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CHICAGO (AP) ? /
sweeping the land, a
anything but half-bakec
that's top banana in the
Researchers at Wendy'
ing around for new potai
that the answer was right
potatoes.
"Americans grew up
cept," said Denny Lyncl
With that in mind, tl
push potatoes in a big-wj
"spudtacular."
This year, in 2,600 re
and Canada, Wendy's <
billion baked potatoes t<
cheese, bacon and chees<
"That's a few potatoe
aiunea oaKea potatc
smaller chains and ind
them for years ? but W
serving them up in a ma
give it a whirl.
Augusta off
AUGUSTA, Ga. <AP)
Mclntyre was formally
accusing him of conspir
scheme to make heftv i
along the Savannah Rivi
Mclntyre was named i
City Councilman Josepl
dictment with Augusta ri
They are accused of tryii
dollars in a pattern of e:
The charges were ham
grand jury in Augusta. ]
day after the parties inv
the indictments were ofl
Mclntyre vowed again
Dpr 91 arrpct t r\ ctav i
hard as I've ever worked
of Augusta and provide
live here," he said.
Mclntyre and Jones i
one series of overt acts f
ing them of aiding and
Willi ucvciupci?.
Mclntyre and Holme:
one series of acts for pr
abetting each other i
attempt.
Surfing has;
(AP) ? South Carolii
in a traffic accident that
legacy, the dog's owner
Rumples, a 13-year-o
car last week, owner Tii
a<uu vv tuiicauay.
His registered name
wood, said Doughtie, ai
Rumples when the dog
Rumples first caught
owner from the shore.
"I spent a lot of time
come down to watch,"
The moment of truth
old.
"It was one of those
at the dog and looked
mediate marriage."
Doughtie said he put
what it was like. Quite
was so uproariously fui
'When I came up he
had gathered."
Rumples soon develo
pushed past the break
himself, turn the boart
wave himself. I was jus
"Rumples was a puri
a lot of savvy. He rod*
footing and a tremend<
He weighed about 6'
"had a tendency to eat j
TV," Doughtie said.
The dog attracted na
pearing on "Real Pet
1980, on "PM Magazi
produced by an Atlant
on HBO several times,
| Rumples retired fron
ly without siring any fi
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ion increasing
i new fast-food fascination is
passion for potatoes that's
1, according to the company
spud field.
s International Inc. were lookto
products when they realized
in front of their eyes ? baked
on the meat and potato con1,
a spokesman for Wendy's,
le fast-food chain decided to
ay ? and the results have been
1
staurants in the United States
jxpects to sell a quarter of a ||
Dpped with chili, broccoli and *
i or other concoctions. ?
s," Lynch said. **
les are hardly new ? many
ividual restaurants have sold
endy's developed a system for *?tter
of seconds and decided to
icials indicted s
i ? Augusta Mayor Edward M.
inrlirfpri r?n fivf fpHprnl rniint*;
acy, bribery and extortion in a
profits from sales of city land E
er. !!
n a three-count indictment with
1 Jones and in a two-count ineal
estate broker Mary Holmes. S<
ng to reap tens of thousands of m
xtortion demands and bribery. rc
ded down Tuesday by a federal h<
Details became known Wednes- w
olved received their copies and
'icially unsealed. T
i Wednesday, as he has since his p!
n office. "I intend to work as ol
to enhance the economic plight T
for service to the citizens who tu
are charged in three counts ?
or profit and two counts accus- w
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aoeuing eacn oiner in aeaungs di
s are charged in two counts ? gi
ofit and a count of aiding and th
n a $100,000-plus extortion B<
set hound dies E
I
ia's sarfing basset hound has died
also killed the canine's "Hang 20" di
says. sit
Id Kansas native, was struck by a ar
n Doughtie of Hilton Head Island yc
Ol
was Slipshod Rumples of Glenl
advertising executive who bought A
was 6 months old. in
the suiting bug by watching his V
surfing then, and he would always ft
Doughtie said. a
came when Rumples was 2 years si
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things that just happened. I looked ?
i at the board - there was an im- u
Rumples on the board 4'just to see u
frankly, during the first seconds it f
nny that I fell down laughing. t
was hanging 20 and a small crowd
ped his own style. Once the dog was [
ers, "he would get on the board |
1 around, position it and catch the >
t kind of a lackey," his owner said. j
ist. All he used was a little wax, and
? surf I couldn't ride. He had great t
susly low center of gravity."
5 pounds in his prime, although he '
a lot of junk food and watch a lot of t
tional attention with his hobby, ap>ple"
and "That's Incredible" in
ne" and in a two-minute film clip ,
a television station that was shown i
Doughtie said. '
1 the sport two years ago, apparent- j
jture surfers.
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WOBURN, Mass. (AP) ?
jmetime next year, some prisons
ight be patrolled by a short, stubby
>bot named Denny that can smell,
jar and see escaping inmates and
arn, "you have been detected."
Denninc Mobile Robotics Inc. said
uesday it has signed a contract to
oduce as many as 200 robots a year
F Southern Stell Co. of San Antonio,
exas, the nation's largest manufacirer
of detention equipment.
The robot, still under development,
ill be used to supplement guard
ities.
"The task is not so much to replace
lards but to replace the functions
iat are dangerous or boring," said
;n Wellington, Denning marketing
teirut mourns
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ? In a rare
splay of unity, schools and universes
closed down in both the Moslem
id Christian sectors of the capital
:sterday to mourn the slain president
f the American University of Beirut.
Malcolm Kerr, a 52-year-old
merican native of the city, was shot
i the head outside his campus office
/ednesday.
Educational institutions and various
actions of Christian, Druse, Sunni
nd Shite Moslems called for suspenir*n
nf rlntcpc in trihntp tr? Wprr u/hn
pecialized in the study of Middle
eastern politics and sought to keep his
iniversity free of political strife.
Shortly after the assassination, the
iniversity, located in predominantly
Moslem west Beirut, canceled classes
intil Monday.
Uicaraguans r<
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) ?
2xcept for an occasional cartoon in the
)ro-government media, U.S. Am>assador
Anthony Quainton has earn
id the respect of Nicaraguan supjorters
as well as critics of the revoluionary
government.
But he will be leaving his post this
>pring, according to sources here and
in Washington. He is leaving after serving
for two years as the pivotal link
between the Reagan administration,
which sends covert aid to Nicaraguan
insurgents, and the leftist Sandinistas.
Miguel Blandon, director of the
government-run Radio Sandino, said
Quainton is seen here as a
"reasonable" man who avoided confrontation
and "at times expressed he
was in favor of a dialogue between
hJiraramia and the United States."
"He has shown great interest in getting
to know the Nicaraguan reality,"
said Maria Ferrey, vice president of the
opposition Social Christian Party.
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fift M
le renovation of Greene Street across from Russi
ave robots patr
vice president. "Walking a prison corridor
at night can be a boring job, and
when it's not boring, it's dangerous.
"The robot can maintain the same
level of consciousness. It doesn't get
sleepy or careless."
Wellington said the four-foot-tall,
200-pound robot will be equipped with
infrared and ultrasonic sensors and
ammonia "sniffers" that can smell
faint odors given off by humans. Some
robots will carry television cameras;
none will be armed.
When a robot encounters a human,
it will warn in a stern voice, "You have
been detected."
The robot will do its own thinking
with a "brain" using two 32-bit
microchips encased in a bulletproof
for slain schoo
cniH nn orr/?ctc hono V\oAn
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made, but otherwise refused to comment
on their investigation.
Likewise, police declined comment
on the search for gunmen who kidnapped
Saudi Arabia's consul, Hussein
Farrash, in west Beirut Tuesday.
An anonymous telephone caller
Wednesday said a pro-Iranian group
calling itself Islamic Holy War carried
out Kerr's assassination and Farrash's
abduction.
The caller warned Farrash would be
executed and demanded U.S. and
French troops in the multinational
force leave Lebanon "or we will shake
the earth under their feet."
Callers claiming to represent Islamic
Holy War have claimed responsibility
for several other attacks, including the
Oct. 23 suicide tmck-bombings at the
espect U.S. ami
"His opinions are adjusted to reality.
He recognized some things that the
revolution has done that were good.
We recognized them too."
The boyish looking Quainton arriv{
ed in Managua in March 1982 just as
the Sandinistas declared a state of
emergency because of what they said
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state of emergency is still in effect.
It was during Quainton's tour here
that CIA support for Nicaraguan insurgents
fighting the Sandinistas
became known.
At high government levels, the ambassador
kept a good relationship going
although he continued to walk out
of state functions or refuse to stand
whenever the Sandinista anthem was
played because it has a reference to the
"Yankee, enemy of humanity."
The 50-year-old Quainton, a
graduate of Princeton and Oxford
universities, often can be seen wearing
a tropical "guayabera" shirt. He ap
Photo by Joe Jtckton j
bI! House.
oling soon
cage. It can tell when it is suffering a
malfunction and will report back to
human guards at a central control
panel.
"The robot will be built to withstand
a battering," Wellington said.
"It will hf ahle tn it it hpino hat
tered and try to turn and run. If someone
whacks it with a baseball bat, it
will try to get out of there."
While most of the specifications are
on the drawing board, Wellington said
the company is still trying to find a
name for its new product. The robot is
known as "Denny" among employees,
but Wellington said, "That's too
friendly."
' Wnrwfiill v we'll rnmc lin with ?
r- / -r |
something more menacing by the time
we go into production," he said.
I official
U.S. and French military bases in
Beirut. But proof of the group's existence
has yet to emerge.
Kerr was gunned down as he emerged
from an elevator near his office on
the third floor of a campus building.
A university statement said two men
fired on him and fled after he was
wounded twice in the head by bullets ^ (
from a silencer-equipped pistol.
"Death was instantaneous," said
Coroner Dr. Ahmed Harati said in an
autopsy report. "The bullet was fired
from close range leaving no powder
traces." There was no explanation why
his report referred only to one wound,
while the university referred to two.
Police investigators said two men in
their early 20s carried out the killing
and raced down three flights ot stairs
to escape.
lassador
pears to go about his business efC
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torucssiy, wnemer u is diplomacy, tennis
or participation in a local theater
group.
There have been recent reports out
of Washington, later denied, that
Quainton had angered State Department
officials by making statements
that could have been interpreted as
praise for the leftist-led revolution.
The U.S. Embassy here had rebutted a
renort nresented bv President Ronald
Reagan in Washington that charged
Nicaraguan Jews were suffering from
anti-Semitism among the Sandinistas.
Blandon, who has had Quainton as
a guest on radio debates, said, "To say
that he favors the revolution is sheer
madness. The ambassador has maintained
his position. There has been a
confrontation of ideas, but the am
bassador has defended his position." ^