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'22- Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Wednesday, November 3, 1982 doubts wanted man linked to cyanide killings fccffl Til ACfl iTTPTl Tnusctiootnpe cow on Tllinnio Tests were conducted on substances taken from Master son's room, but authorities found no traces of cyanide or other poisons. Michigan authorities said a 15-year-old boy was in stable condition after eating cyanide-laced grape candy purchased from a store near his home. Redford Township police Chief Mike Manoog said the boy, whose name was not released, became violently ill after eating "Now and Later" grape-flavored hard candies Saturday. "We were advised it was a confirmed cyanide poisoning," Manoog said. Master son is connected with the cyanide slayings, but they want to question him on a comment he made in relation to the deaths.

The man was believed to be on his way to Florida 750 miles from Murray, where he bad reportedly been visiting friends. Illinois investigators, who linked Masterson to multiple deaths, have refused to say what connection he might have to the case. State task force members flew to Kentucky after the bulletin was issued, but returned Tuesday after determining Masterson was no longer in the area. In Memphis, a 2-year-oild boy was in serious condition Tuesday with corrosive burns in his throat received, his mother said, when he ate a piece of candy given him on Halloween. It was riot immediately known what kind of candy the boy consumed or with what it was tainted.

Masterson's father said he did not believe his son had anything to do with the Tylenol killings. "He's not a kook. He couldn't kill anyone," the elder Masterson said. "He told me mvo weeks ago that he was going to take a vacation. He's not running (from the law)." Masterson has a history of mental Illness and may be dangerous, police said.

He was described as a white male with red hair and blue eyes, about 5-foot-10 and weighing pounds. Task force spokesman Mort Friedman said Masterson is wanted only for questioning in the deaths that took place between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Seven Chicago-area people died after swallowing poisoned Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules.

Authorities have been following a hot-and-cold trail since the probe started. iiiTvaiHHug mij oil UUJIVU wanted for questioning in the cyanide-Tylenol Stea'hs of seven people left Kentucky and could be Jm his way to Florida. AJ)etroit teenager suffered poisoning after eating tainted grape candy. ZAii all-points bulletin was issued for Kevin Masterson, 35, of Lombard, a Chicago suburb, after Mvistigators searched a room he rented in a i house, seized several unspecified items aiui conducted weekend interviews with i'Rl investigators said they were doubtful Church recognizes 'mistakes' made in Inquisition, pope says The terrible tally: Iran World 1,047 10 2S 7M 110 1H1 726 2.M5 IT" ItH" St 407 Total 1,047 jjjj 137 'At and of December. "FlnM am month.

1981 figure lor Iraq ll conservative estimate, according to Amnesty International Amnesty International says the Khomeini regime in Iran Is largely responsible for the tripling ot government executions worldwide LFr IRAQ FXixK iran -1 10111 in 1981, ana mat tne total numoer of people executed in Iran since Khomeini came to power in 1979 is probably more than the 4,500 the regime admits to. Amnesty International, a worldwide nongovernmental human rights organization has been keeping records on executions worldwide since 1979. SOURCE Amnesty Intarnation protect the world from nuclear destruction. "You can assure that the scientific sector can serve all of man's culture and that it is never perverted and used for destruction. It is the scandal of our time that much research is dedicated to perfecting new arms for war that one day may show themselves to be fatal," John Paul said.

The pope, who is on a 10-day visit to Spain, addressed the scientists after a morning meeting with about 150 members of the Polish community in Spain. The pope told his countrymen their presence outside Poland was a testimony of that country's "struggle for the right to be itself." "This is not a simple immigration for bread, it is an immigration for ideals, an immigration that seeks to give testimony to the life of the nation and its struggle for the right to be itself," the Polish pope said. these differences have been practically overcome, thanks to the recognition of the (church's) mistakes of interpretation that deformed the relationship between faith and science," John Paul said. It was the second time the pope admitted that the church made mistakes of historical proportion. When he visited West Germany in 1980, he conceded during a meeting with Lutheran leaders that the Catholic Church was partially to blame for the rift that began the Protestant Reformation.

During the Inquisition in the 16th to 18th centuries, the Spanish Catholic monarchs and the church cruelly persecuted and killed Jews, Moors and scientists and intellectuals who were considered heretics. The pope told the scientists that humanity's future depended on them and that they had an enormous moral power to Spain (UPI) Pope John i today that the Roman Catholic Oi. i cognizes the mistakes it made dm Spanish Inquisition in which hi" were tortured and killed. I i lenminced scientific research to pi" capons as "the scandal of our tip ing an address to scientists and si at Madrid's Complutense Un on the fourth day of his visit to ST ties such as the Inquisition pro vnsions facts that the church tin! 'hi evaluate in the objective light of hi it is necessary to recognize that the of the intellectual means of Sp ii ve admirably known how to recti the need of a full liberty of resent i Ii with a profound sentiment for the chu the pope said. rn the past there were serious dis and misunderstandings between rep si of science and the church, Iranians recapture border land mm Mexico rolls hack controls on exchange Gross national product Total exports and External debt In billions ot dollars petroleum exports in billions ot dollars iinn In billions ol dollars JT 181 1 167 5 121.4 Iran Tuesday said its forces had won back 100 square miles of conquered land, including key passes and border posts in the offensive that has recaptured Iranian oil fields pumped by the Iraqis since the early weeks of the war.

Iraq said its warplanes and helicopters flew repeated sorties against Iranian positions, while Iraqi ground troops had cornered large units of attacking Iranians. Iraqi warplanes returned to their bases unscathed, Baghdad Khomeini's Islamic regime said the new offensive, which began Monday, was designed only to win back territory occupied by Iraq in the first weeks of the war. But Iraq accused Iran of "desperate attempts" to invade its territory. There was no independent confirmation of the conflicting claims, although the authorities in Tehran invited foreign reporters to the battlefield a move that has in the past heralded Iranian victories. In its final war report Tuesday, Tehran United Press Internotiongl Iranian forces today recaptured more oil-rich border land in the third day of their new offensive in the 26-month-old Persian Gulf War, Tehran radio said amid Iraqi claims that its warplanes and troops had halted the attackers.

A military communique issued by the state-run Iraqi News Agency said the battle situation had "stabilized in favor of the Iraqi forces" in the mountains west of Dezful. Iranian troops captured enough territory to bring a key Iraqi highway and dozens of oil wells within artillery range in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's third offensipe since July, Tehran Radio said Tuesday. The offensive, which began late Monday under cover of darkness, led to the "liberation" of 115 square miles of Iranian territory lost to the Iraqis in the early months of the war, the radio said. radio, monitored in Beirut, said Iranian troops were consolidating newly won positions on a long, high range looking down into Iraq. "A large, area of Iraq is now within the range of Iranian the radio said.

It said that the Zaghdad-Ammara road, a major lifeline for the Iraqi economy, was in Iranian sights, together with more than 70 Iraqi oil wells. The Iraqi news agency, INA, said numerous Iranian advances had been turned back and more than 4,600 Iranian troops were killed. Iran gave no death tolls, but claimed its troops had captured more than 500 enemy fighters and transferred them behind its lines. In Washington, the State Department said the United States "continues to urge a negotiated settlement based opon each country's respect for the principles of territorial integrity and freedom from interference in internal affairs." Total exports 15.31' h. 3 8 80 r- I 3.80 Petroleum fl I $93.2 i i 1 1 ii i 1978 79 80 81 1978 79 80 81 1975 '76 '77 '78 '79 '80 81 Crucago Tribune; Graprirc Sources Commerce Department World Bank ti Mm i Mexican-Amer'can trade KmYwkK 01 1779 I 5V 6.20 Crash of evangelist's plane a mystery M'f CITY (UPI) In a partial of strict currency controls, the Bai.k I Mexico said dollars may be exchanged at free-market rates along the U.S border in an attempt to salvage the regioi shattered economy.

Vm new decree announced Tuesday will alio" special exchange houses to buy and sell ii illars at the free-market rate. Tin move was aimed at halting the rep' '1 flow of dollars out of Mexico, desp' exchange controls imposed Sept. 1 whei all the country's private banks were nationalized. Th Hank of Mexico decree is a partial reli; in of Mexico's stiff exchange conti Is. which opponents have charged are wrecking much of the economy.

Bin der businessmen have complained that ihi foreign exchange freeze paralyzed production and caused heavy business losses when they became unable to buy raw materials and imported parts to manufacture their products. The government offered "preferential ddlla for officially-approved debts and purchases shortly after the nationalization, but manufacturers complained they were nearly impossible to get. Ki jidents of the border states will now be utile to purchase up to $1,500 a month at the i rate, -the bank said. Businesses Willi able to buy an unlimited amount of dollars for their companies. 1 onus's can sell their dollars at the NORMANGEE, Texas (UPI) A private plane carrying evangelist Lester Roloff known for his controversial homes for delinquents, apparently broke apart before crashing in a pasture, killing him and his four passengers, authorities said.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman George Burlage said Tuesday thunderstorms were churning through a cold front in the area when Roloff 's plane disappeared from radar at the FAA flight control center in Houston. Roloff, 68 was piloting the single-engine Cessna 210 when it crashed 3 miles north of Normangee, a small town halfway between Houston and Dallas. FAA officials had not determined the cause of the crash today, but Leon County Sheriff Royce Wilson said the fact that the wings and tail section vv ere found about a half mile away indicated the plane broke apart before it crashed Roloff, an experienced pilot, apparently knew he was in trouble because he was flying back south toward the airport in nearby Madisonville when the plane crashed, He was on his vay to Liberty, to speak at the Calvin Baptist Church, said Irene Patterson, a secretary at Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises at Corpus Christi. The firm owned the plane. Ron Woods of the Department of Public Safety said the plane landed on its nose and flipped.

There was no fire. "The plane was sittijng upside down," Woods said. "Everyone was inside. It was pretty gruesome. It was obvious there was no one alive.

The pilot was still in his seat, but the seat had broken loose." Also killed were Elaine Wingert, 30, a staff member at Roloff's Jubilee Home, and three residents of the home Susan Lynn Smith, 28, and Cheryl Palmer and Enola Slade, both in their early 20s. They were to sing in Liberty. Roloff, a fundamentalist preacher, gained national recognition for his controversial Rebekah and Lighthouse homes for delinquent children in Corpus Christi and his eight-year fight against state licensing. Roloff resisted, and sometimes defied, state-ordered licensing. He was jailed twice for contempt of court, and his Rebekah and Lighthouse homes were closed in 1979.

They later reopened as part of his People's Church of Corpus Christi. same rate, which is expected to be around 100 pesos to $1. The bank said the decree is aimed at convincing Mexican residents of the border region and U.S. tourists to exchange dollars in Mexico instead of Texas and California banks, which have reported lively trading in Mexican currency. Mexico set the exchange rate at 70 pesos to the U.S.

dollar when banks were nationalized, but froze dollar accounts and stopped selling dollars to its residents. A black, market immediately sprang up in Mexico's interior at a price of more than 100 pesos to the dollar. At the same time, legal exchange houses arose on the U.S. side of the frontier to buy and sell dollars and pesos, also at a rate of more than 100 to $1. Most sit out election Kurdish gunmen storm Turkish consulate By Leon Daniel UPI national reporter Hy lony Paterson ited Press International LOGNE, West Germany (UPI) people hostage, including the Consul General Ilham Kidman.

The gunmen threatened to shoot one hostage if a representative of the Turkish Embassy did not appear to negotiate with them but let one deadline pass without carrying out their threat, police said. Kiciman and two aides barricaded themselves in his office and made brief telephone contact with police, saying they had been fired on 10 times but were not hurt. Special police commandos in bulletproof vests crouched in gardens surrounding the sealed-off consulate while a police negotiator appeared at intervals and talked to gunmen hidden behind curtained windows, witnesses said. Residents were evacuated from all apartments in the neighborhood. The police spokesman said the gunmenJ)elongedto a group called the "Revolutionary Left." The Kurds are an ethnic group living in eastern Turkey who are demanding independence.

Kurds also live in Iran, Iraq and the Soviet Union. Witnesses said the gunmen hung signs outside the Consulate reading, "No to the junta constitution in Turkey," and "No NATO democracy in Turkey." The men men fired about 50 shots as they stormed into the building, witnesses said. Police said none of the released hostages taken to the hospital had gunshot wounds. A spokesman for the Turkish Embassy in Bonn said earlier six people, had been wounded in the shooting. shots were fired inside-the" Consulate about two hours after the storming, but police said no one was hurt.

Police surrounded the building with sharp-shooters and said they were talking to the gunmen through the windows of the Consulate since they could not make telephone contact. The whole area was sealed off I a radius of about 300 yards and residents were evacuated. The Turkish Embassy spokesman said the gunmen had asked to see the Turkish ambassador, but he said there was no ambassador in West Germany. The last one left for a new assignment and no successor has arrived. IJ St-t una ot ten-wing ivuraisn gunmen ding the release of political ners shot their way into the ish Consulate today, taking at 15 hostages including the consul ral, police said.

ii estimated 15 to 30 armed men rned into the consulate building in mid-morningand took the entire i hostage, police said. The men iiged- to a Kurdish liberation anization and called for the release "urdish communist political mners in Turkey. police spokesman said the men lased 30 hostages, including at least person who was injured in the fire, but were still holding 15 or 16 re 01 jam He looked across Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House. "He ain't got nothing to worry about," Earl said, referring to his president, who spent the election night having dinner at home and watching the returns on television with top aides. "Reagan's making his money.

He's already rich anyway." In San Francisco, artist Sheldon Bergh split his ticket, voting mostly for Democrats, although he said Reagan is "doing a good job." "I am awfully proud of being an American," said Bergh, who lived abroad for many years and would not think of failing to vote. Lucille Vicks Howell, a retired schoolteacher in Herrin, said, "I just voted a straight Democratic ticket. "Southern Illinois is coal-mining and farming county," said Mrs. Howell. "We have a lot of people out of work.

How does the president have the nerve to say that things are getting better? We're getting tired of him blaming the Demorats for all that's wrong." Mrs. Howell said she hoped to have the opportunity to vote for Sen. John Glenn, the Ohio Democrat, in the 1984 presidential election. "This country has been through perilous times before," said Mrs. Howell, who described herself as an optimist.

"We'll come out all right." Coal miner Jerry Vance, at home in Bradley, W.Va., watching returns on television, was pessimistic. Vance, who went back to work a month ago after being laid off for five weeks, said, "You never know if you're going to be laid off tomorrow. "It makes you leary about spending anything for Christmas," said the father of three little girls. "It's bad when you have to explain to children why you can't get something for Christmas." WASHINGTON (UPI) Walter Earl, like three out of five Americans who were eligible, did not vote Tuesday. He sat out the 1982 elections on a bench in LaFayette Park, watching the evening sun go down over the White House.

If President Reagan had by chance looked out from his front porch across Pennsylvania Avenue, he could have seen the lean black man. Pundits, better dressed and more articulate, already were analyzing on television when Walter (Carl, from a park bench on an Indian summer day, reflected on the state of the nation. Like most Americans, Earl professed anxiety over the issues, particularly the state of the economy and the worst unemployment since the Great Depression. It is a political paradox that Earl and well over 100 million other Americans did not vote. Earl had some ami; to kill before reporting for his new part-time job cleaning office buildings in downtown Washington.

"I just got the job today," said Earl, who had drawn $77 a week in unemployment compensation until his eligibility ran out a month ago after 26 weeks. Earl, 43, a divorced father of three, said he expected to work about 20 hours a week in his job, which will pay $5.09 an hour. The last time he voted, Earl said, it was for former President Lyndon Johnson. "I'm sitting on this bench because I don't want to spend the bus fare to go home and come back before I start work," he explained. Earl had more difficulty explaining why he had not voted.

"I guess I'm just not interested in he said, "but if I had voted I would have voted Democratic." mortgage fell to 12.5 percent, the lowest in more than two years. Conventional Home builders feel Italy upset at pipeline ban market forhousing is turning corner sHINGTON (UPI) Home builders J6 joyous and hopeful over the latest are government statistics that show the bigger' increase in new single family mortgage rates have been about 2 percentage points higher. The Commerce Department said that the average price of a single family house in September dropped $6,900 to $82,300. Industry experts are optimistic that the figures may mean that a 3-year-bld housing slump is coming to an end. The increase in new single family house sales to an annual rate of 464,000 was the biggest monthly increase in 28 months.

One industry analyst said the month's increase appeared to be "overestimated," yet still reflected a healthy resurgence in buying. The government's average price measure has shown wide month-to-month swings, exaggerated by the shrinking total number of sales, and has not reflected the "creative financing" and builder subsidies that have become common. WASHINGTON (UPI) Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini's meetings with President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz may likely be strained somewhat by Reagan's Soviet pipeline sanctions. Spadolini, who arrived in Washington Tuesday for his first official U.S. visit, was to meet today with Shultz at the home of Italian Ambassador Rgnaldo Petrignani and then consult with Reagan at the White House.

Although an administration official said U.S.-ltalian relations "are probably stronger today than they have ever been in the post-war period," Spadelini wants to express his disapproval about the pipeline sanctions. He has complained the ban on European firms providing U.S. technology to the Soviet Union for construction of a natural gas pipeline "threaten to worsen the production and employment situation in European countries." Reagan banned transfers of U.S. technology and equipment to the Soviets in retaliation for Moscow's support for military repression in Poland. The sanctions imposed on firms in Italy, England, France and West Germany that honored contracts to sell equipment for- the pipeline have been the only major irritant to U.S.

ties with Italy recently. An American official said Italy has played "a very positive role" in setting up trade talks aimed at easing tensions over the pipeline sanctions and East-West trade in general. home 'ales in years. "We have turned the confer in sales, no question about it," said Michael Sumir hrast. chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders.

The Commerce Department said Tuesday that the sale angle family homes, spurred by a drop in mortgage interest rates and prices, soared 23.7 percent in September. On Oct. 12, the government-insured FHA I.