PAGE 8, THE HERALD, Friday, June 16, 1978 U.S. backs up charge of Taxpayers War Industry, protesters split Cuban troops in Zaire WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House, facing Fidel Castro's repeated enials that he abetted the Katangan invasion of Zaire, is outlining secret intelligence reports to back up its charge that Cuban troops accompanied the rebels almost to the moment of the attack. The release of the sum- mary of the highly-classified reports came as President Carter reiterated his charge at a news conference Wednesday that the Cubans were deeply invalved in the rebel invasion of copper-rich Shaba province last month. Carter ited a list of steps Castro might have taken to block the invasion and contended that the Cuban leader’s failure to stop the attack was, in effect, proof of Cuba’s complicity. ; The administration’s summary, outlined to some of the news media on Wednesday, was described as similar to the intelligence Material furnished to several congressiona committees. It says that Cuba had been assisting Angola-based Katangans as early as 1975 and at least until Jast month’s invasion of Zaire. Dodge, Plymouth cars The summary contends that Cubans helped reorganize Katangan troops in Angola as early as 1975 and provided equipment and planning for an unsuccessful invasion of Zaire in March 1977. After that invasion failed, the summary says, Cubans Irained Katangan troops at five bases in northeastern Angola and accompanied them to the launching point for last month’s attacks. However, the summary does mot contend--and neither has the ad- ministration-that Cubans actually took part in the incursion into Shaba, for- merly known as Katanga. The invasion was driven back by French, Belgian and Zairian troops. . The summary also says Cuban and Soviet advisers adked Angola’s Marxist government in 1976 to permit raids into Zaire. Cuba has an estimated 20,000 troops in Angola and, the ad- ministration contends, has considerable influence on the ° Angolian government. Castro has acknowledged that Cuban forces had helped the Katangans but stopped two years ago, He insists that Cuba has rejected more recent requests from the rebels for support. Castro also is reported to have told a U.S. diplomat in Havana several days after the invasion that he tried unsuccessfully to head oif theattack by making contact with Angolian leader Agostino Neto. At his news conference, Carter disputed that claim, contending that since Cuba effectively controls Angola's transportation system, Castro could have stopped the attack had he wanted. “The fact is that Castro could have done much more had he genuinely wanted to stop the invasion,” Carter said. “He could have interceded with the Katangans them- selves. ' He could have notified the Organization of African Unity. He could have notified: the world at large that an invasion designed to cross and to disturb an international border was in prospect. And he did not do any of these "'So there is no doubt in my mind that just on the basis of these facts alone my statement is true.” called unsafe _ . WASHINGTON (AP) - A consumer group has labelled as unsafe the Dadge Omni and the Plymouth Horizon, two similar Chrysler Corp. models that won Motor Trend magazine's Car of the Year designation. Consumers Union, a non- profit testing organization, said it is publishing an ar- ticle in -its magazine Con- sumer Reports, entitled Most Unfortuante Car of the Year, At news’ conferences in Washington and New York, Consumers Union officials , said the cars were found unacceptable. because of handling problems. Don Gshwind, director of chassis engineering for Chrysler, said the test used . by Consumers Union “has no relationship to the way consumers drive a car.” He acknowledged that Chrysler put the cars through the same test, but it ‘was only one of many, “By itself, it has no meaning.” At the news conferences, Consumers Union showed films of a test in which the car was driven at ex- pressway speed and then deflected suddenly from straight path, ; “The deflection. is ac- complished by twitching the steering wheel and letting go. From that point, without aid of the driver, most cars straighten themselves with a minimum of wavering from side to side and return close to their previous course,” said- Mark Silbergeld, director of the organization's Washington ffice. , Silbergeld said the per- formance of the Omni and Horizon in the tests “was often frightening,”’ test drivers released the wheel on each of three samples, “the car veered from side to side. Sometimes each swing was wider and more violent than the one before.’” He said the average consumer does not have the After . driving skill to control the car insuch circumstances, Asked what owners of the two cars should do with them, Consumers Union Officials said they should consult with the - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Omni and Horizon are the only American-built sub- compact cars with front- wheel drive. They were introduced in January as the automaker's attempt to get a larger share of the sub- compact market ard totry to stem Chrysler's financial slide. In a statement issued in Detroit, Chrysler said the cars’ steering and handling have received “enthusiastic praise from professionals and consumers alike,” “Chrysler has built millions of front-wheel-drive cars in Europe and has received awards both her and abroad for these vehicles," U.S.-Soviet war of nerves WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S,-Soviet war of nerves.over arrests of each . other's citizens is continuing after a clash between Andrei Gromyko and U.S. State Secretary Cyrus Vance, a U.S. official reports. The Soviet foreign minc- ster is reported to have threatened to retaliate for the highly publicized arrest outside New York City of two Russian nationals on’ spy charges and told Vance, “Two can play at this game.” Gromyko’s warning late last month, disclosed by the official Wednesday night, apparently was carried out in two separate incidents Monday, First, the government newspaper Izvestia said that - Martha Peterson, at the time third secretary in the U.S. embassy, was expelled last July after she allegedly supplied a spy with poison that was used to kill an “‘in- nocent" Russian. ! Then Monday night, U.S. businessman Francis Crawford was yanked from his car in Moscow and driven away by police who charged him with smuggling, "Ils clear the Soviets tele- graphed their punch,” said the official, who asked not to be named, in referring to the Gromyke warning. PRACTICE ENDED The arrests in New Jersey and Moscow ended for now a practice by both countries of sending home suspected spies with a minimum of publicity, U.S. businessmen in Moscow were stunned by the arrest of Crawford, ‘the Moscow representative of NEW CANAAN, Conn. (AP) - Former Missouri senator Stuart Symington, 77, has married the 69-year. old widow of a grandson of IBM's founder. Symington, who served 24 years in the Senate before retiring in December 1976, said, “I do’ Wednesday to Anne Hemingway Watson, who he met last year in California where both were visiting Bob Hope. International Harvester, and wondered who among them might be next. The Russian nationals re- ferred to by Gromyko ‘worked at the United Nations Secretariat and were arrested, in Woodbridge, N.J., on May 20 on espionage charges. The two, Valdik Aleksandrovich Enger and Rudolf Petrovich Cher- nyayev, pleaded not guilty and were ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail. ’ Western observers in Moscow expect the Russians will offer ta release Crawiord, 38, of Mobile, Ala., in exchange for the two Soviet nationals, The war of nerves also in- cluded the. announcement by U.S. officials late last month that sophisticated Soviet espionage equipment was found inside the U.S. em- bassy in Moscow. ~ Izvestia then said it would . document cases of extensive U.S. espionage in Mofcow. Body search in Backyard | WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass, (AP) — The backhoe ripping through a tiny yard behind a tarpaper shanty is Jooking for bodies. The shack’s owner, a burly, bearded pawnbroker with reported Nazi sym- pathies, is sitting in jail today, suspected of luring young homosexuals from New York's Greenwich Village to torture sessions with leg irons and chains, Kenneth Appleby, 27, whose friends described him as a ‘gentleman’ and the “greatest human alive,” was held in Liew of $100,000 bail on a charge of kidnapping, Today police resumed their digging, bringing in a second backhoe to continue their search for bodies. "We found nothing,’’ police Capt. Richard Kulig reported after 10 hours of digging Wednesday. “We're looking for one specific body in particular, and there may be others,” District Atlcrney Matthew Ryan said Wednesday. A spokesman for Ryan said later: ‘There is .sado- masochism and homosexual evidence, Of the Nazism, I wouldn't rule it aut.’' Police. found chains, leg irns and whips in the house on Tuesday, PORTRAITS DIFFER Friends, neighbors and the authorities painted con- flicting wordnportraits of Appleby, who, most agreed; was a loner. He lived’ a spartan existence in a cluttered hutlike bungalow in a quiet suburb dotted with $100,000 homes, The house directly across the road from his boasts a large swimming pool. Appleby commuted in an - aged goldnCadillac to his tiny pawn shop in an area of topless and gay bars and old hotels in neighboring Springfield. Sources at the Jewish AntiDefamation League in Springfield and Boston said Appleby boasted several times in recent years that he was a Nazi, and wore a swastika ring and necklace. Police reported. finding Second World War picture books but no political literature in Appleby's house. But Mrs. Abe Tikotsky, whose 80-year-old husband worked in Appleby's pawn shop and who is Jewlsh, said: “He is a lovely man, a very nice man, A gentleman. "My God, how can he be a Nazi when he is a devout Catholic and he wears a big eross on his neck?" The Afsociated Press learned: the investigation started after homosexuals in New York City complained to police that their young lovers were vanishing off the streets, when you reach : Democrat, NEW YORK (AP) - US. taxpayers are turning anger into action, spreading the tax-cutting gospel of Proposition 13 with petition drives and legislative proposals, Private gripes now. are publicdemands. Politicians, . from President Carter down, say they are listening. ‘‘It is time for a full-scale holy war on taxes,’ said a candidate for governor in Texas. An Associated . Press survey showed that new proposals to limit taxes or Spending emerged in 16 states in the week after California voters approved Proposition 13, a con- stitutional amendment slashing property levies by more than 50 percent. In all, the AP survey showed, the taxpayers’ revolt has spread to 29 states. - | Carter said Wednesday that the California vote was “gbviously a message that *has been well received.” And Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, who on Wednesday became the first member of his party in the Senate to endorse a Republican plan to cut in- dividual federal income taxes by an average of 33 percent, said: “Clearly, the message with respect tolevying taxes is: Like shearing sheep, you stop the ‘skin.” In Delaware, Represen- tative Gerard Cain, a intoduced legislation on Tuesday to require voter approval of all tax increases or nw taxes, “This came about because of - Proposition 13," he said, although his plan is differnt. It deals only with future taxes and would not roll back existing levies, as Prposition 13 does. A gouth Dakota sore owner, Danielle Samuelson, was kept up to date on the California campaign by her brother, who lives there, She started collecting signatures in an effort to get the tax- limitation issue on the 1980 ballot. Some of the tax proposals are well on their way to a vote. Others are in the planning stages. Ail seem to have exposed a raw nerve, “The time is ripe now," said Pennsylvania Representative Lee Tad- -donio, a Republican, as he reintroduced a previously unsuccessful plan to limit state spending and freeze levelsa. Already pending in the Pennsylvania legislature is a measure, proposed by State ~ Senator John Stauffer, also a Republican, to eliminate the property tax as a means of financing public education and replace it with a one-per- cent increase in the state income tax. “The taxpayers of this countryaare fed up with excessive taxews and bloated government spen- ding,” said Stauffer. “The victory in California should send a smoke signal across the nation." The AP survey found proposals directly or in- directly spawned by proposition 13, also known as the Jarvis-Gann amendment after its sponsors, in Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Penn- sylvanie, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Tax or spending limitations also are an issue in Arizona, Clolorado, Idaho, MHlinois - Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Soutt Carolina and Tennessee. WORK TAKES OVER NEW YORK (AP) — Executives 27 through 34 years of age are “almost entirely concerned with their careers ... plunge ther- selves into work and bring problems and worries home with’ them,"’ a recent poll shows. News oddities MONMOUTH, Me. (AP) — The wandering island of Monmouth was.tugged and ~ shoved back to its home among the marshes on Wednesday as a snowshoed rescuer clung to its back, Four motorboats and a modified barge jockeyed the stray 75-ton mass of reeds through choppy waters and stiff headwinds to the nor- thwestern side of wind: whipped Lake Annabes- SacoOK, Richard Baker, wearing snowshoes so he would not sink into the floating raft of marshland, steadied himself as the island was towed away from Charles Phillips’ beach, about 25 kilometres from Augusta, where it was found earlier this month. READING, England (Reuter) — Women teachers at a school in this town 64 kilometres west of London have claimed victory over their headmaster who wants to keep them in skirts. Last week headmaster James Dunkley suspended nine women teachers forna day for breaking his two- year-oldnno pants’ rule. The Natlonal Union of Teachers threatened a strike, The school governors supported the headmaster but four teachers again turned up for work clad in the offending garments, On Wednesday, after a week of skirting around the issue, the governors an: nounced the ban was lifted. nh. HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) -— There could be disco dancing in this eastern Oklahoma city of 6,500 later this year—maybe. The city council voted Tuesday night to put the city’s ban on public dancing to a vote of the people at the Aug.22 primary. The ordinance, adopted in 1957, prohibits dancing “where the general public is allowed to participate,” Not much was heard about the ordinance until several weeks ago when a group con- verting an old department store on Main Street into a disco dance hall discovered the ordinance would keep the dance hall from opening. _ Mayor P.W. Cunningham said the council decided to put the repeal proposition on the primary ballot after a group ‘circulated a petition seeking an end te the or- dinance, CHICAGO (AP) — In 1944, Irving Signer asked Joan Harris to marry him, , She said no, Thirty-three years later he proposed again. She said yes. They got thelr marriage 1i- ‘cence Tuesday at Cily Hall after Joan flew in from Sydney, Australia. The wedding date is yet to be set. It was in Australia that Signer, then a U.S, Army Air Force lieutenant on a month’s furlough from a New Guinea B-24 bomber base, firft met the “shy** . Australian woman. Although she married an Australian Army captain and had two daughters, Joan kept a picture of Signer throughout the yearf. And he . carried her picture. Joan, now 54, eventually was divorced. Signer, 61, never married, He said he had a sick brother and took care of him, and later cared fornhis aging parents. With his mother: dead and his family obligations over, Signer deceded to return to Australia to visit old friends and find Joan Harris. Learned thieves . BREMERTON, — Wash. ‘with the on Disarmament UNITED NATIONS (CP} - In the rallies and seminars Staged by non-governmental organizations in conjunction UN General Assembly's special session on sisarmament, nuclear power plants, as well as nuclear weapons, have come in for flax. = - Across the U.S., anti- nuclear groups are staging a so-called. spring offensive against nuclear energy. On one side of the con- troversy stands the multi- billion-dollar Americar nuclear industry. Arrayed against it is a coalition of old anti-war groups-including such persons as Daniel Ellesberg of Pentagon Papers fame--eveh older ban-the-bomb groups from ‘the early 1960s and militant environmental alliances, They have demonstrated at plants across the country and are instrumental in court battles against proposed nuclear generating stations. They say their actions are designed to guard the en- vironment against the hazards of nuclear energy. THe industry claims the court fights and licensing problems and three years lo the lead. time for nuclear plants--facilities that the industry says will be vitally needed to maintain power levels toward the end of the next decade. Protestors call for ex- panded investigation into alternate energy sources, such as solar power or bio- energy. The U.S. nuclear scene differs from the Canadian. Moluccan admits hostage murder ASSEN, Netherlands (CP) — A South Moluccan on trial for the.seizure of a govern- ment building last March testified today he murdered a hostage in cold blood as a warning to the Dutch government. - “T don’t regret doing it,” declared Frans Leatemia, 23, one of three Moluccans charged with taking over the headquarters of Drenthe province for two days and killing one of 70 hostages. “We had to .show the government that we were serious.” . Leatemia said the victim was forced taa window on an upper floor and was shot in the back several times from close range, Leatemia said he continued firing as the’ body dropped from the window to the ground. He said the ‘three had planned to massacre their hostages if they were not given free passage out of the Netherlands. Leaternia ‘Spoke in a tightlyguarded courtroom on ne firat day of the group's ial, _ The siege ended after 29. hours on March 14-when the government ordered in WOMAN MAKES GRADE. WASHINGTON (AP) — Margaret Brewer became the first woman general in marine corps history recently, She put on the single star of a brigadier general ina ceremony at the historic Marine Barracks, TRENDY HATS POPULAR . NEW YORK (CP) — Sales of new, trendy, casual hats have increased.subatantially in many fashion-ocriented stores during the spring season, not normally a strong time of year for hats, say retailers and maenufac- turers. They say the more adventurous ready-to-wear approach to hats has brought a new, younger (under 30) customer into the market, (AP) - A penalty for juvenile - shoplifters has backfired on the Kitsap County Regional Library. ; As part of their shoplifting penalty, juvenile offenders are required by the juvenile court to’ write 5,000-word essaya on the crime. Many apparently seek information - from the. library, because librarians say they have been swamped recently with requests for materials on shoplifting lawa, says librarians, The librarians say, however, they sre having a tough time meeting the requests. Most of. their pamphlets on shoplifting have bee stolen, , Briefly in the news WASHINGTON (AP) - All her life, 59-year-old Pear] Bailey has read reviews of her performances, but this was a first. There in front of her were four B's and an A. Probably the tersest critique of her illustrious career. And not bad either, con- sidering they were marks for her first semester a8 a French major at Georgetown University here. The woman who has sung to presidents and starred in Hello Dolly began her fresh- man year in January, : 40 years after she dropped out of school to pursue a show- business career. ‘ Her one A was in religion, to which Mr. Bailey said: “As long.as you have, A's with God, honey, that's all . that matters.” marines, “Would you do it again?” the judge asked. “If it’s for our cause [ would do it all over again,” Leatemia said. ‘The Dutch people must give us recognition.” SEEK INDEPENDENCE Leatemia said he and the other two accused, Hendrik Helah, 20, and #liaser Kakisina, 23, were strong backers of the exiled R.M.S. movement in the Netherlands, which wants to set up an independent state in the Indonesian South Moluceas. He said they picked the provincial government headquarters in Assen as their target in order to force the Dutch government to recognize their movement and win the freedom of 21 Moluceans jailed here for earlier guerrilla actions. They face charges of - Murder, taking hostages and illegal possession of arms, which together carry a maximum sentence of 20 yeara, They -are charged with murdering Karel De Groot,. 40,- head of the’ provincial planning office.: » situation in several ways. Where Canadian plants use the Candu reactor, employing heavy water and natural uranium, American generating stations use light water reactors with enriched uranium, which requires special processing. Also, the U.S. wants to get into breeder reactors, which produce more fuel, in the form of plutonium, than they rn. ‘Also, the U.S. is also in the business of producing weapons-grade material for its bombs. One of the key points stressed by the protestors is the danger posed by the highly-radioactive waste products produced by reactors. 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