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'CHICAGO — Reports of
copycat tampering of bakery
goods spread to new products
Thursday, one clay after the
Girl Scout Council of Chicago
halted this year’s cookie drive
because of cookies sabotaged
with pins, staples and glass.
Girl Scout cookie sales
were also postponed in parts
of Indiana and Michigan
while local and federal offi
cials investigated more than
150 tampering cases in 24
states. Authorities believe the
incidents, which began three
weeks ago in St. Louis, are the
workol unrelated “copycats.”
^ “It’s just like Tylenol.
You've got some goofs out
there," said a South Chicago
police officer investigating a
report by a woman who said
she chipped a tooth on a
straightened safety pin hid
den in a Hostess Ho-Ho cake.
Seven Chicago area people
died in I9S2 after taking cy
anide-laced Extra-Strength
Tylenol capsules. No one has
ever been charged in those
deaths. There have been no
cases of serious injury re
ported in the cookie tam
perings.
“It has to be a copycat type
of thing,” said a Chicago po
lice officer investigating a re
port a South Side woman
swallowed staples after biting
into a Ho-Ho cake.
Officials in northwest sub
urban Schiller Park, where
Hostess products are made,
said the tampering reports
were under investigation and
the FBI had been notified.
They refused further com
ment, as did officials of the
New York-based ITT Conti
nental Baking Company,
Inc., which owns Hostess.
“She bit into it (the Ho-Ho)
and felt a scratching sensa
tion a short time later,” said
officer Clyde Kwiatkowski.
Police who went to the
food store where the teen
ager bought the Ho-Ho cakes
found three Hostess fruit pies
and two Hostess twinkles also
contained foreign objects,
Kwiatkowski said.
ramm, opponents fight
>ver House attendance
United Press International
AUSTIN — Texas Congress-
nan Phil Gramm, a Republican
andidate for the U.S. Senate,
'hursday criticized the atten-
ance records of two of his
louse colleagues who also are
eeking the Senate post.
In a telephone interview
rom his Washington office,
iramm said both GOP Rep.
Paul and Democratic Rep.
lent Hance apparently would
e absent Thursday for a final
oteon the adoption of the fed-
kes a v«vfl| ,l !^ IIK ^ e( , .
' 5 Ini back in Washington to
1 ote on the budget, the most
g an erronti mportant issue of this congres-
previouilyjJ fed session,” Gramm said. “It
1 the credill not escaped me that I’m
ve received i ieiea i° ne -
The former professor also
c .1 aidhisstaff had scrutinized the
0 | rT ,tc,Klance recoixh <)f Paul and
Leslie Wall {j nce (hiring the past three
Lisa Hensarinoiuhs.
Rodeo Texas Paul was present only 3 1 pet -
lents heveni ent o{ the time, he said, and
lance was in Washington for
dy 5.0 percent of the votes,
y & loth candidates, considered
mderdogs in their respective
John Ragll irintary contests, have spent
Classofl tost of their time campaigning
n Texas.
Hance is battling against
ront-mnning candidate Bob
Integer and state Sen. Lloyd
loggett in his primary, while
’aid’s chief opponents are
Iramm and Houston business-
tat anyone a nan Rob Mosbacher.
Gramm said his figures were
vised on Congressional Quar-
eriy records of votes taken on
substantive matters,” and did
ndude routine, procedural
'tiles.
Gramm said he had been
present for 90.5 percent of the
votes and had interrupted a
campaign swing Wednesday to
return to Washington for the
budgetvotes.
Hance responded harshly to
Gramm’s statements.
“I’m surprised that he is at
tacking me even though he has
his own primary,” Hance said.
“He’s scared to death of run
ning against Kent Hance be
cause he knows I would heat
him.”
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Hance did not dispute
Gramm’s figures, but said they
were misleading because on all
i m p p r t a n t votes he had
“paired” himself with another
lawmaker so that the final mar
gin of victory or defeat for legis
lation was the same as if he had
been there.
Paul’s office also did not con
test Gramm’s figures but said
Paul had been informed a final
vote on the budget resolution
would not be taken Monday.
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U.S. chemical accusations
‘an invention, Soviets
United Press International
MOSCOW — The official
news agency Tass said Thurs
day President Reagan was try
ing to cover up U.S. plans to
stockpile chemical weapons
when he accused the Soviet
Union of using toxic agents in
Asia and Afghanistan and
called for a worldwide ban.
“This time again, Reagan
used as another screen to cover
up those ominous plans the
hackneyed inventions of a So
viet military threat and an al
leged use of Soviet chemical
weapons,” the official news
agency said.
Calling Reagan’s proposal
“propagandist noise,” Tass said
it was “needed by him expressly
for the purpose of continuing
to build up U.S. chemical arse
nals under its cover,” it said.
In Washington, State Depart
ment spokesman Alan Rom
berg said that “it is regrettable
that the Soviet Union chose to
attack the president’s initiative
before even seeing it.”
He said Soviet charges on
U.S. chemical warfare policies
are “false and misleading: They
are obviously intended for
propaganda effect to divert at
tention from their own actions
in this area.”
Reagan did not name the So
viet Union when he said chemi
cal weapons “have been used
against defenseless peoples in
Afghanistan, in Southeast Asia
and in the conflict between Iran
and Iraq.”
But he said at his news con
ference Wednesday, “The So
viet Union’s extensive arsenal of
chemical weapons threatens
U.S. forces (and) requires the
United States to maintain a lim
ited retaliatory capability of its
own until we achieve an effec
tive ban.”
Reagan, who announced
plans to offer the Soviet Union
a global ban on the production,
possession and use of all chemi
cal weapons, is seeking $1.13
billion in fiscal 1985 for chemi
cal warfare projects.
“If we’re going to have a
chemical warfare ban or a treaty
banning them, you’ve got to
have something to bargain
with,” he said. “Without a mod
ern and credible deterrent, the
prospects for achieving a com-
say
prehensive ban would be nil.” I
Tass said, “the (U.S.) admin
istration has virtually launched;
a large-scale preparation for a>
chemical war” and inaugurated'
a program for creating a new’,
generation of chemical weap-;
ons.
“They are intended to be lo-l
cated, in the main, outside the;
United States, first of all in
Western Europe, which is as
signed the role of a potential
theater of operations with the
use of both nuclear and chemi
cal weapons.”
Tass accused Reagan of ig
noring previous calls by the
Kremlin for a total ban on
chemical weapons.
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