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March 26, 1982
What’s your beef?
staff photo by John Ryan
Kristen Wanstedt, a graduate student in
Food Science Technology from South
Dakota and Cathy Griffin, a graduate
student in Animal Science from Wyom
ing, prepare beef samples for a tasting
test. The test is being sponsored by the
Animal Science Department in conjunc
tion with the Market Research Division
of the Agricultural Economics Depart
ment for the U.S.D.A. The research is
being done for a proposed grade change
in beef.
One hostage freed
at attorney’s request
United Press International
RALEIGH, N.C. — Three in
mates freed a Central Prison
employee with minor hyperten
sion at the urging of a black
attorney early Thursday leaving
them with three hostages in a
tinv office and demanding to see
national civil rights leaders.
The inmates, two of whom
‘‘ill not be eligible for parole un
til well into the 21st century, re
leased four other hostages at
middas Wednesday in return
for water, bologna sandw iches
and dgarettes.
The News and Observer of
Raleigh, citing sources familiar
*»ith the negotiations between
authorities and the inmates, re
ined Thursday the prisoners
ve demanded to see national
dvil rights leader Jesse Jackson,
Wilmington 10 leader Benjamin
Chavis and North Carolina civil
ghts activist L.eon White.
It was reported the inmates
«so requested transfer to a fed-
traj prison. Stuart \V. Shadbolt,
>p)kesman for the Department
Correction, declined com
ment on the report and would
t** discuss the negotiations.
At 2:30 a.m. EST, Shadbolt
‘aid the negotiations had re
amed. with officials talking to
the inmates through a broken
window of the barricaded door.
“I would suggest that you stay
around awhile,” Shadbolt told
reporters. “If after this particu
lar discussion with Mr. Joyner
we can’t get together, we’ll grab
some sleep and pick it up at first
light.”
Authorities at North Caroli
na’s only maximum security
prison seemed content to
attempt to talk the men into
freeing the remaining hostages
rather than rushing the third-
floor room, which is part of the
prison’s diagnostic center where
all men entering the state’s pris
on system are screened.
Shadbolt said Jimmy J. Stall
ings, 33, of Smithfleld was re
leased at 12:42 a.m. after the in-
Dr. Kathryn L. Yorke
would like to announce the
opening of her practice
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College Station
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Dozier kidnappers
Terrorists sentenced
United Press International
VERONA, Italy — The court
trying the Red Brigade kidnap
pers of U.S. Brig. Gen. James L.
Dozier found all 17 defendants
guilty Thursday and sentenced
them to prison terms ranging
from 26 months to 27 years.
After seven hours of deliber
ation, the three judge panel —
headed by Francesco Pulcini —
read the sentences to a silent
courtroom as the defendants
gripped the iron bars of the
courtroom cages that held them.
The court reserved the stif-
fest sentence of 27 years for Ce-
sare di Lenardo, 23, a hardline
terrorist who refused to cooper
ate with police. His girlfriend,
Alberta Biliato, 36, got 17'/2
years.
Antonio Savasta, 27, the kid
nap gang leader who turned
state’s evidence, was sentenced
to 16'/2 years.
Three of the other four de
fendants who were arrested in
the Padua apartment when
Dozier was rescued Jan. 28, re
ceived sentences ranging from
12 years to 14 years. All had
turned state’s evidence after
their arrest.
Ruggiero Volinia, 25, the Red
Brigade member who cracked
under pressure and led police to
the terrorists’ hideout, was given
the lightest sentence — 26
months.
The eight defendants who
were tried in absentia each were
sentenced to 26 years in jail.
Several relatives of the terror
ists wept when the sentences
were read. Others blew kisses
and tried to force smiles.
Tina Frascella, mother of
Emanuela Frascella, 22, who
took care of the household
needs of the “people’s prison” in
Padua where the terrorists held
Dozier for 42 days, buried her
head in her hands when Pulcini
read the sentence.
The trial’s last session came
one day after Dozier, who
wound up his tour as a NATO
chief of staff in Verona last
week, left Italy for the United 1
States with his wife, Judith.
Under Italian law, those con
victed will be eligible for parole
when half their sentences are
served. A law currently under
parliamentary debate could
further shorten time before
parole for those who cooperated
with police.
ICC approves railroad merger
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The In
terstate Commerce Commission
approved Thursday the merger
of the Southern Railway System
and Norfolk 8c Western Railway
Co., two highly profitable coal-
haulers, into the nation’s third
largest rail network.
ICC chairman Reese Taylor
Jr. said at a news conference the
consolidation should meet a
growing demand for regional
rail transportation service be
tween the East, Midwest and
Southeast.
“Rail users in these areas
should receive faster and more
reliable service because freight
moving over N&W or Southern
will no longer have to be trans
ferred between railroad sys
tems,” Taylor said. “The con
solidation should make practical
the movement of coal from
mines on the N&W to utilities in
the Southeast served by
Southern.”
The commission rendered its
decision in this major case fif
teen months before the statu
tory deadline of July 2, 1983.
The merger application was
Filed with the ICC Dec. 4, 1980.
Coal mine mishap
kills 8 Taiwanese
The combined network, to be
known as the Norfolk Southern
Corp., will have about 18,()()()
miles of track in 22 states and the
District of Columbia, second in
mileage only behind Burlington
Northern and CSX Inc., both
the product of mergers in the
last two years.
Combined income of the two
companies was $503 million,
and the merger is expected to
provide an artnual savings of
$88 million.
Southern’s 10,000-mile sys
tem operates in 13 states and the
District of Columbia, stretching
from New Orleans tojacksonvil-
le., Fla. Southern is based in
Washington, D.C.
N&W, based in Roanoke, Va.,
operates 7,500 miles of track in
14 states and Ontario, stretching
from Kansas City, Mo., to Nor
folk, Va.
The merger would create a
new company, Norfolk South
ern Corp., with eight directors
from each railroad. Southern’s
common stockholders will re
ceive 1.9 shares and N&W
shareholders one share of the
new common stock for each
share they now hold. The pre
ferred stockholders of each rail
road will not be affected.
The ICC still has one major
proposed merger before it: that
of Union Pacific with Missouri
Pacific and Western Pacific into
a 22,800-mile system stretching
across the West.
United Press International
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Poiso
nous gas killed at least eight min
ers and injured more than 20
others Thursday in a coal mine
outside Taipei with more feared
missing.
Police said it was not known
how many miners still were trap
ped in the tunnels, 3 miles
northeast of Taipei.
Rescue workers said difficul
ties in the search for the missing
miners arose because of the vast
honeycomb of tunnels where
one worker died and several
others were injured in a similar
accident a year ago.
Preliminary investigation
showed miners dug into a gas
pocket and the fumes quickly fil
led the mine.
Six of the miner?; died in the
tunnels and two others died in a
hospital.
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mates, all black, had spoken witFr
Raleigh civil rights attorney
Irvin U. Joyner.
“He was released through the
persuasive argument of Mr.
Irvin Joyner, who, with a federal
agent and tw'o members of our
team, recommended he be let go
because of his medical condi
tion,” Shadbolt said.
Stallings’ hypertension is not
serious but he requires daily
medication, Shadbolt said.
The inmates continue to hold
prison chaplain Lacy U. foyner;
correctional officer David
Atkins; and Hugh M. Martin Jr.,
a data compiler who interviews
inmates in the diagnostic center,
which screens all male inmates
entering the prison system.
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