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1 i i i Abbeville Meridional, Wednesday, January 21, 1987, Page 3A Study: 'Coke' lISPl iridic mI II I 3 1 News at a Gance 1 Gun runners may have smuggled drugs WASHINGTON -Americans who were running guns to the Nicar- agaun Contras also allegedly smuggled drugs to the United States and WASHINGTON Americans who were running guns to the Nicar-agaun Contras also allegedly smuggled drugs to the United States and U.S. files formal A wtfOfJ St I rtn OhAI'C jJill dUI II VM UdUCI heart attack told U.S. agents last fall that their operation was protected by the White House, The New York Times reported Tuesday. One of the accused smugglers invoked the name of Lt. Col.

Oliver North in warning drug agents to back off, the paper said. Reagan to answer Iran arms questions WASHINGTON President Reagan has met with two top advisers to reconstruct events in the Iran arms scandal and prepare to field questions on the foreign policy gambit, a White House spokesman "acknQwledged in a turnabout Tuesday. cials said. Hamadei, 22, is one of four Lebanese Shiite Moslems indicted in 1985 by the United States for air piracy, murder and other criminal offenses in the June 1985 hyacking in which Navy seaman Robert Stethem was killed. Associate Attorney General Stephen Trott has said he expects the complex process against Hamadei to go smoothly since the Justice Department agreed to West German demands to waive the death penalty for Hamadei if he is convicted.

If extradited, Hamadei would be the first suspected Middle Eastern terrorist brought to the United States for trial. WASHINGTON (UPI) The Justice Department delivered a formal request Tuesday for the extradition of a Palestinian hijacking suspect from West Germany as U.S. efforts commenced to prevent any retaliatory attacks, officials said. The extradition request has been delivered to the German authorities," said Justice Department spokesman Patrick Korten. "We have filed all the necessary papers and supporting documentation." The extradition request for Mohammad Ali Hamadei, accused of air piracy and murder in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the death of a Navy seaman on board, now goes to the German courts for approval, offi New law would affect job seekers WASHINGTON Under proposed regulations issued Tuesday to set the new U.S.

immigration law in motion, the government would require both Americans and aliens seekingjobs in the United States to produce proof of their eligibility within 24 hours. Sen. Helms wins top committee chair WASHINGTON In a surprise victory, Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina Tuesday defeated former committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana for the ranking Republican seat on the influential Foreign Relations Committee. The 45 Senate Republicans voter 24-17 to give the conservative Southern maverick the seat over the Midwestern moderate.

MONTEREY, Calif. (UPI) Any of the 5 million Americans who use cocaine regularly may be at risk of a sudden heart attack even after snorting only moderate amounts of the drug, a Tufts University medical professor said Tuesday. Dr. Jeffrey Isner said his study included nearly 30 documented cases of cardiac problems following cocaine use by apparently healthy individuals, including "a well-known basketball player whose death was related to cocaine use," an apparent reference to Len Bias, who died June 19 at the University of Maryland after ingesting cocaine. Isner, reporting at an American Heart Association forum, said that although only a small proportion of cocaine users die of cardiac problems, there is no way of predicting who they will be.

He also reported that there have not been enough similarities among the victims to provide "a risk-factor profile to identify vulnerable individuals," he said. All the cases involved "relatively small doses of cocaine" and most users snorted it instead of injecting or smoking it. "They don't have to be chronic users," he added, "they can be first-time users." Isner described six of the most recent cases involving cocaine users between the ages of 20 and 37. Two were found dead of heart attacks and the other four were treated for cardiac problems in local hospitals. All six had ingested cocaine shortly before suffering cardiac problems, and "nothing about those individuals that we could identify should have caused acute myocardial infarction," Isner reported.

The physiological causes of these sudden attacks are not yet known, he said, but "it is likely that cocaine was able to induce coronary artery spasms leading to the development of clots" and ultimately triggering acute myocardial infarction. This hypothesis is borne out by the fact that "the majority of cases involved individuals with normal coronary arteries," said Isner. The cardiac specialist also theorized that cocaine may "act on the cardiovascular system indirectly via its well-known effects on the central nervous system, or through direct action on the electrical system of the heart." "The potential for sudden fatal cardiac disorders has not been recognized" outside the United States, he added, and this apparent cultural phenomenon "requires further investigation." Railstrike causes huge traffic jam U.S. charged with indifference LONDON The United States has taken no steps to end human rights abuses by Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, including the mutilation and execution of civilians, Amnesty International charged Wednesday. The international human rights organization made the accusations in a letter to Secretary of State George Shultz.

Iran continues offensive on Iraq Iran, saying its troops were keeping pressure on beleagured Iraqi defenders at the port city of Basra, fired another missile at Baghdad, Iraq's capital, Tuesday. Basra is Iraq's second-largest city and the target of the latest Iranian offensive. Blacks to march county subway that took him into Manhattan. "I'm arming myself with diversions, which means I'm probably going to read an awful lot of books because Fm ready to rough it until the end." As bumper-to-bumper traffic thickened to a 40-mile jam, negotiations between the Long Island Rail Road and striking unions continued to deteriorate with six more unions joining the strike. In all 15 unions, including five with LIRR contracts and 10 still negotiating, have pledged to honor the strike they said could last for months.

Talks were to resume Tuesday to try to iron out wage and benefits differences that caused the strike the fifth in 15 years against a line that carries 165,000 passengers every day. dad buried Westhampton High School in Richmond. Among his achievements was a special commendation in 1982 from Johns Hopkins University for his service as a teacher and administrator. Beaty also was known in Richmond as a jazz musician and band leader. A Front Royal native, he was born Jan.

18, 1903. He was graduated from Front Royal High School in 1919 and earned his bachelor's degree at Randolph-Macon College in 1926. He held a doctorate in psychology and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. MacLaine won the Academy Award for best actress in 1 983 for "Terms of Endearment." ATLANTA (UPI) The sheriff of Forsyth County, where "brotherhood" marchers were attacked by Confederate flag-waving white supremacists, vowed Tuesday to protect a return march Saturday led by the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. The Guardian Angels said Tuesday they will join the march, but won't "turn the other cheek" if attacked, and the head of the American Civil Liberties Union asked President Reagan to lead an interracial march through the all-white north Georgia county.

Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley Walraven, meanwhile, vowed to protect Saturday's marchers, "if it takes 300 state troopers and eveery agent in the state." "I think it ought to be where folks can walk on any street in any town or county in the state of Georgia freely," Walraven said after meeting with other law enforcement agencies, the Justice Department and the staff of Goy. Joe Frank Harris to discuss Saturday's march, which is expected to draw 2,000 people. Coretta Scott King, wife of the slain civil rights leader, plans to join Saturday's march in Cumming, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and entertainer Dick Gregory. ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser sent a letter to Reagan saying "moral leadership" is still needed in the civil rights movement.

Beverly, David Berry, 20, of Marblehead, and Robert Thayer, 22, of Hamilton, left Hyannis, Nov. 21, 1980. They were aboard two 50-foot boats, the Fair Wind and Sea Fever, and received an official marine forecast of fair weather. The Fair Wind sank the next day after reaching Georges Bank, -vr, NEW YORK (UPI) Thousands of Long Island commuters were mired in a 40-mile traffic jam that quadrupled traveling time to New York City Tuesday on the first working day of a strike against the nation's largest commuter rail line. The metropolitan area's first major snowstorm of the season and a rush-hour accident in the Midtown Tunnel combined with the strike to snarl traffic on the Long Island Expressway, where hundreds of express buses were called into emergency service by county officials and were packed to standing-room-only capacity.

"Today's commute was a charming four hours. Normally, it's a little over an hour," said Jeffrey Maier, a banking executive with a Manhattan subsidiary of Citicorp, who boarded a bus at Huntington, L.I., that went to a Entertainers' ARLINGTON, Va. (UPI) Ira O. Beaty, the father of actress Shirley MacLaine and actor-director Warren Beatty, died at a Baltimore hospital, his family said Tuesday. He was 83.

Beaty, an educator and retired Arlington County real estate agent, died of an undisclosed illness last Wednesday. His death was not announced until after a private funeral and burial Monday, Warren Beatty said Tuesday from his parents' North Arlington home. Beaty, a former Richmond resident, had lived primarily in Arlington County since January 1945 when he became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School. During his career, he also served as principal of Waverly High School in Waverly, and Comfort IB'WJ'W Weather forecast not blamed in white "I propose that you lead a small delegation of black and white leaders on a brief walk in Forsyth County, which might culminate in a speech about racial equality in an appropriate public place," Glasser wrote. "The impact of such an act would be enormous and would constitute a fitting tribute to Dr.

(Martin Luther) King," Glasser added. The Guardian Angels said they planned to walk the 40 miles from Atlanta to Cumming, where they will join Saturday's so-called "freedom march." "We hope there will be no but we're prepared for violence," said Angel Thomas Hunt. "We're certainly not going a rich fishing area off the Massachusetts coast, when the vessel encountered a fierce storm packing 80-mph winds. Barnos and Berry went down with the Fair Wind. Thayer, who was not represented in the suit, was presumed lost when it sank.

Brown drowned after a huge wave pulled him from Sea Fever. rt. (next to Feed) to turn the other cheek." Walraven admitted he underestimated the potential for violence last weekend and didn't have enough manpower to keep Ku Klux Klansmen and sympathizers from throwing rocks and bottles at the marchers. "We're going to be working and making plans and I'm sure that several agencies will be working closely with us in determining what activities we need to do," he said. About 400 people, including Klansmen in white robes and military camouflage fatigues, were meeting in a pasture across from where the marchers disembarked from a bus from Atlanta.

in deaths Tauro ruled the weather service was negligent in failing to repair an offshore weather buoy used to forecast weather conditions. Members of the families involved were either unavailable or declined comment on the decision until they spoke with their lawyers. if Sale last. OffQfUwy 14 Vdcoxnbve La. WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear the case of three lobster-men whose families sought $1.25 million from the National Weather Service for failing to predict a storm that killed the men off New England.

The damage award, made by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro after a trial in Boston, was set aside last May by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled the government was not liable for the inaccurate forecast. "This basically holds up the position the weather service has taken since the beginning of this case," said Don Witten, a weather service spokesman. "There is a certain degree of uncertainty in weather forecasting." Tauro found the weather service negligent in connection with its failure to forecast a 1980 storm off the New England coast during which four lobstermen were The families of three brought suit.

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