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By The Associated Press
State of the Union
Reagan assumes responsibility for Iran arms sales
WASHINGTON - President Reagan
told the nation Tuesday night that he
now regrets his failed risk in selling
arms to Iran but, despite the continuing
furor, "will not sit idly by if our
interests and our friends in the Middle
East are threatened."
He said he did not want to see an
America that had become "so obsessed
with failure that we refused to take
risks that could further the cause of
peace and freedom in the world."
The president delivered his sixth
State of the I'nion address as the
Pentagon shifted its overseas naval
forces in what one source described as
a response to recent hostage-takings in
Lebanon.
Reagan said relatively little about
the situation in Lebanon and used the
bulk of his remarks to lay out the
agenda for the last two years of his
"Let there be no mis
take about American
policy: we will hot sit
idly by if our interests
or our friends in the
Middle East are threat
ened, nor will be yield
to terrorist blackmail."
Reagan
presidency.
"I took a risk with regard to our
action in Iran. It did not work and for
that 1 assume full responsibility,"
Reagan said in his prepared text.
He added: "Let there be no mistake
about American oolicv: we will not sit
idly by if our interests or our friends in
the Middle East are threatened, nor
will be yield to terrorist blackmail."
Reagan said it was not wrong to try
to establish contact with a nation of
strategic importance and "certainly it
was not wrong to try to secure freedom
for our citizens held in barbaric
captivity."
In Brief
Inmates injured in penitentiary
PITTSBURGH Inmates evacuated from their cells because of an
accidental fire set blazes throughout the prison Tuesday, battled guards
and each other and then barricaded themselves inside an auditorium
where they started a major fire, authorities said.
At least 25 inmates and three guards were injured from fighting or
suffered smoke inhalation before all the fires were extinguished, said
Thomas Seiverling, spokesman for the State Correctional Institution at
Pittsburgh, also called Western Pen.
All the inmates were stripped, searched and returned to their cells by
early afternoon, officials said.
Sandinistas say Hall to be released
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Sam Nesley Hall, a self-described freedom
fighter and brother of a U.S. congressman, will be released within hours
because the government decided not to press spy charges, the state-run
radio station Voice of Nicaragua said Tuesday.
An anonymous Nicaraguan official has said Hall, 49, suffers from a
mental disorder and needs institutional care not available in Nicaragua.
Hall was arrested Dec. 1 2 at Punta Huete air base, 13 miles northeast of
Managua, with maps and sketches of the airfield, crudely drawn on hotel
stationery, stuffed in his socks, the Sandinistas said.
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Coup attempt fails; Marcos supporters hold Manila TV station
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MAM LA, riunppines Mutinous soldiers
held out inside a television station Wednesday,
long after President t'orazon Aquino announced
that the loyal military had crushed an attempted
coup.
(Jen. Fidel V. Ramos, commander of the armed
forces, gave those inside the building about
Hid troopers, oO civilian supporters of ex-Presi
dent Ferdinand E. Marcos and a few policemen
a deadline to surrender but then withdrew it.
Ramos went to the besieged station at .'1 a.m.
Wednesday and spoke for about 45 minutes with
the rebel leader, air force Col. Osca Canlas.
Canlas told reporters that Ramos ordered the
rebels to leave the station by 6 a.m. (4 p.m.
Tuesday EST), but he said he asked Ramos to
extend the deadline and the general "graciously
allowed it." There was no indication a new
deadline had been set.
After his meeting with Canlas, Ramos remained
near the station for more than two hours and at
dawn he told renorters Canlas had sent a
decision.
Ramos then left the area but said, "This
cannot go on indefinitely." He gave no indication
that a move against the mutineers was immenent.
Maj. Gen. Salvador Mison, deputy chief of
stall, said a general ana i other omcers were
message saving he had not finished consulting behind the revolt and five had been arrested, but
with his men and was not ready to make a would not name them.
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The shuttle disaster
A nation remembers its crew
NASA workers will observe 73 seconds of silence,
schoolchildren will launch a small rocket, and a statue
made partly from donated pennies will be dedicated
Wednesday as Americans recall the Challenger disaster one
year ago.
Relatives of the seven shuttle astronauts will mark the
sad anniversary by joining in public memorial services or
grieving privately.
On Tuesday, the astronauts' families issued a joint
"Letter to America" in which they said they would raise
money for space learning centers around the country,
"places where children, teachers, and citizens alike can
touch the future."
Some ceremonies were scheduled to coincide with the
time on Jan. 28, 19815, that Challenger lifted off from Launch
Pad 398.
Just 73 seconds later, the shuttle exploded, killing
mission commander Francis R. Scobee, pilot Michael J.
Smith, teacher Christa McAuliffe and crew members
Gregory Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McN'air and
Claude Onizuka.
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at the launch time of 1 1:38 a.m. Flags will be lowered to
half-staff, and President Reagan will address NASA
employees by a satellite television hookup later in the day.
There also will be a moment of silence at the Seattle
Center Flag Pavilion, in the shadow of the Space Needle.
The National Air and Space Museum will show continuously
"The Dream is Alive," which was shot during three shuttle
flights. Resnik, Scobee and McN'air appear in it.
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