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B " v On e Friday, February 14, 1986AThe Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation lacocca: Liberty project hurt because of his firing Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — Lee lacocca said Thursday his ouster as head of the government advisory commission on the Statue of Liberty “borders on being un-American,” and said he was fired because he fought commercialization of the project. “In the end, a beautiful project gets hurt; I don’t get hurt,” lacocca, chairman of Chrysler Corp., said at a news conference at company head quarters. lacocca said he was not certain why Interior Secretary Donald Mo del fired him Wednesday night from the job he has held for four years. But he said he believed it was related to a National Park Service endorse ment of a luxury hotel and confer ence center for Ellis Island, which also is being restored. Model’s action “borders on being un-American,” lacocca said. “A lot of people have worked hard for four years on behalf of this project and so have I, and I don’t appreciate being disenfranchised on somebody’s whim.” lacocca remains head of the pri vate foundation that has raised $233 million for the project. Model held an impromptu side walk news conference to respond to lacocca’s remarks. “If you watched Lee today, it’s ap parent he’s very headstrong, and it may be he’s made up his mind what he wants to happen on Ellis Island,” Model said, “but the American peo ple deserve ... an unfettered look.” lacocca was replaced by Armen Avedisian, a 59-year-old retired con struction executive from Hinsdale, Ill. The Washington Post in Thurs day’s editions quoted two unidenti fied former administration officials as saying White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan made the decision to fire lacocca several months ago be cause of “extremely bad blood” be tween Reagan and lacocca over the Chrysler bailout, in which the auto maker received $1.2 billion in fed eral loan guarantees. Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes said, “That’s bad reporting on the part of the Post, I’m sorry.” Cuba sends conciliatory signal to church Associated Press HAVANA — In a fresh signal of Cuba’s newly conciliatory atti tude toward the Roman Catholic Church, a draft of the Commu nist Party program for the next five years encourages Cubans to respect the beliefs of church goers. The draft calls on Cubans to honor “the moral integrity of be lievers” and to avoid any practice that could “wound religious senti ments.” The proposed policy is consis tent with what appears to be a studied effort by the government to improve relations with the long-suffering Catholic commu nity. There are now' an estimated 210 priests in Cuba • compared with a pre-revolutionary total of more thatj 800. Church activities have been severely limited. Bureau chief reportedly revealed too much to press Associated Press WASHINGTON — Justice De partment officials were aghast Thursday over statements by the head of the Drug Enforcement Ad ministration, which led to exposure of an undercover investigation into alleged cocaine smuggling by East ern Airline baggage handlers in Mi ami, sources said. A federal grand jury in Miami is receiving evidence in the case, and the investigation, which has involved the use of undercover operatives, is continuing, said several law enforce ment sources here, who spoke on condition they not be identified. DEA Administrator John C. Lawn disclosed the existence of the probe Tuesday following a speech in San Jose, Calif., after answering a ques tion from the audience concerning cooperation with major airlines in fighting drug smuggling. When an Associated Press re porter later asked for further details of the case, Lawn said the Justice De- partrnent is preparing indictments against about 50 employees of a ma jor airline, for smuggling cocaine from South America. Lawn did not name the airline, but he did say charges would be filed on the East Coast. The DEA chief also said “the indictments will go within the next several weeks.” The next day in San Francisco, Lawn again discussed the investigation with reporters. Several Justice Department offi cials, insisting they not be named publicly, said they were dismayed that Lawn would have revealed so much about an ongoing and sensi tive undercover operation. Publicly, Justice Department offi cials had no comment about Lawn’s statements, which were made during appearances Tuesday and Wednes day in California. The DEA chief was continuing a round of speeches in San Francisco Thursday, and could not immedi ately be reached for comment. Law enforcement sources subse quently described the trafficking op eration as a cocaine pipeline from Bogota, Colombia which allegedly was run through Eastern baggage handlers at Miami. Shuttle panel shown videotape of liftoff Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The presidential commission investigat ing the Challenger explosion was shown videotape and still pictures Thursday of a black puff of smoke between the right rocket booster and fuel tank as the space shuttle left the pad, a government official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, said he did not know the significance of the smoke, but it could indicate Challenger was in trouble from the moment of liftoff. NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said the panel, which flew to the scene of the shuttle disaster for two days of closed-door sessions, was shown the videotape and photos for the first time Thursday. He called the smoke unusual but refused to elaborate further. A space agency official who re quested anonymity said the puff of smoke was between the right booster and the external tank when it left the pad. Members of the commission thought it was interesting enough to study further, he said. Previous videotapes and still pho tographs show a plume of fire and smoke coming out of the bottom sec tion of the right booster 58 seconds after liftoff. The speculation is that this caused the external tank to ex plode, destroying Challenger and its seven-member crew 73 seconds after launch. Commission Chairman William P. 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