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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1979
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[James Kneip helps prepare pecans for sale by the Texas
Vgricultural Experiment Station. The nuts can he purchased
Monday through Friday at the Horticulture Farm until the
Christmas holidays. They will be sold in 10-pound bags with
prices ranging from $1.10 to $1.60 per pound.
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■lus Curtis, 54, of Laredo, was the
ftf000-a-year head of the Beatrice
Foods Co. subsidiary in Bogota
iC 111'J Hfen' he was kidnapped on Sept. 28,
1^6. He was held for 235 days in a
3 foot cell at the base of a moun-
mine shaft.
of death, ifthe non-jury trial in U.S. District
■nt fatality Court in Manhattan is believed to be
ft first of its kind.
Mlurtis, whose wife Vera was a
also be lid Bl-known television personality in
■ivil engine Bogota, testified he was warned by a
me-car attiw 6 Department official in Col-
Hbiathat he was in danger of being
gapped two months before his
cal began.
le said he told his superiors at the
icago-based conglomerate that he
in danger and repeatedly asked
a transfer to another country.
Don’t worry about it. Everything
be all right,” the company
ered, according to Curtis’
lint.
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i WASHINGTON — Someone in
nald Reagan’s campaign head-
ilarters gets the spelling award for
arsday.
|n a release announcing Frederick
Biebel had joined the campaign,
agan’s name was spelled three
tys — only one of them right.
The choices were: Reagen
long), Reagan (right) and Regan
{(vrong).
\nd Biebel’s name was spelled
libel two paragraphs later.
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1977 when, he said, he was “forced”
to resign after the company asked
him to return to Bogota.
The terrorists, numbering at least
22, originally demanded $5 billion in
ransom. The company, however,
hired two British terrorist experts
who negotiated the figure down to
$450,000.
Curtis testified he was pulled from
his car while being driven home and
was bound and blindfolded and
taken in the terrorists car to the
head of a deep shaft into which he
was lowered by a sling.
He said he was met at the bottom
by a hooded woman who told him he
had been kidnapped and who led
him into the “cage-like” cell, where
he changed into pajamas and where
he was locked up alone in “absolute
silence.”
Curtis said his captors “played”
with him. They put a loudspeaker in
his cell and nearly drove him out of
his mind with raucous music, he
said.
He never knew when he was to get
his daily ration of food and water.
They even “took time away from
me,” he said, and not knowing the
time was a “shattering experience.”
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WASHINGTON — Acting Im
migration Commissioner David
Crosland has ordered agents nation
wide to stop asking political ques
tions of Iranian students in deciding
whether they should be deported,
officials said Thursday.
John Russell, a Justice Depart
ment spokesman, said Crosland
heard news reports that such ques
tions were being asked, and re
sponded by sending a telegram to all
field offices of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service.
He said the telegram ordering an
end to the practice was sent
Tuesday.
The American Civil Liberties Un
ion had complained in a federal court
suit that Iranian students were being
harassed in the immigration inter
views.
“They are being hounded with
questions like, ‘Are you pro-
Khomeini? What demonstrations
have you been to?”’ said Charles
Sims, an ACLU lawyer in New York,
in a telephone interview.
He said he talked to 20 students
who alleged they were asked politic
al questions, and other complaints
came from ACLU affiliates in Texas,
northern California, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Russell said the ACLU suit “had
nothing to do with this decision. ” He
said Crosland acted on his own after
hearing press reports of the ques
tioning.
At the same time, INS disclosed
that 26,148 Iranian students have
turned up at immigration offices
across the country to comply with a
Nov. 13 order to report within 30
days and prove they are in school, or
face deportation.
INS said 3,592 of those who have
reported have been deemed “out of
status” and deportable, but only 405
have agreed to leave voluntarily.
INS agents are checking documenta
tion of another 1,900 students. It
said 293 have requested asylum in
the United States.
The ACLU charges in its suit, to
be considered by a federal judge
Tuesday, that the entire program is
discriminatory because it singles out
Iranians for an enforcement crack
down.
Some students, Sims said, have
been found to be deportable merely
because they transferred schools
without INS approval, after waiting
months for agency permission with
out a response.
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WASHINGTON — HEW Secret
ary Patricia Harris urged Congress
Thursday to adopt President Car
ter’s national health insurance plan,
and said a more expensive alterna
tive by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-
Mass., would mean rationing of
health care.
Harris clashed with organized
labor on the issue in testimony pre
pared for two House health subcom
mittees which are beginning hear
ings now on the controversial issue.
Action is not expected until next
year.
In his prepared remarks, AFL-
CIO President Lane Kirkland said
the Carter plan merely “relies on old
solutions which are part of the prob
lem.” Kirkland endorsed the Ken
nedy plan enthusiastically, calling it
“reasonable, rational and sound-
.”The administration proposal,” he
said, “would merely pour new
money into the present system,
which is inherently inflationary and
which puts emphasis on reimburse
ment for sickness, rather than pre
vention of sickness.”
But Harris said the Kennedy bill is
beyond anyone’s capability to man
age and the Carter plan is the only
one that can work in an era of tight
budgets.
She said the Kennedy idea of
budgeting certain funds for health
care providers “would inevitably re
sult in an arbitrary rationing of
health care services.”
Harris said she believes Congress
can pass an acceptable national
health insurance bill next year, but
the legislation will need a broad base
of support that only the president s
bill can attract.
The White House believes the
Carter plan would cost between $24
billion and $26 billion. Kennedy’s
would be $40 billion or more.
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