Npws Digest By The Associated Press_
U.S. destroys platforms
after Iranian attack
MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. war
ships destroyed two Iranian oil plat
forms in the Persian Gulf on Monday
and Navy commandos raided a third.
Iran said the Americans had begun
a “full-fledged war” to which it prom
ised “a crushing response.”
President Reagan called the 85
minute attack “a prudent yet restrained
response” to Friday’s missile strike on
U.S.-flagged tanker off Kuwait. The
missile was believed launched from
the nearby Faw Peninsula, which Iran
has conquered in its 7-year old war
with Iraq.
The Pentajgon said no Americans
were injured in Monday’s operations.
Tehran said the attack wounded some
Iranian “civilian crewmen” but did not
mention fatalities.
The White House said gunfire
wiped out two platforms at one loca
tion and U.S. Defense Secretary Cas
par Weinberger said the battle area
was the Rostam oil platforms.
After some initial confusion,
Tehran said the two platforms hit were
at the Reshadat, or Rakhsh, field 75
miles east of Qatar and 60 miles from
the Iranian coast. Rakhsh and Rostam
are about 20 miles apart.
The discrepancy between the Ira
nian and U.S. reports could not be
immediately resolved. On all except
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very detailed maps of the gulf, the two
fields appear to be very close.
The oil platforms, which have an
underwater pipeline running to Iran’s
coastal Lavan island, arc among many
permanent drilling rigs in the central
gulf. Iran is known to have used some
for helicopter and armed speed boat
attacks on commercial shipping.
At 1:30 p.m., four U.S. destroyers
moved to within about 6,000 yards of
the two platforms, said Fred S.
Hoffman, the Pentagon’s chief
spokesman.
Ten minutes later, they broadcast a
warning:
‘Reshadat, Reshadat. This is the
U.S. Navy. We will commence firing
on your position at 1400 hours. You
have 20 minutes to evacuate the plat
form.”
Iranians on the platforms were then
seen scrambling into a small boat and
sailing away from the area, Wein
berger said. An 85-minute barrage of
1,000 rounds of 5-inch gunfire de
stroyed the platforms.
Iranian President Ali Khamenei
vowed that his country will “definitely
take decisive retaliatory action,” ac
cording to a broadcast report by the
official Islamic Republic News
Agency. “Reagan by this action, has
made a big mistake.”
Subway vigilante fined, sentenced
NEW YORK — Subway gun
man, Bernhard Goetz was sen
tenced Monday to six months in
jail, ordered to undergo psychiatric
treatment and fined $5,000 by a
judge who rejected recommenda
tion that he be allowed to go free.
Goetz, who shot four youths on
a subway nearly three years ago,
stood impassively as acting state
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G.
Crane sentenced him on the single
gun possession count on which he
was convicted.
The crime carries a maximum
penalty of seven years in prison,
though first-time offenders like
Goetz rarely go to jail.
Goetz also was sentenced to five
years of probation and 280 hours of
community service in New York
University Medical Center.
“A non-jail sentence for Mr.
Goetz would invite others to vio
late the gun law,” Crane said.
“Whether you agree with the law or
not, it is the law and it was the law
on Dec. 22,1984, and it remains the
law”
Asked if be wished to say any
thing before the judge pronounced
sentence, Goetz said, *‘No, 1 have
nothing to say.” After the sentence
was passed, Goetz stood silent,
showing no emotion.
Crane said Goetz could choose
his psychiatrist. In its pre-sentenc
ing memo, the Probation Depart
ment had suggested “intensive
supervision coupled with indefi
nite psychiatric intervention,” but
no jail time.
U. S. senator Stennis says he
will retire after 7th term
JACKSON, Miss. — Sen. John C.
Stennis, 86-year-old dean of the U.S.
Senate and third in line to the presi
dency, announced Monday he will
retire at the end of his seventh term
next year because of old age.
The decision by the Democratic
veteran of 40 years in the Senate
touched off an immediate political
scramble in Mississippi over a succes
sor, and complicated his party’s pros
pects of maintaining control over the
Senate, where Democrats hold a 54-46
edge.
Stennis had reported as late as the
summer months that he had not made
up his mind about a re-election race,
and his announcement sounded a sad
note:
“I greatly regret leaving the Senate
where it is my high privilege to repre
sent the people of Mississippi, whom I
dearly love and respect,” he said, “but
my age and health control. My heart
says ‘yes,’ run again, but my best
judgment says, ‘no.’”
S tennis, who was shot and wounded
by robbers in 1973 and has been con
fined to a wheelchair since he lost his
left leg to cancer in 1984, noted that he
would be 93 at the end of an eighth
term.
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Couple claims
$46 million
lottery prize
HARRISBURG, Pa.—A book
keeper and a plasterer who live
together turned in their winning
$46 million lottery ticket Monday
and said they would use their rec
ord jackpot to travel, help their
relatives, and perhaps even get
married.
Donald R. Woomer and Linda
K. Despot of Hollidaysburg, Pa.,
met with reporters at a suburban
motel-convention center after they
were handed a check for the first
installment, $1.4 million, by state
Revenue Secretary Barton Fields.
The couple, who bought the
ticket in the stale’s Super-7 game
jointly, will receive similar pay
ments annually for the next 25
years.
“I hope our lifestyle changes,
but not us,” Despot said.
The jackpot surpassed by $5
million a prize of $41 million won
in New York state’s lottery in
August 1985, said Jim Scroggins,
executive director of the Pennsyl
vania Lottery. The world’s largest,
about $100 million, is offered in
Spain, state lottery officials said.
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