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1 hostage smuggles Iran diary out
United Press International
ST. LOUIS — Marine Sgt. Rod
ney “Rocky” Sickmann, apparently
the only hostage who successfully
smuggled a diary out of Iran, is nego
tiating for the sale of the story of his
444 days in captivity.
A family attorney for the Sick-
7:30 P.M. i| manns, William Kimme of Washing
ton, Mo., said Sunday negotiations
were being conducted with a New
York literary agent.
Kimme said Sickmann managed
to conceal the diary in his trouser leg
while the 52 American hostages were
being freed.
"A student (guarding the hos
tages) knew Rocky had the diary and
said that it was the only one left, the
only one that had not been confis
cated,” Kimme said. “He told Rocky
to put it in his luggage.
“But Rocky told me he had been
lied to so often by the students, he
put it in his pants instead. And his
luggage was in fact confiscated by the
Iranians as he left.”
Kimme said the agent arrived in
St. Louis Friday to read the docu
ment.
The agent, who was not identi
fied, told the Si. Louis Post-
Dispatch the manuscript was “leng
thy — lots of paper. It is thorough
and complete.”
The agent said Kimme had read
him parts of the diary over the tele
phone a few days earlier. He said
negotiations on the sale of publica
tion rights were continuing.
Kimme said Sickmann of Krakow,
Mo., began keeping the diary a little
more than a year ago. In the ensuing
months, Sickmann was moved three
times and despite being handcuffed
and blindfolded, he managed to keep
his diary with him.
Another former hostage, William
F. Keough Jr., said he tried to keep a
diary but each time he tried to make
notes they were confiscated.
Neither Kimme nor Sickmann
would release any details on how
Sickmann managed to keep the diary
or on its contents.
In an interview with the Post-
Dispatch, Sickmann said he spent
seven months in a jail in Tehran with
four other hostages, who taught him
how to play bridge. He also said he
forced himself into a daily exercise
regimen and often pounded the walls
in the bathroom to release his frus
tration.
Congress may balk at debt ceiling, the
shoe is on the Republicans’ feet now
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WASHINGTON — President
Reagan didn’t want to have to ask for
| an increase in the national debt ceil-
; ing in the first place. Now it looks
like Congress will deny it to him, at
least at the outset.
Scores of Republicans, longtime
opponents of higher debt ceilings,
may vote against the president.
Will Reagan suffer the political
indignity inflicted on Jimmy Carter
when he was president: defeat of a
debt increase bill on the first vote,
followed by 11th hour passage?
The debt ceiling increase is one of
only two major orders of business on
Capitol Hill this week. The other is a
Senate vote scheduled Tuesday on
confirmation of Raymond Donovan
as labor secretary.
When the debt ceiling vote com
es, many chuckling Democrats are
likely to join balky GOP lawmakers,
just to enjoy the spectacle of watch
ing the Republican discomfort.
A source in the GOP leadership
said only about 50 of the 191 House
Republicans have promised to vote
for the ceiling, and it will be almost
impossible to gain a majority unless
Reagan takes a personal hand in lob
bying.
House Republican leader Bob
Michel conceded last week that a
majority of GOP votes “would be
pretty tough to come by. ”
Reagan reluctantly asked for the
$49.9 billion increase in the debt
ceiling because the current limit —
set to last through Sept. 30 — will be
inadequate to meet the govern
ment’s borrowing requirements af
ter Feb. 18.
The ceiling has become almost
meaningless as an economic tool be
cause it merely allows borrowing to
pay debts already incurred. Failure
to raise it has no effect on the budget,
but can cause temporary havoc in the
bureaucracy.
The New Jersey construction ex
ecutive has denied the allegations
and the FBI said it found no evi
dence to support them.
Republicans have made political
hay with the debt ceiling over the
past few years, voting against it as a
bloc and forcing reluctant Demo
crats to support the Democratic
president to pass it.
The Senate Labor and Human
Resources Committee last week re
commended confirmation on an 11-0
vote, but five Democrats voted “pre
sent,” saying there still were doubts
about the allegations.
Now the shoe is on the other foot,
and many Republicans are snared by
their campaign vows to oppose furth
er debt increases.
“There are 45 to 50 members on
my side who aren’t going to vote for a
debt increase, period,” said Michel.
The Donovan nomination has
sparked controversy because of alle
gations linking him with organized
The five, including Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., ranking minor
ity member of the committee, re
leased a report Saturday in which
they said Donovan had not been
cleared of anything.
“The Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion has been unable either to corro
borate or to disprove the many se
rious charges against Mr. Donovan,”
the Democrats said.
Penthouse order
not extended
United Press International
LYNCHBURG, Va. — A federal judge today refused to extendb
order banning the distribution of Penthouse Magazine, ruling tit
constitutional right to free speech outweighed any damage to the Rei
Jerry Falwell that may result from an interview in the magazine!
March issue.
Falwell, a broadcast evangelist and founder of Moral Majorih;
obtained a temporary order Friday blocking circulation of 5 mill®
copies of the magazine that contained an interview Falwell said\«
obtained under false pretenses.
U.S. District Judge James C. Turk today refused to grant a prelim®
ary injunction extending the order. He said the public interest of tit
approximately 10 million readers of Penthouse each month is tit
primary concern.
“The proper relief is to seek compensatory damages after the fo
rather than prior restraint,” Turk said at the close of a 90-mini
hearing in a courtroom filled with spectators and reporters.
“It is a First Amendment case," Turk said later.
Lawyers for Penthouse said the magazine could lose up to $li
million if it were forced to stop distribution.
Falwell’s lawyers argued the case did not involve free speech, bit
instead was a case of “commercial exploitation’’ in which the magazine
used Falwell’s picture and opinions to increase its circulation.
Falwell testified that he was upset because free-lance writeis
Andrew Duncan and Sashti Brata promised when they interviewed
him last year the taped conversations would be used for a bookandi
London newspaper and would not be sold to “pornographic magi
“There’d be no problem here if they had said ‘we stole this ii
teview,’ Rev. Falwell knew nothing about it,” Falwell said.
Falwell said if his followers “are left believing that we gave such an
interview, it will damage irreparably our financial support.”
Falwell conferred with his lawyers after Turk’s ruling and said If
would not appeal.
“We won,” Penthouse lawyer Roy Grutman of New York said
“Another blow for freedom has been struck. The republic is safe fori
while.”
Falwell, however, said he intended to pursue a $10 million damage
suit filed in U.S. District Court in Roanoke against Penthouse,
and Duncan.
After Turk issued the temporary restraining order Friday, Pentb-
ouse publisher Bob Guccione said copies of the March issue already
had been distributed to wholesalers and news agents and were to be
available to the public beginning today in most areas of the country and
foreign countries.
At the outset of today’s hearing, Falwell’s lawyer, Tom Phfilips/r,
said the whole question may be moot because distribution already
apparently was out of Penthouse’s hands.
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Blackbirds a dung nuisance, Aggie moves roosts
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LITTLE ROCK — Armed with a siren, some old-fashioned
cherry bombs and a federal grant, Albert Bivings spends his
nights in rice fields, roosts or wherever blackbirds gather.
Bivings, who recently received his doctorate from Texas
A&M, heads the federally-funded Arkansas Wildlife Assist
ance Office. The office concentrates on problems associated
with blackbird concentration, most notably in rice fields and
feed lots.
used, it must rain soon after the agent is applied and the
temperature must drop below 40 degrees.
“There are very few nights you get all these factors working
together,” he said.
A poison which causes the birds to die from kidney failure
can kill some birds in a flock, but it is only effective when there
is no other food source, such as when the ground is covered by
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smell like snow. It’s just a stifling odor,” said Bivings. "Butjj rcentff
we try to move them, they might move into Jonesboro. Inst;iL^. ran ]
“There are 50 million to 60 million blackbirds in Arkansas
and only two of us, so we’re pretty outnumbered,” said Bivings
in a recent interview. “We like to kill a lot of them, but that
doesn’t work very well.”
Bivings said blackbird control is difficult because there are
only a couple of toxicants that can be used to kill them. The
most successful — a soap-like compound that breaks down the
oil base in feathers and causes birds to die from exposure —
must be applied under special circumstances.
Bivings said it must be a clear night since a plane must be
“Other than that, we’re left with scaring them,” said Biv-
ings.
That’s where the cherry bombs — better known as “bird
bombs” and “shell crackers” — and broadcast sirens come in.
Workers invade the fields and make such a racket the birds are
happy to leave. Bivings said it usually takes about five nights to
move a roost.
“When you scare them, they move somewhere else,” Biv
ings said. “We can move most any roost of blackbirds, but the
question is will they roost somewhere they will cause problems
or somewhere they will less likely be a problem. It’s a band-aid
remedy to a long-range problem.”
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Histoplasmosis, a respiratory disease with symptoms sin}
iar to tuberculosis, can be contracted by breathing sport esident
emmitted by bird droppings. It is rarely fatal, but Bivings at' brings
“you can count on at least six weeks bed rest. It really wipe rougho
you out.
Bivings and his one-person staff receive $150,000 annual r ‘ es ..
to harass the blackbirds, most of which is spent on salaries asl,® et “
other fixed expenses. Since it can cost up to $2,
pyrotechnics to move a roost, Bivings said his office can oil
offer advice and expertise to municipalities or farmers wit
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WASHINGTON — A religious-
backed coalition today announced it
will monitor television programs for
“skin scenes,” sexually suggestive
language, violence and profanity
with an eye to boycotting advertisers
on offending shows.
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hundred monitors with scored®
for a three-month review begin®
in March.
Then the group “will select one
more advertisers who rank
the top sponsors in the categone
mentioned and ask for a onef>
voluntary boycott of all their pfl
ducts, ” said Donald Wildmon, chat
man of the group.
Wildmon, of Tupelo, Miss.,)
liated with the United Methi
Church and is the head of the!
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He told a news conference tl
monitors will be given a form tote
tabs on the number of “skin scenes
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Wildmon said about 200 groups
including many church organic
tions, will be involved in the project
He said the coalition embrace
“many pro-life groups and pro-faiuil
groups.”
Some of the same groups tookpn*
in a similar monitoring effort lastfal
That project found the “least
structive” programs on televisiot
were “Lady’s Man,” “Soap,’ »
“It’s a Living,” Wildmon saiij
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