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Carter attacks Reagan tax cut as rebate for rich
NEW YORK (UPI) President Carter,
triumphantly accepting renomination with Sen.
Edward Kennedy at his side, yesterday warned
cheering Democrats that Ronald Reagan could
take America toward an “alarming, even
perilous destiny.”
Closing the 38th Democratic National Con
vention with a “give 'em hell” speech
reminiscent of his idol Harry Truman, Carter
denounced Reagan’s massive tax cut plans as
“rebates for the rich.”
And he said Reagan was so conservative-and
so inexperienced in foreign policy he could lead
America “down the wrong road” in an “all-out
nuclear arms race” toward war.
1 “You and I must never let this come to pass,”
he told the 3,331 cheering delegates who earlier
had renominated Vice President Walter Mon
dale.
Despite a snafu that kept most of the red, white
and blue balloons from dropping onto the con
vention floor, a jubilant Carter one-by-one
summoned Democratic leaders, including
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, to the
podium to share his hour of glory.
He saved Kennedy for last, and pandemonium
swept Madison Square Garden, where two nights
earlier the senator had electrified delegates with
a dramatic, eloquent call for Democrats not to
abandon their heritage.
The band blared the traditional Democratic
fight song, “Happy Days are Here Again,” as
Carter welcomed Kennedy to the podium and put
his arm around the senator’s shoulder. Kennedy
was restrained, a small smile playing at the
corners of his mouth as he shook hands with
Rosalynn Carter.
Carter led the hand-clapping for Kennedy, and
the senator clenched his fist and waved to the
crowd. He left the podium with the other
Democratic leaders, then returned, alone with
Carter for a moment.
Five men hijack National DC-10 to Cuba
MIAMI (UPI) A National Airlines DC-10 with
223 people aboard was hijacked to Cuba last night
by five Hispanic men carrying a container of
gasoline, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
It was the third hijacking in five days.
All aboard the National’s flight 872 from Miami to
San Juan, Puerto Rico, were reported safe when the
plane arrived at Havana’s Jose Marti airport at 9
p.m. EDT.
There was no immediate word on whether the
hijackers were part of the sudden wave of disen
chanted, homesick Cuban sealift refugees which
accounted for hijackings on Sunday and Wed
nesday.
However, Steve Uriarte, an FBI spokesman in
Miami, said the two men who entered the cockpit
and ordered the plane to Cuba "displayed a jug of
gasoline” a method similar to Wednesday’s
hijacking of a commuter flight from Key West to
Miami.
The hijacking came before airline officials could
put into effect tighter security that had been agreed
upon earlier in the day including a “behavioral
Assassin's identity argued
Oswald autopsy
DALLAS (UPI) The brother of
presidential assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald obtained a temporary
restraining order yesterday halting the
exhumation of Oswald’s body for an
autopsy that would settle questions
about its identity.
A'group headed by British author and
lawyer Michael Eddowes claim a “SO
SO” possibility the body under the red
granite marker with the bare word
“OSWALD’’ on it would be that of a
Soviet agent who took Oswald’s identity
in 1959, or there would be no body at all.
Oswald’s widow, Marina Oswald
Porter, had granted the group per
mission to undertake a private disin
terment and autopsy under a Texas law
which gives spouses that power. She said
she did not believe someone other than
her former husband was buried at Rose
Hill Burial Park in Fort Worth, but
wanted to help clear up “mysteries”
about the assassination.
In a request filed only moments before
the end of business yesterday, Robert
Oswald of Wichita Fallas, Texas, suc
cessfully blocked the efforts pending a
hearing Aug. 22. He said he would suffer
“grave mental anguish” and the family
would suffer “severe grief" if Oswald’s
body were exhumed.
Judge James Wright of the 101st
district court granted the temporary
restraining order, pending the results of
the hearing.
“I’m disappointed that it has to be
dragged out even longer to add to the
burden already shouldered by the widow
and her children,” said Jerry M. Pitt
man, lawyer for Eddowes. "That always
has been a prime concern of ours.”
Pittman added: “I have to consult
with other attorneys involved in this
case before any’ decision is made on the
next step. If this is a valid restraining
order, then the district court in Tarrant
County will make a determination next
■Friday.”
Eddowes and others, including
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“Ted, your party needs and I need your
idealism and dedication working for us,” Carter
said, as Kennedy delegates pulled out blue and
white signs and jabbed them into the air.
As Carter left the podium, he told reporters: “I
believe it will guarantee victory for us in
November.”
President Carter gestures jubilantly following his introduction to delegates of the Deinocr:
National Convention last night as he waits to begin his acceptance speech.
profile" that was used before metal detectors came
into common use at airports.
The current rash of hijackings, officials said,
appeared to be the work of Cuban sealift refugees
disenchanted with their lives' in the United States.
The earlier hijackings this week were carried out by
denizens of the tent city in Miami's Little Havana
area.
Last night’s hyjacking was the sixth successful
one this year, including four within a month. Both of
U.S. diplomat wounded
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) An
American diplomat was wounded by Salvadoran
army troops who opened fire on a supposedly bullet
proof truck carrying four embassy staffers, U.S.
Ambassador Robert White said yesterday.
The wounded diplomat, identified only as Brian
Woo, was hit in the heel by one of the nine bullets
that perforated a heavy-duty truck usually referred
to as “war wagons,” White said. Woo’s injury was
minor, he said.
Charles M. Petty, chief medical
examiner for Dallas County, had
assembled a team of grave-diggers,
security personnel, heavy equipment
operators, forensic pathologists and
dental identification experts for the
mission. Reports in Dallas indicated
they planned to dig up the grave today.
Once exhumed, the coffin would have
been taken to the Institute of Forensic
Sciences in Dallas. Petty said there was
nearly "100 percent probability” they
would have determined whether the
body was that of Lee Harvey Oswald by
comparing Oswald’s Marine dental
records in 1958 with the teeth in the body.
Eddowes, who wrote a book “The
Oswald File’’— about his theory, con
tended the real Lee Harvey Oswald
“disappeared” in Russia between the
time of his defection there in 1959 and his
return to the United States, with his wife,
Marina, and a child, in 1962. The theory
holds a Russian agent who looks much
like Oswald became a “sleeper” agent in
the United States.
“The evidence that the man who killed
the president was the ex-Marine Oswald
is evenly balanced with the evidence
that it was an imposter for the Marine
Oswald,” Eddowes told UPI.
“Therefore, step one in the solution of
the murder is to find out which of the two
men it was who was killed by (Jack)
Ruby.”
Pittman was asked about the
possibility nobody would be in the grave,
and he. said, “We think anything’s
possible at this point.”
Mrs. Porter, speaking from her house
in suburban Rockwall, confirmed for
UPI last Friday she had signed the
exhumation request with a simple “It’s
true.” In an expansion of that statement
to UPI yesterday Mrs. Porter said:
"Even though for myself I don’t have
to have proof of identity of the body, I
chose this very uneasy road where no
matter which way you go you will be
ridiculed.
After returning to his hotel, Carter said he and
Kennedy have “made arrangements to meet in
Washington after we both get back” from
vacation. The president said he will rest for a few
days at Camp David, then "we’ll go to work
campaigning.”
Battling Reagan’s big lead in the polls and
halted
"Through the years, more and more
mystery surrounds the assassination. So
if it is in my power to clear Up anything
and put to rest some speculation, I would
rather face the task myself, instead of
putting the burden on my children in the
future.
“So in this very uncomfortable
situation, with no rewards, I feel maybe
in a small way I contribute to answers
and end some mysteries.”
Asked what she meant by her com
ment about “no rewards,” she said she
had been upset by allegations she was
paid to sign the exhumation document.
“I didn’t get paid,” she said, and added
she was doing it purely to protect her
children.
In addition to Petty and Linda Norton,
a pathologist on his staff, two others who
would have participated in the autopsy
were Clyde Snow of Oklahoma City, a
physical anthropologist who served on
the House Select Committee on
Assassinations, and Earl Rose of lowa
City, lowa, the physician who conducted
the origional autopsy in 1963 on the man
identified as Lee Harvey Oswald. The
names of the other two persons on the
team were not released.
J. Edgar Hoover, director bf the FBI
when President Kennedy was killed in
1963, raised the possibility of two
Oswalds in a June 3,1960, memo found in
the National Archives.
Basing his concern on an FBI in
terview of Oswald’s mother,
Marguerite, in Fort Worth, Hoover
wrote to the State Department:
“. . ..since there is the possibility that an
imposter is using Oswald’s birth cer
tificate, any current information the
Department of State may have con
cerning the subjet will be appreciated.”
Eddowes said the assassin’s corpse
differed from Oswald’s original medical
records in height, several scars in
cluding a mastoidectomy scar near his
ear and seven other physical charac
teristics.
this week's earlier hijackings were aboard Air
Florida planes flying between Miami and Key West.
Leonard C. Peterson, the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration's .regional, security chief,, met with
airline and law enforcement officials yesterday to
discuss dusting off a "behavioral profile" used to
screen out potential air pirates before airline
passengers were subjected to electronic screening
in 1973.
Hector Salazar of the Miami city manager’s of
fice, said many of the refugees who joined the
Mariel-to-Key West sealift that brought 119,000
Cubans to he United States “left their families
behind and are homesick. ”
“These people are coming from a different
planet,” Salazar said. “Cuba has been a different
world since 1959. We have to understand their
reactions. I’m not trying to minimize what they
have done and I don’t agree with their mentality to
hijack planes, but this is a place where they must
re-adapt and the public should try to understand
their idiosyncrasies.”
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Convention protester
This young protester sits amidst scores of people gathered outside the Democratic National Convention in New York’s
Madison Square Garden. See related photos on Page 12.
seeking to unite the party for the fall campaign,
Carter said there was a “stark choice” between
himself and Reagan.
Blit he never mentioned Reagan’s name. That
he left to Mondale, who in his acceptance speech
led the delegates in repetitive, sing-song derision
“not Ronald Reagan.”
The giant convention hall was jammed as
Carter and Kennedy delegates alike cheered the
standardbearer while a number of union
members perhaps 100 walked out in protest.
Carter pledged a strengthened national
defense and a major program that would em
phasize both jobs and inflation fighting to
overcome the nation’s economic woes. But he
cautioned the solutions would not be easy, and
urged voters not to accept the “tinsel and make
believe” proposals advanced by the
Republicans.
The main' target of Carter’s speech was
Reagan and the conservative followers he
constantly called the “new leadership of the
Republican Party.”
Carter painted a picture of two vastly con
trasting destinies for America.
One was of “security, justice and peace”
under the Democrats. The other, he said, “risks”
nuclear confrontation, poverty, despair,
discrimination and surrender to the oil com
panies under conservative Republicans.
Carter said no one, including Reagan “con
sciously seeks such a future. ”
But, he added, “I do question the disturbing
commitments and policies already made by him
and by those who with him who have already
captured control of the Republican party.”
“The consequences of those commitments and
policies would drive us down the wrong road. It is
up to us all to make sure America rejects this
alarming, even perilous destiny.”
He was especially harsh on Reagan’s lack of
foreign policy experience.
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Israeli forces attack
Arab guerrilla base
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Sea-borne
• Israeli commandos- landed under cover
of darkness near the southern Lebanese
town of Sidon last night and opened fire
on Palestinian guerrillas and their leftist
Lebanese allies, Beirut radio said.
Meanwhile, Uruguay decided
yesterday to move its embassy out of
Jerusalem and Holland announced it
would consider doing so, both apparently
bowing to Arab threats to cut diplomatic
and economic ties with any country
keeping its mission in the holy city.
The Israeli government had no im
mediate comment on the reported raid,
but Tel Aviv has carried out frequent
attacks in southern Lebanon on Arab
guerrilla strong points. Casualty figures
for the raid were not immediately
available.
The radio said an undetermined
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“He does not seem to know what to do with the
Russians," Carter said. “He is not sure if he
wants to feed them, play with them, or fight with
them.”
In his speech, Carter defended his record in
office conceding he had made some mistakes,
but saying he had profitted from them. Reagan,
he said, lacks that experience.
“1 have learned that only the most complex
and difficult tasks end up in the Oval Office." he
said. “No easy answers are found there -
because no easy questions come here.
“I am wiser tonight than I was four years
ago,” he said, adding that during that time he
had made tough decisions which were not always
popular.
After giving high marks to his energy
program, Carter lashed out at the Republican
proposals.
“To replace what we have built, here is what
they propose: to destroy the windfall proliis tax.
and to ‘unleash’ the oil companies and lei them
solve the energy problem for us." he said.
“That’s it. That is their whole program. There
isn’t any more. Can this nation accept such an
outrageous program? No! We Democrats will
fight it every step of the way."
Into the cooler
A plenitude of sun-robbing clouds will loiter
throughout the day before stealing away into the
night with a ravaged high of only 75. The coast is
clear for tonight as temperatures slink toward a
low of 55. Justice will be served tomorrow as we
witness blue skies and brilliant sunshine with
temperatures taking a stand around 72. The
verdict for Sunday will be mostly sunny and
continued cool with temperatures recovering to
a high of 75 degrees.
number of Israeli commandos came
ashore in the evening on the northern
outskirts of Sidon.
Israeli forces and their Christian
militia allies fought heavy artillery
battles late Wednesday with Palestinian
guerrillas along the Lebanese frontier,
U.N. officials said earlier yesterday.
The Uruguayan government in
Montevideo, giving in to Arab pressure
in removing its embassy, said the
decision “only is meant to express
Uruguay's concern for the special
situation of the holy city for the three
great religions.” However, Dutch Prime
Minister Dries van Agt said yesterday
the Netherlands will consider demands
for the removal of their embassy in
Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv at a
special meeting early next week.
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