Wednesday, February 11, 1937
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Daily Nebraskan
By The Associated Press
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Former adviser overdoses on Valium
MiptS lliidi In Brief
WASHINGTON An investigation
concluded that former presidential
adviser Robert C. McFarlane attempted
suicide, a police source said Tuesday,
while authorities said officially only
that there was no evidence of foul play
in McFarlane's Valium overdose.
"There's not going to be any ruling
that it was an attempted suicide. We
are satisfied that there was no crime
and there's no further legal action to be
taken," said Harry Geehreng, spokes
man for the Montgomery County Police
in suburban Maryland.
But a source close to the investi
gation, speaking on condition of anony
mity, said the police had determined
McFarlane's ingestion of 25 to 30 tablets
of Valium, a tranquilizer, was an attempt
to take his own life.
The source also confirmed that police
learned that McFarlane, President
Reagan's former national security
adviser, had written a note that his wife
Jonda carried to the hospital. However,
police did not know the contents of the
note, the source said.
The 49-year-old McFarlane, who
associates said has recently been in
severe pain with a back ailment, was
rushed to the hospital Monday morning,
shortly before he was to testify before
the presidential commission set up to
investigate the National Security Coun
cil's role in the Iran arms-sale crisis.
He was listed in good condition
Tuesday at Bcthesda Naval Hospital in
suburban Mary land and was visited by
his wife, said hospital spokesman Lt.
Russ Sanford.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitz
water said Reagan had not tried to
contact his former aide, but that the
president and first lady Nancy Reagan
planned to telephone Mrs. McFarlane.
Kidnappers try to swap with Israel
BEIRUT Mosk 1 1 kidnappers were reported trying to
strike a deal with Israel on Tuesday that would free 400
Arab prisoners in exchange for three Americans and an
Indian held in Beirut and a captured Israeli airman.
The Christian-run Voice of Lebanon and the Moslem-run
Voice of the Nation radio stations quoted "reports from
Washington and other capitals" as saying the captors might
be working through the Red Cross for an exchange.
In Geneva, the international Committee of the Red Cross
denied involvement in any negotiations.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel said his
government would be willing to consider a direct request
for negotiations, but added that no such request has been
made.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters
in Washington, "Our terrorism policy remains the same, and
I reiterate once again that we will not ransom hostages nor
will we encourage other countries to do so."
A group called the Revolutionary Justice Organization
renewed a threat Tuesday to harm hostages if the United
States takes military action. "The retaliation will be very
cruel," it said in a statement delivered to the Beirut office of
a Western news agency.
It holds American hostages Joseph James Cicippio, 56, of
Valley Forge, Pa., acting comptroller at the American
University of Beirut, and Edward Austin Tracy, 56, a writer
who formerly lived in Burlington, Vt., and Jean-Louis
Normandin, 35, a French television engineer.
Iran demands 'war until victory'
NICOSIA, Cyprus Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini spoke in public
today for the first time in almost 1 2 weeks and said his people demanded
"war until victory" against Iraq.
The address by the 86-year-old Supreme Iranian leader at a mosque
near his home in north Tehran came on the eve of the eighth anniversary of
the revolution that toppled Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
Although some western media have reported Khomeini's health was
declining, he spoke in a strong and steady voice during the 17-minute
speech, which was broadcast on Tehran radio.
He said Iranian troops were battling for a "divine cause" in the 6 12
year old Persian Gulf war with Iraq, but added that Iran's people had
experienced "bitter moments because of our spiritual condition."
Iraq and Iran have been pounding each other's cities with air raids and
artillery and thousands of civilians have been killed.
Pseudo salesman steals fine wine
SAN DIEGO A man posing as a newspaper subscription salesman
forced his way into an apartment and grabbed a box containing five
bottles of wine worth about $12,000, police said.
The victim, who asked not to be identified, said the thief apparently
grabbed the box of wine as an afterthought after taking $635 in cash. The
robber carried a 4-inch knife.
The bottles were part of a case that normally holds six magnums, but
one was empty. Each magnum holds the equivalent of two regular-sized
bottles of wine.
According to the victim, the five stolen magnums stolen Saturday are
worth as much as $2,400 each.
"Chateau Petrus 1961 is considered the most perfect wine in this
century, of the Bordeaux wines," he said. "If you have a grading scale, it is
100 points, and everything else is compared to it."
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Teens charged with murdei: in Howard Beach attack
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NEW YORK Three teen-agers
were charged Tuesday with murder and
nine others with lesser crimes in a
racial attack in which a white mob
chased and beat three black men, one
of whom fled into traffic and was killed
by a car.
The suspects, ages 16 to 18, surren
dered Tuesday morning to police in the
New York City borough of Queens,
where the attack took place Dec. 20.
The 12 defendants, accompanied to
state Supreme Court by parents and
lawyers, were arraigned before Justice
Alfred D. Lerner. All pleaded innocent.
Two of the threeyouths charged with
murder Tuesday had previously faced
the same charge until a judge dropped
it for lack of testimony by the survivors
of the attack.
Those charged with murder again
were Jon Lester, 17, of South Ozone
Beach, and Scott Kern, 17, of Howard
Beach. The other youth charged with
n)urder was Robert Riley, who was de
scribed by special prosecutor Charles
J, Hynes as the only defendant who
cooperated in the investigation,
y. The judge agreed to Hynes' request
that Riley be released on his own
recognizance. Bail was denied for Kern.
Lester, already imprisoned on a weapons
Charge, was remanded to Rikers Island
prison.
The third youth charged in the
original investigation, Jason Ladone,
16, was charged with second-degree
manslaughter. His bail was set at
$50,000.
The other charges against the teen
agers included attempted murder, as
sault, rioting, inciting to riot, conspiracy
and criminal facilitation.
The lawyers entered the innocent
pleas and offered medical problems,
deaths in the families and school
records as reasons why their clients
should be shown leniency.
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