Egypt from my power-contacts. I never did receive the graciousness of an answer. (Same as when I wrote to the Queen of England, ending England's great drought. And since that time England has come apart... after no answer or action from the Queen.) Owens - UFO attack on "higher ups" - Aug 10/7/81 ![Image of United Nations General Assembly] United Press International ers of the United Nations General Assembly observe a moment of silence for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated Tuesday === Page 7 of 64 San Francisco Chronicle Thurs., September 17, 1981 # CIA Chief Hurt CIA Director William J. Casey broke his leg when he fell down playing golf over the Labor Day weekend, an agency spokesman said yesterday. Dale Peterson of the CIA disclosed the 10-day-old injury to the nation's chief spy after a news photographer shot a picture of Casey walking into the White House on crutches. The spokesman said Casey, 68, fell on a Long Island golf course and fractured his right leg below the knee. He added that Casey hasn't missed a day of work. # Solidarity ties stir expulsion By THOMAS W. NETTER WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The Polish Communist Party Thursday expelled Bogdan Lis, the most prominent party member in Solidarity, because of his activities in the labor federation, the Polish news agency PAP reported. The move by the local party committee in Gdansk may signal an attempt to close party ranks and to warn other communists in Solidarity that they must choose between the party and the labor movement. By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH -- New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, was indicted Thursday in Manhattan on charges that he had filed false tax returns omitting more than $150,000 of his income in a three-year period. According to the indictment, Moon deposited $1.6 million in New York bank accounts in his own name, used the money for his own purposes and failed to report almost all of the interest, amounting to more than $100,000, from 1973 through 1975. It also said he had failed to report $50,000 in securities that he had received in 1973. The 12-count federal indictment also charged one of his top aides, Takeru Kamiyama, with assisting him and with committing perjury and obstructing the investigation. A church spokesman and lawyers for both defendants issued statements denying all the charges. If convicted, Moon and his aide could each face up to five years in prison for conspiracy. Each tax count also carries a maximum sentence of three years, and the obstruction and perjury charges carry five years each. SUN MYUNG MOON === Page 8 of 64 - 2/10 attack "higher ups" - Military officer fired from council after speech BY MICHAEL PUTZEL org 10/21/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - The top military officer on the National Security Council staff was relieved of his duties and ordered back to the Army Tuesday after saying in a speech that the Soviets have nuclear superiority and "are going to strike." A senior White House official said Maj. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer was fired because he disobeyed a rule that requires all members of the National Security Council staff to clear their public remarks with Richard V. Allen, the staff director and President Reagan's national security adviser. In his speech, Schweitzer said, "If I had ever asked to get this speech cleared at the White House, I wouldn't have gotten it cleared. I told them what they was going to do, and they just said they hoped I wouldn't get them in trouble." "It is also clear that the speech does not reflect the president's thinking with regard to the state of world affairs," said the White House official, who asked not to be named. The aide said Schweitzer concurred in the action, taken by Allen at 7:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday after publication of an article about the speech in The Washington Post. "He thought it would be best to return to his normal duties in order to spare the administration any embarrassment because of his unauthorized remarks," the official said. Although the general caught White House officials by surprise, Schweitzer said in his speech Monday to the Association of the United States Army that his remarks had not been cleared and might get him in trouble. "Well, I think we are going to have to lay out the threat because the threat is believed not to exist," he said in the apparently extemporaneous talk. Allen said Schweitzer told him when the general was called on the carpet Tuesday morning that "he went further than he meant to" and was "abjectly sorry for having undertaken to make the speech and was also sorry about the content." Chief White House spokesman David R. Gergen said Schweitzer apparently understood his remarks were to be off the record and that no reporters would be present. "He thought he was among - quote - his 'Army buddies,'" Gergen said, although he acknowledged that did not mitigate the general's offense. Gergen did not say what Schweitzer's new assignment will be. There was no mention at Gergen's briefing of any possible loss of rank. Reagan himself said he did not agree with the general but regarded him as "a fine soldier" whose services in another post will continue to "be of great benefit to the country." Schweitzer is a highly decorated officer who served as deputy commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam in 1970 and later commanded the famed regiment in Europe after the war. He wears the Distinguished Service Cross, the military's second highest award for valor, three Silver Stars, and the Purple Heart with six oak leaf clusters, indicating he was wounded in battle seven times. Schweitzer, 53, joined the National Security Council staff in 1979 and earned a reputation among his colleagues as a "hard liner," even among the generally hard-line Reagan strategists. When Reagan became president, Allen named him director of defense policy. Asked during a brief photo session whether he had known of Allen's action in advance, Reagan said he did not and had been unaware of any "personnel problems." Asked if he agreed with Schweitzer's public statement that there is "a drift toward war," the president said: "No . . . I think this country could have been on a road that might be described that way when we were unilaterally disarming and letting the margin of safety disappear, the window of vulnerability get wider. That's why we're following the course we're following now, so there can't be a drift toward war." ROBERT L. SCHWEITZER === Page 9 of 64 October 15, 1988, Re: Hostile environment x target = catastrophe. Contacts The SIs just (2:38 PM) explained to me the "how" of their eliminating or crippling a President, Chancellor, Pope, World leader, Chief, top leader, etc etc after another! If you were to go deep under water, you would be entering a hostile environment and all things under water would be turned against you to destroy you. If you were to enter the Amazon jungle, all things in the jungle would be dangerous to you, the same way. It quite simply... the SIs have created a hostile environment on earth out of what would usually be a safe, normal environment for all "higher ups" on Earth!! The "higher ups" are now targets with all elements on earth turned against, and dangerous to, those targets ("higher ups": Pope, Sadat, Schmidt, Kekkonen, Eyskens, Figueiredo, Marcos, Kroesen, Madani, Dayan, Onoja, etc etc etc etc.) I.e. if you held up the "mirror of life" and put Sadat's name in front of it, the writing would be reversed (and so would 'Sadat's' fate) unless Nature's special process made the writing reflect right side up. Ridiculous? Not at all. You see upside down, but nature corrects it for you! $\\ \circlearrowleft \\ wens \rightarrow \\ \downarrow \\ \times PK Man \nearrow$ - mechanisms PEEK "peek" into the other-dimensional powers of the SIs PS... Quite frankly, this scares-the-hell out of me!! === Page 10 of 64 # Terrorists ambush top U.S. general - UFOs "higher ups" **GEN. FREDERICK J. KROESEN** HEIDELBERG, West Germany (UPI) -- Terrorists firing guns and anti-tank grenades Tuesday ambushed the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in Europe as he rode to work, slightly wounding him and his wife. The rear of the automobile was badly damaged and police said the car's armor plating probably saved Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, his wife and two other occupants from serious injury or death. It was the fourth terrorist attack on Americans in West Germany in two weeks and came two days after a violent anti-U.S. demonstration in West Berlin during a visit there by Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Kroesen, 58, told a news conference after he was treated at the U.S. Army hospital for skin abrasions that his car was attacked by an anti-tank grenade and firearms as he was going from his home to army headquarters in Heidelberg. He said his wife, who was in the car along with his aide and a German driver, was cut by glass splinters but was fine. "We were under small arms fire," Kroesen said, adding either rifles or pistols were used. "The rear of the car was hit by an anti-tank grenade." He said the car then sped away and that American military police in an escort vehicle jumped out with their weapons drawn. The general said he could not "hear very well" because of the blast. The terrorists attacked from woods about 150 to 200 yards from a road on the edge of Heidelberg as the automobile stopped for a traffic light near the Karl Bridge, police said. Witnesses said they heard two explosions and police said it was possible two anti-tank grenades were fired at the car. After the news conference at U.S. Army maneuver headquarters in Hanau, Kroesen flew by helicopter to the war games involving 71,000 Americans soldiers that began Monday. The terrorists escaped without a trace although police surrounded the area after the attack. There was no clue to their identity although the left-wing Baader-Meinhof gang's Red Army Faction was suspected since West German intelligence agencies have received reports the band was plotting attacks on high-ranking Americans during the annual 2-week fall maneuvers. "I dont know who was responsible," Kroesen said, but naming the Red Army Faction he added, "I do know there's a group that has declared war on us and I'm beginning to believe them." Anti-American sentiment has been growing in West Germany, spurred by concern the Reagan administration's tough military could lead to a war in Europe. Kroesen told reporters the maneuvers would go on as planned. He said he thought his own security precautions were adequate and additional ones are not needed. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility for bombing the U.S. Air Forces European headquarters at Ramstein Air Base Aug. 31, injuring an American general and 14 others. A day later, arsonists set fire to seven cars at the U.S. military housing-area in Wiesbaden. On Sunday, the residence of the U.S. consul in Frankfurt was firebombed, but there were no injuries. Kroesen, of Phillipsburg, N.J., assumed command of the U.S. Army in Europe on May 29 1979. He entered the army during World War II after attending Rutgers University. He won his officers commission at the Infantry Officers Candidate School. West German officials expressed regret at the attack and pledged to find the terrorists and protect Americans. ORG J 9/15/81 - UFOs "higher ups" # Iranian aide killed in blast By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An assassin posing as a questioner walked up to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's representative in the Iranian city of Tabriz on Friday and set off a grenade that killed himself, the official and six worshipers in the crowded square, Iran's state-run media reported. The blast, which Tehran radio said also wounded 12 worshipers, continued the 2½-month-old campaign of bombings and assassinations aimed at overthrowing Khomeini's Islamic fundamentalist regime. The government, also facing a rebellion by Kurds in the western provinces, announced that troops killed or wounded over 100 of them in a drive against the Kurds this week. Iran's official Pars news agency said the "terrorist was killed on the spot," while Khomeini aide Ayatollah Assadollah Madani was rushed to a hospital where he died in surgery. The news agency reported that the assassin, wearing a grenade around his waist, pretended that he wanted to ask a question and approached the 80-year-old Madani, the Friday prayer leader. "Suddenly the grenade exploded, severely wounding the Friday prayer leader and other worshipers," Pars said. Khomeini proclaimed the assassinated aide a martyr to his Islamic revolution and immediately appointed a replacement as his personal representative to Tabriz. ORG J 9/12/81 === Page 11 of 64 UFOs & "higher ups" # W. German terrorists attack U.S. Army's European chief HEIDELBERG, West Germany (AP) -- Terrorists hidden on a wooded hill fired Soviet-built grenades at a bulletproof car carrying the U.S. Army's European commander early Tuesday, smashing the rear window and causing slight cuts to the general and his wife, officials said. The attack against Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen Jr., 58, was the fourth on U.S. personnel in West Germany since the end of August, when the ultraleftist Red Army Faction proclaimed "war against imperialist war." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a TV interviewer in Washington that the attack "had to be viewed very seriously indeed. It seems to be part of a worldwide attempt to discourage any kind of defense of freedom." Kroesen told reporters in Hanau: "I don't know who was responsible. But I know there was a group that declared war on us, and I'm beginning to believe them." Kroesen, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., commands U.S. Army units as far away as Greece and Turkey in addition to about 200,000 troops stationed in West Germany. West German police said the attack took place at 7:18 a.m. as the general was riding to work in a metallic green, armored Mercedes along a suburban street near the Neckar River in the northeastern part of the city. The terrorists, firing from about 200 yards, hit the general's car as it was stopped for a traffic signal. Police said Kroesen's car was going about 40 mph, then stopped at a traffic light near the Army's European headquarters when the grenades hit the trunk of the car and exploded, causing heavy damage and peppering Kroesen and his wife, Rowene, with flying glass. "I was reading my morning message traffic in my notebook," Kroesen said. "There was an explosion behind me. The car stopped, and I looked to see if my wife was all right and waited to see what was going to happen next." After seeing no one was seriously injured, Kroesen said, the driver started the car and sped off in a shower of small-arms fire. FREDERICK J. KROESEN JR. Kroesen was driven to a U.S. Army hospital where he was treated for cuts in the neck and released. The general's adjutant, Maj. Phillip Bodine, and the driver escaped injury, an army spokesman said. In Karlsruhe, the West German prosecutor's office said the grenade was of Soviet origin. Police found a tent with sleeping bags, a radio with antenna and a shoulder-borne, Soviet-made grenade launcher in the woods about 200 yards from the scene of the attack, the prosecutor's office announced. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said use of the grenade launcher added "a new quality" to West Germany's terrorist scene. He said German authorities assumed the attack was the work of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Plans for attacks on U.S. military installations were found last Oct. 13 in the apartment of a gang member, Julianne Plambeck, who was killed in a traffic accident near Heidelberg. In Bonn, the West German government condemned the attack and pledged to "do everything for the security of U.S. troops who are stationed for the defense of Western Europe." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Kroesen in a message, "All upstanding Germans condemn most sharply this terrorist attack." The attack came one day after the visit to West Germany of Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., himself the target of an assassination attempt in Belgium two years ago. Haig, at the time NATO's supreme commander, escaped injury when a bomb exploded beneath his car near Casteau, Belgium. Commando Andreas Baader, a West German terrorist group named after the late Red Army Faction founder, claimed responsibility for the attempt on Haig's life. No arrests have been made in the case. Aug. 31 attackers set off bombs in the parking lot at the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Europe at Ramstein, not far from Heidelberg, injuring 18 Americans and two West Germans. The West German news agency, DPA, said it received a letter from the Red Army Faction claiming responsibility for the Ramstein blast and calling it the first stage of a "war against imperialist war." Greg 9/16/81 UFOs "higher ups" ## Briton Egged Portsmouth, England About 50 dock workers angered by threatened layoffs pelted British Defense Minister John Nott with an egg, empty beer can and other objects yesterday at the Royal Navy dockyard, witnesses said. SF Chron. 9/10/81 Associated Press === Page 12 of 64 M's husband at eye of storm oreg 9/18/81 LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's husband, Denis, came under fire Thursday for a letter he wrote on stationery from her official residence urging a Cabinet minister to authorize real estate development on a protected site in Wales. The London Times reproduced the letter on its front page and reported an official investigation probably would be launched into Denis Thatcher's "involvement in a controversial housing development." Officials of the Welsh Office, a government department in Cardiff, confirmed that the letter was missing from their files and appeared to have been taken from a mail trolley in the building. The letter on notepaper from 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's official residence, was sent to Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales. A spokesman for the prime minister said Denis Thatcher had a right to use the stationery because he lives at the same residence as the prime minister. Thatcher holds no government post. He identified himself in the letter as a consultant to Housing Development and Construction Ltd. The company was denied permission by local authorities to build a motel and 63 houses in Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Thatcher's letter, which complained about an 11-month government delay in setting up an appeal, was addressed "Dear Nick," and signed "Yours, Denis." A note on the bottom bearing Edwards' signature advised his staff to look into the matter. President of Roman fires three top officials BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- President Nicolae Ceausescu fired three top government officials Saturday in a Cabinet shuffle reflecting concern over the communist country's continuing food shortages and ideological problems. The official Agerpres news agency said Angelo Miculescu was dropped as minister of agriculture and the food industry; Iosif Banc was fired as chairman of the central council of workers' control on economic and social activity; and Alexandru Ionescu was ousted as chief of the radio and television company. Last winter, Ceausescu announced an "agricultural revolution" intended to ease consumer woes, but meat, cheese, butter, sugar and other food items have been as scarce as ever. Dissatisfied with the agricultural performance, Ceausescu in a speech last week called on officials to change their "mentality from top to bottom" and demanded that they go out and work with farmers in the fields. "Even the deputy minister, the minister, the president of the academy of agriculture should put on their overalls, go out and work shoulder on shoulder with the farm workers," he said. No figures have been made public yet on this year's grain output, but it is said to be below the 23.7 million-ton production target. As in past years, reports in the official press again blamed delays in harvesting on poor labor organization, lack of spare parts, transportation problems and negligence. The state-run news media were criticized last summer for their apparent failure to discourage young Romanians from defecting to the West. There were also official complaints that the media were "not doing enough" to fight "retrograde, mystical conceptions, backward influences and mentalities inherited from the old (pre-communist) society or coming from the capitalist world in various forms." Romanian television had been broadcasting movies from Western countries two or three times a week, including the "Dallas" series, among other things. Agerpres said Miculescu will be replaced by Ion Matesu, a state secretary in the agriculture ministry; Banc will be replaced by Marin Enache, who was not identified further, and Ionescu by Ilie Radulescu, a Communist Party secretary in charge of ideology. oreg 9/20/81 UFOs "higher ups" Civilian in charge RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The military regime agreed Monday to accept civilian Vice President Aureliano Chaves as a "temporary substitute" for President Joao Figueiredo, who suffered a heart attack last week, the government announced. Figueiredo is expected to remain off the job for about two months. Chaves, who is to accept the post officially on Wednesday, will be the first civilian to run the presidency since a March 1964 military coup. oreg 9/22/81 UFOs "higher ups" Casey breaks leg while playing golf WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director William J. Casey broke his leg playing golf over the Labor Day weekend but hasn't missed a day of work, an agency spokesman said Wednesday. oreg 9/17/81 Associated Press Laserphoto SHIELD FOR POPE -- Pope John Paul II speaks from behind a bulletproof shield at his Castel Gandolfo summer residence. Security has tightened around the pontiff since the May 13 attack on his life in Rome. UFOs "higher ups" -- 9/17/81 oreg. === Page 13 of 64 Administration tactics don't dazzle Congress By OTIS PIKE Newhouse News Service oreg 9/27/81 WASHINGTON -- The economic program which the president fathered and the Congress mothered has turned into an ugly little monster, biting the hands of those who fed it. The economic program having turned on them, administration officials now are emphasizing foreign policy. The problem is, mother isn't having any part of it. The most publicized element of the foreign program has been the proposed sale of five Airborne Warning Control System planes to Saudi Arabia. There is something pathetic about the administration's effort to out-lobby the Israeli lobby. It flies an AWACS plane to Andrews Air Force Base and invites senators and representatives out to kick the tires, sit in the pilot's seat and stare at radar displays. That tells you that when Congress votes $188 billion for defense, it doesn't know much about what it is buying. The Pentagon, having spent a decade getting Congress to fund AWACS by telling them how great it is, now tells them about all its limitations and weaknesses in order to convince them it is OK to sell a few to the Arabs. While AWACS and the meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. were getting the foreign policy headlines, the House of Representatives has been busy scuttling Haig and the whole State Department. Don't blame this one on the Democrats; the Republicans did it. Sept. 17, the House considered the bill to authorize funds for the State Department, the International Communication Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting and the Inter-American Foundation for the next two years. It authorized $3.1 billion for fiscal 1982, $3.7 billion for 1983. Only one hour was allotted for debating the bill generally and, during that hour, not one person spoke against it. The bill was being handled by Rep Dante Fascell, D-Fla., a wise, popular and salty senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. The members of that committee, Democrats and Republicans, overwhelmingly supported the bill. Fascell was eloquent in presenting it: "We have had people brutalized, terrorized, killed. We have had our embassies burned, attacked. We have had hostages taken. . . . Our people who are doing this service on behalf of our country are in the frontlines." He pointed out that our State Department is the only one in our government which has been shrinking. It is the same size it was in 1959, and the bill being considered cut it by 550 more people. He said the Russians were outspending us "unbelievably" on exchange programs, cultural programs, scholarship and educational grants. He backed it up with statistics. He said he was presenting a "tough, barebones budget" and asked the House to support it. Republican Toby Roth of Wisconsin joined in: "We can have all the weapons and military hardware in the world, but nothing can compare to what people think, and we are not doing enough in that area." Rep. William Broomfield of Michigan, senior Republican on the committee, said, "We must not jeopardize our ability to protect the national security by providing only insufficient resources." When the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee got through defending and praising the bill, and the full House started voting on it, they murdered it. By an unrecorded vote of 42-18, the committee cut half a billion dollars from the authorization for 1983. Then, by a record vote of 226-165, the House killed the whole thing. There were politics and gamesmanship involved. Democrats who normally vote for such things wanted to make the Republicans vote for it. It was, after all, the president's bill. It was to support Haig and his State Department. Only 40 Republicans voted "aye," while 131 voted "no." Democrats voted for it, but only 125-95. After the vote, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Clement Zablocki, D-Wis., needled, "If the Republican Party cannot and will not support its own president and secretary of State, how can we ask others to do so? . . . Maybe the minority party in the House has no confidence in the ability of the president or the secretary of State to carry out the foreign policy of the country." Republican Edward Derwinski of Illinois said, "We should understand that if we do not have a functioning government, we then have anarchy." Fascell asked that all members of the House be allowed five more days to explain their views in the Congressional Record, "and in that way they can vent their spleen on whomever they want." Analysis "UFOs" "higher ups" Belgian chief quits over split BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Premier Mark Eyskens submitted his government's resignation to King Baudouin Monday after the center-left coalition broke over aid to the steel industry. A brief statement from the royal palace said, "The king has accepted this resignation." It also said the king asked Eyskens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, to stay on as caretaker premier. The Eyskens government -- Belgium's 31st since World War II -- is made up of Christian Democrats and Socialists divided into Dutch- and French-speaking factions. Eyskens' 5½ months in office were marked by continuous disagreements within the Cabinet over mostly economic issues. Last Friday, Eyskens' French-speaking Socialist partners began boycotting Cabinet meetings when negotiations broke down over financial guarantees for the steel giant Cockerill-Sambre in Wallonia, Belgium's French-speaking southern half. Cockerill-Sambre said it needs at least $775 million in aid during the next four years. The government rejected a demand by banks that it guarantee the entire aid package and that angered the French-speaking Socialists who are strong in the the mines and steel plants of Wallonia. oreg 9/22/81 -- UFOs "higher ups" -- Indian Scandal Figure Quits Bombay Maharashtra state Chief Minister A. R. Antulay, accused of extorting millions of dollars to set up tax-exempt trusts, said yesterday he has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Antulay, the top elected official of the large western state and a close associate of Gandhi, has been accused in the Indian press and Parliament of using the prime minister's name to extort from $44 million to $66 million from businessmen in return for quotas of cement, sugar and ethyl alcohol -- scarce commodities whose supply is controlled by the government. Associated Press === Page 14 of 64 PA said in aisarray after top aides resign By MORTON MINTZ LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The Environ- mental Protection Agency was shaken Friday when the second of two asso- ciate administrators quit the top-level posts created by EPA administrator Anne M. Gorsuch shortly after her appointment by President Reagan, Frank A. Shepherd, 35, who has been in the agency since late June, left, with a letter telling Ms. Gorsuch "that my talents could be better used in pri- vate enterprise." Nolan Clark resigned Wednesday over what he termed "irrec- oncilable differences of style between myself and the administrator." "It's putting it mildly to say the agency is in disarray," said an EPA offi- cial who asked not to be identified. Shepherd, inexperienced in environ- mental law when he left a Miami law firm to supervise a staff of more than 100 EPA lawyers, was associate ad- ministrator for legal counsel and en- forcement. Clark was associate adminis- trator for policy and resource manage- ment. Shepherd refused to go beyond his letter, which, as is common in such situ- ations, mentioned unspecified "personal reasons" and the "pleasure" of having worked with Ms. Gorsuch. She was un- -UFO "higher ups"- Quebec aide held hostage the c tel. A rival Palestinian guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the killing. Majed Abu Sharar died Friday when the bomb went off in his room on the fourth floor of the Flora Hotel on Rome's tourist- famed Via Veneto FD= " highrate" U.N. general wounded UNITED NATIONS (UPI) - Palestin- ian guerrillas wounded the chief of staff of the United Nations peace-keeping force In south Lebanon as he drove through the Palestinian area of the U.N. sector, a U.N. spokesman said. "Armed elements" - the U.N. term for Palestinian guerrillas - fired 15 shots Friday at the car of Brig. Gen. James Onoja of Nigeria, which was hit from the front and from both sides of the road near the headquarters of Nigeri- an forces at Tayr Zibra, the U.N. spokes- man sai Dreg F 10/10/81 UFO, " higherwas"- LBJ accused of corruption WASHINGTON (AP) - Lyndon Johnson accepted envelopes "stuffed with cash" when he was vice pres- Ident and later used the power of his presidency to amass enormous personal wealth, according to a ex-" cerpts from a new biography. The biography, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," was written by Robert A. Caro, who in 1975 won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Robert Moses, a former New York city and state official who died earlier this year. The first of three volumes in Caro's biography of Johnson is to be published next year. Excerpts from it were published in the October issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Johnson, who died in 1973, was raised to power first in the House of Representatives and then ass U.S. senator from Texas by the emerging oil, 353. sulfur, defense and space industries of the Southwest, Caro says. "For years, men came into Lyndon Johnson's of- fice and handed him envelopes stuffed with cash," the Atlantic article says. "They didn't stop coming even when the office in which he sat was the office of the vice president of the United States. Fifty thousand dollars. in hundred-doi- lar bills in sealed envelopes, was what one lobbyist for one oil company testified that he brought to Johnson's office during his term as vice president." When Johsnon assumed the presidency in 1963, his aides were quoted as saying that estimates that put his wealth at $14 million were too high. "Privately, some now admit that it was far too low," Caro says. Although Johnson announced that he was putting all of his business affairs in a blind trust while he was president, he had private phone lines installed in the Oval Office to confer with Texas attorneys who ad- ministered the trust, the article says. "Johnson personally directed his business affairs, down to the most minute details, not infrequently working on those affairs, according to some of his attorneys, for several hours a day," Caro wrote. "In his direction of his business affairs, he did not hesitate to use the power of the presidency itself, and to use it with utter ruthlessness. And during his presi- dency, Lyndon Johnson piled atop the millions of dollars he had already made millions more," he said. orey 9/218, - "For "higherufes."- Gangland Struggle Feared Bridgeport, Conn. Two hit men gunned down reputed Mafia boss Frank Piccolo, awaiting trial in an alleged plot to extort money from entertainers Wayne Newton and Lola Falana, in a killing that could signal a gangland power struggle, police said yesterday. "If it's not part of a war, it's the beginning of one," said Police Inspector Anthony Fabrizi. SF Chron 9/21/8, United Press QUEBEC (UPI) - An armed couple heid the president of Quebec's provincial Legislature hostage for three hours, de- manding jobs and a chauffeur-driv- en car and discus- sing God, Satan and Ronald Rea- gan. One of them ate a mirror be- fore letting their baffled captive walk away un- harmed. National Assembly Presi- Vaillancourt dent Claude Vail- lancourt said a mån and woman stormed into his office waving pistols "like cowboys" and took over the office until they were seized by police. Police said Daniel Laflamme and Pauline d'Youville, both 30 and both of St. Hyancinthe, would appear in court Friday. He did not say what charges were being contemplated. As Vaillancourt and the couple talked, the man suddenly produced broken shards of a mirror and began chewing on them. Vaillancourt said the man told him "he was a disciple of Yvon Iva, who performs similar stunts in pub- Diego 9/25/81 9/2018, available for comment, having left Thursday' on an unannounced western trip. Shepherd created a flap in August when he held meetings with three in- dustry groups at which he reversed EPA's position on some controversial regulations for hazardous-waste per- mits and tentatively agreed to settle a court challenge on terms favorable to industry. He excluded Justice Department and EPA lawyers assigned to the case, lead- ing Justice Department lawyer Nancy Long to withdraw in protest. Sources including the agency official and a private environmental lawyer said Shepherd tired of bureacratic infighting and of "back-stabbing" by key underl- ings hired by Ms. Gorsuch before he took office. No "ideological incompatibility" ex- isted between Gorsuch and either Shep- herd or Clark, one of the source noid addi - UFO, "high color"- not Bomb kills PLO aide turn liber ROME, Italy (UPI) - The PLO infor- er" . mation chief was killed by a bomb that : exploded under his bed in a luxurious ho- - such === Page 15 of 64 # British Cabinet ministers fired in purge by Thatcher By JEFF BRADLEY LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fired three of her Cabinet ministers Monday in a purge of moderates and shuffled the posts of a half-dozen others in her Conservative Party government. The moderates have been urging Mrs. Thatcher to relent from her monetarist policies to ease the effects of Britain's worst economic slump since the Great Depression. They see an electoral threat from the newly formed middle-of-the-road Social Democratic Party at a time when Mrs. Thatcher's popularity has plummeted. Mrs. Thatcher dismissed Lord Soames -- the man who presided over the independence of Zimbabwe -- from his senior post as lord president of the council, leader of the House of Lords and civil service minister. She accepted the resignation of Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour, who also held the historic post of Lord Privy Seal, and dumped Education Secretary Mark Carlisle. Mrs. Thatcher announced a reshuffling of her Cabinet, moving another leading moderate, James Prior, from the Department of Employment to the Northern Ireland Office, where he replaces Humphrey Atkins. Atkins, like his predecessors in that job, failed to reconcile warring Roman Catholics and Protestants in the troubled province. He becomes Deputy Foreign Secretary. Also out was Lord Thorneycroft, 72-year-old chairman of the Conservative Party, an influential non-Cabinet post. He is replaced by Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson. Prior is succeeded by Norman Tebbit, previously a junior minister for industry and a zealous Thatcher supporter in the House of Commons. Prior's move to the Northern Ireland Office was "obviously a disappointment to him," a spokesman at his office said. Most prominent of the Cabinet moderates, he earned Mrs. Thatcher's disfavor by taking a cautious approach in seeking curbs on labor union power as demanded by Tory right-wingers. ## Brazilian chief hospitalized RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (UPI) -- President Gen. Joao Figueiredo suffered a heart attack Friday and was carried into a hospital on a stretcher, Brazilian news media reported. ## Car blast injures general A British army general was critically injured in a car explosion in London Saturday, Scotland Yard reported. A woman from a nearby house also was injured. Police sources said the victim was Lt. Gen. Sir Steuart Pringle, 10th baronet in a 300-year-old line. # Iran executes 156; blast kills top aide By United Press International Iranian authorities, taking revenge for bloody street battles, executed 156 dissidents. The official news agency reported Tuesday that a ruling party official was assassinated in a grenade explosion. A grenade hurled by a member of Mojahiddeen Khalq guerrillas killed Hojjatoleslam Abdolkarim Hashemi-nejad in the northeastern city of Mashad, the Pars news agency reported. The agency said the assailant also was killed in the explosion and a security guard and a student were wounded. Pars said Hashemi-nejad was killed soon after he finished a lecture at 8 a.m. He became the 107th prominent victim of assassins since the downfall of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr in June. Hashemi-nejad was secretary of the ruling Islamic Republican Party in Khorassan province and "one of the dedicated, committed clergymen of Mashad," the agency said. Reacting to Hashemi-nejad's death in a speech to clergymen broadcast by Radio Tehran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said "If their aim is to undermine Islam, these assassinations revive Islam; if their goal is to destroy the Islamic republic, these assassinations irrigate the Islamic republic." TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) -- Moshe Dayan, charismatic hero of Israel's Six-Day War who later advocated concessions to the Arabs he conquered, died suddenly of heart failure and will be given a state funeral. He was 66. ## General in hiding LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Former army commander Gen. Humberto Cayoja went into hiding Wednesday after calling on the military government to combat the cocaine trade and "restore morality" to the armed forces. In a letter to the President Celso Torrelio, who also is an army general, Cayoja said his reassignment to the army "active reserve" was "illegal and unjust." He said the assignment was "punishment" for his anti-drug stance while he was army commander and called on Torrelio to take action instead against the military officers implicated in Bolivia's billion dollar cocaine traffic. === Page 16 of 64 3M THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1981 # Iranian military chiefs killed in plane crash By FERESHTEH EMAMI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Four of Iran's top military men and an unspecified number of war wounded died in a transport plane crash, Tehran radio announced Wednesday. Authorities also said a plot was uncovered to kill the nation's chief justice and police chief. There was also a new round of street clashes in Tehran, and hit-and-run assassinations were reported in the provinces. The crash Tuesday night of a U.S.-made C-130 Hercules transport killed Defense Minister Musa Namju and three other military commanders returning from southwestern Iran's battlefront with Iraq, according to official communiques. The huge transport went down as it neared Tehran on a flight carrying an unspecified number of wounded troops and bodies of soldiers killed in the war with Iraq, the communiques said. Also killed were Maj. Gen Valeollah Fallahi, acting commander in chief of Iran's armed forces, former air force commander Javad Fakuri, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' No. 2 man, Mohsen-Rahim Kolahdoz. Cause of the crash was under investigation. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a speech of condolences, called on the country's 36 million citizens to defend Iran with "iron will and pride ... so that the blind-hearted people and the hypocrites and those who are in the West's embrace will know that the Iranian people and armed forces still live." While his reference was to the leftist Mujahedeen Khalq, he did not actually blame the group for engineering the crash. The Tehran newspaper Kayhan said the accident was due to "technical failure." In Paris, Mujahedeen leader-in-exile Massoud Rajavi suggested that Khomeini ordered the plane sabotaged, saying, "It is natural that Khomeini himself is a suspect in this because he hated officers like Fakuri." Rajavi said that after he and former President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr escaped to Paris aboard an Iranian air force plane, "Khomeini accused Fakuri of complicity and relieved him of his leadership responsibilities in the air force." Fakuri was defense minister during Bani-Sadr's presidency but was described by Iranian observers as neutral in Iran's power struggles. Khomeini earlier this month relieved him of the air force command and made him an adviser to the joint chiefs of staff, a demotion. Tehran radio said a mass funeral would be held Thursday in front of the military academy in the capital for the victims, whose number was not reported. The government announced Wednesday that guerrilla hideouts of the Mujahedeen Khalq, which mixes Islamic tenets with Marxism, and the Marxist Fedayeen Khalq were raided and documents showing a new assassination plot seized. The regime said the national police chief, Col. Ibrahim Hejazi, and the chief justice of the Islamic Supreme Court, Abdulkarim Ardabili, were the targets. Ardabili is a member of the Interim Presidency Council, which has governed Iran since President Mohammad Ali Rajai was assassinated in a bombing Aug. 30 along with the prime minister. Iranians are to vote Friday for a new president, the second since Bani-Sadr's ouster three months ago that incited Iran's underground opposition to street violence. By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian investigators believe President Anwar Sadat's assassination was masterminded by a Moslem fundamentalist colonel who deserted from a high-level military intelligence post, an Egyptian source said Saturday. The source, who has access to Egypt's top military commanders, also said the assassins apparently planned to kill all of Egypt's top leaders -- including Sadat's successor, President Hosni Mubarak -- but ran out of ammunition. # 7 known dead in military air crashes The unrelated crashes of two helicopters and a light plane killed at least seven U.S. servicemen, military officials say, including four in a fiery wreck in New Mexico. Two deaths occurred in the crash-landing of a twin-engine plane on military maneuvers in Nevada, and a Navy man was missing and presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter off Virginia Beach, Va. All the crashes were Tuesday. Air Force personnel were trying to determine why the Super Jolly Green Giant helicopter crashed and burned near Grant, N.M., killing four of six crew members. The HH-53 helicopter went down at about 8,200 feet some eight miles north of Mount Taylor, said Capt. Art Dunn of Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. The helicopter had been assigned to the 1550th Aircrew Training and Test Wing at Kirkland and was on a low-level training mission, he said. "It was a combat-type search and rescue mission, which requires them to fly about 50 feet above the ground." "The weather was good, but we had reports from a pilot in the area that there was a thunderstorm in the area," Dunn said. "Also, a 1550th member reported scattered showers." Two crew members were hospitalized in critical condition, Dunn said. The victims were identified by Dunn as Capt. J.P. Gant Jr., 31, of Meridian, Miss., the aircraft commander; 2nd Lt. Richard J. Wendin of Fairfield, Conn.; Sgt. Terry O. Chancey, 27, of Patterson, Ga.; and Sgt. Luis Caraballo of New York City. In Nevada, both Air Force officers aboard were killed in the military maneuvers at Tonopah Test Range. The plane crashed while trying to land at the Tonopah Municipal Airport, officials said. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Wallace said the plane was leased by the Department of Defense for joint Air Force, Marine and Army electronic warfare games. The Air Force identified the dead as Capt. Kenneth L. Hossler, 28, of New York City, and Lt. Jeffrey G. Snyder, 25, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Both were assigned to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. The plane carried electronic radar gear which Wallace said enabled it to identify aircraft. Military officials said the Navy helicopter crashed about a half-mile off Virginia Beach. Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Wessel, 31, of Virginia Beach, was missing and presumed dead. Three other crewmen were rescued, the Navy said. The UH-1N Huey helicopter was on a training flight from the amphibious assault ship Inchon when it radioed a distress signal and went down, Navy spokesmen said. Witnesses said the helicopter appeared to be in a controlled ditch before hitting the water. Navy officials said the cause of the crash was under investigation and that an effort would be made to salvage the helicopter. # Poland's Kania pressured, resigns By MICHAEL DOBBS LA Times-Washington Post Service WARSAW -- Poland's Communist Party leader Stanislaw Kania resigned Sunday in the face of mounting criticism by political opponents of his inability to meet the challenge posed by the independent Solidarity trade union. === Page 17 of 64 - UFOs vs "higher ups" - # Crime drops after police told to shoot By LINDEL HUTSON Aug 10/20/81 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Most types of crime are on the decline in Terre Haute nearly a year after Police Chief Gerald P. Loudermilk announced a "shoot-to-kill" policy. But the chief said Monday he's not sure that policy had anything to do with it. "We'd like to hope so, but we don't know for sure," Loudermilk said in a telephone interview from the western Indiana city of 70,000. "Our crime is down and our arrests are up. "If I can keep it down, I'll come out with another statement like that." Last November, Loudermilk told his 100-plus police officers to shoot first and ask questions later if confronted by a gunman. Loudermilk said he got the feeling his officers were afraid to use their guns and wanted to let them know "they're going to have my backing." "If they get shot at," he said, "I want them to shoot back -- I don't care if the person is 8 or 80. The gun doesn't give a damn if the person pulling the trigger is 16 or 60." No officer so far has had to shoot to kill, he said, "thank God." Loudermilk says crime is down because "we've got a young department and they're working very hard." In the first three months of 1981, all crimes but murder and aggravated assault showed a drop. Rape fell from 16 in the first nine months of 1980 to 12 this year, robbery from 97 to 58, burglary from 1,290 to 1,133, theft from 1,718 to 1,626 and auto theft from 290 to 195. But murder is up 33 percent and aggravated assault 173 percent. There were three murders during the same period of 1980 compared with four this year, while aggravated assaults jumped from 34 to 93. Loudermilk thinks murder and assaults are up because "we're living in a crazy society." He elaborated: "They're shooting the pope leaders around the world. Who knows, maybe violence on television is leading to it. It's a silly society." - UFOs & Project - "higher ups" - SF Chron. 9/23/81 # Thunderbirds in Action Two planes of the Air Force Thunderbirds aerobatic team put on this display of unusual flying last month during an air show at Medford, Mass. The demonstration occurred before the team's leader, Lieutenant Colonel David Smith, was killed in a crash during performance at the National Air Races in Cleveland. === Page 18 of 64 # Army stays silent on fatal air crash By John Snell and Steve Miletich P-I Reporters The U.S. Army yesterday identified six Fort Lewis soldiers and an official Army observer who died Monday night when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in the desert near Las Vegas during secret war games. Army officials and Fort Lewis personnel who were involved in the war games kept quiet about the accident yesterday and refused to discuss what may have led to the crash. One Fort Lewis spokesman said the Department of Defense ordered that reporters not be allowed to speak with the 61 soldiers who were injured. Lt. Col. Fred Ussery, chief public information officer at the installation, said he did not believe it was "appropriate" to speak with the men so soon after the accident. The crash occurred during a training exercise near Indian Springs Air Force Base, 50 miles north of Las Vegas. The exercise, which began Sept. 11, was conducted on the same desert field where commandos trained for last year's botched attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran. Most of the dead and injured were members of the Army's 2nd Battalion, 75th Rangers, who are stationed at Fort Lewis. Army spokesmen refused to say whether the Rangers were part of the nation's "Rapid Deployment Force," but the Rangers are said to be an elite group of highly-trained combat soldiers. The only other Ranger battalion is stationed at Fort Georgia. Army spokesmen at Fort Lewis and the Pentagon yesterday said only that the training mission was both "routine" and "classified." The Army acknowledged, however, that its routine training exercises normally are not classified. Seven military investigators specializing in the C-130 were flown to the crash site and began working to determine the cause of the crash. Other investigators scoured the site yesterday in search of smoke flares, grenades and other explosives scattered on impact. ### Plane's background A U.S. Air Force spokeswoman from Military Airlift Command headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., said it probably would take four to six weeks to complete the inquiry. The Lockheed C-130 is a four-engine tactical troop, freight and special-purpose transport used by the military since 1954. It can carry up to 175,000 pounds on take-off, and is large enough to accommodate 92 troops, 64 paratroopers, or 74 stretcher patients. It was used in the aborted rescue attempt in Iran and in the 1976 Israeli commando raid that freed hijacked jet passengers in Entebbe, Uganda. In Nevada, meanwhile, residents living near the base reported that runway lights at the desert airfield were turned off before the crash, apparently as part of the training exercise. Army spokesmen refused to discuss the reports, but acknowledged that the transport plane was providing its own lighting when it attempted the landing. ### Names of dead Members of the 75th Rangers returned to Fort Lewis yesterday, including six of the nine soldiers who were hospitalized with their injuries. The dead were identified as Lt. Col. William E. Powell, 42, Annandale, Va., the commanding officer of the Fort Lewis Rangers; Capt. Gregory E. Gardner, 34, Huntsville, Ala.; Pvt. Kevin E. Langley, 19, Pampa, Texas; Pfc. Lonnie J. Furr, 22, Rixeyville, Va.; Spec. 4 John P. Critselous, 20, Knox- See ARMY, Page A-3 # Army is silent about air crash From Page A-1 ville, Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Jimmie D. Bynum, 34, Waxahachie, Texas; and Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Class John Williams, 32, Yelm, Wash., an Army observer stationed with the 158th Battalion at Fort Campbell, Ky. Army officials have said the men were killed when they were trapped inside the plane, which exploded and burned on impact "We don't really know anything more than what was in the papers this morning," said Edward E. Powell, a retired Air Force colonel in Annandale and Lt. Col. Powell's father. ### 'I'm so numb' "Tonight on the television, they had pictures of the plane on the ground," he said. The C-130 burned for four hours and was reduced to smoldering rubble. Powell added that his son's body was being returned to Virginia and would be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. "They're having trouble making positive identification," he said. "He was on the plane. That's positive enough. "I'm so numb, nothing bothers me today." Hospitalized at Nevada military hospitals as a result of the crash were Sgt. Victor R. Frias; Spec. 4 Peter E. Posado; 1st Lt. Floyd N. Miles; Pfc. Anthony C. Corriea; Pfc. Jamie W. Swank; Pfc. Vito S. Salvato; Sgt. Robert Ramiez; Pvt. Craig Parrish; and Capt. Raymond Knox, the U.S. Air Force-Army liaison officer for the war games. Lt. Col. Ussery said ages and hometowns of the injured were not immediately available. Army medical spokesmen said none of the injured men was in critical condition. Col. William E. Powell, 42, the commanding officer of the Fort Lewis Rangers, was among the desert crash victims. # Arafat aide killed ROME (AP) -- A bomb exploded under the hotel bed of a leader in Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization early Friday, killing him instantly, police and firemen said. Police and the Rome office of the PLO identified the dead man as Majed Abu Sharar, a member of the Central Committee of Arafat's Fatah faction, the largest element of the multi-factioned PLO. They said Sharar also was spokesman for the Unified Information Center of all PLO guerrilla factions. The attack was claimed by "the General Command of al-Assifa forces" in anonymous phone calls to news agencies in Rome and Beirut. The callers said Sharar was killed because he had left the "proper course of the Palestine revolution and the armed struggle." The al-Assifa Revolutionary Council is a dissident Palestinian group led by === Page 19 of 64 By United Press International Iran's defense minister and three other top generals, including the chief of staff and the revolutionary guards commander, were killed in the crash of a military transport plane carrying war dead and wounded to Tehran, Iranian state radio said Wednesday. The crash Tuesday night at a firing range outside Tehran dealt a severe blow to Iran's military, but an armed forces spokesman reached by telephone by UPI from Beirut said sabotage was not suspected "at the moment." Tehran Radio, monitored by UPI in Ankara, Turkey, and by the BBC in London, said the U.S.-made C-130 transport went down as it was returning from Ahvaz, Iran, with the military commanders and soldiers killed and wounded in the war with Iraq. It said the defense minister, Brig. Gen. Seyed Musa Namju; Gen. Valiollah Fallahi, acting chief of staff of the joint command; Gen. Kolah Douz, acting commander of the revolutionary guard; and Gen. Javad Faouri, former defense minister and air force commander, were among "a number of passengers" killed in the crash. In a message to the nation on the deaths of his military commanders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said, "It is up to the Iranian nation to commemorate them by increasing efforts and bravery and continuing their path." The regime declared three days of mourning Wednesday and expected to turn out for the martyrs' funeral of the four, the radio said. ... developed a technical fault and crashed at a firing range at Kahrizak," near Tehran. News of the deaths of Iran's top military leaders came as Iran's Revolutionary Guards foiled plans by leftist guerrillas to assassinate Iran's chief justice and the national police chief. The report, attributed by the radio to the guards, said the guerrillas were members of a female-led band of the Fedayeen Khalq, a leftist group that the Islamic regime labeled an "American grouplet." Forty-five members were arrested and printed material, arms and ammunition, bombs, machines for forging documents, forged bank notes and printing and duplicating machines were seized, the radio said. The report also said "documents had been discovered of plans to assassinate Ayatollah (Abdulkarim) Moussavi Ardabeli and the Iranian police chief." The former police chief was killed in the August assassination of the Iranian prime minister and president. Ardabeli, also called the prosecutor general, was named by Khomeini as one of the three members of the presidential committee that is filling in until the election Friday of a new president. The radio report said members of the group had killed eight Revolutionary Guards during bank robberies to finance their activities. The report came one day after another leader of Iran's Islamic regime was killed in a grenade attack attributed to an emerging guerrilla "suicide squad" willing to pursue martyrdom as fanatically as followers of Khomeini. The assassination of the ruling Islamic # 4 top Iranian generals killed in plane crash - UPI "higher ups" - UPI "higher ups" ## Reputed crime boss surrenders PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Reputed New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca and three other men surrendered to authorities yesterday on federal charges of labor racketeering. The indictments stem from an alleged kickback scheme involving union insurance contracts and were the result of joint grand jury investigations in Boston and Miami, the FBI said. Sixteen men previously were indicted in the probes. 9-25-81 Seat P.I. The Eyskens government -- Belgium's 31st since World War II -- is made up of Christian Democrats and Socialists divided into Dutch-and French-speaking factions. Eyskens' French-speaking Socialist partners began boycotting Cabinet meetings Friday when negotiations broke down over financial guarantees for the steel giant Cockerill-Sambre in Wallonia. Associated Press === Page 20 of 64 Rumor suit threatened # Post's response fails to satisfy Carter oreg 10/15/81 By ANN BLACKMAN WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Post doused a "hot new twist" with ice water on Wednesday, saying the rumor it published nine days earlier about a pre-inaugural bugging of Ronald and Nancy Reagan was "utterly impossible to believe." But Jimmy Carter's attorney said the Post's latest statement, an editorial, hasn't dissuaded the former president from considering libel action against the newspaper. And Carter's former press secretary, Jody Powell, declared "This (editorial) says to me that 'we didn't believe it was true when we published it, that we don't believe it now, but we defend our right to publish it.'" Post publisher Donald E. Graham said: "The editorial speaks for itself. I have no further comment." The Post's chatty "Ear" column reported on Oct. 5 that there was "a hot new twist" to the story that Nancy Reagan wanted Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to move out of the White House early so Mrs. Reagan could start redecorating. "They're saying," "Ear" reported, "that Blair House where Nancy was lodging ... was bugged. And at least one tattler in the Carter tribe has described listening in to the tape itself." Blair House, across the street from the White House, is the official government residence for important visitors. It normally houses foreign heads of state and others who would be upset at having the White House eavesdrop. The Carters' lawyer asked the Post last week for a retraction and public apology, and executive editor Benjamin Bradlee responded: "It will be perfectly obvious that there is no retraction in the paper." On its editorial page Wednesday, the Post said, "We weren't there. But everything we know about the presidency of Jimmy Carter suggests it was false." The Post said the point of the item was circulating and that it was "accurately reported." "It said there was a rumor around," the editorial said. "Based on everything we know about the Carter instinct and record on this sort of thing, that rumor utterly impossible to believe." That didn't sit well with Carter, who is on a two-day visit to Washington. "He finds it incredible," said his lawyer, Timothy Adamson. "They said they published a rumor, even if it was false." Adamson said the former president will make a statement on paper after reading the editorial and the following: "I consider the owners and publishers of the Washington Post responsible for their libelous action and for their failure and refusal to correct it in a timely fashion," Carter said. Moreover, said Adamson, Carter has not been dissuaded from pressing for a retraction and "a final decision." The word apology did not appear in the editorial. "Perhaps," Powell said, "the owners of the newspaper should take a little more interest in what out the door. It's clear that the editors are not doing it." Powell, who was a key figure in the Carter administration, said the Post's editorial was "arrogant and at the same time sort of pathetic." "The Post was saying, 'We're going to publish it because it was a rumor, even if it was false.'" Powell said he and Carter's lawyers are still discussing whether to file a libel suit. "The question is not how much money he has to get, but whether to go ahead with it," Powell said. Powell said Carter found the Ear item and the editorial that followed "wrong and unfair." "How can you make a mistake that hurts someone, and then people say they've made a mistake and won't do it anymore," Powell said. "This (editorial) says to me that we didn't believe it was true when we published it, that we don't believe it now, but we defend our right to publish it. In you, dear readers, didn't understand it, that's your fault." - UFOa "higherups" - ## Iranian prime minister resigns By United Press International Iran's prime minister has resigned to let new President Sayed Ali Khamenei choose a government and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has called for the brainwashing of children to create a new Islamic man. In a speech broadcast by Tehran Radio, Khomeini said, "We must start from the childhood and our sole purpose ought to be converting the Western man into an Islamic one." "Brains must be washed and be replaced by independent minds. If we perform this important feat, rest assured that no one, no power can harm us." Mohammed Reza Mahdavi-Kani, who became prime minister when his predecessor Mohammed Javad Bahonar and former President Mohammed Ali Rajai were assassinated on Aug. 30, agreed to stay until the appointment of a new prime minister. Iranian sources predicted Mahdavi-Kani's reappointment and said the resignation Thursday was a constitutional formality expected after Khamenei's election Oct. 2. - UFOa "higherups" - ## Schmidt recovering BONN, West Germany (AP) -- Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spent a peaceful night and was reported in satisfactory condition Wednesday following heart surgery and the implantation of a pacemaker, government sources said. The West German government says Schmidt should be able to return to his office within a week. Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the vice chancellor, left the meeting of European Community foreign ministers in London and flew home Tuesday night. oreg 10/15/81 BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Billy McCullough, a leader of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association, was assassinated in Belfast Friday, and Ben Dunne Jr., the son of a chain-store tycoon, was kidnapped near the border with the Irish Republic. The Irish National Liberation Army, an offshoot of the almost exclusively Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army, said its men shot and killed McCullough to avenge the slaying of Roman Catholics by Protestant extremists. Security authorities speculated the INLA also was behind the abduction of Dunne. A police spokesman said McCullough, 34, was hit twice when a gunman riding on the back seat of a motorcycle driven by another man drew up beside his car and opened fire in the Protestant Shankill Road section of Belfast. The motorcycle later was found abandoned in the neighboring Catholic Falls Road district, an IRA-INLA stronghold. The McCullough killing heightened fears of renewed sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland. "It's hard to see the UDA letting McCullough go unavenged," a police source said. - UFOa "higherups" - # Gunmen kill Ulster leader oreg 10/17/81 === Page 21 of 64 jack anderson CIA Backroom deal WASHINGTON -- A scandal of extraordinary proportions involves Egypt's highest leaders and a group of former CIA and Pentagon officials in a backroom deal that gave a company with Palestinian connections the exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract to ship U.S. arms to Egypt. As I reported in a previous column, there is strong reason to suspect that corrupt Egyptian officials profited personally from the scheme, and that some of the arms shipments were diverted to Palestinian forces and other groups opposed to the late President Anwar Sadat. My associates Dale Van Atta and Indy Badhwar have conducted a major investigation into the affair. They interviewed knowledgeable Egyptian officials, military and intelligence sources and businessmen who were involved. They obtained dozens of secret cables and letters that confirm essential parts of the story. Baksheesh and nepotism are nothing new in the Middle East, but it is rare indeed when corruption can be traced to the very highest levels of government. Yet the trail of evidence in the Egyptian arms deal points to the two most powerful men in Egypt today -- the men who stood at either side of Sadat when he was assassinated, and who now effectively control the country. The two are Sadat's successor, Hosni Mubarak, and Defense Minister Abu Ghazala. On June 25, 1979, a few months after the secret arms-shipping deal was cut, Mubarak was given a detailed report on the affair. The report included the information that the shipping firm, Tersam, was not qualified and was secretly controlled by a Palestinian businessman named Ali Shorafa, operating out of the United Arab Emirates, a hotbed of anti-Sadat Palestinian supporters. A coded cable from Cairo on July 2, 1979, stated that "vice president in person is following this case closely." But a return cable the next day suggested it was unlikely Mubarak would pursue the scandal diligently, because "the vice president's brother-in-law is involved." A week later, another cable from Cairo gave assurance: "V.P. taking matters very seriously. Brother-in-law (flown to) Cairo." In the end, however, Mubarak did nothing to rescind the contract or hinder its execution. It is not clear whether the vice president ever told the incorruptible Sadat about the affair. The brother-in-law is Gen. Mounir Sabet, now stationed in Washington as chief of military procurement. Two years ago, he was an assistant military attache here, and was involved in the Tersam deal up to his ears. At a Washington meeting on June 14, 1979, for example, Sabet confirmed that Tersam had been awarded the shipping contract in secret, and offered one of the firm's competitor's half the profits if he'd keep his mouth shut. Sabet's boss in Washington that year was the military attache, Gen. Abu Ghazala. He too was deeply involved in the Tersam deal. I have a confidential letter signed by Ghazala and addressed to the Pentagon, dated April 2, 1979. It informed the appropriate officials "that the Egyptian Ministry of Defense has appointed TERSAM CO. as its exclusive agent . . . for all its military imports from the United States of America." For months thereafter, however, Ghazala repeatedly denied that Tersam had been given the contract. Far from being reprimanded for his part in the undercover deal, Ghazala was given an extension of his American tour of duty and a new home. He is now defense minister. On June 14, 1979, at the Army-Navy Country Club near Washington, Ghazala and Sabet led still another Tersam competitor to believe that his firm would get the lucrative shipping contract. Later that evening, an American associate of the two Egyptian military men offered the competitor a subcontract if he would make no fuss about the Tersam deal. The Egyptians were clearly worried that word of the behind-the-scenes arrangement with the Palestinian Shorafa would become known in Egypt. A third top-level Egyptian involved in Tersam was Gen. Kamal Hassan Ali, now deputy prime minister and foreign minister. At the time, he was defense minister. He was the one who authorized Ghazala's letter to the Pentagon stating that Tersam was the exclusive shipping agent for America arms. And in a secret letter from Ali's office dated April 17, 1979, Tersam's status as "permanent and exclusive agent" was confirmed. The letter stated that the agreement had been made in 1978. Yet Ali repeatedly lied to other Egyptians about the Tersam deal, and succeeded in blocking investigation of the affair. He also helped keep the facts from reaching Sadat, according to my sources. Contacts As you are probably now aware, "higher ups" are being neutralized by my UFOs like Fall leaves falling from the trees. Now, first read this xerox. Then see the photo on the attached xerox. 1 Ghazala is sneaking a look at his watch just minutes before the killers ran at Sadat guns blazing. (He wasn't interested in the parade in front of him or planes overhead. Timing was foremost on his mind!) 2 Mubarak's face is grim and tense... mouth clenched shut... as if he knows what is coming. All around him are smiling and relaxed. 3 Sadat, between Mubarak and Ghazala, was riddled. Why not Mubarak and Ghazala? 4 Sadat's body guard defense in front of the bandstand was sent away before the murderous attack, according to reports. Who was in charge of defense? Ghazala. Owens === Page 22 of 64 oreg 10/14/81 Associated Press Laserphotos THE GUN -- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, hatless Abu Ghazala moments before assassins attacked and killed effort that made it possible for the assassins to advance photo, sits in the reviewing stand flanked by Vice him Oct. 6. In viewing the lower photos, among others, U.S. unimpeded, middle photo, and for one of the killers to rest his Hosni Mubarak (on his right) and Defense Minister security experts have criticized the weak Egyptian security weapon on marble ledge and fire into the crowd, bottom. === Page 23 of 64 July 1, 1981 Dear Eva... I am heartbroken. The beautiful tiny diamond ring that you gave to me, is gone. All of my life I wanted diamond ring. When someone gives me one... it vanishes. The SIs (UFOs) took it. I had been wearing two rings on my right hand. Your Knight Ring and the tiny diamond ring. The Knight Ring represented me; the diamond ring Eva. Here is what happened. Last Wed. the SIs telepathed and instructed me to take Bean (they excluded Teddy for the 1st time. I found out why later) into deep woods in the Olympia Forest on the Canadian border. They gave no reason for their order. So Bean and I got our woods gear together, put it into our old van and drove 200 miles to the Olympia Deep Forest. The SIs directed us away from the main road deep into the dark forest to a tiny clearing surrounded by huge old trees. Mind you, no civilization around; no farms, no houses, no people... just huge trees all around and rotting logs on the ground. Bean and I "set up camp" in the tiny clearing. Made a circle of rocks to encompass our fire. Backed the old van up close to where the fire would be. Bean dragged up logs and branches and put them in a pile beside the fire circle. Then I heard Bean cry out "Look!" I looked up and he was walking out of the trees encircling us to the clearing holding something in his hands. He held it out to me. It was a brand new expensive corduroy jacket sheep-wool-lined... not a spot on it... to fit a 3-4 year-old baby! (When we brought it home and put it on Jerome, 3, it fit him as if it had been tailored to his measurements.) Bean went into the trees to find more wood and again emerged with something in his hands... two perfect toy cars. Remember now, we came into this deep deep woods blindly. And already we'd found a new coat and toys for Jerome! While Bean prepared the fire I decided to leave the small clearing and walk into the forest. When I did so, it was just like going === Page 24 of 64 onto another planet, or into a different world. "Eerie" is the only word to describe it. Nothing moved. No sign of life. The little light available had a peculiar, yellowish color. One might as well have been in a vacuum. No sound whatsoever. I made my way back to the clearing and informed him of my impressions and he told me that he'd been about to tell me the same thing. Dusk began to fall. There wasn't a sound anywhere... near us or far away. I began to find rocks with faces on them, on the ground. That is, holes for two eyes, nose and mouth. After I'd found a full dozen, near our van and around the fire, Beau began to find them, too, and we stored them in the van. It grew dark. He piled lots of wood on the fire. Earlier, Beau had requested that I signal my UFOs, in the way that I always did and I had done so... telepathing that there were "friends" below; to come down and visit us; that we were not afraid. (Occasionally I'll insert something I forgot to mention. Hence this. Before we entered the wooded area it was very cold in our van. Beau stopped the van and got me a warm jacket from the back. But later on when I took a walk in the same woods that looked like some other world it was as warm as summer! I took the jacket off and walked without it on. But when I returned to the small clearing from the deep woods it was ice cold again! Now let's resume where I left off.) The darkness began closing in on us. Not a sound anywhere. Now Beau and I had brought an ice cooler full of beer for Beau and pop for me. Plus bottles of drinking water. Yet we didn't get hungry or thirsty! === Page 25 of 64 I began to find more rocks with faces in the darkness, but illuminated by the glow from the camp fire. (Before we were through Bean and I found 20 "face rocks" which we put into the car. Later, on getting back home, we found that the faces had vanished... we threw them away.) The darkness by now was so intense that we could see nothing beyond the fire. In short, we were encircled by complete blackness with no sound whatsoever. We made coffee over the fire (couple of cups of coffee were all we were thirsty for.) Then Bean saw a huge UFO overhead. It was triangular with pulsating lights outlining it.* We watched it for a while, until it moved away. About 11 PM, I think it was, I suddenly became half-conscious (which is the only way I can describe it.) Bean and I briefly discussed the only two noises we'd heard in the woods, in the blackness of night... several hair-raising screeches and a dull thumping noise resembling the pounding of a mop against a wooden wall. Both noises, heard at different times, just lasted briefly. All the other hours had been a "deafening silence." I informed Bean that I couldn't stay conscious; took off my guns and laid them inside the back of the van (where I was standing); put my rings in the center of a handkerchief and knotted the four corners into a tight knot (I'd never done anything like this before in my life) and put the handkerchief with the guns; climbed inside the back of the van (after first handing Bean my .38 pistol for protection... I had never ever handed a gun to Bean before) and told Bean to close and secure the doors on the back of the van. He did so and I * When I turned my flashlight on it the light reflected back to us, as if we'd flashed the light into a mirror. === Page 26 of 64 laid down inside, still groggy and half-conscious, while Bean got into the front of the van, closed the door and became silent. I never did go to sleep. Tried to... but I couldn't sleep yet couldn't get conscious either. Meanwhile the utter darkness had closed in on us. Campfire, I suppose, had gone out. Some time later... I don't know when... Bean spoke through the mesh screen separating us and said, "Dad let's get out of here!" I said "If you want to." (I had no feelings about anything. Earlier in the evening, just after darkness had fallen, I had armed myself with the shotgun, beside the campfire while we were having a cup of coffee. I figured that anything could come at us from out of the forbidding dark surrounding us. Yet about an hour before I became groggy something came over me; I put up the shotgun in the van; and looked at the blackness we were enveloped in as a friend. I felt (illogically) that we were as safe as if we were in a bank vault.) Anyway, I heard Bean start up the van and begin to drive carefully out of the deep woods to the small road somewhere near. I just didn't care what happened, lying there flat on my back inside the back of the dark van. Suddenly the damndest sexual urge came over me, for no reason. (I haven't had sex for eight or ten years, because my wife simply discontinued it. Thus, a sex urge on my part is just about like a long lost memory.) I heard Bean swing the van off the === Page 27 of 64 small road and stop. "Dad," he called back to me, "here's a tiny off-road... dirt road. We'll park here and sleep." I raised up and looked out the front windshield. He'd parked on the left side of a tiny, muddy road (it had poured rain on this area, I guess... although now I think about it it had been dry as a bone where we'd been in the woods, I could see lots of water in a deep ditch to our left.) "Beau," I exclaimed, "you're on the wrong side of the road! If anyone comes along they'll hit us head on!" "Oh yeah!" he said and started up the van. I lay back down. I felt the van cut sharply to the right then the loud spinning of wheels in mud... and that was that. "Oh no!" I yelled at Beau. "Now you've done it! Get back here and open these doors so I can get out there!" You see, we were out in the middle of nowhere. Someone might come by in a day or two, then again they might not. He opened the back doors and I jumped out. Inexplicably he'd tried to make a U-turn on a tiny dirt road not much wider than a cow-path, with a deep ditch filled high with water and mud on both sides of the road. Our van was smack across the road, blocking the road completely, with the back end of the van plus back wheels sunk deeply into the ditch of water and mud completely. === Page 28 of 64 up over the wheels in soft mud to the body of the van! I got into the driver's seat and tried every trick I'd ever learned, to free the van. First to the right, then to the left, then straight ahead. Nothing. I tried "rocking." Haha. Nothing. This went on for some time and as it did my resolve to free the van got more and more powerful. While rocking the van I idly remembered the time, long years ago, when a car slipped off a jack in Los Angeles onto my left hand against the cutting edge of the curb (I'd taken the front right tire off). I'd thought "Oh no! With my left hand mangled I'll never be able to drum or type or do anything!" Magically, the entire front end of the car had raised up into the air! I'd snatched my hand free then the car had fallen again with a crash. It had just left a deep, livid crease across the back of my hand. I'd witnessed a miracle, and knew it, but couldn't explain it. As my mind dwelled on this old memory, I felt our van lift up and get firmly forward onto the road. "Dad!" Jean yelled, "how could that have happened? Your mind must have done it!" How we got onto the road straight I'll never know either, because we were still across the road with no room to turn around without going into one of the === Page 29 of 64 7 ditches... but the next thing I knew we'd driven off the tiny road onto the main dirt road. We went on until we reached Rt. 101, drove until we came to a small town, pulled over and managed a short sleep, at last. It was still dark when I came awake, started the van and got us to I-5. Daylight now. We drove a while and came to a restaurant, "Rib Eye." Went in and had breakfast. On leaving the place Bean said, "Look, Dad, there's an electronic machine that shows your heartbeat! Remember Omsi? Why don't you try it?" (Last year he and I had gone to OMSI at Washington Park Zoo in Portland. It's a place housing all kinds of scientific exhibits; planetarium, etc. They had had a machine which registered your heartbeat if you placed down the palm of your hand. I'd stood in line and watched the indicator bounce up and down across the screen as people tried it. When it came my turn I put my hand down... but there was just a straight line. No heartbeat was indicated. I tried several times with the same result. No heartbeat. "Watch this," I told Bean, "I'll will my heart to beat!" And suddenly the indicator went bouncing up. === Page 30 of 64 and down normally across the screen. It was spooky and scary. Something of the same sort had happened also at Mayo Clinic when they tested my heartbeat. I'd lain there for an hour or two, wired up. The doctor looked at the results and said, "Mr Owens, you told the nurse you were an expert at auto hypnosis and could control your heart beat. Did you do that on this test?" I told him no. Well, he said, you'll have to do it all over again. Anyway, with this machine you stuck your finger into a metal slot. Beau went first and the indicator jumped up and down across the screen and a number showed on the screen. 102, I think. I put my finger in... the same old straight line showed... and my number flashed... 00! Indicating no heartbeat But I have gotten ahead of things. Before going to the above restaurant, Beau and I pulled into a park beside the road so that I could unlock the back of the van, obtain my rings and put them on. I unlocked the padlock, took out the knotted handkerchief, untied it and the diamond ring was gone!! The four other rings were there, but the Queen's ring had vanished! Now we're talking about a locked van... me in it all the time... armed... nobody had come near the van... and the diamond ring has vanished! Regardless of the securely knotted handkerchief I searched the van and everything in it. No diamond ring! === Page 31 of 64 Now, back to the restaurant. It frightened me registering no heartbeat on the machine after the same thing had happened before (with a different machine) at OHSI in Portland. Beau and I walked from the restaurant to our parked van when suddenly Beau exclaimed, "Look, Dad!" He pointed to the side of the van. There were handprints everywhere. Tiny ones, one with 8 fingers (distinct fingerprints, not a "handroll") one with talons at the end of the fingers. Also there were numerous prints of lightning bolts!! (My sign, you know.) I took two cameras and made color photos of them all... both sides of the van were covered with prints. Before going into the woods the night before they hadn't been on the van. Beau and I returned then to Hazel Dell. We left everything in the van, went inside the house, and he went to bed and I fell into my bed. I slept without waking for 20 hours!! That was Friday. Saturday and Sunday I was like a robot or zombie. I seemed like another person entirely. Had no energy to the point that it was too tiring to think! The phone would ring and I was too tired to pick it up and talk to anyone. And Beau and I both had headaches. He took lots of aspirin. I sweated mine out. But the point is... there had been nothing in our sojourn into the woods to tire us. Then at night I began to have vivid dreams. In one dream a ravishingly beautiful female made sexual approaches to me. (On waking next morning I matched up this dream with a tremendous sexual feeling I'd had on Thursday night as I lay in the back of the van while the van drove === Page 32 of 64 out of the dark woods.) In another vivid dream Bean and I were in the woods and witnessed a black UFO come down through the trees. It was not solid... it split apart into shadowy sections until they reached the ground and humanoids appeared. They seemed like ordinary people except that their eyes had white around them... circles of white. (I described the dream to Bean and he said, "White, Dad? like the white of an egg?" Which was pin-point accurate, and a curious thing for him to say, because in the dream that was my thought... that the humanoids seemed to have the white of egg around their eyes.) I spent the entire day going over the van with a fine-tooth comb, as the saying goes. No diamond ring. It wasn't in anything nor was it anywhere. So I told Bean, "that does it. We have to go back. I have to search the ground where that van was parked near the clearing in the deep woods." "But Dad," he objected, "that's 500 miles!" "Don't care," I told him. "I had planned to be buried some day with that ring on. Eva gave it to me and that makes it precious." So on Monday Bean and Teddy and I began the long trip up to the Canadian border. (Here I will tell you that by this point I had come to the conclusion that Bean and I had been "taken" by the SI's === Page 33 of 64 in the woods the previous Thursday for the purpose of mating us with females that they provided. The powerful sexual feeling I'd felt as we'd left the woods must have been a hangover from whatever aphrodisiac they'd used to stimulate the mating. My dream later on had been a subconscious recall. Also, that is why the SIs had told us not to take Teddy on the trip!! He, at 10, was too young to mate. This occasion, remember, was the very first time Teddy had never accompanied Beau and I!) Well, hours later Beau somehow managed to locate that off-the-road-in-the-deep-woods clearing. All three of us went over every inch of ground. No siting.. So we drove back again towards home, far away. 3/4 of the way there Teddy got sick and began to vomit. Beau got sick and was trying to keep from throwing up. I was not sick like them but felt like there was a tremendous weight on me... did not feel like myself... I hunched over the steering wheel and willed myself to be able to make it the final stretch. By tremendous mental effort I managed to get the van home. Beau and Teddy threw up some more. We all three were "beat to the socks," as the saying goes. Had the SIs "taken" us 3 while we were alone in those isolated deep woods, causing the kids to be ill? Oh yes. A terrible, foul odor permeated the van while we were in the woods and the kids complained. === Page 34 of 64 In closing, let me say this. It was an utter impossibility for the diamond ring to vanish. So my UFOs took it. They had to. Why? It stood for "Eva" on my hand. The SI's angry with Eva? Nonsense. She only treated me with great kindness. Now... this sort of thing had happened before!! Years ago outside the town of Warminster, in England at midnight, I was on a tall dark hill, signaling to the SIs, when a "craft" came down to me! At the time I had on a turquoise ring set with an opal cross in the center. After I returned to the hotel in the small hours of the morning the ring had vanished from my hand! Next day I took a taxi out to the hill, climbed up to where I'd been the night before, and searched everywhere there. No ring. Went back to town and placed an ad in the paper offering a big reward to anyone in Warminster who could find that ring. On the day I was to leave Warminster the ring appeared in my hotel room! Again, an utter impossibility! Same thing happened when I got into Stonehenge by stealth after midnight, had my adventure then returned to my hotel room. My sheath knife had vanished during the action! It appeared the next day. How is England? Ted Owens (PK Man) - Knight of Swords - Beau Owens === Page 35 of 64 We respectfully urge all those receiving an invitation to respond matter what your opinion may be. WE FEEL THAT NO ORGANIZATION OR INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER WILL GO BANKRUPT BECAUSE OF THE PURCHASE OF ONE 18¢ STAMP. In our next issue, Vol.3, No.4, we will publish an up-to-date list of people who have responded thus far, including their preferences and opinions. We are optimistic that the proposed 1982 UFO SUMMIT "will" take place. We also feel many UFOlogists will be elated to be invited and realize that something of this nature has not been proposed a decade ago. DON'T let this opportunity go on by---now is the time to FORGET THE PAST AND CONCENTRATE ON THE FUTURE. The SBI is of the opinion APRO, CUFOS, MUFON, NICAP, PPCC, ICUFON, GSWI (and all the others to numerous to mention) have done and are still performing great tasks, as well as researchers working independently. However, the future of these organizations, individuals, and UFOlogy is at stake and the only alternative is to sit down, iron-out our problems and strengthen UFOlogy via the 1982 UFO SUMMIT. LET'S HELP OURSELVES TO HELP SAVE UFOLOGY...Now we anxiously await your replies. The following "INVITATIONAL LIST" consists of the organizations and individuals the SBI has invited to attend the 1982 UFO SUMMIT (arranged in alphabetical order by state; states left blank have no rep. as yet): ALABAMA= ALASKA= ARIZONA=Jim & Coral Lorenzen (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) ARKANSAS=Lucius Farish (UFO Newsclipping Service) CALIFORNIA=Riley H. Crabb (Borderland Science & Research Foundation) COLORADO= CONNECTICUT=George Earley DELAWARE= DIST. of COL.=John Acuff (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phen.) FLORIDA=John Lear (UFO Identification Bureau) GEORGIA=William Rachels (UFO Bureau) HAWAII= IDAHO=Jerome Eden (Planetary Professional Citizens Committee) ILLINOIS=Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Center for UFO Studies) INDIANA= (International UFO Registry) IOWA=Ralph C. DeGraw (Private UFO Investigations) KANSAS= KENTUCKY=Donald Elkins & Carla Ruecert (L/L Research) LOUISIANA= MAINE= MARYLAND=John Carlson (International Fortean Organization) MASSACHUSETTS=George Fawcett (New England UFO Study Group) MICHIGAN= MINNESOTA= MISSISSIPPI= MISSOURI=Tawani W. Shoush (International Society for a Complete Earth) MONTANA= NEBRASKA= NEVADA= NEW HAMPSHIRE= NEW JERSEY=Jim Moseley (National UFO Conference); Kenneth Behrendt (PROTEUS); Tom Benson (Sixth Quark Journal); Robert D. Barry (20th Century UFO Bureau); Stan Zebroski & Katherine Krogstad (VESTIGA). NEW MEXICO= NEW YORK= Pete Mazzola & Jim Fillow (Scientific Bureau of Investigation); Timothy Green Beckley (UFO Investigators League) Leonard & Sara Karnacki (Northeastern UFO Organization). NORTH CAROLINA=Wayne Laporte (Carolina UFO Network) NORTH DAKOTA= === Page 36 of 64 CALIFORNIA=Hayden Hewes (International UFO Bureau) OREGON= PENNSYLVANIA=Anthony & Lynn Volpe (DEVAL-UFO) RHODE ISLAND= SOUTH CAROLINA=Margaret Pine (Greenville UFO Study Group) SOUTH DAKOTA= TENNESSEE= TEXAS=Walt Andrus (Mutual UFO Network); Ray Stanford (Project Starlight International); John Schuessler (Project VISIT); Thomas R. Adams (Project STIGMA); Tommy Roy Blann (Texas Scientific Research Center for UFO Studies). UTAH= VERMONT= VIRGINIA= WASHINGTON= W. VIRGINIA=Gray Barker (Saucerian Press) WISCONSIN=Majorie Palmer (SEARCH magazine) WYOMING= Dr. Leo Sprinkle ANALYTICAL ORGANIZATIONS: NEW YORK=Maj. (Ret)Colman VonKeviczky (ICUFON) ARIZONA=William Spaulding (GSW) LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE: NEW YORK=Peter Gerstein INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS (USA) (Alphabetical order by last name) | | | |---|---| | BLOECHER, TED | MOORE, ALVIN, Cmdr. | | BLUMRICH, JOSEPH | MOORE, WILLIAM | | BOYES, WILLIAM | O'CONNELL, PATRICK/JOAN | | CERNY, PAUL | OTTO, JOHN | | CHOPS, ALBERT | OWENS, TED | | CLARK, JEROME | PAGE, THORNTON | | COYNE, LAWRENCE, Lt/Col. | PHILIPS, TED | | DAVIDSON, LEON | PITTS, BILL | | DRUFEL, ANN | RANDALL, KEVIN | | FULLER, JOHN | ROMAN, BONITA | | FOWLER, RAYMOND | RUHL, RICHARD | | FRIEDMAN, STANTON, Ph.D. | SALISBURY, FRANK | | GREEN, GABRIEL | SCHEAFFER, ROBERT | | GREENWALD, WALTER | STEIGER, BRAD/FRANCINE | | HENDRY, ALAN | STORY, RONALD | | HOPKINS, BUD | SACHS, MARGARET | | HALL, RICHARD | SCHNEIDER, ROBERT, Dr. | | HARDER, JAMES, Dr. | TIMMERMAN, JOHN | | HARRIS, JAMES | VALLEE, JACQUES | | HEIDEN, RICHARD | WATERS, DAVID | | HUNEEUS, ANTONIO | WEBB, DAVID | | GOODWIN, BILL | WEINSTEIN, MARVIN, Dr. | | JAN, ERNEST | WESTRUM, RON | | JEFFERS, JOAN | WHITEHURST, LINDY | | KEEL, JOHN | ZECHEL, TODD | | KORFF, KAL | | | KEYHOE, DONALD, Maj. | (Your Name) | | LANDSBURG, ALAN/SALLY | | | LAWSON, ALVIN | | | LEBELSON, HARRY | | | LOWENSKI, DAN | | | MACCABEE, BRUCE | | | MC CAMPBELL, JAMES | | === Page 37 of 64 - UFOs Sun Attack - Ter Strange Weather Blamed on the Sun Beijing Recent severe floods in China and abnormal weather in Europe and Africa were caused by the sun, according to a leading Chinese meteorologist. The Shanghai newspaper Wenhui Bao quoted the head of the city's meteorological research institute, Shu Jiaxin, as saying solar flares caused the floods in the upper Yangtze Valley, in the northern province of Shaanxi and on the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Sf Chron. 9/24/81 Reuters (See (4) on Xerox attached) === Page 38 of 64 2 Letter to Lawrence November 17, 1980 (2) UFO (SI) War vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. Whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the "Pattern" whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) 4 weeks === Page 39 of 64 # Space Aliens Kidnapped Her - Twice Oct. 6, 1981 Nat'l Enquirer Twice this year space creatures abducted a 47-year-old woman and whisked her off on frightening UFOs - where she was studied by eerie seven-foot aliens with yellow catlike eyes, no ears and pointed chins! Barbara Warmoth's bizarre experiences were verified when she told her story under hypnosis to a respected psychotherapist - and when she passed extensive lie detector examinations given by a veteran New York City police officer. "I'm a feet-on-the-ground-type person," the Franklin, Ohio, mother of six told THE ENQUIRER. "I've never been a believer in way-out science fiction or UFOs. But I've been abducted and released by space creatures. And I fully expect that I'll be taken again. Why me? I don't know." By JAMES McCANDLISH of UFO sightings in southwestern Ohio led investigators to issue a public plea for witnesses that Mrs. Warmoth, who is divorced, stepped forward. The UFO experts asked her to undergo hypnosis - and in hypnotic trances she vividly recalled being aboard UFOs on both February 15 and August 19 of this year. Mrs. Warmoth said she was asleep February 15 when an incredibly brilliant light filled her bedroom at 2 a.m. She leaped from bed and spotted a saucer-shaped craft hovering nearby. "The next thing I remember," she continued, "it was 3:15 a.m. Under hypnosis I learned I was actually aboard the UFO during that 1 hour and 15 minutes. "The interior of the UFO was circular and completely metallic. From the center of the ceiling a large column of light ran to the floor. And on the roof of the craft was a transparent dome. "Then a door opened and a strange seven-foot-tall creature approached me. It was garbed in a tight-fitting, gray metallic uniform, its head and face shrouded in a helmet. I could see yellow catlike eyes peering at me through openings in the helmet. "Through mental telepathy the creature told me not to be afraid, that he came from a planet called Antares and meant me no harm." After a brief ride on the UFO - at one point it hovered over a water-filled gravel pit - the space creature approached Mrs. Warmoth with a small boxlike instrument which had probes extending from it. "The creature ran the box from the top of my head to my toes - without touching me," she told THE ENQUIRER. "And then I was back in my bedroom." Astonishingly, on that very night, 54-year-old Dean Hill of Carlisle, Ohio, reported to police that he spotted a UFO - hovering over a water-filled gravel pit! Mrs. Warmoth's next close encounter took place last August 19 as she was driving along an interstate highway near her home - in broad daylight. This time she lost two hours after the blinding glare of the silvery UFO forced her to pull off the road. "The creature was dressed as before but this time its face was uncovered. I could see more than just slanted yellow eyes. It had no ears, a long, thin nose, pointed chin and thin, almost colorless lips. "The creature placed me in a large chair in a room that was like a laboratory - with electronic equipment everywhere. Then it gave me a glass of a greenish liquid." Suddenly, just as before, the experience was over. Cincinnati psychotherapist Robert Schneider, who conducted the hypnosis sessions, told THE ENQUIRER: "My training and approach to everything is skeptical. But I believe Mrs. Warmoth is telling the truth. She remembers her experiences in detail." And New York City police officer Pete Mazzola, who's also International Director of a UFO investigatory agency, the Scientific Bureau of Investigation, stated: "Barbara Warmoth is telling the truth. I spent 1 1/2 days interviewing her and putting her through lie detector tests. She passed with flying colors. This is one of the strongest incidents of UFO abduction documented." As for Mrs. Warmoth, though she's convinced the aliens will abduct her again, "I have no fear. They've never mistreated me. I've been told they mean me no harm - and I believe them." HYPNOTIZED, Barbara drew space alien with cat-eyes peering through helmet (right) and uncovered face showing sharp features and thin lips. (Note: Read the description of the above alien carefully! It is the same alien that towered over me one night in Philadelphia and whose face appears on the cover of my book, published in 1968. * It also got me while I was in my bedroom!! Since then, of course, I have, actually communicated with it on a daily basis, and have worked with it year by year by year! Owens * See attached === Page 40 of 64 # HOW TO CONTACT SPACE PEOPLE By TED OWENS ILLUSTRATED SAUCERIAN PUBLICATION/CLARKSBURG, W. VA. === Page 41 of 64 # 'Bright Star' exercises to show U.S. commitment LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The United States plans to land Marines from amphibious assault ships at Oman and Somalia and drop 82nd Airborne paratroopers over western Egypt next month in the most dramatic demonstration to date of America's ability to aid its friends in the region, officials said Monday. To underscore the emerging alliance, and as a reaction to pressures from Libya, the plan calls for Egyptian and, tentatively, Sudanese troops to join the maneuvers in Egypt's western desert abutting Libya. The exercise, called "Bright Star," would be much larger than last year's 10-day exercise around Cairo, which involved only U.S. and Egyptian troops. This one is tentatively expected to last from Nov. 9 to Dec. 6 and involve U.S. ground, air and naval forces in exercises over thousands of miles. "The idea is to assure countries over there that we could come to their aid in a hurry," said one official, acknowledging that fears about Libya's stepping up military activity in Chad and Sudan added a sense of urgency to this second "Bright Star" exercise. Oreg 10/13/81 ## Contacts My UFOs have instructed me to notify you that they are going to attack these "Bright Star" Exercises (see clipping above) in order to wreck and/or damage the Exercises in order to show other countries that the U.S. cannot protect them! Since the Base has not yet been provided my UFOs assume that another large-scale demonstration is necessary. In "Bright Star" planes and helicopters should have accidents; U.S. personnel should make wrong decisions and errors leading to materiel and personnel accidents. The entire "Bright Star" Exercise will be one great rolling disaster for the U.S. and U.S. forces, according to my UFOs, who plan to make that happen. Owens === Page 42 of 64 October 9, 1981 11:12 AM Contacts: I am filled with fury! The landlord who owns our rented house came into our house and into my office, while I was working, and harassed and aggravated me about small things my children were doing which he does not like. He topped off his glaring-eyed lecture with "...and if you're dam kids can't take care of my property then you'll just have to move." His "property" is an old (50 years) house he built by hand. Windows won't open; no locks on windows; wood all over the house is rotten and crumbles away. But he has a system which has always worked for him. Let a renter complain in any way and he orders them out then rents to someone else who won't complain but will fix the old run-down house up at their expense (not the landlord's.) A broken window brought down all this vituperation on me today from the landlord. I asked him to fix it. I'd buy the new glass. He ordered me to have a glass company fix it. The point I am going to make is this: When PK Man gets angry, trees fall down. I am attaching my fury to the fact no Base has been provided, free of landlords. Let my SIs take action now against U.S. govt. Owens === Page 43 of 64 Oct. 2, 1981 Contact, Tonight at 6:15 PM I made contact with "Control" of my UFOs (SIs) with regard to their present activities. They astonished me by telling me (please pardon this because it sounds ridiculous) that I _am_ _Moses_! They explained that they had kept the "soul" (what Moses _was_) intact through the ages... and after they became successful in developing me they somehow inserted the soul of Moses into me. (They did not say what they did with my _own_ soul.) Owens === Page 44 of 64 HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE MY UFO DOUBLE-CROSSED!! Owens === Page 45 of 64 April 14, 1980 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The Space Shuttle has just landed safely, and my son and I are having some refreshment to celebrate...because we had feared for the lives of Crippen and Young. As you know...my UFOs had promised to destroy the Shuttle if their base was not supplied. Now, always before it was I who performed the psi-force work...utilizing a "PK Map" and activating it constantly to bring about the desired result in cooperation with my UFOs. But in this case...and with new modus operandi by my UFOs...the power was not placed into my hands but kept by the UFOs (keep in mind the hundreds of times I caused seemingly impossible things to happen; well documented in advance of the fact. Last night, Monday night, I received a telephone call. The person gave me a strange message. IF THE SPACE SHUTTLE LANDED SAFELY NEXT DAY (today) THEN THE UFO BASE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AS MY UFOs AND I WISHED. My son Beau and I were puzzled by this call...because as far as we knew my UFOs still were intent on destroying the Shuttle. Knowing full well that my mind is monitored around the clock by my UFOs...all of my thoughts and actions...I wondered if this call might be acted upon by my UFOs. This morning my son and I watched the Shuttle get down safely. I telepathd to the SIs to try and get an answer why they had changed their minds...because as far back as I can remember this is the first time (with the exception of Idi Amin) they have not done what they have announced. Their reply was most interesting. They replied that a top secret government agency had determined to have me "hit" by one of their special assassins...killed...if the Space Shuttle were destroyed. The SIs, in their own way of monitoring, had found this out. Therefore they held their hand this time around with the Shuttle. They did not want to lose me...and then have to wipe out the United States in retribution...it simply was not a part of their game plan. Just before the Shuttle began to descend, this morning, I telepathd Control of the SIs, and requested that they somehow save the astronauts when they destroyed the Shuttle. In my new role of "middle man" simply reporting the SI action, things tend to get a bit confusing. But what is not confusing is...is that Crippen and Young are safe at home with their families. So Beau and I are celebrating while we puzzle over the situation. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 46 of 64 Fuel leaks on shuttle Toxic rocket propellant leaked from a malfunctioning valve and spilled down the side of the space shuttle Columbia on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday morning, damaging a "limited number" of heat shield tiles. A space agency spokesman said that it is not known how many of the tiles will have to be replaced or if the second orbital test flight, set for Oct. 9, will have to be delayed. Wooly winter? - All signs, including the thick shag on the wooly worms, point to a long hard winter. Page 16 Protesters persist - Arrests have passed the 1,300 mark as protesters persist at California's Diablo Canyon nuclear energy plant. Page 15 Not afraid? - The avowed racist who was convicted of killing two black joggers in Salt Lake City has declared THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981 Fuel spill postpones second shuttle trip BY IKE FLORES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The second flight of the space shuttle Columbia will be delayed at least "one or two weeks" or even a month beyond its Oct. 9 launch date because a fuel spill unglued up to 250 of its heat-protective tiles, officials said Tuesday. George Page, director of shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center, said a problem with a valve on ground equipment apparently caused the spill of a highly toxic oxidizer around the nose of the spacecraft. During the spill, which occurred during a fueling operation, two to three gallons of oxidizer soaked an area about 20 feet long and two to six feet wide, he said. Page said he hoped the heat-shield tiles suffered little or no damage and can be cleaned and reglued to the orbiter's skin on the launch pad. "In my view, we're down a week and maybe two weeks at best" if the only problem is the tile adhesive, he said. However, if the oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide, invaded the maneuvering system of the spacecraft itself, the shuttle will have to be rolled back to the huge Vehicle Assembly Building for disassembly, Page said. That could create a delay "in excess of a month," he said. A full assessment of the damage was expected to take another day or two. Sixty-seven of the silica tiles either fell off or were removed during a day-long damage assessment operation which began after the 1:15 a.m. EDT accident. Six workers wearing protective suits and helmets worked throughout the day inspecting the tiles and trying to determine how many were involved. Fumes from the spill kept unprotected workers from the pad. The accident occurred when the oxidizer was being loaded into the forward tank of the orbiter's Reaction Control System, below and to the front of the astronauts' cockpit. Since the shuttle assembly sits on its tail at the pad, the spilled oxidizer splashed downward at least 18 to 20 feet, Page said. There was no possibility of an explosion because the system's hydrazine fuel had not been loaded. No one was injured. The Reaction Control System is used for Columbia's pitch, yaw and roll maneuvers during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. The tiles are among 31,000 that make up the orbiter's insulation shield against the high temperatures of atmospheric re-entry. They are made of a silica fiber compound and individually sized, fitted and bonded onto 75 percent of the orbiter's external surface. Their silica makeup is what kept the oxidizer from eating away at them, Page said. Shuttle delay looks longer By IKE FLORES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spilled propellant that unglued nearly 300 thermal tiles on the space shuttle Columbia also leaked into the craft itself, increasing the possibility that the ship will have to undergo lengthy repairs, officials said Wednesday. Moving the ship from its pad would delay the launch "in excess of a month" beyond the scheduled Oct. 9 date, shuttle operations director George Page said. It would also be a costly setback for the shuttle program. "Project officials are deciding whether or not to roll the shuttle vehicle back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, de-mate the orbiter and move it to the Orbiter Processing Facility for repair," said a status report issued late Wednesday on the Tuesday accident. A decision on whether to move the shuttle system or do the necessary repairs at the pad is expected by Friday, Page said. Hugh Harris, a spokesman for the Kennedy Space Center, said a visual inspection in the orbiter's nose disclosed the contamination of the reactor-control system. But the extent of damage was unknown until a technician climbed into the system's pod and inspected it closely. That operation was to take place late Wednesday. The system contains a group of thrusters that control the pitch and roll of the space plane during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. "It's pretty sure that they are going to have to remove the pod," said Harris, following a one-hour telephone conference among officials and engineers of the various space centers around the country. "I don't think there's any doubt they're going to do it." He said it would be difficult to remove the 4,000-pound pod at the launch site because the orbiter is in a vertical position. But he said this decision would have to await a further conferences Thursday. If the damage is extensive, it also would be better to do the repair work with Columbia in its hangar in a horizontal position, he said. === Page 47 of 64 # Space Shuttle SF Chronicle 9/10/81 Thursday, September 10, 1981 The Seattle Times A 21 much closer to actual operations than the first mission, whose main purpose was simply to get to space and back in one piece. Green said many of the changes that have been made since the first flight were the result of relatively minor failures and shortcomings on the initial mission. As a result of the loss of several heat-resistant tiles on the front of the pod-like protuberances that carry small maneuvering rockets near the tail, higher-performance tiles have been put in their place to resist the buffeting during liftoff that knocked off and chipped the ones on the first flight. New upgraded tiles were installed in areas near the back of the maneuvering rocket pods, where higher-than-expected temperatures during re-entry caused felt and adhesive underlying tiles to split or "delaminate" before. Engineers also redesigned the fuel cells that provide electricity, and two more hydrogen and oxygen fuel tanks for the fuel cells were installed because the mission will be longer. A motor assembly that points the orbiting maneuvering engine failed in the first flight (a backup took over), so a new one has been bolted in, and many of the smaller reaction control rockets used to fine-tune the shuttle's attitude in space have been fitted with higher-performance valves. In a week or so, an auxiliary power unit whose fuel-heater failed in the first mission will get a 10-minute "hot test" on the pad. The heater loss didn't stop the unit from producing power, but NASA engineers want to make sure it works as designed. Green said the breakdowns on the first flight were extremely minor "if you look at the complexity of this vehicle. On the Apollo missions there were many, many more." The exact cost of refurbishing the Columbia has not been calculated by NASA, a spokesman said yesterday, but the workforce in June, during the peak of repair activities, was 1000 Rockwell workers and 2200 subcontractors, plus 1100 NASA and other government employees. The payroll for such a force is around $500,000 per day. Preparations for the flight continued yesterday at thunderstorm-buffeted Kennedy Space Center as Engle and Truly climbed aboard the Columbia for a final checkout. Their scheduled activities included checks of the Columbia's communications, propulsion, and in-flight guidance systems, and a mock firing and cutoff of the shuttle's main engine. Thunder and lightning sent some workers scurrying for cover, but had no effect on the 33-hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power supply problem. Richard Young, a spokesman at Kennedy Space Center, said all three ground power supply systems quit Tuesday night and engineers were baffled by the blackout. "We are still not sure of the reason for it, we probably won't know for a while," Young said. Yesterday's weather, with rain and lightning within five miles of Launch Pad 39-A, was bad enough to have delayed a real launching, Young said, but didn't alter the dress rehearsal. The next crucial test for the spacecraft, which takes off like a rocket and lands like a plane, is September 14, when supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuels will be loaded into the bullet-shaped external tank. ## NATION Compiled from news services # Columbia passes test simulating mock firing CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Computers took the space shuttle Columbia through a mock ignition and launch-pad engine failure yesterday -- one of the final tests to prepare the orbiter for its second trip into space. With Joe Engle and Richard Truly, astronauts, at the controls, computers simulated the firing of the shuttle's engines then shut them down at "T-minus-3-seconds" -- three seconds before liftoff in an actual launch. The failure of one of the Columbia's engines was programmed into the test, a Kennedy Space Center spokesman, Dick Young, said. But testing shut-down procedures wasn't the purpose of the mock launch. It was just an easy way to end the test. The purpose, he said, was to look for last-minute bugs as the Columbia's scheduled October 9 launch date looms. What problems, if any, exist won't be known until engineers study the test, Young said. But it appeared to go smoothly. The mock launch, amid real thunderstorms and lightning, was delayed shortly by problems in the computer-simulation program that "fool" the shuttle into thinking its tanks are full and its engines firing, a space-center spokesman said. The bad weather sent some workers scurrying for cover, but had no effect on the 33-hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power-supply problem. Next month's flight is the second of four test missions planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before the shuttle is declared operational and is ready to begin flying scientific payloads into space on a routine basis. === Page 48 of 64 - UFOs Shuttle PK - # Shuttle tile replacement begins CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Round-the-clock re-installation of more than 350 heat protection tiles on the space shuttle Columbia began Tuesday, with space officials hoping to replace 20 to 30 tiles a day and keep the shuttle from falling too far behind schedule. "They're hoping to get up to 30 a day," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Hugh Harris said about the tedious refitting of the tiles. "But some days, of course, they won't be able to get that many." The vulcanizing adhesive which binds the silica tiles to the aluminum "skin" of the space plane was destroyed by a corrosive propellant, nitrogen tetroxide, during a fueling mishap last Tuesday. The accident, caused by a faulty fueling valve, has delayed the shuttle's second mission, originally set for Oct. 9, by several weeks. Officials hope to announce within two weeks a new launch date, expected to be in late October or early November. The decontamination of a steering mechanism compartment in the nose of the orbiter has been completed, but 16 of 26 thermal insulation blankets must still be replaced, Harris said. Workers were awaiting arrival of more of the insulation material from a company in Downey, Calif. Some of the blankets were soaked when the propellant leaked into the steering pod, which contains thrusters used to maneuver Columbia in orbit and re-entry. Other blankets were removed as a precautionary measure. No significant damage was found in the steering system. Harris said 352 tiles of the shuttle's Thermal Protection System were removed and another eight were to be taken off to inspect their backing. Most can be reused. Engineers also have decided to drain the nitrogen tetroxide already loaded into the rear maneuvering engines of the orbiter and run the fluid through a filtering system to check for iron nitrate. An investigation revealed that the spill of two to three gallons of the propellant was caused by the formation of iron nitrate at the point where a "quick disconnect" valve attaches to a service panel on the orbiter's nose. Technicians believe the iron nitrate was formed in the fuel lines leading from the storage tank and settled at the metal fittings of the valve. But they don't know what caused the formation. All fueling valves are to be disassembled and replaced if necessary. The tile work was taking place with the shuttle poised for liftoff on its launch pad. esy 9/30/81 === Page 49 of 64 Sept. 30, 1981 # Contacts Once again I attach my 1971 predictions from the book. Please note how current events are unfolding to bear out the predictions. "Empty houses..." for instance. Building new houses is down the drain now... average new house is $88,000.00! "Companies going broke..." and massive layoffs... and they sure are. And so on. - Owens === Page 50 of 64 A LANCER ORIGINAL--NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED # WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1971 Love to my wonderful wife, Martha-sweetest woman in this world. Owens (PK Man) Will a looming national event bring joy--or sorrow--to your life? Will the war end? Does a world disaster threaten? What does the future hold for us all? America's greatest psychics reveal their astonishing predictions for what may be the most fateful year of our lives... by Brad Steiger, Warren Smith === Page 51 of 64 experimenting with a theory I had on the practical application of PK, or psychokinetic power, to nature's forces. What factors in Ted Owens' life prepared him to become a "relay station" for Space Intelligences? "I was born February 10, 1920, in Bedford, Indiana, and I was considered dumb and stupid not only by my teachers but by my own family," Owens told us. "Even then, though, they were in awe of my ESP ability. Later I was tested and found to have an IQ of 150--genius begins at 140. "I've mastered 50 professions, lived in many, many places. My life has been fantastic, with hairbreadth escapes, brawls with professional wrestlers and gangs with knives. My life has been almost as amazing as the miracles that I have brought about through the SI powers," he said. Continuing in his thumbnail personality sketch, Owens reported: "My hobbies are jazz drumming, straight pool and snooker, knife-throwing, judo, stick-fighting, photography, healing kids who need it with my secret system from the SIs, and exploring strange places." Why has Owens' life followed such a varied and unusual pattern? "All these things have been forced on me by the SI's without my knowledge," he explained. "They were training me for future work with them. The many professions were necessary in order that I might master certain mental abilities and enable the SI's to set up a two-way 'radio' with me. I'm the only psychic I know of who can cause phenomena to happen and document it. I have a 'lock' on one branch of ESP called PK, psychokinesis, and I use it all the time to create literal miracles, which can be documented. When I say that a hurricane will come up this weekend, it's a toss-up to the bystander whether I am using precognition or actually causing the hurricane to come up!" 144 In answer to our query, "What lies ahead for the United States?", Ted Owens, the PK man, the "relay station" for Space Intelligences, related the following: I only wish that it could be nice, pretty, lovely, sweet, and wholesome. But it is not. With this uncanny sixth sense that I have, which has foretold events so accurately in the past, I can see what lies ahead very plainly. Now, if you are fearful or squeamish, then these predictions are not for you. Turn to something else; escape into an adventure story or a travel commercial. Don't look. If you have nerve and are willing to accept the possibility that my ESP can indeed see ahead into the future, then read on. First let me tell you that I cannot put this into a "time frame" of exact dates. I made a series of predictions in 1967 to government agencies, lawyers, scientists, etc., which have come true, but some of the predictions took longer to happen than I thought would be the case. Time is a fooler, when it comes to predicting. Also, I am not sure of the order in which these things will occur. What I am sure of is, they will occur. There will be an accidental nuclear explosion in the U.S., which will cause havoc. I believe it will occur in the Southern Midwest. I see the White House in flames. Washington, D.C., will be a no-man's land. Militants will even poison the water reservoirs. At just about this time a brilliant young man, only about 20, will try to run for President, backed by the youth of all America. President Nixon will not end in office. Something most unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office. The U.S. wealthy will lose their riches, and I can see them shaking their heads in stunned disbelief, trying to imagine the lives ahead of them. I see empty houses every- 145 === Page 52 of 64 here, empty towns everywhere, as people who have lost their jobs and their homes wander around aimlessly. Everyone's broke. Businesses go broke. The U.S. will be virtually leaderless. The total government structure will begin to break down. Senators and congressmen will resign and quit in great numbers. As the U.S. Government breaks down completely, the Negroes will mass and grow in strength and power. They have spent a long time organizing in poverty, while the whites are just now being thrust into national poverty and are completely disorganized. Countries around the world at this point will begin to hate the whites, pointing out that the Pacific was a beautiful lovely place until the whites "civilized" it. That the Eskimo were a happy, thriving people until the whites "civilized" the North Pole area. That the Indians had a heaven in the U.S. until the whites came and brought civilization. And so on. And the countries around the world will turn their backs now, at this point in time, on the Americans in their trouble. Our military will be confused . . . general against general . . . admiral against admiral . . . and some in high authority will, in desperate frustration, try a missile attack on Russia. Russia then will blow up six to eight of our major cities, surround us with a ring of submarines (having first eliminated most or all of our own submarines) and carriers, and tell us to hold it right there or they will wipe out the U.S. completely. And the U.S. in its weak and disorganized condition will give in rather than be destroyed. Russia then will come in and remove our weapons and our best scientists and take them to Russia, leaving us in our shamed, confused, disorganized state. What it will be like in these days ahead to be living in the U.S.? There will be millions of cars just standing on the roads and streets . . . good, new cars . . . but no gas to go in them, no money to buy gas anyway or buy parts. No one to repair them, either. 146 People will be simply taking what they want, where they find it--shelter, food, etc. Death will be widespread. There will be no police, for the police will use what arms they have to take what they want when order goes and chaos reigns. There will be no newspapers, hospitals, television, radio--mass communication will no longer exist. There will be no mail, no post office department. The personnel in all of these departments and activities will be "heading for the woods" with their families to try to survive, somehow. People by the millions will be heading for the wide-open spaces to get away from the cities, which will be deadly jungles, deserted except for heavily armed gangs of killers, mostly colored. It is at this point in time that our new civil war will begin. Whites against blacks. Both races will slowly mass together, as they are able to communicate and pass the word, and killing "whitey" or "blacky" will be the order of the day, everywhere, without mercy. Other countries will be avoiding America like the plague. Canada and Mexico will have sealed their borders. Russia, meanwhile, will leave the U.S. to its misery, for America will no longer be a threat to Russian efforts at global supremacy. The weak and the old and the very young in the U.S., will perish during these terrible times, leaving only the strongest, the meanest, and the most resourceful. Then . . . the Asian race will come, streaming across the Alaskan Straits down into the U.S., and occupy it. They will take over Canada as well. Finally, they will take over Mexico, and this entire continent will be occupied by the Asian peoples. P.S. Our only hope of escaping this fate is to receive help from the UFOs, which are making friendly overtures to us now. 147 === Page 53 of 64 UFOs 6 Projects === Page 54 of 64 - UFO 6 Projects - S.F. Chronicle 9/10/81 # Manhattan in 'Bedlam' With Traffic Jams, Subway Delays New York An explosion and fire at a power generating station knocked out electricity in much of lower Manhattan for four hours yesterday, trapping office workers in elevators, snarling traffic, closing financial markets and creating chaos for homebound commuters. Traffic lights went out, telephones operated on emergency power and cars jammed intersections. City workers were stationed at busy corners, and some private citizens stepped in to direct traffic in the giant tie-ups. ## RUSH-HOUR BLACKOUT IN MANHATTAN From Page 1 restored to all areas four hours later. Paul Cohen, a Traffic Department worker at a downtown intersection, said that with street signals out, "people just do what they want. It's bedlam over here. There are a lot of tempers." "I've been sitting here for about one hour," said Rolando Reys as he listened to the radio in his idling sports car at Broadway and Chambers Street at about 6 p.m. Flashlights and candles lighted darkened stairwells for workers trapped in skyscrapers. Many people were drinking beer on the street. But many bars were closed because electric cash registers would not work. Telephones were switched to emergency power, but dial tones were slow in coming. Lines at downtown phone booths stretched 20 deep. Subways, with their signal lights affected, slowed to a crawl. Bus stops were jammed with displaced subway riders. Before power was restored, Lawrence Kleinman, a Con Edison spokesman, said there was no chance of the kind of problem that had blacked out the whole city in the past. "The problem is contained within the area that has been affected," he said. All police in lower Manhattan precincts were held on overtime, and officers from other boroughs were sent to Manhattan. Twenty hook-and-ladder trucks went to the rescue of those who were trapped. Mayor Edward Koch said at a news conference that the city was bearing up well under the problem, which affected only southwestern Manhattan. John Mulligan, a Fire Department spokesman, said there were widespread reports of people trapped in elevators. He said officials at Macy's at Herald Square said the department store's emergency lights had failed. Ellen Weiman of the city's Emergency Medical Service said three people were being treated for minor injuries at Macy's. At the power station, where the fire burned for 2½ hours, Deputy Fire Chief John Fogarty said, "We're not sure what caused the explosion or explosions. "But the explosion caused the transformer to burst its seams, spilling some of the 3000 gallons of lubricating oil that cools the transformer," he said. "That created a percolator effect. As the oil outside burned, more oil leaked out, feeding the fire." The city and much of the Northeast experienced a massive, overnight blackout on Nov. 9, 1965. Another major blackout, which lasted 25 hours, hit the city and Westchester County to the north July 13, 1977. Payton Shaw said he was walking past the power plant when the first of two explosions rocked the area. "The force of that explosion was enough to violently shake the car," he said. Brooklyn-bound lanes on the Brooklyn Bridge were closed to traffic for a while as thousands of workers trekked across in a scene reminiscent of the transit strike in April 1980. Angry motorists confronted police, and officer Ron Antoci said traffic was rerouted "after people just flooded across." The Transit Authority said all subway signals between Times Square and the southern tip of Manhattan were disrupted, and that there were delays on all lines in both directions. Officials said the delays would persist until the situation was resolved. Power was out at the New York and American Stock Exchanges, City Hall and the Board of Elections. But other office workers said they still had lights. Con Ed's Kleinman said early reports indicated that 52,150 customers -- ranging from small grocery stores to skyscrapers -- were affected. The 41-story headquarters of New York Telephone Co. at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue was blacked out. Spokesman Tony Pappas said emergency power for telephones was turned on from 42nd Street south. Associated Press === Page 55 of 64 HARLEM City College of N.Y. 125th UPPER WEST SIDE Elevated West Side Broadway Columbia University SPANISH HARLEM Central Park North 110th Guggenheim Museum UPPER EAST SIDE Metropolitan Museum of Art UPTOWN MANHATTAN American Museum of Natural History Lincoln Center 59th Carnegie Hall THEATRE DISTRICT Times Square GARMENT CENTER Empire State Building MIDTOWN Rockefeller Center 42d 34th Con Ed Plant The United Nations GREENWICH VILLAGE NOHO LOWER EAST SIDE SOHO LITTLE ITALY World Trade Center CHINATOWN FINANCIAL DISTRICT Battery Park Crowds gathered outside the Consolidated Edison generating plant (above) to watch firefighters battle the blaze that caused the blackout; in map (at left) shaded areas show where electricity was knocked out - UFOs & Projects - Turkish jet crash kills 2 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A Turkish air force F-4 Phantom fighter preparing for NATO exercises crashed Wednesday about 70 miles from Istanbul, killing its two pilots and injuring a soldier on the ground, officials said. It was the second crash in the area and the fourth involving a NATO plane in Europe in two days. On Tuesday an F-5 Turkish jet fighter slammed into a bivouacked infantry company preparing for a NATO exercise, killing 40 soldiers and injuring 67, officials said. Another NATO jet, an A-10, crashed south of Florence, Italy, Tuesday but the American pilot bailed out safely. A Belgian air force Mirage exploded above a factory 80 miles east of Brussels near the German border Tuesday, killing the pilot. All four incidents are under investigation. Military officials said the plane in the latest Turkish crash was taking part in preparations for the coming NATO exercises in western Turkey. oreg 9/24/81 - UFOs & Projects - Toll heavy in typhoon PEKING (AP) - Typhoon Clara caused heavy loss of life and damaged almost 82,000 acres of rice and sugar cane when it swept across southern Fujian province opposite Taiwan this week, the Guangming Daily reported. The newspaper report did not say how many people died when the typhoon struck last Monday night. It said the damage was heaviest in Nanjing, Ping-he, Zhangpu and Yunxiao counties where more than 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. In the Philippines, meanwhile, search teams recovered nine more bodies from the sea, raising to 49 the number of sailors killed when Typhoon Clara hurled a Philippine navy destroyer escort ashore on Calayan Island. oreg 9/26/81 === Page 56 of 64 Florida has second fatal shark attack ANNA MARIA, Fla. (AP) -- A man who bet a beer that he could swim three miles to a Gulf Coast island is the second person to die after a shark attack in Florida waters this year, officials say. Manatee County authorities said Mark Meeker, 26, a Tampa bartender, drowned after a shark took an eight-inch piece out of his right leg. Six weeks ago, a secretary died off the Atlantic Coast after being attacked by a shark. Meeker disappeared Tuesday afternoon after diving off Anna Maria City Pier in an attempt to swim to Egmont Key, three miles across choppy waters and strong tidal currents in the mouth of Tampa Bay. His body was found Wednesday morning, the drawstring of his bathing suit wrapped tightly around his right thigh as a make-shift tourniquet. Authorities said he drowned after either going into shock or becoming exhausted. Dr. Stephen Pelham, Manatee's medical examiner, said Friday that Meeker's wound was the result of a shark attack. "The marks are consistent with a shark bite," he said. Since sharks have several rows of teeth, a wound left by a shark will generally show other cuts above and below the bite. Meeker's leg had such cuts, he said. Manatee sheriff's deputy Mark Rominger said Meeker, Meeker's girl friend, Angie Tucker, and several other friends were on the pier on the south side of Tampa Bay when the bet was made. Rominger said the friends told him they became worried when they lost sight of Meeker after he was just a few hundred yards out. Shark's victim to swim again MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. (UPI) -- James Smodell, the 12th victim of a shark attack in Florida waters this year, vowed Monday to get back in the water as soon as doctors remove the 40 stitches used to close a wound on his right hand. Smodell, 19, was surfing with a friend about 200 yards offshore Sunday when his unseen attacker hit. There was a big splash and Smodell pulled his mangled hand from the water. "It was a feeling I'll never forget, I'll tell you that," Smodell said. "I just jerked my hand up and tried to keep it out of the water. It was bleeding real bad as I paddled in." Experts say the number of shark attacks and reported sightings is up this year but they do not know why. Two people have died as a result of the attacks. "Maybe the fish they are feeding on are in closer to shore," said Frank Murru, curator of fishes at Sea World. "At this time of year they are usually feeding on mullet." Smodell said he and his surfing partner had seen mullet schooling through the area prior to the attack, and on Saturday had spotted several sharks about five feet long. "They usually just leave you alone," he said. "We've seen more out there this year chasing small fish." Both victims who died from attacks apparently bled to death. Christy Wapniarski, 19, was attacked Aug. 14 while swimming to shore from a capsized catamaran with three other people. Her boyfriend, who couldn't bring her in, said it appeared the shark bit her thigh. Her body hasn't been recovered. Mark Meeker, 26, died Sept. 19 after being attacked while trying to swim Tampa Bay on a bet. The Manatee County medical examiner said the cause of death was bleeding from an eight-inch-wide gash in his right calf -- an injury consistent with a shark bite. Greg 9/29/81 - UFO & Projects - newsbreak 2nd Turkish jet crashes A Turkish air force jet crashed near the village of Alpullu Wednesday during military maneuvers, killing both crewmen. It was the second fighter plane to crash in as many days during the autumn exercises by troops gathered for the forthcoming NATO maneuvers. Greg 9/23/81 9-10-81 Seat. Times Target date set for power plant's return PASCO -- (AP) -- Officials of the South Columbia Basin Irrigation District say they expect to have the Russell D. Smith power plant back on line before the end of the month. The 6.1-megawatt generating plant is the nation's first low-head hydro plant to be constructed in an irrigation canal. It began producing power in early August, but was knocked out of service two weeks ago when a thrust bearing failed. - UFO & Projects - - UFO & Projects - Air crash kills 4 ALBSTADT, West Germany (AP) -- A West German army helicopter and a U.S. military aircraft collided in flight Thursday during NATO exercises, killing two American and two German servicemen, authorities said. The four bodies were found in the wreckage of an Alouette II helicopter and a propeller-driven "OV 10 Bravo" reconnaissance plane in southwest Germany, a German army spokesman said. He said the identities of the victims were not immediately available and that the cause of the collision was under investigation. The collision took place near the town of Albstadt-Ebingen, some 40 miles south of Stuttgart on the northeastern edge of the Black Forest. Greg 9/18/81 - UFO & Projects - Missiles overturn ALSFELD, West Germany (AP) -- A U.S. Army truck carrying three missiles overturned, seriously injuring two Americans and clogging traffic on a busy autobahn for 10 hours, an army spokesman said Saturday. The accident occurred Friday night on the Frankfurt-Kassel highway as the truck was pulling into a rest area. "There was never any danger of the missiles exploding, as technical safeguards prevent this in instances other than actual launch," an army statement said. Greg 9/20/81 - UFO & Projects - Texas to get aid WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan Tuesday declared Texas a major disaster area as a result of severe storms and flooding that began Aug. 30. Reagan's action makes federal funds available for relief and recovery efforts in designated areas of the state. Greg 9/23/81 === Page 57 of 64 Crash of C-130 leaves 7 dead - UFOs & Projects - oreg 9/22/81 INDIAN SPRINGS AIR FIELD, Nev. (AP) -- An Air Force C-130 transport plane carrying Army troops on a nighttime training mission crash-landed and burned early Monday as it approached a darkened desert air strip, killing seven soldiers and hospitalizing 20 others. The four engine turbo-prop was carrying 68 people, including nine crew members, when it hit the desert floor and skidded before bursting into flames about three-quarters of a mile short of the runway at Indian Springs at 12:20 a.m. "The sky was aglow, the plane was totally engulfed in flames," said Jessica Hilt, 25, a helicopter rescue nurse who flew to the scene. "There were a lot of men with arm and leg fractures. It was miraculous that there were no more serious injuries." Several Air Force sources said the runway lights at the remote landing strip about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas were shut off as part of the training mission, but Air Force officials refused to directly confirm or deny the report. "The aircraft was illuminating its own landing, that's all I can say," said Lt. Col. Mike Wallace, an Air Force public information officer. "We were using standard night operating tactics, and I'm not at liberty to discuss those tactics." The names of those killed were not immediately released, but Wallace said he believed they were all Army personnel. A Nellis Air Force Base spokesman said none of the 20 hospitalized was in critical condition, although some injuries were "orthopedic," such as broken arms or legs. At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said President Reagan had been informed of the crash and "expressed regret" at the loss of life. Wallace said the plane hit short of the runway, skidded and ruptured its fuel lines, starting what he said was a small fire which normally develops in that type of crash. But, he added, the blaze reached smoke grenades and flares used on the mission and quickly developed into "an extremely hot fire." The C-130 was attached to the 463rd Tactical Airlift Wing at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas. The plane was taking part in a training exercise involving the Army's 9th Infantry Division from Ft. Lewis, Wash., to simulate Air Force-Army airlift operations in combat conditions. - UFOs & Projects - Search called off NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A search for three men missing after their Navy helicopter crashed at sea has been called off, but two of the three survivors were already back on duty Monday. The survivors were rescued from the water a half-hour after their SH-3 Sea King crashed at 10:15 a.m. Sunday 360 miles off Virginia while on a routine flight off the aircraft carrier Forrestal. The search for the missing crewmen was called off shortly after nightfall Sunday after the carrier and aircraft had covered the area, according to Cmdr. Jim Lois, spokesman for Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet here. oreg 9/15/81 - UFOs & Projects - Big fires tamed; more started All major forest fires in Oregon were reported controlled Thursday night, although lightning storms ignited at least 85 smaller fires during the day. In Washington's Olympic National Park, a 500-acre fire was burning out of control as firefighters hoped for some help from the weather. The Tin Pan Peak fire -- which had consumed a trailer home, a barn and a shed Tuesday night after covering 2,350 acres. About 200 firefighters were mopping up and watching hot spots in the Rock Point area Thursday night, the Jackson County sheriff's office reported. Richard Scowden, age unknown, an employee of Jackson County Fire District 5, was struck by a falling snag about 3 a.m. Thursday and was admitted to Providence Hospital in Medford. Scowden was "under observation," but his injuries were not considered serious, said Linda Gabrielson, information officer for the state Department of Forestry. Another firefighter was treated for minor burns. Oregon forestry officials have estimated the cost of fighting the Tin Pan Peak fire on private and federal land would be at least $408,842, Ms. Gabrielson said. No estimate of loss to homes and timber was available. The Hull Lane fire, 10 miles north of La Grande, was controlled at 6 a.m. Thursday after burning 850 acres. Lightning storms in southwest and central Oregon sparked 11 small fires on the Rogue River, four in the Mount Hood National Forest, 20 fires in the Deschutes National Forest and 20 in the Fremont and Malheur national forests, said Mike Gouette, a U.S. Forest Service regional assistant coordinator. "We're up to our ears in lightning fires," Gouette said, adding that none of the fires was more than 10 acres and none posed an immediate threat to expanded. More lightning strikes were expected throughout the night, he said. In Washington, Forest Service crews and helicopters were fighting a 500-acre fire deep in the heart of the Olympic National Park, about 30 miles south of Port Angeles. Don Jackson, assistant park superintendent, said the fire was believed to have been caused by lightning about 10 days ago but blew up Wednesday afternoon. The fire was burning in a scenic area at about the 5,000-foot level between Godkin Creek and Buckingham Creek on the Elwha River. About 30 men were on the fire lines, aided by three helicopters and a fixed-wing plane that was scooping water from a nearby lake and dumping it on hot spots, Jackson said. The Washington Department of Natural Resources rescinded, effective early Friday, orders that had closed the forests on the west side of the state from Canada to Oregon, in view of forecasts of clouds and possible showers. In Oregon, however, the U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Forestry reported that fire danger remained from very high to extreme, especially in the southern part of the state. oreg 9/18/81 - UFOs & Projects - Navy copter loss takes three lives NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) -- The USS Forrestal searched the Atlantic Monday for three Navy crewmen missing after their anti-submarine and rescue helicopter crashed. Three other men were rescued. It was the fifth aircraft carrier mishap this year. The Navy said it had no explanation why the SH-3 Sea King helicopter went down in "near perfect" weather early Sunday about 360 miles east of the Virginia coast as it returned from a routine mission of providing security for Forrestal jets on takeoff. The crash occurred 3 to 5 miles from the Forrestal. "According to reports, no one ... observed the impact and no one heard a mayday or distress call," said Navy spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. Jim Lois. Lois described the SH-3 Sea King as "the most doggone reliable plane I've ever flown." The helicopter was attached to Anti-Submarine Squadron Three out of Mayport, Fla. Among the missing are Cmdr. Paul Lawrence Nelson of Jacksonville, Fla., one of the helicopter's two pilots and squadron commander. Identities of the other two missing men were not available early Monday. The three rescued crew members were reported in "good, stable condition." One was treated at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital for swallowing seawater and aviation fuel. oreg 9/14/81 === Page 58 of 64 80 new blazes # Lightning sparks Oregon fires Firefighters were aided by cooler weather and rain showers Friday as they faced about 80 new forest and range fires sparked by overnight lightning storms that struck from the Oregon-California border to the Columbia Gorge. Meanwhile, a 500-acre fire continued to burn uncontained in Washington's Olympic National Park but light showers kept the fire from spreading. The new Oregon fires included a 180-acre blaze in old-growth timber on the east flank of Black Butte, about 10 miles northwest of Sisters, according to the U.S. Forest Service. About 100 firefighters were fighting that fire Friday night. It was one of more than 50 sparked by lightning in Central Oregon's Deschutes National Forest, said Hubert Mapes, night fire coordinator for the Forest Service. The firefighters were helped by clouds and fog in the area, and a chance of showers was forecast for Saturday, Mapes said. The other fires were smaller, said Mike Gouette, assistant regional coordinator. No estimate of a containment or control time was made for the Black Butte fire, which did not threaten any homes. Forest Service crews also were unable to estimate a time of containment for another blaze that had burned about 100 acres some 20 miles south of Silver Lake. That fire was one of about 20 reported in Fremont National Forest, Gouette said. Several smaller fires were controlled or contained Friday in Willamette, Rogue River and Mount Hood national forests. The Oregon Department of Forestry reported 34 small fires in the Sisters, Bend and La Pine areas and four others in Klamath and Lake counties, but only one more than one acre. Spokeswoman Linda Gabrielson said about 100 firefighters had completed fire lines around a 100-acre fire near Foster Butte in Lake County. It was burning in logging slash. No estimated time of control was available, she said. Another earlier fire that was started by a truck accident on Interstate 5 burned more than 35 acres near Sexton Mountain, about 12 miles north of Grants Pass. It was controlled at 10 p.m. Thursday, Ms. Gabrielson said. About 20 miles to the southeast, fire crews continued to mop up after the Tin Pan Peak Fire, which burned 2,350 acres before crews controlled it Thursday night. Ms. Gabrielson said that fire, which burned a mobile home, a car and a barn, was caused by a discarded cigarette. About 1 p.m., crews controlled a 400-acre brush fire caused by lightning about 40 miles northeast of Lakeview, said Don Smurthwaite, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. BLM crews had extinguished a half-dozen other small fires by Friday, he said. Fire danger remained high in southern and eastern Oregon, and little precipitation was expected in the dry areas Saturday, Ms. Gabrielson said. Only a steady rain over a period of time would lower the fire danger, she said. Portland received 0.15 of an inch of rain as of 8 p.m. Friday, equaling the total rainfall in Portland for August, the National Weather Service reported. Partly cloudy weather was forecast for Saturday and Sunday after morning clouds, with a 20 percent chance of rain Saturday. Rain pelted the Oregon Coast and winds gusted to 50 mph in the Columbia River basin Friday night. oreg 9/19/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Storms ravage Southeast; 5 dead By United Press International Showers and thunderstorms moved from the central Gulf Coast Wednesday and up the Atlantic Seaboard. Rain-slick highways in Maryland and Alabama caused traffic accidents that killed five people and injured 23 others Tuesday. A cool Canadian air mass moved into the Plains region and parts of the Midwest Wednesday -- dropping some early morning temperatures to near 40 degrees. Illinois, Indiana and Michigan reported lows ranging in the mid-40s to low 50s. A frost warning was posted late Tuesday in North Dakota, where temperatures were expected to drop into the low to mid-30s. Severe thunderstorms in the Richmond, Va., area late Tuesday knocked out electrical power to about 5,600 residents. The Virginia Electric and Power Co. said service was restored early Wednesday to most of the customers. oreg 9/16/81 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Record chill hits Michigan United Press International Frost dusted parts of northern Michigan early Monday, setting record-low temperatures accompanied by frost warnings in the unseasonably early chill. In Sault St. Marie, Mich., a record low 30 degrees was recorded just before midnight, breaking a 1956 record set at a low 31 degrees. The thermometer rose 1 degree to 32 in the early morning hours. Thunderstorms were scattered over southern Florida into the early morning and storms and rainshowers were reported over Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. Rain also doused areas from the Nebraska Panhandle and Colorado across the northern Rockies and over the northern Pacific Coast. Showers along the Pacific Coast were accompanied by winds in excess of 40 mph, but no damages or injuries were reported. Record cold temperatures stung more than two dozen cities from South Texas to the southern Atlantic Coast Sunday. Cold northwest winds of 50 mph whipped through Rapid City, S.D., and temperatures in the 30s were scattered from the northern Great Lakes to the Rockies. The mercury plunged to 29 degrees at Hibbing, Minn., the nation's cold spot. Temperatures dipped into the 40s and 50s for the third consecutive day in the Deep South. Record lows were set in 27 cities across the nation and cool weather hung over much of the eastern part of the country. oreg 9/21/81 === Page 59 of 64 Man swims on a bet, dies after shark attack ANNA MARIA, Fla. (AP) -- A man who bet a beer that he could swim three miles to a Gulf Coast island is the second person to die after a shark attack in Florida waters this year, officials say. Manatee County authorities said Mark Meeker, 26, a Tampa bartender, drowned after a shark took an 8-inch piece out of his right leg. Six weeks ago, a secretary died off the Atlantic Coast after being attacked by a shark. Meeker disappeared Tuesday afternoon after diving off Anna Maria City Pier in an attempt to swim to Egmont Key, three miles across choppy waters and strong tidal currents in the mouth of Tampa Bay. His body was found Wednesday morning, the drawstring of his bathing suit wrapped tightly around his right thigh as a make-shift tourniquet. Authorities said he drowned after either going into shock or becoming exhausted. Dr. Stephen Pelham, Manatee County medical examiner, said Friday that Meeker's wound was the result of a shark attack. "The marks are consistent with a shark bite," he said. Since sharks have several rows of teeth, a wound left by a shark will generally show other cuts above and below the bite. Meeker's leg had such cuts, he said. Sheriff's deputy Mark Rominger said Meeker, Meeker's girlfriend, Angie Tucker, and several other friends were on the pier on the south side of Tampa Bay when the bet was made. Rominger said the friends told him they became worried when they lost sight of Meeker after he was just a few hundred yards out. After trying to get a boat to go after him themselves, they alerted the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard used a helicopter and three vessels that evening but gave up the search at nightfall. The skipper of the private fishing boat Sea Jeep spotted the body the next morning. Aug. 10, Christy Wapniarski died after being attacked by a shark while struggling to reach shore a few miles off Daytona Beach. Miss Wapniarski, 19, was attacked while trying to swim to shore from a capsized sailboat. She died after a shark took a large bite out of her leg. Lightning sets new Oregon fires By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer A moderately intense lightning storm moved across Southern Oregon and Northern California to set a series of small forest fires Wednesday night and further plague fire crews that have been battling the area since the weekend. "We haven't had rain in more than 70 days and every strike ignited something," said a dispatcher for the Rogue River National Forest. His remark was echoed by dispatchers for the Siskiyou and Klamath National Forests. Dispatchers added that because of the number of crews already in the area, none of the lightning-set fires appeared to be of major status. A forest fire on state and private land that threatened several homes between Rogue River and Gold Hill was trailed near noon Wednesday, but there is still no estimate for a time of control. Ralph C. Voris Jr., Oregon Forestry Department information assistant, said the blaze, known as the Tin Pan Peak fire, has cost $265,000 so far in suppression efforts. No damage figure has been set, but the fire burned a trailer home, some outbuildings and a car and slightly damaged six residences. Voris said about 200 firefighters remained on the line and that five tankers, 12 pumpers and three bulldozers still were committed. Cause of the fire has not been determined, but it began near the road close to Valley of the Rogue State Park. John Boro, an investigator for the state Department of Forestry, said the Mount Harris fire, which blackened 850 acres of private timber and grass lands 10 miles north of La Grande, was caused by a careless smoker. Boro said his investigation indicated an ashtray dumped from a vehicle along Mount Harris Road provided the embers to light the fire. No estimate of a control time has been made, but a trail was bulldozed around the fire late Wednesday. Six new man-caused fires were reported across Oregon Wednesday. Three were in the Astoria area, two in Southwestern Oregon and one in Eastern Oregon. All were brought under control. Aircraft made several water drops Wednesday on a small forest fire burning on a ridge in the Olympic National Park in Washington. The fire was sighted by the crew of a Forest Service reconnaissance plane about 40 miles south of Port Angeles. 3 lost in crash of Navy copter NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Three men were missing and presumed dead after an SH-3 Sea King helicopter with six men aboard crashed 350 miles east of the Virginia coast yesterday, the Navy said. Three of the crewmen were rescued about 25 minutes after the crash, and were reported in stable condition. Cmdr. Jim Lois, spokesman for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force, said no distress message was received from the helicopter before the crash and that no one observed the impact. The helicopter, attached to Naval Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron 3 based in Mayport, Fla., was flying a routine mission off the aircraft carrier Forrestal, which is returning to its home port in Mayport after a seven-month Mediterranean deployment. Other aircraft began a search after the helicopter was reported overdue, Lois said. Lois said a helicopter crew pulled the survivors from the ocean, and returned them to the Forrestal. Two of the survivors were being treated aboard the carrier. The third was flown to the Norfolk Naval Air Station, then transferred to the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, where he was listed in fair condition last night. The spokesman said he had swallowed sea water and possibly some aviation fuel. The names of the missing and injured were withheld until relatives could be notified. Fire hits U.S. carrier; crew escapes injury TOKYO (UPI) -- A U.S. aircraft carrier operating in the Indian Ocean caught fire but no one was injured, the U.S. Navy announced Thursday. A spokesman for the Yokosuka-based 7th Fleet said the fire broke out Wednesday evening aboard the 60,300-ton USS America but that firefighters put out the flames before anyone was hurt. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The fire apparently did not impair the ship's operation. The America "remained capable of performing her mission" after the fire, the spokesman said. The Navy also said a SH-3 Sikorsky helicopter from the America crashed in the Indian Ocean but all four crewmen aboard were rescued safely. The cause of the incident was not immediately known. === Page 60 of 64 THE FAR SIDE / GARY LARSON I daresay there's a woman in Grass Valley who believes in UFO's U.S. needs a Malraux By PETE HAMILL NEW YORK -- In the heady days before the fall, Richard Nixon once confided to an interviewer that his favorite world statesman was Charles de Gaulle. He and de Gaulle, Nixon said, were very much alike. Among many distinctions evident at the time, however, one was crucial. De Gaulle's most intimate adviser was a great writer named Andre Malraux, author of "Man's Fate" and "The Voices of Silence." Nixon's principal adviser at the time was H.R. Haldeman, whose major literary effort had been the production of advertising copy for Black Flag insect spray. I thought about Malraux and Haldeman the other day while reading the testimony of E.L. Doctorow before the House Interior appropriations subcommittee, which was examining proposed cuts in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Doctorow is, of course, one of this country's finest writers. In his testimony, Doctorow tried to make clear that art is as important to a nation as guns. That is a difficult message to deliver to the gaggle of second-rate lawyers and slumming businessmen who so often make up our governments. But I will quote from Doctorow's words at length, because they got lost in all the hardfisted blather that issued from the supply-side seminaries during the budget discussion. To me, they are about nothing less than a vision of America. "I cannot avoid the feeling that it is senseless for me to testify here," Doctorow said. "People everywhere have been put in the position of fighting piecemeal for this or that social program while the assault against all of them proceeds across a broad front. The truth is, if you're going to take away the lunches of schoolchildren, the pensions of miners who've contracted black lung, the storefront legal services of the poor who are otherwise stunned into insensibility by the magnitude of their troubles, you might as well get rid of poets, artists and musicians. "I am waiting for a rising sound of protest from the halls of Congress, but I have not yet heard declared what we all know to be true -- that the so-called economic policy issuing from its government, for all its supply-side jargon and budgetary pieties, is a simple, undeniable eviction procedure, a brutal eviction not only of widows and children but all citizens except the already privileged, all interests except those of wealth and business. "And so in my testimony for this small program I am aware of the larger picture and, really, it stuns me. What I see in this picture is a kind of Sovietizing of American life, guns before butter, the plating of the nation with armaments, the sacrifice of everything in our search for ultimate security. "We shall become an immense armory. But inside this armory there will be nothing. Not a people but an emptiness. We shall be an armory around nothingness, and our true strength and security and the envy of the world -- the passion and independent striving of a busy, working and dreaming population committed to fair play and the struggle for some sort of real justice and community -- will be no more." I'm certain that this would be a better country if a man like Doctorow had regular access to a man like Ronald Reagan. Someone in the White House should speak for a human vision, for poetry, for social complexity, for life instead of death. Pete Hamill is a syndicated columnist. org 9/18/81 © 1981, Pete Hamill * Same can be said for the Powers and allies of PK man. Owens. Note: From the above will come a U.S. revolution unless Russia puts us out of our misery first. Owens UFOs & Projects Texas, Midwest Storms pound United Press International A cold front moved thunderstorms from central Texas through the Mississippi Valley and parts of the Ohio Valley on Tuesday. Tornadoes touched in Nebraska, Texas and Indiana but no injuries were reported. In Texas, a thunderstorm accompanied by sharp bolts of lightning crashed through the Dallas area, dumping almost an inch of rain at the Love Field airport. Blustery winds also caused some damage to airplanes. The storms were part of a system that moved across sections of west and north Texas late Sunday. oreg 9/15/81 === Page 61 of 64 Associated Press Laserphoto MISSILE MISHAP -- A U.S. Army missile launcher crashed through a guard rail on the Autobahn near Asslar, West Germany, during a training exercise. The vehicle, carrying an inert dummy round, plunged past two ramps headfirst to the ground, injuring five, when the steering failed. - UFOs & Projects - oreg 9/23/81 # The world - UFOs & Projects - ## Jet hits soldiers ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A Turkish air force jet fighter crashed and exploded Tuesday in a bivouac area prepared for a NATO exercise and reporters at the scene said at least 100 Turkish soldiers were feared killed. Military sources said 26 bodies were counted, but they expected the toll to rise because a fuel dump was reported hit by the plane. Hospital sources said more than 100 soldiers, including dead and injured, were flown to Istanbul by helicopter from the crash site, near Babaeski, about 30 miles from the Greek border and 70 miles northwest of Istanbul. The Turkish military imposed a news blackout after initial reports that the jet that crashed was an F-104 and that at least 100 soldiers were killed. Turkey's military ruler, Gen. Kenan Evren, announced over state radio later that an F-5 crashed, and that there were "several casualties." - UFOs & Projects - ## Belgian pilot killed BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A Mirage jet fighter of the Belgian air force exploded Tuesday over a factory in eastern Belgium and crashed into a field near the German border, killing the pilot, police reported. They said the aircraft exploded near Welkenraedt, about 80 miles east of Brussels, and the cause of the explosion was not immediately known. A police spokesman said the cockpit of the French-built aircraft fell onto a factory building and the fuselage crashed into a field nearby, but they caused no injuries. Associated Press Laserphoto COPTER CRASH -- Unidentified investigator examines wreckage of NASA helicopter that crashed onto freeway 10 miles from San Jose, Calif., Friday, severing power lines and causing grassfire. Power to 23,000 homes was cut off. Crew member David Barth, 35, of Mountain View was killed, and the other occupant, Richard Ritter 34, of Cupertino, was listed in critical condition. oreg 9/12/81 === Page 62 of 64 Damp weather helps Northwest fire crews Wet, cool weather this weekend put a damper on scores of Northwest forest and range fires, including a Colville Indian Reservation blaze that burned about 5,000 to 6,000 acres in northeastern Washington. The reservation fire, about five miles east of Omak, was expected to be contained by Sunday morning, said Donna Cox, a U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs fire dispatcher. Crews had built a fire line around three-fourths of the grass and brush fire by early Saturday night, she said. Rain Friday night and calm weather Saturday "slowed it down really good," Mrs. Cox said. The fire was expected to be controlled by 10 a.m. Sunday, she said. First reported Friday afternoon as a 5-acre hayfield fire, the blaze spread rapidly as winds gusted to 30 mph. She said earlier reports to the BIA that the fire had burned 14,000 acres "come from a rural fire department that had its figures wrong." Pat Quill, a BIA fire control officer, said the fire apparently was sparked by a hay baler working in a hot, dry field. Campers in three mobile homes in the path of the fire were evacuated safely, and no injuries were reported among the 250 firefighters battling the blaze. Eleven firefighters were at the scene of a 500-acre Olympic National Park fire Saturday in northwestern Washington, while 20 U.S. Forest Service firefighters were rerouted and sent to the Colville fire, according to park ranger Woody Jones. The flames were still uncontained, but humid weather and temperatures in the lower 40s Saturday "put the fire in check," Jones said. Near freezing overnight temperatures were being forecast. "Looks like we got her now," he said. A fire is contained when it is surrounded by a line and its spread stopped and controlled when crews begin extinguishing it. The fire apparently was started by lightning more than a week ago, but it smoldered for days before spreading across the ridges of hemlock and fir. The eastern side of the fire, which was on a ridge with a 1,500-foot drop, remained a trouble spot because of the danger to the firefighters, Jones said. Another large fire had burned at least 1,000 acres and was out of control on steep, rocky terrain in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest some 45 miles northwest of Redding in Northern California. About 150 firefighters were trying to contain it. Oregon firefighters contained the 210-acre Black Butte fire near Sisters by 6 p.m. Saturday, said Hubert Mapes, night fire coordinator for the Forest Service. Crews hoped to have it controlled by 6 p.m. Sunday, Mapes said. About 500 persons were dispatched to fight that fire, which was burning on the wooded east flank of the butte. The 35-acre Gunsight fire, also near Sisters in the Deschutes National Forest, was controlled Friday night. Forest Service officials said lightning storms sparked 146 Oregon fires -- mostly small ones -- and 240 in Washington Friday night. However, the humid weather aided in controlling many of them. Don Smurthwaite, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman, said crews extinguished several small fires on BLM land and controlled a 400-acre fire Friday. He said the Plush fire was controlled about 1 p.m. Friday after it burned some 400 acres of brush 40 miles northeast of Lakeview. oreg 9/20/81 Social chaos could result, panel warns By WARREN BROWN LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- A government advisory panel warned Sunday that President Reagan's economic policies will result in fewer jobs, greater welfare dependency and a higher crime rate "that could lead to social chaos." The exceptionally sharp criticism was made in the final report of the 15-member National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, a congressionally created body whose members are presidential appointees. The 14-year-old council is to be abolished under the Reagan administration. Adding to the sting of the council's parting shot was a separate statement by its chairman, Arthur I. Blaustein, who accused the administration of "separating economic theory from social policy and pursuing the former at the expense of the latter...." "There is a price to be paid for the reduction of human and social services," Blaustein said. "That price is that these cutbacks will not reduce crime; they will increase it. They will not promote better family life; they will destabilize it. They will not increase respect for the law; they will weaken it." The council chairman said that Oct. 1, when the administration's $35 billion cuts in social and other federal spending take effect, "will be remembered as a day of infamy, for it will mark the worst massacre of social and human service programs in American history." oreg 9/21/81 B8 8/12/81 THE OREGONIAN, WE Radar balloon breaks away -- UFOs 6 Projects oreg WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 180-foot-long Air Force balloon that normally uses radar to watch for low-flying aircraft intruding into U.S. airspace has come down in the Gulf of Mexico after breaking away from its tether Monday night, Air Force officials said Tuesday. The unmanned balloon, called Seek Skyhook, snapped the 12,000-foot-long cable connecting it to 8/12/81. Cudjoe Key Air Force Station, Fla., and drifted some 65 miles west of Key West, officials said. They reported the Coast Guard was en route to recover it from the water. Air Force specialists describe the balloon as a radar early warning craft using "low-cost surveillance radar" to watch for low-flying aircraft that might be heading for the southeastern United States from the direction of Cuba. They said reports that the balloon carries equipment used for eavesdropping electronically on Cuba were incorrect. The loss of the balloon, they said, reduces somewhat the radar surveillance coverage, but they said land-based radar sites at Key West and Richmond, Fla. are able to watch over the area. === Page 63 of 64 Rust afflicts reactor heat exchangers By MATTHEW L. WALD New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- A major component of Consolidated Edison Co.'s 8-year-old Indian Point 2 nuclear plant is corroding far faster than originally expected, and the utility fears the plant may have to be shut down for a full year for repairs costing $100 million. The problem, involving rust in a bundle of tubing called a steam generator, also affects 16 other reactors around the country. Four of them have been shut down for the protracted, expensive repairs, and another is scheduled to shut down soon. Steam generators are designed to last for the 40-year life of a nuclear plant, but Con Edison estimates that repair at the 873-megawatt plant may be necessary sooner, possibly as little as four years from now. Rusting has also been found in the twin Indian Point 3 plant, which is 5 years old and produces 965 megawatts, but that plant's operator, the Power Authority of the State of New York, is making no predictions about it. Besides the repair costs, which will increase with inflation, shutting down the nuclear plant would force the utility to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the electricity that would be lost. The steam generators' tubes -- carrying hot, radioactive water from the reactor's uranium core -- are immersed in non-radioactive water that drives the plant's turbines. If the tubes crack or leak, the clean water is contaminated. At Indian Point 2, a leak during testing earlier this year caused a small release of radioactivity from the plant. Opponents of the Indian Point plants say that if the utilities announce plans to replace the steam generators, they will lobby for the reactors' retirement. "There is no evidence that the replacement is better than the original," said Robert Pollard, formerly a Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff member assigned to Indian Point and now a nuclear safety engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group opposed to nuclear power. Indian Point 2's four steam generators and those at the four reactors that have been or are to be replaced were all built by Westinghouse about the same time, in the early 1970s. The Florida Power and Light Co. recently began replacement work on its Turkey Point Unit 3; Unit 4 will undergo the same repairs in coming months. The cost is put at $68 million each, plus about $750,000 a day for replacement power for each of the twin 666-megawatt units, but other repairs will be accomplished in the same shutdown. Southern California Edison's San Onofre 1, a smaller, 1968 Westinghouse unit in San Clemente, also shut down last year for repairs, at a cost of about $60 million plus power. It is not clear yet to the utility or the NRC whether the repair will entirely solve the problem. Besides Indian Point 3, reactors facing the possibility of replacement are Millstone 2 in Waterford, Conn., manufactured by Combustion Engineering and owned by Northeast Utilities; another Combustion Engineering plant, Palisades, in South Haven, Mich., owned by the Consumers Power Co.; and two other Westinghouse-manufactured plants, the Carolina Power and Light Co.'s H.B. Robinson 2 plant in Hartsville, S.C., and the Wisconsin Electric Power Co.'s Point Beach 1 in Two Creeks, Wis. All the plants have made attempts to stop the corrosion. oreg 9/21/81 # Ammo-laden jet explodes; 65 hurt - UFOs - 6 Projects - oreg 9/21/81 INDIAN SPRINGS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (UPI) -- An Air Force plane carrying live ammunition crashed and exploded in flames Monday in the Nevada desert, injuring at least 65 people, 21 of them seriously, Air Force officials said. An Air Force spokesman said 21 passengers and crew members of the C-130 cargo plane have been hospitalized with broken bones and other serious injuries suffered in the fiery crash. He said 44 people were treated for minor injuries and and released from hospitals. No deaths have been confirmed, but "there is a possibility there may have been others aboard the plane," said Col. David Wallace. "We still have people on the scene fighting the fire," he said three hours after the crash. There was no information on a possible cause of the crash. Wallace said a series of explosions that ripped the aircraft may have ignited fuel tanks. Shortly after the crash, Wallace said live ammunition was believed to have caused the explosions. The plane crashed one mile short of the landing strip at Indian Springs Air Force Base, an auxiliary facility to Nellis Air Force Base, Wallace said. The Air Force declined to say where the C-130 was based or to disclose its flight assignment, except to say it was on a routine night training mission. That type of aircraft normally is not assigned to Nellis or Indian Springs air bases. The giant cargo aircraft was landing during a routine training mission when the crash occurred at 12:20 a.m. PDT. C-130s routinely can be equipped for electronic warfare and parachute, resupply or cargo drops. The plane could have been carrying ammunition for cargo-drop training, an Air Force spokesman said. - UFOs 6 Project - # Hunters seek mad killer hog AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) -- Hunters with trail hounds gathered Friday to pursue a berserk 300-pound wild hog that has attacked seven horses and a mule -- mortally wounding two of them. Authorities warned residents not to leave their children outside alone. The "long-haired, long-tusked" boar, standing 3 feet tall at the shoulders, slashed a pony so severely Thursday that it had to be destroyed. Police summoned fired three shots at the hog but missed. State Department of Natural Resources wardens set out on the boar's trail with dogs and followed it into a densely wooded area before the hounds lost it. DNR spokesman Gib Johnson said the hunters waited until sunup, when the dew would hold the hog's scent, to resume the hunt. The unprovoked attacks on far-larger animals are unprecedented, Johnson said. "Nobody has seen anything like this pig," he said. "We can't explain it. This one has certainly raised some questions that haven't been raised before." === Page 64 of 64 # Blackout halts New York rush hour NEW YORK -- (UPI) -- An explosion and fire at a power station blacked out large sections of Lower Manhattan yesterday, shutting down Wall Street, trapping hundreds of people on elevators, halting subways and creating rush-hour chaos on the streets. It was the city's third major power failure in 16 years and lasted for more than four hours. Times Square turned into a sea of confusion as commuters fled stalled trains underground. Debbie Davis, 27, a paralegal secretary, said she was trying to get to her home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. "It's insane. I'm just furious. I'm not going to get home until 8," she fumed. "It's absolute havoc," said Nat Scheider, 59, a textile salesman who was heading for home in suburban Rockland County. "But I've lived in New York City all my life and nothing can upset me any more." No serious injuries were reported in the explosion at a Consolidated Edison substation near the East River, but it took 2 1/2 hours for fire fighters to extinguish the fire. The exact cause was unknown but fire fighters found oil leaking from a transformer. Mayor Edward Koch said police rescued about 300 people from stalled elevators in apartments and office buildings. City Hall was among the landmarks blacked out by the failure, but power was restored quickly by an emergency generator. Police rescued several hundred people trapped in stalled elevators in office and apartment buildings. High-rise dwellers hiked up pitch-black staircases with only lighted candles to guide them. The blackout extended from Times Square to the Battery, affecting 52,000 customers, including homes, businesses and skyscrapers. The failure occurred at 3:25 p.m. Full power was restored by Con Ed at 7:53 p.m. The blackout forced the American and New York Stock Exchanges, as well as many other businesses, to close early. Many buildings were evacuated. Subway service in Lower Manhattan came to a standstill as the system's lighting and signal operations shut down. But the trains, which operate on a separate power source, were able to reach the nearest station to evacuate passengers. Approximately 3.5 million people use the subway system in the evening rush hour. Thousands of workers walked home across the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. There were no reports of looting or vandalism as in the city-wide blackout on July 13, 1977. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8110 Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 October 1981 Ted comments on article in National Enquirer Also is picture of a book or article that Ted Owens wrote but the article wasn't there--only the title page. I did a very quick Internet search and it created a connection to the Albuquerque museum 1962-1980. A New Mexico connection also reminds me that I believe Jeff said one of the largest collections of articles related to UFOs in located in the Albuquerque area. It might be worth a trip to see what info they have on Ted Owens. The book how to contact Space People is on Amazon Canada and also in Kindle Edition. 90 pages. A book. 90 pages. There was also a 2012 version on Ebay. The book cover and a reference to National Enquirer were stapled together so I made a copy and put them into the Special Reports folder. https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/e095220237e29b11bdd41eb60b826694.pdf a169f28a967839a70d1bd76234aca5e6 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/5c3a77cac83b7dfd7b406a6d7becde76.txt 7e541a25b6e76a1d4a576af2899212c7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1981 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 64 nation UFOs attack "higher ups" # G-men fear Libyan killers prowling U.S. for Reagan WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Federal officials said Friday they have received word from an informant that five Libyan-trained terrorists are in the United States on a mission to kill President Reagan and other senior U.S. officials. While law enforcement sources said they had not been able to confirm the informant's report, security measures around the president have been visibly tightened and Reagan ordered Secret Service protection extended to his three top aides. In a related development, security sources in Beirut said Friday that Lebanese forces uncovered a plot by a group of Libyans to kill Philip Habib, Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, during his current tour of the region. The sources said the attempt on Habib's life was to have been carried out during his stop in Lebanon. The New York Times reported the new security alert involving Reagan was sounded on the basis of an informant who said he helped train the terrorists in Libya. Federal law enforcement sources told United Press International Friday they had not been able to confirm that the terrorists actually had entered the country. "We have to check it out," said one source, who declined to identify the informant. The White House said Reagan ordered Secret Service protection extended Thursday to his "Big Three" advisers: presidential counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. Such protection normally is not provided for presidential aides. The action was taken after security was notably stepped up around Reagan and such other administration figures as Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who have been mentioned as possible targets of Libyan-trained assassins. The FBI and the Secret Service, following standard policy, refused to comment on the security measures undertaken for Reagan or other officials, or on the reported search for the terrorists. Reports of assassination squads trained and dispatched by Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy have circulated since the downing of two Libyan jets by U.S. fighters in August. In recent weeks, they have appeared to gain increased attention from U.S. officials -- including the president himself, who said in a newspaper interview earlier this week he could not dismiss reports of a Libyan plot against him. "We have absolute, hard proof that Libya has sent assassination teams into other countries," the Times quoted a senior intelligence official as saying. The official said the initial reports "seemed unbelievable." "Those doubts have now been overcome by the accounts of the informant. We consider this to be a very serious threat." The Times said FBI and Secret Service agents have been questioning Americans who might have past links to Libya, including former Green Berets who may have been associated with fugitive ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson, who has been implicated in supplying Khadafy with military supplies and expertise. The informant told the government he worked on plans to attack Reagan and other senior officials -- including plots to shoot down Air Force One with a surface-to-air missile, blow up the president's limousine with a rocket or attack the president at close range, the newspaper said. The Times quoted a senior law enforcement official as saying the goal of the Libyan teams is to "make a sensation." "If they can't get the president," the official said, "they're apparently under instructions to kill anyone close to him." Other potential targets include members of the Reagan family, The Times said. In recent public appearances, Reagan has been shielded by a clearly beefed-up armed security force. Deception and evasion -- unmarked cars, "dummy" motorcades and unannounced trips -- have been added to his travel plans. The Times also reported Air Force One, the presidential jet, has been outfitted with electronic equipment that would help its pilots evade a possible missile attack. PS... no one seems to grasp... that when I speak (for UFOs) "trees fall down" !!! Irene Scientists and Contacts It is vastly amusing to me... that what I inform seems to fall on deaf ears. Well, see my May 4, 1981, letter (copy attached) in your file. The terrorism has now been activated full-scale (vs. U.S. leaders) into the U.S. $\theta$ === Page 2 of 64 May 4, 1981 Note: My UFOs communicated with me... to write this, below, at 12:15 P.M. today. - Owens # Scientists and Contacts You must remember... that I am able, with my half-alien mind... to apply psi-force to an idea, to make that idea come to pass. (Recall that it was published in a book some years ago that I would cause all whites to be driven out of Africa. Since then all hell has broken loose in Africa and whites have left that country in tremendous numbers.) Now, my UFOs want their Base. Do you realize that my UFOs and I are entirely capable of transferring terrorism from Ireland, Africa, etc etc here to the United States?!! The U.S. govt. got their Space Shuttle back safely. Now my UFOs want their Base. - Owens === Page 3 of 64 December 7, 1981 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS My wife, three children and I have just been ordered out of the house in 30 days by our ornery, mean landlord. Not for nonpayment of rent...we have always paid the rent on time, every time...but because the old cheap heater in the house kept going off. Not logical, right? Right. Our landlord is not only not logical, he's batty. But that's neither here nor there. We're still thrown out of the house just several weeks before Christmas...in the middle of cold winter. And broke, of course. I'll have to sell and pawn everything I own...plus the furnishings of our house...just to move. But here is the real reason of this letter to you. Whether you believe it or not...I am the only human link to the SIs (aliens)... and my friends the SIs (Plus the Egyptian and Mayan powers) will look upon my current hardships caused by other humans "with a jaundiced eye" as P.G. Wodehouse used to say in his wonderful books. Therefore...the RETALIATION of the "Triangle" (UFOs, Egyptian Power, Mayan Power) will be this: Their "6 Projects" and "Attack upon higher ups" will NOW be INCREASED, magnified, one hundred (100) times! I.e., if you think what has been happening to Reagan, Stockman, Allen, Haig and the U.S. government as a whole...has been bad...NOW, IN TIME AHEAD, IT WILL BE 100 TIMES WORSE! Unfortunately, of course, this will affect the entire nation...the U.S. But it cannot be helped. I warned scientists and government people long years ago that as Ted Owens, PK Man, goes...so goes the United States (which includes the government). That was a long time ago. Since then my mental powers and the UFOs powers have increased exponentially...so that what I said then (now applies) with much greater impact and force. So as I go now, broke, selling and pawning things just to move out...without money to rent a new place, or even a new place to rent, somewhere.... this will cause my UFO/Egyptian Power/Mayan Power to strike with all of their fury and with all of their powers...at the U.S. govt. Government.. for not giving me the protection and backing that the U.S. govt. would give to any of its foreign ambassadors anywhere (I am just such an ambassador, only not to a country, but to living entities from another dimension...far more important in scope than any of the usual "U.S. Ambassadors" to any country of this world!) And this is what this country and this government is going to find out in near time ahead! Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 4 of 64 12/7/81 Greg. # Security tight, Reagan lauds 5 'greats' WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan paid tribute Sunday night to five performing artists who "have lived the dreams and lightened the hearts of millions of Americans" and joined them under a tight security shield for a black-tie gala in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "In their lives and art they have fashioned lofty standards of excellence. Through them we can all sing and dance and act and play," Reagan said at a glittering reception in the White House East Room for this year's recipients of the Kennedy Center honors -- band leader Count Basie, movie actor Cary Grant, actress Helen Hayes, choreographer Jerome Robbins and pianist Rudolf Serkin. With the honors recipients and their guests flanked by Secret Service agents, Reagan said Robbins, the son of Russian immigrants, is "widely considered the greatest American-born choreographer," and that Basie had "revolutionized jazz." Basie, who is suffering from arthritis, rode through the White House halls in a miniature golf cart. En route to the Kennedy Center after the reception, Reagan's motorcade traveled a circuitous route that was sealed off by police. A riot squad in an open-windowed van followed his limousine sweeping both sides of the streets with search lights and police helicopters circled above the route and the Kennedy Center with search lights on. The visit to the Kennedy Center was Reagan's first planned venture outside the White House since he expressed concern Friday about an intelligence report that he is the primary target of a Libyan terrorist team that recently entered the United States on a mission to kill the president. A8 THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981 # Report on 'hit squads' detailed but puzzling By MICHAEL GETLER LA Times-Washington Post Service Authoritative sources confirm that U.S. intelligence has received a very detailed -- although in some respects puzzling -- report about a 10-man squad allegedly formed to assassinate President Reagan or top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The report is understood to provide the name of each squad member and known aliases used by each in the past. It is said to include details on where the men were trained and reports that some of that training was in Eastern Europe. All but perhaps one or two members of the squad are said to be Libyans. The reports that Libya has sent such a team to the United States are being taken seriously but, nevertheless, are a source of puzzlement within the global U.S. intelligence and security network. The source or sources for information in the intelligence report is said to be described vaguely in the report. While it would be normal to provide only vague references to sourcing in order to protect the informant or informants, in this case the vagueness is part of the problem in evaluating the information and has caused doubts about the accuracy of the allegations. The doubts are summarized as follows: * Although Libyan ruler Col. Moammar Khadafy is viewed as a dangerous and unpredictable leader, some analysts doubt he would put his name to an assassination plan which, whether it were to succeed or be exposed in failure, could lead to an incendiary aftermath, including a U.S. military attack on Libya. * Similarly, if such an assassination plan were in effect, it likely would be a most closely guarded secret, and the ability of an informant to obtain the kind of detailed information on each squad member, as is circulating, is viewed as highly unlikely. * Furthermore, a 10-man team is viewed by some specialists as too large, offering too great a chance for slip-ups by one or two members. * There also is some doubt about reports that team members were trained in Eastern Europe. This refers to the volatility of the mission and the feeling that no nation in Eastern Europe would take a chance being associated with it. On the other hand, Khadafy's internal security service is trained and run by East Germans. Sources stressed that despite these questions, the report is being taken seriously. As to the source of the information, the possibilities are that the information is accurate, that it was so-called disinformation deliberately meant to be inflammatory for some unknown purpose, or that somebody wanted to make money out of a situation in which such information would seem plausible and valuable. It is believed that the closest watch on Libyans trying to enter the United States centers on the Canadian border, the longest and easiest to cross into the United States, and on Switzerland, by reputation a place where it is somewhat easier to obtain a visa to the United States. Although the administration expelled Libyan diplomats from Washington last summer, Libyans are still being allowed into the United States. === Page 5 of 64 Dec 7, 1981 UFO attack "higher ups" Oreg 12/7/81 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER JIM BORGMAN WELL, IF WE EVER WANT TO GET GOVERNMENT STRAIGHTENED OUT WE BETTER GET THIS CABINET MEETING STARTED... STOCKMAN... HERE. ALLEN... HERE. CASEY... HERE. HAIG... HERE. === Page 6 of 64 UFOs attack "HIGHER-UPS" ---------- CHAMBER OF HORRORS !! ---------- $ heta$ wens (AND THE SITUATION WILL CONTINUE TO ESCALATE UNTIL THE UFO BASE IS FULLY PROVIDED !! $ heta$ wens) === Page 7 of 64 Attack "higher ups" # NS stories hint Mitterrand illness PARIS (AP) - Two opposition publications Thursday printed rumors that have been circulating around Paris for years - that Francois Mitterrand, elected president six months ago, is seriously ill. The Elysee Palace confirmed that the 65-year-old French leader underwent a physical examination at a military hospital outside Paris earlier this month. However, presidential spokesmen insisted the checkup was routine and said the results would be made public in December. After Mitterrand's election May 10, the government issued a detailed medical bulletin that concluded that the president was in good health. During a news conference Sept. 24, Mitterrand joked about the rumors and again said he was in good health, although he had recently lost some weight slightly. The Associated Press contacted several officials at the presidential palace and the health ministry, and all daily said Thursday that the president was in good health. Rumors that Mitterrand was being treated by a cancer specialist surfaced in 1974. Despite official denials and charges that the stories were planted by political enemies, the rumors continued. Part of the reason for their longevity was the memory of the late President Georges Pompidou's illness. Pompidou, bloated by powerful drugs, fought a long battle against a form of blood cancer and was seriously ill. But his entourage continued to insist he was in good health up until the day he died in 1974. Thursday, both the mass-circulation daily newspaper France-Soir and the magazine Paris Match ran prominently played stories based on Mitterrand's recent visit to the Val de Grace military hospital. The newspaper said Mitterrand checked in under the name "Albert Blot or Biot" and underwent an extensive series of tests not part of a routine physical examination. It quoted unidentified hospital employees as saying Mitterrand's skin was "lemon yellow" and that he appeared to have trouble walking. Hospital officials refused to discuss the matter Thursday night. oreg 11/20/81 "UFOs" "higher ups" # Hussein admitted to Texas hospital HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP) - Jordan's King Hussein checked into Methodist Hospital for a "routine" physical examination by surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a hospital spokesman said today. heart Hussein was admitted to the hospital Monday night, several hours after he and his American-born wife arrived in Texas for a four-day visit, said hospital spokesman Toim Bowen. Queen Noor was expected to undergo a similar checkup today, Bowen said. Des Moines Trib 11/10/81 Heart # Reagan, wife enter hospital for checkups By TERENCE HUNT oreg 10/30/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, both suffering from colds, checked into a VIP suite at a military hospital Thursday for an overnight stay and their first full-scale medical examinations since moving into the White House. On his way to the hospital, Reagan told a reporter that whether he would have a checkup was "up to his doctors." He said he was not having any health problems. By ROBERT H. REID BONN, West Germany (AP) - Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev arrived here Sunday for his first visit to the West in two years. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was at the airport to welcome the Soviet leader and top-level Kremlin officials and joined the motorcade that bypassed the site of anti-Soviet and peace protests. Brezhnev and his party, which included Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, arrived just after 7 p.m. (10 a.m. PDT) at Cologne-Bonn airport, ringed by hundreds of armed guards. The ailing Soviet leader, who will turn 75 next month, moved carefully with short steps as he descended the Aeroflot jetliner's steps to meet Schmidt and West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. At one point he almost lost his balance and was grabbed by a Soviet military officer. After a brief ceremony the group departed for a government guest house where Brezhnev will stay during his visit. 11/23/81 "UFOs" "higher ups" # Schmidt has surgery BONN, West Germany (AP) - Chancellor Helmut Schmidt underwent heart surgery Tuesday, and doctors implanted a pacemaker to prevent disruption of his heartbeat, a government spokesman said. The 62-year-old chancellor was flown from his native Hamburg to the Central Military Hospital in Koblenz early Monday for an examination. oreg 10/14/81 Heart "UFOs" "higher ups" # Senator Stennis 'fine'; in hospital for virus WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) - Senator John Stennis (Dem., Miss.) was reported "feeling fine" Tuesday after being hospitalized for a cold and intestinal virus. Rex Buffington, the senator's press secretary, said Stennis, 80, entered Walter Reed Army Hospital late Monday and is expected to be released today. DM Trib 11/10/81 "UFOs" "higher ups" # Senator 'satisfactory' PHOENIX, ARIZ. (AP) - Senator Barry Goldwater, 73, (Rep., Ariz.) was reported in satisfactory condition and resting comfortably Tuesday following surgery to replace his left hip. Des Moines Trib 11/10/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Burma chief steps down RANGOON, Burma (UPI) - President Ne Win retired Monday as Burma's head of state, ending 19 years of unchallenged rule marked by neutrality, isolationism and his own brand of social economics. The People's National Congress elected Ne Win's longtime heir apparent, San Yu, to the presidency. Ne Win Monday and Ne Win through transfer of power. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Hospitalized ambassador 'feeling fine' NEW YORK (UPI) - United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, hospitalized with severe chest pains, was "feeling fine" Friday and was expected to be released sometime over the weekend, officials said. A spokesman for New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center said Mrs. Kirkpatrick, 54, was in stable condition. Joan Dickie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the U.N., said: "She's feeling fine. She has one or two more tests to finish. We expect her to be released sometime over the weekend." 11/14/81 Oregon Standard Examiner Heart? UFOs attack "higher ups" # Ailing leader may step aside BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UPI) - A medical report to be released today should determine whether President Roberto Viola, who is suffering from heart trouble, will temporarily relinquish power to an interim president. An official communique issued late Thursday said the 57-year-old Viola, who has been resting at the presidential mansion for 10 days, is suffering from a "coronary insufficiency." oreg 11/20/81 Heart === Page 8 of 64 MICHIGAN Typhoid outbreak on rise JACKSON, Mich. (UPI) - Three more cases of typhoid fever have been confirmed in the Jackson area following a United Way luncheon Oct. 8, bringing to eight the number of confirmed cases. State health officials were monitoring two other people who have symptoms of the rare disease. Investigators Tuesday said two men and six women were receiving treatment in several Jackson hospitals, and two other people were being monitored as probable typhoid cases. All those stricken are listed in good condition. 11/11/81 "RARE" TEXAS More Texas Typhoid San Antonio Health officials yesterday confirmed the 18th case of typhoid fever in the area this year, as state and federal officials arrived to help trace the source of the outbreak. Associated Press SF Chron 9/25/81 "RARE" MISSOURI Meningitis source a mystery SMITHVILLE, Mo. (UPI) - The nursery at Spelman Memorial Hospital is closed indefinitely as authorities search for the cause of an epidemic of a rare meningitis found in 12 babies, including two who are seriously infected. State health officials Tuesday were pessimistic in their efforts to trace the source of the Citrobacter meningitis contracted by two infants born three weeks apart. The outbreak was termed an epidemic after traces of the meningitis bacteria were found in 10 other babies born in the same time period at the hospital. 11/11/81 "RARE" OREGON Rare bubonic plague claims Chiloquin man LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Tests have confirmed that an Oregon man died of a rare form of bubonic plague, health officials report. Masaru Yamase of Chiloquin, Ore., was visiting friends in Los Angeles when he was stricken with a high fever. He died Nov. 21 and test results confirming that the plague caused the death were received Wednesday. Dr. Shirley Fannin of the county Department of Health said Yamase died of septicemic plague, a variation of bubonic plague, and plague pneumonia. Cases of plague are rare and there has not been a major outbreak in the area since 1924. She said it is not known how Yamase contracted the disease, but she noted he lived in a cabin in a wooded area and may have picked it up from animals before coming to Los Angeles. 11/26/81 "RARE" FLORIDA Measles alert issued in Florida FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Facing the largest measles outbreak in the United States with 51 confirmed cases, health officials in Lee County said Wednesday they would vaccinate 4,000 students. The national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has an October 1982 target date for eliminating measles in the United States. 10/1/81 VANCOUVER, WASH. Vancouver death blamed on Legionnaire's disease By LINDA KEENE Journal Correspondent 11/25/81 VANCOUVER, Wash. - In the first documented Southwest Washington case, a Vancouver man apparently has died of Legionnaire's Disease. Tommy Lindsey, 47, died Monday at Vancouver Memorial Hospital following a sudden pneumonia attack in early November. Dr. Richard Bills said physicians could not stifle the bacteria that had moved to his kidneys and lungs. "Mr. Lindsey had Legionnaire's disease," said Bills, a specialist in infectious diseases. "It was, as far as we know, the first definite case in this area. But I don't know if it was the cause of death." County Coroner Arch Hamilton, however, said Legionnaire's Disease was listed as the cause of death. Bills said he could not determine where Lindsey had contracted the bacteria, but said that it was an isolated incident which should not cause alarm among area residents. note: Here. "As far as we know, the disease is not transmitted from one person to another," he said, noting that the bacteria can be found in natural water sources, like ponds, or in artificial water supplies like reservoirs. He said he did not think Lindsey contracted the bacteria in a Clark County water supply. Legionnaire's Disease was first identified in 1976 during the American Legion convention in Philadelphia where 182 people became ill and 29 eventually died. "The Philadelphia incident led to the identification of the disease," said Bills, "but in retrospect, there have been cases that have gone back to the '40s. It's definitely been around." But it is not very common, stressed Bills, noting that "the disease has only been seen sporadically across the country." Lindsey lived at 810 N.W. 104th St. He was employed by the Department of Labor in Portland. note: (Above) Florida $\rightarrow$ Missouri $\rightarrow$ Michigan $\rightarrow$ Texas $\rightarrow$ Oregon $\rightarrow$ Washington. An arrow pointing across the U.S. up to where I am!! (The key word in the message is "rare") (A message from my UFOs?!!) === Page 9 of 64 December 2, 1981 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS The enclosed xerox file of newsclips..........should amaze you..........also frighten you. At the back of the file are the original documents wherein I warned..........of what lay ahead for "higher ups" of the government (and which turned out to affect many governments all over the world: Not just the U.S. government. But you will please notice that my SIs (UFOs) have been quite busy..........Haig, Stockman, Allen, etc etc..........all well-covered in this file.) The "6 Projects File" will follow later on..........probably in about three or four weeks. Can't afford to get it out now at this time. So am just sending half of the complete file. (The "UFOs attack "higher ups" file.") Please remember that all of the action in this file..........has been CAUSED action..........by my UFOs. Not just a bunch of "coincidences" strung together, as Dr. Hynek is so fond of accusing me of. Simply read the original documents..........then see the newsclips results..........and you have the solid caused pattern of SI action. My SIs will continue to escalate their attack upon "higher ups" and the U.S. government..........until THE SI'S are provided with their mountain Base, with their human representative, PK Man, working in its Operations Room on national and international situations..........and with the Base as THEIR base to work from, also. Once the Base has come into reality and is operational..........the SIs will turn all of their powers, (joined by the Egyptian Power and the Mayan Power,) to stopping the oncoming nuclear shootout between the U.S. and Russia, among many other things. Respectfully, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens 4 === Page 10 of 64 Please note in this newsclip that the writer, Mr. Knap, alludes to a "sinister force"!!! Of course, he is correct!! The UFO attack could not be described in any other way!! Owens 11/29/81 THURSDAY Topic Number One # Alexander Haig ## Serious doubt about his ability By Ted Knap R.M. News 11/12/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - ALEXANDER Haig's impetuous and bizarre behavior lately casts serious doubt on his ability to be an effective secretary of state. Twice in less than a week, the government's chief diplomat embarrassed President Reagan and created an international incident that plays into the hands of anti-American elements in Europe. He has made the administration look foolish. That view is shared by a number of White House officials who are not out to get Haig, but who believe that he has hurt Reagan politically at a time when the president does not need any more problems. Both incidents could have been avoided if Haig had thought before he spoke. On Saturday, Oct. 31, White House communications director David Gergen received a copy of a Jack Anderson column, to be published three days later, saying that Reagan was disappointed in Haig and might get rid of him. Gergen, unable to reach Haig's press secretary, called Haig. Some say it is a measure of Anderson's credibility that The Washington Post runs his column among the comics, and this was just the latest in a string of speculation that Reagan would shake up his foreign policy apparatus. The column would have aroused a yawn in Washington. But Haig is thin-skinned, overly sensitive, suspicious and combative. He telephoned Anderson, then Reagan, who in turn called Anderson, as did Haig again. It was like calling out the army, navy, air force and commander-in-chief to rescue a cat up a tree. Haig, not content with defending himself, told Anderson he was the victim of a nine-month "guerrilla campaign" by a "top White House aide." That was the first official confirmation of reports that Haig had been feuding with White House officials, primarily national security adviser Richard Allen but also chief of staff James Baker, counselor Edwin Meese and even Vice President George Bush. No longer did the press have to fall back on unnamed sources for stories about dissension in the Reagan camp. Aides say it was a "mistake" for the president to call the columnist on such a matter. They think Haig oversold him on the column's probable impact on their ability to conduct foreign affairs. There is little doubt that the original column, which Anderson discarded in favor of reporting the Haig and Reagan phone calls, would have attracted far less attention than the guerrilla allegation. The White House was trying to explain away that embarrassment when Haig created another. In public testimony before a Senate committee, Haig volunteered that "there are contingency plans in NATO doctrine, to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area." Haig, a former NATO commander, spoke approvingly of such a fire-a-nuke-across-their-bow plan. Alarms sounded in Washington and European capitals. Our allies are having enough problems with anti-nuclear demonstrations and Soviet propaganda without raising the possibility of a nuclear warning shot by NATO forces. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger went before another Senate committee the next day and denied that any such plan existed. "Nor should it," Weinberger added. The White House endorsed that disavowal. To save Haig's face, Weinberger said Haig was talking only of "a possible option." What bothers White House officials is that Haig brought up the first-strike option without being asked about it. Even if he was right about the existence of such a plan, he should not have raised it in a public hearing at this sensitive time. Naturally, European television gave prominent coverage to his testimony. Haig still has not recovered from mistakenly asserting that he was "in control" at the White House the day Reagan was shot. Perhaps he can claim, as he did in offering a possible explanation for the 18-minute gap in the Nixon tapes, that these things are being done by a "sinister force." Scripps-Howard News Note: They sure are! SI Powers! L. Owens === Page 11 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # U.S. agents hunt Libyan hit teams oreg. 11/28/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. security agencies have bolstered their body-guard forces and tightened border controls after being warned that Libyan or other Arab "hit teams" are out to assassinate President Reagan and other top American officials. "We take those reports very, very seriously," one security specialist said. He and other security officials confirmed Friday that "reliable" sources in the Middle East had warned last week that one or more assassination teams might infiltrate the United States, possibly from Canada. The reports included the names of about six would-be killers, the U.S. officials said. As a result, the Secret Service, the FBI and other government security agencies were said to have intensified measures to prevent harm to the president, the vice president or Cabinet officers. Most officials asked not to be identified in discussing the matter and offered few details about what specific steps were being taken. But one, Ray Hager-ty, the Customs Service director for North Dakota and Minnesota, said agents along the Canadian border were more closely checking identification credentials. "We have stepped up our watch," he said. Reagan, for whom security is routinely tight, was at his secluded ranch in California. His protection has remained at a stepped-up level since he was shot March 30. Measures have included a marked curtailment of public appearances. Meanwhile, it was known that the protection of at least two Cabinet officers, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, has been tightened. In Weinberger's case, for example, agents have begun assigning unmarked cars to precede and follow his limousine. The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, responsible for guarding the homes of many federal officials, was alerted. Weinberger and Haig are to travel overseas soon, and security officials said they are especially concerned that they may be exposed to danger from other possible assassination teams abroad. However, there did not appear to be any intelligence on specific threats to Weinberger and Haig overseas. ABC News reported Thursday that Libyan agents had been assigned to assassinate Reagan and other top officials and were believed to have already entered the United States through Canada. Quoting unidentified sources, ABC said monitoring of the Canadian border, especially in the Detroit area, had been increased as part of a special investigation under the direction of FBI Director William H. Webster. The FBI had no comment Friday. At the State Department, spokesman Joseph Reap declined to discuss security around Haig and other high officials, but it is known that security measures have been tightened in recent weeks. Nor would the department discuss the reported increased surveillance along the Canadian border. UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Prince has close call LONDON (AP) -- A plane carrying Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was involved in a near-miss with a Miami-bound Boeing 747, the Daily Express reported Monday. The newspaper said Philip, 60, was "only seconds from disaster" when his plane, a twin-engine Andover, narrowly missed colliding with a British Airways jumbo jet that had just taken off from London's Heathrow Airport. The incident, the Express said, occurred Friday in heavy clouds over the southern England county of Surrey. It said the pilot of the British Airways jet was ordered to change course as the royal plane crossed its flight path. Scientists and Contacts Always keep in mind that my UFOs will use any means to attack world leaders and top govt. people. The SI's have "PKd" (applied psi) to My idea of attacking "higher ups." This psi attack then utilizes any set of conditions to form an attack anywhere on any "higher up." I.e., Begin falls & breaks leg; assassins get Sadat; a world leader has a heart attack... and so on. The means may vary, but the outcome is as sure as one of my thrown knives flashing into the bullseye. Here, in this case, the SI's have created a political atmosphere to cause assassin attacks on "higher ups." With Stockman, Allen and others the SI's used different means, but always to the same end. Owens === Page 12 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - ECONOMIC POLICY LOSING CREDIBILITY FOREIGN POLICY IN DISARRAY BUDGET DIRECTOR TROUBLES INCOMPETENCE IN WHITE HOUSE? STAFF BICKERING CINCINNATI ENQUIRER © 1981 BORGMAN KING FEATURES ore g J 11/20/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - Begin 'well' after doctors fix fracture JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin underwent two hours of emergency surgery Thursday night for a broken bone in his left thigh, Hadassah Hospital announced. Begin broke his collis femuri -- the neck of the femur where it joins the hip -- when he slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Jerusalem home, the hospital's medical director, Dr. Shmuel Pinhas said. "The prime minister's condition, thank God, is excellent," Pinhas said. "The operation was successful and he is feeling well." Begin was given a local anesthetic and was conscious throughout the operation, Pinhas told reporters. He said the prime minister could work in bed but would have to stay in the hospital for about two weeks. ore g J 11/27/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - Begin plans Cabinet meet in hospital JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin fell in the bathroom and broke his thigh Thursday, but an aide said Friday he is recovering well enough from surgery to preside over a Cabinet meeting on Sunday in the hospital. Dr. Shmuel Pinhas, director of Hadassah Hospital, said Begin, 68, is expected to remain hospitalized for two weeks, the normal recuperation period after the insertion of a pin in the thigh to mend the broken bone. Dr. Mervin Gotsman, Begin's personal physician, denied that Begin suffered anything other than a fall in the bathroom of his home. ore g J 11/27/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - HELP! I'VE BEEN MINIATURIZED BY THE JAPANESE! UFOs R. ALLEN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER ore g J 11/20/81 === Page 13 of 64 THIS IS THANKSGIVING??? -UFOs attack "higher ups" - orig. 11/19/81 STOCKMAN HAIG ALLEN BENSON THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP UFOs attack "higher ups" - orig. 11/19/81 ONE last cut... Stockman === Page 14 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Reagan's happy group working to improve Keystone cops image WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan, speaking of his foreign policy family at his news conference this week, told reporters: "We're a very happy group." Friday night, at a dinner in Houston, Reagan spoke of his whole official family, saying he has "a great team, no matter how much they pick on us. "We do enjoy each other. We're working together - we're doing exactly what you sent us up there to do." The presidential comments inspired Washington Post political cartoonist Herblock to depict Reagan's happy group as a bunch of Keystone cops running around throwing pies into colleagues' faces. The hapless David Stockman was drawn stepping on a banana peel and hitting himself in the face with a pie. At the Tuesday news conference, Reagan was responding to questions about conflicting statements from his chief foreign policy and defense advisers, and to other controversies involving the "very happy group" Reagan has assembled to help him run the government. The week before Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger squabbled over NATO nuclear policy in public and Reagan had to bring Haig and national security adviser Richard Allen into the Oval Office to put to an end what Haig complained was "a guerrilla campaign" against him from within the White House. Hardly had the White House finished dealing with those two problems than the latest two controversies arose. Stockman's comments about the "Trojan horse" nature of the Republican-pushed tax cut and expressions of disillusionment with the progress of the administration's "supply-side" economic theory upset Reagan - enough so that an aide said, "I've never seen the president more angry." Budget director Stockman offered to walk the plank, but after a trip to the White House woodshed Reagan offered him a second chance. Although his job is secure for the immediate future, in part because of his considerable expertise on the budget, his long-term fate is debatable. After the embarrassment of the Stockman affair came news stories from Japan that a top White House aide was under investigation for bribery. As it turned out, said the White House, a Japanese journalist granted an interview with Nancy Reagan gave Allen a $1,000 honorarium, a practice the White House said is not uncommon in Japanese news operations. Allen said it would have embarrassed the reporter to refuse the money, so he "received" it - Allen took exception to the word "accepted" - put it in a safe to be given to the treasury later but forgot about it. The money, said the White House, was found when the safe was moved in mid-September. "Had it been worked out promptly," Allen told reporters, "it would have been promptly turned over and put in the treasury." The president said later that "on the basis of all that I know - on the basis of what I know - yes," he is satisfied with Allen. The FBI still has the matter under investigation. The Stockman affair - as embarrassing as it was for the administration - gave one White House aide an opening for a little self-inflicted humor. Presidential aide James Baker, with Reagan at the dinner Friday in Houston, told the crowd that before they left the White House earlier in the day, "We turned off the lights, we turned down the thermostat, and we bound and gagged David Stockman." He drew a hearty laugh. Times-News, Twin Falls, Id. 11/15/81 === Page 15 of 64 - WDA attack "higher ups" - # 'Happy group' members plague Reagan oreg J 11/27/81 WASHINGTON - If embarrassment is radioactive, President Reagan should have stayed on the "Doomsday" plane that brought him back from his turkey-shooting weekend in Texas. He got off the "Doomsday" - which in the event of enemy attack would carry him high above the battle - and stepped into the fallout of proliferating personnel problems. He has a budget director who doesn't believe in supply-side economics, a national security adviser who takes money from Japanese journalists for exclusive interviews with the first lady and a secretary of state who seems to want to start a war in Central America. The heretic, the arranger and the warmonger are all, for the moment, still at their posts, in what the president calls the "happy group" at the White House. Budget Director David Stockman got a presidential lecture for having committed the sin of intellectual pride. He could not resist communing with an intellectual peer, William Greider, a Washington Post editor. Stockman, from the compulsion of the ultra-bright, had to let Greider know that he knew what was really going on. The conditions for publication of their extraordinary, periodic exchanges were fuzzy, but Stockman was thinking of his place in history rather than in the Reagan administration, as he confided in him his wrong numbers, political miscalculations and "Trojan Horse" theory of the tax cut. ## mary megrory The Atlantic Monthly article sent the Democrats into ecstasy. At the dinner where they were gathered to hail the survival of Averell Harriman to his 90th year, they toasted David Stockman and the revival of their party. Young Stockman can go no more to Congress and argue against widows and orphans - and not just because of the exulting Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said morosely that Stockman has "caused serious political problems for Republicans." The case of Richard V. Allen broke two days later, with the astounding intelligence that he had "received" - he indignantly rejected the word "accepted" - $1,000 in cash from a party of Japanese who, as a result of his intervention, had an interview with Nancy Reagan the day after the Inauguration. Allen, whose previous business dealings with the Japanese as recounted in The Wall Street Journal had caused his brief suspension from the Reagan campaign, says it is "an old Japanese custom" to express "gratitude" to sources. From Tokyo have come denials of the tradition, and a dispute rages as to whether the thousand was solicited or volunteered. ALLEN AT FIRST categorically denied he had "arranged" the interview, then conceded he had "fielded the request," which came from an old friend in Japan, whose wife was the interpreter for a brief session that Mrs. Reagan cannot remember ever having taken place. The White House was full of chat in the first hours after the incident, which came to their attention from Tokyo, where Japanese police are "cooperating" with a U.S. investigation. The president, hardly audible over the whir of the helicopter waiting to take him to Texas, said on Friday night, "As far as I know, there is no evidence of any wrong-doing." But by Monday, having discovered that the Department of Justice investigation, which White House Counsel Fred Fielding had prematurely said was closed, was actually still on, the wagons had been circled. At the regular noon briefing, Assistant White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes said "no comment" to the many queries that assailed him. The only question he answered was as to whether Allen would be at the National Security Council briefing. Yes, he would. It got so sticky that Speakes visibly welcomed a question about the economy, which, of course, is getting worse by the hour. WHEN SECRETARY of State Alexander Haig was recently whining that someone in the White House was out to get him, the president said he doubted the existence of such a person - and would make no search. But in the Allen affair, it seems inescapable that someone was out to get Haig's nemesis. A "secretary," we are told, found the cash in Allen's old safe. A true helpmeet would have taken it to him and said, "You forgot this." Instead, that person called the cops. But Stockman's indiscretion and Allen's folly fade beside the insubordination of the secretary of state. Alexander Haig has his own foreign policy, as he arrogantly told a House Foreign Affairs Committee. Two days after the president had announced we had no plans for "putting Americans in combat any place in the world," Haig defiantly refused to rule out military action in Cuba and Nicaragua. The president's statement, he said condescendingly, "should stand," but he is waging a war of nerves against Cuba and Nicaragua and needs the threat weapon. The president's forbearance in the face of such provocations makes him a strong contender for the "Boss of the Year" award, but it doesn't do much else for him. oreg J 11/27/81 The Ford Foundation's board of trustees ... Rehearsals began in New York this week for a musical based on Antoine de St. Exupery's fable, The Little Prince, starring Michael York. Rose Kennedy got to spend Thanksgiving day with other members of the Kennedy clan after all. She was released from a West Palm Beach, Fla., hospital by her doctor, who diagnosed her ailment as an attack of angina (heart pains). Barbara Mandrell's daughter, Jamie Dudney, 5, makes her television debut this Saturday on her mother's NBC series. Jack Lemmon and Loni Anderson are among those who will appear in CBS's "All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds" to be aired on Dec. 13. - WDA "higher ups" - Mayor Helen Boos === Page 16 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Allen case should remind Republicans of need for candor oreg 12/2/81 By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER WASHINGTON - The decision of Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, to take "administrative leave" and then go on national television to present his side of the Japanese "honorarium" case was, at the very best, long overdue. Allen clearly hopes the two actions will in themselves make him look better in the arena of public opinion in which he has been taking his lumps. But whatever the Justice Department investigation ultimately discloses, Allen - and the Reagan administration - already have demonstrated a remarkable insensitivity to the recent history of their Republican Party in leveling with the American people. Putting aside all the moral questions of Watergate, the one practical lesson in that experience was that public officials who don't come clean on any transgression at the outset risk seeing it blown up to proportions that become much more difficult to deal with. Less than eight years after the culmination of the Watergate affair with Richard Nixon's resignation, it is troubling that bells did not go off in the heads of Allen and, subsequently, chief Reagan White House aides, the moment they were confronted with the $1,000 "donation" from a Japanese magazine in appreciation of an interview with Nancy Reagan. Had Allen, and later the White House, dealt straightforwardly with the matter, it might well have been accepted by the public as what Allen now says it was - strictly a gesture by the Japanese and a momentary lapse into "bad judgment" by Allen in sticking the $1,000 into a White House safe without reporting it. But by saying nothing, both Allen and the White House were asking for trouble. Edwin Meese, counselor to the President, says now that if the story hadn't broken in Japan "there was no plan to either disclose it or not to disclose it." That admission in itself suggests an insensitivity to the fallout of Watergate. Meese argues that the press strung together "a lot of unrelated things," and that no doubt is true. But the matter of Allen's sale of his business to former Reagan aide Peter Hannaford, for instance, probably never would have caused a ripple if its disclosure had not come in the context of a mystery surrounding the details of the Japanese "honorarium." The same is true of the revelation that Allen accepted two Japanese watches from one of his friends associated with arranging the interview with Nancy Reagan. One reason Allen and the Reagan White House may have been so insensitive to predictable suspicions of cover-up is that ever since Nixon's departure, many Republicans have taken solace in the argument that he and the other Watergate offenders did nothing the Democrats hadn't done and that their only crime was in getting caught. That contention serves to minimize, and even trivialize, the broadest and most insidious assault on the Constitution and on constitutional rights ever undertaken by an American president and his aides. Republicans who buy the argument are more likely to be insensitive to the lessons of Watergate. A recent example was the hiring by an agent of the Republican National Committee of armed off-duty cops to patrol predominantly black polling places in the New Jersey gubernatorial election to assure "ballot security." It was a case of the party having more money than it knew what to do with - as in the Watergate break-in - and dreaming up mischief, apparently without a thought to the party's reputation. All this is not to say that Richard Allen is, indeed, engaged in a Watergate-like cover-up. Now that he is talking freely, the whole affair may be as innocent as he says it was. But if he - and the Reagan administration - had been forthcoming at the very beginning, the matter may not have become the federal case it now unquestionably is. Allen, in his appearance on "Meet the Press" Sunday, sidestepped the reports that there are people in high places in the White House who think he should have thrown himself off the field for the good of the team. Instead he complained of "innuendo and sly allegation" in the media, as well as invasion of privacy. He told of reporters climbing trees outside his home to spy on his family and of one attempt to interview his young daughter on her way to school. These, of course, are excesses nobody in the media can defend. But they too probably would not have occurred had Allen remembered the lesson of Watergate the moment he got that $1,000, and acted immediately to make absolutely certain he could not even be suspected of taking it. Nor would the White House likely still be facing "the Allen problem" if it had disclosed the $1,000 payment right off as an embarrassing but innocent incident. © 1981, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc. === Page 17 of 64 - uFLe attack "higher ups"- THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1981 3M A9 # Business sold by Deaver also bought Allen's firm By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) - Michael K. Deaver, one of President Reagan's top three aides, has received payments on the preinaugural sale of a firm that, at the same time, bought out a similar enterprise headed by national security adviser Richard V. Allen. Senate records show that since the Reagan administration took office, the firm, the Hannaford Co. Inc., has quadrupled the number of domestic and foreign groups for which it is a registered lobbyist. Deaver was a 40-percent owner of Hannaford, which in January bought out a similar firm, Potomac International Corp., headed by Allen. The national security adviser, who just took a leave of absence in the wake of an investigation over his receipt of $1,000 from Japanese journalists, also received deferred payments in his part of the deal. On Sunday, Allen announced he was taking a leave of absence from his White House post while the Justice Department completes a preliminary investigation of his receipt of $1,000 from two Japanese journalists who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan Jan. 21. Allen, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said the Hannaford Co. had "satisfied" its debt to him in recent days. He did not provide any details, but NSC spokesman Peter Dailey said Hannaford had recently paid Allen $50,000 to terminate the debt. Speakes said any suggestion that Deaver still is receiving payments from Hannaford Inc. is "dead wrong." In his financial disclosure statement, filed last February, Deaver said he sold his 40 percent interest in the public relations firm to Hannaford for between $15,000 and $50,000 in January 1981, just prior to Reagan's swearing-in. Deaver added that "payments to be received in future months will not exceed $50,000. Such payments are essentially for buyout of interest and do not require the rendering of current service." It was not clear whether those payments have been completed. Hannaford has refused to comment on his relationship with either Allen or Deaver. According to Justice Department files, the Hannaford Co. is a registered foreign agent for the Taiwan government and for a conservative business group in Guatemala. And Senate records show that the firm has dramatically increased the number of groups for which it is registered to lobby. At the time Reagan took office, the Hannaford firm listed itself as lobbyist for only three groups, including the Guatemalan organization. Since the Reagan administration has been in power, the company has registered as a lobbyist for nine additional groups and firms, including the Tosco Oil Corp.; Trans World Airlines Inc.; Merrill Lynch, White, Weld Markets Group; Northwest Alaskan Pipeline Co.; and the China External Trade Development Council. Tosco hired the Hannaford Co. at a time when it was fighting for a $1.1 billion loan guarantee to support its share of an oil shale project in Colorado. Reagan, as a presidential candidate, had opposed the synfuel program and Reagan's budget director David Stockman fought to cut the money for the three projects from the budget. Inside the administration, Stockman was primarily opposed by Energy Secretary James Edwards, but government sources said Monday that Deaver also favored approval of the synfuel projects. However, Speakes said late Monday that Deaver had no knowledge of Hannaford's interest in Tosco. He added, jokingly, that Deaver thought Tosco "was an opera." The dispute was eventually referred to Reagan, who approved the synthetic fuel projects. # Probe figures in Allen status - uFLe attack "higher ups"- By MARTIN SCHRAM and GREGORY LA TIMES-Washington Post Service 12/1/81 WASHINGTON - White House counselor Edwin Meese III said Monday that Richard V. Allen's return as White House national security adviser would be influenced, but not necessarily determined, by the Justice Department report on his dealings with Japanese journalists. Meese also told a group of reporters that he does not think the law requires appointment of a special prosecutor in the Allen case under the responsibility of the attorney general, William French Smith. Meese said the FBI investigation of Allen "will obviously be a factor" in his fate. Allen requested "administrative leave" Sunday to defend himself against charges of impropriety in accepting $1,000 from a Japanese magazine team that interviewed Nancy Reagan after the inauguration last January. As Allen spent through a morning round of interviews explaining his actions Monday, Meese said he would "look at the whole business," including Allen's dealings with clients of his former consulting firm, in deciding whether to restore his White House status. "I see no reason why he shouldn't" come back if he is cleared of charges by the Justice Department, Meese said, adding that he would make his own judgment on reinstating Allen, "subject to concurrence by the president." Meese, Allen's immediate superior on the White House staff and reportedly his strongest defender, walked a narrow line under persistent questioning from reporters. === Page 18 of 64 # Allen to take voluntary leave from post - [ ] "US attack" "higher ups" BY MARTIN SCHRAM LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- White House national security adviser Richard V. Allen, announced Sunday that he will take an administrative leave of absence from his job until the Justice Department completes its investigation of his receiving $1,000 from Japanese journalists who had interviewed Nancy Reagan. Allen conceded in a nationally televised appearance that he had exercised "bad judgment," but he said he had done nothing illegal in the affair, which has made him a center of controversy during the past two weeks. However, he maintained later in a lengthy interview with The Washington Post that he eventually would be vindicated and would be back on the job because "it was only a one-time bad judgment." In his interview with The Post, Allen provided new details concerning the arrangements for the interview with the first lady and his other contacts with his longstanding friends from Japanese industry. Allen said his involvement in the interview began Dec. 2, 1980, when he was asked to arrange the interview during a telephone call from Tokyo from his longtime friend, Tamotsu Takase, a Japanese business consultant. Takase had called to ask Allen to make arrangements for himself, his wife, and others to receive invitations and tickets to the Reagan inauguration, Allen said. And during the conversation, Allen continued, Takase "asked if his wife could conduct an interview (with Mrs. Reagan) for a housewives' magazine." There was never any mention of money in that conversation or any subsequent conversation, Allen said. Allen also said, in Sunday's interview with The Post, that while he later met three or four times with Takase at the White House, he never discussed business matters in those conversations. He specifically repudiated quotes that Takase reportedly passed on to Japanese executives as business advice from Allen. Takase had made the remarks in a speech in Japan after returning from a White House meeting he and an official of the Toyota auto company had with Allen. Associated Press Laserphoto EMBATTLED ADVISER -- Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, arrives Sunday for appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press" program with wife Patricia (right) and unidentified family members. "That's Takase talking and not me talking," said Allen. "I don't recall ever saying that to Takase." Allen has been criticized within the White House's inner circle not only for receiving the $1,000 and then failing to turn it over to authorities, but for his contacts while in the White House with his friends from his days as a consultant to several Japanese businesses. There had been published reports that presidential chief of staff James A. Baker III, deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver and Nancy Reagan believed Allen should be replaced as national security adviser for having exercised bad judgment. Only White House counselor Edwin Meese III, among President Reagan's top advisers, was reportedly urging that Allen remain in his post while the Justice Department continued its inquiry to see whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the case fully. According to a White House spokesman, Allen telephoned Meese Saturday to tell him he had decided to request administrative leave until the matter was fully investigated and that Meese then telephoned the president at his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., to relay the message. him of his decision. Asked if Allen will return to his job if he is vindicated by the Justice Department inquiry, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes responded that he has "no reason to think otherwise." For now, Allen's duties will be assumed by his deputy, James W. Nance, a retired admiral. Previously, Nance served as an aide to now-Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. when Haig was commander of the NATO forces. Allen announced his decision on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" after having agreed only the day before to appear. "The interest in this case has developed to an extent where great pressures have been brought to bear on the White House," Allen said on the show. "In recognition of this, I have spoken with the president yesterday, requested that he grant me administrative leave until such time as the Justice Department has completed its investigation. At the conclusion of that investigation, I expect the facts will be fully known and that I fully expect to resume my duties." Related stories on Page A7. Reg 11/30/81 === Page 19 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # 'Dramatic' leave Allen saga lingers on Story on Page One also By STEVEN R. WEISMAN New York Times Service 11/30/81 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- By permitting Richard V. Allen to take a leave of absence as national security adviser, President Reagan was acknowledging, in effect, that Allen has failed so far to clear up questions about his behavior in office. Thus, the action Sunday was described by White House aides as a necessary step in the process of "damage control," the term they use for the effort to prevent Allen's problems from inflicting additional political harm and embarrassment to Reagan himself. # Analysis White House officials concede the Justice Department's investigation of Allen has created the biggest personnel headache for the president since he took office 10 months ago. There have been plenty of problems with feuds, backbiting and telling tales out of school, such as the embarrassment accruing from the recent indiscretions of Budget Director David A. Stockman. But the suggestions of improper behavior in office against Allen are seen at the White House as different from any of the past problems. For example, the allegations of questionable business activities by William J. Casey, the director of Central Intelligence, had to do with events that occurred long before he took office. By all accounts, Allen made the decision on his own to seek a leave of absence. But one senior aide to Reagan acknowledged that "pressures have been building up on both him and the White House" to do something dramatic to ensure all questions about his actions are fully resolved. "It strikes me as a wise decision," said this official, who asked not to be identified. Allen's decision, he said, "begins to minimize the damage to the president and it maximizes his opportunity to clear the record." Other senior White House officials, who also asked not to be identified, emphasized they had no way of guaranteeing Allen would be able to return to his job. "It all depends on the facts of the case," said one, noting many of the disclosures about Allen were a surprise to them, and that more such disclosures could occur before the whole episode is over. Complicating the matter of Allen's fate is the disclosure more than a week ago that senior Reagan aides have been divided in their attitudes toward Allen. On one side, James A. Baker III and Michael K. Deaver, the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff at the White House, were reliably reported to be in favor of Allen resigning or taking a leave of absence, whereas Edwin Meese III, the White House counselor, was reported to have stood firm behind him. Meese said Sunday, however, that he and Reagan were "very sympathetic" to Allen's request to take a leave so he could devote more time to answering questions about his previous actions. Meanwhile, Nancy Reagan was understood to have been personally embarrassed and angry over being drawn into the Allen episode. Allen said Sunday that he had apologized to her, but others have suggested her lingering feelings might well influence Reagan's ultimate decision on Allen's status. White House officials have been saying they are reasonably satisfied Allen did not receive more than $1,000 from a Japanese magazine that passed the cash on to him after conducting an interview with Mrs. Reagan Jan. 21. But they acknowledged it still was not clear why the number $10,000 was written on the envelope and a piece of paper with it, as was disclosed a week ago. In addition to the question of how much money was in the envelope, White House officials said it was also urgent for Allen to give full accounting of the extent of the contacts he has had with Japanese businessmen, including automobile company executives, since taking office. Baker, Deaver and other White House aides were known to have been taken aback two weeks ago when it was first disclosed Allen had continued to hold meetings with the Japanese businessmen. Allen has said the meetings were merely "courtesy calls" extended to old friends, and that business was not discussed. === Page 20 of 64 attack "higher ups" NOVEMBER 29 1981 # Allen, Fielding jointly bought condominium By BRIAN McTIGUE and ROBERT L. JACKSON A Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, whose office has reviewed the personal finances of Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, jointly owns income-producing property with Allen in Florida, it was learned Friday. Fielding and Allen each own a 50 percent interest in a Sanibel Island condominium apartment worth more than $100,000, according to public records examined by the Los Angeles Times. The apartment produces rental income of $5,000 to $10,000 a year, other records show. Fielding, a longtime friend and former attorney for Allen, drafted a statement on Nov. 13 saying that the FBI had cleared Allen of any wrongdoing in receiving $1,000 from a Japanese news group. Later that day, after Fielding's statement had been released by the White House, Justice Department officials contradicted him, saying their inquiry was still open. White House sources said Fielding stepped out of the Allen case several days ago because of his friendship with the national security adviser, leaving the matter to deputy counsel Richard A. Hauser. Meanwhile, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi reported in its Saturday edition that Allen had been given a "big present" in addition to the $1,000 and two watches he received for helping arrange a Japanese magazine's Jan. 21 interview with Nancy Reagan. ## Present unidentified The present was not identified, and the FBI in Washington had no comment on the Mainichi report. According to the newspaper, Japanese police obtained evidence suggesting that the "big present" was given to Allen on Jan. 18 by Professor Tamotsu Takase, the husband of one of the women who interviewed Mrs. Reagan three days later. Takase is an old friend of Allen. At Santa Barbara, Calif., where the Reagans spent the Thanksgiving weekend, Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said he knew nothing about the Mainichi report. As for the Fielding-Allen property, Florida records show that the two purchased condominium apartment No. 421 on Sanibel Island near Fort Myers on Jan. 1, 1976, for a total of $42,500. They made a down payment of $16,000 and financed the balance through the Barnett Bank of Fort Myers, according to the records. The seller was listed as Viscount Jose Butelho, a businessman from the Azores Islands. Allen reportedly met Butelho in 1972, shortly after stepping down as an aide to then-President Richard M. Nixon. At the time, Allen was unsuccessfully seeking to establish an "international business district" in the Azores on behalf of financier Robert Vesco. Repeated attempts to reach Fielding Friday at his White House office were unsuccessful. An aide said Fielding's assets had been fully disclosed in the public financial statement that he and other top government officials filed earlier this year. In that statement, Fielding listed his half interest in the Sanibel Island apartment but was not required to identify his partner. He valued his interest at $50,000 to $100,000. ## Apartments owned Allen's financial statement showed he had a half interest in two apartments there and is sole owner of a third. He is also president of the owners' association at the condominium, according to his statement. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported that two of Reagan's three senior advisers, along with Nancy Reagan, have counseled that Allen be removed because of the embarrassment he has caused the administration. The paper said that White House chief of staff James A. Baker III and deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver are pushing forcefully for Allen's removal to limit the political damage that the series of disclosures has caused the president. Baker and Deaver are said to believe Allen made serious judgment errors in receiving the money in the White House. They are also concerned about the appearance of Allen's continued relationship with former associates and clients of the private consulting firm that he sold to former Reagan aide and speechwriter Peter D. Hannaford. Edwin Meese III is alone among Reagan's top advisers in resisting the calls for Allen's resignation. Meese's defense of Allen focuses on the lack of evidence or proof that Allen broke any laws or administration rules when he accepted the cash and, by his account, forgot to turn it over to the proper authorities. Meese, Allen's direct superior, reportedly is concerned that Allen is being denied "due process" in a legal sense; Baker, Deaver and Mrs. Reagan are said to be dwelling on the political ramifications. Several officials are known to think Allen should step aside if a special prosecutor is named, but Allen has openly rejected such a suggestion. === Page 21 of 64 Allen becomes victim of political lynch squad By WILLIAM SAFIRE - UFOs WASHINGTON - When high White House aides conspire with Justice Department political appointees to subvert and discredit the findings of professional lawmen at Justice and the FBI, that's a scandal. In the case of the national security adviser, Richard Allen, however, the purpose of the interference from on high has not been to cover up but to besmear. Two sources - one close to the president's troika, the other in the office of the attorney general - have systematically sought to indict Allen by leak and to disparage the director of the FBI for daring to conclude an investigation without delivering the desired scalp. What did Allen do? He helped arrange an interview for a Japanese magazine with Mrs. Reagan. The reporter handed him a set of clippings of previous interviews with first ladies along with a closed envelope. In the elevator on the way back to one of his offices, he opened the envelope and saw cash. Surprised, he told his secretary to turn it over to the proper authorities, attack "higher ups" - whoever they were. She counted it and stuck it in the locked file cabinet. Allen then told three other people who came into his office about what happened. Those are hardly the actions of a man on the take. Evidently, the secretary forgot about it and the money lay in the drawer. Allen never had the combination to the locked file nor the key to the office. When the office changed hands, there was the money; the FBI was promptly called in. The lawmen played it straight, checking in Japan about the amount of money and its purpose. At the conclusion of the investigation, the FBI and the middle-level professionals at the Department of Justice found not merely no crime, but not even an allegation of wrongdoing. They recommended the case be closed. Having stirred the pot in Japan with his interviews, the FBI director, William Webster, learned that the Japanese press was preparing to publish the fact of his investigation. Properly, Director Webster went to the attorney general, William French Smith, for authorization to tell Allen that there would soon be publicity about him on the other side of the world. Obviously, the FBI director would never have sought such authorization if he thought Allen had done anything illegal or unethical. Sure, said the attorney general, you tell him. When Webster called Allen to say the fact of the investigation would soon be public, Allen asked the most natural question in that situation: Did my recollection of the episode check out? The FBI director, his investigation finished, told the truth. The Japanese had corroborated Allen's statements. When Allen subsequently spoke to the White House press aides, he told them what the FBI told him. Ah, but hell hath no fury like an attorney general who thinks his base has not been touched. To the dismay of the department's professionals, William French Smith darkly let it be known that the investigation was not yet finished, contradicting the White House and scattering the seeds of suspicion throughout Washington. After the fact of the investigation became known, the attorney general - abetted by a pal in the White House who wanted to oust Allen for power-playing reasons of his own - put out word that the FBI had done a slapdash job, and that Director Webster's call to the nonsuspect was "unauthorized." That was patently untrue. Later, a member of the lynch-Allen squad atop Justice explained that while the FBI director had cleared the call itself with the attorney general beforehand, authorization was limited to notification of the news story. Presumably the AG had intended the FBI chief to slam down the phone if the national security adviser said "Everything okay?" Then came a steady stream of leaks and innuendo from Justice, White House and Tokyo: that $10,000, not $1,000, was in the envelope given Allen (not true, as the FBI report stated); that he had been given a $135 watch for his wife by a lifelong friend (true, and were it not for the initial charge, not noteworthy or against rules); and currently, that his old business ties with Japanese clients were again a source of suspicion. Allen is being left to twist slowly, slowly in the wind without a single allegation against him. As a result, a Democratic senator, Thomas Eagleton, who did not become famous as a paragon of full disclosure, has 18 senators demanding a special prosecutor, a call that Attorney General Smith's campaign to discredit the FBI has made hard to resist. Ordinarily, I'm for special prosecutors; but when one is named over the objections of the professionals down the line, and on the lack of evidence presented so far, the institution is perverted. The next step would be to urge the national security adviser to step aside while the special prosecutor is at work, and the ambushers would win. Like a celebrity famous for being famous, Allen is now suspect for having been cleared of suspicion. The symbiotic set that is out to lynch him does not comprehend the scandal in using undue influence at Justice to accomplish its political end. 11/28/81 © 1981, N.Y. Times News Service === Page 22 of 64 UFDa attack "higher ups"-- # Whodunit? No one's sure in Allen case Oreg J 11/27/81 WASHINGTON -- The case of Richard V. Allen is a mystery with more false clues than "Murder on the Orient Express." Did the national security adviser "accept" $1,000 from a party of three Japanese journalists the day after the inauguration? mary mcgrory Or was it $10,000? Was the lacquer stationery box that was presented to Mrs. Reagan worth $75 or was it worth $273? And was she interviewed for five minutes -- or was it 15 or 20? And what about the watches? Allen "accepted" a gold Seiko from his visitors before the inauguration and a silver one after. He couldn't decide between them apparently, and it's not important except that before he was sworn in, it was OK and after, it became a federal case. All the information in the case is as perishable as the Japanese cherry blossoms we so briefly enjoy in the spring. The ordinary newspaper reader has learned little about this baffling matter from the administration. Press spokesmen take pious refuge in "no comment" because the "matter is under investigation." But others in the White House, beginning with the president, act like lawyers for the defense. It is improper, they say, to vouchsafe anything but exoneration. The president told us almost immediately that "there was no evidence of wrongdoing." He was going on the word of Fred Fielding, White House counsel, another old friend of Allen's, who closed down the FBI investigation even as we were being told about it. "No law had been broken," Fielding said just hours before the FBI informed us that the probe was still in process. Edwin Meese, the biggest of the White House Big Three, stepped forward to let us know that he had been assured by the FBI that everything was hunky-dory, even though previously we had been assured that he had not been in touch with the FBI. If you are baffled by the case, not to worry. So is the FBI. The bureau has been on the job since mid-September. Some unnamed White House official has given it a poor review. "The bureau did not do a very thorough job." Did the FBI have its heart in it? The most astounding fact to come out since we first heard the confusing story of the generous Japanese -- who told us one day their gift was solicited by Allen, and the next, that they offered it -- is not in dispute. It is that FBI Director William Webster called Allen during the course of the investigation. The call, we are told by Webster's bosses in the Justice Department, was "unauthorized." They tell us further that Webster told the target of the investigation that he was off the hook: The Japanese had backed him up on the story that it was only $1,000 they left off. It was most thoughtful of Webster. But it suggests that the bureau may be slipping back to the days of L. Patrick Gray, an FBI director who during the Watergate investigation faithfully reported to his superiors in the White House. To be sure, anyone who was being followed would appreciate a soothing call from the chief of the G-Men. And that leads us to the question of why the feds can't crack the case. Have they lost the knack for the real thing, since they ran their manufactured crime wave in the Abscam case? That curious exercise was supposed to clear the good name of the Watergate taint. They were bent on proving that the legislative branch of the government has as many crooks as the executive branch. They engaged a convicted con man, Melvin Weinberg, to set up a huge and expensive plot whereby members of Congress were lured to confabulations with a fake "sheik" who would bring vast riches to their home districts and cut them in on the take. They were videotaped as they grabbed for the money. Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., was one of their targets, but was singularly uncooperative. For a solid year, he flatly refused any money. Finally, in desperation, the undercover agents hounded him into expressing an interest in a titanium mine. Like the other six members of Congress implicated in Abscam, Williams was tried and convicted. Legal authorities have expressed concern about "entrapment," about the propriety of inventing crimes when so many exist. Williams is now facing expulsion from the Senate. At no time has he received a sympathy call from the director of the FBI. Why is Allen so different? Did the Meese query convey to Webster the feeling that the president would appreciate a lack of zeal? We have no way of knowing. The director is a former federal judge, and he knows the rules about communing with the subject of an investigation. Webster is on the spot now. He must explain to us why he felt obliged to give Allen a ring. But he can't be expected to enlighten us as to why the president's men have been so solicitous about Allen, so cavalier about the "hound's tooth" standard for White House ethics. Is he invaluable to the president in the White House? Or is it too dangerous to fire him? Someone else will have to answer those questions for us. UFDa attack "higher ups"-- # Allen only 'intercepted,' sources claim WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Richard Allen didn't know what was in the envelope he accepted on behalf of Nancy Reagan and didn't have the key to the room or the combination of the safe where the packet containing $1,000 was kept, White House sources say. The money was intended for the first lady for an interview she gave a Japanese magazine. White House sources said Friday Allen "didn't have a key to the room" in the Executive Office Building and "didn't have a combination to the safe" where the cash was found. They said Allen also had no knowledge of a receipt reportedly found in the safe. Allen, the sources said, only "intercepted" the envelope of cash that the Japanese journalists intended to hand to the first lady. He was "really in the line of fire" and did not know what was in the envelope. The Washington Post reported meantime, that two of President Reagan's three senior aides have counseled that Allen should be removed from his job. The Post quoted sources as saying White House chief of staff James Baker III and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver are pushing for Allen's removal due to the damage the series of disclosures has done the president. The newspaper also reported the first lady favors Allen's removal, but the third senior aide, Edwin Meese, is backing the national security adviser. Both presidential counselor Meese and deputy press secretary Larry Speakes Friday denied a report by the Wall Street Journal that the White House has begun looking for a replacement for Allen. "We're just waiting for the results of the Justice Department review," Meese told UPI. "I will also deny it," Speakes told reporters in California, where President Reagan is spending the holiday. oreg J 11/28/81 === Page 23 of 64 Allen amends date of business sale By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen formally amended his government financial disclosure statement Wednesday, saying he sold his consulting firm in 1981, instead of 1978 as he had reported earlier this year. Meanwhile, an administration source said Allen would take a leave of absence if Attorney General William French Smith appoints a special prosecutor to investigate Allen's receipt of $1,000 from two Japanese journalists who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan Jan. 21. The source asked not to be named. Richard A. Hauser, deputy counsel to the president, said he reviewed details of Allen's sale of Potomac International Corp. to the Hannaford Corp. after questions were raised about the date. "There's no question that the business was sold in 1981," Hauser said. "Allen was the only owner (at the time). It was a straightforward sale." However, Hauser refused to release a copy of the sale agreement, saying only that Allen would list income from the sale in his next financial disclosure statement to be filed by May 15, 1982. In his initial disclosure report, filed in February, Allen listed no interest in Potomac International at the end of 1980 and no income from its sale. He also stated that he had stopped being president of the firm in January 1978, adding the notation "sold business." In the revised disclosure statement, Allen shows a $100,000 to $250,000 interest in Potomac International at the end of 1980. And he says he stepped down as president and sold the firm in January 1981. Hauser said income from the sale was not listed on the earlier statement because the first payment was not made until later. He said the balance of the sale price was "deferred and (is) payable over a period of years." Although the Hannaford Corp. currently is a registered foreign agent for the Taiwanese government and for a conservative business group in Guatemala, Hauser said its ongoing payments to Allen do not "create a conflict of interest" because the amounts of the deferred payments are fixed. In Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan is vacationing, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said he did not know if Allen would resign or step aside if a special prosecutor were named. However, he added, "I think we would certainly have under consideration what we would do in the case of a special prosecutor being named, but I don't think we're ready to make a statement on it." But there were indications last week that Justice Department attorneys were leaning against making a recommendation for a special prosecutor. Allen said he intercepted the money meant as a honorarium for Mrs. Reagan, put it in a safe with the intention of turning it over to the U.S. Treasury, and forgot about it for eight months until it was discovered by someone else. The FBI is conducting a preliminary investigation of the receipt of the money, and under the terms of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, Smith has until mid-December to decide whether the issue warrants additional review by an independent prosecutor. In another development, Allen's secretary, Irene Derus, told ABC News that she put the money in a safe for Allen and that it "was always absolutely clear that that money was to be turned over to the proper authorities for proper disposition." She said the money was forgotten in the "very hectic times" immediately after Reagan's inauguration. In Tokyo, one of the Japanese journalists who interviewed Mrs. Reagan said Allen promised her that the $1,000 honorarium would go to charity and that he would send a receipt, which was never provided. In the latest issue of the Japanese weekly Shukan Asahi, journalist Fuyuko Kamisaka also said the amount of the honorarium was $1,000, not $10,000 as has been suggested in some published reports. Meanwhile, administration sources said Attorney General Smith approved a call from FBI Director William H. Webster forewarning Allen of the news story that brought the case to public attention. Smith acted out of courtesy, the sources said, because the special prosecutor law provides that preliminary investigations not be made public until completed. But the sources said Smith, aware that the story would be printed, approved Webster's suggestion that Allen be alerted. The Allen inquiry began in mid-September but was not made public until a Tokyo newspaper reported Nov. 13 that a high-level White House official, later identified as Allen, was being investigated on bribery charges. Allen also made several other amendments to his disclosure statement Wednesday, including listing among his liabilities a 1978 mortgage loan of between $15,000 and $50,000 and fixing the date for his government appointment from 1980 to 1981. === Page 24 of 64 UFO, attack " higher where Allen 'to resign' if prosecutor appointed® By ROBERT L. JACKSON and RONALD J. OSTROW 1 25/8, LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - Richard V. Allen. President Reagan's national security adviser, probably will resign if a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate This conduct, a high administration offi- cial said Tuesday. The official's statement came as Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-III., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 18 Democratic senators put pres- sure on the administration to name an outside prosecutor in the Allen case. Percy told reporters at a breakfast meeting that unless the administration names a special prosecutor. it will invite charges of a cover-up. Percy's state- ment had special significance because as chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee he has direct and frequent con- tact with Allen The high administration official, who declined use of his name, said that if an outside prosecutor is appointed "the chances are very, very good that Allen will step down." He said the White House "knows it has a very seri- ous problem in terms of political dam- age . Percy, when asked at the breakfast session if a special prosecutor would be appointed, replied: "It's moving in that direction." Already, as a result of an EBL investigation. Allen is facing a credibili- ty problem with Congress, Percy said. An independent prosecutor may be necessary to clear up unanswered ques- tions in the case, he said. The Department of Justice is con- ducting a preliminary inquiry into All . en's receipt of $1,000 and two Japanese- made watches in January from a Japa- nese news group that interviewed Nan- cy Reagan with Allen's help. Allen has denied any unethical conduct. The 18 Democratic senators wrote Attorney General William French Smith that he should have sought a special prosecutor "days ago" in the politically touchy case .. In a letter made public by Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo., the Demo- crats charged that the department was conducting more than a preliminary in- vestigation as called for by the Ethics in Government Act. Noting that Allen is "a longtime as- sociate and close confidant' Cof Presi- dent Reagan, the Democrats said the Department of Justice "cannot credibly investigate high-ranking officials of the administration of which it is a part." In calling for immediate appoint- ment of a special prosecutor, the sena- tors said: "The public has witnessed a familiar, depressing pattern of events. Initial surfacing of a possibly serious allegation, hurried press conferences and unconvincing explanations from the White House and the Justice Depart- ment, contradictions between key prin- cipais, retractions and clarifications of The explanations, the surfacing of new and damaging allegations and new re- ports of possible improper contacts be tween the White House and the FBI and the Justice Department." In a related development, Depart; ment of Justice sources said Smith knew in advance that FBI director Wil- "Tiam H. Webster was going to telephone "Allen Nov. 13, the day the Allen gift "Case broke in the Japanese press. Subor- dinates in the department have ques- tioned the propriety of Webster's con- versation with the subject of an official Inquiry .. However, Smith and Webster met for two hours Tuesday, and sources lat- er said that Smith had not known Web- ster would pass on to Allen a key find- ing of the FBI's investigation when he called him. The finding was that Allen had been handed $1,000 in an envelope, and not $10,000 as a notation on the envelope and another paper in Allen's safe indicated. UFO, attacks "higherups By HENRY SCOTT STOKES New York Times News Service TOKYO - A Japanese journalist says Richard V. Allen was told that he was receiving money when he was handed an envelope at the White House after an interview with Nancy Reagan last Jan. 21. Fuyuko Kamisaka, one of those who interviewed Mrs. Reagan, said in an article in the Dec. 4 issue of the Shukan Asahi magazine that she asked Allen for a receipt for the money when it was given to him .. Her account is at variance with a statement Monday by John F. Lehman Jr., the secretary of the Navy, that Allen had expressed "chagrin and amaze- ment" to Lehman after he realized that the envelope contained cash. Lehman said Allen had told him that he intended to turn the money over to the govern- ment. Miss Kamisaka and the two other women, including Chizuko Takase, who acted as an interpreter, were escorted to the interview by Allen, President Rea- gan's national security adviser. "Just after the interview, Mrs. Ta- kase handed Allen the brown-colored envelope with 10 $100 bills," Miss Ka- misaka wrote. "Allen told us that be- cause he had become a presidential aide he could not receive a donation for the interview, so he would give it to char- Ity. "He said that he would send the re- cejpt later." Miss Kamisaka said. "We still have no receipt." Attempts to reach Miss Kamisaka by telephone for comment on the differ- ence between her recollection of the incident and Lehman's were unsuccess- ful. In another apparent contradiction to. Allen's account, Miss Kamisaka said in her article that Mrs. Takase, the wife of Tamotsu Takase, an old friend and asso- ciate of Allen, arranged the interview for the magazine Shufu-no-Tomo The magazine "organized the inter- view project through Mrs. Takase and Mr. Allen," according to Miss Kamisa- ka. Allen has said that he received a/ first request for the interview and passed it to others for "evaluation." Org 11/25/8, === Page 25 of 64 Allen says 2 watches were personal gifts for his wife. By MICHAEL PUTZEL WASHINGTON (AP) -- National security adviser Richard V. Allen acknowledged Saturday that he had received two watches from a Japanese journalist, but he called them "a personal gift for my wife from a friend of many years' standing." There were also reports that investigators are trying to determine if Allen received $10,000, not $1,000, for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. Journalist Fuyuko Kamisaka, who has said she gave Allen $1,000 intended for Mrs. Reagan to give to charity, told The Associated Press that one of the watches was given Jan. 16, before President Reagan's inauguration, and the other Jan. 22, two days afterward. Allen, in his latest written response to questions presented by the White House press office, said both watches "were received prior to Jan. 20, 1981," when Reagan was inaugurated and Allen became national security adviser. White House officials generally are prohibited from accepting gifts from anyone the staff member "knows or has reason to believe ... has any interest which may be substantially affected by the staff member's performance of his job." Meanwhile, it was learned that a Japanese newspaper has reported that the FBI has asked Tokyo police to try to determine if the amount of money given Allen was $10,000, not $1,000. The money was apparently left in Allen's safe until it was found and reported in September. Tokyo police refused comment on the report by Mainichi Shimbun. It was learned Saturday that Justice Department officials believe the possibility that the case involves $10,000, rather than $1,000, is likely to be a dead end. But they were not certain of that. The New York Times quoted an unidentified administration official as saying the investigation is trying to determine if Allen received $10,000 or $1,000. The official said the sum $10,000 was written on both the envelope the money was in and "some kind of receipt" found in the safe, the newspaper said in its Sunday editions. Allen called the watches a gift from a friend, which is permitted for White House officials "when the circumstances make it clear that the family or personal relationship involved is the motivating factor." Any such gift worth more than $35 "received from any source other than a relative" must be reported on a staff member's annual public disclosure report. The watches were valued at about $165 each. Allen cited the regulation on gifts for which personal relationship is the motivating factor, but stressed his contention that the watches were given before he took office. The contradictions in the accounts by the journalist, who was grateful to Allen for arranging a Jan. 21 interview with the first lady, and by Allen were the latest in a series of discrepancies that raise new questions about the credibility of one of Reagan's key aides. Here, briefly, are the others: -- Miss Kamisaka has been quoted by two major Tokyo newspapers as saying she reminded Allen several times that she needed a receipt for the $1,000 she gave him for helping arrange her interview with Nancy Reagan. Allen repeatedly promised to mail her a receipt but it never arrived, said Miss Kamisaka, who wrote the story about Mrs. Reagan for a Japanese magazine. Allen has said he took the honorarium to spare Mrs. Reagan embarrassment and put it in his office safe, where he forgot about it until the cash was discovered by someone else eight months later. -- Asked whether a Japanese journalist had ever given him an honorarium, as opposed to his intercepting one meant for someone else, Allen replied during a Nov. 13 question-and-answer session: "I don't believe I ever did accept an honorarium from a journalist for an interview, no." Asked whether he had received one, since he maintained he received, but did not accept, the $1,000, Allen replied, "I can't recall ever having done so, no." Saturday, however, Miss Kamisaka told The Associated Press and the Tokyo newspapers that she had given Allen a Seiko quartz watch and that she believed one of the women accompanying her gave him another one in gratitude for his getting them in to see Mrs. Reagan. In a written statement Nov. 14, Allen he had never asked for nor expected to receive an honorarium for helping with the interview, "nor was such a matter ever raised with me by anyone at any time." Based on his statement Saturday, it appears that Allen treated both watches as personal gifts for his wife from Chizuko Takase, the wife of a longtime business associate who helped arrange the interview, although he does not name her. "Two ladies' watches were given and accepted as a personal gift for my wife from a friend of many years' standing, as was the case with other gifts exchanged between our families over a period of some 15 years," Allen said. -- Allen has said he received the interview request from Mrs. Takase and simply passed it on to others "for evaluation, handling and decision." He said he did not arrange it. Miss Kamisaka has said that she and an editor of the magazine flew to Washington Jan. 15, accompanied by Mrs. Takase. Initial efforts to reach Allen, even by telephone, were unsuccessful, she said. Then Mrs. Takase took one of the watches to Allen's private office, and the trio began making progress, Miss Kamisaka said. The watch was intended for Mrs. Allen, she said. === Page 26 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - $1,000 explanation questionable The probable reason no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming about the $1,000 National Security Adviser Richard Allen stashed away in a safe is that there could not possibly be one. A cool thousand in cash is not the simple gratuity Allen tries to depict it as being, given him for helping to arrange an interview with Nancy Reagan for a Japanese magazine. The First Lady should either grant interviews or not as she wishes and as she interprets her role. No amount of money should be a consideration. But even more to the point, public officials should not be accepting - or receiving (a distinction Allen finds significant) - any amount of money for helping to line up an interview. Or persuading the First Lady to submit to an interview, if that is the case. If they didn't have the basic integrity in the first place, one would think that persons placed in high office would have learned from recent experience that it is as dangerous as it is wrong to use those offices for personal gain, be it power or money. The Nixon administration's downfall should still be sharp enough in everyone's memory as an example of what happens when abuses and cover-ups occur. The Carter administration saw the president's close personal friend forced out of the Office of Management and Budget because of financial questions. The late President Eisenhower, despite his personal pleas, could not keep the chief of staff he said he needed, Sherman Adams, because of the gift of a coat. It is a bit much to expect us to believe that a person in Allen's position would take a gift of $1,000, put it in a safe and forget it. Furthermore, his story about a standard gratuity in keeping with Japanese tradition is not standing up in Japanese journalism. The Justice Department is still investigating, and the president says he has known about the money for a couple of months. And that begs the question: If the president had known for a couple of months that a man he recruited for an office of high public trust had taken $1,000 to set up an interview with the president's wife, why is Richard Allen still national security adviser? UFOs attack "higher ups" Further gifts to aide told By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is asking more questions about White House national security adviser Richard V. Allen amidst new reports from Japan that he received additional gifts from Japanese journalists. Two major newspapers in Tokyo said Saturday that Allen accepted two watches from the writers who interviewed Nancy Reagan Jan. 21. The Mainichi Shimbun quoted Fuyuko Kamisaka, author of the article growing out of the interview, and Chizuko Takase, a longtime friend of Allen who served as interpreter, as saying they gave Allen a gold-colored and a silver-colored quartz watch. They said they bought the watches in an airport duty-free shop for about $130 each. Another newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, had a similar account. The White House said it would have no immediate comment on the latest reports from Tokyo. Federal officials are prohibited by law from accepting gifts valued at more than $100. Justice Department officials doubt the answers to the FBI's questions will alter their belief that Allen committed no crime in receiving $1,000 from writers who interviewed Nancy Reagan Jan. 21, it was learned Friday. Two congressional sources, who asked not to be identified, said meanwhile that Allen has been too preoccupied by the affair to finish on schedule this week a presidential executive order governing intelligence agencies. But a White House official, also requesting anonymity, declared, "That's simply not true," adding that there was no firm deadline for writing the new guidelines. Allen has been actively involved in that effort, he said. Justice officials have said they hope to end the probe quickly, but that is unlikely to happen before Attorney General William French Smith returns from California Monday. Smith will make the final decision on whether a special prosecutor is needed to pursue the investigation. Department sources have said that lawyers handling the case believe Allen committed no crime when he took the cash, put it in his safe and forgot about it for eight months. The sources said, however, that the attorneys, in an effort to cover every aspect, asked the FBI to pursue additional questions after the bureau submitted its initial report. It was learned that the FBI has not finished checking out all those questions. It could not be learned what the questions were. === Page 27 of 64 # Justice officials check into allegation security adviser accepted bribe WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Justice Department said Friday it is investigating an allegation national security adviser Richard Allen accepted a $1,000 bribe from a Japanese journalist for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. Allen said he had done nothing wrong, and President Reagan told reporters he knew of no evidence of wrongdoing. The White House acted quickly to put an end to the controversy by immediately denying that the $1,000 cash payment, first disclosed in the Japanese press, was a bribe. "As far as I know, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing," Reagan told reporters as he departed the White House for a trip to Texas. Asked if he was satisfied with Allen, Reagan said, "On the basis of all that I know -- on the basis of what I know, yes." Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters an FBI investigation had determined no laws or regulations had been broken. He described the situation as an episode motivated by courtesy and prolonged by forgetfulness. But Justice Department spokesman Tom DeCair later said, "The allegation regarding Mr. Allen is still under investigation. We cannot and will not have any further comment at this time." THE WHITE HOUSE then issued a clarifying statement that Fred Fielding, counsel to the president, had indicated to Speakes the matter was closed without checking with the FBI or the Justice Department. "The FBI has submitted a report to the Justice Department," the statement said. RICHARD ALLEN A case of oversight "The Justice Department has the matter under review ... (and) has not completed its inquiry into this matter." An unidentified editor of the Japanese magazine Shufunotomo (Housewife's Friend) sent Allen $1,000 in cash on Jan. 21 -- the day after President Reagan's inauguration -- as an "honorarium" for setting up an interview with Mrs. Reagan, Speakes said. "Knowing this to be customary in Japan and not wishing to embarrass the Japanese journalist, Mr. Allen gave it to a secretary for safekeeping until he could ascertain the proper procedure for turning it over to the government," Speakes said. In Tokyo, however, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun quoted the journalist -- who insisted on anonymity -- as saying he paid a bribe to an American official he believed to be an aide to the first lady in return for an interview. The editor was quoted as saying the interview was arranged after the magazine agreed to make a "donation to charity." He said he gave an envelope containing cash to the American official and heard no more of the affair. JAPANESE journalists said the giving of "Shieh Lei," an honorarium, is indeed a longtime tradition in Japan but it is nearly always asked for -- not offered. Please see ALLEN, A12 Continued from A1 After accepting the money on Mrs. Reagan's behalf, Speakes said, Allen put it in an envelope, which Allen's secretary then placed in a safe in his office in the old Executive Office Building. When Allen moved into offices in the White House, "the envelope was forgotten by both and remained in the ... safe until it was discovered in mid-September when the safe was opened and moved to another office," Speakes said. Allen, who held his own briefing with reporters, concurred with Speakes' account. Asked why he didn't return the money in September, Allen said, "It would have caused embarrassment to the journalist." The money will be turned over now to the U.S. Treasury, Allen said. Speakes said Mrs. Reagan was unaware of the transaction until Friday. Allen told reporters it was an "innocent" incident and "the intent was always to comply" with regulations. However, he admitted "the prompt submission of the money ... would have been appropriate." He denied the money represented a bribe and quarreled with the terminology he "accepted" it. "I didn't accept it, I received it!" he sharply told reporters. "FRONT TO BACK, it is exactly as the facts were stated," Allen said. White House communications director David Gergen said of Allen: "He did not accept the money -- not in a formal, legal sense. There is a legal, technical difference. "The White House is not attempting to pass judgment. We all know Dick Allen feels he wishes he hadn't taken it," Gergen said. The first indications of the Allen disclosures came early Friday in reports by the Mainichi newspaper and the Kyodo news agency that Japanese police had concluded a secret probe requested by the U.S. government into charges an unnamed Reagan aide had accepted bribes in Japan. Kyodo said the findings of the investigation, which concluded Thursday, were passed on to U.S. officials. It quoted one high official in the national police as saying "it is unlikely the case will develop further in Japan." Kyodo described the official under investigation as a key member of the administration -- one who visited Japan before, met with its prime ministers and helped formulate U.S. policy toward Japan. But it did not name him. Allen last year left Reagan's campaign as a foreign policy adviser in the midst of conflict-of-interest allegations that he had business dealings with the Japanese while serving in a government trade post in the 1970s. A CHECK OF government records later showed he was a private citizen at the time of the dealings, and Allen rejoined the Reagan team after the election === Page 28 of 64 Allen admits taking money from reporters By ANN DEVROY Gannett News Service WASHINGTON - White House National Security Adviser Richard Allen confirmed Friday that he accepted $1,000 from Japanese journalists last January, but he said he acted in all innocence, putting the money in a safe and then forgetting about it. White House officials, already buffeted by a controversy this week over remarks by Budget Director David Stockman, first asserted that Allen had been absolved of any wrongdoing in the incident, but late Friday the Justice Department said the matter is still under investigation. Stockman criticized, Page 7A Two reporters for a Japanese magazine gave Allen the money, according to White House spokesman Larry Speakes, after they were granted a five-minute interview with Nancy Reagan the day after President Reagan was inaugurated. The White House and Allen said the $1,000 was a "customary" gratuity that journalists frequently pay subjects of interviews in Japan. Mrs. Reagan, not Allen, was the intended recipient, the White House indicated, but added that she was unaware of it until Friday. Allen said he accepted the envelope containing the money because he did not want to embarrass the journalists or Mrs. Reagan. President Reagan, leaving the White House for a trip to Texas Friday, told reporters, "As far as I know, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing." Asked if he is satisfied with Allen, he said, "On the basis of what I know, yes." The $1,000 will be turned over to the general treasury. Japanese journalists disagreed Friday over just how customary it is in Japan to give gratuities in exchange for interviews. "In Japan, we never do that," said Yichiro Hayashi, bureau chief for Kyodo, Japan's largest wire service. "But I've heard that sometimes you do it in foreign countries. I've been told that sometimes high officials or former officials would not meet foreign journalists without getting money." But Yasuo Suzuki, Washington correspondent for the Japanese national newspaper Yomiuri, disagreed. "It is a fairly common practice to give an honorarium or token to a person who gives an interview, but you would never give it directly to the government officials," he said. "You would talk to a repre- (See ALLEN, Page 5A) Idaho Statesman 11/14/81 === Page 29 of 64 Reagan's unraveling looks too familiar By MATT SEIDEN BALTIMORE -- In Washington, these days, the talk is of "unraveling." That's the word they're using to describe some of the troubles the president is having with his Cabinet. It is also applied to some of his policies, particularly his economic policy which has, so far, stubbornly refused to work, and his foreign policy, or lack thereof, which -- in either case -- seems to be a matter of some dispute within the administration. The secretary of state says someone in the Cabinet is conducting a "guerrilla war" against him; the president's national security adviser, who is the chief suspect in that campaign, is then caught with an embarrassing $1,000 "gift" in his safe; and, in the same week, the budget director is quoted in a national magazine expressing serious doubts about supply-side theory, which is the very foundation of the president's economic package. Watching the so-called unraveling from the other end of the Baltimore-Washington parkway, you can get a terrible sense of deja vu these days. It doesn't seem to matter much any more who is president, or what he tries or doesn't try to do. He arrives in Washington with a "mandate" based on the slimmest of margins after an election in which half the people don't bother to vote; he gets a few bills passed (in this respect Reagan did better than his recent predecessors), but pretty soon Congress rebels, his Cabinet is torn by scandal and dissension, he begins to fall in the popularity polls, and quickly grows testy, then bitter, then shows signs of (understandable) paranoia, as the whole world, and the press especially, seems to be ganging up on him. We create our idols, and then destroy them, it seems, with such stunning speed and predictability that no one in his right mind would run for president any more if it weren't for the extraordinary perks that go with the job of being former president. That's the cushiest job in the world. But first you have to survive the presidency without being assassinated, impeached, discredited or humiliated. Someone should make a board game of this. The press plays more than a minor role in the process, so it's not hard to understand why many politicians, and presidents in particular, grow to resent and even despise the media. If it weren't for the media's constant presence and scrutiny, who would know -- or, for that matter, care -- about a feud between the secretary of state and the president's national security adviser? So it is with some reluctance that I add to the general clamor out of Washington. I do so because I think it is worth noting, from time to time, that the world looks a little different out in the provinces, and sometimes, from this end of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, it's a little hard to figure out just what all the fuss is about down there. Down there, they were all in a flurry over the publication of the Atlantic magazine article that chronicles the young budget director's growing rift with the more devout supply-siders within the administration. The supply-siders, of course, are the ones who convinced the president you can cut taxes and increase (military) spending, without increasing the budget deficit or further fueling inflation. The evidence, so far, suggests that they were wrong, as any grade-school piggy-bank owner could have predicted, and that may prove to be the president's genuine unraveling. That concern is, more or less, what David Stockman expressed in the Atlantic article, which, by the way, was probably the most sympathetic profile yet written on the dreaded budget slasher. The country should probably have thanked the administration's whiz kid for his candor. After all, if supply-side magic is not working, someone has to tell the emperor the sad truth about his new clothes. But Washington, generally, seemed content to ignore the substance of Stockman's comments and concentrate instead on the article's political reverberations. Stockman's doubts were treated not as the serious warning they are, but as major indiscretions, evidence of poor judgment, acts of heresy and lack of faith in our new national economic religion. In Washington, apparently, you are either 100 percent for the new supply-side orthodoxy, or you are against it. Doubt is a sin which the president agreed to pardon only after the budget director publicly confessed and begged forgiveness. Humbled and repentant, Stockman said his unhappy visit to the Oval Office was like a child's trip "to the woodshed." Burning at the stake would have been a more appropriate metaphor; the reaction to skeptics seems almost medieval in its lack of tolerance. The press, generally, joined in the attack on Stockman, playing up the budget director's apparent lack of candor during budget hearings in which he publicly defended the president's program despite his private doubts. The press also emphasized quotes like the now-famous Trojan horse reference in which Stockman seemed to be saying that supply-side tax theory was a devious way of getting the broad masses to accept huge tax cuts for the rich. If you read only those quotes, Stockman came off sounding like a Shakespearean villain. If you read the whole article, you couldn't help sympathizing with the guy, and liking him, at least a little. Finally, if I can add my 2 cents to the furor over the $1,000 a Japanese magazine is said to have paid Richard Allen for an interview with Nancy Reagan: It has been said in the security adviser's defense that Japanese custom required such a "gift," and that it would therefore have been a breach of international etiquette to turn it down. During four years as an American correspondent in Tokyo, I interviewed the usual share of government officials, Cabinet ministers and members of the emperor's family without ever paying for an interview. I was only asked to pay for an interview once, and that was by a self-made millionaire who said he wanted $100 to tell the secret of his success. I refused to pay. (He had already demonstrated the secret of his success.) Richard Allen could just as easily have refused to accept. Does all this add up to an unraveling in the White House? Probably not. But from this perspective on the Baltimore-Washington corridor, you can get the creepy feeling that this is where you came in. Matt Seiden is a columnist for The Baltimore Sun. © 1981, Baltimore Sun === Page 30 of 64 - NFOs was against U.S. Govt - # Stockman's clout gone By HOBART ROWEN Org 11/19/81 WASHINGTON - President Reagan may have played the role of "Mr. Nice Guy" when he didn't fire David Stockman outright, after taking him "to the woodshed" last week. But the way some of Stockman's colleagues are playing hardball, a rational guess is that the budget director's days are numbered. One high official in a position to know tells this reporter that the criticisms of Reaganomics Stockman made in his now famous Atlantic Monthly interview "may not tally exactly with what he was saying inside (the administration)." ROWEN The hint that Stockman was telling writer William Greider one thing and saying something different in private White House councils would suggest an even greater degree of duplicity and cynicism on Stockman's part than anyone has suggested heretofore. Whether or not this slam at Stockman is correct is something I can't verify at the moment. But the fact that the comment was made to me, with the knowledge that it would find its way into this column, is evidence that the skids are being greased for Stockman. Another sign that the administration fears Stockman's credibility has all but vanished is a decision to downgrade his public role, despite the "second chance" Stockman said Reagan was giving him. His name is mud on Capitol Hill - especially among Republicans - not so much because he told Greider he was selling a program he didn't believe in, but because he admitted in print that he cut deals on appropriations bills that he never intended to keep. The real "second chance" goes to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, originally slated to be the president's chief economic spokesman. But Regan let the role slip from his hands when Stockman's brilliant handling of Reagan's budget cuts propelled the young Washington-wise former congressman into prominence. Now, Stockman not only loses the lead position, but any place on the legislative sales team. What once had been a highly visible and effective three-man show - Stockman, Regan, and Economic Council Chairman Murray Weidenbaum (and in about that order) - has been reduced to Regan and Weidenbaum by an unannounced presidential decision, leaving Stockman to deal only with technical questions strictly related to the budget, and not to policy. The bitterness among Reaganites is hardly surprising. Stockman's brutally frank statement in the interview - whatever he said privately in Cabinet and other meetings - that the administration was selling a budget and tax program it knew would not work, could not have hit the president at a worse time. It comes smack in the middle of a recession for which the administration itself is largely to blame. Ultimately, the administration will be forced to change its economic policy to avert - as Fed Chairman Paul Volcker puts it - big budget deficits in good business years. Publication of Stockman's indiscreet but accurate analysis underscores the cumulating feeling in Washington and in other world capitals that disarray has taken over the Reagan administration. In recent weeks it has suffered one embarrassment after another. The president's fumble-stumble responses at his infrequent press conferences erode confidence in his ability to deal with complicated domestic and foreign affairs. At last week's press conference, he was forced to admit that the nation is in the throes of a recession that "none of us" foresaw. And, over the weekend, Weidenbaum, after weeks of talking around the issue, finally told a television audience that the recession might result in an unemployment rate as high as 9 percent. But Weidenbaum blamed the economic malaise on the pent-up inflation inherited from earlier administrations. Who and what are really to blame for the present economic slide? Weidenbaum can try, but he can't lay it all on the past. More accurately, economist Walter W. Heller labels it a "Reagan-Volcker-Carter" recession. Heller told me that recession now is entirely due "to the monetarist suppression of the economy," for which Reagan and Volcker are at least "75 percent to blame." (Carter gets tagged for partial responsibility by Heller because the objectionable monetarist policy "was set on course by him.") But the harsh Federal Reserve monetarist policy of the past several months, one should remember, was necessitated by the loose Reagan supply-side fiscal policy. Had there been a better mix, something less than the "trickle-down" tax give-away cited by Stockman, there could have been a less onerous monetary policy. We would not now be in recession. What the supply-siders thought at the start, the Stockman article reminds us, was that by this time we would be in a boom. That's why Stockman's admissions in the magazine article are so damaging to President Reagan. Reagan fell into the trap of believing that merely by announcing the big tax cut, production and jobs would expand. That, Stockman said in the article, "I've never believed," although he willingly went to Capitol Hill and pretended that he did. The fact that a recession is here - and will get worse before things get better - combined with Stockman's willingness to let it all hang out, have shattered the supply-side myth. Doubt is replacing faith among Capitol Hill Republicans. Thus, Reagan faces a monumental task in regaining the credibility that served him so well earlier in the year. Hobart Rowen is economics correspondent for The Washington Post. © 1981, The Washington Post === Page 31 of 64 W.D. & Projects # Follies overshadow Reagan reappraisals By JAMES RESTON WASHINGTON - Judging by the noise around here, you would think the big question about the Reagan administration these days was not whether it had a nuclear policy, but whether it had a magazine policy. David Stockman, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, was condemned for his loose handling of words in the Atlantic Monthly, and Richard Allen was condemned for his loose handling of money, "given" or "received" by him from the Japanese magazine, Shufunotomo, as sort of a finder's fee, for an interview with the president's wife. This is what has recently dominated the news. In both cases, these incidents were damaging to the president, because Allen gave the impression that he wasn't quite telling the truth about Nancy Reagan's interview, while Stockman gave the impression that he was telling the truth about his criticism of Reagan's budget. And of the two, telling the truth about what's going on around here is usually more dangerous to the president than misplacing what happened to a mere thousand dollars. Nothing fascinates this town more than these personal slips and tangles. They are revealing in some ways, and provide arguments for the opposition in the coming election year, but they also divert attention from the major questions of public policy. For example, an important event took place here during the uproar over Stockman and Allen that was largely ignored. The president finally presided over a meeting of his National Security Council Thursday morning to discuss and sign the U.S. negotiating position with the Soviet Union on the control of nuclear weapons. This is obviously the central question of world politics, because the burden of the arms race, now costing the nations over $800 billion a year, is aggravating the economy of all nations. So the main news here is not really Stockman and Allen, but that this administration is finally and reluctantly going through a major reappraisal of both its economic and foreign policies. On domestic policy, Stockman has challenged the assumptions of the economic supply-siders, and on foreign policy, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig has very carefully begun to challenge the assumptions of Reagan's military hard-liners and cold warriors. Haig said some interesting things in his testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee the other day. He spoke after talking in New York to Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, for nine hours. And for the first time, he seemed to strike a balance between his emphasis on military arms and his desire for peace. "The United States wants a constructive relationship with the Soviet Union," he said. "Such a relationship must be based on a secure military balance, respect for the independence of others, restraint in the use of force, and reciprocity in the making and fulfilling of agreements." He added: "The Soviets have deployed over 750 warheads on their SS-20s threatening Europe, while NATO has not yet deployed one of its planned 572 missiles. Despite this revealing fact, well-meaning people want to know whether we are serious about negotiating limitations on theater nuclear forces. The answer is clear. Of course we are. We want a balanced agreement, one that would establish equal, global and verifiable limits, at the lowest possible level, ideally zero." This was the theme of the secretary of state's argument for Washington's negotiating position with the Soviets on the control of theater and strategic weapons, now to begin soon. He was very tough about "restraint and reciprocity," but at the same time, he came out strong for serious negotiation to reduce the present tensions, particularly since his previous hard line had proved to be totally unacceptable to the European allies. It is here that the president will clearly have to intervene between the conflicting views and personalities within his Cabinet, and not just say, as he did with Stockman and Allen, that they should "shut up" and try to stop fussing with one another in public. For as Douglas L. Hallett, a Los Angeles attorney and former Nixon White House aide, said the other day in The Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Reagan has yet to choose decisively between the supply-siders he sent to the Treasury and the budget-balancers he sent to the Office of Management and Budget; between the establishment internationalists whom Secretary of State Alexander Haig brought from the Nixon, Ford and the Carter foreign policy apparati and the hard-liners Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger took from the Henry Jackson wing of the Democratic Party..." What is forcing a reappraisal by the president is not only the doubts of Stockman on domestic policy or the doubts of his allies on nuclear strategic policy and Middle Eastern policy, but the demonstrations against his casual rhetoric and nuclear policy now developing in Europe and spreading through the campuses and churches of the United States. He is saying on social policy at home and nuclear policy abroad the most hard-hearted things in the most light-hearted way, and this paradox of his personal popularity and doubt about his policies, is beginning to catch up with him. The main news now is that the mood in Washington is switching. Stockman and Haig by their remarks, and the allies by their lack of confidence in Reagan's economic, nuclear and Middle East policies, are forcing Reagan's principal aides, if not Reagan himself, to recognize the rising revolt against his amiable drift. === Page 32 of 64 Stockman's future on Reagan's team looks dim, admits key GOP leader WASHINGTON (UPI) -- David Stockman remained on the job Friday, nose-deep in a budget review, but a key Republican leader acknowledged that despite the budget director's abject apology his days with on the Reagan team may be numbered. The future of the "damaged" 35-year-old economic whiz was a hot topic on Capitol Hill where Democrats said Stockman had lost his credibility for his remarks in a magazine interview that characterized President Reagan's tax cuts as a "Trojan Horse" designed to help the rich. "Oh sure," said Office of Management and Budget spokesman Edwin Dale when asked if Stockman came to work Friday. "He's been at work all day," spending part of the time on a "line-by-line "director's review of the entire budget" to be submitted to Congress in January. Asked about the mood of Stockman's staff, Dale said, "No comment." White House communications director David Gergen denied Stockman still had an ax hanging over his neck. "No one is on probation around here," Gergen told reporters Friday. "You either work full time or you're out. "The fact that the president is keeping him speaks for itself," Gergen added. "He does intend to keep him ... We hope any damage will not be long-lasting. STOCKMAN, described by acquaintances as a bright and sometimes arrogant economic planner, appeared humble, his voice quavering with emotion, at a packed news conference Thursday, revealing he had offered his resignation for his "poor judgment and loose talk" but that Reagan -- although angry -- decided to give him a "second chance." One White House aide said "I've never seen the president more angry" than after Reagan read the article written for The Atlantic by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. The aide said Stockman was "pretty shaky" after the meeting with Reagan, and the budget director described the Oval Office session as "more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed." Senate Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee acknowledged Friday Stockman may prove too much of a liability to stay in Reagan's inner circle. Asked by a reporter whether Stockman eventually "will have to go," Baker said: "It may turn out that way ..." but "I hope it doesn't." "He damaged himself, and he damaged the president," Baker said. "I think he knows that." "I hope he can repair it, but it's going to be tough," said Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., "If he can't repair it, he should submit his resignation again." A SOURCE close to the Senate GOP leadership said:, "At this point, no one really knows whether he will ultimately have to go. His credibility has been hurt ... We'll have to see whether he can bounce back." Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., said Friday Reagan should not have accepted Stockman's resignation, "but I wish he would have accepted David Stockman's truth-telling. "There's nothing that could be worse in government than if you can't admit making a mistake, because we all make them," Moynihan said in interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." Democratic criticism included a statement by Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt who said, "It is painfully clear that 'Reaganomics' is as bad as David Stockman thought it was." And Sen. James J. Exon, D-Neb., said, "Although his candor is late blooming, there is nothing immoral about a con man repenting." Stockman admitted "those quotes are the words that I spoke" but most of the criticism was directed at his "Trojan horse" statement and a suggestion that the "supply-side" economics embraced by Reagan was nothing more than the old theory of giving the rich tax breaks so that something eventually would filter down to the people. The article, entitled "The Education of David Stockman" appears in the December issue and covers 19 pages. Backstairs at the White House ... WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Backstairs at the White House: White House newcomers should all be given a lesson in journalistic jargon before they embark on their public careers. Their glossary should include definitions of "off the record," meaning not for publication; "on background," meaning not for direct attribution, and "deep background," meaning a reporter writes it on his own without any reference to source. Few reporters are willing to conduct a whole interview "off the record," although they may be agreeable when some matters discussed are ultra-sensitive. But that doesn't stop government officials from insisting that their observations were off the record when they see them in the public print. On two recent occasions, members of the administration have found themselves in that kind of dilemma. Richard Pipes, a member of the National Security Council staff, gave an interview to a Reuter reporter in which he said the Soviets would have to "change their system" or there would be war. The remark caused consternation in White House circles and was immediately disavowed. Pipes said the interview was intended to be off the record. BUDGET DIRECTOR David Stockman gave interviews over a span of months to William Greider, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, for a profile on himself in The Atlantic Monthly. Stockman's comment that the Reagan tax cut is a "Trojan horse" that favors the rich and other devastating comments about the administration's supply side budget cutting and economic theories fell like a bombshell. Stockman has been the president's No. 1 point man for his economic revolution. He has been the lighting rod and the major defender of some of the more unpopular cuts in government spending. Helen Thomas Backstairs At The White House === Page 33 of 64 Stockman Reagan Keeps Him After Doling Out Verbal Spanking - WHO attack "higher ups" - Denver Post BY GEORGE SKELTON Los Angeles Times 11/13/81 WASHINGTON - An angry President Reagan took Budget Director David Stockman "to the woodshed" of the Oval Office Thursday and bawled him out for publicly criticizing the administration's economic program. But the president decided not to accept his resignation. Stockman apologized for "poor judgment and loose talk" and "careless rambling to a reporter," who wrote the critical article quoting Stockman in The Atlantic Monthly magazine. But while the White House moved quickly to control the short-term damage caused by Stockman's quotes, it was clear that there was an inestimable long-range impact on the president's relations with Congress that his advisers still will have to deal with in the months ahead. Stockman was not just an ordinary White House adviser criticizing Reagan's economic program and theories, but the president's chief spokesman in selling them to Congress. "It's destroyed Stockman's credibility," one White House aide told The Los Angeles Times. "Can you imagine him going up to the Hill (Congress) and talking about budget figures? They would laugh at him." An aide to Rep. Jack F. Kemp, R-N.Y., perhaps the leading advocate in Congress of the supply-side economic theory that Reagan adopted and Stockman criticized in the article, said: "It's obvious that Stockman put himself out of action. He may survive as a nice guy who knows the numbers well, but as a cutting edge for the administration, it's highly doubtful." One of Stockman's most damaging quotes in the lengthy article was that the Kemp-Roth tax plan, upon which the Reagan tax cut was based, was a "Trojan Horse" designed to lower the maximum in- Please See REAGAN on 11-A Hottest topic in town - WHO attack "higher ups" Demos: Stockman loses credibility 11/14/81 WASHINGTON (UPI) - David Stockman remained on the job Friday, nose-deep in a budget review, but a key Republican leader acknowledged that despite the budget director's abject apology his days with on the Reagan team may be numbered. The future of the "damaged" 35-year-old economic whiz was a hot topic on Capitol Hill where Democrats said Stockman had lost his credibility for his remarks in a magazine interview that characterized President Reagan's tax cuts as a "Trojan Horse" designed to help the rich. "Oh sure," said Office of Management and Budget spokesman Edwin Dale when asked if Stockman came to work Friday. "He's been at work all day," spending part of the time on a line-by-line "director's review of the entire budget" to be submitted to Congress in January. Asked about the mood of Stockman's staff, Dale said, "No comment." White House communications director David Gergen denied Stockman still had an ax hanging over his neck. "No one is on probation around here," Gergen told reporters Friday. "You either work full time or you're out. "The fact that the president is keeping him speaks for itself," Gergen added. "He does intend to keep him ... We hope any damage will not be long-lasting. Stockman, described by acquaintances as a bright and sometimes arrogant economic planner, appeared humble, his voice quavering with emotion, at a packed news conference Thursday, revealing he had offered his resignation for his "poor judgment and loose talk" but that Reagan - although angry - decided to give him a "second chance." One White House aide said "I've never seen the president more angry" than after Reagan read the article written for The Atlantic by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. The aide said Stockman was "pretty shaky" after the meeting with Reagan, and the budget director described the Oval Office session as "more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed." Senate Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee acknowledged Friday Stockman may prove too much of a liability to stay in Reagan's inner circle. Asked by a reporter whether Stockman eventually "will have to go," Baker said: "It may turn out that way ..." Ogden Standard Examiner 11/ === Page 34 of 64 ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK - for "higher ups" # David Stockman's self-destruction Denver Post 11/13/81 WASHINGTON - Even as word spread Tuesday that David Stockman man seemed to have destroyed himself with his own tongue, he failed in another bid to deflect President Reagan from his stubborn convictions. Reagan rejected language prepared for his news conference by Stockman's Office of Management and Budget that would have repeated the follies of the last generation by trying to balance the budget through tax increases. Stockman had lost the fight for the president's mind to his closest political friend, Rep. Jack Kemp. Their tattered alliance was further torn that same day with disclosure of Stockman's quotes in the December Atlantic Monthly. IT WAS STOCKMAN'S 35th birthday. The events unfolding that day belied the conventional wisdom that the Reagan Cabinet's best and brightest member is wise beyond his years. Rather, it suggested politically juvenile behavior in undervaluing and betraying both his compatriots and his leader. "The Education of David Stockman," William Greider's Atlantic article, illuminates the backstage developments preceding Tuesday's presidential press conference. Those quotes suggest that the president's budget director pushed so vigorously for drastic change in the Reagan economic program because he had not really believed in it for a long time. Kemp, who last year promoted Stockman for the budget post to get a genuine supply-sider in the Cabinet, couldn't fully believe his friend was abandoning the cause until he read those quotes. As recently as the evening of Nov. 1 in Kemp's suburban Bethesda, Md., home, they talked tax-politics for hours. Kemp decided they weren't really so far apart. On Nov. 4, however, the gap widened when Stockman conferred on Capitol Hill with House Republican leaders. Kemp asked Stockman how anything could be served by taking money out of the private sector through higher taxes; if those taxes diminish the pool of private savings, financing the debt becomes all the harder. Stockman responded with the sarcasm that has antagonized liberal Democrats in Congress all year. He told his friend: Jack, why don't you just repeal all taxes then, and finance the debt wholly through bonds? Kemp's face went ashen. Other Republicans at that meeting were taken aback when Stockman suggested he would in the long run win the fight for budget-balancing through taxes. Even if the president decided otherwise now, Stockman implied, higher taxes eventually would be essential. His implication was that the wunderkind surely knew a lot more than the ex-movie actor twice his age. Reagan himself was present two days later, on Nov. 6, when Stockman met with the House Republicans at the White House. Kemp argued heatedly that the Reagan-Kemp-Roth tax cuts ought to be accelerated, not delayed. In following Stockman's advice early this year and delaying the tax cut for budgetary reasons, said Kemp, the president had bought big deficits and recession. Further delays, he said, would mean more of the same. At that point, presidential chief of staff James Baker asked Stockman to respond. Stockman warned of ruinous budget deficits on the horizon. Later that day, however, the president told a friend that Kemp's linkage of Stockman's tax delay and the economic recovery's delay was compelling. Stockman had lost, but not surrendered. The OMB-prepared answer for Reagan's news conference called for tax increases in fiscal years 1983 and 1984 if accompanied by spending cuts. Instead, the president ashcanned Stockman's answer and replied by comparing tax increases and addictive drugs. Stockman's persistence was explained by the quotes he gave Greider, suggesting private disillusionment with supply-side tax cuts months before they were in place. When he was read some of those quotes while on a one-day speaking tour Tuesday, Kemp was stunned. Nevertheless, that night he telephoned Stockman, at a Washington restaurant celebrating his birthday, to reaffirm their friendship. But when Kemp read the full article Wednesday morning, he was shattered to find Stockman revealing to Greider that he had been maneuvering to keep Kemp "happy" so supply-siders could not mobilize against dilution of the tax bill. That is precisely what Kemp's aides and advisers have been telling him all year, and precisely what he has rejected as an unfair indictment of his friend. THE THEME HERE is one of betrayal, which some of Stockman's erstwhile allies have come to consider as recurrent through his career. Greider suggests that in moving from supply-side economics to orthodox budget-balancing, "perhaps Stockman was only starting into another intellectual transition. He had changed from farm boy to campus activist at Michigan State, from Christian moralist to neo-conservative at Harvard." Stockman himself Tuesday night worried that he was about to be labeled Judas Iscariot. His inconstancy tended to fulfill the prophecy by one of Washington's most astute lobbyists, who in February predicted the high-flying Stockman would last no more than a year at OMB - certainly not for want of ability, but for defects in character. That failing has undone many in Washington and it brought the Reagan Cabinet's brightest light close to that fate on his 35th birthday. Field Newspaper Syndicate DAVID STOCKMAN === Page 35 of 64 The Denver Post Friday, Nov. 13, 1981 # Reagan Bawls Out Stockman, Keeps Him STOCKMAN From 1-A come tax rate for wealthy Americans. "I can only say that it was a rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor," Stockman told a packed press conference Thursday afternoon at the White House. Earlier, he had tried to joke about it, saying that "a Trojan Horse is a wooden beast without a brain and had I recalled that I would have never used the metaphor." The magazine article was written by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and a friend of Stockman's, who interviewed the budget director over a period of eight months with the understanding that the information would not be reported until after the administration's budget battles had been waged. Stockman Thursday called his arrangement with Greider, as it turned out, "a misunderstanding, but not an act of bad faith on his side or mine." The article appears in the December issue of the magazine. The White House got its first copy Tuesday night. Copy machines immediately produced scores of additional copies, and the article became the major topic of conversation at the White House for two days. The president read the full article Wednesday night and became "pretty upset," one close aide said, making clear his description of the president's reaction was an understatement. Actually, nothing like this had occurred before in the Reagan White House. There had been bickering between the president's foreign policy advisers -- Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and national security adviser Richard Allen. That disagreement came as no particular surprise, given the personalities involved. But mild-mannered Stockman, a former congressman, was thought to be a team player who could be trusted, and who was astute enough to avoid public conflict. Republican congressional leaders, after meeting Thursday morning with Reagan and Stockman to discuss budget matters, variously described the budget director as having been "indiscreet" and making "an error in judgment," but they basically stood by him. The president invited Stockman to lunch in the Oval Office and read him the riot act. "I grew up on a farm," Stockman, 35, told reporters later, "and my visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the president was more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed after supper. He was not happy about the way this has developed, and properly so. He was very chagrined that these interpretations (of his economic program) have developed...." Reading later from a prepared statement, with his voice quavering, Stockman said he had tendered his resignation to the president "because my poor judgment and loose talk have done him and his program a serious disservice. Worse, they have spread an impression that is utterly false. President Reagan believes with every ounce of his strength in his program for economic recovery and the better opportunities it will bring to all Americans." He added: "Honest people will worry about how best to achieve our vision for getting the messed-up economy we inherited back on track and the overgrown budget under control. I have worried far too publicly, and deeply regret the harm that has been done. "I am staying on because I believe even more deeply that the president has charted a sound, constructive course. I am grateful to the president for this second chance to get on with the job the American people sent President Reagan here to do." # Reagan gets skunked on turkeys in Texas By MAUREEN SANTINI SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- President Reagan, clad in green camouflage battle fatigues, ended one of the most troubled weeks of his presidency Saturday hunting wild turkeys on an isolated ranch. He failed to bag one. "I have never gone turkey hunting, so I'm looking forward to this," Reagan had said as he and his aides set out on the hunting expedition in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. The expedition shot three turkeys, but Reagan got none. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president had a shot but withheld his fire because the gobbler was surrounded by hens. "As a true sportsman, the president did not wish to shoot," Speakes said. Texas law leaves the status of hens up to counties. In Frio County, where the president was hunting, it is legal to shoot some kinds of hens but not others. What kind the president saw was not known. Reagan, whose previous hunting experience has been limited to rattlesnakes, was the guest of his chief of staff, James A. Baker III, at J.O. Winston's 7,500-acre ranch. Winston is the former father-in-law of Baker's wife. The president jokingly accused a large horde of reporters of scaring the turkeys away. "After seeing this, we don't think there are many live turkeys around," he quipped. But after the upsetting week he had, Reagan made it very clear he did not want to talk about his difficulties. Asked whether he planned to keep his national security adviser, Richard V. Allen, on at the White House despite allegations that he had accepted $1,000 from a Japanese reporter, the president replied, "I can't comment on that while it's under review." The Justice Department is investigating the case. Allen has acknowledged receiving the cash, but White House officials said it was intended for Mrs. Reagan and Allen "intercepted" it only to spare the first lady any embarrassment and to avoid offending the Japanese journalists who had offered it as a token of their appreciation for an exclusive interview. The week Reagan appeared to be escaping from also was marred by a magazine article in which Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, publicly questioned the soundness of the president's economic program and likened it to the "trickle-down" programs of other administrations. The hunting party, which also included Baker's sons, Doug and John, and his stepson, James Winston, used 12-gauge shotguns provided by the ranch. Asked if he had a hunting license, Reagan said, "You bet." === Page 36 of 64 R.M. Nixon 11/12/81 - UFO attack on "higher ups" - Dem leader calls quotes 'devastating admissions' (Continued from page 1) "He's a very resilient person. He's just going about his business," said Edwin Dale, Stockman's spokesman. Congressional sources said a "very upset" Stockman telephoned Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., Tuesday to seek the senator's advice on how to handle the situation. Domenici told him to persist in his efforts to cut federal spending, sources said. Tuesday, Dale said the article "creates an impression that is wrong and grossly misleading. ... Although problems and challenges remain, Mr. Stockman is convinced that the program set forward by the president is sound and will work." White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Wednesday that Reagan had not read the article but probably would be provided excerpts. "We suggested that would be a good way for him to read a long article," Speakes said. A White House source said senior presidential aides were "surprised" by some of Stockman's comments, since he had never expressed them at the White House. But "it's no great stir," added the source, who did not want to be identified. "We're rallying around him." The official said Stockman has not offered to resign over the article, nor has he been asked to resign, but the White House is concerned that the Democrats will make a major political issue out of the incident. Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., an original apostle of supply-side economics, said he feels deep sadness "that my close friend ... has put himself in this difficult position." The article was written by Washington Post assistant managing editor William Greider, who said Stockman agreed before taking office "to meet with me from time to time and relate, off the record, his private account of the great political struggle ahead. The particulars of these conversations were not to be reported until ... after the season's battles were over ..." Dale said Stockman believed the interviews would remain off the record and became "very, very upset" three weeks ago upon learning about the upcoming article. Dale said Stockman viewed it as a "violation of trust." In the article, Stockman admitted as early as last spring that the president's plan for slashing taxes, boosting defense spending and balancing the budget -- all within three years -- would not succeed without changes. The tip-off came in May, he said, from skeptics on Wall Street who were forecasting giant deficits in the years ahead while the president was promising a balanced budget by 1984. He also suggested that any budget plan is a subjective blueprint filled with gimmicks and accounting tricks, the article said. "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," he said. Stockman said he couldn't get the plan back on track because he could not persuade Reagan to press for politically sensitive cuts in Social Security, he could not talk the president into scaling back much from his record defense budget and he could not prevent the tax cut from growing to huge proportions -- totaling $750 billion over five years. "The whole thing is premised on faith, on a belief about how the world works," Stockman said in the article, referring to the "supply-side" theory that personal tax cuts alone will bring economic prosperity and a balanced budget. "I've never believed that just cutting taxes alone will cause output and employment to expand," he said. The article said Stockman wanted Reagan to support a plan to narrow several tax breaks for businesses and the rich as a way of offsetting program cuts affecting the less affluent. - UFO attack US Govt - oreg. 11/18/81 B7 TROJAN HORSE REMARKS STOCKMAN C. Houston Houston Chronicle 1981 Register & Tribune Syndicate 'Rumbling? What rumbling?' === Page 37 of 64 - UFOs "higher ups" # Budget chief ducks queries about doubts ## Stockman blasts Reaganomics - UFOs attack "higher ups" and US Govt # Honeymoon over WASHINGTON (AP) - David A. Stockman avoided reporters and closeted himself with his aides Wednesday as both he and President Reagan remained silent about a magazine article in which the budget director confided major doubts about the administration's economic program. In the December issue of Atlantic Monthly, Stockman also is quoted as criticizing "supply-side" economics, complaining about "greed" and waste at the Defense Department, confessing that Reagan could not balance the budget, and assailing the final tax-cut bill approved by Congress. Moreover, the article quotes Stockman as saying, "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers." House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass., called the Stockman quotes "devastating admissions." "The architect of the administration's economic program is admitting exactly what I and other critics have been saying for six months," O'Neill said. But where "we made our criticisms in public, David Stockman knew first hand the fundamental weaknesses in the Reagan program and chose to cover them up," he added. "Mr. Stockman misled the Congress and the American people as to the consequences of the Reagan economic program. . . . His credibility and the credibility of the program he supports are in serious doubt," the speaker said. ![David A. Stockman] David A. Stockman Was interview off the record In one of the most controversial sections of the lengthy article, Stockman describes the "supply-side" tax cut embraced by Reagan - and once espoused by Stockman himself - as a disguised version of traditional "trickle-down" economics favoring the wealthy. It was, he said, a "Trojan horse" with the real purpose of lowering income tax rates for the rich. Stockman, a key architect of Reagan's program, has refused to comment personally about the article. Advance copies began sweeping across Washington Tuesday - the budget director's 35th birthday. Stockman avoided reporters and television crews camped outside his Washington apartment and downtown office and spent the day in meetings about the 1983 budget plan that must be sent to Congress by January. (Continued on page 52) Rocky Mountain News 11/12/81 President Reagan's honeymoon is being declared over. The evidence is everywhere. He has arrived at that point of his administration where he no longer is above criticism, and the critics are emerging. Furthermore, the administration no longer is the harmonious team that it was depicted. Maybe it never was. A lot may be overlooked during a honeymoon period for a new administration that stands out later. The friction involving Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and National Security Adviser Richard Allen grows sharp at times. Then, too, there is the David Stockman interview that reinforced the worst fears of the skeptics about the Reagan economic program. Add to that the mysterious $1,000 found in Allen's possession that had to do with Nancy Reagan granting an interview to a Japanese publication. So far there has been no satisfactory explanation of it. The administration may not be unraveling, but it is frayed less than a year into its existence. The undoing of a great many social programs helping those in need in addition to the state of the economy that leaves a high unemployment rate and forces closure of many businesses creates a bloc of discontent among many people. There is a lot of nervousness around, about the conduct of foreign policy and the problems domestically. The president may still be popular personally. From all reports, he is a genuinely likable person who has an ability to inspire confidence. But his policies also must inspire confidence, which many do not seem to be doing at the moment. The latest Harris poll shows that he still has a majority giving him a good job rating, but it stands at only 51-47 percent, down from 54-44 six weeks ago and 67-29 at his peak last April. Perhaps the president can reverse the slippage. Maybe he can demonstrate that he has a handle on foreign affairs and that his economic policies are overcoming the ills of the economy. But he apparently must persuade a growing number of his countrymen that, under his leadership, the country is not drifting into war abroad and depression at home. The challenge to the Soviets for arms reductions in Europe should have helped on the first point. Interest rates inching downward may help on the second. 11/23/81 === Page 38 of 64 # Budget Director Stirs Controversy WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Budget director David Stockman was at the center of controversy Wednesday over his assertion in a magazine article that President Reagan's tax cut plan was a "Trojan horse" ploy to aid the rich. Democrats and Republicans alike said the young budget chief's credibility had been undermined by that and other controversial comments made in a series of interviews with The Atlantic Monthly for an article entitled "The Education of David Stockman" making the rounds Wednesday. Stockman was described as angry that his "off the record" remarks were printed, but that didn't stop a chorus of criticism from Capitol Hill. One Stockman protege, Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., suggested his friend "has been pushing himself too hard," and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill accused Stockman of lying to the Congress and the country about the effects of Reagan's program. Said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., "Members of the Congress are certainly going to be less likely to accept whatever figures he offers us from now on. "And the president, who has been relying on David Stockman, is going to find it harder to persuade members of the House and Senate of both parties to go along with him." Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said, however, that the article could help Stockman. "I think he may have gained some credibility, I think people like a bit of candor," he said. CBS News quoted a White House official as saying Stockman had been "mortally wounded as a salesman on Capitol Hill." But at day's end, a White House spokesman said, "As far as we are concerned the matter is at rest." Stockman's spokesman, Edwin Dale, was asked if Stockman's job was in jeopardy because of the article and replied, "There is no talk of resignation that I know of." The controversy centered on the article in the December issue of magazine, which portrays Stockman as increasingly discontented with the administration's "supply-side" economic theory, combining budget cuts with tax breaks to spur growth. It quotes Stockman as saying the massive budget reductions were poorly planned, hastily enacted and ignored "blatant inefficiency" in the Pentagon. And the budget chief said the Reagan approach was merely a new version of the old "trickle down" idea. A pre-publication copy of the article by William Greider, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, caught the White House by surprise, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said. The White House was not aware, he said, that Stockman had been giving interviews to Greider since before he became head of the Office of Management and Budget. "No," Speakes said flatly when asked if the president's across-the-board tax cut was a "Trojan horse" aimed at lowering the taxes for the rich under the guise of giving a break to everyone. Kemp, co-author of the Kemp-Roth tax cut plan embraced by Reagan, said the ideas in the article were "contrary to everything Dave has ever expressed to members of the House, in public or in private." Kemp said he felt "a deep sadness" that Stockman "has put himself in this difficult position." "Dave has worked harder than anyone to make the president's economic program work," Kemp said. "Some of his friends think he has pushed himself too hard in an incredibly difficult position, which requires unusual balance and judgment to succeed." O'Neill said Stockman's "devastating admissions about the Reagan economic program" agreed with what he and other critics had been saying for six months. Accusing Stockman of misleading Congress and the people about the impact of "Reaganomics," O'Neill said, "His credibility and the credibility of the program he supports is in serious doubt." "At this point," the speaker said, "Congress must establish, as a result of Mr. Stockman's remarks, whether this administration has two economic agendas for the country; a public agenda to restore non-inflationary economic growth and a hidden agenda to reward special interests and the rich at the expense of working Americans." (Continued on Page 12) === Page 39 of 64 Stockman adds to public mistrust BY DAVID S. BRODER NORMAN, Okla. -- Much has been said on the effects of David A. Stockman's extraordinary interviews in the Atlantic Monthly on Stockman himself and on the Reagan administration. Something needs to be said about the consequences for people of Stockman's own generation who were caught up in last week's absorbing spectacle. "The Education of David Stockman," as William Greider called his article, was not part of the planned reading list for the Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program that drew 25 collegians and graduate students from seven campuses to Oklahoma University here last weekend for three days of intensive discussions. But since our topic was the leadership challenge facing the younger generation in American politics and since Stockman and other young conservative economists figured prominently in the books we were discussing, copies of the Atlantic article were quickly obtained and eagerly read. You should know that this was not a naive group. Most of them had worked in campaigns, several had interned in congressional offices and others were part-time employees of the Oklahoma legislature, where hardball politics is not unknown. Many have political ambitions of their own. Nor were they, as a group, unsympathetic to the mission that Stockman and his administration colleagues had set for themselves: to curb the runaway growth of the federal government and make room for expansive private enterprise. Equity issues and social justice were important to them, but they, too, shared Stockman's skepticism about many governmental programs. But they were really disturbed by Stockman's comments in the Atlantic interviews and in his televised press conference. Time and again, they asked their visitor from Washington what manner of man this was. Computer-trained themselves, they asked how Stockman could possibly have justified reprogramming the Office of Management and Budget computers to conceal the deficits he knew were there. Why conceal those facts from Congress and the country just to pass a program he knew was flawed? Having worked around legislators themselves, they could not see how Stockman had deluded himself into thinking his credibility could survive if he negotiated budget compromises with congressmen, while telling Greider privately those compromises would have to be repudiated in the next month's new budget cuts. Knowing something of the relationship between politicians and the press, they wondered how Stockman could have thought his comments would be anything but destructive of the administration, whenever they were published. They argued that Stockman must have been seeking to promote his own reputation at the expense of everyone else's. They said they could understand Stockman saying that deadline pressures forced him to make "snap judgments" and wild guesses instead of carefully checking his numbers. They had done midnight term-papers themselves. But, they said, they thought there were higher standards of professionalism and of principle that guided the actions of those whose decisions determined, not just a grade in class, but the lives of millions and the spending of billions. "I tell you what that article did for me," one woman said. "It destroyed my faith in anything these people try to persuade Congress to do. He as much as admits that the administration wanted to win so much they just let the business interest-groups come in and pick that tax bill apart." One of the men said: "When Reagan came in, I felt just like I was watching the end of Superman II, when he puts the flag back in place and says, 'The country's together again.' And now I'm really depressed. It just looks to me like he (Stockman) is saying the problems are too complex, the Congress just won't respond, you can't even trust them with the truth. . . It's the same thing all over again, president after president." As a visitor, I was unable to rationalize Stockman's actions for them. Still less did I persuade them that this kind of manipulation or equivocation is -- in Stockman's economic phrase -- "the way the world works." What I heard from them was the same hard judgment I had heard from other young people -- including Stockman himself -- in the '60s and '70s: That without trust, government becomes impossible. "The whole thing is premised on faith," Stockman told Greider. He was talking about the economic theory he was then defending. It is too bad that he didn't apply that same insight more broadly to government itself and to his own role as a public official. He would have left these students in Oklahoma -- and I expect, many others -- feeling a lot better about the first of their generation to "make it." === Page 40 of 64 - 2/for attack "higher ups" - # Casey 'not unfit to serve,' but senators still critical By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Washington (AP) -- The Senate Intelligence Committee agreed Tuesday that its four-month investigation had found that William J. Casey is not unfit to serve as CIA director, but it nevertheless criticized some of his private business practices, Sen. Harrison Schmitt said. The committee finished, but did not release, a cautiously worded five-to-10-page report after two days of difficult negotiations behind closed doors. One Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said, however, that he would dissent from the committee's basic conclusion about Casey's fitness to continue as CIA director. One Senate source, who asked not to be named, said another Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, had decided to sign the committee's investigative findings but not its conclusion about Casey's fitness to serve, arguing that that was for President Reagan to decide. Schmitt, a New Mexico Republican, said: "Our basic conclusion is that he was not unfit to serve, but it's safe to say the whole situation is not flattering. There were omissions in his reports." Schmitt said he was convinced that inadvertent errors caused Casey to have to file amendments to his disclosures to the committee last January about his past business clients. "We just wish he was more meticulous in his private (business) life," Schmitt said. But Sen. Walter D. Huddleston, D-Ky., said he believed the committee's report could be read two ways. Huddleston said Casey's errors could be viewed as ordinary mistakes or, "you can take an attitude that there is a definite pattern of not being candid with the committee. There is enough in the report for the president to consider... whether it is in the best interests (of the country for Casey) to continue as director." After the committee's second two-hour closed meeting in two days, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., the acting chairman, announced that the panel would issue a report Wednesday on its investigation. Moynihan declined to discuss the contents, but he did say it would not comment on Casey's decision not to put his stock portfolio in a blind trust while he heads the CIA. "That was not a subject assigned to this inquiry," Moynihan said. STAY 12/2/81 however, that he would issue a statement after the committee report was released, disagreeing with its basic conclusion. "I have a very different view from my colleagues on this matter," Biden said. "The issue is not whether Bill Casey committed crimes but whether he has my confidence and the confidence of the committee." Biden said he had no quarrel with the panel's investigative work or with its findings in specific cases it studied, but rather that he disagreed "with what conclusions you draw from that. It's not because I think there's a smoking gun or he committed any crime. It goes to confidence." Nevertheless, it was learned that the panel had debated whether to comment on that decision by Casey. Casey, who has broad access to the government's secret data on international economic developments, broke with the practice of his two predecessors at the CIA in keeping control of his stocks. Casey and his wife own stock worth at least $1.8 million and perhaps more than $3.4 million in 27 corporations with major foreign operations. It could not be learned if the final report adopted criticisms of Casey proposed by the panel's special Democratic counsel, Irvin Nathan. One senator, who asked not to be identified, had said that Nathan's report "questions Casey's credibility." Moynihan added that so far as he knew there would be no dissenting views or additional comments by individual senators in the report. In an interview, Biden said later, === Page 41 of 64 Finland president resigns HELSINKI, Finland (UPI) -- President Urho Kekkonen, whose "Finlandization" policy forged close ties with the Soviet Union but preserved Finland's formal neutrality, resigned Tuesday for health reasons after 25 years in office. Kekkonen, 81, resigned after a seven-week illness caused by a blood circulation problem in his brain that left him unable to resume official duties. The resignation, written with a trembling hand, was accepted by the Cabinet in a brief session early Tuesday. Elections will be held Jan. 17-18 to pick 300 presidential electors -- leading political and public figures -- who will choose Kekkonen's successor Jan. 26, the government said. Kekkonen will remain in office until his successor is sworn in Jan. 27, the government said. Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto, 57, the nation's acting president since Kekkonen fell ill Sept. 10, will continue to serve until the elections, the government said. "I have been struck with illness and because of it, I have been unable to take care of my task as the president," Kekkonen told the Cabinet in a signed statement written Monday. "And now the illness is found to be of such a nature as to be a permanent hindrance," he said. Kekkonen's health has been falling rapidly for a year and he was visibly weak during a trip to the Soviet Union in November 1980. After he was stricken last month, his speaking ability and memory were impaired and there were reports he was unable to recognize visitors. Recent polls showed Koivisto, the leader of the Social Democratic Party and a former governor of the Central Bank, favored by 70 percent of the voters. Political analysts said he is almost certain to win the upcoming presidential elections. But the change in leadership is not expected to affect Finland's special relationship with the Soviet Union, with which the nation of 4.7 million shares a 793-mile border and a military cooperation pact. Kekkonen's policy of close ties with Soviet Union gave rise in the West to the disparaging term "Finlandization," meaning the uncritical accommodation of a greater power. But Kekkonen made no apology for the accommodation, calling Finland's "policy of neutrality" his "life's work." "To maintain and strengthen it, I shall labor until my last breath," He once said. It is certain that any candidate will endorse the Kekkonen line in foreign policy. Finnish policy has been stable and continuity is likely. Under Kekkonen -- who was first elected in 1956, re-elected for three more terms and then given a fifth term through special legislation -- foreign policy was almost completely controlled by the president's office. Kekkonen's era brought unprecedented prosperity and security to the Finns, whose friendship is valued by Moscow as a buffer between Russian soil and Norway, a NATO member. Mrs. Marcos safe following threats SAN FRANCISCO -- A sniper shot was fired at a lounge that the wife of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos was scheduled to use and her flight was delayed by a bomb threat, airport police said Wednesday. Mrs. Marcos was not in the lounge Tuesday night where a bullet cracked a window, and she had not boarded the Philippine Airlines 747 jet when the threat was telephoned to a reservations phone. She arrived from New York on a Trans World Airlines flight and took off safely early Wednesday after a four-hour delay. Control of Chad in doubt as Libya backs coup try YAOUNDE, Cameroon (UPI) -- Insurgents supported by troops sent by Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy swept into the capital of Chad Wednesday but it was not clear Thursday whether the coup attempt against President Goukouni Weddeye had succeeded. Residents of Kousseri, Cameroon, across the Chari River from the Chad capital of N'djamena, said the capital's markets were open, conditions were calm and the Ndjame na Radio had not interrupted its normal broadcasts. Chadian rebels supported by Libyan tanks and troops entered N'djamena Wednesday in an attempt to overthrow the government and force a merger with Libya, French government sources said. The sources said they did not know whether the coup had succeeded, but there were indications Weddeye may have fled the capital. The sources said Weddeye had wanted Libya's 7,000-man force already based in Chad to be withdrawn. President Jaafar Numeiry of the Sudan expressed the belief the coup had failed, the Egyptian Middle East News Agency said in a report from Khartoum. Numeiry said Khadafy sent his second man, Abdul Salam Jalloud, to N'djamena "to plot a quick coup" and to prevent a cabinet meeting at which Weddeye planned to demand that Libya withdraw its forces from Chad. Top Mormons have surgery SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The two highest-ranking officers in the Mormon Church underwent surgery Monday, and doctors termed both operations a success. President Spencer W. Kimball, 86, leader of the 4.7 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, underwent minor urinary tract surgery Monday. He has been hospitalized since Sept. 5 when he had skull surgery for removal of a subdural hematoma, an accumulation of blood and scar tissue between his brain and skull. "The condition of President Kimball continued to improve Monday. He's stronger, more alert and walking regularly," Wilkinson said. Kimball's condition was "deemed sufficient to allow doctors to perform a minor urologic surgery," the doctor said. Ezra Taft Benson, president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and next in line to become president of the church, underwent hip surgery. Dr. Wallace E. Hess termed Benson's operation a success and said the 82-year-old church leader should be released from LDS Hospital in about eight days. Church spokesman Jerry Cahill said this is the first time that the church president and the man who would be his successor have been hospitalized at the same time. Kimball's operation was performed with a local anesthetic and was designed to correct what his physician, Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, termed a "longstanding urinary tract defect." Benson's operation, which concluded shortly before noon, involved implantation of a metal ball hip joint and a plastic hip socket. Benson suffered a fractured hip July 4, 1978, when a horse knocked him to the ground. Cahill said degenerative arthritis developed in the hip, causing Benson considerable pain and limiting his mobility. === Page 42 of 64 - UFO attack "higher ups" - # Dispute topples Dane leaders COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Denmark's minority Social Democrat government fell Thursday when it lost support for a plan it claimed was vital to revive the country's stagnant economy. Prime Minister Anker Joergensen will continue as head of a caretaker government until special elections Dec. 8, two years ahead of schedule, a government statement said. The Danish Constitution says the Folketing, Denmark's parliament, must convene 12 working days after an election. The Dec. 8 date would give the newly elected body time to approve a 1982 national budget before the Christmas break. Denmark is the third member nation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in governmental crisis this month. A coalition finally was formed a week ago in the Netherlands after weeks of inter-party haggling, and Belgium still has a caretaker government after inconclusive elections last weekend. The defeat for Joergensen, prime minister since 1975 except for a year in the late 1970s, came on a motion to implement an economic compromise worked out in May with the three small parties whose votes have kept him in power. The six Center Democrats in the 179-seat Folketing abandoned the government on its plan to order public and private pension plans to reinvest about $425 million in high-interest but unproductive government bonds. Joergensen wanted the funds put in so-called "active investments" in the hard-hit agricultural and building sectors, boosting his plan to create 50,000 new jobs a year. oreg 11/13/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - # Ex-leader of Turkey gets 4-month sentence By MARVINE HOWE New York Times News Service ANKARA, Turkey -- Former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has been sentenced to four months in prison for defying a ban on political statements, it was announced Friday. Ecevit, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who has served as prime minister three times since 1974, does not have the right to appeal and is expected to be incarcerated in a civilian prison within the next few days. The imprisonment of Ecevit is expected to raise widespread international criticism of the military junta, which seized power Sept. 12, 1980, but has repeatedly pledged its commitment to democratic rule. Turkey's press, which is under strict self-censorship, announced Friday that the sentence against Ecevit had become final since the Ankara martial law commander failed to appeal the court's decision. Any comments on the court's action would be seen as a violation of the ban on political statements. West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher came to Ankara earlier this month with the explicit aim of expressing Western Europeans' wish to see some concrete steps towards democracy to back up the generals' claims. Western diplomats in Ankara had hoped that the military authorities would review the court decision against Ecevit, not only in view of his international prominence but also because of the nature of the charges against him. Ecevit was sentenced by the martial law court for violating a decree issued by the military junta last June, barring former politicians from making any public statements on "the past, present and future political structure of Turkey." It was after the military closed down all political parties last month that Ecevit, invoking "the constitutional right of rebuttal," defended the record of his Republican Peoples Party and mildly criticized the military regime. "It is a fact that, in view of my own conception of democracy, I cannot bring myself to approve the present mode of administration in Turkey or the regime that is being stipulated for Turkey by the current administration," Ecevit stated in the declaration that was used as evidence against him. oreg 11/21/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - Chilean justice wounded SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) -- The president of Chile's Supreme Court was wounded while riding in his chauffeured car by an assailant firing a submachine gun from a speeding taxi, police said. The would-be assassin, who escaped, ambushed Supreme Court President Israel Borquez Friday as he was riding to work. oreg 11/7/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - # Flemming fired from rights post By HOWELL RAINES New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan Monday dismissed Arthur S. Flemming as chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and appointed Clarence M. Pendleton, a conservative black Republican, to replace him. oreg 11/17/81 - UFO attack "higher ups" - Knight to resign The director of the U.S. Secret Service, H. Stuart Knight, will leave his post Nov. 30 after eight years at the head of the agency, Treasury Department officials said Monday. Knight, 60, apparently is retiring simply because "he's ready and he wanted to," said Treasury spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. oreg 11/17/81 === Page 43 of 64 Columbia 10/20/81 # General fired after remarks about Soviets - UFOs "higher ups" - WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top military officer on the National Security Council staff was fired this morning after saying in a speech that the "Soviets are on the move; they are going to strike." President Reagan said he disagreed with the officer, Army Maj. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer, but Reagan praised him as "a fine soldier" whose services in another post will continue to "be of great benefit to the country." Reagan's brief comments came only minutes after a senior White House official told reporters Schweitzer was being relieved of his post as director of defense policy for the National Security Council and would return to the Department of the Army within the next few days. Gen. Schweitzer - UFOs "higher ups" - # Israeli minister goes on trial By DANIEL GREBLER Oreg 11/23/81 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Aharon Abu-Hatseira, a member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's coalition government, went on trial Sunday on charges of embezzling money from a state-run charity. A conviction could threaten Begin's coalition. Abu-Hatseira, 42, pleaded innocent to charges that he converted for his personal use 4,297 shekels -- about $4,300 -- between 1975 and 1978 while serving as mayor of Ramleh, east of Tel Aviv. The charge sheet said the minister used the money from a charitable fund named after his father to pay personal expenses. Abu-Hatseira is minister of labor, social welfare and immigration and leads the three-man Tami faction in Begin's coalition, which has a one-vote majority in Israel's 120-seat parliament, the Knesset. His faction plays a key role in the coalition, as evidenced by Abu-Hatseira's three portfolios. Abu-Hatseira has taken a leave of absence for the trial -- his second this year. He was acquitted last May of bribery charges in the first criminal trial of an Israeli Cabinet minister. The embezzlement trial opened in September. But it was postponed while Abu-Hatseira's lawyers argued before the Supreme Court that their client enjoyed parliamentary immunity since his re-election to the Knesset in June. The court rejected the claim earlier this month on grounds that the Knesset already had stripped Abu-Hatseira of immunity before the bribery trial. After his acquittal in the bribery case, the Moroccan-born Abu-Hatseira rallied the support of Israel's Sephardic (North African) Jewish community. He became a hero for Israelis who viewed the case as an attempt by the Ashkenazi (European) establishment to oppress Sephardic Jews. Abu-Hatseira built on that support to break away from the National Religious Party before the election and form Tami as a Sephardic ethnic political group. # Hospital beat - UFOs "higher ups" - Cardinal Humberto Medeiros was released from a Boston, Mass., hospital Tuesday, a week after he was admitted for treatment of exhaustion and lung congestion. The 66-year-old archbishop of Boston said he would take it easy for the next few weeks. "Although I have regained much of my strength, my physicians insist that for the immediate future I must curtail my schedule of appointments and commitments," he said. "I therefore ask your continued prayers and patience." Des Moines Reg 11/11/81 # Vatican Denies Resignation - UFOs "higher ups" - Vatican City (UPI) -- Vatican officials dismissed as "nothing more than petty gossip" a West German press report that Pope John Paul II may resign because his recovery from an assassination attempt has been so slow. In its latest edition, the West German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said John Paul, 61, has been considering resigning since the assassination attempt May 13 because he does not feel healthy enough to continue. Der Spiegel said that since his release from the hospital Aug. 14, the pope has been unable to resume what he considers full activity. Omaha W.H. 11/11/81 # Wounded Arab leader dies JERUSALEM (AP) -- A moderate Arab leader on the occupied West Bank died Sunday of bullet wounds he suffered in an ambush by Palestinian gunmen last week, a spokesman at Hadassah hospital said. Yussuf al-Khatib, 60, was head of the Ramallah area village association, one of many cultivated by Israel as a moderate alternative to nationalist Palestinian demands for an independent state. He was shot in the head at close range Nov. 17 while riding in a car. Al-Khatib's son Khadem, 23, was killed in the attack. A statement by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Beirut claimed responsibility for the shootings and vowed to "execute all other collaborators with the Zionist enemy throughout our occupied territories." The head of another village association in Bethlehem, Bishara Qumsieh, has been given round-the-clock military protection since Nov. 18, when he announced his willingness to join an Israeli-sponsored autonomy council for the West Bank. Al-Khatib's death crowned a day of West Bank disturbances. # Chief of protocol mulls resignation - UFOs "higher ups" - LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Chief of Protocol Leonore Annenberg said Monday she is thinking about resigning from the $50,112-a-year post to which she was confirmed May 5 because she cannot spend enough time with her husband, the billionaire publisher of Triangle Publications and former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Annenberg. "I adore my job but my husband comes first," she said. "That's exactly correct," Walter Annenberg said when reached later at his Philadelphia office. "It's too difficult for me to be running back and forth to Washington. It's been a delightful experience for her, and I know she's been a wonderful chief of protocol. But do I want her back? In a word, yes." 11/18/81 === Page 44 of 64 - UFOs "higher ups" - # Artery bypass given Demo By JIM DRINKARD **Org 10/31/81** WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Richard Bolling, chairman of the House Rules Committee, successfully underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery Friday at Georgetown University Hospital. Bolling, a 65-year-old Missouri Democrat, was reported in stable condition in the hospital's intensive care unit following the four-hour operation, said Dr. Freeman Cary, physician for the House of Representatives. "He has done well," Cary said. Only three bypass grafts had been planned. But one additional one was made after surgeons "found another one that needed it" during the operation, Cary said. Cary said the operation on the 33-year House veteran was "a preventive surgical procedure" designed to lessen the risk of any recurrence of a heart attack Bolling suffered in 1975. Friday's operation was performed by a team of doctors and support personnel headed by Dr. Robert Wallace. "There's not any particular problem," Cary said, "but in the future he'll have better blood flow in the arteries leading from the heart, which are carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body." The operation involved taking a vein from Bolling's leg and using it to a point beyond the blockage in the "It's a very common procedure, different ways," Cary said. Such an operation is not without risk, Cary said, but some 100,000 are performed in the U.S. last year. "Fortunately, the mortality rate for people who do these has reached a level that is acceptable," he said. Cary said he expected Bolling to be hospitalized for eight to 10 days and to be able to resume light work in two weeks. It will be four to six weeks before the 33-year House veteran is back to normal, he said. Bolling, who entered an alcoholism treatment program in 1979 and underwent surgery for an abdominal hernia last year, has said he will not seek another House term. He denied that he is leaving for health or personal reasons, saying he plans to write and teach. Heart - UFOs "higher ups" - # Envoy to retire JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Ephraim Evron, will step down in January, the Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday. An official statement said no successor had been named, but the Israeli media reported that Moshe Arens, a U.S.-trained aeronautical engineer and senior member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud bloc, would replace Evron. The statement said Evron, 61, had asked to retire last summer but was persuaded to stay on until his three-year term ends Jan. 31. **Org 11/5/81** - UFOs "higher ups" - # Spanish premier loses support MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Fifteen leading members of Premier Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo's party quit Wednesday, plunging Spain into a new crisis. Former Justice Minister Francisco Fernando Ordonez gave no reason for leading eight other parliamentary deputies and six senators from the party, the Union of the Democratic Center. But one of the defectors who declined to be named said Fernandez Ordonez objected to the party's turn to the right under Calvo Sotelo. The party general secretary, Rafael Calvo Ortega, termed the situation worrying but not grave after noting the resigning party members promised to vote with the government on "fundamental" questions. But the loss of 15 members left the government's chances for majorities in the 350-seat lower house in doubt, and the eventual loss of votes in the future could force a new alliance. **Org 11/5/81** - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Fusion head Kintner quits WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Energy Department's program to develop nuclear fusion has resigned to protest what he says are shifts in the program's scientific research being forced by administration budget officials. Dr. Edwin E. Kintner said Wednesday he disagreed with budgetary changes being imposed by the Office of Management and Budget. He said these would change the "balance" of the program intended to develop fusion as a source of virtually unlimited electrical power. It is a case of "the professionals who manage the program versus the people in the OMB," Kintner said. He would not discuss specific figures or programs, saying the changes he objects to are in the fiscal 1983 budget, which is not yet public. Kintner said he and other Energy Department officials had argued against the changes but had been overridden by OMB. **11/25/81** - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Cabinet shuffled LIMA, Peru (AP) -- President Fernando Belaunde Terry has shuffled his Cabinet, replacing his ministers of interior, war, navy and aeronautics, the government announced Wednesday. Interior Minister Jose Maria de la Jara, a human rights advocate accused by many in the government of being too soft on terrorism, presented his letter of resignation shortly before Belaunde announced the other Cabinet changes. De la Jara said his resignation was prompted by widespread terrorism and the death of a student during street demonstrations Friday in the mountain city of Cuzco. The resignation came at a time when police have taken control of five Andean provinces southeast of Lima in an attempt to stop the terrorism. The provinces, in the department of Ayacucho, are under a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties. **Org 10/29/81** === Page 45 of 64 Y, NOVEMBER 21, 1981 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Probes clear Reagan's son By JACKIE HYMAN LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Reagan's son Michael has been cleared of wrongdoing in two separate investigations, including one involving stock-fraud allegations, the Los Angeles County district attorney said Friday. Reagan, 35, technically may have violated state Corporate Securities Act provisions, District Attorney John Van de Kamp said, but "there is no evidence he did so with knowledge of the fraudulent nature of the investment." Van de Kamp, in a written statement released by his office, also noted that Reagan lost $1,500 of his own money. "The president is pleased with the outcome as far as Michael is concerned," said deputy White House news secretary Larry Speakes. The president's son was under investigation for allegedly having steered investors to Richard F. Carey, who is being investigated in the stock-fraud case, according to documents filed with Los Angeles Municipal Court by the district attorney's office. Reagan, a businessman, met Carey through a mutual friend, according to the documents. Van de Kamp said Reagan may have violated a provision that would have required him to obtain a permit to deal as a securities agent but said such violations aren't normally prosecuted when there is no evidence of personal profit or fraudulent intent. Van de Kamp said Reagan has also been cleared of any wrongdoing in connection with his sale of a part interest in his own company, Agricultural Energy Resources. Reagan had been been under investigation by the state Department of Corporations and the district attorney for alleged personal use of $17,500 he received from four investors for a gasohol development project. "Of course he is quite pleased, as he is with the Carey matter, that the investigation is over and he has been cleared," said Reagan's attorney, Donald Wager. orep 11/21/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Fired Flemming lashes back WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Arthur Flemming, fired by President Reagan as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, accused the administration Tuesday of paying only "lip service" to the quest for equal opportunity. While the White House did not detail any specific reasons for his dismissal, Flemming, a former president of the University of Oregon, suggested Tuesday it was because Reagan disagrees with the commission's recent reports on affirmative action and busing to achieve school desegregation. Reagan nominated Clarence Pendleton, a conservative black and friend of presidential counselor Edwin Meese, to become chairman of the civil rights panel. A source close to the commission said Meese, angered by a report on police brutality, cited it as an example of the "mischief" played by the panel and pressed for removal of the 76-year-old Flemming. Only once before in the 24-year history of the civil rights panel has a president dismissed a member. That was in 1972 when Richard Nixon removed the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh and replaced him with Flemming. orep 11/17/81 # Bottle law battle looms BOSTON (UPI) -- The beverage industry plans to force a referendum in Massachusetts to repeal the state's new "bottle law," requiring deposits on all beer and soft drink containers. The state Senate voted 29-10 Monday, three votes more than the necessary two-thirds majority, to override Gov. Edward J. King's veto of the measure, making Massachusetts the # Study SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Two researchers who have completed a study on weapons say there are few facts available to back up arguments against gun control. Sociologists James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi of the University of Massachusetts Social and Demographic Research Institute said in a report based their conclusions on questionnaires and court records. "I will say that I continue to be surprised at how untested and unexamined assumptions that go into the pros and cons of the gun control debate," Wright said in a telephone interview Monday. UFOs "higher ups" - # Judge Marshall may retire WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the high court's first and only black member, is considering retiring from the bench, it was reported. Marc Gibson, Sheridan Broadcasting Network's White House correspondent, quoting informed sources, reported Monday that Marshall, 73, who has been ailing, called on President Reagan last Thursday and "reportedly discussed his intent to retire." Asked about the report, court spokesman Barret McGurn said, "I know absolutely nothing about it." orep 11/17/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Israeli official to stand trial orep 11/6/81 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Supreme Court rejected Cabinet minister Aharon Abu-Hatzeira's immunity appeal Thursday, clearing the way for an embezzlement trial that could bring down Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. Abu-Hatzeira's parliamentary immunity was lifted in January so that he could face trial on bribery charges. He was acquitted but is now accused with a top aide of embezzling funds from a state-aided charity. Abu-Hatzeira argued that since he had been re-elected to Parliament, his immunity was renewed. The court rejected the argument by a 4-1 decision and said it would issue an explanation later. Abu-Hatzeira, in charge of labor, welfare and immigration, leads a three-man faction on which Begin depends for his 61-seat majority in the 120-member Parliament. Political observers say if Abu-Hatzeira is convicted, the faction may not survive, and Begin's parliamentary majority could end. Begin's spokesman was not reachable for comment by telephone. The prime minister was out of town. Abu-Hatzeira, 42, is the first Cabinet minister to face criminal charges. He was not in court. Israel radio said his whereabouts were unknown. The affair, which has held national attention for more than a year, is tinged with ethnic overtones. The minister claims he is innocent but victimized by the European-dominated establishment because he is Moroccan-born. The minister goes on trial Nov. 22 in a Tel Aviv district court, accused of embezzling $4,300 from a state-subsidized charity dedicated to his father. === Page 46 of 64 UFOs attack "higher ups" CONSTANTINE GIANNARIS # Consul slain in Australia SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- The government promised a full investigation Monday to find the killer of Greek Consul-General Constantine Giannaris, who was found bound and gagged in his ransacked home with a 9-inch dagger protruding from his back. A maid and two consular officials discovered the body on the ground floor of Giannaris' home at about noon Monday after he did not report to his office, police said. He lived alone. "Any death is a tragedy," said Foreign Minister Tony Street in a telegram to the Greek foreign minister, "the more so when it involves a violent crime against a diplomatic representative." Police said Giannaris, 46, was lying in a pool of blood, fully clothed with a gag stuffed in his mouth. His hands were tied behind him and a 9-inch knife was protruding from his back. He also had a head wound, police said. Earlier police reports had said Giannaris had been shot, but New South Wales state police spokesman Detective Sgt. Pat Daly said detectives had not determined whether the head wound had been caused by a bullet. erg. 11/17/81 UFOs "higher ups" # Flemming replaced Arthur S. Flemming was replaced as chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Monday minutes before he made public a report criticizing the Reagan administration's policies on school desegregation. Flemming, a 76-year-old Republican, had been chairman of the commission since 1974. He had been publicly critical of the president's civil rights policies prior to Monday's news conference, during which he said the administration's views on school desegregation "are in conflict with the Constitution." A spokesman for the civil rights office, Charles Rivera, said he "rather doubted" that there was a connection between Monday's dismissal and Flemming's remarks. He said there been rumors of possible changes for several weeks. But Rivera said it was unusual to replace commissioners, who are appointed by the president for open-ended terms. Robin Gray, a White House spokesman, said Flemming was telephoned Monday morning and told he was being replaced. Larry Speakes, the press secretary, said the president appointed an official to have the commission's work. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Rebels kill Afghan official NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Anti-government rebels in Kabul recently killed a senior Afghan Defense Ministry official and his wife and several party functionaries, according to a report from the Afghan capital Saturday. Brigadier Mohammad Azam and his wife were assassinated between Nov. 24 and Nov. 26 at their home near the Qargha military barracks, said the report from a source monitoring the Afghan fighting. The insurgents killed three members of the National Fatherland Front and other party members Tuesday night, the source said. The rebels set fire to the home where the meeting was held before they withdrew. erg. 11/29/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Parliament member killed BELFAST (UPI) -- IRA terrorists wearing Halloween masks assassinated a militant Protestant member of the British parliament Saturday. Another man was also killed in the attack and by midnight five additional people had been shot in a spiral of reprisals. British Northern Ireland Secretary James Prior branded the killing of the Rev. Robert Bradford a "cynical trap" to create a civil war of terrorism and "counterterrorism" in the embattled province. Bradford, a militant Protestant MP from south Belfast, was the first member of parliament to be assassinated in Ulster in 12 years of violence. The four assassins also killed another man who tried to stop them. Four gunmen wearing Halloween masks and painters' overalls walked into a south Belfast community center where Bradford, 40, was meeting constituents. He was shot six times with a rifle at point-blank range, police and witnesses said. UFOs "higher ups" # Soviet official kidnapped in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- Gunmen kidnapped a Soviet military expert working with Palestinian guerrillas two days ago, a radio run by a right-wing Christian militia said Saturday. They said they could not confirm the report carried by the Voice of Lebanon, a station run by the Phalangist Party. The Russian, identified only as Tikonov, was kidnapped in the predominantly-Moslem neighborhood of West Beirut. Tikonov, a former Soviet army expert, was described by the radio as an adviser on weaponry. There is no at known kidnapping of a Russian in Lebanon, although diplomats from other countries have been victims of kidnappings and assassinations. 11/15/81 # British home blasted LONDON (UPI) -- A huge explosion rocked the home of Attorney General Sir Michael Havers late Friday but Scotland Yard said the government's chief law enforcement officer was not at home at the time and escaped injury. A police officer on guard duty outside suffered acute shock in the explosion, but there were no immediate reports of other injuries, a spokeswoman said. No one was in the house at the time, and the cause of the blast and extent of the damage were not immediately known. The blast could be heard at least six miles away in other parts of south London just after 11 p.m (4 p.m. MST) London time. Star Wyo. 11/14/81 Bomb squad and anti-terrorist officers were rushed to the scene to investigate, the spokeswoman said. Police sealed off a wide area to all but residents as fire engines and ambulances stood by. "It's an explosion inside or near the house, but it's too early to tell, and we still don't know the extent of the damage," the spokeswoman said. "No one was hurt except for the shocked police constable." There were suspicions the blast may be connected to an IRA bombing campaign on the British mainland which began Oct. 10. Three people have been killed in three blasts for which the Irish Republican Army has claimed responsibility. === Page 47 of 64 PLO ambushes pro-Israel THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1981 Palestinian leader, kills his son By ARTHUR MAX BETUNIA, Occupied West Bank (AP) -- A gunman critically wounded a moderate Palestinian leader and killed his son Tuesday in a car ambush that struck at Israel's policies in this occupied territory. The Palestine Liberation Organization called the wounded man a "collaborator" with Israel and said it carried out the attack. The PLO took responsibility for wounding Yussuf Al-Khatib, 60, head of a local village association, and killing his 23-year-old son, Kadem, as they drove through Betunia, six miles northwest of Jerusalem. Israeli authorities said one killer was responsible, but in Beirut, the PLO issued a communique stating that a guerrilla squad carried out the shooting. The group vowed to "execute all other collaborators with the Zionist enemy throughout our occupied homeland." The PLO is an umbrella group of eight guerrilla factions fighting for a Palestinian state on Israeli-occupied land. Israel refuses to deal with the PLO, calling it a terrorist group. Israeli officials in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River have encouraged growth of village associations, hoping they will develop a moderate Palestinian leadership to counter pro-PLO sentiment in large towns. The Israelis hope the villages, where 70 percent of West Bank Palestinians live, will be receptive to a self-rule plan being negotiated under the Camp David peace accords. But so far no Palestinian moderate has supported the Israeli self-rule plan. Al-Khatib's association, in the Ramallah area north of Jerusalem, has about 24 member villages which benefit from development projects financed mostly by Israel. But some acquaintances of Al-Khatib said he was not popular because of his pro-Israeli views. "I am not with killing," said Betunia Mayor Ahmed Othman, who knew the victims. "But he (Al-Khatib) should know that when the PLO does not want something, he should stay away from it." The attack came amid a crackdown on Palestinian activists in the West Bank, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 war. On Monday, army demolition squads blew up the houses of three teen-agers accused of lobbing firebombs on Israeli cars and tourist buses. It was the first time the Israelis destroyed homes as a reprisal for anything less than a major guerrilla operation. In Nablus, an Israeli military court sentenced four Palestinian guerrillas to life imprisonment for ambushing and killing six Jewish settlers in Hebron last year. Two judges favored the death penalty but failed to win the necessary unanimous decision from the third judge in the tribunal. - UFOs "higher ups" China envoy hit by bike NYACK, N.Y. (UPI) -- An official in the Chinese delegation to the United Nations was accidently struck in a park by a bicyclist and critically injured, authorities said Monday. Wang Shikun, 55, was listed in critical but stable condition at Nyack Hospital, where he underwent surgery for a blood clot in the brain. The injury was sustained in the accident, authorities said. oreg D 10/12/81 - UFOs "higher ups" The world oreg 10/26/81 Diplomat wounded ROME (AP) -- An unidentified gunman fired three pistol shots at a Turkish diplomat in Rome Sunday, wounding him in both arms, police reported. First reports said the diplomat, Gokberk Ergenekon, 28, returned fire and probably wounded the fleeing attacker. The diplomat works in the consular section, the Turkish Embassy said. Police quoted Ergenekon as saying he was walking on Via dei Normanni near the Colosseum when a man in his early 30s approached him and opened fire. They said two shots hit Ergenekon in the right arm and another struck his left arm. The diplomat pulled out his .38-caliber pistol and fired at the attacker as he ran toward the Colosseum, police said. Ergenekon was taken to a nearby hospital where his condition was described as not serious. No other details were immediately available. - UFOs "higher ups" Mob attacks home MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- A mob of 400 government sympathizers attacked the home of former junta member Alfonso Robelo, friends of his family said Monday. Police seized the passports of three other opposition leaders. The Costa Rican government announced Monday it would offer Robelo asylum. Sources in San Jose who said they had spoken with Robelo by telephone told The Associated Press he was in hiding with his wife and three daughters and feared for his life. The crowd went to Robelo's house at 4 a.m. Sunday, threw rocks through the windows and scrawled obscenities on the outer walls, the friends said. The attackers also splashed Robelo's Mercedes Benz automobile with red and black paint, the Sandanista colors. Robelo and his family were not at home. oreg 10/27/81 === Page 48 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Two incidents mar Wales tour Org 10/28/81 CAERNARVON, WALES (AP) -- Prince Charles and Princess Diana were given a rousing welcome Tuesday on their first tour of Wales, but nationalist demonstrators set off a stink bomb and scuffled with police at one appearance and a woman sprayed paint at the royal limousine at another. Thousands cheered the royal couple in the steel-making center of Shotton, the seaside resort of Rhyl, the coastal town of Llandudno and the ancient castle city of Caernarvon. So many well-wishers pressed bouquets on Diana that she said, "I feel like a walking greenhouse." But as the couple arrived at Caernarvon Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II installed Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969, a woman leaped from the crowd and sprayed white paint at the black limousine in which the prince and princess were riding. Police quickly grabbed the woman, who they said was 24 years old but did not otherwise identify. Later, as Prince Charles and Princess Diana went on a walking tour of nearby Bangor, demonstrators set off a stink bomb and attacked police, shouting, "Go Home English Prince" and "Charles Out." There was no word on injuries or arrests, but four protesters were seen being carried away by officers. The royal couple, a few yards away, was quickly surrounded by detectives. Prince Charles stepped quickly to his wife's side and directed her to another crowd across the street, but the royal couple refused to be hurried away and continued exchanging pleasantries with well-wishers. Security was already tight for the three-day royal visit, the first formal public appearance since the July 29 wedding of the 32-year-old prince and the former Lady Diana Spencer, 20. # Bang! WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- popping, crackling noise that sound like a pistol shot interrupted Supreme Court arguments today and sent security guards rushing to the justices' bench. After about a minute of hushed tension, it was determined that a light bulb had fallen from a ceiling fixture and had exploded when it hit the marble floor. Org. Post 11/1/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Royal couple cheered; Welsh discover bomb By MARK S. SMITH Org 10/29/81 CARMARTHEN, WALES (AP) -- Thousands braved driving rain Wednesday to cheer Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their first official visit to this Celtic principality. For the second time this week, Welsh nationalists planted a bomb in a city on the royal route. The device was far enough from areas the couple is expected to visit that it apparently was intended as a protest, not an attempt on their lives. As the drizzle turned into a downpour, Charles slipped his arm round Diana's waist and handed her an umbrella, saying, "Darling, don't walk out in the rain." Army experts defused a fire bomb in the British Steel Corp. offices in Cardiff, 55 miles west of here, after a telephone caller claiming to represent the "Welsh Army of the Workers' Republic," announced its presence to a local radio station. Police said they had never heard of the group before. Charles and Diana are due in Cardiff, the Welsh capital, Thursday at the end of their three-day tour. Police said the bomb was identical to one defused Monday at an army recruiting center in Pontypridd, a town 10 miles north of Cardiff that also is on Thursday's royal itinerary. Security was tight when the couple, whose titles are the Prince and Princess of Wales, toured five South Wales towns. Crowds waved the British flag, the Union Jack, and Wales' green and white flag emblazoned with the red dragon. Many shouted "Creoso" -- Welsh for "Welcome" -- and pressed forward with posies or handshakes for the 20-year-old princess, who is on her first official function since her July 29 wedding. There was no sign during the day of trouble from Welsh nationalists, but when the royal couple arrived Wednesday night for a gala in Swansea, the second-largest city of Wales, they were greeted by several dozen demonstrators chanting, "Charles and Diana Out, Out, Out!" and carrying signs urging establishment of a Welsh republic. "We feel it's a bit of cheek to the Welsh people to have an English person imposed upon us as our royalty," said one demonstrator who refused to give his name. Welsh nationalists had marred enthusiastic welcomes Tuesday in two northern centers, Bangor and Caernarvon, jeering Charles and Diana, lobbing a stinkbomb and spraying paint on their limousine. The anti-royalist demonstrators in Swansea were largely drowned out by some 2,000 well-wishers who cheered loudly as the royal couple entered Brangwym Hall in Swansea's city center. "I'm Welsh, but I simply cannot sympathize with anyone who could lower themselves to that kind of extremism," said Sian Rhys-Davis, 34, one of the thousands who stood for hours in the storm-lashed main street of this 900-year-old market town to cheer the royal couple's lunchtime arrival. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # New Haig flap annoys Reagan WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Reagan is annoyed and incredulous about the most recent reports that his foreign policy team, including Secretary of State Alexander Haig, is alive with backbiting and turf battles. The president, in remarks Tuesday, even suggested that some of the stories may have been fabricated. "I don't have much faith in an unnamed source," he told reporters. "Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as an unnamed source." His comments aside, the reason for the president's consternation in this case had little to do with an unnamed source. Rather, it was Haig's published -- on the record -- complaints in a Jack Anderson column about a White House official conducting a guerrilla campaign to do him in. Anderson was about to publish a column, relying on White House sources, that called Haig a disappointment as secretary of state and suggested that he is close to losing his job. Haig heard about the column, called Anderson, called Reagan and, according to the State Department, apparently told the president that, yes, someone on the White House staff was out to get him. A State Department official confirmed the accuracy of Haig's complaints as recounted by Anderson. Org J 11/4/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - SNIFFLES: Nancy Reagan did not accompany the president to a Republican fund-raising gathering in New York due to a lingering cold. Reagan apologized Friday for the absence of his wife, explaining that she had been "grounded" by a bug. Reagan also has had a cold and he sounded hoarse when he spoke to guests at a GOP reception. Org J 11/7/81 === Page 49 of 64 MIKE ROYKO Disorientation UFO attack "Higher ups" Denver Post 11/3/81 # Confusion as our national standard RICHARD NIXON used to preface statements by saying: "Let me make this perfectly clear." Then he'd try to confuse us. President Reagan and his top people have a different approach. They start right out by confusing us. Then they confuse one another. Later, they confuse themselves. Finally, they confuse us even more. An example of this approach is the question of whether we will or won't explode a nuclear bomb as a warning if Moscow makes some kind of conventional military attack in Europe. The question came up while Secretary of State Alexander ("I'm in charge!") Haig was being questioned by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the White House's nuclear weapons plans. HAIG, WITH A Strangelovian gleam in his eyes, told the senators that, yes, the option of a warning nuclear blast was included in NATO's contingency plans. Naturally, people all over Europe choked on their wine, lager, ale, wurst, fish and chips, pate, pasta, cabbage soup and dumplings. If there is anything that makes Europeans nervous, it is talk about the Soviets and the Americans lobbing nuclear weapons at each other on their continent and adjoining islands. Many Americans became jumpy, too, especially at the matter-of-fact way Haig tossed out the possibility of detonating a Big One. He even grinned slightly when he said it. A somber facial expression really might have been more appropriate. Within hours, though, Caspar Weinberger, secretary of defense (and I don't know why they refuse to call it secretary of war, which is what the job really is) had flatly contradicted Haig, his fellow Cabinet member. Weinberger said that many years ago somebody had come up with the idea of making a Big Boom to let the Russians know they can't mess around in Europe but that it had never become a NATO policy. So at that point, we had the secretary of state saying one thing, and the secretary of defense saying just the opposite. Now, it's not reasonable to expect two people -- even those working for the same administration -- to always agree on things. For example, it would be no big deal if you asked Haig and Weinberger if they had the correct time and one said, "It's 4:45," while the other one said, "No, it's 4:46." But you'd hope that they would both know whether it is our policy to explode a nuclear bomb to scare Moscow, since exploding one nuclear bomb could lead to all kinds of hell-raising with bombs, which in turn could quickly lead to the end of such popular institutions as civilization and life on this planet. Because there was such a sharp conflict between Haig and Weinberger, the Washington press corps turned its yearning eyes toward the White House for some kind of clarification. And the clarification came: The White House said Haig was correct when he said there was a NATO plan to fire a nuclear warning shot if war broke out in Europe. The White House also said Weinberger was correct when he said there was not a NATO plan to fire a nuclear warning shot if war broke out in Europe. The White House went on to explain that such a plan had been proposed, so Haig was right. But the plan had not been approved, so Weinberger was right. That's just about the nicest way to resolve a conflict that I can think of -- declaring that both sides are right, even if they expressed opposite views. If more divorce judges would take that approach, we might have a much happier society. Or more domestic murders. But some Washington reporters just became more confused, and you can't blame them. Past experience shows that when any two top White House officials say something, whether they agree or disagree, it is more likely that they'll both be wrong. So when President Reagan answered questions this week, somebody asked him about Haig's warning shot statement. Reagan said there is "some confusion as to whether that's still part of NATO policy, and I haven't had an answer on that." That seems to indicate that Reagan, like the rest of us, is confused as to whether we'll explode a warning nuclear bomb. It also seems to mean that whoever is supposed to tell him what our plans are hasn't given him an answer. Well, if the president and commander in chief can't find out if we're going to try to scare Moscow by exploding a nuclear bomb, that's carrying secrecy too far. SOMEBODY OUGHT TO tell him what our nuclear plans are. And no excuses, please -- the commander in chief isn't always taking a nap. So the way the situation stands, if I read it correctly, is that the secretary of state says one thing; the secretary of defense says another thing, and the White House information office says they are both right. And the president of the United States says he's confused and he can't find out who's right. That's intolerable. If the president himself can't get straight answers, then he ought to call the responsible parties in and beat the truth out of them. But that might not work either. He might not know who to beat. Chicago Sun-Times === Page 50 of 64 - UFOs "higher ups" - 11/26/81 # Kennedy matriarch doing fine WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Rose Kennedy was reported in satisfactory condition and doing "just fine" Wednesday evening, after being hospitalized when she experienced chest pains. "Mrs. Kennedy is feeling much, much better," said Ruth Hardy, spokeswoman at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, where the 91-year-old woman was brought Tuesday after suffering chest pains at morning Mass. "She's been sitting up in bed and talking and is quite cheerful." The chest pains have disappeared, Ms. Hardy said. According to Ms. Hardy, Mrs. Kennedy's doctor, West Palm Beach cardiologist Robert Gerard, found nothing to indicate that she had a heart attack. Gerard said Mrs. Kennedy did have angina pectoris, chest pains often caused by a blockage of one or more coronary arteries. Mrs. Kennedy was visited Wednesday in her private room in the hospital's cardiology unit by two of her children, son Edward Kennedy, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, and daughter Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the former wife of actor Peter Lawford. The senator had flown from Washington late Tuesday. Other Kennedy family members were reported to have telephoned, and Ms. Hardy said the hospital had received hundreds of get-well calls for Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy was taken off intravenous feeding Wednesday morning and put on a diet of "bland, soft foods and liquids," Ms. Hardy said. Gerard said Mrs. Kennedy may be released from the hospital on Thanksgiving, but Ms. Hardy said the hospital staff had made preparations to serve Mrs. Kennedy and her guests a traditional holiday dinner. It was the first time Mrs. Kennedy has been hospitalized for heart problems. She underwent surgery for intestinal blockage in September 1979. ROSE KENNEDY - UFOs "higher ups" - 11/13/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ARUBLE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, CAPTAIN? MOSCOW # Stockman's Blockbuster Salt Lake Tribune If Budget Director David Stockman had walked up and punched President Reagan in the nose, the damage could hardly have been greater than the injury inflicted on the administration by his confession (in the Atlantic Monthly) of serious doubt about the Reagan economic recovery program. Is Mr. Stockman a turncoat, a patriot, or a fool? Was his damaging disclosure of lost faith the product of an injured ego or immaturity? Or was the 35-year-old prodigy in over his head from the beginning? Whatever the reason, his admission of outright deception, slip-shod craftsmanship and plain ignorance on the part of administration economic theorists and planners is an indictment of rare candor and potentially deadly impact. It could blow Reaganomics off the front pages and into the comic sections and take a good part of the Republican Party along too. At this early stage in the developing debacle, when the White House is still in a state of shock, and the opposition Democrats can hardly believe it's true, there is no telling what will happen next. Mr. Stockman's head should be rolling soon. However, some reports indicate that his knowledge of the ins and out of the Reagan program he helped create is so great that he is indispensable, loose tongue and all. If David Stockman is correct in his assessment of the administration's version of "supply side" economics, the country could be in for more than the few months of "hard times" President Reagan predicted in his news conference earlier this week. And don't be surprised if the old Watergate term coined by Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., surfaces again: "How much did the president know and when did he know it?" - UFOs "higher ups" - # Goldwater has surgery PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - Sen. Barry Goldwater's left hip was replaced by a prosthetic device during surgery Monday, a hospital spokesman said. The 72-year-old Arizona Republican was in satisfactory condition after surgery, said Robert Lundin of St. Luke Hospital. He said the operation went well and that Goldwater, the GOP nominee for president in 1964, was expected to be hospitalized for 10 to 14 days. Lundin said Goldwater had similar surgery on his right hip several years earlier, adding: "His conditions are satisfactory; there were no apparent complications and normal recovery is expected." Goldwater plans to return to work in Washington after Jan. 1, Lundin said. 11/10/81 ... Sen. Barry Goldwater had his left hip joint replaced with one made of metal and plastic in a Phoenix hospital Monday ... Jordan's King Hussein is in a Houston, Texas, hospital for a check-up. While he's there, he will visit his nephew, Prince Talal, who is recovering from injuries suffered in a water skiing accident. - UFOs "higher ups" - === Page 51 of 64 AY, NOVEMBER 4, 1981 - 7/10 attack "higher ups" # Haig-Allen feud won't go on, Reagan aide says By JACK NELSON ORG 11/4/81 LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The long-simmering feud between Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and national security adviser Richard V. Allen boiled anew Tuesday, with one senior administration official predicting that Allen's days are numbered. The official, a close friend and longtime associate of the president who refused to be identified, told the Los Angeles Times that while a specific timetable for Allen's removal has not been set, "Everyone's agreed that it's going to happen. The president isn't going to allow this internecine stuff to keep going on." A White House spokesman denied Tuesday that Reagan plans to replace Allen. And Allen told The Times that Haig personally assured him he does not regard Allen as the source of the latest flap. The current flare-up began when Haig, after reading an advance copy of a newspaper column, called Reagan over the weekend to complain angrily that a senior White House aide was leading a "guerrilla campaign" to discredit him. Haig's complaint centered on a column written by Jack Anderson that cited incidents that allegedly had caused the president to lose confidence in his secretary of state. At Haig's urging, Reagan telephoned Anderson and denied the accuracy of the column, which Anderson withdrew from scheduled publication. In its place, Anderson circulated a substitute column for Tuesday that recounted his conversations with Reagan, who expressed confidence in his secretary of state, and with Haig, who spoke bitterly of a campaign to discredit him. The latest flap caused lengthy high-level meetings at the White House and the State Department, with spokesmen at both places confirming that Haig complained about such a campaign. Haig told Anderson, "This damages my ability to carry out the president's foreign policy." He called it "sabotage of the president" by some of his own people and added, "It is just mind-boggling." Anderson wrote that Haig said the original column that was withdrawn "was obviously the handiwork of a top White House aide who has been running a guerrilla campaign against him for nine months." Allen, denying Tuesday that he is the source of the anti-Haig leaks, said: "Today Al Haig called and said, 'I know it's not you,'" Allen said. "And I know it is not I. My senior colleagues know it's not Allen, and the president knows it's not Allen." Allen also denied he was on the way out. "I'm pleased to tell you that it's not so, and your source is inaccurate, completely inaccurate." Asked if he had discussed the matter with Reagan, Allen said, "No, but I intend to shortly." The president has given no public indication that he plans to relieve Allen of his post. Asked Tuesday about the feuding in his administration, Reagan told reporters, "The only thing I can figure about stopping it is that after convincing all of you that there is absolutely no foundation for all these rumors that keep coming up in circulation." 7/10 "higher ups" # Kissinger stirs Peru protest LIMA, Peru (UPI) -- Police turned on water hoses to disperse about 300 students protesting former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's appearance at an international convention in downtown Lima, the second demonstration against him in two days. The demonstration Thursday followed by less than 24 hours a protest in Brasilia where protesters burned an American flag, hurled eggs and shouted "murderer" while Kissinger spoke Wednesday to an invitation-only audience at Brasilia University. Police said the students gathered in downtown Lima as Kissinger addressed the 19th World Management Congress on American foreign policy under heavy police security. Kissinger arrived at the tightly guarded downtown convention center flanked by 10 agents who stayed near the stage during most of his speech. He left through a side door. ORG 11/20/81 ficials in the White House and the State Department have said privately that the Allen-Haig feud does exist and has caused serious problems for the administration's foreign policy. Three different White House officials, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition that they not be identified, expressed serious concern about the situation. Two of them said that because of the way Reagan has structured the administration's foreign policy apparatus -- with a dominant secretary of state and a downgraded, weakened national security assistant -- it would take more than removing Allen to improve foreign policy operations. Both of those officials believe that any replacement for Allen should have a stronger voice in coordinating foreign policy for the president and not be so subordinated to the secretary of state. "Getting rid of Allen won't solve the basic problem," one official said. "The president created a bit of a monster when he said that the secretary of state would be the sole spokesman for foreign affairs and said that the national security assistant would no longer have a prominent voice." "Then he put a strong personality like Haig in as secretary of state who believed it all and lost the opportunity to have coordination of foreign policy at the White House level. I don't know about cutting up Haig, but I do know that every time Allen tries to do his job he crosses wires with Al Haig and that's very frustrating for Allen." Another official who agreed with that assessment said, "Getting rid of Allen won't be a magic answer to the problem. The problem goes beyond personalities and should have been dealt with a long time ago." Only last week, Reagan sought to squelch reports of an impending shakeup in his foreign policy team, saying that suggestions that he was about to fire Haig and Allen were "totally invented." Friction between Haig and Allen dates back almost to the earliest days of the Reagan administration. At the outset of his term, Reagan downgraded the post of national security adviser and publicly gave Haig the principal role on foreign policy in an effort to keep his administration free of such feuding. During President Carter's administration, national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski vied openly with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance for supremacy in foreign affairs. Similar tensions had existed in President Nixon's administration. === Page 52 of 64 Haig's style weakens Reagan foreign policy By JAMES RESTON WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. is regarded here as the most experienced member of the Reagan administration in the conduct of foreign affairs, which is no great compliment, but he is in deep trouble. He is not in trouble because of differences with the White House or the Pentagon over policy. He is closer to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and the president's national security adviser, Richard Allen, on the substance of policy than Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski were in the Carter administration. He is in trouble for personal reasons. Under the political and personal pressures of his office, he has developed a pattern of losing his temper and has raised questions about his judgment. He is not really the cause, but in some ways the victim of the Reagan style of government. Nobody in this administration has ever pretended that the president had mastered the intricate details of foreign policy. He has delegated them to members of his Cabinet and White House staff, who compete with one another in filling the vacuum at the top by pronouncing the nation's foreign policy every Sunday morning on "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "Issues and Answers" and other television talk shows. This television diplomacy has alarmed Haig from the start. He is a creature of the Pentagon, where decisions are carried out by command, but is now presiding over the State Department, where decisions must be reached by consent and negotiated with the Congress and the allies. He has not proved to be very effective in this misty world of compromising with the White House, comforting the Congress, reassuring the allies, or persuading the Soviets, the Israelis or the Arabs. Maybe this assignment is beyond human patience and endurance. But in grappling with it, Haig has lost his cool. First he tried to insist on what seemed to many here excessive control of all foreign, economic and political questions in the Cabinet, to the dismay of his colleagues, who rejected his proposals. Then he elevated the El Salvador civil war into a major test of U.S.-Soviet relations, and discussed foreign policy in terms of military weapons, as if he were secretary of defense, which maybe he should have been, rather than as secretary of state, whose job is to make peace. This problem of his temperament and his judgment came to dramatic public notice here in the last few days when he had the State Department spokesman say publicly that there was a "guerrilla campaign" by unnamed persons within the administration to get him fired. Since President Reagan had said the day before that he supported Haig, this was very odd. Why elevate a rumor into a front page story all over the world? Why embarrass the president who was trying to calm things down by insisting that there was some kind of conspiracy within the administration against him? Making things worse, Haig then testified in Congress the next day, while the European allies were trying to deal with massive anti-nuclear demonstrations, that Washington had a "contingency plan" to explode a "demonstration" nuclear bomb in the event that the Soviets launched a conventional military attack against Western Europe. This was immediately denied in Congress by Secretary of Defense Weinberger, who said there was no such "contingency plan," and shouldn't be. Asked about this, the White House said there was really no contradiction. Both were right, the White House insisted, since such an idea had been "suggested" some years ago but was rejected. Reagan has dealt with all this as if it were no big deal. "Boys will be boys." Get them in the Oval Office and tell them to cut it out, and all will be well. But, frankly, all is not well. If Reagan could read the diplomatic cables going out of Washington here last weekend to the capitals of his allies and his adversaries, or even invite the honest opinions of his friends, he would realize that he's not at the end but merely at the beginning of a foreign policy crisis abroad - as well as an economic crisis at home. For, as the Wall Street Journal, no enemy of the Reagan administration, said this week, these questions of temperament and judgment, "underscore the secretary's feelings of insecurity," and "tend to foster a concern that he is unsteady." So the president may have told Haig and Allen to cut the sniping, and asked everybody to settle down and forget it. But the allies are not forgetting it - they are increasingly going off on their own, worrying about the judgment and disarray of the top officials in Washington. And this same feeling is beginning to pervade the capital. © 1981, N.Y. Times News Service 11/10/81 # The world Kissinger flees protest BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger left the University of Brasilia in a police paddy wagon Wednesday after 400 student protesters besieged an administration building where he was lecturing. Riot police rescued Kissinger and about 300 other people after the demonstrators screamed anti-U.S. slogans, burned an American flag, lobbed eggs, tomatoes and rocks at the building and barricaded the doors for two hours. One window was broken, but there was no other apparent damage. No injuries were reported. "He was remarkably calm the entire time," said one U.S. diplomat who was trapped with Kissinger during the siege. Many foreign diplomats assigned to the Brazilian capital attended the morning talk, including the deputy chief of the U.S. Embassy, George High. Kissinger jokingly told his audience the protests "make me feel at home, but I've never heard so much noise." === Page 53 of 64 " Deattack " higher wps"- wyom 09/05/8. Ambush Fails to Kill Top Envoy in France PARIS (UPI) - A gun- The chauffeur also escaped at a House Foreign Affairs man looking "like a killer injury. in a bad movie" fired six "It's a lamentable inci- dent," said Chapman, who was the senior diplomat in Laos when the Communists took over the Southeast Asian nation in 1975. shots from ambush at ac- ting U.S. Ambassador Christian Chapman Thurs- day in an assassination at- tempt linked to Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy. Chap- man was not hit. "This sort of thing changes nothing as to the policy of my country," .Chapman, 60, told an em- bassy news conference shortly after he foiled the assassin by ducking behind his armored limousine. Chapman, the embassy's charge d'affaires, was about to enter his chauffeur-driven limousine at his three-story townhouse on tree-lined Rue Emile Deschanel in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower at 8:50 a.m. when the waiting gunman opened fire with a 7.65 mm automatic pistol. The gunman hit the trunk of the limousine and some other cars and fled on foot. Chapman, acting am- bassador until newly nam- ed envoy Evan Galbraith takes up his post Nov. 23, was unguarded at the time of the attack and embar- rassed French police pro- mptly ordered 24-hour pro- tection. In Washington, President Reagan "deplored"! the at- tempted assassination, as futher evidence of interna- tional terrorism, and Secretary of State Alex- ander Haig hinted Khadafy was behind the failed hit - possibly to avenge the shooting down of two Li- byan Soviet-made MiGs by U.S. jets in August over the Gulf of Sidra. Asked about the shooting Committee meeting, Haig sald, "We do have repeated reports coming to us from reliable sources that Mr. Khadafy has been funding, sponsoring, training, har- boring terrorist groups who conduct activities against the lives and well-being of American diplomats and facilities." French officials said threats against the em- bassy had been received in August at the time of the Gulf of Sidra incident but not since. The embassy building is normally pro- tected by French riot police. Reports of a possible Li- byan terror campaign against U.S. envoys surfac- ed two weeks ago after U.S. Ambassador to Italy Max- well Rabb was called home and given around-the clock guard when he returned to Italy. The ambasaddor to Vienna has been giver similar protection. - YFor attack "higher ups"~ Klan wizard held in killing ONgo 10/2018, SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) -- The grand wizard of the Invincible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Order of the WO, "higher wie " Hartung to leave Senate Sen. Tom Hartung, R-Portland, said Monday he will leave the Legislature next year after having served in the House and the Senate for a total of 16 years. Har- tung, 54, said he would not seek re-elec- tion to his Northwest Portland seat be- cause "the system really does frustrate me now. We no longer have a citizen Legisla- ture." He said serving in the Senate took up more time than he could afford, time he said he would prefer to spend with his family and business. greg J 11/17/8. der security. Early next year, the depart- will retire. for eight years, will leave the job Nov. 30 to supervise a three-month study of bor- ment announced, the 60-year-old Knight Org / 11/17/8, White Rose in Rio Linda has been arrested on a charge of killing his wile with a 12-gauge shotgun. A spokesman for the Sacramento Coun- ty sheriff's office said Harvey Hopkins, 34, is being held without bail for allegedly shooting his wife, Pamela, 27, during a domestic dispute Wednesday at their resi- dence in Rio Linda. Mrs. Hopkins was dead on arrival at Mercy San Juan Hospital. She was shot once in the chest. Hopkins organized sever ings in Rio Linda, an uni- munity north of Sacrar On his booking sh kins listed his occr explosive persons - Ufos " higherups - Secret Service to expand WASHINGTON (UPI) - The director of the Secret Service, H. Stuart Knight, will be replaced soon to allow his succes- sor 10 oversee a near-doubling in the agency's size, the Treasury Department announced. Knight, director of the agency ble Libyan connection. to an assassination," but th source of the threat and wy refused to identify the comment on a possi- Increased markedly because of the possibility Libyan Col. Rabb STICKS & STONES; Eyebrows went up in Britain's Pallament Thurs day when Andrew Faulds of the op- position Labor Party asked Prime Min- İster Margaret Thatcher whether Eu- ropean governments would "be free to choose or veto the push on the final button by that incoherent cretin, Pres- Ident Reagan?" Responded Mrs. Thatcher: "I greatly deplore the dis- courtesy and total futility of your re- marks." Speaker George Thomas ac- cused Faulds, a former actor, of break- ing a centuries-old house rule against rude remarks. Labor member Christo- pher Price defended Faulds, saying the rule dated only from the 1930s to keep members from saying abusive things about Adolf Hitler. FREAKING OUT: A man who ap- parently blamed President Reagan for his Jouyomic troubles rushed Into a K .- een, Tex., radio station, stripped off his clothing and demanded a gun to kill the president. "The guy sort of " freaked out," said Steve Anderson, the station's music director. "He socked our business manager (a woman) but calmed down before police arrived." Earl Williams, 26, is awaiting trial on charges of indecent exposure and as- sault. Greg p 10/30 81 U.S. envoys given added security The sources also disclosed Sunday that the U.S. ambassador to Italy, Maxwell M. Rabb, was recalled to Washington two weeks ago partly because of a threat by terrorists to kidnap and assassinate him. Administration officials who asked not to be identified said security precautions at U.S. em- bassies, consulates and American military bases abroad have been WASHINGTON (UPI) - Several U.S. ambassadors were given bulletproof cars and bulletproof vests recent- Ty because of possible trouble from Libyan-supported terrorist groups, administration sources say. HAST 10/26/8, "Higher whe Moammar Khadafy may seek revenge for the downing last summer of two Libyan jets by U.S. fighters. (Many top official now ride in bulletproof cars and "a number" wear bulletproof vests, sources said. They would not identify the ambassadors given extra security. Rabb, 71, appointed ambassador by President Reagan. was recalled from Italy "at least two weeks ago," in part because of a threat of kidnapping, the sources said. The New York Times reported that authorities had uncovered a Libyan plot to assassinate Rabb and he was hastily recalled to Washington - "without even a change of clothes." Official sources told United Press International it was a kidnapping threat "with appropriate publicity leading === Page 54 of 64 44 3M + THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, OCTOBER 18, 1981 # British general seriously hurt "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" BY LEONARD DOWNIE JR. LA Times-Washington Post Service LONDON -- A senior British general was seriously injured Saturday by an Irish nationalist bomb that tore his car apart as he drove away from his home in a quiet south London suburb. Lt. Gen. Steuart Pringle, 53, commanding general of the Royal Marines, was reported in stable condition Saturday night after his right leg was amputated below the knee in surgery on his badly mangled limbs. The Provisional Irish Republican Army, which recently stepped up its campaign of violence aimed at ending British rule of Northern Ireland, claimed responsibility for the attack. It was the second bombing by the Provisional IRA in London in a week. Last Saturday, two people were killed and 39 injured, 21 of them members of the British Army's Irish Guards, when a bomb exploded outside the Army's Chelsea barracks in central London, about four miles north of the scene of Saturday's bombing. Police sources said they were searching for a Provisional IRA terrorist group of four or five men who could be responsible for both attacks and may be planning more. They have circulated police sketches of the suspects based on descriptions of men seen near a laundry truck in which last Saturday's explosion was detonated as a bus filled with Irish Guards passed by. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned Saturday night that "it is absolutely vital that every member of the public should exercise extreme care and vigilance. Everyone should be careful, not just those who by virtue of their position may be attacked. Such vigilance will help to beat the danger and catch the perpetrators of these dreadful crimes." The head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad, Police Cmdr. Mike Richards, said "it is possible" that the bomb Oreg 10/18/81 - "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" # Egypt arrests blind cultist By DON A. SCHANCHE LA Times-Washington Post Service Oreg 10/27/81 CAIRO, Egypt -- Police have arrested a blind mufti they say is the ideological leader of the fanatic Moslem group that has been blamed for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, an authoritative newspaper reported Monday. Fresh details of the leadership of the shadowy Society for Repentance and Flight from Sin emerged from arrests made during police raids on the extremist group's hideouts during the last two days, according to the Mayo newspaper, which speaks officially for President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party. Among 39 persons linked with the cult who have been arrested since Sadat's killing three weeks ago was Omar Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the blind, self-proclaimed mufti (chief theologian) of the underground terrorist organization. Mayo gave no details concerning Rahman's age or background, but a photograph accompanying the report showed an unkempt, bearded man of 40 or more years. He apparently was the ideological successor of Shukri Ahmed Mustafa, founder of the cult, who was hanged in 1978 for leading the kidnapping and assassination of a former religious affairs minister in the Sadat government. Rahman "gave the dispensation for exploding a revolution like that of (Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini. He is the one who gave the dispensation for the assassination of all of Egypt's political and executive leadership," according to the newspaper's report. Members of the sect reportedly believe that all Moslems who do not believe in the ideology of Repentance's founder, Mustafa, are heretics and thus fair game for assassination, Mayo reported. Rahman "issued a dispensation that the wives of officials were captives of organization members, and the members had the right to own them and use them as they please," Mayo reported. Rahman, who returned after that of Egypt, the le Sunni Islam h terrorist oper Mayo called R He was c last week, i ists died an The raids skirts of south of Americ Pol ernme ary Ayatolla by the late Chinese the Mayo report. Police also found what appeared to be a treasury as well, according to Mayo. The newspaper said Rahman had $20,000 in American money and the equivalent of another $7,300 in Egyptian pounds. # Bomb damages home of Thatcher appointee - "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" - Oreg 11/14/81 LONDON (AP) -- The Irish Republican Army planted a bomb under the home of Attorney General Sir Michael Havers that police said caused a "tremendous explosion" Friday night, but no deaths occurred because the house was empty at the time. No warning was given of the blast, and the back of the house was badly damaged. The London ambulance service said it understood the bomb had been planted in the basement of the house. Havers has a round-the-clock police guard at his London home, with a small guard at his front door at the time. - "UFOs 'higher ups'" - # Iran guerrillas kill Khomeini aide Oreg 10/25/81 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas kidnapped and burned to death a provincial government official loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran Radio said Saturday. The broadcast also implicated followers of a dissident ayatollah in the killing. Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who said Friday that 90 percent of the Mujahedeen were destroyed, called for accelerating the struggle with Khomeini's dissidents, and said the "roaring sea of the people will swallow them up." Tehran Radio said the Mujahedeen Khalq kidnapped and killed Javad Husseinkhah Friday, a supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini in the struggle with Khomeini in 1979 for leadership of Iran's Islamic revolution. Husseinkhah was the political and administrative director in Turkish-populated East Azerbaijan, the ethnic and spiritual homeland of the dissident powers. Tehran Radio, monitored in Beirut, said Husseinkhah was seized by Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas just after 8:30 a.m. on his way to Tabriz, provincial capital of Azerbaijan near the Soviet border. His burned remains were discovered near the city of Mianeh, 220 miles northwest of the capital. - "UFOs attack 'higher ups'" # Kirkpatrick Hospitalized NEW YORK -- Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was taken by ambulance from LaGuardia Airport to a hospital Thursday night after suffering chest pains during a flight from Washington. Mrs. Kirkpatrick, 54, entered New York Hospital emergency room in Manhattan about 8:30 p.m. A hospital security guard said that when the ambassador arrived, she was "talking and did not appear to be in any real discomfort." Compiled from Wire Dispatches Oreg 11/13/81 === Page 55 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Reagan uncomfortable in press appearances By DAVID S. BRODER oreg 11/15/81 WASHINGTON -- President Reagan asked reporters at his news conference last week to remember that the words they write are read all around the world and to consider whether the message they send is helpful or destructive to the nation's interests. Whatever you think of that plea, the fact is that the most important message is the one the president himself conveys by his words and demeanor on public occasions. For the most part, those appearances have been helpful to Reagan in advancing his goals. His wit, his good nature and his rehearsed eloquence stand him in good stead, whether he is delivering a toast at a banquet, a brief political speech or a televised policy address. But at the last two news conferences, the impression he has created has been one of a man under great strain. The comments on Capitol Hill and in embassies suggest that the tension and anxiety the president displays when answering questions about his policies are beginning to cause concern among those here and abroad who look to the White House for leadership. That same anxiety is being expressed by members of the White House staff who have come to view each press conference as a hurdle that must be negotiated with care. They have adopted what my colleague Martin Schram accurately describes as a "damage-control" philosophy for dealing with the press conferences: Schedule them infrequently, slow down the pace of questioning by lengthy answers, and hope that Reagan gets out of them without hurting himself. That is a defensible, if obviously defensive, strategy. The practical problem is that the president is so strained in executing it -- hesitant in manner and nervous in speech -- that he undercuts the effort to build confidence in his leadership. The relaxed sense of command and self-control that he communicated so advantageously in his 1980 campaign debates and in almost every formal speech he has made as president turns into a very tentative and tense performance in the press conferences. Explanations abound. Some say the president's hearing impairment forces him to strain to hear the questions and puts him on edge even before he gives his answers. His aides have tried to reduce this problem by installing an amplifier in his podium. Others say it is the mental gymnastics of the news conference that the president finds intimidating. He works best when he knows the topic in advance and has his index cards at hand, with the points he wants to make. In the news conferences he held in his eight years as governor of California, the custom was to exhaust one topic before shifting to a new one. He seemed more comfortable with that more structured format. His critics put forward a much harsher theory. Reagan is under strain because he has such a shaky grasp of the policies for which he is formally responsible that he has a dickens of a time remembering what it is that he is supposed to say about such-and-such a subject. If that is right, then we are really in trouble -- not just this administration but this country and the world. But before accepting that gloomy conclusion, I would like to see how Reagan would do if he were holding a press conference of some kind every week. He did that when he was governor. But as president, he has held five news conferences in 10 months. On that schedule, every one becomes a very big deal -- a big mental hurdle. The Reagan we have seen at the last couple of news conferences reminds me of the uptight, unhappy Reagan of the Iowa caucus period early in 1980, when his then-manager, John P. Sears, was trying to shield him from the press and public. When Reagan campaigned infrequently, under Sears' constraints, he was a lousy campaigner -- always on the defensive. When he was unleashed in New Hampshire, he was terrific. So it is, I suspect, with the news conferences. People like my colleague Lou Cannon who covered him in California remember those gubernatorial news conferences, not as ordeals to which Reagan submitted, but as opportunities which he exploited easily to carry his message to the people. Maybe he's lost the knack, now that he is 10 years older. But my guess is that he's just not getting enough practice to feel comfortable in the news conference format. If he had a regular schedule where on alternating weeks he would have big televised news conferences and small Oval Office interviews with some of the White House regulars, my guess is that he would be better briefed by his staff on a wide range of issues, and much better prepared to discuss them. - UFOs "higher ups" - # Reputed mobster jailed NEW YORK (AP) -- Russell Bufalino, the reputed Pennsylvania crime overlord, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison and fined $15,000 for plotting to kill a government witness whose testimony sent him to jail in another case. U.S. District Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy permitted the 78-year-old defendant to remain free on $50,000 bond pending appeal of the conviction. Ten years was the maximum penalty on a count of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the witness, Jack Napoli. Bufalino also was sentenced to five years for obstructing justice, with the sentences to run concurrently. "Mr. Bufalino, I well recognize that you are 78 years old," said Duffy as he pronounced sentence. "But a sentence not only deals with the person, it deals with society." oag 11/18/81 === Page 56 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Kissinger flees Brazilian students' siege BRASILIA, Brazil (UPI) -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger fled a university in the back of a van to escape 400 students who hurled eggs, burned a U.S. flag and shouted "murderer" to protest his $15,000 speaking fee. Kissinger was giving a lecture Wednesday at Brasilia University when 400 students surrounded the auditorium building, trapping the former secretary of state and scores of high Brazilian government officials for about two hours. As the demonstrators beat on samba drums while shouting "murderer" and "Yankee go home," Kissinger reportedly cracked, "And now do you think anybody is going to pay a ransom for me?" Kissinger and the Brazilian government officials were forced to remain inside the building until riot police arrived to rescue them. Police backed a van into an entrance of the building and whisked Kissinger off the campus. But one Brazilian government minister and several ambassadors were hit by eggs and handfuls of sand and jostled when they walked out of the building. At least one American flag was burned. Police took no action against the demonstrators and no arrests were reported. Student organizations had announced the protest in advance, saying it was "absurd" to pay $15,000 to Kissinger when Brazilian universities need funds. University professors are in the second week of a nationwide strike for higher wages. "We want funds for education, not to bring in a murderer," said one banner. Kissinger, who later met with Brazilian President Gen. Joao Figueiredo before continuing on to Rio de Janeiro and a flight to Peru, emphasized he did not consider the protesters representative of Brazil. "This is not a way to treat anyone, and much less an illustrious visitor," said Brazilian presidential spokesman Carlos Atila. "I am sure that 99.9 percent (that) the Brazilian people would energetically reject what these people did." org J 11/19/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - ① # 26 perish in collapse of Philippine palace MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- A six-story palace ordered built in a rush by first lady Imelda Marcos for an international film festival collapsed Tuesday, killing 26 workers and injuring 41 others with 30 men still trapped under debris. About 120 shift workers were pouring cement six stories above the ground when the 98-by-65-foot roof of the main theater of the film palace collapsed in the middle of the night, witnesses said. "We never knew what happened," said carpenter Roque Andaya. "We just heard a roar that sounded like thunder and then the earth shook. It was all over after that." The reasons for the collapse of the building, being constructed on reclaimed land in Manila Bay, were not clear. About 1,000 men were working on the rush job around the clock. org J 11/17/81 - UFOs "higher ups" - ② # Bomb call delays Marcos jet SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A jetliner carrying Imelda Marcos, wife of the Philippine president, was delayed for 3½ hours on an airport tarmac early Wednesday while bomb experts searched it for explosives after a telephone threat. The flight, which was returning the president's wife to Manila after a 10-day personal visit to the United States, finally took off at 2:30 a.m. PST. No bomb or evidence of one was found. org J 11/11/81 # Marcos declares emergency ③ MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- President Ferdinand Marcos Tuesday declared an emergency in 17 Philippines provinces hard-hit by Typhoon Irma's destructive sweep that killed more than 400 people last week. In a series of directives during a six-hour joint meeting of the Cabinet and the National Economic Development Authority, Marcos also ordered the release of $278,750 to finance the sale of subsidized rice to farmers. An additional $250,000 was ordered released for relief operations. org J 12/1/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - United Press Intern FINAL LANDING -- Coastguardsmen survey the wreckage Saturday of a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Pacific near Coos Bay during storm that lashed Oregon over weekend. Capt. Frank Olsen, 44, commanding officer of the North Bend Coast Guard Station's air rescue unit died in the crash. Two crewmen were rescued. org J 11/16/81 === Page 57 of 64 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # 'Shifty' Reagan turns tables with ease By LOYE MILLER JR. Newhouse News Service Times-Falls, Twin Falls, Id. 6/15/81 WASHINGTON -- In muddling through his press conference this past week, President Reagan resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the book. Since the dawn of the republic, politicians have tried to squirm through difficulty by saying the press, rather than their own policies or actions, created the public furor of the moment. You might call it the "Nobody out there would know I have been acting like a fool if the press didn't go around telling them" school of public affairs. Or, as one exasperated aide to Barry Goldwater screamed at a reporter during the Arizona senator's disastrously indiscreet 1964 presidential campaign: "Don't write what he says. Write what he means." Early in his press conference, Reagan was asked about a remark he had made last Oct. 16 which had created severe strains among the NATO allies. He was reported to have said a nuclear war with the Soviet Union could conceivably be contained to the European continent, rather than escalating into a doomsday exchange of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Reagan replied, with a straight face, that the problem had arisen only because press reports were based upon "hearing it second hand." He said, "We could go back and get the transcript of what was actually said and I would stand on that." That answer was outrageously misleading. For the fact is that the press and television reports which so upset the European allies were accurately based on the transcript (released by the White House) of what the president actually said, not on "second hand" information. Later in the press conference, Reagan tried to gloss over the recent explosive public rupture between Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and the White House by characterizing it as more than anything else a figment of news media gossip: "The only thing that seems to be going wrong is I think sometimes that the District of Columbia is one gigantic ear." That was even more preposterous, for the fact is that the uproar would never have occurred at all if Haig hadn't taken the extraordinary action of telephoning a widely syndicated columnist and leveling, on the record, the charge that he had been the victim of a "guerrilla campaign" by a top White House official. WELL, SOMEBODY HAS TO LOOK NICE AND CLEAN... The press simply faithfully reported that astonishing event, and the considerable fallout that followed. Being the practiced performer that he is, Reagan learned how to use this kind of ploy with particularly deceiving aplomb even before he was a candidate for major office. With many politicians, past and present, use of this tactic is quite impersonal. Senator Foghorn may get along fine personally with the reporters who cover him and may privately feel that they do their jobs well, and yet still denounce them with fervor for writing stories or making television reports -- perfectly accurate -- which reflect badly on him. That's often the way the game is played between professionals in public office and the press around here, much as professional football players on opposing teams may be close drinking buddies all week long and then try to tear each other apart in the big Sunday showdown. But Ronald Reagan always has been too thin-skinned to be such a thorough-going political professional, and there are often times when he feels considerable personal anger about news stories and those who report them. Any news story, for instance, which reflects adversely on first lady Nancy Reagan -- even if true -- is sure to get the president's goat. But the Reagan maneuvers of last week were more typical of the seasoned pol who knows he has a problem and tries to hide it by shifting the blame to the press. That performance by "The Pres" was simply too cute for words. === Page 58 of 64 10/25/81 # Afghans name kidnapped Soviet official By BARRY SHLACHTER ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A Soviet official reportedly captured in Kabul by Afghan rebels was identified by them Saturday as a senior civilian adviser who headed a 50-member geological mission attached to Afghanistan's ministry of mines and industries. E.M. Okhrimyuk, a 67-year-old fossil-fuel expert who had lived in Kabul for five years, was kidnapped Sept. 12 by a faction of the Hezb-i Islami (Islamic Party), the Afghan insurgent group claimed in a statement issued from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. A Hezb-i official said Saturday that Okhrimyuk was being held at a guerrilla stronghold near the Pakistani border in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. He gave no further details. The Younus Khalis faction of Hezb-i Islami has declared its readiness to exchange the Soviet adviser for 50 Afghan insurgents jailed by the Kabul regime. It also released letters reportedly written by Okhrimyuk, calling on Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Tikhonov and the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan to agree to a prison-er exchange with Hezb-i. "Nikolai Alexandrovich (Tikhonov), my destiny is in your hands," said one letter, handwritten in Russian. "I am exhausted, worn out. You will have to agree to evacuate me by air because I cannot walk. Please save me. I live only with this thought." Hezb-i has released a photograph it says is Okhrimyuk. It shows a haggard white-haired, bespectacled man with several weeks' growth of beard. Hezb-i's original statement reported that Okhrimyuk was beaten unconscious during the kidnapping. The letters reportedly written by the Soviet adviser in captivity said that his lower dentures were broken, making it difficult for him to eat, and that he suffered from severe headaches. A Western diplomatic source said that rumors had circulated in Kabul during mid-September that a ranking Soviet adviser had been killed in the Afghan capital. He speculated that the rumors might have spread to explain Okhrimyuk's sudden disappearance. The Afghan resistance group also released copies of a letter reportedly written by Okhrimyuk and addressed to his wife, Tamara. (copier info) - UFOs attack 11/14/81 "higher ups" # Reagan to chat with space shuttle astronauts WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan flew to Houston Friday for a quick stop at the Johnson Space Center where he will chat from the mission control room with the American astronauts circling the globe in the space shuttle Columbia. Reagan left the White House at 3:55 p.m. EST - earlier than originally planned - so he could fit in the visit with astronauts Richard Truly and Joe Engle, who learned a few hours earlier that their trouble-plagued mission would be cut short by three days. The president's Texas agenda included a Friday night address a "Salute to A Stronger America" dinner in Houston sponsored by Texas Republicans. His speech, originally set for five minutes, was expanded to a scheduled 15 minutes. Aides said Reagan's remarks would center primarily on his determination to stick with his economic recovery program. The president spent most of Friday riding out another top-level White House controversy - this one involving his national security adviser Richard Allen. No sooner had Reagan laid to rest an embarrassing incident involving his budget director, David Stockman, on Thursday than another popped up around Allen and his acceptance of a $1,000 payment from a Japanese journalist. STOCKMAN MADE a public apology Thursday for his published comments that Reagan's economic plan was full of holes and designed to help the rich. Friday morning, the spotlight of unwanted publicity moved to Allen after reports surfaced in Japan that an unidentified Reagan administration official was being investigated for taking bribes. Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, issued a statement saying Allen had received a $1,000 honorarium offered by a Japanese journalist after an interview with first lady Nancy Reagan. Speakes said Allen had intended to turn the money over to the proper authorities, but forgot. # How to un-ground a submarine . . . To The Denver Post: ONE OF THE most heartening events of recent years, or even the last 30 years, was the grounding of a Soviet submarine in Swedish waters. Having spent 10 years in submarines and been commanding officer of three of them, I know there is no way to run a submarine aground and have it stay aground, unless, as happened to some of our boats during WW II, you're going like a bat out of hell and hit an uncharted reef or coral head or some underwater obstacle of which you had no knowledge. What do you do in a submarine that goes aground is blow the forward main ballast tank, not to mention the bow buoyancy tank, and having lifted the bow above the beach or sand bar or whatsoever on which you went aground, you back away and proceed on your appointed rounds, and never, never tell your leaders that you have gone aground. Going aground is a "No-no." It happened to me twice, and only I was the wiser for it. The skipper of the Soviet submarine must have been a dolt. The Soviets put on their trousers one leg at a time, just as we do, and must have incompetents in their armed services, as we do, but to my knowledge we don't have submarine skippers who run their boats aground and expose themselves to a watching world. C.V. GORDON Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) Colorado Springs Denver Post 11/13/81 === Page 59 of 64 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, OCTOBER 25, 1981 # Chief's funeral Japanese hoodlums - UPD "higher ups" - 10/25/81 By DONALD KIRK New York Times News Service TOKYO -- Kazuo Taoka died last July 23 at age 68, the victim of a heart attack. Private services, attended by immediate family and friends, were held a week later to commemorate his passing. Three months later, 2,000 to 3,000 hoodlums gathered in Kobe to give Taoka an elaborate Buddhist sendoff Sunday in the best Japanese gangland tradition. Kazuo Taoka was Japan's primo capo, its No. 1 mobster. In anticipation of trouble, hundreds of Japanese police officers are patrolling the nightclub districts of Kobe and the nearby industrial metropolis of Osaka, fearing that the uneasy "funeral truce" being observed by Taoka's Yamaguchi gang, the world's largest criminal organization with 12,000 members, and its rivals may break down after the Sunday service. One of Taoka's lieutenants, Hideomi Oda, scoffs at the notion of impending mob warfare. "We are gentlemen," he says. "We are not like the Mafia." "Other gangsters sympathize with us in our period of sadness," said Oda, a portly, jovial-figure sequestered in a house under 24-hour police surveillance. "They do not want to fight us while we are mourning our leader." # Prince in near miss - UPD "higher ups" - LONDON (AP) -- Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was at the controls of a royal aircraft that narrowly missed colliding with a Miami-bound Boeing 747, Buckingham Palace said Monday. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said the incident occurred Friday as the British Airways plane, with 200 passengers aboard, was climbing from London's Heathrow Airport at 300 mph. Philip was piloting a twin-engined turboprop Andover of the Queen's Flight. The spokesman would give no further details and declined to speculate on whether Philip, 60, an experienced pilot, was under the impression he would get the "purple corridor" usually accorded royal flights. Oreg 12/1/81 # U.S. Envoy in Paris Escapes Assassination Try Uninjured - UPD "higher ups" - Washington Post 11/13/81 PARIS -- A black-bearded youth wielding a pistol fired a half-dozen shots at the top-ranking U.S. diplomat in France Thursday in a botched assassination attempt outside the diplomat's apartment near the Eiffel Tower. Charge d'Affaires Christian Chapman, 60, said he escaped injury by ducking behind his chauffeur-driven embassy sedan after seeing a man reach into his black leather jacket, move swiftly toward him and fire away in full view of several passers-by. Chapman described the gunman as "a Middle Eastern type." The assailant -- apparently acting alone -- fled the scene on foot, and Paris police reported no arrests. The French Foreign Ministry said Chapman had informed the government recently of a threat against U.S. diplomats in Paris. The fears, diplomatic sources added, grew from U.S. intelligence reports that Libyan agents were planning attacks on American diplomats in several European capitals to avenge the shooting down of two Libyan warplanes last August by U.S. Navy pilots on maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra off Libya. Chapman is the highest-ranking diplomat at the U.S. Embassy pending arrival of newly appointed U.S. ambassador, Evan Griffith Galbraith. Chapman refused to speculate whether the attempt on his life was part of the reported Libyan plan. "I have no sweeping statements on that," he said, outwardly calm and answering questions in French and English with aplomb. "There is no basis for making speculation from the incident." The shooting was the first such attack on the life of an American diplomat stationed in Paris in the memory of police and embassy staffers. Paris frequently has been the scene of international terrorism, however, and a bomb exploded at the U.S. consulate in 1972 in the days of demonstrations against the American role in the Vietnam War. The embassy chauffeur, who was with the car, was not hit, police reported. In all, they said, the assailant fired six or seven 7.65-caliber bullets, apparently emptying his clip, before fleeing down the quiet residential streets. === Page 60 of 64 With Flemming firing - Reagan removes 'conscience' BY CARL T. ROWAN WASHINGTON - You can lie to the Congress and the American people about an economic "riverboat gamble" that you know could be a disaster, and you can survive in the Reagan administration. Budget Director David Stockman is proof of that. You can take a $1,000 "thank you" fee from a Japanese magazine for arranging a five-minute interview with Mrs. Reagan, tuck the money in a safe, claim an eight-month lapse of memory after the money is discovered, and still survive in the Reagan administration. National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen is proof of that. You can be a gutsy, classy American who refuses to bend with every wind of racial passion - a white man who struggles to contain the racial polarization that has been growing dangerously in America - but you cannot survive in the Reagan administration. Arthur Flemming, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, is proof of that. The three cases cited are just pieces of a mountain of evidence that blind right-wing ideology, not any special devotion to honesty, ability or integrity, is what dominates this administration. Stockman undressed the president before a snickering nation when he confided to a newspaperman that Reaganomics is just a humbling "Trojan horse" of "trickle down" breeding through which Reagan rewards the rich and pretends to help the poor. But in that luncheon where Reagan took Stockman "to the woodshed," the budget director apparently convinced the president that, given another chance, he can con the Congress all over again. Allen escapes ouster because, "thank you" fees or not, he has never strayed from the rightist reservation. But Flemming? The 76-year-old former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (under Dwight Eisenhower) was a good enough chairman of the Civil Rights Commission for Richard Nixon (who first appointed him), Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. But Flemming is just too outspoken an advocate of racial justice for the troglodytes who now control the White House. "We have reasonably good laws and court decisions in the civil rights field," Flemming said to me just after his ouster. "The question is whether the executive branch has a commitment to implement those laws and decisions. You can't implement them without disturbing the status quo. And you can't disturb the status quo without making enemies." Flemming, thinking his commission was "independent and bipartisan," has irked the Reaganites by pressuring them publicly to disturb the racial status quo - and thus their country club pals and executive suite cronies. So this distinguished public servant is being ousted because he still supports affirmative action programs, because he insists that "busing" is a phony issue trumpeted by Americans who still want school segregation and because he shouts loudly for extension of the Voting Rights Act, which the president now wants to weaken drastically. So Flemming, a former president of the University of Oregon who for a couple of generations has been an effective conscience of white America, is being fired. And once again Reagan is resorting to the cynical tactic of using a black man to undermine the commission and what it and Flemming have done. Reagan plans to replace Flemming with Clarence Pendleton, a black conservative who has the blessing of White House counselor Edwin Meese III. Pendleton has, by judgments I respect, been a good director of the San Diego Urban League, so nominating him is not quite comparable to the administration's efforts to put a black incompetent, William Bell, in charge of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But Pendleton is an "ambitiously irreverent" figure in the Urban League movement, a black anachronism who inveighs against affirmative action. I was told by an associate who urged Pendleton not to take the post succeeding Flemming. Pendleton will find that, his "friendship" with Meese notwithstanding, neither he nor any other black will find real power in this administration - and that there is no glory in being a sycophant for the oppressors of America's deprived and downtrodden. © 1981, Field Enterprises, Inc. Byrd to relinquish seat in Senate BY GEORGE W. WILBUR RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., the only independent in the U.S. Senate, said Monday he would not seek reelection next year, opening what promises to be a tough fight for the seat he has held since 1965. "Eighteen years is long enough," Byrd, 66, said at a news conference. A fiscal conservative, he said the trend toward curbing excessive government "and moderating its cost" was a key factor in his decision to bow out. Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Byrd's impending retirement "ensures that Republicans will take the Virginia Senate seat" in 1982. But the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Committee, Wendell Ford of Kentucky, said the Virginia race was "wide open." In Washington, Virginia's other senator, Republican John Warner, said Byrd was ending his senatorial career with "complete dignity and grace." "His strong voice for individual freedom and fiscal responsibility will be dearly missed by me and I am certain by his colleagues," Warner told the Senate. In announcing his decision, Byrd said "the battle to control the cost of government and to balance the budget has been a lonely one." With President Reagan's election, however, "the atmosphere in Washington has improved." === Page 61 of 64 Oreg 11/16/81 # The nation ## Bullets hit house GLEN COVE, N.Y. (AP) -- A gunman pumped a dozen bullets into the home of the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, shattering windows but causing little damage and no injuries, police said. Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky and his wife were not home at the time of the attack that occurred sometime between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday, said Nassau County Detective Hank Grynewicz. Members of Troyanovsky's staff may have been at the house when the shooting occurred, he said. A man who would not identify himself telephoned The Associated Press Sunday and said the Jewish Defense League was responsible for the shooting. "The attack was done on behalf of the Soviet Jews, and we are going to do everything we can to get them free at any expense," he said. League officials could not be reached immediately. There was no answer to several calls to the Soviet mission at the United Nations. The incident is being investigated by Nassau County detectives and the FBI. - UFOs & Projects + "higher up's" - # Second Jet Crashes In Turkey -- 2 Die Ankara A Turkish jet fighter preparing for NATO exercises crashed yesterday, killing its two occupants. It was the second crash of a Turkish warplane in as many days. A U.S.-made F-5 that crashed into a fuel dump Tuesday during a mock dive-bombing attack killed 40 soldiers and the plane's pilot, authorities reported. They said a major and a captain were killed in yesterday's accident when their F-4 Phantom slammed into the ground, also during a simulated dive-bombing run. Turkey's military government said the two crashes would not interrupt Turkish participation in the war games of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that are being held in Europe. SF Chron 9/24/81 Associated Press === Page 62 of 64 March 16, 1980 CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove D. Scott Rogo etc etc My UFOs today communicated. Because time is so short (before a nuclear shootout, which will involve the whole world directly and indirectly)...they are raising "the ante" now in order to try and get the Base they want so desperately (five million). They are going to attack the higher-ups in the U.S. Government. I do not know what they have in mind, but it should be quite bad. This action is a "back-up" for the file which I have just sent to you. You will be able to keep score on the government bigwigs as it happens, in the newspapers. Now, of course, we will be dealing with the "5 Projects PK Attack." Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 63 of 64 Note: The huge enclosed file documents the below. If you are puzzled by any of the clips, will be glad to explain. Owens 2/17/81 November 17, 1980 CONTACTS My UFOs (SIs) have begun a "whole new ballgame." An entirely new modus operandi. It has been a long while since you have heard from me, but there has been a tremendous lot of action since that time on the part of the SIs. To begin with, following is a list of what THEY have been and are doing (I am now just a "reporter" from them to you...they have taken over and are running things. I am no longer allowed to write or draw "PK Maps". Instead the SIs give me a mental "PK Map", and this mental map is such that it could not even be described in English words by myself under interrogation by experts.) Following are the projects which they are working on, full time, around the clock: (1) United States "Bermuda Triangle" Attack. The UFOs have taken the mysterious Bermuda Triangle phenomena and transferred it to cover the entire United States. As I understand from their explanation to me this will cause the following phenomena to occur over the United States (throughout): (a) Disorientation. Pilots of planes will become confused and/or lost...all activities within the United States area will be affected by Disorientation. (In the enclosed file you will find news articles describing a woman driver of a school bus getting confused and disoriented and winding up clear across the State! Engineers of trains become disoriented and drive their trains upon the wrong tracks. Airplane pilots become disoriented and lost. Etc.) (b) Time Distortion. At first I was puzzled by this bit of information from the SIs, because the only 'time distortion' that I was familiar with falls within the scope of work with hypnosis and possibly, I suppose, drugs. But the SIs corrected my thinking with this explanation...they have blanketed the United States with the time of another age! I.e., perhaps 1776, or the year 1800...like that...together with the type of thinking that goes with it on the part of the people en masse. In short, the United States will be "out of timing" with Nature and time itself. (c) Ocean Attack. The SIs have somehow rigged the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico with intelligence to ATTACK the United States with fire, storm, flood, etc. (The oceans around us now will attack the United States just as a trained Doberman will attack an enemy.) Numerous newsclips in the enclosed file illustrate how this is being done, constantly. === Page 64 of 64 2 Letter to Contacts November 17, 1980 (2) UFO (SI) War vs. U.S. Government. Put simply, the SIs are making everything go wrong for the United States Government that can possibly go wrong, in every possible way; politically, financially, militarily, and so on. (3) "Power" and Rain Attack Worldwide. This project is aimed at knocking out all forms of "power"...electric, nuclear, oil, etc. The enclosed file is absolutely jammed with newsclips which illustrate how it is being done. The "rain attack" part of the project is to cause violent storms...wind, rain, etc. (4) Sun and Moon SI Attack. The SIs are exerting, projecting, laws of physics (powers) from their dimension at the sun and the moon simultaneously. I tried to find out from them the effects of this project on Earth, but was unable to do so. Whatever it is, it will not be good. At this point I must explain something to you. The file enclosed has newsclips which cover action everywhere. Seemingly just 'happenings' and unrelated. But not so. I must point out that my work parallels that of Moses...and no doubt when the SIs, working with Moses as their 'reporter' to the Pharaoh, said that people all over Egypt would be covered with boils...each section of Egypt must have thought that it was an unrelated happening when it happened...nothing to be "tied together" to a "main theme or melody" if you follow what I am saying. The same course of action is described in the pattern of the newsclips in the enclosed file. I.e., the Four Projects (ideas, really) have been "PKd" by the UFOs to happen; occur; come to pass. And they are doing so, with amazing (to me) constancy. My half human, half alien mind can easily recognize the "Pattern" whereas the ordinary human mind (non-alien) would have great difficulty in doing so, if at all. The reason for all of this negative, aggressive behavior on the part of the UFOs is because my "host country" the U.S. will not protect me or help me, their only human "ambassador" (to use the Mishlove/Rogo term, which is entirely accurate). And the U.S. will not furnish the Base which is an absolute necessity if the SIs are going to be able to step in and save the United States (and probably the rest of the world) from extinction. The people on it, I am referring to.) The "Four Projects" seem to be causing explosions all over the U.S. Ships, oil rigs, industrial complexes, and so on. The Titan missile site. Volcanoes (both here and abroad). Also the Four Projects seem to be causing "plagues" of every kind. Red Tide on the East Coast; bubonic plague in New Mexico; tampon toxic-shock escalation; outbreak of "blue tongue" in livestock in the northwest; radioactive leaks in nuclear facilities everywhere, and so on and on. Going from the large to the small in the order of things, strange things have been happening where I am concerned: in the grocery across the street where I shop daily a loaf of bread jumped off a shelf, while I watched it, just feet away; another day a carton of Coca-Cola jumped off a shelf and crashed onto the floor. I was five feet away from it...and so was John, the store manager of Keil's, who witnessed it. Also a large tray loaded with plates jumped off the table in my office at home while I sat alone, three feet away from it. It is my belief that the SIs have increased my mental power and that this is some sort of "side-effect" from it. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 8111 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/7a05bd55e01a956b5dc771ed56a2ec0a.pdf 2272db1b483cd48e2f98174d9a1beedd https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/fb4d924696e15c13120f71b7d5dd49da.txt 4d82d0e63974aa0cd3d69da12b527d94 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1982 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 278 Jeffrey Mishlove 190 Twenty-fifth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 January 22, 1982 Dear Ted, Just a note to let you know that I am still alive. I have been receiving your materials and continue to collect and organize as much data as I can. I also very much enjoyed the rainbow keyring which you sent to me. I'm very sorry that, over the years, I have not been able to be of more help to you. My frank opinion is that your apparent talents deserve more study and attention than I have been able, or others, willing to give. Your recent letters sound as if you are in serious financial trouble. I would like to help you, but am unable to at this time. I would like to leave you with a thought, I have been wanting to tell you in many ways for a long time. Under the best of circumstances, it would be quite difficult--but not totally impossible--for you to achieve more recognition for your talents. Perhaps the SI's have been using you as a barometer to see what society is ready for. However, I think that your own behavior has done much to make your circumstances far less than optimal. Perhaps, with extraordinary effort, you could correct this situation. Your "attacks on higher ups" and "warfare against the USA" is absolutely futile. It is like the proverbial gnat in the ear of the elephant. (The gnat makes his home in the elephant's ear for many years. But when he bids the elephant goodbye, the elephant doesn't even realize he has been there.) Your potential powers are so frightening, that they activate an equally powerful human defense mechanism in people to deny that they exist. I think this is why I have had absolutely no response to the report I wrote on you, or to the book Rogo and I prepared. There may be several viable ways to counter this defense mechanism: (a) consistent demonstrations of positive uses; (b) a more saintly appearance on your part; (c) formation of a more socially effective social support network; (d) a more artistic approach; (e) a more coherent, logical approach. In many ways, I think you have acted with great integrity. You have always consistently been yourself. But have you been willing to learn and grow spiritually? One pattern I observe in the data is continued behavior on your part of a type which simply aggravates this defense mechanism which causes people to want to deny your reality. You wish to be a diplomat, but you haven't honored the power within you by learning diplomacy. You are an extraordinarily bright man, but have you used your intelligence for self-scrutiny, to see what changes in your behavior might make your work more effective? Do you really think, for example, that you can simply sit there and take credit for every quirk and bizarre pattern that shows up in the newspapers? Surely you can step outside of yourself and see how this claim must appear, even to sympathetic observers. I'm sorry that this letter is all I have to offer you. I hope that it will help you to better honor the force within you. Best Wishes, === Page 2 of 278 Postmarked 1-29-82 January 29, 1982 Dear Jeffrey: It would be so much more fun for me, to answer your letter of the 22nd, if you were not my friend. Ever since my younger years...when I fought in the ring so much...I always said to myself, "Aw, darn"...when a friend would step into the ring to spar with me and I knew I'd have to pull my punches. Now perhaps I can "do you a favor" too. Let me show you the current accuracy of your thinking processes. You submit a "flea and an elephant" illustration. You completely overlook the fact that the flea can, albeit obliquely through allied powers, control the weather over cities and entire countries and control the happenings over thousands of selectively-chosen people. And that's just for starters. I do not believe your elephant would survive that flea, once the elephant became the enemy of the flea. i.e., if the flea could bring 3/4 of the United States into utter chaos through weather control, then that flea would have small difficulty in taking on one single pachyderm. Now, Jeffrey, you advise me to change my "image" with a more "saintly" appearance on my part. It appears to me that you are greatly concerned with image...with what others think. Rhine didn't try to change his image and he didn't really give a dam what his peers thought...and for 20 years he took a beating from them...until he proved what he was doing and became world-famous. And that is my message to you: if you ever want to amount to anything at all in your field (and of course you do) you will have to change your own approach to the entire thing and become more of a fighter and scrapper, doing what you perceive to be right and true at all times...and the devil take the hindmost. Jeffrey, the United States is crawling with thousands of doctors of science clutching their diplomas in their hands...all neatly dressed, all conforming, all peering around timidly at their peers lest they do something to make their peers angry at them. And they will all fade away, in time, into the vacuum of mediocre nothingness. I learned long ago something you have never learned...and I learned it fighting in the ring, fighting on the judo mat, fighting in the streets, if you will...a special "way of mind". You know that you are going to get hurt fighting this tough opponent, but then...that's to be expected. You know you may get knocked down, so you have to be prepared to get up and resume fighting when that happens. But above all, you know you have to win the fight. Well, you can't win them all...I lost a few, just a few, in my time...but after I'd gone past that stage of my life I knew one thing for dam sure...that I was tough, that I was a fighter...not only in the ring or in judo or on the street...but in every phase of my life. And it is this very element...that is missing in you and that you need the worst way, before The Establishment turns you into just another jelly-spined, anaemic scientist bowing to all his peers who are bowing to their peers and so on sickening on. The truth of it is simply that you are sitting on the very greatest parapsychological find in history...but you are afraid to do anything about it. You made a beginning, after realizing the material was valid...but you dropped it when confronted by peers tougher than you are. You state: "Your "attacks on higher ups" and "warfare against the USA" is futile. Now, there is some scientific statement. In the first place, it is not my attacks on higher ups. I am not doing it. It is the UFO, Mayan and Egyptian powers that are currently engaged in these activities. And...futile? As compared to what? When my UFOs tell me that they are going to escalate their attack against the U.S. 100 times and then bury 3/4 of the United States in snow, ice, rain, mud, flood, hurricane winds and so forth...frankly, Jeffrey, I'd like to know your definition of 'futile'. In closing...I must assume that your very same letter must have been sent to Moses, while he was attacking the Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Moses' people didn't like his attitude or behavior either. And may I ask...how "futile" was that little flea, Moses? === Page 3 of 278 January 5, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Last month, December, early-on, I notified my assistant, Annette Schladweiler, plus Millie Miller and George Delavan... that my UFOs (SIs) had telepathed to me to forward the information to you... that they were increasing their "6 Projects Attack" and "Higher-Ups Attack" a hundred times! (100 X. 100 Power.) I have been keeping a daily record of the UFO activity... and they have indeed done what they said that they would do... increased their attacks... getting to the "100 X" point first with weather, (as I CAN understand what they are doing.) And as I understand what they have telepathed to me... first will come the weather demonstration (see attached newsclips as sample)... then if no Base is forthcoming... they will switch from weather attack to people attack, higher-ups of course, at the 100 X level! On Monday, December 14, 1981... my remote-controlled TV set... began changing channels all by itself... running crazily from channel to channel like something alive. Before I even had time to puzzle over it, the UFOs telepathed... and explained that, in the process of increasing their power attacks on the 6 Projects and higher-ups 100 times... this action had also given my half-alien brain a sympathetic 100X boost in power! Since then there is no controlling the TV. As I watch it, channels change, colors change, pictures go off and come on, sound goes off and comes on, etc. One other marvelous anomaly you would be interested in, before closing. Not long ago I was catching an airplane to Minnesota. Before embarking I had to empty my pockets of all metal objects and put them on a tray (in my case, trays) in order to walk underneath a metal-detector. Well, I emptied my pockets all right, thinking that all was okay... because previously I had placed my pocket knives, etc., in my suitcase, which would not accompany me on the plane. The fingers of my right hand closed on one last metal object in my pants pocket... an object that I had thought I'd removed and put into the suitcase at home. I must have turned white, with the girl guard standing in front of me, watching me alertly. Because the object was the bullet clip to my automatic pistol, filled with bullets! I looked into the girl's face and she stared into my face. What to do? I couldn't possibly get through the electronic metal detector with the clip of bullets on my person. Yet if I pulled it out and gave it to her to keep until I returned... they'd search my luggage and find the gun that the clip went with! Dam! Suddenly the SIs (UFOs) telepathed to me... "go through the metal detector." Like a robot obeying its master's command I took my hand off the clip, out of my pocket, smiled feebly at the girl guard, and walked on forward through the doorway of the electronic detector. As I stood underneath it, in my forward stride, I winced and closed my eyes, fully expecting the bell to ring, alerting the policeman and girl guard there, who would then discover the clip of bullets. But nothing. No noise. No bell. No alarm. I managed to keep a poker face as best I could, collected the trays of metal objects at the other end and replaced them in my pockets, and walked on onto the airplane. Of course, it was an utter impossibility for me to have gone underneath that electronic arch with a gun clip full of bullets without its being detected. Why, I've had that alarm go off BEFORE JUST from the metal belt buckle on my belt. The SIs told me to do it, and I did, and a small miracle happened. Owens === Page 4 of 278 UFOs attack economy # Millions more join search for jobs WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Unemployment, fueled by a nagging recession, jumped sharply to 8.9 percent in December with nearly 9.5 million Americans out of work, the Labor Department reported Friday. It was the fifth straight monthly increase, making the rate only fractionally below the height of the 1974-75 recession when unemployment peaked at 9 percent. Joblessness among adult men rose to a record post-World War II rate of 8 percent, with blue-collar workers carrying the brunt of the layoffs. Their rate went to 12.9 percent. The 0.5 percentage point increase from November's 8.4 percent was higher than some economic observers anticipated and reflected a deepening of the current recession. Figures released recently for factory production and unemployment insurance benefits indicate the level may rise even further next month. A year ago, in December 1980, the unemployment rate was 7.4 percent. Since then, an additional 1.68 million Americans have lost their jobs. AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Donahue, interviewed in the NBC "Today" show before the latest figures were released, said blame for rising unemployment has to be placed on the Reagan White House. "We're operating under what is the White House economic plan," he said. Donahue suggested the administration return to some of the programs of the Carter administration such as public service jobs and targeted job programs for the disadvantaged. UFOs 100x Attack Oreg 1/7/82 # CALIFORNIA'S WORST WINTER STORM IN DECADES ### San Francisco Bay Area | Mudslides and flooding - Many homes destroyed | | |---|---| | Flooding Bodega Bay | 101 | | Portions of Highways 1 and 101 closed | Highway 37 closed | | Golden Gate Bridge closed | MARIN San Rafael | | Homes destroyed by mudslides | San Francisco Pacifica | | Flooding causes evacuations | Pescadero | | Numerous bridges destroyed | SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz | | | Dam break threat | | | Vallejo | | | Passenger train derails | | | Oakland | | | San Jose | | | 101 | RAVAGED SITES -- Areas hardest hit by the storm that stunned millions of Northern California residents are pinpointed on map. SIs 100x attack # Severe cold ices Europe Oreg 1/8/82 LONDON (AP) -- A blast of arctic cold swept across Northern Europe Thursday, coating streets and harbors with ice, shutting down transportation and imperiling ships at sea. The Danish Navy said three seamen died when their boats sank under the weight of ice. One vessel went down in seconds as waves breaking over it froze on impact, a spokesman said. In northern England, where an unseasonal thaw pushed rivers over their banks, troops in assault craft were checking on farm families isolated by flooding. "Unseasonal thaw" + "Freak" storms in the U.S. + a U.S. weather system that reversed itself! === Page 5 of 278 # California slide toll may reach 42 UFOs 100X 1/7/82 oreg J By United Press International Rescuers in California used heavy equipment Thursday to battle waist-deep mud blocking the way to an area of Santa Cruz County where authorities say the bodies of at least 14 more mudslide victims may be uncovered. Snow from the Pacific Northwest to the Great Lakes turned the area into a deep-freeze. The temperature in Amarillo, Texas, dropped to 12 degrees. In Santa Cruz, Sheriff's Detective Steve Fitzgerald said, "I just talked to an officer who came back from the Love Creek area and he said there should be at least 14 bodies coming out of there." "He said he came to that number by counting the number of extremities sticking out of the mud." Twenty-eight people were known dead in the Northern California mudslides unleashed by a freak blitz of rain. The discovery of more bodies could send the death toll as high as 42. Authorities warned more that mudslides threatened some areas of California, with property damage already approaching $250 million. More than 400 homes were destroyed and thousands more damaged in a six-county disaster area. Heavy snow and snow squalls developed in the rest of the West - over Indiana, South Dakota, Michigan and Ohio - and moved into western New York state. Extremely heavy snow was reported over Colorado. Steamboat Springs was blasted by 23 inches of new snow. Crested Butte had 22 inches and 6 to 18 inches fell in other mountain locations. Utah was expecting temperatures as low as 40 below zero. Back-to-back storms since the first of the year contributed to at least 97 deaths nationwide. Mountain hamlets along the Santa Cruz County coast were still without power, low on food and water and virtually isolated Thursday by a 2-mile mudslide that rained of tons of boulders, redwood trees and debris onto dozens of homesites. Witnesses described the slide as looking like an "avalanche" and like "Niagara Falls." The threat of more slides diminished in the scenic hills of Marin County on the north shore of San Francisco Bay. The Highway Patrol late Wednesday reopened the Golden Gate Bridge, which was closed for only the third time in its history. Thousands of stranded commuters poured into previously blocked-off Marin County communities. Firemen and volunteers used chain saws and heavy equipment to push through knee-deep mud on Highway 9, the main road into the Santa Cruz valley where a 2-mile chunk of mountain 500 feet high fell, burying and damaging many homes. Electrical power was out and water was contaminated in several areas. Traveling was made impossible by collapsed bridges and blocked roads. "There are millions and millions of tons of earth and we can't do anything till we move it," said Fire Chief Mike Smith in Ben Lomond. Weather experts said the storm was a wrong-way disturbance from the lower Western Pacific Ocean rather than the usual type that comes down from the north at this time of year. "Freak blitz; wrong way disturbance;" two Hynek Coincidences. Owens === Page 6 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 6, 1982 (2) UFOs 100X attack # Mudslides, storms claim at least 94 United Press International Deadly mudslides from the worst rainstorm in decades buried residents Wednesday in homes along 150 miles of California's northern coast. At least 94 deaths were blamed on both the West Coast rains and a storm that dumped 1 1/2 feet of snow on the Midwest. Mudslides shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and the Waldo Tunnel, which threatened to collapse and sever San Francisco's main link with Marin County to the north. About 1,000 residents were evacuated from hillside homes in the plush resort of Sausalito. At least four houses already had given way early Wednesday and a woman was found dead in the twisted wreckage of one structure. Twenty-five deaths were confirmed in California and another dozen people were reported missing. Authorities late Tuesday discovered the bodies of two of three children trapped screaming in their beds by a mudslide that buried their suburban San Francisco home. Heavy snow fell over much of the southwestern U.S. into the Central Rockies and the Great Plains. Winter storm warnings were in effect through the night for Utah, where another in a series of blizzard-like storms dumped more than a foot of snow on the state. One man was killed in a weather-related truck accident. Emergency workers said the death toll in California could rise, particularly near the coastal town of Santa Cruz, 60 miles south of San Francisco on Monterey Bay, where authorities said at least four people and perhaps as many as 10 were buried in a mudslide at Love Creek. The hilly coastal towns north and west of San Francisco Bay, primarily in posh Marin County, also were plagued by huge mudslides. Trees were hurled into living rooms and communities were isolated by foot-deep floodwaters. The California Highway Patrol late Tuesday closed the Golden Gate Bridge for only the third time in its history after a series of new slides at the Waldo Tunnel, Highway 1's main link to the north. A highway patrolman said the tunnel was undermined by the new slides and there were fears it could collapse at any minute. Property damage was estimated in excess of $100 million with thousands of Californians washed out of their houses by up to 15 inches of rain and huge mudslides along the mountainous coast. Marin, Sonoma, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Contra Costa and Humboldt counties were declared under a state of emergency, opening the way for use of National Guard troops for cleanup. One man in San Anselmo, Calif., tied his Cadillac to a telephone pole so it would not wash farther down hill. A breakdown of the nationwide deaths showed at least 29 people killed in weather-related traffic accidents. Eighteen people died in plane crashes, 12 died in fires, 20 in floods and mudslides, one froze to death, 10 collapsed while shoveling snow and another was killed by a tornado. The Midwest began moving again Tuesday after a deluge of 1 1/2 feet of snow from the worst storm in 35 years, but schools in Milwaukee remained closed for a second straight day and grocery stores reported shortages of staple foods. More snow was forecast for Wednesday. === Page 7 of 278 THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1982 # Blizzards, floods, winds ravage nation; Milwaukee paralyzed Associated Press Laserphoto KNEE-HIGH AND RISING -- Abandoned autos punctuate an urban seascape Monday on the Marin side of the San Rafael-Richmond Bridge in California. Mudslides and flooding were widespread in Northern California in the wake of torrential rains that dumped more than a foot of water within a 20-hour period. By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Blizzards, floods, tornadoes, freezing rain and howling winds battered the nation Monday, paralyzing cities and highways and stranding thousands of travelers. At least 34 deaths have been attributed to violent weather since New Year's Eve, including plane crashes, heart attacks and drownings. A Pacific storm poured a foot of water on suburban communities north of San Francisco, causing floods and mudslides that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people and stranded others. The rain began at 4 p.m. Sunday and had not let up more than 24 hours later. Authorities restricted travel on the Golden Gate Bridge because of the number of roads blocked in Marin County, forcing thousands of commuters to spend the night in San Francisco. Only residents of southern Marin County In the Northwest and northern Rockies, a snowstorm with winds of up to 85 mph cut visibility to zero and pushed snow into drifts that closed highways in parts of Utah, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming. A third storm, which whistled up from the Texas Panhandle, buried parts of the Great Lakes region under a foot or more of snow. Wind gusting up to 90 mph piled up drifts in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio. Some crews gave up efforts to plow highways until the storm let up. Milwaukee was virtually shut down under more than a foot of snow in the worst snowstorm there in 35 years, and hundreds of miles of Interstate highways were closed in the Midwest. Yet another storm brought heavy rain and tornadoes to the South. Rivers and streams surged over their banks in Georgia, Kentucky and the Carolinas. Snow and freezing rain iced highways in the Northeast, shutting down schools. Some people in Maine were snowbound. The Pacific storm poured more than a foot of rain within 20 hours on Marin County, north of San Francisco, triggering mudslides and floods that destroyed homes and isolated thousands. "The city is under siege," said San Rafael Fire Chief Brian Waterbury. He said that firefighters reported mud and water racing through streets at more than 30 mph. The state sent in 25 National Guard trucks and 50 Guardsmen to help evacuate people stranded in cars or trapped in flooded homes. The Marin County communities of Woodacre, Point Reyes Station, Bodega Bay and Sebastopol were === Page 8 of 278 The storm also brought a blizzard to the Sierra Nevada, stranding thousands of skiers and forcing 500 people to seek refuge at an armory in Yreka. Parts of the mountain range averaged 9 feet of snow on the ground. About 20,000 homes in Redding, in far northern California, went dark as the power system failed under an 8-inch snowfall. In Milwaukee, schools, government offices and scores of factories were closed, the 500 municipal buses were parked, and power was out in much of the city. up to 15 inches of snow, and wind gusting to 60 mph blew the snow into drifts that closed roads as soon as they were plowed in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. School and businesses closed and an estimated 23,000 customers lost electricity in Michigan. Cleveland was hit with 90-mph winds, rain and hail, and lightning knocked out power to about 46,000 customers. The wind blew the roof off an elementary school in North Ridgeville, southwest of Cleveland, slightly injuring six students. Doug 1/5/82 UFOs - 100% Attack # 49 die in worst winter storms in 3 decades Doug J 1/5/82 By United Press International The worst winter storms in more than 30 years paralyzed the West and Midwest with a wall of snow, rain and up to 80-mph winds, causing millions of dollars in damage and turning northern California into a sea of mud. At least 49 deaths were blamed on the weather. Harsh rains from California's worst winter storm in decades sent a 350-passenger train - Amtrak's San Francisco-to-Chicago "Zephyr" - off the tracks Monday into floodwaters on the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay. Twelve passengers suffered "moderate to minor" injuries. Three sleeping children were buried alive early Tuesday as the hillside behind their Pacifica, Calif., home gave way to three days of rain, state emergency officials said. Police in the San Francisco suburb said rescue crews were trying to clear the rubble from the wreckage of that home and another that slid down the hillside. "We really don't know if they're alive or not," a police dispatcher said. "Evidently one house just collapsed on another one." Police said the parents of the children escaped before the house slid down the hill, but they were unable to get the two girls and a boy out. Hundreds of other homes worth millions of dollars in Northern California were damaged or destroyed in the wave of mudslides and flooding. The hardest hit area of California was affluent Marin County, north of San Francisco, which was completely closed off by mudslides. National Guard troops were ordered into the area and a steady stream of supplies and equipment was being rushed in early Tuesday. Local officials declared a state of emergency throughout the county and asked Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. to confirm it Tuesday. The Golden Gate Bridge was closed Monday night for only the third time in its history. "In 32 years of working with emergency services this is the worst that I have ever seen," said William Ward, regional director for the California Emergency Services. Thousands of commuters were stranded and San Francisco was left virtually isolated. Hundreds of thousands of homes were without power due to storms - about 150,000 of them in Marin County. The others were in Wisconsin and suburban Cleveland. Blinding snow buried Northern Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin under drifts up to 5 feet. Milwaukee suffered from its worst snowstorm in 35 years, with more snow expected Tuesday. Heavy rains in the East froze on roads and highways, causing traffic headaches. At least five tractor-trailer accidents in Massachusetts, state police said. Winds up to 64 mph were reported accompanying a cold wave through western Pennsylvania. "The icing was the worst I've seen in seven or eight years," said Rocco DeLuca of the Rhode Island Transportation Department. "It was terrorizing." Howling winds and blowing snow blasted western New York Tuesday - one day after temperatures reached the 40s. High winds and squalls reduced visibility to zero - although no snow fell overnight. High winds also made it difficult for drivers to hold the road. The Coast Guard clocked a 68-mph wind at Buffalo and gusts to 71 mph were reported at the Buffalo airport. The winds downed power lines and tree limbs, leaving thousands of Erie County residents without power overnight and early Tuesday. Winter storm watches and travelers advisories were posted Tuesday over virtually all of the West and Midwest extending into New Mexico. In Utah, up to 80-mph winds were reported at Snowbird Ski Resort. At least 25 people were killed in weather-related traffic accidents during the weekend, and 10 people were killed in plane crashes. Four others died in fires, one drowned, one froze to death, two collapsed Monday while shoveling snow and another was killed by a tornado. In Ohio, winds up to 70 mph ripped the roofs off buildings, downed tree limbs and knocked out power lines. Near Cleveland, high winds ripped part of the roof off an elementary school, injuring six children who were hit with flying debris. A major winter storm dumped as much as a foot and a half of snow on the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, closing hundreds of schools. More snow was falling early Tuesday. Brutal winds up to 50 mph knocked trash cans off street corners and blew down remaining Christmas trees and holiday decorations in Detroit. Twelve-foot waves were reported on Lake Erie and warnings were posted for gale winds over the upper Great Lakes. The Milwaukee area was immobilized by up to 16 inches of snow, the most since the 1947 blizzard that dumped 18 inches on the city in three days. Four people were reported dead in the storm. === Page 9 of 278 UFO2 - 100X attack A8 3M THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1982 # Holiday storms kill 28; tornadoes rip Southeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Holiday storms that killed at least 28 people spread a treacherous layer of snow and ice across the Northern states Sunday, tornadoes and thunderstorms lashed the Southeast and 20,000 people were left without electricity in 10-degree weather in Maine. Officials said one man was killed and 17 people injured in a tornado that touched down near Newton, in east-central Mississippi. The twister gouged a path 12 miles long and one mile wide, knocking over trees and leveling dozens of buildings, officials said. Meanwhile, officials reported four twisters fueled by warm air from the Gulf of Mexico lashed central and northern Alabama. Trooper spokesman Roy Smith said three to five mobile homes were destroyed, and one service station was heavily damaged near Verbena. Tornado watches were in effect in 25 Georgia counties Sunday night, as the state was pummeled by heavy storms. Rome, Ga., reported 4.5 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. Several north Georgia towns had more than 3 inches, with some road and creek flooding reported. In Tennessee, a Memphis forecaster reported 60 mph winds as heavy thunderstorms and winds buffeted the state. State police in Virginia said 37 cars piled up on fog-shrouded Afton Mountain on Interstate 64 near Waynesboro, and 11 people were injured. Cars spun crazily in chain-reaction smashups in cities from Seattle to Baltimore, and up to 18 inches of snow fell in the Rockies. Residents of Roscoe, S.D., with only melted snow to drink, decided to drill an emergency well after the town's water supply froze when the mercury dropped to 20 below zero. More snow fell from the Pacific Northwest across the Midwest into the Great Lakes region, where Grand Marais, Minn., got 12 inches and parts of Michigan got 8 inches. Iowa was hit with its second major snowstorm in two days, adding 2-4 inches to the 8 inches that fell Saturday. Freezing rain glazed highways through Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, and winds whipped up ground blizzards in the snow-smothered Colorado Rockies. Temperatures dropped to 24 degrees below zero in Grand Forks, N.D., and 4 inches of rain overnight in Greenwood, Miss., caused flooding, but police reported no major problems. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service said the "most dangerous storm" of the season was developing over the Texas Panhandle and was expected to move toward the Great Lakes. In Maine, where 2 feet of snow New Year's Day ripped down power lines and tree limbs in Hancock and Washington counties, about 20,000 people still were without power Sunday. Hundreds of elderly people were moved into hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities with emergency power. Roland Richardson, chief deputy sheriff for Washington County, said shelters were being set up Sunday in churches for another 200 people in case power wasn't restored soon. A police spokesman in Ellsworth in Hancock County said people in that area were being urged to seek shelter at a naval station in Winter Harbor. UFO2 100X # Blizzards, ice storms rampage across nation By United Press International Blizzards across the Midwest, ice storms in New England and a freak storm system in the South ground action to a virtual halt in many businesses and schools across the nation early Monday. At least 35 deaths were blamed on the weather. National Guard armories, churches and an American Legion hall were turned into makeshift shelters for nearly 850 stranded travelers as blizzards closed Interstate 5, northern California's main north-south link. Tornadoes, hard rain and strong wind rampaged through the South, triggered by a merging of exceptionally warm, moist air from the Gulf and a fast-moving cold front. Commuters headed for work in southern New England Monday had to negotiate roads that were like skating rinks because of a fine glaze of freezing rain and sleet that fell through the night. State police in all six New England states reported a rash of fender-benders, slow-moving traffic, and in Massachusetts, there were at least five tractor trailer accidents. An ice storm followed by drenching rain hit Eastern New York overnight, causing scores of accidents, closing major roads, delaying air flights, and extending the Christmas-New Year's holiday for thousands of children whose schools were closed by the storm. MJ 1/5/82 === Page 10 of 278 DECEMBER 17, 1981 3M A5 # Britain fights worst storm since 1950 LONDON (AP) -- Helicopters carrying electrical repair crews fanned out across southwest England and Wales Wednesday to restore power to 65,000 homes after blizzards and hurricane-force winds battered the region. The death toll from Britain's worst December storm since 1950 rose to at least 27 since the blizzards began eight days ago, officials reported. Although the weather was clear in most areas Wednesday, widespread flooding was reported in southwest England and Wales as snow-swollen rivers overran their banks. The flooding was worsened by gale-driven high tides that burst through sea-walls in coastal towns earlier this week and left a trail of devastation. The blackout started Sunday when overhead power lines were blown down by 75 mph gales. The state-run Electricity Board said scores more collapsed under the weight of freezing snow. Board spokesman Michael Harman said power may not be restored until the weekend. "This is the worst damage we've had to our system in 30 years," he said. Water supplies were restored Wednesday to 55,000 homes in Wiltshire in southwest England, the state-run Water Authority said. Supplies were cut off when Sunday's blackout left pumping stations without power. # 5,000 Filipinos routed by rampaging typhoon MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Lee slashed across the central Philippines Saturday, triggering floods, destroying hundreds of houses and forcing about 5,000 people to flee to high ground. Hospital authorities said one person died of electrocution in a village outside Naga City, 160 miles south of Manila. The storm smacked into the coconut-producing central Philippines with peak winds of 103 mph, but weakened considerably later. By the time it moved out into the South China Sea Saturday, Lee had been downgraded to a tropical storm with center winds of 59 mph. The typhoon, the 23rd of the season, knocked out communications and power lines, triggered landslides that isolated towns and touched off floods in some low-lying areas. Initial reports reaching the Ministry of Social Welfare said the storm destroyed 288 houses and forced the evacuation of 4,938 persons to schools and town halls. Heavy rains pelted Manila Saturday afternoon, flooding some low areas of the city of 8 million. ### news scope Authorities suspended railway services from Manila to affected southern cities. Philippine Air Lines called off flights to nine points in the country, but Manila International Airport remained open despite the storm. Last month, more than 300 people were killed by Typhoon Irma, the most powerful storm to hit the country in 11 years. # More snow blasts Northeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The second big storm in three days hit the cities of the Northeast, with foot-deep snow Wednesday, and another snowstorm threatened to move in from the Midwest. Meanwhile, the Pacific Northwest got up to 14 inches of snow. The twin blast of snowstorms in the region from Maryland to Maine left at least five people dead, and three people were killed in snow-related accidents Wednesday in the Midwest, where up to 7 inches of snow fell. With hundreds of schools shut down, power out to thousands of homes and highways a mess, forecasters in the Northeast were keeping an eye on the Midwest storm, which was moving eastward after spreading snow across much of Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota and Kansas. A truck stop operator near Albany, N.Y., where about 14 inches of fresh snow fell, reported, "We're snowed in, pal." "What else do you want to know?" said Charlie Sands at the truck stop on the New York State Thruway. "There's a whole bunch of trucks waiting to leave. I was the only guy to make it to work today." A state police trooper in Pittsfield, Mass., summed up the situation in his town. "It was waist-deep when I went out to my cruiser to go to work this morning," said Todd Bell of the Pittsfield barracks. "With the wind blowing, we got 4- to 5-foot drifts." The storms bombarding New England have already brought Concord, N.H., 21.5 inches of snow this month, more than twice as much as it got during all of last December. The snow was at least 12 inches deep in the northern suburbs of New York City, across parts of northern New Jersey, upstate New York and into New England. Western Maryland got 8 inches of new snow. Philadelphia got about 4 inches, while less than an inch fell in Manhattan. Washington, D.C., saw its first measurable snow of the year, and several public school systems in that area shut down. In western Massachusetts, where most schools were closed, the Massachusetts Turnpike and Interstate 91 were described as "virtually impassable" and littered with abandoned cars. The Pacific Northwest storm Tuesday and Wednesday dumped up to 14 inches in Washington's Yakima Valley, and Yakima schools and county offices were forced to shut down. # Heavy snow hits Italy MILAN, Italy (UPI) -- Heavy snow fell nonstop for more than 12 hours in northern Italy Tuesday, snarling traffic in the big cities of Milan and Turin, closing airports and provoking a series of highway accidents. In most of the region the snowstorms started late Monday and continued through the night. About 4 inches of snow fell in Milan and Turin, but in the high Alpine regions there was up to 10 inches of snow. Weathermen predicted more snow Wednesday after a brief period of higher temperatures and rain in some areas. By United Press International With more than 2 feet of snow blanketing parts of the Midwest, winter storms moved east to the Atlantic seaboard Tuesday. In snowbound Colorado, vacationers were cautioned to watch for deadly avalanches in the mountains. ### news scope Travelers' advisories were issued from the Ohio Valley to western New York state, with up to 4 inches of new snow falling through New England. A mixture of rain, sleet and snow pelted northwestern Maryland Monday and changed completely to snow as temperatures dropped Tuesday, covering the area with up to 2 inches. Between 2 to 10 inches of wet, slippery snow has blanketed the Northeast and the Midwest in the last two days. New Hampshire reported 7 to 10 inches of new snow, while Vermont had 9. Parts of the Midwest had up to 14 inches. === Page 11 of 278 Associated Press Laserphoto TORN TRAINS -- Rescue workers crowd around two trains that collided Friday in snowstorm about 30 miles northwest of London. At least five passengers were killed and many more injured. # Blizzard claims 4 in Britain By ROBERT GLASS LONDON (AP) -- Britain's worst pre-Christmas blizzard in 31 years brought misery across the country Friday -- from a remote village where a train crash killed four people to London where thousands of travelers were stranded by snow borne by 35 mph winds. Even Big Ben shivered. In Seer Green, a village 30 miles north of London, a British Rail passenger train plowed into the rear of another train stopped to allow crews to clear a fallen tree from the tracks, police and rail officials said. Police said three people and the driver of the passenger train were killed and 10 people were injured. Seven people were trapped -- some for up to three hours -- as rescue workers clambered over a 15-yard embankment to reach the wreckage in blinding snow. "It was pretty grim," said Tom Redmond, a 21-year-old insurance salesman. He said he saw a leg and a hand visible in the twisted metal. "I never want to see anything like it again." From the south of England to Wales and Scotland, Britons were dealt a heavy blow by 9 inches of snow and freezing temperatures. Readings dipped to 9 degrees in Glasgow, the Scottish city's coldest December night since record-keeping began in 1888. In Yorkshire, northern England, a young mother and her 2-year-old daughter were found dead in their nightclothes in the living room of their home. Police said they might have been trying to keep warm by sleeping downstairs and were overcome by fumes from a coke fire. Driving was treacherous to impossible. London's Heathrow Airport and other big city airports were closed, and subway and rail service was chaotic. Even the clock on Big Ben -- which has rarely failed since it was put into regular operation on the bell tower atop the Parliament building in 1858 -- was slowed to near stop. The clock appeared stuck at 12:27 p.m., but it moved ahead at a "snail's pace" until it was fixed about an hour later, a government spokesman said. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave her countrymen some light relief from the miserable weather. Touring an agriculture college in Shropshire, where 8 inches of snow had accumulated, Mrs. Thatcher pelted a retinue of news photographers with snowballs. They refrained from firing back. # Snow, ice plague British LONDON (AP) -- Britain looked like one "huge skating rink" Wednesday, the Royal Automobile Club reported, as most of the country shivered for the second straight day in deep snow and ice. The snow, which blanketed most of the southeast Tuesday, headed north overnight, hitting Lancashire, Cheshire and parts of Wales, and southwest to Devon and Cornwall which had been spared Tuesday's snowfall, the first of the winter. The Meteorological Office predicted more snow to come and said temperatures would stay around freezing for several days. The coldest spot in Britain at dawn Wednesday was at Eskdalemuir in southern Scotland where the temperature fell to minus 10. # Third storm hits Britain LONDON (AP) -- Hurricane-force winds and mounting snowdrifts blocked roads, shut airports and blacked out parts of the British Isles Sunday as Britain and Ireland were blanketed by their third snowstorm in five days. Temperatures near the border with Wales plummeted to 13 degrees below zero, the lowest since England began keeping records in 1880. At least two people died and two others were missing in storm-related accidents. The blizzard conditions forced most airports to close -- as they had been doing intermittently since the area's first snowfall Wednesday -- and led to thousands of traffic accidents. Ground crews at London's Heathrow airport, however, kept one runway open. === Page 12 of 278 More storms hit Northeast By United Press International Wind surging to 50 mph teamed with snowstorms to create near-blizzard conditions in Nebraska and The Northeast, knocking out electrical power, forcing schools to close and bringing as much as 14 inches of snow to New York. The weather death count for the week increased to 14 with five more fatalities reported Wednesday. In Nebraska, snowfalls of up to 1 inch an hour were reported and strong northerly wind, gusting to 45 mph, plunged wind-chill factors down to minus-20. A widespread storm forced many schools to close and caused numerous traffic accidents. Up to 8 inches fell in the northern Appalachians. Five inches fell at Lincoln, 7 inches at Norfolk, and 12 inches at Chadron and the western Nebraska panhandle. Northerly winds gusting to 45 mph through Boston, Hartford, Conn., Portland, Maine, and Providence, R.I., as 1 to 4 inches of snow fell. Up to 14 inches of snow fell in parts of eastern New York. About 10,000 electric customers around Poughkeepsie remained without power. The second storm in 24 hours drenched New England's coastal areas with rain, but parts of Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts received 10 inches of snow. As much as 10 additional inches had fallen Tuesday in some of the same areas. Residents of eastern Pennsylvania, just digging out from under a storm that dumped up to a foot of snow, were bracing for another. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for Thursday and into Friday for eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. More than 21,000 homes remained without heat and lights in eastern Pennsylvania and thousands of children stayed home as schools throughout the area closed. In Indiana, where Thursday's accumulations were expected to reach 4 inches, the state police reported hazardous driving conditions. Snow was scattered from the western Maryland panhandle to the central Appalachians. Temperatures dropped below the freezing point along the entire East Coast, while snow fell over much of the Northeast. Snow was scattered from the Great Lakes region to the central Appalachians. In Augusta, Ga., the mercury fell to 12 degrees to break the previous record for the date of 18 degrees set in 1968. That was just slightly warmer than the record 10-degree low recorded in 1944. Five high-temperature records were broken in Florida Tuesday, including a 90-degree reading at West Palm Beach, as the state's $31$-county citrus belt, but not long enough to seriously damage the crop. A state police dispatcher in Indiana described the driving conditions as "no blacktop, no berm, just white." They're all white. We've got very hazardous driving. We advise no driving either." Record snow in north Freezing 'dew' covers Dixie By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press A blast of frigid air "straight out of the Arctic" set sub-freezing records as far south as Florida while some Dixie cities got their heaviest snow in 13 years. In Dixie cities such as Savannah, Ga., and Daytona Beach, Fla., trees, shrubs and lawns were glazed with ice when residents left their sprinklers on. In the snowbelt, meanwhile, Rochester, N.Y., had totaled 25.1 inches of snow since Tuesday in the biggest snowfall since 1966, and schools in western Maryland were closed for a second day with 20 inches on the ground. "We made a mistake," said Park and Tree Director Marmon Thompson. Gary Beley of the National Weather Service in Atlanta said the northerly winds were "coming straight out of the Arctic." Ice-glazed trees and shrubbery also were seen as far south as Daytona Beach, Fla., which recorded a record-tying 28, while Jacksonville, Fla., posted a record 23. Temperatures dropped below freezing throughout Florida's $31$-county citrus belt, but not long enough to seriously hurt the multi-million dollar citrus crop, according to Ernie Neff, a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual. Snow fell for the fourth straight day in Garrett County in western Maryland, where 20 inches had accumulated, and schools were out. Maryland State Police Sgt. Richard Edwards said there was "snow, snow, snow and more snow." But most roads were passable, if hazardous. One lane of Route 48, the major road through Garrett County, was open. Out in the mountains in western Maryland, people should be able to start digging out by tonight," said Don Harrison, a weather service forecaster at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The 25.1 inches of snow at Rochester, N.Y., was described as the third heaviest in that city since records have been kept, and the biggest since 29.2 inches fell in 1966. The record was 43.5 inches in 1900. Other snow accumulations Friday in New York state included Colden with 15 inches, Jamestown with 14, Syracuse with 11 and Buffalo with 9. 7 die in wind, rain LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -- Hurricane-force winds and torrential rain killed seven people Wednesday, closed Portugal's major ports, stranded thousands of workers in darkened homes and threatened to burst dikes in the Tagus River Valley. Torrential rain swept across the Iberian peninsula, ending the region's longest drought in 45 years. Much of south and central Spain was without electricity when winds felled power lines. === Page 13 of 278 # Snow SOCKS Midwest; death toll hits 21 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press 12/18/81 A snowstorm spread foot-deep snow and painful subzero cold across the middle of the country Thursday, and the number of weather-related deaths in this final week of autumn rose to 21. Cities of the Northeast, hit twice by storms that left snow knee-deep earlier in the week, braced for a third attack from the Midwest. Schools closed, and highways through the heartland were perilous as the new storm sweeping eastward out of Nebraska piled snow more than a foot deep in northeastern Missouri and central Illinois. It came down at the rate of an inch an hour in Indianapolis, and some suburbs got 8 inches in that city's worst snowstorm in two years. A car skidded out of control and careened into a group of children waiting for a school bus at a city intersection, injuring 10. Cincinnati got 7 inches in its first big storm of the season, and a police dispatcher said travel on Interstate 71 was "pretty bad." "People are just leaving their cars when they get stuck," he said. At Richmond, Ind., on the Ohio border, a school bus carrying 35 students slid into a ditch. Rescuers attached cables to the bus to keep it from rolling over, and the children were led to safety. In the storm's wake, the mercury dove to 9 below zero in Grand Island, Neb., where it was a balmy 71 last Dec. 17. With temperatures expected to drop as far as 10 below zero in Illinois during the night, the state Commerce Commission worked out a compromise to get power for 12,000 needy families that have been without heat because of delinquent payments. Northern Kentucky got 4 inches as the storm crossed that state and surprised southern West Virginia with snow falling at the rate of 2 inches an hour in places. "Right when it crossed the border it blew up," said Mike Callahan of the National Weather Service. "Everything happened so fast it's hard to get a handle on it." West Virginia's two biggest cities, Charleston and Huntington, were hit hardest, with about 5 inches snarling morning rush-hour traffic. Many motorists simply abandoned their cars on the steep hills in the suburbs. The storm developed so quickly that some students already had arrived for classes when officials decided to close schools in three counties. Associated Press Laserphoto COLD BUT HAPPY -- Jerry McNeal of Minneapolis was one of several joggers who found the YMCA's indoor track "too boring" and took to the city's downtown streets during 5 degree weather Wednesday. Snowstorms since Monday have been blamed for a total of 21 deaths, mostly traffic fatalities on icy roads in Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York. Searchers found the body of a 24-year-old Boulder, Colo., man who set out Sunday with a friend to climb the 14,225-foot Long's Peak in Estes Park, Colo. A helicopter that was to retrieve the body of James Joseph Duffey III, however, was grounded Thursday due to 40 mph winds. Duffey's companion, who went for help after a surprise snowstorm stranded the pair, had second-degree frostbite. In addition, fog and rain were blamed for an accident Thursday near Port Gibson, Miss., where a school van ran off a slippery wooden bridge and plunged 14 feet, killing four children and one adult. Rain-slicked streets were also blamed for the wreck of another school van, which struck a tree south of Hattiesburg, Miss., injuring 15 preschool children -- none of them seriously -- and a woman. In Mount Gretna, Pa., a 16-year-old boy was killed when his sled skidded into the path of a car driven by state Rep. George Jackson. Police in St. Louis said six men were overcome by fumes from an unventilated gas space heater Wednesday night in the basement of the St. Francis DeSales Church. Five were treated at hospitals, but Joseph Pruente, 82, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. === Page 14 of 278 UFOs & Projects 100X note: we were staying in a cabin here. # Three deaths blamed on storm as winds, rain pelt Northern California Greg 12/20/81 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A warm Pacific storm slammed Northern California with high winds and heavy rain Saturday, killing at least three people, driving dozens from their homes, closing major highways and swelling four rivers to flood stage. The National Weather Service said the slowly moving storm would continue to generate heavy rain at least through Sunday morning. Along the coast, the weather service forecast that the Russian River near Guerneville would rise to 13 feet above flood stage by Sunday morning, and the Eel, Van Duzen and Smith rivers also were flooding. "We've got three and four and five feet of water in the road" in the coastal town of Eureka, said Humboldt County sheriff's Deputy Jim Paris. He said rising water had entered about 20 houses, and about eight units on the bottom floor of an apartment complex were flooded. People also were abandoning Myers Flat, a small town along the Eel River near Eureka, Paris said. "The whole town is flooding." Damage appeared to be worst in the northern Sacramento Valley, where Shasta County sheriff's Lt. Rob Nelson estimated 30 to 40 homes had been damaged by rampaging creeks. Although the rain there paused Saturday night, another part of the storm was on the way. "It's been raining hard and steadily for the last 36 hours," Nelson said. "If the rain continues for another 24 hours like it's supposed to, we're going to have a lot of people affected." One-day rainfall totals as of 4 p.m. ranged from less than an inch at Sacramento to 4.5 inches in the Marin County community of Elk Valley and 6.19 inches at Blue Canyon in the northern Sierra. A 57-year-old man drowned while trying to cross a flooded road in the Sonoma County community of Monte Rio. A giant wave rolled into Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor and flipped over a 25-foot fishing boat with three men aboard, killing one. "The wave was at least 12 feet high," said witness Roland Griffin. "It just rolled them over like a toy boat." The death of a pedestrian struck by a car in Cotati was blamed by police on low visibility caused by the storm. Rain-stalled cars were a common sight on roadsides, and many accidents were blamed on the poor visibility and gusty winds that accompanied the sometimes-blinding rain. Wind warnings were posted for Interstates 5, 80 and 880, and the weather service advised drivers of campers and trailers to stay off those roads. Some parts of highways 1 and 101, the main north-south routes, were closed by mud, rocks and flooding. The State Department of Transportation said a section of Highway 101 near Leggett might remain closed two days because of a mud slide. In Sonoma County, part of Northern California's rich wine country, sheriff's Deputy Dennis Richards said, "Cars are stuck in ditches all over the place." About 50 people fled their homes in Sonoma County, most along the banks of the often unpredictable Russian River. Flood stage for the river is 19 feet, but the crest neared 23 feet at Healdsburg Saturday. In the Sierra, the warm front closed some ski areas, including Squaw Valley. Despite the storm, there were no major power or telephone outages, said officials of Pacific Telephone and Pacific Gas and Electric companies, though there were scattered outages affecting hundreds of people throughout Northern California. UFOs & Projects 100X # Icy cold blasts East, Midwest By BETSY BROWN of The Associated Press Greg 12/22/81 Snow and freezing rain spread across the Midwest as winter arrived Monday, closing some schools in four states and turning roads into "solid ice all over" that caused hundreds of traffic accidents. Near Grand Island, Neb., a Greyhound bus carrying 25 passengers slid off Interstate 80 and overturned Monday, slightly injuring one passenger. In Florida, meanwhile, record low temperatures during the weekend damaged fruit in four counties on the southern edge of the Citrus Belt. In DeSoto County, the mercury sat below 30 degrees for nine hours Sunday, killing some fruit on the trees. Most growers, however, were relieved the harm was limited because of cloud cover that acted as an insulator. And rain-weary Californians anxiously watched the sky as a second storm moved down from Oregon, just as floodwaters started to recede from a weekend storm that left three people dead, closed roads and forced evacuations. "Some of the roads are still a couple of feet under water," said Roger Rude, a sheriff's deputy in Sonoma County, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. "But if it rains some more, or if it clears up, it could change very quickly." In Colorado, a heavy storm moved into the Rockies Sunday night, dumping up to 12 inches of snow by Monday in high elevations. Forecasters advised against mountain travel, especially near Eagle and Vail, the Weather Service said. Near Evergreen, Colo., southwest of Denver, "They're really getting it bad," said officer Royce Grimes of the state patrol. He cited many minor traffic accidents, including jackknifed trucks, with one driver reported pinned in his truck. No serious injuries had occurred, he said. Northern Illinois was hit with its second blast of snow in four days, while the southern part of the state got freezing rain that closed schools and glazed roads. In Chicago, 1½ inches of snow Monday morning added to the 4 inches from last week and again snarled rush-hour traffic. Suburban Joliet received 3 inches and suburban Highland Park reported a five-car accident -- but no injuries. === Page 15 of 278 UFOs - 100X # New storms sweep into Northwest By United Press International A new series of storms swept into the Northwest, rain lashed parts of the mid-Atlantic and more than a half-foot of snow covered a wide band of the nation from the avalanche-plagued Rockies to the Great Lakes Friday. Heavy storms pounded South Carolina for almost 18 hours straight Thursday, dumping between 1 and 2 inches of rain. Weather forecasters issued flash flood warnings and a tornado watch. "I can't recall seeing anything this heavy in the last year," said Bernie Palmer, deputy meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office at Columbia Metropolitan Airport. "I just can't remember as much rainfall coming this fast and this widespread," Palmer said. Freezing rain glazed bridges and caused minor power interruptions in mountainous areas of the Piedmont, but by late afternoon a slight warming trend eased fears of a snow or ice storm. In Colorado, officials said a twin-engine commuter airliner, owned by Sunwest Airlines, crashed during a landing attempt at Durango Thursday night, killing the pilot and three passengers and injuring the two others aboard. Heavy snow was reported at the crash area. Snow, freezing rain and sleet triggered scores of accidents and at least two deaths on highways in western North Carolina. Two people were killed in Iowa and one died in a traffic accident in Wisconsin. On Wednesday three people died in a single traffic accident in Nebraska and three others were killed in two weather-related accidents in Minnesota. Heavy snow continued to assault the Colorado mountains. The National Weather Service reported 6 to 18 inches in some portions and another 6 to 16 inches were expected in the new wave of storms. 1/1/82 UFOs - 100X # U.S. storms ring cold, wet new year By RICHARD DE ATLEY Of The Associated Press 1/2/82 The third snowstorm in a week closed highways throughout the Rockies Friday, one day after Colorado reported 103 avalanches. A separate snowstorm hit the upper Great Lakes area, icy weather gripped the Midwest, and rain fell on the West Coast and Northeastern states. Rain and fog shrouded the Gulf Coast. Four of six people aboard a twin-engine plane were killed Thursday night when it crashed in a blinding Colorado snowstorm. The survivors were a young brother and sister whose mother died in the accident. Collisions on snowy roads in Iowa and Wisconsin claimed four more lives. Skiers were delighted by heavy snowfalls in California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, but snowdrifts, ice and avalanches closed highways and kept most of their favorite resorts isolated Friday. In Idaho, hit Friday by the third snowstorm in a week, state police in Pocatello said road crews trying to clear highways were being overwhelmed by winds gusting to 37 mph. "We've got all our snowplows out, but they just can't keep up with it," a dispatcher said. Pocatello had 13 inches of snow, Boise 11 inches and the town of Malad reported 14 inches. On U.S. 20, the main route between Boise and Sun Valley, a section from Mountain Home to Fairfield was closed Thursday night due to reduced visibility from blowing snow. Snow fell on the Colorado Rockies for the third day in a row, with forecasters predicting 18 inches more by Saturday along the Western Slope, where a winter-storm watch and travelers' advisories remained in effect. An avalanche warning also remained in effect for snow areas of the state. Thursday, 103 avalanches had been reported, the largest one-day total in six years. An avalanche closed Monarch Pass on U.S. 50, and roads were generally icy and snowpacked, the Colorado State Patrol said. Blizzard conditions in Utah closed several roads, and ski resorts were reporting 7 to 11 inches of new snow by Friday morning. An avalanche warning was issued for the Wasatch Mountains on the Utah-Idaho border. Northern California's Sierra Nevada ski resorts also reported excellent skiing conditions, and the Weather Service said a charge of cold air from the Gulf of Alaska should drop snow levels down to 1,000 feet by Saturday morning. Four feet of new snow fell on the Bear Valley ski resort since Sunday. Most mountain roads were passable to cars with chains, but officials said congestion made travel difficult. Elsewhere, snow showers moving in from Lake Superior were expected to bring 6 inches of new snow to Michigan's upper peninsula. Cold, arctic air flowed into Wisconsin after a Thursday storm dumped 5 inches of snow in some sections of the state. Early Friday temperature readings included 15 degrees below zero in Superior and 11 below in Eau Claire. A man and a woman died on snow-covered Interstate 80 Thursday when an eastbound car crossed the median and collided with a westbound truck. In western Wisconsin, two women were killed Thursday in a fiery collision when a semitrailer truck collided with a car on a snow-slickened Wisconsin 29 near Wausau. UFOs 100X # York evacuated YORK, England (AP) -- The historic center of York was evacuated Tuesday when floodwaters engulfed hundreds of homes, stores and offices, and police asked everyone to leave by 3 p.m. "The whole area is just a swamp," said Guy Rukin of the Yorkshire Water Authority as melting snow and continuing rain sent more than 200 million tons of floodwater streaming off the Pennine Hills and into the River Ouse, which overflowed its banks. Soldiers used boats to rescue the stranded. All main roads into the 2,000-year-old cathedral city were cut off. The river was measured at 16 feet 3 inches above normal, its highest level since 1947, although York also was badly flooded in 1978 before barriers were built. The barriers held in some areas but were not enough to contain this week's deluge. The thaw-induced floods, after the coldest and snowiest December in Britain this century, claimed three lives Monday. In York, all schools shut early Tuesday and were to remain closed Wednesday as forecasters predicted more snow. 1/6/82 === Page 16 of 278 # Alaskan storm piles snow across nation By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An Alaskan storm Saturday fired another broadside of blinding snow across the West into the Colorado Rockies where searchers on skis and snowshoes pushed almost two miles high to reach four people from a downed helicopter. Blizzards and storms in Colorado have brought down six planes and helicopters since Christmas, killing at least seven people and sending search parties through neck-deep snow in avalanche country. The U.S. Forest Service in Colorado counted 125 avalanches Saturday and 92 Friday night in the Loveland Pass, Aspen and Crested Butte areas. The service had reported 170 in the previous 36-hour period. A pileup involving 31 vehicles closed a portion of Interstate 17 as the swirling winter snow storm swept into Arizona. Ten people were reported injured. A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety said zero visibility caused the accident south of Flagstaff. The Utah Highway Patrol estimated 100 vehicles had accidents during a three-hour period on I-15 near Salt Lake City. "It was mainly the frozen snow," said dispatcher Shelly Holt. "People just do not know how to drive in the snow." "In the 22 years since I've worked up here I've never seen anything like it," said Chuck Cicogni of the California Department of Transportation at Donner Springs in the Sierra of northern California, where 5 feet of snow had fallen since New Year's Eve. The Crested Butte ski resort in southern Colorado, which had a record one-week snowfall of 62 inches by New Year's Day, also got more snow Saturday. The latest in a series of holiday season snowstorms also left foot-deep, traffic-snarling snow across much of Washington and Idaho and coated highways through the upper Midwest. A Colorado search party, pushing through deep snow and strong winds, located a stranded KMGH-TV news team helicopter and reported all four people aboard were in good condition. The pilot had walked away from the helicopter in search of help about two hours before the search party arrived at the site 10,850 high in Wolf Creek Pass in southwestern Colorado. He was found a short time later by searchers who followed his tracks. A "freak accident" killed an accomplished skier at Jackson, Wyo. The county coroner, Robert Boetticher, said Donald Clare, 26, was skiing Friday when he struck a tree so hard that it knocked him out and dumped three feet of snow on him. Clare was found 30 minutes later, but he had suffocated under the snow, the coroner said. As temperatures dropped to the zero mark at Boise, Idaho, late Friday, a water pipe in the state capitol froze and ruptured, flooding parts of all four floors of the 75-year-old building. Subzero temperatures were posted Saturday from upper Michigan to Montana, with Williston, N.D., hitting 28 below. Four major highways and many rural roads across Idaho were closed by snow from the storm in a week, with depths ranging from 21 inches in some areas to 11 inches at Boise. In Iowa, roads were 75 percent to 100 percent covered with snow and ice, the State Patrol said. On Interstate 35, said a Patrol spokesman in Osceola, there was slush "that just takes ahold of you and pulls you into the ditch or median." Minnesotans received up to 4 inches of snow. The State Patrol estimated 120-140 fender-benders in the Twin Cities area alone. And officials reported dozens of vehicles spun into ditches on ice-slicked Interstate 57 near Kankakee, Ill. A pilot and his pet dog were killed in Chickasha, Okla., when a light airplane snagged a power line and crashed in fog. Chickasha resident Steve Phillips, 29, was flying to Lawton to visit a friend when he was killed, officials said. A hailstorm hit San Francisco during the night and lightning left a gaping hole in the wall of a home there, but no one was injured. "It was the most severe ice pellet and hailstorm I've seen in the city in 10 years," said San Francisco meteorologist Mike Pechner. === Page 17 of 278 Toll reaches 25 as storms continue to ravage nation By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A storm that loosed killer mud slides in the affluent suburbs of San Francisco charged eastward Tuesday, dropping up to 8 feet of snow that blocked mountain passes and stalled travel in several states. At least 25 people have been killed in violent storms around the nation since Monday. Rescuers digging through the muck of stricken communities in the San Francisco Bay area found nine bodies Tuesday, killed by mud slides and fallen trees. That brought the toll to at least 15 killed in northern California as hillsides gave way after 12 inches of rain in a day. Five other people were missing and presumed dead, including three children trapped when a mud slide buried their home in Pacifica. Seven people died of hearts attacks while shoveling snow in Wisconsin, including five in Milwaukee, which was digging out from under a 16-inch snowfall that was the city's worst since 1947. A man froze to death in Idaho, and weather-related traffic fatalities were reported in Utah and New York. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared states of emergency in San Mateo, Sonoma, Marin, Santa Cruz and Contra Costa counties, where hundreds of homes were destroyed or damaged by the storms. Damage in Marin County alone was estimated at $30 million. Brown also declared an emergency in Humboldt County, which suffered damage from a rain flooding Dec. 19. "I've never seen a storm of this magnitude in 25 years," said Brian Waterbury, a San Rafael fire official. More than 100,000 homes and businesses were left without power because of the storm, according to Pacific Gas & Electric spokesman Paul Girard, who said about 340,000 people had been affected by outages at various times. Meanwhile, fresh snow up to a foot deep closed hundreds of schools and highways across Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Schools also remained closed Tuesday in Milwaukee, but authorities said about 65 percent of the streets had been cleared. The Milwaukee Blood Center issued an emergency appeal for donors, saying supplies had run low because routine donors could not get to the center because of the snow Monday. Snow packs up to 14 feet were reported in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada, where 8 feet fell in 36 hours. Ski resorts closed last January for a lack of snow were closed Tuesday because of too much. "We're not operating," Kirkwood resort President Fred Jones said. "We're digging out." South Lake Tahoe, Nev., was smothered with 5 feet of snow. Resident Linda Bowen said she had to walk to work in waist-deep snow. "I couldn't even find my car," she said. In Arizona, schools were closed in at least three cities, including Flagstaff, where there was 10 inches of new snow. Most highways and roads in the north were snowpacked and icy, including much of Interstate 40. At Squaw Valley U.S.A. in California, spokesman Eric Dixson said up to 2 feet of snow fell overnight, giving the resort as much as 13 feet of snow. Dixson said skiers and resort employees were unable to leave Squaw Valley Monday night. The U.S. Forest Service in Nevada intentionally triggered more than 100 snowslides to reduce the danger of accidental avalanches. The California storms also caused two train derailments Monday. A six-car Amtrak passenger train derailed in heavy rain, slightly injuring 13 passengers. Rescuers had to use rowboats and helicopters to reach the train, since as much as 5 feet of water covered roads in the area, police said. A seven-car Southern Pacific freight train left the track about 200 miles to the north at Alderpoint, but no one was injured. Searchers looked for a small airplane missing with four people aboard near Taos, N.M., and for two hikers snowbound in the Glenwood area of southwest New Mexico. Effect? Stuck motorist grabs gun, commits 'autocide' BELLEVUE, Wash. (UPI) -- A motorist became enraged Tuesday when his car got stuck the snow, smashed its windows with a tire iron then hauled out a pistol and shot out the tires, police said. "He killed it. It's a case of autocide," said police Maj. Jack Kellem. The car got stuck in 6 inches of snow. Police said the driver became so angry that he pulled a tire iron from the trunk and smashed every window in the car. Still not satisfied, he hauled out a pistol and shot all four tires full of holes, then reloaded and emptied half of a second clip of bullets into the car. When the gun jammed, he threw it into the snow and returned to the tire iron. When police arrived, he was beating on the hood. Kellem said the man was sober and rational, but very perturbed. He was jailed for discharging a firearm in the city. Greg J 1/6/82 === Page 18 of 278 A4 3M THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1981 # Blizzard strands hundreds By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Blinding snowstorms stranded hundreds of travelers in Idaho Wednesday and wiped out a search for a skier lost in Colorado as other rescuers pushed through neck-deep snow to a plane crash two miles high in the Rockies. A hillside gave way under heavy rains at Oakridge, Ore., during the night, undermining 400 feet of Southern Pacific railroad track and blocking train traffic on the route from Los Angeles to Seattle for at least three days. Rains in Southern California triggered "hundreds" of traffic accidents and, with more rain in the forecast, Rose Bowl officials were worried that the New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade would be rained on for the first time in 27 years. The heaviest 24-hour snowfall in southern Idaho since February 1977 left 9 inches in Boise, the deepest in more than 30 years, and up to 2 feet in the mountains near Malad, where several hundred tractor-trailer rigs were stalled. "It looks like the Super Bowl parking lot," Idaho State Police Cpl. Jack Lancaster said of the area just north of Malad. In the Colorado Rockies near Buena Vista, rescuers struggled through deep snow to bring out the fourth survivor of a Christmas Eve plane crash. The fate of the pilot, who tried to walk out for help Christmas Day, was not known. "It's a complete white-out situation up there right now," said Benny Durham of Addison Airport as about three dozen rescuers set out on a three-mile trek to the crash site, 12,600 feet up in the mountains. "There are gusting winds from every direction." But, in another attempted rescue operation, the threat of avalanches and a new snowstorm moving in Wednesday with 40 mph winds forced the Colorado Civil Air Patrol to call off a search for Robert Shaw, 38, of Crested Bluff. Shaw left his home Thursday on what was to have been a two-day, cross-country ski trek to Aspen. "The risk factor is so high that we just can't put anyone in there on the ground," said JoAnne Stone of the CAP. Scores of avalanches have been reported across the Colorado Rockies since the weekend. plane because the rescue helicopter was not big enough. Smart was identified as a business associate of the pilot, Gary Meeks, 33, of Dallas, who walked away from the plane after the crash and has not been seen since, officials said. Taken to Salida Hospital were Alicia Meeks, 30, of Dallas, and her sons, 18, of Houston, and Daryl Meeks, 15, of Houston. All three were in stable condition suffering from exposure and frostbite. "We huddled together in a big pile," one of the boys said Tuesday night, explaining how they survived for five days. In Idaho, snowplows Wednesday managed to reopen one lane of Interstate 15 between Pocatello and Malad, which was closed about 9 p.m. Tuesday. A state police dispatcher in Boise said the agency has received an average of 300 calls for help during each eight-hour shift the last two days. "Most of those are for cars slipping off the road," she said. By the evening rush hour Tuesday, dozens of cars were stuck along Interstate 84 between Nampa-Caldwell and Boise. State police said Idaho 34 between Soda Springs and Freedom, Wyo., also was closed by drifts. The temperature plunged to 27 below zero Wednesday morning at Havre, Mont., the nation's cold spot, with other subzero readings reported from Montana to upper Michigan. And in Utah, a National Ski Patrol member escaped serious injury Tuesday after being carried 100 yards by an avalanche of snow. Alan Weight, 33, was uncovered nearly 20 minutes later under 2 feet of snow and revived by patrol members at the Sundance ski resort. Three of the five people in the plane crash -- a woman and her two teen-age stepsons -- were plucked from the snow-swept northern flank of Mount Columbia late Tuesday night by an Army helicopter. Steven Smart, 33, of Dallas, Texas, had stayed behind with rescuers in the cabin of the wrecked # Storm paralyzes Cascades; roads closed to travel Photos on Page D5 also By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff Another in a series of winter storms dumped up to 2 feet of snow in the Cascades Sunday night, closing Interstate 5 in Northern California, as well as U.S. 20 at Santiam Pass and U.S. 26 through Government Camp. Willamette Pass was closed most of the day, but it was reopened to limited traffic late Sunday. Up to 3 feet of snow paralyzed Central Oregon, and schools were scheduled to remain closed Monday in Bend, Sisters, Redmond, La Pine, Gilchrist, Crescent and in Crook County. Thousands of travelers were reported stranded east of the mountains as more than 12 feet of snow blocked major highways. Heavy snow and blizzard conditions overwhelmed snowplows and clogged scores of roads throughout the Cascades and Eastern Oregon. Late Sunday, I-5 remained closed between Yreka and Redding, Calif., and motorists were advised not to venture south of Medford except in emergencies as trucks, trailers and other vehicles spun out of control and blocked traffic. "We've got too many rigs with not enough iron (tire chains)" on I-5 about eight miles north of the California border, Oregon State Police Sgt. Bob Seymour said late Sunday. "The Highway Division crews are going out of their tree," he said. "As fast as they get one truck out, another gets stuck." Police in both states advised motorists not to drive the mountain highways or east of the Cascades even with chains because of blizzards and generally hazardous conditions. U.S. 20 at Santiam Pass was closed to all travel early Sunday === Page 19 of 278 RAPPED -- Second story of Pacifica, Calif., hillside house sits askew after sliding on top of single-story home late Monday. Three children are feared dead. # Rescuers dig in mud for 3 children By JACK SCHREIBMAN PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) -- Rescue teams dug frantically through the rubble of a hillside home Tuesday where three sleeping children were trapped by a mud slide, as one of the worst storms in the area's history left at least 15 people dead. The storm, which began Sunday afternoon, lashed the San Francisco Bay area with up to 12 inches of rain in one day and winds gusting to 50 mph. The rain did not let up until Tuesday morning. At least eight deaths were blamed on the mud slides, seven on other storm accidents, and five people were missing, including the three children. In Marin County, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, floods and mud slides left one presumed dead and caused an estimated $30 million in damage, destroying several $250,000 homes. In Pacifica, 25 miles south of San Francisco along the coast, Billy Velez, 7, and his sisters, Michelle, 14, and Melissa, 2, were trapped and presumed killed when mud pushed the second story of a hillside home down into their single-story home late Monday, smashing the Velez home to kindling. Rescue teams used shovels and power equipment, including a 30-ton crane, to rip the rubble apart in a frantic effort to save the youngsters. Their efforts were hindered by the uncertain ground, which continued to twist the wrecked homes as they worked. "At first we thought they were in the mud and there would have been no chance," Fire Chief Cal Hinton said. "Now we believe they are in the corner of the house, and there is a slight chance they are still alive." The mud slides were blamed for seven deaths in Santa Cruz County, and one man was missing and presumed dead after mud swept his home away in Marin County. Betsy Morgan, 40, was killed when mud slid into her home east of Santa Cruz, and Joyce Smith, 33, of Boulder Creek, was killed by a wall of mud. Two other Boulder Creek residents, who were not immediately identified, were crushed in their home by a mud slide. An unidentified man died in a mud slide Monday on a rural road in Soquel. The body of Thomas L. Williams was recovered Tuesday from a mud slide at Felton, and an unidentified body was recovered from a mud slide in Ben Lomond. Kaiyu Hsu, 59, was missing and presumed dead after his home in Tiburon in Marin County was swept from its foundation by a landslide. The Velez home was destroyed when tons of mud rolled 500 feet into a home occupied by Jamubhai Patel, 61 and his 36-year-old son, Dinish, shortly after 11 p.m. Monday. It swept the second story of the house into the Velez home, crushing it. Bill and Barbara Velez, the children's parents, escaped from the rear of the house after Velez opened the door to the children's bedrooms and found a mass of mud. He had to be restrained when rescuers arrived. The Patels were pulled from the ruins hours later. They were treated at a hospital and released. Scattered around the once-pleasant neighborhood were mangled bicycles, a twisted tricycle and the shell of a television set. Shreds of clothing lay in the mud while a river of filthy water ran down the street. === Page 20 of 278 Orig J 1/5/82 United Press International **MILWAUKEE BURIED** -- A small boy tries to clear snow off the windows after giving up trying to dig out a car in Milwaukee. A winter storm forced closing of schools, factories and most businesses after dumping 16 inches of snow. Four deaths were blamed on the storm, the worst in Milwaukee in 35 years. Buses stopped running, the mail was not delivered and airports were closed. === Page 21 of 278 HELPING HAND -- Vallejo, Calif., police officer leads three flood victims across waist-deep water. ROADBLOCK -- Huge mud slide covers U.S. 101 north of Golden Gate Bridge, cutting traffic between San Francisco and Marin County. === Page 22 of 278 Associated Press Laserphotos TREACHEROUS PATH -- Vallejo, Calif., policeman assists elderly man across fast-moving water during devastating flood. === Page 23 of 278 CF 2448 GR FAMILIES EVACUATED -- Rescue workers help Petaluma, Calif., residents flee in boats after high water inundated neighborhood. === Page 24 of 278 January 5, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS See attached newsclip on "UFO peace force poised to save the world." This article points out that UFO sightings have recently risen in number "to an alarming rate" all over the world. This is in conformity with my UFOs (SIs) and their current activity plus their "increase of their powers" as they told me to 100 times. The article is amusing in one way...UFOs do not need 'landing sites' since they can literally engulf your house and the aliens enter your house by floating through your walls and out again. But humans, it seems, just have to keep on thinking like humans...thus, landing sites. If our Base is not forthcoming then the human race will most certainly be destroyed in the relatively near future. If that happens this article is correct...in that some humans will be removed from the killing of the race, but they are wrong in the 'how' of it. The human shells, or bodies, will perish, along with the rest. But the SIs will remove, keep and use certain of the human souls on Earth...either here, later on, ages ahead, or somewhere else. The handful of humans that I, half-alien, have trained under alien (SI) supervision...will so survive, because, using the procedure that the SIs gave to me, my pupil's "frequency" has been raised to a high intensity necessary for that pupil to be "taken" at any time by the SIs and preserved or used, as they have need for...and again, I am not talking about 'shell' or 'body'. This article is most certainly correct in stating obliquely that the SIs (UFOs) "may be mankind's only chance to survive." Which is what I have been trying to tell you for some time now. Now see attached newsclip on "UFOs Murder Four Men." Dr. Sprinkle is quite correct. Up until this period of time the SIs have not had the intent to kill humans (with just a very few exceptions...such as Spaur, I believe his name was, the police officer, some years ago; perhaps a few others such as Hitler, Mussolini, etc. But in the main, no.) However, the SIs have, within the past year, changed their "format". Their "way of thinking" as it were. Using their precog to see ahead and see the certain destruction of this civilization in this "time of Earth" and not being able to get the Base that they need in order to use me as their one human link/tool to block off what is coming, they have accelerated their activity and changed their modus operandi...for instance, discontinuing their use of me in doing their miracles and doing the miracles themselves on a much wider and more intense manner and simply using me as a human reporter of what they are doing. A drastic turn-around, because I had been doing what they had taught me for over ten years...then suddenly they change that. What I am saying is...it is entirely probable that now they may be "killing" some humans much as in the same manner that for the past years they have been killing cattle in a mysterious manner. I have explained before why they killed the cattle in detail, in my files to you. Their reason for killing these men in Brazil would not be for anger or general meanness...because the SIs have infinite intelligence. It would be to expose these murdered men to intense radiation of the kind that will wipe out our civilization, then drain the blood from their bodies to take into their dimension to examine and find out perhaps what humans might be able to survive; how many humans might be able to survive; and what steps, if any, they, the SIs, might be able to change human blood to bring about blood-changes in many humans on Earth before the destruction begins to enable those humans better to survive. This is rough on a tiny percentage of human guinea pigs...but so is it rough on what the SIs are now doing in the United States as well as world-wide with their === Page 25 of 278 2 "6 Projects" and "Attack on higher-ups" demonstration to impress upon the human race to set up their Base with me, "their human link", in it to work with them and for them, to forestall the coming destruction. The SI Base..........is the one and only chance that the human race now has of surviving..........linked as it would be to the infinite powers of the SIs through my cooperation and work with the SIs from that Base. I shake my head in disbelief when I see 245 billion dollars slated for armaments for the U.S. when what good will that do with certain destruction coming, armaments or no..........and only 5 million for the one thing that will save the human race, the SI Base, not allowed or forthcoming. Either I am an idiot, and not a member of Mensa..........or all humans surrounding me (with the exception of a half dozen) are idiots. (Millie, George Delavan, Annette, Teddy, Beau, Scott Rogo, Mishlove and Dr. Monteith are the exceptions I am aware of.) Finally, see the attached newsclips on UFOs (not meteors) seen on the West Coast and the East Coast by many expert observers in a striking manner. The first point is..........it was the SI way of "signing their signature" to what I am doing in their name, reporting their activity in the 6 Projects and Higher Ups work. To "nail it down" they even showed themselves near Silverton, Oregon, where I lived previously and which was written up in Scott Rogos magazine article concerning Pixie Leslie (Jan Leslie). The SIs couldn't "talk" any plainer than that. They are very big on "signs" as the ancient Indians and savages were well aware. Not only that..........they showed themselves over the area where I am now living in Vancouver! (A secondary point of these dramatic "showings" of the SIs was to warn all humans on Earth that I am their "ambassador" as Mishlove and Rogo put it in their brilliant book which has been successfully blocked from publication..........and as such ambassador that as I go, so goes the U.S. and the rest of the Earth. I.e., if I suffer, so does the U.S. Government, the country, and the Earth. If I die, so does the U.S. Government, the country, and the rest of the Earth. To me, knowing the SIs, they speak clearly, and eloquently. Someone, somewhere, should listen, with intelligence. But where is that "someone" to be found, in the pack of stupid, greedy, corrupt jackals called "the higher ups" who control the little people of the Earth? Ted Owens PK Man === Page 26 of 278 Note: Sure. Which is why the S.I. want their Back!!! Gwen # Rash of sightings convinces investigators-- # UFO peace force poised to save the world A RASH of UFO sightings as the planets come into alignment for the first time in our lives means aliens are coming to save mankind from the cataclysmic end of the world, claim top scientists. On Dec. 25, the nine planets will form a line 3.6 billion miles long -- and that will spell disaster for Earth, warns Ralph Schneck, president of Survival Center Systems in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. But all the signs indicate that the UFO pilots who have watched over us for the past 3,000 years are about to begin a massive evacuation of our planet: * UFO sightings have soared to 50 a day in Sweden. * There has been a rash of other UFO sightings all the way from Moscow in Russia to Santiago, Chile, as well as in the U.S. * 3,000-year-old constructions in New Mexico and South America have been identified as landing sites built by aliens for future use. * Ancient astronomical calculators in Louisiana and Missouri indicate a means of counting down the world's last days. * Interpretations of the New Testament show there will be a method of salvation as Earth enters the final holocaust. "Nuclear war is a joke compared with what's going to happen to our planet," Schneck told GLOBE. "Be prepared for massive earthquakes, meteorites falling, tidal waves, a seven-day flare-up of the sun and a comet colliding with earth." # The giant time symbol that could help to guide them in LEFT: Ancient time clock in New Mexico with a giant "hand" that is formed by sunlight, could be a landing site that aliens will use soon. Metaphysicist and UFO expert, Dr. Wanda Lockwood, of Sedalia, Colorado, says her own father was warned by a member of the Aliens of Light -- the friendly beings who visit Earth -- that this was a year to fear. The alien -- looking like a handsome man in a business suit -- appeared out of nowhere at her remote mountain home, 15 years ago. "He stood in the garden where my father was weeding," she says, "and said only six words, 'Remember 1982 and keep your faith,' before walking down the road and vanishing into thin air." Since then, UFO sightings have risen at an alarming rate all over the world. In Sweden, where reports of UFOs have mysteriously increased since October, Christer Nordin, president of the Swedish Flying Saucer Society in Stockholm, said his group used to hear of one sighting a day, "but now it's way above 50." "The reports are coming in so fast there surely must be something happening out there," he says. "It looks as if we can expect a visit from outer space early this year." But he has warned Swedes not to be afraid. "Any alien beings out there are interested in us earthlings only for our own good -- they do not intend to harm us in any way." There's more evidence of a UFO invasion: * Twice in recent months, a UFO has been sighted over Moscow. Terrified witnesses described it as "big, blue and diamond shaped." * In Casey County, Kentucky, just miles from the astronomical calculator at the Cahokia Mounds in Missouri, dozens of people reported seeing fiery orange * A large cigar-shaped UFO was seen hovering over Roswell, New Mexico, near the "landing site." * In England, authorities say a man found dead with burns on his body caused by a substance unknown to medical science, was the victim of a UFO experiment. One of the police officers who found the body revealed under hypnosis that he was taken up into an alien craft and examined by tiny robots. * In Galveston, Texas -- midway between the New Mexico site and an ancient astronomical calculator at Poverty Point, Louisiana -- the whole city was awed by numerous UFO sightings over three nights. According to Coral Lorenzen, secretary-treasurer of the National Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization in Tucson, Arizona, 1982 will be a banner year for UFO sightings. "It will be the end of a five-year cycle," Lorenzen told GLOBE. "The last great wave of sightings came in 1977, so I feel there will be many new sightings all over the world in 1982 -- and it could be a prelude to something really dramatic." continued next page === Page 27 of 278 THE INVADERS: UFO sightings build up in Texas, Kentucky, New Mexico, England, Sweden and Russia. Rev. Charles Schmitz, pastor of the Peace Lutheran Church in Palm Bay, Florida, believes UFOs may well be linked to the imminent destruction. He told GLOBE: "The Bible says there will be signs in the heavens before Jesus Christ returns -- and I believe this may relate to unidentified flying objects." Further evidence of an imminent UFO evacuation might be found in strange 3,000-year-old structures located around the world. Many scientists believe alien beings visited Earth thousands of years ago to prepare for their return to save us from our planet's destruction. Experts point to the Anasazi ruins in northern New Mexico as possibly a gigantic "airport" constructed centuries ago by alien visitors. Dr. Brigham Mallon, a renowned archeologist, told GLOBE: "It's impossible to believe this geometric wonder could have been laid out from the ground without help from an airborne overseer." The New Mexico site also contains an incredibly accurate ancient sun calendar, which may foretell when the aliens will return to Earth. Many experts feel a massive UFO rescue by extraterrestrials may be mankind's only chance to survive. Schneck says: "If you're not saved by a UFO when the disaster occurs, your chances of survival will be virtually nil." === Page 28 of 278 natl. Enquirer Dec 29. 1981 # UFOs MURDER FOUR MEN By THOMAS L. MULDOON and GARY RICHMAN Murderous UFOs have slain four Brazilian hunters -- the first time in history that humans have been killed by the mysterious flying objects in the sky. Residents in a remote area of northern Brazil have been living in terror since October, when the four men were killed in separate incidents -- and in two horrifying cases, their bodies were totally drained of blood. "The climate here is one of total panic," declared police chief Geraldo dos Santos Magela of Parnarama, a town of 3,000. "As police chief it's my job to verify these reports, to determine if the deaths were caused by a UFO or if the reports were products of the imagination. Imagination ... no. It was a UFO. "The men died while the UFO was directly above them, and the other hunters with them were terrified. They came to me asking for help. "At first I didn't take the reports seriously. But by early November, when the entire region was in a panic, I had to take them seriously," Chief Magela told THE ENQUIRER. "I examined two of the bodies and the blood had been sucked from them. I have never in my life seen anything like this. The other two deaths were also directly caused by a UFO." Mayor Manoel Barros confirmed that residents of Parnarama are living in terror of UFO attacks. "Everybody's afraid," the mayor said. "As soon as it begins to get dark everybody shuts themselves up inside their homes. This used to be a happy place. Now there is no peace or tranquility." The first hunter was killed on October 17. The victim, Abel Boro, went hunting with a friend, Ribamar Ferreira. They saw what appeared to be a bright star -- but then it descended and hovered over the two terrified men, focusing its light on Boro. "When it descended it was so bright that night became day," Ferreira told THE ENQUIRER. "I got frightened and climbed down from the tree I was in -- my favorite hunting spot. "The UFO cruised around us and stopped right above the tree Abel was in. It was like a giant truck tire, all lit up and spinning around and doing something bad to Abel, because he was shaking with fear. "I decided to run for help, but then I heard the screams from Abel. I turned around and saw all that light from the UFO was surrounding him and his body was all glittering. CHIEF MAGELA "Total panic." MAYOR BARROS "Town in terror." DEADLY ENCOUNTER: Sketch shows how UFO attacked Abel Boro as Ribamar Ferreira watched. "I don't know how I managed to run, but I got home and passed out. The next morning I went to Abel's house and he hadn't come home. His family and I went to the spot (where he had last seen Abel) and there he was -- dead. His body was all white. He didn't have a drop of blood in him. The UFO -- it sucked Abel's life, like a space vampire." Two nights later, two more hunters, Raimundo Souza and Anastacio Barbosa, were in the woods when a huge, round UFO dropped down from the dark sky and beamed its deadly ray on Souza. "Raimundo screamed and we both started running, but he tripped and that was it," said his companion Barbosa. "That object came down and focused its light right over him. I couldn't do anything. "All I could do was kneel and pray to Christ. Then I ran away as fast as I could. The next morning I went back. Raimundo was dead. His body was totally white." Two other hunters, Jose Vitorio and Dionizio General, also died after hostile UFOs approached them and struck them with the devastating light beams. Vitorio was lying in a hammock in LIVING IN FEAR: Jose dos Santos tells how UFO chased him. Continued next page === Page 29 of 278 the woods, with his hunting companion nearby, when a UFO descended to a point above his hammock, shone brightly, then flew off, according to his companion. The friend ran to get help - but when he returned Vitorio was dead. Jose Virginio dos Santos, a TV station worker, said he fired five rifle shots at a UFO near his home - "and then the thing started chasing me. At first it looked like a big star, very bright. Then it shrank, from big to small. I went home and got my brother-in-law. "Everything was calm, until suddenly there was a flash in the sky," dos Santos continued. A burst of flames shot out of the UFO, lighting up the whole area, he said. "I tried to get a shot off. But then the fire went away and instead we saw flashing lights. I got scared and thought that it was going to kill me." Dos Santos, who is now so afraid to leave his house that he has quit going to work, revealed that a friend of his was the fourth victim of UFOs. His friend, Dionizio General, was working atop a hill when suddenly a UFO appeared, hovered over him and "shot a big ray of fire on top of him," according to dos Santos, who witnessed the attack. "He received a shock and came rolling down the hill. He went crazy for three days. He was terrorized. Then he died." Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D., of the University of Wyoming, a UFO expert, told The ENQUIRER: "Seldom is there any UFO incident reported by witnesses where there is any hostile intent - and never a killing, that I have heard of." Charles Tucker of Nappanee, Ind., a director of the International UFO Investigative Bureau, made up of UFO investigators around the world, told The ENQUIRER: "This is the first case of a UFO murdering humans. Every other case has either involved accidental injuries or entirely peaceful encounters. "But I don't think there is a general trend starting." # 'It Sucked His Life - Like a Space Vampire' ![Map of Brazil showing the Amazon River, Parnarama, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and the Atlantic Ocean. A box highlights Parnarama as the 'Scene of UFO Killings'.] MAPS show area of Brazil (inset) and town where UFOs attacked. # Eyewitness Passes Truth Test A witness to one of the horrifying murders of Brazilian hunters by killer UFOs is telling the absolute truth about the slaying, says Charles McQuiston, co-inventor of the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE). At the request of The ENQUIRER McQuiston used the PSE, an electronic truth detecting device, to analyze statements made by Ribamar Ferreira, who witnessed the slaying of his friend Abel Boro by the deadly rays of a UFO. "There is absolutely no doubt that Ferreira is telling the truth," McQuiston declared. "This event actually happened. "When the man describes the UFO coming down on his companion, there is no stress evident at all. "And when he tells what the UFO did to his companion - 'it sucked Abel's life' - he is again telling the absolute truth." === Page 30 of 278 oreg J 12/10/81 # Fireball mistaken for UFO SHREVEPORT, La. (UPI) -- A huge fireball streaked across the sky, sending residents of four states running to their telephones to report a meteor or unidentified flying object. News agencies were flooded with calls from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma residents reporting the object, which zipped across the sky from east to west. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., said the object probably was a fireball -- a meteor that flies low and is very bright. Note: my UFO (SIC) overhead when I list. Owens oreg 12/15/81 (This was a signal of warning to from the SI's I... who have been blocked lately in telepathic communication.) # Bright meteor streaks across Northwest sky By JACK HART of The Oregonian staff A flash of light, apparently caused by an unusually large meteor, briefly filled the night sky over western Oregon and Washington Thursday, prompting calls to several emergency service agencies. Some witnesses also reported a rumbling, cracking sound at the time of the flash, which was close to 10:30 p.m. Such noises would be consistent with the sonic boom produced as a meteor slashes through the atmosphere, according to Bruce Spainhower, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry planetarium director. Two Molalla Fire District 73 emergency vehicles were dispatched after the district received reports of what were described as "explosions and a bright light in the sky" near the intersection of Wilhoit Road and Wildcat Mountain Road, according to Clackamas County Communications Center records. The rescue vehicle and ambulance returned after a fruitless search for the cause of the reports, a fire district spokesman said. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and the Oregon State Police also received reports of the flash. Sightings seemed to be concentrated in the area around Molalla and Woodburn, northwest of Mount Angel. The Portland office of the Federal Aviation Administration received a report that an airline pilot also had seen a meteor flash over Western Oregon, according to an agency spokesman, but the Seattle regional FAA office was unable to confirm the report. Spainhower said the reports suggested a "very bright meteor," called a bolide. This type of meteor appears over the Pacific Northwest a few times a year. The timing of the flash Thursday and the clear skies that prevailed at the time accounted for the relatively large number of persons who saw the light, he said. The sightings indicated that the meteor followed a path running from the Seattle area to the northern Willamette Valley, Spainhower said. He said the typical bolide would be "bigger than a baseball but smaller than a breadbox," and that the flash usually is generated at an altitude of about 50 miles. Spainhower said he knows of no human fatalities caused by a meteor, although "a woman did actually get hit back in the '40s or '50s, and I think a cow was killed in a field once by a meteor strike." UFO 100% My SI's warning the U.S. govt to let Owens me!! # Flash in sky tied to daylight meteor SEATTLE (AP) -- A plummeting meteor weighing at least a ton was probably responsible for a bright flash of light Wednesday morning seen over a wide area of the Pacific Northwest, authorities said. The blue-green light was first reported by pilots for Northwest and Republic airlines in the Lakeview, Ore., area shortly after 11 a.m., said Bill Hawkes, supervisor at the Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Auburn. Sightings also were reported in Enumclaw, Wash., and Seattle, where one man said he saw a flash that turned from orange to green as it descended. Hawkes, whose office received several calls about the flash, at first thought it might have been caused by a falling piece of space debris. The object did not show up on FAA radar. Later, Hawkes said officials at the North American Air Defense Command "didn't know of anything that would be re-entering in this area today." "A meteor is my best guess," Hawkes said, adding that no aircraft were reported missing. Maj. William Hubbard of McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma said NORAD received reports of a fiery object, but he said officials ruled out the possibility that it was a man-made satellite returning from orbit. University of Washington astronomy Professor Don Brownlee said the object had to be a meteor, a term that covers any object that glows when it enters Earth's atmosphere. With officials ruling out spacecraft, Brownlee said the flash must have been a meteor caused by an asteroid or a comet. Meteors large enough to be seen in daylight are quite rare, Brownlee said. He called the flash "quite an unusual event. ... I'm sorry I missed it." Because the flash was so bright, Brownlee guessed the object weighed at least a ton -- and perhaps much more -- and hundreds to thousands of fragments, known as meteorites, may have reached Earth's surface. But if fragments did reach the ground, someone should have heard a sonic boom, he added. 12/17/81 === Page 31 of 278 Note: Not meteors. My UFOs, am sure. - Gwene THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, DECEMBER 20, 1981 # Portland science teacher continues trek for starry meteorite By JACK HART of The Oregonian staff When the light began to glow on the snow-covered trees, Fred Hickerson dismissed it as the headlight beam of an approaching automobile. But the light quickly grew to daylight levels, saturating the night sky with an odd, bluish-white luminosity. "So I looked up, thinking it was aircraft landing lights," Fred Hickerson, a Southeast Portland resident who drove the mountainous road between Detroit Reservoir and Estacada on the night of Thursday, Dec. 3. "That's when I saw the fireball." A brilliant sphere flashed across the sky overhead, appearing as large as a full moon in the seconds before it disappeared beyond the horizon. "I've done a lot of driving on back roads," Hickerson said, "and that's the first time something wierd has happened." But hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of Oregonians experienced the same eerie phenomenon at about 10:15 that night, although few saw it as well as Hickerson. What all the witnesses had seen was a rare event indeed -- the spectacle of a large meteor plunging through the atmosphere, burning with white heat, roaring and booming as it ends a 4.5-billion-year odyssey by striking the Earth's surface. Most meteors are no bigger than a grain of sand, but the Dec. 3 fireball may have begun its fiery plunge at 100 pounds, and half that could have survived to strike the surface. While the sight of a large meteor is rare enough, actually finding the remains of a visible fall is even more unusual. Each year only about 10 meteorites -- as a fallen meteor is called -- are recovered from the entire face of the Earth. Only four have been found in Oregon, and none were recent falls. But Dick Pugh, a Cleveland High School science teacher and a leading Pacific Northwest meteorite expert, is determined to improve the local record. He wants a piece of the Dec. 3 meteor badly, and his voice surges with enthusiasm when he describes evidence indicating that this meteor is, in fact, now on the ground. "We've got one down, and it's got to be found," he said recently. An unlikely roll of the dice sent a second large meteor burning through Northwest skies at 11:06 a.m. Wednesday. It was bright enough to show clearly in daylight and witnesses from Seattle to Salem spotted it. But Pugh said the fireball's path carried it out over the Pacific. Some reports indicated that the meteor had broken up. "The chances of finding it are zero," Pugh said. The odds against finding the remains of the Dec. 3 meteor aren't much better. Pugh estimates them at "a thousand to one." He still is eager to try. But he needs hundreds of sighting reports to plot the fall's location. And he needs searchers capable of recognizing a meteorite. "We've got to educate the public," he said earnestly, "especially ranchers, farmers, loggers, rock hounds -- the kind of people who walk around on the ground. Those are the kind of people who are going to trip over one." But why even bother to look when the odds are so slim? For Dick Pugh, the answer is obvious. Meteorites are gifts from space, scientifically invaluable objects that contribute almost the only clues to conditions beyond the Earth. The Apollo project consumed billions of dollars and produced 843 pounds of material from the moon. But meteors totalling tons in weight fall with no human effort. "They come to us and they don't cost anything," Pugh points out. "And the way we're cutting back on NASA, that's all we're likely to get." Meteorites also are old, estimated at 4.5 billion years. They are, Pugh said, "the oldest rocks on Earth" and therefore provide some of the best evidence of how the sun and planets were formed. Yet mankind has managed to collect fewer than 2,000 meteorites with a total weight of less than 200 tons, most contained in five major finds. Pugh said the Dec. 3 fireball swept across the Western Oregon and Washington sky from north to south and began producing a sonic boom over Southeast Portland, a sign that it was by then reaching low altitudes. The boom rattled windows and dishes in Molalla and Estacada and appeared to reach maximum intensity further south. "It produced a real jar at Silverton," Pugh reported. "Boy did they get a bang." Note: We lived in Silverton - Gwene Witnesses near Silverton reported the fireball traveling in different directions, which indicates they were near the point of impact. "and one of them's got it going very low," said Pugh, "which means it was coming right at him." So Pugh places the meteor down within 20 miles of Silverton, possibly to the southwest. More sighting reports will help him refine his estimate. "I'd love some sightings from south of Silverton," he said. He urges anyone who saw the fireball to call him at his home, which is listed under "Richard N. Pugh" in the Portland phone book. The largest meteorite ever found in the United States turned up near present-day West Linn in 1902. The Willamette Meteorite, a 15.5-ton hunk of almost-pure iron and nickel with a strange, convoluted shape, is one of the world's best-known and now rests in the Hayden Planetarium in New York. A meteor the size of the Willamette could do a lot of damage. Pugh concedes that meteors do pose a possible, although unlikely, threat that merits study. In 1954 a meteorite badly bruised an Alabama woman when it crashed through her roof, bounced off a radio and hit her in the thigh. Nonetheless, Pugh said the odds indicate that only one person will be hit by a meteorite every thousand years. Of more concern is the possibility that a huge meteor could strike Earth, causing tremendous damage. NASA takes the threat seriously, and this year the space agency began watching the orbits of asteroids that possibly could threaten Earth. === Page 32 of 278 # Despite odds, search for meteorite continues Staff photo by TOM TREICK ROCKHOUND -- Dick Pugh examines meteorites in his home. He hopes to enlarge world's sparse collection by finding one that fell in December. SPACE ROCK -- Dime in foreground shows relative size of Washougal Meteorite, which produced a sonic boom that broke windows in Northeast Portland July 2, 1939. Farmer found it in his raspberry patch on north side of the Columbia River. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, DECEMBER 20, 1981 # Identification tips noted Collectors and museums will pay modest sums for meteorites, which belong to the owner of the land on which they fall. But the real value of the space rocks is scientific, and that's why Dick Pugh of Portland wants to find the meteorite that fell in the Willamette Valley -- he estimates within 20 miles of Silverton -- Dec. 3. Pugh said that meteor may have weighed 100 pounds when it hit the atmosphere, which would put about 50 pounds on the ground. The meteor may have broken up and pieces could be the size of a golf ball or a football. He advised searchers to look for holes in barn roofs and to check roof gutters. A meteor that strikes the ground makes an almost-vertical hole with raised sod or dirt around it. The following characteristics help identify meteorites: * They are irregular in shape and heavier than ordinary volcanic rocks. Iron meteorites will be rusty and quite heavy. * All will be attracted to a magnet, although stony meteorites are only slightly magnetic. * The Dec. 3 meteorite probably was stony and would be gray or brown and rounded with broken edges. * Most meteorites feature shallow pits similar to thumb prints, and newly fallen specimens have a thin, black crust caused by the burning descent. Pugh urges anyone who thinks he has a meteorite or who saw the fireball on Dec. 3 to call him in Portland at 287-6733. === Page 33 of 278 # Meteor startles Arkansas By The Associated Press A meteor that flashed across the Midwestern sky could be seen from Oklahoma to Indiana and prompted scores of telephone calls to police with reports ranging from crashing planes to UFOs, authorities said. Many of the people in northwest Arkansas who saw the meteor at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday described it to police as "a big ball of fire," officials said. Jim Powell, 43, of Texarkana, Ark., said he had never seen a meteor before but the flash of light "looked just like the pictures in National Geographic." Powell, an administrative assistant for the city, said he was leaving Texarkana for Little Rock when he saw the meteor. "It wasn't on a downward plane," he said. The meteor, which he described as a bright white light with an orange tail, took about 10 seconds to cross the sky from east to west, Powell said. Police and sheriff's deputies in Benton and Washington counties in Arkansas answered scores of calls from people reporting the flaming object. Benton County deputies said they didn't know at first what the object was that seemed to pass almost over Springdale and Fayetteville, Ark. For about an hour deputies and local police officers followed up on residents' reports that the object had crashed, said officer Larry Goheen of the Springdale Police Department. He said a fellow officer who saw the ball of fire said it was moving at a fantastic speed. Authorities in Washington County said they received reports from as far north as Goodwin, Mo., and one caller said the object seemed to be following U.S. Highway 62 southwest toward Rogers. Air traffic controllers at Springdale, Fort Smith and Tulsa, Okla., airport towers reported seeing the meteor almost simultaneously as it passed from the northeast to southwest, said Arkansas State Police radio operator James Cospelich of Fort Smith. Cospelich said the Fort Smith tower received a report from the pilot of a jet flying at high altitude over Indiana who said he'd seen the fireball at about the same time it was sighted in Arkansas. Residents of southern Arkansas also called an El Dorado television station to report the meteor, and air traffic controllers in Little Rock said they could see the flames far to the west. Anse Raney, a controller in Little Rock, said the meteor crossed the western sky but disappeared before it reached the horizon. Raney said he'd seen several meteors before and that it was unlikely that the object reached the ground, he said. Friction from the atmosphere usually destroys meteors before they hit the ground, he said. arg 12/11/8 === Page 34 of 278 January 25, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Although the effects of what my UFOs are doing, and escalating to the 100th power...will continue on, day by day... and I will continue to 'track' what they are doing, by the newsclip method... this will be the last file I will be able to get to you for quite some long time, most probably. (Lack of money plus having to move out of state.) At the end of this week my family and I, who have been forced out of our house in Vancouver by an ill-tempered, irascible landlord, Harold Collins...will have to load up several large trucks and move. This move will be injurious to me because, remember, I had a double-hernia operation some years ago and the doctors forbade me to lift over 10 pounds. Ha ha. Since my 19 year old son and I are the only ones to transfer all the heavy objects into the trucks, then I'll be lifting one heck of a lot more than 10 pounds...which can result in tearing loose the operations that I had. But what alternative is there? This fact is just something else that will make my UFOs unhappy. And when my UFOs get unhappy, trees fall down. My UFOs have telepathd to me that this new move after to Montana (when we were forcibly evicted...forcibly in a manner of speaking...the SIs told me exactly where they wanted us to go, for reasons of their own) will be an important "key" to whether or not, and how soon, they will switch from their "100 power attack" on the U.S. via weather TO A 100 POWER ATTACK ON HIGHER UPS: I.e., if my family and I undergo hardship and suffering as a result of this move and afterward, then the UFOs (whom I represent as their "human ambassador") will retaliate toward those governments and individuals who either should be helping them, and me...or who might place obstacles in their, and my, way... You have just witnessed their unprecedented, record-breaking demonstration utilizing weather. What you do not want to witness would be just such a demonstration causing "record breaking" chaos and misfortune against governments and top, key humans who could help them, and their "ambassador", but do not. And that is what will be their next demonstration. I strongly recommend that this government provide the UFOs with their Base...like tomorrow. Sincerely, Ted Owens (PK Man) Note: The tremendous weather attack the past 2 weeks by the UFOs on the U.S. is replete with weird and unusual storms and happenings, as delineated in the news articles herein. This fact is, (remember, from past files over the years) === Page 35 of 278 The week's worst disaster: rescue helicopter hovering above wreckage of Boeing 737 that crashed into Potomac River DAN BEIGEL--SYGMA UFOs 100X Attack!! Owens Nation TIME/JANUARY 25, 1982 # The Numbing of America ## Snow and chilling frosts and death beneath the Potomac's icy waters Cold, so awfully cold. It seemed as if winter's hard core had descended from out of the Arctic all at once, freezing not just a town or a city here and there, but giving nearly the whole U.S. a case of chilblains. The week began with thermometers reading lower than they had in decades, a century ever Then the astonishing chill spread, breaking weather records all week long in 75 cities. There was at first a certain shivery merriment, a sense of shared rigor. "For a few hours," E.B. White once wrote of extreme cold's onset, "all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive." But as the cold settled in, White's "clear and congenial task" proved too much for some of the frail and the elderly, for luckless travelers exposed for too long a time to the bite of winter. By week's end more than 230 people had died, victims of hypothermia (low body temperature), heart attacks and a variety of icy disasters. By far the most tragic accident was the crash in Washington, D.C., of a Florida-bound Boeing 737 that plowed across a traffic-clogged bridge over the Potomac and plunged into the icy river. The death toll: 78, including three infants. The most prominent explanation of the crash cited ice that may have glazed the plane's wings and tail, and could have acted as a drag on the aircraft as it took off during a snowstorm (see following story). By sundown Monday, the weather had achieved folk-epic status, and the day was being widely touted as The Coldest of the 20th Century. Statisticians at the National Weather Service were unwilling to go that far. Yet it was they who confirmed that, indeed, alltime low-temperature records were broken in Chicago (-26°F) and Augusta, Ga. (1°), among other places, while Atlanta (-5°), Milwaukee (-25°) and Cincinnati (-14°) had not been so cold since the 1800s. Single-day records for the date were set in Washington (2°), Philadelphia (1°), St. Cloud, Minn. (-30°), and in nine Florida cities, including Miami (33°), Orlando (23°) and Tallahassee (14°). The cold in Florida froze perhaps 84% of the state's unharvested citrus, and the ripened 12 === Page 36 of 278 The frigid air gushed out of the Arctic, and Chicago was colder than ever before: steam swirls off icy Lake Michigan toward the city vegetable crop was wiped out entirely. Experts groped for images of suitable enormity to describe the far-reaching cold wave. Meteorologist Robert Case of the National Weather Service called it simply "a glob, a monster." In essence, a frigid, unusually slow-moving air mass formed over Alaska and the Yukon, cooled further, and then was plunged suddenly southward through a high-altitude channel of powerful winds. Another National Weather Service meteorologist, Amet Figueroa, traced the violent cold even farther afield. Said he: "It has its origins in Siberia, where it's been lying for the past couple of weeks." The consequences of the Arctic cold sweep were global. The same air mass refrigerating the U.S. helped set records and disrupt life all over Europe. All of the weathermen agreed that the continuing frigidity was extraordinary. Said Case: "It was the type of mass out-break, in size and severity, that we see once every 50 years." Strong winds made the cold even more bitter. In Chicago, the wind-chill factor was calculated at -81°. Even for weather-jaded NWS Meteorologist Roger Bygrave of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where the temperature bottomed out at -36° (one degree short of an alltime record), the conditions were startling. Said he: "It was a once-in-a-century setup to be so cold and so windy at the same time." And, almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia. Home-energy supplies across the country were overtaxed. Power lines in Alabama grew icy and brittle and then snapped, leaving nearly 1 million people without electricity for up to five days. As the weather broke records, so did efforts to cope. More natural gas was pumped to consumers in a single day than ever before in New York City, Baltimore, Washington, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. It was not enough to save some of the cold-struck. In New York City, John Bohlman, 90, and his wife Rose, 86, had plenty of heating oil in their furnace. But the fuel pump broke; the couple, both deaf mutes, were unable to signal neighbors for help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died. Not only was it simultaneously colder, windier and snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend. By then, each region had endured the storming in its own way. A survey of the hard, white landscape: THE WEST WORRIES For the most part, the Rocky Mountains and states west were spared weather extremes. Californians' concern focused mostly on forecasts of more rain for the state's northern counties. The hillsides around San Francisco Bay are still waterlogged from weeks of downpours. Residents feared that devastating floods and mudflows, which killed 37 people just a week earlier, might strike again. In Idaho, there was concern about the prospect of warm chinook TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 13 === Page 37 of 278 On a snowy Manhattan sidewalk, an elderly woman checks her belongings and a dauntless jogger chooses not to trudge winds, which could thaw the state's flood-high but now frozen rivers. Boise, Idaho, wedged in a valley, had half a foot of snow and subzero temperatures, but the most worrisome weather anomaly was a fetid "inversion layer" of smog that blanketed the city. Low temperatures and a dearth of forest forage, Utah wildlife officials say, accounted for the unusual number of deer that were seen roaming cold and hungry through the streets of Salt Lake City. **THE BONE-COLD MIDWEST** The Plains states were frigid, even by local standards (-22° in Omaha and Des Moines, -29° in Fargo, North Dakota), but the cold was no real surprise. "There are towns in North Dakota," explained one NWS meteorologist, "that haven't gotten above zero since the year began." Minnesotans enjoyed a short respite midweek, but raw weather returned on Thursday, when St. Cloud's -30° set a city record for the date, and a steady snowfall covered the state. Earlier, in rural southern Minnesota, Karlie Sazama, 17, spent a long night in a car with her boyfriend Robert Schaaf, 19. But this was no teen-age frolic; the couple was stuck for 16 hours in drifting roadside snow. Said Schaaf of their survival: "We tore seat covers off the front seat and wrapped them around our heads and snuggled together." On Michigan's thinly settled Upper Peninsula, the storms were ferocious. Schools, businesses and most roads were shut down, and mail delivery stopped, as snowdrifts up to 14 ft. high froze solid. Buffeted by 50-m.p.h. winds, giant Mackinac Bridge was closed for only the third time in its history. Actually, last week's new snow was hardly noticeable atop the 3 ft. that had fallen since Dec. 30. With temperatures as low as -17°, naturally, Hell (pop. 20) was frozen over. The historic cold and 30-m.p.h. winds left Chicago streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose. "We lost it," he growled. "We're frozen." In metropolitan Chicago, 16 deaths were attributed to the weather. One of the hypothermia victims was Bertha Heart, 80, who had somehow survived two previous winters without heat in her shabby South Side apartment. Peoples Gas had shut off her gas service in 1979. Explained a company spokesman: "She did not keep to her payment arrangements." Furnace repairmen, Illinois Bell Telephone (which in one day logged 613,000 calls to its Chicago weather information number, six times more than normal) and travel agents, among others, all had as many customers as they could handle. Said Travel Agent Jason Hess of his booming business: "Everybody wants to go to Jamaica or the Bahamas." **THE SOUTH IN SHOCK** Texas, at least, made it through the cold without widespread calamity. Schools closed for much of the week, and haute Houston seemed to welcome the rare chance to preen in fur coats and fancy down parkas. Some token flakes fell on that city, and one delivery 14 TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 === Page 38 of 278 boy said excitedly: "I've only seen it once before." There were some real problems: power outages were widespread, the Rio Grande Valley's tomato and pepper crops were nearly wiped out. In El Paso, where the streets iced over, 126 minor car accidents occurred during one 14-hour period. Said a policeman: "It was Demolition Derby." The South in general is ill equipped to handle severe winter weather. In New Orleans, which had its coldest day in 20 years, one problem is basements: most houses do not have them, and so plumbing is particularly vulnerable to freezing. The combination of pipes bursting in the 16° weather, and people continuously running tap water (a common precaution against frozen pipes) left the city with critically low water pressure. Twenty-three miles upriver from New Orleans, a grain elevator in Destrehan (pop. 1,760) burst in the 18° cold, spewing out 1.5 million bushels of wheat that crushed an adjacent cafeteria. Public life nearly ground to a standstill in Mississippi. The main reasons: treacherously icy roads and power outages. In Alabama, 46 National Guard armories served as shelters for the thousands whose heaters were useless in the widespread blackout, and Guardsmen carted generators to remote towns. Birmingham residents were shocked enough by the -2° cold, but then the weather became positively weird: multicolored lightning flashed in the night sky. Weathermen speculated that the colors resulted from light-refracting ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Alabama Governor Fob James proclaimed a state of emergency and, in a televised address, chastened his constituents: "Don't get out unless you absolutely have to." Two young couples in the Birmingham suburbs were heedless. Charles Early and Diane Kelley, together with Douglas, Judy and one-year-old Benjamin Jackson, went on a joyride in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Careering over the snow-covered countryside, the truck plunged into an ice-covered pond. The adults drowned immediately. The baby crawled from the wreck a dozen yards across the ice, fell into the water and died. Monday was unquestionably Georgia's coldest day of the century. But then snow and freezing rain began on Tuesday. More snow fell on Wednesday. And the day after. In Atlanta, which does not have a single municipal snowplow, the first flurries appeared at the beginning of the afternoon rush hour, and immediately prompted an even more chaotic commuter scramble. Peachtree Street, the city's main thoroughfare, was hopelessly jammed until midnight with stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 1/4 in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State University, persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7 1/2 hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office buildings, shopping malls and a mortuary. Atlantans rushed to stock up on portable heaters, batteries, lanterns and candles. "It's been crazy, totally insane," said Hardware Store Salesman James Hoelscher. "We're sold out of just about everything." In fact, the clamor for survival equipment was not just hysteria: 1,000 Atlanta-area homes were without heat for twelve hours. In the long run, Georgia farmers stand to suffer more than city folk. According to Thomas Irvin, the state's commissioner of agriculture, cash-crop and grazing acreage both incurred "sizable damage." Said Irvin: "A third of our farmers are already on the borderline of bankruptcy. The storms just put another nail in the coffin." The threat to Florida's $3 billion agriculture was even more substantial. Only about 20% of the state's oranges and grapefruit had been picked, and as temperatures began edging toward a hard freeze, growers made frantic efforts to save crops. Irrigation pipes in groves covered the trees with a fine, warm mist. Crews worked day and night to harvest citrus crops, helicopters hovered over celery and eggplant fields to circulate warm air, and the tempering flames of oil-fueled smudge pots burned all night long in orange-growing areas. Still the damage was severe. Almost all of the state's orange and grapefruit crops may have frozen, and the Florida citrus commission ordered a ten-day embargo on exports of fresh citrus fruit from the state to prevent the sale of spoiled produce. By the end of the week, the wholesale price of orange juice concentrate had risen by 12%, and Florida's juicing plants were operating around the clock to process the unplanned harvest of frozen fruit. Florida produce has endured cooler snaps, but the duration of last week's freeze was unprecedented. "The temperatures were just too low for too long," said Tomato Farmer Luis Rodriquez, who estimated his own loss at $1.7 million. Joe Knight of the Florida farm bureau called it "a very democratic freeze," explaining that "it hit everywhere and just about everything." Yet only one human succumbed to the Florida chill. John Thomas Williams of northern Cantonment (pop. 3,241) had been toasting his 51st birthday with friends until he wandered off for some air. He passed out in a ditch three miles from home and died the next day. IN THE NORTHEAST, THE CITIES SUFFER In Philadelphia and New York City the snow was heavy (8 in. and 9 in., respectively) and the cold unreasonable. The downtrodden and the elderly suffered most of the real pain. In Philadelphia, municipal workers cruised the cold streets in vans searching for endangered vagrants. About 25 were picked up and given shelter and breakfast in firehouses. The roundup missed one man, a "street person" who was found frozen to death after daybreak in a vacant lot downtown. The city also distributed about 250,000 gal. of heating oil to 5,000 needy households. New York, lacking fuel to give away, offered 200 heated apartments instead, for $10 a month. More than 7,000 New Yorkers daily called a city hot line with complaints about heat and hot water, and 250 inspectors responded, monitoring room temperatures and citing landlords for illegally cold apartments. Denise Gossin, 27, who lives with her two children, ages six months and two years, said that the inspectors took a 35° reading inside her two-bedroom apartment in Spanish Harlem. "If I didn't have the oven on," she said, "the whole house would be freezing. We sleep in the kitchen with sweaters on and just pray for warm weather." The city dispatched survival bundles, each including a blanket, gloves, heating pad and cocoa, to any older person who asked for one. The cold permitted one extravagant demonstration of Christian faith. A Greek Orthodox ritual, performed the week after Epiphany, requires devotees to retrieve a cross that has been tossed into the sea: last week in the frigid Atlantic Ocean off New York's Long Island, the Smudge pots fight the freeze in a Florida orange grove The damage was democratic, hurting everyone. TIME JANUARY 25 1982 === Page 39 of 278 Nation successful retriever was a teen-age boy. New Englanders would feel cheated if a winter passed without deep snow and a stern, bitter chill. Accordingly, the region's residents largely professed indifference to the ubiquitous cold. Yes, it was -23° in Chester, Mass. Yes, the record cold in Worcester (-8°) broke a local television station's transmitter and knocked out broadcasting for a day. And, yes, the freezing temperatures in Boston caused subway rails to crack. But stoicism hardly faltered. Said NWS Meteorologist John Pollock of Concord, N.H. (where it was -10°): "This is just beautiful New England weather." Less hearty was Linda Landry, 21, a student at Boston's Northeastern University. Said she of life in an unheated apartment: "Before I went to bed I put on sweat pants, long johns, four sweaters and three pairs of socks. On top of that I had blankets and a quilt. I still woke up and was so cold I cried." In New Hampshire, where nearly a foot of snow fell in two days, the storms' dangers were taken seriously: firemen in Nashua (pop. 67,865) urged that the town's schoolchildren be conscripted for a day to shovel out buried hydrants. Weather forecasters were not hopeful about a quick end to the numbing of America. A new blast of supercooled Arctic air was expected to rush deep into the country early this week, once again sending temperatures toward zero and below in the Midwest, the South and the East. That might not be the last. "When it stays very cold," said NWS Meteorologist Nolan Duke, "it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder." His colleague Larry Wilson added a disquieting caveat. "These situations," he warned, "can last for a month." For most of the U.S., where even a brief thaw was still a dream, one week had seemed more than enough. --By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus Policeman waves spectators away from the destruction, including sheared-off car, caused by jetliner as it hit the 14th Street Bridge # "We're Not Going to Make It" ## The roar, an eerie silence, then panic--and heroism Flurries of thick, wet snow swirled through the streets of Washington last Wednesday, clogging traffic and slowing down pedestrians to a labored trudge. As the snow piled up, Government offices and private businesses closed early and sent their workers home. By mid-afternoon, traffic on the bridges over the Potomac River that link the capital with its Virginia suburbs had already slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, Washington National Airport had just reopened after having been shut down by the snowfall for two hours. At 3:59 p.m., Air Florida's Flight 90 to Tampa, a Boeing 737 with 74 passengers aboard, began rolling down the airport's main runway for takeoff. Lloyd Creger, an administrative assistant in the Justice Department, was inching along the northbound span of the 14th Street Bridge in his Chevrolet station wagon when he heard the roar of Flight 90's engines. He thought nothing of it; hundreds of planes every day take off from National and head out over the bridge. But this time was different. Creger watched in horror as the blue-and-green jetliner suddenly appeared out of the gray mist. The plane slammed into the crowded bridge, smashed five cars and a truck and then skidded into the frozen river. "It was falling from the sky, coming right at me," recalls Creger. "It hit the bridge and just kept on going like a rock into the water." He remembers that the plane's nose was tilted up when its tail crashed into the bridge, as if the pilot "was trying like hell to get that jet up." For a moment, there was silence, and then pandemonium. Commuters watched helplessly as the plane quickly sank beneath the ice floes; only its tail remained visible. A few passengers bobbed to the surface; some clung numbly to pieces of debris while others screamed desperately for help. Scattered across the ice were pieces of green upholstery, twisted chunks of metal, luggage, a tennis racquet, a child's shoe. On the bridge, a red flatbed truck with a 20-ft. crane was knocked on its side; the arm of the crane swung over the water. Two of the cars were flattened like tin cans; a brown Ford held the body of a man who had been decapitated when the roof was sheared off by the plane. Within minutes, sirens began to wail as fire trucks, ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene. A U.S. Park Police helicopter hovered overhead to pluck survivors out of the water. Six were clinging to the plane's tail. Dangling a life preserver ring to them, the chopper began ferrying them to shore. One woman had injured her right arm, so Pilot Don Usher lowered the copter until its skids touched the water; his 16 TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 === Page 40 of 278 Priscilla Tirado is helped by Fellow Passenger Joseph Stiley, but falls away from chopper rescue attempt and then is saved by Lenny Skutnik As rescue workers set off in a rubber dinghy to search for survivors in the Potomac, a helicopter flies over the body of a victim (foreground) partner, Eugene Windsor, scooped her up in his arms. Then Priscilla Tirado, 23, grabbed the preserver, but as she was being helped out of the icy river by Fellow Passenger Joseph Stiley, she lost her grip. Lenny Skutnik, a clerk for the Congressional Budget Office who was watching from the shore, plunged into the water and dragged her to land. But the most notable act of heroism was performed by one of the passengers, a balding man in his early 50s. Each time the ring was lowered, he grabbed it and passed it along to a comrade; when the helicopter finally returned to pick him up, he had disappeared beneath the ice (See ESSAY). Meanwhile, rescue workers feverishly tossed out ropes and ladders over the frozen river and launched rubber dinghies, but their efforts were hampered by floating chunks of ice. As dusk fell, searchlights were switched on, but by 5:30, officials realized the quest was in vain. Divers sent down to inspect the fuselage had discovered that nearly all of the passengers were still strapped in their seats. The toll: 78 dead, including four motorists. Only five aboard Flight 90--four passengers and a stewardess--survived the first major U.S. airline crash in 26 months. Even as the search for survivors ended, a team of 70 experts from the National Transportation Safety Board began piecing together the reasons for the disaster. One possible cause: ice on the wings and tail, which acts as a drag on the plane. That afternoon, the 737 had been swabbed twice with glycol, an anti-icing chemical, but more than 20 minutes had elapsed between the second coat and takeoff. The plane's engines may also have sucked up slush from the runway, thereby diminishing their power during the critical climb. Survivor Stiley is a pilot, and he recalls that "the plane was just too heavy as it was going down the runway." He remembers turning to his secretary in the next seat--she also survived the crash--and saying, "We're not going to make it." Investigators are mystified as to why the plane's landing gear was still down when the jetliner hit the bridge; usually the wheels are brought up immediately after takeoff. Says one aviation expert: "Flight 90 appears to have been barely airborne, and may have been staggering along at maximum power trying to get altitude." Divers plunged into the icy Potomac to retrieve the "black boxes"--the flight data and cockpit voice recorders--that were in the tail of the plane. The divers were also examining the wreckage to see how the rest of the plane, and the bodies trapped inside, should be recovered. Meanwhile, National Airport, which was closed again immediately after the crash, opened the next day. Every few minutes, a departing plane roared over the icy waters that held the wreckage of Flight 90. --By James Kelly. Reported by Maureen Dowd and Jerry Hannifin/Washington 17 === Page 41 of 278 UFO 100X Attack (Assault) # Winter aims new assault at nation By United Press International The Winter of '82 strengthened its reputation as the century's worst as a third round of storms in as many weeks Monday, targeting the Northeast after frosting 5-foot drifts with new snow in the Midwest. The latest siege has killed at least 36 people. A new Midwest snowstorm developed early Monday, threatening the Dakotas south to the upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes with up to 4 more inches of snow. Temperatures hit 19 below in International Falls, Minn., and 23 below in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Other sub-zero readings chilled the nation from North Dakota across the upper Great Lakes. At least 2 inches of light snow fell Monday morning in Des Moines, Iowa, Minneapolis, parts of North Dakota and Illinois. The fast-moving weather system was expected to travel east later Monday. Professional climbers planned to search for two amateur climbers missing since Saturday night on the face of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The two apparently had no overnight equipment. The early morning temperature on the mountain was 25 below and the wind was clocked at more than 80 mph. At least 36 people have died in the continuation of the latest of three consecutive weekends of winter storms that afflicted the nation after a short thaw last week. New Hampshire was digging out from a new covering of 6 to 14 inches of snow Monday. The National Weather Service said the state has received more snow this season than in all of last winter - 59 inches recorded at Concord Airport. The total last year was 54 inches. UFO 100X Attack # Midwesterners belted by new snowstorms By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Midwesterners digging out from snow up to their belt buckles got hit by a new storm Monday. And rains moving in from the Pacific threatened more flooding in the Northwest where some towns were virtually isolated. "It's kind of an endless battle," said Vicki Jacobs, a sheriff's dispatcher in Potter County in eastern South Dakota, where blowing snow was closing highways just behind the plows. In Oregon and Washington, many roads were awash and mud slides had blocked major passes through the Cascades. Garibaldi had been almost completely cut off since Sunday morning with U.S. 101 closed on both sides of the town. "There are still countless roads that are flooded by high water, too many to mention," said state police senior trooper Roy Wilms. The National Weather Service said a storm just off the coast would produce more heavy rains during the night. Elsewhere, snow spread Monday over the upper half of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region into the Ohio Valley and the Appalachians. Temperatures dipped well below zero from North Dakota through the upper Mississippi Valley. It was 21 below in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 16 below in Bismarck, N.D., 14 below at Duluth, Minn., and 10 below in Minneapolis. Residents of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, already struggling with 38.2 inches of snow, got another coating Monday that slickened roads again. About 5,000 homes in four counties of western Pennsylvania remained without power as the result of a week-end ice storm that cut the electricity to 70,000. On Mount Washington in New Hampshire, rescuers faced temperatures of 28 degrees below zero and winds gusting to 100 mph in a search for two climbers who have been missing on the 6,288-foot mountain since Saturday. "This is going to be a January to remember. I'm ready to toss in the towel and see what February has to offer - it can't be any worse," said Amet Figueroa, National Weather Service meteorologist at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport at Linthicum, Md. At least 19 people have been killed in the latest onslaught of severe weather. Here is a state-by-state count: Delaware 1, Illinois 1, Indiana 3, Kansas 1, Maryland 2, Minnesota 5, New York 2, Nebraska 1, Pennsylvania 2 and Virginia 1. UFO 100X Attack # Storms renew assaults on nation By United Press International Subzero cold, razor-sharp wind and steady snow made living in the Midwest and New England a test of survival Tuesday, and the mid-Atlantic coast took another beating from the third wave of 1982's record-breaking storms. The latest onslaught is blamed for at least 48 deaths. Drifts piled to dangerous levels in mountainous areas of New England, setting off avalanches that killed a rescue worker on Mount Washington, New Hampshire's highest peak. He and other rescuers had battled 94 mph wind that dropped the wind chill factor to 110 below zero in an unsuccessful search for two amateur ice climbers missing since Saturday night. In Minnesota, where 13 deaths have been attributed to the storm, a low of 22 below zero was predicted for Tuesday and a high of 20 to 25 was considered a blessing. "You don't have to get very warm to consider it a thaw after what we've been through," a weather spokesman said. Up to 4 inches of snow fell on top of the 3 feet of snow in Minnesota, boosting the season snowfall to 73.6 inches, and up to 3 inches blanketed other parts of the Midwest and the Ohio Valley. "If all we get is normal snowfall in February and March, I'd say the chances are good we'll exceed the record" of 88.9 inches in 1950, said Twin Cities meteorologist John Graff. Rain was the problem in Northern Oregon, which remained coated with debris from weekend mudslides. More rain and gale force winds gusting to 50 mph were expected Tuesday. A 20-year-old man was fatally injured in a slide of mud, rocks and snow at Mount Baldy, Calif., officials said Monday. Western Washington had flood and gale wind warnings. Pennsylvania was expecting near-zero temperatures and as much as 2 inches of snow, while about 3,000 people suffered for the third day Monday without electricity. === Page 42 of 278 2 for 100 X Attack A22 3M THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, JANUARY 24, 1982 # Record snowfall, cold, wind keep good share of nation in deep freeze By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A record blizzard born during a historic winter buried parts of the Midwest in waist-deep snow and whipped up 9-foot drifts Saturday, while power lines and trees limbs snapped and a DC-10 jetliner skidded off a runway in an ice storm in the East. The World Airways jet was landing as snow turned into freezing rain at Boston's Logan Airport in 34-degree weather. The plane came to rest partially submerged in Boston Harbor; but authorities said all aboard were safe. Snowslides closed three main passes in the state of Washington, and warm chinook winds gusted to 97 mph on the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies. Snowplow crews had to free 2,000 people trapped since Friday morning by avalanches at Utah ski resorts. Two deaths were blamed on the weather, one in Virginia and one in Indiana. More than 300 people were killed in a 10-day cold wave that hit the Rockies late last week. It put the hammer down across much of North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan with up to 20 inches of windblown snow on top of record amounts that fell earlier. The Midwest was practically shut down. Thousands of travelers were stranded, and some were missing. Snowmobiles went to the rescue of about 200 motorists trapped on a Michigan highway. "There are all kinds of cars on the roads, and there's just no way to get to them," said police Sgt. Duane Girard in Calumet, Mich., as winds gusting to 65 mph piled deep drifts across highways. In South Dakota, where up to 20 inches of snow fell, travel was forbidden in much of the state. Authorities in Vermillion said any drivers who ventured onto the roads would be arrested. Accumulations ranged from 20 inches to more than 40 inches across Minnesota, and many roads were blocked in the northern part of the state. "They're recording snow up there over the hoods of cars," said Sgt. Donald Woodson of the Minnesota State Patrol's communications office in St. Paul. The All-American Championship Dogsled Race at Ely in northern Minnesota was canceled due to drifting snow. The blizzard came on the heels of two previous weekends of record sub-zero cold in the Midwest, brought on by a different system of frigid and dry air swooping down from the polar regions. "Along with the cold, this has been an extreme winter," said Mike Streib, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. "We're talking about 100-year-old records being broken." Forecasters predicted another three days of snow in Minnesota, where record snowfalls during the past three days had brought the total for January to 44.1 inches in Minneapolis, less than 6 inches shy of the city's average for an entire year. The 17.4 inches of snow that had fallen at Fargo, N.D., in a 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m. Saturday was the second heaviest in history, just short of the 19.2 inches in December 1927. Authorities were looking for six travelers missing in North Dakota. In Sioux City, Iowa, 17.6 inches of snow fell during the night, bringing the total for January to 28.8 inches and eclipsing the all-time snowfall record for a single month -- 27.3 inches in March 1912. Supermarkets and liquor stores were jammed with people stocking up for a weekend of blizzard parties and the Super Bowl. The new storm system, which was controlling the weather over the eastern two-thirds of the nation, caused flooding of some roads in southern Illinois and southern Indiana, where a 16-year-old girl was swept to her death in a swollen stream. Sleet, snow and freezing rain spread from northern Illinois across Pennsylvania and New York into Massachusetts, where up to 12 inches of snow was expected. About 2,000 homes lost power in Waltham when a car slammed into a utility pole. An ice storm knocked out power to thousands of residents of Erie and Crawford counties in western Pennsylvania and glazed Pittsburgh streets. "We got hit pretty bad," said police officer Max Fontaine in Latrobe, Pa. "Trees are down. Power lines are down." In the 24 hours that ended at 2 a.m. Saturday, Minneapolis got 18.5 inches of snow to beat the all-time record of 17.1 inches for a daylong snowfall that had just been set Wednesday. Long lines developed at grocery stores. "I've never seen anything like it," said a manager at an Applebaum's store in Minneapolis. "I've got a store full of people -- more than I can service. People are buying large orders, like they plan on staying home all weekend, having a banquet and watching the Super Bowl." === Page 43 of 278 2 Oregon Journal, January 23, 1982 (2) # Record snow ices Midwest; freezing rain adds to woes "Perhaps the most intense storm" of the blockbuster winter of '82 sent a blizzard howling across the Midwest, burying Minneapolis with a record 35 inches of snow in two days. The Twin Cities braced for more snow Saturday. At least nine deaths nationwide were blamed on the weather since Wednesday. Wind as high as 60 mph whipped the Northern Plains, where temperatures lingered near zero. Freezing rain fell from Iowa to Ohio and winter storm warnings were posted for Saturday over the Great Lakes, the central Appalachians and the Mid-Atlantic states. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Southern Illinois and temperatures in portions of the state were forecast to fall to 10 below zero by Sunday. Revelers at this weekend's Super Bowl in the Detroit area face treacherous driving because of freezing rain and snow Saturday that snarled traffic, closed roads and left many fans unable to attend the pre-game events. Rescue crews worked Saturday to clear debris stranding about 3,000 skiers at a Utah resort where more than a dozen avalanches rumbled down the slopes Friday after a 4-foot snowfall. No injuries were reported. Nearly 200 schools were closed Friday, employers sent their workers home and traffic was stalled from South Dakota to Minnesota. Norfolk, Neb., was buried under 15 inches of snow. But Southern states tied and set high temperature records, with McAllen, Texas, reporting 91 degrees for the nation's hot spot. Heavy thunderstorms pounded the south-central states with high wind, hail and heavy rain. More than 2 inches of rain soaked some areas of Kentucky and Tennessee and large hail pelted Red Bay, Ala. A tornado watch was posted over much of the region. The National Weather Service described the blizzard in the Midwest as "perhaps the most intense storm" of the season. The Twin Cities were buried Friday under 18 inches of snow -- about 1½ inches an hour -- in a record-setting snowfall that broke the 17-inch mark set only the day before. The cities closed down early Friday because of the record snow. Schools closed by 1 p.m. and by midafternoon downtown Minneapolis streets were deserted, although hotels began filling up. Conceding defeat to the furious storm Friday, the Transportation Department in southern Minnesota pulled snowplows off highways. A snow-ice-thunderstorm dumped more than an inch of snow an hour on central and northeast Nebraska, knocking out powerlines and closing schools and businesses in Omaha. The same storm choked traffic across Iowa. Illinois residents fought another onslaught of ice, snow, freezing rain, sleet, fog, thunderstorms and slowly falling temperatures. # Snow on 75% of N. America WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Satellite observations show 75 percent of North America was covered by snow at some point last week, scientists say. "Never during the 15 years of monitoring snow cover by satellite has so much of North America been covered by snow so early in the season," reported Donald Wiesnet and Michael Matson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Earth Satellite Service. 1/23/82 === Page 44 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Fierce new storm knifes into Midwest By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press 1/23/82 High winds and heavy snow from a fierce new storm knifed into the Midwest Friday, forcing schools to close and cutting visibility to near zero. Blizzard warnings were posted in Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, and forecasters urged residents to stock up on food. Minnesotans socked by a record one-day snowfall of 17.1 inches in the Twin Cities area Wednesday received even more snow Friday. Fourteen inches of new snow smothered Norfolk, Neb., 12 inches were reported in Elk Point, S.D., almost that much was recorded in Rochester, Minn., and more than 8 inches fell in Minneapolis. Forecasters said Friday's storm was the worst in 20 years to hit Sioux City, Iowa, where 11 inches of snow fell by early afternoon. The storm has the potential of being the worst of an already bitter winter, the National Weather Service said. Residents of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were warned that the dangerous storm was heading their way. "It's pretty hazardous driving, and we're telling people that travel is not recommended," said Sgt. Ed Pearson of the Nebraska State Patrol after the storm blew in on the heels of freak winter thunderstorms and blanketed highways with ice and snow. The weather service cautioned residents of North Dakota not to travel without survival gear: "Stalled motorists in open country could find themselves in extreme danger." Two thousand skiers were stranded by an avalanche in Utah. Snow drifts piled up over secondary highways. The snow was expected to bring overnight lows of well below zero to some Northern states. Temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling 27 below zero in Saranac Lake, N.Y., 15 below in Powell, Wyo., and 32 below in Great Falls, Mont. Overnight lows of 15 below were forecast in South Dakota, and winds in the western part of that state were gusting to 37 mph. Schools were closed in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Winter storm warnings were posted throughout the northern Plains into the Great Lakes and northern Ohio River Valley, including Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska, and into Virginia. Forecasters said Pontiac, Mich., this year's Super Bowl city, would be hit by the storm and up to 5 inches of snow late Friday. By kickoff time Sunday, wind, scattered snow and lows of zero to 5 were expected outside the Silverdome. A tornado watch was posted for parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A tornado dipped into a store parking lot in Hot Springs, Ark., Friday, damaging several cars and nearby homes but causing no serious injuries. Winter storm watches were issued for snow in New Hampshire, which was expecting to get the storm Saturday. A state Highway Department accountant, Paul Plante, said his snow removal budget "really has taken a beating in a winter marked by record cold and heavy snows." UFOs 100X Attack # Blizzards besiege much of Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press 1/25/82 A blizzard kept much of Michigan immobilized Sunday, and chinook winds gusting to 140 mph damaged homes in Colorado. The Michigan blizzard, which set more records in the Snow Belt, spared Pontiac, where 80,000 Super Bowl fans were oblivious to the storm. Elsewhere, a surprise snowstorm that darted out of Canada at 60 mph quickly built drifts and closed roads in central and western North Dakota. Temperatures dropped to 21 degrees below zero in Minneapolis, which was digging out from a record layer of 38.2 inches of snow. The blizzard that had swept out of the Rockies last week and spread up to 40 inches of snow across the Midwest had moved into Canada but still was punishing the Great Lakes region and northern New England with wind-blown snow. At least 14 people have been killed in the storm. With three-fourths of the United States covered with snow, subzero temperatures were posted across the upper Missouri River Valley to the upper Mississippi Valley and the western Great Lakes. Readings of 20 to 30 degrees below zero were seen across North Dakota and northern Minnesota. Many highways across the Midwest remained impassable although the snow had stopped. Sunday, warm chinook winds whipped through the foothills of northern Colorado, downing power lines, unroofing at least one house and damaging a mobile home north of Fort Collins. No injuries were reported. Jim Wishbourn, a private meteorologist in Fort Collins, where the temperature rose to 57, said several areas north and west of that city had wind gusts in excess of 100 mph. Wishbourn said power was knocked out in several areas, including Wellington north of Fort Collins. Wondervu, southwest of Boulder, Colo., reported a gust of 140 mph, Wishbourn said. === Page 45 of 278 40a 100X Attack # Winter's miseries spread coast-to-coast A platoon of coast-to-coast storms bombarded the North with up to 25 inches of snow, rain and ice, stopping only to gather a head of steam for another march across the nation's midsection Friday. Even areas without snow or rain were miserably cold. Hundreds of traffic accidents were reported from the mid-Atlantic coast to northern California, and school closings by now are routine. A double blow of storms -- one from the Rockies and one from the South -- was predicted for the Northern Plains and Midwest to the mid-Atlantic Friday. At least seven deaths were blamed on the latest salvo that began Wednesday, one each in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland, Indiana and Missouri, and two in California. Heavy snow spread from the northern Rockies into the northern Plains Thursday, while temperatures remained in the sub-zero range in Montana and North Dakota. Light snow spread into Nebraska and Iowa, but Michigan had up to 8 inches. Northern Arizona was one of the hardest-hit areas, reporting 25 inches of snow in Williams and 20 in Flagstaff. A bus filled with elementary school children was stranded on snow-covered roads in Sedona, south of Flagstaff, and several children had to stay at schools because roads home were blocked. Crystal Carr, 10 months old, was killed Thursday when the car in which she was riding slid out of control and struck another car on an icy Indianapolis street. The latest in a series of winter storms dumped up to 7 inches of fresh snow on Maryland, causing a host of traffic accidents including one that killed a 58-year-old man. President Reagan had planned to fly into Baltimore's Druid Hill Park Thursday for an industrial park tour and meetings with 15 mayors and business leaders, but it was scratched because of weather. A freak storm dumped a foot of snow on Snohomish County in western Washington, leaving surrounding areas virtually untouched. Rare winter thunderstorms battered Nebraska with snow, sleet and freezing rain. A Lincoln Electric System official said the thunderstorms produced lightning bursts bright enough to trigger photoelectric cells in the city street light system, shutting off street lights in some parts of the city. Oreg J 1/22/82 40a 100X Attack # 7 die as result of California storm By The Associated Press Oreg J 1/22/82 A storm blew out of the West Thursday after dumping up to 3 feet of snow on the mountains of Southern California, while in the East, a lingering snowstorm closed schools and forced President Reagan to cancel a visit to Baltimore. At least seven people died in the California storm, which hit lower elevations with rain and hail before moving east. Ski resorts were struggling to reopen roads so they could welcome weekend crowds. In Northern California, up to 2 inches of rain fell on communities ravaged by mud slides earlier this month, but no new problems were reported. The snow spread into the north-central regions, closing roads and snarling traffic in parts of Utah and causing storm warnings to be posted through the Rockies and into the Dakotas. Dense fog and grainy snow in Oklahoma prevented flights from landing at Will Rogers World Airport and Tinker Air Force Base for much of the day. Minneapolis, digging out from a record 17.1-inch snowfall in a 14-hour period ended Wednesday, received light snow Thursday and was bracing for another heavy onslaught Friday. Despite temperatures below zero in Montana and other extreme Northern states, most of the nation got a break from days of bitter cold blamed for the deaths of more than 300 people from Jan. 9-20. Two to 7 inches of new snow smothered parts of Maryland and Delaware. Five inches fell in Baltimore, forcing Reagan to cancel a visit to an industrial park. All Maryland school systems canceled classes except those in Garrett County, which delayed opening. The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis opened late. Circuit courts were closed in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties, and district courts in Baltimore shut down. Less than an inch fell in New York City during the morning, covering dingy snow piles along sidewalks with a fresh white blanket. Two to 4 inches of snow were predicted. Many motorists, eager to leave the driving to someone else, tried to pack onto Conrail commuter trains in New York City's northern suburbs. Because of extreme cold earlier this week, some cars were out of service and the trains were already crowded, Conrail said. === Page 46 of 278 UFOs 100x Attack # Twin Cities buried in record snowfall By DAVID L. LANGFORD 1/21/82 A record snowfall of more than a foot in eight hours buried Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., as a new batch of storms went to work Wednesday across the country. California was pounded with violent winds, rains and golf ball-sized hail. Heavy snow fell in the Rockies and slippery slush was spread along the Eastern Seaboard. A tornado ripped up trees and tore the roof off a house in suburban Hacienda Heights, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, and a 13-year-old boy was cut by flying glass. "The heavens opened up and chunks of ice came slamming into us," said Barney Brantingham, a resident of Santa Barbara, Calif., where the big hail hit. "I came out this morning and there were just rips, holes, punched in my convertible top, a dozen of them. One guy is out on the plaza with his motorcycle helmet on picking up the hail." More than 12.6 inches of snow fell in the eight hours ending at 1 p.m. in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The dry, fluffy snow fell in a strip 10 to 15 miles wide across the middle of the state as temperatures hovered in the teens. Temperatures remained generally below zero across the Northern Plains and the upper Mississippi Valley into parts of New England as the death toll nationwide reached 304 in almost two weeks of severe cold since Jan. 9. The East Coast's third snowstorm in a week, which came with warming temperatures, made highways dangerously slick across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. "It seems the whole world was involved in an accident this morning," said Caroline Kelly, a spokeswoman at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, N.J. "We've had a lot of people in here with little accidents this morning, and all around 8 a.m." The snowstorm, which developed over the southern Rockies and produced heavy snow in the mountains of Nevada and Colorado, was expected to move northeastward and threaten the upper Midwest and the middle Atlantic Coast region. Another arctic air mass was expected to swoop down from Canada. Record high temperatures in the South Tuesday burned off the record cold week but left Atlanta's airport socked in by fog Tuesday night. Flights returned to normal Wednesday morning. Snow driven by winds forced officials to close a several hours during the 72-mile stretch across California and Oregon. A small plane crashed in the Carbon Canyon area. The storm dumped more than 10 inches of snow on San Francisco, and many residents were without power. UFOs 6 Projects # Sicily blacked out PALERMO, Sicily (AP) -- A strike by state electric company workers blacked out the island of Sicily Wednesday, idling industrial plants and disrupting traffic. Telex communications to Italy and some Middle Eastern nations were cut during the blackout, which lasted up to nine hours on some parts of the Mediterranean island. Personnel of all electric power plants on Sicily walked out to protest a hiring freeze by the Enel electric company pending government appropriations. More than 65,000 people recently applied for 205 new jobs with Enel. 1/21/82 UFOs 100x Attack # Furious snow hits Midwest, California By United Press International 1/21/82 Snowstorms came down with a fury Thursday from the Plains to the Pacific shore, burying southern Minnesota under its worst snowfall in history -- more than 17 inches -- and bringing California snowplows out of mothballs for the first time in years. All snowfall records were broken in Minnesota by a blinding storm that passed over the upper Mississippi Valley and upper Great Lakes Wednesday. The National Weather Service said more snow was on its way and warned of blizzard-like conditions. Snow and hail also pelted the San Francisco area and surprised residents Wednesday. Four inches of snow covered Napa County above 700 feet, briefly cutting off the town of Angwin from the outside world. The last time snowplows were used to clear roads in the area was four years ago. Heavy fog shrouded Arkansas, Tennessee, and the western and central Gulf Coast states on Thursday, and winter storm warnings and watches were posted for Utah, Montana, New Mexico, the southern California mountains and northern Arizona, where heavy snow and high wind may cause near-blizzard conditions. Residents of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are used to snow, but Wednesday's record 17.1 inches nearly paralyzed the city. The snowfall battered the record from a single storm of 16.8 inches set on Nov. 11-12, 1940, in the great Armistice Day blizzard. Wednesday's storm also topped the 24-hour record of 16.2 inches set the same year and broke the record for the heaviest amount ever in January, bettering the old mark of 15.8 inches set Jan. 25, 1917. In California, steady rain fell throughout the day Wednesday on an 11-county disaster area south of San Francisco and was expected to continue through Thursday. A levee break was reported in farmland east of Antioch, Calif. Residents fled seven homes in Inverness, Calif., because of new flood danger. Another nine homes in Santa Cruz County were evacuated because of possible mudslides. === Page 47 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Major fresh mudslides add to California woes OHY J 1/20/82 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Mudslides, snow and day-long rain closed roads and snarled traffic throughout Northern California. Residents fear predicted rain will bring more slides. "Apparently the storm was light enough that rain hasn't caused any major problems so far," said Mike Campbell, spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services. A major new mudslide Tuesday blocked Highway 299, the major east-west link in Humboldt County, and could take up to two weeks to clear, officials said. The slide, as big as a 10-story building and carrying rocks as big as pickup trucks, covered the road 27 miles east of Eureka. Snow and snarled traffic forced the California Highway Patrol late Tuesday to close a 70-mile strip of Interstate 5, the major link between California and Oregon, between Weed and Yreka. Subsurface slipouts along coastal Highway 1 closed lanes in Mendocino County, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near Westport. Minor mudslides closed Highway 1 at Stinson Beach in Marin County, and a small mudslide on the Waldo Grade shut down one lane of the Marin County approach to the Golden Gate Bridge early Wednesday. Two small landslides hit near Nicasio dam and Shasta Bridge at Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin, but no property damage was reported. Another cold storm was moving southeast Wednesday out of the Gulf of Alaska and headed along the West Coast, the National Weather Service said. It is expected to keep rain falling along the coast through Thursday. The prospect of continued rain came as bad news to weather-weary residents in the 11-county disaster area around San Francisco. "We're praying for it to stop, but we've heard we're going to get 4 inches," said Ben Lomond Fire Chief Mike Smith. The Santa Cruz County town was the hardest hit by the mud and flooding two weeks ago. An unusual dusting of snow also prompted spot highway closings in the higher elevations of San Mateo to the South of San Francisco. "There's not that much snow, it's just that people don't know how to drive in it," a sheriff's deputy said. Hail and snow in the San Francisco Bay Area hills briefly forced officials to close busy Highway 17 over the summit between San Jose and Santa Cruz. Bad weather also closed Highway 9 in Santa Cruz County. UFOs 100X Attack # Minus-148 ices Newfoundland OHY J 1/20/82 ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (UPI) -- Unbearable cold and gusts that lowered the wind chill factor to minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit Wednesday held residents captive for the second day under a state of emergency. Air travel was suspended and schools and offices were closed throughout most of Newfoundland and in many parts of Nova Scotia because of the severe winter weather. Forecasters said the wind would decrease Wednesday but that temperatures were not expected to return to normal before Thursday. By then, problems may be compounded by a storm expected to bring moderate to heavy snowfalls. Newfoundland's northern affairs minister, Joseph Goudie, declared the state of emergency Tuesday. At least 2,200 people in the iron mining town of Labrador City, 640 miles northeast of Quebec City, kept warm in schools and church halls after the power failure made iceboxes out of their electrically heated mobile homes. Goudie said it will be another day or two before electricity is fully restored to the community that registered a temperature of minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit and wind chill factor of minus 148 degrees. He said the 70-mph winds that broke hydro poles and snapped transmission lines in Labrador City Monday had "eased a bit" but frigid conditions still hampered efforts to restore power to the trailer park at the edge of town. At one point more than half of Labrador City's 6,000 homes were without electricity, but Goudie said power was restored to all areas except the trailer park by late Tuesday. === Page 48 of 278 THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1982 # Cold weather causes paralysis in Northeast By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The worst cold wave of the century shifted its grip to the Northeast Monday, stranding thousands of city commuters as trains quit running and cars refused to start in temperatures at record lows. Temperatures were on the rise in the Midwest and the Deep South, hard hit last week, but more extreme cold may be on the way. The National Weather Service forecast below-normal temperatures across the eastern two-thirds of the nation during the next 30 days. At least 283 deaths have been attributed to the polar air mass that first pushed into the country Jan. 9 and dealt cities such as Chicago, Milwaukee and Akron, Ohio, their coldest temperatures since the weather service started keeping track. The cold wave set record lows for the date Monday from Pennsylvania through New England, where Chester, Mass., posted a minus 34. Millions of Americans trying to get back to work after a largely snowbound weekend found the going rough. Thousands of commuters were stranded in temperatures hovering around zero at the morning rush hour in New York, Boston and Philadelphia as the bitter cold disabled subways and trains and caused switches to stick. Thousands of autos also refused to operate. An automobile club in Philadelphia said it got 4,700 trouble calls Sunday alone. In Boston, another auto association had received 1,780 calls by noon Monday to start dead cars. A spokesman said, "It's been a record day." New York City authorities had received more than 13,700 calls since Saturday from people complaining of no heat in their apartments. In Tennessee, the Memphis International Airport was closed for the first time in at least 19 years when freezing rain glazed the runways. Memphis police reported hundreds of accidents. Elsewhere across the South, many schools remained closed, but temperatures were slowly climbing. Workmen in Atlanta were busy rounding up hundreds of abandoned cars and fixing water pipes that burst when temperatures dipped as low as 5 degrees below zero. UFO 100x Attack # Worst cold spell of century continues to plague nation By United Press International A solid arctic freeze, the worst of the century, kept its lock on the beleaguered Northeast and Great Lakes Tuesday, literally bursting thermometers and glazing roads as far south as Arkansas. At least 308 deaths were blamed on the weather. The middle part of the nation began a welcome thaw. Just as it dug out from earlier onslaughts, the mid-Atlantic Coast braced for snow, sleet and freezing rain Tuesday, while unstable air brought showers and snow to the Pacific Coast. Sub-zero temperatures continued to plague the Northeast and readings below freezing stretched from the northern Rockies to the Atlantic Coast. Blowing snow plagued Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Michigan, but temperatures began to rise, with highs in the 40s predicted Tuesday in areas that had readings of minus 25 during the weekend. The history-making arctic blast that stayed into its second week was blamed for at least 33 deaths in Illinois alone--more than in any other state. In Maine's Baxter State Park near the town of Millinocket, searchers using helicopters and an ambulance sled rescued a group of nine cross-country skiers and another man caught outdoors in the 40-below-zero temperatures. Four were suffering from severe frostbite and one had a minor case of frostbite. Another group of eight skiers was stranded in a ranger's cabin overnight. With wind gusting to 90 mph, the wind chill factor was 100 degrees below zero. "It was so cold that the mercury was down four clapboards on the house," said Charles Maddison, the town supervisor in the Adirondack hamlet of Newcomb, N.Y. A low Monday of 30 degrees below zero made it the coldest spot in the state. New York City was the only spot in the state that did not have a minus reading, but it still broke a 107-year-old record for Dec. 18 with a low of zero in Central Park. An unofficial weather observer in Embarrass, Minn., reported his thermometer showed 44 below when he went to bed Saturday night. The thermometer was broken when he got up Sunday morning. The NWS reported temperatures of 52 below in the northeastern area of the Great Lakes state. Remnants of the arctic blast held on in Tennessee, Arkansas and parts of Missouri. Freezing drizzle glazed Shelby County roads and forced the Memphis International Airport to close for the first time in 19 years. Little Rock, Ark., was stunned by a drizzle that suddenly turned roads into ice traps. Traffic slid to a virtual halt, schools were called off at the last minute and police scrambled to keep up with accidents. "It's a total, absolute emergency," said Lt. Bert Jenkins of the Little Rock police department. "Cars are everywhere--sideways, backwards." Record lows also were set in Rhode Island with minus 9, Maine tied a 1971 record at minus 28 and Connecticut had a minus 5. === Page 49 of 278 UFOs 100 X Attack # 'Siberian Express' thrashes Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press otey 1/17/82 A surge of polar cold nicknamed the Siberian Express blew into the frozen Midwest with paralyzing blizzards Saturday, and the mercury sank to painful lows deep into the Sun Belt. The frigid winds sent the chill factor to 80 degrees below zero in places, and the death toll reached 251 in a wintry assault that began writing weather history last weekend. "It is one of the most severe outbreaks of cold weather mid-America has seen since the 1800s," said meteorologist Nolan Duke of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. While temperatures Saturday stopped shy of last weekend's records, such as the all-time low of 26 below in Chicago, readings were close to 30 degrees below zero across parts of Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, with wind chills below zero as far south as San Antonio, Texas. More than 120,000 people remained without power in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Freezing rain closed many highways again in north Georgia, and snow fell in the Texas Panhandle. Snow was common from the Great Lakes across the Ohio Valley into the Northeast, where New York City got its third snowfall in four days. A blizzard with winds of 50 mph closed highways and caused many traffic accidents across central and northern Indiana, Ohio and southern Michigan, where 11 inches of snow fell at Frankfort. Blowing snow was causing headaches for the Ohio Department of Transportation, trying to keep open the state's 16,000 miles of highways. "We can plow a highway and 15 minutes later it'll be the same condition it was," said David V. Finley, a department spokesman. Freezing temperatures and snowstorms made Ohio highway maintenance nearly impossible, and authorities asked people to stay off the road. Seventeen motorists were treated for minor injuries after a 25-car pileup on Cleveland's Shoreway, which runs along Lake Erie. Blowing snow also shut off many highways in South Dakota, where the mercury dropped to 24 below at Rapid City, Murdo, Aberdeen and Milbank. In South Bend, Ind., snowplows that tried to open the streets were called back by midday, and officials said they would not try again until 24 hours after the snow had died down. Michigan officials declared a state of emergency in Charlevoix County and urged everyone to stay off the roads. "The back roads are completely closed," said Earl Muma, the county's emergency services director. "The main trunk lines are completely closed." "The snow is coming down in buckets," said Robert Sullivan, a dispatcher at the Benzie County sheriff's office. Wind gusts of 30 mph with the temperature at minus 18 made the wind chill factor 74 below zero in Rockford, Ill. Chicago reported a wind chill of 67 below. Icy roads caused a pileup of 20 to 30 cars on the Southfield Freeway in suburban Detroit. Police also reported about a dozen smashups on Interstate 94 on Detroit's east side. In Atlanta, where thousands of cars were abandoned in a storm of freezing rain and snow Tuesday, the slush partially melted Friday and froze over again during the night, touching off another round of accidents. "We had more accidents tonight than all day Tuesday," said DeKalb County police spokesman Chuck Johnson. UFOs 100 X Attack # N. England rattled otey 1/19/82 CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A moderate earthquake rattled dishes and shook objects from shelves Monday in northern New England, and some people said they at first thought their furnaces had exploded. Police and civil defense officials reported no injuries or serious damage. The worst physical effect of the 7:15 p.m. quake -- widespread disruptions in telephone service in New Hampshire -- resulted not from the quake but from a flood of calls after it, New England Telephone Co. officials said. "When the quake hit, everyone went to their phone to find out what happened," said utility spokesman Peter Kovach. "The machines (switching equipment) seized, and no one got through." The state civil defense office reported power outages in Campton and Claremont. Monday's tremor also was felt in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New York state and Vermont. The National Earthquake Information Service at Golden, Colo., said the quake registered 4.8 on the Richter scale and seemed to be centered near Franklin, N.H. === Page 50 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 18, 1982 # Frigid Midwestern icebox begins to warm U for 100 X Attack By United Press International Arctic cold that set 20th century temperature records for a second straight weekend began to crack in the Midwest Monday and was replaced by a below-freezing "warming trend" and blustery snow. Sub-zero chill moved into the Northeast, setting more record lows. Temperatures moderated over the north-central part of the nation, with readings ranging from 10 to 30 degrees warmer than Sunday. Authorities blamed the cold wave for 276 deaths. A 107-year-old record was broken in New York early Monday when the temperature dropped to zero for the second morning in a row, contributing to a snarl-up on the city's commuter rail system initially caused by an equipment shortage. The Midwest got a heavy dose of blowing snow Sunday and wind up to 136 mph roared down the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies. In Boulder, Colo., the worst windstorm in a decade gusted up to 136 mph and peeled back roofs, shattered windows and ripped down power lines feeding about 10,000 homes. Most of the 15 people injured were hurt by flying glass. Officials estimated 40 percent of the homes, businesses and public buildings in the city received at least some damage. Temperatures plunged to record lows for the 20th century in Ohio, Wisconsin and New York State. On Sunday, the zero temperatures in New York City made it the coldest day of the year and were believed responsible for the death of a fully clothed 2-month-old infant. The child was dead in his family's unheated apartment in the Bronx several hours after his mother put him to bed. Police said the victim, Michael Cruz, apparently froze to death. The coldest official reading in New York State Sunday was minus 19 at Slide Mountain in the Catskills. Zero and sub-zero temperatures hung on Monday from the Great Lakes to Pennsylvania and New England. Shortly before midnight Sunday, the mercury at Chicago climbed back above zero for the first time in nearly two days, while in southern South Dakota, sub-zero readings were replaced by 20s and low 30s. Light snow was scattered from Minnesota through the Great Lakes into western Pennsylvania, while rain-weary San Francisco Bay area residents hoped a new Pacific front would continue to speed by without dropping measurable precipitation. Officials fear even mild showers might loosen more killer mudslides. In Iowa, where three people died due to weekend cold, the latest cold wave let up early Monday, but along with southerly wind came snow. Minus 5 readings in the nation's capital Sunday -- the first below-zero temperature in Washington in 47 years -- forced rescuers to abandon efforts to recover any more victims of an Air Florida 737 jetliner crash in the Potomac last Wednesday that killed 78 people. Subzero temperatures were recorded in Birmingham, Ala., for only the fifth time since 1895 with a reading of 1 below. Tennessee records were set at Nashville, 11 below; Memphis, zero; and Chattanooga, minus 2. Temperatures in the upper teens and 20s hit the Gulf Coast states, leaving icicles in the Florida Panhandle. An all-time low of 26 below zero was recorded in Milwaukee Sunday. One week earlier the mercury fell to 25 below, tying the record low set Jan. 9, 1875. Tower, Minn., shivered at 52 below and International Falls, Minn., recorded 45 below. About 2 inches of snow fell from the upper Mississippi Valley into the eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. Travelers advisories were in effect for southeastern Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois, western lower Michigan, northern Indiana and southeast of Lakes Erie and Ontario. "You can officially call it a warming trend," a National Weather Service spokesman said of increasing temperatures Monday in the East and Midwest. "But the temperatures won't be getting above freezing." In contrast, high temperature records were equaled in the Southwest, where just last week the first snow in years had cities scrambling to keep going. ore J 1/18/82 === Page 51 of 278 UFOs 100 X Attack # Fast-moving storm slams into Midwest By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press 1/16/82 A fast-moving wave of snow and bitter cold sliced into the Midwest Friday, forcing snowplows off the streets in Minnesota and school buses to turn back in Nebraska. In the South, thousands of workers tried to dig their cities out from under a double blanket of snow. The National Weather Service said the Canadian cold wave was expected to be at least as bad as the one that plunged the nation into a deep freeze last weekend with the lowest temperatures of the century. That cold began a week of severe weather blamed for the deaths of 218 people. Cities from the Dakotas to Illinois were warned to expect record-breaking lows. Overnight lows were expected to range from 20 below to 45 below across the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. "People should have groceries, fuel and essential supplies on hand to last up to a week," said Ken Schriner of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, chairman of the county board of supervisors. Snow in the upper Midwestern states was driven by vicious winds gusting to 60 mph, cutting visibility. Blizzard conditions were reported in Montana and western Minnesota. Every school within 40 miles of New Ulm, Minn., was closed, and snowplows were ordered off the streets in Worthington, Minn., because of the weather. Both towns are in the southern third of the state. In Iowa, the weather service urged businesses to let workers go home early. The temperature hit 11 below zero at Cut Bank, Mont., and wind chill factors of 70 below were reported in some parts of the state. A storm hit in Nebraska so suddenly that buses taking children to school in Bartlett were ordered to turn around and take them home. "Get off the highways," said South Dakota Highway Patrol Lt. Jim Jorgenson. "We don't have enough people or facilities to get out there for people who get into trouble by not heeding the good advice about travel conditions." "We're going to see a rerun of last weekend," said Dean Nesley of the weather service in Minnesota, referring to days of subzero temperatures and winds that combined to make a wind chill factor of 50 below to 100 below. The cold was expected to move into the South by Sunday, bad news for states socked by two snowstorms in as many days. In Atlanta, the mercury hit 13 degrees just before midnight Thursday, breaking an 1893 record for the date. Power lines were snapped by snow- and ice-laden trees in the storms that left up to 7 inches of snow on the streets of cities accustomed to more moderate winter temperatures. More than 320,000 people in Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama remained without power Friday morning, and utility companies hauled in workers from across the Deep South in an effort to restore heat and light to homes. "Some lines in those areas were so badly damaged that we're practically having to rebuild the system," said Alabama Power spokesman Ed Crosby. Meanwhile, schools and businesses remained closed as 2,000 workers labored to clear Alabama roads. The storm left 5 inches of snow on New York City and Boston as it moved from the South up the East Coast. Syracuse, N.Y., got 2.6 more inches of snow to give it 79.6 inches so far this winter, more than the total 79 inches of last winter, with two winter months left. Seven inches of snow blanketed the streets of Richmond, Va., which was preparing to inaugurate Charles S. Robb, son-in-law of former President Lyndon Johnson, as governor. State crews cleared streets in Capitol Square, where the ceremonies are to be held Saturday despite predictions of more snow. Norfolk International Airport closed for four hours Thursday night to clean away snow and ice. Ken Scott, executive director of the port and industrial authority, said he believed airlines were "being extra cautious" because of the crash in Washington, D.C.. In Raleigh, N.C., businesses and government office were closed for much of the morning Friday as crews cleared 5-7 inches of snow from the streets. The University of North Carolina called off classes at many branches, and most public schools were dark. === Page 52 of 278 Wind in Colorado 137 mph UFOs 100X Attack oreg 1/18/82 Record cold hits 'icebox' Midwest Powerful chinook winds gusting to 137 mph Sunday wrecked homes and businesses in Colorado, while persistent Arctic cold dropped temperatures to all-time lows in some Midwestern cities. The death toll reached 263 in more than a week of harsh winter weather, called the coldest of the century. No serious injuries were reported from Colorado's chinook winds, which warmed Denver's temperature from 22 degrees to 56 degrees in 3 1/2 hours during the night. Milwaukee, at 26 degrees below zero, suffered its coldest day since the National Weather Service started keeping records 111 years ago, as temperatures fell below zero from Dixie to New England and across the Midwest. The mercury dipped to 22 below at Akron, Ohio, breaking the record of minus 21 set in 1963. Thousands of people were without power and many highways were impassable across the Midwest. Many people spent the night in emergency shelters. The mercury hit 5 below zero in Washington, D.C., for the coldest day in the nation's capital in 48 years, hampering efforts to salvage the wreckage of an Air Florida jetliner that crashed into the ice-bound Potomac River. Divers pulled 30 bodies from the river Saturday and one Sunday. It was so cold in Embarrass, Minn., that the thermometer broke at 44 degrees below zero, and the local weather watcher could only estimate the temperature at minus 52. International Falls, Minn., had an official reading of 45 below zero. In Chicago, where it was 23 below, Mayor Jane Byrne ordered the city park department to open all fieldhouses as emergency shelters. In New York City, where it was a relatively mild 1 below, city officials got 2,300 complaints Sunday morning from apartment dwellers with no heat. But in Colorado, it was like someone turned on a giant blow dryer as warm chinook winds howled out of the canyons on the eastern slopes of the Rockies with destructive hurricane force, causing widespread damage in the cities of Boulder and Loveland. Similar winds were gusting to 100 mph in neighboring Wyoming. Power was out in most of Boulder, a city of 75,000 residents about 20 miles northwest of Denver, where some buildings under construction were demolished. Roofs, walls and windows were torn from shopping centers, and streets were blocked by debris. In Loveland, 60 miles north of Denver, two small mobile homes were knocked several yards off their foundations, and three others, along with two traditional houses, were seriously damaged. About 25 people had to spend the night at friends' homes, according to Larimer County Sheriff Sgt. Pat McCosh. Officials closed a 30-mile section of U.S. 287 north of Longmont, Colo., because power lines were lying across the roadway. The high winds also flipped four single-engine planes at Boulder Airport and left one Boulder County sheriff's deputy with minor injuries when the windshield of his car blew out. "We've got power outages, buildings under construction that are completely blown away, roofs off, windows out," said Beverly Crosky of the Boulder police department. "A lot of streets are blocked by debris and wires down. Great big pieces of roofing and sides of houses are blown up against other buildings." Boulder County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Smith said, "Most of the malls and shopping centers here have been hit, with businesses losing roofs and most of their big plate-glass windows." In Southern California, thick fog that set in late Saturday gradually lifted Sunday, allowing airports to resume operation. In Northern California, residents cast a wary eye at advancing rains, fearing the possibility of more killer mud slides. However, late forecasts indicated the rains would not be too heavy. But numbing cold was the story in the East where many cities posted record temperatures for the date as far south as Nashville, Tenn., where it was 11 below, and Alabama, where it was 4 below in Huntsville and 1 below in Birmingham. It was 34 below at Eagle Rock, Md., the coldest ever noted by Rebecca Harvey in the 17 years she's been checking the weather for the Maryland Forest Service. Other cities reporting record readings included: Duluth, Minn., 37 below; Green Bay, Wis., 28 below; Toledo, Ohio, 17 below; Flint, Mich., 15 below; Detroit, 15 below; Lexington, Ky., 13 below; Charleston, W.Va., 11 below; and Wilmington, Del., 10 below. In Michigan, where up to 15 inches of snow fell over the weekend, and about 2,100 homes lost power overnight, several highways were closed. The weather service reported that since the first day of 1982, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has had only one day without a snowfall, and the 53.8 inches on the ground is the biggest accumulation of any January on record. Ohio officials opened a disaster center at a school in Kent when about 2,500 homes in Portage County lost power during the night. Drifting snow in Iowa halted snowplows during the night, and one highway in the eastern part of the state was closed. === Page 53 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 16, 1982 # New arctic blast whacks U.S. from Rockies to Dixie By United Press International Another blast of arctic air stung much of the nation Saturday, sending raging winds and bitter cold howling from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to the heart of Dixie. Wind chills of 100 below zero were forecast for the Upper Midwest and some regions braced for near-blizzard snowfalls. At least 235 people have died since the deep freeze first belted the country with the coldest weather of the 20th century last weekend. "It's one of these things that is almost unheard of," said Allan Morrison, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Chicago. "You don't look for a 125-year-old record to be broken or tied in a week." "When the flow of jet streams is out of the northwest... it opens the floodgates and comes roaring down." Shivering Southerners, reeling from the first round of storms that paralyzed cities and taxed utilities to the limit, braced for more bitter cold as the new arctic front barreled through the region. Bright Mississippi sunshine Friday turned the ice and snow into a dirty mush, clogging streets and highways. But frigid overnight temperatures were forecast to set the freeze again. Some Mississippians were still without power and water Friday night and utility crews in Alabama worked to restore power lines snapped under ice and snow. An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 passenger jet slid off an icy taxiway at Columbia, S.C., Metropolitan Airport Friday. Only the plane's six-man crew was aboard, and no one was injured -- but workers spent more than an hour pulling the jetliner from slippery muck onto the runway. Montana's first severe winter storm dumped 8 inches of snow on Helena, closing roads, stranding travelers and plunging temperatures to 35 below. Two people died in a 12-car pileup on a road whipped by blowing snow when a semi-truck skimmed the top of their car. Frigid northwest winds of 20 to 40 mph roared into Minnesota Friday night, blowing and drifting snow and fueling fierce wind chill of 50 to 80 below zero. Road crews could not clear battered cars from slick and snow-packed roads because they simply could not reach them. Near Mountain Lake, Minn., five cars skidded on slick roads, jamming traffic. "But the crews and snowplows can't get through it to clear the mess up," a state trooper said. Many Iowans closed up shop early Friday as the second wave of arctic air and cold gusty winds swept across the state, but a Des Moines travel agency kept workers late because it was being swamped with calls by weather-weary residents wanting to book vacations to warmer climates. By Friday night, bitterly cold temperatures coupled with strong and gusty northwest winds at 20 to 40 miles an hour produced a wind chill factor of 50 to 70 below zero across northwest Iowa. Storm-shy officials began closing schools almost as soon as students arrived. Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne reinstated the emergency measures she adopted last weekend, beefing up the staff of operators manning the city's emergency number and ordering the street and water departments to work closely with fire officials. The Chicago Park District opened its field houses to weather refugees and the city's Housing Authority set aside 100 apartments for people who might need temporary shelter. A National Guard helicopter joined the search for a teenager reported missing since he went hunting Monday in a heavily wooded, snow-covered area near Marked Tree, Ark. In Des Moines, Doris Johnson, manager of Travel and Transport, said she did not want to let her staff go early Friday because she was swamped with callers. "It seems when people go home early for storms they spend time planning vacations," Johnson said. "We're extremely busy and there is a lot of interest in Caribbean cruises and Hawaii -- spots where you can guarantee warmth." === Page 54 of 278 South, Northeast helpless in cold By United Press International The hardest freeze this century kept a stranglehold on the Northeast and paralyzed Dixie Wednesday as new storms threatened to dump more snow from Illinois to New York. At least 134 deaths were blamed on the weather. Seven-inch snows rendered ill-equipped Southern cities helpless, and a deep freeze caused $500 million damage to Florida's tender citrus crop. Power lines in Alabama snapped under the ice, and authorities advised people not to try to travel. Ice, sleet and snow battered the Gulf Coast states, closing schools and industries in Texas, where more than 1,000 Dallas residents were without water Tuesday due to the more than 33 major water mains that have burst since Monday. A new winter snowstorm Wednesday moved into Ohio and Pennsylvania, where at least 14 people have died. The snowfall elevated temperatures but made driving perilous. Heavy snows -- up to 10 inches -- were forecast for New York by late Wednesday and winter storm warnings were posted from Tennessee to the Carolinas. Snow blanketed the Northern Plains. As much as 4 inches was forecast for Chicago. The brutal cold that began Saturday and peaked Monday in what the National Meteorological Center described as the coldest day of the century maintained its strongest foothold in the Northeast, where the mercury at Worcester, Mass. fell to 8 below zero and brisk winds plunged the wind chill to minus 46 degrees. Florida officials said Tuesday's freeze was as damaging as the one in 1977, which caused $500 million in damages to Florida's agriculture. "It was a biggie. This one is a biggie, too," said Jack Sinks, Department of Agriculture information officer. As a result, orange juice, sugar and many vegetables will be more expensive, possibly within only a few days, agriculture spokesmen said. Most officials in the South threw up their hands in dismay and were left to watch cities close down for lack of snow removal equipment. Interstate highways became parking lots and bars and hotel lobbies became havens for thousands of stranded motorists in Georgia, where a bitter winter storm left up to 6 inches of snow and icy roads. Commuters abandoned cars and attempted to walk miles to get home in Atlanta. Flights were canceled because pilots, crews and passengers couldn't get to the airport and children huddled stranded in school buildings. "We have wall-to-wall people lined up to use the phones to call home and say they're stranded," said Doug Brader, night auditor at the downtown Atlanta Rodney Inn. The Red Cross said hundreds of people were at shelters, including about 150 school children. One Atlanta funeral home also began taking in the stranded. "It was the first place I came to that seemed to be inhabited," said Nancy Smith, 28, adding some people had journeyed across the street to a bar. "They may be bombed but they aren't embalmed," she said. Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen called out the National Guard in New Roads Tuesday to deliver water to nursing homes and other facilities left without electricity in the town of less than 4,000. The 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway between new Orleans and Covington was shut down most of Tuesday and hospitals across the state postponed elective surgery because of power problems. In tiny Youngsville, La., Mayor Ernest Gallet took it upon himself to personally phone each resident at 5 a.m. and advise them to fill their bathtubs with water -- in preparation for low water supplies. In flood-ravaged Northern California, seven more people were added to the list of victims who died in a mudslide near Santa Cruz. The discoveries raised the death toll from last week's giant storm to 36. Authorities feared that an even moderate rain could trigger a new avalanche of mudslides. New deep freeze socking nation Cold and snow lambasted much of the nation Friday, plunging temperatures to 10 below zero in Chicago, dumping 8 more inches of snow on New York and setting the stage for another weekend of record cold. An Atlantic Coast snowstorm and a huge chunk of arctic air collided to set off a snap to equal last weekend's history-making temperatures -- conditions blamed for at least 217 deaths. The South eyed temporary relief Friday from paralyzing ice and snow storms. The second round of a one-two attack stung Long Island with 8 inches of new snow -- on top of 7 inches. Bitter cold was forecast Friday night for Chicago, where temperatures plummeted last week to a 20th-century low of minus 26. Temperatures Friday night should drop to about 20 below zero and stay there through Saturday, forecasters said. Wind as high as 40 mph will whip light falling snow, reducing visibility and glazing roads. A winter storm watch was issued for the Chicago area. Traverse City, Mich., reported an early morning reading of minus 15. The temperature dropped 30 degrees in one hour at Cut Bank, Mont., where the wind chill factor was equivalent to 60 below zero. High wind has created blizzard conditions. Winter storm warnings or watches were posted for the Dakotas, Minnesota, Shivering Southerners, battered by two severe winter storms in which at least 60 people died this week, looked for temperatures above freezing Friday but braced for another round of freezing weekend weather. More than 500,000 people were without power Friday in Alabama, where the cold, ice and snow have taxed utilities to the limit. At the huge Fort Hood military range in central Texas, 12,000 soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division -- including many who just returned from the Mojave Desert -- slogged through the snow on annual war games. "The weather is perfect," said Maj. Gen. Richard Prillaman, whose division is committed early in any plan for war in Europe. === Page 55 of 278 2F02 100X # Storms stagger South, East By CHARLOTTE PORTER of The Associated Press The South reeled under a third straight day of snow and ice Thursday, and the storm then surged up the East Coast, dumping up to 8 inches in North Carolina and coating New York City for a second day. Since Saturday, 200 deaths have been blamed on the weather. The Midwest, meanwhile, was hit by a "potentially dangerous" new storm that plunged temperatures back below zero and brought forecasts of new snow and high winds Friday. In Raleigh, N.C., visibility was reduced to only a few feet by the haze-like, granular snow. Traffic on downtown streets was reduced to only one or two cars every 15 minutes. By Thursday evening, the storm stretched from New England to North Carolina. Nine hundred workers were dispatched to salt and plow New York City streets, where 4 inches were expected on top of the 6 inches that fell Wednesday. Baltimore expected 2 to 4 more inches. Massachusetts and Connecticut received about 3 inches of a predicted 6 inches to a foot of new snow late Thursday. The storm appeared to lessen, but forecasters said snow would fall steadily until Friday morning. Hurricane-force winds whipped through the foothills of the Rockies. Winds gusting to 104 mph were reported in Boulder, Colo., pulling the roof off a small apartment house. Two trailer-trucks were knocked on their sides west of Denver, and officials closed parts of Interstate 70 and U.S. 36 to high-profile vehicles for about 2 1/2 hours. Traffic was hazardous from Texas to New England, and scattered power outages were reported across the Deep South as the snow moved north. Seven inches of snow fell Thursday in northern Georgia; Wednesday's storm was the worst in Georgia in 42 years. Two inches of snow fell in Tennessee, enticing people onto sleds. Officials said a 14-year-old sledder was struck by a car and killed, and a 19-year-old man apparently froze after a night of sledding. In Alabama, 750,000 people - nearly a fourth of the state's population - were without power after sleet and snow-burdened tree limbs snapped power lines. Residents left without power bundled up or moved in with relatives. Low-temperature records were set Thursday in Minnesota, Michigan and Texas, and forecasters said there was no end in sight. "We've had a real cold weather pattern since the New Year began across the Northern states, and when it stays very cold it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder," said Nolan Duke of the National Weather Service center in Kansas City, Mo. "There are towns in western North Dakota that haven't gotten above zero since the year began." Extreme cold in January can't be called unusual, Duke said, "but it's breaking records everywhere and to have 5 inches of snow in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, that is a rarity. In 1978-79, we had a lot of snow that winter and it did get cold, but nothing like this. And it's not over with." His colleague, Larry Wilson, said it was hard to say when the numbing cold and snow might end. "These situations can last for a month." Wilson blamed the weather on a jet stream pattern blowing from the Northwest to the Southeast. West of the Rockies, he said, the winter has been fairly mild. The new system moving across the Midwest was expected to bring a new bout of severe cold and high winds to the Northeast by the weekend. Temperatures plunged early Thursday to 30 below zero in St. Cloud, Minn., and 16 below in Traverse City, Mich., records for the date. In Houston, the reading of 20 broke a 2-year-old record. In New Hampshire, where another 6 inches was expected on top of the 9 inches of snow that fell Wednesday, the state House of Representatives postponed from Thursday to Tuesday a special session on the budget. ong 1/15/82 === Page 56 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack A12 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1982 # Freezing rain, fog cause huge pileups By DAVID L. LANGFORD, oreg 1/20/82 of The Associated Press A departing cold wave left its calling card across the South Tuesday, spreading freezing rain and blinding fog that stranded thousands of travelers and caused countless chain-reaction smashups on the highways. Traffic fatalities brought the toll to almost 300 weather-related deaths since record-breaking polar air surged into the nation Jan. 9. But while the cold wave, called the Siberian Express, was moving out of the country, forecasters said another another arctic blast could be expected at mid-week and temperatures would be generally below normal over the eastern two-thirds of the nation for the next month. "The Siberian Express is just temporarily derailed," said Harold Gibson, the National Weather Service's chief meteorologist in Manhattan. Tuesday, trucks jackknifed and cars careened out of control in an icy strip across Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma. "In upper East Tennessee, nothing is moving," Mike Caudill of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said after five fuel tankers overturned and eight tractor-trailer rigs crashed in one massive pileup. "Anything that's moving is going into a ditch." Motorists unable to drive on the dangerously slick highways were put up for the night in motels, churches and Salvation Army shelters. Interstate highways looked like parking lots in some areas. Schools closed and city buses came to a halt in some cities. Fog reduced visibility to zero during the morning at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, and dozens of flights had to be diverted. Meanwhile, another storm threatened to bring more mudslides to the hills near San Francisco where at least 31 people were killed during heavy rains Jan. 3-5. It was raining lightly in the area Tuesday, and more rain was in the forecast. Authorities had said half an inch of rain could touch off more slides. About 50 people moved out of their houses in Pacifica Sunday night, and eight families vacated their homes in Lagunitas when more rain was predicted. Earlier in the weekend, about 50 residents of Ben Lomond were evacuated not far from an area where mudslides in the remote Love Creek area inundated eight houses. During Tuesday's freezing rains, police in Richmond, Va., stopped making accident reports unless damage estimates exceeded $700. One pileup on the Interstate 95 bridge over the James River involved 17 cars. "It was just a good, old-fashioned pileup ... just a real mess if you know what I mean," a police radio dispatcher said. One trucker was killed in Virginia when his truck jackknifed and he was thrown from the cab. Another man was killed when his car skidded into a utility pole. City buses were taken off the streets in Roanoke, Va., and the airport was closed. In Kentucky, hundreds of motorists stranded on U.S. 25B where it crosses the Cumberland Gap were ferried to shelter by rescue workers. === Page 57 of 278 Associated Press Laserphoto NO JOY RIDE -- Hot Springs, Ark., fireman checks out truck that overturned four times when tornado touched down in discount store parking lot. Tornado damaged store and nearby houses but caused no injuries. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, JANUARY 24, 1982 2M A23 # Giant snowstorm paralyzes Idaho By QUANE KENYON of The Associated Press A heavy overnight snowstorm, whipped by winds up to nearly 40 mph, virtually stopped travel in most of Idaho Saturday, with snowdrifts up to four feet reported in some areas. "Roads in Canyon County are a total disaster this morning," said a deputy at the Canyon County sheriff's office at Caldwell. The deputy said about 18 inches of snow fell, but was quickly whipped into drifts of three to four feet by strong winds. The National Weather Service reported a blizzard in eastern Idaho, with winds of 38 mph reported in Pocatello and 30 mph winds in Idaho Falls. Visibility was almost zero and blowing and drifting snow made travel extremely hazardous. The state's major east-west route, Interstate 84, was still open at mid-morning, but the Idaho Transportation Department said that was on an hour-to-hour basis because of 3 1/2-foot snowdrifts. Several north-south highways were closed. U.S. 12 in northern Idaho was closed during the night and U.S. 95 was closed Saturday by snowdrifts at Lewiston Hill and Culdesac. Idaho 33 was closed between Newdale and Tetonia; Idaho 32 was shut down between Ashton and Tetonia and Idaho 31 from Swan Lake to Victor was closed. Idaho 33 from Rexburg to Mud Lake had zero visibility and one-lane traffic. The Transportation Department urged motorists to stay home if possible, or travel only in vehicles equipped with chains or four-wheel drive. The National Weather Service said the storm left four inches of new snow in Boise, along with 20-mph winds that whipped the six inches of snow already on the ground into snowdrifts. Strongest winds reported Saturday morning were at Pocatello, 38 mph. Winds of 30 mph were reported at Idaho Falls and 15 to 20 mph at Rexburg, 50 miles north. Most activities in the Boise area were postponed or canceled Saturday morning. The 11th annual Mighty Mites ski races at Bogus Basin Ski Resort, which were expected to draw 150 Pacific Northwest junior skiers, were canceled because of too much snow. The U.S. Postal Service said it canceled mail delivery in rural areas of Nampa and Caldwell, but said patrons could pick up mail at the main post offices, if they could get there. By 5 a.m., the weather service said there was 5 inches of snow at Burley, 11 inches at Idaho Falls, 12 inches at Pocatello, 18 inches at Malad, 8 inches at Grangeville and 22 inches at nearby Burns, Ore. === Page 58 of 278 NW rains unleash floods, slides More pictures on Page C7 By SCOTTA CALLISTER and TOM HALLMAN JR. of The Oregonian staff High water forced evacuation of some coastal residents Saturday as torrential rains swelled streams and triggered snow and mud slides in Oregon and Washington. The National Weather Service said rainfall of 2 to 4 inches was common along the Oregon coast. Tillamook received 5.22 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 4 p.m. Saturday. The deluge moved inland with a warm front that also turned snow to rain over much of Eastern Oregon and the Cascades, where heavy snow had fallen Friday night. The U.S. Forest Service issued a warning for extreme avalanche hazards outside developed ski areas in the Mount Hood area and the southern Washington Cascades due to the rapid warming trend. At the coast, residents in low-lying parts of Garibaldi and Rockaway, north of Tillamook, were evacuated as floodwaters reached depths of up to 4 feet. Water lapped against the windshields of parked cars, but the heavy rains abated somewhat Saturday morning. U.S. Coast Guard crews used boats to rescue some residents whose homes were surrounded by water, the Tillamook County sheriff's department reported. In Portland, the weather service predicted more occasionally heavy rain Sunday with temperatures ranging up to the low 50s. Clarence Robinson, officer in charge of the Garibaldi Coast Guard station, said the problems there were complicated by a power outage caused by a mud slide. Rescue efforts were hampered by another slide that temporarily blocked U.S. 101 north of Rockaway and by flooding of the Miami River that cut off the southern highway access to the area. Robinson said about 40 residents were evacuated after a logjam in a gully a half-mile north of Garibaldi washed out, sending a torrent of mud and debris through a low part of town toward the sea. Later in the day, water continued to build up behind a second logjam as residents were housed at the Coast Guard station, he said. Members of a Barview family narrowly escaped death when the hill behind their house on U.S. 101 washed away, knocking the building off its foundation. A log rammed through two walls and a stairway in the house as the slide left 4 feet of mud in the bedroom where David and Laureen Thompson had been asleep. "This is what saved my parents' life -- that's all I can say," said Ed Thompson, 26, pointing to the bed's sturdy oak headboard that kept the slide from burying his parents. North of Newport, Lincoln County officials evacuated nine families from Beverly Beach State Park, where water was rushing seaward from the mountains. Two houses in a steep area of Astoria began to slide in the heavy rainfall and moved off their foundations, Clatsop County sheriff's deputies said. Two mud slides at Garibaldi and Barview closed off a one-mile stretch of U.S. 101 Saturday, and it was not expected to be opened until Sunday. About two miles south of Wheeler, half the coastal highway "disappeared" after being undermined by a mud slide, according to Trooper Vernon Maulding. "It's raining like crazy," Mauldin said Saturday night. "And we're supposed to get 24 to 36 hours more of it." More mud slides temporarily blocked parts of U.S. 101 at Cape Foulweather, Florence and Newport, Oregon 34 west of Waldport at Tidewater and U.S. 26 at the tunnel in the Coast Range. But all these spots had been opened to at least one lane of traffic by nightfall. Deputies also reported flooding on roadways near Seaside and at the Cannon Beach junction of U.S. 26 and U.S. 101. Farther south, Coos County reported numerous slides on roads north and east of Coos Bay. Sheriff's Deputy Dana Tolar said several houses in relatively remote areas were in danger of sliding. Inland, flood warnings were issued for streams and rivers in the Eugene-Springfield and Portland areas. Johnson Creek at the Sycamore station in East Multnomah County was expected to crest at 12 feet, 4 feet above flood stage. The weather service warned residents along streams and rivers in those areas, as well as in Tillamook, Lincoln and Lane counties, to "take necessary precautions to protect life and property." Gale warnings were posted for the Oregon coast, where gusty winds were expected to reach 25 to 50 mph, accompanied by more heavy rain. Elsewhere in the Northwest, snow slides caused three highway closures in Washington -- U.S. 12 at White Pass, U.S. 2 at Stevens Pass and Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass. In Oregon, U.S. 20 at Santiam Pass remained closed for a second night because of deep snow. Trooper Gary Dodd said Santiam Pass would remain blocked by snow drifts up to 4 feet until Sunday despite a day of rain and warmer temperatures Saturday. === Page 59 of 278 # Dream of slide presages disaster for home near Garibaldi By TOM HALLMAN JR. of The Oregonian staff GARIBALDI -- The rain began beating harder as Ed Thompson sloshed through the mud and gingerly made his way back up the crooked, creaking stairs leading to his parents' home. Peering inside, he saw the floor was tilted, and a large log lay in the living room. Mud covered the door to his parents' bedroom. Thompson forced the door open, looked around the room and sighed. "This just started out as a typical everyday coastal storm -- then this," he said. Two of the walls had been ripped open, and rain was falling into the room. A 2-foot-deep layer of mud covered the floor. Tons of mud, trees and rocks cascaded down the hill and roared into the rear of the Barview-area home early Saturday, ripping open walls and knocking the home off its foundation. The debris, loosened by snow and rain, covered a portion of U.S. 101 in front of the Thompson home. Goods inside their antique store attached to the home were askew, and many items lay broken. Laureen Thompson, Ed's mother, said she woke with a start about midnight Friday after dreaming about a mud slide. "I woke up in a cold sweat," she said as she sat in a friend's home. "There was nothing, so I went back to sleep. "Then, I woke up again and heard it," she said, wrapping a blanket around her. "It started with a rumble and then became a roar. I knew it was a slide. I grabbed my husband (David) and dragged him across the bed. "A big rock came through the wall, and water began pouring through the roof," she said. "There was mud everywhere." The couple ran to the living room where they met their son, who had awakened when he, too, heard the roar. The trio ran out a side door after another door was blocked by mud. Mrs. Thompson said her husband suffered a minor injury when hit by a rock. She said he was treated at a hospital and released. The family did not have insurance to cover the damage, she said. Three miles south of the Thompson home, mud slides and flooding were a problem for Garibaldi residents. In the heart of the city, appropriately named Driftwood Avenue was covered with mud, rocks and huge tree Cars were carried hundreds of feet, finally coming to rest against telephone poles and homes that had been shaken by what one resident described as "a raging force." A 2-foot-wide creek normally flows down the hill above the area and meanders through town in culverts. Saturday, however, the "creek" grew to 10 feet wide in some spots, loosening trees, mud and rocks. "When I woke up about 4 a.m., everything seemed fine," said Fred Munhoven, a Garibaldi resident who lives near the hill. "Then at 5:03, the power went off and stayed off for two hours. "Right then ... the dam broke. The wind was blowing and the water was raging. It was a river." The water carried debris down the steep hill. It left behind mud and turned nearby low-lying streets into temporary lakes. A portion of Garibaldi Avenue in the heart of the city had a pool of water 4 feet deep, and some residents used a canoe to make their way down the street. Some businesses were flooded. A group of ducks enjoyed the water and swam down the street, passing a parked car surrounded by the water. The only way to head south out of town was in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Even then, however, there were problems. At Miami Junction, where U.S. 101 runs into Miami River Road, water collected, forcing travelers to wait. Those who tried to cross the 4- to 5-foot-deep puddle often had problems. One driver got stuck and had to be towed out. === Page 60 of 278 UFOs 100 X Attack # Cascade passes closed; flood threat widespread By The Associated Press 1/24/82 Avalanches closed three major passes across Washington, while flood warnings were issued Saturday for seven rivers as warm air and steady rain melted fresh snowfall in the Cascade Mountains. Gusty winds and freezing rain also knocked out power lines, while high water closed roads in some areas of Western Washington. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings late in the day for the Elwha, Nooksack, Skagit, Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Chehalis and Cowlitz rivers. More rain was forecast in the mountains for Sunday. Snoqualmie Valley farmers moved livestock to higher ground, and crews were standing by with sandbags, said Sue Robinson of the King County Department of Public Works. The valley "just becomes a great big, unfortunate lake," she said of anticipated flooding. The Stillaguamish, Skykomish, Satsop, Walla Walla, Klickitat and Cedar rivers also were rising. Snoqualmie, Stevens and White passes all remained closed late Saturday. Ken Balsley, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said it appeared Stevens and Snoqualmie would remain closed at least through Sunday because of slides, avalanche hazards and water on the roadway -- in some places a foot deep. White Pass also was expected to remain closed at least until Sunday. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. estimated that more than 5,000 customers were without power Saturday in Whatcom County, where freezing rain coated roads with ice and knocked out power lines and trees. High water closed several freeway ramps near Bellingham. In the Everett area north of Seattle, where up to 14 inches of snow fell in a freak storm Thursday and Friday, quick melting left water on roadways and flooded some homes, authorities said. About 2,000 Snohomish Public Utility District customers were without power Saturday afternoon. Crews were just starting to restore power knocked out by the snowstorm when steady winds of about 30 mph downed more power lines, said PUD spokesman Kerry Edwards. Jim Harris, a Lake Stevens resident, said his front yard had 22 inches of water Saturday. There were reports of mud slides blocking roads in the Lake Stevens, Marysville and Monroe areas. The Pilchuck River flooded about six areas between Snohomish and Lake Stevens, threatening to surround several homes with water, said John Galt of the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Services. Woods Creek northeast of Monroe was also flooding, he added. Skiers stranded at the Crystal Mountain ski resort had to be brought out on a logging road after a mud slide closed Washington 410 about 16 miles east of Enumclaw Saturday afternoon. Transportation officials said anyone needing to travel between Western and Eastern Washington should avoid mountain passes and take one of the two highways through the Columbia River Gorge. === Page 61 of 278 Rain, water, mud play havoc with California communities THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1982 JEEP RESCUE -- Clarissa Blount is evacuated in stretcher on hood of Jeep after mud slide washed away her house above Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz Mountains. DCR 816 === Page 62 of 278 FLOOD CLOSURE -- Street in San Rafael is flooded after violent storm doused Northern California Tuesday. Floodwaters crested at 5 feet in parts of city, north of San Francisco. FATAL MISHAP -- Mountain home near Santa Cruz is in shambles after tree fell on it, killing woman, at height of Northern California storm. RIVER OF MUD -- California 9, which connects several mountain communities, is awash in mud after torrential rains washed out way between Boulder Creek and Santa Cruz. === Page 63 of 278 HOMES MOBILE -- Aerial view shows mobile home park demolished by mud slide that flowed through park in Santa Cruz. At least 20 persons were reported killed in Northern California as result of storm. === Page 64 of 278 UFO2 100 x Attack Mud slows California cleanup ong 1/7/82 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - Criti- cal, water shortages and thick mud thwarted rescue workers Thursday as they struggled to unearth landslide vic- tims and repair destruction from a storm that killed 24 people and caused an estimated $200 million damage. President Reagan declared five Northern California counties - Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Sonoma - major disaster areas, making them eligible for help from fed- eral agencies. In Ben Lomond, 10 miles to the north, efforts continued to locate up to 20 people believed killed when their homes were buried in a massive mud slide. Leaky, storm-damaged pipes forced a three-hour shutdown of water service to 70,000 people in Santa Cruz and the surrounding hillsides Thursday night. Officials of the state Office of Emer- gency Services said the storm and mud slides that followed destroyed 100 homes in Santa Cruz County, 70 miles south of San Francisco, damaged 300 others and displaced 1,800 residents. County Administrator George Newell estimated property damage at $100 mil- lion. More than half the county's 190,000 résidents were asked to conserve water or were without it. Thirty-six roads were closed or Ihited to emergency use. California 17, the main route into the county, was closed to non-residents. The storm severed a 24-inch water main that supplied this city's reservoir. It could take a week to repair the dam- age, Newell said We don't want people coming here rubbernecking and sightseeing," said Newell, who noted sightseers were con- suming precious water. "People will be allowed in on Highway 17 if they can prove they live in the county." Newell said all industry and restau- rants in Santa Cruz were closed to help conserve water and that emergency supplies of water for firefighting were being hauled in from Campbell and San Jose. : Wednesday, after officials urged conservation, the city consumed about 4 million gallons of water. There were 5 million gallons in the reservoir Thurs- day morning, and that supply was being augmented at the rate of about 4 million gallons a day with supplies from wells in the northern part of the county. Resi- dents normally consume about 10 mil- lion gallons a day, officials said. -"The county health officer has de- clared a critical need for water," said Santa Cruz sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Simp- son. "There are extreme conservation measures. People are asked to use water only for health needs." Simpson said the water shortage may force the closure of the city's two hospitals, complicating an already des- perate situation. "We can't take showers," he said. "We can't eat hot food, travel is re- stricted, many people have been sepa- rated from their families, many of us working down here in the emergency operations center don't know how our houses are doing." The National Guard was trucking water into the nearby San Lorenzo Val- ley, where supplies have run out, and planned to construct a temporary pipe- line. Debris choked the city sewage treat- ment plant, sharply reducing the plant's capacity. Waste was being chlorinated but was not completely treated before being dumped into Monterey Bay. Beaches were posted for possible pollu- tion. In Soquel, about 10 miles east of here, stunned residents wandered along frost-laden streets Thursday, wondering where to begin the cleanup effort. Water spilled over the banks of a half-mile stretch of Soquel Creek Mon- day, driving about 100 people from their homes UFO= 100X Attacks Santa Ana winds fan $1 million fire areg 00 1/7/82 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Biting cold Santa Ana winds slashed at 60 mph across Southern Canfornia Thursday, Tracking out powerin five counties and tanning a $1 million fire that destroyed five homes. Temperatures dropped from the mountains to the coast as the winds, blowing from Cajon Pass, knocked over nine big trucks, shattered windows and ripped the roof from a home in northern San Bernardino. The California Highway Patrol or- dered all trucks, trailers and campers to stay out of Cajon Pass beonase of the fierce gusts, The winds, forced through icy mountain passes from Nevada, knocked down power lines and trees in Ventura, "Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernar- dino counties. In Orange County, power lines blew together, sparking electrical arcs and causing brief outages. Much of downtown Oxnard 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles was blacked out, and 3,000 people in Los Angeles . were without electricity for up to two hours overnight, said the city Depart- The National Weather Service is- sued a travelers' advisory for high winds for the mountains and coastal and valley areas below mountain passes. The winds were expected to abate somewhat by Friday. "They are Santa Ana winds, but normally they occur in warmer and dry- er weather," said Roy Talbot, Los An- geles County fire Information officer. "If we hadn't had the rain we had last week, we'd probably be having some grass fires." The winds hampered firefighters' efforts to quell a blaze that broke out shortly before 4 a.m. in a Malibu beach- front home. County fire spokesman Dick Friend said the winds spread sparks to an apartment and garage at the rear of the lot, to two houses on an adjoining lot and to the palatial former home of the late comedian Joe E. Brown. All were destroyed, he said. A section of Pacific Coast Highway was closed for four hours . About 50 firefighters in 10 engine companies battled the flames but were hampered by the winds, proximity of the houses and lack of water, Friend said. The houses, built within 6 feet of each other, all had wood shingle roofs, making them more susceptible to wind- carried sparks, he said. Meanwhile, temperatures plummet- ed. "These are very cold Santa Ana winds," said Al Dascomb of the Nation- al Weather Service. "They are coming from Nevada where the temperatures are sub-zero, so even when they are compressed and heated as they cross the mountains, they're still darn cold when they get here." === Page 65 of 278 Death toll 28 as ice holds in Europe LONDON (UPI) -- Europe's unremitting spell of arctic weather claimed at least 28 lives, ranging from a British baby frozen in bed to a bizarre suicide in Berlin and a deadly red cloud killing the elderly in Turkey. As temperatures plunged to 11 degrees, an unidentified Berlin woman committed suicide Monday by stripping naked on the banks of the Havel River and freezing to death. In Odelhausen, southern Germany, an 11-year-old boy suffocated in an igloo he was building. One of the latest victims of Britain's worst winter in 18 years was a 10-month-old boy who froze to death in his bed in an unheated room. In Wales, a farmer died from exposure as he took fodder to his sheep on Sunday. The capital of Turkey was obscured by a deadly red cloud of sulfur pollution caused by a thermal inversion Monday and officials said at least two elderly people died and 16 were hospitalized. Half the cars were ordered off the street in Ankara and children under the age of 12 or those over 50 were told to stay indoors. In France, a 15-year-old girl died Monday when she was hit on the head by a tree felled by the weight of snow and ice. In northern regions of France, high tension lines coated with ice snapped, cutting off electricity to more than 200,000 residents. Flooding east of Paris forced evacuation of 200 houses and snow closed Strasbourg airport. But the south of France basked in such warmth that fruit growers worried about premature budding on trees. An elderly Swedish couple froze to death when the woman broke her leg while going to the aid of her husband who had suffered a heart attack shoveling snow. DIGGING OUT -- Residents of Bristol, England, shovel paths for vehicles after weekend blizzard in Britain's worst winter in 18 years. Arctic cold continued hold on Europe, with death toll at least 28. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised government money to help the country to dig out from snow blocking thousands of miles of roads. Wales was the worst hit area of Britain and hospitals canceled all but emergency operations because of a shortage of blood. Soldiers helped distribute food supplies. Police warned motorists off highways, still clogged with abandoned vehicles. "Some people are having trouble even finding their cars under the snow, let alone driving them," a road services spokesman said. In Ankara, authorities told people to stay home with their windows shut because of a gaseous cloud of sulfuric acid created by pollution and a thermal inversion -- trapped layers of cold and warm air. Similar inversions over London in 1952 and 1962 caused more than 4,400 deaths, officials said. === Page 66 of 278 UFOs 100% Attack # Deadly freeze grips South; toll hits 65 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press An invasion of arctic weather that has killed at least 65 people pushed southward Monday, sending temperatures to record lows across Dixie. In the North, a new blizzard walloped Buffalo, N.Y., with 25 inches of snow. Some people, mostly elderly, froze to death in their homes. Schools and factories were closed in many cities from Chicago, where Sunday's temperature of minus 26 was an all-time record, to Atlanta, where Monday's minus 5 was the coldest since 1899. Travelers were stranded across parts of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania as the eastern two-thirds of the nation remained caught in one of the most severe cold waves of the century. Snow drifts as high as 6 feet rendered many Midwest highways impassable. Scattered power outages were reported in several states as generating stations became overloaded and brittle lines snapped in the cold and wind. Augusta, Ga., set an all-time record at minus 2, and readings of 5 below were posted in northeastern Mississippi. It was 2 below in Birmingham, Ala., with Pensacola, Fla., recording an 8. The 15 at Houston was the coldest there in 30 years. Florida citrus groves escaped serious damage, with temperatures in the upper 20s and 30s through the middle of the state, but a dangerous freeze was expected during the night. John L. Jackson Jr., an agricultural extension agent in Lake County in the heart of the citrus belt, said, "People are doing a lot of praying, basically. "If the forecast proves accurate, it could be grim. We're facing the very real possibility that a lot of trees may be killed." Among the latest victims of the cold weather was 92-year-old Janie L. Shephard, who froze to death Monday in her home in Selma, Ala. Coroner Kenneth Lawrence said a butane tank had run out of gas and that the house had only one small electric heater. In St. Louis, an 81-year-old man was found dead in his apartment, apparently the victim of hypothermia, or subnormal body temperature. Rescue workers said liquids found in the apartment were frozen solid. In Columbus, Miss., a 92-year-old woman was found frozen to death in her home Monday afternoon. The examining doctor said, "There was ice on the body," according to Lowndes County Coroner Don Harris. In Illinois, police said the crime rate dropped sharply as felons stayed home to keep warm. Eight Illinois deaths were blamed on hypothermia. Since Saturday, when the harsh cold moved in, weather-related deaths -- including traffic fatalities, heart attacks and exposure -- have been reported in 21 states. Eight deaths were reported in Illinois; seven in Iowa; six each in Michigan and North Carolina; five each in Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana; three each in West Virginia and Ohio; two each in Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland and South Carolina; and one each in Nebraska, Connecticut, Alabama, Missouri, Florida, Virginia and Mississippi. At least two other people were missing and presumed dead in Virginia. Meanwhile, a snowstorm with winds gusting to 60 mph and compared to the blizzard of 1977 dumped more than 2 feet of snow on western New York state and stranded thousands of travelers in the Buffalo area. The 25.3 inches was a record for a 24-hour period, which ended at 1 p.m. Monday. Snow was still falling Monday night. Police officers and firefighters tied lifelines around their waists to lead 18 people to safety from an elevated highway in downtown Buffalo. "It was like something out of a fairy tale," said Cathy Green, 21, of Albany, N.Y., whose car was forced off a highway at Fredonia, N.Y. "You couldn't see anything but white. It was like floating through white clouds. We couldn't even see the end of the car." About 200 hockey fans spent the night in Memorial Auditorium, 300 were stranded at the Buffalo airport when all flights were canceled Sunday night, 300 were isolated at a nearby ski resort, and about 80 slept in a movie theater. UFOs 100% attack United Press International ICED IN -- Marie Recek finds her in Jupiter, Fla. where rare frigid === Page 67 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Crippling ice, snow play havoc in Dixie By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 1/13/82 A major storm Tuesday spread ice and snow across the South from Texas to Georgia, turning highways into skating rinks on the heels of a cold wave that has killed at least 111 people and devastated Florida's billion-dollar citrus crop. Sleet or snow fell in a 1,200-mile swath from Del Rio, Texas, across Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, forcing schools and offices to close and causing hundreds of traffic accidents in Southern cities ill-prepared for arctic weather. Natural gas and electricity ran short, water pipes burst, and many highways had to be blocked off because of ice in such unlikely places as New Orleans. Rush hour in cities from Dallas to Atlanta found streets impassable as vehicles couldn't navigate on the ice. Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen called up one unit of the National Guard, put the rest on standby and ordered all state agencies to be prepared for a disaster. "We expect the worst winter weather that north Louisiana has seen since it began reporting weather information," said Don Bollinger, secretary of the Public Safety Department. "People are in a lot of danger there." In the heart of Dixie, Atlanta's downtown area was jammed as streets were blocked by motorists unable to cope with slippery pavement. Some cars ran out of gas as drivers waited for service station openings in the traffic jam. Four police cars were wrecked in Corpus Christi, Texas, as officers worked to block off icy streets and highways, and in Houston police instituted foot patrols for the first time since the 1950s. Houston firefighters had 243 calls in a 24-hour period -- 115 more than normal. Most were home fires involving space heaters, officials said. "We've got cars iced up and bridges iced over," said Steve Dickerson, a spokesman for the mayor's office in Gulfport, Miss., on the Gulf Coast. "I can't remember when it was quite this bad. People down here are just not used to this ice." Police in New Orleans, harried by multicar smashups all over the city, urged drivers not to even report minor accidents. The 24-mile bridge across Lake Pontchartrain was closed because of the ice, as were several stretches of Interstate 10. Many schools in Tennessee closed as roads became hazardous and some businesses and state offices closed as people went home early to beat the storm's The freeze in Florida pushed temperatures far below records set in a cold snap a year ago, causing "extensive and widespread" damage to the citrus and vegetable crops. Last year's mid-January freeze left $500 million in damage to the state's crops. Many Florida growers spent the night in the groves burning smudge pots and old tires in an effort to save their oranges and grapefruit. Temperatures dropped to 16 degrees near Ocala, 22 degrees in Daytona Beach and 23 degrees in Orlando in the heart of the citrus belt. Citrus damage was "very extensive and widespread," said Mark Belcher of the Florida Citrus Mutual. Most of Florida reported record low temperatures for the date, ranging from 14 in Tallahassee to 33 in Miami. West Palm Beach had its coldest morning in five years at 29 degrees. Elsewhere in the South: -- Two Louisiana utilities pleaded with customers to reduce their consumption of electricity or see it cut off. -- A shortage of pipeline capacity in Texas forced curtailments of natural gas to schools and factories, forcing school closures in wide areas of the state. -- Forecasters were warning of a "major and crippling ice storm" in central Alabama, with accumulation heavy enough to bring down tree limbs and power lines. -- As temperatures dipped into the teens in Jackson, Miss., water pipes burst in dozens of homes and businesses. The basement of City Hall was flooded, and leaking pipes damaged computers and soaked ceilings and carpets in the downtown federal building. -- Schools were closed across Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. In other parts of the nation, temperatures dipped below zero across the northern Plains, the upper Mississippi Valley and the northern Atlantic Coast States. Warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, riding up over the cold air in the South, was expected to bring freezing rain and snow up the Eastern Seaboard. Winter storm warnings were issued for Wednesday as far north as New York. Buffalo, N.Y., was digging out from a record 24-hour snowfall of 28 inches, and hundreds of miles of roads were closed in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. Associated Press Laserphoto COLD SNAP -- A newspaper vendor in St. Petersburg, Fla., scrunches up against cold as an out-of-town headline says it's even worse up north. UFOs 100X Attack CHILLY ROMANCE: With Britain reeling from its worst weather in living memory, the announcement came from Oldbury, England, that Philip Snow, 21, will marry Julia Winter, 19, sometime next year. "To stop all the jokes," Miss Winter said frostily, "neither of us likes the cold." As the song title goes, maybe their love will keep them warm. oreg 1/13/82 UFOs 100X Attack # 6 states feel quake BOSTON (AP) -- The third moderate earthquake to hit southeastern Canada in three days rattled dishes and rocked buildings Monday across a six-state stretch of New England. "The entire building was shaking" said Dennis Scheyer, who works at an advertising agency on Boston's Lewis Wharf. "We went to the middle portion and watched different portions of the building shake, including lamps." oreg 1/12/82 === Page 68 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Eastern Canada wakes to quake By The Associated Press oreg 1/10/82 A sharp earthquake that "sounded like thunder" jolted residents of eastern Canada awake Saturday morning, rattling dishes and shaking furniture as far south as Connecticut. It was the first significant quake in the area in more than a century. The National Earthquake Center said the quake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, which is strong enough to cause considerable damage, but no injuries or major damage were reported. It was followed about three hours later by an aftershock with a 4.9 magnitude. Don Finley, a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the aftershock was felt at about the same location as the quake. He said earthquake center officials received some reports of minor structural damage at Presque Isle and Caribou, Maine. It was the first significant quake to hit the area since Feb. 8, 1855, Finley said. The 7:54 a.m. EST tremor lasted 30 seconds and was centered in a sparsely populated area near New Brunswick, about 180 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine. The quake was felt from Newfoundland in the north to Prince Edward Island in the east and south through New England. In Canada, it was felt in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa. UFOs 100X attack # The world oreg 1/11/82 # Storm toll rises to 13 LONDON (AP) -- Wales virtually was cut off from the rest of Britain Sunday as wind-whipped snow blockaded rural towns and villages behind 12-foot snowdrifts. The lowest temperature of the century in Britain was recorded in a village in the Scottish Highlands. In England, searchers found the body of a 73-year-old man who set out through snowdrifts to feed a half-dozen sheep and cattle about a mile from his home. Police said he apparently died of a heart attack. Elsewhere, they found the body of a 71-year-old widow in a river near the Derbyshire town of New Mills. Their deaths raised to 13 the number killed in the British Isles by the winter storm during the past three days. Other casualties included six men lost at sea in two capsizings, two men who died trying to free their cars from snow, a couple killed in a storm-related car crash and an 87-year-old woman burned to death as she tried to get more warmth from an industrial heater. In the Scottish village of Braemar, about 60 miles west of Aberdeen, the thermometer fell Sunday to minus 16 degrees Fahrenheit, matching the record set in 1895 -- also in Braemar. # Wind chill stings Midwest, East Picture on Page A10 By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 1/11/82 The coldest day of the 20th century for much of the Midwest found travelers stranded in blinding blizzards and thousands left without power Sunday in wind chills as low as 90 degrees below zero. "This is a real emergency," declared Mayor Jane Byrne in Chicago, where the mercury dropped to minus 26, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Windy City. The wind-chill factor was minus 81. At least 11 deaths were blamed on the weather over the weekend, and in western New York state, where 2 feet of snow fell, the Onondaga County sheriff's department resumed a search for a 22-year-old hiker. Commonwealth Edison said up to 50,000 Chicagoans were left without electricity as wires became brittle and snapped in the extreme cold. The Chicago Building Department said it was getting 100 calls an hour from apartment dwellers complaining of no heat. Blood banks reported shortages of some rare blood types, apparently because many donors were staying at home out of the weather. Chicago firefighters, their faces and coats covered by ice, fought four extra-alarm blazes, including one that killed two people and another that injured 22 firefighters from the smoke and exposure. Officials said water from hoses froze instantly when it hit the buildings. Chicago's public and parochial schools did not plan to open Monday. Mrs. Byrne said city buses would be kept idling overnight to ensure they would run in the morning. One Chicago man found dead Saturday apparently froze to death on a fire escape. Three people died when their snowmobiles went through ice on a western Michigan lake. Exposure or accident deaths among motorists mounted, with one each in Kentucky, North Carolina and Connecticut and two each in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Across the Midwest, the East and deep into Dixie, temperature records fell in dozens of cities. Utility lines were down across broad areas. Roads were blocked by wind-blown snow that halted snowplows and forced motorists to abandon their cars. An Iowa utility said demand for natural gas to heat homes threatened to exceed the supply. "People will just not believe that travel conditions are as bad as they are," said Mark Campbell, a spokesman for the state patrol in Iowa, where ground blizzards and temperatures of minus 21 were common and snowplows gave up trying to keep the roads open during the night. "They've taking their lives in their own hands if they drive." In Salt Lake City, officials blamed extreme cold and a lack of food in the mountains for an unusual number of deer wandering into the city. A blizzard in northern Indiana trapped 53 people on a bus, and they spent the night with 54 other motorists who took shelter in a state police barracks near South Bend. The Wisconsin State Patrol said most roads in the state were piled with drifting snow. Interstate 43 between Milwaukee and Green Bay was closed in the southbound lane. Roads also were strewn with abandoned cars in Ohio, where up to a foot of new snow fell Sunday. The National Weather Service said the surge of Arctic air would push deep into Florida during the night, with a hard freeze forecast for two-thirds of the state, including the citrus belt. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was the coldest place in the nation Sunday, with a minus 36 that was 9 degrees below that city's record for the date. The minus 25 at Milwaukee tied the all-time record set in 1875. UFOs Projects # Thousands marooned YORK, England (AP) -- Scores of British troops patrolled the 2,000-year-old cathedral city of York in boats Wednesday, struggling to reach thousands of people marooned by the city's worst flooding in three decades. Floodwaters as high as 8 feet blocked 40 streets in the walled city of 100,000 people in northern England. Schools, stores and offices were closed for a second day. Police, on 24-hour alert to guard against looting, described the situation as critical. === Page 69 of 278 UFOs 100X Attack # Rail snag adds to British woe By JEFF BRADLEY oreg 1/14/82 LONDON (AP) -- The British capital was choked with 500 miles of traffic jams Wednesday in a commuter nightmare caused by a nationwide rail strike and the coldest winter weather since 1947. But plucky Britons traveled by car, bus, and even roller skates to get to work, and some dedicated brokers spent the night on camp beds at the London Stock Exchange, where there was a full turnout. "We heard of one man hitching a lift on the back of a postman's bike and of another who roller-skated into the City of London all the way from his Surrey home," said a spokesman for Britain's Automobile Association. "People have been inventive -- and it's paid off." Police said three people died Wednesday in traffic accidents on fogbound British highways and one municipal worker was killed by a road-salting machine in Derbyshire, raising to at least 21 the number of weather-related deaths since last Friday, the start of a two-day winter snowstorm that swept across central Europe. Twenty trucks and cars piled up in freezing fog on a highway near Oxford, police said, but no one was killed. The AA reported "diabolical" driving conditions around snow-covered London, with individual traffic jams up to seven miles long and a total of 500 miles of congestion. British Rail's 7,000-mile network was halted by a 48-hour strike, which began at midnight Tuesday in a dispute over pay and productivity involving 25,000 engineers. It was the first national rail strike since 1955, although less extensive labor disruptions have been frequent. The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen accused the state-owned railroad of reneging on an agreement to pay members an additional 3 percent this month. The drivers earn an average $266 a week. British Rail said the extra money was conditional on the engineers agreeing to flexible working hours. Two other rail unions accepted the productivity deal and are getting the extra pay, but the engineers did not accept the agreement's main feature -- flexible hours. ASLEF leader Ray Buckton apologized to British Rail's 2 million daily passengers but said the strike would be repeated Jan. 20-21 and could become an indefinite stoppage if his men did not get the raises. Referring to British Rail Chairman Sir Peter Parker, he said, "All Sir Peter has to do is keep his side of the bargain and pay the 3 percent." But Parker, facing losses of $11.3 million a day during the strike, said: "We would never have moved on pay unless we understood and believed we could go forward on productivity." London hotels reported a brisk trade. "Business is booming. We were booked out last night and expect it to be the same today," said manager Alan Bostock at the Bonnington Hotel in Southampton Row. Elsewhere across Europe, severe winter weather continued to take its toll. A 20-year-old man was killed in Bavaria when his car skidded on ice and crashed into an oncoming vehicle. The temperature fell to minus 15 Fahrenheit at the U.S. Army's Grafenwoehr training camp in northern Bavaria. Two brothers died of asphyxiation and four others were hospitalized in Dublin after a series of gas leaks caused by the extreme cold, authorities said. In Sweden, railway officials reported collisions between trains and moose emerging onto the tracks from the deep forest snow. UFOs 100 X Attack # 6-day freeze in Europe claims 53 oreg J 1/14/82 LONDON (UPI) -- Europe emerged the loser Thursday from a six-day battle with nature that claimed at least 53 lives and left a multimillion-dollar trail of destruction across England and the continent. As a slow thaw settled in, reports of more deaths trickled in from isolated communities, and traffic accidents on fog-shrouded and ice-covered roads Wednesday claimed more victims. In Poland there was continued widespread flooding. In West Germany, where Frankfurt's snowplows were breaking down from overwork, the death toll reached 12 with the latest four victims Wednesday all killed in weather-related traffic accidents. In Dublin, Ireland, two brothers aged 20 and 8 died from gas leaks in their home. Dozens of other Dubliners were hospitalized for treatment of weather-related illnesses. An elderly couple was found dead in their Beith, England, home Wednesday and investigators said they apparently suffocated when they left a gas stove burning after sealing doors and windows. Car crashes on Britain's slick and foggy roads killed two more people and a man died in Derbyshire from injuries received when he became entangled in the machinery of a salt-spreading truck. Four died in earlier traffic accidents. Officials in Switzerland said at least 20 people died in avalanches and weather-related traffic accidents during the week. The forestry service in Baden-Wuerttemberg said snow and ice caused $20 million in damage to trees in the Black Forest. In London, the British Insurance Association said it was too early to estimate damage from the six-day onslaught of freezing winds and snow, but indicated it would surpass last month's tab of $75.2 million. === Page 70 of 278 # Midwest temperatures plunge By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press UFOs 100x Attack 1/10/82 A blast of "extremely dangerous" arctic air stunned the Midwest with wind chills reaching 80 degrees below zero Saturday, and foot-deep snows fell on some cities as the deep freeze spread eastward. "Prepare for the worst," warned Jack May of the National Weather Service in Cleveland, where up to 10 inches of new snow had fallen as the mercury plummeted. On the bright side, forecasters said there would be sunny skies in San Francisco for Sunday's National Football Conference title game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. But in Cincinnati, where the Bengals will meet the San Diego Chargers for the American Conference championship, the forecast called for temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees with a wind-chill factor of 30 below. In the West, road crews were trying to reach the remainder of about 3,000 people who had been stranded a week by a snowfall up to 10 feet deep in the Sierra Nevada south of Lake Tahoe. But authorities abandoned a search for a 23-year-old man believed buried by an avalanche in the area five days earlier. And in Northern California, where 26 people died in last week's storm that loosed devastating mudslides, another man was killed Friday night in Scotts Valley when a tractor he was using to clear logs from his property toppled over. On the other side of the continent, in western New York state, sheriff's deputies using snowmobiles, a helicopter and trained dogs searched for a hiker who disappeared just before a powerful squall dumped 34 inches of snow on Onondaga County. Across the Midwest, where temperatures Saturday dropped as low as 48 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn., with a wind-chill factor of 70 below, the intense cold was the main concern. The wind-chill factor is a calculation weather experts use to describe the combined effects of wind and cold temperatures. Gusts of 41 mph in Fargo, N.D., made the temperature of 19 below feel like 80 below, the weather service said. There were blizzard conditions in eastern North Dakota, western Minnesota and most of South Dakota. North Dakota motorists were warned to carry survival kits if they had to brave the open roads. In Wisconsin, temperatures Saturday ranged from 12 below at Milwaukee to 27 below at Superior. Authorities in Merton reported that an elderly man froze to death Friday when he lost the key to his home in the snow. Waukesha County Coroner Donald J. Eggum said Walter J. Hockmuth, 70, was found stuck in a window in an attempt to climb into the house. Minnesotans were told to expect readings of 20 below to 40 below Saturday night and highs of 2 below to 15 below Sunday. Late Saturday, roads around Marshall in southwestern Minnesota were closed because of blowing snow and visibility of less than 100 feet, officials said. Maintenance crews also were ordered off the roads. The Minnesota American Automobile Association said Saturday that it was handling 300 to 400 calls an hour from motorists whose cars quit running in the intense cold. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, where it was 17 below, dozens of cars were stalled along freeways. About 1,500 residents of Munster and Highland in northern Indiana were without power for two hours Saturday morning as temperatures hovered about the zero mark. A spokesman for the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. blamed the outage on a combination of ice on transformers and an extra demand for heat. With strong northerly winds roaring in from Canada, temperatures were generally below zero from Montana to Upper Michigan and northern New England. The forecast called for the subzero cold to spread Saturday night, with Chicago destined for a minus 25. # Killer freeze still grips British Isles, Europe UFOs 100x Attack By ANDREW WARSHAW LONDON (AP) -- Bitter cold and a heavy snow gripped the British Isles for a second day Saturday, bringing mid-winter misery to motorists and isolating several towns and villages. At least 11 people were known to have died in the snowstorms. It was the same across much of Europe, where severe flooding was reported. In Britain, rescue workers fought throughout the day to free more than 1,000 drivers who took their chances on the icy roads and lost. In Somerset, police got so fed up with motorists ignoring their danger warnings that they erected giant snowballs at access roads to prevent cars getting through to the expressways. Engineers worked in the bitter cold to restore power to 13,000 homes in South Wales after cables were snapped by heavy snow and high winds. The roof of Cardiff's largest concert hall, the Sophia Gardens Pavilion, collapsed under the weight of the snow, but no one was hurt. On the railways, timetables were virtually abandoned. Snow drifts of up to 15 feet had to be cleared on some lines in the English midlands. Air travel was also severely affected, and travelers faced long delays at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Weathermen said the unseasonable cold would last until Monday or Tuesday. The snow was expected to give way to clearer skies and even lower temperatures. In Sweden, the temperature dropped to minus 43 degrees Fahrenheit. An elderly couple froze to death outside their villa west of Stockholm. Polar cold gripped much of the Soviet Union as temperatures in Moscow hovered at minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit. Cars and buses crawled along, trains ran hours behind schedule and Moscow's streetcar system was disrupted by snow on the tracks. In Poland, four northern provinces were hit by a winter storm, rendering a 25-mile stretch of highway impassable, according to a dispatch from the East German news agency. Ferry routes were disrupted among Denmark's 400 islands when the freeze. === Page 71 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Wind-powered generators wrecked by 80 mph gusts LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) -- The city's new "wind farm" experienced some crop failure after gusts estimated at more than 80 mph destroyed two wind-powered electrical generators. The high winds Thursday blew down one of the city's four generators, and an experimental machine owned by Montana Power Co. "The Montana Power one is pretty much all destroyed except the tower, and the city's is pretty much all destroyed," said Paul Laird of Multi-Tech in Butte, which is supervising the city's wind farm. The MPC generator was erected 20 months ago, and the four city generators went into operation Dec. 22. Laird said the MPC unit has withstood strong winds since it was installed in May 1980, and all four of the city's machines stood up fine under thorough testing. "The wind was very high the night before," Laird said. "It might have been something strange, a swirling wind like a tornado or something, except you don't have tornadoes in the winter time. Possibly there were some very strange wind currents." He said there were indications the wind was blowing at more than 80 mph just before the towers blew down. UFOs 100X Attack # Search suspended for victims of storm SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Geologists surveyed this storm-devastated area Sunday to determine whether rescue crews could resume the search for at least five people still missing and feared killed by last week's mud slides. Three more bodies were pulled from the brutalized area of Ben Lomond during the weekend, pushing the storm death toll to 29, with 15 of the deaths in Santa Cruz County alone. The search was suspended Saturday night because geologists declared the region unsafe, said sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Simpson. "No crews are going out until we get the geologists' next report," Simpson said. A mud-slide area along Love Creek Road remained roped off, and occupants of at least eight houses along the edge of the slide were advised to leave. Nevertheless, the spirits of storm-weary residents were bolstered by sunny skies, moderate temperatures and forecasts of more of the same. "We're on the road to recovery here," Simpson said. "We're over the shock of it and now we realize the task we have before us." Federal Disaster Assistance Centers are to open Monday in Santa Cruz, Marin, San Mateo, Sonoma and Contra Costa counties, where at least 2,000 storm victims were expected to seek emergency aid. Federal officials declared Solano County a disaster area Saturday after Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. asked that Solano and three other counties -- San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Alameda -- be added to the federal list. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the other counties might be added later. More than 500 people were reported injured and property damage approached $300 million. At least 6,023 homes were damaged and 439 destroyed, according to Nels Rasmussen, chief administrative officer of the state Office of Emergency Services. All homes in the Santa Cruz area had water service Sunday, but the 70,000 residents in the Santa Cruz Water District were asked to cut use in half while the area's main pipeline was being repaired. Officials in Daly City just south of San Francisco were monitoring two oceanfront homes that were likely to collapse, Deputy City Manager Ray Lee Singer said Sunday. UFOs 100X Attack # Alcohol added hazard in frigid temperatures MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Alcohol can be a killer when it is mixed with extremely cold temperatures and high winds, according to Dr. Kent Schwitzer of Hennepin County Medical Center. "We advise going outside only if absolutely necessary in such weather, and not going outside at all if you have consumed any alcohol," he said. In addition to those who have been drinking, those most in peril in cold weather are the elderly, the very young, the disabled and the poorly dressed. "Alcohol is dangerous for two reasons: It impairs judgment and most people don't appreciate the fact that they ten. It also dilates the superficial blood vessels of the skin and allows you to lose heat more rapidly." His advice came Sunday when temperatures in some parts of Minnesota dropped to lower than 30 below zero. Wind-chill readings around 80 degrees below zero were common. Hypothermia -- when the core temperature of the human body drops below 94 degrees -- is the biggest danger, said Schwitzer, who is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Decreasing levels of consciousness, frozen extremities and death can occur. UFOs 100X Attack # Mild aftershocks continue WESTON, Mass. (AP) -- Scores of mild aftershocks rumbled through New England Tuesday after an earthquake that could be felt in Boston, an official said. Vladimir Vudler, the senior geophysical analyst at the Weston Observatory, said there have been more than 1,200 aftershocks since a moderate quake rattled dishes and rocked buildings across New England Monday afternoon. Vudler said most of the aftershocks measured between 1.5 and 2.5 on the Richter scale, with a few getting up to 3 or 4. An earthquake of Richter magnitude 5 is considered capable of causing considerable damage if it hits inhabited areas. "None of them could be felt in Boston," Vudler said, "but maybe six of them were felt in the extreme northeastern part of Maine." It would take a shock of at least 5 on the Richter scale for Bostonians to feel it, he said. Monday's quake was measured at 5.8 in Weston and 5.5 at the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake information center in Golden, Colo. There have been nearly 500 aftershocks since the first quake hit southeastern Canada Saturday, Vudler said. "We can expect by the end of the week to reach more than 1,000 aftershocks," he said. "They will last at least a few months." === Page 72 of 278 UFOs Attack # California storm death count reaches 26 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Rescuers used bulldozers and backhoes Friday to uncover buried homes where up to 20 people are feared dead and labored to reach dozens of people stranded along roads blocked by mudslides. The death toll from one of the worst storms in Northern California history stood at 26. The state Office of Emergency Services said 539 people had reported injuries and the damage estimate had reached $280 million. Water remained critically short throughout Santa Cruz County because of broken pipelines, but officials said voluntary conservation efforts appeared to be succeeding. "Life definitely is not back to normal," said sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Simpson. "The city government is closed, all the schools are closed. The Health Department has closed all businesses that use water, which is just about everybody. The five largest employers in the county are all closed." He said there were "about 20 roads closed with people isolated at the end of them." The death toll from the storm that dumped about a foot of rain from Sunday to Tuesday rose to 26 Friday with the discovery of the bodies of Ronald and Lee Vaughn of Orinda in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Yosemite National Park during Sunday's snow storm. But the Vaughn's 11-year-old son Donny was found alive, said Dennis McGrath, spokesman for Lemoore Naval Air Station. The boy, suffering shock and severe frost bite, was taken to a Fresno hospital. In nearby Ben Lomond, where workers recovered an unidentified man's body from the mud Thursday, heavy equipment was deployed to uncover a half-dozen homes in the Love Creek area where estimates of the number missing range from six to 20. "We may never find them," said one worker who was cutting up collapsed houses with a chain saw. "It's like playing pickup sticks in there... but there's 40 or 50 feet of debris to pull out in some places." "We're all trying to clean up and restore our lives to some comfortable level," Simpson said. "The families of the deceased are grieving and those families of still missing people are setting up a vigil in Ben Lomond." The cleanup continued throughout the 200-mile section of Northern California where the storm displaced 5,500 people, destroyed 439 homes and 60 businesses, and damaged 6,000 homes and 1,300 businesses, said Jim Watkins, chief of planning for the state emergency services office. President Reagan has declared Sonoma, Marin, Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Contra Costa counties as disaster areas, making them eligible for aid from a dozen federal agencies. In Ben Lomond, about 150 volunteers staffed telephones at the volunteer fire station and cooked food donated by local markets. The cloudless blue sky and the perfume of bay laurel and eucalyptus trees provided a stark contrast to the generally grim mood. The overnight temperature dropped into the 20s, freezing layers of mud and making it possible for residents to walk on solid ground while searching for lost possessions. "There's our bed," said Ruth Bell as she picked through the remains of her family's summer cabin. "That's where we would have been sleeping if we had been here when it happened. We are all very grateful that we weren't. That's all that we've been thinking of all day." A ban on air traffic over the 15 miles from Santa Cruz to north of Boulder Creek will continue through the weekend, said deputy Byron Hoffman. He said rescue efforts had been hampered by television helicopters flying low to get pictures. "The helicopter props were knocking down tree limbs on rescue workers, and they couldn't move because they were stuck in the mud," he said. At the worst of the storm, about 320,000 people were without power. Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswoman Jan Miller said 11,000 people were without power Friday, and she expected their service to be restored by nightfall. The county's 70,000 residents cut their water consumption from an average of 10 million gallons a day to 2 million gallons Thursday after officials limited water use to cooking and personal hygiene. "The people in Santa Cruz are tremendous," said Pat McDonald, customer service manager for Santa Cruz Municipal Utilities. "We have very, very little flak from them. They're being very cooperative. It's the spirit of cooperation that comes from a disaster, and then some." She said there were about 6 million gallons of water in Loch Lomond Reservoir, the city's main storage facility, Friday morning. "But we don't expect to run out.... We're hoping we won't." The water shortage began when the storm broke a 24-inch main that was the main feed to the reservoir, from which the city takes its water. County Administrator George Newell said it will take another six days to fix the pipe. UFOs & Projects # Break in line closes Trojan 1/10/82 RAINIER -- Operators shut down the Trojan nuclear power plant early Saturday after a steam line broke in an area not involved in nuclear activity, officials of Portland General Electric Co. reported. The break occurred in a low-pressure exhaust line shortly after 1 a.m., and the plant was shut down in "a routine manner," said Sheri Anderson, a spokeswoman for PGE, which operates the plant. Steam in the turbine building activated fire-detection equipment. The Rainier Fire Department responded, but there was no fire, she said. No one was injured. The plant will remain shut down for several days while crews repair the break and check other steam lines, Ms. Associated Press Laserphoto DISASTER -- Small town of Aptos, Calif., was one of many in Northern California coping with smashed bridges, destroyed houses and mud- and debris-choked streets and residences. === Page 73 of 278 Oregon Journal, January 9, 1982 # Midwest, East shivering in frigid subzero cold wave By United Press International Temperatures far below zero stung the nation's northern midsection and parts of the Northeast Saturday, and heavy snow fell along the southern Great Lakes. One woman was reported frozen to death. The mercury plunged to 46 degrees below zero in the northeast Minnesota town of Embarrass, and strong northerly wind drove the wind-chill factor down to 70 below. The National Weather Service said the icy cold was to reach the Northeast in what may prove to be the most severe outbreak of arctic air not only this season, but in years. Warroad, Minn., reported a high Friday of 17 degrees below zero, and in International Falls, Minn., on the U.S.-Canadian border, the high was 19 below zero, and the overnight low was 40 below. Temperatures in North Dakota and Minnesota never cracked the zero mark. A half-foot of snow shrouded parts of northeast Ohio and Indiana. Warnings were issued for an additional 8 inches in some areas and even greater amounts in the snow belt along Lake Erie. Wind gusting to 80 mph lashed Southern California, blasting out windows and part of a roof at a facility for cerebral palsy patients, sinking a fishing boat and overturning trucks. "Trucks go at their own risk and against our advice," a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. In Los Angeles, wind snapped tree limbs and downed power lines, causing temporary power outages. A high wind warning remained in effect Saturday for the upper Yellowstone Valley of Montana, where wind gusted to 70 mph. Thick early-morning fog enveloped the central California coast Friday, triggering a 33-car pileup on a highway near Delano. Several injuries were reported. A 61-year-old Little Falls, Minn., woman froze to death in 20 below temperatures Thursday outside her apartment. An attendant at an International Falls gasoline station said he received an "unbelievable" number of calls from drivers with car trouble. "We had to turn them away," he said. "Whenever it gets this cold, people aren't prepared." He also said the frigid weather forced people indoors. "You don't stay outside very long," he said. "They say it'll be 87 below by morning with the wind chill and I've got to work the morning shift. "You don't dare stay out there for more than 15 to 20 minutes," he said. United Press International FIERCE WIND -- Tow truck operator Dave Meissner leans into the wind as he tries to walk on I-15 near Fontana, Calif. The travel trailer in the background was blown over by wind gusting up to 80 mph on the second day of fierce wind that blasted through Southern California, sinking two fishing boats off the coast, shattering windows and tearing off roofs. MFOn 100X Attack 1/9/82 === Page 74 of 278 UFDa 100X Attack # newsbreak # Arctic chill grips Europe oreg T 1/9/82 An Arctic chill swept across Europe Saturday, stranding travelers, disrupting power supplies and closing schools and offices from Dublin to Moscow. In Britain -- suffering its worst winter in 18 years -- it was so cold the sea froze, in both western Scotland and off the eastern English coast. LONDON WHITEOUT -- Blizzard conditions hamper commuters during morning rush hour in London Friday. Associated Press Laserphoto UFDa 100X Attack # Freeze grips British Isles, Europe By ROBERT GLASS LONDON (AP) -- Wind-driven snow and numbing temperatures swept the British Isles from Ireland to the Scottish Highlands Friday, clogging most roads and cutting off seven English towns. At least eight people were feared dead. Across Northern Europe, frigid air, snow, and floods disrupted travel and shipping for a second day. Britons, who had been given a post-Christmas respite in the worst December weather in three decades, awoke Friday to 6 inches of snow, driven by gale force winds into drifts of 8 feet in some places. Daytime temperatures plunged to minus 11 degrees Fahrenheit in Scotland, and the sea froze off the Scottish east coast. In the 2,000-year-old city of York, a Royal Automobile Club patrolman reported ice chunks floating in the floodwaters dumped by the raging River Ouse. The city's most widely visited historic sites, including the medieval Yorkminster cathedral, are situated on higher ground and were not affected. Police said all main roads in mid-Wales were impassable. The Automobile Association said the nation's entire road network was affected by snow, ice or floodwater. Five duck hunters -- all members of the same family -- were presumed dead after their small boat got caught in a blizzard on a lake in the Irish Republic, police said. Another fisherman drowned in heavy seas off the eastern coast of England, and a man and his wife were killed in a head-on car crash blamed on the weather in Portsmouth. Western England bore the brunt of the storm, and officials said all roads in and out of seven towns were blocked. Power lines snapped under the weight of ice, cutting off electricity to 10,000 homes on the Cornwall Peninsula. In London, thousands of commuters were stranded by chaotic subway and rail service. Heathrow Airport operated only one of its two runways, and Gatwick Airport was closed. Across the English Channel, much of Northern Europe remained in the grip of icy winter weather. Subzero temperatures were reported throughout Scandinavia, and icebreakers worked around the clock to keep shipping lanes open through the Danish Straits. oreg 1/9/82 === Page 75 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Snowfall explodes mines MUNICH, West Germany (AP) -- Heavy snowfall has triggered 1,500 East German booby-trap mines along the fortified border between the West German state of Bavaria and the communist east, border police said Thursday. Sometimes, a spokesman said, a series of mines goes off, sounding like an artillery barrage. He said mines started blowing up in December after the first large snowfall. Two pounds of snow is enough to trigger the mines, the spokesman said. Few escapes from East Germany were reported during the Christmas season, usually a time when more refugees try to get through the border. Police attributed this to increased efficiency of communist fortifications, severe cold and snow, which leaves easily traced footsteps. UFOs & Projects # Flooding routs thousands JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- About 12,000 people have been evacuated from flood areas in the eastern suburbs of Jakarta, the social affairs office said Thursday. A spokesman said the banks of the were inundated by water as high as 6 several days of rain. He said the evac accommodated at family houses, schoo health clinics. oreg 1/22/82 === Page 76 of 278 UFOs 6 Projects # Midwest chilled, Floridians bask By United Press International Temperatures plunge to near zero Thursday in the nation's midsection and snow was falling from Minnesota to New England, but the Southeast - slapped with bitter cold earlier this week - basked in record heat. At least 29 people have died in storms this week. Snowstorms that had dumped 8 inches over parts of the Midwest diminished Wednesday but early Thursday more snow fell across the upper Great Lakes and northwest Minnesota. Snow and sleet also fell on sections of New England. Eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota barely struggled above zero degrees Wednesday. But temperatures hit the 70s along the south Atlantic Coast and zoomed into the record-breaking 80s over Florida, where freezing temperatures Sunday and Monday threatened citrus crops and tourism. Freezing rain pelted sections of the Northeast. The Midwest cleaned up from a fast moving storm that made a two-day sweep, dumping 8 inches of snow in Missouri and southern Illinois and leaving a half-foot of snow in southern Michigan. Heavy rain in Indianapolis flooded streets, forcing workers to spend the night clearing drains of snow and debris so water could run off before it froze. Seven inches of new snow piled on South Bend, Ind., keeping towing services busy with cars that ended up in ditches. "We were going just about all evening," said Dean Kesler, owner of a towing service. "A lot of people still haven't dug out because the snow's so wet and heavy, they can't move. It was the first shot of the winter. People are just going to have to get used to it." "They were on their way home from work or office parties and just got caught in the stuff, and weren't prepared. People were caught unexpected. It was just a mess." Freezing rain and sleet riddled Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York and New Hampshire Wednesday morning. UFOs 6 Projects # Rockies storm spurs warning of avalanches By The Associated Press A Rocky Mountain blizzard with hurricane-force winds and zero visibility prompted avalanche warnings across Colorado Sunday. Another storm dumped 14 inches of snow in Michigan. A plane trying to land during the blizzard crashed one mile east of Yampa Valley Airport near Hayden, Colo., killing all three aboard. Some mountain spots in Colorado reported 20 inches of snow overnight and 48-hour accumulations of more than 2 feet. The storm came less than a week after a series of storms left as much as 4 feet of snow in the mountains over two weeks. The U.S. Forest Service Avalanche Warning Center at Fort Collins, Colo., said the heavy snowfall and winds up to 80 mph were causing a "high to extreme avalanche hazard." "This is a dangerous avalanche situation along with the possibility of avalanches hitting highways along mountain passes," the agency said. "Some roads may be blocked by slides." "It's miserable up here," said Colorado State Patrol dispatcher Mary Upton in Idaho Springs. "We have high winds and ground blizzards along with the falling snow. If you don't have to travel up here, it would be a good idea to stay home." She said U.S. 6 over Loveland Pass was closed and motorists were required to use tire chains on many other roads. Snow also spread Sunday from eastern Michigan across western New York into New England. A band of heavy snow fell from Lansing, Mich., to just west of Alpena, with 12 to 14 inches reported in Gratiot County in the central part of the state. At Hayden, Colo., two men and a woman were killed in the crash of the twin-engine Beechcraft, which was found in a wheat field Sunday morning after volunteers failed to spot the wreckage Saturday night, Routt County Sheriff Nick DeLuca said. Ski equipment, bags full of new clothing and an empty wedding photo album were among the scattered contents from the plane, which was believed to have come from Florida, DeLuca said. "It appeared as though it had gone straight in," DeLuca said. "Both engines had dug large holes in the ground and the aircraft did not appear to move six inches after it hit. I'm sure those on board were killed on impact." DeLuca said the pilot, in contact with air traffic controllers in Denver, said he believed he was over the airport. "He said he was going to turn and make another approach when his voice cut off in midsentence," DeLuca said. In a separate incident, the storm hampered efforts by the Colorado Civil Air Patrol to locate emergency transmitter signals coming from the mountains west of Buena Vista, said CAP spokesman Richard Oakes. The search began when commercial airplanes reported hearing the emergency transmitter signals from Kansas west to Buena Vista. Oakes said there were no reports of missing airplanes in the area. He said occasionally emergency locater devices are set off accidentally in homes or from aircraft in hangars. Winter Park, Colo., reported 20 inches of snow overnight and 28 1/2 inches in the previous 24 hours. Other two-day totals were Vail Mountain, 26 inches; Steamboat Springs, 21 inches; and Monarch Ski Area, 18 inches. === Page 77 of 278 Blustery storm swells rivers, cuts power, closes roads oreg 12/16/81 A gusty wet storm that raked Western Oregon Tuesday knocked out power, brought as much as a foot of new snow to the Cascade Mountains and closed several highways. The heavy rains brought coastal and some Willamette Valley streams back to flood level, but the National Weather Service said a clearing period would permit rivers to fall before the next in a series of storms hits the state Wednesday night or Thursday. Roads were closed for varying periods in Newport on the coast, east of Reedsport in the Coast Range, and between Salem and Independence in the Willamette Valley. In Portland, a tree fell against a 115,000-volt line along Southwest Canyon Road just west of the Vista Ridge Tunnel at about 9:05 a.m., cutting off power to part of the downtown area for nearly 90 minutes. About 8,000 residents were affected by the blackout, which spanned an area from West Burnside Street on the north to Johns Landing on the south and from Sylvan on the west to the Willamette River on the east. Also in the city, PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said, about 1,000 customers between Northeast 82nd and 122nd avenues and Northeast Stark and Division streets lost power at 7:30 a.m. when the wind blew tree limbs through a feeder line. Glenn Gillespie, spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., said a feeder line on Northeast Columbia Boulevard was knocked out about 4:30 a.m., cutting off power to a few hundred residential and industrial customers for more than an hour. About 400 customers in Bandon were without power for about an hour during the night. Portland General Electric Co.'s office building was darkened briefly, as were the Marriott Hotel and Portland State University, where a couple of students were trapped in an elevator. However, no major problems were reported. The power blackout affected the operations building of U.S. National Bank in Portland, shutting down 70 automatic teller machines across the state for about 20 minutes. High winds also knocked down a 69,000-volt PP&L transmission line between Madras and Round Butte Tuesday afternoon, causing a four-hour power outage for about 4,000 customers in Madras and Warm Springs, Gillespie said. Gusts just under 40 mph were reported at Portland International Airport. Johnson Creek in Portland rose to 1 foot above flood stage Tuesday morning, but no major flooding was reported. Flood warnings were issued for the Wilson River near Tillamook, which crested at 11.3 feet Tuesday evening -- three tenths of a foot above flood stage -- and was dropping, and the Nehalem River at Foss, which was at its 13-foot flood stage and was expected to crest at 13.7 feet late Tuesday night, the weather service reported. The Coquille River at Coquille was forecast to crest at 22 feet Wednesday morning, 3½ feet above flood stage. A spokesman for the Coos County sheriff's office said lowlands were beginning to flood again but added that most residents evacuated during the major Rockies blanketed Ten lives lost in snowstorms By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 12/29/81 Snowstorms blamed for at least 10 deaths and powerful enough to shut down ski resorts left fresh snow 2 feet deep across the Rockies on Monday and sent cars and trucks spinning into ditches across the Midwest. In Colorado and Utah, blizzard conditions and the threat of avalanches stranded skiers in their lodges. "It's a nightmare," said a Trailways bus dispatcher in Oregon, where buses were running up to four hours late Sunday afternoon, partly because at least 400 cars were stalled on U.S. 26. "It's the worst conditions on Highway 26 in more than a year." Up to 5 inches of snow created treacherous driving conditions from southern Michigan across northern Illinois and Indiana into Ohio. "It's just a normal winter storm, with cars in ditches and minor accidents," said state police Sgt. Robert Southwick in Springfield, Ill. The waning days of December also brought bitter cold to some sections, with readings well below zero from Montana to Minnesota. Havre, Mont., saw the mercury plummet to 25 degrees below zero Monday morning. By contrast, Fort Myers, Fla., had its warmest Dec. 28 on record, topping 85 degrees at noon, and Lake Charles, La., chalked up a record 76. Elsewhere, patches of dense fog that extended from southern Florida into Delaware disrupted at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, the nation's busiest. Gerrie Cook of the Aviation Administration said only a few scheduled early morning flights -- were able to land. Three vacationers were killed Sunday when their car skidded on blinding snow and collided with a truck near Limon, Colo. In Utah, authorities said three people died in weather-related traffic accidents. In Montana, a 55-year-old man died of exposure after his car became stuck in a snowdrift near the town of Opheim. In Michigan, a 64-year-old man collapsed and died while blowing snow from his driveway. At least 200 skiers were stranded Monday at the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts because the threat of avalanches forced officials to close the only road into the area, about 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Authorities said it was uncertain when the road would be reopened. Packy Longfellow, manager of a $25,000 to $100,000-a-week ski package tours were "on hold." "It's frustrating because the conditions and people can't get to them," he said. "This week especially is the biggest week of the ski season in terms of revenue." Schools shut after outages CHICAGO (AP) -- School officials ordered 20 West Side schools closed Wednesday because of power failures that have darkened classrooms intermittently since Monday. Many parents said schools should be shut because fire alarm and sprinkler systems worked only part of the time as utility officials initiated a "rolling brownout" Monday whereby many users had electricity, then didn't, for two-hour periods. Pupils ate lunches cooked with gas by the light of flickering candles in some schools Tuesday and high school students found their way to class through blackened corridors where "anything" could happen, said Doris Payne, spokeswoman for schools Superintendent Ruth B. Love. Power to an eight-square-mile section of the West Side has been crippled since 10 a.m. Monday, when two of three transformers failed. Commonwealth Edison Co. officials had hoped to restore power by Monday night, but the burned-out transformers had not been replaced with a portable unit as of early Wednesday. Some industries closed and others reduced operations. oreg 12/3/81 === Page 78 of 278 UFOs 6 Projects Org 5 12/31/81 TYPHOON DAMAGE -- Government troops search wreckage of a barracks in Catarman, Philippines, Wednesday in wake of Typhoon Lee, which struck the town located about 280 miles southeast of Manila. The typhoon ripped through central Philippines, killing at least 185 people, according to reports. United Press International UFOs 6 Projects Org 1/6/82 RP DE SIG MARTIN CAMBRONNE TROCADERO CONCORDE X PRECARIOUS PARIS PERCH -- A Parisian finds walking his dog a little tricky on the flooded quais of the Seine River in view of the Eiffel Tower. The river reportedly was receding Tuesday. Associated Press Laserphoto === Page 79 of 278 UFO 6 Projects # Six skiers rescued as ice grips state WASHINGTON Oreg 1/6/82 By SCOTTA CALLISTER of The Oregonian staff A search for two skiers in the Siskiyou Mountains was successful Tuesday as icy, snowy conditions continued to cause traffic problems, school closures and power outages in Oregon. The Jackson County sheriff's office organized a search near the Mount Ashland ski area for Aaron D. Cox, 22, and his wife Virginia, 20, of Ashland. The two were reported missing Tuesday after they failed to return from a one-day ski trip Sunday. Rescue crews elsewhere reported happy endings to two other searches in the state. Four cross-country skiers missing since Sunday night in the Three Fingered Jack area of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness were rescued by helicopter at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, said Sgt. Loran Davis of the Linn County sheriff's office. A crew from the 304th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron found the skiers near a shelter off the Skyline Trail and took them to Ski Bowl. Searchers said the four made camp Sunday after becoming lost in the area, where heavy snowfall over the weekend contributed to a total of about 13 feet of snow. A separate search ended Monday after a family from the remote Owyhee River Canyon in Eastern Oregon notified authorities that they were not lost, as had been reported earlier. The couple and two children were the subject of an air search during which a helicopter went down with engine trouble. The five crewmen on the Idaho Air National Guard helicopter were in good condition when they were rescued Monday, according to Malheur County sheriff's deputies. The family was reported missing after failing to arrive at Jordan Valley after leaving the remote ranch. They told police they had stayed with friends, however. Meanwhile, Oregon State Police continued to report icy conditions on highways across the state as temperatures plummeted Tuesday night. Trooper Tom Jeleniewski of the Portland said no reported an area, skidding is froze. stay at day, where highs were expected to be in the 30s and lows in the teens. The storm that brought snow to most of the state had moved on toward Colorado and Utah, according to forecaster Rob Nordberg. The storm prompted school closures in the Portland metropolitan area and created icy road conditions that led to several minor bus accidents Tuesday. Phill Colombo, Tri-Met spokesman, said no one was injured when a Tri-Met bus struck a utility pole at Northeast 102nd Avenue and Prescott Street early Tuesday. The mishap caused a power outage to about 1,200 homes for about two hours. Buses also skidded into ditches at two other locations Tuesday, but no injuries were reported. Colombo said all Tri-Met buses would be equipped with tire chains Wednesday because of the snow and ice in outlying areas. Meanwhile, utility crews worked late to restore power to areas where snow and fallen trees had interrupted service. Dave Eagon, Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, said power should be restored Wednesday morning to customers in the Hoodland and Estacada areas. Leonard Bacon, Pacific Power & Light Co. spokesman, said power was restored to Grants Pass customers who lost power over the weekend. Repair work was still "touch and tuck" in the Junction City said. UFO 6 Projects # East's bitter weather clogs roads, takes life By The Associated Press Oreg 12/11/81 More than a foot of snow choked roads in the mountains of Maryland and West Virginia Thursday as biting cold sent temperatures plunging to near zero in parts of the Northeast and Midwest. At least one death, that of an old woman who died of exposure in New Jersey, was blamed on the latest bout of bitter winter weather. Some schools in western Maryland were forced to close because of the snow. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, the Coast Guard was kept busy rescuing sailors unprepared for treacherous gales and high waves. Four inches of snow fell overnight on northeastern Ohio and Marquette, Mich., while snowdrifts grew higher in upstate New York. Fulton, N.Y., reported 17 inches of snow on the ground Thursday. Seven inches of snow fell on Rochester, N.Y., as the mercury dipped into the teens. Although no serious traffic accidents were reported in upstate New York, state trooper Paul Kelly said: "People are just trying to move too fast for conditions. It's like 'The Gong Show' out there. One car gets in trouble, and the rest of them pile into each other." Subzero temperatures froze parts of northern Minnesota. International Falls, nicknamed the "icebox of the nation," reported an early morning temperature of 3 below zero. In New Jersey, temperatures warmed only a few degrees after a day of highs in the 20s and 30s and winds gusting up to 40 mph. At midafternoon Thursday, Newark reported 37 and Atlantic City 34. Transportation and utility officials reported few problems from the gusty wind and cold, but police said the frigid temperatures contributed to a 93-year-old woman who apparently wandered from her home in a housecoat, scarf, sweater and slippers. Anna Hipolit, found early Wednesday by a neighbor in the community of South Bound Brook, died of exposure, said Detective Howard Bozinta. UFO 6 Projects # Snow cuts power to areas on coast DEPOE BAY - Several hundred households in the Depoe Bay, Siletz and Lincoln Beach areas were without power Friday and most of Saturday after a main power line transformer blew out and another high voltage line snapped under the weight of snow. Power was fully restored by about 5 p.m. Saturday, said Norm Berg, senior systems engineer for the Central Lincoln Public Utility District. The original transformer problem was corrected Friday night, but overloads put the main line out of commission again Saturday, said Linda McGuire, utility district assistant office manager. Early Saturday, more outages occurred when snow dragged down a main line, Ms. McGuire said. Oreg 1/3/82 === Page 80 of 278 UFOr 6 Projects Heavy floods threaten Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (UPI) - Torrential monsoon rains lashed Malaysia and Singapore for the fifth consecutive day, driving hundreds of people from their homes, relief officials said Wednesday. High winds swept the heaviest rains since 1975 across the northeastern Malay-" sian state of Trengganu and the southern state of Johore, each about 250 miles from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. Floodwaters inundated main trunk roads to the provincial capitals, stalling hundreds of vehicles. Police warned vil- lagers along the Johore River to prepare for evacuation immediately. oreg 5 12/6/81 UFO2 6 Projects Rains strike Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Three days of heavy rains in south-cen- tral Brazil have killed at least 15 people and left more than 3,800 homeless, civil derense and police authorities said Mon- day. The victims were mostly residents of hillside shantytown slums, who died in mudslides or were crushed beneath their shacks, according to state police. org ,15 82 Oregon Journal, December 10, 1981 Worst drought in 100 years hurting millions in Spain UFOR 6 Projects ALMENDRALEJO, Spain (UPI) - "This is not soil, it's dust. - Fausto Lopez, a small farmer in Spain's frought-stricken south, let his mule rest Ind picked up brown dry earth. He watched it rickle between his fingers. Lopez and. millions of peo- Te in the arid update: spain Spanish south are living through the worst drought in 100 years. Statistically, Very square yard needs 32 gallons of rain low or the area's vital vines and olive rees will die - leaving the regions of Extremadura, Andalusia and the center of Spain without most of its income. "Two rainless years have cut wine and Hive yields in half this season. Overall lamage to crops, cereals and livestock is stimated by the agricultural ministry at- $1.5 billion, In hundreds of villages throughout the red-and-yellow-earth south, wells have run dry. Drinking water is trucked in and portioned out in daily rations ... "If it doesn't rain before Christmas, the Vines and olive trees will produce no new blooms next spring. This means disaster," jaid Juan Pabon, mayor of Almendralejo, a town of 22,000 in the hills near the Portuguese border. "No rain means no crop. No crop means no work, the total ruin of this area," he said. For the 1.5 million people of Seville, capital of Andalusia, water has been cut to seven hours a day. Water reserves are down to 27 percent of capacity through- out the country compared with nearly 60 percent last year. The south, dry for centuries, has learned to live with water scarcity. But now even game wardens join the cry of farmers and town supply planners. "Migrating birds were the lucky ones this year," said Pedro Molina, director of a nature reserve in the south central Ciudad Real region. "Unlike other animals, they could leave when they saw there was no Antonio Jara, mayor of Granada, pre- dicts "a catastrophe will be on our hands by Christmas unless water is severely ra- tioned all over." Patience is a chief virtue for fa working the parched land in the But now tempers are running as earth baked hard under a merciless sky. Rain dances from pre-Christian are reportedly performed in remote of Extremadura, the southwest. named for its "very hard" soil. Along Andalusia's coast, house graffiti cries in illogical despair: Franco it rained." But Madrid authorities promise a million dollar relief plan to feed sheep and goats and to replenish supplies if rain doesn't fall before tl of the year. "We need wells and more irri canals," said Julio Hernandez, a worker in Almendralejo. He showed itor the "pitifully small olives of the son." In the Caceres region southwest drid, 67 townships and villages g new wells in a government drive, ing at least another 2 months of wales some 80,000 people. United Press International BONE DRY - The bottom of the "But the wine and the olives wi Oliana reservoir in northern Spain apr drought of the century continues to to more than 50 percent," said pears completely dry as the worst, linger over the country .- Barro, a farmers' spokesman. "Fo year runs from September to September, so we are really entering our third drought season " The situation was deemed so serious the primate of Spain, Cardinal Marcelo Gon- zalez Martin, recently led a procession of faithful through the medieval streets of Toledo in prayers for rain, dusting off age-old rites in the Catholic Church. === Page 81 of 278 UFOs & Projects Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Wednesday, December 9, 1981 # Another storm staggers New England The second snowstorm in three days hit New England yesterday, forcing the rescue of hikers from snowy mountains and boaters from stormy seas. Another storm expected to dump more than a half-foot of snow began its assault from New York to the Great Lakes. At least 20 people have been killed in bad weather on both coasts since the weekend. The New England blizzard was blamed for nine deaths. Another four deaths were blamed on Northwest rains and six deaths were blamed on Southern California fog. The 20th victim was James Ridgeway, 24, drowned yesterday near Meadville, Pa., when his car spun off icy U.S. 19 and plunged into a creek. More rain soaked the water-logged Pacific Northwest. Thick fog blanketed California for the fourth straight morning, temporarily closing Los Angeles International Airport. Between 2 and 6 inches of snow blanketed the Lake Erie snowbelt east of Cleveland. Five inches of snow blown by 25 mph winds blanketed parts of western Maryland. ### More to come "The wind keeps blowing, and that's the bad thing about it," said a Maryland state police spokesman. "The roads are real icy, and now it's getting colder." Warnings for more than a half-foot of snow were posted for parts of northern Pennsylvania and up to 5 inches of snow in western New York. Gale force winds and snow squalls were expected to bluster across the Great Lakes. Heavy to moderate snowfalls also were forecast for the Ohio Valley. By early evening, the upstate New York cities of Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Rochester received about an inch of snow. Binghamton reported 3 inches. Heavy snow spread into northern Indiana, reducing visibility to one-quarter mile along parts of the Indiana Toll Road, especially from Elkhart to LaPorte. Up to 4 inches of snow was forecast. It was predicted another 1 to 4 inches of snow would fall across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island by late yesterday. Up to 15 inches of snow fell in the weekend blizzard, which was the worst storm to hit New England since February 1978. Near Lincoln, N.H., a helicopter lifted two Connecticut men who had been stranded in the White Mountains since Friday. Robert Newman, 20, of Redding, Conn., and Pierre Garofallo, 17, of Easton, Conn., were transported to Littleton Hospital, New Hampshire Air National Guard Capt. Henry Mock said. One of the hikers required medical attention for frostbite, he said. "What must have happened is that they got caught in that snow storm and they holed up in that shelter and they stayed there," Mock said. "It was the smartest thing they could've done, just sat and waited." Seven people were plucked from sinking boats in the storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean. There were no deaths or serious injuries. The Coast Guard said 40-foot waves and 75 mph winds produced by the recent storm that raked New England made the ocean treacherous, particularly for light vessels. UFOs & Projects # Weather blamed for deaths of 15 By DAVID I. LANGFORD of The Associated Press oreg 12/8/81 New England schoolchildren got a holiday in knee-deep snow Monday, blinding fog shrouded Southern California, and floodwaters washed through Oregon as authorities counted at least 15 deaths blamed on the weather since the weekend. Boston spent its last dollar budgeted to plow snow for the entire winter as crews worked to open roads clogged by a blizzard that fooled weathermen late Saturday and dumped up to 2½ feet of snow across eastern New England. Eight persons died in the region. Two of the four runways at Boston's Logan International Airport were reopened by Monday afternoon, after snow and high winds forced the airport to shut down Sunday. On Nantucket Island, Mass., a whale beached during the storm was airlifted by helicopter Monday to Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn. The Atlantic long-finned pilot whale was the only survivor among 14 whales that swam onto Nantucket during the storm, according to Liz Kay, a spokeswoman for the New England Aquarium. A team from the aquarium joined other marine specialists on the island Monday morning, responding to reports of up to 50 beached whales. A veterinarian examined the surviving whale, and the decision was made to try to save it, Ms. Kay said. Thick fog that contributed to at least six traffic deaths descended on Southern California for a fourth night Sunday, causing a shutdown of Los Angeles International Airport until morning, disrupting flights in other cities, and slowing freeway travel. Floods and mudslides caused by record rains in southern Oregon that forced 250 to abandon their homes over the weekend still had a number of roads blocked, and the weather service said a fresh storm was on the way. A woman was killed in McMinnville, Ore., Saturday when 50-mph winds toppled a 176-foot fir tree onto her home. The New England snowstorm, the worst since the blizzard of February 1978, knocked out power to about 86,000 residents of Massachusetts and Rhode Island and left highways strewn with abandoned cars. Most of the service was restored Monday, and main highways were reopened. Schools and colleges, however, were closed in most of Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts and the interior of eastern Connecticut. The National Weather Service measured up to 20 inches of snow in Massachusetts, the heaviest 24-hour snowfall in December since 1926. Newport, R.I., got about 2½ feet. "We brought our children to Boston to see the snow, but this is ridiculous," said George Porter of Miramar, Fla., who was stranded at Logan airport Sunday with his wife, Beverly, and their two children, Glen, 13, and Tracy, 8. === Page 82 of 278 # Surprise storm paralyzes New England Woman motorist in Medford, Mass., digs out car in street filled with fallen branches # Boston declares emergency; 6 states buried 12/7/81 BOSTON (UPI) -- A surprise blizzard that paralyzed New England with 2 feet of wind-driven snow whipped up deep drifts on icy roadways Monday and left thousands of residents without power. At least three deaths were blamed on the storm. "Really, the hazard now is the high wind," said forecaster Gene Auciello. "Where the roads are not totally clear -- and that's about everywhere -- there will be treacherous driving conditions just about all though the area." School children celebrated a day off Monday as administrators shut down hundreds of schools because of the early winter storm that hit six states and the region's two major cities, Boston and Providence, R.I. Boston officials declared an emergency as state and local authorities asked the metropolitan area's 2 million people to use public transportation to get to work. The storm, the worst since 1978, caught New Englanders and meteorologists off guard. Forecasters predicted 2 to 4 inches Saturday night. Instead, Newport, R.I., was buried in 24 inches, Boston received 15 inches and some Boston suburbs got 18 inches. The storm concentrated its strength on eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but parts of eastern Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine also were blanketed. A National Weather Service spokesman said the snow tapered off in most places Sunday night as the storm headed northeast off the coast of Nova Scotia. Strong wind gusting up to 50 mph in some places whipped the snow into deep === Page 83 of 278 drifts and covered roads almost as fast as they were plowed. Temperatures were expected to range from the teens to the 30s Monday. Thousands of air travelers, including the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, were unable to get in or out of Boston when officials closed Logan International Airport all day Sunday. The Maple Leafs' game against the Boston Bruins was postponed. One runway was opened Monday, but Logan officials said long delays could be expected until the rest of the airport was cleared. Snowplows moved slower than usual in many Massachusetts communities hard hit by the Proposition 2½ tax-cutting law. Boston Public Works Commissioner Joseph Casazza said his department's 60 percent personnel and budget cuts delayed clearing of the streets. Highway crews cleared and sanded major arteries, but smaller roads were covered. Fender-benders and minor injuries were numerous. 12/7/81 United Press International man at left skis through Boston during snowstorm that paralyzed much of New England # Pacific storm floods roads, forces 200 to flee United Press International An intense Pacific storm, which dumped 7 inches of rain across Western Oregon, tapered off Sunday night after washing out highways, sending rivers over their banks and forcing at least 200 people to flee their homes. The only death attributed to the weekend storm was that of a 40-year-old McMinnville woman who died Saturday after a tree fell into her apartment, striking her as she lay in bed. Carolyn Nelson was fatally injured when a 176-foot fir tree, torn from rain-sodden soil by 50 mph winds, crushed through the roof of her residence, police said. Another occupant of the apartment, Gill Martin, 49, received a broken arm. Stream levels were falling Monday morning, but schools were closed at Myrtle Point, Coquille and Allegany in Coos County because many roads were closed by high water. Weyerhaeuser Co. said it would not open its forest operations in Coos County Monday because workers were unable to reach logging sites. Highway 101, blocked by a crevice that opened across the major coastal route 16 miles south of Florence, will be closed for at least a week, Oregon State Police reported. Highway 58, closed for a time by a slide 20 miles east of Eugene, was open to one-way traffic Monday. Flood warnings also were in effect for a second day along the Willamette, Umpqua and Siuslaw rivers because of heavy rains and mountain runoff caused by high freezing levels in the Cascades. All the streams were falling Monday morning, however. Although the rain turned to showers Sunday night, forecasters said another storm headed toward Oregon from the Pacific would bring more showers Monday and heavier rain Tuesday. Record amounts of rain fell in several areas, especially along the coast, where 6.8 inches was recorded at Gold Beach in the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. Eugene reported a record 24-hour total of 5.02 inches, breaking the mark of 4.88 inches set in January 1974. At Ellendale Vineyard, 3 miles west of Dallas, a massive oak tree fell and damaged the roof of a new winery building. Owner Robert Hudson said the main trunk of the tree missed the structure, but damage was caused by large limbs. The south fork of the Coquille River at 12/7/81 Myrtle Point in Southern Oregon had risen to 50 feet Sunday afternoon and crested at 54 feet -- 19 feet above flood stage. Al Holloway, Coquille police dispatcher, reported at 6:45 a.m. Monday that the water was dropping rapidly. He added that no serious problems were encountered there, although Shelley Road east of Coquille had washed out and residents beyond that point had to run their cars over an old cat road or cow path to get out. The south fork of the Coquille River at Myrtle Point crested at 51 feet at noon Sunday -- 15 feet above flood stage -- and had fallen to 47.5 feet by nightfall. Several other rivers in Western Oregon reached their peaks and were starting to recede Sunday night. In the Portland area, the Clackamas and Tualatin rivers and Johnson Creek were receding late Sunday after nearing or topping flood levels. === Page 84 of 278 Associated Press Laserphoto PORTLAND UNDER SNOW -- Woman in Portland, Maine, braves wind, snow to fetch Sunday paper. # Near-blizzard hits New England area By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A surprise near-blizzard, called the worst New England snowstorm since 1978, plastered cities with up to 2 feet of snow that blocked highways, blacked out neighborhoods and closed airports. Authorities in Vermont and Connecticut reported three weather-related deaths, and more than 92,000 people were left without power in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The storm, described as a "meteorological bomb" by one forecaster Sunday, dumped up to 16 inches on Boston. It was that city's heaviest December snowfall in more than half a century. A snow emergency was declared, sharply reducing parking on city streets. The Boston area and Providence, R.I., bore the brunt of the storm, which caught forecasters off guard when it moved out over the Atlantic and unpredictably switched directions late Saturday to hit much of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut. With winds gusting up to 50 mph in places, the storm built drifts that blocked roads and forced motorists to abandon their cars as airports closed and buses were halted. In Rhode Island, depths ranged from 15 inches in Providence, a city of 155,000, to just over 2 feet in the southeastern part of the state. Crews plowed emergency paths to hospitals. The heavy snow knocked down power lines and the Warwick, R.I., fire department lost 90 percent of its alarm system. The Rhode Island Transit Authority suspended all bus service. Commonwealth Electric Co. reported outages to 35,000 customers in the Duxbury area south of Boston and to another 5,000 in Marshfield. Boston Edison said it had reports of 6,000 customers without power, and 46,000 people were reportedly without power in Rhode Island, 26,000 of them in the area around Newport. National Weather Service meteorologist Thomas DiGregorio at Logan International Airport said the storm did not last quite long enough to be classified a blizzard. The storm had continuous winds of 35 mph or more, and visibility was one-quarter mile or less, but not for a long enough period of time. He said the significant snowfall from the storm was over by 9 p.m. Sunday, although flurries were expected. Joseph Cassava, director of public works in Boston, said snow was 16 inches deep in the western part of the city with communities to the south reporting 19 inches. 'We're grateful it's Sunday," said James Carlin, the Massachusetts secretary of transportation, as 2,500 snowplows worked to clear highways in time for Monday's rush hour. The Weather Service measured 10½ inches of snow at weather-locked Logan Airport. === Page 85 of 278 - UFOs & Projects - # Blizzard paralyzes Midwest, kills 4 By The Associated Press Arg 12/2/81 A corn belt blizzard driving blinding snow across the Midwest with 50-mph winds Tuesday crippled cities and closed highways, stranding hundreds of travelers and shutting down schools. At least four people were killed as a "very dangerous" winter storm surged through parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota at blizzard force, flinging snow up to 14 inches deep and building 4-foot drifts. Highways were strewn with jackknifed trucks. Many motorists abandoned their cars and sought refuge in motels, farm houses and emergency shelters. In some areas, even the snowplows were halted by the blowing snow. "Absolutely, unbelievably, horrible," was the way Robert McDermott of Piedmont, S.D., described conditions on Interstate 90, as he sat out the storm in a gymnasium at Murdo, S.D., with about a dozen other travelers. The snow measured up to 14 inches deep in southern Minnesota, 10 inches in Nebraska and South Dakota and 7 inches in Iowa. A 50-year-old man collapsed and died while running a snowblower Monday at his home in Brookings, S.D. The body of a 79-year-old trapper reported missing near Sioux Rapids, Iowa, during the height of the storm was found Tuesday. Authorities said he apparently drowned in the Little Sioux River. In Potter, Neb., a 23-year-old worker was killed Monday when 30-mph winds toppled the 100-foot tower of an oil rig. A 43-year-old woman was killed near Albert Lea, Minn., when the car she was riding in skidded on a snow-covered road and was struck broadside by another car, the State Patrol said. At Fort Pierre, S.D., three goose hunters and a man who went to their aid were rescued Tuesday morning after they spent the night stranded in a snowstorm with winds of 38 mph and temperatures at 26 degrees. More than 100 miles of Interstate 90, the main east-west artery across South Dakota, was barricaded for 12 hours overnight by state police on orders from Gov. Bill Janklow. "There are people in the ditches and more people trying to get on the road," said Janklow, who ordered the closing of I-90 as well as U.S. south from Pierre. "It's a real h people trying to drive on i going to kill somebody." I-90 was south of th Mitchell stretch leas day city people the weekend. By The Associated Press Arg 11/23/81 - UFOs & Projects - # Snow, cold span big area Record cold temperatures refrigerated some sections of Florida early Sunday as storms dumped up to a foot of snow on parts of New York and Ohio. At least one death was blamed on the latest snowfall. In Minnesota, meanwhile, a few years left 10 inches of slush on city streets Wednesday and Thursday, hundreds of people were still without electricity. The storm, blamed for the deaths of at least 18 people across the Midwest, moved into the East over the weekend. In the "snowbelt" area south of Buffalo, N.Y., residents woke up Sunday to a blanket of snow 4 to 12 inches deep. Chautauqua County was hardest hit, with 12 inches reported in Sinclairville. One traffic death in New York was blamed in the storm. Authorities said Jane Laney, 52, of the Buffalo suburb of Grand Island, died Saturday when her car skidded on a snow-covered road and struck a well and a building. One to 6 inches of snow fell in northeastern Ohio. No major problems were reported, said Dennis Dixon of the National Weather Service, adding the weather was "not unusual" in the area at this time of year. Skies were clear over the Southeast on Sunday as the mercury dipped into the teens in Tennessee and into the 20s as far south as Florida. Record cold temperatures were reported in the Florida cities of Orlando, Pensacola and Daytona Beach. The low of 33 in Daytona Beach tied a record set in 1937, while Orlando reported 35, 4 degrees below the record set in 1952. It was 29 in Pensacola, a reading that tied a 1952 mark. Citrus growers in the Orlando area welcomed the cold, saying it would trigger juice growth in their crops. Temperatures were expected to be slightly warmer Sunday night and to return to normal within a few days. In Georgia, only St. Simons Island reported a temperature above freezing early Sunday. Clayton, in the north Georgia mountains, reported the state's low of 20 degrees. In Minnesota, temperatures moderated after an early morning low Saturday of 6 degrees. More than 160,000 customers of Northern States Power Co. lost power last week when the heaviest snowfall since 1966 toppled tree branches into power lines. Some residents were forced to seek shelter elsewhere or curl up in sleeping bags as the outage stretched into the weekend. Crews were working around the clock to restore service, and only a few hundred people were still without lights and heat when a tree fell Sunday morning, knocking out power to 1,000 the number of customers known to be without power, utility officials said. motorists who were towed to safety Monday night. They were first taken to motels, and when motel owners hung out the "no vacancy" signs, to farm homes or whatever shelter was close. In Jackson County in southwestern Minnesota, a sheriff's dispatcher said late Monday, "At the motels, they're sleeping on couches, chairs, anything they can find." There also were many reports of trucks jackknifed along the interstate highways and U.S. 30 near North Platte, Neb. In Lexington, Neb., where about 50 motorists took shelter in a National Guard armory, the power was knocked out Monday night. Winds flipped light planes parked in the western village of Oshkosh, Neb. The acting police chief of Lexington, Bob Brummet, said: "It's still mighty slippery on the interstate. My dispatcher's been going up the walls with calls about jackknifed trucks and cars in the ditch." Elsewhere in Nebraska, Custer County Sheriff Neil Fink said, "The plows are out and about the only way you can get anywhere is to follow right behind the plow, because the roads drift back in so fast." Iowa, blowing snow forced the stop plowing Interstate 35 over-between the Minnesota border === Page 86 of 278 Holiday storms kill at least six By United Press International Minnesota and Wisconsin were hit by as much as 10 inches of snow and icy roads, and five persons were killed in accidents blamed on treacherous driving conditions in Colorado. Another man was killed by lightning while hunting. Nearly a foot of snow fell Thursday in communities along Lake Superior in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. By midday, 10 inches of snow fell in areas around Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., and the snow continued to accumulate at a rate of an inch an hour. Near Mazomanie, Wis., a lightning bolt struck a hunting party during a thunderstorm Thanksgiving day, killing Roy E. Pauley, 69, of Mazomanie. In Oregon, Interstate 5 over the Siskiyou Mountains, the main link with California, was closed for hour and a half early Thursday because of snow and icy conditions that caused cars to go out of control and trucks to jackknife. A strong cold front bustled into Illinois, Indiana and Iowa Thursday evening backed by strong northerly winds gusting up to 60 mph. Temperatures dropped in a number of places from 60 degrees at noon into the 30s by late evening. Slush and ice from a Thanksgiving Eve storm were cited as the cause for at least five holiday traffic fatalities in Colorado. A two-car collision on slushy U.S. 285 north of Bailey killed three people and sent a teenaged boy to the hospital in critical condition. Two cars collided on U.S. 666 near Dove Creek in the southwest corner of Colorado Wednesday night when one of the vehicles went out of control on an icy road and crossed the center line, killing one man. An accident in the Fort Collins, Colo., area killed a young man whose motorcycle went out of control on a slick road shortly after midnight Thursday and struck a tree in the median parkway. A winter storm warning was in effect over upper Michigan, where an additional half-foot of snow was forecast. Travelers' advisories were posted to cover northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Heavy thunderstorms rolled across the Midwest and the Mississippi Valley earlier Thursday drenching parts of Illinois and Michigan. Winds clocked at up to 70 mph blasted eastern Missouri and damaged several downtown storefronts in St. Louis. A winter storm warning was in effect over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and, in preparation for the snow, winter storm watches were issued for Nevada, the mountains of Southern California and the mountains of northern Arizona. Holiday revelers on the northern and central Pacific coast saw Thanksgiving Day ushered in with rain and snow. Heavy snowfall near Placerville, Calif., created a traffic jam on Highway 50. A winter storm sweeping across Colorado closed at least one mountain pass and created a "moderate" avalanche hazard in the northern mountains. THE OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1981 Storms ravage Texas, Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A blizzard churning snow into huge drifts stunned the Midwest Monday as thunderstorms socked Texas with 50 mph winds that flipped airplanes, tore roofs off buildings and ripped down power lines. Residents of some communities in Arizona were digging out from under 15 inches of snow that fell over the weekend. In the only reported weather-related deaths, dense fog that descended on much of Texas was blamed for the crash of a light plane in Dallas that killed two people late Sunday. Nebraska's first major snowstorm of the season, which packed winds of 50 mph and was compared by one official to the blizzard of 1888, closed dozens of schools and stymied traffic. Snow falling at the rate of an inch an hour had built to 8 inches by noon and was still coming down in the blizzard area about 300 miles west of Omaha. The National Weather Service said, "Blizzard conditions exist north of North Platte all the way to Valentine and from Arthur County east to Custer County." Temperatures in the area were in the 20s and falling, the weather service said. "Picture the blizzard of 1888," said Hooker County Sheriff Mike Okinn when asked to describe the weather. Roads and highways in the area were barely passable, he said. "If you creep along at about 5 miles an hour, you might be all right," he said. "It's pretty bad." Winter storm watches stretch from eastern Nebraska, across all Iowa and southeastern South Dakota into northwest Wisconsin. In Texas, winds gusting to 50 mph whipped through the Dallas-Fort Worth area, flipping over two airplanes, blowing out the wall of a Garland high school gymnasium and causing power outages. The early morning winds knocked over two planes at Fort Worth's Meacham Field and ripped a door from one of the airport's hangars. No one was injured. Power lines, trees and billboards were downed throughout Fort Worth and about 250 homes temporarily were without electricity. === Page 87 of 278 Wind buffets McCall, southwest Idaho, cutting power Boise, Idaho 11/16/81 Statesman News Services Sunday was a wonderful rainy day to sleep in - for some people. And some southwest Idaho residents probably did just that after they poked their heads out the door or window and saw dark skies and rain. But in McCall, some probably spent a pretty sleepless night shivering in their homes without power. A weekend windstorm, called by some old-timers in the area the worst ever to hit the McCall area, swept through the area, cutting off power and damaging dozens of summer homes along Payette Lake. Repair crews worked Sunday night, 36 hours after the storm, to re-store power to some customers. Idaho Power Co. spokesman Larry Taylor said about 700 customers in the McCall-Cascade area still weren't back in service by Sunday night, and there was no indication when repairs would be complete. The storm, with gusts unofficially estimated at 100 mph came on the heels of a windstorm which struck the Boise area Friday night, knocking television and radio stations off the air and disrupting electrical service to about 5,000 customers. Rain drizzled on and off Sunday in the Boise area making roads slick. However, there were no serious accidents reported by late Sunday in southwestern Idaho. An unusual storm system has swirled a pair of rainstorms and some unseasonal high winds through southwest Idaho during the last three days, weather forecasters said. The moisture falling on Boise came from as far away as Hawaii, National Weather Service Lead Forecaster Paul Rausch said. The rainfall left Boise ahead of normal daily, monthly and yearly rainfall totals, Rausch said. Normally at this time of year, Boise gets 0.04 inch of precipitation daily. Between midnight Saturday and 9 p.m. Sunday, .32 inch of rain fell, Rausch said. The normal rainfall for the first 15 days of November is about 0.6 inch. As of 9 p.m. Sunday, 0.91 inch had fallen, Rausch said. The normal rainfall from Jan. 1 through Nov. 15 is 9.42 inches, Rausch said. That compares with 11.1 inches that have fallen so far this year, he said. And southwest Idaho can expect more of the same, Rausch said. Another frontal system should pass through during the early morning hours today, Rausch said. Southwest Idaho should have periodic rainfall, possibly through Tuesday. Southwest Idaho also may be in for some more wind today, Rausch said. Wind gauges in Reno, Nev., had recorded 40-mph gusts earlier Sunday evening and that weather was headed for Boise, Rausch said. Hopeful skiers saw some snow glinting Sunday on Shafer Butte, but the snow had started to melt by midnight because the temperature was in the mid- to upper 30s, a Bogus Basin Recreation Area spokeswoman said. About two inches of wet snow fell Sunday on Shafer Butte, but forecasters thought temperatures would not stay cold enough to retain much of the snow. Idaho KELLOGG'S FATE: What is the worst that could happen - the doomsday scenario for Kellogg and the Silver Valley - after complete shutdown of the Bunker Hill Co.? Page 1B. POWERLESS: While Boiseans had to contend with daylong drizzle Sunday, some McCall residents were still without power 36 hours after a windstorm blew through their town, knocking down power lines. Page 1B. Boise Id. 11/16/81 Coast wind cuts power Wind up to 90 mph on the Northern Oregon Coast felled trees and caused power outages Saturday. Highway 18 northeast of Lincoln City was closed temporarily by downed trees, as was the Netarts Highway west of Tillamook. At Depoe Bay, the Coast Guard recovered a boat torn loose by the wind. Storm downs Treasure Valley's power Twin Falls (Times) Id. 11/15/81 By United Press International Areas of McCall and Cascade remained without power Saturday morning and a line supplying power to the Treasure Valley's television and radio stations was dead as the result of the Friday the 13th storm which passed through southern Idaho. However, Idaho Power Co. spokesman Bob Brown said an auxiliary line to radio and TV stations atop Shafer Butte and Deer Point north of Boise was energized about 8:30 a.m. to put the stations back on the air. The auxiliary line from Boise to the transmitters was down due to construction to supply additional power to a new independent television station in Nampa, Brown said. As soon as the problem on the Horseshoe Bend to the transmitters was found and fixed, the line from Boise would be shut down to continue construction. He said he expected construction on the line to be completed within two weeks. A felled tree was found on the line from Horseshoe Bend early Saturday and power was restored about 3:30 a.m., but power was cut off again about a half hour later, Brown said. Utility crews were working on repairing the problem as well as numerous breakages in lines supplying the McCall and Cascade area, Brown said. He said he expected the outages to be repaired some time Saturday. Brown said as many as 5,000 customers were without power Friday evening after the storm passed through the area. Outages were reported in Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, McCall, Cascade, Parma, Donnelly and Halfway, Ore., he said. Power also was down at the Idaho State Penitentiary south of Boise, but prison officials said a backup system went on until power was restored at 12:10 a.m. Saturday. The strongest recorded gust at the Boise Municipal Airport Friday measured 43 mph, a National Weather Service employee said. But Brown said the utility's dispatcher received reports of 100-mph winds at Shafer Butte. Law enforcement officials in Ada and Canyon counties, meanwhile, said they were deluged with reports of fallen power lines and trees that were creating traffic hazards. The outages resulted in loss of some traffic signals in Ada County, dispatchers said, but no traffic accidents or injuries were reported. === Page 88 of 278 - UFOs & Projects - Oreg P 10/26/81 # 1st big snowfall covers wide area By United Press International The first widespread snowstorm of the season was blamed for traffic accidents that took five lives in Wyoming and Minnesota, and a tornado that plowed across the Florida panhandle wrecked 30 houses and demolished a football stadium. No one was seriously injured in the twister that struck Blountstown, Fla., Sunday afternoon, but the storm knocked out electricity to the town's 3,000 residents, hampering cleanup Monday along the 300-yard-wide path of destruction. "It could have been a lot worse," Mayor Laddie Williams said. "We're very fortunate that no one is really badly hurt, and that is, of course, what we're most concerned about." Officials said damage, expected to reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, includes the destruction of a high school football stadium, a flattened mobile home and severe damage to about 30 houses. From the Rockies to the Great Lakes during the weekend, a fierce snow squall was blamed for the deaths of at least five people in traffic. At least one highway death and numerous accidents were blamed on ice and snow in Wyoming, and a snow-slick road also was cited as the cause of an accident that killed four people Saturday at Badger, Minn. By early Sunday, up to 8 inches of snow was on the ground at Berthoud Pass in the Colorado Rockies 50 miles west of Denver. Eight inches also shrouded Centennial, Wyo. - UFOs & Projects - # Lightning, rain rake L.A. area LOS ANGELES (UPI) - A thunder and lightning storm brewing over the Pacific Ocean moved ashore and triggered brush fires, massive power outages and dozens of accidents during the evening rush hour. The storm drenched many areas of Los Angeles with pounding rain Wednesday and broke a 163-day dry spell dating back to April 20. The low pressure area was expected to hover over Southern California until Friday. "It's pumping a lot of moist, unstable air and it's going to sit around until today," a National Weather Service spokesman said. The storm dropped .20 of an inch of rain on the Los Angeles Civic Center. The Los Angeles area was hit by more than two hours of lightning and heavy rain. About 80,000 customers were without power for as long as four hours. Among the many vehicle accidents, two large trucks jackknifed on local highways and a car slid over the embankment. Firefighters for Los Angeles County and the U.S. Forest Service were kept busy with at least eight small lightning-caused brushfires in the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita Valleys and the Angeles National Forest. - UFOs & Projects - # 1st major snowstorm hits Rockies By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The season's first major snowstorm blocked Columbus Day travelers in the northern Rockies and contributed to at least one death, while waist-deep floodwaters surged through the streets of some towns in soggy Texas. Rains of up to 8 inches in North Texas forced scores of residents to evacuate their homes and floated a school bus off the road. No injuries were reported. A man was killed when his car skidded out of control on an icy mountain road near Great Falls, Mont. The Going-to-the-Sun Highway over Logan Pass in Montana's Glacier National Park was closed by 4-foot drifts. Snow also fell in parts of western Wyoming and Utah. - UFOs & Projects - # High wind, rain ravage mid-Mississippi Valley By United Press International Heavy thunderstorms tore across the middle Mississippi Valley, downing power lines, damaging roofs and uprooting trees with winds gusting up to 95 mph in some areas. Storms raced through central and southern Illinois and portions of Missouri Monday and Tuesday. # news scope Monday evening, hitting St. Louis with 95 mph wind. More than 2 inches of rain fell in Union, Mo., in 30 minutes. Wind downed trees and damaged parked aircraft at the St. Louis airport. The National Weather Service reported wind of up to 90 mph at Bloomington, Ill., and gusts of 80 mph at Petersburg, Ill. Power lines and roofs were downed in Collinsville, Ill. Wind up to 63 mph was reported by the National Weather Service in Champaign. A 50-foot tower was blown over in Rhineland, Mo., and a barn was destroyed near Jefferson City, killing some calves. - UFOs & Projects - # Texas rainstorms flood roads, force evacuation By United Press International Torrential rain pounded north central Texas early Monday, dumping more than 5 inches of rain at Mineral Wells, flooding highways and forcing the evacuation of residents. Much of the western half of the nation was under seige by a massive storm system that doused the Great Plains region with showers and thunderstorms and blanketed the Rocky Mountain and Plateau region with rain and snow. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for sections of the Hill Country, the adjacent Edwards Plateau, south and north central Texas. Oreg P 10/1/81 Oreg P 10/6/81 === Page 89 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Heavy snow covers much of U.S. By United Press International Wind up to 100 mph whipped heavy snow into blizzard conditions Monday in the Colorado mountains, forcing avalanche warnings. Some of the season's most treacherous road conditions caused scores of accidents in the snowy Midwest and East Coast. At estimated 21 inches of new snow fell at the Crested Butte and the Monarch ski areas since Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service reported, and Wolf Creek Pass received 18 inches of new snow. Light to heavy snow hampered returning holiday motorists in the Northeast, where travelers advisories are in effect for most of New England, New Hampshire, southern Maine and western New York State. New Hampshire reported 7 to 10 inches of new snow Monday, while Vermont had 9. Most of the rest of New England had smaller amounts of snow inland, ranging from a light dusting to 2 to 4 inches in Connecticut, 3 to 6 inches in northern areas and 1 to 3 inches in Massachusetts. Greg J 12/29/81 UFOs & Projects # More snow expected in New England area By DAVID I. LANGFORD of The Associated Press Greg J 12/9/81 Cold air from Canada accompanied by snow squalls swept Tuesday across the Northeast and into New England, where many cities were still digging out from under a 2-foot cover left by a weekend blizzard. along the beaches of Cape Cod and its offshore islands. Three beached whales survived, two of them after being towed out to sea and one at an aquarium in Connecticut. On the other side of the country, airliners were grounded for a fifth night in a row Monday in Los Angeles by dense fog that reduced visibility to zero. The Coast Guard had to call off a search for an elderly man who fell off a boat while sailing in the fog off Santa Catalina Island. Gale winds swept the Great Lakes Tuesday, and gale warnings were flying along the Atlantic coast of southern New England, with forecasters predicting another one to three inches of snow for parts of the hard-hit region. A windy storm that intensified over upstate New York spread a slippery mixture of ice and snow over many roads and brought heavy snowfall to some cities, including Syracuse. The new snow delighted New England ski lift operators but dismayed city officials in Boston, where the snow removal budget for the entire year was exhausted cleaning up the weekend mess. The new storm approached while rescuers were still fighting to save whales found beached Sunday. After new discoveries Tuesday, officials said it appeared 17 whales had perished UFOs & Projects # New storm sc By United Press International A new winter storm socked the Midwest with up to 7 more inches of snow, paralyzing Minneapolis and St. Paul with a layer of ice that forced schools and business to close and causing at least one fatal traffic accident in Illinois. # news scope Pedestrians who suffered broken bones from falls on icy walks crowded hospital emergency rooms Monday in the Twin Cities, which just recovered from their worst snowstorm in 40 years. Rush hour traffic was a nightmare with freezing rain glazing roads and forcing many schools and businesses to close. Mail deliveries were halted along with public transportation. Greg J 11/24/81 UFOs & Projects # newsbreak # New storms sock Midwest Another series of winter storms, packing howling winds and bone-chilling cold, socked a region from the Great Lakes through New England Wednesday, snarling traffic, closing schools and killing at least two people. Greg J 12/9/81 UFOs & Projects # Power returns in Boston BOSTON (AP) -- A 31-hour blackout that curtailed dinners in Chinatown and topless dancing in the X-rated "Combat Zone" ended Sunday morning as power was restored to the last of 6,500 customers. No crime problems or injuries were reported in the blackout, but thousands of people had to move in with relatives or bundle up for two cold nights. The outage was caused by an underground cable fire. It hit Chinatown, the garment district, the Downtown Crossing shopping center, sections of Beacon Hill and the "Combat Zone," a section of adult movie houses and striptease cabarets, Boston Edison spokesman Walter Salvi said. Parts of the Tufts New England Medical Center also lost power, but Salvi said the hospital continued normal operations by using emergency generators. Greg J 11/16/81 9-28-81 Seat Times # 2 Alaska volcanoes spew smoke, steam COLD BAY, Alaska -- Two Alaska Peninsula volcanoes spewed ash and steam thousands of feet skyward yesterday as they erupted for a second day, but airline pilots said heavy clouds obscured the peaks. No injuries or damage was reported in either eruption. Pilots reported steam and ash rising to 14,000 feet from the 8,905-foot Pavlof Volcano, located near the south tip of the Alaska Peninsula. A column rose 20,000 feet into the air when Pavlof erupted Saturday for the second time in less than a year. About 100 miles away, the 9,372-foot Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island also erupted Saturday, blackening its southern flank with ash above the 4,000-foot level. Pavlof Volcano is among the === Page 90 of 278 # 6 die as storm batters Northwest # Blackouts wide, damage severe By SCOTTA CALLISTER and JOHN GUERNSEY of The Oregonian staff 11/15/81 A Pacific storm packing hurricane-force winds raked the Western states early Saturday, blacking out massive sections of the Northwest and killing at least five persons in Oregon and one in Washington. The winds -- gusting over 90 mph at times -- caused extensive power outages, decapitated buildings, flooded roads and tossed aircraft, trailers, boats and ships about like toys. The rain-laden winds hit San Francisco Friday night and lashed up the Pacific Coast through Oregon and Washington, tearing down trees and power lines as it went, before finally beginning to subside off Vancouver Island late Saturday. Weather forecasters described the storm as one of the worst since the Columbus Day storm of 1962. In Seattle, driving winds dragged an anchored freighter, the Sea Champion, across several miles of Elliot Bay until tugs finally intercepted it within 20 feet of a pier in the downtown area Saturday morning. In Newport, the roof of the Pacific Tire and Brake building on U.S. 101 flew like a Frisbee into the neighboring Sims-Allen Ford Inc. dealership, landing on more than 25 cars. About 260,000 metropolitan-area utility customers were without power at dawn Saturday, but that figure was down to 59,000 by nightfall. For 12 hours beginning at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, the National Weather Service was among those without power in Portland. Ron Surface, a weather service forecaster, said a new, smaller storm was expected to hit with winds gusting up to 50 mph on the Oregon coast and 30 mph in Portland Sunday morning. The storm brought death to widespread parts of Oregon. Grady E. Scarbrough, 53, of Albany was killed while he lay in bed when a tree crashed into the bedroom of his mobile home about 1:10 a.m. Floyd W. Russell, 64, Salem, apparently suffered a fatal heart attack while cutting a tree in Tillicum Beach State Park, four miles south of Waldport, according to the Lincoln County sheriff's office. Russell was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Washington County sheriff's Deputy Dennis Kisor said Chip Nolan Hinckley, 35, of Banks was killed about 7 a.m. in a two-car accident on rain-slick Oregon 6 near its junction with U.S. 26 west of Portland. Also in Washington County, a man was electrocuted in a storm-related accident. Melvin Dean Denny, 50, 12860 S.W. Faircrest Drive, died when he picked up a live wire that had fallen across his driveway. The initial jolt knocked him into a water-filled ditch. He was dead on arrival at St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center. A U.S. Coast Guard pilot, Capt. Frank W. Olson, 44, died after his Sikorsky HH-52A went down off in the ocean after taking off from the North Bend Air Station to assist a foundering fishing vessel. Two other crewmen escaped. The beleaguered 45-foot Christina J, and its three-man crew that were being sought by the helicopter remained missing and out of radio contact Saturday after they reported it was taking on water at the entrance to Coos Bay harbor. A daylong search was unsuccessful. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. John McElwain, of Seattle said the helicopter pilot was found in the ocean surf and was pronounced dead on arrival at a Coos Bay hospital. Washington officials said Frederick Fisk, 69, was electrocuted Friday night when he tried to move a downed power line with a stick or pole at his Maury Island home. In California, two women whose boat broke apart Thursday in stormy seas off Stinson Beach, just north of San Francisco, remained missing Saturday night. The effects of the storm were felt far inland, with wind gusts unofficially reported as up to 100 mph in parts of Portland and as far east as Boise, Idaho. There were widespread power outages throughout the Pacific Northwest. The high winds were big news in Boise, but television stations there weren't able to report the story. The storm knocked out transmitting towers atop the city's Shaffer Butte, silencing all four commercial stations and Boise's only public station. In Northern California, winds toppled a dozen redwoods 5 feet thick across U.S. 101 and blocked traffic between the towns of Orick and Klamath, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department reported. Crews were working to reopen a 50-mile stretch of the highway. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokesman Dennis Pooler said up to 100,000 customers were without power in Northern California early Saturday -- some for just a few moments and others for hours. Washington emergency services officials reported the storm damage was heaviest in the southwestern part of that state, where flooding and power outages were extensive. Officials in Vancouver, Wash., said Clark County had 10 electrical substations out of service and 50-60 percent of the county's roads were blocked Saturday morning. An estimated 40,000 customers of the Clark County Public Utility District were without power Saturday morning. County commissioners there were considering whether the county should be declared a disaster area. A Clark County sheriff's dispatcher said, "It's a real mess here. We're warning people to stay in their homes." Coastal areas bore the brunt of the storm, which some Oregon officials said was the worst since October 1962. Residents in some Oregon coastal towns evacuated when wind damaged their homes and tides flooded low-lying areas. At Bandon, about 25 families were evacuated overnight when a large storage tank collapsed and spilled 10,000 gallons of gasoline, the Coast Guard reported. Families along the Oregon coast port were moved to high ground after an 8-foot-high wall of water and 90-mph winds swept through parts of the William P. Keady marina and flooded their homes. Coast Guard officials said seas of 15- to 20-foot swells were reported across the Northwest coast through the day. In Newport, Ore., a large section of dock was ripped from its moorings and a 60-foot fishing boat drifted into the Yaquina Bay bridge area. And in the Coos Bay area, crews were facing an uphill battle. A wind gauge atop Edward Heesacker's beachfront home in Oceanside registered 82 mph about 4 a.m. before a gust blew it off the roof. The pre-dawn sky above many Western Oregon cities was lit by the eerie blue flashes of lightning and power transformers burning out. About 200,000 customers of Portland General Electric Co. were affected by outages during the height of the storm, and spokesman Bruce Landrey said 100,000 were still without power Saturday afternoon. He estimated that repairing all the downed lines would take at least until Sunday night, and possibly would go into Monday. PGE serves much of the Portland area between Sheridan on the west and Mount Hood on the east. Pacific Power & Light Co. spokesman Leonard Bacon said about 100,000 of his company's customers from Crescent City, Calif., northward were affected by power outages during the night, including 20,000 in the Portland area. And Bacon said utility crews were facing an uphill battle. === Page 91 of 278 - UFOs 6 Projects - # Storm rakes Western Washington By United Press International Boats sank, basements flooded, traffic was snarled and widespread power outages occurred as an unusually fierce storm dropped record amounts of rain on western Washington Tuesday. Tacoma's newly renovated Stadium Bowl at Stadium High School was reduced to a quagmire of mud when an underground storm drain broke, burying the field at one end up to the cross bars on the football goal post. Part of the other end collapsed down a cliff onto the Schuster Parkway, which runs along Commencement Bay. Damage estimates ranged as high as $1 million as crews evacuated nearby residents to dig underground and divert the torrents of water away from the field. Heavy snow fell in the North Cascades ahead of the storm, forcing temporary closure of the North Cascades Highway. The National Weather Service said the steady, heavy rain would be replaced by intermittant showers Wednesday as a wet Pacific cold front moved inland. Minor flooding in local urban areas and along small streams in western Washington decreased overnight, although standing water was still a problem in locations of poor drainage. Record 24-hour rainfall readings were recorded at Olympia, where 3.25 inches fell between 4 p.m. Monday and 4 p.m. Tuesday, and Seattle-Tacoma Airport, where 3.55 inches fell between 5 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday. Note: Beau + I were there!! Owens # Storm floods North Seattle streets, zapping power 9-28-81 Seat Times - UFOs 6 Projects - A blustery, intense thunderstorm thumped the Seattle area yesterday afternoon, knocking down power lines, flooding some streets and at one point leaving 5,000 North End residences without electricity. Bill Hilliard, a Seattle City Light spokesman, said the power outages began at about 3 p.m. About 2,000 homes had been restored to power by 5 p.m., but crews did not expect to have all residences back on line for five more hours. Emergency crews reported lines hung up on lines and in some cases fell on automobiles. Most damage was in the North End, with Green Lake and Lake City apparently hardest hit. On the East Side, many residences also lost electricity and, in a few scattered areas, telephone service. Chris Curtis, a Puget Sound Power & Light Co. spokeswoman, said that about 8,000 homes in the Kirkland, Bothell and Woodinville areas were without power from 3 to 4:40 p.m. Power went out again temporarily later in the afternoon to some homes. Also, she said, about 800 customers in the Eastgate area were without power between 4 and 6 p.m. City Light crews reported winds of up to 50 miles an hour in the North End. Some East Side areas were pelted by a heavy hail. Seattle City Engineering crews were kept busy with "ponding" problems caused by backed-up drainages. Fire fighters pumped water off a tavern roof near the Seattle Center when its gutters backed up. The winds tipped sailboats in Shilshole Bay and Lake Union. The Coast Guard uprighted a 15-foot craft half a mile offshore near Shilshole and towed it to the marina after its owner, Jeff Stirewalt of Kent, and an unidentified companion were rescued from the overturned boat by a neighboring pleasure craft. Reports of three overturned vessels on Lake Union were received by the Coast Guard, but the Seattle Air and Water Patrol said it received no calls for help. The storm interrupted sports competitions and other activities at the Seattle Gay Athletic Association's Expo '81 at Volunteer Park. The event was billed as Puget Sound's biggest gay celebration. The Weather Service blamed the storm on warm winds from the southwest clashing with cold upper-level air. In an outage not related to the storm, 2,000 City Light customers on the west lower side of Beacon Hill were without power for about an hour starting at 9:20 a.m. yesterday after a car hit a utility pole. - UFOs 6 Projects - # Waterspout taps Depoe Bay area DEPOE BAY (UPI) -- A 600-foot-high waterspout knocked over trash cans and pulled a few shingles off roofs in the Depoe Bay area Wednesday afternoon, but resulted in no injuries. Depoe Bay Fire Chief Jay Williams said a man at Gleneden Beach telephoned the fire department about 1:30 p.m. and reported a tornado was approaching his house. Williams said it later was identified as a waterspout, which moved northeast across Highway 101 and crossed the south end of the Siletz Bay airport before dissipating. He said other waterspouts were reported earlier in the day off Spanish Head and the Dee River outlet. oregon 10/8/81 === Page 92 of 278 # Storm-wracked region seeks disaster relief - UFOs 6 Projects - # Third story approach Oregon Pendleton, Ore. !! By the East Oregonian & The Associated Press The Oregon Coast braced for a third storm in as many days today after weekend weather took at least six lives in the state and left three people missing. The new storm was expected to bear gusts of 65 miles an hour, but was not expected to be as damaging as the one on Friday. A storm swept through the state on Sunday, hard on the heels of a blockbuster that struck Friday night and lasted through Saturday morning, dropping trees, destroying signs and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. The Saturday storm caused power outages and blew trees down in Northeast Oregon. Some schools were closed in Portland and Salem today because they still were without power. The Sunday storm took a hard swipe at the northern Oregon coast, but stayed mainly at sea. A fishing boat with three men aboard had not been found after disappearing in winds reported by the National Weather Service at 90 mph in the Coos Bay area. A Coast Guard helicopter pilot was killed while searching for the craft. # Can't hide from the wind (UFOs 6 projects) The storm that wasn't was followed by the storms that arrived with rain and flood and wind and destruction. Most of the predictions pointed toward a storm of some magnitude coinciding with the full moon's effect on tides last mid-week, and when the storm did not materialize in strength, there was some feeling of relief and perhaps a little disappointment. The watching and waiting of last Friday wore on strangely, as people prepared as best they could for what they hoped would not happen - again. Who, after all, can picture the stresses on gymnasiums and warehouses, highways and power lines and trees, other than in a general way at the time they are built or are growing? Everywhere, the wind seeks out weakness. Fir trees that have stood for 100 years go down as a particular gust comes from a particular direction. The single shingle that is caught in a stream of air hurled against other storms and ice is - for a cold, wet fingers levering it up from its fellows until it breaks away, taking more with it. Torrents of rain riding on the wind filled the coastal streams - and the streams poured down into the lowlands, only to be held back by the power of the tides filling the estuaries, so that there were floods. And in the cities, the catch basins choked on fallen leaves and strangled on the water from the storm, so that there were floods. Buildings grew quiet and chill as the power on which they feed was blown away. And houses were dark and silent - no purring from the refrigerator, no throbbing from the furnace - none of the automatic noises of home. Oreg J 11/17/81 Portland General Electric Co. had 14,500 customers without power in Portland, and northwestern Oregon. Pacific Power & Light Co. had 15,000 customers without electricity in the Portland, Albany, Lincoln City and Coos Bay areas. Among the storm-related deaths was that of Coast Guard Capt. Frank W. Olson, 44. His helicopter crashed while responding to a distress signal from a 45-foot fishing boat, the Christina J of Coos Bay. Wind and rain over the weekend caused power outages affecting more than 2,000 residences in Umatilla County. U.S. 101, closed for about 10 hours from Coos Bay to the California border because of downed trees and power lines, was reopened on Saturday. About 250 residents of the south coast communi- Service was restored about midnight Sunday to some 1,000 Pacific Power and Light customers east of Pendleton after a 69,000-volt transmitter line went down Sunday afternoon in a delayed reaction. 11/16/81 Oregon's two major utilities had more than 300,000 customers without electricity on Saturday but that number had been reduced to less than 30,000 by late Sunday. Astoria, but inland and thward, the National Weather Service said. High winds lasted only an hour or so, authorities said. A roof was blown off a house in the community of Oceanside and a tree fell on a house in Cannon Beach, state police said. There were no injuries. Meanwhile, Western Oregon residents worked to clean up debris left by a storm that pounded the state for about 12 hours Friday night and Saturday. Police said Marjorie A. Weisen-see, 19, Portland, died after apparently stepping on a downed power line early Sunday in Southeast Portland. Two women who were with her suffered burns. Kari L. Hartman, 19, Portland, was reported in critical condition in the Oregon Burn Center at Emanuel Hospital. Karin E. Elstad, 18, Eugene, was in serious condition. === Page 93 of 278 # 11 perish in worst Midwest winter blast in 40 years By United Press International The first widespread snowstorm in the Midwest dumped more than a foot of snow and at least 11 people died in weather-related accidents, including a 91-year-old Nebraska woman who accidentally locked herself out of her house. In Atlanta, high winds struck Hartsfield International Airport early Friday, damaging at least eight parked airliners and injuring one ground crewman. One jet was knocked 90 degrees by the wind. Residents of Minnesota's Twin Cities slogged through up to 14 inches of snow Thursday, marking the area's heaviest 24-hour accumulation in more than 40 years. The snow also pulled down power lines, leaving about 100,000 homes without electricity or heat in the area, where temperatures were expected to drop to the teens. A buildup of snow ripped a hole in Minneapolis' Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Thursday, causing the double-layer, parachute-like roof of the $50 million structure to collapse. The stadium, which will open next April, was vacant at the time. The Iowa State Patrol reported the Rev. Roderick Jackson, 49, a pastor in Sioux Center, was killed in a broadside collision on U.S. Highway 75 south of the Maurice Viaduct. Three people were killed in traffic accidents in Wyoming, where light snow and ice glazed highways in the storm. Two Minnesota teenagers died in an accident, and traffic mishaps killed people in South Dakota and Kansas. A 91-year-old Lincoln, Neb., woman died of exposure after apparently locking herself out of her house when she went to sweep snow off her sidewalk. Her name was withheld pending notification of relatives. # Freezing rain brings Twin Cities to halt By GALE TOLLIN MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Sleet paralyzed Minneapolis and St. Paul Monday, halting traffic, closing schools, libraries and courts and making even walking treacherous -- just as the Twin Cities started to recover from last week's 10-inch snowfall. The freezing rain that slicked streets and highways with sheets of ice halted bus service, made cab companies cancel runs and delayed the opening of many downtown department stores, authorities said. Many schools and libraries closed in the metropolitan area of 2 million people. Minneapolis and St. Paul schools held classes but offered no busing. Jamie Arndt, 13, decided to walk the seven blocks to Southwest High School in Minneapolis rather than stay home. But a major street two blocks from her house looked like a skating rink. "I threw my backpack across the street on the ice, then got down on my hands and knees and crawled across," the eighth-grader said. She made it to school -- but students were sent home an hour later. Weather forecasters said the sleet began in the early morning hours as rain in the upper atmosphere where temperatures were about 36 degrees, then froze as it neared the ground where temperatures were about 30 degrees. A few of the 30,000 state employees made it to work, only to be sent home by 10 a.m. by state Public Safety Commissioner John P. Sopsic. The Federal Executive Board advised federal employees -- many of them due to be laid off because of the budget impasse in Washington -- not to even try to get to work. Agency heads were told to grant administrative leave to missing workers. Mail service was canceled. Harold Kalina, chief judge of Hennepin District Court, told the other 18 district judges and 17 municipal judges to stay home. "Never in my life" had the courts closed because of snow, said Kalina, 53. Air travel was stopped temporarily, as Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport halted landings for about a half-hour to let workers sand the runways. Sidewalks were reported as perilous as the streets. The St. Paul Fire Department, for example, said paramedics responded to 15 weather-related calls in a 4½-hour period -- most involving fractures suffered in falls. Relief was not in sight: Snow began falling Monday afternoon and the National Weather Service forecast 1 to 3 inches by evening. In parts of North Dakota and South Dakota, the situation was the same. Freezing temperatures turned rain into ice and snow, glazing the highways. # Major outage in Boston BOSTON -- An estimated 6,500 Boston Edison Co. customers in Boston lost power for up to 31 hours in a weekend blackout. The major outage in Boston was caused by an underground cable fire early Saturday morning that blacked out the Chinatown and garment districts, the downtown shopping center, the adult entertainment strip and parts of Beacon Hill. Electricity was restored to about half of the affected Boston customers by 11 a.m. Saturday, but power remained out in Chinatown and the X-rated "Combat Zone" until Sunday. No crime problems or injuries were reported during the black- === Page 94 of 278 UFOs & Projects # 12 die as storm sweeps Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press A wintry storm that left at least 12 people dead in a blitz across the Midwest laid siege to Michigan cities with foot-deep snows Friday. About 92,000 homes and businesses went dark in western Michigan as the heavy, wet snow -- up to 14 inches deep in places -- yanked down key power transmission lines. Many schools were forced to close. Driving on some highways was impossible. By late afternoon, power was restored to all but about 30,000 customers of Consumers Power Co. in rural areas north of Muskegon in western Michigan, utility spokesman Robert Wi meyer said, and it may be Sunday before power is restored to all custome Even snowplows were strande Muskegon Heights because doors at the city garage are electrically powered, and there was no power. In the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, crippled by an 11-inch snowfall earlier in the week, 77,000 residents remained without electricity for a second day, and utility officials said it might be Sunday before full service is restored. The storm, which swept through the Twin Cities Wednesday night and Thursday, was ranked "somewhere in the top 10" among the worst storms in state history, radar specialist Ranier Dombrowsky of the National Weather Service said. Snowfall officially measured 10.4 inches, the most to fall on the Twin Cities within a 24-hour period since 1966, the weather service said. The snow contributed to the collapse of the inflated fabric dome of the new Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, future home of the Minnesota Vikings. The storm was moving toward central and southwestern Ontario Friday evening and was expected to bring 2-4 inches of snow in some areas. A spokesman for Environment Canada said the brunt of the storm was to hit the Georgian Bay and Haliburton regions. Michigan communities hardest hit by the power outages were rural areas north of Muskegon, and Grand Rapids, Cadillac, Big Rapids and Clare. Muskegon got 6-10 inches of snow while the weather service at Ann Arbor measured 12.3 inches at Hesperia, northeast of Muskegon, and 14 inches in Roscommon County. The storm also brought the first measurable snow of the season to neighboring Indiana, but brutal winds were the big problem in the Hoosier state. In southern Indiana, authorities estimated damage at nearly $500,000 from tornadoes and severe thunder storms that preceded the cold front. Communities around Lake Michigan got a couple of inches of snow. Up to 8 inches of snow fell in parts of Wisconsin Thursday night as winds gusted to 41 mph. Temperatures were in the mid-20s in some areas, but the wind-chill factor made it feel more like 2 degrees, officials said. Iowa had up to 3 inches of snow. At least 10 people died in the snowstorm's march out of the West. Police in Lincoln, Neb., said Mabel B. Yaney, 91, died of exposure Thursday after accidentally locking herself out of her home. Slushy roads led to an accident that killed two teen-agers near Marshall (Note: Where I live. Gwen.) # Power nearly restored Journal Vancouver Bureau 10/28/81 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- All but about 50 Clark County Public Utility District customers had their power restored Tuesday following the weekend storm that knocked out power for more than 40,000 Clark County customers. All power was expected to be restored Wednesday, said PUD spokesman Mick Shutt, who estimated the damage at $325,000. "In terms of the number of customers without power, it was our largest o" said Shutt, noting that about 45 percent of power was out at the height of the shortage. "But in terms of damage, it was one of the smaller ones in the Columbia River Gorge." UFOs & Projects # Power cut to 9,400 users HOOD RIVER -- Electric service to several mid-Columbia communities in Oregon and Washington was interrupted for as much as an hour Tuesday morning after a fuse on a transformer bank blew up, cutting off power to the Bonneville Power Administration's 115-kilovolt line to the Hood River substation. BPA spokesman Gene Tollefson said the malfunction was caused by a power surge. Utility officials estimated that outage affected about 5,000 Pacific Power & Light customers in the Hood River Valley and at Mosier; about 1,300 Hood River Electric Cooperative customers in Odell and on the east side of the Hood River Valley; and about 3,100 Klickitat County Public Utility District customers in White Salmon, Bingen, Glenwood, Trout Lake and Lyle. Traffic was blocked off in a half-mile radius around the Hood River substation for about 45 minutes after the malfunction because the power line had dropped onto eight nitrogen bottles and utility officials feared an explosion. The power outage also raised pressure in the Hood River Water District and part of the Ice Fountain Water District above normal levels. A water main in the city of Hood River burst from the change in water pressure, several residences had flooded basements and water customers were told to check their water-pressure regulators to be sure they were functioning properly. Tollefson said BPA crews and utility crews transferred the electricity load to an alternate power source to restore service. He said the transformer bank was expected to be repaired by late Tuesday. UFOs & Projects # Lights still out in Washington Story on Page One also By The Associated Press Homeowners and utility crews labored Sunday to clean up debris and repair damage from a ferocious windstorm that caused two weekend deaths and severe coastal flooding in Washington state. A storm warning for more dangerously high winds was downgraded to gale warnings with gusts up to 55 mph Sunday in Southwest Washington. Officials said 50 to 60 people were evacuated because of flooding at high tide Saturday in Raymond, Wash., along the coast. Several dozen more people had to leave their homes for as long as three hours in Moclips, a motel was flooded in Pacific Beach, and at least one home was flooded in the Dungeness area near Sequim near the northern corner of the Olympic Peninsula. The Tacoma Narrows bridge across Puget Sound and the Evergreen Point floating bridge between Seattle and the suburbs east of Lake Washington were closed for several hours Saturday. U.S. 101 was reopened after being closed by high water near Cosmopolis and a mud slide near Lilliwaup. Service was halted for varying periods on three Amtrak routes, and debris on the tracks caused delays of several hours in Amtrak passenger trains. In Western Washington, power outages knocked out radio and KREM television stations in Spokane and for periods ranging from 10 to 45 minutes. Curtis of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., the largest private utility in Western Washington and the one most hard-hit by the storm, said 150 five-man crews worked to restore electricity to 30,000 customers Sunday. At one point Saturday, more than 250,000 people were without power. Curtis said 12,000 of those still without power Sunday were in the Seattle suburbs from Mercer Island Bellevue north to Woodinville, with another 7,000 to 8,000 on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound and the rest scattered in various areas. "It's kind of bad around Tenino and Tumwater" in Thurston County, she said. Except for Bainbridge Island, where six feeder lines for various neighborhoods were out, the last outages were "very scattered but ... very widespread," she said. Most long-lasting outages involved large amounts of debris to be cleared or hard-to-locate trees and branches across power lines serving small numbers of homes and businesses, she said. She added that she knew of no critical situations from power outages. 11/18/81 === Page 95 of 278 UFOs 6 Projects # Major storm lashes Oregon, California coasts Ore. 11/14/81 A major storm pounded the southern Oregon coast Friday night, leaving many homes without power, many downed trees, some roofs blown away and U.S. 101 closed between Gold Beach and Port Orford. Police from Coos Bay south to Brookings reported no serious injuries from the storm, which moved up the coast from California. Six-thousand residents of Brookings and Harbor, both in Curry County, were without power Friday night, and service was not expected to be restored until Sunday, said Cliff Denzine, district manager of Coos-Curry Electric Co-op. Dozens of trees were blown onto power lines during the storm, causing the outages, he said. Jerry Youngberg, a National Weather Service forecaster in Portland, said the storm "is a honey" but would not be as severe as the Columbus Day storm of Oct. 12, 1962. Curry County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Foster reported from Gold Beach that winds were in the 70 mph range, with gusts up to 80 and 85, and he said, There are power outages all over the place. Gusts as strong as 90 mph were reported at Brookings. Foster said the peak of the storm was expected to hit about midnight Friday, and there probably would be some flooding during the 2 a.m. high tide. He reported one mobile home blown over, and the roof of the Hillstrom Building at Brookings blown away. The building, owned by the Curry County port, houses North Coast Electronics Co. Coos County Sheriff's Deputy Sharon Kellogg reported lowland flooding in the Coos Bay area, winds between 50 and 75 mph and "phones ringing off the wall" because of power outages and downed trees. Curry County Sheriff's Deputy Gene Anderson reported heavy storm damage in the Port Orford and Langlois areas, with slight flooding, several automobile accidents caused by the storm and several persons stranded in their homes. The weather service expected the storm to continue its northern movement and to reach Warrenton on the northern Oregon coast by about 1 a.m. Saturday. The storm, which earlier hit the Northern California coast, had been headed eastward most of the afternoon but "curled northward pretty fast" about 4 p.m., Youngberg said. The center of the storm was about 100 miles west of Newport about 10 p.m. It was expected to move up past the mouth of the Columbia River about 1 a.m., he said. It had reached its maximum intensity Friday night and would continue toward Northwest Washington. Strong, southerly winds, possibly gusting to 55 mph, were forecast overnight in the Portland metropolitan area, with a 70 percent chance of rain Saturday. No major nautical mishaps were reported along the coast during the day, although communication was choppy between Coast Guard stations because of the wind. A major power outage blackened thousands of homes at Crescent City, Calif., and surrounding Del Norte County, just below the Oregon border. Leonard Bacon, a spokesman for Pacific Power & Light Co., said the storm had knocked out all three transmission lines into the coastal town from 5 to 7 p.m. An estimated 12,000 customers were without power. Bacon said the company was working to repair other large outages in Medford, Cottage Grove and Albany. "It's a rough one," said Crescent City fire chief Bob Wakefield, who sat in his darkened home listening to a battery-operated radio scanner. Del Norte County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Harrah said a double shift of deputies had been put on duty during the storm. UFOs 6 Projects # Upstate N.Y. coated # Snow blamed in 3 deaths By United Press International Ore J 12/11/81 A wide-ranging storm dumped more snow Friday on upstate New York, already buried by as much as 2 feet, and added to a 20-inch accumulation in the Maryland mountains. At least three deaths were blamed on the nightmare traffic conditions created by the snow. "We could very easily have another foot by morning before it starts to taper off," Pete Chaston, head of the National Weather Service at the Rochester-Monroe County Airport in upstate New York, said Thursday. He said the 24.8-inch snowfall brought by the storm, which reached into the upper Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic, was the worst since Feb. 5-6 in 1978, when 25 inches blanketed the area. Another 10 inches of snow was expected Friday in Maryland, where high winds compounded the weather misery. "We've got a near-blizzard here," Cpl. Dan Moore, of the state police detachment in McHenry. "Most of the roads are impassable, and people are barely able to make it over the mountains." "The main thing we're trying to do is keep people off the roads. The ones who are driving are really taking a chance." Sunshine broke through in Southern California Thursday for the first time in six days when a frigid storm system moved that area listlessly. But the storm schedules the first flights of the international Pacific Coast Highway. A heavy Ventura County line, California Highway Patrol Officer Gerry Enright said as spray no damage was reported. the storm zero in at Austin ted. 11/28/81 The Rochester storm was "pure lake effect," Chaston said, worsened by a low pressure system that had stalled in the Atlantic. "The lake effect mechanism is now locked into place," he said. Interstate Route 490, the main east-west artery that carries winter vacationists into downtown Rochester, was called a "nightmare." "One fact saving us is that we're completely paralyzed," Chaston said. "It's been strong, but the wind hasn't been a department with the wind. It was a frigid 6 degrees in the mid-forge zero posted across southern Montana." Temperatures dropped into the teens and below from Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska, with readings below zero posted across southern Montana. It was a frigid 6 degrees in the middle of the afternoon Friday in Jackson, Wyo. Another Minnesota snowstorm, which left 10 inches north of Duluth on Thanksgiving Day, delighted John D. Grew, who said most people were caught unprepared. Grew repairs snowplows. "I love it," he said. "This is one of the best snowfalls in the last few years. I need it. I've been near starving up here." The Minneapolis and St. Paul area was crippled with an 11-inch snowstorm last week, followed by an ice storm that blacked out much of the region. Friday's storm swooping down from the Gulf of Alaska soaked Southern California overnight, causing minor mudslides along a 30-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway south of the Ventura County line, California Highway Patrol Officer Gerry Enright said no damage was reported. # Storm brings snow, slides to California UFOs 6 Projects 2/2/81 By The Associated Press A Pacific storm hit the West Coast Friday, building snow a foot deep in the Sierra Nevada and touching off the season's first coastal mud slides in Southern California. Temperatures dropped into the teens and below from Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska, with readings below zero posted across southern Montana. It was a frigid 6 degrees in the middle of the afternoon Friday in Jackson, Wyo. Another Minnesota snowstorm, which left 10 inches north of Duluth on Thanksgiving Day, delighted John D. Grew, who said most people were caught unprepared. Grew repairs snowplows. "I love it," he said. "This is one of the best snowfalls in the last few years. I need it. I've been near starving up here." The Minneapolis and St. Paul area was crippled with an 11-inch snowstorm last week, followed by an ice storm that blacked out much of the region. Friday's storm swooping down from the Gulf of Alaska soaked Southern California overnight, causing minor mudslides along a 30-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway south of the Ventura County line, California Highway Patrol Officer Gerry Enright said no damage was reported. At least three deaths were blamed on the nightmare traffic conditions created by the snow. One man was killed in a wreck by a truck on a snow-slicked lane by McHenry, Md., state trooper C. Hollingsworth said. The engine road and part of the car appeared to be of the car appeared to be because of the glare from the snow lights. A week heavy snows and ice were blamed for one traffic death in Ohio. Other weather-related deaths included one each in Pennsylvania and New York and two in California in heavy fog. === Page 96 of 278 UFOs & Projects # Nine die in assault of storms Boise, Id. 11/16/81 By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Seaborn storms assaulted the nation from two sides Sunday in a continuing siege that has claimed nine lives, left six people missing, disabled ships, ruined beaches and toppled trees. Gale winds, boiling waves and floodtides swept in from the Atlantic and the Pacific. Seawalls crumbled. Roads were awash. Ships the size of football fields were left adrift or aground. The white sands of resort beaches returned to the sea. "The city simply cannot fight the Atlantic Ocean," Mayor Dave Brown said in Cocoa Beach, Fla., where the weekend's onslaught claimed three miles of beach. "When it moves in, it moves in." National Weather Service personnel said the howler that swept in Friday night and Saturday morning was the worst windstorm to hit the West Coast since Columbus Day in 1962. The worst damage was reported in Oregon, where winds were clocked Saturday at 90 mph. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest had their power knocked out. Crews arrived from inland states to help fix the lines, but other homes went dark Sunday as a third storm moved in. Sunday's storm did not pack the fury of the earlier storms. No serious damage was reported, but it interrupted utility crews and others who were repairing the damage from the earlier storm. Rain and winds began diminishing Sunday afternoon, and clearing was expected to continue Monday, the National Weather Service said. In one dramatic episode, friends of a 50-year-old Vancouver, Wash., paralyzed polio victim took turns Saturday hand-pumping a respirator to keep the woman alive for two hours until an emergency generator was located. Off the Atlantic coast, where a "potentially dangerous" storm was working its way slowly northward toward New England on Sunday, large ships were in trouble. In New Jersey, high winds and tides broke up the pavement of a 300-foot stretch of roadway leading to the Gateway National Park at Sandy Hook. The Coast Guard said a tanker loaded with 25,000 barrels of liquefied asphalt was aground off Hampton, Va., while a 300-foot barge loaded with 400 tons of liquid fertilizer was adrift off Cape Hatteras, N.C., after it snapped loose from its tow ship. Another barge, hauling 70,000 barrels of asphalt, was taken in tow off Virginia after drifting for 12 hours. The storms also took a toll in lives. Two people were killed in Oregon over the weekend when trees fell on their homes and a third died of an apparent heart attack while trying to get out of a crushed mobile home, authorities said. Two people -- one in Oregon and one in Washington -- were killed when they picked up live power lines snapped by the storm. Another man was killed in a weather-related traffic accident outside Portland. A 48-year-old elk hunter was killed Saturday when a tree fell on his tent in the Goat Rocks Wilderness about seven miles southeast of Packwood, Wash. A Coast Guard pilot was killed Saturday when his helicopter crashed off the Oregon coast in 60-knot winds and 30-foot seas during a search for a missing fishing boat. In Vancouver, British Columbia, where thousands of homes remained without power Sunday and gale-force winds felled hundreds of trees, a 28-year-old woman was killed when a tree two feet in diameter crashed into her car. UFOs & Projects # High water responsible for damage By BETTY BUTLER Correspondent, The Oregonian Oreg 11/17/81 ABERDEEN, Wash. -- Flooding was the major cause of damage in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties from the wild weekend storm that battered the Washington and Oregon coasts. The highest tide on record had rescue workers wading chest high in water through the streets of Raymond, on Willapa Harbor, and the water level in parts of Aberdeen, on Grays Harbor, approached the Army Corps of Engineers' 100-year flood level. Despite flooding, uprooted trees and other wind damage -- and long power outages in both counties -- there was no loss of life and apparently no serious injuries. Flood water on Willapa Harbor crested at Raymond at 16.8 feet Saturday afternoon, the highest tide ever recorded, said Port of Willapa Harbor Manager Marshall S. Briggs. Many families in low-lying areas were evacuated Saturday night to emergency centers or to stay with friends, but most were back in their own houses as the flood waters receded Sunday afternoon. At the mouth of Willapa Bay, the high tide and breakers crashing over a sea wall put most of Tokeland under water. The century-old Tokeland Hotel sustained heavy damage to floors, rugs and furnishings and is closed until it can be cleaned up, owners Betty and Al Smith said. Some families on Aberdeen's south side were evacuated to a school Saturday afternoon, and traffic was closed in much of the city because streets were running curb to curb in water. The Chehalis River nearly reached stores of the Wishkah Mall, where City Engineer Rudy Balgaroo said the high water mark approached the level established by the Corps of Engineers as a flood that can be expected once in 100 years. Some areas still were without power Monday morning, as public utility district crews in both counties labored around the clock to restore lines taken out by falling trees. Telephone service and cable television slowly were being restored. Erosion damage was reported at Grays Harbor's north jetty, and the Coast Guard at Westport was investigating whether the heavy seas had caused damage to the south jetty. Flood damage, however, was minimal in the town of Westport. === Page 97 of 278 - UFOs & Projects - # Floods ravage N. Texas, Oklahoma By DAVID L. LANGFORD The Associated Press Floodwaters deep enough to drown an elephant poured through cowtowns and oil cities in Texas and Oklahoma on Tuesday, knocking houses off their foundations and chasing hundreds of people to higher ground. Relentless rains of up to 18 inches overflowed streams in water-logged northern Texas and southern Oklahoma, washing into homes and across highways as deep as 15 feet. People scrambled to their rooftops and into trees awaiting rescue boats and helicopters. Some towns were virtually cut off from the outside. There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but officials said they feared who might be found in flooded creeks, cars and homes. In Abilene, Texas, where some residents were evacuated, city workers were using a front-end loader to declare a path through the water for the National Guard. The storm hit Gainesville, Texas, last of all. Water from a creek rose so fast that it trapped a 15-year-old elephant, a camel and two black bears in their cages at the Frank Buck Zoo, drowning them. The water rose so fast owners of a nearby mobile home park had to flee, leaving their cars behind. In Lone Grove, Oklahoma, about 100 miles north of Gainesville, luck ran out for some people. "We've got people on top of houses, trees, everywhere," said Carter County Sheriff's Deputy Bill Ricketts. "You can't get to them." In Gainesville, more than 15 inches of rain fell, more than 100 homes were flooded, including a 50-unit apartment complex, and 200 persons were evacuated from a residential area northwest of the city. Ross Tamplin, director of public works in Gainesville, said dozens of animals were killed -- including an elephant, a camel and two black bears -- when more than 15 feet of water flowed over the Frank Buck Zoo. Abilene police in buses and rescue workers in boats sought out trapped residents as the water rose 10 feet deep in some areas of the city. Some 150 families were evacuated. In Lone Grove, Oklahoma, every creek in the county is overflowing at this time." Oklahoma National Guard troops were sent to Lone Grove and Ardmore to help rescue residents from the water. Two helicopters were sent from Fort Sill to Lone Grove to help save lives. Traffic was halted on several major highways in Texas and Oklahoma, and officials said it probably would be several days before the water receded. Most of the residents in that area left voluntarily, police and fire officials said, although firefighters moved through the area in a boat and helped one stranded resident leave. Ten streets were closed Monday night by the high water. It was the second time this year that homes in the area were threatened by high water in the wake of heavy rains, but officials said the week of Oct. 13 was more severe than that from Saturday's rains. "We had water five to 10 feet deep in homes along the shore (of Eagle Mountain Lake west of Fort Worth) after the Oct. 13 rains," said Tarrant County District Supervisor Ben Hickey. - UFOs & Projects - # Floodwaters rout Texas residents DALLAS (AP) -- More than a dozen homes and businesses were evacuated along the rising Trinity River after more than 9 inches of rainfall in some areas of north Texas, authorities said. The heavy rains were estimated to have caused more than $1 million in damage to highways, J.R. Stone, district engineer for the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, said Monday. Officials in Tarrant County, west of Fort Worth, estimated that 15 homes and 15 commercial buildings were evacuated in a flood plain of northwest Dallas and said the water probably would be waist-deep before the river crested. - UFOs & Projects - # Floods kill 2, threatens dam in Oklahoma By United Press International A state of emergency was declared for Oklahoma because of rushing floodwaters that swept two men to their deaths and left up to 5 feet of water in some homes. More than 7 inches of rain fell in north Texas, where 500 people were evacuated. Acting Oklahoma Gov. Spencer Bernard declared the state of emergency following a downpour Friday that threatened to wash away an earthen dam and for south of Coalgate, authorities said. A flash flood emergency was declared for parts of Utah and Colorado. Heavy snow fell in parts of Utah and Colorado. National Guard troops were ordered to help evacuate residents of Sherman, Tex., where flood waters reached the second story of some buildings. "We're having hell," said a Sherman police dispatcher. "We've evacuated about 150 people so far. They're being taken to the Municipal Building. West Sherman is under water." The National Weather Service reported from 3 to 5 inches of rain fell over north and northwest Texas. Floodwaters from earlier storms had begun to recede Thursday, but driving rains pounded the South Plains late in the day and authorities said five people were killed in highway accidents. - UFOs & Projects - # More storms hit soaked Texas By United Press International A new storm system besieged rain-soaked Texas early Thursday, pouring more than an inch of rain an hour onto some parts of the state. At least six people have died in torrential rains that have caused more than $25 million in crop damage over the last four days. Rain spread east and north across much of the nation. Showers and thunderstorms doused the nation's midsection from Oklahoma to Wisconsin, while light rain and drizzle were reported over the upper Great Lakes and the middle Mississippi Valley. A massive storm system pushed north of College Station, Texas, but officials worried about water runoff into two rivers in the area. "I'm sure we're going to get a lot of runoff into the Navasota and Brazos rivers," Brazos County Sheriff's Deputy Archie Clark aid. "I understand to the north of us, they were getting an inch of rain an hour at one time." County communications supervisor Mike Paulus said the sheriff's department had only one small boat to aid the county's 78,000 residents in the event of flooding. "To be honest, I'm scared as hell," he said late Wednesday. "We've never had this kind of potential for real damage. Brazos County is totally flat and surrounded by rivers." A 15-month-old boy was swept away by rising flood waters Wednesday in Bryan, Texas, when his 2-year-old sister opened the door to the family trailer and he fell out, Police Sgt. Mark Ricketson said. Five people drowned Tuesday in Tarrant County -- Dallas -- three motorists swept away in their cars and two young men drowned in separate incidents while floating in inner tubes. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown estimated the flooding across northern Texas has caused an estimated $25 million in damage to agriculture crops. Winter wheat and pecan crops were among the hardest hit. Forecasters were predicting scattered showers and thunderstorms over all of central and southern Texas through early Friday. Strong thunderstorms hit western Oklahoma late Wednesday evening, forcing the National Weather Service to issue severe thunderstorm warnings. Light to moderate snow moved into western Wyoming on Wednesday, leaving 3 inches of the white stuff on the ground by late afternoon. - UFOs & Projects - # New storms bring more Texas floods By United Press International A new wave of storms devastated parts of Texas and National Guard troops were activated to deal with a situation described as "hell." Heavy snow fell in parts of Utah and Colorado. National Guard troops were ordered to help evacuate residents of Sherman, Tex., where flood waters reached the second story of some buildings. "We're having hell," said a Sherman police dispatcher. "We've evacuated about 150 people so far. They're being taken to the Municipal Building. West Sherman is under water." The National Weather Service reported from 3 to 5 inches of rain fell over north and northwest Texas. Floodwaters from earlier storms had begun to recede Thursday, but driving rains pounded the South Plains late in the day and authorities said five people were killed in highway accidents. === Page 98 of 278 Quakes rattle High Sierra MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- Two sharp earthquakes knocked out power, silenced phones and sent rock slides thundering down the rugged High Sierra early Wednesday at the height of deer hunting season. No injuries were reported, but helicopters searched for five hunters in the Convict Canyon area, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Richard Paust, who added that the slides occurred in an area hunters do not usually frequent. The temblors, at 4:53 a.m. and 6:06 a.m., were measured at 5.8 and 5.5 on the Richter scale. They were the sharpest quakes to hit the area since May 1980, when a swarm of quakes ranging up to 6.5 on the Richter scale injured nine people. The Richter scale is a measurement of ground motion recorded by a seismograph. Each increase of one number reflects a tenfold increase in magnitude, so a reading of 7.5 shows a quake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake measuring 6 can cause severe damage, and a quake measuring 7 is considered "major." The first quake, centered four miles west of Mammoth, knocked out power for about an hour at the Mono County sheriff's substation in Crowley and briefly in Crowley Lake and at Mammoth Lakes airport. At the sheriff's station in Mammoth, Deputy Terry Gardner said phone service was out for about an hour. The quake was felt as far away as Fresno, about 150 miles northwest of Mammoth, and as far as Lancaster in Los Angeles County, department officials said. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power personnel were monitoring the Crowley Lake dam, though an initial check found no damage. "There's a big lake behind this dam. If the dam went it would send a lot of water down to Bishop," Paust said. He said major roads remained open but there were "some pretty big" rock slides in Convict Canyon that thrown up a cloud of heavy dust. "Right now there is just an incredible amount of dust coming out of canyon," he said. "A local resident says there's more dust than with the '80 quakes." "It sure rattled us, I'll tell you. In a way, it's kind of scary," said Mammoth Lakes resident Betty Swenson. "I'm waiting for the next one." # Earthquake Area ![Map showing San Francisco, Bishop, Los Angeles, and the California/Nevada border area labeled Earthquake Area] **HANGING ON** -- Tommy Clark, a Gainesville, Texas, firefighter, hangs on for dear life as floodwaters almost sweep him away. He was able to hang onto a firehose tied to a tree and got out safely. Dramatic photo was taken by Barron Ludlum of the Dallas Times Herald. # Massive floods, twisters ravage wide Texas area FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -- Disaster workers and National Guardsmen patrolled the streets Wednesday in storm-ravaged north and central Texas towns where massive flooding forced thousands of people to flee their homes and was blamed for at least four deaths. Tornadoes that touched down in at least six counties Tuesday injured at least three people, including two Texas International employees at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. A twister that plowed through the roof of a Waco church ripped its beamed roof apart "like toothpicks." An elephant drowned in floodwaters that swirled through a Gainesville zoo. Across town, the surging tide swept a train from its tracks, but no one was injured. In Abilene, where more than 10 inches of rain fell Tuesday, Cedar Creek rose above its banks and houses in low-lying areas were swamped with up to 6 feet of water. Water reached to the rooftops of at least 30 homes in Lindsay, where 1,000 people were evacuated when officials feared the heavy rains would burst a dam at nearby Lake Sycamore -- one of three dams threatened by the flooding. In Breckenridge, where another 1,000 people were evacuated, Red Cross workers moved in to feed the homeless and distribute drinking water until the city's water supply could be restored Wednesday. Breckenridge residents organized watches to prevent looting and by nightfall, National Guard units were patrolling the streets. Salvation Army disaster units were sent from Wichita Falls, San Angelo, Dallas and Fort Worth to Henrietta, Abilene, Breckenridge and Gainesville to aid victims of the huge storm system -- a remnant of Hurricane Norma, which struck northern Mexico. By Tuesday afternoon, more than 50 percent of the roads in Richland Hills, a suburb of Fort Worth, were flooded. Two women from Springfield, Ill., were killed when their subcompact car was swept off a road by high water from Callow Branch Creek. === Page 99 of 278 Heavy rains, winds batter Northwest Heavy rains and gusty winds ushered in the weekend over much of the Northwest, causing spotty power outages and prompting flood warnings on several Oregon rivers Saturday night and Sunday morning. The Siuslaw River near Mapleton reached flood stage Saturday night and was expected to rise 4 feet above flood stage around early Sunday morning, while the south fork of the Coquille River at Myrtle Point was to rise over flood stage by 2 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Willamette River tributaries and streams, as well as the Chetco River in Curry County and smaller coastal rivers and streams, were expected to reach the full stage by early Sunday morning. The nasty weather resulted from a "small but intense" weather system that developed offshore Friday night and moved north along the Oregon and Washington coasts, the weather service said. The storm Saturday evening was centered near the Gulf of Alaska, with the front hanging over western Oregon. Mild temperatures, periods of heavy rain and gusty winds were expected to continue Sunday in Portland and most of Western Oregon, with light rain and partly cloudy skies east of the Cascade Mountains. Heavy rains were pelting the Eugene-Springfield area Saturday night, prompting widespread flood warnings as the area's creeks and streams rose. Forecaster Frank Nishimoto said the rivers were high before the storm, and that the heavy rain pushed water levels toward the flood stage Saturday. In the Portland area, Johnson Creek overflowed its banks at midday Saturday at the Sycamore gauge station near Southeast Foster Road. It was expected to remain at about 11 feet -- 3 feet above the flood stage -- overnight. Flood warnings were issued Saturday night for the Clackamas River at Clackamas and for the Nehalem and Wilson river basins in Tillamook County. Warnings also were issued for the Luckiamute River at Suver in Polk County, the Marys River at Philomath in Benton County, the Tualatin River at Dilley in Washington County and the South Yamhill River near Whiteson in Yamhill County. Most of those rivers had neared or reached flood stage by midevening Saturday. Gales Creek near Forest Grove spilled over onto Highway 47 Saturday night, the weather service said. Beaverton reported heavy rainfall -- up to 1.79 inches, the weather service said. continued along the Oregon coast, where winds of 35 to 45 knots were reported by many U.S. Coast Guard stations. The Columbia River bar was closed to marine traffic, with seas swelling to 18 feet Saturday night, the Coast Guard station in Astoria reported. The storm early Saturday brought 35- to 45-knot winds inland to the Willamette Valley and Portland. Spokesmen for both Portland General Electric Co. and Pacific Power & Light Co. reported "spotty" power outages in the Portland area. Leonard Bacon, a PP&L spokesman, said most of his company's outages resulted from tree limbs falling on power lines. He said power was restored to most of the 1,500 customers affected by early Saturday afternoon. Wave ruins boat, fishing crew safe VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Rescued after drifting 54 hours without provisions in a life raft, a fishing boat captain said he and his crew abandoned ship after a freak wave destroyed the wheelhouse. In a radio-telephone interview from a fishing boat that rescued him and his 10 crewmen, Allan Farrington, 24, said he and his 10 crewmen were in good shape. "The mate is suffering a bit of dehydration but that's all -- he'll be OK," Farrington said. The men were picked up Wednesday about 15 miles from their drifting vessel, the Jeanna Marie, by the fishing boat Sea Prince. The Sea Prince, towing the 100-foot Jeanna Marie, was heading for Port Hardy. Meanwhile, a U.S. Coast Guard official at Alert Bay said the crew did not cut off the Jeanna Marie's generator and pumps when they left here. Their catch -- 170,000 pounds of black cod valued at about $200,000 -- did not spoil, he said. Ships were alerted Monday to watch for the vessel. She was sighted off Cape St. James Wednesday by a Canadian Armed Forces plane and the nearby Sea Prince was sent to the rescue. Farrington estimated that winds were blowing at 100 mph when "the wave came and tore everything off the top of the wheelhouse and pushed everything back about 10 inches. "We lost our radio and then the engine stalled and she went broadside. She just about rolled over... so it was time to get off." Storms batters Puget Sound SEATTLE (AP) -- It ripped up trees, knocked down power lines, flooded streets and tipped over sailboats. Sunday afternoon's Puget Sound area thunderstorm -- accompanied by heavy rain and scattered lightning -- left no doubt that summer is over. The short, intense storm was "relatively rare" for the Northwest, said Kim Scattarella, a meteorologist in Seattle. The storm knocked out power temporarily for about 5,000 residents of Seattle's north end. Trees in the area fell on power lines and, in some cases, on automobiles, emergency crews reported. The north end apparently was Seattle's hardest-hit area, with Seattle City Light crews reporting winds up to 50 mph. In Kirkland, Bothell and Woodinville, about 8,000 homes lost power for an hour and 40 minutes, said a Puget Sound Power & Light Co. spokeswoman. Phones were also reported out in a few scattered areas east of Lake Washington. The winds also tipped some sailboats in Lake Union and Shilshole Bay. The Coast Guard uprighted one craft after it had turned a half mile offshore. Two occupants were rescued by a nearby pleasure boat. The storm disrupted the annual Seattle Yacht Club Keelboat Regatta as well as sports competitions and other activities at Seattle's Volunteer Park, where the Puget Sound area's biggest celebration by gay people was underway. Motorists skidded along Interstate 5, producing a few fender-bender accidents, but no injuries, the State Patrol reported. Rains sent a mudslide down Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, closing an underpass for four hours. === Page 100 of 278 AIRPORT BUFFETED - High wind battered Hartsfield International Airport early Friday, damaging up to 20 airplanes, including some passenger airliners. At least six ground crewmen were injured. The gusts, accompanied by rain and lightning, stemmed from a cold front sweeping through Georgia. SLIPPERY GOING - Heavy snow in Minneapolis Wednesday night and Thursday morning turns a bicyclist into a pedestrian. # Freak high waves slam into Coast GEARHART - Two high waves washed the beach here Tuesday, partially submerging cars, knocking about clam diggers and leaving one woman with a broken arm, Gearhart police reported. The first "sneaker swell" at 3:50 p.m. pushed 40 to 50 people around and caused about 30 cars to be towed off the beach 2 1/2 miles north of Gearhart, according to Diane Smith, police dispatcher for Seaside, Gearhart and Cannon Beach. A second wave at 4:15 p.m. at Gearhart resulted in the same problems involving 70 people and more cars, Smith said. The first wave was about 1 1/2 hours before low tide. High waves also swept the beach at Seaside, but they were not as hazardous, and the sea at Cannon Beach remained calm, Smith reported. Police advised people to stay off beaches at Gearhart and Seaside until the stormy sea subsides. The problem involved mainly rough water, Smith said, explaining that wind in the Gearhart area was blowing only about 15 to 20 mph during the first wave and were calmer during the second one. Weather otherwise was just misty, she noted. Rick Holtz of the National Weather Service at Astoria said Wednesday morning the waves might have been a result of the combination of earthquakes off California Tuesday afternoon and the storm which has been brewing in the eastern Pacific Ocean the past several days. # 2 killed as snowstorm rips through Midwest By DAVID L. LANGFORD of The Associated Press The season's first major snowstorm plastered the Midwest with up to a foot of wind-blown snow Thursday, snapping power lines, sending cars careening into ditches and causing at least two deaths. "This storm has the potential of being one of the most dangerous that Minnesota has experienced in several years," said a forecaster at the National Weather Service in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 11 inches of snow had accumulated. An "intense" major storm system centered over southeast Iowa spread snows over much of Iowa, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas. In the Twin Cities, the heavy, wet snow toppled trees onto power lines, knocking out power to 30,000 homes. It caused the roof of the new Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, a stadium being built as the home of the Minnesota Vikings professional football team, to sag. Slippery roads caused numerous traffic accidents across the Midwest. Two teen-agers were killed when their car collided with another car on a slushy highway about 10 miles north of Marshall, Minn., on Wednesday evening. The victims were identified as Brian Martin, 18, and Keith Paradis, 17. The weather service in Minnesota reported 10 inches in parts of St. Paul, 9 inches in Young America, 8 inches in Minneapolis, 7 inches in Chaska and 6 inches in Rockford and Stillwater. In Nebraska, wind speeds were averaging 20 mph to 35 mph, with the Norfolk weather station clocking a blast at 50 mph. High winds in Crete, Neb., snapped power lines, leaving about one-fourth of the community without electricity for several hours. The Nebraska State Patrol said all of the state's roads Thursday were either packed with ice and snow or were wet and slippery. By noon Thursday, Omaha police had been called to more than 30 minor traffic accidents. Livestock warnings were posted for southwest Nebraska and northern Kansas because of chill factors brought on by the strong, northerly winds and cold air. In Des Moines, Iowa, an employee at the Marks Discount Tire Center said the business in snow tires was brisk. It was 29 degrees in Sioux City, Iowa, but winds gusting more than 30 mph caused a wind chill factor of 1 below zero. In Wisconsin, where temperatures were expected to drop as low as 12 degrees during the night, snow accumulations of 4 to 6 inches were forecast. === Page 101 of 278 Weaker, wetter storm en route to Oregon Staff photo by JOEL DAVIS CURLED STEEL -- A crew at Tanasbourne Mall, 2700 N.W. 185th Ave., put a temporary roof on the building Monday after about one-third of the corrugated steel sheeting was pulled back by wind early Saturday. About $150,000 in damage was done to the roof, to offices and a Safeway store which sustained water damage and a steel roof girder bent by a lightning bolt during the storm, according to Standard Insurance Co., mall owner. mall By VICTORIA MARTIN and LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff A third Pacific storm, bound for the Oregon coast and inland from the coast of Northern California, will be the "wettest and weakest" of the series that hit the state with a vengeance during the weekend, according to a forecaster with the National Weather Service. Don Northrop said at noon Monday that forecasters were "downplaying" earlier assessments that the new front could pack the punch of the storm that hit the region Friday and Saturday, causing 10 deaths and an undetermined amount of property damage. Gale warnings remained posted for the coast, but inland winds are expected to reach only 20 to 30 mph, Northrop said. Heavy rain is expected. Sen. Dell Isham, D-Lincoln City, has asked the governor to declare Lincoln and Tillamook counties disaster areas, thereby making residents eligible for some assistance from the Farmers Home Administration and the Small Business Administration, said Harvey L. Latham, administrator of the Oregon Emergency Management Division. Utility company spokesman Monday reported about 18,000 customers throughout Western Oregon were still without electricity. Service was expected to be restored to most homes by nightfall Monday, but some isolated areas may have to wait as long as Wednesday. Portland General Electric Co., which serves most of Portland, had restored service to all but 11,300 customers across the state by Monday morning, said spokesman Bruce Landrey. "Problems are scattered throughout the system, and it just takes time to get to individual customers," Landrey said. "Some customers will still be without power Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, depending on the severity of the storm that hits us Monday." Pacific Power & Light Co. had made service available to all but 7,000 customers, about 400 of those in Portland, by noon Monday, said Leonard Bacon, company spokesman. Most of the customers should have electricity again by Monday night, except about 500 customers in the Lincoln City area, he said. About 850 outages still were reported Monday in the Stayton and Sweet Home rural areas, though service was restored to Cottage Grove. A group of grateful dairy farmers on Dairy Creek Road northwest of Forest Grove had power restored Sunday night and were able to resume milking, said Ruth Shoepe, coordinator of emergency planning for Washington County. Those in the county still without power include some homeowners on Skyline Boulevard, in the Raleigh Hills area and in small areas of Aloha and Beaverton, she said. The Clark County (Wash.) Public Utility District still had about 1,700 customers without power, said spokesman Mick Shutt. The district Monday afternoon supplied dry ice to affected customers for their refrigerators and freezers at Amboy Thriftway and the PUD operations center, 8600 N.E. 117th Ave. Two young women injured early Sunday at 3905 S.W. 57th Ave. remained in the Oregon Burn Center at Emanuel Hospital Monday. Kari L. Hartman, 2613 S.W. Bound St., was in critical condition after surgeons amputated her leg following an accident that killed Marjorie A. Jessee, who apparently stepped on a downed power line. Karen E. Elstad of Eugene, involved in the same accident, was reported in serious condition Monday. Five Portland schools and an additional five in surrounding counties were closed Monday for lack of electricity. Craig Walker, spokesman for the Multnomah County Educational Service District. School officials don't know when classes will resume. "It depends..." === Page 102 of 278 Oregon and its sister coastal states braced Monday for the third major storm in a series that has left at least 18 persons dead and missing since Friday, caused millions of dollars in damage, interrupted power to thousands and resulted in several school closures. The National Weather Service in Portland said the new storm system was 500 miles off the central California coast early Monday, moving northeast about 40 mph. "We have no clear idea how much it will develop but it has the potential of being similar to Friday night's storm," said Frank Nishimoto of the weather service. "San Francisco has posted storm warnings for the north coast of California and we have posted them for Oregon. Washington has gale warnings in effect." A high-wind watch is in effect for the interior of Western Oregon for strong winds that could develop in the afternoon or evening Monday. Lake Oswego High School, five schools in Portland and other schools in Redland, Gervais and Salem were among those closed Monday as a result of back-to-back storms that raked the area with hurricane-force winds during the weekend. Power companies brought in crews from as far as Montana to help restore service to more than 300,000 customers. Most areas had power restored by Monday morning but an estimated 14,500 still were without service in outlying areas around Oregon City, Salem, Hillsboro, Silverton and Sheridan. Portland General Electric Co. was faced with replacing 32 poles on a three-mile stretch of the Silverton-Salem highway. State Sen. Del Isham, D-Lincoln City, said he would ask Gov. Vic Atiyeh to declare Lincoln and Tillamook counties disaster areas because of wind damage and power outages. The designation would make the Oregon National Guard available to preserve property and protect life and possibly could make some special funds available. Isham said many people began their third day without electricity Monday and he was "concerned that some of the elderly may be in extreme need of assistance." The Sunday storm was less severe than the killer storm which swept up the Coast and through the Willamette Valley Friday night and Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage in its wake. Even so, the Coast Guard station at Garibaldi reported wind of 95 to 100 miles per hour at mid-day Sunday, and gusts to 85 mph were reported at Astoria. The Astoria-Megler bridge across the Columbia River was closed Sunday afternoon because of the high wind. A slide closed Highway 101 near Arch Cape for a time Sunday afternoon and traffic on Highway 26 between the Coast and Portland was reduced to a single lane in two places. Roofs were torn from buildings, trees were blown across roads and streets and more than 300,000 electrical customers were left without power as wind up to 120 miles per hour ripped through Western Oregon. By Sunday that number had been reduced to less than 50,000 despite some additional outages. Six storm-related deaths occurred in Oregon and two were reported in Washington. Six people were missing off the Oregon and California coasts. The search for three women missing off the California coast was abandoned and the Coast Guard said it is unlikely they could survive. The search for the 45-foot fishing boat Christiana J, missing off the Oregon Coast with three men aboard, was suspended Sunday. The boat was about eight miles northwest of Coos Bay when it sent a call for help about 1 a.m. Saturday. Aboard the craft were Willis Easley, of Coos Bay, the operator, and crewmen Doug Johnson and T.J. Foley. That search claimed the life of the commander of the North Bend Coast Guard Air Station Saturday morning. Capt. Frank Olsen, 43, was the pilot of a search helicopter which crashed about one mile offshore. Olsen's body washed ashore and the other two helicopter crewmen were rescued. A Portland woman, Marjorie Anne Weisensee, 19, of 3905 SW 57th Ave., died Saturday night in an accident involving a storm-downed power line. Witnesses said the line struck a car carrying three women at SW 58th Ave. and Hamilton St. Weisensee and Keri Hartman, 19, of 2613 SW Broadway, leaped from the car. The witnesses said the power line wrapped itself around the car and around Hartman's right leg. The leg was amputated after she was taken to Emanuel Hospital by Life Flight helicopter. She was in critical condition Sunday. Karin Elizabeth Elstad, 18, who listed a Pacific Palisades, Calif., address, remained in the car. She also was taken to Emanuel by helicopter and was in serious condition Sunday. Melvin Denny, 50, was electrocuted as he attempted to remove a live electrical wire from his driveway at Hillsboro Saturday. Grady Scarbrough, 53, was crushed to death by a tree that smashed into his mobile home in Albany Saturday morning. Floyd Russell, 64, of Salem, apparently suffered a fatal heart attack after a tree fell on his trailer home near Waldport. Chip Nolan Hinckley, 35, of Banks, died in a two-car collision after he lost control of his vehicle on rain-slickened Highway 6 just west of its junction with Highway 26 in Washington County Saturday morning. In Washington, Frederick Fisk, 69, was electrocuted at his home on Maury Island in Puget Sound when he attempted to move a downed power line with a stick. Milo Gutschmidt, 48, of Bellvue, Wash., died when a tree fell on his tent in the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Lewis County, where he had gone hunting with his son, David, 24. David Gutschmidt suffered minor injuries but hiked four miles and drove 10 miles to Packwood to seek help from the U.S. Forest Service. Howard Moses, 54, of Auburn, Wash., died of massive head injuries Sunday morning when a large tree crashed through the roof of his home. Two Mukilteo, Wash., men, Steve Taylor, 31, and David Titus, 38, were missing and feared drowned after their boat capsized Sunday afternoon during a sailing race. Three women missing off the California coast were identified as Sherry Dozier, 25; Christine Tomlin and Susan Russell. The Coast Guard said the women were swept away in a lifeboat after abandoning the Richmond-based ketch Freedom II when the craft tore loose from its anchor 15 miles north of San Francisco Friday night. At the Coast Guard station at Garibaldi, Petty Officer Thomas Rhew said, "At one point between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Saturday we had sustained winds of 100 miles per hour at our station." He said gusts to 110 mph were recorded. Near Brookings, winds reached 120 mph. At Portland and Salem, winds peaked at 71 mph. The winds, combined with high tides and heavy rain caused flooding, which forced evacuation of some residents in Waldport and Bandon in Oregon and Raymond and the city of Willapa Bay in Washington. Flooding also was reported at Pacific City, Nehalem and Astoria. Residents elsewhere left their homes because they were without heat and light as a result of the widespread power outages. In Salem, residents of the northeast section of the city also were without water because of electrical failure in the pumping system. The loss of electrical power also caused dumping of 1 million gallons of raw sewage into the Willamette River early Saturday. Keith Bafarrow, the city's water and waste water superintendent, said two pump stations still were operating on emergency power Saturday evening but no more sewage had been released into the river. A center for people forced from their homes was opened at Depoe Bay's fire station Sunday but fewer than a dozen people had checked in by late in the afternoon. Heaviest rainfall in Oregon was recorded at Astoria, where 1.06 inches fell in the 24 hours ending Sunday at 4 a.m. Hoquiam, Wash., got 1.17 inches in the same period. === Page 103 of 278 Winds smash Washington again By The Associated Press Blustery winds raked the Pacific Northwest for the fourth day in a row Monday as utility crews scrambled to restore electricity to thousands of customers and city streets echoed with sounds of power saws biting into trees downed by the killer storm. The storm that began Friday left up to five men dead in Washington state and cut telephone service and power to more than 250,000 people during the weekend. Rain and 35 mph winds and higher gusts were predicted for Western Washington through Tuesday. Seas up to 12 feet high and winds gusting to more than 40 knots were expected along the coast Monday night. Some 20,000 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. customers remained without electricity Monday, said Chris Curtis, a utility spokeswoman. Hardest hit were Seattle area suburbs, where 5,200 customers were without power, she said. In the Spokane area of Eastern Washington, electricity was finally restored to hundreds of homes Sunday night, said Washington Water Power Co. officials. Extra crews were called in to repair power lines that fell during the storm, which the National Weather Service said gusted to 55 mph. Spokane police said winds tripped several false burglar alarms. In Seattle, wind-related troubles included an hourlong stranding Sunday of eight people in the elevator of Seattle's landmark Space Needle. "We're beginning to see the end of the rainbow, so to speak," said Puget Power spokesman Dave Adams as winds abated late Sunday. The weather service downgraded storm warnings on the coast to gale warnings and gale warnings on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound to small craft advisories late Sunday. The U.S. Coast Guard Monday suspended the search for two Mukilteo men who fell from the 30-foot sailboat "Raider" during a Sunday afternoon race off Gedney Island -- also called Hat Island -- in Puget Sound near Everett. Steve Taylor, 31, and Dave Titus, 38, disappeared after their boat was "knocked down" by a gust of wind, said Coast Guard Lt. David Glenn. Two other crewmen were still on the boat when it righted, he added. Taylor and Titus were not wearing life jackets and, unless the two made it to land, it is doubtful they could have survived in the cold, wind-chopped waters, Glenn said. That would make them the fourth and fifth Washington residents to die in the weekend storms. Howard Moses, 54, of the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, died of massive head injuries Sunday morning when a tree fell on him as he slept in the bedroom of his home near Auburn, said the King County Medical Examiner's office. No one else was hurt in the accident. The house, a one-story, wood-frame structure, was demolished. A Maury Island man was electrocuted by a downed wire Friday night and a Bellevue hunter was crushed to death by a tree that fell across his tent early Saturday. The Sunday storm hit just as homeowners and utility crews labored to clean up debris and repair damage from a Friday night and Saturday morning windstorm that caused two other deaths and coastal flooding. Sunday's gusts reached 75 mph on the state's southern coast and an unofficial 70 to 75 mph on Lake Washington, said a National Weather Service official in Seattle. Winds averaged 40 to 50 mph throughout much of Western Washington, he added. No-name storm gives less warning Possibly the second worst storm to strike Oregon in this century again proved that trees and high winds don't mix well. Whether it is winter ice that is bringing down large trees or hurricane-force winds, a major part of the problem is that the Pacific Northwest has a nondescript early warning system for storms. Considerable damage and possibly some lives might have been saved if Oregonians had received a clearer mental image Friday night of the kind of blow coming their way. Moreover, thousands of residents might have escaped being left long in the dark if trees near power lines had been topped, an expensive job that often is prevented by homeowners even when utilities attempt it. Also, many trees would have survived the recent ice storms and winds if they had been properly pruned when young. Storms like the 1962 Columbus Day blow, which did most of its damage in the Willamette Valley and let the Oregon Coast off more lightly, and the storm early Saturday that smashed the coast harder than it did the valley are rarely seen on land in these latitudes. Judging by the damage revealed in ancient trees, the Columbus Day blow may well have been the worst storm in 1,000 years to come ashore into Oregon. It is probable that last week's storm that brought 71-mph winds to Portland and gusts of more than 100 mph to the coastal regions will qualify as the second worst of this century both in terms of intensity and the big blow was not a hurricane in the lexicon of meteorologists, but it had hurricane-force winds (topping 73 mph). These may occur independently of hurricanes, which are officially limited to tropical cyclones found in the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and on the West Coast of Mexico. It would be helpful to have a dramatic name to describe severe storms in the eastern North Pacific. We need a familiar name that will give the public an instant mental image of the severity of the winds that can be expected -- a name that would trigger preparatory reflexes, such as lashing down shutters, double-securing boats, buying food, fuel and emergency lighting for use during power outages, bracing fragile nursery stock and other prestorm precautions. A big storm is called a typhoon in the western parts of the North and South Pacific, a willy-willy in Australia, a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and a cordonazo and hurricane off Mexico. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration needs to develop an internationally accepted name for the severe storms that have pounded the Pacific Northwest. Why not simply call them hurricanes? The public could instantly visualize the potential severity of a hurricane being tracked and take appropriate measures. It might even be helpful to personify any trackable cyclonic storm capable of generating hurricane-force winds === Page 104 of 278 UFOs & Projects note: A different storm struck Nov. 13 !! # Leaves, limbs, downed wires left behind in wake of windstorm THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 15, 1981 Staff photo by TOM TREICK HELPING HAND -- Unidentified friend of Marvin and Yolanda Watt, 3138 S.W. Fairmount Blvd. in Portland, carries chair from their home. Storm gutted home when roof blew off Saturday. By TOM HALLMAN JR. of The Oregonian staff oregonian Nov. 15, 1981 Trees sounded like the creaking of a rusty joint as utility poles swayed, performing an almost gentle dance with a roaring windstorm that blew into Portland early Saturday. Carpets of limbs, leaves and wires covered many Portland area streets and yards in the wake of a storm that invites inevitable comparisons with the 1962 Columbus Day storm, during which winds were clocked at 116 mph. Powered by a wind described by some as sounding like "thunder," heavy rains doused streets that were lighted only by an early morning gray sky because of massive power outages. There has been no official estimate of the wind speed, but Marvin Watt, 3138 S.W. Fairmount Blvd., said his wind gauge registered 95 mph when he and his wife fled their home about 3:45 a.m. Saturday, amid chunks of falling sheet rock. When the couple returned about 6 a.m., they found the roof of their home had been ripped off and 20-foot chunks blocked one lane of the boulevard. "I can't believe it," Watt said, as he carried out of the home what furniture was salvageable. "The power went off about 2:30 a.m. and I looked at the wind gauge and it read 85 mph." he said. "I went and woke up my wife and told her we had to leave. I could here the nails creaking in the roof. "Just before we left, I looked at the gauge again and it read between 95 and 100 mph," he said. "I was afraid we were going to be trapped inside our home." As Watt, his wife, Yolanda, and friends began cleaning the home Saturday, the wind rocked nearby trees and whistled through the home. Several businesses in downtown Portland also were damaged. Walt Kotkins, manager of Portland Luggage Co., 1003 S.W. Washington St., said, "It looks like a hurricane hit the inside of our store." Bill Simon, owner of the store, said that "next to what this storm did here, the Columbus Day storm looks like a soft wind." Kotkins said he came to the store about 2 a.m. Saturday and found the awnings had broken the windows and the storm entered the store "with the force of a tornado." Mary Marsh, manager of the Jay Jacobs store in the Galleria at Southwest Morrison Street and 10th Avenue, said she was called at home about 4 a.m. because a the wind had shattered a large display window on Morrison Street. "I can't believe the wind," she said, as she and two other employees picked up pieces of glass that had blown into the store. "The wind was so powerful, it knocked over large potted plants at the other end of the store (about 50 feet away)." At the Tanasbourne Mall, 2700 N.W. 185th Ave., parts of the ridged metal and tile roof were ripped from the structure. Roof debris was scattered across U.S. 26, hundreds of feet away, while pieces as large as 50 feet across lay twisted in the parking lot. A knee-deep "lake" formed in the lot when a water pipe burst and the storm sewers became clogged with debris from the roof. Inside the Safeway store at the mall, employees scrambled to cover merchandise with plastic coverings as water poured in through holes in the roof. Pam Wiles, a store employee, was stocking shelves about 1 a.m. when she heard a sound she thought was thunder. "Then I heard metal ripping and then it sounded like it was raining inside the store," she said, as she watched fellow employees mopping the floors. One end of Southwest Patton Road, in Portland Heights, was blocked when a large tree fell near the intersection of Southwest Scholls Ferry Road. Driving on the twisting, dipping road was treacherous because of the limbs that had fallen. At one point, a large tree had toppled across the road, but there was enough clearance for a car to pass underneath. Throughout the area, the smell of freshly cut trees hung in the air because of the tons of green debris on the streets. === Page 105 of 278 UFOs & Projects # 13 slightly hurt as Amtrak derails on flooded tracks SAN PABLO, Calif. (AP) -- Six cars of an Amtrak passenger train carrying about 300 people derailed Monday on flooded tracks shortly after leaving Oakland for Chicago, slightly injuring at least 13 people, officials said. Because of floodwaters 5 feet deep, the injured were removed from the wreckage by boat, Contra Costa Sheriff's Lt. Gary Ford said. Six cars of the eight-car San Francisco Zephyr jumped the tracks at 3 p.m. about 17 miles east of Oakland, Ford said, and by 5 p.m. all 120 people on the four derailed cars were evacuated "by boat and Coast Guard helicopter." Tom Buckley, spokesman for Southern Pacific railroad, which owns the tracks involved, said the flooding caused by heavy rains over the past two days apparently had washed out the rail bed and the tracks could not support the weight of the train. However, Buckley said the exact cause of the accident would not be determined until later. None of the injuries was serious, and no one needed to be hospitalized, according to spokesmen at Richmond General Hospital in Richmond and Brookside Hospital here, which treated the 13 injured. Ford said deputies and private citizens used rowboats to navigate the flood to reach the 120 passengers on the six derailed cars, Ford said. Amtrak officials said the Zephyr was to have left Oakland at 1:05 p.m. but did not leave until 2:35 p.m. because of water on the tracks. Heavy rains since Sunday afternoon have caused severe flooding in several areas of Northern California. oreg 1/5/82 UFOs & Projects THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1981 3M B1 # Tornado devastates Atlanta airport oreg ATLANTA (AP) -- A tornado packing winds of up to 100 mph Friday ripped across Hartsfield International Airport, battering at least two dozen aircraft and causing extensive damage to buildings, officials said. Damages so far totaled almost $2 million, airport spokesman John Braden said late Friday. Five people were injured, none seriously, when the twister touched down at about 12:07 a.m., slashing through the main terminal area and moving northeast across the airport into nearby Hapeville, an Atlanta suburb. At least 24 planes, including passenger jets, were damaged, power knocked out and signs blown down, Braden said. Service at the airport, one of the nation's busiest, was reported normal Friday afternoon. The National Weather Service, which initially thought the twister was just high winds, said the tornado was triggered by a thunderstorm. It cut a path 2½ miles long and 100 yards wide. Winds were estimated at 80 to 100 mph in the most heavily damaged area. A supervisor for Airborne, a package express freight company, said his men were out on the ramp when "the thing (storm) must have hopped over the fuel tanks out there." He said two privately owned Beechcraft twin-engine aircraft and two of his crew were blown under a Flying Tiger DC-8, and one of the Beechcraft tore the DC-8's right wing engines off. Damage to the plane was estimated in excess of $1 million, Braden said. "They're lucky to be alive," said the man, who declined to give his name. "It's just miraculous." A mechanic who declined to be identified said the Flying Tiger jet was taxiing when it was struck by the smaller planes, and its engine was torn off while it was operating, sending a spray of jet fuel onto the field. "The only reason this place didn't go up in a ball of fire was that it was raining so hard at the time," he said. Braden said 20 or 21 Delta Air Lines and Eastern Airlines planes were damaged when they were struck by debris. Neither airline had any damage estimate. Five other aircraft, including three twin-engine freight carriers, were demolished, and a DC-3 had extensive damage to its tail, Braden said. Damage to these craft, automobiles and other vehicles was put at $300,000. === Page 106 of 278 100 80 60 40 20 0 8:00 am SATURDAY, NOV. 14 4:00 pm FRIDAY, NOV. 13 For 6 Projects Oreg 11/19/81 # Wind indicator charts storm A wind speed indicator at an experimental weather station on the Oregon Coast recorded gusts of more than 100 miles per hour during last weekend's violent storm. Gusts were still hitting 100 mph as late as 3:15 a.m. The graph from the recording drum at the station, maintained by Pacific Power & Light Co. at its Whisky Run wind generator about 10 miles south of Coos Bay, paints a graphic picture of the storm. Wind speeds tapered off gradually, dropping to an average speed of about 40 mph after 6 a.m. The anemometer recorded winds of more than 100 mph for some four hours. The velocities actually exceeded 100 mph, which was the upper limit of the instrument. The wind did not damage the generator, which automatically feathered its three blades and quit operating at 45 mph, Bacon said. It did, however, knock out the line that fed 200 kilowatts of power from the wind generator into PP&L's transmission system. The line has been repaired and the experimental generator is back on the line, Bacon said. Computer data, when processed in the next few days, will show the actual peak velocities, said Leonard Bacon, a spokesman for PP&L. The graph reads from right to left, starting with winds of about 20 mph at 4 p.m. Friday. The wind velocity rose sharply thereafter, first reaching 100 mph around 8:30 p.m. and generally remaining between 70 and 80 mph until about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. === Page 107 of 278 # 10 die in North Sea storm United Press International DAMP RESCUE -- Rescue workers help an elderly couple from their home in Nykebing on the small island of Mors in the northern part of Denmark. Flood resulted from storm that battered Scandinavia, killing at least 10. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) -- The storm that battered Scandinavia, killing at least 10 people, swept across the eastern Baltic Thursday. Forecasters warned that more bad weather is on the way. As gales buffeted the Baltic republics of the Soviet Union, authorities in Denmark counted the cost of the high tides and wind-whipped waves that smashed dikes in western Jutland. Forestry officials said it will take 100 years to restore the "immense loss" of trees blown down in 90-mph gales. More than 1,200 people had to spend the night away from their homes and thousands more were without electricity after trees felled power lines and blocked country roads. Heavy snowfall blanketed northern Sweden. Forecasters said Scandinavia's first taste of winter is not over. "We can expect another low pressure area which will reach us at the weekend, giving rise to another storm," Danish forecasters said. Norwegian rescue authorities gave up the search for five men aboard the cargo vessel Hammerholm, missing in the North Sea since Monday. The five were among 10 people reported killed in accidents at sea since the storm hit the North Sea last weekend. # 3 killed, 28 injured in quake MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Repair crews in Mexico City and the western coastal state of Michoacan worked Sunday to restore electric power and telephone service knocked out by a powerful earthquake that killed three people and injured 28. Mexico City residents said the three-minute tremor Saturday night was one of the sharpest jolts in the past five years in this earthquake-prone country. It rocked buildings and caused panic but surprisingly little damage. Many streets in the south and west side of the city were strewn with broken glass, and cracks could be seen in some buildings. The quake also was felt in eight states surrounding the capital. The Tacubaya Seismological Center said the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale -- meaning it was capable of causing severe damage -- with the epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles west of Mexico City off the coast of Michoacan. However, the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the temblor measured 7.1, putting it in the range of a major quake capable of massive damage. "Considering the severity of the jolt, the reports we have had up to now show casualties are relatively small," a Red Cross worker in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. # China slides kill hundreds PEKING (AP) -- Landslides and cave-ins, spawned by the summer's disastrous floods, have left 240 people dead in southwestern China's Sichuan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Monday. It said 100,000 people had been left homeless, and many others were being evacuated from the endangered area, which has a population of 240,000. Floods in July and August killed about 1,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless in Sichuan, China's most populous province with 100 million residents. Flooding in neighboring Shaanxi province killed about 800 more people. The successive downpours saturated earth and loosened rocks, creating avalanche conditions, Xinhua said. Indiscriminate felling of trees, reclamation of wasteland and unsound planning for roadbuilding and mining also created conditions for the landslides and cave-ins, it added. The floods ruined 6,400 acres of farmland, Xinhua said, and silt flowing into reservoirs and ponds had affected the irrigation of 1.6 million acres. Oregon Journal, November 23, 1981 # 'Worst' typhoon threatens havoc in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Irma and its 150 mph winds bore down on the coconut-producing central Philippines Monday and was expected to be the worst storm to hit the islands in 11 years. Howling westward over the Pacific at an average speed of 16 mph, Irma was charted about 275 miles southeast of the coastal town of Borongan on Samar island, with its nearest projected landfall 250 miles southeast of Manila. Irma, the 27th storm to strike the country this year, is following the same course as a typhoon -- locally named Sending -- took in October 1970. That storm had peak winds of 150 mph and left 575 people dead and 1,593 injured. ## news scope === Page 108 of 278 UFO 26 Projects # Typhoon Irma leaves 30 dead, 78,000 homeless in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Typhoon Irma left 30 people dead and nearly 78,000 homeless in a destructive sweep across the main Philippine island of Luzon, authorities said Wednesday. Reports from relief sources in Manila put the toll of lives at 18, but officials in the isolated southern town of Daet reported another 12 were killed in floods and falling debris in the area. Seventy-two were injured and 18 fishermen were reported missing at sea during the Tuesday storm, the worst to hit the Philippines in 11 years, authorities said. The Red Cross said 77,238 people left homeless by the storm took temporary shelter in town halls, schools and churches, but by dawn Wednesday many were returning to their damaged homes. Irma battered Luzon with peak winds of 150 mph Tuesday, then weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed the island and headed toward southern China with center winds of 68 mph. ORGS 11/25/81 # news scope power" through joining dissident leader Jacek Kuron in a bid to form a new political party. At the same time, union-government talks were under way in Radom to avert strikes that would involve military industry and talks were scheduled later Wednesday in an effort to end farmer sit-ins in four towns. But union-government talks on the economy were postponed until Thursday. UFO 26 Projects # Storm toll hits 74 CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) -- Two storms that hit Mexico's Pacific coast five days and 120 miles apart caused at least 74 deaths and $84 million damage to crops and cattle, officials said Tuesday. Governor Antonio Toledo Corro declared the state of Sinaloa an emergency zone and asked for federal aid after Hurricane Norma flooded the coastal resort of Mazatlan and nine smaller towns Monday. Red Cross spokesman Joaquin Romero said at least 5,000 people heeded weekend broadcast warnings to evacuate low-lying areas in Norma's path, and only one death, that of a fisherman whose boat overturned in the ocean, was reported. ORGS 10/14/81 # Earthquake hits Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A moderate earthquake rocked Mexico City and central Mexico Sunday, but police and Red Cross officials said they had no reports of damage or casualties. The 40-second quake made tall buildings sway in the capital, and people rushed out of restaurants, bars and movie theaters. All utility services functioned normally. The Tacubaya seismological observatory said the quake measured 5.5 on the open-ended Richter scale and placed the epicenter about 270 miles southwest of Mexico City. -- UFO 26 Projects UFO 26 Projects # Quake cuts power MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- Emergency crews worked around the clock to restore electricity to parts of Mexico City shaken by aftershocks from a powerful earthquake that destroyed houses and left dozens injured, authorities said. Two aftershocks recorded Monday at the National Geological Station in Mexico City registered about 3 on the open-ended Richter scale, said station employee Reynaldo Mota. ORGS 10/27/81 # Turkey hit by storms ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- A 60-year-old woman and her horse froze to death, and scores of houses were flooded when storms lashed Turkey Tuesday, authorities reported. Sevgi Efe and the animal froze to death when they fell into a ditch on a snowbound road near Elazig, 760 miles east of Istanbul, police reported. Citrus fruit and vegetable crops -- important export earners for the cash-short country -- suffered frost damage. Wind storms prevented several boats from nearing the shore in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir. Houses were flooded in low sections of the city. ORGS 11/18/81 # Storm lashes India NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- At least 470 fishermen were missing Sunday in a hurricane that lashed the western Indian coast with tidal waves and 90 mph winds, the United News of India reported. It said at least 11 boats sank in the Arabian Sea and five trawlers were missing. Torrential rain washed away an entire fishing flotilla at Rajpara, 650 miles southwest of New Delhi, the agency reported. In Visavadar, 30 miles to the east, the Zanjeshree Dam overflowed, and residents were evacuated to higher ground. Broadcasts by the state-run All-India Radio urged residents of the affected areas to seek refuge in multi-storied buildings from tidal waves expected to rise as high as 10 feet. UFO 26 Projects # 10 killed in winter storm STAVANGER, Norway (UPI) -- Hurricane-force winds and 40-foot seas that churned the North Sea diminished Wednesday, giving airborne searchers hope for finding a missing Norwegian ship and seamen washed overboard from a Scottish trawler. But the toll of dead and presumed dead in six nations from the winter storm reached at least 10, with 1,200 people evacuated from flood-threatened homes in Denmark where high water broke dikes and communication lines. The victims included three crewmen washed overboard from the Aberdeen-based trawler Clarkwood. ORGS 11/25/81 === Page 109 of 278 Sept. Times 9-28-81 Hurricane Irene turns away from Bermuda MIAMI (UPI) -- Hurricane Irene made a turn northward yesterday to a course that would take it far to the east of Bermuda, sparing the resort island from the storm's 110 mile-an-hour winds. Forecasters also began watching a newly formed tropical depression in the mid-Atlantic that may become Tropical Storm Jose. The new depression had high winds of 35 miles an hour, just short of tropical-storm strength. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Irene is unlikely to gain any further strength through today. - UFOs & Projects - Storm-spawned high tides spill over Venice VENICE, Italy (AP) -- Warning sirens wailed repeatedly over Venice Tuesday as high tides flooded most of the lagoon city for a second day. A storm that battered the Italian peninsula with high winds sent sea water spilling into majestic palaces, churches and ordinary houses. Municipal authorities described the situation as "grave." Experts monitoring the tides said the water will not begin to recede before late Wednesday. Firefighters joined Venetians in evacuating street-level stores and removing valuable antique furniture from churches, restaurants and ground-floor exhibition halls. Officials said the flooding caused damage initially estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. City residents and tourists used rowboats or wooden planks set up by the city to cross the flooded squares and alleys. Sirens warning of the high water sounded repeatedly, the first time Monday night when the water level reached 4 1/2 feet above sea level, about one foot below the disastrous deluge of 1966. The high tides swept the streets again Tuesday morning, although the level was down to four feet above sea level. Officials at the city office monitoring the tides said a new peak was expected Wednesday morning. "People put on their boots and went to work, life is somewhat normal. Venetians are used to this," said Philip Rylands, administrator of the Peggy Guggenheim modern art collection, which was spared by floodwaters. Following the 1966 record tide that struck in the middle of the night and caused major damage, authorities installed a siren system to warn residents of high tides. Elsewhere, heavy snow fell from the Italian Alps in central Italy, blocking mountainous roads and delaying railway traffic. Up to 27 inches of snow was reported in the Veneto and Friuli regions north and northeast of Venice. Hailstones lashed Rome as torrential rains pounded the capital for a third day. Heavy flooding was also reported in Naples where fire and police officials received hundreds of calls. oreg 10/28/81 - UFOs & Projects - United Press International QUAKE DAMAGE -- A highway leading out of San Cristobal, Argentina, was sheared off by a strong weekend earthquake and slithered down a hill, burying about 40 homes. Rescue workers found eight dead on Monday, but many more victims are believed buried under tons of earth. - UFOs & Projects - oreg 5 11/24/81 Oil rigs adrift in stormy sea STAVANGER, Norway (UPI) -- Hurricane-force winds ripped two oil rigs from their moorings Tuesday, while a tugboat averted a collision between two platforms in the storm-tossed North Sea. Norwegian rescue headquarters at Sola, Norway, said helicopters rescued as many as 46 people from the drifting British rig Transworld 58. A tugboat managed to get a cable onto the Phillips SS rig with 112 men aboard and secure it at a point where it had been driven to within 90 feet of the Phillips Tor rig, with 82 men aboard. The rigs normally are stationed 600 yards apart in the Ekofisk oilfield, 180 miles northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was in the same area that the oil rig Alexander Kielland went down last year with the loss of 123 lives. SCOTLAND Aberdeen NORWAY NORTH SEA 0 miles 100 Ekofisk Oilfield DEN. ENGLAND NETH. GERM. === Page 110 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Allen forced out; Clark appointed By JACK NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Richard V. Allen, President Reagan's national security adviser, resigned under pressure Monday, and Reagan immediately named Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark to replace him. At the same time, Reagan upgraded the National Security Office. And he stipulated that Clark, a longtime friend and former California Supreme Court justice, would report directly to the president instead of to White House counselor Edwin Meese III, as Allen had done. Allen's forced resignation -- in a face-to-face meeting with Reagan in the Oval Office -- came only after Meese, his staunchest defender in the White House, finally agreed with other top officials that Allen had become a political liability because of allegations of wrongdoing. Talking to reporters outside his suburban Virginia home, Allen said he was prompted to resign by circumstances that included "a highly charged political atmosphere which I don't fully understand. But politics was involved." "The issue was never that of competence or day-to-day administration of the operation," he said. Allen also said it was unusual that someone who had been cleared by "a rigorous and meticulous examination" could "find himself in a position where his resignation would be submitted and accepted." The White House, attempting to put the best face on an embarrassing situation for Allen, issued a statement saying that although he had been cleared of any wrongdoing, both Allen and the president "agreed that in view of the controversy of recent weeks, it would be better for all concerned to seek a change in responsibilities." The "change in responsibilities" for Allen involves a part-time job as a presidential consultant "for an indefinite period to assist in the organization of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board." Allen had been under investigation most of the last two months, first by the Department of Justice and then by the White House counsel's office for his acceptance of gifts, his contacts in the White House with former business clients, and errors and omissions on his White House financial disclosure report. Under pressure, Allen took a leave of absence in late November pending the outcome of the investigations but insisted to the end that he would be cleared and would return to the White House staff. He was cleared, first by the Department of Justice, which found he had violated no laws, and then Monday by the White House Counsel's Office, which found he had violated no regulations or White House ethical standards. But Allen had few friends among top administration officials, and once Meese decided he should go, his fate was sealed. In announcing Clark's appointment to succeed Allen, the White House released a report of the White House Counsel's Office clearing Allen of any wrongdoing. It also released an exchange of letters between Reagan and Allen. The report noted that the Counsel's Office had examined a number of issues, including Allen's handling of a $1,000 honorarium from two Japanese journalists in connection with an interview with Mrs. Reagan; the receipt of three watches as gifts from Japanese friends; the sale of Allen's consulting firm to the Hannaford Co.; Allen's continuing contacts with former clients after joining the White House staff; and errors and omissions in Allen's financial-disclosure report. In none of those matters did the Counsel's Office find that Allen had acted improperly. UFOs & Projects + Attack on "higher ups" # Defoliants us By RICHARD SEVERO New York Times News Service NEW YORK -- The draft of an unpublished Air Force history reports that the United States secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War and openly sprayed them on South Vietnam only after a debate at the highest levels of government over whether other nations would criticize it for conducting chemical warfare. The history, which contains details about how America started and conducted its herbicide spraying program, provides insights into how government policy was made during the war, in violation of the inspection provisions of the Geneva accords of 1954, which were designed to end hostilities in Indochina and discourage their resumption. The United States participated in the creation of the Geneva accords, and although it dissociated itself from the "Final Declaration," it pledged not to disturb the agreement by force. Later, the spraying in South Vietnam was conducted openly. The Air Force account, more than 500 double-spaced typewritten pages, was prepared by Maj. William A. Buckingham Jr. for the Office of Air Force History as part of a program to document military operations. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Evangelist hurt in crash LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 19-year-old woman was in fair condition Sunday after a three-car collision that slightly injured evangelist Oral Roberts and his wife. Roberts, 63, of Tulsa, Okla., was riding in a car driven by his wife, Evelyn, 63, at the time of the accident, said California Highway Patrolman Ken Gazaway. Roberts and his wife were examined and released at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said spokesman Larry Baum. === Page 111 of 278 U.S. attack "higher ups". # U.S. attache murdered in second Paris attack BPG 1/18/82 PARIS (UPI) -- A gunman who approached from the rear shot to death an American diplomatic official outside his home Monday and escaped into rush hour crowds. It was the second attack against a U.S. Embassy official in Paris in two months. Lt. Col. Charles Robert Ray, 43, assistant U.S. military attache in France, was shot through the head at 9 a.m. (midnight PST) as he left his home in the fashionable 16th district of Paris, police spokesman Marcel Lecler said. President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Pierre Mauroy expressed revulsion over the killing, and U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith condemned the "cold-blooded murder." A witness told police he saw a man step forward and shoot Ray from behind on the sidewalk as he headed for his mud-spattered Pontiac parked a few hundred yards away. The gunman escaped into the early morning crowd of Parisians rushing to work, police said. Ray, dressed in a gray suit instead of a military uniform and apparently on his way to work, died instantly from the single 7.65mm bullet, police said. Police said the bullets fired Nov. 12 at U.S. charges d'affaires Christian Chapman, which missed the diplomat, were of the same caliber as those used to shoot Ray. In Washington, the State Department said it had no information on the assailant. "We do not know what the motive was, or the reason," said spokeswoman Sue Pittman. The attack on Ray, who had been working in Paris as assistant military attache for 18 months, appeared to have been drowned out by the noise from a nearby street construction project. === Page 112 of 278 64F02 6 Projects + "higher ups" Oreg J 12/2/81 FOR GOODNESS SAKE, RON! GO TO SLEEP! NIGHTMARE? WHAT ABOUT RICHARD ALLEN? I CAN'T SLEEP, NANCY! I KEEP HAVING THAT HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE! ...S-ABOUT JAPANESE WRISTWATCHES! ABOUT JAPANESE MONEY! ABOUT RICHARD ALLEN! I DREAMED HE EXPLODED ON DECEMBER 7TH. UFO attack "higher ups" THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1981 3M # Washington official resigns under fire By BILL MERTENA OLYMPIA (AP) -- Washington Veterans Affairs Director Hector L. Torres, fined for public disclosure violations and accused of improperly using state funds to remodel his office, resigned Wednesday. He is the first major Spellman appointee to quit and certainly the first to resign under fire. Torres was hit by an attorney general's opinion which said he violated the law by remodeling his office and headquarters at a cost of nearly $200,000. Gov. John Spellman accepted "with regret" Torres' resignation only hours after Rep. Mike Kreidler, D-Olympia, made public an opinion from Attorney General Ken Eikenberry's office saying the office remodeling project was illegal and the money would have to be repaid to the state. Spellman immediately replaced Torres with Randy S. Fisher, a Navy veteran who was deputy director of the Planning and Community Affairs Agency. Torres blamed his troubles on the press and the Public Disclosure Commission, which fined him $500 Tuesday for using his office to campaign for a successful constitutional amendment proposal, which would allow agencies to issue tax-exempt industrial development bonds. Torres admitted he was "technically" guilty of violating disclosure law prohibitions against using public office to campaign for candidates or issues. "I feel that the department has never in its brief history been closer to the veteran population which it serves," said Torres, who has been in the state less than 2 years. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School. "Unfortunately, recent articles in newspapers did not portray the positive aspects of my administration and instead dwelled on sensationalized or inaccurate portrayals of the department and its work. "Of concern to me is the publicity that has been given with regard to the Public Disclosure Commission's review of the department's fund-raising activities were used to support the passage of this constitutional amendment." # Beleaguered PM resigns By GUY ELLIS CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) -- Prime Minister Winston Cenac, following a weeklong shutdown by this Caribbean nation's business community and labor unions, resigned Saturday. The business community, which had joined opposition parties in calling for new elections, responded to Cenac's resignation by opening stores and shops. Cenac appointed an interim government and called for national elections by July 31. He said he would ask Governor General Boswell Williams to dissolve the 17-member House of Assembly. In an early morning statement over state-owned Radio St. Lucia, Cenac said Michael Pilgrim, deputy general of the opposition Progressive Labor Party, would head the interim government. === Page 113 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Soviet admirals fired over sub grounding oreg J 1/25/82 BONN, West Germany (UPI) -- The Soviet Union has replaced two admirals over the Soviet submarine that ran aground in a restricted area in Sweden in October, the West German news magazine Der Spiegel said Sunday. It said Vladimir Tschernavin, the navy's youngest admiral and a candidate member of the Communist Party Central Committee, was replaced in December as chief of the North Fleet by Adm. Arkadij Petrovitsch Michailovski. In November, Admiral of the Fleet Georgij Jegorov, the second highest ranking naval officer and chief of the naval staff, was transferred to a minor post. ## news scope UFOs attack "higher ups" # Slayton may get NASA 'pink slip' By HOWARD BENEDICT 1/26/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, last of the original seven Mercury astronauts still active with NASA, says he is being let go by the agency. His current position is head of the space shuttle flight test program. At National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters, however, a spokesman said officials had not decided whether to eliminate Slayton's position. Time is crucial, since the third of four shuttle test flights is just two months away. Slayton said in a telephone interview at the Houston Space Center that he understood his job was being terminated and that he was "looking for another challenging job, hopefully in the aerospace industry." Being let go wouldn't be Slayton's first NASA disappointment. He had to wait 13 years to get his first space flight after doctors discovered a minor heart irregularity in 1962. Slayton is one of about two dozen high-level specialists who retired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1980, only to be rehired as "re-employed annuitants" because of their expertise with the shuttle program. DONALD K. "DEKE" SLAYTON === Page 114 of 278 "UFOs attack" higher ups # Anti-Reagan attitude prevalent at job office By STAN FEDERMAN of The Oregonian staff Oreg 1/27/82 Unemployed nurse Sandra Miller looked up angrily from the table where she was filling out a job placement form Tuesday at the Oregon Employment Division's downtown Portland office. "It's all the president's fault," she said. "His administration doesn't give a darn about the little people." John Archer, a factory worker who has been out of work since last fall, was even more blunt. "That man Reagan messed up California as governor and now he is messing up this country as president," he said. That kind of anti-administration attitude could be found Tuesday in all corners of the Employment Division office as the unemployed reacted to federal funding cuts that will cause a shutdown of state job-finding services by March 1. Many agreed with job-seeking cook Virgil Ramsey, who said the shutdown "will discourage all of us at a time when people need such services the most." As usual, Tuesday was a busy day for the job-finding crew at the division's downtown Portland office. The unemployed came to file job application forms, discuss qualifications with state job interviewers and scan the 50 or so job viewer machines that carry the listings of hundreds of jobs throughout the state and local area. But after March 1, the job-finding help will no longer be available at the office. The job viewer machines will be taken out after Feb. 12. And 14 of the office's 16-member job-finding staff will be laid off. Statewide, some 250 members of the Employment Division's job placement team will be laid off and the state will be without such services for the first time since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And the cutbacks will come during Oregon's worst period of unemployment since the 1930s. The rate hit 11 percent last month and is expected higher in January and February. "It's a shame this is happening, not only for the unemployed but the state as well," said LaVon Caldwell, assistant manager of the division's downtown Portland office. She explained that the impending layoffs eventually would cause the division to lose "a great many bright and experienced people." She said staff who will be laid off in the downtown office already have said they probably would leave the division permanently. "And the poor unemployed," she said. "Where will they go when we're forced to shut down our job services?" Ms. Caldwell emphasized that the office helps many persons who don't know how to look for a job. "We even conduct classes on that, but now these will be killed, too," she said. She noted that job openings listed at the office were "way down," averaging fewer than 300 a day compared with three and four times that during normal times. "But we still get openings from a lot of employers who don't like to advertise in times like this," Ms. Caldwell said. "UFOs attack" higher ups A8 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982 # Surgery on senator delays his sentencing NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., who had been scheduled for sentencing Tuesday in the Abscam bribery case, underwent emergency hernia surgery instead. The New Jersey Democrat, who faces a possible 15 years in prison for his conviction stemming from the FBI's undercover investigation, slipped on ice in his driveway Monday and aggravated an existing hernia condition, according to Richard Zucker, spokesman for Presbyterian Hospital. Walter Gold, Williams' press secretary, said the surgery was successful and Williams was in satisfactory condition. Gold said Williams' doctor, Philip Wiedel, estimated that the senator could leave the hospital within five days. U.S. District Judge George C. Pratt postponed the sentencing until Feb. 9. The postponement did not delay sentencing of Williams' co-defendant, Alexander Feinberg, 73, of Cherry Hill, N.J. He was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $40,000 for aiding and abetting bribery. But since Feinberg is appealing the conviction, his sentence and former Labor and Human Resources Committee chairman, was convicted May 1 of one count of conspiracy and two counts each of bribery, conflict of interest, receiving a criminal gratuity and interstate travel in aid of a racketeering enterprise. Bribery, the most serious of the charges, carries a maximum 15-year prison term. It was not immediately clear how his injury and hospitalization would affect the timing of the Senate's debate on whether to expel Williams. The debate is scheduled to begin Feb. 2. George Koelzer, the senator's attorney, said the judge had decided to postpone the sentencing after Williams' doctor said a court appearance would be "impossible medically." Koelzer said Williams wanted the sentencing to proceed as scheduled since he "would like to get it behind him because it delays the appeal." Gold said Williams suffered the "incarcerated hernia" in a fall at his home in Bedminster, N.J. He said Williams was taken to his family doctor and then to a surgeon who had him admitted to the hospital. Oreg 1/27/82 "UFOs attack" higher ups # General denies report, asks apology By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Army Gen. William Westmoreland denied Tuesday a CBS television report that enemy troop estimates in Vietnam were falsified and he called for an apology from reporter Mike Wallace. Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam, made his comments in response to a CBS Reports broadcast, "The Uncounted Enemy," aired Saturday, which charged that Americans were misled about the nature and size of the enemy in Vietnam. "I remain shocked, deeply perturbed and maligned at what I consider to be a reprehensible and irresponsible effort to impugn my character and integrity and that of officers who loyally and dutifully served their country," Westmoreland said at a news conference. "In the interests of accuracy, I call upon Mike Wallace to apologize to the American people for the cruel hoax he and his associates tried to perpetrate," he added. He said he has made no decision about whether to take legal action. Responding to a CBS allegation that alterations of figures amounted to a conspiracy, Westmoreland said, "There was no conspiracy -- not even a hint of a conspiracy -- to deceive anybody." He charged that he had been "ambushed" by Wallace by being invited to talk about the broad topic of intelligence and then asked questions about specific instances in Vietnam without a chance to refresh his memory. === Page 115 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iraqi Embassy blown apart; up to 20 die BY TOM BALDWIN oreg 12/16/81 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A devastating explosion, possibly set off by the suicide driver of a bomb-filled automobile, brought down the five-story Iraqi Embassy in Beirut Tuesday. As many as 20 people were reported killed and dozens more wounded. Still unaccounted for were Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Razzak Mohammad Lafta, a military attache and a press attache. The three men were believed to be buried beneath the rubble of the building. The Iraqi government blamed Iran and Syria for the deadly blast. But an anonymous caller to a Beirut radio station claimed the bombing was carried out on behalf of rebel Kurds in Iraq. Lebanese authorities gave differing versions of the explosion, which left the year-old steel-and-concrete structure a pile of rubble. A police spokesman said a terrorist in an explosives-packed car sped through a hail of machine-gun fire and into the embassy compound, either driving up to the building's front entrance or into its basement garage and then detonating the explosives. Lebanese military sources said the Iraqis had stockpiled ammunition in the embassy basement. But a Lebanese army ordnance expert who inspected the demolished building said the explosions were caused by five 44-pound bombs placed in the building. The account of Iraq's official news agency, the No. 1 enemy of the Iranian regime, gave credence to the car bomb report. Casualty tolls also varied. Police said 20 were killed and more than 100 wounded. But the Lebanese and Iraqi state radios put the death toll at 10, and independent checks of hospitals tallied four dead and more than 50 wounded. Earlier, at the American University Hospital, where the dead and wounded were taken, an Iraqi official who identified himself as the ambassador's bodyguard reported Lafta had survived and was under treatment for a leg wound. But Lebanese security officials and Lebanese television said the ambassador and two attaches were still believed to be buried under debris. All three men were reported to have been on the fourth floor of the embassy when the bombs exploded. The explosion, heard for miles, split the building up the middle, and it collapsed into itself. Vendors' carts 700 yards away were overturned and windows were shattered over a wide area surrounding the embassy, on the Mediterranean seafront in mostly Moslem West Beirut. "The window was blown out and pieces of glass came down on our heads," said 12-year-old Ahmad Omari, who was caught in his classroom at a nearby school and suffered head cuts. Bodies and survivors were pulled from the rubble through the afternoon. About 15 diplomats were assigned to the embassy. An undetermined number of staff members of the Iraqi News Agency also worked in the building, along with several Lebanese employees. Baghdad Radio, in a report monitored in Beirut, said that "organs of the Syrian regime and its Iranian allies" were responsible for the explosion. - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Caribbean leader replaced CASTRIES, St. Lucia (UPI) -- Prime Minister Winston Cenac formally resigned Sunday, ending a six-day general strike and governmental crisis stranding 1,600 tourists on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Cenac handed his formal resignation to the governor-general of the island nation of 120,000 after six hours of negotiation with business, union and opposition leaders called together by the Catholic Church. He was succeeded by moderate leftist Michael Pilgrim. Under an agreement through the church, Pilgrim will appoint a Cabinet composed of members from the three parties -- excluding the current Cabinet altogether -- dissolve Parliament and set a date for new elections. oreg 1/19/82 - UFOs attack "higher ups" Associated Press Laserphoto RESIGNS -- White House congressional liaison Max Friedersdorf has become first member of President Reagan's senior staff to resign for another job. Story on Page A24. oreg 12/4/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Assassination plot cracked MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) -- Security agents have cracked a broad-based plot to kill leaders of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government and dynamite two important industrial plants, the Interior Ministry announced. A communique issued Friday said security agents arrested a group of 15 Latin American rightists, including the ringleader, who planned to kill Nicaragua's top leaders. oreg 1/19/82 === Page 116 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # New privileged class: the deserving rich mary mcgrory WASHINGTON -- We have a new class in this country, the deserving rich. They are the people who, having earned their money, believe they are entitled to more. They know about the poor -- many of them grew up poor themselves -- but they seem to believe that by living the good life they motivate those who shiver in cold tenements, stand in surplus-cheese lines and can't find jobs despite the plethora of want ads in the Sunday paper. The president is the leader of the deserving rich. He gave huge tax breaks to corporations. He made it possible for them to buy each others' tax liabilities and to buy each other. Congress was so moved by this pageant of greed that it recently voted itself an exemption on its congressional salary of $60,662.50 -- an amount that presidential assistant Michael K. Deaver recently declared inadequate. To paraphrase Vince Lombardi's favorite dictum: Money isn't everything with this crowd, it's the only thing. As a "Doonesbury" character -- who is leaving government to go back to the private sector to make more money -- said the other day, "Mr. President, you've made it fun to be rich again." The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them. They send money to the Reagans to redecorate the White House. Fashion designers send dresses to the first lady. They are not gifts, it seems. They are loans. When this unusual arrangement came to light, there was talk that when Mrs. Reagan finished wearing the donations, she would donate them to fashion museums, and the word was that Blass, Adolfo and Galanos could claim tax deductions for their "charitable contributions." The idea was quickly scotched -- as soon as someone realized how tacky it would look if women who patronize the design salons of the Salvation Army and the Goodwill Industries would be indirectly subsidizing the first lady's wardrobe. The arrangement has the marks of altruism, Reagan style, which is to help the helped. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary explained that due to the "inordinate interest taken in everything she wears, the first lady had been looking at how to take this interest and turn it to the benefit of one of the most important industries in the country." One of the most important, yes. But hardly, thanks to the opulent standard set by the White House, depressed. Designer Geoffrey Beene sniffed in The Los Angeles Times that he hadn't understood the fashion industry needed rescuing. The deserving rich like to throw the lifeline to someone standing on the shore. Our millionaire president has cut the government's allowance to the unfortunate, the old, the cold, the young, the slow. But he cheerily informs us that any big holes in the safety net will be mended by volunteers from the ranks, apparently, of the deserving rich. It is an appeal notion, recalling the frontier, the neighborhood, the covered-dish supper, the church raffle, the hat passed at the meeting. Recently he went to New York to make a pitch to the rich to help the poor. The host organization, the New York City Partnership, epitomized the "spirit of shared sacrifice." "You," the president told the partnership, "are that tough little tug that can pull the ship of state off the shoals and into open water." The president could have ended his speech with a pledge or a check: "And to keep the ball rolling, I am donating..." He didn't. When he was asked at his first-anniversary press conference if he intended, in the light of his exhortations, to increase his contributions to private charity, the president exhibited a chuckling unease. He realizes "the publicity that has attended upon the tax returns of someone in my position." What he meant was that in 1980, he gave $3,089 in charitable contributions out of a gross adjusted income of $227,968. He went on to say that he gives a tenth of his income to charity, but in ways that are tax-deductible." Everyone understands the president's feelings for individuals, his charity towards constituencies and organizations. Many find tax-deductible giving rewarding. Better to see the light in the eye of the recipient instead of feeding your gift into the computers of an agency that will spend half of it on as much red tape and overhead as the dear old federal government. And for some people, let's face it, making charitable contributions is a form of tax-dodging, futile as it may be. Some people who really don't want to give for foreign gas or missiles write checks to Amnesty International or St. Ann's Infant Home, not just because we want to supervise what they are doing, but to keep our money out of the clutches of the Pentagon, another well-heeled entity that has Reagan's entire sympathy. But if the deserving rich are going to save the country, the First Volunteers at the White House maybe should start showing them how. A4 2M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Stalinist Suslov dies after powerful career By PATRICK MENEY Agence France-Presse MOSCOW -- Mikhail Suslov, the last surviving Stalinist stalwart and hard-line Kremlin ideologist, died here Monday "after a short and serious illness," the Soviet news agency Tass announced Tuesday. He was 79. It was Suslov who staunchly criticized the theory of "socialism with a human face" as "rightist opportunism" and who provided the ideological underpinning for Soviet moves in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland. His death could complicate the choice of a successor to 74-year-old President Leonid Brezhnev. It was thought previously that in the event of Brezhnev's death, Suslov would be able to map out the steps to be taken to select his successor. Suslov's early career spanned the years of Stalin's fight against the Trotsky-Zinoviev leftist factions and the Bukharin rightists, as well as the purges of the 1930s. More recently, he took a dominant role in the Moscow-Peking break when he gave the first official Kremlin explanation for it in July 1960; then, in January 1962, he led the "destalinization" campaign engineered by Nikita Khrushchev. Suslov became a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party as long ago as 1941, then in 1944 the overlord of the small Baltic state of Lithuania, which was annexed by Moscow. In 1947, when Stalin appointed him secretary of the Central Committee, he became a fixture in the Kremlin for the next 35 years, despite changes of leadership. He was born in 1902, the son of a poor Russian peasant family, according to his official biography, but little is known about his private life except that his wife died in 1972. There is no doubt about his austere lifestyle, but visitors to his Moscow apartment have reported that it contains a superb collection of the modern paintings banned by the regime. Only last month he was publicly decrying the harmful effects of Western civilization on Soviet youth, and yet he reportedly possessed a private cinema where he showed the latest American films. His disappearance from the political scene could cause an ideological vacuum, as he had enunciated communist dogma for decades. But Soviet policy will remain unchanged, according to reliable sources speaking after a special meeting of Kremlin leaders early Tuesday. The Kremlin decided, among other things, that Suslov's body will be laid out Wednesday in the Hall of Trade Unions, an honor also given to Stalin. Observers in Moscow do not believe that his disappearance from the Soviet political scene will lead to any major changes. === Page 117 of 278 W.O. attack "higher ups" # Reagan appeal gets to wrong man **tom stimmel** President Reagan sent me a personal letter last week (at least the computer printout said it was personal) soliciting my help in promoting his economic recovery program. He can't carry out his mandate from the people in the face of assaults from liberal Democrats and their allies "who have attacked and distorted every part of our legislative program," he said. He wants money from me to help elect qualified candidates who will help, not distort. Sorry, Mr. President. Your computer picked the target. I'm inclined to think that distortion of your grand recovery program has come from you, not your enemies in Congress. I find distortion between the promises of Reganomics and the reality of its performance. I am not encouraged by your achievements -- a record federal deficit, unending unemployment, mill and factory closures -- which you choose to blame on others. I am not assured by your tendency to avoid news conferences and your "misstatements," to put it mildly, when you finally are cornered without a cue card. I'm not persuaded by an amateur supply-side economic theory whose millions and billions (even your man David Stockman conceded) nobody understood. Your letter repeated your platitude that "government programs for the truly needy will not be cut." You have cut, or tried to cut, school lunch programs, food stamps, day care, employment programs for youth, welfare for dependent children and student loans. You promised to get the federal government off our backs. I'm almost impressed by your technique -- hand off the problems to the states, meld categorical grants into block grants and cut off a quarter of the funds. You cut taxes to get that supply-side machine going, with ample assistance for the wealthy, tax relief for Big Oil, accelerated depreciation for business and a trickle for the rest of us. Whereupon, you asked for $22 billion in tax increases to keep your budget deficit from completely disappearing down a black hole. I am appalled that you should cut $35 billion from domestic programs and add $18 billion for defense -- and ask for $13 billion more. I do not understand why we need a $40 billion line of B-1 bombers that will be obsolete in eight years -- about the time the first are built. I do not understand why we need an MX missile when we already have the capability to kill every person in the world seven times. I do not see how your friends in the Pentagon can gorge down $1.3 trillion (an amount even you said was incomprehensible) in five years. Some of your other friends are mystifying, too. Your James Watt -- he is your James Watt -- who butchered park acquisition funds, wants to rush mineral leases in wilderness before the deadline occurs and persists in demanding environmentally hazardous oil leases off Northern California which would produce only a 12-day supply of oil, if they produce anything. No, Ronald Reagan, your letter was mis-sent (even though the Postal Service got it right). I'm not your man. Your letter did raise some questions, though. As you recall, it insists that the Republican National Committee (on whose behalf you wrote) must have $478,000 in 35 days to distribute results of a phony poll. Your letter was dated Jan. 8. It so happens that the lady two desks down got an identical personal letter from you -- identical even to the 35-day deadline -- dated Oct. 30, 1981. I resent your privilege to spew out this propaganda at 3.5 cents a copy when it costs me 20 cents to mail the light bill. I couldn't care less what happens politically to you and your right-wing friends in Orange County and the Moral Majority, but I am concerned about what you're doing to this country. It is my country, too! Tom Stimmel is a Journal staff writer. McReagan's OVER 5 BILLION SCHOOL LUNCHES CANCELED === Page 118 of 278 attack on "higher ups" U of L projects Nation # Pirouetting on Civil Rights ## Reagan goes round and round on tax breaks for schools It was quite a turnabout. First, Ronald Reagan reversed a policy established by Congress, the courts and three previous Administrations, by revoking an Internal Revenue Service rule barring tax-exempt status for racially segregated schools. When the inevitable uproar ensued, the President backpedaled by proposing a law to undo what he had just done. Reagan insisted that he was firmly opposed to racial bias; his only concern, he said, was with a procedural principle--the belief that Congress, not the IRS, should exercise control over such rulings. The awkward performance raised serious questions about Reagan's haphazard policymaking apparatus as well as his sensitivity to civil rights. Admitted one top adviser ruefully: "We blew it." partments. Meese did not submit it to any of the Cabinet councils, which are designed to let Cabinet members and top staffers consider the consequences of pending proposals, nor did he mention it to the only high-level black presidential aide, Melvin Bradley of the Office of Policy Development. The first that Chief of Staff James Baker heard of the plan to change the IRS rule was in a telephone call from Attorney General William French Smith two days before the announcement. When Baker asked about it at the next staff meeting, Meese assured him that he and Fielding had considered all the implications. Meese described the matter as a narrow legalistic change and seemed oblivious to the moral and political issues involved. It was presented to Reagan as a routine Administration action, and he was never even asked to give his formal approval. Said one: "The real question is whether it is the intention of this Administration to appear antiblack. If so, they should just let us know." Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, who fumed that he would not allow the President to be perceived as a racist, argued that the Administration had to defuse the issue by proposing new legislation to forbid the practice that had been instituted the previous week. Reagan agreed. A spokesman said the proposed legislation would bar tax breaks for all racially biased schools, including Bob Jones University. Reagan issued a statement explaining that he had not intended to support segregationism. "I am unalterably opposed to racial discrimination in any form," he said. His only intention in changing the tax regulations, he stressed, was to remove from the IRS the power to determine public policy. Said he: "Such agencies, no matter how well intentioned, cannot be allowed to govern by legislative fiat." The President's explanation seemed a trifle disingenuous. Had he simply wanted Congress to reaffirm the policy of denying tax exemptions to discriminatory schools, he could have submitted such legislation before revoking the rule. Even that could have been interpreted as an unnecessary reopening of an old controversy. Congress clearly forbade any Government sanction of, or support for, racial bias in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1970 the IRS applied the policy by withholding tax breaks to discriminatory schools, and the Supreme Court later ruled that this was a correct reading of the law and the Constitution. Argues a civil rights advocate within the Administration: "To attempt again to get Congress to speak on every issue of discrimination is an attempt to destroy the progress made so far." ![Political cartoon showing Reagan on a horse labeled TAX EXEMPTION FOR SEGREGATED SCHOOLS, riding backwards while facing forward, with a sign saying Wrong-Way Reagan] Wrong-Way Reagan The issue arose out of the contention by some fundamentalist Christian institutions, including Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., that the IRS policy of denying tax exemptions because of racial discrimination violated their freedom of religion. Their segregationist policies, they claimed, were grounded in their interpretation of the Bible. But that constitutional argument, which had been rejected by a federal appeals court, was made moot by the Administration's decision to settle the case by revoking a twelve-year-old IRS rule against tax exemptions for schools that discriminate racially. If allowed to stand, the new policy would permit such schools to receive tax-deductible contributions and avoid paying income or Social Security levies. The decision illustrated a startling ineptitude on the part of the President's staff. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese and Presidential Lawyer Fred Fielding reviewed the proposal, which was recommended by the Treasury and Justice De- "It is nothing short of criminal," said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "It opens the door to every racist element in the nation to discriminate and to do it with a subsidy from the Government." For civil rights leaders, the decision was the culmination of an ominous series of Administration actions. Reagan has urged Congress to amend some of the key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which helped enfranchise millions of blacks and elect thousands of black officials. The Justice Department has said that it would like to find a way to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing companies to set up voluntary affirmative action quotas for minorities and that it will not pursue busing as a method of desegregating schools. Black members of the Administration (only 18 now holding positions that require Senate confirmation) were furious. Rather than wait for Congress to act, civil rights groups will ask the Supreme Court to prevent the IRS rule change from going into effect. The high court previously had agreed to hear an appeal by Bob Jones of a lower court decision denying it tax exemptions. The Justice Department had argued against the university, but is now asking the court to drop the case because of Reagan's directive. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law also said it would contest the new tax policy in federal district court in Washington. That court issued a permanent injunction in 1971 forbidding tax benefits to discriminatory schools in Mississippi, and noted that the principle was meant to apply to other states as well. Reagan's advisers say he was surprised by the vehement reaction to the change in IRS practice. This may be the worst indictment of the Administration. It shows an apparent insensitivity to a basic American belief: that government should do nothing to promote racial discrimination. --By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Jeanne Saddler/Washington 24 TIME, JANUARY 25, 1982 === Page 119 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan risks falling victim to self-deception By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER oreg 1/25/82 WASHINGTON -- It probably doesn't matter a great deal if President Reagan gets his facts wrong or gives a misleading impression of the facts in one of his press conferences. His advisers, as they have done on several occasions in the past year, can sweep up after him. The operative question is whether the president acts on the truth or on these fairy tales he sometimes tells reporters and audiences. The latter could be serious trouble. Reagan has always been one of those politicians with the ability to find some -- you should pardon the expression -- "supporting evidence" for a point he wants to make, even if close examination has often shown that evidence to be either inaccurate or meaningless. And he hasn't changed in the White House. GERMOND-WITCOVER His most recent press conference was replete with examples. He described the rise in unemployment as "a continuation" of a trend that began under President Jimmy Carter, although the fact is that the jobless rate declined in the final quarter of the Carter administration. Reagan said that "comparing this to the beginning of our term" there are now a million more people working. The fact is that, according to government figures, there are 508,000 fewer people employed than there were when the president took office. Quite aside from pure factual errors, the president has a penchant for providing the rosiest interpretation of a situation in an attempt to make a point. In both a speech and press conference recently, for example, he talked about a great saving in administrative costs that was realized by a program to feed the elderly when it switched from paid to volunteer workers. The implication was, of course, that these wonderful volunteers had shown the spirit that could reduce federal spending and still get the job done. But, as it turned out, those workers were "involuntary volunteers" -- that is, they had to work free because their federal funding ran out temporarily. At another point, asked about abortion in rape cases, he noted this had been allowed in a law he signed in California and it was "used as a gigantic loophole in the law (that) ... literally led to abortion on demand on the plea of rape." It is accurate to say that rape became an automatic ground for abortion in California. But the "gigantic loophole" in that law -- the one that allowed legal abortions to rise from about 500 to 170,000 a year in a decade -- was one that allowed physicians to certify that a woman's mental health might be threatened if she were not permitted an abortion. The president is also a great fan of the essentially meaningless statistic. When he first ran for office, for example, he used to rail about how there were 103 different taxes on a loaf of bread, the implication being that bread would be cheaper if the government would only sort itself out. In a press conference last October, he said the change to block grants rather than categorical grant programs would save 105 million man-hours of paperwork by local government officials -- a figure from somewhere in outer space that probably greatly underestimated the ingenuity of local bureaucrats in keeping themselves busy. Where he gets these statistics is often something of a mystery, although those who have worked for him say he is inclined to seize uncritically anything he sees in print. (Insiders used to urge Michael Deaver, only half in jest, to hide the latest issue of Human Events.) In one sense, of course, all this is harmless enough. If the president uses an incorrect figure, some nitpicker in the press will challenge it and the whole thing will get straightened out. But let us suppose that the president really does believe that there are more people working than there were when he took office. Does that affect his view of economic policy decisions? Or let us suppose he really does believe volunteers will staff meal programs for the elderly. Does that make it easier to abolish such programs? The president gets away with these things politically because, as everyone says, he'a nice guy. And during campaigns, the voters expect a little "flexibility" in the things candidates say. But there could be serious consequences if he really believes, for example, that we have made "an impression" on the Soviet Union with our sanctions -- and that turns out not to be quite accurate. The presidency is not a political campaign. Associated Press Laserphoto ARRIVAL -- President Reagan arrives for last week's press conference. === Page 120 of 278 UFO attack" higher was 'Suicide' in Albania sparks power struggle BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPI) - The "sui- nist "un-person," pulling down pictures of the cide" of Albania Premier Mehmet Shehu has leader whose death 19 days ago was officially described as "suicide at a moment of nervous breakdown." set off a fierce power struggle between She- Lu's supporters and the Soviet bloc's last Stali- nist leader. Reports Tuesday from Albania said authori- ties have begun turning Shehu into a Commu- - UFOR attack " higher up" DAY, DECEMBER 11, 1981 018 3M Labor chief probe target 1 By ROBERT B. CULLEN WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House con- firmed Thursday that the Justice Department is inves- tigating Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan in the wake of reports that before entering government, Donovan attended a meeting at which a member of his firm bribed a labor union official. Donovan, in a state- ment issued for him by the Labor Department, said he knew of "nothing that lends substance to these reports." White House spokes- man David Gergen said Attorney General William French Smith told Presi- dent Reagan a week ago that the inquiry was be- ginning under the Ethics in Government Act, but did not brief Reagan on the details of the allega- tion. Gergen said, "There is no information known to the president that would RAYMOND DONOVAN cause him to have any lack of confidence in Secretary Donovan." Under the same law, the Justice Department is also investigating Richard Allen, the president's national Security adviser, who is on administrative leave. The Investigation involves two watches Allen received from Japanese associates and incorrect statements he made on his financial disclosure forms. Donovan was at the White House Thursday after- noon to meet with President Reagan about the Labor Department's budget for fiscal 1983, He avoided re- porters. Gergen said he did not think Reagan and Donovan would be discussing the allegations. Roger Young, a spokesman for the FBI, said the investigation was "just beginning," and declined say when it might be concluded. Under the Ethics in Government Act, when t attorney general receives information indicating possible crime by a high federal official, he mu conduct a preliminary investigation within 90 days. After the investigation, the attorney general mu: decide if the allegation merits further investigation c prosecution. If it does, he must apply to the U.S. Coul New York Times News Service of Appeals to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case. Donovan, 50, was an executive with Schiavon Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J. and a fund-raise for Reagan before joining the government. His confirmation by the Senate was delayed for a FBI investigation of allegations that he had paid of labor leaders to prevent strikes on his company' projects. The FBI said in January that it could confirm none of the allegations. They included a public charge by Ralph Picardo, an FBI informant, about a series of this year. payoffs Donovan allegedly made. "a murdering slime." usos " higher ups" Greek official fired London Daily Telegraph org 1/6/82 ATHENS - Greek Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has dis- missed his undersecretary of foreign af- Tairs because he failed to block a Com-" mon Market communique condemning Soviet and East European involvement in Poland, government and diplomatic sources said Tuesday. The incident has been criticized as the first of its kind in Greece's postwar diplomatic history, and the strongest evidence yet of Papandreou's attempts to please the Eastern bloc. The premier had in a one-sentence statement said that Asimakis Fotilas, the undersecretary of foreign affairs since the government's election in Octo- ber, was dismissed "because he failed to follow the Instructions of Foreign Min- ister Ioannis Charalambopoulos" at Monday's summit meeting on Poland of the EEC foreign ministers. UFO2 - "higher ups" Korea fires six ministers oves 1/4/ 182 TOKYO - President Chun Doo- hwan of South Korea appointed a new prime minister Sunday and replaced five other ministers in the first major Cabinet reshuffle since Chun took over as the South Korean head of state in September 1980. A presidential spokesman said Chun had made the changes to achieve better progress under South Korea's new five- year development plan, which starts According to reports reaching To- Chang-soon as prime minister to suc- ceed Nam Duck-woo. The decision to Teplace Nam, a respected economist, with Yoo, former head of the Korean Traders Association, an organization of business leaders, came as a surprise here but appeared to reflect Chun's dis- satisfaction with Nam's handling of the economy. Chun made Kim Joon-sung, gover- nor of the Bank of Korea, the deputy prime minister and head of the Econom- ic Planning Board. The president also named new finance, construction and energy ministers, as well as appointing a new chief presidential secretary. UFD= "higher ups" Bombers hit scientist DUBLIN, Ireland (UPI) - An Wednes- day explosion believed caused by a bomb destroyed the car of Dr. James Donovan, Ireland's top forensic scientist, seriously injuring him as he drove to work at police headquarters, police said. The blast oc- curred at Newland's Cross, about 3 miles from the city center. Police declined to speculate on why Donovan was attacked, but officials said he has been involved in all prosecutions of IRA bombers in the republic. area5 1/6/8= Shehu's books have been removed from bookshops, said a diplomat with connections in Albania's capital of Tirana. There was also no national mourning for the premier of 27 years, and Shehu was not interred in the plot reserved for top officials. An Albanian embassy official in Belgrade dismissed as a "lie" allegations that party chief Enver Hoxha. 73, Albania's leader since World" War II, also was killed when Shehu died Dec. 18. greg J 1/6/82 Donovan denied the allegations and called Picardo kyo from Seoul, Chun named Yoo === Page 121 of 278 # Red Brigades kidnap American general in Italy VERONA, Italy (AP) -- Four men posing as plumbers kidnapped Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier of the U.S. Army from his apartment in this northern Italian city Thursday night, NATO officials reported. Police said they suspect the abductors were Red Brigades terrorists. Shortly after the kidnapping, an anonymous caller told the Italian news agency ANSA in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnapped Brig. Gen. James Dozier in Verona, Via Lungo Adige 5. A communique will follow." The kidnapping took place at about 6 p.m. after Dozier's escort left him at the end of his day at the nearby NATO base, where the general has been stationed since June 1980. "Four men armed and described as plumbers entered his home and after having struck the general, immobilized his wife with chains and adhesive tape and then fled with the hostage presumably locked in a trunk," said a statement released by the NATO base. Police sources, who did not want to be identified, said the general was hurt in the scuffle, stuffed inside a trunk and loaded on a van that sped away from the general's apartment. Later police found a blue Fiat van bearing Milan license plates that investigators said was used in the getaway. Police said the vehicle had been abandoned near the Verona city limit. In Washington, White House deputy press secretary Peter Roussel said President Reagan, told of the kidnapping, "expressed concern and asked that he be kept informed." Dozier, 50, is deputy chief of staff for logistics and administration for Allied Land Forces in Southern Europe. He is the senior U.S. Army officer at the NATO headquarters in Verona. He is from Arcadia, Fla. Pentagon spokesman Col. Ron Duchin said Dozier's wife, Judith, was not hurt and their two children were not with their parents at the time. The police sources said the assailants bound, gagged and chained Mrs. Dozier but she was able to tip over onto the floor and bang her head to alert neighbors, who freed her. Police sources said they believed the kidnappers also had taken away a pile of documents Dozier had in his possession. Premier Giovanni Spadolini met with Interior Minister Virginio Rognoni, Defense Minister Lelio Lagorio and top intelligence officials and called a meeting of the Cabinet council for national security for Friday morning. A spokesman for the premier's office said Spadolini was in contact with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb, who was on a tour of northern Italy. Rabb has been given special protection since reports circulated in September on alleged Libyan plots to kill him and other U.S. diplomats in several West European capitals. In Washington, the State Department convened a working group of experts to monitor developments, spokeswoman Saundra McCarty said: "The government of Italy has reacted swiftly to deal with this matter," she said. "We are working closely with the Italian government and have full confidence in it. We strongly condemn this act of violence." There have been about 40 abductions for ransom this year in Italy, but Dozier was the first American kidnap victim. Verona, a city of 300,000, is famous as the setting of the romance of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's play. It lies in the northeastern corner of Italy, about 60 miles from Venice. The most notorious kidnapping by the Red Brigades took place in March 1978 and involved Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrat Party and former premier, who was murdered in May 1978 after the terrorists submitted him to a "people's trial." The Red Brigades have in general shunned attacks on foreigners, although they have criticized U.S.-based multinational companies and accused them of supporting the parties in power in Italy. Dozier, a veteran of more than 25 years of Army service, fought in Vietnam with an armored cavalry regiment and later was attached to armored units in West Germany. He also commanded a brigade of the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and held a number of staff posts. A graduate of West Point, he also attended the Army War College and earned an engineering degree at the University of Arizona. BRIG. GEN. JAMES L. DOZIER He holds a number of decorations, including the Silver Star for valor, the Bronze Star for valor with two oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart -- all earned during his Vietnam service, an army spokesman said. === Page 122 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # SS expert quits with hot words Oreg 12/19/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Robert J. Myers, one of the Reagan administration's top Social Security officials, quit Friday with a blast at what he called "disastrous" meddling in the retirees' program by the Office of Management and Budget. Myers said in his resignation letter that he strongly supports President Reagan's efforts to restore the program's fiscal health and the "vast majority" of the specific reforms Reagan proposed earlier this year to curtail the growth of benefits. But Myers, who was Social Security's chief actuary from 1947 to 1970, sharply criticized the way policy is set by Social Security's parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and "higher organizations such as the Office of Management and Budget." He said that OMB and its civil service employees develop policy "without regard to the social and economic aspects of the Social Security program -- and even the political aspects." "This was well exemplified by the disastrous results that occurred from the proposal to eliminate the minimum benefit for all persons currently on the rolls and also from the proposal to sharply increase the early retirement reduction factor," Myers wrote in the resignation letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schweiker. Myers said he will leave his post as deputy commissioner for programs effective Jan. 8. He joined the administration last March 15. Reagan was forced to withdraw the sweeping Social Security reforms he proposed last May because of the uproar over his attempt to slash early retirement benefits for 62-year-olds from 80 percent of benefits to 55 percent. Budget Director David Stockman and White House domestic adviser Martin Anderson reportedly played the decisive role in pressing for those cuts immediately and, in the case of the minimum benefit, retroactively. Myers, shortly before joining the administration, had testified before a congressional committee in favor of eliminating the minimum benefit for future retirees but not retroactively. That is how Congress has decided to do it. No new minimum benefits will be awarded after Jan. 1. Myers, 69, is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading experts on Social Security. It is the second time he has quit the agency with some sharp words. In 1970, he charged that liberals running the program were expanding it too much for its own fiscal health. Social Security Commissioner John A. Svahn issued a statement expressing his "deepest personal regret" at Myers' resignation. Svahn said Myers "has done a tremendous job in his second career with Social Security." The Social Security job for Myers was largely a labor of love. He was already drawing a federal pension of nearly $49,000 and because of a pension offset provision, his federal paycheck for the job was only 55 cents an hour, or $1,100 a year. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # CIA Director Casey 'not unfit to serve' WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Senate Intelligence Committee found Wednesday that CIA Director William Casey is "not unfit to serve," but was "inattentive" to details in reporting past business affairs. A committee source, who requested anonymity, said questions raised about the spy chief seemed more serious than those surrounding embattled national security adviser Richard Allen. "It is safe to say the whole situation is not flattering," said Sen. Harrison Schmitt, R-N.M. "There were omissions in the (financial) reports (to the committee). I'm convinced they were inadvertent but there were omissions." The committee Wednesday planned to release a brief and unanimous report ending its 4½-month investigation of Casey. The CIA director was given a copy of the report on Tuesday, but had no immediate comment. The "not unfit to serve" determination is the same assessment of Casey made by committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., shortly after the panel began its probe in mid-July. The committee source said questions about Casey's past business dealings were sharpened in recent days by publicity surrounding the Allen affair. "A lot of us feel the questions raised here (about Casey) are a heck of a lot more serious than the questions raised about Mr. Allen," the source said. The Justice Department Tuesday cleared Allen of wrongdoing in receiving $1,000 from a Japanese magazine for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. The department said it was continuing its inquiry into the gift of two watches from the Japanese to Allen and an error Allen made in reporting the sale of his Washington consulting firm on a financial disclosure form. The Senate Intelligence Committee probe of Casey initially focused on a May court judgment that he and several associates misled investors in a business venture a decade ago. Later it also was disclosed Casey had not given the committee a complete list of his legal clients for the past five years, had represented the government of Indonesia without registering as a foreign agent and had broken from tradition by not putting his hefty stock portfolio in a blind trust. Because Casey and his wife have stock in 27 companies that operate overseas, there were questions about his possible use of confidential intelligence data for his own benefit. The Caseys' net worth is believed to be between $1.8 million and $3.4 million. The committee didn't go into the blind trust question because "you can't condemn a fellow for not violating the law," said Sen. Walter Huddleston, D-Ky. "It was a question of taste and propriety," said another member, who asked not to be identified. Oreg J 12/2/81 === Page 123 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEM # Deaver blocked appointment By EDWARD T. POUND New York Times News Service oreg 12/21/81 WASHINGTON -- Michael K. Deaver, the deputy White House chief of staff, overruled other Reagan administration officials and blocked the nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission of a Senate staff member who was opposed by the head of a trucking organization that had employed Deaver as a consultant. The staff member, William K. Ris Jr., counsel to the Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee, had many influential supporters, including other senior White House aides, a Cabinet officer and Republican and Democratic senators, according to administration officials. Ris' opponents included Thomas C. Schumacher Jr., managing director of the California Trucking Association, an organization of trucking companies that has opposed trucking deregulation. Ris was a principal draftsman of the deregulation law, known as the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. The blocking of Ris' candidacy illustrates the inner workings of the Reagan White House and specifically the influence wielded by Deaver. Deaver, Edwin Meese III, the president's counselor, and James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff, have been intimately involved in appointments. Deaver's role in the Ris matter demonstrates that, except for the very highest posts personally handled by President Reagan, it is virtually impossible for a key appointment to be made over the objection of one of the three top presidential aides, even if it is supported by Cabinet members and other White House officials. Before entering the White House, Deaver was part owner of a public relations firm, Deaver & Hannaford Inc., whose clients included Schumacher's trucking association. Deaver said his interest was purchased for $38,000 by his partner, Peter D. Hannaford, who paid off the debt in July. Now called the Hannaford Co. Inc., the concern continues to do public relations work for the association and is paid about $2,000 monthly. Under Reagan, there will be seven Interstate Commerce Commissioners, four Republicans and three non-Republicans. There are four unfilled seats. Ris, who declined to comment, was formally recommended to fill one of the non-Republican slots. Schumacher, who said he had been a close friend of Deaver for 20 years, said in an interview that he had opposed Ris' candidacy at a meeting with Deaver and others in the White House in June. He said, however, that he objected to Ris, a Democrat, on political grounds and not because Ris favored deregulation. Deaver said he had blocked Ris' appointment but not at Schumacher's request. He said that Ris was a "Kennedy Democrat" and added, "I blocked it because he was not the kind of person who would be consistent with Ronald Reagan's philosophy." UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan aide to resign oreg 12/21/81 LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- Michael K. Deaver, one of President Reagan's three top assistants, says he will leave the White House staff at the end of next year because he and his family cannot afford to live in Washington on his $60,662 annual salary. The White House deputy chief of staff, who is considered closer to the Reagans than any other assistant, says he told the president at the outset that he intended to stay just two years and then return to private industry. "I made a commitment to stay through the 1982 elections," Deaver acknowledged in a telephone interview Sunday. "After that, I'm going. I have no money left. We are living on our savings." Deaver said he "probably will go back into the business world in some form of public affairs" but that he has no specific plans or commitments. UFOs bring terrorists... "higher ups" # Assassination fear to restrict Reagan WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan, bowing to security precautions, will light the nation's Christmas tree by throwing a switch inside the White House instead of personally attending an outdoor ceremony. White House spokesman David Gergen said the administration remains concerned about danger from a purported squad of terrorists sent to the United States by Libya to assassinate government leaders. "I know of no reason to believe the threat is diminished," Gergen said. oreg 12/7/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Burger knocks TV camera askew oreg 12/17/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, followed into an elevator by a CBS crew in Lincoln, Neb., knocked a television camera out of the hands of a cameraman Wednesday, CBS News said. "Don't stick that thing in my nose," Burger said after the camera switched from a view of Burger in the elevator to a wildly shifting scene, according to a videotape broadcast Wednesday evening. CBS said its crew was attempting to question the chief justice about statements made in a forthcoming book by former White House aide John Ehrlichman that Burger discussed pending Supreme Court cases with then-President Nixon. Burger made no response to the questions as he and an unidentified man, trailed by the CBS crew, entered a building, walked down a hallway and got into an elevator. newsbreak UFOs attack "higher ups" # Khomeini ally killed One of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's top religious supporters was killed along with 11 other Moslem leaders when a bomb planted in their car exploded in the central Iranian city of Shiraz. Ayatollah Sayed Abdol Hossein Dastgheib and the 11 other mullahs were killed by the explosion as they drove by car to weekly prayers in in Shiraz. oreg 12/12/81 === Page 124 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Top Reagan aide plans to resign, blames salary WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Michael Deaver, one of President Reagan's three top aides, plans to resign within a year because he can't afford to live in Washington on his $60,000 salary, two newspapers report. "I made a commitment to stay through the 1982 elections," The Washington Post Monday quoted Deaver as saying. "After that, I'm going. I have no money left. We are living on our savings." "A year from now I'll be gone," Deaver, 43, told the Detroit News Washington bureau. He said he will go into private consulting or corporate public relations work. Deaver explained the break has nothing to do with any difference of opinion with the president -- it's strictly a financial move. "My wife and my accountant said I can't afford to stay in the job any longer," he said. "It's costing me more money to live here than I make and I'm never home." "It's been tough on Mike lately," said Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., a friend of both Deaver and the president. "He has been handling all of the personal, family things the Reagans want done as well as his other tasks." "Of all the people who could leave, losing Mike will leave the biggest hole," Laxalt said. Deaver has already told the president and the first lady he will be leaving, "but neither of them intend to think about it for a while," he said. "They think maybe I'll change my mind, but I won't." Deaver's departure will bring to three the number of presidential aides who have quit. Lyn Nofziger, the president's political adviser, and Max Friedersdorf, his legislative liaison, will leave the White House early next year. Among Deaver's responsibilities are the day-to-day scheduling of the president's time. He is also in charge of the first lady's office operations. In addition, the directors of White House security, the White House physician, the president's military aides and the president's diarist all report to Deaver. Deaver has been associated with the Reagans since 1967, when he joined the staff of then-California Gov. Reagan. # The world UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran officials assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Iran reported Wednesday that two senior figures in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime, were assassinated in a grenade attack in the northeastern city of Mashhad. The state-run Tehran Radio identified the victims as Mojtaba Ozbaki, Parliament deputy from Shahre-Kord in the central Iranian province of Bakhtiari; and Gholamali Jaafarzadeh, the city's governor. The report said the men were driving to a Shiite Moslem shrine in Mashhad when two assassins riding a motorcycle hurled grenades at their motorcade Tuesday afternoon, killing Ozbaki and Jaafarzadeh and wounding three others. Both assassins fled, according to the broadcast monitored in Beirut. # The world UFOs attack "higher ups" # New blizzards assault Britain LONDON (AP) -- Blizzards unleashed their icy fury on Britain for the seventh day Monday, cutting off heat and light, burying cars beneath heaps of snow and stranding thousands of travelers, including Queen Elizabeth II. Snowbound travelers at London's Heathrow Airport beat up several Nigerian Airways employees and then began brawling among themselves as their flight was delayed due to weather and technical problems for a third day, officials said. Five more people were found dead in England and Ireland, bringing the death toll to 16 from the howling snowstorms and hurricane-force winds that have lashed coastal areas since last Tuesday, authorities said. Queen Elizabeth II returned to Windsor Castle west of London Monday after being snowbound in a two-star country hotel for seven hours after her Land Rover got stuck in a 4-foot snowdrift Sunday night on the way home from a visit with her daughter, Princess Anne. high drifts to the nearby Cross Hands Hotel in the Cotswold Hills of southwest England and joined 100 other travelers stranded there for the night. The queen left the hotel when snowplows reopened the highway. She arrived at Windsor early Monday none the worse for her adventure. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Health rumors quashed PARIS (AP) -- President Francois Mitterrand, 66, is in "a completely satisfactory state of health" except for osteo-arthritis of the lower spine, according to a medical bulletin issued Tuesday. The bulletin, signed by Dr. Claude Gubler, Mitterrand's personal physician, was issued exactly six months after the Socialist leader took office. It said his only other area of concern, an inflammation of a nerve associated with the arthritis that impeded his walking, has disappeared after treatment. Rumors that Mitterrand was seriously ill abounded in the French press and medical circles after he entered a Paris hospital last month for an unannounced, comprehensive checkup. Mitterrand said in a television interview last week he never had any medical problems in his life until === Page 125 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran Parliament deputy slain in hail of gunfire By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A member of Iran's Parliament was assassinated and a Revolutionary Guard wounded Monday in a burst of gunfire from a passing car in Tehran, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported. Pars also said three people found guilty of complicity in a bombing that killed 70 members of the ruling Islamic Republican Party last spring were executed Sunday by firing squads. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in a 30-minute speech carried by Tehran radio, said workers should guard against "undedicated or devious" persons trying to infiltrate Islamic societies at their workplaces, and monitor the behavior of government and military workers. The Parliament deputy assassinated, Mohammad Taki Behsharat, was a Khomeini loyalist who was often quoted on Tehran radio. He represented Semiron, in the central province of Isfahan. Pars did not indicate what happened to the assassins, who had opened fire when their car pulled alongside Behsharat's. Pars identified the three people executed at Tehran's Evin Prison as Mehdi Bokharai, Habib Moharamdust and Masumeh Shademanifard. It said they were involved in the explosion at the IRP headquarters June 28, six days after moderate President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was ousted in an IRP-engineered impeachment. The three executions brought to 1,656 the number of officially announced executions since Bani-Sadr was ousted. Khomeini's message on infiltrators was given to visitors at his north Tehran home Monday. Workers should be on the watch for subversives trying to infiltrate Islamic councils he said. "They should be fully watching the behavior of those working in ministries, the army, offices and wherever they are," he added. The strict Islamic regime recently started purging institutions which have been among Khomeini's most loyal forces -- including the Revolutionary Guards and revolutionary police force called the Komniteh. Khomeini said recently that "un-Islamic and counterrevolutionary" elements had infiltrated the Revolutionary Guards, who act as his paramilitary force. Sources in Tehran have reported that the power of Islamic councils at workplaces was curtailed. In the past, the sources said, these councils set up work regulations, fired co-workers and confiscated property. The sources, who asked not to be named, said newly appointed Labor Minister Ahmad Tavakoli also canceled some workers' privileges such as the chance to purchase hard-to-obtain cars. His action prompted a short-lived strike at a car factory, the sources added. oreg 12/29/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Shot near queen nets term WELLINGTON, New Zealand (UPI) -- A teenage terrorist was given a three-year prison term Thursday for firing a rifle near Queen Elizabeth. Witnesses to the event testified that Christopher John Lewis, 17, told police he planned to shoot the queen during her visit to the south island city of Dunedin in October. Lewis, who claims to be the leader of the National Imperial Guerrilla Army, pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm in a residential area and gave no testimony. Lewis had admitted firing the shot into the ground not far from the queen. His lawyer said he was not close enough to hit her and did not aim at her. The lawyer, James Hanan, said Lewis suffered from deep-seated psychological disorders manifested by the desire to prove himself grander than others. oreg J 12/10/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # White House gate rammed WASHINGTON (AP) -- A young man rammed his car against a White House gate Sunday morning but failed to penetrate the barrier and was arrested, the Secret Service said. The man, identified as Walter H. Witwer, 21, of Grayslake, Ill., tried to ram his subcompact auto through the northeast gate onto the grounds of the executive mansion about 9 a.m., according to Secret Service spokesman Dick Hartwig. Witwer was arrested by U.S. park police and taken to George Washington University Hospital. oreg 12/21/81 UFOs "higher ups" # Reagan aide urged to quit WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairman of the Senate Budget Committee suggested Thursday that William A. Niskanen, an economic adviser to President Reagan, resign because of his contention that budget deficits have no connection with inflation or interest rates. While Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., did not demand Niskanen's resignation, he told reporters, "It's difficult for me to understand how after what he said... how he can serve the president very well." Domenici said, "I hope the president personally and with vigor rejects that and clearly relates to us that there is a relationship between deficits and interest rates and inflation." Niskanen could not be reached for comment. Niskanen drew an angry reaction from the Republican-controlled Senate earlier this week after he said, "In general, concern about the deficit has been misplaced. There is no direct or indirect connection between deficits and inflation." oreg 12/11/81 # Guatemalan mayor slain; kidnapped son still missing GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Unidentified gunmen entered the home of the mayor of Ciudad Vieja, forced his family to leave and then shot him dead, police said Monday. They said no group claimed responsibility for the Sunday murder of Gonzalo Quinonez Paredes. Quinonez Paredes, 46, was the local leader of the Christian Democrat Party which, like many other moderate and leftist parties, is not taking part in national elections next March, claiming they will be fraudulent. Family members said a week earlier that one of the mayor's sons, Herbert, 16, was kidnapped as he returned from a basketball game. Nothing has been heard from since. Residents of the town, 25 miles southwest of the capital, Guatemala City, were kidnapped and then killed by heavily armed men. Seven bullet-riddled bodies were later found near Mixco, on the outskirts of the capital, and police were trying to determine if they were the same people seized Thursday. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings or kidnapping, but leftist guerrillas frequently wear olive-green uniforms. oreg 12/29/81 === Page 126 of 278 "FOR attack "higher "s " 2nd top Polish diplomat oreg J 12/24/81 By United Press International defects to U.S. Poland's ambassador to japan, who de- fected because he "cannot tolerate the military rule" in his homeland, has been granted political asylum in the United States, a State Department spokesman in Washington said Thursday. The envoy, Zdislaw Rurarz has left for the United States, a spokesman for the State Department's working group on Po- land said. "We can confirm that he has asked for and been granted asylum," the spokesman said. Rurarz was expected to arrive Thurs- day afternoon in Seattle with his wife, Janina, and their 25-year-old daughter, Eva, and continue en route to New York. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshio Sa- kurauchi told newsmen Rurarz expressed his desire to seek political asylum, but refused to discuss details. The Polish Em- bassy in Tokyo also declined to comment. Japan Broadcasting Corp. quoted Ru- rarz as saying, "I cannot tolerate the mili- tary rule in Poland." Japanese police officials said he told them, "I can no longer represent the Po- lish government, which denied the funda- mental rights of the Polish people." Rurarz, 51, began his assignment in To- kyo in February this year. He gave a warm reception to Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity union, when Walesa visited Japan in May at the invitation of the General Council of Trade Unions, Ja- pan's largest labor group. Rurarz' request for asylum followed that of Poland's ambassador to Washing- ton, Romuald Spasowski, who announced Sunday his decision to defect to the Unit- ed States because of "the state of war" imposed on Poland. President Reagan re- ceived Spasowski in Washington on Tues- day and praised him for his action. Rurarz' defection also followed defec- tions by 16 seamen from a Polish freighter visiting Japan to load relief rice to help ease food shortages in Poland. SEN. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS JR. UFO. attache "higher upes" Court back's conviction of Williams By RICHARD T. PIENCIAK NEW YORK (AP) -A federal judge upheldSen. Harrison A. Williams To's Abscam conviction Tuesday, ruung that he was not entrapped but "knowingly and voluntarily" agreed to use his influ- ence in corrupt dealings with a phony sheik. undercover political corruption probe, faces an expulsion debate in the Senate next month. Williams had no comment on the ruling. But Walter Gold, a spokesman for the four-term senator, said in Mary- land: "It will go to the Court of Appeals, there's no question about that." "Fis attack"higher who" Donovan asks probe of charges areg 12/23/81 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, saying he was tired of being "besieged by false statements, leaks and innuendo," asked Tuesday that a special prosecutor be appointed to clear his name. Donovan told a hastily scheduled press conference that he had written Attorney General William French Smith to ask Smith to appoint the prosecutor to investigate the 2-week-old allega- tions that Donovan and the construction company he headed had made illegal payments to a union official. Donovan called his accuser, former únion official Mario Montuoro, a "dam- nable and contemptible liar." He denied that he or his company had ever done anything illegal. . The Justice Department was already conducting a preliminary investigation into whether to appoint a special prosê- cutor. Donovan said he was taking the unusual step of asking for the prosecu- tor himself because he wanted the mat- ter cleared up as quickly as possible. Smith notified President Reagan Tuesday afternoon of Donovan's re- quest, said White House spokesman Da- The New Jersey Democrat, the sev- enth member of Congress - and the vid Gergen. Gergen added that Reagan still held the view he expressed last only senator - convicted in the Abscam " week that Donovan should remain in his job if a special prosecutor were named to conduct an investigation. Gergen said the White House had not reviewed Donovan's letter and would not comment on it. "Of course it will be up to the Department of Justice to decide how to handle the situation," Gergen added. In Hin #1anos de -Tất- === Page 127 of 278 2 Oregon Journal, January 2, 1982 (2) UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan reported ready to ax Allen By HELEN THOMAS PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig planned to take time from their California vacations Saturday to talk about the likely removal of Richard Allen as national security affairs adviser, and other issues. A senior administration official said Reagan has all but decided to replace Allen with the announcement expected next week after the president returns to Washington. First choice for Allen's replacement is Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, a long-time Reagan friend who was his chief of staff when he was governor of California and whom Reagan named to the California Supreme Court. Clark won Senate confirmation to the No. 2 post at the State Department last winter despite his consistent replies of "I don't know" or "I'm not in position to say" to a wide range of foreign policy issues, some of them elementary, in his confirmation hearings. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Charles Percy, R-Ill., shepherded the nomination through Senate confirmation, but said: "Never again can we accept a man who professes to have no knowledge in the area for which he has been nominated." Both Reagan and Haig are vacationing in Palm Springs, and both attended a gala New Year's Eve party at the 200-acre estate of multi-millionaire publisher Walter Annenberg, where the Reagans are house guests. Other guests included three additional Cabinet members, Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor and a number of the president's California friends. Allen, who has been on administrative leave, told reporters staking out his Arlington, Va., home Friday that he has had no indication he is being replaced. He also expressed doubt such a decision has been made, but White House aides indicated otherwise. The replacement of Allen will be coupled with a restructuring of the national security affairs office to upgrade the position of the adviser, who will be given direct access to Reagan. Such access was removed from Allen several months ago, and his role was downgraded to a point where he had little personal contact with Reagan on a day-to-day basis and reported to him by written memos on international developments. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said one main reason for altering the position was that there has been no central point of contact for coordinating foreign policy decisions. As a result, he said, "there has been some shopping around" among State Department and Pentagon officials to find out with whom to discuss foreign policy problems. Allen told reporters the upgrading of the national security adviser's job "strikes me as a reasonable idea." The change being contemplated would put the security adviser on a par with the current "big three" White House advisers -- counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## newsbreak ## Albanian premier kills self Mehmet Shehu, 67, premier of Communist Albania for the past 27 years and the close adviser of strongman Enver Hoxha, committed suicide, Radio Tirana reported Friday night. org J 12/19/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan blasts abductors of U.S. Army general org 12/19/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan Friday denounced the captors of a U.S. Army general in Italy as "cowardly bums" and said the United States is doing everything it can to gain his release. "They aren't heroes or they don't have a cause that justifies what they're doing," Reagan said of the captors of Brig. Gen. James Dozier, who was kidnapped Thursday. "They're cowards," Reagan said. "They wouldn't have the guts to stand up to anyone individually in any kind of a fair contest." Dozier, 50, is the second-highest ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe and the target of the first apparent political abduction of an American in Italy. The Red Brigades, the Marxist urban guerrilla group which kidnapped and killed former Italian Premier Aldo Moro in 1978, claimed responsibility for Dozier's abduction. Reagan, questioned about the incident during a meeting with automakers, said, "I think that everything is being done that can be done." "This is, I think, a terrible situation. It's a most frustrating situation because I would like to be able to stand sometime, I'm sure we all would, and say to the people that do these things they are cowardly bums..." "Yes, we're doing everything we can," the president said. === Page 128 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # $1,000 not rumor Richard Allen can talk all he wants to about the "miasma of rumor and innuendo" regarding the $1,000 he had tucked away in a safe. But it all has the smell of a smokescreen. The nation has been that route before when someone in high office has been caught in the act of wrongdoing. But all of the cries of "foul" and "picked on" do not right the wrong. Allen has taken administrative leave of his post as national security adviser while the investigation goes on. He claims that he will prove his innocence and then return to his office. But it is not just a matter of whether or not he violated the law. If he did, he obviously should face justice. But even if he didn't, he was wrong. There is no justification for the national security adviser to accept a $1,000 gift, or whatever it was, for arranging an interview with the first lady. The standard of conduct ought to be higher than whether the behavior constituted a criminal act. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Libyans 'burn' Reagan BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Thousands of Libyan demonstrators chanted anti-American slogans Wednesday and burned President Reagan in effigy in Libya's Mediterranean port city of Benghazi, Libya's state radio reported. The broadcast, monitored in Beirut, said the marchers carried posters that denounced Reagan for alleged "terroristic provocations" against Col. Moammar Khadafy, leader of the North African Arab nation. "Reagan, you cowboy! You will die before reaching Moammar!" chanted the crowds as they set Reagan's effigy on fire at Benghazi's main square. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Cody hospitalized CHICAGO (AP) -- Cardinal John P. Cody, archbishop of the nation's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was admitted to a hospital Tuesday, and a spokeswoman said he was in fair condition. The spokeswoman at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Heather Watson, said she did know why he was admitted. She said, that at the cardinal's request, no further information would be given out by the hospital. A diocesan spokesman, Charles Roberts, said the 73-year-old prelate is expected to be released in time to celebrate Mass on Christmas Eve. The archdiocese said he traveled to the hospital on his own. Cody has a history of heart ailments and diabetes. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Critic says he was fired SEATTLE (UPI) -- A Federal Aviation Administration official, who claimed he was transferred to a do-nothing job because of his criticism of the agency, has been fired from his $50,000-a-year job. The regional office of the FAA confirmed Thursday that James Pope was no longer an employee of the agency, but declined to elaborate, citing Civil Service regulations protecting his privacy. Pope accused the FAA of moving him from the agency's headquarters in Washington D.C. to the Seattle office in retaliation for his criticism of FAA programs to avoid midair collisions. Testifying before a congressional committee earlier this year, Pope blamed the FAA for a 1978 midair collision over San Diego that killed 150 people. Pope said the agency for years had resisted adopting an electronic collision avoidance system that could have prevented the tragedy. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # White House intruder held WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A 22-year-old Maryland man was arrested by Secret Service agents on the White House lawn after he jumped a fence and entered the grounds. He was charged Thursday with unlawful entry, police said. District of Columbia police identified the intruder as William Persons, 22, of Cheverly, Md. Secret Service spokesman Laurie Davis said Persons jumped over the iron fence surrounding the White House from the sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue. He was arrested by the Secret Service about 4:30 p.m., she said. Persons was interviewed by Secret Service agents, charged and taken to the Central Cell Block before transfer to the D.C. Jail. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # News director resigns for Voice of America trend By BARBARA CROSSETTE New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The director of the Voice of America's news division, a strong advocate of journalistic independence for the agency, resigned Monday. The departure of Bernard H. Kamenske, 54, followed a period of internal turmoil in the organization growing out of what journalists in the network saw as an increasing tendency on the part of the Reagan administration to stress the propaganda or commentary function of the Voice. Kamenske is due to join Cable News Network Jan. 3 as senior news editor in Washington, the cable company announced Monday. Kamenske, a newsroom institution at the Voice, broke down in tears when telling the staff Monday about his resignation. He was widely credited with framing the 1976 charter that sought to guarantee newsroom independence from any management attempts to interfere with the work of journalists. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Diplomat expelled MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The government has expelled an Iranian diplomat from Bahrain on charges he tried to launch a coup in this Persian Gulf island state, a Bahreini newspaper reported Tuesday. The Arab-language Akhbar al Khaleej said Iranian charge d'affaires Hassan Shushtri left Manama for Tehran Monday night at the request of the In- === Page 129 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Burger rejects book allegations, cameraman oreg 12/18/81 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger said Thursday that allegations made by John Ehrlichman about improper conversations between Burger and then-President Nixon are only attempts "to sell a book." The chief justice, in a copyright interview with the Lincoln Journal, also contended he gave a CBS cameraman "a shoulder" only after the camera poked Burger in the chin. Burger declined to further discuss claims in a coming book by Ehrlichman, a former Nixon aide, that Burger and Nixon privately discussed a pending Supreme Court school busing case for which the chief justice later wrote the majority opinion. Burger made the comment during a brief tour of the Journal's newsroom before he left Lincoln for Washington. A CBS television crew's efforts to get Burger to comment on Ehrlichman's claims touched off the incident Wednesday afternoon in which a camera was knocked out of a cameraman's hands. CBS news reporter Derrick Blakley has been quoted as saying the film crew had "staked out" the Stuart Building in hopes of questioning the chief justice before a luncheon. Blakley said Burger did not respond to the crew's queries, nor did he indicate he was angry or offended. But when the camera crew tried to enter an elevator with the chief justice, he turned and knocked the camera off the cameraman's shoulder, Blakley said. Burger said Thursday morning the incident happened after a member of the crew behind the cameraman apparently pushed him into the elevator and the front of the camera lens "hit me in the chin." Burger said there was a rubber ring around the lens and added, "I didn't get hurt." A CBS videotape of the incident, however, appeared to show Burger turning around in the elevator immediately after entering, saying, "Get out of here" and lunging at the cameraman just before the camera's images began to spin. The chief justice, a Minnesota native, said he used to play hockey in his younger days, "and I just turned and gave him (the cameraman) a shoulder. It probably wasn't his fault. I think someone was trying to push him in. But there were already four or five us in there." Burger said the cameraman yelled that the camera was broken, but the chief justice said he doubted that. A CBS spokeswoman, Marcia Stein, said, "Blakley was just doing his job, and the story speaks for itself." She said the film of the incident clearly showed there was no effort to shove the camera at Burger, and the chief justice was seen stepping forward to knock the camera away. Burger visited Lincoln to tour the Nebraska State Penitentiary and give a speech at the University of Nebraska. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Donovan tied to illicit payoff LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- An FBI inquiry involving Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan has widened to include charges that Donovan's former construction company paid illegal gratuities in addition to cash to officials of a New York City laborers' union, it was learned Monday. The investigation -- whose existence was confirmed by the White House last week -- has focused mainly on charges by a former union official, Mario Montuoro, that a $2,000 bribe was paid by officials of the construction firm in Donovan's presence in 1977. But Arthur Z. Schwartz, a New York lawyer representing Montuoro, said Monday that his client had also told authorities that Donovan's former company paid for trips by union officials, gave or lent them heavy equipment for their personal use and honored a union request to put "ghost employees" -- the names of nonexistent workers -- on the company payroll. Schwartz said the alleged gratuities were paid by Donovan's company, Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J., four years ago to officials of Blasters, Drillers and Miners Local 29. The union was helping build tunnels for Schiavone on a New York subway project, he said. Although Donovan handled day-to-day operations of the company as a principal partner, Montuoro, aside from saying that had Donovan witnessed the $2,000 payoff, has no direct knowledge that Donovan knew about the payment of other gratuities, Schwartz said. Such gratuities, if proven, would be in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act and could form the basis for a separate federal charge of racketeering against the Schiavone firm. A spokesman for Donovan said Monday that the secretary had no comment on the latest charges as long as the FBI inquiry was proceeding. Donovan said last week that he knew "nothing that lends substance" to the cash payoff allegation. During a Senate confirmation hearing last January, Donovan faced similar charges that his company had made payments to ensure "labor peace" with unions. He denied the allegations, and the FBI found them to be unsubstantiated. oreg 12/15/81 UFOs - "higher ups" # Roberts doing fine ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) -- Evangelist Oral Roberts was reported in good condition following eye surgery at Alhambra Community Hospital. "He's doing fine. The surgery went very well," said Dr. Dennis Chuck, chief resident with the Doheny Eye Clinic, following the surgery Saturday. Roberts, 63, of Tulsa, Okla., entered the hospital in this Los Angeles suburb Friday. Chuck was one of two doctors from the eye clinic who performed the surgery to repair a tear in the retina of one eye. oreg 12/14/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # House blasted in Kabul ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Afghan guerrillas blew up a sentry box outside the U.N. staff house last Thursday in Kabul, the Afghan capital, according to a delayed Western diplomatic report reaching here Tuesday. It said there were no injuries in the explosion since the Afghan soldiers normally occupying the guard shelter were inside the U.N. compound at the time. The report, disclosed by a diplomat who declined to be identified, said a senior Afghan party official was assassinated the same day in a separate incident. === Page 130 of 278 # Polish premier declares 'emergency' - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Solidarity leaders to be 'interned' By THOMAS W. NETTER WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish Premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski declared a state of emergency early Sunday and announced that leaders of the independent union Solidarity would be "interned" along with former party leaders blamed for leading Poland into its current crisis. Jaruzelski, who also is the Communist Party chief, addressed the nation in a radio broadcast six hours after helmeted riot police seized Solidarity headquarters in Warsaw and arrested local union activists in a sudden strike against the defiant labor federation. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - **Marcello convicted** LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Carlos "Little Man" Marcello, the reputed overlord of the Gulf Coast Mafia, was convicted late Friday on three conspiracy charges in the attempted bribing of a federal judge in a murder case. The 71-year-old Marcello faces up to 15 years in prison. **Solidarity debates points** GDANSK, Poland (UPI) - Solidarity leaders Saturday debated three tough draft resolutions, including one which could bring a national referendum on Poland's relations with the Soviet Union. Two of the resolutions before the 107-member union national commission were variations on a call for a general strike should Parliament grant emergency law-and-order powers to the government. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - **Argentine president ousted** BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (UPI) - Ailing Argentine President Roberto Viola, 57, has been ousted by the military junta that appointed him only eight months ago. He will be replaced by fellow army general Leopoldo Galtieri, 55, officials said. # The world - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Khomeini deputy slain BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A personal representative of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Shiraz and seven or eight companions were killed Friday when a bomb exploded as they were heading to the city's main mosque, Tehran radio and a revolutionary police official said. The prayer leader, 80-year-old Ayatollah Abdol-Hossein Dastgheib, had taken "about 100 steps from the house when the bomb exploded," according to a Revolutionary Police spokesman in Shiraz who talked to The Associated Press in Beirut by telephone. The spokesman, who refused to be identified, said seven or eight people with Dastgheib also died. Tehran radio said an undetermined number of Dastgheib's companions were killed and others wounded. The broadcast, monitored here, said the blast in the southern Iranian city was set off by leftist Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas. The Tehran government ordered a nationwide day of mourning Saturday for Dastgheib, who represented Khomeini in the southern province of Fars and was the prayer leader of Shiraz, 420 miles south of Tehran, according to the broadcast. - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # FTC choice called liar WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee abruptly ended a hearing on a controversial nomination to the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday after a senator charged the nominee had lied to the panel. Sen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev., made the charge against F. Keith Adkinson during a meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Chairman Bob Packwood, R-Ore., halted the session. Adkinson, a Democrat who worked for President Reagan's election and was nominated by Reagan to the FTC, was not at the session and could not be reached for comment on Cannon's allegation. The nominee, once a staffer for a Senate subcommittee, had signed a contract to write a book about a criminal who testified to the subcommittee. Questions were raised about the propriety of this, but no action was taken. Adkinson, questioned about the book deal at an earlier hearing, said the contract had been in effect only a few weeks before the project was abandoned. Cannon said, "This nominee has not been forthright with this committee about the book contract. This committee learned about the book contract only from FBI files." Cannon said there is evidence the contract was in effect much longer. He also said Adkinson tried to "cash in" on his work for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations by proposing a television series. Speaking of the abandoned television venture, Cannon said, "Not only did he not reveal it, he lied about it" === Page 131 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Polish envoy asks asylum, hits Warsaw Text on Page A4 By R. GREGORY NOKES WASHINGTON (AP) -- Poland's ambassador to the United States, Romuald Spasowski, declared Sunday that he is defecting to the United States because a "state of war has been imposed upon Poland" and "I cannot be silent." "The cruel night of darkness and silence has spread over my country," the grim-faced 61-year-old diplomat said. "I cannot have any association ... with the authorities responsible for the brutality and inhumanity." With his wife at his side, Spasowski appeared dramatically before reporters at the State Department to denounce what he described as "an unprecedented reign of terror" being carried out by security police and special military units. "With unique precision, the police undertook all feasible steps to extinguish every ember of freedom, trying to eliminate independently minded people," he said. But he said Poland's communist government could not imprison all 36 million Poles and declared, "We will never give up" in the pursuit of freedom. Standing ramrod straight and speaking in good but heavily accented English, the goateed diplomat read from a statement written on a yellow legal pad. The State Department said he had asked to make the statement. Although he said the crackdown was not exclusively an "internal issue," he did not specifically charge Soviet involvement. He did not mention the Soviet Union once in his 10-minute statement. Saturday, Spasowski requested political asylum for himself, his wife, his daughter and his son-in-law. After his appearance, Spasowski and his wife, Wanda, were led away from the room under heavy security guard. But first, Mrs. Spasowski walked over to the group of reporters and kissed and embraced Virginia E. Kelly, a Washington correspondent for The Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. Mrs. Kelly said she had become a close friend of the Spasowskis during their stay here. Officials declined to say where the Spasowskis were being taken, but the normal procedure would be for them to be secluded under guard in a so-called "safe house" somewhere in the Washington area, as long as there was concern for their safety. The Polish government broadcast Sunday that Spasowski had been suffering for some time from "periodic states of depression." Warsaw Radio reported Spasowski had requested political asylum after he had been recalled and ordered to return home. Although he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations defected in 1979 following Soviet intervention in that country, State Department officials could not recall the last time an ambassador to the United States had defected. "Nobody can remember, in recent memory at least, an ambassador to Washington having asked for asylum," said Anita Stockman, a State Department spokeswoman. Spasowski described himself to reporters as the most senior member of the Polish diplomatic service. He said he had held ambassadorial rank five times, including twice here. He was ambassador from 1955 to 1961 and then from April 1978 until his defection. The United States was obviously seeking to draw as much attention as possible to the defection by giving him the use of a major conference room at the State Department. ABC-TV broadcast his statement live. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. had disclosed on a television program earlier Sunday that Spasowski had asked for political asylum Saturday and President Reagan had granted the request and ordered protection. Spasowski described conditions in Poland since the crackdown ordered by the communist government last weekend: "The cruel night of darkness and silence has spread over my country. Now, thousands of the best sons and daughters of the Polish nation are with the order of the military council, in prisons, in concentration camps, and your young blood flows in the police force and special military units." UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran president's brother wounded BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- The brother of Iranian President Ali Khamenei was wounded Sunday by "American mercenaries," and two of his bodyguards were killed, Radio Tehran said. It said Mohammad Khamenei, a Parliament deputy from the northeastern city of Mashad, was attacked by four gunmen who jumped out of the bushes as he left his residence in the Iranian capital. Two of Khamenei's bodyguards were killed instantly, the radio said, but Khamenei himself "miraculously" escaped serious injury with only "minor" bullet wounds in his side. The term "American mercenaries" is often used by Iran's state-owned news media to describe Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas. "I saw the bullets coming through the car window, and I waited for death," Khamenei said in a taped interview from his hospital bed. "I fled, the bullets hitting my clothes, which are full of holes, and I heard them around my head like swarms of bees. The whole thing took less than half a minute." Representatives of the president and Prime Minister Mir Hossein Musavi visited Khamenei in the hospital, according to the broadcast monitored in Beirut. President Khamenei himself was the target of an assassination attempt last June 27 when a tape recorder rigged with explosives blew up near his face as he was speaking in a mosque. The attack, which the government blames on the guerrillas, damaged the president's windpipe and left him with a paralyzed right arm. === Page 132 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Danish premier resigns after election setback By OLE DUUS COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Premier Anker Joergensen announced his resignation Tuesday night after voters dealt his Social Democratic Party a severe blow in national elections. But with 98 percent of the vote counted, the contest between his minority socialist government and the main opposition -- a Liberal-Conservative alliance -- had not reached a clear-cut conclusion, and it is possible Joergensen will remain as premier. Political commentators predicted either a lengthy government crisis or the calling of new elections. Joergensen, 59, was to submit his resignation to Queen Margrethe II Wednesday morning, advising the monarch to call in the leaders of all political parties in a search of the one to be charged with directing negotiations on formation of a new government. He would remain as caretaker premier in the interim. Complete unofficial returns showed a loss of nine seats for the Social Democrats, leaving them with 59 in the 179-seat Folketing (parliament). Joergensen said that was too few for him to carry on immediately as the leader of a minority government. The Liberal-Conservative alliance gained three seats on its previous strength of 44. The big winners, with a nine-seat gain each, were two ideologically divergent parties with one thing in common -- they both denounced the economic plans put forward by the main competitors. The Social People's Party, a Marxist group, increased its strength from 11 to 20 seats, and the Center-Democrats jumped from six to 15. The two parties were likely to cancel each other out, so the deciding vote may be left with the Social-Liberals, as it has been in the past. That small party has nine seats -- a loss of one. An estimated 85 percent of Denmark's 3.8 million voters braved freezing cold, snowstorms and snarled public transportation to vote in their sixth national election in 10 years. The chief issue was how Denmark, beset by growing unemployment and mounting foreign debts, was to work its way back toward economic equilibrium. The ruling Social Democrats said this would be possible without tampering with the welfare state -- now being retained mainly through borrowing abroad -- with the "socially balanced" economic plan it offered. The alliance, by contrast, called for major cutbacks, biting into the welfare system and relying on tax reductions to get the economy going. Tuesday's vote did not result in a swing to the right, as in Sweden and Norway, where non-socialist governments have taken over. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Charles, Diana left to dine alone LONDON (AP) -- A banquet for Prince Charles and Princess Diana was disrupted Tuesday night when senior politicians were summoned unexpectedly to vote in the nearby House of Commons. The ringing of the "division" bell warning that a vote was about to take place in the lower house of Parliament created "general consternation" among the diners, The Times of London reported. "Food and drink was dropped instantly from eager hands as Members of Parliament went to answer the call to arms," The Times said. "In seconds the banquet was deserted as the honorable and gallant gentlemen raced for the division lobbies." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sitting next to the 33-year-old heir to the British throne and his 20-year-old wife, "was not amused," The Times said. UFOs attack "higher ups" PALACE BOREDOM: Two former Buckingham Palace footmen have been jailed for stealing $12,000 worth of explosives and other mining equipment, some of which they stashed in the palace hobby room. Andrew Gildersleeve, 23, was sentenced to 12 months and Stephen Beevis, 21, to nine months, for stealing gelignite, a Land Rover and other equipment which they said they intended to use for their hobby, cave exploring. They were arrested on the eve of the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana July 29, prompting fears that security at the palace had been violated. Their lawyer said the two men were bored with their work at Buckingham Palace. === Page 133 of 278 - newsbreak # Ghana hit by coup org 1/19/82 The military carried out the fifth coup d'etat in Ghana's 24-year history Thursday in a takeover apparently masterminded by Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings, leading his second uprising in two years. No word was available on the fate of President Hilla Limann or his cabinet. org J 12/31/81 # Reagan blunted in try to plug news leaks org 1/19/82 By JACK NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan became so upset over leaks of information to the news media recently that he told aides he planned to bar all administration officials from talking to journalists on a background or off-the-record basis, according to White House sources. Reagan wanted to permit only on-the-record interviews and to allow those only upon prior approval by a senior White House official, the sources told the Los Angeles Times. Such an edict would have had the effect of drastically cutting back the flow of news and information made public about the activities of the federal government, because hardly a day goes by that officials by the score at all levels of the executive branch do not talk to reporters on condition that their names not be used. "The president came back from his New Year's holiday in California really steaming about the leaks and wanted to stop them across the board with a directive," said one White House official. "He wanted to order that there be no off-the-record or background interviews and no contacts with the media unless approved by the White House." No such presidential order was issued, however, because some White House officials felt strongly that it would be impracticable, unenforceable and politically unwise. Many of the most important stories developed in Washington on the inner workings of government are based on background interviews under ground rules that require that reporters identify their sources only in general terms, such as "White House officials." Moreover, top government officials often have found it to be the most effective way to get the administration's message to the public. Off-the-record interviews, which are held with the understanding that none of the information can be used in a story, are sought by reporters to help them gain a better understanding of an issue they are covering. Reagan's deep concern about leaks goes far beyond the issue of national security. He also has fretted over stories that dealt with behind-the-scene maneuvering in the administration on matters dealing with the budget, tax increases and internal problems of the administration. Out of his concern emerged a presidential directive restricting government employees' contacts with reporters on national security matters as well as a memorandum from White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III requiring that all interviews of any nature be cleared in advance with the White House. The Baker memo was drafted by David Gergen, Reagan's director of communications, who told The Times he had not intended it to apply to requests for interviews from individual print journalists. As Gergen spelled out the new policy in meetings Monday with government press officers, prior approval is not to be required for broadcast interviews on spot news or for requests by individual print journalists. But major broadcast interviews and sessions with groups of journalists must get advance clearance, Gergen told the press officers. # Algerian diplomat slain BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An Algerian diplomat was found dead in his Beirut home Wednesday, and initial reports said his skull had been cracked by a heavy instrument, police said. The diplomat was identified as Rabeh Jerwa, minister plenipotentiary at the Algerian Embassy. Foreign Minister Fuad Butros said the incident was part of a campaign to force the evacuation of diplomats from Lebanon. There were 39 attacks on embassies and diplomats in Lebanon in 1981, according to a Lebanese security report released earlier this month. # Spain picks joint chiefs MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Premier Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo named new joint chiefs of staff Friday after relieving four top military men of command. The development preceded Spain's entry into NATO and the trial of rebellious officers who tried to overthrow the government. The national news agency EFE said the premier and Cabinet appointed Lt. Gen. Alvaro Lacalle, 63, commander of the Valladolid military region, as new monopoly, fraud and negligence with a mean spirit of utter shamelessness. They seem to have no potential for shame," Nader said. In response to Nader's letter, Mark Weinberg, a White House spokesman, said, "The president believes that much federal regulation is wasteful." # Nader hits policies Consumer advocate Ralph Nader criticized the Reagan administration Monday for policies he said would lead to more casualties from dangerous products, fewer consumer safeguards and more anti-competitive price rises. In a 13-page letter to the president, Nader said Reagan's administration showed "a brand of anti-consumer extremism that would make the people of the Nixon and Ford administrations blush with shame. "Your government's operatives on all fronts are destroying the application of law and order to corporate crime, # Judge rebuffs Watt A federal judge in Utah has rebuffed Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt in his efforts to take a second look at a strip mining plan near Bryce Canyon National Park, a re-evaluation that would have opened the possibility of mining within view of one of the park's most scenic vistas. U.S. District Judge David Winder decided against allowing Watt to reopen the mining compromise worked out in 1980 by former Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus. Instead, Andrus' proposal for the Alton Mine fields -- a plan that angered both environmentalists and the industry -- will be the subject of an extended judicial review in Salt Lake City. === Page 134 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" A12 3M THE OREGONIAN, MON # Racial remark taped by bank Oreg 1/11/82 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS newsman Mike Wallace, interviewing a San Diego bank official for a "60 Minutes" segment, made a racially disparaging remark that was videotaped by the bank without his knowledge, it was reported Sunday. The Los Angeles Times said Wallace was taped saying that complex lien-sale contracts -- agreements to buy goods on time -- were "hard to read ... if you're reading them over the watermelon or over the tacos." The incident occurred last March 31 when Wallace was interviewing a vice president at San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association. The subject was low-income, poorly educated Southern Californians who faced losing their homes because they had unknowingly put them up as collateral in contracts to buy air conditioners, and then defaulted on some payments. San Diego Federal had carried thousands of the contracts for Trane Co., one of the nation's largest air conditioner firms. Trane recently agreed to pay $1 million to settle a California attorney general's complaint about company sales practices. Wallace, in Montgomery, Ala., could not be reached immediately for comment, CBS News spokeswoman Geraldine Sharpe-Newton said. Wallace was in Montgomery to interview Tom Krebs, head of the Alabama Securities Commission and Gov. Fob James' task force on crime. Wallace was quoted in the Times as saying of the incident that "anybody who knows me, I'm afraid, knows that I do ethnic jokes and I do obscenity from time to time." He added that he tells Jewish jokes, and "I'm Jewish." Miss Sharpe-Newton, in New York, read a statement issued Sunday by CBS News, which said, "CBS News regrets, as does Mike Wallace, his offhand remark during a break in an interview. The story as it was broadcast on '60 Minutes' was accurate and fair and in no way reflected that remark." CBS cameras were not running when Wallace made the disparaging remark, and Wallace told the newspaper he was under the impression that the bank's private crew was supposed to stop taping when the CBS crew did. The Times said upon learning that the remark had been taped, Wallace first tried to get it erased and then tried to get the tape back from the company. Michael Kinsman, San Diego Federal's assistant vice president for public affairs, confirmed that the bank had taped the interview but would not comment on the substance of Wallace's remark. "We do not wish to be involved in any struggle between Mike Wallace and other members of the media," Kinsman said. "It is clear that we have conducted ourselves ethically and with principle and have done nothing of which we should be ashamed. We are simply unwilling witnesses to this event." However, he said of the incident, "The Times story pretty well spells it out." UFOs attack "higher ups" # Marcos' wife blames enemies for kidnapping By DAVID BRISCOE Oreg 1/5/82 MANILA, Philippine (AP) -- Philippine first lady Imelda R. Marcos said Monday that she believed the apparent kidnapping of the man who married her daughter in the United States was plotted by anti-government forces. Court records in Arlington, Va., show that Imee Marcos, 26, married Tommy Manotoc, 32, in a civil ceremony Dec. 4. Manotoc's family has accused President Ferdinand Marcos of involvement in the disappearance last Tuesday. Authorities believe Manotoc was kidnapped. Marcos denied any involvement, and Mrs. Marcos accused political opponents and the Manotocs themselves of arranging the disappearance, calling it a "frame-up." Mrs. Marcos, in an interview before court records were disclosed, said she did not know whether there was a marriage because her daughter was "very secretive." She said she and the president opposed their daughter's relationship with Manotoc because he was a married man. Manotoc married a former Miss International beauty queen, Aurora Pijuan, in 1971. The Arlington court records say the two were divorced last October. Miss Pijuan said she did not know of the divorce, would agree to it and was helping Manotoc get an annulment of their marriage. The president Sunday denied that his family was involved in the disappearance and said Manila's nationwide search for the missing man was continuing. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Official resigns New York Times News Service TEL AVIV, Israel -- Arye Naor, the secretary of the Israeli Cabinet, who is standing trial for leaking a story calculated to hurt President Carter in the 1980 presidential election, submitted his resignation Thursday. Naor denied that his move was part of a deal to drop the case against him. However, the chief prosecution witness, Raanan Lurie, a London-based political cartoonist, said he was told by the prosecutor there was no need for him to come to Israel to testify. State Attorney Gabriel Bach declined to discuss the matter stating, "We never comment on something that is pending." The trial opened Dec. 15 and is scheduled to be resumed Monday. At the opening session, Naor pleaded not guilty to charges of conduct unbecoming a civil servant. However, the Cabinet secretary acknowledged through his attorney, that he gave Lurie the controversial information, but he asked the court to go behind closed doors to hear his explanation because state secrets were involved. Oreg 1/1/82 === Page 135 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan blunder does racial harm The Reagan administration made a profound blunder when it confused form with substance and ordered an 11-year-old policy reversed that prohibited U.S. tax exemptions for schools that practice racial discrimination. Stunned by the political reaction, the White House has stuck by its poorly considered decision. Instead of simply canceling the order to the Treasury Department, President Reagan has announced he will seek a remedy with congressional legislation, a move that will permit segregated institutions to be rewarded with federal tax exemptions until the change slowly works its way through the legislative process. The White House, in approving last Friday a recommendation that tax exemptions be given private institutions that discriminate, such as Bob Jones University, along with countless segregated schools that had not sought tax exemptions, said it did so because of its belief that government agencies "cannot be allowed to govern by administrative fiat." But Congress has not seen fit through its oversight powers to reverse the Treasury's ban against tax subsidies for segregated schools. The policy, first approved during the Nixon administration, was left standing during the subsequent Ford and Carter administrations. Now this administration seems to have declared it cannot act to discourage racial discrimination unless it gets an order from the Congress. While few would disagree that any administration should resist agencies that arrogantly exceed their legislative powers, the fact is that freedom -- indeed, responsibility -- to make administrative rules is recognized in the laws. The attitude in the White House that its effort to aid segregated schools with tax benefits had simply miscalculated the political outcry is disturbing, the inference being that nothing would have been done to change the decision if serious political damage had not belatedly been perceived. Blacks in this country have reason to be seriously concerned about an administration that has tried to water down the extension of the Voting Rights Act, sought court reversals of voluntary affirmative action programs and decided no longer to enforce busing orders for school desegregation. While those who are both black and non-racist may well agree with some of these administration views, the overall impression is being left by the rhetoric and manner of handling the issues that President Reagan is becoming the prisoner of the white supremacists and hard rightists who would turn America into a land as divided as South Africa. Worse, the impression is left in this latest episode that White House advisers simply are insensitive to racial and human issues, else they would not have let the president make such a blunder. oreg 1/14/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Iran president's kin wounded BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -- Iranian guerrillas wounded the brother of Iran's president and killed both his bodyguards in a 30-second barrage of gunfire and a Tehran newspaper said Monday the government put 16 more opponents to death. The attack Sunday on Hojatoleslam Seyyed Mohammed Khamanei was the third on a member of the Iranian Parliament in three weeks. The Tehran newspaper Azadegan, in a report quoted by Turkish Radio and Television Monday, said 16 people were executed in Iran over the past five days. The report said eight of those executed were "smugglers" and the other eight "counterrevolutionaries" -- a reference to anti-government agitators. The opponents of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic regime, resuming their attacks after a lull of several months, riddled Khamanei's car with bullets as he was being driven to Parliament in Tehran. "Several people attacked the car and showered it with bullets," Khamanei, brother of President Seyyed Ali Khamenei, told the official Islamic Republic News Agency from his hospital bed. "They (the bullets) were like bees all over me." Tehran Radio said Khamenei suffered only minor wounds in the head and stomach. Two bodyguards were killed in the 30-second attack, which Iran's official media blamed on "American lackeys," a phrase usually used to describe leftist groups opposing the clergy-dominated fundamentalist regime. Political violence in Iran had subsided during recent months, but known attacks resumed Dec. 23 with the assassinations of Parliament member Mojtaba Estaki and Imamgholi Jaafarpour, the governor of the town of Shahr-e Kord. That ambush of their car was followed by the Dec. 28 slaying of parliamentarian Taghi Besharati, a close aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Official reports since the June ouster of ex-president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr have blamed more than 1,000 political assassinations on the outlawed Mojahideen Khalq and the apparently less active Peykar and Fedayeen Khalq groups. oreg J 1/11/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" Leader said hurt -- The Libyan news agency JANA reported Saturday from Khartoum that Sudan President Jaafar Numeiry was wounded twice late Friday in an assassination attempt. However, in Khartoum the official news agency SUNA did not comment on the alleged assassination attempt but did say that Numeiry "is quite OK." oreg J 1/16/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Senator back home ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Eight days after being knocked out by a backdrop in a television studio during an interview, Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., is back home from the hospital. Mrs. Hawkins was wearing a neck brace and was wheeled out of the hospital Wednesday by her husband, Gene, a hospital aide. 1/15/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Governor nearly left speechless oreg 1/17/82 ATLANTA (AP) -- A funny thing happened to Gov. George Busbee as he stood before a joint session of the Legislature and a statewide television audience to give his budget address. He found he had a copy of the wrong speech. "I have a real problem here," the embarrassed governor confessed. "I've got the State of the State speech and I don't have the budget speech." === Page 136 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Gunman kills U.S. aide in Paris; Reagan decries terrorism By PAUL TREUTHARDT PARIS (AP) -- Assistant U.S. military attache Lt. Col. Charles Robert Ray was assassinated Monday by a lurking gunman who police said fired a single shot into Ray's forehead and fled as the victim collapsed on a Paris sidewalk. The U.S. ambassador to France, Evan Griffith Galbraith, said the gunman was "probably a professional and undoubtedly an experienced killer." Police said Ray was shot about 9 a.m. as he walked alone to his parked car near his apartment in a fashionable district. He wore civilian clothes and carried a small attache case found by his body. The only witness police found was a woman who saw the shooting from a distance on her way to work. She said she caught a back view of the killer fleeing on foot and described him as short with long hair and casual clothes. In Washington, President Reagan decried the assassination as an act of international terrorism, saying Ray "gave his life in the line of duty as surely as if he had fallen in battle." "Our hearts go out to his family in their bereavement, and the wanton act of his murderers reinforces our determination to stamp out international terrorism and prevent similar tragedies in the future," Reagan said. President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Pierre Mauroy, expressing outrage, promised an intensive search to find the assassin and offered to bolster security for the U.S. Embassy staff. Galbraith said security for U.S. officials in France would be reassessed because of the killing, since Ray "did not seem to be a target and it was not thought he ran any risks." Security was increased for senior U.S. Embassy staff members in Paris after an unsuccessful attempt on U.S. Charge d'Affaires Christian Chapman last Nov. 18 by a gunmen who escaped. Police said the tactics and description of Ray's assassin were similar and that a 7.65-mm pistol was used in both attacks. Chapman's assailant fired at him as he walked from his front door to his car en route to work. Chapman escaped unhurt by diving behind his car. Ray, 43, is survived by his wife Sharon, daughter Julie, 17, and son Mark, 14. A native of Springfield, Va., Ray had been stationed in Paris with his family since August 1980. He was schooled in military intelligence, served in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation medal, U.S. Army records showed. He was a counterintelligence adviser to South Vietnamese forces in 1962 and 1963 and returned to Vietnam three years later to serve as a plans officer with a military intelligence group based in Saigon, his records show. Afterward, he taught at an Army intelligence school at Fort Holabird, Md.. Police said the gunman walked up to Ray as he was going to his car from his apartment on the Boulevard Emile Augier, in the capital's posh 16th district, and shot him once in the forehead at close range. Police Commissioner Marcel Leclerc said Ray died instantly on the sidewalk. The only claim of responsibility was a handwritten statement given to Western news reporters in Beirut, Lebanon, by an organization called the "Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction." Western diplomats in Beirut said they had not heard of the group. Hours after Ray was shot, French authorities provided tight security for U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan, who flew to New York after attending a meeting of Western finance ministers. Security squads at Orly airport ordered 100 passengers off a Pan Am jetliner on which Regan was flying and searched the plane and baggage before allowing them to reboard. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Brazilian official convicted BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The Brazilian Supreme Court convicted a federal congressman of making false accusations against two military leaders and gave him a suspended six-month sentence, officials said Thursday. The court decision, which followed four hours of secret deliberations Wednesday, also stripped Genival Tourinho of his right to run for re-election in 1982 for the Chamber of Deputies. Tourinho, a member of the Peoples Party and a frequent critic of the government, was charged last year after accusing two hard-line generals in this military-controlled country with involvement in right-wing terrorist activity. ## Israeli officers accused TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Two Israeli officers will go on trial on charges of beating an Arab in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, the military said Thursday. A military investigation found that the altercation broke out after the Arab suddenly stopped his car on a road and the officers narrowly avoided ramming him with their jeep. A spokesman said the officers, a captain and a major, allegedly ordered the Arab out of his car and a heated argument led to the beating. UFOs attack "higher ups" By ROY GUTMAN LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- After three years of being the most-quoted envoy here and three decades as an important figure in U.S.-Israeli relations, Israel's ambassador, Ephraim Evron, is still wary of publicity about himself. The soft-spoken diplomat retires this month at the age of 61. True to form, he plans neither memoirs nor speeches nor unsolicited advice to his government. A familiar figure to many Americans from his frequent television interviews and press statements on Israeli policy, Evron seemed proud that since he came here in December 1978, the U.S. media had not written about him personally. "I have always believed that a good diplomat should keep a low profile and not seek headlines," he said. === Page 137 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" Δ 4 # Speakes' gaffe staff-inflicted By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL oreg 1/9/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a voice dripping with magnolia, White House spokesman Larry Speakes noted coyly Friday that the current recession began, not in Ronald Reagan's, but in Jimmy Carter's administration. Minutes later, face flushing red with embarrassment, he had to take it all back. Reporters were asking the deputy press secretary during the day's regular news conference, about new unemployment figures, which showed a rise to 8.9 percent, and what that might say about the Reagan economic program. "I noticed this morning," said Speakes, "that the National Bureau of Economic Research... declared it began in July of '80." "Are you calling it the Carter recession?" a reporter asked. A smile from Speakes. A sort of invisible licking of chops. "No, I wouldn't say that... but this outside group did." The bureau, he said, "is the official person that declares recession" and "a distinguished non-partisan panel." A few questions later, Speakes was handed a note by Jim Burnham, deputy to the chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. It said "Recession starts July 1981." The year was underlined. July 1981 falls smack-dab in the middle of Reagan's first year. Speakes turned red. Deep red. "I thought you told me July '80," he said to Burnham, not once but several times. As reporters laughed, Speakes said, "I have witnesses that that fellow told me." Then, one final pleading question to his aide, Pete Roussel, "He said that, didn't he?" UFOs attack "higher ups" # Washington oreg 1/1/82 # Solon to retire WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, top-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that he would retire after the current term, contending he had been "redistricted out of office" by a "blatantly political" court decision. McClory, 73, made his statement at a news conference two days after the Supreme Court upheld an Illinois congressional reapportionment plan that placed him in a primary race against Rep. John E. Porter, R-Ill., 46. After the high court ruled, McClory had said he was "campaigning harder than ever in the district they have handed me." But at his news conference Wednesday, he said he had "reached a firm resolve not to seek re-election." McClory said he had no specific plans for the future. He did not rule out the possibility of getting an appointment in the Reagan administration but said one had not be offered. There have been reports the administration has been asked by influential Illinois Republicans to find spots for McClory and Rep. George O'Brien, R-Ill., as a way of averting primary battles in the state. Because of redistricting, O'Brien is matched against Rep. Edward Derwinski, R-Ill. UFOs "higher ups" # Bomb leaves union leader in hospital oreg 12/31/81 NEW YORK (AP) -- A pipe bomb disguised as a Christmas package exploded Wednesday as the union leader of 118,000 store workers unwrapped it in his office in lower Manhattan, police said. The blast severely injured Alvin Heaps, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, slightly injured a woman with him and wrecked his office. About 10 minutes later and a mile away, a gun went off in a telephone company office building and was first reported by police and the company to have been a small bomb. Later, it was called a discharge from a small-caliber gun that slightly injured a woman, but neither police nor the company said immediately whether it went off accidentally or was aimed. The two incidents apparently were not connected. Heaps and the woman were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where Heaps was reported in serious but stable condition after a team of doctors treated him for multiple trauma, cuts and a broken leg, according to Ralphie Goicoechea of the hospital's administration office. The woman, Pat Evans, editor of a union publication, was slightly injured in the shoulder and was expected to be released, the hospital spokeswoman said. The 6- by 2-inch pipe bomb, equivalent to two sticks of dynamite, went off around 12:30 p.m. as Heaps opened it on his desk or in his lap, according to Alice McGillion, a police department spokeswoman. The device was in an 8- by 11-inch package, Christmas-wrapped, that was delivered by messenger Tuesday but not opened then, she said. === Page 138 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" Oregon Journal, December 5, 1981 (2) # Federal officers comb U.S. for Libyan 'hit squad' WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A "concerned" President Reagan is taking seriously reports that a Libyan-trained hit squad may have infiltrated the United States on a mission to kill him and other senior officials. Reagan disclosed Friday that he ordered protection for his top aides because of the threat to them from the hit squad reportedly in the country. "There's a threat to them," Reagan told reporters in the Oval Office. "It's been made very obvious." The state-run Libyan news agency, commenting Saturday on Reagan's remarks, accused the U.S. administration of telling lies. "The American allegations and the series of lies adopted in American foreign policy spring from hatred and fanaticism and reflect clearly the American terrorist policy against Libya," the agency said. Thursday, the White House said Secret Service protection was ordered for presidential counselor Edwin Meese, chief of staff James Baker and deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver. Such protection normally is not provided for presidential aides. Law enforcement officials confirmed they received word from an informant that five Libyan-trained terrorists have traveled to the United States on a mission to kill Reagan and other senior officials. The officials, who declined to be identified, emphasized that they have not yet confirmed there is such a team. CBS News said the informant was given a lie detector test and authorities "finally decided to believe him," including his warning of a hand-held missile attack on Air Force One or Reagan's helicopter. ABC News reported, "American intelligence officials have partially identified with names and pictures several of the suspected" Libyan hit men. It quoted sources as saying a nationwide search is under way for "at least three and possibly as many as six terrorists." In Chicago, FBI Director William Webster declined to comment specifically on the reports. "Whenever we have information that suggests danger to the president we take it seriously," he said before a speech to the Illinois Association of Judges. "We're taking appropriate steps." The New York Times said FBI and Secret Service agents have been sent around the country in the last few days to question Americans who have links to Libya. In another development, some of Reagan's top aides met with representatives of major news organizations and telephoned others Friday "to request restraint in reporting and televising specific security measures utilized in the protection of the president and others," the White House announced. Reagan, who has left the White House only once since returning Monday from California, said he was "obviously ... concerned" about threats attributed to Libya's radical leader, Col. Moammar Khadafy. UFOs 100X After ## Pole seeks asylum COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A Polish ferry passenger stepped ashore in Denmark late Sunday night and immediately asked for political asylum. He told police he sailed home to Poland after a three-month stay in Denmark. On arrival at the Polish port of Swinoujscie he learned that a state of martial law had been imposed that day and got right back on the ferry, he said. None of the ferry passengers interviewed, Polish or Danish, had witnessed any military activity or public disorder before their departure from Poland. UFOs - "higher ups" ## Premier asks vote MONTREAL (AP) -- Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, locked in a policy dispute with hard-liners in his separatist Parti Quebecois, said Sunday he would ask for a vote of confidence from party rank-and-file in referendums in January and February. Levesque threatened to resign as party president, and possibly as premier, Dec. 6 at the conclusion of a party policy-making convention at which militants pushed through resolutions changing the party's strategy for achieving independence for the French-speaking Canadian province. orey 12/14/81 ## Sakharovs improve MOSCOW (AP) -- Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and his wife appeared weak and shrunken after a 17-day hunger strike in their Gorky exile, but they have eagerly started on the road to recovery, their daughter-in-law said Sunday. "They looked very weak and very pale," said the daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, who returned to Moscow Sunday morning after visiting the Nobel laureate and his wife, Yelena Bonner, in their hospital suite in Gorky. Miss Alexeyeva, 26, provided foreign reporters with fresh details of the strike, which ended last Wednesday after Soviet authorities said she would be allowed to emigrate to the United States. UFOs - "higher ups" ## Resolutions OK'd Daily Telegraph, London PEKING -- The National People's Congress closed its annual session Sunday after ritually rubber-stamping every resolution placed before it by the Communist Party while also calling for greater effort to control inflation and budget deficits. The official New China News Agency said the congress passed a resolution calling for "further steps next year to strengthen the control of finance, credit and prices." ## Begin to go home TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Prime Minister Menachem Begin's doctors will send him home Monday to continue recovering from the fractured thigh he suffered Nov. 26, Begin's spokesman said Sunday. The 68-year-old premier slipped and fell in his bathroom, breaking the femur where it joins the hip. ## Security increased VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- Police stepped up security around offices of political parties Sunday as the ballots from Saturday's parliamentary elections were being collected for counting. === Page 139 of 278 the attack "higher ups" # Ghana militarists ask ousted leaders to give up By SUSAN LINNEE oreg 1/4/82 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's new military rulers called on leaders of the ousted civilian government Sunday to turn themselves in. Ghanaian radio said demonstrators marched through the capital shouting support for last week's coup. Radio Accra broadcast an announcement by the Provisional National Defense Council, which has been running Ghana since the coup Thursday, giving former Vice President William de Graft Johnson and members of former President Hilla Limann's Cabinet until Monday afternoon to appear at local police stations. The announcement ordered senior civil servants to report to the Defense Ministry by Monday morning. The National Union of Ghanaian Students has called an emergency meeting Monday evening, the radio said. There was no mention of Limann himself, who was believed to have remained in the presidential residence after the coup. A later broadcast said 27 officials, including four former ministers and eight former deputy ministers, had responded to the call by Sunday night and reported to police stations. The radio also broadcast an announcement saying editors of Ghanaian newspapers, the general manager of the Ghana News Agency, programming heads of UFOs attack "higher ups" + Disorientation # Rehnquist medical troubles tied to use of sleeping drug By JIM MANN LA Times-Washington Post Service oreg 1/5/82 WASHINGTON -- It was the repeated use of a sleeping pill called Placidyl that caused the medical problems of Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, according to physicians familiar with his case. Rehnquist was apparently taking Placidyl, classified as an oral hypnotic, so that he could sleep with the lower back pains that, it was disclosed last week, he has suffered for some time. However, the drug also causes side effects such as the slurred speech Rehnquist sometimes exhibited on the Supreme Court bench last fall. After the justice was hospitalized Dec. 27, doctors cut the dosage of Placidyl he was receiving. Rehnquist then suffered brief but severe withdrawal symptoms, including some perceptual distortions and hallucinations, according to medical sources. dean for clinical medicine, said Monday that Rehnquist had not been addicted to the drug. Rather, O'Leary said, the drug had "established an inter-relationship with the body, such that if the drug is removed precipitously, there is a reaction." O'Leary and other hospital officials had declined to name the drug involved in Rehnquist's case. Last week, O'Leary described the medication Rehnquist was taking as of the sort that relaxes muscles or relieves pain. At no time did O'Leary or other hospital officials mention the use of sleeping pills. But knowledgeable physicians told the Los Angeles Times Monday that the drug in question was Placidyl, a prescription medicine used to treat insomnia. Although the drug induces sleep, it is not categorized as a barbiturate. Asked about Placidyl Monday night, O'Leary said, "In accordance with the patient's wishes, I can neither confirm nor deny what the drug is." However, he said Placidyl "would include sleeping pills" in the category of "drugs that relax muscles" that he has been describing. Note: 12/21/81 the today show MS Court was "powerless" "Powerless" this week major storms knocked out power on the East Coast, West Coast & mid-West ("Powerless") === Page 140 of 278 # Dos attack "higher ups" # Casey once lobbied without registering as a foreign agent By PATRICK E. TYLER LA Times-Washington Post Service arg 1/7/82 WASHINGTON -- William J. Casey, as a private lawyer working for the Indonesian government, lobbied top officials of the Treasury Department in 1976 for multimillion-dollar changes in the U.S. tax law without registering as a foreign agent. Casey, now Central Intelligence Agency director, has contended in past Senate inquiries that he performed limited legal services and attended "informational meetings" with Internal Revenue Service officials. But government documents obtained by The Washington Post indicate that Casey was advocating specific changes in tax policy outside established channels with top political appointees of the Ford administration, including Treasury Secretary William E. Simon. The issue of whether Casey should have registered as a foreign agent is under Justice Department review following last fall's Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry, which concluded Casey was not unfit to serve as director of the CIA. Stanley Sporkin, CIA general counsel, has maintained that Casey was not required to register as a foreign agent. Casey's representation of Indonesia, as documented by memoranda from the IRS and Treasury, is similar to the case of lawyers Clark M. Clifford and Paul Warnke, both former high government officials. They were required to register as foreign agents for Algeria in 1975 after Justice officials learned that the two had met in 1971 with U.S. government officials in an attempt to expedite Export-Import Bank loans to Algeria. In many instances, the Justice Department requires registration after the fact. In 1980, President Carter's brother Billy also was forced to register for his Libyan representation, which embarrassed the administration. A lawyer representing a client, including a foreign government, in an "established proceeding," such as an IRS tax ruling case, is not required to register as a foreign agent but is supposed to register if engaged in "political activity." The law defines that as any action intended to "persuade or in any other way influence any agency or official of the United States ... with reference to formulating, adopting or changing the domestic or foreign policies of the United States." Documents and interviews with former officials show that Casey met first with the treasury secretary and the assistant secretary for tax policy, a State Department official, and later with IRS officials, urging the IRS to put aside its objections to Indonesian production contracts with major American oil companies and claims for tax credits for overseas taxation. In 1978 the IRS came around to the position favored by Indonesia. July 8, 1976, Casey met with Simon and his assistant secretary for tax policy, Charles M. Walker, to enlist their aid. Walker followed the meeting by writing a July 9, 1976, memorandum to then IRS Commissioner Donald C. Alexander urging him to expedite new tax rulings. In an interview this week, Alexander said that Simon and Walker became involved in the foreign tax credit question. "I just thought the IRS ought to have called them the way we saw them without regard to political considerations." Both Simon and Walker said recently that they do not recall the meeting, but they do not dispute what the government documents show. Attorney General William French Smith, in the most recent policy statement on foreign agent registration, said in a report last fall that his department would require "complete public disclosure by persons acting for or in the interests of foreign principals where such activities are political in nature or border on the political." Casey's argument that he was not required to register as a foreign agent centers on the exemption for attorneys performing legal services in what the law calls an "established agency proceeding." # Ufos attack "higher ups" # Rhodes will quit House arg 1/23/82 PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) -- Former House Minority Leader John J. Rhodes, who says he prayed for the wisdom to know when to quit the congressional seat he has held for 30 years, won't be seeking re-election this year. The Arizona Republican broke the news Thursday at a press conference. "I have prayed constantly for the wisdom to do my job well -- and to leave the stage while the audience is asking for more," said Rhodes, who spent seven of his 30 years in Congress as House minority leader, the highest-ranking Republican post in the Democratic-controlled House. He left the leadership last year. "As I'm sure all of you now realize -- the bottom line of all this is that I will not be a candidate for re-election to the U.S. Congress." he said. In an interview after the 1980 election, Rhodes said he had seriously considered not running for his 15th term, but decided to go one more time. Party leaders had urged him to stay on until Arizona's congressional districts were realigned after the latest census. === Page 141 of 278 # Khomeini regime brands 3 'grand ayatollahs' as sinful By FERESHTEH EMAMI BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Although Iran remains in the grip of Islamic fundamentalist clergymen, some of its foremost spiritual leaders have fallen out of favor with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government, according to information recently gathered in Beirut. Fundamentalists in authority have told the people of Iran that it is "haram" -- a sin against religion -- to follow the teachings of three of Iran's six "grand ayatollahs," say reports from Iran and Iranian quarters elsewhere. One of those classified as "haram" was identified in the reports as Kazem Shariatmadari, a longtime opponent of the monarchy deposed by Khomeini-inspired militants nearly three years ago. Shariatmadari, after a falling out with Khomeini, is reported under virtual house arrest in Qom, the Shiite-Moslem theological center 70 miles south of Tehran, the Iranian capital. His supporters are quoted as saying he is under constant surveillance by Khomeini loyalists and was recently refused a passport when he wanted to make a pilgrimage to Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Four years ago Shariatmadari's house was the gathering place for young theologians who wanted to replace the monarchy with an Islamic state. Shariatmadari and two other grand ayatollahs, Hassan Qomi and Abolqassem Khoi, are being ignored by the state-run news media as read and monitored here. The media used to attack them when they disagreed with the Khomeini fundamentalists over the clergy's increasingly dominant role in politics and the actions of the Islamic revolutionary courts, which have condemned thousands of people by stoning and by firing squad. Qomi, after criticizing Khomeini's revolutionary guardsmen in the northeastern city of Mashad, was literally defrocked and stripped to his underwear in the city's grand mosque last summer, according to Tehran newspaper accounts. Qomi remains in Mashad under constant surveillance, according to the Ayatollah Mehdi Rohani, who has lived in Paris for many years to minister to expatriate Iranians but keeps in touch with colleagues in Iran. # Ex-Chilean president dies following surgery SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Former President Eduardo Frei, a Christian Democrat who headed Chile's last centrist government, died Friday of complications following a hernia operation two months earlier. He was 71. Frei won the presidency in 1964 by defeating Marxist Salvador Allende in an election hailed in the United States as a victory for Western democracy. At the end of his six-year term, Frei was ineligible to run again and the voters turned to Allende in hopes he could solve Chile's mounting problems with prices, taxes and strikes. Allende was overthrown in 1973 in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet. Political activity has been banned in Chile since Pinochet took power, but Frei remained head of the Christian Democrats and maintained the party apparatus. Frei's death was announced at the Santa Maria Clinic in Santiago by Roman Catholic Monsignor Miguel Ortega, a family friend who administered last rites to the former president Thursday. Ortega said Frei's wife Maria Ruiz Tagle and their six children were with the former president when he died. Pinochet's protocol chief was at the hospital as representative of the government, which declared three days of national mourning. Frei entered the clinic Nov. 18 for the hernia operation. He was released after the operation but was readmitted Dec. 6 when complications developed, including an infection. Doctors operated three more times but Frei continued to worsen, sinking into a coma Thursday morning. Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez announced a Mass for Frei Friday night in the Metropolitan Cathedral, where the former president was to lie in state. # Job odds: 45 to 1 Given the unemployment picture visible in all directions, it was shocking for President Reagan to claim in his news conference that 1 million more people are working than when he took office. With population increases, it might be possible for the number of jobs to rise while the percentage of unemployment also climbs. But by the government's own figures, the president was as wrong as the economic conditions all around him would indicate. In fact, while national unemployment reaches 9 percent, the figures show total workers holding jobs down half a million since he took office. Even without the governmental statistics, there was ready evidence that Reagan once more was making assertions that simply were false. Consider the phenomenon in Portland of more than 18,000 persons applying for 400 jobs with the U.S. Postal Service. It is commonplace for a job vacancy to bring about a sea of applications under present economic conditions. But the postal case is particularly dramatic by the sheer numbers, and all the more so when compared with past experiences. The 18,000 figure is indeed a record. But contrast it with the previous record of postal applicants of just one year ago, 3,500. Anytime there are 45 times as many job seekers as there were jobs listed as available, presidential claims of improvement in employment cannot be easily dismissed as the president misspeaking himself, as the White House said. === Page 142 of 278 WOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan strategist Nofziger makes witty exit By TERENCE HUNT oreg 1/23/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lyn Nofziger, Ronald Reagan's longtime pal, political strategist and resident punster, checked out of the White House Friday -- irreverent, ornery and linguistically ludicrous to the end. How about Reagan's botch-ups? "You think we've got botulism here?" Well, what about news leaks? "If we can't have leeks we'll have onions." Why is he jumping ship? "Just athletically inclined," he said. What's he going to miss most? "The bathroom in my office." It was vintage Nofziger as he presided over his first -- and last -- White House news briefing as head of the White House political office. As a scowl and a smile competed for place on his face, Nofziger said: "My relations with the media have, I think, improved immensely over the last year as I've seen less and less of them. My relations with the White House, I hope, will improve on that same basis in the next year." Nofziger left the White House to become a political consultant, writer and public speaker. Although he won't have any official ties with the White House, he still will have Reagan's ear. "The president has said he would like to see him on a regular basis," said Michael K. Deaver, Reagan's deputy chief of staff. "He's not going to occupy an office but he'll still be a part of all this." Per usual, Nofziger was wearing a Mickey Mouse tie, open several inches on his neck, and clutching a stubby cigar as he paid his farewell to the press corps, including many reporters who flew with him in 1980 when he was Reagan's chief campaign spokesman. Larry Speakes, White House deputy press secretary, introduced Nofziger as "the only member of the administration with enough guts to dress punk. He's the oldest living hippie in existence but a man who knows more about Ronald Reagan than any of us can ever hope to know." One reporter asked if there were too many Bushies -- loyalists of Vice President George Bush -- in the White House. Replied Nofziger: "I thought that was like in Busch beer, which is a Bavarian good (bah-very-in good) beer." Many groaned. A a few serious moments: -- On whether Reagan and his wife lead too extravagant a lifestyle, Nofziger said, "I don't believe so ... I think most Americans expect the president to lead a lifestyle that is commensurate with the job that he's got and I don't think any American wants the president to lead the same kind of life as a blue-collar worker or somebody earning $25,000 or $30,000 a year. I think most Americans want to look up to the president and they want him to lead a lifestyle that says, 'Hey, here an important man, here's the leader of our country.'" -- Asked if he expects Reagan to seek re-election, Nofziger recalled that he frequently has predicted the president would run for a second term. He said Reagan has never told him he would run again, but neither has he not told him to stop making that prediction. -- Budget director David Stockman's critical comments of the Reagan economic program had no lasting effect among voters, Nofziger said, but "it still remains to be seen if there was any lasting damage on Capitol Hill." -- He said conservatives who are unhappy with the administration's first year will be back in Reagan's fold once they see who the Democrats offer in the next presidential race. He said Reagan has not become "ideologically mellow or soft." -- Nofziger criticized the ABSCAM prosecution of politicians as entrapment. "I'm not in favor of that sort of thing," he said. -- Recalling his personal crusade to oust Democrats from the bureaucracy and replace them with conservatives, Nofziger said, "There are more people in this administration -- some holdovers and a few who are not holdovers -- that don't really agree with the president's philosophy that I would like to see in government." As might be expected from a man who teamed up with Reagan in 1966 for his first gubernatorial race and says he views the president as a "savior," Nofziger wasn't able to find much wrong with Reagan's first-year performance. He finally came up with "I think the president is too nice ... not tough enough on those who work for him." He surprised reporters by saying he wasn't opposed to news leaks. "I just want to leak my leaks, not your leaks," he said. "We've done a good job of leaking. I don't think we've done a good job of floating trial balloons on things we might want to do." LYN NOFZIGER === Page 143 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Junta ousts ailing president BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The military junta Friday removed ailing President Roberto E. Viola and named Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, the army commander and a junta member, to succeed him. The decision by the three-man junta, which has held power since a 1976 military coup, came eight months into what was to have been a three-year term for Viola, himself a former general and Galtieri's predecessor as army commander. In a communique, the junta said Galtieri, 55, would take office Dec. 22. It gave no reason for Viola's removal. Viola, 57, has been recuperating for a month from a heart problem. But press reports, quoting unidentified high military sources, said he resisted removal, offering to resign only if it were made explicit that he was leaving because of politics, not his health. The junta apparently found that condition unacceptable. Galtieri will retain his post as army commander, giving new weight to the presidency. He is to serve as chief of state until March 29, 1984 -- when Viola's term was to have ended. The other two members of the junta are the navy and air force commanders. The junta chose Adm. Carlos Lacoste, who had been social action minister, to be interior minister and interim president. Lacoste takes over the interim presidency from Gen. Horacio Liendo, Viola's interior minister, who resigned after the president's removal. Foreign Minister Oscar Camilion and Public Works Secretary Gen. Diego Urricariet also resigned. A bulletin from the junta's public information secretary said the junta invoked article two of the National Reorganization statute, which says: "The military junta is empowered, when for reasons of state it considers convenient, to remove the citizen acting as president of the nation, and designate his replacement." Viola took office March 29 after being picked by the junta last year to succeed Jorge R. Videla, who led the 1976 coup against President Isabel Peron, the widow of populist leader Juan Peron. Viola, who retired from the military in 1979, was hospitalized for a day Nov. 9 for what was described as high blood pressure. He was later diagnosed as suffering from a "coronary insufficiency." He has been resting at his suburban residence for the past four and a half weeks. Associated Press Laserphoto OUSTED -- Argentine President Roberto Viola (left) shakes hands in recent ceremony with Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, who has been named Viola's successor. The ailing president was removed Friday by the military junta. oreg 12/12/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Guess who's back Seattle PI 12/9/81 Now there's a name from the past: Maurice Stans. You remember Stans. He was finance chairman of CREEP, the Committee to Re-elect the President. In 1974, he went down with the rest of Richard Nixon's Watergate crew. Stans pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the reporting sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act and two counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions. He paid a $5,000 fine. President Reagan apparently remembers Stans fondly. He has nominated the former Nixon aide to the board of the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that helps U.S. businesses invest in developing countries. Stans has the distinction of being the first person with a criminal record from the Watergate scandal to be named to a federal post. The Senate still has to confirm the appointment. The senators, we imagine, also recall the Watergate incident and Stans's role in it. They may wonder if Stans's record makes him the best choice to represent the United States in its business dealings abroad. === Page 144 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" oreg 12/8/81 # GOP chairman warned to 'keep mouth shut' By DONALD M. ROTHBERG oreg 12/8/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Party Chairman Richard Richards has been taken to the woodshed by White House aides unhappy with his recent predictions that President Reagan might not seek re-election and that Richard Allen and David Stockman will soon lose their jobs. Sources at the White House and GOP headquarters denied that Richards is on his way out as Republican national chairman. "He's on his way to keeping his mouth shut," said a White House source who asked not to be identified. William Greener III, communications director for the Republican National Committee, acknowledged Monday that since his comments a week ago, Richards has had several discussions with White House aides. "They were full, and they were frank," he said. Greener refused to discuss the substance of the conversations or identify the people, but he said the aides were "less than pleased" by Richards' predictions to a closed meeting of Republican contributors in Cincinnati. "There is absolutely no foundation to the idea that the chairman will be moving," said Greener. Richards thought no one but the people who paid $5,000-a-couple last Monday were listening when he said, "I don't think Mr. Allen will be back" as national security adviser. Allen has taken a leave during an investigation of his receipt of $1,000 from representatives of a Japanese women's magazine for arranging an interview with the first lady. Richards was unaware that a reporter from the Cincinnati Enquirer was outside the room listening to the remarks. An account of the speech was on page one of the newspaper the next morning. In the same speech, Richards predicted that Budget Director Stockman would be forced by his credibility problem with Congress to submit a second resignation. "Next time, the president will accept it," Richards was quoted as saying. Stockman's private criticism of Reagan's economic plan was published in a recent magazine article. Stockman offered his resignation, but Reagan rejected it in a meeting Stockman later described as a visit to the woodshed. During a question and answer period, Richards was asked if he thought Reagan will seek re-election in 1984. He replied: "I think if his health is good and if there's no further threat on his life, he'll run again. If there is another attempt on his life, I think Nancy would put her foot down as say, 'That's it.'" Reagan was wounded March 30 in an assassination attempt. When asked last June about Reagan's plans, Richards said, "I'm operating on the assumption that he'll run again and that he'll win." In the aftermath of the Cincinnati speech, Richards' office issued a statement acknowledging the accuracy of the quotes, although claiming the chairman was quoted "out of context." As for his predictions about Allen and Stockman, the statement said Richards' comments should not be taken as a recommendation that the pair be ousted or "as a suggestion as to how the White House will decide" to handle their cases. "With regard to President Reagan seeking re-election, there is no doubt he will do so," the statement added. Greener said Richards intends to "continue to speak out on the issues," but he acknowledged that "the issues" will not be White House personnel matters or the president's political plans. UFOs attack "higher ups" oreg 12/8/81 # Reagans may skip services WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Nancy Reagan said Monday that recently tightened security precautions may prevent her and President Reagan from attending church on Christmas. Mrs. Reagan, leading reporters on a tour of the White House state floor to show its holiday decorations, said she hopes for a "safe Christmas." She said she didn't know if she and the president will go to church on Christmas. She explained, "It's very difficult to go to church because you feel self-conscious about being X-rayed and so on," an apparent reference to metal detectors. "It's an imposition" on other church-goers, she said. The Reagans haven't gone to church for months. Govt (Jan. 22, 1982 blocks book ie no future me so SI a block future on all top govt + anyone who's contributed to anti - R < M oreg 12/8/81 === Page 145 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Ghana's junta clamps down By SUSAN LINNEE Org 1/3/81 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's new rulers, who seized power by force, Saturday dismissed Parliament, suspended the constitution and banned political parties. "The time has come for us to restructure this society in a real and meaningful democratic manner," former air force Lt. Jerry G. Rawlings said in a five-minute speech on Accra Radio from the capital. "Let us not allow external or internal enemies to confuse us to fight over which labels we should wear." He said President Hilla Limann, his ministers and all Parliament deputies were dismissed. Rawlings lashed out at the "greed and corruption" of politicians and bureaucrats, saying they "have turned our hospitals into graveyards and clinics into death transit camps" because of lack of medicine and supplies. Black market dealings and a flourishing black market at Ghana's ports have created shortages of such basics as alcohol, iodine and gauze. Earlier radio broadcasts in the West African nation said three members of Limann's People's National Party were arrested for spreading false information. But the radio said their names were being withheld for unspecified "security reasons." There was no immediate indication of the fate of the president and his civilian government chiefs, who Rawlings on Thursday said were deposed by the "Provisional National Defense Council." Rawlings, a self-proclaimed apolitical moralist, said in his radio speech Saturday: "We are not aligned and have no intention of joining any power bloc." He promised the business community would not suffer if it cooperated with the new PNDC. Earlier broadcasts said a dozen Ghanian business and financial leaders and academicians were asked to report to the Defense Ministry for "a very important meeting to help save the suffering masses." It was seen by some observers as an indication Rawlings sought their help in forming a new government. Rawlings, who had handed over his coup-won power to Limann two years ago, has accused the president of failing to rout the government of corruption, being repressive and allowing the economy to crash. A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew is in effect nationwide. Radio Accra said medical workers and employees in essential services are exempted but must have identification papers ready. Drivers on the streets after 6 p.m. will have their car keys confiscated, the radio has warned. A broadcast Saturday said sirens on government building rooftops would wail and church bells would peal for 15 minutes each evening and morning to signal the start and close of the curfew. "The navy will also assist in the blowing of the sirens of the gunboats at Tema and Takoradi," other port cities on the Atlantic coast, the radio said. There was no further mention of looting by soldiers, reported in Friday's broadcasts. The radio said soldiers or police found looting or committing "barbarous acts" would be subject to "unprecedented revolutionary action." Communications with Ghana have been interrupted, borders sealed and the international airport shut down since the coup, the fifth since Ghana became the first African country to gain independence from a colonial ruler. It will mark its 25th anniversary of independence from Britain in March. Plans for an extravagant jubilee were criticized by Ghanians who said the financially strapped country could ill afford it. Rawlings, 34, became head of the ruling Armed Force Revolutionary Council that took power in June 1979 from Gen. Frederick Akuffo. Akuffo and a half dozen military men who shared power with him were executed for corruption. === Page 146 of 278 - UFO attack "Higher ups" - # Democrats' dispute panel's vote of confidence in Casey By JUDITH MILLER New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a final report Wednesday concluding that William J. Casey was not "unfit" to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but several Democrats expressed a lack of confidence in Casey's candor with the committee. Sens. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., and Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., dissented from the committee's conclusion that a review of the facts during the four-month examination had produced "no basis for concluding that Mr. Casey is unfit to hold office as director of central intelligence." The six-page, single-spaced report asserted that Casey had been "at minimum inattentive to detail" in complying with government financial disclosure requirements. The report noted, for example, that the 68-year-old intelligence chief had failed to report last January to the Senate panel: "nine investments valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars, personal debts and contingent liabilities of nearly five hundred thousand dollars, a number of corporations or foundations on whose board Mr. Casey served, four civil law suits, and more than seventy clients he had represented in private practice in the last five years." Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, D-N.Y., acting chairman of the committee, said the issue of whether Casey should have registered as a foreign agent while representing the government of Indonesia in 1976 was "unresolved," and that it would be referred to the Justice Department for possible further study. In addition to omitting Indonesia from his financial disclosure form, filed with the committee Jan. 2, 1981, Casey also failed to disclose among his former foreign clients Pertamina of Indonesia, an oil company controlled by the Indonesian government, and the Republic of Korea. "The committee is concerned that this pattern suggests an insufficient appreciation of the obligation to provide complete and accurate information to the oversight committees of the Congress," the report states. The document also disclosed that Casey has been audited by the Internal Revenue Service for the last five tax years, and that he is undergoing an audit on his 1977 personal tax returns. In addition, the committee learned that the IRS was conducting an audit of a limited partnership that Casey helped structure, the report states. Committee officials declined to identify the partnership, but an IRS field agent told the panel that the audit was "a routine examination" still in a "preliminary stage." Casey informed the panel that his 1976 tax return had also been audited; he had received a refund, the report noted. The committee also reviewed the transcript of a 1974 trial in the New York Southern District in which former Attorney General John Mitchell was a defendant. "Discrepancies were found," states the report, asserting that differences in testimony among witnesses in such cases were common. "No major discrepancies were found which would indicate that Mr. Casey committed perjury," the report adds. Casey has also been the subject of an inquiry into possible campaign law violations stemming from his chairmanship of the Reagan-Bush Campaign Committee. The report states that a Federal Election Commission report on the allegations would be made public "pending the outcome of litigation." The committee's investigation began last July after Max C. Hugel, who was appointed by Casey as head of the agency's clandestine operations, was forced to resign. org 12/3/81 === Page 147 of 278 Bermuda appointment set - "UFOs attack" higher ups - # Reagan legislative aide resigns By HOWELL RAINES New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- Max L. Friedersdorf resigned Thursday as assistant to the president for legislative affairs, becoming the first member of President Reagan's senior staff to leave the White House for another job. The White House announced simultaneously that Friedersdorf would be appointed consul general to Bermuda, a post that usually goes to career Foreign Service employees rather than to political appointees. Aides to Republican congressional leaders, who asked not to be named, said White House officials immediately began suggesting that Kenneth M. Duberstein, one of Friedersdorf's deputies, would be appointed to succeed him. David R. Gergen, the senior White House spokesman, said he was 99 percent certain Friedersdorf was not stepping aside for political reasons. "To the best of my knowledge, that is not the case," Gergen said. Noting that Friedersdorf has served a total of seven years as a congressional liaison in the Reagan, Ford and Nixon administrations, Gergen said Friedersdorf, 52, felt it was the right time in his life to start a second career. Members of Congress and White House officials have given Friedersdorf generally high marks for his work as the White House director of congressional relations at a time when Reagan won passage of key economic legislation and Senate approval of the sale of AWACS airplanes to Saudi Arabia. However, Friedersdorf operated much of the time in the shadow of James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff. Through the legislative strategy group operated by his deputy, Richard G. Darman, Baker has been the main architect of the White House's legislative plan. Friedersdorf was regarded by other White House aides as a good political technician who, with his deputies, Duberstein and Powell Moore, ran an effective liaison office. Friedersdorf's resignation is effective Jan. 2. In his letter to the president, he wrote, "Under your leadership, the nation has embarked on a course leading again to full economic health, and I consider the passage of your economic recovery program to be a milestone in the course you have charted for the United States." In an answering letter, Reagan said he accepted the resignation "with deep regret." "Your energy, ability and dedication have played a key role in translating our economic recovery program into legislative reality," the president wrote. Praising Friedersdorf for an "excellent job," Reagan added, "We have been through historic times together." A State Department spokesman, Alan D. Romberg, said that usually, but not in all cases, consuls general are career Foreign Service officers. Friedersdorf is to be given what is called a "limited appointment" in the senior Foreign Service. The usual term of such appointments, which come from the secretary of state rather than the president, is for three years. State Department officials, speaking on the condition that they not be identified, said career officers were generally upset when appointments below the level of ambassador were made for political reasons to non-career employees. oreg 12/4/81 === Page 148 of 278 - UFO , attacks"higher w/2"- Criticism upsets protocol chief By LYNN ROSELLINI org 12/11/8, New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - Leonore A. nenberg had planned to leave town quietly. She wanted to spend more time with her husband, she told her friend Nancy Reagan, and so she intended to resign as U.S. chief of protocol. 20 Although she had said just a few days earlier that she was too busy to schedule an interview, Mrs. An- nenberg suddenly summoned a reporter to her State Department office last week. She said she had been disturbed by reports in a variety of publications quot- ing White House sources criticizing her performance in the job she has held for the last 11 months. "I want to show you all the letters from ambassadors compli- menting me on my job," Mrs. Annenberg said, bending over a stack of papers in her office. "This is from the Dutch foreign minister," she said, straightening up with a letter in her hand. "Here's the prime minister of Thailand," she con- tinued. "Here's a great one! It's from Germany. God! I have so many!" Mrs. Annenberg maintained that she wanted to spend more time with her husband, Walter H. Annen- berg, the publisher and former ambassador to Britain. Clearly wounded by the reports, Mrs. Annenberg said she didn't understand why people at the White House were saying nasty things about her. "I think it's very unfair to have all these things. going on about me that are untrue," she said. "I thought we all got along very well." Mrs. Annenberg, a close friend of President and Mrs. Reagan, has moved comfortably among heads of state, captains of industry and legendary Hollywood figures for most of her life. It came as no surprise, then, when the president appointed her to the $50,000-a-year position of chief of protocol, the first job she ever held. Yet, from the beginning, Mrs. Annenberg was unorthodox. She received extensive news coverage last spring when she was photographed curtsying to e Charles on his visit to the United States ished Washington diplomats by invit ners, at her own expense, at the mansion, Blair House, "I did it all very quick higherwe have mentioned it, b and ability were fore In addition ti ing foreign dignit. range of responsib. for presidential trip for important foreign Solon's neck hurts ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Sen. Paula .. Hawkins complained of a stiff neck Wednesday, but initial tests showed no signs of neurological damage after she was struck on the head by a 40-pound backdrop at a television studio .. "The 6-foot-high partition toppled on Mrs. Hawkins Tuesday night, while the 53-year-old Republican was taping a show called "Real Estate Action Line" at a Winter Park TV station. Mrs. Hawkins, Florida's junior sena- tor, was listed in fair condition Wednes- day at the Orlando Regional Medical Center. "Her neurological signs remain clear," said her physician, Dr. Ed Far- - He said Mrs. Hawkins had a stiff Cocause of an irritation to the m. dag1/7/82 Arrangements for the trip to Egypt by the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of President Sadat would normally have been made by Mrs. Annenberg's office. But instead, they were abruptly taken over by the office of Joseph W. Canzeri, who handles White House scheduling and presidential travel. UFO attack "higher wps" Disorientation Rehnquist illness has been noticed WASHINGTON (UPI) - The health problems of Justice William Rehnquist, who has been hospitalized since Sunday, have been obvious to regular observers of the Supreme Court for three months. But me story went unreported unur umus week because it was not known precisely why Rehnquist was slurring his words and having great arnicuity speaking while questioning attorneys during oral arguments be- · fore the bench. Rehnquist, 57, suffering from back pain, entered George Washing- ton University Hospital Sunday, a fact Mot reported until Thursday. On Wednesday, he suffered an adverse reaction to a drug he was taking for a chronic back problem. Embarrassing pauses He was listed in good condition and is expected to be released to- morrow or Monday. Since the court began its 1981-82 term in October, Rehnquist, the court's most conservative member and perhaps its most active in ques- tioning lawyers during debates exper jenced increasing difficulty in getting out his comments. Besides frequent slurring. Rehn- Smithe PT quist's questions were broken up by lengthy, often embarrassing pauses as he struggled to form his words Rehnquist's speech was sometimes so distorted that attorneys arguing before the court occasionally were forced to ask him to repeat his ques- tions. This further increased the ten- sion that is always present in the huge, marble-columned courtroom whenever a major case is being ar- gued. The circumstances became so awkward that other justices some- times jumped in to complete ques- tions for Rehnquist. In addition, he frequently was seen leaving the bench during breaks between arguments, and often sat in awkward positions, apparently from back discomfort. The situation was all the more apparent because Rehnquist is considered to have one of the quick- est and sharpest minds of the nine. justices on the nation's highest tribu- nai. Dr. Dennis O'Leary, the hospital's dean of clinical affairs, acknowledged that the speech problem was related to the drug Rehnquist was taking to ease back pain. He declined to identi- fy the drug. 1/2/82. - IFOsattack "higher up"- Rehnquist improving LA Times-Washington Post Service Greg 1/2/82 WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Associate Jus- tice William H. Rehnquist remained in George Wash- ington University Hospital Friday following an ad- verse reaction to a drug prescribed for a chronic back condition. But hospital officials said he is listed in "good" condition and may go home as early as Sunday or Monday. Rehnquist, 57, was admitted to the hospital a week ago and Wednesday suffered a drug reaction that caused"disturbances in mental clarity" and distorted his perceptions of reality for a short time. according to === Page 149 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" Seattle P.I. 1/2/82 # Donovan met with a labor racketeer NEW YORK (AP) -- Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan met with a labor racketeer later convicted of extortion, and that meeting was instrumental in settling a 1978 strike against a New York City newspaper in which Donovan had an interest, its former publisher confirmed yesterday. Leonard Saffir disclosed that Donovan and his Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J., had invested $370,000 in The Trib, which folded for lack of funds three months after its founding. The strike was called off after a meeting between Donovan and Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union president Douglas LaChance at the bar of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, according to a story in yesterday's New York Daily News. Saffir confirmed there was such a meeting. ### Delivers struck "I don't know anything about what took place at the meeting between Donovan and LaChance," Saffir said, "but it was at the Algonquin bar "We published our first edition on Jan. 9 of 250,000 copies and were sold out. On Jan. 10 we printed 265,000 copies but were able to deliver only about 60,000 with our own equipment because the deliverers struck. "That night Donovan and LaChance met. The next day the drivers went back to work." Donovan could not be reached for comment by telephone at his home yesterday. The Daily News said, "Donovan's dealings in that dispute may become part of the investigation by special prosecutor Leon Silverman, appointed to probe labor peace involving another union in subway construction here." ### Extortion case Donovan requested the action by a special prosecutor after denying allegations involving the subway construction. LaChance is serving a 12-year prison term for extorting more than $300,000 in illegal labor payoffs. He was convicted of racketeering and extortion in 1980. Saffir, now publisher of the Bridgehampton Sun on Long Island, said he had no knowledge or belief of any wrongdoing on Donovan's part in the deliverers' strike. He said that as one of 16 stockholders, Donovan had a legitimate interest in getting The Trib into circulation. Saffir has never publicly listed all the stockholders in The Trib, which cost an estimated $4 million. Previously named were Raymond Learsy, a New York businessman, and Colorado brewery executive Joseph Coors. UFOs attack "higher ups" UFOs attack "higher ups" # U.S. warns Libya to drop plot Seattle P.I. 12/9/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Reagan administration has warned Libya through a third country to drop a purported plot to kill top U.S. officials, it was learned last night. An authoritative source said the administration's message spelled out at least some of the evidence which President Reagan said the United States has obtained about the alleged plot. It also contained a warning of what would happen if Libya followed through with such a plan, the source said. The source, who refused to be identified, did not spell out further details of the message or disclose which country the United States used as an intermediary. Word of the warn- See U.S. WARNS, Page A-11 ALLEN D.C. CAB DC-1981 "Sayonara" oreg 1/7/82 === Page 150 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan, Allen to meet after probe completed By JAMES GERSTENZANG WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House investigation of Richard V. Allen could be finished as early as Monday, leading to a meeting later this week between the president and the national security adviser who White House officials say will be replaced by William P. Clark. As President Reagan returns Monday to the White House after a week-long vacation in California, one of his top priorities will be clearing up the Allen issue and overhauling the White House foreign policy operation. Deputy White House spokesman Larry Speakes said aboard Air Force One as Reagan flew home that the meeting between the president and Allen likely would be held Tuesday or later. As of Sunday evening, there were no formal appointments on the president's Monday schedule. Speakes said Edwin Meese III, the president's counselor, had received from Allen a request to meet with the president, but that Reagan had not spoken with his national security adviser. The spokesman said Meese told Allen no decisions on his future in the post would be made until the internal White House investigation is completed. Allen, Reagan's national security assistant since the administration took office, has been on administrative leave with pay since Nov. 29 while the Justice Department investigated the circumstances surrounding $1,000 found in a safe in an office once used by Allen. Allen has said the money was given by representatives of a Japanese magazine who interviewed first lady Nancy Reagan last Jan. 21. The Justice Department announced Dec. 23 that it had cleared Allen of any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, there were strong signals that Reagan's top advisers would like Allen to resign, thus saving the president the trouble of firing him. Those signals followed comments by one top Reagan aide that if Allen is ousted or leaves voluntarily, the unanimous choice of Reagan's inner circle for a successor would be Clark, the deputy secretary of state and one of the most senior members of Reagan's inner circle of political friends from California. One top official, who declined to be named, said if Allen resigned and was cleared by the investigation being conducted by deputy White House counsel Richard Hauser, he knew of no reason why Allen wouldn't be given another job in the administration. But the official said there had been no formal discussion of the idea at the upper levels of the White House. Other officials said as of late Saturday, Reagan had not yet decided to replace Allen. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Bomb hurts scientist DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- A police scientist whose testimony helped convict an IRA guerrilla in the 1979 bombing murder of Britain's Lord Mountbatten was seriously injured in a car-bomb explosion Wednesday. A government spokesman said forensic scientist Dr. James Donovan was driving home from Dublin police headquarters when a bomb exploded under the hood of his car, causing severe injuries to his left foot. # Ghana VP gives up ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's former vice president turned himself in to police Wednesday, and the week-old military regime that toppled the civilian government announced more details of its plans to change Ghanaian society. Accra radio, monitored in Abidjan, said William de Graft Johnson reported to police. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1982 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Casey evidence withheld By PATRICK E. TYLER LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee has declined so far to provide the Justice Department with hundreds of pages of documents and testimony gathered in the committee's investigation of Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey last fall. Officials said Thursday that Senate rules prevented such disclosure without a vote of the committee or perhaps the full chamber. The documents include Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service memoranda that show Casey in 1976 lobbied top Treasury officials on behalf of Indonesia to win multimillion-dollar changes in IRS foreign tax credit rulings. The Intelligence Committee last month asked the Justice Department to determine whether Casey should have registered as a foreign agent for Indonesia. Justice Department officials requested the documentary record of the three-month Senate investigation just before the Dec. 16 recess, but the request was not presented to the senators. A spokesman for the Justice Department, Thomas DeCair, said its review of the Casey matter was going forward without the committee's material. Earlier this week, another Justice Department official said none of the basic documents had been obtained or examined. WILLIAM J. CASEY principals. A spokesman for Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., the committee's acting chairman, said Thursday that "Sen. Moynihan would have no objection to providing the Justice Department with the evidence gathered by the Select Committee on Intelligence, but of course that is not a decision he can make unilaterally." An aide to Moynihan, Michael D. McCurry, said the documents were being withheld under a Senate rule that says, "No ... paper presented to the Senate ... shall be withdrawn from its files except by the order of the Senate." McCurry said the committee members probably would not take up the matter until after they return Jan. 25. Committee spokesman Spencer Davis said that "almost all" of the documents gathered during the committee's investigation were obtained from the files of the Treasury Department and the IRS. He said Justice Department officials have been advised to request their own copies of the records from those departments. "It's just part of the general caution of the Senate in turning anything over to the executive branch," Davis said. Senate staff members said that in addition to the Treasury and IRS documents, the Intelligence Committee took testimony from a number of witnesses. Also, a 100-page report on Casey's Indonesian activities and other business dealings was compiled by one of the committee's special counsels, but the senators declined to make it public. The Washington Post described Casey's lobbying activity Thursday in an article based on many of the documents, which showed that he was advocating specific changes in tax policy outside established channels with top political appointees of the Ford administration, including Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and Deputy Secretary George Dixon. === Page 151 of 278 UFO attack "higher up" # Terrorists say Dozier faces 'proletarian justice' By CLARA HEMPHILL 12/19/81 VERONA, Italy (AP) -- The Red Brigades, Italy's most-feared terrorists, said Friday that they were holding a kidnapped senior American NATO officer at a "people's prison" where he would face "proletarian justice." The Red Brigades -- who killed former Italian Premier Aldo Moro -- claimed they organized the kidnapping. Four people posing as plumbers entered the apartment of Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier Thursday night and abducted the top-ranking American Army officer of the Allied Land Forces in Southern Europe. No immediate demands were made. In Washington, President Reagan called Dozier's captors "cowardly bums" and said the United States was doing everything it could to secure his release. "They aren't heroes, or they don't have a cause that justifies what they're doing," the president said. A NATO spokesman said it was the first kidnapping of an American military officer in Europe since World War II. Police searched houses in Verona and Milan for the kidnappers' hideout and set up roadblocks. But they said the terrorists had a three-hour head start before the crime was reported and could have fled far from this medieval walled town in northern Italy before police began to search. Police found a blue Fiat van parked several hundred yards from Dozier's house and said they believed it was used by the kidnappers. A check showed that the van had been rented Dec. 9 in Milan, and police were looking for the young man who left a deposit for it. They said he used a forged driver's license as identification. Police sources said later that the four kidnappers used walkie-talkies to coordinate the operation with accomplices outside and that one of the people outside was a woman. The general's wife, Judith Dozier, who was left gagged and bound by the kidnappers until neighbors heard her muffled cries for help, was resting at NATO headquarters. She called for prayers for her husband and "all those in the world who are in the same situation." President Sandro Pertini sent a telegram to Reagan and consulted by telephone with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb. In Washington, the Defense Department said it sent a six-member team to Rome to serve as liaison with Italian authorities investigating the kidnapping. Sources close to the Italian president said Pertini thought the abduction tended to confirm his frequently expressed belief that Italian terrorism had its roots abroad -- possibly in the Eastern bloc. In the past, the Red Brigades' kidnappings and murders have appeared aimed at domestic politics more than foreign affairs. In 1978, the Brigades seized Moro, the five-time former premier and president of the ruling Christian Democrats. Fifty days later, his bullet-riddled body was found in downtown Rome. Pertini and others have accused the urban guerrillas of seeking to destabilize Italy and thus weaken the West. Early Friday afternoon, the Verona office of the Italian news agency ANSA received a telephone call from a man who said: "The Red Brigades here, Anna Maria Ludman Cecilia column. We claim responsibility for the kidnapping of the hangman of NATO, James Dozier, that took place last night. . . He is closed in a people's prison and will be tried by proletarian justice." That column is the group's Venice division and is named for a terrorist killed in a shoot-out with police in Genoa two years ago. Related story on Page A4. === Page 152 of 278 +(2) Oregon Journal, Monday, Jan. 4, 1982 10 UFOs attack "higher ups" ...ER...I WILL BE RETURNING... WON'T I?..... BON VOYAGE, DICK UFOs attack "higher ups" Scientist succumbs DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Dr. Philip Handler, former president of the National Academy of Sciences, died Tuesday in a Boston hospital at age 63. A spokesman for New England Deaconess Hospital said Handler died after a long illness. Handler, who lived in Durham, was on academic leave from Duke University at the time of his death. Handler retired last June after serving two six-year terms with the academy. In October, he received from President Reagan one of the highest distinctions the federal government offers for scientific excellence, the National Medal of Science. Handler also served as chairman of the department of biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center for 19 years. He joined the Duke faculty in 1939 after he received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. oreg 12/30/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" oreg 12/8/81 ...AN' I WANNA NEW NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, AN' I WANNA NEW BUDGET DIRECTOR, AN' I WANNA NEW BEGINNING, AN' I WANNA NEW TABLECLOTH FOR NANCY, AN' I WANNA... UFOs attack "higher ups" U.S. judge faces bribe charge MIAMI (UPI) -- Federal judge Alcee L. Hastings and a well-known Washington lawyer were indicted on charges of conspiring to take a bribe in exchange for reducing the sentences of two racketeers. Hastings and longtime friend William A. Borders Jr. were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to commit bribery and defraud the United States government and obstruction of justice. Borders also was charged with crossing state lines to commit bribery. Hastings, 45, a former candidate for the Senate, was appointed to the federal bench by President Jimmy Carter. Hastings was the first black to assume a federal judgeship in south Florida. oreg 12/30/81 === Page 153 of 278 10 UFO, attack "higher ups."- Oregon Journal, December 10, 1981 (2) Kidney ailment sidelines AuCoin By JAMES FLANIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Rep Les AuCoin is "confined to his home with a virus he con- tracted three weeks ago. The 39-year-old Oregon Democrat was told by his physician that he might suffer permanent kidney damage if he doesn't contine his activities and rest, press spokesman John Atkins said. Atkins said that the four-term con- gressman is undergoing daily urinalysis to determine if his kidney function is im- proved. "We're hoping in another few days that he will have this beat," Atkins said. "Les says he knows what he has is serious, but he is confident he is making progress and will lick it soon." Atkins reported that AuCoin's physi- cian says the legislator is suffering from acute gloneruolnephritis, which is a kid- ney dysfunction. AuCoin, who faces a re-election cam- paign next year as do all other members of the House, became ill just prior to Thanksgiving as legislators here were de- bating an extension of the continuing res- olution to fund government operations. During that weekend, the continuing resolution was drafted, then vetoed by President Reagan and redrafted so gov- ernment could continue to operate, Au- Coin spent one night "camping" in the House cloakroom. AuCoin slept on a cot in the cloakroom just off the House floor between votes on amendments to the stopgap funding measure. AuCoin, who represents Oregon's First Congressional District which includes a large suburban area of Portland and sec- tions of the Oregon Coast, first consulted · · House physician who determined he was suffering from influenza. Members of Congress are provided medical care and health insurance bene- fits. There is an attending physician in the Capitol. Federal legislators also can take advantage of a complete medical laborato- ry, pharmacy and other services. Care also is available at Walter Reed Army and Bethesda Navy hospitals. The week after the pre-Thanksgiving continuing resolution vote, while Con- gress was in holiday recess, AuCoin re- mained at home and tests showed im- provement in his body chemistry, Atkins said. Returning to work the following week, AuCoin put in several seven- or eight-hour days. Medical tests then indicated a re- lapse in his kidney function, Atkins said. Atkins said he and several other mem- bers of AuCoin's staff also suffered from the same virus strain, but their cases were less severe. After a weekend of rest, At- kins said he felt fine again. AuCoin's two children, his daughter, Stacy, 15, and his son, Kelly, 14, also missed several days of school because of the virus, but are recovered. The con- gressman's wife, Sue, managed to avoid it. Atkins said that Bob Crane, the con- gressman's administrative assistant, visits AuCoin daily at AuCoin's home in the Cleveland Park section of Washington. Crane "is taking him high priority materi- als and decisions" so he can remain in touch with legislative matters, the press aide said. AuCoin is signing off on legislative bills, tracking co-sponsored measures and following amendments from his home, At- . kins said. Because of his illness, AuCoin has missed all roll call votes since Congress returned from Thanksgiving recess. i ever, Atkins said his staff is using legislative technique of pairing him wit. representatives who are voting the other way on an issue to reflect how he would have stood if his vote were recorded. AuCoin, who is listed on official leave because of his illness, hoped to be "paired" Wednesday as voting "no" on the administration's proposed waiver of laws to expedite the initial construction and operation of the Alaska natural gas pipeline. Meantime, his staff is circulating a "dear colleague" letter offering an amend- ment to the foreign assistance appropria- tions bill to increase the lending authority for the Export-Import Bank to $4.4 billion to stimulate the country's competition in international markets. Because of his condition, AuCoin also has cancelled two district trips. UFO sattack " higher where"- Plot uncovered to kill Habib ong By United Press International 12/4/8, Libyan gunmen planned to assassinate U.S. presiden- tial envoy Philip Habib during his current Middle East tour, Lebanese security sources said Friday. Habib unexpectedly went to Israel Friday as part of his visit to Middle East countries. "Lebanese security forces have uncovered a plot to assassinate Philip Habib. The report was immediately revealed to concerned U.S. and Lebanese authorities to provide maximum security for Habib during his stops in Beirut," one source said. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut had no comment on the reported plot. During Habib's stay in Lebanon, American and Leba- nese officials withheld details of his schedule as an extra security precaution. U.S. Embassy officials refused even to say whether Habib was in the country. New barricades were set up at night around the al- ready fortresslike embassy the day before Habib's arriv- al. Habib spent most of Sunday and Monday in Beirut before continuing on to Damascus and Amman. In Jerusalem and Washington, a joint U.S .- Israeli state- ment was issued Thursday that paves the way for Brit- ain, France, Italy and Holland to participate in a Sinai peacekeeping force to be created before Israel hands back the final portion of the desert to Egypt in April. In the northern Sinai, Israeli settlers burned buildings and barricaded themselves into the beachside resort vil- lage of Yamit to protest what they called inadequate government offers of compensation for the evacuation of their homes next year as part of the Sinai pullout. Habib, whose itinerary is kept secret for security reasons, had been expected to go to Saudi Arabia from Amman where he met with King Hussein. Instead, he crossed over the Jordan River on the Allen- by Bridge to Israel where he went directly to Jerusalem for a meeting with Forcion Mi === Page 154 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # jack anderson oreg J 12/11/81 # False stories in files WASHINGTON -- Apparently no one in Washington is safe from the vicious accusations that keep seeping out of the FBI's raw files. The subterranean traffic in tittle-tattle, most of it as false as it is scurrilous, has besmirched some of Washington's biggest reputations. The victims include such dignitaries as Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Speaker Tip O'Neill, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., ex-Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., Sen. Pat Moynihan, D-N.Y., Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., and House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., to name a few. Most of the ugly, unfounded accusations can be traced to the infamous Abscam tapes, which were kept by undercover agents who tried to coax members of Congress into committing crimes. The tapes contain hundreds of hours of sordid dialogue, implicating prominent politicians in shabby conspiracies. But at the end of the Abscam investigation, after the exhilaration of the publicity and the trials was over, came the ruination of several lives, including those of innocent people. "Washington can be a cruel city," a subdued Alexander Haig told me after reading an FBI transcript about himself. The transcript, reviewed by my associate Indy Badhwar, contains salacious statements that have been investigated and have been found untrue, the FBI informed the State Department. Still the document has been passed around the backrooms of Washington like a forbidden copy of a pornographic manuscript. Haig's accuser was Alfred Carpentier, an East Meadow, N.Y., businessman, who has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with the Abscam operation. While the secret FBI tapes picked up every word, he told of an alleged argument with Haig over a Haig acquaintance -- a man with underworld connections who was also an alleged homosexual. Although the Abscam operatives agreed that Carpentier had a loose and vicious tongue, they not only leaked his foul-mouthings about Haig but offered for the public record his tape-recorded accusations against Sen. D'Amato. Carpentier told FBI undercover agents that he had been paying off politicians. "No big numbers," he said, "Five to ten grand ... D'Amato may look to shake you down for a little more. The guy is definitely taking contributions. He's on the judge hastened to emphasize that there was "absolutely no proof" of any wrongdoing by the maligned senator. In another Abscam transcript available in the backrooms, convicted ex-Rep. Frank Thompson, D-N.J., is quoted as boasting that he could "get anything done for a price." He "guaranteed" he could deliver Speaker O'Neill for $120,000 and suggested "maybe" he could also get Sen. Kennedy to do his bidding. At one point, the Abscam sleuths proposed bribing Kennedy with $250,000. Still another transcript describes an elaborate plot to funnel money "to 10 or 12 congressmen" through a Republican campaign committee. This was proposed by William Rosenberg, a shady politico, who promised that "when a favor is needed, at that time a congressman would assist." Rosenberg suggested that the respected former Sen. Javits, a devout Jew, would be available to help the FBI's phony Arab sheik. Asked what Javits wanted for his cooperation, Rosenberg said: "He wants to buy a condominium down in Palm Beach." In the tapes, Rodino is portrayed as "controlled by the New Jersey mob" and "backed by them" financially. Several other distinguished members of Congress, including Sen. Pat Moynihan, Sen. Russell Long, D-La., and House Democratic leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, are characterized as candidates for corruption. All these unsubstantiated charges are being blown around the country by an ill wind called Abscam. Footnote: The FBI refused to comment on the scandal-mongering on the grounds that the Abscam cases are still under investigation. Carpentier's lawyer, James Pascarella, said his client had never been interviewed by the FBI about Haig. PRESS ROOM PRANKSTER?: A note typed on Assistant Press Secretary Mark Weinberg's personal memo paper has been circulating among the White House press corps. It reads like the gee-whiz boast of a preppie impressed with his own White House stationery. "Hi Sweetie," the note reads, "Isn't the above GREAT? I made the big time. Few people have the type of stationery I now have and even fewer have 'To the President' on theirs." Weinberg, noting that "I'm not quite that indiscreet," and pointing out that the note was typed on a manual typewriter, not on an electric one like his, says the memo is spurious. He blamed it on a member of the White House press corps, whose name he said he knew but would not divulge. He added that he's now keeping his memo pads locked up. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Illness tells AuCoin WASHINGTON -- Rep. Les AuCoin is suffering from an acute kidney ailment and will be sidelined at home until the affliction clears, staff aides said Wednesday. AuCoin contracted a viral infection about three weeks ago that settled in his kidneys. The 39-year-old congressman, unable to shake the problem, has been sent home until a urinalysis shows he is free of the potentially dangerous illness, called glomerulonephritis. AuCoin contracted "what was going around the Hill," according to press aide John Atkin. But AuCoin fell ill shortly before the House began debating the resolution to continue appropriations until mid-December. As that bill was debated, AuCoin bunked on the couch in the House Democratic cloakroom, rising only for votes. AuCoin canceled a trip to Oregon the following weekend, then returned to work, only to suffer a setback. The congressman's physician has ordered him to rest until the condition is resolved. oreg 12/10/81 UFOs attack "higher ups" # The nation oreg 12/8/81 # Dismissal urged SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A state commission recommended Monday that a San Diego judge who was convicted of solicitation of prostitution be removed from office for "crimes involving moral turpitude." The Commission on Judicial Performance disclosed that it voted 6-3 Dec. 3 to recommend to the California Supreme Court that Municipal Court Judge Lewis A. Wenzell be suspended immediately and then removed from office if the conviction becomes final. Wenzell was convicted and sentenced Oct. 3 to 58 days in jail for misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution. The sentence is being appealed. Wenzell has ignored a call from 19 fellow judges to resign. But the presiding municipal judge in San Diego ordered that Wenzell be assigned no criminal cases. He did handle at least one civil case. The commission said it made its recommendations after hearings Nov. 20 and Dec. 3 in which it reviewed circumstances of the offenses. Wenzell had been charged with eight counts of soliciting prostitution involving five prostitutes. === Page 155 of 278 UFO attack "higher up" # Bush raps White House discipline WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Vice President George Bush, noting the Reagan White House has been "undisciplined" in its relations with the press, said Sunday news leaks by badly behaved and immature officials have hurt the president. Bush, in an interview with U.S. News & World Report, said he is convinced most unidentified sources cited in news accounts do exist. "I know the people writing these stories, and I have confidence in the integrity of many of them," he told the magazine. "So when certain reporters say they've got a high White House source or State Department source or Defense Department source, I'm convinced they've got a source. That means somebody has behaved very badly and in an immature way." Bush said, "I really feel we have been undisciplined in this White House. We've not served the president well by these leaks." The vice president said he freely offers Reagan his own views during private meetings, but there is "no point" in publicizing any divergent opinions he may hold. That, he said, would "play into the hands of the speculators around Washington." "I just won't do that," he said. OMJ 12/7/81 UFO attack "higher up" # Ex-CIA chief raps domestic spying Field News Service oreg 12/9/81 WASHINGTON -- Former CIA director Stansfield Turner Tuesday criticized as "risky" President Reagan's decision to let U.S. intelligence agencies conduct covert operations in this country, including spying on Americans. "The CIA is not trained to operate within the constraints of American law," Turner said. "That's the FBI's role, and they're well-trained for it." By broadening the Central Intelligence Agency's authority to use secret means to collect foreign intelligence from unsuspecting Americans here and abroad, the Reagan administration is risking mistakes by undertrained CIA officers and unwarranted intrusions into the lives of citizens, he said. Turner, a retired admiral who served as Jimmy Carter's top spymaster, said he fears that excesses on the part of the CIA might generate a debilitating storm of criticism as severe as that of the mid-1970s. "I don't think the agency could stand another go-around of that sort," he told reporters at a breakfast session. Turner said the tone of Reagan's executive order on intelligence gathering is an "improvement" on Carter's far more restrictive decree of Jan. 24, 1978. Its wording conveys the idea that "we want good intelligence and here's how we're going to get it," he said. Last Friday, Reagan eased many of the restrictions on intelligence activities after months of backstage negotiations between the White House and the congressional intelligence committees, which oversee the work of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Turner called these negotiations "extraordinary" and asserted that they actually undermined the process of congressional oversight. UFO attack "higher up" # Elections fell Denmark's government COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -- Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen resigned Wednesday following his Social Democratic government's crushing defeat in national elections. The voting produced marked gains by both the right and left but failed to provide a clear mandate on the Scandinavian nation's chronic economic problems and record unemployment. Jorgensen tendered his resignation to Queen Margrethe, who will begin consultations Thursday with all party leaders on forming a new government. Jorgensen, who remains caretaker prime minister, will take part in the consultations. After hearing the views of all parties, the queen will select one party leader to lead coalition negotiations. The elections left the minority government with less than a third of the 179 seats in parliament -- the Folketing. Voters also failed to deliver a clear mandate on the Scandinavian nation's chronic economic problems. Parliament's nine parties were to meet Wednesday in an effort to produce a workable coalition. United Press International LEADER RESIGNS -- Danish Social Democratic Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen, right, discusses some serious matters with party secretary Ejnar Hovgaard Christiansen after his party lost nine mandates in Parliament during Tuesday's general election. oreg J 12/9/81 === Page 156 of 278 jack anderson UFOs attack "higher ups" 'Sting' man perjured org 1/19/82 WASHINGTON -- A diminutive blonde housewife is telling a story that could blow the Abscam convictions out of the courts. She is Marie Weinberg, wife of the con man who masterminded the Abscam "sting" operation. She has sworn that FBI agents and Abscam prosecutors covered up perjured testimony. I have submitted her allegations to the Justice Department, which has launched a major investigation. The FBI was supposed to be supervising and directing her husband, Mel Weinberg, who lured members of Congress into committing crimes. But according to Marie's account, Weinberg was manipulating the FBI agents instead of the other way around. Within 48 hours after I provided the Justice Department with a transcript of Marie's accusations, Weinberg told friends that he knew his wife had blown the whistle on him. He recited details that could have come only from the transcript. One of the accused agents, John Good, also contacted Mrs. Weinberg and tried to coax her into talking to him. Instead, she telephoned my office. I sent my associate, Indy Badhwar, on the first available plane to her home in Florida. He brought along a tough private investigator, Richard Bast, and three photographers to take pictures of the evidence. I had warned the Justice Department not to permit the FBI to investigate itself. Yet Badhwar and Bast reached Marie Weinberg just a few hours before FBI agents descended upon her home. Four agents showed up at midnight, trying to see Mrs. Weinberg. Badhwar and Bast were interviewed at the hotel; they were not allowed to take part in the interview. let the G-men enter. Once more, Weinberg learned about my associates' visit almost immediately. The information certainly didn't come from his wife; he must have been tipped off by someone in the FBI or the Justice Department. It's not hard to understand why the Abscam team is worried about the evidence Marie Weinberg let us photograph. It proves that FBI agents and federal prosecutors covered up perjured testimony given to various Abscam juries by their ex-con setup man, Weinberg. Though he should no longer merit their protection, they now have their own skins to consider. Weinberg denied under oath -- before a grand jury and Abscam trial juries -- that he had ever received expensive gifts from potential targets of the sting operation. An FBI investigation of charges that he had extorted the gifts concluded there was no truth to the allegations. In court, chief prosecutor Thomas Puccio backed up the FBI's whitewash, and said that Weinberg had produced a receipt for one of the alleged gifts, showing that he had bought it. But photographic evidence -- which played such a crucial role in conviction of the Abscam defendants -- clearly shows that Weinberg possessed the appliances that he was accused of extorting. They're sitting in his home in Florida. The loot consists of three Sony 17-inch Trinitron television sets, a Betamax video recorder, a General Electric microwave oven, a Harman-Kardon stereo receiver and Genesis three speakers. The item Weinberg claimed to have an exonerating receipt for was a microwave oven. But it's not the one we photographed in the Weinberg home. According to Mrs. Weinberg's sworn statement, her husband removed the serial number plate from the oven with a screwdriver and hid the oven with a neighbor when the allegations about the "gifts" first surfaced in 1980. He then had his wife drive him to a department store in West Palm Beach, where he got the receipt he showed to the FBI. Subsequently, he brought the incriminating oven back to his home. It is still there. UFOs attack "higher ups" China officials quit PEKING (AP) -- Seven deputy ministers of China's aircraft industry ministry have resigned to make way for younger officials to move up, the newspaper Worker's Daily reported Saturday. The report follows the resignation of six deputy ministers of the coal industry ministry, now plagued by overstaffing and petty wrangling. China has nearly 1,000 government ministers and vice ministers. org 1/17/82 Here Plane crash injures four org 1/19/82 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Four persons were injured Monday when their single-engine plane apparently lost power on a flight from the Seattle area to Portland and crash-landed in a field northeast of Vancouver. Clark County sheriff's deputies said the crash occurred at 12:15 p.m. in a farm field at 12317 N.E. 87th Ave., five miles northeast of downtown Vancouver. They said the Beechcraft Sundowner apparently lost power and that its pilot, Kenneth Hammond, 36, of Issaquah, attempted to land it on the field. It went under some power lines and struck the ground just off Northeast 87th Avenue. Hammond was admitted to Vancouver Memorial Hospital and underwent surgery for a lacerated elbow. His condition was not known, but a hospital spokesman said it was not critical. Also admitted was passenger Larry R. Cornell, 37, of Centralia. He was listed in satisfactory condition. Two other passengers, David C. Schluter, 40, of Centralia, and David L. Cover, 26, of Seattle, were treated and released. The aircraft tore out a wire fence while crash-landing. (Note: I have 3 UFOs over this area at all times. Owens) UFOs attack "higher ups" Labor official dies org 1/18/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andrew C. McLellan, a veteran AFL-CIO official, died Sunday, six days after he won a court ruling permitting the disconnection of hospital life-support systems. McLellan, 70, had been in intensive care since early November at Alexandria Hospital, suffering from emphysema and complications resulting from abdominal surgery. In a ruling believed to be unprecedented in Virginia, Alexandria Circuit Judge Albert H. Grenadier ordered last Monday that McLellan be allowed to have life-support systems disconnected and to go home, even though to do so would almost surely result in his death. Friends and associates of McLellan said that he wished to spend his last days at home. === Page 157 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Thatcher's son found safe ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) -- Mark Thatcher, race driver son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was found "safe and sound" Thursday in the Sahara, the Algerian news agency and his father said. Thatcher had been missing for six days in an auto race across the Sahara. In an interview with British television at the search headquarters in Tamanrasset, Denis Thatcher, husband of the British prime minister, said a plane sighted a white car. He said the pilot of the plane "saw people waving a pullover or shirt or something like that. They appeared to be in fairly good condition." "And it is in the area approximately where we expected Mark to be. It is not completely confirmed, but I am reasonably happy it's 90 percent sure," the elder Thatcher said. Thatcher said the car was within 100 miles of the area where his son first was reported lost in the extreme southwest of Algeria. The Algerian news agency said a Land Rover car, part of the large air and land search, found the younger Thatcher 250 miles from Tamanrasset in the forbidding, arid stretches of the southern Sahara. "Thatcher is safe and sound," the news agency said. But it had no details about the other two members of the party, Anne-Charlotte Verney, Thatcher's French co-driver, and a mechanic. An official at the British Embassy would not confirm the news immediately. The Algerian news agency reported a helicopter was sent to the scene. Additional national security forces were sent by the government to hunt for Thatcher, who disappeared last Friday after a mechanical mishap to his car in the 6,000-mile rally which began in Paris Jan. 1. In London, the prime minister, distraught and red-eyed, wept in a hotel lobby during a public engagement Wednesday. "I am sorry, there is no news. I am very concerned," she said. UPI DISTRAUGHT -- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears upset at a public engagement in London before receiving news that her race driver son, Mark, had been found alive in the Sahara. org J 1/14/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Saudi Arabian's daughter missing STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) -- The 19-year-old daughter of Saudi Arabia's charge d'affaires in Stockholm has been missing since Dec. 22, hours before she was to return to her homeland to become engaged to be married. Ablah Fahti left her parents' home outside Stockholm taking only her passport. She was scheduled to fly back to Saudi Arabia the same day to become engaged and the marriage was to take place later this year. Charge d'Affaires Abdul-Aziz Fahti alerted police to his daughter's disappearance. The family has been in Sweden for two years and the daughter is said to have made many friends among Swedes of her own age. She contacted the Embassy a week ago and informed officials she was well, but refused to return to the Embassy. Since she is of legal age in Sweden and has committed no crime, police are mainly interested in locating her and being assured she is well. The Swedish Foreign Ministry considers the disappearance a family matter. The family has engaged private detectives to locate their daughter, but should police locate her first, they are not obliged to disclose her whereabouts should she so wish. According to Koranic law, the breaking of a marriage contract is a serious offense and the punishment can be severe. org J 1/14/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Cleveland official's aide shoots apparent attacker CLEVELAND (AP) -- An aide to City Councilman Lonnie Burten shot and wounded an apparent attacker in the latest of a series of violent incidents involving him and his boss, police said. Sgt. George Sekerak said Preston Terry, 45, an administrative assistant to the councilman and his former campaign manager, told officers that two men knocked at the door of his home Wednesday afternoon, asking about tires that had been stolen from them. "He was trying to dig out his pistol from his waistband, and when I saw that, I knew it wasn't 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,'" Terry was quoted as saying by the Cleveland Press. "I got mine before he got his." Terry wounded one of the would-be assailants. One of the men escaped in a car and the other fled on foot, Sekerak said, adding that a gun was found in the yard of Terry's home after the shooting. Officers later arrested Melvin Stearns, 30, according to Sekerak. It was found later that Stearns was wanted on two felony warrants for probation violation and aggravated robbery. Stearns, slightly wounded in his forearm and forehead, was arrested at his home. He said he had been shot in an armed robbery attempt, Sekerak said. Sept. 15, Burten was shot three times in the leg by a stranger who had come to his door. On election night, in early November, Burten's home was destroyed by arsonists. A car belonging to Terry was firebombed Nov. 15. org 1/1/82 === Page 158 of 278 GAO, Mali (AP) -- Military and civilian air and ground search teams Wednesday scoured thousands of square miles of the Sahara for the 28-year-old son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Mark Thatcher disappeared five days ago during a grueling cross-country auto race through North Africa. The racer's father, Denis, flew to Algiers to press the search for his son, and in London his mother broke down in tears during a speaking engagement. Organizers of the Paris to Senegal motor rally said in Paris that a Swiss pilot reported seeing Thatcher's white Peugeot-Dangell Monday in a rocky desert area of southern Algeria. But ground search teams found only tire tracks and were unable to determine their direction. Organizers said soldiers and national police from Algeria and neighboring Mali joined the search Wednesday after race officials were unable to locate Thatcher, his co-driver Charlotte Verney of France and their mechanic Claude Garnier. They said a Senegal-based French military plane, three smaller private planes, two helicopters, three desert trucks and a Land-Rover also were involved in the search, which included race officials and civilian volunteers. Thatcher and the two others were stranded Friday about 43 miles from Timeaouine when their car's axel broke, organizers said. Apparently they were able to repair the car sufficiently to keep going, but their direction remains a mystery. Race officials say communications in the area are limited to radio contacts and it would be difficult for Thatcher to locate either telephone or telex facilities. Denis Thatcher arrived in Algiers Wednesday afternoon and was met by British Ambassador Ben Strachan. They were to fly to Tamanrasset, Algeria, where the search operation is being coordinated. In London, Barrie Gill, head of CSS promotions, the firm that has the younger Thatcher under a three-year contract, said the father flew to Algeria to "stir things up." "Mark has been missing for five days, and we understood there has been no proper search until today," Gill told reporters. "It is now a very serious situation." Mrs. Thatcher, looking strained and red-eyed, wept openly twice before a speech to a small business group. Later she told reporters: "I am sorry there is no news. I am very concerned. My husband will arrive there (Algeria) this afternoon." Mrs. Thatcher canceled an afternoon meeting with the Hungarian foreign minister because of her concern about her son. Young Thatcher, who is unmarried, has a twin sister, Carol, the prime minister's only children. Tears rolled down the British leader's face when she arrived at the hotel for the speaking engagement, but she quickly regained her composure. Then in the hotel foyer, outside a shop, she leaned briefly against one of her bodyguards and wept again. Larraine Goldstein, who runs the shop and was standing close to the prime minister, said: "She looked at me and said, 'I'll be all right in a minute.' She was clearly very, very upset and trying to put a brave face on it. I felt for her as a mother." In Gao, rally organizer Thierry Sabine said the search was being "conducted with intensity." # Thatcher son lost in race across Sahara # Allen blames leaks for ouster By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A feisty Richard Allen, replaced as national security adviser by Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, blames "politics" and "leaks" for his ouster from his White House post. Allen, who had waged a long, tenacious battle to retain his job, bowed to President Reagan's wishes during a 25-minute private meeting Monday in the Oval Office and agreed to resign. Sources said Allen went into the meeting expressing the hope he would be reinstated, but the president felt it best "for all concerned" that he leave the post. He was at the White House for several hours and showed "a lot of presence" according to observers. But when Allen returned to his home, he sounded somewhat bitter, telling reporters it was "never a question of competence... but there had grown up a very highly charged political atmosphere." "Politics was involved," he said, "but what kind and whose, I'm not exactly certain." In an interview late Monday, Allen said he at first asked Reagan to reinstate him in his job, but the president said it was "quite clear in his mind that was not possible." He also blamed "leaks" in the White House, but said no one ever owned up to being the source. Allen and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have had an unremitting feud since the start of the administration. It led Haig to claim that a "guerrilla campaign" was being conducted against him in the White House. Allen's successor, Clark, 50, formally begins his new duties Tuesday, sitting in on the meeting between Reagan and visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clark will not totally relinquish his State Department duties until his successor is confirmed by the Senate. No one has been named to replace him yet as the No. 2 man in the department. In an exchange of letters, Reagan accepted Allen's resignation "with deep regret." Reagan praised Allen for his "personal integrity and exemplary service to the nation." Larry Speakes, deputy press secretary, said both the Justice Department and White House inquiries had turned up no "wrongdoing on Allen's part" but said Reagan decided there should be a change because of the swirl of "controversy" concerning Allen. He will be retained on the government payroll for $190-a-day as a part-time consultant to the newly established Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a recently recreated civilian panel which assesses the work of the CIA and other spy agencies. Allen said Reagan wants him to consider taking another full-time position in the administration. Allen's troubles began when it was disclosed in the Japanese press that he had received $1,000 from a Japanese magazine journalist for arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan. He put the money in a safe and forgot about it for eight months when it was discovered in an office in the White House complex. === Page 159 of 278 UFO, attack " higher wes" British prime minister's son lost in African desert ONY 1/13/88 ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) - France said Wednesday it is sending three Air Force planes to join the widening search for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatch- er's son. Mark, and his two auto race col- leagues who have been missing in the Sahara for five days. French Defense Minister Charles Hernu said in Paris he decided to send the air- craft with the full accord of the African countries concerned by the search along the borders of Algeria and Mali. The three men were missing in the Pa- ris-Dakar auto rally race. "We have a good hope the two will be found soon, and put in a position where they can resume the race," a British Em- bassy official said. Air force planes and trucks took part in the hunt through the uninhabited waste- land along the country's southern frontier. Missing along with Mark Thatcher, 28, was his co-driver, Charlotte Verney, and an unidentified mechanic. They were last seen Friday driving their Peugeot-Dangel on the Sahara leg of the 10,000-mile, 20-day rally that began in Paris New Year's Day. The Algerians organized the search as pon as the British Embassy expressed concern about Thatcher's failure to reach checkpoint in the Tamanrassert area of outhern Algeria, the Embassy said. Mrs. Thatcher "like any mother, is con- erned about her son, but he's a grown un d now and quite capable of looki- imself," said a spokesman bader. within five minutes." Officials said ++ UFOR attack "higherup" The prime minis anicking be otel 1/19/82 ROME (UPI)' - The kidnappers 'of Gen. James Dozier planned a spectacular massacre of as many as 100 politicians on live television later this week, police said Monday. A police spokesman confirmed stories in three of Italy's major newspapers saying the Red Brigades planned to attack the Christian Democratic Party headquarters during a na- tional conference on Friday. Police confirmed last week they found plans to attack the build- ing, but did not release details at the time. The reports said 15 to 20 gang members disguised as television technicians and carry- ing false documentation were to infiltrate the -arty building, carrying guns and grenades in Inment bags. several more days, an official said. An airplane hired by rally organizers searched unsuccessfully Tuesday in the desert region of Timeiaouine, north of the Algerian-Mali border, where Thatcher's car was last sighted. Rally officials said one of the difficul- ties in organizing a search was that there were few restrictions on the rally course that drivers could use to reach their des- tination in Senegal. Another missing racer, French motor- cyclist Serge Bacou, was found Tuesday by Air France pilot Patrick Fourticq, who is responsible for air communications with the rally entrants. Bacou had been missing since Friday. "He is definitely overdue at a check- point," the embassy official said. United Press International He said the prime minister was being MISSING - Mark Thatcher, lost in the cept up to date on efforts to locate her son by both the Embassy and Algerian au- horities. Sahara Desert while participating in a Paris-Dakar auto rally, is shown as he was interviewed by a newsman while the rally passed through Algiers. Red Brigades planned live TV massacre At 1:35 p.m., while the meeting was to be broadcast live to millions of Italians on the afternoon news, the Brigades were to hurl grenades at the dais and open fire on leading politicians. At the same time, terrorists outside the building were to launch missiles and bazooka shells from the back of parked vans and rush inside. The terrorists in the building were to commandeer television cameras, train them on the politicians being shot, and read a com- munique on the air before fleeing, the reports said. The attack was to take about 4 minutes and leave between 80 and 100 people dead. "The plan for this attack shows that the Christian Democrats are an obstacle for those who want to destabilize the country by throw- ing it into chaos," Giampaolo Cresci, a national councilman of the party said. An expert on Italian terrorism, meanwhile, predicted the Red Brigades will kill Dozier. He accused Israel of having aided the urban guer- rillas in an attempt to destabilize Italy. "On the basis of my experience I believe that, unfortunately, the Red Brigades will fol low their usual logic and kill their prisoner magistrate Ferdinado Imposimato said in interview published Sunday, one month a the NATO general was kidnapped. === Page 160 of 278 UFOs, attack "higher ups" + 6 projects # Press falls for administration coverup WASHINGTON -- Nobody ever said the folks in the White House at the moment weren't a clever bunch. They got caught with their red necks sticking out last week trying to subsidize racial discrimination. But already they have gotten out the story that the whole thing was a misunderstanding and, of course, Ronald Reagan didn't know anything about anything. ## richard reeves We fall for the same tricks over and over again. By "we" I mean the press, a simple lot. We are following one of the most revealing acts of the Reagan administration -- the reinstitution of federal tax exemptions for segregated schools -- by interviewing trees instead of seeing the forest of Reaganism. The nation, bless it, seemed stunned and outraged when people realized that the Treasury Department, with the approval of the White House, had ordered the Internal Revenue Service to stop discriminating against the discriminators. The president, good for him, was embarrassed. So, Reagan, in effect, denounced his own action. He said this was terrible and Congress ought to pass a law overrunning his new rule. But, for more than a week, he refused to rescind the rule, as he could have done. He was still, amiably, trying to have it both ways. Enter the press, the watchdogs of the democracy. The White House began hurling bits of meat to reporters, overwhelming them with details about who said what to whom and when. The official stories were all about communication problems and mistakes and misunderstandings by presidential aides. The president, that nice man, knew nothing about what was going on, according to those whispered "official" versions. The diversion version -- waving bright little facts at barking reporters -- seems to be working, as it has for other presidents in the past. On Sunday, The New York Times did its long follow-up story under this headline: "Reagan Aides' Split Blamed for Dispute on Tax Exemptions." "The Reagan administration's political embarrassment stemmed from a breakdown of communications on the president's staff." What the headline should have said was: "Reagan's Long-Standing Plans to Reverse Black Gains Threatened by Public Uproar." The White House and the president -- Mr. "Golly Gee, Did I Do That?" -- are quite successfully getting across the impression that the IRS rules were some new thing that slipped through the cracks of the Treasury Department. That's not true. The truth is that Reagan has been personally involved for years in trying to have those exemptions restored. He promised to do that more than once during his own presidential campaign. In fact, the promise was part of the 1980 Republican platform. "We will halt the unconstitutional regulatory vendetta launched by Mr. Carter's IRS commissioner against independent schools," read the document Reagan recited in Detroit before his nomination. That platform language, incidentally, was also a deception. The lifting of the exemption was originally ordered not by Carter, but personally by President Nixon in 1970 after black parents in Mississippi won a temporary injunction against those tax breaks. That is not the principal deception going on about all this and, if there is a vendetta, it is not against a few private schools in the South but against millions of Americans who happen to be black. The story of the Reagan administration is not about the "Big Three" on the staff or about memos and meetings inside the White House. The story is that on programs and policies from voting rights to taxation to the power of federal courts, these clever people in momentary power are in the process of doing everything they can to put blacks in their place -- and Ronald Reagan seems to believe that place is about 1950. Richard Reeves is a syndicated columnist whose columns are distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. oreg J 1/21/82 === Page 161 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # News queries on Rehnquist go unanswered By KEVIN COSTELLOE oreg 1/9/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist and his aides Friday pushed aside mounting questions about his health and the two drugs he has been taking for back pains. Rehnquist did not respond to requests from news reporters for clarification of his medical situation and the occasional slurring in his speech. But a spokesman for George Washington University Hospital, where Rehnquist was treated during a weeklong stay, said the justice was gradually being taken off the drug linked to his speech impediment. The spokesman, Dr. Dennis O'Leary, said that when Rehnquist left the hospital last Sunday he was taking two drugs -- the one linked to his speech problem and a substitute drug that is not expected to cause such side effects. The justice returned to work Tuesday after his hospitalization, during which he was treated for a withdrawal reaction to a reduction in the dosage of the problem drug. "This is a very solvable problem," O'Leary said in an interview Friday. He declined to identify either drug, but both The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, quoting doctors familiar with the case, identified the drug that caused Rehnquist's speech problems as Placidyl. The drug is a prescription sleeping pill recommended by its manufacturer for short-term use only. The latest news media queries aimed at Rehnquist included a joint written request from 10 major news organizations seeking a news conference or a written statement from him. A secretary in Rehnquist's office said Friday that the justice had received the written request, but she refused to say when or whether he would respond. The secretary, who declined to give her name, said Rehnquist had been putting in full days of work and expected to listen to oral arguments Monday, when the court reconvenes after a recess of nearly a month. Among the unanswered questions concerning Rehnquist: -- What drug has he been taking for his chronic back pains? -- What drug has he switched to following the withdrawal reaction during his recent hospitalization? -- What is the long-term outlook for Rehnquist's health? At 57, he is the youngest man on the Supreme Court and holds his position for life. -- Have the side effects of his medical treatment affected his work? Aside from the justice's obvious problems in expressing his thoughts and questioning lawyers during oral arguments, there is no outward sign that Rehnquist's work has been affected. But court watchers have no way of determining whether Rehnquist's reliance on law clerks and other employees has changed. Rehnquist, the court's most conservative member, marked his 10th anniversary on the bench Thursday. He was appointed by President Nixon in 1971 and joined the court Jan. 7, 1972. Court spokesman Barrett McGurn, asked about the possibility of comment from Rehnquist, said Friday, "I don't foresee anything." Rehnquist experienced brief "disturbances in mental clarity" during the withdrawal period but returned to a "clear mental state," according to O'Leary. Rehnquist's personal physician, Dr. Hugo Rizzoli, has dodged all questions about Rehnquist's health. The justice has experienced chronic back pain for about 10 years. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Philadelphia mob 'broken' by killing By LEE LINDER oreg 1/9/82 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The assassination of reputed gambling boss Frank "Chickie" Narducci, the 11th gangland murder here in two years, has "badly fragmented and weakened" Philadelphia's mob, an official said Friday. "There aren't many more (mobsters) left," city police Detective Michael Chitwood said after Thursday night's killing. Narducci was hit by 10 bullets as he got out of a car near his South Philadelphia home, about an hour after he ended a day in court in his federal trial on racketeering and conspiracy charges. The trial of seven co-defendants continued Friday despite objections from defense lawyers that it would be impossible to get a jury untainted by publicity. "The identification of Narducci as a mob chieftain, and that it was a mob hit, is extremely prejudicial," said attorney Robert Simone. But U.S. District Judge James Giles refused a postponement and said he would "see how it goes." Police were seeking the motive for Narducci's slaying. "It seems the idea is to clean out organized crime in Philadelphia," Chitwood said. "Soon organized crime will be a thing of the past in Philadelphia, unless their sons take over." "The mob is badly fragmented and weakened," said Wallace Hay, executive director of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission. "With each death, it seems to get less and less clear who's in charge," Hays said. "We really don't know." Narducci ran crap games, numbers and high-stakes card games for the crime family, reportedly a multimillion-dollar operation, according to the crime commission. His son sought to buy a night club in Atlantic City but was turned down. Narducci, who had a record of 31 arrests, was convicted last April of bribing two Philadelphia policemen posing as corrupt cops to protect his gambling activities. The mob war, filled with bullets and bombs, began March 21, 1980, when Angelo Bruno, 69, then considered crime boss of Philadelphia and most of New Jersey, was killed by shotgun blasts as he sat in his parked car outside his South Philadelphia home. === Page 162 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" UFOs attack "higher ups" # Ghanaians arrest ex-leader By SUSAN LINNEE ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ghana's new military rulers arrested former President Hilla Limann Monday and announced that 60 members of his ousted administration had surrendered to police "for their own safety." Radio Accra, in a broadcast from the Ghanaian capital, said former Foreign Minister Isaac Chinnebuah and former Finance Minister George Benneh were among those who turned themselves in Sunday and Monday. Both had served in the civilian government overthrown in a New Year's eve coup led by retired air force Lt. Jerry J. Rawlings. The 60 officials did not include senior civil servants, who were told to report to the Defense Ministry, or officials of the state-run Ghana Broadcasting Corp., who were to report to the military government's press office at the Gonda Barracks, Radio Accra said. The junta announced Monday it had frozen the bank accounts of "all members of Parliament, managing directors and chairmen and secretaries of the boards of directors of corporations, Dr. Hilla Limann and wife, (Vice President William) De Graft and wife," and officials of all registered political parties. The measures, broadcast over government radio, were part of the "holy war" on corruption Rawlings announced after taking power in his second successful military coup in 27 months. In the first firm report of Limann's whereabouts since the coup, Radio Accra said the ousted president and his bodyguards were captured early Monday morning in the town of Koforidua, about 50 miles north of Accra. FLAMING PROTEST -- Washington, D.C., fireman douses effigies of President Reagan and Mormon Judge Marion Callister in Lafayette Park across from White House Monday. Group was protesting Reagan's stand on the ERA and Callister's adverse opinion on the amendment. UFOs attack "higher ups" # ose out crime SAKHAROV ILL: Andrei Sakharov's wife says the Soviet physicist suffered two minor heart attacks last week at his home in Gorky, where he is living in exile inside the Soviet Union. His wife Yelena Bonner appealed to Soviet authorities for proper medical care for the ailing Nobel laureate. She said Sakharov, 60, just home after a 17-day hunger strike in behalf of his daughter-in-law, had a mild heart attack last Tuesday and a second one Saturday. She appealed to friends and supporters worldwide to pressure Soviet authorities to give the human rights champion the proper medicines for his heart condition. LONELY CONSORT: Capt. Mark Phillips, husband of Britain's Princess Anne, says life can get very lonely when the princess is tied up on official engagements and he is left behind. He told the magazine Woman's Own he would rather work on their farm than attend official functions, but he tries to accompany the princess on most evening engagements and royal tours. He also says he is nervous about visiting Buckingham Palace -- "I don't feel as relaxed as I do in my own home." rehearsals in New York Feb. 1 for their Broadway play, "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" ... John Williams has signed a second two-year contract as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra ... Cardinal John Cody, head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, is in fair condition in a Chicago hospital. The 74-year-old archbishop suffers from diabetes and congestive heart disease. STATESMAN SALESMAN: Ezer Weizman, Israel's former defense minister, is now in the car-import business. He will head a new firm importing Daihatsu vehicles, the only other Japanese car sold in Israel is Subaru. === Page 163 of 278 FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1982 # Reagan's handle on job still in question By LOU CANNON LA Times-Washington Post Service **Analysis** WASHINGTON -- President Reagan stands at a troublesome crossroads as he enters the second year of a high-risk presidency made more difficult by the successes of Year One. Unemployment is a decimal point away from its postwar high. The president's economic advisers are bitterly divided over tax and monetary issues. The National Security Council, its effectiveness as policy broker diminished by a year of conflict, is being rebuilt under a new national security affairs adviser. The vaunted unity of the top trio of presidential advisers has been hattered. And Reagan has shown himself to be embarrassingly unaware or misinformed as to the content of some his basic policy decisions. Unlike other recent chief executives, and Reagan during the early years of his California governorship, the president has no built-in alibi that will enable him to share policy failures with the legislative branch. After years of deadlock between Congress and the White House, Reagan's political leadership and communicative skills let him break through and win decisive acceptance of his budget cuts and tax program. In doing so he created the conditions under which his economic programs can be judged on results rather than the conflicting claims of election-year rhetoric. When Reagan took office a year ago Wednesday, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that the all-powerful presidency was a casualty of congressional reaction to the Vietnam War and Watergate. Reagan's well-conceived legislative victories made mincemeat of this view, demonstrating that a president capable of focusing on an issue and taking his case to the people still can prevail over Congress. The president also demonstrated a presence, style and charm which won him personal admirers even among those who do not share his political opinions. When he went on vacation, which he did as often as he could, he did not pretend that he was studying briefing papers. Reagan's cheerful courage in the aftermath of an attempt on his life last March 30 gave the nation a glimpse of a natural man who used wit as a weapon in the face of danger. As he faces a second year in which the easy answers of the first seem increasingly suspect, Reagan's personal qualities remain his prime political assets. Former President Nixon has offered the opinion that Reagan may be "too nice to be president," but the "niceness" has worn well with American voters. be suspended just as our own government aid is. I would have to check and Though Reagan's approval rating has dropped notably in every major public opinion survey, the president remains far more popular than his economic programs. A New York Times-CBS News poll this week found Reagan with a 49 percent approval rating, although only 37 percent of the poll respondents said they were "better off" than they had been a year ago -- a test that Reagan asked voters to use in measuring President Carter's four-year performance. Reagan's national security operation is likely to be far more smoothly run under William P. Clark in 1982 than it ever was in 1981 under Richard V. Allen. And Clark may help quiet the feuding between two Reagan Cabinet strongmen, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger. Haig has taken command at the State Department, and administration officials believe that 1982 will herald the coming of genuine arms reductions talks and perhaps an international summit meeting. More disquieting than Reagan's performance or prospects on any specific issue is a growing suspicion that the president himself has only a passing acquaintance with some of his most important decisions of his administration. It is a suspicion fueled by Reagan's performance at several of his recent news conferences and by casual remarks on other occasions. Last Oct. 2, when Reagan announced a plan to upgrade U.S. strategic weaponry that was supposedly the product of long presidential deliberation, he said he was abandoning the Carter administration's proposal to deploy MX missiles in "racetrack" loops in the deserts of Nevada and Utah. Yet that particular deployment method had been dropped by Carter in April 1980. Dec. 17, at a news conference, Reagan displayed total ignorance of his own Justice Department's efforts to overturn the Supreme Court's Weber decision allowing companies and unions to agree voluntarily on affirmative action plans. Dec. 18 the president was asked on NBC's "Today" show by Tom Brokaw whether he was prepared to restrict private or voluntary food shipments to Poland. "You know, this is a point that in all the haste of this thing coming that I don't think I've been present in any discussions of that," Reagan replied. "I would think, however, that that would make sure that that is true." Actually there was a proposal then being discussed in the administration, suspending government aid but allowing private food shipments to continue. Reagan eventually accepted this. But when the president was asked about this during an Oval Office photographic session four days after the Brokaw interview he was still not conversant with it and said it was "too early in the day" to comment because he hadn't attended any meetings yet. This week, Reagan botched several questions at his press conference, misquoting economics statistics on which he had been briefed and misremembering the nature of the "loophole" in the California abortion law he had signed as governor. Increasingly, Reagan appears uninformed on what is happening within his own administration. As he begins his second year he has raised anew one of the principal issues of his presidential candidacy. Simply put, the question is: Is Reagan up to the job? === Page 164 of 278 ...BUT RONNIE, IT STARTED OUT AS JUST A LITTLE JAPANESE BONSAI! THE ALLEN SCANDAL Bill Day--Philadelphia Bulletin Root of the problem: The President had failed to put his own house in order--and Allen wasn't ready to resign Newsweek Dec. 7, 1981 NATIONAL AFFAIRS # Slowly, Slowly in the Wind He is the least powerful, least visible and by all accounts least popular national-security adviser in years. And Richard V. Allen, successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, may have one of the shortest tenures as well. Under siege for weeks because he received a $1,000 honorarium from a Japanese women's magazine, Allen's accumulating difficulties seemed not so much a matter of illegal or improper behavior as simple bad judgment. But the lengthening list of those who wanted him to go numbered most key players in the White House, including two of the President's three top advisers. Most significantly, White House aides signaled, they had been joined by Mrs. Reagan herself, whose interview with the magazine prompted the $1,000 payment. Interviewed at his ranch for a Thanksgiving broadcast, Reagan was notably reticent about his national-security chief. He would, said the President, "wait for the investigation" to close. But the longer the President let Allen twist haplessly in the wind, the more damage he did not only to his tarnished national-security adviser but to his Presidency. Reagan's failure to put his own White House in order hardly accords with the carefully crafted profile of a tough President willing to veto the budget or fire thousands of air-traffic controllers. For weeks Washington has witnessed unseemly attempts by one faction of the President's own staff to force Allen's ouster with a steady drip-drip of leaks that have turned a largely unknown adviser into his best-known aide--the butt of talk-show humor and editorial-page cartoons. "The longer this goes on," one top aide conceded, "the more damaging it is to the President's image." The good news for Allen last week was > Reagan's staff keeps the Allen affair alive with leaks--damaging both the President and the NSC chief. that the journalists who interviewed Mrs. Reagan confirmed that they gave him only $1,000--not $10,000, as a New York Times story had suggested. But eighteen Democratic senators called for a special prosecutor in the case, Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas called for Allen's resignation and the death of a thousand leaks continued--their substance less important than the fact that they kept his case in the spotlight. Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, for example, reported that the interview had been arranged only after Allen got a separate "large gift" from Tamotsu Takase--a longtime Allen associate whose wife served as interpreter for the session. U.S. officials said they had no evidence of such a gift, and Allen couldn't "imagine what Professor Takase was talking about." Other stories focused on the sale of Allen's Washington consulting firm to former Reagan speechwriter Peter D. Hannaford. Their deal called for installment payments over a three-year period--perfectly legal, but posing possible conflicts of interest in Allen's contacts as a government official with Hannaford, Hannaford's clients and Takase, a conduit to top Japanese industrialists. At the weekend, Allen said that the remaining debt had been paid in full. The New York Times also indicated that FBI director William Webster, highly respected in Washington, might have made an "unauthorized" call to Allen in connection with the FBI's investigation. In fact, Webster was authorized by Attorney General William French Smith to tell Allen that Tokyo newspapers were about to break the story of the probe. Webster's only misstep--which he now regrets--was telling Allen that no evidence had yet been found that would cause him legal problems. === Page 165 of 278 Within the White House, Allen's sole remaining protector was Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese III, who argued that Allen must be allowed to stay unless some evidence of wrongdoing emerged. Said one staffer: "Ed Meese and the President have always been reluctant to make those hard decisions." But chief of staff James Baker, aide Michael Deaver and other key assistants were working actively for Allen's removal as a political necessity. "Anyone ... who becomes a political liability should go," said one aide. Others thought that Mrs. Reagan, who last year helped bring about the firing of former Reagan campaign manager John Sears, would ultimately play the pivotal role. "She'll get there," said a confidant, "even if Ed [Meese] has to go" as well. 'Public Eye': His critics hoped Allen would be out by mid-December, when the Justice Department is scheduled to complete its investigation. But the feisty Allen refused to walk away. "Why should I?" he asked NEWSWEEK's Henry Hubbard. "To substantiate the press stories? This is my family, my career, my reputation, my integrity." If Allen thought that a clean bill of health from the Justice Department would end his problems, that view was not shared by most of his colleagues at the White House. At the weekend, he suddenly agreed to appear on "Meet the Press" to make his case to the public--and to his boss still vacationing on a California hilltop. But barring the unexpected, Allen's TV performance promised only to keep a messy affair in the limelight--and could force the President's hand sooner rather than later. "Whether Allen did anything or not is irrelevant," said one White House staffer. "He's used up his effectiveness. In the public eye, he could never be a trusted official again." TOM MORGANTHAU with ELAINE SHANNON and ELEANOR CLIFT in Washington and KIM WILLENSON in Tokyo Allen: 'My family, my career, my integrity' Dennis Brack--Black Star Mary Anne Fackelman--The White House Reagan at his ranch with Maureen and the First Lady: Sliced turkey and a broken promise # Reagan's Local Fallout California cut services for 15,000 aged, blind and disabled persons. Ohio approved a record $1.3 billion package of tax increases. Santa Fe, N.M., scraped together an extra $77,000 in revenues by auctioning dilapidated city vehicles. And Las Vegas, Nev., hired two bounty hunters to bring in unpaid parking fines. Across the country, local officials were slashing programs and sending out pink slips to compensate for Ronald Reagan's cut in Federal aid to states and cities. In some places, fiscally-strapped local officials were raising taxes that promised to wipe out Reagan's Federal income-tax savings for individuals. "This is the toughest economic crunch cities have had in 25 years," says Alan Beals, executive director of the National League of Cities, which expected 3,000 municipal leaders to descend on its annual conference in Detroit this week. The theme: strategies for coping with the New Hard Times. As Reagan spent Thanksgiving week on his California ranch, a fresh crop of complaints about his policies sprang from the grass roots. To absorb the Reagan budget cuts, the U.S. Conference of Mayors reported, 61 percent of U.S. cities surveyed will lay off employees, 41 percent will raise taxes and 63 percent will defer capital-spending plans. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found that a 2-to-1 majority of Americans fears that additional cuts Reagan wants will hurt needed programs--not eliminate waste. Even among Republican governors meeting in New Orleans there were undercurrents of concern that the burden of Reaganomics would hurt the GOP politically in next year's elections. But the President offered no quick relief. His campaign "dream" of shifting Federal funds to states and cities would remain just that, he told reporters, until the Federal budget crisis had eased. "It would be great if we could afford it," Reagan said, "... [but] there must be some pain for [state and local officials] too." Bracing: Without the promised transfer of revenues, Reagan's "New Federalism" has left states and cities with staggering new burdens--and sharply diminished funds. Already Congress has slashed Federal aid to states and cities by nearly $7 billion--7 percent--this year, and the cuts will go deeper once the 1982 budget is resolved (following story). Those new cuts will force some state legislatures into emergency sessions to trim programs further. Meanwhile, officials everywhere are bracing for far more draconian cuts in 1983 and 1984. "Our worst-case scenarios keep turning into best-case scenarios," moans Mayor Charles Royer of Seattle, where officials have raised business, telephone and utility taxes, eliminated the mounted-police patrol and ordered city-council members to take two-week vacations without pay. Despite lingering traces of the taxpayers' revolt, pressures to raise local taxes are mounting. Many areas have been doubly hit by Reaganomics: while getting less money from Washington, they are also losing local revenue--either because their own business-tax rates are keyed to the trimmed- NEWSWEEK/DECEMBER 7, 1981 33 === Page 166 of 278 Hit attack higher ups Oreg 12/11/81 Associated Press Laserphoto SEARCH -- A U.S. customs agent gives instructions to the driver of a vehicle while he prepares to search the car at the San Ysidro, Calif., border crossing south of San Diego. Customs agents are intensifying searches after receiving a memo to be on the alert for a "hit team," which may be trying to enter the country with the aim of assassinating the president and other high government officials. Story on Page A17. UFOs 6 Projects, 100x Ory 11 N62AF Associated Press Laser TAIL RAISED -- Crane raises tall section of Air Florida Boeing 737 from waters of Potomac River in Washington, D.C., Monday. In background 14th Street Bridge, which plane struck before falling into river. UPP case Margiotta GOP leader jailed UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Joseph Margiotta, powerful leader of Nassau County's Republican Party, was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison by a federal judge who said the county had "a sad history of official misconduct." Before U.S. District Judge Charles P. Sifton imposed the sentence, Margiotta had pleaded for leniency because a jail term would have a "devastating impact on myself and my family." The 54-year-old veteran Republican boss was sentenced to serve two years on each of the five extortion convictions and two years for mail fraud, with the sentences to run concurrently. === Page 167 of 278 NFOs attack "higher ups" # Allen's late resignation hurt Reagan's image By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER WASHINGTON - The word that White House National Security Adviser Richard Allen was "resigning" came with all the surprise of a midwinter snowstorm in Minneapolis. The only suspense lay in the length of time it took for him to jump before he was pushed. The whole business was a sorry example of what happens when an errant aide who is expendable but has long political ties to a president won't take a hint - and when that president declines to bite the bullet right off. GERMOND-WITCOVER From the outset it was clear that Allen had to go. Regardless of the findings of the Justice Department and the White House that he had done nothing illegal in accepting money and watches from his Japanese acquaintances, the appearance of impropriety was there. And that should have been enough - especially because Allen was no rose in the job to start with. Aside from all the allegations of impropriety, there was plenty of dissatisfaction within the White House upper echelon about Allen's performance and about his problems with Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The earliest leaks about the cash money from the Japanese stashed away in a White House safe and about the watches his friends gave him telegraphed the belief of important insiders that a little political hara-kiri was in order. Instead, Allen committed the politically unpardonable sin of going public with his defense, as if he were an elected official whose job was in the hands of the voters. His media blitz demonstrated that he failed to understand or accept that White House aides have a constituency of one - the president. By going public, he caused President Reagan further embarrassment and only worsened the situation for himself. Once before, back in 1973, another presidential subordinate - then Vice President Spiro Agnew - tried by going public to put heat on the Nixon administration to call off its Justice Department in the case against him. That action - an intemperate, threatening speech by Agnew - served mainly to convince Richard Nixon that his old sidekick had to go. Trying to put heat on the president is a no-no for a high government official to take a couple or three watches from a "friend" who stands to gain from the friendship, Reagan chose to wrap Allen's departure in the cloak of a staff reorganization. Good old Dick Allen just didn't fit the new job description, that's all. The second round of White House leaks at year's end, that Allen was about to be replaced by Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, was obviously a way to tell Allen that if he didn't walk the plank voluntarily, he would have to do so at swordpoint. And that's what happened in the end. In the process, Reagan passed up an opportunity to strike a blow for his administration's credibility. But instead of saying right out that it's a no-no for a high government official to take a couple or three watches from a "friend" who stands to gain from the friendship, Reagan chose to wrap Allen's departure in the cloak of a staff reorganization. Good old Dick Allen just didn't fit the new job description, that's all. Allen's success in landing a high White House job in the first place was something of a puzzlement. He was never considered a Henry Kissinger, or even a Zbigniew Brzezinski, in the foreign-policy field, and indeed the job of national security adviser was overtly scaled down when he got it. But he was one of those shadowy campaign figures who was always in the candidate's suite when instant history was being made. That often counts for a lot when the jobs are being handed out, and clearly it did in Allen's case. In fact, it probably was that connection that kept Allen afloat as long as he was. Loyalty is always high on any president's list of desirable qualities in a subordinate, as it should be. Indeed, Allen cannot be blamed if he is asking himself these mornings why a David Stockman, who confessed to a respected reporter that the Reagan economic underpinnings were hogwash and guesswork, is still on the job while he is out on the street. The bottom-line reason is that when all was said and done, Reagan couldn't be persuaded he could do without Stockman, but he obviously was convinced he could manage without Allen - as a matter of fact, would be better off without him. How much simpler, and politically effective, it would have been had Reagan handed Allen his walking papers months ago, on the legitimate grounds that White House aides must avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and that Allen had not met that standard. Instead, Reagan's reticence in the guise of fairness let Allen make a mountain out of a molehill. Talk about much ado about not much. © 1982, Chicago Tribune Co. Syndicate Inc === Page 168 of 278 A26 3M THE SUNDAY ORE # Reagan staff lapse blamed for turnaround By HOWELL RAINES New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The Reagan administration's political embarrassment over the restoration of tax exemptions to segregated schools stemmed from a breakdown in communications on the president's staff, according to White House officials. They say this lapse caused new personal tensions within his triumvirate of senior advisers. Edwin Meese III, the White House counselor, said Saturday that he was the only adviser among the Big Three who knew more than one or two days ahead of time that the Justice and Treasury departments planned to end the government's 11-year ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practice racial discrimination. Other White House officials said Meese's two colleagues, James A. Baker III, the White House chief of staff, and Michael K. Deaver, the deputy chief of staff, were angry that he did not warn them about the policy change that produced last week's controversy over the administration's racial attitudes. Meese said in an interview that Treasury officials told him Dec. 28 that they and officials of the Justice Department wanted to abandon the federal court-ordered ban on such exemptions. But Baker did not find out until the night of Jan. 6 that the Justice and Treasury officials planned to announce the new policy Jan. 8. Deaver, who has taken as a personal mission the dispelling of impressions that Reagan is racially prejudiced, was not informed until the morning of Jan. 7. In fact, Meese said Saturday that the president himself was not told until late Jan. 7 or early Jan. 8, the day of the announcement, about his administration's new policy. Despite initial White House statements that the policy change had Reagan's "concurrence," Meese said the president simply received the information, without stating approval or disapproval. By the time the president, Baker and Deaver found out about the new policy, it was too late to delay the announcement, one participant in White House meetings said, partly because no one on Reagan's senior staff appreciated and emphasized the seriousness of the matter. Last Tuesday, after the public outcry against the Jan. 8 announcement, Reagan called for legislation to outlaw the kind of exemptions that were announced as having been approved with his blessing. A senior White House official characterized this turnaround and Reagan's similarly abrupt abandonment of a plan to cut Social Security benefits as the two most politically damaging episodes of his first year in office. In both incidents, this aide confirmed, Baker was kept in the dark until the last minute and proved unable to stop the announcement despite his misgivings. But last week's development is being taken more seriously at the White House, in part because Saturday's revelation that Reagan was not brought into the discussions until the last minute undercuts the effort to dispel the image of him as a disengaged president who simply ratifies his advisers' decisions. Also, it represented a breakdown of the White House management system so complete that the two high-level aides in charge of Reagan's appointments and paper flow have no records of any discussions, meetings or documents relating to the administration's major policy initiative in the field of race relations law. And the episode, for the first time, brought into view the tensions that have been building within the "Big Three," who started off on the basis of presumed equality but have gone through several cycles of conflict, partly because of policy differences but also because of differing operating styles and personalities. Aides to Baker and Meese agree that the week's events disclosed a major gap in the White House management structure. "I'm really not angry at Ed Meese," Deaver said Saturday. "I'm angry at what happened because of the system. "I was and am unhappy with the way this situation was handled, particularly with the fact that on as important an issue as this, the full background of the issue wasn't brought forward and, more important, the blacks who are part of the administration were never consulted." In the aftermath of what Deaver described as the failure of the staff to arm the president with good information, two steps were taken. Friday night Meese and his aides undertook what David R. Gergen, the White House communications director, called "a factual reconstruction" of what happened. === Page 169 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Allen failed to list clients of consulting firm By ROBERT PARRY WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard V. Allen failed to disclose the identity of his consulting firm's clients despite a legal requirement that any of them "directly involved" with him be listed if they paid at least $5,000 during the two years before he joined the White House. White House spokesman David Gergen said Thursday that he wasn't sure whether the national security adviser should have listed his clients, and other White House officials refused to discuss the issue. Allen has argued that the White House counsel's office told him he did not have to list his clients because, technically, he was an employee of the company, Potomac International Corp., and the fees were paid to the firm. Ha ha!! Federal law requires an incoming government official to identify sources of "compensation in excess of $5,000" in the previous two years and to give "a brief description of the nature of the duties performed or services rendered." The main exception to the filing requirement is if the official was an employee of the firm that provided the services and was not "directly involved" in work for that client. Allen has said he did have "several clients" who paid more than $5,000 a year. Allen was Potomac International's founder, owner, president and chief consultant. His wife, Patricia, was the corporation's vice president and treasurer, and his son, Michael, was its secretary. A source familiar with Allen's business said he had only five to seven clients, all of whom were Japanese or affiliated with Japanese firms. J. Jackson Walter, director of the Government Ethics Office, declined to discuss specifics of Allen's case Thursday but said the issue of listing clients is a "gray area" in the federal disclosure requirements. There are differing opinions inside the ethics office over precisely when an official must submit a client list, he said. For instance, the requirement would be much clearer if the incoming public official had run his own law practice and been involved with all the clients than if he had been a member of a large law firm and worked on only some of the firm's accounts. Allen has said he does not recall who in the counsel's office gave him the advice not to file a client list. He refused to discuss the issue further Thursday. Gergen said White House counsel Fred Fielding also did not know who had given Allen advice about the client list. erg 12/4/81 - UFOs attack "higher ups" # Equivocal performance marks Reagan's year By DAVID BRODER erg 1/20/82 WASHINGTON -- The first year of the Reagan presidency has been a mixture of gallantry and gaucherie, of talent and tardiness, of accomplishment and embarrassment the likes of which we have rarely seen. In his first 12 months in office, Ronald Reagan steered through Congress an economic program reversing 50 years of previous history and the handiwork of two historically giant predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. BRODER He did that without the full partisan control of Congress that they enjoyed and in the face of stubborn claims that he had no mandate from the voters for any such course. He did it by being a man of conviction, courage and steadfastness -- the very qualities he showed so clearly in the aftermath of the attempt on his life. He had the firmness to insist that curbing inflation was not only an economic necessity but a political and moral imperative. For he understood from his months of campaigning among the people that inflation was eroding something much more important than the value of the dollar. It was eroding a vital part of the American value system -- the belief that if you work hard, spend sensibly and put a little bit aside, you can achieve a better life for yourself and provide greater opportunities for your children. The economic prosperity and social stability of this society rest on this proposition. By his single-minded insistence, he forced Congress, the bureaucracy and the interest groups to abandon their habits of wasteful spending. And the reward, coincidentally or not, has been the significant abatement of inflation and the fears that it spawned. But if Reagan was the first president since Johnson to accomplish his most important first-year goals, he is also the first since Warren Harding to end his first year with substantial and growing doubts that he is the master of his own mind and his own job. Indeed, as the year drew on, and the phrases honed in months of campaigning became less and less useful in defining and deciding the policy choices facing government, the sense of uncertainty about the president's grasp of policy grew apace. Others are better qualified to judge the effects of this uncertainty on American foreign policy. But, in domestic affairs, it has been unhealthy. Too many people are beginning to see that Ronald Reagan's mind is not the source of instruction and direction for his government, but the prize over which the active contestants for power in the White House and Cabinet wage increasingly open warfare. To hear him speak extemporaneously on domestic policy is to hold your breath in nervous anticipation of the unknown. Too often, the thoughts he expresses have had to be corrected or reinterpreted by people who ought to be his subordinates, not his mentors. And, increasingly, as the year progressed, it has become clear that the president's concept of domestic policy leaves little room for the fundamental American value of fairness. It is not simply that the cost of curbing inflation has been much higher than Reagan advertised -- whether measured in unemployment, deficits or interest rates. He may be forgiven, for the forces in the economic world are powerful enough to defy anyone's effort. What is harder to accept is that at the same time he was deliberately tilting economic policy toward the rich and powerful, through the massively regressive tax cuts, he was systematically removing government assistance from some of the most needy and powerless. The moral meanness of the Reagan administration has been evidenced constantly: in its indifference to civil rights for blacks or equal rights for women; in its attack on legal services for the poor; and in the president's own cruel remark that those who cannot find good jobs or schools or services where they live should "vote with their feet" and move on. === Page 170 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Approval of Reagan plummets **otis pike** WASHINGTON -- It is hard to believe, only 14 months after Ronald Reagan's devastating wipeout of Jimmy Carter in a landslide election, that the latest Gallup Poll shows Reagan running well behind Carter in the approval rating each received at exactly the same time in his presidency. That, alas, is what the poll showed, and it looks like a rough year ahead for the president. In December 1977, as he completed his first year as president, Carter had 57 percent of the people approving his handling of the presidency, only 27 percent disapproving. In December 1981, at the end of Reagan's first year, 49 percent approved, 41 percent disapproved. There is no cheer in these numbers for the president. While the state of the economy is usually given as the principal reason for Reagan's steady decline, there is another reason which is more fundamental, and more difficult to conquer. When Reagan was elected, remember, the No. 1 problem with our economy was inflation. The prime rate of interest is down more than four points from where it was a year ago. The basic strength of the dollar is attested by the fact that it takes 200 fewer of them to buy an ounce of gold than it did a year ago. Reagan has a different problem haunting him -- credibility. He promised too much, and he can't deliver. He promised too easily, and his easy promises are haunting him. They not only damage his credibility, but time and again he is forced to make the awesome decision between keeping a promise and doing the right thing. Either choice will hurt him, and he is forced to choose. The first promise he broke was the balanced budget. First, he slipped it until 1984; then he tossed it out the window. This one did not hurt him too badly. There is a constituency out there screaming for more spending for defense, another one screaming for tax cuts. There is no constituency screaming for a balanced budget. Still, it was a promise and he broke it. Last week, it was draft registration. It was a bad promise and he should never have made it, but he did. It may have gotten him a few votes, a very few votes, from one-issue people, but most of the liberals who agreed with him on registration voted for Carter anyway. He did not look courageous as he broke his promise to get rid of draft registration, letting Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger make the announcement and take the flak. But it was Reagan's promise broken. There are other promises hanging in the wings, just waiting to be broken. When the Russians invaded Afghanistan, Carter imposed a lot of sanctions, but only one really hurt -- the grain embargo. It hurt U.S. farmers, too, and candidate Reagan promised to end it. He kept that promise, but when we decided that it was the Russians who had caused the imposition of martial law in Poland, that promise haunted him. He had to choose between keeping the promise and a meaningless response. He chose the meaningless response. If the Russians wind up doing in Poland what they did in Afghanistan, he will break the promise and impose a grain embargo, just as Carter did. This week, as he, his secretary of the treasury, his budget director and the Republican leaders of Congress search desperately for some way to close the dreadful gap between the nation's revenues and its expenditures, another Reagan promise gets in the way. This one was made, in writing, merely to nail down one Democratic vote in the House of Representatives for his economic package. While he and the other grown men with whom he is meeting diddle around with nickels and dimes on sins such as cigarettes and booze, one logically new tax which would raise more money than both the sin taxes is blocked by a Reagan promise. If we decontrolled the price of natural gas and imposed a tax on the windfall profits the producers received, a price would stabilize at the market level, the producers would make a lot of money and the government would get a lot of revenue. Unfortunately, Reagan promised Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla., in writing, that he would not support such a tax and that if Congress passed one, "I would happily veto it." Easy, irrational promises have grievously damaged his credibility and injured his ability to govern. Otis Pike, a former congressman, is a columnist for Newhouse News Service. === Page 171 of 278 # Strong man returns # Ghana military coup claimed BY SUSAN LINNEE ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Jerry J. Rawlings, a retired air force lieutenant, said Thursday he had seized control of Ghana for the second time and he reported "many" soldiers loyal to him were killed in battles with the civilian government's forces. There was no independent confirmation that Rawlings had succeeded in overthrowing President Hilla Limann's elected government, which Rawlings said over Accra radio had brought "nothing but repression" to the West African nation. Rawlings, in a speech, and the radio station in the Ghanaian capital of Accra broadcast reports that there were many deaths among the military but gave no figures. There was no mention of civilian casualties. In an early broadcast, monitored in this neighboring country, Rawlings referred to soldiers "who fought ... several of them died for you" and in the late afternoon spoke of "many" dying but gave no figures. Rawlings announced on the radio the establishment of a provisional military council and said Thursday's takeover was "not directed against officers of the armed forces," although its backing apparently came from junior military men. He said a "people's defense organization" -- apparently a militia -- would be set up alongside the existing military establishment. Late Thursday night, Accra radio announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew and broadcast an appeal from Rawlings for soldiers to "desist from looting and indiscriminate attacks." A State Department official in Washington, citing reports from the American Embassy in Accra, said, "The situation is fluid." He said there was no threat to foreigners. Before it was captured by Rawlings' forces, the radio station in Accra reported heavy fighting in the neighborhood and around Burma Barracks, the capital's central military camp. Rawlings, 34, said in his broadcast, "This is not a coup. I ask for nothing less than a revolution -- something that will transform the social and economic order of this country." He accused the civilian government of using "divide-and-rule tactics" against military personnel that had led to unfair dismissals and fighting among the troops. Rawlings ordered the borders closed and called on all soldiers, officers and policemen retired or dismissed since Sept. 24, 1979, the date of return to civilian rule, to report to their barracks. In the broadcast, Rawlings appealed to Ghanaians not to harm Limann, a 51-year-old doctor and former diplomat. Rawlings asked Limann to remain in his presidential quarters. "I am prepared at this moment to face a firing squad if what I've tried to do for the second time in my life does not meet with the approval of Ghanaians," he said. "I'm not here to impose myself -- far from it," Rawlings said. "We ask for nothing more than proper democracy ... after two years of nothing but repression." In interviews while head of the government and after he stepped down, Rawlings emphasized the disgust felt by junior officers toward the corruption and mismanagement they felt had come to characterize much of military and civilian rule in Ghana. Rawlings has rejected political labels and several times has referred to himself as "a moralist" above all else. There was no indication of what type of government he planned to establish. It was the fifth military coup in the country since Ghana became the first black African state to win independence 24 years ago. Rawlings, who led an unsuccessful coup in May 1979, deposed the military government of Lt. Gen. Frederick Akuffo the next month but handed power over to Limann after elections later in the year. He was subsequently required to retire from the military. Since Limann assumed power in September 1979, the economic situation has deteriorated badly. Once the world's leading cocoa producer, Ghana suffers from a serious balance-of-payments problem because of declining prices and smuggling of cocoa. Ghana, a nation of about 11 million, is located just north of the equator on the West African coast. It has a primarily agricultural economy. Made up of the former British colony of the Gold Coast and the former U.N. Trust Territory of British Togoland, Ghana was granted independence in 1957. It was led by Kwame N. Nkrumah until he was ousted in 1966 by a military coup. Nkrumah died in 1972. === Page 172 of 278 UFOs 100x Attack # Segregated schools face IRS restriction By STEVEN R. WEISMAN New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- President Reagan, in another modification of his position on racially segregated private schools, said Monday that the Internal Revenue Service would withhold federal tax exemptions from such schools pending congressional action to bar exemptions for them by law. At the same time, the Reagan administration proceeded with the reinstatement of at least temporary tax-exempt status of two segregated schools: Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., and Goldsboro Christian Schools in Goldsboro, N.C. Administration officials said the schools' tax-exempt status would be revoked if Congress approved a bill that Reagan submitted Monday with the request that it be given "the very highest priority." In a letter to the speaker of the House and the president of the Senate, Reagan expressed what he said was his "unalterable opposition to racial discrimination in any form." Such practices, he said, "are repugnant to all that our nation and its citizens hold dear, and I believe this repugnance should be plainly reflected in our laws." Reagan said his proposed legislation was "sensitive to the legitimate special needs of private religious schools" that use religion as a criterion for admission. The president's steps Monday were another in a series of actions he has taken after his advisers warned last week that he was being viewed as racist. The warnings were prompted Jan. 8, when the Treasury and Justice Departments, with Reagan's personal approval, announced that the IRS would no longer deny tax exemptions to segregated schools. Specifically, the Justice Department informed the Supreme Court that the administration was no longer challenging lawsuits brought by both Bob Jones University and Goldsboro Christian Schools asking that their tax-exempt status be restored. In taking this action, administration spokesmen had said Reagan was simply opposed to the IRS -- or any other government agency -- taking such action administratively. Barring tax exemptions was a matter to be dealt with by Congress, the spokesmen said, adding there were no administration plans to request any legislation on the matter. In the next few days, however, a torrent of criticism hit the administration. Democrats, civil rights activists and others accused Reagan and his aides of insensitivity, and civil rights organizations asked the courts to continue to bar the tax exemptions on the ground that they were prohibited under current law. In response, and in what advisers now say was a "salvage operation," the White House announced last Tuesday Reagan would propose legislation to outlaw tax exemptions for segregated schools. In effect, Reagan said he would seek legislation to end a practice his own aides had initiated with his approval. Monday's action was a reinforcement of what was being seen as a contradiction. The administration was saying that it would not grant tax exemptions to segregated schools, even if the Supreme Court rules it can do so legally, until the matter is disposed of by Congress. UFOs 100x Attack # Blacks feel forgotten, league president says By BRYCE NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- John E. Jacob, president of the National Urban League, charged Monday that the civil rights positions of the Reagan administration "created a feeling among many blacks that they were forgotten people." Issuing the league's annual report titled "The State of Black America," Jacob said the administration's policies had created "an unhealthy and dangerous situation" in the black community. Noting that the league began issuing its reports in 1976, he said that "never in that time have so many black people been so alienated from their government." Despite his attack on the Republican administration, Jacob said in response to a question, "I would not say President Reagan is running a racist administration." But he added that the effect of the Reagan administration has been negative on the black community. Jacob was especially critical of the administration's Jan. 8 announcement that the Internal Revenue Service would no longer deny tax exemptions to schools that engage in racial discrimination pending passage of legislation making clear that the IRS can deny such exemptions. Jacob said this announcement was a comfort to "racists." Late Monday, the administration announced it would consider no more applications for such tax exemptions until Congress acted. Jacob said Reagan's civil rights actions "can only be interpreted as attempts to dismantle the process of desegregating America." In Reagan's first year, Jacob said, "an administration from which blacks and minorities are virtually absent took a number of negative steps on civil rights. From its backtracking on desegregating schools to its de-emphasis of civil rights enforcement to its attacks on affirmative action, the administration created a feeling among many blacks that they were forgotten people." Jacob also said that "economic disasters" had befallen blacks in the past year. "Black unemployment is at record levels -- 16 percent by the understated official statistics that don't include discouraged workers or involuntary part-timers," he said. "Teen-age black unemployment went through the roof in 1981." Cuts in federal social programs "slashed deep into bone" and "were concentrated in programs in which blacks were a third to a half of all beneficiaries," Jacob said. Jacob was asked whether unhappy blacks would riot. He replied, "I make no predictions of rioting. I would only say that when people are hurting, you can't expect hurting people to act normal. I make no predictions." In the report, Jacob said that only about 7 percent of blacks had voted for Reagan in 1980. === Page 173 of 278 jack anderson NASA fraud reported WASHINGTON -- In an earlier column, I reported on the harassment of a dedicated investigator named Ralph Sharer by his superiors in the inspector general's office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Sharer was denied sick leave, his pay was withheld and he was to have been fired on Jan. 4. The independent Office of Special Counsel put a stop order on Sharer's dismissal and has begun an investigation of his case. What did Sharer do to merit persecution by his NASA bosses? Quite simply, he blew the whistle on scandalous fraud and other misconduct by employees of the space agency inspector general's office -- the so-called "junkyard dogs" who are supposed to keep NASA personnel honest. Instead of acting to clean up the mess that Sharer uncovered, the IG office tried to silence him. Some of the findings laid out in Sharer's written report of May 11, 1981, and a subsequent report giving even more details show why the NASA pooh-bahs were embarrassed: * According to one synopsis, the misconduct ranged "from serious criminal violations, abuse, blatant acts of impropriety and mismanagement to picayune bureaucratic actions." These included travel and salary fraud; purchase of unneeded executive furnishings and equipment, including refrigerators and cameras; compromise of grand jury evidence; job favoritism and lax security procedures at sensitive NASA offices that made them vulnerable to espionage. * In a report to Congress, the IG office gave the impression that it had completed 590 audit reports in one year. In fact, the number of audits was 31. * IG employees at a NASA facility in California used government cameras to photograph scantily-clad female models "at a ranch near Los Angeles" and used the pictures to titillate their friends. * A refrigerator, ostensibly purchased for film, was primarily used for beer. The IG staff claimed the expensive beer cooler was needed for Saturday duty and other irregular hours. But according to Sharer, the investigators were never in "the office spaces collectively more than three days per week, let alone a Saturday." * IG employees at the California base didn't like to work on Fridays. When he first reported to the office, on a Friday, Sharer found only one staff member there. Phoning in later that day, he was told by a co-worker: "We don't work on Fridays because of the damn traffic. . . That's why I'm sitting here looking at the ocean." Sharer later found out that the skeleton crew on Fridays would sign time cards for their absent colleagues to make sure they were paid. * NASA IG employees routinely ripped off the taxpayers on their travel allowances. More than one was charging the government mileage for commuting between home and office. A NASA inspector claimed he traveled some 17,000 miles one year in the Los Angeles area alone, and submitted local travel claims for $3,622. The tab for one month was $650 -- or 2,756 miles. Sharer figured out that the man would have had to spend more than one-fourth of his total work hours driving a car to rack up the kind of travel expense he claimed. Informants told Sharer the inspector didn't go to some of the destinations he listed on his travel claims. * One NASA inspector used a government airline ticket to visit a relative. * An auditor in the California office collected more than $18,000 in one year for "temporary" per diem compensation after he was reassigned to the California office. That was in addition to his regular salary. The explanation was that the employee was considered a valuable auditor; Sharer demonstrated that the man's performance did not contribute significantly to the office's productivity. Sources have told my associates Dale Van Atta and Indy Badhwar that Sharer has a solid reputation for reliability at the FBI and the CIA. His security clearance is so high that he is bound by oath not even to say exactly what clearances he has. Footnote: NASA Inspector General June Brown has Sharer's reports in hand, and said she is "disturbed" by the case. She has reason to be. Jack Anderson is a nationally syndicated columnist whose column is distributed by United Feature Syndicate. MADE IN JAPAN R.I.P. RICHARD ALLEN === Page 174 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Watt makes own Gettysburg Address oreg 7/19/82 When Interior Secretary James G. Watt spoke recently at Gettysburg, Pa., he made a remarkable observation. He stated that only the paid professional staffs of national environmental organizations are opposed to the Reagan administration's environmental policies. The membership of these same organizations, according to the Interior secretary, support the administration's approach to nature. **russell peterson** He went on to characterize criticism from environmental leaders as a "liberal attack." Watt may be deluding himself, but I don't think he is fooling many others. He certainly is not fooling members of the country's largest conservation group, the National Wildlife Federation. NWF recently polled a sampling of its 4.5 million members and found that James Watt "had lost the confidence of Americans who are concerned about our environment and the conservation of the natural resources which Watt was appointed to protect." NWF members supported Ronald Reagan by a 2-to-1 margin in 1980. Nevertheless, they rejected Watt's stand on 10 of 11 environmental issues, including the following: * Excessive and crippling budget cuts for environmental programs. * Emasculation of the Office of Surface Mining. * The moratorium on wildlife habitat acquisition. * Accelerated offshore oil and gas leasing (in environmentally sensitive areas). * Concessionaire management of national parks. * Less protection for endangered species. NWF concluded that Watt "places a much higher priority on exploitation and development than on conservation" and that "he pays lip service to environmental protection while working to undermine or circumvent many of our basic environmental protection laws." How about the second largest environmental organization, the National Audubon Society? The society has received enthusiastic support from the great majority of its 450,000 members in a "citizen mobilization campaign" to counter the administration's assault on our natural resources. Earlier this year, 32,000 Audubon members contributed to the campaign. These donations were above and beyond normal membership dues. Never before in its 76-year history have Audubon members given so generously and in such numbers to a special annual appeal. Many Audubon members are Republicans. Yet the opinion of 99 percent of those members with whom I have spoken throughout the country is that the Reagan administration is pursuing a dangerous course in attempting to reverse the environmental gains of the past two decades. How about the nation's third largest conservation group, the Sierra Club, which recently gathered over one million signatures on a petition calling for Watt's replacement? And what about the public opinion polls which repeatedly show that Americans support strong safeguards to protect air and water quality, wildlife and wilderness, parks and refuges? In testifying recently before a congressional committee, Louis Harris emphasized that never in his 25 years of public opinion polling has he found more overwhelming support for any issue than the support that Americans have expressed for protecting the environment. Through discriminatory budget cutting and by appointing single-minded exploiters to key environmental protection posts, the Reagan administration has radically transformed some federal agencies. The Department of Interior has become a Department of Development, the Department of Energy an arm of the nuclear power industry and the U.S. Forest Service an extension of the timber industry. The Environmental Protection Agency -- the lead agency charged with protecting the nation's environment -- has become an Environmental Polluters' Agency. The commercial interest in making the quickest possible profit has superseded the public interest in maintaining a clean, beautiful, biologically diverse environment. The fact that a healthy economy depends on and requires a healthy environment has been ignored by the Reagan administration. But I do not believe that Watt and his boss will succeed in their go-for-broke assault on our natural heritage. The people of this country simply will not allow their air, land, water and wildlife to be degraded for the short-term financial benefit of a favored few. As another Gettysburg speaker once noted, America is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The Interior secretary and his cohorts would do well to remember this. *Russell Peterson is president of the National Audubon Society and was chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality during the Nixon and Ford administrations.* === Page 175 of 278 attack "higher ups" # Jack Anderson oregonian 12/17/81 # Allen tied to 'massacre' WASHINGTON -- In July 1973, news reports appeared here and abroad of a brutal My Lai-style massacre of native villagers the previous December in Mozambique, then a Portuguese colony stirring with aspirations for independence. The dictatorial regime in Lisbon denied the reports. So did the $60,000-a-year U.S. agent for the Overseas Companies of Portugal, a government-linked consortium of firms with heavy investments in Mozambique and Angola, Portugal's other colony in Africa. The agent was Richard Allen, the national security adviser to President Reagan who is now under suspension. From Washington, Allen closely monitored the news and periodically filed reports to his worried employer in Lisbon. As part of his campaign to convince the public that the "alleged" massacre by Portuguese troops never occurred, Allen also arranged for Rep. Philip Crane, R-Ill., to visit the Portuguese colonies. Crane subsequently pronounced the Portuguese clean. As recently as August 1980, Allen told the Washington Post that the tale of a massacre appeared to have been "a Czech disinformation report." But my associate Lucette Lagnado has obtained secret State Department cables that make clear there was indeed such a massacre -- or that American Foreign Service officers at least found the evidence persuasive. The first reports of the butchery -- hundreds of men, women and children beaten or shot to death and set afire in a place called Wiriyamu -- came from Catholic missionaries in Mozambique. The Vatican was notified, and the U.S. Embassy in Rome learned of the story from Vatican sources. One secret cable from Rome to Foggy Bottom was sent in June 1973. "Vatican was horrified by reports of an extensive massacre of Africans which took place recently in Mozambique," the embassy reported. It added that the reports, "which have not yet hit the media, come from local priests and indicate that a number of villages have been annihilated." The following month, the Wiriyamu massacre story did "hit the media," and was met by categorical denials from the dictatorial regime in Lisbon. Secretary of State William Rogers signed an urgent cable to our posts in Portugal, Mozambique and Rome, asking for any information on Wiriyamu. The consulate in Lourenco Marques, the colonial capital of Mozambique, responded promptly: "Despite sparsity of evidence, there is reason to believe that some incidents occurred." It added that such a massacre was not typical of the Portuguese colonial troops. The Lourenco Marques consulate cabled that while it could not confirm the massacre reports directly, it had obtained indirect confirmation. "Attorney for Spanish priests (who are) presently in prison awaiting trial ... tells us Church does have evidence of 'massacre' which allegedly took place near Tete last December," the consulate reported. According to the accounts given to U.S. officials, "Bishop of Tete overflew alleged site and saw 'many' unburied bodies lying around; priests were subsequently allowed into the area to bury the bodies after bishop had threatened he would ... bury them personally." The secret cable added that survivors told missionaries that the Portuguese Air Force had first firebombed Wiriyamu, which was "subsequently entered by GEPS (All-African Volunteer Paratrooper Unit) who reportedly lined up villagers and shot them." Footnote: Allen did not return repeated calls from my office. attack "higher ups" THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1981 3M # Seismologist found after night in open By L. SIMON PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Dr. Charles Richter, creator of the Richter scale for earthquake magnitudes, was found in a canyon Wednesday by searchers who found him wandering near his car seven hours after his car became stuck on a road with a flat tire. The 81-year-old seismologist was in good condition at Huntington Memorial Hospital, suffering from exhaustion and the effects of overnight temperatures that dipped into the low 40s, said hospital spokeswoman Pauline Luckey. Richter told deputies his car became stuck in Arroyo Seco canyon near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. He had to abandon the vehicle, but was unable to find his way out of the canyon. The car later was spotted by Lt. Norman Smith of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who heard a faint cry for help and after a brief search located the seismologist. "He just couldn't go any further. He had quit wandering; he was through (trying to get out)," Smith said. Richter told Smith he was returning to his Pasadena home from a meeting. Smith said Richter's car had some tire damage after apparently running over a curb. "He thought he could go ahead and drive home. Apparently it became worse and he went off the road," Smith said. "His intention was to hike out and find the night watchman and call for a tow truck, but he got lost and every time he tried to get out he hit a (JPL) fence." Richter, wearing slacks, a sports shirt, apparently was trying to reach the Rose Bowl Motel, at the foot of the canyon in the Devils Gate Reservoir area a mile or so away. Richter went to work in 1927 at Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, site of the seismology laboratory that employs his Richter Scale to measure the ground motion resulting from earthquakes. Long retired, Richter continues to spend his time writing, acting as a consultant to other seismologists and studying and diagramming faults with the hope of being able to predict earthquakes. === Page 176 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Power lack humiliating to officials by J 12/16/81 WASHINGTON - It must have been an appalling weekend for the president of the United States, for the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and all those who sit in the seats of power in Washington. It is degrading to sit in such an exalted position and realize how little power there is in it. ### otis pike You work so hard to achieve the symbols of power - the brutal and demeaning drudgery of political campaigns, the years of working slowly up the ladder of political office, of taking orders in the military, of scratching and fighting your way from the bottom to the top in the business world. A tiny handful of survivors make it. They become the leaders of the most powerful nation on earth. They appear on magazine covers. They ride on Air Force One. They meet with other world leaders. Then, when they have achieved the appearance of power, something takes place which they want desperately to prevent, and they cannot prevent it. Something occurs which violates all they believe in, and they cannot change it. The tragedy which took place in Poland over the weekend was foretold as in classic Greek drama. FIRST, THERE was the rise of a mighty hero and the hope of a glorious future for the land. Justice, freedom and self-determination were held out as rights to which all the people were entitled. Then, against the hopes of the people were matched the ominous warnings of the fates. Do not go so fast, do not ask for so much, do not raise your hopes so high. You will suffer, for you are tempting the anger of the gods. On Saturday, the gods, or at least the godless, struck. The leaders of the free world were not only powerless to prevent it, they didn't even know what was happening. The Polish government, whoever and whatever it was, imposed martial law. The first thing any such coup grabs is the means of communication. Once the radio and television stations and newspapers are completely controlled, Solidarity's telephone and telex lines cut, the leaders of the free world could only guess at what was going on. Having guaranteed that only one side of the confrontation would be heard, a group modestly calling itself the Military Council of National Salvation announced that it was now the government. It proclaimed that it was composed of high-ranking officers of the Polish army and that Polish Prime Minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was its chairman. ITS PROCLAMATION was a document of fascinating contradictions, apologetic in its tone, total in its seizure of power. It claimed the Military Council of National Salvation to be merely "a temporary body that will operate until the situation becomes normalized." They would decide when that would be. It said it did not "violate the powers and does not lift responsibility from any organ of the people's authority." At the same time it "calls on all state administration bodies to understand that the extraordinary situation renders their normal functioning impossible." It referred to the "already overt preparations for a reactionary coup" and said its mission was "to bring to naught the coup against the state," without ever saying who had attempted or was about to attempt such a coup. It did say that anti-socialist forces, often inspired and supported materially from abroad, operated "under the hallmark of Solidarity." THE LONG-THREATENED military coup has taken place in Poland. Martial law has been imposed and the activities of trade unions suspended. The status and fate of Solidarity's leaders is unknown. The takeover proclamation merely said that "subversives, instigators and adventurers ... must be isolated until good sense returns." The Military Council of National Salvation will recognize good sense when it sees it. The leader of the most powerful nation on earth hurried back to Washington from Camp David. The secretary of state came back from Europe. The president said, "We're monitoring the situation." The secretary of state said, "Poland's political experiment ... should be allowed to proceed unimpeded." But the whole world knew it had been monstrously impeded. It is terrible being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and not having any power. Yes! === Page 177 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups"- # Holiday gifts for president who has everything else Seattle PI 12/9/81 WASHINGTON -- Ronald Reagan's rich friends may be wondering what to give him for Christmas. I have a suggestion. Why don't they help him with his defense budget? It's something like $222 billion and he hates to cut it. He took $2 billion out, but it hurt. And if he won't whack it any more, his whole economic scheme can be packed into David Stockman's Trojan horse and put out to sea. Reagan's friends are generous, we know that. The mere mention of his dream of the need to redecorate the White House sent them into a spasm of giving. That gives you a clue. They like to be able to see their tax-deductible dollars at work in a conspicuous place. Imagine the visibility of a gift of weapons -- especially if there is a war. Your tank, your shell, your plane would have an audience of thousands. Reagan is constantly reminding us that if we cut the taxes of the rich, they will repay us. They will invest their money in their businesses, hire more people, end unemployment and whip inflation. He has also told us that they will patronize the arts and make life richer and better for all of us. They don't turn on to day-care centers, senior citizens' housing projects or schools. Reagan's rich friends have had their chance to weave in a few strands into the safety net, and so far they have spurned it. ### Sinatra drum corps They do care about weapons, just as he does. Would they not give alms to armaments? How about if they could adopt a tank? The Abrams model costs $3 million. Or what about a pair of matching F-16 Fighters? They're expensive enough to be in the Neiman-Marcus catalog. Imagine the thrill of having your name on the fuselage as it streaks aloft. Maybe Frank Sinatra, the president's favorite minstrel, would like to assume the financial responsibility for the musical side of our defense readiness capability. Military bands come to the tune of $89.7 million. His name could be written on the drums. It is true that certain items might be a little rich for the blood of the moguls. You take the MX missile. It costs $34 billion, even without its own private subway system. A community effort might be required, but it should not be a problem. The Reagan folks love parties, and a series of MX balls could be held. Let's say it's white tie, glittering with gold braid and brass and $1 million a couple. Large organizations like the National Rifle Association could take tables. I'm just guessing now, but maybe they would want their slogan "Guns don't kill people; people do" painted large on the side of one of the new hardened silos being prepared to house the MX. ### An odious amendment **Mary McGrory** The big defense contractors might be given complimentary tickets on the donation of just one of their famous cost overruns to the kitty. But I should warn you, they may be a bit sulky now. They may say they gave at the office after what happened to them in the Senate this week. Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., got an amendment passed which prohibits them from charging their lobbying costs to us taxpayers. We forked over $11 million to spare them the expense of lobbying Congress for contracts that will enrich them. Rockwell, which got the B-1 ($22 million) business, sent us a bill from its Los Angeles division for $653,000, which is what it cost it to influence votes in its favor. Rockwell may feel put upon if it has to take a congressman to dinner at its own expense. The Pentagon, which agrees with Reagan that fraud and waste are unknown quantities within its walls, is probably embarrassed at this slight to the military-industrial complex. But let us return to the ballroom. Why not have the weapons systems on display to stir the Republicans' martial blood? Put the B-1 next to the orchestra. Maybe Mrs. Reagan's decorator, Ted Graber, could spruce up the interior a bit -- say flowered curtains at the windows, coordinated carpeting, a solid gold instrument panel. Republicans are bleeding hearts when it comes to decor. ### Closing the window A display of voluntarism on that order would make it a great Christmas for Ronald Reagan. He hates to see money being frittered away on Medicare, Social Security, on trains, training programs, housing and fripperies of that nature. To those who say the wolf is at the door, he sternly replies that the "window of vulnerability" is open. If his rich friends don't bail him out, he will have to go in for "revenue enhancement," which is the elegant Reagan term for more taxes, which will make them unhappy. Better they should write checks for the Pentagon for the weapons of their choice. UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE === Page 178 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # From the shores of Tripoli: Assassins? By HAYNES JOHNSON 12/9/81 WASHINGTON -- Even in these cynical times, when Americans have been conditioned to believe the worst, the sensational charges and countercharges surrounding the "Libyan hitmen squad" are setting a new standard of incredibility. Not that there are no assassins. There may well be. We in the press are hardly capable of proving or disproving the case, and a generation of exposure to the reality of assassination attempts, successful or not, removes much disbelief. But what makes these death-threat stories even more extraordinary -- and raises serious questions about them -- is the public nature of the accusations. Here is the president of the United States, chatting with reporters Monday and directly accusing the leader of a foreign state of plotting to kill him and other American leaders. "We have the evidence, and he knows it," the president said, referring to Libya's Moammar Khadafy. This comes after days in which the U.S. government has been building a concerted case, through statements and leaks to the press, of the gravest sort of charges against Khadafy and his regime. Our television screens and front pages have been filled with fearsome accounts of terrorists infiltrating our borders, of FBI agents fanning out to capture them, of SWAT teams guarding the roof of the White House, and film footage of Libyan soldiers shooting down helicopters, such as the one the president uses, with Soviet missile launchers. In other times, such statements would mean we were on the brink of war. Now, the war that is being waged is one of headlines and TV interviews. Khadafy denies that he plots to kill Reagan. It is we who are plotting to kill him, he says (just as, a generation ago, we tried to remove another thorn in our side, Fidel Castro). The president disagrees. He is out to kill me, Reagan says. And we watch it all, live and in color, courtesy of the equipment of the electronic-space-satellite age. In other times, too, this strange episode would have brought an instant surge of public anger and a rallying of support for the president. That does not seem to have occurred. For now, and absent more of the president's evidence, the public appears to have adopted a wait-and-see attitude. In the meantime, the government continues to give the highest official blessings to the widest circulation of the most sensational stories to reach the public in years. It's almost as if public opinion were being prepared for dramatic action -- say a strike against Libya or Khadafy himself. The record of recent months has made either prospect more than idle press speculation. Throughout this year, the U.S. rhetoric about the threats emanating from Khadafy's Libya has been increasing in volume and severity. It is reminiscent of the talk about Castro in the days when the United States was planning the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion and, in fact, commissioning assassination schemes against Castro. Even a cursory examination of newspaper files shows an ever-hardening official line against the leader of what only a few years ago was the poorest of Arab states. For instance: At the time of Ronald Reagan's inauguration, official U.S. estimates prepared for the new administration pointed to increasing problems with Libya. References were made to "Khadafy's longstanding sense of Pan-Arab and Pan-Islamic revolutionary mission which has led him to intervene in about 45 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America." Reports were made of Khadafy training "suicide squads" for commando-type actions. By spring, the papers were reporting official concern about the growing threat of Khadafy to stability in the Mideast. A Washington Post article in March, for example, began this way: "While the new U.S. administration studies defense budgets and Caribbean military scenarios, the Soviet Union has been effectively building a potential military threat to southern Europe and to U.S. Mediterranean sea and air communication in Libya. More than 5,000 eastern bloc military and civilian personnel, including Cubans, and an immense $12 billion arsenal of mainly Soviet weapons are in Libya, according to senior U.S. and allied intelligence sources." Adding to these kinds of stories were reports last spring about former CIA and Green Beret personnel training assassination teams inside Libya. Summer brought the U.S. 6th Fleet maneuvers off Libyan shores, and with them renewed tension. After American jets shot down two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sidra -- which Libya claims as within its territorial waters -- Khadafy publicly accused the United States of having a "premeditated plan to launch military aggression against Libya and to invade it." Libya was prepared to defend its territory even if it meant a Third World war, he said. Fall brought even harsher language. Sudan, Libya's neighbor to the south, was reporting stepped-up military action against it from Libyan-backed forces. The struggle inside Sudan was an old one, with big-power stakes. Sudan has been backed by the United States in its dispute with another neighbor, Chad. Libya, with Soviet support, has been assisting the Chad guerrilla forces fighting inside Sudan. That situation became more serious in the days just before Egypt's Anwar Sadat was assassinated. The weekend before he was murdered, Sadat dispatched his vice president, Hosnik Mubarak, to Washington bearing what U.S. reporters were told was a "very urgent message" for President Reagan. The mission was to alert Reagan to the growing likelihood of military action along the Sudanese border with Chad. Mubarak asked for the U.S. government to send additional arms, including anti-aircraft missiles, to Sudan. After Sadat was slain, the language about Khadafy became even more vitriolic. On the flight back from Cairo aboard the president's plane, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford made extraordinary comments about Khadafy. Carter characterized him as in some ways "subhuman." Ford called him "a cancer" on that part of the globe, and spoke openly of U.S. action against him. Now, in the latest and deadliest part of this true-life story of murder plots and terrorist teams, the American president speaks publicly about Libyan plans to topple the top U.S. leadership. At this writing, much about this episode remains unfathomable. There are more questions than answers. But a historical irony also exists. For generations, American romantic lore has been fueled by stories of heroic military action. "To the shores of Tripoli" remains a symbol of a daring American mission. Now, so much later, we are told to beware of a reverse deadly mission, from the shores of Tripoli. Haynes Johnson is a writer for The Washington Post. © 1981, The Washington Post === Page 179 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # GOP chief sees Reagan credibility woes By JACK NELSON LA Times-Washington Post Service 12/4/81 WASHINGTON - In extraordinarily candid comments that sent shock waves through the White House, Republican Party Chairman Richard Richards said that the Reagan administration has credibility problems and predicted that both budget director David A. Stockman and national security adviser Richard V. Allen would be forced from office. Richards said that he believed Stockman would be forced out because of credibility problems in Congress. And, he said, "I don't think Mr. Allen will be back," adding that Washington speculation is that Allen will be replaced by Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to President Ford. The GOP chairman's comments were made in an off-the-record question-and-answer session with about 40 persons at a $5,000-a-couple fund-raising event Sunday night in Cincinnati. However, reporters waiting outside the meeting room overheard the remarks. "Can you believe this?" exclaimed a White House official who showed a Los Angeles Times reporter a copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer's Page One story with a banner headline on Richards' remarks. The article was widely circulated among White House aides, who expressed astonishment that Richards had made such comments. Stockman offered his resignation to President Reagan early last month after The Atlantic Monthly published an article containing extensive remarks by Stockman expressing doubt about Reagan's economic program and acknowledging that phony figures were used in budget calculations submitted to Congress. Reagan refused to accept the resignation but reprimanded Stockman. Allen took a leave of absence with pay last Sunday to fight allegations of impropriety. A Department of Justice report issued Tuesday found no law violation involved in Allen's receipt of $1,000 intended as an honorarium for Nancy Reagan for granting an interview to a Japanese magazine writer. The department and the White House are still investigating allegations that Allen accepted two wristwatches from the same Japanese writer and his failure to correctly fill out financial-disclosure forms for the White House. The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted Richards as saying at the fund-raising event that it is only a matter of time before Stockman submits his resignation again, and, "Next time, the president will accept it." The newspaper reported that Richards "said he thought Stockman would be driven to submit a second resignation by the frustration of trying to re-establish any personal credibility with Congress." Richards said that several issues have hurt the Reagan administration's credibility, including its proposals - later abandoned - to change the Social Security law, as well as its successful campaign to obtain congressional support for the sale of airborne warning and control system planes to Saudi Arabia. The AWACS campaign, he said, probably cost the administration support in the Jewish community. "I think we made a mistake very early in the year talking about Social Security when we did," Richards said. When asked whether Reagan would run for re-election in 1984, Richards said: "I think if his health is good and there is no further threat on his life, he'll run again. If there is another attempt on his life, I think Nancy would put her foot down and say, 'That's it.'" Richards also said that Reagan's economic program is a risk for the entire Republican Party, according to the Enquirer, which quoted him as saying, "An awful lot of the future of our party depends on how well the economic program works." William Greener, GOP communications director, said Richards' comments were "private speculations of the chairman." "It was a private meeting, entirely off the record with reporters excluded," Greener said. "A reporter, acting in a shoddy, if not unethical, manner, putting his ear to the wall, overheard the quotes. The quotes are accurate. We have nothing more to say on the subject." Bob Weston and Sue MacDonald, the reporters who wrote the story, said they could easily hear Richards from an adjoining room because he was speaking over a loudspeaker. "His voice was booming in loud and clear," Weston said, "and anybody could have walked in off the street and heard him. You could hear him in the hallway." === Page 180 of 278 - UFOs attack "higher ups" - # Reagan's national security affairs Oreg J 12/3/81 # operation isn't working ### joseph kraft WASHINGTON -- The insatiable American appetite for personal scandal shows itself anew in the case of Richard Allen. For the Allen affair has been engulfed in a Niagara of allegations intimating sharp practice. But the true question centers on an impersonal issue -- the role of the special assistant to the president for national security affairs. The office of national security adviser developed with the emergence of the U.S. as a world power. Individuals holding the job have varied in visibility and influence -- usually in inverse proportion to the authority of the secretary of state. Still, over the past two decades, the post has evolved a certain tradition. Persons of genuine substance -- McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski -- have filled the office. All assumed responsibility for keeping the president fully informed on developments in the national security area. All tried to coordinate the views of the involved departments -- chiefly State, Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency -- for decisions by the president. A different system was established with Ronald Reagan. Edwin Meese, a longtime political associate of the president, was vested with the chief policy authority in both the foreign and domestic fields. Allen was made subordinate to Meese, and he lacked both easy access to the president and a clear relation to the rest of government. From the beginning, the experiment worked badly. Allen was in no position to contain a personal feud between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, which developed in the first days of the administration and spread to every area of policy. As late as last month, Haig testified to the Congress about a NATO plan for meeting a Soviet attack in Europe with a warning shot of a nuclear weapon. Weinberger, in a gratuitous cut, asserted he had no knowledge of such a plan. The president was repeatedly caught in the crossfire, often without adequate preparation. At his news conference Nov. 13, for example, Reagan was asked about the conflict between Haig and Weinberger on a warning shot. He replied: "Oh. Well, there seems to be some confusion as to whether that is still NATO strategy or not, and so far we have no answer on that." With no central role assigned, Allen was unable to build a staff of quality. Several officials have left the National Security Council for jobs elsewhere. Others complain they have nothing to do. Allen himself has drifted off into a marginal role on intramural disputes and personnel matters. When Sen. Barry Goldwater moved to unseat William Casey as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen, from not very far behind the scenes, began promoting as a successor a hard-line military man -- Gen. Daniel Graham. Casual discussions about a successor to Allen have been a regular part of the White House dialogue since spring. The chatter became deafening early in November when the rumor surfaced publicly. And initially, the White House simply let Allen twist in the breeze. But then, like a string of firecrackers, the charges of impropriety began exploding. First there was the story of $1,000 left with Allen by some Japanese journalists as an expression of gratitude for an interview with the president's wife, Nancy. It next developed that the Japanese had also given Allen a couple of watches. There followed a murky tale about the sale of the company Allen had founded, which suggested he still stood to benefit from business the company was presently doing with foreign clients. Allen has vigorously denied the implications of corruption. In what amounts to a last stand, he has taken administrative leave from his job the better to fight the accusations. Since he has the beginnings of a clearance from the Justice Department, and makes a smooth appearance on television, he may be able to make a strong case for his innocence. In that event, rough justice would be served. For while Allen will probably have to resign, if only because he has offended Mrs. Reagan, he ought not to be forced out for trivial reasons. The larger reasons are what ought to command attention. The fact is that the present system does not work. If the Reagan administration wants to develop an effective foreign policy, Meese will have to make room for a serious national security adviser who will, as a matter of course, insist on having a direct line to the president. === Page 181 of 278 UFOs a... ack "higher ups" # Reagan should have anticipated furor By WILLIAM RASPBERRY 1/20/82 WASHINGTON -- It was not so much an interview as the president picking up the phone to register his dismay at being thought a racist. I had not called him a racist, for the simple reason that I don't think he is one. But I had said in a column that his recent move to grant tax-exempt status to schools that discriminate was "racist in effect." The day the column appeared, President Reagan astonished me by calling my office. "I want to say a word in my own behalf," he said. The word, in brief, was that he remains unalterably opposed to racial discrimination and that his record shows it. But he is also opposed to what he called "government by bureaucratic fiat," and that his record shows that, too. He repeated the essence of an earlier White House statement: That the decision to take away from the Internal Revenue Service the authority to refuse tax-exempt status to segregated private schools was based not on any presidential support of bigotry but on his notion that the Congress, not the administrative agencies, ought to make law. He indicated that he was dismayed, both by the vehemence of the outcry, "which I had not anticipated," and also by the subsequent impression that he was "trying to retreat." The decision to change the IRS practice, he said, came after he learned of "pressures put on by IRS agents, each individual (agent) enforcing it according to his own views." He cited numerous complaints of "harassment" and abuse of authority by IRS agents. I asked him if he could tell me which member of his staff would have the particulars on those cases of harassment and abuse. "I guess I'm the authority on that," he said. "I can't give you specifics. You know, an agent would say 'You're not aggressive enough' (in seeking minority students) or 'You'd better do some more recruiting.' That is what I was trying to cure." But if he agreed with the result -- disallowing tax exemptions for racist institutions -- and disagreed only with the particular method for achieving it, wouldn't it have been better to get the Congress to enact the appropriate legislation first before changing the IRS procedures? "I suppose that's true. It may have been badly handled there," the president said. "But you know I've been a sharp critic for a long time of the arrogance of the bureaucracy. A few years ago, the Amish people did not believe in Social Security; they wouldn't accept it and therefore some of them wouldn't pay the 'premiums.' It reached the point where a farmer in Pennsylvania was plowing his field when an agent came up, unhitched his horses and sold them at auction. I just don't like the government doing by fiat what properly belongs in the Congress." Granting that point, and granting his view that it may have been a mistake to curb the IRS before getting the appropriate legislation enacted, would the president now tell the IRS to continue its 12-year-old practice until such time as the Congress acted on his proposed legislation? He said he thought that perhaps a pending court case might make that issue moot. But there will be a gap between the old procedure and the anticipated new one -- a gap that a number of segregationist institutions might take advantage of to gain vital tax subsidies. What did he intend to do to close that gap? "I'll have to check on what that one case is and how it will affect matters. I didn't know at the time (of his recent order) that there was a legal case pending. But I don't think the damage is great in the interim. We're not reversing the situation with regard to bigotry and discrimination." It goes without saying that it is enormously flattering for a columnist to have the president of the United States respond personally. Still, I was astonished that he could have been surprised at the reaction to his recent announcement. Any politically sensitive member of his staff -- and any black member of his administration -- could have predicted the furor that would result from a presidential order that, in effect, legitimized the "seg academies" that sprang up across the South in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation ruling. But the White House staff no longer includes anyone with a special responsibility for racial matters, a change that might make sense in a perfect world but perhaps not in the world we've got. I think I understand the president's dismay over a "runaway bureaucracy," taking matters of administrative policy into its own hands. I hope that the president understands the dismay some of us feel over the necessity of gearing up once again to fight battles long since fought and won. © 1982, The Washington Post Company The Oregonian # FORUM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1982 RASPBERRY === Page 182 of 278 UFOs attack "higher ups" A6 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNE # Color bar rule by IRS shakes GOP nationally By LOYE MILLER JR. oreg 1/20/82 Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON -- The Reagan administration's blunder in restoring tax exemptions to segregated private schools has shaken the Republican establishment from the White House to the grass roots. In the capital, it has caused a most unusual phenomenon: public criticism of each other by the "Big Three" presidential aides, counselor Edwin Meese III, Chief of Staff James A. Baker III and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. # Analysis At state and local levels, even Republican Party leaders who personally dislike integration have expressed concern that the decision will motivate black voters to seek vengeance, to vote against Republican candidates in the November elections. In Tennessee, for instance, GOP leaders fear the administration move could dash their hopes of defeating Democratic Sen. James R. Sasser, by uniting the state's large black population behind Sasser and stimulating a high black turnout. The debacle began Jan. 8, when the administration revoked a 12-year-old policy that denies tax exemptions to private schools that discriminate on a racial basis. Despite denials by administration officials, the move seemed to be evidence of a softening in policy on discrimination and racism. A firestorm of criticism broke out and caught the top presidential aides by surprise. ### Aides scramble to recover Scrambling to recover, White House spokesman David Gergen announced last Tuesday that the administration would seek legislation to deny tax-exempt status to any private school that discriminates. He said President Reagan vigorously opposes discrimination, but believes it should be prohibited by law rather than by "administrative fiat." He referred to the fact that beginning in the Nixon administration the government enforced the anti-discrimination policy through the Internal Revenue Service regulations. Late Monday, the White House sent the proposed legislation to Congress, along with a letter from Reagan asking for speedy passage. But the outlook for passage is unclear. If the bill fails, the Reagan administration's policy shift will allow private schools to obtain exempt status even they practice blatant discrimination. That possibility, which could be a political nightmare anywhere blacks vote in significant numbers, has deeply upset top brass within the administration and at Republican national headquarters. There is agreement that when the policy was changed, neither the president, Baker nor Deaver realized the profound nature of the change and the enormous controversy it would cause. Whether Meese, whose staff is charged with developing policy in a recent interview, Deaver, who has worked with Meese in Reagan's service for a dozen years, criticized the White House handling of the decision. Deaver said that "the full background of the issue wasn't brought forward and, more important, the blacks who are a part of the administration were never consulted." Deaver denied that he was critical of Meese, but his comment seemed to amount to that, since Meese has direct responsibility for policy development. Meese, however, seemed to point the finger at Baker and White House counsel Fred Fielding, who reports to Baker. Meese told an interviewer in Nashville, Tenn., Monday that he had taken no position on the matter and that, although he was present when it was discussed with Reagan, Baker actually made the presentation in favor of it. These remarks suggest that severe tensions have developed among the president's three principal aides, a matter that could have a crippling effect on the Reagan presidency if it continues. Southern Republicans from 13 states who gathered for a leadership conference in Orlando, Fla., last weekend surprisingly seemed troubled by the administration switch even though most supported the principle of enforcing anti-discrimination by law rather than by administrative regulation. ### Mississippi 'pattern' feared Clarke Reed, Mississippi Republican national committeeman, noted that a thundering turnout of black voters smashed Republican chances of picking up a Mississippi congressional seat in a special election several months ago. That could be only a sample of ill tidings for the GOP there in the future if blacks perceive the administration move as a softening on the issue of discrimination, he said. Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Charles Overby said the decision managed to "alienate all sides. It made the blacks mad by coming out with the decision in the first place. Then when they waffled they made the die-hard conservatives mad, and then large segments in the middle who supposedly didn't care saw the White House not able to make up its mind. It was the worst of all worlds." The uproar originated some years back when two schools, Bob Jones University in South Carolina and Goldsboro Christian Schools in North Carolina, challenged IRS rulings denying them tax-exempt status. The Justice Department argued that the government was within its legal authority in doing so and the argument was upheld by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But after examining the case anew, Reagan administration lawyers and Treasury officials took a much narrower position, saying existing law did not enable the government to move against discrimination as it had been doing. The short-term effect will be to grant tax-exempt status to Goldsboro and Bob Jones. But if passed as sent to Congress, the Reagan bill would be retroactive to 1970, and so would nullify any short-term financial advantage to these schools. Any future applications for tax-exempt status will be held up by the Treasury, in hopes the requested bill will pass quickly. === Page 183 of 278 UFOs attack economy # Unemployment hits 6-year high; 9 million jobless By OWEN ULLMANN oreg 12/5/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A surge in pre-Christmas layoffs propelled the national unemployment rate to a six-year high of 8.4 percent in November as a deepening recession left 9 million people out of work. The Labor Department reported Friday that jobless rolls had increased by 484,000 last month, driving the unemployment rate from 8 percent in October to the highest level since the recession period of October 1975. President Reagan, asked by a reporter if he was alarmed by the steep rise as the holiday season approaches, replied, "I'd be alarmed if it were only half that." "Maybe 'alarmed' isn't the proper word to be used here," Reagan added, explaining that his economic advisers had expected a weakening economy at this time. But the president said he remained confident his policies would restore the economy to health and put people back to work. "Having grown up and entered the work force in the depths of the Great Depression, I can assure you that I do not take unemployment lightly," he said. "It's a very great tragedy for the people involved." Reagan spoke with reporters in between meetings with his advisers on plans for further budget cuts, which critics say are contributing to the nation's unemployment. Opponents of Reagan's economic program also contend he intentionally led the nation into a worsening recession to wrestle down inflation through tight credit. "This is the price you have to pay for bringing down inflation," deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said. "We feel that the proper measures are in place to put the economy back on track and that unemployment will begin to abate sometime next year." A little more than a month ago, administration officials were predicting that unemployment was unlikely to exceed 8 percent this year. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said the president's program "is producing thousands of layoff slips just in time for Christmas" and threatens to aggravate already bad economic conditions. "What we do not need ... is an administration that plays Santa Claus for the wealthy and Scrooge for average families, the needy and the working men and women of America," Kennedy said. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland charged that Reagan's program "is not solving but aggravating the nation's economic and human crisis." "It is time to adopt a new anti-recession program that will ease human hardship now and build toward a healthy economy," the labor leader said. Most administration and private economic forecasters expect the jobless rate to keep climbing into spring, possibly to the post-World War II high of 9 percent, set in 1975. UFOs attack economy oreg 12/26/81 And thanks for the wisdom in Washington which has limited this year's economic debacle to a 'slight' one. Houston === Page 184 of 278 UFOs & Projects Note: I myself, using precog, could not have made a more accurate forecast!! Owens UFOs attack the Economy # Writer sees no bloom in '82; just more gloom By CARL ROWAN Oreg 1/2/82 WASHINGTON -- It may seem worse than the Grinch stealing Christmas for a columnist to tell Americans that the New Year isn't likely to be all that happy. But these are not times for Pollyanna journalism -- not times to say farewell to 1981, which has been cruel to millions of Americans, with a ritualistic pretense that 1982 is going to be a lot better. On the domestic scene, hard times will become more severe for millions of Americans, and millions more will taste personally the bitter pills of joblessness, bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosures -- and simple hunger. On the international scene there will be more tension than Americans have known since the Cold War days when there were periodic crises over West Berlin. We are in for times of challenge regarding the Soviet Union. The most prominent economic forecasters in the land are saying that real economic growth this year could decline, or rise only a trifling amount, with the average unemployment rate hovering at a level where some 9 million people will still be unable to find jobs. Forecasters say the average prime rate of interest will drop some -- but will remain at levels so high that, when used in even recent times, the lenders went to jail for usury. Meanwhile, consumer prices will continue to rise at a rate of perhaps 8 percent a year. make that 20! This can only mean more farmers in desperation, more automobile dealerships folding, more home builders going into bankruptcy, more savings and loan institutions and small banks merging to survive, or just plain folding. These dreadful times will produce more suffering for the poor and lower-middle-class people of America, who will find the Reagan administration still sacrificing them to the proposition that "supply-side" economics will work miracles. There will be more cuts in food, education, welfare, housing and other programs that heretofore have made life bearable for America's least fortunate people. The fallout will be an increase in family breakups, with a concomitant jump in juvenile delinquency, muggings, store robberies, bank heists. And all this will be cited by right-wingers as justification for longer prison terms, for building $22 billion worth of new prisons, for more electrocutions and hangings, and for a host of other new Draconian wrinkles in our criminal justice system. And we shall find that the more we foul up our own economy and weaken unity among the peoples of America, the more our allies will doubt us. Thus, West Germany, France and other nations of Western Europe will be less willing to join us in "standing up to the Soviet Union." The Soviets will see and sense all this and conclude that they need not take seriously any demands for Russian restraint in Poland, Central America or elsewhere, and that the Kremlin need not tremble over the prospect of U.S. sanctions "of grim consequence" being imposed upon the Soviet Union. The danger is magnified by the possibility that the Soviets could overestimate America's vulnerability -- or willingness to "lose face." All these likely developments of 1982 are made more ominous by the fact that they will be intensified by U.S. politicking -- by the election of all the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. This could produce widening anti-NATO feelings, deeper strains with Japan and Israel, rhetoric that damages relations with Mexico. I know, this is a terrible forecast -- almost like saying that Florida and California will suffer three months of blizzards. But we had better brace ourselves for some bad developments, then work and pray for something better. # Economists warn of collapse WASHINGTON (UPI) -- As the government announced a sharp drop in economic growth during the last quarter of 1981, private economists Wednesday warned Congress that current policies could lead to a major economic collapse. It is clear the bottom of the recession has not been reached . . . and the situation appears quite bleak," Allen Sinai, senior vice president of the Lexington, Mass., forecasting firm of Data Resources Inc., said. "Without adjustment now in the current thrust of policies," he noted, "the U.S. economy runs the risk of a major collapse, unprecedented in the postwar period." Sinai and three other economists testified before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on administration and Federal Reserve Board policies as the Commerce Department reported a whopping drop of 5.2 percent in the gross national product from October through December. The figure represented the change in GNP computed on an annual basis and adjusted for inflation. For the year, the department said, GNP rose 1.9 percent. Committee Chairman Henry Reuss, D-Wis., called the latest report a "really shocking and tragic figure." Because of the Federal Reserve's tight money policy, which is largely responsible for high interest rates and recession in key industries, Sinai predicted unemployment will continue to rise. More than 10 million people will be out of work this spring, he said. Sinai and the other witnesses -- Richard Rahn of the Chamber of Commerce, Michael Evans of Evans Economics and Barry Bosworth, former director of the Council of Wage and Price Stability -- agreed the one positive aspect of the recession is that inflation will continue to decline. But the four disagreed on the prospects for interest rates, federal deficits and the wisdom of tax increases to narrow those deficits. Oreg 1/21/82 === Page 185 of 278 UFOs attack on Economy # Economy, GNP sinking fast, government says WASHINGTON (AP) -- Confirming a deep recession that has blighted U.S. production and tossed workers off jobs, the government said Wednesday that the economy fell at the end of 1981 faster than at any time since a record decline in the spring of 1980. Administration officials, conceding that things will get worse before they get better, renewed their blame of former President Carter for the recession that simmered through last summer before it hit hard as President Reagan finished his first year in office. With consumer sales still sluggish and factories cutting output, new layoffs will likely push unemployment above December's 8.9 percent rate before recovery begins in the spring, the officials said. If any doubts remained as to whether the nation had slid into recession, they were dispelled by Wednesday's Commerce Department report that inflation-adjusted gross national product -- the broadest measure of economic activity -- dropped at an annual rate of 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 1981. That was the sharpest drop since the record 9.9 percent annual rate in the spring quarter of the 1980 recession. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said the economy will likely drop at an annual rate of up to 2 percent in the current quarter, but he said the administration is not to blame. "We inherited this mess," Regan said in remarks prepared for a group of administration appointees Wednesday. "Those who blame Reaganomics for the current slump must believe in retroactive causation." He and others in the administration say their push for the tight money policy by the Federal Reserve Board -- which many private analysts say was a main cause of the recession -- was necessary to fight inflation. And Deputy Commerce Secretary Joseph Wright Jr. asserted that "this recession stemmed from policymakers' earlier failure to come to grips with deeply embedded inflation." Disagreeing, Democratic Rep. Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said, "The sorry state of the economy is the direct result of President Reagan's program of huge tax cuts for the affluent, sharp increases in defense spending leading to gaping deficits, and the tight monetary policies of the Federal Reserve, carried out at the administration's behest." The big decline in gross national product was expected by most economists, since earlier reports showed stagnant retail sales, falling factory production and rising unemployment in recent months. Real GNP declined 0.2 percent in 1980. Inflation, as measured by an accounting method tied to the gross national product, rose 9.1 percent last year compared with 9 percent in 1980, the report said. But Wright said the rate was lower at the end of the year -- 8.4 percent at an annual rate -- indicating progress in the administration's inflation fight. oreo 1/21/82 UFOs attack Economy + 6 Projects # Moody's drops rating for Washington bonds By JOHN WHITE OLYMPIA (AP) -- Washington state, already reeling under one of its worst recessions since the 1930s, absorbed another blow Thursday when Moody's Investors Service dropped its bond credit rating a notch to A. Treasurer Robert O'Brien said the action could cost the state millions of dollars in additional interest on a $143 million bond sale next week. In Oregon, state Treasurer Clay Myers said Thursday that because Oregon is not allowed to operate in debt, a similar rating drop was not expected there. Oregon's constitution requires that the state have a balanced budget. The Oregon Legislature is meeting in special session to cope with a projected revenue shortfall for the biennium. Myers said that any new state bond proposals would be delayed until the state budget "is in the black." Fred Hansen, deputy state treasurer for Oregon, said that although rating agencies frown upon shortfalls, "they like to see positive realistic solutions" when shortfalls do occur. In Washington, Gov. John Spellman's press secretary, Paul O'Connor, said the governor "feels there is not a solid basis for this to happen. It's a bad calculation. If you were really to assess whether it was a good idea to invest in Washington state over the medium and long term, it is excellent. "It (lowering the rating) is not exactly a big surprise, but perhaps a little earlier than we had expected." But O'Connor said Spellman said the downgrading "just plays up that we have to solve the problem." "It is proof that not solving the problem is costing tens of millions of dollars for nothing." House Speaker Bill Polk blamed the downgrading on problems being faced by the Washington Public Power Supply System, the largest issuer of public debt in the United States. The system, with five nuclear plants in varying stages of construction, is expected to abandon two of the plants Friday because of financial problems. "The debacle at WPPSS will have a long-range effect on all bond sales in the Northwest," Polk said. But Moody's did not mention the WPPSS problems. O'Brien quoted George Leung, vice president of Moody's, as saying: "Despite remedial legislative action and downward revisions in estimated revenue continue and economic indicators remain weak. The extent of financial and economic problems prompts the rating revision." Washington's House Ways and Means chairman, Rod Chandler, R-Redmond, said he wasn't surprised by the action, but he would like Moody's to send a representative to Washington to explain its decision. It was was the second time in six months that Moody's has downgraded Washington bonds. Another rating service, Standard and Poor's, downgraded state bonds from AA-plus to AA before November's special session of the Legislature. O'Brien had no word on whether Standard and Poor's will downgrade the bond rating further. At 13 percent, next week's bond offering alone would cost taxpayers $265.6 million in interest over a 20-year period -- or almost double the bond proceeds they will get. Had those bonds been sold in 1980 when interest rates were lower and when the state enjoyed a top credit rating, interest would have been $127.7 million. === Page 186 of 278 UFOs attack economy Oregon Journal, January 4, 1982 # Crime leap expected as economy declines By PETE McCONNELL Journal Staff Writer If you expect to hear good news about today's crime situation, don't talk to Portland-area college professors. Experts in criminology agree that, given the slumping economy and high unemployment rate, things will get worse before they get better. "When people get desperate, they will do anything," said Julius Stokes, an American history and political science instructor at Portland Community College. "It's a very ugly picture." Stokes, who has been with the college for 12 years, said he sees the fear of crime on people's faces. "This is expressed by people buying more guns and buying all kinds of canisters," he continued. "People are afraid to go to the supermarket. In all urban areas, the streets are unsafe, and that's a reality." "A lot of it is tied to the economy, and a lot to drugs -- especially drugs," he said. Gary Perlstein, professor of the administration of justice at Portland State University, paints the same grim picture. "There is going to be more property crimes and a little more violent crimes cause by frustration -- things like petty theft and the battered child syndrome," he predicted. "The case of battered children has been increasing since many parents have been out of work." "As we grow older, we sort of burn out," he said. "The best rehabilitative tool is when you release a man at age 90. He probably wouldn't commit another crime." So what's the answer? How do people relieve their fears? Perlstein said that crime never will be completely eliminated. "I don't see a leveling off period," he said, "but community involvement can be effective if people will do it." The barking dog, locked doors and noise are some ways to deter crime, he said. Most burglaries, for example, are committed by youths who are given the opportunity of unlocked windows and doors. Port ticular said. "M findin are dr said. the co If anything can be made good out of a bleak picture, it's "we've been this way before and we will come out of it again. When the economy goes back to normal, crime will be decreasing again," he said. Stokes said the Reagan administration talks tough about controlling crime, "but it's simply rhetoric." "Punishment should be more severe," he said. "A person who uses a weapon must understand that he will do some time (in prison) and there will be no plea bargaining." And what about the death penalty? Is that a deterrent? "I would favor the death penalty under one condition," he said. "I would favor it if the execution were made public." UFOs attack Economy # Reagan to ask states to run aid programs By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Reagan addresses the nation and Congress Tuesday night on the State of the Union. Sources say he will propose no major tax hikes but recommend that most federal social programs be turned over to the states. The ailing economy is casting a shadow over Reagan's presidency, now entering its second year, and it was expected to be a major focus of Reagan's second State of the Union address. "I think there'll be some surprises", White House counselor Edwin Meese said of Reagan's speech that will be nationally === Page 187 of 278 Hatfield lambastes Reagan's neglect of poor DETROIT (UPI) - New York Mayor Edward Koch told the nation's municipal leaders that President Reagan's "New Federalism" policy is a "sham and a shame" and an all-out disaster for already decaying cities. Koch was interrupted by enthusiastic applause seven times Tuesday in his luncheon address to about 1,000 delegates at the National League of Cities convention, especially when he called for cut-backs in the Pentagon budget. At a news conference after giving a speech to delegates, the President of the National Governors Association, Gov. Richard Snelling, R-Va., called Reagan's budget policies "an economic Bay of Pigs." As Koch spoke to nearly half of the delegates, Sen. Mark Hatfield, D-Ore., blasted Reagan administration policies at a separate luncheon. "The administration's program imperils the cities and it's wrongly lacking in realism and responsibility," Koch said. In reality, the dark side of President Reagan's cities program will be the further decay of our cities, the poor growing poorer and a decline in the education of our population and a more lonely and poorly serviced elderly," he said. He supports a strong national defense but added that "a nation of only armaments can survive only an attack from abroad, it cannot survive a surrender from within." "If America's cities are allowed to approach fiscal collapse, their social fabric allowed to unravel, their infrastructure allowed to crumble, there will be no nation to defend from an external enemy," Big cities, Koch said, can barely keep up basic services, let alone improve them. Hatfield blasted the Reagan administration for cutting human services while increasing the military budget for destructive purposes. "Constituents around the country in small towns, cities and family farms are alert to the impossibility of cutting nuclear weapons can be too small to the truly needy and giving to the truly greedy," one can perceive this as cutting from the U.S. deficit continues sharp rise By JOHN M. BERRY A Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - Without new pending cuts or tax increases, the federal budget deficit will hit $109 billion this year, $152 billion in 1983 and $162 billion in 1984, according to the Reagan administration's latest internal estimates. These figures, which are sure to intensify the forthcoming fights over budget cuts for fiscal 1983, are far higher than previous estimates by the administration but in line with predictions of several private economic forecasters. Deputy White House press secretary Jerry Speakes Monday called the new numbers merely "working assumptions" at a staff level" and "highly preliminary," saying they had not been presented to the president. But other sources said President Reagan was given the bad news from his economic and budget advisers last day. Reagan was said to have resisted any suggestion he try to reduce the projected deficits by not increasing defense spending as much as planned, or by proposing major tax increases. Instead, the president again indicated he wants further spending cuts in non-defense areas. A White House official said he does not expect Reagan to reverse himself on this. The military buildup remains the president's first priority and stimulating economic activity through tax cuts that increase private incentives is the second, the official said. Reducing the deficit takes a back seat to these goals, he indicated. Reagan himself has already acknowledged he will not redeem his campaign promise of a balanced budget by fiscal 1984. Less than three months ago Reagan urged Congress to approve $16 billion worth of additional spending cuts and tax increases in order to reduce the prospective 1982 deficit from an estimated $59 billion to $43 billion. In what may be a sign of the budget-cutting troubles to come, he has retreated and agreed to U.S. ECONOMIC FORECAST CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES FORECASTS STORE MANAGER === Page 188 of 278 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, OCTOBER 25, 1981 # Stock mart sinks slowly into economic gloom Oreg 10/25/81 By CHET CURRIER NEW YORK (AP) -- Heading into the last 10 weeks of a bear market year, stock market investors are faced with what even the White House has recognized as a recession. President Reagan used the word last weekend, adding the description "light, and I hope short." But with evidence accumulating of slowing business activity and downward pressure on corporate earnings, many stock market analysts weren't so optimistic. "It would be an understatement to say that third-quarter corporate earnings are 'uneven,'" said Heinz H. Biel at Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. "Some are surprisingly good, but many others are far worse than analysts had predicted." One of the biggest shocks the markets have had to absorb in recent days was General Motors Corp.'s report of a $468 million loss for the July-September period. The news sent the stock of the auto giant tumbling to its lowest levels in more than six years. But there were numerous other signals of economic trouble. Government reports showed the second consecutive quarterly decline in the gross national product, adjusted for inflation, and sharp drops last month in production and orders for durable goods at the nation's factories. Noting the 2.9 percent slide in durable-goods orders, Allen Sinai at the economic forecasting firm of Data Resources Inc. said, "What we have is a very rapidly deteriorating economy." Stock prices, not surprisingly, responded by posting their second straight weekly decline. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 13.70 to 837.99 after recording a 21.31-point loss the week before. The New York Stock Exchange composite index slipped 0.30 to 68.83. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index managed a 0.16 gain to 307.35. Big Board volume averaged 44.85 million shares a day, against 38.40 million the week before. While there was strong evidence the recession taking hold, there was little sign that it was bringing with it any immediate relief from the pressures of inflation and high interest rates. Reagan pointed out that the bank prime lending rate, now at 18 percent, has come down 2½ percentage points from its peak earlier this year. But long-term rates in the bond market remained near record highs. And the latest reading on the consumer price index, issued Friday, offered no comfort at all. The index rose 1.2 percent in September, maintaining a two-digit annual pace. A "worst-of-two-worlds scenario -- high interest rates and a declining economy -- is troubling both the bond and equity markets," said James G. Joyce, director of research at Tucker, Anthony & R.L. Day Inc. One reason that interest rates remain stubbornly high, in the view of many analysts, is businesses' apparent need to borrow to carry swelling inventories. As production declines and excess inventories are worked off, that pressure should theoretically ease. Some observers think interest rates could the begin to come down significantly, even with the continuing voracious appetite of the federal government for borrowed money. As the recession deepens, most analysts also agree it should produce a slackening of inflation. "The September consumer price index figure should prove to be the worst for some time to come," said Mitchell J. Held at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. But market-watchers are generally wary, to say the least, about predicting any immediate shift in investors' minds from concern about the recession to hopes for an ensuing recovery. Concluded Alan D. Schwartz and Robert Sinche, analysts at Bear, Stearns & Co., in a recent report: "An analysis of past cycles suggests that it is generally not until production rates have been slashed below the level of final demand (the rate of consumer buying) that the stock market has bottomed." | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1000 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 950 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 900 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 850 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 800 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 750 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 700 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 650 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 600 | | | | | | DOW-JONES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | INDUSTRIALS | | | | | | | | 550 | | | | | | | | | | | | Prepared by DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS Friday Closings 52 Weeks 1980-1981 | T | NOV | DEC | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG | SEPT | OCT | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| === Page 189 of 278 UFOs attack economy and US Govt.. # U.S. goes on without money bill otis pike WASHINGTON -- It was just a tiny little story, five paragraphs buried on the bottom half of page 29 in the only newspaper still being published in the nation's capital. The headline read, "U.S. Preparing To Close Over Funds Impasse." Ho hum. David A. Stockman, head of the Office of Management and Budget, is understandably keeping a very low profile these days, but you would think his memo of Wednesday telling the departments and agencies how to start closing down the U.S. government deserved more coverage than that. It's just that we have been there so many times. "Wolf" has been cried so often that the wolves yawn at the door. The government, as of last Thursday, was going to run out of money on Friday. Last Monday, the wolf-callers were in full throat on the floor of the House of Representatives. Of course, you can't just start your day with something as unpleasant as presiding over the termination of the government you have sworn to uphold and defend, so first they voted to name two post offices and one federal building after three former congressmen, two Republicans and one Democrat. Then they promised one present congressman, a Democrat, that they would name Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi River after him when he retired. Bipartisanship exhausted, they got on with the wolf-calls. Rep. Jamie L. Whitten, D-Miss., chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "In the absence of this bill, at midnight, Nov. 20, under the ruling of the attorney general, at least four-fifths of the government will come to a halt." Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., said that except for the expenses necessarily incurred "to protect life and property and to terminate the other functions of government in an orderly manner . . . all other government activities . . . will stop." Whitten The bill is something called a "continuing resolution," which means what it says. The government may continue to spend money. It may continue to spend money even though the Congress has failed to do the things which all the textbooks say Congress must do in order to allow the government to operate. The textbooks say that all the committees of Congress must hold hearings and authorize money to be spent. They did. The books say that the Appropriations Committees hold hearings and write bills appropriating the money to be spent. They did. Then the bills appropriating the money go to the full House and Senate and get passed. Most of them did. Then the members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees get together to work out the differences between their bills in a conference. That's what the books say. That is where about half of the government has come to a halt. About half of the 13 necessary bills have not been settled. After the conferences are done, the House and Senate pass the compromise and send it to the president. That is where the other half of the government has come to a halt. The House and Senate have not passed the compromises. The president said in his recent press conference, "Fiscal year 1982 is already five weeks old, but I have not received a single appropriation bill." It is now seven weeks old, and still true. On Sept. 30, the eve of the new fiscal year, Congress passed a continuing resolution good until Nov. 30. The wolf-callers, of course, were howling that the government would stop if they didn't pass it. The one the Congress passed last week will run through the entire fiscal year so the government can continue to operate even if Congress never passes an appropriation for anything. There are those who think Congress is not covering itself with glory. Rep. William Frenzel, R-Minn.: "I think that is scandalous legislative behavior." Rep. Daniel Lundgren, R-Calif.: "In view of the continuing resolution it seems to me that we are very much guilty of legislative malpractice in this House." Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-Ill., tried to amend the continuing resolution to cut 5 percent from the rate of spending it allowed. He said the president would veto the continuing resolution if the cut were not made. He lost, and the cut was not made. If it was not just another wolf-call, your government has stopped as you read this. oreg J 11/21/81 === Page 190 of 278 - UFOs attack economy - # Congress misses funding deadline By DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional leaders abandoned efforts Friday night to meet a midnight deadline for emergency legislation needed to keep the government from running out of money. But negotiators for the House and Senate, still struggling against a threatened veto, met late into the night trying to produce a compromise that both houses could ratify Saturday and minimize disruptions in government services. With talks dragging on, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill recessed the House at 8:05 p.m. until 10 a.m. Saturday. About 90 minutes later, Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker told senators to go home until noon. That meant that any compromise could not be passed until after the deadline passed. Technically, the government ran out of money at the stroke of midnight. Negotiations on the compromise, Baker said, "no doubt will continue for much of the night. I think they are making progress. I hope they are making progress, and I urge them to make progress." At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said failure to pass the bill left the administration "with no choice but to initiate government shutdown procedures." But pressed to name a specific government service or individual that would be directly affected at midnight, when the government officially runs out of money, Speakes could name none. Earlier, Baker said President Reagan would sign a compromise if the House went along with a Senate plan to cut $3.3 billion from domestic programs. Otherwise, he said, the president stood ready to cast his first veto. O'Neill, an opponent of the cuts, had said the House might go along with the Senate plan. At a bargaining session involving House and Senate negotiators, delayed once so necessary papers could be readied and then so a larger room could be located, House Democrats offered to make the overall cuts that Reagan wants. But their insistence on including defense in the new round of reductions drew a swift rejection from Senate Republicans. That left the negotiators at an impasse. Shortly after that, the House quit for the night. The measure was needed to replace an earlier stopgap bill that carried Friday's midnight expiration. Without the new authority, most of the government would be out of money. While that hardly would mean actually closing down shop, several agencies already were going through some technicalities toward that theoretical end Friday -- and the bureaucratic headaches could grow both cumbersome and costly. Speakes said, "It is the president's position that he will find it difficult to accept anything less than the Senate bill." But sidestepping the question of a veto, he declined to say how much further the administration was willing to compromise on its proposed spending reductions. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens in conference," he said. Leaders of both parties said Reagan had more than enough support to sustain a veto, a development that would keep Congress in virtually continuous session if it had to draft a second measure the president would sign. The biggest disagreement was over Reagan's demand for additional spending cuts -- several billion dollars but far less than the 12 percent he originally asked for Sept. 24. He got his way in an exhausted Senate in the pre-dawn hours, when Baker won approval for cuts of $3.3 billion on an annual basis from most domestic programs and foreign aid. The vote was 62-35. The proposal, similar to one rejected narrowly in the House earlier, would exempt the Pentagon, revenue sharing, the judiciary, law enforcement activities and benefit programs such as food stamps and Social Security. It would mean an average reduction of 4 percent in hundreds of domestic programs and foreign aid. The proposal would give Reagan the authority to make the cuts, but no individual program could be reduced by more than 5 percent. oreg 11/21/81 - newsbreak - - UFOs attack economy - # Government goes 'broke' President Reagan ordered government agencies to start shutting down non-essential operations Saturday since Congress failed to meet its midnight Friday deadline for approving an emergency spending bill. Page 2 oreg 11/21/81 === Page 191 of 278 # O'Neill blasts Reagan at AFL-CIO conference UFOs attack U.S. Govt. & economy By MERRILL HARTSON NEW YORK (AP) -- House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill exhorted President Reagan Tuesday to abandon "supply-side nonsense" and make good on his promise to revitalize the economy. O'Neill, D-Mass., taking up the cudgel for big labor, joined union leaders in condemnation of Budget Director David Stockman, whose private doubts about the chances of success for supply-side economics were revealed last week in Atlantic Monthly magazine. "With the revelations of the last week, the script of the Reagan administration is beginning to resume the plot of a very bad Class B movie," O'Neill told about 950 delegates at the AFL-CIO's biennial convention here. "It's time to change the script," declared O'Neill, whose assault on administration policies resembled the one delivered Monday by former Vice President Walter F. Mondale. O'Neill asserted that "while the president is friendly and congenial, believe me, his policies are not." The House speaker said: "Before his true thoughts were revealed, David Stockman said that the budget would not be balanced for a hundred little reasons, while the truth is it won't be balanced for one big reason -- the biggest and most unfair tax bill in the history of this nation. "The only thing that has gone up in America is the net worth of the rich and the after-tax profits of big oil," he claimed. O'Neill said Reagan is no friend of organized labor. "His refusal to rehire the air traffic controllers is proof of that," he said. Meanwhile, AFL-CIO delegates endorsed a resolution advancing a labor anti-recession strategy. Saying that "the tragedy of unemployment and the steadily worsening economic situation must be reversed," the resolution urged Congress to restore federally subsidized public service jobs and extended unemployment compensation benefits. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser said workers were given the New Deal and the Fair Deal, "and now we're living through the raw deal of Ronald Reagan." In another development, a movement was afoot by black union officers to win at least two seats on the executive council, the federation's 35-member policy-making body. A council subcommittee was to screen candidates Wednesday morning, then recommend a slate to the full convention. There are five vacancies on the council. More than 8.5 million Americans were out of work in October, as the national jobless rate surged to 8 percent of the labor force. AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland followed O'Neill to the microphone and asked him "to remind the colleagues in your party that your party has never, and will never, prosper if it abandons the interests of the working people of this nation." Despite the high profile of Democratic Party luminaries here this week, bitterness lingers within the AFL-CIO's leadership, which was stung by the defection of many congressional Democrats to Reagan's side in the initial budget and tax battles. Earlier, delegates were shown a film chronicling the Polish Solidarity trade union movement. The AFL-CIO also announced it was presenting to Solidarity the first George Meany Human Rights Award, named for the late leader of the American labor movement. Kirkland said the AFL-CIO will present the original design glass sculpture to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa "when he is able to be with us." The AFL-CIO had invited Walesa to this centennial convention, but he had to cancel the trip because of continuing unrest in Poland. 11/18/81 === Page 192 of 278 WFOs attack economy # Michigan deep in compost of deteriorating economy Aug 11/15/81 DETROIT -- Michigan is the basket case. Of the 50 states, this is the worst off. Every eighth worker is jobless. No state has cut back its spending more. The decline in the standard of living is creeping up the economic ladder from the bottom. If the rest of the Upper Midwest industrial states are sagging, Michigan is in free-fall. "It is no exaggeration to say that Michigan is fighting for its economic life," is the way the state's governor for the past 12 years, popular Republican William Milliken, put it recently to a television audience. The state has suffered through economic slumps before -- seven recessions since the end of World War II -- but this one is the worst. When you talk Michigan, you talk cars, and the outlook for the auto industry is worsening weekly. State tax revenues are plummeting, welfare costs rising, public schools closing and Washington offers less aid than before. Although the state is in the worst shape since the Depression, it will undoubtedly outlast this latest plunge as well. Some sectors of the economy are holding up better than others, and the Reagan administration insists its supply-side theories and tight money eventually will bring improvements. But there is every indication things will get worse before they get better. In mid-October, just three weeks into his state's new fiscal year, Milliken announced he would cut another $270 million out of the $5-billion state budget. "Never in all my years of public service have I seen our state in as critical a period as it is now. No state is more swept by the tides of national economic adversity than Michigan," he said. 'Staggering for Michigan' One week after President Ronald Reagan declared the United States is in only a slight recession, the governor said: "The recession may be slight for the nation. But it is absolutely staggering for Michigan." Reagan's approval rating in Michigan still is high -- at 59 percent almost as high as it is nationally, say Republican pollsters, but they worry that the president's popularity may plunge along with the state's economy. Even the weather has gone bad. In the Department of It Never Rains But It Pours, the southern part of the state last month suffered an estimated $208 million in damage when a freak rain dumped 9 inches of water. Heading the woes is unemployment, announced earlier this month as 12.7 percent. In a state of 9.25 million, more than half a million workers are jobless. Detroit, home to many of the state's 1.2 million blacks, has been clobbered by auto industry layoffs. Welfare cuts are massive and unprecedented. And welfare -- under the new block grant system -- will be funded at a figure at least 5 percent lower than last year. "The state faces the dilemma of distributing the pain of the economic disaster that has befallen Michigan," editorialized the Detroit Free Press. "There are no good choices any more ... the public sector can't even afford the programs it has maintained in the past, and the private sector can't generate jobs, certainly not fast enough. There will be no getting away from much of the hurt." HEY WAIT!! REMEMBER REAGANOMICS?! BUDGET CUTS?! TAX CUTS?! INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY?!... OOOOF! TELL ME MORE... WELL, SIR, WE PROPOSE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET BY WHAT WE PREFER TO CALL 'REVENUE ENHANCEMENTS'... UFO & Projects reg 5 BROOKINS 11/26/82 === Page 193 of 278 70s attack economy # Layoffs spread as slump deepens By STEVEN P. ROSENFELD of The Associated Press 11/15/81 The nation's economic slump, long centered in the housing and auto industries, has spread rapidly through the rest of the economy since August. In September and October alone, roughly 860,000 Americans lost their jobs when their companies either failed or cut production as unsold goods piled up. And an Associated Press survey indicates the situation is worsening as even more businesses plan to shorten work weeks, shut plants and lay off employees in the months ahead. The Labor Department reports more than 8.5 million Americans were without jobs in October, the highest number since the 9.5 million average of 1939, before monthly figures were compiled. But unemployment 42 years ago was much worse than now because the labor force was only half the current size. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 8 percent in October from 7.5 percent in September and 7.2 percent in August, reaching the highest level in nearly six years. The Reagan administration said it expects the rate to be somewhat higher in the months ahead, predicting recovery in 1982. But Albert Sindlinger, who heads Sindlinger & Co. Inc., a public opinion and economic forecasting firm, predicts the unemployment rate will soar to 10 percent next year. In the 1974-75 recession, unemployment peaked at 9 percent. ### Failed businesses rise The number of business failures through Nov. 5 has leaped to 14,499, up 42 percent from the same period a year ago, according to the Business Economics Division of Dun & Bradstreet Corp. Small businesses have been hit especially hard, and William Dunkelberg, chief economist at the National Federation of Independent Business, says layoffs have accelerated in recent months. The 500,000-member organization mostly represents companies that do less than $300,000 in business a year. In its quarterly survey of members last month, 17 percent of the companies reported employment fell during the third quarter, up from 13 percent in the April-June period. Dunkelberg said less than 25 percent of the third-quarter layoffs were attributable to seasonal employment factors. And 15 percent of the small businesses said they planned layoffs in the current quarter, up sharply from the 10 percent who planned employee cuts three months ago, reaching its highest level since the federation began keeping such records in 1973. Plans to hire more workers, meantime, fell from 14 percent at the start of the third quarter to 10 percent at the beginning of the Another indication of the deterioration of the economy comes from Standard & Poor's Corp., a major credit rating agency, where "the trend is accelerating toward downgrades," said Richard Smith, vice president for corporate ratings. Among industrial bond issuers, 42 had been upgraded and 43 were downgraded through July of this year. But while the number of industrial issuers upgraded through early November rose to 52, the ranks of industries downgraded jumped to 61, Smith said. ### Many downgraded In all of 1980, S&P upgraded the credit ratings of 143 corporate bond issuers and downgraded 130 others. Through early November, however, S&P had upgraded 119 corporate bond issuers but downgraded 146. A dramatic rise in interest rates, beginning late in 1979, led to a slump in housing and auto sales. Despite recent declines, interest rates remain at the highest levels since the Civil War. Jerry J. Jasinowski, senior economist at the National Association of Manufacturers, said the housing and auto slump has spilled over to businesses that supply those industries, such as steel, wood products, machine tools and other capital products. The lagging impact of persistently high interest rates also has affected manufacturers with inventories of goods, who have scaled back production to avoid paying financing charges on unsold products, he said. Reduced production leads to shortened work weeks, layoffs and factory closings. But Jasinowski said he is optimistic that interest rates will fall further, and that the next round of tax cuts in July and the impact of earlier tax incentives for investment in new plant and equipment will turn the economy around. "There's a very substantial pent-up demand which will prevent the economy from falling off a cliff," he said. Meanwhile, interest-rate sensitive businesses continue to suffer. Unemployment is expected to hit at least 21 percent of the construction industry this winter, with 1.1 million unemployed workers, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Lumber mills, which supply the building industry, have not escaped. "We have the dubious honor of having the worst market in recorded history," said Bob Nix, manager of Diamond International Corp.'s Sandpoint mill in northern Idaho. Hugh Love, a spokesman for the American Plywood Association in Tacoma, said 44 of the nation's 176 plywood mills were closed in the week ended Oct. 31, and 61 other mills were operating at reduced rates. More than 10,000 An estimated 665,000 employees in the auto industry have lost their jobs since the peak employment year of 1979, about 400,000 of them at smaller companies that supply automakers with parts, components and material. The nation's five major automakers report about 171,000 hourly workers on indefinite layoff, up from 159,000 in early September. Those figures do not include layoffs of salaried workers or the disappearance of many blue-collar jobs because workers have exhausted their recall rights or have died. Automakers are campaigning for concessions from the union in upcoming talks. # Unemployment-- # On the Rise 10% May 8 Jan. Feb. May July Aug.-Oct. Oct. 6 Jan. Dec. 4 2 0 1975 76 77 78 79 80 81 Michigan reported its highest unemployment rate in October, up 400,000 Michigan workers, according to the Michigan Employment Security Commission. ### Ohio jobless climbs Ohio, with a concentration of steel, auto and rubber companies, had unemployment climb to a rate of 10.4 percent in October from 10.3 percent in September. The United Rubber Workers, which had about 180,000 members 10 years ago, now claims 140,000 members. About 10,000 rubber workers are unemployed nationwide, in the words of a spokesman Curt Brown. Timken Co. in Canton, Ohio, will build a $500 million steel plant in Canton, Ohio, but it has asked its 7,000 workers of United Steelworkers to contract concessions. Asked if layoffs would be made if the union rejected the no-strike/no-attrition plan, a spokesman for Timken said, "Well, in the past, we haven't had any." The American Iron and Steel Institute said 50,000 steelworkers have been laid off as of the end of October and an additional 15,000 were on shortened work weeks. Boeing Co., with 81,000 employees in the Seattle area at the start of the year, expects its rolls to be trimmed to 76,000 by year's end. Asked if layoffs have accelerated, Boeing spokesman Pete Bush replied, "Well, in the past, we haven't had any." Bush said about 2,000 workers would be laid off, with the rest of the decline in employment resulting from attrition. There have been 18,000 employees laid off by the nation's airlines since the air traffic controllers began a strike Aug. 3, the Air Transport Association of America reports. === Page 194 of 278 # Worst since 1975 # 554,000 more # Americans jobless The government reported Friday that unemployment jumped to 8 percent in October -- the highest level since the Ford administration and a sign of further trouble for an administration grappling to get the economy back on track. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said 8.520 million Americans were out of work, as the jobless rate continued a recession-driven climb that has taken it up a full percentage point since July. Unemployment in September stood at 7.5 percent. The monthly increase, throwing 554,000 more people out of work, came in nearly all major sectors. The raw numbers did not include another 1 million Americans who have become too discouraged to seek new jobs. Increases were posted in virtually all major categories, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Bureau Commissioner Janet Norwood told a congressional hearing just a third of the 172 industries in the unemployment index showed gains and the data show drops in the workweek as well as jobs. The figures indicating a deepening recession show "substantial deterioration in the labor market," she said. At the White House, deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes, reading from a statement, said the president considers the unemployment situation to be a "natural short-term consequence of unwinding the deeply rooted inflation that is imbedded in the American economy. "The administration will not adopt quick fix measures to deal with short run movements in the unemployment rate," he said. "Elements of the president's economic program already in place are sufficient to provide the basis for a strong and lasting economic recovery which we anticipate will be evident in 1982." Mrs. Norwood noted that the number of persons working at part-time jobs because their hours have been cut back or are unable to find full-time work reached a record 5 million last month. The last time the unemployment rate was this high was the 8.2 percent recorded in December 1975. During the 1980 recession, the rate topped off at 7.6 percent. Much of the increase in joblessness occurred among adult men, where the rate rose from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent, and involved blue-collar workers, the BLS, a part of the Labor Department, said. Teenage unemployment also increased markedly to 20.6 percent, up 1.3 percentage points from September and the highest in six years, and 46.3 percent of black teenagers, aged 16-19, were out of work. Total employment remained unchanged at 98.2 million in October as a decline among adult men and teenagers was offset by an increase among adult women. Congress' Joint Economic Committee had hoped for a briefing Friday on the latest statistics from Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan. But Donovan, perhaps anticipating bad news, declined. The rise in unemployment -- not unexpected -- is only the latest warning flag to be seen by the administration. President Reagan scheduled meetings at the White House Friday with congressional leaders to discuss his stalled economic program, but was said to be resisting pressure to use higher taxes to reduce deficits during the next few years and bring the budget into balance. Reports on Capitol Hill indicated the Office of Management and Budget had unofficially projected the deficit would swell to $98 billion in fiscal 1982, $125 billion in 1983 and $146 billion in 1984. The administration formally has been sticking to a projection of $43 billion for fiscal 1982, the current fiscal year. Even though his oft-stated goal of balancing the budget appears jeopardized by continuing deficits aggravated by high interest rates and a reluctance by Congress to cut as deeply into spending as he would like, Reagan remains opposed to mounting calls for a tax increase, aides said. Faced with the economic and political realities, some of those close to Reagan are backing away from the balanced budget rhetoric dating back to the early days of the 1980 campaign. # newsbreak # GNP slides 0.6 percent The nation's gross national product fell 0.6 percent from July to September, the second consecutive quarter of reversal for the economy while inflation was rising again, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Two consecutive quarters of declining GNP signal an economy in recession. === Page 195 of 278 # Economists revise forecasts sharply downward - UFOs attack economy - By Thomas L. Friedman New York Times Service New York, N.Y. 11/9/81 Many leading private economists say that the recession has taken hold of the economy so strongly in the last month that they have begun to doubt whether President Reagan's recovery program will ever get off the ground. Many have revised their economic forecasts for the next year sharply downward. The economists, who work on Wall Street, in universities and in private concerns, say the latest economic indicators appear to foreshadow a Christmas season that will provide little economic good cheer. Although some on Wall Street look to the recession to produce the long-awaited decline in interest rates, which has already begun, many economists argue that this phenomenon could be short-lived. "Just about every major economic indicator is now confirming that economic activity fell off a cliff in September," said Edward Yardeni, chief economist for E.F. Hutton & Co., the brokerage concern, "and the magnitude of the drop is much larger than anyone anticipated." The steep dropoff, economists argued, is largely a result of the fact that high interest rates, which had already depressed the housing and automobile industries, began to sap the strength of consumer and business spending in the rest of the economy. "People thought that the negative effect of high interest rates was confined to housing and cars, and that the rest of the economy was learning to live with it," said Walter Heller, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Kennedy administration. "But in the last month the contagion has spread to small business, farming, financial institutions and to all suppliers." The broad weakness of economic activity is quickly apparent from reports such as the following that have been issued from Washington in the last few weeks: - [x] Some 8.5 million Americans, representing 8 percent of the work force, were unemployed in October, the highest level since the 1974-75 recession. - [x] Domestic automobile sales in October were down 27.2 percent from the year-earlier levels, the lowest October selling rate since 1958, despite rebates and other incentive programs. - [x] Major retailers in October reported the weakest sales gains of the year. - [x] Sales of existing single-family homes fell in September to the lowest level in more than six years, while the median sales price of an existing home fell, on an inflation-adjusted basis, more than at any time since World War II. - [x] Machine tool orders in September dipped to their lowest level in five years. "The weakness is now all over the economy," said Donald Ratajczak, director of the economic-forecasting project at Georgia State University. "You could argue that a recession was necessary to make the transition from a consumptive economy, with its high interest rates and inflation, to the savings and investment economy that Reagan projected. By this logic the Reagan program is still on track, and we should take the pain and not mess with it." "But there is another school of thought that says the Reagan program is not now working and never will," Ratajczak added. "There are some disquieting signs to this effect, particularly the sharp drop in capital-equipment orders at a time when investment should be rising. Because of the decline in sales and high interest rates, producers are forgoing expansion. But without a growth in capital investment, you will not get the growth in productivity, employment and savings that the Reagan program hinges upon." Between the recession and the high interest rates, the stimulus of the Reagan program will be negated, delaying the recovery until 1983 at the earliest, predicted Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources Inc., a private consulting firm. This retrenchment comes at the worst possible time for American businesses: the Christmas season, in which many companies rack up 20 to 30 percent of their total annual sales. Yardeni said that retailers expected that the Oct. 1 tax cut would increase Christmas sales and they accumulated inventories accordingly. But in the last month, he said, many of them have been shocked to find that the high interest rates and unemployment were eroding personal income and hence retail sales, much more than the tax cuts were increasing the sales. Only two months ago many of the nation's leading economic forecasters were predicting that the nation's gross national product (GNP) would be flat in the fourth quarter and were quibbling over whether or not the country was in a recession. Today most of them are projecting a sharp decline in the fourth-quarter GNP, the basic measure of the nation's output of goods and services, that will last well into 1982. For example, Eckstein of Data Resources Inc. said his concern was projecting a 3.5 percent decline in the fourth quarter, a 1 percent decline in the first quarter of 1982 and was "re-examining" the rest of 1982. Townsend-Greenspan & Co., economic consultants, said they were projecting a 4.5 to 5 percent decline in the fourth quarter and another 3 percent drop at the start of 1982. === Page 196 of 278 -AFOR attack economy- Does nation, face 12-digit deficit? ong 11/6/81 Residents of the Pacific Northwest, sacrificial and 1984, and congressmen, eyeing next year's offerings in the government's anti-inflation pro- elections, appear less ready than last summer to embrace program cuts. gram, are learning how a butterfly must feel when its wings are torn off. How long, though, can the victims stand economic traumas that have no end in sight? The answer to that question has become mur- kier in the last week. Budget Director David Stockman last week raised the administration's budget deficit estimates to $59.1 billion in fiscal 1982, $62.9 billion in 1983 and $58.8 billion in There is no painless way out of this bind - debt, shrunken profits (after allowing for infla- tion) and mounting personal and business bank- ruptcies testify .. 1984. Less well known is that Stockman noted as high unemployment rates, swollen private that outside economists had estimated the defi- cits would total $300 billion in those three years and that he thought the shortfall would come close to that level "without decisive remedial action in the next six months." Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan and Sen. Robert Dole, R .- Kan., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, this week poured cold water on the notion that major new tax revenues would be pursued to fill the gap - at least until the economy reverses its slump. So, an even greater burden than President Reagan recently expected will fall on spending cuts. Yet, the really tough reductions were post- poned for the second round in 1982 and for 1983 What this means, unless everything unravels unexpectedly smoothly, is that the nation could face its first 12-digit deficit - $100,000,000.000 or more - before long. Government would be competing for and getting the very funds needed to spark revivals of the construction and forest products industries. Nevertheless, the administration must press on with the anti-inflation fight, but it must shift its ground. If it does not reduce the timing and speed of some its defense spending - notably on the B-1 bomber and MX missile programs - deficits will soar, and interest rates will stay so high that a short recession will be extended unnecessarily and intolerably. If that happens, business cash flow problems will get worse, and companies in the Pacific Northwest will be bru- tally and excessively prominent among the cor- porate obituaries. UF Or attack economy- Money supply fumbles; lower prime predicted ong,J 1. 7/8, The prime is split at 17-171/2 percent money supply, known as MI-B, tumbled and Jones, who had looked for a pause in the reductions said that, in view of the size of this week's drop in money growth, "we could see banks begin to undercut each other on the prime with maybe some going to 161/2 percent next week." David M. Jones, economist for Aubrey In another sign of economic weakness that could forebode cuts in the prime rate G. Lanston & Co., said the drop substan- tially exceeded the zero-to-$1 billion drop for business loans, commercial and indus- expected by the market and "reflects sharp weakening in economic activity and , earlier severe overkill by the Fed. The Federal Reserve's tight restraint last spring was an attempt to break infla- tionary psychology that had fed on itself. Now apparently the psychology has re- versed to a degree that money growth has not responded to substantial easing moves by the Fed, including last week's one point cut in the discount rate. Jones said that in the face of the sharp- in the statistical quarter. ly deteriorating economy, brought home by the jump in unemployment reported Friday, "The Fed will have to act with greater urgency to speed up the growth of money and that means it will put further downward pressure on the cost of over- night money (the federal funds rate banks charge one another for overnight loans). "That should be followed by an addi- tional reduction in the discount rate and in other short-term rates, including the trial borrowing at the nation's major banks plummeted $849 million in the "Week ended Oct. 28 compared with a de .cline of $26 million the previous week. Business loans at major New York City banks feil $766 million. M1-B, which is comprised of cash, checking and NOW accounts, fell to $431.1 billion in the latest week from $434.4 billion. For the latest four weeks, MI-B averaged a 3.1 percent rate of gain Key interest rates were lower in the statement week ended Wednesday. The federal funds rate fell to 14.79 percent from 14.87 percent. The rate on three- month Treasury bills averaged 12.70 per- cent, down from 13.29 percent a week earlier. The rate on three-month certificates of deposit fell to 14.67 percent from 15.30 percent. Continuing NEW YORK (UPI) - The nation's an unexpected) $3.3 billion in the week ended Oct. 28, "increasing the urgency" for the Federal Reserve to speed up the growth of money in the face of a deteri- orating economy. === Page 197 of 278 # Inflation rate soars to 14.8% level UFOs attack economy WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Inflation tightened its grip on an ailing economy in September, with housing and school costs helping to push the Consumer Price Index up at a 14.8 percent annual rate, the government reported Friday. It was the third straight month of double-digit rises in the projected annual cost-of-living figure -- in grim contrast to smaller increases from March through June. But an administration spokesman, while calling the figure "somewhat disappointing," said, "The bad news is not really as bad as the surface suggests." Yes. My UFOs! Haha! Like hell! The Labor Department said September's rise was 1.2 percent, compared to 0.8 percent for August and 1.2 percent for July after seasonal adjustment. At an annual rate, August's figure was 10.6 percent and July's was 15.2 percent. The CPI for September stood at 279.3 -- meaning it cost $279.30 to buy the same "market basket" of goods and services that cost $100 in 1967. Commerce Department economic spokesman Robert Ortner said the "total increase is somewhat disappointing," but the figure is not as bad as it appears. "There were some special circumstances," he said, "which pushed it up beyond what the underlying rate of inflation really is." Ortner said a seasonal increase in food prices, a "more than normal" increase in college costs and "most important, a continuing effect of past increases in mortgage interest rates still feeding into the CPI," all contributed to a surge. "We're still confident that inflation is now on a moderate downtrend which will continue and be reinforced by the softness in the economy that is developing," he said. Bureau of Labor Statistics analyst Patrick Jackman said "slightly more than half" of the month's increase was due to higher mortgage interest rates and rents along with higher school housing costs. In addition, tuition and fees jumped by nearly 10 percent in September as school opened. Prices of food, medical care and services also showed strong increases, while energy costs continued to show almost no change. Budget cutbacks delayed release of Labor Department details on those figures and ones on real earnings until later in the day. "There were very substantial increases (in almost all categories) between the second and third quarters," Jackman said -- increases also reflected in another department's inflation measure this week. The Commerce Department's gross national product calculation Wednesday showed price hikes throughout the economy, not just for consumers, were up 9.4 percent in the third quarter, a considerable acceleration from the 6.4 percent in the second quarter. Food price increases and the growing cost of services were blamed. The new CPI report comes after a series of other worrisome figures that prompted President Reagan last weekend to say he thinks the economy is in a light recession. DEPRESSION! The Labor Department said its 14.8 percent annual figure for September's inflation rate was the result of the usual projection for 12 months, compounding and seasonal adjustment. 10/23/81 - UFOs attack on economy -- # Continuing GNP slide indicates recession By ROBERT FURLOW 10/23/81 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The faltering U.S. economy slipped again in the July-September quarter as the gross national product declined at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, the government reported Wednesday. The second consecutive loss was the surest evidence yet of a national recession. Such a recession, the eighth since World War II, would be the second in as many years. But the current downturn, by all accounts, is much shallower than last year's. The broadest measure of economic activity -- "real," or inflation-adjusted gross national product -- fell 0.15 percent in the just-ended third quarter, or at an annual rate of 0.6 percent, a new Commerce Department report said. "Real" GNP had fallen at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the April-June quarter. And the two consecutive declines meet the most common benchmark for deciding when a merely sluggish economy has slipped into recession, a period of production cutbacks, worker layoffs and slow or falling sales. After the new report was released, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige told reporters that "real GNP in the fourth quarter is likely to show another decline" before turning up in the first half of next year. But he, like other Reagan officials, described the current national economic downturn as almost inevitable -- the unpleasant "withdrawal symptom" from inflationary policies of past administrations. The high interest rates that have stifled the economy lingered most of the year because investors and others were slow to believe the new administration would really hold the line on spending and credit growth as other administrations had not, he said. Baldrige noted that inflation so far this year has been running behind last year's high rates. But the new GNP report had some unexpected bad news along that line. The implicit price deflator -- a broad inflation measure linked to national output -- rose at an annual rate of 9.4 percent in the third quarter, from 6.4 percent in the second. Baldrige called that result "a temporary glitch" that won't be repeated in the fourth quarter. He noted that numerous government economic indicators were weaker going into the fourth quarter than they had been earlier in the third. === Page 198 of 278 - UFOs attack economy - # High interest rates dealing harsh blows to economy 10/30/81 Many American consumers are in a financial frazzle, unable to buy a home or a car. The savings and loan industry is floundering, with hundreds of institutions struggling to stay afloat. Both are being clobbered by high interest rates -- a beating that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker says he can't stop. High interest rates have made it difficult for many Americans, and impossible for others, to buy a home or a new car, hurting both industries. Savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks also feel the pinch from high interest rates. They are forced to pay high rates to depositors while being saddled with investment portfolios with long-term, low-rate mortgages. Volcker urged the Senate Banking Committee to quickly approve emergency legislation to let the government bail out ailing savings and loan associations and assist in mergers. The Senate Banking Committee is considering broader banking-reform legislation that includes emergency aid for financial institutions. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan added his voice to the gloom, saying there will be several more months of disappointing economic statistics but that the administration is determined not to hit "the panic button." Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday OPEC oil ministers dropped their average price for the first time ever, agreeing on a unified $34 a barrel through 1982. That sounds at first like good news, but the move will cost U.S. consumers 2 cents to 3 cents a gallon more for gasoline and heating oil, because the nation gets most of its oil from Saudi Arabia, which will hike its price from $32 to the base of $34 per barrel. The 13-nation cartel, which drove prices up from $3 in 1973 but was forced to retreat in the face of an worldwide oil glut, froze the new base price for the rest of 1981 and 1982 -- a decision insisted on by Saudi Arabia. The dollar fell sharply against most major foreign currencies Thursday as the 2.7 percent drop in the September index of leading U.S. economic indicators was steeper than European traders had expected. - UFOs & Projects - # Hundreds abruptly laid off 11/24/81 By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of government employees, from filing clerks to White House spokesmen, were abruptly laid off Monday, casualties in the daylong spending standoff between President Reagan and Congress. Their mass exodus left the business of government in tatters. The mass unemployment ended as quickly as it began and amounted to little more than an afternoon off. By voting in early evening to continue federal spending at the old level until Dec. 15 -- an option that Reagan termed acceptable -- Congress averted what might have been a costly pre-holiday furlough for many of the 2.9 million federal employees. Reagan had sent them packing in the morning with an order that "as quickly as possible people should be sent home," after he vetoed a spending bill worked out by the House and Senate over the weekend. By noon workers were streaming out of federal buildings, their work left unfinished, their pay discontinued. The exact number of federal employees furloughed, both in Washington and nationwide, was not obtainable Monday. There were too many variables in the layoff notices, said a spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget. Some employees, keeping up with news reports, didn't come to work at all; others were released at various hours during the day and still others were told to finish the day and not report Tuesday. The first impact was a lot of confusion as department heads sought to determine who and what was "essential." Being declared "essential" separated the employed from the unemployed. === Page 199 of 278 Oregon Journal, October 5, 1981 STOCK PRICE INDEXES | | 400 INDUSTRIALS * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 170 | | | | | 165 | | | | | 160 | | | | | 155 | | | | | 150 | | | | | 145 | | | | | 140 | | | | | 135 | | | | | 130 | | | | | 125 | | | | | | 20 TRANSPORTATION * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 28 | | | | | 26 | | | | | 24 | | | | | 22 | | | | | 20 | | | | | 18 | | | | | | 40 FINANCIAL * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 16 | | | | | 14 | | | | | 12 | | | | | | 40 UTILITIES * | | | |---|---|---|---| | 55 | | | | | 50 | | | | | 45 | | | | 1980 1981 Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Standard & Poors Index: Week ending Oct. 2 - UFOs attack economy - Plunge in index hints recession will slide deeper By ROBERT FURLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -- An "especially steep plunge" in a key government index foretells a national economy already in a mild recession sinking even deeper in the next few months, a top Commerce Department official said Thursday. "The only real question is how far it is going to drop," said Assistant Secretary Robert Dederick. 10/30/81 - UFOs attack economy - Wall St. Journal 9-24-81 NYSE-Composite Transactions Wednesday, September 23, 1981 Quotations include trades on the American, Midwest, Pacific, Philadelphia, Boston and Cincinnati stock exchanges and reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers and Instinet. Composite Quotations Because of technical difficulties, final composite trading quotations weren't available at press time. The prices that appear on this page are 4 p.m. Eastern time quotes. WALL STREET WORST CASE OF HYPOCHONDRIA I'VE EVER SEEN...! PROGNOSIS - UFOs attack Wall Street and economy - 10/5/81 GARRELL art. when u UFOs have finished with Wall Street will be dead and , , Owen === Page 200 of 278 UFD - attack economy # Bulls-eye' view for '82: Another gloomy scenario By DAN DORFMAN Back in early 1981, Pierre Rinfret, a colorful, provocative and often flamboyant economist, predicted a recession for the year and a budget deficit of over $100 billion in fiscal 1982. Both were bulls-eyes. And in August of last year, with the prime rate (or a bank's best lending rate to its top customers) over 20 percent, Rinfret told his clients that the prime had peaked and would tumble to 15 percent by year-end. It was another near bulls-eye as the prime ended 1981 at 15¾ percent. ### inside business What now for the 1982 economy? A grim new year, especially on the unemployment front, Rinfret tells me. The 57-year-old economist, who heads up his own economic consulting firm (Rinfret Associates), flatly predicts another 3.3 million Americans will lose their jobs by October or November, swelling the ranks of the unemployed to about 12.3 million. Such a forecast, which assumes a hefty jobless rate of about 11 percent, vs. 8.4 percent currently, would be the highest since April 1941 (11.6 percent). This wicked projection runs way above a growing consensus view that unemployment could reach a peak of around 9 percent in the spring when the recession is at its worst. But Rinfret argues that a 9 percent projection fails to take into consideration the likely depth of the recession -- which he feels will be severe -- and the 1½ million to 2 million people (notably more women) that are entering the labor force each year. WHEREAS A LOT of economists are talking about a 1½ to 2 percent hike in real gross national product this year, Rinfret is projecting an actual decline of 0.6 percent. Here's his reasoning: (1) Consumer confidence is at the lowest level in years; (2) interest rates should remain high (a prime of at least 15 percent) because of the government's hefty borrowing needs in the face of a $100 billion-plus deficit; (3) a worldwide recession should hold down our product sales abroad, and (4) our taxes are going up (despite the July cut) because of a bigger Social Security tax bite and "bracket creep" (a reference to the payment of higher taxes as we move into higher tax brackets). Among the industries Rinfret figures will be hardest hit (and therefore stung by the heaviest rates of unemployment): chemicals, autos, construction, electrical machinery, machine tools, construction equipment and agricultural products. "In some industries, like construction and agricultural equipment and autos, you no longer have a recession, but a depression," bellows Rinfret. "These are areas with 15 to 18 percent unemployment already . . . and it's going to get worse." Our man's bleak 1982 economic scenario calls for (1) domestic U.S. auto production of around 575,000 units vs. roughly 6 million to 6,250,000 in 1981; (2) 950,000-975,000 housing starts, compared with 1.1 million last year; (3) total construction volume (including the building of homes, dams, highways and bridges) to fall around 7 percent, the same as last year, and (4) another poor year of real capital expenditures, with about a 1 to 2 percent drop, vs. a 2 percent decline in 1981. BUT WAIT: Is the President idly going to stand by and see the economy go to the dogs in the face of congressional elections? Reagan, I told Rinfret, is bound to do something. "Wrong; he's trapped economically," Rinfret shot back. "It takes enormous lead and lag times to turn this economy around and you don't do it on a dime." As Rinfret sees it, if the Democratic Party wasn't in such a state of chaos, the Republicans would be in deep trouble. As it is, he went on, the Republicans figure to lose seats in the house and possibly even lose control of the Senate. Any happy words? I asked as we ended our gloomy phone chat. Do you want Alice-in-Wonderland or the real world? Rinfret asked. If you want the real world for 1982, you can sum it up in one word: "misery." NO MORTGAGE RELIEF in 1982: If you're looking for a break in those agonizingly high mortgage rates -- currently a little over 16 percent nationally -- forget it. A consensus of 19 top economists from such blue-chip names as the Mellon Bank, Metropolitan Life and the National Association of Realtors concludes that a combination of high interest rates and lack of sufficient funds for housing investments will lead to another bum housing market in 1982. The economists' poll, conducted by the Crittenden Report, a weekly real estate letter catering primarily to developers, calls for mortgage rates to average 16.19 percent in the first quarter, 15.35 percent in the second, 15.14 percent in the third and 14.80 percent in the final three months. Publisher Alan Crittenden observes that many home builders regard 14 percent as the peak mortgage rate for a viable housing market. FOR RUMORMONGERS only: Here are some early 1982 Wall Street rumors which, needless to say, should be treated as such: Wheeler-dealer Kirk Kerkorian said to be quietly trying to unload heavily debt-ridden MGM Film Co. . . . Allied Corp. (formerly Allied Chemical) reportedly eyeing Supron Energy . . . Sedco said to have acquired a stock position in Tacoma Boatbuilding. STATE TAXES UP, up and up: New York's state tax bite has tripled in the past decade, rising to $1,237 a person, according to Tax Hotline, a lively monthly newsletter covering the tax beat. Ten years ago, the state's average state bill was $237. Highest taxes per capita: Alaska ($3,594), Hawaii ($1,035), Delaware ($867), Wyoming ($824) and California ($818). New Hampshire is the lowest ($290), followed by South Dakota ($392), Tennessee ($411), Missouri ($426) and Ohio ($441). © 1982, The Chicago Tribune === Page 201 of 278 HUSTLING FOR JOBS - Men wait outside Millionair Club in Seattle to intercept prospective employers offering a few hours' work. - UFOR attack economy - (note: This will blanket the U. S. Queus) Seattle job-seekers walt in cold -to no avail orez 1/3/82 SEATTLE (AP) Double-digit unemployment in Washington state is more than just an indication of econom- ic hard times for those who frequent the Millionair Club in Seattle. They are the individuals behind the numbers - 190,000 people statewide looking for work but unable to find it. At the Millionair Club, about 130 jobless people waited Thursday to hear their names called for assorted tasks lasting only a few hours and mostly paying the minimum wage. But as midday approached, only 20 had been sent out on a job. The unemployed slumped in hard chairs and leaned in silence against the walls, and then, one by one, they left. On the sidewalk, the more aggres- sive unemployed waited in the cold for a job opportunity to drive up. "There's a waiting line of 100 people in there," said Kelly, 28. "Out here you take your chances -- but at least you've got a shot." Arthur, 42, said he gets a job this way as often as three times a week. But after four hours of waiting in the cold Thursday, only one curbside worker had been picked up. It was no surprise at the Millionair Club when the state Department of Em- ployment Security reported this week that unemployment in Washington rose to a four-year high in November. "We're getting a lot of new poor - unemployed people who ve never been in this kind of trouble before," said Au- gie Gronberg, Millionair director. "We're seeing married people with chil- dren to feed like never before." Norward Brooks, state commission- er of employment security, said that only slightly more than half of the state's jobless are eligible to draw unemployment benefits. "The critical problem," Brooks said, "is the vast and growing number of persons with no income at all." Michael Matthew, 41, is a journey- man carpenter. His wife, Bridgette, 36, is a journeyman painter. Weariness and defeat are masked in the faces of both. The Matthews' unemployment benefits ran out three months ago. With the ex- ception of a day job or two, they have been living since early October on food stamps and $5 a day. The Matthews live in a four-apart- ment rental house in Seattle, and $5 is what the landlord pays Matthew to keep the place in repair. "The construction business is really slow," Mrs. Matthew said, "so we're trying to get into something else." A recession in the building industry also has put Bob D. Olson, 50, out of work. Before he was laid off Dec. 7, Olson was a salesman for a retail lum- ber company. On Wednesday, at the Bellevue Em- ployment Security office, the Kirkland man was trying to straighten out paper- work that has delayed his unemploy- ment benefits. And until the first check arrives, the only income at Olson's house is from his 14-year-old son's pa- per route. "I've got lots of experience," he said, "but it just happens to be in a depressed area." === Page 202 of 278 UFO, attack economy ( Here ) Unemployment figures soar throughout state org 1/5/82 OLYMPIA, Wash - With the re- gion's wood products industry continu-" ing to slump and a poor economy keep- ing other people out of work, the unem- ployment rate in Clark County rose dur- ing November, statistics released by the state Employment Security Department showed this week. In Clark County, which has had one of the lowest unemployment rates in Washington all year, the figure climbed 0.7 percent during the month, from 8.5 percent in October to 9.2 percent. The rate was based on 8,060 persons unem- ployed, up from 7,430 in October, and a labor force totaling 87,850, up from 87,650 the previous month. Total em- ployment dropped from 80,220 to 79,790. In Skamania County, whose unem- ployment statistics have been among the worst in Washington throughout 1981, things also were bleak during No- vember, as the unemployment rate jumped from 18.9 percent to 20.7 per- cent. The number of unemployed per- sons there rose from 630 to 700; the number of employed persons fell from 2,700 to 2,680, and the labor force in- creased from 3,330 to 3,380. Cowlitz County also reported a sharp rise in unemployment, from 13.5 percent in October to 15.6 percent. Unemployment jumped from 4,460 to 5,200; employment fell from 28,560 to 28,070, and the labor force climbed from 33,020 to 33,270. Klickitat County had a similar pat- tern, as the unemployment rate there soared from 14.7 percent to 20.1 per- cent. Total unemployment climbed from 960 in October to 1,370; employment was down from 5,580 to 5,430, and the labor force totaled 6,800, up from 6,540. Pend Oreille County, in the state's northeastern corner, had the highest unemployment rate - 22.5 percent - of Washington's 39 counties, replacing Skamania County. Whitman, as it did the previous month, had the state's low- est unemployment rate - 3.9 percent. The unemployment rate for the en- tire state also was up, from 9.1 percent in October to 10.1 percent for Novem- ber. UFos attack economy (Here) State fears jobless rate will climb to 11 percent ores 1/5/80 SEATTLE (AP) - By the end of the month, the number of jobless workers in Washington will equal the combined populations of Tacoma and Everett, pre- dicts Norward Brooks, state employ- ment security commissioner. More than 210,000 men and women - about 11 out of every 100 workers - will be unemployed in January and February, says Brooks. The jobless rate is 50 percent higher than a year ago. TY unemployment does not slacken by early spring, the state will be in the worst employment slump since the Great Depression, says Brooks. Already more people are looking for jobs than ever before, although unemployment rates have not matched record highs set in 1972. It will be harder to find a job this year in virtually every field except high technology, says Brooks. And, he says, employment will lag behind the predict- ed recovery of the overall state econo- my. Government jobs are among the hardest hit. Local, state and federal gov- ernments have 13,500 fewer employees than a year ago and more reductions are expected, says Brooks. The Employment Security Depart- ment is not immune and is in the proc- ess of cutting 1,500 positions from a force of 3,500. "At the time we have record unem- ployment, we have record cuts in the agency that handles unemployment," he says. Perhaps the hardest-hit area of the economy is lumber and wood products. The industry had 7,000 fewer jobs than a year ago and faces another tough year. The layoffs spread from the smallest mills to the white-collar employees of the giant Weyerhaeuser Co., which has announced it will trim its research and development staff by 100 workers. Boeing Co., one of the state's largest employers, has about 5,000 fewer em- ployees than a year ago and the compa- ny says another 2,000 to 3,000 will be eliminated in 1982. The mothballing of two nuclear power plants in Washington will make the job market tight for engineers, says Brooks. Teachers, health care workers and other professionals also will find the job market crowded. he says. - UFO, attack economy- Unemployed rate 8% in October; highest since '75 By MERRILL HARTSON Ong 11/ 7/8. WASHINGTON (AP) - A deepen- ing recession pushed the nation's unem- ployment rate to 8 percent in October, the highest level in nearly six years, but the Reagan administration said is it standing by its economic policies and will not go for a "quick-fix" solution. The Labor Department reported the spurt from a 7.5 percent jobless rate in September left more than 8.5 million Americans out of work. It was the high- est rate since the 8.2 percent of Decem- ber 1975, but well below the 9 percent peak of the 1974-75 recession. All-time highs were set last month for black unemployment and for the number of people forced to accept part- time work for the lack of anything bet- ter .. - 450, attack economy Minnesota in red ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - With a budget deficit at $768 million, Minneso- ta could be broke next month largely because the national economy is "just plain sick," Gov. Al Quie said Thursday. Asea .11218 === Page 203 of 278 UFO attack economy As businesses fold Economic noose squeezes SW Oregon By FOSTER CHURCH ray af The Oregonian staff 12/29/81 1 COOS BAY - Squeezed by inflation and high interest rates that they cannot control and by the growing impoverish- ment of the Coos County working class, small businesses ir the area are falling Victim to the recession. Blackened storefront windows along the now gloomy Coos Bay mall testify to the effects of the recession. And mer- chants in Pony Village, the North Bend shopping mall that contains the area's largest concentration of small business- es, are experiencing their worst year. Ralph Sexton, an English-born en- trepreneur, came to North Bend from Medford four years ago and opened Pants Parade Inc., a branch of a success- ful operation that already had branches in Medford and Grants Pass. "The wood industry was booming, and we had four very good years over here until the downturn," he said. By mid-November this year, Sex- ton's flashy, mirrored store, packed with racks of Levi jeans still drew cus- tomers - but to take advantage of a going-out-of-business sale. Sexton sank $50,000 into the mall store, In a working-class Community such as North Bend and if the area's largest mall, it appeared a/prudent in- vestment. But the fortunes of the store plummeted with the calamity that over- took the Southwestern Oregon econo- my .. "Business began to sag after last Christmas," he said. "Our back-to- school business was off 25 percent." He believes the 25 percent drop approxi- mately mirrors the area's unemploy- ment rate. Sexton's lease expired Oct. 31, and he said Pony Village management had announced a rent increase. "My ac- countant said, 'OK, do you really want to stick your head in a noose for five more years .? ' " Reluctant to abandon the store, Sex- ton nevertheless weighed the advan- tages and cut his losses. He chose to leave, and in December he opened a new store, Bonanza Jeans, in Eugene's 5th Street Public Market. "Small business in Coos Bay is going to get liquidated," he said in November. "I don't see how it can survive." Sexton, a brisk, matter-of-fact in- dividual who appears to look fiscal real- ity in the eye, walked the length of the mall. He pointed to stores that are bare- ly making it, and stores that are not making jt. Chain stores, he believes, sur- vive, bolstered by revenue from other stores. Most deeply hurt are locally owned businesses such as Tallman's Pianos and Organs, which closed recently, or a small gift and novelty shop called The Seaweedery, which is barely hanging on. "Not all are losing money," he said, "but there is a scramble for what is left in available dollars. I am discounting heavily. But there comes a time when you can only discount so far." A businessman who must borrow money at an interest rate of between 18 percent and 20 percent to purchase an Inventory must then discount the items. "You buy a pair of jeans for between $17 and $18 wholesale and then put them on the rack for $19.95," he said. In downtown Coos Bay, the covered mall that was built to attract customers appears instead to trap and hold an at- mosphere of desolation and gloom. The Hub, the largest downtown de- partment store, closed more than a year ago, and its darkened windows, strewn with debris, look out on the mall's choicest corner. The list of closed businesses is a rec- ord of the styles and trends of business over the decade: The Skyroom, formerly a nightclub, announced by a darkened, deteriorating sign; a Big Value Depart- ment Store; a delicatessen called The Inn Place; Zack's Stereo and Video. Even the post office has closed its com- modious downtown building and moved to another location. As businesses scramble for custom- ers, they also are ordering less than in prosperous times. The result is hardship for small trucking businesses like that operated by Frank and Sherry Snyder out of Coos Bay. The recession has forced the Snyders to scratch for every bit of business. "There's nothing mov- ing into Oregon," "Mrs. Snyder says flat- ly. Her husband agrees. "You can find loads to take out of state. But once you get there, nothing is coming back,"he "satd. Snyder pulled his trucks back to Coos Bay, where they are hauling wood chips amid fierce competition. "Rates are going lower and lower," he said. "It's survival of the fittest." Meanwhile, in another part of Coos Bay, Joan Kilby contemplates the near- wreckage of her once prosperous enter- prise, Kilby Real Estate. The week after Thanksgiving, she left the modern two-story wood and glass building that she built and occu- pied in June 1980 - "It was a lifetime dream," she said. She leased the building and moved to a small office in the Pony Village mall where she is attempting to hang on. "When the Federal Reserve said keep those interest rates high, they did us in," she said. "In 23 years, I've seen a lot of ups and downs, but now I'm see- ing true disaster. "Chave suffered a financial loss al- most to the point of bankruptcy," she said. "I stand to lose everything I have worked for all my life. It is pretty hard to look that in the eye. Where do we go? What do we do?" === Page 204 of 278 IFDe attack economy Jobs department losing more staff og J 12/29/81 SEATTLE (UPI) - The state Employment Security Department finds it must further trim staff personnel throughout the state at a time when more and more jobless people are turning to the state for benefits or help in finding work." Norward J. Brooks, commissioner of the department, painted that bleak picture at a news conference Monday in Seattle. Brooks said the notice has gone out that another 417 department jobs must be trimmed because of budget cuts at the federal level, the source for nearly all funds that finance unemployment compensation or employment services in the states. Brooks noted the latest round of cutbacks is the third his department has endured since March. He said that means eliminating about 1,500 of a total of 3,500 depart- ment jobs statewide since spring. He said the impact is going to be felt by longer lines for people who must stand in line to apply for jobless benefits and to seek help in finding new jobs. Brooks said the cuts dictated by Congress represent a reduction of $10.6 million from last year's budget. "That would be bad enough," he said, "but they made. the new. lower funding level retroactive to Oct. 1, there- by placing us in a deficit situation and compounding the extent to which we have to make reductioons." The major cuts will be in employment service. Brooks said of the 31 Job Service Centers in the state - down from 39 last August because of earlier cuts - services to help people find jobs will be withdrawn from 14 of them, leaving only the unemployment insurance program. The affected offices are those in Auburn, Lynnwood, Lewis County, the Belltown location in Seattle, Mount Vernon, Lakewood, Longview, Raymond, Bingen, Ellen- surg, Okanogan, Colville, Walla Walla and Sunnyside. In all other offices offering employment service, the level of that service will be reduced, Brooks said. In addition, he said the Work Incentive Program (WIN), designed to help welfare recipients become em- ployed and self-supporting, has been cut about 33 percent from $10.9 million to $7.4 million. Brooks said this will mean closing five WIN offices - in Lynnwood, Capitol Hill in Seattle, Southwest Seattle, Aberdeen and Longview. Because of the heavy federal cuts, Brooks said the department will ask the 1982 Legislature for about $2 million to help programs trying to link people and jobs. The commissioner said he expects the unemployment rate in the state to peak at about 11.5 percent next February "and taper off after that."' As bad as that level is, Brooks said it still is not as severe as the state's jobless rate during the "Boeing Recession" in the early 1970s. IF De attack economy Spellman sees larger state deficit ONY J 12/29181 OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI) - Gov. John Spellman said Monday that a new eco- nomic forecast projects an additional defi- cit of $144 million for state government in the current biennium. He also cautioned that the new estimate does not reflect the impact of a possible decline in traditional levels of retail sales for the Christmas season. "These latest figures underscore the se: riousness of the nation's current economic problems," Spellman said in a prepared statement. The governor said the latest estimate represents the best judgment of his Coun- cil of Economic Advisers and national eco- nómic forecasters. The governor's budget office will pub- lish supporting details for the latest pro- jection next month. The latest revenue slide is in addition to a $97 million deficit that was projected in November during the Legislature's special session. Coupled with a $42.9 million loss caused by changes in the state's inheri- tance tax laws approved at the general election, it raises the total amount of the decline since the last official estimate in September to nearly $284 million .. Spellman noted that the Legislature act- ed to compensate for the earlier shortfall and the Inheritance tax loss. "But this new $144 million problem must be dealt with in the January session and I will propose a program for doing so," the governor said. State's jobless rate hits high of 10.1% OLYMPIA (UPI) -. A 10.1 percent rate of unemploya ment was recorded for Washington state in November, the state Department of Employment Security reported Monday. It was the highest November rate in 11 years and the first time since February 1977 that the rate exceeded 10 percent. The national rate for November stood at 7.9 percent by comparison. Commissioner Norward J. Brooks said most of the additional claims for unemployment compensation filed in November came from the construction, lumber, trade and service industries. He also said total employment fell by 26,600 jobs from October to November with the largest drop in agriculture because of completion of the apple harvest. Unemployment rates in the state's 39 counties varied widely with a high of 22.3 percent in Okanogan County and a low of 3.9 percent in Whitman County. In the Seattle area the rate stood at 8.4 percent com- pared with 9.9 percent in Tacoma, 10.1 percent in Spo- kane, 10.7 percent in the Tri-cities and 13.1 percent in Yakima. Jobless rates in other counties included Clallam, 18.1 percent; Grays Harbor, 16.3 percent; Lewis, 15.3 percent; Kitsap, 7.2 percent; and Kittitas, 12.4 percent. === Page 205 of 278 Ve attack economy Hard times tell on Oregon oreg By JOHN HAYES of The Oregonian staff 12/27/81 Chill winds of change are blowing hard against Oregon's economic land- scape, leaving a wake of lost jobs, va- cant shops, unpaid bills, broken dreams and deep fears about the future. The recession, which has separated 60 percent of the state's loggers from their jobs, is splitting families and send- ing breadwinners to the healthier job markets of the Southwest in search of a paycheck. What began in 1980 as belt-tighten- ing tough times has become a statewide calamity as Oregon's unemployment rate hit 11.1 percent in November, the highest level since the Depression of the 1930s. State employment officials say 150,000 Oregonians are looking for work. How many have given up, no one can say. Some corners of Oregon, dominated for generations by one or two lumber mills, have been devastated by their clo- sure. In those towns, main streets are wastelands of shuttered shop windows and blackened storefronts. Hundreds of timber-dependent houses are up for sale in towns like Coos Bay, but nobody is buying. Some families have simply run out on their mortgages, locking their homes and moving away in search of work. The recession has halted a decade- long population boom that added 500,000 to Oregon's population in the 1970s. The Population Research and Census Center at Portland State Univer- sity says the state's population growth has stopped as thousands of out-of- work families have pulled up stakes. Experts are worried that the exodus may further depress the housing indus- try and lock the state into a downward economic spiral. "In 23 years, I've seen a lot of ups and downs, but now I'm seeing true disaster," said Joan Kilby, a Coos Bay real estate broker. "I stand to lose ev- erything I have worked for all my life." The recession is being felt in unex- pected ways: no waiting in the dentist's office, cancellation of a job-training pro- gram, an abundance of telephone dis- connect orders. Truckers who have no trouble finding consignments for out of state cannot get cargoes for their return trips to Oregon. To document the recession's effects, Oregon's economy: The new realities The Oregonian conducted a two-month study of the state's economic troubles, involving 10 reporters, five photogra- phers and three editors. The Oregonian found signs that the state is loosening its dependence on the timber industry as investors reach out to tourism and other service industries offering better returns. But the changes are not without enormous personal costs to affected workers. The Oregonian received anguished reports from out-of-work families who face loss of unemployment benefits at Christmas without any hope of finding a job. Reporters interviewed high school students ready to graduate into one of Oregon's highest unemployment periods in 50 years. State officials say 64,000 Oregoni- ans are receiving unemployment bene- fits, but for many families the payments will end soon. Already, 15,000 Oregon workers have exhausted the benefits and are still out of work. "Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better," according to Ray Thorne, administrator of the state Employment Division. He predicted that unemployment will hit 12 percent this winter and that it may be another 18 months before job prospects improve my here is out of their hands." significantly. Even the lucky job-seekers who can find a lower-paying job, perhaps bump- ing a 'ess-skilled worker in the process, have been changed by the experience. "You constantly wonder what's going to happen tomorrow," said Ed Farmer, a Coos Bay millwright forced to move to Canby when he lost his job. "Am I land- ing on my feet, or am I floating down with nothing to catch me?" The most traumatic changes have come in the coastal and Eastern Oregon communities most dependent on the wood products industries. There, some who have never lived away from the area and have never been separated from their families have been forced out of Oregon in the search for work. When Georgia-Pacific Corp. recently had openings for four millworkers in Co- quille, 300 jobless persons waited in line at the mill, many of them arriving be- fore dawn. Yet all is not bleak in the Oregon economy. The state is receiving a record number of out-of-state visitors, and the income from tourism in 1981 could equal a record set in 1978. Unemploy- ment is under 9 percent in the diversi- fied Portland job market. But these economic high spots may presage large changes that will take many years to play themselves out as investors turn away from housing and the timber industry toward joint foreign ventures in the electronics and service industries. Traditions are dying in the state's agricultural regions also. The Oregon Cattlemen's Association predicts 200 of its 3,000 members will abandon the in- dustry this year because of high interest rates. "There's nothing colder than a banker's heart," said one Baker rancher. And the The Oregonian found evi- dence of political change in the wind also, as families who in the past have worried about unchecked growth and urban sprawl now cite the sagging economy as the state's No. 1 problem. "The optimism is gone," said a Coos Bay community action agency director. "It used to be that people wanted to hang on, but that's all gone now. The people I talk to have pretty much ac- cepted that what happens to the econo- === Page 206 of 278 UFO2 attack economy. Reagan, Fed hit for poor economy greg 1/20/82 LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - Three Nobel Prize-winning economists said Tuesday that the policies of the Rea- · gan administration and the Federal Reserve Board were responsible for making the economy worse in 198T Harvard professor Wassily Leontief, Yale profes- sor James Tobin and professor Lawrence R. Klein of "During the past year there has been a significant worsening of the economic environment,"Klein said. "A combination of overreaction by monetary au- thorities in pursuing policies of tight credit and serious miscalculation of accompanying fiscal policies by the administration led to a complete breakdown of credi- bility vis-a-vis financial markets," Klein added. "The present administratuion is off to a shaky start, for the seemingly well laid plans of 1981 have now to be significantly reconsidered, only one year later," he said. Leontief said Reagan was following the lead of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose aus- terity policies have led to record unemployment and a wave of bankruptcies in Britain. The administration is trying to suppress inflation Wharton School of Business testified before the Joint by beating the entire economy into the ground," he Economic Committee of Congress. said. Tobin directed most of his criticism at the Federal Reserve Board. "The economy stalled in 1981 when the recovery collided with Federal Reserve restric- tions on monetary growth," he said. "Unfortunately the prospect is that the 1982 recovery also will collide with the monetary barrier .... The collision is likely to stall the economy even farther from maturity than in 1981." UFO2 6 Projects 'Crab meat' campaign org 12/5/81 White House error stirs action U.S. By FRANCIS X. CLINES and BERNARD WEINRAUB New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - In a recent communication er- ror, the White House mailed out a recipe for crab-meat casserole, two 8-by-10 glossy photos of the Reagans, and a form letter on voluntarism to an Illinois housewife who had written a personal plea to the president to spare special education for the hand- icapped from budget cuts. "I looked at the reply in disbelief at first - then I got angry," said Susan Benjamin, whose two sons have learning disabilities but who have been well served, she said, in programs threatened by budget cuts. Mrs. Benjamin had written to various state and local officials in behalf of the Northern Suburban Special Education District just outside Chicago. She thought a note to President Reagan might at least "be counted" even if a personal reply was not possible. Her letter was apparently miscounted, according to the explanation she eventually received, and put with nuiring "form-111" stock ronline rathanthe the district's Parents Alliance that Washington is lis- tening, but it has given the parents fresh, angry re- solve. "Even if it was an error, I was appalled at the insensitivity of the White House," said Mrs. Benjamin. "Here they're asking us to take budget cuts in all sorts of vital programs and still sending out such expensive replies. Why, the crab-meat casserole would cost 20 bucks to make, with artichoke hearts and crab meat at $15 a pound." The Coordinating Council for Handicapped Chil- dren, based in Chicago, has fashioned a "Let Them Eat Crab Meat" newsletter campaign from the incident and reports considerable interest among members of Congress and the public. The fact that this was one honest error among thousands of letters received daily at the White House has not dampened the complaints, according to Charlotte Des Jardins, the council's ex- ecutive director. "It betrays an attitude," she said. Mrs. Benjamin said her hope was with Congress, not the White House. "I could take the pumpkin pecan pie and the Baja California chicken," she said with Inhalarance of the other White House recipes en- -- 111. "But with the crab-meat cas- - UFOR 6 Projects- Cancun meet failure or success? President Reagan came away World nations were obviously frus- A major goal of the Cancun con- from the unique summit conference trated over what they saw as Rea- ference was agreement for global of rich and poor nations in Cancun, gan's simplistic preaching about de- "Mexico, with the impression that it veloping their nations the way the had been a "substantial success." United States did. Apparently he was the only one They saw his call for self- of the 22 heads of state who development along capitalistic lines thought so. In fact, the United States, as financial assistance. represented by its president, was singled out as the cause of failure of The criticism of the American president, however, was not limited a conference aimed at considering to the Third World. European ales the world's economic needs negotiations on the world economy. It did not come about, and the U.S. was singled out as the cause, In the end, the U.S. was isolated, little was achieved, and many world leaders as not understanding their needs for , went home bitter toward this nation and doubtful of the vame of the summit. Greg,5 10/27/81 were among those who openly com- Leaders of some of the Third plained of the American position. === Page 207 of 278 UFOR 6 Projects & attack on Deficits mount economy Reagan shifts budget stance WASHINGTON (AP) - Faced with record-smashing deficits that could top $100 billion a year, the Reagan adminis- tration now says it can live with a tor- rent of red ink without reversing its strategy against inflation and high in- terest rates. In a turnaround from President Rea- gen's longstanding assertion that defi- cits are a cause of inflation, senior White House economic advisers sought Tuesday to downplay that relationship. One member of the Council of Economic Advisers, William A. Niskanen, suggest- ed the connection is virtually non-ex!" .- ent. Sources said those numbers already had been revised slightly downward by the time Reagan met with his advisers Tuesday afternoon on his upcoming budget plan. Rudolph G. Penner, a budget official during Gerald R. Ford's administration, said there is "a certain irony" that the record deficit of $66.4 billion, which UFOR attack economy U.S. economists think recession worsening Drag 12/19/81 By ROBERT FURLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation- al economy is sinking rapidly, smashing President Reagan's October declaration that the 1981 recession would be "slight .. and I hope short," preliminary govern- ment estimates indicated Friday. The broadest measure of U.S. eco- nomic activity - inflation-adjusted gross national product - appears to be falling at an annual rate of 5.4 percent in the current October-December quar- ter, according to a Commerce Depart- ment "flash" estimate. A one-quarter decline that steep would be one of the worst in recent years, though not as bad as the record contraction at an annual rate of 9.9 per- cent in spring 1980 or the previous rec- ord 9.1 percent in early 1975. This fall's quick decline in overall GNP - the total of all U.S .- produced goods and services - would back up recent reports of worsening in house constructiga, industrial production and unemployment, which is near the post- war 1975 peak of 9 percent. The government does not announce its "flash" GNP estimate, which is made from preliminary and sometimes scanty information on the still-uncompleted quarter. But the figure was made avail- able by administration sources who asked not to be named. In the public numbers game of such estimates, Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan ventured a guess last month that "real," or inflation-adjusted, GNP could fall at a rate as great as 4 percent in the current quarter, but private economists have issued forecasts as high as 8 per- cent. The Commerce Department's chief. economist, Robert Ortner, said earlier this week that GNP could fall at a rate of 6 percent in the quarter if output by. the nation's factories continues to de- cline as it has for the past four months. Whatever the figure, economists in- side and outside the government agree the recession is no longer slight or short. Their defense of deficits came in the occurred in 1976, "was set by a con- wake of reports from administration sources that a new, bleak forecast pre- servative president (Ford), and the rec- ord will be broken by another conserva- tive president." pared for the president last week showed the budget deficit surging to a record $109 billion in fiscal 1982, $152 billion in 1983 and $162 billion in 1984. Penner said the deficits projected by the Reagan team are "intolerable" and should be reduced through significant tax increases. However, the giant deficit figures do not reflect further spending cuts Rea- gan likely will propose when he submits his 1983 budget to Congress early next year, sources noted. Chief presidential spokesman David Gergen disputed earlier reports that Reagan had been handed the revised deficit figures last Friday. Gergen, who refused to discuss specific figures, said the president saw the new numbers for the first time Tuesday during a general presentation on the budget outlook by budget director Dawid A. Stockman. The administration's deficit outlook ) has worsened dramatically in the past few months because of the developing recession and a significant reduction in inflation, trends that reduce anticipated federal revenues, White House officials said. "He (Reagan) accepted the fact," Gergen said. The administration plans to whittle the projected deficits for 1983 and 1984 through a new round of deep spending cuts in domestic programs. But several aides and many private economists doubt the president can make much "headway so long as he continues to rule out deeper cuts in Social Security, a slowdown in his record buildup of the military budget or significant tax in- creases. Meanwhile, House Democrats vowed Tuesday to oppose an agreement between Reagan and congressional Re- publicans to cut an additional $4 billion in spending from the 1982 budget and prevent another presidential veto like the one that shut down much of the " government for a few hours last month. === Page 208 of 278 yFor 6-P 100x Precision jets crash; 4 By ROBERT MACY greg 1/19/827 INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. (AP) - Four members of the Air Force Thun- derbirds precision flying team were killed Monday during practice, and a spokesman said it may have been a col- lision or "follow the leader into the ground." Disorientation The four red, white and blue jets -crashed into the desert at more than 400 mph after completing a maneuver known as a line-abreast loop. In the maneuver, the jets line up side by side, do a backward loop several thousand feet into the air and then plunge downward at more than 350 knots, leveling off about 100 feet above the ground. "We don't know whether it was a mid-air collision or a case of follow the leader into the ground," said Air Force Sgt. Jack Conner, spokesman at Nellis Air Force Base, the team's home base. He explained that the Thunderbirds pilots are trained to "fly off the com- mander-leader," watching only the plane next to them and not the ground or their instruments because of the tight formation in which they fly - often as close as three feet apart. "Normally, he's (the commander) the only one looking where he's going," Conner said. It was the worst accident in the his- tory of the precision-flying team, the Air Force said. "They hit the ground and flames just shot along like napalm," said George LaPointe, a construction worker who saw the crash. "They were at tree-top level, and the next thing I knew, there were all these flames and explosions." He said it appeared that all four planes went into the ground together. "I saw the planes come down," said a woman who lives in a nearby trailer park. "I just saw the four planes togeth- er. They were up there doing loops and stuff like that." The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said that as the planes neared the ground in formation, sudden- ly there was a "boom ... one great big crash. It shook all the trailers here." The victims were identified as Maj. Norman L. Lowry III, 37, of Radford, Va., team commander; Capt. Willie Mays, 32, of Ripley, Tenn .; Capt. Joseph Peterson, 32, of Tuskegee, Ala., and Capt. Mark E. Melancon, 31, of Dallas. Two of the pilots had talked of the perils they faced when companions were killed last year. "Accidents in flying are something you learn to live with," Peterson said then. He said pilots learn to accept "but for the grace of God, it could be anyone of us anytime, anywhere." Mays said then that after an acci- dent, morale drops, but added, "We re- alize that we have a mission." The team was in training for the 81-show exhibition season that was to begin in March, said Conner. The team had flown to Indian Springs, an auxilia- ry field 40 miles northwest of Nellis and Las Vegas, almost daily. Air Force officials declined to specu- late on the future of the 81-member Thunderbird squadron, which performs before millions of people annually. Two officers died in separate crashes last year. "It's too early to speculate as to what will happen," said Air Force spokesman Col. Mike Wallace. "Obvi- ously, the loss of four pilots and four aircraft is a severe blow. But we have snapped back before and could conceiv- ably snap back again." An Air Force fact sheet says the team was organized in 1953 "to boost morale and confidence in jet aircraft." Wallace said an Air Force accident investigation board had been formed to determine the cause of the crash. The crash, which spread debris over an area two miles long and a mile wide, occurred a half-mile northeast of a strip of businesses in this tiny co and sent debris plummeting to outside the Indian Springs Post In Washington, Air Force said their records showed th Monday's accident, 25 Thi planes had been destroyed and men killed since the program 1953. -Thunderbird Accident FLIGHT PATH -- Four jets of the Thunderbirds precision flying team took this line-abreast loop, before crashing and killing the four pilots Monday. It was not known whether the planes collided or smashed into the ground. Backside Of Loop ans 4 Thunderbirds Abreast === Page 209 of 278 UFO2 100X Mack Thunderbirds stunt crash Cause hunted Tape fails to explain jet crash WASHINGTON (UPI) - Lead Investigator Francis McAdams said Thursday an initial review of the partially unintelligible cockpit tape from a crashed Air Florida jetliner failed to pinpoint what might have caused last week's tragedy. "There are several things we're going to have to look at in quite greater depth, but there isn't any- thing I would say we're going to focus on to the ex- clusion of some other fac- tors," McAdams said. McAdams, a member of the National Transporta- tion Safety Board, said he listened twice to the tape, taken from the cockpit voice recorder retrieved Wednesday from the mud- dy bottom of the Potomac River, and its clarity was spotty. Asked whether he had heard any calls of distress. McAdams told CBS News. "Not to my hearing. I did not." "Some of the crew's conversation is rather clear and then others is overrid- den by noises and some of It is really unintelligible. he noted in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. He was confident, how- ever, that technicians would be able to enhance the tape's quality by filter- ing out background noise ADAT 11-182 INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. (UPI) - Four jets from the Air Force's Thunderbirds stunt team failed to pull out of a steep, wing-to-wing dive Monday and smashed into the desert floor at 400 mph - still in formation in the worst crash in the group's 28-year history. Military experts led by Maj. Gen. Ger- ald D. Larson of New Hampshire Tuesday began the three-week task of studying the accident to determine its cause. The manufacturer of the Thunderbirds' planes, Northrop Corp., discounted me- chanical failure of the four supersonic T-38 Talon jets as the cause of the crash. "The airplane has been known to have a very, very good record," Northrop spokesman Monte Montgomery said in Hawthorne, Calif. "I don't think this par- ticular accident had anything to do with the operation of the airplane at all. You don't have four airplanes fail at the same time." The jets crashed almost simultaneously with what nearby Desert Springs resi- dents described as an earthquake-like ex- plosion that looked like a napalm bomb. Wreckage was strewn across a square- mile area of desert 60 miles north of Las Vegas. The crash brought to 18 the number of Thunderbird aviators killed since the for- mation of the group in 53. Witnesses said the prots failed to pull out of their steep dive and crashed into the earth side by side, still in formation. "The fatal maneuver, called the "line abreast loop," called for the four pilots to streak 100 feet above the ground, sharply climb several thousand feet, make a loop in the sky, dive earthward and pull out of the loop 100 feet above the ground - making a final side-by-side fly-by over the runway at 400 mph. "It was not the most difficult maneu- ver," said Maj. Gen. James Gregory, com- mander of the Tactical Weapons Fighter Center. "The wing positions are very crit- ical so they don't bobble and also the pull- out is very important." Tom Sullivan, a Boulder City, Nev., man driving to a construction job at the time of the crash, said one jet hit "and the other three followed within a tenth of a second flying in formation." "They didn't pull up fast enough," he said. "Right before the crash they were climbing and then were rolling on a dive down to the ground," said another motor- ist, Jim Kelso of Ojai, Calif. "Just as they pulled out of the dive, all four of them hit the ground. The instant they hit we knew they were dead; no one could have sur- vived." The Thunderbird pilots were practicing for the 1982 show season. The first of their 87 aerial shows was scheduled for March 13 in Davis Mothan, Ariz. Officials said it is too early to determine when or if the season will begin. Killed in the crash Monday were Maj. Norman L. Lowry III, 37, Radford, Va., a veteran of 264 combat flights in Vietnam and the new commander-leader of the Thunderbirds; Capt. Willie Mays, 31, Rip- ley, Tenn., left wingman; Capt. Joseph "Pete" Peterson, 32, Tuskegee, Ala., right wingman, and Capt. Mark E. Melancon, 31, Dallas, Texas, flying the slot position. The 1982 show season would have been the debut for Lowry and Melancon as Thunderbird pilots. Two solo members of the six-man team - Capt. Dale Cooke and Maj. "Hoss" Shumpert Jones - were practicing at nearby Nellls Air Force Base when their comrades were killed. Before Monday's crash, the Thunder- birds' most recent accident was on Sept. 9, 1981, when the jet of the team leader, Lt. Col. David Smith, crashed at Cleve- land's Burke Lakefront Airport. Smith died when his parachute failed to open. Of the 18 fatal Thunderbird crashes to date, 10 have occurred in Nevada. Since the Thunderbirds were formed at Luke Air Force-Base in 1953, an estimated 153 million spectators have watched their 2,455 performances. note: nevada PR: Owen === Page 210 of 278 Cargo plane skids to stop TACOMA (AP) - A giant C-5A Air Force cargo plane skidded on its nosé to a safe landing Friday at McChord Air Force Base after the front landing gear failed to extend, an Air Force spokes- man said. "It was a perfect landing consider- ing the nose gear wasn't down," said Pete Lochow, McChord's deputy public affairs officer. The 10 crew members and five mili- tary passengers escaped injury, he said. Emergency crews stood by at the 3:39 p.m. emergency landing, but didn't spray the runway with flame retardant foam because "it was raining so hard they didn't have to - typical Nort' west weather," Lochow said. The C-5A is about the size of a ) ing 747 jumbo jet. It was on a ro flight, carrying cargo and militar sengers from its home base w 60th Military Airlift Wing at Ty By STEVE WILSON BOSTON (AP) -A World Airways Force Base, located about 50 - DC-10 carrying 208 people slid off the of San Francisco, the spokesite'end of an icy runway and plunged parts way into Boston Harbor Saturday night as it landed at Logan International Air- port. No one was seriously hurt, al- though the plane's cockpit broke off and threw the crew into the water. TiFOR 6 Projects Navy fliers escape MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Four U.S. Navy fliers parachuted to safety from their disabled Grumman Prowler jet Friday moments before it crashed during a routine training exercise near a U.S. Air Force target range in the Phil- ippines, the Navy said. The fliers suffered only minor cuts and bruises and were in good condition at the Clark Air Base Hospital, Chief Petty Officer Dale Pitman of the infor- mation office at Subic Naval Base told The Associated Press by telephone. He identified the four as Lt. Cmdr. Robert Pinnell of Howard Beach, Fla .; Lt. Cmdr. James Powell of Spokane; Lt. Tom Wood of Panama City, Fla .; and Lt. Mannie Rickenbaker of Elloree, S.C. Area 1/23/82 UFO16 Projects: 1 UFO Projects: Plane in collision plunges into city VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Two small aircraft collided in flight Saturday, plunging one plane into this city's business district and sending the other to crash at a nearby airport, officials said. One pilot was killed and the other reported slightly hurt. It was the fourth accident involving light aircraft in Southern California in the past four days. Eight people have been killed. Saturday's collision occurred at noon over Apple Valley, 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, authorities said. One of the single-engine planes limped to Victor- ville, four miles away, and slammed into a six-lane boulevard in the business district, killing the pilot, San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Joe Castanon said. Castanon said appeared the pilot "tried to control the plane, but apparently couldn't." The pilot's name was not immediately available. No injuries or damage were reported on the ground, fire dispatcher Ron Jenkins said. "It (the street) was pretty empty for some reason," Jenkins said. "The plane just crashed into the street and then scattered into a zillion pieces," he said. "There's wreckage all over." He said there was no fire or explosion. The pilot of the second plane, a Cherokee Pathfind- er, crashed trying to land at the Apple Valley Airport, intanon said. 0109/24/82 Jetliner slides into Boston Harbor 1/24/82 org down chutes from the rear of the craft and waded ashore through knee-deep water. The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched six boats to aid the rescue. Many passengers, shaken but un- hurt, were taken away from the acci- "When I got there, there were there getting passengers out ' The accident occurr landed in light rain glazed runway. Service said the Flight at said the " M- 100 surged through the cabin. rain about 7:30 p.m. Saturday. down emergency chutes and scrambled through icy, waist-deep water after Flight 30, from Oakland, Calif., and Newark, N.J., skidded off the end of a runway at Logan International Airport. It was landing in a light The 196 passengers and 12 crew members slid The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, to be sent to a laboratory for analysis Mon- day, may reveal at what point on the 10,081-foot runway the plane landed, what the crew said before landing and "sounds such as switches being thrown, changes in engine noises and warning horns," said National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Rob- learn why the jumbo jet with 208 people aboard slid? crucial data and voice recorders Sunday from a par- tially submerged World Airways DC-10, hoping to off an icy funway Into Boston Harbor and broke open. BOSTON (AP) - Federal Investigators recovered " By FRED BAYLES Org /25/80 under scrutiny Jet's voices UFO16 Projects had no ble. and "God certainly has been good said one female passenger che At least 23 people hospitals, some on stret and nearby Winthrop. Bu spokeswoman for the Mas Port Authority, said none of th appeared to be serious. accident. World Airways Flight 30 had nated in Honolulu and stopped in Oa land, Calif., and Newark, N.J., before landing in Boston, its final destination. "The front end of the plane flew off," said passenger Jerry Podesta, 22, of Philadelphia. He was splashed with water while in his seat. Only the rear of the plane was vis- ible in the water at the end of the run- y, but most people on board slid landing conditions at the harborside airport. Buckhorn said the inquiry would include a lo to have all survivors." ""Weather conditions and the airport's decision to operate is a key area we'll be looking at," said Patricia Goldman, a member of the safety board. "It WF obviously a stunning scene, and we're very fortuna Transportation Safety Board inspected the scene of the The cockpit of the plane broke off, and water At least 38 persons were injured, none seriously. Sunday morning, 10 members of the National ter." dent scene on buses and vans. Some were still wearing inflatable life vests. "The plane slid off the end of the dent. Podesta said was dispatched to investigate the acci- warning that ** "We Ip. going " and- All on board were accounted for, said Edwin Chandler, the airline's sta- tion manager. "Everyone's out," he said. However, airport spokeswoman Ca- rolyn Walden said 11 people had not reported to authorities after the crash. "We don't know what the status is," she said. "We're still looking. Divers are in the water. We have 174 signed in, and we know 23 have gone to area hos- pitals." Police said all those on board were rescued from the plane, which came to rest partially submerged in the freezing sea water at about 7:30 p.m. baby -stern · safetly . spokesman runway," said one snowplow operat ert Buckhorn. === Page 211 of 278 40 . 6 Projects Soggy image etnie 00 15 Rain defeats tough Marines 2.21 BELLEVUE, Wash. (UPI) - It was raining, so a few ¿tico good men decided not to turn out for a community Veter- to s_ ans Day program. e'bj. A Marine Corps guard was scheduled to open the program last week at Bellevue's Crossroads Mall, but they turned back because of the weather, says Gary "dler Fujioka, marketing director for the mall. "Perhaps we, as Americans, nuture an overly machis- a'u'- mo image of our warriors," Fujioka said in a letter to a 150 Marine Corps commanding officer. "Perhaps it's particu- axo " larly true in the case of the Marines. But who would guess that a little rain would daunt the U.S. Marines 299 / Corps?" The program was scheduled for noon, Nov. 11, and when the color guard failed to appear by 11:55 a.m., Fujioka frantically called the Bellevue Marine recruiting 3il: office. He was told the color guard had decided not to sim? come because it was raining, Fujioka said. In ga A true cross-section of Americans turned out for the 120. Veterans Day ceremony," Fujikoa's letter said. Execu- Sits tives on their lunch hour, kids out of school for the day uitun "The resulting remarks from the crowd ranged from, #ShL'I hope it's sunny outside for our next war,' to 'Was it Indi : raining at Iwo Jima?' "An elderly woman from an area nursing home had tor walked some distance through the weather to see the program. Her husband, a Marine, had died in combat. She wanted only to see the uniforms, hear the sound and marching and rekindle a dying but precious memory." 20 Maj. Rick Poggemever, commanding officer of the Seattle-area detachment of the Marine Corps, said it wasn't the rain that stopped his marines. It was a "seri- ous error in judgment " "The Bellevue recruiters who were responsible for the color guard either forgot or ignored the promised appear- ance," he said. Onegro 11/19/8, UFO 6 Projects- Plane loses door SEATTLE (AP) - Art Sala had an unexpected drop-in visitor to his back yard Thursday morning - an airplane door. The 27-year-old University of Washington student said he heard "a thundering crash" as the door of a nine-passenger, turboprop airplane fell into his yard at 8:01 a.m. The door came from a Beech King Air 200 aircraft flying at 2,000 feet after taking off from Boeing Field. None of the passengers, who included three Rainier National Bank executives and a bank customer, was sitting near the door, said a bank spokesman. No one was hurt. Sala said he was standing where the door landed only two minutes before the incident. Bank officials said they did not know why the plane's door came off but said the Federal Aviation Administration was investigating. The plane returned to Boeing Field after the inci- dent, said Mike O'Connor, the FAA's regional duty officer. He called the mishap "definitely unusual to say the least." The aircraft was en route to Vancouver and Pasco: 1FOR 6 Projects Pilot ejects safely LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - The pilot of an F-16 fighter plane ejected safely Friday before his plane crashed in the desert about a mile and a half from Nellis Air Force Base. "He was coming in for a landing and apparently had some aircraft malfunction," said Sgt. Jack Conner, a base spokesman. Capt. Kevin D. Phillips 33, was apparently unin- jured, he said. Phillips is a member of the 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron based at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah. the plane went down shortly before 4 p.m., near the base of Sunrise Mountain, a few miles east of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. oreg 1/16/82 UFOR 6 Projecte At least two killed in plane collision FALLON, Nev. (UPI) - A Navy plane on a training mission, collided in flight with a civilian aircraft Monday, killing at least two people over the bombing range at the Fallon Naval Air Station. The Navy said an A-7 Corsair II was making a practice run when a civilian Cessna 182 wandered into the airspace over the range about 70 miles east of ong 12/16/8/ 12/15 4FOR 6 Projects 50 hurt in accident TRIESTE, Italy (AP) - A gangway to the U.S. Navy ship the Puget Sound collapsed Tuesday, injuring 50 sailors and civilians, police said. Police said 21 people were hospital- ized and the rest were treated and re- leased. None of the injured was reported in serious condition UFO2 6 Projects Accidents kill 6 Navy men MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A U.S .. to Diego Garcia island. Navy officer and four enlisted men drowned Sunday when they were trapped without oxygen inside a cham- ber of the submarine U.S.S. Grayback : during diving training off the coast of Luzon, the Navy announced. A sixth diver engaged in the subma- rine training, survived and was in good condition under medical care at the Su- bic Bay Navy Base, 50 miles northeast of Manila, a Navy spokesman said. In another accident, a Navy seaman apprentice aboard the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Tripoli fell overboard and was lost at sea Saturday in the Indian Ocean. the Navy said. The incident Ofourmed 600 milgo nonthen chi - UFOR 6 Projecto Navy spy plane crashes MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - A 50- phisticated U.S. Navy spy plane crashed Friday in a rice field near the gunnery range of an American air base, but all four aviators aboard ejected and suffered only bruises, a Navy spokesman said. The Americans bailed out when they detected serious trouble with the aircraft. They were recovered almost immediately by a Identities of the dead were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The diving accident occurred just after midnight Saturday while the Grayback was submerged off the main Philippine island of Luzon near the Su- bic Bay base during what the Navy said was a routine training exercise for the divers. The Navy said the six were inside a large chamber, waiting for the water to be drained out so that they could enter the submarine's inner hull. During the draining process, they "apparently lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen and collapsed into the ter remaining in the chamber," the ry spokesman said: Greg 1/17/82 utter hallcenter === Page 212 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects- China submarine blast reported PEKING (AP) - A Chinese submarine exploded in the North China Sea during an attempt to launch a missile, killing 100 people aboard, Asian and European military experts reported Wednesday. They said that the 320-foot submarine exploded underwater in a coastal area during an attempt to fire a ballistic missile in late August or early September. : The sources said the submarine was unable to withstand the shock and vibration caused by the at- tempted firing. They said many of the crew died of asphyxiation. * The submarine, modeled after a Soviet craft, was designed to fire torpedoes and was fitted with tubes for ballistic missiles. :Details of the accident were not known. China is experimenting with launching ballistic missiles from a submarine base. It can fire missiles from the ground, which absorbs the tremendous shock and vibration of the launch. The several foreign sources asked that their names not be used and some said the Chinese confirmed a naval accident had taken place with high casualties in the Bohai Sea. The Chinese Ministry of National Defense and the Foreign Ministry had no comment. The sources emphasized it was an accident and one said the responsible person aboard the craft "forgot to do something." : Major accidents usually go unreported by the gov- ernment-controlled press. Nov. 25, 1979, an oil rig collapsed in the North China Sea and 72 people were killed. The incident was not reported until the foreign press wrote about it seven months later. The Chinese press then reported the accident eng 10/15/81 UFO2 6 Projects Drugs hintéd in air crash oreg 12/6/81 TUCSON, Arizona (AP) - An au- . Daily Wildcat said three sources at Dav- topsy performed on the Air Force pilot is-Monthan Air Force Base here, where killed in the Sept. 4 crash of an observa- Miller was stationed, said an illegal drug was detected by the autopsy. tion plane near Tombstone revealed the presence of an illegal drug in his body, the University of Arizona student news- paper said Thursday. One of the sources attributed the crash to the presence of the drug, the Wildcat said. The sources asked that they not be named, the Wildcat said. Air Force spokesman refused to con- firm or deny that Miller's autopsy re- is against Air Force policy to discuss and knocked out power to parts of Co- vealed traces of an illegal drug, saying/ chise County. In a copyright story, the Arizona cause of accidents. UFO- 6 Projects- 4 die in Nimitz plane crash JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) - An anti-submarine plane from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz crashed in the Mediterranean Sea during routine flight exercises Tues- day, killing all four Navy crewmen aboard. The names of the dead men - the pilot, flight officer, tactical coor- dinator and sensor operator of the S-3A Viking aircraft - were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The plane was attached to Air Anti-Submarine Sonadron ?A - IFUA 6 Projecto. 3 military air crashes take 6,lives Orag J 9/30/81 By United Press International UFOr & Projecto Training camp accident kills Salem soldier ET. IRWIN, Calif. (UPI) - One soldier was shot to death and three others were injured in a live fire exercise at the vast Three military crashes killed six men Mojave base where the U.S. Army prac- tices desert warfare against mock Russian Tuesday, with a seventh man missing and presumed dead. In the worst accident, an units. Pvt. Robert G. Solonika, 20, of Salem, Air Force helicopter slammed into a "mountain during a combat training mis- Ore., was killed Sunday night "by small sion in New Mexico, killing four of the six arms fire" at the National Training Cen- crewmen. ter, the Army announced Monday. Small arms fire in infantry exercises Department airplane in Nevada, bringing usually refers to rifle bullets. Two men died in the crash of a Defense To nine the number of servicemen killed Pvt. William J. Renken, 18, Meriden, during war games there in the past nine Iowa; Pfc. Anthony I. Johnson, 20, Day- days. A Navy pilot, whose helicopter ton, Ohio; and Pvt. Larry Beck, 18, Kerns, went down in the Atlantic Tuesday, was Utah, were wounded by bullet fragments, presumed dead. said Robert Hughes, a civilian spokesman .The Navy also announced that an F-14 for the center. Tomcat jet fighter based on the carrier. All were reported in good condition at USS America went down Monday in the Weed Army Hospital at Ft. Irwin. Indian Ocean, 50 miles from the ship, but All were members of the 1st Battalion, the lwo crewmen ejected and were res- 18th Infantry Regiment of the Ist Infan- cued by a Navy helicopter. try Division, stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan. The HH-53 Air Force helicopter that Hughes said the accidental shooting crashed Tuesday near Grants, N.M., kill- took place during a tactical exercise using ing -four, is known as a "Super Jolly armored personnel carriers, tanks and live Green Giant" and is similar to those used ammunition on a huge target range, in the aborted hostage rescue mission in where up to 2,000 men at a time can fire Iran. It crashed at the 8,000-foot level of live rocket, artillery and rifle fire at an 11,3D1-foot Mount Taylor. "advancing army" of pop-up targets. gregs 1/26/82 NA 6 Projects- FAA orders warning light MIAMI (AP) - The Federal Avia- tion Administration has ordered airlines to put new warning instruments in the cockpits of Lockheed wide-body L-1011 TriStar jetliners after.a series of engine failures, according to a newspaper re- The Rolls Royce RB211 engines that power the wide-body jets have failed at least six times in the past four months, "The Miami Herald reported. Neither the FAA nor Lockheed have excessively shortly after takeoff. Eastern Airlines TriStar disintegrated A week earlier, an engine on an 203 people aboard was injured. shortly after taking off from Newark (N.J.) International Airport. None of the The FAA order was issued by the agency's Seattle office, spokeswoman vibration. Judy Nauman said. The Herald reported abrupt change in oil pressure or engi the warning lights will signal any Oreg 10/4/8. port plans to ground the aircraft, spokesmen sald. The most recent incident involving a TriStar failure occurred Wednesday when a Trans World Airlines jet was forced to return to San Francisco after one of its three engines began vibrating Lt. Ricky A. Miller, 25, of Dayville, Ore., was killed in the crash of a twin- engine O-2 aircraft. There was no other injury in the crash, which damaged sev- eral Azizoma Service Co. power lines The two surviving crewmen, burned over 80 percent of their bodies, were in critical condition Wednesday. Kirtland Air Force Base officials in Al- buquerque said the cause of the crash was not immediately clear. === Page 213 of 278 UFor 6 Projects THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1981 Clouds hamper search for airman CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Poor visibility over the Atlantic Ocean ham- pered the search Friday for an Air Force pilot whose crewman was rescued Christmas Eve after six days in a life raft. C Officials were considering whether to send more aircraft to join a C-130 weather plane and a 95-foot cutter in the search for Ist Lt. Michael A. Matt- son of Joppa, Md., Coast Guard Petty Officer Bob Segal said. Another C-130 was forced to return because of the weather, he said. "The visibility is just so bad, they don't want to lose anybody else" in the hunt, Segal said. The F-4E Phantom, based at Sey- mour Johnson Air Force Base in Golds- boro, N.C., vanished Dec. 18 on a rou- tine training exercise off the North Car- colma coast, and the wreckage has not Been found. The search had been called off Wednesday. Pat it resumed Thursday afternoon after a shrimp trawler came across 1st Lt. Thomas W. Tiller, 26, of Houston, floating in a one-man life raft about 45 miles southeast of Charleston. The renewed hunt for Mattson cen- tered on the area where Tiller was -found, officials said. Tiller, weapons systems officer on the downed jet, was listed in good con- dition Friday at the Naval Regional Tiller said. Medical Center in Charleston. He was being treated for exhaustion, exposure and a rash over much of his body, ac- cording to spokesmen. "He told officers the jet's engines had failed going into a turn. His father, Griff Tiller, had just about given his son up for dead. He called the rescue "a miracle as far as we are concerned" and said the family would wait until the airman returned home before opening family Christmas presents. "It is very traumatic experience - after practically giving up and then finding your son is back to life again - it kind of shakes you up," the elder UFOR 6 Projects org J 12/ 5/81 Coast Guard investigates sinking of 3 sister ships By DAVE BURNS Journal Correspondent ASTORIA - A Coast Guard officer says it may be just a coincidence that Three sister fishing boats have sunk off" The Pacific Northwest Coast in a fittre more than a year, but he would like to make sure Lt. Paul Thomas of the Coast Guard Astoria Marine Inspection and Vessel Do- cumention Office indicated a thorough in- restigtion of Sunday's fatal sinking of the Midnight Express near the mouth of the Columbia River and earlier losses of two similar boats is well under way. The Midnight Express shuddered, rolled o starboard and sank in about 10 seconds, ccordine ong 12/29/81 nar "The vessel's plans will be here next Fire on liner cancels cruisezas said. "I'd like to find a MIAMI (AP) - An engine-room fire aboard the nt something like this from luxury liner S.S. Norway has spoiled the New Year's e future." Eve cruise plans of 1,950 people and also may force cancellation of next week's cruise, company officials said Monday. "We just don't know what will happen yet," said Arthur Kane, vice president for corporate relations at Norwegian Caribbean Cruise Lines. "We won't know until we get some technical information about the cause of the fire and the extent of the damages." Kane said all passengers on this week's cruise, aborted hours before it was scheduled to leave Sun- day, will receive air fare home, a full refund of their tickets, which cost between $900 and $3,500, and a 50 percent discount on a future cruise. He said 1,800 passengers are booked for an seven- day Caribbean cruise scheduled to begin next Sunday. note: This ship was the Nov. 3, 1980, near the same place as Sun- day's accident. The crew of a nearby fish- ing vessel rescued all four crewmen. The four-man crew of the Corey P ... which sank last Jan. 17, died. Only the body of the captain, Paul Vines Jr. of Warrenton, was found. The three craft were sister ships built at Hudson Shipbuilding Co. of Pascagoula, Miss. All three were listed as 86-foot mid- water trawlers. "I'm not ruling coincidence out yet but we're going to be looking at the designs of the vessels and other information very carefully," Thomas said in reference to. the three similar sinkings. "We can't overlook a situation of this type," he add- ed. One of the injuries was serious, said UFO2 6 Projecto Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. David Thom- Snapped cable kills 2 men on carrier MiFOR 6 Projects Navy carrier accident fatal NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - An A-7E Corsair II jet fighter attempting to land on the USS John F. Kennedy snapped an arresting cable, which then struck and killed two crewmen and injured three others Thursday, the Navy said. The Norfolk-based aircraft carrier is operating in the Caribbean with 30 oth- er ships in exercise Readex 1-82 - The A-7E and three aircraft parked on deck were damaged in the accident at 7:45 a.m. EST, said Lt. Cmdr. Dave Thomas, a spokesman for the 2nd Fleet. The single-seat A-7E took off after the cable broke and landed later at Roo- sevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico, Thoms said. The pilot apparently. was not injured and the damage to his plane was minor. Names of the dead and injured were withheld pending notification of rela- tives. Carrier-based airplanes have tail- hooks that snag one of four cables stretched across the 130-foot wide deck to slow them down on landing. Each cable is as thick as a man's wrist. 02/ 12/4/81 The break occurred as the Cor touched down and its tailhook snared cable, which is designed to drag the p tờ a halt. The Corsair aborted its landing climbed back into the sky, landing late the Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, N and injuring three others. · NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - A cable de- signed to stop airplanes snapped and whipped across the deck of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in the Carib- bean, killing two sailors on the flight deck as The wrist-thick steel cable, one of four tightly stretched across the carrier's 130- "foot wide deck, snapped when an A-7E Corsair II light attack bomber attempted to land during maneuvers. Base. org 1 c/04/8, so we can take corrective. === Page 214 of 278 UFO2 6 Project- 8 crewmen die in B-52 crash By ANDREW ROSENTHAL LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) - A B-52 jet bomber on a low-altitude training flight flew into the top of a mesa and explod- red in a ball of flame over southeastern Colorado before dawn Friday, killing all eight crewmen aboard. -faff Sgt. Ada A. Martin of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs said the eight-engine plane carried no weap- ons but that "classified material was on board." She did not elaborate. Wreckage from the jet, based at March Air Force Base in California, was -scattered along a trench nearly a mile long atop the low mesa in the sage- brush-covered sand hills eight miles east of here. Rancher Bob Davidson, who lives seven miles south of the crash site, said he was awakened by the blast. He then flew his own airplane to the site and walked through the wreckage. "Metal was strewn everywhere," Davidson said. "There wasn't anything that wouldn't fit in the back of a pick- up. There were pieces of flesh around but only one body that could be recog- nized as a body. It didn't have a head." J.R. Thompson, a reporter-photogra- pher for the Rocky Ford, Colo., Daily Gazette, said he flew over the crash to take pictures and that the pilot of his plane had estimated that the jet was exactly on course for a simulated bomb- 4FOs 6 Projects Fire no danger to NATO BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A Belgian air force spare parts depot near NATO headquarters burned down Wednesday but the blaze posed no threat to the alliance's compound about 150 yards away, officials said. The fire in the one-story building sent flames 30 feet into the air but was brought under control in about two hours. org 11/26/81 UFO2 6 Projecto Greece moves to close bases ATHENS, Greece (UPI) - Greece's new socialist gov- ernment intends to set a timetable for the United States to close its military bases and will press ahead on plans to quit both NATO's military wing and the Common Market. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou made clear Sunday, on the first day of a three-day debate in parlia- ment seeking a vote of confidence, that he will pursue his three campaign promises. Papandreou won an impressive election victory Oct. 18, giving his Panhellenic Socialist Movement 170 seats in the 300-member parliament. aring Jo 11/25/8, ing run when it hit the mesa. "He plowed into the north end of the bluff," Thompson said. "Our pilot es- timated that the plane was flying al- most 250 knots (287.5 mph) at the time of the crash." He said the plane apparently crashed and skidded along the top of the mesa, creating "a black trench, gouged a mile long into the ground." The rubble along the trench flared out at one point, apparently where a fuel tank exploded, Thompson said. Sgt. Rich Whittaker of the Pueblo County sheriff's department, who saw the crash from a squad car, described it. as "a big, huge flash." Truckers on a nearby highway re- ported seeing the fireball and hearing a loud boom around 4:45 a.m., authorities said. Residents said jets have made the practice bomb runs over the desolate ranch country east of La Junta for 20 years. The altitude of the runs varies, witnesses said, but often is lower than hills that rise about 200 feet above ground level. The wreckage was scattered near a point where planes on the simulated bombing runs usually make a 90-degree turn. The Air Force has declined comment on the cause of the crash and appointed a panel of officers to investigate. Air Force officials said the plane was a B-52D model, which at 20 years old is the oldest model of the B-52 in use. The B-52D has been scheduled for retirement by the Reagan administra- tion. A B-52D jet is valued at about $7 million, said March AFB spokesman Da- vid J. Heffernan. It was last used in combat in Vietnam. Heffernan identified the crew as: Capt. James L. McGregor, 31, pilot, of Chowchilla, Calif; Capt. Gani Aydoner, 30, co-pilot, Kaysville, Utah; Capt. Clif- ford R. Duane, 36, San Bernardino, Cal- if .; 1st Lt. Kendall E. Wallace, 25, Lagu- na Beach, Calif; Capt. Stanley H. Eddel- ·man, 28, Sparta, Ill .; Senior Airman Ti- mothy E. McFarland, 23, Tucson, Ariz .; Airman 1st Class Bruce E. Schaefer, 22, Beloit, Wis .; and Airman 1st Class David W. Smith, 20, Pasadena, Texas. oreg 10/3/8, -2016 Projecto- Air crash fatal NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A submarine-hunting jet on a routine flight from the aircraft carrier USS Ni- mitz plunged into the Mediterranean Sea and sank, killing four crew members, the Navy said. The S-3A Viking, attached to Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 24. crashed Tuesday about a mile from the Nimitz and about 70 miles northwest of Sicily, said Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connor of Atlantic Fleet Headquarters in Norfolk. He said Wednesday that the cause of the crash was unknown. oreg 11/19/8) - VIFOR 6 Projects - Copter crash kills soldier DOVER, Tenn. (AP) -- A military helicopter clipped the top of a tower carrying 69,000-volt power lines and crashed into the Cumberland River, killing: one soldier and seriously injuring another, officials said Thursday. Army Maj. Bill Mulvey said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of Wednesday night's crash of the Hughes OH6 helicopter near this small northern middle Tennessee town. Both men aboard the helicopter were stationed at nearby Fort Campbell, Ky., and were on a routine training mission. Capt. Fred Olds of Fort Campbell's Public Information office identified the injured man as chief warrant officer Robert R. Fladry of Erie, Pa. The Army was withholding the identification of the dead. soldier ANA 10/0/01 === Page 215 of 278 UFO+ 6 Projecte- Navy denies EA-6B jet faulty aneg 10/31/81 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (AP) - The fatal crash of an EA-6B Prowler jet from Whidbey Island, Wash., was the fifth such accident involving that type of plane since May, the Navy said Friday. One of the three Washington state-based airmen who died in Thursday's crash had confided earlier that his plane had obsolete equipment and was inadequate- ly maintained, the victim's brother said in an inter- view in Washington state. However, the Navy said Friday its equipment was well-maintained and "the best available." Navy officials also said there were no plans to ground the Grumman-built electronic surveillance planes and that there was "no thread of similarity" between the Thursday crash here, in which three Whidbey-based crewmen died, and one in May aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz ... A Tour-man crew died May 26 aboard the Nimitz when their plane struck several others while trying to land. Ten crewmen on deck also were killed and 48 were injured. Navy records show the EA-6B and related aircraft - a bomber and tanker - were involved in nine crashes that took 14 lives between November 1979 and July 1980. Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connors, a spokesman for the At- lantic Fleet Naval Air Force, said an EA-6B assigned to the carrier America crashed July 23 and another, assigned to the carrier Forrestal, crashed July 25. The fifth recent crash occurred in August near the The planes are "extremely well maintained to Whidbey Island Naval Base in Washington, where all"make sure everything is working correctly," Chandler the EA-OB planes are based, he said. There were no said. fatalities in those three crashes. "I don't think there's any doubt that the equipment is the best available," said Lt. Richard Chandler, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station spokesman. Investigators remained on the scene of the latest ly to gather pieces of wreckage and the ectronic equipment that was aboard the 2826 Procente- Navy hunts missing copter SAN DIEGO (AP) - Military aircraft searched Sunday for a U.S. Navy helicopter, carrying four people, which never returned from a routine training flight, the Navy said. 12 Petty Officer Cori Dinkins, of the Commander Naval Air Force, said the helicopter took off Saturday from the landing deck of- the USS Wichita about 6 p.m. PST. The ship was stationed off the Southern Califor- nia coast. "The pilot hadn't said anything about any prob- lems." Ms. Dinkins said. She said the helicopter was not spotted going down Names of those missing were not released, and further details were available. Fatal crash 'skips' Marines" CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A private af ?? plane crashed Sunday in a field where 230 Marines were camping out on a training exercise killing the two people aboard the craft but injuring no one on the ground, a spokeswoman at Camp Pendleton said. "We are very, very fortunate," said Sgt. Tracy Heuman. "It's almost like a tent city out there . . . and the wing tips of the plane knocked over several tents." Names of the two aboard the twin-engine, two- seater Piper Seneca were not immediately available pending notification of their relatives, Ms. Heuman said. She said Federal Aviation Authorities were investi- gating the incident at the base in northern San Diego County enme 75 miles south of Los Angeles UFO1 6 Projects- 2 F-15 fighters collide EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (UPI) - Two Air Force F-15 fighter planes col- lided during a nighttime refueling opera-, tion over the Gulf of Mexico Monday and one plane crashed into the water. The fate of the downed pilot was unknown, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday, and the names of both pilots were not released immediately. areg;J cc/3/81 The unarmed jets are used by the Navy to block out hostile aircraft radar and guided weapons systems with high-powered jamming transmitters contained in pods mounted under the plane's wings. Witnesses told investigators it appeared the plane exploded in the air over a farm about three miles south of Oceana Naval Air Station. One naval officer said he tended to agree with that. claim, saying the wreckage would have been in larger pieces if the plane had merely flown into the ground. Instead, the largest piece is a 10-foot section of fusel- age. The rest is scattered nearly a mile across fields surrounding Princess Anne Stables off London Bridge Road. The Navy identified the dead crewmen as Lt. James H. Mallory Jr., 26, the plane's pilot, from Sa- vannah, Ga .; Lt. Cmdr. Jack A. Fisher, administration officer for the aircraft squadron, from Stockton, Cal- if .; and Lt. Alfred J. Dupont Jr. of Bellevue, Wash. All were assigned to Tactical Electronics Warfare Squad- ron 138 in Washington state. Dupont earlier confided that the plane had obsolete instruments and was inadequately maintained, his brother Steve Dupont said Thursday in Bellevue. "He was concerned over it, but he told me not to confide in my parents because they would worry. He just wasn't confident with the equipment," Steve Du- pont said. "Naval aviation duty is volunteer duty so if the men do not want to fly, they can just resign from active duty flying," Chandler added. The three fliers had been in Norfolk only two days, flying cross country from the West Coast on Tuesday with the crews of the other three planes in their squadron. They had taken off from the Norfolk Naval Air Station at 8:30 a.m. Thursday with three other EA-6Bs and were on their way to the carrier John F. Kennedy off the Virginia coast to begin a five-week exercise in the Caribbean. According to Connors, the plane apparently turned back toward Oceana Naval Air Station, instead of flying with the other three out to sea. It crashed at 8:50 a.m. about three miles from Oceana. Connors said no emergency was declared by the. pilot and no distress signal Was seen, The aviators apparently did not eject from the plane. The cause of the accident is not yet known, he said. 1-UFOR 6 Projects- 3 airmen killed in jet crash VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A Maxy, in a line about a mile long, witnesses said. Prowler iet crashed in a field south of Ocea- Burning metal littered a wide area. nà Naval Air Station Thursday, killing all three men aboard. The EA-6B jet was the same type as the Marine jet that crashed on the aircraft carri- er Nimitz in May. Wreckage of the Prowler was scattered The airborne electronics warfare aircraft was headed for the carrier John F. Kennedy at sea when it crashed at about 8:50 a.m. It went down in a rural area about 15 minutes after leaving Norfolk Naval Air Station with three other Navy plan Okg 10/30/8, === Page 216 of 278 3 NATO planes crast - WHO2 6 Projecto. 16 San Francisco Chronicle Ted- Wed., September 23, 1981 Jet Smashes Into NATO Troops 100 Feared Dead Ankara, Turkey A Turkish air force F-5 jet fighter crashed and exploded yesterday in a bivouac area prepared for a NATO exer- cise. Reporters at the scene said at least 100 Turkish sol- diers were believed to have been killed. Military sources said a fence surrounding the site, where the soldiers were doing calisthenics, prevented many of the victims from escaping the explosion and flames. They said 26 bodies were counted, but they expected the toll to rise. Military sources said the pilot was practicing a diving run over the bivouac area and was unable to pull the plane out of its descent. They said he was killed in the crash, which occurred about noon, and that there were reports the jet hit a gasoline or jet uuel dump. Hospital sources said more than 100 soldiers were flown to Istanbul by helicopter from the crash site near Babaeski, about 30 miles from the Greek border and 70 miles northwest of Istanbul. Some of the victims reportedly had to be transferred to Ankara, 225 miles to the east, because Istanbul's hospitals were too crowd- ed. The hospital sources said most of the injured suffered severe burns Turkey's military government gave few details of the accident or the number of dead and injured. Access to the crash site was refused to all but military personnel. The Turkish military imposed a news blackout after initial reports that the jet that crashed was an F- 104 and that at least 100 soldiers were killed. Turkey's military ruler, General Kenan Evren, announced over state radio later that an F-5 crashed, and that there were "sev- eral casualties." The Turkish sources said so far it appeared all the casualties were Turkish. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto said the Pentagon knew of no U.S. troops involved in the crash. Allied troops had not arrived at the scene of the exercise - code- named Display Determination 81. Troops from the United States, Britain, Greece, Italy, and Portugal were scheduled to come ashore for the exercise in an amphibious landing tomorrow. There was speculation Turkey's ruling generals might cancel the exercise. The Turkish fighter was one of three NATO planes that crashed yesterday in Europe A U.S. Air Force pilot, First Lieutenant David Babaeski GREECE Istanbul Jet Hits Bivouac TURKEY Where the F-5 went down 2 S. Richardson, 24, of Lancaster, Ohio, bailed out of his A-10 jet fighter just before it crashed into the hills south of Florence in northern Italy. Richardson para- chuted to safety. He also was taking part in NATO military maneuvers being held throughout Europe. A French-made Mirage jetfigh ter of the Belgian Air Force explod ed above a factory near Welken- raedt, about 80 miles east of Brus- sels near the German border, killing the pilot. Some of the wreckage landed on factory build- ings, but no injuries were reported on the ground. Officials said they did not believe the flight was connected to NATO exercises. === Page 217 of 278 2502 6 Projects THE SUNDAY OREGO NIAN, JANUARY 3, 1982 Pilot killed as Navy PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A Navy plane carried three cr C-1 2 cargo plane lost power, dropped five passengers. onb o à compactycar and slammed into a Powell said the some type of fuel r near Pensacola and tret : in a housing development Saturday, kill ing the pilot and injuring three of the sew en others on board, authorities said. No one on the ground was reported inju red and no homes in the develop- met it suffered any major damage, said Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connor, a spokesman for the Navy in Norfolk, Va. | The Navy identified the dead man as Lt. Cmdr. Vernon M. Johns of Virginia Beai ch. I Connor said the plane was on a lo- gisti cs flight from Norfolk to the Pen- saco la Naval Air Station when it went dow n about 1:25 p.m. He said the plane had been diverted from a landing at the navs il station to the Pensacola Municipal Airport because of weather conditions. I \ light rain was reported at the time of the crash, and fog limited visibility to a ha ilf-mile, Connor said. The plane crash ed several miles north of the mu- nicip al airport's runway. Sheriff's Lt. Don Powell said the / plane crashes ew members and plane developed nalfunction while sacola airport's control tower. TI plane was being guided to a runway the airport by instrument. But short of the runway, the plai radioed the Pen- began to lose altitude quickly. UTVR 6 Projects California aircraft crashes fatal to six Oray 11/23/8, SAN DIEGO (UPI) - A private plane, were withheld until relatives could be buzzed tents occupied by Marines at contacted. Camp Pendleton, Calif., during the week- end, flattening one tent before slamming into a bulldozer and killing the two people aboard the plane. Four Navy crewman. also were killed in a helicopter crash off nearby San Diego. The names of the male and female vic- tims aboard the twin-engine Piper Seneca Chat crashed Sunday at the Marine camp "It's really a miracle that no Marines were futured. There were about 200 Ma- rines in the tent camp out there," Lt. Col. Gale Stienon said. "The plane flew over some tents. One tent was flattened with a wing of the plane . Fortunately, it cleared the area and crashed into a bulldozer. - UFO1 6 Projects-(Readly air Dutch airliner crash kills 17 ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A Dutch do- mestic airliner crashed Tuesday in a thunderstorm outside Rotterdam and all 17 people aboard were believed killed, state police said. Two witnesses were quoted by police as saying the Hamburg-bound aircraft plunged out of cloud cover, - slammed into the ground and burst into flames. Another witness told Dutch television he saw the plane emerge from the clouds with only one wing and spiral to earth. "The thunderstorm was frightful," said office worker J. Van Luyk. "The wind was very heavy. We ran out of the office to try to save the people on board, but when we got there, there was nothing to save. The plane had disintegrated into millions of pieces." The plane, a twin-turboprop Fokker F-28 Friend- ship, crashed into an industrial estate on the outskirts of Moerdijk, about 20 miles south of Rotterdam. "It is almost certain that all occupants of the plane were killed outright," police spokesman John de Lizer said. The 17 aboard included four crew - a pilot, a co-pilot and two hostesses. oreg. 10/7/81 UFOc 6 Projects Probe continues in DC-10 incident oreg 11/29/81 WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigators are continuing to look into the breakup of a jet engine on an Air Florida DC-10 that caused dangerous damage to wing devices when the plane was taking off from Miami. "The investigation is continuing," Ira Furman, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said Saturday. "At this point we don't know what the (board's) recommendations will be." the Air Florida incident occurred Sept. 22 while the airliner was taking off. The crew managed to pull back on the throttles and stop the DC-10 safely before it reached the end of the runway. Furman said the safety board's inquiry included assessing damage jo high-lift slats on the leading edge of one wing. In a similar incident, 273 people were killed when a DC-10 crashed in Chicago in May 1979. Officials later determined that the plane's wing slats were damaged when an engine tore loose from its mounting pylon, causing x to go into an extreme roll and plunge to the ground Furman said the safety board also was investigat- inga Sept. 22 engine failure aboard an Eastern Air- lines wide-body L-1011 after it took off from Newark, N.J., on a flight bound for Puerto Rico. === Page 218 of 278 UPOR 6 Projecto Org 11/24/8, THE OREGONIAN, TI Associated Press Lasarphoto FATAL CRASH - Stolen twin-engine plane is Two men in plane died. Before the plane crashec wrapped around bulldozer after crashing Sunday it grazed several occupied tents. Bulldozer shield- at Camp Pendleton Marine base in California. ed seven Marines sleeping in tent behind it. === Page 219 of 278 9-22-81 S.F. Chronicle Oakland Stewardess - HO16 Projects - (decollinare space) Death on Plane New Details Karen Williams, the World Airways flight attend- ant who died in the elevator of a DC-10 as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean Sunday, was the victim of a heart attack and was not crushed to death as first reported, a spokesman 'for the airline said yesterday. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administra- tion were investigating the bizarre death of Williams, 24, a former Miss Oakland and YMCA volunteer who was an inspiration to the young women growing up in her East Oakland neighborhood. The FAA first reported that Williams was somehow trapped between the top of the crew elevator cart and the ceiling of the deck, and was crushed to death when the cart started to rise. The elevator connects the lower galley level with the main deck level where the passengers are. But yesterday, Michael Hender- son, spokesman for World Airways, said there was no malfunction in the elevator system, and a prelimi- nary autopsy report from the coro- ner's office in London indicated Williams' "death was by cardiac arrest with a miner degree of asphixiation, with no injuries to internal organs." Williams, who had been a flight attendant for two years, was found draped over a food cart on top of the elevator. She was trapped "in such a way that she couldn't breathe," said Don Armstrong, act- ing chief for the FAA's engineering corps office in Long Beach. "The evidence that we have up to this moment implies that one of the switches that senses whether. the door is open or closed malfunc- fioned so the system operated with the door open." Armstrong said. "What a person is doing draped over a cart when it (the elevator) began to move I don't know.' Armstrong said this type of elevator system has malfunctioned in the past, but he said he did not know whether the incidence of failure was "out of line because I don't have the numbers available." World Airways spokesman Henderson said that a preliminary probe by a National Transportation Safety Board investigator. A. D. Llo- rente, found the elevator system to be working properly, and that the aircraft is still in service. Llorente could not be reached for comment. Don Hanson, spokesman for the manufacturer, McDonnell- Douglas, said, "] know there have been some malfunctions on the safety switches there (on the eleva- tor)," and added that in the early 1970s another stewardess was in- jured in a galley lift incident. But Hanson said the system had been improved in 1979, and "1 don't believe there's any great rash of problems with it." The death of Williams, who planned to quit her flight attend- ant's job next month to return to school, has profoundly shaken her family, neighbors and co-workers. Her sister, Beatrice Pontoon, price said Williams, who was crowned Miss Oakland in 1979, worked as a volunteer and taught modeling at the YMCA in her East Oakland neighborhood. Pontoon said Williams "used to give little talks to the girls in the neighborhood on how to be a lady to motivate them, to inspire them - just because they're here doesn't mean they're going to have to stay here forever." When Williams, who was based in Baltimore, would return home with pictures of her travels, the girls would rush down the street to meet her, Pontoon said. "They know she's gone, but they don't know who's going to take her place." Their mother, Arbille Williams, described Karen as a cheerful. athletic, goal-oriented young wom- an who was concerned about oth- ers. === Page 220 of 278 - Deadly Air Space- - UFOR 6 Projecto - Air travelers paying high price for tough stand drag 10/28/81 By JACK W. GERMOND and JULES WITCOVER WASHINGTON - Air New Eng- .Moreover, in this case, Reagan had a land shut down the other day, in part clear shot. The members of PATCO had because of the impact of the air control- very obviously broken a law. And their demands seemed clearly excessive at a time when the rest of the government was being asked to tighten belts. It was, everyone said, time to draw the line. lers' strike. Traffic at the nation's busi- est airports is off 20 percent. The gov- emoment has ordered schedules cut back further next month. Delays of 30 min- utes or more are six times as common as they were before the strike. Statistics aside, everyone who travels fre- quently knows that airline ser- vice is no longer reliable. If you simply have to be somewhere at a specific time, it is prudent to build GERMOND -WITCOVER several hours into your schedule to sit around an airline terminal stewing and swearing. The airline system in this country is, not to put too fine a point on it, a mess and likely to get much worse before it gets any better. The holiday season and bad weather are just now approaching. It's easy to envision a snowy Sunday night in December when the whole thing comes to a standstill. Still there is no sign of any softening of the Reagan administration's hard-line attitude against rehiring any of the 11,500 striking controllers even now that the first step has been taken to- ward decertification of their union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. In the short term, President Rea- gan's decision to fire the controllers af- ter they struck illegally in August was obviously an extremely popular one. But it now seems apparent that the country as a whole may be paying a high price for this short-term political gain, both in terms of the effect on the economy and the impact on what has become an essential service for so much of American business. In that first flush of righteous indig- nation in the White House -- remember Reagan himself announcing the ul- timatum for the cameras in the Rose Garden, - apparently no one took the long view. If someone had, it is hard to believe they could not have found some formula that would have allowed the White House to make its point in em- phatic terms while leaving the door open for a reasonable solution sometime down the road. That door wasn't left open largely because the President's advisers be- lieved the demand that the controllers return to their jobs within 48 hours was going to break the strike, Indeed, 24 hours into that ultimatum period, White House officials were crowing among themselves that almost one-third of the controllers already had yielded and re- turned to their jobs in the control tow- ers. That figure proved, of course, to be grossly inaccurate. What was forgotten in the heat of the moment is that the air traffic con- trollers are not outlaws, even though they broke the law when they walked off their jobs. They are working people and union members who got caught up in a dispute - and now are paying an extraordinarily high price for having Labor unions aren't held in the high- est esteem these days, and those that represent public employees are particu- misjudged the resolve of the other side. larly vulnerable political targets. Even But the rest of the country is also their fellow union members often are paying a high price for another miscal- critical of public workers and their de- culation - the one the White House mands at a time of rising taxes and high made in believing the ultimatum would inflation. succeed. There would be some political risk, of course, in any decision by the Reagan administration to bend a little now. The most devoted union-haters could be ex- pected to accuse the President of "cav- ing in" to union muscle and sanctioning illegality. But there are others who would give Reagan credit for showing some flexi- bility and practicality if a new effort were made to find a formula for bring- ing the controllers back to work. The point has been made; reasonable people are not going to imagine Ronald Reagan is soft on illegal strikes. It would not be surprising, however, if reasonable people now should begin to ask if the government doesn't have some responsibility to maintain reliable airline service. === Page 221 of 278 A 10 :3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1982 Associated Press Laserphoto EMERGENCY OVER - Steam rises from nuclear plant near Rochester, N.Y., after radioactive leak shut facility down. Plant officials canceled emergency alert Tuesday, 26 hours after radioactive steam was released. "FOR attack "Power" (" Projecto) Nuclear plant shutdown completed By BOB DVORCHAK ONTARIO, N.Y. (AP) - The R.E. Ginna nuclear plant was brought to a cold shutdown Tuesday, 31 hours after "a steam tube rupture automatically shut down the unit and sent radioactivity Into the atmosphere, officials said. The Nuclear Regulatory Commis- sion's emergency response team left the area after cold shutdown was reached at 4:30 p.m., according to John Oberlies,. chief spokesman for the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp., which serves 1 million customers in the Greater Rochester area. Cold shutdown is attained when the temperature in the primary cooling sys- tem is under 200 degrees Fahrenheit. "We optimistically hope to be able to inspect the steam generators by Sat- urday," Oberlies said. The cold shutdown was achieved 51/4 hours after plant officials had de- clared the remaining nuclear emergency classification was canceled. The utility then closed its emergency news center. The plant had been in various emer- gency stages for 26 hours since the acci- dent Monday morning. . "The emergency is over. The situa- tion is stable. Operators are making pre- parations for the cleanup of the spilled water," said Jan Strasma, an NRC spokesman. "It's the mop-up phase, if you will." A site emergency, the second most serious in a four-level classification sys- Tem - and by NRC definition a situa- tion that poses the potential of health effects for the public - had gone into effect 75 minutes after the 9:28 a.m. Monday burst. It was downgraded to an alert, the third most serious level, at 7:15 p.m. Monday, and the alert was canceled en- tirely at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. "There's still a lot of work, but the plant superintendent determined we are not in an emergency any more," said RG&E spokesman Richard Peck. "Oper- ations are going back to normal. Every- thing is going along excellently." Meanwhile, federal officials voiced concern about the recurrence of steam tube failures. The rupture at Ginna, a Westinghouse-designed, pressurized water reactor, was the fifth time in eight years that a steam tube had burst at a nuclear plant, according to the NRC. "The industry is very concerned about it because it's an operational problem," Strasma said. There also is an industrywide problem with premature tube degradation. There are 3,260 steam tubes in each of Ginna's two generators, and they tend to become corroded with caked up crud and mineral deposits. "The only way it can develop into a serious prob- lem is if a number of tubes fail," Stras- ma said. Other tube ruptures have occurred at Point Beach in northern Wisconsin Feb. 26, 1975; Surry Point in Gravel Neck, Va., in September 1976; Prairie Island in Red Wing, Minn., Oct. 2, 1979; and the Duke Power Co.'s Oconee Unit in South Carolina in September 1981. The biggest part of the Ginna clean- up involved purification of 11,000 gal- Tons of radioactive water flooding the containment building floor. Oleg 1/27/82 === Page 222 of 278 Employees to be called back 2501 6 Projecto N-plant emergency declared stabilized By MEL REISNER ONTARIO, N.Y. (AP) - A tube rup- tured in a cooling system at the Ginna nuclear power plant Monday, releasing radioactive steam into the atmosphere and leaking thousands of gallons of wa- ter into a sump before the plant was stabilized, officials said. But by Monday night the situation had stabilized so much that utility offi- cials said all employees would be called back to work Tuesday. "We are convinced the plant is safe," said John Oberlies, a vice presi- dent and chief spokesman for the Ro- chester Gas & Electric Corp., which owns and operates the plant. "We know it is stable." "We are convinced there are no health problems," he said at a 9 p.m. news briefing. "However, we continue to check." A declaration of a "site emergency," the second most serious of four emer- gency classifications, had been down- graded to a- "alert," the third level, at about 7×15 p.m., 10 hours after the tube burst, according to Frank H. Orienter, another RG&E spokesman. Richard Sullivan, a spokesman for RG&E, the plant owner and operator, had said early in the day that there was "no danger to the public at this time." Following the rupture, the plant reactor was shut down automatically and doused with water to keep it from overheating, said Gary Sanborn, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He said the plant "appears to be fair- ly stable." The plant is located about 18 miles northeast of Rochester, New York's third-largest city. Oberlies said unmeasurable traces of radioactive gases continued to be re- leased into the atmosphere until about 5 p.m. He said the releases were part of the utility's efforts to cool the reactor. Nemen M. Terc, an NRC emergency preparedness analyst, said there was no damage to the reactor core. And the reactor's fuel elements were never un- covered by cooling water, said Ebe McCabe, NRC regional reactor projects section chief. Harold Denton, director of the NRC, said in Washington that "it might be expensive for the operator to clean up, but in terms of public health conse- quences it wasn't very serious." - Officials said the reactor was being cooled down well below operating tem- perature and the cooling down process was expected to be completed by Tues- day or Wednesday. Oberlies said about 11,000 gallons of water was standing in the containment sump. McCabe said the water probably was slightly radioactive, "but certainly not dangerous." If the reactor were in full operation, water in the sump would not interfere with it as long as the water did not touch the reactor wall. The sump is de- signed to catch excess water in case of leaks or other water problems. Pumps later remove the water from the sump. Richard de Young, director of the NRC's office of enforcement, said it would be "a number of weeks" before the plant is back to normal. Denton identified the gases released as radioactive xenon and krypton. The radiation release - described by one official as no higher than what could be expected in nature - was Lake Ontario Site Emergency Rochester Ontario Buffalo NEW YORK PA. Ap emitted into the atmosphere in 5-second puffs, totaling three minutes, while the wind was blowing from the northwest at 14 mph, officials said. Snow was fall- ing over Rochester. Oberlies said five workers had trace levels of exposure to radiation. He said two showered, and three wiped off with a cloth, then all went home. ojeg 1/26/82 Related stories um Pagoy, S. Radiation hits N-workers ONTARIO, N.Y. (UPI) - Seven employees report for work at the damaged Ginna nuclear power pla shut down by a radioactive steam leak, suffered radiat doses significant enough to measure, utility officials se The workers received a "minimal amount" of contami tion on the clothing Tuesday as they and 150 oti workers returned to the facility, said Richard Peck Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. spokesman. "In all ca we were able to remove the particles," Peck said. "Th were detected at routine check points in the plant. Th didn't even know they had any contamination," 09 /27/84 === Page 223 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects WPPSS plants receive oteg By SANDRA MCDONOUGH 1/23/82 of The Oregonian staff death sentence SEATTLE - The Washington Pub- lic Power Supply System finally put the seal of doom on its ailing nuclear power plants 4 and 5 Friday. Members of the WPPSS board of directors unanimously voted to termi- nate their construction - an action that will have repercussions throughout the Northwest for years to come. ambrus conrecent 19 nahli- UFO2 6 Projects Power plants deficit forecast RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - It will take the United States a long time to recover from the slump in electri- cal power plant construction, says Larry Chockie. Chockie, of San Jose, Calif., represents the United States on an International Atomic Energy Agency group working to develop codes for inspection of operating plants. He is also a member of several national committees responsible for writing nuclear power building codes. The United States is not building new power plants, he said, while other nations like Japan, Eng- Tand, France and even smaller countries like Taiwan and South Korea are moving ahead quickly. The United States is shunning more than nuclear plants - new orders for coal and oll-fired plants also are lacking, said Chockie, who was here to speak to The American Society for Quality Control and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. "We may well be short of power soon," he said. "And it takes so long to get them operating that it will take a long time to recover. The net effect is very disturbing." Japan can build nuclear plants in 40 months from start to finish, he said. "All of the regulations are the same (as in the United States), and in some cases they are a little tighter." He believes the difference in American and Japa- nese plants is worker productivity and management. Both, he said, are better in Japan. Construction criteria are also constant in Japan, he said. "They do it so quickly that the criteria don't change." Construction periods of 10 to 12 years allow agen- cies to change standards and requirements in the Unit- ed States, he said. Japan learned quality assurance from the United States and applied it as a principle, Chockie said. "Everyone in Japan is quality-conscious." Now, he said, Americans are studying Japanese techniques to learn their quality-assurance practices. UFO26 Projects Leaking gas on Navy ship I kills 3 sailors SAN DIEGO (UPI) - A freon gas line apparently ruptured aboard a nuclear- powered cruiser, killing three sailors and Injuring seven others who came to their rescue. The dead men were discovered Monday about 5:15 p.m. in the forward air condi- tioning plant of the guided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge, docked at the 32nd Street Naval Station, a Navy spokesman said. - Names of the victims were withheld. The seven hospitalized were in stable condition at Balboa Naval Hospital. Master Chief Petty Officer Jim McDo- nough said two victims were on a routine inspection when they entered the air con- ditioning plant, which was filled with fre- on gas. McDonough said the third victim, a pet- ty officer working part time for a civilian contractor, was overcome when he en- tered the plant to help the two. Lt. John Carman of the Navy's information office in the Pentagon said the third man appar- ently called for help before succumbing to the freon. "The navy contractor notified other persons on the ship and then he was over- come," Carman said. The other seven were injured while try- ing to help the victims, McDonough said. otag J 1/26/82 === Page 224 of 278 NRC suspends Diablo UFO2 6 Projects Canyon license NUNZIO J. PALLADINO WASHINGTON (AP) - The Nu- clear Regulatory Commission on Thurs- day suspended the operating license of the Diablo Canyon atomic power plant, saying it would require verification of earthquake protection equipment at the troubled California facility. The NRC decision came at a closed meeting hours after a congressional subcommittee hearing at which new questions were raised about the safety o nuclear power. NRC Chairman Nunzio J. Palladino said the vote was 4-1 to suspend the. license to test the first nuclear reactor at the yet-to-be opened $2.3 billion plant __ Commission member Thomas Roberts was the dissenter and plans to file a separate opinion. "An order suspending the Diablo Canyon license has been approved by the commission," Palladino said after the two-hour meeting. "The commis- sioners are unanimous in their view that fuel loading should not take place until seismic verification can be completed." Palladino said Roberts also would file a separate opinion on the specifics of how the seismic verification would be accomplished. That is key point since the utility that owns the plant wants to use its own consultant, but California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. is insisting on a study independent of the plant's owner An order to the owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., said PG&E would have to provide for NRC approval 'informa- tion demonstrating the independence of the consultant the company plans to hire for the verification study and the specific verification program it pro- poses. The order says Brown and others who have intervened in the licensing gas will have to be given 15 days to comment on the choice of consultant and the program. NRC spokesman Joseph Fouchard was asked if suspension of a license meant an entire new set of public li- censing hearings would have to be held. "No, it would not," he said. Tony Ledwell, a PG&E spokesman, said the company was "disappointed" at the license suspension but would contin- ue to cooperate with the NRC and was confident "the plant can and will be operated safely in the public interest." Earlier, Palladino told a congression- al subcommittee that his confidence in the nuclear establishment's "quality as- surance" - how it guarantees atomic power plants are built safely - had been "clouded" by his experiences in 41/2 months on the commission. "After reviewing both industry and NRC past performances in quality as- surance," he said, "I readily acknowl- edge that neither have been as effective as they should have been in view of the relatively large number of construction- related deficiencies that have come to light." Palladino spoke at a hearing called to focus on problems pointed up by the Diablo Canyon power plant near San Luis Obispo, Calif. At the subcommittee, Palladino said "a significant number" of plants other than Diablo Canyon had problems with quality assurance, and William J. Dircks, NRC executive director of oper- ations, listed four other plants being built that had "quality assurance break- "Gowns with broad repercussions.". Dircks named the Marble Hill plant in Indiana, Midland in Michigan, Zim- mer in Ohio, and South Texas near Houston. Palladino insisted that overall, he has confidence in atomic power. Spokesmen for the nuclear industry, stressed errors have been caught - and lessons learned - from quality assur- ance programs. But both the NRC and the industry came in for harsh criticism from mem- bers of environment and energy sub- comittee. Perhaps the strongest was from Rep. George Miller, a Democrat when California district is about 175 miles north of the Diablo Canyon plant. Miller quoted statements stretching back to 1977 in which PG&E said the plant was safe and urged the NRC to speed its licensing. He said, too, that Diablo Canyon's troubles were only dis- _covered because a PG&E employee went beyond his duty. "Somehow, both the government · and the private sector have dramatically failed the people of this country," Miller . said. "I'm not sure how we exonerate the system." Other subcommittee members said the credibility of nuclear power is at an all-time low, and Byron Georgiou, legal affairs secretary to Brown, said only "a truly independent audit" of Diablo Can- yon's problems could restore public con- fidence in the NRC. Brown, who opposes opening Diablo Canyon, has all along urged a study that would be completely independent of PG&E. oreg 11/20/81 === Page 225 of 278 - NFO26 Projects- N-reactor malfunction reported late RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - Nearly 50 employees at Hanford's N-Reactor were checked for radioactive con- tamination after the plutonium-produc- ing reactor's ventilating system mal- functioned a week ago, a spokeswoman said Thursday. "No one was contaminated. No one inhaled any of the dust. None of the dust that we were concerned about left the reactor building at all," said Karen Scot- ti, spokeswoman for UNC Nuclear In- dustries. She said the radiation amounted to what one might receive from an X-ray. She said the accident occurred when the ventilation system suffered a mo- mentary loss of vacuum, leaving open the possibility that a radioactive sub- stance might spread outside the reac- tor's recovery area. She said all radiation was confined to the reactor's Zone 2, the recovery area. She said the incident was not report- ed earlier because "there was no effect on the employees or on the environ- ment, so it was not the kind of thing that normally gets written up as an oc- currence report and put on the public record." She said that when the incident oc- curred, work was about to resume on cleaning tiny radioactive boron-carbide balls, which were to be returned to the reactor's ball-hopper system. That system acts as a backup to the reactor's primary safety system, she said. "So it was simply a question of do- ing a survey and cleaning up any areas where there might be dust deposits," Ms. Scotti said. UFO 6 Projecto Navy confirms radiation report NORFOLK, Va. - The Navy has confirmed a report that sailors on ships carrying nuclear weapons soak up radiation, but main- "Tains the levers they get "can be compared with radiation expo- sures to workers in the thousands of hospitals handling radioactive materials." The Navy was commenting in response to a Sunday story in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot that reported on a radiation study present- ed at a closed committee session of the House of Respresentatives by Dr. Charles Gilbert, the acting deputy assistant Energy secre- tary for nuclear materials. The Associated Press Pendleton, Die. 1/16/8, Troi for 3rd time in 8 days. 450,6 Projecto- Control rod fixed in TVA N-plant CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Technicians on Sunday fixed a control rod used to shut down Sequoyah nuclear power plant's Unit 2 reactor and the Tennessee Valley Authority canceled a low-level emer- gency warning. An electrical problem in the drive mechanism that had caused the rod to fail to insert properly was repaired, TVA spokesman Carl Crawford said. The reactor, the second of two at the $2 billion TVA plant, had been operating only nine days when the incident oc- curred Saturday night. Prob- lems with the rod did not pre- vent operators from shutting down the reactor. The malfunction did not rep- resent a threat to the public and no radioactive material was released, Crawford said. Boise, d. /10/8, === Page 226 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects Operator error sets off Hanford reactor 'scram' RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - An emergency shutdown of the N reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation was caused by an operator who accidentally closed the wrong valve on a system vi- tal to safe operation of the plant, offi- cials said Friday. The reactor automatically shut. down after its sensors detected the problem, and at no time did the situa- tion get out of control, said Norman Miller, vice president of UNC Nuclear Inustries, which operates the reactor for the federal Department of Energy. "Things worked like they were sup- posed to," Miller said. "It was certainly an experience for the operators, but the situation was never out of control." The reactor has been closed since the incident Tuesday morning. An in- spection is under way to see if the reac- tor was damaged, and Miller was uncer- tain wh .. a it would be restarted. The primary purpose of the reactor is to produce plutonium for weapons and research, but steam produced as a byproduct is used to generate elctricity. Miller said the problem that set off the "scram" began in a compressed-air system. As the air passes through the system, it runs through a dryer to lose excess moisture. Grog ,2 2/5/8, UFOR 6 Projecto Ecologists fire on nuke site anages 1/ 19/8~ GRENOBLE, France (UPI) - Five rock- ets were fired into the construction site of a controversial fast-breeder nuclear reac- tor Monday night and police said Tuesday a Soviet army anti-tank missile launcher was used in the attack. One rocket hit the 250-foot tower of " the reactor Sper-Phoenix at Creys-Mal- ville, police said, peeling off concrete from the thick structure. None of the 20 night-shift construction workers at the site was hurt. In a series of phone calls to Paris news- papers, a little-known group calling itself "peace-loving ecologists," claimed respon- sibility for the unprecedented attack on the reactor. Investigators said the launcher, aban- doned on the right bank of the Rhone River, was a 60mm Soviet army anti-tank weapon of a type produced in the 1960s and using hollow-charge rockets. Mark- ings in Russian script were still visible on the launcher, police said, The reactor is on the left bank of the Rhone. "There was no threat of a nuclear ex- 4For 6 Projects Seabrook ordered to sell CONCORD. N.H. (AP) - The builder of the Sea- brook nuclear power plant faces severe financial prob- lems, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission says. It ordered the utility to sell some of the plant or face regulatory pressure to delay or cancel one or both Seabrook reactors In a rate decision, the commission said the pros- pects of bankruptcy for the company and cancellation for Seabrook II are "so tangible they cannot be ip- 2502 6 Projects Trojan on, Hanford off RAINIER - The Trojan nuclear power plant was "being gradually restored to full generating levels Mon- day after three shutdowns In a week. At Richland, Wash .. , the Hanford nuclear reactor went off during the week- end and Karen Scott, spokesman for UNC Nu- clear Industries, said the shutdown probably would last several days. Bill Babcock, spokesman Portland General Elec- Co., the Trojan opera- said PGE found the ems which caused the en closures 195/18/ UFU1 6 Projects. Spills controlled NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A 2-day-old water main break in Jersey City and a 2-day-old leak of stinking chemicals in Newark were brought under control Sunday, officials said. (h Jersey City, a 100-year-old water main that soptured Friday, flooding some basements and causing power out- ages in part of the Hudson County com- munity was shut off, said Tom Golodik, a spokesman for Mayor Gerald McCann. area 1/11/82 UFO1 6 Projects Trojan shut for 3rd time in 8 days Drag 1/17/80 For the third time in little more than a week, the 1,100-kilowatt Trojan nu- clear power plant near Rainier was shut down because of a malfunction at 9:21 a.m. Saturday, a Portland General Elec- tric Co. spokesman said. The first shutdown was caused by a break in a steam line about 1 a.m. Jan. 9. Operation resumed at 12:50 p.m. last Monday after the line was repaired, but an electrical malfunction about 5 a.m. Tues . aused another interruption. blem was repaired by Tues- plant personnel tried to ine signal triggered the ; reactor core cooling 4 further delays. It a.m. Thursday that tem. day was a repeat nilure, said e emergen- vated, and rtain" how Igh it could ing the ases a *ckly tor lems. "automatically switches the instruments to a backup electrical system in case of prob- jan, said the latest shutdown was caused Bill Backcock, a spokesman for Port- Aid, of the er from ums and the stration. how long it would take to complete re- pairs. 21995 1/13/8- PGE officials said it was not known Instrument system. He said the inverter by a malfunctioning inverter in the plant's land General Electric Co., operator of Tro- Malfunction shuts Trojan for second time in a week section of the plant came at 1 a.m. Satur- steam pipe leak in the non-radioactive after returning to service at 12:50 p.m. came as the plant was resuming power "The shutdown, at about 5 a.m. Tuesday, power plant near Rainier was shut down Tuesday for repairs in its electrical sys- Monday. An earlier shutdown involving a : RAINIER (UPI) - The Trojan nuclear UFOR 6 Projects === Page 227 of 278 Europeans march for disarmament oregio 10/26/8,-2/50, 6 Projects- PARIS (UPI) - Hundreds of thousands "All of us, demonstrators and everyone else, would seem to have the same objec- tive," he said Sunday. "I just happen to of ban-the-bomb marchers demonstrated across Europe to denounce both the Unit- ed States and the Soviet Union for arms " think that the right way to get peace is to policies they fear could turn their coun- be strong enough to deter an attack." tries into a nuclear battlefield. Presidents Reagan and Brezhnev were Characterized as villains while peace and neutrality were lauded in marches Sunday in Paris, Brussels, Bonn and Oslo, and Saturday in London and Rome. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- berger, returning from meetings in Eu- rope on nuclear strategy, said during a stop in Shannon, Ireland, that he respects the right to protest but thinks disarma- ment will not preserve peace. In France, the ruling Socialist Party refused to participate in the Paris march on grounds that "any anti-American Pershing missile campaign must also de- nounce Soviet SS-20 missiles." Some signs said "Neither U.S. Persh- ings nor Soviet SS-20's - disarmament for peace." An estimated 200 youths from the conservative Gaullist Party shouted "Brezhnev, Reagan, leave us in peace." But most signs carried by the estimated 4500 6 Projects Accident shuts N-plant ONTARIO, N.Y. (UPI) - Officials at the Ginna nuclear power plant, crippled by a radioactive steam leak that touched off the worst nuclear scare since the Three Mile Island accident, Tuesday brought the reactor toward "absolute cold shutdown." A pipe in the cooling system burst Monday, leading to the release of a small amount of radioactive gas from the plant less than 20 miles from populous Rochester, N.Y. The reactor switched off automatically and forced evacuation of 100 employees. The Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. said 11 hours later that the threat to the public had passed. 50,000 protesters were anti-American, in- cluding "Hate Reagan. At a meeting af- ter the march, some speakers denounced both superpowers but were booed when they condemned Soviet actions. Pierre Luc Seguillon, head of the "Movement for Peace," said arguments between Moscow and Washington as to "balance or imbalance" of armaments in Europe "have no sense when the United States and the Soviet Union have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet four times." In Oslo, a crowd police estimated at up to 8,000 people - the largest demonstra- tion in Oslo since the 1970s - carried signs saying "No nuclear weapons in Nor- way." Marchers also chanted against So- viet weapons. Organizers in Brussels claimed 200,000 participants, including members of Chris- tian Democratic and Socialist trade unions and parliament members from almost all parties. Marchers carried giant paper fig- ures of Reagan and Brezhnev holding hands. Some 250,000 people turned out for the London demonstration to denounce both superpowers. Another large march was staged in Rome and a smaller demonstra- tion took place in Bonn, scene of a march two weeks ago. === Page 228 of 278 Nuclear arms on sub outrage Swedes - UFOR 6 Projecto - Disementatas Associated Press Laserphoto WATER FOR SUB - A Swedish truck (left) delivers water to Soviet submarine stranded in Swedish waters. area in a show of strength. By HARALD MOLLERSTROM STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Nu- - clear-tipped torpedoes probably are use of nuclear energy, scoffed at Soviet the U-238 mentioned by Falldin. "Th aboard the Soviet submarine that went aground while prowling in a restricted zone near a major Swedish naval base 10 days ago, outraged Swedish officials said Thursday. They said the Soviets can have their submarine back but that storm-tossed seas likely will delay departure of the vessel until Friday. Foreign Minister Ola Ulisten told the Kremlin Sweden regarded the incident with the "utmost gravity" and would tolerate no repetition of it, especially since the Soviets ignored his demand for more information on the sub's arma- ments, refused an inspection of the tor- pedo hold and claimed the sub was armed only with "the necessary weap- ons and ammunition.". Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin told a news conference the incident "the most blatant violation in Sweden the postwar era," and that the would be escorted to a Soviet flot outside Sweden's territorial waters soon as the weather permits." But heavy weather with 45 n. wind gusts prevented the departure, Swedish officers said it would be layed at least until daytime Friday. armada of 11 Soviet ships including two destroyers, two frigates and two mis- sile-armed corvettes, hovered in the Sweden said Thursday it will release the sub, although officials believe it is armed with nuclear weapons. "He said there probably were ot" references to the Baltic as a "sea of would have to be Uranium 235 or plu peace," and said Swedish experts re- nium too, but it was probably hard corded radiation from the outside of the find out by the radiation measuremer sub's hull for three nights and conclud- he explained, adding there proba ed that the sub carried uranium-238. The Soviet Union as well as the Nordic countries have urged that the Baltic Sea be free of nuclear arms. Sweden's commander in chief, Gen. Lennart Ljung, told reporters there was as much as 22 pounds of U-238 aboard and that it could have been used as a protective shield around U-235, a main The Soviets were previously kno ingredient in nuclear arms. But he said to have at least six nuclear miss firm guarantees against a recurrence o the presence of U-235 could not be armed Golf class subs in the Bal the Soviet border violation." proved because the Soviets would not along with 60 torpedo-equipped subs allow an onboard inspection of the hold. the Whisky and other classes, but th also protested the Soviet intrusion Nils Gylden, a nuclear arms expert had been no evidence to date they a "Through discussion we have reached on the Swedish defense staff, said it might be carrying nuclear arms. appeared the Soviet sub was carrying nuclear-tipped torpedos, a secret super- The submarine, skippered by Cmdr. Pyotr Gushin and carrying crew of about 56, ran aground on ro "ruthlessness and lack of respect." in a restricted zone near the Karlsk Brag 11/6/81 naval base 300 miles south of Sto. power weapon about which little is known, but he could not understand why Incredible. I can't understand why holm Oct. 27 while the Swedish navy they would be so stupid as to enter was condueting anti-submarine exer- cises Gushin hlamed navigational error Swedish inner waters with nuclear charges aboard. The only reason I can see is their system does not function vet,"Gylden said. Swedish authorities rejected the ex- planation and speculated Gushin was on a spy mission, They refloated the vessel Monday, and Wednesday disclosed that an officer outranking Gushin was aboard. They identified him only as Avt- sukiewiech, and said he commanded Thursday, for the 10th time in as many days, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Yakovlev was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and handed the latest Swedish protest note. Opposition party leaders later joined the government in condemning the So- viet violation. Even Sweden's smal Communist Party joined in. "We demanded last July in a letter to the Soviet Communist Party that the Soviet Union should withdraw their nu clear-armed submarines from the Balt ic," party chief Tore Forsberg said. "We repeat this demand and urg Social Democratic leader Olof Palm unified judgment and a common line o action," said Palme who accused th Soviet Union of having acted wit Falldin, who opposes even peaceful types of uranium aboard the sub tl was no risk of accidental explos aboard the storm-rocked sub. The defense staff expert said i nuclear arms aboard the Whisky cl sub, built in the mid-50s but modifi most likely were to be used for fight large surface vessels like carriers. === Page 229 of 278 - UPOR 6 Projects - Europeans march 300,000 protest arms buildup 10/26/81 By GREG MacARTHUR of The Associated Press / More than 300,000 demonstrators rallied in four European countries Sun- day to protest a U.S. Soviet, arms build -. up they claim threatens world peace. In Brussels, at least 200,000 people staged what police sources said was the largest demonstration in Belgium since World War II, while more than 50,000 marchers paraded through Paris and a similar number rallied in the eastern sector of Berlin. In Oslo, an estimated 7,000 Norwegians held a torchlight pa- rade organized by a group called "No to Nuclear Weapons." Reflecting a growing tide of paci- fism across Europe, the protests fol- lowed similar demonstrations Saturday that drew more than 200,000 in Rome and 150,000 in London. Two weeks ago, 250,000 anti-nuclear protesters rallied in Bonn, West Germany. Government ministers and leaders of political parties led the three-hour march that jammed downtown Brussels. Officially, police said there were only 65,000 demonstrators, but police sources admitted the crowd was closer to the 200,000 estimated by reporters on the scene. Although Belgium's outgoing left- center coalition government was not officially supporting the demonstration, its parties all were represented by Par- liament members. At least three Social- ist members of the government marched in front of the peaceful cor- tege, together with chairmen of the So- cialist and Communist parties. In both France and Belgium, the de- monstrators demanded dismantling of Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at the conti- nent and protested U.S. plans to deploy new U.S. Pershing II and cruise nuclear missiles in Britain, West Germany, It- aly, Belgium and the Netherlands. The last two countries have postponed final approval of the missile plans. In Berlin, 50,000 East Germans ral- lied "for a secure peace and against NATO armaments," accusing the West' of trying "to turn Europe into an atomic battlefield," the official ADN news agency said. The agency said speakers called for an end to the arms race, a ban on neu- tron weapons and East-West talks on arms control. The United States and Soviet Union have scheduled talks to begin Nov. 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, on reducing nu- clear arms in Europe. Talks on control- ling intercontinental missiles are ex- pected to begin in early 1982, Reagan administration officials say. The Paris marchers carried a large hammer denouncing hath artist and SPO DI Ni Pershingni 'S 20 Desamme jent! TEMITU ALSA CIF. JEUNESSE Associated Press Laserphoto PARISIAN PROTEST - Some 50,000 anti-nuclear protesters carry signs as they march through Paris Sunday demanding an end to East-West arms buildup. Protests also were staged in three other European countries. The demonstrators trooped to a large tent in eastern Paris for a rally to be addressed by French peace activists and the wife of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Police estimated the crowd at be- tween 50,000 and 60,000 people. In Valance, France, where the ruling Socialist Party held its national con- gress, Premier Pierre Mauroy cautioned against the danger of "neutralism," and Defense Minister Charles Hernu told a national television audience that "paci- fism cannot be unilateral." Despite the pacifist traditions within toughest stand of any Western Europe- an nation against what it sees as the. Soviet military arms buildup. Although France is not part of the military arm of the 15-nation North At- lantic Treaty Organization, it supports the deployment of the new U.S. mis- siles. The French peace rally, following similar demonstrations Saturday in Rome and London, was organized by an umbrella group known as the Peace Movement. The French Communist Par- ty, the Young Communists' League, the === Page 230 of 278 - YFor 6 Projectos - Drago 10/28/81 Reagan's remarks about fighting scare Europeans Oregon Journal, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1981 President Reagan has managed the White Horse quickly removed to scare our European allies, leaving Schweitzer from his job, sending The impression that the United him to the Pentagon. Then the pres- States doesn't think nuclear war is ident, en route to Cancun, Mexico, so bad after all. issued a statement saying that the An off-handed statement by the U.S. opposes the use of nuclear president to some newspaper edi- weapons at any level. tors fueled worries in Northern Eu- rope: "I could see where you could have an exchange of tactical weap- ons against troops in the field with- out them bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the but- ton," said the president. Reagan couldn't help notice news stories about the hundreds of Thousands of marchers who demon- strated Saturday and Sunday in Pa- ris, Brussels, Bonn, Oslo, London and Rome The over-all problem is that the Reagan administration consistently Soon after Mai. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer, the top military officer has assumed the role of national of the U.S. National Security Coun- leaders preparing for war. Little has been done to begin talks with the Soviet Union about controlling nu- cil staff, fanned the flames hy say- ing that the Soviet Union now has nuclear superiority in the air. land . clear weapons. The White House and sea and by predicting that the Soviets "are going to strike " has proposed a huge military budget and refuses to consider defense cuts despite projections of a big deficit in the federal budget. It was too late to avoid damage to our relations with Europe, but It's time to reassure the world that the U.S. isn't looking for a-nu- clear fight. Europe fears it will be a battlefield for an upcoming war, and the anti-nuclear marchers there have taken to the streets in droves. The Soviet Union has shown notice- able edginess about all the Reagan administration's hawkish rhetoric. The United States has replaced the Soviet Union as the country that scares people because of the possi- bility that nuclear weapons might be unleashed. The nuclear club has been growing in size, and it's time that the U.S. took the lead in- mounting an international peace ini -: tiative that would cool some of the dangerous talk about how easy it is to use tactical nuclear weapons. === Page 231 of 278 A2 2M 6 Projecto Arms race protested by 350,000 only 10/25/8, By The Associated Press More than 350,000 anti-nuclear de. monstrators rallied in Italy and KeRain Saturday. The mass protests, were the second and third in Western Busope in two weeks and were clearly directed against the Reagan administration. In Rome, more than 200,000 leftists, trade unionists and members of anti- war groups marched for peace and nu- clear disarmament in the biggest dem- "onstration in the Italian capital in more" than a decade, Organizers of the march criticized the buildup of arms by both the United States and the Soviet Union, but the slogans the marchers chanted were an- LI-American rather than anti-Soviet. As the crowd marched by the Amer- ican Embassy on the fashionable Via Veneto, protesters shook their fists and shouted. "Yankee, go home!" and "Rea- gan is a hangman!". Italian police wearing bulletproof vests and carrying submachine guns guarded the U.S. Embassy. Wooden bar- Hiers were placed around the embassy. The crowd marched near the Soviet Em- bassy but not directly in front of it. In London, meanwhile, an estimated 150,000 demonstrators streamed into Hyde Park for an anti-nuclear demon- stration coinciding with a visit to the British capital by Defense Secretary Caspar Wemberger It was the biggest such protest in two decades. Michael Foot, leader of the opposi- tion Labor Party, which is pledged to scrap Britain's nuclear deterrent and ban American nuclear weapons from British soil, told the rally: "What we want President Reagan to do is to put (his administration's) whole support be- hind the possibility of real arms reduc- tions. We believe there should be no cruise missiles and no Pershings estab- lished in Britain and Western Europe." Foot said it was not an "anti-Ameri- can" rally. "It is anti-nuclear arms and anti-nuclear arms race." However, La- bor Party left-winger Tony Benn told the rally: "The Poles have had the cour- age to stand up to the Kremlin. The British people must now stand up to the Pentagon and close all their nuclear bases here. President Reagan cannot ig- nore us because Britain and Europe be- long to us and not to him.". About 250,000 West Germans rallied against nuclear weapons in Bonn Oct. 10. Within the last year, anti-nuclear sentiment has burgeoned in Western Europe, fueled by Reagan's decision to build the enhanced-radiation neutron weapon, and NATO insistence on de- ployment of 572 U.S. cruise and Persh- ing II nuclear missiles in Britain, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Neth- erlands starting in 1983. -3FOR 6 Projecto - Nuclear show-and-tell The administration has shot itself in the foot again. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., no sooner told Congress of NATO plans to fire for "demonstration purposes" a tactical nuclear weapon if the Soviets invaded Europe than a shocked Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger rushed over to the Senate to declare there is no such plan, nor "anything remotely resembling it." This nuclear show-and-tell scheme, evidently dreamed up back in the 1960s, was to let the Soviets know, in case they invaded Europe, that NATO had tactical nuclear weapons and would consider using them against conventional forces. Yet, it seems the height of ingenuousness to believe the Soviets were unaware of NATO's nuclear weapons stockpiles. Aside from having fueled the European peace movement that has strong Soviet sponsorship, Haig's remarks are untimely at best and, if no such plan exists, at worst are certain to do great damage to U.S. relations with our nervous allies. They are still fuming over President Reagan's matter-of-fact statement that he could conceive of tactical nuclear weapons being used in Europe without an escalation into a full-blown ther- monuclear exchange. Since the Soviet Union is well aware of U.S. nuclear capabilities, firing a warning shot, prob- ably into the air where its fallout would contami- nate populated places, would be both pointless and dangerous. In providing more ammunition for the anti- American movement in Europe, Haig, has wors- ened what he has called "an extremely sensitive issue." That there is so little cooperation, or agreement, between the secretaries of state and defense is cause for concern that the Reagan administration is picking up where President Carter left off, and is hell-bent on confusing our European allies and comforting our enemies. oreg 11/6/81 === Page 232 of 278 UFOR 6 Projects Mix-up 1 sets off 'N' panic By JOHN HAYES oney of The Oregonian stall 1/6/82 An out-of-alignment satellite receiv- er antenna near Portland was blamed Tuesday for triggering a "China Syn- drome" nuclear power plant scare among Portlanders that sent an ava- lanche of worried telephone calls across the nation. Officials of the U.S. Nuclear Regula- tory Commission said the scare was reminiscent of the public reaction to the 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds." "It just shows you what can hear with electronic communigen the signals get crossed, official in Atlan+ ment died down. The story of together Tuesday mier Channel, a Po. of Home Box Offic By The Associated Press sion service of New Channel, said misaligni pany's satellite receiving mas, Wash., convince viewers in Portland that & er emergency was taking the nation. power plant by an upset tec played by Jack Lemmon. The movie was scheduled to si 8 a.m., but between 8 and 9:20 viewers were receiving faulty transmis- sions because of the misaligned antenna, Carter said. "When we alerted our Camas tech- nicians, they got their people up to the dish, got it aligned and cleared the snow off it," said Carter. After the antenna was correctly aligned, about a minute of "The Ch". Syndrome" was suddenly broadcas. Carter said. What viewers saw was a scene from the movie depicting a televi- sion news broadcast describing a plant takeover. "It said reporters were at the scene, and there would be more information at noon," said Carter. "Then they (the technicians) cut the video at that point and went to a 'Please Stand By.'" Several viewers were convinced an emergency was in progress and called Premier Channel. Others called KGW radio, where the first calls went out to One alarmed viewer called a televi- sion station in Atlanta - apparently where viewers thought the emergency was taking place - and the station called the NRC, said Kenneth Clark, NRC information officer in Atlanta. Clark called his counterpart in Walnut Creek, Calif. Many of those who called for infor- mation made calls of their own to check the story. Portland General Electric's Bruce Landrey, for example, checked the rumor with Atomic industrial Fo- rum, a national nuclear power industry organization. The flurry of phone calls died quick- ly, and by Tuesday the mystery had been been unraveled. Carter called it "an amazing coincidence" that the few seconds of the movie actually broadcast happened to contain the alarming news broadcast. EuFor lo Projects Europeans decry nuclear arms - 21FOR o Projecto- 100,000 march in Italy MILAN, Italy (AP) - More than 100,000 people marched for peace and nuclear disarmament Saturday, the second mass protest in the country against U.S. and Soviet polices in a week. Marchers from Milan and other nearby towns filed through the center of this northern industrial city carrying banners bearing slogans against the arms buildup by both the Soviet Union and the United States. Org 11/1/81 cow on making the Baltic region a nuclear weapons- In Switzerland, police estimated about 20,000 peo- National Demonstration for Peace and Immediate Dis- armament, sponsored by several peace groups and organizations promoting Third World countries. Orga- nizers said they counted more than 40,000 partici- Several marchers carried signs bearing anti-Ameri- can slogans, such as "NATO fans get out of Europe!" and "One-way ticket to the U.S.A!" A resolution prepared for the rally called for the creation of a nuclear weapons-free zone "from Portu- ended a government- aturday in Bucharest, Vest. Romania is the 'e consideration of ducing missiles in preparing atomic resident Nicolae about 14,000 the northern ationing of Ited States Field News Service By CHARLES W. CORDDRY But the timing of his off- hand comments, on a subject requiring precision, could hardly have been worse, it now seems widely agreed has been further fueled. forces - to deter war, not fight it. evidence of alarm. Tration's foreign and defense policy. who have close European contacts, Reagan displaye an Insensitivity to European political problems can only weaken confidence and trust in his adr In the judgment of some objective analysts here, John Nott and West Germany's Hans Apel to argue there was nothing new or alarming is, in itself, plain The rush of such defense ministers as Britain's tralists, church groups and other anti-nuclear forces At the same time, the opposition of pacifists, neu- in an uphill struggle to modernize continental nuclear president's speculations have dismayed leaders trying The word coming back from Europe is that the Analysis resulting escalation to thermonuclear war between the WASHINGTON - President Reagan spoke the simple truth when he said nuclear weapons conceiv. ably could be used on a European battlefield without a N-war remark fuels protest - UFO2 6 Projects - Denmark and other Nordic countries have pledged to consider possible separate negotiations with Mos- superpowers. Oreg 12/6/81 Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took part free zone. The protests, which coincide with the U.S .- Soviet talks in Geneva aimed at reducing medium-range nu- clear missiles in Europe, were aimed at both the Soviet Union and the United States. "Keep your toys, boys," said one of the banners Take away! We don't die for the U.S.A!" A group of demonstrators chanted, "Pershing, hey! gal to Poland." pants. sponsored dices Roman: About 300,000 10/26/8 Italy, West Germany and Romania, demanding peace ple marched through Bern in what was billed as the ter, marketing dire in mass protests Saturday in Denmark, Switzerland The mix-up began Monda wied in a march in Copenhagen, Denmark. About company began broadcasting "000 demonstrators wound through the Danish capi- na Syndrome," the 1978 Hollys" Saturday, carrying torches and placards in snow that depicted the takeover of a ennalls at dusk. and disarmament in Europe. === Page 233 of 278 Space Shuttle PK- Flight cut; shuttle to - 31/14/81 land today 1:52 p.m. Ship enters 17-minute radio blackout during re-entry 1:10 p.m. Shuttle turns tail-first Columbia enters the atmosphere 1:50 p.m. 2:22 p.m. Touchdown White Sands, New Mexico Edwards Air Force Base, California Atlantic Ocean Cape Canaveral, Florida Caribbean Sea Pacific Ocean The troubled second mission of space shut- tle Columbia will return to Earth this after- noon, its objectives 90 percent complete but its flight time more than halved by an errant electrical generator. Aftera series of frustrating accidents. mal- functions and delays that began soon after Tanding from its trouble-free first flight in April, Columbia set off 11/2 months late from Cape Canaveral Thursday on a mission to last five days, four hours and 10 minutes. · Instead, the flight will end on an Edwards Air Force Base desert runway in California after 36 orbits -- 21/4 days Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly are to land at 2 22 p.m MST on a parched des- ert runway Although the sky above the Cali- fornia base was socked in by clouds Friday, officials said they hoped it would clear by touchdown time. If landing there still should be difficult, how- ever, the Columbia would be diverted to its al- ternate landing site at White Sands, N.M. President Reagan visited Mission Control in Houston and told the astronauts, "I'm sure you know how proud everyone down here is." He jokingly asked the astronauts, "When you go over Washington before landing at Ed- wards, could you pick me up and take me out - I haven't been in California since last Aug. ust." The astronauts pass near Reagan's moun- taintop retreat on their glide into Edwards Air Force base. Columbia's flight was smooth on its second day Friday, and experiments with a robot arm gave Columbia a solid accomplishment to dull the disappointment of the early return." We think it's the prudent thing to do in this phase of the test program," said Chris Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Center, which controls the mission from Houston. "We got 90 percent of what we flew for." said Glynn S. Lunney, manager of the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion's shuttle program. "We began to ask our- selves, is there enough to be gained by con- tinuing the flight?" The conclusion, he said, was that "we ought to plan to re-enter (today) and not take any subsequent risks." "We all signed up for the mission rules," Kraft said. The landing sequence begins at 1 10 p.m. MST when the crew turns the shuttle to a tail- first position Fifteen minutes later. in orbit over the Indian Ocean, they will fire their en- gines for two minutes, 29 seconds. The ship then begins its descent from 157 miles and enters the atmosphere north of Ha. === Page 234 of 278 - Space Shuttle PK- Few guessed fuel cells would falter "Proved' system fails; others perform HOUSTOM (UPI) - Ironically, the most experi- short: mental system aboard space shuttle Columbia, its bionic arm, worked almost perfectly and what was thought to be one of the most reliable, a fuel cell lic system pumps. The problem cured itself. generator, forced the ship home early. No other problems that occurred after launch Thursday would have ended the flight three days short of its planned five-day length. "IT we were to write a list of major subsystems and asked ourselves which ones we were most likely to have prob. - ms with, we probably would have put fuel cells at the bottom," said Glynn S. Lunney, shuttle program director. The fuel cell problem that brought the ship home will not be definitely explained until the ship is thoroughly examined. But fuel cell expert Jim Briley said it appeared to be a manufacturing or aging flaw that knocked out one of the ship's three fuel cells. Briley said it appeared part of the equipment through which hydrogen passes to react with oxy- gen to make electricity and water was flaking or otherwise misbehaving to make a "fluff" that clogged the cell. Ironically, the cells, manufactured by United Technologies Corp. of South Windsor, Conn., were a brand new type thought to be better than the ones used on the first shuttle orbital test last April. Otherwise, the list of problems that plagued Joe Engle and Richard Truly after launch was fairly . They had freeze-ups in the cooling systems for two of the auxiliary power units that drive hydrau- . They had freeze-ups in the flash evaporator. system, which is the backup cooling system to the payload bay door radiators. That was overcome. @ They had an inconsistency in a monitor in one of the other two fuel cells and finally decided it was no problem at all. · The two television cameras attached to the bi- onic arm failed toward the end of the 41/2 hours of testing Friday. They had other cameras. The fail- ure did not inhibit any major flight objectives. . A backup power unit in the arm's shoulder. joint failed toward the end of the testing. Astro- naut Dick Truly used another mode. That problem will be evaluated on the ground. The Columbia's troubles began well before the launch, The blastoff was originally scheduled to begin Sept. 30. Faulty wiring in part of the Cana- dian-built mechanical arm and a series of other Technical problems caused the launch to be re- scheduled for Oct. 9. A spill of nitrogen tetroxide rocket propellant delayed the flight to Nov. 4. The fuel weakened the' bond holding 379 of the ceramic heat shield tiles to The sun's aluminum skin and they had to be re- glued The countdown then was flawless until it reached T minus 31 seconds. An abnormal oxygen pressure reading in one of the Columbia's internal tanks stalled the count _Officials decided that was not a real problem and tried to get the launch con- trol computer to resume the countdown. It re- fused. High oil pressure readings in two of Columbia's ... three hydraulic steering system turbines forced a launch postponement. It turned out fuel seepage had contaminated the system's gearbox oil and clogged its filters. The oil and filters were replaced, and the launch was rescheduled for Thursday. But Columbia's problems weren't over. A new one appeared late Tuesday night - with one of Columbia's data translators. To fix the problem, - engineers finally borrowed another black box from Challenger, Columbia's nearly-completed sister ship in California. That delayed Thursday's launch 21/2 hours. The launch director added 10 minutes to the delay to make sure everything was set for blastoff. The flight to orbit was flawless, but then the fuel cell problem cropped up, and eventually forced Columbia back home early. Idaho Statesman Boise, Col. 11/15/8, === Page 235 of 278 Space Shuttle PK Recovery delayed COCOA, Fla. (AP) - Both of the Cape Canaveral Monday after a snapped · Fuel Cell Posed Potential Hazard By BOB JAIN Denver Post Staff Writer cells. Mission Control instructed Engle and mission pilot Richard Truly to could have posed a fire or explo- sion danger, he said. shut down the leaking unit and rely ? "The units are manufactured by . on the other two .. A tiny leak inside the belly of the space shuttle Columbia is caused by problems within a fuel cell that creates electricity and provides water for the two astronauts .. The leak may chop three days cess, create electricity. That pro- off the projected five-day orbital mission that started so beautifully Thursday morning. Shortly after the launch, mission .40 inches and weighs 201 pounds. commander Joe Engle told the Na- The defective unit was allowed tional Aeronautics and Space Ad_ to empty its tanks to bleed of Its ministration's Mission Control at supply of hydrogen and oxygen, Johnson Space Center in Houston David Alter, Mission Control WCCAS. - Space Shuttle PK- Bonne, da. 11/16/8, By BRUCE NICHOLS U.P. International "the hang of it." HOUSTON - Shuttle astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly told "Vice President George Bush on Sun- "day they were disappointed the Co- lumbia's mission ended early "be- cause we were just beginning to get Early shuttle return regretted Astronauts, "into space. Tailed. Feral space agency officials. Flight Director Chuck Lewis described the "meal as "just a casual breakfast." "The astronauts and their wives had "a private breakfast at Johnson Space Center with Bush, his wife and sev- "Bush sat between Engle and Truly Bush asked the astronauts how orbiter's three electrical generators "It sure did disappoint us, because "they tell about ending the mission after two days - three days earlier than scheduled - because one of the and chatted with them about the his- Doric second mission of the Columbia we were hang of if th The Electricity produced by the fuel cells powers the shuttle's instru- ments, lights, air purifying and air- conditioning systems, its experi- ments and an articulated arm in the cargo bay. That arm is to be used to place lowed to continue functioning, it experiments in orbit, to recover sa- tellites and for other external pur- poses. the power system division of Unit- ed Technologies of Hartford, Conn. The units act independently, not in series, so one bad unit doesn't create a drag on the other two, pa- vid Long, spokesman for the power division, said. With operations curtailed, the flight could continue, Alter said, but mission rules require that in case of such unit failure, the shut- tle is to land at the earliest logical time. Long said Engle and Truly de- tected a high PH level in water produced by the faulty unit, indi- cating high alkalinity as the result of a malfunction. There also was a slight reduction in power, about .5 of a volt, Long said. 11/13/81 of a leak in one of the three fuel spokesman, said. Had it been al- The three units are, in effect, chemical plants that combine hy- drogen and oxygen and, in the pro- cess also creates water for the as- tronants to drink. Each unit measures 17-by-14-by- rocket boosters jettisoned from the space shuttle Columbia were back at towline and rough seas delayed the re- covery. org 11/17/8. === Page 236 of 278 Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire " 15 Cents Within Colorado Power Problems A leak in one of the three power cells aboard the shut- tle may force the mission to be cut short. The three pow- er cells in the belly of Colum- bia are chemical plants that combine hydrogen and oxy- gen and in the process cre- ate electricity. That process also creates drinking water for the astronauts. Each unit measures 17-by-14-by-40 inches and weighs 201 pounds. Although only one cell is used at a time, NASA requires "triple redundancy" - a primary and two backup units - for the cells. The Denver Post / Fred O'Dorisio - Space Shuttle PK - (note: I told Annette, before it happened Power Snagy May Shorten Shuttle Flight By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD New York Times, Denver Post 1/13/8, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two American astronauts rode the space shuttle Columbia into an or- bit of Earth Thursday with hopes for a five-day mission only to have a malfunctioning_electric power unit threaten them with a prema ture return home. They were told that they might have to come back three days early, on Saturday af- ternoon. Officials of the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration emphasized that the flight would not necessarily end that soon if the two remaining electrical generat. ing units on the Columbia stay healthy. The mission could be ex- tended a day at a time, until Sun- day or Monday but probably not for the full duration. The flight had been planned to run 124 hours and 83 orbits of the Earth, ending next Tuesday. An evaluation will be made each afternoon by flight controllers and project officials as to whether to order the Columbia back the next day or to let it stay in orbit another full day. Whenever the flight is ter- minated, the landing will be on the desert at Edwards Air Force Base in California, as planned. Neil Hutchinson, the flight direc- tor who was on duty at Mission Control during the fuel-cell failure. said at a news conference Thurs- day night he "wouldn't even specu- late" on whether the flight might run three, four or the full five days. The world's first reusable winged spaceship, on its second test flight ran into trouble soon af- ter its successful launching at Cape Canaveral at 8:10 a.m. MST, seven months to the day after its first flight in April. Before they could climb all the way to their prescribed orbit, the astronauts, Col. Joe Engle of the Air Force and Capt. Richard Truly of the Navy, heard alarm signals in === Page 237 of 278 Cheyenne, Wyoming, FRIDAY, November 13, 1981 Problems May Shorten Space Shuttle's Flight Space Shuttle Ph- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 'UPI) - The shuttle Columbia blasted off like the veteran space traveler it is Thursday hut almost immediately developed bugs in a new part of its system that threatened to cut the mission short. A failed fuel cell that pro- vides the shuttle's electricity forced officials to turn to an abbreviated schedule that could bring the Columbia home by Saturday. Flight director Neil Hutchinson said decisions on a longer mission would be made on a day-to- day basis. Columbia thundered into the blue Florida sky Thursday morning in a picture perfect launch that proved a used spacecraft could be sent back into orbit. The launch, although often delayed, was almost an exact copy of the shuttle's first liftoff in April. Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly, making their first orbital flight on Truly's 44th birthday, were thrilled by the race into space. But they quickly were caught up in fix- ing a series of nagging reminders that the voyage was still only the shuttle's se- cond. "We're both feeling real well," Engle said. "We're really having a lot of fun up here even though there has been a lot going around here." The major problem was a clogged section of the fuel cell, one of three aboard the Colum- bia. It was just a slight ab- normality when mission con- trol gave the shuttle approval on orbit three to continue until the end of its planned five-day, 83-orbit flight. But by the next time around Earth, it was getting worse and officials decided to shut it coming Eagle down completely, use up its fuel and make it "safe" for lan- ding. The shuttle can fly a nor- mal mission with two of the 202-pound, suitcase-sized fuel cells operating and return to Earth on only one. But space officials an- nounced initially they were going by an agency rule that said the mission must end after 54 hours if one cell was out of commission. Hutchinson late Thurs- .day night left open the' possibility the mission. might go longer and that a decision on whether to land Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base in California would be made Friday afternoon after seeing how everything was working on the shuttle. "At that time we're going to make an assessment on how we're coming with the flight plan and see if we want to go another day," he said. While many of the prelaunch problems had been caused in equipment used on the first shuttle flight, the fuel cells were new and described as "im- proved" for this mission. Another of the problems that cropped up after launch occurred in the cool- ing of one of three auxiliary power units that power the ship's hydraulic system. It Was contamination in these units, which are crucial in Taunich and landing, that caused the first delay of the Columbia launch last week. Hutchinson said two of the units were working fine in orbit and the health of the third had not been determined. He said an abbreviated schedule meant Engle and Truly would try to get as much done in the early part of the mission as possible in case they had to return sooner than expected. This changed the astronauts' Friday schedule so they could spend most of their time on one of the shuttle's major tests - working the 50-foot mechanical arm that on future flights will pick satellites out of the shut- tle's work bay and place them in space. The astronauts also plan- ned to complete as much of the ship's $11.6 million worth of Earth-scanning experiments as possible. Engle and Truly set up a thunderstorm observation operation Thursday night. The experiment was designed to observe, photograph and tape record the sound of lightn- ing bolts to gather data aimed at finding ways of improving storm and long range weather forecasting. The day began for the astronauts with a surprise breakfast birthday party that included a trick candle that went off like one of the booster rockets that would launch the Columbia a few hours later. The launch, originally scheduled for Sept. 30 but repeatedly delayed, finally got off at 8:10 a.m. MST, 10 minutes later than plann- ed. Launch director George Page held it up just to be sure everything was safe. The stark white Colum- bia, gleaming in the hot Florida sun, shot skyward for a full minute and a half before disappearing from sight, its thundering engines shaking trailers parked 3 1/2 miles away and sending a cloud of white smoke snaking out behind. "Go ... Go ... Go," shouted a crowd of about 2,200 VIPs watching from a visitors' section four miles from the launch pad. Engle kept reporting back to ground control in Houston that everything was going fine as the spaceship made its first trip around Earth. "Smooth as glass," he said two minutes into launch. "Everything's looking good," was the call over Madrid. "Stable as a rock," Engle reported over the Indian Ocean. One mandatory chore that went off as planned was the opening of the 60- foot-long payload doors that exposed the ex- periments. The opening of the doors on the April mis- sion first revealed the loss of some crucial tiles on the shuttle's tail, but this time all tiles needed for re-entry appeared intact. === Page 238 of 278 Shuttle Flight May Be Shortened 11/13/8, their cockpit and observed abnor. mal temperature and acid levels for one of the three electricity-pro- ducing fuel cells. Engineers at Mis- sion Control in Houston began im- mediately to investigate. The trouble persisted despite commands fed to the spaceship to change the fuel-cell operations, and so, late Thursday afternoon, Mission Control instructed the as- tronauts to turn off the balky unit_ for the rest of the flight. Each of the fuel cells weighs 201 pounds and produces between 2 and 12 ki- lowatts of electricity. Such fuel cells have been used to produce electricity for manned spacecraft since 1965, on the Gem- inis and Apollos as well as the shut- tle, without any failures. Mission safety rules dictate that, with only two of the three fuel cells operating, a flight must be cur- tailed to a minimum of 54 hours and 36 orbits. John McLeaish, the mission commentator at Houston, an- nounced: "The present plan is for a 54-hour minimum mission." However, McLeaish said that, if the two remaining fuel cells stay healthy and no other troubles. arise, it might be possible to "ex- tend the time frame." In any event, he said, the flight plan would be revised overnight to en- able the astronauts to accomplish most of the high-priority test objec- tives today. The Columbia is carrying in its cargo bay a 50-foot mechanical arm which is supposed to undergo two days of testing for future use in handling and deploying satel- lites. Also on board is a cluster of scientific instruments for Earth observations, including radar map- "ping of geologic features. This is the first working paylead for a space shuttle, which is/conceived of as an orbital freighter for haul- ing satellites and other cargoes into space. This is also the first used spaceship to go into orbit. When trouble cast the duration amd success of the mission in doubt, it seemed just an extension. of the many accidents and mal- functions that interrupted prepara- tions for the Columbia's second . mission. A spill of nitrogen tetrox- ide in late September damaged some 400 heat-shielding tiles and forced a postponement of the planned launching from Oct. 9 to Nov. 4. Contaminants in the oil for two power generators, derecred ar the last minute before the Nay 4 launching time. caused the eight. day delay until Thursday In an effort to keep Thursday's launching date, engineers worked through the night to overcome ran- dom(and as yet unexplained fail- ures in the Columbia's data-pro- cessing system. A unit, known as a multiplexer-demultiplexer, was re- placed twice before the malfunc- tion would go away. This necessi- tated resetting the liftoff schedule from 5:30 a.m. until 8 a.m. The faulty units were shipped back to the manufacturer for failure analy- sis .. Colonel Engle and Captain Truly were awakened shortly after 5 a.m. to prepare for their first trip into space. At breakfast in the crew quarters, Truly was present- ed with a birthday cake more or less in the shape of the shuttle and with a trick candle that he could not blow out. Thursday was his 44th birthday. The countdown proceeded smoothly as the astronauts took their places in the cockpit and the hatch was closed and sealed. The dark clouds and rain of days past had been driven out to sea by a cooling breeze. At T-minus-9 minutes, when the countdown was halted, as planned, 'for a 10-minute break, Norman "Carlson, the chief test conductor at "the firing room, wished the astro- nauts well, and Engle replied: "We know how you fought for us. We appreciate it." George Page, director of shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center, then decided not to resume 'the countdown according to the schedule. He said there were no particular problems, adding that he just wanted launching teams, who had been under hours of pres- sure, to catch their breaths and make "double sure" of their final check-outs of the shuttle's systems. This set the liftoff back 10 min- utes, to 8:10. At a few milliseconds before 8:10, the three main engines of the Columbia ignited and reached full power, followed in an instant by the eruption of fire from the base of its two solid-fuel boosters. Un- der the power of 6 million pounds of thrust, the 4.6 million-pound cluster of rockets, tank and space- ship rose from its launching base, cleared the tower in less than sev- en seconds and arced out over the Atlantic Ocean, rolling slowly so that the Columbia seemed to cling to the underside of its huge exter- nal fuel tank. The gleaming white craft climbed into the bright blue Flori- da sky, played peek-a-boo behind some high fluffy clouds and finally vanished in an envelope of its own exhaust vapors. === Page 239 of 278 Shuttle Countdown Delayed - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - Countdown for the space shuttle headed toward a late morning launch Thursday while experts tried to decide whether a last-minute rescue mission "had succeeded in preparing the Columbia to return to orbit. The countdown for a 10 a.m. EST launch - 2 12 hours behind schedule - resumed early Thursday before it was known whether a data processing problem had been fixed after daylong efforts. Work crews Wednesday night replaced a vital data processing link between the shuttle, its computers and ground control with a replacement flown in from a sister spaceship in California. Tests were being run to make sure the work would allow the Columbia to become the first manned spaceship to return to orbit. Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly were kept up about an hour and a half past their scheduled 5 p.m. bed- time so they could be briefed on the problem that once again was stalling their first trip into orbit. Officials said the astronauts would be allowed to sleep about two hours later than scheduled. Two-electronic parts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center from the second_space shuttle Challenger, under construction at Palmdale, Calif. They were immediately taken to the * launch pad for one to be installed in the Columbia. Launch could be delayed as late as 12:10 p.m. EST, but an official said it was doubtful an attempt would go much past 10 a.m. An Air Force weather forecast said conditions would be good for launch with no rain and scattered clouds. Some ground fog was possible - a concern if the mission is canceled right after launch and the shuttle has to return immediately to Cape Canaveral. The electronic problem first cropped up Tuesday night and early efforts to fix it isolated the fault to a 36-pound "black box" data processor that translates signals for shipment to the command computers. That box, which was working only intermittently, contains a main unit and a backup. Officials first replaced it with another unit which had been at the Kennedy Space Center since March. Its backup system failed en- tirely. That was when the replacements were sent from the Challenger, built like the Columbia and planned for space flight in late 1982. Officials said the problems appeared to be "random failures" that coin- cidentally affected the same sections, and did not necessarily mean the whole system was in disrepair. The astornauts, who were being given extra time to sleep Thursday morning, had been optimistic all day long that they would fly this time. "Make sure you get film in those cameras tomorrow," Engle told photographers early in the day. "You're going to need it." The attempt to launch Columbia as the first manned spacecraft to return to orbit has been delayed three times. The most recent delay came just 31 seconds before blastoff last Wed- nesday - an eight-day postponement space officials said cost $1.5 million to $2 million. The cause of that trouble, con- tamination in the gearboxes of two of three hydraulic system turbines, was cleared up last weekend. Forecasters said storm front was expected to be through Florida by launch time and there was no chance of rain. Winds were expected to be about 10 miles an hour and Air Force Capt. Donald Greene, shuttle weather director, said forecast "looks real good." In addition to trying to prove repeat space flight is a reality, the shuttle carries a series of scientific ex- periments designed to find Earth minerals from space and a 50-foot mechanical arm that will put future satellites in orbit. One experiment - growing sun- flower seeds in orbit as a first step in possible space farming -had to be taken off the shuttle following last week's delay. The containers were sterilized and the seeds replanted for the five-day, 83-orbit mission. Richard Smith, Kennedy Space Center director, said the astronauts were relaxed at breakfast and joked about Truly turning 44 Thursday, the day he hopes to take his first trip to space. Laramie Boomerang 11/12/19 === Page 240 of 278 Don - Shante rx - Columbia's Fuel Leak Repaired; Countdown Is Back on Course Kearney D. H. 11/11/8, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Launch control technicians fixed a troublesome leak in the space shuttle's huge external fuel tank today and Columbia was on course for a Thursday dawn liftoff, officials said. "It's slowed down to where it belongs," NASA official Michael Weeks said of the leak. .NASA was also checking out. a. malfunctioning system needed for space to ground data analysis, but Weeks - acting deputy space administrator - said "there is no reason to believe" the trouble would force postponement of the launch. The astronauts, still a little worried about the weather, were "relaxed and ready to go," according to shuttle test manager Donald"Deke" Slayton. Either a fuel tank or data instrument problem could force a scrub - the second in as many weeks The fuel tank leak, particularily, had jeopardized the second effort to launch the shuttle on its delayed return to space. The drop in fuel tank pressure was more than three times the normal loss of .2 psi, but by manually opening- and-closing a vent valve, Weeks said, technicians were able to stabilize the pressure. Launch crews were working the data instrument problem during an 11-hour planned "hold" that began at 11 a.m. EST today. The problem with the data system was discovered late Tuesday night and a replacement unit was quickly flown to the Cape from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. It also failed, but NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said, "there's a better than even chance we can fix it." The device - called a Pulse Code Modulator - acquires and analyzes data on board Columbia and transmits The gantry is rolled back by engineers at Kennedy Space Center revealing the reusable spacecraft Columbia on pad 39- A. (AP Laserphoto) the data to mission officials. The fuel tank holds most of the propellant necessary to drive Columbia into orbit after its initial boost from solid fuel rockets. A drop in helium pressure brought the tank leak to NASA's attention. The tank is loaded overnight before launch with supercold liquid hyrdogen and liquid oxygen propellant. The problems interrupted a trouble free countdown. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials had been a little concerned about the weather but pleased with the shuttle and its many complicated systems. A week ago today, Columbia was 31 seconds from liftoff when a problem with the ship's hyraulics system forced a postponement. . Last week's scrub has already cost NASA an estimated $1.5 million to $2 million. Acting comptroller Tom Newman says the extra costs are mainly for extra fuel, overtime and travel expenses and charges from contractors for repairing last week's hyraulics problem. Because of early-morning fog that shrouded Kennedy Space Center, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly waited an extra hour before rehearsing emergency landings. They .skipped a planned sunrise visit to launch pad 39A to attend a weather briefing. Air Force meteorologists predicted a storm front would be out of the area by tonight and that weather would be no constraint to launch. The astronauts had been confident there would be no more delays. "Columbia is ready, and Joe and I are ready, and we're really going to do it this time," Truly said on arrival here Tuesday. === Page 241 of 278 OMAHA WORLD-HERALD Wednesday, November 11, 1981 Astronauts Don't Expect a Thursday Hitch Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) - With their second-chance countdown moving easily to a Thursday launch target, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly arrived Tuesday and said, firmly and hopefully, "this is the real thing." Countdown began at 8 a.m. Tues- day. On launch pad 39A, work was going so well that spokesman Hugh Harris said, "They're making it look easy." Crews powered up the fuel cells in Columbia's electrical system and prepared to roll back the main ser- wvicing structure. The undercurrent to the rosy pro- gress and optimistic forecast was the knowledge that everything was glass-smooth, too, until the final min- utes of last Wednesday's countdown. Engle said he was "thoroughly con- vinced that we were just about ready to lift off" when the countdown clock stopped at 31 seconds before ignition. No one was more surprised "than Richard and I when we heard we had to call a scrub," he said. Technicians found dirty oil and clogged filters in two of Columbia's hydraulic units. They made repairs last weekend for Thursday's try. Upon their arrival, the astronauts made brief remarks to the same re- porters and photographers who greeted them last week. They spared no optimism. "OK now, we want you to know this is the last time you're going to get to do this," said Engle, a Kansas native. "You've had your practice and this is the real thing. Truly added: "Columbia is ready, and Joe and I are ready and we're really going to do it this time." The weather forecast for a 6:30 a.m. CST liftoff was for a few clouds, a modest wind and no rain. If events had followed last week's script, the astronauts would have landed Columbia Monday and under- gone debriefing Tuesday. Instead, they flew T-38 jets to Patrick Air Force Base, an 800-mile trip that takes 90 minutes in the 575-mph trainers. Thursday, the shuttle will take them once around the world at 17,400 mph in the same amount of time. After 83 circuits of the globe, Engle and Truly are scheduled to land next Tuesday at 10:40 CST at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The astronauts have been training their body's rhythm for the unusual hours they'll keep in space by going to bed in the afternoon and rising long before dawn. Bedtime Tuesday was 6:15 p.m. Today, they will hit the sack at 5 p.m. Truly will celebrate his 44th birthday along with the launch. Asked about the launch date coin- ciding with his birthday, Truly said, "I'm going to have the biggest birthday candle I ever had." - Space Shuttle PK - R.M. News "/12/8, Columbia countdown a cliffhanger CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) - Liftoff of the shuttle Columbia bedeviled by techno- logical growing pains, was delaved until at least midmorning Thursday as launch eve work crews struggled Wednesday night to re- pair an errant data relay system ... Sunrise liftoff was impossible; the new target was 10 a.m. EST. There remained a strong possibility of a second scrubbed launch in as many weeks. At nightfall, space center spokesman Hugh Har- ris said, "They're working on a fairly tight schedule - but they think it's do-able." Countdown to liftoff was likely to be cliff- hanger; Columbia underwent a series of Jaunch pad repairs Wednesday night and a replacement part being town to Kennedy Space Center had to be tested with blastoff just hours away. The part was cannibalized from Challeng- er, a second shuttle now being built in Califor- nia. NASA set up a dramatic relay - from the West Coast to the launch pad. After hours of conferences between the various space centers and industry experts, a team of NASA officials headed by acting asso- ciate administrator L. Michael Weeks "deter- mined a course of action which could result" in the 10 a.m. liftoff, Harris said. All this because of a bad "multiplexer- demultiplexer."". scheduled launch, technicians found and fixed' UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Astronauts Joe Engle, right, and Richard Truly met the press at the launch complex Wednesday. a leak in the shuttle's huge external tank. Then the data relay system, needed to funnel flight data to mission control, failed. Technicians at first thought the data prob- lem was with a unit called the Pulse Code Modulator, They flew in a replacement from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, installed it, and encountered a different problem. They then looked elsewhere and found a "multiplexer-demultiplexer" unit was not handling data properly. The devices translate one form of electronic signal into another and Less Than Z hours before Thursday's are part of an electronic link between Colum- bia and mission control. Columbia's crew was ready, but at dusk a NASA official said, "The problems are not resolved." The final countdown, due to begin at 10:10 p.m., was put back several hours. Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly stayed up a little past their 5 p.m. bedtime to monitor the problem and went to bed not knowing whether they would fly Thursday. "They roll with the punch pretty good," said their trainer, Bill Jones. "They're waiting and ready - it's not their decision." Launch could come any time before noon - the final moment in Columbia's "launch window." Last week, when a hydraulic system prob- lem forced scrub with 31 seconds on the countdown clock, weather was a concern right up to the last minute. This time, launch weath- er seemed largely irrelevant. The forecast was for near-perfect conditions. Anticipation was building along the Flori- da space coast for Columbia's fiery sendoff into the history books. Never before has a spaceship attempted a second visit to space. The shuttle, which made a spectacular debut last April, is designed for 99 more round trips. The shuttle is the most complex vehicle ever built .. It has a thousand valves, 2.6 miles of tubing, 300 major electronic "black boxes" connected by more than 300 miles of electri- cal wire. There are more than 2,000 control switches. === Page 242 of 278 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 8, 1981 Murphy's Law again gives NASA a lesson By WILLIAM HINES Flold News Service WASHINGTON - The take-home lesson for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Wednes- day's last-minute postponement of the space shuttle's second test flight is that Analysis there is more to the vaunted concept of "reusability" than just refil- ling the tank and kicking the tires. The shuttle exists because Congress was persuaded a decade ago that as- tronautics could be done on the cheap with vehicles needing only minimal re- furbishment between flights. NASA has been trying to deliver on this promise ever since. No one faults the space agency for a six-month hiatus between the first and second flights of Columbia; this is the start of a new program, and NASA is not yet very far along on the learning curve. But the latest problem strongly suggests that quick turnarounds - two weeks from landing to takeoff - are going to be difficult to achieve. Preparations for the second shuttle flight failed to take into account the most universal of an engineering truens, codified as Murphy's Law: If anything can possibly go wrong, it will. In servic- ing Columbia for this unprecedented mission, technicians did not change the oil in three auxiliary power units in the tail section of the plane. The technicians didn't change the oil, shuttle flight director Neil B. Hutch- inson said after the "scrub," because they weren't told to. An oil change just wasn't on the work order. One wonders, sometimes, whether NASA's experts think things all the way through when they prepare their elabo- rate mission plans. They take into ac- count the angle of the setting sun on Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in the unlikely event that Colum -. bia has to make an emergency landing on the fifth orbit. But change the oil in the auxiliary power units? No one thought about it. The fact that lubricating oil gets "gunky" with use was no surprise. Hutchinson explained that there is no way to equip a mechanical system in- voiving a gear train operating at 70,000 rpm on one side and 3,500 rpm on the other side with absolutely impervious oil seals. Some external contaminant is bound to slip past the seals, and the rapid agi- tation of oil and contaminant can create some pretty bizarre byproducts. So NASA knew that (1) high-veloci -- ty turbine seals leak; (2) contaminants can gum up lubricants; and (3) rising oil pressures in fast-spinning machinery can cause trouble. Yet no one in NASA thought to be on the safe side by chang- ing the oil supply after every mission. This is not the first time NASA qual- ity control has broken down. An out- standing example of failed attention to detail was the Apollo fire of Jan. 27, 1967, in which three astronauts were incinerated when flames flashed through the oxygen-rich interior of a spacecraft on a launching pad at Cape Canaveral. The horrible irony of this accident - the worst in space history - is that a monograph funded by NASA, warning of the extreme hazard of flammables in pure-oxygen atmospheres, had been on the library shelves at NASA for fully 21/2 years at the time of the accident. Apparently nobody bothered to read it. An early, unmanned planetary shot went into the Atlantic instead of to Mars because a computer program can- tained a minus sign where there should have been a plus. A Mercury flight had to be canceled well into the countdown because techni- cians couldn't start a diesel engine need- ed to move back the gantry tower. A Gemini mission actually was scrubbed at the instant of ignition be- cause someone had left a dust cap in a fuel line of one of the engines. The explosion of a high-pressure gas tank in the service module of Apollo 13 on the way to the moon nearly cost the lives of three astronauts and did cheat two of them of the historic distinction of walking on the moon. The Skylab program got off to a bad start because equipment that was sup- posed to deploy in orbit didn't deploy. Astronauts working with jury-rigged tools solved the problem, but failure of a $2 billion program was closer than NASA likes to admit. None of these misadventures, having happened once, ever happened again ;. NASA doesn't often make the same mis- take twice. But in the unforgiving busi- ness of astronautics there are plenty of new ways for Murphy's Law to mani- fest itself. Sh Bla === Page 243 of 278 Shuttle cleared· Pregunion, 11/8/81 Blastoff slated Thursday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space officials Saturday rescheduled Launch II of the space shuttle Columbia for Thursday, setting up a special birthday celebration for one of its pilots, astronaut Richard Truly, who turns 44 that day. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials made the decision after certifying that twp contaminated power units that halted a launch at- tempt last Wednesday are now ready to fly. Analysis indicated that had the units flown Wednesday, they probably would have performed. "It's not absolutely certain, but the tests appear to indicate that," said NASA spokeswoman Theresa Fo- ley. Dirty oil has been flushed from the units, and their filters have been replaced. If it had been necessary to install new units, the launch could not have been attempted until the week of Nov. 15. Launch director George Page gave the order to start a renewed countdown at 8 a.m. PST Tuesday, aiming for liftoff of Columbia on her second mission at 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Word of the new date was passed to Truly and astronaut Joe Engle at their training base at the John- son Space Center in Houston. This is the fourth launch date they've had; the others, Sept. 30, Oct. 9 and Nov. 4, were wiped out by technical problems. For Truly, born Nov. 12, 1937, in Fayette, Miss., the two solid-fuel rockets that help propel Columbia into orbit could be the biggest birthday candles ever. The astronauts came within 31 seconds of flying last Wednesday, only to have the countdown clock stopped dead when high pressure was detected in the lubricating systems of two of the ship's three auxiliary power units. The units, which weigh 88 pounds each, drive the hydraulic lines that swivel the main engines on liftoff and move the body and wing flaps and rudder that control the vehicle during re-entry and landing. Technicians worked non-stop in three shifts to resolve the problem. They drained lubricating oil from the two suspect units, flushed the plumbing, removed and inspected the filters, installed new filters, and refilled each unit with three quarts of oil - a special blend developed for military use that costs $5 a quart. NASA reported Saturday that the filters were found to be clogged with a material produced by a chemical reaction between the lubricating oil, water and the hydrazine fuel that powers the units. A small amount of hydrazine apparently leaked through a pressure seal into the lubricating system. "It was concluded," the agency said, "that the impurities did not degrade the lubricating properties of the oil and that the size of the impurities would not lead to a clogging of any passages in the lubricating system." "Getting to a Thursday launch is a very tight schedule but one which the mission management team feels can be made," said NASA's L. Michael Weeks. At the launch pad, crews were completing work and getting ready for another countdown start. Columbia had yet another problem Friday. Two of of the fragile heat-resistant tiles on the tail wing were slightly damaged when hit by a flashlight that fell about 100 feet from a workman's tether. === Page 244 of 278 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Thursday, September 24, 1981 -250 Space Shuttle PK- The daily gab-scam IN CASE you care, Mayor Charlie got bounced off his "Good Morning, America" slot yesterday morning - bumped by a report on the space shuttle's prob lems. This, it might be said peevishly, typifies our priorities. More attention is paid to matters of outer space than in our own cities. . . . PNB execs, museum trustees and assorted other large wigs will attend a reception tonight at SAM-Volunteer Park for the opening of an "American Images" photo show, spon- sored by Ms. Bell. The evening's guest of honor. AT&T president Bill EF linghaus, coming to town on business, is listed as a no-show, His plane arrives too late for the festivities, which makes it a bit ironic - one reason for the re ception is a donation by AT&T of some of the show's photos ... Well, the Westin Bldg. opened Emmett Watson its lunchroom at corporate headquarters - this being on the sixth floor at 2001 Sixth Ave. What is described as an "esteemed panel of celebrity judges" officially named the new lunchroom "Harry's on Sixth," but the opening menu did not feature Mullikin Stew. Signal from my 4 for that they have if my your sights, ready to destroy. o THE OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1981 owens 3M Shuttle countdown continues By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD low York Times News Service CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The wind blew in usts, clouds came and went with brief downpours, but through it all, sometimes with a rainbow gracing the seaside launching pad, technicans ministered to the pace shuttle Columbia Sunday and kept ahead of chedule in preparations for the winged spaceship's eturn to orbit. The Columbia's second flight, a five-day mission orbiting Earth, is scheduled to begin here at 7:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday and end with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Nov. 9. Air Force Col. Joe H. Engle and Navy Capt. Rich- ard H. Truly are expected to arrive at the Kennedy Space Center Monday from Houston for final brief- Ings. It will be the first flight into space for both astronauts. Air Force meteorologists are predicting that the winds and showers will diminish Monday. They fore- cast scattered clouds and 10-knot winds for Wednes- day morning. If weather becomes a problem, the lift- off could occur at almost any time within four hours and 40 minutes of the scheduled launching time, after which it would have to be postponed for two days. The countdown preparations have been trouble- free since they began early Saturday, in contrast with the rash of minor malfunctions that slowed the pre- launching work for the first mission in April. "We've seen no real problems," remarked Larry C. Ellis, a project engineer, with a hint of amazement as well as satisfaction in his voice. Computer experts at the firing room here and at Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Hous- ton fed updated instructions into the Columbia's two mass memory units that serve the on-board comput- ers. About 60 workers at the launching pad began removing cables and pipes used in servicing the 184- foot spaceship. - Some Chuttle PK' Spaceship Columbia heading home topher Kraft, director of the Johnson Space Officials were considering asking the as- Center in Houston, after officials decided that with one of the ship's three fuel cell generators "of Engle. dead, loss of another might present a problem on return. The ship can fly with two fuel cells that provide its electricity, but flight director Neil Hutchinson said landing on one would be a "pretty tough" operation. Late Friday night, another problem de- veloped aboard the shuttle -power went out in one of three video display terminals that pro- Vide flight and landing information to the crew. tronauts to fix the terminal, which sits in front Reagan, talking with the astronauts from the Johnson Space Center, joked with Engle and Truly and asked them to pick him up on their way over Washington so he could take a Califor- nia vacation. "We'd be glad to, sir," Engle replied. "Let me just say I'm sure you know how proud everyone down here is," Reagan said in a space hookup over a simple black telephone. Tanding difficult. "It was the prudent thing to do," said Chris- Ofeen Standard Examiner 11/04/8/ The decision was made Friday to cut the voyage short by three days and land it at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 4:22 p.m. EST today rather than risk a second electrical generator failure that could make CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - With Pre- sident Reagan saying they're in "America's heart," astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Tru- ly wrapped up space shuttle Columbia's experi- ments Friday and prepared for an early return home today. === Page 245 of 278 -Space Shuttle PK- 10/81 Clogged filter causes scrubbing of shuttle launch By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (AP) - A clogged filter, never refurbished after Columbia's maiden mission last spring, shattered a nearly flawless countdown for Launch II Wednesday, grounding the shuttle for about a week. The decision to scrub came an hour after dawn, with liftoff 31 seconds away. The astronauts' coordinator said the delay may be long enough that Joe En- gle and Richard Truly would return to their home base in Houston. L. Michael Weeks, the shuttle official who revealed the postponement "of approximately one week," said it will be a few days before National Aeronautics and Space Administration experts can even exam- ine the problem adequately to set a new launch date. Primed and eager to make their first tour of space, Engle and Truly spent nearly five hours Wednesday in the shuttle's cockpit, strapped knees-up in their flight couches. Upon leaving the ship, they managed a wry smile. "Pooped" from the long wait, the astronauts went to bed early. The space agency said that if it ap- pears the repairs will take a week or more, Engle and Truly will fly to Hous- ton Thursday. Bill Jones, their training coordinator, said management will de- cide "whether we head home to get in a little additional training or stick it out till launch." Meanwhile, Engle and Truly will practice landings here Thursday, arising again at 2:40 a.m. to maintain the wake- sleep rhythm they've developed for quarts of oil costing $5 a quart. their space flight. At mission control in Houston, flight The scrub sequence was almost the director Neil Hutchinson said, "It's go- same as April's first shuttle launch at- tempt. There, the countdown clock stood at 9 minutes When a computer anomaly caused a scrub. The shuttle lifted off perfectly two days later and made the first flight of the world's only reusable spaceship a triumphant suc- cess. The technical problem that forced a scrub in Launch II involved two auxilia- ry power units - devices that are cru- cial to Columbia's guidance. Clogged auxiliary power unit filter's had been untouched since the shuttle landed after its debut flight in April. NASA's experts said they thought they didn't need maintenance. In essence, technicians now will do what every motorist has to have done to keep a car running. They will change the oil and filter and, if necessary, flush out the system. The auxiliary power units are tur- bine-driven power units that generate. the mechanical power to a pump that produces pressure for the orbiter's hy- draulic system. Wednesday, experts said the power unit problem arose this way: Hydrazine fuel leaked into the auxiliary power unit gear boxes, mixed with oil lubricant and created higher-than-normal pressure readings. Apprised of the readings, Taunch director George Page called off the day's second countdown-to-launch. The auxiliary power units hold 21/2 - Space Shuttle PK Space shuttle shot put off CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - The space shuttle Columbia's unprecedented attempt to return to orbit was postponed Wednesday until Friday, at the earliest, after astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly came within 31 seconds of launch. Still unresolved was the final problem that forced the "scrub." Launch control officials said the flight may have to be pushed back beyond Friday depending on trouble-shooting results. Engle and Truly spent more than five hours lying on their backs waiting for the launch that never came. Greg ST 11/4/81 a.m. EST Saturday. drop them off in space. Truly plans to spend part of three of the five-day flight testing the ne' greg J 10/28/ because it will serve as a crane to take satellites out of the ship's cargo hold and 100 million Canadian dollars and donated to the United States by Canada, is the key to the shuttle's future use as a cargo ship The robot arm, developed at a cost of The final countdown at the Kennedy Space Center is scheduled to begin at 1 the Nov. 4 launch date for astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly on the second flight test of America's reusable space The problem, however, will not affect the new arm-like satellite crane aboard ed mechanical problem in Canada prompted space agency officials to drop one of the many tests planned in orbit next week for CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - A of robot arm A ot test 1Space Shuttle PK- Space shuttle th CAPE ani e new freighter. the space shuttle Columbia. The scrub was all the more disap- pointing because few countdowns had gone as smoothly as the one for Flight 11. Work never fell behind, there were no emergencies and pad crews able to maintain an almost Je pace with no-work holds of p twice and one for 12 hours to ing to take time to get the filters out of the APUs and purge them and clean "them and bring them back on line." A NASA spokesman said the space agency was considering two routes - repair of the units on board and replace- ment of the faulty units with backups. Columbia isn't going anywhere without operating auxiliary power units. The units provide the muscle to swivel the main engines on liftoff and move the wing surfaces for landing. Yet, Hutchinson said he guessed all would have gone OK if technicians had not noticed the pressure problem and had launched anyway. Ironically, the major worry for Wednesday's launch had been the weather, which had been marginal all week. But at the scheduled 7:30 a.m. liftoff time there was no rain, there was little wind and - though heavy clouds blanketed the sky - there was suffi- cient visibility. .Forlorn on its pad, the shuttle was pelted by heavy rain in early afternoon. By then, of course, it didn't count. === Page 246 of 278 3M Fuel spill postpones second shuttle trip BY IKE FLORES CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The second flight of the space shuttle Columbia will be delayed at least "one or two weeks" or even a month beyond its Oct. 9 launch date because a fuel spill unglued up to 250 of its heat-pro- tective tiles, officials said Tuesday, George Page, director of shuttle op- erations at Kennedy Space Center, said a problem with a valve on ground equipment apparently caused the spill of a highly toxic oxidizer around the nose of the spacecraft. During the spill, which occurred during a fueling opera- tion, two to three gallons of oxidizer soaked an area about 20 feet long and two to six feet wide, he said. Page said he hoped the heat-shield tiles suffered little or no damage and can be cleaned and reglued to the orbit- er's skin on the launch pad. "In my view, we're down a week and maybe two weeks at best" if the only problem is the tile adhesive, he said. However, if the oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide, invaded the maneuvering sys- tem of the spacecraft itself, the shuttle will have to be rolled back to the huge Vehicle Assembly Building for disas- sembly, Page said. That could create a delay "in excess of a month," he said. A full assessment of the damage was expected to take another day or two. Sixty-seven of the silica tiles either fell off or were removed during a day- long damage assessment operation which began after the 1:15 a.m. EDT accident. Six workers wearing protective suits and helmets worked throughout the day inspecting the tiles and trying to determine how many were involved. Fumes from the spill kept unprotected workers from the pad. The accident occurred when the oxi- dizer was being loaded into the forward tank of the orbiter's Reaction Control System, below and to the front of the astronauts' cockpit. Since the shuttle assembly sits on its tail at the pad, the of the orbiter's external surface. Their spilled oxidizer splashed downward at least 18 to 20 feet, Page said. silica makeup is what kept the oxidizer from eating away at them, Page said." - Space Shuttle PK Fuel leaks on shuttle Toxic rocket propellant Jeaked from a malfunctioning valve and spilled down the side of the space shuttle Co- lumbia on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday morning, damaging a "limited number" of heat shield tiles. A space agency spokesman said that it is not known how many of the tiles will have to be re- placed or if the second orbital test flight, set for Oct. 9, will have to be delayed. oreg 5 9/22/8, Wooly winter? - All signs, including the thick shag on the wooly worms, point to a long hard winter. Page 16 Protesters persist - Arrests have passed the 1,300 mark as protesters persist at Cali- fornia's Diablo Canyon nuclear energy plant. Page 15 Not afraid? - The avowed racist who was convicted of killing two black joggers in Salt Lake City has declared Shuttle delay looks longer By IKE FLORES Oreg 9/24/8, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spilled propel- lant that unglued nearly 300 thermal tiles on the space shuttle Columbia also leaked into the craft itself, in- creasing the possibility that the ship will have to undergo lengthy repairs, officials said Wednesday. Moving the ship from its pad would delay the launch "in excess of a month" beyond the scheduled Oct. 9 date, shuttle operations director George Page said. Jt would also be a costly setback for the shuttle program: "Project officials are deciding whether or not to roll the shuttle vehicle back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, de-mate the orbiter and move it to the Orbit- er Processing Facility for repair," said a status report issued late Wednesday on the Tuesday accident. A decision on whether to move the shuttle system or do the necessary repairs at the pad is expected by Friday, Page said. Hugh Harris, a spokesman for the Kennedy Space Center, said a visual inspection in the orbiter's nose disclosed the contamination of the reactor-control system, But the extent of damage was unknown until a technician climbed into the system's pod and inspect- ed it closely. That operation was to take place late Wednesday. The system contains a group of thrusters that control the pitch and roll of the space plane during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. "It's pretty sure that they are going to have to remove the pod," said Harris, following a one-hour telephone conference among officials and engineers of the various space centers around the country. "I don't think there's any doubt they're going to do it." He said it would be difficult to remove the 4.000- pound pod at the launch site because the orbiter is in a vertical position. But he said this decision would have to await a further conferences Thursday. If the dam- age is extensive, it also would be better to do the repair work with Columbia in its hangar in a horizon- tal position, he said. ~ UFO attack Shuttle - THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981 There was no possibility of angex plosion because the system's hydrazine fuel had not been loaded. No one was injured. The Reaction Control System is used for Columbia's pitch, yaw and roll ma- neuvers during orbit and atmospheric re-entry. The tiles are among 31,000 that make up the orbiter's insulation shield against the high temperatures of atmos- pheric re-entry. They are made of a sill- ca fiber compound and individually sized, fitted and bonded onto 75 percent === Page 247 of 278 Shuttle PK - Space Shuttle SF Chronicle 9/10/8, much closer to actual operations than the first mission, whose main purpose was simply to get to space and back in one piece. Green said many of the changes that have been made since the first flight were the result of relatively minor failures and short- comings on the initial mission. As a result of the loss of several heat-resistant tiles on the front of the pod-like protuberances that carry small maneuvering rockets near the tail, higher-performance tiles have been put in their place to resist the buffeting during liftoff that knocked off and chipped the ones on the first flight. New upgraded tiles were in- stalled in areas near the back of the maneuvering rocket pods, where higher-than-expected temperatures during re-entry caused felt and adhesive underlying tiles to split or "delaminate"_ before. Engineers also redesigned the fuel cells that provide electricity. and two more hydrogen and oxy- gen fuel tanks for the fuel cells were installed because the mission will be longer. A motor assembly that points the orbiting maneuvering engine failed in the first flight (a backup took over), so a new one has been bolted in, and many of the smaller reaction control rockets used to fine-tune the shuttle's attitude in space have been fitted with higher- performance valves. In a week or so, an auxiliary power unit whose fuel-heater failed in the first mission will get a 10- minute "hot test" on the pad. The heater loss didn't stop the unit from producing power, but NASA engi- neers want to make sure it works as designed. Green said the breakdowns on the first flight were extremely minor "if you look at the complexi- ty of this vehicle. On the Apollo missions there were many, many more." / The exact cost of refurbishing the Columbia has not been calculat- ed by NASA, a spokesman said yesterday, but the workforce in June, during the peak of repair activities, was 1000 Rockwell work- ers and 2200 subcontractors, plus 1100 NASA and other government employees. The payroll for such a force is around $500,000 per day. Preparations for the flight con- tinued yesterday at thunderstorm- buffeted Kennedy Space Center as Engle and Truly climbed aboard the Columbia for a final checkout. Their scheduled activities in- cluded checks of the Columbia's communications, propulsion, and in-flight guidance systems, and a mock firing and cutoff of the shuttle's main engine. Thunder and lightning sent some workers scurrying for cover, but had no effect on the 33-hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power supply problem. Richard Young, a spokesman ät Kennedy Space Center, said all three ground power supply systems quit Tuesday night and engineers were baffled by the blackout. "We are still not sure of the reason for it, we probably won't know for a while," Young said. Yesterday's weather, with rain and lightning within five miles of Launch Pad 39-A, was bad enough to have delaved a real launching. Young said, but didn't alter the dress rehearsal. The next crucial test for the spacecraft, which takes off like a rocket and lands like a plane, is September 14, when supercold liq- uid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuels will be loaded into the bullet- shaped external tank. Thursday, September 10, 1981 The Seattle Times A 21 NATION Compiled from news services - Shuttle PK Columbia passes test simulating mock firing CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Computers took the space shuttle Columbia through a mock ignition and launch-pad engine failure yes- terday - one of the final tests to prepare the orbiter for its second trip into space. With Joe Engle and Richard Truly, astronauts, at the controls, computers simulated the firing of the shuttle's engines then shut them down at "T-minus-3-sec- onds" - three seconds before liftoff in an actual launch. The failure of one of the Colum- bia's engines was programmed into the test, a Kennedy Space Center spokesman, Dick Young, said. But testing shut-down proce- dures wasn't the purpose of the mock launch. It was just an easy way to end the test. The purpose, he said, was to look for last-minute bugs as the Columbia's scheduled October 9 launch date looms. What problems, if any, exist won't be known until engineers study the test, Young said. But it appeared to go smoothly. The mock launch, amid real thunderstorms and lightning, was delayed shortly by problems in the computer-simulation program that "fool" the shuttle into thinking its tanks are full and its engines firing, a space-center spokeswo- man said. The bad weather seny some workers scurrying for dover, but had no effect on the 23 hour exercise which was delayed at midpoint for about three hours by an unidentified electrical power- supply problem. Next month's flight is the sec- ond of four test missions planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before the shuttle is declared operational and is ready to begin flying scientific payloads into space on a routine === Page 248 of 278 - UFO, Shuttle PK- Shuttle tile replacement begins CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Round-the-clock pellant leaked into the steering pod, which contains re-installation of more than 350 heat protection tiles thrusters used to maneuver Columbia in orbit and re-entry. Other blankets were removed as a precau- tionary measure. No significant damage was found in the steering system. on the space shuttle Columbia began Tuesday, with space officials hoping to replace 20 to 30 tiles a day and keep the sh. tle from falling too far behind sched- ule. "They're hoping to get up to 30 a day," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Hugh Harris said about the tedious refitting of the tiles. "But some days, of course, they won't be able to get that many." The vulcanizing adhesive which binds the silica tiles to the aluminum "skin" of the space plane was destroyed by a corrosive propellant, nitrogen tetrox- ide, during a fueling mishap last Tuesday. The accident, caused by a faulty fueling valve, has delayed the shuttle's second mission, originally set for Oct. 9, by several weeks. Officials hope to announce within two weeks a new launch date, expected to be in late October or early November. The decontamination of a steering mechanism compartment in the nose of the orbiter has been com- pleted, but 16 of 26 thermal insulation blankets must still be replaced, Harris said. Workers were awaiting arrival of more of the insulation material from a com- pany in Downey, Calif. Some of the blankets were soaked when the pro- Harris said 352 tiles of the shuttle's Thermal Pro- tection System were removed and another eight were to be taken off to inspect their backing. Most can be reused. Engineers also have decided to drain the nitrogen tetroxide already loaded into the rear maneuvering engines of the orbiter and run the fluid through a filtering system to check for iron nitrate. An investigation revealed that the spill of two to three gallons of the propellant was caused by the formation of iron nitrate at the point where a "quick disconnect" valve attaches to a service panel on the" orbiter's nose. Technicians believe the iron nitrate was formed in the fuel lines leading from the storage tank and settled' at the metal fittings of the valve. But they don't know. what caused the formation. All fueling valves are to be disassembled and re- placed if necessary. The tile work was taking place with the shuttle poised for liftoff on its launch pad. oray 9/30/81 === Page 249 of 278 Europe's isolationism risks a U.S. withdrawal UFO. 6 Projecte- By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -JA wave of isola- tionism is sweeping across Europe. From the rejuvenation of the wet- ter-Red-than-dead set in massive po rades to the foolish demand by Europe an defense ministers in its stead that the United States should offer a "zero- option" proposal to remove all long- range theater nu- clear missiles be- fore disarmament talks begin, the notion is taking hold that Europe can go it alone. The recent flap about Presi- dent Reagan's quite accurate statement of our longtime defense strategy of flex- SAFIRE ible response - that the use of nuclear weapons in case the Russians invade Europe need not mean an all-out nuclear war - was the latest display of continental isolation- ism. If the Soviet army attacked Western Europe, the NATO forces would of course use nuclear artillery shells to slow the advance of the superior Soviet forces and to vividly demonstrate our resolve. The only alternative to tactical nukes, if Europe is to be defended in Europe, is token resistance and quick surrender. But many Europeans do not want Europe defended in Europe. They would change the World War I slogan, "They shall not pass," to "They shall pass im- mediately." They want destruction lim- ited to the superpowers' countries; they want Europe defended without any Eu- ropean's life at risk. Under the new isolationist strategy, a Soviet attack on Europe should be followed immediately by a nuclear at- tack on the Soviet Union by the United States. Common sense suggests that nothing of the sort is going to happen; any American president would try to defend Europe in Europe first with tac- tical nuclear weapons, hoping for time to let sanity manifest itself in the Krem- lin before launching an all-out strategie nuclear exchange. But Europe's isolationists, are not strong on common sense. They have convinced themselves that the danger is not from Soviet expansionism but from both superpowers wanting to play war on their soil. From that nonsensical premise, they reason it would be best to make it impossible to defend Europe, My 10/31/81 and so demand that we not deploy the tactical nuclear weapons that give us a fighting chance. At this point, America should stop assuring them that a Soviet move on Europe would surely incinerate Moscow and Washington, which is not necessari-, ly true, and start thinking the unthink- able: In a two-superpower era, how im- portant would the defense of a neutral -... ist Europe be to the national security of the United States? Every right-thinking establishmen-" tarian Atlanticist would say, knee jerk-i ing angrily, that two world wars proved that the defense of Europe is the defense of America. Better to fight there than here. But now a new element is entering the picture. A growing number of Euro- peans would rather fight here than there. Can we defend a Europe that does not want to be defended? Does it make strategic sense to try? According to the president, we have 375,000 U.S. servicemen in Europes (The correct figure is 332,000; Reagan included the Sixth Fleet and some 24,000 secretaries, schoolteachers and others armed with very sharp pencils.) About 294,000 American dependents are there with them. Together with the United States government they spend over $5 billion a year in Europe, and our. Defense Department annually genu-) flects for "host country support," which consists of not charging us rent for the barracks. If those American troops cannot be backed up with nuclear tactical weap- ons to offset overwhelming Warsaw Pact conventional superiority, and espe- cially if they are faced with a buildup of Soviet SS-20 nuclear missiles, the American forces become nothing more than hostages. They would only be. there to die or surrender, not to fight ... Their ill-equipped presence is not even a deterrent. As that thought sinks in, thanks to the European isolationist movement's demonstrations, we can expect the be- ginnings of American agitation to sup- port our troops or bring them home, The force was originally the tripwire to assure automatic American participa- tion in the defense of Europe - but if Europeans want no serious local de- fense, why do we need the tripwire? When Mike Mansfield was Senate majority leader, he introduced an amendment each year calling for the phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe. At least one U.S. president used that amendment to great effect with European leaders, warning them that if our NATO partners did not pull their weight in the common defense, the. dreaded Mansfield amendment would gain support. Today the American defense of Eu- rope is not only taken for granted but is being roundly abused - with too little- response from Europe's "responsibles."> Unless a counterreaction makes itself heard soon, more unthinkable thoughts will be thought on this side of the At- lantic. When a Senate leader was asked re- cently why no new Mansfield amend- ment had been put forward to be used as a threat, he replied: "It wouldn't work as a threat. The damn thing would probably pass." S === Page 250 of 278 at Tehr UF826 Projects A2 2M Aviation flap with Japan heating up TOKYO (AP) - Japan, which long has claimed "gross inequalities" in its aviation pact with the United States, announced sanctions against American airlines on Monday in response to U.S. restrictions on Its flag carrier. Japan's Transport Ministry said the sanctions include a freeze on applica- tions from U.S. carriers for rights to take Tokyo-bound flights on to other destinations. Vessels warned about lost bomb The announcement said the steps were a response to the Dec. 14 decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board to post- pone indefinitely action on a Japan Air Lines' application. The government-sup- ported JAL had asked permission to fly Brazil-bound passengers on the same flight as Los Angeles-bound passengers as far as the West Coast. In Los An- geles, the Brazil-bound passengers from kyo would continue their flight on a parate aircraft, but no new passen- 9 would be allowed to board, accord- TOKYQ (AP) - Japan's Maritime JAL. Safety Agency issued a warning to ships1e CAB said its action was In re- in the East China Sea to be on the look-e to the Japanese Transport Minis- put for a large wooden crate containing failure to act on an application by rocket bomb that was washed over-d Air Lines for service rights be- board from a U.S. Navy vessel in anty -! Tokyo and the West Coast. phoon last week. je Transport Ministry statement Officials said the 2.3-ton device isapan was prepared to apply fur- iable to ignite and explode if exposed to unctions if the United States acted air. Officials said the bomb was swept Japanese air operations to or off the deck of the 18,000-ton ammuni -! the United States. tion ship Mount Hood, last Thursday e see-sawing dispute has been de- bout 200 miles southwest of Sasebo onng for a long time. apan's southernmost island of Kyushu. pan has for years claimed the joint agreement on civil aviation tate because it al- Japan Air Lines - Itates, while it per- J.S. ship arrival protested TOKYO (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators, some on boats and others at a pier, chanted, "Go Home!" and "We Want The Bases Back!" when the USS Mon- icello arrived in Yokohama Tuesday. No injuries or arrests were reported. An estimated 250 demonstrators gathered at the dockside. Police Laid 100 others, who chartered"11 boats in an effort to surround the Monticello, were dispersed without inci- Sent. Meanwhile, 400 other demonstrators yelling, "Ston The Exercises" and "Protect Our Livelihoods" protest- mits four U.S. carriers to land here. "Our privileges amount to little more than an oil change," said a JAL spokesman who asked not to be named. U.S. and Japanese negotiators on a new civil aviation accord suspended talks in mid-November. The negotia- Tions are scheduled to resume Jan. 11. In a statement Monday, JAL Presi- dent Yasumoto Takagi called the Japa- nese response to the U.S. sanctions "quite justifiable." He said he hopes the government "will not give way to the unjustifiable attitude of the U.S. government and will stand firm throughout the coming nego- tiationa." The sanctions also included: - Freezing requests on so-called "beyond rights" applications. "Beyond rights" involve an airlines' right to use or serve a nation's airport facilities on flights that terminate elsewhere. - Requiring American carriers to submit data on number of passengers, traffic and other details concerning all "beyond rights." - Requiring that any U.S. carrier's application for extra flight sections be approved by the Japan Civil Aviation Board. Until now, extra sections had been allowed automatically through routine notification to the Japanese. oreg 12/29/81 WHO26 Projects Iranian mob flails at U.S. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hundreds of Iranian demonstrators shouted anti- American slogans and burned an Ameri- Can flag Thursday in front of the former -U.S. Embassy in Tehran to "show their allegiance" to clergy leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran Radio re- ported. The broadcast said the demonstra- tion was held to mark the second anni- versary of the founding of the "op- pressed mobilization squad," a loosely bound organization made up of Khomei- ni loyalists. The spiritual leader calls the group the Iranian "popular army." In another development, the Iranian government has invalidated the pass- ports of all Iranians abroad identified as golitical dissidents or members of the Bahai faith, according to a document received by The Associated Press. :It said the "counter-revolutionaries" would be denied further travel abroad but could receive the necessary paper! to come home to Iran. 7/81 oreg 11/2 UFO2 6 Projecto U.S. rapped on drug use oreg 12/13/81 LONDON (AP) - The president of the European Athletic Union Saturday said he believed there was more drug abuse among athletes in the United States than in any other nation. Arthur Gold also accused the United States of starting drug abuse in track and field and said Americans should not be allowed to participate in internation- al meers. "It is a myth that drug abuse started behind the Iron Curtain. It started in United States colleges in the 1950s," he said in a television interview. "My personal opinion is they should not be allowed to compete in interna- tional competition. "T believe drugs are very widely used in the United States, but you can't. have specific evidence because they have no testing there," he said. AFOR 6 Projects- WASHINGTON - Dangerous currents are now running against this country in The Middle East and Europe. But the Rea-" gan administration, as presently constitut- ed, cannot turn the tide. So this country is alive with ru- mors about coming shake- ups in the top Greg foreign policy joseph kraft === Page 251 of 278 UFOx 6 Projects Document loss at Tehran embassy oreg IT 12/21/81 'serious' NEW YORK (UPI) - American intelli- gence operations around the world remain Seriously compromised because of docu- ments taken by Iranian militants in the Tall of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, News- week magazine says. The Soviets are believed to have ob- tained copies of all of the documents, the magazine said, and some papers shredded during the embassy assault were pieced together and are now available in Iranian bookstores. In its latest edition released Sunday, Newsweek also said the loss is far more serious than previously beleved, "U.S. officials believe that Soviet intel- ligence has obtained copies of all the doc- uments taken by the student militants - with potentially damaging results for the United States," the magazine said in Its latest edition. Newsweek said the names of American sources and agents could cause lasting damage and maybe several deaths. U.S. officials have maintained there was little sensitive material kept in the embassy, which was seized by Iranian militants in November 1979, Newsweek said, But now, it said, officials admit the intelligence losses probably equal the damage resulting from the North Korea's capture of the spy ship Pueblo in 1968 or from the hasty evacuation of the U.S. Em- bassy in Saigon. Newsweek said it obtained from former hostage Joseph Subic, who worked in the defense attache's office, detailed informa- tion on the intelligence seized by the mili- tants. The list included: · Thousands of pages representing virtu- ally all intelligence reports filed by the defense attache's office in 1978 and 1979. . A computer printout listing the true identities of all Defense Intelligence Agen- cy sources and agents in Iran, including members of the Iranian military and mili- tary attaches from friendly countries. . Records of a plan by the DIA and CIA. to stenl - with the help of. Iranian offi- cers whose names were listed - a Rus- sian-made anti-aircraft gun and armored personnel carrier the Soviets had sold to the Iranian army. · More than a month of intelligence re- ports from the U.S. Pacific Command, de- tailing U.S. knowledge of Soviet ship movements, and from the European Com- mand, which monitors Warsaw Pact de- ployments - information that could help pinpoint U.S. anti-submarine capabilities. . DIA documents listing the priority of all intelligence targets around the world. The magazine noted that former Iranian Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Amir En- tezam was sentenced to life in prison fol- lowing a trial at which captured U.S. doc- uments were used as evidence to support charges that he cooperated with American officials. ina criticizes U.S. foreign 00) UFO2 6 Projecto Ensign charged in spy attempt SAN DIEGO (UPI) - A Navy ensign will face a court-martial for reportedly Trying to sell military secrets to the South African Embassy in an effort to raise money to put his Filipino girlfriend through college, authorities said. In addition to the charges of passing sensitive information to a foreign power, On his way to a civilian court hearing. Stephen Baba, 21, of Gaithersburg, Md., authorities say he assaulted a female was accused Wednesday of attempted ex- Shore Patrol officer during an escape at- tempt. tortion, attempted escape from custody, desertion, unauthorized absence, missing the movement of the ship to which he was The unsolicited secret data sent to the South African Embassy consisted of a previously assigned, assault on a senior May 1980 copy of a secret electronics- commissioned officer and four counts of warfare evaluation and educational quar- passing hed checks He also faces an attempted armed rob- bery charge Jan. 26 in San Diego Superior Court. Baba's mother, Dorothy, said in Mary- land that her son had sought to raise money for his fiancee in the Philippines so she could attend college. Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 3 Baba al- legedly went on unauthorized leave twice, tried to extort money from a Navy credit union and from a Coronado jewelry store. terly and two secret microfilm indices of key code words. The material, which was returned to the Navy by the embassy, could have been used against the United States, according to Navy Capt. Jack Garrow. oreg 5 12 / 17/ 81 === Page 252 of 278 UFO 6 Projects China criticizes U.S. foreign policy By PHIL BROWN PEKING (AP) - China's official press has sharpened its criticism of the United States recently, claiming America is bun- gling ite foreign policy and harming efforts to contain Soviet expansion. range from U.S. puttry toward the Third, planes to Taiwan has not yet been made, and that the just announced sale requires con- gressional notification. There was no Im- mediate reaction from China. Targets of the Chinese press campaign world to American domestic problems China says might affect U.S. defense capability. There is a suggestion that if U.S .- China relations deteriorate - which China has said will occur if the United States sells fighter planes to Taiwan - it may be of no loss to Peking since the United States is too inept to be a valuable friend anyway. It was disclosed Monday in Washington that the Reagan administration is going ahead with a major sale of military spare -arts to Taiwan. State Department spokes- man Dean Fischer said China was not in- formed beforehand of the decision because, "We feel that our position with China has been consistent and we plan to continue de- fense arms sales to Taiwan." He would not divulge details, other than to say that a decision on selling FX fighter Congressional notification is required for amounts over $25 million. Some sources who asked not to be identified said the sale in- volves $97 million worth of parts. The U.S. friendship with China - started with President Nixon's trip to China in 1972 and enhanced by the Carter administration's 1979 diplomatic recognition of Peking - is strongly rooted in Chinese mistrust of the Soviets. Chinese and Soviet troops fought in a border skirmish in 1969. Soviet backing of India In its 1971 war with Pakistan and of Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia were opposed by China. The Soviet military inter- vention in Afghanistan, which borders Chi- na, has increased the Chinese concern. China has a strong interest in keeping the Soviets under pressure so it can concentrate on the economic modernization launched by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, its top leader. But the spate of recent critical commen- tarles by the official news agency Xinhua, the People's Daily Communist Party newspa- per and by Chinese officials indicate the Chi- nese are starting to look upon the United States as impotent to deal with the Soviets. 009 12/29/81 UFOR 6 Projects Begin axes U.S. pact; rift widens Text on Page A6 By ARTHUR MAX JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minis- ter Menachem Begin, in an unprecedent- ed attack Sunday on the United States, declared the new U.S .- Israeli strategic alliance canceled and told Washington not to threaten or preach to him. "The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America, and it will live another 3,700 years without it," Begin said in an angry statement to U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. The latest crisis, stemming from Is- rael's annexation of the Golan Heights of Syria last Monday, revealed a deep rift in U.S .- Israeli relations. Begin's remarks, later endorsed by the Israeli Cabinet and made public as an official communique, were delivered" First to Lewis. Begin summoned Ambassador Lewis to protest U.S. suspension of the strate- gic alliance - an action taken Friday in response to Israel's annexation of the Golan, Syrian territory occupied by Is- rael since the 1967 Middle East War. "In our view, this is the cancellation of the memorandum," Begin said. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., in an interview on the CBS News "Face The Nation" program, said the United States suspended the alliance to make clear to Israel that it does not have "a blank check from the United States for its conduct." But Haig played down the diplomat- ic flareup as "a difference among friends" and said "nothing is changed." Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda en-Meir said Israel did not rule out the ssibility the agreement could be re- talk is this, punishing Israel? Are we your vassal state? Are we a banana re- public? Are we 14-year-old boys who get their fingers slapped when they don't behave? "We will not be frightened by pun- ishments. Those who threaten us will find our ears deaf," Begin was quoted as saying in the communique. Begin hinted broadly that he be- lieved U.S. policy toward Israel was shadowed by anti-Semitism. He said the withholding of U.S. purchases from Is- raeli defense industries was an attempt to "hit us in our pocket," a familiar theme of anti-Semitic propaganda. Begin refused to nullify the legisla- tion, which he rushed through the Knes- set, Israel's parliament, Monday. "The Golan Heights law will remain in effect. There is no power on Earth that can bring its cancellation," he said. The United States joined the other 14 members of the United Nations Secu- rity Council Thursday declaring the an- nexation null and void. President Reagan said the annexa- tion violated Security Council Resolu- tion 242, which rules out the acquisition of territory by force and calls for nego- tiated borders. The 1967 resolution un- derpins all successive Middle East peace efforts. Begin replied that Syria had refused to recognize Israel or to negotiate, "and thus had removed the soul from 242." The unprecedented Israeli attack on the United States capped six months of slipping relations, and observers could, not remember a similar strain since U.S. pressure forced Israel to evacuate the Sinai Peninsula in 1957. 12/21/81 === Page 253 of 278 UFO2 6 Projects (anti-U.S. govt.) applied to this idea . ,wenn Oregonian finally talks about V oreg By LEVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff 12/11/81 After deliberately seeking obscurity since his return from Vietnam 12 years ago, Thomas Kitrick "Kit" Bowen of Lake Oswego awoke this week to find himself in a global spotlight. Bowen, a dealer for The Oregonian, īs featured in a special Vietnam issue of Newsweek magazine now on the news- stands and will be heard in a one-hour report by Bill Moyers on CBS-TV at 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. The stark truth of Bowen's Vietnam experience came as a shock to his Port- land friends, who knew him as a bub- bly, fun-loving joker who founded VACO, the Vista Avenue Cast-Offs, ear- lier this year just for fun and to raise money for Quadriplegics United Against Dependency. "I never, ever talked to anyone about 'Nam," Bowen said, "not even to my closest friend - my father - until now." Bowen, now 32, was born and reared in the Portland area. He attended Raleigh Hills Elementary School and graduated from Beaverton High School. His parents are now divorced. His mother, Betty, still lives in Bea- verton. His father, who won three Dis- tinguished . Flying Crosses and other medals for heroism in World War II, is a Portland insurance man. father: The younger Bowen was drafted summed up his rage in a letter to his April 24, 1968. "Bam, bam, shake 'n' bake; and there I was in Lai Khe, 35 miles north- east of Saigon, one of two medics as- signed to Charlie Company," he said. I could kill very easily. But once in 'Nam I wouldn't have had it any other way. He is still full of anger, carefully was no CO (conscientious objector). I suppressed for 13 years but boiling over "Charlie Company was a hard-luck company," he recalled. "It was always getting hit. That's probably why News- week chose it for its 'Bittersweet Me- mories' edition. "My main job was to get to a man and patch him up - save lives," Bowen said. "Man, it was a choking scene. It-Bowen said. didn't help being as emotional as I am. . KIT BOWEN would see men wasted and I would come unglued. I was scared a couple of times, but I don't think I ever fired a shot with my rifle. My buddies took care of me. They put the fire doch for me." After his first bloodbath, Bowen "We are the unwilling, working for the unqualified to do the unnecessary for the ungrateful." again after he attended a Charlie Com- pany reunion that CBS sponsored in Florida. The company mustered 160 men at full strength. CBS invited 54 survivors, of whom 31 turned up. Bowen was the only man from Oregon. "I know of one other guy in Aurora who was invited, but he didn't show," tar fire on his own company, despite the screaming protests of the combat-hard- ened "grunts" who tried to tell him the mistake he was making. "Lieutenants have been blown away for less than that," Bowen said. "But we needed this lieutenant to help carry back the wounded. When he ordered us to go back for the guns and ammunition we dropped, I told him, "We're way ahead of you. Were going back to Lai Khe. ---- you!' They quickly 'disap- peared' that officer." Bowen said he would never forget the night one of his sergeant buddies "took one in the head" and died in his arms "with his brains in his mouth." But it was the "body counters" that aroused Bowen's special rage. He has never forgiven Capt. Richard Lee Ro- gers, Charlie Company's commanding officer, who led their platoon into a North Vietnamese ambush despite vehe- ment protests from Bowen and other men. 1 "Our 'Kit Carson scouts' - desert- ers from North Vietnam - knew the enemy tactics and warned us we were walking into a trap,", Bowen said. " 'These guys know the enemy,' I told Rogers. But he was too interested in body counts, which would get him pro- moted. "Sure enough, we were hit from all sides. We lost at least three men and Chalf the rest were hurt. Rogers was shaking, but he ordered us back into the fight. We didn't go. "I was furious - out of my mind - so Refers ordered me on R&R (rest and recreation) to Bangkok to get rid of me," he continued. "I found out later he had yanked R&R orders from a black guy named Cricket and given them to me. That night Cricket got drunk, bust- ed into the captain's quarters and sprayed his bed with his M-16. "Unfortunately," he said, "Rogers wasn't in it. Cricket got 27 years in Leavenworth." Kaother nightmare that haunted Bowen and Billy Johnson, the other company medic, was the night three "twinks" - raw recruits - were as- sigited to a listening post outside the Bowen's anger is directed not "We bled too much over there way too much," he said, shaking bis against the communist invaders of Viet- nam but mainly against the U.S. Army head. "I was full of rage. You might say and its officers. He can't forget the* base defense perimeter. When the ene- I raged my way through the war. I young lieutenant who called down mor- vmy overran their position, they ran for . note: Pai: force willbe "00 === Page 254 of 278 UF06 Projects Bombs darken San Juan SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (UPI) - Pro- independence guerrillas set off two bombs at electric substations Friday night, plung- ing the heart of San Juan's tourist district Into darkness, hours after other insur- gents fired on a U.S. Army station in Puerto Rico, injuring a soldier. The explosions caused millions of dol- lars in damages and were "well planned and professionally executed," said Wil- fredo Marcial Gonzales, assistant director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Au- thority. He talked as he surveyed the melted power lines and blackened transformers That gushed cooling oil, threatening to pollute the picturesque lagoon in San Juan's Condado tourism center. "I eliminate totally the probability that an equipment malfunction could have caused the type of destruction that oc- curred here," the utility official added. Marcial said some of the subscribers affected in a more than 20-block area of Condado may remain without power up to 48 hours. By late Friday, power had re- turned to some of the affected areas, how- ever. The explosions came after a predawn attack at the Fort Buchanan Army base outside San Juan, in which terrorists fired nine rifle shots, wounding a military po- liceman in the left arm. An anonymous caller claiming to be- long to the Macheteros (Machete-Wield- ers) pro-independence terrorist group claimed responsibility for bombing the electric substations in a call to the San Juan Star newspaper. Another man called UPI's San Juan bu- reau and said a pro-independence group 1 called the "Liberation Movement" had shot at the Army base. The man who called the Star said the Macheteros acted in support of students on strike at the University of Puerto Rico, site of a clash between students and police Wednesday that injured more than a doz- en people. Marcial said padlocks to the entrances of both substations were missing, and that he suspected the saboteurs had keys to. ther Oregi5 11/28/81 Bombs 'black out El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) - Some 700 troops patrolled San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city, against left- ist guerrilla attacks amid fears of a major rebel uprising, military officers said. A new guerrilla bombing campaign blacked out 30 percent of the country> leaving San Miguel, Chalatenango, Usulu- tan and the major navy base at La Union with only sporadic power, telephone and water service for two days. org J1/25/82 security forces Sunday were "begin- ning an eight-day task" on full alert be- cause "they have received information in military intelligence that they (guerrillas) are going to attack San Miguel," one offi- cer said. About 700 soldiers in the city of 150,000, situated 85 miles east of San Sal- vador, were stationed "on every corner" to hunt for possible guerrilla. "safe- houses," check identification and search cars for weapons, he said. The government originally feared the rebel offensive would begin last week to mark Friday's 50th anniversary of a bloody peasant uprising quashed by right- ist Gen. Maximiliano Hernandez at the cost of 30,000 lives. About 125 guerrillas wounded a soldier and pinned down forces for three hours 20 === Page 255 of 278 UFO2 Bermuda Triangle Efect. Amtrak computer sells rooms twice, says org 12/16/81 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thou- sands of holiday season travelers were erroneously turned away from Amtrak trains when programming errors in a new $23 million computer system said The trains were full. According to a report in Tuesday's San Francisco Examiner, the problems began in November, about two w eks after the nation's passenger rail corpo- ration switched to a computer that was to triple the reservation system's capac- ity. First, Amtrak discovered 5,700 sleeping compartments on routes throughout the country had been sold twice, said Arthur Lloyd, an Amtrak regional spokesman in San Francisco. When clerks tried to find space for the extra passengers, the new computer said all sleepers were sold out, despite the fact there was plenty of room, Lloyd said. From Nov. 27 to Dec. 9, Amtrak was not taking reservations for sleeping compartments on any of its overnight trains, Lloyd said. Regular rail passengers knew some- thing was wrong, according to Byron Nordberg, president of Citizens for Rail California, an advocacy group for im- proved passenger train service. "Their computer was displaying trains as sold out, and we were wonder- ing why nobody was on them," said Nordberg. "The implications for lost revenue must be enormous, It couldn't have happened &. a worse time." Amtrak, whose clerks answers 200,000 calls a week, does not know how much business it lost, said Lloyd. The "sold out" problem has been solved, he said, but the rail system is still look- ing for room for passengers whose com- partments had already been sold. Nordberg suggested Amtrak might have been hurrying to get the new com- puter operating for the holiday season. "The original computer was collaps- ing around their ears," he said. "It was a choice of monkeying around with it or going to the new system." Amtrak still doesn't know exactly what caused the programming problem, although it says there's nothing wrong with the computer itself, which was manufactured by Honeywell Corp. Coach passengers were not affected empty trains full by the problem, he said. However, at least one official of Caltrans, the Cali- fornia Department of Transportation, disagreed. According to department spokesman Frank Lanza in Sacramento, passengers on Amtrak's overnight Sacramento- Oakland-Los Angeles train were refused coach seats. "It was a problem switching the programming from the old computer to "We know for a fact that people the new one. It was the old 'garbage in, were turned away from the overnight garbage out' problem," said Lloyd. train when there were coach seats "Maybe somebody pushed the wrong button. We really don't know." available," Lanza said. "We were very distressed when we heard about the computer problems." Precis UFOR 6 Project Explosions kill 1, injure 20 ore975 12/22/81 By United Press International Explosions ripped through city streets, fac- tories and homes in Illinois, California, Ala- bama and Tennessee Monday, killing one woman and injuring 20 people. Leaking gas was suspected in the two Southern blasts. Sixteen workers at a grain complex in Dan- ville, Ill., were injured, some seriously, by two deafening explosions followed by fires in a soybean processing section. The cause of the explosions, heard up to 15 miles away, was still unknown Tuesday and 11 workers remained hospitalized with burns, back and head injuries. In Los Angeles, a woman was burned to death in a fiery explosion while trying to put out a fire in her TV set. A friend trying to save her also was burned. A natural gas explosion in a Sylacauga, Ala., laundry leveled half a city block and injured three people. The town's mavor, who was driving within 50 yards of the laundry when the blast occurred, said his Cadillac was "com- pletely" lifted off the ground but he was unin- jured. In Knoxville, Tenn., utility officials said an underground explosion in the downtown area might have been sparked by a combination of faulty electrical wiring and sewer gas. No one was injured, however. In both the Alabama and Tennessee cases, police said dozens of people might have been killed if the blasts had happened an hour later when businesses were open for the day. Clean-up work was under way Tuesday in Sylacauga's downtown. Besides leveling three buildings, Monday's explosion heavily dam- aged and knocked out windows in about 40 other businesses within a four-block area of the central Alabama town. The former president of Sylacauga's City Council and a teenager, briefly trapped in col- lapsed rafters, suffered burns in the explosion but both were listed in good condition. An elderly woman was hospitalized with a back. injury. In Tennessee, utility workers climbed down under a downtown Knoxville street to deter- mine what caused a muffled explosion Mon- day that sent manhole covers flying and blew out the glass of nearby buildings. Jim Carmon of the Knoxville Utilities Board said combustible gas indicators could find no buildup of sewer gas and no leak, although officials said earlier Monday they believed gas was involved. Carmon said an inspection found the explo- sion occurred at an electrical vault and could have been sparked by a power cable that had burned through its insulation. An investigation was under way in Illinois to determine the cause of Monday's blasts at the Lauhoff Grain Co. in Danville. B B m Ed re co bla off fin TH be et ce a a === Page 256 of 278 UPOR 6 Projecto Manhole fire cuts power to downtown Boston area BOSTON (AP) - A manhole fire knocked out electricity Saturday to 6,500 customers in downtown Boston, and two-thirds of the area - including Chinatown and the red-light district - could remain without power until Sun- day, officials said. "We don't expect to have power re- stored until 9 or 10 a.m. Sunday morn- ing," said Mike Monahan, a spokesman for Boston Edison. "We're just advising people to hang tight and bundle up." Temperatures during the night were expected to be around 40, but most of the area expected to be without power through the night was commercial, with only scattered apartments. No injuries were reported. Monahan said the fire was discov- ered in a manhole shortly before 1 a.m. The heat of the fire was so intense it melted seven cable connections that provided power in a wide area. Officials didn't know the cause of the fire. "The manhole was a mess," Mona- han said. The fire initially interrupted electric service to some 6,500 Boston Edision customers in the heart of the city, in- cluding sections of the Tufts New Eng- land Medical Center, said Boston Edison spokesman Walter Salvi. The hospital continued normal functions with the help of emergency generators. Electricity was restored shortly be- fore 10 a.m. to half the affected area. ONegy 11/15/9 49 6 Projects- Boston fire knocks out city subways By PETER BREWER 2 10 2981 BOSTON (AP) - A "suspicious" two-alarm fire knocked out Greater Boston's subway system just before the morning rush hour Monday, and Gov. Edward J. King announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone responsible for the blaze. Surrounded at a news conference by public transportation and public safety officials, King said that "preliminary findings seem to indicate there was ar- son. Someone deliberately set the fire. This deliberate and destructive act must be met with the strongest response." It also was announced that state po- lice would be supplementing Massachu- setts Bay Transportation Authority po- ice at the transit agency's eight power stations while officials review security. King also said that, while he wasn't making a connection between the fire and a work slowdown resulting from labor disputes, "disruptions in service are in no one's interest, (and) I will not tolerate attempts to undercut manage- Damage from the early-morning blaze at the central control building was estimated at $1.5 million, and it was noted by MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary that there was a "suspi- cious" fire at an outlying power station on the Ashmont line five weeks ago. Earlier, O'Leary had told reporters that the fire at the control building was being classified "as a fire of very suspi- cious origin." He said he is hiring a private arson investigator to help find - The Egyptian Power California blasts awaken residents ong 11/7/8/ VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - Two unrelated explo- sions 40 miles apart shook California residents from Their sleep early Friday morning, one blast blowing" apart an oil field compressor plant and the other shaking a rocket fuel firm. The explosion at a Getty Oil Co. plant in the Ven- tura oil fields touched off five natural gas fires and injured one worker, fire officials said. The force of the explosion spewed debris through- out the facility and twisted steel girders of the 100- foot-long compressor plant, authorities said. Intense heat melted portions of the compressors themselves and scorched nearby storage tanks. Residents reported an orange glow in the sky for miles around. "It was kind of a dull orange flash that lit up the whole canyon," said John Sparrow, 29, who was driving to work at the nearby Pepsi Cola plant at the time. Getty officials said they would not be able to determine the extent of the damage until the weekend. The cause of the fire was under investigation. In Saugus, 40 miles to the east, firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze at the Bermite Division of the Whittaker Corp., where waste 'rocket fuel exploded during a burnoff shortly after 5 a.m. No injuries were reported. "We had a flash and it showered some sparks into surrounding brush and we had a small fire which was quickly put out," said Bermite President Douglas Score, who added that the source of the explosion have been some material in a drum that ignited | of the burn." sunty firefighters extinguished three of thin 11/2 hours of the explosion. Fire at microwave station knocks out phone service scrambled Saturday to restore long-dis- tance telephone service between south- east Washington and northeastern Ore- damaged a microwave station near here Friday night, officials said. The fire occurred at the microwave relay station south of Pasco on Joe Butte, said Tom Boswell, a General Telephone Co. equipment. technician. The fire damaged power cables. ly known. Cause of the fire was not immediate- The microwave station is operated Saturday. The outage began at about 7 p.m. Friday. Some service was restored early In addition to long-distance tele- speed data circuits. phone service, the outage affected high- in Oregon. The outage affected the Tri-Cities area and Walla Walla in Washington and the Pendleton, Hermiston, Umatilla, Boardman, La Grande and Baker areas Co., which serves Pasco. General Tele- phone, which provides service to Ken- newick and Richland, is connected to PASCO, Wash. (AP) - Technicians by Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone gon. Service was knocked out when fire Bell's microwave system, Boswell said. === Page 257 of 278 Scientific papers claim aregu 10/9/8 Big W. Washington quake 'possible' By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer A major earthquake of perhaps 6.5 or more mag- nitude on the Richter scale is a possibility in Western Washington, according to one of a series of scientific papers being presented this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Un- ion in San Francisco. Another paper concludes that in addition to 15 known volcanic locations in the Cascades, probably more than 60 other loca- tions in the 11 western states have a potential for future eruptions and new locations may form within the zone at any time. Still another treatise, based upon six years of ex- periments at Kilauea Iki Lava Lake, Hawaii, says the nation could solve its fuel problems by extract- ing thermal energy from vast areas of molten rock under the western United States. The Western Washing- ton earthquake, should it and followed by more than occur, likely would be along a corridor stretching from 20 miles south of Mount St. Helens in a north northwesterly direc- tion to 12 miles north of the Cowlitz River. The zone is a narrow band of perhaps parallel earth- quake fault sections and probably would not cause major damage to the Port- land metropolitan area or the Trojan nuclear power plant. The Trojan plant is al- most 40 miles west of the quake zone, according to Craig S. Weaver, U.S. Geo- logical Survey scientist at the University of Washing- ton Geophysical Center. He co-authored a report on the Mount St. Helens crustal fault- zone with S. W. Smith, another geologist at the university. Weaver also co-authored another paper for the Cali- fornia conference with Wendy C. Grant of the USGS and J.E. Zollweg of the University of Washing- ton that says a hazard reassessment may be nec- essary based on last Janu- ary's 5.5 magnitude quake at Elk Lake, north of the volcano, together with re- cent activity at Mount St. Helens. The quake, strongest in the Northwest in 16 years 1,000 aftershocks, plus the activity of the volcano may signal a loading of the earth's upper crust, the ·Weaver-Grant-Zollweg pa- per says. Weaver said the conclu- sions in the two papers he co-authored show not only. an increase in earthquake ington, but are consistent" Approximately 40 quakes with work done by anoth- er USGS scientist that sug- gests on-going subduction of the Juan de Fuca geolog- ic plate with the North American plate. The geologic evidence points to a building up of strain under the earth's surface, according to Weaver. That doesn't nec- essarily say that a great earthquake will strike the Northwest or that the quake hazard or risk has gone up substantially, he added. While Weaver and another geologist, Jim Sav- age of the USGS western region staff at Menlo Park, Calif., agree that there are signs of on-going subduc- tion of the geologic plates off the Oregon-Washing- ton coasts, there are prob- lems with the interpreta- tions. Weaver said that the way the West Coast has been tilting upwards the last 80 years is similar to what has been seen in Ja- pan and has been intepret- ed as a non strain-loading situation. That could be a sign that subduction is not on-going. In another paper pre- pared for the California conference, Alan Rite and H. M. Iyer of the USGS dis- activity in Western Wash- cuss siesmicity in Oregon. vulcanism. were recorded in Oregon between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 1981, with the largest concentration of activity in the northern part of the state in a band that runs in a north-northwesterly di- rection from southeast of Mount Hood to the Colum- bia River. Rite said in a telephone interview that all of the events were shallow and ranged in magnitude from 0.5 to 3.5 on the Richter scale. He also said they probably were tectonic and In the Oregon study, Rite added, historical data was examined and the largest event in the state apparently was near Cas- cade Locks in 1877, reach- ing an intensity of 8 (not on the Richter scale) and cracking chimneys in Port- land. Neither Rite nor Weaver would say that there is a fault like the San Andreas fault running through Washington and Oregon. Weaver is convinced there are sections of faults in a ot necessarily related to line along the Cascades. UFO2 6 Projecto Rebels darken Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) -The whole.of El Salvador was cast into darkness for two hours yester- day, after repeated rebel bombings on electrical installa- tions around the country, authorities said. Leftist guerrillas brew out electricity in coordinated attacks just after midnight, cutting electricity to San Salvador and most major cities. Then just after sundown the entire country was cast into darkness. Power was restored after the earlier attacks, but an evening outage at the 5 de Noviembre dam 30 miles north of the capital led in a total blackout around the Central American nation. Bt was the first time in two years of near-civil war that a major power failure had taken place at the nation's most important hydroelectric station. It supplies more than one third of El Salvador's electrical power. ora J 1/2/8, === Page 258 of 278 CIA says it nailed down hit squad's U.S. route L By John P. Wallach Hearst Feature Service + T. U.S. WASHINGTON - The CIA knew 24 hours after a Libyan hit team crossed into the United States from Canada the identities of the five sus- pected assassins and their exact route, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday. A Libyan defector, who has been in CIA custody since he walked into a U.S. diplomatic misson in Europe last month, provided the information on the Libyan hit team's movements from "point A to point B" less than 24 hours after they moved. When the CIA and the FBI checked the report, the informer's prediction was confirmed - "the hour day and the people involved. It checked out completely," the intelli- gence official said. That in turn enabled the U.S. gov- ernment, the official said, to obtain positive identifications and photo- graphs of the suspected Libyan assas- sins less than 24 hours after they had crossed into the United States. The intelligence official also pro- vided details of the crisis that has led the administration to vastly beef up security around the president, Cabi- net members, White House aides, con- gressional leaders and selected ambas- sadors serving at certain foreign posts. · The CIA has reason to believe that the Libyan plot may involve the Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical terrorist offshoot of the Pal- estine Liberation Organization_as well as members of the Japanese Red Army and Italian Red Brigades. The sources said that "Carlos," an alias for the Venezuelan terrorist Vladimir Tlyitch Ramirez, also may be involved. Carlos is believed to have been living in Libya for the last several years. · A composite of the suspected American targets has been put togeth- er. "If you're Jewish, identified with the administration's Middle East poli- cy or a senior member of the govern- ment, you're on the hit list," the offi- cial said, "and you would be well advised to have maximum security. He explained that this extended not only to Reagan, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, defense chief Caspar Weinberger and White House inti- mates such as Edwin Meese and James Baker, but also to. Theodore Cummings, Maxwell Rabb and Arthur Hummel, the U.S. ambassadors, re- spectively, to Austria, Italy and China. All three envoys are Jewish. · The Reagan administration also says "documented plans" captured from a Libyan hit squad apprehended in Italy this fall conclusively prove that Rabb was the target of an earlier assassination plot. "We have equally solid information that there are other American targets of the Libyan assas- Sattle PI 12/9/81 === Page 259 of 278 USFostering terrorists oreg 12/11/081 closed Khadafy's diplomatic mission in Washington earlier this year. The U.S. mission in Tripoli was the target of a mob attack in December 1979, and the Libyan government has yet to fulfill its promise to pay for the damage. With no fanfare, border guards were told to be on the lookout for two assas- sination squads intent on killing Reagan and other top officials. According to a document issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, one squad is headed by the famed international ter- rorist known as "Carlos," or "The Jack- al." His full name is Carlos Ilich Ra- mirez Sanchez. "A reliable source indicates that a six-man assassintation team headed "by Carlos may attempt illegal entry into The United States via Mexico during car- "Ty December 1981," said a notice posted at the crossing on the U.S .- Mexican bor- der south of San Diego, Calif. The document named five other members of the "assassination team' headed by Carlos, and also named five alleged members of a second team. Most American oil companies oper- ating in Libya withheld announcing at once whether they would pull their workers out of Libya and give up a profitable arrangement that has flour- ished through months of tensions. UFOR- "terrorists" U.S. terrorism soaring WASHINGTON (UPI) - After a four-year decline, the number of terrorist acts in the United States has in- creased by almost 50 percent in the last year, says FBI Director William Webster. The reason for the sudden. Increase still is being analyzed, he said Tuesday. "Most of the terrorist activities, with the exception of those in Puerto Rico, have to do with people in the United States with causes that don't involve the United States," he told reporters. During 1981 there were 42 terrorist acts, 13 more than in 1980, Webster said ON J 12/30/81 -Vi- I Projects Terror increases FBI Director William H. Webster said Tuesday that terrorist incidents in- side the United States increased during 1981 for the first time in four years. At a year-end session with report- ers, Webster said there had been 43 identifiable terrorist incidents in the United States so far this year. That number still is below the figure for 1977, the year before Webster took i over as FBI chief. In 1977, there were 100 domestic terrorist incidents, and the figure dropped steadily to 55 in 1978, 42 in 1979 and 29 in 1980. Ored. 12/30/8, Infor 6 Projectos FRANKFURT, West Germany (UPI) - Terrorists have slashed tires,on American autombiles and threatened new attacks on U.S. military installations, authorities said Thursday. A spokesman for the U.S. Army V Corps news said tires were slashed and an- scope ti-American_slo- gans painted on 10 automobiles with U.S. military license plates parked outside houses occupied by Americans on three streets in Frankfurt. Automobiles with German license plates were not damaged. Supporters of the Baader-Meinhof ter- rorists claimed responsibility for the ac- tion in letters received by Frankfurt newspapers. The letters referred to the September attempt to assassinate Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, and the bombing in August at the European headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at Ramstein Air Base that injured a general and 14 other people. The letters called these attacks "an ex- ample" of what is planned for U.S. mili- tary installations in West Germany, the newspaper Frankfurter Neue Presse said in today's edition. "Kroesen and Ramstein" were painted on the American autombiles on which the tires were slashed, the American spokes- man said. oregis 11/19/80 Terrorists threaten U.S. bases === Page 260 of 278 Fortean Times BM-Fortean Times London WCIN 3XX. The Journal of Strange Phenomena. MYSTERY ATTACES The war between man and nature continues; and if the battles are not always red in tooth and claw, they can at least be downright inconvenient. Here are a few animal saboteurs ... for added humour, see also our selection of headlines' on this subject on the inside back cover. MASS ATTACKS · Mice: The San Ofre nuclear power station, California. closed down by mice which shorted the electrical system. Daily Mirror 12 November 1979. In Arlingsaas, Sweden, a van carrying hundreds of mice to a hospital for experiments never made it. The cunning little devils would keep breathing until the windscreen steamed up, and the van went off the road! D.Telegraph 27 Nov 79. · Rats: Hordes of rats, appar- ently breeding for nine years in an excavated lot at Park Row and Ann Street, Manhattan, suddenly swarmed out without apparent cause, to bite women and jump on cars, gnawing windscreen wipers and vinyl roofs. Health officials fenced off the site with wire mesh and put down poison. Niagara Falls Review 12 May 79. Between 300 & 600 tele- phones were disconnected in Cheltenham, Glos, when rats gnawed through an underground cable. Glos, Citizen + D. Mirror + D. Star + D. Telegraph 7 Jan 80. A lobster farm on the island of Houat, off the Brittany coast, France, attacked by what must have been an almighty horde of rats: 5,000 lobsters eaten in one night! Sunday Express 13 Jan 80, Surrey & Hants News 29 July 80 · Rabbits: Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota: rabbits and squirrels causing chaos in the secured weapons area by setting off security alarms. The rabbits were also breeding like crazy and burrow- ing into missile mounds, cause cave-ins. The Air Force-were intending to go hunting . .. with bows and arrows! Toronto Sun 11 May 80. The ancient monument of Stonehenge, Wilts, in danger of falling down due to the burrow- ing of a vast army of rabbits. Officials digging wire fence into the ground to keep the invaders out. D.Express 4 July 80. · Squirrels: Air-raid sirens set off at Toronto, apparently due to squirrels gnawing through circuit wires (one of these days, a rodent's going to start World War III!) Toronto Sun 30 May 80. New York State: hundreds of paranoids convinced their phones are bugged ... the cause of the mystery crackling turns out to be squirrels shar- pening their teeth on the wires. Five miles of cable need replac- ing. D.Mail 8 Aug 79. · Pigs: New South Wales, Australia: thousands of pounds worth of damage caused by rampaging wild pigs, killing lambs and trampling crops. S. Express 11 May 80. · Rooks: A spate of power cuts on the Isle of Man blamed on flocks of sexy rooks homing in on power-lines to whoop it up in the mating season. D.Star 25 July 80. · Insects: A swarm of bees invaded the control tower at an airfield at Tabora, West Tanzania, driving out the air traffic team. A pilot found the controllers cowering under a tree after he landed. The Star (Sheffield) 19 Oct 79. Gaevle, Sweden: swarms of wasps systematically eating the yellow paint off outhouses in a district of semi-detached homes. D. Telegraph 25 July 80. · Worms: Half a mile of British Rail track threatened, where it runs across the Mawddach Estuary, near Barmough, Wales, as worms eat the track's wood- en supports. Damage costs £21/2 million to repair. Guardian 18 June 80. · Mackerel: A Norwegian supertanker, the Moscliff held up for 22 hours in the English Channel, some time in Decem- ber 1979, when it ran into a huge shoal of mackerel. The ship's engine stopped auto- matically when thousands of mackerel were squeezed through the strainers of the cooling system intake. About a ton of minced mackerel had to be removed before the ship could get underway again. London Eve. Standard 10 Jan 80. LONE RANGERS · Spiders: Cambridge (Canada?): Firemen responded to an alarm call from the fire- detector at the home of Mervyn Orr, but there were no flames. Instead, they opened the detector and found a spider which had spun its web between the ionization chambers and set off the alarm. Toronto Star 27 Nov 79. · Fish: Brierley Hill, West Midlands: All Herbert the Trigger-fish wanted to do was burrow into the sand at the" bottom of his 400-gallon tank, in Chris Parson's shop. Amaz- ing what an 8-inch fish can do: the coral reefing in his tank collapsed; heating elements fell against the half-inch thick glass; the six-foot tank shattered; the gushing seawater blew up a compressor; ruined carpets, destroyed stocks, killed 8 valuable fish. £5,000 of damage (Herbert survived). D.Mirror 30 Oct 79. · Mice: Manea, Cambs: a mouse chewed through electric wires and caused a £1,500 fire 36 note: Remember that any twined nature animals birds, et. against human roce! (Su previous Correspondence) Gwen 1981 === Page 261 of 278 NOTE: We are proud to present these reprints from the FORTEAN TIMES! They have excellent coverage, and were most gracious to allow us to share their hard work with you .. Fortean Cimes in a grain store. D. Telegraph 20 Sept 80. · Birds: Thousands of com- muters from Liverpool Street Station, London, delayed 20 minutes after a pigeon flew into overhead power lines between Gidea Park and Shenfield, causing a break in electricity. London E.Standard 19 Oct 79. A crow flew into powerlines in Japan, halting 20 high-speed trains. D.Mirror 9 April 80. Trains halted for 2 hours at Stoke on Trent when a crow's nest on an electricity cable cut power. Weekly News 8 May 80. An owl pecked through the cooling cable and blew a 132,000 volt cable near Black Carr Woods, Bradford, causing £13,000 damage. D.Star 5 Aug 80. A kestrel perched on an overhead railway power cable as a train passed underneath caused a short-circuit, blowing masonry from an overhead footbridge and halting main- line services at Crewe for more than an hour. D.Telegraph 27 Dec 79. Gifhorn, W Germany: Armin Grothe's new £60.000 house was built on the hunting ground of a stork, and the latter got rather annoyed. swooping in at night to attack. Three windows smashed at last count. D.Mirror 26 June 80. . Lizards: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: two lizards caused water shortages when they crawled into an electricity junction box andshort-circuited water pumps. A snake had pul- led the same trick the previous year. Reuter Report 22 Jan 80. · Cats: Cindy the cat managed to climb up an electricity pylon, causing workmen to black out the village of Streatley, Luton, , for 20 minutes while they rescued her. Weekly News 5 April 80. · Dogs: The Piccadilly Line of the London underground was brought to a halt during the morning rush hour when an alsatian dog went for a walk. for six miles along the tunnels between Wood Green and Holborn stations. D. Telegraph 29 Dec 79. · Sheep: At North Wooton. near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, a 200 lb pregnant ewe ran away from the flock, apparent- ly saw its own reflection in the window, and promptly leaped through the glass pane. Finding itself in the lounge of Mr Leslie Tincknell, a homely place with a fire just lit in the grate, it promptly proceeded to run umok, covered in blood and broken glass, causing £1.000 damage to curtains, carpets and a three-piece suite. Mr Tincknell and his wife, in the kitchen didn't hear a thing. D.Express + D.Mail + D. Telegraph 26 Nov 79. More trouble with a ewe at Beeches Farm. Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria. Miss Ella Todhunter was up a step-ladder painting the kitchen walls when she heard her brother Joe. and his son Arthur having trouble with a sheep outside. Leaving the paint-pot at the top of the ladder. she went out to help. The sheep promptly made a break for it, ran into the kitchen, tangled itself with the step-ladder and covered itself with white paint. Ella, Joe. and Arthur proceeded to chase the sheep round the kitchen, leaving a trail of foot- prints and a pool of paint in the middle of the carpet: and naturally, the furniture got painted every time the sheep touched it. They finally got it outside and started to load it on a truck when its painted fleece slipped through their fingers. Off went the ewe again. this time entering the kitchen through the ( closed ) window and landed right in the pool of paint. Round and round go the pursuers; round the kitchen, out into the hall, back into the kitchen ... white paint every- where. Yes, they did finally get it onto the truck. S. Express 4 May 80. · Deer: Cockeysville, Mary- land: obviously outraged by the hunting licences on display at Fred Forsyth's sports shop. a deer hurled itself through the front window, smashed a glass cabinet and several fishing rods, and was finally cornered and shut up in a storage room. When two policemen arrived, the deer leaped through another window and escaped back to the woods. Herald Tribune 23 Oct 80. · Moose: Saulte Sainte Marie, Ontario: a moose leaped through the window of a laun- derette, scattering customers and laundry as it rampaged around, before jumping back out the window and departing for the woods, leaving a trail of laundry. D.Telegraph 19 May 80. · Horses: Stray horses made a meal of Alex Curtis' Piper turbo plane when he left it at Doncaster racecourse, causing £2,000 damage as they chewed both wings, the rudder, and anti-static devices. D.Star 20 Aug 80. · Bulls: A bullock escaped from Cambridge cattle market and rampaged for 36 hours before recapture; during which time it dented two police cars, demolished a brick wall, tramp- led down 6 gardens and knocked down a cyclist who broke an ankle. D. Telegraph 29 Nov 79. Bull, Wrecks China Shop' reads the headline (honest!). The 18-month-old bull escaped from u cattle market in Otley, Yorkshire, and headed for Peter Jordan's shop, coming in through the door like a normal customer but then knocking over cabinets of china, crushing coffee tables and destroying lamps and ornaments. It was finally lured away with a young heifer. D. Telegraph + D. Star 25 Sept 80 · Elephants: And finally, biggest of all . .. voting had to be suspended at a polling station in central Tanzania when an elephant strolled in, scattering voters and officials. Maybe it mistook the place for a phone booth ... wanted to make a trunk call, y'see (Sorry). Credits: Paul Burd, Helen Coles, Chris Hall, GPL., Valerie Martin, Sam, Paul Screeton, Dwight Whalen · SM. 37 === Page 262 of 278 NEWSWEEK from George note: The Is turning nature against humans. - UFOR 6 Projects - The Invaders From the time the Lord smote the ancient Egyptians with plagues of frogs, lice, flies and locusts, humankind has had to live with peri- odic eruptions in the animal kingdom. Al- ready this year, Medflies have threatened California fruit and vegetable crops while gypsy moths denuded trees in the Northeast. Now come the latest inhuman villains: sting- ing swarms of fire ants in Texas and Thunder- ing herds of bunnies (jack rabbits, actually) in Idaho_ In five counties of eastern Idaho, the ground at night seethes with rabbits in the millions. It's a cyclical invasion, the rabbit population reaching a peak about every ten years, but no one can recall anything like this year's hordes. The animals overrun the grain fields and choke the roads. Patches of state highway 28 are virtually paved with fur, and motorists have had tires punctured by rabbit bones. Eventually, diseases will decimate the leporine legions, but farmers say they can't afford to wait; losses so far total $5 million Leonard Lee Rue III -- Animals Animais AP worth of hay, wheat, oats and barley. "We got an 80-acre hay field they ate right down to the damn dirt." says Louis Gowdy, a hired hand on one local farm. Some Idahoans have urged a rabbit round- up, in which the pests would be herded into pens, then clubbed to death. But similar drives a decade ago touched off a public furor. "If these were rats invading New York," complains Jefferson County commissioner Rex Furness, "nobody would complain if you killed them the best way you could." Texans, meanwhile, are waging a losing war against the fire ants. Brought into the United States from South America by acci- dent in 1918, they now infest 102 of the state's 254 counties, dotting the fields with huge, sunbaked mounds hard enough to damage farm machinery. They nest in cities, too- inflicting on children and household pets a bite venomous enough to send its victims into shock. One Austin family even found fire ants in the washing machine and electrical outlets of their new home. After cleaning out the ants, they cleared out themselves-moving all the way to New York City. tiators were still at odds on the details of the $400 billion-plus continuing resolution. O'Neill, waiting for the results in his office, picked up his phone on the spur of the moment and put in a call to Jimmy Carter. "We miss you, Jimmy," he told Carter. Elsewhere in the Capitol, the conferees were divided on the depth of the cuts to be made. The Republican-controlled Senate, follow- ing the Administration's lead, was holding out for deeper cuts in labor and social- welfare programs and pushing for more foreign aid; the House was resisting. But if they agreed-and if Reagan accepted the result-the emerging compromise seemed broadly compatible with the goals of the President's "fall offensive": at least some further trims in domestic spending, little or no reduction in the defense budget and no dilution at all in his much-prized program of income-tax cuts. Settling Up: Whatever the outcome, the struggle would take its toll. Reagan's troops Illinois's Battle Between Big Names With what may become the Democrats' stock line in 1982-"there are no Trojan horses in our arsenal, just plain truth and common sense" -- Adlai E. Stevenson III last week emerged from a brief retirement to win his party's nomination for governor of Illinois next year. Stevenson, 51, who decid- ed not to seek re-election last year, after a decade in the United States Senate, now faces the formidable task of defeating Re- publican incumbent James R. Thompson, 45, twice elected by landslide margins and determined to become the first Illinois gov- ernor ever to win a third successive term. Illinois Democrats were pleased to have a "big name" like Stevenson heading their ticket. But they worry about his low-key, professorial style and obvious discomfort at hand-to-hand campaigning. Stevenson " "Good race, young lady," Sheriff Jack Heard said in his post-election phone call to Kathy Whitmire. It was the same patroniz- ing tone the 63-year-old sheriff used throughout his campaign for mayor of Houston, portraying opponent Whitmire, 35, the city's 5-foot-tall, two-term control- ler, as little more than a schoolgirl unsuited for leadership of the nation's fifth largest city. Heard also outspent Whitmire by more than 2 to 1, but both his tone and his tactics failed miserably. Last week Whitmire be- came Houston's first woman mayor and its biggest vote getter ever, swamping Heard in a runoff election with more than 62 percent of the vote. Whitmire, who was widowed at age 30, will join a growing sorority of big- city mayors-Jane Byrne in Chicago, Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco and Margaret Hance in Phoenix. Last week she pledged that Houston will be "managed like a business," adding the city "doesn't have to be the captive of a few power brokers." === Page 263 of 278 B.C. farmer bitten by female bear PRINCE GEORGE R.C. - A rancher was hospitalized in stable condition after fighting off a bear with a fence post. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Vinko Mamic was tending fences Saturday on his property about 12 miles south of Prince George when he encountered a sow and her cub. Mamic says the bear attacked without warning, biting him badly on the arm and leg before he was able to hit it with a fence post and chase it away. After the attack, Mamic walked more than a mile for help. - UFOR 6 Projects- SiFOR 6 Projecto - JIGGETY JOG: Joggers pick up their pace when they pass the pond at Oklahoma City's Quail Creek Golf and Country Club because that's where the mean swan lives. "He attacks joggers and kids," says David Lisle, assistant golf pro at the club. "If you get within -about 30 yards of it, it will take out 'after you," one golfer reported. Another golfer reported that the swan -killed a dog by holding it under water. NOR 5 9/30/81 9-22-81 SF Chronicle Mass Death Dives By Indian Birds - UFon 6 Projects- New Delhi Hundreds of birds have committed "mass suicide" by smashing themselves against Tamps, the United News of India reported yesterday. Experts who are studying it are baffled by the phenomenon, observed in Haflong town in the northeastern state of Assam, about 1000 miles from New Delhi, and first noticed in 1905. The repeatedly dive at night into glass-covered electric and kerosene outdoor lamps, frequently killing themselves on impact. During the experts' three-week investigation at Haflong, they found that birds surviving the blow will starve to death. The birds flying to their doom include cattle egrets, white breasted water hens, Bengal florigams, green pigeons, red-breasted parakeets, woodpeckers, red-whiskered bulbul and four species of kingfishers. Unite - MFOR 6 Procenta - Elephants raze village JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A herd of elephants has gone on a rampage at a small village in west Sumatra, killing a 45-year-old woman and leaving more than 300 people homeless, the Antara news agency reported Tuesday. It said the 14 elephants have staged nightly attacks, on Sukabumi village since last week, during which they have destroyed hundreds of acres of crops, killed livestock and crushed 62 houses in the village of 1,500 people. The news agency said there was no explanation for the rampage and that the villagers have been unable to scare off the elephants. arag 9/30 81 === Page 264 of 278 UFO-0 6 Projects- mne beetles destroying Oregon lodgepole forests First of three parts By TOM STIMMEL Journal Staff Writer BEND - The view from the U.S. Forest Service road leading to the summit of Paulina Peak (elev. 7,887 feet) is different this fall from other years. On the far horizon, Central Oregon's trade marks - Bachelor Butte, Broken Top and the Three Sisters - march as before, now glistening with new snow; in the middle distance the Deschutes River, LaPine and other communities, and the distinct silhouette of Fort Rock are un- changed. But the sight immediately below - a forest on a plateau pocked with small clear-cuts - is dramatically different. Death is in the forest. Its greenery is splotched with streaks of rust and gray, evidence of an attack by a devastating insect - the mountain pine beetle - well into the epidemic stage. Tony Smith, a technician with the Des- chutes National Forest who is responsible for coordinating an inter-agency war against the beetle, stepped out of the car for a look. "Christ! This is worse than it was a month ago," he exclaimed. "I just can't believe it." Streaks of rust and red stretched south until the forest met the desert and north as far as the woods could be seen. continue indefinitely. Splotches of gray were less dominant and less extensive. Rust and red, autumn colors not wel- come in a lodgepole pine forest, represent the unseen menace trees that the beetle killed a year ago. Gray trees, without needles, were killed two or more years ago. Moreover, some of the trees still green are dead already, but won't turn color until next spring. "The beetle never kills an infested area all in one year," said Deschutes informa- tion officer Greg McClarren. "Sometimes it takes three years, but most likely five." The mountain pine beetle has been epi- demic in the Deschutes, Winema and Fre- mont national forests for at least three years, is the worst the Forest Service has ever encountered in the area. and will "Our entomologist; won't be any lodgepo years, and that ti., vc in Central Oregon cq times the volume lost ens," McClarren said By one estimate, has affected 300,000 million acres, as we acres of state and pr Eventually the ir from Madras to the Obviously, the F much interested in c ic. Unfortunately, method of effective A similar epiden tains of Northeast lapsed, after 10 yi million acres were board feet of timber BEND Century Dr. (97 CRANE PRAIRIE RESERVOIR WICKIUP RESERVOIR EAST.L. PAULINA L LA PINE ODELL L (58 CRESCENT 31 OREGON JOURNAL But it wasn't coMOVING MENACE - Mountain pine beetle, a killer because the beetle always present in the forest, has reached epidemic there was nothing vice entomologist proportions in Central Oregon and is moving south. Shaded areas indicate forests affected by the beetle. (Continue Ongo 10/13/81 Sent. P.A. Leopard attacks star of 'Dynasty' TV series By Vernon Scott - 4FOR 6 Projects - HOLLYWOOD (UPD) - Linda Evans, blonde star of the "Dynasty" television series, was knocked to the ground twice and bitten below the breast by a 200-pound" leopard during a rehearsal for a TV special, it was disclosed yesterday. Evans was treated for the wound after the accident Monday and was expected to report to work again today. Jay Bernstein, her manager, said the actress was knocked down by a leopardess named Sheha after the actress cracked a whip at the animal during rehearsal for the annual "Circus of the Stars" telecast. "Linda went into the cage with a trainer," Bernstein said. "The 200-pound cat knocked Linda down once, but she was game enough to try a second time. She didn't know she had been bitten until blood appeared on her clothes." Evans was treated at a hospital near the training site in the San Fernando Valley and was reported resting at her home yesterday. Bernstein said she would report for filming of the "Dynasty" series today, but added, "She will not do the circus show." Ironically, Evans went to Alabama earlier this year to investigate the leopard act and she determined it was safe. This year's "Circus of the Stars" will be taped early next month in Las Vegas. The accident was the second in the history of the annual telecast, Gary Collins was knocked down by a tiger during taping of the first show several years ago, but wasn't injured. Evans plays Krystle Carrington, the wife of a ruthless tycoon oilman, in "Dynasty." She made ber professional acting debut in the movie "Twilight of Honor" with Richard Chamberlain and then landed a role as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter in "The Big Valley" television series. She gave up her career temporarily during her marriage to director John Derek, but later resumed work. in such movies as "The Klansman," "Avalanche Express" and "Tom Horn," and "The Hunter" television series. === Page 265 of 278 UFOR 6 Projects Surfer's fate blamed on huge shark PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (UPI) - The disappearance of an experienced surfer in Monterey Bay is being blamed on a 19-foot great white shark, which would be the largest ever off the California coast. The 25-year-old surfer from Pacific Grove, Lewis Boren, has been missing since Saturday. The Coast Guard, which wasn't notified until 24 hours after the incident, said no one could survive in the frigid waters for more than five hours and did not launch a search. Sheriff's deputies, however, did search the shoreline, where pieces of Boren's bloodstained surfboard were found washed ashore. Marine researchers found teeth- marks 18 inches wide on the surf- board. Shark experts said the size of the teethmarks indicated a great white shark 19 feet, 7 inches long - more than twice the size of Boren's surf- board. UFO1 6 Projecto City will settle in monkey attack GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The family of a 3-year-old attacked by a monkey at the city zoo will receive a damage settlement of $50,000, city offi- cials said. Jason Brown required 250 stitches after a monkey bolted through an open cage door Aug. 20 and pounced on him, biting repeatedly "like he was a piece of meat." said his mother, Cathy. Jason requires more plastic surgery to remove residual scars, and he must keep two metal plates in his head. Also, he suffers nightmares and has been taunted by neighborhood children. Breg 12/25/81 - nFOR 6 Projecte 10 trampled to death DURBAN, South Africa (UPI) - A power failure caused by lightning led to panic in which 10 people were trampled to death and 38 were injured in a jammed railway station, police said Friday. A spokesman said that when two trains crammed with thousands of commuters arrived at the station in Kwamashu town- ship, 10 miles north of Durban, the pas- sengers flocked to a single bridge span- ning a road from two directions, causing a crush in the center. oreg-5 10/3018, If true, that would sur] ass the past California record of 18 feet. Friends said the curly-haired, 6- foot-2 Boren was known locally as an expert surfer. He wore a seagull tat- too "The surfers are all just standing on the beach looking out to sea," said Bery! Thomas, a friend of Boren's. "This is the time to surf and nobody feels like it." Thomas said Boren, who worked at people -UFor Projects - ATTACK PANDA: Heard about the guy who escaped from an enraged . . . panda? Scientist George Schaller of New York, reporting from a nature reserve in China's Sichuan Province, said he was taken by surprise when a panda mother. Zhen-Zhen, stormed out of a thicket and forced him up the nearest tree. Zhen-Zhen (Rare Treas- ure) then retreated to hes den. "Zhen- Zhen's uncharacteristically aggressive behavior - wild pandas usually shuf- fle away when approached by man - and bleating sounds coming from the den confirmed this was the reaction of a protective mother," Schaller told the World Wildlife Fund headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. Schaller is track- ing the dense bamboo forests of south- - west China to study panda behavior in the wild. greg J 10/31/81 35026 Projects- Dobermans savage boy KETTERING, Ohio (UPI) - A boy who would have been 5 years old Tuesday was mauled to death Sunday by two Do- berman pinschers kenneled in a yard where he went to retrieve a tennis ball. Both dogs were shot and killed after they tried to attack police officers who investigated the attack. Po- lice said no criminal charges are pending. Ong,J 10/06/8, Perra Engineering Co. in Pacific Grove, disappeared while surfing in 15-foot waves just north of Pebble Beach in an area known as Spanish Bay. "He was a personal friend and we're not saying he's dead," she said. "His body still hasn't been found. He was a very experienced surfer. This is a shock. He was tall, handsome and had dark curly hair. He was very nice and öreg J 12/23/81 - 2For 6 Projecto- Tiger injures 2-year-old OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A 250-pound tiger, described by its owner as "tame," is undergoing stan- dard observation for rabies after jumping on a 2-year- old Oklahoma City child during a photo session in a downtown parkway, police say. The child, Shawnna Hill, was in stable condition at South Community Hospital, where she was being treated for deep cuts to her face, investigators said. "It's awful, but it's just carelessness," said John Aynes, Choctaw, who owns the tiger. Aynes said Shamar, the tiger, usually is a "tame, friendly cat" and probably considered the child "some- thing to play with." ereq 10/31/8. - HFOR b Projects - 2-year-old mauled by 250-pound tiger OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) - A 2-year-old girl mauled by a 250-pound tiger was recovering Friday after hours of delicate skin surgery to repair severe facial injuries that could leave lasting scars, officials said. The tiger, freed from a truck cage for promotional photographs downtown, wrapped its paws around Shaw- na Hill and apparently bit her when she screamed in fright, witnesses said. The girl was traveling with the publicity company. The child's mother apparently did not hear a warning to place the girl in a company truck before the tiger was released. Ms. Denney said the girl remained in stable condition but could be left with scars. Ereg J 10/30/8, === Page 266 of 278 Oregon Journal, December 25, 1981 25De 6 Projects Surfer's body found PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) - The body of a surfer mauled by what is presumed to be a great white shark was recovered Thursday at the south end of Monterey Bay, authorities said. A large chunk of 24-year-old Lewis Boren's body had been ripped away, said Monterey County Coroner Harvey Hillbun. "It's a classic example of a shark bite," he said. Boren vanished Saturday while surfing in the chilly waters off this small community south of San Francisco. His knee board - a shorter, less buoyant version of the surfboard - was found later. Boren, a welder and veteran surfer, was identified by a seagull tattoo on one arm, Hillbun said. Addition- al identification was planned through dental records .. Oreg 12/25/81 United Press International GRIM EVIDENCE - Wetsuit of surf- en, 25, was almost instantaneous er killed by shark is shown by Paul from a massive wound. Body was Crossman, Monterey County, Calif., found a half mile from where Boren deputy coroner, at Pacific Grove, disappeared Saturday while surfing Calif. Death of the surfer, Lewis Bor- alone. Surfer killed by huge shark while on board PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (UPI) - The surfer killed by one of the largest great white sharks ever recorded was apparently lying face down on his board waiting for a wave when the fish lunged and bit right through him, the Monterey County coroner said. "It appears that there was one huge lunge and then a bite," Coroner Harvey Hillbun said. "It is such a massive wound that it's unreal . . . He bit right through, the teeth went right through Lewis (Boren) and the shark shook his head like they do." The body of Lewis Boren, 25, a welder with 10 years of experience riding the waves, washed ashore Thursday in Monterey Bay, a half mile south from where he disappeared while surfing alone on Satur- day. His bloodstained surfboard was found Sunday, an 18-inch chunk torn out of it by the shark's huge jaws. Boren's wetsuit-clad body was found by a ranger, and a policeman said the bite marks on Boren resem- bled those on his surfboard. A Monterey County sheriff's spokesman expressed concern Friday about the few people who continue to surf in the bay. "While (Boren's) body was being recovered they were diving off the same beach," he said, adding that the sheriff's department has not yet decided whether to issue a formal warning to stay out of the water. The coroner said the wound extended from Boren's armpit to just above the hip and his wetsuit was serrated where the shark's teeth cut through the rubber. He said the surfer was identified by a gull tattoo on his right arm. Dental records would be checked as a formality to confirm the identification, Hillbun said. An analysis of the board's bite marks showed that they came from a two-ton great white shark which could be as long as 20 feet and possibly as long as 23 feet. The largest such shark ever recorded in California was 18 feet. The world record was a 21.7-footer netted by Cuban fishermen in 1932, but sharks up to 25 feet long have been spotted in Australia, according to reports. Bloodstains were found on Boren's surfboard, but they were determined not to have come from a hu- man being. Experts from the California Fish and Game Department were trying to identify the blood. Only a few surfers and divers ventured into the water on Christmas Eve in the wake of the attack, and a school of dolphins that wandered into the bay was mistaken for sharks by some beachgoers. === Page 267 of 278 Hatfield: 'outrageous' ientation ) Reagan veto shuts down services WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan Monday carried out his pledge to fight "budget busting" by Congress - vetoing a $427.9 billion emergency spend- ing bill and forcing a partial shutdown of government operations. House Democratic leaders, in a surprise move, decided against attempting an over- ride of the veto and said they would take no action until Reagan provided specific recommendations on how to get the goy- ernment moving again .. The decision created a standoff be- tween Congress and the White House that dimmed hopes of minimizing the effects of a government shutdown predicted to leave as many as 400,000 employees - 8 percent of the federal workforce - on unpaid furloughs by Tuesday. Northwest senators who had voted for the budget measure were Republicans Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood of Ore- gon, and Slade Gorton of Washington. Henry Jackson, D-Washington, also voted for the measure. Hatfield, Senate Appropriations Com- mittee chairman, said Reagan's plan was "outrageous." "We did not engage in chicanery and phony numbers," declared Hatfield, who said he was offended at the White House accusation that the measure far exceeded Reagan's target for domestic spending cutbacks. "We don't know what he wants." House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said in announcing Democrats would not attempt to override the veto and would wait for hospital A vurder escape \al staff men ads. Fa. (AP) - A mental patient Ucate Hospital for 90 days on a inday after uading a new to let him id Acuff, hosp al spokesm Jee as Michael eder ed Peder as "an anti- and said he has For and "any t der is white, Peder told the staff member u the hospital grounds and need cuff said. The staffer let Peder out ying him to look for the glasses when San Francisco Chronicle Thurs., September 24, 1981 Piranha Bite Leaves Victim A Bit Cranky Dunkirk, N.Y. The owner of a pet sto was charged with disorder conduct yesterday aft refusing medical treatme for a bite he received from man-eating piranha m T shop. Police said they saw Jo Akley, 26, early yesterday trying unlock the door to his store, whe he had been bitten by the f Tuesday night. As officers helped Akley of the door, his doberman pinsel guard dog bolted outside, jumi into the officers' patrol car a urinated on the seat and on officer's hat. After they removed the ( from the car, the officers ti Akley to Brooks Memorial Hospi where he refused treatment : started shouting obscenities. Akley was charged with dis derly conduct and released $1500 bail. He returned to hospital later to seek treatment his hand. UFor G Pongi SFChron 9/3018 === Page 268 of 278 2FOR 6 Projects Fishermen won't notice loss of fish TACOMA (AP) - Anglers are unlikely to notice "the loss of 1.2 million hatchery fish that had to be destroyed to prevent the spread of disease, says a "Wash: gton Game Department official. The department ordered the destruction at the "Skamania, Mossyrock and Cowlitz hatcheries in June after a kidney-destroying virus was discovered in juvenile steelhead, cutthroat and rainbow trout. Eggs "scrounged" back from those previously sent elsewhere will allow steelhead production to be nearly normal at the Skamania hatchery on the Washougal River, where about 500,000 summer-run fish were destroyed, said James Gearheard, Game Department hatchery field supervisor. The roughly 200,000 rainbows destroyed at the Cowlitz hatchery had been destined for planting last summer in the upper Cowlitz River watershed, so any loss there already has been felt, Gearheard said. All the rainbow and a few excess steelhead were destroyed at the Mossyrock hatchery. The result is that only about 150,000 trout - half the normal number - will be planted in Cowlitz tributaries above Mossyrock Dam. But Gearheard said that number "should be enough to make a good fishery up there" since many of the 300,000 trout planted earlier were not caught. Biologists speculate the viral outbreak may have been triggered by the straying of disease-carrying fish from their native streams after the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens destroyed habitat in the Toutle and Cowlitz rivers. org 12/205/81 450- 6 Projects. Hepatitis probed FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Fairfield University officials are investigating the outbreak of 18 cases of Type A hepatitis at the small Jesuit-run school in south; western Connecticut. Another 19 suspected cases of the disease have been reported since the outbreak began two weeks ago, officials said. Among the ill students are several members of the school's football club. dieg 11/10/81 UFO2 6 PM rejects Florida scallops eyed for parasite _CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - State officials have begun confiscating boatloads of scallops off Flo- rida's eastern coastline after discovery of a tiny para- site in scallop harvesting beds. The BB-sized nematode parasite is not considered harmful to humans, but an investigation of the prob- lem is being carried out by Florida's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administra- tion. "The parasites are not considered a health hazard per se," John Rychener of the Agriculture Depart- ment's Bureau of Food Grades and Standards said Wednesday. "But they have appeared in such num- bers, the scallops are considered contaminated." Two scallop-laden boatloads found to have the parasite were dumped Monday by Agriculture Depart- ment officials. A third parasite-infested boatload came jnto Port Canaveral Tuesday, and it was also confis- cated and disposed of. The department warned boat captains late last week that any scallops brought into port here would be inspected and were subject to condemnation. Officials don't know the extent of the infected scallop beds, Rychener said. oreg 12/25/80 - UFOR 6 Projects Food Poisoning in Spain Madrid The government imposed a temporary ban on sale of mussels from Spain's northwestern Galicia province yesterday because more than 3000 Spaniards reported sick with food poisoning. United Press UFO2 6 Projects Kidney ills killing fish oreg 12/13/81 HAGERMAN, Idaho (AP) - An in- fectious kidney disease that killed 147.000 rainbow trout at the Hagerman state fish hatchery is an unknown killer. so unknown that it is difficult to predict whether it could spread to other hatch- eries, fishery expertsdrive said. The University of Idaho's Depart- ment of Fishery Research is one of the labs seeking information on prolifera- tive kidney disease, or PKD, which has been killing fish at the Hagerman hatch- ery for the last six weeks. George William Klontz, a professor of fisheries, said he didn't know the cause of PKD. He said research is con- tinuing on a day-to-day basis, and that theories on the cause of PKD would be speculation. "I saw it in Europe," said Klontz, who is a veterinarian specializing in fish diseases. The disease has been found at European fish farms, but the Hagerman outbreak is considered the first in the United States. In Europe, hatchery managers either remove the fish and sanitize facilities or "ride it out," Klontz said in a telephone interview. Removing fish at the Hagerman hatchery would mean the loss of 600,000 rainbow trout - half of the state's stocking program for 1982, ac- cording to Evan Parrish, state hatcher- ies supervisor. No decision has been made on what to do at the state hatchery. "We are in a holding pattern," Parrish said. === Page 269 of 278 10/6/81 T Las Vegas PK Arsonists set 16 blazes in Las Vegas oreg By TIM DAHLBERG 1 1882 LAS VEGAS. Nev. (AP) - Sixteen fires were set in two hotels and a near- "by apartment complex in this glittering resort city, forcing the evacuation of scores of visitors but causing no major damage or injury, police said Sunday. Police suspected one or two people of setting the fires in rapid succession Saturday night within a half-mile area. All the blazes were doused by automatic sprinklers or by firefighters. "All of the fires were set by open flame," Clark County Fire Department investigator Bill Kolar said. "They were very minor, although they could have become major." Kolar said witnesses at the Barbary Coast Hotel, the Flamingo Hilton and the apartment complex saw at least one and possibly two people around the areas where the fires began. "There were one or two guys seen," said Kolar. "We've got police looking for them now." The first fires, set in window cur- tains, occurred in elevator lobbies on the second and third floors of the Bar- bary Coast on the Las Vegas Strip short- ly after 7 p.m. They were extinguished by automatic sprinklers. Smoke, however, forced the evacua- tion of guests from the third and fourth floors of the hotel, and damage from the fires was estimated at $8,000. Less than an hour later, a nearby apartment complex was the scene of eight fires. Kolar said six were started in storage rooms and two in wash- rooms. All were quickly extinguished by firemen. About 15 minutes after the apart- ment fires were reported, fire broke out in six locations in a four-story guest- room section of the Flamingo Hilton, next door to the Barbary Coast. Kolar said room-service carts at the resort were set on fire on the second and third floors. A total of eight fire department units and 24 firefighters re- sponded to the alarm and put out the blazes. Damage was estimated at $500. "All of the fires were within a half- mile radius of each other," said Kolar. "None were accidental; they were all started by an open flame." The fires followed a series of blazes last week at the Barbary Coast, Caesars "Palace and the Showboat hotels. Fire "Investigators listed those blazes as sus- picious, but no arrests have been made. The fires did not cause any serious dam- nan - Hunter PK- ( Sie Book ) Teen-ager accidentally kills hunting partner, 14 A teen-age boy was accidentally killed by his 15-year-old hunting part- ner about 12 miles west of Redmond Monday, a Deschutes County sheriff's deputy said. Randy Prosser, 14, of Redmond, was shot in the head, Deputy Greg Brown said. "He was standing on the rim of the canyon, Dry Canyon," Brown said, "and told his partner he thought he observed a deer in the canyon. His partner turned around and, as he truned around, his gun discharged." Brown said the boys were about five or six feet apart when the shooting took place. He said the two boys had become separated from the rest of their five- member hunting party when the acci- dent occurred. The accident came on the third day of deer hunting season and followed a weekend in which two hunters were asphyxiated in their sleep and three oth- ers were wounded. Lake County sheriff John T. Gardner, 77, a Wollam, 65, both of 1 found dead of asphyxi Dog fires shotgun, wounding hunter MASON, Mich. (AP) - A man accidentally shot when his hunt- ing dog pressed the trigger of his shotgun was in critical but stable condition Wednesday af- ter surgery, officials said. James Caudill, 34, of Dans- ville, Mich., went hunting Tues- day with an uncle, Winford Rid- dle of Dansville. Riddle gave police this ac- count: Caudill had shot a rabbit and was holding it over his two young beagles to train them for hunting. His shotgun was propped barrel-up against his leg. One of the dogs jumped and caught the trigger with a paw, discharging the gun. Hospital officials said Caudill was hit by pellets in the lower stomach and lung. camp trailer at the Thompson Valley Reservoir, about 20 miles south of Sil- 'ver Lake. Authorities said a neighbor in the East Bay Campground discovered their bodies Sunday morning. Deputies said the two apparently died when the flame on a propane heater they were using went out, allowing the trailer to fill with gas. In Harney County, three hunters suffered gunshot wounds. Marc Kock, 18, of Gresham was shot in the leg Saturday when his hunting partner's rifle discharged, Harney Coun- ty Sheriff Keith Boggs reported. Kenneth Walker, 34, of Springfield was shot in the buttocks Sunday when he sat on a .22-caliber pistol lying on a car seat, Boggs said. Later in the day, Kimberly Mat- thews, 26, of Alameda, Calif., was shot in the chest when a rifle discharged as harmilled it by the barrel from a truck, 4FOR 6 Projects wated at re- is- Third rabbit drive planned in Idaho oseg 12/26/8: MUD LAKE, Idaho (AP) - The third in a series of controversial jack rabbit roundups was scheduled for" Saturday despite a late-week storm that dumped 2 to 3 inches of snow on the ground. The snow "might even make it better, easier to get them," farmer spokesman Orvin Twitchell of Mud Lake said Friday in a telephone interview. Twitchell said he didn't want to talk further about the drive. Two previous roundups drew protests from animal protection groups and humane societies that chasing and then clubbing the rathhits to death was inhumane. The farmers in eastern Idaho say a jack rabbit population explosion has led to crop damages estimat- eu at about $5 million, In the first two drives, most of the rabbits were clubbed to death with baseball bats, tire irons and sticks. This time, a number of them will be captured and taken to an Indian reservation for release. The first roundup produced about 3,000 rabbits. Last weekend, an estimated 15,000 to 17,000 rabbits were slaughtered, making the two-week total 18,000 to 20,000. For this weekend's roundup, the Idaho National Guard planned to dig long trenches into which the rabbits could be driven. Then farmers planned to use plywood to create an area where rabbits can be gassed by carbon dioxide. Leaders of the Shoshone-Bannock Indians, at the Fort Hall Reservation about 100 miles south, got per- mission to truck about 5,000 live rabbits to the reser- vati note : Keepan === Page 270 of 278 Las Vegas/Nevada PK FBI links casino owners to Chicago Cosa Nostra deg J 1/5/82 LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) - Nevada ho- tel-casino owners Al Sachs and Herb Tob- man are figureheads for the Chicago La Cosa Nostra and responsible for providing the mob with money skimmed from their casinos, according to a federal affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday. Sachs and Tobman, longtime Nevada gaming figures, head Trans Sterling Corp., which purchased the Las Vegas Stardust and Fremont Hotels in 1979 from San Diego financier Allen Glick for $68 million. The transaction called for a $2 million down payment and assumption of a $66 million loan from the Central States Southeast and Southwest Pension Funds. "Al Sachs and Herb Tobman continue to be the figureheads for the Chicago La Cosa Nostra and responsible for providing skim monies to the mob from their casi- nos," according to information provided to the FBI by an informant in 1981, the affidavit said. ". . . there appears to be some friction between Sachs and Tobman, but the skim from the Stardust, Fremont and Sundance Hotel-casinos continues as before," the document states. Tobman and Sachs also operate the downtown Las Vegas Sundance hotel- casino on property leased from Morris "Moe" Dalitz., a reputed crime figure who moved to Nevada in the 1950s from Cleve- land. Neither Tobman nor Sachs were im- mediately available for comment. Nevada Gaming Control Board member Richard Bunker, who was appointed by Gov. Robert List as chairman of the board, said Monday, "If there is anything that needs to be investigated, we will do it." List, shortly before his election four years ago, became the center of a contro- versy for staying free of charge at the Stardust Hotel while Nevada attorney general and, at the same time, claiming state per diem allowed for room and food. note: This game below was fascinating because my son, Beau, and I, boban"willing "f Falcons to win, at halftime. We decided Oregon Journal, November 24, 1981 because we both were Big plays rally Falcons -Even ATLANTA (UPI) - The Atlanta Falcons refused to give up Monday night even when it appeared they were about to be embarassed before a national television audience. Trailing the Minnesota Vikings 21-7 at half- time the Falcons caught up midway through the third period on the passing of Steve Bart- kowski and then sewed up a badly-needed 31-30 victory late in the final quarter with linebacker Buddy Curry's 35-yard pass inter- ception return for a touchdown. "I don't know how to explain it," said Fal- con defensive back Kenny Johnson. "But in the second half, everybody began to believe. Everyone was saying to himself, 'I know I'm going to make the big play and if I don't I know someone else will.'" Falcon Coach Leaman Bennett said he told his team at halftime, "It's still there. Let's go and take it. There's no reason why we still can't get it." Bennett said the Monday night victory over the Vikings "helps our confidence, for sure. We hadn't beaten a football team for a long 0 time." "I don't know why the second half was so different," said Minnesota Coach Bud Grant. "That's just football. Atlanta's defense came out in the third quarter and turned the game around. It was a physical game all the way due to the frustration of both teams. They gave us plenty of opportunities to win but we returned the favor." "It's about time," Curry said of his first interception of the year. "I hadn't made a big play all season. I wasn't contributing to the team in that field " Good ! wenn southwest disappearing the the dis. tance in seconds." "0 " Pk'd ! LEGISLATING SCIENCE T IME, Inc., has undertaken an at- tack on both UFOs and Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The August issue of the company's Discover its new science magazine. 11/5/81 1 Hynek wrote for Technology Review, "the respected journal edited and pub- lished in Cambridge at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology." Pre- dictably the attack does not bother to deal with the actual evidence Hynek cites. It confines itself instead to per- sonal criticisms. Hynek, who (in common with many other astronomers a troublesome fact Arsonist sought in Las Vegas LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) - Extra guards walked the corridors of plush ho- tel-casinos Monday, alert for a mysterious arsonist suspected of setting 15 fires dur- ing the weekend, without doing serious harm. loose," said William Kolar, an investigator for the Clark County Fire Department. "He's been staying around the strip and we've got to catch him." Within a 66-minute period Saturday night, five room service carts left in hall- ways at the Flamingo Hotel caught fire, burning drapes forced evacuation of two floors of the neighboring Barbary Coast Hotel, and eight suspicious fires erupted at a nearby apartment building. There were no injuries and total dam- ages were estimated at $8,550. The rash of fires came just two weeks after an arsonist set fire to drapes at Cae- sars Palace, the Barbary Coast and the "We apparently have an arsonist on the Showboat Hotel. area 51/4/82 Private security guards were assigned to 24-hour patrols of hotel hallways Sun- day in the wake 15 suspicious fires Satur- day night at the height of the holiday weekend crush. It was the second outbreak of arson in two weeks at gambling spots in Las Ve- gas, where 92 people have died in the past 14 months in two major hotel fires, one accidental and one set by an arsonist. Las Vegas/nevada PK betting on the Falcone. === Page 271 of 278 West Texas plagued by shortage of water Texas PK oreg 12/14-18. By STEVE BREWER FABENS, Texas (AP) - Every other day or so, Ellen Wilson hitches a 1,000- gallon tank trailer to her truck and drives into the tiny community of Fab- ens. There she fills her tank with the most precious commodity in the area: water. For four years, Mrs. Wilson and her family have been living in an arid area of a Rio Grande valley near the Mexico border. All of their water for drinking, washing clothes and bathing comes from a 3,000-gallon cistern she keeps filled by trips into town, more than sev- en miles away. "Four wells have been dug out here in our area over the years and the water was just terrible," Mrs. Wilson said. "This whole valley is in trouble." Mrs. Wilson's water woes are a mi- crocosm of the problems plaguing the area around El Paso Most of the underground water is undrinkable, containing salt and other chemicals, at the same time available water resources are being used up fast- er that ever before by a rapidly growing population. El Paso currently is embroiled in a lawsuit with New Mexico to get water from an aquifer that is located in New Mexico just over the Texas border. City planners allocate carefully which areas of the valley can be provided water from the city system without causing shortages. The result is that people living out- side water districts must fend for them- selves in the struggle to get adequate, drinkable water supplies. "Nearly all of the people on the farms out here have to haul water," Mrs. Wilson said. "Some of them have wells, but the water eats all of the plumbing out and just ruins every- Thing." Fabens' water district evolved from a privately owned water system pur- chased about 20 years ago, said O.C. "Buddy" Brown, manager of the water district. "The people in this district obligated themselves when they formed this dis- trict through bonded indebtedness," Brown said. "We're only obligated to take care of the people in the district." The district, which has roughly the same boundaries as the city, has 1,062 customers. The three wells supplying the district produce about 1,900 gallons per minutes, Brown said. "That's more than adequate to take care of our present needs," Brown said. "But don't get the idea we have water to throw away." `In fact, the water district board has adopted a policy that they won't accept petitions for water service except for areas adjacent to the present boundar- ies. That policy has come under fire in recent years as surrounding farmland is subdivided for housing and more people clamor for water service. Board president George Wilson takes a hard line. "You can't run water lines here, there and yonder for a few people who made a mistake," Wilson says. "They should have moved to town if they wanted water." J.P. Smallwood, Fabens fire chief and water board vice president, said the board's stand has led to some "harsh feelings." "These people build a nice house four or five miles out of town and then get upset because they don't get water," he said. John Burley, another member of the water board, said the district is trapped by high prices and not enough custom- ers "The typical bill for us, with water- ing the lawn and the flowers, is $40 on $50 a month," he said. "The rates are high because we don't have enough ers. When you only have 900 to users, it costs a lot more per custo serve them." But to get more customers, th ter district would have to run li outlying areas, an expense the says can't be met. So, people inside the distric high water bills and people livir side the city get water any wa can. Texas PK Fans riled: TV screens go blank arg 5 1/ 2/82 DALLAS (UPP) - Alabama had one final chance to claim a victory over Texas ip the Cotton Bowl Friday and those who had been cheering he Crimson Tide all afternoon throughout the South were riveted to their televi- sion sets. Suddenly there was no game. In Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, South Caroli- na, Tennessee and, most of all, in Ala: bama, the Cotton Bowl disappeared from the TV screens and whatever the Tocal stations had to offer appeared. Irate callers immediately began yel- ling at those unfortunate enough to answer- telephones at television sta- tions throughout those seven states. "It was a telephone company oper- ating error," said Jay Rosenstein, di- rector of sports information for CBS- TV. "The telephone company misread an order and pulled the patch to the southern section of the CBS television network at 5:01:19 eastern time. "Viewers in those states thus did not see the final 20 or so seconds of play- ing time in the game." Rosenstein said the final moments of the game were made available to all the affected affiliates and were re-run on news broadcasts. 218026 Projecto Bluebonnet plug pulled Sentite P.I, 1/2/82 United Press Puget Sound residents tuning in to watch the Blue- bennet Bowl between UCLA and Michgan Thursday night were greeted with more disappointment than the Fact that the Pac-10 contender lost the game. First, much of the game's first three quarters were aired without a sound on Channel 13, KCPQ, A message on the screen informed viewers that the station was not Tedeiving an micoming audio signal. Then, shortly after the start of the fourth quarter, Those who were Interested enough to watch the game in silence (there was no live radio coverage in the region) saw the game taken off the air completely and replaced by a movie. Telephone calls to KCPQ ware answered by a busy === Page 272 of 278 U.S. holds tight to UFO tales By WARD SINCLAIR L'A Timos-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The U.S. government says it keeps no records on unidentified flying objects be- cause they don't exist. But 131 secret documents about UFOs in the files of the National Security Agency have become the subject of an intense legal battle. Would the docu ents disclose startling details about the flying saucers - or UFOs - that more than 10 million Americans claim to have seen? Would dis- closure compromise the NSA's sophisticated eaves- dropping techniques? Is it all buncombe? Or is it all too frightening to contemplate? Apparently only the National Security Agency can answer those questions, and the NSA isn't talking. The NSA, in fact, refuses to talk, and its reticence is being challenged in the federal courts. Eleven months ago, U.S. District Court Judge Ger- hard A. Gesell held that the documents were so sensi- tive that their public release might endanger national security. Gesell did not review the documents. His decision was based on a 21-page top-secret affidavit. given him in chambers by representatives of the NSA. The battle last week reached the U.S. Court of Appeals, where a small organization known as Citi- zens Against UFO Secrecy, arguing for release of the NSA documents, told a three-judge panel that the government cannot have its cake and eat it, too. . NSA's lip stays buttoned If UFOs do not exist, attorney Peter A. Gersten of New York told the court, then Uncle Sam has nothing to hide. If they do exist, then we may be in big trouble - and we ought to know about it, But the NSA's lip stays buttoned. The suit brought by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy under the Freedom of Information Act is another in a series of challenges to the powers of spy outfits such as the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, to withhold virtually anything they want under the guise of national securi- Ty: "The government position is that UFOs are not a threat and that the government does not study UFOs," Gersten told the appeals panel. If the panel does not order disclosure, he said, Gesell at least should be directed to review the 131 UFO documents and decide for himself how sensitive they really are. Arguing for NSA, attorney Cheryl M. Long said there is no way the documents, no matter what they show, could be released without exposing and com- promising the Intelligence-gathering techniques of the agency, which include global electronic snooping and code-breaking. The citizen group's appetite for government docu- ments was whetted by the 1978 release of Air Force and CIA reports on UFO sightings that were deemed to have no national security implications. Ground Sau- cer Watch, a Phoenix-based UFO monitoring organiza- tion, forced the release through Freedom of Informa- tion Act suits. Those documents revealed that in October, Novem- ber and December of 1975, reliable military personnel Saw unconventional and unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage sites, air- craft alert areas and missile control complexes at installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no indication that the fighters fired on the intruders. Members of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and the Fund for UFO Research, based in Mount Rainier, Md., noting that last week was the sixth anniversary of a celebrated series of sightings over Loring Air Force Base in Maine, brought a witness to Washington to tell his story at a news conference. Stephen B. Eichner, a now-retired sergeant who was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring ammunition dump, described in some detail what he saw in 1975 and said that officials at the base tended to discount his and other witnesses' reports. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a football-shaped reddish-orange object, three or four car-lengths long, hovering over the Loring dump. He said the object suddenly vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway. Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object. The Air Force generally theorized that the object was an uni- dentified helicopter, but Eichner said last week it made no noise and could not have been taken for a helicopter. Gersten said the citizens group intends to file another freedom of information suit against the Air Force this month in an effort to force disclosure of more data on the series of still-unexplained 1975 sight- ings over Strategic Air Command bases. only 11/5/8, === Page 273 of 278 . . . and no more eavesdropping on space talk 9-27-81 - Columbian By T.R. REID The Washington Post WASHINGTON - If there are intelligent beings in outer space beaming radio signals to Earth, they'd better be sure the message gets here by Thursday. Among the dozens of federal programs scheduled to plunge into oblivion that day - the first under the new, austere fiscal 1982 budget - is one of the most exotic and ambitious endeavors the government has undertaken: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. It is the chief hope for discovering whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The search - known in government circles by its acronym, SETI - is a 6-year-old effort to develop antennae and computer programs that could discern "non-random sound events" from the flood of radio signals constantly flowing toward Earth from all corners of the cosmos. As NASA planned it, receivers at the Deep Space Network ifacility in Goldstone, Calif., would conduct an "all sky, all frequency" search of radio transmissions. The computer would search the signals for patterns, which could indicate that the signals are generated by intelligent sources. "What we are trying to do here is answer an important question - whether human beings are alone in the universe," said NASA spokesman Charles Redman. Cancellation now is particularly painful, Redman said, because NASA's engineers are within one year of completing the computer programs needed to sort out intelligent patterns, if any, in the "cosmic noise." Actually, the SETT program has been living on borrowed time for three years, ever since it won one of the bureaucracy's least favorite distinctions: the "Golden Fleece" award presented by Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. After Proxmire attacked the program ("It is hard enough to find intelligent life right here in Washington," he said), it was cut from NASA's annual appropriation bill. But the space agency, displaying some budgetary intelligence of its own, quietly transferred SETI to its "exobiology" program and continued to fund the search. In each of the past three years, NASA has spent about $1 million on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Proxmire struck again this summer. Choosing a moment when Sen. Harrison H. Schmitt, R-N.M., a former astronaut and strong NASA supporter, was off the Senate floor, Proxmire won voice- vote passage of an amendment deleting all funds for SETI. The administration, reluctant to fight congressional budget-cutting intitiatives, went along, and House-Senate conferees adopted Proxmire's amendment. The result - when Congress approves the conferees' bill - will be one more dead program and many hard feelings at the space agency. A NASA official noted that during the Senate debate, Proxmire made this observation: "There is not a scintilla of evidence that intelligent life exists beyond our solar system .... To which the NASA man ripostes: "As late as 1491, there was not a scintilla of evidence that America existed. either." note: The same "cover up"here" that I am getting! Iwere === Page 274 of 278 SCIENTISTS WHO Year after year, respectable citizens report unusual, unidentifiable sightings. Can we afford to close our eyes to mysterious events that just will not go away? Strange objects have flitted about the sky throughout history, but since 1947 sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, have become increasingly numer- ous in the United States and in other parts of the world. Sixty thousand reports of sightings (some new, some drawn from ancient records) from 140 countries are now recorded in the computerized cata- log at the Center for UFO Studies, in Ev- anston, Illinois, and the number grows larger every day. They include more than 2,000 cases in which UFOs reportedly left Patrick Huyghe has never seen a UFO but has written about them for the New York Times. BY PATRICK HUYGHE behind physical traces of their appear- ance; more than 1,500 cases in which peo- ple said they encountered humanoid enti- ties; 400 cases in which automobiles were said to have been brought to a halt or oth- erwise affected by nearby UFOs; and doz- ens of cases in which the visual sightings were confirmed by radar. In the majority of reports, two or more witnesses were in- volved in the sightings, and many of the observers were of high caliber-scientists, military personnel, pilots, air-traffic con- trollers, law-enforcement officers and other responsible people. The first quarter of 1981 brought more than 300 UFO reports, with high concen- trations of sightings in California, Or- egon, Texas and North Carolina. That number is about average, according to as- tronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, director of the Center for UFO Studies, which re- ceives over 1,000 new reports yearly. Of course, the majority of UFOs turn out to be IFOs-identified flying objects. After rigorous checking by technically trained investigators, about 90 percent of UFO sightings prove to be misidentifica- tions of natural phenomena or man-made objects-stars, planets, meteors, planes, 86 Spence Digest November 188] === Page 275 of 278 HAVE SEEN UFOS balloons or satellites. The rest of the re- ports elude explanation. They differ in many details, but there are also similari- ties: the shapes, colors, sounds and ma- neuverability of the objects. The strongest suggestion of the reality of the phenomena rests in the approxi- mately 10 percent of sightings that re- main unidentified. The late University of Colorado physics professor Edward U. Condon, a hard-nosed UFO skeptic, con- ceded that these sightings were findeed strange and mysterious, impossible by all current knowledge to explain." But to most who doubt that UFOs are real, the small percentage of unexplained sightings: is negligible. The average detective doesn't have as good a track record in solving murders, says UFO debunker Philip Klass, an editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology, Whether or not the unexplained cases imply a larger mystery hinges on the reli- ability of eyewitness testimony. In the in- vestigation of a UFO sighting, the observ- er is usually the only data-gathering instrument. But the reliability of eyewit- ness testimony is itself a subject of great controversy in both law and science. Skepties maintain that human observers are notoriously unreliable and that all UFO cases can be explained in mundane terms. "Details of specific reports are, by the very nature of the processes of human sensation, perception, cognition and re- porting, likely to be untrustworthy," con- cluded psychology professor Michael Wertheimer in the Condon Report, a 1969 study made for the Air Force. It dis- missed the phenomena as not worthy of scientific attention: "Any reports, even those of observers generally regarded as credible, must be viewed cautiously." But other scientists insist that humans possess quite reliable and useful observa- tional powers. Roger Shepard, a percep- tual psychologist at Stanford University, argued, during hearings before the House 87 === Page 276 of 278 SEEING UFOS 2' WIDE yourOs 9/7/* 196% - "LANDING" MARKS 13'2%* - BURNS - FOOTPRINTS - - - - 14'9%* (Left. top) A policeman said this craft came and went, leaving (right) indentations and burns. Mathematical analysis showed that the four landing marks, though asymmetric, would have received the spaceship's weight equally. About one ton of pressure made each depression. (Bottom) Dr. J. Allen Hynek found that this soil, over which a UFO allegedly hovered, did not absorb water. Committee on Science and Astronautics in 1968, that human powers of recogni- tion "surpass anything that we have yet been able to accomplish by physical in- strument or machine." He went on to say: "When an event occurs without warning, leaves little time for careful observation and, indeed, occasions extreme fear or anxiety, the average witness often retains an accurate, almost photographic record of the event-a record, moreover, that can be largely recovered from him even though he lacks the words to describe it himself." The skeptics claim that UFOs are merely carelessly observed objects or sometimes outright hoaxes. What, then, are we to make of the testimony of doz- ens-even hundreds of disinterested ob- servers who have reported UFOs over the years? Though many a science profession- al will shy away from reporting a UFO, fearing damage to reputation and career, a number of UFO reports by scientific ob- servers are on record. One such sighting was made by Clyde Tombaugh, the American astronomer who in 1930 discovered the planet Pluto. On August 20, 1949, Tombaugh, who was then working at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, observed "two rows of faint rectangular lights, par- allel to each other, that maintained their geometric relationship as they passed si- lently across the sky. The lights were yel- low-green in color." His wife, who was with him at the time, thought she saw a faint connecting glow between the two rows. "I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified BURNED BY A UFO? John Schuessler of McDonnell Douglas Corporation is project manager of space-shuttle flight operations for NASA and president of VISIT. On December 29, 1980, Mrs. Betty Cash encountered an enormous bright, diamond-shaped UFO that spewed flames from its underside. She was burned and suffered other injuries that still plague her. Mrs. Cash's case is one of many now under investiga- tion by an unusual organization called Project VISIT (Vehicle Internal Sys- tems Investigative Team), a group of 12 scientists who seek to learn more about UFOs by studying such medical mysteries. VISIT's impressive team of volunteers-about half of whom are associated with NASA-represents a variety of specialties. A case submitted to Project VISIT is first screened for validity; individ- uals involved are interviewed and their medical records examined. In Mrs. Cash's case, VISIT found that, by the morning after she had seen the UFO, she had developed large, knotlike boils on her neck, head and face. Soon after, she began to lose her hair. Four days later, unable to eat and suffering from vomiting, diarrhea and swollen eyes, she entered a hospital where she spent nearly a month undergoing tests. She had other signs of what could have been radiation exposure as well: burns, cramps and loss of energy In similar incidents, a Canadian prospector encountered a disk-shaped metallic object on the ground and suf- fered burns, nausea, vomiting, swell- ing and an extended illness, and a Mis- souri truck driver was blinded for days by an extremely bright UFO, After recommending medical ex- perts to the victims, VISIT members collect all medical and scientific data to piece together in an attempt to un- derstand how the UFO worked. In the hope of determining common factors, Project VISIT collects and catalogs data on UFO incidents in- volving alleged injury from or entry into a UFO. Members are available for consultation; write PO Box 877. Friendswood, TX 77546. -John F. Schuessler 88 Science Digest-November 1981 Diagram by Cathy Brown, information provided by the Center for UFO Studies. 11'10 :=== 14'5'/ === Page 277 of 278 SEEING UFOS THE CASE FOR STUDYING UFOS J. Allen Hynek, former astronomy department chairman at Northwestern University, was a director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory from 1956 to 1960 and consultant to Project Blue Book, the Air Force UFO study, for 17 years. He founded the Center for UFO Studies. Whether a person has complete dis- dain for UFO phenomena or com- pletely uncritical acceptance, or takes one of the many intermediate posi- tions, certain incontrovertible facts stand out. UFO reports not only exist but also persist: they flow from many parts of the world, from disparate cul- tures and environments. A significant percentage of such reports come from sane and responsible people, as judged by commonly accepted standards (in- deed, sometimes from well-trained technical and scientific personnel). UFO phenomena are one thing: their interpretation is quite another. Unfortunately, in the public mind one particular interpretation has com- pletely overshadowed and displaced the phenomena themselves: UFOs have been made synonymous with vis- iting extraterrestrial intelligences. Now this is a very appealing and ex- citing idea, but it is this very interpre- tation that has been an abomination to most scientists. Familiar as they are with awesome astronomical distances, they can see no logical way in which such visitors could get here. A simple illustration serves to emphasize this: if we let the thickness of an ordinary playing card represent the distance from the earth to the moon, then it would require a 19-mile line of playing cards, back to back, to reach the star closest to our solar system. If UFOs indeed be space visitors, then they must really know something we don't! Here is the great stumbling block; here is where the baby is cast out with the bathwater: since, according to our present scientific paradigm, it is clear- ly impossible for space travel to exist on such a scale, well then, UFOs must be nonsense. This is a most logical de- duction on the part of the well-mean- ing, objective members of the scientific fraternity. Somehow this is reminiscent of the nineteenth-century physicist who, while working with Crookes tubes (a prototypic cathode-ray tube), noted that protected photographic material became fogged when placed nearby. His far-reaching conclusion from this observation is said to have been "Do not place photographic materials near a Crookes tube," thus missing the dis- covery of X-rays. Even the great can sometimes be found wearing blinders when it comes to the unexpected. In his Book of the Damned, Charles Fort tells the follow- ing story of Antoine Lavoisier, one of the founding fathers of modern chem- istry. On September 13, 1768, "French peasants in the fields near Luce heard a violent crash like a thunderclap and saw a great stone object hurtle down from the sky. The French Academy of Sciences asked the great chemist La- voisier for a report on the occurrence; but Lavoisier was convinced that stones never fell out of the sky and re- ported that all the witnesses were mis- taken or lying. It was not until the nineteenth century that the Academy accepted the reality of meteorites." What might we be bypassing by overlooking UFO phenomena? Is our only possible conclusion that we should disregard them because their implications are so bizarre and are as unfathomable as X-rays would have been to the pedestrian, objective scien- tific worker of the nineteenth century? Perhaps it is a mistake to characterize observations of UFO phenomena as one nineteenth-century British physi- cist defined effects produced by the hypnotists of his day: "One-half im- posture and the rest bad observation." Today, these same hypnotie tech- niques are accepted and useful in many areas, from medical therapy to legal matters. The old scientist was not alone in his dismissal of hypnotism. So serious was the attack on it by science that, when hypnotism was employed in lieu of anesthesia, the hypnotized patients undergoing surgery were branded as "hardened imposters who let their legs be cut off and large tu- mors cut out without showing any sign even of discomfort." Just how deep into sand can one sink one's head? Now there is no doubt that many UFO reports are just as bizarre and unbelievable as the demonstrations of hypnotists or, to translate to the world of physics, as the seemingly unbeliev- able wave-particle duality of light. In- deed, the analogy is apt. UFO phe- nomena exhibit a similar duality. which, it seems, we must accept in a similar manner. On the one hand, UFO phenomena seem to be utterly physical. Reportecl objects have been photographed (al- though it must be admitted that so far no really good close-ups have been produced), and they have appeared on radar screens, They can break tree branches and leave holes in the ground, and it is said that bullets have ricocheted off them. They have been reliably reported to stop car engines and to interfere with electrical circuits. A recent study of over 400 "car stop- ping" cases leaves little doubt about this physical effect. Yet. on the other hand, UFO phe- nomena exhibit strangely nonphysical attributes. On occasion they appear, at least temporarily, to abrogate the iner- tial properties of matter: they exhibit extraordinary accelerations, hover ef- fortlessly a few feet above the ground and can disappear before one's very eyes. Furthermore, physical objects can be kept track of. We always know where a bus or an aircraft is; it has a continuous "world line." But an out- standing characteristic of a UFO is its "localization in space and time." A UFO is almost always reported in just one locality and is rarely seen sequen- tially in town after town, as a bus would be. And it does not remain for long in a specific locality. The distri- bution curve of UFO "duration times" peaks at about 10 minutes. I have dubbed this unique property of the UFO the "Cheshire cat effect" after Alice's cat in Wonderland, which also appeared out of nowhere, re- mained in one location for a short pe- riod and then vanished! John Stuart Mill, in his A System of Logic, noted. "The greatest of all causes of non-observation is precon- ceived opinion." To some, this ability of UFOs to appear and disappear is sufficient reason for dismissing the en- tire subject out of hand. But is this not more a case of refusing to look and ob- serve because preconditioning teaches us to not want to look? But the cat seems to be there, and from time to time it demands some at- tention. Maybe it's trying to tell us something. - J. Allen Hynek 90 Science Digest November 1981 === Page 278 of 278 UFO, " Bright Star "PK- Military planners say Bright Star' falls short Drag 11 / 7/8, By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) - The "Bright Star" operation the United States will stage in the Middle East this month and next falls far short of what would be needed to meet a real threat to the re- gion, according to Pentagon planners. The exercises have been in the plan- The Defense Department formally announced the exercise Friday, saying more than 6,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, ning process for many months. Of par- ticular importance, equipment to sup- port the two-battalion Egyptian desert airmen and Marines will participate in " maneuvers has been assembled and maneuvers, drills and demonstrations in four countries. moved overseas well in advance of the actual combat-type maneuvers. The main effort will center in Egypt, where some 4,000 Army and Air Force troops, as well as jet fighters and ground attack planes, will join Egyptian forces in desert maneuvers. Activities in the Sudan, Somalia and Oman will be mostly of token size. Although it represents the biggest such U.S. military exercise in the Mid- dle East so far, "Bright Star" will de- ploy only a fraction of the troops and equipment that officials say would be needed in a crisis. Former Lt. Gen. Volney Warner, then-commander of the Rapid Deploy- ment Force, said in an interview last year that the United States must be able to project at least 21/2 divisions - more than 40,000 troops - into the Middle East to counter a significant threat from the Soviet Union. "We can't do this now in a timely fashion," Warner said at the time, citing a shortage of airlift and sealift which he said will hobble U.S. capability at least until 1985, Warner since has retired. The buildup for "Bright Star" also bears no resemblance to the kind of quick reponse that could mean the dif- ference between victory and defeat in a real outbreak of hostilities. A shipload of tanks and armored personnel carriers left Savannah, Ga., Oct. 24 and is due to arrive in Alex- andria, Egypt, next Monday, about a week before U.S. Army troops engage in combined training with Egyptian troops in the desert. Other military equipment began ar- riving in Egypt by air several days ago, according to Pentagon sources. Underlying the magnitude of the ef- fort, the Pentagon said the Egyptian phase alone will take about 450 sorties by C-141 and C-5 transport planes. A sortie is a single flight by a single plane. The Military Airlift Command was unable to say how many airplanes will be used in shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic between the United States and Egypt. Perhaps the most spectacular event of the planned exercises will be a jump by paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division into the Egyptian desert on Nov. 14. The nation Spin- off of. Brought Star PK? Marine killed TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - A Marine was shot and killed and two others were wounded by Their own troops during weekend war games, military authorities said Monday. Killed during the exercise Saturday at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center was Sgt. R.A. Main 26, of Jacksonville, N.C. Reported in good condition Monday were Lance Cpl. Larry Hill of Springfield Mass. and Pfc. Derrick L. Allen of Chattanooga, Tenn., both 19. All three Marines were stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The men were attacking a bunker complex at 9:45 p.m. and receiving supporting rifle fire at the time they were hit, said Gunnery Sgt. George Hobbs. "The fire that they received was directed above and to the right of them and somehow something went wrong and they were fired on, he said. "They were not being shot at. They were shooting at an Objective. Evidently something went wrong. We don't know exactly what yet. We're investigating, but they were shot by a supporting platoon." Oreg. 11/17/8, 9-22-81 S.F. Chrax - nFOR 6 Projecto - Five Gls Hurt In War Games Asslar, West Germany A U.S. Army missile launcher veered off a superhighway during NATO war games in an accident that injured five American Gls, a military spokesman said yesterday. He said the U.S. soldiers were injured Sunday when a malfunc- tion in the steering mechanism sent their tracked Lance missile launch- er crashing through a guard rail on the autobahn at Asslar, 10 miles west of Giessen. International briefs - Bright starPK- U.S. opens excercises in Egypt CAIRO WEST AIRBASE, Egypt (UPI) - Flying non-stop from the United States and Europe, 24 military transport planes dropped more than 850 U.S. paratroopers into the Egyptian desert Saturday. :The paratroopers launched two weeks of war games demonstrat- ing America's ability to project force into the Middle East. Three casualties marred an otherwise smooth start to Operation Bright Star, codename for the joint exercises between the United StatesEgypt, Sudan, Oman and Somalia. A major- fractured his hip and was evacuated by helicopter. Briefing officer Capt. Bill Maddox said two other Americans suffered "minor injuries." He declined to identify them. 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Title A name given to the resource 1982 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 56 6-15-82 postmark June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 2 of 56 Set in motion June 14, 1982. $ heta$ wens SUN HEAT $ ightarrow$ UFO $ ightarrow$ UFO $ ightarrow$ EARTH $ ightarrow$ $ ightarrow$ UFO $ ightarrow$ UFO === Page 3 of 56 UFO Project # Gigantic solar flare too big to measure Spok Rev 6/8/82 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A solar flare so huge that scientific instruments were useless to measure it shot from the Sun's surface, releasing more energy than the Earth uses in a year, scientists said Monday. In the past five days, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recorded X-12 and X-8 flares on the sun's surface. The X-class is the rating for the largest of flares. Sunday's X-12 flare released more energy in less than 20 minutes than all the natural and manufactured energy -- from earthquakes to electricity -- than the Earth uses in a year, according to solar forecaster Phil Powell. Sunday's flare was the largest solar flare recorded since July 1978 -- so large that NOAA scientists had to guess its size, Powell said. The scale at the Space Environment Services Center here doesn't go that high. On Thursday, the center tracked a 37-minute X-8 flare that was the largest since November 1980. While the average person wouldn't be aware of such occurrences, solar flares are bad news for communications systems. A solar flare is a sudden eruption of ultra-hot gases sending high-energy particles rushing into space, some near the speed of light. The particles set off storms in the Earth's magnetic field, which in turn play havoc with earthly electronics. Temperatures in X-class flares jump from the sun's normal few thousand degrees to hundreds of millions of degrees. The resulting higher temperatures in the outer portion of the Earth's atmosphere slow the movement of satellites. Shortwave radio signals fade as the waves of energy wash across space. The geomagnetic disturbances can cause disruptions in electrical power and electronic communications networks such as cross-country computer operations. The energy released in a flare has been stored in a magnetic field on the Sun's surface. The flare appears as a tongue of light and heat bursting millions of miles into space at a speed of 1 million miles an hour. The flare results from a release of pressure that builds up within the magnetic field on the Sun's surface. === Page 4 of 56 Spik RUF WELL Scientists shoot laser at 'monster' volcanic cloud HONOLULU (AP) - Scientists atop a Hawaiian volcano shot a ruby laser Fri- day at a "monster" cloud of volcanic ash circling the globe to gather new informa- tion about its size, density, speed and di- rection. "We made an observation this morning and the back-scatter reading was much lower than it had been," said Tom deFoor, an engineer at the Mauna Loa Observato- ry, part of the National Oceanic and At- mospheric Administration. "That means the cloud has moved away from Hawall." He said it appeared the cloud had moved north over the Pacific Ocean. Latest calculations indicate the cloud may contain 10 million tons of ash and debris, almost certainly from an April 9 eruption of the Chinchonal volcano in Mexico, according to scientists at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. DeFoor and Kinsell Coulson, director of the observatory at the 11,200-foot level of the Mauna Loa volcano, used a "lidar"- which uses a ruby laser - before dawn Friday to measure the cloud's thickness and density. Coulson said the cloud may be the larg- est to spread across the planet since the 1912 eruption of Alaska's Mount Kitmai. The cloud has turned Hawall's normally sparkling blue skies to a milky shade dur- ing the past three weeks, producing sun- rises and sunsets with brilliant red and orange hues. Scientists had said there might be some drop in temperatures as less sunlight reaches the earth's surface. The cloud is estimated to be about 2.5 miles thick with a base 13.7 miles above sea level. But a NOAA scientist in Golden, Colo., on Friday downplayed such a possibility. "Until we get a better reading on the amount of dust and gases added to the stratosphere, we don't expect the weather to be very much different this summer than ... had there been no volcanic erup- tion," said Dr. Lester Machta, director of the Air Resources Laboratory. "And it will take weeks before we can determine the quantity of materials in the cloud." SCIENTISTS IN THIS FILE You ARE READING ABOUT MY GIANT 4FOR OVER EART WHICH I AM NOW GOING TO ACTIVATE FOR HEAT ON THE EARTH (SEE COVER PAGE). Ovens 6/15/ Solar flares detected project BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Three major solar flares were reported Friday by forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration. Joe Hirman, NOAA chief forecaster, said the flares probably would disrupt some short-wave communications and magnetic equipment, espe- cially in high latitudes, when their effects are felt late Sunday. He said the aurora from the flares may be visible in Canada. The flares took place in the southeast region of the sun, and Hirman said more flares could occur there through next week. pokker 6/5/82 my 250, at work Comen Unusual sunspot spotted WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists routinely surveying the sun have sighted a giant, pinwheel-shaped sunspot, the first time such a phenomenon has been seen in visible light, the National Science Foundation announced Sunday. The foundation said astronomers at its Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona first saw the unprecedented sunspot on Feb. 19 and that it held its unusual shape for several days. "I have been observing for over 30 years and I've never seen anything like this before," said Dr. William Livingston, a Kitt Peak astronomer. "It was a real curiosity, a rare thing." Sunspots are dark, relatively cool areas visi- ble on the surface of the sun. Temperatures of the spots can be as low as 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with about 11,000 degrees for the rest of the surface. Scientists watching spots in light wavelengths other than the ones humans can see have noticed spirals previously, Livingston said in a telephone interview, "but we're never seen one in visible light before.' DeOKRET 5/17/82 Ash cloud castin shadow in tropics Skok Rer 6/5/8- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - The huge cloud of ash and sulfur- ic acid that spread from a mam- moth explosion of a Mexican vol- cano is interfering with sunlight in Hawali, Japan and tropical regions, scientists said Friday. It's too soon to tell whether the 17-mile-high cloud from the April 4 explosion of Chinchonal volcano in southeast Mexico, which killed 22 people, will alter the Earth's cli- mate this year, said James Pollack of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Re- search Center. But it's possible that the eruption that belched 10 million tons of debris into the upper atmosphere - at least 10 times as much as pro- duced by Mount St. Helens -- could produce climatic changes similar to the 1815 eruption of Tambora in In- donesia, Pollack said, He said, however, it should not threaten the health of life on Earth. The Tambora explosion killed 1.2,000 people and produced what officials called the "year of no sum- mer! in New England and brought Ice to London's Thames River. "At the end of the 19th century there was a period when many large explosive volcanic eruptions occurred on (the island of) Kraka- tau," Pollack said. "During that and growing seasons were shor Chinchonal's first eruption a week before the main volcani plosion on April 4. The debris cluding heavier ash particles dissipate in a few months and sı gases converted by sunlight to furic acid, had reached Hawal April 9. The debris arrived over Japa April 18, covered the Red Sea April 21 and had circled the g by the end of the month. The ash and acid are combi to reflect or "scatter" sunlight reaches the outer atmosphere. effect, Pollack explained, could slightly higher temperatures in upper atmosphere and cooler t peratures on Earth. Ig tropical regions, tests h shown that 25 percent to 50 perc of sunlight reaching Earth has b scattered by the Chi)conal clo and the sun's rays reaching Eart! that region may be reduced by percent to 20 percent. Similar interference with s light is occurring in Hawaii and pan, where tests indicate the clo is 1,000 times greater in volut than the normal atmosphere at ti altitude. Hovering at 75,000 to 90,000 fe the bulk of the debris is too high be reached by NASA's IT-2 resear === Page 5 of 56 6-30-80 postmark June 28, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Last Thursday, as I was driving to Spokane, 165 miles away, to pawn some personal articles, my UFOs telepathd to me. What they sent was fascinating. Each day I have been faithfully telepathing to the four giant UFOs surrounding Earth, to the effect that they would absorb tremendous heat from the sun and focus it upon Earth...for the new, most powerful demonstration to date. But my UFOs explained something important to me. As a background for this...my UFOs had had me tear out a page of Newsweek several weeks ago and keep it, with no explanation for their order. (See it enclosed). Under "Choppers" see the paragraph "All the information was recorded in ten minutes on tape, then "burped" out by a radio that compressed it into a single second of sound, unintelligible to the Argentines." Now they referred me back to that page...and explained that what they had working, under my human permission and supervision...was an actual mechanism. That is, they showed me a mechanism...the Sun, bright red with tremendous heat with a rod connected to each of the four Giant UFOs with each, in turn, having a rod connected to Earth. The Sun, the rods, the UFOs, and the Earth-connected rods were bright red with the same tremendous heat. These things in turn were affecting Earth at the core, slowly heating the Earth from the inside out. They gave me an analogy: a water bed is plugged into an electric outlet. The heat forthcoming in the waterbed mattress is not immediate...it might well take a day or two to become hot or warm. And so it is with this UFO Sun Attack. I telepathd back to Control and asked if the "rods" from the UFOs to Earth would affect the outer Earth...and Control told me that that would indeed be the case...heat would radiate from the rods, causing abnormal heat on the surface of the Earth. But most importantly, my UFOs explained that I had only to mentally telepath this simple mechanism diagram to the Giant UFOs...just flash it once daily...to activate it. (They could do this themselves, since they have my blanket permission to bring about the Base in any way they deem necessary...but they are allowing me to do it.) They further explained that this mechanism is much like a transistor in a computer or TV set which contains a tremendous amount of intelligence confined in a tiny space. (Transistor or "chip"...am sure you know what I am talking about.) I.e., the PK Map is merely symbolic...my UFOs have set up an intricate, yet simple, mechanism, that can be activated in a flash of a second, daily. So now...the Earth will heat up slowly, from the inside out...from the core to the surface...with radiating heat also falling upon the surface simultaneously. Should I die or be killed...nothing will stop this process...I am the only one that can. And Earth as humans know it will be destroyed. If the Base is forthcoming, then this mechanism will be discontinued and other, positive powers will be activated to help mankind, the Earth, and the United States. Please remember, this UFO Sun Attack is not something that I want...but if it results in the Base, and saving hundreds of millions of human lives...then it is worth it, and must be done. Not long after my UFOs telepathd...other information came to me. Not connected with the other. From the alien half of my brain. Why would Nature create animals like deer, bear, wolves, etc., who live just day by day, to survive. Think about it. Just to survive. Then my mind went to trees and the oceans. Humans draw oxygen from the trees and the oceans to live. Without that oxygen, humans would not live. Then it came to me...the answer. There must be a collective will to live, to survive...on the part of animals, fish, birds...which humans can draw upon, unknowingly, for their human survival...just as humans draw upon trees and oceans for oxygen for their survival. Put another way...just as the baby in the womb absorbs different things to survive and live in the womb (oxygen, food, etc.) through the placenta (unknowingly and unaware of the complexity of the higher intelligence and source of supply surrounding it, in the being of the mother...so does the Human Race, mankind, draw upon Universal Will To Live and survive...i.e., there are Higher Powers unknown at present to mankind which can be drawn upon and used by mankind. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 6 of 56 # 'The Cockleshell Heroes' The camouflaged C-130 transport plane was only a few hundred feet above the heaving waters of the South Atlantic when the rear doors suddenly opened. Fourteen men in black wet suits and goggles dropped silently into the sea on black parachutes. Beneath the surface a nuclear-powered sub picked up the blips from their sonar transmitters, and let out a cable on a buoy. The commandos--loaded down with pistols, submachine guns, explosives, cameras and a radio--grabbed the cable and pulled themselves down to the sub's flooded escape hatch. Once they were inside, the compartment was pumped out. The frogmen clambered into the sub and stripped off their suits to reveal their battle dress: uniforms of the Special Boat Squadron (SBS), a small secret unit of crack commandos picked from Her Majesty's Royal Marines. The SBS's first mission against the Argentines was to prepare the way for Britain's landing on South Georgia. It was a silent venture, true to the SBS motto: "Not by strength but by guile." The sub turned south, edging its way under the massive "sonar shadow" of an iceberg off South Georgia that blocked detection by enemy listening devices. Then the commandos exited the way they arrived--through the hatch. They swam to shore within 2 or 3 miles of the main target: the harbor at Grytviken, where most of the 44 Argentine troops defending the island were stationed. Splitting into four- and six-man teams, the commandos surveyed the area for underwater obstacles that might rip out the bottom of a landing boat. They also hunted for a sloping, shallow beach where craft could run onto dry land. As one expert said later: "A fully clothed and armed man can't jump chest deep into freezing water and fight afterward." Choppers: The advance guard hid by day and scouted by night. The teams mapped out the positions of the Argentine troops, their guns and mortars and their radio masts. They decided where the British helicopters should come in. Then the scouts completed their last tasks: they set out landing lights for the choppers and knocked out enemy radio aerials, cutting off contact between the defenders and their home base on the Falklands. The preparations complete, Britain's boatmen waited for comrades from M (for "Mangle") Company of the 42nd Marine Commando to storm the island and wrap up the job. The South Georgia operation was just the kind of mission the SBS has used time and again in practice and in combat. The unit was founded during World War II. Its most famous exploit before South Georgia was a raid launched from a submarine in the English Channel in which ten men paddled canoes 50 miles up the Gironde River in occupied France to blow up a group of German ships in Bordeaux. Two men drowned, six were captured and executed by the Nazis and only two came back. The mission was immortalized in a film called "The Cockleshell Heroes," named after the tiny boats the commandos paddled to their target. The SBS today recruits its men from the toughest and most skilled of the Royal Marines, taking one man from every 30 who volunteer. Its headquarters are at Poole, a harbor town in the south of England. The service has an insignia--a frog and crossed canoe paddles--that is worn only at private dinners and celebrations. The men are permitted to dress informally and to call their officers by their Christian names. For their dangerous work, the SBS marines get $26 a day, plus an extra $3.50 a day "tradesman's bonus" because they are considered "Specially Qualified." Almost everything else about them is shrouded in secrecy. Even as the whole of Britain's press focused on them last week, no one was able to ascertain their total strength. (Estimates range from 100 to 400 men.) Gordon Moore *The men from 'Mangle': Royal Marines train for an invasion* No SBS members grant interviews. And when they receive their medals for the South Georgia raid, no public announcements will be made. But one thing about the SBS is common knowledge: as seagoing sabotage experts, they are to the marines what the Special Air Service (SAS)--Britain's famous anti-terrorist squad--is to the army. "We can do anything the SAS can do," the SBS boasts, "and walk on water, too." Machine Guns: In combat skills, the men from Special Boats rival James Bond. They are trained to use an arsenal that runs from Uzi and Sterling machine guns to pistols of any make. Each man chooses his own weapons, which can include anything that can be found in Britain or captured from an enemy; "an ax if that's what's needed," as one man says. They are also specialists in such diverse arts as underwater demolition and HALO--high-altitude, low-opening parachuting. An SBS man can jump from 25,000 feet with a collapsible boat strapped to his body and plummet to 1,200 feet before his chute opens. When he hits the water, he has a special mask and a tank that recycles air and doesn't leave bubbles trailing on the surface. As one naval man puts it, "The SBS is the eyes and ears of an amphibious force." Because of their special training, the boatmen have been used to enforce security on Britain's North Sea oil rigs. They also check on the operation of SOSUS, the underwater submarine-detection system strung from Britain to Iceland. One of their more notable recent jobs was in 1972, when two SBS men were parachuted into the sea to search the liner Queen Elizabeth II, which had been threatened by a man claiming to have planted bombs on board. That turned out to be a false alarm. But if the rumors around the British Defense Ministry are to be believed, the SBS was probably out doing the real thing last week--clambering around the Falklands and mapping out the way for the next assault. KIM ROGAL with TONY CLIFTON in London NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 31 === Page 7 of 56 June 28, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS At present writing I suffer from colorectal cancer (see newsclip). I have no doctor or medication. No money for it. Cannot go to a hospital for surgery or treatment. No money for it. Dr. Mishlove once asked me if I thought "the world owed me a living" or something like that. No, not at all. However, I am in the unique position of knowing that I am a national treasure, and my "host country" is allowing my UFOs "ambassador to Earth" die, without help. In a way, to me it is irony, and I am glad, in a way. Had the Base been provided then my UFOs and I would have worked to get the United States out of trouble around the world and on its feet, healthy and in tip-top shape. Without me and the Base and the UFOs, the United States will be a dead duck in every which way one could imagine, in near time ahead. I only feel sorrow for the innocent people, the good people, of the United States, who have to go down with the ship because the Captain # 'Cancer can be prev By BRENDA TABOR Spokesman-Review Advances in medical treatment have made it possible to save half of all cancer patients. But a good share of those people needn't have developed cancer. The biggest gains to be made in cancer prevention are out of the hands of medical science. "We have it in our power to prevent cancer," Dr. Robert H. Gersh, of the American Cancer Society, told the Spokane Central Lions Club Thursday. A full 25 to 30 percent of the cancer cases could be prevented if people simply stopped smoking, he said. "The only cancer "epidemic" is lung cancer, Gersh said. More people are dying of cancer, but that's because they're living longer than in the past, he explained. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, behind heart disease. One out of four Americans will get cancer and two out of three will have personal contact with someone who has the disease. "It's one of the most curable diseases if detected and treated early," Gersh said. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, named because of the way it spreads, Gersh said. It occurs when normal cells grow and reproduce in an abnormal fashion. It may be caused by damage to the cells' hereditary material, called DNA. Four kinds of cancer account for 50 percent of all cases, Gersh said. * Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer among men and will soon be No. 1 among women as well. It's a "silent disease" that can't be detected early, even with chest X-rays, Gersh said. The warning signs, persistent cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, chest infections and coughed up blood, don't occur until the cancer is in advanced stages. "Prevention is the key," Gersh said. Eighty percent of it could be eliminated if people didn't smoke. Ten years after a smoker has quit, his chance of developing cancer is only slightly above that of a non-smoker, Gersh said. * Colorectal cancer (large intestine and colon) is the second most common cancer among both sexes. It can be detected early and has a 75 percent survival rate. Early symptoms may not be visible. Symptoms that appear as the cancer progresses include intestinal bleeding, blood in stool, abdominal pain and bowel pressure. It can be detected with a digital rectal exam, proctoscopic exam and a test for blood in the stool. People over 40 should have annual exams. * Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women. Less than 1 percent of the cases occur in men. One out of 11 women will get it in === Page 8 of 56 UFO Sun Attack # Dry weather shrivels wheat estimates By LARRY YOUNG Spokesman-Review Bone-dry weather has sliced estimates of this year's Washington wheat crop to 50 million bushels below last year's record-setting pace. As the dry weather continues, each new crop estimate is lower than the one before. On May 1, the Washington State Statistical Crop Reporting Service put the 1982 state wheat crop at 145.2 million bushels. But May turned out to be the fifth driest on record. On June 1, the estimate was cut to 137 million bushels. But June has turned out to be "exceptionally dry" and very hot, said Ken Holmes, meteorologist at the Spokane weather station. Now, Washington Association of Wheat Growers President Alex McLean says 115 to 120 million bushels would be nearer the mark. Last year, Washington farmers harvested a record 168.3 million bushels of spring and winter wheat. The year before the total was 160 million. Only .17 of an inch of rain has fallen in June so far, which would make the month the third or fourth driest on record, if no more rain falls, said Holmes. Normally May and June are wet -- average June rainfall is 1.36 inches. The Inland Empire's dry season normally starts in July and runs through August. Wheat has also been hurt by temperatures that are running 10 degrees above normal. Robert Deife, administrator of federal farm programs for Washington state, said the damage is showing up first in low rainfall areas. "Flying over the Palouse, the wheat still looks a rich, green color." However, on-the-ground observers in the Palouse say wheat leaves are starting to turn a bluish color, indicating stress to plants from lack of moisture. "Cheat grass (a weed) has been competing hard with wheat in many areas," said John Leenders, spokesman for the Wheat Growers. "This will cut the harvest. The heat has made it Spok Rev 6/27/82 === Page 9 of 56 UFO 100X Attack NEWSWEEK MAY '82 NATIONAL AFFAIRS The Endless Winter of '82 March may have gone out like a lamb, but the lion lingered on. The winter that wouldn't quit buried the nation in snow last week--both California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and New York City suffered their worst April blizzards ever--and brought record cold for the month from Augusta, Ga. (26 degrees), to International Falls, Minn. (minus 11). Springtime rituals withered under the assault: baseball's opening week was largely postponed, many of Washington's cherry blossoms succumbed to chilblains and Boston fretted over where to find snow-removal funds to ready the streets for next week's Boston Marathon. Despite its tenacity, the winter of '82 wasn't--on the whole--all that bad. For most of the season, temperatures across the nation averaged only a few degrees below normal, warmer than the winters of both 1978 and 1979. In Chicago, traditionally one of the nation's bellwethers in such matters, this winter was deemed only the seventh worst in the last 87 years. Still, it will be remembered for some particularly devastating stretches, most notably in January. During a one-week period early that month, satellite pictures revealed that 75 percent of the United States was covered by at least 1 inch of snow, the broadest snow cover since the weather satellites started photographing the earth's surface. During the first two weeks, January set 100 low-temperature records, including all-time lows of minus 26 degrees in Chicago and 1 above zero in Augusta. Record Rains: The record cold spread down to Florida, where the citrus crop was the principal casualty--and the loss to the citrus industry approached $1 billion. Record-setting rains in northern California--24 inches in eighteen hours in Marin County--caused mud slides that killed 29 people. Across the nation, according to the National Weather Service, there were 300 weather-related deaths in just the first month of 1982. Jeff Lowenthal--Newsweek The weather's costs--in damage and lost lives--are still mounting. Earlier this month 87 tornadoes in the Texas-Pennsylvania-Georgia triangle killed 29 people, more than the number of people who died in tornadoes in all of 1981. The heavy snows took their toll as well, particularly near Lake Tahoe, where seven died in an avalanche. But there were a few for whom the spring snows were a godsend. At Sugarloaf/USA, Maine's largest ski resort, operators expected the storm to boost Easter-weekend revenues by 50 percent. And Midwestern grain farmers welcomed the added snow coverage, which will replenish the depleted water table while providing insulation for winter wheat. Perhaps nowhere were the weather's mixed effects more obvious than in Chicago. There, on last week's opening day, the pennant-feverish Chicago White Sox were snowed out of Comiskey Park and their sold-out series with the Boston Red Sox. But long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans were cheering. The dreadful weather kept the Cubs--who just beat both the Cincinnati Reds and the unseasonable snows--in first place for three days. MARK STARR with bureau reports April-weather miseries (clockwise): No ball in Chicago, more than showers for spring flowers, tornado power in Texas, New York headline Bernard Gotfryd--NEWSWEEK PLAY BALL P. F. Bentley--Photoreporters Ben Weaver--Camera 5 WIN 500 THE BIG SNOW! Blizzard warning - 12 inches on the way 'Life-threatening danger' === Page 10 of 56 New England rains spread havoc por Ras 6/9/80 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A storm that dropped up to 11 inches of rain on southern New England washed out dams and bridges, tore houses off foundations and sent up to 12 feet of water through towns. Thirteen people died and five more were presumed drowned, officials said. An estimated 1,300 Connecticut residents were forced to flee their homes. The most severe problems were reported in Ivoryton, Conn., where two dams on the Fall River burst Sunday, releasing a wall of water that washed away four hous- es and several cars. "It looked like a tidal wave," said Christopher Dewey, who lives on Main Street. "It was like a white wave covering everything." The heavy rain, which began Fri- day, began to taper off today. Rocks shifted in the center of a dam near Leominster, Mass., as rain fell, but the dam held and wa- ters were receding. Eight people were killed and one was missing in Connecticut, two people were missing in Massachu- setts and five people died and two were missing in Rhode Island. Helicopters and six-wheeled mili- tary vehicles were used to rescue stranded residents as a high-pres- sure system to the north kept the storm bottled up over the Atlantic Coast all weekend. "The damage is tremendous in many towns," said Connecticut Gov. William A. O'Neill, who called out National Guard units to help with sandbagging. "It will run into the millions of dollars.". The governor declared a state of emergency and asked for federal disaster assistance. Coastal areas of Connecticut near Ivoryton were cut off by flooding streams and marshes, and streets and highways were lined with cars stalled by flooded engines. Inter- states 95 and 91 in New Haven ex- perienced severe traffic jams due to flooded exits. Rep. Lawren J. DeNardis, R- Conn., estimated damage to 16 Con- necticut shoreline communities at raft bobbing in the Ware River at $100 million. Flood waters were receding in Massachusetts Air National Guard most areas today, although the Con- helicopter Sunday. The youths were necticut River - the state's largest treated for exposure at Mercy Hos- - was expected to reach four feet pital in Springfield. to the National Weather Service a six-wheeled surplus military vehi- River Forecast Center in Bloom- cle to evacuate two couples, three field. Ivoryton native Ronald Kra- three goats from Riverdale Road jewski said the town bears no re- when the Manhan River overflowed semblance to the way it was before its banks. Houses that used to stand here have were killed in a car crash Friday To the west, several Naugatuck rillville and two women canoeists of emergency and evacuated homes night in Narragansett Bay after when rivers and streams began their canoe was found overturned. Connecticut police said an 8- spilling over their banks Saturday. Much of downtown Milford, west year-old boy drowned Sunday in the of New Haven, remained closed to- basement of his New London home, day after what local officials called a 62-year-old man drowned when a the worst flooding this century. Wa- Roaring Brook bridge collapsed un- ter was 4 to 6 feet deep on River der his truck and a 19-year-old Street during the worst of the flood- ing, they said. In New Haven's Westville sec- tion, mayoral aide Cathy Gollinger damaged bridge. said 10to 12 feet of water roared down streets from the West River, drowned in Wharton Brook after an overturning several cars. ment said 71 sections of roads re- mained closed because of high wa- ter or washouts, and at least 10 major bridges were swept away. Amtrak passengers were being swept from a bridge as he tried to bused between Bridgeport and New London, around flooded sections of A woman died of an apparent heart the coast near New Haven and Mil- attack as she tried to bail water from her Clinton basement and an 80-year-old New Haven man was struck by his own car while he tried to fix the engine, which was stalled by high water. Two people were presumed lons out of the Charles River be- drowned in the Atlantic Ocean tween Watertown and Charlestown to keep it from overflowing. south of Boston after one was washed into the water and the other Two boys were plucked from a made a rescue attempt. UFO 100 x Attack. Storm brushes Florida, winds ease west of Fort Myers, with top winds of 50 mph. FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)- Tropical cool Gulf waters about 175 miles south- Storm Alberto, which killed 15 people in Cuba and brushed southwest Florida as a surprise hurricane, stalled Friday in the Gulf of Mexico and began to calm down. During the night the storm pounded western Cuba, damaging thousands of homes and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people. It swept past the Florida Keys, prompting hundreds of residents to flee inland and emptying seaside re- sorts as the storm pointed toward Fort Myers. Then stalled. swerved westward and By 6 p.m., the storm had edged only 25 miles closer to Fort Myers in the previous 25 hours, and was 175 miles southwest of it. Alberto kept weakening through the afternoon, its winds decreasing to 40 mph, barely above the 39-mph mini- mum for tropical storm status, "The storm has stepped down in in- tensity quite a bit," said forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurri- cane Center in Miami. "He's dying," said Bob Case, a fore- caster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm, which in half a day had grown from a depression off the west- ern tip of Florida to a hurricane with 80 mph winds, lingered for hours Friday in above flood stage today, according the flood. "It's just a mudhole. just disappeared," he said. Valley cities declared local states children, two dogs, two cats and In Rhode Island five teen-agers night on a rain-slicked road in Bur- were presumed drowned Saturday woman drowned when she tried to cross rain-swollen Eight-Mile River after a truck became stalled on a The state Transportation Depart- died when a rubber raft overturned A 15-year-old was presumed inner tube burst and a 28-year-old in the Saugatuck River. The body of a 39-year-old man was recovered from a partially submerged car in Orange and a 68-year-old man was cross a river to his home in Clinton. ford. In Massachusetts, the weather service said about 2.35 inches of rain fell Sunday. The Boston-area Metropolitan District Commission reported pumping millions of gal- Palmer by a line lowered from a In Southampton, firefighters used === Page 11 of 56 201 100XFblack STORMS: Floods close more roads; Winds level more homes Associated Press Spotkes 5/22 80 A.deluxe from days of back-to-back thunderstorms claimed new territory across the Midwest on Friday, closing highways with water and mudslides as rain came down as hard as 4 inches an hour The storms that have pounded the Great Plains for two weeks stirred up at least 19 tornadoes Thursday, flatten- ing a number of homes and buildings and injuring several people. No one was killed by the twisters, but a truck driver was electrocuted near Jacksonville, III .. when winds blew a high-voltage power line onto his truck. A woman in Adrian, Mo., said a tor- nado picked her up and dropped her 50 feet away. Lavera Simpson, 54, was listed in satisfactory condition Friday with back, neck and head injuries. Rivers bloated by up to 8 inches of rain during the night poured from their banks in parts of Nebraska, South Dako- ta, Missouri and lowa. Many roads and highways were blocked by water, snarling traffic and stranding motorists in cities such as Omaha, Neb,, and Columbia, Mo. A mudslide closed a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 34 in Nebraska between Nehaw- ka and Union. Water was up to the bumpers of cars on Interstate 70 near Kingdom City, Mo. Police in Fremont, Neb., said many cars were stalled in water on the streets. In southeastern South Dakota, 81/2 inches of rain fell in two hours at Del- mont. In the western part of the state, the Belle Fourche River surged to 21/2 feet above flood stage at Fruitdale and Elm Springs. Some residents of the town of Belle Fourche fled Thursday when water from the Belle Fourche and Redwater rivers poured into about 50 homes. Mike Phury, a citizen who lives near Delmont, said the 81/2 inches of rain fell between 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thurs- day, washing out roads and damaging just-planted crops. The National Weather Service said 41/2 inches of rain fell in just 45 minutes south of Table Rock, Neb. Roy Osugi, a hydrologist for the weather service in Nebraska, said, "It definitely is unusual for it to rain as. many consecutive days as it has." In eastern Nebraska, officials were keeping an eye on the Nemaha and Mis- souri rivers which were running brim full. Joe McCartney, a spokesman for the Union Pacific Railroad, said it would take several days to reopen the line be- tween Columbus and Norfolk, Neb., where the track was washed out in sev- eral places. In Oklahoma, an estimated 4 inches of rain fell in southeastern Bartlesville in an hour Thursday afternoon, said Po- lice Chief Charles Spencer. Elsewhere, a storm swept through Connecticut on Thursday afternoon with heavy rain and lightning. Wind and severed tree limbs knocked out electric- ity in more than 40 communities, said Jackie Harris, a spokeswoman for Northeast Utilities. Power to 14,000 of at least 20,000 affected customers was restored by late evening, she said. The twister that hit near Adrian, Mo., a town of about 1,200 about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, damaged at least 10 buildings. 4502 100 x Attack Storms, floods flail Midwest, New England Associated Press A "hellish" storm likened to a hurricane crashed through the Mid- west with 90-mph winds Monday, while hundreds more people fled a New England flood which has left 15 dead and seven missing. Just before dawn,. a storm 150 miles wide tore through eastern Kansas into Missouri and Iowa, flattening homes, clipping down trees and power lines, wrecking parked airplanes and blacking out portions of cities such as Topeka, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. The weekend deluge of up to 11 inches of rain in southern New Eng- land, which forced the evacuation of up to 2,000 people in Connecticut, found new victims in Rhode Island on Monday as 250 people fled their homes along the rising Pawtuxet River. State of emergencies were de- clared in Connecticut and much of Rhode Island. All of southern New England except Cape Cod remained under a flood warning. The flood has been blamed for 10 deaths in Connecticut and five in Rhode Island. Spokher 6/8/82 WDe 100 % Attack 1,000 forced to evacuate by Connecticut flooding HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A record rainfall swamped Connecti- cut with up to 8 inches of rain, washing out bridges, cutting elec- tricity and forcing the evacuation of some 1,000 people. One person was killed and at least two more were believed drowned, officials said Sunday. Gov. William A. O'Neill called out the National Guard to help with sandbagging operations and urged residents to stay home. Heavy rains were expected to continue in the eastern part of the state until Monday, and shoreline towns braced for more flooding as tides rose. More than 3 inches of rain was reported in the western part of the state. The National Weather Service station at Bradley International Airport said it recorded 5.87 inches between 11 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday. That was the most . ed substation left 16,000 people rain in any 24 hours - except for periods of bad weather associated with tropical storms or hurricanes - since the service began keeping Connecticut records in 1904. Local and secondary streets in low-lying areas were reported to be impassable throughout Connecticut, and portions of state highways were closed. The Red Cross set up emergency shelters in 13 communities near Long Island Sound and in the Nau- gatuck River Valley. The New Haven suburbs of Ham- den and Milford were among the hardest hit by the storm. Small boats were used to evacuate some of 400 people in Hamden living be- low the Bardee Brook dam. State officials said "very serious conditions" were reported in Essex, where some residents were without electricity, telephone service or wa- ter. A spokesman for Southern New England Telephone Co. said a flood- without phones. Job Rows- 6/7/80 === Page 12 of 56 UFOs 100x Attack # Flooding in Texas, Oklahoma By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Spok Rev 5/18/82 Floods chased hundreds of people from their homes Monday in Texas and Oklahoma, where a week of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes has left millions of dollars in damage. People scrambled onto rooftops and climbed trees to escape the water in some communities as National Guard helicopters and police boats plucked others to safety. At least 10 deaths have been blamed on the week of storms which spread Monday from the Mexican border in Texas, to Kansas City, Mo., with powerful winds, blinding rain and hail as big as baseballs. Three drowned in Texas on Monday and two others were missing in floodwaters surging around San Antonio. THE BARRAGE of twisters continued Sunday and Monday with six hitting rural areas of Oklahoma, five in Texas, two in North Dakota and one in Illinois. Some homes and farm buildings were destroyed. In Wichita Falls, Texas, where floods last week had chased about 5,000 people from their homes, 500 people remained homeless. About 60 who had returned home, went back to a Red Cross emergency shelter Monday morning as a flood warning was posted. About 600 were evacuated in Kingfisher, Okla., as that city of 4,000 residents, about 25 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, suffered its worst flooding in 25 years. Officials estimated the water at 6 to 8 feet deep in city streets. Among them was Mary Cordova, 40, trapped in her house with seven relatives who spent the night standing on chairs. They waded through thigh-deep water Monday morning to a National Guard helicopter waiting on higher ground. "MY TWO NEPHEWS -- aged 18 and 20 -- treaded in chest-high water early this morning to see if we were all right out here," Mrs. Cordova said. "It took them 3½ hours to go three miles. "My house is full of water now. I doubt there's anything left to salvage." Howard Watson, director of Civil Defense in Kingfisher, where the Uncle John and Kingfisher creeks empty into the Cimarron River, said, "There were lots of people who didn't get out last night when we warned them, and now they're stranded in the upstairs of their homes, dining room tables, or something like that. "This is by far the worst I've ever seen." Watson said that 150 evacuees were housed at a temporary shelter set up by the Red Cross in the town's Memorial Hall. The rest moved in with relatives and friends. "ALL THE HOUSES look like little islands," Watson said, "and there's 2-3 feet of water in the houses now." The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said that all roads leading in and out of Kingfisher were closed. "Nobody has any idea how many others are stranded," Watson said. "They just keep calling out to the police boat, or waving to them." In Texas, Dawn Hamilton, 13, was killed when her pickup truck was washed over a bridge in western Bexar County. Officers also recovered the body of Michael Murray, 27, who was helping the woman try to start her car when they were swept away. UFOs 100x Attack # Storms pound Midwest Associated Press Spok Rev 5/21/82 Thunderstorms that have raged for over a week sent more floods pouring across Nebraska and Oklahoma on Thursday, washing out railroads, ruining homes and drowning cattle. Silt washing down from the Nebraska hillsides buried some roads in mud 3 feet deep. Soaked sandbags, filled by hundreds of volunteers, ringed homes and businesses in Platte Center, Neb., a community of 370 people about 100 miles northwest of Omaha. Carcasses of dead cows were floating in creeks. Trees were stripped by hail and gardens were flattened in some areas. And the rains kept coming, up to 3 inches in places, with winds gusting to almost 80 mph. IN THE EAST, severe thunderstorms accompanied by gusting winds knocked out power in more than 40 Connecticut communities, affecting at least 11,000 customers, utility officials said. The storms, which swept through Connecticut on a cold front in the late afternoon, brought heavy rains and lightning. Wind and blowing tree limbs tore down power lines. Residents in most parts of the state lost their electricity, and some major industries in the Danbury area were affected. The National Weather Service said a volley of tornadoes, which has hit the Plains states with 95 twisters since last Friday, seemed to be slackening. Radar spotted one funnel south of Cordell, Okla., but no damage was reported. On Wednesday, a twister hit a farm near Sharon Springs in northwest Kansas, destroying a house and farm buildings containing four airplanes, four combines and other farm equipment. AS THURSDAY'S thunderstorms descended on central Oklahoma, flash flood warnings were posted in Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Lincoln, Canadian, Oklahoma and Cleveland counties, including areas where hundreds of people were evacuated earlier in the week. In Nebraska, flash flood warnings were up in Platte County, eastern Boone county and the southern half of Madison and Stanton counties. Trains were temporarily halted on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad in eastern Nebraska, with the track washed out in many places and bridges threatened. Officials later opened one track of the line. "I sat around, drank whiskey and cried," said R.D. Taylor of Norman, Okla., recalling how he watched the South Canadian River climb out of its banks, cover the mailbox in his yard, and pour into his home. Norman city manager James Crosby declared a state of emergency to allow the city to spend what it needs to repair roads and utilities. === Page 13 of 56 A tornado hovers over Herrin, Ill., Saturday. The bars at the top of the picture are power lines. UFO 100X Attack # More storms in Midwest Associated Press S of R Row 5/31/82 Relentless Memorial Day weekend thunderstorms pounded the nation's midsection, trapping a Boy Scout troop near rushing floodwaters, pouring 2¾ inches of rain on a Nebraska town within 20 minutes, smashing crops with hail and wind and causing at least 15 deaths. The storm produced at least 25 tornadoes in six states in the nation's midsection on Saturday. Twisters ripping through southern Illinois left at least 10 people dead and 15 missing in Marion, Ill. At least 1,000 people were left homeless as the tornadoes flattened parts of three southern Illinois counties. In West Virginia, a torrential downpour early Sunday sent small streams out of their banks, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Flooding also was reported in the eastern Colorado Plains, and thunderstorms in Denver sparked lightning that killed one man and injured two others on Saturday. Three people were found dead in Oklahoma on Saturday after lightning struck their house. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect Sunday for western Missouri and eastern Kansas and the area from southeastern Iowa and west-central Illinois through central Missouri, the National Weather Service said. The twister that struck Marion, Ill., on Saturday first had ripped through 10 miles of nearby countryside. Shopping plazas, apartment complexes and as many as 90 homes were flattened. Tree limbs, utility poles and pieces of buildings littered the town's streets. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared the region a disaster area Saturday night. Before hitting Marion, the twister had touched down in Carterville and sliced through Crainville. Other twisters hit other rural areas, destroying houses and causing injuries. Winds up to 60 mph and golf-ball sized hail were reported Sunday morning in northern Kansas, and a tornado was reported near Topeka, the Weather Service said. No damage was reported. Flash flood watches continued in eastern and central Nebraska, where downpours dumped more water into already swollen rivers. Heavy rain drenched south-central Nebraska, with 2¾ inches reported in a 20-minute period in Roseland Sunday morning. High winds and driving rain racked Ohio, and one man was critically injured by lightning. Port Columbus International Airport reported wind gusts of 76 mph Saturday, and Prairie Township Fire Chief Robert Stormont estimated damage at $500,000. He said 50 to 75 trees were downed, and many buildings were damaged. The storm knocked a cement-block, two car garage "about 50 feet in the air and crumbled it when it set down in the backyard," he said. The storm caused widespread power outages in the Dayton and Columbus areas. Utility spokesmen said 7,000 power customers in Dayton and up to 28,000 in Columbus had no power at some time Saturday. Flood watches were issued for the Ohio Brush Creek and its tributaries in Adams County in southern Ohio on Sunday. === Page 14 of 56 UFOs 100X Attack # Tornadoes continue to tear across nation Associated Press Spok Rev 6/2/82 An onslaught of tornadoes that set a record for the peak month of May hit a half-dozen states Tuesday while a record chill ushered in June in much of the middle of the country. As America went back to work after the Memorial Day weekend that saw 19 people killed by violent weather, thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley with high winds and heavy rains. Tornadoes were sighted during the day in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, and one was sighted late Tuesday in Virginia. The national Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City said 351 tornadoes pounded the nation in May, normally the worst month for twisters, to surpass the record 274 that hit in 1965. It also was the wettest May on record in Tornado Alley cities such as Wichita Falls, Texas, and Oklahoma City. So far, 47 deaths have been blamed on tornadoes this year, including the 10 killed in a cyclone that devastated Marion, Ill., on Saturday, leaving $100 million in damage and 1,000 people homeless. That compares with 24 people killed by twisters in all of 1981 and 24 the year before. The worst day this year was on April 2, when 90 tornadoes touched down in Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi, leaving 28 people dead. "I had said back in March, looking at the pattern we had, that it would be a very active spring," said Fred Ostby, director of the Severe Storms Forecast Center. "Unless there is a drastic change, it looks like it's going to continue through June." June broke out Tuesday with low temperatures that broke or tied the record for the date in many cities, including Oklahoma City, where it was 48. Other cities logging lows for the books were Grand Island, Neb., 39; Kansas City, Mo., 47; North Plains, Neb., 36; Omaha, Neb., 42, Tulsa, Okla., 51, and Wichita, Kan., 46. Tuesday also official start of the six-month hurricane season in the Atlantic. The first storm of the season was named Albert. Many rivers were overflowing the Midwest. Along the rivers, were sandbagging in Missouri and Illinois. The Mississippi River spilled out of its banks and officials expected it to crest above flood stage at St. Louis on Saturday. UFOs 100X Attack June 1, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Wind, storms wreak havoc across nation Associated Press Tornadoes and hurricane-force winds crashed through the plains on Memorial Day as some cities in Texas and Oklahoma chalked up their wettest May on record from a month of thunderstorms. Homes were smashed, power lines were knocked down, trees were uprooted and water was 2 feet deep in the streets in some communities in the Southwest. Hail the size of baseballs pounded parts of Oklahoma, and some rivers reached flood stage in Missouri and Kansas. The storms of the holiday weekend claimed at least 18 lives, including 10 people who died Saturday when a twister hit Marion, Ill., destroying 75 homes and businesses and leaving 1,000 people homeless. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, who estimated the Marion tornado damage at $100 million, has asked President Reagan to declare Williamson County a major disaster area. Thunderstorms spread Monday from northern Texas, through Arkansas, into the Tennessee and lower Ohio Valleys. Elsewhere, some cities recorded their coldest May 31 on record. It was a sub-freezing 27 degrees at Sheridan, Wyo., easily beating the record 32 set in 1917. Other records for the date were the 32 at Billings, Mont., and 33 at Rapid City, S.D. The National Weather Service said that in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Monday, 10 tornadoes blasted Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma got four each, three touched down in Illinois and one hit Missouri. "It's as black as the ace of spades and a lot of funnels are popping around," said Bob Wylie, a dispatcher at Binger, Okla., as a storm hurtling through that state hammered Oklahoma City with 75-mph wind and brought the May rainfall to a record 12.07 inches. Spok Rev 6/1 UFOs 100X Attack # Storms slam nation again Associated Press Spok Rev 6/9/82 The storms of a violent spring pounded the heart of the battered Midwest on Tuesday with another volley of shattering winds, hail and rain coming down as hard as 4 inches an hour. But the sun peeped out occasionally in southern New England where up to 11 inches of rain over the weekend left millions of dollars in damage, mainly in southern Connecticut, and 22 people dead or missing. Thunderstorms Tuesday roared through parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, dumping up to 8 inches of rain in the Rio Grande Valley of southwest Texas. A tornado hit Henderson, Ky., on the Indiana border, heavily damaging a shopping center, overturning mobile homes and injuring a dozen people. Most of the city was left without power. The storm also ruptured a gas line north of the city and several roads were blocked by fallen trees. Gordon Nichols, a spokesman for the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services, said authorities also believed the community of Reed suffered storm damage but rescue efforts were hindered by blocked highways. Twelve people were treated for cuts, fractures and bruises at Community Methodist Hospital in Henderson. In storm-weary Missouri, some residents of a trailer park in Union - about 30 miles southwest of St. Louis - fled when 3 inches of rain fell in less than an hour and Flat Creek overflowed. Tree limbs and power lines littered the town's streets, which were under water. Streets were flooded in Columbia, Mo., and suburban Kansas City, where many people were still without power from a storm on Monday. Thousands of customers lost power Tuesday in Columbia, Warrensburg and Mexico, Mo., when lightning hit transformers and winds of 65 mph blew down utility poles. === Page 15 of 56 2 100x AMlack THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., June 11, 1982, Storms head F for the East Associated Press Thunderstorms that have spoiled spring in the Midwest turned eastward Thursday, soaking southeastern Kentucky and West Virginia with floods that chased families from their homes ind blocked highways. In Missouri, where rainstorms were blamed for four deaths earlier in the week, authorities searched for the body of a 15-month-old baby swept from his mother's arms when her car stalled in high water on a bridge. Powerful winds and a flurry of tornadoes tore he roofs off homes and buildings in Arkansas, The 4,847 residents of Carrollton, Mo., strug- gled to hold back the rising waters of Wakenda Creek, swollen by 8 inches of rain that fell in two jours Wednesday. Volunteers pitched in to fill sandbags as shopkeepers removed merchandise rom their stores. About 18 families were evacu- ited during the night. IN SOUTHWESTERN West Virginia, where almost 3 inches of rain fell, some of the worst .. lash flooding anyone could remember in Put- sam and Kanawha counties forced dozens of res- dents out of their homes and blocked most oads. "Just about everything had a problem of some ype, either water or slides or debris," said Gary "hernenko, a spokesman for the state highway lepartment. "They really got hit hard." William Brown, 63, a lifelong resident of the Hometown area in Putnam County, said, "It's veen 10 or 15 years since the creek came up, but ('s never gotten that high before." The National Weather Service said the roofs f several houses were blown off when a storm it White County in north-central Arkansas and igh winds in Logan County in the western part f the state took the roof off a church. "THERE WERE MANY reports of tornadoes nd funnel clouds sighted,"said Philip Doyle of he state Office of Emergency Services. Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr took a helicopter our of Evansville and other areas in Vander- urgh and Posey counties hit hard by storms Tuesday and Wednesday. Utility officials said it may be next week before electric power and elephone service is restored to all customers in he area. With power still out in much of the city, Ev- nsville police reported an unusually high num- er of break-ins. Many people crowded restu- ants and hunted for ice to keep food from poiling in their refrigerators. Residents of Rossville, Kan,, returned to their omes as Cross Creek receded after swamping he town of 1,045 residents Wednesday with wa- er up to 4 feet deep. AMONG THOSE EVACUATED were 63 resi- ents of the Rossville Valley Nursing home, most of them elderly people confined to wheel hairs. "They loved it," said Mrs. Barry Ward, the ome nursing director. In eastern Missouri, authorities were search- g the Loutre River near Martinsburg for the Kdy of 15-month-old Travis Wayne Campbell, ho was washed from his mother's arms ednesday. UFO 100x Allack Storms blast across Associated Pres Spoke pen- 6/2018 Midwest Storms blasted through the Midwest with 100-mph winds Wednesday, firing a broadside of tornadoes and torrents of rain that sent rivers gushing over their banks into towns and cities. Hundreds fled the floodwaters in Kansas and Missouri as thunderstorms which have pounded the plains off-and- on since early May renewed an assault with 8-inch rains and hail the size of baseballs. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power in Kansas City and other towns such as Moberly, Mo., where . winds clocked at 100 mph snapped trees and power lines. Police in Rossville, Kan., pleaded for volunteers with boats and four-wheel drive vehicles to help evacuate most of the town's 1,100 residents, including about 70 patients at a nursing home. The National Weather Service posted flash flood warnings along numerous rivers and streams in Kansas and Mis- souri, with the Missouri River already 2 feet over flood stage at Boonville, Mo., and some tributaries expected to surge 8 feet over their banks. One man was killed in Princeton, Mo., when his pickup collided with a tractor-trailer rig during the storm, and two people were injured in Kansas City when they came in contact with downed power lines late Tuesday. === Page 16 of 56 April 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW UFOs 6 Projects Flooding hits Vermont MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Rivers glutted with rain and melting snow covered parts of northern Vermont with as much as 6 feet of water Monday, the worst flooding in some areas in 55 years. Before the rivers and streams began receding Monday morning, roads were closed and an undetermined number of families in Swanton, Sheldon and Enosburg were evacuated as a precaution or because floodwaters blocked access to their homes. The National Weather Service in Burlington reported up to 1.5 inches of rain fell on northern Vermont overnight. 4-29-82 Oreg Journal Rain, 70-mph wind hits Texas, Plains United Press International Freak thunderstorms packing 70 mph winds rumbled through the central Plains, tearing trees from their roots and hurling them into mobile homes in Texas. A topsy-turvy spring blasted the North with cold and snow and the West with 100-degree temperatures. Freeze warnings were posted Wednesday night over the northern and central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and through north central Maryland. Thunderstorms raked the southern and central Plains from Texas and Louisiana into Nebraska and Iowa. More than 4 inches of rain fell in some areas of Nebraska and up to 2 inches of snow dusted central and southern parts of the state. Most of the snow melted soon after it fell, but accumulations of up to an inch were reported. At the height of the Texas storms, dumping nearly 2 inches of rain and pea-sized hail, winds gusted to 60 mph in Dallas and Fort Worth. The winds tore trees from their roots and hurled them onto mobile homes in Hurst, near Fort Worth. UFOs 6 Projects Winter weather in Rockies Associated Press Winter weather struck the northern Rockies on Saturday and a low pressure system centered in Wyoming brought rain and snow to Montana. Heavy snow moved through the northern Rockies. A cold front spread showers across much of the Northeast. Sunny skies stretched from the lower Mississippi Valley through the Southwest and the great basin. For Sunday, the National Weather Service forecast rain spreading across the Pacific Northwest through the great basin into the northern Plains with light snow in the northern Rockies. Spok Rev 5/9/82 Heating degree days Wednesday 12. UFOs Projects Power failure hits Florida at rush hour April 1982 MIAMI (AP) -- A malfunctioning motor at a nuclear generator triggered a power failure that spread across much of Florida on Thursday, knocking out lights in at least 800,000 homes and businesses at the height of the evening rush hour, officials said. Mary Ann Linden, a spokeswoman for Florida Power & Light Co., said at least 500,000 of the utility's 2.3 million customers lost power when two nuclear generators at Turkey Point tripped off shortly before 5 p.m. EDT. Seconds later, another two oil-fired generators at Cape Canaveral went down, Linden said. Within minutes, much of the Florida East Coast was out, and some 303,000 customers of other electrical utilities also suffered blackouts in central Florida and on the Gulf Coast from Tampa Bay to the south. FP&L is the state's largest electric utility. Florida Power Corp. spokesman Dave Williams said his company lost 200,000 of its 800,000 customers in 31 counties of West Central Florida, and Greg Truax said Tampa Electric Co. lost 103,000 customers. About 28,000 electric customers in Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties lost power, but some of those outages might have been caused by a small tornado that touched down in western Orange County, causing no major damage, authorities said. Power was restored to most Floridians in 15 minutes to an hour, officials said. Linden said workers made a "preliminary" determination that the blackout was caused by failure of an electrical motor on a circulating pump in one of two nuclear units at Turkey Point, 30 miles south of Miami. There was no nuclear emergency, she said. UFOs 100x Attack Storms create havoc Associated Press Thundershowers hurled tornadoes and torrential rains at the Southwest for the third day Thursday, killing at least one person and chasing hundreds of people from their homes in Texas and Oklahoma by floodwaters up to their belt buckles. Elsewhere, a mid-May snowfall up to 14 inches deep closed schools in some Colorado communities and was blamed for a traffic accident that killed a teen-ager. One lane of Interstate 70 over Vail Pass was blocked by an overturned snowplow. The National Weather Service said 17 tornadoes hit Texas and two touched down in Oklahoma in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Thursday, while more than a foot of rain fell in places. A barrage of dozens of tornadoes in the region earlier in the week left millions of dollars in damage, at least seven people dead and scores injured. On Thursday, a tornado that touched down outside Kirbyville in southeast Texas killed V. Margaret Finnerty, according to Linda Moore of the Texas Department of Public Safety. She said a second twister touched down nearby, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. A tornado also touched down Thursday in Holden, Mo., in the west-central part of the state but no injuries were reported and officials said the only major damage was confined to one farm. Spok Rev 5/14/82 === Page 17 of 56 D-14 The Forum Sunday, May 2, 1982 # Destructive tornado season is just around the corner By ELLEN CRAWFORD Staff Writer The tornado season is right around the corner. Generally, the tornado season in this part of the country runs from mid-May to mid-August, with most tornadoes occurring in June and July. However, tornadoes have been spotted in North Dakota as late as Oct. 11 and as early as mid-April. The tornado which demolished a barn on the Gladys Nelson farm near Lisbon, N.D., and ripped off a piece of the roof on her house April 15 became the state's earliest tornado on record. The previous record for the earliest tornado was April 19. "The weather's been so funny - hail, thunder, lightning, rain and snow all in one day," said Gordon Sletmoe, director of Cass County Disaster Emergency Services. "It gets to be something else." North Dakota has an average of 30 confirmed tornadoes per year. Tornadoes have caused 22 deaths, numerous injuries and millions of dollars in damage since 1950. Tornadoes start in an intense thunderstorm cloud, then develop downward toward the Earth's surface, experts believe. Tornadoes are short-lived local storms with high-speed winds usually rotating counterclockwise. They're formed as large amounts of air are drawn into the thunderstorm, creating a funnel-shaped cloud. The funnel starts as condensed water vapor, and as it reaches the ground, it picks up dust and debris. Not every thunderstorm spawns a tornado, scientists say. But when the weather conditions are right - unseasonably warm and humid air at the earth's surface, cold air at the middle atmospheric level and jet stream winds in the upper atmosphere - tornadoes are likely. A tornado's path usually is only about a quarter-mile wide and seldom more than 15 miles long. They move at about 30 mph from the southwest to the northeast. However, tornadoes have been known to be up to a mile across on the ground, to remain on the ground more than an hour, to move up to 70 mph and to travel in any direction. The wind in a tornado can blow from 100 mph to more than 300 mph. When the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch, that means weather conditions are ideal for the formation of tornadoes. A tornado warning means a tornado has been sighted or detected by radar and you should take shelter immediately. A steady blast on Fargo and West Fargo civil defense sirens acts as a tornado warning, and means take cover. Elsewhere in the county, communities can sound sirens which double as a summons for the rural fire department. The National Weather Service and North Dakota Disaster Emergency Services are conducting a statewide tornado drill Wednesday. The purpose, Sletmoe said, is to test the statewide weather-warning system and alert people that this is the time of year to be watching for severe weather. "We hope the schools will have a tornado drill at that time, and any other place that wishes - hospitals, nursing homes or private homes - will take part in the tornado drill," Sletmoe said. He doesn't think many communities other than Fargo and West Fargo will test their sirens because the sirens are used to summon firemen. "I'd rather pass up a siren for a test like this than get a false alert for the firemen," he said. However, he hopes West Fargo, and especially Fargo, sound theirs, even though the sirens are tested once a month. "I want to use them in Fargo to keep emphasizing the poor coverage we have," said Sletmoe, who has been urging city officials to buy more sirens to reach all parts of the city. "We are in desperate need of a warning for the citizens." Wednesday's drill also will give persons who have weather or ready-alert radios a chance to test their equipment. The National Weather Service erected a tower in the Galesburg, N.D., area in the last year. The tower should be able to beam a weather radio signal anywhere in Cass County, Sletmoe said. Galesburg is about 40 miles northwest of Fargo. In the past, only the eastern half of Cass County was covered by a tower about 20 miles to the east of Fargo near Hawley, Minn. Weather radio broadcasts come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on one of three high-band FM frequencies which are not found on the average home radio. Taped weather messages are repeated every four to six minutes and are revised every one to three hours. During severe weather, National Weather Service forecasters can interrupt routine broadcasts and substitute special warning messages. The forecasters also can activate warning receivers which either sound an alarm, alerting the listener to turn up the radio, or automatically turn on the radio so the warning message can be heard. The ready-alert radios are activated by a local radio station designated as an emergency broadcast station. The station picks up a warning from the weather bureau and activates the ready-alert radio. A system also has been developed in Fargo where the police department can interrupt the audio portion of any cable television program with a weather warning. Almost any electronic equipment store carries the special weather radio sets, but Sletmoe suggests people try the radio at the place they'll be keeping it before buying. Some models may not work as well as they should in some areas, he said. === Page 18 of 56 MFO attack "higher ups" # Al Haig leaving, but not quietly L.A. York Rev 6/26/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. quit on Friday, protesting that American foreign policy had strayed off course. President Reagan named former Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz to succeed him. A stern president and an unsmiling secretary of state played out the startling drama in terse, nationally televised statements from the White House and the State Department. Haig was blunt, if vague, in his farewell criticism of the foreign policy he was supposed to be guiding. He did not mention specific policy decisions, nor did he say whom he blames for what he described as shifts away from the "careful course" of consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose in foreign affairs. HAIG TOLD REAGAN ON THURSDAY that he was resigning, a White House official said, and his letter was delivered Friday. Reagan called Shultz in London on Friday morning to ask him to take over. White House officials, requesting anonymity, said Reagan doesn't intend any changes in his foreign policy, despite Haig's criticism. Haig had previously threatened to quit. White House officials pointedly and anonymously refused to say if Reagan tried to dissuade him this time. But one of them said, "I think the president had had enough of it." Shultz, who served in the Cabinet and the White House during the administration of Richard M. Nixon, had been on the speculation list for the job that went to Haig. Now an executive with an international engineering and construction firm, he was due in Washington from London today. Reagan announced the resignation, the first from his Cabinet, with ritual expressions of regret. Haig tendered it with customary expressions of thanks and good wishes. But he said in public what departing Cabinet members usually say only in private: that he was disenchanted with the policies of the administration he served. IN THE LETTER OF RESIGNATION he read at the State Department, Haig said that he and Reagan had agreed that "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose were essential to success" in foreign policy. A large gathering of department employees applauded when Haig appeared in the auditorium. He said he took the Cabinet post in that spirit. "In recent months," Haig continued, "it has become clear to me that the foreign policy on which we embarked together was shifting from that careful course which we laid out. "Under these circumstances, I feel it necessary to request that you accept my resignation," Haig said. He was greeted by applause from hundreds of State Department employees. Haig praised Shultz and said he would "stay on for as long as is necessary to insure an orderly transition." Haig gave no hint of his future plans. === Page 19 of 56 # Blame Haig for faux pas The Reagan administration -- under the guidance of Secretary of State Alexander Haig -- finds itself in a curious position regarding the Falkland Islands crisis. The administration has succeeded in making both sides furious. First, much to the consternation of Argentina, the White House publicly sided with Britain. Then last Friday the U.S. flip-flopped on a United Nations resolution that angered the British. U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, in accordance with Haig's wishes, joined the British in vetoing a Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Falklands. Haig earlier had told British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym that he could count on U.S. support. Later, Haig had second thoughts. After thinking about it for a while and looking at the specific language, he changed his mind. He decided it would be better for the U.S. to abstain from the vote. He sent word to Kirkpatrick through the State Department, but the message arrived too late. Kirkpatrick already had spoken and her vote could not be changed. Naturally, this created quite an embarrassing situation for the White House, which had to explain that the whole thing was a mistake. Haig, et al, will be wiping the egg off their faces for a long time over this one. All things considered, the U.S. would have been better off sticking with Kirkpatrick's vote, even if officials were not altogether happy with it. As is, the flip-flop only damaged American credibility abroad, angered the British and portrayed the administration as an indecisive, ill-prepared group of bumblers. Friday's flip-flop is reminiscent of a similar incident two years ago in which President Carter publicly disavowed a U.N. vote by Ambassador Donald McHenry regarding Israeli settlements on the West Bank. The major difference between that incident and this one is that someone accepted the blame for the first one. At that time Secretary of State Cyrus Vance volunteered to accept responsibility, pointing to a communications slip-up. Haig, by contrast, only has made excuses for his gaffe. He could have called Kirkpatrick directly, but didn't. Someone asked why. His response was: "You don't talk to the company commander when you have a corps and a division in between." When is Haig going to acknowledge he isn't in military service anymore? We realize he's accustomed to the military's structured way of doing things, but he's got to adapt to civilian life one of these days. When civilians have an urgent message, they get on the telephone and call. It's a handy device that can bring quick results. Haig ought to try it (one of his aides could dial and he could talk). We realize this might counter proper etiquette in the eyes of a former general, but sometimes the urgency of the moment must take precedence. Better yet, we would hope Haig does his homework in advance next time. Then there would be no need for last-minute messages. It is highly disconcerting that the U.S. would cast an important U.N. vote without thorough preparation and understanding of what was at stake. Gaffes such as this should never happen. Summary: Secretary of State Haig must bear full responsibility for last week's faux pas at the United Nations. # Haig move catches most by surprise === Page 20 of 56 UFO attack "higher ups" Quake rocks El Salvador ATEOS, El Salvador (AP) -- An earthquake rocked El Salvador early Saturday, hurling huge boulders onto highways, causing landslides and toppling rural houses. Officials said four people were killed and more than 210 were injured. The quake, centered in the Pacific Ocean about 60 miles south of San Salvador, the capital, also was felt strongly in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. There were few reports of serious damage in San Salvador but the fortress-like U.S. Embassy in San Salvador was hit hard, officials said. Walls cracked, water pipes burst, elevators jammed and the ceiling of Ambassador Deane Hinton's office caved in. "The commissary looks like it had been hit by three hours of vandalism by reckless teenagers," said Don Hamilton, an embassy spokesman. "But we had a very serious earthquake and at least the building didn't fall down." The embassy was built in 1965 and designed to be earthquake-proof. Spok Rev 6/26/82 UFO attack "higher ups" Lucky to be late KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- An explosion that destroyed a car in a parking lot at Karachi airport was caused by a time bomb planted at a spot where Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of Malta was to get into a car, the Karachi Daily News reported Thursday. Mintoff, who was on his way to China, arrived three hours late but the bomb exploded at his scheduled arrival time Wednesday night, the newspaper said. Spok Rev 6/26/82 UFO attack "higher ups" Mugabe's guards attacked SALISBURY, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Gunmen attacked guards outside Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's residence Thursday, and a man in camouflage fatigues was killed shortly afterward in a shooting incident with a policeman, officials said. A statement from the Ministry of Information said a policeman challenged a group of men near the home of National Supplies Minister Enos Nkala, about 5 miles away, and an unidentified black man was shot to death. An automatic weapon was found near the body of the victim, who was clad in camouflage fatigues, the ministry said. Spok Rev 6/26/82 UFO attack "higher ups" New cease-fire brings relief to Beirut Spok Rev 6/26/82 BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib advised Lebanese leaders late Friday of a new cease-fire agreed upon by Israel, Syria and the PLO following a series of devastating Israeli blows against Palestinian positions in west Beirut. The guns fell silent as the cease-fire went into effect at 9 p.m. (3 p.m. EDT), and shell-shocked residents of west Beirut warily emerged for the first time in several days as the thunder of explosions ended. Shortly before the cease-fire was announced, Israel claimed a major victory over Syrian forces, saying its army now controls the western end of the critical Beirut-Damascus highway. Lebanon's state radio said Habib told Lebanon's elder statesman Saeb Salam he had succeeded in arranging a new cease-fire "in a final, firm and lasting fashion." Several earlier cease-fires quickly collapsed in furious battles, with each side blaming the other for firing the first shots. Israelis want peace / Page 10 Israeli military sources in Tel Aviv said Israel had agreed to a cease-fire on all fronts and the shooting had stopped. The Voice of Lebanon radio station reported that just before the cease-fire, a rocket hit the Israeli-held suburb of Hadath, killing four people and wounding 17. A Palestinian broadcast described Friday's Israeli bombardments as the heaviest so far. It claimed 250 people were killed and more than 500 were wounded. Habib has been in Beirut for nearly two weeks. The Israelis strengthened their siege of Beirut and launched the massive raids after the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected Israel's demands for total disarmament of PLO guerrillas, removal of their leaders from Lebanon and Lebanese government control over Palestinian refugee camps, Lebanese officials said. Salam, a former prime minister, emerged as a leader in backstate peace negotiations following the resignation earlier in the day of Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan, who was enraged at the massive Israeli air raids and shelling. There were rumors Salam might succeed Wazzan. Israeli dive bombers had blasted the headquarters of PLO chief Yasser Arafat. UFO attack "higher ups" Troops fail to reach copter SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Troops in embattled Morazan province failed again Friday to reach a helicopter reported shot down by guerrillas with the undersecretary of defense aboard, a military spokesman said. The helicopter was flying over a battle zone near the village of San Fernando, which has been encircled by guerrilla forces. The guerrillas' Radio Venceremos said they shot it down. The government has been unable to inspect the crash site to determine whether Col. Adolfo Castillo, the undersecretary of defense, or Col. Salvador Beltran, the commander of the army's Sixth Brigade, were killed. The guerrillas said they identified Castillo's body but that Beltran and two other soldiers escaped. Spok Rev 6/19/82 === Page 21 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan hurt by Donovan The pressure is mounting on President Reagan to unload a political albatross named Ray Donovan. Donovan, of course, is the secretary of labor whom organized labor doesn't like. More significant at the moment, however, is the fact Donovan is under investigation for alleged ties to organized crime while he was an official of the New Jersey firm, Schiavone Construction Co. If it were up to organized labor or certain members of the Senate, Donovan probably would be gone already. But fortunately for the embattled labor chief, the person who counts most -- President Reagan -- still believes in him. But how long can this last? Reagan's principal advisers have concluded among themselves that Donovan should step aside until special prosecutor Leon Silverman completes his investigation. Their conclusion is correct. Reagan is risking his own prestige by remaining silent on the issue and allowing Donovan to continue on the job. At the very least, Donovan should step down until the prosecutor's work is finished. Or, if he wishes to perform the utmost service to the president, he should resign altogether. Considering the gravity of the allegations against him, Donovan's continued presence only diminishes the administration's image. He is becoming an intolerable burden. If Donovan refuses to quit or take a leave of absence, the president should relieve him of the choice and make the decision for him. At this point, the secretary's permanent ouster would seem the wisest course. Even if he is determined innocent of any and all wrongdoing, Donovan still will emerge from this controversy bloodied and badly beaten. He will be followed forever by a cloud of controversy and suspicion. The public's ensuing lack of confidence would prevent him from carrying out his official duties in an expeditious manner. Anyone in a high government position must be able to devote his or her full energies to the job at hand. Donovan couldn't. He would be constantly defending attacks on his reputation and ethics. On Monday, in his first response to the charges since last December, Donovan reiterated his desire to stay in office. While his determination is understandable, he should, out of deference to the president, put the administration's good ahead of his own. **Summary: The most useful service Sec. Donovan could perform would be to submit his resignation.** Spark RR 6/23/82 === Page 22 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" # House Speaker Polk to quit politics OLYMPIA (AP) -- The man considered the major voice of Republican conservatism in Washington state and an articulate spokesman for Reaganomics announced Friday he's leaving politics for job and family. House Speaker Bill Polk ended months of speculation over his political future when he announced he wouldn't seek re-election this fall to his Mercer Island House seat. The decision brings to an end a political career that saw Polk move in 10 years from the back bench of the Republican caucus to the speakership, considered by most to be the second most powerful and important position in state government. The announcement came during a news conference that was classic Polk. "Good morning, weirdos," he said to the gathered reporters. The boyishly handsome Polk has been sensitive to press reports about his speakership but was mostly good-natured with reporters. He could never understand the flap that resulted when it was learned the House had leased a candy apple red 280Z sports car for his use. Asked if he would have done it again, Polk replied, "Yes, but I would have gotten a brown one." The speaker, an advocate of more and more budget cuts, also came in for some criticism this week when it was learned the state had picked up a $10,782 bill for refurnishing his Legislative Building suite. Gov. John Spellman, also a Republican, has had his differences with the conservative Polk, but the governor said he was "sorry to see (Polk) go and I'm sure his experience will be missed." House Democratic Leader Wayne Ehlers said he was not surprised. "I hope that Bill will be able now to negotiate with us and depoliticize the session we are about to go into," said Ehlers. There was, however, surprise at the timing of the announcement. The Legislature will move into special session June 26. "I don't relish the idea of being a lame duck speaker going into the session," said Polk, 46. He said he realizes he may lose some effectiveness but he also suggested he might be even more effective as a lame duck. Asked if he might someday run for governor or other political office, Polk said, "I don't believe it's very wise to state unequivocally I will never run for political office ... I may run for water commissioner or school board or something." Polk's wife, Karla, who has never been comfortable with her husband's political profession, was in the room when the announcement was made. She looked relieved. Polk said his decision was prompted both by family considerations and professional considerations. He cited harsh comments made to his children in school by teachers angry over educational budget cuts he helped enact as speaker. That, said Polk, "is the thing I resent the most." Polk also cited fears for his family's safety and the fact that "the bomb squad has to come out and look" before packages are brought into his home. UFOs attack "higher ups" # General rejects long N-war strategy Washington Post Spok Rev 6/19/82 WASHINGTON -- The nation's top soldier left office Friday with the warning that it would be throwing money in a "bottomless pit" to try to prepare the United States for a long nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Gen. David C. Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the last four years, said he doubted that any nuclear exchange between the Soviets and the United States could be contained, but would escalate into an all-out war. Rather than spend the billions of dollars it would take to prepare the nation for a protracted nuclear war, Jones said, it would make more sense to build up American forces for more likely non-nuclear conflicts in distant trouble spots. "I don't see much of a chance of nuclear war being limited or protracted," said Jones, who has pondered various doomsday scenarios during much of his 40 years in uniform. "I see great difficulty" in keeping any kind of nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union from escalating. Defining "protracted nuclear war" as one lasting "weeks or months," the 60-year-old four-star general said: "If you really put a lot of emphasis on it, you've got a bottomless pit in terms of dollars." He said that even if one were to say "I'm going to do everything to try to fight a protracted nuclear war," the resources for that are too great". === Page 23 of 56 UFO2 attack "higher ups" Argentine chief forced to resign Associated Press Spok Rev 6/18/80 Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, architect of the disastrous Falkland Islands war, was forced to resign as Argen- tine army commander Thursday and was on his way out as presi- dent. "I'm going because the army didn't give me the political backing to continue as commander (of the army) and president of the nation," Galtieri told a reporter for the gov- ernment news agency Telam as he left Government House. "I'm not the kind of guy who abandons ship in the middle of the storm." GALTIERI SPENT his final hours in Government House saying goodbye to his Cabinet ministers. His fellow officers forced him to re- tire from the army Thursday and were meeting to decide who will re- place him as president. Telam said he will resign the presidency today when the new army commander takes over. In London, a British Broadcast- ing Corp. television commentator said, "The man who started the war in the Falkland Islands has become its latest casualty." At British Prime Minister Mar- garet Thatcher's 10 Downing St. office, a spokesman said, "We hope the new regime will be more hu- manitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." He referred to Galtieri's refusal to agree to a total cease-fire in the South Atlantic that would allow the British to return more than 10,000 cold and hungry prisoners seized when the Argentine defenses col- lapsed Monday. Reagan's horse dies SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - President pagan's personal riding horse, Little Man, has jed at Reagan's Rancho del Cielo after a severe Iness of several days, ranch foreman Lee learwater reported Tuesday. "He just sort of folded up," Clearwater said. The thoroughbred horse was 20 years old, he lid. A veterinarian put the horse to death humane- Thursday, he said. "The president had already said that if he (the orse) couldn't make it to put him down," the freman reported. Clearwater said he relayed word of the death the White House as Reagan flew back from le European summit last Friday Gen Galtieri is a casualty of war he started. FALKLANDS AT A GLANCE Associated Press Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri resigned as commander in chief of the army Thursday, three days after his invasion of the Falkland Islands ended in defeat. The army command said Galtieri had "voluntarily decided to leave" his position as commander of the army. Argentine reports indicated Interior Minister Gen. Alfredo Saint Jean will become interim president. The army command confirmed that Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, will assume command of the army. The fall of Argentine Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri raised British hopes that a more tractable government would be installed in Buenos Aires. A spokesman for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said "We hope the new regime will be more humanitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." Earlier Thursday, Mrs. Thatcher had complained that Galtieri's government was refusing to let British ships return Argentine prisoners. === Page 24 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" Argentine chief forced to resign Associated Press Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, architect of the disastrous Falkland Islands war, was forced to resign as Argentine army commander Thursday and was on his way out as president. "I'm going because the army didn't give me the political backing to continue as commander (of the army) and president of the nation," Galtieri told a reporter for the government news agency Telam as he left Government House. "I'm not the kind of guy who abandons ship in the middle of the storm." GALTIERI SPENT his final hours in Government House saying goodbye to his Cabinet ministers. His fellow officers forced him to retire from the army Thursday and were meeting to decide who will replace him as president. Telam said he will resign the presidency today when the new army commander takes over. In London, a British Broadcasting Corp. television commentator said, "The man who started the war in the Falkland Islands has become its latest casualty." At British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 10 Downing St. office, a spokesman said, "We hope the new regime will be more humanitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." He referred to Galtieri's refusal to agree to a total cease-fire in the South Atlantic that would allow the British to return more than 10,000 cold and hungry prisoners seized when the Argentine defenses collapsed Monday. Gen Galtieri is a casualty of war he started. FALKLANDS AT A GLANCE Associated Press Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri resigned as commander in chief of the army Thursday, three days after his invasion of the Falkland Islands ended in defeat. The army command said Galtieri had "voluntarily decided to leave" his position as commander of the army. Argentine reports indicated Interior Minister Gen. Alfredo Saint Jean will become interim president. The army command confirmed that Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, will assume command of the army. The fall of Argentine Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri raised British hopes that a more tractable government would be installed in Buenos Aires. A spokesman for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said "We hope the new regime will be more humanitarian toward its young men on the Falklands." Earlier Thursday, Mrs. Thatcher had complained that Galtieri's government was refusing to let British ships return Argentine prisoners. Reagan's horse dies SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- President Reagan's personal riding horse, Little Man, has died at Reagan's Rancho del Cielo after a severe illness of several days, ranch foreman Lee Clearwater reported Tuesday. "He just sort of folded up," Clearwater said. The thoroughbred horse was 20 years old, he said. A veterinarian put the horse to death humane- Thursday, he said. The president had already said that if he (the horse) couldn't make it to put him down," the foreman reported. Clearwater said he relayed word of the death to the White House as Reagan flew back from the European summit last Friday. === Page 25 of 56 4+O2 allack " higher" A Quiet Departure at CIA Tobby Ray Inman was always a reluc- and those he viewed as reckless adven- tant deputy. As head of the National tures-and angered by the time and energy he spent quashing them. According to one friend, Inman explained that he was quit- ting now "because I don't want to go out of here stomping my feet." Security Agency when the Reagan Admin- istration took power, he made no secret of his lack of interest in the No. 2 job at the Central Intelligence Agency. He changed his mind and accepted only after a personal appeal from the President himself. Last week President Reagan accepted Inman's resignation as CIA deputy direc- tor "with deep regret." It was clear that the four-star admiral- the first major de- fector from the Reagan Administration's national-security ranks-had no regrets about leaving the CIA's bridge. He insist- ed that his resignation, which will take effect as soon as a successor is named, was for personal reasons, suggesting that, at 51, with one son in college and a second in prep school, it CE was time to seek six-figure comfort in the private sector. But sources close to Inman say he was increasingly disen- TRA chanted with Administration plans for the CIA and was feeling increasingly frustrated in a professional relationship with CIA director William J. Casey that was never warm and was fre- search reports that might prove useful to quently frigid. No Stomping: Much of Inman's displeas- ure centers on what he calls "petty bureau- cratic intrigue," including the occasional leaking of intelligence secrets for political effect. A prime example occurred when the White House confirmed the existence of U.S. covert operations against Nicaragua, a deliberate leak designed to show the Presi- dent taking a hard-line stand against the Sandinista government. "That blew In- mann's mind," says a source close to him. He was also appalled by the Administration's obsession with covert operations-includ- ing both those he believed should be overt He had also made no secret of his dismay at plans to remove many of the prohibitions imposed by the Carter Administration on domestic spying by the CIA, although he subsequently endorsed a Presidential order permitting some covert CIA activities in this country, He is on record as opposing a proposal to consolidate CIA and FBI coun- terintelligence operations in a single new agency. "The main problems of the intelli- gence community," he says, "were ones of resources and not of organization." But while Inman has occa- sionally bucked the Reagan ENCE AGENC Administration's hard-liners, he has more often abided by the party line. On the most fundamental issue of all-the size of the intelligence budget-he was wholly in tune with the Administration. He has supported government clearance of technological-re- the Soviet Union, and he has endorsed the exemption of the CIA from the Federal Freedom of Information Act. He has also supported the reclassification of once se- cret government documents and manda- tory lie-detector tests for staff throughout the national-security apparatus. "I have always considered myself a conservative," he says Reagan is likely to miss Inman most on Capitol Hill. At his confirmation, one sena- tor said that "if there ever was unanimous consent and enthusiasm, this is it"-and in his fourteen months in office, Inman has done nothing to diminish that affection. John Ficara -NOWSWEER. Inman: An unhappy No. 2 "Casey mumbles and shoots the bull, while Inman is a straight shooter," says a source in the intelligence community. "Now the Reagan Administration has lost its eredibil- ity. They can't rush Bobby Ray over to cool the waters." Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, a key member of the Senate Intelli- gence Committee, was miffed that the Presi- dent sat on Inman's resignation for a month without informing legislators, and demand- ed that Congress be consulted before a re- placement is named. "He's been our man . .. in a way," Lugar said. "Who are we going to call? Who has our trust?" Candor: Inman's credibility in Congress may have played a significant part in his decision to resign. According to some sources, his habitual candor on the Hill tended to freeze him out of White House deliberations. The word around the White House, says one, was, "Don't tell In- man until you want the Hill to know." But the reasons for the admiral's disaffec- tion probably run much deeper. Inman may have accepted the deputy's role at CIA with the hope that Casey's tenure would be short and that he would be his successor, but recently it seemed unlikely that Inman would be considered for the job. His relationship with Casey had stead- ily deteriorated-at one point, Inman threatened to resign rather than go along with the Reagan Administration's domes- tic-spying plans. Still, given the high marks that Inman has received for his performance, few in the intelligence community would be surprised if he returns to a top national-security job in some future Administration. "I'm not go- ing to make any Shermanesque statement," Inman said. But, he added, "this isn't a. posturing stepping aside to zoom back to a job here." MARK STARR with DAVID C. MARTIN and HENRY W. HUBBARD in Washington === Page 26 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS headedness in the guise of a tribute to his sincerity. His aides were jubilant that he had once again seized the high ground and were busily scheduling a press conference this week and a tour to "hit a few cities" with his tub-thumping anti-spending speech. But there were some signs this time around that the opposition might refuse to melt. For one thing the collapse of the negotiations left the President without a clear budget position, which naturally takes some of the fire out of the call to rally around it. And the nation might be listening to a different trumpet if the economy keeps refusing to perform the miracles Reagan had predicted for it. The coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that gave Reagan all he asked for in 1981 might be harder to assemble in an election year, when all signs point to substantial Democratic gains. "The President shouldn't feel as comfortable as he did last year," warned House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski. "I don't think his troops are as disciplined as they were." On the other hand, Rostenkowski concedes, the opposition presents its usual fractured facade. The Democrats have no substitute budget to offer yet, as the White House plans to remind the nation at every opportunity--and their chances of coming up with one that can hold together Southern "boll weevils" and Northern liberals is slim. "There'll be a lot of blood on their floor when they come up with an alternative," smirks one administration aide. Surtax: As Washington wearily girds itself for the wrangling to come, about the only certainty is that a change in social security will not be included in the 1983 budget--by consensus of both parties' leaders. Almost any other outcome seems possible. The Democrats are sure to make an assault on Kemp-Roth, and the Administration is certain to resist. But some of its impact will probably be blunted by tax increases in other areas. Republicans, according to a draft position paper obtained by NEWSWEEK, had been agreeable to a three-year 4 percent surtax on high incomes, an energy tax of some kind and changes in IRS regulations affecting deductions for local sales taxes and medical-insurance payments--proposals that may surface again in the coming weeks. The first skirmish will probably come this week, when Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee intend to force a vote on Reagan's budget as it was originally submitted--likely to result in an embarrassing, although meaningless, defeat for the President. Beyond that, everyone's best hope for avoiding a bloody battle seemed to lie with divine intervention, which by now all sides might welcome--provided, of course, God has no plans to change social security. JERRY ADLER with GLORIA BORGER, HOWARD FINEMAN, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and ELEANOR CLIFT in Washington 42 # Mr. Clean Gets Soiled He dipped into the campaign till to pay baby-sitters for his 3-year-old daughter and to fly relatives to the state capital for Thanksgiving. He also used political funds to buy lavish gifts for aides, contributors and friends--including a $424 porcelain dog for the banker whose bank refinanced his mortgage and a $300 antique pig for Agriculture Secretary John Block. And according to a public log that he himself maintained, Illinois Republican Gov. James R. Thompson was also a gracious recipient of gifts, from valuable art objects to five gold Krugerrands pressed upon him by owners of a firm that processes inheritance forms filed with the state. As one Chicago art dealer told it, Thompson, an avid antique collector, even set aside favorite items in the shop, bridal-registry style, so that potential gift givers could choose from a ready selection. By Illinois standards, the charges against own well-known Presidential ambitions. Thompson has insisted that the political expenses were legitimate and vehemently denied that the gifts led to favors. "From my first day in office, I have kept complete and open records so that there would never be any doubt about what I received from friends and supporters," he said in a statement. Still, the governor announced last week that he would accept no more gifts worth over $100, and he has promised to reimburse his campaign funds for some items, including the Thanksgiving get-together. The IRS, which has ruled that politicians may spend campaign funds however they wish provided they pay taxes on funds used for personal matters, has begun an inquiry into Thompson's practices. Most Illinois political observers viewed the Thompson allegations as politics-as-usual, made worse only by the image the ![Photograph of Governor Thompson in his office] George Mars Cassidy Thompson in his office: Five Krugerrands and a bridal-registry shelf of antiques "Big Jim" Thompson, made public by Chicago newspapers in recent months, are small potatoes. But they are surprising in view of Thompson's reputation as Mr. Clean--a reputation built when he sent countless Chicago pols to the slammer as a corruption-cracking U.S. attorney. The disclosures have delighted Illinois Democrats: Thompson seeks an unprecedented third term this year against Adlai Stevenson III, the former Democratic senator from Illinois. And at a time when five Midwestern GOP governors have pulled out of re-election contests--the latest, Wisconsin's Lee Dreyfus a fortnight ago--Thompson's troubles have further dampened GOP hopes of maintaining a grip on the heartland (NEWSWEEK, April 19), and could frustrate Thompson's governor has cultivated. "More has been demanded of him," The Chicago Tribune editorialized, "because he has persuaded people that they could expect more." Still, a Tribune poll two weeks ago found Thompson trailing Stevenson, 35 to 37 percent, for the first time in the race. Stevenson has been generally restrained about Thompson's troubles, concentrating instead on the state's economic woes. Stevenson has subtly reminded voters, however, that he was chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee, and at a recent fund-raiser for state attorney general candidate Neil Hartigan, he gibed that Hartigan's children "are all old enough not to need baby-sitting, so you can be confident your money is going to the campaign." MELINDA BECK with FRANK MAIER in Chicago NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 === Page 27 of 56 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Saudia Arabia's king dies ## U.S. expects no immediate changes in policies New York Times 6/14/82 LONDON -- King Khaled of Saudi Arabia, the oil-exporting country's quiet ruler for the last seven years, died of a heart attack Sunday morning at the age of about 69 and was succeeded by his younger half-brother, Crown Prince Fahd. Although he had been in ill health for years, the suddenness of Khaled's death came as a surprise. Just Saturday, he was shown on Saudi television arriving in the resort of Taif from Riyadh to spend the summer. UFOs attack "higher ups" # world ### Cabinet shakeup in Seoul SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Chun Doo-hwan on Friday accepted 11 of the resignations submitted by his 22 Cabinet ministers, who said they were taking "political and moral responsibility" for several incidents, including a financial scandal that touched the presidency. The resignations posed the gravest political crisis for Chun since he took office vowing to stamp out corruption. Those dropped included Defense Minister Choo Young-bock and Suh Suk-joon, minister of commerce and industry, a government announcement said. Prime Minister Yoo Chang-soon was retained in his post, along with key economic officials. UFOs attack "higher ups" # world ### Bullet hits diplomat NEW YORK (AP) -- A Swiss diplomat attending disarmament talks at the United Nations was wounded in the knee Thursday by a policeman firing at three fleeing muggers. Ivar Asp, 47, an observer for neutral Switzerland at the disarmament talks, was treated at Bellevue Hospital after a ricocheting bullet grazed his right knee. He was hit by the bullet about 1:15 p.m. while walking on Third Avenue in Manhattan, about 10 blocks from the U.S. building. Spok/Rev 6/11/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Top Romanian leaders ousted in shake-up BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Five senior Communist functionaries were also fired in a government shake-up that replaced the premier and seven deputies, the official news agency Agerpress said Saturday. The reshuffle of the Communist Party and government was decreed by the policymaking Central Committee on Friday, but the party changes were announced only after Parliament approved the new government appointments. President and Communist Party chief Nicolae Ceausescu said the changes were meant to create "conditions for a better and more responsible management of economic and other affairs." Observers said the shake-up reflected the East European nation's growing economic troubles. The party dismissals came from within its ruling executive political committee, Agerpress said. They were members Aneta Spornic, Cornelia Filipas and Janos Fazekas, and alternates Marin Radoi and Ion Ionita. Spornic, Filipas and Radoi were fired for what Agerpress called "the serious deficiencies and anomalies in the sectors they ran." No details were revealed. Spornic was recently also sacked as education minister for her reported involvement in what the government called a major scandal which led to the ouster of many lesser officials. Agerpress said Fazekas and Ionita were relieved "for health reasons." They and Filipas were also removed as deputy prime ministers in what the government called a move to reduce deputies to the prime minister. On Friday, Agerpress announced that Constantin Dascalescu was named to replace Premier Ilie Verdet, who had held the post since 1978. Verdet was reportedly demoted to one of the vice presidents in the council of state. Dascalescu, apparently because of his appointment as premier, was released from his former job as central committee secretary. No successor was named. Spok/Rev 5/22/82 === Page 28 of 56 Spokane, Wash., Sat., April 24, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Senators want watchdog deputy for CIA boss By GEORGE LARDNER JR. Washington Post WASHINGTON -- A key member of the Senate Intelligence Committee put the White House on notice Friday that the committee does not have enough confidence in CIA Director William J. Casey's expertise and wants every effort made to give him a qualified deputy. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., said he and his fellow committee members were stunned by the abrupt announcement this week of deputy CIA Director Bobby Ray Inman's resignation. Lugar called it "a rather traumatic situation" for those in Congress whose job it is to oversee the intelligence community and make sure it stays within proper bounds. The Indiana Republican made his remarks at a press conference that he frankly described as intended "to send some signals" to the White House about the gravity of the matter. He made clear that the committee wants to be consulted before a successor to Inman is named. "If this be meddling, so be it," Lugar declared. Again and again, Lugar emphasized that it was Inman, not Casey, upon whom the committee has relied since President Reagan took office for expert advice and sound judgment on U.S. intelligence activities. He added, however, that he regarded Casey as "a fine man, honest ... a real spy when he was with the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), a real guy with a dagger." At that, Goldwater raised his hand, as though wielding a dagger, then added: "But we do it differently now and he is not a pro." At his press conference Lugar noted that Goldwater and others had hoped to see Inman appointed to the top job at CIA. He was named instead to the second spot. "Many of us voted for Casey and Inman as a package," meaning that they supported Casey because the President wanted him and felt comfortable with him and Inman, a intelligence professional of 30 years, "because he knows more than anyone else what's going on." Several times, Lugar suggested that the campaign, "a very able American who has the trust of the president." A former Navy intelligence briefing officer who served at the Pentagon with Inman years ago, Lugar added, however, that "there are simply complexities involved (in the intelligence business) that would take more years than Bill Casey has" left to understand. "system of checks and balances" that has built up around the intelligence community since the congressional investigations of 1975-76 was at stake. He said he had no quarrel with the CIA director's being "a political appointee" whom the president could trust, but suggested that it was vital, in turn, for the deputy director to be an intelligence expert whom Congress could trust. Inman, 51, submitted his resignation to the White House on March 22 because, he has since said, he wants to start "a second career" in private industry and "get back to running something" himself. He allowed Friday that bureaucratic operations of the moment -- a number of factors -- said they had been out of proportion. investigated ng special prosecutors re-inquiry be opened vered by the law is violation of a spe-ill have 90 re is any iminal === Page 29 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS Michael Evans--The White House *The President and his chief of staff take a break: The long knives are out* # The Right Vs. Jim Baker Ronald Reagan, mad as hell, was not going to take it anymore. For months the White House had endured a steady drumbeat of criticism from the Republican right, much of it aimed at chief of staff James A. Baker III. Ignoring the "eleventh commandment" of the GOP ("Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican"), hardliners ranging from fund raiser Richard Viguerie to anonymous sources quoted in the syndicated political column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak hammered at Administration "moderates," who were said to be isolating the President and compromising his politics behind his back. Last week, after Reagan's own 1980 finance chairman in Texas joined the band with a call for Jim Baker's resignation, the President decided he'd had enough: there were indeed people trying to sabotage the Reagan program, he told real-estate developer Clymer L. Wright, and "you are helping them." On the face of it, Wright's call was a model of political loyalty. "Our beloved President today stands alone under siege," he said in a letter mailed May 14 to other early Reagan campaign contributors. "His economic program is being undermined by ... James Baker." Citing an attached New York Post editorial entitled "Political Treachery in the White House," he accused Baker of conspiring to subvert supply-side economics. As a result, Wright wrote, "Quietly, steadily, the picture is forming of [Reagan as] an amiable, uninformed, lazy, slightly confused politician ... a far cry from the genuine, courageous statesman we know Ronald Reagan to be." Wright also reminded his readers that Baker has a history of losing: he was Gerald Ford's campaign manager in 1976, he lost his own race for attorney general of Texas two years later and in 1980 he ran the futile Presidential effort of George Bush, whose agent the New Right suspects Baker of being. **'Distress':** When a copy of Wright's letter reached the White House, top aides were appalled. "The implication is that Ronald Reagan doesn't have a mind of his own," said one. This was apparently the message Reagan got, too, for he leapt to Baker's defense. In a spirited special-delivery rebuke, he told Wright that "I'm very distressed ... Yes, there is sabotage of all I'm trying to accomplish. But it's being done by the people who write these articles and columns ... Don't join that group, Clymer." Any compromises made were ones he himself had deemed necessary, he went on. Wright was sorry about the dust-up, but did not renege on his criticisms. "Why shouldn't the President know what his supporters are thinking?" he asked. While Reagan laid the blame for the attacks on Baker on "[s]ome in the media [who] delight in trying to portray me as being manipulated," the White House's real problem lies, as one staffer says, with "the right-wing ideologues. ... They have professional reasons for outflanking the President--to maintain their place on the political spectrum, to keep their identity." Baker is not their only target; White House spokesman David Gergen and paper-flow chief Richard Darman are also viewed as "tilting left." The critics find outlets not only in New Right publications like Viguerie's Conservative Digest and the weekly Human Events, but also in the Evans and Novak column, which some Reagan aides call "Errors and No-Facts." Not long ago the President himself, incensed by an Evans and Novak column accusing Baker # The Rejected Diplomat He had distinguished himself through 22 years in the State Department as a crackajack specialist on the Far East. He served as political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, as the Pentagon's senior specialist on Asian affairs and as U.S. ambassador to Thailand, handling the Cambodian refugee crisis, during the Carter Administration. But last week Morton I. Abramowitz, 49, was dropped as the Reagan Administration's ambassador-designate to Indonesia. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who had earlier considered him for the even more prestigious post of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, issued a brief statement regretting that this "truly outstanding Foreign Service officer" had been rejected by Jakarta. What happened to Abramowitz was mostly mystery--but State Department officials acknowledged the existence of an unsigned memo that was harshly critical of his qualifications. Entitled "Point Paper on Morton Abramowitz," it described him as a liberal whose "political philosophy is akin to McGovern, Muskie and Mondale" and as "the architect" of Jimmy Carter's controversial decision to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea. In fact, friends said, Abramowitz is a tough-minded conservative who privately and publicly opposed Carter's decision to bring home 33,500 of the 41,300 troops. Abramowitz: Vetoed AP Sources close to Haig confirmed that some State Department hands opposed Abramowitz's appointment because he is Jewish, a potential liability in a 90 percent Muslim country. But even Abramowitz's friends concede that the sometimes abrasive diplomat has made many enemies and that the point paper--leaked to columnist Jack Anderson and to top Indonesian officials--undoubtedly helped them hasten his rejection. NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 31 === Page 30 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS of sniping at Secretary of State Alexander Haig, dashed off a note--unsent--calling the columnists' sources "liars--repeat--liars." Some Reagan advisers suspect Evans and Novak of giving space to anti-Baker sentiment to help derail a possible 1984 Presidential bid by Bush in favor of Rep. Jack Kemp, if Reagan does not run again. Meanwhile, the war for Reagan's mind continues. Although Jim Baker and the "Christian conservative" Clymer Wright are acquaintances--Wright even gave Baker money when he ran for attorney general--Baker's ties to the old Eastern establishment and his instinctive pragmatism inevitably make him the object of New Right suspicion. "Baker's every action radiates weakness," says John Lofton, the outspoken editor of Conservative Digest. "He wants to say 'sorry' to [House Speaker] Tip O'Neill, 'sorry' to Brezhnev ... Baker is draining all the blood out of Ronald Reagan." In the effort to halt the flow, the entire July issue of Conservative Digest will be devoted to advice to the President from perhaps 100 hard-core Reaganites, to the themes that Clymer Wright sounded. Says Lofton: "We want to hold Ronald Reagan's feet to the fire Ronald Reagan lighted." PETER MCGRATH with ELEANOR CLIFT and JAMES DOYLE in Washington and STRYKER MCGUIRE in Houston No Parole Now For Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan told the California parole board that he was a changed man from the one who assassinated Robert Kennedy in 1968--"no longer a naive, impressionable person who feels that he could change the world." But last week the three-member board decided Sirhan hadn't changed enough and voted unanimously to rescind the 1984 parole granted him in 1975. The decision was based largely on threats against various people made by Sirhan as recently as two months ago. While the board, which heard 32 witnesses over two weeks, discounted allegations by fellow inmates at Soledad Prison that Sirhan had threatened to kill Sen. Edward Kennedy if he were released, it concluded that Sirhan, now 38, displays the same political obsessions and loner's personality as before "and has been unable to accept the fact that he alone is responsible for his incarceration and the problems which go along with it." Sirhan's attorney, Luke McKissack, said he hoped there might be a different outcome next time parole comes up--by law, within six months--"when tempers have cooled." The attorney said he informed his client of the decision in a brief phone call, and that Sirhan was "down" but had made no statement. Said McKissack: "He didn't even use a cussword, which surprised me." 32 GAMBLE CABINET ROOM LABOR SEC. DONOVAN FBI LINKS DONOVAN TO MOB? Gamble--© 1982 Florida Times-Union 'Golly ... that's strange ... I thought someone said there was a meeting today?!' # Was Donovan 'Mobbed Up'? After sixteen months on the defensive against allegations that he and his New Jersey construction firm had ties with mobsters, Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan seems to be fighting back. Last week the Schiavone Construction Co., still 45 percent owned through a blind trust by Donovan, confirmed that it had hired private detectives to investigate those from the Senate Labor Committee who are investigating the Labor Secretary. Attorney Theodore Geiser of Newark said the unusual step was taken to determine "who is at the wheel of leaking a series of false allegations." Donovan says he had nothing to do with hiring the private eyes, but he welcomes the support. "This raw, unsubstantiated crap is being ground into the consciousness of the American people," he told NEWSWEEK. "It's hurt me, it's hurt my family, it's hurt my former company." Committee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch said he had been told by Donovan himself of the counterinvestigation plan two months ago, but had dismissed it as "a joke." Last week he wasn't laughing. He warned that any effort to reverse the heat was "very unwise and very improper" and could be construed as obstruction of justice. Hatch also had a far more blatant obstruction of justice to worry about. One committee staffer reported receiving a phone call threatening that he and his family would end up "in pine boxes" if he pressed on with the Donovan investigation, and Hatch confirmed that he himself has received similar calls. "I guess it comes with the territory," he said. Still, mindful of Administration loyalties, the Utah Republican cautioned: "I don't think there's any real hard evidence yet that Schiavone or Donovan are mobbed up." There is, however, a fresh batch of allegations that Donovan's mob ties were far more substantial than the fleeting business and social contacts described by the Labor Secretary in his 1981 Senate confirmation hearings. Among the new allegations, some "discovered" in FBI field offices since Donovan took office: that he conspired with the late New Jersey mobster Salvatore Briguglio in a bid-rigging scheme; that he took social trips with Briguglio; that he was entertained by and discussed business with alleged Mafia soldier William Masselli, now in prison, at the 1979 Super Bowl in Miami, and that Masselli discussed "washing" mob money through Schiavone. Long and Unsavory: Donovan hopes that a report by special prosecutor Leon Silverman, expected in several weeks, will exonerate him. And Schiavone officials say their own counterinvestigation may prove that the FBI's informants confused the Labor Secretary with another New Jersey businessman who did have mob connections. For now the White House intends to take no action against Donovan, preferring to give him a chance to clear his name. In part, that posture rewards Donovan for his steadfast loyalty to President Reagan during these difficult economic times. But some top Administration aides are not happy with the situation. They complain that the controversy has been too prolonged and too unsavory and is damaging relations with Capitol Hill. And, one says wearily, Donovan's counterinvestigation is "the dumbest thing he could do." MARK STARR with HOWARD FINEMAN in Washington and SUSAN AGREST in New Jersey NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 === Page 31 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS Stephen Gates *The candidate autographing photos of himself: This time he may win black voters, too* # Here's George Again His voice is gentler now, his hair thinner and paler, his bantam rooster's feistiness restrained by bouts of pain and the paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair. But ten years after he was shot down while running for President, and nearly four years after ending his third term as governor of Alabama, George Corley Wallace is on the campaign trail again. Even before he announced his candidacy this past weekend--backed by country and bluegrass music at the $10-per-head barbecue in Montgomery--Wallace, 62, had been shaking hands, signing autographs, reminiscing about political triumphs past and confidently predicting his re-election as governor. "I don't consider anyone [else] a strong competitor," he grins. "I've always won." That's true, if you don't count Wallace's first race for governor in 1958, when he ran a moderate campaign, lost to an avowed racist named John Patterson and vowed: "I'll never be out-segged again!" But the man who stood in the schoolhouse door to block desegregation at the University of Alabama in 1963 has adopted a moderate approach for his last hurrah, stressing economic issues that affect Alabamians of all races, arguing vaguely that his star status and international connections can help bring business and jobs to the state. And if he can win the Democratic primary in September, Wallace stands a strong chance of gaining powerful black support against a far more conservative Republican nominee. "He's extremely brilliant," outspoken black state legislator Alvin A. Holmes says of Wallace. "And if you take away the race issue, he wasn't a bad governor." Wallace's health is the issue on which he is most vulnerable. Increasingly deaf despite a hearing aid, sometimes glassy-eyed and sounding drugged, Wallace must be wheeled or carried everywhere. He also has suffered from scandalous publicity surrounding his 1978 divorce; many people around the state have speculated that Wallace's third marriage last year to a blonde country singer and coal-mine heiress is largely a matter of appearances. Friends and family say, however, that the marriage is working well. A year ago one Wallace associate reported that the former governor's doctors had ruled out another campaign, but the associate now says that Wallace's efforts have a "green light" from the medical experts. Wallace himself promises a "vigorous" campaign, insisting that doubtful reporters feel his rock-hard biceps and reminding audiences: "I was guvnuh for seven years in a wheelchair. I don't know how to be guvnuh standin' up." **Challengers:** Who wants to run against a legend with lines like that? Not former state attorney general William J. Baxley, 40, although he's wanted the job for years. A loyal Wallace supporter, Baxley has announced he will defer to his former boss. But challenges to Wallace are expected from Lt. Gov. George D. H. McMillan Jr., 38, who is attractive to blacks because of his defense of state spending on education, and Alabama House Speaker Joseph C. McCorquodale Jr., 61, a veteran state legislator who shares much of the natural Wallace constituency. Yet even with McMillan drawing black votes and McCorquodale siphoning white support, polls taken in the state indicate Wallace can win the primary. And most politicians believe Wallace will then recapture enough black and white votes for an easy victory in the general-election campaign against Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar, 51, a millionaire real-estate developer and conservative Republican who talks tough and carries a .38-caliber pistol. "If Emory gets to be governor," says black legislator Holmes, "I'm mighty afraid he would make this a police state." It is an irony of history and social change in the South that George Wallace is the candidate who can most openly court black voters today. Given his past political record, laughs one state official, "Wallace could get communist support and a lot of people would say, 'Well, you know George, he just likes the *good* communists'." But Wallace is also wary of offending conservative Alabamians who support President Reagan despite the high unemployment and interest rates affecting the state. "I'm a supporter of anyone who's President," says Wallace. "I care not who gets the credit for getting the economy back on its feet, I just want to see the result." His own economic proposals are hazy at best, but the former governor reminds voters that he was an early advocate of trimming the Federal bureaucracy--as well as reining in Federal courts and maintaining a strong defense. That sort of pre-Reagan Reaganism, and the undeniable nostalgia Wallace evokes, may once again lead many Alabamians to let George do it. DAVID M. ALPERN with HOLLY MORRIS and RICK WASSNER in Montgomery # Why One Man Had Enough of Congress Congressman William Brodhead stayed home from work last Tuesday morning, helped his wife, Kathi, get their two young sons off to school and then made the decision over which he has been agonizing for almost two years. The 40-year-old Detroit Democrat went to the kitchen table, grabbed a piece of his son's newsprint drawing paper and scribbled a statement that astounded--and saddened--many of *Brodhead: 'I had nothing except my job'* Larry Downing--NEWSWEEK 35 NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 === Page 32 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS his colleagues. "I find that I no longer have enthusiasm for my work. I have a strong desire for more time with my family and more quiet goals in my life," wrote Brodhead. With that, the respected congressman announced that he would resign at the end of this term. His statement killed a reelection campaign scheduled to begin the next day for a seat he was expected to win by a 60 percent margin. In an interview, Brodhead explained his early retirement, providing an extraordinary picture of the conflicts and pressures--both personal and professional--of serving four terms in the House. He summarized life in Congress as a wrenching tug of war between family and job, between legislative independence and the pressures from special interests. "It's a question of saving my health, my sense of perspective and my integrity," says Brodhead. "It's very hard to be a congressman nowadays and keep your integrity." Suddenly, Brodhead says, he realized that his personal life had disappeared. "I had no friends, no interests, no energy; I had nothing except my job." And meanwhile his opinion of life in the House had plummeted. "I think it's a nut house. I was thinking that as my colleagues were asking me, 'How can you do this?' I was thinking, 'How can you do it? How can you work 70, 80, 90 hours a week and go five years with one 5 percent pay raise? How can you be under this constant, growing pressure from lobbyists and special-interest groups?'" Culprits: Brodhead used to feel quite different. When the salt-and-pepper-haired liberal came to Congress in 1974 as part of the large class of Democratic "Watergate Babies," he recalls, "I kept saying, 'I can't believe I get paid for this, it's so much fun.' ... I didn't want there to be one unemployed person in my district; I didn't want there to be one handicapped child without an opportunity for educational access. I wanted to do everything." But the diligent congressman eventually became jaded. "As the years went by, I began to see that most of the people I was dealing with didn't want me to work for the good of the country. Most of the people were trying to work for some selfish good," he says. The growth of political-action committees only exacerbated the problem. "The major culprit is a segment of the business community actively engaged in trying to corrupt the Congress through campaign contributions and the ratings systems that have become almost bribes." Still, Brodhead vigorously defends his Congressional colleagues as, on the whole, very self-sacrificing people. He admits his decision scares him. "I feel like there's been a death in the family. I love the institution, my colleagues and the job," he says. "... I'm terrified I may live to regret this." GLORIA BORGER in Washington # *American Graffiti* **Gas Works** The help-wanted ad ran under the heading "office equipment," and offered clean work, regular hours and reasonable compensation. But after a full month, no one has responded--perhaps because of the somewhat ghoulish nature of the job: inspecting the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison for leaks and equipment malfunctions. Puzzled by the lack of response, prison officials are considering running the ad, instead, under "construction trades." With 100 men now on Death Row, they are understandably anxious to hire a new contractor soon. As prison spokesman Bob Means explains, "It would be very embarrassing to have a malfunction during an execution." ********** **Grass Roots** Most of Abul Sayied's Cambridge, Mass., neighbors mow their lawns regularly, keeping them neatly clipped. But according to Vincent B. Clark, an official of the city's health department, Sayied's grounds usually resemble a cross between a jungle and a junkyard. Last July, when the mathematician-physicist's grass reached a height of 3 to 5 feet, barely obscuring a litter of lumber and old cars, Clark slapped a summons on Sayied--arguing that the yard might provide sanctuary for rodents and insects. Eventually, despite Sayied's vigorous defense, a district-court judge fined him $1,124. Now, however, a six-person superior-court jury has reversed the criminal ruling against Sayied, apparently buying his argument that grass was meant to grow naturally. A 71-year-old neighbor, Frank Paone, who has spent fourteen years trying to persuade Sayied to tame his tangled yard, was aghast. "You mean he can keep it that way?" he wailed last week. Can--and, it seems, will. This year's crop of grass is already more than a foot high and climbing. ********** **Brain Drain** Last week the student body at the Denver campus of the University of Colorado voted art historian Jose Arguelles the outstanding teacher of the year. But a faculty committee on tenure begged to differ. Shortly after the student vote, the committee ousted Arguelles from his job. The committee gave no explanation, but Arguelles himself says that he was fired because his research "does not conform to university standards." His research is a bit offbeat: it concentrates on the differences between the right and left halves of the brain and their influence on art and learning--and includes a mystical Buddhist bent. Then again, says Arguelles, no one told him that wasn't up to snuff. "What are university standards?" he asks. The answer to that, however, may involve more research than the 43-year-old academic is willing to pursue. Although he could appeal his firing to the university's Board of Regents, Arguelles says the school has already offended him too much by displaying what he calls a total "lack of esthetic sensibility." ********** **Buying Votes?** The prizes include trips to Rome, Acapulco and Washington, a week in a Waikiki hotel, lunch at the Twentieth Century-Fox commissary with Linda Evans of "Dynasty" and all the Big Macs and fries you can eat at one sitting--about 30,000 corporate giveaways worth $5 million. And the only way to win one is by voting in California's June 8 primary. This sweepstakes for voters is the brainstorm of Edward Shaw, 42, a Hollywood producer whose political genius has already produced a record album entitled "Jimmy Carter's Favorite Hymns." Shaw was dismayed at the voter apathy he encountered while working for a gubernatorial candidate, and in the sweepstakes--approved by the state since it doesn't reward votes for specific candidates--he is convinced that he has found just the kind of hype democracy needs. "I'm sure we're going to get hundreds of thousands of people who've never voted," he exults. And what's in it for Shaw? "It's the first thing I've ever done without a profit motive, and it makes me feel good." Gil Eisner VOTE HERE WIN BIG PRIZES FREE TRIPS GREAT GIFTS 36 NEWSWEEK/MAY 31, 1982 === Page 33 of 56 Before the President sat down with singer Merle Haggard (l) to enjoy barbecue given by friends, the Gildreds, his food was tested by White House taster # Super-Tight Security As the recession deepens, antagonism mounts toward the Reagan Administration. (For example, demonstrators in California recently flourished placards reading "Jane Wyman was right," "I never thought I'd miss Jimmy Carter," "Reagan, the millionaires' choice," and so on.) Consequently, the Secret Service continues to tighten security--to the point where Ronald Reagan surely has become one of the most closely guarded Presidents in U.S. history. Reagan wears a bulletproof vest under his hand-tailored $1000 Mariani suits, the routes of his motorcades are kept top-secret, several decoy limousines are assigned to confuse possible assassins, and his detailed out-of-town itineraries are no longer published by the press. Moreover, when the President dines out, food now is brought in advance from the White House; or Eddie Serrano, the White House assistant food services coordinator, is sent to supervise the food preparation in the kitchen of the hotel, club or home where Reagan is dining. A Secret Service agent goes along to provide a double check, and Dr. Daniel Ruge, the White House physician, accompanies Reagan just in case he develops a little indigestion or ptomaine poisoning. Not long ago, when the President flew to his Sky Ranch near Santa Barbara, Cal., Lynn and Stuart Gildred, his neighbors in the Santa Ynez Mountains, were hosts of a barbecue for 700 guests to celebrate in part the Reagans' 30th wedding anniversary. Eddie Serrano, dressed as a cowboy, was on hand to test the chili beans and other food. Where Reagan's security is concerned, the Secret Service is covering every angle. Air Force One, the President's plane, has been equipped with radar deflectors, as has the Presidential helicopter. Commercial and private aircraft have been warned to fly at least a mile away from Reagan's ranch when he's in residence. The Secret Service, in fact, has become so super-cautious that from January 1981 to January 1982, it even guarded the empty house Reagan then owned in Pacific Palisades, Cal. === Page 34 of 56 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., May 14, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Braniff files for bankruptcy By JOE STROOP Associated Press GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Braniff International filed for protection from creditors under federal bankruptcy laws Thursday, and airline officials said they hoped to resume some flights in about six weeks. Braniff chairman Howard D. Putnam, his voice breaking with emotion, told reporters that his debt-strapped airline had filed the petition after realizing it could not stay afloat until the start of the crucial summer travel season. "The passenger load factor, the cash situation just declined precipitously," Putnam said. "We were in a race for summertime and we lost." Braniff, which becomes the first major U.S. airline to fail since the industry emerged from the barnstorming days in the Roaring 20s, had suspended all flights late Wednesday and notified most employees not to report for work Thursday. LATE THAT NIGHT Putnam and two lawyers appeared at the home of federal Bankruptcy Judge John Flowers to file the petition. The airline lost $41.4 million in the first three months of this year, $160 million last year, and had a total of $336.4 million in losses over the past three years. It is also burdened with a debt of $732 million and has been unable to foot the interest payments. The bankruptcy proceedings give Braniff the right to continue operating and protect it from its creditors, whose previous loan extensions had been keeping the nation's 10th-largest airline aloft. Senior Vice President Sam Coats said he hoped Braniff's colorful planes would be airborne again in about six weeks. Putnam, addressing reporters at the company's world headquarters near Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, said Braniff's cash situation grew so tight that payroll checks issued to the 8,500 employees earlier this week will not be honored because "there is no cash to meet them." Earlier this year, the airline deferred one week's pay for its workers. PUTNAM ADDED, however, he was not "planning to preside over liquidation" and said the petition under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act was the "only way" to save the airline. Braniff enjoyed a reputation for flashy operations, with gleaming planes painted a variety of colors. In 1979, it sought to cash in on airline deregulation, expanding service to cities nationwide while slashing fares. Industry observers said the airline could have handled the expansion, had it not been for a surge in fuel prices and a slowing economy. Braniff scrapped traditional first-class and coach service late last year and began all-one-class, lower-cost, no-frills service. Despite special deals such as two-for-one tickets, traffic fell 0.6 percent for the first quarter of 1982, while its major competitors, American and Delta, reported increases. "OUR OPERATIONS have been severely impacted by the competitive actions of other major airlines, the inability of the company to generate sufficient revenue levels to accomplish a timely and major restructuring of its debt, the unwillingness of travel agents to book passengers on Braniff flights, and the recession-ridden economy," Coats said. Putnam said the abrupt shutdown of service and the clandestine filing of the papers were necessary because the airline's assets, especially its fleet of airplanes, might have been liable for seizure without protection of the bankruptcy proceeding. Coats said the airline's creditors did not push Braniff into bankruptcy court. "WE WANTED to do a reorganization, and we wanted to pre-empt anyone else from doing it and doing it themselves," he said. The surprise suspension of all Braniff flights stranded thousands of passengers and employees. Coats said officials had no contingency plan to get either group of people home. Coats said Braniff had been serving 12,000 passengers per day with 270 departures by 71 aircraft. Braniff flew to 32 U.S. cities, London and cities in Mexico and South America. Other airlines honored Braniff tickets and no major airport disruptions were reported Thursday. Judge Flowers said Braniff officials "just called and got me out of bed. They got here just a little bit before midnight and said they wanted to file right after midnight." AT BRANIFF'S request, Flowers allowed 10 days for filing the necessary papers describing the airline's financial situation, 20 days longer than usual. Braniff's 39 major creditors -- 26 banks, 11 insurance companies and two aircraft builders -- agreed earlier this year to defer all interest on the airline's $591 million long-term debt until Oct. 1. AP **A tearful** Howard D. Putnam describes Braniff's troubles. === Page 35 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS publicans and Democrats agreed that it was the statesmanlike duty of the other side to immolate itself by tampering with the COLA'S that are automatically added onto social-security checks each year. At one point last month Bolling had made the tentative suggestion that perhaps a flat 5 percent increase, irrespective of the rate of inflation, could be substituted in 1984 and 1985. This was promptly leaked to the press in a form that suggested the Democrats were planning to sell social security down the river. Politically, the most important question will be who can most believably duck the blame for the failure of the negotiations. So high are the public-relations stakes that at the end of the summit, no one wanted to be the first to get up from the table--a problem resolved only when White House staff chieftain James A. Baker III suggested, "Let's all stand up together." Reagan's men were confident that the voters would remember the President's fair-sounding suggestion that the two sides "split the difference" on controversial spending cuts. The official White House posture was therefore one of regret for the missed opportunity, rather than partisan anger. "We had hoped for give-and-take up there," Jim Baker said, his face glum, "and what we found was mostly take and very little give." No matter how rueful the President seemed in public, however, he was now able to go back on the offensive, where he is happiest. "His juices are flowing," his friend Laxalt noted. Thursday night, in a masterly battle maneuver, Reagan sounded a televised call for an attack on his own rear lines with a stirring appeal for a budget compromise to bring next year's deficit down to a merely staggering $100 billion, while neglecting to point out that a compromise was necessary because the budget he originally proposed just three months ago would have been in the red by a monumental $130 billion. Rueful: The President's Thursday night performance was effective, though not nearly as virtuosic as the ones he turned in during last year's epic budget battles. Connoisseurs praised the diversionary call for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, the rueful shake of the head as he conceded that "well, we're still in a recession," the skillful attack on O'Neill's pig- # The Economic Fallout Stock prices fell 7 points after a six-week rally, interest rates edged back upward and bond prices began to slip: all things considered, it was a muted display of Wall Street's despair over the failure of President Reagan and Congress to reach a bipartisan agreement on the 1983 budget. Still, the prospect of yet more months of wrangling and indecision renewed fears of prolonged high interest rates and recession--and of accelerating business failures. "As [Treasury Secretary] Don Regan so aptly put it, 'The economy is dead in the water,'" says economist Arnold X. Moskowitz of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. "Until we get a compromise, it's going to stay that way." The budget impasse came as no surprise to many cynical investors, like chief economist Gert von der Linde of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., who says he had been "pumping off [at the] mouth for weeks that it was the most likely outcome." Some believe with Moskowitz that "the breakdown in negotiations was not an utter disaster," because it at least produced a framework that might serve as the basis for an ultimate compromise. But even the optimists warn that the budget crisis must be resolved as soon as possible. A delay of just a few months would keep unemployment and interest rates high. A longer delay could paralyze the economy altogether, pushing the prime interest rate to as high as 22 percent. The Federal Reserve Board would also lose its chance to ease its tight monetary policy, a step economists say is necessary to give the economy room to grow--or, in the worst case, to stave off a full-scale depression. "Every month that they don't settle pushes back the recovery another month, and it makes a permanent recovery hard to achieve," says Allen Sinai, senior economist for Data Resources, Inc. But the stalemate is not likely to cause immediate disaster. In fact, most economists believe that the economy still has the strength to muddle along while the politicians grope for compromise. It will also receive a welcome transfusion in July when President Reagan's second round of tax cuts goes into effect, providing $32 billion worth of pain relief. That, combined with declining inflation and a boost in purchasing power due to an anticipated uptick in the normal business cycle, probably will ensure some sort of economic recovery. "The real question is not whether a recovery, but when," says Sinai. Unless the deficit issue is resolved, however, even Administration officials concede that the recovery is likely to be either anemic from the outset or quickly aborted by an upswing in interest rates. "There will be nervousness in the markets," says Treasury Secretary Regan. "And the economic recovery--which will still come in the second half--will not be as strong." But even that may be too rosy a forecast. The Commerce Department's monthly index of leading economic indicators, released last week, showed that economic activity fell in March for the eleventh straight month--hardly a sign that the recession might be nearing an end. And the latest budget projections forecast a 1983 deficit of $182 billion, double what most investors find even minimally acceptable. "This leaves budget policy in absolute collision with restrictive monetary policy," says Charles Schultze, Jimmy Carter's chief economic adviser. "There's no way but up for interest rates and nowhere for an expansion to long prevail in the face of such interest levels." Yet even with the collapse of the budget negotiations, there was still some cause for optimism. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Gerald Ford, argues that both the Administration and Congress have at least signaled a willingness to pass some package of spending reductions and tax increases to lower the deficit. "So any sort of compromise that reverses the high and rising deficit picture would be helpful," says Greenspan. But others fear that the budget process will now get bogged down in election-year politics--and that Congress will choose to continue along a do-nothing path, dooming any chance of an economic recovery this year. "The decline of inflation is the sole good thing in sight," says Rudolph Penner, a conservative economist at the American Enterprise Institute. "That's a very bright light, but it certainly doesn't light up the whole room." MICHAEL REESE with HOPE LAMPERT in New York and RICH THOMAS in Washington Bruce Hoertel John Ficara--NEWSWEEK Regan, Schultze: Dimmed hopes for a recovery 40 NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 === Page 36 of 56 UFOs attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Mon., May 31, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 # Collapse of world economy feared PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The mounting debt for oil purchases in many nations, coupled with U.S. trade deficits, could lead to a collapse of the world economy in the coming decade, according to a study published here. Such a collapse could result in restructuring the world's economy, with regional trading relationships springing up to replace today's global marketplace, according to the study in the spring issue of the Wharton Magazine. "As oil import bills grow, international debt burdens grow and the financial system becomes more unstable," authors Richard Drobnick and Selwyn Enzer wrote in the magazine, which is published by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Developing countries owed an estimated $530 billion in 1981, much of that for imported oil and most of it "unrepayable," according to the authors, who work for the Twenty Year Forecast Project at the University of Southern California's Center for Futures Research. In addition, the authors say, "The United States has contributed to the unstable state of international financial affairs by dramatically expanding the international money supply" and running up a cumulative trade deficit in the 1970s of about $140 billion. "This 'easy money' policy ... promoted the international inflationary spiral and permitted the debt buildup that presently threatens the viability of the international financial system," the article says. The authors contend that neither Arab nations nor the world's lending institutions can continuously advance large financial credits to oil importers. "Such an untenable situation is likely to lead to cancellation or repudiation of debts, reduced sales of Arabian petroleum, or, possibly, military conflict," the study says. If financial instability leads to economic collapse, the authors say it could spell the end of global trading patterns and give rise to regional trade relationships between manufacturing countries and neighbors rich in oil or natural resources. Natural trade partners would be the United States, Mexico and Canada; China and Japan; Western Europe and African or Arab states; and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Arab countries, the study says. Other possible consequences include a collapse of OPEC, principally due to the increased energy independence of the United States; increased OPEC investment in underdeveloped nations to reduce the mounting oil debt; or possible military intervention in the oil-producing nations by industrial powers to establish international control of oil fields, the study says. The authors say major upheavals can be avoided if the United States ends its deficit spending and high inflation and by an international agreement to reduce the oil debt, possibly writing it off in what they call an "equitable" manner. UFOs attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 9 # 90 of 94 N.Y. savings banks wade in red ink NEW YORK (AP) -- Ninety of 94 savings banks in New York State operated in the red during the first quarter of the year, their losses totaling $342 million, the state Banking Department reported Wednesday. Total losses the two previous quarters had been $427 million and $371 million, said banking Superintendent Muriel Siebert. The four savings banks that bucked the tide were two in New York City, the Greenpoint of Brooklyn and the Northfield of Staten Island, and the upstate savings banks of Cohoes and Pawling, the board said. Ms. Siebert, reiterating that federal and state legislation was needed to help the beleaguered thrifts, also said she has been sounding out bankers about "the possibility of what I call pre-supervisory mergers ... to join thrifts with other thrifts before an 11th-hour crisis is at hand." Several state-supervised mergers have occurred in recent months to join failing banks with stronger competitors. === Page 37 of 56 26 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., May 14, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # More bankruptcies predicted By OWEN ULLMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The collapse of Braniff International airlines comes in the midst of an epidemic of business failures unlike anything the United States has experienced in nearly a half century. As bad as the situation is today, it may worsen in the next few months without a swift end to the current recession and a break in high interest rates, some economists believe. "I think the string (of bankruptcies) will get longer," Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Wall Street brokerage firm E.F. Hutton & Co. predicted after the Texas-based airline initiated bankruptcy proceedings Thursday. "Many businesses are doing everything to stay alive until July 1," when they are counting on a scheduled 10 percent income tax cut to propel the economy toward a strong recovery, Yardeni said. "But if the tax cut proves not to be a miracle cure, many businesses will be forced to capitulate . . . and the bankruptcy numbers could get a lot worse," he said. EARLIER THIS week, Dun & Bradstreet, a leading financial information service, reported that 530 businesses failed during the week ended May 6, the highest number in more than 40 years. The rate of failures so far this year -- about 80 per 10,000 businesses -- is the highest since 1933, when the country was in the depths of the Great Depression, according to Dun & Bradstreet. All told, 8,129 businesses filed for bankruptcy during the first third of 1982, a 49 percent increase from 1981. "The situation is getting worse and spreading," observed the chief economist of one major New York-based bank. "You're going to see more bankruptcies involving bigger companies as long as interest rates remain high . . . and interest rates will remain high until there is a budget compromise in Washington for reducing the budget deficits," said the economist, who did not want his name used. PRESIDENT REAGAN told his news conference Thursday night, "I don't see where government can put itself in the business of suddenly bailing out at taxpayer expense companies that go bankrupt." Government's role, he added, should be to improve the business climate. Braniff, which is saddled with a $732 million debt, is the third major corporation to head for bankruptcy court within the past month. In April, Chicago-based AM International Inc., an office equipment and information processing company burdened with more than $500 million in liabilities, filed for protection from its creditors under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. A week ago, San Diego-based Wickes Cos., a $4 billion-a-year retail chain, also went to bankruptcy court seeking relief from $2 billion in debt. FIVE OTHER corporations burdened with more than $100 million in debt apiece have failed since January, and several other big companies -- including some airlines -- are expected to join the list of major failures in the near future. Already, outside auditors of Continental, Western, World and Republic airlines have questioned the ability of those companies to keep going. The high rate of business failures is blamed on the unprecedented combination of persistently high interest rates and a poor business climate for three years in a row. The recession is triggering large losses that force companies to borrow at high interest rates to stay alive. As business conditions and sales deteriorate, interest payments become a growing share of a company's costs, often forcing it to go deeper into debt just to meet payments on already existing credit and to avoid bankruptcy. THE AIRLINE industry's problems have been compounded during the past three years by government deregulation, which has spawned price-cutting wars, and by a very sharp rise in fuel oil costs. Economists anticipate little, if any, negative reaction on Wall Street to Braniff's troubles because bankers had known about the airline's difficulties and had braced for a failure. However, if a few large companies that had been thought to be in decent financial shape suddenly fail, "lenders would become very edgy," said Hutton's Yardeni. In that event, creditors might demand even higher interest rates because they perceive greater risks in lending. Or, banks may simply deny further credit to some struggling companies, pushing them toward bankruptcy. Were that to develop, economists expect the Federal Reserve Board to step in as lender of last resort to calm the financial markets and prevent the economy from plunging into a far worse downturn than it is now experiencing. Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 20, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 11 # First-quarter corporate profits plunge WASHINGTON (AP) -- Crushed by the recession, U.S. companies' profits took their second-biggest plunge ever during the first three months of this year, new government figures indicated Wednesday. Before-tax profit dropped 20.2 percent and after-tax profit 17.5 percent from the fourth quarter, hitting annual rates of $169.8 billion and $118.8 billion respectively, the Commerce Department reported. The dollar amounts of the declines -- $43 billion and $25.2 billion -- were bigger than any year's short but very steep recession. And the percentage drops were surpassed only in the second quarter of 1980 and in the final quarter of 1953, Commerce officials said. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige conceded in a prepared statement that "the recession has had a strong effect on corporate earnings." Before-tax profits, for example, were down 27.6 percent from the third quarter -- when most economists say the recession began -- and 33.9 percent from the first quarter of last year. But Baldrige also said tax relief pushed by the Reagan administration "is softening the decline in after-tax earnings." And he said, "The dramatic drop in inflation is laying the groundwork for a sustainable business expansion which should be accompanied by a strong rebound in corporate profits." On the other hand, he said inflation improvement has not always helped businesses, acknowledging that "the cost-price squeeze on corporations intensified in the first quarter as increases in costs of production outstripped the rise in" === Page 38 of 56 BUSINESS ECONOMY ...HOWEVER, WHEN VIEWED FROM THE ADMINISTRATION'S PERSPECTIVE.... Sack Minneapolis Star and Trib A different outlook: A rebound, if it comes, may be too weak to be noticed by anyone but professional economists # The Recovery: Stay Tuned As he left for the Versailles summit last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan was uncharacteristically pessimistic about the prospects for a brisk economic upturn anytime soon. "We don't see much of a recovery until interest rates come down," he said. But it is springtime in Paris, and when Regan's boss arrived for the summit, he offered a rosier forecast for the U.S. economy: "We believe economic recovery is imminent," said Ronald Reagan. Back home, the economic news last week seemed to support the gloomier view. Unemployment reached 9.5 percent last month, its highest level in 41 years, leaving more than 10.5 million Americans out of work. Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures were at record levels, while sales of new single-family houses fell to the lowest rate since record-keeping began in 1962. The commodity-futures exchanges--which register the prices of raw materials needed to fuel any economic recovery--tumbled across the board to their lowest levels in many years. And interest rates, instead of declining as many economists had predicted, remained sticky over the past several weeks. Ray of Hope: Optimists could point to a few signals of hope. Despite the rise in unemployed workers, total employment grew by 800,000 jobs last month. Auto sales rose by 14.9 percent over last year's depression-level performance, and the index of leading economic indicators rose slightly in April, lifted partly by a brief stock-market rally that has since fizzled out. More positively, the sharp decline in inflation was helping consumers: spending power was rising, installment debt falling and consumers were NEWSWEEK/JUNE 14, 1982 # U.S. jobless rate worst since 1941 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- The deepening recession drove unemployment to 9.4 percent of the work force during April, the highest rate since the 9.9 percent recorded in 1941, the Labor Department reported Friday. With unemployment worsening among manufacturing and construction workers, the rate jumped from 9 percent during March, when it had matched the previous post-war record set in 1975. There were 10.3 million Americans out of work last month, the largest number since 1938, when 10.4 million people sought jobs as the nation struggled to recover from the Depression. Washington state's unemployment rate for April was 12.8 percent. Idaho's unemployment currently is at 8.2 percent. The April job picture was notably disappointing because the employment upturn usually expected in the spring did not occur. Instead, the economy suffered negative records in several categories. The jobless rate for adult men was 7.3 percent, the highest since the government began keeping separate records for men and women in 1947. Unemployment for black workers was 18.4 percent, the highest since tabulations of joblessness by race began in 1972. Blue-collar workers, employees in factories, mines and mills, had a 13.7 percent jobless level. SHUTTING DOWN Business failures are currently running at their highest level since the Great Depression. Failure rate per 10,000 companies | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---| | 100 | | | | | | 75 | | | | | | 50 | | | | | | 25 | | | | | | 0 | 1978 | 79 | 80 | 81* | 82** | *Preliminary. **Year to date at annual rate. Source: Dun & Bradstreet Christoph Blumrich--Newsweek === Page 39 of 56 U.S. On attack Economy # Banks collapse at record rate Spoke Rev 6/17/82 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A dozen commercial banks have collapsed so far this year, marking the highest failure rate since 1942, says a federal banking regulator. William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said in a recent interview that the failure rate -- averaging more than two a month in the first five months of the year -- "is higher than we have traditionally experienced since the beginning of World War II." He attributed the increase to a "combination of the recession and a prolonged period of high interest rates finally having an effect on the ability of borrowers to repay loans." "We've been through a prolonged period of very high interest rates and I think that's beginning to catch up with commercial banks, and that's being reflected in the deteriorating quality of the loans," he said. Despite the higher failure rate, Isaac said the commercial banking industry is "generally speaking ... in good shape." According to insurance corporation figures, 12 commercial banks have failed since the first of the year and six mutual savings banks have been merged into stronger institutions. The failures compare to a total of nearly 14,800 banks whose accounts are covered by the insurance fund. Last year, seven commercial banks failed and three savings banks were merged. In 1976, 16 commercial banks failed, the most since the 20 that closed in 1942. Isaac declined to say how many banks are likely to fail this year. No depositor has ever lost money in a bank or savings and loan association account that was insured up to $100,000 by one of the federal insurance agencies. When a bank fails, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. usually finds another bank to take over its accounts. But the government corporation wasn't able to do that in two commercial bank failures this year -- the Bank of Woodson in Woodson, Texas, and Carroll County Bank in Huntingdon, Tenn. -- which meant the fund had to repay money customers held in those two banks. In addition to the increasing failures, the number of banks on the insurance fund's problem list has grown, up to 252 from 210 a year ago. The list peaked at 385 in November 1976. Institutions generally wind up on the problem list because of financial woes. Once on the list, their operations are more closely monitored by the government. === Page 40 of 56 UFOs attack Economy # Business failures are now greatest since Depression Associated Press More American companies collapsed last week than in any week since the Depression of the 1930s, a private credit information service said Thursday. High interest rates, which are a major reason businesses are failing at a rapid clip, showed no sign of retreating. Rates in the open market rose moderately, pushing bond prices lower and further eroding stock prices. The U.S. dollar, which is benefiting from the persistent high level of interest rates, again established new peaks in relation to several major foreign currencies. High rates make dollar investments more attractive. In the commodities market, grain and soybean futures prices fell in brisk trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Commodities analysts cited the weak economy and the influence of deteriorating stock and bond prices. Despite some signs in recent weeks that the recession may have reached bottom last month, many economists say they doubt that interest rates will fall far enough this summer to spur a substantial business recovery. BUSINESS FAILURES IN the week ended last Friday soared 70.5 percent to 532 from 312 in the comparable week last year, according to Dun & Bradstreet Corp. The previous record was 530 for the week ended last May 6. For the year so far 10,430 businesses have failed, up 44.3 percent from the same period last year, Dun & Bradstreet said. Last year 17,040 companies failed. In a modestly positive sign for the economy, congressional Republicans reached agreement Thursday on a compromise 1983 budget plan with a $103 billion deficit. Afterward, the Republicans resumed negotiations with Democrats. "The one development that is starting to come out of all this is that the financial markets are not at all impressed with the compromise budget coming out of Congress," said Robert Genetski, an economist at Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago. The stock market was notably unimpressed Thursday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 5.42 points to 791.48, a two-year low. WEAK CORPORATE earnings, in addition to high interest rates and the projected large budget deficit, are another reason for a sluggish stock market. Two major corporations added to the list of disappointing financial results. Sony Corp., a leading manufacturer of electronics products, reported a 21.7 percent drop in profits, to $46.3 million for the quarter ended April 30. It cited the impact of the recession and high interest rates. Datapoint Corp., a San Antonio, Tex.-based computer company, said it lost $22.9 million, or $1.14 a share, in the latest quarter. That was its first net loss in more than a decade, and it blamed mainly the weak economy. UFOs attack Economy # Business failures soaring WASHINGTON (AP) -- The failure rate of U.S. businesses this year is predicted to be the highest since 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, a House panel was told Wednesday. "The failure rate in the economy, as measured by Dun & Bradstreet, is likely to exceed 80 per 10,000 listed companies," said Edward I. Altman, professor of finance at New York University. Altman, who testified before a House Small Business oversight subcommittee, cited high interest rates and the length of the current recession as major reasons for the high rate of business failures. Some also cited overexpansion and lack of experience by entrepreneurs. "Growing expectations of inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s encouraged businesses to expand and to take risks which were not wise," Altman said. "The margin of error today, however, is so much smaller." For the week ended June 11, he said, there were 532 business failures, a 70.5 percent increase over the comparable week in 1981 and the highest single week's total in 50 years. UFOs attack Economy # Markets blue over silver and gold NEW YORK (AP) -- Silver plunged to $5.137 a troy ounce Thursday, a four-year low. Gold bullion tumbled to a nearly three-year low, flirting with the $300-an-ounce level, as it continued to lose ground in the flight of funds into the U.S. dollar. Silver slipped to about one-sixth the price of gold, a relationship unequaled since the depths of the Depression of the 1930s, traders said. Heavy selling from the Middle East was reported. In London, silver fell to $5.145 a troy ounce from Wednesday's $5.51. In contracts for June delivery on New York's Comex, silver plunged 34.8 cents to close at $5.137 cents an ounce, its lowest finish since the metal wound up at $5.102 an ounce on May 17, 1978. The dollar soared to another 12-year high against the currencies of major U.S. trade partners. High U.S. interest rates have made dollar-denominated investments attractive and have drawn funds from gold, which returns no interest to holders and is more expensive to purchase on credit when interest rates are high. In addition, when the dollar rises, the value of gold in terms of dollars falls. === Page 41 of 56 My 4H Projects # The Sleeping Giant Spoke Rev 5/18/82 Today is **TUESDAY**, MAY 18, 1982. The mountain sleeps. Not deeply. Not without fits of crankiness or the tossing and turning of a chronic insomniac. But there is torpor in her timbers now. A listless gray covers her bulges and ridges. Near her innards rumble only the snoring sounds of a dozen, distant chainsaws. How different she seemed two years ago today. On that crystal Sunday morning after a riot in Miami and a Lilac parade in downtown Spokane, the goddess named St. Helens stole everybody's thunder. She burst upon the world with energy 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. The picture of her north face spitting 300 million cubic feet of volcanic ash into the air became more familiar than Bo Derek's on the pages of the world's newspapers. She was a marvel, a celebrity, the stuff of legend. Even now, children in Spokane talk of the black snow in May when the birds stopped singing and the streetlights came on at 3:30 p.m. St. Helens had all the makings of a superstar. But she did not know when to stop. She killed 60 people in her hour of glory, including a legend in his own right, Harry Truman. She obliterated 26 lakes, destroyed 500,000 fish in a river system heated to 100 degrees. She ruined the logging industry at her feet. Today, the little town of Toutle, Wash., has resorted to a celebration of "Volcano Daze" in the vain hope of making up for the 60,000 acres of destroyed pine and fir. So is it not just as well the mountain slumbers in obscurity two years after her monumental burst of fame? We who lived through the stunning, natural performance would be hard pressed to absorb her feat again. She drained us. She blinded us. She cost us millions. We are only now recuperating. If you missed her performance, take heart. Most of your neighbors have a jar of St. Helens ash in the basement. For $5 it could be yours. And if that sounds like a hustle remember that May 18, 1980, was not the final curtain for this 12,000-year-old showgirl. She remains part of what scientists call the "Ring of Fire" running along the Pacific Rim. Of the 50 active volcanoes kicking up their ash in the Americas, St. Helens remains the most fiesty of them all. Every 100 years at least, she will awaken. She will rumble and stretch and punch our lights out again. The show must go on. When it happens, we of the inland Northwest have little choice but to don our masks and take our seats in the front row of God's Oscar-winning act. -- Chris Peck, Spokesman-Review managing editor. === Page 42 of 56 Note: This is why my family & self away from Vancouver! Irene. # Major quake near volcano possible SEATTLE (AP) - A newly discovered seismic zone near Mount St. Helens has the potential for a major earthquake that could shake the entire Northwest, says a U.S. Geological Survey scientist. "This is the sort of thing that could be a very large earthquake," says Craig Weaver, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist working at the University of Washington. A fault, which runs through the volcano, could generate an earthquake as large as 7 on the Richter scale of ground motion, Weaver said in an interview last week. "It could happen at any time," he says. Scientists recognized a pattern of earthquakes near the volcano years before it erupted. Tracking the tremors on a map, they formed a line in southwestern Washington. After the big May 18, 1980, blasts scientists monitoring the activity detected more quakes near Elk Lake, about 10 miles north of the mountain. On Feb. 13, 1981, there was a quake near Elk Lake that measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. The biggest quake in Washington since 1965, it was felt from Eugene, Ore., to Victoria, British Columbia. The Cowlitz County sheriff's office reported receiving about two dozen calls from people who said the shaking was strong enough to move furniture. Its effect on seismologists was even greater. volcano and the quakes, he says. They both may be caused by the same pressure of a huge portion of the earth's crust just off the Pacific Coast colliding with another huge plate under the North American continent. In a scientific paper being submitted for publication this week, Weaver and Stewart Smith, a University of Washington geophysics professor, detail the Mount St. Helens Seismic Zone. The fault line is about 56 miles long with Mount St. Helens in the middle. The line runs north northwest to the Cowlitz River and south southeast about 16 miles south of the Lewis River, Weaver said. If the line was the hand of a clock on the map it would be pointing to about 11 o'clock. "There are quakes at regular intervals," Weaver says. A quake on March 1 measured 4.1 and was felt as far away as Tacoma. The Puget Sound region has been identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as one of the 10 most likely places in the country for a disastrous earthquake, says Rick Lavalla, a natural disaster planner for the Washington state Department of Emergency Services. That evaluation was made even before the St. Helens === Page 43 of 56 Volcano in Hawaii erupts unexpectedly April 1982 HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) -- Geysers of red-hot lava exploded over Kilauea Caldera on Saturday as one of the world's most active volcanoes put on a surprise fireworks show that attracted 20,000 sightseers. Hotels in Volcano Village and Hilo, the county seat 40 miles away, were full. Airlines scheduled special flights from other islands, and tour bus companies advertised special sightseeing expeditions. But scientists said the volcano seemed to be simmering down, a day after a wall of flame burst from a crack in the earth with less than three hours warning. "It's slowly fading into the sunrise," said Reggie Okamura, acting scientist-in-charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. "You can see some sporadic fountaining, but I think it's going to be stopping soon." The eruption, the first at Kilauea in almost three years, began at 11:37 a.m. Friday after 2½ hours of closely spaced shallow earthquakes. No one was injured and no property was threatened. Two hikers on a Park Service trail in the area were walked out by geologists Friday before lava buried their path. Kilauea is a part of Mauna Loa, a gently sloping shield volcano comprising half of Hawaii Island's land area. The 3,700-foot mountain, one of the most active and thoroughly monitored volcanoes in the world, is located 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. As cascades of yellow-orange fireworks shot 50 feet into the dark sky early Saturday, scientists wearing gas masks and hard hats scurried to sample the spattering lava and billowing gases. Waving ribbons of glowing lava oozing down the slopes could be seen clearly by an estimated 20,000 visitors jammed bumper-to-bumper along Crater Rim drive about two miles away. 5-1-82 Oregonian Hawaii volcano puts on fire show By LINDY WASHBURN HONOLULU (AP) -- Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii Island erupted Friday in a curtain of fire with fire fountains spraying 45 feet in the air, officials said. A series of very shallow earthquakes began in the summit area of Kilauea Volcano, about 200 miles southeast of Honolulu on the island of Hawaii, at 8:40 a.m. local time, said Reggie Okamura, acting scientist in charge at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The earthquakes came at close intervals and set off the observatory's tremor alarm, Okamura said by telephone. Two and a half hours later, the earthquakes were continuing but had fused into harmonic tremor, he said. Lava flowed from a 1000-foot crack in the floor of Kilauea Caldera, sending a curtain of fire with occasional fountains to 45 feet into the air. "It's just beautiful," Okamura said. And Jon Ericson, a ranger at Volcanoes National Park, added, "It's an incredibly spectacular eruption." Hikers had been walking on National Parks Service trails across the caldera Friday morning, Ericson said, but everyone was able to hike out before the eruption. 10 / Oregon Journal, May 18, 1982 (2) news scope Indonesian volcano erupts JAKARTA, Indonesia (UPI) -- Galunggung volcano erupted Tuesday in a shower of hot ashes and lava that covered neighboring towns with clouds of black dust and injured eight people. The Meteorology Institute said the 7,155-foot Galunggung volcano 110 miles southeast of Jakarta, erupted twice Tuesday, more than a month after a sudden eruption killed eight villagers. Most of the 60,000 villagers who fled the volcano's slopes last month during a violent eruption had returned to their villages on the fertile farmlands near the crater, the institute said. The volcano erupted at dawn and in the early afternoon, sending at least 1,000 villagers out of their homes in panic, fearing that a new deadly eruption will destroy more crops and more people, a witness said. you note to promote a business. Two such letters of reprimand were said to be on their way. The president and his wife received gifts valued at more than $31,000 last year, a financial disclosure form filed last week showed. === Page 44 of 56 my UFO Ash may cause early frosts MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- A "monster" cloud of ash from a Mexican volcano is larger than first thought, and it may mean earlier frosts this winter, scientists said Friday. The cloud, girdling the Northern Hemisphere from the equator north to about the 30th parallel, or about as far north as New Orleans, was discovered in April by a pilot flying a U-2 spy plane. After analyzing the dust of sulfuric acid that spewed out of Chinchonal volcano in southeast Mexico in a March 29 eruption, scientists are starting to predict the cloud's dimensions and possible effects on climate. One bright prospect about the huge cloud is that the six-mile thick cover is expected to make a lunar eclipse on July 5 more spectacular. Spok Rev 6/26/82 Volcanic ash causes 747 to make terrifying dive JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A British jetliner, its engines choked off by ash from an erupting volcano, plunged five miles in a terrifying dive before the pilots restarted the engines and saved more than 200 lives, aviation and airline officials reported Friday. "It seemed to go on for an eternity," Australian passenger Gerry Middleton said later. No injuries were reported. The British Airways Boeing 747 was carrying 224 passengers and a crew of 16 on a flight Thursday night from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Perth, Australia, final leg of a flight from London. About 100 miles south of Jakarta, flying at 37,000 feet, it ran into a thick cloud of ash that had been spewed from the Mount Galunggung volcano, 180 miles southeast of Jakarta, in an eruption earlier Thursday evening, airline officials said in London. They said the cloud did not appear on the plane's radar screen, and the pilot had not been warned of it beforehand. Middleton, a Perth journalist, said the first sign of trouble came when the passenger cabin began filling with ash. "It was hard to tell where it came from but it was coming out of the air vents as well," he said. "I looked out to see the near engine on my side apparently on fire and the two engines on the other side seemed to be burning, too. Then all the engines stopped and we went into a steep dive." The ash had choked off the engines' air and they stalled. He said the pilot, Capt. Eric Moody, announced they had encountered "mild turbulence" and there was nothing to worry about. But "we knew it was more serious," said Middleton. "The descent seemed to take a very long time, but I suppose it took about 12 minutes." Moody then shut down one of the engines because it was running roughly, and he turned back to Jakarta, where he made a safe emergency landing despite the fact that the ash had "sandblasted" the cockpit window, hampering visibility. 6/25/82 Note: The many volcanoes over the world are not just recently previous dormant but recently at least 10 are now active more than one at a time. my UFO === Page 45 of 56 It remains true that simply banning arms sales doesn't do much good. The United States tried for a time in 1978 to stop selling arms to Argentina. The result: Argentina went shopping elsewhere and found plenty of weapons, including the French jet that fired the French cruise missile that sank the British destroyer. Says one Administration official: "You may feel better when you don't sell arms, but you can be sure that if you don't someone else will." 3. The United States has learned that it is woefully unprepared to deal with Latin American regimes. In the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, the Latin American divisions have been traditional dumping grounds for has-been diplomats. At the same time, the Administration has no Latin American experts in senior positions except for U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. And Kirkpatrick, by one account, was frozen out of any role in mediating the Falklands crisis. American ignorance was readily apparent on Secretary of State Alexander Haig's first visit to Buenos Aires. Haig spent most of his time with Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez, who has no power. "We literally did not know who we should be talking to," laments one U.S. diplomat. Former Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers adds: "We are not Latin and most of us do not speak Spanish. Most of us--and I specifically include this Administration--have very little experience in Latin America." The Administration also miscalculated the impact of its tilt toward Britain on the rest of Latin America. U.S. officials expected trouble, but they were stunned by Venezuela's announcement that it was considering sending arms to Argentina, and by Costa Rica's public mutterings about moving the Organization of American States (OAS) out of Washington. Both nations had been counted among America's closest allies in Latin America. "Now we face the erosion, if not the dismantlement, of the entire inter-American system," says Rogers. Another Latin America hand adds that the Reagan Administration, by mismanaging OAS relations in the crisis, has done more for the Soviet cause in South America than Jimmy Carter ever did. 4. The crisis has shown the Administration something about the risks of high-profile diplomacy. Critics of Haig's shuttle missions say his highly visible role only made it harder for the two sides to find common ground. "People don't make concessions when the cameras are grinding," says one veteran U.S. diplomat. "Haig took a great risk, both for himself and for his President. We have paid a hell of a price for that." Haig was also forced to abandon the tiller of the State Department just when other pressing problems demanded his attention. Says one former Carter official: "Although it's useful for a Secretary of State to be involved in negotiations at times, [he] has other responsibilities." Adds a Reagan official: "Haig's ego got him in trouble again." NEWSWEEK/MAY 17, 1982 === Page 46 of 56 UFO attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Mon., May 31, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 # Collapse of world economy feared PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The mounting debt for oil purchases in many nations, coupled with U.S. trade deficits, could lead to a collapse of the world economy in the coming decade, according to a study published here. Such a collapse could result in restructuring the world's economy, with regional trading relationships springing up to replace today's global marketplace, according to the study in the spring issue of the Wharton Magazine. "As oil import bills grow, international debt burdens grow and the financial system becomes more unstable," authors Richard Drobnick and Selwyn Enzer wrote in the magazine, which is published by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Developing countries owed an estimated $530 billion in 1981, much of that for imported oil and most of it "unrepayable," according to the authors, who work for the Twenty Year Forecast Project at the University of Southern California's Center for Futures Research. In addition, the authors say, "The United States has contributed to the unstable state of international financial affairs by dramatically expanding the international money supply" and running up a cumulative trade deficit in the 1970s of about $140 billion. "This 'easy money' policy ... promoted the international inflationary spiral and permitted the debt buildup that presently threatens the viability of the international financial system," the article says. The authors contend that neither Arab nations nor the world's lending institutions can continuously advance large financial credits to oil importers. "Such an untenable situation is likely to lead to cancellation or repudiation of debts, reduced sales of Arabian petroleum, or, possibly, military conflict," the study says. If financial instability leads to economic collapse, the authors say it could spell the end of global trading patterns and give rise to regional trade relationships between manufacturing countries and neighbors rich in oil or natural resources. Natural trade partners would be the United States, Mexico and Canada; China and Japan; Western Europe and African or Arab states; and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Arab countries, the study says. Other possible consequences include a collapse of OPEC, principally due to the increased energy independence of the United States; increased OPEC investment in underdeveloped nations to reduce the mounting oil debt; or possible military intervention in the oil-producing nations by industrial powers to establish international control of oil fields, the study says. The authors say major upheavals can be avoided if the United States ends its deficit spending and high inflation and by an international agreement to reduce the oil debt, possibly writing it off in what they call an "equitable" manner. UFO attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Thurs., May 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 9 # 90 of 94 N.Y. savings banks wade in red ink NEW YORK (AP) -- Ninety of 94 savings banks in New York State operated in the red during the first quarter of the year, their losses totaling $342 million, the state Banking Department reported Wednesday. Total losses the two previous quarters had been $427 million and $371 million, said banking Superintendent Muriel Siebert. The four savings banks that bucked the tide were two in New York City, the Greenpoint of Brooklyn and the Northfield of Staten Island, and the upstate savings banks of Cohoes and Pawling, the board said. Ms. Siebert, reiterating that federal and state legislation was needed to help the beleaguered thrifts, also said she has been sounding out bankers about "the possibility of what I call pre-supervisory mergers ... to join thrifts with other thrifts before an 11th-hour crisis is at hand." Several state-supervised mergers have occurred in recent months to join failing banks with stronger competitors. === Page 47 of 56 NATIONAL AFFAIRS publicans and Democrats agreed that it was the statesmanlike duty of the other side to immolate itself by tampering with the COLA's that are automatically added onto social-security checks each year. At one point last month Bolling had made the tentative suggestion that perhaps a flat 5 percent increase, irrespective of the rate of inflation, could be substituted in 1984 and 1985. This was promptly leaked to the press in a form that suggested the Democrats were planning to sell social security down the river. Politically, the most important question will be who can most believably duck the blame for the failure of the negotiations. So high are the public-relations stakes that at the end of the summit, no one wanted to be the first to get up from the table--a problem resolved only when White House staff chieftain James A. Baker III suggested, "Let's all stand up together." Reagan's men were confident that the voters would remember the President's fair-sounding suggestion that the two sides "split the difference" on controversial spending cuts. The official White House posture was therefore one of regret for the missed opportunity, rather than partisan anger. "We had hoped for give-and-take up there," Jim Baker said, his face glum, "and what we found was mostly take and very little give." No matter how rueful the President seemed in public, however, he was now able to go back on the offensive, where he is happiest. "His juices are flowing," his friend Laxalt noted. Thursday night, in a masterly battle maneuver, Reagan sounded a televised call for an attack on his own rear lines with a stirring appeal for a budget compromise to bring next year's deficit down to a merely staggering $100 billion, while neglecting to point out that a compromise was necessary because the budget he originally proposed just three months ago would have been in the red by a monumental $130 billion. Rueful: The President's Thursday night performance was effective, though not nearly as virtuosic as the ones he turned in during last year's epic budget battles. Connoisseurs praised the diversionary call for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, the rueful shake of the head as he conceded that "well, we're still in a recession," the skillful attack on O'Neill's pig- # The Economic Fallout Stock prices fell 7 points after a six-week rally, interest rates edged back upward and bond prices began to slip: all things considered, it was a muted display of Wall Street's despair over the failure of President Reagan and Congress to reach a bipartisan agreement on the 1983 budget. Still, the prospect of yet more months of wrangling and indecision renewed fears of prolonged high interest rates and recession--and of accelerating business failures. "The economy is dead in the water," says economist Arnold X. Moskowitz of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. "Until we get a compromise, it's going to stay that way." The budget impasse came as no surprise to many cynical investors, like chief economist Gert von der Linde of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., who says he had been "pumping off [at the] mouth for weeks that it was the most likely outcome." Some believe with Moskowitz that "the breakdown in negotiations was not an utter disaster," because it at least produced a framework that might serve as the basis for an ultimate compromise. But even the optimists warn that the budget crisis must be resolved as soon as possible. A delay of just a few months would keep unemployment and interest rates high. A longer delay could paralyze the economy altogether, pushing the prime interest rate to as high as 22 percent. The Federal Reserve Board would also lose its chance to ease its tight monetary policy, a step economists say is necessary to give the economy room to grow--or, in the worst case, to stave off a full-scale depression. "Every month that they don't settle pushes back the recovery another month, and it makes a permanent recovery hard to achieve," says Allen Sinai, senior economist for Data Resources, Inc. But the stalemate is not likely to cause immediate disaster. In fact, most economists believe that the economy still has the strength to muddle along while the politicians grope for compromise. It will also receive a welcome transfusion in July when President Reagan's second round of tax cuts goes into effect, providing $32 billion worth of pain relief. That, combined with declining inflation and a boost in purchasing power due to an anticipated uptick in the normal business cycle, probably will ensure some sort of economic recovery. "The real question is not whether a recovery, but when," says Sinai. Unless the deficit issue is resolved, however, even Administration officials concede that the recovery is likely to be either anemic from the outset or quickly aborted by an upswing in interest rates. "There will be nervousness in the markets," says Treasury Secretary Regan. "And the economic recovery--which will still come in the second half--will not be as strong." But even that may be too rosy a forecast. The Commerce Department's monthly index of leading economic indicators, released last week, showed that economic activity fell in March for the eleventh straight month--hardly a sign that the recession might be nearing an end. And the latest budget projections forecast a 1983 deficit of $182 billion, double what most investors find even minimally acceptable. "This leaves budget policy in absolute collision with restrictive monetary policy," says Charles Schultze, Jimmy Carter's chief economic adviser. "There's no way but up for interest rates and nowhere for an expansion to long prevail in the face of such interest levels." ![Regan, Schultze: Dimmed hopes for a recovery] © Bruce Hoertel John Ficara--Newsweek **Regan, Schultze: Dimmed hopes for a recovery** Yet even with the collapse of the budget negotiations, there was still some cause for optimism. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Gerald Ford, argues that both the Administration and Congress have at least signaled a willingness to pass some package of spending reductions and tax increases to lower the deficit. "So any sort of compromise that reverses the high and rising deficit picture would be helpful," says Greenspan. But others fear that the budget process will now get bogged down in election-year politics--and that Congress will choose to continue along a do-nothing path, dooming any chance of an economic recovery this year. "The decline of inflation is the sole good thing in sight," says Rudolph Penner, a conservative economist at the American Enterprise Institute. "That's a very bright light, but it certainly doesn't light up the whole room." MICHAEL REESE with HOPE LAMPERT in New York and RICH THOMAS in Washington 40 NEWSWEEK/MAY 10, 1982 === Page 48 of 56 UFO 100X Attack NEWSWEEK MAY '82 NATIONAL AFFAIRS # The Endless Winter of '82 March may have gone out like a lamb, but the lion lingered on. The winter that wouldn't quit buried the nation in snow last week--both California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and New York City suffered their worst April blizzards ever--and brought record cold for the month from Augusta, Ga. (26 degrees), to International Falls, Minn. (minus 11). Springtime rituals withered under the assault: baseball's opening week was largely postponed, many of Washington's cherry blossoms succumbed to chilblains and Boston fretted over where to find snow-removal funds to ready the streets for next week's Boston Marathon. Despite its tenacity, the winter of '82 wasn't--on the whole--all that bad. For most of the season, temperatures across the nation averaged only a few degrees below normal, warmer than the winters of both 1978 and 1979. In Chicago, traditionally one of the nation's bellwethers in such matters, this winter was deemed only the seventh worst in the last 87 years. Still, it will be remembered for some particularly devastating stretches, most notably in January. During a one-week period early that month, satellite pictures revealed that 75 percent of the United States was covered by at least 1 inch of snow, the broadest snow cover since the weather satellites started photographing the earth's surface. During the first two weeks, January set 100 low-temperature records, including all-time lows of minus 26 degrees in Chicago and 1 above zero in Augusta. **Record Rains:** The record cold spread down to Florida, where the citrus crop was the principal casualty--and the loss to the citrus industry approached $1 billion. Record-setting rains in northern California--24 inches in eighteen hours in Marin County--caused mud slides that killed 29 people. Across the nation, according to the National Weather Service, there were 300 weather-related deaths in just the first month of 1982. Jeff Lowenthal--Newsweek The weather's costs--in damage and lost lives--are still mounting. Earlier this month 87 tornadoes in the Texas-Pennsylvania-Georgia triangle killed 29 people, more than the number of people who died in tornadoes in all of 1981. The heavy snows took their toll as well, particularly near Lake Tahoe, where seven died in an avalanche. But there were a few for whom the spring snows were a godsend. At Sugarloaf/USA, Maine's largest ski resort, operators expected the storm to boost Easter-weekend revenues by 50 percent. And Midwestern grain farmers welcomed the added snow coverage, which will replenish the depleted water table while providing insulation for winter wheat. Perhaps nowhere were the weather's mixed effects more obvious than in Chicago. There, on last week's opening day, the pennant-feverish Chicago White Sox were snowed out of Comiskey Park and their sold-out series with the Boston Red Sox. But long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans were cheering. The dreadful weather kept the Cubs--who just beat both the Cincinnati Reds and the unseasonable snows--in first place for three whole days. MARK STARR with bureau reports April-weather miseries (clockwise): No ball in Chicago, more than showers for spring flowers, tornado power in Texas, New York headline Bernard Gotfryd--Newsweek PLAY BALL Ben Weaver--Camera 5 P. F. Bentley--Photoreporters WIN SOG THE BIG SNOW! Blizzard warning - 12 inches on the way Life-threatening danger === Page 49 of 56 D-14 The Forum Sunday, May 2, 1982 # Destructive tornado season is just around the corner By ELLEN CRAWFORD Staff Writer The tornado season is right around the corner. Generally, the tornado season in this part of the country runs from mid-May to mid-August, with most tornadoes occurring in June and July. However, tornadoes have been spotted in North Dakota as late as Oct. 11 and as early as mid-April. The tornado which demolished a barn on the Gladys Nelson farm near Lisbon, N.D., and ripped off a piece of the roof on her house April 15 became the state's earliest tornado on record. The previous record for the earliest tornado was April 19. "The weather's been so funny -- hail, thunder, lightning, rain and snow all in one day," said Gordon Sletmoe, director of Cass County Disaster Emergency Services. "It gets to be something else." North Dakota has an average of 30 confirmed tornadoes per year. Tornadoes have caused 22 deaths, numerous injuries and millions of dollars in damage since 1950. Tornadoes start in an intense thunderstorm cloud, then develop downward toward the Earth's surface, experts believe. Tornadoes are short-lived local storms with high-speed winds usually rotating counterclockwise. They're formed as large amounts of air are drawn into the thunderstorm, creating a funnel-shaped cloud. The funnel starts as condensed water vapor, and as it reaches the ground, it picks up dust and debris. Not every thunderstorm spawns a tornado, scientists say. But when the weather conditions are right -- unseasonably warm and humid air at the earth's surface, cold air at the middle atmospheric level and jet stream winds in the upper atmosphere -- tornadoes are likely. A tornado's path usually is only about a quarter-mile wide and seldom more than 15 miles long. They move at about 30 mph from the southwest to the northeast. However, tornadoes have been known to be up to a mile across on the ground, to remain on the ground more than an hour, to move up to 70 mph and to travel in any direction. The wind in a tornado can blow from 100 mph to more than 300 mph. When the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch, that means weather conditions are ideal for the formation of tornadoes. A tornado warning means a tornado has been sighted or detected by radar and you should take shelter immediately. A steady blast on Fargo and West Fargo civil defense sirens acts as a tornado warning, and means take cover. Elsewhere in the county, communities can sound sirens which double as a summons for the rural fire department. The National Weather Service and North Dakota Disaster Emergency Services are conducting a statewide tornado drill Wednesday. The purpose, Sletmoe said, is to test the statewide weather-warning system and alert people that this is the time of year to be watching for severe weather. "We hope the schools will have a tornado drill at that time, and any other place that wishes -- hospitals, nursing homes or private homes -- will take part in the tornado drill," Sletmoe said. He doesn't think many communities other than Fargo and West Fargo will test their sirens because the sirens are used to summon firemen. "I'd rather pass up a siren for a test like this than get a false alert for the firemen," he said. However, he hopes West Fargo, and especially Fargo, sound theirs, even though the sirens are tested once a month. "I want to use them in Fargo to keep emphasizing the poor coverage we have," said Sletmoe, who has been urging city officials to buy more sirens to reach all parts of the city. "We are in desperate need of a warning for the citizens." Wednesday's drill also will give persons who have weather or ready-alert radios a chance to test their equipment. The National Weather Service erected a tower in the Galesburg, N.D., area in the last year. The tower should be able to beam a weather radio signal anywhere in Cass County, Sletmoe said. Galesburg is about 40 miles northwest of Fargo. In the past, only the eastern half of Cass County was covered by a tower about 20 miles to the east of Fargo near Hawley, Minn. Weather radio broadcasts come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on one of three high-band FM frequencies which are not found on the average home radio. Taped weather messages are repeated every four to six minutes and are revised every one to three hours. During severe weather, National Weather Service forecasters can interrupt routine broadcasts and substitute special warning messages. The forecasters also can activate warning receivers which either sound an alarm, alerting the listener to turn up the radio, or automatically turn on the radio so the warning message can be heard. The ready-alert radios are activated by a local radio station designated as an emergency broadcast station. The station picks up a warning from the weather bureau and activates the ready-alert radio. A system also has been developed in Fargo where the police department can interrupt the audio portion of any cable television program with a weather warning. Almost any electronic equipment store carries the special weather radio sets, but Sletmoe suggests people try the radio at the place they'll be keeping it before buying. Some models may not work as well as they should in some areas, he said. === Page 50 of 56 April 20, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW UFOs 6 Projects # Flooding hits Vermont MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Rivers glutted with rain and melting snow covered parts of northern Vermont with as much as 6 feet of water Monday, the worst flooding in some areas in 55 years. Before the rivers and streams began receding Monday morning, roads were closed and an undetermined number of families in Swanton, Sheldon and Enosburg were evacuated as a precaution or because floodwaters blocked access to their homes. The National Weather Service in Burlington reported up to 1.5 inches of rain fell on northern Vermont overnight. 4-29-82 Oreg. Journal # Rain, 70-mph wind hits Texas, Plains United Press International Freak thunderstorms packing 70 mph winds rumbled through the central Plains, tearing trees from their roots and hurling them into mobile homes in Texas. A topsy-turvy spring blasted the North with cold and snow and the West with 100-degree temperatures. Freeze warnings were posted Wednesday night over the northern and central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and through north central Maryland. Thunderstorms raked the southern and central Plains from Texas and Louisiana into Nebraska and Iowa. More than 4 inches of rain fell in some areas of Nebraska and up to 2 inches of snow dusted central and southern parts of the state. Most of the snow melted soon after it fell, but accumulations of up to an inch were reported. At the height of the Texas storms, dumping nearly 2 inches of rain and pea-sized hail, winds gusted to 60 mph in Dallas and Fort Worth. The winds tore trees from their roots and hurled them onto mobile homes in Hurst, near Fort Worth. UFOs 6 Projects # Winter weather in Rockies Associated Press Winter weather struck the northern Rockies on Saturday and a low pressure system centered in Wyoming brought rain and snow to Montana. Heavy snow moved through the northern Rockies. A cold front spread showers across much of the Northeast. Sunny skies stretched from the lower Mississippi Valley through the Southwest and the great basin. For Sunday, the National Weather Service forecast rain spreading across the Pacific Northwest through the great basin into the northern Plains with light snow in the northern Rockies. Spok Rev 5/9/82 Heating degree days Wednesday 13 UFOs Projects # Power failure hits Florida at rush hour April 1982 MIAMI (AP) -- A malfunctioning motor at a nuclear generator triggered a power failure that spread across much of Florida on Thursday, knocking out lights in at least 800,000 homes and businesses at the height of the evening rush hour, officials said. Mary Ann Linden, a spokeswoman for Florida Power & Light Co., said at least 500,000 of the utility's 2.3 million customers lost power when two nuclear generators at Turkey Point tripped off shortly before 5 p.m. EDT. Seconds later, another two oil-fired generators at Cape Canaveral went down, Linden said. Within minutes, much of the Florida East Coast was out, and some 303,000 customers of other electrical utilities also suffered blackouts in central Florida and on the Gulf Coast from Tampa Bay to the south. FP&L is the state's largest electric utility. Florida Power Corp. spokesman Dave Williams said his company lost 200,000 of its 800,000 customers in 31 counties of West Central Florida, and Greg Truax said Tampa Electric Co. lost 103,000 customers. About 28,000 electric customers in Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties lost power, but some of those outages might have been caused by a small tornado that touched down in western Orange County, causing no major damage, authorities said. Power was restored to most Floridians in 15 minutes to an hour, officials said. Linden said workers made a "preliminary" determination that the blackout was caused by failure of an electrical motor on a circulating pump in one of two nuclear units at Turkey Point, 30 miles south of Miami. There was no nuclear emergency, she said. UFOs 100x Attack # Storms create havoc Associated Press Thundershowers hurled tornadoes and torrential rains at the Southwest for the third day Thursday, killing at least one person and chasing hundreds of people from their homes in Texas and Oklahoma by floodwaters up to their belt buckles. Elsewhere, a mid-May snowfall up to 14 inches deep closed schools in some Colorado communities and was blamed for a traffic accident that killed a teen-ager. One lane of Interstate 70 over Vail Pass was blocked by an overturned snowplow. The National Weather Service said 17 tornadoes hit Texas and two touched down in Oklahoma in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Thursday, while more than a foot of rain fell in places. A barrage of dozens of tornadoes in the region earlier in the week left millions of dollars in damage, at least seven people dead and scores injured. On Thursday, a tornado that touched down outside Kirbyville in southeast Texas killed V. Margaret Finnerty, according to Linda Moore of the Texas Department of Public Safety. She said a second twister touched down nearby, destroying a mobile home and injuring one person. A tornado also touched down Thursday in Holden, Mo., in the west-central part of the state but no injuries were reported and officials said the only major damage was confined to one farm. Spok Rev 5/14/82 === Page 51 of 56 New England rains spread havoc Bok Ros 6/9/80 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A storm that dropped up to 11 inches of rain on southern New England washed out dams and bridges, tore houses off foundations and sent up to 12 feet of water through towns. Thirteen people died and five more were presumed drowned, officials said. An estimated 1,300 Connecticut residents were forced to flee their homes. The most severe problems were reported in Ivoryton, Conn., where two dams on the Fall River burst Sunday, releasing a wall of water that washed away four hous- es and several cars. "It looked like a tidal wave," said Christopher Dewey, who lives on Main Street. "It was like a white wave covering everything." The heavy rain, which began Fri- day, began to taper off today. Rocks shifted in the center of a dam near Leominster, Mass., as rain fell, but the dam held and wa- ters were receding. Eight people were killed and one was missing in Connecticut, two people were missing in Massachu- etts and five people died and two were missing in Rhode Island. Helicopters and six-wheeled mili- ary vehicles were used to rescue stranded residents as a high-pres- sure system to the north kept the storm bottled up over the Atlantic Coast all weekend, "The damage is tremendous in many towns," said Connecticut Gov. William A. O'Neill, who called out National Guard units to help with sandbagging. "It will run into the millions of dollars.". The governor declared a state of emergency and asked for federal disaster assistance. Coastal areas of Connecticut near Ivoryton were cut off by flooding streams and marshes, and streets and highways were lined with cars stalled by flooded engines. Inter- states 95 and 91 in New Haven ex- perienced severe traffic jams due to flooded exits. Rep. Lawren J. DeNardis, R- Conn., estimated damage to 16 Con- necticut shoreline communities at raft bobbing in the Ware River at $100 million. Palmer by a line lowered from a Flood waters were reteding in Massachusetts Air National Guard most areas today, although the Con- helicopter Sunday. The youths were necticut River - the state's largest treated for exposure at Mercy Hos- - was expected to reach four feet pital in Springfield. above flood stage today, according In Southampton, firefighters used to the National Weather Service a six-wheeled surplus military vehi- River Forecast Center in Bloom- cie to evacuate two couples, three field. Ivoryton native Ronald Kra- three goats from Riverdale Road jewski said the town bears no re- when the Manhan River overflowed semblance to the way it was before its banks. the flood. "It's just a mudhole. just disappeared," he said. Houses that used to stand here have were killed in a car crash Friday To the west, several Naugatuck rillville and two women canoeists Valley cities declared local states were presumed drowned Saturday of emergency and evacuated homes night in Narragansett Bay after when rivers and streams began their canoe was found overturned. spilling over their banks Saturday. Much of downtown Milford, west year-old boy drowned Sunday in the Connecticut police said an 8- of New Haven, remained closed to- basement of his New London home, day after what local officials called a 62-year-old man drowned when a the worst flooding this century. Wa- Roaring Brook bridge collapsed un- ter was 4 to 6 feet deep on River der his truck and a 19-year-old Street during the worst of the flood- woman drowned when she tried to ing, they said. The state Transportation Depart- mained closed because of high wa- ter or washouts, and at least 10 major bridges were swept away. Amtrak passengers were being London, around flooded sections of the coast near New Haven and Mil- ford. In Massachusetts, the weather service said about 2.35 inches of rain fell Sunday. The Boston-area Metropolitan District Commission by high water. reported pumping millions of gal- lons out of the Charles River be- drowned in the Atlantic Ocean Two people were presumed tween Watertown and Charlestown south of Boston after one was to keep it from overflowing. washed into the water and the other Two boys were plucked from a made a rescue attempt. UFO 100 X AMlack Storm brushes Florida, winds ease FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)- Tropical Storm Alberto, which killed 15 people in Cuha and brushed southwest Florida as La surprise hurricane, stalled Friday in the Gulf of Mexico and began to calm down. "He's dying," said Bob Case, a fore- caster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm, which in half a day had grown from a depression off the west- ern tip of Florida to a hurricane with 80 mph winds, lingered for hours Friday in cool Gulf waters about 175 miles south- west of Fort Myers, with top winds of 50 mph. During the night the storm pounded western Cuba, damaging thousands of homes and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people. It swept past the Florida Keys, prompting hundreds of residents to flee inland and emptying seaside re- sorts as the storm pointed toward Fort Myers. Then it swerved westward and stalled. By 6 p.m., the storm had edged only 25 miles closer to Fort Myers in the previous 25 hours, and was 175 miles southwest of it. Alberto kept weakening through the afternoon, its winds decreasing to 40 mph, barely above the 39-mph mini- mum for tropical storm status. "The storm has stepped down in in- tensity quite a bit," said forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurri- cane Center in Miami. Spor Raw VELE children, two dogs, two cats and In Rhode Island five teen-agers night on a rain-slicked road in Bur- cross rain-swollen Eight-Mile River In New Haven's Westville sec- after a truck became stalled on a tion, mayoral aide Cathy Gollinger damaged bridge. said 10to 12 feet of water roared A 15-year-old down streets from the West River, drowned in Wharton Brook after an overturning several cars. was presumed inner tube burst and a 28-year-old died when a rubber raft overturned ment said 71 sections of roads re- in the Saugatuck River. The body of a 39-year-old man was recovered from a partially submerged car in Orange and a 68-year-old man was swept from a bridge as he tried to bused between Bridgeport and New cross a river to his home in Clinton. A woman died of an apparent heart attack as she tried to bail water from her Clinton basement and an 80-year-old New Haven man was struck by his own car while he tried to fix the engine, which was stalled === Page 52 of 56 2501 100X Allack STORMS: Floods close more roads; Winds level more homes Associated Press Spot fes 5/22/80 A deluge from days of back-to-back thunderstorms claimed new territory across the Midwest on Friday, closing highways with water and mudslides as rain came down as hard as 4 inches an hour. The storms that have pounded the Great Plains for two weeks stirred up at least 19 tornadoes Thursday, flatten- ing a number of homes and buildings and injuring several people. No one was killed by the twisters, but a truck driver was electrocuted near Jacksonville, IlJ., when winds blew a high-voltage power line onto his truck. A woman in Adrian, Mo., said a tor- nado picked her up and dropped her 50 feet away. Lavera Simpson, 54, was listed in satisfactory condition Friday with back, neck and head injuries. Rivers bloated by up to 8 inches of rain during the night poured from their banks in parts of Nebraska, South Dako- ta, Missouri and Iowa. Many roads and highways were blocked by water, snarling traffic and stranding motorists in cities such as Omaha, Neb,, and Columbia, Mo. A mudslide closed a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 34 in Nebraska between Nehaw- ka and Union. Water was up to the bumpers of cars on Interstate 70 near Kingdom City, Mo. Police in Fremont, Neb., said many cars were stalled in water on the streets. In southeastern South Dakota, 81/2 inches of rain fell in two hours at Del- mont. In the western part of the state, the Belle Fourche River surged to 21/2 feet above flood stage at Fruitdale and Elm Springs. Some residents of the town of Belle Fourche fled Thursday when water from the Belle Fourche and Redwater rivers poured into about 50 homes. Mike Phury, a citizen who lives near Delmont, said the 81/2 inches of rain fell between 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thurs- day, washing out roads and damaging just-planted crops. The National Weather Service said 41/2 inches of rain fell in just 45 minutes south of Table Rock, Neb. Roy Osugi, a hydrologist for the weather service in Nebraska, said, "It definitely is unusual for it to rain as many consecutive days as it has." In eastern Nebraska, officials were keeping an eye on the Nemaha and Mis- souri rivers which were running brim full. Joe McCartney, a spokesman for the Union Pacific Railroad, said it would take several days to reopen the line be- tween Columbus and Norfolk, Neb., where the track was washed out in sev- eral places. In Oklahoma, an estimated 4 inches of rain fell in southeastern Bartlesville in an hour Thursday afternoon, said Po- lice Chief Charles Spencer. Elsewhere, a storm swept through Connecticut on Thursday afternoon with heavy rain and lightning. Wind and severed tree limbs knocked out electric- ity in more than 40 communities, said Jackie Harris, a spokeswoman for Northeast Utilities. Power to 14,000 of at least 20,000 affected customers was restored by late evening, she said. The twister that hit near Adrian, Mo., a town of about 1,200 about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, damaged at least 10 buildings. 4502 100X Attache Storms, floods flail Midwest, New England Associated Press A "hellish" storm likened to a hurricane crashed through the Mid- west with 90-mph winds Monday, while hundreds more people fled a New England flood which has left 15 dead and seven missing. Just before dawn, a storm 150 miles wide tore through eastern Kansas into Missouri and Iowa, flattening homes, clipping down trees and power lines, wrecking parked airplanes and blacking out portions of cities such as Topeka, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. The weekend deluge of up to 11 inches of rain in southern New Eng- land, which forced the evacuation of up to 2,000 people in Connecticut, found new victims in Rhode Island on Monday as 250 people fled their homes along the rising Pawtuxet River. State of emergencies were de- clared in Connecticut and much of Rhode Island. All of southern New England except Cape Cod remained under a flood warning. The flood has been blamed for 10 deaths in Connecticut and five in Rhode Island. Spakker 6/8/82 UDe 100% Attack 1,000 forced to evacuate by Connecticut flooding HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) record rainfall swamped Connecti- cut with up to 8 inches of rain, washing out bridges, cutting elec- tricity and forcing the evacuation of some 1,000 people. One person was killed and at least two more were believed drowned, officials said Sunday. Gov. William A. O'Neill called out the National Guard to help with sandbagging operations and urged residents to stay home. Heavy rains were expected to continue in the eastern part of the state until Monday, and shoreline towns braced for more flooding as tides rose. More than 8 inches of rain was reported in the western part of the state. A periods of bad weather associated with tropical storms or hurricanes - since the service began keeping Connecticut records in 1904. Local and secondary streets in low-lying areas were reported to be impassable throughout Connecticut, and portions of state highways were closed. The Red Cross set up emergency shelters in 13 communities near Long Island Sound and in the Nau- gatuck River Valley. The New Haven suburbs of Ham- den and Milford were among the hardest hit by the storm. Small boats were used to evacuate some of 400 people in Hamden living be- low the Bardee Brook dam. State officials said "very serious conditions" were reported in Essex, where some residents were without electricity, telephone service or wa- ter. A spokesman for Southern New England Telephone Co. said a flood- without phones. The National Weather Service station at Bradley International Airport said it recorded 5.87 inches between 11 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday, That was the most .. ed substation left 16,000 people rain in any 24 hours - except for yeah peut 6/7/8, === Page 53 of 56 UFOs 100X Attack # Flooding in Texas, Oklahoma By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Spok Rev 5/18/82 Floods chased hundreds of people from their homes Monday in Texas and Oklahoma, where a week of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes has left millions of dollars in damage. People scrambled onto rooftops and climbed trees to escape the water in some communities as National Guard helicopters and police boats plucked others to safety. At least 10 deaths have been blamed on the week of storms which spread Monday from the Mexican border in Texas, to Kansas City, Mo., with powerful winds, blinding rain and hail as big as baseballs. Three drowned in Texas on Monday and two others were missing in floodwaters surging around San Antonio. THE BARRAGE of twisters continued Sunday and Monday with six hitting rural areas of Oklahoma, five in Texas, two in North Dakota and one in Illinois. Some homes and farm buildings were destroyed. In Wichita Falls, Texas, where floods last week had chased about 5,000 people from their homes, 500 people remained homeless. About 60 who had returned home, went back to a Red Cross emergency shelter Monday morning as a flood warning was posted. About 600 were evacuated in Kingfisher, Okla., as that city of 4,000 residents, about 25 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, suffered its worst flooding in 25 years. Officials estimated the water at 6 to 8 feet deep in city streets. Among them was Mary Cordova, 40, trapped in her house with seven relatives who spent the night standing on chairs. They waded through thigh-deep water Monday morning to a National Guard helicopter waiting on higher ground. "MY TWO NEPHEWS -- aged 18 and 20 -- treaded in chest-high water early this morning to see if we were all right out here," Mrs. Cordova said. "It took them 3 1/2 hours to go three miles. "My house is full of water now. I doubt there's anything left to salvage." Howard Watson, director of Civil Defense in Kingfisher, where the Uncle John and Kingfisher creeks empty into the Cimarron River, said, "There were lots of people who didn't get out last night when we warned them, and now they're stranded in the upstairs of their homes, dining room tables, or something like that. "This is by far the worst I've ever seen." Watson said that 150 evacuees were housed at a temporary shelter set up by the Red Cross in the town's Memorial Hall. The rest moved in with relatives and friends. "ALL THE HOUSES look like little islands," Watson said, "and there's 2-3 feet of water in the houses now." The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said that all roads leading in and out of Kingfisher were closed. "Nobody has any idea how many others are stranded," Watson said. "They just keep calling out to the police boat, or waving to them." In Texas, Dawn Hamilton, 18, was killed when her pickup truck was washed over a bridge in western Bexar County. Officers also recovered the body of Michael Murray, 27, who was helping the woman try to start her car when they were swept away. UFOs 100X Attack # Storms pound Midwest Associated Press Spok Rev 5/21/82 Thunderstorms that have raged for over a week sent more floods pouring across Nebraska and Oklahoma on Thursday, washing out railroads, ruining homes and drowning cattle. Silt washing down from the Nebraska hillsides buried some roads in mud 3 feet deep. Soaked sandbags, filled by hundreds of volunteers, ringed homes and businesses in Platte Center, Neb., a community of 370 people about 100 miles northwest of Omaha. Carcasses of dead cows were floating in creeks. Trees were stripped by hail and gardens were flattened in some areas. And the rains kept coming, up to 3 inches in places, with winds gusting to almost 80 mph. IN THE EAST, severe thunderstorms accompanied by gusting winds knocked out power in more than 40 Connecticut communities, affecting at least 11,000 customers, utility officials said. The storms, which swept though Connecticut on a cold front in the late afternoon, brought heavy rains and lightning. Wind and blowing tree limbs tore down power lines. Residents in most parts of the state lost their electricity, and some major industries in the Danbury area were affected. The National Weather Service said a volley of tornadoes, which has hit the Plains states with 95 twisters since last Friday, seemed to be slackening. Radar spotted one funnel south of Cordell, Okla., but no damage was reported. On Wednesday, a twister hit a farm near Sharon Springs in northwest Kansas, destroying a house and farm buildings containing four airplanes, four combines and other farm equipment. AS THURSDAY'S thunderstorms descended on central Oklahoma, flash flood warnings were posted in Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Lincoln, Canadian, Oklahoma and Cleveland counties, including areas where hundreds of people were evacuated earlier in the week. In Nebraska, flash flood warnings were up in Platte County, eastern Boone county and the southern half of Madison and Stanton counties. Trains were temporarily halted on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad in eastern Nebraska, with the track washed out in many places and bridges threatened. Officials later opened one track of the line. "I sat around, drank whiskey and cried," said R.D. Taylor of Norman, Okla., recalling how he watched the South Canadian River climb out of its banks, cover the mailbox in his yard, and pour into his home. Norman city manager James Crosby declared a state of emergency to allow the city to spend what it needs to repair roads and utilities. === Page 54 of 56 AP A tornado hovers over Herrin, Ill., Saturday. The bars at the top of the picture are power lines. UFOs 100x Attack # More storms in Midwest Associated Press Spot Rev 5/31/82 Relentless Memorial Day weekend thunderstorms pounded the nation's midsection, trapping a Boy Scout troop near rushing floodwaters, pouring 2¾ inches of rain on a Nebraska town within 20 minutes, smashing crops with hail and wind and causing at least 15 deaths. The storm produced at least 25 tornadoes in six states in the nation's midsection on Saturday. Twisters ripping through southern Illinois left at least 10 people dead and 15 missing in Marion, Ill. At least 1,000 people were left homeless as the tornadoes flattened parts of three southern Illinois counties. In West Virginia, a torrential downpour early Sunday sent small streams out of their banks, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Flooding also was reported in the eastern Colorado Plains, and thunderstorms in Denver sparked lightning that killed one man and injured two others on Saturday. Three people were found dead in Oklahoma on Saturday after lightning struck their house. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect Sunday for western Missouri and eastern Kansas and the area from southeastern Iowa and west-central Illinois through central Missouri, the National Weather Service said. The twister that struck Marion, Ill., on Saturday first had ripped through 10 miles of nearby countryside. Shopping plazas, apartment complexes and as many as 90 homes were flattened. Tree limbs, utility poles and pieces of buildings littered the town's streets. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared the region a disaster area Saturday night. Before hitting Marion, the twister had touched down in Carterville and sliced through Crainville. Other twisters hit other rural areas, destroying houses and causing injuries. Winds up to 60 mph and golf-ball sized hail were reported Sunday morning in northern Kansas, and a tornado was reported near Topeka, the Weather Service said. No damage was reported. Flash flood watches continued in eastern and central Nebraska, where downpours dumped more water into already swollen rivers. Heavy rain drenched south-central Nebraska, with 2¾ inches reported in a 20-minute period in Roseland Sunday morning. High winds and driving rain racked Ohio, and one man was critically injured by lightning. Port Columbus International Airport reported wind gusts of 76 mph Saturday, and Prairie Township Fire Chief Robert Stormont estimated damage at $500,000. He said 50 to 75 trees were downed, and many buildings were damaged. The storm knocked a cement-block, two car garage "about 50 feet in the air and crumbled it when it set down in the backyard," he said. The storm caused widespread power outages in the Dayton and Columbus areas. Utility spokesmen said 7,000 power customers in Dayton and up to 28,000 in Columbus had no power at some time Saturday. Flood watches were issued for the Ohio Brush Creek and its tributaries in Adams County in southern Ohio on Sunday. === Page 55 of 56 UFOs 100X Attack # Tornadoes continue to tear across nation Associated Press Spok Rev 6/2/82 An onslaught of tornadoes that set a record for the peak month of May hit a half-dozen states Tuesday while a record chill ushered in June in much of the middle of the country. As America went back to work after the Memorial Day weekend that saw 19 people killed by violent weather, thunderstorms barreled through the Ohio Valley with high winds and heavy rains. Tornadoes were sighted during the day in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, and one was sighted late Tuesday in Virginia. The national Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City said 351 tornadoes pounded the nation in May, normally the worst month for twisters, to surpass the record 274 that hit in 1965. It also was the wettest May on record in Tornado Alley cities such as Wichita Falls, Texas, and Oklahoma City. So far, 47 deaths have been blamed on tornadoes this year, including the 10 killed in a cyclone that devastated Marion, Ill., on Saturday, leaving $100 million in damage and 1,000 people homeless. That compares with 24 people killed by twisters in all of 1981 and 24 the year before. The worst day this year was on April 2, when 90 tornadoes touched down in Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi, leaving 28 people dead. "I had said back in March, looking at the pattern we had, that it would be a very active spring," said Fred Ostby, director of the Severe Storms Forecast Center. "Unless there is a drastic change, it looks like it's going to continue through June." June broke out Tuesday with low temperatures that broke or tied the record for the date in many cities, including Oklahoma City, where it was 48. Other cities logging lows for the books were Grand Island, Neb., 39; Kansas City, Mo., 47; North Plains, Neb., 36; Omaha, Neb., 42; Tulsa, Okla., 51, and Wichita, Kan., 46. Tuesday also official start of the six-month hurricane season in the Atlantic. The first storm of the season was named Alberto. Many rivers were rising, including the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, were expected to crest later in Missouri and Illinois. The Mississippi was expected out of its banks at St. Louis on Saturday, and officials feared flood stages along the Missouri on Saturday. UFOs 100X Attack June 1, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Wind, storms wreak havoc across nation Associated Press Tornadoes and hurricane-force winds crashed through the plains on Memorial Day as some cities in Texas and Oklahoma chalked up their wettest May on record from a month of thunderstorms. Homes were smashed, power lines were knocked down, trees were uprooted and water was 2 feet deep in the streets in some communities in the Southwest. Hail the size of baseballs pounded parts of Oklahoma, and some rivers reached flood stage in Missouri and Kansas. The storms of the holiday weekend claimed at least 18 lives, including 10 people who died Saturday when a twister hit Marion, Ill., destroying 75 homes and businesses and leaving 1,000 people homeless. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, who estimated the Marion tornado damage at $100 million, has asked President Reagan to declare Williamson County a major disaster area. Thunderstorms spread Monday from northern Texas, through Arkansas, into the Tennessee and lower Ohio Valleys. Elsewhere, some cities recorded their coldest May 31 on record. It was a sub-freezing 27 degrees at Sheridan, Wyo., easily beating the record 32 set in 1917. Other records for the date were the 32 at Billings, Mont., and 33 at Rapid City, S.D. The National Weather Service said that in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. Monday, 10 tornadoes blasted Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma got four each, three touched down in Illinois and one hit Missouri. "It's as black as the ace of spades and a lot of funnels are popping around," said Bob Wylie, a dispatcher at Binger, Okla., as a storm hurtling through that state hammered Oklahoma City with 75-mph wind and brought the May rainfall to a record 12.07 inches. Spok Rev 6/1/82 UFOs 100X Attack # Storms slam nation again Associated Press Spok Rev 6/9/82 The storms of a violent spring pounded the heart of the battered Midwest on Tuesday with another volley of shattering winds, hail and rain coming down as hard as 4 inches an hour. But the sun peeped out occasionally in southern New England where up to 11 inches of rain over the weekend left millions of dollars in damage, mainly in southern Connecticut, and 22 people dead or missing. Thunderstorms Tuesday roared through parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, and dumped up to 8 inches of rain in the Rio Grande Valley of southwest Texas. A tornado hit Henderson, Ky., on the Indiana border, heavily damaging a shopping center, overturning mobile homes and injuring a dozen people. Most of the city was left without power. The storm also ruptured a gas line north of the city and several roads were blocked by fallen trees. Gordon Nichols, a spokesman for the state Division of Disaster and Emergency Services, said authorities also believed the community of Reed suffered storm damage but rescue efforts were hindered by blocked highways. Twelve people were treated for cuts, fractures and bruises at Community Methodist Hospital in Henderson. In storm-weary Missouri, some residents of a trailer park in Union -- about 30 miles southwest of St. Louis -- fled when 3 inches of rain fell in less than an hour and Flat Creek overflowed. Tree limbs and power lines littered the town's streets, which were under water. Streets were flooded in Columbia, Mo., and suburban Kansas City, where many people were still without power from a storm on Monday. Thousands of customers lost power Tuesday in Columbia, Warrensburg and Mexico, Mo., when lightning hit transformers and winds of 65 mph blew down utility poles. === Page 56 of 56 6 50 100x AMlack THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., June 11, 1982, Storms head for the East Associated Press Thunderstorms that have spoiled spring in the Midwest turned eastward Thursday, soaking southeastern Kentucky and West Virginia with foods that chased families from their homes and blocked highways. In Missouri, where rainstorms were blamed for four" deathis earlier in the week, authorities searched for the body of a 15-month-old baby swept from his mother's arms when her car stalled in high water on a bridge. Powerful winds and a flurry of tornadoes tore the roofs off homes and buildings in Arkansas, The 4,847 residents of Carrollton, Mo,, strug- gled to hold back the rising waters of Wakenda Creek, swollen by 8 inches of rain that fell in two hours Wednesday. Volunteers pitched in to fill sandbags as shopkeepers removed merchandise from their stores. About 18 families were evacu- ated during the night. IN SOUTHWESTERN West Virginia, where almost 3 inches of rain fell, some of the worst. flash flooding anyone could remember in Put- aam and Kanawha counties forced dozens of res- dents out of their homes and blocked most roads "Just about everything had a problem of some ype, either water or slides or debris, said Gary "hernenko, a spokesman for the state highway department. "They really got hit hard." William Brown, 63, a lifelong resident of the Hometown area in Putnam County, said, "It's jeen 10 or 15 years since the creek came up, but I's never gotten that high before." The National Weather Service said the roofs if several houses were blown off when a storm uit White County in north-central Arkansas and tigh winds in Logan County in the western part f the state took the roof off a church. "THERE WERE MANY reports of tornadoes ind Tunnel clouds sighted," said Philip Doyle of" he state Office of Emergency Services. Indiana Gov. Robert D. Orr took a helicopter dur of Evansville and other areas in Vander- surgh and Posey counties hit hard by storms Tuesday and Wednesday. Utility officials said it nay be next week before electric power and elephone service is restored to all customers in he area. With power still out in much of the city, Ev- nsville police reported an unusually high num- er of break-ins. Many people crowded restu- ants and hunted for ice to keep food from poiling in their refrigerators. Residents of Rossville, Kan, returned to their omes as Cross Creek receded after swamping he town of 1,045 residents Wednesday with wa- er up to 4 feet deep. AMONG THOSE EVACUATED were 63 resi- ents of the Rossville Valley Nursing home, most of them elderly people confined to wheel hairs. "They loved it," said Mrs. Barry Ward, the ome nursing director. In eastern Missouri, authorities were search- ig the Loutre River near Martinsburg for the body of 15-month-old Travis Wayne Campbell, ho was washed from his mother's arms 'ednesday. UFO 100x Allack 6 Storms blast across Associated Press Skokcrew w/60/87 Midwest Storms blasted through the Midwest with 100-mph winds Wednesday, firing a broadside of tornadoes and torrents of rain that sent rivers gushing over their banks into towns and cities. Hundreds fled the floodwaters in Kansas and Missouri as thunderstorms which have pounded the plains off-and- on since early May renewed an assault .. with 8-inch rains and hail the size of baseballs. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power in Kansas City and other towns such as Moberly, Mo., where . winds clocked at 100 mph snapped trees and power lines. Police in Rossville, Kan., pleaded for volunteers with boats and four-wheel drive vehicles to help evacuate most of the town's 1,100 residents, including about 70 patients at a nursing home. The National Weather Service posted flash flood warnings along numerous rivers and streams in Kansas and Mis- souri, with the Missouri River already 2 feet over flood stage at Boonville, Mo., and some tributaries expected to surge 8 feet over their banks. One man was killed in Princeton, Mo., when his pickup collided with a tractor-trailer rig during the storm, and two people were injured in Kansas City when they came in contact with downed power lines late Tuesday. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 7 Ted Owens Rt 3, Box 1133 Libby, Montana 59923 LIBBY, MT JUL 16 PM 1982 59923 USA 20c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121 cise starts eserve, Air National Guard and of various other forces, including the Navy and some Canadian ill participate. ie will "test the ability of SAC to llenges of keeping aircraft flying ic wartime conditions simulated rcise," O'Brien said. se's "wartime environment" will at could result from a "day-to-day of world conditions," he said. "It y kind of surprise attack." 'Brien stressed that the exercise, its kind, bears no relationship to events. t an exercise in which the whole olved," he said. Individual SAC uily engage in small-scale exercis- n constant readiness." Jeffrey Rogo long distance and asked him to ng message, in so many words: havoc and chaos with the "Global Shield" t 9 days (see newsclip above). and dangerous airspace." overlong, for some action on hasn't not been forthcoming. rmer, powerful, vicious attacks are quite real and that I am their wens (PK Man) Rt. 3, Box 1133 Libby, Montana 59923 Owens === Page 2 of 7 UFO Global Shield (GS) attack # B-52 training exercise starts By MARIAN GREEN Spokesman-Review 7/14/82 Don't be surprised if a squadron of B-52 bombers zooms low overhead in the next few days as if it's carrying a serious mission. They'll just be part of the Air Force's largest practice exercise -- Global Shield '82, said 2nd Lt. Jim O'Brien, information officer for the Fairchild Air Force Base Strategic Arms Command (SAC). The exercise is designed "to enhance readiness and the ability of the Command to carry out orders which support United States national policy should deterrence fail," said O'Brien. SAC units in the United States -- including two bomber squadrons and one tanker squadron at Fairchild AFB -- Japan and Guam will be the major players in the Global Shield exercise, which starts today and ends July 23, he said. The Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and components of various other forces, including the Marines, the Navy and some Canadian forces, also will participate. The exercise will "test the ability of SAC to meet the challenges of keeping aircraft flying under realistic wartime conditions simulated during the exercise," O'Brien said. The exercise's "wartime environment" will mirror one that could result from a "day-to-day deterioration of world conditions," he said. "It wouldn't be any kind of surprise attack." However, O'Brien stressed that the exercise, the fourth of its kind, bears no relationship to current world events. "This is just an exercise in which the whole SAC gets involved," he said. Individual SAC units periodically engage in small-scale exercises "to maintain constant readiness." Jeffrey July 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Today, at approx. 5:52 PM, I phoned Scott Rogo long distance and asked him to relay to Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove the following message, in so many words: "My UFOs and myself are going to create havoc and chaos with the "Global Shield" SAC exercises forthcoming within the next 9 days (see newsclip above). The skies will be considered to be deadly and dangerous airspace." My UFOs and myself have waited too long, overlong, for some action on Dr. Mishlove's book and the Base...which has not been forthcoming. My UFOs will therefore return to their former, powerful, vicious attacks in order to make their point...that they are quite real and that I am their "ambassador" to the human race. Ted Owens (PK Man) Rt. 3, Box 1133 Libby, Montana 59923 Owens === Page 3 of 7 July 14, 1982 - UFOs attack "Global Shield" SAC Exercise. Deadly air space to 1,000 miles above earth until July 28, 1982. chaos and havoc EARTH === Page 4 of 7 Ted Owens Rt 3, Box 1133 Libby, MT 59923 LIBBY, MT JUL 21 PM 1982 59923 International Peace Garden 1932 1982 USA 20c Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove 190 25th Ave San Francisco, Calif 94121 shlove/Rogo). effects to maintain the family. rther demonstration (as differentiated s over Earth (called volcano ash by the suns rays into outer space, rrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. iant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE YS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with ITED STATES. powers, and my link with my UFOs, is day on for six months) there should the Earth...causing fires and many other ht. nvinced. n today, irrevocably. Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 5 of 7 June 14, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Dr. Mishlove's book is not out (Mishlove/Rogo). The Base has not been supplied. I have been forced to sell personal effects to maintain the family. Therefore: I have taken this case to my UFOs. They have empowered me to give a further demonstration (as differentiated from their own work.) For quite a long while my giant UFOs over Earth (called volcano ash by some nitwits) have been deflecting the suns rays into outer space, thus giving Earth (and the U.S.) horrendous storms, rains, floods, etc. Now, this date, I am signaling my giant UFOs over Earth to REVERSE the process and REFLECT THE SUNS RAYS DOWN ONTO EARTH DIRECTLY, with special, selective effect on the United States. For those who have doubts about my powers, and my link with my UFOs, inside six months (that is, from this day on for six months) there should be TERRIBLE HEAT, unusual heat, on the Earth...causing fires and many other effects, one of which will be drought. Perhaps then you will be finally convinced. The mechanism has been set in motion today, irrevocably. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 6 of 7 Set in motion June 14, 1982. Owens SUN HEAT UFO UFO EARTH UFO UFO === Page 7 of 7 UFOs - Sun - Earth PK # Beaches jammed as East sizzles Associated Press Spokane 7/19/82 Record temperatures in the Northeast sent millions to the beaches Sunday, overflowing parking lots and overheating cars along highways. Readings of 98 degrees, records for the date, were reported at Logan International Airport in Boston; Warwick, R.I.; Hartford, Conn., and Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn. Portland, Maine, set a record with a reading of 95 degrees, passing the previous record of 94, set in 1952. Boston residents, seeking relief from the heat, opened up to 200 fire hydrants, cutting water pressure at one hospital to a trickle, officials said. Water at the 117-bed St. Margaret's Hospital for Women dribbled out of faucets at 3 p.m., said Frank Mazzaglia, a hospital spokesman. The pressure had increased sufficiently four hours later, he said. Four Haverhill, Mass., police officers were injured when a stone-throwing crowd of 10 to 15 people tried to free a man arrested for fighting at crowded Saltonstall Lake, said Deputy Police Chief Donald J. Shea. He said the officers were treated for minor injuries suffered when hit by stones or flying glass. "It's one of the worst days we've seen," Trooper Victor Lenda said from the Connecticut State Police barracks at Montville, which covers roads leading to Rhode Island beaches from eastern Connecticut. "There's very, very heavy traffic." Some traffic in eastern Connecticut was rerouted. "This is probably the first time we made an all-out effort to do that," Lenda said. "I think otherwise, the people would have been sitting for hours." In East Hartford, Conn., 1,350 Northeast Utilities customers were without electric power for 1½ hours Sunday morning when a "mechanical failure" caused power lines to fall, the Berlin-based utility said. In Maine, parking lots at two beaches, Reid State Park and Popham State Park, hit their capacities by noon. Cars were allowed in one-at-a-time as others left. In New York City, John Fisher, park supervisor for Coney Island, said Saturday's crowd of almost 850,000 people was topped by an estimated 1 million people who jammed the beach Sunday. Another 1 million were reported at Rockaway Beach. Jacob Riis Park in Queens was closed shortly after 2 p.m. when the parking lots began to overflow. Park spokesman John Belimonte said the crowd was estimated to be about 400,000 people. "There aren't any big problems, but there are a lot of cars overheated on the Belt Parkway," said Belimonte. About 300,000 people ventured out to Jones Beach on Long Island and several hundred thousand more headed for the New Jersey shore, authorities said. A spokesman for the Transit Authority said traffic was expected to be "very heavy" on the New Jersey Turnpike. In New York the high for the day, 98 degrees, was recorded shortly after 1 p.m. The record for the day, 101 degrees, was set in 1953. Boston's previous record temperature for July 18 was set at 97 on July 18, 1982. UFOs 100% and Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Tues., July 20, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Heat wave continues Associated Press A heat wave cooked the Northeast another day Monday while thunderstorms fanned the Midwest with hurricane-force winds and rain that sent waist-deep floods through towns and ruined millions of dollars worth of crops. There was little relief from the temperatures of a sizzling Sunday that dropped horses in their tracks in New York City, ignited violence around the fireplugs and beaches in Boston, and set records for the date from Newark, N.J., where it was 100 degrees, to Portland, Maine, where it was 95. The mercury climbed back up to a 98 in Boston on Monday, for the second straight day, tying a record for the date. It was 97 in Windsor Locks, Conn., and 96 in New York and Baltimore. Youngsters with razors slashed two city workers who tried to turn off one of the 200 fire hydrants that had been illegally tapped Sunday in Boston. The workers suffered minor cuts. A large hardware store in Washington sold out its 100 electric fans in an hour and a half after it opened, better than a fan a minute. A 21-year-old California woman was arrested at a country music jamboree near St. Clairsville, Ohio, when she took off her shirt and refused to put it back on. It was a different story Monday in the heartland, where storms with winds up to 75 mph accompanied by heavy rain and hail up to the size of hen's eggs in northeastern Nebraska destroyed an estimated $5 million in corn and soybeans, according to Dodge County Extension Agent Russ Lange. A flash flood built by 4 inches of rain between 9:30 p.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday washed 3 feet deep through Kirksville, Mo., forcing the evacuation of several families and knocking out the power of 12,000 residents. "It was washing cars off the street," said Kirksville Police Chief Wayne Martin. Up to 7 inches of rain in central Illinois caused widespread flooding and closed roads. July 20, 1982 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS As you can see, my UFO Sun Attack has begun. Many records have been broken thus far with high heat. I told you in advance that this would be a CAUSED EFFECT (see attached xerox of my earlier letter to you). Meanwhile, the Earth's temperature is rising from the core outward. (The "sizzling heat" in these newsclips is actually just a minor effect of the UFO Sun Attack. The major thrust is heat from the sun to the core of the Earth...changing the temperature of the Earth slowly to sizzling heat from the core to the surface of the Earth.) 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Title A name given to the resource 1982-83 misc newspaper articles Description An account of the resource === Page 1 of 1 Blank folder with articles mostly around 1982-1983 Folder was in the middle of the files not near 1982-1983 Created a new folder and named it 1982-83 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 92 WU INFOMASTER PARKS BEAV 006933I066 1144EST 1 INTL TDWX BEAVERTON, OR INT ADMINISTRATOR- BIRKBECK COLLEGE-UN OF LONDON MALET STREET LONDON (ENGLAND VIA ITT) DR. JOHN HASTED OF YOUR PHYSICS DEPARTMENT HAS WRITTEN A DEFAMATORY LETTER ABOUT ME TO NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE. HIS ACCUSATIONS OR SUSPICIONS HAVE NO BASIS AT ALL. I VISITED HIM FEB. 25, HE WROTE THE LETTER FEB. 28. I GAVE THE COLLEGE A SMALL GRANT FOR HIS WORK WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED. HE SUSPECTS I AM IN LEAGUE WITH MAGICIANS TRYING TO TRAP HIM. THIS IS PURE PARANOIA. I HAVE HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMERS IN MEDICAL CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE UK. I AM VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT MY GOOD NAME, AND HAVE THE FUNDS TO DEFEND IT. I SUGGEST YOU INVESTIGATE THE MATTER AND GET THE LETTER RECALLED TO SAVE POSSIBLE LEGAL EXPENSES AND EMBARRASSMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY. LOREN PARKS PARKS MEDICAL ELECTRONICS, INC. ACCEPTED 00001 1-PC 3/7/83 3/7/83 === Page 2 of 92 MAR 7 1983 BIRKBECK COLLEGE University of London Department of Physics Professor J. B. Hasted, M.A., D.Phil. 01-580 6622 Malet Street London, WC1E 7HX JBH/VR 28th February 1983 Dear Mr. Parks, I strongly infer from inconsistencies and indiscretions observed in our interview on Friday that you and presumably Miss Ferguson are engaged in Projects Alpha/Beta, that is, in research into my own activities. I had my suspicions after our first meeting, and therefore the money remains more or less intact. Now my suspicions are sufficiently strong to warrant taking the necessary action. I am therefore informing the Society for Psychical Research that arrangements will be made by Birkbeck College to return to them the grant offered to me by your Foundation. A further point arises. Since you have had access to the Cox-Richards rings, any forgery found in them would not place the responsibility uniquely upon them, but jointly on them and on you. The security of my own laboratories, to which you have had access, will of course be tightened. Even your circuits are dangerously over-sensitive. Yours truly, J B Hasted J.B. Hasted Mr. Loren E. Parks Psychological Research Foundation, Inc. PO Box BB BEAVERTON Oregon 97005, USA cc Professor D.J. West, Society for Psychical Research Dr. J. Beloff, " " " " Professor A. Ellison, " " " " === Page 3 of 92 ITT GA 851915748+ PARKS BEAV 03 07 1700 915748 MAGDIV G GA ATTN: THE EDITOR- NEW SCIENTIST PUBLICATIONS RE: LETTER TO YOU FROM DR. JOHN HASTED ABOUT ME IS DEFAMATORY AND TOTALLY FALSE. IF YOU PRINT IT I WILL BRING SUIT AGAINST YOUR PUBLICATION AND DR. HASTED. MY REPUTATION IS IMPORTANT TO ME AND I HAVE THE NECESSARY FUNDS TO DEFEND IT. INVESTIGATE ALL YOU WANT. I AM NOT CONNECTED WITH ANY MAGICIANS OR ANY OTHER GROUPS SEEKING TO UNDERMINE INVESTIGATIVE WORK IN PARAPSYCHOLOGY. IN FACT I HAVE SUPPORTED RESEARCH AND PUBLICITY FOR THIS FIELD. DR. HASTED'S FEARS ARE THE PRODUCT OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION AND HAVE NO BASIS IN FACT. LOREN PARKS PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH FDN., INC. 915748 MAGDIV G PARKS BEAV for this press own imagination and have no basis in fact. Loren Parks Psychological Research Fdn, Inc Telex 85 915748 MAGDIV G === Page 4 of 92 Feb. 17, 1983 SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS Enclosed file demonstrates the UFOs ability to cause events to happen...now, just as they did when the very same UFOs worked with Moses to cause the "plagues" which struck Egypt back then, and the Egyptian people. If they had had newspapers back in the day of Moses...he could have done this very same thing...after announcing the different "plagues" which would strike the Egyptians...and then he could have assembled newspapers and clippings to put the complete picture together from all over the land to take to the Pharaoh to make his point. Otto Binder, well-known author now deceased, followed my work closely and used to ask me, "Ted, which plague are we in now?" You have the cover letter for this file which you received approx. one week ago. Please append it to the front of this file. Thanks. Ted Owens (PK Man) Owens === Page 5 of 92 U.S. Economy Agok. Rev. 7/5/82 # Jobs are vanishing all over the U.S. ## And not only in money-losing industries By THOMAS W. LIPPMAN and MARK POTTS Washington Post WASHINGTON -- At the Bumble Bee tuna cannery in San Diego, 900 people lost their jobs recently when the parent Castle & Cooke Co. surrendered to plummeting demand for the fish and closed the plant. In Louisville, 3,900 people have been laid off from General Electric Co.'s major-appliance plant since last summer. The reason: the slumping housing market has reduced demand for the refrigerators, ranges, washers, dryers and dishwashers made at the factory. More than 1,300 meat packers who worked for the John Morrell division of United Brands Inc. have been laid off this year as the company closed four plants. Two more plants are to be closed by the end of August, idling another 750 workers. These may be blips on the nationwide unemployment charts, but they are symptomatic of a pattern that appears to be occurring in many parts of the country and in many different industries: workers in profitable, stable corporations are being laid off like their counterparts in troubled or money-losing industries. The massive layoffs in housing, steel and autos and related industries such as lumber, copper and glass have gained national attention. Yet smaller but rising numbers of workers also are losing jobs in electronics, food processing, textiles, machine tools, petroleum and other industries that still generally are profitable. IN THEIR EFFORT to stay healthy, many companies are cutting back obsolete or marginal operations, dropping unprofitable divisions and reducing production and inventory. Their workers are finding that profitability gives no guarantee of job security. The pattern of layoffs is erratic. Some corporate giants such as Burlington Industries in textiles and Sherwin-Williams paints have dropped workers in some plants while adding them in others. But overall, the jobs have been disappearing, a hundred here, a thousand there, even in companies that are on solid economic ground. Many of these jobs have disappeared permanently because they are in plants that are not going to reopen even if the economy recovers. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, unadjusted for seasonal variation, the number of people working in non-farm jobs in June was 301,000 higher than in May, but 1.3 million below the 92.05 million employed in June 1981. At the same time, state and local government, a traditional employment refuge in hard times, also are declining. Last year, for the first time since World War II, the total number of people holding state and local government jobs dropped -- by 276,000 -- according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. THE TREND of layoffs by profitable companies has not reached Washington, but federal, state and local government payrolls have been cut by 30,000 workers since 1980 and will fall even more as jobs are eliminated by budget cuts, reductions-in-force and deregulation of business. Corresponding reductions in jobs by government contractors and consultants have pushed the District of Columbia jobless rate to 10.6 percent -- well above the national unemployment rate of 9.5 percent -- and have produced a 6 percent jobless rate for the area. Many of the cutbacks by profitable companies are relatively small when compared with such disasters as the bankruptcy of Braniff International airlines, which threw about 8,000 people out of work overnight. But Braniff had been on the brink of insolvency for months. Similarly, International Harvester Co. has put 10,000 workers on indefinite layoff and last week said it would furlough 3,200 in Rock Island and East Moline, Ill., for two months this fall -- the third time this year many of those employees have found themselves out of work for an extended period. The company's financial situation has become so precarious that a key portion of its newly negotiated contract with the United Auto Workers requires it to give workers plenty of advance notice before closing plants temporarily or permanently. SUCH ARE THE risks for employees of money-losing companies. But now workers for healthy corporations are following them into unemployment -- or into early retirement, which many firms are offering with sweetened benefits to lure senior employees off the payroll. 3M Co., a supplier to the steel, auto and housing industries, has laid off 1,345 hourly production workers scattered among more than 100 plants. To avoid more layoffs, the company is offering 2,300 workers early retirement with six months' extra pay. Dravo Corp., a Pittsburgh-based engineering and heavy-construction firm, earned $17.3 million on revenues of $1.51 billion last year, but reported a loss in the first quarter, and its workers are feeling the consequences. Dravo has cut its work force to 7,050 from about 8,500, and "these are not people who are going to be called back," a company spokesman said. Dravo also has frozen salaries and cut capital spending, which in turn will cost somebody else work later in the year. At that perennial darling of Wall Street, Xerox Corp., whose profits last year topped $598 million, the sagging economy and intensified competition in the copier business have led to what Xerox calls a "work force resizing program." Since August, Xerox' employment has shrunk by 3,300 workers, including 500 salaried and 100 hourly employees let go in May. Voluntary retirement and the phasing out of some temporary and contracted positions accounted for much of the reduction, but many people were laid off outright. While some of the reductions are attributable to a corporate reorganization, a spokesman says "the people-cutting would be more (the result) of the economy." === Page 6 of 92 UFOs attack Economy Spokane, Wash., Thurs., Jan. 20, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # New GNP report worst since '46 New York Times WASHINGTON -- The gross national product, the broadest measure of the nation's economy, recorded a 2.5 percent decline in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. For the entire year, it fell 1.8 percent, the sharpest year-to-year decline since 1946. THE DEPARTMENT attributed much of the fourth-quarter decline to a drop in net exports and to manufacturers who in the face of discouraging sales slowed production and cut inventories. These declines offset rises in consumer spending and in housing. The preliminary GNP report, which is subject to revision, reflects the impact of a recession that has now run longer than any since World War II and has pushed the unemployment rate to a postwar record of 10.8 percent. In comparison to the other seven recessions since World War II, however, this one, which began in July of 1981, is so far average in the size of its overall decline, according to Commerce Department figures. Haha!! ON AN OPTIMISTIC note, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said the recession is now ending and stated flatly that the long-awaited economic recovery will begin this quarter. Most private economists also are predicting that the recovery is about to begin. "While not all of the main economic sectors are yet signaling go," he told a news conference, "enough are picking up to indicate that this quarter will be the first quarter of recovery." Baldrige said that the administration's forecast for 1983 may be too grim and his chief economist said the GNP could rise 3 to 5 percent this quarter, which is above the official forecast of 1 percent. HE CITED THE RISE in housing starts and Detroit's decision to step up auto production because of rising sales and the relatively low level of inventories. In addition, Baldrige said, the 5 percent growth of consumer spending in the fourth quarter, the largest rise of the year, also is a signal of the spending needed to get the economy moving again. UFOs attack Economy # Reagan turns pessimistic on economy Sp. Res. 1/27/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an uncommonly pessimistic outlook for 1983, the Reagan administration is predicting the slowest recovery from a recession since World War II, with unemployment sticking above 10 percent. The still-internal forecast, confirmed Thursday by administration sources, is more bearish than nearly all the major private forecasting firms and marks a complete reversal from the administration's decidedly optimistic -- but wrong -- economic predictions of the prior two years. UFOs attack Economy By LARRY YOUNG Staff writer Sp. Res. 1/27/83 ONE THING'S sure about this economy. It'll surprise you, just as it has the experts. Economists, the people paid to make predictions about the Northwest's economic health, have been fooled more than most. None of them predicted that the current slump would turn out to be the deepest and longest recession since the Great Depression. But it did. And many consumers and businessmen who trusted the experts made some wrong decisions based on their advice. And lost money. In 1981 and 1982, the Reagan administration had been ridiculed by private economists and the financial community for making rosy predictions beyond the range of reasonable expectation. This time, President Reagan's new chief economist, Martin S. Feldstein, has insisted that the administration issue an honest forecast to regain its economic credibility. The new forecast, prepared as part of the fiscal 1984 budget plan President Reagan will send Congress Jan. 31, predicts the economy -- after adjusting for inflation -- will grow at an anemic rate of only 1.4 percent on average for all of 1983, compared with 1982. By comparison, first-year recoveries from the previous seven post-war recessions typically have shown growth rates of 4 percent or more. Because economic growth is expected to be so slow, unemployment is predicted to decline only slightly from its current level, now at a 42-year high of 10.8 percent. In early 1981, the administration predicted the economy would grow 4.2 percent in 1982 and 5 percent in 1983, with unemployment averaging 7.2 percent in 1982 and 6.6 percent in 1983. As it turned out, the economy contracted by about 1.7 percent in 1982, the sharpest decline since 1947. Meanwhile, new claims for unemployment checks fell sharply during the week ending on Christmas Day, continuing a trend that private economists interpreted Thursday as signaling a peak in layoffs. But these analysts also cautioned that any genuine improvement in the nation's 10.8 percent national jobless rate will have to await a surge in rehiring. The analysts were responding to a Labor Department report showing approximately 517,000 people filed first-time claims for unemployment compensation insurance benefits in the week ending Dec. 25. The seasonally adjusted total was 27,000 fewer than the previous week. (Continued on page 5) === Page 7 of 92 Unemployment reaches 10.8%; many giving up search for jobs WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment edged up to 10.8 percent in December and the number of Americans who gave up searching for jobs hit an all-time high. The White House predicts better figures this year, but the Labor Department's top statistician said Friday the jobless peak may be yet to come. The overall, seasonally adjusted 10.8 percent was the same as initially reported by the Labor Department for November. But end-of-year recalculations of 1982 figures to reflect updated seasonal factors showed that November's rate actually was 10.7 percent. Without its end-of-the-year revisions in the data, the unemployment rate for December would have been 11 percent, the bureau said. The annual recalculation of monthly rates is based in part on a re-computation of the effect of seasonal variations, such as weather, the school year and buying and manufacturing trends. In raw figures, the jobless picture last month did not worsen as much as it had in three previous months. The ranks of the unemployed grew by only 130,000, compared to a 440,000 surge in the previous month. The report refers to the approximate number of employed people for both November and December as being essentially unchanged at 12 million. Before rounding, it actually was a fraction under 12 million in November and a fraction over in December. An improving employment picture in the manufacturing sector of the economy, hard hit by the recession, offset lower-than-normal hiring by retail business establishments during the Christmas holiday shopping season, the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted in its report. Nevertheless, the total number of Americans with jobs shrank slightly -- by 43,000. This was an indication that while businesses were laying off fewer people, little rehiring was taking place, analysts said. The roster of Americans officially categorized as "discouraged" (Continued on page 5) Unemployment 11.0- Percent of Work Force 10.5- *Seasonally Adjusted 10.0- 9.5- 9.0- 8.5- 8.0- J F M A M J J A S O N D 1982 Source: Dept. of Labor AP Developments Nearly one-third of the production lines at U.S. factories stood idle last month as the recession deepened, in what one economist called a "near depression." The 58.4 percent factory-use rate reported Wednesday was the worst on record. The October decline was the 13th in 15 months. And rather than getting smaller, the monthly drops have been getting larger: 0.2 percentage point in August, 0.6 point in September and now 0.8 point in October. There were new declines in two major industries: Factory use fell to 48.7 percent for automakers and to 42 percent for iron and steel producers. The latter figure was that industry's lowest since a big 1959 strike stifled output. The Commerce Department said housing starts by U.S. builders rose 1 percent in October. That was only a modest increase -- to an annual rate of 1.12 million units -- but the same report provided better news in the form of a second straight jump in building permits for future construction. Permits rose to an annual rate of 1.18 million, up 17.7 percent from September and up a full 80 percent from October of last year. (Story on page 2) Reagan says economy is in 'a hell of a mess' WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan, speaking unknowingly into an open microphone, ad-libbed on Saturday that the nation's economy is in "a hell of a mess." The president was making a sound test at Camp David in advance of his weekly radio address to the nation and began reading from his prepared speech, which dealt with trade issues. "My fellow Americans, I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems and opportunities our nation faces." At that point, he ad-libbed, "And I am prepared to tell you, it's a hell of a mess." Reagan, whose sound-test quips have caused a stir before, immediately asked, "We're aren't connected to the press room yet, are we?" To the chagrin of White House aides, the comments were indeed heard in the White House press room where reporters were gathered. The president's remark, however, was not carried live on radio. Several weeks ago, Reagan called the military leaders in Poland "a bunch of no-good, lousy bums" when speaking into a telephone that he did not know was open. Before another broadcast, he said, "Welcome to Death Valley Days" -- the television show he once hosted. Because of these incidents, White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes secured an agreement from several network bureau chiefs that Reagan's remarks during sound tests are considered to be off the record. === Page 8 of 92 anger signals UFOs attack Economy 7/28/82 Business failures hit post-Depression high in U.S. . . . . . . . . . . and soar in Common Market nations (Failure rate per 10,000 businesses) (Increase January to October, 1981 over 1980) | | | | |---|---|---| | 160 | | 50% | | 140 | | 40% | | 120 | | 30% | | 100 | | 20% | | 80 | | 10% | | 60 | | | | | 40 | | | | | 20 | | | | | Netherlands | West Germany | Britain | France | Belgium | |---|---|---|---|---| | 42% | 27% | 26% | 20% | 17% | 1920 '25 '30 '35 '40 '45 '50 '55 '60 '65 '70 '75 '80 '81 '82 Economic slumps always leave behind victims, but Dun & Bradstreet reports business failures occurring this year at an annual rate of 80 per 10,000, which makes it a post-Depression high. The record of 154 per 10,000 was set in 1932. © NEWS GRAPHICS 1982 *Estimates UFOs attack Economy State finances could worst in past years CHICAGO (AP) -- A majority of states are experiencing "perhaps the worst fiscal crisis in 40 years," concludes a study state governments released today. The results were released by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Urban Institute at the NCSL's annual convention here. The study said the poor fiscal shape of many states was a result of "the depressed national economy compounded by decreasing federal aid," resulting in revenue shortfalls. The survey of all 50 states found that at least 17 ended the 1982 fiscal year with a balance equal to 1 percent or less of their annual spending. In Washington state, hit hard by depressed timber and housing markets and high unemployment, the Legislature held two regular and three special sessions since January 1981 to hack and cut state spending and boost new taxes to keep the 1981-83 balanced. Cuts and new taxes and fees totaled nearly $3 billion. The budget patch also included instituting a state lottery and putting the state's sales tax back on food. And state officials aren't optimistic about what the next biennium will bring if the economy doesn't improve. The report said that although those states were operating in the black, the commonly accepted "safety zone" is a balance of 5 percent or above. Fourteen of the states surveyed had a balance of only 3 percent or less of their annual appropriations and just 12 states reported balances of more than 5 percent. Seven states reported deficits. The 12 states identified as having a balance of 5 percent or above were: Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. All states other than Vermont are required by law to maintain or adopt a balanced state budget, but the survey revealed that seven states ended the 1982 fiscal year with deficits. Those states were Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Washington and West Virginia. However, the study noted that five of those states -- all but Connecticut and West Virginia -- enact biennial budgets and have one year to correct their deficits. Spok Rev 7/30/82 UFOs attack Economy Jobless rate highest June figure on record OLYMPIA (AP) -- Washington's severe unemployment has worsened, and now stands at 12.4 percent, Employment Security Commission Norward Brooks said today. It is the highest June figure on record. The commissioner said unemployment rose from 12.1 percent in May, due primarily to thousands of youths entering the job market in June but not landing jobs. The state's unemployment rate, which has been ranking third in the nation, had been easing downward from a record high of 13 percent this spring. Behind the higher figures are 8,800 additional people who have not been able to find work, Brooks said. That brings the total number of jobless to 251,600, he said. The national average, by comparison, is 9.8 percent. A year ago, Washington's unemployment rate was 8.8 percent, so the jobless problem is almost 66 percent worse this June, Brooks said. Spokane's unemployment rate is 12.4 percent. In the Seattle-Everett area, it's 11.1 percent. Tacoma's is 12.8, Tri-Cities, 16.8, Yakima 15.5, Vancouver-Clark County 11.9, Olympia 12.4, and Bremerton 11.8. Spok Rev 7/31/82 === Page 9 of 92 Unemployment rates for April set record in 27 states, D.C. In 27 states and the District of Columbia, unemployment rates for April were the highest since the government began compiling such figures in 1970. Unlike the national unemployment statistics, the state-by-state figures are seasonally unadjusted, and they follow the national employment report by about six weeks. Nationally, the April was 9.4 percent and moved up 9.5 percent in May. State-by-state figures for May are not yet available. COMPETITION from abroad, identified as the source of problems and ultimately, unemployment in the auto and steel industries, so has found victims in other businesses. Last week SCM Corp. announced that it will close a Smith-Corona factory near Cortland, N.Y., that produces portable electric typewriters because they no longer are competitive with typewriters imported from Japan. Company officials say they have been frustrated in attempts to win government help in a fight against what they say is the dumping of Japanese typewriters on the U.S. market. Four hundred jobs will be lost when production is moved to an SCM plant in Singapore late next year. Many companies, like 3M, are offering early retirement in an effort to avoid further layoffs, putting people out of work but technically not swelling unemployment rolls. This technique was used earlier this year by Dow Chemical Co., which reduced its U.S. work force by 1,951 employees to 37,000 when 8 percent of those eligible for early retirement accepted it. "The suggestion there is that, if those 2,000 elected the early-retirement option, they will not be replaced by a commensurate 2,000 new employees," Dow spokesman Rich Long said. [Map of the United States showing unemployment rates by state] 10.0% and over 8.0% to 9.9% 6.0% to 7.9% less than 6.0% SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics MONSANTO CO., where 200 St. Louis employees have taken voluntary retirement, has reduced the number of workers in two plants in another fashion. Three hundred workers in nylon plants in Pensacola, Fla., and Greenwood, S.C., are on "work-sharing" -- in effect, splitting a job between two people. Each affected employee works two weeks, and then has two weeks off while another worker fills the job. "It's to their benefit, because they're working and collecting a salary, and it's to Monsanto's benefit because we don't have to retrain people," said Susan Kelly of Monsanto. Another nylon plant, owned by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. in Chattanooga, Tenn., is closing completely, however, putting 500 people out of work. But Faith Wohl, speaking for the company, insists that the closing is not recession-related. "It's a recognition that the equipment we have there is no longer competitive," she says, also remarking on a world-wide glut of capacity for nylon production. Monsanto, however, acknowledges that the recession has hurt the nylon business. "You sell nylon to people who make carpets, and people who make draperies, and people who make car seats," Kelly says. "The auto and housing industries are not booming places." THE PROBLEMS in housing also have hurt GE's Louisville appliance operations, although most of the rest of the giant conglomerate's businesses are thriving. "There ain't no way if appliances are down that GE is going to be up," says Arthur Demaris, a GE spokesman. "When the housing industry is in the shape it's in, there's no way GE cannot be affected. We're hoping that there's a pent-up demand out there for housing, and that, when it turns around, it will turn around good." Demaris says GE hopes eventually to bring all 3,900 employees laid off at Louisville back to work. Other healthy companies that have dropped workers in some divisions or plants include Westinghouse Electric Corp., Ralston-Purina, Texas Instruments and Gillette Co. Bucking the trend is International Business Machines Corp. An IBM spokesman said IBM never has had any furloughs or layoffs. === Page 10 of 92 Unemployment rate hits 9.8%; number of jobs remains stable Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent last month, after hovering around 9.5 percent since April, as the severe recession continued to take its toll on jobs. The Department of Labor said the rate was the highest it has been since late 1941, when the nation was feeling the lingering effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Despite the sharp increase in the unemployment rate, the number of Americans at work stayed about the same, at 99.7 million. But about 360,000 individuals entered the labor force looking for jobs they could not find. As a result, the number of unemployed Americans climbed from less than 10.5 million to about 10.8 million in July, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Economy lost its spring zip By OWEN ULLMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy, trying to struggle out of a year-long recession, expanded less than first estimated during the spring and anemic corporate profits have edged down further, the government reported Thursday. Economists said the reports confirmed the growing view among experts that the slump is at or near its bottom but a long-overdue recovery has yet to materialize. "This suggests we are in a prolonged bottoming-out process and that the worst is over," said Aillen Sinai, chief economist for Data Resources Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. "We no longer have a free-falling economy." "The numbers are consistent with the bottoming-out thesis," said Theodore Torda, a senior economist at the Commerce Department. "But there is nothing in this report that convinces me that a recovery is underway." Most forecasters, who previously predicted a recovery would be underway by spring or summer, now expect the economy to stage a slow, weak recovery by historic standards during the early or late fall. They say the recent drop in interest rates, which have choked the economy for the past year, improves the outlook for a recovery. In a revised report, the Commerce Department said inflation-adjusted gross national product -- the broadest measure of economic activity -- rose at a weak annual rate of 1.3 percent during the second quarter, but that was a big improvement from the sharp fall during the prior six months. Spokane, Wash., Wed., Jan. 26, 1983 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW A3 Most states find income lags far behind estimates WASHINGTON (AP) -- All but three states are lagging far behind the income they expected when they wrote their budgets and 19 of them may wind up in the hole by the end of the fiscal year, the National Conference of State Legislatures said Tuesday. Another dozen states anticipate year-end balances of 1 percent or less of their annual general-fund spending. Since states, unlike the federal government, cannot print money to make up their losses, they most consider a 5 percent cushion essential to meet emergencies. Only six states in the 50-state, year-end survey expected balances of more than 5 percent by next June 30, which is the end of the fiscal year for most states. The survey, the latest of several conducted recently of state finances, is by far the most pessimistic. Only Alaska, Massachusetts and Montana reported income equaling or exceeding projections made last spring. States projecting deficits at the mid-point of the fiscal year were Washington, Idaho, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Louisiana, Virginia, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and California. Since most states are barred by constitutions or statutes from running deficits, shortages are expected to be made up in most of the remaining 47 through tax increases or spending reductions, the report said. Thirty-five states already have cut spending since adopting their budgets. Minnesota, Indiana, New Jersey, Mississippi and Nebraska raised taxes in special legislative sessions during the closing weeks of 1982. In some instances the fix will be largely cosmetic, however, achieved by such sleight of hand as deferring spending until after July 1, when it will fall into the next budget. The conference's report said 35 states have reduced spending for the current fiscal year below the level in their original budgets. "The reason for these cutbacks is a plague of revenue shortfalls that has afflicted nearly every state," the report said. "As the recession has persisted much longer than expected, all but three states have seen their tax revenue flow in more slowly than anticipated in their budgets." The survey found the recession-spurred fund shortage afflicting all areas of the country, including the Sun Belt and energy-rich areas considered prosperous in the past. === Page 11 of 92 the big bo OPEC news starts drop New York Times NEW YORK -- Stock prices plummeted Monday in accelerated trading triggered by news that the meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Operating Countries collapsed without reaching an agreement on production quotas and prices. The Dow Jones industrial average, which was off 30.54 points at 12:30 p.m., ended the session down 22.81 points to 1,030.17. The selloff was across-the-board with declining issues on the New York Stock Exchange outscoring stocks that advanced by a 10-to-1 ratio. In the previous five trading sessions the blue-chip barometer lost 27.87 points, including a drop of 17.84 points on Friday, mainly because of growing investor apprehension over rising interest rates. The drop in the Dow was its largest one-day decline since Oct. 25 when it tumbled 36.33 points, the second highest on record, when concern mounted that the decline in interest might be ending. The record daily loss is 38.33 points set on Oct. 28, 1929, during the market crash that preceded the Great Depression. Turnover expanded to 90.8 million shares from 77.1 million shares on Friday as intensified selling by the mutual and pension funds as well as other institutional accounts dropped equity prices. Here are the complete closing prices of New York Europeans report worst joblessness since World War II BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The Common Market on Friday reported 11.2 million people unemployed in the 10-nation European economic bloc during September, a postwar record. The monthly job report said the new unemployment figures meant that 9.8 percent of the workforce was jobless for September and warned that this figure will surpass the 10.1 percent U.S. level unless European business revives. The report showed the worst unemployment rates since World War II, with 300,000 more people out of work than in August and 1.8 million more than in September 1981. Rates ranged from a high of 14.8 percent in Belgium to 1.3 percent in Luxembourg. Unemployment climbed in all 10 Common Market countries, except Ireland and Greece, which already are among the poorest regions in the economic bloc. The new rates also included 13.1 percent in Ireland, 13 percent in Britain, 10.8 percent in the Netherlands, 10.5 percent in Italy, 9 percent in Denmark, 8.9 percent in France and 6.9 percent in West Germany. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., Jan. 25, 1983, Sp Spokane, Wash., Fri., Jan. 7 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 25 States to be $2 billion in red WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recession ridden state governments will end fiscal 1983 at least $2 billion in the hole because of shrinking revenue and rising costs, according to a year-end survey. The survey, released Thursday, was conducted by the National Governors' Association and National Association of State Budget Officers and was based on responses from 41 states. "While the causes of the current situation are several -- notably the recession, low inflation and reduction in federal aid -- recession is clearly the most important single factor since it tends to slash revenues while increasing pressure for additional spending," the report said. The most alarming finding was a sharp drop in state income since fiscal year budgets were written last summer. Nine states now expect large deficits by the end of the fiscal year, which is June 30 for most states. The revenue drop for the 41 states reporting was nearly $8 billion, offset only partly by spending now expected to be $4.6 billion less than estimated last spring. Because recession casts many people onto unemployment rolls and increases the need for welfare and other forms of aid, it places a drain on state treasuries at the same time the newly unemployed stop paying taxes and others hold down taxable personal spending. Most states already have imposed austerity measures or are planning them in an effort to hold down the final deficit, the report said. State revenues are now expected to rise by only 6.3 percent over fiscal 1982, well below the increases of the past 10 years. "Even as bleak as these totals are, the fiscal situation in the states may be worse than is portrayed here," the report said. "Several states, including Ohio, have not recently updated their estimates, and since revenues across the country were lower than expected in the fall, these early estimates will no doubt prove optimistic." Revised figures for the remaining nine states are expected later this month, the report said. "The recession has affected both the Frostbelt and Sunbelt with states like California and Maryland, Oklahoma and North Dakota showing big drops in ending balances from fiscal years 1982 and 1983," the report said. "Only seven states did not impose either across-the-board or selective spending cuts for fiscal years 1982 or 1983," the report said. "Of these, three states have adopted other austerity measures." Twenty-two reported they adopted permanent or temporary revenue-raising measures in fiscal 1982 or 1983. Cutting state work forces was the most popular money saving device, the study found. Thirty-three of the states imposed hiring limitations, while eighteen states laid off employees and eight others issued furloughs. The aggregate $2 billion deficit expected by the states compares with balances of $2.4 billion for fiscal 1982 and $4.8 billion for the prior year. Since nearly all states are prohibited from running deficit budgets, the losses will have to be made up by further spending cuts, higher taxes or rescue from a revived economy. Because of the inability to resort to deficit spending, states build in surpluses of about 5 percent to take care of emergencies such as the current recession. The $2 billion in red ink now expected means the states have run through any budgeted cushions and are still facing dramatic shortfalls. === Page 12 of 92 WFor attack Economy Jobless rate hits new high Skohler 11/6/82 WASHINGTON (AP). Unemployment jumped to 10.4 percent in October, an- other post-Depression record borne of bleakened conditions virtually through- out the workforce regardless of sex, race or age. Demo- crats demanded - with some apparent sympathy from Republican ranks that Congress enact a jobs program over President Reagan's objections. In the Pacific Northwest, Montana'sunemployment rate for October rose by an estimat- od six-tenths of 1 percent to 8 per- cent, state Labor Commissioner Da- vid Hunter said Friday. September's final seasonally unad- justed rate was 7.4 percent. Temporary layoffs in Idaho lum- ber mills pushed that state's unmployment level to a record high of 11.1 percent for October, up from 9.5 percent in September, the Idaho Department of Employment said Friday Washington's unemployemnt dropped to 10.9 percent in Septem- ber, state officials announced last week. The state's August rate was 11.9 percent. The U.S. Labor Department's re- port Friday revealed that for the first time since the government be- gan compiling monthly statistics in 1948, the percentage of unemployed full-time workers eclipsed that of part-time employees. That drama- tized dwindling job opportunities in sectors, particularly heavy manu- facturing, that have provided the bulwark of jobs. Altogether, 11.6 million Ameri- cans were out of work. U.S. unemployment 10.4 10.0 9.5 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 ASOND JFMAMJJASO 1081 1952 The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the overall, seasonally adjust: ed unemployment rate spurted 0.3 of a percentage point from the 10.1. percent annual rate of September: The 10.4 percent figure for October. was the highest since an annual av- erage 14.6 percent jobless rate in 1940. The all-time high - an annual average unemployment rate of 24.9 percent - was established in 1933 during the depths of the Depression. Rep. Henry S. Reuss, D-Wis., chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, called the latest figures "devastating." He an- nounced that in the coming lame- duck session of Congress, Demo- crats will propose a multibillion- dollar public works program. The AFL-CIO reiterated its call for such a program. At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes sald that while President Reagan was "sym- pathetic and concerned about the difficulties of those who are unem- ployed," he will continue to oppose any new government-subsidized jobs program. UFO1 attack Economy SporRer 10/20/80 Claims for unemployment benefits at third highest level of recession WASHINGTON (AP) - Another 685,000 Americans besieged state employment offices with applica- tions for jobless benefits in the week ending Oct. 9, the third high- ost filing surge of the recession, ac- rding to figures released Thurs- y Although the claims-filing level 11,000 below the previous eev, it was in line with the heavy lings of recent weeks. Economists ay that augurs poorly for national inemployment, already at a post- World War II peak. Through the week ending Oct. 2, according to the Labor Depart- ment, about 4.6 million people were claiming unemployment insurance checks under state programs, an in- crease of 160,000 from the previous week's seasonally revised total. The seasonally adjusted overall national jobless rate in September surged to 10.1 percent, the highest unemployment in percentage terms since the waning days of the Great Depression in 1942. Nearly 11.3 million Americans were out of work. UPOR attack Economy nation Hard times for U.S. cities LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officials representing 15,000 U.S. cities and towns complained Sunday of the worst economic times in a generation as the National League of Cities opened its annual convention, The recession dominated conversations at the meeting and brought early endorsements of President Reagan's proposed federal gas-tax in- crease to provide money for road jobs. Reagan was expected to discuss the proposal in a speech to the delegates Monday. Reagan's "new federalism" proposal, which had dominated most meetings of state and local officials since he first announced it in January, also was on the conference agenda. Mayor Ferd Harrison of Scotland Neck, N.C., league president, set the tone of the four-day convention when he said at an opening news con- ference that "the nation's cities are coping with hard times, the worst in over a generation for the hard-hit cities." Spok Rev 11/28/82 UFOR attack Economy World debt worries Regan WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said Tuesday the world's financial sys- tem is in a "very precarious situa- tion" because of the increasing" number of developing nations un- able to repay enormous foreign debts. In a meeting with reporters, Re- gan said he is "worried" about the international situation, which some financial experts say could develop Into a worldwide lending crisis. The Treasury secretary said the International Monetary Fund and private bankers have managed to reschedule debts of countries un- able to pay on time thus far to goods that provide much of the Third World's income. Spohled 11/24/80 But, he added, "We are not out of the woods by a long shot. We still have a very precarious situation." The IMF already has given tenta- tive approval for multibillion dollar Joans to help Mexico and Argentina, the Third World's biggest debtors. Debt problems still must be re- solved for many other countries, in- cluding Brazil, several European nations and a number of African countries. The troubles of the developing countries stem from the worldwide Tecession, which has caused a sharp drop in prices for oil and other avoid a banking crisis. === Page 13 of 92 # Record 4.6 million get jobless benefits WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 4.6 million Americans got jobless benefits in the week ending Oct. 9, the highest number since the program was inaugurated in 1935, a government report showed Thursday. The Labor Department's weekly unemployment claims report showed that 4,662,000 out-of-work people were drawing benefits under state-run programs, shattering the previous record set in the last week of May 1975. Although the level of jobless people receiving unemployment checks was a thousand higher than the previous high, less than half of those counted among the ranks of the unemployed were receiving such aid, figures released by the Employment and Training Administration showed. Moreover, first-time claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending Oct. 16 reached 687,000, the third highest on record. It was the tenth consecutive week that new applications for jobless checks breached the 600,000 level -- a development economists said certifies further rises in the nation's overall unemployment rate, which hit 10.1 percent of the labor force in September, the highest since 1940. On Capitol Hill, the staff of the congressional Joint Economic Committee released a job market analysis which contended that the unemployment rate would surge to 10.5 percent in October. The committee said it arrived at that conclusion based on the relationship between the total existing unemployment rate of 10.1 percent and the insured unemployment rate of 5.3 percent. "Since January 1981," a committee statement said, "there has been a very close relationship between these two measures of unemployment." It said that over a 21-month period between January 1981 and September 1982, the total overall unemployment rate predicted by this relationship has been identical with the actual rate nine times and has differed by only a fraction of a percent in the other instances. "The expectation of a significant increase in the unemployment rate this month is borne out by the extraordinarily high level of initial claims for unemployment benefits in October," the statement said. Rising unemployment, which has left 11.3 million people out of work, has heavily taxed unemployment compensation trust funds in the various states, and some have had to borrow from the federal government to continue such payments. The unemployment compensation program was enacted by Congress in 1935 during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first presidential term, as part of the Social Security Act. In the week ending Oct. 9, Thursday's report said, the number of Americans collecting unemployment insurance checks under regular state programs was 43,000 higher than the previous week and 1.5 million higher than at the same time a year ago. The 10 states with the highest Insured Unemployment Rates -- the proportion of the labor force drawing jobless benefits -- were: ### As the number of jobless increases... Employed 99,270,000 Unemployed 11,260,000 **10.1%** Last month's unemployment rate of 10 percent marks the first time in 40 years that the United States has experienced double-digit unemployment. The last time the country had an unemployment rate more than 10 percent was in 1940 when it was 14.6 percent. SOURCE: Labor Department ### ...fewer find opportunities... (Help-wanted advertising as percent of 1967 average) | | | | |---|---|---| | 120 | 1967=100 | Seasonally adjusted | | 110 | | | | 100 | | | | 90 | | | | 80 | | | O N D J F M A M J J A S O 1981 1982 Help-wanted advertising fell in August, the most recent month available, to 78 percent of the 1967 average, down from 83 percent in July. The index measures the volume of classified advertising in 51 major newspapers in the United States. SOURCE: Conference Board ### ...and benefits claims set records (Initial claims for state unemployment benefits, in thousands) Seasonally adjusted | Sept. 4 | Sept. 11 | Sept. 18 | Sept. 25 | |---|---|---|---| | 659 | 612 | 703* | 697 | Week ended *Record. The 703,000 claims filed for the week ended Sept. 18 were the highest since the Labor Department began compiling this data in 1967. The number of people receiving regular state benefits in the week ended Sept. 18 was nearly 4.4 million. SOURCE: Labor Department © NEWS GRAPHICS 1982 === Page 14 of 92 # Jobless rate hits 10.8 percent *UFOs attack Economy* WASHINGTON (AP) -- The national unemployment rate leaped to 10.8 percent in November as the ranks of the jobless bloated to 12 million, according to grim pre-holiday statistics released Friday. President Reagan called the report a "continuing tragedy." THE 0.4 PERCENTAGE POINT jump from October's 10.4 percent jobless rate went beyond even the most pessimistic forecasts of Reagan's chief economics adviser and private analysts -- and dimmed even further prospects for a post-Christmas business recovery. The labor market, which has been in steady deterioration since the recession set in during August 1981, eroded even further last month as post-Depression unemployment highs were established across virtually the whole spectrum of the U.S. population. IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Montana's unemployment rate took a jump in November to an estimated 9.2 percent, state Labor Commissioner David Hunter said Friday. The figure is up nine-tenths of 1 percent from October's confirmed 8.3 percent. Idaho's jobless rate declined to 9.9 percent in November, down more than a full point from October's 11 percent figure, Employment Director Scott McDonald said Friday, but it was no indication that the economy may be recovering. He explained that the October rate was inflated by temporary layoffs in the timber industry. Washington state's unemployment in November was reported earlier in the week at 11.4 percent. Nationwide, joblessness was the highest in four decades for adult men and women, whites, teenagers, Hispanics and full-time workers. Only blacks were spared from further rises in joblessness as the unemployment rate among this group held steady at a record 20.2 percent last month. REAGAN, CONTINUING A five-nation tour of Latin America, issued a statement saying the latest unemployment report "makes it more important than ever that we press forward in our efforts to create a solid, sustained recovery." Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan said in a statement, "The continuing increase in unemployment distresses me, as it does all Americans." "As the president said, the unemployment represents a tragedy and our nation's most urgent challenge," he said. "We have made major progress in improving the economy as evidenced by declining interest rates, reduced inflation, and curtailed federal spending growth, but we must press ahead to create a solid, sustained recovery and end the hardship of unemployment." One administration official said the jump in the jobless figure caught economic planners by surprise and produced new worries about the severity of the recession. "THIS IS ONE MORE SIGN that this recession is really bad," said the official, who spoke on the condition that his name not be used. "This is terrible, worse than we thought." The figures do not shed any light, however, on whether the long-expected recovery will be postponed further, he added. Reagan's chief economist, Martin S. Feldstein, declined an invitation by the Democratic chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress to testify Friday or next Monday on the jobless situation. A Feldstein spokesman, who did not want his name used, said Feldstein received less than 48 hours notice about Friday's hearing. The spokesman said Feldstein will not testify Monday because he has not yet been confirmed by the Senate and because he will be busy in meetings with Reagan, who will be just back from his Latin American trip. *Spok Rev 12/4/82* ## Unemployment rates by state (August 1982) Unemployment rates increased in 49 states and the District of Columbia between August 1981 and August 1982. The national unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, rose from 7.2 to 9.6 percent over the same period. Highest jobless rates were reported in Michigan (14.5 percent) and Alabama (14.2 percent), and lowest in South Dakota (4.3 percent) and North Dakota (4.7 percent). Note: Unlike the national unemployment statistics, the state-by-state figures are seasonally unadjusted. They follow the national employment report by about six weeks. Nationally, the unseasonably adjusted unemployment rate for August was 9.8 percent, for September 10.1 percent and for October 10.4 percent. *UFOs attack Economy Spok Rev 12/4/82* - [ ] 10% and over - [ ] 8.0% to 9.9% - [ ] 6.0% to 7.9% - [ ] Less than 6% © NEWS GRAPHICS 1982 === Page 15 of 92 attack economy # Output, employment, demand all down By ROBERT FURLOW Associated Press Spok Rev 12/5/82 WASHINGTON -- Seventeen months into the recession, unemployment is rising faster than ever and production is still falling. Economists are still talking about recovery, but no one seems optimistic about when it will come or how strong it will be. "I see no reason to believe the economy is turning up in December," said Donald Straszheim, vice president of Wharton Econometrics. He said the harsh new unemployment figures "will feed fears, and justifiably so. People are likely to retrench and hunker down even more in their spending behavior." Still, he said, his company "would cast a vote for a modest upturn in the first quarter" of 1983 -- growth in the real gross national product at an annual rate of 2.8 percent. INTEREST RATES, though declining, are still too high to encourage much spending, they agree. And unemployment -- already at a 42-year high of 10.8 percent -- may well top 11 percent before long. But the past five months' declines in interest rates have made it cheaper for consumers -- at least those still secure in their jobs -- to buy houses, cars, furniture and other big items. Also, the declines have given substantial relief to companies that have been forced to take out big, short-term loans to keep above water during the long recession. But without a pickup in sales, they can't tread water forever. Private economists saw danger in Friday's report that the nation's unemployment rate soared upward again in November -- reaching a level exactly one-third higher than when the recession began in July 1981. "WITH SO MANY people out of work and others afraid of losing their jobs, demand is not yet picking up," said Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers. And if Americans are afraid to let go of their money to buy companies' goods, those companies can hardly be expected to increase production or hire back laid-off workers. "With industrial production declining and interest rates still much too high, the economy is caught in a vicious cycle of declining output, declining employment and declining demand," Jasinowski said. Even before the unemployment report he had been forecasting that recovery probably would not occur until spring. Another private analyst, Allen Sinai, a vice president with Data Resources Inc., said, "There is no doubt the odds on even a mild recovery now seem greater than they looked a month ago." HIS COMPANY is forecasting national economic growth of 2.2 percent at an inflation-adjusted annual rate for the first quarter of next year, revised downward recently from a bit over 3 percent. Whichever figure is used, he said, "that's not much growth at all." "I guess it is looking more and more like March or April" before significant recovery arrives, Sinai said. And he said even modest growth is not guaranteed, since it seems to depend on even lower interest rates. And they in turn depend in part on continued easing of monetary control by the Federal Reserve Board, which may well depend on significant congressional action to lower federal budget deficits by restraining increases in military and "entitlement" programs such as Social Security. President Reagan, whose first two years in office have been dominated by the severe recession, has shown no signs of calling for any big policy changes to get the economy going again. TRAVELING IN South and Central America on Friday, Reagan issued a statement calling the new rise in unemployment "a continuing tragedy." But he also said his administration had already laid the foundation for economic recovery. "Unfortunately, unemployment has traditionally been one of the last indicators to fall, but as the recovery comes on stream, we can expect to make progress on that front too," he said. At the Commerce Department in Washington, chief economist Robert Ortner said, "I think the chances are still very good that the economy may be turning up in the near future." High interest rates blocked recovery when some signs were previously pointing upward much earlier in the year, he said. But with rates now down somewhat, there has finally been improvement in sales of houses and cars -- two areas traditionally at the forefront of recoveries from recessions. Government officials are already braced for a November decline in industrial production -- the 14th in 16 months -- but they expect better figures for the current month. Ortner conceded, "A drop in production in December might send us scurrying back once more." === Page 16 of 92 UFIs attack Economy # Double-digit unemployment grew in 1982 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Twenty-two states, up from nine a year earlier, and more than half of 210 metropolitan areas had double-digit unemployment in December, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, basing its findings on raw labor force statistics from the 50 states and the District of Columbia, said that joblessness in Alabama, Arizona, Nevada and West Virginia soared by four percentage points or more from December 1981 to December 1982. Those figures compared with a seasonally unadjusted national unemployment rate that jumped 2.2 percentage points -- from 8.3 percent to 10.5 percent -- over the same 12 months. In issuing the monthly national overall unemployment rate based on a Census Bureau survey of 60,000 U.S. households, the government adjusts for such seasonal variations as weather and school closings. The seasonally adjusted overall jobless rate stood at 10.8 percent in December. It fell to 10.4 percent in January. The figures released for the 50 states and the nation's capital on Tuesday are based on a more complex and time-consuming information gathering process. Thus, the figures for most states and all of the metropolitan areas are for December instead of January. The report showed that between December 1981 and last December, unemployment rates rose in all states except Alaska, Delaware and Maryland. While 22 states and the District of Columbia had unadjusted unemployment rates that reached or exceeded 10 percent of their labor forces, only nine states were in double digits at the same time a year earlier. Among some 210 metropolitan areas surveyed, Johnstown, Pa., hard hit by layoffs and mill closings in the steel industry, had the highest unemployment rate, 22.7 percent. That was followed by Flint, Mich., a center of the long-battered auto industry that led the nation's list of jobless cities for months, at 22 percent; Youngstown-Warren, Ohio, 21.1 percent, and Duluth-Superior, Minn., 20.9 percent. === Page 17 of 92 Hammered by hurricane, Hawaii counts vast losses HONOLULU (P) -- A hurricane hit Hawaii with 110-mph winds during the night, causing millions of dollars in damage, killing one person and injuring 10 before it swept out to sea again Wednesday. About 6,700 people were forced into emergency shelters. Officials said Hurricane Iwa was at least three times more destructive than the last hurricane to hit the islands 23 years ago. One Navy man was killed, four sailors were hurt and at least six civilians suffered minor injuries as the storm began tearing into the northern end of the islands Tuesday night, ripping off roofs and knocking down trees and utility poles. Mayor Eduardo Malapit said he expects damage on the island of Kauai alone to total reach $15 million to $20 million, almost four times the $5 million devastation left when Hurricane Dot came through in August of 1959. Gov. George R. Ariyoshi, who flew to Kauai to tour the stricken areas, said the damage appeared to be the worst he had seen in any of the disasters during his eight years as governor. Ariyoshi, saying he was "shocked at the extent of the damage," pledged to issue a disaster proclamation to seek state and federal relief funds. Hardest hit this time were the islands of Kauai and Oahu, where hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged. On Kauai, the business district of Lihue, a city of about 4,000 people, was heavily damaged. "Lihue's business district is a shambles," said Maj. Keith Robinson, commander of the police department's patrol division. "The glass is blown out, their roofs blown off and some stores are totally collapsed. "The streets are clogged with debris and you can't drive through town because of all the downed lines." There was no word Wednesday on the fate of several hundred native Hawaiians who live off Kauai on the small, privately owned island of Niihau, which lay directly on the path of the eye of the storm. Except for emergency generators there was no electricity on Kauai where highways in many parts of the island were blocked by downed utility poles and power lines, police said. (Continued on p.2) ### Hurricane -- (Continued from page 1) "I doubt we'll have any power for quite a while," Robinson said. On Oahu, the most populous island where Honolulu is located, large areas were still without electricity Wednesday, but all roads had been cleared and most businesses were open. The Coast Guard 41-foot patrol boat sank in the high waves tossed by the storm, but their crews escaped injury. A third ran aground while towing two sailboats to safety. Navy ships put out to sea to escape the storm. Lihue, a National Guard company was called out to stand watch at several locations including a branch of the First Hawaiian Bank where the entire roof was ripped off. Robinson said there had been a few reports of looting but no arrests. Agapito Saulibio, a National Guard sergeant posted at the bank, said he lives in the town of Hanamaulu, which also was hard hit. Asked if his home had been damaged, he said, "No. Thank God, we prayed a lot last night." "I've never seen anything like it," Saulibio said. "It was a lot worse than Hurricane Dot." Sugar cane fields and crops of banana trees were flattened in many places on the island. By Wednesday afternoon, the hurricane had moved 400 miles northeast of Honolulu. # Firestorms sweep Australian coast SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Firestorms pushed by gale-force winds swept the parched southeast coast of Australia today and police said at least 55 people perished, many trapped in their cars or farmhouses. The victims included 12 volunteer firefighters. Bush fires raced along 500 miles of coastline in Victoria and South Australia, engulfing seven towns and encircling Adelaide, a city of 1 million people. The worst drought in the nation's history has left farm and ranchland on much of the east coast tinder dry. "We are resigned to the fact that more bodies will be recovered when we finally get inside cars which were trapped by the fires and houses where residents had nowhere to run," fire authorities said. "People are dying as they try to reach their homes," said a firefighter in Lorne, Victoria, where many of the townspeople fled to safety on the beach. "'We can't stop it... It's just like a holocaust. We don't know where to start looking' for victims. Fire authorities said the 12 firemen died Wednesday near Cockatoo, a small hamlet 30 miles from Melbourne, Australia's second largest city. Police said a family of five was incinerated in a car in South Australia, and that many of the other victims had died in their automobiles. Fire authorities said at least 1,400 homes had been burned out in Victoria and police estimated at least 100 more were destroyed in South Australia. === Page 18 of 92 New storm heading up East Coast Associated Press 2/14/83 A new storm as headed up the East Coast today, just a day after the Northeast began to dig out from a record blizzard that killed at least 67 people, closed airports and clogged streets and highways. The new storm dumped snow, sleet and ice pellets on northern Georgia and much of South Carolina Sunday and the National Weather Service said the mid-Atlantic Coast states could expect the same "even worse" today. "The storm will continue moving northeast during the night and is expected to spread another blanket of snow along the mid-Atlantic Coast by late tomorrow," the weather service said Sunday. Steve Corfidi of the Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the new storm was likely to spread 3 to 5 inches of snow from central Virginia to central New Jersey. "It bears some watching," Corfidi said. "It's a similar situation to the last one." Bulldozers and snowplows cleared arteries through the giant cities of the Northeast Sunday, and major airports reopened in time to get thousands of stranded travelers home for Valentine's Day. The Blizzard of '83, which dropped up to 3 feet of snow from North Carolina to New England Friday and Saturday, is blamed for the sinking of a coal ship in which 24 crewmen were killed off the Virginia coast and 43 other deaths in 11 states. In cities such as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, many streets remained clogged with abandoned cars and trucks that were hopelessly mired in waist-deep snow. Officials said it was unlikely all lanes would be cleared by rush hour this morning. New York City authorities had towed away hundreds of disabled cars, but others continued getting stuck Sunday. "The fools won't stay home," said Burt Alexander, a spokesman for the New York Sanitation Department, which is in charge of snow removal. Elizabeth Theopan, assistant traffic commissioner, said officials expected "major problems" this morning. The Sanitation Department issued a blanket offer to rent any dump truck, front-end loader or tow truck. Someone stole a bulldozer from a construction site in Brooklyn and was using it to clear snow until it plowed into a car trapped in a snowbank, police said. In Philadelphia, where 21 inches of snow fell, authorities also were having a problem with stuck cars. "Our problem with these abandoned vehicles was that Philadelphia is just not used to a storm (Continued on page 2) Storm (Continued from page 1) like this," said Joseph McDermott, a maintenance operations chief for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. "I think our people are just not used to driving in this kind of storm, and it created some sort of chaotic situation." As thousands of workers and machines chewed at the mounds of snow, bitter cold Arctic air surged into the region, pushing the mercury below zero in scattered areas from Pennsylvania to Maine. It was 12 below zero in Concord, N.H., and just 1 above in Baltimore, a record for the date. On the Northeast, all major airports reopened Sunday, including Kennedy International and LaGuardia in the New York area, where about 6 to 10 inches had been stranded for 36 hours. Philadelphia International Airport reopened at 9 a.m. after being shut down 41 hours. Washington's Dulles and National airports and Boston's Logan International Airport had reopened Saturday. Officials at the Washington, D.C., Board of Trade said losses from the snowstorm in the Washington area will run into the tens of millions of dollars because stores were forced to close during the usually busy Lincoln's Birthday sales period. In New York City, where up to 22 inches of snow accumulated, 1,000 snowplows and bulldozers were manned around the clock. Officials said main arteries and most side streets would be cleared in a $2 million operation set for the start of the work week. === Page 19 of 92 Ufoe Sun Attack # Californians cleaning up and awaiting next storm S.F. Rev 1/31/81 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Californians filled sandbags and cleaned up debris Sunday in brilliant sunshine after a series of punishing storms which killed at least 11 people and caused more than $71 million in damage. A fifth storm in nine days had been predicted late Sunday, but by afternoon forecasters said the front had weakened, leaving only a chance of light showers for northern California and clear skies in the south. "The storm we were predicting is dwindling out," National Weather Service specialist Betty Reo said. "It will probably be late Tuesday before we get any more rain, although there are still storms backed up over the Pacific." The National Football League's Super Bowl XVII was played at Pasadena's Rose Bowl under picture-postcard skies and temperatures in the 60s. However, the storm Tuesday night could be another violent blow with as much as 3 inches of rain along the coast and gale force winds to 48 mph, Weather Service forecaster Glenn Trapp said. Earlier, Trapp, lead forecast for the agency in Redwood City, had noted "We've been walloped by a storm every 30 to 36 hours since Jan. 21 ...." The weather service said problems with a faulty satellite which doesn't allow storms to be tracked during the night have resulted in uncertainty about the force of the next storm. ![A Malibu resident salvages a bottle of champagne from rubble.] A Malibu resident salvages a bottle of champagne from rubble. Preliminary figures from the state Office of Emergency Services showed 11 people killed in last week's storms, 33 homes and one business destroyed, 3,528 homes and 539 businesses damaged and more than 2,252 residents temporarily displaced. One more home declared unsafe in Malibu on Sunday brought to 15 the number of homes in that seaside community barely clinging to the beach, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Merlin Poppleton. Four Malibu houses and the Paradise Cove pier were destroyed during the storms. The fishing pier at Pismo Beach in San Luis Obispo County was leaning but still standing Sunday, said police dispatcher Shery Lange. It was one of many damaged piers, including the well-known Santa Monica pier, which was heavily damaged. Many residents spent Sunday trying to undo some of the damage wrought by wind, rains and high tides that combined to rip apart piers, pull beach homes into the sea and flood low-lying areas. Red Cross volunteers distributed mops, brooms, scrub brushes, buckets and disinfectant in Orange County, spokeswoman Debby Buckalew said Sunday. Ufoe Sun Attack # Deadly storm sets records in Northeast S.F. Rev 2/12/83 Associated Press A blizzard dumping up to 3 feet of snow paralyzed the Northeast before moving out to sea Saturday, as police arrested looters and crews struggled to reopen airports and highways to free thousands of stranded travelers. The storm was blamed for 36 deaths, including 25 killed when a ship sank in rough seas off Virginia. "It's the worst thing I've ever seen," said Officer Frank Muller in Philadelphia, where 21.3 inches of snow broke the record of 21 set in 1909. Other Pennsylvania cities setting records were Allentown and Harrisburg, both with 24 inches. Boston got 13 inches on top of about 8 on the ground, and Mayor Kevin White called the storm "the worst to hit the city in five years." "Relax and enjoy it, make like a kid again," was the advice from New York City Mayor Ed Koch, where 17.6 inches fell, the most since 1978. Many heeded his call, but police said 14 people were arrested Saturday for looting at a hardware warehouse in the Astoria section of Queens. Up to 100 people apparently broke into the outlet and stole flashlights, batteries and other items, police said. In Baltimore, where 20 inches of snow fell, police beefed up patrols to prevent looting after 131 burglaries were reported overnight, mostly on impassable side streets. Police Commissioner Frank Battaglia said 105 arrests were made. In Washington, where 23 inches of snow made for the third-worst storm in a century, police reported scattered "smash and grab" burglaries Friday night. The storm marched up from Dixie Friday, burying Richmond, Va., in Washington and Baltimore and piling up to 3 feet in rural areas, the most snow to hit the mid-Atlantic states in more than 40 years. It blanketed every major city in the Northeast, then headed out to sea Saturday after dumping 2 feet in Rhode Island, 20 inches on Cape Cod and brushing New Hampshire and Maine with up to a foot. "One of the greatest snowstorms in New York City history," proclaimed Vito Turso, spokesman for the city Sanitation Department, which dispatched 700 snowplows to clear main streets. "It's a doozy," agreed National Weather Service forecaster Harold Gibson. The storm was accompanied by flashing lightning and thunder in some areas -- common enough in the Plains states but a rarity on the Eastern seaboard. The electrical (Continued on page 12) === Page 20 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Worst storm in 40 years buries East Associated Press S-R 2/12/83 The most ferocious snowstorm in more than 40 years barreled up the Eastern Seaboard on Friday, shutting down the nation's capital and locking Philadelphia and New York City in a blizzard. The storm that swept up from the Deep South moved along a path from the hills of North Carolina to New York City, packing up to 50 mph winds and dumping nearly 3 feet of snow in some areas. IT KNOCKED OUT power for thousands of homes, closed schools and busy airports, blocked highways, stranded travelers, and forced President Reagan to cancel his planned weekend trip to Camp David, Md. "This is going to rank among one of the biggest storms of all times in that region," said Ryan Tilley of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. "It will be in the Top 10." The storm grew as it moved up the coast, and was called a blizzard by the time it hit Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York City, where all major airports were closed. NEAR-BLIZZARD conditions were reported in Washington, Baltimore and New Haven, Conn., and airports were shut there also. The storm blanketed the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, dumping 35 inches in the town of Glengary. Electricity was cut to nearly 30,000 homes and businesses in West Virginia, 22,000 of them in the Kanawha River Valley. New York's LaGuardia Airport "was packed with snow" and "the wind was horrendous," said Greg Sullivan of New York, who had planned to fly to Greensboro, N.C. "People were standing in line to find out there planes were canceled. It was just a madhouse." IN PHILADELPHIA, police closed freeway ramps as slipping and sliding cars caused traffic jams. Most businesses closed early. "It seemed like people went to work, got their paychecks and went home," said Dave Murdock, a spokesman for the city transit agency. "I've got people all over my lobby. If I had another 500 rooms, I could fill them," said Robert Ferdiani, manager of the Best Western Philadelphia Airport Inn. "They're in pretty good spirits," he said. "They're rolling with it." Deputy director of aviation Charles Rogers said the Philadelphia airport was "very empty. It's a ghost town up there." WITH ABOUT 2 FEET of snow on the ground by late evening, the nation's capital was virtually shut down and traffic was at a standstill along several major roadways, some blocked by abandoned cars and trucks. The National Weather Service at Baltimore-Washington International Airport recorded 21 inches of snow, an inch more than the previous record set during a paralyzing storm Feb. 22, 1979. More than 500 police officers were deployed on Baltimore streets at nightfall to guard against a repetition of looting that occurred during the last great storm. More than 800 people were arrested then and businesses lost millions of dollars worth of goods to roving bands. POLICE SPOKESMAN Dennis Hill said break-ins were up, but "I wouldn't call it looting ... everything seems to be under control." About 1,400 passengers were stranded at Newark International Airport. "They have adequate areas to relax in," spokesman John Hughes said. "Some are going to find nooks and crannies and spread themselves out. The people generally have enough clothing and luggage with them. It's not as if you're just arriving at the airport with a toothbrush." SNOW FELL AS FAST as 3 inches an hour in northern Virginia and Maryland in what the weather service called the "biggest snowstorm of the year." Winds were gusting to 50 mph along the coast. "We're expecting 4-foot drifts the way it's blowing around," said Bob Curil of the National Weather Service in Harrisburg, Pa., where six tractor-trailer rigs had jackknifed. CONTINUED FROM "DEADLY STORM" 3, 1983, Spokane, Wash. S-R 2/13/83 # Storm (Continued from page 1) storm, said Bob Gager of the Weather Service, "was like a witch coming in on her broom on Christmas Eve. Nobody was expecting it." LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York and Logan in Boston were not expected to reopen until today. Washington's Dulles International reopened Saturday morning and National reopened in the afternoon. Richmond reopened its airport at noon Saturday, and Philadelphia hoped to by today. Newark reopened Saturday for departures only. On Saturday afternoon, an estimated 12,000 people still were stranded at Kennedy and 1,400 at the Newark airport. Hundreds of cars were abandoned on streets in New York, Philadelphia and other cities. Interstate 95, the East's main north-south artery, was littered with thousands of stalled cars and trucks through Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and into Connecticut. The highway for miles in and around New York City was jammed with vehicles that had been stopped for more than 12 hours and had accumulated snowdrifts. New Jersey state police and National Guard units brought 348 people stranded on the Garden State Parkway to an armory in East Orange. More than 600 stranded motorists took shelter Friday at Red Cross headquarters in Frederick County, Md. === Page 21 of 92 Easterners fighting storm residue Spokane, Wash., Tues., Feb. 15, 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 By DAVID L. LANGFORD Associated Press Millions of Eastern city dwellers struggled back to work Monday through the residue of one of the nastiest blizzards in memory, with mounds of gray sludge blocking buses, stalling cars and delaying overcrowded commuter trains up to two hours. The death toll from the Blizzard of '83, which dumped 2 to 3 feet of snow from North Carolina to New England on Friday and Saturday, had climbed to 89, including the 24 dead and 9 missing and presumed dead in the sinking of a coal ship in rough seas 30 miles off Virginia. But the Eastern Seaboard was spared an expected second dose of snow from another storm out of Dixie. After brushing the East Coast with light snow or rain from the Carolinas to New Jersey, the storm swept out to sea below New York. In California, in the meantime, a Pacific storm churned powerful surf along the coast Sunday from San Diego to San Francisco, capsizing boats and killing at least three people. The latest East Coast storm glazed highways with snow or freezing rain in North Carolina around Greensboro and an area north of Raleigh and sent beach-eroding waves pounding into the Outer Banks, shutting down four ferry operations. But to the north it was mainly cold, with subzero readings across New York and New England, where streets in many cities remained blocked with cars stuck in snow up to the door handles. Many people complained of price-gouging by tow truck operators. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs said it had received 40 such calls by noon, with people complaining they had been charged as much as $100 to have their snowbound cars towed off the road. Baltimore police arrested more than 100 people for looting stores over the weekend. As another side-effect of the blizzard, the American Red Cross in Baltimore faced a "critical shortage of blood," according to Pat Owens, a spokeswoman. She said that because the Bloodmobiles were unable to operate over the weekend, an anticipated 900 units of blood were not collected. Traffic jams developed in downtown Philadelphia, where residents largely ignored a plea from Mayor William Green to use public transportation and leave their cars at home. Many Philadelphia neighborhoods remained snowbound and Green asked nonessential city personnel to take a vacation day. "It will be several days at least before the secondary streets are cleared," said Harry Zacher of Philadelphia's Division of Public Property. "We're still trying to get the primary streets cleared." Snow removal costs in eastern Pennsylvania were nearly $6 million and mounting, with the city of Philadelphia alone spending at least $2.3 million between Friday, when the storm began, and noon Monday. The Philadelphia public school system was completely closed Monday but would reopen today, said spokesman William Jones. In Washington, most suburban school districts announced Monday they would remain closed today because of snow-covered roads. Only about 35 to 45 percent of the federal employees in the Washington area showed up for work Monday, said Office of Personnel Management spokesman Patrick Korten. === Page 22 of 92 UFO Storm Attack # Boy rescued from river Associated Press Steak Rev 12/17/82 A bystander rescued an 8-year-old boy from a rain-swollen stream in western Oregon Thursday as rivers continued to rise in the wake of a fierce winter storm. Two deaths were called storm-related, thousands were left without power and a woman was severely injured when she was blown off a motel breezeway. Some storm damage was reported, mainly on the coast. Meanwhile, residents braced for another storm due to hit the state early today. Roland M. Calvo slipped and fell into Mill Creek in Turner about 8:20 a.m. Thursday. The boy was swept a third of a mile downstream. A nearby resident, 27-year-old Ken Burton, opened the door of his house at the time. "I happened to stick my head out the back door and I heard a little boy crying," said Burton, an unemployed plywood mill worker. Burton saw the boy clinging to a log, ran about 100 yards to the stream bank and jumped in. He held on to the boy until volunteer firefighters slashed through nearby brush and came to the rescue. "I thought about carrying him out but he was too scared," Burton said. The boy was treated at a nearby hospital and was released. The heavy rains Wednesday had expanded the creek's width to about 150 feet and it was about 5 1/2 feet deep, witnesses said. Several western Oregon rivers crested above flood stage Thursday, but there were no reports of damage. Thursday's rains were expected to swell them further. ## Oregon storm leaves many homes in dark Two people died in storm-related accidents. Burl P. Dalgliesh, 18, Salem, was killed when he was struck by a car as he ran from the Fairview Training Center, where he lived. Police said the driver of the car didn't see Dalgliesh because it was dark and raining heavily. The chief engineer of the freighter Jalamorari died shortly after he and 60 other crew members were taken aboard a rescue ship after the Jalamorari sank 700 miles west of Coos Bay early Wednesday. Thousands of Oregon homes and businesses were without power Wednesday night and Thursday morning as high winds knocked down utility poles and snapped transmission lines. About 600 customers of Pacific Power & Light Co. still were without electricity in Coos County Thursday afternoon. A spokesman for the utility, Gary Donnelly, said 100 workers were trying to restore electricity. Crews were brought from Medford and Roseburg to help with the repair work. Donnelly said the lights went out at about 5,000 homes in the county's rural areas Wednesday night. There were reports that wind gusts reached 100 mph on the coast Wednesday night. Deputy Karen Baker of the Coos County sheriff's office said the gusts tore the roofs off of several houses. "I have somebody's roof in my driveway right now," she said, "and with the hole I've got in my roof, I could use it." The winds and rains subsided in most areas Thursday morning as the low pressure system moved northward into British Columbia. The National Weather Service, however, said another low pressure system was developing about 800 miles off the Oregon Coast. The system was expected to bring more rain and wind to the state by late Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a travelers advisory Thursday afternoon for the Oregon Cascades and Siskiyous. The weather service said the approaching storm should drop the snowfall level to 4,500 feet with six inches of snow or more anticipated in the mountain passes. Lowry J. Collins, 56, of Seaside, was in critical condition Thursday at Portland's Emanuel Hospital after she was blown off a sixth-floor breezeway Wednesday night at the Sea and Sand Condominiums in Seaside. Gold Beach took the brunt of the Wednesday night storm in Curry County. Store windows were shattered throughout the downtown area. Strong gusts blew in three large freight doors and crumpled a section of a building supply store in Gold Beach. "We were here when it happened," said Alda Neil, mother of the store's owners. "There was just a big gust of wind and it ripped off some of the siding and three of the doors." === Page 23 of 92 Winter's first storm continues its assault By EDWARD MILLER Associated Press Winter's first big storm trudged eastward and smacked the Rockies with a blizzard Thursday, continuing an assault of wind and snow that claimed 13 lives in the West. Christmas shoppers from Montana to northern New Mexico were warned to finish their errands quickly or risk getting stranded. Avalanche warnings were posted for back-country areas. The storm battered the West Coast from California to Washington on Wednesday with hurricane-force wind and rain, and moved into the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range with snow. It pushed eastward Thursday into Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. The National Weather Service said the storm would move into the Great Plains by Christmas Eve. The wind gusted to 92 mph at Mount Tamalpais north of San Francisco on Wednesday, hard enough to pitch the Golden Gate Bridge 5 feet, and the swaying landmark was closed temporarily. It was the first wind-caused closing of the bridge in 31 years. The wind tossed a 30,000-pound trailer truck on its side near Fresno and tipped over a truck full of mattresses on the Golden Gate Bridge. Two million homes and offices lost power when eight electrical transmission towers 50 miles southeast of San Francisco blew over and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant at Sacramento shut down to prevent an overload. Disneyland went dark, rides halted and 7,700 people had to be evacuated from the amusement park in Anaheim, guided by employees carrying flashlights. It was the first evacuation in Disney-land's history. The Las Vegas strip glittered because emergency generators kept casinos going when the rest of the city went dark. San Francisco police reported more than three dozen strong-armed robberies of commuters stranded by electrified buses during the blackout. Power was restored to most customers within about 2½ hours, but more than 30,000 customers from Santa Maria to Eureka were still without electricity at midday Thursday, along with 10,000 in the Nevada mountains. Lt. Jerry Norris of the Oregon state police said motorists in the southern Cascades and the Siskiyous "won't be allowed through" without chains on their tires. Chains were also required on Wolf Creek and Red Mountain passes in the Colorado Rockies. "We'll be getting upwards of 18 inches of snow in the mountains and at least four on the eastern plains," National Weather Service forecaster Dick Elder said. "It looks good for snow on Christmas." However, the snow was "making highway travel difficult to impossible" in Colorado, he said, and the falling temperatures in the Rocky Mountain states could bring a wind-chill factor as bitter as 15 below, Elder predicted. Elder said the low-pressure system that delivered the damaging winds to the Pacific Coast had crossed the Continental Divide and into Wyoming and Utah, and was on a collision course with another low-pressure system moving into Colorado from the east. The result, he said, would be heavy snow and more powerful winds. "It would be dangerous for a person stranded in this kind of situation," he said. Durango, Colo., reported 9 inches of snow Thursday. In Utah, power was knocked out for 70 minutes in the Sugarhouse area south of Salt Lake City and most employees of Hill Air Force Base near Ogden were sent home. "Widespread areas of unstable snow exist and avalanches are certain on steep slopes and gullies above 7,000 feet," the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center said. Elsewhere, a tornado struck the eastern side of Texarkana, Ark., on Thursday, injuring at least one person, authorities said. It was the third tornado this month to hit the city. A surprise storm hit the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts and was expected to bring up to 8 inches of snow before turning to freezing rain and coating most of the state. There was scattered light snow in parts of New England, rain and a few thunderstorms in the Ohio and and Tennessee Valleys and fog and drizzle over the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. In California, nine people died Wednesday in weather-related accidents. Two civilian workers from Oakland died when their crane overturned on Yerba Buena Island as they were working on a Navy house. A large eucalyptus tree struck and killed a San Francisco city gardener, a Pleasant Hills parks worker was electrocuted when a live wire fell on him and a Los Angeles teen-ager died when he was hit by a power line. A blast in an avalanche control device killed four workers at the Helms hydroelectric project near Fresno. In Oregon, two people died in an auto accident Wednesday on snow-covered U.S. 20 between the cities of Bend and Sisters. Giant storm flails Northeast Associated Press A major winter storm rolled over the Northeast on Monday, plastering some areas with up to 15 inches of snow on the anniversary of the Blizzard of '78. At least two highway deaths were blamed on the Atlantic storm, one in upstate New York on Monday and one in North Carolina on Sunday. Two school buses collided on a snow-covered road near Corning, N.Y., injuring both drivers and a 6-year-old girl. And in Worcester, Mass., a 9-year-old boy suffered severe head injuries when he tried to hitch a ride on a snowplow. The storm blew in after forming Sunday near Cape Hatteras, N.C., and dumping 12 inches of snow in the mountains of North Carolina. In the West, another in a series of powerful storms moved across Northern California on Sunday and Monday, bringing rain, snow and pounding surf. Radio interference expected BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Radio transmission interference is expected today and Saturday due to a minor magnetic storm triggered by a solar flare, according to solar forecasters at the NOAA-Air Force Space Environment Services Center. Solar forecaster James Gordon said the magnetic storm, caused by a solar flare that occurred Thursday, should begin at 4 a.m. PST today and continue through Saturday. The magnetic storm also might cause an aurora borealis to become visible from the very northern part of the United States, he said. === Page 24 of 92 M.D. Sun Attack # Boy rescued from river Associated Press Statesman Review 12/17/82 A bystander rescued an 8-year-old boy from a rain-swollen stream in western Oregon Thursday as rivers continued to rise in the wake of a fierce winter storm. Two deaths were called storm-related, thousands were left without power and a woman was severely injured when she was blown off a motel breezeway. Some storm damage was reported, mainly on the coast. Meanwhile, residents braced for another storm due to hit the state early today. Roland M. Calvo slipped and fell into Mill Creek in Turner about 8:20 a.m. Thursday. The boy was swept a third of a mile downstream. A nearby resident, 27-year-old Ken Burton, opened the door of his house at the time. "I happened to stick my head out the back door and I heard a little boy crying," said Burton, an unemployed plywood mill worker. Burton saw the boy clinging to a log, ran about 100 yards to the stream bank and jumped in. He held on to the boy until volunteer firefighters slashed through nearby brush and came to the rescue. "I thought about carrying him out but he was too scared," Burton said. The boy was treated at a nearby hospital and was released. The heavy rains Wednesday had expanded the creek's width to about 150 feet and it was about 5 1/2 feet deep, witnesses said. Several western Oregon rivers crested above flood stage Thursday, but there were no reports of damage. Thursday's rains were expected to swell them further. ## Oregon storm leaves many homes in dark Two people died in storm-related accidents. Burl P. Dalgliesh, 18, Salem, was killed when he was struck by a car as he ran from the Fairview Training Center, where he lived. Police said the driver of the car didn't see Dalgliesh because it was dark and raining heavily. The chief engineer of the freighter Jalamorrari died shortly after he and 60 other crew members were taken aboard a rescue ship after the Jalamorrari sank 700 miles west of Coos Bay early Wednesday. Thousands of Oregon homes and businesses were without power Wednesday night and Thursday morning as high winds knocked down utility poles and snapped transmission lines. About 600 customers of Pacific Power & Light Co. still were without electricity in Coos County Thursday afternoon. A spokesman for the utility, Gary Donnelly, said 100 workers were trying to restore electricity. Crews were brought from Medford and Roseburg to help with the repair work. Donnelly said the lights went out at about 5,000 homes in the county's rural areas Wednesday night. There were reports that wind gusts reached 100 mph on the coast Wednesday night. Deputy Karen Baker of the Coos County sheriff's office said the gusts tore the roofs off of several houses. "I have somebody's roof in my driveway right now," she said, "and with the hole I've got in my roof, I could use it." The winds and rains subsided in most areas Thursday morning as the low pressure system moved northward into British Columbia. The National Weather Service, however, said another low pressure system was developing about 800 miles off the Oregon Coast. The system was expected to bring more rain and wind to the state by late Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a travelers advisory Thursday afternoon for the Oregon Cascades and Siskiyous. The weather service said the approaching storm should drop the snowfall level to 4,500 feet with six inches of snow or more anticipated in the mountain passes. Lowry J. Collins, 56, of Seaside, was in critical condition Thursday at Portland's Emanuel Hospital after she was blown off a sixth-floor breezeway Wednesday night at the Sea and Sand Condominiums in Seaside. Gold Beach took the brunt of the Wednesday night storm in Curry County. Store windows were shattered throughout the downtown area. Strong gusts blew in three large freight doors and crumpled a section of a building supply store in Gold Beach. "We were here when it happened," said Alda Neil, mother of the store's owners. "There was just a big gust of wind and it ripped off some of the siding and three of the doors." === Page 25 of 92 northwest Old Faithful survives again YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park officials found some subtle changes in geothermal activities in the wake of a "moderate" earthquake Sunday, park officials said. But there were no major changes or damage in the earthquake, one of the most severe in the park in almost eight years, they said. "Old Faithful was not affected," park spokeswoman Joan Anselmo said. The earthquake measured 5 on the Richter scale and was centered in the Old Faithful area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey earthquake center in Golden, Colo. Yellowstone officials, however, said Monday they believed the quake only registered 4 on the Richter scale. Flooding, deep snow caused by big storm By EDWARD MILLER Associated Press Moist air from Mexico collided with the remnants of the Rocky Mountain blizzard Sunday, coating New Mexico and western Texas with more than a foot of snow and dousing Louisiana with flash floods. In northern Louisiana, makeshift snorkels were placed on the exhaust pipes of National Guard trucks and buses to keep their engines from stalling under floodwaters during evacuations. A snowstorm hit the southern half of New Mexico and western Texas and left a foot on the ground at El Paso, Texas, where many motorists "have never driven in this kind of weather. . . . This is a little heavier than usual," police dispatcher Gerald King said. Frost Belt shoppers, meanwhile, left their wool shirts and skis under the Christmas tree and started their gift returning in record warm weather. DENVER BEGAN DIGGING out from the Christmas blizzard, its worst one-day snowstorm in a century. Three deaths have been attributed to the storm. The Mississippi Valley rains came from "part of the same system" that belted Denver on Christmas Day, said Ryan Tilley of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. The system, Tilley said, "kind of stalled and there's another starting to get organized in the Gulf." Tilley said the storm was "slow to move east" and would keep the rains coming for at least another day. The National Weather Service reported several sightings of tornadoes Sunday afternoon in southwest Louisiana. Some structures were damaged, but there were no reports of injuries. THE BIGGEST PART of the Christmas storm, which left up to 4 feet of snow in Colorado, moved rapidly northeast and was exported to Canada, the Weather Service said. In advance of the storm, flash flood watches were issued for parts of southern Illinois for today and Tuesday. The area was soaked by storms late last week. In New Mexico on Sunday, there was enough left of the storm to combine with warm, moist air coming in from Mexico to bring in packed snow and slush. Las Cruces near the Mexican border received 6 inches. A little further east, central Texas got sleet and eastern Texas was hit by rain on the Gulf Coast and Louisiana border. (Continued on page 2) Storm -- (Continued from page 1) "When I woke up it was past ankle deep in my apartment. By that time everything was all soaking wet," said Scott Rainey Jr. of Alexandria, La. The floods ruined his furniture and presents under the Christmas tree, mostly clothes for his teen-age children. Rainey said he and his family had to wade to the buses used to evacuate them to the Rapides Parish Coliseum. "I'm about 5-3 and it was up past my waist," he said. Rapides Parish and eight other counties in northeastern Louisiana were put under a flash flood warning, bringing to 47 the number under a watch or warning. Louisiana has 64 parishes. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as flash floods soaked Louisiana, and forecasters said 3 to 6 inches of rain was likely on Monday. "The river is up, the streams are full. There's just nowhere for the water to go," said West Monroe Mayor Dave Norris. The storm had dumped nearly 8 inches of rain on Monroe and Alexandria by Sunday. "We've already declared a local emergency," said Rapides Parish Civil Defense Director A.J. Gambordello. "We're evacuating people from subdivisions to the Coliseum. It looks like it's going to affect a few hundred people. Possibly hundreds of homes." "We're sending city buses into these stricken areas," Gambordello said. "These are diesel-type buses and snorkels are being put on their exhausts. They can get into pretty high water." More than 4 inches of rain fell in Beaumont in southeastern Texas and 5 more were expected. A flash flood and flood watch was posted for most of eastern Texas. The warm wave that brought new high temperatures across the Midwest and into the Great Lakes from Milwaukee to Buffalo on Christmas Day continued its record-breaking push into the East on Sunday. It was 66 Sunday in Rochester, N.Y., breaking the record for the date of 62 recorded in 1935, and 63 in Providence, R.I., breaking a record for the date set in 1973. Concord, N.H., normally a winter wonderland, reported a reading of 60, which broke the 1964 record of 58. Denver's overnight low from Saturday to Sunday also tied a record for cold. It was 8 below zero. === Page 26 of 92 UPDA 100X Attack More than 12 inches of rain resulted in this situation in Smithville, Mo. # Rains inundate Midwest Associated Press Spok-Rev 8/14/82 Thunderstorms swamped the Midwest with more than 15 inches of rain in places, routing hundreds of people Friday in floodwaters deep enough to cover house trailers. Three deaths were blamed on the storm. The deluge in northwest Missouri, southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas inundated mobile homes and stalled countless cars in cities such as Kansas City, Mo., where up to 15.5 inches of rain fell in the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. One motorist drowned in deep waters in Kansas City and another drowning was reported in Missouri. A 60-year-old Missouri man died of a heart attack while working to clear a flooded basement. "It was like a bathtub overflowing," said Lynn Determann, who fled with her husband from their home in the fashionable Country Club Plaza area of Kansas City about 3 a.m. as water poured through the windows and air conditioners of their apartment. Rain fell at the rate of 3 inches an hour in many areas, sending streams pouring out of their banks in the lower Missouri Valley. In the West, heavy rains in the mountains west of Las Vegas on Thursday night sent floodwaters 3 feet deep through streets on the south side of the gambling mecca. The National Weather Service in Nebraska anticipated the worst flooding since 1973 on the Big Nemaha River at Falls City, a community of 5,200 about 100 miles south of Omaha where 7.3 inches of rain was recorded. "We're pretty well cut off," said Bill Shock, publisher of the Falls City Journal. "I don't know if anything can get in or out." Hundreds of people were evacuated and several homes were swept from their foundations in Kansas City and surrounding towns where water was 8 to 12 feet deep over some roads. ## Floods leave 7,000 homeless RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Weekend flash floods left about 7,000 people homeless in two areas of Brazil, officials said Wednesday. Sudden summer storms hit the eastern state capital of Belo Horizonte on Sunday causing the Arrudas River to overflow and homes, apartment buildings and a bridge to collapse. Press reports of fatalities varied from 42 to 86 and officials said about 3,000 people were left homeless there. UPDA Sun Attack 1/6/82 === Page 27 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Blizzard paralyzes cities in Midwest Associated Press 12/29/82 A blizzard fanning snow into 8-foot drifts Tuesday virtually shut down Minneapolis and other major cities across the Midwest and forced thousands of travelers stuck on highways to seek refuge in churches, armories and even libraries. Flooding forced more evacuations in northern Louisiana, where 1,900 homes were under water and at least 100 roads were closed, but the sun was peeking through in places that had been deluged with up to 17 inches of rain. Some people began returning to flood-ravaged areas in northern Mississippi, but rising water downstream threatened more evacuations later in the week. Storms have been blamed for at least 27 deaths since Christmas Eve, mostly west of the Mississippi, and mostly in traffic accidents. The new snowstorm -- worst of the season to hit many cities -- spared Denver, which was mired under a 2-foot Christmas snowfall. But the latest storm spread snow ranging from half a foot to almost 2 feet deep from eastern Colorado across western Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, southern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. The lights and heat went out in thousands of homes, with the wind chill factor plunging as low as 45 degrees below zero in places and snow falling as fast as 3 inches an hour. Motorists were put up for the night in emergency shelters in many communities and motels along interstate highways were filled, with people often sleeping in the lobbies and meeting rooms. By contrast, at least 16 cities in the Midwest -- including Chicago, Milwaukee and Ann Arbor, Mich. -- posted record warm temperatures for the day Tuesday, with readings in the high 50s and 60s. ## Deadly winds rip Alaska ANCHORAGE (AP) -- At least two people were killed when winds gusting to 90 mph slammed into the Anchorage area, driving temperatures to near-record highs, flipping airplanes and cars, and snapping powerlines. The two died Monday when a three-story office building under construction collapsed at about 5 p.m. in winds estimated at between 70 mph and 90 mph. They were identified as Bill Miller, 45, and Dale Craven, 26, workers for Interstate Company Inc., general contractors on the project. Both were working on the second floor of the structure when it collapsed. A third worker, identified as 40-year-old Ed McBirney, managed to scramble out from under the tons of falling steel girders and escaped injury. The tropical weather system caused temperatures in Anchorage to soar to 45, one degree less than the record set in 1925. Anchorage Fire Department officials said in other incidents, one person was injured by flying glass when an object hit a window and another was hurt by wind-driven debris. Aircraft were reported damaged at Anchorage International Airport and Merrill Field. A small plane tied down at O'Malley Airstrip was flipped over. # Blizzard -- 12/28/82 All travel was banned in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 15 inches of snow fell. The forecast had been for 4 to 6 inches. The University of Minnesota closed for the first time since 1966. Drifts up to 7 feet deep clogged the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, and officials in Sioux City, S.D., recommended that people not even venture out on foot until the snow was cleared. "Tell the people to take a vacation," said Rusty Kapela, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in South Dakota, where up to 17 inches of new snow fell atop a heavy weekend accumulation. The weather service recommended no travel in 28 counties. "Unless you have a snowmobile or a pretty good four-wheel drive, you'll have a tough time." The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport was closed and state police said all major freeways and side streets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area were clogged with stalled cars. "We're begging people not to travel," said Bob Munger, a spokesman for the Department of Roads in Nebraska. James Meger, a Minneapolis artist, said a bus carrying his mother to Canby during the night stalled near Franklin in the west-central part of the state and residents of the town formed a convoy of pickup trucks to rescue the 30 passengers on the bus. Between 600 and 700 stranded travelers were sheltered at an armory, a community building, a church and a large tavern in Colby, Kan., as snow whipped by winds up to 40 mph closed a 250-mile stretch of Interstate 70 from Salina to the Colorado border. In Lexington, Neb., about 300 spent the night at an armory where a National Guardsmen baked rolls for them and local restaurants opened to provide other food. # world UFOs Sun Attack ## 40 killed in Brazil floods BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) -- At least 40 people were killed and an estimated 1,500 were left homeless in floods that struck this eastern state capital over the weekend, police said Monday. Thousands of residents began cleaning up and sifting through debris after flood waters receded Monday, officials said. The central train station linking Brazil's third-largest city to Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia resembled a lake. Water rose to the second floor of a downtown building, officials said. A three-story and a six-story apartment building collapsed. The strong rains began Sunday night and took the city's 2 million residents by surprise because the day had been sunny. 1/4/83 ## Leningrad wet MOSCOW (AP) -- Gale-force winds gusting in from the Gulf of Finland forced the Neva River over its banks, flooding parts of Leningrad, Tass reported Friday. It said there were no casualties. It was the second time the river flooded the historic Russian city since Nov. 25. === Page 28 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Coastal emergency declared Associated Press Washington Gov. John Spellman declared an emergency along the state's tidal shorelines Friday, opening the way for more state and possibly federal aid because of wind, rain and high tides. A series of Pacific storms are causing flooding, threatening life and destroying and damaging property, Spellman said in his declaration. The severity of destruction is beyond local government's ability to handle, he said. His declaration authorized various agencies, including the National Guard, to help people living along battered shores and beaches. The Department of Emergency Services was directed to determine if federal disaster aid is needed and the Department of Emergency Services was ordered to coordinate state help. None too soon, as far as Whatcom County was concerned. County Executive John Louws had asked Spellman for a state of emergency declaration Friday, saying tides and winds battered coastal areas. ## None too soon for storm-battered Whatcom County Jan Leonardo, Whatcom County emergency services director, estimated there was up to $1 million in damage to roads alone and that about 150 homes were damaged. The storm struck hardest at small communities such as Birch Bay, Sandy Point, Point Roberts and Gooseberry Point. On Camano Island north of Everett, at least eight homes were evacuated. About 40 homes at Juniper beach were flooded when a dike broke. The storm was at its height Thursday and diminished Friday. But winds were expected to hit the coast at 25 to 40 knots today and gale warnings were posted. Seas were expected to run 16 to 22 feet. Adding to the threat were tides one to three feet above published levels. On inland waters, winds were expected to continue gusting to more than 25 mph. The storm left a 5-year-old Joyce boy dead, knocked down trees and swamped waterside homes. At one point, an estimated 100,000 electricity customers were without power. The child, Wyatt Thompson, slipped and fell into rain-swollen Joyce, just west of Port Angeles, and two companions were unable to pull him from the water. His body was found about two hours later near a bridge. Spellman's declaration was the second in two days. UFOs Sun Attack # Coast braces for new storm Associated Press Already buffeted by days of high winds and heavy rain, the Washington coast braced for 40-60 mph winds from a new storm Saturday as the National Weather Service forecast severe coastal flooding in many areas. The storm which rolled into Western Washington late Wednesday has claimed one life and caused millions of dollars worth of damage, officials reported. Along the ocean coast and inland waters, gale-force winds lifted high tides over breakwaters into backyards and basements. More than $3 million in property damage was reported near the Canadian border in Whatcom County and at least 444 homes and 30 condominiums were damaged on Camano and Whidbey islands in Island County near Everett, said Larry Voshall, state Department of Emergency Services assistant director. Gov. John Spellman declared a state of emergency for Western Washington Friday in the wake of the "storm of the storm." The declaration makes state personnel and equipment available to local jurisdictions unable to cope with the storm. Spellman first declared an emergency only for areas of damaging high tides, which included Whatcom, Island and Kitsap counties, where homes and businesses near exposed shores were battered. Then he expanded the declaration. A 5-year-old boy drowned Thursday in an overflowing creek in Joyce on the northern Olympic Peninsula. No other deaths or serious injuries were reported. Volunteers and residents of Camano Island hefted sand bags Saturday to reinforce a dike that threatened to collapse. National Guard helicopters, which helped supply sand bags Friday, stayed on the ground Saturday because of high winds, said Voshall. Homes damaged on Camano Island ranged in value from $40,000 to more than $200,000, said George Simons, Island County director of emergency services. A break in the dike threatened to damage about 40 homes which already... UFOs Sun Attack # As Kansans shovel, tornadoes hit Texas Associated Press A winter storm piled up nearly a foot of snow in parts of Kansas on Monday, and thunderstorms brought rain, fog, hail and at least two tornadoes to southeast Texas. Several injuries were reported from the Texas tornadoes. And the death of a 23-year-old man in a two-car pileup in Halfmoon, N.Y., was blamed on a storm that began Sunday night and continued Monday, bringing up to 3 inches of snow and rain in some areas. Snow also fell in parts of New England, the Midwest -- up to 7 inches closed schools in St. Joseph, Mo. -- and Colorado, where a rash of minor traffic accidents was reported in the Denver suburbs. Four inches of snow was reported in Las Vegas, N.M., and 3 inches in Albuquerque and Clayton. The National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., issued a tornado watch Monday for parts of eastern Texas and coastal waters 70 miles east and west of a line from 40 miles northeast of Waco to 30 miles southeast of Palacios. At about 2 p.m. Monday, a twister ripped through a 100-unit apartment complex in Beaumont, to the east of the tornado watch area, causing extensive damage and an undetermined number of injuries. In Sealy, some 40 miles west of Houston, a tornado struck at about 10 a.m. Monday, demolishing one house and injuring an elderly woman. California got a continued respite from last week's bruising rain and wind. === Page 29 of 92 # 17 hurt in sudden Texas storm UFO Sun Attack PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) -- An unexpected, hurricane-force storm thrashed this Texas coastal community early Wednesday, injuring at least 17 people and leaving some people homeless. "We were totally unprepared because no one had issued a warning," said South Padre Island Mayor Minnie Solomonson. "It was just a freak." U.S. Coast Guard Chief Bill Barts, in charge of the Port Isabel station, said the storm, which struck about 11 p.m. (PST) Tuesday, also surprised the Coast Guard with its intensity. "That's when the bottom fell out," he said. Barts said the National Weather Service forecast the Coast Guard received Tuesday called for southeast winds at 17 to 23 mph shifting to northerly 23 to 34 mph as a weather front came through. "That's a piece of cake down here. But we didn't know it was going to be as bad as it was," he said. Winds clocked at 84 mph at Port Isabel and 81 mph on Padre Island uprooted palm and mesquite trees, downed power lines, ripped roofs from homes and caused some flooding. Five people were hospitalized and at least 12 others had less serious injuries. Some debris-filled streets in Port Isabel were impassable and about 14 mobile homes in one park were thrown into a canal. At least 18 airplanes at area airports were also damaged. About two dozen families from the two communities were homeless Wednesday night, and others from a severely damaged camper park nearby also were seeking shelter, according to Nita Flewelling of the Red Cross' Brownsville Chapter. Late Wednesday, 25 percent of Port Isabel's residents still were without electricity. A Cameron County sheriff's spokesman said authorities found no signs of campers reported missing after the storm and now believe the campers left the area safely. Sheila S. Kilgore, who was staying in a South Padre Island hotel on her first business trip to Texas, said she was awakened in the middle of the night by what "sounded like a woman's scream" as the wind wailed through her balcony door. Then the hotel began to shake and the lights went out, she said. "I thought the building was just going to come crashing down," she said. "Now that I look back on it, it seems kind of funny." Ms. Kilgore, of St. Louis, Mo., said she selected an island hotel while in the area on business because "everybody told me Padre Island was a nice place to stay." After the storm, she moved to a hotel in Harlingen about 40 miles inland. Three women and one man were admitted to Valley Community Hospital in Brownsville, according to supervisor Valerie Bateman. The woman, who suffered a shoulder injury, was listed in stable condition while the men, with back injuries, were in guarded condition, Mrs. Bateman said. One man was admitted to Valley Baptist Medical Center with broken ribs. He was listed in fair condition, said supervisor Paula Cruz. Twelve people were treated and released from the two hospitals. A Coast Guard helicopter crew flew over the area Wednesday to assess damage and look for injured people, Barts said. Damage to Port Isabel alone was estimated at more than $1 million, said Mayor Quirino Martinez. The National Weather Service in Brownsville said the storm was triggered by an unusually strong early season cold front that collided with warm, unstable tropical air over southern Texas. A series of strong downbursts -- capable of producing winds up to 150 mph and inflicting damage similar to a tornado -- rushed to the ground from the high storm clouds, said spokesman Don Ocker. Strong north winds at 20 to 30 mph were predicted in the area Wednesday night, but no more damaging wind was expected, he said. UFO Sun Attack S.P.R.N 12/29/82 Spokane, Wash., Wed # Hansville braces for another round of floods HANSVILLE, Wash. (AP) -- Whatever damage recent storms did in other parts of Western Washington, Hansville probably had it worse. "The Corps of Engineers told the fire chief here that we had it worse than Camano (Island)," said resident Don Anson. "Yet Camano got all the attention." The Dec. 16 storm that battered Hansville, flooding homes and sending armies of sandbaggers to bolster dikes -- also gave the Hansville area of Kitsap County its worst storm beating in recent memory. Ten-foot waves crashing against bulkheads routed some Skunk Bay residents from their homes, and most of Hansville was under two to three feet of water for several days last week. Now, Hansville residents are preparing for another bout with high tides within the next few days. Sandbag crews of local residents, public officials and Navy volunteers have been active throughout the area. "It was a weird sort of blow," Anderson said of the previous storm. Sand apparently washed over bulkheads in some areas, then pulled them down with undercurrent pressure, he said. At one waterfront cafe, which extended over the water on pilings, waves pounding on a seawall rammed huge rocks and chunks of wood up through the floor. "It looked like a boatload of hell-raising sea monsters had come in and torn everything apart," said Al Zachary, who was helping salvage equipment and materials from the cafe. A soda fountain was ripped apart and a bar was pushed around the main floor. A tide of 13½ feet, more than a foot higher than on Dec. 16, is expected New Year's Day. Maybe higher, if atmospheric pressure drops. "Everyone here is keeping an eye on their barometers," said Anderson. === Page 30 of 92 Die Sun Attack # Lightning knocks out power in California Associated Press SP Rev 11/10/82 A violent storm struck southern California on Tuesday, ripping up hundreds of trees, dumping up to two feet of hailstones and generating lightning that caused blackouts. Electrical power was briefly knocked out to the entire town of Santa Barbara when lines were struck by lightning and several homes in Malibu were flooded when two feet of small hailstones clogged storm drains. A giant FedCo department store in Van Nuys was flooded by rain when high wind blew away most of the roof, authorities said. A small tornado was reported in the Lennox area of Los Angeles County near Los Angeles International Airport and Long Beach, and at least one buzzed suburban Long Beach. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches from Ontario in San Bernardino County 25 miles south to Campo, just along the Mexican border in inland San Diego County. Firefighters and volunteers built sandbag barriers around homes, and county flood control spokesman Bill Hardie mapped evacuation plans for the Malibu area. By nightfall, however, the danger had passed. In Garden Grove, roofs on three homes were completely ripped off the wind and windows in two elementary schools were shattered as children dived for cover beneath their desks. Two student nurses were slashed by flying glass as they shielded patients from a breaking window at Panorama Community Hospital in the wind-whipped San Fernando Valley. UFO Sun Attack # Storms leave 20 dead in Europe Spok Rev 11/10/82 TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The death toll after four days of storms in southern Europe rose to 20 Tuesday, and there were unconfirmed reports of many cars and passengers swept away by floods in the isolated little principality of Andorra, high in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain. The storm that began Saturday in southwestern France pounded northern and central Italy, killing three people in the Genoa area. Three deaths were confirmed in Andorra, and two men injured as a result of the storm died in Bordeaux, bringing the total dead in southwestern France to 14. Villages outside Andorra la Vella, the capital of Andorra, were reported cut off, and French officials said they were told the Andorra rescue headquarters had no news of some 200 people. The principality and its 37,000 people were cut off by floods and landslides the storm sent roaring down the Pyrenees. Helicopters shuttling in French and Spanish rescue workers and bringing out the wounded and stranded foreigners provided the only communication. Andorra is supplied from Spain and France. With the roads blocked, people flown out Tuesday said bread was rationed one loaf per person and supermarkets were shut to prevent pillaging. They reported at least one supermarket destroyed by the overflow of the river that runs the length of Andorra la Vella. A tide of mud from the river forced its way into the ground floors of houses and shops throughout the town, they said. The arrivals reported that a curfew was imposed from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., apparently to prevent looting of the town's hundreds of duty-free stores packed with alcoholic beverages, electronic goods and other luxuries. In Italy, the torrential rains swelled rivers and streams in Tuscany and Liguria. Snow fell above 3,000 feet for the second day in the Dolomite Mountains and closed the Stelvio, Rombo, Pennes and Stalle passes. But highway police said traffic moved normally through the Brenner Pass linking Austria and Italy. A railroad bridge collapsed near Parma, cutting the Bologna-Milan line. Traffic had been halted hours before as a precaution. UFOs Sun Attack # Warm spell trims those electric bills SP Rev 1/14/83 There's a bonus in Spokane's warm January weather -- a savings in both energy and money. Temperatures and the use of electricity parallel each other, Washington Water Power Co. spokesman Stan Witter said. With warm temperatures keeping the electrical consumption down, it saves both energy and consumer dollars. Thursday's high temperature of 45 broke the three-day run of record high temperatures, but above-normal temperatures are expected to continue, with a high today near 40. Record highs from 49 to 53 degrees were recorded Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Spokane, the first three straight record highs recorded during January since 1881, when weather service records began here, said Kenneth Holmes of the National Weather Service. Coeur d'Alene's temperatures were comparable. On Tuesday, the Lake City beat Spokane by one degree, posting a high temperature of 53. Temperatures have ranged 10-15 degrees above normal since Jan. 5. "I can't remember a January like this," Witter said. Loads last week were down 27 percent from the January estimate, he added, and with three record high temperatures this week, it will be much lower again. The 8-9 a.m. usage Thursday was 1,091 megawatts, far less than the normal 1,400 figure, he said. The estimated peak usage for a one-hour period this month was 1,597 megawatts and its unlikely we'll reach that usage, Witter added. The all-time, one-hour record for January was 1,614 megawatts Jan. 29, 1980, Witter said. There's been a substantial saving in natural gas also, but the weather can't take all the credit. The savings was produced by a three-way combination of economic conditions, conservation and the weather. UFOs Sun Attack Sp Rev 1/14/83 # Power failure strands skiers on lifts RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A power failure swept across much of northwestern Nevada on Thursday, leaving skiers dangling on ski lifts in the Sierra and snarling traffic in Reno and Carson City. Mike Reed of Sierra Pacific Power Co. said an electrical disturbance of an unknown nature caused two 345,000-volt lines between Reno and the Valmy power plant in northern Humboldt County to fail shortly before 10:30 a.m. That caused a domino effect that knocked out the Fort Churchill power plant near Fallon, he said. Sierra Pacific serves 175,000 customers in Nevada and eastern California. Reed said the outage affected about 40 to 50 percent of the utility's power supplies. Power was restored to most areas within three hours. The electrical failure knocked out traffic signals in Reno and Carson City. The outage also stranded skiers on lifts at Mount Rose and Slide Mountain ski areas between Reno and Carson City. About 50 skiers were left dangling on the lift at Mount Rose when the power failed === Page 31 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Fri., Dec. 31, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Storms batter U.S. again Associated Press Bloated rivers claimed new territory Thursday in Louisiana and Mississippi where thousands of families have been displaced since Christmas in what is called a 100-year flood in some areas. A series of storms that began Christmas Eve has claimed at least 29 lives across the nation. A new snowstorm swept into the southern Rockies and bitter cold settled into the upper Midwest. Snow squalls along the shore of Lake Erie slowed rush hour traffic around Cleveland with up to 4 inches of snow by morning. The Tombigbee River crested at Columbus, Miss., at almost 8 feet above flood stage Thursday, but other rivers were still on the rise in the state where about 1,000 square miles were under water and 1,000 homes had been flooded. John Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the flooding of more than 600,000 acres in the flat farmlands of the Mississippi Delta had already exceeded levels expected only once every 100 years. "That water is not going anywhere for a while because the Delta is so flat and the water is spread out everywhere," a spokesman for the weather service said. "The rivers and creeks are still extremely high and with the Mississippi River rising, there's no place for the water to go." In Louisiana, where 2,300 families had been affected by recent flooding and tornadoes, forecasters warned that "unprecedented" and "potentially dangerous" flooding was expected over the weekend in the southwest part of the state, along the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles. Weather officials predicted the Calcasieu would crest at Lake Charles on Saturday at about 10 feet -- 5 feet above flood stage. Out West, a winter storm warning was posted for the higher regions of southeastern Arizona, with 4 inches already on the ground at Prescott in the northwest part of the state, and a travelers advisory was issued for southern New Mexico where visibility was near zero. Temperatures dipped into the single digits or below zero from the upper Mississippi Valley through Wyoming and Colorado to Nevada and Oregon. Noontime readings were barely above zero in northern Minnesota and Jackson, Wyo., registered 7 below. In Minneapolis-St. Paul, where 16.5 inches fell Tuesday, most main roads had been cleared, but side streets remained clogged. # Warmer days saved millions on heating WASHINGTON (AP) -- That week of Indian summer at the beginning of December saved Americans $775 million in heating bills, the government reported Wednesday. That was a 44 percent savings from normal heating costs for the week of Nov. 29 through Dec. 5, according to the assessment and information services center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Calculations of the cost of storms and flooding that followed the warm weather are not available. Under normal conditions for the week in early December, natural gas, electricity and oil for heat would cost Americans an estimated $1.742 billion. Those costs this year amounted to $967 million. The center said record highs were set for daily and weekly temperatures across the country, with the highest readings recorded from the Midwest to the Atlantic. The southeastern corner of the nation was the lone exception to the trend, reporting about normal readings for this time of year. The largest savings were reported in the East-North Central states where costs were down $223 million, or 57 percent. That area includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. Savings of $177 million were reported for the mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and $134 million was saved by residents of the South Atlantic states -- Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Virginia and West Virginia. All parts of the nation recorded some savings during the week, with the smallest being $2 million in the Mountain states and $3 million in Pacific Coast states. # Big bang blamed on U.S. spy plane SEATTLE (AP) -- An Air Force spy plane on a training flight between California and Washington was the likely cause of an explosive boom heard early Thursday by southwestern Oregon residents, a federal aviation official said. Bob Mayo, area manager for the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control center in Seattle, said the thunderous noise probably was a sonic boom from an SR-71, a high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance plane from Beale Air Force Base in Marysville, Calif. "I don't know of anything else in the area that was capable of breaking the sound barrier," he said. Residents from Ashland to Roseburg reported hearing a deafening sound for several seconds shortly before 8:30 a.m. Fri., Jan. 7 1983. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # California shaking MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) -- A series of strong earthquakes centered along the Eastern Sierra rocked a wide area of central California on Thursday, knocking groceries off store shelves and triggering minor panic in a restaurant. The quakes, beginning after 5 p.m. and centered in the seismically active Mammoth Lakes area, caused power outages in the Mammoth resort and were felt 100 miles to the west in the San Joaquin Valley cities of Fresno and Merced, authorities said. No injuries or major damage were immediately reported. "It came in first in our instruments near Mammoth Lake," said University of Nevada-Reno seismologist Wally Nicks. === Page 32 of 92 Quakes rumbling in Sierra Nevada MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) Hundreds of earthquakes rumbled for a second day Friday through this Sierra Nevada ski resort, which since May has been under official notice of "potential volcanic hazard." Geologists stressed they haven't determined whether the earthquakes were associated with underground volcanic activity. More than 1,000 earthquakes were recorded in the first 12 hours of the swarm that began Thursday afternoon, including two strong tremblers that caused minor damage, geologists said. Groceries fell from shelves, power outages were triggered and an aluminum airport hangar collapsed. No injuries were reported, but the largest of the quakes panicked restaurant patrons and prompted some hotel and ski resort guests to leave the area, which is 200 miles east of San Francisco and 250 miles north of Los Angeles. While several resorts said they received numerous calls Friday from potential tourists concerned about the quakes, they said they expected normal business during the weekend. "I don't think people are too worried," said Julia Fitzpatrick, manager of the Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce. "People who have lived here for any time are used to feeling small tremors." Scientists said they don't know just what the current quake activity means and emphasized that no one is predicting anything. Similar swarms have shaken the area in the past few years, contributing to the U.S. Geological Survey's decision May 27 to issue its potential hazard notice, the lowest of three levels of official alerts. "We are uncertain as to whether it is volcanic or tectonic" -- associated only with earthquake faults, said California State Geologist James Davis. "The prudent thing is to study the matter intensively and make other kinds of geologic observations that may help us." Michael Jencks, chairman of the Mono County Board of Supervisors, said, "We have in place a disaster plan. All the agencies were in touch, closely monitoring the quakes. That creates an atmosphere of confidence." Kathryn Lee, marketing coordinator for Whiskey Creek restaurant, where panicked customers ran outside as Thursday's quakes knocked out lights said, "A lot of them just yelled and screamed or laughed it off -- just tried to get out some emotion." The largest of Thursday's two moderate jolts measured up to 5.6 on the Richter scale, said Don Finley, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center at Golden, Colo. Atlantic storm floods coastal towns Associated Press A violent Atlantic storm lugged the Eastern Seaboard with hurricane-force winds and rain Monday, pushing floodwaters into coastal towns, disrupting electrical service and crippling seagoing vessels. Storm warnings went up from the Carolinas to Long Island as the northeaster, described by the National Weather Service as "unusually strong," roared up the mid-Atlantic coast, eroding beaches with booming surf and destroying some beachside homes. The Coast Guard sent ships and planes to the aid of several disabled yachts and fishing vessels off the Virginia and Carolina coasts, but gave up a search for three people missing in rough seas off New Jersey where the chartered 50-foot fishing boat Joan Le Rie III capsized Sunday with 22 people aboard, and 14 persons were rescued. Elsewhere in the East, many inland cities reported record cold for October 25, ranging from the sub-freezing 26 at Fayetteville, Ark., and 28 at Cleveland, to 48 at Orlando, Fla. Parts of western North Carolina got 5 inches of snow. On the storm-tossed Outer Banks of North Carolina, 10 beach cottages were destroyed, another half dozen were undermined, and the only two highways serving the area -- N.C. 12 and U.S. 158 -- were closed by flooding and drifting debris. Winds were clocked at 74 mph at the Norfolk International Airport in Virginia early Monday, following gusts of 80 mph south of Frying Pan Shoals in North Carolina on Sunday afternoon. Perry Officer Daniel W. Sanders of the Coast Guard station in Chincoteague, Va., said winds topped 70 mph Monday along the Virginia seacoast and around the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Robert J. Holden, spokesman for the Delmarva Power & Light Co. in Salisbury, Md., said high winds caused scattered power outages in the utility's entire service area, but mostly along the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. About 8,000 Virginia Electric & Power Co. customers, mostly in sort of Ocean City, Md. Winds were clocked at 74 mph at Norfolk and Virginia Beach, lost electric power Sunday afternoon. Flooding in the Willoughby Spit area of Norfolk forced the evacuation of a dozen people. The fire department brought in large-wheel vehicles to carry out the residents. Some evacuations were ordered in New Bern, N.C., where Highway 17 was under several feet of water near the Neuse River Bridge. Schools closed in the Virginia communities of Chesapeake and Poquoson because many streets were under water. "Northeasters are a fact of life for us, so we don't get too excited about it," said city manager Arthur Barrett in the popular beach resort of Ocean City, Md. === Page 33 of 92 'Classic' snowstorm hits Northeast Associated Press A "classic" snowstorm that in some areas ranked among the worst of the century, piled cubits of The Northeast in snow up to 2 feet deep Sunday, with stiff winds building road-blocking drifts, causing scattered blackouts. Many residents of New England, remembering the Blizzard of 1978, stocked up on food in advance of the storm and stayed home. Even so, police reported many accidents. A Massachusetts man drowned early Sunday at Nantasket beach in the South Shore area of Boston when storm-driven waves swept him from a seawall where he had been walking with a companion, said police officer Richard O'Connell. Snow depths of more than a foot were common from northeastern Pennsylvania to Maine, with some areas getting much more, up to 30 inches in southern Vermont. On the bright side, troubled ski resort operators in New England compared the snow to white gold, worth "a couple of million dollars an inch" to the industry, which until this weekend could offer only man-made snow for downhill skiing and no cross-country skiing at all. By midday Sunday, 23 inches of snow had fallen in Albany, N.Y., the most for any snowstorm there in January since the government started keeping records more than 100 years ago. Except for a monster blizzard in 1888 that dumped 46 1/2 inches of snow on the Empire State's capital, the accumulation was just a few inches short of that left by the half-dozen worst storms ever to hit Albany. Paul Greaves of the National Weather Service in Albany had predicted the storm would be "a classic nor'easter." Winds in Boston gusts up to 45 mph and several Massachusetts communities lost power for a short time as snow-laden branches pulled down power lines. Utility officials in Rhode Island said 4,200 households were without electricity. Homeless people trudged to the Pine Street Inn in Boston, where extra beds were set up for up to 600 people. The storm, which swept east of Boston into Maine during the day, curtailed some operations at Logan International Airport Saturday night. "The snow here is very wet and hard to clear," said Charity Brown, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs the airport. The heaviest snowfall came in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where 2 feet accumulated. Other measurements included 22 inches at Wilmington, Vt., and 17 inches at Montpelier, Vt. Snow was falling as fast as 2 inches an hour at Maine, with 14 inches already on the ground at Kittery. At least 16 inches had fallen at Bangor, Me., with about 15 inches in northern towns of Vermont, 14 inches in northeastern Pennsylvania and northwestern Rhode Island. Inland Connecticut also got more than a foot, with 15 inches reported at Barhamsville and Bakersville and 14 inches at Norwalk. About a foot of snow covered most of central Massachusetts, with Boston getting 3 to 7 inches while Lowell, about 45 miles northwest, received a foot and a half, as did southern Worcester County. As temperatures dropped into the 20s, wet snow turned into ice, making roads treacherous. Rhode Island Gov. J. Joseph Garrahy urged residents to stay off the highways. The largest accumulation in Connecticut occurred in Waterbury, where 16 inches fell. The state's ski resorts reported brisk business Sunday. In Vermont, police said blowing and drifting snow had sent many cars careening off the highway, especially along Route 91. But Massachusetts state police reported only a few fender-bender collisions on state roads. Albany, N.Y., recorded 23 inches of snow, the most for any January snowstorm there since the government started keeping records. Thousands flee floods on Midwest rivers Associated Press Rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked thousands of people to safety Monday as record floods up to the eaves of houses poured through the Mississippi Valley, inundating communities from Illinois to the Gulf Coast. Storms spinning off tornadoes killed about 20 people in the central states late last week and raised rivers that swelled rivers to their highest marks ever in places. In Missouri, communities just southwest of St. Louis, more than 18,000 people scrambled out of their homes as the Meramec and Mississippi rivers crested 13 feet above flood stage at Camden. In Arkansas, the Ouachita River was expected to crest 13 feet above flood stage at Camden. In southeastern Missouri, Wayne County officials said the flooding had knocked out about 90 percent of the county's 700 miles of roads and two-thirds of the bridges. About 1,900 families had fled in Illinois and officials said "the worst is yet to come." Gov. James R. Thompson was considering declaring the entire state a disaster area after the worst flooding of the century in some areas. "We've got a lot of water coming down the White," said Don Schwartz, a hydrologist for the National Weather Service. "We can't overstate the seriousness of it. Our main concern is getting the lives out of there." In many cities such as Peoria, Ill., where the river had not yet crested, thousands of residents were sandbagging their homes. The storms "seemed to miss almost no part of the state, so it's probably the most devastating damage we've ever had," Arkansas Gov. Frank White said Monday as he toured storm-damaged areas. Spokane, Wash., Tues., Dec. 7, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW C === Page 34 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., Dec. 12, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # New storm drops rain and snow from Texas to Maine Associated Press A new storm, capping a week of fierce floods, spread rain and snow from Texas to Maine, and the light freezing rainfall slowed the decline Saturday of bulging rivers in the waterlogged lower Mississippi Valley. Up to 5 inches of snow fell in Ohio, where five people died in traffic accidents on snow-slick roads. Illinois Gov. James Thompson, who already has designated 27 counties state disaster areas, on Saturday asked President Reagan to declare 22 of them federal disaster areas. "This is a request for help on behalf of thousands of Illinois citizens whose lives have been disrupted," he said. An estimated 4,500 people remained homeless in Illinois. The week-long flooding caused an estimated $600 million damage in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. At one point, up to 35,000 people were homeless. The storms killed 20 people and left three missing. About 80 miles of the Illinois River, from Grafton to Beardstown, will be closed to navigation indefinitely because of high water, Thompson said. He also said 30 levees had been destroyed. Late Friday, President Reagan declared 15 Missouri counties federal disaster areas, making merchants and homeowners eligible for low-interest loans. Twenty-two Missouri counties already had been declared state disaster areas. In Arkansas, a National Weather Service spokesman said Saturday's 1 to 2 inches of rainfall would only slow the receding of the Black and the White rivers, which had forced hundreds of people from their homes. In Clinton, Ark., population 1,284, merchants made the best of the situation by holding flood sales Friday. "Almost every store has a sale," said Thomas Love, Van Buren County sheriff's dispatcher in Clinton. Merchants were cutting prices on "everything that was in town that didn't get washed away," he said. Muddied stereos and shotguns were going for half price, and jeans that normally go for up to $18 were on sale at $10. "Clothes ... have been going pretty good," he said. "People can wash them." On the western edge of Saturday's storm, Texas reported widespread rain and snow, and travelers' advisories were posted in the Panhandle, the southern Plains and north-central part of the state. Snow fell across the upper Ohio Valley and northern Atlantic Coast states, with 5 inches in northern and central Ohio, and 3 inches in Canton and Youngstown, Ohio. Five inches fell in Pittsburgh, Pa. Winter storm watches were posted for Saturday night in southern Delaware, southern Maryland, southeastern Virginia and the northern mountains of North Carolina. # New storm strikes Midwest; thousands remain homeless Associated Press A new storm drove freezing rain into the Midwest Friday just as riverbank cities were drying out from a week of flooding that inflicted $600 million in damage to the recession-burdened economies of three states. Thousands of people were still homeless in Illinois and Gov. James R. Thompson declared 20 more counties disaster areas Friday, bringing the total to 27, as the Illinois River receded from soggy towns and cities all along its route. The Mississippi River flooded eight businesses and forced 60 families out of their houses in Cape Girardeau, Mo., before cresting Friday. Dozens of evacuees stayed at a church and City Hall overnight and were expected to be out of their homes until next week. In many places the water that forced evacuations of as many as 35,000 people during a week of destruction was still high enough to threaten homes and jobs. "We're all pitching in, because if the water comes in, we'll be out of a job," said Jim Bomhold, 22, a cook at the River Station restaurant near the Illinois River in Peoria, Ill. The restaurant was sandbagged and surrounded by water, and pumps were keeping it dry. "I don't want to be looking for a job in this unemployment situation," he said. The Southern California desert town of Ocotillo was flooded Thursday by mountain runoff after a heavy rain, but floodwaters had subsided by Friday. Most of the residents of the tiny community returned to their homes during the night. "We haven't had anymore rain all evening and the waters have gone down," said Imperial County Sheriff's dispatcher Linda Valenzuela. In Illinois, about 1,600 homes were affected by floods in a 70-mile stretch from Henry, north of Peoria, south to Liverpool. Eighty-six homes had major damage and 568 families were evacuated, officials said. The hamlet of Liverpool was submerged, leaving virtually all of its 243 inhabitants homeless. The new storm dumped a foot of snow in Flagstaff, Ariz., and covered the Arizona mountains with a heavy coating of snow before advancing eastward on the Midwest. Rain, freezing rain and snow fell on central Illinois and Ohio. Waters were still rising in a few areas. The Army Corps of Engineers in Peoria said the river reached 27.5 feet Thursday night and had dropped a half-foot by morning. The flood-swollen Mississippi River leveled off at Cape Girardeau several feet below predictions and 10 feet below the record crest during the floods of 1973. === Page 35 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack Sp Rev 1/21/83 Spokane, Wash., Fri # Freezing rain, high winds batter South Associated Press A winter storm iced Dixie from Mississippi to the Carolinas on Thursday, closing schools, knocking out power and glazing highways, while hurricane-force winds buffeted the Gulf Coast. The fierce winds boiling 25-foot seas swamped boats, tore an oil rig loose from its mooring, and killed one man and injured three others when a boat capsized near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The winds contributed to coastal flooding from Louisiana to Florida. Schools closed in many Deep South cities, including Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., as roads were glazed with treacherous freezing rain, sleet and snow. The homes and businesses of about 250,000 people across Alabama lost power and Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington signed an emergency disaster order. Gov. George Wallace called off a special session of the Legislature. Many cities of the Northeast were numbed by record cold and the crowds grew at shelters for the homeless. In the Southwest, a foot and a half of snow fell in places as a new storm swept out of the Sierra Nevada. Record low temperatures for the date were posted in cities such as Elkins, W.Va., 14 below zero; Muskegon, Mich., 10 below; Syracuse, N.Y., 9 below, Traverse City, Mich., 8 below, and Buffalo, N.Y., 5 below. During the cold snap in New York City this week, officials reported more than 4,600 people had turned out at 11 shelters for the homeless, more than at any time since the Great Depression. A gymnasium was opened at Boston City Hospital to shelter the homeless there. Coast Guard Petty Officer Doug Bandos in New Orleans said some vessels were in trouble in the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida with winds of 80 mph producing 25-foot waves. "We have lots of things going on," he said. "Barges hither and thither, lots of boats ashore, lots aground, high water, rigs taking on water. You name it, we got it. Except for casualties. No casualties." The first casualty was reported later Thursday, after the vessel Jennifer Lindsay capsized about 5 miles from Northeast Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi River. An unidentified man died before dawn, said Coast Guard spokesman James Koch, while one man was rescued and three others were missing. The Coast Guard did not know what kind of vessel the Jennifer Lindsay was, Koch said. An offshore oil rig with 51 people on board tore loose from its anchors and went adrift 50 miles off Louisiana. Most of the crewmen were evacuated but a standby crew was left on board. On Florida's Gulf Coast, officials reported sunk, adrift or damaged vessels, including a 610-foot oil tanker and a 145-foot tugboat, said Coast Guard spokesman James Koch. No injuries were reported, but the eight-man crew of the tanker Phosphorus rocked in the waves in the Gulf. In Alabama, about 250,000 homes and businesses lost power, including 90,000 in Birmingham. Power lines and tree limbs snapped as freezing rain glazed the state. UFOs Sun Attack Sp Rev 1/27/83 # High wind, heavy rain lash California; 6 killed Associated Press The third big blow of the week flogged California with tree-topping wind, booming surf and driving rain Wednesday, washing away beaches, wrecking property and closing harbors with mudslides and shifting sand. The California storms that began over the weekend had killed at least six people and including a highway worker swept away leading a road crew by a mudslide Tuesday and another killed Wednesday when a mountain road collapsed. As Wednesday's downpour arrived, a foot of rain was forecast in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 90 miles south of San Francisco, where 18 people died when mudslides crushed several homes last January. Officials in Fresno, Calif., were making plans to convert three miles of freeway into a giant storm sewer. Beachfront residents in coastal cities stacked tons of sandbags to protect their homes against a high tide coupled with 15-foot waves, which tore boats loose from moorings. High wind warnings were posted along the coast of Oregon and the weather service said still more Pacific storms were headed toward the West Coast. In Point Arena, Calif., 150 miles north of San Francisco, the heavy surf, pounding rain and gusty wind smashed a wooden pier, toppling two restaurants and a fish packing company into the sea. One man was trapped briefly inside the wreckage of Charlie's Fish House, but the breakfast crowd at Arena Cove Cafe fled safely before the building collapsed. No one was inside the Wharf Restaurant when the pier gave way, said Anita Cranmer, a clerk at the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department. Tides rose to a record 9.93 feet at the Rio Vista Bridge on the Sacramento River, said state flood emergency coordinator Bill Helms. In southern California, piers were closed in San Diego and Los Angeles counties. === Page 36 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # wo women killed in West Side windstorm SEATTLE (AP) - Utility crews worked Wednesday to finish restoring power to more than 50,000 Western Washington homes cut off from electricity by a fierce windstorm that left two women dead. Tuesday night's winds, which gusted between 70 and 80 miles per hour at times, were sparked by a small but intense low-pressure area over southwestern Washington, the National Weather Service reported. It was expected to strike south of Washington, but took an unexpected turn north, then weakened as it moved into British Columbia, said Weather Service spokesman Paul Goree. The worst of the winds had calmed by early Wednesday. Power crews busily restored service throughout the length of Western Washington. Charlotte Simpson, 39, of Ocean Shores, died instantly Tuesday night of head and chest injuries she suffered when a 100-foot spruce crashed into her mobile home, said Grays Harbor County Coroner John Bebich. Authorities said the tree fell in 70 mph winds as Mrs. Simpson lay reading in bed with her husband Howard. He suffered an ankle injury. Authorities said Simpson was pinned in bed until neighbors heard his cries for help. In a separate accident, Charlette Farquharson, 48, Roy, a community near Tacoma, was killed Tuesday night near Tacoma when a tree fell on the car in which she was riding, the State Patrol reported. Allen L. Hansen, 52, Graham, the driver, suffered a broken hip and other injuries and was reported in stable condition in Tacoma General Hospital. One of two floating bridges linking Seattle with suburban communities east of Lake Washington was closed temporarily because of the high winds, as was the Hood Canal Floating Bridge linking the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas. At the height of the storm Tuesday night, about 25,000 Puget Power customers were out of service in King County, about 20,000 of them in north King County, Puget Power spokesman Chris Curtis said. (Continued on page 10) UFOs Sun Attack # Snow unloaded on East as West braces for gale Associated Press Autumn got in its last licks Monday and dumped snow across parts of the East and New England, leaving three people dead on slippery roads and as much as 8 inches of snow piled up in West Virginia's mountains. Meanwhile, gale warnings were posted on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, and damage estimates ran as high as $10 million in Washington state from last week's high winds, pounding surf and overflow tides. In Connecticut, dozens of people were left stranded on snow- and ice-covered highways and many schools canceled or delayed classes. Up to 4 inches of snow fell in some parts of Massachusetts, including the Boston area, where several schools canceled classes. In many areas, the storm began Sunday as freezing rain that turned to snow. A Connecticut man was killed Sunday night in Ashford when his car slid on an ice-covered road and collided with another vehicle, state police said. Jeffrey Hartman, 30, died, and his passenger, his wife Denise, was injured and hospitalized in serious condition Monday. In Massachusetts, Deborah M. Dempsey, 22, of Watertown, died Sunday night when her vehicle slammed into the back of a snow plow as she exited a highway. Also Sunday, Alice Graves, 79, of Springfield, Mass., was killed when her car and a tractor-trailer truck collided in Sturbridge. "The roads were icy and they weren't sandy at the time," said state Trooper William Apgar. Two other people were injured. Eight inches of snow was reported in the mountains of West Virginia at the Snowshoe ski resort and the town of Pickens. Six inches accumulated in the town Sinks of Gandy, 5 inches in Flat Top and Glady, and 4 inches in Beckley, Thomas and Mount Storm. "The roads are snow-covered and slick," West Virginia state police dispatcher Linda Moates said Monday. "We're expecting 2 to 4 more inches today. We've had some fender-benders, but nothing serious." Schools in two West Virginia counties, Raleigh and Preston, were closed. In Vermont, snow fell statewide Monday but motorists and road crews seemed to be handling the situation well. # Storm----------(Continued from page 6)---------- In addition, between 400 and 500 Poulsbo and Port Townsend residents serviced by Puget Power lost electricity, she said. The storm caused the loss of power to 6,000 Seattle City Light customers, company spokesman John Graham reported. In Pierce County, Peninsula Light Co. and Puget Sound Power & Light Co. each reported power losses to about 5,000 customers, while Tacoma City Light lost power to 2,100 customers. Approximately 8,000-10,000 customers were without power in Grays Harbor County Tuesday night, said Grays Harbor Public Utility District spokesman Larry Hurlbert. Ocean Shores was the area hardest hit. In Snohomish County, more than 10,000 people lost their power, county PUD spokesman Kerry Edwards said. The PUD services 152,000 customers. Outages also were reported in Olympia and Chehalis. The State Patrol reported the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington was closed late Tuesday night after 80 mph winds were reported. The bridge reopened early Wednesday. The Hood Canal Floating Bridge was closed about 11:30 p.m. (PST) by high wind and waves, the state Department of Transportation said. It reopened about 2:50 a.m. Sun Attack # France hit by floods PARIS (AP) - The southwestern city of Poitiers was almost floodbound and water supplies to 30,000 people in the Cognac region were being cut Wednesday as floods swept many parts of the country. Only three roads remained open into Poitiers, 210 miles from Paris, as the Clain River overflowed its banks. Police asked that motorists not try to reach the town and that its 85,000 inhabitants not use their cars. === Page 37 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack SF. Rev 12/26/82 # Christmas is a sad day in flooded French city of Macon MACON, France (AP) -- Flooding, merged the downtown area of this central French city with 20 inches of water Saturday, disrupting Christmas festivities for the second consecutive year. But in the rest of the country, rain-swollen rivers subsided. "Without trying to be dramatic, the situation is very sad," said a red-and-white clad Santa Claus in a Macon photo shop where few children had stopped to pose for a $4.40 photograph with Father Christmas. "People are being financially conservative," he said. "They don't want to buy anything unnecessary, in case the situation gets worse." The flooding of the Saone River forced many Macon families to find shelter with neighbors on Christmas. The city of 40,000 people is about 210 miles southeast of Paris. Other rain-swollen rivers throughout France continued to subside after a week of flooding that had forced thousands of families to evacuate their homes for several days or live amid several inches of water. In Paris, the Seine River rose above its banks last week, forcing the closure of riverside expressways. No homes were threatened in the capital, however, and only a handful of families living in houseboats along the Seine had to evacuate. The rising Seine River apparently did not dissuade Parisian Christmas shoppers even though the closure of the riverbank expressways caused traffic jams. Paris stores reported Christmas sales about 10 percent higher this year. # Denver digs out of snow -- slowly UFOs Sun Attack SF. Rev 12/27/82 By JENNIFER PARMELEE Associated Press DENVER -- City buses and taxis were left in their garages and the airport operated at a sluggish pace Sunday as Denver slowly dug out from a blizzard that killed three people and left one missing. Thousands of people here are sick, tired and frustrated, said Dr. Bruce Malone, a surgeon from Austin, Texas, who has been stranded at Stapleton International Airport for two days with his family of four. "We have some peanut butter with us, but that's about all the food we can get," said Malone, whose flight Sunday was canceled. "I want to get my family out of here." The storm that began Christmas Eve left up to 3 feet of snow in the city. Transportation for the area's 2 million residents was limited mostly to four-wheel drive vehicles, cross-country skis and foot. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dick said most state offices in the metropolitan area would be closed today, with the exception of "critical" employees dealing with some areas of health care, public safety and highway maintenance. ## Ice chunk grounds plane -- Page 2 There were only 12 takeoffs and landings an hour at Stapleton, one-fourth of normal. Food was in short supply at airport restaurants, diapers and baby formula were nowhere to be found and trash was piled high. Legions of weary travelers settled in for another night at the airport, using coats for blankets and gift packages as pillows. An unsuccessful search was conducted Sunday in Huerfano County for contract mailman Howard Hubbs who vanished during the peak of the blizzard. Undersheriff Leo said 30 people on foot, snowmobile and no traces whatsoever" of Hubbs, but the search today. t Service said Sunday that a man identi- ldon was cross-country skiing in the y near Montezuma when he set off an ied and killed him. roner Paul Stoddard said Anna Mais, went outside during Christmas Eve, got snow and died. of Adams County, was found dead by is from his car, which apparently de- al problems during a whiteout. Sher- ger said Orr froze to death. UFOs Sun Attack SF. Rev 2/3/83 # Tornadoes slap Florida; Midwest buried by snow Associated Press A half-dozen tornadoes howled across Florida on Wednesday, killing one person and blacking out thousands of homes, while a snowstorm billed as the worst of the winter in parts of the Midwest piled up more drifts in a three-day onslaught that has claimed 16 lives. In Pennsylvania, where Punxsutawney's groundhog failed to see his shadow and thus forecast an early spring, winds gusting to 74 mph toppled trees and flipped over two tractor-trailers in Erie. The National Weather Service urged residents of the area to stay indoors. Meanwhile, a new Pacific storm hit water-logged Southern California with moderate rain and gusty winds. Forecasters warned of rock and mudslides in coastal areas battered by devastating storms last week. However, the storm -- the fifth to hit California -- was not expected to generate the powerful waves that destroyed or damaged thousands of beach homes and piers last Thursday and Friday. A line of heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes moved into northeastern Florida before dawn, overturning cars and house trailers, tearing off roofs and uprooting trees. Eight people were injured when a twister slammed into an apartment complex in Orlando, where about 100 homes were reported damaged. A church and a country store 14 miles east of Gainesville were toppled by high winds. A 60-year-old man was killed in Hawthorne when his house collapsed during a tornado. In Dover, a tornado tore homes from their foundations, injuring two women, and a man was hospitalized in New Harmony for injuries suffered when a twister flipped over his trailer and left him pinned beneath a refrigerator. At least 10,000 homes in the Orlando area were left without power. The storm, which has been moving eastward across the South since Monday, flooded streets in Mobile, Ala., and western North Carolina. In the Midwest, winter storm warnings were posted in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin on Wednesday as a winter storm which left drifts of up to 10 feet in Amarillo, Texas, moved toward the northeast and Canada. The storm had been blamed for 16 deaths since Monday. Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Iowa each reported two deaths in traffic accidents, while five people died in accidents in Texas, two people died of heart attacks while shoveling snow in Kansas and an 82-year-old === Page 38 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Deadly ice storm sweeps across East Associated Press Sp. Rev. 1/24/83 An ice storm blamed for 23 deaths sent cars and trucks spinning into ditches across the Northeast on Sunday and another big blow produced warnings of fresh snow a yard deep in parts of the West. Freezing rain and sleet across northeastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York and much of New England caused many accidents, some fatal. Even the salt trucks had problems. "Just about all over the whole state there are cars off the road," said New Hampshire Highway Department dispatcher Joseph Hickey. "Everybody's out and doing their best, but it's just something terrible. You put salt on it and it melts and refreezes. It's one good mess." Hickey said salt trucks in many areas had to back up hills, driving over their own covering of salt for traction. "They can't even go up themselves," he said. State police in West Virginia said two teenagers were killed early Sunday when their car slid off icy U.S. 522 near their hometown of Berkeley Springs. Freezing rain forced President Reagan to use a car rather than a helicopter to return to the White House Sunday, after a weekend at the Camp David, Md., presidential retreat. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., police said icy roads caused an early morning two-car accident that killed a 15-year-old Millbrook girl and injured three other people, two of them teenagers. In Troy, N.Y., authorities said five firemen were injured in two accidents. A fire truck skidded and struck a telephone pole and another emergency vehicle on its way to the accident was hit by a truck. The storm had frosted the Deep South and parts of the Midwest late last week, contributing to 15 deaths in the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and five in Illinois, Wisconsin and Kansas. In the West, another powerful storm out of Alaska was expected to dump 1 to 3 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada. Winter storm warnings also were in effect in western Nevada and Southern Idaho. UFOs Sun Attack # Alaska and Italy shaken by moderate earthquakes Associated Press Sp. Rev. 8/16/82 Two moderate earthquakes struck in widely separated areas of the world 38 minutes apart Sunday. A quake registering 4.6 on the Richter scale was felt Sunday along much of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. No damage was reported according to the Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer. The quake was reported at 6:48 a.m., Alaska time (8:48 a.m., PDT) and was centered about 100 miles east of Nome, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observatory said. The tremor was felt from Nome to Elim, about 100 miles to the east, the observatory said. On the Richter scale, each increase of one number which killed 131, registered 8.4 on the Richter scale. Another earthquake Sunday caused more concern when it shook the mountain towns east of Naples, Italy, causing panic and damaging a few buildings slightly, police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The earthquake, measuring about 4 on the Richter scale, struck at 5:10 p.m. (8:10 a.m. PDT) and its epicenter was in Monte Vulture, near the epicenter of the devastating earthquake of Nov. 23, 1980, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Hundreds of frightened people ran into the streets in several towns, including the tourist resorts of Salerno and Cava dei Tirreni on Naples. The UFOs Sun Attack # South braces for flooding Associated Press Sp. Rev. 1/1/83 With more rain on the way and "no place for any more water," volunteers stacked thousands of sandbags Friday to try to hold back floodwaters that have driven more than 10,000 people from their homes in Louisiana and Mississippi. In Texas, a snowstorm piled up foot-deep drifts in El Paso, prompting police to urge the 450,000 residents to stay home and closing the airport to inbound flights. The National Weather Service predicted ankle-deep snow would greet visitors to the Cotton Bowl football game in Dallas on Saturday. "The worst area now is out in El Paso," said Bob Neely, a spokesman for the Texas highway department. "We're reporting snow and ice accumulations up to 8 inches, with significant visibility problems from blowing snow." Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, taking a flying look at flooded areas from Monroe in the northeast to Lake Charles in the southwest, said a statewide survey showed the flooding from up to 17 inches of rain earlier in the week had forced 9,700 people out of their homes. "What seems ominous is that there's no place for any more water, and they think they're going to get rain," Treen said Friday during a stop in Monroe. "I don't want to be an alarmist, but we've got to be ready. There seems to be water everywhere." Storms and floods since Christmas have killed six people in Louisiana, one in Mississippi and four in Arkansas. Before leaving Baton Rouge, Treen said he sent a telegram to President Reagan advising him that when survey results are in, Louisiana will ask for federal disaster declarations for 19 counties so flood victims can get low-cost federal loans. In Mississippi, where an estimated 1,000 homes have been evacuated since the Christmas holiday rains, Gov. William Winter toured Greenwood, Greenville and Moorhead in the Delta area where water covered 600,000 acres. Officials in Grenada, Leflore and Washington counties have asked for disaster aid. Winter said the purpose of his visit was to give additional credibility to the counties' disaster declarations prepared for federal review. However, the Tombigbee River crested Thursday at Columbus about 2 feet below expected levels and several hundred families that had fled began returning home. Almost half a foot of snow blanketed much of Texas north of a line stretching from Corsicana to Tyler. Snow also fell over much of New Mexico and a mixture of snow and rain spread over Oklahoma. === Page 39 of 92 UFOs 100x Attacks # Fierce thunderstorm blasts through Boise 8/12/82 By JOHN HARRINGTON Associated Press BOISE, Idaho -- A fierce, sudden thunderstorm rampaged through the Boise area Wednesday, with 60 mph winds toppling trees and snapping power lines, authorities said. Boise firefighters pulled eight people on innertubes and rubber rafts from the Boise River, said Batallion Chief Burl Smith. He said the current sent them into a tree which had fallen into the river. "It was the worst wind I've ever seen since I've been in this valley and that's been 40 years," Smith said. "I consider us awful lucky. I don't know how we got off without having anyone killed or seriously injured," he said. He said damage would be in the millions of dollars. Garden City police said two people were injured in a collision after traffic signals were knocked out, and a 22-vehicle pileup was reported near Mountain Home. Two people were killed in another accident in the Garden City area that an Ada County dispatcher said was storm-caused, but Sheriff's Sgt. Lonnie Sanborn said investigators found the accident was not related to the storm. her husband told her by telephone that a neighbor's roof had landed on the front lawn of her house on the city's outskirts. Paul Rausch, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, said winds were clocked at 60 mph at Boise Airport on the city's south side. He said winds were probably stronger on the north side, where the brunt of the storm hit. Wind-driven soot from a burned out field reduced visibility to zero, causing a pileup involving about 22 vehicles about five miles south of Mountain Home, police said. Detective Bob George, of the Mountain Home Police Department, said high winds carried the soot across Idaho 67 from an area burned by a range fire earlier this week. He said three people were seriously injured, with one being transported by ambulance to St. Alphonsus. "Just like a big dense fog was what it was -- but worse," George said. George said traffic was halted for two hours. Garden City Police Officer Daniel Hatch said a car and pickup truck collided when traffic lights at Chinden Boulevard and 44th Street were knocked out. The car driver and her 13-year-old daughter were taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and St. Luke's Regional Medical Center. Their condition was not immediately known. Hatch said power had been lost in the area for about an hour. Traffic lights had been switched to flashing red, said a Boise police supervisor at St. Luke's. UFOs 100x Attack Spok Rev 10/26/82 # Strong quake jolts central California COALINGA, Calif. (AP) -- A strong earthquake that caused seismographs to go "bananas" rocked at least a 14-county area of central California on Monday, but there were no reports of injury or major damage, officials said. "It was a real good shaker," said Lt. Eugene McDaniel of the California Highway Patrol office in Coalinga. "I was just sitting in my office and felt trembling. You feel like vertigo ... We got out of the building ... Telephone poles and wires were swaying." Magnitude of the jolt was rated by seismographs from California to Colorado at between 5 and 6 on the Richter scale -- large enough to cause serious damage in a populated area. The quake at 3:26 p.m. was centered about 10 miles north of the tiny town of Coalinga, about 35 miles southwest of Fresno in the sparsely populated western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, said Dolores Page of the seismology lab at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The epicenter was placed near the Pinnacles National Monument. McDaniel said merchandise tumbled from shelves in several stores in the rural community and two establishments had to close because their aisles were clogged with broken goods. Roy Manning, director of emergency services for Fresno County, said there did not appear to be any major damage or injuries in the epicenter area. "Our equipment just went bananas," a woman at the University of California seismology center at Berkeley said of the initial quake. "It's a biggie." A major aftershock measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was recorded at 4:13 p.m., said Caltech spokesman Dennis Meredith. PD Sun Attack # Violent Pacific storm slams into California Associated Press Spok Rev 12/1/82 The worst Pacific storm of the season crashed into California with 78-mph winds and driving rain Tuesday, triggering mudslides, felling trees, sinking boats and cutting electricity to a half-million people. At least five people were killed and three others were reported missing as the storm pounded the coast from San Francisco to San Diego. The storm dumped up to 4 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada range in northern California, coming down at the rate of 2 inches an hour. About 29 inches was on the ground at Blue Canyon, Calif., 40 inches around the Lake Tahoe Basin, and about 12 inches in the Wasatch mountains of Utah. A number of roads were closed. A winter storm warning calling for heavy snow also was posted in the northern half of Arizona. A blizzard on 14,162-foot Mount Shasta trapped six skiers for 10 hours before they were rescued, officials said. In Hawaii, meanwhile, estimates of the damage from Hurricane Iwa had reached $181.5 million, with 480 dwellings destroyed and hundreds of others damaged. The Red Cross was still feeding about 5,000 people. Forecasters in Honolulu, who had worried earlier in the day about a new storm near Midway Island, said the threat of that disturbance had diminished. But the storm on the mainland hit full steam. A Los Angeles utility worker was killed when a 110-ton crane toppled in the high wind. === Page 40 of 92 Spok Rev 1/9/83 # Volcano's eruptions slow down VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- Residents who were evacuated from the lower slopes of the volcano Kilauea were allowed to return home Saturday, and scientists said the eruptions may be ending after a week of activity. Sixty people were evacuated Friday from the Royal Gardens subdivision as a river of lava approached the area at a speed of one kilometer an hour, said scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Observatory on the island of Hawaii. People were allowed to return home and roadblocks to the area were removed at 9 a.m. Saturday, said Harry Kim, the head of Hawaii County Civil Defense. Authorities could mount another evacuation on an hour's notice if needed, Kim said. Spok Rev 1/25/83 # Pacific storms bring waves, slides, snow Associated Press A train of Pacific storms rumbling across California with 70 mph winds and heavy rains sent mudslides tumbling across highways Monday as thousands of people lost power and many fled their flooded homes. Fresh snow waist deep in the Sierra Nevada blocked mountain routes and 15-foot waves pounded the beaches of Southern California. On the other side of the country, a coat of ice and heavy fog hampered travel in much of New England and upstate New York. Down South, residents of Key West, Fla., were drying out from a weekend deluge of 12 inches of rain that one police dispatcher described as "like a hurricane." At least 28 deaths have been blamed on the violent weather that began last Thursday with an ice storm that turned out the lights in more than 170,000 homes in the South. Al Arey, a spokesman for the Vermont highway department, said Monday the state's heavy highway trucks were sliding off the road even with chains on the tires. "It's been a real merry-go-round," he said. "We get a route done and we have to start all over again." Elsewhere in the Northeast, warming weather forced the cancellation of the nation's richest sled dog race scheduled this weekend in Saranac Lake, N.Y. The Alpo International Sled Dog Championships would have paid prize money totaling $30,000 to racers from as far away as Alaska. The snow, however, was falling in other places. Winter storm warnings were posted in northeastern California and the Lake Tahoe basin of western Nevada. Snow also was scattered from northeast Montana across North Dakota, northern Minnesota and the upper Great Lakes region. Up to three feet of fresh snow was expected in the Sierra Nevada. About 16 inches of snow fell during the night on Interstate 80 at Donner Pass in California and three other major roads across the Sierra were closed, including California Highway 70 through Feather River Canyon, which was blocked by a mudslide. Forecasters in California said the storm was the second of four expected to hit the coast before the week is out. "There are two storms headed toward us," said John Quadros, a meteorologist with the weather service in Redwood City, Calif. "The first is due Tuesday afternoon and the next one Friday." Mud began sliding down the hillsides in Southern California on Monday morning. Highway crews worked to keep the Pacific Coast Highway open between Malibu and Santa Monica, just up the coast from Los Angeles, but the slides closed the Malibu Canyon-Los Virgenes Road which connects with the Ventura Freeway. "When we get a rain following a saturation ... the mountains start tumbling down," said Sgt. Charles Putnam of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department. More than 80 people evacuated their homes in Northern California, including 50 from an apartment complex near San Jose. One vacant house tumbled down a hillside at Oakland, and 5,000 commuters were without a train ride because of washouts on the Southern Pacific Railroad between San Jose and San Francisco. Power failed briefly late Sunday in about 4,100 homes and businesses in San Jose, with other scattered blackouts in Oakland, San Francisco, Pacifica and Walnut Creek. A mudslide closed California's scenic Highway 1 about 20 miles south of Big Sur. In Southern California, heavy rain Saturday collapsed roofs on a shop in Manhattan Beach and a small factory in Gardena. The storm that iced the Northeast was moving out of the country but roads were still a mess in many areas. "Sanders and salters have been out all night but the roads are pretty slick," said Trooper Gred Haberstro in Plattsburgh, N.Y. "That's what people are calling." In Vermont on Sunday, the northbound lanes of Interstate 91 were closed for nearly four hours after about 50 vehicles, including five buses, skidded off the road in a two-mile stretch. Spok Rev 5/30/82 # Tornado kills 2 in Illinois MARION, Ill. (AP) -- Tornadoes ripped through three southern Illinois counties Saturday afternoon, killing two people, injuring as many as 100 and leaving a mile-and-a-half long path of destruction through Marion. A spokeswoman in the emergency room of Marion Memorial Hospital said as many as 100 people were being treated there. The director of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Marion said the hospital had treated several tornado victims and that three of those suffered "severe" injuries. He said more victims were expected. The tornado "went right through the center of town," said John Abrams of WDDD-AM. "It hovered in the clouds for about 15 minutes and hopped to the ground several times." State troopers said twisters also ripped through Carterville and Crainville in Williamson County and Perry and Conant in neighboring Perry County. === Page 41 of 92 Holiday travelers stranded Associated Press A Christmas Eve blizzard howled across Colorado and Wyoming, leaving behind up to 2 feet of snow and stranding thousands of holiday travelers, while flood-ravaged towns in the Midwest watched rivers rise and began evacuating low-lying areas. Two tornadoes skipped across eastern Oklahoma on Friday, injuring at least six people and causing extensive damage. Less than 24 hours earlier, more than a dozen tornadoes leveled homes and businesses and injured more than three dozen people in Arkansas and Missouri. Damage was estimated at $10.6 million. The first big storm of the winter, which contributed to 14 deaths when it blasted the West Coast earlier this week, was "a real doozy," said Ryan Tilley of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo. More than 40 inches of snow smothered parts of Yellowstone National Park. Two feet of snow covered Casper, Wyo., and Wondervu, Colo., southwest of Boulder, received a foot of snow in four hours overnight. The wind chill factor in Wyoming dipped to 40 below. Maintenance crews at Denver's Stapleton International Airport gave up trying to keep even one runway clear, and the airport, the seventh busiest in the world, was closed. "We can't even see to get out the plow," said airport spokesman Dave Scherer. Thousands of travelers milled around the complex, waiting for the swirling whiteness to clear. In Atlantic City, Wyo., 80 miners at a U.S. Steel plant were stranded at work because of blowing snow. But spirits were high and food freezers full, a security guard reported. Few traffic accidents were reported, apparently because the holiday kept many people at home, but snow plows were sent out to reach up to 10 vehicles trapped by snowdrifts on Interstate 15 in eastern Idaho. The storm, packing winds up to 50 mph, had stretched into Nebraska by afternoon and was drifting slowly toward the Great Lakes. "We're looking at a very dynamic winter storm system with a lot of moisture in the atmosphere for it to work with," said Tilley. "There's likely to be much more precipitation." "If people get stranded, it's a life-threatening storm," said Jim Schultz of the Weather Service office in Denver. In the lower Midwest, flash flood watches were posted for parts of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Kentucky. Rivers and creeks in southeastern Missouri, inundated three weeks ago by record floods, were engorged by up to 3 inches of rain and began creeping over their banks. People living in low-lying areas of Marble Hill, Mo., were evacuated. "We're not taking any chances this time," said Marble Hill Fire Chief Jim Bollinger. "The creeks (Continued on page 2) 12/25/82 Stranded-- (Continued from page 1) are bank-full now. It's just a repeat of three weeks ago." "Everyone's moving out or sandbagging again. It's a frantic, day-before-Christmas effort," said a volunteer answering the phones at the Bollinger County Sheriff's office. Water was reported three feet deep in some sections of Piedmont, where residents had been cleaning up from the last flooding. Tornadoes and high winds ripped through southern Tulsa, Ketchum and Wright City, Okla., on Friday. In southwestern Arkansas, battered Thursday by tornadoes that caused more than $5 million damage to Texarkana alone, the mayor of Malvern imposed a 9 p.m. curfew to keep looters and sightseers out of damaged neighborhoods. More than three dozen people were injured, 11 homes and businesses destroyed and 49 homes damaged in the string of twisters. === Page 42 of 92 UFOs 100X Attack # Montana hail damage in $millions HELENA, Mont. -- Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars Tuesday in the wake of a storm that dumped huge hail stones on Montana's capital, shattering hundreds of windows, denting cars and leaving Swiss cheese patterns in roofs. County Disaster Coordinator Paul Spengler said damage from Monday night's storm was in the millions of dollars. Hail the size of golf balls and larger pelted the city about 7 p.m., rolling in on inky black clouds from the Continental Divide to the west. Winds of 56 mph propelled the hailstones that pelted Helena for almost half an hour. "Instead of looking like Helena last night it looked more like Beirut," said Grayson Cordell of the National Weather Service. Cordell said he measured a 3-inch hailstone at his home and saw grapefruit-sized hailstones that shattered as they hit the ground. In Great Falls, 90 miles north of Helena, an inch and a half of rain collapsed a 40-foot section of roof at a shopping mall early Tuesday. No one was in the Westgate Mall when the roof caved in. The falling roof broke water pipes and the 21-store mall was closed because of water damage. Bumper wheat crops in the Helena and Great Falls areas were flattened. An estimated 6,000 acres of alfalfa and grain crops were reported to have been damaged and perhaps destroyed in the hardest-hit areas of the Helena Valley. Hay and grain crops around Helena were beaten to the ground, some by accumulations of four feet of hail. Gardens in Helena were pulverized, trees had branches ripped off and cars had dented bodies and cracked windshields. In Helena, State Farm Insurance Agent Stan Henderer and other agents said that extra adjusters were being flown into the city to help process a flood of claims. "There's a rare person in Helena without damage," Henderer said. "Windows are broken, paint is peeled off sides of houses. Cars are unbelievably bent up." An automobile dealer said windows on nearly every car in his lot were broken. Skylights in the state Capitol were shattered and rain poured into the state law library, damaging law books. Damage to state buildings was estimated at up to $500,000. All but two of the 66 plate-glass windows in the state Mitchell Building across the street from the Capitol were smashed. Thirty-seven Montana National Guard helicopters were damaged at the Helena airport, some beyond repair, as hail penetrated the light aluminum skins and wrecked rotor blades. The state plane assigned to Gov. Ted Schwinden escaped damage. The streets of Helena were paved with slippery tree limbs and leaves. Even the Weather Service didn't have time to ready its defenses. The observation tower at the Helena airport had two double-paned windows broken and holes in a plastic roof. Roofing and glass suppliers in Helena said their phones wouldn't stop ringing. SPOK REV 6/30/82 UFOs Sun Attack # West Side's wind damage may climb to $10 million SPOK REV 12/20/82 SEATTLE (AP) -- Stiff winds swept Western Washington's northern coast Sunday but the worst of a winter storm was over, authorities said as they tried to assess damage that could run as high as $10 million. The storm killed one person. Wind, high tides and flooding may have caused between $5 million and $10 million damage, said Larry Voshall, state Department of Emergency Services assistant director. Firm assessments weren't expected before Monday. Whatcom County, near the Canadian border, reported $3 million in damage. THE STORM WHIRLED out of the Pacific Wednesday night and lashed Western Washington for three days, prompting Gov. John Spellman to issue an emergency declaration for the entire area. The declaration clears the way for state aid. Winds gusting as high as 80 miles per hour raked the coast Saturday. Winds as high as 50 mph were reported Sunday morning on the northwest Washington coast, but the National Weather Service reported the winds calmed by mid-day to 15-35 mph. Forecasts called for brief periods of clearing Monday. Hardest hit by the brunt of the storm were low-lying inland areas from Seattle north to the Canadian border, where winds carried high tides over breakwaters and dikes into backyards and basements. UFOs 100X Attack # Trailers destroyed by storm SPOK REV 8/15/82 MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- A storm packing winds up to 90 mph heavily damaged 19 mobile homes and camping trailers, injured eight people and left piles of hail along roads near Lake Sakakawea, authorities said. The storm Friday night lasted about 15 minutes, but the winds and marble-size hail destroyed crops and rolled 750-pound hay bales out of the fields. Clayton Folden, manager of the Frank Traynor Park at Van Hook, said area residents are unsure if the storm included a tornado. Folden said several of the mobile homes destroyed in the storm exploded from the force of the winds. At least four mobile homes, used as summer lakeside dwellings, were overturned and about 11 others were damaged, Folden said. Several boats and "a few vehicles" were also demolished in the storm, Folden said. === Page 43 of 92 WFD 100% Attack # 383 feared dead in floods TOKYO (AP) -- Weather cleared in the Nagasaki area of southwestern Japan Sunday, helping rescue workers in their grim search for bodies from the devastating floods and landslides that police fear killed up to 383 people. Fifty bodies were recovered Sunday from under tons of mud and debris, raising the number of bodies found to 176. Police said 207 people are still missing and presumed dead from the havoc created by torrential downpours Friday and Saturday. Rains dumped more from 16-22 inches of water on the mountainous terrain over a 24-hour period. About 1,200 landslides were reported in the Nagasaki area on the main island of Kyushu, burying hundreds of homes and blocking highways and railroads. Rescue workers drove bulldozers, soldiers wielded shovels and distraught relatives of the missing used their bare hands in the search for survivors, but a policeman said, "because of the tremendous amount of mud, rescue operations are not going as well as expected." More than 116 express and local trains were canceled in the region because railroads were swept away at three points, Japan National Railways officials said. They said more than 80,000 travelers were affected. For Nagasaki, called the San Francisco of Japan because of its scenic harbor and hilly neighborhoods, it was the worst flood in 25 years. Violent storms in 1957 claimed 992 lives in the area. Nagasaki, located on the East China Sea near the entrance to the Korean Strait, was the second -- and last -- Japanese city to be the target of an American atomic bomb in 1945. Spok. Rev. 7/82 More than 10 inches of rain fell on the Lake Michigan town of Holland, Mich., and lighting sparked several fires in the region, although no injuries were reported. "Some people tried to drive through the water, and they got flooded," Ottawa County Sheriff's Deputy John Overway said of the flooding near Holland. "Their cars are sitting there in the water. The problem is there's no place for the water to go at this point." Holland Police Chief Charles Lindstrom declared a state of emergency Saturday morning, and he said the rainwater caved in the roof of a Montgomery Ward store in downtown Holland, causing several thousand dollars' worth of damage. The mayor of Ottumwa, Jerry Parker, rounded up volunteers to fill 1,200 sandbags and shore up flood levees Friday when officials feared the river would crest that night at 18 feet. But Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Bill Koellner said later the river was expected to crest at 13½ feet. The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that along Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Des Moines River near Bussey, Friday's flooding reached the highest level in more than 40 years of available records. Authorities said measuring the flooding was difficult because some gauge stations couldn't be reached. The 69 mph winds early Saturday at Hector Field in Fargo, N.D., set an empty, parked Northwest Airlines 727 on its tail. July, '82 # Bad weather plagues Midwest Associated Press Rain from a barrage of summer storms in the upper Midwest caved in a department store roof and flooded roads in Michigan on Saturday, while winds upended a parked jetliner and inflicted an estimated $1 million in damage to a grain elevator in North Dakota. The temperature plummeted as much as 47 degrees overnight, and winds gusted up to 69 mph when the storms struck North Dakota early in the day. Two people were hurt as high winds tore a camper from a truck on Interstate 94 in northern Minnesota, and trees were toppled in northwestern Wisconsin. And 600 people who evacuated their mobile homes Friday in Ottumwa, Iowa, because of record flooding waited Saturday for the Des Moines River to crest, officials said. 7-14-82 # John Day Valley hit by wind, hail storm JOHN DAY (UPI) -- A freak storm with winds of more than 100 miles per hour and hail a half-inch in diameter cut through the John Day Valley Tuesday afternoon, knocking out electricity and damaging small buildings, aircraft and at least one car. There were no reports of injuries in the windstorm that started at 4:50 p.m. and lasted about 15 minutes. The storm hit hardest in John Day and Mount Vernon, eight miles to the west, and brushed the northern part of Prairie City to the east. Utility crews from CP National were working Tuesday night to restore electricity lines that were reported down throughout John Day and Mount Vernon. Radio station KJDY also was cut off the air and telephone service was disrupted. A helicopter at the John Day Airport received some damage when it was blown over on its side, and there also was some damage to the wings of a couple of small planes. A car in Mount Vernon was smashed when two trees fell on it. A number of small storage sheds and barns in the area were either crushed by falling trees and branches or damaged when blown off their sites. Falling trees also cut a number of power lines in the area. Two trailer houses were tipped over and completely demolished. Occupants were not at home during the storm. Dave Maxwell, a newsman at KJDY, said no one remembered having such a "freaky" summer storm in the area. === Page 44 of 92 More storms hit Midwest Associated Press The violent spring of '82 flogged the Midwest on Tuesday with punishing 70 mph winds and stinging rain that sent floods 8 feet deep through cities and wrecked a passenger train highballing through Iowa. At least two people were killed and dozens were injured. Hundreds of people abandoned their homes as thunderstorms again crashed into Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and parts of Illinois, cutting down trees and power lines and smashing buildings. Communities were awash in floodwater over doorways in southwestern Iowa. Kansas got hit with 70 mph winds and four tornadoes that splintered homes, bent trees to the ground, and knocked out the lights for 30,000 residents of Wichita, plus many others elsewhere. Meanwhile, President Reagan on Tuesday declared Connecticut a disaster area and federal emergency officials were on their way to that state where floods on June 4-7 left at least $277 million in damage. The town of Sherman, Texas, was cleaning up from a Monday night tornado that wrecked at least four mobile homes and injured 10 people. Residents of Fort Morgan, Colo., were cleaning up from a 20-minute pounding by hail the size of baseballs that smashed hundreds of windows, battered automobiles and ruined corn crops Monday. "I have a lot of cars that look like their body work had been done with ball peen hammers," one insurance agent said Tuesday. In Emerson, Iowa, about 100 families of the town's 484 residents were evacuated by boat as Indian Creek, normally a placid stream 10 feet across, became a raging torrent 400 feet wide that left water marks 8 feet high in the business district. About 300 families were evacuated in neighboring Glenwood, population 4,421, and many others fled in Malvern, which has 1,150 residents. In the 12 hours ending at 7 a.m. Tuesday, almost 9 inches of rain fell at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wind tore the roof off the Douglas Elementary School in Des Moines. Iowa Gov. Robert Ray declared the Emerson region a disaster area and Gov. Charles Thorne in nearby Nebraska offered National Guard aid. Summer storms west with 100 mph winds, tornadoes and drenching rains built floods that washed deep into Oklahoma homes and closed roads and bridges in Illinois. Scores of people have been injured and dozens of homes and buildings have been wrecked since Tuesday in a line of thunderstorms stretching from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes. Oklahoma drenched with 8 inches of rain Associated Press Storms deluged Oklahoma with up to 8 inches of rain Thursday while crews worked to restore power in the suburbs of Philadelphia where floodwaters up to 8 feet deep routed 300 people from their homes. At least two people were killed Wednesday afternoon as a thunderstorm in northeast Philadelphia and suburban Bucks County dropped 5 inches of rain and knocked out the power to 60,000 residents. Ron Harper, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Electric Co., said power had been restored to most customers Thursday. He said the utility was providing dry ice to those without power. A power company lineman and a boy he was trying to rescue were electrocuted by a downed power line that had fallen into a puddle of water. Harper said lineman Frederick Worthington, 55, was out repairing fallen power lines when he saw William Miller, 11, fall off his bicycle into the puddle. Dave Butcher, a Red Cross spokesman, said the storm flooded 38 first-floor apartments in an apartment complex with 8 feet of water and damaged another 12 units, forcing 220 people from their homes. "It was total flood destruction," he said. Police in Bensalem Township evacuated 60 families from an apartment complex near creeks that feed the Delaware River. John Brady, a spokesman for Bell Telephone, said 10,000 customers lost service because the storm caused the roof to leak in a central office, short-circuiting equipment. Pennsylvania Route 132, a major thoroughfare in Bensalem Township, was covered with 4 feet of water. Dozens of stalled cars and trucks were left along the road, which parallels the Delaware River. In Oklahoma, the Cimarron River inched toward flood stage Thursday as a storm swept across the state. Lightning started several fires in Oklahoma City, and minor flooding closed a highway near Hennessey, authorities said. The North Canadian River overflowed its banks, sending water into some southeast Oklahoma City homes. Three Oklahoma City firemen braved lightning and driving rain for about an hour to recover the body of an unidentified man who drowned in a sandpit where he had been fishing. Investigators were uncertain what caused the man to fall into the water. Boy, 11, swept out to sea AGANA, Guam (AP) -- Thirty-foot waves churned up by a passing typhoon battered the southern coast of Guam, carrying an 11-year-old boy out to sea and leaving at least 12 families homeless, officials said. "We've had typhoons and big waves before, but never like this," said Albert Topasna, commissioner of Umatac, a village on the island's south shore. The boy, identified as Michael Baker of Naval Station, Guam, was watching the 25-30 foot waves with a friend when one of the waves swept across the rocks Saturday and carried him out to sea. === Page 45 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Killer storm wrecks coastal homes, roads Spokane, Wash., Fri., J Associated Press SPRW 1/28/83 The third storm in a chain blamed for nine deaths this week pounded California with hurricane-force winds, driving rains and 30-foot waves again on Thursday, toppling houses into the sea, washing out roads and forcing hundreds to flee flooded homes. "I knew it was all over when I saw the hot tub sail by into the ocean," said Becky Ilagan, who fled from her Malibu home just before it broke up in the boiling high tide. At least 100,000 homes lost power as the storm, which first hit the coast Wednesday, pushed across the Golden Gate state to the Rockies. The pounding surf destroyed beachfront buildings, collapsed piers and wrecked boats from the Oregon border to Mexico. Water was waist deep in many homes. Mudslides tumbled off hills and rivers rose out of their banks. "It's a nasty one," said Harry Gordon of the government's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., and forecasters offered little respite. Another potent storm, part of the same system, will hit Friday "like the crack of a whip," said meteorologist Dick Vander, and there are two more behind that one. The latest of the three slow-moving storms whipped up 90-mph winds, dropped 3 or more inches of rain on some towns in a day and sent 20-foot breakers crashing over coastal roads. It plastered parts of the Sierra Nevada with 4 inches of snow an hour as it moved inland toward the Rockies. Some areas get several feet of fresh snow. About 200 families were evacuated from their flooded homes in Southern California coastal communities of Seal Beach and Surfside in Orange County. Police moved out residents of beachfront homes in Oceanside in San Diego County. About 150 people were evacuated by National Guardsmen and volunteers in Tehama City, a tiny community 140 miles north of Sacramento. A family of five in the Marin County town of Novato, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, escaped being buried alive when a mudslide crashed into a bedroom of their $300,000 home before dawn Thursday. Two homes slid down Fitch Mountain in the wine country of Sonoma County, north of San Francisco on Wednesday night. The landmark Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach fell apart and sagged, as did several others across California. geles, waves crashed through windows and flooded a dozen businesses and four restaurants. As many as 100 beachfront homes in Aptos, about 90 miles south of San Francisco, were under siege with the surf knocking out windows and eroding underpinnings. Richard Denny, a mining engineer whose home was smashed by the Novato mudslide, said the hillside "just got liquefied and came down." "There was a tremendous hissing sound and then... I jumped out of bed and there was mud coming in," said his wife, Jacqueline. No one was injured. The 200 miles of shoreline from Santa Barbara to San Diego in Southern California was hard hit by high tide and high UFOs Sun Attack # Icy highways claim more victims Associated Press SPRW 2/6/83 A winter storm forecast for the Midwest failed to develop Saturday, but snow continued to fall over the area with at least four deaths attributed to driving on highways covered with ice and snow. There was new snow in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma, but not in the amounts first forecast by the National Weather Service. Snow also was forecast for parts of the Northeast on Sunday, the fifth anniversary of the huge Blizzard of '78, a once-in-a-century storm that crippled the region for a week. And the unusually mild temperatures for the Northeast disappeared Saturday. The high temperature in New York City on Saturday afternoon was 32 degrees. It had reached 59 on Thursday. Residents of the Texas Panhandle had to contend with high winds that blew 14 inches of snow into drifts Saturday, and authorities said the few roads that remained passable again could be covered. The Texas Department of Public Safety reported that most roads were "snowpacked and hazardous" after the second in a series of winter storms dumped snow at rates of up to an inch an hour on the area Friday. In Kansas, winter storm warnings posted for the state were lifted after a storm that began Friday night moved quickly through the state and was not as serious as forecasters had expected. Knee-deep mud was the enemy in the Southwest, where Navajo families in New Mexico and Arizona remained marooned in isolated spots of their giant reservation. In New Mexico, trucks were delivering supplies to families that could be reached. === Page 46 of 92 Sun Attack # 4th storm pummels California coastline 1/29/83 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The week's fourth and potentially fiercest storm walloped the battered California coastline Friday as people tried to dig out of more than 1,000 smashed homes and braced for more of the worst flooding in years. The storm, packing wind gusts of up to 60 mph, hit first in central California and into areas still reeling from heavy rains that sliced through piers and levees, damaged more than 1,000 homes and threw tons of sand and debris onto the shore. Picture on page 3 THE NEW STORM came from the Gulf of Alaska and the brunt of it made a loop, missing the Pacific Northwest and Northern California but plunging full steam into the central and southern part of the Golden State. Electrical power outages were reported in the Grapevine area 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The National Weather Service issued gale warnings for the Southern California coastline and posted flash flood watches. At least 11 people have died statewide in the storms and high tides this week, according to updated figures released by the state Friday. The state said 1,964 people have been forced to leave their homes. The storms have damaged 2,660 homes -- destroying 24 of them -- and have damaged 496 businesses, the state said. Preliminary damage figures from several hard-hit areas Friday neared $60 million, and authorities said the total could rise much higher. AFTER THURSDAY'S onslaught from the Pacific Ocean, Gov. George Deukmejian declared the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Marin and San Mateo disaster areas. "The potential for additional flooding this Friday, Saturday and Sunday is great," said forecasters for the National Weather Service, who expected the new storm to be the most intense of the series. Sun Attack # Snow hits Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Associated Press 2/2/83 Blinding snow and gusting winds left drifts up to 10 feet deep in places across the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas on Tuesday, blocking roads, shutting schools and halting industry. The storm system also spread snow in Colorado and rain and tornadoes that damaged property and flooded streets in Mobile, Ala. and Florida. No deaths or injuries were reported from the weather Tuesday, but on Monday the storms claimed seven lives -- five on Texas highways and two in Louisiana tornadoes. "IT'S JUST REAL BAD," said Lynne Holt of the Dalhart Police Department in the Texas Panhandle. "People's cattle have been walking over fences and getting out, and several were killed by the train before snow shut it down." Typical of the snowbound communities was Liberal, Kan., a city of 14,000 people on the Oklahoma border where more than a foot of snow fell Tuesday and gusty winds up to 35 mph blew snowdrifts 6 feet deep across the roads. "We took a city plow into a residential area this morning with an ambulance behind it to get a woman out who was going to deliver," said Liberal Police Chief Rich Kistner. "We got her to the hospital in time." Kistner, who said visibility was "down to about zero" and that most businesses had closed at his request, did not know the woman's name. The hospital refused comment. Snow depths around Kansas included 12 inches in Concordia, 11 inches at Russell and Salina, and 9 inches in Topeka, where Kansas Gov. John Carlin sent state workers home before noon and the Legislature halted work. IN WICHITA, UP TO 8 INCHES of snow fell, and the transit authority in Wichita suspended bus service after 28 of its 48 buses got stuck. The three major aircraft plants told workers to stay home, and mail delivery was cancelled. Several colleges called off classes. Schools were closed in many communities across Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. Highway conditions were hazardous in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. "We have drifts 8 to 10 feet deep in some places, and 10 inches of snow on the level," said sheriff's dispatcher Merrill Buckles in Potter County, Texas, just north of Amarillo, where accumulations reached 10 inches Tuesday. "The roads and highways are open, but we're having a lot of accidents." Amarillo International Airport was closed because of the storm, and there was no mail delivery scheduled in the city of 150,000. Pantex, a huge nuclear weapons assembly plant near Amarillo, was shut down for the first time in nine years because of the weather. SNOWDRIFTS UP TO 10 FEET deep were reported in Amarillo, where volunteers used four-wheel-drive vehicles to take nurses and other workers to hospitals. Drifts 5 feet deep were reported in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and snow and rain spread across the rest of the state. Most panhandle roads were closed. Despite the hazardous driving conditions, no major problems were reported, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Frank Hoff said, "because no one is moving." "We saw what was coming... so we shut traffic down early enough to prevent too many motorists from being stranded," said Marvin Noyes, a highway patrol dispatcher in Guymon, Okla. He said several people were rescued from stalled cars after drifts closed roads overnight. In Missouri, forecasters said another 4 to 8 inches of snow would fall before the storm ended, bringing accumulations over a foot. Nebraska was hit by the edge of the storm system, with up to 8 inches of snow and drifts up to 3 feet deep in Pawnee City and Tecumseh. THE STORM SYSTEM STRETCHED as far as northwestern Florida, bringing two tornadoes, high winds and heavy rain. No injuries or serious damage was reported. "We heard the roar and then all of a sudden we saw roofs and sheds and buildings flying," said Douglas Long of Pensacola. "Somebody's boat came flying through the air from I don't know where and went through the side of my barn." In Mobile, Ala., officials said a tornado touched down several times along a 5-mile path early Tuesday, damaging several homes and businesses and briefly knocking out power to 3,500 customers. More than 4 inches of rain fell, causing minor street flooding. === Page 47 of 92 7-14-82 Oreg Journal # Communications hit by major solar flare BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) -- A major solar flare and the most intense proton shower in the past decade is disrupting long-range communications worldwide and lighting up skies from coast to coast with "vivid red" Northern Lights. Pat McIntosh, solar forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Tuesday said high-energy protons from the X-7 flare would disrupt long-range communications on Earth for the next several days. Meteorologists in Detroit said the brilliant spectacle was visible from there as far east as Cleveland. The lights prompted calls by alarmed observers to radio stations. "It's so bright, a vivid red, we thought it was a forest fire," one caller told a Chicago radio station late Tuesday. McIntosh said the flare occurred at 2:14 a.m. (PDT) Monday. The proton event started almost immediately and caused a geomagnetic storm that began at 9:18 a.m. (PDT) Tuesday. The proton event, the largest since 1972, was expected to last about three days. The official said more flares Wednesday or Thursday could make the storm's impact on Earth more intense. He said the storm was affecting high-frequency communications and low-frequency navigational systems operating in or through the polar cap, as well as amateur radio activities. UFO Sun Attack Spok Rev 8/6/82 ![Photograph of a polar bear playing with snow] **Snow,** flown in for the polar bear exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, helps Tiana Hong cool off in the torrid heat blanketing Southern California this week. 6-7-82 Oreg J # Solar flare to affect Earth BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) -- The largest solar flare since July 1978 may create an aurora borealis over northern Colorado Monday night, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Sunday. Patrick S. McIntosh, a solar astronomer with the NOAA Air Force Space and Environments Service, said the flare "went off the scale and was interpolated as an X-12." The flare occurred at 16:37 universal time, 10:37 a.m. MDT, in the southeast quadrant of the sun. Forecasters expected magnetic disturbances to reach the Earth by Monday afternoon. NOAA astronomers say there is a 60 percent chance of an aurora borealis in the Boulder area Monday evening. Solar flares are rated partly by their release of X-radiation, measured on a scale from 1 to 10. 6-7-82 6-17-82 # Northern lights may be seen The aurora borealis may be visible from Oregon beginning Thursday as the result of a huge flare on the sun Tuesday. When the protons from the flare reach Earth Thursday, they also may disrupt communications, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo. For best viewing of the northern lights, "go to some place where there's a dark northeastern sky," Dwight Gruber, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry planetarium program producer, advised Wednesday. "As soon as it's dark," he said, "simply start looking. There's no way to tag the time the show begins." The lights, he explained, "are visible all the time, if you go far enough north." # Flood toll climbs to 275 TOKYO (AP) -- The death toll from flooding and landslides in southwestern Japan reached 275 Tuesday and rescue workers searched through mud and rubble for 87 other people missing and presumed dead. Seven bodies washed up to the waterfront at Nagasaki harbor. They apparently had been carried out to sea by rivers swollen by rain that fell at a rate of 4.6 inches an hour Saturday. A total of 16-22 inches of rain fell on Kyushu from Friday night to early Saturday, ending a 40-day drought with lightning quick flash flooding and mud slides throughout the hilly area. # China UFO Sun Attack # Horse dies on street NEW YORK (AP) -- A carriage horse that collapsed and died on a Manhattan street near the entrance to Central Park apparently had not been mistreated. The horse, named Maggio, was the fourth to die in Manhattan this summer, including three on one particularly hot day in mid-July. Spok Rev 8/6/82 === Page 48 of 92 The Sun Attack Sp. Rev. 12/28/82 # Winter packs a double-barreled wallop Associated Press Floods from more than a foot of rain poured through Dixie bayou country Monday and hundreds fled in boats, while a blizzard virtually isolated some communities under 2 feet of snow in the Midwest. Snow and ice stalled travelers on glazed highways from New Mexico to Nebraska. At least seven people were killed in weather-related accidents as almost 15 inches of rain in two days sent rivers washing out of their banks in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. A Greyhound bus skidded off icy Interstate 80 near Kearney, Neb., injuring 25 people, and snow, freezing rain, sleet and drizzle caused hundreds of accidents from El Paso, Texas, to Omaha, Neb. "We've had just a tremendous number of accidents," said deputy police chief Gary Crinklaw in Omaha. "We're asking everybody to stay home unless they absolutely have to go out." The 3,900 residents of Broken Bow, Neb., were left virtually isolated when 8 inches of snow fell on top of 15 inches deposited over the weekend. The snow driven by 30-mph winds blocked all of the roads into town. "Normal Nebraska winter blizzard," said Ron Baker, a police dispatcher in Broken Bow. A blizzard warning was issued for southwest and north-central Nebraska and ramps along Interstate 80 were closed by snowdrifts. Residents of snowbound Denver were urged to stay home until the snow could be cleared from a record Christmas Eve blizzard that left 6-foot drifts. Massive traffic jams developed and delays continued at Stapleton International Airport where only two runways were open and hundreds of travelers were stranded. About 200 travelers spent the night in churches and the courthouse in Dalhart, Texas, as up to 7 inches of snow fell on West Texas and the Panhandle, with Lubbock getting 7 inches and El Paso 5 inches. Eastern New Mexico got up to 8 inches. At least 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Louisiana, mainly in the Monroe and Alexandria areas, and at least 50 roads were blocked by high water. In northern Louisiana, flood warnings were posted in 11 parishes along the Tensas River. Hundreds of others fled in northern Mississippi and southeastern Texas. Forecasters promised no sunshine soon. "There's no relief in sight for Louisiana for at least another day," said Nolan Duke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Kansas City. "They're flooding (Continued on page 6) 6 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., Dec. 28, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Winter ----------(Continued from page 1)---------- like crazy. It's coming down faster than it can drain." Flash flood watches were posted for all of Arkansas and Illinois and the southern and eastern sections of Missouri, the states which suffered more than half a billion dollars in damage from high water earlier this month. Tornadoes were sighted Monday afternoon in central Mississippi near Hazlehurst and in Jackson, and the Weather Service warned of more possible tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Tornadoes also were reported in Louisiana, causing damage at Gilbert, about 10 miles south of Winnsboro, Cottonport and Mansura in Avoyelles Parish; and Pine Prairie in Evangeline Parish. A tornado watch was issued for 25 counties in central and western Tennessee, along with a flash flood watch. Some roads in central Tennessee and west of Nashville were closed by flooding but no injuries were reported. In the Beaumont and Port Arthur areas of Texas, the storm dropped 13 inches of rain and the Hildebrandt Acres residential area was evacuated. The southeastern Texas town of Bridge City near the Louisiana border was cut off by flooding on Texas 87. In northern Mississippi, rescuers used boats and four-wheel drive vehicles to evacuate flood victims. Civil Defense officials said about 70 families had left their homes in Grenada, about 15 homes were evacuated in Calhoun City and other evacuations were under way in Greenwood, Tupelo and other communities. "This has been the wettest December ever," said Bill Knight of the weather service in Jackson, Miss. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said high water had closed highways near Batesville, Tupelo, Coffeeville, Ripley and Corinth. Myrna Tilghman, who on Sunday fled her home in a Grenada subdivision near Bogue Creek - along with her husband, three children, and 49 neighbors - said, "By Sunday afternoon the water was in the attic." About 14½ inches of rain had fallen in Alexandria in central Louisiana since late Saturday and parts of southwest Louisiana had received about 10 inches, with forecasters predicting another 3 to 6 inches. Joe Colson, head of Louisiana's Office of Emergency Preparedness, said about 250 people had to leave their homes in Alexandria, some taken out in city buses equipped with makeshift snorkels for their exhaust pipes. "I saw well over 200 houses with their floors under water," Colson said. National Guardsmen went into lower Allen Parish late Monday to evacuate about 400 residents from small communities along the Calcasieu River. National Guardsmen and deputies patrolled neighborhoods to guard against looting and vandalism. About 800 people in Monroe, La., were evacuated Sunday, including 180 elderly residents of the West Monroe Guest House. === Page 49 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Sa. Sp Rev 1/8/83 UFOs Sun Attack # North Yemen quake kills 348 people Sp Rev 12/14/82 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- An earthquake struck North Yemen on Monday, and the Gulf News Agency reported at least 348 people killed and at least 79 towns and villages severely damaged. In a statement broadcast Monday night, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen said he personally was following relief efforts of emergency rescue teams drawn from the army and police, and appealed to citizens to "help the hundreds hurt and buried under the debris." Hospitals in San'a, the capital, and other major cities were reported crowded with casualties brought in from outlying areas. Most homes in North Yemen, a mountainous country of about 8 million people on the Arabian Peninsula, are built of sun-baked bricks. The Bahrain-based news service, quoting an unidentified source in a hastily formed rescue committee in North Yemen, said there were 335 people killed in the city of Jahran. It said 300 casualties were taken to one hospital at another unnamed locality, including at least 13 dead. The report said at least 79 villages suffered "gross damages" when the quake struck at around noon local time. Neighboring South Yemen announced a three-day period of official mourning for the quake victims and said it was sending an emergency medical relief team, headed by Health Minister Abdullah Bukeir, to help in rescue efforts. The tremor was said to have caused "a major rift" in one mountain, and further shocks could not be ruled out, the news agency said. The Saudi press agency quoted a North Yemen meteorological agency spokesman as saying the quake registered between 3 and 4 on the Richter scale, a quake with the capacity of causing slight to moderate damage. But the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Information Center at Golden, Colo., recorded the quake at 6.0 on the scale, capable of causing severe damage. AP photo **Two geologists,** lower left, conduct studies at the edge of the eruption on Kilauea Volcano's east rift zone. Fountaining lava can be seen in the background. The lava, which shot as much as 200 feet into the air, flowed through a thick rain forest on Hawaii's Big Island leaving only a few trees. === Page 50 of 92 Low-level quakes continuing By ROBERT LOCKE Associated Press MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - A continuing string of small earthquakes may signal volcanic activity in the rugged mountains around this high-country ski resort, a geologist who studies volcanoes said Saturday. But C. Dan Miller and other scientists stressed at a news conference that no one is predicting an eruption in this community along the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, across the mountains from Yosemite National Park. "Our level of concern (about volcanoes) is above our level before this... earthquake swarm," Miller said. "That's a very general statement." Small quakes continued to jolt the region 200 miles east of San Francisco and 250 miles north of Los Angeles for the third straight day Saturday. "We're all wondering just what's going on at depth (several miles beneath the surface) and just what the mechanisms are" that produced the quakes that began Thursday afternoon, said geologist Roger Martin of the California Department of Mines and Geology. "The low-level seismic activity is persisting, with frequent small magnitude earthquakes," said geophysicist Mark Zoback at the U.S. Geological Survey offices in Menlo Park. "There have been several felt earthquakes, approximate magnitude 3 to 3.5 (on the Richter scale), in the last 24 hours, but there have no been larger events such as those which occurred Thursday night," he said, referring to quakes measured at 5.5 and 5.6. Zoback said scientists expect the low-level activity to continue, but don't see that as a danger sign. "These things persist for a few days," he said. "We imagine it will go on for a while. But we have no information that indicates the situation is becoming more hazardous." Scientists had been concerned that similar previous earthquake swarms and other geologic changes might reflect molten rock moving several miles beneath the ground. Most agree that an impending volcanic eruption is possible, but no one has predicted one. "Nothing has changed. We have no way of forecasting whether anything might happen," Miller said. The latest swarm of quakes began Thursday afternoon and continued well into Friday, hitting at a rate of more than one a minute. While most were too small to be felt, two moderate tremors late Thursday did minor damage at Mammoth Lakes and caused the collapse of a hangar on a private plane at the nearby airport. Miller, who was coordinating the scientific research on the snowy slopes from a communications center at the Mammoth Lakes Fire Department, said crews were trudging through the deep snow to remeasure survey lines, check for bulges in the earth, and look for new hot springs and steam vents. One crew, heading out in an enclosed vehicle with steel tracks like an Army tank, was from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Led by geologist Art Sylvester, the team went into the "epicentral area" about two miles east of Mammoth Lakes where much seismic activity has been located. The latest swarm was also near the area. Team member Ken Gester said the group, which also includes Michael Bunis and Elizabeth Nixon, will be "looking for relative elevational differences - tilts in the surface." He said UCSB students planted benchmarks, steel rods anchored in bedrock, last year. Wearing snowshoes, the crew will dig away the snow, and use surveyors' gear to seek minute changes in the elevation. Gester said the assumption has been that such tilts indicate molten rock is moving beneath the surface, "but no one really knows." Week's news in review Local/regional The first blizzard of the season dumped 16 1/2 inches of snow on the Twin Cities Tuesday and winds gusting to 40 mph created drifts 6 to 8 feet deep, halting car, bus, train, and air traffic. At least 16 people died in Minnesota as a result of the snow, 11 them heart attacks in the metropolitan area and others in traffic accidents. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport not only had to close because its aircraft taxi lanes were blocked but lightning knocked out electricity until auxiliary generators could take over hours later. Quake toll hits 1,448 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Search parties found the bodies of 108 more earthquake victims Thursday in North Yemen, raising the confirmed death toll to 1,448. They also rescued 57 injured survivors more than 72 hours after the killer quake wrecked more than 200 villages, the official Yemeni radio reported. Radio San'a, broadcasting from the Yemeni capital, reported Prime Minister Abdul-Karim el-Iriani informed President Ali Abdullah Saleh that 1,489 of the injured were hospitalized, many in serious condition. Health Minister Mohamed al-Kibab warned of a growing danger of epidemics "because an undetermined number of people are still under the rubble." Diplomats in San'a predicted the death toll would be more than 2,000. Radio San'a said rescue parties "at many points could not proceed with the search for survivors because of the moving the stench of death." With some areas still isolated because of quake damage to the desert country's primitive roads and communication facilities, Iriani said 66 more villages were found to have suffered extensive damage, bringing the total in that category to 253. Medical teams, medicine and other supplies poured in from abroad. Saudi Arabia has sent in 45 flights, most of them giant C-130 transport planes, loaded with supplies. King Fahd pledged $35 million in aid. A medical staff of 72 arrived from West Germany, and 40 came from Switzerland. They brought search dogs that found 12 bodies in their first day of operations, the health minister said. Two U.N. planes arrived with provisions Thursday, two each came from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, and one from Libya. The country was jolted early Thursday by four tremors of "medium intensity." === Page 51 of 92 UFOs Sun Attack # Hundreds flee as rains break dams, flooding some towns Associated Press Spok Rev 12/6/82 Days of rain sent rivers surging to record levels Sunday in the Mississippi Valley from Illinois to Louisiana, forcing hundreds to flee as dams broke and water poured chest-deep through some towns. A week of stormy weather punctuated by rare late fall tornadoes claimed about 40 lives in the nation, including 18 who died when hurricane-force winds and snowstorms hit the West. It was another day of shirt-sleeve weather in December in many northern cities, with record high temperatures in the mid-60s in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, N.Y. It was 73 in Atlantic City, N.J., and 75 at Richmond, Va. Bloated rivers climbed as much as 12 feet above flood stage in the central states, reaching the highest mark ever in Illinois cities such as La Salle in the northern part of the state and Green Valley south of Peoria. Residents of several communities were filling sandbags to try to hold back the water. Some hired rental trucks, getting ready to flee. In Calumet City, Ill., where about 60 people were evacuated, people blamed their chest-deep water on the residents of adjacent Ham- (Continued on page 2) UFO Sun Attack # Boy dies in West Side storm Associated Press Spok Rev 12/17/82 A 5-year-old boy was swept away and drowned Thursday in a creek swollen by a storm that raked Western Washington, toppling trees and knocking out power to thousands of people. Wyatt Thompson of Joyce, west of Port Angeles, Wash., drowned Thursday morning in Whiskey Creek, said Clallam County Sheriff Steven Kernes. The boy and two other youngsters were walking across a log over the creek when he slipped and fell "into what usually is just a very shallow stream," Kernes said. "He was washed away." About 25 volunteer firefighters and residents of the area west of Port Angeles joined several sheriff's deputies in the search. Within 45 minutes they found the boy wedged under-water about 200 yards downstream, Kernes said. A Coast Guard helicopter took the child to Olympic Memorial Hospital in Port Angeles, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Repair crews throughout Western Washington spent the day repairing downed lines. Chain saws cut toppled trees into fireplace logs. Another rain and wind storm stood just off the coast Thursday evening, ready to batter the area again, said the National Weather Service. Though it was not expected to be as fierce as the previous night's blow, the new storm packed heavy rain and winds up about 39 mph, said Freeman Stickney, a Weather Service spokesman in Seattle. The new storm ## Boy rescued from Oregon flood -- Page 17 also carried high tides, which caused much of Thursday's flooding, including waterfront homes on Puget Sound in West Seattle. At the Grays Harbor bar, waves 20 to 25 feet high were forecast Thursday night, decreasing to 12 to 17 feet by Friday night. Turbulent seas and low pressure were creating tides a foot to 1½ feet higher than tide books predicted, raising another threat to property along beaches and banks. At least 40 homes were flooded along coastal areas of Whatcom County, said Larry Voshall, state Department of Emergency Services assistant director. Most damage was caused by high tides rather than flooding rivers, he said. The Chehalis River was expected to crest at 4 a.m. Friday at one foot above flood stage at Centralia, which will flood only pastures, Voshall said. About 1,350 customers remained without electricity at Thursday evening, from the Canadian border to Olympia, said Dave Adams of Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He said power was restored to about 400 customers in the suburbs east of Seattle about nightfall, but 1,200 others in north Kitsap County were unlikely to get their lights turned back on before midnight. At the height of the storm, as many as 100,000 customers were without electricity, he said. Puget Power serves about 560,000 customers in nine Western Washington Counties. Crews throughout Western Washington cleared logs and fallen trees from roads and untangled branches from power lines. Cars crept through floorboard-high water in some underpasses. The Hoh River on the Olympic Peninsula washed out Jefferson County Road 216 Thursday morning before receding. Pieces of "Pac Man" and other video games littered a large area in Birch Bay near the Canadian border, where overnight winds up to 80 mph tore up a video game arcade. === Page 52 of 92 UFOs "Sun" Attack Spokane, Wash., Sat., Dec. 4, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Storms leave 10 dead Associated Press Three more tornadoes slammed into Arkansas on Friday and a child drowned in swirling floodwaters on the second day of storms that have killed at least 10 people in the Mississippi River Valley. As many as four people were reported missing in Illinois. Temperature records toppled in Michigan and Florida as a heat wave reached from the Gulf of Mexico to Canadian border states that are more used to snow this time of year. The weather set wetness records, too - Michigan got more than 3 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, breaking a record for December. High winds knocked an 80-foot hole in the wall of a company in Lowell, Ind., that makes storm doors and windows and a tornado tore the roofs from several houses Friday morning in Eunice, La. "Get to the high ground," Arkansas Gov. Frank White exhorted state residents Friday as parts of 15 towns in the state were evacuated because of flooding. Torrential rains submerged the downtown section of Clinton, Ark., under 7 feet of water, the governor said. Damage was severe, but no monetary estimates had been made. "I don't know of any time we've seen so much devastation so fast," White said. One child drowned Friday as a family was flooded out near the Arkansas town of Deberry, Perry County sheriff's dispatcher Stan Wallace said four other members of the unidentified family had hung onto trees while rescuers in three boats tried to reach them. The family was rescued later in the day, officials said. Gov. James Thompson of Illinois declared a disaster area in a county where a tornado making a freak late-autumn appearance killed two people and injured scores more Thursday night. A 3-day-old heat wave broke new records Friday. The city of Buffalo, N.Y., often buried under snow in December, had a temperature of 72 degrees Friday, breaking a 61-degree record for the date set in 1951. The temperature reached 67 degrees Friday at Jackson, Mich., breaking the record for the date of 62 degrees, set in 1973. It was 87 degrees Friday in Orlando, Fla., breaking an 85-degree mark set for the date in 1968. More than 3 inches of rain fell on Muskegon in the 24-hour period ending at 5 a.m. Friday, breaking the old 24-hour record for December of 1.82 inches set Dec. 10, 1971. High winds in Oregon knocked out power to about 350 homes in Clatsop County, and felled trees blocked some roads. Tornadoes swept up the Mississippi Valley on Thursday night, killing five people, splintering more than 100 mobile homes and damaging other buildings in Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri. "I hit the floor and curled up," said Air Force Sgt. Steve Tordson of New Baden, Ill., who had just checked to see if rain was coming in the windows on his mobile home when the glass was shattered by a tornado Thursday night. "I didn't move until the pulling and tugging and everything else was over. "From what I could see by the lightning flashes, there were only two walls left standing," Tordson spoke as he huddled in a blanket at a school gym where a dozen homeless people spent the night. ## 15 towns are evacuated in Arkansas. UFOs Sun Attack # High winds hit state Associated Press A fast moving unseasonably warm storm front caused widespread minor damage to Western Washington Friday, knocking down power lines and pushing rivers over their banks. Brief power outages were reported in many areas and several rivers went over flood stage. In King County, homeowners complaining of flooding in yards and driveways were told to clear out their storm drains, many of which were clogged by leaves. The National Weather Service said a cold front entering the western side of the state in the evening would force the snow level down to 3,000 feet Saturday, and quench the storm's effects. Winds gusted to 60 mph in some locations west of the Cascades, and one to three inches of rain were reported in lowland areas by the weather service. In the mountains, the freezing level soared to 8,000 feet Friday, with up to five inches of rain. The storm swept into Eastern Washington Friday afternoon, although the immediate effects were limited to high winds. Wind warnings were in effect Friday evening for coastal counties, and for the counties of Benton, Franklin, Yakima, Kittitas, Grant and Douglas in Eastern Washington. Spok Rev 12-4-82 === Page 53 of 92 8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., Dec. 3, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Casper snowed in; Chicago 'balmy' UFOs "Sun Attack" Associated Press A storm in the West that left 18 people dead or missing has mired Wyoming communities in 2 feet of snow Thursday, while tornadoes, which killed two people in Arkansas, splintered homes in the Midwest. But December turned to spring in many Northern cities. The 40,000 residents of Casper, Wyo., awoke to find 22.5 inches of snow on the ground, just 4 inches short of the record for the month of December in that city. Highways and schools were closed and schools shut down in many areas across the state. Tornadoes hit southern Missouri, destroying or damaging 25 to 30 homes in Mountain Grove and at least two homes in rural Crawford County. At least 10 people were injured. In Arkansas, twisters hit western Little Rock, Alexandria, North Little Rock, Arkadelphia, Hopewell and the town of Alma near Fort Smith. One person was killed in a mobile home park near Alexandria, and another person died on the western side of Little Rock when a piece of metal ripped through the windshield of the car he was driving. Winds damaged homes, businesses and schools. Tornadoes in Little Rock damaged Parkview High School and hit near the Williamsburg Nursing Home, knocking out most of the windows in the three-story building as nurses rolled patients into the hallways. Two cars near the nursing home caught fire. Another twister destroyed one home and damaged three others in Alma, Ark., as a storm roared through on Thursday, downing power lines and washing out at least three bridges. The storm that swept out of the Pacific across California on Tuesday, dumping snow neck deep in the mountains, also spread heavy snow Thursday across the northern high plains into eastern Montana and western South Dakota. But it was like squirting whipped cream on a warm and moist pie. Christmas shoppers in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis and Cleveland shed their coats and sweaters as the mercury climbed toward the 70-degree mark, setting records for this time of year. In Ohio, record temperatures were set in Toledo, where it was 68 degrees; Zanesville, 69; Cleveland, 70; Columbus, 71; and Marietta, 67. Before noon it was already 69 in the Windy City, seven degrees warmer than the record for Dec. 2. It also was wet. Heavy rains caused power outages affecting 3,000 homes and businesses in the northern suburbs. Golfers in Des Moines, Iowa, were out in their shirt sleeves on courses that are usually closed by this time of year. # Good Morning. UFO Sun Attack Today is SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1982. In the news: President Reagan was urged by Colombia's president to halt the diplomatic **boycott of Cuba** (Page 6) . . . Three more **tornadoes** slammed into Arkansas as a **heat wave** reached from the Gulf of Mexico to Canadian border states (Page 5) . . . Poland's **martial-law** ruler delivered a bitter **attack** on the U.S. (Page 5) . . . Washington's **Lottery** Commission launched three **more games** for winter and spring (Page 8) . . . An expanded news briefing appears on Page 2. === Page 54 of 92 UFO "Sun" Attack # Snow storm buries New Mexico Associated Press A wintry storm dumped up to a foot and a half of snow in New Mexico on Saturday, killing at least two people, stranding travelers and leaving at least six hunters missing, while three people were killed and six were injured on icy roads in Kansas. Up to 5 inches of rain pushed streams out of their banks in parts of eastern Texas, southern Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Snow, sleet and freezing rain made driving treacherous in much of eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, eastern Oklahoma and most of Kansas. The Sulphur River at Hagansport, Texas, about 80 miles northeast of Dallas, was about 4 feet above flood stage and still climbing and a tornado touched down in the central Louisiana. (Continued on page 17) 11/26/82 # Hawaii declared a disaster area HONOLULU (AP) -- President Reagan declared Hawaii a disaster area Saturday as a nuclear-powered submarine docked to help restore power to one island blacked out by the worst hurricane on record to hit the Pacific paradise. The attack submarine USS Indianapolis was pressed into service as a floating electric generator for the island of Kauai, where 39,000 residents had been without power since Tuesday night when Hawaii's first major hurricane in 23 years left almost $200 million in damage. But even with the sub plugged into one of the island's three generating plants, utility officials said it probably would be two to three weeks before full service was restored. "We'd like to try to get 90 percent of the system up in two weeks," said Kelvin Kai, transmission and distribution manager of Kauai Electric Co. Damages to private and public property on Kauai and on the more populous island of Oahu have been estimated by disaster officials at about $160 million, and military officials say Army facilities may have sustained an additional $30 million in damage. The Red Cross said Iwa's 110-mph winds destroyed 180 homes on Oahu and Kauai, and an additional 934 sustained major damage. Nearly 1,500 had minor damage. Dick Sasaki of the National Weather Service in Honolulu said damage was "much, much worse" than that left by Hurricane Dot in 1959. # Snow storm -- (Continued from page 1) town of Alexandria. There were no immediate reports of damage. In New Mexico, the bodies of two people who apparently died of exposure were found Saturday, officials said. Esther Redwine, 56 was found dead near her house in Lea County, near the New Mexico-Texas border, by her son-in-law, according to Capt. Paul Mallory of the Lea County sheriff's office. "It appears this lady was on her way to the house and apparently fell ... and froze to death," he said. State police said a man who was looking for aluminum cans found the body of an unidentified man along U.S. highway 666 about five miles north of Gallup. The body of another unidentified man was found during rough weather along the highway three days earlier, on Thanksgiving Day. The freezing rain that swept across central and southeast Kansas turned roads into icy ribbons, causing numerous accidents. Sleet accumulated a quarter of an inch deep at Coldwater, Kan. Three people were killed and three others were injured about 11 a.m. in an accident southeast of Emporia, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. The crash occurred on the icy Kansas 130 bridge over the Neosho River just north of Hartford, but no other details were immediately available. Three people injured in another accident on Interstate 135 in Salina, Kan., were listed in critical condition at St. John's Hospital. New Mexico state police were discouraged travel in most areas of the southern and in the northeastern parts of the state. UFO's in "Attack" # Hawaii sunny again, but hurricane damage put at $160 million 11/26/82 HONOLULU (AP) -- Tourists packed sunny beaches Thursday, but many Hawaii residents returned to homes and businesses ruined by the punishing winds of Hurricane Iwa. Damage was estimated at $160 million and a civil defense spokesman said it was "probably the worst disaster we've had short of war." Most of the hard-hit island of Kauai was still without electricity, water and telephone service, and authorities sought help from the Navy. Parts of Oahu, the most populous island, also were without water. Tanker trucks rolled in to help replenish the supply, and Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson urged residents to conserve water because of limited power to pumping stations. The brunt of the first hurricane to hit Hawaii in 23 years struck Kauai, Oahu and the tiny, privately owned island of Niihau on Tuesday night with winds up to 110 mph. High waves wiped out cottages and pounded luxury condominiums along the shore at Poipu, on Kauai. A 40-foot Coast Guard utility boat and 14 other vessels were sunk in the island's Nawiliwili Harbor. The Navy lost several vessels at Port Allen, part of the world's largest submarine tracking station. More than 100 people were treated for minor injuries, but the only reported death was a sailor washed off the 4,500-ton guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough by a 30-foot wave. Flattened trees, toppled utility poles and debris stripped from houses littered the streets as more than 7,000 people evacuated on Oahu and Kauai returned to begin cleaning up. Hotels struggled with flooded garages and sporadic power blackouts. === Page 55 of 92 UFO Sun Attack Spokane, Wash., Wed., Dec. 8, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # Floods continue; volunteers hustle to shore up levees Associated Press Devastating floods that have driven 26,000 people from their homes in the Mississippi Valley surged downstream Tuesday as National Guardsmen and volunteers hustled to shore up river levees. Damage estimates from the flooding touched off by storms in the region late last week approached the half-billion dollar mark. At least 20 people had been killed by tornadoes and floods and four were missing. About 20,000 residents remained in evacuation shelters Tuesday in Missouri as rivers crested at levels reached only about once every hundred years, officials said. National Guardsmen patrolled the St. Louis suburbs of Arnold, Times Beach and St. Charles to guard against looting. More evacuations were ordered in Arkansas. Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson declared six counties -- mainly in the northern part of the state -- disaster areas Tuesday and warned that "the worst is not over." Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond, estimating damage in his state at $150 million, said he would ask President Reagan for federal assistance to 22 counties declared disaster areas. Arkansas Gov. Frank White has asked for disaster aid for 37 counties since Friday. Jack Dubose of the state Office of Emergency Services said a preliminary estimate of damage in his state totaled about $268 million and added, "This is just a start. We expect that to continue to climb." In Missouri, the Meramec River crested Tuesday at about 20 feet above flood stage at Arnold, just south of St. Louis, driving families out of about 300 more homes. National Guard troops and equipment were sent to Herculaneum and Ste. Genevieve to reinforce levees along the Mississippi. About 140 Guardsmen were on duty with others held in reserve. Still others were on alert for possible duty in southern Missouri. The water was receding in some areas, but was rising downstream. In east-central Arkansas, officials were evacuating 300 to 400 people from the rural areas of Maddox Bay, Indian Bay, East Lake and Green Lake, all about 20 miles south of Clarendon. Emergency centers were set up in Holly Grove to house about 1,250 people. Charlie Koltz, who was evacuated from his farmhouse near Times Beach, Mo., about midnight Sunday said, "My most dramatic moment was hearing a man screaming for help as he was swept by at about 30 mph, clinging to a log in the river. We never did learn what happened to him." Chuck Jones of the state Emergency and Disaster Agency in Illinois said the Illinois River was expected to go over retaining walls when it crests Wednesday at Peoria. === Page 56 of 92 10 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Thurs., Dec. 9, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Mississippi Valley towns buried in mud Associated Press Floods that have chased more than 35,000 people from their homes in the Mississippi Valley gushed into new territory Wednesday while receding waters in some areas left entire towns a muddy mess with cars and debris piled against houses and trees. TORRENTIAL RAINS late last week caused flooding that has left at least 20 dead and four missing in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, with preliminary damage estimates topping half a billion dollars. Winds gusting to hurricane force Wednesday knocked out the power to 143,000 households in Southern California and blew cars off icy Interstate 80 in Utah, where up to 15 inches of snow fell in places. A blast of Arctic air plunged temperatures below zero across much of Montana, North Dakota and northern Minnesota, and below freezing across the most of the other northern states from New England to the Pacific Northwest. FREEZING DRIZZLE glazed broad areas from eastern New Mexico to northwest Illinois. Roads "like a sheet of ice" in the Oklahoma Panhandle caused many accidents. The Mississippi River on Wednesday lapped within inches of the top of a levee ringed with 3 feet of sandbags near St. Louis, and the Illinois River was expected to crest Thursday at 10.5 feet above flood stage in Peoria, Ill., just inches short of the level in record flooding in 1943. "If we get any more rain, we can just forget it," said Roger Pritchett, inspecting the Mississippi levee in a light drizzle just above the confluence of the Missouri River near St. Louis. THE NATION'S MIGHTIEST river is expected to crest about 14 feet over flood stage below St. Louis on Friday. Although many have since returned home while others are getting out, officials estimated that so far 25,000 people had been displaced in Missouri, 8,500 in Illinois and about 2,000 in Arkansas. Some of the 2,200 residents of Times Beach, Mo., near St. Louis started returning home Wednesday, but they left their children in emergency shelters. "We don't want people going in with little children and finding a living room full of snakes," said Susan Van Almsick, a spokeswoman for the county. Little was left to salvage in some of the homes. "This was all I was able to find," said Ron Wilson, holding up a jar of pennies." As he spoke, the jar slipped from his grasp and shattered on the pavement. ABOUT 150 STUDENTS from Southern Illinois University were helping fill 60,000 sandbags to try to protect Kaskia Island near Peoria, Ill. Officials said almost 300,000 sandbags had been placed along Illinois rivers. "This kind of storm, the worst in a century, just overwhelms what man can do," said Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson. The Arkansas flooding is "far and away beyond anything that has hit the state," said Jack DuBose, a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services. Arkansas officials estimate the flood has caused about $323 million in property damages so far. The National Weather Service said the White River in Monroe County in eastern Arkansas would crest at about 33 feet Saturday -- 6 feet above flood stage. Another 300 to 400 country residents were being evacuated, Deputy Sheriff Frank Newby said. MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS worked through the night to reinforce levees in Herculaneum and Ste. Genevieve. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed St. Louis harbor and a 43-mile stretch of the Mississippi to barge traffic because wakes from tows might damage flood levees. About 4,500 people in Illinois remained homeless, mostly in the Peoria area and southward, said E. Erie Jones, director of the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. The flooding has affected southeastern Missouri and the eastern two-thirds of Arkansas. There has been only minor flooding so far in Mississippi and in Louisiana, where the river reaches the Gulf of Mexico. === Page 57 of 92 SPRING? - Not yet, but even the wildlife in Lincoln County enjoy the unseasonably warm weather that has descended on the Northwest. This is probably the easiest winter this whitetail doe has experienced. (Eagle photo) Kootenai Valley Eagle 2/2/83 UFOs Sun Attack === Page 58 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW saturday, jan. 15, 1983 page 4 # opinion Reagan in trouble # The body count mounts It keeps getting worse. Strains within the Reagan White House are growing prolifically. In the last several days, the president has lost two more members of his Cabinet. First it was Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, who headed off for Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc., where he will be chairman of the board. Now Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker has left for a six-figure salary in the insurance business. Their departures bring to five the number of Cabinet and Cabinet-level losses the president has suffered in the past year. Earlier, national security adviser Richard Allen left amidst a storm of controversy, followed by an equally embattled Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Neither loss was mourned. The other Cabinet official choosing to walk down the road was Energy Secretary James Edwards. Now he is president of the Medical University of South Carolina and a member of the board of directors of Phillips Petroleum Co. The shake-up probably is not over. We hope it is not because of the officials most deserving expulsion, all are till around. In the three most recent cases, it's the wrong people who have left. No one is more deserving of early retirement than Interior Secretary James Watt. Watt is more suited to employment aboard a seal boat off the coast of Newfoundland than to a job involving wilderness protection. If he hurries, he can make it in time for the spring harvest of furry seal pups. CIA Director William Casey is another character we could do without in government service. The only time we hear of Casey is when some government agency investigates his shady business dealings (of which there have been many). His tarnished reputation has so damaged his credibility that he should have been dismissed early in the Reagan presidency. Last, but by no means least, there is Labor Secretary Ray Donovan, a man even more discredited than Casey. Donovan was cleared of allegations that he had ties to organized crime, but the long, drawn-out controversy permanently impaired his political effectiveness. We concur with the sentiments of White House chief of staff James Baker III that Donovan, as a service to the president, should pack his bags and leave. It will be interesting to see what repercussions, if any, spring from Baker's bold pronouncement. Baker, it generally is accepted, is not the darling of the White House staff. As a refugee of the Gerald Ford and George Bush camps, Baker is not altogether trusted by the president's cronies from California. He still is considered an outsider. Baker's comments could intensify the antagonism between White House moderates and conservatives, the newcomers and the old Reagan loyalists. All that's certain is that the higher the body count goes, the more chaotic and divided the White House will become. The cracks showing in the White House political foundation may be a mere prelude to a cataclysmic explosion which could seal the fate of the Reagan presidency. # EPA chief facing charges of lying resigns her post WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rita M. Lavelle, a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency who was accused of lying under oath to Congress, abruptly resigned Friday. Lavelle, one of the agency's assistant administrators, was facing a possible investigation into her testimony concerning an EPA whistleblower, Hugh Kaufman. She had denied under oath to a House Science and Technology subcommittee that she had ordered an investigation of Kaufman or that she had said she would like to fire him. However, the committee produced an affidavit from Richard M. Campbell, EPA's former assistant inspector general, in which he said Lavelle had requested his office to investigate Kaufman. "Lavelle advised both myself and (Inspector General Matthew) Novick that she wished to fire Mr. Kaufman and she hoped that we could accommodate her request for an investigation," Campbell said in his affidavit. Subcommittee Chairman James Scheuer, D-N.Y., said later that he was "leaning heavily" toward asking the Justice Department to prosecute Lavelle on perjury charges. In a short statement announcing her resignation, Lavelle made no reference to the Kaufman case. "I have accomplished what I set out to do -- get the agency's hazardous waste and Superfund programs started and on good footing," she said. "Having met this goal, I am ready to get back to California." Scheuer said in a statement he believed his subcommittee had prepared a "strong case for perjury." (Continued on page 2) === Page 59 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Reagan switcheroo worries GOP chiefs New York Times Spok Rev 7/30/82 WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional leaders Thursday told White House officials that they were "bewildered" by President Reagan's refusal to commit himself to spending cuts that he had agreed to make in fiscal 1984 and 1985, but were unable to reach Reagan by telephone to present their views firsthand. The leaders privately expressed the fear that the president's remarks could jeopardize a new round of spending cuts being debated in the Congress, as well as a series of fiscally austere domestic spending bills soon to reach the floor of the House and Senate. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., the majority leader, told reporters that he was "disturbed" by the president's statement, adding "It hardly seems the right time, with everything going on here." Baker expressed his misgivings in a telephone conversation with James A. Baker 3d, the White House chief-of-staff, but was unable to reach the president by telephone, according to an aide to the Senate leader. See 'Defense' -- Page 6 Rep. Robert H. Michel, R-Ill., the minority leader, told a closed meeting of the 192-member Republican caucus that "The fact remains that he isn't going to spend one dime more than is authorized and appropriated by the Congress." Michel also tried to reach the president by telephone, and finally expressed his misgivings in a letter to Reagan, according to an aide to the House leader. UFO attack "higher ups" # Reagan, four others spend cozy 5 minutes in stuck elevator WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan was a bit late to a ceremony in the state dining room on Thursday -- because he got stuck in a White House elevator. "I don't know just how to approach this and tell you why we are late," the president said, a little sheepishly, to representatives of the National Health Fair programs. "In 18 months it never happened," he said. "What really scared me was when the gentleman who's been here for many many years, who was with us, said it never happened (before). We've been (between) here and the floor below in the elevator. We had plenty of time to get acquainted." The "we" were Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, Secretary of Education T.H. Bell, the president, elevator operator Freddy Mayfield and a Secret Service agent. Mayfield said the elevator actually had gotten stuck before between the ground floor and main first floor where the state dining room is. But never with a president aboard. The quintet spent a cozy five minutes in the elevator. "I asked the president what happened when the elevator stopped," said deputy press secretary Larry Speakes. "He said we looked at each other for a while and looked at the ceiling for while." The 200 or so people waiting for the president in the ornate dining room noticed only that the lights flickered for short periods. Later it was learned that a fire in a power station nearby had caused similar momentary problems in a wide area of Washington. Spok Rev 8/6/82 UFO attack "higher ups" ![President and Mrs. Reagan leave a Vienna, Va., church after attending services Monday for Scott Meese. The 19-year-old son of presidential adviser Edwin Meese III died in a car wreck last week.] President and Mrs. Reagan leave a Vienna, Va., church after attending services Monday for Scott Meese. The 19-year-old son of presidential adviser Edwin Meese III died in a car wreck last week. Spok Rev 7/27/82 ![NANCY REAGAN No further treatment] NANCY REAGAN No further treatment # Mrs. Reagan's skin cancer 'very curable' Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- A small growth removed from First Lady Nancy Reagan's face was diagnosed Tuesday as a form of skin cancer that is curable at least 95 percent of the time. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, Sheila Tate, said that the growth above the first lady's upper lip had been "adequately excised" and that no further treatment was required. The operation was performed Monday, about two months after Mrs. Reagan first discovered the problem and "kept thinking it would go away," according to Tate. (Continued on page 11) === Page 60 of 92 Nancy used helicopters, not autos, three times UFOs attack "higher ups" WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Reagan used helicopters from the presidential fleet on three occasions when she traveled alone to Camp David, Md., at a cost to taxpayers of $3,110, White House records show. As a matter of practice, first ladies rarely use helicopters when they are traveling solo, even on official trips. Instead of making the journey by car, which takes about 90 minutes, the first lady took a helicopter round trip to inspect the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains for the first time on Jan. 29, 1981. She was accompanied by her Los Angeles decorator, Ted Graber. A one-way helicopter trip to the isolated camp, about 60 miles from the nation's capital, takes 35 minutes and costs taxpayers $777.72. NANCY REAGAN That figure is based on an operating cost, provided by the White House, of $1,334 per hour for the VIP Marine helicopters that feature two airline-style upholstered chairs facing each other, sofa-like banks of seats on either side, and a bar. Mrs. Reagan made one-way helicopter trips last Sept. 10 and Oct. 29. Both times she was meeting her husband, who had flown a separate VIP helicopter to Camp David from Andrews Air Force Base following out-of-town trips. ON ALL THREE occasions, the president's wife boarded the helicopter at the Pentagon, rather than the White House South Lawn. Only the president -- or special guests on rare occasions -- depart from the White House. There is some question as to whether a first lady, who is not elected and has no constitutional duties, is entitled to taxpayer-subsidized helicopters for solo journeys, especially for purely personal, non-official trips. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, Sheila Tate, said the first lady did not conduct official business at Camp David on the three occasions she flew there alone. But Mrs. Tate sought to extend to the first lady the presumption that all of her activities, even spending a relaxing weekend at Camp David with her husband, were somehow official. THAT IS TRUE for the president. The Justice Department considers all of his activities to be either official or political since he is commander-in-chief and responsible for national affairs 24 hours a day and so never really is "off-duty." Richard Hauser, a lawyer in the White House counsel's office, told The Associated Press that Mr. Reagan would be expected to reimburse the government for the cost of her helicopter travel if her activities were deemed "clearly personal or political." 11/15/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" Spok Rev 10/18/82 House panel looking at Watt's plane trips WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee is looking into Interior Secretary James Watt's alleged use of government airplanes for personal and political purposes, according to government sources. At the request of the House Government Operations Committee, the General Accounting Office is examining a number of trips taken by Watt on a King Air 200 plane assigned to an Interior Department firefighting unit in Idaho. On one trip to pick up Watt's son at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., over Memorial Day, 1981, one source said, the Interior Department was underbilled by $40,000. The Chicago Tribune reported over the weekend that Watt also used government planes to make political fund-raising trips to Western states, as well as to fly to a now-controversial "One Shot Antelope Hunt" in Wyoming. A GAO report now being drafted is expected to criticize the lack of specific regulations covering travel by Cabinet secretaries. Virtually no limits are now placed on their travel. In Watt's case, the secretary used a plane assigned to the Boise Interagency Fire Center for many trips, according to the forthcoming GAO report and testimony by GAO officials before the committee. UFOs attack "higher ups" How's that again, Senor Presidente? BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- President Reagan made a verbal slipup when he toasted the people of Bolivia -- instead of Brazil -- at a dinner hosted in his honor Wednesday by Brazilian President Joao Baptista Figueiredo. Realizing his mistake as soon as the word was out of his mouth, Reagan then compounded the error by saying, "That's where I'm going." Bolivia is not on the agenda for his Latin American tour. Finishing a lengthy toast, Reagan said: "To President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia -- that's where I'm going -- to the people of Brazil and to the dream of democracy and peace here in the western hemisphere." Spok Rev 12/2/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" Auto carrying Gandhi stoned Spok Rev 12/19/82 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A motorcade carrying Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was stoned Saturday as it drove through the streets of a seaside city in southern Karnataka state where the Indian leader was on a local election swing, news reports said. Stones thrown by political opponents hit the car carrying Mrs. Gandhi and several behind it, but no one was injured, the United News of India reported from Mangalore, 180 miles west of the state capital of Bangalore. Police quickly dispersed the crowd. No arrests were reported. Mrs. Gandhi earlier faced shouts of support for a local political party during her speech on behalf of her ruling Congress Party candidates at the Mangalore city hall, UNI said. The prime minister also was shouted down during a speech Friday at Mahabubnagar, a district city in central Andhra Pradesh state, newspapers said. They said an angry Mrs. Gandhi shouted back: "Don't you know who I am and what the Congress is? We will show our might." === Page 61 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" Diplomat's son free after shooting WASHINGTON (AP) - The son of Brazil's ambassador to the United States was charged with shooting an employee of a topless bar, but the charge was dropped because the son has diplomatic immunity, the U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors, who asked that their names not be used, said the shooting incident occurred Monday night and the charge was dismissed Wednesday after a conference with the State Department. Law enforcement sources described police and prosecutors involved as outraged that the law permits the ambassador's son to go free. Antonio da Silveira Jr. was arrested on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum penalty of a 10-year prison term. According to a report filed by Washington police officer James P. Vines in city's Superior Court, da Silveira was in a bar called The Godfather, which features topless dancers, when he got into an argument Monday night with the manager. The ambassador's son pulled out two pistols and pulled the trigger on one, but it misfired, Vines continued. Bar employees chased da Silveira outside and he fired several shots, hitting an employee, Kenneth Skeen, in the hand, leg and abdomen, according to the police officer's report. The employees caught da Silveira. 1982, Spokane, Wash. UFOs attack "higher ups" Spanish Communist boss quits Washington Post MADRID - Veteran Spanish Communist Santiago Carrillo, who was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in the Oct. 28 national elections, Saturday stepped down from the leadership of the party that he has run with iron discipline for 22 years. He resigned as party secretary general at a stormy executive committee meeting that was holding a post-mortem into the election rout. The Communist Party representation in the congress shrunk from the 23 seats it held after elections in 1979 to just four seats, and its percentage share of the national vote dropped from 10 to 3.8 percent. Carrillo proposed as his successor Gerardo Iglesias, 37, Communist leader of the coal mining Asturias region in northern Spain. Iglesias, who is largely unknown in national politics, served a five-year prison term under the late dictator Francisco Franco. He joined the party at the age of 15 when he was already a miner and has a long record as a party organizer in the pits. Carrillo, 67, had been under attack by hard-liners for veering too far from Moscow and by dovish dissidents who accused him of not practicing the internal democracy he preached. His total grip on the Spanish party has been sharply eroded and the party has become a drastically reduced power base. Last year, dozens of well known Communists, mostly lawyers, economists and members of other professions, left the party charging that Carrillo impeded the growth of a broad-based, moderate communist movement. UFOs attack "higher ups" Diplomat's body discovered SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The body of a man found on the grounds of the Presidio Army Base overlooking San Francisco Bay has been identified as that of a Belgian diplomat who disappeared two weeks ago. The San Francisco coroner's office said dental charts led to the identification of 66-year-old Rene Thimister, a career diplomat and honorary Belgian consul general, who was last seen leaving his home Oct. 23 to walk his dog. UFOs attack "higher ups" Kuwaiti diplomat slain NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Kuwait's second-ranking diplomat in India was shot dead Friday by a gunman who fired four bullets into him at close range and then fled in a waiting taxi, police said. Embassy First Secretary Mustafa M. Al-Marzook died at a hospital with two bullet wounds in his stomach and others in the chest and pelvis, police commissioner Bajrang Lal said. UFOs attack "higher ups" The story of O: N. Korean diplomat accused WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A North Korean diplomat to the United States was indicted Friday on charges of sexual abuse stemming from an attack last month on a Bronx woman. The man was holed up in the North Korean mission in Manhattan, with police outside waiting to arrest him. Nam Chol O, third secretary for the observer delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was charged by the Westchester County grand jury in a three-count indictment alleging first-degree sexual abuse, menacing, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a rock. District Attorney Carl Vergari said O is accused of sexually abusing a 43-year-old woman, who was not identified, on county-owned land at Twin Lakes Reservoir in Eastchester on Sept. 5. Vergari said O allegedly grabbed the woman from behind while she was walking on a bridle path, knocked her down, threatened her with a rock, and sexually abused her. The woman managed to fight off her attacker and fled. === Page 62 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Fate of Latin president's daughter unknown GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Kidnappers holding the Honduran president's daughter under threat of death remained silent Saturday after the Guatemalan government refused to negotiate but let the family appeal for her life on national television. Friends and relatives of 33-year-old Dr. Judith Xiomara Suazo Estrada refused to say what her family was doing to obtain her release or if any contact had been made with the kidnappers. Her father, Honduran President Dr. Roberto Suazo Cordova, through a spokesman, respectfully asked reporters "not to speculate" on the case, and verify their information first before publishing it. A few minutes before Friday's 8 p.m. PST deadline set by the kidnappers for saving Mrs. Suazo Estrada, the government announced it was holding to its policy of "not negotiating with subversives." The terrorists, who did not identify themselves "for tactical reasons," kidnapped her on Dec. 13 as she was leaving the Guatemalan capital's San Juan De Dios General Hospital where she worked in the radiology department. Guatemalan security officials said they believed the kidnappers belonged to one of four leftist guerrilla organizations fighting for power in this Central American country but refused to disclose details of the kidnapping. In clandestine communiques to news media, the kidnappers demanded publication of a political manifesto in Central American and Mexican newspapers in exchange for her release, warning her life "will be in danger" if this was not done. Both Suazo Cordova and Guatemalan President Gen. Efrain Rios Montt made it known they were standing by their governments' policies of not negotiating with terrorists. However, the Guatemalan government authorized the family to use national television to ask the kidnappers for proof she was alive and to request a copy of the manifesto. A statement from the family read during a television newscast shortly before the deadline appealed to the kidnappers to send over a copy of the manifesto so they could try to have "its publication authorized by the governments of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala." Under emergency regulations in force in Guatemala and El Salvador to deal with leftist rebellions, newspapers are forbidden from publishing guerrilla statements without government approval. The Guatemalan government did not say if the government would permit the manifesto's publication but promised that authorities will "support the efforts of the family to free the captive." The communique also called on international human rights organizations to urge "the terrorists not to assassinate but to free the captive." The government's decision was seen as an effort to avoid negotiating directly with leftist rebels while providing a way to save the daughter's life. In a similar communique from Tegucigalpa, the Honduran government said it too was not negotiating with the terrorists. The Honduran communique Friday night described Suazo Cordova's daughter as "an innocent victim of a terrorist act" who has no connections to the government. (1) ## Mental treatment for prince THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, was readmitted to a Swiss psychiatric clinic Monday for further treatment, the Dutch Government Information Service announced. Early last month, Claus, 56, was admitted to the University of Basel clinic for what the information service called "complaints of a depressive nature." He was released Oct. 28. A spokesman for the information service said he did not know how long the prince will stay in Basel, but that the treatment "could take a few weeks." (2) ## Ghana resignation accepted LONDON (AP) -- Ghana's head of state, Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings, has accepted the resignation of his chief of defense one week after an attempted coup by military rebels, Accra Radio reported Monday. The broadcast by the official Ghanian station, which was monitored here, said Rawlings had taken over the post. It said Rawlings criticized his former defense chief, Brig. Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, for telling the foreign press that he planned to quit before he notified the government. The attempted coup came the day after Nunoo-Mensah offered his resignation, saying the country was in chaos. (3) ## Kidnapped official found dead BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Gloria Echeverri, former director of Colombia's Neighborhood Action Department, was found slain Monday, five months after she was kidnapped. The Neighborhood Action Department helps poor neighborhoods build schools and make other improvements when there is no help from other government sectors. Mrs. Echeverri's body was found on a street corner in the northwest part of Bogota. She had been shot once in the head and her body was covered with a banner bearing the letters ORP. The afternoon daily El Bogotano said it had been told by an anonymous caller that the letters stand for Organizacion Revolucionaria del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Organization, a previously unheard-of group in Colombia. UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Cameroon chief to resign YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) -- President Ahmadou Ahidjo, president of Cameroon since it became independent in 1960, made a surprise announcement Thursday that he was resigning. He said his resignation would be effective Saturday, but gave no reason in a speech on nationwide radio. There was no immediate indication who would succeed Ahidjo, 58, one of the elder statesmen of African independence. Ahidjo urged the people to "remain a united people, patriotic, hard-working, dignified and respected." === Page 63 of 92 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Fri., Oct. 29, 1982, Spokane, Wash. UFDe attack "higher ups" # Energy Dept. fires top conservation expert By MILTON R. BENJAMIN Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Two years after she received a presidential merit award, the government's top expert on energy conservation says she is being forced out of her job as part of the Reagan administration's effort to "do away with all federal conservation programs." Dr. Maxine Savitz, who has been deputy assistant secretary of energy for conservation since January 1979, was fired Wednesday because she didn't report Monday to a new job in Golden, Colo. "This was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to force me off the rolls," Savitz said. "I have two children in high school, and my husband, Alan, has just signed a three-year contract to head psychiatry at Greater Southeast Community Hospital (in Washington). They knew perfectly well I could not accept this transfer." Savitz, who joined the federal government at the time of the 1973 Arab oil embargo after doing conservation research for the National Science Foundation, said she felt Assistant Energy Secretary Joseph J. Tribble was making her the scapegoat for his failure to "kill conservation programs." "I REALLY believe he came here to do away with all the conservation programs except for a small amount of long-term research and development, and he hasn't been successful," Savitz said. "And I think he blames me for that instead of recognizing that many people in the Congress and private sector think there is a proper role for the federal government in conservation." Tribble, who summoned Savitz to his office at 3 p.m. Wednesday and gave her the required 30 days' advance notice of dismissal, did not return a reporter's telephone calls. Savitz's dismissal is the latest turn in the battle between the administration and Congress over the government's role in promoting energy conservation. THE ADMINISTRATION'S position, according to the energy secretary's annual report to Congress in August 1982, is that "the very nature of conservation implies that it be undertaken voluntarily out of the self-interest of individuals and businesses," and that there is "little need for federal participation." In line with this, the administration cut the amount requested for energy conservation in its fiscal 1983 budget to $326 million -- less than half the $757 million spent under President Carter's fiscal 1981 budget the final full year of his administration -- and indicated it planned to get the conservation quest down to only $11 million in fiscal 1985. "If they had their way," ## Dr. Savitz claims she is scapegoat in effort to kill U.S. program UFDe attack "higher ups" # Sheik arrested by FBI WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI said Friday night that Sheik Aliai al-Fassi, 21, of Saudi Arabia was arrested earlier in the day as he attempted to sell a stolen ring, valued at $1.2 million, to undercover FBI agents. The ring, "containing a 22.7 carat emerald and 16 diamonds, was reported stolen by the Harry Winston Inc. jewelers of Hollywood, Fla., last April," according to an FBI statement. Government sources said al-Fassi is a brother-in-law of Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz, a member of the Saudi royal family. Published reports indicated he is a younger brother of Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi, whose rampant gift-giving and run-in with the Diplomat Hotel in Florida earned him much notoriety in the United States. An FBI spokesman said State Department officials had been notified of the arrest. Spok Rev 12/25/82 Spokane, Wash., Fri., Dec. 3, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW UFDe attack "higher ups" # Contempt citation voted against EPA's Gorsuch WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House subcommittee voted Thursday to cite Anne M. Gorsuch, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, for contempt of Congress for withholding documents on President Reagan's orders. The 9-2 vote by the House Public Works investigations subcommittee came after Mrs. Gorsuch invoked executive privilege in withholding the documents dealing with EPA's toxic waste cleanup program. Mrs. Gorsuch, appearing before the panel in response to the subpoena, said the "vast majority" of documents would be duplicated and shipped to the subcommittee, though it will cost EPA at least $145,000 and could take six months. But she said that "sensitive documents found in open law enforcement files" -- such as legal strategies and case analyses -- would be withheld on the president's orders. She submitted a letter signed by Reagan in which the president said: "Because dissemination of such documents outside the executive branch would impair my solemn responsibility to enforce the law, I instruct you and your agency not to furnish copies of this category of documents." UFDe attack "higher ups" # Shooting cause uncertain BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Shooting erupted outside the house of Druse leader Walid Jumblatt Tuesday, but there were conflicting reports from Lebanese authorities on who was at fault. Police officers at the scene said gunmen in a passing car opened fire on Jumblatt's house and were shot at by the Moslem leader's private security guards. The officers said a blood-stained green Datsun sports car found a block from the house was the assailants' vehicle. Later, however, Prosecutor General Mounif Oweidat said an investigation failed to turn up any evidence that either Jumblatt or his supporters were the target of an attack, and the security guards might have initiated the incident. Sp. Rev. 12/29/82 === Page 64 of 92 attack "higher ups" # Letter-bomb explodes at 10 Downing Street New York Times LONDON -- A package containing an incendiary device, addressed to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ignited Tuesday afternoon inside her official residence at 10 Downing Street, slightly injuring an official who checks all suspicious mail. Similar packages were sent to the House of Commons, the police said, bearing the names of Michael Foot, leader of the opposition Labor Party; David Steel, the Liberal leader; Roy Jenkins, the Social Democratic leader, and Timothy Raison, a junior minister at the Home Office whose responsibilities include legislation concerning animals. None of them ignited. According to Scotland Yard, the package received at Number 10 contained a note saying it had been sent by a group called the "Animal Rights Militia." Established animal rights organizations said they had never heard of the group, and a spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the incident represented a new peak of utter lunacy in the name of animal welfare. Several animal-protection organizations in Britain have taken more militant stands in recent months, encouraging non-violent civil disobedience. One of them, the Animal Liberation Front, has staged raids on research laboratories to free animals held captive there. Mrs. Thatcher was never in danger from the letter-bomb. It was opened in a mail room on the ground floor by Peter Taylor, a security official, while the prime minister was on an upper floor preparing for an appearance later at the House of Commons. Officials there said no incendiary or explosive device had ever before gone off inside the building. They had been confident that sophisticated mechanical and electronic screening devices guaranteed that none could get through. Taylor was said to be in good spirits and to have received only superficial facial burns. Because he wears glasses, his eyes were shielded from the flames that burst from the package as he opened it. In the Commons, Mrs. Thatcher said that more rigorous security measures were needed to deal with the threat posed by letter bombs, which have been mailed to dozens of senior officials by various groups over the last five years. For attack "higher ups" # More 'ranches' are erected by Reagan's foes Associated Press Activists opposed to President Reagan's social and economic policies set up tent settlements known as "Reagan Ranches" in four more cities Saturday. "Reagan ranches" had been set up already in more than a dozen cities, and organizers said they hoped to have about 30 of the encampments by Election Day. The demonstrations, designed to recall the "Hoovervilles" of the Depression, were part of a nationwide effort by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and other groups that want to bring attention to what ACORN calls the "new depression" caused by Reagan's budget cuts. In Sioux Falls, S.D., Jim Brown, a Dell Rapids farmer and National Farmers Organization member, said Reagan's policies are "killing farmers" economically. Members of the administration "have to listen to the people," said Wanda Wyant, one of the tent city organizers. "They can no longer listen to big business and to their advisers. They have to begin to listen to the people." About 50 demonstrators marched through downtown Austin, Texas, passing out "Reagan Dollars" -- slips of brightly colored paper depicting Reagan and Republican Gov. Bill Clements with the words: "Reagan Dollar, 10.1 percent unemployment, the united states of unemployment." The protesters stopped to sing and chant on the steps of the Capitol, then returned to the 30 tents set up on the baseball field of City Coliseum. For attack "higher ups" Spokane, Wash., Tues., Nov. 16, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW # day of mourning in Israel JERUSALEM -- The chilling wail of air raid sirens sounded throughout Israel at 10 o'clock Monday morning bringing the country's activities to a halt for a minute of silent remembrance for the victims of the explosion that destroyed the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon, last Thursday. Eighty-nine persons -- 75 Israelis and 14 Arabs -- died in the blast. Two hours later, a grieving Prime Minister Menachem Begin, buried his wife of 43 years, Aliza, in a plot on the Mount of Olives overlooking the walled old city of Jerusalem in a simple, brief ceremony held in brilliant sunshine. Several hundred invited guests -- family friends, relatives, and Israeli officials -- attended the funeral for Mrs. Begin, who died early Sunday morning after a long illness. Other funerals for the victims of the Tyre explosion were taking place at the same time at cemeteries all over the country. Mrs. Begin was interred in a Jewish burial ground between a Russian Orthodox church and a Moslem mosque on the Mount of Olives. The kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, was read by the Begin's son, Benyamin Ze'ev. Other members of the family, including the couple's two daughters, Leah and Hasia, stood by. Local policemen, soldiers and border police kept onlookers at the cemetery at a distance. Clutches of Israelis were threaded about the hillside burial ground, which affords a spectacular view of both old and new Jerusalem and the glinting mosques, churches and synagogues. As the guests left the grave site, a tiny recording of a muezzin sounded prayers in Arabic from the mosque. As the Jewish mourners boarded chartered buses, they were watched by curious Arab onlookers, mostly children of school age. The Begins were known to have been very close and the prime minister had been distraught and distressed lately because of the severity of his wife's illness. The prime minister was in the United States when he received word of his wife's death. === Page 65 of 92 NFOs attack "higher ups" # Arens to head Israeli defense JERUSALEM (AP) -- Moshe Arens, Israel's hawkish ambassador to Washington, accepted the post of defense minister Monday in place of the ousted Ariel Sharon, who quit the ministry saying, "I am not leaving a beaten man." Prime Minister Menachem Begin won the approval of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, for Sharon's removal from the Defense Ministry. Begin will hold the defense portfolio until Arens is confirmed. Sharon, who ran the Defense Ministry for 18 months, remains in the Cabinet as a minister without portfolio. He resigned the defense post after the Cabinet approved findings of an Israeli judicial commission that Sharon bore responsibility for allowing the Beirut massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militiamen Sept. 16-18. The commission said Sharon should have stopped Christian militiamen from committing the atrocity inside the Israeli-ringed Sabra and Chatilla camps. It also said Begin and other top officials bore partial responsibility. In a debate on Begin's request, opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres denounced him for keeping Sharon in the Cabinet and said the prime minister should have resigned. He accused Begin's government of "deciding on a partial pardon for itself" by retaining Sharon in the Cabinet. ARENS In Washington, Arens told Israel Radio's correspondent: "The portfolio was offered by the prime minister... I accepted it immediately." He said he supported Begin's policies "without reservations." Asked if his year as ambassador in Washington had affected his outlook, Arens replied, "I wouldn't say that I didn't learn anything in the year here. But my basic ideas about Israeli security and political matters have not changed." In another interview with Israel Television, he said there is "a substantial basis for cooperation" between Israel and the United States, but he indicated he would not follow a softer line with the Americans than Sharon did. "I know them over the course of the year, and they know me," he said. "I believe it cannot be said that I am lenient. I did not make concessions while I was here." Begin's secretary, Yehiel Kadishai, said Arens would fly to Israel in a few days to go through confirmation proceedings. Arens, 57, is a softspoken, practical diplomat with hardline views on making peace with the Arabs. He grew up in the United States, began his career as an aeronautical engineer and moved to Israel in 1950. Despite his hawkish views, Arens' style contrasts sharply with that of the flamboyant Sharon. Arens also has said he does not share Sharon's desire to become prime minister. Though Arens opposed the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, he now accepts it as an accomplished fact. Sharon, in a defiant farewell speech to defense ministry workers, served notice that he would continue to press his tough line in the Cabinet, even without a portfolio. === Page 66 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # New version of palace break-in credits maid Spok Rev 7/14/82 LONDON (AP) -- The lawyer of the man who sneaked into Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom said Tuesday the prowler spent "just over 10 minutes" talking with the monarch about the royal family before a chambermaid led him away. After visiting his client at Brixton Prison, attorney Maurice Nadeem said in a TV interview that 31-year-old Michael Fagan had been to Buckingham Palace "twice -- no more," despite press reports he broke into the royal residence as many as 12 times. Asked by Independent Television News if Fagan had explained why he did it, the lawyer said: "Yes, he wished to see Her Majesty the Queen." He said Fagan and the monarch talked about her family, and the queen mentioned her eldest son, Prince Charles. The conversation ended when a maid came into the room and Fagan was taken away, Nadeem said. The Standard newspaper, in its final afternoon edition, offered a new version of the palace security blunder, which has caused a furor in Parliament, the press and among the public. The paper said the 56-year-old monarch used her bedside telephone to raise the alarm when awakened by the intruder at about 7 a.m. Friday, but the palace police officer failed to realize the urgency of her message because she was so calm. "The first person to enter her room was a chambermaid 10 minutes after the intruder got in. Police arrived another eight minutes after that -- when the chambermaid had already led the man away. The chambermaid handed the man over to a footman..." the Standard said. The Standard explained the security lapse by saying an armed policeman had gone off duty outside the royal bedroom at 6 a.m., when members of the queen's personal staff arrive for work. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that the queen tried to push a "panic" button in her room but it failed to go off. Asked about the two reports, a Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are not prepared to discuss either of them." The original Daily Express account put the incident at 3 a.m. and said the queen chatted quietly with the man for 10 minutes before using his request for a cigarette as an excuse for summoning a footman who detained him. With Britain in an official flap over what one front page story termed a "national crisis," Fagan's mother was quoted as saying she would write to the queen to apologize. "I'm not saying my son would have hurt her. But if the queen had cried out and people burst in, what would have happened?" Ivy Fagan was quoted as telling the London Standard newspaper. "The way she handled it, to talk to him and keep calm, was absolutely marvelous. Now I plan to write to her to apologize. It's not very much, given what has happened, but what else can I do? I am deeply sorry," Mrs. Fagan was quoted as saying. Fagan's father, Michael Sr., said later Tuesday he was "shocked" when told his son had entered the queen's bedroom. Speaking from the family's state-subsidized apartment at Highbury, a London suburb five miles north of the palace, he told Independent Television News: "He's the kind of lad where, if someone came into his Mum's room and did the same thing, he'd go stark raving mad. Why he's done this, especially to the Queen... oh dear, oh dear. It's incredible." The elder Fagan said his son was not a "fanatical royalist," but admired the royal family. Mrs. Fagan said her son had not told the family he had been inside Buckingham Palace. "If he had, I would have laughed," she said. "We wouldn't have believed him." Her husband added: "Who would believe it if their boy came home and said 'I've popped in to see the Queen.'" Fagan's father said his son probably entered the palace for "bravado." "I don't think he minded getting caught. I bet he was telling the queen how bad the security is," he said. UFO attack "higher ups" # Sticks and stones . . . Environmental Protection Agency Director ANNE GORSUCH has troubles. Congress has been chasing her with a big stick of a contempt citation, and now she faces stones -- kidney stones, that is. EPA sources say that, fortunate-ly, hospital tests show no surgery will be needed. Now to take care of Congress. Sp Rev 1/7/83 # Dominican VP dies at 70 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Vice President Manuel Fernandez Marmol died Thursday at his home following a long illness, the government reported. He was 70. A government spokesman said Fernandez had undergone surgery several times. UFO attack "higher ups" Sp Rev 1/21/83 === Page 67 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" Spok Rev 12/10/82 # Surinam regime executes political foes THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The military regime of Surinamese Desi Bouterse executed "a number" of opposition leaders arrested in army sweeps, and civilian members of his government have resigned, Dutch television reported Thursday. The Foreign Ministry summoned Surinamese ambassador Henk Herrenberg to express its "horror" at the reported executions on Wednesday. The opposition leaders were rounded up Tuesday night -- to avert "an imminent bloodbath," Bouterse said Wednesday on the state radio in the former Dutch colony on South America's north coast. "The message we got is that a number of people were executed. We have no numbers," said a Dutch Foreign Ministry source who declined to be identified. Identities of those reported executed were not available. During the Tuesday night roundup, the headquarters of Surinam's major union group, a newspaper and two radio stations were burned down. Telex and telephone contact with Paramaribo, the Surinamese capital of Tuesday, had still not been restored Thursday night, according to the Foreign Ministry source. UFO attack "higher ups" # world ### Britain to expel Russian? LONDON (AP) -- The government will expel the Soviet naval attaché in London for "inadmissible activities," the domestic news agency Press Association quoted Soviet diplomatic sources as saying Thursday night. The agency said "inadmissible activities" was normally a euphemism for spying. Press Association quoted the Soviet source, whom it did not name, as saying Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government has given Capt. Anatoli Pavlovich Zotov and his wife eight days to get out. The Foreign Office refused to comment on the reported expulsion order. Spok Rev 11/5/82 UFO attack "higher ups" # Irish government tossed out DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Prime Minister Charles Haughey's minority government fell Thursday after eight months in office, and President Patrick Hillery scheduled the third general election in 17 months for Nov. 24. Haughey lost a vote of confidence 82-80 in the Dail, the lower house of Parliament, after a heated two-day debate on a controversial austerity plan to rescue the economy. Most political commentators believe the results of elections in June 1981, last Feb. 18 were both inconclusive, with the major factions dependent on small left-wing independent parties to keep them in office. An opinion poll published last week in the authoritarian Irish Times put Haughey's party, Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny), even with Fine Gael (United Ireland), with 42 percent each. But former Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael was 22 percent more popular than Haughey. Fine Gael and the small Labor Party, which governed in coalition after the 1981 elections, are certain to form a new alliance in the coming poll. But together they had only 78 of the 166 seats in the outgoing Dail, compared to Fianna Fail's 81, and would have to pick up seven to win a majority. Haughey's administration has been bedeviled by political scandal, and the country's worst economic crisis since independence in 1922. The government fell only eight days after Parliament reconvened following a summer recess. Haughey was left vulnerable after one deputy from his party died two weeks ago, and another was hospitalized by heart attacks. The support of maverick right-winger Neil Blaney gave the government 80 votes, but three deputies of the Marxist Workers Party who had voted with the opposition since February voted with the opposition to protest proposed hefty cuts in the health services. 11/14/82 A4 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., Nov. 1 # Italian regime collapses after only 2 months Los Angeles Times UFO attack "higher ups" ROME -- Italy's 42nd government since World War II collapsed Saturday, after only two months in office, when President Sandro Pertini accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini. The acceptance ended a week-long crisis during which Pertini had once refused the government leader's request to quit and had asked Thursday that Parliament decide the government's future. But when parliamentary debate Friday night made it clear that Spadolini could not gain Socialist Party support for a vote of confidence in his five-party coalition he called a final Cabinet meeting Saturday and resubmitted his resignation to Pertini. === Page 68 of 92 UFO allack "higher w/es" Moscow draped in black as Soviets mourn leader Crop Pas 11/12/8h MOSCOW (AP) -/Soviet workers draped Mos ow with red and black flags of mourning for Leonid I. Brezhnev on Thursday and state radio iad television broadcast funeral dirges and ords of praise for the late Kremlin leader. Authorities appeared intent on projecting an image of orderly transition following the death of Brezhnev, who led the nation for 18 years. "It's hard for us, but we will survive," said one police captain a few moments after the death announcement Thursday morning. "Everything will remain in order." Television interrupted one of its concerts to show hundreds of workers at factories in Mos- cow, Kiev and Leningrad somberly holding pic- tures of Brezhney and listening to plant officials eulogize the dead president and Communist Par- ty chief. "In this bitter hour the working people of the Soviet Union gather even closer around the Communist Party," said an official at Kiev's Arsenal metal-working plant. Nearly continuous state radio and television broadcasts of funeral music created a mood matching Moscow's gray skies. Temperatures were unseasonably warm at 45 Fahrenheit. Extra police were posted in the city center, although the evening streets were virtually de- serted, as is typical of weeknights in Moscow. Restaurants and cafes were moderately be although music and dancing was banned thro Monday, the day of Brezhnev's funeral. Mo theaters continued to operate. Public buildings were draped with red f bordered in black, traditional mourning coli for a fallen Communist leader. Official portra of Brezhnev were hung outside the Tass ne agency and other state offices. Workmen were busy late at night draping and black bunting on the trade union Hall of c umns where Brezhnev's body will lie in sta Friday through Sunday. He will be laid to rest Red Square, beside the Kremlin wall. Many prominent Soviet leaders, including V dimir I. Lenin and Josef Stalin, lay in state Hall of Columns and were buried in Red Squar The renowned Bolshoi Theater, adjacent the Hall of Columns, was darkened a bedecked with four giant red and black flags. Laborers worked under blazing spotlights nearby Red Square to remove scaffolding erer ed for last Sunday's Revolution Day military p rade, which Brezhnev attended before addre ing a Kremlin reception, his last publ appearance. During the day Thursday, Moscow shoppe appeared little affected by the announcement the death. (Continued on page 2) A congressional source, asked not to be identified, said the trustees are expected to revise the fertility rate downward from 2.1 who of health and human services, al- ready has said the long-range defi- cit is expected to be higher than ex- pected to reflect "both the low birth rate and lack of real wage growth." But Richard S. Schweiker, who was one of the trustees until Thurs- day when he resigned as secretary Reagan's Cabinet. "For attack " higher ups" Rumors point to Brezhnev Russian report: A leader is dead MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet sources said Wednesday that an important figure in the Kremlin hierarchy had died, No one would Say who it was, but President Leonid I Brezhnev's name was missing from a state document he normally signs. In Washington, U.S. officials, who requested anonymity, said they were aware of "a lot of rumors in Moscow" that Brezhnev had died but had been unable to confirm them. The other names most frequently mentioned in rumors of a death in the aging leadership were those of Andrel P. Kirilenko, 76, and Arvid Y. Pelshe, 83. Brezhnev is 75. The rumors circulating around the capital did not focus on any one member of the governing 13-man Politburo. The state news media did not report any deaths among Soviet leaders, but there were unexplained changes in television programming. Spokes 11/11/82 Top officials of the Social Securi- ty Administration said that new es- timates for the long-term fertility rate and other assumptions are not yet in final form and have not been approved by Social Security's trus- tees, three members of President WASHINGTON (AP) - The trou- bled Social Security system may be in a deeper hole than thought, with a downward revision in birth rates likely to increase the system's long- term deficit by 16 percent, a con- gressional source said Friday. Social Security: A new worry UPOR attack "hinter "/" === Page 69 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Dominican president a suicide? New York Times Spok Rev 7/5/82 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - President Antonio Guzman, who was scheduled to leave office next month, died Sunday from a gunshot wound in the head. The government said Guzman's pistol had accidentally discharged, fatally wounding him. Privately, high government officials said the 71-year-old president had committed suicide in the bathroom of his office, but they offered no explanation of why he might have done so. Vice President Jacobo Majluta Azar was sworn in as president by the chief justice shortly after dawn. He immediately issued a statement reaffirming that his government will transfer power to president-elect Salvador Jorge Blanco, the winner of the May 16 elections, as scheduled Aug. 16. On hand to back Majluta's statement were all the country's generals, who had assembled at the National Palace shortly after the shooting. Guzman, who was elected president in 1978, received a single bullet in the head while he was in his office in the National Palace an hour before midnight. He was taken to a military hospital, where he died about 5:30 a.m. When news of his death reached the palace, one of the generals asked Majluta to join them, and less than an hour later he was sworn into office while a dozen generals and journalists watched the ceremony. UFO attack "higher ups" ## Economic adviser resigns WASHINGTON (AP) - Jerry L. Jordan, a member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, resigned his post on Thursday, citing personal reasons. Jordan, 40, one of the administration's leading "monetarists" - advocates of a tight-money policy to combat inflation - will leave the council July 31 to rejoin his family in New Mexico. Associates said Jordan's family did not accompany him to Washington when he joined the administration in early 1981, and his commuting arrangement proved unsatisfactory. Spok Rev 7/3/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan's pal is sued for 'palimony' Spok Rev 7/9/82 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Alfred Bloomingdale, a close friend and adviser to President Reagan, was sued Thursday by a woman seeking $5 million in "palimony," saying she was the millionaire's companion for 12 years. Vicki Morgan, 29, whose suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by celebrity lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, said she had been "traveling companion, confidante and business partner" to Bloomingdale since she was 17 years old. Bloomingdale, 66, founder of the Diners Club Corp. and heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune, is a member of Reagan's so-called "kitchen cabinet" of advisors. He and his wife, Betsy, prominent in Los Angeles society, have hosted many parties for Reagan and his wife, Nancy, on their trips to the West Coast. The Bloomingdales have three children. Bloomingdale could not immediately be located for comment. Ms. Morgan's suit said Bloomingdale paid her support, sometimes as much as $18,000 a month, and made her a partner in profitable businesses including a firm called Show Biz Pizza. Mitchelson, best known for the landmark palimony case of Michelle Triola Marvin against actor Lee Marvin, said Ms. Morgan was cut off financially by Bloomingdale last month. "Unlike in the Marvin case, Ms. Morgan has some signed agreements with Bloomingdale," Mitchelson said. The documents, he said, include an agreement to pay her support of as much as $10,000 a month. Mitchelson said Ms. Morgan was hesitant to file her suit because Bloomingdale has been hospitalized recently, although he did not say what Bloomingdale was suffering from. "She hates to do this because she loves him, but she has no choice," Mitchelson said. He said Ms. Morgan had given up chances for employment over the years because of her agreement with Bloomingdale. In the past, he said, she has worked as a model and actress with some roles in Hollywood movies. The suit said that although Bloomingdale and Ms. Morgan never had a live-in relationship, Bloomingdale had a "second home" with her in Beverly Hills and served as a "second father" to her son by another man. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Farm champ a cheater COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - State Rep. Danny Bundrick, the 1981 Jaycee Outstanding Young Farmer in the Nation, agreed Monday to plead guilty to defrauding the government on farm loans and crop disaster relief, U.S. Attorney Henry Dargan McMaster said. The Orangeburg Democrat also agreed to pay back more than $700,000 he received fraudulently from government programs, plus interest. Bundrick, who lost a re-election bid in the June 8 primary, also agreed to place his farm, farm equipment and his personal vehicles under lien to the federal government. The government would take over the property, estimated to be worth more than $500,000, if he fails to pay back the money in five years. House Speaker Ramon Schwartz Jr. said he received a resignation letter from Bundrick early Monday. McMaster said papers he filed in federal court charged Bundrick with, among other things, lying on crop disaster relief applications and making false statements on an indemnity claim for a corn crop he had said was smaller than it actually was. Bundrick faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $25,000. He will be sentenced later, McMaster said in a three-page statement. Spok Rev 7/13/82 === Page 70 of 92 PO+ attack "higheruf" anama's Rovo resigns, Washington Post Spoke Rev 7/31/82 MEXICO CITY - Panamanian President Aristides Royo resigned unexpectedly Fri- day, citing health reasons. Vice President Ri- cardo de la Espriella was sworn in as chief executive by the speaker of the national leg- islature, to whom Royo submitted his resig- nation. Although there was no immediate indica- tion of political motivation for the 42-year- old Royo's "irrevocable resignation," his de- parture can be expected to affect internal tensions that have built up recently and it could influence regional efforts to negotiate an end to conflicts in Central America. In the letter to the legislature, Royo said: "I present my irrevocable resignation as president of the republic due to health prob- lemas that make a medical checkup necessary and prevent me from continuing in this posi- tion with all the responsibilities it entails." Friends ot itoyo said he had trouble with his throat and was expected to seek treatment in the United States. Royo's declaration came one day short of a year after the death in an air crash of the strongman who effectively put him in office, general Omar Torrijos. The then newly elected legislature had des- ignated Royo and de la Espriella president and vice president for six-year terms in 1978 following Torrijos' decision to retire as head of state. However, he kept his job as com- mander of the National Guard, which is the only military force in the nation of 2 million people. Command of the guard is still widely considered to be the most powerful post in Panama. Torrijos, who ran this country with a blend of social conscience, questionable practices and Machiavellian pragmatism for 13 years, had been widely expected to run in presiden- blames health tial elections scheduled for 1984. Royo, meanwhile, came to be considered the leader of leftist elements in Panama's government. He was a constant critic of U.S. implementation of the canal treaties, often accusing Washington of hundreds of techni- cal violations. Internationally, he was re. garded as a key link with Cuba in efforts to talk out the worsening regional confronta- tions. But Royo, a Panama City lawyer and for- mer education minister, was also seen by many of his countrymen as a frequently inef- fectual administrator who had no strong con- stituency of his own. De la Espriella, on the other hand, has extensive backing both among business interests and the National Guard. Frictions between Royo and the current commanders of the guard have been report- ed and rumored since Torrijos was killed. Royo was reported to have tendered his res- ignation the day after Torrijos's death but the commanders of the Guard declined to ac. cept it at the time. In the vacuum created by Torrijos's disap- pearance from the scene, two men have em- erged with their hands on the reins of power that the 10,000 troops of the guard represent: Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes, commander-in- chief since March, and Col. Manuel Antonio Noriega, head of the guard's intelligence aparatus. Paredes has been edging toward a bid for the presidency in recent months, and two weeks ago he openly undercut Royo's admin- istration by saying that the people should have a chance to vote before 1984. The somewhat mysterious and widely feared Noriega, meanwhile, is generally ex- pected to succeed Paredes as head of the Na- tional Guard. UFO attend Highland A very short cruise BALTIMORE (AP) - The Coast Guard cutter Gallatin was just starting a cruise for White House and congressional staff members when the vessel went aground in Curtis Bay, breaking both propellers. "It was really embarrassing," said Cmdr. Paul Potter, the Coast Guard's new liaison offi- cer with the Senate. The Gallatin traveled about 360 yards last week before becoming stuck and blocking traffic On a drawbridge above it. sub 7/82 UFO1 attack Higher 200 Bomb kills PLO official in France Spok Bev 7/82 PARIS (AP tine Liber- Dani's car and then fied in another vehi- ation Organization's No. 2 man in cle. France, who recently asked police to withdraw their protection, was killed Friday by a bomb that demolished his car as he left home to go to work. Police said the explosion occurred moments after Fadel el Dani, 37, got into the car alone. He was deputy direc- tor of the PLO office opened here seven years ago No group claimed responsibility. There were no other Injuries in the bombing, the latest in a series of at- tacks against Palestinian officials in France in the past 10 years. Details of the explosion were unclear. Police were trying to determine if a bomb was planted in Dani's car of if he was ambushed. There were conflicting claiming three men threw a boinb into reports from witnesses, with some Dani had not requested that police Ibrahim Souss, director of the PLO office, said Dani recently had told French police he no longer wanted them to guard him. Souss did not say when the protection stopped. "He thought that only the director of the PLO's office would be in danger," said Souss, who has police protection. Souss' predecessor, Ezzedine Kalak, was killed along with an aide Auges, 1978 in his office by two Jordanians of Palestinian origia. Residents in the quiet working class neighborhood here Dani lived and died said the PLO representative had 24- hour armes police guards at his home until this spring. A spokesman at the PLO office said guards return even after his Italian counterpart was killed last month in a car bomb assassination. Kamal Hussein, deputy director of the PLO office in Rome, was killed June 17 when a car he was driving blew up five minutes after he pulled it out of his garage on his way to his downtown office. The PLO has charged that Israell agents were behind both of the car bombings. The Israeli Embassy in Paris "cate- gorically rejected" Souss' claim that his aide's death "came at the criminal hands of Israelis." The attack came only three days af- ter 16 people were injured when a bomb went off outside a cafe near Notre Dame Cathedral. That explosion was claimed by Armenian guerrillas. === Page 71 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" Spoh Rev 11/5/82 # Gunmen on motorcycle murder Spanish general MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Two men on a motorcycle assassinated a top Spanish general in a hail of submachine-gun fire Thursday as he was being driven to work on a busy residential street near Madrid's Arch of Triumph. The attack took place an hour after Pope John Paul II left the capital. Gen. Victor Lago Roman, 63-year-old commander of the elite Brunete First Armored Division who spurned bodyguards, was killed outright, the Madrid civilian governor's office said. His soldier-driver suffered slight wounds. POLICE SAID THEY believed the assassins were Basque terrorists, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Investigators said they found 16 9mm parabellum shell casings lying near the general's black sedan. The ammunition is the type used in the past by ETA-M, the radical military wing of the Basque separatist organization. The gunmen sped away through traffic, witnesses told police. Socialist Premier-elect Felipe Gonzalez called the killing "a provocation." He said that if the attackers were trying to challenge "the new majority chosen by the Spanish people," his government would "use all means at the disposal of the democratic state to do away with the scourge of terrorism." Gonzalez and his Socialist Workers' Party won an overwhelming victory a week ago in general elections that guaranteed them a majority in Parliament for the first time in Spanish history. GONZALEZ SAID after the victory that "pacification" of the Basque region and banishing Spain's "coup mentality" would be Socialist priorities. The victory was officially certified Thursday. The Socialists are scheduled to take power after King Juan Carlos convenes the new Parliament at the end of November. The pope, on a 10-day visit to Spain, departed from a prepared text during a Mass in Toledo to pray for "the latest victim -- all the victims of terrorism in Spain." He said he prayed Spain would be freed from "the phenomenon of terrorism." The pontiff, who had left Madrid by plane for Guadalupe an hour before the 8:35 a.m. attack, was informed of the killing in Guadalupe during his first stop of the day. POLICE SAID LAGO Roman, a career officer who enlisted in the Spanish army at the outset of the 1936-39 civil war and fought with the famous Blue Division on the Russian Front, drove the same route to work every day, flying his commander's flag. They said he spurned armed escorts. His hat, folded gloves and swagger stick lay neatly in the back seat of his bullet-punctured car as it was towed away. Gen. Prudencio Pedrosa Sobrado, who succeeds Lago Roman as commander of the Brunete division, said the army hoped the government would "take the necessary measures to finish once and for all with this situation." "The role of the armed forces is to defend the integrity of the fatherland, and we shall respect the established constitutional order," he said. **Gen. Victor Lago Roman was shot to death on busy street in Madrid** # Palermo Mafia boss slain PALERMO, Sicily (AP) -- Domenico Bova, one of the last figures of the "Old Palermo Mafia" involved in bloody episodes 20 years ago, was shot to death Thursday night by an unidentified gunman, police said. Bova, 70, died instantly of four shots to the head while shopping at a grocery store, investigators said. The killer fled in a car that was found burning later in a nearby street, they added. Bova and his two brothers were sentenced to jail terms for a series of crimes during a bloody gang war that claimed more than 30 lives in southern Italy's Catanzaro province and Sicily between 1959 and 1963. Spoh Rev 12/3/82 # Irish socialist killed DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Jim Flynn, 27, a senior member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, was killed by two gunmen in downtown Dublin Friday in what police sources said was a feud between rival factions of the Marxist movement allied to the Irish Republican Army. No organization has claimed responsibility for the slaying. It is the latest in a string of recent attacks on prominent figures in the Irish Republican Socialist Party and its military wing, the outlawed Irish National Liberation Army. # A rest for Richard Following hospital rest, Rep. RICHARD BOLLING, who has undergone two operations this month to clear arteries to the brain, says he plans to return to Washington to complete his 17th and last session in Congress. "I get elected for a term and I serve out that term. If I were completely incapacitated, that would be different. I feel fine," the Missouri Democrat said. Bolling is chairman of the House Rules Committee. "I'm totally mystified by the whole of modern medicine... It gives you a second shot, a second round," he said of his operations. UFOs attack "higher ups" UFOs attack "higher ups" Spoh Rev 11/9/82 # Federal official charged LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A State Department official was arraigned in federal court Monday on a charge of cocaine smuggling following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport. Stirling M. Johnson, a fisheries officer with the department's Bureau of Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Joseph Reichmann and released on $30,000 appearance bond, said Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Williams. A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration statement released here Monday said Johnson, 32, carrying a diplomatic passport, was arrested Saturday based on information developed by DEA in Lima, Peru, from which he was arriving. The statement alleged Johnson had about 2.2 pounds of cocaine hidden in his shoes, around his ankles and in plastic talcum powder containers in his luggage. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Ex-lawmaker goes to prison ALLENWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Frederick W. Richmond of Brooklyn began serving a one-year prison term Monday at the federal prison camp here, hurrying in a back door to avoid reporters and cameras. Richmond, 59, pleaded guilty in August to income tax evasion, marijuana possession and giving an illegal gratuity to a federal employee. Richmond agreed to resign from Congress and end his re-election effort under a plea agreement. Spoh Rev 12/7/82 === Page 72 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Top Israelis implicated in Palestinian massacre SP Star 2/9/83 JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli judicial commission on the Beirut massacre called Tuesday for the ouster of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, accusing him of "blunders" that set the stage for the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinians. The panel's explosive report, which also rebuked Prime Minister Menachem Begin, rocked Israel's political structure and touched off speculation about early elections at a time when U.S. pressure is mounting for new Israeli concessions toward a Middle East peace. Begin and his Cabinet met for two hours without a decision on Sharon's status, and scheduled another meeting for today. The three-man commission of inquiry said Israeli leaders should have foreseen that allowing Lebanese Christian militiamen into two Beirut refugee camps last September was an invitation to tragedy. Hundreds of Palestinians subsequently were slain by the militiamen. An official Lebanese investigation has yet to bring any of the killers to justice. "No prophetic powers were required to know that concrete danger of acts of slaughter existed," said the commission report. It also called for the resignation of the head of Israel's military intelligence, and condemned the military chief of staff. It accused Begin of showing "indifference" to the threat of a massacre in Beirut, but recommended no action against him. Political uncertainty threatened to linger for days here as the Cabinet grappled with the devastating report. Israel radio broadcast reports that Sharon was refusing to quit or accept an alternative Cabinet post. But a Cabinet source said almost all the 20 ministers, including Sharon, favored endorsing the findings. The chairman of Begin's ruling coalition, Avraham Shapira, said after meeting with Begin, however, that the prime minister would not demand Sharon's resignation. (Continued on page 5) ARIEL SHARON Urged to quit === Page 73 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Lockheed's ex-chairman slain VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) -- The retired board chairman of Lockheed Corp. was shot to death along with his wife and housekeeper by intruders who broke into their Main Line mansion, police said Friday. The victims were identified as Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, his wife, Alexandra, 72, and their live-in housekeeper, Catherine VanderVeur, 69. A roofing contractor who arrived at the four-acre estate Friday morning discovered one of the bodies, said Lt. John Sheenan, commanding officer of the Lower Merion Township detectives. "He noticed that there was a body on the floor near the back door of the house," Sheenan said. When police arrived, they found three bodies, including one near the back door. Salvatore Frustaci, deputy superintendent of the Lower Merion Township Police Department, said, "There was evidence of forced entry to the home. There's no question we are dealing with a triple homicide. As to motive, that's sketchy right now." The three "died as a result of gunshot wounds," Frustaci said, but he declined to say how many times they had been shot. Deputy Montgomery County Coroner Carl Hofheinz said the bodies were taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital for autopsies. The Gross estate, valued at $500,000, is on Philadelphia's suburban Main Line, an area west of the city known for secluded mansions. The two-story, French-style stucco home is located behind the home of Dr. Richard A. Davis, brother of first lady Nancy Reagan, according to Sonia Peltz, a neighbor. "That's what shook everybody up," Ms. Peltz said. "The road is under surveillance." However, Mary Ann Gordon, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Secret Service in Washington, said the house is not under protection of her agency and would not be except during a visit by the president or his immediate family. Another neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said she thought she heard a shot in the middle of the night, but paid no attention because people frequently hunt in the area. During an afternoon news conference, Frustaci refused to discuss whether the house, which is set back from the main road by a 430-foot driveway, had been ransacked. Spok. Rev. July '82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Palimony suit names Nancy's friend Los Angeles Times -- Spok Rev 7/30/82 LOS ANGELES -- Betsy Bloomingdale, often described as First Lady Nancy Reagan's best friend, was sued Wednesday for $5 million punitive damages for her alleged "malice" and "jealousy" in cutting off financial support to her husband's 29-year-old lover. Bloomingdale was added as a defendant in a palimony suit filed July 8 by Vicki Morgan against Alfred Bloomingdale, Diner's Club founder and a long-time member of President Reagan's "kitchen Cabinet" of political advisers. One of her contractural duties in return for Bloomingdale's support checks, Morgan said in the amended suit, was "to act as therapist to help (Bloomingdale) overcome his Marquis de Sade complex." Sadism, defined as "the getting of sexual pleasure from dominating, mistreating or hurting one's partner" or "the getting of pleasure from inflicting physical or psychological pain on another or others," derives from the Marquis de Sade, who died in 1814. Marvin M. Mitchelson, attorney for Morgan, claimed that Betsy Bloomingdale interfered with oral and written contracts in which her husband had agreed to support Morgan. The interference by her, according to the suit, "was committed by her in jealousy of Alfred Bloomingdale's love and affection for and devotion toward (Morgan) and in resentment of the benefits received and the happiness enjoyed by defendant Alfred Bloomingdale." A spokesman at the Bloomingdales' Beverly Hills home said that Betsy Bloomingdale was unavailable Wednesday and that there will be no comment on the revised lawsuit. The 66-year-old Bloomingdale had faithfully sent Morgan a monthly check for up to $18,000 until June, according to Mitchelson. He said Morgan was then informed that no more checks would be delivered. Mitchelson claimed that Betsy Bloomingdale had halted Morgan's support checks when her husband became ill. After he met Morgan, then a teenager, in 1970, Bloomingdale agreed to support her for life and to provide a house for her, an agreement often repeated verbally and in letters, according to the suit. Early this year, the suit claims, he agreed in writing to split profits of a pizza business with her. The amended suit also claims that Bloomingdale promised in a written contract Feb. 12 to pay Morgan "$10,000 a month for two years beginning March 1982 ... from the proceeds of his profit from Marina Bay," one of Bloomingdale's real estate developments. In exchange, Morgan was to become Bloomingdale's "confidante, traveling companion, and business partner with respect to real estate investments," obligations that she claims to have fulfilled. The therapist duty, which Morgan also claims she fulfilled faithfully, was alleged for the first time Wednesday in the revised suit. The current suit seeks $180,000 for lost income from the Marina Bay contract, $1 million for Morgan's share of Showbiz Pizza and $5 million for her lifetime support. The additional $5 million punitive damages is sought solely from Betsy Bloomingdale. The case is based on California's sanction of "palimony," in which unmarried couples have community property contract rights, a principle originally won by Mitchelson. === Page 74 of 92 Gorsuch expecting the worst By JEFF SHER Spokesman-Review Anne Gorsuch, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said Friday in Spokane that she is ready to go to jail if need be to defend her refusal to release documents sought by a congressional committee. "All I can say is that I have a lot of reading I haven't done for the last couple of years and my toothbrush is packed," Gorsuch told a Northwest Mining Association meeting. Minutes before her speech at the Davenport Hotel, Gorsuch learned that the House Public Works Committee had voted 28-11 to cite her for contempt of Congress. (Related story above.) The citation comes as a result of Gorsuch's refusal to release documents subpoenaed by a subcommittee of the Public Works Committee investigating EPA's program to clean up hazardous waste dump sites. If the full House approves the contempt citation, Gorsuch could face criminal prosecution and jail. Gorsuch is expecting the worst. "It is fair to say the Democratic-controlled Congress of the United States will vote to find me in contempt," she said. However, she added, "The President has told me not to release those documents and I intend to stand firm." The documents in question involve cases EPA is investigating or litigating, Gorsuch said. At a press conference following her speech, Gorsuch said one of the documents, entitled "Litigation Strategy at Love Canal," contains information that if known to defendants in the case would "seriously impair our ability to win the case." Gorsuch said the issue is not whether congressmen would act responsibly with the information or whether they would release it to defendants. "The issue is control," or whether the executive branch must reveal all details of its activities to congressional overseers, she said. Gorsuch criticized Congress for being able to find the time to pursue the contempt citation while it hasn't been able to find the time to finish work on the federal budget. "I find it mind-boggling," she said. Only three of 13 major appropriations bills have been passed so far, she said. Gorsuch also ripped Congress for failing to pass amendments to the Clean Air Act that would extend deadlines requiring industries and counties to meet air quality standards. The act expires Dec. 31, 1982, but will remain in effect as is if not amended. Without changes, the act requires the EPA administrator to impose one of several sanctions on industries and counties not meeting the standards by the end of this month. Spokane County faces the sanctions because it will not meet standards for carbon monoxide or total suspended particulate pollution by the deadline, county air pollution control officials told The Spokesman-Review this week. Gorsuch said there are several sanctions she could impose: * A ban on construction of major industrial sources of pollution in the county, or changes at major sources. (Continued on page 2) Contempt vote goes against EPA chief WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House Public Works Committee voted 28 to 11 Friday to cite Anne M. Gorsuch, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator who has been withholding 1,000 documents from Congress on President Reagan's orders, for contempt of Congress. If Mrs. Gorsuch and the committee do not work out a compromise, as is usually the case in such tugs-of-war between the congressional and executive branches of the government, the entire House could be asked to vote the administrator in contempt for defying a subpoena for the documents. Conviction on such a charge carries a maximum penalty of $1,000 in fines and a year in jail. The documents are being sought for the panel's investigation into charges that the EPA is not holding major chemical companies liable for their full share of cleanup costs at some major hazardous waste dump sites. The vote came after the committee rejected a last-minute proposal by the administration that would have allowed a task force of administration officials to review the documents dealing with EPA's toxic waste cleanup program to determine if the papers should be turned over. The committee vote was almost entirely along party lines. Man convicted of assaulting Justice White SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Newton C. Estes, an anti-busing and pornography crusader, was convicted of assault Friday for punching Supreme Court Justice Byron White during a Bar Association meeting here last July. The jury of six men and six women deliberated for just over two hours before returning the verdict. The 57-year-old construction estimator from nearby Kaysville was released on recognizance after U.S. District Judge David K. Winder set sentencing for Jan. 14. Estes could be sentenced to up to three years in jail and fined up to $5,000 on the charge of assault on a justice. Before adjourning the trial, Winder paused a few moments and leveled his gaze at Estes. "You didn't use a weapon, but I think this kind of conduct has no place in our system. It's absolutely ridiculous," Winder said. Record jobless claims WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some 6.27 million Americans were collecting jobless benefits in the week ending Jan. 1, the highest level since the program began in 1935, the government reported on Thursday. The record-level payment of claims by the government, largely to workers recently thrown out of work, however, is due partly to an emergency federal jobless benefit program enacted by Congress last August in response to the year-old recession. At that time, the === Page 75 of 92 world "hinteryes" Italian government tottering ROME (AP) - Premier Giovanni Spadolini's key Socialist Party coalition partners resigned Friday, endangering Italy's fist postwar gov. ernment. Spadolini met with President Sandro Pertini about his political future and called a Cabinet meeting for today to announce whether or not he'll.step down. The 57-year-old Republican be- came Italy's first non-Christian Democrat pre- mier since 1945 when he formed his five-party government 14 months ago. In a brief statement released after a party caucus, the Socialists said their seven ministers: quit the 28-member Cabinet because other coall- tion parties falled to support a Socialist tax bill in the lower house of Parliament. Stock Real 8/7/82 Um attack "higher where" Coalition collapses; Italy again in crisis By DON A. SCHANCHE Spek Aus 8/8/8- Los Angeles Times ROME - Italy's 41st post-World War II government collapsed Saturday following a surprise crisis in which the Socialist Party pulled out of the five-party ruling coalition. Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini, whose 405 days marked one of the longest periods in office since 1945 submitted his resignation to President Sandro Pertini after an emergency Cabinet meeting, boycotted by the. Socialists, Saturday afternoon. Expressing hope that a new government can be formed soon without calling for general elections, Per- tini said he would begin consultations Monday aimed at patching together another coalition. Political ob- servers expected him to ask Spadolini, who has been a popular and unusually successful prime minister, to head a caretaker government in the meantime. The 57-year-old Spadolini, a member of the small Republican Party, was a victim of a long-running feud between the dominant Christian Democratic Party and the Socialists, the two major partners in the coalition. A power struggle between the two parties brought the government close to collapse twice before this year. The other, smaller coalition parties are the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the Republicans. Pertini's chance of building another non-Communist consensus that will prevent the mainstream Christian Democrats from dominating the government as they have since World War II, will depend on his ability to talk the Socialists into rejoining the coalition, accord- ing to political analysts. If Socialist Party leader Bettino Craxi refuses, the government crisis will continue until the president calls for new elections. This is a step most Italian po- litical leaders have said they would like to avoid. Craxi's position concerning new elections, however, re- mains uncertain. The Socialist leader had indicated in the spring that he might favor early elections because he sensed a chance to increase the roughly 10 percent of the popu- lar vote his party won in the last elections, A strong showing would guarantee not only more than the pres- ent 62 Socialist seats in the 630-member Chamber of Deputies, but would increase Socialist representation in the Cabinet and possibly give Craxi the prime minis- ter's post as well. UFO, attack "higher why" Spokane, Wash., Sat., Aug. 21, 1982. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 5 Trudeau's rail car pelted with rocks, eggs SUDBURY, Ont. (AP) - Angry dem- onstrators pelted Prime Minister PI- erre Trudeau's railroad car with rocks, eggs and tomatoes when it stopped briefly in this failing company town late Thursday as he returned home from a Rocky Mountain vacation. Many in the crowd of an estimated 500 people ran toward the prime minis- ter's train car late Thursday night shouting, "Trudeau must go!" and "Go home!" Trudeau stayed inside his compart- ment during the brief stop in Sudbury, which has 40 percent unemployment the highest jobless rate in metropolitan Canada. They said none of the protesters were arrested and the prime minister was unharmed. Two windows in the train were broken. Trudeau's railroad car also was hit by eggs and tomatoes at several stops in western Canada earlier this week, but the Thursday night protest was the first in which rocks have been thrown. Among the more militant protesters was a man who provided demonstrators with eggs embellished with stamps of a rude hand gesture, similar to the one Trudeau flashed to an angry crowd at Salmon Arm, B.C., last week. Most of Sudbury's jobs come from the Inco Ltd., the world's second-largest nickel refinery. But the factory is in its second month of a three-month shut- down following a strike by the steel- workers union in June. === Page 76 of 92 UFDs attack "higher ups" # Rep. Dornan says 7 implicated ## Heckler urges the speaker of the House to appoint an investigator By JAY PERKINS Associated Press Spok. Rev. 7/9/82 WASHINGTON - Rep. Robert K. Dornan, who allowed his congressional office to be used by an undercover narcotics agent, is saying his sources tell him that six current members of the House and one senator have been implicated by others as users of cocaine. Some of those come from Massachusetts, New York and California. Dornan also contends that allegations of homosexual activities with congressional pages have been made against two of the supposed cocaine users. One congressional source, who declined to be identified, agreed Thursday that the separate investigations of sex and drugs "could mesh" at some point. The California Republican made the allegation in a confidential letter urging a House committee to conduct its own probe of cocaine use by members of Congress, according to syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. DORNAN COULD NOT be reached for comment but his office acknowledged that he had sent such a letter to Rep. Leo Zeferetti, chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. One House committee - the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly know as the ethics committee - already has started its own investigation of the allegations that some congressmen have been using cocaine and that others allegedly were involved in homosexual sex with the young pages who carry messages for Congress. The ethics committee already has named Donald A. Purdy Jr., a 31-year-old lawyer, to head those investigations. In addition, Rep. Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., on Thursday called on House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., to name an independent investigator. SHE SAID THE charges were "so utterly shocking and bizarre as to pose a serious challenge to public confidence" in Congress. A spokesman for O'Neill's office responded that the speaker felt that the ethics committee was the proper authority to decide on how the investigation should be conducted. Dornan said in his letter that he was urging a separate investigation by the narcotics committee, a panel on which he serves, because he feared federal law enforcement officials would concentrate on the pushers and ignore the users of cocaine in Congress. Dornan, citing what he called investigative sources, told Zeferetti that seven current members of Congress and two former members have been named by at least three separate sources as users of cocaine. Another half-dozen names also have been the subject of similar allegations, he said. HE SAID THREE of the nine members were from California, one was from New York, one from Massachusetts, and one from a state in the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Dornan did not list the state of the senator nor the states of the two former congressmen. "Additionally, I have been told that the names of two members of Congress mentioned above have been brought up in connection with an FBI investigation concerning alleged homosexual activities with congressional pages," Dornan said. UFDs attack "higher ups" Spok. Rev. 7/7/82 # Capitol probe turns to drugs New York Times WASHINGTON - Federal and congressional authorities investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use involving Capitol pages and members of Congress said Tuesday that the sexual charges had not yet been substantiated but that the drug charges appeared more serious. "Where there's smoke there's smoke, as far as the sex charges are concerned," said a congressional official familiar with the investigation. He added, however, that with regard to the drug charges, "there may be a small fire." Rep. Robert D. Dornan, R-Calif., said that his Capitol Hill office had been used earlier this year as a base by an undercover narcotics agent. Dornan said that investigators were probing the alleged use of cocaine by "half a dozen" congressmen. Three separate investigations are being conducted, apparently with little coordination. A federal grand jury here is investigating the drug charges; the Justice Department's public integrity section and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are focusing on the sex charges; and the House Ethics Committee is investigating the entire range of charges, including allegations that cocaine was used by members of Congress to seduce pages into homosexual relationships. Pages are high school students, 14-18 years old, who are appointed by senators and House members to serve as messengers and to perform a variety of chores. The Senate has 30 pages and the House 71. They earn salaries on the basis of $9,090 annually, but usually work only nine or 10 months a year. The allegations of sexual misconduct were made last month by two former pages, Leroy Williams of Little Rock, and Jeff Opp of Denver. The drug charges stem from an undercover investigation. A task force of federal drug agents and District of Columbia police officers arrested three men in April on charges of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it. One of the men was a former page, and another has reportedly implicated two members of Congress from California in his testimony before the Grand Jury. Spokesmen for the two representatives have denied the charges. === Page 77 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Argentina's Falkland commanders removed Washington Post Spok Rev 7/28/82 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Gen. Mario Benjamin Menendez and four other generals who commanded Argentine troops on the Falkland Islands have been removed from their posts in the army in a move the commander-in-chief described as the prelude to a major military shake-up. The commander, Gen. Cristino Nicolaides, who has struggled to control widespread unrest in the army this month, announced the action Monday night. He said the high command had decided to "rapidly restructure the army" in order to stabilize its ranks and "professionalize" its operations. The army command also announced the replacement of two colonels, eight lieutenant colonels and 10 majors. Most were stationed on the Falklands as field commanders after Argentina's April 2 invasion, officials said. The extensive reassignment of commanders comes at a time when Argentina's armed forces remain sharply divided over the invasion and the course of military rule. The continued feuding is regarded as a growing threat to the army government of Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, which has been unable to gain public confidence for its emergency economic program or its planned 18-month transition to civilian government. In the army, according to well-informed sources, field commanders generally have been matched against their staff colleagues and superiors in Buenos Aires in the determination of how Argentina failed. Some brigade generals and many junior officers also are reported to be deeply unhappy with the top rank of military commanders, including Nicolaides. Menendez, the three other brigade generals and two colonels temporarily were assigned to Nicolaides for "review of orders" -- a measure that Nicolaides said did not indicate a judgment of blame against them for Argentina's defeat by Britain in the 11-week conflict. The action was interpreted by military observers here Tuesday as an effort by Nicolaides to cool tensions in the army and consolidate his own command while a special commission continues an investigation of the conduct of Menendez and other officers in the failed campaign, which cost Argentina close to 2,000 casualties. UFOs attack "higher ups" Spok Rev 7/31/82 # Chinese attache kills nine in embassy JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- A Chinese attache, possibly enraged because he was denied a transfer home, killed nine other staff members in a shooting spree inside his nation's embassy in Maputo, reports from the Mozambique capital said Friday. Ambassador Wang Jichuan was not harmed in the attack Thursday, according to Mozambique Radio and the country's official news agency AIM. The gunman was not identified and details were sketchy. It was not clear whether the killer was arrested or how the incident ended. Police surrounded the embassy after being alerted by a staff member at the mission. AIM was quoted as saying by the Portuguese news agency ANOP. The ANOP dispatch, reaching Lisbon on Friday, was filed from Maputo. Quoting unidentified diplomatic sources in Maputo, the Portuguese agency said the attacker was an attache at the embassy. The report cited speculation in Maputo that the killer had either "gone crazy" or flown into a rage at having been refused a transfer back to China after spending seven years in Mozambique post. Seven of the victims died at the scene, and the other two died Friday morning, ANOP said. One of the victims was reported to be a diplomat. UFOs attack "higher ups" # Panamanian officials quit after shakeup Spok Rev 8/2/82 PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) -- Senior government officials agreed to quit Saturday in line with a shakeup ordered by the powerful National Guard following the resignation of President Aristides Royo. Opposition leaders welcomed the power shuffle but denounced the National Guard commander, Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes, for shutting down Panama's eight newspapers for a week. "The reality is that the National Guard has deposed the president and imposed a program on his successor," said a statement signed by six opposition parties. Royo, 42, resigned Friday, saying he was stepping down because of a throat ailment. The National Guard is Panama's only military force and a major power in domestic affairs. Paredes has asked for the resignations of all high-ranking officials of Royo's administration. UFOs attack "higher ups" # nation Spok Rev 7/29/82 ## Watt admits 'mistake' NEW YORK (AP) -- Interior Secretary James G. Watt admitted Wednesday he had "made a mistake" in writing a controversial letter to the Israeli ambassador to the United States, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said. Watt met with leaders of the league at its headquarters here. The organization issued a statement in which it quoted Watt as saying that American Jews had "every right to be upset" about the letter. The letter, which came to light last week, was written June 17 and was addressed to Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens. In it, Watt discussed the Reagan administration's efforts to promote energy development. "If the liberals of the Jewish community join with the other liberals of this nation to oppose these efforts, they will weaken our ability to be a good friend of Israel. Your supporters in America need to know these facts," said Watt in the letter. === Page 78 of 92 Spokane, Wash., Tues., July 27, 1982 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 3 # Another sex scandal in the capital? NEW YORK (AP) - Prostitution rings are providing young boys to customers in Washington and then selling information about their clients' sexual preferences to foreign intelligence services, a private investigator testified Monday. Dale Smith, working for the New York Senate's Select Committee on Crime, said he learned that British, Israeli and Soviet agents bought information from several call services in Washington. The witness appeared before the committee at the opening of a two-day hearing on prostitution among young males and on pornography. Smith said an accountant for five call services told him about the information sale to foreign agents. He refused to elaborate on the allegations when questioned by reporters, but committee counsel Jeremiah McKenna said the information concerned "government officials." He declined to be more specific. "They're making more money selling information than on the prostitution itself," McKenna said. Allegations of sex and drug use on Capitol Hill among congressmen, pages and other employees have circulated in Washington recently. Smith also said that "call service operation in Washington have some connection with organized crime in New York." He described how male prostitutes between the ages of 13 and 16 were shuttled between the cities and said the going rate for boys ranges from $50 to $250, with younger boys commanding the most. Spokane, Wash., Thurs., # Plea made for space program funding SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Retiring Johnson Space Center director Christopher C. Kraft Jr. said Wednesday the Reagan administration should spend more money for space research instead of bombers and missiles. Kraft, who played a key role in the U.S. manned space program and in development of the space shuttle, made the comment at a farewell news conference. "I don't understand how this country can spend $222 billion in the next 3½ to 4 years on the B-1 bomber and the MX missile and not be willing to spend another half-billion dollars per year on the space program," he said. Kraft, 58, announced Tuesday he would leave the space agency on Saturday. He announced earlier this year he intended to retire in November and the earlier departure came as a surprise. "It's time for a new leader," he explained. Kraft said the next major challenge is the establishment of a permanent orbiting base, a concept he has been proposing for years. Kraft said he plans to continue to be active in the space program and will become a consultant "very soon" for Rockwell International, the prime contractor for the space program. Asked if there was ever a time when he was concerned about astronauts dying in space, he noted, "Most of the gray hair I have attests to the fact that we came damn close on a couple of occasions." He said two astronauts almost died aboard the Gemini 8 flight in March 1966 when a small rocket engine went out of control and sent the craft into a rapid spin. The other near tragedy was on Apollo 13 in April 1970 when an oxygen tank exploded while three astronauts were halfway to the moon. "We were just damn lucky that it didn't ignite the stored propellants," Kraft said. "The Lord decided that day that those three men should live." Kraft said the Apollo moon exploration program left a legacy showing that America could meet major technical challenges. "We can do anything we set our minds to." Kraft played a key role in developing the techniques and hardware that put American astronauts on the moon in the '60s. # EPA's chief grilled by House members WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of five House subcommittees, engaged at Reagan administration policies, accused the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday of gutting enforcement programs and allowing industry to "call the shots." The five subcommittees, meeting in a rare joint session, grilled EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch for five hours over her 14-month stewardship at the agency. In a 54-page defense, Mrs. Gorsuch denied the accusations of mismanagement and said she was committed to "environmental results, not environmental rhetoric." She said times had changed from when the EPA was created almost 12 years ago and that the changing circumstances required different ways of operating. "We have proposed changes ... that we have done so in good faith," she said. "At every turn, these changes have been misconstrued, often misinterpreted and even misstated." Democratic members of the committees questioned the agency's enforcement record since Mrs. Gorsuch took office. Rep. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., cited statistics showing that referrals of cases from EPA to the Justice Department had dropped from 252 in 1980 to 78 in 1981. Mrs. Gorsuch said part of the decline resulted from a reorganization of the agency's enforcement branches which was now beginning to show results. She said since March the agency has processed 80 cases received from EPA's regional offices and sent 44 to the Justice Department. Mrs. Gorsuch was asked repeatedly about a meeting she held last December with representatives of Thriftway Co., a small New Mexico oil refiner. Participants at the meeting have given sworn statements that Mrs. Gorsuch promised that the refinery would not be found in violation of a regulation requiring less lead in gasoline because the agency was planning to change the rule. But Mrs. Gorsuch said, "I did not, nor have I ever recommended to anyone that they violate our environmental laws." Ms. Gorsuch said she had acted properly under a 1978 agency rule permitting the EPA to waive assessment of fines if such fines would force a company out of business. But members questioned whether this rule applied since no fine had been levied on the company. === Page 79 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # House cites EPA's chief for contempt WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted 259-105 Thursday night to cite Environmental Protection Agency chief Anne M. Gorsuch for contempt of Congress because she refused, on presidential orders, to turn over documents. She was the highest official ever charged in such a battle between the executive and legislative branches of governments. The action of the House followed more than two hours of debate and a day of fruitless negotiations between congressional leaders and the White House in search of a compromise. THE RESOLUTION goes to a federal grand jury, which can indict Mrs. Gorsuch for contempt, a criminal misdemeanor. Conviction in U.S. District Court carries a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail term of up to 1 year. The appeals that undoubtedly would follow conviction would ultimately go to the Supreme Court, which could make a binding decision on the rights of the executive and legislative branches in questions of executive privilege. Democrats voted overwhelmingly in favor of the contempt resolution. They were joined by almost one-third of the Republicans voting. Rep. James Howard, D-N.J., saying he was acting "with deep regret," offered the motion to cite Mrs. Gorsuch after the negotiations with President Reagan's aides broke down. "This is not a partisan issue," insisted Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., chairman of the subcommittee that originally subpoenaed the EPA documents. "This issue deals with the Constitution of the United States and the prerogatives of Congress." "WE HAVE GONE every step of the way to avoid a confrontation," said Levitas. But he argued that the investigative powers of Congress "will be crippled and destroyed if the contemptuous acts (in withholding documents) are left unpunished. We must take this grave, regrettable step." House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, R-Ill., urged the House to reject the contempt resolution, although he said he agreed the issue raised "a very serious constitutional question." But Michel said the issue was being rushed and the subpoena contained technical flaws that threatened Congress' legal position. "This case is not ironclad," Michel said. "It should be put over" until Congress reconvenes. THE DEBATE WAS a rare floor battle over executive privilege - the power of Reagan, or any president, to keep Congress in the dark on certain issues. It followed a day of fruitless negotiations involving the White House, the Justice Department and congressional leaders in an attempt to avoid the unprecedent floor vote. ANNE M. GORSUCH She won't bow to Congress SPOK REV 12/17/82 24 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tues., Dec. 21, 1982 # nation UFOs attack "higher ups" ## Attorney General assailed WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Judiciary Committee should take up the question of impeaching Attorney General William French Smith, the chairman of a subcommittee said Monday. Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., said in a speech on the House floor that Smith "has failed to faithfully execute the law and is engaging in what in my opinion is an obstruction of justice" in refusing to prosecute contempt of Congress charges against the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Levitas is chairman of the House Public Works subcommittee on investigations, which issued a subpoena for EPA documents on its enforcement of the $1.6 billion "superfund" program to clean up abandoned chemical waste dumps. EPA Administrator Anne M. Gorsuch, acting on President Reagan's orders, invoked executive privilege to withhold some of the documents. That position led the House last Thursday to vote 259-105 to cite Mrs. Gorsuch for contempt. However, the Justice Department has refused to prosecute the case, calling the contempt citation an unconstitutional intrusion on executive branch action. SPOK REV 12/21/82 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Official accused of embezzlement SPOK REV 12/25/82 WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A state representative who became the object of a nationwide search after he disappeared last month turned himself in to police Friday night and was arraigned on embezzlement charges. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, 31, a Republican lawyer who lost his House seat in a bid for a sixth term in November, was arraigned on four counts of embezzlement and released on $4,000 personal recognizance, authorities said. McCarthy, who disappeared after his car was involved in a minor hit-and-run traffic accident Nov. 7, did not enter any pleas at his arraignment, Cpt. William DeFeo said. He is accused of embezzling $49,000 from four surviving children of Warren Deniston, a former Warwick reserve police officer who died Aug. 5. Deniston's children filed a civil suit last week in Kent County Superior Court alleging McCarthy fraudulently converted all but $5 of $49,500 they had given him as administrator of their father's estate. The money was from a $66,000 life insurance policy. Paul Sprague, the children's lawyer, said McCarthy set up an account in his own name with the money from the estate. The last withdrawal was made Dec. 8, when McCarthy wired the Fleet National Bank for $2,000 to be sent to him at a New York City bank, Sprague said. Authorities filed arrest warrants and issued a === Page 80 of 92 UFO attack "higher ups" # Navy secretary's business dealings are investigated New York Times 12/27/82 Sp. Adv. WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr., who pledged on joining the Reagan administration that he would sell his interests in a consulting company that does business with Pentagon contractors, did not sever all his connections with the company, according to public documents. After Lehman took office, a British peer paid him for the right to use the company's name, Abington Corp., in business overseas. But Lehman kept an option to reacquire the overseas business when he left the government, according to him and the peer, Lord Chalfont. Documents show that Lehman was not paid for the overseas operations until nine months after he joined the Reagan administration. The overseas business, using the Abington name, has continued to consult with American military contractors. Some of its client companies had been clients of Lehman, according to the companies. Some officials in Washington are questioning whether Lehman would eventually stand to gain from Abington's success overseas. Lehman retained the rights to operate Abington in the United States, but there is no indication that the company has done business in this country since he took office in January 1981. He said in an interview that he had received no salary or fees from military contractors since then. Since April 1981, Lehman has not disqualified himself from participating in Navy decisions affecting the Northrop Corp. and other former clients. At that time, he said, Abington became a holding company for his personal assets and he no longer had a financial interest in the clients or in Abington. Federal conflict-of-interest laws prohibit government employees from participating in decisions in which they have a personal financial interest. The Office of Government Ethics said it had approved Lehman's financial arrangements but had not reviewed the underlying documents. The office said it was now re-examining Lehman's transactions. Lehman's personal financial disclosure statement, filed this year with the Office of Government Ethics, indicates that he still owns Abington but lists it as a personal holding company. Records filed with the District of Columbia, however, still list Abington as a management consulting company. Asked why he did not sell Abington outright or at least change the name of his new holding company, Lehman, 40, replied that he had "wanted to keep the entity in being." "I had built up a highly respected name in Abington," he explained. "I retain the right to operate a consulting corporation called Abington. I wanted to keep the option of going back into the consulting business when I get out of government." UFO attack "higher ups" # Reagan's old home damaged DIXON, Ill. (AP) -- A fire apparently started by faulty wiring caused $15,000 damage to President Reagan's boyhood home early Monday, investigators said. There were no injuries in the fire, which was reported just after midnight Sunday. Damage was confined to the rear of the two-story frame house, which is owned by a non-profit organization. The home is a tourist attraction but had been closed for renovations. Police Chief Rich Dusing, Fire Chief John Carlson and the state fire marshal said in a statement that the fire had not been deliberately set and that faulty wiring was the apparent cause. Reagan was born 72 years ago Sunday in Tampico, about 25 miles southwest of Dixon. His family moved to Dixon and lived in the house in the 1920s. S.F. Rev 2/8/83 UFO attack "higher ups" S.F. Rev 1/12/83 # NOW leader held in '65 slaying LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The California president of the National Organization for Women and a prominent Democratic Party activist was arrested Tuesday on a 1965 Louisiana murder warrant. Ginny Eleanor Foat, 42, was arrested at suburban Hollywood-Burbank Airport at 8:15 a.m., said Cmdr. William Booth. She was held without bail at Sybil Brand Institution for Women pending arraignment Wednesday, he said. Foat is accused in the robbery-slaying of Moises Chayo, 62, a Buenos Aires man who was visiting a sick son at a New Orleans hospital, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee said at Gretna, La. Chayo's body was found Dec. 11, 1965, in a weedy tract in Metairie. Lee said detectives believed he was killed two or three weeks earlier, after being robbed of about $1,400. Lee said investigators had no clue in Chayo's murder until John Sidote 44, walked up to a New York City policeman in 1977 and said he wanted to confess to some robbery-murders. The sheriff said Sidote said he and Foat -- then going by the name Virginia Galluzo -- had killed a man in New Orleans and the description of the killing matched that of Chayo. Lee said Sidote and Galluzo lived together for a time in New Orleans, later got married and subsequently divorced. He refused to say why they believe Foat is Virginia Galluzo. GINNY ELEANOR FOAT === Page 81 of 92 Schweiker resigns Cabinet position WASHINGTON (AP) -- Richard Schweiker, secretary of health and human services, has resigned, administration officials revealed Tuesday night. His unexpected departure is the second from President Reagan's Cabinet in the last two weeks. Margaret Heckler, a Republican member of Congress from Massachusetts who was defeated in her re-election bid last November, was expected to be nominated to replace Schweiker, said administration sources who declined to be identified. Schweiker told reporters who gathered outside his McLean, Va. home that I have nothing for you tonight, but there will be an announcement tomorrow. That's all I can say for now. There was no answer at Mrs. Heckler's home in Wellesley, Mass. Two administration sources who spoke on the promise of anonymity said Schweiker would head the American Council on Life Insurance and had told the president he would leave about 10 days ago. Offices of that organization in Washington were closed. James A. Baker III, the chief of the White House staff, told reporters on arriving at the White House from a meeting that Schweiker was leaving because he got a wonderful job offer. He declined to elaborate. White House officials said an official announcement was scheduled for today. Reagan has not yet received the official letter of resignation, they said. The White House has been actively seeking to place more women in high positions. Elizabeth Dole last week was nominated to replace Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation. Lewis's resignation was announced Dec. 28. The other Cabinet changes saw Alexander M. Haig Jr. replaced as secretary of state last summer by George P. Shultz and James Edwards succeeded as energy secretary by Donald Hodel in November. Schweiker, 56, served two terms as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and did not run again in 1980 to return to the business interests that had made him a millionaire. As senator, Schweiker was Reagan's choice for the Republican vice presidential nomination in his unsuccessful campaign in 1976. Then he left the Senate, Schweiker was considered an expert in health because of his position as ranking member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee and its subcommittee on health. Those panels set policy and budget levels for the Health and Human Services Department. As secretary, Schweiker was generally conceded to have held his own in the administration's drive to cut domestic spending, particularly in social programs. He paid particular attention to health research, and the National Institutes of Health was spared budget cuts. Schweiker did extraordinarily well in resisting cuts in the budget for the 1984 fiscal year to be sent to Congress later this month, particularly in funds for the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, said a de- (Continued on page 14) HECKLER Nomination expected SCHWEIKER Wonderful job offer Louisiana state senate president is found guilty NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- State Senate President Michael O'Keefe was convicted Saturday of mail fraud by a federal jury that one day earlier found him guilty on two counts of obstructing justice. O'Keefe, 52, said he would take an indefinite leave of absence as president of the Senate but continue to serve as a representative of New Orleans until his appeals have been exhausted. The U.S. District Court jury on Friday found him guilty of hiding $900,000 in the sale of an apartment complex by trying to influence a grand jury witness to change his testimony and by showing the panel a fake promissory note. He was convicted Saturday of causing false reports of the purchase price to be mailed to his partners in the $10.3 million sale. The mail fraud conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $1,000 fine. The other two charges carry a total maximum penalty of $10,000 and 10 years. It was his second trial on the charges. In the first one, last summer, O'Keefe was convicted but a judge overturned the verdict, saying the prosecutor overstepped legal bounds in his closing arguments. O'Keefe, one of the owners of the 179-unit Meairie Towers, was accused of cheating five limited partners by arranging a $900,000 payment in the sale of the complex. U.S. Attorney John Volz said the payment, not reflected in the official purchase price, enabled the senator to avoid having to share the money. Brown resigns MX position New York Times WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown resigned Friday as a member of the advisory commission that President Reagan appointed to suggest solutions to the deadlocked MX intercontinental missile issue, saying that he did so to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Brown, a nuclear physicist and former Pentagon official who headed the Defense Department under President Carter, said in a telephone interview that his resignation did not arise from a substantive disagreement over the issue of how to base the proposed MX missile or other problems the 11-member President's Commission on Strategic Forces had been asked to consider. Brown said the problem arose from a contract for part time consultant services between Brown and the TRW Inc., which does engineering and gives technical advice. In a letter to Reagan Friday, Brown said, While not questioning the objectivity of the commission, some officials have questioned about whether my contract with TRW, Inc. might affect the objectivity of the commission's recommendations. He also disclosed that instead of using statutory authority to waive the conflict of interest law provisions, Reagan had delegated waiver authority to Secretary of Defense W. Weinberger, who in turn delegated authority to Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Richard D. Perle, former executive vice president of TRW. === Page 82 of 92 The 'Boll Weevil' turns into elephant BRYAN, Texas (AP) -- Rep. Phil Gramm, a "Boll Weevil" Democrat whose party ousted him from the House Budget Committee, resigned his seat Wednesday and said he would try to win it back in a special election as a Republican. "I recognize that my political future might, because of this action, go down into oblivion," said Gramm, 40, who was elected to his third term in November. "I do not know whether this is a wise decision but I do believe that it is an honest one." Republican Gov. Bill Clements, who accepted Gramm's resignation, set the special election for Feb. 12. Gramm was kicked off the budget committee by the Democratic leadership in Congress for championing President Reagan's economic programs. "I cannot in good conscience continue to work within a national party that seeks to limit my effectiveness on behalf of those I represent in its effort to perpetuate the spending spree which has crippled our nation, threatened our position of world leadership and robbed workers," said Gramm, a former economics professor. House Republican leaders would recommend Gramm continue on the Committee if he wins the election. Members of Congress to change parties at merely by declaring their allegiance. The last time a congressman switched parties was in 1965 when Rep. Albert W. Watson of South Carolina did. Democrats stripped him of his seniority for endorsing Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater over President Lyndon Johnson. Watson won back in a special election more than 2-1 margin. Gramm said he expects Democrats to "make an all-out defeat me." PHIL GRAMM Resigns House seat Bring in the guards after EPA brouhaha WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan fired Rita Lavelle as assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, and guards with billy clubs stood outside her offices to bar removal of documents at the heart of a constitutional dispute between Congress and the Executive Branch. The firing was announced by the White House as a battle raged at the agency over whether Lavelle had quit or her resignation had been demanded by EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch. Two of Lavelle's top aides also were fired. Some of the documents being guarded in her office were among those subpoenaed by a House subcommittee. It was the refusal of Gorsuch to turn over these documents which led to a contempt of Congress citation against the EPA chief. LAVELLE'S dismissal was disclosed in a one-sentence statement from the White House. "The appointment of Rita Lavelle as assistant administrator for solid waste and emergency response of the Environmental Protection Agency was terminated today at the direction of the president," it said. Clay Jones, the chief EPA spokesman, said the agency's chief of staff, John Daniel, ordered the guards outside Lavelle's offices to "safeguard all the materials and government property." "There is a lot of sensitive information in the office, including some of the documents that were withheld by Gorsuch," Jones said. Two of Lavelle's aides -- Warren Wood, her chief of staff, and Susan Baldyga, a special assistant -- also were given dismissal notices Monday. AIDES TO Lavelle, who headed the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, said she had not resigned -- as had been announced -- and was appealing her dismissal to the White House, where presidential counsel Edwin Meese III is a longtime friend. EPA spokesman Rusty Brashear said the agency was standing by a press release issued Friday in which Lavelle was quoted as saying she was resigning because she was "ready to get back to California." Neither Lavelle nor Gorsuch returned phone calls asking for comment. (Continued on page 3) Rita Lavelle says she did not resign from EPA job as announced last week Target of revenge, Rep. Wilson says WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Charles Wilson said Friday he is confident of being cleared of allegations he used cocaine, and suggested he is the target of someone seeking revenge, perhaps out of jealousy of his free-wheeling life style. "I have a high profile, I'm single, I date a lot of women," he said. "If these allegations are coming from a staffer trying to get out of trouble himself, I would be a likely target. There might even be a little jealousy involved." A federal law enforcement source who responded to questions about the case only on the condition his name not be used said: "Yes, the grand jury has turned up allegations that Wilson used drugs and we are looking at them. But there is nothing yet substantive enough for an indictment." (Continued on page 2) === Page 83 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # Reagan dismisses arms talks chief New York Times WASHINGTON -- President Reagan forced Eugene V. Rostow to resign as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Wednesday and said that Secretary of State George P. Shultz would play the principal role in coordinating the administration's arms control policies. As part of an overall shift in the management of arms control matters, Kenneth L. Adelman, the No. 2 official in the United Nations Mission, was chosen to replace Rostow as the head of the disarmament agency. David F. Emery, who had been a Republican congressman from Maine until he lost in the Senate election last year, was picked to be Adelman's deputy. Morton I. Abramowitz, a career foreign service officer, was also chosen to be the new ambassador to the negotiations in Vienna on East-West conventional force reductions. He will replace Richard Staar, whose resignation was demanded by the administration. WHITE HOUSE, State Department and arms control agency officials all said that the dismissal of Rostow and the other changes were not based on ideological or policy reasons, but rather were intended to end the fragmentation and chaos that had existed for months in the arms control bureaucracy. There were also personality clashes that contributed to the dismissal of Rostow. In particular, Rostow, 69, with a long and distinguished career in government and as the Yale Law School dean was openly at odds with the White House for not pursuing vigorously the confirmation in the Senate of his choice as the arms control agency deputy, Robert T. Grey, who had been opposed by conservative Republicans. Several White House and State Department aides complained that Rostow was not a team player and had predicted last week that he would be asked to resign. IN A STATEMENT issued by the White House, Reagan sought to stress his continued commitment to arms control. He said that as president "I have no higher priority or higher purpose than to reduce the risk and the means of conflict and to help bring a true peace with justice to the world we live in." "This administration has undertaken a broad agenda for peace, including special efforts in the Middle East, and a program of arms control more comprehensive and far-reaching than any other in our nation's history," he said. When Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, was asked why Reagan forced Rostow's resignation, he replied: "I am not saying he did anything wrong. The president made the decision he wanted new people." REAGAN SAID THAT he was accepting Rostow's resignation "with regret," and said he had played "a key role" in launching the administration's arms control proposals. The shifts come at a time when the subject of arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union has moved to the center of East-West relations. Yuri V. Andropov, the new Soviet leader, has proposed several initiatives that American officials have said were aimed at splitting the United States from its Western allies. EUGENE V. ROSTOW Director is ousted Reaction to dismissal, Rostow profile -- Page 11 1/13/83 # Lewis to leave Cabinet post next February New York Times WASHINGTON -- Drew Lewis, considered one of the most able members of the Reagan Cabinet, resigned Tuesday from his post as secretary of transportation, effective Feb. 1, 1983. Lewis said he would assume the job of chairman and chief executive officer of troubled Warner-Amex Cable Communications, Inc. The company operates more than 140 cable television systems and is constructing additional systems in major cities. LEWIS, WHO FOR months had been rumored either to be in line for a higher assignment in the administration or to be planning a return to private business, said he was leaving for financial reasons. UFOs Attack "higher ups" # Former astronaut John Swigert dies New York Times NEW YORK -- John L. Swigert, a former astronaut from Colorado who had circled the moon and was elected to the House of Representatives in November while suffering from cancer, died Monday night at the Lombardi Cancer Research Center of the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was 51. Swigert, a Republican who was described by one of his chief campaign supporters as "a potent advocate for Ronald Reagan, a certified hero with a brain," had been flown to the cancer center a week earlier from his home in Littleton, Colo. He was to represent the newly designated 6th District, a U-shaped portion of the Denver suburbs. Gov. Richard Lamm of Colorado said he would call a special election to fill the vacancy. John L. Swigert was elected to House in November === Page 84 of 92 UFO Project + "Higher ups" # Government locked in fantasy ## By comparison, the Nixon White House beat this one S/Res 1/10/83 BOSTON -- Two years into the Reagan presidency, Americans are beginning to suspect the awful truth: They have a government incompetent to govern, a president frozen in ideological fantasyland, an administration spotted with fools and rogues. Anthony J. Lewis New York Times The unmistakable symptom of incompetence is the economic disarray in Washington. The United States government faces a deficit approaching $200 billion in the next fiscal year, more than double the previous record. How is the president going to deal with it? One month from his budget deadline, he has no serious idea. On this as on so many economic issues the Reagan administration sends out contradictory signals twice a week. It is going to speed up tax cuts -- no it isn't. It is going to raise taxes -- certainly not. It is going to make drastic cuts in domestic expenditure -- the president has changed his mind, or no he hasn't. Ronald Reagan came to office as the man who would take charge of the economy. Yet today there is a vacuum in executive leadership; the crucial economic policies are coming from Congress and the Federal Reserve. What has gone wrong? Rigidity is a large part of the explanation: an inability to adjust to facts. A president who drove a radical economic program through Congress refuses to see that the program is not working. And the denial of reality immobilizes him. Reagan told us, and believed, that he could create an economic boom, and balance the budget, by cutting taxes while spending more for arms and less for domestic needs. What we have instead is a severe recession, massive unemployment and record deficits. Confronted with the painful economic facts, the president waves them away. He will not face the real sources of fiscal trouble: the uncontrolled growth in military spending and the shrinking of the revenue base. To blame them, he says, is "dipsy-doodle" thinking. And so, reduced to tinkering, he strains to hold the deficit to a mere $175 billion. The pattern of evasion and ineptitude is disastrous to financial confidence. Even the president's natural backers are turning away. A Gallup poll of big business executives published in The Wall Street Journal shows that, in one year, those expressing "a great deal of confidence" in Reagan's economic leadership have fallen from 58 to 27 percent. His appointees share responsibility with the president for the economic mess. White House advisers and the administration's top economic officials have never broken through Reagan's fantasies. His Pentagon civilian appointees actually encourage illusion; the uniformed chiefs are now the realists on arms spending. What George Shultz has done for foreign policy in six months shows that is is possible to move this administration toward realism. But there is no equivalent on the domestic side, in economics or anything else: no voice of quiet reason in the president's councils. Instead we see ideology run riot and a gang of predators getting what they can out of the federal government. The perfect symbol of the administration in domestic affairs outside of economics is the Legal Services Corporation. For ideological reasons Reagan tried to abolish the program of legal help for the poor. When the country's establishment lawyers resisted and Congress said no, he appointed a Legal Services board that he hoped would subvert the program. When some members would not, he dropped them. Then it turned out that the new Legal Services president had negotiated himself a fat-cat contract including membership in a private club of his choice. He negotiated it with the chairman, an old friend of his. All that is supposed to be conservatism. Reading about some of the officials in this administration, you would think the Snopes family had all moved to Washington. A Reagan appointee to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Frederic Andre, said the ICC should do nothing about bribes in the trucking business because they are just "instances of the free market at work." The man Reagan chose to head the Veterans' Administration, Robert P. Nimmo, spent $54,183 redecorating his office and resigned just before an official report criticized him for misusing military aircraft and a government chauffeur. It is not just insensitivity. There is a deeper sense of departure from the standards that have made the federal government work reasonably well under presidents of both parties. The Justice Department which has for so long maintained a professional esprit, is a sad example under the California society lawyer who is now attorney general, William French Smith. A career lawyer at Justice remarks that he and others look back with nostalgia to the days of John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst. That is where we are, halfway through Reagan's term: nostalgic for the Nixon administration. # New Hampshire governor dies 12/30/82 BOSTON (AP) -- New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gallen died Wednesday of kidney and liver failure and complications from internal bleeding after being hospitalized for more than a month. Gallen, 58, was to have left office next week. Gallen died at 3:49 p.m. with his wife Irene and other family members at his bedside at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said Jennifer Murray, Gallen's news secretary in Concord. Gallen's fourth bout of internal bleeding Wednesday had been controlled temporarily, "but he succumbed despite intensive supportive therapy," Ms. Murray said. Records dating back to the late 1700s show Gallen was the first New Hampshire governor to die in office. Gallen, a Democrat, won office by defeating maverick Republican Meldrim Thomson in 1978, and defeated Thomson again in 1980. But he lost his bid for a third term in November to Republican John Sununu, whose inauguration is next Thursday. Senate President Vesta Roy, a Republican from Salem, has been acting governor. Gallen had been admitted to the hospital Nov. 20, and was listed in serious condition until Sunday morning. The two-term governor's chief of staff, Dayton Duncan, said Gallen bled twice internally Sunday, causing doctors to downgrade his condition to critical. Democratic Gov. Hugh Gallen, 58, was first N.H. governor to die in office That stomach bleeding was stopped, but the governor suffered bleeding in the back of his throat on Tuesday, then started bleeding in his stomach again Wednesday, aides said. As late as Tuesday evening, Gallen had been conscious and alert, Duncan said. Gallen was a self-made man who was a laborer and a truck driver before he became a car dealer, small-town banker and politician. In January 1979, he became the first Democratic governor of predominantly Republican New Hampshire in a decade. He held office during the state's worst fiscal crisis in years and insisted, during his final campaign, that the state badly needed tax reform. Gallen attributed his defeat in November largely to his refusal to pledge to veto a state sales or income tax if one was passed by the Legislature. In conceding to Sununu, who took "the pledge," Gallen said he had no regrets. === Page 85 of 92 attack "higher ups" THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Sun., July 25, 1982, Spokane, Wash. # Watt says he's proud of letter By PHILIP SHABECOFF New York Times WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary James G. Watt said Saturday that he is "proud" of the letter he sent to the Israeli ambassador to Washington warning that opposition by Jewish American liberals to his energy program would weaken this country's "ability to be a good friend to Israel." The letter was called "unfortunate" by the White House press office Friday night, which also stated that it did not reflect this administration's policy. But Watt said in a telephone interview Saturday afternoon: "I stand by the letter. Its intentions were right and it was properly worded." Watt said, "The letter does not threaten anyone." He asserted that it was intended to point out that unless the United States reduces its dependence on foreign sources of energy and other minerals, it would not be economically or militarily strong enough to support friends such as Israel. "I am reaching out to every identifiable group in America, whether unions, the black community, East, West, North, South, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, gentiles," he declared, saying, "We need everyone's support to make America strong." BUT ANGRY REACTION to the letter flowed in Saturday from members of Congress, Jewish organizations and other critics. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., said, "James Watt should resign immediately for this act of bare-knuckled bigotry," and added: "If he does not, President Reagan should dismiss him immediately." "If he goes, and his departure awakens the country to the fact that ideologues of the radical right have taken over whole areas of American government, there may be some gain from this latest episode of bigotry and bullying," Moynihan said. "For the moment, however, our national honor has been smirched and I feel the shame we all feel," he said. Rep. Toby Moffett, D-Conn., said: "Mr. Watt's remarks were highly inappropriate and inflammatory. They suggest that America's foreign policy is in some way linked to 'Jewish' and 'liberal' support of the administration's energy policy. Although Watt is not secretary of state, he seems in this regard to have enunciated a new American foreign policy requiring supporters of Israel to back Watt's offshore drilling plan in order to win further assurances of United States support for Israel." THE DISCLOSURE of Watt's letter to the Israeli ambassador, Moshe Arens - first published last week in the Washington Times - comes at a time of uneasiness among American supporters of Israel about Reagan administration intentions. This uneasiness stems in part from the replacement of Alexander M. Haig Jr. as secretary of state by George P. Shultz, who comes out the Bechtel Group, a business organization with strong ties to the Arab world. Watt is seeking to build support of his program to accelerate development of the nation's natural resources, particularly his plan, announced earlier this week, to offer 1 billion acres of Outer Continental Shelf for leasing to oil and gas companies over the next five years. The lease offering would encompass virtually the entire coastal area of the United States. WEDNESDAY, Watt sent a letter to 28 members of Congress criticizing them for attacking his offshore program at a time "Israel was embroiled in a war concerning her own survival and a liberated Lebanon." The letter also stated that the offshore plan was crafted to "improve our national security, enhance our quality of life and environment, create jobs, and help America meet her commitments made in the Camp David Accords as well as commitments made to other foreign countries." Bertram H. Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee, issued a statement Saturday declaring, "Secretary Watt should go back to school for a refresher course on the American political system, for he seems to question the right of Americans that hold opinions different from his." HE ALSO NOTED that the committee has had a task force working for the past 10 years on ways to reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. However, Hyman Bookbinder, the committee's Washington representative, said of Watt's letter to the Israeli ambassador: "I do not think too much should be made of this. It doesn't go to the core of the problems facing the country and the Jewish community." But Bookbinder did say, "I am concerned that Mr. Watt did not realize that if he had a message for the American Jewish community, he could simply have picked up the phone and talked to any of us instead of doing what he did. If he had, we would have been glad to tell him that we share his basic concerns about American energy independence and that we have been working on it for over a decade. This does not mean, of course, that we endorse every part of the administration's program." BOOKBINDER added that Watt's reference to Jewish liberals would be resented by many American Jews because of the "pejorative context" suggesting that American liberals do not care about the strength and economic power of this country. In Saturday's interview, Watt said while he stood by his letter, he could understand why the White House would describe it as "unfortunate." "The White House understands better than I do that there are forces in the United States that would take the letter and distort it for their own purposes." He said, "There still is an attempt by the liberal community to undermine our efforts to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy and minerals and we need to show them what the truth is." === Page 86 of 92 Weidenbaum still confident WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Reagan's departing chief economist, although conceding that the administration's latest economic forecast is too optimistic, said Friday he remains convinced that the end to the nation's deep recession "is in sight." Murray L. Weidenbaum, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, acknowledged that Reagan did not always heed his economic advice, but he disputed reports by associates that mounting unhappiness and frustration with his lack of influence lay behind his decision to leave. "When I gave my resignation to the president last week, it was because of my desire to return to Washington University" in St. Louis, where he taught before joining the administration, he told a group of reporters. nation Edwin Meese's son killed WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential counselor Edwin Meese III flew home from California on Friday to gather his family and make funeral arrangements for his 19-year-old son, Scott Robert Meese, who was killed late Thursday in an automobile accident. U.S. Park Police said Scott Meese, a sophomore at Princeton University, was fatally injured shortly before midnight when his car "failed to negotiate a turn" on a parkway that runs along the Virginia side of the Potomac River just outside Washington. Officer John Nawrot said the compact car in which young Meese was the only occupant skidded 330 feet and slammed into a tree. Scott Meese was one of three children of Edwin and Ursula Meese. In reply to other questions on the flight home, Reagan said the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, Murray Weidenbaum, was not resigning because of policy differences but because, like other academics in the administration, "there was just a limit to how long they could leave their real careers." REAGAN SAID he was "very saddened" by the death of Scott Meese, the 19-year-old son of presidential counselor Edwin Meese III. "He was a fine young man," Reagan said. "This is just a terrible tragedy." The youth was killed Thursday night in an automobile accident on the outskirts of Washington. When the elder Meese returned to the White House from California shortly after Reagan arrived from St. Louis, the president and Mrs. Reagan went immediately to his office to express their condolences. The 'Whizzer' shrugs off critic's two-fisted attack SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A man screaming about "pornography and busing" ran onto a dais where U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White waited to give a speech Thursday and pummeled him with his fists before being subdued by onlookers. The 65-year-old justice, who suffered an abrasion on his cheek, had just been introduced as a speaker at a meeting of the Utah Bar Association at the Marriott Hotel about 11 a.m. Fred Graham, CBS News law correspondent, said White proceeded to give his speech on the relationship between federal and state courts. But before that, Graham said, "He said he got hit harder when he played against Utah in football." That was a reference to White's days as a college football star at the University of Colorado, where he got the nickname "Whizzer." Terry Knowles, FBI special agent in charge, said Newton C. Estes, 57, was charged with assault on a federal justice in a complaint authorized by the U.S. attorney's office. U.S. Magistrate Paul L. Badger set bail at $10,000 and Estes was being held in the Salt Lake City-County Jail. If convicted, he could serve a maximum sentence of three years in prison and be ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. Justice Byron White was pummeled from behind by a man who was unhappy with the Supreme Court's decisions on pornography and busing in recent years. === Page 87 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" SPREJ 1/22/83 # Baker sets sights on White House KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee announced Friday he will not seek re-election to a fourth term in 1984, freeing himself for a possible full-fledged run at the White House in 1988. Baker, 57, told an afternoon press conference at Knoxville's airport, that after serving in the Senate since 1966 he wants to return to private life for awhile. But he added, "I certainly do not plan to retire from politics." Baker said he has not decided whether he will run for president in 1988 and will not make his plans until after his Senate term ends. "I have made no secret that I would like to be president," he said. Baker urged President Reagan to seek re-election in 1984 and said he would work "actively and enthusiastically" for him. He said he would "maintain an active interest in GOP affairs." "There is no complicated reason for this but there is life after the Senate," he said. "And I intend to live that life. I certainly don't intend to retire from politics." "I have pledged my colleagues in the Senate and President Reagan that I will do my utmost to make sure that 1984 is a very prosperous year for Republicans," he said. Baker, responding to questions from a group of about 50 reporters, said he would not relinquish his majority leader's job or leave the Senate before his term expires. Earlier, in a written statement, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a close friend of Baker's, said he "deeply regretted" his decision not to seek re-election. Lugar is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and managed Baker's brief bid for the 1980 presidential nomination. Since that effort, Baker had maintained a political committee capable of financing his travels around the country. Baker's decision to retire was reported more than a week ago, and neither he nor his aides took any steps to dispute the printed accounts. Instead, they sought only to discourage speculation that he was laying the groundwork for a challenge to Reagan for the 1984 GOP nomination. UFOs attack "higher ups" # One dies, seven hurt in Texas Capitol fire SPREJ 2/7/83 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A fire that erupted in a "sea of flames" burned through an apartment in the century-old state Capitol before dawn Sunday, killing a guest of the lieutenant governor and injuring six firemen and a policeman. Kate Hobby, the lieutenant governor's 18-year-old daughter, escaped from the apartment without injury, as did a couple who take care of her show horses. Fire officials said the cause would not be known for days, but they said they suspected it started in an electrical appliance in a den of the apartment. Gov. Mark White, awakened by sirens in the neighborhood, rushed from the governor's mansion to the Capitol across the street and helped carry oxygen bottles to firemen battling the blaze. The dead man was identified as Matt Hansen, 23, a horse trainer from New Caney, Texas. He was one of four people who had been sleeping in the three-bedroom apartment that Lt. Gov Bill Hobby kept on the second floor of the historic domed building, behind the Senate chamber. Fireman dragged Hansen out of the middle bedroom and tried in vain to revive him. Capitol Police Lt. Dale Gentry said there were no visible burns on his body and he apparently died of smoke inhalation. Miss Hobby was asleep in another bedroom, and Hobby said she was saved by patrolman James Mitchell, who banged on her door. Another policeman, Joel Quintanilla, was overcome by smoke when a huge oak door to the apartment exploded because of intense heat and gas buildup. He was hospitalized in stable condition. "Quintanilla was apparently trying to get in because he heard hollering and yelling in the apartment," said Hobby press aide Bob Cargill. Miss Hobby described one room in the apartment as a "sea of flames." A Hobby aide described the den as "an inferno." The other two people in the apartment were James and Joan Waterman of New Caney, who take care of Miss Hobby's horses. They escaped through a back door. Officials did not estimate the dollar amount of damage, but several portraits were destroyed or damaged, and the back section of the apartment, which housed several antiques, was "complete destruction," said Hobby. A corner of the Senate chambers was blackened, but Hobby said the Senate would meet there today as scheduled. The fire, discovered by policemen who guard the building on a 24-hour basis, broke out about 5:30 a.m. === Page 88 of 92 UFOs attack "higher ups" # EPA whistleblower ready to loft more bombshells at White House SP Rev 2/18/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a surprise turnabout, the administration reached a negotiated settlement Monday with a whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency, who said afterward he now has evidence that EPA misdeeds go all the way to the White House. Hugh Kaufman, whose allegations have triggered a half-dozen congressional investigations into EPA's $1.6 billion "superfund" program, called the settlement a victory both for him and for other agency employees who will be testifying before Congress in coming weeks. "This should send a signal to all EPA employees that they can get protection if they testify," Kaufman said. In the settlement, the EPA promised to obey all laws protecting employees' rights. The settlement, in a case in which Kaufman had charged the EPA with harassing him because of his accusations, comes amid a burgeoning scandal in which EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch has been accused of contempt of Congress and a top agency official has been fired. Kaufman had originally said he expected a full-blown hearing Monday -- with as many as 20 EPA officials testifying -- that would provide further evidence of agency mismanagement of the superfund program to clean up the country's worst hazardous waste dumps. Instead, the government and Kaufman reached a settlement, and afterward the EPA employee said he would be turning over to Congress and the Justice Department evidence of a possible "criminal conspiracy" to silence him. Kaufman said his evidence shows that efforts to harass him began after the White House received complaints on his activities from chemical companies. "The White House communicated complaints from polluters about me to the EPA, and the EPA took adverse action against me as a result of those communications," Kaufman said. Kaufman said he did not have a "smoking gun" to prove the White House directed the EPA to harass him illegally, but he said "it was clear to the agency that the White House was unhappy." Kaufman did not name the officials at the White House who transmitted the chemical company complaints, but he said presidential counselor "Ed Meese and his deputy were at Rita Lavelle's swearing-in and held Meese held the Bible." Rita M. Lavelle, the head of the superfund program and Kaufman's (Continued on page 2) boss was fired by President Reagan last week. At the time Meese said he knew Lavelle only slightly. One of the allegations against Lavelle was that she had lied to a House subcommittee when she denied ordering an investigation in an effort to build a case to fire Kaufman. Since Lavelle's own dismissal five House subcommittees and one Senate committee have announced investigations into EPA's hazardous waste program. Some trace to Kaufman's charges of "sweetheart" deals to absolve polluters of liability and political favoritism in handing out superfund cleanup money. Lavelle has denied all charges of wrongdoing. She also told reporters Saturday that she also knew nothing about paper shredders that were brought into the hazardous waste division following the contempt of Congress citation against Gorsuch. The charge resulted because the EPA administrator -- on orders from Reagan -- refused to turn over superfund documents requested by congressional investigators. The office of Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga., chairman of a subcommittee that subpoenaed the documents, said Monday it would be two or three days before Levitas decided whether to accept a White House compromise on the issue. Levitas said after the compromise offer this weekend that he wanted to discuss it with congressional leaders before deciding. Meanwhile, Rep. James Howard, D-N.J., chairman of the House Public Works Committee, announced that EPA General Counsel Robert Perry and Chief of Staff John Daniel will testify before his committee Tuesday on allegations that papers involved in the dispute may have been shredded. EPA attorneys refused to comment on their surprise decision to settle with Kaufman. Asked about Kaufman's allegations of criminal conspiracy to deprive Kaufman of his rights, EPA spokesman Chris Rice said, "We have no knowledge of any criminal wrongdoing. However, if Mr. Kaufman has evidence of a criminal act, it is his responsibility to turn that evidence over to the Department of Justice." # Driver claims federal car misused SP Rev 2/11/83 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Harvey Steorts, chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, used an agency car to travel to the hairdresser, go shopping and for other personal errands, it was reported Thursday. Ms. Steorts' former driver, Michael A. Hager, told The Washington Post he had taken her to the hairdresser at least five times, made at least two trips to suburban Rockville, Md., from downtown Washington to deposit money in her bank, picked up dresses and drapery fabric for her and drove her daughter to the White House to visit friends. Hager, who left the agency in January after his temporary appointment expired, did not have a listed telephone number and could not be reached for comment. UFOs attack "higher ups" Anne Scherr, an agency spokeswoman, said she was trying to reach Ms. Steorts for comment. Under the appropriations law that finances the agency, no funds may be spent for transporting agency officials and staff members between home and office. "I would think that it certainly has to be looked at by someone," Donald Vitez, the General Service Administration's deputy assistant inspector general for investigations, said Thursday. "We'll at least follow up on this situation." Lowell Stockdale, acting director of the GSA's fleet management division, said that Ms. Steorts use of the car, as described by the driver, appeared to be improper, in his opinion. "They don't look like official business to me," he said. Vitez said allegations of wrongdoing are usually addressed by the agency involved. But he said he didn't know whether the CPSC had the capability to conduct that kind of investigation. "If it, in fact, involved a GSA car, it may be appropriate for us to" investigate, he said. In the fall of 1981, soon after she assumed the product safety chairmanship, Ms. Steorts ordered her driver to wear a coat and tie. When he said he couldn't afford to buy them, two agency officials bought him a suit. "That suit episode was too bad," agency spokesman Lou Brott said at the time. "It would have been easier if she (Ms. Steorts) had paid for it." === Page 89 of 92 FDR's son focus of investigation WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Social Security Administration said Friday it will ask postal authorities to investigate a fund-raising appeal by the eldest son of Franklin D. Roosevelt for a new "National Committee to Preserve Social Security." The appeal, sent by former Rep. James Roosevelt (left) of California in letters to 400,000 Americans in the past two weeks, dangles the prospect of offering low-cost group insurance against the collapse of the system that President Roosevelt founded in 1935. The letter also offers donors of $10 a free computer printout of their (Continued on page 5) FDR's son--(Continued from page 1)-- Social Security records, which is available at no cost anyway from the government. The four-page fund-raising letter, packaged with a petition to Congress to spare Social Security benefits and an application form for the "free personal confidential computer printout" of Social Security records, was prepared by Butcher Forde Consultants, a Newport Beach, Calif., direct-mail firm that has handled appeals for tax foe Howard Jarvis. Roosevelt, 75, said in a telephone interview from his Newport Beach office Thursday that the letter was not misleading "because I don't think a lot of people realize that they can themselves get it (the Social Security information)." "We're not charging them $10 to perform that service. ... We're charging them $10 if they want to join an organization to do something about Social Security," he said. The instructions for getting the Social Security printout state: "This free service is available only to those joining the National Committee." Paul B. Simmons, deputy commissioner of Social Security, said in a statement: "We intend to refer the letter to the postmaster general because there is a clear implication in the letter that the only way they can get the earning statement is sending $10 to this committee." Simmons said anyone can get the information free by filling out a post card available at local Social Security offices and sending in a name, signature and Social Security number. The agency encourages people to check their Social Security account records every three to four years. Simmons called the fund-raising letter "scurrilous and pathetic." Roosevelt's letter was mailed in an envelope emblazoned with a red headline: "URGENT! IMPORTANT SOCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION ENCLOSED." The letter lists a return address of a "National Administrative Office" at 325 Pennsylvania Avenue here. That is a mail drop in Video Plaza, a small movie rental shop that shares a storefront on Capitol Hill with a health food store. The letter makes no specific suggestions what to do about the system's financial problems. Roosevelt said in the interview that he has some ideas, "but I don't want to frankly talk about it at this stage of the game." Hawaii senator indicted HONOLULU (AP) -- A Hawaii state senator was indicted Friday along with members of his family and a former political aide in an alleged voter fraud case. Sen. Clifford Uwaine, 32, was indicted on two felony charges. An Oahu grand jury also returned indictments against Ross Segawa, a former Uwaine aide; Debbie Kawaoka, Uwaine's legislative secretary; Uwaine's wife, father, sister and brother-in-law; and an undetermined number of others. Segawa and Miss Kawaoka faced felony charges while others were cited for misdemeanor offenses. === Page 90 of 92 UFO Projects Jet fighter crashes AVON PARK, Fla. (AP) -- An F-16 jet fighter on a training mission crashed on a bombing range northeast of here Monday night, but it was not known if the pilot was injured, Air Force officials said. The single-seat Fighting Falcon crashed at Avon Park Air Force Range during a surface attack training mission, said Staff Sgt. James Weslowski of MacDill Air Force Base. ONE-DAY SPECIAL UFO Project Air Force maint. OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) -- Air Force B-52 bombers are safe aircraft, despite two recent crashes and do not carry nuclear weapons over American rooftops during routine training flights, the Strategic Air Command said Friday. Concern about whether the B-52 is safe enough to be armed with nuclear weapons has been revived since Thursday's crash of one of the aging, eight-engined bombers at Mather Air Force Base in California killed all nine crew members. There were no nuclear weapons aboard that plane, SAC said. faith in B-52 Nevertheless, the crash prompted Rep. Robert T. Matsui, D-Calif., whose district includes the base, to call for an inquiry into B-52 maintenance. Two weeks ago, a B-52 was destroyed by fire just after landing at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, 100 miles to the south. The crew escaped safely. "The flight safety rate of approximately one destroyed B-52 per 100,000 flying hours reflects very favorably on the aircraft's safety," said Col. Richard A. Patrick, SAC director of safety. He said an Air Force team has begun an inquiry into the cause of the crash that will take about two weeks. The right wing of the 450,000-pound bomber, the kind used in the Vietnam War, dipped shortly after takeoff at 8:45 a.m. PST from Mather, a base about 10 miles east of downtown Sacramento. James said the bomber and another just like it were on a "routine training mission," practicing what the Air Force calls "minimal interval takeoffs" or MITO. That means two bombers take off from the same runway seconds apart, as they would in a war alert. The bomber that crashed was the second of the pair, said Lt. Col. Mike Edwards of Mather. James said the plane and crew had made a similar flight the day before without incident. The five trainees aboard the plane were experienced pilots and navigators who were learning specific maneuvers with the B-52, said Clarence Fagan, a Mather spokesman. Names of the dead -- four instructors and five trainees -- were being withheld until relatives could be notified. "I saw the thing coming," said Mike Koewler, president of Sacramento Rendering Company, which is near the scene. "It was level. It looked to me like a normal takeoff, then it took a substantial drop in altitude to the point where you knew the guy was in deep trouble. "At the point of impact, it looked to me like the first thing to go was the tip of the right wing," he said. "Then the earth just shook like an earthquake, and then there was the explosion." Doomed B-52 pilot steers plane away from civilians SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- An Air Force B-52 bomber crashed in a muddy field and exploded just after taking off on a training flight Thursday, killing all nine crewmen. Witnesses said the pilot steered the plane away from buildings where more people might have died. No one was injured on the ground, although several farm animals were killed. The bomber carried no nuclear weapons nor ammunition, said Col. Gobel James, commander of Mather Air Force Base, where the plane took off, although other B-52s at the base are so armed. James said there was no communication between the pilot and the ground that he had any problem in the 45 seconds between the takeoff and the crash. FBI-chartered plane crashes, killing six MONTGOMERY, Ohio (AP) -- A plane chartered by the FBI crashed into a bookstore Thursday, killing all six men aboard, including a suspected embezzler who surfaced after being declared legally dead and was leading agents to the site of his buried loot. At least four people who were in the bookstore in this Cincinnati suburb were injured, including two in critical condition, authorities said. The FBI identified the dead as agents Terry B. Hereford, 34, Wheaton, Ill.; Robert W. Conners, 36, Naperville, Ill.; Michael J. Lynch, 35, Woodridge, Ill.; and Charles L. Ellington, 36, Naperville, Ill. Also killed were Patrick Daly, 68, a former Chicago policeman from Evergreen Park, Ill., and Carl H. Johnson, 48, a former bank executive accused of embezzling $615,000 from a Chicago bank in 1975. Alfred E. Smith, special agent in charge of the Cincinnati FBI office, said Conners and Hereford were qualified FBI pilots and were flying the twin-engine Cessna 411 when it crashed into the Sheppard Bookstore, a converted three-story frame home. Smith said Johnson, who had been declared legally dead just before surrendering to the FBI in Chicago earlier this month, had said he buried $50,000 of the stolen money in the Cincinnati area. He was leading agents to that site. "The object of our investigation today was for our agents to hook up with the agents coming in from Chicago and to be led to the site where this money was allegedly buried," Smith said. The crash occurred in a residential area about 10 miles from the Lunken Field airport. The plane was in the approach pattern to Lunken Field, officials said. It dropped so abruptly that it avoided hitting a house across the street from the bookstore, yet went under a 20-foot-high power line along the street slammed into the store near its foundation. Four charred cars remained in the bookstore parking lot, along with an aircraft engine, the only evidence of the craft that was visible as firemen battled the blaze for more than two hours. Witnesses said there was a whining sound before the plane crashed. "It was making a real funny noise and then a part fell off. He made a real hard bank, and we thought it was going to try to land here in the lot, or the Blue Ash airport, which is nearby," said Tom Jones, employee of a nearby auto dealer. "But he lost all power and went down, hitting some cars, and slid into the bookstore. The whole place immediately went up in flames," Jones said. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the scene Thursday afternoon. === Page 91 of 92 UFO Project (Rynke) # B-52 safety an issue after 3rd accident Staff and wire reports S.F. Rev. 1/29/83 The third accident involving a B-52G bomber in two months will not force any immediate changes at Fairchild Air Force Base or any other Strategic Air Command base, Air Force officials said Friday. A California congressman has called for an investigation into the safety of the 25-year-old bombers, but the Air Force said the plane has one of the best safety records of planes in service and that the three incidents were not similar. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, authorities said they recovered the bodies of five Air Force men from the wreckage of the bomber which exploded and burned Thursday morning. Lt. James Stratford, information officer at the base, said there were no classified documents on the plane and an earlier statement to that effect attributed to him was wrong. The report said the information was recovered from an ejection seat. The explosion was the third fiery accident involving a B-52G since early December. On Dec. 15, a bomber crashed on takeoff from Mather Air Force Base in California, killing all nine crew members. Two weeks earlier, a B-52 was destroyed by fire just after landing at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, Calif. The crew escaped safely. Rep. Robert Matsui, D-Calif., said he would call for an investigation into the safety of the B-52. Those bombers -- the G model, which was produced in the late 1950s, and the H model, produced in the early 1960s -- comprise the main body of the SAC fleet. There are 15 B-52Gs based at Fairchild. "We owe this to military personnel, whose safety and lives may be jeopardized by the aircraft, and we must assure ourselves that the B-52 fleet is still capable of its mission," Matsui said in Washington, D.C. A formal request for such an inquest has not been made, and Air Force officials at the Pentagon said they had no comment on Matsui's statements. But Capt. Virginia Pribyla, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said the B-52's record since the mid-1970s was above average for Air Force planes. The bombers averaged 1.6 accidents per 100,000 hours of flying time. Overall, Air Force planes averaged 2.3 accidents per 100,000 hours. "One shouldn't jump to the conclusion that because we've lost three in dissimilar accidents that there's something wrong with the B-52," she said. The only similarity between the accidents -- one landing, one taking off and one parked on the ground -- is that all three planes have burned, Pribyla said. "When you have that much fuel, and an ignition point, it's going to burn." Until December, the Air Force lost an average of one B-52 a year to accidents, Pribyla said. The Air Force is investigating all three accidents, but has ordered no changes at SAC bases. If procedural flaws are discovered, changes will be ordered. Investigations usually take several months, Pribyla said. There were no thoughts of grounding all B-52s while the inquiries are conducted, Pribyla said "We're talking about the strategic fleet of the country," she said. Officers from Fairchild will be on inquiry boards for each accident, said Lt. Jim O'Brien, base information officer. Thursday's explosion occurred as maintenance workers checked valves and other parts of the fuel system. It was under control in 15 minutes, but only the tail of the bomber was left intact, civilian fire officials said. The plane had flown a training mission Wednesday night and was undergoing routine maintenance when its fuel exploded, Grand Forks Air Force Base officials said. The plane was not carrying nuclear weapons. Damage was estimated at $38 million, the plane's replacement cost. Flags were flown at half-staff in the nearby communities of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, Minn., in honor of the five fire victims. Eight people, including four firefighters, were injured in the blast. === Page 92 of 92 Sadat's wife rejected my offer # Relatives of Anwar Sadat jailed on corruption counts Sp News 2/13/83 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Esmat Sadat, the half-brother of assassinated President Anwar Sadat, was sentenced Saturday to a year in jail after he and three of his sons were convicted of building a fortune through corruption. The ethics court also ordered one-year prison terms for the sons and the indefinite confiscation of wealth that the prosecution alleged was amassed through peddling, black marketeering, bribery and other offenses. "Authority has trespassed on justice," Sadat shouted when the court upheld the prosecutor's indictment following a three-month trial. He tried to calm sobbing female relatives. Male members of the family screamed as court president Ahmed Rifaat Khafagy read the verdict. Some of the estimated 300 spectators who packed the courtroom applauded. Sadat and his attorney said the ruling would be appealed. Prosecutor General Abdel-Kader Ahmed Aly had charged that Sadat, 59, and members of his immediate family had built a vast fortune "by illegitimate means" and had "committed acts harmful to the economic interests of the country." Aly's 24-count indictment was issued Dec. 15. It was based on legislation that had been introduced by President Sadat, who was slain in October 1981. The court declared that Esmat Sadat and his sons Galal, 37, Talaat, 29, and Mohammed Anwar, 27, be imprisoned for one year subject to renewal for similar periods up to five years depending on their behavior. But it ruled that the sentences for Esmat, Galal and Talaat began Oct. 28, when Aly ordered them detained. For Mohammed Anwar, the start of the sentence was Saturday. The court set no time-limit for the confiscation of property, which includes the assets of Sadat and his three jailed sons, Esmat's wife and three other sons, one daughter and two in-laws. During the trial, the prosecution said the Sadat family had gained a fortune worth about $150 million. Esmat Sadat once drove a bus and then turned to business when his brother became president. He insisted during the trial that his total wealth was no more than than $180,000. "It's a shame," he told reporters after hearing the verdict. NOTE: SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WROTE MRS. SADAT IN CAIRO AND REQUESTED THE SI BASE BE GRANTED THERE. NOTHING. SO... SADAT AND FAMILY WIPED OUT. 8 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Thurs., Feb. 17, 1983, Spokane, Wash. # northwest ## Quakes shake Montana Small earthquakes have shaken two areas of Montana. The Earthquake Studies Office at Montana Tech said the strongest quake, measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale, was felt at 11:22 p.m. Tuesday in the Shelby, Cut Bank and Conrad areas. The smaller quake, measuring 3.6 on the Richter, was felt at 12:14 a.m. in the Three Forks and Manhattan areas. No damage was reported from either tremor. Dave Snyder of Manhattan said he was watching television when he heard a rumbling in the ground beneath his wood frame farmhouse. "I was sitting in the chair and it felt like a big boulder had rolled under the house," Snyder said. "I felt the house being shook and I rattled the dishes." The largest earthquake was one of the biggest recorded so far this year in Montana, said Michael Stickney, director of the Earthquake Studies Office in Butte. "We've recorded something like 150 earthquakes in the western part of Montana in January and most of them are small, less than 2 1/2," Stickney said. WHERE WE LIVE which is a violation of the An installment loan of tors and 42 tellers will r half the amount for back "liquidated damages." The highest individu to a teller, while s receive around $4,000 ## Too many S SEATTLE (AP) tators in Seattle? Attorneys for S have threatened t "the other" news. Editors of The old, liberal stud name was stolen 2-month-old con dents at the Un ternative to The Seattle Univ ened to sue if Spectator don' Tuesday. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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