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Page 10/Frktay. June 13. 1986/The Battalion Reports of drug link worry U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — Sec retary of State George P. Shulu said Thursday he was concerned about reports linking Panama's milkary leader to drug trafTtcking. passing of secrets to Cuba, pun- runnine and money laundering And his spokesman. Bernard Kalb, said “an examination of these allegations would appear to be a matter for consideration by the government of Panama The New York Timet and NBC, quoting U S sources, re- C ed that Gen. Manuel Antonio lega, head of Panama's armed forces, was linked to illegal activi ties. including the nlurder of a cri- tur of the Central American na tion's military. In response to reporters' ques tions in the State Department lob by, Shultz said. “Activities of that kind are obviously of importance and concern to us.'' Noriega was in Washington on Wednesday to bestow a Panama nian medal on Lt. Gen. John M. Schweitzer, outgoing chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, but “no State Department official met with General Nonega during his visit or had any discus sion with him concerning these stones.'' the department said in a statement. Noriega is widely viewed as his country’s strongman, controlling the civilian leadership. As the site of the Panama Canal and vital in stallations. Panama holds a key strategic position in U.S. security arrangements in the Western hemisphere. Mom does detective work for her slain son’s case TACOMA. Wash. (AP) — An out raged mother who says her son’s shooting death was “handled like a traffic case" used her own sleuthing to persuade a tudge to throw out the defendant s plea bargain and order him to stand trial for murder In an unusual ruling Wednesday, Pierce County Superior Court Judge W.L. Brown set aside the plea bar gain in the killing of Mike Chadwick, saying the prosecutor misled the court when he said two kev witnesses could not be found. Brown’s ruling vacated the second-degree manslaughter convic tion of Warren “Shorty” Schaupp and reinstated the original charge of second-degree murder If convicted. Schaupp could be sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison, instead of the 15 to 22 months he faced on the manslaughter convic tion of last November C hadwick. 20. was killed by a shot in the back of the head from a .45- caliber revolver on July 19. 1985 Schaupp said the shooting was an accident. However, a key witness, Lyla McMahon, said in a written statement that Schaupp began acting strangely and refused to return the revolver after Chadwick showed k to him. She said she ran for help but found Chadwick shot when ^he returned Chadwicks foster mother. Bet tie Richardson of Brinno/i. said after the ruling that “this was handled like a traffic case ■’ Richardson, whose lawyer de scribes her as “just a mom” with no particular investigative expertise. ig i phone numbers she found in Chad wick’s house She also used the Yellow Paget to find Seattle lawyer Jim Lobsenz to present her case under the 1981 Vic tims Rights Act and the 1984 Sen tencing Reform Act, halting Schaupp t sentencing and challeng ing the plea bargain Lobaenz said McMahon and wit ness Das id Harstaad were reluctant to provide their whereabouts because they were afraid of Schaupp Brown said their testimony at a hearing last month showed they were ayailable to testify. The judge said a prosecutor must “put all his cards on tne table" and not mislead the court, and that Judge Thomas Sauriol would not have accepted Schaupp's plea if he Bad ABC agrees to share Liberty coverage LOS ANGELES (AP) — Televi sion's battle for Liberty was re solved Thursday when ABC agreed that its rival networks could share all news portions of the Liberty Weekend opening ceremonies. The primary issue was cover age of President Reagan and other officials participating in the Julv 3 kickoff to the four-dav extrava ganza celebrating the restoration of the Statue of Liberty on its 100th birthday I om (foodnian. a spokesman for ABC, said the network will provide pool coverage of approxi mately lb minutes of the2<4-hour opening teremonies. “We have agreed that these additional portions should be con sidered news and we will make them available.'' (Goodman said Those include the introductory remarks of Secretary of the In terior Donald Hodel and Leg laeocca. chairman of the Statue of Liberty-Eliis Island Foundation, before Reagan tinseils the res tored statue, and. later in the evening, the remarks by Set retary of the Naw John I-ehman as he mtrodutes Reagan to light the torch. ABC also agreed to pool cover age in the event of a news emergency during the cere monies. (kiodman said. ABC » not sharing coverage of ihe Medal of Honor ceremony, in which 12 naturalized ckuens. in cluding Bob Hope and Henry Kis singer. will be given medals cre ated by David Wolper. the televi sion producer who is executive producer of Liberty Weekend. Tax (Continued from page 1) bill is a tough crackdown on tax shel ters. which are used by prolessionals and other wealthy investors to gener ate losses that shield their fees and wages from taxes. The provision would affect many industries, falling hardest on real estate Oil-state members of the Finance (Committee insisted that some oil and gas investments be exempted because of the industry's problems caused bv low petroleum prices. The exemp tion would apply only to “working interests.” in which the investor's risks are unlimited. The oil industry has been at the center of the tax debate over the years because of the insistence of manv liberals that the industry enjoys undue advantages in the tax law. One obstacle to quick passage of the tax bill was removed Thursday when two conservatives, after meet ing with President Reagan, agreed to withdraw an amendment that would strip tax exemptions f-nm hospitals and other non-profit organizations that perform or finance abortions. Sens. Gordon Humphrey. R-N.H , and Jesse Helms. R-N.C., said they would offer the amendment on a dif ferent bill later. AIDS (Continued from page I) spread of the ailment by the vear 2000. But computet projections pre pared bv the Centers for Disease Control indicate the problem is going to get much worse before it gets better: • More than 270,000 people will be diagnosed with AIDS bv the end of 1991, of whom 179.000 will have died. • Ahput 74.000 people will lie di agnosed during that vear And of the I45,(HM) people expec ted to lie tre ated for AIDS in 1991, about 75 per cent would be among the estimated I million to 1.5 million who carry the virus now but probably do not know k. • More than 70 percent of AIDS cases in 1991 will be diagnosed among homosexual or bisexual men. ihe highesi risk group. About 25 per cent cm the c asrs will fie among drug addicts who use infected needles Those two figures overlap, the agen cv noted. Full-grain teattw uppers rubber outoote Navy logo Reg. 44 95. 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