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United States Marine kidnapped in South Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Gunmen Wednesday
kidnapped a U.S. Marine officer serv ing with a
United Nations peacekeeping force in south
Lebanon, U.N. and Pentagon sources said.
The Pentagon identified the victim as Lt.
Col. William R. Higgins, head of a 75-man
observer group attached to the U.N. Interim
Force in Lebanon. UNIFIL sources originally
identified him as Lt. Col. Richard Higgins.
A Pentagon official said Higgins was on
temporary detail serving as the chief of the U.N.
Truce Supervision Organization’s Lebanon
Observer Group. Higgins, 43, is a native of
Danville, Ky., the official said.
U.N. sources said Higgins was kidnapped in
the late afternoon on the coastal highway be
tween Lebanon’s southernmost port of Tyre
and the border town of Naqoura, site of
UNIFIL’s headquarters.
No group claimed responsibility. Sources
said Higgins was returning from talks with
Shiite Moslem militia officials.
“Higgins was driving in a IJ.N. Jeep station
wagon from Tyre to Naqoura behind a similar
vehicle in which two other observers were
traveling,” UNIFIL spokesman Timur Gokscl
said.
He denied an earlier report that Higgins had
an escort of Fijian troops from UNIFIL and said
the American officer was in his station wagon
alone.
Gokscl said UNIFIL helicopters and ground
troops were searching for Higgins.
In Washington, a Defense Department offi
cial who spoke on condition of anonymity
confirmed that Higgins had been kidnapped
and gave a similar account of the kidnapping.
He said there were 15 to 16 Americans
serving with the observer group.
Worker kills 7 in shooting spree
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A four
year obsession with a co-worker's
smile ended with a Silicon Valley
technician blasting into a top-sccrct
defense plant, killing seven people
with a shotgun and wounding four,
including the woman who spurned
him, police said Wednesday.
“I'm not era/,y — I know I will die
as a result of this,” Robert J. Farley,
39, told hostage negotiator Ruben
Gri jalvabeforc surrendering T uesday
night, more than five hours after a
fusillade announced his arrival at the
ESL Inc. plant. He had been fired
from his $36,(XX)-a-ycar job there in
May 1986 for poor performance.
“It didn’t appear there was any
way he could have been stopped,”
said police Capt. Al Scott.
Grijalva quoted Farley as saying
the attack stemmed from his obses
sion with engineer Laura Black, 26.
“He said he was in love with her
from the first moment he saw her,"
Grijalva told the San Francisco Ex
aminer. “It was her smile.
“He knew she was not attracted to
him, hut he told her it wouldn’t end
until either she went out with him or
he died.”
Gri jalva said the price of surrender
wasaturkey-and-ham sandwich and a
soda.
“He surrendered for a No. 26 from
Togo’s and a Diet Pepsi,” said the
Sunnyvale Public Safety Department
negotiator.
Flags flew at half-staff at the ESL
complex on Wednesday. Counselors
were available for workers who
needed helpcoping with the shooting.
Bush, Dukakis point campaigns southward
CONCORD, N.H. — George
Bush and Michael Dukakis Wednes
day pointed their campaigns south
ward alter decisive New Hampshire
victories, and Bob Dole promised to
counterattack unless the vice presi
dent stops “distorting the Dole rec
ord. Bush denied he had done any
thing wrong.
Richard Gephardt, who finished
second to Dukakis, said he was in the
race to stay. However, Sen. Paul
Simon of Illinois, third among Demo
crats in New Hampshire after finish
ing second in Iowa, said he will have
to drop out unless he can win next
week in either South Dakota or Min
nesota. Former Arizona Gov. Bruce
Babbitt said he had “a divided mind”
about whether to continue but that
Jesse Jackson had already asked for
his support if he should drop out.
Dole, the big Republican winner in
Iowa last week, said Bush’s come
back victory in New Hampshire was
at least partly due to Bush TV com
mercials that Dole said distorted his
record.
“I’m going to try to go out and
straighten it out,” he said at the
Manchester, N.H. airport before
flying back to Washington. “I’m not
going to run from it. I’m not known
for running from a fight.”
Bush, who returned to Washington
Tuesday night, was reluctant to talk
about Dole’s accusation. However,
when questioned during a brief ex
change w ith reporters Wednesday, he
replied, “ I think 1 said it wasn't true,
but I’ll be glad to say that.”
“You all want me to talk about Sen.
Dole. I want to talk about the issues,”
Bush said. “I’m not going to dwell on
it, you see, I don’t want to be drawn
into something like that.”
Reagan prepares to send budget to Congress
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan on Wednesday prepared to
send his fiscal 1989 spending plan to
Congress and iaunch the last and
likely least contentious budget de
bate of his presidency.
The Sl.l trillion fiscal blueprint
being unveiled Thursday was ex
pected to reprise Reagan’s oft-rc
jeeted requests for cutting domestic
programs, with some new proposals
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for transferring government func
tions including parks and manage
ment and perhaps Amtrak railroad
service to private industry.
But the plan also was being
crafted to comply with the spending
agreement reached last fall in the
budget “summit” between Reagan
and congressional leaders.
Since the budget summit agree
ment spells out overall spending and
.
tax levels, including allocations for
the military, domestic programs and
foreign aid, this year’s battles were
expected to focus on the details rather
than the thrust of the budget priori
ties.
The pact should help smooth the
budget’s path through Congress,
since the balance between domestic
and military spending totals is annu
ally one of the most difficult.
Israelis kill 1 Arab, wound 4 in West Bank
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank — Israeli soldiers fired on a crowd i
trying to stop them from making arrests during a pre dawn raid on an
Arab village Wednesday, killing one and wounding four, witnesses and
the army reported.
A merchants’ strike in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip kept
most Arab businesses closed except for the three hours from 8 a.m. to S
11 a.m. Numerous cases have been reported of threats to shopowners
who remain open.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir returned from Italy and rejected a
trade of territory for peace with the Arabs. Secretary of State George P.
Shultz proposed the idea and it was accepted by Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres. Shamir’s partner and rival in the governing coalition.
An army officer at the village said the soldiers aimed at legs only but
doctors said the victim was shot through the heart.
Fire forces evacuation of Embassy in Moscow
MOSCOW — Soviet firefighters chaperoned by Americans extin
guished a fire Wednesday in the U.S. Embassy, the same building the
United States has been unable to abandon because of bugging devices
that permeate a new structure.
About 150 embassy employees were evacuated and sent home for the
day, embassy spokesman Richard Gilbert said. No one was injured.
U.S. Embassy officials said Soviet firefighters were called to put out
the fire in an unoccupied fifth-floor residential section after they
decided embassy personnel couldn’t extinguish it on their own.
The Soviets responded promptly and were “escorted at all times by
American employees,’’ inside the building, said Gilbert, who briefed
reporters in the wet snow outside the mustard-colored embassy’s main
door after the fire had been brought under control.
‘Last Emperor’ top performer in nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “The Last Emperor,” a panoramic
drama of modern China, scored top honors with nine nominations
Wednesday in an Oscar race that included Cher, Robin Williams and
Michael Douglas but overlooked directors Steven Spielberg and James
L. Brooks.
‘Broadcast News,” the comedy-romance set in a television news
bureau, followed with seven nominations including those for stars
William Hurt, Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks. James Brooks was
nominated as producer and writer, but surprisingly, not as director.
Joining "Broadcast News” and “The Last Emperor,” the life.story of
China’s last monarch, as contenders for best picture were “Fatal
Attraction,” “Hope and Glory” and “Moonstruck.”
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SHE I) NEVER CALLED ME BEFORE.
Wed Just been together a couple of times.
So she tells me she's pregnant.
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she asks If I died.
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crying and you don't know what to do.
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school. Get married. Hun away from It.
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