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epublican governors meeting
o discuss Iranian arms deals
“ARSIPPANY, NJ. (AP) — Re-
Iblican governors, the big winners
Ithe 1986 election, kicked off a
ree-day meeting Sunday, but their
rent success was tempered by the
Jin-Contra disclosures shaking the
lagan administration.
everybody is waiting for the
!ier shoe to drop,” said Michelle
kvis, executive director of the Re-
iblican Governors Association.
lEight newly elected governors
Id 14 incumbents plan to attend
: conference with an agenda tilted
iavily toward politics.
IThey also are scheduled for a
Wd session with former President
chard M. Nixon. The subject was
reign policy, although memories
Watergate were being stirred by
troubles of the Reagan adminis-
Jition.
(in the 1986 elections, Republicans
eked up eight governorships to
|ing their total to 24 when all the
'chief executives take office.
lOffering an assessment after the
GOP lost eight Senate seats and saw
the Democrats regain control of the
[chamber, Republican Chairman
Frank F. Fahrenkopf Jr. noted a “re
sounding Republican success in gov
ernors’ races.”
^He said the GOP gains “will pro
vide a significant boost to Republi-
efforts toward fair and honest
^districting and reapportionment
dti the next decade.”
Among the governors-elect plan
ning to attend was Guy Hunt, the
first Republican to be elected gover
nor of Alabama in this century.
Other governors-elect expected to
attend were Evan Meecham of Ari
zona, Mike Hayden of Kansas, John
R. McKernan Jr. of Maine, Kay Orr
of Nebraska, Gary Carruthers of
New Mexico, George Mickelson of
South Dakota and Tommy Thomp
son of Wisconsin.
Sunday’s agenda was strictly social
with formal sessions Monday to fea
ture by two political discussions.
Political consultants Charles
Black, Roger Ailes and Edward Roll
ins were to discuss the impact of the
1986 election. Rollins was manager
of President Reagan’s 1984 re-elec
tion campaign. Black is running
Rep. Jack Kemp’s exploration of a
possible 1988 candidacy, and Ailes is
a veteran media consultant.
Later in the day, Fahrenkopf was
to join pollsters Lance Tarrance,
Robert Teeter and Louis Harris to
discuss the elections and the future
of the GOP.
Davis said the political impact of
the disclosures of secret arms sales to
Iran and the channeling of money to
the Contra forces in Central Amer
ica is “something the governors will
be talking about constantly.”
She added that “the Teeters of the
world will be telling us how this im
pacts us for the next two-year elec
tion cycle.”
Two national polls taken since the
disclosures said Reagan’s approval
rating had dropped — in one survey
by 21 points — and that a majority of
people believed they weren’t getting
the full truth about the affair.
In addition to the political talk,
the Republicans will hear panel dis
cussions on drugs, America in the
1990s and education.
2 build Statue of Liberty
as 17-story balloon replica
JEWETT CITY, Conn. (AP) —
Two self-taught balloon makers
have learned the high price of
Liberty, devoting their savings
and hundreds of hours of labor
to build a 17-story balloon that is
a flying replica of the Statue of
Liberty.
Gerard Lefevre, 26, designed
the hot-air balloon without bene
fit of engineering background or
college degree. He and his
brother Mark, 28, sewed “Free
Lady” out of 2,200 yards of green
nylon and 12 miles of thread in a
rented three-car garage.
Tom Hamilton, editor of Bal
loon Life magazine, notes that
most of the special-shape balloons
in the world are designed by engi
neers and factory-made.
“With the Lefevre brothers, it’s
very interesting that they did it
themselves and they did it with
out the great expertise others
have,” Hamilton said from Sacra
mento, Calif.
Gerard, who took up balloon
ing in high school, designed and
built four standard hot-air bal
loons before hitting upon his first
idea for a specially-shaped pro
ject — a hammer.
For the Statue of Liberty, he
had to use his imagination to
solve several problems. To keep
the lady’s torch held high and her
arm upright, he put 300 cubic
feet of helium in the flame to
supplement the hot air inflating
the rest of the statue.
He declined to disclose how he
got the spikes in the crown to
stand at the correct angle; he’s
seeking a patent for the tech
nique.
Death rate
for cancer
decreases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
death rate from cancer is decreas
ing for Americans under age 55
despite a slow increase in the inci
dence of the disease in this age
group, reports the National Can
cer Institute.
The agency, in its annual statis
tics review to be issued Monday,
| attributes much of the 7 percent
decline in the death rate for the
Jl [group from 1975 to 1984 to ad-
1 vances in cancer treatment.
Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, direc
tor of the institute, said the death
rate drop from 38.2 per 100,000
population to 35.7 per 100,000 is
evident for every age group un
der 55. About 24 percent of all
v f newly diagnosed cancers occur in
™ these age groups.
At the same time, the incidence
of cancer among the under-55
population increased by two-
tenths of 1 percent annually dur
ing the 1975-1984 period, with
the incidence rate reported at
99.8 per 100,000 in 1984, DeVita
said.
DeVita, who was to present the
report at a meeting of the Na-
"i; tional Cancer Advisory Board in
^ New York City, said in a
statement that another measure
of treatment success is survival
rates, which also are going up.
“People under 55 have a
higher overall five-year relative
survival rate for cancer than
older patients, indicating that
we’re being particularly success
ful in treating these patients,” he
said.
The institute said the latest
jdata on cancer incidence and
[ deaths are now available through
1984, and survival statistics are
[available through 1983.
The report said the five-year
[survival rate for the entire pop
ulation, regardless of age and
other factors, was almost 49 per
cent.
45-minute ceremony marks
anniversary of Pearl Harbor
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP)
— Four F4 Phantom jets in the sym-
bolic missing man formation
screamed overhead Sunday, ending
a minute of silence on the 45th anni
versary of the Japanese attack that
brought the nation into World War
II.
Top military officers, representa
tives of veterans’ and patriotic
groups and local dignitaries gath
ered on the USS Arizona Memorial
for a 45-minute ceremony to observe
the anniversary of the sneak attack.
One by one, representatives of the
five military services and more than
a dozen civilian groups pulled indi
vidual blossoms from floral wreaths
and dropped them through the me
morial’s well onto the harbor’s still
water.
The tribute to the 2,403 Ameri
cans killed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack
on Pearl Harbor and other military
installations on the island of Oahu
included a warning that the United
States must never again allow itself
to be caught off-guard.
Vice Adm. Huntington Hardisty,
deputy commander of the U.S. Pa
cific Fleet, said, “With all the keen vi
sion imparted by hindsight, we may
rightly marvel at the complacency
we showed then in a world aflame
with war and with a deteriorating
diplomatic situation.
“We consistently underestimated
the potential enemy’s willingness
and ability to do us harm.”
Soviet military doctrine relies on
getting “a quick decisive blow struck
before the adversary can fully collect
his forces or even his thoughts,”
Hardisty said.
“It is not a new idea, as this memo
rial attests,” he said. “Our Pacific
strategy of ready forward-deployed
forces demonstrates that we will not
be caught off guard.”
On that Sunday morning 45 years
ago, more than 100 Japanese planes
were launched from six aircraft car
riers in a naval task force that had
made its way undetected to a posi
tion 240 miles north of Oahu.
The surprise was complete as 24
torpedo planes and dive bombers in
the first wave swept across the island
from the north. In less than two
hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was dev
astated with 18 major warships ei
ther sunk or seriously damaged.
Among them was the 608-foot
battleship Arizona, which was hit
just forward of the bridge by a bomb
that penetrated several decks before
exploding in a fuel storage area.
Fire quickly spread to the powder
magazines and, 15 minutes after the
attack began, the Arizona exploded.
It sank in less than nine minutes.
Of about 1,500 sailors and Ma
rines aboard the Arizona that morn
ing, 1,177 were killed. More than
1,000 men remain entombed in the
ship.
A memorial built in 1962 spans
the encrusted hulk of the dread
nought, from which oil still seeps to
cast a rainbow-like sheen on the har
bor.
At one end of the 184-foot-long
memorial is a white marble wall on
which the names of the sailors and
marines killed aboard the Arizona
are engraved.
Israeli troops fire on Palestinian protesters
BETHLEHEM, Occupied West
Bank (AP) — Israeli troops shot and
wounded a Palestinian youth Sun
day as protesters pelted soldiers with
rocks in a dozen towns and refugee
camps, military and Palestinian
sources said.
The clashes, marking the fourth
day of violent unrest, marred
Christmas preparations at Manger
Square in Bethlehem, where soldiers
fired into the air to disperse a hand
ful of Palestinian protesters.
Israeli soldiers have killed three
Palestinian youths since Thursday.
Violence spread Sunday to four
Israeli universities, where Jewish
and Arab students protested in soli
darity with Palestinans of the occu
pied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
largest protest was at Jerusalem’s
Hebrew University, where soldiers
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tion.
Five Israeli buses were stoned in
Jerusalem and the West Bank, with
four Israeli passengers injured, the
army said.
Palestinan teen-agers blocked
main roads with burning tires, threw
stones and waved PLO flags in dem
onstrations in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, home for 1.4 million Pal
estinians and more than 50,000 Jew
ish settlers.
In the Gaza town of Khan Yunis,
soldiers wounded a 19-year-old in
the knee when they fired on dozens
of Palestinian demonstrators, Pales
tinian news reports said. The army
said it could not confirm the reports.
Palestinian journalists say the pro
tests were triggered by fighting be
tween Shiite Moslem and Palestinian
guerrillas in Lebanon. Palestinians
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Shiites in south Lebanon.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s
government faced a growing outcry
from opposition legislators about the
army’s handling of the protests. The
Cabinet on Sunday endorsed the sol
diers’ actions and vowed that the
troops would keep using force to
maintain order in the territories cap
tured by Israel in 1967.
The violence began Thursday
with a protest at Bir Zeit Univeisity
against army roadblocks on the ac
cess road to the campus. Two stu
dents were killed and more than 20
were wounded. On Friday, soldiers
killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy
at the Balata refugee camp near
Nablus, the West Bank’s largest city.
The violence spread Sunday to
within 100 yards of the Church of
the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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