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Pope warns youths of evils
MADRID (AP) ^ Pope John Paul II, addressing hundreds
of thousands of youths who packed a soccer stadium and
nearby streets, implored them to shun drugs, sex and
violence, which he said can lead "to the spiral of terrorism."
The pope, making a 16-city tour of Spain, told the cheering
audience Wednesday evening: "Neither drugs nor alcohol
nor sex nor a resigned uncritical passivity ? what you call
pasotismo (angry apathy) ? is an answer in the face ol
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As the pontiff traveled yesterday to Guadalupe, birthplace
of the Spanish conquistadors, a senior Spanish army general
was killed in Madrid by gunmen who peppered his official car
with submachine gun fire, police said.
Maj. Gen. Victor Lago San Roman, a 63-year-old father of
eight, was commander of the army's most powerful unit, the
Brunete Armored Division. He was killed instantly and his
soldier-driver was critically wounded. The gunmen escaped.
Book 'identifies' 'Deep Throat'
NEW YORK (AP) - Former White House Counsel John
Dean says Alexander M. Haig Jr. has to be the "Deep
Throat" of Watergate fame, but the former secretary of state
dismisses the notion as"absurd."
Haig on Sunday denied being the mysterious source of
many explosive Washington Post stories about the scandal
that toppled President Richard Nixon.
But Dean, in his new book, alleges that Haig was among the
few people who knew enough about the inner machinations of
the Nixon administration to provide reliable information,
according to a story in the Nov. 9 issue of Time magazine.
Even Time questioned Dean's claim, in part because of
4'the inherent implausibility of the ultra-dignified and instantly
recognizable Haig skulking around Washington
garages undetected at 2 a .m."
"Deep Throat" is the name Post reporter Bob Woodward
gave to a source he met at odd hours in unorthodox places ir
1972 to receive or have confirmed information for stories
about the Watergate scandal, which eventuallv led to the
resignation of former President Nixon.
Environmentalists claim win
WASHINGTON (AP) - Environmentalists say their firs
big push into national politics was an overwhelming success
proving that the "green vote" can be rallied to defea
enemies and elect friends.
"We sent a message to James Watt, Anne Gorsuch am
other despoilers in the Reagan administration that th<
American people want to keep strong environmental laws,'
Marion Edey, director of the League of Conservation Voters
said Wednesday.
The league said it had a 73 percent success rate, winning 4
of the 63 congressional races it had targeted.
The Sierra Club, which endorsed congressional candidate
for the first, time in its 90-year history, said it won better tha
80 percent of its races ?121 of the 153 contests in which it wa
active.
In their continuing battle with the Reagan administratioi
environmental groups mobilized thousands of volunteers an
spent more than $2 million in the 1982 congressional racei
The league said the number of volunteers environmentalist
turned out was second only to the number of campaig
workers mobilized by labor unions this year.
Police can't continue stripping;
BURBANK, Calif. (AF) - Police here no longer ma
conduct strip-searches of people stopped for routine traffi
violations.
The city agreed last week to have U.S. District Judge /
Andrew Hauk sign an injunction sought by a lawyer for Robi
Levenson, an actress and part-time secretary who sued th
city.
She said she underwent a strip-search and a visual recti
examination by a policewoman after being stopped in
minor traffic case on June 8.
The injunction bars strip-searches for traffic violatoi
without reasonable cause to believe that defendants ai
carrying drugs or illegal weapons.
Trapper takes matter in hanc
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didn't cotton to a proposed ordinance restricting trapping
residential areas, so he took the matter into hand.
A woman supporting the regulation, who complained hi
dog had been trapped by a neighbor, brought a No. 3 ste
trap to illustrate her arguments at an assembly meeting
the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
Fur-hatted Brooks Vinyard, one of more than 100 trappe
who showed up for the hearing, borrowed the trap, set it, he
it up and explained it probably was as large as any trap usi
in the area.
Without flinching, Vinyard then triggered it, and the ste
jaws snapped shut on his hand. Holding the trap aloft in i
apparent pain, Vinyard said it probably would hurt a dog, b
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"From that point on, the ordinance was doomed," tl
Anchorage Times reported.
USC today
RH film: "The Four Seasons" starring Alan Alda
and Carol Burnett, 2:30 p.m., $1; 7 and 9:30 p.m.,
$1.50.
Columbia Lyric Opera: opera Sampler program,
Drayton Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.; $3.25, students,
$5.25, adults.
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Violence coi
BELFAST, NORTHERN
IRELAND (AP) - Protestants and
Roman Catholics fear a new outbreak
of violence in Northern Ireland's
prisons!, where convicted guerrillas
from both sides carry on their sectarian
feuding behind bars.
The crisis in the heavily guarded
prisons, long a battleground in
Northern Ireland'^ x'-year-old conflict,
mirrors the /i'waiting sectarian
tension in the streets. Twenty-one
people have been killed in the last two
months.
The prison feuds, with convicted
Protestant and Catholic gunmen
demanding segregation from each
other, erupted last month into
cellblock clashes in Belfast's Maze
prison, Magilligan prison near
Londonderry and a women's instution
at Armagh.
Tommy Lyttle, a leader of the
militant Protestant Ulster Defense
Association, said that the cellblocks
are "a powderkeg" and warned
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WASHINGTON (AP) - There is a one
1 that a nuclear plant accident could coi
possible weather conditions to kill bet
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1 Regulatory Commission.
The possibility of such an accident
reacior sues in me united Mates in tne:
a million, or 0.0002 percent, NRC offic
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calculated the consequences of what
possible catastrophe at each of the planl
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operating reactors in the country ? the
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: Drug smugglin
r CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - It's
,j harvest time for drug growers in
^ South America and that has law enforcement
authorities around South
s Carolina concerned. It means that
^ another season of drug smuggling is
^ underway.
The smuggling season usually runs
from early October through the end of
0 December.
While authorities say smuggling
has' reached its lowest ebb in five
e years, they warn that illicit activity
could resume on a larger and more
violent scale than the state has ever
witnessed.
State Law Enforcement Division Lt.
Steve Smith and Clark Settles,
director of the U.S. Customs Patrol,
said that there are a number of
reasons smuggling has tapered off.
A few years ago, they say, it was
common for arrested smugglers to
leave the country and forfeit their
bond. The money and equipment they
left was nothing compared to the
profits they were making;....
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"people are going to get killed" if the
situation worsens.
Security authorities say the trouble
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At least 12 inmates in Magilligan
were hospitalized after a riot Oct. 20
between convicted Protestants and
guards of the mainly Protestant
prison service. The outbreak occurred
the same day as violence marred
elections for a new provincial
assembly.
In a three-day rampage, 120
Protestant loyalists wrecked
cellblocks in the Maze, where last
year 10 jailed Catholic nationalists
starved themselves to death in a
seven-month hunger strike demanding
political prisoner status.
And the weekly Republican News,
an IRA publication, said three
Catholic women in Armagh were
beaten by Protestants while a movie
was being shown in the prison chapel.
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But Smith and Settles say that
tougher laws and better-equipped
drug agents have turned the tide.
They say enforcement operations
are being stepped up, there's more
cooperation between enforcement
agencies, and the military is joining
the fieht on a limifpH hacic
Settles said that since January 1978,
there have been 400 drug arrests in
the state and that 750,000 pounds of
marijuana and 10,000 pounds of
hashish have been seized.
Officers have also confiscated any
number of boats, airplanes and
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But Smith and Settles warn the very
techniques that have slowed drug
smuggling may create a more cunning,
violent and vicious smuggler.
They said that a smuggler will be
more likely to use violence to avoid
getting caught or convicted.
"So don't think they're quitting,"
Smith said. "They may very well be
just regrouping. They will be back."
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convicted guerillas as criminals
rather than political prisoners ? the
root of the IRA hunger strike ?
Protestants and Catholics are mixpH
regardless of politics or religion.
The British believe that segregation
will bestow a form of political
prisoner status on the guerrilla
groups and permit them to establish
tight command structures that would
turn the cellblocks into virtual
training camps, as happened in the
"special category" compounds before
1976.
Cellblock segregation was one of the
demands made by the hungerstrikers,
all members of the outlawed
Provisional Irish Republican Army or
its Marxist splinter faction, the Irish
National Liberation Army.
But while the British allowed them
to wear their own clothes and
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not completely segregate the Catholic
nationalists from their Protestant
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The officers say that smugglers will
always be in it for the money, and
there are some who would do it for the
thrills even if the money wasn't good.
Smith said that in Florida, there are
instances where innocent people are
gunned down because they happened
to be near a witness a smuggler
wanted to keep quiet.
"We haven't seen violence like that,
but we generally run two or three
years behind Florida. If it's happening
there now, it probably will be
here soon " saiH
Despite an expected increase in
drug traffic, Settles said authorities
still have one big thing in their favor
? public opinion.
In the past two years there's been a
definite change in people's attitudes,"
Settles said. "They're not treating
marijuana as something to be taken
lightly anymore. Whether it's a health
kick or a ' maturing process or
whatever it is, people's attitudes are
definitely changing."