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national Battalion/Page 12 June 16, Warped By Scott McCullar Official says alcohol a danger to railroad Unemployed stunt man ‘gets career off ground’ by scaling skyscraper United Press International LOS ANGELES — An unem ployed movie stunt man wearing a tuxedo scaled the 62-story First Interstate Bank — the tal lest skyscraper west of Houston — in a four-hour attempt “to get his career off the ground.” While hundreds of down town office workers oohed and aahed Monday morning at what one onlooker called “some idiot climbing the building,” author ities at the top were not amused. Ron Broyles was handcuffed MIX-AS IX Choose a mixture of your favorite beers to create a six pac at... 10% off St. Pauli Girl, Swiss Lowenbrau, Yukon Gold & Many, Many More rpeAlWEIO'Q FINE imported food AND WINES I 404 University Expires June 19, 1982 Today Only! 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He faces up to six months in jail and a $500 fine if con victed. “Some people take this pretty lightly, but police and fire per sonnel are stretched thin enough already and it seems absurd to have them standing around while this guy tries to get a little publicity,” complained police spokesman Rod Bernson. “What if somebody needed that paramedic unit in a heart attack situation?” Broyles began his climb just before dawn Monday and reached the top of the 858-foot structure shortly after 8 a.m. He used four specially designed clamps to scale a groove in the Wilshire Boulevard building. “He’s doing this to get his career off the ground,” said Andy Andrews, a friend of Broyles’ who was watching the climb from the sidewalk below. United Press International PITTSBURGH — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday chal lenged federal railroad officials to deal with the growing prob lem of drunken railroad workers. Jim Burnett, in remarks pre pared for safety officers at an Association of American Rail roads meeting in Pittsburgh, said a recent government survey found 19 percent of railroad workers are repetitive excessive drinkers. The study, funded by the Federal Railroad Administra tion, showed 5 percent of the 234,000 workers surveyed at seven major railroads showed up for work very drunk or got very drunk on duty at least once a year. “The trainman who drinks,” he added, “endangers not only himself, but his fellow crew members and passengers.” In his first address since be coming chairman of the inde pendent federal agency in Janu ary, Burnett said the FRA should implement a board re commendation to require train operating rules that prohibit the use of drugs by employees for a specified time before reporting to duty. “One need go no further than the Federal Aviation Adminis tration, a sister agency of the FRA, to find such a rule affect ing flight crews and even private pilots not engaged in interstate commerce,” said Burnett, who plans to make the issue a major one during his term. The board chairman said the federal government has a legal and moral responsibility to pro tect passengers aboard trains. He said he found it ironic, while Congress is moving to ward passage of drunken- driving legislation for the high ways, “the federal government itself — in the form of the FRA — is doing nothing top drunks off the railroad." Enforcement of an alt free period before worki not be easy, Burnett ad ledged. But he said he such a program could bepn strict screening of train cto sponsible for passengerti shipments of high-risk dous materials. As alcoholics are idei they should be rehabilitate: said. “The message to rail pti nel must be absolutely e first, alcohol and thejol mix,” Burnett said, help is available for thost have a drinking s: lu os j; third, rehabilitation must Ground Be before the accident.” day amid f Board records showati restall a 1 Uni Israeli a hanged ital. 'alestin six major rail accidents a more than $1 million in in the last decade that went hoi or drug-related, and right tape nine others that were hand-lney said the field investigation levti as aimed cjmp of B Pope speaks in Geneva at world labor me United Press International GENEVA — Pope John Paul II, arriving to the most subdued welcome of any of his trips out side the Vatican, called Tuesday for “a new solidarity” of labor that puts human dignity above profits and aims for society’s common good. Before the annual confer ence of the International Labor Organization, the pope, in a re mark particularly applicable to his native Poland, demanded the right of workers “to associate freely in full independence from political authorities.” John Paul attacked growing unemployment, forcefully re called the hunger and poverty suffered by hundreds of mil lions of people and said, “the worldwide common good re quires a new solidarity without frontiers.” The pope, deeply heartened by the end of the Falkland Is lands war following his peace seeking visit to Argentina, re ceived a subdued welcome in the city that used to be known as “the Protestant Rome.” Only a few hundred p lined the leafy streets mountain-rimmed capital drove in a close the airport to the quarters of the United Nj to give his speech in the palace that once houseil League of Nations. News of Argentina’s sm der came during the pi dy dunes ; The appealed i ■face pe plates, blai theshootii very v ’alestir phairman Seen Cuellar Jed or v\ itlg and 8< by anon. Arafat rut wit 'liDeCue li to “it milled bi 0fftt ; P ri:es - Justice Department trap captures fugitive ex-spy United Press International NEW YORK — Fugitive ex- CIA agent Edwin Wilson — ac cused of training terrorists for Libyan Col. Moammar Khadafy — was snared in an intricate in ternational trap, arrested at Kennedy Airport and held on $20 million bond pending a hearing today on removing him to Washington. Wilson, 54, traveling under an assumed name on an Irish passport, was refused entry Tuesday into the Dominican Re public, where authorities de tained him in an international zone of the airport and' then hustled him onto a non-stop flight to New York. U.S. mar shals on the plane arrested him upon landing. The Justice Department apparently lured Wilson into the trap by enlisting the aid of one of his associates, who convinced the fugitive he would be granted sanctuary in the Caribbean is land nation. It was “a large covert opera tion” that “went absolutely per fectly,” the Washington Post quoted a law-enforcement offi cial close the plan as saying. Wilson and an ex-CIA associ ate, Frank Terpil, were indicted in 1980 and 1981 on a variety of charges, including illegally ex porting explosives, detonators and sensitive nightvision equip ment to Libya, and providing training for Khadafy’s terror ists. Terpil is still at large. Wilson and Terpil also are ac cused of conspiracy in the attempted murder of a Libyan student in Colorado. Wilson, tall, white-haired and dressed in a black business suit, was taken to U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, where Magistrate A. Simon Chrein ordered him held in lieu of $20 million bail. He was held in the custody of U.S. marshals, authorities said. A hearing was scheduled today on Wilson’s removal to Washington. During the arraignment, fed eral prosecutors from Washing ton revealed they had spoken to him by telephone several times while he was a fugitive. Wilson, who was led into the courtroom in handcuffs, smiled at government prosecutors when he was introduced to them, but repeatedly wiped perspiration from his forehead during the hearing. In arguing for the high bail, prosecutor Lawrence Barcella said Wilson was aware agents were looking for him And had millions of dollars available to him. Attorney General William French Smith said investigators “through extensive investiga tion came to know the docu ments Mr. Wilson was traveling on, put out international alerts, and tracked him through West ern Europe, and finally to the Dominican Republic.” Federal officials said they understood Wilson did not resist being put on the plane, but did tell Dominican authorities he had no visa to enter the United States. “They told him he didn’t have to worry about that,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jeff Harris said. Investigators have said Wil son, who has been in Libya for the past year, and Terpil, signed an agreement in 1976 with Kha dafy to sell their expertise in in telligence and military matters for the training of terrorists. flight from Rome, v/wu™ his plane said he had I 1 cheered by the news off moves between Britain Argentina. In the keynote speech visit, the pope called for “a clarity that broadens horia include not only the intera individuals and parti groups but the common society as a whole." The pope, who once w as a laborer in a chemical to in his native Poland, said > in any of its forms deserves ticular respect because itrt| sents the output of a being and because behi» I there is always a live subjec Delegates to the 148-ffi ILO conference warmly plauded the pontiff at theei his hour-long address, r French. He said man should bepi before machines, profitsot] tical systems, adding newt nology should not be allow eliminate jobs. Vetera i er Pr iet twice I Salam sidenti; High-i er WcV kis anc ad. iplom e aimec to the lout Isi stinian foslem wi They s The 1980 indictments were the result of a three-year investi gation by the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Gol- umbia and also involved the FBI, the Treasury Department and law-enforcement author ities in several foreign countries. He urged acceptance oli' Ur primacy of human workffiSAN F the means of productior Salvador- the primacy of the individ nient troc work over production rei] pstern gi ments or purely economic! lihe larges The pontiff, who two'«fador’s th ago saw the ravages of u® 1 But th ployment in the English n paid Wedi Liverpool, said “the humanttu near son is the first and ultimate![panies, an rion in the planning of etifpe arm) ment.” He said “new ethical cho» were necessary, and whether society can “tolefil situation in which many 4 people may find their® without any prospect of on(| getting a job.” MSC ❖ O mm 6 for 1 c / ■ Come on out to where the fun times roi. GCO» $ tASQ Bowling Lanes Rent-A-Lane s 4 00 per hour Mon.-Fri. 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Sun. 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Good thru June 30, 1982 u 6 tokens for $ 1 June 17-23 The Ultimate in Video Games!” Zaxxon Digdug Ms. Pacman Robotron and many more! Easti