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YONKERS, N.Y. A woman who through a gelatin capsule in eight to 10
died of cyanide poisoning after taking days, said County Chief Medical Exa
Tylenol capsules, leading thousands of miner Dr. Millard Hyland, who appeared
substance," and is used in photography case in which seven Tylenol users were day. Three other capsules in the bottle
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stores nationwide to take them on
their shelves, was murdered by some
one who placed the poison inside the
package within the last 10 days, a
county official said Tuesday.
"We are dealing with a case of
murder," Westchester County Execu
tive Andrew O'Rourke said at a news
conference. No one has been charged
in the death of Diane Elsroth, 23, of
Peekskill.
The potassium cyanide would eat
the poison, offi
cials said.
Homicide investigators had asked
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when the cyanide was introduced into ;ne m .l0 ?,r;T 'Shave fhicaeo there's no evidence to indicate McClain said there were no suspects in
thp nL tampered with the package. We have Chicago were s no e FAsroth's killing and added: "There iu
with O'Rourke. He did not pinpoint
the capsules.
And Joesph Valiquette, an FBI- pre-sealing or post-sealing before we
spokesman in New York, said his agen- decide our next step," said Bruce Ben-
cy's investigation indicated the poison dish, chief of the Westchester County
was placed only in the box of Extra-Strength district attorney's homicide squad.
Tylenol from which the victim took a Johnson& Johnson) maker of Tylenol,
capsule. has been sealing the necks and caps of
Hyland said the type of cyanide used Tylenol bottles and packing each bot-
is "difficult to purchase, a dangerous tie in sealed boxes since the unsolved
and the manufacture of tools and dyes, killed by cyanide m the Chicago area in
1982.
FBI spokesman Bob Long said in Yonkers Deputy Police Chief Owen
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and those in 1982. One FBI agent in
Chicago still is assigned to the 1982
Tylenol case, he said. "We still have an
open case, but it's not actively pur
sued," he said.
no reason to believe the victim was the
target, but we have not ruled out the
possibility."
Johnson & Johnson, the New Bruns
wick, N J.-based manufacturer of Ty-
Antwities announced Monday that lenol, said the batch in question was
Elsroth had been fatally poisoned by ADF916, with a May 1987 expiration
cyanide after taking Tylenol on Satur- date.
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TEL AVIV, Israel Anatoly Shcharansky,
the Soviet human rights activist imprisoned
for nine years as a spy, was freed on a
snowy Berlin bridge Tuesday and flown to a
tumultuous, emotional welcome in Israel.
The 38-year-oIa Jewish dissident had
become known as the "prisoner of Zion," a
focus for international Jewry and symbol of
Jews who are not allowed to leave the
Soviet Union.
Also included in the East-West prisoner
exchange on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge were
five people held in the Wrest on spy charges
and three held in the East.
Shcharansky was freed first, apart from
the others, to emphasize the U.S. insistence
that he was not a spy. He was arrested in
1977 and a Soviet court convicted him of
spying for the CIA, sentencing him in 1978
to 13 years imprisonment.
Prime Mini ter Shimon Peres and For
eign Minister Yitzhak Shamir embraced
Shcharansky as he and and his wife, Avital,
who met him in Frankfurt, stepped from the
Israeli executive jet at Ben-Gurion Airport,
The ceremony was broadcast live on radio
and television.
"How are' you?" Peres asked. "Everything
is OK," Shcharansky said. They spoke in
Hebrew.
.Shcharansky clasped his hands above his
head in victory, then held hands with Avital
as she introduced him to Cabinet members,
helping him with his Hebrew. For more
than a decade she has lived in Israel and
campaigned for his freedom.
About 3,000 people gathered outside'the
terminal building cheered and waved as the
Shcharanskys and Peres went inside to tele
phone President Reagan.
"We thanked him for his tireless efforts
out ofi a eep feeling for the Jewish people
and an inner conviction that the Jewish
people deserve to leave the Soviet Union,"
the prime minister said.
The 45-minute prisoner exchange was the
latest of several on the Glienicke Bridge, a
green metal structure across the Havel
River between West Berlin and Potsdam in
communist East Germany. This one came 24
years and a day after American U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers and Kremlin master
spy Rudolf Abel were exchanged there.
Snow was falling as Shcharansky crossed,
wearing a fur hat and a broad smile.
The snow had been cleared from a 4-inch-wide
line in the middle of the bridge that
marks the border between East and West.
When he saw the line, Shcharansky said in
English, "Look, no wall," and took a giant
step over it.
He was met by Richard Burt, U.S. ambas
sador to West Germany, and they shook
hands at 10:57 a.m, on the span West Ger
mans call the "bridge of spies." Burt
towered over Shcharansky, a small, balding
man of 38 who is a computer expert and
mathematician.
It was 25 degrees, in an icy river wind, as:
Burt and Shcharansky walked to a Mer
cedes limousine and sped toward the wall
that has divided the city since 1961.
The freed prisoner wore baggy trousers,
and American sources said his hat and
oversize coat were borrowed.
He brought no personal possessions, "no
luggage, nothing," said Ludwig Rehlinger, a
West German government official who
accompanied Burt and was Bonn's negotia
tor in the exchange.
Shcharansky was not told he would be
released until he arrived in East Berlin on
Monday, U.S. and West German officials
said.
He did not complain of health problems,
U.S. officials said. Reports have indicated
his health suffered during his time in pri
son and labor camp.
Mrs. Shcharansky, 34, arrived in Frankfurt
only two hours before her husband. She left
the Soviet Union soon after their marriage
in 1975, with the understanding that he
soon would follow, and began her worldwide
campaign when the Kremlin refused to let
him go.
In Israel, Peres called Shcharansky by
his Hebrew name, Natan, and said of him:
"He has fought heroically alone against so
many tribulations as a proud Jew, as a man
with a mission, as a devoted Zionist."
"You can arrest a body, but you cannot ,
imprison a spirit," the prime minister said,
adding that Mrs. Shcharansky "fought like
a lioness" in her struggle for his freedom.
Shcharansky said to Reagan in the tele
phone conversation, which was broadcast
by Israel television: "I know how great was
your role in this greatest event of my and
my wife's life. We are very grateful to you
for this"
Reagan declared himself "delighted" by
Shcharansky's release and at one point said
"Mazel tov," Hebrew for congratulations.
A U.S. official in Berlin identified the
prisoners freed from the East as Wolf
George Frohn of East Germany, Jaroslav
Jaworski of Czechoslovakia and Dietrich
Nistroy, a West German, all held in East
Germany.
Charges against
Walesa dropped
GDANSK, Poland The state dropped slander
charges against Solidarity leader Lech Walesa on
Tuesday, and Walesa hailed the decision as the
first step toward compromise by Poland's Com
munist government since it crushed the inde
pendent trade unioa
At the opening day of Walesa's trial, the pro
secutor said the 12 election officials who filed
the complaint were "satisfied" by Walesa's
statement in court that he did not intentionally
slander them when he gave voter turnout figures
for national elections lower than the official
count.
The three-judge panel in Gdansk provincial
court suspended the case indefinitely, in effect
ending the trial.
Walesa was in high spirits at a news confer
ence after the trial and said he was happy the
government recognized that "political trials are
not in the interest of Poland."
He called it "the first step toward compromise
since the 13th of December," 1981. That was
when the government imposed martial law and
crushed Solidarity, the first free trade union in
the Soviet bloc. Solidarity was outlawed the fol
lowing year.
Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in
1983 for his leadership of Solidarity, had never
before been brought to trial although he was
interned for 11 months after imposition of mar
tial law.
The case arose from an October parliamentary
election boycotted by Solidarity supporters.
Solidarity set up its own voter counting opera
tion to counter the government's claim that the
elections had wide popular support.
When the government said the turnout was
nearly 79 percent, Solidarity issued figures say
ing only 66 percent of voters went to the polls.
Twelve election officials from six provinces
filed suit against Walesa charging him with
slander and the government prosecutor took up
the case "in the public interest."
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WASHINGTON - President Reagan
said Tuesday night the United States is
neutral in the bitter Philippines presi
dential election, and announced plans
to send veteran U.S. diplomat Philip
Habib to Manila to "help nurture the
hopes and possibilities of democracy."
"We're neutral, and we then hope to
have the same relationship with the
people of the Philippines that we've
had all these years," the president said
at a nationally televised news con
ference. Reagan added that the administra
tion is concerned "about the violence
that was evident" there and the possi
bility of fraud. It could have been all of
that was occurring on both sides."
Reagan said he would have no other
comment on the election until the bal
lot count was finished.
Reagan's session with reporters was
his first in five weeks and the 34th of
his presidency. It was a session domi
nated from the outset by foreign policy
questions.
Asked about the release earlier in
the day of Soviet dissident Anatoly
Shcharansky, Reagan said he "talked
at great length about human rights"
with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
at their summit last November. Reagan
said he thought there had been an
increase in such emigrations since
then, and added, "I hope that this is a
beginning sign of what's going to take
place."
On another foreign policy issue, the
president said the United States' only
involvement in the downfall of Haitian
President-for-Life Jean Claude Duvalier
was in "providing an airplane" to fly
him into exile in France. He said Duva
lier did not seek advice about his
departure, and the United States of
fered none.
Reagan sidestepped a question of
whether the United States would
resume aid to Haiti, suspended be
cause of human rights abuses under
the Duvalier regime. "We hope we can
be of help" in restoration of democracy
under the new ruling junta, he said.
The president opened his news con
ference with a pitch for his 1987 fiscal
year budget, and took note of critics
who say it is "DOA-dead on arrival." He
said those critics only want a tax
increase to reduce deficits and said
any such increase would be "VOA
vetoed on arrival."
Reagan's comments on the Philip
pines came with the outcome of the
election between President Ferdinand
Marcos and challenger Corazon Aquino
still in doubt several days after the
balloting closed. Each side has claim
ed victory, and the Marcos-controlled
National Assembly is preparing a final,
official canvass.
ABC says 'Choices' not an advocacy film
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NEW YORK The ABC movie "Cho- Jacqueline Bisset is his wife and something pUp ho,.i,
ices is about a 62-year-old retired Melissa Gilbert is Scott's pregnant Parker said she made a movie with a
judge with moral conflicts. He argues daughter. As with many TV films, the particular point of view while ABTirt
vehemently against an abortion for his choices of the title could also apply to it made certain that points of view on
unmarried teen-age daughter, then re- the behind-the-scenes bargaining be- abortion were fairly included.
fuses to become a narent aeain when t.ween the writpr nnrl notwnrL- nar,o
his second wife accidently becomes Judith Parker, the scriptwriter, said it" "It is ultimately a pro-choice film. fftV?flhH7!S I dcaster.
P r r, , , , , . A was "iiKe trading baseball cards, and I hope I made a convincing argu- ;Sic" film in
GcM ment,"Parkersaid."Thafsadegcisiln wtttteSWb-
ueorge u scott plays the husband, they take that out, but then give you each woman must make for herself." you must believe," Wurtzel said.
Alnn Wnrrrpl ARC's vice Dresident
for broadcast standards and practices,
agreed that Parker wrote a pro-choice
script.
But, having said that, Wurtzel stres
sed that ABC still made a fair film and