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give his golf style some variation and movie “Caddy Shack.”
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■reased by 56,()()() to 654,000
Bitring the week ending Nov.
I p, the Labor Department said
/hursday.
This increase was the first in
ive weeks and the largest surge
’ n claims since the total hit a re-
pSH lord 703,000 new claims 10
■*' veeks earlier.
Before adjustment for
ft of prof outine seasonal hiring and
ipokeswoi ayoff trends, the department
orney’sou laid the number of actual new
10 operai* ilaims for benefits was up
lias' Cot® 103,100 from the previous week
)0 in Ioa» md totaled 649,800.
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he loans' rompensated for the fact layoffs
kruptcy' tsually rise in November but
showed they climbed past the
dly acted 1 ^timber suggested as typical by
)y findW pnst years’ experience,
leo gam fl The number of people
already receiving benefits also
showed a sharp increase, climb
ing by 196,000 to a new' total of
4,841,000, or a 5.5 percent of
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United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The trans
fer of a former mental patient —
who is wanted for questioning in
the seven Tylenol killings — was
mysteriously delayed, but offi
cials said he was expected in Chi
cago Thursday.
The return to Illinois of
Kevin Masterson, 35, who sur
rendered to the FBI Monday,
had been ordered immediately
but was delayed Wednesday for
unexplained reasons.
Authorities in both Los
Angeles and Chicago had little
to say about why Masterson’s re
turn was delayed.
“We have no notion why he’s
still here or when he’ll be leav
ing,” a police spokesman said.
“He’s just kind of a guest of ours
until those guys (from Illinois)
come to get him.”
Masterson is wanted for ques
tioning concerning statements
he made about the cyanide-
laced Tylenol killings of seven
people in the Chicago area two
months ago.
Illinois Attorney General
Tyrone Fahner expressed doubt
that the unemployed mechanic
was responsible for the poison
ings and urged him to take a lie
detector test.
Masterson calmly walked into
an FBI office Monday after four
weeks on the run and was
arrested for marijuana charges
filed in DuPage County, Ill.
He was transferred to a pad
ded cell Tuesday night after
throwing a violent tantrum,
smashing a toilet and smearing
feces on the walls, police said.
A police spokesman said Mas
terson was enraged by other
prisoners calling him “the Tyle
nol killer,” but another officer
said the outbreak was caused by
refusal of Masterson’s request to
make a phone call.
Masterson has a history of
mental hospitalization in Ore
gon, authorities said.
A nationwide search con
tinued for James W. Lewis and
his wife* Leann. Lewis was
named in a federal extortion
warrant, accused of writing a let
ter to the makers of Tylenol de
manding $ 1 million “if you want
to stop the killing.”
Masterson told police he was
so frightened by learning he was
wanted by the FBI tjiat he lived
in a car in the desert.
Masterson was not a suspect,
but he “made statements to va
rious people that he had a role in
the poisoning,” Fahner said.
Friends told investigators
Masterson held a grudge against
Jewel Food Stores for filing sho
plifting charges against his ex-
wife in 1975. Masterson re
portedly blamed the incident for
the breakup of his marriage.
Some of the cyanide victims pur
chased the poisoned Tylenol
capsules at Jewel stores.
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the insured workforce, for the
weekended Nov. 13, the depart
ment said.
The number of people get
ting extended benefits, indicat
ing their unemployment has
lasted longer than the usual 26-
week maximum compensation
period, rose to 364,800 during
the week ended Nov. 13, up by
12,300 before adjustment.
Since the week of Sept. 18,
when the total of new claims
surged by 91,000, the volatile
weekly figure has risen three
times and declined six, leaving
the total 49,000 below the re
cord 703,000.
The Labor Department issues
its monthly unemployment rate
today, which reflects the overall
jobless situation based on a sur
vey taken during the week of
Nov. 13. The rate is adjusted for
routine seasonal patterns.
During that week in Novem
ber new claims stood at 598,000,
well below the rate during the
survey week in October of
687,000.
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