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Bomb scare increases postal security
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United Press International
DETROIT — Discovery of two
homemade bombs — one addres
sed to President Reagan — had
postal inspectors doing extra duty
Tuesday, screening the contents
of city mail boxes normally
emptied by mail carriers.
The discovery Monday sparked
a massive search of downtown
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mailboxes and the Renaissance
Center, scene of last summer’s
Republican National Convention.
The two bombs, found in cor
ner mailboxes just blocks apart,
each contained six sticks of “very
old and unstable dynamite” and a
blasting cap. They were removed
by the Detroit Police bomb squad.
Police said the bombs may have
been the work of the same person
, or persons and it was believed
other explosive devices may have
been planted throughout the city.
Mail carriers discovered the
brown bags with protruding
wires. The first package had the
words “Ronald Reagan, Washing
ton D.C.” written on the outside.
The other was addressed to the
Detroit News, Secret Service
agents said.
Several other reports of suspi
cious packages, which turned out
to be false alarms, sent police all
over the city.
Police used specially trained
bomb-sniffing dogs to search a
downtown parking garage, the Re
naissance Center hotel-
entertainment complex and the
main Detroit Post Office building.
Following discovery of the
bombs, postal authorities immedi
ately instructed all mail carriers to
be wary of and to report all suspi
cious packages. Postal officials said
federal postal inspectors accompa
nied several carriers to pickup
sites.
“It’s not a common occurrence
in the postal service,” a spokes
man said. “We don’t usually have
anything of this magnitude but we
do occasionally have bomb
threats,”
Officials said postal inspectors
would continue making rounds
with mail carriers to empty mail
boxes and check their Contents for
more bombs.
Authorities carried the bombs
from the crowded downtown and
discharged them on Belle Isle,
rocking the island park on the De
troit River between Detroit and
Windsor, Ontario, and startling
bystanders.
The brown grocery bag and
gray duct tape used on the bomb
addressed to Reagan were taken
by Secret Service agents for
analysis.
The bomb addressed to Reagan
was found by a mail carrier
emptying a postal box on a down
town corner about 3 a.m., auk
ities said. Twelve hours lafe
blocks away, the second fcoul
addressed to the News - sj
found in another mail box.
The handwriting on both pad.
ages appeared to be similar, polii
said.
“It appears it was done byfo
same individual or individual
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the downtown area,”
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discovery of two more Med flies
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California agriculture officials
say they are not alarmed by the
discoveries of two more Mediter
ranean fruit flies in the Los
Angeles area, one day after Gov.
Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared
the infestation under control.
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Los Angeles County Agricultu
ral Commissioner Paul Engler
said the Medfly finds Monday in
suburban Baldwin Park were not
evidence that the San Gabriel Val
ley infestation was spreading.
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“There is no need to over
react,” he said. “I am cautiously
optimistic. We have the re
sources. I have extreme confi
dence in our trapping system.”
Brown said Sunday the infesta
tions in Los Angeles and northern
California’s outbreaks in Stanis
laus County and the Santa Clara
Valley were under control. But
farmers said if the battle against
the crop-eating fruit fly was being
won. Brown had nothing to do
with it.
“I feel that he’s just trying to get
the monkey off his back and get
people to quit talking about it be
cause it will hurt his chances of
getting elected to the U.S. Senate
next year,” said Don Rosendahl,
president of the Fresno County
Farm Bureau.
Larry Lichtfield, a spokesman
for the Council of California
Growers, said it was “premature
to say the Medfly battle has been
successful and is under control.”
“There has to be a period of
time when no new flies emerge,”
he said. “The fly has a life cycle of
30 to 45 days. After a couple of life
cycles and there are no more flies,
we could say they are under con
trol.”
At Medfly eradication head
quarters in Los Gatos, Calif, Bill
Pope said aerial spraying over all
infested zones would continue this
week.
George Strathearn, deputy
state agriculture director said,
“I’m not sure we can say it’s under
control, but the project is working
well.”
Hans Van Ness, another state
agriculture official, said the fact
that fewer flies were being found
now was “the basis for the good
feeling. ” But he said he expected
flareups to Continue all through
the fall and until next spring.
In the northern part of 4
state, Medfly officials announce!
plans to add 47 square mile
southwest of Saratoga to B([\v yo|{'k
Clara County’s aerial spray a IL ,,, .
Federal Medfly fighter W
Jackson said no flies had bee ![. „
found in the area but theareiii a p
numerous old orchards and w
yard fruit trees might attract!
insect. Jackson said he hopd
spraying could begin by the eniii
the week in the sparsely popi
lated area.
In Sacramento, the SenateB
nance Committee unanimonili^ vVo,.]^
approved Monday a bill providin|Lj on L arr ,
$50 million for the state's ^|j nons
against the feared pest. llAli’scornt
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year-old dream to recover tli
riches of the Andrea Doria wii
ended Tuesday.
Weary treasure hunters, wii
only one of the luxury liner’s W
safes in tow, but with new
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ship went down, packed equigj
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The exhausted crew of k
search ship Sea Level 11 spentk
last day shooting more under*
ter film for a documentary on k
Andrea Doria and prepared i«
raise anchor Tuesday for the inf
back to the search ship’s homf
port of Montauk, N.Y. The vessel
is expected to arrive today.
Although divers failed to raise
the second of two safes believed!*
contain up to $4 million in casl
and jewels, the expedite
reached another goal — to disco*'
er why the liner went down, tf
ing 50 people.
They found that hull damage
more extensive than previousl)
believed caused the Andres
Doria to sink in the Atlantic fol
lowing a crash with the ship Stock
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Level 11, which has bees
anchored off the Nantucket eoasl
over the sunken liner since
30, told United Press Intemation;
al that some divers were
by the order to return.
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“A few people are dis
appointed, ” he said by ship-fr
shore radio, explaining they had
hoped Gimbel would extend lb*
search for a few more days.
Most of the crew members,
however, were “ecstatic” over
their finds — even without th*
second safe, according to Gimbels
spokeswoman, Lillian Pickard.
Pickard said the valuables con
tained in the recovered safe would
belong to the salvager.
“They have accomplished what
they set out to do,” she said
“There is absolutely no dis
appointment.
“They just have a feeling that it
is time for them to leave . They
didn’t want to push their luck and
extend the expedition for a fe"
days. They took the physical prob
lems into consideration when they
abided by the deadline.”
Gimbel had contracted a fever
and several of the divers were suf
fering from respiratory and ear
problems after more than two
weeks in compression withoutany
fresh air. The divers have been
living in a pressurized compart
ment to acclimatize them to
deepwater search.
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