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Taxes rile governor's meeting
By EVANS WITT
AP Political Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Senate
Majority Leader Howard Baker
called Walter F. Mondale "unpresi
dential" yesterday for predicting a
1985 tax hike, while two Republican
governors said they don't think
President Reagan is firmly opposed
to such an increase.
Taxes, already a key issue in the
presidential campaign, provided
the early fireworks on the opening
day of the 76th annual meeting of
the National Governor's Associa
tion here.
First, Gov. Jim Thompson of Illi
nois and Gov. Lamar Alexander of
Tennessee told the opening news
conference that Reagan's position
is a bit confusing.
Thompson said he understood
Reagan has "no intention of raising
taxes," and will not do so unless
federal spending is cut further.
"I'm not sure I know what Presi
dent Reagan said and I like Gov.
Thompson's interpretation of what
he said," added Gov. Lamar Alex
ander of Tennessee, another Repub
lican.
"If my two Republican friends
don't know what President Reagan
is saying, I'm not even going to
try," chimed in Democratic Gov.
John Carlin of Kansas.
Mondale, accepting the Demo
cratic presidential nomination in
San Franciso on July 19, said that
taxes will have to be raised to deal
with the deficit, but that Reagan
won't admit it.
Later yesterday, Baker ad
dressed the governors and told re
potters afterward that Mondale's
stance is wrong.
"It's unpresidential to say that,"
Baker said. "There is no way that a
man who is going to be the presi
dent in' January, 1985 can say now
what is going to be necessary.
"It's the ultimate test of presi
dential leadership to face facts as
Venezuelan jetliner hijackers demand military weapons
By The Associated Press
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad Five gun
men, demanding that Venezuela give them
military weapons, hijacked a Venezuelan
jetliner yesterday with 87 people aboard
and forced it to land here while they nego
tiated, authorities said.
Four Americans were among the passen
gers on the Aeropostal airline's DC-9,
according to officials in Caracas, the Vene
zuelan capital. They said the hijackers also
were demanding that they be flown to Haiti.
The Channel 2 television station in Cara
cas played a recording that it said was a
Grand Ole OpiYstar Minnie Pearl, left, holds a homemade quilt with six of the nation's governors in Nashville, Tenn.
Governors, from left,. are Richard Riley, S.C.; Robert Orr, Indiana; Lamar Alexander, Tenn.; Christopher Bond,
Missouri; Dick Thornburgh, Pa.; and Scott Matheson, Utah.
they are at the time you must de
cide," the senator said.
Baker said he expected the GOP
party platform to include a pledge
not to raise taxes, but that he per
sonally thought Reagan has not
precluded a tax increase in 1985 in
radio report from the pilot, Arturo Reina,
saying the hijackers claimed they had gaso
line and pistols and threatenedlo "blow up
the plane" if their demand were not met.
The recording also said the sky pirates
wanted "a batch of weapons, including
machine guns, revolvers, pistols and gre
nades in order to have the plane freed."
Security forces at Port of Spain's Piarco
International Airport surrounded the jetlin
er when it landed here after it was hijacked
on a flight from Caracas to Curacao, an
island in the Netherlands Antilles.
A Venezuelan police spokesman, Rafael
this recent statements
Last week, Reagan seemed. to
rule out any tax increases. But at a
news conference, the president said
that "if we have gotten government
costs down to the point at which we
say they cannot go any lower... then
Pichardo, said the jet landed in Trinidad for
refueling. He also said the hijackers offered
to release the children aboard the craft and
asked that a helicopter be sent to pick them
up. It was not known how many children
were among the hostages.
Pichardo said in a television interview in There it was given fuel for the flight to
Caracas that the identities of the hijackers Trinidad off Venezuela's northeastern
has not been determined. coast. Trinidad is one of the islands that
form the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and
The aircraft was parked at the end of the
,Tobago about 350 miles east of Caracas.
runway at the Piarco airport, which was Authorities in Caracas said the hijackers
closed after the plane landed shortly before were among the 82 passengers and the DC-9
3:30 p.m. ' had a crew of five.
A spokesman for Aeropostal said the They gave this listing of passengers
you would have to look at the tax
structure in order to-bring that up."
The governor's meeting, coming
between the Democratic and Re
piiblican National Conventions,
buzzed with talk of the fall cam
paign for the White House.
Reagan's vacation agenda
includes some business too
By MAUREEN SANTINI
AP White House Correspondent
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.
President Reagan, after officially
opening the Los Angeles Olym
pics, began an 18-day vacation
yesterday at his isolated ranch in
the Santa Ynez Mountain.
Horseback riding, clearing
brush from riding trails and chop
ping wood are always the main
items on the presidential ranch
agenda, but his spokesman said
that Reagan also will have to
conduct some business.
"There will be a fair amount of
business he will have to attend to,"
deputy White House press secre
tary Larry Speakes told reporters
aboard Air Force One on the trip
from Washington to Los Angeles
on Saturday. •
"I'm sure he'll be talking regu
larly to some of the campaign
people and some of the Cabinet
people," said Speakes.
Secretary of State George
Shultz, who accompanied Reagan
to the ceremonies opening the
summer games, told reporters to
stay tuned for a decision on wheth
er the United States will lift sanc
tions against Poland in light of
that nation's release of hundreds
of political prisoners.
In addition, the president was
expected to receive a set of options
on the U.S. negotiating position at
anti-satellite talks with the Soviet
Union in Vienna in September,
although it's still an open question
as to whether they will actually
occur.
APLasetphoto
Shultz, Reagan and other aides
in the well-guarded presidential
box at the Los Angeles Coliseum
appeared- to get swept up in the
Olympic pageantry Saturday.
At one point, Shultz turned tá his
wife and said: "Eat your heart
Chernenko," a reference to Soviet
leader Konstantin Chernenko and
plane's crew first reported they had been
ordered to fly to the Caribbean island of
Martinique, but the craft was running short
of fuel and they landed instead at Porlamar,
a city in the Venezuelan island of Margari
The Daily Collegian
Monday,' July 30, 1984
the Kremlin's decision to boycott
the 23rd games.
Reagan pronounced the lavish
show "absolutely magnificent,"
and said through an aide that he
was "bursting with pride."
The president officially opened
the games from his box, but he
decided to reword the traditional
brief statement because he
thought it was more appropriate,
according to assistant press secre
tary Mark Weinberg.
"Celebrating the 23rd Olympiad
of the modern era, I declare open
the Olymic games of -Los An
geles," Reagan said. He had been
expected to say: "I declare open
the Olympic ; games of Los An
geles, celebrating the 23rd' Olym
piad of the modern era."
The president, joined by his
wife, Nancy, finally reached his
remote ranch by helicopter late
Saturday night, nearly 12 hours
after he had left the White House.
He aivoke yesterday to a bril
liant blue sky, and promptly got
started on what his press aides
described as "general ranch
work." Reagan saved his horse
back ride for the afternoon.•
When it reaches him from Con
gress, the president also was plan
ning to sign a bill that permits
student religious groups the same
access to public schools as nonreli
gious groups before and after
school.
That was one of several bills
Reagan urged Congress to pass at
his news conference last Tuesday.
He reiterated that message as he
campaigned in Texas, Georgia
and New Jersey last week.
Reagan and the White House
aides who accompanied him to '
California undoubtedly will keep a
watchful eye on the political trav
els of Democratic challenger Wal
ter F. Mondale, who was
campaigning this week in the
South.
according to nationalities but did not re
lease the names: Four Americans, 52
Dutch, 13 Venezuelans, four Portuguese,
three Lebanese, four Argentines, and one
person each from Haiti and the Dominican
Republic.
Venezuela's minister of transport and
communications, Pedro del Moral, said in a
statement to journalists that the Venezue
lan government was working with authori
ties in Trinidad to negotiate the release of
the hostages and the plane.
The DC-9 had left Caracas' Simon Bolivar
airport at 2:10 p.m. for Curacao, an island
175 miles northwest of Caracas.
state news briefs
Officials to rebuild plant after , blasts
HECKTOWN, Pa. (AP) . - 7 Officials of Joseph Ayers Inc. vowed
to rebuild their Northampton County plant, which was heavily
damaged by a series of explosions Friday in which one man,was
killed.
Two employees injured in the blast remained in critical condi
tion yesterday.
As the undamaged administrative offices were reopened Satur
day, Henry W. Kruschwitz, Ayers' executive vice president, told
reporters, "We are going to rebuild." He noted that the the Lower
Nazareth Township facility is the company's only plant capable of
producing certain chemical products.
The series of explosions occurred in an area isopropyl alcohol
was being mixe . a with aluminum particles and oil to create a
thickening agent used in cosmetics, lithographic ink and industri
al grease, authorities said.
Boy is critical after liver transplant
PITTSBURGH (AP) A 7-year-old New York boy was in
critical condition over the weekend after undergoing a second
liver transplant operation, according to hospital officials.
Richard Mignone of Armonk,'N.Y., remained in the intensive
care unit of Children's Hospital yesterday, said an unidentified
hospital spokeswoman.
"It went as well as it can go," the boy's aunt, Ann Thoma, said
Saturday following the 10-hour surgery.
There were some complications, although surgeons didn't
immediately explain therri to the family, Thoma said.
"It's very hard on them having to go through a second one. It's a
very unsure thing at best," she said.
A surgical transplant team began operating on Richard at 8:45
p.m. Friday. Earlier in the day, President Reagan had offered the
use of an Air Force jet to deliver a donor organ.
nation news briefs
McDonald's site is not a park yet
SAN DIEGO (AP) A McDonald's Corp. official who toured
the scene of the nation's worst single-day mass killing by one man
lauded community efforts to create a memorial park, but said
yesterday a decision on the site's future is not imminent.
"If anything positive can come out of a tragedy like this, it is the
closeness of that community. There is a real spirit of working
together," Richard Starmann, a McDonald's vice president, said
in a telephone interview from Chicago.
Starmann and other McDonald's officials . met with San Diego
officials and several community groups in San Ysidro during a
three-day visit to the West Coast. The town is about 20 miles south
of San Diego.
"We talked with a variety of people in the community but that
doesn't mean any decision is imminent," Starmann said. "I would
guess it's going to be a little while."
All that remains is the brick shell of the McDonald's restaurant
where James Oliver Huberty killed 21 people and wounded 19
others in a 77-minute hail of gunfire July 18 before being killed by
a police sharpshooter.
L.A. reservoir closes for Olympics
LOS ANGELES (AP) The pine -shaded jogging path around
Hollywood Reservoir seems an unlikely terrorist target, but the
city's "best place to jog" is closed for the Olympics so police can
protect water supplies from poisoning.
Authorities recently slapped up "no parking" signs where many
joggers usually park, and police have given violators warning
tickets and stepped up car and helicopter patrols near the
reservoir.
Similar security measures are being taken at other major
reservoirs Los Angeles, Stone Canyon and Encino and some
smaller ones such as Silver Lake, although access to those
reservoirs normally is more restricted than at Hollywood, said
Steve Hinderer, chief spokesman for the city Department of
Water and Power.
So Hollywood Reservoir located beneath the famous "HOL
LYWOOD" sign and deemed an "innner city jogging paradise" in
the recently published paperback "The Best •of L.A." is off
limits to the public until Aug. 14, two days after the Olympics end.
Break-dancers cause mall infestation
PALESTINE, Texas (AP) Merchants hoped a break-dancing
contest would attract a few hundred customers, but some had to
close up and the event was canceled when more than 3,000 people
jammed Palestine Mall.
The contest started at 2 p.m. Saturday, but within 30 minutes
mall manager Kathy Huddleston called police and declared the
contest canceled.
"It was just total chaos," Huddleston said. "There were just too
many people. Contestants couldn't get out on the floor to per
form."
Youngsters tried anything to see the 50 dancers from pushing
to climbing on telephone booths and shopping carts.
"I even heard some kids were climbing on top of the building to
look down through the skylights," Huddleston said.
The shopping center's parking lot filled to capacity, and people
parked their cars on the banks around the lot and at a neighboring
discount store.
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world news briefs
Soviet cosmonauts return to earth
MOSCOW (AP) Three cosmonauts, including the first woman
to walk in space, finished a 13-day mission yesterday and returned
safely to Earth, the official news agency Tass said.
The Soyuz T-12 space capsule, with commander Vladimir
Dzhanibekov, flight engineer Svetlana Savitskaya and Igor Volk
aboard, landed just before 5 p.m. Moscow time (9 a.m. EDT),
southeast of Dzhezkazgan in Soviet Central Asia, Tass said.
All three cosmonauts were in good condition after the landing,
Tass said.
Their craft docked with the Soviets' orbiting space station,
Salyut-7, during its mission.
Savitskaya became the first woman to travel into space twice
when the mission began on July 17. On July 25 qhe became the first
woman to walk in space.
During more than 3'/z hours outside the space station, she and
Dzhanibekov tested a new tool for cutting, welding, soldering and
painting, Tass said.
Savitskaya, a veteran test pilot, made her first space trip in
August 1982 when she spent nine days aboard the Salyut-7.
Separated Siamese twin very sick
TORONTO (AP) One of infant Siamese twins separated by
Toronto doctors during the weekend was "very sick" yesterday
and rapidly losing blood, a spokesman at the Hospital for Sick
Children said.
He said that 2 1 / 2 -year-old Win Htut of Burma was taken back to
surgery and still bled after a "significant number of blood
transfusions."
Lin and Win Htut, born joined at the pelvis, were surgically
separated Saturday night in a complicated operation that took
doctors just over 12 hours.
Lin was said to be in satisfactory condition, although still in
intensive care. The hospital said both children were on respira
tors and receiving blood, fluids and antibiotics.
Lin and Win were born male, but because of the way the bodies
were connected, with shared genitals, the operation changed the
sex of Win, who is now a girl. The infants have lived their entire
life in a hospital.
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